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skipper wrote a new post, Where Forth Labor Unions? 5 years ago
Nevada is one state where unions still play a significant role in political negotiations. A number of news outlets have published articles in lieu of the Nevada primary. The point was made that Mike Bloomberg has […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Bible (Christian) 5 years ago
The great dilemma for all religions since World War II days is that local society over much of the world became aware of the international world. Adding to the dilemma was the broadening awareness through […]
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skipper wrote a new post, On the Tech Front 5 years ago
֎ It was China who hacked into Equifax’s credit history data recently. China now has the credit history of most Americans. May as well ask China for one’s latest credit score.
֎ The first ‘no-cash’ all elect […]
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skipper wrote a new post, How to manage wampum 5 years ago
A few North American Indian tribes invented a jewelry that could double as money. It was called wampum and was made from small, polished pieces of seashells. It was managed in several ways. It was jewelry as the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Age We Live In 5 years ago
“The truth of the first decades of the 21st century, a truth that helped give us the Trump presidency but will still be an important truth when he is gone, is that we probably aren’t entering a 1930-style cri […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Changing Times 5 years ago
Mariner made the mistake of watching Empire Games on Netflix. It is an excellent documentary series about how power abused the citizenry and how power exchanged hands from one king to another […]
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skipper commented on the post, Whoever wins Wisconsin wins the Presidency 5 years ago
We mustn’t be too hard on Nate. He called the election correctly but no one saw the Electoral College coming – where six EC delegates voted against their state popular vote and three states had enough republican precincts to flip EC representation. Biden still prevails in the flipping states. We must put our faith in the young people to get out…[Read more]
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skipper wrote a new post, Whoever wins Wisconsin wins the Presidency 5 years ago
Well, so much for a racing start out of Iowa. Democratic candidates look more like campers looking for blueberries than running robust campaigns.
In previous posts, mariner proposed Biden based on his […]
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We trusted Nate Silvers 4 years ago. I say, “Phooey on him.” I’m not trusting any polls. Before the Iowa debacle, Biden was given a 25% lead….
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We mustn’t be too hard on Nate. He called the election correctly but no one saw the Electoral College coming – where six EC delegates voted against their state popular vote and three states had enough republican precincts to flip EC representation. Biden still prevails in the flipping states. We must put our faith in the young people to get out the vote for their ideological candidates for the general election.
An interesting observation about Iowa: It suffers the same political bifurcation between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers that the nation suffers between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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skipper wrote a new post, Iowa Caucus 5 years ago
Mariner attended his democrat caucus tonight. After each voter selected their favorite candidate, the votes were counted for each candidate. Of 76 voters in attendance, 29 voters had their choice rejected. Either […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Cash not Accepted 5 years ago
This is an issue that seems troublesome. Frequently, using cash to pay for material goods and services is not allowed in deference to the ease of credit card payment, smartphone gimmickry and more generally by the […]
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I am reminded of two things. One is a twenty year old movie with Michael Douglas which I personally enjoy called,”Falling Down”. Douglas plays a regular American citizen who snaps under society’s thumb. He encounters a character who has been refused banking services and is picketing said bank because he “is not economically viable.”
The other item of interest is a controversy here in Maryland. Our Republican governor, in order to endear himself to the citizenry, has decided we need cashless tolls. This requires anyone who uses a toll thoroughfare to purchase and maintain an electronic EZpass. If you are poor and have no credit card, you are forced to frequent the EZpass office at least once a month if not more to pay your bill forward. The working poor are penalized for being poor.
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skipper wrote a new post, One person one vote – Hah! 5 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 5 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 5 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? 5 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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