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There’s still plenty worth reading in the Washington Post, including this column from Matt Miller:
Voiceover: It’s December 1, 1936 — in the Crossfire tonight — Americans begin signing up for FDR’s new “Social Security” program — but can the post office handle the volume? And is it essential protection for seniors — or the slippery slope to socialism? In the Crossfire — Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, who supports the program — and congressman Daniel Reed, Republican of New York, who opposes it.
Good evening, I’m Upton Sinclair, on the left.
And I’m Freddy Hayek, on the right.
Sinclair: After 18 months of planning, President Roosevelt’s breakthrough Social Security program to ease poverty among senior citizens recently began its rollout, with application forms sent to post offices across the country — and with employers forced to register as well. Freddy, I think it’s a milestone for a civilized nation. After all, two dozen countries already have systems of social insurance on the books. And the whole idea was invented by a conservative, Otto von Bismarck, back in the ’80s as a shrewd way to assure social peace. Can’t you concede that morality, not to mention the survival instincts of the ruling class, requires a decent society to offer something like Bismarckcare to protect against destitution in old age?
Hayek: Spoken like a communist out to weigh the economy down, Up. Don’t you lefties see that your taxing and spending will put us on the road to serfdom?…
Read the whole thing, it’s a hoot!
Apart from the predictable sporting events (which I’ll leave to Cole), what’s on the agenda for the evening?
David Koch
Aqua Buddha gives a 12 hour filibuster against using drones, but now he wants to kill Rachel Maddow.
Why did any self described liberal fall for this kook
Baud
@David Koch:
Why are you using the past tense there?
Elizabelle
Resting up for canvassing for Terry McAuliffe – Ralph Northam – Mark Herring on election day tomorrow.
Democrats in Virginia got to win.
Baud
Chris Hayes is covering insurers who try to scam customers into believing that their rates are going up under Obamacare.
KG
@David Koch: because truth to power and rolling back the war machine and blahblahblah
MikeJ
@David Koch:
Except not really, since he supports using drones to kill anybody the police suspect of committing any crime.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Baud: His opening segment on the three ways people are being misled about the new health care law was simply amazing. Someone needs to snip it, Youtube it and make it available to post to Facebook.
I believe many of my stupid rightwing friends would even be able to understand it.
JPL
@Baud: Unfortunately he is preaching to the choir.
@Elizabelle: Go Terry!.. I can’t believe I said that…
Ted & Hellen
My portrait tribute to LOU REED
PsiFighter37
@Elizabelle: Go for the clean sweep! I’ll be watching the Obenshain/Herring race intently…if Creigh Deeds had knocked off McDonnell in the 2005 AG race, he still would’ve been a nobody.
Me, I’ll be voting for Comrade de Blasiovich tomorrow after work. Is there anything else on the ballot in NYC tomorrow that I should be aware of? The only other major thing (as far as I know) is the casino initiative, which I will gladly vote against.
PsiFighter37
Really? How did I end up in moderation with no curse words and nothing remotely offensive? Maybe jokingly calling de Blasio a commie was what flagged it…
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
I’m glad somebody is. IMO, that’s the actual story, and the MSM let it slip right past them in their eagerness to flip out about the website.
JPL
@PsiFighter37: Did you call him a commie who took little blue pills and endorsed bo.ok.er…
fuckwit
@David Koch: He is pissed off at Maddow because she’s right in his target market– young educated liberals who don’t like drones or spying– and is telling the truth about him and turning them off to him. His whole strategy for winning the 2016 nomination is to peel off liberals from the Democratic Party who care about civil liberties, and convert them to worship Aqua Buddha instead. Maddow is pointing out that the Aqua Buddha has no clothes. This he cannot tolerate; it’s fucking with his meal ticket.
raven
Da Berz.
fuckwit
@PsiFighter37: It happens. Forget it, Jake, it’s FYWP.
Yatsuno
@PsiFighter37: Ca$ino. It’s a verboten FYWP word. The dollar sign some of us put in there isn’t just for the twee factor.
AliceBlue
@Ted & Hellen:
Very cool!
drkrick
If the Dems don’t win in Virginia tomorrow, it won’t be for lack of trying. I’ve gotten three live canvassers in the last two days (one at the door from the Democratic Party, one on the phone from the McAuliffe campaign and another on the phone from my Dem General Assembly delegate claiming their polling shows a dead heat against a generally popular five-term incumbent), two Dem robocalls today, and three GOP robocalls because we have a new voter in the house who hasn’t voted in a primary yet, which is the only way to guess party ID since we don’t register by party. If GOTV has any hope of helping, the Dems should do well.
Ash Can
@raven: The Bears have been lousy lately. I’m not holding my breath for them to do well in Green Bay.
raven
@Ash Can: Fuck the Packers.
Baud
@drkrick:
Excellent. Hopefully, that bodes well for tomorrow as well as the mid-terms.
Anne Laurie
@PsiFighter37: No, you used the other c-word: casino!
That one, you can understand why FYWP doesn’t trust…
Yatsuno
@Ash Can: I admit I got a soft spot for the Socialists of Green Bay. Plus I do have a minor crush on Aaron Rodgers. Well maybe not so minor.
raven
@Yatsuno: He’s in the locker room, check him out.
raven
Touchdown Chicago Bears!!!
burnspbesq
Excellent article about Mary Jo White and the challenges facing the SEC.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/11/131111fa_fact_lemann?currentPage=all
Someday, Sherrod Brown is going to feel like an idiot for having voted against her confirmation. I love ya, Senator, but you blew this one.
raven
@burnspbesq: I just wish the SEC would give the Georgia Auburn game time!
Anya
@Elizabelle: My brother and his wife were canvassing for Terry Mack this weekend. Though, they cannot stand McAuliffe they’re both terrified of a possible wingnut win so they’re doing everything they can to elect democrats. My sister in law told me that she’s yet to meet a woman who’ll vote for Cuccinelli.
burnspbesq
@raven:
The Situational Ethics Conference could use a commissioner with the smarts and integrity of an Andrew Ceresney.
raven
@burnspbesq: I’ll take your word for it.
David Koch
History’s Greatest Monster packing them in at Virginia rally
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYK6VtxCMAA69ED.jpg
handsmile
@PsiFighter37:
You should take a look at Ballot Proposals #4 and #5.
Both involve the transfer of state-owned land in the Adirondacks, which under the NY State Constitution must be kept “forever wild”, to several townships (#4) or to a private company (NYCO Minerals) (#5).
Voting NO on #5 at least should be as much of a no-brainer as the gaming proposal.
Here’s the NYC Campaign Finance Board Voter Guide link for more info:
http://www.nyccfb.info/public/voter-guide/general_2013/index.aspx
ETA: Also, a vote for Letitia James for Public Advocate.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Could someone please nuke Gruden from orbit? It’s the only way to be sure.
Cacti
@David Koch:
The LAX shooter was worried about fiat currency and the new world order.
He stands with Rand.
Anya
@PsiFighter37: I am voting against all the Proposals, except 3 and 2.
Here’s a guide for New York State Ballot Proposals
raven
@efgoldman: Bear fans are used to seeing 8th sting QB’s. Bob Avallini, Bobby Douglass, Billy Wade, Vince Evans, Rudy Bukich the list is endless. . .
Cacti
@fuckwit:
Fix’t
Minorities don’t stand with Rand.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: He adds nothing but an excited babble.
lamh36
Throwback video of the Day: 5 years ago today people still believed in “hope and change” at least for about a month or two!
Election Night 2008 – Barack Obama elected President of the Unites States
raven
@efgoldman: He could throw a damn baseball through a wall. He also ran like a madman, sometimes without his helmet. He and Greg Landry were the shit at running the rock.
lamh36
Ok, wait, Rachel Maddow was on The Simpsons last night!
Rachel Maddow Reveals ‘Simpsons’ Cameo (VIDEO)
lamh36
And speaking of the Simpsons, they honored the death of Marcia Wallace as only The Simpsons would:
The Simpsons Gave Mrs. Krabappel a Heartbreaking Sendoff
lamh36
For those who will say The Simpsons is a shell of what it used to be, an commenter on Gawker brought up a great analysis. The early Simpsons season are like a parent of an A student who brings homes a couple of B+. A link was posted for anyone who bemoans the later seasons.
Nine Latter-Day Simpsons Episodes That Match Up to the Early Classics
drkrick
@efgoldman:
Sports Illustrated described him as someone who could run like a moose but unfortunately also threw like a moose. The sort of line you remember 40 years later.
Southern Beale
RE the comic strip, I said from day one that the very LAST fucking thing I want to do is “shop” for healthcare, health insurance, etc. I fucking hate to shop. I hate it.
When I wrote that on my blog years ago you’d think I’d have uttered the most treasonous statements imaginable. The comments got lost when I transferred from Blogger to WordPress but the idea that someone didn’t want to “shop” for something like healthcare was completely inimaginable to someone.
Shopping is fucking work. It just is. Don’t complain about a damn website not working and then demand that something this complicated be a cakewalk. I ordered 2 sweatshirts online last night and the website required me to constantly reload the page every step of the way. It wasn’t perfect but I’m getting my damn sweatshirts.
Yatsuno
@lamh36: I was at work that night and we were all watching the election results closely. I also at that time worked with a lot of Canadians and they were watching right along with us. It turned into a fun night.
catclub
@Anya: “they’re both terrified of a possible wingnut win so they’re doing everything they can to elect democrats”
“Vote for the crook, it’s important.” Worked in Louisiana when David Duke was running for governor.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Newsmax tells me I’m supposed to be outraged that Obama will be screening “Mandela” at the White House, and for the life of me, I can’t figure out why. I thought even Dick Cheney had admitted he was wrong about Mandela.