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This semester is finally over. I won't find my grades out for another couple of weeks, but I think I did well. I did find out I got an A on my paper for American Institutions: Theatre, which involved the memorable experience of not receiving my interlibrary loan books for several weeks longer than it normally takes and having to change my topic for a 20 page paper a week before it was due. Please, never again.
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I am so utterly sick of this discussion over the Michigan and Florida Democratic primary delegates. To the best of my knowledge, the DNC announced the rules sometime in, oh, August. Michigan and Florida broke the rules without consulting party members or the voters in general, and everyone, from the candidates (including Sen. Clinton, who is showing a disturbing tendency to revise the past now) to the voters, acted as though the rules were going to be followed. What New Hampshire or Iowa did is irrelevant, since by all accounts, they received permission from the DNC to schedule their primaries first. There is no good reason to seat the delegates now, except to pander to the same Michigan reps that made the incredibly ill-thought decision in the first place, and all they are doing is damaging the party's image right before a fairly important national election.
There are several Michigan politicians that I like, but will probably never vote for again because of this. They put their pride (because that is the only reason to move to the front of the primary sequence, as opposed to, say, second) ahead of the welfare of their constituents, and I will not forgive that.
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Also, I'm given to understand Sen. Clinton is counting the votes from Michigan and Florida as evidence she has more popular votes. *eyeroll* She might want to try running a full campaign with names other than hers on the ballot before she says that.
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Those people claiming that Rev. Wright should have kept his defense of his own reputation until after the election is over? Should probably try listening to the whole thing first. And I do include our spectacularly incompetent news media in this. I've heard a couple of criticisms from commentators I generally like that sounded, quite honestly, as though they were recorded when they heard there was going to be a defense and just played alongside a couple of clips from Bill Moyer's Journal. I understand there's a rush to come out with a response first, but I think they could wait long enough to actually check out the story first.
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Finally, my doctor has recommended that I wear an engraved alert bracelet; unfortunately, I have no idea of where to go for one, and I forgot to ask. Anyone have an idea?
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I am so utterly sick of this discussion over the Michigan and Florida Democratic primary delegates. To the best of my knowledge, the DNC announced the rules sometime in, oh, August. Michigan and Florida broke the rules without consulting party members or the voters in general, and everyone, from the candidates (including Sen. Clinton, who is showing a disturbing tendency to revise the past now) to the voters, acted as though the rules were going to be followed. What New Hampshire or Iowa did is irrelevant, since by all accounts, they received permission from the DNC to schedule their primaries first. There is no good reason to seat the delegates now, except to pander to the same Michigan reps that made the incredibly ill-thought decision in the first place, and all they are doing is damaging the party's image right before a fairly important national election.
There are several Michigan politicians that I like, but will probably never vote for again because of this. They put their pride (because that is the only reason to move to the front of the primary sequence, as opposed to, say, second) ahead of the welfare of their constituents, and I will not forgive that.
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Also, I'm given to understand Sen. Clinton is counting the votes from Michigan and Florida as evidence she has more popular votes. *eyeroll* She might want to try running a full campaign with names other than hers on the ballot before she says that.
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Those people claiming that Rev. Wright should have kept his defense of his own reputation until after the election is over? Should probably try listening to the whole thing first. And I do include our spectacularly incompetent news media in this. I've heard a couple of criticisms from commentators I generally like that sounded, quite honestly, as though they were recorded when they heard there was going to be a defense and just played alongside a couple of clips from Bill Moyer's Journal. I understand there's a rush to come out with a response first, but I think they could wait long enough to actually check out the story first.
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Finally, my doctor has recommended that I wear an engraved alert bracelet; unfortunately, I have no idea of where to go for one, and I forgot to ask. Anyone have an idea?