Nuke it from orbit...it's the only way to be sure.

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GOP firm We Ask America has Obama up 1 in VA, 4 in OH, 7 in WI. Baldwin up in WI. weaskamerica.com/2012/11/02/hot...

— Steve Singiser (@stevesingiser) November 2, 2012

We're having computer problems and Charles tries to improve things by throwing up a GOTO... sigh.

Things are sure to get worse before they get better.

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Looks good going into the final stretch.

re: #2 Obdicut

Everything's gone to hell since we stopped using COBOL.

People need to program with this instead.

Today I did my part for the democratic process and voted.

Even though, as a north Texas resident, that voice is pretty much a lonely whisper in a Tea Party-fueled derpstorm.

For those who need to ask, I didn't vote for a single Republican candidate, and will not do so until they disassociate themselves from the clutches of the theocrats and neo-Confederates who are currently in control of the party.

re: #2 Obdicut

Everything's gone to hell since we stopped usingleft COBOLKobol.

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GOP firm We Ask America has Obama up 1 in VA, 4 in OH, 7 in WI. Baldwin up in WI. weaskamerica.com/2012/11/02/hot...
— Steve Singiser (@stevesingiser) November 2, 2012

Skewed! /

Science proves Heaven is hotter than Hell.

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Tea Party-fueled derpstorm

An excellently descriptive term I intend to plagiarize.

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re: #4 Lidane

From now on They Won't Ask America.

fox is hosting michael brown to criticize response to sandy. no, really. no. really. no. no. no. really.

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 2, 2012

Reuters poll says Obama is +3 in VA

Somebody Told A Guy Obama’s Columbia GPA Was Only 2.6, Daily Caller Takes 4 Pages To Explain

In 2004, after Obama’s successful speech at that year’s Democratic convention, a Columbia University official told him Barack Obama’s GPA, he explained to TheDC.

“This person told me that he [Obama] was a pre-law, poli-sci major, had a lot of incompletes, and as best could be determined after sorting through the incompletes, had a GPA of 2.6,” said the businessman, a former Marine Corps combat veteran.

See? And he’s a Marine, so to question this report is to Hate the Troops! It also makes perfect sense that a Columbia official would have looked up Obama’s records, calculated his GPA (adjusting it downward by “sorting through the incompletes”), and then tell an acquaintance about it, because the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 totally has an exception for really good gossip. Also, we hate to be all math-y, but if you reach a cumulative GPA of 2.6 after “a lot of incompletes,” doesn’t that mean that you kind of had a pretty high number to start with? But, hey, either way plays into delightful stereotypes: He’s either pretty dumb, or he’s so lazy he didn’t bother to finish his classes!

The Blackmail Caucus

If President Obama is re-elected, health care coverage will expand dramatically, taxes on the wealthy will go up and Wall Street will face tougher regulation. If Mitt Romney wins instead, health coverage will shrink substantially, taxes on the wealthy will fall to levels not seen in 80 years and financial regulation will be rolled back.

Given the starkness of this difference, you might have expected to see people from both sides of the political divide urging voters to cast their ballots based on the issues. Lately, however, I’ve seen a growing number of Romney supporters making a quite different argument. Vote for Mr. Romney, they say, because if he loses, Republicans will destroy the economy.

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re: #16 SpaceJesus

Reuters poll says Obama is +3 in VA

Sounds perfectly plausible to me. Romney's anti government rhetoric really isn't going to work in the population centers here where a lot of people work for the federal government. Plus we're pretty socially liberal too.

re: #15 darthstar

fox is hosting michael brown to criticize response to sandy. no, really. no. really. no. no. no. really.

I'm sure they introduced him by saying..."as the person with perhaps the worlds most experience at leading a botched relief effort, we wanted to know his opinion of the Obama administrations efforts," right?

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DHS Napolitano in Staten Island; complaints that it took 4 days to make it to Staten Island - particularly against FEMA and Red Cross.

There's merit to that - Staten Island was among the hardest hit areas, and the resources haven't been brought to bear nearly as well as they should have. They need to "fill the zone" with help.

And the weather's turning colder heading into the weekend and next week.

NYC harbor is once again reopened. That's a huge help - marine traffic was shut after the storm because the USCG found unsafe conditions - channel bouys had to be relocated/remarked. Once the situation was deemed safe, they could reopen to traffic, including tankers with oil/gas.

Right now, there's potential for a Nor'easter on Wednesday. More to follow.

re: #20 HappyWarrior

"We Ask America" (a conservative polling outfit) has the following up:

OHIO - Obama 50.2%, Romney 45.8%
VIRGINA - Obama 48.5%, Romney 47.6%

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re: #15 darthstar

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Yes, let's hear what the poster boy for disaster mismanagement has to say and ignore what the governor of the state impacted most has to say about the president's response. I wonder if Chris Christie is thinking to himself "Fuck, I don't want anything to do with these psychos anymore."

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re: #22 lawhawk

DHS Napolitano in Staten Island; complaints that it took 4 days to make it to Staten Island - particularly against FEMA and Red Cross.

There's merit to that - Staten Island was among the hardest hit areas, and the resources haven't been brought to bear nearly as well as they should have. They need to "fill the zone" with help.

And the weather's turning colder heading into the weekend and next week.

NYC harbor is once again reopened. That's a huge help - marine traffic was shut after the storm because the USCG found unsafe conditions - channel bouys had to be relocated/remarked. Once the situation was deemed safe, they could reopen to traffic, including tankers with oil/gas.

Right now, there's potential for a Nor'easter on Wednesday. More to follow.

Was Staten Island supposed to be evacuated?

re: #18 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You

The Blackmail Caucus

Yes, when a child holds their breath until they get what they want, a parent should always give them more candy. /

DHS Napolitano in Staten Island; complaints that it took 4 days to make it to Staten Island - particularly against FEMA and Red Cross.

And they're going ahead with the Marathon, which sounds really crazy to me.

Hold the phones, we've got a real candidate just in time;

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re: #27 Sionainn

NYC evacuated Zone A areas.

Mind you, the Zone A was meant for Cat 1 storms.

Sandy may have been a Cat 1 storm by wind speed, but the storm surge was closer to a Cat 3 marginal Cat 4 storm, pushing water into Zone B and C areas.

But not everyone wanted to leave those areas.

That's where some of the problems mount.

re: #30 Kragar

Hold the phones, we've got a real candidate just in time;

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His White House press conferences would be hilarious and awesome. Heh.

Barton: Administration Allowed Libya Attack as 'Perfect Set-Up' for Passing Laws to Criminalize Criticism of Islam

Today on "WallBuilders Live," David Barton said that, based on recent discussions he held with members of Congress, he now believes that the Obama administration allowed the attack in Benghazi, Libya to take place because it would be "the perfect set-up" to pass anti-blasphemy laws aimed at protecting Islam:

Remember, folks, he wrote the Republican Party's 2012 platform.

re: #31 Lidane

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Bruce is awesome, but George needs to be the top of that bill.

We saw yesterday that the RNC is already hauling out the FRAUD!! excuse at a national level.

And in the specific races it's already happening too:

McMahon’s camp seeks court order over New Haven ballot numbers

The campaign of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon is seeking an emergency court order requiring the city’s registrar of voters to certify how many ballots she has ordered for the election, but the official said she ordered enough for 110 percent of the voter list and state officials have that information.

Todd Abrajano, spokesman for McMahon, said they tried to get that information from New Haven, but were not able to get an answer “to our satisfaction.” He said New Haven was the only municipality that had not filed a certified document indicating how many ballots it has ordered for Tuesday’s election with the secretary of the state’s office.

New Haven Republican Registrar of Voters Rae Tramontano said the city did miss the deadline, but put the information in an email to the secretary of the state’s office and followed up by mailing a hard copy listing the number of ballots ordered for each of the 40 polling stations.

[...]

“Abiding by state law and ensuring the integrity of elections should be the top priority of all municipal election officials,” McMahon campaign manager Corry Bliss said in a statement. “The voters of Connecticut deserve to know their elections will be fair and transparent so they can trust the outcome. Our campaign has attempted to work directly with election officials in the City of New Haven to certify polling places will have enough ballots on November 6 as required by state statute.”

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But, it looks like it'll backfire:

[Republican] Tramantano said she explained the situation to the McMahon campaign. “We’re good. This is petty stuff. I’m so mad at these people,” Tramontano said. “I’m getting so mad at them, I might not vote for her.”

Hehehe.

BTW, Nate Silver gives McMahon something like a 12% likelihood of winning.

re: #33 Lidane

His White House press conferences would be hilarious and awesome. Heh.

"My common sense is tingling."

re: #32 lawhawk

NYC evacuated Zone A areas.

Mind you, the Zone A was meant for Cat 1 storms.

Sandy may have been a Cat 1 storm by wind speed, but the storm surge was closer to a Cat 3 marginal Cat 4 storm, pushing water into Zone B and C areas.

But not everyone wanted to leave those areas.

That's where some of the problems mount.

I don't feel sorry for people who have been told to evacuate, but they refuse to leave, thinking they'll just ride it out, and then end up calling for help because it was way rougher than they ever imagined. I guess I'm a bitch, but they can deal with the repercussions of their decision on their own and quit tying up responders and resources who have better things to do than deal with a bunch of bozos.

re: #15 darthstar

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re: #32 lawhawk

NYC evacuated Zone A areas.

Mind you, the Zone A was meant for Cat 1 storms.

Sandy may have been a Cat 1 storm by wind speed, but the storm surge was closer to a Cat 3 marginal Cat 4 storm, pushing water into Zone B and C areas.

But not everyone wanted to leave those areas.

That's where some of the problems mount.

My office building was in zone A. It took four feet of water and will be out of action for 2 - 4 weeks, as water got to the building's mechanicals in the basement. There's a whole lot of building managers out there trying to get phone guys, electricians, elevator people and other skilled trades into those buildings. Those people will be very busy for a long time.

re: #17 The Ghost of a Flea

Somebody Told A Guy Obama’s Columbia GPA Was Only 2.6, Daily Caller Takes 4 Pages To Explain

I don't understand 'as best as can be determined'. College GPAs aren't some kind of mystery, they put them on the transcripts.

I know of a couple of people who are deferring their spot in the marathon until next year. They are afraid of 1. Being disrespectful toward NYers who may not want them there and 2. Being an asshole.

re: #20 HappyWarrior

Sounds perfectly plausible to me. Romney's anti government rhetoric really isn't going to work in the population centers here where a lot of people work for the federal government. Plus we're pretty socially liberal too.

Virginia is often swingy, but they went for Obama last time, didn't they?

re: #31 Lidane

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Hail to the King, Baby!

Well, looks like the method I'm using to poll the server to find the number of new comments, and the pageviews and Twitter clicks, is going to have to be re-designed. When we get hit with a surge of traffic from somewhere like Reddit or Facebook (today we had both), the repeating Javascript code that runs every five seconds, in every logged in user's browser, is causing logjams in the database.

Under normal traffic it works fine, but when there are suddenly thousands more people trying to get in the connections start piling up. As soon as I disabled that repeating script, things started running just fine.

So, I have a plan to fix it.

re: #25 HappyWarrior

Yes, let's hear what the poster boy for disaster mismanagement has to say and ignore what the governor of the state impacted most has to say about the president's response. I wonder if Chris Christie is thinking to himself "Fuck, I don't want anything to do with these psychos anymore."

I think Chris Christie is thinking "Holy Fuck, my state is underwater, and people are rowing down the freeway. We have rats, and destroyed infrastructure, and massive property damage, and loss of life. Someone see if they can get the president back on the phone."

That's because Chris Christie actually seems to be aware of what his frickin' job is.

re: #11 Kragar

Science proves Heaven is hotter than Hell.

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I've never seen it as a chart, but I first heard that argument around 1969. I must be getting old....

re: #42 SanFranciscoZionist

I don't understand 'as best as can be determined'. College GPAs aren't some kind of mystery, they put them on the transcripts.

I don't understand birthers. Citizenship isn't some kind of mystery, they put it on the birth certificate.

re: #38 Sionainn

I don't feel sorry for people who have been told to evacuate, but they refuse to leave, thinking they'll just ride it out, and then end up calling for help because it was way rougher than they ever imagined. I guess I'm a bitch, but they can deal with the repercussions of their decision on their own and quit tying up responders and resources who have better things to do than deal with a bunch of bozos.

Told to evacuate and able to evacuate are different things. I know a guy whose aunt survived Katrina only because his girlfriend was visiting, and while the elderly lady dithered and worried, girlfriend told her that they were leaving and going to girlfriend's house in Boston in half an hour, and where was the cat carrier?

If her nephew had not been dating this woman, and if this woman were not the sort to drop by to visit an old lady, Auntie would be dead.

Today on "WallBuilders Live," David Barton said that, based on recent discussions he held with members of Congress, he now believes that the Obama administration allowed the attack in Benghazi, Libya to take place because it would be "the perfect set-up" to pass anti-blasphemy laws aimed at protecting Islam:

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. Other than Derp.

re: #37 Kragar

"My common sense is tingling."

"The day my father Odin banished me from Asgard, I was bitten by a vampire and had radioactive waste dumped into my eyes. To make matters worse, my mutant ability to control weather activated just as I was hit by a blast of gamma radiation. Nah, actually, I got this way by volunteering for the Weapon X program. They promised to cure my cancer. And they cured it all right, by giving me an outrageous healing factor. Then they labeled me psychotic and tossed me into a prison lab. So I escaped and became what some people might call a 'mercenary'. I prefer the title 'cleaner of the gene pool.'"

I don't understand 'as best as can be determined'. College GPAs aren't some kind of mystery, they put them on the transcripts.

$%^&* college GPA's! How do they $%^*# work?

NYC teachers had to report to work today with expectation of school on Monday, but it was a total waste of time for everyone involved.

re: #46 Charles Johnson

So, I have a plan to fix it.

Will we have to buy our own refresh hamsters?

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re: #50 SanFranciscoZionist

Told to evacuate and able to evacuate are different things. I know a guy whose aunt survived Katrina only because his girlfriend was visiting, and while the elderly lady dithered and worried, girlfriend told her that they were leaving and going to girlfriend's house in Boston in half an hour, and where was the cat carrier?

If her nephew had not been dating this woman, and if this woman were not the sort to drop by to visit an old lady, Auntie would be dead.

I understand that. It sounds like in New York that was a case of people not being able to evacuate, but more along the lines of being "tough" and riding it out just because. Maybe I've missed something.

re: #42 SanFranciscoZionist

I don't understand 'as best as can be determined'. College GPAs aren't some kind of mystery, they put them on the transcripts.

The way I look at it, the Caller's case is constructed to hit as many slurs and dog whistles as possible, not to build a case based on research. I mean, it's third person hearsay to start with, involves an illegal disclosure, and makes it sound like they need that pendant from Raiders of the Lost Ark to figure out a GPA. To me, it seems like someone trying to sound plausible about a subject they don't know, and thus throw in jargon and unnecessary detail.

re: #26 lawhawk

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That sucks. My heart goes out to the mother on Staten Island who lost her 2 and 4 year old little boys to the flood waters when they were trying to drive out in their SUV. She spent the night of the storm crawling over fences, searching everywhere for them. She stayed the rest of the night on the porch of an abandoned home.
She is going to have a real hard time of it.

it would be "the perfect set-up" to pass anti-blasphemy laws aimed at protecting Islam:

Anti-blasphemy laws? Why would a gang of secular gay atheist humanists want to pass "anti-blasphemy laws"?

I've been watching that Romney interview again, and all the anti-Mormon comments on Youtube are bothering me. I have a big problem with his embrace of Skousen's end times eschatology, but I don't hold anything against his religious preference.

Romney is more like Obama than he would ever care to admit. He has been appointed as a "leader" of something that is outside the experience and knowledge zone of most of middle America. I'd like to think the country is past this, but it isn't.

Which is why I think that video is so damning to him. The negative reactions we are seeing are what would happen to Obama if he lost his cool. If the same thing happened to Obama in relation to church or race, we'd never hear the end of the "Angry Black Man" meme.

re: #56 Sionainn

I understand that. It sounds like in New York that was a case of people not being able to evacuate, but more along the lines of being "tough" and riding it out just because. Maybe I've missed something.

Maybe, I don't really know how things were working.

I do think that if you're told to get out, not getting out is both stupid and potentially murderous toward the people who will have to come and get you if you get in trouble.

re: #61 SanFranciscoZionist

Maybe, I don't really know how things were working.

I do think that if you're told to get out, not getting out is both stupid and potentially murderous toward the people who will have to come and get you if you get in trouble.

I don't think people really expected the storm to be as bad as it was, or the waters to rise as high as they did.

It reminds of the tsunami in Japan a year and a half ago. I don't think they were prepared for that either.

re: #41 garhighway

As was mine. Not sure if we're going to be back up and running Monday. But even if the building is open, all the NJ commuters are still screwed as far as rail is concerned. NJ Transit has huge probs.

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That bridge is the Morgan drawbridge that has been featured on numerous photos from the region. The container on the bridge had to come from somewhere - but my friend who takes that line (NJ Coast) says there's no roads for at least 50 yards - so that container had to float in from somewhere else. Clearing out the boats and container from the bridge are easy. Fixing the drawbridge itself might be much more difficult. It appears to have been knocked off kilter.

My train line apparently still has some flooding and washouts, but it also has problems in Hoboken. The rail yard and terminal have significant damage and washouts. They've got to reset rails w/ballast and fix all the signal systems.

re: #59 Bulworth

Anti-blasphemy laws? Why would a gang of secular gay atheist humanists want to pass "anti-blasphemy laws"?

Because Islam, that's why!

re: #59 Bulworth

Anti-blasphemy laws? Why would a gang of secular gay atheist humanists want to pass "anti-blasphemy laws"?

Because secular gay atheist humanists are head-over-heels in love with Sharia Law, silly. It fits right into their secular gay atheist humanist agenda. Didn't you listen to that women in the video of the Romney rally? Obama's father was a Muslim and an atheist, so there.

re: #52 Lidane

"Bring me more Pop Rocks and Dr. Pepper. Prepare to bathe my monkeys."

Todd Akin Compares Criticism of his Remarks to Beheadings by Islamic Extremists

he argued that “political correctness” had caused him to face greater backlash than Bill Clinton, “who was accused of doing something wrong, as opposed to saying something wrong.”

“It surprised me that the saying it wrong almost seems like it’s worse than the doing it wrong,” he said. Clinton, of course, was impeached. And Akin’s comments on abortion and rape are indeed reflected in his actions, such as his attempt to redefine rape and participation in militant anti-abortion rights activism.

He went on to compare criticism of his remarks to decapitation by Islamic extremists: “We see that all the time with [what] the Islamists pull out on us: we’re offended so we’re going to cut your head off.”

First Wisconsin, now, Iowa:

EXCLUSIVE: Romney Campaign Incorrectly Trains Iowa Poll Watchers To Check For Photo ID

re: #67 Kragar

He went on to compare criticism of his remarks to decapitation by Islamic extremists: “We see that all the time with [what] the Islamists pull out on us: we’re offended so we’re going to cut your head off.”

I'm going to blame him for giving me ideas....

The GOP is slowly fading from being a major political party out here in Golden state:

Calif. voter registration hits record of 18.2 million; Republican Party dips below 30 percent

California has reached an all-time high of 18.2 million registered voters while the number of registered Republicans has fallen below 30 percent, signaling a worrisome decline for the state’s minority party.

In its final update before Tuesday’s general election, the secretary of state’s office announced Friday that the number of registered voters has increased by 950,000 since the 2008 presidential contest. Officials attribute that surge in part to the state’s new online registration system, which helped many young, Democratic-leaning Californians sign up to vote this fall.

That system was seen as a threat to the California Republican Party, which has struggled to maintain voters, let alone add them. The secretary of state announced that Republicans now make up 29.3 percent of the state’s electorate, compared with 31.4 percent in 2008.

The GOP now has about 1.5 million more voters in the state than those registered as having no party preference, previously called decline-to-state voters. Independent voters account for 21 percent of the electorate.

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Larry Flynt Declares War On Todd Akin: Prove ‘Legitimate Rape’ And I’ll Give You A Million Bucks

On Sunday, Flynt will run a full-page ad in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch promising a $1 million reward for Akin if the Republican can provide “proof to substantiate” his infamous line, “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try and shut that whole thing down.”

Tongue firmly in cheek, Flynt calls on Akin to back up the statement in his full-page ad.

Please send me evidence that supports your special knowledge that women who are raped will naturally not get pregnant. I assume you would never have ventured such an original statement about women’s reproductive biology, and suggested that women should have no fear of unwanted pregnancy from rapists, unless have in your possession completely conclusive evidence.

re: #68 dragonath

First Wisconsin, now, Iowa:

EXCLUSIVE: Romney Campaign Incorrectly Trains Iowa Poll Watchers To Check For Photo ID

The odds are incredibly remote, but I'm almost hoping someone tries that here in NJ. I'll have them arrested in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, I can see this crap going down next door in Philly, particularly if someone tries to Vote While Being a Minority.

re: #67 Kragar

Todd Akin Compares Criticism of his Remarks to Beheadings by Islamic Extremists

I love how people like Akin imagine that even though they justify policy with personal opinions, that what they say is "personal" somehow should shield them from criticism and insult of the "...and I'll make policy for that personal opinion" component.

Hence, Bill Clinton's blowjob, in spite of not being part of some kind of No Mistress Left Behind initiative, is draw as a comparison to "I promise to use my elected powers to implement this insane, woman-hating opinion I've just uttered."

NY Marathon cancelled

re: #74 blueraven

NY Marathon cancelled

Good.

NYC Marathon canceled, reports NBC News

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 2, 2012

re: #17 The Ghost of a Flea

Somebody Told A Guy Obama’s Columbia GPA Was Only 2.6, Daily Caller Takes 4 Pages To Explain

And yet today, and quite possibly for the next four years, Obama is the president of the US. Deal with it. :-)

AP, still pushing the horse race:

Fierce finish: Romney, Obama sharpen closing lines

Down to a fierce finish, President Barack Obama accused Mitt Romney of scaring voters with lies on Friday, while the Republican challenger warned grimly of political paralysis and another recession if Obama reclaims the White House. Heading into the final weekend, the race's last big report on the economy showed hiring picking up but millions still out of work.

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That's the right call - delay the marathon and get those resources to where they're really needed. Use the tents and porta-pottys for the local communities that were hard hit (esp. near Fort Wadsworth at the VZB, plus elsewhere on the route.

NYC Marathon canceled, reports NBC News
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 2, 2012

Amen. Good.

I'm seeing posts on Facebook claiming that they've called off the NYC Marathon.

Bloomie was being hard-headed about it in his presser today, so I'm thinking that organizers couldn't get the transportation for the runners together. They were supposed to have announced the transport plan this morning but didn't.

A Clackamas County [Oregon] elections worker is under criminal investigation for tampering with ballots, WW has learned. [That's Willamette Week, not me]

The underlying allegation is that the woman, whose name has not been released, filled in blanks on ballots turned into the county for the Nov. 6 general election.

Sources familiar with the incident say their understanding is that the woman filled in a straight Republican ticket on the ballots where preferences had been left blank by voters.

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Adapt or Die

re: #81 makeitstop

Multiple sources are reporting - but the fact is that the marathon should have been postponed from the outset. Postponing early would have gotten attention where it was needed and avoided a logistical nightmare of now dealing with getting those folks first coming in for the race having to turn around.

BTW - Lower East Side is seeing power returned along with the East Village. That's a huge chunk of Manhattan outages. With that power returned, the subways will follow within a couple of hours - including East River Tunnel/Bridge access to some lines.

That's huge.

re: #70 freetoken

Fox News is like Kryptonite to new voters. Why would anyone not yet part of a group join the party of elitist, judgmental bigots? It's such a transparent joke.

re: #68 dragonath

First Wisconsin, now, Iowa:

EXCLUSIVE: Romney Campaign Incorrectly Trains Iowa Poll Watchers To Check For Photo ID

We discussed poll watchers in my poll worker training yesterday. They are not able to ask the voter _anything_. They can go through the chief inspector only. After the voter has left the building then exit pollers and the like can talk to them, but not in the polling place.

Photo ID can be used to register at the polls, in which case we do have to see it but if already registered, the voter need only say his/her name and address out loud.

Justice Department to Monitor Polls in 23 States on Election Day

The Justice Department announced today that its Civil Rights Division plans to deploy more than 780 federal observers and department personnel to 51 jurisdictions in 23 states for the Nov. 6, 2012, general election.

Although state and local governments have primary responsibility for administering elections, the Civil Rights Division is charged with enforcing the federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all citizens to access the ballot on Election Day.

[...]

There's a list there of the counties to be monitored. It includes Maricopa and Pinal Counties in Arizona, and Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties in New Mexico.

We have a plan.

(That way we don't do anything today)

Can Polls Change Elections?

[...] Some political scientists believe that heavy reporting on opinion polls causes voters to view the campaign as a “horse race,” in which the only objective is to pick the winner.

Polling data also has what psychologists refer to as “normative social effects”: Some people simply don’t like straying from the pack. [...]

re: #83 freetoken

Adapt or Die

So, a bunch of yellow turtles.

Everybody knows it's turtles all the way down.

Don't forget to turn back the clock. Vote Mourdock.

— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) November 2, 2012

re: #90 b_sharp

Speaking of which:

NASA Worker Not Fired Over Intelligent Design, Judge Says

A California judge has tentatively ruled that a worker fired from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory did not lose his job over his intelligent design beliefs.

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A Warning For “True the Vote:” Do Not Intimidate Voters

PRESS RELEASE

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is being released by Velasquez & Associates on behalf of the undersigned organizations:

An alliance of 21 civil rights, human rights and labor organizations, including the NAACP, the Hispanic Federation and the AFL-CIO, today urged True the Vote and its affiliates to halt immediately its national campaign to assert challenges to the eligibility of voters.

True the Vote, a Texas-based organization, has announced plans to place a million poll watchers around the country, reportedly targeting minority groups and other demographic groups traditionally under-represented in our democracy. The 21 organizations wrote True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht to urge her to dismantle the program, which they called “a sad revival of racially targeted voter suppression that America left behind decades ago.”

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Glad they're calling out the intimidation bullshit. Fucking disgusting. Sometimes you think we've learned and then you read about crap like that.

re: #70 freetoken

Also, from that article

California Republican Party Chairman Tom Del Beccaro questioned the gains Democrats made this election cycle. Republicans opposed the push to online voter registration because “we didn’t feel there was enough study or safeguards reviewed,” he said.

“We’re going to have to see whether those are valid registrations or actual voters,” Del Beccaro said.

Yeah, because they've done such a good job of that in Virginia and Florida.

re: #67 Kragar

Todd Akin Compares Criticism of his Remarks to Beheadings by Islamic Extremists

...He went on to compare criticism of his remarks to decapitation by Islamic extremists: “We see that all the time with [what] the Islamists pull out on us: we’re offended so we’re going to cut your head off.”

So that thing attached to his neck isn't really a head? That explains a lot.

Paul Ryan just announced that he won the New York City Marathon.

— Joy Behar (@JoyVBehar) November 2, 2012

Glad they're calling out the intimidation bullshit. Fucking disgusting. Sometimes you think we've learned and then you read about crap like that.

2 updings.

re: #67 Kragar

Todd Akin Compares Criticism of his Remarks to Beheadings by Islamic Extremists

"Political correctness?" Dude makes a comment about "legitimate rape" and Todd the fuckface is crying about political correctness. No, Todd, that's not political correctness. That's common decency. Maybe they didn't teach it to you when you were being taught there are such things as legitimate rape in the cesspool where you grew up.

re: #93 wrenchwench

A Warning For “True the Vote:” Do Not Intimidate Voters

We have a few TTV efforts in AL, mostly indistinguishable from Tea Party. Wife and I are certified as poll watchers, but didn't get any special training or info on them. Surprised they'd bother with our 100% Romney rating on Silver.

“a sad revival of racially targeted voter suppression that America left behind decades ago.”

And they will only get crazier if Obama is re-elected. But they'll get crazier anyway.

re: #92 freetoken

Speaking of which:

NASA Worker Not Fired Over Intelligent Design, Judge Says

Har de har har har.

Tis to laugh

Loudly

"True Screw the Vote"

re: #100 Decatur Deb

We have a few TTV efforts in AL, mostly indistinguishable from Tea Party. Wife and I are certified as poll watchers, but didn't get any special training or info on them. Surprised they'd bother with our 100% Romney rating on Silver.

They are the Tea Party. As much as 'the Tea Party' is any one thing. The founders boasted of being Tea Partiers, and I'm sure they recruit from that pool.

re: #96 Someone Please Beam Me Up!

So that thing attached to his neck isn't really a head? That explains a lot.

He does have a point.

No, really.

It's right there on the top of his head.

NYC Marathon will be cancelled -- city official

Yup I think the city has it's hands full without trying to do the marathon.

Heh... Dick Morris who has steadily been pimping a GOP landslide...

In The Last Few Hours…Sudden Danger Signs In Polling

And now, for some science:

Discovery of beer gene could improve 'foam character'

Scientists have found the first gene for beer foam, a discovery which they say will help researchers perfect the frothy "head" atop a freshly poured pint.

Researchers from Spain and Australia say they have identified the yeast gene which helps produce the proteins needed to create bubbly foam, in a study published in the journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

"This novel protein is responsible for beer foam stabilization," the researchers wrote. "This report represents the first time that a brewing yeast foaming gene has been cloned and its action fully characterized... Foam quality is an important organoleptic property of beer that directly correlates to consumer appeal."

[...]

Really:

Cloning and Characterization of the Beer Foaming Gene CFG1from Saccharomyces pastorianus

Foam production is an essential characteristic of beer, generated mainly from the proteins present in the malt and, to a minor extent, from the mannoproteins in brewer's yeast cell walls. Here, we describe the isolation and characterization of the novel fermentation gene CFG1 (Carlsbergensis foaming gene) from Saccharomyces pastorianus. CFG1 encodes the cell wall protein Cfg1p, a 105 kDa protein highly homologous to Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell wall mannoproteins, particularly those involved in foam formation, such as Awa1p and Fpg1p. Further characterization of Cfg1p revealed that this novel protein is responsible for beer foam stabilization. This report represents the first time that a brewing yeast foaming gene has been cloned and its action fully characterized.

And here you thought all boffins were boring.

re: #108 freetoken

And now, for some science:

Discovery of beer gene could improve 'foam character'

Really:

Cloning and Characterization of the Beer Foaming Gene CFG1from Saccharomyces pastorianus

And here you thought all boffins were boring.

Sorry, science has been cancelled because it confuses the hell out of too many old goats.

One of my favorite comments from my blog post "Liberty to Lie." Yes folks, this is America... twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/s...

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) November 2, 2012

re: #109 b_sharp

You'd think that if the lab coat guys could identify the beer-foam gene they could also identify the foaming-wingnut gene too, no?

re: #108 freetoken

Scientists have found the first gene for beer foam, a discovery which they say will help researchers perfect the frothy "head" atop a freshly poured pint.

Researchers from Spain and Australia say they have identified the yeast gene which helps produce the proteins needed to create bubbly foam, in a study published in the journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Any bets whether they got their inspiration from this?

[Link: www.imdb.com...]

re: #107 blueraven

Heh... Dick Morris who has steadily been pimping a GOP landslide...

In The Last Few Hours…Sudden Danger Signs In Polling

Morris' stupid site nearly crashed my browser.

But because you gotta mock Morris at every opportunity:

We are still likely to win. The undecided vote always goes against the incumbent and all the polling suggests we will be more successful than they will be at turning out our vote. But, early warning signs must be headed.

Idiot.

re: #110 wrenchwench

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Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you.

re: #107 blueraven

Heh... Dick Morris who has steadily been pimping a GOP landslide...

In The Last Few Hours…Sudden Danger Signs In Polling

Even this mouth breathing nitwit can read the writing on the wall...this is him switching over to ass covering mode.

re: #107 blueraven

Heh... Dick Morris who has steadily been pimping a GOP landslide...

In The Last Few Hours…Sudden Danger Signs In Polling

I guess he's ready to run away from his earlier idiotic assertion that Romney would get 300+ EVs. Read something in the comments on Silver's blog that Gingrich apparently sent out on accident an email that seemed to imply that Newt thinks the election is lost despite the fact Newt said publically on the 25th that he thought Mitt would win in a landslide. I assume behind the public arrogance, there's a lot of doubt especially with the new polls.

re: #115 bratwurst

He's not a nitwit, he's a liar for hire.

re: #29 Bulworth

And they're going ahead with the Marathon, which sounds really crazy to me.

It's cancelled.

Thank god. The cops and emergency personnel are obviously needed elsewhere.

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

re: #111 freetoken

You'd think that if the lab coat guys could identify the beer-foam gene they could also identify the foaming-wingnut gene too, no?

Only one foaming product at a time, please.

They chose the right priority.

The FRAUD!! story being pushed by the RNC is being crafted together nicely, with their #1 agency chiming in:

Claims increase of machines switching votes in Ohio, other battlegrounds

re: #114 b_sharp

Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you.

Nuh uh! You're up in Canada!!

re: #113 makeitstop

Morris' stupid site nearly crashed my browser.

But because you gotta mock Morris at every opportunity:

Idiot.

I thought the sirens going off my head were from local sources, not loco sources.

re: #121 wrenchwench

Nuh uh! You're up in Canada!!

Come on up, the water's fine...once you break through the ice.

Hahaha:

PA at Romney rally now playing Public Enemy's "He Got Game," with the Stephen Sills guest vocal.

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) November 2, 2012

'How Can That Be?' More on the 'They Can't Both Be Right' Saga

Fallows on polling issues is worth reading, but the coda (which is actually a quote from a reader) is a bit chilling:

There is an additional, more pernicious aspect to the Fox News-Crossroads-GOP fostering of a Romney-is-winning narrative: de-legitimizing an Obama win. Time and again, the right's narrative toward Obama (and earlier, toward Clinton) has been that his very presidency is illegitimate. (He's not American, he's Kenyan; the unemployment numbers aren't real, they're cooked; Obamacare isn't Romneycare, it's Soviet communism; and on and on.)

This is my new favorite video. It's about thrift stores. It's a rap about thrift stores.

re: #124 Lidane

Hahaha:

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And the follow up:

This is not the censored version. A crowd of Republicans just heard the line "fuck the game if it ain't sayin' nothin'"

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) November 2, 2012

Just when you thought that Todd Akin couldn't go any lower, he rolls out a TV ad that features - yep, you guessed it - a rape victim.

[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

re: #125 The Ghost of a Flea

There is an additional, more pernicious aspect to the Fox News-Crossroads-GOP fostering of a Romney-is-winning narrative: de-legitimizing an Obama win.

They've been trying that for 4 years.

re: #124 Lidane

Hahaha:

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Five bucks says that the Romney campaign didn't get permission to use that song.

re: #130 RadicalModerate

Five bucks says that the Romney campaign didn't get permission to use that song.

Heh considering that Steve Stills recently said that Romney scares him more than Nixon did. That's a good bet.

re: #130 RadicalModerate

Five bucks says that the Romney campaign didn't get permission to use that song.

S'OK. They won't do it again.

re: #130 RadicalModerate

Five bucks says that the Romney campaign didn't get permission to use that song.

Have they gotten permission from anybody to play anything?

re: #130 RadicalModerate

Five 10,000 bucks says that the Romney campaign didn't get permission to use that song.

FTFY

re: #133 b_sharp

Have they gotten permission from anybody to play anything?

re: #126 Obdicut

This is my new favorite video. It's about thrift stores. It's a rap about thrift stores.

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I love that song. Makes me LAWL.

re: #118 Obdicut

It's cancelled.

Thank god. The cops and emergency personnel are obviously needed elsewhere.

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

@drudge_report Hahaha! Linking to Breitbart. #Fail Keep trying.

— Gus (@Gus_802) November 2, 2012

re: #137 Gus

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What a loser.

Another right-wing conspiracy shot down. The other one is from PressTV.

The other garbage...

UPDATED MUST C – PressTV.com claims Admiral Gaouette under suspicion for planning overthrow of Obama if re-elected!!!!

Derpity derpy do!

re: #127 wrenchwench

And the follow up:

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One other thing, that exemplifies the total fail of the Mitt Romney campaign.

Chuck D, the front man for Public Enemy... is a Sunni Muslim.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

re: #130 RadicalModerate

Five bucks says that the Romney campaign didn't get permission to use that song.

$20 says that the Romney crowd was both confused and offended by a rap song being played at all.

Before it is News is whacked.

re: #140 Gus

The other garbage...

UPDATED MUST C – PressTV.com claims Admiral Gaouette under suspicion for planning overthrow of Obama if re-elected!!!!

Derpity derpy do!

This is what I seriously expect to see more of when Obama wins his second term: assholes provoking the government and then when the government reponds to their threats or acts of violence, it will be held up as proof that they want to come and disarm us all and put us in FEMA cams run by lesbian secularist Islamist multiculturalist vegans.

re: #142 Lidane

$20 says that the Romney crowd was both confused and offended by a rap song being played at all.

Wouldn't shock me. That or they think they're hip because they're hearing rap.

I've signed an Exec. Order prohibiting insurance companies from imposing costly hurricane deductibles on NJ homeowners. bit.ly/TqMFJW

— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) November 2, 2012

re: #144 AK-47%

This is what I seriously expect to see more of when Obama wins his second term: assholes provoking the government and then when the government reponds to their threats or acts of violence, it will be held up as proof that they want to come and disarm us all and put us in FEMA cams run by lesbian secularist Islamist multiculturalist vegans.

There used to be this one Paulnut that used to post to that site almost daily.

re: #144 AK-47%

T...snip .. will be held up as proof that they want to come and disarm us all and put us in FEMA cams run by lesbian secularist Islamist multiculturalist vegans.

Saw that movie on real late night Starz.

re: #146 Lidane

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BIG GOVERNMENT REGULATING PRIVATE BUSINESSES!

re: #142 Lidane

$20 says that the Romney crowd was both confused and offended by a rap song being played at all.

How much does it really take to confuse a pile of old white men?

Benghazi truthers are full on loco just like the 9/11 truthers. Lots of overlap.

re: #146 Lidane

I've signed an Exec. Order prohibiting insurance companies from imposing costly hurricane deductibles on NJ homeowners.

Why do you hate the Free Market, governor?

/

re: #146 Lidane

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Brilliant progressive move by Christie.

re: #146 Lidane

Socialism!

Good going, Governor Christie. That's a very nice firm stance on how important good regulation is in the marketplace.

How much longer is he going to stay GOP? I doubt he's going to be well-loved by the nutjobs if he keeps being cool.

Or is he the actual path back to sanity for the GOP? I think his positions on a lot of things suck and he's been willing to pander in the past, but if he stopped pandering to the extremists in his party, I think he might be able to viably have a shot at pulling a real, living GOP out of the current shambling mess that's sinking into the mire.

Apparently, the whole election rests on 2 counties in OH

Dear Faithful Friend of Liberty,

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The race for president can now be boiled down to two key counties in one key state - Ohio - with Cuyahoga and Hamilton counties arrayed as the final battlegrounds.

Change the voting dynamics in those two counties - and there will be a conservative government in this country once again.

I and pretty much my entire FFC team have been on the ground here in Ohio for the last few weeks wearing out shoe leather, knocking on doors, and watching the polls move our way.

Please, we need your help for this last stretch. We've used your generous donations - every penny of them - to get this far. We need just a little more gas in the tank to push us over the finish line.

If everyone getting this email today will please invest $10 in the outcome of this historic election, that will help us do our very best to close the gap in these final days of the home stretch. Could you please do that right now, while you're thinking about it.

For God and Country,

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Founder and Chairman

Lovely.

Navy SEAL Group Will Air Anti-Obama Ads During Harvey Weinstein's 'SEAL Team Six' Film'

Gah. I hate the right-wing.

re: #151 Gus

Benghazi truthers are full on loco just like the 9/11 truthers. Lots of overlap.

Watch out man, or they'll go all Benghazi on your ass.

re: #157 b_sharp

Watch out man, or they'll go all Benghazi on your ass.

Yeah. They have a thing about the rear end and one's genitalia.

re: #154 Obdicut

Or is he the actual path back to sanity for the GOP? I think his positions on a lot of things suck and he's been willing to pander in the past, but if he stopped pandering to the extremists in his party, I think he might be able to viably have a shot at pulling a real, living GOP out of the current shambling mess that's sinking into the mire.

I think that was part of the message behind his praising Obama over Sandy: all but the most ideologically hidebound idiots understand that we need Republicans who can work together with Democrats if we are to succeed as a modern functioning democracy.

Ugh. I see the "Page Wars" are still going on.

re: #150 b_sharp

How much does it really take to confuse a pile of old white men?

All it takes is a set of lady parts. Just look at all the GOP idiocy over birth control.

re: #150 b_sharp

How much does it really take to confuse a pile of old white men?

ahem.

WTF?

Home Depot Founder: Retailers Who Don't Support GOP "Should Be Shot"

Stupid, ignorant, violent, right wing, redneck idiots.

re: #163 Gus

WTF?

Home Depot Founder: Retailers Who Don't Support GOP "Should Be Shot"

Home depot is the Chik-fil-A of wood.

Note that's from 2008--Norm Coleman.

Sorta digression. As an adult who has quit games over the rampant sexual verbal abuse this is welcome. [Link: www.dailydot.com...] Paraphrasing what Microsoft says here:

Freedom has consequences. You are free to rape your opponents, to call them whores and b***s. You can ask them if their vaginas hurt, using whatever vulgarity you wish.

And if you do, we are free to permaban you from Halo 4. That's the consequence of your freedom.

Your choice: Play or troll. You can't do both.

re: #161 Lidane

All it takes is a set of lady parts. Just look at all the GOP idiocy over birth control.

Well they are a bit frightening, with all the power they hold.

re: #162 Decatur Deb

ahem.

You coughed?

re: #14 garhighway

From now on They Won't Ask America.

We Ask America*

*No, Not You, The REAL America

re: #165 Decatur Deb

Home depot is the Chik-fil-A of wood.

He carries a lot of wood for Romney.

re: #165 Decatur Deb

Home depot is the Chik-fil-A of wood.

Lowes isn't any better really. I try to only go to local Co-op's Ace instead. Even Wal-fart is better than either of them.

re: #169 b_sharp

You coughed?

Type louder, sonny.

re: #167 kirkspencer

Freedom also means taking ultimate responsiblity for everything you say and do, for if you are truly free, nobody is coercing you to say or do anything against your will.

We pretty much all get the freedom part with great difficulty, but learning the responsibility part is a bitch...

re: #171 b_sharp

He carries a lot of wood for Romney.

Their real bag is anti-unionism. They're not just agin' em, they spread anti-union programs to other corporations.

re: #173 Decatur Deb

Type louder, sonny.

Great! Now we have to deal with an 'angry' old white man, sheesh.

re: #86 William Barnett-Lewis

We discussed poll watchers in my poll worker training yesterday. They are not able to ask the voter _anything_. They can go through the chief inspector only. After the voter has left the building then exit pollers and the like can talk to them, but not in the polling place.

Photo ID can be used to register at the polls, in which case we do have to see it but if already registered, the voter need only say his/her name and address out loud.

I'm guessing the laws vary by state. In Mass. the law states that anybody can issue a challenge at any time. What state did you do your training in?

re: #176 b_sharp

Great! Now we have to deal with an 'angry' old white man, sheesh.

What the hell did you think happened to the Angry Young Men?

re: #167 kirkspencer

I'm actually a server admin on a L4D2 server that has the same rules. Hell, we ban you for being overly negative towards other players, even without the vulgarity. We, as a gamers group, pay for the server, and we administrate it according to the rules we want. As a result, it's one of the most popular servers in the world. I invite any L4D2 players here to get in there. It's this one:

[Link: www.gametracker.com...]

And my player name is "Fluffy". Just follow the rules if you do go on there, because, well, freedom has consequences.

re: #173 Decatur Deb

Type louder, sonny.

Debra, I'm damned near as old as snow covered hills, and damn near as white.

Pathetic.

Just drove by a trailer park with six Romney-Ryan yard signs. I have comments.

— emokidsloveme (@emokidsloveme) November 2, 2012

re: #178 Decatur Deb

What the hell did you think happened to the Angry Young Men?

Good point.

Excuse me, I think I dropped my staple gun around here somewhere.

re: #181 Gus

Pathetic.

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re: #121 wrenchwench

Nuh uh! You're up in Canada!!

He is in Saskatchewan, so he can legitimately say that (Ottawa is to his right, Alberta to his left).

re: #183 Gus

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"And there's always a place for the angry young man,
With his fist in the air and his head in the sand.
And he's never been able to learn from mistakes,
He can't understand why his heart always breaks.
His honor is pure and his courage as well,
He's fair and he's true and he's boring as hell!
And he'll go to the grave as an angry old man."

re: #163 Gus

WTF?

Home Depot Founder: Retailers Who Don't Support GOP "Should Be Shot"

WTF indeed.

re: #177 Hercules Grytpype-Thynne

I'm guessing the laws vary by state. In Mass. the law states that anybody can issue a challenge at any time. What state did you do your training in?

Wisconsin. They can challenge any voter but they have to go through the Chief Inspector, they can not delay the election and they can not see the documents used to verify residency. And if we feel they're disruptive we can bounce them on their assess. The police department is, literally, next door in the same building :)

Evening dogwalk. BBL

re: #185 Gus

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White House: NYC marathon a local issue (Updated) (Byron Tau / Politico) politico.com/politico44/201... memeorandum.com/121102/p89#a12...

— memeorandum (@memeorandum) November 2, 2012

LIES! Obummer told Bloomberg to cancel! Eleventy!

*crickets*

Listening to Jason Mraz as I build yet another server and talk to friends on LFG.

"He fuckin' did it"

But he IS a lizard. That one's true. | Chart: Almost Every Obama Conspiracy Theory Ever motherjones.com/politics/2012/... via @motherjones #p2 #TFY

— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) November 2, 2012

POTUS as a Lizard? Yeah, I could see it. He'd fit in around here, I think.

re: #93 wrenchwench

A Warning For “True the Vote:” Do Not Intimidate Voters

True The Volk.

Republican and Romney Voters: A Video Collection

On Sunday, don't forget to set your clocks back an hour. On Tuesday, try not to set your country back 50 years. #Obama

— Lydia R.H. Slaby (@LRHSlaby) November 2, 2012

Romney's Apology Tour: twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/...

— The Obama Diary (@TheObamaDiary) November 2, 2012

One more:

Everytime someone tweets "Benghazi," Satan pokes Andrew Breitbart in the ass with a pitchfork #tcot

— Gen JC Christian (@JC_Christian) November 2, 2012

Why Do White People Think Mitt #Romney Should Be President? slate.com/articles/news_... #p2 #tlot #Obama #Obama2012 #Racism #USA

— Gus (@Gus_802) November 2, 2012

re: #163 Gus

WTF?

Home Depot Founder: Retailers Who Don't Support GOP "Should Be Shot"

Home Despot.

WW, I saved this for you- it's about NM and the Southwest, among other things.

Fascinating read.

For Hispanic ‘Crypto-Jews,’ lawsuits may follow religious rediscovery

Oh look. A Free Beacon link.

Glad Bloomberg cancelled the marathon.

I'm also hoping that the seniors in the high rises all got a visit today.

Heeeey everyone!

re: #202 researchok

WW, I saved this for you- it's about NM and the Southwest, among other things.

Fascinating read.

For Hispanic ‘Crypto-Jews,’ lawsuits may follow religious rediscovery

Thanks! Fascinating topic.

re: #203 Gus

Take a deep breath, let it out slowly, and watch this, if you haven't already. Even if you have, watch it again. I'm going to.

re: #206 wrenchwench

Take a deep breath, let it out slowly, and watch this, if you haven't already. Even if you have, watch it again. I'm going to.

Sounds nice... and funny!

ICYMI...

Right Wing “Free Beacon” Launches Misogynist Attack on Woman Who Asked Debate Question

Amongst a hundred other wingnut crazy they're known for. So yes, Free Beacon can stuff it.

re: #207 Gus

Made me laugh!

Benghazi!
Er, I mean good Benghazi!
Uh, evening.

re: #207 Gus

Sounds nice... and funny!

That's the way to deal with rwnj derp overload; singing, dancing, and ridicule.

re: #210 Varek Raith

Benghazi!
Er, I mean good Benghazi!
Uh, evening.

Tweet it!

re: #206 wrenchwench

Take a deep breath, let it out slowly, and watch this, if you haven't already. Even if you have, watch it again. I'm going to.

Sooooooooo great. Just what I needed.

Tweeted - hopefully people will click!!

VIDEO: @mittromney was a failure in MA, left office with 34% approval: youtube.com/watch?v=54sBNj... #FAIL

— American Bridge (@American_Bridge) November 2, 2012

re: #206 wrenchwench

Take a deep breath, let it out slowly, and watch this, if you haven't already. Even if you have, watch it again. I'm going to.

Nice!

re: #214 Gus

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Hell Santorum of all people makes a good point there. If his record was so great, why didn't he run for re-election? He knew he was toast.

Not sure if Freetoken posted already, but two of the men killed in Benghazi had San Diego roots. Here's an interview with their parents in our right wing fishwrap.

Classic grief combined with very effective brainwashing & propaganda. Read the quotes.

[Link: www.utsandiego.com...]

Laying down a marker: Most journalists underrate the role of GOP's racist attacks on Sotomayor in driving Obama's Latino support.

— Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 2, 2012

re: #218 wrenchwench

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GOP these past four years has done everything possible to alienate Latino voters. The recent ad that compared Obama to Che, Castro, and Chavez didn't go over well at all apparently and it's easy to see why.

re: #219 HappyWarrior

GOP these past four years has done everything possible to alienate Latino voters. The recent ad that compared Obama to Che, Castro, and Chavez didn't go over well at all apparently and it's easy to see why.

Yeah. It's hard to single out one thing. They've really covered all the bases when it comes to alienating black people, brown people, female people, poor people, smart people, --hey, I think it's gonna be a landslide for Obama!

re: #220 wrenchwench

Yeah. It's hard to single out one thing. They've really covered all the bases when it comes to alienating black people, brown people, female people, poor people, smart people, --hey, I think it's gonna be a landslide for Obama!

Of course, then when those groups vote against them. They claim they were hoodwinked by the Democrats or that they're bigots for voting against the GOP. Really hoping Tuesday is an Obama day. Romney doesn't deserve to be president.

re: #219 HappyWarrior

GOP these past four years has done everything possible to alienate Latino voters. The recent ad that compared Obama to Che, Castro, and Chavez didn't go over well at all apparently and it's easy to see why.

There's also a lot of latinos who came here first as migrant workers of one kind or another, in the food industry, the building trades, and of course the entire agricultural industry. One of the biggest Latino heroes is Cesar Chavez, a labor organizer. So is Corky Gonzales, a community organizer. And so is Jaime Escalante, a (shock) public school teacher-- and he was pretty damn right wing, but he was passionate about the funding and importance of public education.

So when the GOP trash community organizers, public school teachers, and labor leaders, they're really trashing a very large portion of Latino heritage, and really the majority of grassroots latino political history.

re: #222 Obdicut

There's also a lot of latinos who came here first as migrant workers of one kind or another, in the food industry, the building trades, and of course the entire agricultural industry. One of the biggest Latino heroes is Cesar Chavez, a labor organizer. So is Corky Gonzales, a community organizer. And so is Jaime Escalante, a (shock) public school teacher-- and he was pretty damn right wing, but he was passionate about the funding and importance of public education.

So when the GOP trash community organizers, public school teachers, and labor leaders, they're really trashing a very large portion of Latino heritage, and really the majority of grassroots latino political history.

Yep precisely.

Hamsters were doing a work-to-rule.

Meet America's least informed voter: @fugelsangsth interviews Mr. Lester Durndack @ 9E/6P tonight! Watch a preview: bit.ly/ShFLb3

— Current TV (@current) November 2, 2012

Super Stupid bit.ly/Vkg0MF

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) November 2, 2012

re: #226 Gus

If anyone on the outside doesn't know by now that Fox exists to be against anything, and I mean anything Democratic.....Like a storm. And American victims of said storm.

You're either brainwashed, or you are not.

This is cool...from a facebook feed:

Kudos to the Levittown mom who put the smiles on my grandchildren's faces, as well as those of all the other kids, in her neighborhood, when she came up with the idea of Trick or Trunking! She started a text amongst friends, which spread to friends of friends. They all met in a parking lot of a, now defunct, K-Mart. Adults came in costume; cars were decorated, complete with eerie sound effects. The kids got to trick or treat, with their friends, safely away from the downed lines, and limbs, left in Sandy's wake. Thank you, to my daughter's neighbor, my granddaughter's friend's mom. I nominate you Neighbor of the Year!! If nothing else you, ARE the mom who saved Hallowe'en, for these kids! I thank you for that.

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Evening Lizardim. Seems like my stress, rather like a nasty fever, has finally broken. Hopefully I can get some actual sleep to complete the cure and get myself back on track. How are things among the Lizardim this cold and cloudy winter night?

Don't know where to fucking vote? Click this fucking link. It will fucking tell you.

[Link: yourfuckingpollingplace.com...]

538 now has Obama's chance of winning at 81%--enjoy your evening... fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com
4:55pm - 2 Nov 12

re: #231 Page 3 in the Binder of Women

538 now has Obama's chance of winning at 81%--enjoy your evening... fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com
4:55pm - 2 Nov 12

or...gotv

re: #231 Page 3 in the Binder of Women

538 now has Obama's chance of winning at 81%--enjoy your evening... fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com
4:55pm - 2 Nov 12

Be not the hare, who seeing his lead paused to celebrate before winning.

re: #231 Page 3 in the Binder of Women

538 now has Obama's chance of winning at 81%--enjoy your evening... fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com
4:55pm - 2 Nov 12

With odds like these, do I have the guts to drop a big bet on Obama on Intrade?

re: #233 kirkspencer

Be not the hare, who seeing his lead paused to celebrate before winning.

yeah. i kinda got that strongly after posting.

re: #233 kirkspencer

Be not the hare, who seeing his lead paused to celebrate before winning.

Wife and I are making our last GOTV trip into Florida in the morning.

(While there, we'll buy replacement yard signs. Between us, a friend and I have lost 3. This one will be tethered to a tumbler alarm in a shrub.)

Bombing the Creature

Romney Jr travels to our "geopolitical foe" to raise money for his business that Daddy won't invest in. Imagine if an Obama child did that?

Speaking of curing what ails you, time for some good old-fashioned junk food. Back in a bit, Lizards.

Rant on:

Swear to fucking God, I've had it up to here with Republicans and conservatives. I'm trying with all my might not to brand you guys as all the same, but you're making it really, really hard.

Hurricane Sandy is Mother Nature flushing the toilet. Fuck you.

Rant over.

EDIT: forgot the word "not" because I'm really pissed off right now

re: #229 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

How are things among the Lizardim this cold and cloudy winter night?

Clear, upper seventies and no wind. Are you sure you wanted to know?

re: #238 Achilles Tang

Romney Jr travels to our "geopolitical foe" to raise money for his business that Daddy won't invest in. Imagine if an Obama child did that?

Why does this makes me think Romney's tough talk on Putin is nothing but talk?

Four days before the election and you have server problems? Really. Shit, I can't even pretend to be a conspiracy loving con.

Evening Lizards.

Any CL news?

This ad from 2008 applies AGAIN. We need to paste Romney's head over that old addled dudes. (thanks again DDeb)

re: #245 Page 3 in the Binder of Women

Any CL news?

Haven't heard anything. Power is still out in most of NJ.

re: #247 Gus

Haven't heard anything. Power is still out in most of NJ.

I wouldn't say "most", but the Shore and North Jersey are still hurting. The state did start allowing people back into some towns down here in the AC area.

re: #248 Mattand

I wouldn't say "most", but the Shore and North Jersey are still hurting. The state did start allowing people back into some towns down here in the AC area.

Right.

anyone got a link to the concert?

re: #245 Page 3 in the Binder of Women

Any CL news?

Haven't seen anything yet.

re: #250 Page 3 in the Binder of Women

anyone got a link to the concert?

It's just a studio stage...no audience to speak of. Song or two, then cut to a news report...then a song. Text 90999 to give 10 bucks.

re: #249 Gus

Right.

Dammit she should know we are worried (big sister mode here)

re: #250 Page 3 in the Binder of Women

anyone got a link to the concert?

[Link: www.nbc.com...]

re: #242 HappyWarrior

Why does this makes me think Romney's tough talk on Putin is nothing but talk?

Why are you so polite?

re: #245 Page 3 in the Binder of Women

Same thought.