Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Greed & Debt, The TRUE Story of Mitt Romney

"Everyone knows that he is fantastically rich, having scored great success, the legend goes, as a "turnaround specialist," a shrewd financial operator who revived moribund companies as a high-priced consultant for a storied Wall Street private equity firm. But what most voters don't know is the way Mitt Romney actually made his fortune: by borrowing vast sums of money that other people were forced to pay back. This is the plain, stark reality that has somehow eluded America's top political journalists for two consecutive presidential campaigns: Mitt Romney is one of the greatest and most irresponsible debt creators of all time. In the past few decades, in fact, Romney has piled more debt onto more unsuspecting companies, written more gigantic checks that other people have to cover, than perhaps all but a handful of people on planet Earth."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829#ixzz24zbsuwS5

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Rocky Anderson ... Justice Party Candidate for President

"Here is a decent middle-American kind of guy my conservative family members would like, or perhaps even vote for, and yet, his political views are consistently aligned with my own progressive leftist policy positions. Anderson sees global warming as the greatest threat to humanity, big money's influence in politics as the greatest enemy of our struggling democracy, and the current two-party, corporate-owned political system in America as an increasingly anti-constitutional tyranny, in the literal sense of the word."
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10766-a-road-less-traveled-presidential-candidate-rocky-anderson-speaks-candidly-on-the-crumbling-state-of-the-union

"We have a window of opportunity now to take effective action to reverse this dangerous trend. But, it won't happen unless every single one of us does all that we can, and never sits back expecting that the job will be done by others."

Sunday, August 12, 2012

12 Things You Should Know About Paul Ryan...

....with documentation to substantiate the claims being made:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/11/677171/12-things-you-should-know-about-vice-presidential-candidate-paul-ryan/

Then, pass this link on to your ‘conservative’ friends and relatives and ask them to do the same. ESPECIALLY those on Social Security or Medicare … or those who will be in the coming 10 years.

‘Enjoy’.

P.S. And, for anyone on ANY sort of pension (or will be), when the final constraints on corporate malfeasance have ALL been torn down by Romney/Ryan following their election ask yourself this: what will stop CEOs from STEALING those pensions?

(Answer: nothing. And they will.)

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Chick-fil-A: Pigging Out On ‘Biblical Principles’

"Indeed, if America’s religious rightists were living strictly by the Bible, then they would have had to put Newt Gingrich (and Callista) to death by stoning years ago, rather than entertain the silly notion that he should be president."
 http://www.nationalmemo.com/chick-fil-a-pigging-out-on-biblical-principles/

Extremism Normalized: How Americans Now Acquiesce to Once Unthinkable Ideas

"...McCain’s statement amounts to this pronouncement: Dick Cheney authorized torture — he is a torturer — and I respect him."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/31-0