We were driving yesterday and passed a car that had the three passengers holding lawn signs for the Green Party Candidate for Governor of Illinois Rich Whitney.

My little guy asked what the signs were.

I told him they were for a candidate for Governor. The man wanted people to vote for him on election day.

He said I shouldn’t vote on election day and I asked him why.

He said he doesn’t like the big Tootsie Rolls. I asked what that had to do with election day.

He said it was the Candy Vote and he didn’t want me to vote for the Tootsie Rolls.

He heard Candy Vote instead of Candidate and vote…

Ah well, he’s not quite six.

I did this on a white pumpkin. It turned out wonderfully!

Patterns from jack-o-lantern.com Thanks Guys!

Click here. Got it here. (It’s been achieved).

Her lampshade collar looks so like the bowl of a martini glass that I had to make her a pimento stuffed olive to go with it…

Our village has trick-or-treating tomorrow afternoon.

Don’t forget to set the clocks back!

Welcome Electric Venom and Wizbang! readers. Thanks Kate and Lorie. Please have a look around.

Check out the skull-o-lantern!

Quick Poll:

I’ll keep the poll up through the weekend.

Update (10/27): So far there are 6 votes and all six voted yes, the voter can produce a photo ID if asked at the polls. This is completely unscientific, but I think that, of actual voters, the number that can produce an ID, while not 100%, is closer to 100% than the percentage opponents of Voter ID laws would have you believe.

Back in October 2004, Vice Presidential Aspirant and Candidate John Edwards in Newton, IA said

[Reeve, who died Sunday], “was a powerful voice for the need to do stem cell research and change the lives of people like him.

“If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”

CNN

Once again Stem Cell Research and Therapy is being conflated with Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

My daughter has epilepsy, developmental delays, and has recently been diagnosed with Lupus as well. Stem cell research may one day prove a benefit to her. Adult or cord blood stem cells.

The Anchoress notes that there are 72 successful applications with adult stem cell therapies and 0 embryonic therapies.

There are NO bans on stem cell research of any stripe. Federal (and only Federal) funding of embryonic stem cell research is currently limited to existing stem cell lines. There is nothing to prevent private funding of new lines. Nothing other than success rates in embryonic stem cell research. Private funding brings with it hopes of a return on investment. Federal funding needs no such guarantees.

Appeal to Sympathy is a logical fallacy no matter who the sympathetic figure is.

Via Dave Barry’s Blog comes this Google Maps picture from Canada.

Counter to the Democrats Google Bomb, we are joining in on the Right Wing News countergooglebomb effort!

Since we’re near Chicago, it’s “Da” CounterGoogleBomb, like it’s Da Bears…

Senate

Connecticut: Ned Lamont
Maryland: Ben Cardin
Michigan: Debbie Stanbenow
Missouri: Claire McCaskill
Montana: Jon Tester
New Jersey: Bob Menendez
Tennessee: Harold Ford
Virginia: James Webb

Democrat Held Seats

(CO-03): John Salazar
(GA-03): Jim Marshall
(GA-12): John Barrow
(IA-03): Leonard Boswell
(IL-08): Melissa Bean
(IL-17): Phil Hare
(IN-07): Julia Carson
(NC-13): Brad Miller
(PA-12): John Murtha
(WV-01): Alan Mollohan

Republican Held Seats

(AZ-08): Gabrielle Giffords
(CT-04): Diane Farrell
(CT-05): Chris Murphy
(CO-07): Ed Perlmutter
(IA-01): Bruce Braley
(IL-06): Tammy Duckworth
(IN-02): Joe Donnelly
(IN-08): Brad Ellsworth
(IN-09): Baron Hill
(FL-13): Christine Jennings
(FL-16): Tim Mahoney
(FL-22): Ron Klein
(KY-03): John Yarmuth
(NC-01): Heath Shuler
(MN-06): Patty Wetterling
(NM-01): Patricia Madrid
(NY-20): Kirsten Gillibrand
(NY-24): Michael Arcuri
(NY-26): Jack Davis
(OH-15): Mary Jo Kilroy
(OH-18): Zack Space
(PA-06): Lois Murphy
(PA-08): Patrick Murphy
(PA-07): Joe Sestak
(PA-10): Chris Carney
(VA-02): Phil Kellam
(WI-08): Steve Kagen

Thanks to Kate at Electric Venom for the code.

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Chris Wallace: Very briefly Senator Biden, what’s at stake?

Joe Biden: If the Democrats regain control you’re going to see 12-14 Republicans freed up to to go out and join in a bipartisan way to tell the President we are seriously off course.

If the democrats don’t make gains, it’ll be a reaffirmation that, for this administration “stay the course” and I believe that would be a disaster.

Chris Wallace: And you think there are a dozen Republicans chomping at the bit?

Joe Biden: I think, I know that there are at least three that approached me before we left.

[ed: All emphasis mine]

Joe, you said it. If the Democrats don’t make gains the current administration is right to stay the course it is currently on. It’s a mandate. You said gains too, not just control of either or both houses, gains…

What will you say on November 8th?

Also, Joe, how do you get “12-14 Republicans” from “at least three”? Oh, must have used that methodology from the Lancet study on deaths in Iraq…

In fact, I’ll be at the polls at 6 am, right when they open. Hubby needs to catch a train at 6:25 and we were able to accomplish both on Primary day last March.

Mom isn’t happy with one of our GOP candidates, but I persuaded her that undervoting or voting for a write-in or the third party candidate will be a vote for the Democrat.

Laura Lee has a couple of very good reasons not to sit this one out.

Captain Ed says:

When people are dissatisfied with an incumbent in their own party, the time to address that is the primary.

He is so right.

Another reason: “Speaker” Pelosi (or as Don Surber notes: President Pelosi? Go read his column for the explanation) Update: The Anchoress says no way Hillary will allow it!

Update: Kim at Wizbang! links to Tony Blankley’s column about sitting out the election…

Apparently, these anticipated conservative non-voters are annoyed with Republican imperfection. They are disheartened, disappointed, disillusioned, distempered, and dismal — and thus plan to dis the party that better advances conservative principles in government.

They appear to have fallen victim to the false syllogism: 1) Something must be done; 2) not voting is something; therefore, 3) I will not vote. Of course the fallacy of the syllogism is that the second category could be anything. For example, No. 2 could as well read “eating dog excrement is something.”

I rather suspect that they will feel about the same afterward, whether they chose the non-voting option or the scatological one. They are both equally illogical — and repulsive — and would deserve the moniker “Stupid.”

Go read the rest and Kim’s post at Wizbang!

Vote GOP November 7^th