Election Season officially starts and Google is there
Google.com/elections. mainly news aggregation so far but there is a “toolkit to help campaigns engage” and a trending searches widget. Maybe it will be helpful to some candidates, but will it help the dream of the 90′s to live on in Portland?
- Elsewhere -
Ron Paul has a secret plan to win and it apparently isn’t all based on racism, antisemitism and general craziness -
Paul is following the roadmap set by Barack Obama’s 2008 strategy: Start early, learn the rules, and use superior organization and devoted young supporters to dominate the arcane but crucial party procedures in states your rivals are ignoring — states where caucuses and conventions that elect the delegates who will ultimately choose the Republican candidate.
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Those states together will award 419 of the 2,286 delegates who will choose a nominee in Tampa in August. They operate under complex, individual rules that favor the prepared. In Idaho, for instance, voters will gather in 44 county caucuses, each of which delivers a vote weighted by its size. Those caucuses will conduct run-offs until there are only two candidates left, and if any candidate gets over 60% in a caucus, he gets 100% of its vote. Any candidate winning more than 50% of the state’s weighted vote wins all 32 of Idaho’s delegates — more than will be awarded to all the candidates in Iowa combined.
Speaking of caucuses – Today is the Iowa caucus and Ron Paul is in position to win it. I wish I could say that they absolutely don’t matter but unfortunately they do. In the last 9 elections 66% of the time the winner of the caucus becomes the party nominee, that carries over to the democrat side too.
More Music for the Masses
The Gossip – Heavy Cross
The Gossip – Your Mangled Heart
Referred from the comments – another Musical Interlude not #OWS #OccupyWallStreet approved
Madison Rising – Walking Through That Door
Never heard them before but I like this song. Thanks Zack
(Another plus the #OWS types apparently don’t want them at Zucotti Park, at least that’s the version I am going with)
Musical Interlude
Black Keys – Little Black Submarines
This kind of says it all – “I renew 13 licenses here every year just so I can spend money in this city.”
Yesterday a Kennewick, WA man auctioned off a business he had spent 25 years building up because the tax burden had gotten too high -
Bertsch, 65, said he is down-sizing because the tax burden got too expensive to stay in business.
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“I am tired of carrying all the tax load,” Bertsch said. “I renew 13 licenses here every year just so I can spend money in this city.”(…)
Bertsch told a friend at the auction he is selling out because government was taking more out of his business than he was.
I’m glad the government is doing all it can to encourage small business hiring.
Musical Interlude
The Golden Age
Tonight I’m Loving You
Instead of disbursing dispersing the #OccupyWallStreet protesters why don’t we offer alternative locations #OWS
#OccupyIslamabad and #OccupyKarachi both have a nice ring
(I’m teasing here. I strongly disagree with most of the occupiers but I still maintain it is their right to protest and if that means they occupy a park for awhile I can live with that)
Shoot all the lawyers
then bayonet the MBAs.
From Doubleplusundead.com – Steve Jobs lays out everything that is wrong with corporate America in two paragraphs:
salesmen are put in charge, and product engineers and designers feel demoted: Their efforts are no longer at the white-hot center of the company’s daily life. They “turn off.” IBM [IBM] and Xerox [XRX], Jobs said, faltered in precisely this way. The salesmen who led the companies were smart and eloquent, but “they didn’t know anything about the product.” In the end this can doom a great company, because what consumers want is good products.
Add in outsourcing and the quarter to quarter bonus chase and you can see where it all ends.
Prayers for the masses
Dustbury has a nice little matrix of prayers customized to fit an individual’s Meyers Brigg Personality Type.
Mind Numbed Robot gives us “Obama by the numbers”. A graphic reminder of epic failure.
Megan McCardle is not impressed with congressional efforts to control “honest graft”. Neither am I but then again they are politicians so duplicity, graft, and dishonesty are in the DNA.
Looking at the search results that are bringing people here I find that the number one result is still Denise Milani, number two surprisingly is Patti Ann Brown. Number 3 is almost always some variation of shemale – currently hot shemale, but you can throw just about any modifier you want in there and at some point it will turn up in search.
In celebration of these results -
Denise Milani
Patti Ann Browne
