@thane15

Excellent questions!   First I don’t get my news from Murdoch.  As for Sunderland they aren’t losing any jobs.

In fact Honda and Nissan are expanding their manufacturing presence in the UK.  That was in the UK news.

The citizens of the UK are protected by the Human Rights Act. That is not EU law.  Basic freedoms

will not change for…[Read more]

@Ichabod

Exactly right  about Pence.   He will run the government with the repugnant-cans.  Trump

has already said as much.   He admitted yesterday that he finally looked up online

to check out what Obamacare is really about and he admitted ” it has really good stuff” !

The problem is that the people voted with their emotional guts inste…[Read more]

@thane15

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/faq.html

Here is a good source for everything about American  government stuff

( until  the new Trump administration changes things   🙁  )

@arbutus

I totally agree with you.

But the question is if HRC would have seen victory if  Sanders was her running mate?

I still think Sanders as the VP would have offset her problem with the  “Bernies”  AND

it would have created an interesting balance of talents too.  Plus Bernie has an ability

to reach people on the stump in ways that HR…[Read more]

@pedant

This

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/09/trump-win-california-secede-calexit-silicon-valley?CMP=fb_gu

I’ve seen many of these stories from all over the state.  Time will tell…….

I don’t believe Debbie thinks Juncker is fascist but just a  very strong advocate for the EU’s centralized

government.    She  thinks tha…[Read more]

@thane15

Americans think they are a great nation for the same reasons that a dishonest businessman thinks he’ll

make a great president.   Its a pathology that I think you will find to varying degrees in many countries.

But its also a way of reinforcing a belief system by repeating it.  Its also about national identity because

the USA is made…[Read more]

I  don’t really think Hillary did enough to get the largest coalition she could have.  I strongly

believe she made a critical mistake when she didn’t make Bernie Sanders her Vice President.

She lost a  very big chunk of the Bernie coalition and they all took the low road and voted for

Trump because they didn’t care if they blew up the sy…[Read more]

Today an earthquake happened on the planet and there will be serious ripples.   I am deeply deeply

saddened beyond words.  Last June I became a volunteer for the Democratic party The reason was

that I saw the field of Republicans and it worried me.  I wanted to see some one competent become

President. I didn’t care if it was Bernie or Hil…[Read more]

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@jgalt7    Clara ?    Flew in on a leaf.  River had a leaf.

@puroandson

I know but I didn’t get thru that vid.  I’ve had so much stuff sent to me in the past few days

that all I’ve done is skim thru it.   🙁    I have lots of reading and vids to catch up on but I promise

get to it. All I’ve done is basically watch a few minutes of some of the videos in my mail.  Although  I

have to go out tonight to…[Read more]

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparliament/en/20150201PVL00004/Legislative-powers

Everyone in the EU is allowed opinions but the council makes the law.

This is an EU lawyer.  Of course he represents the EU.   But it IS the council that makes the

big decisions.  I think he may have been a tad disingenuous about what he says about the EU.…[Read more]

@puroandson

Don’t forget that the UK  already has bilateral agreements with  other countries including the

European ones in addition to the EU treaties.  Also they wont have to follow the EU codes anymore

which will be very good.   The Brexit vote was just the first step and they have plenty of time.

A minimum of 2 years before the divorc…[Read more]

@puroandson

Sorry I didn’t get back with you sooner.  Yesterday was the 4th of July holiday and I was holiday making

and not checking messages and mail.

So I agree with you that @Bluesqueakpip post the other day was another brilliant one.  But I have to suggest

a few things here.   First of all I believe the media blaming the Brexitors for vot…[Read more]

@puroandson

Read about your vote tie up.   What are your thoughts about that?

@puroandson

Hi  — My friend the Oncologist lives in the midlands of the UK.  The floods she is referring

to are not the floods they had in Somerset. There were lots of floods in the midlands and Cumbia

and other spots in the north that  got hit really hard too and they just want their rivers dredged.

Yes Debbie is a brexiter.  Her point is th…[Read more]

@pedant

Gosh I don’t think you can be too much an idiot and become an Oncologist?  I think you

are just having a really hard time adjusting to your new reality.   You are right in your

example about the USA port import/export model.  So what ? the EU is doing the same

exact manipulation with the UK and who knows who else.  How is this helpful?

@XAD4   Yes and thank you.

Well I did a googling on any connection between the EU environmental policies and UK

flooding and found several posts but here are 2…[Read more]