As a word of warning, this place will get lousy w/ trolls for the next little while. Please don’t feed them.
Reader Tips
“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the ‘new, wonderful, good society’ which shall now be Rome’s, interpreted to mean: more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
As will not be a surprise to SDA regulars, the “Math Is Hard” crowd are coincidentally also not very knowledgeable about history. So tonight, as a “teachable moment”, we offer a brief lesson on Bread and Circuses (and learn that eventually 175 days each year became public holidays).
You’re welcome to leave some new reader tips or you can just focus your energies on getting a good rest.
Breitbart Election Day Live Blog (And More)
Election Day News ObamaMedia Ignores – Follow it here.
Bumped for update (NRO): “This is what the Romney folks say is encouraging them. Passed along for what it’s worth”
Long lines in Williston, ND. Hard to guess which way that one goes…
An Election Scorecard at Weekly Standard.
Ace has some good advice for you when the exit polls start coming in.
Watch the swing states at PJ Tatler
Ace’s Decision Desk
The Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Crowd waiting for Romney’s plane.
In Pittsburgh.
Want to text Michael Moore?
@MMFlint
“If u know someone who isn’t going to vote but might if I called or texted them, text me their cell # at 810-522-8398”
He really thinks that he carries a lot of influence. I may text him a bunch of numbers from Conservatives to see if he can motivate them to vote.
Take Me, Obama
The press pass for Obama’s Election Night event looks kinda like a wedding invitation twitpic.com/bar3co
— Chris Moody (@Chris_Moody) November 6, 2012
Not Watching For The Asteroid
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Modern Academia: Group Think on Display
Ever wonder why so many people with letters after their names consistently regurgitate Far Left talking points that Karl Marx would be proud of? NRO’s Jay Nordinger offers a glimpse into the mindset at Princeton University:
The Daily Princetonian reports that 157 members of Princeton University’s faculty or staff have donated to the two presidential candidates. One hundred fifty-five donated to Obama; two donated to Romney. The two who donated to Romney were a visiting lecturer in engineering and a janitor.
A psychology professor told the paper that “professors in general are engaged in creating knowledge, so you have to be open to uncertainty and open to things being complicated.” She also said, in the paper’s words, that “there is even research that the speeches of liberal politicians are more cognitively complex.”
P.P.S. The psychology professor says that the speeches of liberal politicians are more cognitively complex. How about their ads? “Mitt Romney: Not one of us.” It seems to me there is nothing cognitively complex about Barack Obama in this election. His appeal has been, “Don’t vote for the rich guy who’ll give your wife cancer, ship your job overseas, favor his billionaire friends, rape the environment, cancel the federal government, and put y’all back in chains.” (There’s a touch of Biden in there too, true — the wonderfully cognitively complex Biden.)
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors
If only the technology existed to enable research into such things before investing…
Unlike the owners of most solar systems, Google was eager to learn about how its system performed. Six months after installing its system, Google learned it was only getting about half of the power it expected.
That was the first shock.
h/t Carol
Four More Years?
U.S. slips out of top 10 most prosperous countries, while Canada keeps No. 6 ranking
The U.S. fell to 12th position from 10th in the Legatum Institute’s annual prosperity index amid increased doubts about the health of its economy and ability of politicians. Norway, Denmark and Sweden were declared the most prosperous in the index, published in London Monday.
Strange stuff in Philly
As Andrew said, “You are the media!”
– GOP inspectors reportedly kicked out of multiple Philadelphia polling places Can’t hide the tricks anymore, Dems. Update: Judge orders GOP inspectors back in.
– In Detroit, violence in the poll.
– N.C. man busted for voting twice. Registered D.
– Lots of reports of the machines failing, surprising absolutely no one.
– Lots of reports of people being told they already voted.
See below the fold for more. Much more.
Canada’s Cretins on Display
Related: Useful Idiots Award – “Umm… so a few days ago we got an email telling us that No One Is Illegal – Toronto had been voted the Best Activist Group by Now Toronto readers.” SDA Response
#stateofmodernjournalism
“Some days they seem engaged only on Twitter, where they spend hours preening for one another and sneering at outsiders.”
It’s Probably Nothing
The Federal Housing Administration, faced with continuing losses from the housing bubble, will issue a financial analysis next week setting the stage for what could be its first draw from the U.S. Treasury in its 78-year history, according to three people briefed on the report.
Reader Tips
On the eve of tomorrow’s big election in the United States of America, we get to enjoy an educational cartoon about the Electoral College. And then delight in this beautiful rendition of America the Beautiful, performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Your inspiring and insightful reader tips are most welcome in the comments.
Embracing the Asteroid
Sarah Palin was ahead of the curve with the labels.
Yep. Good reporters occasionally are impolite, especially to people in power who refuse to answer legitimate questions about their own policies. We don’t hire for table manners. We hire for persistence and toughness and the ability to spot a story among the fluff. We’re traditional that way. It’s the legacy media that have changed.
I grew up with Lloyd Robertson. Believed what he said, thought it was pertinent. Then I found out about one thing so amazingly biased from CTV that the disappointment was profound. I never believed a word he said after.
Paul Wells, today on Twitter, said, “I will just say that as a journalist, a Romney presidency would ensure more fun stories than an Obama re-election.”
My reply, “I’ll just ask, as a media consumer, why is that?”
Everyone knows why. I, as a blogger (and thus ‘media’) know why. It’s a hell of a lot easier to fill content when you’re ‘against’ something.
Good riddance, indeed.
Books? Phaw
Honey, I Finished The Campaign
Your Electoral College predictions are hereby invited in the comments. Hint: 270 to win.
Let’s do better than the Alberta provincial election, and I’ll give away some books.
This Is Awkward
Former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, a Democrat who supported Barack Obama in 2008, has essentially abandoned him in 2012 by failing to endorse him this time around.