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Libertarian Ghoulash

At CNN’s Tea Party-indulging debate on Monday, Ron Paul, a medical doctor, faced a pointed line of questioning from Wolf Blitzer regarding the case of an uninsured young man who suddenly found himself in dire need of intensive health care.

Should the state pay his bills? Paul responded, “That’s what freedom is all about: taking your own risks. This whole idea that you have to take care of everybody—”

He never quite finished that point, letting the audience’s loud applause finish it for him. So Blitzer pressed on, asking if he meant that “society should just let him die,” which earned a chilling round of approving hoots from the crowd. Paul would not concede that much outright, instead responding with a personal anecdote, the upshot being that in such a case, it was up to churches to care for the dying young man.

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As it turns out, Paul was not speaking purely in hypotheticals. Back in 2008, Kent Snyder — Paul’s former campaign chairman — died of complications from pneumonia. Like the man in Blitzer’s example, the 49-year-old Snyder (pictured) was relatively young and seemingly healthy* when the illness struck. He was also uninsured. When he died on June 26, 2008, two weeks after Paul withdrew his first bid for the presidency, his hospital costs amounted to $400,000. The bill was handed to Snyder’s surviving mother […], who was incapable of paying. Friends launched a website to solicit donations.

After Snyder’s death, Paul posted a message to the website for his Campaign for Liberty — a pre-Tea Party organization which served Paul as both presidential marketing tool and platform to promote his non-interventionist, free market ideals.

He wrote:

“Like so many in our movement, Kent sacrificed much for the cause of liberty. Kent poured every ounce of his being into our fight for freedom. He will always hold a place in my heart and in the hearts of my family.”

And that, friends, is what freedom is really all about.

*The Kansas City Star quoted his sister at the time as saying that a “a pre-existing condition made the premiums too expensive.”

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32 responses to “Libertarian Ghoulash

  1. John Erickson

    Ah yes, “That’s freedom”. The freedom of the right-to-lifers who also cheer the death penalty. Say WHAT?!?
    Off-topic: Here’s a couple websites relating to a prayer crusade marching on “Washington, District of Christ”.
    They want us to force the government into a VERY narrow interpretation theocracy. It must be fall, the nuts are dropping out of the trees.

    • oh fer chrissakes! i tried to watch one of the videos, but i only lasted a minute. i can’t take that claptrap for very long before i start gouging out chunks of wood from my desk with my fingernails.

    • The freedom of the right-to-lifers who also cheer the death penalty.

      Yeah … that just about covers it, doesn’t it?

      District. Of. Christ.

      Sigh …

      I didn’t even try to watch the video. Somehow, I’ve missed the Biblical passages in which Jesus ever encouraged laying siege to the government. Weird, isn’t it?

      • now, you know that i’m certainly no biblical scholar, wken, but wasn’t there a whole render unto caesar that which are caesar’s, and unto g-d that which are g-d’s thing in there?

        • I have a couple of different answers, here. I’m not sure which one is best, so here are some candidates:

          1) You might not be a Biblical scholar, but compared to the average TP-er, you’re like Martin Luther. Only without the anti-Semitism.

          2) Well, yeah, but that was Jesus. What did He know about being a Christian? I mean, he wasn’t even an American!

  2. One thing for sure, this campaign is high on lunacy of candidates and a sadness of society.

    • that’s freedom!! freedom to be a batshit crazy lunatic with no empathy whatsoever. he must have been some doctor. the front door of his office probably had a slot where you had to insert cash in order for it to open.

  3. jeb

    I can intellectually process a difference in philosophies that might debate individual responsibility versus that of society. But, if after the death of a close friend and associate who could not obtain insurance – who’s mother had to bear the indignity of unbearable costs after the untimely death of her son – he cannot even question the ethics of his stance, I have no use for him. He should turn in his medical license.

    I won’t even start on the death panel they had assembled for the debate. Suffice it to say, if they get their way the poverty issue will be dealt with in the Coliseum much as it was in ancient Rome.

    • if you really want to feel sick to your stomach, read the letter that was sent out, asking for money to pay the hospital bills. not a word about how terrible it is that he couldn’t afford health insurance. instead, it’s as though he should get sainthood for dying for the cause.

  4. I sometimes wonder if this is all one big bad dream, or is it the reality, that these fringe whack jobs spout off.
    Anybody who thinks guy is the greatest thing to come down the road since Swiss cheese was invented, is just gonzo as he his.

    • it does seems like a nightmare, don. i honestly cannot believe what i see in our politics today. it amazes me that asswipes like him, princess sarah, and botox batshit bachmann are revered, while teachers, cops, firefighters, and the postmen are the bad guys.

  5. Well… a good lawyer would tell mom to demand to see the contract that her son signed. The mother is not responsible for her adult child’s debts; the contract is between the son and the hospital, and they cannot demand payment from anyone except the son’s estate.

    What is infuriating is that debt holders actually have precedence over heirs. So let’s say he left an estate of $400,001 dollars. His mom (or other heir) would get the $1.

    Tengrain (a son-of-a-lawyer)

    • hey 10G! about damned time you hauled your ass over here again! 😉

      most people don’t realize that they aren’t liable for someone else’s credit card debt when the cardholder dies. collection agencies won’t tell you what the law is. credit card debt is unsecured, so there is no legal obligation to pay it unless you were a co-signer on the account.

  6. Looks like I’ll be using this poster when I post the blog entry at the link to the Big Orange.

    Tell me now, which deity do the Dominionists really worship?

  7. That N-V link reminded me of the Spaniard who made first contact, climbed up the pyramid with the overwhelming smell of human blood, gets to the top where the high priest and king are, and witnessed a large tub in the center filled with beating human hearts….and on that downer note, what would a libertarian do? Check the market price of heart meat, of course!

  8. This is one of your most disturbing ever because it’s true. 😦

  9. jean-philippe

    Why the hell did the Pauls became doctors?

  10. Sick, sick, sick.

    Somehow, I’ve never thought that freedom was about dying painfully and impoverished.

    • that’s because you forgot humiliated, wken. the teabaggers take no joy unless the poor shmuck is humiliated along with impoverished and in pain.

      • “… certain inalienable right. Among these rights are life, liberty, suffering, poverty, and humiliation”! Of course! That’s what it is.

        It makes perfect sense, now. Thanks for setting me straight.


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How I got my Instagram to reach 500,000+ people a week

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Last Updated: 7th September, 2020

How I got my Instagram to reach 500,000+ people a week

Instagram quickly outgrew its first impression as a fun app for kids and has become a serious content marketing, selling, networking and audience building tool for individuals and brands. It’s one of the most popular social networking sites on the planet, with over 200 million active monthly members sharing 60 million images and 1.6 billion likes per day.

My journey is a lot different than most and I have been working on this project since 2012. While you can totally make a lot of money and make it pretty fast using the power social of media that IS NOT my goal. I am wanting to make this Long-Term if not my entire life’s mission. This page is about something I truly believe in and support. If you are looking to find a product or business to start simply because you want to make money then you are in for a real struggle. (Not to say you shouldn’t follow the money… This is just from my life experience and what I want, everyone’s on a different path)

So let’s jump straight into what helps me grow a Social Media Page. I want to focus on 3 topics that I believe are very important. There is no ultimate truth to growing your page or secret tricks. It will take lot’s of hard work, smart thinking and timing, A LOT of money in some cases (Not mine and I will explain), and sometimes pure luck. In fact I will go ahead and save you all some money and tell you to never buy a course that claims to get you X amount of followers per day. I will explain better ways to spend your money below (And it’s not on a course, I have nothing to sell)

Building Relationships

Creating unique engaging content

Fighting the algorithms

Building Relationships

This is by far the most important factor not only on Social Media but Business and Life in my opinion. There seems to be too much of this Dog eat Dog mentality when there more than enough wealth to go around and no reason to fight. Instead of learning how I can stay one step ahead of all my competition I reached out and became friends with them. They already had hundreds of thousands of followers and money flowing so why would I want them against me? I was completely honest with everyone I reached out to. I sometimes even explained hey I am thinking about doing the exact same thing you are doing… How did you find success? You can’t be fake about your relationships and be reaching out with your self gain as the only goal. I would support these influencers when they post.. Get involved in the comments… Buy their product (If I actually support it). Some people it took years of messaging to finally get noticed. But 8 years later I now have a network throughout my entire niche of people showing nothing but love. Influencers charging $100+ for people to make a post will constantly be giving me free shoutouts because of all the support I showed.

Of course not everyone has time to spend doing all of this. So how do you speed up the process? You have to provide value in order to get something of value back. And you should never be providing value expecting to receive something in return. So the simple solution is to pay influencers to work with you. Building relationships still applies and will be just as important. Even if you are paying someone to share your work you are still creating a relationship between Business and Influencer. And to add to that these people get hundreds of offer so even if you have the $$$ they still may have no interest in working you or your product due to the lack of a relationship. For the pages I do pay to post we still share a happy relationship and overtime I am ready for a paid post I have a huge list of people I have worked with and how to contact them directly. They already know me and what I am about so their is no hesitation or delay in getting a paid post.

I could write an entire book on examples of relationships I have built to further the growth of my page but to avoid rambling I will end it on this.. Be more conscious of every interaction you are having and understand each person you talk to knows something that we don’t. Approach new people as a way to learn new things and understand they can become a crucial role in your business later down the road. You never know… That person you were talking crap to could be Elon Musk lurking through reddit about to invest in your idea.. But you didn’t give him the time of day because you only see a person with no use to you.

Creating unique and engaging content

 This should be obvious but people seem to drop the ball on this one often… Including myself. Every time someone comes to your social media they are essential walking into your physical store, just the digital version. They will be making a decision based on what is surrounding them inside this virtual shop. Are you providing anything of value? If you are providing value why should they come to you and not the guy across the street? Maybe you are selling the exact product they need but your store is completely empty except for the item sitting on the shelf. But the guy across the street selling the exact same thing has a store filled with information about his product, complimentary drinks, he greets everyone with a smile that walks in and gets to know them. Both places might have a great product and the customer left feeling happy. But who is more likely to get the business next time? Or maybe there was never a reason to do business again, you needed the product this one time and you’re out. But you had such a great experience you now are shopping for other items. Or you love it so much you just wanted to stop by and say hi or bring a friend in looking for the thing.

Whenever you create something to post really think about what experience you are creating. Every restaurant is posting pictures of all their dishes and while they may be unique and amazing tasting, having a page filled with food pictures is not unique. Think outside the box no matter how crazy. This might not be a practical solution but imagine a page that held a monthly food fight and recorded the whole thing to post on social media.. I’d be way more inclined to check out their page to see what all that was about and probably stick around to see the next one.

Fighting the algorithm

Everyone probably already knows this but on Instagram at least, your post is going to only be shown to a portion of your followers and is determined within the first hour how well it will do most of the time. I find that my post get the most engagement when I limit it to 1 post per day. It doesn’t mean I get the most growth and sometimes 1-3 post with less engagement per post equals a higher total following. I honestly have no real secret to beating this algorithm other than you need to know and study your audience. By following the first step and building relationships you will learn what does and doesn’t work and learn what people really like and using step 2 you will have the correct content to gain their attention.

The algorithm likes to pay tricks on you by making a funny cat meme the most liked picture yet it provide no value to my following. So I would say the real solution is DON’T fight the algorithm. Many times I get caught chasing the most likes and follows while missing out on the entire purpose of the page and the reasons I got so many followers in the first place. You obviously want to use the right hashtags and get your page on the explore page so you can be discovered. But really be mindful of what you are posting and make sure it’s to serve your audience and not to combat the algorithms. This will naturally lead to you winning against it.

Something to also think about. If you are having a hard time getting ranked higher look into the influencers that are doing well and study their post.. Or just reach out to them and have them post your content for $$$ or something of value you can offer…

 I am not an expert on typing up case studies like this so I do apologize if I was rambling and didn’t dig deep enough as to how I grow my page. I am still learning myself and have a long way to go. The main takeaway of this post is that my page did not grow magically and I have put years of dedication into this and I also truly believe in myself and the value I am providing to others. I do not make 6 figures from social media at all but getting messages from people saying how much they appreciate what I am doing and how their lives are impacted is much more rewarding. And I suspect that as long as I stay on this path I will continue to grow and build my foundation stronger everyday. Remember even Rome fell.. You social media page can be taken away from you in a night but the relationships you built will be inside of everyones mind and follow them through their entire life.

Like I said at the top I don’t have course to sell or offer. I used to make at least 5k+ a month from social media but currently am not monetizing my instagram page just because I am not really for the drop shipping business model and want to invest into providing a quality product that isn’t just merch from china (Shopify stores make tons of money and still work so I do recommend it if you are trying to monetize.. I used to do this but I stopped..I am after something else).

I do Social Media Marketing to pay the bills but have a hard time finding clients who really understand how social media works and the power it has, so I tend to focus on my pages instead. As much as I need the money I don’t want to sell out on my page and keep it true to why I started it. I went to huge debt starting my first business that worked really well at first but I learned the hard way you need to keep reinvesting your money back into the business. I wouldn’t want to be in any other position and I am only more confident that the experiences I learned were necessary in order to achieve true success.


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Pewter – The Basic Process

The basic process of creating a piece of pewter work is a very simple and quick one. Below is a simple overview of this process.

We have taken a photocopy of a Modigliani picture and from this traced drawing (a 2D-design) we will create a 3D antique metal decoration to be attached to the front of an art sketch book.

After tracing the design onto the pewter, we begin to work the design by raising, texturing and defining areas with various tools. We push out from the back and counter act the stretching process by neatening and flattening the surrounded raised areas from the front, until we are satisfied with the detail and the height of the raised areas.

The design is worked using an array of various techniques. This process of working the metal to create your finished piece is a therapeutic journey controlled dramatically by personality, time constraints and artistic ability. No two pieces are ever identical and therefore a ‘one of a kind’ piece of art is created. The design is interpreted by the creator and by the intention of the use of the finished piece.

Once the design has been worked on sufficiently and you are happy with the completed work the back concaved areas are filled with warm wax to hold the shape.

Patina is applied to the front. The pewter will instantly go dark (almost black). Polish is applied and the metal is polished to your satisfaction emphasizing raised areas and leaving convex areas dark, to create more depth and contrast.

When the polishing process is complete and the pewter has been buffed with a clean soft cloth varnish is applied to protect the shine. The completed work is glued onto the sketchbook.

 DONE! easy as that.

Pewter Book Covers

A book with a beautiful personalised pewter cover has to be one of the most special gifts. We spend many hours in the studio designing book covers for clients.
Here are a few examples of bookcovers we have created in the studio.
This is my handbag book. I never go anywhere without this book, not because I need the information inside it BUT simply to write information in it because I have a memory like a sieve and I fear not being able to remember things. This little book has helped me out more times than I can remember. It is filled with the most valuable, sometimes hysterical, information which includes figures, facts, colours, measurements, book titles and any other arbitory wording, that when written seems to be of utmost importance to me right there and then. This little book makes for some fun reading and memory revival on long distance travelling when I am a bored passenger, (possibly the only time in my life that I have the luxury of sitting idle!)
My recipe book! I love this book, filled with my entire life as well as recipes of course! It is a huge thick leatherbound precious book. The right hand pages are filled with my glorious tried and tested recipes, (I am an avid cook and love food, food and food.) The left hand pages are filled with my written life, almost like a journal but more random info, facts, stories and bits of painting, sketching and design work. The cover is a pewter interpretation of Cerridwen the welsh goddess of Inspiration and creativity. She brewed a broth for one year and a day which produces three drops of inspiration.
Simone’s dad’s recipe book, the overall layout and design just worked so nicely.
I did a series of these lovely little notebooks some time back. The blocked design was done seperately and then backed with firm board, edges folded over and then glued onto the pewter cover of the book. The wording was engraved into the pewter as well as the fine lined designs on either side of the wording.

Cats – Pewter & Real

This pewter lion was part of a framed Big 5 work which I did a couple of years back. My intention was to give the lion a realistic look. The texture on the background to the left is the leather look embossing plate in the Fiscar’s range. I decided to put this photo on the blog after I had taken the photo below of our little black Panther, (well, that’s what she thinks she is!)

I tried to grab an hour of quiet time after a hectic day with the intentions of working on a little pewter face in front of TV. My work surface is a cushioned melamine TV tray, the left half is my hard surface and the right half my soft (felt) surface. I had just gathered myself and picked up the first tool to start working when Bizkit the cat quietly climbed up onto the tray. She pawed each tool in turn until all the tools where on the floor besides the one in my hand. She then curled up on the piece of felt and started purring with delight at her comfortable space. I worked for 10 minutes using Bizkit’s back as the soft surface to stretch my pewter and then neatened from the front on the melamine hard surface. The work deteriorated at a rapid rate and I gave up, not before I took the pic with my phone!

Pewter Coasters

Hearts, hearts and more hearts. The theme I chose for this great set of coasters.

There is nothing nicer than sitting around a pub and having an unusual coaster to put your drink onto. Being able to create a practical and personalized set of coasters from pewter sheet makes for such a stunning gift. The pewter work is done in low relief, so as not to create bumps or lumps for your glass to sit comfortably. Themes could include drink names, family names, logos etc.

Our set of 6 coasters come in a matching wooden stand beautifully factory sprayed in an almost black lacquer. The round indent can be done with a pewter inlay or the entire top can be covered with pewter as done in our example here. This is a stunning project to do for a guys 21st, 30th, 40th, Fathers day etc.

Creating Pewter work for Large Orders

I have just returned home from a very productive and fun, full day beginner workshop at the studio. The photo above of some of the students first works all on a board together made me think of large orders that we do from time to time in the studio and how we work them in batches. Which in turn gave me the idea of a post on large orders.
It can be quite a daunting feeling when asked to produce a 100 wine labels or 50 jewellery boxes or whatever quantity of a completely hand made product. It is not generally the problem of working out what to charge but rather working out exactly how long it is going to take to complete the order and whether you have the time and or energy to complete so much work in the time schedule specified. Never forgetting that you do in fact only have two hands to do the work and bearing in mind that we pride ourselves in hand made individual items and do not create machine pressed work with a factory finish. Below are some sample pics of the larger orders that we at Mimmic are often faced with.
John and Simone’s wedding in October 2010. Michelle and I created a design which we produced in Pewter as wine labels for the male guests and trinket boxes with a pewter lid with each lady guest’s name worked on the top. The wedding was held at a game lodge near Bela Bela and the guests spent the night at the lodge. The wine and trinket box was placed on the pillows in each guest’s room for them on their return from the reception. The gifts were the talking point of conversation the next morning at breakfast.

Pewter Filigree Work For Trays & The Use Of Liquid Glass

I receive many enquiries on how to use liquid glass, resin or Pratliglo (a name brand) to finish off trays that have been pewtered. This post is specifically for the lady who emailed us last week enquiring about the Pratliglo and for my Thursday students who are all busy making trays. Here are a couple of tips and thought processes to help you through this somewhat daunting process.

Filigree work also known as lacework is a perfect way of creating pewter  for a tray. It allows the wood to show through the design and creates a tray cloth effect. There are a couple of important tips to create a fail proof project.
  1. Only create LOW RELIEF work. If you do high relief work you have to use an enormous amount of liquid glass to cover all the raised work which will make your tray expensive and very heavy!
  2. Use our cutting tool (on a cutting mat) to cut out the negative areas where you cannot get scissors in to do the job, the cutting tool helps to create a smoother edge better than that of a craft knife.
  3. Make sure your work is properly polished and remove any ugly marks, neaten all edges, be precise and very neat as the liquid glass acts as a magnifier and emphasizes every tiny imperfection!
Your pewter work does not have to be sprayed as it is sealed with the liquid glass. Glue the pewter down very well with an overall thin layer of glue, this is very important as the liquid glass will run under the pewter and lift it and / or air will be trapped under the pewter which will then escape in the form of little bubbles later when you have covered your work and left it to set, these bubbles are so annoying because you will only detect them when it is too late to remove them and they will remain as a reminder that you should have glued your work down better!
This tray which Michelle did was not cut out to create a filigree pewter piece. Instead, Michelle applied her patina, polished her work to create a beautiful shiny background and then re-applied patina with a paint brush to the design creating a stunning contrast between dark and light.
Pratliglo is the liquid glass product which we sell in the studio. It is a very simple but very precise process used to apply the product. Follow the instruction very carefully. I have a couple of important tips that will definitely help you through some issues you may have when working with it.
1.       Never work with it when there is moisture in the air (when it is raining.) It will not set!
2.       Equal quantities is imperative for the resin to set.
3.       The two bottles of mixtures have to be thoroughly mixed; a missed speck of unmixed liquid on the side of the cup could cause the mixture not to set properly.
4.       One box is sufficient for our long cocktail tray and two boxes is needed for the large square tray.
5.       The ‘huffing’ not blowing motion over the poured resin is an extraordinary and fun process, the CO2 in your breath miraculously make the millions of bubbles disappear and leaves a beautiful clear glass effect.
6.       Don’t forget to cover the tray properly, a hair or ant stuck in your glass finish won’t be great!


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Namibia: The Presidency – Media Release (02.03.2020)

Namibia: Official Announcement of the Final Election Results for the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly Elections by ECN Chairperson, Adv. Notemba Tjipueja (30.11.2019)

Namibia: Awaiting cooked results from the ECN on the 27th November 2019 Elections

The 27th November 2019 Presidential Elections of Namibia is already contested, because the counting is going on as we speak. The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) have been doing the tally ever since the polls was done and three days later the official announced results aren’t out. Just the preliminary results.

That means the main contender, dr. Panduleni Filemon Bango Itula, the Independent candidate lost to incumbent Presidential Candidate Hage G. Geingob from the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO. The independence movement and liberation party of Namibia. His the third President since the liberation and this would be his second term. As his been in office since 21st March 2015.

What is really rich, as there been hours since the ECN released a preliminary results, where the incumbent was ahead, but his already on Twitter announcing his victory, as the ECN haven’t delivered its final verdict. The announced final results aren’t out after three days and seems like the Election Officials will work until 1st December and start of Advent before the proclaimed numbers are out. That shows the reality of it all.

That the Namibian authorities are cooking the numbers, when the ECN needs this long time to deliver a verified result. When they need the data-set, the sudden changes and fix the numbers to make sense. This because they are cooking the books, to ensure the incumbent and SWAPO dominance in the Parliament.

For counting the possible 1,3 million voters, this is outrageous long time. Even if some rural areas lack the good internet connection and whatnot, that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) crashes or something. That is the sort of things, that just happens and the handwritten forms should justify and verify, if the technical devices doesn’t work as its supposed to do. Therefore, that is an excuse and where the algorithms comes in and crushes the numbers, which usually hits the needs of the incumbent.

What is ironic about the EVM is this: “Direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines with and without voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT)” (…) “The EVM is meant to enhance the conduct of fast, reliable, free, and fair elections in Namibia. In this regard, the EVM retains all the characteristics of voting by ballot papers, while making polling efficient and expedient. It is fast, reliable, saves considerable time, money and personnel power. It also maintains voting secrecy and is tamper proof. At the end of polling the results are automatically available through the press of a button” (IDEA, 2019).

This here says what the EVM is supposed to do, which it doesn’t do. For the 1,3m voters, it takes 500,000 each day or so. The technology of EVM and the VVPAT is clearly not fast and reliable. The ECN just using the EVM to mask what its doing. If not, then they could have released the results before 48 hours. But the longer it takes, the more chefs are making the dish ready for the Head of State, nothing else.

These results and the pronounced results when they come for these elections will be challenged in the Courts. As this sort of questionable work will be tested, hopefully all parties work together to have liable proof and evidence of the rigging. The rigging doesn’t seem unreasonable, since the ECN and the SWAPO needs positive and winning results to continue to prosper and rule.

Let’s see how this goes. Peace.

Namibia: Media Statement by ECN Chairperon Adv. Notemba Tjipueja on Provisional Results for 2019 Presidential & National Assembly Elections (30.11.2019)


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Typically RT treatment will be successfully completed (with resolution of symptoms) within eight sessions, although this does rely on you taking action to meet your needs and so convincing your body that it is in safe hands.

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Hinds County residents cast their votes at Eudora Welty Library during Mississippi’s Primary Election Day, Tuesday, August 6, 2019.

Fewer Mississippians have voted absentee for Tuesday’s runoff election than did for the Aug. 6 Republican and Democratic primaries.

Based on the fewer number of absentee ballots requested and returned, it is likely that fewer people will go to the polls for Tuesday’s runoff elections than did for the primaries. There is often a correlation between the number of people voting absentee and the overall turnout.

For instance, on Aug. 6 there were 46,636 absentee ballots requested and 42,858 returned or voted, according to numbers provided by the office of Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann.

In the 2015 election, 41,392 absentee ballots were requested and 37,318 were returned.

The turnout on Aug. 6 was about 130,000 votes more than the turnout in the 2015 Republican and Democratic primaries or 685,470 in 2019 compared to 556,057 in 2015. There are 1.8 mission registered voters in Mississippi.

As of late Monday, 24,347 absent votes had been received – about 18,500 less than were received on Aug. 6.

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People who are going to be out of town on Election Day and those over the age of 65 can vote absentee under Mississippi law. People can vote absentee by mail-in ballot or by casting a vote in their county circuit clerk’s office prior to noon the Saturday before the election.

Republicans will return to the polls Tuesday to select a gubernatorial nominee between Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and former Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr.

In addition, Treasurer Lynn Fitch and Madison County attorney Andy Taggart will be vying for the open seat of attorney general on the Republican side.

John Caldwell of DeSoto County and Geoffrey Yoste of Lafayette County are running in the Republican primary runoff for the open transportation commissioner seat for the Northern District.

In addition, on the Republican ballot will be five state Senate runoffs and six House elections. On the Democratic ballot will be four Senate runoffs and two House runoffs.

In the Central District, Jackson City Council member De’Keither Stamps and Dorothy “Dot” Benford of Jackson will be in the Democratic Party runoff for the open public service commissioner post.

The top two vote-getters advance to the runoff if no candidate garners a majority vote in the first primary.

People who voted on Aug. 6 can only vote Tuesday in the same party primary they voted in on Aug. 6. But people who did not vote on Aug. 6 can vote in the primary of their choice Tuesday.

Normally, fewer people return to the polls for runoff elections, though, that was not the case for the 2014 Republican runoff for the U.S. Senate between incumbent Thad Cochran and state Sen. Chris McDaniel. In that election, 382,197 voted in the runoff – or almost 63,000 more than voted in the first primary.

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The MitraClip system registry began in 2010. The MitraClip experience went far beyond the initial (limited) prediction and his application today covers a broad spectrum of clinical and anatomical indications in patients not amenable to surgery (heart team approach).

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The new MitraClip technique, a percutaneous transcatheter (without opening the chest) procedure, makes it possible to reduce mitral regurgitation through the positioning of a clip that narrows the valve opening. This procedure is performed, with the patient under general anaesthesia, by passing through the right femoral vein; the patient is usually then dismissed after 1 or 2 days.

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Carolina García Jayaram has returned to Miami in a new role, but with the same determination to help tomorrow's artistic generation succeed.
As CEO of the National YoungArts Foundation, Carolina García Jayaram's main goal is to help young artists across the country.

Everything changed for Carolina García Jayaram last February when she traveled from Chicago to Miami for business. Then the CEO for United States Artists, an organization that awards adult artists with funding and support, García Jayaram was approached with an opportunity to return to our city and turn her focus toward some of this country’s most accomplished young talents. The job? President and CEO of the National YoungArts Foundation, an entity that aids students interested in pursuing professional careers in the arts. The task? Setting goals that include a new building, stronger national outreach, the development of new audiences and an invaluable alumni program. Her answer? A resounding yes.

“Resources are very important, but giving young artists confidence that they are on the right track and doing the work they are meant to be doing can be more valuable in many cases,” says García Jayaram, who took over the post in June. “This is what I know how to do.”

In fact, championing creatives has long been her passion, dating as far back as 2003 when she co-founded LegalArt (now called Cannonball), a Miami-based resource for artists in need of affordable attorney services. In her new role, García Jayaram wears many hats, but for the last few months, her focus has been overseeing YoungArts’ two Basel exhibitions: When We Were Young pairs contemporary masterworks from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection with newly created works by YoungArts alumni, while Roots is a site-specific solo show by José Parlá. Both open Nov. 29 at different areas of the YoungArts Campus. After that, her focus will shift to National YoungArts Week, an eight-day symposium (Jan. 8 to 15) that welcomes approximately 170 high school student finalists interested in the visual, literary, design and performing arts worlds to connect them with master teachers and then share their work with the public. Said event culminates with the Backyard Ball, a performance and gala Jan. 14 that will honor the 2017 YoungArts winners.

“I’m deeply grateful for this opportunity to come back to Miami and create a space for artists to come and work here,” says García Jayaram. “It’s a wonderful honor.”

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Reclaim the Kitchen.

Brikk, the Stockholm based directing team of Björn Johansson, Josef Andersson and Samuel Fastpack have created a web based long form video ad to support Wolf Ranges “Reclaim the Kitchen” microsite. The two and a half minute online spot brings to light some interesting facts about eating habits and how they have changed in the last 100 years. The goal, is to get people to cook at home, and hopefully identify with the Wolf brand. Produced with Seattle based animation studio The Academy, the video takes on a slightly Wes Anderson inspired look, blended with nice stop motion and live action footage, all done with an extremely high production value.

One of the things I like about both the video and the microsite is the limited amount of branding shoved in your face. In the video, you see Wolf at the end. On the microsite it is subtle and reduced as you scroll through the content really only making a solid presence at the end of the page. Instead both components focus more on the problem, solution, and healthy living rather than selling you a product. I really hope this is an advertising trend that catches on and sticks around. It’s been gaining ground for sometime, and I am seeing more of it than ever before.

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GAME 156: In a surge of prowess at the plate, Derek Jeter has been lacing the ball on the final regular season home stand of his career. Yes, I said ‘regular season’. I’m holding out for a miracle — and the Captain is doing everything in his power to see to it that one happens. Jeter went 1-3, but his 5th inning double (his 17th of the season) knocked in a pair. His other ribby came on a groundout to short in the 3rd inning.

Michael Pineda 1-Hits Birds over 7.1 Innings

This time Pineda didn’t leave run support to chance. The tall right-hander turned in yet another solid outing, this time by stifling the powerful Orioles lineup, holding them to 1 hit while striking out 8. After mowing down the first 13 Birds, a J.J. Hardy single in the 5th was all Pineda allowed.  Shawn Kelley, Rich Hill, and David Phelps took it the rest of the way.

Jose Pirela Makes Loud Bronx Debut

September call-up Jose Pirela’s first major league hit was a big one — a booming triple to left center that knocked in Ichiro Suzuki and got the scoring started for the Yankees. The right-handed hitting second baseman was drafted out of Venezuela in 2008, and has been making noise in the Yankees farm system of late. He hit .305 in a full season at Triple A Scranton. While the second base position should be under heavy competition, Pirela deserves to get a long look in Spring Training.
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MEMORY LANE: On September 22, 1970, the Yankees released Bobby Cox, who was recently inducted in the Hall of Fame as a manager … On this date in 1985, one night after scuffling with a patron in the bar of the Yankees’ Baltimore hotel, manager Billy Martin has his right arm broken by pitcher Ed Whitson in an early-morning brawl in the same bar.

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After mosque attack in Canada, critics point to anti-immigrant ‘trash radio’

The mayor of Quebec, Régis Labeaume along with Primier Philippe Couillard acknowledged that xenophobia and hate was being spread by what they call  “radio poubelle,” or “trash radio.” Quebec City has developed the dubious reputation of being Canada’s capital of shock jocks, online radio hosts who love to provoke with outrageous talk about women, homosexuals and Muslims.

Labeaume, appeared to criticize the radio stations. Speaking at an outdoor vigil in memory of the victims Monday evening, he denounced those who “get rich from peddling hatred.”  While Couillard acknowledged Tuesday that the province has “its demons” and that “xenophobia, racism and exclusion are present here.” But he told reporters that Quebec society is generally open and tolerant.

There is no indication that the man charged in the attack, Alexandre Bissonnette, was particularly influenced by trash radio, but members of the Muslim community were quick to complain about the corrosive impact of the anti-immigrant rhetoric heard on the city’s airwaves.

GOP Rep: American Muslim Community ‘Would Kill Every Homosexual’ In U.S.

Republican Rep. Mo Brooks (AL) said Thursday that Democrats “are in a perplexing position” between appealing to the gay community and “to the Muslim community, which, if it had its way, would kill every homosexual in the United States of America.”
Brooks made the remarks, first picked up by BuzzFeed, on the Matt & Aunie show on WAPI radio, where he was asked why “the left refuses to face this fact” that “mainstream Muslim thought” says homosexuality is punishable by death.
“Well, it’s probably because they’re counting votes,” Brooks told the radio show. “And they’re seeking a block vote from the Muslim community in the United States and that’s a community that is increasing in political power, as it’s doing in Europe. More and more votes are there. And the Democrats are in a perplexing position. On the one hand, they’re trying to appeal to the gay community, but, on the other hand, they’re trying to also appeal to the Muslim community, which, if it had its way, would kill every homosexual in the United States of America.”

Individuals Travelling from Netherlands to Syria Have Passports Confiscated

January 28, 2014

Eight individuals planning to travel to Syria from the Netherlands have had their passports confiscated, Dick Schoof, head of counter-terrorism in the Netherlands, announced to a national radio station. According to Schoof, the confiscation occurred to prevent Dutch nationals from travelling to fight in Syria. This is the first time such measures have been employed, and Schoof noted that while the move is “effective”, he must now wait to hear court judgments regarding whether such confiscation is legally possible.

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Michigan Republican Dave Agema under fire again for questioning contributions of American Muslims

January 14, 2014

Michigan Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema is under fire this week for another controversial Facebook post — this one questioning the contribution of Muslims in American society.

Agema, in a Facebook communication dated January 9, shared with his followers an old internet attack piece comparing Catholics to Muslims.

“Even if you’re not Catholic you may find this eye opening,” Agema wrote.

He then copy-and-pasted an anonymous blog post that has circulated on the web and through email for years. It highlights charity work of the Catholic church before posting a series of questions about Muslim heritage.

“Have you ever seen a Muslim do anything that contributes positively to the American way of life?” it asked.
While Agema’s post generated upwards of 40 “likes” on Facebook, it also prompted a series of critical responses on the social media network.

Republican political consultant Joe Munem replied to Agema in a Facebook post of his own, highlighting the contributions of his father, Mustafa Munem, who heads the math department at Macomb Community College.

“My muslim father, an internationally published author, 52 year math professor, business owner and gentleman farmer has done far more to contribute positively to the American way of life than you ever will,” Munem wrote.

As a state representative, the Grandville Republican introduced a bill seeking to ban the implementation of foreign laws, such as Islamic Sharia. Critics said the legislation unnecessary and could fuel anti-Muslim paranoia. It did not pass.

Agema made headlines in recent months for a series of inflammatory andinaccurate statements he made about the gay community on Facebook, conservative radio and a Berrien County GOP holiday party. While many prominent Republicans rebuked his statements, they stopped short of calling for his resignation.

Nick Clegg ‘uneasy’ about ban on Muslim veils in school

Deputy PM says he understands teachers feeling uncomfortable about pupils wearing veil, but does not back ‘blanket prohibition’ Nick Clegg was asked about a ban on face coverings at Birmingham Metropolitan college during his LBC radio phone-in. Nick Clegg has backed teachers who feel uncomfortable about pupils wearing full-face Muslim veils, but says he is “uneasy” about a college that has brought in a blanket ban. The deputy prime minister said he could “totally understand” teachers who did not want full-face veils in the classroom as they needed to make “eye contact and face contact with pupils”. However, Clegg said these were “exceptional circumstances” and he generally supported people’s right to wear whatever religious clothing they liked.

“I’m really quite uneasy about anyone being told what they have to wear,” he said on LBC 97.3. “I think I’ve set the bar very high to justify something like that because one of the things that is great about our country is that we are diverse, we are tolerant.” People do dress differently, people do have different faiths, people do have different convictions and that is reflected in what they wear, in how they present themselves.”

Boston bombing suspect buried in Virginia

DOSWELL, Va. — Martha Mullen was on her way to Starbucks on Tuesday when she heard on the radio that Massachusetts officials couldn’t find a cemetery willing to bury Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
“My first thought was, Jesus says love your enemies and not hate them after they’re dead,” Mullen, a Richmond mental health counselor and seminary school graduate, said Friday.
“My second thought was, okay, we can bury Adam Lanza, you know. Or the guy who shot up [Virginia] Tech,” added Mullen, 48. “And this guy for some reason is different. And the only difference that I can tell is that people think that he’s a terrorist or he’s a foreigner or he’s Muslim.”
Her third thought: Maybe she could help. With a flurry of e-mails and calls to faith leaders in Richmond and police officials in Massachusetts, she wound up facilitating Tsarnaev’s burial at a small Islamic cemetery in Doswell.
News trucks and photographers flocked to the site Friday, until a cemetery representative shooed them away. Bukhari ¬Abdel-Alim, vice president of Islamic Funeral Services of Virginia, the nonprofit organization that owns the site, declined to say which of the graves Tsarnaev occupied.

New Islamic Broadcaster for the Netherlands

April 13 2013

A new Muslim broadcaster in the Netherlands has been granted the provision of radio and TV programmes. The Commissariat for the Media has granted broadcaster SZM a license valid through 31 December 2015.  At the initiative of the supervisory body, various Islamic organizations are to collaborate in the SZM, as a result of which the Commissariat feels the broadcaster will be representative of Muslims in the country. Each major religion in the Netherlands has a representative public broadcaster, however ideological broadcasting will cease in 2016, after which time only eight broadcasting organizations will exist.

GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert: Guns Are Necessary To Protect Against Sharia Law

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told a conservative radio host this afternoon that he believes Americans must be allowed to own firearms to protect against the growing threat of “sharia law.”

Appearing on web-radio show The Voice of Freedom, Gohmert argued that Congress ought to vote down any restrictive new gun regulations because American gun-owners need their firearms as a defense against Muslims who want to subvert the United States Constitution with the Islamic moral/political code.

“[The Second Amendment] is for our protection and the Founders’ quotes make that very, very clear. Including against a government that would run amuck,” he said, before explaining: “We’ve got some people that think sharia law should be the law of the land — forget the Constitution. But the guns are there, that Second Amendment is there, to make sure all of the rest of the amendments are followed.”

Gohmert has long expressed a belief that elements of radical Islam have infiltrated the United States government. Last fall, he vocally led the charge to investigate Clinton aide Huma Abedin for what he suspected were ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. He has also led the push for congressional hearings on “creeping sharia law.”

Ohio Mosque Arsonist Blames His Crime On Watching Fox News And Listening To Talk Radio

The man convicted of setting fire to an Ohio mosque earlier this year is now blaming his crime on having watched Fox News and listened to conservative talk radio shows, which he claims convinced him that Muslims are all “terrorists.”

The 52-year-old man, Randolph Linn of Indiana, recently pleaded guilty to charges of setting fire to the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, resulting in a 20-year reduced prison sentence. His sentencing is scheduled for April 2013.

As part of his defense, the Digital Journal reports that Linn told the court that he was “riled up” from watching Fox News and consuming “45 beers” over a span of seven hours before committing his crime.

Suspect in death of man shoved in front of NYC subway train once arrested for random assault

NEW YORK — The family of a woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train called police several times in the past five years because she had not been taking prescribed medication and was difficult to deal with, authorities said Monday.

Erika Menendez, 31, was being held without bail on a murder charge in the death of Sunando Sen. She told police she pushed the 46-year-old India native because she thought he was Muslim, and she hates them, according to prosecutors.

They had never met before she suddenly shoved him off the subway platform because she “thought it would be cool,” prosecutors said. The victim was Hindu, not Muslim.

It wasn’t clear whether Menendez had a diagnosed mental condition. But her previous arrests and legal troubles paint a portrait of a troubled woman.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly would not say what medication she was taking or whether she had a psychiatric history. Authorities were called to her home five times since 2005 on reports of an emotionally disturbed person.

In one instance, police said, she threw a radio at the responding officers.

Menendez was spotted by a passer-by who called 911 and said she resembled the wanted suspect. When she was arrested, she told police she shoved Sen because she blamed Muslims and Hindus for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and had been “beating them up” ever since, according to authorities. She said she thought Sen was Muslim.


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Strange Mechanical Grotesques, The Harlot’s House By Oscar Wilde

We caught the tread of dancing feet,
We loitered down the moonlit street,
And stopped beneath the harlot’s house.

Inside, above the din and fray,
We heard the loud musicians play
The ‘Treues Liebes Herz’ of Strauss.

Like strange mechanical grotesques,
Making fantastic arabesques,
The shadows raced across the blind.

We watched the ghostly dancers spin
To sound of horn and violin,
Like black leaves wheeling in the wind.

Like wire-pulled automatons,
Slim silhouetted skeletons
Went sidling through the slow quadrille,

Then took each other by the hand,
And danced a stately saraband;
Their laughter echoed thin and shrill.

Sometimes a clockwork puppet pressed
A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.

Sometimes a horrible marionette
Came out, and smoked its cigarette
Upon the steps like a live thing.

Then, turning to my love, I said,
‘The dead are dancing with the dead,
The dust is whirling with the dust.

But she–she heard the violin,
And left my side, and entered in:
Love passed into the house of lust.

Then suddenly the tune went false,
The dancers wearied of the waltz,
The shadows ceased to wheel and whirl.

And down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,
Crept like a frightened girl.

“The Harlot’s House” by Oscar Wilde, can be found in Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, first published in 1911.

I am aware that the above image is of an upper-class quadrille, but I figure that they led a charmed existence compared with the Victorian sex workers referred to in Wilde’s deathly quadrille, so I think they can take the hit on this one.

In this poem of Wilde’s, we get another dose of heady voyeurism, such as would delight Lord Henry himself. We have an unfortunately common example of Oscar Wilde fetishizing or othering the poor and underprivileged, potentially taking advantage of the terrible conditions force some of them into sex work, for the narrator’s own voyeuristic intentions. This poem seems to be moralizing in a way that, if you had read the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray alone you would have thought he was entirely uninterested in.

The main reason to attribute morality to this poem is by way of the very clear link between the voyeurism of the couple beholding the spectacle of the brothel and the woman being tempted into joining the spectacle. The spectacle of the brothel is partially obscured to the casual observer who might find the scene tantalising and irresistible. But as soon as one passes over the threshold they find that there is nothing but corruption and death on offer in “The Harlot’s House”.

The sex workers, who are often interpreted as all female due to their shrill voices, and the description of one clutching “A phantom lover to her breast”, attempt to behave seductively and succeed on a surface level but they are simply going through the motions, they have become just another cog in the machinery of industrialised Victorian England. They attempt to play and dance like their heart is in it, but the implication (if we are to be generous to Wilde) is that they have become jaded. If we are less generous to Wilde then he is simply viewing the poor and underprivileged sex workers as mere objects that imitate human form. For all Wilde’s dress reform advocacy and beliefs about female independence, he is still a Victorian gentleman whose advocacy didn’t quite breach class divides.

I have a question, and I would love input so feel free to email me :

Is the “tune” going “false” the corruption of the narrator’s partner or is it simply the discovery of the true nature of the brothel? It seems like the illusion is shattered, but also it seems like enough time has passed for the dawn to “with silver-sandalled feet, [creep] like a frightened girl.“. We are told it happens suddenly, but they appear to be there for quite some time, at least outside. So is it merely voyeurism and disappointment, or voyeurism and corruption?

Among other references, I used this as a springboard.

Thanks for reading!

Morgan of The FrankenPod

P.S. Obligatory Frankenstein and Gothic Literature links

I think we can agree that this macabre spectacle of the brothel and the part human automatons therein is inherently a gothic spectacle with imagery such as skeletons, phantoms and ghostly apparitions used to paint the picture of the decadent and ostensibly lively Victorian brothel. The othering of the sex workers as the undead and unnatural makes them of the Creature’s kin in Mary Shelley‘s novel Frankenstein or the Modern Day Prometheus.

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Michelle Obama Dropped the Ball by Pre-Recording Her Speech

If she can’t be bothered to speak live, we can’t be bothered to consider Biden.

As a former First Lady, Michelle Obama should have given a speech that was a lot more powerful than it was. She didn’t go live. In fact, she didn’t even mention Kamala Harris. What’s up with that? Oh, well it was taped a little while ago. At least by a few weeks.

Well, glad to know that the DNC Convention was at the top of her list of priorities.

She was a highly anticipated speaker. She is the one who spoke about her party where “We go high.” Yet, she didn’t go high when it came to talking on behalf of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

It’s clear that she wasn’t too interested in giving the speech. There’s a black VP and yet Michelle Obama couldn’t muster up enough excitement to re-record her speech to even acknowledge Harris.

Jake Tapper of CNN broke it down to identify when it was that Obama recorded her segment. Obviously, it was before Harris was selected as the running mate. Several Obama aides have told that to CNN. Okay, but Harris was named a week ago. Even then, she made mention of COVID deaths – and she was off by 20,000.

Typically, you appear live for these sorts of things. Given the pandemic, it was going to be virtual anyway. So, no travel. All you had to do was appear for a few minutes and talk. Okay, so maybe there was a conflict for that night. Sure. So, the segment should have been recorded maybe a day or two before. But, no. It was made well over a week before the night of the DNC convention.

So, if we’re supposed to take Biden’s candidacy as seriously as Michelle Obama, the DNC is in big trouble. The former First Lady is still living off of the government. She had one job to do – give a speech at the DNC. She couldn’t be bothered to do anything that was recent enough to include mention of the actual VP. Kamala Harris should be livid at this point.

With Obama being the first black First Lady, she should be supportive of, potentially, the first black VP.

The 18-minute speech that Michelle Obama gives is hardly inspiring. She talks about how she “loves this country with all my heart” and how the country is going through a lot right now. She also talks a lot about what happened four years ago.

She demonstrates that she’s more bitter about how Trump lost the popular vote by nearly three million votes than being excited about the vice-presidential candidate.

Obama would rather talk about the popular vote and how some people may not have come out to the voting centers four years ago because they didn’t think that their vote would count.

As a First Lady, she should know that it’s about the Electoral College and not the popular vote. Otherwise, only New York City and California would be deciding who our president was every four years.

“Going high is the only thing that works” is what she says after talking about how others are willing to go so low. Now, that’s funny. Especially since she just spent the past four minutes going low about talking about President Trump.

But she has to cover her bases. She has proven that she’s a Dem through and through. She says one thing and does another. She talks about going high but in the next breath, takes a low blow toward Trump.

Obama also talks about how Biden was a great vice president. He can help the economy and the pandemic. But what about the BLM violence? What about the riots? That’s what people really want to hear about. Oh, yeah, she couldn’t bother to talk about that.

Michelle Obama’s speech wasn’t needed. It was 18 minutes of fluff that echoed what everyone else said. The only thing we really learned from Obama is that she was clearly too busy for the DNC this year and doesn’t really care about it or the appointment of Kamala Harris to the ticket.

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