posted May 16, 2012 11:44 AM            

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posted May 16, 2012 04:19 PM            

Where's my joker smiley at?

posted May 16, 2012 04:55 PM            

Oh wait, Romney and Bain Capital made money rescuing companies. I almost forgot I'm talking to Marxists and Socialists here who believe making money by employing capital is a sin.

As for the idiotic commercial coming out of the O'Bomber campaign, Romney was already gone 2 years from Bain Capital when that steel mill went into bankruptcy.

posted May 16, 2012 05:10 PM            

Back in the day life was less PC , less people were crying bully.

If true, was it the right thing to do? Probably not but lets put it in it`s place and time and not judge it by today`s standards.

I also read the brothers can`t agree what really happened, different versions of the same episode..... go figure

posted May 16, 2012 06:52 PM            

Romney had information about him released that he knew would damage his image?

posted May 16, 2012 07:05 PM            

Is what all you Liberals want

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posted May 17, 2012 05:32 AM            

(* Btw, think about Sodom a moment, if the gang rapists had raped the virgin daughters then the city would've been spared, or so many claim, which is to say raping virgins—who were probably barely even teens or younger given how young females were married off back then—so that raping young girls was seen as more acceptable than consensual gay sex as even rape itself wasn't the issue here and even a “righteous” father like Lot knew that which is presumably why he offered up his own virgin daughters to the crowd to protect the strange men who had visited him.)

It's so bad that many gays who were raised in such homes who had attempted suicide claimed they tried to send themselves to Hell because they believe they deserved eternal torment, and while they were willing to break their mother's heart with suicide they weren't willing to break her heart by telling her he was gay (take a minute to think about that and try to grasp the horror of it, and also think about if they're willing to do that to THEMSELVES than what are others raised that way willing to do to someone else?).

And with that in mind I'm not the least bit surprised by all the hatred, violence, and hostility to gays, from preachers who tell their congregation to beat their children who don't conform to gender roles (which he confuses with sexual orientation), to parents who have abused and tortured their children for it like this one, to a prominent religious speakers such as Michael L. Brown who justifies the murder of a gay boy in class, to a father who sicked his congregation on his gay son (and his boyfriend) which the deputies refused to help or even allow them to press charges.

posted May 17, 2012 05:43 AM            

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I KNOW. It is so stupid. A friend of mine's daughter who was in elementary school, got expelled because she said she was gonna kill another kid.

Is what all you Liberals want

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That definitely sucks. But don't be so fast to blame liberals for bad schools without looking at what conservatives have done to them (or at least supported) as well. I remember how conservatives have supported schools that had one boy handcuffed and arrested from school from wearing his hat sideways and another one where a VP did a “spot check” to see what kind of panties girls were wearing under the dress (by pulling their dresses up where others, including boys, could see) entering a prom. Then there was this (which happened after a student told the principal he smelled pot in the restroom) that was also supported by most conservatives (though Libertarians spoke out against it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB-tz13zhoo

Interesting enough conservatives believed the pot was there despite it not being found, just the potheads were too smart for the principal, school cams, police department and drug dogs, etc. And they also referred to the supposed potheads as “thugs” despite that thugs are known for bullying others with weapons (which seems closer to describing those cops than kids who presumably toked). Oh, yes, one girl (off cam) during that raid claimed 2 cops sexually harassed her at best though as it was her word vs. the cops it wasn't pursued but not long after another cop from that PD was busted for molesting a little girl at where he trained in Krav Maga.

And speaking of which, I believe conservatives are also more supporting of undercover cops in school despite that they're known to have sex with students (and have caused pregnancy) and then been “protected from retaliation by drug dealers” (apparently more important than saving more young girls from sexually abusive cops) and send them to another school, of which I've only heard 2 liberals speak out against this (to no effect that I'm aware of).

Oh, and for more effect, Brandi Blackbear (defended by the ACLU) was just one more student who was searched without just cause and when a book was found in her possession on Wicca (which she said was out of curiosity and was a practicing Catholic herself) she was expelled for casting a spell that made a teacher sick after an obnoxious interrogation following the violation of her civil rights (she'd also been suspended earlier for having written a violent story in her own notebook). Again conservatives supported this. (That said, so did a very stupid liberal Wiccan who thought it was the government's admission to the real power of witchcraft thus somehow “legitimizing” her beliefs and completely forgetting what happened the last time governments believed in witchcraft. I strongly urged her to watch X-Men for why that would be a bad idea and remember she wouldn't get the cool superpowers to go along with the government oppression and if she wanted a better idea what to expect then read books about the Satanic Panics of the 80s and early 90s.)

While the SCOTUS barred strip searches for things like rumors of a girl having Midol (the horror of girls with Midol!), conservative Clarence Thomas said it was a mistake and tried to promote such power in schools to strip search kids for the pettiest of reasons.

posted May 17, 2012 07:12 AM            

Anyone, Pixie, I think you are a very thoughtful person. That is all I ask, rather than knee jerk anything

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posted May 17, 2012 11:47 AM            

Further, Romney's opponents in the Republican primary already pointed out his extremely poor job creation performance while governor. 47th in the nation.

Interestingly, Romney claimed to have created 10,000 jobs while at Bain when he was running for governor. Now he's increased that number tenfold to 100,000 and every fact checker that's taken that "fact" on has found it to be untrue.

There's not really a need to spin stuff where Romney's concerned.

You're not talking to Socialists or Marxists here. You never have been. Every American takes part in Capitalism. Everyone knows this. Some of us are even in the stock market.

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posted May 17, 2012 12:23 PM            

It's contained in most of what they say and their attitudes towards the United States and American citizens.

O'Bomber isn't going to "nail" Romney on anything having to do with Bain Capital acoustic. He may try, but most Americans understand employing their capital to make money. They either are doing so or want to do so.

posted May 17, 2012 12:42 PM            

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There is a common theme of Socialism running rampant on this forum from leftists acoustic.

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No, there isn't.

Socialism:

1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.

No one here has EVER advocated for that. You occasionally love endeavoring to trip people up on semantics like that Diebold quote the other day, but semantically you lose every time when you throw around words like Socialism, because you don't subscribe to the actual definition of the term. Instead, you redefine the word to suit you.

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O'Bomber isn't going to "nail" Romney on anything having to do with Bain Capital acoustic. He may try, but most Americans understand employing their capital to make money. They either are doing so or want to do so.

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posted May 17, 2012 01:00 PM            

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Originally posted by AcousticGod:
The Obama campaign is still going to nail Romney on Bain Capital. The fact that the steel company incident happened after Romney's time at Bain isn't going to amount to much. There are plenty of other businesses that got streamlined by Bain where people lost jobs.

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That is called a business restructuring. It promotes efficiency and turns around companies that are ailing to profitability.

Bain Capital is a venture capital firm that risks the capital of its investors. It is obligated to provide a decent return on that investment. Its their capital that is invested, and not yours, and not Obama's, and honestly none of your business how many business segments they have to shutter to generate that return on investment. Their loyalties are to their investors, and not to you or to Obama.

That is precisely what needs to occur to half of the federal government. Lay off half the workers and cut the overbloated pensions. Remove the perks. Restore growth, eliminate deficit funding and de-leverage by paying down debt materially.

posted May 17, 2012 01:18 PM            

So now you've used Socialism improperly and you've continued to mischaracterize people here as some imaginary group of Europeans that are interested in raising taxes to truly uncomfortable rates. IT's all fantasy.

I guess I can be thankful neither of you attempted to make me out as wrong on the fact that Wall Street peddles Socialism.

YTA, I'm sure you know that campaigns don't necessarily follow the rules of common sense. It's a game of labelling, and this restructuring practice is not going to be necessarily be looked upon favorably by all of the people that have been out of work due to layoffs.