The October Harper's Index has been posted. Some excerpts:
• Percentage of U.S. Republicans who say they could not live on the minimum wage: 69
• Who support raising it: 37
• Percentage of federal agencies whose servers have failed in the past twelve months: 94
• Number of attempted cyberattacks the average global company experienced in 2013: 16,856
• Amount by which spending on mobile ads is projected to exceed that on newspaper ads this year: $1,000,000,000
• Chance that a U.S. newspaper has a statehouse reporter: 1 in 3
• Percentage of Newark, New Jersey, residents who are black: 54
• Of pedestrians stopped by Newark police who are: 81
• Portion of Newark police stops that are “legally unjustified” according to a Department of Justice study: 3/4
• Amount Americans spent last year on UNICEF donations to trick-or-treaters: $3,731,057
• On Halloween costumes for their pets: $330,000,000
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Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2008—Past Results are no Guarantee of Future Performance:
Now that John McCain has at last turned in his answers to Science Debate 2008 (after peeking at Barack Obama's answers for a couple of weeks) there are some interesting tidbits hidden among his rambling responses.
Take this reply to a question about maintaining America's lead in innovation.
I am uniquely qualified to lead our nation during this technological revolution. While in the Navy, I depended upon the technologies and information provided by our nation’s scientists and engineers with during each mission. |
Let's stop there for a second. Here John McCain insists he's uniquely qualified to discuss technology because ... he used some. Forty years ago. This is the same kind of high standard by which he assured us that Sarah Palin knew more about energy than anyone else in America, and Phil Gramm was one of the smartest people in the world on the economy. At least he didn't claim any MacGyverite tech affinities developed in Hanoi.
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The wait times at the polls in Florida are so bad that by the time you get to vote Rand Paul might even agree with himself again.
— @LOLGOP
On
today's Kagro in the Morning show,
Greg Dworkin sent us some worthy links today, in lieu of his usual appearance, inlcuding Nate Cohn's "Democrats Are Seeing More Daylight in Path to Senate Control." His mention of KS independent Greg Orman leads us to a discussion of what it means to caucus with one party or another & why it's done. And hey, aren't party caucuses a little like unions? Revelations of a "secret" Senate rulebook? We take the clickbait so you don't have to. We also caught up on in-school teacher GunFAIL, because we had to. Someone's picking up & running with the "smart gun" ball again, and even some conservatives think it's worth doing.
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