I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Rosemary - there are certain accusations one doesn't even dignify with an acknowledgment. Also, it takes one to know one. Who can forget the way the Dumbya administration cooked the Medicare numbers to enable Tom DeLay to strong-arm the prescription drug plan through congress. They deliberately deflated the cost of the law. I suppose people who have run out of ideas assume others have as well. Not so.

Jon Stewart had a funny thing on that the other night, pointing out that if Obama were cooking the books, he has a lousy recipe.  Why 7.8?  Why not 2.8?  If youre going to cook the books, really lower it.  And if he were cooking the books, why wait until now?  Why not have them lower all the way from last January on? The last was my question, not Stewart's.

A Romney spokesperson (a Latina with a cartoon-type voice) gave away the R/R campaign strategy (the latest one, of course) today on CNN:  Talk like a moderate during October to get all the low-info undecideds, and govern like a rightwinger once in office.  I'm sure the Obama campaign team had figured that out, but maybe not the undecideds or those simple people who believed Romney during the first debate.

I'm enjoying reading all your posts and links this evening.  Here's an article about Jack Welch's lying.

"Jack Welch has no clue about jobs numbers"

"Perhaps Welch could get away with this sort of temper tantrum nonsense when he was running one of the biggest companies in the world, but he will only get ridicule pushing this line in policy debates. Either Welch doesn't have any clue about how the unemployment data are collected, or he is just a liar.

First, it is important to understand that the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- the division of the Labor Department that reports data on unemployment -- is run by career civil servants. Ordinarily, the commissioner is a well-respected academic economist who is appointed by the president. However, since the previous commissioner left this year, John Galvin, a career civil servant, stepped up to fill the role of acting commissioner. This means the bureau does not have a single political appointee......"

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/10/opinion/baker-welch-unemployment/index.html

Andrew Sullivan being alarmist and annoying, saying Obama has lost the election. On the other hand, serves Obama right for being complacent and just a bit haughty.

Sullivan is interesting. Sometimes he is so very off, but when he is on he is great.

Romney-Ryan are running on the huge reserve of stupidity that keep modern democracies going (people believing everything they read and see, no questions asked). They will lose, but not by as much as they should.

Not-very-useful Wednesday brain droppings. :-)

Kam -- I don't have a clip -- I watched it live.  Can't remember her name but she's plumpish, with a round face, a very high voice and a wee bit of an accent.  I'll check through the CNN website and try to find her name.

ETA:  Ana Navarro 

I suppose those that liked David Siegel telling his employees "Vote Romney or lose your job" really loved it when Murray Energy forced their employees to attend a Romney event in Beallsville, Ohio, and lose their pay to do so.  Romney then used the miners as props in television ads complaining about President Obama's "war on coal."  Additionally, salaried employees were required to have a 1% payroll deduction to contribute to a PAC giving donations to Republican candidates.

An ethics watchdog group wants to know whether an Ohio coal company violated federal election rules by forcing employees to donate to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sent a complaint to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday alleging that Murray Energy and its CEO Robert Murray "coerced" company employees to make contributions to its political action committee (PAC). 

Lie:

Blah blah blah (ignorant) blah blah (who are you calling corrupt?) blah blah blah making s*** up blah blah blah and blah.

Restrain me please! 

Things found through the looking glass are poison bait, designed to get this thread shut down. Wide blue lines are much better for the physical and mental health of every woman here. You can't compete with an alternate reality and you can't bring light to those who love the dark.





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HL, so true. And I would add, light is the best disinfectant.

Oh, Kam ... I JUST saw it! ROFLMAO! Even Rachel had to stop and laugh!



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That's a hoot!!

Seriously, though, in reading these last several pages, I am so proud of what we share on this thread. It has so much more depth than other forums I've seen. We have fun, we support each other, and we share information, ideas, and opinions. What a thoughtful and thought-provoking group of ladies we have here!!

Jackie -- This was a poem I memorized in school, and actually gave a speech about it in a public speaking contest.  It never fails to move me, and imagine, Kipling was just 20 when he wrote it.  Wise beyond his years.....