While early in the process, some may wish to bookmark a website or two relating to Dem/GOP presidential timelines, candidacies, etc.

This is not an attempt to be exhaustive, but to be fairly inclusive.

Dem Wikipedia stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_debates,_2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_candidates,_2016


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016

GOP Wikipedia stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_debates,_2016


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_candidates,_2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016

Other sites - decide if worth a bookmark:

http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/
Note: people or organizations posting that site are not clearly identified on the linked-to homepage; so show due caution in following the site

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/5/dnc-announces-six-presidential-primary-debates/
Note: Washington Times is what it is, owned as it is; so show due caution - and note the item begins with a focus on Hillary, treating Bernie and others as if seven dwarfs - again it is the Washington Times

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-gop-division-20150705-story.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-06/the-republican-debate-selection-process-is-a-new-wild-card-in-presidential-politics

http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2015/07/sanders-drawing-large-crowds-hillary-feels-the-bern/

http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2015/06/2016-republican-candidates-respond-to-gay-marriage-ruling/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_involvement_in_the_Terri_Schiavo_case

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/jeb-bush-terri-schiavo-114730.html

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/07/bill-and-hillary-clinton-fight-new-demand-for-email-209937.html

http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2015/07/scott-walker-sets-july-13-launch-date/

Again, aside from the Wikipedia links; choice of other items was subjective and aimed at items of current focus - Schievo history included because of its fundamental questioning of the extent and role of government intervention in family liberty-of-decision matters. Bookmark or don't, any/all. It is a matter of your own CHOICE (a nice word).

Common area theft at a Flaherty site in the Chicago 'burbs.

This link. With the Flaherty Ramsey Town Center apartments near to Ramsey's police hub such a theft is less likely, but presumably site management will take note and precautionary steps will be taken.

July 4 - Insurrection Day. British banking and capital ruled, garrisoned soldiers policed and enforced. Taxes were unfairly imposed, colonists being treated as resources to be used to enhance a distanced elite.

I recognize the elite.
I shall communicate.

And the lesson of history is?

Shut up, follow what the boss says, show up for work on time?

Pick either party? Not "any," but "either." There only are two.

Say, "God's will," when the system is screwing you?

Go along to get along?

The nail that stands up gets hammered down?

George Washington rode a horse so the guy on the horse must be Washingtonian?

At least the British impositions during colonial times did not include "Corporations are people same as humans." American ingenuity cooked up that hummer. Whose geniuses? Yours? Somebody else's?

Which women have voices nationally, these days, for the GOP?

There was Sarah Palin, a McCain choice as well as later a FOX personality. There was Michele Bachmann, on FOX frequently, in past presidential debates, and among lawn assemblies in DC, bullhorn in hand. (Perhaps she'll surface again, this time kissing Jeb.)

There was Ann Coulter, and wondering what had happened to her, to her persona and following. Two items were found online which are recent, here and here. About Coulter. Not presenting her as a pundit or first-person having airtime as a spokesperson.

Is Carly Fiorina next to be marginalized, and is it a trend, or simple happenstance? If Fiorina does not score poll popularity she will be one of the debate droppees, whatever the term would be for those told not to show up because the podium can be too crowded with only the more popular men invited.

Is it a trend nationwide for women's voices being muted in the GOP? On the other side there is Hillary, so it is not something touching both parties equally.

And with Ann Coulter, is it her style finally wearing thin with all but a handful of loyalists? Or is it as much or more the message than the messenger, as the two above linked online items suggest? As in yes, Ann, correct when you say the GOP should follow the Nixon "Southern Strategy" (but don't be so crass as to publicly say the GOP will be doing so; i.e., some things can be understood yet left unsaid)?

What else? Is there any reader having an insight to share via a comment?

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Fiorina coverage, recent and positive, here and here. Perhaps it is a GOP showing that a reasoned female voice will be heard, and it may be evidence Fiorina might make the debate poll-based qualification cut.

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Two items of arguable relevance, to be read together, here and here. Fiorina rose, was tried, and was fired by the corporate culture within our nation. Interlocking directorates and all. Coming back, via politics, with what in mind to prove?

If drastically growing income and wealth disparity, a Department of Homeland Security and a Patriot Act in conflict with what any thinking patriot would desire were the objective of our nation's leadership elite for its beginning this millennium ... [UPDATED]

link

UPDATE: The founders of the nation envisioned Enlightenment principles put into practice in a federated nation, which, in their wisdom, they likely did not foresee as miring itself for no clear reason in a never ending war, and not with a tangible enemy, but with "TERROR." Intangible is better because of its flexibility; and we were told not flexibility, but necessity. By someone delivering a speech written by a Michael Gerson, who now flaks for WaPo, and touts involvement [per sidebar here] in an organization ostensibly aimed at ending distress and suffering on the African continent. Vaguely so, posting on the Internet. Not terror as the enemy this go round, but human suffering. On an anniversary date we may ask about the actual and the smokescreen. Are we evolved from Enlightenment principles to a nation of Michael Gersons? Isn't it about time we got better in terms of goals and directions? And substance vs. words?

FURTHER UPDATE: A short discourse on "terrorism," and the wisdom and effectiveness of warring against it; in general okay, but short on emphasis that standing armies needing a fight lest they be asked to sit down, etc.

FURTHER UPDATE: As to foreign policy re Iraq making sense if a premise is a policy goal was to destabilize the Levant and set Sunni and Shia into civil war, each linked to a theocratic approach reminiscent of post-Reformation European disjunctions. Keep oil prices from being too low by crimping a supply area, while NoDak awaits climbing prices so that a band of stability might exist while we transition to wind and solar, keeping petro resources for petrochem usage, e.g., the wind turbine blades need carbon fiber and expoxy resin as fabrication inputs. Those items come from petrochem processing, so the substitute for burning fossil fuel entirely is to burn a little in the chemical plants that have been outsourced from Europe and here to China and India.

As to "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" re income and wealth disparity being domestic policy of too many of U.S. politicians past and present, and an experience for those on the short end of the disparity, including Tea Partiers who think, a range of YouTube econ postings of interest via direct content as well as sidebar suggestions, if starting e.g. here, here or here.

FURTHER UPDATE: A google. From the date clustering some may wrongly conclude Piketty has ebbed to little beyond yesterday's news. Yes, if you do not follow the links, or better read the book. No, if you at least surf the links in that google. Those who can read should.

Like CRABGRASS - the headline says as much "... like a noxious, unkillable weed" - and the body of reporting/editorializing substantiates -- it is worse.

City Pages, online here, "Big Ag is conquering Minnesota like a noxious, unkillable weed. By Hannah Sayle, Wednesday, July 1, 2015."

No excerpt. Read the item. Also note that Sorensen's Bluestem Prairie coverage of the session had a focus on the ag bill, ins and outs, so go there and seek out info on the history and the perps. No specific links, check the site itself.

Daudt's Republicans have the lions' share of fault, with the Rangers being happy enough with log-rolling - getting their stuff done and the Auditor's office marginalized to fit their taste. Give a little, get a little. Roll them logs.

Again, Sorensen does identify the perps while covering the ongoing session saga. You will need to scroll down the postings a bit; her posting there stays current, and the "Recent Posts" sidebar also truly stays recent. Take the time. It is worth it.

Polymet= polycrap into the waters, for centuries, because the Copperheads want a handful of short term jobs to tout to keep politics as usual in their fiefdom. If you do not believe me, believe history, in British Columbia where the levee broke ...

Just a minor breach of containment, mind you -

Bad shit? Ya betcha. Wikipedia, here. But what has that to do with the BWCA and Voyageurs? That was then. That was there. We are here, and the Copperheads did sneak in the end of session special session mischief, and, don't they and Mr. Daudt know best?

Tailing basin not equal to toxic waste, they passed legislation saying so and Dayton willingly signed it, while touting buffer strips on ag lands. Jobbing for jobs, done and Bakk went fishing ["watching the bobber" presumably his cabin lake and lakefront is distant enough, so what's his worry?]

After Sen. Majority Leader Tom Bakk traded his suit for jeans, got in his car and headed north at 6 a.m. Saturday following adjournment of the special session, he said he became incredibly emotional.

“You’ve been so wrapped up in everything for five and half months you can’t help but reflect on what happened, what didn’t happen and the things you could have done differently to get maybe a little better outcome. Because it can always be better,” he said.

Three and a half hours later, when he arrives at his home in Cook, he’s emotionally exhausted.

The leader of the Minnesota Senate must be deep in the trenches of the session and he said he’s emotionally and physically exhausted.

He then heads for some time at the lake cabin.

“I can get away from the phones, the mail, and just watch a bobber for a couple days,” he said.

On Monday, Bakk described the recent session of the Legislature as really tough. There’ll be some disappointments, but some good things that happened, too, he said.

A crock? Ya betcha.

Would the esteemed gentleman have fished the Fraser, after Mount Polley? Unlikely? Well, this after all is Bakk, so we might speculate either way, with Bakk.

Moving on, connecting dots, Grand Rapids Herald Review:

http://www.grandrapidsmn.com/opinion/sportsmen-question-polymet-s-sulfide-mining-eis/article_142b34b0-1ff8-11e5-8acc-1beabada53e1.html


posted online yesterday, for sportsmen-anglers to ponder, stating:

Opinion: Sportsmen question PolyMet’s sulfide mining EIS
Posted: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 8:50 am
By David Lien Minnesota Backcountry Hunters & Anglers

During June PolyMet Mining’s preliminary final Environmental Impact Statement (PFEIS) was completed (for its proposed sulfide mine in northeastern Minnesota), and PolyMet’s CEO Jon Cherry said: “The PFEIS confirms that the state’s first copper-nickel mine can responsibly produce … metals in a manner that is protective of natural resources and remediates legacy environmental impacts from historic mining operations.”[1] What he, of course, failed to mention is that the company PolyMet is using to design its tailings disposal facility, Knight Piesold, is the same outfit that designed Mount Polley’s tailings dam.

In case you’re not familiar with the story, on August 5, 2014, some 6.6 billion gallons of toxic mine tailings sluiced into the headwaters of the Fraser River in British Columbia. Mt. Polley Mine, until that point, was held up as the industry standard—a shining example of how large-scale sulfide mining can coexist with the environment. Instead, it proved the opposite, that no large-scale sulfide mine in history has operated without laying waste to surrounding waterways and watersheds. Now history looks to repeat itself in northeastern Minnesota.[2]

Like PolyMet, Imperial Metals, the mining company responsible for the Mount Polley tailings disaster, claimed it was using modern technology. But the PolyMet tailings disposal design is similar to that for Mount Polley, and British Columbia’s Report on Mount Polley Tailings Storage Facility Breach concluded: “The dominant contribution to the failure resides in the design.”[3]

The way these sulfide mines operate, the desired metal makes up about 1 percent of materials mined. So for every ton of copper that they extract, 99 tons of toxic waste is produced, which must be stored in perpetuity.[4] What PolyMet’s CEO doesn’t want Minnesotans to grasp is that they’re essentially putting a large toxic time bomb in the headwaters of one of the wildest, most water-rich regions in North America.

Adding insult to injury, Cherry says the project will create 360 jobs.[5] Just to put that number in perspective, there are currently 160,000 jobs in the region.[6] Of those jobs, some 18,000 are dependent upon the wild public lands and sky-tinted waterways found in northeastern Minnesota’s greater Superior National Forest region.[7]

Remember, even if there isn’t an outright tailings basin failure, PolyMet’s initial draft Environmental Impact Statement predicted that their “West Pit” would fill with water and overflow into the Partridge River 45 years after the mine’s closure.[8] Hence, PolyMet is proposing that we trade a few hundred short-term, unsustainable sulfide mining jobs for potentially thousands of long-term jobs already employing hard-working Minnesotans.

[...] David Lien, of Colorado Springs, Colo., formerly of Grand Rapids, Minn., is a MDHA Life Member, co-chairman of the Minnesota Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (www.backcountryhunters.org) and author of Hunting for Experience: Tales of Hunting & Habitat Conservation. During 2014 he was recognized by Field & Stream as a “Hero of Conservation.”[10]

[highlighting added] The item is online, the footnotes are online, it is all there; and if there was Mount Polley, and common clown designing up North, go figure.

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Opening image sources, here, here and here, respectively.

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UPDATE: This google, with top online return links, e.g., here, here, here, here, here, this pdf and MinnPost, here. See also, here and here.