What's Happening!!

This is Real...
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This is Not.

David Brooks, NYT:

I’ve spent much of this election season away from the campaign rallies and interviewing voters embedded in their normal lives. This week, for example, I was in Compton and Watts in and around Los Angeles. The reality I encounter every day has little to do with the us vs. them stories Trump and Sanders are telling.

Everywhere I go I see systems that are struggling — school systems, housing systems, family structures, neighborhoods trying to bridge diversity. These problems aren’t caused by some group of intentionally evil people. They exist because living through a time of economic, technological, demographic and cultural transition is hard. Creating social trust across diversity is hard.

Everywhere I go I see a process that is the opposite of group vs. group war. It is gathering. It is people becoming extra active on the local level to repair the systems in their lives. I see a great yearning for solidarity, an eagerness to come together and make practical change.

I see a strong yearning for the economic status quo that has left establishment men like David Brooks quite comfortably rewarded under the current system, not struggling at all. And truly? I think men like him fear President Trump and socialist Bernie Sanders because say what you will... those men really are working to change status quo America exemplified by a comfortable Washington DC and celebrity elite.

Change comes fast, and if you're not equipped to move quickly -- both mentally and physically -- you likely don't want much change in your world. That's where David Brooks is writing from today.

Do You Still Believe in Miracles?

"Well do ya, punk?"
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(For the record... I do.)

Fury in Vegas: "The Day the Music Died"

Tyson Fury hits Wilder to retake title.

Wilder is routed, and the WBC heavyweight champion indeed sang Don McLean's American Pie after the fight to his supporters remaining in the arena, the belt heavy on his shoulder.

In political horse-race news, Bernie Sanders easily beat out the Biden/Bootygig/Warren/wealthywhiteSteyer/Klobuchar etc. candidacies in Nevada overall.

I wonder: if the news media had spent more time educating themselves as to why candidate Trump won in 2016, instead of telling us why and reporting the times through their own eyes, if we'd have fewer gamblers analyzing American politics and more seasoned sportsmen explaining local conditions in anticipating what is soon coming to their own quarters.

"Bye bye, Miss American Pie. Drove my Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry... I knew I was, out of luck the day the music died."
~Don McLean

ICYMI: Chris Borland, Speaking Out...

Borland was one of those NFL players who retired from the league, early:

Borland was featured in two of three parts of “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez,” a documentary detailing the life and death of Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end who was convicted of murder and took his own life while in prison.

Borland, an Ohio native who won three Big Ten Championships during his Badgers career, criticized the program and college football as a whole for the position it puts players in.

 “At Wisconsin, I was taken aback by how serious practice was taken. I was playing on every special team, I was running scout team, I was running with our twos on defense. Objectively, just like, too much of a load for anybody. And I saw, you know, a line of our upperclassmen with their pants to their knees just waiting to get their Toradol injection. And I didn’t know this at 18, I thought, ‘Oh my God, these 15 upperclassmen starters are taking steroids before the game.’ Completely naïve. I later found out it was Toradol, this painkiller that our team docs would administer so guys could play with whatever they had going on,” Borland said in the second part of the series.

“To see that at 18, that was really enlightening to just how seriously it’s taken. Kind of my first glimpse at, ‘This is very real. It’s a big industry. And they’re willing to put in basically kids, young men, in situations that will compromise their long-term health just to beat Northwestern.’”

Love Never Gives Up.

1 Corinthians 13 New International Version (NIV)

13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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Footnotes:

1 Corinthians 13:1 Or languages
1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames

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Re. "Mike" Bloomberg's Committment to the Democrats...

Let's see if he loves his new party enough -- and the Democrats who people it -- to work just as hard for their fortunes as a vice-presidential candidate on the ticket, as he would as front-runner, should he be offered the job.

That will be telling.

RuPaul Wins Westminster!

If you're going to the time and expense of looking that fancy, you deserve to be best in show, bitch!                                   (The Golden Retreiver was the crowd favorite, while the pampered poodle took home the top vote this year.)

The Only Good Thing about Nominating "Pete"...

is that President Trump and his supporters will tear the young man to shreds, and his political career will be over now, for good.  Perhaps then he could get an educational doctorate and become a principal, superintendent or administrator at a junior high somewhere?

And it will be cute to see who HE chooses, who would accept?, to serve as his vice president...  Maybe Joe Biden? *wink, wink*
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Pete = Pretty White Boy
Whose Campaign is being managed by Eliot Spitzer's (very pretty too) former mistress.  Nttawwt.

If there is one thing these current Democrats in office have shown?  They have no foresight, and they seem to like losing... 
If so, Pete is da man of da moment!

If the Boys Wanna Fight...

You'd better let them.

Soo Prize! Soo Prize!

Bernie Takes the Lead in Iowa, Latest Results Show

Nancy Ripped Up Trump's Speech, in Public?

When he's finally aquitted, let the Republicans supporting President Trump -- each of them -- tear up Nancy's articles of impeachment and place them on her desk... along with a bill for what her feminine follies cost the nation.  Right back in your face, Nancy!

Baby girls tear things up.
Get that Baby Girl out of office, already...
We don't care much who her daddy was.

Surely she could find residency and work in one of the up-and-coming Asian countries, no?  Clearly she is comfortable living under a caste system where the lessers poop on the streets.  Go home to your people, Nancy!

Investigate the Iowa App. Don't blame Russia.

Who created and sold the Iowans the election app that failed so miserably last night?  Technology promises many things, but it has made a poorer quality of life for many.

I think... Bernie Sanders won, and the establishment/Clinton-era dems in the media and the pundit advisory circles are dirty enough to do whatever it takes to stop the youth momentum.  Again.

Today, the smart editors will have their best reporters investigating the app that the Iowans bought, that failed them, and the country as a whole.

Is it true, that Pete B. (he's no longer even a mayor, remember...) has invested in the Shadow company that created, and sold, the Iowa app.  I'd sure like to know more...

I don't think Pete's people won Iowa, but I do think they are young enough to want to play dirty with Bernie's larger, more diverse crowd.

Does America embrace socialism? No.
Does America want to oust the establishment dems, like we "shaped up" (and out) the neo-cons and RINOs (Republicans in name only) in the legacy establishment part of the Republican party? Yes.

The country just spent how much American taxpayer money on the Mueller investigation and impeachment hearings... an investigation into the Shadow app that failed the vote count in Iowa last night would sell newspapers.  You wouldn't even need to make those accompanying dancing-bear graphics allegedly to entertain the eyeballs while reading the story. 

The words would sell themselves.

#SandersYang2020...

Because it's not America's job to redraw the map of Israel.