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Confirmation bias.  I’m as guilty of that as anybody.  Any stupid damn thing I hear reported that Republicans said, I tend to believe it.  Partly because their track record indicates it.  When you see the sun rise in the East every morning, it is easy enough to figure out that it’s going to rise in the East tomorrow.  Just today, Sarah Palin said that Ahmed Mohamed was a bad person, even though it’s proven he did NOT bring a bomb to school.  Just today, Ben Carson said Muslims should  not be allowed to be president (I don’t see any Muslim candidates on the horizon, so I’m not too worried about it, but he really should  have known how incredibly unconstitutional that was.)  Just today, Mike Huckabbee said something incredibly stupid.  It’s a day.  It’s a day ending in ‘Y’

On the other hand, I am hesitant to believe any bad stories about candidates I support.

I think it’s normal.  We all believe what we want to believe, and we select those articles which will support our viewpoint.

Another thing that I want to believe is that aliens have visited the Earth and are trying to communicate with us.  Because that would be awesome.  So, I listen to all of the alien programs on the Discovery Channel.  I should be more skeptical.  Before and after, they have programs of looking for Bigfoot, and the Chupacabra, and the lost city of Atlantis, all of which I tend to think are nonsense.  It should make me every bit as skeptical as id does when Sarah Palin quotes Brietbart as a lefitimate source.

But, here’s the deal:  If there are no aliens, that means the entire galaxy, the entire universe belongs to us just as soon as we can go out and take it.

Either way, it’s amazing.

I am reading a very  confusing book, it’s called The Refusal of Silence and I’ll write a proper review once I’ve finished but mainly I feel it’s very confusing even though it occasionally says  some brilliant things.

Like yesterday I was reading it on the bus on the way home from my kiddie classes, which went fairly well although there’s one 4 year old girl who is afraid of me and when her mother left she  just stood in the middle of the room and refused to take a chair, and when I knelt down to be on her level and told her it would all be all right  in my most child assuring voice, I could see the tears streaming down her cheeks.  Her mother came back in and sat with her through the whole lesson, which was not good because she had a baby with her as well, but I’m fairly confident it will be O.K. after a few lessons.  Her big sister was nervous at the beginning, too, and is a great student, and helps me a lot in the bigger kids’ class because she is the best reader.

But, I meant to talk about the book.  There was a line where the protagonist sees a girl in a T shirt that says “Each generation needs it’s own revolution” and he misreads it as “Every sensation is a revolution” and he wonders if the truth is sometimes revealed through our misreadings and our misinterpretations of things.

It’s a good question.  But, my takeaway from that was the T shirt slogan itself.  First of all, every generation needs its own revolution because every generation wants to define itself but, more and more, every generation needs its own revolution because every generation is dealing with a new reality, technology is changing so fast and due to that our society is changing so fast that it takes a revolution every decade or so just to keep up.

As much as my generation suspected that the older generation didn’t know what we were all about, I am sure that the current generation is even more certain that my generation has no clue what is going on, and the tragedy is: they are right.

Must write fast, we’ve got a guest who wants to sleep and it’s awkward as long as I’m sitting here in the living room.

I saw an article today saying “Did Trump finally go too far?” with his tolerance of a questioner in the audience who said Obama was a Muslim.  You’ve got to be kidding.  The ‘Mexican Rapists’ remark wasn’t too far.  The ‘Megan Kelly was probably on the rag when she asked me that question’ remark wasn’t too far.  The whole ‘John McCain was a pussy for being captured’ remark wasn’t too far.

Let’s face it.  There is no too far when it comes to that wing of the Republican party.

I kind of do think Trump will be denied the nomination.  He loves to talk, he says whatever pops into his head, and  sooner or later he will probably say the  wrong thing.

However, it will not be what  liberals think.  The wrong thing among Republicans would be something like ‘Hey, maybe we should look into this  Solar Energy stuff’ or ‘I would always try diplomacy over war’ or ‘it would be a sound  investment to put some money into schools.’

But, he spews a lot of words every day, and sooner or later he’s  likely to slip.

Well, it probably wasn’t great.  I didn’t actually watch, you know, time zones, so I just caught up with it on facebook but I think now I’ve got a reasonable idea of what happened.

Crazy Anti-Semitic Twitter Lady Ann Coulter

Most analysts agree that Walker tanked.  Good.  He’s one I was actually afraid of.  He somehow managed to get elected Governor of Wisconsin twice, and Wisconsin did not used to be considered a crazy state.

If this winds up being a race between Trump, Fiorina, Carson and Bush, then the Democrats are in great shape.  The only one of those who’s ever held elective office is Bush, and he is dumber than a bucketful of hammers and not much more eloquent.

Many are saying that the big winner of the evening was Bernie Sanders, who live tweeted the whole thing and made some brilliant points.  “Why are they not talking about poverty?”  “Why do they all love war so much?”  His tweets were probably seen by more people than actually watched the debates. (meanwhile, Hillary Clinton was NOT live tweeting the  debate – advantage Sanders – he’s like a chess player who makes a couple of extra moves while his opponent goes to the toilet – which is usually a winning strategy, by the way)

Ann Coulter was not as successful with her tweets.  Or maybe she was, if her intention is just to stay in the news.  In response to the fact that Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, and Marco Rubio made fawning statements about Israel, she tweeted “How many f—-ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States.”

Well, I confess I was unaware of what Ann was talking about when I commented on this on one thread, to the effect that it wasn’t such a nice thing to say.  I was swarmed with Coulter apologists screaming “Context! Context!” because apparently they think there are some contexts in which it’s O.K. to say “fucking Jews.”

The anti-semitism is going to come out something fierce this election.   It’s going to be a weird thing to watch.  On the one hand, the Republicans are fanatically pro-Israel, and evangelical Christians tend to be fanatically  pro-Israel because they actually see biblical prophesies of the end of the world as a  good thing and they’d like to bring it about, but on the other hand they really don’t like Jews very much. (see the Coulter tweet – it’s not exactly the American kristalnacht yet, but it’s an early warning sign)  Bernie Sanders, of course, is Jewish.

Republicans are going to be soooo confused.

I think Bernie Sanders may have just won the election.  Not the nomination.  The election.

Sanders Speaking at Liberty U.

When I heard he  was going to speak at Liberty U., I thought “that’s righteous of him.”  Speaking to a hostile crowd.  I figured he might gain a few votes from people who otherwise wouldn’t have voted for him in a million years, and in the very worst case, he  would get credit for showing up. Obama did something similar, and it didn’t hurt him any.

When a saw a short clip on how he answered the abortion question, I heard a few shouts of approval, from women’s voices, even though most of the crowd was stony silent.  “Well,” I thought, “maybe this crowd isn’t as monolithic as I thought.  Maybe he WILL get a few votes.”

Then, just an hour or so ago, I saw this.  It is from a graduate of Liberty U., who is a preacher. It is not a “well, Sanders may have some good points” kind of endorsement.  It was not an “I thought he seemed like a nice guy, but…” type of qualified statement.

“Lightning hit my heart in that moment” is a little bit stronger than that.  He compares Sanders to John the Baptist.  He compares Sanders to Jesus himself.  He says “this wild haired Jew” quite a few times, but it was in a positive context each and every time.

I was expecting Sanders to hold his own in that crowd, not to win them over.  But win them over he did, apparently.  There is no stopping the guy.