Having a discussion with a leftist friend.  Iowa caucus came up.  I mentioned that Edwards won it way back when.

Her:  well, we'll know the new winner on Wednesday

Me:  We SHOULD know by Monday night

Her:  I listen to more NPR than you.  I KNOW it's Wednesday night.

Me .... after looking it up and PROVING to her that it's tomorrow .... "Well, you DO listen to more NPR than I"

what with Iowa just around the corner al all

Clinton Ominously Tells Iowan Supporters To Mark Front Doors With Campaign Logo Before Sundown.

 THE CLINTON DENIAL MACHINE IS NOW FULLY OPERATIONAL.

IT NEEDED ONLY THIS: Clinton considers nominating Obama to Supreme Court.

SO IT’S A FAMILY THING? SHE DID NOT HAVE BUSINESS WITH THAT SERVER: Hillary Clinton un-admits her e-mail error.

HILLARY TRYING THE “SORRY IF YOU WERE OFFENDED” NON-APOLOGY APOLOGY ANGLE: Clinton Regrets ‘Uproar and Commotion’ Over Her Insecure Email System. “In other words, the reason her unique email arrangement was a mistake is not that she mishandled classified information (making it easier to hack into, possibly even exposing intelligence assets on the ground) but because it got her in trouble.”

CBS ADMITS TO EPIC FAIL AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: Americans hate the U.S. government more than ever.

Which is an amazing headline to find at CBS, considering its entire journalistic operation over the last 60 years has been to condition Americans to love Big Brother, and to destroy the reputations of the wreckers and subversives who would prevent them from doing so.

RACISM STRAIGHT UP: Matthews: Who’ll Watch ‘The Two Cuban Guys’ If Trump Doesn’t Debate?

No seriously — if you’re going to blow the racial dog whistle at words such as “golf” and “Chicago,” you don’t get a pass at slurs such as this one.

From Arthur Stock, a picture of a headline in an actual paper newspaper:

Ninth on Flckchart.  46 on IMDB.  Doesn't crack Rotten Tomatoes and drops from 2380 to 2408 on mine.  Back to the Future. 

What happened to Claudia Wells career?  She was cute.  But after this she did a bunch of B grade sci fi.  Our loss.

Marty takes WAY too long to catch on to the "back in time" thing.  Tiresome.  Three's Company meets Happy Days with some time travel in it.  

But fun.  I'm just not in love with it.  Unless it drop to 11 on flickchart it'll be back next year.  Maybe I'll like it better then

HILLARY WAS PAID $225K A POP FOR WALL STEET SPEECHES THAT REPORTERS WERE BARRED FROM COVERING: Not only were reporters kept out, but Clinton refuses today to release transcripts. What was she promising Goldman Sachs Group, the Carlyle Group, Morgan Stanley, et. al. that she didn’t want reporters to hear then or us to read now? The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Richard Pollock obtained a copy of Hillary’s Harry Walker Agency speaking engagement contract and much more.

HEH: Tom Maguire: Human Emulation Module Upgraded In Animatronic ‘Hillarity!’

and we're here to help

COMMON CORE WILL COST FOUR TIMES MORE THAN PROJECTED

Hundreds of DHS badges, guns, cell phones lost or stolen since 2012. “The missing badges and guns suggest a shocking lack of security from federal law enforcement officers and represent a significant security risk, experts say.” Ya think?

Flint’s State Employees Got Clean Water—A Year Before Everyone Else

HHS didn’t check homes before giving migrant kids to traffickers.

when the people TELLING me it's an emergency begin ACTING like it's an emergency .....

Another Environmentalist Doomsday Clock Expires, When Can We Laugh?

BUT HE’LL PROBABLY BE LECTURING ME ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT SOON: Microsoft cofounder’s yacht allegedly destroyed a coral reef. 

YOU MAKE THE CALL! Made-Up Nonsense or ‘Best Quote’ From Davos?

I'm watching the "first" three episodes of Star Wars as part of this Movie of the Week thing.  Last night: Episode One.

Princess Amadala is gorgeous.  The ONLY saving grace.

Way too much questionable swashbuckling.  Qui-gon Ginn has no apparent purpose except for Liam Neeson to bring gravitas to the move.  Gungans.  Jar Jar Binx.  The additional racial slur of Watto.  Characters who seem to have come from The Lion King and Kung Fu Panda.  I swear that during one of the fights across a flight-deck the actors could be seen mouthing "p-tew p-tew" as they fired.  The cityscape of Naboo is Venice meets Disneyland.  Nobody had fun, least of all the audience.  Drek. 52/100

And yet I must go on

JOURNALISTS ARE CONCERNED OVER A PROPOSED ‘RESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM REGISTRY LAW’ IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Which is odd, since “all this new law does is create a database of names. There’s not even a waiting period or a prohibition against assault-journalists! And from the little we know about the law, it still allows Americans on the terror no-fly list to still publish their opinions. So, what’s the big deal?”

I'm LOVING this idea:

Bill allows suits over gun-free zone incidents.

Sponsored by Sen. Dolores Gresham, R-Somerville, Senate Bill 1736 has a very specific purpose.

“It is the intent of this section to balance the right of a handgun carry permit holder to carry a firearm in order to exercise the right of self-defense and the ability of a property owner or entity in charge of the property to exercise control over governmental or private property,” the bill states.

To accomplish that goal, the legislation allows any Tennessean with a valid gun permit to sue a property owner in the event of injury or death provided the incident occurred while in a gun-free zone.

The legislation places responsibility on the business or property owner of the gun-free area to protect the gun owner from any incidents that occur with any “invitees,” trespassers and employees found on the property, as well as vicious and wild animals and “defensible man-made and natural hazards.”

If they take away your ability to protect yourself, they should bear the responsibility.

The Myth of Wanton Police Shootings Collapses under the Weight of Facts

TO BE FAIR, MAYBE DESPERATE WILL SUFFICE: Uber-progressive Dana Milbank confesses, “Democrats Would Be Insane to Nominate Bernie Sanders“:

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Meet Bernie Sanders, The Bum Who Wants Your Money.

IS BERNIE SANDERS PLAYING OLD-FASHIONED POSTAL PORK BARREL POLITICS? He’s got a Senate hold on five presidential nominations to the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors. That means the three people now left on the 11-member board are running the Post Office. Maybe the fact Bernie opposes a Post Office plan to close one of Vermont’s two big postal processing centers has something to do with his holds? Ethan Barton of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group connects the letters, uh, the dots.