Phyllis is a newcomer here at Politics Plus. I know her from StumbleUpon, where she is known as Pasatter. Her sense of humor is off the wall! She has become one of the more prolific commenters here. Ironically, not long ago she told me to tell her to shut her big mouth. I objected and told her not to so do. Her comments are great, and as long as she doesn’t scare the horses, I think we’ll keep her around. 😉 Congrats, Phyllis!
Here are the results of the Obama Jobs Bill poll.
And here are your comments.
From kim on September 10, 2011 at 5:07 pm.
Go big, before they GIVE our social security and medicare to their corporate masters!
From Rose Din reply tokim on September 13, 2011 at 9:05 pm.
Go big they have black mailed unemployment , the debt ceiling, and just about any other legislation that could help. They don’t care about us. I’d rather go down fighting I’m tired of compromising to get crumbs. While I have watched Both my sons and my roommate loose their jobs. If we don’t hold the line now there will be nothing left to fight for or with.
From Lisa G. on September 9, 2011 at 7:21 am.
Go BIG and see what happens – this is what Americans want so if the Repubs doom it, they’ll be screwed!
From TWM on September 1, 2011 at 4:01 am.
If he doesn’t go big he becomes just another paid for politician. At this MOMENT I am still unsure if he is just weak or bought.
I voted big. It was a no brainer.
The new poll is on voting rights. Enjoy!
The last thing I needed on the hottest day of the year was a power failure that knocked out my little AC and fans for over four hours during the heat of the day. Needless to say, I’m wilted and non-functioning. Back in a day, I hope. Thanks.
Maria is a newcomer here at Politics Plus. I know her from StumbleUpon, where she is known as Wuggaslady. She’s super-bright, witty, and thoughtful, a welcome addition wherever she goes, and I’m thankful to have her here. She also writes an excellent blog, Nuts and Dolts. Congrats, Maria!
Yesterday I attended the draft of our Politics Plus fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends. We ended up with only six players, so it should be lively with lots of waiver claims. I uninstalled the editing plugin that did not work and installed a new plugin that not only allows you to edit and delete your own comments, but also gives you a rich text graphical interface and the ability to attach files. It was a hot day, but my little AC handled it, but it was still too hot to sleep. It was a slow day for news. I’m current with replies. Today I will be trying to beat the heat.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:47 (average 4:13). To do it click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From USA Today: When a reporter asked Palin what she thinks about the current GOP competitors, she answered: "Happy with the field of candidates. I always think that there’s room for more, though, because spirited debate and more competition will allow an even better discourse and more rigorous discourse that the public deserves."
Horsefeathers! She’s just trying to keep herself in the spotlight.
From San Francisco Chronicle: Earlier this week, President Obama announced that the EPA would drop efforts to bring ozone limits in line with what science says is safe. Ground ozone is the key ingredient in smog.
During the Bush administration, scientists said the safe range was 60 – 70 parts per billion. Instead, Bush set the limit at 75 ppb. The Obama administration had promised to reconsider the level, and had made rumblings of doing so until crying uncle last week. The level is still being enforced at the even more permissive 84 ppb.
I can’t begin to imagine what he was thinking. This is a horrible blunder.
Cartoon:
Yesterday I felt very tired from Wednesday’s activities and I slept until 11:00 AM. I caught up my past due email, did some volunteer paperwork, and responded to a request from Nameless. I found and installed a plugin that will allow you all to edit your own comments within 30 minutes of posting them. I’ll need your feedback, because I cannot tell how, or even if, it works, As blog administrator, I can edit any comment any time, so I don’t see the modification. I’m current on replies. Today I will be hunkering down, because we are getting another heat wave.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:47 (average 5:06). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Aljazeera: Thousands of women have gathered in Martyrs’ square in the Libyan capital of Tripoli to add their voices to the chorus of celebrations marking an end to the rule of Muammar Gaddafi.
Women have often been publically absent during the revolution, but they used the occasion on Friday evening to take part in what has been called the "million women march".
I hope this is indicative that the new government will respect women’s rights.
From Washington Independent: The first question U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta (R) received at a recent town hall meeting in Greenland, N.H., echoed sentiments freshmen House Republicans, only seven months into their first terms, are hearing across the country from their constituents: “You signed the Grover Norquist tax pledge, but you also took the oath of office. Which one takes precedence?”
Was that a marvelous question, or what?
From Common Dreams: The U.S. economy added a net total of zero jobs for the month of August, prompting new fears about a double-dip recession.
Private-sector firms added 17,000 jobs, while state and local governments continued to shed workers. The unemployment rate held steady at 9.1 percent.
The result was worse than the anemic projections that the economy would add around 75,000 jobs for the month.
Be sure to thank RepubliCorp for these blessings.
Cartoon:
In August, Politics Plus performed much better in every category. Uniques, visits, page views, hits and bandwidth are all up from July. I consider page views most important, because to generate more than one page view on a visit, someone has to open other pages to actually read them. After kids are back in school, I expect traffic to increase.
Here are our basic stats:
Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on September 1.
Our Clustrmap reset the morning of 2/28, starting over from scratch. This map counts only visits since then. The largest circles represent over 1,000 visits. The tiniest represent one to ten.
Our average durations were down from 240 seconds last month:
Number of visits: 41,950 – Average: 232 s
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34,569
82.4 %
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1,918
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That’s normal, because more visitors usually include more pit stops.
Search engine referrals were well up.
23 different referring search engines
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7093
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8,857
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Our top four non-blog referrers are:
http://www.reddit.com/ 8,500+
http://www.buzzflash.net/ 5,300+
http://www.care2.com/ 3,900+
http://www.jabberwonk.com/ 1,200+
Our top 15 blog referrers are:
http://america-weeps.blogspot.com/
http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/
http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/
http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/
http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
http://jackjodell53.wordpress.com/
Here’s some linkey-love in return The best ways you can spread the message to others is to use the share button at the bottom of each article to list our articles on the the networking sites where you belong. Quote PP articles on your own blogs also helps. The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.” We’re on the same side here, and I encourage. Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK. Just link back, please. Also, feel free to swipe my graphics in the articles. If they are labeled with our URL, they are my work.
The top fifteen commenters for August are missing, because I forgot to copy them off in time on the night of the 31st, and once they’re gone, I can’t get them back. Mea culpa.
The widget is in the right column. I don’t count, as I’m the resident big mouth, and I try to reply to every comment. Those who leave their URLs in their comments, get linkey love.
Technorati makes little sense again this month. Our performance was up and so were our ratings and ranks in both Politics and US Politics, but our Global rating remained the same. We are now B list globally, but A list in both categories..
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We have 507,580 links on other websites, down from 600,279 from last month.
We have 2,708 articles and 22,341 comments, as of midnight 9/1.
We have new wacky avatars, and I rotate them each month, but I recommend using your own avatar. Go to Gravatar. Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use. Whenever you comment under that e mail address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will be your avatar.
We have a new plug-in called sendlove.to. To vote or give your opinion about any of the famous people in an article, go to the comments page and click the tab for that person. Register using your Google, Facebook or Twitter ID. It’s quite enjoyable, and voting Republicans down is a great stress reliever.
Your participation remains what makes this blog worth reading, not to mention worth writing. Many people who visit here have told me that they come here to read your comments in addition to my articles. For the years I have been writing, the discussion has been almost exclusively between you and me. In the last couple of months, a lot more of you are replying to each other, and I could not not be more pleased. Politics Plus exists to help end right-wing insanity. Thank you all for all you do, here and elsewhere, to help make that happen.
Here are the results of the Obama Job Performance Poll.
And here are your comments.
From DesertMac on August 30, 2011 at 9:03 pm.
Don I, you’re quite the history revisionista, aren’t you. That’s not a question. Why is it that you rightwingnuts feel compelled to lie ALL the damn time? I’m not saying there weren’t dems like Larry Summers involved in deregulating the banks, but everyone with half a brain and the simplest of memories knows it was republiscum like Phil Gramm who crafted and championed those bills, and gutting Glass Steagal. And it has been republiscum who have fought tooth and nail against every miniscule attempt to regulate the banks and protect the consumers put forth by democrats. NOT ONE consumer protection bill related to banks has been introduced by a republiscum. Go spout your lies on some red state blog.
As for Obama, I voted "Bad". He has betrayed the people too damn many times to forgive him. Everything from extending and enhancing the Patriot Act and sanctioning warrantless wiretapping to protecting the big banks and surrounding himself with Wall Street crooks, stopping investigations of the banks and mort industries, stopping investigation and prosecution of the Bush criminal regime, to keeping the wars going (50K soldiers in Iraq still is NOT and end!) to appointing the Monsanto VP lawyer to "advise" the FDA, to proposing 36 billion for loan guarantees for nuke plants to stripping the public option from healthcare before the game even started to actively pressuring the 50 state AGs to give the mort banks a free pass….. I could go on and on with things he has done and not done that he led us to believe he would act in the opposite direction when we voted him into office.
I will vote for him as a protest vote against whomever the republiscum put up there, since we know it will be another mental midget hell bent on destroying the country faster than Obama could possibly act to destroy it— which he is doing.
From Marva on August 25, 2011 at 11:59 am.
I hope I’ll be able to raise his rating in my opinion from Bad to at least Fair before I’ll have no choice but to vote for him. I don’t dislike him. I think he believes the right stuff (that is, the things I do), but he continues the insane attempts to work with the Republicans when they’ve flat out stated they won’t. I think some executive orders would help. How about vetoing earthquake aid to Cantor’s District? Guess he can’t do that. No unilateral presidents.
From Don I in reply to Marva on August 28, 2011 at 3:54 pm.
You believe in destroying the country?? If Obama doesn’t have that as one of his first priorities, it seems he’s doing a much better job at getting that done, than he is at solving any of our problems.
From Willow2884 on August 24, 2011 at 8:16 am.
I think President Obama has tried too hard to govern from the center. I think he believest that if everyone is not quite happy, then he has done his job. However, he did campaign on specific promises and has not kept his end of the bargain. He has in the eyes of many democrats become milk toast to the GOP. Why did he not speak up in support of Unions while they were being demolished in Wisconsin? Why did he not push harder for the public option for health care? Why did he allow the Bush Tax Cuts to go through, then allow the GOP to tell us all we’re broke? He has had many successes also and needs to regain his confidence going forward or he will lose his support. Where is the Obama that was fearless, confident, strong and unwavering? We want that guy back!
From Don I in reply to Willow2884 on August 28, 2011 at 4:33 pm.
Our country is NOT broke. The govt has more than enough monthly income to pay for its bills. It just came to a point where Obama and the Dem’s couldn’t spend any more without increasing the Debt ceiling.
The real culprit was the legislations Dem’s passed and amended over the years that deregulated banking and financial businesses, allowed lenders to make super risky and just palin BAD loans, FORCED the lenders meet govt mandated quotas or be penalized, and made Fannie Mae buy up the bad loans (placing the liability for the bad loans squarely on the tax payers shoulders).
Unions should NOT be allowed to force all workers at a business to join them or NOT be able to work. People should have the freedom to choose whether they want to join or not. ALL states should be "Right To Work" States, where businesses can decide whether unions will be allowed to represent their workers or not. A person could decide whether to apply for work at a company knowing they may or may not be able to have representation by a union.
Can you tell me what the difference between a union and what the mob used to be? The Mob of (was illegal), used to allow people to do business in the area they controlled IF the businesses paid them off with weekly or monthly dues (for protection). If you didn’t pay them off and play the game the way the mob wanted you to, you were at best, run out of business, and at worst you wound up dead.
Today, Unions (are legal) allow people to do work at a business they control negotiations with, IF the person pays them off with monthly dues (for job security). If you don’t pay them off you don’t get to work any more.
From Ann on August 18, 2011 at 4:55 pm.
He doesn’t walk what he talks and the people who voted for him got betrayed in his attempt to appease the Republicans who will continue to stab him in the back. Maybe corporations and banks are too powerful even for the president, but still, there doesn’t seem to be genuine fight in him,… JFK might have been our last true ‘for the people’ president and well, they certainly made an example of what happens if speak too loudly for the people…
From Bonnie on August 15, 2011 at 10:10 am.
He’s tried to get things done and the Republicans are against everything he does. He tries way too hard to be liked by Republicans and capitulates on things that are important to the People. Independents and Republican vote is more important than his base and he’s running for votes not for the good of the people.
For the record, the right-wing extremist was banned from commenting for personal attacks. He snuck in through the back door. I reported him.
We had a broad spectrum response with good and fair garnering the most votes. To evaluate the results for terrible, consider that it includes both right wingers and the extreme left.
I voted fair. He has caved into to Republicans so many times that he should have realized by now that, when you have to use Vaseline on your butt, it’s not bipartisanship. He has fallen short of campaign promises on human rights and transparency. On the other hand, given the level of Republican obstruction, and considering that he never had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, because of Lieberman and Nelson, it’s amazing that he accomplished anything at all.
The new poll questions how Obama should proceed on jobs. Don’t forget to vote.
