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Yes, I'll Vote for HRC. No, I'm Not Happy About It.
By James Kwak
Now that Hillary Clinton has wrapped up the nomination, I have no problem with Clinton supporters saying that Sanders supporters should back her in the general election. I'm certainly voting for Clinton (not that my vote matters, since I live in Massachusetts), and every liberal Democrat I know who likes Sanders is going to do the same. (Yes, there are probably some Sanders voters who will vote for Trump or stay home, but they are largely anti-establishment independents who were always unlikely to vote for Clinton.)
Apparently that's not enough for many in the Clinton camp, however, who insist that I should be happy that Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee, and that this is actually a good thing for progressives—defined loosely as people who want higher taxes on the rich, less inequality, stronger social insurance programs (including true universal health care), and better protections for workers. The argument is basically that Clinton is (a) more pragmatic, (b) more skilled at getting things done, and (c) more likely to be able to work with Republicans to achieve incremental good things, while Sanders would have simply flamed out in futility.
To which my first answer, which I'm sure I share with many other liberals is: Yes, I know how the Constitution works already. I know we have three branches of government, and that the Republicans control Congress.
And that's exactly the point. We've had centrist Democratic presidents for sixteen out of the past twenty-four years. It turns out that having a pragmatic Democrat in the White House is good for some things, like maintaining four "liberals" on the Supreme Court, preserving the right to an abortion, and slowing down Republican plans to cut taxes on the rich. (Since 1992, the top tax rate on capital gains has only fallen from 28% to 23.8% and the top tax rate on dividends has only fallen from 31% to 23.8%.)
Having a moderate Democratic president, not surprisingly, also produces some major pieces of moderate legislation, ranging from the center-right (welfare reform) to the center-center (Dodd-Frank) to the center-left (2009 stimulus, Obamacare). The stimulus, for those who might think this is unfair, came in at $580 billion over its first two fiscal years—not even twice as much per year as the 2008 stimulus signed by George W. Bush, at a time when the economic situation was much less bleak. And Obamacare, lest we forget, was originally a Heritage Foundation proposal and then Mitt Romney's health care plan as governor of Massachusetts. (If you want to know what I really think about Obamacare, look here.) The big progressive win of recent years, marriage equality, happened despite the opposition of Bill Clinton, and of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during the 2008 campaign. Obama, who has flipped twice on the issue, may very well have secretly supported same-sex marriage for all these years, but the important point is that he didn't come out in favor of it until after the writing had been engraved into the wall.
But when it comes to the structural factors that govern the changing tides of history, it turns out that having a Democrat, any Democrat, in the White House doesn't count for much. This is what has been going on in Congress since Bill Clinton was first elected (data thanks to the Vital Statistics on Congress project):
(I estimated the impact of the 2014 elections, assuming that the average ideological position of each party remained the same and only the party split changed.) It turns out that the only thing that can shift Congress to the left is a spectacularly catastrophic Republican president mired in an unpopular war and then a catastrophic economic crisis. The popularity of both Clinton and Obama late in their terms has had little effect on Congressional elections.
So what accounts for the rightward drift of American politics? Having Democratic presidents who actively try to position themselves in between the two parties—Clinton beginning in 1995, Obama occasionally, such as in 2011—certainly hasn't helped. More important, though, have been those structural factors. One is that Republicans have just been crushing Democrats at the state level. This chart comes from Philip Bump at the Washington Post:
Note the increases during both the Clinton and Obama administrations.
This is both an effect and a cause. It's an effect of the fact that conservatives have better fundraising and training networks, more motivated local activists (e.g., people running for school board so they can stamp out evolution), and just more money. It's a cause of the first picture, because Republicans have translated control of state governments into Congressional gerrymandering. In 2012, for example, Democratic House candidates received more votes than their Republican opponents, yet the Republicans ended up with a majority by more than thirty seats. The entire political system has been tilted more in the Republicans' favor, to the point where the presidency is the only prize that Democrats can fight for on equal terms—because all we need is one charismatic (Obama) or well-connected (Hillary Clinton) candidate who can raise tons and tons of money.
Think about the situation that puts us in. Republicans are apoplectic at the idea that Hillary Clinton could appoint the deciding justice to the Supreme Court, but the smart ones realize that she will be able to accomplish little else; even if by some miracle Democrats retake the House, Republican unity will suffice to block anything in the Senate. Democrats, by contrast, are terrified because a Republican president means that they will get virtually everything, unless the Senate Democratic caucus somehow develops a backbone (which it certainly didn't have under George W. Bush): not just the Supreme Court, but a flat tax, new abortion restrictions, Medicaid block grants, repeal of Dodd-Frank, repeal of Obamacare, Medicare vouchers, and who knows what else.
What's the lesson here? It isn't that Bernie Sanders could accomplish more than Hillary Clinton in four years against dug-in Republican opposition. He couldn't. It's that having a president isn't enough. We need a movement. That's what the conservatives have had for decades: embryonic in the 1950s, quixotic in the 1960s, on the rise in the 1970s, ascendant in the 1980s, and increasingly institutionalized, entrenched, and ideologically extreme ever since. We need to stop thinking that winning the presidency more often than not is a long-term strategy. What we're doing isn't working. It needs to change.
I wouldn't call Hillary Clinton the lesser evil. She isn't evil. I think she will be a decent president (except when it comes to foreign military intervention, where she frightens me, but a good deal less than Trump does) and she will more or less hold the line against conservative extremists for at least four years. And, of course, it will be nice to join the ranks of civilized countries that have chosen women as their leaders. But she's the candidate of the Democratic status quo, and the Democratic status quo isn't working.
We need to do something different. We can have a debate about what that is. I think we need two things: comprehensive electoral reform (which is why I supported Larry Lessig in this election) and a wave of unabashedly ideological candidates who push the overall debate to the left. But Hillary Clinton amounts to doing the same thing again and hoping for different results.
Update: I inadvertently (really) typed "Hillary Trump" when I meant "Hillary Clinton." That's been fixed.
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46 thoughts on "Yes, I'll Vote for HRC. No, I'm Not Happy About It."
Caro says:
Well, THIS Clinton supporter doesn't ask you, or any other Bernie supporter, to be happy about voting for Hillary. You don't have to like her. What we do ask you to do is refrain from trashing her. All that will do is depress turnout in November. Depressing turnout will make it less likely that we get a more progressive Congress. Don't we all want more progressive legislation?
So stop the Hillary hate, at least until after the election. Then hold her feet to the fire. You bet.
Adam Eran says:
A better option in a dependably blue state: Jill Stein, Greens. It empowers the Greens and puts corporate Democrats on notice that they risk losing power if they engage in their usual behavior. It also lets you sidestep the "Boss Tweed" tactics of the establishment parties. ("I don't care who people vote for as long as I can pick the candidates." — Boss Tweed)
As for "stop the Hillary hate, at least until after the election. Then hold her feet to the fire…" That's like trying to bargain about the price of the toaster you bought at the garage sale after you've paid for it. Bizarre.
2014is1984 says:
None of the candidates are any good, but Clinton is exceptionally an evil and vile human being. Throw in hundreds of CONgress Members who proliferate crony capitalism at the expense of The People, does it matter anymore? Washington was right about Party's, yet The People continue to elect, and re-elect, those who do them, their families, their fellow American, and this country harm. Brilliant.
Twoflower says:
Not sure why you call Dodd-Frank "center-center". Republicans and banks seem to really hate this legislation (e.g. http://financialservices.house.gov/dodd-frank/) whereas Krugman is quite happy with it, although he does say it doesn't go far enough.
skunk says:
There is only ONE party, don't delude yourselves into believing anything else. These two choices are choices between the devil and satan, this is all that is left. When the time arrives the public will desert Hillary like rats on a sinking ship, in order that Trump can be played like the fiddle he is, so don't be disappointed when it happens, it was written.
Raven Onthill says:
"Having a president isn't enough. We need a movement."
Yeah! If you haven't tweeted that, please do.
Maybe the Sanders Democrats will go on to found one.
As to evils…Henry Kissinger? It's hard to get to to be President without genuflections to the national security state, but, Kissinger? Really Ms. Clinton?
Here's (http://bit.ly/25mkoMm) a movement you may like, Raven, formed by former Sanders staffers.
And as to Henry Kissinger, think about this quote from Abraham Lincoln: "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
The Clintons even got to know Richard Melon Scaife before he died, and even after all the grief he caused them, he said they're not such bad people after all.
Peter K. says:
As a Sanders supporter I agree with this blog post. The Sanders campaign gave me hope as do the changing demographics.
If you believe that the reason "Republicans have just been crushing Democrats at the state level" has nothing to do with "Democratic presidents who actively try to position themselves in between the two parties," then you're missing the reason why many will never vote for Clinton. Voters have no reason to vote for Democrats in state and Congressional races when the message from the very top is that Democrats don't care about working people and they don't care about the poor. They'll give lip service to opposing racism and misogyny, but they actively oppose any efforts to remove structural barriers for women and racial minorities. No wonder so many in the historical Democratic constituency have given up on trying to navigate the significant structural barriers to voting itself – barriers that the Party opposes only when it benefits them to do so.
You've got it backwards, Dana. Electing people at the lower levels of government who share the beliefs you mention will force the higher levels to change. We just haven't been very good at doing that.
traderbill says:
Great observations, James!
How could the GOP leadership allow this to happen. Watching Paul Ryan yesterday, can't help but think his mentor, Jack Kemp, is rolling over in his grave.
Very sad.
Lord says:
I agree. If Sanders supporters want change, they need to do it from the ground up. And if they disappear by the midterms, all we will see is more of the same.
foothillbilly says:
I'm one of those anti-Establishment independents you mention. I'm not staying home; I'll be voting Green unless Senator Sanders runs as an independent. Your first chart explains that succinctly. I haven't changed my place on the political spectrum, but Democrats beginning with Bill Clinton have moved to the right, causing a great deal of damage. Your argument that Hillary isn't "evil" because she's a centrist rather than an open conservative does not hold water. Most likely, Secretary Clinton will not win due to FBI investigations or some other scandal. Even if she achieves election, that will not help the US out of this pit we're in. She will not stop the damage to this country by trying to stand still, and she cannot do more. Her money comes from Wall Street and other corporate interests. She will do their bidding. That's what she has always done and what Bill did as well. Follow the money to find the truth.
Stephen Lightner says:
Thanks James. I think you pointed out a fundamental problem with establishment Democrats that they are blind to. Yes we need a movement and the hope is that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders can both help down ballot candidates for a more progressive Democratic Party to push Hillary left. If the Democratic Party fails to take heed of this groundswell or put Bernie and Elizabeth in postitions of power within the Democratic Party, they may find themselves out of power in 2020 as they become more irrelevant as young voters see only the status quo. See Rachel Maddow's comments on the way forward: http://www.onthecontrary.us/2016/06/12/rachels-wise-words/
They've already moved to the left. Obama's call for expanding Medicare was one of the signs that it is happening.
I've been saying for years that what's wrong with Democrats is that they tried too much for too long to accommodate right-wing crazies. When the crazies start saying we should take food out of children's and old people's mouths, Democrats needed to stand up and say the exact opposite–shout to the rafters about giving them MORE food.
With what Democrats have been doing, their campaign slogan has been "The Republicans are AIDS, but we're only chlamydia. Vote for us because we're not as bad as they are."
Bernie has shown the Democrats that they can build the party by refusing to kowtow to the right, and we all owe him a great debt of gratitude for that. I just hope that he and his supporters will continue to build the progressive movement.
And how do you propose that progressives elect like-minded Democrats (to the extent there are any of those remaining) "from the ground up," without first addressing the structural barriers to voting? How do you get such a candidate – who, absent top level change, will lack Party resources – to (1) reach and (2) excite people enough to show up to vote for school board, when they have no reason to vote the top of the ticket?
slightner14 says:
"The Republicans are AIDS, but we're only chlamydia. Vote for us because we're not as bad as they are."
Really made me laugh. Thank you.
I think we are losing site that politics has long been lost, there are NO political solutions to this country's problems.
Gvt is not the answer to your problems, gvt IS the problem. R.R.
There are lots of effective government solutions to our problems, it just that Republicans won't let us try any of them. R.R. was the beginning of the problem.
The problems of gvt being on the wrong side of nature go way further back than R.R.. The phrase was catchy and accurate. Name one gvt solution to the problems of gvt being on the wrong side of nature, go ahead, just one.
bernard karpf says:
"I think she will be a decent president (except when it comes to foreign military intervention, where she frightens me, but a good deal less than Trump does) and she will more or less hold the line against conservative extremists for at least four years".
Is that not the whole ball game? Our military interventionism is what is kick-starting the global war on terrorism backdrop that depletes our military, financial and diplomatic resources – and then lends a large dollop to loss of liberties.
Lots of excuses/rationalizations being made for the democratic party and none being very convincing. I don't see progress in banking, health or energy reform under Obama. And an escalation in military interference into countries that are no threat to the USA.
We don't have healthy priorities – just unhealthy agendas. I'll be voting Green.
"Republicans won't let us try any" effective government solutions? Really? Republicans are stopping Democrats from *trying*?
Do you understand why you can't give just one example? It's because gvt has a hard admitting it's wrong about anything, that it's done anything wrong on behalf of it's citizens. When in fact I have a list as long as your arm of these examples. And once presented with this list, the gvt and institutions go into deep denial about it all, refuse to even so much as talk about it. Then once on the defensive they get mad and refuse to even be criticized over it, it's pathetic, arrogant( they obstruct wisdom), hypocritical, and hideous, not to mention sickening.
Why can't we drug test our politicians, I mean who wants a gvt who is beholden to it's drug dealers? Why can't congress and
the public do it's own taxes? I mean who wants to be beholden to the man or woman doing your taxes?? These are no brainers
which can never be addressed.
Furthermore, what's the point of institutional linear thinking? To control others to their like minded thinking naturally, when in fact the end result of such behavior only leads to war, because as soon any resistance is encountered the holier than thou thinkers resort to the thing they do best, eliminate the resistance any way possible, even financially in the end.
Just how great is a country that's is 19 trillion dollars in debt? Is there even one other country with this great a debt burden? To be payed naturally by the citizens who have been done no wrong by there representatives? I think not.
What we are witnessing is the great illusion of manipulation and control, disguised as normal or something which has always
been done in the past, and never to be addressed or changed because of…… wait for it, greed of money and power, it's
simple as that,……. says simon.
Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.
All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn't think he should loose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.
Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican's would still be sitting in the dark)
He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home.
He turns on a radio talk show, the host's keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn't tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, "We don't need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I'm a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have".
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Joe middle class also realizes that everything he reads is not truth, once using the shampoo he finds he is slowly losing his hair and guess what, it aint coming back, so if he wants to save some hair he must switch shampoos. Joe takes shampoo co. to court only fall short of money proving his case. Joe doesn't go to church on Sunday, but finds the preacher has taught his congregation on Sunday to discriminate bald people during the week because he interpreted it such in the holy book.
Even though Joe has the latest, greatest and safest car on the road, he finds it never lasts the test of time and therefore, like reinventing the wheel, must be made even greater during the next model year, not to mention more expensive. Even though Joe uses the latest and greatest public transportation system, he finds it falls far short of other inferior country's high speed rails and is missing an east and west coast transit system so must now rely on his trusty wheels and strong back to go any length of distance, after traveling such distance finds he has a sore neck and must now visit a doctor who wants to cut into him to resolve his soreatica, promising to make it all better yet now needs expensive pain meds to get through his day. The pain meds are not enough so he goes to the black mkt where he eventually gets busted for something and now has to be an informant to capture the remaining problem which exists on the street.
Joe finds each morning he is more in pain and at the end of his day he is wore out and wished he never been born into this trap of life and pains. But the gvt has made it illegal to commit suicide so Joe must struggle on and pretend that life is grand in public but it's okay to beat up the wife in private until she runs out of money and has had enough.
Welcome to the war on woman, persecuted by men and guys with vaginas because "we are in the majority" and must live by majority rule.
Lucy is going to yank the football away from Charlie Brown, again. Hillary will not be elected. I have no clue why she wants to be Prez.
Who do the Democrats have besides her? No one. THAT fact alone is proof that the Democrats are completed controlled by "super pacs".
Bernie Sanders was a self-activated Trotsky wannabe, no chance at being elected….and the "greens"? Puhleeze….
Trump has consistently said that going into Iraq was a bad idea.
It is lame B-movie psycho ops (who wants MILLENIALS, the technotards of history, to make up stories about YOU for Homeland Security under a Clinton term??!!) to keep up the hysteria that he will start WWIII,
BRUCE E. WOYCH says:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/09/bernie-or-bust-no-its-justice-or-bust
Bernie or Bust? No, It's Justice or Bust
Can we actually achieve a more just America as one of the outcomes of this political revolution? Yes. I believe we can.
by Donna Smith
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Abby Martin and Paul Jay – What Should Sanders Do Next?
As Hillary Clinton becomes the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, Martin and Jay discuss the strategy of voting for the lesser evil and the potential foreign policy of a Trump or Clinton administration
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Elizabeth Warren Draws Fire from Left and Right Over Clinton Endorsement
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 13, 2016
I am a 45 year old life long Democrat. I will not vote for Clinton. This is a lesser evil I cannot abide. I will vote for Jill Stein.
I'm a 56 year old lifelong Democrat and I'm also planning to vote for Stein. As I've asked many to contemplate in the last few weeks – if Trump were the lesser evil – if, say, his opponent were Putin, with all Trump's policy positions plus imperialism besides – would you then vote for Trump, just because he's the lesser evil? Two of the last five Presidential elections I've abstained from the top of the ticket. This year it's important for TPTB to know that we didn't just "forget" to vote for President.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-15/obscure-ny-filing-exposes-clintons-millions-foreign-donations#comments
The Clinton Foundation is squeaky clean (http://bit.ly/1Q1mtd8). Unlike many of the superPACs that sponsor nonsense posted on Zero Hedge.
So squeaky the FBI and DoJ can be taken down along with it at the same time, that squeaky??
Neither the FBI nor the DOJ has anything against the Clinton Foundation. If that's what you meant. Hard to tell.
You mean they no incentive to find and disclose anything, right? No hard to tell, hard to admit.
How about there's nothing to find. All is disclosed. As reported.
Been there, done that, consequences STILL have yet to be paid. Only question left is, are you prepared and ready to pay them?
So the test is now whether she did anything illegal, and not how many people were harmed or killed by the many perfectly legal things she's done?
Who has Hillary harmed or killed? How many people are harmed or killed by decisions made by anyone in any position of power, corporate or governmental?
We don't have the choice of not having anybody in charge of anything.
Sure Caro, and no snowflake ever feels responsible for the avalanche.
When bad decisions are compounded over time with more bad decisions, consequences eventually have to be paid, the question is, what form? And the answer is, fatal ones.
He is a troll Caro. Rational thought, facts, dats, and history have no impact. He believes what he believes and selectively sifts for what he needs to believe. Sad huh?
Wrong slightner, history is written by the victor, once viewed from another point of view, it has a completely different interpretation. One that falls into an instant denial by western politics over a long period of time(centuries).
Selective interpretation, perhaps, sad, yes. And you too believe what you want to believe, but the laws of nature do not discriminate over county, state, or even countries borders, only peoples interpretations of them do. And once on the wrong side of nature, always on the wrong side of nature, it's been proved.
Thanks for the info, slightner14, I'll stop wasting my time.
That's amusing guys, just goes to show how far a 6th grade education can go these days.
History is indeed written by the victor. The problem for both Hillary and the Donald is that neither of them is guaranteed to win the Presidency, given their assorted legal and popularity issues. If one of them does become President, either is likely to lead is deeper into trouble, and the people who "write history" may be non-Americans.
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187
I guess it is a new kind of farming technique – bombs carrying seeds – that will finally bring an African agricultural era to the Saudi history timeline, right?
Then they can stop heading north as invaders….build your own civilization, you got enough cash now, right?
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The below two questions are of similar kind in concept but are different in terms of what they want. Please help in understanding them.
Why answer cannot be A ? Please help in understanding the question. I believe it is A.
Please give your thoughts on this question.
you sure it is 12?? i think that 12 were going but only 8 showed up.
Thanks. Conceptually you made it easy for me to understand the second one.
Now, about first question answer is B, which i doubt too. I believe it has to be A (8 showed up).
lets see what others say. Really want to discuss the first one here before i discuss this question with my tutor.
For each of these problems, the relationship is: (# of people)(cost per person) = total cost. Let's call this n*c = T.
Since the number of people can't be negative, n must be 12. That was our original number, though, and the question is asking for how many actually attended. So JN is right, the answer should be 8.
In other words, the increase in the cost (x) is equal to 1/7 of the original cost per person, c.
Alternatively, we could pick values, since no actual values are specified. Pick a number that is divisible by 8 and 7 - let's say $56.
If 8c = 56, then the original cost per person was $7.
If only 7 people go, then the cost per person is $8. That extra dollar split 7 ways (among the people going) would be 1/7 of a dollar per person.
Ceilidh, thank you very much. Appreciate your reply.
so per person increase is 1/7-1/8 = 1/56.
Question is increase out of what ?


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The Trade Federation #49 - Star Wars Card Trader - RetroZap!
Joe and Bill have a talk about Star Wars Card Keeper!
Cards that you can't trade are the buzz of the app, so there's no surprise that Joe and Bill have to take the time to weigh in on this new phenomenon. There are a lot of different ways to look at the new direction that the app seems to be moving in, so the guys spend a good chunk of time talking about some of the thoughts that people have on either side of the debate. Where do you land? Are easy odds sets that you can't trade the obvious way forward? Or should we see a return to trade-able cards that are more difficult to collect?
The untradeable issue isn't only something that Star Wars Card Trader is dealing with, and Bunt is now dealing with a similar mechanic. However, the gallery set on Bunt still has quite difficult odds and the cards themselves can be traded, but must be pulled to receive a ticket that counts towards the awards. Will we see this sort of implementation coming to Card Trader? Joe has what he believes is a brilliant solution to the entire issue that handles things in a positive way for everyone, but you can decide for yourselves!
And now the Green and Orange chase is back! Capitalizing on the redesign of the Laser Burst cards, the new green laser and orange laser burst cards bring back the same style of the old chase. Pull a green at 1:100 and you are given a free pack with a 1 in 6 chance at pulling the orange. Unfortunately, the new packs are double to cost of the previous green chase, so some of the new oranges may end up being very rare indeed. Kylo and Ahsoka kick off the new chase and are such popular characters that they counts have come in quite high, but this seems unlikely to be a trend that continues with less popular characters.
After all that, there's still the return of the "Hot as Tatooine, Cold as Hoth" poll and after Joe has to step away Bill handles the voicemail on his own. Can he survive Curt's trivia while flying solo? You'll have to listen to find out!


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Born in Perth, Jennifer graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2006 with an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts and a Bachelor of Arts (Classical Voice). Jennifer joined West Australian Opera in 2005. In 2007/2008 she was an Emerging Artist with the company and a member of the Opera and Education program which saw her performing in the OzOpera tour of Carmen throughout Western Australia. In 2009 Jennifer was sponsored as a Wesfarmers Arts Young Artist with West Australian Opera, continuing in this position in 2010.
Jennifer's roles with West Australian Opera include Papagena in Die Zauberflöte, Gianetta in L'elisir d'amore and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro. In 2010 Jennifer performed Yum-Yum in The Mikado for City of Perth's Opera in the Park as well as Niece 1 in Peter Grimes. Other performances for West Australian Opera include Woglinde, (Das Rheingold), Marion, (Picnic at Hanging Rock) and scenes from Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, La bohème, Die Freischütz, Romeo et Juliette, Manon, Susannah and The Turn of the Screw.
In 2011 Jennifer will perform again for Opera in the Park, as Adele in Die Fledermaus.
Concert appearances include featured soloist with the Western Australian Youth Orchestra in Music by Moonlight, soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah, and recitals for Art Song Perth, the University of Western Australia, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and the Goethe Society.


Recently I've become responsible for a large project with lots of branches and a complex history I frequently need to dig into. I prefer to work on the command line, so ended up exploring various git log options.
I haven't found a good write-up of these, so here is my attempt at sharing one with you.
alias gitgraph="git log --graph --oneline --all --decorate --topo-order"
The output is most-recent commit first, down to the oldest.
Most of the time I don't care about the author or the date, so in order that I can see more per screen, I use –oneline to only show the commit id and comment per-commit.
The problem with the above is that you only see a linear series of commits, and get no sense of what was merged in where. To see this aspect of the history use –graph.
You can see where merges take place, and what commits were merged.
By default you only get the history leading up to the HEAD (ie where you are currently in the git history. Often I want to see all the branches in the history, so I add the –all flag.
That's great, but I can't see what branch is where! This is where you use –decorate.
Now we're cooking with gas! Each remote or type of branch/tag is shown in a different colour (even stashes!). On my terminal, remotes are in red, HEAD is blue, local branches are in green, stashes in pink.
If you're looking at the whole history of your project, you may want to see only the significant points of change (ie the lines affected by –decorate above) to eliminate all the intermediary commits. This is perfect for getting an overview of the project as a whole.
This gives a formatted output, showing (in this case) the relative timestamp (%ar), the commit subject (%s), and the short hash (%h).
You can even see the abstract shape of the git repo!
The order in which commits are displayed. Although it appears to be the default, it's worth knowing that –topo-order shows commits 'bunched together' by topic, rather than in date order. This leads to easier-to-read graphs in complex projects.
Other options include –date-order and –reverse.
To show commits from oldest to newest.


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Big open boats take center stage
William Sisson
Welcome to the era of the outboard-powered dayboat. Although that may not be breaking news, the two new 40-plus-foot quad-outboard boats (yes, that means four 300- or 350-hp 4-strokes) introduced at the recent Fort Lauderdale show are signs of where things are headed. And there are more to come.
This new generation of open boat appeals to folks who are stepping down from larger boats, strapped for time or looking for a big all-purpose craft with good performance — maybe all three.
Cruising is not going away, but in a world where time is becoming the new currency, there is a market for boats that get you out and back quickly. And, increasingly, people want to do it in style and with more comforts.
The great versatility of the center console has long been one of its strengths. You can fish it at sunrise with the boys and take the family to the sandbar in the afternoon. Tube, dive, soak up some sun or put the throttles down and run to a waterfront bistro. They're at home in shallow water, and the larger ones certainly hold their own offshore.
Not to be overlooked are the significant advances in outboard reliability, durability and horsepower, which is a big driver of the current trend. And even larger outboards are on the way. Count on it.
The latest class of large center consoles is raising the luxury and technology bar for the open boats that will follow. Leading-edge builders are creating a new category with ingenious layouts and seating, impressive electronics displays, digital switching, slow-speed maneuvering systems, inventive use of space beneath the consoles, side and transom doors, flat-out performance and more.
Two new boats that racked up a lot of gawking time in Fort Lauderdale were the Boston Whaler 420 Outrage and the Everglades 435cc. The Outrage is powered by four 300-hp Mercury Verados, giving it an estimated top speed of 52 to 54 mph and a cruising speed in the mid-30s.
Boston Whaler president Huw Bower called it the "largest, most complex, most innovative Boston Whaler ever built." The big center console will be the first Whaler with "dynamic running surface" technology, which automatically adjusts the trim tabs for increased control, performance and efficiency. Cool boat.
The new 43-foot flagship from Everglades is powered by four 350-hp Yamahas, which translates to a top end of nearly 60 mph and a cruising speed of about 38 mph. "If you left Fort Lauderdale, you could be in the Bahamas in two hours," says Bryan Harris, vice president of sales and marketing for the builder.
The open boat with the most ponies at the boat show was Intrepid's new 475 Panacea, which had four Seven Marine 557-hp outboards hanging off its tail. With that power, the boat has a top speed of 73 mph and a cruising speed of about 60. The more common setup is quad Yamaha 350s, which will push the Intrepid to about 63 mph.
"It is indeed a panacea — a solve-all boat," says Intrepid president Ken Clinton. "It's a boat you can fish on, cruise on and entertain on. You have a cabin below with all the amenities. There is no compromise — you have a totally open center console with lots of seating and a cabin."
There are at least three other builders — Sea Hunter, Hydra-Sports and Yellowfin — producing center consoles larger than 40 feet. More company is coming. Scout Boats intends to launch its new 420 LXF luxury fishing boat at the Miami boat show in February.
A boat that caught my eye in the advanced concept stage at Lauderdale was the Sagitta 45 from Camper & Nicholsons Yachts. It's a very stylish open boat that rides a C. Raymond Hunt deep-vee hull. The custom day cruiser is available in three configurations: sport cruiser, sport fisherman and sport diving.
Powered by twin Volvo Penta IPS 500s, the Sagitta 45 is the only non-outboard boat in this column's lineup. The builder calls it a "true chameleon" because it's designed to be easily transformed for diving, cruising or fishing by reconfiguring movable deck modules. We should see the first one at next year's Fort Lauderdale show.
Many of us have owned center consoles and other open boats, but this next generation is a whole new kettle of fish. They are fast, sophisticated and capable of doing more and going farther in all kinds of conditions than their earlier, smaller brethren.
They haven't been your father's open boat — or, come to think of it, perhaps even yours or mine — for some time. Welcome to the new world.
"I may be hopelessly wrong in my opinion, but I believe that the difference between riding out a storm and scurrying off for a strange harbor in the dead of night is just this: When you're getting a drubbing off soundings the worst is yet to happen, but when you miss the entrance to a harbor and find yourself in the breakers your cup is full and running over." — Alfred Loomis
dayboatsPrint magazine January 2015Underway
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Battling big-leaguer makes each day a winning home run
Fun isn't measured by the size of the boat
Motors and mechanics: 'big iron' and life at full load
A big man, a giant striper and a whale of a fish tale
Modern boat, classic boat: We all have our own style
A simple boat for complicated times


If you're hosting a Bible study, you have to spend the day before going.
1. Going to your own Bible study.
2. Going to lunch with great friends for one last time before the Christmas crazies start.
3. Going to the craft store with your friends.
4. Going back to the craft store because you need a couple more pieces of 1/2 off greenery to finish your Christmas decorating.
5. Going home and putting up the outside lights, letting the girls get all creative, because you really need to get the boxes out of the middle of your floor.
6. Going back inside and putting out the rest of the Christmas decorations.
7. Going to put the back seat back in the van to clear a space in your garage.
8. Going to put all the empty Christmas boxes in the garage.
9. Going back and cleaning the living room.
10. Going to dinner because the house is still in chaos.
11. Going to the scrapbook store and Target for stuff for the craft you're planning for the Bible study.
12. Going back home and cleaning the dining room.
13. Going to clean the kitchen.
14. Going to clean the craft room so you can find the supplies you already had for the craft.
15. Going to write a blog post, because you really need a break from all the going.
16. Going to make an example of your craft. You know, just to make sure it works like you think it will.
Good thing I'm not actually teaching this study.


This one was inevitable! Tolkien expanded the potential of Epic Fantasy, in which I had dabbled but had never discovered such a broad vision as he presented. I would say that my love of Tolkien's works involve only certain things, though. The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion are the obvious ones. but I am also fond of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Leaf by Niggle (part of Tree and Leaf) and Roverandom.
I confess that I am not a fan of the multitude of books being churned out by Tolkien's son, Christopher, nor can I approve of the movies! Tolkien himself may have rewritten and rearranged his tales constantly, but the way that the same has been done to produce the movies has made them unrecognisable in places and sheerly wrong in others! And yes, I know that there will be howls of disagreement and outrage at how I feel. I'm simply being totally honest.
Tolkien was an inspiration to me, and still has some influence.
FInd J R R Tolkien at Goodreads.