Romney stands by pledge to shut down FEMA

post from AMERICAblog on 28 October 2012 11:48:39 PM. © AMERICAblog

Romney on FEMA and federal disaster relief: "We cannot afford to do those things.?

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Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 28 October 2012 11:30:06 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Dollhouse) imagines a Mitt Romney presidency.

Open thread below

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Open thread for night owls: Living in Gilded Age
II when you're not gilded

post from Daily Kos on 28 October 2012 11:30:05 PM. © Daily Kos

Night Owls Brad DeLong writes Inequality?Living in the Second Gilded Age:

A third of a century ago, all of us economists confidently predicted that America would remain and even become more of a middle-class society. The high income and wealth inequality of the 1870-1929 Gilded Age, we would have said, was a peculiar result of the first age of industrialization. Transformations in technology, public investments in education, a progressive tax system, a safety net, and the continued decline in discrimination on the basis of race and sex had made late-20th century America a much more equal place than early 20th century America, and would make early 21st century America even more equal ? even more of a middle-class society ? still.

We were wrong.

America today is at least as unequal as, and may be more unequal than, it was back at the start of the 20th century when Republicans, such as President Theodore Roosevelt of New York condemned the power wielded by ?malefactors of great wealth,? and Democrats such as perennial losing presidential candidate William Jennings Bryant of Nebraska denounced shadowy conspiracies that had somehow manipulated the financial system to rob the typical family of its proper share in America?s prosperity. [...]

A more equal economy would be a happier economy. The time and energy and work devoted to making, toasting and serving a $40 bagel at the Four Seasons Hotel on 57th Street in Manhattan would, in a more equal America, buy a full dinner for four at Sizzler Steakhouse for a family for which going to Sizzler is a once-a-month treat ? and produce more human happiness thereby. A more equal America would be one in which claims that America has or is approaching equality of opportunity would be less of a sick joke.

Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2009?Lieberman's bluff:

When my daughter was born, my then-3-year-old son clearly felt neglected, as first children always do in such situations. And as always happens, my son started acting up in a play for attention. In his case, he regressed on his potty training, crapping his pants. In a bid for attention, that certainly worked.

Enter Joe Lieberman, and his successful bid for attention yesterday, promising to screw Democrats for the umpteenth time by joining Republicans in a filibuster of the Democratic health care plan. Whatever.

As much as our favorite boogeyman loves the limelight, there's one thing he loves even more?being Senator.

Tweet of the Day:

Can I just say that I am trying my best not to look at the polls everyday...and failing. This election is making me crazy...
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Why the Dallas Cowboys are really, really awful

post from Where Is The Outrage? on 28 October 2012 11:18:22 PM. © Where Is The Outrage?

I love the Dallas Cowboys. My father took me to see my first Cowboys game back in 1966. So, it is my father's fault that I love the Cowboys. Back in the 1960's and 1970's the Cowboys played football. They were awful toward the end of the 1980's. They dominated the early 1990's with what

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Sunday Late Night: De-Autonomizing Women

post from Firedoglake on 28 October 2012 11:01:29 PM. © Firedoglake

Is it just me, or is American culture starting to move away from women having a right to personal autonomy? It seems to me that while abortion restrictions, and now contraception restrictions, as well as same-sex marriage restrictions, are all part of[...]

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What Do the Polls Tell Us

post from Talking Points Memo on 28 October 2012 11:00:57 PM. © Talking Points Memo

With 9 days to go before election day, I thought I'd take a moment to go over where the polls are as of today and what if anything they can tell us about what the headlines will be on November 7th. If you're a polling or data diehard a good bit of what[...]

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Cool Hurricane Maps

post from Kmareka.com on 28 October 2012 11:00:43 PM. © Kmareka.com

John Maeda from RISD posted a good graphical map on Twitter ESRI.COM disaster response. ESRI is a web mapping service.

The National Hurricane Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has graphics and updates every six hours. All the commercial weather forecasters depend on NOAA.

Here’s the City of Providence hurricane news.

Youse all stay home and stay dry. If you didn’t already buy bread and milk, just settle for cake and champagne– good by candlelight.

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Late Night Music Club with Joe Jackson Band
(1979)

Genre: Rock and RollTitle: One More TimeArtist: Joe Jackson Band

Joe Jackson in an early rarity -- interrupted at the beginning when his guitarist breaks a string.

Whatcha listening to this evening?

Look Sharp

Artist: Joe Jackson

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Romneys Desperation to Win Ohio Is Starting to
Leave a Stench

I know that being this is a Presidential election, we shouldn't be shocked at anything we see.However, this new ad by Romney goes way beyond the pale. When I first saw it, I thought "this has to be a parody. No one can lie this brazenly."But it is a[...]

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Video Upload Shows How Ignorant U.S. Right Wing
Has Become

This was presented as "Hilarious Leftist Propaganda from the Mid-50s." I saw nothing hilarious here, and it seems fairly accurate historically. If you compare the anti-Semitic rhetoric of "radio priest" Father Coughlin and the Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith with that of the Nazis in 1930s Germany, they resemble quite remarkably.

I seriously doubt that many right-wingers of today know who those people were, anyway. Such people aren't known for doing a lot of reading.

I suppose that the person who uploaded this considers it "leftist propaganda" because it reflects kindly upon FDR. He was no saint, but his sort of noblesse oblige is conspicuously missing among today's wealthy, to wit the Scumneys.

Also, the hard-core left was not pleased with Roosevelt at the time. He ended up saving capitalism -- for about 80 years. Now it seems to be in trouble all over the globe, in large part because capitalists forgot the important lessons FDR tried to teach them. -- MJ

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