Wednesday Reads: Twisted Tales… Happy Halloween
Posted: October 31, 2012 Filed under: Iraq, morning reads, Russia | Tags: George Lucas, Paul Ryan, Pinochet, Poland, Sandy 94 Comments »
Happy Halloween!
Many kids will be missing out on tonight’s Trick or Treating…lots of towns within the path of Sandy have postponed their Halloween festivities. I just want to put up a couple of links on the aftermath of Sandy then we will get to the juicy stuff.
The New York Times has this list of ways Sandy impacted each state…sort of painting the destruction by numbers if you will.
Tracking the Storm – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com I will give you a quick peak at a few:
NATION
8 Million+ Left without power. 18,000+ Flights canceled. 139 Miles per hour of top wind gust recorded (Mount Washington in New Hampshire).
And here are a some other links on Sandy as reported early this morning (I am writing this at 4 am):
‘Absolute Devastation’ Left by Storm in N.J., Christie Says – SFGate
Sandy’s force leaves millions across East Coast reeling Death, ruination in Eastern US and beyond- The Boston Globe
New York Subway System Faces Weeks to Recover From Storm – Businessweek
46 dead, millions without power, transit after Sandy – Weather | NBC News
Mayor estimates up to 25,000 stranded in Hoboken as flood conditions worsen – The Maddow Blog
Privatized disaster relief sounds like lots of rescued rich people. #Maddow
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Ali Davis (@Ali_Davis) October 31, 2012Saw this tweet also on the Maddow Blog and thought it was great.
Okay, now let’s move on to some news that I am sure you all missed the past two days. Do you remember that family that was murdered in the Alps this Summer? There is a wild bit of information being reported about the bank account of one of the victim’s family members. According to The Guardian: Saddam Hussein linked to Alps killings
The former Iraqi dictator deposited a huge sum of money in a Swiss bank account belonging to the father of murdered British engineer Saad al-Hilli, it has been claimed
When I first saw this story in the news, it seemed strange that such a connection is being made. Check it out.
Saddam Hussein deposited £840,000 in a Swiss bank account belonging to the father of the British engineer murdered with his wife and mother-in-law in the Alps, it has been claimed.
Saad al-Hilli, 50, has been linked to the former Iraqi dictator through his father Kadhim, who was once close to the tyrant’s Ba’ath party but fled his homeland for Britain in the 1970s. The money was reportedly deposited into an account in Geneva, an hour’s drive from where the massacre took place on 5 September at a remote spot near Lake Annecy in eastern France.
Hilli, his wife, Iqbal, and his mother-in-law were shot while his seven-year-old daughter, Zainab, was left badly injured and her four-year-old sister, Zeena, deeply traumatised. A French cyclist was also shot dead and the motive for the killings remains a mystery.
A French police source revealed that the money had been traced to Hussein by the German intelligence agency, the BND, according to Le Monde. Agents routinely monitored cash transactions with Baghdad as Germany did more business with the regime than any other country.
An intelligence source in Munich was quoted as saying: “They know the money trail, and they know how to follow it. They have spent decades monitoring money transactions between the west and Iraq. The BND is the first port of call in such circumstances.”
The Guardian states that…
The Le Monde story was published under the headline “The potential links between the al-Hillis and Saddam Hussein.”
It said: “According to a French police source, the German secret service informed the gendarmerie’s anti-terrorist branch that there were links between the al-Hilli family and Saddam Hussein’s fortune. The tensions began after Saad al-Hilli’s father [Kadhim] was struck off the list of beneficiaries of the former Iraqi dictator.”
When Kadhim died he left behind his considerable wealth in a will.
Le Monde identifies the money in the Swiss bank account – and not the inheritance – that may have been at the centre of the conflict. Swiss investigators discovered the secret account earlier this month, but according to Le Mondethey didn’t make the link to Iraq.
Interesting? Hmmmm, I’ve got another news story update with a twist, this one is about that plane crash many months ago that wiped out the entire Polish government. (Well, the president and his administration.)
Explosive traces ‘found on crashed Polish presidential jet’
Traces of explosives have been discovered on the wreck of the Polish presidential jet which crashed in Russia in 2010, killing then president Lech Kaczynski and 95 other people, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
“Tests have confirmed the presence of TNT and nitroglycerine on 30 seats. The substances were also found on the area linking the fuselage with the wing,” Poland’s leading Rzeczpospolita daily said.
The recent tests were conducted by “Polish prosecutors and experts” it said, but testing by Polish and Russian investigator immediately after the 2010 crash had ruled out explosives.
Seem far-fetched? I don’t know…
Rzeczpospolita raised the possibility the reported explosives might be traced to unexploded World War II bombs in Smolensk, an area of western Russia which saw heavy fighting.
“We must wait for prosecutors to draw their conclusions and establish the source of the substance before taking any measures,” government spokesman Pawel Gras told public TVP broadcaster.
[...]
…most of the blame for the April 2010 disaster — in which all 96 people on board died — lay with Poland, but also faulted Russia, where the plane went down in thick fog.
It had ruled out “extremist versions” of events, including sabotage and pressure from third parties on the crew to land despite bad weather.
The Russian investigation concluded that there was “psychological pressure” on the crew to land in dangerous weather conditions, prompting Warsaw to criticise their report as incomplete and riddled with errors.
Poland’s conservative Law and Justice party — led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the late president’s twin brother — has accused Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centre-right government of failing to take Russia to task.
Sounds like a new Bond flick to me? Talk about Skyfall…Ooof!
A Law and Justice-run parliamentary commission that probed the crash blamed Russia, claiming it had forged the testimony of Smolensk’s air traffic controllers, who it alleged had misled the pilots.
The doomed presidential delegation had been bound for a memorial ceremony in Katyn, near Smolensk, for thousands of Polish army officers slain by the Soviet secret police in 1940, a massacre denied by the Kremlin until 1990.
See what I mean. It’s got everything, intrigue, assassination, KGB and a cover-up. The whole story could be pitched to the movie folks, and I am sure they would go for it. Hey, if Disney paid George Lucus $4 Billllliooooon dollars for the rights to Star Wars…I am sure we can get Daniel Craig out there saving the world from the USSR. (Romney would definitely think it is a cool docudrama.)
One more strange story, and I believe this was something that Boston Boomer brought up months ago, about Paul Ryan and his brilliant scheme from the mind of Pinochet…Where Did Paul Ryan Find Inspiration for ‘Reforming’ Social Security? A Brutal Military Dictatorship, Naturally
The basis for Ryan’s big plan was hatched under the radical right-wing Chilean torture regime of 1973 military coup leader Augusto Pinochet.While the Republican Party and its wealthy plutocrat backers have been accused of waging an elitist virtual war against the American majority, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have financial and ideological ties to rich Latin American elites who have waged real wars against average citizens in their countries.
The anti-democratic ethos of today’s GOP, displayed in Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s apparent contempt for 47% of U.S. citizens, is reflected in the origins of Mitt Romney’s private equity firm Bain Capital, which was founded with money from Central American financiers linked to government-backed death squads in El Salvador. Paul Ryan’s budgetary ideas have a similarly dark origin, in the paradigmatic case of what author Naomi Klein has dubbed “The Shock Doctrine” .
In August 2012, Republican political consultant Roger Stone made the accusation that the billionaire libertarian Koch Brothers had bought Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as a running mate, by offering to kick in $100 million more for “independent expenditures” in the 2012 presidential election.
While the charge may never be substantiated, Paul Ryan is one of the few elected officials allowed into the inner sanctum of the Koch brothers and their fellow libertarian big money donor circle.
We know the Koch brothers have always been up to no good.
It is also the case that Paul Ryan’s Social Security privatization ideas closely track Koch Brother schemes promoted from the Koch-funded libertarian Cato Institute since 1980, over three decades ago – before Ryan had even hit puberty. Cato’s website currently features the ringing endorsement of Paul Ryan…
“Ryan is an articulate defender of free enterprise, and he consistently argues not just for the practical advantages of smaller government but also about the moral imperative to cut… if the next administration is Republican, and if it decides it wants to push major reforms, Paul Ryan is uniquely qualified to lead the charge.”
In 2005 Congressman Paul Ryan led a failed Republican legislative push for a Social Security privatization plan that also later popped up in Ryan’s 2010 “Roadmap For America’s Future”. This centerpiece of Ryan’s budgetary vision traces back to a vicious war on the poor and middle class that was waged over three decades ago by a South American police state.
The conceptual basis of Ryan’s Social Security privatization approach was hatched as the Piñera plan that was implemented under the radical right-wing Chilean torture regime of 1973 military coup leader Augusto Pinochet.
Give that article a read…very interesting indeed.
That is all I have for you this morning, but it should be a pretty good start, ay?
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Morning everyone, my internet is very slow…so having trouble loading pages. Y’all have a Happy Halloween!
I’m up on a ledge this morning!
After looking like a fool yesterday in conducting a campaign rally during one of the worst aftermaths of a natural disaster, and after having been called out once more for lying about Jeep’s intentions to relocated jobs to China, I wake up this morning once again to hear how the poll numbers are closing in Romney’s favor in Michigan and that Obama only holds a 1 point lead nationally.
How? Why? This man is a lying sack of crapola by any estimate, he failed to respond to 14 questions regarding his position on FEMA while loading canned goods into the back of a truck while the Red Cross declared them unusable.
This man is so out of touch, so ignorant about the public needs, such a liar throughout, yet his poll numbers are increasing?
Are people this easily fooled or so consumed with hatred toward Obama that they are capable of electing this empty headed nitwit into the WH?
There is something very wrong with this nation if a liar of this magnitude is considered POTUS material when all he has ever done is lie, lie, lie.
I continue to be dumbfounded.
The Morning Joe guys are pretty worried. Tom Brokaw is the only one who claims Romney will win, but he didn’t look at all happy when he claimed it. Obama is going to win Ohio and Romney won’t win Michigan. Just remember that Obama has 247 electoral votes as a baseline. He only needs two states to get to 270.
BTW, did you notice that same poll had Romney and Obama tied in FL and VA? That’s very bad for Romney. He’s desperate because he knows he can’t win.
More evidence of Romney fail: he’s campaigning in Florida today instead of Ohio. Ohio is gone for him. Now he has to worry about Florida and VA.
BB, didn’t you write something about Ryan’s plan being similar to Pinochet sometime last year? Or am I imagining things?
What is so disturbing to me is that his chances are still within the margin of error which gives him a likely edge.
This man is a pathological liar. His lies cannot be dismissed as just something “they all do” because I have never seen it on this level going back to the last 18 months. These are not “little white lies” like when he claimed to be a “lifelong member of the NRA” but lies that are all about character and trust.
And it is nothing new. He lied when he ran for governor when his residency requirements were under consideration. He lied about his father’s involvement in the civil rights era. He lied about important policy matters that effect the nation at large. He lied about his postion during the auto bailout. How can this man be trusted to run this country and when do we believe anything coming out of his mouth?
It is one thing to be “out of touch”. Another to deny access or answer questions that are important to the American public. At least I think so but apparently half this country could give a rat’s ass about this man’ serious deficiencies as long as it leads to driving Obama out of the WH for reasons I am unable to comprehend. Even we here – New Deal Dems – consider him a DINO.
They are now reporting that it is a “head to head” race in Ohio with Obama having only a 1 point lead as of today. How can this be?
In Bush we had a nitwit at the helm for 8 years, perfectly capable of handing over the ship of state to others as long as he could wear the title of POTUS. With this man we would have a pathological, untrustworthy, characterless empty suit who has shown his stripes from the outset yet there are those who would support his victory regardless.
I am astounded to say the least.
Obama is leading by 5 in Ohio. That’s not in the margin of error.
JJ,
I don’t remember writing anything about Pinochet.
It was Dakinikat…from early this year: Monday Morning Reads « Sky Dancing
Yeah, BB. I picked up Morning Joe this morning. The bluster has gone out of the conversation, all the neck-to-neck hype. Romney’s over-inflated numbers in Ohio are sinking on the One Lie Too Many Ship. The Jeep ad was as cynical as it gets–yes you can fool all the people all of the time mantra. Obama is at 50% in Ohio with the Mittster 5 pts behind. The GOP is scrambling for oxygen, pretending they can turn Pennsylvania.
The fat lady is getting ready to shout and Nate Silver’s numbers will be be redeemed.
The carnival keeps chugging along.
“Yeah, BB. I picked up Morning Joe this morning. The bluster has gone out of the conversation, all the neck-to-neck hype”
And it was only last week that Joe was saying Romney was going to win by a landslide. Since the hot air is coming out of his ballon, we might need to send Joe a tank of helium.
“More evidence of Romney fail: he’s campaigning in Florida today instead of Ohio.”
And that, in poker parlance, is called “the tell”.
The Romney Ohio bluff is being called by the early voters in Ohio who are breaking 2-1 for Obama. Romney can go all in, but Obama will call his bluff everywhere.
The only thing that filters thru this angry brain when it comes to Romney………….they keep calling it to close to call, close call, even stephanie (women). It’s like the Marie in that video, don’t even try to steal this election, but that filters thru like it was 2000 all over.
There is some irony in this conversation because, my oldest daughter (in her late 40′s), highly educated PhD and a CNO for a major FP Hospital system, called me in a bit of panic because she fears that Romney will steal the election. I did the momma thing, “you’ve done all you can, let it go darling. Just deal with what’s on your plate today” but she wasn’t comforted. I know that election 2000 is still in our rearview mirror, I understand the concern because it could happen again. We know the unthinkable happens, we just saw the unthinkable hit the East Coast. Still, trying to anticipate what will happen in the future is as futile as living your life in the past, “coulda, woulda, shoulda” mode, it will drive you crazy if you don’t let it go.
oooooppps, meant to post that below
I’m up there on that ledge with you Pat. I know that O will more than likely win, but there is still part of me that is paranoid of a Romney victory. Not to mention all those assholes out there, the likes of Akin etc.
Everyone’s paranoid about it. But what’s the point of anticipating the unlikely outcome and making yourself sick over it? I know everyone has his/her own ways of dealing with anxiety. After 30 years of sobriety, I guess I’ve just found that the one day at a time thing works for me.
This is encouraging: Why Democrats Are Likely to Keep the Senate: A Look at the Key Races – David A. Graham – The Atlantic
I’m one of those cynical pessimists who always sees the glass half empty. I seek constant “assurance” all the time. One reason why I don’t play the lottery is because I know in advance I will lose.
What bothers me the most is this man’s ability to lie so often and still find supporters willing to stand with him. Most of us who find ourselves facing a person who has lied to us more than once will usually pull away.
But no matter how often this guy lies and changes positions to fit whatever audience he addresses, no matter how frequently YouTube exposes his mendacity, there appears to be those who shrug it off as it being truthful is no longer a requirement.
Character no longer counts anymore. My “anxiety” rests with the fact that as often as he lies, where commonsense would dictate that he slips down in the polls, instead we see a rise in the numbers which turns the idea of integrity upside down.
It leaves me baffled. It just seems to me that it should not be this close a race based on his lack of character alone.
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
I’m not a fan of religion, but I think that quote from Mother Teresa sums up the best way to live.
I believe Obama is GOING TO WIN. I know that I’ve done everything within my limited sphere of influence and power to help with that outcome. What happens next is out of my (our) control.
We’re on the right side of this fight and that in itself is a victory. Forward!!!
Mouse, I doubt that quote is really from Mother Teresa.
NWLuna. I like your quote much better. Maybe the one I cited is Mother Teresa parapharasing or a sloppy attempt at plagarizing, but it is a Mother Teresa quote.
Who would have ever thought I’d be quoting Mother Teresa or any other religious person? Certainly none of my elementary school cathecism teachers
Sorry bb, jj or whoever, I’m in moderation because I keyed in the wrong email address.
Mouse, that philosophy has a universal quality, doesn’t it? Don’t worry about what you can’t change or about what might not happen, and start where you are. The purpose of life is to do good, and be kind.
“Mouse, that philosophy has a universal quality, doesn’t it?”
Yes it does!
There is some irony in this conversation because, my oldest daughter (in her late 40′s), highly educated PhD and a CNO for a major FP Hospital system, called me in a bit of panic because she fears that Romney will steal the election. I did the momma thing, “you’ve done all you can, let it go darling. Just deal with what’s on your plate today” but she wasn’t comforted. I know that election 2000 is still in our rearview mirror, I understand the concern because it could happen again. We know the unthinkable happens, we just saw the unthinkable hit the East Coast. Still, trying to anticipate what will happen in the future is as futile as living your life in the past, “coulda, woulda, shoulda” mode, it will drive you crazy if you don’t let it go.
I was thinking yesterday, about Romney, in 2010 he donated 10% of his gross income to the Mormons…………..do you think he would donate that same amount to the RED CROSS?
“It’s like the Marie in that video”
Ah, Marie “we’ll burn this fucker down”. Love that lady!!!
Jonathan Chait explains the Romney/Ryan attitudes toward the auto bailout for those who can’t remember all the way back to 2009.
Ironicially, Romney profited monumentally from the bailout. He’s a f@cking Hypocrite
From Greg Palast article in The Nation
“But Romney has done a good job of concealing, until now, the fact that he and his wife, Ann, personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout”
http://www.thenation.com/article/170644/mitt-romneys-bailout-bonanza
Gee, why would anyone familiar with Romney’s tactics have a “distrust in free enterprise?”
Actually I am much relieved with today’s polls. It looks like Elizabeth Warren is winning in MA and Mittens is losing in OH. My bar is admittedly low, but I am happy with that.
That works for me too, Ron
Yeah, Mittens losing gives us Obama the moderate Republican. But I don’t call Elizabeth Warren winning in MA a low bar!
She’s ahead by 7 points now. It really looks like she will win.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83056.html
Hooray!!!
Tammy Baldwin continues pulling ahead of Thompson in Wisconsin. She’ll be the state’s 1st-ever woman senator. HISTORY! http://bit.ly/RgvdNA
More good news on that front!!!
BREAKING: new poll from @MULawPoll has @TammyBaldwinWI up 47-43! #wisen http://bit.ly/UhE7X5
Sam Stein @samsteinhp
FWIW, neither side is acting like Obama has an 8 pt margin in Wisconsin. Both campaigns are heavily involved there in days ahead
and here’s hoping that lead takes down Paul Ryan too.
Very good news for Tammy. It looks like,with the 2 independents who caucus with the Dems, Bernie Sanders and Angus King, who will win Maine, we could see 55-56 on the Democratic side of the aisle. I don’t want to count chickens before they hatch, but things look to be moving in our direction.
Whoooohoooo!
Good morning! jj, that story about Pinochet. and Lyin’ Ryan reminds me of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine. If you haven’t seen it, it’s about the myth of the global free market. It stars out with the masters of the universe big experiment. (Milton Friedman)
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
You are some really spooky links today! Happy Halloween!
The Shock Doctrine is a brilliant book. Read it if you haven’t already.
Ron, I saw it and read it, I agree it’s great!
BB, That Jonathan Chait article was good, thanks.
Oops, I didn’t mean you PD. I assumed that you had read it! I was recommending it to anyone who hasn’t read it yet.
I understood, Ron, sometimes writing, is not the same as speaking face to face.
I should add, i was speaking of my poorly worded comment.
Check this out: The Making Of Romney’s Storm Relief Event
And then…
Romney is a vacuous twit.
OMG! That’s hilarious. Thanks, JJ.
Unbe-freakin-lievable. What a phony! Why not give the Red Cross a 5K check and allow supporters to kick in whatever cash they had on hand. Good God, his need to create false impressions is pathological!
Why not give the Red Cross a check for $5 million? That wouldn’t make a dent in his checkbook.
omg. That is hilarious. Just when you think Rmoney couldn’t get any faker. I hope this story gets wide distribution.
I received this Sierra Club voters’ guide via e-mail this AM. The interactive map reveals ecological matters in states and I’ve listed 8 here:
MA — preserving coastline and public parks and developing alternative energy solutions (wind farms off Cape Cod).
VA — safeguarding coast from offshore drilling, national forests preservation, and clean water for future generations.
NC — the good: having best offshore wind potential on east coast; the bad: the legalization of fracking for natural gas (that dat-burn republican state majorities at work).
TN — advocating that TVA invest in energy efficiency and strengthen fracking regulations.
FL — fighting offshore drilling and developing renewable energy.
TX — preserving clean water (exceptional levels of drought in some parts), drought and drought response, innovative water conservation measures and water reuse projects.
IN — hoping to transition state away from heavy reliance on 24 coal power plants toward clean energy industries, like wind power.
WA — fight push for coal exporting ports.
The ugly: Romney and the republicans care not one bit about the environment.
The guide:
http://content.sierraclub.org/voterguide/
Most of us here in WA state seem to be against shipping coal through the region to then ship it to China to burn. China’s pollution smoke blows across the Pacific to reach us far too often as is. I hope the quality and longevity of life issues outweight the “jobs!” propaganda touted by the few business leaders who are pushing for coal exports.
Charlie Cook’s view this morning. The really hasn’t changed much for all the sound and fury of campaigning.
National Journal: Chance of Split Electoral-Popular Vote Very Real
Hey Mouse, in connection with running with scissors, here is a guy who is as tired as the rest of us.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/domenick-scudera/this-gay-is-exhausted-from-causing-hurricane-sandy_b_2044431.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy&ir=Comedy
He should be tired
That’s a long list of shit to be in charge of!
Pressure!
Did you read any of the comments? Some of the names they came up with are really funny.
Pdgrey……That is hilarious. These religio-nuts think Teh Gay cause everything bad. Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes. Oh, the power!!!! If I disappear for a while, y’all need to worry, I might be working on a meteor strike or volcano eruption or something
Mouse I’m glad you got to see that, the new names in the comments were really funny!
OK I was thinking why someone hadn’t put this together yet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/thanksdonald-trending-twitter-wants-trump-donate-5million-to-charity_n_2044397.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy
Here is the twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ThanksDonald&src=typd
Please don’t clog the #ThanksDonald tag by claiming donating $5m will bankrupt Donald Trump. There’s no way that could happen a fifth time.
Politico: Anti-Obama texts traced to conservative activist
I’m glad he’s been outed, ha. pun intended! I wish their was a picture of him so if we accidently run into him on the street we can “accidently” kick him in the balls.
Lord, Dick Morris is on drugs again … who on earth takes this man seriously?
http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/dick-morris/264935-here-comes-the-landslide
and a good question from the Guardian that bears repeating:
Is Dick Morris the world’s worst political pundit?
On this evidence, the answer is a clear and unambiguous yes!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/08/is-dick-morris-worlds-worst-political-pundit
Morris is obviously one of those folks that doesn’t do math but uses a Ouija board to get his ideas and analysis.
Charles pierce called Dick the toe sucker a human turnip!
ROTFL…..Morris is a joke. I can burst out laughing just looking at old Toe Sucker!!!
Re: Dick Morris
Last week when I was watching fox news, Dick Morris said he had done a poll over the weekend and he predicted that Romney would win by 300 electoral votes. I thought Morris and his poll results were too silly to comment on here. I see that the guardian has reported on America’s silliest man. That’s all I’ll say about him and apologize for wasting your time further on this fruitcake.
Peregrine….You shouldn’t watch fox news unless you’re armed.
You know friends don’t let friends watch fox, so stop it.
What? I should shoot the tv out when I hear something I don’t like, as Elvis did on occasion?
It’s the greatest propaganda mill of my life-time and I shouldn’t watch it? The truth is that I can’t watch much of it when Romney is daily weaving the lies. It’s too much mendacity. For a while, I like everyone agreeing with one another, but I have too much curiosity or I must miss AngryBlackGuy and I wander off the reservation. Last night I lurked at JSW, crawdad hole (another name for foxnews), and peacocks and lilies. I read, but have no reaction except how did we become this dumb?
You only get that dumb with really serious effort!
peregrine, did you need to hose yourself off afterwards?
NW Luna, for some reason, I’m impervious to that dirt. It must be because I was angry all through the 2008 primary and afterwards. In 2008, I became a regular on a liberal feminist blog where I met mouse. The Hillary-supporters there were daily attacked by ABG and many other crashers. Mouse flipped it off better than I did. Later, I determined that I would never let them get to me. (Mouse will brag that she changed it all for me.hahahahahaha!)
“(Mouse will brag that she changed it all for me.hahahahahaha!)”
LOL…..I’m not that persuasive!
Morris says Michigan has 15 electoral votes. It has 16
He says Minnesota has 16 electoral votes. It has 10.
He says Colorado has 10 electoral votes. It has 9.
He says Nevada has nine electoral votes. It has 6.
He should be banished from all serious Rolodexes for that alone.
Dave Weigel on the death of Ro-mentum. Ohio, where mittmentum goes to die
Slate: Quinnipiac: Obama Leads in Ohio, Pennsylvania Is Obama’s
Some swing state polls for today.
Ohio: Obama 50%, Romney 45% (Quinnipiac)
Ohio: Obama 50%, Romney 45% (Public Policy Polling)
Ohio: Obama 48%, Romney 46% (University of Cincinnati)
Florida: Obama 48%, Romney 47% (Quinnipiac)
Florida: Romney 50%, Obama 47% (Gravis)
Iowa: Obama 50%, Romney 45% (Public Policy Polling)
Michigan: Obama 48%, Romney 45% (Detroit News)
North Carolina: Obama 49%, Romney 49% (Public Policy Polling)
Pennsylvania: Obama 48%, Romney 44% (Franklin and Marshall)
Virginia: Obama 49%, Romney 47% (Quinnipiac)
Virginia: Romney 49%, Obama 44% (Roanoke)
Wisconsin: Obama 51%, Romney 46% (Public Policy Polling)
Wisconsin: Obama 51%, Romney 43% (Marquette Law)
I think romney’s given up on Ohio and is trying to scramble for florida.
And he is still ignoring the questions about FEMA: Romney sidesteps Fema questions in Florida as he tries to arrest poll slide | World news | guardian.co.uk
That is how many times he has outright ignored the press when they ask him about FEMA? Oh, I hate this man.
Florida, without Ohio or some other midwestern states, won’t get him to 270 though
Well,it doesn’t look like it will be Wisconsin either
“That is how many times he has outright ignored the press when they ask him about FEMA?”
I keep waiting for him to lay down the old Pee-Wee Herman dodge , “I know you are, but what am I ? “
Mouse, I know you are, but what am I? My sister and have never been able to let that one go in childish taunts.
David Shepardson @davidshepardson
Hearing new Michigan poll will be out today around 6 p.m. expected to show Obama with a bigger lead than today’s @detnews poll
Check this out. Sounds fairly close to a public option to me.
NYT: U.S. Set to Sponsor Health Insurance
That is extremely interesting. I recall that being in the background details. Very curious to see the actual specifics on this.
North Carolina is tied? Interesting.
I made that happen.
“Mouse, I know you are, but what am I? My sister and have never been able to let that one go in childish taunts.”
Pdgrey…..It a great taunt, isn’t it? And it’s one of those nonsensical sayings that makes you laugh everytime you say it.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/biden-visits-with-groupies-at-florida-restaurant