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SusanCalvin

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January 31, 2016

This is Bernie to me.

Wasn't sure where to put it, figured I had less chance of getting in trouble here.

BTW, I think Neil Simon is this century's Shakespeare.

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January 31, 2016

Wow in Texas re Bernie.

I'm going to phone bank tomorrow at a home in the large, affluent retirement community across the highway.

I remarked to the host that she must, as a Democrat, feel kinda lonely there, as I had heard horror stories from Democrats who had canvassed door-to-door there.

She said all but one of her immediate neighbors were for Bernie.

January 30, 2016

I don't remember the exact point,

But I know that corporations need to be muzzled and leashed.

January 30, 2016

That's the exact reason

I made my first-ever pre-general campaign contribution.

To Obama.

January 30, 2016

NEWLY RESTORED FILM SHOWS SEGREGATION PROTESTS AT HOUSTON LUNCH COUNTERS

http://abc7news.com/news/historic-film-shows-lunch-counter-protests-in-1960-houston/1163889/

For the first time in more than five decades you can take a look at a piece of Houston history; film that was shot of protests and demonstrations to end segregation in Houston.

On March 4 1960, students from TSU staged a sit-in at the Weingarten's lunch counter to protest segregation at Houston eateries. The following day, they held a sit-in at Madding's drug store.

KTRK was there and shot film of the sit-ins as well as a protest at the cafeteria at City Hall.
January 30, 2016

"MOTHER" OF HOUSTON'S 1960 SIT-IN MOVEMENT PASSES AWAY

http://abc13.com/uncategorized/houston-civil-rights-pioneer-passes-away/1179691/

Holly Adrienne Hogrobrooks, a civil rights pioneer who helped organize Houston first sit-in has passed away, she was 75.

Hogrobrooks efforts in organizing a series of lunch counter demonstrations at supermarkets and drug stores across the city in 1960 helped end segregation in Houston.


January 29, 2016

OK.

She's Andrea Mitchell.

Who freely chose to be closely associated with Alan Greenspan.

And virtually never mentions it.

Nor recuses herself where appropriate.

There.

January 29, 2016

I would not dream of calling her that were I to meet her personally.

(Not bloody likely.)

As shorthand, in discussion, for whom she *chooses* to associate with, well....

January 25, 2016

What's better than Tom Lehrer doing Vatican Rag?

Why, this, of course!

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