I think COOL there an eagle or some kind of giant hawk in my back yard.

Regarding The Clintons, it struck me that both them and Sanders could have done anything they wanted with their educations. They all had a pull for social justice issues and the Clintons went to Arkansas where Bill knew help was needed, and Bernie left arguably the ground zero of the need for economic justice to go to Vermont. Even Obama, who has been criticized for not doing enough, picked the South side of Chicago to do what he could. Maybe the South Bronx and the areas depicted in the movie 'Show Me a Hero' could have benefitted from Bernie's passion.

Now maybe Bernie has no taste for the real adversarial political fray of party politics and the give and take needed to get stuff accomplished - there is no crime in that - most of us don't ether, and neither really does Russell Brand, though he too has all the right ideas.

 It is right there in the bible: 2 Corinthians walk into the desert:  if thou shalt ever get something other than this g*d damn hole in the sand, the God of Porcelain does not permit Adam, Eve or Steve relief of burdens without a birth certificate match-up.

Due to security concerns, attendees should not bring bags, and carry only small personal items, such as keys and cell phones. Weapons, sharp objects, chairs, signs, banners and sticks will not be permitted.

Pelosi hailed Sanders for energizing young voters, arguing that his appeal will play to the advantage of all Democrats in November.

"Bernie Sanders is a positive force in the Democratic Party," Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol.

"He has awakened in some people an interest in the political process that wasn't there. He has encouraged young people to channel their interest in public service and community leadership into a political place, because this is where decisions are made that'll affect their future and their lives. And I think that's positive."

Like a lot of people who have worked on the Hill a little too long, the aide had a strange look in his eyes - the desperate look of a man who's been marooned on a remote island, subsisting on bugs and abalone for years on end. You worry that he might grab your lapel in frustatration at any moment. "It's unbelievable," he said. "Worse than you can possibly imagine. The things that go on..."

The Marijuana Industry's War on the Poor

In working-class neighborhoods like Elyria-Swansea, Globeville and Northeast Park Hill there's a growing sense among residents that they have been overrun by a new drug trade, legal but noxious all the same. These communities once offered plentiful jobs in the city's smelters, meatpacking houses, brickyards and stockyards, but those industries are mostly gone now, along with Denver's cow town image. In the past few years, the city's newest growth industry has moved in--and not in a subtle way. In Elyria-Swansea alone, more than three dozen businesses are licensed to grow and sell marijuana and another dozen companies manufacture edible pot products. To the people living in the modest homes near the grow operations that supply the dispensaries and shops in better-off parts of town, the smell is not only an inconvenience but a reminder of their lack of political clout.

"One of the things that we thought was going to happen when [recreational] marijuana was legalized was that drugs would be taken out of our community," said Candi CdeBaca, an education and community activist whose longtime family home is steps from a commercial grow operation in Elyria-Swansea. "What happened was that the drugs stayed--and the drug dealers changed."

Two years after legal sales of recreational marijuana began in Colorado, the biggest fears that once preoccupied Denver city officials--higher crime, more drug use among teens and a drag on tourism--have not come to pass. Instead, the expanded industry, with 21-and-over recreational sales joining a longer-sanctioned medical marijuana trade, has pumped millions of dollars into government coffers. It's swathed the city in a trendy glow that likely attracts as many outsiders as it repels. But in lower-income neighborhoods of Denver, the explosion of smelly commercial cultivation operations, which crank out tons of high-priced weed for sometimes-chic, sometimes-earthy dispensaries in more fashionable parts of town, has rekindled long-standing grievances about being ignored by City Hall. And residents are beginning to demand big changes.

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Mayor Michael Hancock views the neighborhood outcry as unsurprising. City rules required grow operations--which favor warehouse-like structures--to locate in industrial-zoned areas. "Certainly, nobody wants to live under the clouds of those odors everyday," Hancock said, adding that it's incumbent on the marijuana industry to work with communities to reduce the negative effects of their operations.

In recent weeks, Hancock signed off on an ordinance change that will require businesses seeking new licenses or renewals to submit "good neighbor" outreach plans. And next year, grow operations, which take widely varying approaches to reduce the smells they emit, will have to present odor-control plans to the city.

Some City Council members had pressed for more severe restrictions on the industry's size. As it stands, the number of grow operations will be ratcheted back slightly in coming years as some go out of business. And future grow operations can't open within 1,000 feet of a residential zone--a rule, it's worth noting, that would have prevented the opening of roughly 60 percent of existing grow operations had it been in place from the start.

But among neighborhood activists, the new ordinances are greeted with skepticism or outright dismissal, in part because the new industry caps allow in the near term for the opening of more than three dozen new stores and grows that already were awaiting license decisions, including a couple in Elyria-Swansea.

"They screwed it up when they rolled out the recreational marijuana rules and now they're trying to correct it," said Drew Dutcher, an architect and activist who lives two blocks from the Starbuds pot shop. "It's too little, too late."

He's the republican nominee.  Yes I said he was stupid, unqualified, dangerous and vile.  But he's the nominee.  

It's very interesting to hear the back and forth between these two guys.

Castellanos is an idiot and a tool.  I knew that.  Didn't know much about Wehner.  But I like him.

Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie, is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store. The film features the vocal talents of a who's who of today's comedy stars - Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, and Salma Hayek.

Better sprinkle yourself with Hodor hype dust and let it carry you across the next few days 'cause "Game of Thrones" Season 6, Episode 5 has been teased as an "all-timer." Let's go break down "The Door"!

We see Meera shaking Bran, trying to get him to come out of his vision. The Three-Eyed Raven warned him about staying away too long. There's a theory about (EVERYTHING) Hodor, that young Wylis became Hodor because he too can warg and went too far/something happened. There's thought that maybe he chose to warg into a horse (maybe to be closer to Lyanna Stark) and the horse was killed when Hodor was inside which could explain his damaged mind. Will we see more of Hodor's past this week, since the photo at top shows Bran and the Three-Eyed Raven returning to Winterfell? Or is that not part of what makes this an "all timer"?

According to a 2015 Pew survey, less than 20 percent of Vietnamese have a positive view of China, while 76 percent think favorably of the United States.

Which probably almost literally represents almost every single person who even knows who he is.

And former governor William Weld is probably going to be his VP.

I remember when we discussed things like war, peace, civil rights, etc., etc.

If anyone cared about anything on TV they kept it to themselves.

People came and people went. But there always new ones to add to the mix.

Now, not so much.

You are seeing what happens when one group manages to dominate the discussion by attacks on the other.

To bring it to your level.

That said, about the bird-landing, what surprised me the most was that while the kids behind him reacted instantly it seemed to take forever for Bernie Sanders to react - and come up with a remark. Failing the 3 o'clock phone call-test? What he finally came up with was, that the bird actually was a dove asking for world peace.