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May 11, 2016

I am laughing my @$$ off over in LBN right now

They all seem to think we have a "special tool"



And we use it to be #1 posts on their threads.




Edit to add link to the thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1445954

May 11, 2016

Why did Nebraska have a Democratic Primary when the delegates were already committed?

Clinton wins Nebraska primary but gets no delegates

Hillary Clinton won a symbolic victory Tuesday in Nebraska, taking 59 percent of the primary vote and rival Bernie Sanders getting 40 percent.

Democrats in the Cornhusker State held presidential caucuses in March, with Sanders emerging victorious. The two Democratic candidates appeared on the state’s primary ballot on Tuesday, when voters went to the polls to make their choice in the GOP race.


In the March caucuses, Sanders won 57 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 42 percent, taking 15 delegates to Clinton’s 10.

http://www.thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/dem-primaries/279468-clinton-wins-nebraska-primary-but-gets-no-delegates

People voted for nothing? Want to talk about a rigged system BSers?

May 11, 2016

How the Rest of the Democratic Delegate Race Could Unfold

If all superdelegates vote for the candidate with the most pledged delegates, Mrs. Clinton will get to 2,383 delgates.
Clinton

1,705 delegates earned

511 projected

714 super delegates


Sanders

1,413 delegates earned

422 projected

2,383 super delegates needed


At a news conference this week, Mr. Sanders stated that he and Mrs. Clinton are headed to a “contested” convention since she cannot reach a majority of the delegates with pledged delegates alone. He urged superdelegates in states that he has won to vote for him.


Even if all superdelegates go to the winner of their state — as Mr. Sanders proposes — he still won’t earn enough delegates.


Clinton

1,705 delegates earned

511 projected

505 super delegates


Sanders

1,413 delegates

422 projected

209 super delegates


2,383 needed


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/30/upshot/clinton-sanders-delegate-calculator.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fupshot&action=click&contentCollection=upshot®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=sectionfront

May 10, 2016

Your candidate farted - listen to full audio at link (HRC Group)

As if posting everything someone says is going to change minds.


May 9, 2016

Has Trump thrown insults at BS yet?

I can't recall any. Makes me wonder?

May 9, 2016

New Nikon D3200

I have had a D3100 for some time although I still feel like I am learning how to use it. Took some great shots on vacation last week and had several that I was disappointed with. My sunset shots from Santa Monica Pier just did not look as good I thought they did.


But last night my wife came home with a brand new D3200 in a box, I looked at her and asked what was going on.

She got it on clearance for an unbelievable price. Anyway, now I need to get this thing out of the box and learn the new toy. New toys are always exciting.


May 9, 2016

Evangelicals feel abandoned by GOP after Trump’s ascent

‘There’s nobody left’: Evangelicals feel abandoned by GOP after Trump’s ascent

LINCOLN, Neb. — Pastor Gary Fuller planned a Sunday service focused on involving Christians in the political process and featuring a speech by the pastor father of Sen. Ted Cruz. But after a week in which Cruz abruptly dropped out of the race, his father scrapped his appearance here and Donald Trump became the Republican Party’s standard-bearer, a dismayed Fuller kept the political portion short.

“Vote according to your convictions,” Fuller told congregants at Gentle Shepherd Baptist Church who will cast ballots in Nebraska’s presidential primary Tuesday. “What you believe is the right thing to vote for, according to the Scriptures.”

He told congregants that the church can’t and won’t promote one candidate over another. But Fuller has a hard time stomaching Trump as the Republican nominee and plans to vote for Cruz on Tuesday, even though the senator has dropped out of the race.

“In a sense, we feel abandoned by our party,” Fuller said. “There’s nobody left.”

Fuller and other conservatives whose voting decisions are guided by their Christian faith find themselves dismayed and adrift now that Trump has wrested control of the Republican Party. It is a sentiment that reaches from the small, aluminum-sided church with a large white cross on its front that Fuller and his wife built on the Nebraska plains to the highest levels of American religious life. Even progressive Christians — evangelicals and Catholics, among others — who don’t necessarily vote Republican are alarmed that Trump is attracting many voters who call themselves religious. A coalition of nearly 60 Christian leaders — many progressive and some conservative — published an open letter last week asking voters of faith to reject Trump and his “vulgar racial and religious demagoguery,” warning that the nation faces a “moral threat” from the candidate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/theres-nobody-left-evangelicals-feel-abandoned-by-gop-after-trumps-ascent/2016/05/08/a133991e-130f-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_gopevangelicals810p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory


First of all, I despise religious leaders who interject politics into their congregation so it does not bother me when they get burned by the devil they made a deal with.

There is no place for politics in religion.

May 5, 2016

We were part of the audience for the Late Late Show with James Cordin

Very interesting how they do that.

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