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No need to rely on Anonymous and WikiLeaks if one is concerned with voter fraud, as everyone should be, try Ricochet instead. From the Intel section:

Has voter fraud been a demonstrated problem in recent U.S. history?

Many of us have been compiling incidents there, it's a disturbing record. Vote fraud is unquestionably a real problem.

Roberto

"Replace"? What is this "replace" talk?! The goal is repeal!

Damn, just when I begin to imagine Romney can be tolerated he goes all squishy.

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It appears we have a few more RINOs who need to be primaried.

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BrentB67: Then - heaven forbid you save someone's life by stopping her from flying from a carrier. That is of course immediate grounds for a lawsuit. · 

Ah yes, ugly episode:

The Navy felt a "race" was on to beat the Air Force...  It was very eager for all the good publicity it was sure would ensue if it won the race, establishing the Navy as the shining, exemplary, woman-friendly armed-service branch. The Navy was thus in something of a fix when Kara Hultgreen went and killed herself...

"I owed it to the Navy," declared training officer Patrick Burns, speaking of his sworn testimony to the naval inspector general's office on the F-14 training records of Lt. Carey Lohrenz -- who trained along with Hultgreen -- and now has been removed from carrier flight status on being graded "dangerous" as a pilot. As is the fashion these days Lohrenz is, of course, now suing the Navy, accusing it of gender discrimination--although training records disclosed by Burns show she's a far worse pilot than even Hultgreen, who died in 1994 on her approach to the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.

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david foster: KC Mulville...your comment reminded me of a passage from George Eliot:

"Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessman had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own . . . You would be especially likely to be beaten if you depneded arrogantly on your mathemactical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments."

Eliot wrote the preceding passage circa 1866. Most politicians and bureaucrats, plus many academics and even some executives, still haven't figured it out. · 13 minutes ago

Fantastic quote, on many levels. 

Roberto
George Savage:  All this catalyzes a never-ending Great Recession, and the response of the "visionary" ideologues responsible is, like Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe, to punish the miscreants attempting to flee. · · 3 minutes ago

Yes, clearly this is the wrong approach. No what we need is a wall. A Berliner Mauer as it were. Of course we shouldn't completely seal ourselves off but one entry/exit point will be sufficient. We shall call it Checkpoint Charlie say located on Ellis Island, call me sentimental.

Edited on May 17 at 7:12pm
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The situation with regards to being a Natural Born Citizen and holding the Presidency is actually somewhat unclear, the Ricochet Intel section had an interesting discussion regarding this:

Is Marco Rubio Ineligible for the VP Slot?

Roberto

Something that irritates me as well. The only conclusion I can draw is that those in Washington are seeing this as part of the Guantanamo/military tribunal/detainee debate and with the massive battle that already took place with the Administration over that are not thinking it through.

Roberto
Valiuth: I feel one can blame the decline in hard manual labor on increased obesity too. · 3 minutes ago

Interesting thought, perhaps an analysis made highlighting the increase in obesity and the change from a manufacturing oriented economy to one more focused on services would yield some clues.

Sitting in the office certainly cannot be burning as many calories as working on the factory floor.

Roberto
The King Prawn: I could have risen above the circumstances and done what is necessary, but I did not. Therefore the blame lies with me. Obesity is but a symptom of a bigger problem with our society. Enough conservatism can cure it. · 14 minutes ago

That is a rough road you have been down KP but the fact you are now willing to confront it head on is certainly to your credit.

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Mendel I do, however, stand by my first post that government agricultural subsidies have helped contribute to obesity. What's so dumb about that? · 8 minutes ago

Then would not obesity be greatest amongst those for which food is always cheap? Yet that is not the case at all, those in higher income brackets are far and away less likely to fall into the obese category even though for them it is the simplest matter in the world to overindulge. Your culprit is being unfairly targeted.

Roberto

The King Prawn

Frozen Chosen: Looks like government vs the private sector to me.

The private v public thing is a little bit of a canard. Sure, Obama's folks will make a big deal of Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase donating to Romney, but nary a mention will be made of the fact that they backed Obama last time. I know what the left will say this means, but what I'd really like to know is what it actually means. · 1 minute ago

All of these institutions have balance sheets that should appropriately be marked to junk but since the 2008 Financial Crisis have been allowed to pretend they are solvent. Within a year or so they will need a new TARP package and Romney backed the bailouts.

Obama may have been fine with the original bailouts but seeing his election chances sputter has started doing his "fat cat" banker riff for the base. They are simply laying the groundwork to insure they get get TARP II.

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Edited on May 14 at 8:21pm
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Truth stranger than fiction, I am slack jawed. Ms. Ellis you have earned your pay for the month.

No wait, I take that back. Mr. Long owes you a raise. 

Edited on May 14 at 8:22pm
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Stephen Bishop: The US likes having a president who was modelled on George III. · 7 hours ago

Oh my, I just like seeing this statement in isolation. That is an "interesting" observation. 

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KC Mulville Remember, Frank is one of the geniuses behind Dodd-Frank, an unwieldy bureaucratic mess. Frank's argument is that under George Bush, the economy was unregulated (yes, he said that) and that’s why we lost jobs.· 2 hours ago

Dodd-Frank is a 2319 page gift to all the financial institutions who had sense enough to have lobbyists at the time it was enacted. The only real provision it contained, closing down too big to fail institutions, is the one currently being revoked.

All of this is supposedly a substitute for the 37 page Glass-Steagell act revoked by a bunch of Democrats in the Clinton Administration and even more RINO's who decided government bailouts of failing financial firms was a Federal priority. Let us have no illusions here, the leadership of the GOP has embraced looting the tax payer almost as fervently as Democrats. 

This is why there is a Tea Party. We are not blind. We know. 

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