Displaying 781 To 810 Of 4,640 Comments Weekend Music Thread – Romney Roasting Okay, KT, I bet you didn’t post this one: Dumbo When I See an Elephant Fly & Dumbo Flies HD
» Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 10:00 pm KT, I’ll pay up. Did you already post that and I missed it? Damn! » Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 9:28 pm Taxman (The Beatles-Revolver)
» Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 9:11 pm FC, you enjoy that guilt for not being busy enough! It’s the lazy days of summer, after all. Have fun with your son being home. When you have time to catch up, we’ll be here. 😉 » Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 8:59 pm Rock and roll on Gilligan’s Island. The song is for Romney. The Mosquitos – He’s a Loser (’65)
» Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 8:44 pm I’d say this pretty much describes Romney’s European trip: Wipe Out – Ventures
» Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 8:10 pm Carly Simon – You’re So Vain (with lyrics) With a change in the lyrics a little: Well I hear you went over to London and your horse never won
» Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 4:02 pm FC, so right! As KT says, the words are relevant today. The songs John could write about today if we still had him here. But, he left us with words that carry through time. Hope you are having a great day, FC! » Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 3:52 pm And a dog’s life ain’t no fun in a kennel on top of your car! 😉 » Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 3:50 pm AdLib, to add to your John Lennon: John Lennon-How do you Sleep?
» Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 3:23 pm KT, I can’t believe I beat you getting this one up! Our theme song! 🙂 John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth
» Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 2:15 pm ZZ Top – I’m Bad I’m Nationwide
» Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 1:59 pm GEORGE THOROGOOD “Bad To The Bone”
» Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 1:50 pm Thank you, KT, for looking out for me, again! You know I ain’t no good at this computin’ stuffin’! 🙂 Hope you are having a good day. It is suppose to get to 100% for the first time this year here in Portland. (it’s 93 at 1:30) I am going to be a HOT Gal tonight! 😉 » Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 1:30 pm The Beatles – Can’t Buy Me Love (Live) “money can’t buy me love”
» Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 1:24 pm Liar Liar – Christina Grimmie Oh, oh, thought you were someone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPM5dhwHw6o » Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 1:15 pm Okay, how about one for Mrs. Romney and the Sr. Romney’s money. Hall and Oates- Rich Girl w/Lyrics » Posted By SallyT On August 4, 2012 @ 12:56 pm Mother Nature is always a fan of an Alpha Bitch! Hear us roar! And, watch out for our bite. » Posted By SallyT On July 27, 2012 @ 3:17 pm Mother Nature was blaming the human creatures. I think they eat M&M’s, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, Twinkies, Moon pies, and Juju Beans. When they are done, they throw the wrappers on the ground. Of course she has been blamed for crooked pictures after a shake or two of the earth. » Posted By SallyT On July 26, 2012 @ 10:41 pm Dear God, Mother Nature here. You and I have had this round before but here we go again. You didn’t create anything by yourself! You had help. Just like President Obama told the people here, you don’t do it alone. You may have put these human here (however, I feel I helped in their development from creatures of the sea to the legged beast they are today). Keeping my beautiful planet able to support all the life that lives is the challenge that you are away on vacation again! Where’s the damn rain? And, knock off the heat! You helping out Hell or something? Am I going to have to take this into my own hands again? Do I have to shake it up here? Rattle those damn faults? Blow my volcano top? Tunnel my wind? Your friend, » Posted By SallyT On July 26, 2012 @ 8:06 pm The Right Wing’s Psychotic Version of God KT, I have to use a couple of quotes again from Ingersoll. (and he was a Republican) Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of “inspiration.” It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge — that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized. The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice! » Posted By SallyT On July 25, 2012 @ 3:51 pm AdLib, I think I have to quote an atheists so we give equal time. Churches are becoming political organizations…. » Posted By SallyT On July 20, 2012 @ 7:56 pm “Most of the 2% study were most atheistic members of the military. Was this 2% of the 6000 suicides? Or 120 suicides. How many is “most” in that 120? 75? 50? 2? And, where they really atheists or considered atheists by him because they commented suicide? What about the other 5880 suicides? There had to be many “Christians” among those poor souls. This guy is an idiot! I don’t believe that God has favorites. » Posted By SallyT On July 20, 2012 @ 6:31 pm The Inevitable Romney Campaign Theme: Hate the Black Man [img]http://media.caglecartoons.com/media/cartoons/108/2012/07/18/115365_600.jpg[/img] » Posted By SallyT On July 19, 2012 @ 6:50 pm AdLib, I think it is pretty funny that they are going back to when President Obama was young he smoked pot. When Romney was young, he was a bully that held a gay boy down and cut his hair because he didn’t like it. And, for kicks, he put on a police uniform and a cherry light on his car and pulled kids over. Now that is against the law, too. Impersonating an officer. And the President lived aboard when he was young. So, did Romney. He went to France, FRANCE, the GOP hates France. And, being a Mormon was able to avoid going to Vietnam because they are the only religion that is allowed to keep their young people out of war when they are on their religious mission. So, how do you avoid not giving your tax returns? The President has and Romney’s dad did. Blaming the “Black man” isn’t going to work. Of course, Romney’s religion was able to keep the “Black people” out of their religion until the late 70’s. I guess he just had to fall back on old practices. Watch for a cherry light on Romney’s car when the dog isn’t up on the roof. The President already has short hair….. 🙂 » Posted By SallyT On July 18, 2012 @ 8:29 pm I heard on Lawrence ODonnell tonight talking about Romney and his flip flop on abortion and his meeting with the church when he was running for Governor of Mass. So, I found this article on it and that meeting. The Conversion Wirthlin’s poll said that if he ran as a pro-lifer, he’d lose. It would be simplistic to say that the poll dictated Romney’s decision. But we know that he used the poll to influence the most important pro-life organization he had to appease at the time: the elders of the LDS church. In 1993, Romney went to Salt Lake City to explain to the Mormon church leaders why he was going to take a pro-choice position on abortion. He even lied about the girl! She wasn’t an aunt but his sister husband’s sister! You cannot believe anything he says! » Posted By SallyT On July 23, 2012 @ 10:58 pm Bito, another thing is if you are a holding company (which Bain is) you can carry those tax losses from the company you put in bankruptcy over to another operating company you have for 10 years! A real savings on that company’s taxes. No matter what, they are making money on the horse that is already dead! » Posted By SallyT On July 23, 2012 @ 10:25 pm Yes, Bito, and they put the company in debt by borrowing against the company’s assets and take that money before filing bankruptcy on the company as their management fees. » Posted By SallyT On July 23, 2012 @ 9:38 pm So, Romney, when are you just going to say that the President copied from your many speeches? Romney To Olympians: ‘You Didn’t Get Here Solely On Your Own’ Mitt Romney himself made an almost identical point during his speech at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics, crediting the community for helping individuals achieve the pinnacle of success: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy » Posted By SallyT On July 23, 2012 @ 8:43 pm Interesting long article. Romney Invested Millions in Firms That Pioneered High-Tech Outsourcing EXCLUSIVE: A government document shows that at Bain he held a $54 million stake in companies that manufactured electronics in China and Mexico for US firms. In recent weeks, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have accused each other of being an “outsourcer in chief,” as their campaigns have tussled over Romney’s past at Bain Capital and the (non)release of his tax returns. But all this scuffling hasn’t taken into account an until-now unreported fact about Romney’s days at Bain: When he was running the private equity firm, he invested tens of millions of dollars in a pair of companies that specialized in outsourcing high-tech manufacturing and that developed offshore production facilities in Mexico, China, and elsewhere to build electronics for US firms. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mitt-romney-bain-outsourcing-flextronics-jabil-circuit » Posted By SallyT On July 21, 2012 @ 12:32 amComments Posted By SallyT
Then you flew your Lear Jet over to the Bahama’s
To see the total interest on your money there
Well you’re where you should be all the time
And when you’re not you’re with
Some underworld donor or the money from a close friend
Money of a rich friend, and…
Oh, oh goodbye to no one
Oh, oh, thought you were someone
Oh, oh goodbye to no one
“It’s so easy to hurt others when you don’t feel pain”
You have left me with these humans that don’t appreciate or respect all my beauty. I have to feed, clothe, and shelter them. All they do is pollute the air, contaminate my rivers, kill creature of beauty and grace just for sport even to distinction, let alone the killing they do of their own species. I am doing my best to save my planet from their selfishness. They are taking my minerals and using them to harm my atmospheric! They don’t think! They have brains, right?
Oh, yes, they call your name and pray to you but expect me to lay here and let them have their way. I have just about had it with them. They look to you to solve their problems because you are GOD! They think you have favorites and know who is right and will destroy those that are wrong. Don’t they know that I have power that is equal to yours? That I can change everything here now to something else? I have done it before. Sure, they think you did that during one of your temper tantrums. Yeah, right. Did you have a problem with the dinosaurs? No, because you didn’t have to clean up after them. I had too and that was a lot of dung, let me tell you! Little did I know that these humans would take their decayed remains and make something out of it that kills and destroys. This climate change that is occurring now isn’t me. It is their own stupidity. Of course, I will get the blame for the icecaps melting, you know, something I do every century or so. Not this time! And, those that pray the loudest to you are the worst offenders! Have you looked lately? Have you seen the hypocrisy? Hello!
Okay, enough. It boils down to this, you didn’t do it alone, big guy! And, lately you aren’t much help! So, either get your creatures under control and shape them up or I am going to have to take matters into my own hands. I don’t want to sweep the place clean. Maybe you are having fun with these kids playing games among themselves but I am getting tired of it. You need me more than I need you. They need you more than I need them. You didn’t do it alone, you can’t maintain it alone, and it won’t survive alone. We all need help.
If you play another joke on me, like that Bush, with this Romney, I will pull my hair out, along with the trees, the mountains, the rivers, oh, you know what I can do. Now this Obama is something I can live with. He appears to be getting better with age. And, he is the smart one that knows you can’t do it alone and we need to make it better for all, not just those that claim you have answered their prayers. He knows everything isn’t always fair and they need to help those sick, homeless, and hungry with a hand up. When humans can have enough to live, they make all around them peaceful. And, some even richer by giving up just a small amount to those with less. You know, big guy, I have a lot of these creatures of yours that pray to me. I’ll help mine, you help yours, and together can we get this place under control? Lets work together.
Mother Nature
— Robert Green Ingersoll, “Reply To The Indianapolis Clergy” The Iconoclast, Indianapolis, Indiana (1882)
— Robert G Ingersoll,
It probably will not be long until the churches will divide as sharply upon political, as upon theological questions; and when that day comes, if there are not liberals enough to hold the balance of power, this Government will be destroyed. The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church. Wherever the Bible and sword are in partnership, man is a slave.
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy — making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and imprisonment. It strikes me that God might write a book that would not necessarily excite the laughter of his children. In fact, I think it would be safe to say that a real God could produce a work that would excite the admiration of mankind. Surely politicians could be better employed than in passing laws to protect the literary reputation of the Jewish God.
— Robert Green Ingersoll, proving himself a prophet, of sorts, while discrediting prophesy itself! quoted from, Some Mistakes of Moses, Section III, “The Politicians,” in Works, Dresden Edition, Volume 2
How, when, and why Mitt Romney changed his mind on abortion.
Michael Madsen/Thinkstock.
Scott’s account, as told in his book and in a more detailed interview with Slate, is based on conversations with Romney and other senior church officials who were present. As president of the Boston stake, Romney owed church leaders a consultation before doing anything that might cause them trouble. In October or November 1993, he went to Salt Lake City to meet with them and explain the abortion position he was going to take. Wirthlin went with him. In these meetings, Wirthlin was more than a pollster. He was a church official, a brother of one of the church’s 12 apostles, and a cousin of the church’s next president.
Romney didn’t ask the brethren in Salt Lake what his abortion position should be. He had already decided on it. He didn’t ask them to endorse it, either. He came to explain his position, why he had to take it, and how it conformed to church doctrine. He told them he would say that he opposed abortion personally but that such private beliefs shouldn’t be imposed on others. Romney argued that this view was acceptable under the doctrine of free agency, and he used the poll data to close the sale. If he didn’t frame his position as pro-choice, he’d lose. Many of the church leaders were unhappy with Romney’s formulation. But if they wanted him in the Senate, this was the best they were going to get.
Scott was present when Romney talked about the meetings after he returned to Boston.
Judy Dushku, a Mormon feminist, says she heard a similar account from Romney in 1994:
I went to his office and I congratulated him on taking a pro-choice position. And his response was—Well they told me in Salt Lake City I could take this position, and in fact I probably had to in order to win in a liberal state like Massachusetts. … I said, Mitt, it doesn’t make me happy to hear that. What you’re suggesting is that you’re not genuinely pro-choice. It’s a position of convenience. He said—Oh no, I actually had an aunt who died of a botched abortion. So I have some positive feelings about choice, but basically I know that I have to take that position.
But the point of this article is that Romney is again saying just about the same thing as the President did when he said you didn’t build a company by yourself. Romney took that out of context and has it in an ad and trying to put the President down as not giving people any credit for building their business. Of course the President was saying that we all have help in one way or another. But Romeny is basically saying the same thing when he addressed the Olympics Openings. The Dems should use this in an ad back showing that this guy is a liar and a cheat.
ROMNEY: You Olympians, however, know you didn’t get here solely on your own power. For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers, encouraged your hopes, coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize competitions. All Olympians stand on the shoulders of those who lifted them. We’ve already cheered the Olympians, let’s also cheer the parents, coaches, and communities.
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