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This primary season has brought out the crazies in mass. The over the top, the uninitiated, the attention hungry websites and the clueless first time voters. The right has it's own wealth of these, but the crazy needle on the left always points directly to Salon.com.

Lately, for the most part, all Salon does is yell shrilly at people for belly dancing while white or other, but equally genocidal crimes against the proletariat. It's also become the favored home of young idiots smugly explaining the many murders of Hillary Clinton.

But in a posting Saturday they were playing deep left field crazy more than the usual. In the post by Danielle Corcione, she proclaims that a pure young person (?) should not vote at all ....maaaaybe for Bernie Sanders, but that would still be “uncomfortable”......because voting makes you complicit in the criminal enterprise that is American politics.

"Four years ago, I attended a College Democrats conference in Chicago. I set foot inside Obama’s campaign headquarters and felt the enthusiasm about his presidency first-hand. For the first time, I called myself a Democrat with confidence. Democracy empowered me. I wanted to share my enthusiasm with the entire world."

Okay, now that Danielle has clarified her credentials as a typical 'Age of Obama Millennial Idiot', it gets even better.  She drones on about Sanders winning the popular vote in the Wyoming caucus by 12%, but Clinton scored four more super-delegates. "This is a crime against the will of the people", using none other then Joe Scarborough for support, while declining to mention Hillary Clinton’s 2.4 million vote lead in “the will of the people.” 

"I’m uncomfortable abstaining from the most invaluable, basic aspect of democracy. It’s a new concept for me. However, shedding my Democratic label is also new to me. 

So far, Sanders is the most competent candidate for my political positions and stances. Although I’ve been a vocal advocate for him in the past, he doesn’t meet my standards for gun control, racial justice and foreign policy. 

Previously, Sanders voted against background checks for gun purchases in Congress and explicitly explained his stance against reparations. Only recently has he started standing up for Palestinians.   

However, if Sanders somehow wins the nomination, he’ll get my vote. I’ll feel uneasy about it, but at least the Democratic ticket picked my more favorable candidate. 

Otherwise, I’ll leave that space blank...."

Boycott voting! That will definitely teach all those scum sucking plutocrats, instead of them laughing their asses off while snorting cocaine off the backsides of unartisanal, non-organic, fair-trade sex slaves. 

"In a truly democratic system, we’d have more competent, diverse candidates. Voting no longer provides me the indulgence and satisfaction it once did. I feel it does more harm than good with our current political climate. If I vote for Clinton as a rejection of Trump, or vote for Sanders to dodge a Clinton vote, what duty am I actually performing? 

When I vote for a president I don’t support, I support a flawed political system. I refuse that system."

NOTE: Danielle Corcione would like to move to Narnia, where unicorns run free so she can vote for Aslan, who is Jesus and stands up for Palestinians the right way instead of only doing so just recently.

I've Noticed Something Strange About Roger Lately.

Fishnet Friday

University of Alabama Forced to Except New Mascot

Tuscaloosa, AL - President Obama's use of his phone and pen to sign an order that the University of Alabama replace its racist elephant with a donkey caused a predictable outcry from some extremist obstructionist Republicans, including partisan and ungrounded accusations of abuses of power by the executive branch.

According to President Obama:

"University of Alabama lost their privilege when they did not share their football trophies with the less fortunate colleges and universities. Besides, some folks at the university thought they could get away with putting a Republican elephant next to a word that has 'bama' in it. That is a distasteful and disrespectful attack against me. And I want Americans to realize that personal attacks against me will not be tolerated. It's not who we are."

University of Alabama students became divided on the issue, with the best and the most progressive part of the student body organizing spontaneous marches in support of President Obama and his ruling. 

"Elephants are a symbol of oppression and Alabama has won too many trophies for their own good. The mascot change is progressive, and I hope Alabama will learn to share a bit more," said Melissa Click, former communications professor at the University of Missouri, who joined the march as a volunteer legal observer...."  

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Al Jazeera America Turned Out The Lights With a Bang

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After three years of abject failure, Al Jazeera America News Network goes dark.

On Tuesday night, Al Jazeera America closed the network with a three-hour broadcast from 6 to 9 p.m., which will be repeated from 9 p.m. to midnight. The final broadcast featured a number of Al Jazeera’s on-air personalities and has been described as a thank you to the network’s viewers. In a statement, Mr. Anstey and Ms. O’Brian said that strong journalism was a “responsibility which every media organization should carry with determination and resolve. We are proud to have done so since our first to our final moment on air.” BOOM!

More Fodder for the Trump Tinfoil Hat Brigade

Sadly, so many Pro-Trump websites have taken on the trappings of an Alex Jones "Info Wars" website, reposting unfounded twitter rumors and conjecture, to just blatantly misrepresenting the facts, and passed along by readers because of blind hatred who find millions of reasons Ted Cruz shouldn't be president. (I think we all have a few reservations) But here's one they hadn't considered:  Enter one Trumpster, (intelligence expert and sometime investigator for Larry Flint) Wayne Madsen, of Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) trying to throw some more completely tenuous, evidence-free gasoline on the dumpster fire. (Don Your Tinfoil Hats Here)

"Previous questions have surfaced about the 1960s activities of Rafael Cruz, Sr., the father of GOP presidential hopeful Rafael Cruz, Jr. (Ted Cruz). Based on the presence of the elder Cruz, an anti-Castro activist in Dallas and New Orleans before the November 22, 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, there is a strong reason to believe that Cruz was associated with Central Intelligence Agency's anti-Castro operations. 

A Cuban hired by alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and who bears a striking resemblance to Cruz is seen in an iconic photograph of Oswald and a group of Cubans Oswald hired (see photo below) who were distributing "Hands off Cuba!" pamphlets in New Orleans in the summer of 1963. The photo of Oswald and other Cubans he hired for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was taken outside the International Trade Mart in New Orleans on August 16, 1963. WMR has been informed by a source that the individual to Oswald's left is none other than Rafael Cruz. The photograph at the trade mart was favorably compared to a 1954 photograph of Cruz attached to an official Cuban Ministry of Education document."

Photo of Rafael Cruz, Sr. attached to a 1954 Cuban Ministry of Education secondary education graduation certificate from Cuba 

Man to Oswald's left, in center with tie, is reportedly Rafael Cruz, the father of the man who wants to be the next president of the United States. Photograph taken on August 16, 1963 outside the International Trade Mart in New Orleans.

"In 1957, Rafael Cruz, a former salesman for the U.S. intelligence-linked RCA Corporation, left Cuba for the United States. Cruz claims he fought with Castro against the fascist government of Fulgencio Batista but soured on the revolution. However, Cruz left Cuba two years before the Castro revolution.  In 1959, Cruz married Julia Ann Garza and, after Cruz graduated from the University of Texas in 1961, the couple moved to New Orleans from Dallas after the birth of their second daughter on November 18, 1962. 

The senior Cruz was in New Orleans during 1963, the year that New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison claimed his city was the focal point for the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy." 

OOOOH! It all adds up: a whole bunch of tenuous connections (surely everyone who worked for RCA in the ’50s was a spy), and the guy lived in New Orleans and Dallas. It’s really uncanny! What are the odds that anyone else would have lived in two major southern metropolitan areas around the same time that Oswald and others supposedly involved in the massive CIA conspiracy and assassination?

I guess that makes Ted Cruz CIA by osmosis, a tool of the shadow government, potential leader of the coming One World Government! Boo!

And just so you'll know, this Wayne Madsen guy has a sterling record  of discovering uncomfortable truths that THEY don’t want you to know,*Wink Wink*, such as Israel and Saudi Arabia did 9/11 together, and says he can prove the “Barack Obama is a Gay Homosexual” theory, and also claimed that he had proof of Obama’s real Kenyan birth certificate. So this is clearly a guy who knows his stuff. 

Oh, and BTW, the same Wayne Madsen was the expert interviewed by the National Enquirer who said Ted Cruz probably sex banged all the DC Madam’s hookers. 

SOMEBODY CALL JIM HOFT!!!!

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But It Has Nothing To Do With Politics at All........

School Bans Golf Team From Playing On Trump Course

DownTrend - Claiming it’s not political at all, Barry University banned its gold team from practicing at the Trump Doral golf course because they don’t like Donald Trump.

The Florida school – that has one of the best golf programs in the country – officially put any Trump property on its “blacklist,” after the school's president said Trump's rhetoric was “inconsistent” with the school's values. According to several individuals affiliated with the university who spoke with Campus Reform on condition of anonymity, the men's golf team—which won national championships in 2007, 2013, and 2014—had previously been allowed to practice, free of charge, at the high-quality Trump Doral course three to four times per year.

Late last year, Barry University President Sister Linda Bevilacqua, in consultation with the Executive Committee of the Administration, determined that Trump's campaign rhetoric conflicts with the university's mission, triggering an automatic severing of relations with all businesses and organizations in which he holds a senior leadership position.

Vice President for Institutional Advancement and External Affairs Sara Herald:

“As a practice, Barry University does not engage in business relationships where senior leadership of a company takes a public position, or the company's guiding principles are, antithetical to the university's core commitments of Inclusive Community and/or Social Justice.  This practice, which has been in place for some time, is not political, as we do not take positions relative to candidates. We seek only to ensure fulfillment of our values through our institutional business related ventures and expenditures.” - READ MORE 

But in 2014, an Imam was invited to campus for an “Interfaith” prayer service on Sept. 11 and led students in a chant of “Allah Akbar.” Bevilacqua acknowledged that the phrase has been co-opted by extremists, yet defended its usage as “fitting” for the thirteenth anniversary of 9/11. 

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So inviting a high adherent of islam who's allowed to chant “Allah Akbar, believes in killing non-adherents of their cult, throwing gays off buildings and strapping suicide belts on their own children is somehow not antithetical to the university's core commitments of Inclusive Community and/or Social Justice??? 

Yet, Sister Che Bevilacqua doesn't believe in allowing her team to practice on Trump golf courses, free of charge on The Donald's dime......but it has nothing to do with politics at all.   

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Trump Supporter Claims He Was Turned Away From Colorado Caucus, There's Only One Problem

Larry Wayne Lindsey - Unhinged FaceBook obsession with Ted Cruz’s alleged sexual exploits
and supposed ineligibility, but no one questioned his story?

It appears that Trump supporters who have rallied behind Larry Wayne Lindsey have been schlonged.  Lindsey became an overnight sensation after the Trump Report Drudge Report highlighted a video of the wannabe Trump delegate burning his Republican party registration after pro-Cruz political insiders cast him aside. 

The trouble with Larry’s story is that it isn't true. 

Larry did not attend the county caucus, which is where he needed to go in order to get elected as a delegate to the state convention.

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The Wealthy Are Fleeing Chicago

Chicago Trib - Millionaires are leaving Chicago more than any other city in the United States on a net basis. About 3,000 individuals with net assets of $1 million or more, not including their primary residence, moved from the city last year, with many citing rising racial tensions and worries about crime as factors in the decision.  That represented about 2 percent of the city's high net worth individuals.

Chicago was among four cities worldwide with the biggest flight of millionaires. Paris saw the largest exodus. The French city lost 7,000, or 6 percent, of its millionaires, followed by Rome, which lost 5,000, or 7 percent. Chicago was next, followed by Athens.

Most of the millionaires who left Paris and Rome fled their countries, while Chicagoans moved elsewhere in the United States, said New World Wealth, whose data is used by luxury-goods companies, private banks and real estate professionals, among others.

The report found that the Chicago area has fallen out of the top echelon of U.S. cities when it comes to the percentage of black households earning more than $100,000. In 2000, Chicago ranked seventh among the cities with the largest percentage of black households with income at that level or higher, but in 2015, Chicago had dropped out of the top 10.

Sources for the millionaire-migration study, the third done by New World Wealth, include: interviews with about 800 millionaires a year; interviews with migration experts, wealth managers and property agents; property sales records; and tracking of millionaire movements in the media.

A Good Monday Morning

If You're Going to Be Pissed at the Process, Then at Least Get Your Facts Straight.

With the state of America and the dangerous risks to the Republic in the balance, this years political primary season has taken on an air of a carnival sideshow. Many patriot citizens, upset with the present direction of the country, have for the first time involved themselves deeper in the political process then usual. This is a good thing. The drawback is so many have no knowledge whatsoever of how this "Sausage Making" takes place. Like All State Primaries Basically Work Different. Libraries are stocked with books on past political campaigns and their stories of inner workings of grassroots organization and maneuvering needed to win nomination and election.

The contentiousness of this years candidate's supporters and some PRO-websites have just muddied the waters of understanding. They're buying into conspiracy theories, repeating unverified rumors,  planted false stories in the media and propaganda via fake tweeter accounts, and accusations of vote rigging (which turns out were  incompetent ballot instructions issued by the Trump campaign themselves) and show basic lack of knowledge of the delegate selection process, the rules or a political ground game. And the media has the steering wheel and a heavy foot on the peddle.

I had planned my own post, but ran across this below from Kevin Jackson's website, which condenses down what I had to say very well. It is indeed written by a Cruz supporter, but the facts contained are correct (as of yesterday) and easily verifiable.  

Keven Jackson

There has been one article after the other in the press how delegates who are pledged to Donald Trump may actually be Ted Cruz supporters. That's because in many states the allocation of delegates is divorced from the actual voting. Say Trump wins 50% of the delegates in South Carolina. The voters do not actually pick the delegates, the South Carolina Republican party does. It picks delegates who promise to vote for Trump on the first ballot. So what many state parties are doing is picking delegates who will vote for Trump on the first ballot, but on the second ballot, when they are free, will vote for Ted Cruz.

This has been explained time and time again by many, so no real news here. Delegates are bound in the first round (this differs for some states).

To recap a bit, the Republican presidential voting process is separate from the delegate selection process in most states. In states like South Carolina and Colorado for instance, most delegates are selected through a series of county, congressional district and state conventions.  

We know that Cruz is likely to do well among delegates chosen through state and local conventions because we’ve seen that demonstrated quite a few times already. This is most obvious in the three states — Colorado, Wyoming and North Dakota — where there was no presidential preference vote. Cruz won nine of the 12 delegates chosen at county conventions in Wyoming (Trump won one), and Cruz has gotten six of six picked so far at congressional district conventions in Colorado (more Colorado congressional districts will choose their delegates this week). In North Dakota, delegates are technically unbound, but Cruz got a highly favorable slate of delegates approved at the state convention on Sunday; only one or two delegates of the 25 chosen appear favorably disposed to Trump.

The distinction here is the ground game, and knowing the rules, more so than it should be a condemnation of the GOP. 

There are those who say this is a coziness between the GOP, who they say abhors Trump, and Cruz, whom many would say they equally abhor. I disagree. If anything, it’s the GOP’s recognition that one team takes the process seriously, and the other does not.

Cruz has also gotten good results at state and local conventions in states that do hold a presidential preference vote. In fact, considering that relatively few states have completed their convention process, it’s remarkable how many examples you can find of Cruz cleaning Trump’s clock: for example, in Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina and South Dakota.

The magic number is 75%–that’s how many delegates, in total, are selected by state GOP parties, and not the actual candidates or voters themselves. That means that up to 75% of Donald Trump delegates could, theoretically, be Ted Cruz supporters. Even if the real number is 10% or 20%, that’s a lot of delegates, and could be crucial to Cruz on a second or third ballot vote. And it goes without saying that theoretically “uncommitted” delegates are in practice strongly favored to support Cruz, for the same reasons.

The quandary for Trump supporter is this. If Trump is such a good businessman, able to negotiate the best deals and see the fine print, why is he so pathetic in understanding the game of the GOP, rules publicly available to all candidates? Cruz is stoic, stilted, mechanical and perhaps methodical to a fault. In this case, it’s working for him. He’s a detail guy, where Trump flies by the seat of his pants.

This is NOT an endorsement of Ted Cruz, as I have chosen not to endorse a candidate (I have problems with both). But unlike some others, I have stated I will support the Republican nominee no matter what, even if I have to hold my nose, and I will abide by my word.  

Al Gore and Attorney Generals Launch Campaign Against Speech Criminals

Independent Sentinel - We have our first attack against “climate change” deniers by one of the 16 AGs who have formed a group specifically to go after the free speech of anyone who disagrees with their extreme views on climate change.

If you recall former Vice President and global warming guru Al Gore and 16 Attorneys General, calling themselves the “AGs United for Clean Power”, announced at a press conference last week that they will criminalize climate change denial by corporations.

This is meant to squelch dissent and free speech.

The first volley was lobbed by the US Attorney General for the Virgin Islands, one of the sixteen, and he is going after a powerful think tank, Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Are they our new thought police?

The CEI website describes their organization as a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty. Our mission is to promote both freedom and fairness by making good policy good politics. We make the uncompromising case for economic freedom because we believe it is essential for entrepreneurship, innovation, and prosperity to flourish.

This is particularly shocking because they are going after a think tank, not an oil or gas company. Think about that!

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) today denounced a subpoena from Attorney General Claude E. Walker of the U.S. Virgin Islands that attempts to unearth a decade of the organization’s materials and work on climate change policy. This is the latest effort in an intimidation campaign to criminalize speech and research on the climate debate, led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former Vice President Al Gore.

The subpoena requests a decade’s worth of communications, emails, statements, drafts, and other documents regarding CEI’s work on climate change and energy policy, including private donor information. It demands that CEI produce these materials from 20 years ago, from 1997-2007, by April 30, 2016.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman told the gaggle of press that “The bottom line is simple: Climate change is real” and if companies are committing fraud by “lying” about the dangers of climate change, they will “pursue them to the fullest extent of the law.”

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