Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Update 12/18: A group of about 80 electors (including one Republican) signed on to a letter to National Intelligence Director James Clapper asking for a briefing on the role Russian hacks may have played in the election before the vote. (That request, supported by Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta, will not be granted, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said.) Hillary Clinton's top political adviser John Podesta said the campaign is supporting an...
The US Intelligence community agrees that the Russians interfered in the 2016 US presidential election, in order to support Donald Trump and defeat Hillary Clinton. No one so far is calling for a "do over," or for the results of the election to be invalidated. But a bipartisan US Senate committee is calling for hearings. The bipartisan effort lead by McCain (R-AZ), Lindsay Gram (R-SC). "It's clear the Russians interfered. Whether they interfered to the degree that they wanted...
The following resolution has been passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, introduced by Board President London Breed, in response to the election of Donald Trump: WHEREAS, On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected to become the 45th President of the United States; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That no matter the threats made by President-elect Trump, San Francisco will remain a Sanctuary City. We will not turn our back on the men and women from other countries...
The outgoing president will sign an executive order reversing President Richard Nixon's 1970 order, listing Marijuana as a Schedule One Drug, forbidden at all times. This is said to have been a jab at 1960's "Hippy Culture." President Barack Obama, who wrote of experimenting with marijuana as a young man, will legalize marijuana on his way out of office. He will make pot a Class II drug, legal under Federal law with a doctors prescription. States will be able to continue to...
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, by majority vote, issued an official statement regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline. The statement may be viewed below. Commission Chair Martin R. Castro stated, "The issue of the pipeline is not just about the pipeline alone, but rather it is about the entire relationship between the United States and sovereign Indian Nations, their rights, traditions and religious beliefs. As we prepare our civil rights report on this relationship we...
In yet another unsupervised early morning tweet, Donald Trump on Tuesday said that the government was shelling out $4B for a new Air Force One from Boeing: "Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!" Boeing was quick to correct his error, issuing a statement to inform the public that they only had a $170M contract for research: "We are currently under contract for $170 million to he...
Jill Stein received just under 1% of the national vote, and demanded recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign filed joinders to Stein's effort, and by some accounts, directed donations to her political action committee. But why? Recounts historically have never changed the outcome of a State's presidential election outcome. They are costly and tedious, as they must be observed by campaign representatives. One theory is that Stein is...
A Stanford University Sociology professor has developed a fool proof method for converting Trump supporting relatives into Democratic voters. He urges Hillary supporters to use it on Trumper relatives they encounter at the holiday dinner table. In the old days, young university graduates would sail the world's oceans, looking for heathens to convert to Christianity. They were no doubt as earnest as Robb Willer. In a TED Talk and a Huffington Post editorial, Willer first urges...
Michigan computer scientists believe they have found a way to reverse the US Presidential Election results, and elect Hillary Clinton after all. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign will participate in and join the recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, says a lawyer for the Clinton campaign, the Washington Post reported Saturday. "Because we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology, we had not...
The Washington Post was singularly anti Trump throughout the campaign. Examining the factors behind Trump's victory has lead them to the conclusion that the Russians were to blame. There is no little irony in this conclusion, since Reagan's Republican party thrived on confrontation with the old Soviet Union. Some on the right view Trump has the successor to Reagan, an outsider who wants to tackle old problems with new solutions. In fairness, the Russians did hack the DNC and s...
On October 31, 2016 Hillary Clinton's campaign requested permission to shoot off two minutes of fireworks. But at 3 pm the day before Election day, Monday November 7, 2016, the Clinton Campaign abruptly cancelled a planned Election Night "victory" fireworks display, The New York Post reports. It's clear that she knew she would lose that afternoon. Otherwise, why would she cancel a paid for and already approved fireworks display? The Clinton campaign had contacted the Coast...
2/21/2016: Saturday Night Live began with a 6 minute segment with Alec Baldwin reprising his role as Donald Trump. The actor no doubt has steady work for the next 4 years. Kate McKinnon, who last week did a moving rendition of Hillary Clinton singing "Halleleujah" by the recently deceased Leonard Cohen, Now plays Conway. I suppose any role with a blond woman is hers. "You're the reason I got elected," says Baldwin as Trump. "I think about that every day," says McKinnon...
Professor Noam Chomsky has been blamed more than any other single person, for the wave of political correctness that has swallowed academia. Now, in an interview with Truthout.org, Chomsky fought back against the man elected by Americans as the antidote to his philosophy. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38360-trump-in-the-white-house-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky "On November 8, the most powerful country in world history, which will set its stamp on what comes next,...
Fake news stories did not disappear from the Internet after the election. A video on Youtube attached to a news story at US Conservativetoday.com, claims that the video shows Muslims at a US Mall tearing apart a Christmas tree. "Watch what these Muslims do when they see a Christmas tree being set up at the mall!" "Ahh, the religion of peace and tolerance. Whenever Muslims move to Western nations they try to change everything about the culture to conform to sharia law. When the...
Ten years ago, Jared Kushner's Dad, Charles Kushner, was convicted of Tax Evasion and Campaign finance law violations. The prosecutor: A young man named Chris Christie. "The unceremonious removal of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as chairman of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team," says CNN, "won't be the last power play by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a young businessman who is shaping up as one of the central figures of the new administration. Kushner is far...
To the consternation of progressives and the delight of conservatives, President Elect Donald Trump will, with his pen, strike 20 well known policies adopted by President Barack Obama. Everything from Common Core to sanctuary cities, will be history on January 21, 2017. The following list of doomed policies was compiled by Karen Yourish of the New York Times: Here are some of the parts of the government that Donald J. Trump promised to dismantle if elected. In the days since...
As if he wanted to prove that he does not hold a grudge, Republican Nominee Donald Trump will meet with his personality antithesis to discuss offering Mitt Romney Secretary of State. The position is regarded as first among equals for Cabinet members, in part because the US Constitution makes the Secretary of State 4th in line to the president. Vice president and Speaker of the House are in front of Secretary of State, in the Presidential line of succession. Former Republican...
"The worst-case scenario of a Trump presidency: Women lose their reproductive freedom. There are mass deportations. There is a religious test for entry into America. Denying climate change becomes official policy and we exit our agreements. Our international alliances are effectively terminated. The orientation of economic policy-making is rooted in yesterday's industries and does not account for the rise of robotics and intelligence. Trump governs as an autocratic strongman...
Proving that the Santa Monica electorate really, really likes intensive development; local voters returned all 4 incumbent City Council members to Santa Monica City Council. In voting for Terry O'Day, Gleam Davis, Tony Vasquez and Ted Winterer, the voters rejected SMMUSD School Board member Oscar de la Torre and Armen Melkonians. Melkonians ran an outside campaign connected with Measure LV, which would have greatly restricted the size of new developments in San- ta Monica. Som...
Several colleges try to comfort students upset by Donald Trump's victory. In some colleges, exams have been cancelled or postponed, while at Cornell, students held a cry in on the quad. At Berkeley, the administration let upset students march on campus, or play with Playdoh or crayons. I'm not making this up. Colleges have become the least liberal places in the world when it comes to free speech. Seriously, you can speak your mind more easily at a North Korean Communist Party...
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson has a real shot at winning the State of New Mexico, where he was governor for 8 years. A poll released by the Albuquerque Jounal newspaper shows Johnson receiving 24 percent of the vote. While this is below the 35% support given Democrat Hillary Clinton, and the 31% saying they will vote for Republican Donald Trump, it is within the realm of possibility that Johnson could pull enough support away from the major party candidates...
Sunday, 11/06/2016; 2 days before election day, FBI director James Comey announced in a letter to Congress, that he had finished his 10 day review of the 650,000 new e mails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop, downloaded apparently from Huma Abedin's iPhone in 2013. Comey confirmed the conclusion that he reached in July, saying "We're glad that this matter is now resolved." Today's decision was as much of a stunner as the Friday, October 28th decision to reopen the investigation...
Dear Editor and Fellow Residents of Santa Monica: This is an open letter I sent today along with the email reprinted in italics below I had received from Kevin McKeown, SM Councilmember. I sent it to the SM Observer and Mirror, since the SMDP prints a constant stream of opposition and does not print anything except straw man arguments supporting LV. In fact, once LV was approved for the ballot, the SMDP-which gets much of its advertising revenue from the City--removed the SMar...
Republican Donald Trump has seen it necessary to call out Independent conservative candidate Evan McMullin. Former CIA agent McMullin is the darling of conservatives in Christian, Mormon, family oriented Utah. He is polling in the high 20's or low 30's, approximately even with Trump and with Democrat Hillary Clinton. This is almost unheard of in American presidential contests (though the results in New Mexico are somewhat similar, if you substitute in Gary Johnson for...
The US presidential race is a lot closer than you may think. According to the real clear politics average of polls: 1) In A 4- way Race Clinton is leading 45.3%-- 43.4% in a 2 way race she is leading 47.0%- 45.3% 2) In electoral Votes Clinton is leading 273-265. It takes 270 to win. Colorado has 9 electoral votes and Clinton is leading 43.7% -41.3%. New Mexico has 5 electoral votes and Clinton is leading 40.5% -32%. New Hampshire has 4 electoral votes and Clinton is leading...
