1. My football picks this year have been so abysmal that I’m not certain I should continue. We’ll see. Apparently, a lot of people are having a tough time. Which I mention only in passing because why not.
2. How are Romney’s chances in Ohio? Doug Ross takes a closer look. I took a look at Doug Ross’s closer look and I hope to Christ Doug Ross is looking well and true.
3. You’ve heard me say on innumerable occasions that the modern day academy is perhaps the zenith of anti-intellectualism disguised as philosophical, cultural, and civil progress. Well, I was right. Or at least, insofar as we don’t see a retreat from the Enlightenment as Forward! and a turn toward bureaucratically-managed despotism by way of some installed permanent ruling elite the truth path to greater human <strike>freedom</strike> management and care taking.
4. Sen Jeff Sessions claims the “Obama administration is waiving a law that requires it to deny visas and entry to non-citizens who are ‘likely at any time to become’ a government dependent – and is ignoring requests for information regarding this move.” And according to the Roberts’ Court, no state can stop them from breaking our immigration laws, because they have plenary authority over those laws, despite Congress’s role in having passed them, and the states’ roles in working to uphold extant federal law.
But hey: from a legacy standpoint, that Roberts’ Court sure was bipartisan, wasn’t it?
5. I filled out my early voter ballot and even went so far this time as to read through the major rulings of every judge, from the county level upward to the CO Supreme Court, in order to vote whether or not to retain them. It’s almost a moot gesture, sadly: most people simply vote to retain en mass or dismiss en mass, depending on their view of the current state of the legal system, but it is essential, I feel, in states where we have the ability to vote out our judges should they prove themselves willing to flout the Constitution — even if it is infrequently — to do just that, at least until it becomes clear to judicial appointees that they have a function and are part of separation of powers, not kings or queens or political activists.
6. Obama still leads in my state, somehow — though that is almost entirely because of Denver and Boulder — but I think if the enthusiasm gap comes into play, Romney could win here; he’s currently down by 2-3, within the margin of error.
The local news here seemed to take the binder remarks seriously, and ran a number of stories on “protests” by Democrat women’s groups keynoted by Dem Congresswomen. Who evidently are fine voting for a guy who used Bill Clinton as his keynote campaign speaker, and whose policies have driven unemployment up significantly among women and minorities and the young .
— and that’s because they’re bullshit posers who care little about women; instead, they’re progressives first and foremost who care only about power, and they treat women as if they’re stupid and obsessed with birth control, abortion, and the Lily Ledbetter act (34 cases brought! For freedom!). They are merely the stepsister of the race-pimps and the other grievance mongers, many who have taken up shop in the “environmental” movement.
That their rhetoric continues to play here to some respect tells me that Denver and Boulder are irredeemably indoctrinated — and that they vote on perception and as status markers, not because they have any understanding of what’s going on with the country.
Hell, I have old grad school friends who spend all their time on facebook talking about how stupid Republicans are, how badly taxes need be raised — then, in between, post about washing their own coffee beans or taking African safaris or the latest fad in micro gastronomy they’ve gotten in to. Honestly, I know one guy who says he’s a socialist — and yet is the most conspicuous consumer I’ve ever met, to the point where it’s become a running joke among us who know him.
He and his wife have no kids and don’t plan to, and they live their lives trying to project an image of what they are that they hope will signal to others like them. After which it’s all wine tasting, micro brewing, and specialty salmon. Just like I’m sure those in North Korea or Cuba or Venezuela are enjoying!
Fucking posers. It makes me sick that their votes cancel out ours.
7. I’ve just made myself depressed. I’m gonna go to the range and kill paper.
North Korea likely leads the world in micro gastronomy: how to live on three grains of rice per day.
When it comes to elections for judges and school boards, I always vote against the incumbent, because I figure that they have the most control over the local and immediate, and that whoever the incumbent is, they’ve had enough time sucking at the public teat. They used to say that a single term as a sheriff in Mississippi would set a man up for life, and it’s much the same here in California, where my upper-ballot votes will be ignored anyway…
Of course I grimly jest. No, what they love is the 41 Grados Experience of florishing España. Try not to gag: least of all at the price tag (that’s surely in euros, so the conversion is right on top of a grand for two — maybe that’s where the Russkie 1,001 Persian nights come in? Or is Weimar Germany a better cop?).
Always makes me laugh when I see lefties drinking coffee. More blood is spilled over coffee than just about anything else that’s legal. Maybe diamonds are out in front, water may be up there, but growing coffee can get you killed faster than just about anything outside of coca. And “fair trade” coffee is probably the worst of the lot.
John Roberts has done so much so fast to bring the supreme court to secret service levels of disrepute it’s really remarkable and yet it often goes unremarked unless someone makes a point of mentioning it
#3 from my State & wife’s alma mater.
– As if the Bolts didn’t have enough problems, now they’re up on charges of cheating by the league officials.
– Apparently a line judge noticed something fishy during a time out in last weeks game, which the Chargers totally tanked, giving up a 24 to 0 lead and losing in the 2nd half. The charges involve the illegal use of ‘stickum’.
– Maybe there was a specific reason they went South so fast after halftime, but I still think its just the nature of what you get when you try to play college football in the pros.
As per item number four, I’d just like to say:
Look how well that worked out for Tony Blair and the Labour Party.
– They’re getting things sorted out in the Brookfield Wis. mall shootings, now saying there were at least 3 killed.
After you’ve shot the paper full of holes, run up to it and smash it into the ground with the butt of your rifle,
just to make sure it’s good and dead.
Romney and Ryan promise 10,000 supporters in Daytona Beach rally: ‘We’ll be strong again’
– Gallup isn’t playing by the Lefturds Obama rule book, refusing to knuckle under to the lame-brain media, pitting its presidentila tracking poll against a large group of Jug ears supporters and making it the 11th hour ‘outlier’. Of course the fevored hive minds on the Left are outraged!
– Gallup today: R 52%, O 45%
– Which is a +1 increase for Romney since yesterday. Maybe the Wonce will see a bounce in his numbers that is real instead of manufactured sometime after the elections.
– What’s interesting is that in spite of being odd man out, eveyone knows that Gallup is generally the most accurate of polls, based on so many years of getting it right, so the Progs are vibrating like a guitar string.
Some leftist public persona (forget whom —they all sound alike, donchyaknow) was trying to argue that the Gallup number was what it was because they were oversampling southern states.
The shooter is croaked, too BBH.
Gallup and all the other pollsters are the bomb, I tells ya, when they are trending D.
Now that things aren’t trending that way (not even NBC/WSJ which has it a dead-heat) why, they suck out loud, they are so biased and stupid and STFU, that’s why.
– Because STFU is the one I like Leigh. so many degrees, so little common sense.
– BTW, if the numbers are accurate deom Gallup, its over even before tomorrow nights clash. Not a single candidate in history has ever lost if he’s got a 50% rating going into election day.
– Of course, sensing an impending slaughter, the Lefturds are already fleeing home to the old tried and true excuses; If Bummblefuck loses it will be because the Rethugs stole the election.
Dick Durbin, Fibber extraordinaire.
Daily Caller notes the NYTs cleaning up its HEROIC
Valerie JarrettIran story after the fact, but really, why bother with such fussy details? Hardly anyone reads the damn thing anymore anyhow, nor is it like a serious journal of record any longer.May the NYT keep it up.
Until their subscriber base, can fit in one parking place.
I read that Rupert Murdock is going to buy the LA Times and is trying to by one of the Chicago papers.
So far, thumbs up on the LAT and thumbs down on Chi.
“It has the potential to help Mr. Obama make the case that he is nearing a diplomatic breakthrough in the decade-long effort by the world’s major powers to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions,” the Times report said.
– Which was the whole point of the agitprop piece in the first place. I highly doubt they actually talked to any Iranian officials at all. It was an intentional scare tactic to try to give Jug ears a boost, but it appears the NYT didn’t coordinate this bullshit with the WH for once, and the administration is already in so much shit over Benghazi they’re afraid to try any more games, so they deny.
– This one was so fucking obvious on the eave of Obama’s most difficult debate even a caveman could have seen through it.
Happy October Surprise: Iran Endorses Obama
“. . . doubt they actually talked to any Iranian officials at all.”
But surely speaking with Valerie Jarrett is sufficient to that end. She may not be a Mullah herself but she knows well enough how to represent Iranian interests.
– If Iran is playing along with some ploy to buy time and stall once again, as they have in so many times in the past, and even more important, if they’re signaling their fear of a Romney administration, this gamble could be an even bigger miscalculation on Jarretts part.
– Or as Romney put it: “Hope is not a strategy”
No More Lies– New Video Demands Truth on Benghazi Massacre
No kidding, BBH.
Egypt is also standing in the back of the room saying “Me too! Me too!” about getting in on the nuclear weapon action before Romney gets sworn in.
Here are some pics of the Old River Control System… Just one piece of it cause the pics of the rest kinda sucked…
http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/87554623@N05/8110573893/
I think u’ll probably gave to click past some bloon so and a pic of the Lake Charles 911 thing
This flickr app is clunky and sometimes the order of the pics gets screwed up and u can only fick it if u delete everything and start over
Remember Jarrett grew up in Iran just like Obama spent his impressionable younger years in Indonesia.
From the piece Ledeen linked.
Will this go national? OFA where are you?
what if the “undecides” don’t care about iran?
Hah! I knew Hillary would find a way to turn it all against Obama. Well played, Madame Secretary!
It’s a good thing to listen to Charles Kesler’s talk on his recent book I am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism, even if only to hear Kesler tell of the title he’d first intended for the book “Barack Obama: What the Hell Were We Thinking?”. But really, it’s a very fine and succinct account of the history of liberalism or progressivism and the genuine crisis facing the liberals today, and since they seem too often to find themselves in possession of political power, facing us all as well.
Especially keen is the account of Woodrow Wilson’s view of the fundamental purpose of education: to make the sons as unlike their fathers as possible. Which in many ways is today precisely the greatest success of liberalism, and concomitantly its most serious harm to the United States.
Reza Kahlili,”
he’s on aaron klein wabc right now
What’s he saying?
Say, what are the odds that Bob Scheiffer gives an assist to the Wonce?
Or will the old fossil fool us all and play it straight?
Scheiffer, Candy-ass or not Candy-ass? The Wonce awaits an answer.
– At this point Leigh I don’t honestly think theres anything anyone can do, not the academics, not the lap dog press, not Commiewood, no one can save Bummblefuck, and I think the press-my-ass knows it.
– When Jug ears goes down its going to be bad enough for the MSM, but if they get implicayed in outright cheating they will never recover. The dinosaur press is already on life support. A majot scandal would do them in, and they’re scared.
– When have you ever seen the NYT retract a story so quickly.
I think they’ll have to move fast to get away from the flames once the Wonce immolates, BBH.
The talking heads on FauxNS today were tossing around whether or not Romney should revisit the Benghazi debacle and correct the timeline, etc. Personally, I don’t think Mitt is going to have to do any work here. Jug ears will play out so much rope that he’ll have hanged himself before they are in to the sixty minute mark.
My money is on the Wonce shooting his wad in the first twenty to thirty minutes:
“Bin Ladin is dead”
“GM lives!”
Then what does he have? Ocare? Successful economy? Surging homestarts? Soldiers home from the Not-wars? A chicken in every pot? Lower fuel prices? Manufacturing up? Newly repaired infrastructure? Soaring academic success?
It’s over, Barry.
What’s he saying?
wabc post the podcast here. 1st half 2nd hour
link
Thanks.
Dorothy Rabinowitz: The Unreality of the Past Four Years
The Benghazi fiasco is a brutally illuminating portrait of the Obama White House in crisis mode.
I love Dorothy. She’s one of the last of the real investigative journalists.
Did my little part last week. Three formerly “aspirational” RI votes are now three NH “may actually have an effect” votes.
Sorry, Pablo. You’re gonna have to soldier on in Rhode (“Biggest Little State In The Union, with Biggest Problems In The Union”) Island.
Save some space up there, Red. And boot a few Massholes where it counts.
Meanwhile, Gleen(s) Greenwald re-validates the broken clock law: The remarkable, unfathomable ignorance of Debbie Wasserman Schultz
You know he’s going to play the “I ended the war in Iraq.” card. I do hope Romney reminds him that Panetta was assuring the American people that a deal to extend the mission was pending, and then that it had collapsed, at which time we left Iraq in accordance with the Status of Forces Agreement negotiated under Bush.
You tried, you failed, and Bush did it.
What is funny about that Greenwald piece and the comments Pablo is they seem convinced and disappointed that Deb is that clueless.
The idea that she is that brazen a liar is apparently unimaginable.
Yes, he’s going to pull that one too, Pablo.
Romney, as you say, needs to remind us, the viewers, that it is because of, not in spite of Bush’s policies that the war in Iraq is over. Kinda.
Also, if Barry is going to take credit for Bush’s victory, he can’t keep assigning blame to him.
Lots of acreage up here, Pablo. Seeing a lot more Romney signs than in RI. But a lot of massholes (Sugar Hill? WTF?) have the O signs.
On the other hand, when I blow off a box of ammo in my backyard, no one cares. LFOD, mf-ers.
Iranian Regime: Obama Sent Secret Message Recognizing Our Nuclear Rights
some Reza Kahlili in there
wabc posted tonite’s aaron klein program. Reza Kahlili is 2nd hour 1st half
link
Hey McGehee, have you seen the latest CBS bowl projections? Look who might be meeting up in the Cotton Bowl.
Wisconsin Shooting Rampage: Suspected Gunman Reportedly Among 3 Dead UPDATE: Killer Radcliffe Houghton Signed Scott Walker Recall Petition
A beautiful thing, ain’t it? What’s weird is that it works in Communist Vermont, too. So, are you downstate, or further north? Jay Severin was imagining a NH version of the Mason-Dixon line.
The politics of killers has just jumped the shark.
“Obama Sent Secret Message Recognizing Our Nuclear Rights”
Heck, why not? He unrecognized Pres. Bush’s letter of assurances to PM Sharon concerning Gaza. He’s the willy-nilly recognizer-unrecognizer King — who it is good to be, especially since his being is becoming.
Way north, Pablo. Nowhere near the Mass border. What’s the severin cite? I’d like to read it.
The politics of killers has just jumped the shark.
“What didn’t he know, and when didn’t he know it?”
politics of killers has just jumped the shark.
ax the val gal
Are their sports projections any more reliable than their political ones?
No text, it was radio. He’s working for Beck these days. And he’s absolutely giddy right now.
Second(?) most influential loser in recent American political history, George McGovern dead at 90
I took an Obama voter in 2008 to register Republican (near Mississippi and Federal in Denver) and she got a mailing saying she was registered to vote for 2012.
As a Dem.
Even though she is a Republican now, who is loudly and proudly voting Romney/Ryan.
We think it is not a mistake, but fraud. Fucking with the numbers.
Also, I was up near Walden this weekend, and saw about 40/50 Romney signs and probably 5 or 6 Obama signs on the way there and the way back.
McGovern did earn a DFC as a pilot in WWII. I give him props for that.
The end.
No argument from me on that point leigh.
The only way that story could be any better would be if he sent Joe Biden to Paris in an SR-71 to deliver the message in person!
concerned troll says:
saying she was registered to vote for 2012.
As a Dem.
she can vote rethuglican dontcha know
gary sick where are you?
His point was that though she registered as [R] the officials recorded her as [D] which keeps the [D] registration numbers high to make it look like there are more [D] than there are and that also will affect the polling.
McGovern gets kind of a bum rap.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-21/george-mcgovern-s-legacy-as-a-libertarian-hero.html
One thing to remember about the Dems of that era, McGovern, Johnson, O’Neil, Ervin and so on, while they do share a lot of the blame for the situation we have now, I don’t think any of them hated this country and were bent on destroying it.
Gary Sick
George McGovern wanted to guarantee everybody a minimum income.
What the fuck kind of libertarian does that?
I agree with you that McGovern didn’t hate the country. Nevertheless he’s the guy who made the Faustian bargain that sold the soul of the Democrat party to the New Left Demonrats.
, I don’t think any of them hated this country and were bent on destroying it.
ted kennedy?
In this vote-harvesting time, they use terms like the “Great Society,” or as we were told a few days ago by the President, we must accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people. But they’ve been a little more explicit in the past and among themselves; and all of the things I now will quote have appeared in print. These are not Republican accusations. For example, they have voices that say, “The cold war will end through our acceptance of a not undemocratic socialism.” Another voice says, “The profit motive has become outmoded. It must be replaced by the incentives of the welfare state.” Or, “Our traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of solving the complex problems of the 20th century.” Senator Fullbright has said at Stanford University that the Constitution is outmoded. He referred to the President as “our moral teacher and our leader,” and he says he is “hobbled in his task by the restrictions of power imposed on him by this antiquated document.” He must “be freed,” so that he “can do for us” what he knows “is best.” And Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman, defines liberalism as “meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government.”
Well, I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as “the masses.” This is a term we haven’t applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, “the full power of centralized government”—this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don’t control things. A government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy.
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Geoff, clearly there is an error here. I read in the Puffington Host that the Romneys control the voting machines. So, if there is any fraud, well by golly! it’s because of Romney shenanigans.
That’s not the kind of fraud Geoff is talking about.
Registration numbers are used by polling firms to try to come up with their sample models.
If Democrat registration numbers are artificially high, that can get carried over into the poll as they way their samples to try to reflect the partisan breakdown of the population being polled.
Also In this case, changing from Democrat to Republican might be seen as evidence of a preference cascade, or at least of a softening of support or lack of enthusiasm among Democrats —something a pollster might want to consider if the pollster is interested in reporting results rather than making them.
weigh, not way.
That was a curd.
Whey.
After the 1968 convention the Democratic Party set up a commission to change the rules under which the party was run. McGovern was the chairman of the commission. The results that came from this was the takeover of that Party by the radical left and the way those results were obtained was the method that is SOP to this day.
Now McGovern may have only been doing it to gain power for himself but he was not a choirboy in the way he went about enabling what led to the New Left taking control of the Party. Something which has led to what we face today.
It occurs to me that a really interesting project would be a dual biography of Barry Goldwater and George McGovern and their legacies.
1. “The local news here seemed to take the binder remarks seriously, and ran a number of stories on “protests” by Democrat women’s groups keynoted by Dem Congresswomen. “
When I look to find a new employee, HR advertises, and then sends me binders full of the resulting resumes.
These include the resumes of both men and women.
I honestly had no idea of the contempt I was showing for women with my thoughtless acts. In deference to the expressed feelings of women everywhere, from now on I will do my utmost to sh*tcan all of the resumes from women.
I will henceforth deal only with binders full of men.
Women: I am so sorry.
2. To anyone who says “Just vote out all of the incumbent judges”:
Please, don’t do that.
We’ve lost some very fine conservative judges that way. A good judge doesn’t somehow become a bad one with time. A good judge gets more effective with time.
A bad judge gets better at being a bad judge with time.
Vote out the bad ones. Vote for the good ones. If you don’t know which is which, skip that column.
I left TK out of the short list for a reason, nr.
He was too drunk and stupid to be sure what his motivations were.
[…] Jeff G on liberal socialist posters. I have old grad school friends who spend all their time on facebook talking about how stupid Republicans are, how badly taxes need be raised — then, in between, post about washing their own coffee beans or taking African safaris or the latest fad in micro gastronomy they’ve gotten in to. Honestly, I know one guy who says he’s a socialist — and yet is the most conspicuous consumer I’ve ever met, to the point where it’s become a running joke among us who know him. […]
McGovern is proof that what it takes to be a hero in war is not what it takes to be level-headed in thought.
He was a grinning Dupe, at best.
It was such a different time… Government was muscular confident and ambitious. You can’t really look at the McGovern Nixon era through the lens of the cowardly debt-ridden crack whore America is today
If nothing else, McGovern is a concrete example of the limits of centralized planning. It wasn’t until he went into business that he discovered what a pain in the ass were all the regulations he’d supported in Congress.
I really wish that we could make it mandatory for members of Congress to show some actual, real-world job experience as a condition for getting their names on a ballot.
To leigh, waaaaay the freak up there in the thread: NewsCorp denies the rumors of Rupe going after the LAT.
On the one hand, of course they do; even if such a thing is being planned, nothing is final until it’s actually, you know, final. These arrangements have a history of having the rug yanked from under them for any number of reasons, so keeping them on the down-low is an important face-preservation tactic.
On the other hand, one would hope Murdock to be rather more canny than to buy a media outlet which has successfully shat upon its own brand to the point where they can’t even give their product away.
Though maybe he’ll buy the joint and then simply raze it. Turn it into a parking lot annexed to a museum of global atrocities committed in the name of Socialism and its numerous name-variants. A place where the people of the future can learn the truth about the murderer Che Guevara, among others. Hell, maybe keep Mike Hiltzik there in a cage, jumping around and frothing at the evil capitalist visitors while they throw peanuts at him.