Top 10 Halloween Costumes

• Black teenager in jeans & a sweatshirt
• 30 something White male wearing a sweatshirt, jeans & carrying a 'baby' prop
• 30 something White female wearing a jacket, jeans & carrying a 'baby' prop

wait - there were 10?

Spreading STDS ?You can thank Chris Monzel for grandstanding instead of working for a healthier Hamilton County.
FishWarp article here

Go PolandArchbishop Andzej Dzięga is warning folks of he dangers of celebrating Halloween in American fashion which has become increasingly popular since they ditched commieism.
Bear in mind, this is a country where exocism is catching on like wildfire. The 30 fold growth in exorcists over the last 15 years has led Father Aleksander Posacki to launch a magazine on the topic, Egzorcysta.
WTF is in that Polish communion wine anyway?
And can I get some?

The Boundaries of Life and Death

by Saskia Kretzschmann"The Boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
~ Edgar Allan Poe

Fishwarp Endorses SammarcoRead all about it here
Seriously, the differences in the candidates for this office are huge. Dr Lakshmi Sammarco is way more suited to this office than Al's cousin.

Happy 'Visit a Cemetery Day' Everybody !
The fine folks at My Send Off have decreed October 28, 2012 Visit a Cemetery Day. To make it more family friendly they have concocted a sort of scavenger hunt with this cardAnyway, every day is 'Visit a Cemetery Day' around Blogging Isn't Cool HQ. Or maybe it's more like 'Visit a Body Farm Day'.More from Spring Grove Cemetery

Doppelganger
Devil Doll meets Lars…..

Springfield's South Fountain Porch Festival & Ghost Walk
Saturday, 10/27 The South Fountain Preservation Association will present their third biennial Porch Festival starting at 2PM. At 5:30 they will commence a 'Ghost Walk' in a haunted cemetery and from 6-8PM Springfield's non-Halloween Beggars Night.
What more could you ask for?

Details from the Noose Son

Be a Hit at Your Hallowe'en Party!
Gross finger food is always welcome around Halloween and, if you think about it - year 'round.
This exotic delicacy is salami wrapped around cream cheese & topped off with a half olive. Pimento & Tabasco are added to the cream cheese for more zing. You can use tomato instead of olive but - why?
If you need a recipe, you're dumber than the Blogging Isn't Cool culinary staff that frequently can't even keep the dishes clean. For our next recipe? - How to Order a Pizza !.

Horror Sells - Emergency Preparedness
Criminy, now the Red Cross is getting in on the act tying zombie apocalypsos in with Mayan endtimes…..
The guys with the Go Bag videos have some seriously lame Go Bags

Saving Zombies

Who Won the Debate ?
OK, folks, who do you think won the presidential debate on 10/23 in breezy Chicago?

• Rocky Anderson (J)
• Virgil Goode (C)
• Gary Johnson (L)
• Jill Stein (G)

Or one of the 2 chickenshit losers who didn't even show up?

Horseshoe Casino Seeks Zoning Variance For signage That Can Be Seen From Space
Meanwhile Duke Energy has said it will need a rate hike to power the sign.

More at UrbanCinti

District 28
Pillich speaks sense & maturity while Wilson spews hot air & childish rhetoric & skewed history.

Have Gun Will Vote
Of course I'm not sure why I need a license to exercise my second amendment freedoms, but…..

Ohio Teabaggers Challenges for NaughtWell, except if their purpose is harassment….
Texas based TeaBag group challenges 1,800 Ohio voters & comes up with next to nothing. Some of the challenges had already ben caught by local BOEs.

'No one at our office, and some have worked there for decades, could remember seeing so many challenges at one time,' said Franklin County board spokesman Ben Piscitelli.

Franklin County dismissed all the challenges as did Butler, Lucas & Cuyahoga.

It seems as though some groups are filing these challenges based on very scant evidence and in doing so they’re walking right up to the edge of voter intimidation,' said Ellis Jacobs, an attorney with the Miami Valley Voter Protection Coalition. 'Unfortunately they don't seem to take very seriously people’s right to vote.

One couple targeted by the Barely Legal vigilantes were a pair of entrepreneurs who travelev around the country selling jewelry at renaissance fairs.
Reaa the whole mess at the Springfield Noose Son ~ for free!
More from the New Yorker

The Real Presidential Debate
The presidential candidates for the Constitution, Green, Justice & Libertarin Parties will meet October 23 @ 8PM CDT in breezy Chicago to debate their policies & ideas.
These candidates are shut out of the Republicrast debates & virtually shut out of the Lmestream media. Internet's a bitch, tho and this debate will be available online at Free & Equal. org, on LinkTV and Al Jazeera.
The corporate world is highly invested in the Republican & Democratic parties. The Financial, Insurance & Real Estate lobbies pour small fortunes into their coffers - not to get one or the other elected but to make sure they own whoever gets elected. They don't want to have to deal with 4 more parties and have to actually prioritize…..
And they certaily don't care about YOU

Racism and Intimidation ?
A billboard in Clevo essentially states facts. It was paid for by an out of state organization that, apparently, just loves Ohio. But groups up there claimed the billboards were tantamount to racism & intimidation & wanted the billboards taken down. When the billboard owners, Fear Charnel, found an issue with their clients anonymity they did remove the billboards. It says on the billboards who sponsored them so I don't understand the anonymity thing.
Thing is, if you run around making frivolous claims of racism & intimidation, people will stop taking you seriously. It's happened with the GOP's hyperbole over voter fraud. I say, let 'em post their pointless billboards - they're only wasting their own money. If you're afraid you are committing voter fraud - you probably are.

Plane Dealer article here

Lipstick on a PigHorrible service, brain dead employees….
From the Fishwarp:

Queen City Centre Kroger store is poised for a $4.5 million facelift starting by early next year.

What they need to do is educate employees. Routinely blocking the bike rack is ridiculous. The recent reorganization of the wine section is an example of complete incompetence. The racist BS in the deli is unacceptable. The butchers not knowing what calf's liver is is utterly astonishing. Not keeping the electric scooter cart things charged is lame. Spreading related items across the store is maybe a good strategy but is insulting to the customer.
But then the customer is generally treated as a nuisance to be eradicated & if service is the best way to get the customer out the door, well, ok. Filthy bathrooms, arrogant customer service desk reps, shitty selection, slow, inattentive clerks, and the solution is a $4.5M facelift?
yow
Keller's IGA in Clifton, with inferior facilities, was always like a breath of fresh air compared to the dumbassery of the Queen City Centre Kroger. Talk about some misplaced priorities.

More from the Fishwarp (for a fee) here.