The New Hampshire Primary

It wasn’t the easiest thing in the world to get numbers on New Hampshire.  Last night they broke in at eight but said little.  Then they had the Conner’s on.   In the early results Bernie was the clear winner and Budagieg and Klovichar were tied for second and third.  But Budajieg advanced and Klovichar fell back.  The final results were Bernie Sanders 25% and Budagieg was 24%.  So Sanders was denied a decisive victory like he had four years ago.  Any Klovichar was in a respectable third at nineteen percent.   Elizabeth Warren was in at nine and something percent and Biden came in fifty place at eight percent.   He didn’t stick around to see the disaster but headed for South Carolina where the Blacks will presumable bail him out.  Nevada has its caucus in February 22^nd and South Carolina votes on February 29^th, only a few days before super Tuesday, which is on March third, which will give us a much clearer picture as to the way things will shape up.  It could be that Klovichar and Budagieg will combine to give a solid moderate vote, as the agrigage progressive vote of Warren and Sanders appears to be fading.  Last night they had the BBC covering the race but they wouldn’t give us hard numbers at six PM but instead flapped their lips in commentary.   They wouldn’t cover live speeches and I’m still trying to get Sanders’ speech, or even Pete’s speech.   Blacks don’t like Pete because of his mayoral record in firing a Black police chief and also because of the gay thing.  Blacks go to church, after all and still have “traditional American values” in this one area.  They’re social conservatives.  We really do need to listen to Bernie Sanders’ speech like we did in 2016, because that’s how he got so popular to begin with.  By far Bernie has the best "roots" of protest demonstrations going back to the sixties.  He has the credentials and the experiance.  There are times when you need to draw the battle lines clearly and spell them out to the American public.   I think once he is the nominee his momentum will only build.   Nobody listens to what the President says anyhow so I'm not worried on that count.  People know what Bernie means when he says that he's a democratic socialist.  He beat Donald Trump by more than Hillary did and we need to insure that Bernie still has the pulling power that he did back then.  He needs to remind us that he intends to go after the drug and insurance companies and break up the big Wall Street banks. 

Juaquin Phoenix kind of stole my thunder the other night when he began talking about exploitation of lesser groups of human beings and the exploitation of animals.   There are two things in my recent Jesus story that I report that Jesus never actually did.  One was to participate in a sabbath service and the other was to make a speech warning of exploitation of lesser groups of human beings and the exploitation of animals.  Nowhere in the Bible does it say Jesus did either of these things.  The closert we have is the parable of the good Sameritan, where rendering aid to the injured is praised.  Some say that Jesus was pro gay and pro abortion and anti capital punishment.  We have no basis to believe Jesus was any of these things.  But this exploitation by the strong over the weak seems an omission that a lot of us can't get past.  The idea of being a victim or being occupied militarily is simply not a concept that Jesus related to.   In terns of drinking milk or consuming dairy products, people thinking of becoming a vegetarian are going to lean on dairy products and eggs for the needed protien.  To give up in one fell swoop, meat, eggs and dairy products is simply a bridge too far.  But gradually with all of this fake plant based meat out there, the market will decide who wins in the end.  It could be that it may be no more morally fashionable to eat meat in fifty years than it is to smoke cigarettes now.  Only time will tell.