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Kalima and MB get a Tip of the Hat today for getting picked up by the EUROPEAN POLITICS http://paper.li/RachidELAIDI/1304838112

» Posted By bito On May 7, 2012 @ 7:39 pm

I vote new! 😉

» Posted By bito On May 7, 2012 @ 2:33 pm

I glad you heard something, I now you were worried and now relived, I sure am.
Yes I do remember you warning us about the Tories, but I didn’t know enough about them, I do now thanks to you, to think that they were this incompetent/destructive to their own country. I really feel for the lesser from all their cuts, like I do in this country. Some of the articles about the cuts on the elderly and disabled that you posted were heartbreaking. Look out US, this is what Mitt and the R’s want to bring here, Tory austerity and start at the bottom.

» Posted By bito On April 26, 2012 @ 5:36 pm

First and most important is the news on the Welshman, I do hope you hear something soon and all is well. Candle is lit and you are in my thoughts.

Another great round-up today and I wandered as usual and discovered the Guardians page on the recession http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/recession . When, when, when will they hold a vote of confidence?! Along with the Murdoch mess, how can Cameron possible win? For the sake of the people of the UK, get off this austerity plan. It ain’t working, especially for the less fortunate.

Trivia: Drunks and bums surround her feet? 😉

» Posted By bito On April 26, 2012 @ 4:10 pm

What an arrogant bastid!

Mr Trump said he supported renewable developments like wave and tidal power, but said the use of wind farms was “one of the most serious problems Scotland will have or has had”.

The entrepreneur said they were inefficient, could not operate without big subsides, “killed massive amounts of wildlife” and would damage tourism.

When challenged to provide statistical evidence for his arguments, Mr Trump told the committee: “I am the evidence.”

Heaven Forbid! Don’t damage the precious view for the millionaires chasing a little round ball on his golf course. I hope they tell him “sorry Donald, you lose (and what is thing on your head?)

» Posted By bito On April 25, 2012 @ 2:29 pm

A huge welcome back, Kalima, you had me spoiled not having to look for and find international news, you did all the work for me.
Let’s not have this happen again, young lady. 😉

Welcome back Dear One!

Television Video (?)

» Posted By bito On April 23, 2012 @ 4:36 pm

He Doesn’t Wish He Could Be a Real Boy – Romnocchio!

Ah-Ha! This finally hit MSNBC, the “liberal network,” and it took Rev. Al to do it! I just think this is major, unprecedented and close to a scam. Where do his interests lie? Will he be pushing for a new missile system and the public not knowing he has a lot invested in MIC corporations? Push for more oil pipelines while invested in tar sands in Canada? The list goes on and works very well with KQ’s excellent comment on Romneys lying IMHO.

» Posted By bito On April 6, 2012 @ 4:12 pm

Nirek, It’s amazing how many lies about President Obama are out there and how often the media lets them go unchallenged in their false quest of balance. Someone using facts and another using lies does not equal balance. On our twitter timeline you will see a tweet about about GOOP Senator calling for PBO to apologize for calling the Ryan “Path to Poverty” budget as “Social Darwinism” when he was quoting Newt’s words. And that’s how lies start.

I can’t believe that the news on Romney hiding his investments isn’t HUGE news. This is worse than Cheney and Haliburton, Romney’s are completely hidden. Is he invested in Russian oil and will that affect his decision making? How about Rayathon or some other MIC corporation? Will that make want to push a new missile system? Oil sands in Canada, Pipeline companies, oil shippers….. The list goes on and they are all secret and using a loophole to keep them that way?
Has any other president or candidate even tried this?
This has a WOW factor of 10 to me.

» Posted By bito On April 6, 2012 @ 10:58 am

I ask you, who would vote for anyone for President if they pulled this stunt? Can you imagine if PBO did this? He would be impeached!

Romney using ethics exception to limit disclosure of Bain holdings

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, whose wealth has become a central issue in the 2012 campaign, has taken advantage of an obscure exception in federal ethics laws to avoid disclosing the nature and extent of his holdings.

By offering a limited description of his assets, Romney has made it difficult to know precisely where his money is invested, whether it is offshore or in controversial companies, or whether those holdings could affect his policies or present any conflicts of interest.

[….]

Several outside experts across the political spectrum, however, say Romney’s disclosure is the most opaque they have encountered, with some suggesting the filing effectively defeats the spirit of disclosure requirements.

“His approach turns the whole purpose of the ethics statute on its ear,” said Cleta Mitchell, a Republican lawyer who has represented dozens of candidates and officials in the disclosure process, including Romney’s leading challenger for the GOP nomination, Rick Santorum.

Much more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-using-ethics-exception-to-limit-disclosure-of-bain-holdings/2012/04/05/gIQARcVmxS_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop

I asked the other day if he had any oil interests in his holdings, I guess. Who would vote for him when you don’t know where his interests lie? Are they in China, India, Russia, hell they could be in Iran, we can’t tell.

This blows me away!

» Posted By bito On April 5, 2012 @ 9:15 pm

Combine the women’s vote with the Hispanic vote, the way they are polling right now, he’s got a couple of holes to fill. For a completely un-scientific observation, one of the Tea Party people said at their gatherings, close to 25% of them won’t vote for Mitt, that makes two TP groups that are saying that.

» Posted By bito On April 5, 2012 @ 2:41 pm

AdLib, do you mean to tell me that the part of one day George just dropped his drywall tools and then bought a car company aren’t true? Is there a thing, just one thing that Mitt tells the truth about? He tries to make it sound like Daddy, in his heart, was just a blue collar. middle class fellow. Being a lobbyist for a large corporation is not my idea of a blue-collar worker.
My Gawd, it’s not he is lying on his profile on facebook trying to pick up chicks, he’s running for “the leader of the free world!” If he gets elected and is speaking with some foreign leader, trying to make a deal, is that foreign leader going to be thinking all the time “Is he lying to me?” or “I don’t know if he is telling me the truth.”

» Posted By bito On April 5, 2012 @ 2:31 pm

The other day he did something close to that. When he was giving his life story, “I was born a poor black boy in a log cabin…” He never mentioned that he went to Harvard, he said “then after I finished business school….” What like he went to a storefront school and took bookkeeping, shorthand and speed typing?

Another thing in his life story that has me shaking my head and that has to do with his father. He always says my Dad started out as a lather in the carpenters union, (and here’s the jump) them he bought a auto manufacturer company. From dry-waller to a car manufacturer? I have worked with many dry-wallers (we had a sub-local as part of our local) and I never new a one that went from rags to riches like that. There is something missing IMHO.

» Posted By bito On April 5, 2012 @ 12:09 pm

Sue, I don’t know what that “reached a limit” thing is all about, I get it one in a while. just try refreshing the page or log off and back on again.

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 9:28 pm

From Cher via twitter:

Chernynkaya ‏ @Chernynkaya

@funksands @PlanetPOV EVERY Romney Lie In One Place! UPDATED!! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/14/1074486/-EVERY-Romney-Lie-In-One-Place-UPDATED-

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/14/1074486/-EVERY-Romney-Lie-In-One-Place-UPDATED-

Just in case you have any doubts on AdLibs post. I’m not sure if the author or anyone can keep track of EVERY lie.

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 8:21 pm

Perfect, AdLib just perfect! KQ and I were both remarking this morning that it’s not just the occasional lie, it’s constant and we have never heard a so many lies from one person running for president. I have been around politics most of my life my father was an elected official when I was tyke and never has anyone told this amount of lies. Do you think he has a staff member whose only job is to keep track of his lies so the campaign can try to keep it straight? Or does it even matter to them?

When I was a child I would get a wooden spoon on my bottom for calling someone a liar, I think my mother would forgive me this time and use it herself!

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 7:58 pm

Remarks by the President at the A.P. Luncheon

jjgravitas and KQ, I certainly agree that the Bush tax cuts need to expire but tend to side with KQ not on the middle and working poor. My biggest problem is with the tax code and the mechanics of changing it. If congress were to attempt it, it would never get done except minimally. The divide divide between the parties is much to wide and deep. The number of lobbyists would out number the legislators 10 to 1 protecting their loopholes and interests.
The only solution I can see is a law creating a commission on the tax code ,like the base closing commission with an up or down vote on the recommendation. I’m not sure if that would even pass in congress, look what happened to Simpson-Bowles. As soon as PBO agreed to the Republican backed commission, the R’s backed out of it. Everyone knows it needs to be done, so it won’t happen.

» Posted By bito On April 6, 2012 @ 4:52 pm

AdLib, both White House.Gov and the HHS site is chockful of info on ACA, it just seems it never makes it to the media. The .gov sites under PBO have really expanded and become more user friendly than under GWB it’s like night and day. I wish they were used more.

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 6:10 pm

KQ, that is remarkable, put that together with other corporations stagnant “money on hand” and invest in the US, seems to me it would make a difference.

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 6:04 pm

Pass the salt, please. 🙂

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 5:30 pm

Hey You, AdLib! Get off my post with your off-topic stuff!!! 😆 😆 😆

(did you catch this? Interesting.)
https://planetpov.com/2012/04/03/remarks-by-the-president-at-the-a-p-luncheon/comment-page-1/#comment-180316

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 5:27 pm

HEY You Adlib! Get off my post!!! 😆 😆 😆

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 5:23 pm

Excellent C’Lady, it’s not the dollars cut but where the cuts are made and and the people that they effect.
Dollars are numbers on a spreadsheet, losing your job and health care is real.

Mitt and the RNC says he is a great bean counter but do they forget the people?

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 5:13 pm

KQ, I’m glad you caught it, it does lay out what perhaps maybe the campaign and with facts not slogans or lies. I hope the author fleshes it out and writes a post on it.
Once again i find myself in agreement with you on the investing, but I didn’t know Apple had that much ready cash! Why don’t they invest in the US with all that money? Many corporations have had close to a record year in profits this year but they choose to sit on their money, or buy back shares rather than invest.

Better be careful calling for corporations to invest may be anti-business according to Willard.

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 5:05 pm

enigma2,
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» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 4:32 pm

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» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 4:08 pm

My pleasure 19th. It may help to look at all the links on the header. You may enjoy some of our older posts. We do have some excellent writers.

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» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 4:00 pm

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» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 3:49 pm

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Thanks again KT.

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 3:40 pm

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» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 3:37 pm

Interesting “private briefing” on the economy at the White House today expanding the speech by the White House staff. It presents many talking points that may well be used during the campaign. This fills in a lot of what PBO said yesterday.

LIVE FROM WHITE HOUSE: Team Obama Socks It To Republicans On Economy

A sampling of it:

If you take out government and look at private GDP:

Growth has been an annualized rate of 3.4%.

If do same thing from previous recovery, in early 2000s [Bush years], it was 2.9%.

So the private sector healing at faster clip.

This is inconsistent with the Republican claim that companies are overburdened by regulation, uncertainty, taxes, etc. Lots of other points supporting this.

And a point on jobs…

Since early 2009, state and local governments lost 590,000 jobs.

If take out residential construction and government, then it’s 3.5% growth.

Prior rate was 2.5% (last recession)

Also faster than early 1990s recovery.

Not to deny we need more recovery…

The President’s policies helped. Well-targeted. Payroll tax cut. Funds to help schools retain teachers.

24 months of job growth. Private sector job growth best 6 months in years. Unemployment falling.

Private sector job growth last 24 months… 3X faster than prior recovery in 2002, on pace with 1990s recovery

HEATHER ZICHAL, Deputy Assistant to the President For Energy and Climate Change

No magic bullet.

No way to bring gas prices down to $2 overnight

We’re doing the “all of the above” plan.

1) Oil. Quadrupled rigs, approved dozens of pipelines. Oil and gas production up every year since Obama in office.

2) Clean energy.

3) Alternatives to oil.

4) Energy efficiency. Focused a lot on homes. 1 million houses weatherized. Most aggressive efficiency standards for cars and trucks (saving families money). 40% of GM’s cars get 30mpg, vs. 16% in 2009.

The notion that this is all happening on private lands is a crock. We’re doing both public and private

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/live-from-white-house-team-obama-socks-it-to-republicans-on-economy-2012-4#ixzz1r6Qz93DH

Good read!

» Posted By bito On April 4, 2012 @ 12:51 pm