Displaying 2,371 To 2,400 Of 16,275 Comments Chuck is a tool, of course Colbert is mocking Citizens United and the system, that’s the whole point, so was Pat Paulson and Mort Saul, if he didn’t spend all his time schmoozing with his political pals and actually spoke with people outside the beltway media, he would know that. His so called analysis is pure hackery. MSNBC is terrible, yet it’s the best, what does that say of my opinion of cable “news?” Making a mockery of the system? I think the media does that on its own just fine. Perhaps newly ordained A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow PAC owner Jon Stewart should save some of that PAC money to put out some ads to rightfully call out the media for their rampant failures: the trumping of the horse race, the lack of fact checking, the callbacks to irrelevant players, the refusal to call out even the most obvious lies and the never-ending navel-gazing that every story is in fact all about the media and not for the edification of their viewers. Todd clutched his pearls some more: “What is his real agenda here? Is it to educate the public about the dangers of money and politics, and what’s going on? Or is it simply to marginalize the Republican Party? I think if I were a Republican candidate I would be concerned about that.” Is Todd is now the protector of corporate money now or the Republican and their credentials? » Posted By bito On January 21, 2012 @ 9:29 am West Wing Week: 01/20/12 or “The Time is Always Right to Do What is Right” Weekly Address: America is Open for Business » Posted By bito On January 21, 2012 @ 8:41 am C’lady, I found the article quite good and helps to explain Mitt’s view on capitalism. This is the part he missed: Having a capitalist system means we have private ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange. If we have the private ownership of the Big Three Elements, then we know that there are people who make the products, who distribute the products and services, and who exchange the goods and services. Not all of these people are necessarily investors (capitalists) but they are all participants in the system. The problem with Gov. Romney’s version of capitalism is his evident fixation on the investment side of the economic ledgers to the exclusion of any other focus. This is called FINANCIALISM.* Producing money seems to be his only idea of capitalism. Wrong! » Posted By bito On January 20, 2012 @ 6:17 pm Ron Paul explains his support for the South re: Civil War Love the flag, Ron! » Posted By bito On January 20, 2012 @ 4:54 pm “Over the last 25 years American capitalism has become financialism, which is primarily transactional, unrestrained greed. Financialism embraces the view that the only purpose of business is to create shareholder value, measured primarily by short-term results. The dominance of short-termism is evidenced by the magnitude of institutional stock “renting” for terms of 12 months or less, the volume of high-speed, high-frequency algorithmic short-term trading, the short average tenures of chief executive officers and the dominance of executive compensation tied solely to short-term results.” So does this make Willard a “capitalist? This is the brand of capitalism that “capitalist” Willard Mitt Romney espouses. It is transactional, unrestrained, myopic, and short termed. It manipulates markets. It creates debt induced asset bubbles. It is elitist, placing the interests of the investor class above all others. It replaces profit seeking with rapacity. And, it is this definition (or version) of capitalism which former Governor Romney wishes to push down our throats. Good read: Stuffing What Into Whose Anatomy Where? Romney’s Revision of Capitalism » Posted By bito On January 20, 2012 @ 4:05 pm I wonder if that works with adultery ppppolls PublicPolicyPolling » Posted By bito On January 20, 2012 @ 3:23 pm Face it Willard, your bloody part of the 1%, you can’t hide it: Romney’s unusual IRA looked into WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) — Tax experts say U.S. GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s individual retirement account has so much money in it he faces a big tax bite when he takes it out. The former Massachusetts governor’s individual retirement account is estimated to be worth $20.7 to $101.6 million, and estate planning experts say it is highly unusual for someone to accumulate so much money in an IRA, which is restricted by annual contribution caps. IRA experts said Romney isn’t legally required to pay annual taxes on the account’s investment gains and most of his annual contributions to the fund are likely to have been pretax dollars, which allows him to defer paying taxes on a substantial part of his fortune. “I can tell you we follow the tax laws, and if there’s an opportunity to save taxes, we, like anybody else in this country, will follow that opportunity,” he said last month. Ah Mitt, we don’t have the same loopholes as you do. “Man of the streets” HA » Posted By bito On January 20, 2012 @ 2:41 pm New ad buy from AFSCME in Florida, and it’s a good ‘un: Labor jumps into GOP primary fray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkGrgxw7sSo&feature=player_embedded The basis for the ad is a 2002 Boston Globe article reporting that Romney and Bain made huge profits from the 1993 sale of a medical testing company that earned its revenues partly from a criminal scheme to defraud the Medicare system. Romney served on the board of Damon from 1990-1993 but was never implicated in any way, the Globe reported, adding that the evenual sale of Damon made Romney $473,000 and netted $7.4 million for Bain investors. Just another attack on capitalism, Willard? » Posted By bito On January 20, 2012 @ 12:56 pm Speaking of MSNBC: MSNBC is in the news this week for announcing that the cable network may finally be ending its contract with contributor Pat Buchanan,…. Unfortunately, Buchanan wasn’t MSNBC’s only problematic regular contributor. As Media Matters has tracked, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins has appeared on the network 18 times in the past year alone–almost as often as he’s gone on Fox News. The Southern Poverty Law Center has rightfully declared Family Research Council a hate group because of their consistent, unwavering commitment to spreading hateful lies about the LGBT community. […] Yet instead of accurately identifying FRC as a untrustworthy hate group, MSNBC has continued to treat its officials as legitimate political commentators, most recently inviting Perkins on air just yesterday twice to discuss how evangelical Christians view the Republican presidential candidates. […] Just as racist rhetoric has no place in the media, anti-gay liars should not be baptized as credible Christian messengers, particularly for a network built on progressive viewers. MSNBC should continue its move to improve its contributor rolls by keeping FRC off its shows. Their petition: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2518/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9130&tag=blog » Posted By bito On January 20, 2012 @ 12:33 pm Thanks to one of our local access channels, they have been putting on “The Thom Hartmann Show” for the full two hours. No more Alexia and Mrs. Greenspan. Ba-bye!! » Posted By bito On January 20, 2012 @ 11:53 am Khirad, I have been reading many of the profiles of the presidential candidates on the AZ ballot (how many are there? 50?) and some are really great/funny/outrageous. This was a good one » Posted By bito On January 20, 2012 @ 11:44 am From last night at the Apollo President Obama, New York, January 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBlpRF9fIPQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL » Posted By bito On January 20, 2012 @ 11:18 am Mine’s better, Cher! 😆 » Posted By bito On January 19, 2012 @ 8:06 pm What we missed while the GOP debacle was on: President Obama Sings Al Green At The Apollo Theater http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T-hDt2E8MoE » Posted By bito On January 19, 2012 @ 8:04 pm Montana TEA Party Calls for Boycott of All News I have challenged all news agencies in Billings as well as others across the State to report fair and balanced news. They refuse. …They are complicit in the destruction of America. We should cancel our subscriptions. We should not purchase from their advertisers. We should do a mass email campaign against all of them. We have the power to make real change happen. Unified, as one of the largest tea party groups in America, we can make that change start right here in Yellowstone County, Montana. The Patriot Chronicles IS fair and balanced. We report you decide, just like Fox News but without their political bias. Enough said. http://mtcowgirl.com/2012/01/16/montana-tea-party-calls-for-boycott-of-all-news/ » Posted By bito On January 19, 2012 @ 3:34 pm Another “blast from the past” and makes one wonder why this wasn’t brought up the day after Mitt announced this time by the MSM/Press. Island tax havens factor into Romney’s business success — While in private business, Mitt Romney utilized shell companies in two offshore tax havens to help eligible investors avoid paying U.S. taxes, federal and state records show. Romney gained no personal tax benefit from the legal operations in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. But aides to the Republican presidential hopeful and former colleagues acknowledged that the tax-friendly jurisdictions helped attract billions of additional investment dollars to Romney’s former company, Bain Capital, and thus boosted profits for Romney and his partners. December 17, 2007 » Posted By bito On January 19, 2012 @ 3:11 pm Oh that flip-flopping, no core principled, always changing Obama: “It’s a significant change from the Harvard Law School of the past,” said Obama. “[But] for every one of me, there are a whole bunch of young Black people who, because of drugs, poverty, or whatever, aren’t getting the opportunities I have,” he said. Tuesday, February 06, 1990 Obama Named New Law Review President » Posted By bito On January 19, 2012 @ 3:01 pm “Obama has not created one job with his failed policies!” Newt Romney » Posted By bito On January 19, 2012 @ 2:13 pm Gingrich’s Obama ‘food stamp president’ claims prove false Newt Gingrich’s accusation that President Barack Obama put more Americans on food stamps than any other US president in history prove false. An inquiry into the US Department of Agriculture by USA Today revealed that under Obama, 14.2 million Americans were signed on the food stamp list. Under President George W. Bush, that figure was by nearly 14.7 million. There were 46.2 million people, or 14 percent of Americans, on food aid as of October 2011, the most recent month on record, according to government data. From the report: “Gingrich would have been correct to say the number now on food aid is historically high…But Gingrich goes too far to say Obama has put more on the rolls than other presidents. … It’s possible that when the figures for January 2012 are available they will show that the gain under Obama has matched or exceeded the gain under Bush. But not if the short-term trend continues. The number getting food stamps declined by 43,528 in October. And the economy has improved since then.” » Posted By bito On January 19, 2012 @ 2:06 pm Some more facts they ignore and instead chant “Drill, Baby Drill” In 2011, U.S. crude oil production reached its highest level since 2003, increasing by an estimated 90,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) over 2010 levels to 5.57 million bbl/d. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/18/increasing-energy-security » Posted By bito On January 19, 2012 @ 1:38 pm Facts matter little when they have hate, fear and the Kenyan black man in their White House. » Posted By bito On January 19, 2012 @ 1:27 pm U.S. Jobless Claims Fall Sharply The number of people seeking unemployment benefits for the first time plummeted last week to 352,000, the fewest since April 2008, the Labor Department said Thursday. The decline added to evidence that the job market is strengthening. Weekly applications fell by 50,000, the biggest drop in the seasonally adjusted figure in more than six years. The four-week average, which smooths out fluctuations, dropped to 379,000. That was the second-lowest such figure in more than three years. (edit: and that was my last “free” NYT article for the month, bummer.) » Posted By bito On January 19, 2012 @ 1:02 pm I will but if we win you will have to go to the STOTU speech. » Posted By bito On January 17, 2012 @ 8:32 pm Announcing the State of the Union Tweetup at the White House On Tuesday, January 24th, President Obama will deliver his State of the Union Address from Capitol Hill. Back at the White House, we’re hosting a Tweetup where some of our Twitter followers will be invited to watch the President’s address live, attend a panel with Administration officials after the speech, and of course tweet! Interested in joining? Sign up for your chance to join other @WhiteHouse followers to watch the President’s annual address to the nation. More>> http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/17/announcing-state-union-tweetup-white-house » Posted By bito On January 17, 2012 @ 7:41 pm Reasons salt pork, salt cod, summer sausage and jerky were invented. 🙂 » Posted By bito On January 17, 2012 @ 7:08 pm The SNAP (food stamp) program is heavily supported, and lobbied for, by both Big Ag and the Grocers Association. They help teachers, military families, students social workers (the ones filing out the forms for them) to Wal-Mart workers help feed their families. For every dollar of food stamps a dollar seventy is added to the economy. Does Newt want the disabled to beg for food, sell pencils on the street? Is that his point? » Posted By bito On January 17, 2012 @ 6:44 pm Just a question Newt: If “Obama is the foodstamp president” and you want to return to W’s economic policy’s, ‘splain this trend? How did all that lowering taxes and regulations work out? Looks like PBO is just following W’s food stamp policy, racist jerk! [img]http://www.cbpp.org/images/cms/1-9-12snap-fig1.jpg[/img] SNAP Is Effective and Efficient The Facts on SNAP — Again Looks like the trend line upward starts in 02 to me. » Posted By bito On January 17, 2012 @ 5:07 pm I do hope all our members read and click the links on our twitter widget, Sue. You have open a whole different can of unreported slime on Willard with this! This opens a variation of the the cliche ” Is Mitt the President Bain , if not when did he resign?” He claims he had/has nothing to do with them, he quit when he took over as organizer of the Olympics, records say other wise. This renews a new and vigorous demand to see his tax reports IMO. Great job Sue and to our new twitter buddy, @HoustonsNewNews they were quick with some important information. Again Sue, good work! » Posted By bito On January 15, 2012 @ 9:16 pm Huh? I thought he said he quit Bain when he went into “public service” to take over the Salt Lake Olympics. Maybe there are 2 WM Romneys from Boston Mass working for Bain. That must be it! » Posted By bito On January 15, 2012 @ 7:35 pm Oh Sue, you are so cynical! I’m quite sure that it was completely from his warm heart, don’t you? 😉 » Posted By bito On January 15, 2012 @ 7:11 pmComments Posted By bito
Only about 30% of SC Republicans saying they believe Marianne Gingrich’s accusations…likely folks who already weren’t for Newt
Why Does MSNBC Invite Hateful, Anti-Gay Liars on TV to Represent Christians?
http://www.angryblacklady.com/2012/01/19/president-obama-sings-al-green-at-the-apollo-theater/
Offshore dealings like those of the Republican presidential candidate trouble many, but they’re legal.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1990/2/6/obama-named-new-law-review-president/
U.S. natural gas production grew by an estimated 7.4 percent in 2011– the largest year-over-year volumetric increase – and easily eclipsed the previous all-time production record set in 1973.
Overall, oil imports have been falling since 2008, and net imports as a share of total consumption declined from 57 percent in 2008 to 45 percent in 2011 – the lowest level since 1995.
No, his point was completely raciest. “Dem darkies” are all on food stamps, right Newt? It worked for Reagun why not you? He is a scholar of the Lee Atwater school of politics and his student Karl Rove.
If he is so worried about people being on SNAP, where is jobs program? He would much rather have pogroms than programs. (too harsh?)
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3239
http://www.offthechartsblog.org/the-facts-on-snap-again/?utm_campaign=CBPPTwitter
This info needs to be spread to the media, are we electing the president of an equity firm to the office of the POTUS? No wonder he wants to have inequality discussed in “quiet rooms.”
Will anyone ask him if he is still the prez of Bain, if not, when did he resign?
Good job Sue!
http://www.corporationwiki.com/Massachusetts/Boston/bain-capital-inc/61087247.aspx
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