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First, it is election time. The contraception issue is playing into Obama's hand. The GOP is losing the young female electorate completely (except the right wing Christians of course). And now Obama is playing the hand the GOP and Limbaugh dealt to him. Second, as far as I know, Viagra is being paid for. IMHO it is the same like paying for contraception. Third paying the pill comes much cheaper for a state than paying for unwanted pregnancies, the which come with very high social costs. It seems to me, that you Flash are moving very far right at the moment, if you agree to GOPs revitalized culture war.

I think it is total bullshit to declare an election won or lost before the votes have been counted. It is the third US election cycle I am following and the spinning of the news cycle seems to be much faster than last time. The competition and the pressure to produce news seems to be much higher with all the new media who have entered the market (Huffington Post, Big Goverrnment, e.g.). Today every verbal poop by a candidate and/or his spin doctors has become newsworthy.

Have you seen who is behind this bullshit? The US media circus loves crazies like Sheriff Arpaio.a reportage about him. Link Even German tv did report about him. I wonder what kind of websites Flash is using as sources on US politics...

Looking at the GOP candidates Americans swing back to Obama. I guess it's no surprise, since the GOP candidates have all moved towards the hardcore right. And I guess Americans are now moving towards the lesser of the two evils. That's what politics is all about in the end. The question is, if any of the GOP candidates will be able to move back towards the center for to become electable? Poll: Obama tops 50% vs. all comers By: MJ Lee February 22, 2012 06:20 AM EST President Barack Obama is topping 50 percent support in match-ups against each of the four Republican presidential candidates, a new poll finds. In a general election contest against Mitt Romney, the president leads his Republican opponent 51 to 43 percent, according to an Associated Press-GfK survey on Wednesday. This demonstrates a significant lead for Obama compared to the December poll when the two were virtually tied at 47 to 46 percent. Meanwhile, Obama would lead Rick Santorum 52 to 43 percent, Newt Gingrich 52 to 42 percent, and Ron Paul 53 to 44 percent. While both candidates are trailing well behind Obama, Santorum is virtually tied with Romney as the preferred presidential nominee among Republican voters. Thirty-three percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters said they would like to see Santorum seize the party’s nomination, while 32 percent chose Romney. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul were both the preferred nominees of 15 percent of Republicans. Romney was shown with the highest favorability rating in the GOP field at 50 percent; Paul and Santorum were next with 47 and 44 percent favorability ratings, respectively, while Gingrich trailed behind at 33 percent. The poll revealed a significant level of dissatisfaction among the Republican voting bloc about the current presidential field –39 percent of Republican and Republican-leaning voters said they are not satisfied with their choice of 2012 candidates. The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted Feb. 16-20 among 1,000 adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. http://www.politico....0212/73154.html

Just have a look at Gini Index. In regard to the distribution of wealth the USA is moving closer to 3rd World Countries... :-) And here is a quote from the Federal Reserve Bank (during Bush's era - it doesn't seem to be a place for leftist socialists) My link

And alcohol is so damn expensive in Scandinavia.

The well documented fact is, that the US working and middle class lost income since many years while the rich became super rich. US workers/middle class are back to the pay level of the 1970s.... The new American dream: from the suburbs to rags...

The occupy movement forced this fact into the mainstream media. For politicians and the connected businesses were able to play this down...

Finally when the GOP has decided their candidate, Obama just needs to rerun the Rep's own attack ads against their fellow party members, as dirty as the ads already were and will be.

If Santorum gets nominated it's secure win for Obama. Santorum is just too far right for the independent voters - and most women won't vote for him anyway (he wrote that women should stay at home, no abortion even the women got raped, e.g.)

The USA are the only industrialized Western country in which millions don't have even basic health insurance and in which a financially healthy middle class family can go bancrupt, because a family member becomes seriously ill (cancer, e.g.). By the way in the USA the poor have much lower life expectance than the rich.

Remember Iraq, all the spin we heard about the success of the US troops? Same, same in Afghanistan. The Taliban will be back as soon as the US military is packing its stuff. And millions of international aid will have been vanished. What a waste. Unless in Iraq the US- and the other western forces could have made a difference.

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Mitt Romney: 'I’m not concerned about the very poor' Read more: http://www.politico....l#ixzz1lDBnXOEq --- Obama leads GOP challengers in Ohio By BYRON TAU | 2/1/12 12:09 PM EST President Obama leads all four potential GOP challengers in the crucial swing state of Ohio, according to a new survey. Obama leads GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney by seven points in the latest state poll by the Democratic-leaning pollster PPP, besting the former Massachusetts governor 49-42. Rick Santorum trails the president by 6 points, 48 to 42. Obama also beats Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul by by 12 and 10 points, respectively. The president's approval/disapproval numbers in Ohio are an even split, at 48 percent each. Romney is viewed favorably by only 28 percent of Ohio voters. Obama is still underwater among independents, however, at 40 percent approval and 53 percent disapproval. These numbers represent an marked improvement for President Obama since the last time PPP polled the Buckeye state. Obama's approval rating is up 8 points among all voters, and 13 percent among independents independents. The poll comes after a week of intense focus on American manufacturing sector, income and tax code equality and the recovery of the American auto industry — all potentially salient issues in the Rust Belt state. Obama carried Ohio 51-47 in 2008.

Forcing catholics to distribute the pill = Marxism? You must be joking. As I said before, you really don't have any idea what Marxism really means.

The incompetent GOP candidates aside, there seems to be a glimmer of hope for the US economy and if the economy really picks up in the upcoming month the GOP will lose a main argument against Obama.

Do you really think Newt will win the nomination? He seems to be extremely disliked by many rep- and independent voters. Currently it seems that GOP candidates inflict such heavy damages on each other that the Dem are only need the recycle the extremely negative GOP candidate attack ads. PS: and please don't repeat the empty phrases about marxism e.g.. How about some real substance added to your opinions?

From an outside view it is unbelievable how much bullshit the GOP candidates say during the debates. Is the US electorate that stupid??? It seems that with each election cycle the level of the political discourse is going even lower... GOP makes Obama look good By: Roger Simon January 26, 2012 11:59 PM EST .... These debates are making the Obama staffers in Chicago so giddy that after each one they are tearing off their clothes, running through Millennium Park and howling at the moon. And why shouldn’t they? The American people, after being treated to hour upon hour of Republican candidates being allowed to say pretty much whatever they want, are slowly discovering something: Barack Obama doesn’t look that bad any more. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll released Wednesday said that “for the first time in six months, more people approve of the job the president is doing than disapprove.†Sure, the president’s approval/disapproval figure is only 48/46, but he has achieved that after six months of solid Republican debating. After six months of attack. After six months of being told that the American economy is doomed without a steady Republican hand on the tiller of state. So what else does the poll show? “More people said they believe the economy will get better (37 percent) in the next year rather than worse (17 percent). That’s the highest level in more than a year and a seven-point jump over last month.†Oh, my. This is not what the Republicans had in mind. The debates were supposed to winnow the field and leave the strongest Republican standing. It is all very Darwinian: the survival of the fittest. (Even though some Republicans don’t believe in evolution, just about all of them believe in survival of the fittest. That’s because they believe they are the fittest.) True, the number of lecterns on the stage has been winnowed from nine to four, but what have the “fittest†Republicans been telling America about their agenda? Well, Thursday night, we had a good, long talk about America’s moon colony. What moon colony? Fair question. America currently lacks a moon colony. But Newt Gingrich would like a moon colony, and it won’t even cost a lot if we offer a “prize†to people to build one. As he once again reminded America, “Lindberg flew to Paris for a $25,000 prize.†Newt says we have to have a moon colony because, if we don’t, the Chinese will have a moon colony and if that happens, well, it will be bad. But Mitt Romney said a moon colony could cost a $1 trillion. So how big would the prize have to be to get people to compete for building the moon colony? More than $1 trillion, I would guess. And where would the U.S. government get that kind of money? We would have to borrow it from the Chinese. Who could just hold onto it and build their own moon colony. Do you see now why Obama is doing better in the polls? Not that we are supposed to spend our time worrying about the substance of these debates. That is for professional fact-checkers. (Don’t ask me who fact-checks the fact-checkers. You don’t want to know.) Instead, the media decide who wins and who loses, who gets made and who gets broken. Looking for the little things help me decide. Which is why my notes begin: “National Anthem. All put hands on hearts. Santorum and Mitt sing. Newt and Ron Paul don’t. Why?†I don’t know. I am waiting for a fact-checker to tell me. Further notes: “Newt praises Callista for playing French horn. Have words ‘French horn’ ever been spoken at political debate before? Unlikely, but not impossible. Especially if debate were in France.†“When asked by Santorum if people in Massachusetts must buy health care, Mitt replies: ‘First of all, it’s not worth getting angry about.’ Presidency pays only $400,000 a year. So why would Romney get emotional about it?†“Debate supposed to be Newt’s best opportunity to win Florida, but at one point he says, ‘Governor Romney is exactly right’ and at another he says, ‘I agree with Governor Romney.’ Newt appears to be lacking in mindless aggression. This is no way to win a debate.†The debate wandered back and forth and finally ended up with CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer asking the candidates: “Why are you the one person on this stage most likely to beat Barack Obama?†My notes say that Ron Paul cited his “freedom message,†that Santorum said he could win Reagan Democrats, and that Romney said America needs “dramatic, fundamental, extraordinary†change. Newt, I note, said, “This is a big choice election.†But he didn’t say the choice was standing on the stage. http://www.politico....0112/72064.html

Aha, I was wondering how a Farang could sue a member of an obviously upper class family. As long as you win...

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That's the issue no one can understand outside the USA. In no other industrial country people are forced into bankruptcy because they or a member of the family get seriously ill. I wonder how many billions of USD are being wasted, burnt, because families have to reduce or stop spending (consumption, education expenses, e.g.), because they have to pay extreme premiums for health care. The economical damage for the US society must be immense.

A psychologist from Fox News' "Medical A-Team" (no joke) comes to the conclusion that Gingrich's adultery makes him a good president. --- I want to be coldly analytical, not moralize, here. I want to tell you what Mr. Gingrich's behavior could mean for the country, not for the future of his current marriage. So, here's what one interested in making America stronger can reasonably conclude -- psychologically -- from Mr. Gingrich's behavior during his three marriages: 1) Three women have met Mr. Gingrich and been so moved by his emotional energy and intellect that they decided they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with him. 2) Two of these women felt this way even though Mr. Gingrich was already married. 3) One of them felt this way even though Mr. Gingrich was already married for the second time, was not exactly her equal in the looks department and had a wife (Marianne) who wanted to make his life without her as painful as possible. Conclusion: When three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we'll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we'll want to let him go after one. 4) Two women—Mr. Gingrich’s first two wives**—have sat down with him while he delivered to them incredibly painful truths: that he no longer loved them as he did before, that he had fallen in love with other women and that he needed to follow his heart, despite the great price he would pay financially and the risk he would be taking with his reputation. **while one of them was fighting cancer and the other was diagnosed another deadly illness. Conclusion: I can only hope Mr. Gingrich will be as direct and unsparing with the Congress, the American people and our allies. If this nation must now move with conviction in the direction of its heart, Newt Gingrich is obviously no stranger to that journey. http://www.foxnews.c...esident-really/

Just saw the "Scorpion King 3". Downloaded via torrent. Release date Jan 17 _2012_. I guess its the worst movie I saw in 2011. To call it a B Movie would be too much of a compliment. I guess the budget was so low that they had to rent the costumes from several movies. In the movie you see warriors with Roman armor, Thai soldiers with elephants, Japanese Ninjas, Mongolians, Phrygians (they looked like Smurfs with golden caps, the so called Phrygian cap) and Beduines. Regardless they seemed to have had only money for around 50 extras... The props looked like being made from cardboard. The script is unbelievable bad. It was filmed in Thailand, I guess mostly in Ayutayya.

From a European view he is. In Europe he would be right of Angela Merkel for example.

On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study http://berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet/