CapitalistImperialistPig

I guess that the Republicans picked Eastwood for his devotion to family values. He might even be sort of an honorary Mormon (Mitt's great grand pop old school version), having fathered seven children by five different women , only two of whom he was married to. That doesn't count two that long time girlfriend Sandra Locke aborted on his instructions. I guess it was Dirty Harry who really made their days.

Belonged to invisible Obama.

Eastwood's speech: outreach to the stoner vote AND all the invisible black people in the audience.

Republican forms of government have a rather discouraging history. They usually degenerate into oligarchies when the wealthy seize the levers of power, and dictatorships not long after. It typically takes a few hundred years.

It might have been Hitler who said that a big lie is more effective than a little one. This election, the Republican Party, having experimented a bit with the big lie in the Bush Years, has gone all in on a comprehensive set of big lies. Almost every principal policy element of the Romney and Ryan Speeches was a lie, and not a little lie but a big one. They have promised more spending and less taxes, to cut Medicare and keep spending ever more on it, and to create jobs by magic. In fact, most of what they can do to create jobs is exactly what the Republican Congress has fought fiercely to prevent Obama from doing. The only Romney promises I believe are more wars and more discrimination against homosexuals, immigrants and the poor.

Sea ice area continues to plummet in the Arctic Ocean, and paths are again open (at least visually) on both Russian and Canadian sides. Areal extent is about 400,000 km^2 less than previous record lows and could go lower in the next two or three weeks. The most remarkable feature - to my uneducated eye - of this years melt is the enormous collapse of the Arctic Basin ice facing the Kara Sea . It seems to be rotting from the edges and the inside, like some huge blowtorch had been turned on it, and the melt goes to the very deep North.

I guess the Republicans do have some standards . RNC attendee booted after allegedly throwing nuts at black CNN camerawoman, said ‘This is how we feed the animals’ Classy guy. Classy party.