A Convenient Picture

That's Liberal Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty

Campaign Fund Raising Costs

     CBS reports the GOP Senate Candidate in Nevada, Sharron Angle, spent $12 Million in order to raise $14 Million for her campaign, putting her on equal footing with Democratic incumbent Harry Reid.

      Even a math-challenged guy like me knows that's an awfully expensive method of raising money. Like paying someone $40,000 a year as a finder fee for a $50,000 dollar a year job.



Or, better yet, raising millions for a job that pays $174,000. Like that of U.S Senator.

Nasty Liberal Babbling Head Hired By SUN News

Yup.

The Prince of Darkness.

Shit from Hell.

Catmeat.

Talking head at SUN News.

I did not make this up.

Ok, how many bananas does he now get paid to throw his poo?

The (AEA-Friendly?) Country Doctor

     The Press-Register reports this morning that GOP nominee Robert Bentley's campaign urged AEA to attack Bradley Byrne in the final days of the election, perhaps leading to Bentley's GOP Primary runoff win.

     We have the (previously taped) interview with Bentley airing this afternoon at 5:30 on CBS 8 in Montogmery.

The Anger

     If Tea Party candidates triumph, they’ll be emboldened. If they lose, the anger and bitterness will grow. The only development that can change this equation is a decisive rescue from our prolonged economic crisis.

Frank Rich in a Sunday NY Times column.

Mom obit

   Though it is true that the "good old days weren't always good" (and tomorrow's not as bad as it seems), there were a few places...fictional ones, of course,...that were the center of the "perfect (white middle-class) family" in the 1950's. My Three Sons, Father Knows Best, and Leave It To Beaver.

   Now the actress who played the perfect Mom in that last TV show, Barbara Billingsly, has died at the age of 94.

(Dis)Abled Restrictions

     An airline is in hot water for telling a man he was too disabled to fly on one of their flights.

     This is obviously a touchy area...just when can society say the greater good requires an individual to give up some of his rights to move within society?

     I asked J.C., the executive blog editor, who has a hearing impairment is a Deaf Person, and who was once Assistant Director for the Minnesota State Council for the Handicapped for him thoughts:

     If this man has already flown half a million miles on various airlines, including US Airways, there is no reason to kick him off a flight. Every day thousands of persons with disabilities fly. Elderly people in wheelchairs are routinely brought onto planes and seated, usually in the bulkhead seats. Blind and even Deaf-blind persons are assisted by airline personnel as needed.



     There is a FAA restriction: persons seated in the emergency exit rows must be able to follow spoken instructions and to physically be able to operate the emergency doors. Other than that, there is absolutely no reason to ban this man from the privilege of flying.

     I do hope that he follows through with a hefty 504/ADA lawsuit.

Thanks J.C.!