Seriously, This IS The Onion - "Tips For Not Condemning Millions Of Americans To Sickness And Death"

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Saturday May 06, 2017 · 11:30 AM PDT

2017/05/06 · 11:30

The Onion stepped outside of its usual humorous take on life to take on the Republican Death Panel —

Tips For Not Condemning Millions Of Americans To Sickness And Death

I’d say The Onion nailed it . . .

My Favorite Electoral Graphics (maps, graphs, charts) Pages

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Saturday October 01, 2016 · 9:03 AM PDT

2016/10/01 · 09:03

Below are my favorite (at the moment) electoral graphics pages. Some have maps, some have graphs, and some have charts — some of them have more than one type. They happen to be listed in the order that I have them loaded as tabs in a browser. I have the Presidential pages listed first, and the Congressional (mostly Senatorial) pages listed second, and, within each of those two categories, the pages are listed in some sort of nebulous subgroups order.

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-general-election-trump-vs-clinton

http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/contests/us-president-2016

http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/USA-ELECTION/010020L91F6/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html?_r=1

http://election.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/autographics/EV_histogram_today.png
[or] http://election.princeton.edu/todays-electoral-vote-histogram/

http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2016-president/

http://cookpolitical.com/presidential/charts/scorecard

http://elections.dailykos.com/app/elections/2016/office/president

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

http://www.270towin.com/maps/consensus-pundit-electoral-map

http://www.270towin.com/maps/princeton-election-consortium

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

http://election.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/autographics/EV_map.png-white
[or] http://election.princeton.edu/electoral-college-map/

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_elections_electoral_college_map.html

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/election/2016/us-president

https://electionbettingodds.com/

https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/Pres16_WTA.png
[or] https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_Pres16_WTA.cfm

https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/Congress16.png
[or] https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_Congress16.cfm

https://electionbettingodds.com/congress.html

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/senate/?ex_cid=2016-forecast

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/senate/2016_elections_senate_map.html

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/election/2016/us-senate

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2016/Senate/sen_graph-2016.html

http://election.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/autographics/Senate_seat_history.jpg
[or] http://election.princeton.edu/senate-seat-history/

[Ordinarily I use multiple browsers — Opera, Iron, Chrome, Chromium, and Firefox — and each browser is used for a different topic area, each with a different bunch of pages — the URL’s above happen to be loaded into Iron, which functions as my “electoral trends browser”, I guess.]

I also put a page with all these links online — http://www.allgeektome.com/2016-electoral.html — I will maintain the page at least through the 2016 elections — please feel free to visit it any time until then.

EDIT: Anyone is free to save the above HTML page (“electoral.html”) to his/her hard drive, if desired.

If anyone has any other favorite pages, please feel free to suggest them in a comment.

For sanity’s sake, I don’t recommend obsessing over polls and/or electoral predictions, etc. [I personally check the above pages “only” on a daily basis — LOL.]

Today's Party of Lincoln [cartoon]

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Tuesday September 20, 2016 · 8:29 AM PDT

2016/09/20 · 08:29

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter walk past the statue of President Lincoln to participate in the ceremony on the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedo

Today’s Party of Lincoln [cartoon] from Bill Day in PoliticusUSA — Wow — Bill really nailed it.

President (LOL) Trump's Cabinet (with James Inhofe for EPA Director ?)

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Wednesday May 04, 2016 · 8:17 AM PDT

2016/05/04 · 08:17

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OK, so here’s an article from Polizette (“Politics. Explained.) (LOL) offering “logical” suggestions for never-to-be-President Trump’s Cabinet (and a few other positions of importance). The following quote just lists the “grand choices” for positions, but you’ll have to visit the article to read all the bios and explanations...

President Trump's Cabinet
Vice President – Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas
Secretary of State – Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio
Secretary of Treasury – Larry Kudlow
Secretary of Defense – Gen. James Mattis
Attorney General – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
Secretary of Homeland Security – Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.
Secretary of Interior – Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts
Secretary of Commerce – Mark Cuban
Secretary of Labor – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
Secretary of Health and Human Services – Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
Secretary of Transportation – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez
FBI Director – Rudy Giuliani
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development – Ohio Gov. John Kasich
Secretary of Energy – Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
Secretary of Education – Newt Gingrich
Secretary of Veterans Affairs – General Jack Keane
Surgeon General – Ben Carson
Secretary of Agriculture – Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad
United States Trade Representative – Carly Fiorina
United Nations Ambassador – Eric Trump
EPA Director – Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. OMB Director – Jim DeMint

OMG !!! And, then there’s “It’s the Supreme Court, Stupid !” to consider, too...

~PRESIDENT~ Trump on the "Front Page" of the Boston Globe from April 9, 2017

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Sunday April 10, 2016 · 11:42 AM PDT

2016/04/10 · 11:42

BIRCH RUN, MI - AUGUST 11: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a press conference before delivering the keynote address at the Genesee and Saginaw Republican Party Lincoln Day Event August 11, 2015 in Birch Run, Michigan. This is Trump's first campaign event since his Republican debate last week. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

The front page of today’s Boston Sunday Globe’s “Ideas” section is a mock (well, sort of) Boston Globe front page from April 9, 2017, after the Trump administration has been building its momentum toward “making America Great Again”. Some parts are “The Onion” hilarious, while others are absolutely frightening (or at least they should be).

See: Boston Globe Publishes Fake Front Page Imagining A Trump Presidency in TPM.

A PDF of the entire “front page” is at assets.documentcloud.org/...

Whitespace, what whitespace ?

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Wednesday November 11, 2015 · 8:06 AM PST

2015/11/11 · 08:06

Oh, pardon me — it’s “negative space” — OK, “negative space, what negative space ?”

Boston Area Protesters Close I-93 N & S of City

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Thursday January 15, 2015 · 8:53 AM PST

2015/01/15 · 08:53

http://www.bostonglobe.com/...

Protesters chained together and to cement-filled barrels close I-93 in Medford (N or Boston) and in Milton (S of Boston).

I haven't seen "official" word as to what the protest was about yet...

Koch brothers reach out to Hispanics

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Monday August 11, 2014 · 5:08 AM PDT

2014/08/11 · 05:08

Guess who are buying votes...

Looking to make inroads with the rising number of Hispanic voters, conservative activists are offering English classes, health checkups and courses to help Spanish-speakers earn high school diplomas. Picking up part of the tab: Charles and David Koch.
The billionaire industrialists are working to patch a gaping hole in the GOP coalition that could spell a generation of irrelevance if Republicans cannot build some credibility with Hispanic voters, who typically shun the GOP. The fast-growing group could have tremendous sway in American politics for years to come. Party elders have acknowledged their struggles to win over Hispanic voters, who as recently as 2004 were roughly split in party preference.

Because the Republicans are truly the "Big Tent Party", right?

PBS Newshour = FOX News ???

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Friday March 21, 2014 · 7:28 AM PDT

2014/03/21 · 07:28

Last night on PBS Newshour, Gwen Ifill discussed with Amy Walter (of The Cook Political Report) and Stuart Rothenberg (of The Rothenberg Political Report) just how dismally the Democrats will do in 2014 because of how much the voters dislike President Obama, or the Affordable Care Act, or both. Infuriatingly, there was no discussion of any the negatives that the Republicans should present to most voters - according to this trio, just how poorly the Democrats will fare is entirely due to how voters feel about Democratic negatives.

"GWEN IFILL: [...] Warning signs are popping up everywhere for Democrats. Last week, Republican David Jolly won a special House election in the Sunshine State that Democrats had hoped to use to build momentum. Red flags are also popping for Democrats in the Senate, where Republicans need only six seats to take the majority this fall."

The fact that the entire "report" talked about nothing but Democatic negatives, and that this took place, not on FOX "News", but on supposedly ~truly~ "fair and balanced" PBS, perhaps it is merely part of the self-fulfilling prophesy that the "lamestream media" are ginning up for in November's elections. [I find myself agreeing with half-term ex-governor of Alaska on just one thing - her use of the term "lamestream media" for much of what is presented as "news and analysis" nowadays.]

It is not that the discussion was factually dishonest (and I will admit that that is a difference, as compared to FOX "News") - it is just that the discussion focused ~entirely~ on how voters will be focused ~entirely~ on the President's unpopularity and/or their distaste for "Obamacare".

"GWEN IFILL: How much of a drag in the big picture is the health care law, and how much would [the President] have had problems whether this law existed or not?"

At least Judy Woodruff on occasion questions what is sometimes offered off as "analysis", but last night's "horse race" coverage by Gwen Ifill lacked any such attempt at achieving either balance or thoroughness. I might as well have been watching the "No Spin Zone" on FOX "News"...

"GWEN IFILL: But no matter how much money is involved, it doesn't matter, if the president is the drag."

Both a video of the discussion and a transcript are available at http://www.pbs.org/...

"GWEN IFILL: OK. We will leave it there."
"GWEN IFILL: Just say yes."

"AMY WALTER: Just say yes."

"(LAUGHTER)"

Turn the Endangered Species Act over to the States ???

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Saturday March 23, 2013 · 6:09 AM PDT

2013/03/23 · 06:09

Can you imagine turning the Endangered Species Act over to the ~states~? How about prohibiting ~any~ regulation of climate change causing pollution? Those are among the proposals offered, by the likes of Inhofe, Lee, and Heller, in amendments to the US Senate budget bill last evening.

See Amendments to Sen. Murray Budget Resolution, part II

Please call your senators (and leave a message if necessary) right away - http://org2.democracyinaction.org/... will, when you type in your zip code, give you your senators' contact info, along with brief summaries of all of the anti-wildlife amendments.

It's a "FISCAL CURB" !!!

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Friday November 09, 2012 · 5:21 AM PST

2012/11/09 · 05:21

Yes. It's a Fiscal Curb, not a Fiscal Cliff...

...and "Liberal" is NOT a dirty word (for which we have let ourselves be reduced to using "progressive" as a cowardly euphemism).

Why should we retreat into some sort of a "grand bargain"?

Words matter. Language matters. And it's time to take "Political American English" back (or "forward") from Frank Lutz and Karl Rove...

That is all.

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