I am beginning to become scared that Romney/Ryan will win. Can smart people please post here and say reassuring things to convince me that he won't?

one weird thing that i can report is that there is a sudden groundswell of musicians talking about the fact that the primary stakeholder in guitar center (which is in the pretty hated category, at least on the surface) is bain - like dudes coming into the store to inform me that they wont vote for romney because of his ties to guitar center. which is weird, but could mobilize some pretty lazy non-voting sorts of people.

Would love to see the anti-Guitar Center contingent turn the tide. O's team needs to get to work on those ads asap.

crucial slice of the electorate right there!!

ha xp

srsly tho i didn't know that

hahahaha wait, so noise dudes and guitar store cranks are the next soccer moms? Guitar Center is the next Whitewater?

as of today they are tied in the polls. apparently.

this is not exactly true. they tied coming out of the RNC convention (when romney should be leading from convention bounce). when the numbers regress, obama is still leading.

jesus christ Erick Erickson IS Stephen Colbert

shepard fairey better get cracking on some 'fuck guitar center; fuck mitt romney' posters.

as of today they are tied in the polls. apparently.

http://www.examiner.com/article/a-breakdown-of-the-most-recent-obama-versus-romney-polls-9

― scott seward, Thursday, September 6, 2012 11:27 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/pfMfr.png

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

http://i.imgur.com/86Y1E.png

http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com

http://i.imgur.com/VVJaD.png

http://www.realclearpolitics.com

Gotta say, learning the carmax guy was hardcore dem and the papa Johns guy was hardcore repub has already affected what I might spend my money on.

feel like this news from the general election thread should be included here:
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/romney-gop-michigan-pennsylvania-pull-out.php

I know this isnt really teh place to say this but sometimes when I eat meat I feel like a vampire

no this is totally the place

Slobbo and Nino will hang on until the ice caps melt and available red meat supply gone

wrong thread! but yeah same concern

it really irks me how vital nino is for a 75 y/o fat man

red wine, man

haha it is so hard to keep these threads straight

TOO MANY THREADS

― Newgod joins this board, and quickly he's some dude (goole), Thursday, September 6, 2012 8:53 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

conversely, more threads?

yeah i bet scalia's got another 10-12 years in him. fucker.

maybe if we can confront him with enough unspeakably abominable acts of homosinuality he will have a heart attack

how did clinton look healthwise compared to scalia? thin + haggard vs stout and sturdy or lean+mean vs human slop bucket?

hale and hearty

i guess that makes scalia the human slop bucket

scalia def has the puffy face and extra chin thing going now

what's he thinking here?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Antonin_Scalia,_SCOTUS_photo_portrait.jpg/220px-Antonin_Scalia,_SCOTUS_photo_portrait.jpg

i have 6 marshmallows in my mouth

clinton looked better than he has in recent memory imho fwiw xp tho he prob doesnt wear make up all the time has something to do w/it

Gotta say, learning the carmax guy was hardcore dem and the papa Johns guy was hardcore repub has already affected what I might spend my money on.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:05 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what about pizza hut? if they are the same i'm just going to give up and learn to make my own dough

so Costco dude was one of the speakers? i missed that

His appeal was well captured by this post:s

there's something pitch perfect abt his boringness
like I'm a real businessman, did your 24 pack of basketballs all go flat, sir? I will find you a replacement in the back. no, thank you, sir.

― Farrah Abraham had many songs/ many songs had Farrah Abraham (m bison)

Dunno about Pizza Hut or Domino politics, tbh. I assume they're all right wingers.

I don't know about Pizza Hut either, but Domino's definitely a must to avoid.

not to mention that Godfather's pizza guy

I am concerned about scalia's weight issues. Is that why he opposes healthcare? fear of taking away his meals?

forget right wing when you can have those tasty buffalo hot wings

xp he claims it's the broccoli lobby behind Affordable Care Act

imo romney will get pwnd as more and more people think about michelle's speech and clinton's speech

Mitt and Ann Romney speeches, let alone Ryan's, instantly evaporated into the ether. Like they never happened.

Romney pulling out of PA and wherever to pool resources to hold an RNC do-over.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/992671#.UEkYPdCXTFz

reputation as a pandering-but-intelligent-fellow at high risk here

CARNEY: What role should government have in promoting certain industries or economic activities such as homeownership, or manufacturing, renewable energy or fossil fuel energy, exports, or just advanced technology? What sort of subsidies and incentives do you favor? You had some of these in Massachusetts, I know.

ROMNEY: Very limited -- my answer to your first question. I’m not an advocate of industrial policy being formed by a government. I do believe in the power of free markets, and when the government removes the extraordinary burdens that it puts on markets, why I think markets are more effective at guiding a prosperous economy than is the government.

So for instance, I would not be investing massive dollars in electric car companies in California. I think Tesla and Fisker are delightful-looking vehicles, but I somehow imagine that Toyota, Nissan, and even General Motors will produce a more cost-effective electric car than either Tesla or Fisker. I think it is bad policy for us to be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in specific companies and specific technologies, and developing those technologies.

I do believe in basic science. I believe in participating in space. I believe in analysis of new sources of energy. I believe in laboratories, looking at ways to conduct electricity with -- with cold fusion, if we can come up with it. It was the University of Utah that solved that. We somehow can’t figure out how to duplicate it.

But basic science, in my view, is a way that research can encourage our entire economy. And so, for instance, in Michigan, some years ago -- I think it was in 2007 -- I spoke there and said, you know, I think we ought to embark upon an effort to do analysis on energy research, transportation research, materials research. But again, basic research which could then be either purchased by or licensed by companies foreign and domestic.

"basic science"

Mitt and Ann Romney speeches, let alone Ryan's, instantly evaporated into the ether. Like they never happened.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, September 6, 2012 5:19 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

theyd prob be better off if they had never happened, the contrast between the two conventions is just brutal

Mitt Romney would be better off not ever happening

so the role of gov't is to do investigative research and then lease the exploitation rights to corporate entities? romney is complex.

"basic science"/"basic research" is a term of art referring to non-commercial research/science for the sake of knowing more science. Whether that's what Mitt was trying to say I will leave up to you. xp

y u maek him cry, Alfred:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/01/27/business/Norris/Norris-articleLarge.jpg

Meanwhile our own ZS has been hobnobbing:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/386083_10151076793905959_1467151167_n.jpg

Jimmy Carter was on my flight and shook everyone's hand! I said, "very nice to meet you". I'm sure he'll never forget that!

i do believe in basic science, but not in an "actually understanding it at all" way.

"I think I heard something about cold fusion and electricity, there might have been lasers or cyborgs involved, I don't exactly recall, but maybe 3M could look into that and we can all make some money off of it."