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Seriously Hillary? What the actual...
 
Anyway, that's a very out of touch decision that's going to get a LOT of play.

Rep Schultz has resigned as DNC chair. The wiki-leaks scandal has gone a good way in tarnishing her already bad reputation with many Democrats. She has also been hired on by Sec. Clinton in her Presidential Campaign (big surprise? )

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKCN1040TO

Soar. 

I voted for him in 1988, mainly because he wasn't Michael Dukakis.

Ehh, I'm waiting for another Washington or Teddy Roosevelt.

For one thing, he might have saved the South... ironic to say but he wanted reconciliation where most of Congress wanted revenge
 
However, Lincoln isn't the guy I'd want reborn and running... give me  Theodore "Trustbuster" Roosevelt for our problems now

I'm afraid Trump has scared me into voting for someone I normally wouldn't (Hillary), but I can understand why you'd stand by your convictions in this and respect it. I hope local elections in your area are more palatable.

I watched precisely none of the convention. And oddly enough, I survived.
 
I have resolved to tempt fate by doing the same next week.

Ted Cruz may have just moved a half million people into Gary Johnson's column.

Well, fine, I'll just refer to him as "loathsome scumbag Roger Ailes".

If that's true, a man born with a silver spoon in his mouth, who has for decades hobnobbed with the political elite, seems like a very unlikely anti-establishment candidate for the "common man."
 
Like I said before -- humans is weird.

No matter how many gaffs Trump or his campaign team make, nothing seems to phase his supporters. This defies all conventional wisdom about modern election campaigns. It really is boggling to watch.

He was shot for telling the police he had a gun.  No evidence that he was planning to use it on anybody, he just said he had one.  Then they gunned him down as if a man saying that he had something that the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States says he's allowed to have was some sort of crime.  Seems like something the NRA ought to be getting up in arms about.

Last day on the job and a Brinks officer gets shot during an attempted robbery. Not counting the human element, mass confusion and chaos ensued. Counting the human element, a poor guy just doing his job is currently in critical condition. Sometimes this world really pisses me off. I hope the officer has a full recovery. I would probably be violating board policy if I offered my wishes for the perp. Scumbag. I guess there's nothing more to say.

None.  Absolutely no chance that the Obama administration was going to indict his party's nominee for the presidency.  Zero.  It doesn't matter how much she lied (Comey's testimony before the Senate proves she did, repeatedly) or how incompetent and sloppy she was at minimum.  The party comes first for both parties.  That's the system: them vs us.

Simon: I think I understand you better but perhaps not to the extent desired. 

I think the Director over stated the rules for prosecution in security cases. That was the bigger point surrounding my linked article. I believe it was also the case in the Young Turks' video (assuming it is the one I think it is). In general, security breaches don't require intent to do harm. Nor is the "I didn't know any better" (ignorance of the law) defense generally acceptable. Lastly, clear and provable harm has rarely been a standard. Thus, when two folks talk opening about classified data at Starbucks, we are not concerned if they intended to give classified data to spies, didn't realize that discussing classified data in public was not okay, nor whether or not any spies or such were actually present at that particular starbucks at that particular time. It is rather that there is a reckless breach of security. Harm, knowledge, and intent are largely non-issues in ascertaining guilt. 

However, it would seem that in this case the Director is applying those standards here. The Secretary did not provably harm national security nor seem to have had intent to harm national security. Although the ignorance of the law bit she seems to have clearly have been a slip up even by the FBI directors statements about how anyone in her or a similar position should have known better. And while these are certainly good standards to have in a lot of cases (robbery, fraud, violent crime, etc), they are not the standard nor reasonably should be the standard in the realm of national security. 

I think the folks crying foul on this one (myself included) are upset most by a perceived double standard in government. 

Soar. 
 

Wow. Clinton-Warren would be a big positive step in unifying the party after a contentious primary. I'm relatively comfortable with upsetting Wall Street in the process.

He hasn't Knocked Three Times or Tied a Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree in years.  The gods have a strange affinity for 1970s music.

Went and found the Politico article itself...which was not easy to find oddly 
 
Frankly, if I were Hillary.... and had just been told what to do so publicly by the very group that others had accused me of being practically owned by, I'd almost feel required to get Warren or someone like her
 
Seriously, Clinton, if every there was a time to start singing "You don't own me" , now's the time. Otherwise, Trump is going to go to town about whose pocket you belong in and even those who hate Trump are going to wonder why they should get off  their butts and vote for you.

Stanford rape judge removed from new sexual assault case involving anesthetized patient
 
There is also a petition to recall him from his seat.
 
PS:  I didn't know he was also a Stanford alum.

Early last week ... someone had a nice-looking Studebaker ragtop with the top down going onto I-5 northbound. Only got a single look at it, unfortunately, as I was southbound.

This week I have been at my job a year.   I will be offered different insurance, so that is goint to require research, but...
New job role training last week.  Today I took my WA state insurance agent exam.   I was worried, but scored a LOT better than I feared, and so now I will make more money at work...   

This week I have been at my job a year.   I will be offered different insurance, so that is goint to require research, but...
New job role training last week.  Today I took my WA state insurance agent exam.   I was worried, but scored a LOT better than I feared, and so now I will make more money at work...   

I've mentioned Awesome Gamer Girl occasionally on the forum, starting when we met back in late 2012. (I think?)
 
It's my great pleasure to announce that she's now Awesome Gamer Fiancee, and she'll become my Awesome Gamer Spouse on June 18th.
 
Also, I've been at my new job for a year as of May 30th. We've just replaced both of our old clunker cars, and finally finished laminating all the floors.
 
The master bath is getting a complete remodel in July....

Any neighbors between you and Russia are good ones. Until Russia eats them.