Candidates Hit the Streets in Final Weeks Before Elections

Find out where the candidates stand here.

In a move that shouldn't surprise anybody, the FUD spewing masters of misinformation at COA T have endorsed "the smart mouthed little punk" for city council. Apparently, their taste for over the top drama knows no bounds.
UPDATE: In typically melodramatic fashion, COA T endorses The Windbag, too.

Averting Carnage ?

Muskingham County Sheriff's deputies killed almost 50 "exotic" animals the other day near Zanesville, oh. It was a freak incident where the keeper, apparently mentally distraught/ill, released his menagerie & committed suicide.
While the animals posed a threat to humans they probably posed more of a threat to animals. In a small community with a lot of livestock floating around that's not a small issue. Still, it is a small community and people in smaller communities are better at pulling together in a time of emergency than larger communities. Seems people could have kept indoors and secured their pets and livestock for a short period while authorities took some time to capture the animals instead of just going head on massacring them as fast as possible. Columbus Zoo guy, Jack Hanna, said we would have had carnage otherwise. Looks like we did anyway. Zanesville could have easily drawn on animal control from Columbus, Dayton, Chillicothe, Cleveland, Akron & Youngstown. They could have had more professional help from the zoos of Cleveland, Akron, Columbus & Cincinnati. One deputy was being approached by a bear & then a lion. He had to defend himself. I get that. As the animals had been in captivity and around / dependent on humans for awhile, maybe they weren't attacking - but who the hell understands bear / lion body language in Ohio?
Meanwhile the legislation crowd is pouncing all over the opportunity to write more laws & rules.
Liberal Dennis Kucinich wants more laws. Wayne Pacelle of the radical HSUS wasted no time taking advantage of the bizarre situation. While Ohio voters elected a government dedicated to being smaller and less intrusive and to thwart HSUS involvement, WKRC viewers overwhelmingly stated they want more laws after this freak incident.
This was a strange event. The owner of the animals did what he could to maintain the animals. He had vets on call. He invested heavily in the animals. He appeared to be a strong individualist who enjoyed animals, perhaps because he saw the same trait in them. He had had complaints about his operation but that's typical. It was a BATF charge against him that landed him in jail for a year on gun charges. In that time his marriage fell apart, his wife divorcing him while in jail, and when he returned, found his animals had not been cared for as well as he would have liked. It's easy to see how the guy would be despondent and betrayed. When a person considers suicide, they aren't thinking properly. His releasing the animals was not a typical action and nothing that could be expected or legislated. Psychiatric tests for exotic animal owners? Pet owners?
One man's poor mental health should not have prompted the knee jerk reactions that prompted this massacre. The last thing we need now is knee jerk crafted legislation in the aftermath.

Occupational Hazards

Enquirer Photo
While I agree with some of the OWS myriad positions, corruption, anti-social business practices & such, I don't think their methodology is very good.
The Tease got a lot of press protesting, shouting, screaming & disrupting Democrat's "Town Hall" meetings, but then they followed the advice Michael Moore had been giving liberals for years - take over the party.
For now, however, the Occupiers have run into the most obvious problem in their strategy - they are breaking the law spending the nights in the parks. The latest ploy in Cincinnati, to say parks must be open 24/7, that it's somehow a constitutional right, is hopeless & just another distraction. By allying with the destitute and homeless, they alienate the vast majority of the 99% they claim to represent & open themselves up to cynical attacks promoting guilt by association.
Furthermore, if you want to make a statement by hanging out outside, start in the spring. Riots, even battles were ended by poor weather.
People condemn marketing and advertising as being tools of the rich and corporations but any small businessman will tell you how important it is. These people need better marketing advice. There is a huge overlap between what these people and the Tease promote but I kinda doubt both sides' real agenda. The Tease have shown their true colors and I have no doubt the Occupiers are just as astroturfed. If they fizzle out, we might never know but if they actually organazize like the Tease we will find out. Both sides have some compelling arguments but I doubt they will ever work together on their common ground which is, unfortunately for them, whre the true majority resides.
Ya really want to hose Wall Street?

50 % Of Americans Say U.S. Should Legalize Pot

For the first time, since statistics were kept in 1969, 50 % of Americans say U.S. should legalize marijuana. A whopping 70% say it should be legalized for medical use. Folks over 65 are 35% in favor.
States and cities are saddled with millions of dollars of expenses fighting a hopeless war against Marijuana that is forced on us by the Federal Government. With the tight budgets we face today, eliminating the curden of enforcing this prohibition, enabling entrepreneurship and creating a new tax revenue stream makes perfect sense. Illegal pot dealers don't rent storefronts and contribute to society. Legal ones can and can be regulated to prohibit sales to minors among other things.
Will our congress listen?
doubt it

Gallup poll here.

NPR story here.

Cincinnati's New Loop Detectors

while (light red){
bicyclist.wait;
echo "c'mon ya %$@! light, CHANGE !";
}
Cincinnati is coming up with more stuff to make bicycling a little more easy / a little more equal. Every cyclist has encountered traffic lights that are not timed but need to be "tripped" by an automobile. The problem is, the light cyclist can't do the tripping. The cyclist had one option. Walk over to a crosswalk button & hit the button then walk back to the street. Enter the new "loop detectors". When you see the above illustration on the road before an intersection, positioning your wheels onto the 2 stripes should signal the signal to give you a green light.
For more info get the poorly named PDF.
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WEBN is the longest running Album-Rock station in the country.
wow, what a claim.
source

Got a Favorite Presidential Candidate Yet ?
Cain? Romney? Paul? Perry? Obama? WHat the hell happened to Bachmann?
Fear not. The Libertarian convention to pick a candidate will be May 4-6, probably be on C-Span & will show off some of the rising stars of the party. The contenders so far:
Roger Gary
Carl Person
R. Lee Wrights
Wayne Allyn Root

Top 10 Halloween Costumes for 2011


1. The Zombie
2. Charlie Sheen
3. Angry Birds
4. Morph Suits
5. Superheroes
6. Smurfs
7. Pirates
8. Feathers and Frills
9. Monster High
10. Harry Potter

Mangler Post article here.

Strawberry

While Wussy will be having a CD release party 10/29 @ The Northside Tavern, you can purchase the new album for download now. OR, you can pre-order an autographed copy and still download now. Get thee hence.

Dennis Ritchie
1944 - 2011

Dennis Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the UNIX operating system. Basically, the reason you can see this is because of his innovation.

Those tools were more than inventive bundles of computer code. The C language and Unix reflected a point of view, a different philosophy of computing than what had come before.

NYT bio here.

dmr's Bell Labs page here

Zombie Attack

Well, actually the zombie was attacked.
Pretty much a non-story, seems only the online Examiner covered it, a man dressed as a zombie Mohammed in a Halloween parade in Mechanicsburg, PA was attacked by a Muslim hothead. The guy dressed as a zombie pope (looking for little boys) went unmolested. Both were, apparently part of an Atheist group.
To say they were not trying to be provocative would be a stretch. The victim was filming the whole way. Judging by his ability to loudly and clearly proclaim, "He's choking me!" indicates he was not too severely attacked.
But, now, what do the parade organizers do? This was a parade on a public street. Do they ban costumes depicting religious figures? Do they ban the Atheist group? Either way, people would say they were caving to Muslims and tacitly endorsing Sharia Law. What PC do they wanna be?
IMHO, the zombie Mo (& zombie pope) & the Muslim attacker were both assholes. The Muslim guy was clearly out of line, tho, in the USA - the fist swinging ends at my nose sorta thing…. But the Atheist organization was kinda out of line being controversial in what was probably supposed to be a fairly benign community event.
It would be interesting to see who showed up at a zombie celebrity gathering, tho.

The story from Atlas Shrugs.

Contempt or Cowardice ?
Suppose you had a candidate forum and one party just refused to show up?
An environmentally themed group is hosting a candidate forum, "Greening Cincinnati: A Candidates' Forum" tonight from 5P to 8P at the Northside Tavern at 4163 Hamilton Ave. in Northside. Not one of the GOP endorsed candidates are planning to attend. To be fair Republicans running as independents or Charterites are showing up. Is good stewardship of God's green Earth so repugnant or insignificant to these fine conservatives that they can't face such a forum?

Attending:
Mike Allen R/I
Kathy Atkinson I
Chris Bortz R/C
Nicholas Hollan D
Patricia McCollum I
Roxanne Qualls D/C
Laure Quinlivan D
Jason Riveiro D
Chris Seelbach D
Yvette Simpson D/C
PG Sittenfeld D
Cecil Thomas D
Wendell Young D

Handy Voting Guide

Horror Sells Part 2
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Revenge of Horor Sells
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Son of Horror Sells
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Revenge of the Son of Horror Sells
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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Halloween

Is FedEx poised to be the next ZomCon?
Politicians are getting their ads out on TV, mailers, robocalls, and who knows what else. What's scarier? Brain-eating rotting undead? Or soul sucking, brain-killing corpo-politician zombies?
I'm tellin' ya - horror sells.
UPDATE yeesh, no sooner do I post this & Ace Hardware goes all zombie, too.

Horror Sells Part 1.

Vamps
Deadly Dreamgirls

The local Fishwrap recently ran a poll asking what your favorite locally made film was. As usual, they missed Vamps - Deadly Dreamgirls made in 1995 by Mark Burchett & Michael D. Fox.
The movie is about a guy, Paul Morris, on the eve of his entering the priesthood, running into an old high school friend, Jennifer Huss, who is working in a strip club. Turns out the club is a front for vampire strippers aided by a creepy Charles Cooper and under the domain of Lorissa McComas.

Huss and Morris
Naturally, Morris has to rescue his old crush from the evil vampire sisterhood.
The movie lists locations Trixie's Delight's Cocktail Lounge of Newport, KY, a Little Professor Bookstore in Milford, OH and the Wildwood Inn of Florence, KY.

And of course the Ohio River.

The soundtrack includes tunes by Steve Gatch and The Mortals.
The movie spawned a sequel, Blood Sisters, also featuring Morris & Amber Newman.
It's a shame the Enquirer omitted this masterpiece since they explicitly thank the paper in their credits. That might have had something to do with cleaning up spills, tho.

Karma

In an interesting turn of events, Ohio was denied $1.5M in federal funds for a feasibility study regarding privatising state highways. The money had previously been OKd. ODOT's Jerry Wray claims the reversal was politics. He should know. In the spring his department yanked previously OKd funds for a Cincinnati rail project.
Prior to that, Ohio's governor Kasich had refused federal funds for a state wide rail project & referred to proponents as rail cultists. It appears the concrete cultists won't be getting any more money to hand out to their consultant cronies this year.

Frogtown Noose Son story here.

Happy WZD Y'All !

History

2 dozen?

Seriously? And the politicians supporting Issue 48 don't even show up? Smitherman, Winburn, Ghiz, Murray, Mills couldn't even be bothered? Shannon Jones was busy calling people outside her district to badger them in SB5, so I get that, but the rest of 'em?
Maybe they knew that WXIX would be there & they didn't want the bad publicity that would come from being seen with this fringe group.
NOTE: The picture above is not meant to play the "Nazi card", the guys in the pic just happen to be Nazis.

Monocle story here.