Indecision 2012 – Herman Cain Canes the Unemployed – The Colbert Report – 2011-19-10 – Video Clip | Comedy Central

According to Herman Cain, the unemployed should be out in front of the White House blaming themselves for not having jobs.

Indecision 2012 – Herman Cain Canes the Unemplo…, posted with vodpod

Blustery day …in more ways that one

Workout notes: yoga, and a slow 6 mile (?) run (1:07). I had to remind myself to bend my knees and to keep a somewhat decent turnover rate.

It was in the 40′s (maybe 4-5 C) and the wind was strong….but 2-3 months from now I’ll see this as a warm day. Winter is on the way…

Posts
No, President Obama has NOT received kid-gloves treatment from the media. In fact, he gets considerably more negative press than any of the main Republican candidates. Of course, much of that is because he is a President during hard economic times, and being critiqued (accurately or not) comes with the job.

Mitt Romney’s anti-Perry ads
He put this one up and then took it down:

Why he took it down? My guess: if Romney wins the nomination (Intrade has him at 65 percent) he’ll need Perry supporters, and this type of ad will infuriate them.

He has this one up instead:

Yes, he attacks Obama on the economy and shows a clip of President Obama responding accurately to a jobs report. Yes, President Obama underestimated the recession that he inherited. But jobs DID go up under him, AFTER the stimulus kicked in. But the job creation was way too small to account for those who had lost their jobs previous and for new job seekers.

Religion
Richard Dawkins will not debate a certain noisy “theologian”. Basically he says that he won’t share the stage with someone who says that the mass murders in the Bible (mostly in the book of Joshua) were ok because “God said to do it”. Jerry Coyne has some nice commentary on this. Bottom line: doing the “will” of your imaginary sky-daddy is NOT associated with morality!

If what you are doing is good, then it is moral because the act is good. If what you are doing is bad, then it is bad, not matter what you think that your sky-daddy says.

On the same line, Friendly Atheist has an interesting take on the COEXIST bumper stickers:

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Note: I think that this might be a spoof on a Christian “response” to the original COEXIST poster.
Frankly, I prefer the one on my sidebar.

Some Dumb Republicans

Some Dumb Republicans, posted with vodpod

From Facebook:

Uh, Paul Krugman: PRO OBAMA?????

You’ve got to be kidding me.

Some of the more vocal Republicans just aren’t very bright.

Yes, he is a liberal and makes no attempt to hide that. But he is careful to not cross the line into becoming an activist:

Some readers have been asking me to go make a speech at one of the OWS demonstrations. If you think about it, however, you’ll see why I can’t.

I’ve been granted the enormous privilege of expounding my own views twice a week in the world’s greatest newspaper. I try to make the best use of that privilege, doing all I can to get the truth across and also advocating for what I believe to be the right policies. There are, however, some restrictions that come with the privilege; one of them is not crossing the line between advocate and activist. And there are good reasons for drawing that line.

Just in case you were wondering.

From the debate

Mr. Grayson was over the top while in office. But his commentary is just fine.