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eniwetok's JournalDid Barry Goldwater Smoke Pot?
A friend of mine went to University of Arizona back in the early 70s. Somehow he met Barry Goldwater and confronted him about pot. Goldwater, as the story goes, said he took a boat out beyond the 3 mile limit to try it. I don't remember what the rest of the story was.
Has anyone ever heard this story?
The GOP's Amusing Fixation On Health Care "Choice"
The obvious problem with the GOP's claim about wanting more "choice" in health care is
1: Having numerous options to be under insured or to have access to plans with outrageous deductibles is NOT a choice worth having
and..
2: CHOICE IS EXPENSIVE. It's expensive to administer all those health care plans each with its own pool of cash, different coverage and exclusion rules, different networks, and billing procedures.
Sometimes it's cheaper just to have one plan that covers everything for everyone.
But then the GOP would rather see ALL that money pissed away on needless administration costs, high CEO pay, advertising, profits to shareholders, etc than to see that same money be used to provide real care to the American People.
Of course "choice" is also the only way the GOP can sell a disastrous and inefficient health care model as desirable!
Have Dems In ANY State Tried To Enact Instant Runoff Voting?
I get tired of hearing some here bash Greens for election defeats as if the Dems have some RIGHT to someone else's vote. A vote is a citizen's consent to govern and they SHOULD have the right to vote their conscience. Yet we're in a position that many Dems HATE Greens when they should be natural allies.
Lost on them is that it's the defects in our f*cking state and federal electoral systems that creates these dysfunctional dynamics.
On the federal level it's the EC... a mindless, antidemocratic, vote weighting scheme that gives the votes of SOME citizens bigger votes than others depending on choice of state resident. NO FREE PERSON should have to put up with election LOSERS "winning" an election.
On the state level there's winner take all elections where the votes of all other parties are handed to the winner for the EC.
But there's also the lack of IRV in these elections. IRV allows everyone to vote their conscience... and if their candidate doesn't win... they can choose a second choice to whom their vote would go to. Chances are most of Nader's 2000 voters in FL would have gone to Gore. Problem solved... well, one problem.
Dems have now had 16 YEARS to work on bringing IRV to their states. Have ANY actually worked on this? I have no idea. Maybe someone here does.
RULES FOR INTERPRETING TRUMP-SPEAK
There are no end of minor rules we could come up with... but if we look at the broad themes...
RULE #1: If he sounds thoughtful and reasonable as he often does in some interviews.... HE'S LYING.
RULE #2: When he claims he's for the little guy, you can be sure he's setting them up to be ripped off.
any others?
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