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It has been raining all day here in Massachusetts, at least where I live, though it is now full dark and I can now only hear it steadily falling outside my windows. The forecast says we're picking up a couple of inches, It's the sort of day where I'm perfectly happy to be indoors, where it's actually rather cool for mid-August, and where I'd normally be reading or listening to music… except that I realized a little while ago that there was no one scheduled for tonight's diary. So I switched over to the computer instead, downloaded the quartet sextet of comment submissions, and have assembled a Top Comments diary for this evening.
I've preferred this to listening to the radio, where newscasters and pundits are spending far too much time talking about Michele Bachmann and Rick "Governor Goodhair" Perry, and far too little of it about their demagoguery. Not once have I heard anything about the many out there statements made by Bachmann over the years, or Perry's call for Texas to secede from the U.S. And these are two of the front runners, along with my former governor (and good riddance), Mitt Romney. Why is it that news organizations love to embrace amnesia when one of the candidates people haven't been paying attention to suddenly start getting looked at more "seriously"?
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There was a gentle shower of comments today; the Top Comments mailbox received half a dozen submissions, four of which arrived before our deadline is 9:30pm Eastern Time, and two very shortly afterward. The address of our mailbox for top comments submissions remains:
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From Cedwyn:
An exquisitely succinct policy statement on outing pols, courtesy of Glen Maxey.
From Eddie C:
In my diary Seventeen Million Former Middle Class Families, Brooke In Seattle writes And those are just the ones who qualify.
From Wee Mama:
Best analysis of Obama's approach I've seen in a long time is in this comment posted by jsfox.
From JanF:
In J Town this afternoon, smileycreek asks the question we all want to know the answer to: when does a corporation become a person?
From brillig:
Brilliant diary from Pericles on the power of one word. From the diary, nominalize comments on why they prefer governments over corporations, while echo still contemplates super-people :-).
From Ed Tracey:
In the [front-page story http://www.dailykos.com/...
s-packing-heat-on-the-campaign-trail?] about whether Rick Perry is carrying a concealed weapon or not, Alvin K offers this observation.
From sardonyx (your all-wet Monday diarist):
TheGrandWazoo points out that corporate boards don't ask what the worst thing they can do might be, but they're fixated on increasing shareholder value, which is a big problem.
In last night's GUS: What are friends for?, Vacationland replies to the diary with thoughts on support systems, behavior modification, and friendships.
After Dale says that The mental image that Dems have of indie voters doesn't actually exist in reality, dfe points out that true independents are few and far between and it's all about which groups turn out in elections.
After a thread in which people disagree why Russ Feingold's seat was lost in 2010, badscience comes up with the capper.
Please add your own comment finds below!
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Top mojo is from comments made all day Sunday, August 14, 2011, and are courtesy of the wonderful new mojo generator created by mik. If he stops by, be sure to give him lots of mojo so he keeps generating more of it. :-)
1) If Intelligence Were the Only Prerequisite by JekyllnHyde — 109
2) Tips for Kitsap River by KelleyRN2 — 103
3) Fuckin' Evil. by Dumbo — 99
4) It would still be a step in the right direction. by Corporate Dog — 89
5) Carter Added More Jobs Than 3 Terms of Bushes nt by Gooserock — 87
6) Accomplishing nothing is preferable by ovals49 — 85
7) 39% and dropping by sfarnell — 84
8) Dropping since June by Dallasdoc — 83
9) What a mess! Obama has sold himself to by lakehillsliberal — 77
10) Just to Show You What Intelligence and Competence by Gooserock — 74
11) God Help Us by psychodrew — 73
12) The reason we got our by scurrvydog — 73
13) The larger problem you allude to by LWelsch — 73
14) This says it all by justmy2 — 72
15) This is the problem by gulfgal98 — 70
16) Oh, The Irony by Aspe4 — 70
17) We need to bombard the White House and tell by Drdemocrat — 69
18) the item that will doom his campaign... by G2geek — 68
19) Yeah, Obama needs a plan he's willing to own by Geekesque — 67
20) And yet many (in SC) will probably see her by susan in sc — 67
21) Instead... by Corporate Dog — 66
22) So getting elected is more important than by Just Deal — 65
23) My puppies have all gone to my co - breeder's home by mayrose — 63
24) Dan Plouffe, saying there is no internal debate, by Mogolori — 60
25) Whoa! by nippersdad — 59
26) Gene Sperling is our champion? by Dallasdoc — 58
27) And we would re-elect Obama for what reason? by marty marty — 57
28) progressive policies will not move forward by Laurence Lewis — 56
29) Strategic defeat is a legitimate argument. by WisePiper — 56
30) The Iowans by belinda ridgewood — 54