If these Cubbies could look more vulnerable, I do not know how.

Rick Telander: “These walking-dead Cubs had better wake up fast. The cemetery of broken dreams beckons.”

Nobel people can’t find him.

I put this in category of what if they called a meeting and no one came?

Nobel peace-prize givers getting what they bloody well (Britishism) deserve.

. . . and its purple next-door neighbor.

. . . via Wednesday Journal blog.

All ye Oak Park and River Forest Democrats, REPENT!

Never-Trump Republicans too. Please. Do the right thing.

Sunday, October 16th, 2016 1:18 PM

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By Jim Bowman

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Enough of this blather from the leftist, I might add mean-spirited, Clinton camp. All you Democrats (and fence-sitting Republicans), please see past the dredging up of breathless, questionable accounts which are even now being debunked or at least questioned — here, for instance.

Bombarded by newspaper and TV lemmings coast to coast, you probably believe it all. This Yale professor does not disbelieve it. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he admits that “in his Mr. Nauseating video of last weekend,” Trump comes across as “an infantile vulgarian.”

Why vote for him anyhow? Because . . . .

Read the rest here.

Perfect:

“It’s one of the great political phenomenons. The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media, the press. Let’s be clear on one thing: The corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism. They are political special interest no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda — and the agenda is not for you, it’s for themselves. Their agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy. For them, it’s a war, and for them, nothing at all is out of bounds. This is a struggle for the survival of our nation. Believe me.”

Never been said better.

Sen. Harmon, Rep. Lilly, Galewood town hall, September, 2013. The alderman had sat down after declining to comment on the questions and complaints which she had just heard from her constituents over the past hour of the meeting which she had not called.

As the meeting drew to a close, a woman called for Lilly and Harmon to “be a moral voice” in their roles as public officials.

Something in her voice set Lilly off. “My morals cannot be questioned,” she responded, as the woman protested that she had been misunderstood. Lilly ignored her. “You are talking about me as an individual,” she said, reaching her highest state of indignation yet.

The meeting ended a few minutes later. Lilly thanked all for coming, adding as a pledge of continuing interest, “I want you to contact me.”

She did not say how to do this, but people could look it up. I did after the Franklin Park meeting in July and tried to contact her, as I said earlier. Got no answer.

Harmon closed with thanks of his own.

More to come, from Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters— available in paperback, epub and Amazon Kindle formats.

As in this from 1896:

In 1896 it was Dems consuming themselves, from which came a third party. NY Sun discusses the third-party possibility if Trump loses, with an eye on history, but with a caution:

We don’t mean to rule out the possibility that Mr. Trump could yet win. We’re too close to the experience of Brexit, which elite opinion predicted for months would be defeated. Or the 2015 election at Israel, where polls predicted a razor thin result or a win by Labor only to be met with a runaway victory by Mr. Netanyahu. For that matter, there’s the 2004 American election, when the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth defeated an overconfident John Kerry.

So buck up, Trumpsters. Think Brexit etc.

If, however, Trump lost and took his followers into a new party, says Sun . . .

If he does that — we’re not making a prediction here — it would be as American as apple pie. Our history is littered with parties created as vehicles to pursue all sorts of visions and represent all sorts of factions — the Prohibition Party, the Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, the Toleration Party, the Anti-Masonic Party, the Nullifier Party (which fought for the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions in which the two states vowed not to enforce the Alien and Sedition Acts).

We but touch the list. There was the Free Soil Party, the Greenback Party, the Silver Party, the Readjuster Party, the National Woman’s Party, the Vegetarian Party, the Boston Tea Party, Natural Law Party (which favored transcendental meditation), the Anti-Nebraska Party, and the National Democratic Party. The latter’s 15 minutes of fame was at 1896, when the regular Democrats nominated the populist William Jennings Bryan.

Autophagy, anyone?

Joins the Never-Trump fold.

Will he be happy there?

The Harmon and Lilly town hall meeting in Galewood, Sept. 12, 2013, questions and complaints:

It was 7:30, 45 minutes into the meeting. A pleasant-looking young woman, Harmon’s aide, stood with a clip board, said it was time to gather written questions. She began walking the room gathering questions.

Meanwhile, questions and complaints continued from the floor — about illegal immigrants using scarce resources while not paying taxes, declining property values, lack of a public library “we can take our kids to,” a North Avenue pawn shop.

“Residents need a voice,” a woman said. “We are stuck. You have to listen.”

Ms. Graham, alderman with a history:

The airing of North Avenue problems prompted a call for comment from the alderman, Deborah Graham, who had sat quietly through it all, unannounced.

She had been a state rep for Oak Park and Austin, winning election in 2002 over an Oak Park woman after losing a mandatory coin toss that broke a tie in the primary, challenging that, and winning a manual recount of 500-plus ballots.

During the recount, more than a hundred uncounted ballots were found in an Austin polling place in sealed envelopes at the bottom of a bin. “For a bag of ballots to show up suddenly six months” after the election “is just deplorable,” the Oak Park candidate told the Tribune. Her lawyers had wanted a second election. A judge had ordered one, but an appellate court had canceled it.

She finds silence is golden:

In 2010 Graham had been chosen alderman by Mayor Richard M. Daley, who by then had appointed more than half the sitting aldermen, to replace one who had pleaded guilty to corruption charges. She won election to a full-term in the next year.

At Galewood on this occasion, she rose, said she had learned quite a bit from the meeting, and sat down.

More to come, from Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters— available in paperback, epub and Amazon Kindle formats.

Seems to have required a tough Trump performance. A quick learner, he’s hard to beat at this game.

The full results from Sunday night’s debate are in, and Donald Trump has come from behind to take the lead over Hillary Clinton.

The latest Rasmussen Reports White House Watch national telephone and online survey shows Trump with 43% support among Likely U.S. Voters to Clinton’s 41%.

Yesterday, Clinton still held a four-point 43% to 39% lead over Trump, but that was down from five points on Tuesday andher biggest lead ever of seven points on Monday.

As Porky Pig did not say, th-th-th-that’s not all, folks.