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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Aw, crap. That's what I get for timeshifting news programs; I watched Maddow this morning and got "tomorrow" mixed up. Fixed.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"The Register notes that the party's refusal to provide additional accountability "confirm[s] the suspicions, wild as they may be, of Sanders supporters."
"Their candidate, after all, is opposed by the party establishment — and wasn’t even a Democrat a few months ago," the board writes.
Des Moines Register calls for audit of Sanders-Clinton result in Iowa
First on CNN: Former NAACP head to endorse Bernie Sanders
edited 4th Feb '16 7:40:22 AM by SolipsistOwl
Sigh. Whenever a race is close, people call fraud. It doesn't make it true.
However, there is a story brewing over something the Ted Cruz campaign did in Iowa: apparently, the campaign sent out knowingly false tweets and emails claiming that Ben Carson was quitting the campaign and urging his supporters to caucus for Cruz instead. Trump had a hissy-fit over it, and Carson issued a rebuttal in his usual sleepy-eyed tone.
edited 4th Feb '16 8:54:42 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Rick Santorum endorses Marco Rubio.
And he somehow manages to screw that up.
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.Martin Shkreli, the drug price-hiking asshole with the punchable face
, is using his punchable face to smirk and laugh rather than answer questions to Congress. Then he goes on Twitter and mocks them. If we needed a villain to point to as an example of how fucked up business can be and how little business interests care about humans, this boy is fitting that role nicely.
“You know I did make a mistake [in voting for the war in Iraq], and I admitted that I made a mistake. And in large measure that mistake really arose from the Bush administration’s approach to what they thought they could accomplish in Iraq.” - Hillary Clinton yesterday
Aside from the lame "It's not my fault" attitude, one has to wonder, what did she think the war was going to accomplish? What did Hillary Clinton then feel would warrant invading another country, and what would she think would justify it today?
Oh for reporters willing to ask the right follow-up questions...
With the fraud, is there anything to call it other than fraud? Namely if it was a legitimately honest mistake?
That said, the entire idea of the Caucus for primaries is kind of inherently fucked up, as it's literally doing a head-count of everyone in the State that wants to vote in a particular way, which is wide open for honest error. Hell, a school trip consisting of ~50 kids, and I wound up getting left behind in an Albany, NY bus station because the person doing that headcount miscounted.
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Well, the reasons given for the original vote in the first place were later found to be utterly false, which made what happened in Syria a cry wolf scenario in which the evidence was quite clear and we said no anyway.
She's at fault for not just sticking to the apology and using it to take a shot at Bush (much as Republicans are when they do the same to Obama), but I don't see how her apology isn't straight forward enough to require any magical follow up question.
edited 4th Feb '16 12:25:12 PM by FFShinra

Mark your calendars. The next Democratic Presidential debate will be on MNSBC tonight (Thursday, Feb. 4) at 9 PM EST.
Edit: Corrected the date. Sorry!
edited 4th Feb '16 7:26:41 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"