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Chart courtesy of todays Dow Jones Average.
Remember how last August, the Tea Party pushed to the brink, the default of the dollar?
This chart shows the growth, and what the Tea Party caused, and the growth that occurred way after it.
Can you imagine where that total would now be, if the Tea Party had never existed?
And, this is exactly what Romney says he wants to do…Did he not learn his lesson? Is he that crazy?
I’ve commented on a lot of local blogs today. There is a common theme that needs pulled up for discussion.
Can we trust today’s polls?
Chart Courtesy of Michael Brogan, Political Forecaster(right click for full view)
I say no.
First, the numbers being given do not match the 80% support Obama has on the street.
Second, with today’s technology, it is rudely simplistic to assume that polls aren’t being tweaked. Even as simply as choosing who to call, That one factor can throw a poll off the deep end. And don’t think, you’re cookies don’t tell everyone how you vote…
Hmmm, who should we call to represent Delaware… kavips? … or Ms. Evans?… it is that easy.
Third. The average national poll consists of 700 people. That means 7 people can throw a percent; 4 people throw it, if you round up or down. And you tell me you can’t “randomly” find 4 more conservatives than progressives, or vice-versa?
Fourth. The polling organizations are companies that pay out dividends to someone. People buy stock; they want results. Obviously reporting that a race is over in August, does little to generate more polls. More polls equal more revenue. There is considerable pressure to keep a national race appearing closer, than it really is.
Fifth. Who checks the veracity of pollsters? No one. There is no watchdog exacting penalties over fake results. So how do we trust it is real? Exactly. We can’t…
That is enough. Polling is only believable if it fits in with the general scheme of things as we see it.. If 80% of the population is hopeful this recovery is real, and happy about YAY! JUST PAID UNDER $3.50 FOR A GALLON OF GAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, then any poll not showing Obama leading 80 to 20 is simply a fabrication of one’s imagination…..
And in local elections? Forget it. Ask your neighbor who their county commissioner is? Yep. Exactly.
Republicans.. you have today and tomorrow to get yourselves out of that ridiculous party of yours, that wastes your vote every time you poll, and come over to the democratic side, where you, you get the chance to determine your representative, not just vote up or down on that representative once he’s been chosen.
Likewise, Independents. You signed up as an Independent because you thought it more patriotic to be the judge, than jury. You didn’t know that party rules would force out your opinion, except on just one day of the year.
You probably envisioned that one day, a different party, the Independent Party, or Libertarian Party, or Constitutional Party, would rise up and you’d be at the forefront leading the way.
It hasn’t happened. You have little over 24 hours to get real in time for this years primary….
Remember. This is not about who your are. You are not a typical Democrat because you signed up to vote in a Democratic Primary. You are still you, the same you who signed up for one of the other two categories…
The only difference is that now, you actually have a voice in determining who will be your local representative. It’s the only way to go when you are in the minority. You play on the level where you can make a difference.
So in a state, that is 95% Democratic, (ignore the official figures; just not all Democrats vote).. you have to impact that choice, if you want government to represent you…
Remember values are great to talk about. They do dick in the real world. Power is something we don’t talk about. But power, is the only thing that will do real dick in the real world.
Without power, you are a bubble swept along with the current. It is time you realized that, and start working on changing the current…
All you registered as third party out there; whether Libertarians, Institutionalists, Republicans, or other. You have very little time left. Change that affiliation before you time passes and you regret you didn’t.
Steve buried it first.
Tallahassee, the capitol city of Florida, a state of 19 million people, had a parade for veterans, … and nobody came…..
And this state went for Mitt Romney, overwhelmingly. And this state is also considered the birthplace of the Tea Party. And this state is so backward they don’t arrest someone standing over the body of a dead man, because that dead man’s skin is darker than the guy holding the gun….
And this state doesn’t give a fuck about veterans. Yet they were the first to argue that American men and women go over to invade Iraq….
Selfish, selfish, selfish Floridians. And they… liked Mitt Romney the best…
This is exactly what we will get, if Mitt Romney becomes president. A country where no one cares….
Only one man can stop Mitt now. It is now, or never….
(Seriously, how could any person run for the American Presidency and hate American soldiers as much as he does…) Makes everyone want to punch him right in the middle of his square jaw….
Photo Courtesy of US Marine Corp
Today is Armed Forces Day. There is a parade in Newark to mark the occasion. Take time to whisper a thank you to all who have served, past, present, and future. I could say much more, but what’s the point. I’ve already said, all that can be said. Just a heartfelt thank you will do……. Words fail when emotion is real.
Photo Courtesy of CNN
I love it best when she wiggles her little nose… mmmmmph.
PAC Christine has been active.
Taking in contributions amounting to $70,462 over the first quarter of 2012, she has so far managed to spend out of that, $60,026… Considering she only had $10,259 at the beginning of the period, she has doubled her cash in hand, and will be starting out the next period, with $20,696.
She received $9345 from Capitol Lists. She received $5156 from Campaign Solutions. She received $5667 from Newsmax. And from the Prosper Group out of Greenwood Indiana, she took in $48,239.
Oh, and yes… she had one individual contributor, a Benjamen Bennett, out of Tamarac, Florida. He dropped $500.
And so, where did it get spent?
$8567 went to a local resident, Annette Burgess, head of the Rail Splitters Society, and is listed as PAC expense. $1500 went to Patricia Quinn, in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, listed as PAC Project Counseling. $6170 went to Jennifer Warren, residing in Moorestown, New Jersey. The total for these three people socked up $16,237.
The other $43,786 over the first three months of the year, went to pay for normal things. Insurance ate up $3182. Legal fees $5046; Black Rock wanted their $7500. The IRS wanted their $5000. Banks wanted their $233 in fees. Trips cost $.2665. TLS Solutions charged a consulting fee of $1575. (means she chose not to go with them).. For her meeting she has $305 in books printed up, rented $450 in office equipment, paid roughly $170/per month for her cable bill ($505); And her PAC rent from Mid Atlantic Reality, at $1600 per month. ($4800)… And Delmarva got paid this time: $273.
Then their was $1500 in public relations counseling. administered by Shirley & Bannister Public Affairs, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Magic. Then there was $6014 to Professional Data Services listed for PAC Compliance Counseling.
There are a couple of take aways here. First, this is why we require candidates to list file their reports.
Second, when you get that email, that pleads with you to part with your money, remember there is a huge industry that requires a candidate to spend lavishly to maintain their lifestyles. I wonder if poor Grandma Moses in backward Tennessee, knows this when she choses to send her $35 to PAC Christine, money intended to be used for groceries, but since she was dying anyway, she thought it would be better spent to preserve conservative values.
I wonder if she realizes it is mostly going to Fairfax County, VA, and into hands of people making over $1 million or more?
And particularly, these corporations or LLC’s? They are using these candidates to prey on the unsuspecting, in order to generate huge blocks of money for themselves… I’ll leave you with what one of these businesses said about Christine O’Donnell….
Look,….. for a blogger to be outraged at another blogger is just silly. Oh, you can whine and moan, and say you’d never stoop to a certain level, but when it comes down to it. a blogger blogs because he wants the world to know his perspective on things….
If a blogger is a sweet guy, he has a sweet perspective and his blogs are nice…
If a blogger is smart, and has a special insight on human nature, his blogs tend to be…. insightful….
If a blogger is an odious asshole, someone you’d leave the room before he even entered just because his face looks like a pile of excrement, and his complexion is the color of a vaginal infection, then his blogs will smell like shit and decayed sperm.
You judge the blogger by the blog.
So, since I’m slow on the uptake of this one, (Steve Newton alerted me… and I was slow to pick up the kickoff… sort of enjoying the first bouncing pigskin of the season.) I’ll defer to Steve and then comment….
So, let us judge this blog Steve points us to in an insightful way, shall we? And perhaps we can gain insight as to the type of a person controlling this particular blog’s content.
WOULD THE PROSECUTOR PLEASE ADDRESS THE COURT AND NOW PRESENT THE CHARGES AGAINST KENNY RIVERA…. (these are lifted from the blog)
Hi, your honor. I’m Evan Queitish. Here are the charges I’m bringing,… proving Kenny Rivera is a communist and implying he is unfit for office.
1) Mr. Rivera is the worst kind of teacher, a history teacher fresh out of the UD school of advanced Progressive policies who loves his union. gRRRR.
2) He has a progressive (read: Communist) pedigree and again… a teacher…. gRRRR.
3) His wife is a (sweet young woman)…. gRRRR.
4) He goes to church, not just to attend services, BUT HE EVEN GOES TO SECRET GET-TOGETHERS TO STUDY THE LORD’S WORD!!!!!!!!!
5) He once decried Capitalism always turned out to be oppressive, and as the world today certainly shows (as well as the history of the world up to 1932), unfettered capitalism does not work as an effective model.
6) He implied the Nation of God, our beloved Israel, actually had and fostered communes. Oh the horror.
7) There are only, only, only six degrees of separation between Kenny and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez….
8) Kenny is not a true believer of the Biblical Worldview because he once mentioned on YouTube that teachers have to dig out of their own pockets to cover at least the minimum of supplies needed in their classrooms.
9) Through his association with Mike Matthews, Sam Lathem, and Frederica Jenner, Kenny is a communist. (And yes, we are totally ignoring his association with me, those in our group, our church the LoCC, and it’s Pastor, Pastor Steve, which could just as well imply that since Kenny associates with those who worship Christ, by such association he could also be a Christian and therefore not a communist.).. But by his association with only these three people, Kenny is a communist.
IS THAT ALL THE CHARGES EVAN?
Yes…
WOULD THE DEFENSE LIKE TO ANSWER THESE CHARGES?
Yes your honor. We submit that these charges be dropped since they are based on a fallacy of reasoning. And any charge based on a fallacy, by rule of law, is to be immediately dismissed.
THE DEFENSE MAY NOW PROCEED.
“Your Honor,”
“In his charge, Evan Queitish, makes this statement that defines his Deistic statehood argument……”
“The concept that God created everything and therefore government should be subservient to Him, is sometimes hard for us to swallow but an important point nonetheless.”
“Mr Queitish makes this the central argument of his case. God created everything and all things, including government, are subservient to God…”
“MR QUEITISH: IS THAT A FAIR ASSESSMENT OF WHAT YOU SAID?”
“Absolutely your honor…. Government is subservient to God.”
Your Honor, as Mr. Queitish has just said, Government is subservient to God… If so, then it must follow that whatever Christian’s believe, government should be made with that in mind. If Christians believe in small government, it should be small. IF Christians believe in no taxes, there should not be tax. If Christians believe in getting rid of unions, they should be gotten rid of. I believe if I understood Mr. Queitish correctly, he would not have problems with these scenarios?
“That is correct your honor…”
So, the argument that Even Queitish insists upon, is, that Christians who reverently believe in their values, should have the right to insist those values be also reflected in which ever governments they serve under… I believe Mr. Queitish would have no qualms with this reasoning….
Your Honor, that is correct….
And so, if a Christian believes in something God tells him to do, he is obligated to work to make that government reflect the vision that God has given him… is that not correct?
Absolutely; he is commanded by God to do so…..
So, that were God to tell a Christian that capitalism is not working and God then commands that Christian start a commune, is that Christian also obligated to then work to make his government reflect this vision that God has given him? Is that not correct?
Perhaps.
Would Mr. Queitish also concur, that the root of Christianity, comes as does the word from Christ? And would Mr. Queitish also concur that same Christ to be the Son of God?
Why, yes your honor.
Is Mr. Queitish familiar with the gospel according to Matthew, chapter 19; versus 16 to 30?
Not off the top of my head, but I’ve probably heard them before.
With your honor’s permission, I will no enter as evidence, a passage of Matthew 19: versus 16 to 30. Would Mr. Queitish please honor the court with his reading of the Holy Word?
Certainly: 16 Now a man came to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”
17 “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.”
18 “Which ones?” the man inquired.
Jesus replied, “Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, 19 honor your father and mother,” and “love your neighbor as yourself.”
20 “All these I have kept,” the young man said, “What do I still lack?”
21 Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
22 When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.
23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
25 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?”
26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Mr. Queitish, you are familiar with this passage, are you not?
Yes, your honor.
And you accept the notion of the Trinity, that Jesus is part of God, and God is part of Jesus, so when Jesus speaks, God also is speaking. Am I correct in assuming you too share that belief.
Your honor, I am proud to publicly share that belief.
Can you, Evan Quetish, please tell the court what must happen, for this man to get to heaven?
He.. He…. he…. must……. give…up….. his….. worldly….. possessions…. and give…. them…. to…. the ….poor… to follow….. Jesus….
You are correct Sir…
Mr. Evan Queitish has just confirmed that God says the only way this man could get to heaven would be to sell all he had and give to the poor…
Is Mr. Queitish familiar with the rules of an commune? Ie that they give up everything they own, and work for the greater good of their community?
Yes.
And is what Jesus specifically says, which Mr. Queitish expressly said just a moment before hand, that was the same as coming from God’s mouth himself… exactly what people do in a commune?
Uhhh,
ANSWER YES OR NO, MR QUEITISH. YOU ARE UNDER OATH.
Yes.
So, boiling everything down, isn’t the Christian who starts a commune probably a better Christian, at least in God’s eyes, than the person who takes money from other people?
Yes.
And as Evan Queitish previously stated, isn’t it a Christians duty to make his sovereign government reflect the vision that God has laid out before him?
Yes, I did say that.
And as Evan Queitish previously stated, isn’t Communism a belief extolling the absence of God, so that if Kenny here happens to state that he believes in Matthew 19: 16-30, which Evan previously admitted himself, was uttered from the mouth of God, doesn’t his following of Christ’s word to the letter, make him then a non-communist?
You honor, the defense requests that this case be dismissed on insufficient evidence, and that new charges of communism and blasphemy be subsequently filed for Mr Evan Queitish, who, is promoting a concept of government that Jesus himself condemned, and who has just charged my client Kenny, to be a communist when he is actually a much better Christian than Evan Queitish ever could be, that is… if we can believe these words spoken by God himself….
MOTION ACCEPTED. CASE DISMISSED ON A FALLACY OF REASONING. KENNY, YOU ARE FREE TO GO. WILL THE BAILIFF AND PROSECUTOR PLEASE STEP FORWARD AND ESCORT EVAN QUEITISH TO THE HOLDING CELL WHILE CHARGES ARE FILED.
Wait, wait..NOOOOO … what are the charges?
PRIMARILY: IMPERSONATING AN AMERICAN…… SUBSEQUENTLY BY MAKING FALSE AND ACCUSATORY STATEMENTS…. BY MAKING UNCHRISTIAN-LIKE STATEMENTS…. BY LIABLE…. BY PRESSING FALSE CHARGES…. BY BREAKING VOWS OF CONFIDENCE UTTERED IN RELIGIOUS CONFINEMENT…. BY SLANDERING SAM LATHAM, MIKE MATTHEWS, ERICA JENNER, ALL WHO SEEM MORE IN LINE WITH JESUS’S TEACHING THAN THE CRAP YOU POSTED….
YOU ARE HEREBY JUDGED, BY THE POPULACE OF AMERICA, AS BEING UNFIT FOR OFFICE, IMMORAL, CREEPY, VISCOUS, UNPRINCIPLED, UNWELCOMED BY SOCIETY, AND A SILLY JOKE OF A MAN. A CLOWN. A FOOL. A SIMPLETON. SOMEONE WHO CONDEMNS ANOTHER THROUGH MEANS OF A CHRISTIAN ARGUMENT WITHOUT EVEN REFERENCING THE BIBLE. EVERYTHING YOU SAY FROM HEREON INTO THE FUTURE, WILL NOW, FOREVER BE JUDGED BECAUSE OF YOUR ACTIONS, FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE.
MAY GOD HAVE MERCY UPON YOU.
When I wrote this piece I chastized WV for demeaning themselves by voting a felon in at 41% of the vote.
New information has come to light to say I was a little hasty in my assessment….
For when you add the number of people who voted for Romney, the ranking come in as thus…..
Obama….. First Place
Felon….. Second Place
Romney…. Third Place
So, at least they got it half right… Obviously putting a felon in as president, means less gets stolen from the middle class than putting in a Republican….
Thanks UI..
Of course Romney is backtracking. He has no choice. Of course he will say.. I never said that we should not have strict controls in Banking laws… And of course, we will see this clip for when he did.
“Banks are afraid to make loans right now because of the government hanging over them like gargoyles,” Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and business executive, said during the roundtable discussion.”
Apparently they weren’t hanging over enough to catch the $2 billion. Like how can you miss two billion go by? There goes $2 billion. Where? Oh, maybe I only thought I saw it, never mind.
Romney said small business owners cannot acquire capital because banks won’t give loans since they are under “extraordinary pressure and scrutiny” from federal regulators.
Actually it’s because they don’t have it. They spent that $2 billion in lines over in London Town.
On August 25, 2011, Mitt Romney came out with this statement.
“I’d like to repeal Dodd Frank, recognizing that some revisions make sense,” Romney said. [...]
(The article notes that when asked upon stating this, Romney could not name any parts of this bill he did not like)..
And here is why, he want’s to repeal Dodd Frank.
After the Madoff Ponzi scheme, another one surfaced. You may remember the Stanford Group Ponzi Scheme? There has been no trial as with Bernie, because the principal, fled the country and remains in hiding.
However, 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.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform law, a reform Romney says he will repeal if he wins the presidency, attempts to address future Ponzi schemes by enacting new protections for whistleblowers to alert authorities when they find evidence of fraud. The law also creates a new Investor Advocate and Investor Advisory Committee within the Securities and Exchange Commission to detect and investigate future Ponzi schemes.
So, Mr. Ponzi-scheme himself, wants to abolish Dodd-Frank which seeks to protect investors money.
So Romney is saying he, is against regulations that protect investors money.
He feels he should be allowed to squander it away, as he will our Federal Budget, should he ever be elected….
1) kids are naturally curious.
2) we all learn.
3) we remember what we use.
These tenets seem to be in our genes. If left alone on some deserted island, we would do our best to survive, passing down knowledge to our progeny.
Watch out for those round purple berries on the branch with NO thorns…
Where did we go wrong and what can we do about it?
History shows us that we went wrong when we put TV’s in every household in America. And realistically, there is nothing we can do about that. As if we already tired that with Prohibition, and that was impossible to enforced upon only an ADULT population.
Now, I’m often accused of putting kids to sleep (it comes handy at 9:00 pm) just by elaborately answering their simplest questions. For example: “What is the sky.”
For you see, I actually know what the sky is, and why it appears blue, and why clouds form and disappear, and why….
(Yawn.) We’re doing this to our children.
I walked in on someone watching Little House on the Prairie and in the one room school, the teacher was running down the accepted rotes of mathematics. The class was chanting one plus one is two, two plus two is four…. three plus three is…
… and it dawned on me. In a simpler world, this is probably 60% of the auditory stimulation they received in one day. They could go to bed with this chant still ringing in your ears.
Not so today. Probably the theme song underwritten for a game, would be the most likely last final thought racing through that child’s mind.
Our kids are learning all the time. And with genes, vitamins, and medical care, their minds are probably more fertile than mankind’s have been since our origination.
It is just that they are learning about life, instead of school.
So if, we collectively got together and passed a law dictating that TV could no longer idolize “dumb people”, but had to make all characters on all (children and adult) super intelligent, we might, by changing our children’s heroes, change their attitudes towards learning.
If you wanted to see “dumb people”, you would need to develop a 6th Sense.
Silly, huh?
Aye, but in all civilized countries which achieve greater scholastic ratings than we do, that compete against us for jobs, .. go, try to find any television show for public consumption, one that idolizes dumb people, and portrays smart people as yucky?
There are none.
Kind of odd. Kind of a coincidence?
Which means, if this is true, then all the hoopla of fighting over our school system’s way of managing itself, is inconsequential. No matter how much better you make Brandywine’s, Christina’s, or Red Clay’s school system, if school is still uncool, no one will be in the right framework to take advantage of any changes that do get implemented. …
Until schools learn that they are competing with TV, and not private versus public entities of the same problem, we will never get the results other countries so easily and readily achieve…..
