The Nightowl Newswrap

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@BarackObama delivered the Quote of the Day in a speech to supporters on Monday when he talked about Mitt Romney's tax plan: "It's like Robin Hood in reverse. It's Romney Hood."

I'm a Secular Humanist but part of me hopes there is a God because Pat Robertson really needs to feel more wrath than mere mortals can rain down. The TeeVee preacher is on another one of his tirades where he blames anyone and everyone (who isn't a white Christian of his particular bent) when something bad happens. It was feminists and abortion that caused the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001; and now it is atheists who "hate god" (an absurd concept, because how can they hate something they don't even believe in?) who are responsible for the white-supremacist nutcase who killed six in a Sikh temple on Sunday.

Taking slut-shaming to a whole 'nuther level The ACLU is intervening on behalf of a pregnant teenager in Louisiana who was kicked out of a public charter school in violation of Title IX because the pregnancy policy at the school violates the civil liberties of every girl who attends.

Some politicians just shouldn't tweet. Marisha Agana, a candidate for the newly-redrawn Ohio 13th is getting a lot of grief after a tweet that compared President Obama to mass-murdering dictators Mao Tse Tung, Hitler and Stalin. When she was called on it, she doubled down, claiming moral authority because she's a pediatrician and knows that life begins when the sperm hits the egg and her comparison was spot-on because of President Obama's "pro-abortion" stance.

Exactly what you should expect from a tax-evading scumdog millionaire. Mitt Romney asked for - and got - a tax reduction that totaled $109K over four years on his La Jolla beachfront home because it lost some of its value when the housing bubble burst.

Remember when Karl Rove told NPR "You're entitled to your math but I have THE math"? This is like that. Dick Morris took the hooker's toes out of his mouth long enough to say that all the polls that put President Obama between six and ten points ahead of the hapless republican nominee are all wrong, and he has seen the "real" numbers and Obama is headed for a drubbing the likes of which we haven't seen since Reagan-Mondale in 84.

Harry Reid is relishing every blow he lands on Mittens' square jaw and isn't going to shut up until Romney cries "Uncle!" and releases his tax returns. And every day he doesn't he looks more and more like he is hiding something huge - and he must be, because nothing would shut Reid up faster than if he released them.

Not that J Street carries any weight with the AIPAC-fellating Romney, but the liberal Jewish group is set to deliver a petition with 17,000 signatures (I'm a member and one of them is mine) to Romney demanding he apologize to the Palestinians for his clueless and hateful "culture" comment.

And finally.....

Being a skinhead is sad enough in and of itself, but being a skinhead when you're 40 is just pathetic. And that is exactly what the Sikh temple shooter was - a 40-year-old skinhead who played in unlistenable hate-metal bands that trash Jews, Muslims, Blacks, and everyone else that the inferior losers and genetic rejects who are drawn to white supremacist groups.