I’m running late again. I felt tired and cold, so I lay down for a while, but could not sleep. I cleaned my refrigerator and freezer in preparation for grocery delivery today. My Outlook repeatedly choked on an email, so I had to access thee account online and delete it. Today is Saguaro in the Fecal Dump Trump Rump Day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today;s took me 2:31 (average 4:33). To do it click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Real Clear Politics: The latest delegate count.
|
State |
Date |
Delegates |
Clinton |
Sanders |
Delegate Allocation |
Open/ Closed |
|
(2,382 Needed to Win) |
– |
4763 |
1681 |
937 |
– |
– |
|
Delegates Won |
– |
4051 |
1170 |
880 |
|
|
|
Superdelegates |
– |
(712) |
467 |
26 |
|
|
|
Iowa |
February 1 |
44 (8) |
23 |
21 |
Caucus |
Semi-open |
|
New Hampshire |
February 9 |
24 (8) |
9 |
15 |
Primary |
Semi-closed |
|
Nevada |
February 20 |
35 (8) |
19 |
15 |
Caucus |
Closed |
|
South Carolina |
February 27 |
53 (6) |
39 |
14 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Alabama |
March 1 |
53 (7) |
44 |
9 |
Primary |
Open |
|
American Samoa |
March 1 |
6 (4) |
|
|
Caucus |
Closed |
|
Arkansas |
March 1 |
32 (5) |
22 |
10 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Colorado |
March 1 |
66 (13) |
28 |
38 |
Caucus |
Closed |
|
Democrats Abroad |
March 1-8 |
13 (4) |
|
|
Primary |
Closed |
|
Georgia |
March 1 |
102 (14) |
72 |
28 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Massachusetts |
March 1 |
91 (25) |
46 |
45 |
Primary |
Semi-closed |
|
Minnesota |
March 1 |
77 (16) |
29 |
46 |
Caucus |
Open |
|
Oklahoma |
March 1 |
38 (4) |
17 |
21 |
Primary |
Semi-closed |
|
Tennessee |
March 1 |
67 (9) |
42 |
22 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Texas |
March 1 |
222 (30) |
145 |
74 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Vermont |
March 1 |
16 (10) |
0 |
16 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Virginia |
March 1 |
95 (15) |
61 |
33 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Louisiana |
March 5 |
51 (8) |
35 |
12 |
Primary |
Closed |
|
Nebraska |
March 5 |
25 (5) |
10 |
14 |
Caucus |
Closed |
|
Kansas |
March 5 |
33 (4) |
10 |
23 |
Caucus |
Closed |
|
Maine |
March 6 |
25 (5) |
7 |
15 |
Caucus |
Closed |
|
Mississippi |
March 8 |
36 (5) |
30 |
4 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Michigan |
March 8 |
130 (17) |
60 |
67 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Northern Marianas |
March 12 |
6 (5) |
|
|
N/A |
N/A |
|
Florida |
March 15 |
214 (32) |
133 |
65 |
Primary |
Closed |
|
Illinois |
March 15 |
156 (26) |
68 |
67 |
Primary |
Open |
|
Missouri |
March 15 |
71 (13) |
32 |
32 |
Primary |
Open |
|
North Carolina |
March 15 |
107 (14) |
59 |
45 |
Primary |
Semi-closed |
|
Ohio |
March 15 |
143 (16) |
79 |
62 |
Primary |
Semi-open |
|
Arizona |
March 22 |
75 (10) |
41 |
26 |
Primary |
Closed |
|
Idaho |
March 22 |
23 (4) |
5 |
17 |
Caucus |
Open |
|
Utah |
March 22 |
33 (4) |
5 |
24 |
Caucus |
Semi-open |
Last night, Bernie’s big wins and closer loss cut into Hillary’s lead by 16 delegates. To have over half the pledged delegates, Bernie needs 1,146 more, and Hillary, 856 more.
From Daily Kos: Here’s a great story, one of hundreds and hundreds, that boils down the Republican efforts to govern the states over the last few years to its essence. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley recently signed a bill barring the cities in his state from raising their minimum wage. They’re not allowed to do it now, don’t care the reason, because Robert Bentley doesn’t believe in that sort of thing. Bentley led the state in a spending purge that, like the similar efforts in other states with Republican governors, slashed uncouth things the common rabble might use under the omnipresent GOP motto: We Just Can’t Afford Nice Things Anymore.
You know what’s next for the people in Robert Bentley’s office, right? Raises all around!
Now, news has emerged that Bentley recently gave four of his cabinet members $73,405 raises — an 80 percent increase from the $91,000 salaries they were making previously. […]
The raises reportedly went into effect late last year, though news of them just broke this week. While the $73,405 salary increases were the largest, more than a dozen members of Bentley’s cabinet and a number of his staff members reportedly received raises as well.
An eighty percent raise for the people helping him gut state services? Ka-ching. If that isn’t 2016-era Republicanism in a nutshell I don’t know what would be.
What greedy hypocrites!! From Republican perspective, his staffers deserved a big raise for hurting the poor and middle classes. That’s the Republican way.
From PoliticusUSA: It is fairly well-acknowledged among great leaders that delegating authority is necessary if for no other reason than no leader is an expert in every field. It is also well-known now that Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination is a self-labeled expert in every field and has no need to ever delegate authority. In fact, Donald Trump has made it crystal clear that his most accomplished advisor and trusted counselor is himself. However, there is one area where the Donald says he will delegate authority as president and like everything else the wrestling and reality show celebrity promises to do, it is catastrophically insane and dangerous to the American people and the U.S. Constitution.
With all the absurd furor over the idea that a sitting President with 9 months left in his term is forbidden to nominate a judge to sit on the Supreme Court, it was little surprise that Donald Trump finally weighed in with an even more bizarre plan than just prohibiting President Obama from doing his job. However, unlike everything else Trump proposes, as president he will not be involved in deciding who to nominate as a Supreme Court justice.
Instead of doing what the Constitution mandates, Donald Trump will outsource the job of nominating a lifetime jurist on the nation’s highest court to the ultra-conservative belief tank, the Heritage Foundation. In essence, Trump will authorize teabagger Jim DeMint to consult with the Koch brothers to determine what kind of religious and corporate extremist gets to sit on the High Court. DeMint is legendary as a religious right, anti-government extremist which is why he was the perfect choice to head up the Heritage Foundation and a devotee of the Koch brothers.
I have consistently opined that TRUSed Uranus Cruz is more dangerous for America than Fecal Dump Trump. I take it back. Now it’s a toss-up.
Cartoon:
I don't agree with conservatives on many things, but one area we can all agree: John Kasich really is an asshole.
Fox News’ “The Five” celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by attacking as many other ethnic groups as they could. Greg Gutfeld lamented the fact that you can’t make fun of Mexicans, for instance. “If you throw a Mexican party, like a fiesta and wear a sombrero, you’re in big trouble — a Cinco de Mayo party, for example,” he said. “But you can do whatever you want and actually use stereotypes that are kind of damaging [to Irish people].”