Displaying 1,921 To 1,950 Of 16,275 Comments How oil interests fund attack on Obama energy policy Americans for Prosperity has launched another advertising drive criticizing President Obama’s energy policies, Bloomberg Businessweek points out. The new campaign, costing $6.1 million, brings the group’s ad buys to a total $12.5 million this year. Americans for Prosperity is certainly not the only conservative group to assail the administration for its actions on green energy, domestic oil production, the Keystone Pipeline and other energy issues. Nor is it the only critical organization to receive money from the Koch brothers. Our map above shows the web of connections. (We recommend that you view the larger version, which gives you more room to expand and move the players.) At the top, you see Koch Industries, the privately held company whose many oil and gas enterprises include Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline Company and Koch Mineral Services. The second tier shows brothers Charles and David Koch, the owners. The third level represents grant-making organizations controlled or partially funded by the Kochs. And below that are two rows of think tanks and political organizations criticizing Obama’s energy policies. Check out the Muckety Map>>> http://news.muckety.com/2012/05/01/how-oil-interests-fund-attack-on-obama-energy-policy/36891 » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 7:22 pm Bob Walkup, the former mayor of Tucson, said “I’d like to wipe that smirk off that young punks face so much it hurts” 😆 OK, Khirad, I made that quote up but it fits. Your right “Ouch!” » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 7:14 pm Bill Clinton to U.S., Europe: quit bickering over spending The main reason I posted this is for one line from President Clinton. “The prescription of austerity continues to be pushed in the face of evidence that it won’t work,” said the president And austerity on the 99% is exactly what Romney/Ryan want to bring to us, even though one can point to the UK and he EU showing that austerity doesn’t work in a deep recession, an actual live experiment occurring in Europe and it gets ignored in the US. » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 6:19 pm Why couldn’t he have just done it to himself? Gilbert mass killing: Border militia leader identified as shooter A border militia leader on Wednesday shot and killed four people at a Gilbert home, including a toddler, before committing suicide, sources said. Sources identified the shooter as Jason “J.T.” Ready, a reputed neo-Nazi who made headlines when he launched a militia movement to patrol the Arizona desert to hunt for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. Authorities have not identified the other victims, but reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, Hugo Maderos said the victims were his ex-wife, Lisa; their daughter, Amber; Amber’s boyfriend, whose name The Republic is withholding until his next of kin could be notified, and Amber’s 18-month-old baby, Lilly. Maderos, who lives in Tampa, Fla., said Ready lived at the home with his girlfriend, Lisa. Ready was a former Marine who headed the the U.S. Border Guard, a militia-style group that routinely performed armed patrols in the southern Arizona desert. Early this year, Ready had formed an exploratory committee for a run as Pinal County sheriff. In a statement of organization filed Jan. 11, Amber Maderos was listed as treasurer of the Committee to Elect J.T. Ready. Her name was nowhere to be found in amended paperwork filed March 12. Gilbert police spokesman said Sgt. Bill Balafas the gunman’s motives is unknown. Authorities recovered two handguns and a shotgun from the scene, Balafas said. Out on Patrol just hunting us some Mexicans » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 5:51 pm k’es, 3: what is a cannolli, sounds “ethnic.” 🙂 » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 2:42 pm The more I read on this the more his name is appropriate as in “Tagg, you’re it.” » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 2:06 pm Hey Politico and Drudge if you want to smear PBO over a college sweetheart (what a 1983 college girlfriend has to with the 2012 election is beyond me), it might be helpful to read the bloody book. As for you’re excuse–weak-very weak! Politico defends ‘New York girlfriend’ post » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 2:03 pm Exactly AdLIb, if someone opened a auto repair shop and screwed their clients like Bain, they would be out of bidness in a heartbeat, yet Mitt/Bain calls it success. I was talking to my PT this morning, right leaning independent about this article and she was angry about how Mitt robbed so many pension funds. » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 1:19 pm Yesterday I posted two articles from ThinkProgress on the possibility that Mitt and son Tagg, may have gotten themselves involved with a Ponzi scheme and are now trying to “cover their tracks” https://planetpov.com/2011/12/01/time-out-for-ot-vol-18/comment-page-100/#comment-181913 And: https://planetpov.com/2011/12/01/time-out-for-ot-vol-18/comment-page-100/#comment-181935 Seems that the NYT and Politico have picked up on it today. Is it just political mud slinging or is there something to this story and will the cable news even say anything about it? It being that Mitt seems to never really disclose anything, taxes/Bain Capital/off-shore trust funds, will the cable news even investigate or mention it? As KT said yesterday, Mitt may be in the dock while he is campaigning for president. 😉 Today’s links: The Solamere-Stanford connection And Ties to Romney ’08 Helped Fuel an Equity Firm But in mid-2009, when the three Solamere Capital founders and some of their investors made a $100,000 personal investment in a North Carolina financial advisory firm, a news release announced the deal. It quoted Tagg Romney lauding the “all-star lineup” of financial advisers at the new firm, which took the name Solamere Advisors. All but one of the firm’s 11 employees, however, had come from the Charlotte office of Stanford Financial Group, which federal officials had closed earlier that year for selling sham certificates of deposit financed through a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Solamere’s executives said that Solamere Advisors’ employees had been with Stanford only briefly and knew nothing about the fraud. The court-appointed receiver for Stanford, however, has filed a federal lawsuit contending that former Stanford employees ignored warning signs of the fraud, and seeking to recover money from more than 300 of them, including three Solamere Advisors founders. The three, Timothy Bambauer, Deems May and Brandon Phillips, were at Stanford just over a year and received incentive compensation derived from proceeds of the bogus certificates of deposit, according to court filings. Look out Mitt! The plot sickens! » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 1:10 pm She has left racists horribly confused. Ding,Ding,Ding,Ding, we have a winner! 🙂 » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 12:43 pm Sorry AdLib but this does not belong on TO/OT post, it belongs on the “Freaky and Bizarre” post! 😆 » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 11:45 am k’es, I was thinking the same thing when I saw that ad and like AdLib says, you should be getting your cut in the mail any day now. » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 11:40 am ICYMI: Mitts Office: » Posted By bito On May 2, 2012 @ 11:36 am The underside of rocks are cleaner than this POS. I can’t believe how many pension funds he raided leaving workers, wives and children with 1/3 of their pensions and leaving the government to pick up the tab. I do hope he is part of the this Ponzi scheme, at least get some mud on him foe it. https://planetpov.com/2011/12/01/time-out-for-ot-vol-18/comment-page-1/#comment-181913 » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 9:59 pm Is he a tick or a tapeworm, the voters want to know! One thing for certain, this article will tick you off. Mitt Romney and Bain Capital Represent Everything You Hate About Capitalism His formula was simple: Bain would purchase a firm with little money down, then begin extracting huge management fees and paying Romney and his investors enormous dividends.[…] Bain would slash costs, jettison workers, reposition product lines, and merge its new companies with other firms. With luck, they’d be able to dump the firm in a few years for millions more than they’d paid for it.[…] But the beauty of Romney’s thesis was that it really didn’t matter if the company succeeded. Since he was yanking out cash early and often, he would profit even if his targets collapsed. Which was precisely the fate awaiting Georgetown Steel. When Bain purchased the mill, Sanderson says, change was immediate. Equipment upgrades stopped. Maintenance became an afterthought. Managers were replaced by people who knew nothing of steel. The union’s profit-sharing plan was sliced twice in the first year — then whacked altogether.[….] History would prove him correct. While Georgetown was beginning its descent to bankruptcy, Romney was helping himself to the company’s treasury. What is called “trickle down blindness.” And this goes on with other examples for 4 pages – Good read! H/T @susand900 via twitter. » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 8:55 pm And more from Mitt’s Ponzi scheme via @susand900 (our Sue): Covering Their Tracks: Firm Linked To Ponzi Scheme Erases Tagg Romney From Website How stupid, Think Progress already has the goods on them, do they think by pulling it off their site all will go away? Plus there are court records and SEC records. “It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup”, maybe both this time. Yesterday, ThinkProgress released our investigation of the Romney family’s investment firms, including Solamere Advisors and its parent company, Solamere Capital, which is run by Mitt Romney’s son Tagg. The report found that Tagg founded his firm using $10 million of Mitt’s money, and later partnered with a group of brokers who allegedly helped perpetrate one of the largest Ponzi schemes in modern history, the $8.5 billion Stanford Financial Group. [….] After our report, the Romney campaign released a statement to ABC News and the National Journal simply attacking ThinkProgress as a “a left-wing blog with a highly partisan agenda.” Despite calling our story “false material,” the Romney spokesperson did not directly dispute any of our assertions. The Romney campaign has not explained why, for instance, Tagg Romney falsely claimed that his Solamere Advisors partners were “cleared” of wrongdoing in connection to the Stanford Financial Group Ponzi scheme. http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/11/02/359135/romney-ponzi-covering-their-tracks/ Mitt Madoff for President? Will he be court the same time he is running for president? This story is all over twitter, oh let it be true! » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 7:44 pm President Obama Speaks on Ending the War in Afghanistan President Obama addresses the nation from Afghanistan after signing a historic agreement between the United States and Afghanistan that defines a new kind of relationship between our countries – a future in which Afghans are responsible for the security of their nation, we build an equal partnership between two sovereign states, and a future in which the war ends, and a new chapter begins. President Obama Speaks to Troops at Bagram Air Base President Obama speaks to troops during an unannounced trip to Afghanistan where he signed a strategic partnership agreement with President Hamid Karzai that marks the beginning of the end of the war there. » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 6:01 pm KT, I tweeted this story to @ed show and the number of retweets is close to 12. That is a good number if you consider that each one of them has 500-1000 followers. Hey, it’s a start at trying to get the MSM to notice. » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 5:52 pm KT, It does have all the potential to be a big WOW doesn’t it? I don’t know how the MSM can pass ignore this scheme, do you? How can Mitt begin to explain it without lying when there are court records and people investigating it? Could it, should it, will it break Mitt’s campaign? Reading the whole article I think it may. http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/chart1.png » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 5:03 pm The speech has concluded, I will post the replay as soon as it goes online. » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 4:34 pm Is this how Romney plans to run the country with all his “bidness” experience? Exclusive: Romney Family Investment Group Partnered With Alleged Perpetrators Of $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme Mitt Romney, his son Tagg, and Romney’s chief fundraiser, Spencer Zwick, have extensive financial and political ties to three men who allegedly participated in an $8.5 billion Ponzi scheme. A few months after the Ponzi scheme collapsed, a firm financed by Mitt Romney and run by his son and chief fundraiser partnered with the three men and created a new “wealth management business” as a subsidiary. In an exclusive interview with ThinkProgress, Tagg Romney confirmed their business relationship, but falsely claimed that the men were cleared of any wrongdoing associated with the Ponzi scheme. Tagg Romney told ThinkProgress that his three partners collected about $15,000 from their involvement in the Ponzi scheme. Court documents obtained by ThinkProgress show that the legal proceedings are ongoing and the men made over $1.6 million selling fraudulent CDs to investors. […]Mitt Romney himself made a $10 million initial seed investment in Solamere Capital and his personal financial disclosure forms reveal that he has received between $100,000 and $1 million in returns from his stake in Solamere. Romney has come under fire for refusing to release his tax returns, which would likely reveal additional details about his financial relationship with Solamere Capital. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/11/01/316040/romney-solamere-ponzi/ » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 4:12 pm Does this chart even need any explanation? And Romney/Ryan promise us more! http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Worker-Productivity-Annual-Wage-Compensation.png » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 3:49 pm Thank you AB! » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 3:43 pm So sue us, win or lose, we will just write it off and the taxpayers will pickup the our tab. Why are taxpayers helping companies pay for all their litigation? But there hasn’t been a peep about an important benefit to one class of litigants that is deeply baked into the current system. Unlike individuals who have to bear their own litigation costs in all cases where they lose and in almost all categories of cases even where they win, the tax code provides that businesses may deduct all of their legal expenses (for lawyer and expert fees, and for discovery costs) in all cases — win or lose, meritorious or non-meritorious, plaintiff or defendant. Among other things, those deductions mean less federal revenue than if a different system — one that did not grant 100 percent deductibility — were in place. Since the average effective corporate tax rate is 22 percent, according to Andrew Fieldhouse of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, the current system could mean substantial money is routinely lost to the Treasury. More>>> http://www.remappingdebate.org/article/why-are-taxpayers-helping-companies-pay-all-their-litigation B-b-b-ut I thought that corporations are people, what people with certain benefits? » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 3:19 pm KQ Tomasky does a good job on this topic. ……but the fact that Barack Obama got him and they didn’t, which destroys their assumption of the past decade that they are “the 9/11 party.” And more than that—and this is the real story here—it’s the fact that the Democrats don’t appear to be afraid of the Republicans anymore. That, to Republicans, is what’s truly unacceptable. [….]….McCain has a point there. It was stupid of the Obama people to whine about that in 2008. If McCain had stopped there, fine. But he also said, “Shame on Barack Obama for diminishing the memory of September 11.” When I saw that carpetbagging McCain say something like, “hero’s don’t talk about their deeds, and I know a lot of heroes,” I have yell BullShit! First he looked for an open seat found one in AZ and ran on his military record, and he has used his military record in every campaign since. Now I am not taking anything away form his record and the time he spent as a POW, but this was nothing but hypocritcal. » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 2:31 pm PBO speaking in Afghanistan, do we get a Mitt reply and what will he say, “PBO is wrong, we have to stay there!”? More Troops? » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 1:53 pm Seems Todd ha a new word for Romney’s Flip-Flops, he used the word “evolving” this morning. Sorry Todd, that doesn’t make the cut making statements 180 degrees from the another one is not evolving. ~~~~~~~ » Posted By bito On May 1, 2012 @ 12:46 pm Another case of those “Pesky Facts” strikes again! Unbelievable! And she stormed out with her children just in case the would hear such blasphemy. Save the children! » Posted By bito On April 30, 2012 @ 6:42 pm One of the most disappointments/frustrations of the R’s in Congress to me has to be them not passing the infrastructure bank. It would have put millions of people back to work (both Dems and R’s), would have been a public/private partnership and could have been accomplished at a time when the interest rates were at the lowest. KQ posted the other day that Apple had 100 million idle dollars sitting idle and that is just one corporation. The President today: President Obama Speaks on American Infrastructure President Obama speaks at the Building and Construction Trades Department Conference about creating good jobs for American workers, who can help our economy grow by rebuilding our nation’s roads, bridges, train tracks, and airports. Text: Remarks by the President at the Building and Construction Trades Department Conference » Posted By bito On April 30, 2012 @ 4:58 pm Fahrenheit 9/11 Bush “Boat Party” scene Bush “Mission Accomplished speech in on May 1, 2003 , when US casualties stood at a few hundred. The list was to grow to over 5,000 today. Results: break-up of Iraq, permanent US bases proximate to major oil fields. Cost: Over $5 trillion to American taxpayers, or $50,000 per family of four (Stiglitz.). Clip from “Fahrenheit 911” directed by Michael Moore. Ron(the one with the wandering eye) was one MSNBC today once again laimg that W meant “Mission Accomplished” was meant for just that one ship. I agree KT Bush and the R’s needed OBL to spread fear, tho one thing that they are good at: spreading fear. » Posted By bito On April 30, 2012 @ 2:41 pmComments Posted By bito
Mitt has the personality of a piece of string, when he was on one the morning Chat Shows, his wife tried her best to try o give him some. All he did was sit there and give a fake he,he, he. But what does he care, he can afford a new reality for himself, one where he doesn’t need a personality (he thinks)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/politico-defends-new-york-girlfriend-post/2012/05/02/gIQALbl8wT_blog.html
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(May have picked up another vote for PBO 🙂 )
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/the-solamerestanford-connection-122143.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/us/politics/ties-to-romney-08-helped-fuel-equity-firm.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1
Is her family going into the leather wallet bidness after her demise from skin cancer?
Really, if SCOTUS ruled money is speech and corporations are people, wouldn’t it follow that the whole tax code pertaining to corporations is now null and void and has to be rewritten?
Good question from Martin Bashir: If Mitt thinks PBO is politicizing OBL, what’s he doing in NYC with 9-11 fireman ‘Giulani’ eating a pizza?
Think of it, make the “bonds” 1%-1.5% over the treasury securities and they would gobble up investing in the infrastructure with little to no cost to the federal or state governments. Way too easy and it would have given too much credit to that black man in the White House.
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