Joseph Auclair: Trump is more than an incoherent anti-inter ventionist , he is an incoherent Buchananis t in pretty much all his politics and agenda, both foreign and domestic. Which means that at...
Ron Chusid: I’ve primarily been using social media for politics instead of the blog over the last several months. I’m going to have to get some updates, both on the Trump horrors and...
KP: Hillary is either in quick sand and doesn' ;t know it or is voluntaril y wad ing into the deep end wearing weight belts. She ought to hide in Timbuktu and get off the circuit. ...
Ron Chusid: Yes, they would. However, this week (when the comment was posted as opposed to the original post) it is Republican s in the Trump administra tion who have brought up the 25th Amendment.
CharlieK: The Democrats want to remove our legally elected President because he will not dance to their tune.
David Freeman: Donald cHump' ;s Enquire rag didn' t help much either. More will come out every day. Open the safe.
Ron Chusid: It would have been better to use #DemExit. But Cal’ s error is far worse. It is utterly ludicrous to claim Russia changed the results of the general election while also denying...
Cal Lawrence: Jim Mooney: There is no "#Wal kaway movement.& quot; It's completely fake. Also, anyone who thinks the Democratic nomination was "rigg ed" is stupid beyond words....
Jim Mooney: In a way, Hillary created the #Walkaway movement.
KP: "We do not need to promote a further deteriorat ion in the relations between nuclear powers.&qu ot; Agree 100%.
Ron Chusid: You ignore the fact that the post also links to posts critical of both Trump̵ 7;s lying and his policy on children. Plus I have been criticizin g Trump̵ 7;s policies on separa...
Marc McKenzie: "This is like living in the Darkest Timeline. On the one hand we have Clinton who continues to spread her lies after losing the election, and D onald Trump  ;in the...
SocraticGadfly: And now, on power plants, we also once again have the GOP pretending to like the mythical free market — until it doesn' ;t.
Ron Chusid: We will probably never go back to the pre-Facebo ok days. When Facebook works (ie lets us post without censorship ) it provides far more exposure to posts than can be obtained these...
KP: I agree … I miss the pre-Facebo ok days. Hang in there.&nbs p;
Ron Chusid: Unfortunat ely you are a minority. A huge percentage of readers these days comes from Facebook links̵ 1;with this down since Facebook changed their algorithms . I sure miss the...
SocraticGadfly: I have you on my blogroll, so unless Google starts taking an ax to Blogger blogs, I'm OK.
KP: Has anyone else noticed that Haspel often makes the same "whin ey" face as Comey?! They look like they are about to burst into tears if you challenge them; pleading to be believed and...
KP: "The history of Democrats throughout the war on terror is to ensure that just enough members of their caucus join with the GOP majority … " Well said. She is a slam dunk as I...
Jay Riemersma is campaigning for Congress in Grand Haven and Holland today on a Christian Fundamentalist platform. Here’s a better attitude about mixing religion and politics from a great but fictional Republican–Senator Arnold Vinick, played by Alan Alda on The West Wing.
(The original video is no longer available, with the original clip present at the end of the longer segment posted above.)
Back in August the number of subscribers to the RSS feed abruptly fell by about 300 in a single day. The numbers do vary from day to day as Feedburner attempts to count the number of computers which are on which subscribe to the RSS feed. Therefore over the weekend the numbers generally fall (with the reported number of subscribers being from the previous day) but there had never been a drop of 300. Maybe they were abducted by aliens and have now been released as I suddenly notice today that the count is back over 7000 were it was before the sudden drop.
More likely there was probably a glitch so that they were not counting the subscribers through one of the on line sites which pick up RSS feeds and they got it fixed. Now, if only Technorati could fix their problems and stop missing the majority of links to this and many other blogs.
Update: It looks like Feedburner is now having problems, dropping the count from over 7000 yesterday (in line with historical trends) to 998 today (September 18). On further Update I’ve heard from other bloggers that the problem is probably related to a long standing problem with Feedburner and Newsgator. Apparently subscribers who migrate from the older on-line version of Newsgator are not being picked up correctly.
Mary Travers of the folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary has died of leukemia at age 72. It is sure hard to believe she was 72. I guess the 60’s were quite a while back. The group, as became increasingly common later in the 60’s, mixed politics with their music:
Their sound may have been commercial and safe, but early on their politics were somewhat risky for a group courting a mass audience. Like Mr. Yarrow and Mr. Stookey, Ms. Travers was outspoken in her support for the civil-rights and antiwar movements, in sharp contrast to clean-cut folk groups like the Kingston Trio, which avoided making political statements.
Peter, Paul and Mary went on to perform at the 1963 March on Washington and joined the voting-rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965.
Over the years they performed frequently at political rallies and demonstrations in the United States and abroad. After the group disbanded, in 1970, Ms. Travers continued to perform at political events around the world as she pursued a solo career.