Morning Joe - Not So Smart

"I think Bloomberg has been bitterly disappointed by President Obama. And I think he may be offended by the President trying to use NYC as a backdrop for a final week for a campaign where I’m not so sure he wants him to be re-elected,"

Ruh-roh...ROMNEY OH-Rally - Crowd Came For Kid Rock - Heading For Exits While Mitt Is Talking

good one...

An Election Poem

Clicking On The Elephant's Ass

Association of Climate-Change Deniers

America's fucked up pundit culture in a paragraph A thoughtful post on Deadspin about Nate Silver an

Nate Silver’s Braying Idiot Detractors Show That Being Ignorant About Politics Is Like Being Ignorant About Sports
America's fucked up pundit culture in a paragraph

A thoughtful post on Deadspin about Nate Silver and the conservatives who must not accept statistical analysis ... they do not like:

We've Got Your Back Mr. President

Matt Romney Goes To Russia, Secretly Sends Message To Putin To Ignore Dad’s Campaign Rhetoric

Matt Romney Goes To Russia, Secretly Sends Message To Putin To Ignore Dad’s Campaign Rhetoric
By Hamed Aleaziz on Nov 2, 2012 at 12:42 pm

This week Mitt Romney’s son Matt traveled to Moscow for business and, reports say, allayed any concerns the Russian government had about his father’s harsh stance on Russia. When it comes to Russia, Mitt Romney has been brash, at one point labeling Russia “without question our number one geopolitical foe” and “a geopolitical adversary.” He’s also repeatedly lashed out at President Obama for allegedly being weak on Russia. But according to a New York Times report, Matt Romney is trying to convince Russia that the tough talk is just talk:

KBR guilty of negligence, must pay each soldier $850,000 in non-economic damages, $6.25 million in p

Source: The Oregonian

KBR guilty of negligence, must pay each soldier $850,000 in non-economic damages, $6.25 million in punitive damages



Defense contractor KBR Inc. was found guilty of negligence, not fraud, against a dozen Oregon Army National Guard soldiers. A jury announced the decision moments in a federal courthouse in Portland. Each soldier was awarded $850,000 in non-economic damages and $6.25 in punitive damages.

Watch here for more details as a tearful scene in the courtroom unfolds later this afternoon.

Friday's verdict closes the first phase of a web of litigation between National Guard and British troops against KBR Inc., the defense contractor they accuse of knowingly exposing them in 2003 to a carcinogen at Qarmat Ali, the water treatment plant near Basra, Iraq. Further, they charged, the company concealed information about the presence of sodium dichromate from them. KBR has denied the accusations.

In Oregon another set of Oregon soldiers are waiting in the wings for their day in court. Magistrate Judge Paul Papak and the attorneys agreed earlier to hold an initial trial with the first 12 soldiers, in order to keep the proceedings from becoming too unwieldy. A second trial, featuring all or some of the remaining 21 plaintiffs, could begin in federal court in Portland this winter.

Read more: http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonatwar/2012/11/kbr_verdict_is_in.html