SDB Evening News Reads for 110211: Three’s Company…

Good Evening!

This afternoon I’ve been watching this film with Burt Lancaster…his character’s name is J.J., which happens to be my name…so it has been enjoyable, listening to Tony Curtis call out my name…

Alright, a third woman has come forward in the Cain Caper…I wonder if this third woman will be the “charm” or nail in Cain’s 2012 bid. Third worker says harassed by Cain – BostonHerald.com

A third former employee says she considered filing a workplace complaint over what she considered aggressive and unwanted behavior by Herman Cain when she worked for the presidential candidate in the 1990s. She says the behavior included a private invitation to his corporate apartment.

She worked for the National Restaurant Association when he was its head. She told The Associated Press that Cain made sexually suggestive remarks or gestures about the same time that two co-workers had settled separate harassment complaints against him.

The employee described situations in which she said Cain told her he had confided to colleagues how attractive she was and invited her to his corporate apartment outside work. She spoke on condition of anonymity, saying she feared retaliation.

On Memeorandum, the lead article is also about Cain, check it out: Oklahoma Consultant Claims He Witnessed Cain Harassment | KTOK-local – NEWSRADIO 1000 KTOK-AM

Oklahoma political consultant Chris Wilson says if the woman behind the reported sexual harassment complaint against GOP Presidential hopeful Herman Cain is allowed to speak publicly, it’ll be the end of Cain’s run for the White House.

Interviewed today on KTOK’s Mullins in the Morning, Wilson, of Wilson-Perkins-Allen Opinion Research headquartered in Washington, D.C. explained he was a witness to the incident.  “I was the pollster at the National Restaurant Association when Herman Cain was head of it and I was around a couple of times when this happened and anyone who was involved with the NRA at the time, knew that this was gonna come up.”

Wilson described the woman as a low level staffer who was maybe two years out of college.  “This occurred at a restaurant in Crystal City (Virginia) and everybody was aware of it,” he continued.  “It was only a matter of time because so many people were aware of what took place, so many people were aware of her situation, the fact she left—everybody knew with the campaign that this would eventually come up.”

I sure hope this puts the kibosh on the Black Walnut for good…I’m sick of the stupidity.

This interview with Obama is rich…what does his stance on the economy tell you about his high opinion of himself. Obama On Bad Economy: “I’m Less Interested In Allocating Blame” | RealClearPolitics

“When I finally did have a chance to talk to President Obama one-on-one, I asked him at what point does the economy become his fault and not his predecessor’s?”

President Barack Obama: “It’s always my responsibility. I’m less interested in allocating blame then just making sure that we’re taking every step we need to, to move the economy forward. And, you know, traditionally after big financial crises like this the economy takes a longer time to heal and we’ve seen some progress. In the private sector, we’ve seen over two million jobs created and this year alone, over a million jobs created. But, it’s just not enough yet to have an impact on everybody who needs help out there.”

Obama was also asked the quintessential question that every president gets when he is running for reelection: “Are we better off now than we were four years ago?”

“Well, you know, I think we are better off now than we would have been if I hadn’t taken all the steps that we took,” a hesitant Obama said. “I don’t think the country is stronger yet then it was when the economy was still booming and we didn’t have Wall Street crisis, and we didn’t have the housing bubble burst. But, we’ve made steady progress, we just need to make more.”

This man needs to get his head out of his proverbial ass and realize just how shitty things are!

Sorry, I can’t help being bitter…I am watching the world come down around my family and there is nothing I can do about it.

In Mississippi, the personhood amendment time bomb is ticking away…Gov. Barbour May Vote Against Mississippi’s Personhood Abortion Ban: It ‘Concerns Me, I Have To Just Say It’ | ThinkProgress

While the religious right are standing firmly behind the amendment, not all anti-abortion supporters are thrilled about the this radical overreach. Today on Fox and Friends, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) expressed considerable concern over the bill’s ambiguity, noting “a lot of pro-life people have problems with this particular language.” Following up with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, Barbour reiterated that he believes “life begins at conception” but that he may not vote for the bill because of the “ramifications” it will have on a woman’s reproductive rights and health:

BARBOUR: I believe life begins at conception. Unfortunately, this personhood amendment doesn’t say that. It says life begins at fertilization, or cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof. That ambiguity is striking a lot of pro-life people here as concerning. And I’m talking about people that are very, outspokenly pro-life. […]

TODD: How are you voting on it?

BARBOUR: Really I haven’t decided. If you would have asked me when this was first proposed, I would’ve said A, the legislature would’ve passed it 100 to 1. And B, I believe life begins at conception and therefore I would be for it. I am concerned about some of the ramifications on in vitro fertilization and [ectopic] pregnancies where pregnancies [occur] outside the uterus and [in] the fallopian tubes. That concerns me, I have to just say it.

Someone check Barbour for a fever…I wonder what is causing his hesitation…could it be that the damn thing has a pretty good chance of passing? I don’t know, seems a bit strange to me.

Quixote made a comment today asking why homegrown terror plots always come across like jokes…maybe it is because of the stupidity of the ones who get caught? I don’t know…

I don’t remember anything funny about the few that have sprung up, maybe because this particular terror plot was conceived in my backyard…so to say.  I have a inside look at the kind of people who populate the North Georgia Mountains…like these four Waffle House Rebels Without a Clue.

4 Men Accused of Planning Attacks Appear in Court – ABC News

Thomas, who is portrayed as the ringleader, talked of modeling the actions on the online novel “Absolved,” which involves small groups of citizens attacking U.S. officials, according to court documents. It was written by former Alabama militia leader Mike Vanderboegh, who wrote on his blog Wednesday that his book was fiction and said he was skeptical a “pretty geriatric” militia could carry out the attacks the men were accused of planning.

Vanderboegh told AP his novel was a “useful dire warning” about what could happen if the federal government encroaches too far on the rights of armed citizens. Vanderboegh said he is trying to warn the federal government to back off before violence occurs, yet he also believes a civil war is possible.

“My reason for everything I write is that there are a number of people in this country who have been pushed back and will not be pushed anymore,” he said.

What the hell does that mean? “useful dire warning” Can some of you help me out…I guess my brain is jumping to conclusions…does Vanderboegh mean that the FBI should treat the IP of visitors to his website as a red flag for terrorism?/snark

Or is he putting the word out to other would be Waffle House terrorist to use his website as a source for their planned attacks?

Let’s end this post with a new phenomenon in political polls…Walmart Moms…Moms who supported Obama in ’08 unsure about 2012  | ajc.com

Cheryl Abbarno was the most excited she’s ever been about a presidential election when Barack Obama was on the ballot in 2008, but she isn’t sure she’ll vote for him again.

“It’s discouraging to me that he’s not doing what he said he’s going to do. When he was campaigning, it was change, change, change, and I don’t see any change,” she said.

Abbarno is a Walmart mom — women with children under 18 at home who shop at the discount superstore — and two polling firms, one Democratic, one Republican, are following women like her because they believe they’ll play a key role in next year’s presidential election.

Their No. 1 concern is the economy. They’re split fairly evenly by party affiliation, but more important, they are persuadable voters who will decide late in the election cycle whether they’ll support Obama or the eventual Republican nominee.

These Walmart Moms are the new Soccer Moms…they represent 14 to 17 percent of the electorate.

In 2008, Walmart moms supported Obama, but in 2010 they voted Republican, though not enthusiastically, according to Public Opinion Strategies and Momentum Analysis, a firm that works with Democratic candidates and groups.

A poll the firms released Wednesday shows 43 percent of Walmart moms approve of Obama’s job performance while 54 percent disapprove. That compares to 46 percent of all voters that approve of Obama and 49 percent who disapprove. Yet 57 percent of the moms said they are still hopeful about the president compared to 42 percent who have given up on him. And three times as many of the moms, 22 percent, blame President George W. Bush for the nation’s economic problems rather than Obama, who 7 percent of the moms say is to blame.

“There are good lessons from this data for both Democrats and Republicans,” said Margie Omero of Momentum Analysis. “The bottom line from these results is that this is a group that can be persuaded either way in the presidential contest.”

The Obama campaign wouldn’t comment on Walmart moms

That last sentence is funny…

Well, I have two kids under 18 and shop at Walmart…I guess this means I am a Walmart Mom…but I sure as hell did not support Obama in 2008.

I don’t know, but if this group of voters is so important…why would the Obama campaign ignore them?

Anyway, that is it for met today, catch y’all later in the comments.