Before Democrats and the news media get too worked up about the propriety of Mitt Romney’s fundraiser in Israel, consider that President Obama’s team leads the way in the global hunt for campaign cash – such as a recent event for donors in China (which I find more worrisome than a fund-raiser on the turf of a longtime ally).
The Boston Globe: “So far, Obama alone and through his joint committee with the Democratic National Committee has raised $3.1 million abroad, according to a Globe analysis of federal campaign finance reports. Romney alone and with his joint committee with the Republican National Committee has raised $1.3 million.”
Not big bucks considering overall fundraising and spending by both camps, but let’s not blame Romney for doing what Obama is doing best.
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but poohbah, hard to match mitt’s money guys -- quality vs quantity
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/foreign-money-elections_n_1718545.html?ref=fundrace
also from above link and much more worrisome than offshore us citizen donors
Oh Drat!!! Gore Vidal has died. If you haven’t read his American Chronicle books, now would be a good time to do it.
Good on you, patd!
And, go check out Shelly Adelson’s problem in Macau (at the casino where he, perhaps, ~earned~ some of that money to buy, er, contribute to Romney’s Super Pac) re: prostitution.
Now, is that any way to Restore America?
Mr. 1950s gonna back away from that kind of money?
One of my fave, strange books of all time is Vidal’s Live From Golgotha.
what!??… politicians raising money from wherever they can find it!??…. really?… and both sides????…
CBob… glad to see you showed up… was wondering if your computer blew up…
mqw… yup… growing hemp would make too much sense… still praying for rain for you (and everyone else out your way).
I really miss Gore Vidal’s appearances with Bill Maher.
As well as being from a foreign source shouldn’t who is giving the money also count?
The federal position on hemp and marijuana is beyond stupid it’s wasteful and dangerous.
All in one place, this is more than underwhelming
Mitt Romney’s mouth runneth over
The latest Five Thirty Eight Presidential projections. Just don’t take it for granted, you still have to vote.
mqw, how right you are re industrial hemp! too bad hr 1831 is still stuck and dying in committee. some fun facts about ih (sorry for the bandwidth violation):
http://hemporganic.com/whyhemp.html
Disturbing article here, title says it all: How Chinese children are taken away from their families and brutalised into future Olympians
henry’s hip hemp-mobile
Fugelsang to Current TV prime time in the fall. That should be a fun show.
immensely enjoyed colbert correcting krauthammer monday on his putdown of dressage as “hoity-toity” with “how dare you! it’s frou-frou! get your facts straight”
Well, since they are raising money all over the world, maybe the Obama campaign will stop sending me emails that beg like hell for $3.00 by the end of the day or the world ends!!!
Seems like since the Citizens v United decision, this whole campaign money thing has become cheapened and more tawdry than internet gambling or the local car auction where all the 10 year old vehicles shine like hell but you know are full of sawdust in the motors.
And really, because of trace THC, the US should cede the production of a valuable agricultural product to any other country that doesn’t have it’s head up it’s ass?
Compliments of Wiki -- the font…
“While more hemp is exported to the United States than to any other country, the United States Government does not consistently distinguish between marijuana and the non-psychoactive Cannabis used for industrial and commercial purposes.[15]”
I seem to recall that Miss. State had a hemp farm but may be mistaken about that -- I don’t find anything on it through a very quick search. Vermont and ND are trying to get approval from DEA for hemp licensure, but in typical reactionary fashion, nothing so far because C. sativa L. subsp. sativa var. sativa is the variety grown for industrial use, and that sounds like it might be the same as the MJ strain, C. sativa subsp. indica. Since we teach science so badly, who can blame the idiot critters and DEA for not understanding the difference?
Oh, wait, memory trace. I think that MS state hemp farm was during WWII and maybe even Vietnam to produce hemp lines for the Navy.
yeah… it may be frou-frou… but I never miss a chance to see these beautiful white stallions perform live…
Oh, wait, memory trace. I think that MS state hemp farm was during WWII and maybe even Vietnam to produce hemp lines for the Navy.
btw, is the edit function fried or is it just my computer? I try to edit and it just sits there cooking, and never gets done. (wierd -- it worked, even though I cancelled it.) Carry on.
This day in literary history: Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, so Anna Molly reminds me.
Call me Ishmael is my alltime favorite opening line, followed by Marley was dead, to begin with and Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
And then, there’s that one from Browning’s “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” that never fails to remind me of politicians: My first thought was, he lied in every word. . .
Going back to yesterday’s thread…
http://tinyurl.com/c2jypwm
It might not be the swing voters, but it definitely is the swing states.
“Call me Ishmael is my alltime favorite opening line” -Faire
“Tale of Two Cities”, my ass, it’s also the best opening paragraph:
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.” -Melville
If we legalize hemp and marijuana, how will we fill our for-profit prisons??
Champ, I agree, that is a much better opening paragraph than A Tale of Two Cities. Moby Dick is chockful of great lines and paragraphs--and Captain Ahab is in the running for the greatest literary character ever.
FWIW, Moby Dick is the only novel from my college days that I still hang onto. When my old copy fell apart, I got a new one and copied all my marginal notes into it.
Kucinich , now that’s a liberal I like ,
Don’t agree with his ideology , but at least he’s consistent ,honest and never sold out far as I know
And taking a look at his wife , only proves that old saying ,love is blind ,lol
Kinda gives me hope
Moby Dick sits atop my all-time favorite list.
Faire… as much as I love Ahab… my favorite character is the ghost of Manderley… Rebecca.
Just got through reading Vonnegut’s biography… “And So It Goes”…. LOVED IT! Now I gotta reread Slaughterhouse Five.
Renee, my actual favorite literary character is Heathcliff, but then I’m a closet hopeless romantic--
PS my favorite character in Rebecca is Mrs. Danvers. I saw Diana Rigg play her once in a PBS movie version of the book--deliciously creepy.
I’m in the Moby Dick camp. Always kept a copy with me when I worked the boats -- students always asked to borrow it to find neat things to read to others.
Horatio Hornblower is my all-time favorite.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/thats-mitticulous/2012/07/31/gJQA9zAjMX_story.html
personally, i prefer “mittigrating”
Maybe because he was just starting out as a midshipman when I was in elementary school.
How about MittNugget==one who has no balls?
hard to beat an attention getter 1st line nor a character like
renee, dressage or men’s gymnastics?
btw, unfair that the horses get neither the medals nor the recognition tho’ they do all the work while mr or ms fancy pants just sits aboard looking bored.
“Joann,
President Obama recently said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Comments like that are a slap in the face to the American Dream and reveal the President’s naïve view that government, and not the hard work, talent, and initiative of people, is the center of society and the economy. Clearly, this President and his liberal allies don’t understand how our economy works.
The Republican team and I know from experience that hard-working individuals create successful businesses. Americans have run out of patience — donate today to send a message to President Obama and his liberal allies that there is one clear choice this November.
Donate today and stand with the Republican Team and me.
Mitt Romney”
Dear Mitt,
No matter how many emails you send me telling me how the Republican Party means Business, how can I believe you when my name isn’t Joann?
Flatus
in response to email received@12:32pm today
Pogo,
I’ve had the same problem with the edit function. It works, but you have to cancel out of it once changes are made.
Love both Moby Dick and Tale of Two Cities. Nice list of the 100 best opening lines.
On the computer I’m using now, if I edit, I have to copy the complete edited text, exit the editor, delete the original comment, post a new comment by pasting the text I saved from the editor. It works.
Flatus… ROFLMAO!!
now, now, patd… it takes a human trainer with great skills and lots of patience and hours(years actually) to train a horse to do dressage. It takes a very skilled rider with lots and lots of hours of riding to ride a dressage horse. Just think of it as if a nascar driver had to try to win a race with a car with a mind of it’s own.
I have nothing against the horse or the sport. Dressage is beautiful, and I love watching it. I am, however, very curious as to how Mitt Romney managed a $77,000 business deduction on his tax return for what sounds to me like an expensive hobby.
And did you see that Harry Reid claims to have been told that Mitt Romney paid NO taxes for 10 years? I’d LOL, but it ain’t funny. Not only does my disabled son pay more taxes than GE, he apparently also pays more taxes than Mitt Romney….
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday downgraded its view on the economy but otherwise didn’t make make any changes to its key interest rate, low-rate pledge, or asset-buying plans. The Federal Open Market Committee now says “economic activity decelerated somewhat over the first half of the year,” vs. a prior description of saying the “economy has been expanding moderately.” The decision not to extend its low-rate pledge beyond the current “late 2014″ came as a surprise.
Re: China’s abuse of children in Olympic grooming programs:
The IOC could end that child-abuse in a second, just by banning China from participation in the Olympics, but they don’t, because it’s all about $$$, and NBC and all the other Olympic teams are complicit by not boycotting the games themselves, and I suppose even I am by watching the broadcasts. One would think Michelle Obama, with her love for children, would speak on the matter, also, considering her considerable involvement in all things “Olympic” this year.
You’re a little late to the Ron Paul Revolution, MQW, but better late than never. F*^% the Rand Paul Revolution, though; he sucks.
From yesterday:
I am slightly bemused that it seems acceptable in certain Lib/Prog quarters to mock Iranians and Persians (not that I’m a big fan of their government, personally), while denying the Iranian government’s right to make preparations to defend itself. If Israel can have a whole bunch of WMDs, why can’t Iran?
Come to think of it, isn’t Israel founding itself in the middle of a hostile region and asking the rest of the Western world to defend it like buying a house you can’t afford and asking your friends to pay the mortgage?
If you want to make the argument that the U.S. and Israel share strategic interests, that’s fine, and I might be inclined to agree, but the justification for such shouldn’t be that Iran is some backwards savage land and Israel is a shining beacon of morality. I’d be willing to bet Israel killed more people than Iran did last year. Oh, and they both share the same goal- oligarchies of their own sort, controlling the majority of the Middle East.
” The decision not to extend its low-rate pledge beyond the current “late 2014″ came as a surprise.” mqw@1916
That’s a good surprise as it indicates that they’re worrying about the right thing considering this week’s reports.
…and what is with British Petroleum sponsoring the U.S. Olympic team and exploiting them with their maudlin,(ironically) jingoistic adverts (British English for “advertisements”, see what I did there?)?
…and anybody who was alive in 1967, did you totally flip your %^&$ing *#it when you heard “Sgt. Pepper’s” for the first time? I would have. In fact I just did while listening to it for the 1000th time.
That is all. Thank you.
ExChamp
The first time I bought Sgt. Pepper in 1967, I think the grooves ended up as holes in the record. It has since been replaced in every format known to the recorders of sound. One of the great events in the history of this blog was the get together in Las Vegas. Blue and I went to see “Love” at the Mirage. The Sgt. Pepper segment was amazing. I still think “A Day In The Life” may be the single best merger of lyrics, voices, sounds and instruments ever recorded.
I can’t give Obama a pass for raising money over seas.
He shouldn’t be doing it and neither should Mitt.
Where’s the outrage?
Instead of an election let’s hold an auction on the White House steps. The highest bidder gets the job.
Screw the middlemen candidates, let the corporation with the deepest pockets win.
… from the last thread: “Athletes in parkas and snow-pants don’t make me feel like such an out-of-shape loser.” http://craigcrawford.com/2012/07/31/going-for-couch-potato-gold/#comment-294059
LOL Champ!
“Screw the middlemen candidates, let the corporation with the deepest pockets win.”
… but Jace, they always do. They just couldn’t do it without the right middleman.
Nemo,
Yes they do. Just once however I would like to address
President Exxon or President Citi-bank.
I was glad to see you back CBob.
Want a cup of hazelnut coffee? On me!
I hear you, Jace.
Sorry for the frustration you’re feeling right now.
A Day In The Life made a Beatles fan of me.
Nemo,
I just don’t know, can’t see the average Joe, ever having an influence in a campaign that is costing upwards of a billion dollars.
If our campaign system is not the laughing stock of the world, it damn sure should be. WTF?
Jace,
You seem down. Siddown and have a cup o’ cyberRedeye with me. Or would you prefer cyberThunderhead or cyberPop Skull ? It’s on cyberme.
Prostituted kids, now freed, are suing their pimp -- village voice.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/31259042/detail.html
On the 29th day of February at three o’clock A.M. Micky Flynn was born in Hamilton, Hamilton County, O., and as it was generally considered a good State to come from he did not offer the slightest objection.
The Kite Trust
(A Romance Of Wealth)
by Lebbeus Harding Rogers
NY, NY, 1900, Kite Trust Publishing Company,
Offered as an interesting first sentence.
Champ ,
You would be johnny come lately for the Ron Paul revolution not me
If you had been keeping up you would know that
The Kite Trust is an ultra-conservative, pro-trust, taft republican book about a small group of young Ohioans who found a Trust that grows and eventually buys up every industrial factor in the US. When the head of the Trust is elected President at the age of 58, he creates a new, commercial, department of government. To this new department the Trust members give the Trust. Thus, every American becomes an employee of Big Gummint. And they live happily ever after. It’s a very chipper book.
Not even sure if you are the original champ ,
Or some imposter
In fact if you you are champ , the original , it’s curious that you don’t know that ,
Flatus ,
The fed has been artificially keeping interest rates low by buying up treasuries
I think about 60percent for the last six months , they maybe have come to the realization that they can’t keep expanding their balance sheet forever
They are presently the biggest holder of US debt about three trillion
They have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at the economy with no results
They’re out of options , painted themselves into a corner
They wasted money supporting unproductive banks. They didn’t play hardball. They didn’t say, “Here, lend this out to someone who’ll buy new AMERICAN equipment to build bridges.” They didn’t say, “Here lend this out to create a firebreak and save the endangered mortgages IN AMERICA.” They didn’t say to the middle managers, “Produce your execs and board members for prison work detail at 0500 hours, or face bankruptcy, restructuring, and sale of your persons into slavery in the markets of Sudan”. The Admin needed to focus bankers attention while the crooks were still in the nail biting mode.
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