Your Wednesday Open Thread. Sorry this is late.
President Obama leads Romney in a Daily News/F&M poll of the swing state of PA:
Registered voters favor Obama 48 to 36 percent over Romney, with 12 percent undecided and the rest answering “don’t know.”
Obama led Romney by 8 percent in a February poll, when the Republican presidential primaries were still in contention.
The new poll found opinions hardening, with 82 percent saying they were certain about which candidate they would support.
Voters polled had more confidence in Obama on economic issues, social issues such as abortion and gay marriage, foreign policy and understanding the concerns of Americans.
PA’s Governor is giving away $1.7B (that’s billion, folks) of taxpayer funds to Shell Oil. One of the largest corporations in the world, is getting $1.7B dollars from a state that has been severely cutting back funding to its schools. And the PA schools are NOT one of the largest corporations in the world. This is what corporate welfare looks like, folks. Your kids get a short shrift, while very big companies get to feed at the trough. You know how conservatives are constantly whining about how their grandkids are going to pay for the deficit? Well, their kids (and everyone elses kids) are paying for corporate welfare. And ask these conservatives when they start cheerleading for lower pay, health benefits and pensions for the Shell employees they are clearly funding.
Idaho is helping to write a new chapter in the business of managing anonymous comments. The Chair of a local Republican committee is seeking to have the local paper revel the identity of multiple anonymous commenters who she perceives as having defamed her. The comments were deleted and the paper apologized, but this GOP leader has found her love of Trial Lawyers enough to insist on suing these commenters. It is interesting, yes?
What interests you today?