Shortly before I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal--Youssa N'Dour (also a pretty famous musician outside of Africa--recorded with Peter Gabriel, etc.) released a song called Sett.  Sett means "clean" or something like this in Wolof (which I did not speak, being based in S. Senegal).  The message of the song was that the people should care more about the cleanliness of their towns/villages as a matter of pride and health.  It spawned many village sett parties and made a difference.

Maybe didn't change a country, but did improve a countryside.

Mmmmm.  Palm wine.

Hera durong

One advantage to living much of my time in Puerto Rico, relying on rabbit ears, and speaking very little Spanish so far is that I didn't even know who Cavuto was before seeing this clip.  Ah, bliss.

Of course, this was the first clip of Maddow I've seen too and it's nice to see someone laugh at Pat Buchanan.  While it would be nice to see Maddow more, the trade off to having to even flip through Fox News to get to her doesn't make it worth my paying for a satellite dish.

So I'll read, and reason, instead.

But here's my question:
Circumstantial evidence from the first clip suggests that Xavier Becerra could be an ethnic minority.  Was he not the slightest bit offended with Cavuto lumping all minorities into one basket with "risky" lenders?

Shouldn't he have called bullshit?

Seems Martin is polling close to Chambliss, might the real road to 60 (not including Leib.) include GA?

Last cycle one of the few (only?) incumbent GOP Reps to lose a primary was in MI 07 (Southern Mich along border with Ohio and Indiana).  Tim Walberg, a far far right Club for Growth guy took on a pro-choice former mayor of Battle Creek.  Walberg is a wacko through and through.

Mark Schaurer is running against Walberg.  Schaurer is the Dem leader in the State house and is close in the polls.  As far as ideological swings, Schaurer replacing Walberg would have an even bigger impact that Peters replacing Knollenberg, but both GOPers should go.  I'm very surprised your summary of the Mich doesn't include him.  Schaurer is polling close and Walberg's approval ratings are pretty low.

Longer shots, but maybe not out of reach in Mi would be to take out Thad McKotter and Mike Rogers....MI 11 and 03 (?)

They'll be home for games 1, 2, and 5 if necessary if they are the division champs.  Else home for games 3 and 4 if they are the wildcard winners.

Tickets will be hard to get.  You should plan on putting out some bucks.  check here it may already be too late.

Wow.  This is off topic for this site, but I'll help.

Here is the tentative post season schedule.  You'll have to follow the standings to see if your team is in, but at this point you can bank on the Cubs, Angels, Tampa Bay Rays, Red Sox, and Dodgers.  Either the Mets or Phillies will be in and either the White Sox or Twins.  The loser of the Mets/Phils will compete with the Brewers and maybe Houston, if they can find a hit in the next few weeksfor the NL wildcard.  Remember, this is baseball, so only 25% of the teams make the playoffs, not ~50%  like in hockey, football and basketball.

How many of that half have national TV shows?

Who's keeping the list of good sites for Googlebomb 2.0 adventures?  This surely would fit.  Also for a Sean Hannity greatest hits site.

Thanks for doing the homework.  It's nice to hold single-seat congregations in the Dakotas and maybe we'd knock out Young in Alaska in Nov too (but would the Congressional vote occur before or after the new Congress is seated?).

Still, "fiendishly stupid" might be a polite description of this idea.

Then the newly elected House would choose the President, with each state getting one vote.

So the Congressional congregation from each state would caucus and decide on their candidate.  The Dems would have to have a majority of 26 or more state's federal Congressional congregations.  Someone else can do the homework, but I don't think this is the case at the moment.  Too many small western and southern states with more Rs than Ds in Congress.

On the ballot June 1 is the Democratic primary for President.  On the ballot tomorrow is the primary for all the island parties (guv, senado, rep, etc.).

The PR govt is pretty disfunctional right now. Both parties have morphed into personality cults.  It reminds me of Animal Farm.  Some PNPs (or Populares) are more equal than others.  None of the above would be an excellent choice.

Since my top 3 candidates are out in the Dem primary, and I'm satisfied but not particularly thrilled with the two remaining, "None of the above" would be a good choice for me on June 1 too, if it exists.

Based on Iowa, I guess about 25% of the Democratic Party electorate might agree with me.

But you're right about Cabo Rojo.  It is a wonderful place to live.

Federal formula funds are not divvied up here using the same formula as in the states.  For example, PR gets much less than their per capita/per need share of medicaid/medicare.

The salaried middle class pays substantially more of their income to the island income tax than they would by adding state and federal taxes together in nearly every state, maybe in every state.  Someone who grosses about 50k will pay about 37% of their income in taxes (not counting soc. sec.), which we pay.

Most independent studies (i.e. not commissioned by statehooders or commonwealthers) show that the economic impact of statehood would be a wash for the fed govt.

The underground economy is so vast here, and the local tax agencies so incompetent, that a few years of the IRS would greatly help the salaried middle class by catching the non-salaried cheaters.  Of course, the IRS would probably have to move 1/3 of its operation here to keep up!

...(from) where is she?

Indeed, most PRns would not report themselves as black or mixed, but on the street nearly all would admit that they probably have African blood as well as Taino blood.  Research from JC Martinez Cruzado shows that both are true.  So a correct statement would be "there are millions of Puerto Ricans with African ancestry" instead of "of Af. anc."

To me, PR is the melting pot that the US claims to be, because in PR the races/nationalities actually mixed, rather than form enclaves, at least historically.  It does not appear to be the case with migrants from Cuba or the DR in the last 80 years.

Your enthusiasm for HRC and her support here in PR may be true, but to temper it a bit...  

First, I live in Western PR and most people I know here either aren't paying much attention to the federal primary races because A. they don't care, or B. they are too busy with the intrigues of the PR primaries for island govt positions this weekend.  Those that do state a preference are tilting Obama--but I mostly speak with younger people.

Second, Puerto Ricans from New York are called Nuyoricans here. That's not necessarily a compliment.  It identifies someone with PR heritage but who has lost touch with what it means to "really be puertorrican".  Of course, islanders have little idea what it means to be Nuyorican either.  The migration to NY was greatest in the 50s, and therefore the NYPR population has spent quite a bit of time away from the island and developed its own point of view.  The Orlando numbers, if they are correct, are more telling, because that migration is more recent.

Third, there are about 4million PR'ns on the island and only slightly more than that in the whole US, including Florida, Cleveland, Chicago, and other centers of PR migrants/descendents.  The states overtook PR in PR-descent population in the last 3 years.

I agree though that Acevedo Vila's endorsement means nothing.  He is terribly unpopular and actually plays politics in exactly the way Obama says he is against.  Obama might as well accept an endorsement from Ohio's Ken Blackwell for all the good Acevedo will do him.

The last plebecite on status was in 1998 or thereabout when Pedro Rosello was governor.  As a rule, the status quo commonwealth party doesn't fan the flames of statehood or independence with votes.

The outcome was something like 5%independence, 47%statehood, and 48% "none of the above."  The last was added to the ballot when the PDP (Commonwealth) party disagreed with the definition of commonwealth that Rosello (a statehooder) put on the ballot.

Kind of like the idea of voting for none of the above though.  I'd use it on June 1 in Cabo Rojo.