Politics Plus

Another month has come, and the comfortable temperatures are reminding me why Autumn is my favorite season of the year.  I’ll be spending a lot of time today collecting the data for tomorrow’s Monthly Report.  I’m current with replies. Tomorrow appears routine.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 5:10 (average 6:12).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Religious Ecstasy:

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From MoveOn: HILARIOUS: This ‘SNL’ Parody Of ‘Fox And Friends’ Is 100% Spot On

The Lord Willard parody is hilarious, and what the comedians said is hard to tell from the real Faux and Fiends.

From Politico: As President Barack Obama has gained in Ohio polls, so has incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who has now jumped out to a 10-point leadover [sic] GOP Senate candidate Josh Mandel, according to a poll released Monday.

A survey from the Columbus Dispatch found Brown ahead of Mandel by a margin of 10 points, 49 percent to 39 percent. The last Dispatch poll, out Aug. 26, had the two candidates tied at 44 percent.

The longer and stronger Obama’s coattails become, the better off America will be.

From Crooks and Liars: Those protectionist Villagers are at it again, inviting one of their cocktail partners to opine on a top-rated national program, who deserves no such recognition. And shame on David Gregory and Executive Producer Betsy Fischer Martin for promoting it by inviting Ralph Reed to insult the President of the United States’ honesty in his undisclosed role as proxy for the Mitt Romney campaign.

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This is the same Ralph Reid that duped millions of evangelicals into contributing to keeping women in slave labor camps with forced prostitution in the Marianas. His presence in Lord Willard’s campaign indicts Lord Willard. His presence on Meet the Press indicts the entire show.

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And I was in Yankee Stadium for that game. 🙂

You wouldn’t believe how pooped I was yesterday!  Except for preparing the Open Thread and helping half a dozen residents of my building register to vote, I slept through the day.  I’m current with replies.  Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and the meditation between the Denver congregation and the Oakland congregation will be televised here.  Wooo Hooo!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:22 (average 4:28).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: Awesome Great-Grandma Gives Romney A Piece Of Her Mind

The freeloaders are people like Lord Willard that stack the deck, so they get tax breaks that allow them to legally evade paying their fair share.

From NY Times: The Department of Homeland Security has stated in writing that foreigners who are same-sex partners of American citizens can be included under an Obama administration policy suspending deportations of some immigrants who pose no security risk.

So it should be.

From Detroit Free Press: The leader of the state Senate said he and fellow Republican colleagues are armed with a proposal to replace the state law that lets emergency managers take over local governments in the event voters strike it down in November.

The behind-the-scenes effort, which doesn’t appear to involve Republican House leaders or GOP Gov. Rick Snyder, aims to keep a form of the contentious law on the books

Is there nothing beneath Republicans when it comes to imposing totalitarian rule?

Cartoon: The worse the outlook for their party, the more desperate they become, so…

I have a second article for you today, but will have no time to distribute links, before I leave for my volunteer work in prison.  Today I will meet with over 100 guys for their annual essay contest.  I’m current with replies.  After two volunteer days this week, I expect to be useless tomorrow, but after that I have several days without an appointment.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:54 (average 4:36).  To do it click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: What if 47% of Americans Made A Sign As Awesome As This One?

Seamus must have been one of the 47% too.

From NY Times: In my next life, I want to be an undecided voter in Ohio.

Honest to gosh, can you imagine the love? If the Ohio Undecided Voter had a Twitter account, it would have 10 million followers. Each campaign would have an entire operation dedicated to watching it.

This is the best reason to support a National Popular Vote.

From The New Yorker: G.O.P. Presidential nominee Mitt Romney finally got some good news today as he found himself ahead of President Obama in a poll of N.F.L. replacement referees.

The survey, which immediately lifted the spirits of the Romney campaign, was taken among replacement refs on the field during N.F.L. games that they were supposed to be officiating last Sunday and Monday.

Another bad call!

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Yesterday my COPD was severe, and I got little sleep last night.  I had hoped to put up another article or two, but I need to try to sleep this morning, before I leave, so I’m not wiped out at my CoDA meeting with prisoners.  I’m still not current with replies.  Tomorrow I’ll probably be wiped out, but I hope I can catch up on replies then.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:56 (average 4:33).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Fantasy Football Report:

Here’s the news about our Fantasy Football League, Lefty Blog Friends.

Scores:

TomCat Teabag Trashers	hugos renegades
92.72	120.10
Playing without a helmet	MittsMagicJock
96.42	95.38
Progressive Underdogs	Texans Will Rise Again
95.62	97.60

Standings:

Rank	Team Name	W-L-T	Pct	Streak	Waiver	For	Against
1 (1)	hugos renegades	3-0-0	1.000	W3	6	330.46	275.24
2 (2)	TomCat Teabag Trashers	2-1-0	.667	L1	5	314.64	310.76
3 (3)	Playing without a helmet	2-1-0	.667	W1	4	308.80	306.76
4 (4)	MittsMagicJock	1-2-0	.333	L1	3	303.52	269.52
5 (5)	Texans Will Rise Again	1-2-0	.333	W1	2	254.58	327.66
6 (6)	Progressive Underdogs	0-3-0	.000	L3	1	280.32	302.38

What can I say?  Tony Romo had 5 fantasy points. 🙁

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: How Would You Feel If This Was Your Husband And Mitt Romney Called Him A ‘Freeloader?’

Lord Willard called him a freeloader, because that is what he and most of the rest of the 1% think of all people, who are not rich.

From NY Times: Thirty years ago, when Forbes published its first Forbes 400, a net worth of $75 million would get you on the list. Today it takes $1.1 billion. In the last year alone, the cumulative net worth of the wealthiest 400 people, by Forbes’s calculation, rose by $200 billion. That compares with a 4 percent drop in median household income last year, according to the Census Bureau. One would be hard pressed to find a clearer example of how powerfully income inequality has taken root…

…The fundamental reason the Romneys pay so little in taxes is that the bulk of their income comes from investments and thus is taxed at the capital gains rate of 15 percent. Although Romney himself isn’t close to being rich enough to join the Forbes 400, his reliance on capital gains is a trait he shares with most of the ultrawealthy. It is the thread that ties together the Forbes 400.

Perhaps, if the Republican Party had not rigged the system to favor them, the super-rich might make money by creating jobs!

From Global Post: At a Beverly Hills fundraiser on Saturday, Romney commented on his wife Ann’s recent scare in the air. Her plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Colorado on Friday after the airplane’s cabin filled with smoke on its way to Los Angeles. About the in-flight mishap Romney said:

“I appreciate the fact that she is on the ground, safe and sound. And I don’t think she knows just how worried some of us were. When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. [emphasis added]

Lord Willard is rich enough to build his own jet that has windows that open.  He’d find out how Seamus felt in short order.  I’ve got dibs on the video!! 😉

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