I’m running late again. I felt tired and cold, so I lay down for a while, but could not sleep. I cleaned my refrigerator and freezer in preparation for grocery delivery today. My Outlook repeatedly choked on an email, so I had to access thee account online and delete it. Today is Saguaro in the Fecal Dump Trump Rump Day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
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Short Takes:
From Real Clear Politics: The latest delegate count.
|
State |
Date |
Delegates |
Clinton |
Sanders |
Delegate Allocation |
Open/ Closed |
|
(2,382 Needed to Win) |
– |
4763 |
1681 |
937 |
– |
– |
|
Delegates Won |
– |
4051 |
1170 |
880 |
|
|
|
Superdelegates |
– |
(712) |
467 |
26 |
|
|
|
Iowa |
February 1 |
44 (8) |
23 |
21 |
Caucus |
Semi-open |
|
New Hampshire |
February 9 |
24 (8) |
9 |
15 |
Primary |
Semi-closed |
|
Nevada |
February 20 |
35 (8) |
19 |
15 |
Caucus |
Closed |
|
South Carolina |
February 27 |
53 (6) |
39 |
14 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Alabama |
March 1 |
53 (7) |
44 |
9 |
Primary |
Open |
|
American Samoa |
March 1 |
6 (4) |
|
|
Caucus |
Closed |
|
Arkansas |
March 1 |
32 (5) |
22 |
10 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Colorado |
March 1 |
66 (13) |
28 |
38 |
Caucus |
Closed |
|
Democrats Abroad |
March 1-8 |
13 (4) |
|
|
Primary |
Closed |
|
Georgia |
March 1 |
102 (14) |
72 |
28 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Massachusetts |
March 1 |
91 (25) |
46 |
45 |
Primary |
Semi-closed |
|
Minnesota |
March 1 |
77 (16) |
29 |
46 |
Caucus |
Open |
|
Oklahoma |
March 1 |
38 (4) |
17 |
21 |
Primary |
Semi-closed |
|
Tennessee |
March 1 |
67 (9) |
42 |
22 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Texas |
March 1 |
222 (30) |
145 |
74 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Vermont |
March 1 |
16 (10) |
0 |
16 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Virginia |
March 1 |
95 (15) |
61 |
33 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Louisiana |
March 5 |
51 (8) |
35 |
12 |
Primary |
Closed |
|
Nebraska |
March 5 |
25 (5) |
10 |
14 |
Caucus |
Closed |
|
Kansas |
March 5 |
33 (4) |
10 |
23 |
Caucus |
Closed |
|
Maine |
March 6 |
25 (5) |
7 |
15 |
Caucus |
Closed |
|
Mississippi |
March 8 |
36 (5) |
30 |
4 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Michigan |
March 8 |
130 (17) |
60 |
67 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Northern Marianas |
March 12 |
6 (5) |
|
|
N/A |
N/A |
|
Florida |
March 15 |
214 (32) |
133 |
65 |
Primary |
Closed |
|
Illinois |
March 15 |
156 (26) |
68 |
67 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Missouri |
March 15 |
71 (13) |
32 |
32 |
Primary |
Open |
|
North Carolina |
March 15 |
107 (14) |
59 |
45 |
Primary |
Semi-closed |
|
Ohio |
March 15 |
143 (16) |
79 |
62 |
Primary |
Semi-open |
|
Arizona |
March 22 |
75 (10) |
41 |
26 |
Primary |
Closed |
|
Idaho |
March 22 |
23 (4) |
5 |
17 |
Caucus |
Open |
|
Utah |
March 22 |
33 (4) |
5 |
24 |
Caucus |
Semi-open |
Last night, Bernie’s big wins and closer loss cut into Hillary’s lead by 16 delegates. To have over half the pledged delegates, Bernie needs 1,146 more, and Hillary, 856 more.
From Daily Kos: Here’s a great story, one of hundreds and hundreds, that boils down the Republican efforts to govern the states over the last few years to its essence. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley recently signed a bill barring the cities in his state from raising their minimum wage. They’re not allowed to do it now, don’t care the reason, because Robert Bentley doesn’t believe in that sort of thing. Bentley led the state in a spending purge that, like the similar efforts in other states with Republican governors, slashed uncouth things the common rabble might use under the omnipresent GOP motto: We Just Can’t Afford Nice Things Anymore.
You know what’s next for the people in Robert Bentley’s office, right? Raises all around!
Now, news has emerged that Bentley recently gave four of his cabinet members $73,405 raises — an 80 percent increase from the $91,000 salaries they were making previously. […]
The raises reportedly went into effect late last year, though news of them just broke this week. While the $73,405 salary increases were the largest, more than a dozen members of Bentley’s cabinet and a number of his staff members reportedly received raises as well.
An eighty percent raise for the people helping him gut state services? Ka-ching. If that isn’t 2016-era Republicanism in a nutshell I don’t know what would be.
What greedy hypocrites!! From Republican perspective, his staffers deserved a big raise for hurting the poor and middle classes. That’s the Republican way.
From PoliticusUSA: It is fairly well-acknowledged among great leaders that delegating authority is necessary if for no other reason than no leader is an expert in every field. It is also well-known now that Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination is a self-labeled expert in every field and has no need to ever delegate authority. In fact, Donald Trump has made it crystal clear that his most accomplished advisor and trusted counselor is himself. However, there is one area where the Donald says he will delegate authority as president and like everything else the wrestling and reality show celebrity promises to do, it is catastrophically insane and dangerous to the American people and the U.S. Constitution.
With all the absurd furor over the idea that a sitting President with 9 months left in his term is forbidden to nominate a judge to sit on the Supreme Court, it was little surprise that Donald Trump finally weighed in with an even more bizarre plan than just prohibiting President Obama from doing his job. However, unlike everything else Trump proposes, as president he will not be involved in deciding who to nominate as a Supreme Court justice.
Instead of doing what the Constitution mandates, Donald Trump will outsource the job of nominating a lifetime jurist on the nation’s highest court to the ultra-conservative belief tank, the Heritage Foundation. In essence, Trump will authorize teabagger Jim DeMint to consult with the Koch brothers to determine what kind of religious and corporate extremist gets to sit on the High Court. DeMint is legendary as a religious right, anti-government extremist which is why he was the perfect choice to head up the Heritage Foundation and a devotee of the Koch brothers.
I have consistently opined that TRUSed Uranus Cruz is more dangerous for America than Fecal Dump Trump. I take it back. Now it’s a toss-up.
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4:17 (4:33) They are nuts if they think I'm going to get on that bike where it is. If the front tire isn't cut to shreds by those rocks, the rear one is so overbalanced it will topple over as soon as the kickstand is up.
Real Clear – I'm still in it for Bernie to win it. What the prognosis is, though, certainly depends on who you read.
DKos – I would like to be outraged, but it's just, how Republican – and it's certainly not my fault that people in red states keep voting them in. (Although I could reference another article on DKos, a few days older, which contains this: "(A)ll they have of value left to lose is their whiteness. So they’re going to fight for it. And yes, that is racist. But it’s all they’ve got."
Politicus – I certainly see your point. I myself denounced Lawrence Lessig for less disregard for the Constitution. Right now I am speechless.
Cartoon – So accurate. People who just want liberty have been getting death instead for a long, long tome, haven't they?
NYT data differs with Clinton 1223 and Bernie 920 not counting super delegates…(match on superdelegates though)…I wonder why…
I am wanting the scenario that Trump wins his case that Cruz is ineligible to serve and himself becomes ineligible due to felonies of inciting violence more and more each day…
I sure wouldn't want to be living in Alabama!!!
Just what we NEED! A SCOTUS pick from the Koch Brothers!!! GEEZ, Louise! If they win, RepukkklicanTs or HumptyTrump, our way of life is DOOMED!!! Anyone that is one of the 99% will be farther and farther in the hole!!!
PLEASE, PLEASE, REGISTER TO VOTE!!! And if so inclined, VOTE BLUE!!! Don't let another RepukkklicanTs get elected to ANY office!!!
RCP: Go Bernie, GO!
DK: ''An eighty percent raise for the people helping him gut state services? Ka-ching. If that isn't 2016-era Republicanism in a nutshell I don't know what would be.'' C'mon people, vote them OUT !!!!
PoliticusUSA: wth??? Now this is downright scary!!
Cartoon: Ain't that the truth? It is.
I too, am feeling tired. Maybe it's spring fever. I feel sorry for the Saguaro, not Drumpf, as most live in the Sonoran Desert. When we lived in AZ, we had two of them in the front yard, they were beautiful. Our two, (when we lived there), were determined to be about 70 years old. Enjoy your evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
2:45 Just breezing along, but obviously, not quite quickly enough!
I'll oas in the bike. trying to ride it to the food court would make me a precariously placed puddy tat.
Puzzle — 2:45 Just breezing along, but obviously, not quite quickly enough!
Real Clear Politics — It ain't over til it's over! Go Bernie! I heard a rumour that Bernie has captured about 78% of the Democrats abroad. Do you know if there is any truth to that? Is that a number that is in flux umtil the convention?
Daily Kos — I read about that and was absolutely flummoxed! Talk about "it pays to know the right people". Alabamans need to do a wholesale change to the state government — go Democratic and then sue the crap out of Bentley to recover the funds.
Politicususa — Words fail me. Drumpf is a "… serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S." according to the editors at the Huff Post, and in addition, "Donald Trump regularly incites political violence." The fact that Drumpf would abdicate his constitutional responsibility to nominate a Justice tells me even more that he is not fit to be POTUS.
Cartoon — I wonder what Patrick Henry would say about Drumpf? I bet he'd take death if it were Drumpf's version of liberty.
A little high Lynn…According to Politico:
" The group Democrats Abroad, which held a “Global Presidential Primary” earlier this month, announced the results on Monday: Sanders won 69 percent of the vote, compared to just 31 percent for Hillary Clinton. " TC doesn't show that one in the source he used so may account to why it differs from NYT.
Real Clear Politics: Bernie is doing better than most expected him to, and making Hillary changeher postion on several progressive ideas in the process. go Bernie!
Daily Kos: Disgusting, but not surprising. The last Republican governer we had (before newly elected Bevins) nearly went to jail for all the "favors" he did his friends. Bevins has been on a merry ride, slashing funds to universities and other educational institutions, we don't want smart peope in Ky, they might vote against the GOP. I am beginning to despair!
Politicus USA: So the Koch's own the Donald,too. Surprised at that. I am still stunned at the number of citizens who think he would be a good president.
Cartoon: We need a Patrick Henry today!
Still feeling tired and cold must mean you're not a 100% yet, TomCat, so do take care of yourself, my feline friend.
RCP: Bernie Sanders keeps on going AND surprising. Keep up the Bern!
DK: An 80% raise for gov. Robert Bentley's cabinet and staff while prohibiting cities in Alabama to raise the minimum wage makes me want to grab my pitchfork and wetting stone and go over there to put things right. But I suppose that if I poked Bently in his butt with my fork he wouldn't even bleed, because he's not human, he's a Republican in office. The worst kind there is.
PU: WHAT…???? I had hoped this article was in jest, a satirical look at Drumpf drumpfing all over the place. But it isn't a joke. He has already "AUTHORIZED the Heritage Foundation to work on the list of names” [capitals mine]!?!?! Who the frack does he thinks he is, the king of Brooklyn? It looks like this "king" is either looking at the bottom of his empty campaign coffers or he's afraid the GOP leaders will indeed stop him from getting the nomination so "he is sending a signal to curry favor with the Koch brothers". Either way, he's made an absolute fool of all the Republicans in Congress who asserted that the constitution doesn't allow Obama to put forward a nominee for SCOTUS, but it should be left to the next president. Drumpf is already the next president in his mind and gives them all the finger by saying he's not going to do his constitutional duty – they showed him how to do that by not doing theirs now – and leave it to the Koch brothers to put one of their puppets in there. I wonder, can the current SCOTUS allow such an unconstitutional thing to happen?
Lona, I'm OK. It's the weird weather wh have at this time of year. The Koch Brothers have a pupped. TEABAG Thomas has attended their events. His wife used to work for Groundswell and Liberty Central. TEABAG failed to dosclose her salary.
Yes, I know Thomas is a Koch sock puppet, but at least he got to SCOTUS through the normal procedures, nominated by a president and accepted by the majority in Congress. If Drumpf says he's not going to do his constitutional duty beforehand, wouldn't that make the nomination of a Koch ilk whose handpicked by someone other than the president invalid?
They kind of make you want to open a vein, don't they? Saddest part is like Joanne said, the stupid people keep voting for these banana heads. I'll bring my pitchfork, too, Lona….if we're going down, we might as well go down Big.
Thanks ll! Hugs!!
America,looking like a third world country.Cruz wants to restrict All Muslims. (he got his head handed to him by both Bill Bratton,AND on this a.m,s CBS,news reader.(I cheered,good girl.)and Trump stated that he would not hesitate to use Nuclear weapons!!. Holy Cow, who in heir right mind could possibly Vote for these two stinkers.
At the end of W.W. 2.when I was 12 y.o. I was told ,by friends returning from America(Yes I am a Brit and an American citizen).) to always remember that America was the "least civilized country in the world,AND ALWAYS would be.
My. My. did that prophecy come home to roost ! All it took was the REPUGS Sorry it is Very depressing..Stay well TC. Love your vision.