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"(Associated Press) A Wisconsin judge on Friday struck down nearly all of the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effectively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers." LINK

I wonder what happens to brain cells after years and years of massive doses of alcohol and decades of punter activities.

Clinton. Eisenhower. Truman. Going back further. Grant. Lincloln. Jackson.

Edward Kennedy served in the US Army. Joseph Kenndey, Jr. served in the Army Air Corps. John Kennedy served in the US Navy. The Romney fellas? Nada.

Most or all of these Middle East countries have no history of democracy. Freedome of speech is alien to most. Many in these countries do not have much of an education. In some of these countries the religious clerics are in charge of any education. Here we have an Egyptian Coptic Christian making a homemade movie. The script does not show the plot of said film. Nor were the actors told correctly about the plot. Words were later changed and dubbed in. This was never a movie for movie theaters. Freedom of speech is an alien concept to most in these Middle East countries. Embassies are supposed to be protected by the host country and host government. Interesting what the state run media of Egypt stated. Interesting how long it took the Egyptian security forces to protect the US Embassy. A slight time delay? If the masses are protesting big bad America, they are not protesting internal problems that require time, money, and leadership.

Probably everyone reading here or posting here has done something in their youth that was inappropriate. Whether stealing a candy bar, underage alchohol consumption, smoking cigarettes, or fighting with their siblings. Bullying raises the bar. Bullying is a serious problem in schools back then and now. There are too many cases today where a student who was bullied commited sucide. The problem is so serious today that all schools now have implemented programs to prevent bullying. Romney has denied all knowledge of this incident. Romney has appologized for the bullying. Romney appologized for this incident but denies any knowledge of said incident. All reflects on the character of Romney. People can make up their own minds whether one bully incident affects their opinion of Romney. One's character and reputation is the summation of all that they have said and done during their lifetime.

"In a must-read piece today, the Washington Post’s Jason Horowitz reports that Mitt Romney was a prep school meanie. The story, which Horowitz got independently from five of Romney’s former classmates, is that after spring break in 1965, Romney came back to Cranbrook, his all-male private school in Michigan, and noticed that John Lauber, a new student a year younger than him, was wearing his hair bleached blond and hanging down over one eye. Lauber generally got teased for looking different and seeming gay, though he was not out. Romney’s friend at the time, Matthew Friedemann, recalls that Romney said of Lauber, “He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!†Romney kept complaining, and a few days later led a “prep school posse†that “came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground.†Here’s the clincher: “As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.†Remembering the incident, one witness told the Post, “to this day it troubles me.†Another called it “vicious.†Friedemann said he feels badly he didn’t try to stop it. A fourth witness ran into Lauber at an airport bar three decades later and apologized to him. He says Lauber responded, “It was horrible,†and “It’s something I’ve thought about a lot since then.†Lauber, who was later expelled from Cranbrook for smoking a cigarette, eventually came out and lived a “vagabond†life, according to Horowitz, who spoke with Lauber’s sisters. He died in 2004." LINK Gotta love those bullies. It's all in good fun. Pick on the kid that looks a little different.

"About 145,000 veterans have spent at least one night in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program. Although homeless veterans represent a relatively small share of the total veteran population, an impoverished veteran has a 1-in-9 chance of becoming homeless." LINK

Certainly, illegals wish not to open any bank account as a Social Security number is required. Illegals are a segment. But I wonder about the others. Others may owe money to credit card companies while others owe money to doctors, labs, and hospitals. No health insurance. There are over 600,000 homeless in USA. Those folks, without an address, may not have a bank account.

"WASHINGTON — The nation's poverty rate remained stuck at a record level last year, while household income dropped and the number of people who don't have health insurance declined. A Census Bureau report released Wednesday provided a mixed picture of the economic well-being of U.S. households for 2011 as the nation enters the final phase of a presidential election campaign in which the economy is the No. 1 issue. The overall poverty rate stood at 15 percent, statistically unchanged from the 15.1 percent rate in the previous year. Experts had expected a rise in the poverty rate for the fourth straight year, but unemployment benefits and modest job gains helped stave that off, the bureau reported. For last year, the official poverty line was an annual income of $23,021 for a family of four." LINK They are all fakers, right? Those poor folks. Just seeking big government handouts, right?

Get that big government ID ready. "* Fraud by individual voters is both irrational and extremely rare. * Many vivid anecdotes of purported voter fraud have been proven false or do not demonstrate fraud. * Voter fraud is often conflated with other forms of election misconduct. * Raising the unsubstantiated specter of mass voter fraud suits a particular policy agenda. * Claims of voter fraud should be carefully tested before they become the basis for action. Fraud by individual voters is both irrational and extremely rare. Most citizens who take the time to vote offer their legitimate signatures and sworn oaths with the gravitas that this hard-won civic right deserves. Even for the few who view voting merely as a means to an end, however, voter fraud is a singularly foolish way to attempt to win an election. Each act of voter fraud risks five years in prison and a $10,000 fine - but yields at most one incremental vote. The single vote is simply not worth the price. The . . . closely-analyzed 2004 election in Ohio revealed a voter fraud rate of 0.00004%. National Weather Service data shows that Americans are struck and killed by lightning about as often." LINK

"NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The number of people who don't have bank accounts is on the rise, as many Americans turn to alternative ways of getting cash -- like payday loans, pawnshops and check-cashing services. About 8.2% of U.S. households, or nearly 10 million, lack a bank account, according to a report released Wednesday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. That's up from 7.7%, or about 9 million households, in 2009." LINK What's the reason for this?

"For Mitt Romney’s campaign, the outlook in the battleground states is even worse than the national polls. According to a GOP source with access to private polling being done by independent Republican groups (who are spending a lot of money tracking public opinion in the battleground states), Romney is in trouble in two must-win states: Ohio: Romney down 5 percent. Virginia: Romney down 4 percent. Most troubling for Romney: the Ohio trend has been consistent for several weeks and is not a “sugar high†resulting from the Democratic convention." LINK Big mistake for Romney to not mention the miltiary, military families, veterans, nor the Bush wars.

District 9 OK, so I viewed on the tele. Still a good Scifi flick. The protagonist was accused with having sex with an alien! Same happened to me in Pattaya!

Roosevelt had to save Hoovers ass. Obama has to fix the problems created by Bush.

A quote from one of US's best ever presidents - Herbert Hoover.

"Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats 44%, Republicans 42% For the first time since January, Democrats now lead Republicans on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending September 9, 2012. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Democrat in their district’s congressional race if the election were held today, while 42% would choose the Republican instead. The last time the Democrats held a lead over the Republicans was in late January." LINK

"Sowell has stated that he was a Marxist “during the decade of my 20s"; . . . Sowell compared President Barack Obama's actions to Adolf Hitler's in a June 2010 editorial for Investor's Business Daily titled "Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny?"[32] Sowell described the role of uninformed citizens ("useful idiots") in the rise of Hitler and Vladimir Lenin, arguing that the U.S. was on a "slippery slope to tyranny" because citizens weren't thinking about the issues. The example he gave was the creation of a relief fund for the BP oil spill, which he said gave the President an unconstitutional "authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever he deems worthy of compensation." " LINK Yes, a fine example of objectivity !

"The federal government has owned and managed land in the United States almost since its inception. The Louisiana Purchase and the conquest of the West put huge tracts of land in its hands. Most of those lands have been sold or granted to states and to individuals, but many lands—one-third of the land area of the United States—still belong to the federal government. Those lands include natural wonders as well as vast, desolate, nearly valueless regions. Does it make sense for the federal government to be the largest single landowner in the United States? A recent study by the Cato Institute, How and Why to Privatize Federal Lands, argues that it does not. The authors, Terry Anderson, Vernon Smith, and Emily Simmons, make the case that turning public lands over to private hands will not only save money but will protect critical land areas, and they lay out a creative plan for how it can be done." LINK Gotta love those Cato Institute people. Sell the Washington Monument. Sell the Smithsonian Museums. Heck, sell the White House!

"On the other hand, it’s safe to ask any Scientologist about Kolob. This is the star, or possibly planet, that is closest to the throne of God. Astronomers haven’t found it – yet – but it served as the inspiration for the planet Kobol in Battlestar Galactica. Why is it safe to ask Cruise about Kolob? Because it’s Mormon, not Scientologist: it appears in The Book of Abraham, “translated†from Egyptian papyri by Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. I use inverted commas because Smith couldn’t read Egyptian. The papyri were funerary texts. The person you mustn’t ask about Kolob is Mitt Romney. The teaching isn’t a secret, but Latter-day Saints aren’t keen to discuss it. These days they stress their similarity with Christianity, and there’s no Kolob in the Gospels." LINK

"Masonic Themes Related to the Book of Mormon. John L. Brooke in his book The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844, noted the following in reference to the story of the discovery of the gold plates and the narrative structure of the Book of Mormon: Freemasonry provides a point of entry into this very complex story. As it had been in Vermont, Masonic fraternity was a dominant feature of the cultural landscape in Joseph Smith's Ontario County .... The dense network of lodges and chapters helps explain the Masonic symbolism that runs through the story of the discovery of the Golden Plates. Most obviously, the story of their discovery in a stone vault on a hilltop echoed the Enoch myth of Royal Arch Freemasonry, in which the prophet Enoch, instructed by a vision, preserved the Masonic mysteries by carving them on a golden plate that he placed in an arched stone vault marked with pillars, to be rediscovered by Solomon. In the years to come the prophet Enoch would play a central role in Smith's emerging cosmology. Smith's stories of his discoveries got more elaborate with time, and in June 1829 he promised Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and Martin Harris that they would see not only the plates but other marvelous artifacts: the Urim and Thummim attached to a priestly breastplate, the 'sword of Laban,' and 'miraculous directors.' Oliver Cowdery and Lucy Mack Smith later described three or four small pillars holding up the plates. All of these artifacts had Masonic analogues." LINK

God will stay put ! "Stumping in Virginia Beach on Saturday, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney made an odd campaign promise: He vowed to keep the phrase "In God We Trust" on our money." LINK "In God we trust" was adopted as the official motto of the United States in 1956.

OHIO "Obama leads Romney 50% to 45% among likely voters in Ohio, according to a survey released Sunday by Public Policy Polling. The 5-point lead in the Buckeye State is the president's largest in a PPP poll since early May." LINK

Romney Flip-Flop. "Most notably, Romney said that he would keep some parts of President Obama's health care reform legislation — something he had previously promised to repeal in its entirety. He also criticized his running mate Paul Ryan's support for defense spending cuts, calling them a "big mistake."" Wink Wink Nod Nod What happened to the full repeal? Romney was for it before he was against it. Now he is for it again !

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.