We recently had the parade for the championship Cavaliers that drew an estimated 1 million participants. The parade was late in starting and took longer than planned. People were out in the sun (upper 70ās/low 80ās) for hours. And there was only 1 incident as people were starting to go home when some guy shot at his girlfriend. Otherwise it was entirely peaceful.
It is a troubled place but there are hopefully enough people who care to deal with it.
Just read Joshās blog on Michael Folk. THAT guy needs a visit from the Secret Service if not an arrest for issuing threats on Candidate Clinton.
Iām not worried about the residents of Cleveland. Quite the contrary! Iām worried for the residents. Anybody with the means to do so should take a weekās vacation and go hang out at their brother-in-lawās in Cincy!
ā¦jobs, jobs, jobsā¦
John Boehner, 2012
And still we wait for the Republican Congress to come back from vacation.
I was somewhat upset that that wasnāt the lead story with the ability to comment.
A RWNJ pol promotes the murder of a soon-to-be nominated candidate for POTUS-- for use of an email server-- and it will not even get MSM exposure.
Thatās pretty effed up.
EDIT:
I did find this piece to be a bit comforting.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/16/politics/hillary-clinton-republican-delegate-hung/
This jackass-- WV State Rep Michael Folk-- is also a commercial pilot-- for United Airlines.
And United is investigating. If he doesnāt lose his job over this-- Iām not sure there is any reason to book United ever again.
āFly the Nutjob Skies-- of Unitedā?
Isnāt really all that inviting.
jw1
Just because others are trying to normalize the cray-cray doesnāt mean Josh has to.
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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereās Trump!
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I am cautiously optimistic about the conventionās effect on Cleveland.
The national attention will draw awareness to the Nationās industrial decline and perhaps draw action from the new Congress in 2017.
Cleveland might do well using the Pittsburgh model. The Burgh is doing well for an ex-heavy industry town. Tech/universities/health innovation/keeping the young brains around is the top layer of a plan to rebuild.
By the wayā¦ GO PENS!
I KNOW!
He wants her āexecutedā for email server?? Which wasnāt against the rules at the time and certainly not a crime!
Fucāing repukes are repugnant!
Not only those reasons but that the State Dept email server array had been compromised. It was publicly acknowledged that State had been hacked.
The WV Gazette piece to which Josh links also has a reasonably comforting comments section, based on the first couple of screens I scrolled through.
Me too!
And why canāt we comment on the editors articles? Seems hypocritical to me.
Since theyāve withdrawn their plea for $6 mil from Sheldon Adelson, I wonder if the RNC will pass the plate at the convention and ask for ālove offeringsā? Well, it works really well when the Fundies and Tealibangelical preachers fleece their flocks and they are the ābaseā (and it looks like they wrote the party platform) of the GOP.
True!
But Hillaryās wasnāt (even though the repukes want us to think otherwise). Powell used gmail for crying out loud. Please tell me why thatās okay with the repukes? Oh, silly meā¦heās a gop.
Hey, get it from trumpet. I hear heās a billionaireā¦
Well, at least Jeebusā is keeping an eye on emā!
Though this is just the WV Charleston Gazette.
If a threat falls in the Charleston woods-- does the nation hear it?
Thatās where my EDIT/link gave some comfort-- that it was disseminated on an MSM outlet-- albeit CNN.
But back to the fact that this is on the Editorās Blog is annoying.
Iām familiar with Joshās perspective on it being his one-way outlet for opinion-- to not tie him up with public responses, nor lose his email trove of private opinions.
But, like, he couldnāt be bothered to connect with one of the staff writers yesterday evening-- to post the story under a commentable byline?
Thatās lazy.
A disservice to readers. And loss of click revenue for TPM.
A lose-lose.
jw1
I canāt believe the Republicans went with that weird āElephant Readies to Hump Half a Guitarā (homage to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?) logo for the convention. Hereās the coolā and true logoā¦and they missed it!
http://wallaroundtrump.com/wep/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/rnc-gun-logo-lg-2.gif
Most unintentional funny line offered so far: Wolf Blitzer: āAmong the big names at the convention are Antonio Sabato, Jrā¦ā
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