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October 27, 2016

A "movement" without the celebrity.

The Trumpence bus tour of Alabama just finished.

Remember the "big rally" in Mobile, with Senator Sessions, during primary?

Enthusiasm?

For Terry Buckalew of Mobile, the Wednesday gathering of 50 or so like-minded folks in the parking lot of a shopping center in front of a bus decorated in Donald Trump's likeness was a welcome shot in the arm ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

How about the other end of the state, Huntsville?

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2016/10/donald_trump_campaign_bus_rall.html#incart_river_index

How about Montgomery, at the state capital?

Not very scary, is it? And this is the heart of Trump country!

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2016/10/25/trump-supporters-hold-rally-at-alabama-state-capitol/92746676/

October 21, 2016

Companies, including Alabama media, targeted in cyber-attack

The effect of this AM cyber-attack is ongoing.

Many of us use these state media services to get shared news from local sources that require signups and fees.

http://www.wsfa.com/story/33447502/companies-including-alabama-media-targeted-in-cyber-attack

A widespread attack targeting the east coast has impacted a number of online companies across the country.

Websites impacted include Twitter, Spotify and Reddit.

AL.com, a statewide media company, has also been targeted. Any attempt to visit the organization’s website only brings up an error message.

October 21, 2016

Americans are more afraid of clowns than climate change, terrorism, and ... death

The problem seems to be some people don't recognize a clown when they see one!

http://www.vox.com/2016/10/21/13321536/clown-scare-sightings-2016

We live in scary times.

In 2016, we’ve seen hundreds of mass shootings. We’ve watched the gap between rich and poor Americans widen. We’ve witnessed the fulminant rise of Donald Trump, whose nomination left Vox editor in chief Ezra Klein “truly afraid” for the first time in American politics.

But in the eyes of our citizens, there is a graver threat at hand: clowns.

In a poll we conducted with Morning Consult last week, 42 percent of Americans said they were, in some capacity, afraid of clowns. Among voters ages 18 to 29, nearly one in three admitted to at least a minor case of coulrophobia — fear of clowns.

October 20, 2016

Toddlers have shot at least 50 people this year

It's not about "taking your guns away" - it's about keeping us safer!

Source: Washington Post, by Christopher Ingraham

In bringing up toddlers at the debate, Clinton may have been channeling the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which recently launched a PSA focused on toddler shootings.

“Americans are shot by toddlers at least once a week.We need to lock them up. Not the guns — that’s just un-American,” the Brady Campaign says in the satirical video. “Round them up. Deport them. Get them out of our country. And keep them away from guns.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/20/toddlers-have-shot-at-least-50-people-this-year/?tid=pm_business_pop_b

October 12, 2016

Did you catch Syfy's premiere, "Channel Zero: Candle Cove?"

Channel Zero: Candle Cove adapts an internet legend about terrifying TV. Fittingly, it’s terrifying TV.

The “Candle Cove” storyline is one of many that Channel Zero ultimately intends to adapt from an abundant source of web-based horror stories known as creepypasta (pronounced alternatively as “creepy paste-uh” or “creepy pasta”). “Candle Cove” is one of the best-known creepypasta in existence, and one of the most adored by the genre’s many fans. The original version, a short text story of childhood nostalgia that steadily grows more horrifying until the chilling finale, was written and posted by writer Kris Straub in 2009 — a novelty, since most creepypasta are anonymous — but it feels much older, as though it has always been with us.

Now, where do all those 'teeth under the pillow' really go?

October 11, 2016

If we judge our candidates by how 'big' it is...

then Hillary is humiliating Trump again with the size of HER rally!

18,500-20,000 last night at Ohio State University:

October 9, 2016

Republican pundit Steve Schmidt on 'Meet the Press'

Schmidt was the senior campaign strategist and advisor to the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator John McCain. He knows "unqualified" now, after regretfully giving us Sarah Palin.

http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-october-9-2016-n662746

CHUCK TODD:

Steve, what happens tonight?

STEVE SCHMIDT:

Well, this debate will be like the last debate. You'll see someone who's manifestly unprepared for the duties of the office of President of the United States, who has no idea what he's talking about from a policy perspective, who lacks the requisite dignity required of someone who wishes to be the Head of State of the government of the United States, and someone who lacks the capacity to be the Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful military and the world's most potent nuclear arsenal, that's what you'll see tonight.

*****

When we, when we look at this-- When we look at where this race is today, the Presidential race is effectively over.

*****

Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the 45th President of the United States. Chuck Schumer will be the Majority Leader of the United States Senate.

CHUCK TODD:

You're that confident?

STEVE SCHMIDT:

And the only question that's still up in the air is how close the Democrats will come to retaking the House Majority. What this exposes, though, is much deeper and it goes to the Republican Party as an institution. This, this candidacy, the magnitude of its disgrace to the country is almost impossible, I think, to articulate. But it has exposed the intellectual rot in the Republican Party. It has exposed at a massive level the hypocrisy, the modern day money changers in the temple like Jerry Falwell Jr. And so, this party, to go forward and to represent a conservative vision for America, has great soul searching to do. And what we've seen and the danger for all of these candidates is over the course of the last year, these, these candidates who have repeatedly put their party ahead of their country, denying what is so obviously clear to anybody who's watching about his complete and total manifest unfitness for this office.

October 8, 2016

A Donald Trump presidency would bring shame on this country

At long last, have we no decency?

Source: Vox, by Ezra Klein

This isn’t about fitness for the presidency. This is about basic human decency.

*****

But the question isn’t whether Trump has any decency. We’ve known for some time that he doesn’t. The question is whether we have any decency — whether we will elect this man, or even come close to electing this man, knowing all we know about him.

Here is the compliment I can pay Donald Trump, and I pay it with real gratitude: He never hid who he was. Perhaps he lacked the self-control, or the self-awareness, but whatever the mechanism, he never obscured his cruelty, or his misogyny, or his greed, or his dishonesty. He is not a clever demagogue but a crude one.

*****

He has done all this in public, and he has done all of it repeatedly, almost gleefully. If we elect him, there will be no excusing our actions to future generations, no pleading ignorance in the face of threat. It was all here. It was all obvious. It will all be visible to our children, and to historians.

Trump told us who he was, showed us who he was, again and again. The test here is not of his decency, but of our own.

Read it at: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/7/13206528/donald-trump-leaked-assault-audio

October 6, 2016

Washington’s ‘governing elite’ think Americans are morons

It's finally confirmed! I'm a member of the 'elites'!

Source: Washington Post Wonkblog, by Jeff Guo

*****
Since this wasn’t a random sample, and the authors don't tell us precisely what kinds of workers in what proportion were asked to participate, we have to take their word that this is a representative group of D.C. insiders.

Nevertheless, the results they present are eye-popping. On a wide range of issues, bureaucrats believe that Americans are ignorant. For instance, over half of them say that the public knows little to nothing about government crime programs, child care programs or environmental programs.

*****

A lot of this elitism is probably justifiable. When only 36 percent of adults can name the three branches of government, you wouldn’t want to hand over control of FDA to, say, your next-door neighbor. In the sample of bureaucrats that Bachner and Ginsberg looked at, the majority had master’s degrees or more. It should be a comfort knowing that there exists a specialized class of people who have dedicated their lives to understanding the intricacies of, say, tax credits for the poor or the diplomatic intrigues of the Caucasus.

*****

Fair enough. But respect, as the saying goes, is a two-way street, and Americans have a long and ignoble tradition of denigrating expertise. Today, nearly 40 percent of adults think there isn’t evidence for global warming. Skeptical parents won't vaccinate their children, endangering their communities with breakouts of preventable diseases like measles. So maybe we can make a deal. If we want experts to listen to our opinions, we might also do them the courtesy of sometimes listening to their opinions, too.

Much more at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/05/washingtons-governing-elite-actually-think-americans-are-morons/

September 30, 2016

Fox News Poll: Clinton ahead of Trump after debate...

First, the horserace. Clinton is ahead of Trump by three percentage points: 43-40 percent in the four-way matchup, according to a new Fox News Poll of likely voters. Her advantage is within the poll’s margin of sampling error. Two weeks ago, Clinton was up by one (41-40 percent).

In the two-candidate head-to-head, Clinton tops Trump by five: 49-44 percent. Two weeks ago, Trump was up by one (46-45 percent).

The consequences of the debate, which voters score as a win for Clinton by nearly three-to-one, are even clearer on other measures. Trump’s honesty rating is down, most still say he doesn’t have the right temperament, and over half wouldn’t be comfortable with him as president.

Meanwhile, more voters now see Clinton as honest than Trump, the number who say she has the right temperament is up, and over half think her long tenure in government is a positive. Plus, her support increased among women, non-whites, and younger voters.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/30/fox-news-poll-clinton-ahead-trump-after-debate-fear-motivating-both-sides.html

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