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Bernie Sanders
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I'm following this with more interest than any of our own local elections.
Why?
It's time. The only real - sincere - candidate for decades. In Canada or the US, and I daresay a lot of Europe. I could have believed Obama, but not after his track record. He was posing. Bloomberg was a demon. Biden - means well, but too centrist. Warren - yes, but she hasn't sparked the popular imagination.
It amazes me how the Democrats have trenched in behind Biden - and - if it carries on, it will be to their loss, the Donald will win again, and no one, not in the USA, not in the world, can afford another 4 years of that Ass Hole.
Bernie, whose policies would benefit 99% of Americans, has a track record going back 50 years of activism, involvement and integrity - and he has to SELL this to the American Public? It's fucking crazy. It's their last hope at restoring democracy - literally, and it's slender at that - and the Democrats would rather put up with another 4 years of Trump than back someone who they fear is opposed to their graft and interest.
This will be interesting, and I have a terrible feeling, tragic.
Used Cars - 1980, Kurt Russell
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Dumb, but I watched it for the scene where they do the advert that interrupts the Carter Presidential Address, and that was funny. Kurt Russell is a stylish clotheshorse for the era, and it's a bit of a blast-from-the-past to see all the big junker cars (which withstood a hell of a lot more abuse than our new modern ones), 70's technology - answering machines, telephones, big TV Cameras - and - there's a scene with a CB where they say "10-4" and any movie that has that can't be ALL bad (actually, it can). Meh. Sometimes it's good to watch something a bit dumb. On that note, surprising how sexy those go-go girls were - and how attitudes have shifted with the plethora of cheap pornography.
I Was Born Wealthy, And Know Rich People Don’t Work Harder Than You
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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I know this too, but in case you didn't here's your link of the day: https://www.readpassage.com/i-was-born-wealthy-and-know-rich-people-dont-work-harder-than-you
Extenuating Circumstances
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Calgary
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This is something as of late that has begun to annoy me in the extreme.
The plea of "Extenuating Circumstances", it's used for essentially everything. Read the paper. Man kills drug dealer to raise money for mortgage - the mortgage and the fact that it was a drug dealer somehow both "Extenuating Circumstances". Kid stabs 5 people to death at a party because he didn't take his meds. Someone kills partner because they claim they were abusive. Girl shoves old lady onto train track because she was high on meth.
I hate to say it, but these are not "Extenuating Circumstances". Needing money does not justify killing someone. Not taking your meds or poor mental health does not excuse stabbing people. Killing your partner because "they were abusive" or shoving an old lady to serious injury because you're high are not "Extenuating Circumstances".
The very principles of justice are undermined by every criminal appearing in front of a judge and pleading they're the victim.
Police - ironically - are the worst - their very job has been deemed the "Extenuating Circumstance" that acquits them time and again of murder.
And this, just in today: https://calgaryherald.com/news/crime/former-mru-hockey-captain-acquitted-of-drug-induced-attack-on-female-professor-in-her-home. 4 Grams is not that big a dose, and - sorry - you took the 'shrooms, you did the crime, now do the time.
I really have to stop reading the news...
I'm as liberal as it gets, but this neo-liberalism, it's killing me...
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