From Salon -- September 2, 2012:
Paul Ryan’s Marathon Lie
He's used to the media letting him get away with outlandish claims. But this time he went too far.
BY JOAN WALSH
At first I thought the flap over Paul Ryan claiming he ran a marathon in under three hours was silly. (No, I’m not a runner.) Before I read his remarks to the worshipful Hugh Hewitt, it seemed possible that he’d either mis-remembered or mis-spoken. Anyway, Ryan is telling so many destructive political lies on the campaign trail, I thought, why does it matter if he exaggerates his running prowess?
Then I read the interview. He neither mis-spoke nor mis-remembered; he boasted about the feat with specificity and swagger.
Asked if he still ran marathons (plural), Ryan answered “Yeah, but I can’t do it anymore, because my back is just not that great.” When fanboy Hewitt interjected, “I’ve just gotta ask, what’s your personal best?” Ryan fatefully answered “Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something.” The adoring Hewitt exclaimed “Holy smokes!” To which Ryan humbly answered, “I was fast when I was younger, yeah.”
Of course the world now knows that Ryan ran exactly one marathon, and he completed it in just over four hours, not under three. Runners World got the scoop, because marathoners know that Ryan’s claim, if true, was extraordinary. Ryan admitted he got his time wrong in a statement to Runners World, noting “The race was more than 20 years ago.”
So why would Ryan lie? He’s incredibly fit. No one doubts that he does a grueling P90X workout every day. A Google search for “paul ryan shirtless” yields almost 2.2 million results. Why would he feel he had to embellish his remarkable athletic achievements?
Because he thought he could.
Ryan’s media coverage, until now, has been worshipful, parroting his claims and never checking his facts. He’s been called “serious” by Beltway pundits too many times to count, for proposing a budget that slashes programs for poor people, gives the ultra-wealthy more tax cuts and doesn’t balance the budget until 2040. He’s considered a fiscal hawk even though he voted for the Bush tax cuts, a new Medicare entitlement and budgets that squandered the Clinton surplus and ran up a huge deficit under a Republican president.
Ryan was lauded for adding a common touch to Mitt Romney’s ticket, although he grew up well-to-do in Janesville, Wisc. and is now worth at least several million dollars. He parrots the GOP’s “We built that!” nonsense, in which rich people declare they had no government help amassing their fortunes, even though his family got rich in the construction business thanks in part to government highway contracts.
So why would Ryan expect anyone would fact-check his casual marathon lie?
But Runners World did. And now, on top of his convention-speech lies, Ryan’s marathon claim is sealing his reputation as a prevaricator. There’s a character issue here: What kind of person casually lies about an achievement like that, with a swagger? (“I was fast when I was younger, yeah.”) For someone who purports to valorize hard work and individual achievement, such a claim is particularly corrupt.
Ryan is like a guy who was born on second base but tells people he hit a triple, and gets away with it. Until now.
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Lyin'Ryan.
Soon you'll be lyin'in your own sh*t.
http://rense.com/general37/char.htmFourteen Defining
Characteristics Of Fascism
By Dr. Lawrence Britt
Source Free Inquiry.co
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Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread
domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
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8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
Watch Willard on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mUEHpc6JKw8#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBj0joyCeag&feature=player_embedded#!
Remember, he's one of the 47%, leeching off the government and not paying his taxes!
Read the entire article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/opinion/mitt-romney-class-warrior.html
Excerpt: Mitt Romney, Class Warrior
Published: September 18, 2012
It turns out that Mitt Romney was right. There is class warfare being waged in the 2012 campaign. It is Mr. Romney who is waging it, not President Obama, and he’s stood the whole idea on its head.
When you think of class warfare, you probably think of inciting anger, resentment and jealousy among the have-nots against the haves. That’s what Mr. Romney has accused Mr. Obama of doing, but those charges have always been false. The truth is that Mr. Romney has been trying to incite the anger of a small slice of the richest Americans who need no government assistance but get it anyway, against the working poor, the elderly, the disabled workers and veterans, and even a significant chunk of middle-class Americans.
Gone was the pretense that he will be a president of all Americans. Mr. Romney rather neatly divided the country between the people who matter and the 47 percent he does not care about.
To Mr. Romney, that 47 percent consists of people who do not make enough money to be required to pay federal income tax. They are freeloaders, he said, “who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.” It is not his job, he said, as a candidate nor apparently as president if he is elected, “to worry about those people.”
By his definition, those undeserving freeloaders include workers in low-paying, menial jobs (sometimes more than one job) who don’t even earn enough to owe federal income tax. Also included are elderly Americans whose Social Security pensions are too low to be taxed, disabled veterans and people who were maimed on the job.
Willard: your father received government assistance from the USA government when he moved from Mexico to the USA. Thanks to that government help you're now where you are!
Same for Ryan who could go to school thanks to the government help his mother received.
YOU DIDN't BUILD IT!!!
Romney Lawyer Admits They Manipulated Taxes to Conform to 13% Claim
http://www.politicususa.com/romney-lawyer-admits-manipuated-taxes-conform-13-claim.html
Too good to pass up:
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/09/21/mitt-romney-calls-usa-a-foreign-country-in-his-tax-returns
By Elizabeth Flock
Maybe Mitt Romney thinks he lives in Switzerland?
When the former Massachusetts governor released his official 2011 tax return Friday, he (or whoever actually filled out the form) appeared to have mistakenly referred to the United States as a foreign country.
[See: Political cartoons about Mitt Romney]
"If you have a foreign address," the tax return instruction reads, "also complete spaces below." In the space below, under "foreign country name," Romney's form reads "USA."
Several tax preparers confirmed to Whispers that "USA" should not have been written in that line—assuming the Republican presidential nominee is actually a citizen of the United States.
No word from Donald Trump yet if he wants to see the original long form version of the tax return."
See copy of tax return at above link.
OMG....you posters should be made to wear clown suits. You are all so self deceived. Larry Britt should also report on the three kingdoms (civilizations) that ruled the world. Rome, Sodom, and the USA. Rome and Sodom? They embraced gay activity. And we know what happened to them. That's going to happen to us. Powerful nationalism? It's the human condition; like blood being thicker than water. Ryan a liar? How bout messiah? A liar and a cheat of the worst order. Ask the poor in Chicago what they think of his hope and change. Lefties want to keep the black man down. There is no dignity in living off the system. There is dignity in work. Valerie Jarrett and Obama have cashed in big time pretending to serve the poor. Time for Britt and the rest of you to move to a peace loving nation like Norway. The union and the confederacy had a duel nationalism and pride. I read somewhere that they fought a war. Deja vu on the horizon?
http://www.thenation.com/blog/170198/gop-quietly-hires-firm-tied-voter-fraud-scandal-work-battleground-states
GOP Quietly Hires Firm Tied to Voter Fraud Scandal for Work in Battleground States
The Palm Beach Post report last night that a Florida Republican Party contractor turned in at least 106 “questionable” registration firms, with “similar signatures” and wrong addresses, doesn’t seem like a national news story. But it has unwoven a somewhat concealed effort by Republicans in several states to deploy a firm with an ugly history of allegedly destroying Democratic voter registration forms and other acts of fraud.
The contractor in Florida is called Strategic Allied Consulting, a business entity created a few months ago and registered online by a former Arizona Republican Party director named Nathan Sproul.
Sproul, a consultant based in Tempe, is infamous for accusations that his firms have committed fraud by tampering with Democratic voter registration forms and suppressing votes. Sproul was hired by the Romney campaign for a period of five months that began last November and ended in March. But now there’s evidence that the payments continued, only to a different name.
As Greg Flynn of BlueNC pointed out earlier this month, Strategic Allied Consulting recently put up a proxy to hide the fact that its website was registered by Sproul; but not before Flynn took a screen shot. Flynn notes that the firm has been aggressively hiring in Nevada, North Carolina, Virginia and Florida. He flagged two large payments to the firm from GOP committees in Florida and North Carolina.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/i-am-a-job-creator-a-manifesto-for-the-entitled/2012/09/28/756f2e90-07ee-11e2-858a-5311df86ab04_story.html?tid=obnetwork
Read the excellent link. It's the uber wealthy's manifesto of entitlement which has turned into reality with the help of the Kochroches and the TGOPs.
And now Willard says that Russia is the @1 enemy of the USA! Additionally, Mormons are not allowed to smoke yet he was actively investing in that venture, making millions out of it. The IRONY and HYPOCRISY!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/mitt-romney-bain-tobacco_n_1949812.html
Mitt Romney's Bain Made Millions On Big Tobacco In U.S., Russia
Ghosh’s work for cigarette companies was chaotic, unbridled and, ultimately, deadly. To Mitt Romney and his colleagues at Bain & Co., it was a chance to rake in money. Ghosh said he reported directly to Romney, who was excited about the Russian market. "He was my boss," Ghosh said.
At the time, Romney was CEO of Bain & Co., the Boston-based consulting firm that launched his white-collar career and led him into the high-stakes world of corporate buyouts. Although Romney's activities helming the private equity giant Bain Capital have drawn significant attention, his role at Bain & Co. has received almost no public scrutiny. A Huffington Post investigation into Bain's tobacco work found that the consulting firm helped Philip Morris increase its revenues in the U.S., and aided two other tobacco titans as they vied to move forcefully into the Russian market.
Lyin' Ryan:
Voted YES on terminating the Home Affordable mortgage Program. (Mar 2011)
Voted NO on modifying bankruptcy rules to avoid mortgage foreclosures. (Mar 2009)
Voted NO on additional $825 billion for economic recovery package. (Jan 2009)
Voted NO on monitoring TARP funds to ensure more mortgage relief. (Jan 2009)
Voted NO on $60B stimulus package for jobs, infrastructure, & energy. (Sep 2008)
Voted NO on defining "energy emergency" on federal gas prices. (Jun 2008)
Voted NO on revitalizing severely distressed public housing. (Jan 2008)
Voted NO on regulating the subprime mortgage industry. (Nov 2007)
Voted YES on restricting bankruptcy rules. (Jan 2004)
PAUL RYAN IS PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR 95% OF THE DEBT SlNCE 2OO1
Ryan kept saying that Obama caused the debt, but 95% of the Debt since 2001 comes from programs Ryan voted for.
In 2001, we had a $235 billion Surplus. Bush's last budget presented congress had a $1.2-trillion deficit. Here's where it came from:
$9.906 Trillion Added to US Debt by Paul Ryan who voted for 65 DEBT MAKlNG bills. The bills increased spending or decreased revenue because the programs weren't paid for by cuts in spending or increased revenue.
A. Bush Tax Cuts = $2.163 trillion
B. 2008 Stimulus = $148.000 billion
C. Medicare Part-D = $262.000 billion
D. TARP = $189.000 billion
E. New Defense Spending = $1.468 trillion
F. New Discretionary Spending = $480.000 billion
G. New Misc. Spending = $196.000 billion
2001 to 2008 Costs = $5.000 trillion
2009 to 2012 Costs = $4.906 trillion
Total Ryan Spending = $9.906 trillion
Debt Increases since 2001 = $10.430 trillion
Percent of Ryan's Programs Contributing to Debt = 95.0%
Hello,
I have a quick question about your blog, do you think you could email me?
Read this article in its entirety because text below is just an excerpt.
"Except Mitt Romney was not a businessman; he was a master financial speculator who bought, sold, flipped, and stripped businesses. He did not build enterprises the old-fashioned way—out of inspiration, perspiration, and a long slog in the free market fostering a new product, service, or process of production. Instead, he spent his 15 years raising debt in prodigious amounts on Wall Street so that Bain could purchase the pots and pans and castoffs of corporate America, leverage them to the hilt, gussy them up as reborn “roll-ups,” and then deliver them back to Wall Street for resale—the faster the better."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/david-stockman-mitt-romney-and-the-bain-drain.html
As a matter of fact:
Government is subsidizing companies who are paying not high enough wages to their employees in order for the working poor to survive (food stamps etc.) That is a way of additional corporate welfare for uber greedy employers such as Walmart.
http://www.care2.com/causes/company-linked-to-romney-owns-voting-machines-in-ohio-and-colorado.html
Company Linked To Romney Owns Voting Machines In Ohio And Colorado
Excerpt: Are you ready for this?
Voting machines in the critical states of Ohio and Colorado are owned by a company that has extensive connections to the Romney family. Oh, and the same machines will also be used in Texas, Oklahoma and Washington.
Truth out reports:
Through a closely held equity fund called Solamere, Mitt Romney and his wife, son and brother are major investors in an investment firm called H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. in turn holds a majority share and three out of five board members in Hart Intercivic, a company that owns the notoriously faulty electronic voting machines that will count the ballots in swing state Ohio November 7. Hart machines will also be used elsewhere in the United States.
In other words, a candidate for the presidency of the United States, and his brother, wife and son, have a straight-line financial interest in the voting machines that could decide this fall’s election. These machines cannot be monitored by the public. But they will help decide who “owns” the White House.
This is terrifying news.
Voter ID, voter fraud and Republican voter suppression have already emerged as controversial issues in the 2012 race. In addition, Romney’s campaign has been accused of using misleading ads, coming up with fake math for his tax plan and of course, suffering from “Romnesia.”
Read the entire article by using the above link.
R&R Scumbags
Let's look at the Republican record. The Republicans blocked the following legislation;
HR 12- the Paycheck Fairness Act
HR 446 - the Wounded Veteran Jobs Security Act
HR 1168 - the Veterans' Retraining ACt
HR 1171 - the Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program
HR 1581 - the DREAM Act
S 3816 - the Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act
S 3369 - the DISCLOSE act
S 2237 - the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act
S 1660 = the American Jobs Act of 2011
S 3457 - the Veterans Jobs Corps Act
From this record, I must conclude that the GOP doesn't want Americans to have jobs. IN addition, the GOP has declared war on veterans. If the GOP can't rule America, they will destroy America.
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/mitt-romney/statements/byruling/false/
All False statements involving Mitt Romney
All 32 of them outright lies. Read them at the above link.
Where is the media pointing them out?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/05/mitt-romney-taxes-netherlands_n_2077754.html
Mitt Romney's Bain Capital Dodged $102 Million In Taxes By Using Dutch Tax Loophole, Newspaper Writes
"Bain Capital evaded about €80 million (or $102 million) in taxes by using a financial loophole in the Netherlands, according to a HuffPost translation of an article in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant Monday.
De Volkskrant and the website Follow the Money claim that by routing its 2004 investments in the Irish pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott through the Netherlands, Bain was able to dodge dividends and capital gains taxes. Financial adviser Jos Peters estimates that the loophole allowed Bain to save about $102 million.
In 2009, 4 years after investing in Warner Chilcott, Bain moved the company's seat from Bermuda to the Netherlands to evade possible stricter tax laws on the island, De Volkskrant explains.
Radio Netherlands Worldwide summarized what happened next:"
Read the entire article by using the above link.
Read all info from the original Dutch newspaper (in Dutch): http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/4004/Verkiezingen-in-de-Verenigde-Staten/article/detail/3342442/2012/11/05/Romney-ontwijkt-belasting-door-sluipweg-via-Nederland.dhtml
Let google translate it for you.
Willard, you moocher!!
There's a lot more info about the tax evader in the Dutch newspaper than what was published by Huffpo. Translate it!!!!!!
Show your taxes liar and man up by showing your taxes of the 10 last years!
You Americans are paying a lot more in taxes to shoulder the ones that won't pay them. i.e. Willard. You're all subsidizing Willard and his ilk.
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/05/romney_rant_on_mormonism_goes_viral/
Watch it!!
http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/breaking-retired-nsa-analyst-proves-gop-is-stealing-elections/article20598.html
UPDATED: Why is Mitt Romney so confident?
In states where the winner will be decided by less than 10%, of the vote he already knows he will win. This is no tinfoil hat conspiracy. It’s a maths problem. And mathematics showed changes in actual raw voting data that had no statistical correlation other than programmable computer fraud. This computer fraud resulted in votes being flipped from Democrat to Republican in every federal, senatorial, congressional and gubernatorial election since 2008 (thus far) and in the 2012 primary contests from other Republicans to Mitt Romney.
This goes well beyond Romney’s investment control in voting machine maker Hart Intercivic and Diebold’s close ties to George W. Bush. Indeed all five voting machine companies have very strong GOP fundraising ties, yet executives (including the candidate’s son Tagg Romney) insist there is no conflict between massively supporting one party financially whilst controlling the machines that record and count the votes.
A retired NSA analyst has spent several sleepless nights applying a simple formula to past election results across Arizona. His results showed across-the-board systemic election fraud on a coordinated and massive scale. But the analysis indicated that this only happens in larger precincts because anomalies in small precincts can be more easily detected.
Read the entire article by visiting the above link.
Willard, sing your song again will ya?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJlepw4VUus
Now go back to your planet Kolob.
Willard and POTUS having lunch at the White House:
Willard: "Thanks for lunch"
POTUS: "Consider it a "Gift".
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