Original plan was for her dad, brother, and uncles to go in drag, but we decided it might be taken the wrong way by the performers and we do not wish to offend.  We'd make some fugly women anyway;)

I don't quite know how to say this, but they were both campaigning in their shirtsleeves.

In itself, that is not terribly shocking. It is a time honored way of these guys showing us that they are getting down to work. It is the costume of choice.

OK.
I'll buy that.

But what I cannot abide is that neither of them, I repeat - NEITHER of them were wearing their flag pins.

How are we supposed to know what country they are from and how patriotic they really are if leave their flag pins in the bureau drawer every time they go out in a shirt?

And, PPP, who will be releasing OH and NC polls tomorrow night. In the polling started yesterday, PPP tweeted 15 hours ago:

In an Aug. 29 letter to Ravens' owner Steve Bisciotti, State Delegate Emmet C. Burns, Jr. (D-Baltimore) requested that Bisciotti "take the necessary action, as a National Football League franchise owner, to inhibit such expressions from your employee, and that he be ordered to cease and desist such injurious actions."

Here are a few choice snippets from Mr. Kluwe's response to Del. Burns:

• "What on earth would possess you to be so mind-bogglingly stupid? It baffles me that a man such as yourself, a man who relies on that same First Amendment to pursue your own religious studies without fear of persecution from the state, could somehow justify stifling another person's right to speech. To call that hypocritical would be to do a disservice to the word. Mindf*cking obscenely hypocritical starts to approach it a little bit."

• "'Many of your fans are opposed to such a view and feel it has no place in a sport that is strictly for pride, entertainment, and excitement.' Holy f*cking sh*tballs. Did you seriously just say that, as someone who's 'deeply involved in government task forces on the legacy of slavery in Maryland'? Have you not heard of Kenny Washington? Jackie Robinson? As recently as 1962 the NFL still had segregation, which was only done away with by brave athletes and coaches daring to speak their mind and do the right thing, and you're going to say that political views have 'no place in a sport'?"

• "This is more a personal quibble of mine, but why do you hate freedom? Why do you hate the fact that other people want a chance to live their lives and be happy, even though they may believe in something different than you, or act different than you? How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life? If gay marriage becomes legal, are you worried that all of a sudden you'll start thinking about penis? "Oh sh*t. Gay marriage just passed. Gotta get me some of that hot dong action!' Will all of your friends suddenly turn gay and refuse to come to your Sunday Ticket grill-outs? (Unlikely, since gay people enjoy watching football too.)"

• "P.S. I've also been vocal as hell about the issue of gay marriage so you can take your 'I know of no other NFL player who has done what Mr. Ayanbadejo is doing' and shove it in your close-minded, totally lacking in empathy piehole and choke on it. A$$hole."

Nate Silver tonight:

Nate Silver ‏@fivethirtyeight
Sometimes the election is won or lost at the conventions and this looks like it could be one of those years.

Romney: Clinton did `elevate' Democratic convention

Our friend is really upset that the cuts are coming, there will be a standoff.  The Liberals are willing for these military cuts to take place and place our nation in jeopardy he says.  I lost my phucking mind. I said, "So, you are more important than anyone else in this country?  How arrogant!  How disgusting and pathetic!  Many many people are various forms of jeopardy right now this minute."

He brought up our fake adding God convention vote, I brought up that his Presidential candidate can't even lead his own party and the party wants all abortion illegal.

He told me that he wasn't sure what the Republican stance on women's rights and issues were, and he even tried to tell me that he had not read the platform.  I didn't believe him for a minute.  Didn't matter though, I could not help saying that someone who could't bring themselves to take the time or make the effort to understand what their party was proposing for half of all Americans was PATHETIC!!

It was pretty bad, and my Indy husband kept trying to close the can of worms and it wouldn't.  I was told that Democrats were being evil ricks with a "p", and I was surprised when my husband admitted that as long as he has been an adult Democrats have just rolled over for Republicans and this is the first time they've really started standing up to them the same way Republicans always stand up to Democrats.