Bangkoktraveler

Hiyh expectations for Romney in the next debate. i have a feeling we will see a much better prepared Obama on his A game. Romney sounded like a champion of the middle class but his policy is based on incentives for the rich. No one will call him on it because the media is all about the performance. Smart on the Romney teams part.

Hiyh expectations for Romney in the next debate. i have a feeling we will see a much better prepared Obama on his A game. Romney sounded like a champion of the middle class but his policy is based on incentives for the rich. No one will call him on it because the media is all about the performance. Smart on the Romney teams part.

the Presidental debate is interesting.

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/01/the_billionaire_obama_hate_club/

 

And billionaire hedge-fund manager Leon Cooperman, a former Obama supporter, responds with this:

 

“You know, the largest and greatest country in the free world put a forty-seven-year-old guy that never worked a day in his life and made him in charge of the free world … Not totally different from taking Adolf Hitler in Germany and making him in charge of Germany because people were economically dissatisfied.â€

 

Cooperman, like so many of his fellow super-rich, is upset at Obama’s class-warfare “tone.†But in response, as Chrystia Freeland documents in her definitive New Yorker treatment of billionaire Obama hate, Cooperman raises the level of divisive rhetoric light-years beyond Obama’s, straight into a galaxy of ludicrous imbecility. It is beyond irrational to compare Obama with Hitler, or to argue that in any meaningful way his administration has waged class warfare against the rich. If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times, Obama has been great for the rich!

 

Freeland says it again:

 

The growing antagonism of the super-wealthy toward Obama can seem mystifying, since Obama has served the rich quite well. His Administration supported the seven-hundred-billion-dollar TARP rescue package for Wall Street, and resisted calls from the Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, and others on the left, to nationalize the big banks in exchange for that largesse. At the end of September, the S. & P. 500, the benchmark U.S. stock index, had rebounded to just 6.9 per cent below its all-time pre-crisis high, on October 9, 2007. The economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty have found that ninety-three per cent of the gains during the 2009-10 recovery went to the top one per cent of earners.

Univision: Juarez drug cartel leader ‘El Diego’ was captured with Fast and Furious weapons

 

 

When Mexican authorities took Juarez drug cartel carnage king Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez — better known as “El Diego†— into custody, he had weapons from Operation Fast and Furious on his person, the English-language transcript of the Spanish-language television network Univision’s special investigation into the scandal shows.

 

“According to investigations, ‘El Diego’ forms the link between this massacre and Fast and Furious,†an anchor read on air in Spanish Sunday evening, referring to two different mass killings drug cartel operatives used Fast and Furious weapons to conduct as Univision reported.

 

“When he [El Diego] was captured in Chihuahua in the summer of 2011, he was found with weapons that the American government had allowed to enter Mexico,†the anchor added.

 

El Diego was, until he was taken into custody, the leader of the Juarez drug cartel’s La Linea — or “enforcement arm.†According to the El Paso Times, El Diego told Mexican authorities after his capture that La Linea’s mission was, among other things, to “eliminate the members of the Sinaloa cartel in Ciudad Juárez.â€

 

Mexican authorities have alleged El Diego is responsible for the murders of at least 1,500 people in Juarez and Chihuaha City, Mexico, according to the El Paso Times.

 

Tracy Schmaler, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Eric Holder, has not responded to a request for comment in response to this revelation.

 

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Anyone else think BKK traveler has a phobia of mormons?

I don't think that any know what ALEC actually is.

 

Which is exactly what ALEC wants !

Would Hitler have used the bomb? Tojo? No way! Nothing to worry about.

Regarding Iran, there is good news and bad news.

First the bad news, Iran will have a nuke. Probably in the next 12 to 24 months.

Now the good news. It won't matter. They won't use it.

 

Countries in the modern age do not acquire or seek to acquire a nuke for offensive purposes. Its always defensive. It may seem like its for offensive purposes but its not. North Korea would have used it years ago if it were for offensive purposes. Either India or Pakistan would have used it were it so. The fact is countries in the modern age acquire it as an insurance policy against being attacked in a conventional war and Iran is no different.

I was in LOS for the 2000 election, but I don't think there was anywhere near the division over that election as now. Nobody cared that much if Al Gore was defeated. The division now is the worst I've ever seen. The Obama people are practically painting Romney as the Anti-Christ. I get sent a steady stream of rightwing Obama-is-a-Muslim-commie-illegal-alien crap from my friends in the States, plus a steady stream of Obama is God from my sister and her friends. It reminds me of the red shirts and yellow shirts in Thailand.

Not government jobs.

 

Romney is going to dismantle the EPA, Department of Education, the VA, and a whole bunch more unneeded government agencies.

 

Romney is going to create private sector jobs by doing away with those darn government regulations. Let the free market take care of itself.

 

Romney will cut taxes for the "job creators" - those with wealth or the 1 percenters. The 1 percenters with tax cuts will have more money to spare and thus instead of buying that yacht or Bentley or house in Palm Beach - they will spend the money hiring people.

 

All of this is a revamp of the famous "trickle down economic" made famous by previous Republicans.

 

Who the hell needs clean air and clean water anyway?

 

Who really cares about the National Forests? Give or sell that land to the timber companies. Clear cut to make cheap lumber.

 

You really got to love the guy!