Easy Detour around the NH Hurdle for Sanders Voters.

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Tuesday June 30, 2015 · 12:43 PM PDT

2015/06/30 · 12:43

I'm not an expert, but just for now I'm going to play one on Daily Kos:

Speaking as a citizen who has helped, over the years, to count the ballots that are cast in my town for various elections [it's a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it and it only takes one or two dozen people a few hours, or deep into the night for the exciting ones, but for me actively helping makes the time go by faster than just waiting by the tv while idiots speculate] -in NH...
One Thing I Know: Write-ins Happen.

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Friday June 05, 2015 · 10:11 AM PDT

2015/06/05 · 10:11

"The Strolling of the Heifers is one of the great events in Vermont," Sanders said Wednesday. "Orly and her staff do an excellent job. It celebrates Vermont agriculture and family farms. It brings people together and it's a lot of fun. It gives us an opportunity to visit with a lot of old friends."
The parade starts at 10 a.m. and Sanders will speak from the Gazebo on the Brattleboro Common at 11 a.m.

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Friday May 01, 2015 · 7:19 PM PDT

2015/05/01 · 19:19

Well I'd been waiting for this moment for a long time, wondering what on earth kind of dirt someone would eventually dredge up from VHS days to pin on Bernie Sanders and it finally happened.

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Monday April 13, 2015 · 6:29 AM PDT

2015/04/13 · 06:29

No, it's not April Fool's Day, although that was fun. Forsooth 'tis Good News for Pastafarians: CNET Magazine, as brought to us by Yahoo! this morning (not even 9 am Eastern Standard Time) sez: "Strange signals picked up by the radio telescope pointed towards the stars in Parkes, Australia have a rather more mundane origin." Dive below the orange cloud of microwave radiation for the details.

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Breaking news from VT: SunCommon Discloses Massive Energy Spill

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Wednesday April 01, 2015 · 12:55 PM PDT

2015/04/01 · 12:55

The Valley News of West Lebanon, NH is reporting on attempts to contain a massive energy spill in Waterbury Center. Full spectrum radiation arriving at roughly 1366 W/m2. Details below the muddy tire tracks.

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Wednesday March 11, 2015 · 5:06 AM PDT

2015/03/11 · 05:06

On August 13th 2014, at 7:34 a.m. Bridget wrote on her personal yahoo! mail account:
"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee."

TO: Bridget _ from David___ at g-mail dot com: "Got it!"

Was there some reason these people were using personal e-mails instead of state.gov type?
It seems to me that if we are to approach the public vs. private nature of e-mails sent during working hours, perhaps we should come at it from the other side of the bridge.

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Tuesday February 17, 2015 · 12:07 PM PST

2015/02/17 · 12:07

Five years ago, in February of 2010, there was a news story that really caught my eye.
"With 1,521 cases, the mumps outbreak is the largest in the U.S. since 2006, when nearly 6,600 cases were reported, mostly in six Midwestern states. Usually fewer than 300 cases are reported annually."
This article vastly understates the situation, though, by saying, "Most had a mumps vaccination." Most did, it said. Really? Most? More than half? What does that mean? I wondered enough to go look it up and I found this info corroborated: "88 percent had been MMR II vaccinated with 75 percent of those receiving at least two doses," the same sources that I found back then are examined in the article I read yesterday at Truthout:
Selective Outrage and Public Health: There Are Greater Dangers Than Anti-Vaxxers
And if people received this MMR, particularly the MMR II from specific years, then whether or not it worked they think they're safe, although they've also had that same vaccine for measles and rubella. Caveat Emptor.
I have been vaccinated and updated many times (a booster while working at a college that had a measles outbreak 30 years ago in 1985 among others) and in 1968 I was one of a trial group of kindergardeners who got to "Fight the Dragon" of Rubella, by offering ourselves up with parental consent to test some of the R in "MMR".

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Wednesday March 05, 2014 · 10:46 AM PST

2014/03/05 · 10:46

This is to say that I hope everyone will tune in to Rachel Maddow's special tomorrow night, Thursday, March 6, 2014: Why we did it. I'm not her biggest fan, but I've been watching her cover the Christie Crisis and so I've seen the ads for this too.

Personally I have been speaking out about these things from as far back as a "Town Hall Meeting" in NH in the Spring of 2001, and actually had noticed the economy was taking a nosedive by the end of 2000, after which President Bush proposed to stop it through "military Keynesianism.".

I am moved to write a diary about this today because I want people to take a walk down their own memory lanes before the show. What do you remember from those days? I have to go to work and will not be back to see what people say until tonight, but for anyone who is still interested in more of how it was back in the day, under the fold is the full text of a set of three letters to the editor that I wrote in 2003.

The only other thing I want to say is that during that time it was very lonely trying to be heard over the drumbeats for war. But one article, by Ron Callari, published on Alternet, changed the way I looked at everything and it is some very important context about what went on in the 1990s, before 2000 and beyond:
The Enron Cheney Taliban Connection

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Wednesday October 03, 2012 · 6:53 AM PDT

2012/10/03 · 06:53

Ten years ago today, I saw something on television that changed the way I think.
Flipping through channels, I landed on C-SPAN and saw a strange little man, waving what I thought was a letter, and telling an empty House of Representatives that every single Congressman had been told by the CIA that Saddam Hussein is not a threat to us or even his neighbors unless we back him into a corner. Which Bush admin policy promptly proceeded to do. I wrote about it five years later in one of my early incarnations on this site: "Is that a Constitution in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?". (Thank You, Kestrel9000!) I once had a UID in the high 59,000s but found out the hard way what it means to be thought of as a troll for saying something unpalatable to some dkos readers. Later I was thrown off again for admitting that I had found my way back again, but hopefully the rules have loosened about that or else this will be my last hurrah here.
It took me until just last week to finally find the video of what it was that I saw, and I think it is important to take another look at it today, especially because of even more recent info that has come to light. I had my suspicions at the time that Operation Iraqi Liberation was, in fact, all about the O.I.L., [interesting how the search term "Operation Iraqi Liberation immediately morphs back to the plain words "Iraq War" on wiki...] and I had somehow somewhere already seen the map dividing up the expected spoils, and I believed Scott Ritter and Hans Blick at the time. But there came an instant when I said to myself- "He can't say that! Unless it's true..." And I still hold it against Hillary (at least she admitted it) that she didn't trot her ass across the way for one afternoon, to read approx. 99 pages of the actual NIE, which some of us understood without being privy to, while she had that thing called "plausible deniability" since she didn't know 'exactly' what it said. I think she abrogated her job in that instance, but I have since forgiven her as she makes an excellent Secretary of State. Meanwhile:
Who was I seeing and what did he say? Look for the answer in the space below the lovely sunset cloud.

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Wednesday June 29, 2011 · 7:20 AM PDT

2011/06/29 · 07:20

I am publishing this now as a companion diary to State Rep Marcia Moody's ALEC article.

This is a paper I did last term examining ALEC and I don't have time to edit it into a dkos format, but if you want to see the view from here, I will paste it below.

Our local Reps ranged from naive to very worried about the whole thing, yet "model legislation" ain't always the worst...please read on for a look back to the 70s:

Introducing “Bill” and ALEC:

Or, How Does a Bill Become a Law?

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Monday June 27, 2011 · 7:37 AM PDT

2011/06/27 · 07:37

Watching all the ballyhoo and the sound and fury of disintegrating candidates across the Republican board, I just have to sit down and post a warning of what I see coming down the pike. Michelle Bachmann is not 'the one to watch' in my opinion. Below the fold I'll tell you why. This diary is a restating of an opinion I expressed in a comment in someone's dkos diary that asked what do we think they have in store for us.
On this, Michelle Bachmann's day in the sun, let it no longer be said that no one could have predicted:

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Easy Detour around the NH Hurdle for Sanders Voters.

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What they found when they looked deep into Bernie Sanders's past

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problems with personal e-mail? Got it!

MMR:"proportional outrage"

Why we did it:

Ten years ago today, October 3rd, 2002

Introducing "Bill" and ALEC, the view from NH District 5

No, Bachmann is not 'the one to watch'