What’s interesting in the news today?
1. You’re right Mr. President. Now let’s hope people vote accordingly. 🙂
From TheWashingtonPost “President Obama was at Northwestern University on Thursday to deliver an economic speech that, he and his team hoped, would lay out the case for why the public is better off today than they were six years ago — even if they didn’t feel it in their everday lives. Instead, Obama just gave every Republican ad-maker in the country more fodder for negative ads linking Democratic candidates to him.
Here are the four sentences that will draw all of the attention (they come more than two thirds of the way through the speech): “I am not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.” Boil those four sentences down even further and here’s what you are left with: “Make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”
You can imagine Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas or Sen. Kay Hagan in North Carolina or Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky grimacing when they heard those 28 words. That trio has spent much of the campaign insisting that this election is NOT about Barack Obama, that it is instead about a choice between themselves and their opponents.”
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2. Some folks ain’t gonna like this.
From MSN “The Justice Department is not expected to bring civil rights charges against George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, according to three law enforcement officials, despite allegations that the killing was racially motivated.
The federal investigation of Zimmerman was opened two years ago by the department’s civil rights division, but officials said there is insufficient evidence to bring federal charges. The investigation technically remains open, but it is all but certain the department will close it.
Investigators still want to “dot their i’s and cross their t’s,” said one official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment on the matter.”
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3. So what are they hiding? My guess is that it’s easy to game, and Democrats don’t want people to know it until they’re able to exploit it first.
From McClatchy ” A nonprofit watchdog group is suing an obscure Defense Department unit over its failure for three years to disclose the results of testing on the security safeguards of Internet voting systems that are increasingly being used to cast absentee ballots.
The Pentagon unit, the Federal Voting Assistance Program, has effectively bankrolled many states’ shift to online voting, disbursing tens of millions of dollars in grants for the purchase of equipment that includes Internet balloting options.
Its actions have drawn consternation from cyber experts, who have warned for years that Internet voting is an easy target for hackers who could tamper with or even fix election results. The government’s premier technology testing agency also has refused to endorse these systems.
Now, on the eve of another federal election in which at least 31 states plan to use some form of online voting, the Electronic Privacy Information Center is pressing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit demanding disclosure of the test results so it can disseminate the information nationwide.”
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4. I don’t even know where to start with this one. 🙄
From TheChicagoTribune “A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from an African-American donor, a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise their now 2-year-old daughter in an all-white community.
Jennifer Cramblett, of Uniontown, Ohio, alleges in the lawsuit filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court that Midwest Sperm Bank sent her the vials of an African-American donor’s sperm in September 2011 instead of those of a white donor that she and her white partner had ordered.”
“Cramblett is suing Midwest Sperm Bank for wrongful birth and breach of warranty, citing the emotional and economic losses she has suffered.”
“Raising a mixed-race daughter has been stressful in Cramblett and Zinkon’s small, all-white community, according to the suit. Cramblett was raised around people with stereotypical attitudes about nonwhites, the lawsuit states, and did not know African-Americans until she attended college at the University of Akron.
“Because of this background and upbringing, Jennifer acknowledges her limited cultural competency relative to African-Americans and steep learning curve, particularly in small, homogenous Uniontown, which she regards as too racially intolerant,” the lawsuit states. Part of that learning curve has included getting her daughter’s hair cut, which according to the suit requires Cramblett to travel to a black neighborhood, “where she is obviously different in appearance, and not overtly welcome.”
How bigoted and intolerant of her.
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5. Can these numbers be accurate? I’d like to read the survey questions and wording. Seems awfully high.
From MSN “About 10 percent of female University of Oregon students surveyed have been raped while attending the school and the vast majority of those sexual assault cases were never reported to campus officials, school researchers found.
The findings come after the school faced criticism over its handling of an alleged rape involving three basketball players that preceded the resignation of former university president Michael Gottfredson.
University researchers said 35 percent of students – and 14 percent of men – had at least one forcible sexual encounter and about 90 percent of students assaulted never told of the violence.
“We think it’s terrible,” said interim president and provost of the school Scott Coltrane.
He said the findings “reflect the incidence rates that we’re hearing from across the country, so that is not a surprise, but there are pieces there that are alarming,” chiefly the low number of students who report the crimes.”
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Wandering Views 
All I can say is I am thankful the bi-racial child lawsuit isn’t anywhere in the South. Can you imagine the dust that would stir up?
How selfish. You love a child no matter what. She gave birth to that child. Is she so racist that she hates half of her child? You don’t pick out children like you do the latest designer handbag. You take what you are given and you are thankful for it. You take the child home and fall in love with it.
So sorry honey you didn’t get the designer baby you and your girlfriend ordered.
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It’s like a national reality show. Fox News did a poll on secession and asked people what state should be given the boot.
” … Which state would be the first voted out? California. Of the voters willing to ditch a state or two, 53 percent pick the Golden State.
“Next out the door is New York (25 percent), followed by Texas (20 percent) and Florida (11 percent). Respondents were allowed to name multiple states they wanted out of the union. …”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/02/fox-news-poll-voters-reveal-which-state-want-kicked-out-union/?intcmp=latestnews
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And when politicians get into a mess, they always seem to just try to shoot the messenger. Which means the messenger is doing its job. 🙂
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/10/03/obama-mocks-american-concern-over-obamacare-whines-about-fox-news-again-n1900205
“When Obama’s Justice Department isn’t monitoring the phone lines of Fox News reporters and their parents, he’s publicly berating them during boring, tired speeches. …”
Yeah, that’ll work.
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So 2 lesbians live in a community that has trouble with their bi-racial child. Their community accepts lesbians but rejects a pretty little half black girl? (All little girls are pretty! At least until Middle School when they make themselves ugly.)
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Donna J, I can’t believe Texas was defeated by California and New York. We must try harder. I’m counting on a Rick Perry to raise our score.
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Bob, I doubt the “community” has a problem with the little girl. The lesbians are just greedy and are looking for a “deep pocket” to sue.
I have read that rich homosexuals are buying “designer children”, often from overseas. Other countries need to follow the lead of Russia and act to prevent their children from being adopted by perverted Americans.
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Florida and California, we would lose Disney World and Disneyland. 😦
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5. Why don’t they just sue on the grounds that they didn’t get what they paid for without getting into all the racial stuff. Anyway the little girl is adorable. I’ll take her off their hands.
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We keep Disney World and Florida, we give them Disneyland and CA. Because we’re nice, we’ll throw in Nevada as well, but they have to keep Harry Reid too. It’s only fair. 🙂
To sweeten the deal, we’ll throw in NJ,NY, and Delaware.
Oh, and no backs! 🙂
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We Texans are homophobic, sexist, racist, meat-eating, oil-drilling, carbon dioxide producing, Bible-thumping Neandrathals. You best kick us out.
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But you’ll still pray for us, right?
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So AJ’s just kicking us off the island, just like that?
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