- MT-Sen: Jon Tester ran a small butcher shop used mostly by his neighbors. He wasn't licensed. And the Big Government Republicans are trying to make it an issue. Heads must be exploding at CATO. The place was even inspected by the state, but if Big Government doesn't license you, you can't cut a few slabs of meat for your neighbors? Yup, that's your modern Republican Party. Even Republican bloggers in Montana are crying foul.
- ABC News' Mark Halperin continues his jihad against the "liberal media" strawman.
- Your tax dollars at work -- sex abstinence programs for 29 year olds.
"They've stepped over the line of common sense," said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that supports sex education. "To be preaching abstinence when 90% of people are having sex is in essence to lose touch with reality. It's an ideological campaign. It has nothing to do with public health."
Democrats -- including those who don't consider themselves "Libertarian Democrats" -- don't care if you get laid. What two consenting adults do is their own business.
- TN-Sen: nasty push polls bombarding the state, courtesy of your modern "power-above-all-common-decency" Republican Party. The story was first broken right here.
- Help our own Stephen Yellin a.k.a. MrLiberal get a college scholarship. You can vote for him here. Two seconds of your time could mean $20K for his college education.
- MT-Sen: Newspapers will come wrapped Election Day in a pro-Burns ad paid by the NRA. Two things --
1. Notice how the NRA is actively working against Jon Tester, despite Jon having a perfect gun record. The NRA will always oppose Democrats at the federal level no matter how gun friendly they might be. That's how movements succeed. Not like the jokers at the LCV and Sierra Club and NARAL who think endorsing Republicans and helping them get congressional majorities is somehow advantageous to their agenda; and
2. Why didn't OUR side buy those newspaper wrappers? I see nothing wrong with newspapers selling that space to whomever. I see everything wrong with our side failing to be innovative in the use of their marketing dollars.
- Hey Colorado! We're having a Kossack/DL meet up tomorrow night so I (mcjoan) can meet you all. At the Skylark in Denver. 7:00 pm. Hope you can come.
- Follow-up on the push poll story from yesterday:
They use the guise of a public opinion poll to lure votres into listeing to the sort of distorted negative "messages" that benefiting campaigns will never publicly embrace. And then they add a new twist: As long as they cover it with the fig leaf of "data collection," all is legitimate.
Nonsense. This effort has nothing to do with research. It is about mass communication conducted under the false guise of a survey.
Mystery Pollster Mark Blumenthal chronicles the firm doing the calling. It's called ccadvertising. -DemfromCT.
Happy Halloween! This will be the first in which my son (almost 3 years old) will go Trick or Treating. Pretty exciting.
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