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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (500945)8/9/2012 9:23:56 AM
From: Justin C1 Recommendation   of 536009
 
Some of them are still here .. on Bill's Ban list ... :)

then suddenly realize all the crazies appeared

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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (500946)8/9/2012 9:30:39 AM
From: goldworldnet2 Recommendations   of 536009
 
Aside from the nuttiness, it also shows how conceited they are that they believe they are receiving visitations from famous historical people they never even knew.

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To: goldworldnet who wrote (500887)8/9/2012 9:31:46 AM
From: sm1th   of 536009
 
what we are dealing with is a public sector bubble that ultimately has to be reconciled with the economy.


The big test will be the state and local bonds. Many of these need to default. Will the Fed govt let them, or will it step in and bail them out with money borrowed from a larger pool of taxpayers? Many of the largest holders of state debt are public pension funds. When the states default, the pensions are in an even deeper hole.

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To: skinowski who wrote (500889)8/9/2012 9:38:52 AM
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I have a hard time understanding a population that elects an outfit like Muslim Brotherhood to lead their government.
In several of those countries, it is the only national party, and it has been organized for 50+ years. It is competing with hundreds of newly formed local/tribal parties with no organization and no broad support. Imagine in the US if one of the major parties shut down and 50 new parties tried to fill the void. It will take at least a generation to develop anything that we would consider a functioning democracy, if it is allowed to happen.

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To: sm1th who wrote (500949)8/9/2012 9:39:51 AM
From: Bill3 Recommendations   of 536009
 
How ironic that a lot of those pensions will be saved by the great returns they are receiving from Bain Capital.

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To: SmoothSail who wrote (500856)8/9/2012 9:56:16 AM
From: Geoff Altman   of 536009
 
Smooth, have you looked at any of the props on the November ballot? I just heard about #32 today:

ballotpedia.org 

Could it be that Cali is getting its collective head out of it's .....rear? One can only hope. Of course, odds of this passing must be astronomical......<g>

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From: Bill8/9/2012 9:56:53 AM
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BUSINESSWEEK: Let’s frame the issue around your tax returns in a slightly different way. If you’re an investor and you’re looking at a company, and that company says that its great strength is wise management and fiscal know-how, wouldn’t you want to see the previous, say, five years’ worth of its financials?

ROMNEY: I’m not a business. We have a process in this country, which was established by law, which provides for the transparency which candidates are required to meet. I have met with that requirement with full financial disclosure of all my investments, but in addition have provided and will provide a full two years of tax returns. This happens to be exactly the same as with John McCain when he ran for office four years ago. And the Obama team had no difficulty with that circumstance. The difference between then and now is that President Obama has a failed economic record and is trying to find any issue he can to deflect from the failure of his record.

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To: KLP who wrote (500854)8/9/2012 10:09:06 AM
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Ann Coulter Eviscerates Romney Spokeswoman, Demands She Be Fired
I agree with Ann here. Andrea Saul’s response to the outrageous Obama’s steelworker ad blaming Romney for the death of a woman is that she would have been covered under Romneycare in Massachusetts!! Ann makes all the points and is appropriately outraged over such a remarkably asinine response. This is the kind of rank incompetence that must be denounced by us and dealt with immediately by the Romney camp in an effort to not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. You know everything Saul said was discussed and approved, including the ‘she would have had health care in Massachusetts” line, which means this is a response the Romney campaign thought was good. Infreakingexplicable.

Here’s Ann’s comments, followed below with the Andrea Saul interview that has sparked this. Videos via Mediaite.

[iframe src="http://videos.mediaite.com/embed/player/?content=J2DZR22X2DYSKJP2&content_type=content_item&layout=&playlist_cid=&media_type=video&widget_type_cid=svp&read_more=1" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="421" scrolling="no" width="420"][/iframe] Saul steps in it at the 1:53 mark:

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Appearing on Fox News Channel with anchor Bill Hemmer, Mitt Romney campaign spokesperson Andrea Saul attacked a pro-Barack Obama PAC ad which links the GOP presidential candidate to the cancer-related death of a former steelworker’s wife. Saul veered off message, however, when she said that the fired steel worker would have had access to health care if he had lived in Massachusetts where, under Romney’s plan, health care coverage is extended to the uninsured.


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From: longnshort8/9/2012 10:26:37 AM
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Michelle Malkin to Romney: It’s time to nail the Obama admin and campaign for obvious illegal coordinationMichelle Malkin was wound up this morning as she talked about how Team Romney needs to be “on fire” over being “slandered and libeled”, including the fact that now the Obama campaign has been caught in a lie in what his obvious illegal coordination with Burton’s SuperPAC. When asked if Romney is just trying to take the high road, she says that “there is nothing dirty and low about responding to these character assassination attempts.” She goes on to say this just can’t be left to surrogates either:

You don’t leave that to surrogates especially when they’re attacking you personally Mitt Romney, your character, your integrity. They’re attacking your wife. They’re attacking your wife’s horse for goodness sake! They’re attacking your way of life and our way of life.

Watch the full interview below:

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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (500952)8/9/2012 10:44:26 AM
From: TideGlider1 Recommendation   of 536009
 
Pretty good ideas there.

California Proposition 32, the "Paycheck Protection" Initiative (2012)

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Type: State statute
Referred by: Petition signatures
Topic: Paycheck protection
Status: On the ballot


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Proposition 32, the "Paycheck Protection" Initiative, is on the November 6, 2012 ballot in California as an initiated state statute. [1] If approved, Proposition 32 will:

  • Ban both corporate and union contributions to state and local candidates
  • Ban contributions by government contractors to the politicians who control contracts awarded to them
  • Ban automatic deductions by corporations, unions, and government of employees’ wages to be used for politics
A similar proposition, Proposition 75, was on the 2005 ballot. Proposition 226, on the 1998 ballot, also sought to enact paycheck protection. [2]

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