It should be a scary night for Republicans, as one of their most hated monsters will be doing a two-fer tonight. Yep, Michael Moore will be on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and then on Real Time with Bill Maher (of course, that’s not quite as scary as black people, young people, and college professors actually daring to vote in Florida).
You can bet we’ll have that on here, as we sit in the basement with the lights off, ignoring the doorbell.
In other news, the Syracuse Invitation Sporthorse Tournament is in full swing. This – believe it or not – is apparently a really big deal in the horse world. Among those competing is Jessica Springsteen, whose parents Bruce and Patty are in town for the event. Now word on whether or not William Shatner (he’s apparently into this whole horse thing as well) will be here.
Have a good one, and try not to get your pumpkins smashed.
I’m dressed like Obama for Halloween at work today. Or, more accurately, I will be in a few minutes. Right now I’m wearing a suit and tie but I haven’t put on the Obama head yet.
Most of the people I work with know what my political leanings are, so hopefully I’ll still be employed at the end of the day.
Gotta go upstairs now and look for a princess.
You should have gone as a skinhead plumber. You could have carried a pipe wrench and pulled your pants down low so your coin slot was showing.
OMG, David Brooks is channeling FDR:
In times like these, the best a sensible leader can do is to take the short-term panic and channel it into a program that is good on its own merits even if it does nothing to stimulate the economy over the next year. That’s why I’m hoping the next president takes the general resolve to spend gobs of money, and channels it into a National Mobility Project, a long-term investment in the country’s infrastructure.
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A major infrastructure initiative would create jobs for the less-educated workers who have been hit hardest by the transition to an information economy. It would allow the U.S. to return to the fundamentals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/opinion/31brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Because Bushco fears that they have not done enough to screw this country and a good portion of the planet, they’re issuing new rules to further deregulate the conduct of the people who fund them.
A federal judge yesterday questioned the motives of Justice Department lawyers for withdrawing allegations linking a Guantanamo Bay detainee to a “dirty bomb” plot in the United States shortly before they were required to hand over exculpatory evidence to the defense.
“That raises serious questions in this court’s mind about whether those allegations were ever true,” said U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who is overseeing a lawsuit brought by Binyam Mohammed, 30, a resident of Britain who is challenging his detention at the U.S. military facility in Cuba. Sullivan warned that “someone is going to rue the day those allegations were made” if it turns out that the government had evidence that they were unfounded.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/30/AR2008103004616.html?wpisrc=newsletter
“The horror…………, the horror”
somehow vernon, I’m going to get over that- maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but………… :barf:
Oh, art, if you only knew what I didn’t post…
but some of my friends are gonna be mighty pissed when they hit their e-mail this morning
Did you see the fireball the other night?
A couple of nights ago I saw a big blue light going from NW to SE while I was driving to work. The next night the weather guy said there had been several sightings of meteors falling that were bright blue. I’m sorry I was inside my car. It was pretty cool nontheless.
http://spaceweather.com/
Some fireball facts and vids
You should have gone as a skinhead plumber. You could have carried a pipe wrench and pulled your pants down low so your coin slot was showing.
Comment by pjsauter — October 31, 2008 @ 8:35 am
I thought about it, but I don’t have enough of an ass to generate the proper amount of ass-crack. The Obama costume went over great, though. Hopefully some foreshadowing of things to come next week.
Speaking of ass-crack, that Repiglican moron who sent out the email was on all the local morning news shows. Dems are demanding his resignation. I’m not holding my breath, but we’ll see. The guy who heads the Hillsborough County chapter of the NAACP is a Republican (!), and is also asking for the guy’s resignation.
What is it with assholes and the caps lock button, anyway?
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
my favorite day of the year!
National Republican officials have decided to withhold financial support from all but two closely contested Congressional races in New York, as the party braces for the possibility that it could lose several more House seats in the state.
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Two of the races effectively being written off in New York are in districts currently held by Republican incumbents who are retiring at the end of the year — the 25th Congressional District in the Syracuse region,now held by James T. Walsh; and the 13th District on Staten Island, where Vito J. Fossella is stepping down.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/nyregion/31races.html?scp=1&sq=nationl%20G.O.P.%20ending%20aid%20to%20most%20new%20york%20house%20races&st=cse
The repiglican running for the 25th here must be getting some money someplace, because he’s running a ton of very sleazy ads. This is a guy who a year ago couldn’t win the Republican nomination for County Executive despite being backed by the County Republican Party.
A Maffei (the Democratic challenger who barely lost to Walsh two years ago, precipitating Walsh’s decision to retire) internal poll done a month or so ago had Maffei up by 18%. We can only hope that holds.
Maffei appears at every Peace and anti-war rally in the area (and he doesn’t speak or campaign, just shows up and marches with the rest of the demonstrators), and has run really positive ads about what he plans to do to bring back jobs to the area and stop squandering money in Iraq.
He was a staffer for people like Rangel and Bill Bradley, and should be able to get better committee assignments than a typical freshman Congressman. I won’t have to hold my nose to vote for him on the Working Families Party line (though the sentimental favorite is Howie Hawkins of the Green Party, who I think has run – unsuccessfully – for every office in the State).
Studs Terkel passes
🙁 :gate:
Studs Terkel- last of the great narrative journalists. :gate:
was sorry to hear the news about Terkel. :gate:
watching Maddow, I do not feel better about Tuesday. She gets me nervous. 😮
These early voting lines are unreal. This is disgusting and pathetic. We need Carter to get this thing straightened out. :slap:
This is pretty cool if you have some time.
The story of Studs Terkel interviewing Bob Dylan in 1963 with audio links and download options.