Thursday, November 8, 2012

Let's try and get this blog off the ground.
It's been at least a year since I even thought about this blog. It is two days after the 2012 election. Sad for some people not so much for others. Let's get to the random thoughts.

-Nothing much will come of it but Chris Matthews should be taken to task for this remark:
PJMedia article
RCP


-Paul Krugman, man for all Americans:



The Real Real America

So, for a while there during the campaign it seemed very iffy. But in the end, discipline and being on the right side of the issues prevailed. Yes, Elizabeth Warren won!

Oh, and that guy Obama too.

Tomorrow — or I guess today — comes the cleanup; when thousands, perhaps millions, of right-wing heads explode, it makes quite a mess. Also, notice that the polls were right. I wonder if I can get invited when Nate Silver is sworn in as president?

OK, somewhat more seriously: one big thing that just happened was that the real America trumped the “real America”. And it’s also the election that lets us ask, finally, “Who cares what’s the matter with Kansas?”

For a long time, right-wingers — and some pundits — have peddled the notion that the “real America”, all that really counted, was the land of non-urban white people, to which both parties must abase themselves. Meanwhile, the actual electorate was getting racially and ethnically diverse, and increasingly tolerant too. The 2008 Obama coalition wasn’t a fluke; it was the country we are becoming.

And sure enough that more diverse and, if you ask me, better nation just won big.

Notice too that to the extent that social issues played in this election, they played in favor of Democrats. Gods, guns, and gays didn’t swing voters into supporting corporate interests; instead, human dignity for women swung votes the other way.

A huge night for truth, justice, and the real American way.



I guess all of us in red states (you know, where food is produced) should just leave the union.
Reading some of the posted comments for this blog post were sickening:


  • A. Fuchs
  • NY, NY 
  • Bravo! 
  • Who cares what's the matter with Kansas?" is just about perfect. As far as I am concerned, The United Net-Debtor States of Whitelandia can go their separate way. In fact, please do. Really, secede and see if the rest of us care, Kansas and Alabama and Oklahoma. We'd be better off without their persistent drain on the resources of this country from the productive (that is, folks, blue!) states. We don't need you nearly as much as you need us. Republicans, meet Reality! Finally. And thanks to Paul Krugman (and Nate Silver) for a great year of keeping the faith and the facts central to the argument. A whole crew of idiots owe Nate a huge, huge apology. And yes I am looking at you Mourning Joe Scarborough. And inch by inch civilization advances. 













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-How come the price of gas was going lower here in NC the last couple of weeks?














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