This thread is excited to have gotten nearly as many votes as Mitt Romney in yesterday's Values Voters Summit straw poll! There's a presidential campaign in the works now. To the links...
- Speaking of the Values Voters summit, here's an interesting typo in the issues questionnaire that Kaili posted yesterday:
Protecting One Man One Women Marriage
Is that a subliminal dig at Mitt Romney? Hmm...
- The general assembly at Occupy Atlanta did not permit civil rights hero and Congressman John Lewis to address the gathering. The thread will withhold judgment until the general assembly of commenters below has come to a conclusion.
- This is important, so it bears repeating from Joan's post yesterday:
As Krugman said:
Just keep reminding yourself: a mere three years after the financial industry nearly destroyed the planet, Wall Street is bigger and more profitable than ever while a tenth of the rest of us remain mired in unemployment. Even after nearly destroying the planet, virtually nothing has changed. That's the outrage, not a few folks with funny costumes or wacky slogans. Always keep in mind whose side you're on.
The occupiers aren't interested in "punishing success." They're interested righting the fundamental insanity that leads to Wall Street making more money than after after crashing the economy while everyone else continues to suffer.
- At a speech delivered to cadets at The Citadel, Mitt Romney attacked President Obama by saying that Mr. Obama does not want America to be the strongest nation on earth. Now, am I the only one who is sickened by a the thought of a private citizen giving a speech to future members of the armed forces that actively encourages disloyalty to the current Commander-in-Chief at a time when we have forces deployed in combat zones overseas?
- Perhaps lost in the shuffle given all the recent political excitement, The Senate voted for cloture on the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act, which is specifically designed to deal with countries that manipulate their currency to favor their exports.
- Astonishing video for the day: a coastal cliff in Cornwall crashes into the sea.
- You may have read yesterday about how certain people in the Occupy DC movement attempted to get inside the Air and Space Museum. Turns out that the person provoking the protesters to do that was Patrick Howley, Assistant Editor of the conservative publication American Spectator. Howley admits to all sorts of crimes in the article, based on what I can tell. Perhaps the capital police should arrest this agent provocateur?