NO REASON TO PANIC ABOUT THE SENATE

First, there are still 24 days left and a lot of good things for liberals can happen during that time.  Second, the GOP has encountered some unexpected problems in several Senate races they thought were done deals.

TIME TO DUMP iHEART RADIO APPS & CLEAR CHANNEL STATIONS

karoli at Crooks & Liars found out that Clear Channel & iHeart "paid Brian Glicklich and his firm $900 per hour to investigate" people who go online to tell businesses that they shouldn't buy ads for the Rush Limbaugh Show. This did lead to lots of trolling by right-wing nuts but hasn't had any effect on the nation-wide movement to Stop Rush which has been very effective.

There's also a Twitter account for Stop Rush if you are interested.

A BANKSTER ON THE EU'S ECONOMIC PROBLEM

(h/t Atrios)
One again, workers & wages are to blame:

Second, the reform agenda. This needs to be ambitious, in core and periphery alike. Wages and other labour costs are simply too high, even by the standards of rich countries, let alone emerging markets competitors. Services market liberalisation, too, is lagging. Liberalising transportation, communications, retail and protected occupations could raise Europe’s growth potential. These are decades-old political taboos. Overcoming them will entail supportive fiscal and monetary policy.

Also, note that the author is part of the revolving door between regulators & banksters:

The writer, a former director of the IMF’s European department, is vice-chairman of Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley

MORE CONSERVATIVE HYPOCRISY

Wendy Davis is running an ad that correctly portrays Greg Abbott as a hypocrite because he was perfectly happy to get a tort settlement for $10 million but wanted to deny other people the same chance to redress wrongs:

The spot cites three cases Abbott worked on as a state Supreme Court justice or attorney general. In one case, Abbott’s office argued a woman with an amputated leg wasn’t disabled because she had a prosthetic limb. In another, he said a door-to-door sales company wasn’t responsible when one of their employees raped a woman. (The Texas Supreme Court ruled in the woman’s favor.) In the third, he helped a hospital defend themselves against a lawsuit after a doctor botched surgeries. SOURCE: POLITICO

Conservatives don't seem to mind collecting as long as others don't or can't.

THIS IS AMAZING

The total wealth of the richest 400 Americans is a staggering number:

(h/t Bernie Sanders)

THE RADIO GASBAGS ARE DOING WELL IN A FEW PLACES

The best city for them that I've seen in a while is Tulsa, OK:

Tulsa – Big book for CHR “106.9 K-Hits” KHTT, now in third place with its best book since Winter 2011. Since last Fall, it's moved 3.3-4.2-4.0-6.5. Ahead of it are the two Cox-owned stations that keep trading the 12+ lead here. In the Spring, country “K95” KWEN was #1 for the first time in over a year, but this time it’s back to playing second fiddle to talk KRMG-AM/FM. The talker moves 8.4-7.1-7.8 and K95 runs 7.7-7.4-6.8. Country KVOO, KHTT’s sister station, is a steady #4 player (4.9-6.0-6.0). iHeart’s country “Twister” KTGX gains 4.5-4.5-5.6, to occupy fifth place. The 5.6 is the best book for the 106.1 frequency since Fall 2002, when it was KQLL. Nice book to brag about for Cox-owned classic rock “Eagle” KJSR, 3.2-4.5-5.5. Journal’s classic country “Big Country” KXBL shows a nifty four-book trend, 4.2-4.9-5.2-5.3. The four subscribers here are Cox, Journal, iHeart and locally-based Stephens, whose leading station is commercial contemporary Christian KXOJ (4.2-4.2-3.7).

I READ THIS REUTERS ARTICLE BECAUSE...

Warren Strobel was one of the authors.  I first came across Strobel when he worked for McClatchy & Knight-Ridder and I was a bit disappointed because Strobel seems to blame Pres. Obama being in charge of foreign policy without taking the Establishment View of foreign affairs.

Special Report: How Syria policy stalled under the 'analyst in chief'
By David Rohde and Warren Strobel
WASHINGTON Thu Oct 9, 2014 11:46am EDT
REUTERS

TWO MORE REASONS TO VOTE AGAINST CONSERVATIVES EVERY TIME

There are many more I could choose from but these two lunatics are the best wackos handy.

Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Intentionally Bringing In Ebola To Make America More Like Africa
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Thursday, 10/9/2014 11:12 am
RIGHT WING WATCH

Conservative Columnist: Is The Government Orchestrating The Ebola Crisis To Confiscate Guns?
WND's Brittany: Ebola And "Disposable FEMA Coffins" Could Point To "Martial Law"
Blog ››› October 8, 2014 1:26 PM EDT ››› BEN DIMIERO
MEDIA MATTERS
(h/t Atrios)

THIS IS ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD NEWS

The Huckster threatens to leave the GOP if it abandons its opposition to gay marriage and abortion and I hope he does because I suspect there are a lot of Fundies who will follow him.

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER

John Crawford's death will not result in any criminal charges against the cop who killed him:

Protesters carry firearms into Walmart where cop gunned down black man over toy gun
Travis Gettys
06 Oct 2014
THE RAW STORY

Gun enthusiasts openly carried firearms Sunday in to an Ohio Walmart store where police fatally shot a black man holding a toy rifle.

About 40 open-carry activists protested the Aug. 5 police shooting of 22-year-old John Crawford III at the Beavercreek retailer after a grand jury declined last month to charge the officer who killed him.

In addition to weapons, the demonstrators carried signs that said “I am John Crawford” and “Serve and Protect. Not Serve to Kill.”

YES, KANSAS IS ANOTHER SUPPY-SIDE FAIL

Gov. Brownback cut taxes on the wealthy and as usual, tax revenues plummeted, causing large cuts in programs that help the Middle & Lower classes.  Paul Krugman has written and spoken about the idiocy of supply-side economics for years but the conservative true believers still think like Josh Hammer at Red State:

The economics here happens to be right, from a pro-growth perspective; as a 2012 IMF paper by Santiago Acosta-Ormaechea and Jiae Yoo demonstrated, income taxes are generally correlated with slower economic growth than are both property taxes and sales taxes.  Personally, I would love to see a wholesale repeal of the 16th Amendment and the elimination of the IRS as a federal agency, coupled with the implementation of the FairTax. 

Last Saturday, the libertarian co-host of a weekly gasbag radio show admitted on air that Kansas was a FAIL but there was no follow-up discussion or remarks from callers, so it's as if his remarks never occurred.