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September 18, 2012

Fund raiser videos don't show Romney saying he'll release his tax returns...

Romney thinks his $50,000 donors want to know who pays taxes but doesn't show them his tax returns. A few more weeks like this and no one will give a shit if he releases his tax returns or not. Even so, I think he ought to let us see 'em.

August 14, 2012

Paul Ryan: Unfunded.

From facebook post.


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August 7, 2012

Best non political bumper sticker this month.

Recently seen on car in this area.

"Put down the cell phone, and nobody gets hurt."

July 18, 2012

When the lier releases his tax returns, how will we know they weren't made up from whole cloth?

I don't expect the IRS to verify them and what organization could?

Will the MSM insist on an audit? Doubtful.


Just saying.

June 13, 2012

Jump start the economy!

Paul Craig Roberts solution to the so-called financial crisis - http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31272 -


Everyone wants a solution, so I will provide one. The US government should simply cancel the $230 trillion in derivative bets, declaring them null and void. As no real assets are involved, merely gambling on notional values, the only major effect of closing out or netting all the swaps (mostly over-the-counter contracts between counter-parties) would be to take $230 trillion of leveraged risk out of the financial system. The financial gangsters who want to continue enjoying betting gains while the public underwrites their losses would scream and yell about the sanctity of contracts. However, a government that can murder its own citizens or throw them into dungeons without due process can abolish all the contracts it wants in the name of national security. And most certainly, unlike the war on terror, purging the financial system of the gambling derivatives would vastly improve national security.

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31272

(I'm not endorsing the website or anything on it.)

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