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I almost forgot about Halloween. I don’t know how many readers would care, but I went to a party dressed as Hannibal Lecter. In a last minute idea, I wore a tuxedo with a goalie mask — and while it wasn’t quite as accurate as this mask, I drove the point home by bringing a…

It is a little late in the election season for campaign material but I’d like to show you a very special set of window stickers for McCain/Palin made by Matthew Lopina from Prints Design. Here is what it looks like on the back of my mate’s van. Obviously it is perfect for tinted windows. Here…

Paul Marston takes a look at how the PUMA factor is affecting the polling. The results of the polls for President are all over the map. If the polls are supposed to be correct to a 95% degree of certainly give or take 2 or 3 percent, how can the polls be that much different…

H/T Ace of Spades Hq. which has the usual moronic discussion in copious quantities. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I was over visiting The Volokh Conspiracy’s discussion of the polls. And I Said something like: America is not a predominately socialist/communist country. As to why the polls are wrong: the pollsters are cooking the books. Operation Chaos screwed voter ID numbers. Republicans don’t like being polled. PUMAs are being seriously under counted. Commenter LM…

The pollsters at Gallup are predicting a 13 point win for Obama. Me? I’ve looked at their numbers (you should too) and I don’t believe them. History will show that the pollsters have been consistently wrong all through the primaries and they will be no better in the general. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Sean Kinsell looks at this Reason round-up of libertarian reactions to Barack Obama, then adds his own analysis. Here’s how Jonathan Rauch sees the upside and the downside: The upside: his subtle mind, silver tongue, moderate temperament, cool deftness, and magnetic charisma. The last time we saw those traits combined was in John F. Kennedy,…

He is talking about how he will bankrupt any investment in new coal power plants. I think that is just the start. BTW Obama’s State, Illinois, has a significant coal mining industry. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I hate the culture war. Yet I have been writing about it for years, spilling tens if not hundreds of thousands of words in post after post. As to how many hundreds of hours of my life this has consumed, I’m probably better off not knowing, because if I did know, I might start wondering…

Erica Jong predicts that if Obama loses there will be a second civil war in America. One wag at the site linked (Hot Air) had this to say: If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. The sad part is that this is starting…

Via a comment at HillBuzz comes a link to audio of a Republican Operative who says some pretty outrageous things about the state of the election. Things like McCain is way ahead in Pennsylvania. And that McCain has a chance in California. Who could believe it? Here are the numbers the operative gives according to…

HillBuzz has this to say about their Halloween Report. Halloween costumes are a reflection of the zeitgeist in that moment — Palin and McCain were the costumes on people’s minds, because they are who are in the pop culture’s imagination right now. The ticket that is best represented in Halloween costumes in an election year…

So I’m reading this, because Justin told me to go to Protein Wisdom and find it. As it happened, just as I was right in the middle of it — savoring every mean and vicious Rethuglican word — a team of Obamacrat volunteers came knocking at my door. They were furiously barked at, and I…

Many of you, like me, may know Seattle’s consciously lefty paper the Stranger through sex-columnist cum-editor Dan Savage. I occasionally read his column, Savage Love, and I listen to his podcast weekly. He’s entertaining, informative, and like many people, a blind follower of the Democratic party with zero tolerance for Republicans of any stripe. I…

Feminist author and icon Erica Jong has stated that an Obama loss “Will Spark the Second American Civil War” and that “Blood Will Run in the Streets“: Basically, Jong says her fear that Obama might lose the election has developed into an “obsession. A paralyzing terror. An anxious fever that keeps you awake at night.”…

Rick Nebel of EMC2 explains what the recent flurry of contracts from the Navy (New IEC Fusion Experiment Contract) was all about. This isn’t a big deal. This is small, interim funding. It’s called staying alive until they make a decision. At least they are going to be able to keep the team together until…

This is a follow up to my post Cult of Personality. The best antidote to these techniques is to read and analyze the speeches. Bring your rational mind to bear. You might also be interested in this speech by another master of the technique that has themes similar to an Obama speech. H/T the comments…

Ready or not, it’s Halloween, so I wanted to wish a nightmarishly good time on all my readers. I’m not wearing a costume, but Coco managed to look a little ghoulish for the occasion. And I did manage to carve my pumpkin before the sun completely set. Lucky for me, and lucky for the pumpkin…

In light of the previous post on free speech (and for innumerable other reasons), I find it tough to see how any libertarian could possibly justify voting for Barack Obama. I understand why McCain could be considered beyond the pale by libertarians, especially the purists of the Large L variety, and I have voiced my…

M. Simon’s post about the hypnotic qualities of Barack Obama made me recall something which might be of interest, and which may or may not shed light on the human perceptions involved. Basically, I found Barack Obama interesting at first, and the fact that he had a more pleasant voice than Hillary made me favor…