Trump as existential threat & October supplies

Posted on October 6, 2016 by ann li-summers
By ann summers

Make America Great Pumpkin has demonstrated that “Existential threats” always seem dire around election day, and as it gets closer everyone needs to reassess their own position on GOTV, and of course get concerned about voter eligibility. These are at least reasonable worries, rather than losing your jewels because your Paris apartment has poor security.

 

The NRA is currently running an ad that seems to suggest that not voting for Trump will endanger women (presumably those suburban women Trump needs). No one is safe, even in France

One hopes that there will be no mischief from within or without, but that in some ways, is a price of an actual rather than idealized democracy. Darn that de Tocqueville guy. Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: October 5, 2016

Posted on October 5, 2016 by wordcloud9

October 5th is

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Apple Betty Day

Balloons Around the World Day *

Do Something Nice Day

International Day of No Prostitution *

Random Acts of Poetry Day *

National Walk to School Day *

World Teacher’s Day *

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MORE!  Chief Joseph, Ellen Wilkinson and James Bond, click 

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ON THIS DAY: October 4, 2016

Posted on October 4, 2016 by wordcloud9

October 4th is

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World Animal Day  *

Improve Your Office Day

Ship in a Bottle Day *

Taco Day

Vodka Day

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MORE! Gregorian Calendar, Orient Express and Casablanca, click

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ON THIS DAY: October 3, 2016

Posted on October 3, 2016 by wordcloud9

October 3rd is

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U.N. World Habitat Day *

National Child Health Day *

National Taco Day

World Architecture Day *

World Day of Bullying
Prevention/Pink Shirt Day *

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MORE! Edgar Allan Poe, Bloomingdale’s and ‘Pink Shirt Day’ story, click

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TCS: Mad Englishman Near the Midnight Sun – Part 9

Posted on October 3, 2016 by wordcloud9

Good Morning!

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Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment.
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Tracking the elusive Sea Wolf, where the trees are going, while flocks of birds flit through this episode of Bertie’s island adventure – all that camera gear must get really heavy!

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America Great Pumpkin and the Cuban Revolutions

Posted on October 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

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By ann summers

Bloomberg

✔@business

Why Mark Cuban changed his mind on Donald Trump http://bloom.bg/2cIGlnz 

12:19 PM – 1 Oct 2016

 

How many elections have had this kind of “battling billionaires” interplay with a major candidate… It is more of a battle for Q-ratings rather than electoral polling and yet this is the choice ahead — rock-em sock-em ruling class. entertaining us with petty feuds that lapse into the political campaigns.

Shark-Tank (ABC) apparently will overtake the Apprentice (NBC) position in prime-time media about competitive capitalism as Trump begins to destroy his brand. Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: October 2, 2016

Posted on October 2, 2016 by wordcloud9

October 2nd is

farm-animals-day

Custodial Worker Day

International Day of Non-Violence *

Guardian Angels Day

Name Your Car Day

U.N. World Farm Animals Day

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MORE! George Washington, Gandhi and Charlie Brown, click

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ON THIS DAY: October 1, 2016

Posted on October 1, 2016 by wordcloud9

glass_of_water-cropOctober 1st is

Inter-American Water Day *

International Music Day *

National Homemade Cookies Day

National Lace Day

Pumpkin Spice Day

Raccoon Appreciation Day

U.N. International Day of Older Persons

National Walk Your Dog Day

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MORE! Bloody Mary, Electric light and Robert Redford, click

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ON THIS DAY: September 30, 2016

Posted on September 30, 2016 by wordcloud9

September 30 is

KoalaInternational Blasphemy Day *

International Translation Day *

National Mulled Cider Day

Purple for Platelets Day *

Save the Koala Day *

Vegan Baking Day

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MORE! The Magic Flute, TV’s Cheers and Israeli shekels, click

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Word Cloud: WATER

Posted on September 30, 2016 by wordcloud9

Word Cloud Resized

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD

WATER — after air, the element most essential to our lives. Oceans cover over 70% of the earth’s surface but, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner of the long grey beard and glittering eye tells us, it’s 

Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

making fresh water the most precious element on earth.

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