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skipper wrote a new post, One person one vote – Hah! 6 years ago
The following paragraph is copied from the fivethirtyeight.com newsletter:
“As much as we try to remind you all about how uncertain elections can be — pleas that sometimes fall on deaf ears — it’s importa […]
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skipper wrote a new post, It is time to pick 6 years ago
The final nomination for president is growing close. Virtually all the democratic literature flowing profusely into citizens’ mailboxes make the case for each candidate based on differences in policy or what ‘ […]
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I could use some comfort at the national level, so Joe sounds good to me. This analysis of a winning strategy makes sense and it would be nice if the cats could all get together long enough to win the election. My strategy is to use the millions of dollars candidates use in ad campaigns to subsidize Democrats in solid blue states to move to the swing states long enough to establish voting residency…. that could be a retirement “job” for retired voters and a peace corps type experience for young people. They could live communally, sharing resources, putting their lives on hold temporarily for the chance to make a difference. Let me be the first to sign up!
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Joe is my choice, but I’d vote for Buttiigieg or Bloomberg too. I hope you’re right about Biden winning those key states.
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skipper wrote a new post, Before mariner starts his main topic 6 years ago
Bon Voyage to Jim Lehrer. He was a newscaster when the news was real and meaningful and more of the moment than broadcasting is today; for much of mariner’s life MacNeil and Lehrer were mariner’s go to new […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Whose Government? 6 years ago
For readers that believe the nation’s laws are passed by a Congress representing the people, they are right – if corporations are people. Certainly those who defend corporations make arguments based on citizen eth […]
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skipper wrote a new post, More on Great Divides 6 years ago
Sometimes it seems like mariner’s news sources have been reading mariner’s posts:
“Businesses are leading the way on crises like climate change and health care, because institutions like media and gover […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Biggest Great Divide 6 years ago
The last post on perception is a lead-in to this post about a great divide. What are our perceptions of the future – not the far future but starting now until 2050? An emerging perception is that millennials ( […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Perceptions 6 years ago
Mariner once heard a politician complain about the (liberal) New England states and that the fathers of our country should have just continued the forty-ninth parallel past the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The US has a bad transmission 6 years ago
The ol’ federal bus doesn’t move very well. The clutch is totally blown because legislators become more and more bound up in polarization, some want to shift gears, some don’t. Unengaged, the bus drifts down the r […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Observations in Passing 6 years ago
֎ Has anyone noticed that constraints on nuclear weapon manufacturing, in place since the cold war days, are gone? Has anyone noticed that mature nations with sound ethos like North Korea, Iran, Russia, China and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The First Face of America 6 years ago
Mariner watched a PBS Nova broadcast about the oldest evidence of a Native American in the Americas.[1] All of Nova’s broadcasts are above average not only in reporting historical information but in providing i […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Just so you know: 6 years, 1 month ago
֎ A new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research says the cost of President Trump’s trade war has been paid almost entirely by American businesses and consumers, not China. Experts and economists fr […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Democratic Candidates – 2 6 years, 1 month ago
On November 29 mariner published a post analyzing the chances of the zillion democratic candidates, projecting in the final analysis Joe Biden. This perspective was based on the expected response of democrats at […]
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Interesting analysis. Since the entire is goal is to elect a Democrat, we do need to look at all the angles.
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I would vote for the Devil if he ran against Trump. That being said, I think Biden has the best chance of beating Trump.I hope the dems don’t screw things up.
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skipper wrote a new post, Do You Pay Taxes? 6 years, 1 month ago
Mariner is certain that Donald does not want primary television coverage on the damage he is doing through his Cabinet and his Executive Orders. One area that may affect many of us is how Donald is stripping the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The New Economics 6 years, 1 month ago
For the last post or two, mariner has been lamenting the human creature. A creature who foremost is selfish, then vain, grossly insufferable and narrow minded especially as seen by other creatures in the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Examining Existence 6 years, 1 month ago
The planet is embroiled in many confrontations. It has its own issues regarding its tendency to grow warmer and warmer; something Earth has been doing since the last ice age over twenty thousand years ago. […]
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skipper commented on the post, Racism is like a flavor in society’s cake . . . 6 years, 1 month ago
Good to hear from you, Robert. The original source for those statistics is an article in The Center for American Progress. Housing value is the overriding statistic. See: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2018/02/21/447051/systematic-inequality/
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skipper wrote a new post, The Vagaries of Dying 6 years, 1 month ago
Mother Earth (AKA God, Yahweh, etc.) has arranged that all life forms procreate then die. It could not be otherwise because the planet would be quite crowded, resources would be unstable and there would be no […]
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skipper wrote a new post, For the Reader’s Information 6 years, 2 months ago
A new study from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found a small one percent decrease in American retail drug prices in 2018 — the first decline in more than 40 years — but a significant jump in […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Racism is like a flavor in society’s cake . . . 6 years, 2 months ago
. . . But it doesn’t taste good.
֎ [VOX] As of 2016, the median wealth for black families in America was $17,600, while the median wealth for white families was $171,000.
One of the biggest factors dr […]
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Those figures for median wealth are really shocking. Can they really be accurate?
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Good to hear from you, Robert. The original source for those statistics is an article in The Center for American Progress. Housing value is the overriding statistic. See: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2018/02/21/447051/systematic-inequality/
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skipper wrote a new post, Comebacks for 12/1 6 years, 2 months ago
A few comments were made by readers generally suggesting that the dissection of Republican versus Democrat into a list of separate issues still amounted to Republican versus Democrat.
֎ While it is true that […]
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