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[gwydion]

* Herman Cain and mitt Romney are neck and neck at the top of the polls. Perry is a strong third. Bachmann is failing at fund raising and had to let a lot of her staff go. For my readers abroad, Republican primaries start in January and go state by state into spring. This part of the race is about fundraising and weeding out the weak candidates. Things likely won't start getting really serious until Novemberish, likely, hence me mostly skimming for interesting and horrifying bits.

* Congressional Rebublicans have vowed to block all attempts at legislation to create jobs. After all, beating Obama is way modre important than the health of the economy or the real human misery and wastage of human capital their obstructionism causes. It's only humans, not real people, like billionaires and corporations that they are harming.

* Republicans in Colorado have ordered the folks in charge of elections to stop mailing ballots to troops overseas who were too busy fighting to vote late time. After all, soldiers are unlikely to be millionaires, so should be disenfranchised en masse. Supporting the troops, my hairy ass. similarly, they are disenfranchising one in five Denver voters. Guess what colour most of their skins are. Go on, guess. That's right, most of the citizens losing the vote this year are Latino. They are actually suing to deprive qualified voters of their most basic right of citizenship. Why do republicans hate our freedoms so much?

* Mitt Romney is claiming the occupy Wall Street folks are waging class warfare by demanding reasonable modern financial regulation. Asshole.

* Anne Coulter wants to remind you that Occupy Wallstreet's demands for reasonable modern financial regulation makes them exactly like the NAZIs and Stalin. Really? Really Anne?

* It's like the Right Wing believes Godwin's law to be the last hurdle before the finish line.

* Transgriot addresses Hank Williams Jr.'s claims that the President is totes like Hitler: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/10/are-you-ready-for-some-history-hank.html

* It's looking like the oil sands pipeline company lobbyists have already bought the key politicians here and in Canada, so it is unlikely saner heads will prevail.

* Interesting find in China: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110927-chariots-horses-tomb-science-luoyang-china/

* Possible Italian witch burial; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041671/800-year-old-remains-witch-discovered-graveyard-Tuscany-Italy.html

* City found in the Dardanelles (sensationalized coverage): http://www.nationalturk.com/en/lost-city-older-than-troy-found-in-canakkale-turkey-14086

* Last night I discovered I'd fucked something up majorly and ended up staying up way to late to sort it. i had a time dependent thing needing doing related to that and all i managed to get done is that, purchasing some cheese, and some housework. Tomorrow, i really need to do the drive around. Hector's still waking me up, but seems to be improving brain chemistry wise.

* I've been dreaming of Etienne and Joanna. Etienne was my favorite person from my second masters cohort. He and his wife filled an identical friendship niche to Keith and Kristie back in eugene. it was strat games instead of bridge, and a slightly different set of rp, and there were more adventures involving cars, but it really was pretty much the same relationship with different people. Etienne was Quebequoi and we bonded over the beauty of Quebec city, which I remember fondly. Joanna was a likeable, funny Midwesterner who taught for a living. they let me sub for them at adult ESl in Vernon, which i loved doing. He couldn't get a full time job out here because even though his English was excellent, they don't like native french speaking french teachers out here. They ended up moving to New England where they could find a district to take them both. It was our loss, I think as they were both wonderful teachers and cool human beings. I still rather miss them.

* No question: http://uryel.tumblr.com/post/11014240071/the-answer-to-kirk-or-picard

* An interesting Round table with four authors dealing with issues like race and intersectionality as it relates to writing: http://arsmarginal.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/round-table/#more-1062

Comments

[greenwick.livejournal.com]

If the NAZIs suddenly sprung forward in time and occupied Wall Street, it would look a bit different. Also, I suspect the police wouldn't be able to arrest them, since NAZIs were trained to fight with guns and bayonets, which is much different from a group of students setting up house in protest. The NAZIs marched to war, not to protest. I am trying to remain rightly horrified that people actually turn the NAZIs into a boogeyman and distance themselves from the possibility that they, being human, could easily have been one or turn into something similar - but then that requires being horrified all the time, and we have to relax sometime. x_x

Is it just me not paying attention, or are there a lot of new finds coming out of China?

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

That's actually been going on a few decades. There is often a propaganda slant. The items I feature are highlights/things that strike me as particularly interesting.