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I post articles because I think they are of interest. Doing so doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree (or disagree) with every—or any—opinion in the posted article, or that I was able to verify the information present, which is the responsibility of the author. In some cases I post things sent to me by readers I might not have posted on my own, to get ideas circulating.
I expect to be tied up over Labor Day with family, so posts will be light, I think. Unless Isaac confines me indoors. ~Bob.
Romney: What America needs is jobs, not hope and change
Excerpt: “Hope and change had a powerful appeal,” Romney said. “But tonight I'd ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.”
Why 2008 Obama is Mitt Romney’s best friend. By Chris Cillizza
Excerpt: Mitt Romney made one thing very clear during his speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night: He’s happy to run against President Obama in 2012, but he’s even happier to run against the Barack Obama of 2008. The one consistent element tying together Romney’s generally well-received address accepting the GOP nomination was the big hopes with which Obama came into office.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each other’s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged in the past few years. Too bad that consensus is wrong. On both left and right, the politicians and the experts are saying the U.S.
Poster Boy
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Prior to moving to Randolph , Vermont , we lived in Medford , Massachusetts America
Clint Eastwood grills invisible Obama, says 'We got to let him go'
Excerpt: Actor and director Clint Eastwood tried a risky and sometimes awkward 10-minute routine Thursday before the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., that involved several minutes of him pretending to ask questions to a non-present President Obama, though he won big applause for lines saying it's time for him to leave office.
Republican National Convention night 3: Winners and losers. By Chris Cillizza
Excerpt: The Republican National Convention is in the books with former Massachusetts
The 30 Best Quotes From The 2012 Republican Convention. By John Hawkins
Egyptian leader stuns Iran
Excerpt: Egypt 's president Mohamed Morsi has said that the "oppressive" Syrian regime had lost all legitimacy, in a blistering speech in Tehran Tehran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Morsi said the world had an "ethical duty" to support Syria Syria
Transcript of Paul Ryan's convention speech
There will be a quiz. ~Bob.
The case for Romney in two words: Paul Ryan. By Daniel Hannan
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100178588/the-case-for-romney-in-two-words-paul-ryan/
Excerpt: Ryan took complex issues – the debt crisis, reform of Medicare, unemployment – and made them simple. He spoke movingly of his home town, the town where he still lives, and of the factory there which Barack Obama had said would be open for another hundred years, but which had closed a year later. He humanised the recession, managing to lay particular emphasis on 'the heartland': the key swing states of the Midwest .
Consumer spending posts biggest rise in five months
Excerpt: Consumer spending got off to a fairly firm start in the third quarter, rising by the most in five months and offering hope economic growth would pick up this quarter. Other data on Thursday showed the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits held steady last week. (It’s nothing to brag about. It’s called back-to-school expenses parents have to pay and filling your gas tank at $4.00+/gal plus inflation. –Barb. Or, might be for ammo and canned goods, with the polls still close. ~Bob.)
U.N.: Iran
Excerpt: Iran
What Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan Need to do Now. By Ace of Spades
Worth Reading
Excerpt: According to Professor Frank, stopping global warming may require carbon taxes of about $300 per ton of carbon dioxide emitted, and by implementing such taxes, we can also balance the federal budget. “If such a tax were phased in,” Frank says, “the prices of goods would rise gradually in proportion to the amount of carbon dioxide their production or use entailed. The price of gasoline, for example, would slowly rise by somewhat less than $3 per gallon.
Revealed: Paul Ryan's Stunning Black Cheerleader College
Excerpt: The Republican vice-presidential candidate dated Deneeta Pope, now 40 and a realtor living in Chicago , after they met at Miami University , Ohio
LAPD says Iranian and Hezbollah terrorists are active in California
Excerpt: Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Michael Downing reportedly told members of the LAPD’s counter-terrorism unit on Wednesday that the LAPD is currently tracking local Iranian and Hezbollah agents that may initiate attacks in Southern California if war erupts between the U.S. and Iran
We Can Change America
Excerpt: Entering the final stretch of the presidential contest, Americans are facing a monumental choice. The American people will decide the direction of government and its role in their lives for the coming years. The debate in Tampa
Gathering My Thoughts Once Again. By Burt Prelutsky
Excerpt: But Obama’s defeat would also restore my faith in the American people. Not all of them, you understand. After all, even in defeat, Obama and Biden will manage to carry several states and garner tens of millions of votes in spite of overseeing an administration that has somehow managed to make a terrible economy worse, gutted the military, offended our allies and encouraged the very worst of our enemies.
Excerpt: A public university in Colorado Adams State University
Socialism is as Socialism Does. By Dr. Robert Owens
Excerpt: Ronald Reagan taught us, “How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” Barack Obama’s mentor as a young man was communist party member Frank Marshall Davis.
One Term More
Political Parody.
‘Not anyone in the world’ thinks president will strike Iran
Excerpt: President Obama “literally doesn’t have a clue what to do with Iran because he did not show strength or gain the support of the world” early in his presidency, Johnson told the Free Beacon Thursday afternoon on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention. “No one takes him seriously.”
From Janesville to Jilin --Government Motors opened plant in China four months after closing plant in Wisconsin
Excerpt: A bailed out General Motors expanded its small truck and SUV manufacturing in China soon after closing down similar facilities in Janesville , Wisconsin
GM has increased its manufacturing capacity in China
An Old Marine…Tired But Still Fighting
Excerpt: As we get closer and closer to November 6th it seems a good time to remember how important it is that Americans get out there and vote. As I think back to four years ago I think about the difference in "message" we get from a President that promised hope and change, an end to dirty and divisive politics, and the promise to unite us, not divide us. We've all seen how that's turned out. (He reprinted “I’m tired. ~Bob.)
Government Unions: How They Rob the Taxpayer, Terrorize Workers, and Threaten our Democracy
Excerpt: Frontpage is pleased to present Government Unions: How They Rob the Taxpayer, Terrorize Workers, and Threaten Our Democracy, which uncovers the shocking truth of public service unions’ corruption, thuggery, and political radicalism, and their war against capitalism and the American middle class.
It’s a Girl – The Three Deadliest Words in the World. By Jamie Glazov
Excerpt: Tell us about your new film, It’s a Girl. … In India , China
9, including a journo, with alleged link to IM held
Didn’t get the memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: The Bangalore Central Crime Branch (CCB) have arrested 10 terror suspects linked with Indian Mujahideen terror outfit, including a journalist from a popular English Daily. Muti-ur- Bangalore
ASIA/SYRIA - Bomb at a funeral, a family beheaded: Christians and Druzes targeted in Damascus
This is the side Obama is arming! ~Bob. Excerpt: Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - A terrorist attack hit innocent Christian faithful and innocent Druzes in the area of Jaramana, a suburb of Damascus: yesterday, August 28, at 2 pm, a bomb in a car was detonated while a crowd of faithful, families, elderly people, women and children, were heading to the cemetery to bury two young people.
Bow to Nobody
If you haven’t seen and shared. ~Bob.
The Wall
Good song. ~Bob.
GOP Trouncing Dems in Florida
Excerpt: In 2008, democrats registered voters over Republicans by a ratio of 2.5 to 1. For this election during the same period, Republicans registered at a rate nearly 10 times as much as Democrats. Naturally, the media is portraying this as a result of voter suppression:
Racists of the World, Unite: Rise up against the pasty white brie-eating media. By Quin Hillyer
Excerpt: The left has us pegged. They have identified all the secret racists on our side. They know how to call a spade a spade. (Racist Code Word = Any word said in criticism of Obama. ~Bob.)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: It's a treacherous business exercising your freedom of speech in the age of Obama. As a public service, I present to you: "The 2012 Condensed Liberal Handbook of Racial Code Words." Decoder rings, activate!
Tweets from David Burge @iowahawkblog
Oxford Unabridged English Dictionary now doubles as the MSNBC Guide to Racist Code Words.
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Obamanation by Jon McNaughton
New painting
Worth Reading : Why Bother: The New Isolationism: As Americans’ support for Middle East engagement wanes, so does our influence there. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: The United States is backing off from the Middle East — and the Middle East from the United States America Middle East .
Cannabis smoking 'permanently lowers IQ'
Excerpt: Teenagers who regularly smoke cannabis are putting themselves at risk of permanently damaging their intelligence, according to a landmark study. (Maybe they were just dumb to start with. ~Bob.)
Form Letters For Navy SEALs, Personal Note For A Rapper
Excerpt: The lack of respect our commander in chief has for our fallen heroes was shown by the sending of a form letter signed by auto-pen to the families of 17 Navy SEALs killed in a crash in Afghanistan Del
Tweet from Ken Gardner @kesgardner
The stimulus was essentially a massive redistribution of wealth from taxpayers to public sector unions and Obama's green energy donors.
Chuck Todd: Why Do Republicans Have More Women and Hispanic Governors?
Excerpt: "Let me ask you though, this one question, why is it that the Republicans have elected more women governors and have two Hispanic governors and the Democrats don’t?," asked Todd. "Don’t have as many women governors and don’t have Hispanic governors, why do you think that is?" (Not to mention two Asian governors. Simple. Republicans support competence, regardless of gender or ethnicity. Democrats only interested in minorities to make a show of “diversity.” ~Bob.)
(Creepy Obama supporter) Morgan Freeman to Marry Step-Granddaughter
Excerpt: According to the National Enquirer, Morgan, 72, who divorced his wife last year, has been having a decade-long affair with Hines. (Figures. See “Morgan Freeman Gives $1 Million To Obama-Allied Super PAC. ” http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/07/morgan-freeman-gives-million-to-obama-super-pac-129427.html)
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