Politics (formerly Election 2012)

[Levantine]

http://dailycurrant.com/2012/11/08/sant ... te-romney/

[Sagara]

Worst part? That he would say that sounds BELIEVABLE. I guess that's the line between satire and horror stories?

[KysenMurrin]

Yeah, I didn't really clue in until the joke about stuffing ballot boxes.

[Levantine]

I honestly didn't get it until the second go around. It was awkward when I had to explain to my exceptionally politically minded friend that it wasn't actually real, no matter how plausible.

[Klaudandus]

Latest episode of the Daily Show was amazing

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episod ... ate-silver

Watching it... Wow... Dick Morris is a DICK

Actually... the whole cognitive dissonance is amazing.

[Klaudandus]

Sweet mother of god -- Karl Rove blames Obama of voter suppression...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/201 ... html?hp=f3



Also

Some old lady's blog
http://margaretandhelen.com/2012/11/08/4033/

Just like when I go to a regular zoo, I didn’t know the names of all the animals at Fox, but I quickly learned the ones with opposable thumbs and the ability to reason were token Democrats who had, at some point, worked in the Clinton administration. The ones who liked to rattle their cages and screech at the visitors were the angry Republican hacks who seemed to be, for the first time, discovering the wonders of math.

[Shoju]

Some old lady's blog
http://margaretandhelen.com/2012/11/08/4033/

Just like when I go to a regular zoo, I didn’t know the names of all the animals at Fox, but I quickly learned the ones with opposable thumbs and the ability to reason were token Democrats who had, at some point, worked in the Clinton administration. The ones who liked to rattle their cages and screech at the visitors were the angry Republican hacks who seemed to be, for the first time, discovering the wonders of math.

OH my god, that was the most amazing thing.

[Klaudandus]

Some old lady's blog
http://margaretandhelen.com/2012/11/08/4033/

Just like when I go to a regular zoo, I didn’t know the names of all the animals at Fox, but I quickly learned the ones with opposable thumbs and the ability to reason were token Democrats who had, at some point, worked in the Clinton administration. The ones who liked to rattle their cages and screech at the visitors were the angry Republican hacks who seemed to be, for the first time, discovering the wonders of math.

OH my god, that was the most amazing thing.

Indeed. And I'm enjoying this a lot

*Disclaimer: That aint me.

[Klaudandus]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/0 ... f=politics

Another unnamed senior adviser explained that as returns came in and battleground states went into President Barack Obama's Electoral College column, they felt their paths to potential victory narrowing. CBS reports that the campaign was unprepared for this in part because it had ignored polling that showed the races favoring Obama. Instead, it turned to its own internal "unskewed" polls, which it believed more accurately reflected the situation on the ground. They didn't.

Again, I am baffled by the cognitive dissonance -- but I'm not only getting used to it, but also enjoying it, a lot.

[Skye1013]

http://www.stonekettle.com/2012/11/heml ... reude.html

[Shoju]

http://www.stonekettle.com/2012/11/hemlock-with-small-side-of-schadenfreude.html

I want to shake this man's hand.

[Klaudandus]

http://www.stonekettle.com/2012/11/hemlock-with-small-side-of-schadenfreude.html

That.Was.Beautiful.

[Klaudandus]

Romney Backer Who Forced Coal Workers To Attend Rally Unpaid Fires 160
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/ro ... 1/09/53409

[Brekkie]

Kind of off-topic, but CIA director Petraeus has resigned due to having an affair.

Stupid people on the internet are turning it into all kinds of conspiracy theories that are getting more and more ridiculous, particularly due to the proximity to the election (he probably was just waiting until after the election so as to not affect it one way or the other).

I have no idea what the reality is, so this is pure speculation, but the one thing I have heard that rings true to me is that the reason for his resignation wasn't so much the affair as the fact that the woman in question gained access to his computer and read all kinds of Top Secret information in his email.

Having met Director Petraeus, this rings true to me. Now that he is resigned, there's no harm in saying that the man was very lackadaisical about protecting classified information. He would get frustrated over "jumping through hoops" and didn't seem to understand why some of the rules were in place or why they should apply to him.

But of course Conservative media is turning this into COULD IT BE BECAUSE OF BENGHAZI??? DID OBAMA SET HIM UP BECAUSE HE WOULDNT LET HIM DESTROY AMERICA????

[Torquemada]

He's not the only General I've met like that. My old CG in Korea had them drill a hole in a safe so they could run a CAT-5 and power cable to his SIPR laptop and keep it always plugged in and connected, until our SSO had to get the safe replaced as it was no longer a secure container...

A different general wanted us to put TS target packets of sites in North Korea on Blue Force Tracker, so the Soldiers could access the sites during a training exercise. Let me count the errors... Soldiers without a TS getting TS information... about real stuff during a FAKE war... loaded onto a system that is not only NOT classified, it's not even secure. The general said he was willing to "take the hit" and that we should just do it. We didn't.

As far as the affair, I can see him stepping down using that as a reason in order to avoid testifying. Not that it's part of a greater conspiracy, but I can see it. From the other reporting I've read this was really a CIA fuck-up, and if Petraeus didn't want to explain/was going to eat it anyway I can see him dropping out before if could explode in his face any worse than conservative media is already trying to do.