Salon Magazine has the interview they headline as EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Warren on Barack Obama: “They protected Wall Street. Not families who were losing their homes. Not people who lost their jobs. And it happened over and over and over”

Nancy Weinberg posted a link to this article on her Facebook page. One comment on her post was as follows:

Heidi Fox I don’t want her to run for president. We need her in the Senate!

This is the kind of response that drives me up a tree. Here is my response in turn.

Steve Greenberg

According to Elizabeth Warren:
> “We have the opportunity. The moment is upon us.”
> We push back hard enough, we’re pushing for
> America’s agenda. Not an agenda to help a small
> group of people, an agenda to build a future for this
> country. And I believe we win. I believe it.

I sure would like to believe this, but at the moment I am still an agnostic. I am still fighting though.

However, I feel that people who do not want her to challenge Hillary Clinton for the nomination are giving Hillary a free pass to triangulate with the Republicans.

If you just give the nomination away to the Wall Street choice for President, what do you think you will gain from that? Is the fight just over? Or do you think we can start to fight some other time? How bad does it have to get, before you decide it is time to fight?

Do you think we should put any pressure on the Democratic Party to nominate for President someone on the people’s side instead of Wall Street’s side? If you think we should, how exactly do you propose to put on that pressure?

From The Boston Globe comes This Stuff’s in you land.

I don’t know why the people are so easily fooled by industry. Perhaps people are so used to seeing trash in the street they never notice that there are far more non-returnable containers lying around than their are returnable ones.

Do you know what class you are in in the class war currently being waged by the top 1% against the 99%?

You can go to the MoveOn.org page for Robert Reich: A Republican Senate would wage war on working families to sign up for various volunteer activities.

If you had troubles with the first question I posed above, just ask yourself if you think your family is in the working class as opposed to the leisure class.

The Daily Kos has the article Wendy Davis delivers address on Austin’s culture of corruption and Abbott’s role in TEF scandal which features the video below.

Sharon no longer wants to admit that she is from Texas. I feel like I rescued her from the state over 40 years ago. It would be nice if the voters of Texas gave her back the pride of birthplace that everyone would like to have.

Robert Reich has posted the video Lost in the Fine Print on his Facebook page.

This is tort reform on steroids.  If you have friends that think they want to vote for Republicans who favor tort reform, make sure they see this video.  However, I think this video shows that the push for tort reform is moot.  The Supreme Court has already granted protection from law suits. Let me clarify. You don’t get protection from law suits by the rich. The rich get protection from law suits by you.

This is another example of how the wonderful “job creators” who get tax breaks from us create their wealth. They steal it from us. Makes you want to vote Republican doesn’t it?

For a long time it has annoyed me that the events that I put into my calendar on my Android Tablet do not get synced up with the online Google calendar.  When I am sitting at my computer and get notice of a new event, I have to find my tablet to even see if the event conflicts with my schedule.

So today, I decided I was going to solve the problem.  All the settings on the tablet were already set to sync up calendars.  In fact events that I scheduled online, do appear in my tablet’s calendar.  It just does not seem to work the other way.

I searched the internet for a hint.  I found the article Calendar entries sync only one way! With 162 posts by 139 authors, I found a trail that led me to the solution.  However, I  did not find an answer that told you what the simple problem was and what was the easiest way to  fix it.  So I added what I discovered.  I don’t know if people will find the answer buried among all the other answers.

The problem is that by default on the calendar app on my tablet (the app that came with the tablet, I think), you schedule events in “My Calendar”.  If you want them to appear in the online calendar, you have to put them into the calendar that you have set yourself up to sync with.  Once you have made this discovery, this calendar app allows you to edit existing events and change the calendar that they are in from “My Calendar” to your online calendar.  The app itself is set up by default (I think) to display the events in all the calendars that it knows about.

Since it all seems to work by default locally on the app from the start, you may never have thought to look in the drop-down menu of all the calendars that you could schedule the event in.  Certainly none of the documentation I found about syncing ever mentioned that you have to put the events in the right calendar.  It is so obvious, that I guess nobody thought to mention it.  Note that none of the 138 authors that contributed to this thread in the online forum mentioned above seemed to be aware of the simplest reason why syncing seemed to be one-way.

Oh, by the way, the official Google Calendar app that was recommended in the above thread does not allow you to change existing events from “My Calendar” to the online one.  After I discovered that the old calendar app did allow such changes, I uninstalled the official Google Calendar app and put the old  one back on the home page of my tablet.

October 11, 2014

I found that sync had stopped working. I reinstalled the official Google Calendar app. It did the sync ok. Looking at the calendar with either app, after the sync showed all the events that it should have.

I am hoping that the official calendar app will continue to automatically sync the calendar, but I am going to continue to use the other calendar app to view and create events.

I stumbled upon this 2012 video.

How exactly did Mitt Romney Get So Obscenely Rich? Robert Reich explains The Magic of Private Equity in 8 Easy Steps

This is what I have been trying to explain. Robert Reich does a very nice job of doing it in an entertaining way. This is also why I coined the term “vulture capitalists” to describe what Mitt Romney and his ilk are up to.

Robert Reich posted this on his Facebook page.

In this new video from MoveOn.org Political Action, Robert Reich unpacks the Koch brothers’ influence network, and how the Koch brothers are trying to use their wealth to impose their self-interested agenda on the rest of us. Visit http://j.mp/KochPetition to sign the petition.

If you don’t know about the Koch brothers, where have you been hiding?

CNN has this opinion piece This is Elizabeth Warren’s moment.

Warren has been a huge attraction on the campaign trail during the past few months, speaking about these very issues and promising to devote her time to this cause.

Ever since Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy died, Democrats have not been able to find a new liberal lion to champion the progressive economic traditions that been so integral to the party since the New Deal.

President Obama, who many Democrats thought would be that person, has failed to live up to expectations. He surrounded himself with economic advisors who were comfortable with the status quo and whose pragmatism pushed him away from the bolder policies that the Democratic base hoped for.

Now, with the disclosure of these tapes, Warren has a very real chance to prove to Democrats that she is the new voice.

This is what I have been saying.   Go Elizabeth!!

I found the link to this CNN article in the Ready for Warren Facebook post.

PC Magazine has the article Don’t Get Robbed by a Banking Trojan.

These last few strategic approaches take a considerable amount of effort—they’re probably beyond what most people are willing to do to protect themselves. And, the fact is, even if you change your banking strategy, an online bank robber who specifically targets you will probably get your money.

Fortunately, that’s not how they operate. They cast a wide net and go for the easy targets, and the easy targets keep them plenty busy. By keeping up with online security best practices, you can avoid being one of those easy marks, and most cybercrooks will turn their attention elsewhere.

I have quoted the last two paragraphs of the article to show you why you should at least try to protect your online banking.  You’ll have to read the article to see the easier steps that they recommend.  I am not even going to talk about what approaches I do or do not use.  The less info about my practices that I make public, the better.