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[unit731]

Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) did himself no favors in last night’s debate with his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, but he might have done Mitt Romney one.

 

 

"Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, left, gestures as he answers a question during a debate against Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren, right.

 

According to the New York Times, Romney has spent months polishing and rehearsing some of the “zingers†he hopes to spring on President Obama in their first presidential debate on Wednesday.

 

And on Monday, Brown helpfully provided an example of how not to zing: After Warren gave a long, three-part answer, plus “icing†for a total of four, about how Brown has been less bipartisan than advertised in voting against jobs bills, he let loose with this:

 

“Excuse me, I’m not a student in your classroom. Please let me respond.â€

 

Brown routinely addresses Warren as “Professor,†and misses no opportunity to remind voters that Warren teaches at Harvard, but that line seemed both churlish and defensive. In asking, in effect, that she stop patronizing him, he put himself in the role of a subordinate demanding to be taken seriously by the boss. And worse, he again undercut the “nice guy†image that has been such an asset.

 

The verbal equivalent of stomping his foot, it was an interesting reversal of a gender stereotype, but not too senatorial."

 

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[kamui]

Anyone else think BKK traveler has a phobia of mormons?

 

Nah, it's just a phobia of men in black suits on bicycles.

Since he saw "Men in Black" it got worse.

[Flashermac]

Nah, it's just a phobia of men in black suits on bicycles.

Since he saw "Men in Black" it got worse.

 

 

 

[Flashermac]

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.

 

My link

[Bangkoktraveler]

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

 

Which is exactly what ALEC wants !

 

Precisely!

 

Every one is running around looking for

Obama's Muslim birth certificate

and don't even see the Trojan Horse ALEC in their mist.

 

The people surely don't rule the country.

[Bangkoktraveler]

Anyone else think BKK traveler has a phobia of mormons?

 

The Republican party is all over the board.

 

One thing the Republican Party did stand for is being Christian.....

Lately the Republicans have not been posing themselves as standing for God and Country

and I suspect part of this is because some Christians can not stand Mormons

to call themselves Christians in light of the fact that Mormons believe

Jesus and the Devil are brothers.

[Bangkoktraveler]

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.

 

My link

 

 

 

"Fast and Furious"

apparently was a continuation of President GWB's

"Project Gunrunner".

 

No one raised an eye brow when GWB had a similar program

but when Obama carried over one of GWB's programs all hell broke.

 

Why are the Republicans not chanting their mantra of how they want

Obama gone even if it means the destruction of the country?

[Steve]

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.

[Bangkoktraveler]

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.

 

Enteresting insight. "for a guy who never worked a day in his life", it would seem

Obama has helped out a lot of wealthy people.

 

When the 'wall of dominos started to fall' during GWB's administration,

none of the wealthy blamed him for what happened.

 

Odd how the wealthy compare Obama to Hitler.......

I thought the comparison was more in line with GWB

especially with his Homeland Security and TSA.

[Steve]

Good to see that some residents in my childhood city have had enough with gun crime. I still think the way to reduce crime is a) re-think the war on drugs and vastly improve education, especially pre-school to 6th grade. By the time you reach middle and high school if you're not prepared educationally its pretty much too late. Frame of mind-wise these students have given up because the system gave up on them from the start.

 

http://www.metro.us/philadelphia/local/article/1153087--ceasefirepa-advocates-take-to-courtrooms-to-tip-scales-of-justice-against-gun-felons