Monday Afternoon Thread: Romnopoly

Being bombarded with rethug ads here in Pennsy. They take advantage of your discomfort during coverage of the hurricane. Listening to Rev Al show, a caller says rethugs are heartless. He’s a long-distance truck driver, was asked to tow a load along the eastern seaboard and he refused, citing the danger of impending storm. His directive then was to drive to Chicago, which he did, but once there, he received a call from his boss, terminating him- for looking out for his own safety. These are vile creatures, and they must be annihilated come next Tuesday.

Here’s an example of how condescending and out-of-touch the Ivory Tower Crew is. Here’s what Prof. Frederick Harris has to say about PBO’s accomplishments:

“INSTEAD of urging Mr. Obama to be more outspoken on black issues, black elites parrot campaign talking points. They dutifully praise important but minor accomplishments — the settlement of a longstanding class-action lawsuit by black farmers; increased funds for black colleges; the reduction (but not elimination) of the disparities in sentences for possession of crack and powder cocaine — while setting aside their critical acumen.”

MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/the-price-of-a-black-president.html

Mr. Harris, who is a professor at majority white Columbia University, thinks helping Black farmers, funding HBCUs and rectifying unjust laws which disproportionately affect lower income Blacks is MINOR.

Stuff like this shows that the ITC are projecting when they claim PBO doesn’t care about Black people.

BTW, when Prof. Harris wrote a similar anti-PBO piece back in June, POU contacted him and asked if he would like to discuss his article on our blog. While he spent 21 minutes looking over our site, he couldn’t take one minute to respond to our request.

Death Penalty Repeal Picking Up Steam In California

A new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll finds support building for a California ballot initiative that would repeal the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in that state. Although opponents of the ballot initiative retain a 45-42 edge in the poll, this is a significant shift from September, when 51 percent supported retaining state-sponsored executions and only 38 percent would vote to repeal them.[....]

Regardless of whether California voters repeal the death penalty this year, the nation as a whole is trending away from it. Though death sentences remain legal in most states, actual executions are very rare in most of the country.[....]

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/26/1094941/death-penalty-repeal-picking-up-steam-in-california/

H/T Ian Millhiser

Transgender ‘Matrix’ Director Lana Wachowski Gives Emotional Speech Revealing Suicide Plan

The Matrix is on my list of all time favorite sci-fi movies. When you get a chance, watch this speech given by one of the directors Lana Wachowski. She recently came out as a transgender and shares experiences and thoughts that are amusing, heartbreaking, and profound. Lana has a great sense of humor and a healthy sense of self…which is clearly evident in the way she relates to other people and processes their reaction to her and others like her.[....]

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/transgender-director-lana-wachowski-gives-emotional-speech-revealing-suicide-plan-2012-10

H/T Aly Weisman

Be safe everyone. The winds are picking up here, and it’s rainy.

The Associated Press ‏@AP
BREAKING: Aiming for Jersey coast, Superstorm Sandy no longer a hurricane but packing high winds.

Good Afternoon miranda —-***BIG HUG*** – - -

– -A 2-FER 4 your MOM. :>) – –THEY come with PRAYERS! :>) AMEN. :>)

B BLESSED 2 ALL :>)

108-year-old South Carolina woman casts her 1st vote ever for Obama 108-year-old South Carolina native Joanna Jenkins has never voted before and doesn’t have an official state ID, but she didn’t let that stop her from participating for the first time in a presidential election.

“She’s just excited, she wants to vote this year, we were looking at the election, and as the debates were going on she decided she wants to vote all of a sudden. She just wants to vote, she wants to vote and is excited to vote,” her cousin, Shirley Lee told KSDK.more here: http://thegrio.com/2012/10/29/108-year-old-south-carolina-woman-cast-1st-vote-ever-for-obama/

Afternoon, POU Fam!

I went to vote today. A little background for the lurkers and folks that may be new to the site: it has been my absolute privilege to cast votes for Barack H. Obama as IL State Senator, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator and twice for President of the United States. As I stated last week, I lived in Hyde Park approximately six blocks from POTUS and FLOTUS until I bought a home in 2010.

The polling places in Chicago are open M-S 9:00 – 5:00. Three Chicago locations were open this past Sunday.

The polling place I selected is not too far from my home, at a Chicago Public Library. I arrived at 4:40, thinking that the rush was over. WRONG! It would take me two hours to vote.

There were more than 100 people waiting to vote. And since Chicago’s ballot is lengthy, with a state constitutional amendment question, three referenda and seventy-eleventy pages of judge retention candidates, it was going to take a moment. At 5:00, there were still more than 100 people in line. It didn’t matter.

What mattered is a library full of children, doing homework, on the computer, or reading, watching as more than 100 people, young and old, were patiently and resolutely determined to vote. Silently, steadfastly – we shall not moved. The library closed and one young child said with wonder: “you all are still trying to vote?”

The right to vote became more than just a phrase to these children. I would like to think that 10 or 12 years from now, when these same children grow up and are eligible to vote, that they will remember this day and the more than 100 people who patiently, steadfastly and with determination, exercised the right to vote.

Jonathan Alter ‏@jonathanalter
Romney aired lying Jeep ad in Ohio without releasing to media, per standard. But he got busted for it and coverage worse. Boomerang?

Pix from NYC:

14th St x Ave C
http://t.co/U56i47CS

Lower East Side
http://t.co/cI9NxAZg

Chelsea neighborhood
http://t.co/Pn1svO8R

TriBeCa-Westside Hwy x N. Moore
http://t.co/aIjifN5U

Hoboken PATH station
http://t.co/uZmziglg

The subtexts of ‘grown-up’ talk
By Steve Benen

Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:53 PM EDT

Mother Jones’ David Corn published the scoop on Mitt Romney’s infamous “47 percent” video in September, and ever since, he’s broken a series of related stories about other remarks the Republican has delivered behind closed doors. Today, Corn moves the ball forward, noting a speech Romney delivered in March in Orange County, California.

There’s a few interesting angles — Romney, for example, believes President Obama believes private enterprise is a “necessary evil,” and longs for Chinese business practices — but there was one element to the story that stood out for me.

In context, Romney had just explained that he decided to run in this cycle at his wife’s instance. The candidate then asked Ann Romney to say a few words.

“You know, the ship’s going over the waterfall, it’s almost there. And we look what’s happening in Greece, and we look what’s happening around the world, we look what’s happening internationally. This is a frightening world, and we need a grown-up, and we need someone that understands the economy. So I’m glad … Mitt is grown up to you all.”

Now, Ann Romney isn’t a candidate for public office, and the fact that she’s confused about the Greek crisis and fiscal issues isn’t terribly interesting.

But her talk about the nation needing “a grown-up” strikes me as troubling. Indeed, it rankles because of the larger pattern — Ann Romney just this month compared the president to an obstinate child; Josh Romney said the same thing; and during one of the debates, Mitt Romney also compared Obama to his children.

I try not to be overly sensitive about these things, but something is amiss.

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Regardless of your opinions about him, Barack Obama is a 51-year-old man. He’s the president of the United States during a time of several crises, including two wars. His status as a “grown-up” is not in doubt.

If the Romneys want to argue that Obama’s not good at his job, fine, we can have the debate. If they choose not to respect the president, that’s their business. But to question whether Obama is an adult, and to use this as a line of attack more than once, raises very different kinds of questions about the Romneys.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/29/14782234-the-subtexts-of-grown-up-talk?lite

We have now entered the “This skrong ass wind is starting to scare the isht outta me” portion of the program.

OMG! The local news just showed a pic of water rushing into the PATH station in Hoboken! It completely flooded!

They’re also evacuating the NYU Langone Medical Center because the back up generator went out.

Oh good I got here before our Green Lady sang us to sleep. I wanted to check in & be sure my POU Fam on the east cost is safe. Will go read posts. I’ve been worried.

Got to get some sleep now, Peeps. Keep staying safe. I will check in again tomorrow. I’m really tired.

miranda – - –TWITT – - -trynta 2 B SLICK!! – - – -THIS is a CAMPAIGN EVENT! – - – WE KNOW!!

–Romney To Attend Storm Relief Event In Ohio Tomorrow – -

– - – - -Mitt Romney will attend a storm relief event in Kettering, Ohio, on Tuesday morning, his campaign announced.

MR. PRESIDENT has – - -NATIONAL — LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES 2 ACCOMPLISH!! – - -HAH! :>)

miranda – - –Here’s our 1-A-DAY-AD- –

— – –Jennifer Lopez: Join Latinos for Obama – - -

– - – - -Join Latinos for Obama: http://OFA.BO/L7ZmJi

Jennifer Lopez shares why she supports President Obama and why you should get involved. In many states voting has already began. To get all the information you need to get started go here: http://OFA.BO/YHJ7dP

– - –GET OUT DA – –”EARLY” VOTE!! – - -SI! – - -SE! — – -PUEDE!

miranda – –He’s STILL a RE-THUG :”BULLY” – –but – —he gave – -

MR. PRESIDENT – –WELL-DESERVED CREDIT!! – -:>) – -

— -NJ Gov. Christie Slams Atlantic City Mayor, Praises President Obama For Leadership During Superstorm Sandy [VIDEO] – –

– - –A somber and visibly angry Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) held a press conference during which he slammed Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford and praised President Barack Obama for their handling of the ferocious superstorm devastating the East Coast.
THERE IS MORE

– — -THANK U – –MR. PRESIDENT. – –:>)- –

miranda – -LOL – — -”The DYNAMIC DUO of BILL annnd BIDEN” – -

-DOUBLE DOWN on their SUPPORT of MR. PRESIDENT annnd PRAISE 4 the “FIRST RESPONDERS!! – - -

- –Clinton, Biden on Hurricane Sandy — -

— – -Former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden campaigned in Youngstown, Ohio, Monday in place of President Obama, who cancelled his campaign events to handle the effects of Hurricane Sandy.

– - -Woo! Hoo! :>)

miranda — -The “BILL & BIDEN Show” – –LOL – -

– - –Bill Clinton Joins VP Biden in Ohio – - -

- – - -FULL VERSION —THEY say JUST WHAT MR. PRESIDENT WISHES!! :>)

– - -Former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden hold a grassroots rally with supporters in Youngstown, Ohio. President Clinton discussed the economic issues at stake in next week’s presidential election.

President Obama was previously scheduled to travel with Bill Clinton to Youngstown as well as an earlier event on Monday in Florida, but the President returned to the White House to monitor Hurricane Sandy and canceled all his campaign events scheduled for Monday and Tuesday.

— -LUVED the “JEEP” – — -SLAM!! – –HAH! – - -

miranda – — NO LOSS —His “TALK SHOW” – -

– - -Anderson Cooper Talk Show Won’t Return for a Third Season –

- – - - The syndication arm of the Warner Brothers studio has decided that there will not be a third season of “Anderson,” the daily talk show hosted by Anderson Cooper.

The executive spoke because some of the stations that have been carrying Mr. Cooper’s show have begun making feelers about replacement shows, and the news was certain to leak out through one of them, the executive said.
THERE IS MORE.

– — Bu – -BYEEEE – - –:>) – - – -