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It has been a great few weeks - even with the massive amount on rain a few days back - around here.
Our new gal everything Brooke is working out nicely.
She has taken a lot of the job of editing The Truth Be Told over and is doing a wonderful job of it.
Which has left us freer to do other things now that the Mrs., is back to full speed as it were from her health scare of the last decade so she is taking a more active role in working the farm like she did when we first got the place - of course her specialty is the animals and the herb garden so the farm staff take care of the bulk of the farming.
My emeritus status at the university allows me to research and teach as I please and I have begun to teach more classes, there is an encouraging trend just beginning to form among young college students ... a love and desire and desperate need to learn science ... after an entire generation of glorifying the stupid and ignorant the light begins to shine bright again. Of course the stupid and ignorant are fighting the losing battle to retain their status ... one needs only to look at the political circus in the U.S. to recognize that (though only if you are not those of the stupid and ignorant variety).

‘Driving is a privilege, but voting is a right'

‘Driving is a privilege, but voting is a right': Alabama under fire for making it harder for black residents to vote

“Black people made it past the poll tax, literacy tests, everything, to get the right to vote," Ralph Ervin said. “Too many people fought and bled and died for the right to vote, and now they’re taking it away.”

Hillary Clinton Treats The Bogus Republican Benghazi Investigation Like The Joke That It Is

Hillary Clinton spent her latest interview on CNN treating the partisan Benghazi investigation like the joke that it is. When Jake Tapper tried to ask a question about her emails, Clinton laughed in his face.
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Transcript via CNN:
TAPPER: I know Bernie Sanders said that, quote, “the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails.”
(LAUGHTER)
But there are a lot of people who are not.
CLINTON: Well —
(LAUGHTER)

Jake Tapper tried to ask about Clinton’s emails, and he was met with laughter. His claim that a lot of people are interested in her emails was a bit of Fox News like verbal sleight of hand. By a lot of people, Tapper meant Republicans, because polling has consistently revealed that Democrats and Independents don’t care about her emails.
Earlier in the interview, Clinton took down the Benghazi committee by questioning their objectives, ” I’ve already testified about Benghazi. I testified to the best of my ability before the Senate and the House. I don’t know that I have very much to add. This is after all the eighth investigation. Other committees of the Congress, standing committees with other experienced members of staff have all looked into this and basically just rejected the conspiracy theories that are still floating out there in some circles. So, I really don’t know. I will do my best to answer their questions. But I don’t really know what their objective is right now.”
Hillary Clinton’s laughter was a sign that she is no longer going to indulge the media on the email questions. Two Republican members of Congress and a former Republican investigator on the Select Committee have all admitted that the investigation is a pretext that is being used to gather dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The game is over for the media. Clinton is treating the partisan Benghazi investigation like the bad joke that it is.

Bill Maher reveals how Republicans’ ‘heads explode’ every time Bernie Sanders speaks

Bill Maher reveals how Republicans’ ‘heads explode’ every time Bernie Sanders speaks

Billionaire Class Should Be Scared Because 99% Of Bernie Sanders Donors Can Give Again

Here is a statistic that strikes a blow against Citizens United and should worry the billionaire class who are attempting to purchase control of the United States government. Bernie Sanders raised $41.4 million, and 99% of his donors can give to his campaign again.
Here are the basic numbers from the Sanders campaign:
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ raised $26.2 million during the third quarter of this year – all of it for use in primaries and caucuses – in a grassroots presidential campaign that has drawn 1.3 million small donations since it began.
The average donation was $30 apiece.
The campaign closed the books at the end of the Sept. 30 reporting period with almost $27.1 million in the bank after spending about $11.3 million, according to a report filed on Thursday with the Federal Election Commission.
Since his White House bid was launched last April 30, Sanders has banked a total of about $41.4 million, according to the report.
Only 270 of Sanders’ 650,000 donors gave the maximum $2,700 allowed.

That last sentence is what should scare the billionaires who are trying to buy the US government. Bernie Sanders was able to raise more money than every Republican pretender candidate, and he did it by not maxing out his donors. At thirty bucks a pop, his donors could give to him 90 times before they would max out and hit their contribution limit for the primary.
The billionaires can give unlimited funds to super PACs thanks to Citizens United, but the limitations of super PAC are becoming very obvious. Perry and Walker both had millions of dollars in super PACs, and both are no longer running for president. Jeb’s super PACs have raised hundreds of millions of dollars, but he is stuck in single digits even after spending millions of super PAC dollars on ads in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Super PACs have yet to prove that they can elect a pretender candidate. The best way to directly aid a candidate remains a contribution to their campaign.
The billionaires have the dollars, but Bernie Sanders has the numbers. Sanders is demonstrating that the collective power of small donors can power a presidential campaign.
Sanders supporters are outnumbering the billionaires, and taking back the corrupt campaign finance system one thirty dollar donation at a time.

Bernie Sanders Gets His Boogie On While Making His Debut On ‘The Ellen Show’

This is great!
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Bernie Sanders Met Sandra Bland’s Mother And Sister By Chance, Here Is What Happened

Bernie Sanders promised the family he would continue to #SayHerName. Five days later he kept his promise.

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Bernie Sanders Says NO To Donation From ‘Poster Boy For Drug Company Greed’ Shkreli

“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli tried to donate thousands to Bernie Sanders, but the 2016 Democratic hopeful told him where he could stick it — in a health clinic.

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‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli whines about Bernie giving his money to charity and Twitter tears him a new one

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli whines about Bernie giving his money to charity and Twitter tears him a new one

The man-child known as “Pharma Bro” — also known as Martin Shkreli — is an absolute wonder when it comes to public relations.

Paul Goes Off On Sanders, Compares Him To Pol Pot

Ooooh, someone's afraid of the Big Bad Bernie!

Republicans Are An Ungovernable Mess, So Media Shouts 'Both Sides!'

The spat at the DNC is a nothingburger, but you'd think it was the Worst Thing Ever!

Money For Nothin' And Your Hicks For Free

Once again, absolutely no one in the Beltway media wants to hear a peep out of those of us who have been right about the wingnuts all along. Instead, we have a media in which Trump can literally dictate the terms of the Republican pretender 'debate': 

3 Good Reasons You Should Mock Wingnut Economists

Robert Reich: 3 Good Reasons You Should Mock Wingnut Economists

Free Market Laughs In Lying Republican Cabal’s Face: Greedy Walmart Heirs Lose $41B, Costco Profits Soar

The Walmart heirs just lost $11 billion in a single day, but Costco’s stock is exploding. Looks like the invisible hand just smacked down some Republican Cabal bullshit…

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Dear Republicans, Could You Please Stop Crying And Do Your Jobs For Five Minutes?

With all of the drunk-quitting and SEX SCANDALS and absolute all-out civil war DRAMA in the Republican cabal, and grown-ass men crying (literally, CRYING!) because the nihilist wing of the party is so mean, you probably forgot there’s this small matter of keeping America, you know, open: In a letter to Boehner, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew warned on Thursday that the government could run out of enough money to pay its obligations by Nov. 3 instead of Nov. 5, as ...

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DOJ Creates New Post To Focus On Threats From Lunatic Fringe Wingnut Radicals And Other Domestic Terrorists

The U.S. government’s counterterrorism policy has largely focused on Islamist radicals.

RNC head: We’re ‘cooked as a cabal’ if we don’t take the White House in 2016

RNC head: We’re ‘cooked as a cabal’ if we don’t take the White House in 2016

The head of the Republican National coven forecast a bleak future for his cabal, saying a failure to recapture the White House in 2016 means his cabal is “cooked.”

Trump's Freak Show

George Carlin's daughter Kelly: My dad would be having fun with Trump's 'freak show' campaign

Noonan: You Know What Else Is Obama's Fault? The Rise Of Trump.

Thanks, Obama.