April 14, 2016

Interesting info about Paul Song

if it wasn't for Bill Clinton, his sister in law might still be doing hard time in North Korea


On January 3, 2007, Ling announced her engagement to radiation oncologist Paul Song.[20] They married on May 26, 2007, in Los Angeles, California. The wedding party included guests such as Connie Chung, one of Lisa's personal heroes, and actresses Kelly Hu and Diane Farr.[21] On June 7, 2009, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from National University, after giving the commencement speech there.[22] In October 2012 Ling announced on Anderson Cooper's talk show that she and her husband were expecting their first child, a baby girl. She gave birth to a daughter named Jett Ling Song on March 8, 2013.[23][24] The family resides in Santa Monica, California.[25][26]

Her younger sister, Laura Ling, also a journalist, was managing editor of Vanguard at Current TV and currently a host and reporter on E! Network. In March 2009 Laura and her colleague Euna Lee were detained by North Korea for illegal entry into the country. They had been attempting to film refugees along the border with China.[27] In June, they were sentenced to 12 years in a labor prison for illegal entry into North Korea, and unspecified hostile acts.[28]

North Korea released Laura and Euna on August 4, 2009 after a visit from former U.S. President Bill Clinton.[29] Laura and Lisa went on to collaborate on the first book either has had published, Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home, published in May 2010.[30]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Ling

April 10, 2016

WV voters can check registration status here

https://services.sos.wv.gov/Elections/Voter/AmIRegisteredToVote

April 6, 2016

what the hell is going on about Bernie trying to flip delegates at the national convention?-HRC Grp

Email from the campaign

It seems the Sanders campaign is finally seeing the writing on the wall: Hillary has won more votes AND more pledged delegates in this election -- her lead in both is nearly insurmountable.

So this morning, Bernie’s campaign manager claimed the convention could be an “open convention,” and declared they’re going to try and flip delegates’ votes, overturning the will of the voters.

Your vote is your voice, and the Sanders campaign shouldn’t be trying to circumvent the process -- or the nearly 9 million (and counting) people who have made their voice heard for Hillary in this election.
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has the Bernie campaign finally lost what few marbles they had left?

do they want to hand the general election to the republicans?

what the hell are they thinking over there?????

April 4, 2016

The Electoral College: The Only Thing That Matters

We live in a post-factual era. Thanks to the Internet and social media, which mix informed and uninformed views in equal measure, the old rule — that people are entitled to their own opinions but not their own set of facts — no longer applies. Somewhere in cyberspace, you can now find blogs and treatises with “facts” that support your opinions, no matter how bizarre.

Here at the Crystal Ball, though, we are going to cling to one central fact about presidential elections: The only thing that matters is accumulating a majority of 270 votes in the Electoral College.

Creating Electoral College projections is a marvelous parlor game, and we’ve been doing so here since we obtained our magical sphere of crystal from China many years ago. (All other details shall remain confidential.)

We’re now at the point in the nominating process where it is, er, crystal clear that Hillary Clinton will end up being the Democratic candidate, and Donald Trump, while not at all the certain winner, is the leading candidate to become the Republican nominee. So it’s time to adjust our 2016 electoral map for the first time since we rolled out our initial ratings last May. That map, shown below as Map 1, reflected a generic Democrat versus Republican matchup, and it depicted a close, competitive general election.

http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/the-only-thing-that-matters/

March 30, 2016

It's like trying to reason with my niece when she was four

I babysat one summer and she didn't like her naps.

Trying to reason with a cranky four old just gives you a headache.

Trying to present facts to some is worse.

March 29, 2016

GD-P is certainly interesting today

Lots of people trying to defend the indefensible

How are all my Hillary friends doing today?

March 28, 2016

Hit pieces galore in good reads this morning

Just sad

March 23, 2016

Has anyone else worked as a poll worker

If you have then you know there are always issues at the polling site.

Voter registration cards are sometimes sent out before the official voter roll is generated.

There's always the possibility that someone filled out a form wrong and the clerk's office can't process it.

When I moved back east from California, I registered at the DMV when I got my new license. I called my county clerk's office and was told that they never received my form. I followed up on it and made sure I was registered in the end.

There's always the possibility of human error in the clerk's office. The case that comes to mind is one of shooters from last year was identified as female on the election rolls. I think it was the guy who shot up the community college in Oregon. If you go to the poll and the worker tells you that you're listed as female when you're male, a reasonable person would take steps to fix the problem.

Voter fraud exists but not in the scale that some people believe it does. If you want to vote, find out what you have to do so in Election Day there won't be any problems for you.

March 23, 2016

Does anyone have the number of delegates that Hillary was shooting for

just wondering what is it and how much we exceeded it

March 21, 2016

Shock poll: In West Virginia, Hillary Clinton 44%, Sanders 31%

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/3/17/1502810/-Shock-poll-In-West-Virginia-Hillary-Clinton-44-Sanders-31

Bernie Sanders must win West Virginia by a huge margin if the state is to have an impact in the primaries, because this is an extremely white state.

A poll conducted March 2-6 has Clinton ahead of Sanders by 13%. Link

It has to be an outlier. But you never know these days.

Not that West Virginia matters because Bernie supporters have said that red states don’t matter because Republicans will win there in November.