Displaying 1,741 To 1,770 Of 16,275 Comments Khirad, that was on my to-do list for today, to get my absentee ballot, I wonder if missing school board elections count now, I have missed those and I have noticed that I have not gotten any election information official or otherwise for quite a while. Did the county go through a purge? Were you able to re-register and did you have to start all over with a birth certificate? This is very suspicious. » Posted By bito On May 23, 2012 @ 1:33 pm Both Romney’s and Ryan’s plans are complete BS. What do they actually do? Cuts on the people that can least afford it, lower the taxes on the top 2% and corporation taxes, and add trillions to the debt. More money to the “job creators,” more unemployed, more poverty, more debt and a new recession. Romney’s Budget Proposals Would Require Massive Cuts in Medicare and Other Programs Governor Mitt Romney’s proposals to cap total federal spending, boost defense spending, cut taxes, and balance the budget would require extraordinarily large cuts in other programs, according to an updated analysis that we released today. If policymakers exempted Social Security from the cuts, as Governor Romney has suggested, and cut Medicare, Medicaid, and all other entitlement and discretionary programs by the same percentage, then nondefense programs other than Social Security would have to be cut 29 percent in 2016 and 59 percent in 2022. Without the balanced budget requirement, the cuts would be smaller but still massive, reaching 40 percent in 2022. Related: Can Governor Romney’s Tax Plan Do All That He Says It Will? Myths on Spending, Debt, and Taxes Fuel Ryan Vision » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 7:48 pm Wow with all these “job creators” seems unemployment should be around 2%! A study from Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez, updating the Piketty-Saez data on income concentration to include data from 2009 and 2010, showed that the top 1 percent’s share of total income — which has surged in recent years to levels last seen in the Roaring Twenties — was on the rise again in 2010, the first full year of the economic recovery. And the poverty level should be shrinking, right? Mitt and Paul Ryan say so! However: A study from the National Poverty Center showed that the number of extremely poor Americans — those living on less than $2 per person a day—more than doubled between 1996 and 2011, to 1.46 million. I have a feeling that Romney/Ryan may not be be telling the truth or ignoring the facts. Things Looking Up at the Top, Down at the Bottom » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 7:02 pm Krugman: Romney’s Business Career is Fair Game Krugman says, in spite of his protestations, Romney’s business career is fair game. “Yes, he made a lot of money. He made a lot of money in ways that were often not good for workers.” Krugman points out that what made Romney an effective businessman may be the opposite of what’s needed from the leader of a country: “What a President needs to do is not what you need to do if you’re trying to make a bunch of money for private equity for investors.” More at >>> http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/krugman-romneys-business-career-fair-game » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 3:55 pm Is it a legitimate question to ask Mitt if he agrees with the Iowa GOP’s platform? This reads like a parody that AdLib might write, sorry guy, you have been ripped off! You don’t have this much tin foil. 😉 Iowa’s GOP Platform Endorses Birtherism and whole lot more! The state’s GOP released its platform on Monday, and the document is full of some of the most far-reaching, Tea Party-inspired policy proposals ever introduced into mainstream politics, including a call to investigate the citizenship of any presidential candidate. Here is a round up of the top five most notably far-right ideas from the document: 1. BIRTHERISM 2. GETTING RID OF GOVERNMENT: 3. INVESTIGATING ACORN: 4. AGENDA 21: 5. NULLIFICATION: We disagree with Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton as “settled law.” Under the Tenth amendment, these Supreme Court decisions have no authority over the states.) How far right has the GOP gone? They use the idol of St.Ronnie, but he would be call a pinko commie in today’s party Are they calling for becoming a sovereign as in, “I don’t need no stinking laws” type? Read the second paragraph of their document! » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 2:30 pm Breaking: Ford and Ford Credit Upgraded By Moody’s To Investment Grade I’m confused does this come out of Mitt’s ‘Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” section or does it go into the “I take lot of credit for the auto industry coming back” part? » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 12:53 pm Doonesbury- Mitt Romney to reporters: “Still blanking! You say he was homosexual?” http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/doonesbury-romney-bullying.gif H/T @GottaLaff » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 11:20 am Now I can go back to bed, I learned something new. 🙂 This article, Big Pharma’s Sinking Business Model, has little to do with this one fact but I found it interesting. The industry’s sleazier marketing techniques are in decline. Physicians are turning their backs on fancy dinners and sham consulting contracts, and not just because the companies were forced to fork over billions of dollars to settle government anti-kickback suits. Starting in 2013, patients of every physician who takes money from a drug or medical device company will be able to find that fact and the amount in a publicly available internet database, courtesy of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. This has been long overdue, now how can it be expanded to lobbyists and we all know it has to be expanded to campaign financing. » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 10:57 am C’Lady, question is why no news on this group, a big backer of Romney, yet by taking a shortened clip of Cory Booker, he is such big news. I was livid, but not surprised, that Chris Mathews and Ed Schultz did the same thing as Fox and any other RW group might do. They cut a clip of Mayor Booker mid sentence to make it more of a story. Anything to keep the horse race alive and the ratings/ad fees alive. » Posted By bito On May 22, 2012 @ 8:11 am Seems the Heartland Institute dropped below even the GOP’s literacy age, so low they may have put themselves out of bidness. Couldn;t have happened to a group of R’s. Thin tank? Hmmm. Godwinization So the Heartland Institute seems to have blown itself up with its billboard equating climate change researchers to the Unabomber. Of course, anyone who believed that the right-wing”think” tank was objective in the least was a fool; but now even the fools have been put on notice. But how could they make such a stupid mistake? I think there’s a process going on here, in which wealth and power creates a bubble in which people are so eager to please the paymasters that they lose any sense of what it sounds like to those not already answering to the same paymasters. You can see the same thing with Grover Norquist’s comparison of anyone trying to stop wealthy Americans from using abandonment of citizenship as a tax dodge to Nazis — hey, remember Steve Schwartzmann comparing attempts to close the carried interest loophole to the Nazi invasion of Poland? [….] And no, the same thing doesn’t happen on the left, at least not that part of the left that is remotely serious about actual results. Right-wing apparatchiks, living in their billionaire-funded bubble, can forget that not everyone shares their extremism; progressives don’t have that luxury. More>>> http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/godwinization/ » Posted By bito On May 21, 2012 @ 11:15 pm Angry Black Lady wrote a commentary to her OP-ED. What do women want? Campbell Brown doesn’t have a clue; President Obama does. Needless to say, she finds her fraud too. » Posted By bito On May 20, 2012 @ 7:20 pm Ah, that’s right! Once again I forgot and appreciate all the help, really! Now that guy IS Mr. Neo-Con. » Posted By bito On May 20, 2012 @ 7:14 pm Not just dishonest but it looks like it was written by pulling it out of thin air or by an adviser to Mr. Romney to me, Kalima. Some one like her husband maybe? The President standing up for women’s rights sounds paternalistic to her, then what does think the R’s are doing with their “we know what’s best for women” laws and attitudes that they espouse? And where and when did PBO ever imply that women’s dominance? Was that just something that she made up, I think so. I don’t think it just sounds like RW propaganda, I think that it is exactly that. » Posted By bito On May 20, 2012 @ 6:38 pm The killer conflict-of-interest statement From an op-ed titled, “Obama: Stop Condescending to Women”: When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. . . . But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line. Hmm, I didn’t know that Obama thought women deserve dominance. [she] is confusing him with Dick Morris, perhaps? But, ok, let’s continue: Good point. All the speeches in the world won’t help if people can’t find jobs: Mr. Obama is trying too hard. He’s employing a tone that can come across as grating and even condescending. He really ought to drop it. Most women don’t want to be patted on the head or treated as wards of the state. They simply want to be given a chance to succeed based on their talent and skills. This seems to me to miss the point. I’m not disagreeing with what [she] is saying, but she seems to be implying an either/or, that Obama can offer rhetoric or an improved economy, but not both. I don’t see it. Obama is of course already trying as hard as he can (perhaps ineffectually or counterproductively) to improve the economy. He doesn’t want people to be unemployed, neither did Bill Clinton or George Bush or John McCain. Brown’s advice to Obama: what does this mean, he is “trying too hard”? If he’d just ease up on the throttle, the economy would jump-start itself? Maybe so, but if so that’s an economic argument, it has nothing to do with his rhetoric. But then comes the kicker. It comes in a parenthetical statement in the eleventh paragraph of the op-ed: (I should disclose here that my husband is an adviser to Mr. Romney; I have no involvement with any campaign, and have been an independent journalist throughout my career.) ~~~~~~~~ This is heavily paraphrased in parts and needs to be read in full at http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/05/20/the-killer-conflict-of-interest-statement/ Curious about who the author may be? That great “reporter” from CNN, Campbell, no conflict, Brown! » Posted By bito On May 20, 2012 @ 5:37 pm Is this what is known as “knowing your core values, Mitt? “I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was.” What you said Mitt, is you trashed Mr.Obama, his faith and his beliefs. Wanna start talking about your lost golden tablets and Magic Underwear? Do you really want to go there and question somebody’s faith? I’m sure there are more than a few lefty bloggers that will be more than happy to get in the mud with you. Talking about Bain is character assassination? Your job as governor? » Posted By bito On May 17, 2012 @ 4:18 pm Sorry kids, times up and you didn’t make the cut. 🙁 * Americans Elect has officially given up seeking a third-party presidential candidate, the group announced today. No candidate met the threshold in the group’s online nominating system. In a statement, Americans Elect says the rules developed are clear and “the primary process for the Americans Elect nomination has come to an end.” » Posted By bito On May 17, 2012 @ 3:16 pm This has been people tested Sue and it it absolutely laugh out loud funny. I had 3 people over to the house this morning and they all let out a large laugh. » Posted By bito On May 17, 2012 @ 2:57 pm McWages Around the World The US may work cheaper than most but we are more productive, even at flipping burgers 🙁 http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2012/05/mcwages-around-world.html » Posted By bito On May 16, 2012 @ 11:54 pm Vice President Joe Biden Speaks in Youngstown » Posted By bito On May 16, 2012 @ 9:02 pm I don’t know funk, TED doesn’t do strictly political talks, the do do talks that may affect government and politics, but not straight political talks to my knowledge. I am a bit cautious of BI, they can be real concern mongers at times and they were founded/edited by some staunch GOPers. They panicked the other day when the European markets dropped 3%. » Posted By bito On May 16, 2012 @ 8:44 pm Really curious about this and if it is true it is disappointing. I need to watch the whole presentation to decide. Why do the call it Trumps site? Most Ted talks and presentations are well over Trumps mental capabilities. Presentation? http://www.businessinsider.com/nick-hanauer-ted-presentation-about-why-rich-people-arent-job-creators-2012-5#-1 It is true, they don’t usually have political presentations and this one may have gone well over the edge for them. » Posted By bito On May 16, 2012 @ 7:45 pm “These pants are engineered for battle, and for everyday operating. For warriors, by warriors.” » Posted By bito On May 15, 2012 @ 2:26 pm Coat Hanger Abortions Are Fine, Says Mississippi Lawmaker, Because ‘Hey, You Have To Have Moral Values’ Mississippi state Rep. Bubba Carpenter (R) said that it’s OK for women to have coat hanger abortions because it’s for a greater good. [….] It’s going to be challenged, of course, in the Supreme Court and all — but literally, we stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi, legally, without having to– Roe vs. Wade. So we’ve done that. I was proud of it. The governor signed it into law. And of course, there you have the other side. They’re like, ‘Well, the poor pitiful women that can’t afford to go out of state are just going to start doing them at home with a coat hanger. That’s what we’ve learned over and over and over.’ But hey, you have to have moral values. You have to start somewhere, and that’s what we’ve decided to do. This became law and the governor signed it, and I think for one time, we were first in the nation in the state of Mississippi http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/05/15/484326/mississippi-lawmaker-abortions-moral-values/ From one of the comments: Oh look, here’s Bubba’s home address: 8 Carpenter Dr. Oh look, here’s Bubba’s home phone number: 662-427-8281 “like” this post if you’d like to see women from all over Mississippi send Bubba a coathanger. Or if you’d like to offer Bubba’s number as a women’s health hotline, since, you know, he’s such an expert on women’s health and all that. » Posted By bito On May 15, 2012 @ 2:12 pm His theft of pension funds disturbs me immensely, what’s a 50+ or retiree supposed to do, start all over/ pick up a part-time job? A financial rapist! Here’s to the “Golden Years.” » Posted By bito On May 14, 2012 @ 7:57 pm No sorry needed, the video was more powerful than just the words. According to the video, not only did Mitt/Bain make 12 million in “fees” from killing off the mill, but they also made 40 million on a bond sale while 750 people lost their jobs and retires saw their pensions slashed. That is despicable! That is what he call business experience and that is what he has to offer the people of the US? » Posted By bito On May 14, 2012 @ 7:20 pm Bachmann lies!! Telling whoppers is an understatement while she is busy asking for more cash she says “the other guy will spend millions (lie) she is sitting on 8.5 million for a house seat! The GOPers seem to have absolutely no problem lying through their teeth, while calling themselves holier-than-thou Christians! ~~~~~~~~~~~ I posted a comment about the steel mill video earlier and while Bain was running the place into the ground they were also making 12 million bucks doing it. That is Mitt calls business and he is proud of it? With that kind of bidness plan, everyone will be out of work and Wall St. will have all the money! More Videos like this one at http://www.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom?feature=watch » Posted By bito On May 14, 2012 @ 6:22 pm This 121-Megapixel Photo of Earth Will Make Your Jaw Drop Need something to put things into perspective on a Monday morning? Our suggestion: The largest single-shot photo of Earth ever taken. Eclipsing NASA’s updated “Blue Marble” shot, which is a composite of many satellite images, this image is a single-shot taken from 22,369 miles away by Russian weather satellite Elektro-L No.1. http://news.yahoo.com/121-megapixel-photo-earth-jaw-drop-044832441.html Following a link in this article this looks like the place to go to watch some really “wow” movies of earth: » Posted By bito On May 14, 2012 @ 5:59 pm Reid: Supporters of Filibuster Reform Were ‘Right,’ ‘The Rest Of Us Were Wrong’ If there ever were a time when Tom Udall and Jeff Merkley were prophetic, it’s tonight. These two young, fine senators said it was time we changed the rules in the Senate, and we didn’t. They were right. The rest of us were wrong — or most of us now anyway. What a shame. So here we are, wasting time because of the Republicans. … And then, to top it off, one of the finest members of the Senate we’ve had, ever, was defeated yesterday by a man, listen to this, Mr. President, who campaigned on the platform that there’s too much compromise in the Senate. And he’s going to come back here and not compromise with anybody on anything. Now that’s what we need in the Senate, more people who are willing to do nothing but fight. » Posted By bito On May 14, 2012 @ 5:08 pm C’Lady, i am familiar with the area a little, I used to work for the now defunct, I think, EJ&E Railway (Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway) and took a couple of road trips to there. » Posted By bito On May 14, 2012 @ 12:07 pm The Romney campaign’s strange response to Bain attacks I think ‘strange’ is too light of word for this latest ad from Romney, maybe nonsensical/bizarre might work better. Romney defends his Bain years by arguing that any criticism of it constitutes an attack on free enterprise itself. Romney does acknowledge that the layoffs that occured in cases such as that of GST Steel are unfortunate — when turning around companies, you win some, and you lose some. But his philosophy, ultimately, is that such occurences, however unfortunate, are necessary for the greater good, and don’t alter the larger truth: An unfettered free market is the best hope for expanding opportunities for those who lack them. More like “I win some,THEY lose some” isn’t it Mitt? You made 12 million bucks and they got layed off and shuttered the plant. More>>> http://wapo.st/JOBTNr » Posted By bito On May 14, 2012 @ 11:51 amComments Posted By bito
(We insist that a candidate prove that he or she meets all requirements for that office prior to being placed in nomination, including proof of United States citizenship.)
(We support the elimination of the departments of Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Energy, Interior, Labor, and Commerce as well as TSA, FDA, ATF, EPA, National Endowment for the Arts, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.)
(We call for a full investigation of the organization formerly known as ACORN and its allied organizations, call for full prosecution of those involved in any illegalities discovered, and call for elimination of government funding of such organizations.)
(We demand that the term “sustainable development” be defined, vetted, and controlled by county and state agricultural agencies whose private property it impacts rather than the UN, other international or Agenda 21 agencies, or any federal organization.
( We support constitutional state sovereignty including nullification of federal oversteps.
I doesn’t seem to matter the level of conversation, nor the fact there’s video tape it seems, the media is going to elect the next president and keep it close to mid October.
I wonder what level of comprehension the MSM has dropped to, I unsure, but it has to be lower than even the new members of congress that the study cites. 4th grade when young boys snap the young girls bras and giggle or have a tingle up their leg?
by Paul Krugman
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/20/what-do-women-want-campbell-brown-doesnt-have-a-clue-president-obama-does/
And why did she wait until the eleventh paragraph to state her disclaimer? She is a journalist like Limpballs is a journalist after wring this piece. No facts, just feeling/impressions.
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I can see the Government using drones for the NATO summit, or some private person having either a model or mock-up of one, it’s just difficult to know anymore with all the software that can alter both photos and videos now days to know.
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