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Stuff that matters!

Posted on 2008.09.16 at 15:13
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Run-down of stuff I'm reading today!

Unemployment is hitting women particularly hard. (h/t WashingtonMonthly)

Obama smacks McCain on the economy.

Remember that voter disenfranchisement mess in Michigan I was talking about before? The one where McCain's campaign was allegedly working with the Michigan GOP to keep people whose homes are in foreclosure from voting? Obama's campaign is filing a suit. (h/t WashingtonMonthly)

One of McCain's former biggest fans is sick of all the lying. (h/t WashingtonMonthly)

Military suicide is likely to reach the highest it's been since the Vietnam War. (h/t Gidster)

Even Karl Rove thinks McCain's gone "too far" into the realm of dishonesty and general wackiness. Ouch, dude. That's like Cruella De Vil calling you "a bit too callous." (h/t MoveOn.org)

The Economic Policy Institute has decided that Obama's health plan will outperform McCain's in both coverage and efficiency.

And the Washington post has a handy graph of who'll gain what from McCain and Obama's tax proposals. Seriously! You can look at the chart and it says, "You are here." McCain would help me out with twenty bucks. That's about a week's worth of coffee at Starbuck's. Obama's plan would get me $567 more dollars a year, which combined with a health care plan that will actually work (see the last question on this run-down of the candidates' answers to ScienceDebate '08) will go a long way toward actually improving my quality of life.

Planned Parenthood makes campaign issues out of sex education and sexual assault, almost like they matter or something! (h/t Curvature)

And, last but not least, the American Family Association is flipping out that the EU might declare official opposition to laws that make homosexuality a crime.

Comments:


Arthur Chu
[info]arctangent at 2008-09-16 19:33 (UTC) (Link)
The Karl Rove thing is actually a pretty canny piece of political strategy -- by going "tsk-tsk" at *both* candidates for going negative he can look evenhanded and nonpartisan while still giving a net benefit to McCain, who has in fact gone more negative than Obama.

Sort of like if I started punching you in the face out of nowhere and you started fighting back and then my friend came in to break it up and then gave a speech about how "Everyone was too quick to resort to violence in this situation".
Virginia Fell
[info]virginia_fell at 2008-09-16 19:36 (UTC) (Link)
Sort of like if I started punching you in the face out of nowhere and you started fighting back and then my friend came in to break it up and then gave a speech about how "Everyone was too quick to resort to violence in this situation".

Something like that happened to me in junior high. This one bully chick tried to pick a fight with me, and then we both were going to get suspended for fighting. I guess they thought this made perfect sense until my stepdad went in to the asst. principal's office (in uniform, for ultimate small-town military cred) and demanded to know how she, as a woman, justified punishing victims of violence. Evidently he made her cry, and I didn't hear shit from her after that.

So yeah. Apt analogy. =(
Arthur Chu
[info]arctangent at 2008-09-16 19:34 (UTC) (Link)
(It does, of course, still say something that Rove felt he had to use a strategy like that rather than the usual party line of denying McCain had said anything unfair at all.)
An Arthur Dent waiting to happen
[info]beldar at 2008-09-16 20:07 (UTC) (Link)
The military suicides bit is one of the big unreported stories of the war. I'm not surprised, tho, since I remember people cracking in the peacetime military (suicide was rare, but depression and alcholism, usually leading to a downward spiral of demotions until the soldier got a general discharge).

I don't remember any emphasis on mental health when I was in -- maybe things are different now -- when I acted like psycho I just got drug-tested more often.

The "Russian roulette" line bugs me; iirc, all army weapons are auto or semiautomatic, no way to play Russian roulette with one of those and win.
Brian
[info]archmage_brian at 2008-09-17 02:17 (UTC) (Link)
Q: What do you call a man who plays Russian roulette with a Glock?

A: Brainless.
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