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I don't disagree with what you say, Steve. But I think it is "fascinating" that a major newpaper would print something like that and seemingly not mention Barry's criminal behavior. I think the Post story is old news, BTW. Been published some time ago.
Anyway, what do you think about Barry and the latest Muslim attacks in Libya and Egypt? Think that his brand of diplomacy in that region is working? Think he's a "secret" Muslim? Gotta check his schedule and see if he has a Friday prayer session in his mosque...I mean, uh, the White House.
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Media are only interested in 'scoops'. Obama did publish the negative stuff himself before he became president, therefore no scoop. IF he wouldn't have and the media would have found out about the cocaine it would have been like Christmas and 4th of July in one day for right wing media: a black president taking coke = almost probably a gang member in Compton.
Anyway, generally US media don't respect the privacy of politicians at all - and US politicians make politics with their private, especially family life. Just look at Romney's wife having MS and five sons. And Obama being a devoted family man, e.g.. Both politicians are working hard to create an image of their personal life which pleases the masses.
In Germany for example there is an unwritten agreement not to talk about the private lives of politicians (what the kids do, love affairs e.g.), AS LONG as the politicians don't use it for political gain. This keeps elections much closer to the topics. 99% of the policitians stick to it - and those few who didn't first flew high and later crashed down to earth when for example the marriage failed. They became fodder for the yellow press. BTW The latest rumor is, that the wife of the former president of Germany (not the chancellor) had worked as an escort some years ago.
Also religion doesn't play a big role in German politics, if, where and how often a politician goes to church is his private business.
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My sister sends me a steady stream of leftist nonsense from Huffington Post etc. If you believe it all, Romney is the Beast of the Apocalypse and Obama walks on water.
I expect Obama to get back in, but critics of some polls have pointed out how they almost ignore the independent voters - who will be the ones who decide this election.
If you take the margin of error of ca. 3% in the polls the race is completely open. If outside developments don't change the current dynamics the three TV talks between Obama and Romney might decide the election. I have read the Romney is already training a lot for the talks.
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<< It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon >>
Of course, it is no more loony that some of the leftwing journal;s out there.
I guess you are right, that's why I refrain from posting articles from Huffingtonpost, e.g.
If you either just follow liberal or conservative media, soon you start to see US politics through heavily tinted glasses. It like living in political bubble while losing contact to the reality of the people in the street.
When the bubble bursts either party is equally surprised that the reality looks quite different.
You could see it after Paul Ryan entered the field. The left was sure that healthcare e.g. would destroy him in the eyes of the electorate. It didn't happen (but then he did it partly to himself with his convention speech). Now the rightwing media is shocked that Obama is actually leading regardless of the economic situation. See Politico
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Nice source Flash:
Here a quote on Washington Times from Wikipedia:
In a 2008 essay published in Harper's Magazine, historian Thomas Frank linked the Times to the modern American conservative movement, saying:
There is even a daily newspaper—the Washington Times—published strictly for the movement’s benefit, a propaganda sheet whose distortions are so obvious and so alien that it puts one in mind of those official party organs one encounters when traveling in authoritarian countries.[57]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times#Political_leanings
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Final update
I WON!
She backed down and agreed to pay me 90% of what I was after so we settled out of court.
Got the divorce certificate at Bang Rak City Hall a couple of hours ago and now the money is safely in my banks.
It's been a long hard battle but I stuck it out to the end.
Congratulations Mekong. I guess you are one of the few Farangs who used the Thai law system against an upper class family and to win.
(of course I don't have any numbers to support this)
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a little off topic.
what is this thing for re-makes?.
Total Recall and Judge Dredd coming out soon.
not the best of films in the first place and i certainly won't be wasting cash going to see them.
do the film studios have no new ideas of films?.
It relatively safe investment. And I guess it's much less stressful for the decision makers, since they don't have to develop a new story and decide about the scrips and they even know the visuals already.
Some time ago I saw a remake of Conan. Of corse the visual effects are much better, but we are very much used computer animated stuff. And as if Schwarzenegger could be substituted by a well build but completely average looking actor... I guess it's the same with Total Recall. No current actor has the physical presence (in regard to guys with huge muscles) as Schwarzenegger had in his younger years.
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Obama beats them all !
Thursday, September 06, 2012
Today’s highly-anticipated event in Charlotte was the single biggest day of both conventions. President Barack Obama’s (@BarackObama) acceptance speech at #DNC2012 set a new record for political moments on Twitter, with 52,756 Tweets per minute coming just after its conclusion.
Yep, that's the micro news especially the US online media are full with. There are so many blogs, magazines, e.g. out there that any tiny bit becomes news now - even if it means nothing at all on the long run.
PS: there was even a statistic about the number of tweets per minute during the convention speeches...
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He was pretty pathetic. Kind of embarassed for him. He seemed to be the only one to "get it".
HH
Welcome back to thread HH. You are the only conservative voice here and there is way too much agreement without you.
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citation needed.
Yep,
anyway infact the Mormons got a lot of pressure for posthumous baptizing Jews who died in concentration camps for the their faith. I think the Mormons recently stopped this practice.
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Expendables 2
Watched it on large screen.
With Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Van Damme, e.g.
The story is extremely flat and has holes a tank could drive through. Some good jokes by the old-stars on her previous roles.
Not worth to pay for
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by Matthew DeLuca Aug 31, 2012 12:12 AM EDT
Mitt’s big RNC speech hasn’t exactly gotten rave reviews—and parts of it weren’t exactly true. Matthew DeLuca checks up on three of Romney’s claims, from the number of jobs he says he’ll create to Obama’s supposed apology tour.
1. Romney-Ryan Will Create 12 Million Jobs
This sounds like a lot. But the problem with Romney’s promise here isn’t that he’s too pie-in-the-sky. It’s that these jobs are pretty much coming to us anyway. A number of economic forecasters, including Moody’s Analytics and Macroeconomic Advisers have said that the economy will add a baseline number of about 12 million jobs between 2012 and 2016 – pretty much the whole time Romney would like to put his feet up on the desk in the Oval Office. Moody’s analysts have said that this baseline is “agnostic with regard to who is elected in November.â€
2. Obama Apologizes for America
But in a review published by the Washington Post in February of 2011, the paper ran down the supposed expressions of remorse and regret, and found that the “apology tour†was little more than an invention.
3 . Obama Will Cut $716 Billion to Medicare
“His $716 billion cut to Medicare to finance Obamacare will both hurt today’s seniors and oppress innovation and jobs in medicine.â€
Both Romney and Ryan have followed up this line of attack against Obama, and while it has a grain of truth to it, the statements are mostly misleading.
Unit you are missing the point. It seems that it isn't about facts anymore - neither is it about ideology or moral like in previous elections (abortion, gay marriage, e.g.). It's just about to tell the people anything what they want hear, even if it is the opposite what they are planning to do: like declaring that the want to support the poor, but preparing for the biggest cuts for the poor ever...
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But I'm sure that Ryan's political career won't be anything like that.
It seems that Ryan's speech was mostly based on lies and falsehoods. As I understand it is the fist time in US history that a candidate (not some Super PAC or minor surrogate) was spreading so obvious lies during his most important speech.
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Sent to me by a friend:
<< Well, early Saturday morning , August 11, we learned that Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, is to be Mitt Romney's pick for the next Vice President of The United States.
What are we to think of this selection? He's not a graduate of Columbia University. He's not a graduate of Harvard. He wasn't selected as the President of the Harvard Law Review. He didn't get a special free quota scholarship ride to any prestigious university and, instead, had to work his way through Miami University of Ohio. For Pete's sake, the man drove the Oscar Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and waited tables another!
Interesting how the right tries everything to paint Obama's story as negative. If you turn the above quote around it means that while Obama worked extremely hard as a black kid without a father and having to live in different countries with a single mother, he got scholarships for his work, went to one of the best university of the world without rich parents who paid for the preparation and access, took over a prestigious position because he seemed to have out-shined others, Ryan seemed to have been a mediocre student who neither was able to enter a leading university nor was he deemed worthy of a scholarship. Therefore he had to flip burgers.
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Republicans have openly admitted that Romney and party
are data mining the internet for personal information
on people in hopes of finding some more contributors.
Is this practice ethical?
The Dems are doing the same since years. Romney is just catching up, maybe using more advanced methods now.
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Really? Must be some big friggin computer. LOL Source, please?
HH
I don't think that everything is being saved, but it's clear that everything is being monitored. Normal chatter by people like us is being scanned automatically checked for keywords. Also they don't need to store all the data, they just need to connecting existing databases commercial and governmental data bases for to get a pretty good view on what you are doing and _thinking_: financial information, health, political views, religion, e.g..
Also don't forget that the USA is starting to collect huge sets of data on anybody who is traveling form Europe to the USA.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-17764365
The PNR information includes names, addresses, credit card and phonenumbers, but in some circumstances may also include sensitive data on an individual's ethnic origin, meal choices, health, political views or sex life.
The US authorities say they will "employ automated systems to filter and mask out sensitive data from PNR".
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<< Armstrong made a rare public appearance several years ago when he testified to a congressional hearing against President Barack Obama administration's plans to buy rides from other countries and corporations to ferry U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
Armstrong also said that returning humans to the moon was not only desirable, but necessary for future exploration -- even though NASA says it is no longer a priority. >>
But Obie knows better.
Up, Obama cancelled all manned flights.
I think manned flights don't make much sense at the moment. Especially not to the moon. As we currently see NASA is going much further while using a technology no other country could copy at the moment.
Nevertheless the NASA still has the most current and upcoming unmanned lunar missions.
Obama Scrubs NASA's Manned Moon Missions
Ker Than
Published February 1, 2010
If U.S. astronauts land on the moon again before 2020, it won't be aboard aNASA spacecraft.
The space agency's 2011 budget, released today, reveals plans to scrap the Constellation program, including the rockets and spacecraft that NASA has been developing over the past four years to replace its aging space shuttle fleet.
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On the tele.
16 rounds fired at assailant. And 8 feet distance from NYC constables.
Maybe it's time for a tad more target practice for the men in blue in NYC.
Just try to imagine what happens when other people close by would draw a gun as well. It would take the term 'friendly fire' to a new level.
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From a distance of less than 10 feet, the officers, Craig Matthews and Robert Sinishtaj, answered in unison; one shot nine times and the other seven.
Investigators believe at least 7 of those 16 bullets struck the gunman, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman. But the officers also struck some, if not all, of the nine bystanders who were wounded.
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Poll: 0 percent of blacks for Mitt Romney
By: Mackenzie Weinger
August 22, 2012 05:04 PM EDT
President Barack Obama continues to beat Mitt Romney among African American voters with a staggering 94 percent to 0 percent lead, according to a poll released Tuesday.
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll — which gives Obama and Vice President Joe Biden a small lead over Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan — shows Obama has a massive lead over his Republican rival in the key political base of African-American voters,NBCNews.com reported.
Obama also beats Romney among Latinos, voters under 35 and women, while Romney does better than Obama with whites, rural voters and seniors.
The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters Aug. 16-20. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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It is hard to believe that
Parley Pratt,
Mitt Romney's great, great, grand father was behind so much trouble
that was leveled upon the Mormons.
So what?
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Phyllis Diller.....dead at 95.
Who?
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I wish I stated this myself. Good point Unit.
It's a well known fact that the ratio of the spread of wealth in USA is coming close to second world countries like LOS: i.e. a lot of very poor and lower middle class and small group of super rich.
Here is what Ferguson wrote at Newsweek and below the fact check:
"Welcome to Obama's America: nearly half the population is not represented on a taxable return--almost exactly the same proportion that lives in a household where at least one member receives some type of government benefit. We are becoming the 50-50 nation--half of us paying the taxes, the other half receiving the benefits."
It is true that 46 percent of households did not pay federal income tax in 2011. It is not true that they pay no taxes. Federal income taxes account barely account for half of federal taxes, and much less of total taxes, if you count the state and local level. Many of those other taxes can be regressive. If you take all taxes into account, our system is barely progressive at all.
But why do almost half of all households pay no federal income tax? Because they don't have much money to tax. Here's the breakdown from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Half of these households are simply too poor -- they make under $20,000 -- to have any liability. Another quarter are retirees on tax-exempt Social Security benefits. The remaining households have no liability because of tax expenditures like the earned-income tax credit or the child credit.
In other words, the poor, the old, and children. Not exactly the "50-50 nation" of makers and takers -- or "lucky duckies" -- that Ferguson imagines.
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The Obama machine is trying (somewhat successfully) to turn the Ryan selection as a negative. This election is over as it stands now unless some significant event changes.
If he wins I think we'll see a different Obama. What I also think will happen is that Dems will make gains in Congress.
Republicans are simply too far right.
The new GOP attacks on Obama's medicare plans are complete nonsense. It's clear that GOP want's to create a new distortion field in regard to this topic. If they succeed they might gain some points. If not they will lose the retired and with this Florida.
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I guess Romney was just an upperclass prick with built in entitlement for a better life and who did have no idea how ordinary people live. And he seems to be an extremely clever guy in regard to finances and how to make money.