Strategery

Lots of hemming and hawing about the Tribe and their attendance problem...which I don't see as a problem.  For one, people don't trust ownership, and I really do not blame them.  Two, tickets are expensive, especially amidst all of this Hope and Change.  Three, it's not really a playoff bid; the Tribe is playing to try and be one of the two teams that play ONE game to see who gets to make the playoffs.  It is nice, but it is not exactly exciting, is it now?  Let's not discuss that if they do win that game, they will prolly get slaughtered in the next round by Boston. 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/18/social_security_early_retirement_don_t_do_it_if_you_can_avoid_it.html

Hmmm...maybe if we let people plan for and provide for their own retirement, they wouldn't screw themselves...not would they contribute to a government plan that does it for them.  Brilliant!

The Obamacare defunding is interesting, but if I was the GOP, I would be concentrating on other things, like nailing -- and defunding -- the IRS for their scandals, nailing the Justice Department for Fast and Furious/LA desegregation, the EPA for their efforts, etc...  I mean, I bet you could carve out of those budgets what would be spent on Obamacare, and then let the Dems and Obama make the case that it is perfectly acceptable to spend all of that money on crappy programs.  It is not like the press will let it happen, but some of it will get through, and it is a lot smarter than the alternative.