Anagram: Less Than Twenty Four Hours/Often Thrash Strenuously

       It is less than 24 hours before the polls close here in New York, and less than 24 hours before some of the biggest battleground states will be decided in tomorrows election.  So I’m gonna explain a few things about why I am voting the way I’m voting tomorrow.

     One: I am Voting For Barack Obama because he will cut my taxes. I will pay more under John McCain, therefore there is no incentive to vote for him, on this count anyway.

   Two: I am voting for Barack Obama because he will bring to a close the terrible chapter in American history that is the Iraq war.  John McCain wants to stay indefinitely despite the fact that the Iraqis now want us out, and have a sovereign government of their own making decisions there.

    Three:  I am voting for Barack Obama because his plan for the environment is more well rounded.  They both have a cap and trade system ready to go, but McCain’s Lexington plan is less inclusive, and has lower standards for cutting Co2 emissions. 

    Four:  I am voting for Barack Obama because he is the better candidate.  That simple.

    That bit is done.  Next.

     A Final look at the polls.

     The Numbers have moved in Barack Obama’s favor over the last few days.  The real clear politics poll average, which had the Obama lead shrink from 7.9% to 6 percent, has in fact re-widened to a national average of 7.3%.   The general tenor of the polls is pretty simple.  The low percentage on the McCain side is 42% of the populous from CBS news, and on the high side he gets 46% of the vote which he gets in several polls, most notably Rasmussen.  Barack Obama lowest poll percentage is 48%, from IBD/TIPP, to 55% from Gallup.  All polls show Barack Obama leading.  The smallest lead is 5%, in two polls, Those Being the aforementioned IBD/TIPP poll and Diageo/Hotline.  The Largest lead is 11%, from Gallup. 

     The poll that I generally think of as the best indicator of what will actually happen, Zogby, has Obama leading by 7%, 51% – 44%. 

       A quick look at state polls in battleground states, from Zogby we have Barack Obama with a 7% lead in Virginia, a 14% lead in Pennsylvania, a 6% lead in Ohio, a 2% lead in Florida, and a 1% McCain lead in North Carolina, and a 5% lead for him in Indiana. 

      And according to Realclearpolitics, there are 9 states in the toss up category. 6 go for McCain and 3 for Obama.  If you give John McCain the Victory in every state that he is leading in in tossup and leaner states, and do the same for Barack Obama, this is how things shake out.

     A 338-200 electoral college vote win for Barack Obama over John McCain. John McCain wins 24 states in this model, while Obama wins 26 states and the District of Columbia.   Even if you give McCain Florida Virginia and Ohio, states Sen. Obama has a narrow lead in, Obama still wins, but by the much closer margin 278-260.

     I’ll be voting as early as me and the wife can get out to vote.  After that I will be on twitter, look for Miketherhino. 

    A viddy or two, A few quotes, and I am outta here.

     First up, a viddy that I have posted before, but it’s so nice I had to post it twice.  Sepultura.  Refuse! Resist!  (It IS METAL MONDAY after all!)

    

   And Now, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, giving his farewell address.  This speech is famous for coining a phrase.  “Military-Industrial Complex” This is the second half of the speech.  you really should listen to the entire thing. 

     

    That’s it for me.  Don’t forget to Vote!

Today’s Nuggets, Via Wikiquote:  We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose.  We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.  Dwight D. Eisenhower

Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.    Learned Hand

Anagram: F*cking Hostile/Fickle Shouting

        Anger.  Misery.  You will suffer unto me.  Kill you, Eat your f*cking heart.  I’ve killed better than you, under my foot.  If you see me coming, walk away, you don’t want to see me. 

      This is how I started my day today.  Well, not exactly.  Let me explain. 

     My Landlord, Doug, who has owned the place for about 4 months, was working around the place today.    Again.  He knows I work nights, He actually asked me early on, when he first moved in, when i work, because he didn’t want to disturb me.  I told him I work nights, and that Monday is a tough day for me.    He knows my wife works nights.  But he, for the entire day, decided that it was a good to put something or other in. Banging around for hours.  All damned day, from when I started to try to go to sleep at around 11 AM till… well, I don’t want to give away the ending…  And this is not the first time he has done this.  He has done this numerous times.  Thursday mornings at 7 AM,  Monday morning and all day, Sunday mornings for about 4 weeks in a row at one point.  Almost like he knows my schedule and is working to inconvenience me.  There can’t be much more for the asshat to do, there better not be.

      Now I know it’s his place.  He has the right to do what he has to do and wants to around here.  Within reason.  But I have rights too.  I live here too.  Lemme tell you what I did.  After his banging around all day, making it impossible to get more than 20 minutes sleep at a clip all afternoon, I finally lost it around 5:00 PM.  I just friggin lost it.  First I went downstairs and basically yelled at him through his door to cut the shit, me and my wife are trying to sleep.  He stopped momentarily.  Momentarily.  He started up again.  I let it go for about 5 minutes and then, hearing him downstairs and outside, opened the window wider and began to rant like a f*cking maniac. I used every curse word in the book and may have made a few new ones along the way. 

        It was equal parts pleading for peace and quiet, Anger, and psychotic murderous rage.  I called him out by name. I growled. I snarled.  literally.   I told him if he saw me coming go the other way.  I yelled about killing him with joy in my heart.  I asked him what I had done to him to deserve this.  When I heard someone respond outside I said “f*ck you, you f*cking idiot, you don’t think of anyone but yourself do ya?  This is probably why the wife left you, isn’t it? That and the fact that your hung like a flea, you rat f*uck” I bemoaned the point that I don’t have enough money to get a new place, because if i did i would move out now.  I’ve had enough bullshit.  I, nice guy that I am, Obama supporter, and fairly liberal guy, think i actually called him a stupid useless n*gga at least 20 times. Doug, my landlord, is the whitest man on earth.  Those comments were meant to get under his skin.  I wanted to fight him.  I still do. 

     The Work, which had been fairly nonstop, finished for the day the moment I did that.  There hasn’t been a peep since. 

    I feel good about that.

     I also said this, and this is the real issue.  If he had just let us know he was going to be working, we could have found a way around it, somehow.  Knowing it’s coming does make it easier to deal with.  It’s being blindsided by it by someone who apparently doesn’t know he’s a nuisance, or more likely, doesn’t care that i have the real issue with.  I’m the nicest guy on earth if your nice to me. And i take pains to make sure that even when people aren’t nice to me, I’m generally not bad in return.   But there is only so much a man can take. 

    Let me put it this way.  It takes a lot to get me out of the Lazy boy.  A LOT.  But once I am out of the chair, someone is getting hurt.  Doug just got me out of the chair.  I hope he realizes that, for his sake.

     Politics, quotes, videos and other joy later.  I just had to get that lout out of my system.

     Later.

Anagram: Spot The Moron/Monster Photo

       I got an interesting comment which i marked as spam from someone claiming to be named sarah, and I thought I would talk about it for a few minutes and tell exactly why.  Some deceitful little asshat sent me this long winded, and for me to say that says something, nasty little turd of a comment about how Barack Obama and his campaign are trying to control the media, try to “dispirit you”.  And “she” plays it like “she’s” an “Obama worker”  In fact the piece is titled ”Confessions of an Obama Worker” and I have to tell you it is a weak piece of fiction, for a few reasons.  I’ll post a few sections of it here for your enjoyment, some of it is laughable.  Before Anything this person claims to have been an ex supporter of Hillary Clinton.  Not Buying it.  But I want to speak of other things now.

       This first section is about the Obama campaign purposefully attempting to skew poll numbers through “media control”

It’s worked, although the goal was to appear 13-15 points ahead. See, the results have been working. People tend to support a winner, go with the flow, and become “sheeple.”

       I have to tell you, it’s nice to see this person thinks I, and anyone else who got this spamlike comment, are stupid.  How can the Obama campaign, or for that matter any campaign, really control a poll whe they cannot control the people who run the poll, pick the people polled, or make them give the answers they want given. 

       The extra touch of implying that anyone following a winner is a sheep is really nice.  Does that mean I was a sheep when I was rooting for the Yankees when they won all those championships? Was I a sheep when I voted for Bill Clinton? Or Rudy Giuliani? Or Susan Molinari? Please…

   The “13-15 point” margin thing is just silly, meant to plant in your head a thought that the Obama campaign is trying, and failing, to move the polls far beyond where they are. The comment mentions Real Clear Politics by name, and not once has Sen. Obama had a higher than a 7.9% lead overall.  Planting the Image of Obama as Failure in your head.  Devious little douchebags.

       Next Up. Palin: THE REAL THREAT!

Sarah Palin is a huge threat, and our campaign has feared her like you can’t imagine.

    One Word. BULLSHIT!!!

       Next Up.  Bill O’Reilly, That ole’ softy.  
 

trust me, there were meetings with Fox news. The goal was to blunt them as much as possible. Watch Bill O’reilly he has become much more diplomatic and “fair and balanced” and soft. It’s because he wants to retain the #1 spot on cable news and to do that he has to have access to the Obama campaign and we worked hard at stringing him a long and keeping him soft for an interview swap.

       Ok this one is easy. Yes there were meetings with fox, a few months ago, and Obama and O’Reilly did an interview. As For Mr. O’Reilly being fair and Balanced, I dunno, I’ve watched the guy on occasion, and there is nothing fair and balanced there.  He’s good if you’re a right wing conservative, but i would not call him fair and balanced, or soft, any more than I would call Keith Olbermann Fair and soft.  Both are Biased, and neither is soft. 

    Oh, and Bill hasn’t been #1 in a while.  Olbermann’s been whoopin his ass the last few weeks.  Pass bullshit to idiots.  Not me.

Next up. Weirdness.     

Our goal is to continue to make you lose your moral. We worked hard at persuasion and paying off and timing and playing the right political numbers to get key republican endorsements to make it seem even more like it was over and the world was coming to an end for you all. There is a huge staff of people working around the clock, watching every site, blogs, etc. We flood these sites. We have had a goal to overwhelm. The truth is here. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

     I especially like the world coming to an end bit. What a dick.     

  This makes it sound like the Obama campaign seeks some type of unwanted hegemony over the populous.  That i do not see.  There are a great many people who want to see what change this man can bring.  There are also many who don’t, but those who do outnumber those who do not, at least where my eyes look and my ears hear. 

   Oh BTW, there was an E-mail addy attached to this comment.  I did a search on the name in the e-mail and came up with several hits: gun brokers,  Glock19 Vs. Ruger p-95,  Guns network,  Sarah Palin.  Hmmmmmm… Doesn’t sound too democratic to me.  and a comment from someone named paul in a washington post column bemoaning negative attention the Republicans have received recently, from the same person. 

    Seems Sarah’s real name is Paul, and is really a Republican.  When you can’t beat’em, cheat’em, Eh Paulie?

    I will post the comment in it’s entirety here on November 5th as a comment, with the E-mail address attached.  I saved it just for that purpose.

     A Viddy, A few Quotes and I am outta here.

    University of Texas Professor of Government Daron Shaw. Where the GOP is losing:

    

That’s it for me.  Later!

Today’s Nuggets, Via Wikiquote:    At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one’s heart…that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.  Friedrich Nietzsche

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.   Rene Descartes