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Trump's strategy in dealing with the completely sympathetic Khan family is indeed a mystery. HRC was blamed for the death of their sons by two mothers at the RNC convention. To be directly accused of those deaths is more of an attack than anything poor Trump has suffered. Since Clinton is a normal human being and responded in a normal way… all sympathy, no "counter attacks", the story quickly fell out of the news.
The same would be happening with this story if Trump had given the same normal, sympathetic response. Instead he and his equally clueless spokespersons and strongest supporters keep issuing new outrageous, heartless counter attacks and shabby excuses, keeping the back and forth going between them and growing numbers of individuals and groups issuing new statements denouncing those remarks and tweets in response.
Here are responses from the VFW and 17 Gold Star families. Neither group can be described as having any connection with Democratic partisanship:
As Samcat has reminded us on the Monday thread, today marks the anniversary of the Big Thompson Canyon Flood. Anyone want to share memories?
LimpBalls weighs in….(what in the hell is he still doing here? Didn't he promise to leave the country after the last election?)
Limbaugh: Melania Trump's nude 'girl-on-girl' photos 'might wrap up the LGBT vote'
Lest we forget….
When you're Brophy, looking up to just about anyone and everyone comes quite naturally!
You're welcome, BC. (eye bleach not included)
Your cartoon fine. My harmless response awaiting moderation. I just posted RCP averages with success. Wonder what gives? Wish yours was awaiting moderation!
Ha! I thought maybe you had your own stash of leaked Melania nudies you were trying to share with us!
Those so-called "harmless" responses are out of the norm here, and could set an unwelcome precedent . . .
. . . they should, therefore, always be viewed with suspicion!
It looks like he too has small hands…….is that a common affliction among Republicans?
Why is my comment awaiting moderation?
Sorry, BC. Your comment was inexplicably flagged by our spam filters. It should appear now.
No biggie. As you can see… it wasn't much of a comment.
RCP today
Race/Topic Poll Results Spread
General Election: Trump vs. ClintonCBS News Clinton 47, Trump 41
Clinton +6
General Election: Trump vs. Clinton vs. Johnson CBS News Clinton 43, Trump 38, Johnson 10
Clinton +5
President Obama Job Approval Gallup Approve 54, Disapprove 43
Approve +11
President Obama Job Approval Rasmussen Reports
Approve 52, Disapprove 46 Approve +6
Are they omitting Dr Jill Stein but including Gary Johnson?
Can't help but wonder about the "coincidence" between Obama's Rasmussen 6.0% net favorable number and HRC's 6.0% lead in the CBS News poll. Nice…..
Won't be long before Ass Hat comes to share with us the news that HRC is 20% behind in Idaho.
As soon as they get Buttercup bridled and saddled they'll be making their appearance..
I noticed yesterday new polls were omitting Stein. Maybe because she's only polling one or two percent? In any case while the numbers are affected, HRC's small but persistent lead doesn't seem to be affected by more than a point one way or the other whether it's a two, three or four person poll. I think the lowest I've seen today is four, the highest seven in head to heads or with others.
Can the Green Party even win at the Presidential level? I know they're only on the ballot in about half of the states…
Besides, if Stein keeps on her anti-science kick, she's going to take herself out of the running. First anti-vax, now anti-wifi signals.
Apparently Bernie Bitter enders love this stuff? And switching from Bernie to this flake as a matter of high minded principle makes sense to them?
Stein isn't anti-vaccine. She has a nuanced position, expressed on a blog, which included that not all vaccines are appropriate for all people all of the time.
Anti-wifi? Hadn't seen that one, but I doubt it. Please cite a real source.
So complete this…..Tim Neville, Jill Stein and Laura Waters Woods walk into an immunization clinic together……..
Neville and Woods mistake a tech holding a vaccine injector for a "bad guy with a gun", and mistakenly shoot each other, as they are of course both concealed carrying.
Dr. Stein and the med tech have to provide emergency aid to the two legislator victims, and must choose to triage one or the other, based on whether Woods or Neville is making any positive contribution to society.
And then….
…Dr. Stein and the tech go for coffee, instead.
I am a supporter of vaccinating our children ( I still bear the faint scar from my polio vaccination which has protected me for six decades…and, for which, I will always be grateful) as a matter of public policy.
That said, there is no reason to believe that Big Pharma makes an exception for vaccines in their proclivity for marketing useless, or even dangerous products. We do not have enough resources to protect us from overzealous drug merchants. If regulation of vaccine research and use were relentlessly pursued by sufficiently staffed and funded groups of dedicated doctors and scientists, I daresay there would not be such a problem.
I am no fan of unnecessary medication and think any corporate executive or technician who subverts this particular industry should be severely punished.
We need far more public education and oversight of the pharmaceutical industry along with a very real and relentless effort to educate those who have been misled by the religious right. Decisions need to be made based on solid medical science….not religious fear and bias. The problem is, the truth is obscured by unethical business practices and an under-funding of our safety net..
The moral crime here is the people at the top of the profit margin in these companies are the very ones who get to avoid paying the taxes to fund our government. It translates into a public peril for everyone else…
One of the priorities of the New Democratic Party should be to rebuild our regulatory agencies.
Consumers have a healthy skepticism about the pronouncements of known liars. Just because someone wears a white coat in an ad, or plays a doctor on TV, doesn't mean that their health information is valid or without conflict of interest. That was also one of Stein's points.
I will confess that I delayed some vaccinations for my two children, although they were fully immunized by the time they entered day care and public school. I did this not because I'm a religious right wing nut or a Boulder space case, but because I researched the literature thoroughly and determined that a delay of several months was at least not harmful, and might be helpful.
I also questioned the value of common neonatal practices that seemed like torture to me – the slicing of the baby's soles with a razor blade to test for meningitis, or putting silver nitrate drops in newborn eyes to combat syphilis. Not allowing those measures would probably make me a neglectful parent in many people's eyes.
As a public school teacher now, I'm grateful for mandatory vaccinations, although I will never take another flu vaccine. The one I had made me as sick as I've ever been, even though the guys in white coats assured me that it was all in my imagination.
We need more sites and public information like procon.org so that people can make informed decisions. We need to close the revolving door between the producers of vaccines and medicines, and the lobbying industry. Then we can trust their information more. And we need to beef up research and regulation, as Duke said.
As per the flu vaccination, you need different doctors. It's long been well known that a certain percentage of people get sick from that. I've never encountered a doctor who claimed an adverse reaction must be imaginary.
If you are going to a doctor who claims that's the case, you need to find a competent doctor. I've always had great doctors for the simple reason that I look for them and if I don't feel comfortable with one I switch. I love my doctors and don't see them as "white coats" which you seem to use in a disparaging way.
It also helps if you approach you're doctor or any service provider without a pre-conceived hostile attitude. I get great results approaching all such just by being nice. My doctors like me. I get great customer service. The clerks at the fish and meat counters go out of their way for me. It beats looking for things to be pissed off about.
This is why I don't debate you, bluecat. You consistently assume and write this mysterious "knowledge" you have about my thinking, attitudes, and behaviors.
It was pretty clear for an unbiased person reading my posts that when I'm talking about "white coats", I'm talking about the paid shills and lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry, most of whom are literally actors in white coats.
But whatever. You're pretty certain, and have written, that I'm not nice to doctors and go around looking for things to be pissed off about. Also that I'm a gullible Boulder liberal or a Bernie Buster. You enjoy insulting people without real knowledge, so I won't detract from your simple pleasures.
So there were guys in white coats in TV ads assuring you a bad reaction to a flu shot was in your imagination? Wow. I must have missed those ads. Never saw such a thing. Sorry for assuming you meant some doctor of yours must told you that.
Source of anti-wifi story.
http://www.gizmodo.com/now-jill-stein-thinks-wi-fi-might-be-hurting
Everyone needs a Luddite.
Yeah, it didn't work for either–but that is where I read it.
This is where you read it. Stein's point is the scientific /health point of view, which is that research on possible health effects of technologies should be done before people start getting sick, and that research is ongoing.
To be clear, I’m a nerdy early adopter teacher who loves teaching with technology. I’m actually taking online training today on Edmodo, a platform which allows collaboration and online learning.
But if I also want to know what are safe limits on hours per day using tablets or computers, and what the EMR (electro magnetic radiation) exposure is, and if I want to integrate technology with traditional books, lecture, notes, and group work, so kids also develop the ability to interact face to face with other humans, it doesn’t mean that I’m a luddite for asking those questions.
The research on brains and cancer (from National Cancer Institute) shows some risks from electromagnetic fields – some studies have shown connections between certain types of high-frequency EMR and cancer. Living near high powered lines is risky. So is wearing a bluetooth device constantly. Certain types of older computer screens emit EMR which can cause brain changes with prolonged exposure. So, although wifi servers in schools or homes haven't been shown to be a risk factor, a prudent scientist or doctor is not necessarily a "nut" just because they will not make a blanket declaration that all EMR is safe for growing brains.
Wifi signals are nowhere near the levels some research has shown might cause problems. The level of danger represented by wifi signals is less than the danger represented by living near grass, or pine trees in the spring, or modest sugar intake.
Right, PR – and you'll notice that Dr. Stein didn't say that wifi was dangerous. She said
1. too much "staring at screens" is harmful to social and cognitive development. Anyone who's tried to have a conversation with a teen holding a phone knows this.
2. Throwing money into technology in schools is not necessarily promoting better education. You can have a school with lots of tech where students primarily use the tech for playing games when they are through taking notes from textbooks. And you can have schools – most of them I've worked at – where there is not enough tech available to use more than once every 2 weeks.
And yes, there is plenty of money in educational technology. Apple became a giant multinational company partly from giving schools computers and getting a generation using Apple devices. Now we have workers in China's Apple factories jumping out of windows because their lives are so miserable. Technology is a double-edged sword.
3. Stein's 3rd point is that in Europe, they actually take precautions to shield even wifi's modest server emissions, and they monitor it. She implies that we should be doing that in the US.
Hardly radical luddite stuff. I'm not voting for Stein, as I happen to agree that she's no more qualified than Trump is to be President. But I don't think the political community is well served by spreading unfounded rumors about her.
Pretty straw doggie "nuance". Who opposes real medical exemptions? There is zero contemplation of forcing the very tiny percentage of children for whom vax would be dangerous for specific medical reasons to get them.
It's the ever increasing number of flakes in places like Boulder and well heeled 'burbs who assume enough kids other than their own will get vaxed so theirs don't have to with opposition to having their own do so (let's you and them protect my kids from awful diseaes even though we think vax is dangerous) based on their stubborn belief in discredited, anecdotal new agey excuses for "science" who are the problem. Stein's "nuanced" position gives these dangerous, selfish, entitled flakes encouragement.
Apart from and regardless of this particular issue, however, I still don't see any qualifications for being President and Commander in Chief here. Especially compared to HRC.
Apparently hardly anybody does as her inclusion in or exclusion from polls doesn't seem to affect HRC's numbers in any noticeable way.
We can't let this celebration of Colorado Day pass without a couple of shout-outs. 1) being the first state in the union (Wyoming was a territory at the time) to give women the right to vote. We stand today facing the very real possibility we'll elect the first woman to the highest office in the land, and 2) Colorado leadership in upending the status quo on our utterly-failed War on
DrugsColored People. The passage of Amendment 64 was the shot heard round the world; today we now have over 30 states who have legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp and we're well down the road of descheduling the crop at the federal level. Adult/recreational use is now supported by over half of the American public.On this day in 2013 we celebrated another milestone, the one-year, seizure free condition (Dravet's syndrome) of Zaki Jackson who now has a very different life thanks to access to CBD oil (and a legal environment in Colorado for children). Below is the picture of the flag flown over the US Capitol on July 4, 2103 – made from the same plant that is healing Zaki (pictured in front of the flag) and thousands of other children.
Let's give the Centennial state a great big hand of applause for both…
Is hemp unable to retain bright colors with dye? Is hemp useful to make heavier duty clothing such as work pants, jeans?
Gray – the flag in the photo above was silk-screened so it didn't have the vibrancy to begin with (Adam Dunn made it for us at the last minute after we found a way to get it flown on the 4th). The flag in the Harvesting Liberty video (flown over the Capitol this past Veterans Day) was dyed with indigo from South Carolina and the red from a plant grown in Missouri; they are vibrant and have retained their color.
Below is a picture of the flag from the video; you can see the difference between a natural dye and silkscreening. The flag was given to Willie in Charlottesville this past May (after ceremonies at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello where Jefferson grew hemp) to hang permanently at the FarmAid offices. Willie and Annie have been advocates of hemp in farming as long as they've been advocates for marijuana legalization.
I think you mean that Adam Dunn made the flag in the first photo.
I did…thank you (and his mother). They did a great job.
Gray – the best part of the July 4, 2013 flying of the flag was when DEA Administrator Leonhart 'lost it'. She's gone now; good riddance and thank you Jared. She was Reefer Madness on steroids.
Gray – hemp is one of the strongest natural fibers because of its long-chain carbon properties (it absorbs 4x more atmospheric CO2/acre than a standing forest). The original Levi Strauss jeans made for the Sierra gold miners were made from hemp canvas.
you little ol' time traveler, you
I see Trump has managed to gripe about a second fire marshal – this one in Columbus, Ohio.
Also, the Chicago Tribune reports that a Trump staffer may have been responsible for the elevator malfunction last week; seems they cajoled the resort staff into giving them the key to the elevator, then turned it off in mid-flight.
Loves law and order. Hates Fire marshals doing their job.