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12 CommentsMatt chose to move to Nairobi, Kenya, where he taught himself Swahili and started Ecosandals, a footwear business he created that has sold environmentally-friendly footwear to customers on 17 countries in 5 continents for over two decades. Numerous groups and organizations have recognized Ecosandals’ work in creating innovative job opportunities in neighborhoods facing extreme poverty. Those groups include CNN, the United Nations, the World Bank, BBC, Al Jazeera and Current TV, which on national TV called Matt an all-around super human. Ecosandals continues to create employment opportunities in neighborhoods of Nairobi, Kenya where residents are desperate for meaningful work.Think about it: Tom Gordon or Matt Meyer...gotta ask my wife if we can send Matt a few bucks. Besides, Friends grad and a math teacher? Hey, that's my daughter's bio! BTW, Tom Gordon filed yesterday, so the game is on.
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11 CommentsSome conservative Republicans are meeting this week to talk about the possibility of fielding a conservative third-party candidate in the increasingly likely event that Donald Trump hijacks their party's nomination. Trump is not only not a conservative; he also embraces the most distasteful elements of right-wing populism. An independent candidate would give voters a "real" Republican to vote for. Such a move has an obvious downside: It likely leads to President Hillary Clinton. Trump and the "real" Republican will split the Republican vote, just as William H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt split the GOP vote in 1912, giving us President Woodrow Wilson. Is blocking Trump worth the risk of electing Clinton? If you are a conservative, I think it is. Presidential elections are unpredictable, but there is one pretty common pattern. The longer the party has been in office, the less likely it is to win. One-term incumbents are reelected at a high rate, but after two terms the office often goes to the other party. After three terms, it's very hard to hold on to the White House. Assuming this pattern holds, if Trump wins the 2016 presidential election, he's likely to win reelection. But the Democrats would likely win in 2024 and again in 2028. You wouldn't see a "real" Republican in the White House until 2032, after a 24-year drought.The obvious flaw in this logic is that Democrats, liberals and non-Trumpian conservatives will have been "final solution"-ed by 2019, and Dear Leader Trump will be running unopposed for his fifth term in 2032.
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18 Comments"It's like asking you to choose between your three favorite children (Barney,Rochester, Short). They're not children. They're wonderful adults...."..but, seriously, don't ever forget who's your daddy.
"Pull for the home team. We're all part of Carper town," Carper said.I feel like Carper resisted throwing in a wink at EL Somnambulo here and when he said "Carper Town" instead of Carperdyne Industries, Inc.
"You know sometimes, like people try to vote more than once? I think in this case I'd like to vote at least three times. I'd get in trouble doing that," Carper said.Stop. my sides.... As for me, I'm all about...
