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Usually on Thursdays you can listen to me, the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- no political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

But I can't make it today. I'll be back next week to deprogram you.

See you at the 2010 Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow.

The Big Health Care Lawsuit Showdown Begins

UPDATE III: If you suffer from insomnia, the FL health care lawsuit court documents have been updated.


UPDATE II: A government motion to dismiss is still pending here in Pensacola, FL, but the federal judge said he was going to deny it.

And a federal judge in Virginia "denied a government motion to dismiss the case and is scheduled to hear oral arguments on the merits on Oct. 18."

Not so in "Michigan [where another federal judge] ruled Thursday that the new health-care overhaul law is constitutional, rejecting an argument that Congress lacked the power to create the legislation's 'individual mandate,' which requires virtually all Americans to purchase health insurance." Read the Washington Post, New health-care law constitutional, federal judge rules.


UPDATE Read the Washington Post, Opponents present case against Obama's health-care law in 20-state lawsuit.

Tomorrow is a big day in the health care lawsuit, first arguments for dismissal of the lawsuit. Read the Los Angles Times, States opposed to healthcare overhaul pin hopes on Florida court hearing and the Wall Street Journal, Conservative Duo Tests Health Law.

I'll update the court documents later.

Redneck Fire Alarm

You never have to change the batteries!!! I'm putting one in every room:



Safety First!

Republi-CON Deficit Hypocrisy

From the Washington Post:

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Follow-up: WEBY's very own Pastor Truthiness's delusion birther rants, the deliberate distortions continue and he is the one who should be embarrassed, so many lies, but who needs elitist facts when you have Truthines, now he has said that the President should be shot!

Local and regional: arrogant government official

Nation and international: the 'Tea Party' Revolt of 2010, now what; it's lookin good for Obama in 2012, even better if Sarah saves him; Obama should call the Republi-CON bluff and you'd better batten down the hatches; Republi-CON family values hypocrisy; executing an innocent man and trying to hide it; prosecutorial payback, shrouded in secrets; and Lincoln's election 150 years ago.


Fun stuff: why dogs hate Halloween and how pumpkin pies are made

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Help Reelect Obama, Vote Republi-CON

UPDATE V: It's lookin good for Obama in 2012.


UPDATE IV: "The reality of presidential politics is that it helps to have an enemy." Read The New York Times, In Losing the Midterms, There May Be Winning.

As you can see, I first posted about more than a week ago.


UPDATE III: Remember the elections of 1946, 1954 and 1994.

"In 1946, President Truman's party lost control of both the House and Senate. In 1948, however, Truman won an improbable reelection running against the "do-nothing 80th Congress." In 1954, President Eisenhower's party lost control of the House and Senate. But two years later, Eisenhower was resoundingly reelected. In 1994, President Clinton's party lost control of the House and Senate. In 1996, Clinton cruised to reelection, partly because of reckless behavior -- e.g., the government shutdown of 1995 -- by congressional Republicans."


UPDATE II: This is a quick told ya so, less than a week. Read USA Today, Obama: Republicans will bear more responsibility after the elections.


UPDATE: Vote Republi-con, for "a triple whammy to fix the economy: fewer jobs, worse deficits and greater inequality." Read The New York Times, Trifecta of Torment.

Obama wins in 2012 by losing in 2010. Let me explain.

As I said in 2008, the best thing that happened to the Republi-cons was losing. Obama become the chump, he become the fall guy to blame. From February:

"There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase often credited to P.T. Barnum, an American showman. It is generally taken to mean that there are (and always will be) a lot of gullible people in the world. And these suckers must all be Democrats.

John McCain calls the stimulus bill is 'generational theft.' But remember that in October he voted for a bank bailout, calling it a "rescue effort not just for Wall Street but for Main Street," which was used to pay dividends to shareholders and bonuses to employees.

Such hypocrisy.

It is clear that the Republi-cons, who are largely responsible for the economic mess (beginning about the sixth paragraph), want the Naive-ocrats to take the blame for the stimulus bill. The Republi-cons see it as a win-win, and Obama is stupid enough to play along. Even if the stimulus bill works, Republi-cons will claim it was coincidence and say that the government should stay out of the markets.

The Naive-ocrats should demand that Republi-cons accept responsibility for the mess they created, and vote against the current bill. Then wait until the Republi-cons agree to cooperate.

When economic circumstance deteriorate more, the Republi-cons will concede. Then craft a sensible stimulus package."

He didn't, he tried to be nice to a group that openly stated that they hoped he failed.

But maybe he's wised up. If Republi-cons won't work with him, he need to shift blame back to them. Why? To win in 2012.

"[I]f Democrats lose their grip on Congress in November, President Obama would become the third consecutive president to see his party tossed from power on his watch — a sequence that has never happened before in the country’s tumultuous political history. This suggests that, however much the issues of the moment may seem to be defining these elections, there are some deeper forces at work, too. . .

The fast growth in the number of independent voters — a broad category that includes some voters who tend to identify more with one major party than the other, as well as a lot of Americans who are skeptical of both — has been making American politics more volatile. According to a Pew Center poll completed a few weeks ago, the Republican advantage at the moment is mostly grounded in the party’s 13-point lead among independents, which is about the same margin by which those voters supported Democratic candidates in 2006 and Mr. Obama in 2008.

In other words, independent voters have tended to side with whichever party can legitimately claim not to be in charge at the moment, and ideology doesn’t have a whole lot to do with it."

Read The New York Times, Voter Disgust Isn’t Only About Issues.

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UPDATE II: Pining for the gentlemanly days of the politics of our founding fathers? Think again:




UPDATE: And give the Republi-cons and the Naive-ocrats the third finger, and vote for Travis Irvine for Congress:



Ohio must be the state of memorable political ads this year.

Vote for Lee Fisher, Democratic candidate for Senate in Ohio, because he's got great, honest, effective ads:





If he loses, the Naive-ocrat should put him in charge of campaign ads in 2012.

Prosecutorial Payback, Shrouded in Secrets

Halloween is over, but this is scary:

After a failed effort to stop a woman from talking about a case, an activist was served with a 'sprawling' federal subpoena.

"It had almost 100 subparts and sought documents, e-mails, phone records, checks, bank records, credit card receipts, photographs, videos and 'Facebook communications (including messages and wall posts)' concerning contacts with dozens of people, including doctors and lawyers, along with information about a billboard supporting the [a doctor and his wife being prosecuted] and a documentary film called, perhaps presciently, 'The Chilling Effect.'"

When the woman refused to comply with the court’s order, a federal judge imposed fines of $200 each a day."

Read The New York Times, A First Amendment Case, Shrouded in Secrets.

Government secrecy is antithetical to democracy. See OpenTheGovernment.org.

The 'Tea Party' Revolt

UPDATE: Read Politico, Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Palin.

"The ordinary Americans in the Tea Party movement lack the numbers and financial clout to muscle their way into the back rooms of Republican power." Read The New York Times, The Grand Old Plot Against the Tea Party, which predicts that "their numbers will surely grow once the Republican establishment’s panacea of tax cuts proves as ineffectual at creating jobs, saving homes and cutting deficits as the half-measures of the Obama White House and the Democratic Congress. The tempest, however, will not be contained within the tiny Tea Party but will instead overrun the Republican Party itself, where Palin, with Murdoch and Beck at her back, waits in the wings to “take back America” not just from Obama but from the G.O.P. country club elites now mocking her."

Economics 101 -- Why Hoover Was Wrong and the Republi-CONs will Lose the Next Election

"More and more voters are convinced that what we need is not spending but more punishment. The irony is that they will end up punishing themselves." Read The New York Times, Mugged by the Moralizers.

Time to call the Republi-con bluff!

How Pumpkin Pies Are Made

Just in time for the holidays:



I think I'll have apple pie!

Cat Bowling

Squash as many cats as possible. Use your SPACEBAR to bowl, and the moving ghostly arrow to aim your shot. But beware! The arrow's speed changes with each throw.

Now get back to work!

Executing an Innocent Man and Trying to Hide It

UPDATE: Texas tried to execute another innocent man. The prosecutor withheld the statement of the real killer that he acted alone, and allowed his perjured testimony at trial. Read Texas Monthly, Innocence Lost.

Watch PBS Frontline, Death by Fire.

The worst part is that the Texas Governor, Rick Perry, rushed to have the man executed for political reasons, his reelection.

But "questions about Willingham's innocence would not go away. By 2008, the controversy had ended up in a small state agency. The Texas Forensic Science Commission was designed to go in and figure out what happened and figure out how to keep it from happening again."

Just before a critical report was to be released, which would have raised serious concerns that an innocent man was executed, Perry fired three members of the commission and installed a political ally as the new chairman.

The report has never been released.

Time to Batten Down the Hatches?

"How bad will it be if Republicans win control of the House next week? Very, very bad." Read The New York Times, Divided We Fail.

Time to call the Republi-con bluff!

Republi-CON Family Values Hypocrisy

"[F]ormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and ex-President Bill Clinton used to 'bond' over wine and cigars while sharing stories about their respective marital infidelities." Read the Washington Post, Dick Armey: Clinton and Gingrich traded stories about their girlfriends.

Sub Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Usually on Thursdays you can listen to me, the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- no political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

But today I've been preempted by the FSU game. (A conspiracy, no doubt, to keep me off the air just days before the election.) I'll be back next week to deprogram you. Until then, squash a cat.

Obama the Philosopher President

"The historian James T. Kloppenberg has written a book about President Obama, whom he sees as a rare breed in America, a kind of philosopher president. . . [like] John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Quincy Adams, then Abraham Lincoln and in the 20th century just Woodrow Wilson." Read The New York Times, In Writings of Obama, a Philosophy Is Unearthed.

The Voters Are Boxed In

This pretty well sums up the dilemma facing voters, from the Washington Post, Crash test dummies:

Who Wants the Dangerous Nuts to Rule?

Some of the Republi-con candidates are just nuts, and some are dangerous nuts.

"The Republican nominee for the Senate in the Last Frontier has established himself in recent weeks as an authority on the authoritarian.

He sought protection from a security firm run by a guy with ties to the militia movement. His security detail, which included active-duty members of the U.S. military, handcuffed and performed a citizen's arrest on a reporter who was attempting to question Miller. The candidate offered favorable thoughts about the former East Germany. And he fought disclosure of details about his work for local government until ordered by a judge to comply."

Read the Washington Post, If Alaska's Senate seat doesn't work out for Joe Miller, there's always East Berlin.

Why Republi-CONs and Naive-ocrats?

This sums it up pretty well -- although the economic bailout program was approved primarily with Naive-ocrat support, most of the companies that received federal bailout money are making campaign donations to Republi-con candidates. Read the Washington Post, Companies that received bailout money giving generously to candidates.