Pennsylvania

The human being is the only species that is not allowed to migrate naturally. It should be allowed naturally. It will add to the economy of the whole world and a plus-plus benefit for everyone all around, including not only the host nation but the originating nation that will have one less person to feed and support and it will be getting money back from that person as he/she makes it in the new country.
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We’ve known this for a month now. Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is terminal, but so is the Democrat party.
As for her victory speech in Pennsylvania, I expected bland defiance. The Democrat Party is the Donner Party at the rate they’re going at. And they’re headed to Denver. At least the Donners got into the interior of California.
Soon the Democrats are going to have to confront the inconvenient truth that however much Mr. Obama wins everything else in terms of votes, delegates, and states, at this point, Mrs. Clinton stubbornly refuses to lose the states that they need to win to win the election. Ohio, New York, California. What do you do with that when you are the super delegates? It will be the super delegates that will have to decide this. The pledged delegates cannot nominate the candidate thanks to the absolutist tyranny of the Howard Dean DNC.
Senator Barack Obama won the black vote in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Clinton won every other sector of the vote.
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I don’t like Ron Reagan right now. Will someone tell him that the only reason he is on Larry King is because of his name? He even made Lanny Davis look good, which is really hard to do. Mr. Reagan acted like some sort of a pitt bull attacking Mr. Davis when he pointed out that Joe Lieberman is not a lap dog for the Republicans and wasn’t acting in a way that should give him instant membership with them. He supported Democrats 98% of the time in a progressive, liberal way. The Democrats wouldn’t have the Senate if Mr. Lieberman had not stayed loyal.
Mr. Reagan turned on Lanny Davis. He spent most of the show pretending to be an independent and then had to admit that in fact he was not voting for the Republicans under any circumstances and was an Obama supporter. Mr. Davis wondered why Mr. Reagan pretended to be an independent when the decision as to who he would vote for was already made. I think Ronald Reagan would have been embarassed.
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In terms of lawyers, my profession, I should say that I admitted Saturday night publicly that lawyers don’t say thank you
and they don’t say sorry.
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Fox had the perfect formula. When tv wasn’t on strike, you would be harassed and cajoled and bullied by an Englishman pretending to be an American doctor. When it was on strike, Fox would have you harrassed, cajoled and bullied by an Englishman cook lording it over American sous-chefs.
In the meantime, you could have an English music impresario bully not only American constestants and American music judges. Perfect.
I’m beginning to see a pattern. Americans love to get their licks from Englishmen, preferably in some sort of faux guise. English S&M for the Americans. I wonder what the founding fathers would have made of that.
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Thanks to the dock workers of Africa, there is a new event in the torch relay for the China Olympics: the arms, bullets and guns going to Zimbabwe relay. They are showing more and more conscience than any protester in the Olympic torch relay has so far. Certainly they have more than the South African development community has.
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The Patriots are so secretive in how they get ready for a thing like draft weekend and other aspects of their off-season work that they are like that elegant, well-dressed sullen fellow who stands off to the side in a martial arts film while all the other characters are having knock down drag out fights. He waits and waits until everyone else is driven mad with suspense trying to figure out what he’s going to do. They all know that eventually, he’s going to make a kick-butt move like no one else has done.