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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2016 / Tuesday Morning Open Thread: “Mega-Tuesday”

Tuesday Morning Open Thread: “Mega-Tuesday”

by Anne Laurie|  March 15, 20165:32 am| 133 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads

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Question No One is Asking: Is President Obama, who is registered to vote in Illinois, voting in tomorrow's primary?

— Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) March 14, 2016

Another big day for politics nerds. And that always brings out the Both Sides! Media Village Idiots, such as Ron Fournier:

pls find my comments attached, @ron_fournier https://t.co/C4DTQs03Oo pic.twitter.com/KKknGGsp3F

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 14, 2016

On the plus side for the national media, the Washington Post investigates, and reports that Pete Rose has not endorsed Donald Trump. You Ohioan voters may want to explain this to your more credulous friends. Or just tell them the primary has been moved to next week — if they’ll fall for Trump, they’ll probably believe you.

I hate to disappoint people, but Pete Rose will put anything on a ball for $75 pic.twitter.com/5hLZHtfE0l

— John Fischesser (@JohnFischesser) March 14, 2016

Apart from mocking / bemoaning the intelligence of our fellow Americans, what’s on the agenda for the day?

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 5:43 am

    Southpaw’s edit adds specificity, but is not inconsistent with Fournier’s original statement.

  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 5:58 am

    what’s on the agenda for the day?

    Voting. And continuing to dodge escaped prisoners running around in my hills and hollers.

    He wrecked his truck 4-5 miles from my place.

    A search of the area began with multiple law enforcement agencies. Weather conditions and the remote area have hampered the search. The search continued Monday morning. A helicopter search was being conducted as well as a search involving dogs.

    They threw the kitchen sink into the search too. US Marshalls have taken it over and I hope that will make a difference, tho from what I saw on my brief jaunt into town yesterday, I’m not too sure. Been living here for 6 years now and this is the first time I’ve seen a cop on Hwy A and they are running around like chickens with their heads chopped off, cars heading east at full speed and lights on, cars heading west at full speed and lights on, helicopters, fugitive search teams in full military gear, etc etc etc. They appear to be concentrating just to my east and north on the Little Indian Creek Conservation area.

    We haven’t had this much excitement since the Grandma’s meth lab blew up and the hogs ate her.

  3. 3.

    Mustang Bobby

    March 15, 2016 at 6:01 am

    Voting this afternoon on the way home.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 6:01 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Those prisoners really wanted to vote for Trump.

  5. 5.

    raven

    March 15, 2016 at 6:12 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Reminds me of 10 years ago when Brian Nichols escaped killed a judge and a bunch of other people in Atlanta. I was coming back from Auburn where Raven was getting cancer treatment and I stopped for gas. There were cops with loaded 16’s all over the damn place and it lasted a couple of days.

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 6:13 am

    @Baud: Just a few more hours and Mills might get his chance.

  7. 7.

    amk

    March 15, 2016 at 6:13 am

    ron fournier – poor in logic, poor in spelling, poor in language.

    AP should be ashamed for employing this grifter for years.

  8. 8.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 6:29 am

    @raven: Until yesterday the closest to our place I’ve seen a cop come was Sullivan, 11 miles away. I’m surprised Washington Co sheriffs deputies can even find Hwy A. It really is rather comedic.

  9. 9.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 15, 2016 at 6:34 am

    I’m sure that “History’s Greatest Monster”™ probably voted absentee.

  10. 10.

    PurpleGirl

    March 15, 2016 at 6:36 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I hope the search ends soon and successfully. Stay safe.

  11. 11.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 6:38 am

    It’s about to get real:

    A group of Donald Trump supporters over the weekend called for volunteers to join a would-be militia aiming to protect voters against so-called “violent far-left agitators.”

    …….

    Hours after a protester rushed the stage at Trump’s Dayton rally, a Twitter group called “The Lion’s Guard” called on supporters of the GOP front-runner to join a make-shift militia, according to RT.

    Reports have it they intend to wear brown uniforms and red armbands with a stylized “T” in a white circle.

  12. 12.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 15, 2016 at 6:38 am

    I went up the Observatory to take some pics(I think it was Asian night up there), I’m putting together a panorama of LA at night. The western section file size is over 2gb!

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    Patricia Kayden

    March 15, 2016 at 6:40 am

    Fournier is right about one thing, we Democrats are pointing and laughing at the predicament Republicans have found themselves in with Trump. Karma is a you know what.

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    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 6:40 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    (I think it was Asian night up there),

    Trump will put an end to that.

  15. 15.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 6:49 am

    @PurpleGirl: I don’t expect it to last long and I’m really not very worried. This guy needs to find a vehicle to steal and make like a hockey player, getting the puck out of here.

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    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 15, 2016 at 6:51 am

    @Baud: I’m beginning to not like that Trump character.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 6:51 am

    @Patricia Kayden:

    I like you.

    Today is Rubio’s final stand. Hope his career is destroyed forever.

  18. 18.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 6:52 am

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Karma is a you know what.

    A beach?

  19. 19.

    PsiFighter37

    March 15, 2016 at 6:54 am

    @Baud: Lil’ Marco is going to announce he is suspending his speech tonight. There’s no way he wins Florida.

    If Trump manages to beat Kasich in Ohio (which I don’t think will happen), I will need a yuge bag of popcorn. YUGE, I tell you!

  20. 20.

    Amir Khalid

    March 15, 2016 at 6:55 am

    I didn’t realise we Malaysians were this nice. But if you guys feel the need to escape from the Trump Administration, there are worse places you could go to.

  21. 21.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 6:57 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    Dude, I hope you have at least a two-bedroom. It’s going to get crowded.

  22. 22.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 7:00 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Or his supporters. Or the people who make excuses for his supporters.

  23. 23.

    Kay

    March 15, 2016 at 7:03 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    A group of Donald Trump supporters over the weekend called for volunteers to join a would-be militia aiming to protect voters against so-called “violent far-left agitators.”

    I feel like that is inevitable, that they move into the paranoid True The Vote territory as it gets higher stakes. He’s telling them over and over no one in government can be trusted and that he is “way ahead” in “all the polls”. If he loses one they think he should win (or the general election) the “voter fraud” stuff will be worse than we’ve ever seen. They’re absolutely primed for it and we’ve already seen Trump has no limits. He’ll tell them it was stolen.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 7:06 am

    @Kay: Is Kasich going to pull it out in Ohio?

  25. 25.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 7:06 am

    @Baud:

    Illinois graveyard torn up after Donald Trump supporters turn it into rally parking lot

    Obama made them do it.

  26. 26.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 7:07 am

    @Kay: Truth.

  27. 27.

    Kay

    March 15, 2016 at 7:08 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Imagine how insane the “illegal aliens voter fraud” will get with a Trump candidacy? They’re going to need federal monitors in the western states. Take a look at those rallies and then put those same people outside (or inside) a polling place looking for “voter fraud” committed by brown people. It’ll be a whole new level, even from what we saw in 2008 and 2012.

  28. 28.

    debbie

    March 15, 2016 at 7:14 am

    @Baud:

    They’re all hoping for a landslide, so I think that a near win or a very close second would be a failure.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 7:15 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Maybe the dead should be able to vote.

    @debbie: That’s a poor job in setting expectations.

  30. 30.

    Chyron HR

    March 15, 2016 at 7:17 am

    @Baud:

    Is Kasich going to pull it out in Ohio?

    If he says it’s bigger than Trump’s, I’m willing to take his word for it.

  31. 31.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 7:19 am

    @Kay: I always take my wife (who is from Spain) to vote so I can be sure there won’t be any trouble, highly unlikely at our tiny out in the hills precinct, but with all the “illegal aliens” bs in combination with the “voter fraud” bs, I feel my paranoia is not without reason.

  32. 32.

    Kay

    March 15, 2016 at 7:20 am

    @Baud:

    I don’t know. I know it’s a stereotype by now but the blue collar Republicans here (the ones I talk to) are all Trumpsters. It’s a definite split. The Kasich people are educated and white collar. It’s about 20-25% college educated here so Trump should have way more voters, but his voters are less reliable. You can see the effect of income/education on voting really obviously here because it’s small. The west side precincts (where I live) have much better turnout than the (lower income) east side precincts. My precinct is sometimes 80%.

  33. 33.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 15, 2016 at 7:22 am

    @Baud:

    Maybe the dead should be able to vote.

    Being that the Illinois primary is today, that’s quite likely.

  34. 34.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 15, 2016 at 7:24 am

    LA Panorama.

  35. 35.

    Iowa Old Lady

    March 15, 2016 at 7:25 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Very cool

  36. 36.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 7:25 am

    @Kay: Wow. 80% is really high for a primary.

  37. 37.

    debbie

    March 15, 2016 at 7:28 am

    @Kay:

    Trump should have way more voters, but his voters are less reliable

    Trump threw them a bit of raw meat yesterday when he said he wanted to win decisively so he could start attacking Hillary rather then his fellow candidates. What dog wouldn’t respond to that?

  38. 38.

    PurpleGirl

    March 15, 2016 at 7:28 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: It rhythms with rich.

  39. 39.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 7:31 am

    @debbie: Hillary tried that in Michigan. Didn’t work out for her.

  40. 40.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2016 at 7:33 am

    @Kay

    Any predictions from the head of Diebold?

  41. 41.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 15, 2016 at 7:34 am

    @Iowa Old Lady: Thanks.

  42. 42.

    Betty Cracker

    March 15, 2016 at 7:36 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Nicely done!

  43. 43.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 7:37 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Cool.

  44. 44.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    March 15, 2016 at 7:38 am

    @Baud:
    I wish he would win Florida, He won’t because he is so pathetic but I sure wish he would take those delegates to keep them from Drumpf. I have been hoping for a brokered convention from the very beginning. I didn’t think Cheeto the Clown would lead the pack but I knew there are deep divisions that the party has papered over for 30 years as the divisions got wider and wider. I want bloody fights with wounds that last a generation in Cleveland this summer. Like everyone else I have been surprised by Drumpf’s strength; he needs to be derailed, not completely, just enough to prevent him from taking it on the first vote.

  45. 45.

    Ben Cisco

    March 15, 2016 at 7:39 am

    Went to my polling place before work. Gotta hand it to the Lutherans, they run a tight ship. NO electioneering, NO GOPers hovering over everything, in and out in ten. Awesome.

  46. 46.

    Kay

    March 15, 2016 at 7:39 am

    @NotMax:

    I don’t go along with the Diebold theories. I think Republicans screw with elections by creating chaos with constant rule changes and making it harder to vote. I wish it were a conspiracy, because that could be uncovered in some dramatic expose with perp walks and a finale. Instead it’s boring and legalistic and exhausting. They just grind people down. They suppress, voting rights people defend, over and over and over.

  47. 47.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    March 15, 2016 at 7:40 am

    @Amir Khalid:
    I love the food and imagine the weather to be not unlike Florida so that is appealing. OTOH, Florida without an ice cold beer after cutting the grass? That might be a big adjustment ;)

  48. 48.

    Mustang Bobby

    March 15, 2016 at 7:46 am

    @Amir Khalid: It’s “Les Miserables” in reverse.

    I could live there. I already know how to drive on the left.

  49. 49.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 15, 2016 at 7:47 am

    @Betty Cracker:
    @Baud: Thanks, that view goes from Mt. Wilson in the northeast to almost Mt. Lee(home of the Hollywood sign) to the northwest of the observatory. If you didn’t see the results of my modified camera I put up yesterday evening: last 4 pics are taken with the full spectrum camera.

  50. 50.

    Amir Khalid

    March 15, 2016 at 7:48 am

    @Schlemazel (parmesan rancor):
    The weather is indeed pretty much like Florida, or so Americans have told me. It’s only Muslims who get arrested if they buy/imbibe in public. If you’re not Muslim, you can drink all the beer you want. So no problem for you.

  51. 51.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 7:49 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I used to be into photography, so I’m jealous of what you’re doing with it.

  52. 52.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 15, 2016 at 7:52 am

    @Baud: I was into photography when I was a teen(hiking too) and had a darkroom and the whole setup. I stopped doing it in college, just some pics with mostly shitty cameras?.

  53. 53.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    March 15, 2016 at 7:53 am

    “F-” is a hit or miss comic but todays comic is relevant & made me laugh

    “Brewster Rocket” has a nice take on the election today – great choice of verb in the punchline.

    Now it is off to the shi^h^halt mines with me

  54. 54.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 7:56 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I stopped in college. I tried to get back into it a few years ago, but it didn’t stick.

  55. 55.

    Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)

    March 15, 2016 at 7:57 am

    @Amir Khalid:
    In my finely tuned American ignorance I thought I had learned that alcohol was banned entirely. I lived in Florida and am not a fan of the weather but since the early 60’s I have had opportunities to enjoy food from there & have to say it compensates for a lot. Thanks for clearing that up.

  56. 56.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 15, 2016 at 7:57 am

    @Baud: It’s alot less messy now, no smelly chemicals.

  57. 57.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2016 at 7:58 am

    In other news –

    Fitbits for penguins. who knew?

    A team from Monash University and Phillip Island Nature Park are attaching sensors on the little seabirds to shed light on what happens at sea, using some fairly common technology.

    “We put a GPS — the same as you have in your car — and we use this Fitbit chip to measure how much energy they’re using or how hard the penguins are working when they go at sea,” Phillip Island Nature Park penguin biologist Andre Chiaradia explains. Source

    @Kay

    Thine snark meter is in need of adjustment.

    @Amir Khalid

    Any comment on the foreign reporters arrested Saturday and subsequently escorted out of the country for deigning to ask a question of the Prime Minister?

  58. 58.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 7:59 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I like that aspect of it, but there’s also a whole new learning curve. That’s probably why it didn’t stick for me.

  59. 59.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 15, 2016 at 8:02 am

    @Schlemazel (parmesan rancor): I dated a Malay when I was in grad school, she taught me to cook a few things. I cook some of what I remember on occasion.

  60. 60.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    March 15, 2016 at 8:03 am

    @Baud: One of the reasons I’m using Photoshop(I used Paintshop Pro for years) is that there’s lots of help online for it.

  61. 61.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 15, 2016 at 8:04 am

    @NotMax: I visited the Phillip Island preserve for the nightly running of the penguins — it was pretty interesting. They’re little tiny penguins, though, not the Antarctic kind.

  62. 62.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 8:05 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I bought that a few years ago. You really need the online help. It’s not intuitive.

  63. 63.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 15, 2016 at 8:07 am

    @Amir Khalid: If you’re having a beer in public, how do they know you’re a Muslim in order to arrest you?

  64. 64.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2016 at 8:16 am

    @Baud

    Photoshop is packed with all the bells and whistles and frills.

    For bare bones graphic/photo editing and manipulation, I remain quite partial to the (still free) program Irfanview.

  65. 65.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 8:19 am

    @NotMax: Thanks.

  66. 66.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    March 15, 2016 at 8:20 am

    The Democrat Machine points us to an interesting Trump Tweet:

    Kasich voted for NAFTA, a disaster for Ohio, and now wants the even worse TPP approved. Vote Trump and end this madness!

    If Kasich loses Ohio, it will be delicious. Especially if it can be shown that NAFTA was a big part of the cause. It would be even better if Hillary won it at the same time.

    “The narrative! The narrative must be respected!!1”

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  67. 67.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2016 at 8:24 am

    @Baud

    It’s a powerful little bugger. Been pleased with it for well over a decade.

    Should you chose to download it, don’t neglect to also download the free filters offered.

  68. 68.

    Patricia Kayden

    March 15, 2016 at 8:25 am

    @Amir Khalid: Thanks but I’ll mosey on back up to Canada if the American people lose their collective mind and elect Trump. Then I’ll advocate for Prime Minister Trudeau to build a sturdy wall to keep out the you know who.

  69. 69.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 8:26 am

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: That would be funny.

    @NotMax: Thanks. I’ll try to remember if I decide to take up the hobby again.

    @Patricia Kayden: I like you.

  70. 70.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    March 15, 2016 at 8:28 am

    A funny for the morning. Bernie brings it to Donnie in Dayton OH.

    (via DemocratMachine on Twitter)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  71. 71.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 8:31 am

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Heh.

  72. 72.

    Southern Beale

    March 15, 2016 at 8:32 am

    Tennessee Republican thinks Kent State was a “mass shooting,” wants students and teachers armed so they can shoot back. Ignorant twit.

  73. 73.

    nutella

    March 15, 2016 at 8:41 am

    Voted in Chicago first thing.

    The way it goes here is that you ask (and you have to ask out loud, not just on the printed form) for the Democratic or the Republican ballot. Woman behind me asked for the Non-Partisan* ballot, causing much confusion for the poll workers. While they were looking up the rules, she said crankily that she’d take the Republican ballot then. Do you suppose she was expecting to be able to vote for a Republican for prez and Democrats for everything else?

    (Many races in Chicago have no R candidates so the interesting battles happen in the D primary.)

    ——
    *IF there are referendum questions there COULD be a non-partisan ballot with those questions only and no candidates, but this year there are no referendum questions so no non-partisan ballot.

  74. 74.

    normal liberal

    March 15, 2016 at 8:42 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    This is about 7 miles from my house.
    Trump apologists have assured the community that the damage was done by Chicagoans who came to the rally here on Sunday, still angry from their disappointment on Saturday night. Around here, everyone from the big city is “those people.”
    Good luck avoiding your neighborhood fugitive.

  75. 75.

    nutella

    March 15, 2016 at 8:45 am

    @Southern Beale:

    Tennessee Republican thinks Kent State was a “mass shooting,” wants students and teachers armed so they can shoot back. Ignorant twit.

    So she doesn’t support our troops? She wants students to participate in gun battles with the national guard? OK, then.

    Anything to maximize gun sales, I guess.

  76. 76.

    japa21

    March 15, 2016 at 8:46 am

    Done did my civic duty early this morning in the NW Chicago suburbs. Seemed busier than usual, but that early it is hard to say.

    I am trying to decide whether or not I just go to bed as soon as I get home from work and put the pillow over my head or stay up to see the results. I think that would be the wise thing to do, but I am too much of a political junkie, so I will probably be the masochist and follow the results.

  77. 77.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 8:47 am

    @nutella: Maybe simply an independent voting for Trump, who didn’t want to say she wanted D or R.

  78. 78.

    Emily

    March 15, 2016 at 8:47 am

    Thanks for the interesting post!

  79. 79.

    Southern Beale

    March 15, 2016 at 8:48 am

    @nutella: Imagine if the Kent State students had shot back. Now THAT would have changed history.

    Rogers now says she “misspoke.” She just couldn’t think of another mass shooting at a college campus. Idiot. You know how gun-humpers are always telling us gun control folks that if we don’t know know about guns and how they work, we shouldn’t be trying to regulate them? Right back atcha. If you don’t know anything about mass shootings you should just shut the fuck up and sit down.

  80. 80.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 8:49 am

    @normal liberal:

    Around here, everyone from the big city is “those people.”

    We call them “Cidiots” (city + idiot), a term I picked up from an Arkie buddy, for the way they drive on our crooked and steep roads and some of the truly stupid things they do on the rivers (both of which all too often end in death) but when it comes to the truly horrific deeds, those are purely “home grown”.

  81. 81.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2016 at 8:51 am

    Good Morning, Everyone:)

  82. 82.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 8:52 am

    @rikyrah: Good morning.

  83. 83.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 8:55 am

    @Southern Beale:

    You know how gun-humpers are always telling us gun control folks that if we don’t know know about guns and how they work, we shouldn’t be trying to regulate them?

    We aren’t trying to regulate guns, we’re trying to regulate the people who buy them, and we know all about them.

  84. 84.

    Baud

    March 15, 2016 at 8:56 am

    I can’t believe it’s only Tuesday.

  85. 85.

    nutella

    March 15, 2016 at 8:59 am

    @Baud:

    Maybe simply an independent voting for Trump, who didn’t want to say she wanted D or R.

    Could be. If so, she’s the epitome of ‘low-information voter’, unaware that Trump is running for the R nomination and not for the presidency.

  86. 86.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2016 at 9:00 am

    @Baud

    Happy Ides of March.

  87. 87.

    raven

    March 15, 2016 at 9:01 am

    The Obama administration is expected to withdraw its plan to permit oil and gas drilling off the southeast Atlantic coast, yielding to an outpouring of opposition from coastal communities from Virginia to Georgia but dashing the hopes and expectations of many of those states’ top leaders.

  88. 88.

    Punchy

    March 15, 2016 at 9:04 am

    @Southern Beale: U of Kansas gets guns next year, and U of Mizzou will almost certainly get them, too, soon. I wonder if students who carry (it’s concealed, but I’m sure those with the guns will find a way to show them off) will be shamed into changing their mind. Nobody sits near them in the dorm and Union cafeterias. Nobody sits within 10 seats of them at class (who the fuck would risk getting accidentally shot?)….

  89. 89.

    Elizabelle

    March 15, 2016 at 9:04 am

    @NotMax: Twas just arriving to mention that.

    “Mega-Tuesday”* arrives on the Ides of March.

    RIP Julius Caesar, 44 BC.

    * Mega-Tuesday sounds like something from Marlo Furniture or Al’s Electronics Emporium.

  90. 90.

    rikyrah

    March 15, 2016 at 9:06 am

    @Kay:

    tell the truth, Kay.

  91. 91.

    NotMax

    March 15, 2016 at 9:07 am

    @Elizabelle</a.

    Twas just arriving to mention that.

    Or, as it were, to take a stab at it.

    :)

  92. 92.

    Poopyman

    March 15, 2016 at 9:10 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    @Baud: It’s alot less messy now, no smelly chemicals.

    That was part of the appeal to us teenage guys.

    Like Baud, I’m making a sorta half-hearted attempt to re-enter the hobby, but my time is sucked up elsewhere.

  93. 93.

    bystander

    March 15, 2016 at 9:11 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    A beach?

    A hillary?

  94. 94.

    japa21

    March 15, 2016 at 9:13 am

    Come November, I don’t expect to see a bunch of thick-necked and equally thick-headed Trump supporters trying to intimidate voters at my polling place. We vote in a police station.

  95. 95.

    Hal

    March 15, 2016 at 9:15 am

    How is it that Kasich winning Ohio justifies him staying in this race but Rubio losing Florida means he has to drop out? Neither is going to win the nomination, but Kasich has no way of catching up to Trump or Cruz. Unless Kasich thinks a divided convention is his ticket to the white house.

  96. 96.

    Kathleen

    March 15, 2016 at 9:19 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: My. brother from Dallas who is a Signgeek has three phtos which will be displayed at the Neon Museum in Glendale beginning April 1st. I’m so proud of him.

  97. 97.

    bemused

    March 15, 2016 at 9:19 am

    @Southern Beale:

    That’s insane.

  98. 98.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 9:22 am

    @bystander: DOH! But of course!

  99. 99.

    Kathleen

    March 15, 2016 at 9:29 am

    @Punchy: Maybe schools could issue laptop guns. It’s a PC! It’s a gun! It’s. a floor. wax!

  100. 100.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 9:30 am

    Via Kevin Drum:

    In a masterstroke of financial maneuvering, and in a tribute to the sucker-born-every-minute theorem, [Trump] managed to take two of the Trump casinos—the Plaza and the Taj Mahal—public in 1995 and 1996, at a time when Donald was unable to make his bank payments and was heading toward personal bankruptcy. The stock sales allowed Donald to buy the casinos back from the banks and unload huge amounts of debt. The offering yanked Donald out of the financial graveyard and left him with a 25 percent stake in a company he once owned entirely.

    …In one fell swoop someone else became responsible for the debts that almost sank Donald…Exactly what investors thought they might get for their Trump Hotels investment wasn’t entirely clear. Donald had already demonstrated that casinos weren’t his forte, and investors were buying stock in a company that was immediately larded with debts that made it difficult, if not impossible, to upgrade the operations.

    …Allan Sloan, the financial writer who had opined with great accuracy on many things Trump, offered a fair warning to Trump Hotels’ investors: “Shareholders and bondholders have to be total fools ever to think that Donald Trump will put their interests ahead of his own.”…Donald spent several years proving Sloan correct.

    …Just a few months after Trump Hotels absorbed the Taj, Donald sold his last Atlantic City casino, the Castle, to the public company. That is, Donald sold his own casino, with all of its heavy debts, to a public company he controlled. The $490 million price tag for the Castle was about $100 million more than analysts thought it was worth…sending the company’s stock into a nosedive from which it never recovered.

    …Although Trump Hotels’ shares were sinking and there were no earnings to be seen, Donald paid himself $7 million for his handiwork at the company in 1996…Jerry Useem at Fortune took note in 2000 of Donald’s “disquieting” tendency to “use the casino company as his own personal piggy bank.” In addition to the multimillion-dollar bonuses Donald was lifting out of Trump Hotels, Useem pointed out that “the pilots of his personal 727 are on the casino company’s payroll” and that in 1998 Donald “had the already cash-strapped company lend him $26 million to pay off a personal loan.”

    from Timothy O’Brien’s TrumpNation

  101. 101.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    March 15, 2016 at 9:31 am

    I am absolutely 100 percent behind Florida Gulf Coast men’s basketball team winning today’s primary count in the Sunshine State.

    …what? It’s cool, even though I didn’t graduate from there, I’m cool with it. DUNK CITY FOR THE WIN.

  102. 102.

    Redshift

    March 15, 2016 at 9:31 am

    @Hal:

    Unless Kasich thinks a divided convention is his ticket to the white house.

    That’s what they all think at this point. (Well, Cruz probably still thinks he can beat Trump outright, but he’s deluding himself.) However, I have to give the Kasich campaign credit for the most fun rhetoric of the primary, in response to Rubio’s suggestion that they should encourage each other’s voters to sort the other in OH and FL:

    We were going to win in OH without his help, just as he’s going to lose in FL without ours

  103. 103.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    March 15, 2016 at 9:32 am

    @Southern Beale:

    We’re talking about the Kent State 45 years ago where the National Guard were the ones shooting at protesters, and this guy wants students armed because of that?! /headdesk

  104. 104.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    March 15, 2016 at 9:34 am

    @japa21:

    I think they’ll try to intimidate people at the library precinct instead.

    /waits in glee to see thugs get manhandled by librarians who take civil duties seriously

  105. 105.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    March 15, 2016 at 9:35 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Is there a Karma Beach out there? (checks Google Maps) THERE IS!
    https://www.google.com/maps/place/Karma+Beach/@-8.3516577,116.0620048,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x8fb0e97a1d5be441

  106. 106.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 9:37 am

    FYWP Via Kevin Drum:

    In a masterstroke of financial maneuvering, and in a tribute to the sucker-born-every-minute theorem, [Trump] managed to take two of the Trump ca$inos—the Plaza and the Taj Mahal—public in 1995 and 1996, at a time when Donald was unable to make his bank payments and was heading toward personal bankruptcy. The stock sales allowed Donald to buy the ca$inos back from the banks and unload huge amounts of debt. The offering yanked Donald out of the financial graveyard and left him with a 25 percent stake in a company he once owned entirely.

    …In one fell swoop someone else became responsible for the debts that almost sank Donald…Exactly what investors thought they might get for their Trump Hotels investment wasn’t entirely clear. Donald had already demonstrated that ca$inos weren’t his forte, and investors were buying stock in a company that was immediately larded with debts that made it difficult, if not impossible, to upgrade the operations.

    …Allan Sloan, the financial writer who had opined with great accuracy on many things Trump, offered a fair warning to Trump Hotels’ investors: “Shareholders and bondholders have to be total fools ever to think that Donald Trump will put their interests ahead of his own.”…Donald spent several years proving Sloan correct.

    …Just a few months after Trump Hotels absorbed the Taj, Donald sold his last Atlantic City ca$ino, the Castle, to the public company. That is, Donald sold his own ca$ino, with all of its heavy debts, to a public company he controlled. The $490 million price tag for the Castle was about $100 million more than analysts thought it was worth…sending the company’s stock into a nosedive from which it never recovered.

    …Although Trump Hotels’ shares were sinking and there were no earnings to be seen, Donald paid himself $7 million for his handiwork at the company in 1996…Jerry Useem at Fortune took note in 2000 of Donald’s “disquieting” tendency to “use the ca$ino company as his own personal piggy bank.” In addition to the multimillion-dollar bonuses Donald was lifting out of Trump Hotels, Useem pointed out that “the pilots of his personal 727 are on the ca$ino company’s payroll” and that in 1998 Donald “had the already cash-strapped company lend him $26 million to pay off a personal loan.”

    from Timothy O’Brien’s TrumpNation

  107. 107.

    Ken

    March 15, 2016 at 9:38 am

    @Elizabelle:

    Mega-Tuesday sounds like something from Marlo Furniture or Al’s Electronics Emporium.

    Ikea, perhaps. Get storage unit Mega Tüsdai to hold your collection of Svårndorf drink glasses and Darvleck napkin rings.

  108. 108.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    March 15, 2016 at 9:39 am

    Everybody, Karma is a BEACH but it’s in Bali. So if anyone’s able to splurge for it, we can host a Balloon Juice convention there or something.

  109. 109.

    Eric S.

    March 15, 2016 at 9:40 am

    @Baud:

    Maybe the dead should be able to vote.

    It’s a long standing Chicago tradition.

    I voted this morning. Baud2016! was not on the Illinois ballot. Just a small oversight I’m sure.

  110. 110.

    Ken

    March 15, 2016 at 9:42 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Interesting, but it still doesn’t answer my longstanding question of how anyone could lose money running a ca$ino. They’re one of the few businesses that’s mathematically guaranteed to turn a profit, provided you get bodies through the doors. Sounds like maybe Trump’s expenses exceeded profits?

  111. 111.

    Ken

    March 15, 2016 at 9:44 am

    @Eric S.: My understanding is that Baud! is not bothering with getting on the ballots, and plans to be nominated as the consensus candidate at a brokered convention. You know, the Romney/Ryan strategy. (And possibly the Bush/Rubio/Cruz strategy after today.)

  112. 112.

    JPL

    March 15, 2016 at 9:45 am

    @Southern Beale: Wow! Retired national guard rep. thinks Kent State was a mass shooting.

  113. 113.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 15, 2016 at 9:45 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Terri Gross did a show on Atlantic City– the author of a new book on the history of the resort from the first boardwalk to today, and a political reporter for IIRC the Star Ledger. Trump didn’t come off great, but Chris Christie came off a lot worse. The story of Revel, a Ca$ee-no he supported (forget exactly how the gov’t was involved) that just turned out to be an unfinished mess.

    IIRC, Revel was the big job-creator he went with after he torpedoed the new transit project from north NJ to Manhattan that Obama was supporting, because big government and spending.

  114. 114.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 15, 2016 at 9:48 am

    @Ken:

    it still doesn’t answer my longstanding question of how anyone could lose money running a ca$ino.

    I can answer that question: Have Donald Trump run it.

  115. 115.

    Peale

    March 15, 2016 at 9:50 am

    @Ken: or he looted the loans.

  116. 116.

    Amir Khalid

    March 15, 2016 at 9:56 am

    @NotMax:
    Yeah: Najib is a dick, worse than his former mentor Dr Mahathir. Najib doesn’t seem too aware that this kind of thing gets reported all over the world within the hour.

  117. 117.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 15, 2016 at 9:59 am

    @Ken: Atlantic City is a fucking dump. Put caseenos in it and it is a fucking dump with caseenos.

  118. 118.

    Amir Khalid

    March 15, 2016 at 10:00 am

    @Gin & Tonic:
    A guy had better not be wearing his hijab while sinking his brewski. That’s usually a dead give-away.

  119. 119.

    Amir Khalid

    March 15, 2016 at 10:00 am

    @efgoldman:
    Tsk, tsk. We do have refrigerators here, you know.

  120. 120.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 15, 2016 at 10:00 am

    @efgoldman: In Hanoi I had a beer, from a bottle, served over ice. It wasn’t very good, but I was thirsty.

  121. 121.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 15, 2016 at 10:02 am

    @Amir Khalid: Especially when you pull it away to get the glass to your mouth.

  122. 122.

    Gin & Tonic

    March 15, 2016 at 10:06 am

    @efgoldman: Ouch. But, hey, seen on the back of a t-shirt in PVD a long time ago: “Jerry’s dead. Phish sucks. Get a job.”

  123. 123.

    Paul in KY

    March 15, 2016 at 10:45 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: To do it right, they need proper boots & those pants that flare out. Big belt too.

  124. 124.

    Paul in KY

    March 15, 2016 at 10:46 am

    @Amir Khalid: Hope the man justifies their faith in him.

  125. 125.

    Joel

    March 15, 2016 at 10:47 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: I love Griffith Park. If LA wasn’t so damn expensive, I would consider living there.

  126. 126.

    The Lodger

    March 15, 2016 at 10:59 am

    @PaulWartenberg2016: I said SHHHHHHHH!

  127. 127.

    Paul in KY

    March 15, 2016 at 11:00 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Typical Trump. He will probably say something like ‘See, that’s a financial move I could make back when the Democrats were in power. I didn’t like doing it, but had to for the company’s financial health. When I’m President, I’ll make sure this can’t be done anymore’

  128. 128.

    Paul in KY

    March 15, 2016 at 11:04 am

    @Gin & Tonic: Seen Phish. After about 7 or 8 songs, they all start sounding the same. Not my cup of tea.

  129. 129.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 15, 2016 at 11:23 am

    @efgoldman:

    Gaaaaaaaghrr!

    See ya….

  130. 130.

    Tim C.

    March 15, 2016 at 11:32 am

    @Ben Cisco: LUTEFISK, LUTEFISK, LEFSA LEFSA, WE’RE THE MIGHTY LUTHERANS, YA SURE, YA BETHCA!

  131. 131.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    March 15, 2016 at 12:58 pm

    @The Lodger:

    (goes into the Makerspace portion of the library)

    (turns on the noisy 3-D printer)

    (make a cool Lego toy)

    NEVER!

  132. 132.

    Paul in KY

    March 15, 2016 at 2:22 pm

    I’d like to see Pete sign one that said ‘I’m a cheat & I shamed my father & my family’. If he signed that one, he really will sign anything.

  133. 133.

    Patricia Kayden

    March 15, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    @Baud: I need to be your VP then. (wink wink). I’ll do much better than Mrs. Palin. Let’s make this happen!

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