Typical Media Bias

Politico:

“At Obama fundraiser in Chicago. Admission only $51, but room is half full,” New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor wrote on Twitter.

C'mon, cut the Obama cheerleading - the room was half empty!

Which reminds me - some say the glass is half empty but I say it's a specimen cup.

Comments

[peter]

Was up looking for Perseid meteors. Only saw one in an hour and a half, but what a spectacular night for stargazing, with the crescent moon, and Jupiter? some planet, not sure which, rising in the East. I'll be yawning at my desk this afternoon, that's for sure.

[dublindave]

Palin not speaking at the Convention.

Ryan Budget to get watered down by Romney camp.

Not a bad start to the day.

[Sara]

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[rse]

I think it is probably a good idea to get a better handle on the precise nature of community organizing. Using their own words as to their intentions and desired results.

I remain stunned that there are books published laying out what a "vitalizing" influence anger is and how the deprivation in the urban schools can be an engine driving the youth to demand social justice.

We have a community organizer in the WH. Why not just give a heroin addict the keys to the methadone clinic and then wonder what happened to the supplies.

[dublindave]

We have a community organizer in the WH. Why not just give a heroin addict the keys to the methadone clinic and then wonder what happened to the supplies.

Damn, I was going to use the same analogy for Ryan's fiscal Conservatism.

Talking with a friend in the Romney camp last night, I asked him how they and the base square Ryan's drunken bender of decade long spending with their fiscally responsible agenda? He told me "Dub, seriously, Republicans would fall in love with a serial child rapist if said rapist wanted to end Medicare, social security and federal taxes. Reagan increased the size of Government, Bush 1 increased the size of government and Bush two blew it out of the water. We say this shit just to keep the base happy but we don't mean it, Dub, we don't mean it at all. They're so stupid. Hahahahahaha"

Damn, brother.

[daddy]

Seventh!

[daddy]

4 Martini's along (Vodka) but I think the old joke was something like:

An Optimist: "That glass is half full."
A Pessimist: "That glass is half empty."
An Engineer: Something is wrong with that glass. We need to redesign it to half size."

Could we please have a tangent today on "That glass is half" jokes.

Winning entry gets a half full glass of Guinness (unless he/she is a hopeless pessimist) In which case get lost.

[Jane - Get off the couch your country needs you!]

Dudu,

How long will it be before you realize you are toast?

Daddy, have you already left Sydney?

[hit and run]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HATER TOT!!!

[Janet]

from Despair -

[tommy r]

Easy to fill that obama fundraiser to the rafters. Simply accept EBT cards for the fifty one dollar entry fee.

[Captain Hate]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HATER TOT!!!

Excellent system, hit; Tiny Tunes is indeed one year old today. It seems like it was just yesterday; time flies when you get old.

[dublindave]

Dudu,How long will it be before you realize you are toast?

Could be. Romney's already improved as a candidate and that's something you have to credit Ryan with. Like him or loathe him, he's elevated Rombot's performance.

[daddy]

Peter,

Did not know it was Perseid Meteor time, but last ni8ght saw a spectacular Shooting Star across the nose in descent to Hong Kong but didn't have enough spare brains at the moment to think about it. That certainly makes sense now.

It is very cool, us being Northern Hemisphere guys, to view the Southern sky. Reading the early Aussie historie's as I am doing this trip (Watkin Tench 1788) you can understand the sort of sadness they must have felt at not seeing familiar constellations, thus adding to their depressing sense of isolation. I suspect it makes sense that we call the Milky Way the Megallinic Cloud. My humble knowlege suspects he came south and saw the Milky Way in better splemndor than we do up north, so that would ecplain nhis name attacjhed to "The Megallanic Cloud."

I gladly await clarification if I am hosed up. Anyway, cool light show last night. Am disturbed tho' about it's carbon footprint...

[Jane - Get off the couch your country needs you!]

I said this last night but I'd like to know if others have come to the same conclusion, which I am more sure of today than ever:

Either by default or design we now have the biggest choice election in the history of this country. If you watched the Romney/Ryan speeches yesterday you finally had to realize what was going on.

Earlier in the day I saw Doug Shone and Pat Caddell (both who I love) saying that the Romney ticket and the real life discussion about medicare could not only lose the election but take the House and Senate with them.

What I realized last night watching the Wisconsin rally is this is not about Medicare. It is about the entire fiscal cliff. It's about absolutely stopping the bull and getting us back on a track toward liberty, freedom and entrepreneurship. This is not a campaign promise, it is a mission. The only reason to vote RR is if you believe the country needs to stop its path to economic ruin. The only reason to vote for Obama is if you don't think the country is on the path to economic ruin.

RR has gone all in. I'd love to know when they decided to do this. This is the boldest agenda in my lifetime and the choice is clear. hopefully 2010 and the Walker election are predictors.

[GMAX]

I would not pay 51 cents to listen to the man so I do not understand how they got it half full, well yes I do. There was a hell of a lot of Secret Service and its been well publicized how many Zero has working at Chicago campaign HQ and then the drones from AFSME and SEIU who get paid to attend plus sprinkle in a few Code Pinkos and you might get about 1/2, so OK I talked myself into it. IN CHICAGO. Whoops.

[Captain Hate]

hopefully 2010 and the Walker election are predictors.

I don't see how you can reach any other conclusion. That's the reason the Tea Party was founded; because people were tired of both parties spending money like drunk sailors. Of course the MFM wanted to frame it differently, for the obvious reasons, but the road to financial ruin was foremost in most peoples' minds and they'd had no friend in the White House under Bush.

[narciso]

If they had any sense of 'selfawareness' they would use, the 'more selective audience' pitch, shirley I jest,

From the other thread, Capt, Priebus suggested that Sarah was welcome but at least two of Romney's liasons with the committee, eminent Duke and Duke vps, probably vetoed the invitation,

[GMAX]

So lets compare and contrast. How far is Waukeesaw Wisc from Chicago? 90 minutes? I cant be far off, if I am off at all.

Now the place was jumping with energy and excitement. Wisconsin I mean. But not so much for the hope and change guy. Spent the change and rope a doped the hope.

Go look at that video I pointed you to yesterday. USA Today and Gallup admitting, Romney has a "hidden advantage" (i.e. simply by changing to a LV model ), talking about the signficance of the enthusiasm clearly demonstrated here, and generally laying the groundwork for a defense of the obvious but unstated question: "where did you guys ever get that it was a close race?"

[Rick Ballard]

New Battleground poll out this morning. The sample appears good at first pass and the result is consonant with Rasmussen/Gallup. The survey was completed prior to the Ryan announcement.

There's also a SUSA Missouri poll showing both Obama and McCaskill as dead ducks quacking in Missouri (AliceH chose wisely). There's an interesting ticket split showing Nixon with a strong lead for governor.

Akin is polling much better than Romney according to this poll. I hope we see SUSA poll Missouri again within a month to see what the Ryan effect has been.

[GMAX]

I take Double Douche last comment as a very grudging but real admission that the race has changed. And even if he did not know it, Zero was already behind. Can a jettison of Slow Joe Biden be but days away? Maybe they can get that lady from Wisconsin who ran against Prosser to join the ticket. What a dream ticket, a half black incompetent and a never been but she is a female!

[henry]

GMAX, there were people from Chicago at the rally in Waukesha (not the idiot hecklers either). 90 minutes is about right on a Sunday (lots of construction on 94).

[rse]

Well said Jane. Just like what I am doing is only about education as a tool.

These people are planning to use the schools to organize students and parents to insist on housing, transportation, job, and credential equity.

After reading and hearing about Alinsky to read this is what IAF does and ACORN and SEIU and this is how we go into churches. Oh, and IAF will not come in unless neighborhood has already organized as a community. And raised $250K and then apparently IAF then grants access to foundations.

That fits with the philanthropy shakedown I saw last week that mentioned powell and ldh by name. Today's on organizing in the schools cites Ayers.

So one side wants you to be aggrieved because there's political power for them especially if you act as a group.

The other wants hope for each individual. Rules equitable enforced not government action to level for equity.

Profound difference. And then there are the long term differences in results and prosperity and responsible personal behaviors.

[narciso]

This week's Parade, rse, had a big piece featuring the 21st Century Fund's Mary Filardo, I don't know if you've come across
this outfit, but they talked a good deal about
equalizing outcomes, so I'm a tad suspicious

[Captain Hate]

Priebus suggested that Sarah was welcome but at least two of Romney's liasons with the committee, eminent Duke and Duke vps, probably vetoed the invitation,

Ugh; those fossils won't go easily but the trash heap awaits them. With the Ryan choice they should contact the Schmidt and Wallace MSDNC outreach team.

[narciso]

The methodology on the Survey USA poll, is all over the place, gmax, adults, registered, likely, like chicken, fish, or pork, and 'unexpectedly' they don't show the D/R/I breakdown.

[Thomas Collins]

Say it ain't so! The AG in the Administration of the Mother of All Choomers cracking down on Choom dispensaries to distract attention from the Fast and Furious debacle? See LUN (via Instapundit).

I wonder whether AG Holder thought of this one himself, or whether he was advised to do this by Grand Strategist Axelrod.

[marlene]

Yes Jane,I agree. My husband interacts with small business owners every day.In central and northern Maine that means mom and pop groceries,farmers,truckers and small professional practices. All are uncertain and uneasy. We need serious people to lead and inform about the difficult decisions that must be made.Romney/Ryan are serious people.

[Soylent Red]

Maybe they can get that lady from Wisconsin who ran against Prosser to join the ticket. What a dream ticket, a half black incompetent and a never been but she is a female!
Posted by: GMAX | August 13, 2012 at 08:48 AM

SCOAMF's entire political career has been based on identity politics, why not construct a ticket around the concept?

Person of 50% color + woman vs. ideas that will bring the country forward.

I suppose SCOAMF would run on his ideas if Valerie Jarrett would just tell him what they are and how best to package and market them so they won't be repudiated.

This is not a campaign promise, it is a mission. The only reason to vote RR is if you believe the country needs to stop its path to economic ruin. The only reason to vote for Obama is if you don't think the country is on the path to economic ruin.
Posted by: Jane - Get off the couch your country needs you! | August 13, 2012 at 08:28 AM

Or you can vote for Obama if you simply don't care the country is on the path of economic ruin.

There are lots and lots of people out there who don't care about how it happens, or the future ramifications, just so long as they get theirs now.

There is another large segment that simply can't believe or can't be bothered that Ungle Sugar's credit card is finally maxed out - Oooh there's a new gastropub opening in the West Village! I need a new iPad!

There is another large segment that really believes in the Progressive ideal and refuses to acknowledge the truth about the historic failure on Keynesianism. Krug-mensch, if you will.

Greedy. Flighty. Stupid. That's SCOAMF's base.

The one good thing about this election is that if RR loses, we will finally know what sort of country we live in: a country of Producers or a counter of Looters and Moochers.

[Captain Hate]

Laura Ingraham is talking about the energy that the Ryan choice has brought to the Romney campaign; not dissimilar to what Palin did four years ago. I was on record as stating I didn't think Ryan would be the choice but I think this is an excellent move.

[Janet]

10,000 dead found on Virginia's voter rolls - LUN

This is an article on the cleanup effort...but ya gotta wonder how messy voter rolls have been exploited over the years.
When the Dems squealed so loud about Bush-Gore in Florida ya figure it had to be THEIR SOP to cheat.

[narciso]

Nothing like Client#9's helpful suggestion, sarc;

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/12/2945272/government-can-limit-guns-immediately.html

[Captain Hate]

Spitzer should concentrate on his only area of expertise by writing letters to Penthouse and, as an added bonus, include Kathleen.

[rse]

Thanks narciso. Yes she appears tied into community organizing via urban schools to then join up with the Regional Equity Movement and gain economic justice.

http://www.21csf.org/csf-home/aboutus/mary.asp

The UN says education is their primary vehicle for social, political, and economic change and so do the community organizers. When I was reading the Ayers book I realized one of the contributors had to be linked to REM by what her grievances were. Got her book and she is being explicit because who else but friends and allies would be reading.

Notice the union reps on that 21st Century Bd. That is also consistent with the template laid out in book I am finishing.

It also talks about using the Thug image of urban youth to frighten middle class whites into acquiescence to demands. Told you it was graphic.

[Janet]

Yeah, how in the world does Spitzer have a public platform anymore? Every time he says or writes anything we should get to hear Ashley Dupre's thoughts on the subject too.

[narciso]

Seems like a bad joke, a TEamster, a UAW member, and a community organizer walk into a bar;

http://www.21csf.org/csf-home/board.asp

About the Battleground poll, they are still cooking the gumbo, with an additional +1 D,
from May and additional spices in the strongly
D category, from a commenter on Ace.

[centralcal]

Per Drudge, debate moderators have been announced: Leher, Crowley, Schieffer and Radditz.

Stacked decks, all liberal.

[narciso]

Who decides you referrees this shindig anyways:

http://azpundit.com/presidential-and-vice-presidential-debate-moderators-announced-full-of-libs/

[Captain Hate]

Stacked decks, all liberal.

Gwen Awful must have gotten embarrassed at people thinking she was Lavar Arrington.

[Janet]

I'll look forward to Schieffer grilling Obama on smoking. - LUN

[GMAX]

Well my quibbles with the Battleground Poll are these at first glance:

+4 D aint gonna happen. I believe Tarrance knows this but had to get Celinda Lake to buy in and compromised on this sample result.

11% Union households sounds too high to me without looking up the population numbers. It rises to 15% when including a household member which has to be too high.

Only 17% Catholic seems low as well.

But Zero is not going to get anyone who is not for him today. Undecided are undecided about voting for Romney/Ryan or just sitting it out.

Pretty good results and put the lie to the CNN poll that wont show its work and the silly Opinion Dynamics one with a + 9 Democrat bias.

[jimmyk]

Taking up daddy's challenge, maybe the best response the half full half empty question is this: "Depends if you're drinking or pouring."

Then there's this to add to the engineer:

The government would say that the glass is fuller than if the opposition party were in power.

The opposition would say that it is irrelevant because the present administration has changed the way such volume statistics are collected.

The philosopher would say that, if the glass was in the forest and no one was there to see it, would it be half anything?

The economist would say that, in real terms, the glass is 25% fuller than at the same time last year.

The banker would say that the glass has just under 50% of its net worth in liquid assets.

The psychiatrist would ask, "What did your mother say about the glass?"

The physicist would say that the volume of this cylinder is divided into two equal parts; one a colorless, odorless liquid, the other a colorless, odorless gas. Thus the cylinder is neither full nor empty. Rather, each half of the cylinder is full, one with a gas, one with a liquid.

[jimmyk]

Per Drudge, debate moderators have been announced

Darn that passive voice: Who makes these decisions, and why do the Republicans consent to go along with them?

[sailor]

I want to know that, too, jimmyk.

[centralcal]

Sorry, jimmyk - but the "passive voice" was mine. sigh.

Drudge: Debate Moderators Announced

[narciso]

The Oracle of Delphi, jimmy,

the internal polling must have gone completely Costa Concordia, for this to be proferred;

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/13/politicogwu-poll-shows-romney-obama-in-virtual-tie/

[DebinNC]

Re the debates, I think we'll hear an increasing orchestrated demand that Gary Johnson be included. That buzz will earn Johnson non-stop news coverage and msm interview spots with him playing Ross Perot.

[Janet]

and another point about Spitzer...
If Jack Abramoff's name is always preceded by "disgraced former lobbyist", then Spitzer's name should always be preceded by "disgraced prostitute addict".

[narciso]

I assume it comes from a press release, but Drudge doesn't link the original source;

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/08/11/cnns-candy-crowley-ryan-pick-looks-little-bit-some-sort-ticket-death-

[Ranger]

Ryan Budget to get watered down by Romney camp.

Actually, Romney's budget is much more agressive about cutting spending in the short term than Ryan's.

Combine Romney's agressive budget cutting up front, with Ryan's long term structural changes, and you have a program to put the US on track for both short term dramatic economic growth and long term debt reduction.

[Captain Hate]

Even with the usual MFM dimwits moderating the debates, I'll be extremely disappointed (think McRINO fueled rage) if Romney doesn't completely slatter the JEF.

[AliceH]

Via AZPundit:

"UPDATE: Sources confirm to Politico on the names above, however, ‘the Commission on Presidential Debates would not confirm the names.’"

[Rob Crawford]

I think we'll hear an increasing orchestrated demand that Gary Johnson be included.

And Luap Nor, who will either go third-party himself or "endorse" third party candidates like he did in 2008.

[Danube of Thought]

Minus 21 at Raz today.

Trails Romney by 3.

[Rob Crawford]

Combine Romney's agressive budget cutting up front, with Ryan's long term structural changes, and you have a program to put the US on track for both short term dramatic economic growth and long term debt reduction.

Ah, but it will be hated and reviled by "true conservatives" because it doesn't instantly zero every extra-Constitutional program.

Get ready for a lot of screaming and wailing and turn-coating from infants who don't understand why 90 years of incrementalism can't be turned over in a single election.

[narciso]

Well this is the council of elders, which includes a former Clinton spokesman, whcpw.

http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=commission-leadership

[Captain Hate]

Crazy Uncle should be pleased by the choice of Ryan and decline to push further, if he doesn't want to be considered a delusional egomaniac who attracts anti-Semites like dogshit does flies.

[centralcal]

It really infuriates me that PBS - a government subsidized entity even has a place at the debate table.

[Rick Ballard]

Battleground Final Results

The 2008 final polling showed such a strong divergence that Tarrance and Lake offered separate projections. Lake was closer to the actual outcome while Tarrance was outside the MoE. If the anticipated turnout range is R+2 to D+4, then a D+4 is still within MoE.

[rse]

narciso-what did you think of that motto to boot?

And Parade coverage right as school starts to give the equity argument a boost. Everyone is supposed to have forgotten about the previous uproar over OBE. Much less know the distinctions and why one form was called Transformation with Spady complaining about Content Queens who blocked his agenda.

I deliberately chose the LUN provocative name because I need it and it fits. But it still makes me sad which is why I have not put it up anywhere by name except the website where its context is clear. Teachers all over seem to be unhappy and twittering and FB.

Rick and Gmax--they are coming from a mid-size town in Pennsylvania so they either suspected it was OBE or they had heard of the 3 R's and want answers.

Accurate info will not help in that swing state.

[Rob Crawford]

Crazy Uncle should be pleased by the choice of Ryan and decline to push further...

Except that doesn't do anything to aggrandize Crazy Uncle.

I've been told that Luap Nor represents the "model for grass-roots activism", by someone I used to respect. The problem is, Luap Nor's acolytes are the precise opposite of grass-roots -- they don't attempt to work with the existing party, but rather to take it over. When rebuffed, they don't concede and work with the existing party, but rather stomp off screaming about how poorly they were treated.

Which only serves to tick off people who HAVE worked with the party and HAVE seen it change through cooperation, persuasion, and time.

I've already seen people screaming that Ryan's budget "doesn't cut anything" and thus we should be pissed at his nomination and (apparently) refuse to vote for R-R. I suspect that before too long, I'll be reduced to reading Insty and JOM because everyone else seems determined to flip the bozo bit.

[narciso]

well let's just say, rse, it doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling,

[Chubby]

((duda: Palin not speaking at the Convention.))

ha! the truth will out. duda is glad Palin is not speaking because she skeers the lefties silly, (just as she scares the Republican elites.) if the left honestly believed that Palin's speaking at the convention would do Republicans harm, they'd be cheering for her appearance: "look at those mean, nasty, sexist Republicans not letting |Sarah Palin speak ..."

I personally think it's rather small not to let her speak. Perhaps a few people are worried that she'll get more louder cheering and more applause than the team.

[Manuel Transmission]

Reposting from the dead thread because it is that good. . .

I received a link from a friend to a wonderful speech by John Gardner that is some of the finest soul searching I have read in a very long time. LUN

"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account."

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Daddy, I'm a little confused on this. The Magellanic Clouds are two smaller galaxies -- irregular dwarf galaxies, not that there's anything wrong with that -- that orbit the Milky Way. They're named that because they were first reported by European astronomers who accompanied Magellan.

[narciso]

DEnial apparently just doesn't flow through Egypt;

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/no-alarms-yet-over-morsis-purge-of-top-military-leaders/2012/08/12/290ccf3c-e4ce-11e1-8

[daddy]

RSE,

Our local SchoolBoard just voted to accept $23 Million from the Feds and to start feeding "Free" dinner to whoever shows up at 6 Local High Schools. Our Conservative School Board guy who fought against this was damned personally and in the Press for this.

FWIW, If I was a cub reporter trying to make a name for myself by taking down Romney, I would be concentrating on what supposed Republican would most likely be liable to be dismissive of Romney's choice, and who would effectively diss his policies on camera. My guess is that the person most likely to do that would be Barbara Bush.

If I'm the MSM and I can get Barbara Bush to start yapping about "Republican heartlessness", I think they do great service to their Master Obama.

Anyhow, don't want to dishonestly tar Barbara Bush, just saying that she appears to me to be an easy mark who appeals to women voters and is a Republican matriarch.

What comes out of her mouth may prove influential this election if the MSM can use it to damn Romney.

[Clarice]

Think how bad the Obama campaign team is if they cannot pad a small hall in Chicago, Obama's home town and the site of his campaign HQ. The contrast between the spontaneous appearing RR crowds in Wisconsin and NC and this Chicago disaster has to be a harbinger of Doom for the Democratic ticket.

[Ignatz]

--Palin not speaking at the Convention.

Ryan Budget to get watered down by Romney camp.

Not a bad start to the day.

Posted by: dublindave | August 13, 2012 at 05:36 AM --

Wait a minute now, Palin is supposedly an idiot who will destroy Repubs at the polls and Ryan's budget is supposedly a disaster which will destroy Repubs at the polls.
That would make it a bad start to the day for WeeDavey right?
Why, it's almost like he's just a slimy liar but can't keep the lies straight.

[narciso]

That was entirely too doubleunplusgood on her part;

http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/obama-media-obama-to-raise-at-least-6-4-million-sunday-reality-obama-collects-4-million-in-his-hometown-for-re-el

[Captain Hate]

The Luap Nor spawn are equivalent to the OWS and Westboro vermin. They yammer on endlessly about how Crazy Uncle is the smartest man in the world and the only one that understands the Constitution and then get confused and angry when nobody votes for him after they've been banging that monkey for years and swarmed every online poll. I hope they pull a Jonestown 2 in November; the world would be a better place.

[Janet]

((It really infuriates me that PBS - a government subsidized entity even has a place at the debate table.))

Amen, cc.

[Captain Hate]

Anyhow, don't want to dishonestly tar Barbara Bush,

You're not; she's a loose cannon of dumbass statements who needs to permanently STFU

[Minimalist Poster]

There is no glass. Empty the mind.

[jimmyk]

the "passive voice" was mine. sigh.

No, it was Drudge's.

[dublindave]

((duda: Palin not speaking at the Convention.))

ha! the truth will out. duda is glad Palin is not speaking because she skeers the lefties silly,

Half right. We're scared of Tea party radicals whose economic goals of destroying the United States economy through austerity and credit downgrading are more aligned with the late Bin laden than any actual historical patriot.

So any time the RNC puts a fucking muzzle on a dog like Palin, we all breathe a sigh of relief.

Further riffing; the Optics of Old man Biden being beaten down by the intellectual powerhouse of Paul Ryan aren't going to be that bad. Bidens the perfect embodiment of geriatric fear. Fear that young right wing ideologues are going to take away their Medicare and leave them to die on the street.

I say he plays it feeble, confused and frightened.

[Rob Crawford]

Why, it's almost like he's just a slimy liar but can't keep the lies straight.

Then why do ya'll spend so much time and energy on his drivel?

[Rob Crawford]

I hope they pull a Jonestown 2 in November; the world would be a better place.

But what do you really think?

(I just wish they'd put down the bong and grow up.)

[glasater]

Good Morning,
Since the Perseid meteor shower was mentioned earlier on the thread I thought I would share my effort and "catch" from the other night.
I was pressing the cable release button when I saw a huge meteor coming down to my left. Let go of the button 'cause the star was so magnificent and got too excited. (One has to keep the shutter open 10 plus seconds in order to get anything to record to the sensor it is just that dark) I didn't think the lens was wide enough to catch the meteor but the camera had caught it.
It was pretty funny though for me and my photo buddy who was along taking pictures with me. The stars were shooting wherever the lens was NOT pointed.
The city lights in the lower right is good ole Walla Walla WA. The red lights are on the wind machines that grace the lower hills in the valley.

[Chubby]

((My guess is that the person most likely to do that would be Barbara Bush. ))

I think the Bushes, Rove and that whole gang are tight with Romney. Sarah not being allowed to speak at the convention is like a thrown kiss to Barbara Bush's animosity toward Palin.

[DebinNC]

MT's 10:27 link is a keeper. TY

[Ranger]

Get ready for a lot of screaming and wailing and turn-coating from infants who don't understand why 90 years of incrementalism can't be turned over in a single election.

So true. I would be happy with a 3% year over year reduction in Federal spending. Romney is even more agressive than that.

[sailor]

Well, Newt's not speaking either.

[Chubby]

((Half right. We're scared of Tea party radicals whose economic goals of destroying the United States economy through austerity and credit downgrading are more aligned with the late Bin laden than any actual historical patriot.))

malicious insanity on parade

[Captain Hate]

I'd settle for a real reduction of any size; and not calling a decrease in the rate of increase a "reduction" which has been SOP for a long time.

[Sue]

Glasater,

That is awesome. I bet you were excited when you saw the picture.

[Danube of Thought]

"we now have the biggest choice election in the history of this country"

1964?

[Danube of Thought]

Gmax, you didn't link to that video and I couldn't find it. Where is it?

[narciso]

A real 'crossing the streams moment, with full
protonic reversal, possible:

http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/13/dnc-chair-ryan-plan-will-force-seniors-to-choose-between-medicine-meals/

[Dave (in MA)]

Beautiful shot. If I did this right, here's the link to the full size photo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallawallaphotos/7773832016/sizes/o/in/photostream/

[Chubby]

((Well, Newt's not speaking either.))

I don't think the two can be compared and the more I think about Sarah being left out, the more disgusted I'm getting. After all the vigor and life that she injected into the Republicans' 2008 moribund campaign, and all that she did in the 2010 mid-terms, I think that not inviting her to speak is downright despicable.

[DebinNC]

While Obama was in Chicago, 21 people were killed/injured in shootings. Jeremiah Wright and Calypso Louie co-hosted an anti-violence event, but I don't think Obama stopped by or commented on the continuing carnage. I guess his 5 "campaign events" left him no time.

[marlene]

Rob Crawford@10:20/CH@10:35 re: Ron Paul:There are 23 GOP delegates from Maine who are Ron Paul supporters.At the state GOP convention they hijacked the process.GOP insiders in the state think the process was invalidated and the delegates should not be seated at the convention. Gov.Lepage (not a Paul supporter) said the process at the state convention was valid and he will boycott the convention in Tampa if those delegates aren't seated.Some sort of compromise is in the works,the Paul delegates promise to behave.Paul has the majority of delegates in Minnesota,Utah and Nevada.Anyone know the situation in those states?

[Rick Ballard]

"they are coming from a mid-size town in Pennsylvania so they either suspected it was OBE"

RSE,

Where is the antecedent for "they"? ManTran provided a fine contrasting statement to be read after wading in the bafflegab generated by the bastard descendants of John Dewey. That SOB deserves the same treatment Cromwell received after the restoration. Dig him up, chop him up, burn the pieces and bury the ashes in a manure pit.

[dublindave]

((Half right. We're scared of Tea party radicals whose economic goals of destroying the United States economy through austerity and credit downgrading are more aligned with the late Bin laden than any actual historical patriot.))

"malicious insanity on parade"

Not as insane as nominating two of the most fiscally irresponsible people in Washington to spearhead your austerity platform.

The Matrix has you!

[Rob Crawford]

"we now have the biggest choice election in the history of this country"

1964?

1860?

[centralcal]

I think that not inviting her to speak is downright despicable

Me too, Chubby.

[Danube of Thought]

Michael P. Leahy:

"Erskine Bowles, the Democratic co-chairman of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, called the Paul Ryan budget 'sensible, straightforward, serious' at a speech given at the University of North Carolina last September."

[Rob Crawford]

I don't think the two can be compared and the more I think about Sarah being left out, the more disgusted I'm getting.

She doesn't seem to be upset by it.

[jimmyk]

"we now have the biggest choice election in the history of this country"

1964?

1860?

I was going to say 1980, but 1860 beats that.