Displaying 91 To 120 Of 16,275 Comments Periodic Table of Dangerous Elements: Final 2012 Edition KQ, You just about broke twitter with this post 😉 No kidding we got a bunch of on the post many from peeps I’ve never seen before. Cool, eh? » Posted By bito On November 3, 2012 @ 10:35 pm Murph, all you have to do is click the graphic and it will enlarge, still not big enough hit ctrl++ you should be able to get it large enough that mThe pimple on Mitt’s nose shows. » Posted By bito On November 3, 2012 @ 6:36 pm Failed History of Conservatism in America And you could throw in Nixon as the first Green President. » Posted By bito On November 3, 2012 @ 10:37 pm EXFANOFARIANA, I would also like to add a welcome to PPOV and hope you enjoy, appreciate and add to “your” site. To add to KQ, we do have quite a few of readers from around the world and we have had at times world members who are/were quite active on the site. Like KQ said Kalima has a very good world news, or as she says “bits and bobs” from arond the world that you may enjoy and add your Italian perspective. Welcome. » Posted By bito On November 1, 2012 @ 6:27 pm Hello withsimplelogic, Let me join KQ in a warm welcome to the Planet. KQ has done an excellent job with his list that should remove any doubt why one shouldn’t vote GOP if they care about The country and it’s hard working people. » Posted By bito On November 1, 2012 @ 11:55 am LIVE CHAT TONIGHT! – 6:00 PM PST – The Final Obama-Romney Debate I don’t believe that this is exactly what they are saying on Hardball. Exactly! » Posted By bito On October 23, 2012 @ 2:05 pm So let’s take a fresh look and recap what Mitt said and his take on Foreign policy is this morning: Yes, but let me — let me — let me come back — let’s come back — let’s come back and go back to what the president was speaking about, which is what’s happening in the world and — and — and the president’s statement that things are going so well. Look, I — I look at what’s happening around the world and I see Iran four years closer to a bomb. I see the Middle East with a rising tide of violence, chaos, tumult. I see jihadists continuing to spread. Whether they’re rising or just about the same level hard to — hard to precisely measure, but it’s clear they’re there. They’re very, very strong. I see Syria with 30,000 civilians dead, Assad still in power. What gobbledygook! Yet that said, he seemed to follow and agree with everything the President said….this time. Romney Debate Strategy: Pretend to Agree with the President Romney’s incoherent message last night (updated) http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2012/10/romneys-incoherent-message-last-night.html?spref=tw Speaking from a purely political operative standpoint, I have to admit that the Romney Campaign timed Mitts final flip-flop was near perfect, it managed to catch just enough voters at the right time that they did not catch all the flip-flops he has made in the past. Some are just aware of his one position only and that was when he made his big flip at the first debate. » Posted By bito On October 23, 2012 @ 10:12 am UPDATED: Business Owners: Vote Romney or Else! Good job Murph, It’s unfortunate that some of the bigger employers can’t or don’t want to see the light like your small town grocer did. If there is one thing that all the government agencies need is one and one only definition of “small business.” It can’t be 50 or less employees for one agency and 500 or less for another agency all calling them “small business.” Your friend can’t compete nor be really represented by the same association that represents a billion dollar hedge fund can they even though they are both considered a small business. Good job, Murph and as Sue mentioned it so often takes one person at a time. » Posted By bito On October 27, 2012 @ 12:26 pm Sounds promising Murph, let;s hope he makes a decision before it’s to late. When does your early voting open? » Posted By bito On October 23, 2012 @ 9:47 pm Like I said above, I am unfamiliar with this situation where it seems to cross with rural fie settings/suppression/ and urban installation and pricing so I can’t speak to this. However does he just blame Dem. government and not government? ( I’m sure that before many a fire occurred that there were many that had had X number of years before a fire before the usage in h building was changed. Once again does he just chose the Dems and why does that justify intimidating his employees political activities and blackmailing them ? » Posted By bito On October 21, 2012 @ 8:54 am Murph, I think I best end my commenting on this, it seems that I don’t have all the facts or that as they are added it changes the out come. I wish you luck on your quest of turning him around but he seems quite happy with this one hypocritical position. He does sound like he is an all around pretty nice and decent fellow, he could almost “pass” as a “Dem” 😉 except for this blind spot. » Posted By bito On October 21, 2012 @ 8:36 am According to Murph, the owner even said he had grown sales every year since 1990 until Wally World opened last year ( https://planetpov.com/2012/10/18/business-owners-vote-romney-or-else/comment-page-1/#comment-190609 ). So now that’s Obama’s fault? The president should have blocked Walmart and electing Mitt will close them? Can this guy be this naive and be a successful businessman? Blaming PBO for local building codes? Something smells about this whole story and it’s not a pleasant smell. I have a hard time buying into his excuse, more like it’s an attempt to move up a peg in the local, county REC. I may be completely wrong, just having a hard time believing he is this naive and is buying into this and selling it to his employees. » Posted By bito On October 20, 2012 @ 1:16 pm KT,certainly not a profile in courage, is it? » Posted By bito On October 20, 2012 @ 11:41 am I am having some difficulty thinking of this guy as “all around good guy. His complaining about the building codes, is the epitome of him showing nothing but self interest; building codes are there with a purpose, mostly health and safety of his neighbors and the public. Should the public allow him to do shoddy work like fire hazards from faulty wiring, water and sewage contamination of others water supply because of some code eats into is bottom line? Same with walls and roofs failing because of construction shortcuts? Sorry, but from your sketch of him, I find him a bit selfish. In fact, I know this guy, I have done some remolding and building for him in a couple of down towns. » Posted By bito On October 20, 2012 @ 10:48 am Hey goleafsgo, another reason that it’s nice to see you here on PPOV, you do bring the site a bit different and intelligent perspective with your experiences than most of the baby boomers. » Posted By bito On October 20, 2012 @ 10:11 am LIVE CHAT TONIGHT! – 6:00 PM PST – The Second Obama-Romney Debate That is great news KQ! Being ill without having proper healthcare can do nothing but make one’s illness worse. You guys must feel as if a great weight has been lifted from your shoulders. » Posted By bito On October 16, 2012 @ 10:24 pm Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Romney’s Debate Bounce Excellent KQ, how would a leader of fellow G-20 nation take Mitt’s ideas? Would they have to be constantly second/third guessing Mitt’s foreign policy? » Posted By bito On October 10, 2012 @ 9:51 pm Towards the end of the interview, Obama sought to assure listeners that he was still confident, alluding to an internet meme that features him: “As some of these emails that go around with my picture on them say, I can’t quote the entire thing, but ‘I got this.’” [img]http://angryblackladychronicles.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/20121010-173129.jpg[/img] » Posted By bito On October 10, 2012 @ 9:41 pm How can Obama or anyone break down facts and lies in any kind of format of debate that are presented in this article? This study will be lucky to get out of the nerdy blogs let alone in the broadcast media Romney’s $4,000 Tax Tale Mitt Romney falsely claims in a series of TV ads that President Obama “will raise taxes on the middle class by $4,000.” That’s nonsense. The ads cite a conservative group’s study, but even the group itself doesn’t say Obama will raise taxes on middle-income taxpayers. It says his budget could result in a “potentially higher tax burden” over the next 10 years. […] The first of these ads — titled “Who Will Raise Taxes?” — touts the AEI report as an “independent, nonpartisan study.” It also says, “The same organization says the plan from Mitt Romney and common-sense conservatives is ‘not a tax hike on the middle class.’” Although the group bills itself as “nonpartisan,” it is a conservative pro-business organization whose board of trustees includes prominent Republicans, including Vice President Dick Cheney, and major GOP donors who are actively helping to elect Romney. » Posted By bito On October 10, 2012 @ 9:25 pm Well there you go again AdLib: Romney Pitches Tax Plan Details That Favor the Wealthy Is this not some of what Mitt denied in the debate and now he is twisting it again? Why is the MSM not on this story like like white on rice? Lying comes to him so easily and the media just can’t seem to even know truth let alone report it. Nothing new here at all from me on this, nothing at all, but it does want to make me scream that isn’t reported that Mitt says one thing one day, denies it, repeats it and the media seems they have to give Mitt a chance to deny he changed his policy. At a rally here, Romney told the crowd that Obama would raise taxes on middle-income families by $4,000, a claim that has been debunked by several fact-checking websites. Romney promised to reduce the burden of those making $200,000 a year or less. […] The wealthy are the major beneficiaries of low taxes on capital gains, dividends, and interest; many middle-income Americans don’t have investment income. […] Though he did not mention it on Wednesday, Romney’s tax plan also includes reducing income-tax rates by 20 percent across-the-board, a figure which could significantly reduce the tax burden of middle-income Americans. But some experts are skeptical that Romney would be able to keep tax rates low for middle-income taxpayers without getting rid of loopholes like the mortgage tax deduction, a popular tax break for people in the middle class who own their own homes. » Posted By bito On October 10, 2012 @ 9:00 pm Hey Sue, » Posted By bito On October 10, 2012 @ 8:36 pm Isn’t it interesting that anytime the media, or whoever, wants to get into the “hair on fire” phase, the conveniently leave out any mention of “registered voters,” the electoral college and the swing states and instead go to national polling of warm bodies that may or may not be voters. » Posted By bito On October 10, 2012 @ 6:44 pm When the Mitt Hits the Fan – The Romney Campaign Thread Mitt Romney released a new ad to try and recover after dismissing half of America, but Mitt Romney’s words speak for themselves….
» Posted By bito On September 26, 2012 @ 2:09 pm No Matter what Democrats Think the Presidential Race is a Toss Up Because of the Big Lies Thanks to the heads up from Kalima in her Morning Blog on her Tomasky’s review of this topic!!! This man hits it out of the park way so often when he addresses health care it;s amazing! Please check it out! » Posted By bito On August 26, 2012 @ 11:08 pm Lifelong Republican Leaves Party Good link and thanks for sharing KQ » Posted By bito On August 21, 2012 @ 3:01 pm Is the Smart Money on Romney Actually Being Dumb? Paul Ryan is right that the growth in Medicare costs represents a large problem for the future and must sooner or later be dealt with. He is right that the solution must take the form of spending restraint; the US can’t tax its way out of this mess. He is right that “premium support”—aka voucherizing Medicare—represents an interesting idea to apply market pressures to Medicare costs. Here’s where Ryan is wrong, and dangerously wrong. He’s wrong to believe that today’s economic problems are caused by fears of tomorrow’s debts. Ryan’s plan implies a promise that we can create jobs in 2013 by restraining Medicare costs after 2023. That’s ideology talking, not economics. He’s wrong to say that the US faces an imminent debt crisis. Today’s big deficits are the consequence, not the cause, of the weak economy. What’s Right and Wrong in the Ryan Plan http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/11/ryan-plan.html The more I think about it, the more the “pick Ryan because he’s the best person to sell the Ryan plan” logic makes sense to me as Romney’s rationale. Not that the plan itself makes sense – it’s political leprosy – but Romney’s calculus here has to be that he’s already heavily committed to the plan and is himself the worst possible person to present it. Paul Ryan, as documented with hair-pulling frustration by Krugman, Chait and others, has successfully managed to play down the radicalism of his proposals in the eyes of the media http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/11/why-ryan.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter » Posted By bito On August 11, 2012 @ 8:51 am The Importance of Being Earnest about Releasing Tax Returns, Especially Romney The Daily Show with Jon Stewart That’s a Mormon » Posted By bito On August 8, 2012 @ 8:38 am I have mentioned this more than a few times, it’s not just his taxes, it’s his secret multinational financial holdings that he has that concern me. Who even knows what he is invested in or who his investors are in his Cayman and Bermuda accounts? How will these investments/investors influence his national and foreign policies? Bloomberg brought up this question again the other day in this article: Romney Persona Non Grata in Italy for Bain’s Deal Skirting Taxes Mitt Romney skipped Italy on his swing through Europe. That was probably prudent. That’s because Bain Capital, under Romney as chief executive officer, made about $1 billion in a leveraged buyout 12 years ago that remains controversial in Italy to this day. Bain was part of a group that bought a telephone-directory company from the Italian government and then sold it about two years later, at the peak of the technology bubble, for about 25 times what it paid. Bain funneled profits through subsidiaries in Luxembourg, a common corporate strategy for avoiding income taxes in other European countries, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. The buyer, Italy’s biggest telephone company, now has a total market value less than what it paid Bain and other investors for the directory business. […] “With this investment, Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, with its consortium partners, partnered with a new management team to transform this company, and grow it into a tremendous success,” said Michele Davis, a spokeswoman for Romney’s presidential campaign. “Mitt Romney is running for President to put that experience to work.” [….] “Mitt Romney and Bain played the role of successful financial speculators at the peril of the Italian government and the small stock-market investors who were burned by the sharp decline in Seat (PG) shares,” said Giovanni Pons, a journalist for la Repubblica and co-author of “L’Affare Telecom” (2002), which recounts details of the Bain deal. The use of offshore subsidiaries to avoid taxes has been standard practice for private equity firms such as Bain, as well as other big U.S. companies such as Google Inc. (GOOG), Facebook Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. Is this how the President and his State Dept. should conduct the country’s foreign affairs? » Posted By bito On August 7, 2012 @ 10:11 pm Weekend Music Thread – Classic TV Theme Songs Cheers Frasier theme tune – Kelsey Grammer » Posted By bito On July 22, 2012 @ 5:21 pm JOHNNY RIVERS – Secret Agent Man 1966 Theme From Peter Gunn (Mancini, 1958) » Posted By bito On July 22, 2012 @ 4:16 pmComments Posted By bito
Every election cycle it seem that the R’s and the pudnuts do their damndest to tell us what is wrong with us, like Mitt and his 47% who just don’t care. BS, we do care, what we don’t like are your solutions and your self imposed inability to work for all Americans.
I’m not talking about a large number of voters that only saw his last change, it was/is just enough to tighten the race to where it stands now. Combine that with the get the black man out of our White House and you end up with your 1-2% per precinct and that’s enough.
And with him doing the major flip at the very end he had even the knowledgeable Republican voters in a spot that they had no where else to go but Romney. Had Mitt done all the flips and lies a month before the convention he may not have been the nominee, instead he made the decision to make the complete flop at the first debate.
He is truly a small businessman and many associations that say they represent him ,like the Grocers Association, Independent Business Association and the Chamber of Commerce, don’t represent them, the real small business owners. They too often represent the interests that want to put your friend OUT OF BUSINESS!
Sorry, a bit of a diversion but that is where he gets his information from, groups that don’t really represent the small store owner.
I don’t see how he can get thrown into a group that places him under federal rural fire suppression laws and then also placed under urban systems and price settings. That seems to add some weight to his anti-Obama stance and I don’t follow it. Nor do I understand that he can accept the fact that big boxes under a republican administration wiped out his downtown but that’s OK, however if it when Obama is in office it’s not OK with him and he feels it’s completely acceptable to suppress his workers political activities including trying to change how they vote and who they support.
He is like a walking ” What’s wrong with Kansas” book with employment blackmail thrown in.
My experience shows that businesses that fight building codes, health and safety codes, is done for selfish reasons many times.
Why did he keep his store open in the face of Wal-Mart, in the customers interest or the employees interest? In light of the fact he doesn’t respect his employees political views, it seems to follow 50% of his customers political views. His staying open seems more of a self interest to me. Instead of pepping of his employees and saying that we will get through this recession one way or another he gives them a veiled threat that also matches his self interest.
My best to you and yours,
http://factcheck.org/2012/10/romneys-4000-tax-tale/
Just report what he said, he lying. Seems they have to give Mitt a chance to deny, why? Report the truth.
Thanks for your concern, as the saying goes: Not bad could be worse, so why complain? 😉
by David Frum
While CEO of Bain Capital, Mitt Romney bought a company from Italy’s government and resold it two years later for 25 times as much, earning the enmity of Italian shareholder
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