Elections

This morning, the #OccupyOakland encampment is being shut down. Oakland police have arrested about 25 protesters at the sprawling Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall while hundreds of law-enforcement officers square off against demonstrators downtown in the second such raid...

And now for something completely different...a GOP candidate debate tonight on CNBC at 5:00pm PST/8:00pm EST.

It also helps that The White House has finally been succeeding in honing in on a strong economic message. Obama has had to figure out how to get past the obstructionist Congress to deliver his message directly to the American people. He's had to deliver his own message while also allowing Americans to realize who his Republican opponents really are.

There is such a sad feeling in this country now that our government seems to have completely failed us. The Occupy Movement is the 99 Percenters Response to that failure.

"Slower than a short bus with flat tires! More dishonest than petroleum and natural gas PR commercials! Able to trip over low thresholds of morality in a single step! Look, up in the polls, it's absurd , it's a' lame, it's SupeHerman!"

A late update from the 2011 Irish Presidential Elections.

A parody of The Edgar Allen Poe's, The Raven...a terrifying Halloween horror for the top 1%!!!

While the pundits keep debating what really matters in the Republican debates and how Democrats supposedly feel about President Obama, OFA volunteers keep humming along and doing the work that's needed to reelect Obama.

I know some people were wondering what the DOJ and others were doing about voter suppression so I went out and googled it.  Here are the results. DOJ to look into Racist Texas Voter Suppression Scheme http://weirdloadreboot.com/blog/2011/09/19/doj-to-look-into-racist-texas-voter-suppression-scheme/ FAIR Elections Network http://fairelectionsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/09/voter-suppression-update-its-not-all.html DOJ says "hold...

The Republican Presidential Candidates' occupation of the GOP, or as they refer to it, Occupy Wack Street, doesn't seem to have a leader and it's not clear exactly what they want. Can this movement last?