The big mystery of the 2012 GOP convention
Can anybody identify that rectangular item in the upper left-hand corner of this AP photo, taken during Paul Ryan’s speech last night to the Republican National Convention?
The vice-presidential nominee seemed to be glancing at it quite a bit last night, almost as if he was reading from it. Anybody got any ideas? In fact, I believe that every single speaker at the convention with one exception — Condi Rice — has been staring at that thing during their speeches. It’s almost as if they needed somebody to tell them what to say.
I’m going to be watching Mitt Romney closely tonight, just to see if he too starts staring at that … whatever it is. Weird, huh?
– Jay Bookman
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Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 30th, 2012
8:45 pm
Josef
You know history began when Obama was elected…..
Keep up man
Dharma Bum
August 30th, 2012
8:45 pm
Kamchak, you seem rather mean… is the 2012 election rhetoric affecting you that much?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 30th, 2012
8:45 pm
Quitting are you?? Par for the course.
Your the uneducated one who espouses ‘da guvmint’ supporting your dumb arse!
Get a job, ANGRY Blog LOSER
USMC melt-down.
Ahem
August 30th, 2012
8:46 pm
What a bunch of loser hacks some of you here are, including the host. Of course the use of a teleprompter is to be expected when on national television doing a live show of such great importance. Is this all you’ve got, Jay? Is this it? How utterly small!
I can assure you, each and every one, that Romney or Ryan or any of the other speakers would not need one while addressing elementary school children. Obama did and that settles that, losers.
Thulsa Doom- pompous ass extraordinaire
August 30th, 2012
8:46 pm
“Oh, please you and Big Daddy and y’all’s Sharia version of history…you need to review yours. The shift came following the Flood of ‘27, Blacks voted overwhelmingly for FDR and he recognized that support by appointing the first Black (and woman, that liberal love of twofers) to the cabinet.”
josef,
Did I not just say that the change began in the 30s? So I’m off by what?- 3 years. Kinda nit pickin there aintcha.
As for the purpose of the civil war yes. The overriding purpose was to preserve the union. But Lincoln and the GOP dominated north still get credit for ending the war. And as for abolitionists where they hell was the abolitionist movement strong? The GOP dominated north or the Dem south? Puh lease!
Plessy vs Ferguson and a few other examples? And? Don’t even try to compare life for blacks in the gop dominated North vs life for blacks in the Dem party dominated south. Last I recall they were not lynching black people left and right in the GOP north like they were in the Dem controlled south. Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, segregation. All products of a Dem dominated South.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 30th, 2012
8:47 pm
Kamchak, you seem rather mean…
I’m not even going to try assume that I have any control of what you infer.
is the 2012 election rhetoric affecting you that much?
No.
Dharma Bum
August 30th, 2012
8:49 pm
Glad to hear! People on both sides need to take their partisan anger down a few notches. I’m genuinely wondering what you mean by “sock puppets.” If this is internet jargon, consider me blissfully ignorant.
Reality
August 30th, 2012
8:49 pm
Its a hypnotizer, its from outerspace. It turns them all into zombies. They are controlled by some planet in a far far away galaxy. So stop makeing fun of them.
Doggone/GA
August 30th, 2012
8:50 pm
“Is this all you’ve got, Jay? Is this it? How utterly small!”
It would appear that you need to give your sense of humor a bit more exercise. Take a REALLY good look at it. And, BTW, if you’d bothered to keep up with the posts…the “secret” was revealed 2 or 3 pages ago
Brosephus™
August 30th, 2012
8:50 pm
Fred @ 6:06
I still see plenty of cars with the “W” stickers as well as the “W’04″ version. The people you called out for that crap deserved every bit of that and then some. Funny how one can spout off how he’s served the country all over the place and then turn right back around and disparage the very office he was employed to protect. Seeing that crap makes me sick to my stomach.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 30th, 2012
8:50 pm
Obama did and that settles that, losers.
No, while speaking with the students, he did not use a teleprompter. While addressing the press in another classroom he did.
Now, as we used to say in my day, “Ain’t your face tight”.
Jm (LL)
August 30th, 2012
8:51 pm
Clint Clint Clint
AngryOld WhiteGuys Unite
August 30th, 2012
8:52 pm
All products of a Dem turned Republican dominated South.
Corrected your blatant error there.
Peadawg
August 30th, 2012
8:52 pm
LOL, Jay! Very nice.
And btw in case someone lives under a rock…COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS BAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!
AngryOld WhiteGuys Unite
August 30th, 2012
8:53 pm
Mitt Gekko, he’s your man.
weetamoe
August 30th, 2012
8:54 pm
No need to guess. They are all using teleprompters (except Condi, the real college professor/intellectual). There was a report on PBS the first night of the convention that the speakers put their drafts on teleprompters and even an interview with Ann Romney complaining that she had never used one and preferred using just her notes. Evidently it is the regular procedure. You might ask someone who speaks at these affairs. I am sure they would not mind answering your question. Back to Condi. If you watched her speak, surely you now know the difference between a pretend intellectual and the real thing.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 30th, 2012
8:55 pm
COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS BAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!
Yawn.
EPL has been going on for the past two weeks.
bman
August 30th, 2012
8:56 pm
“Now, as we used to say in my day, “Ain’t your face tight”.
I’ve never heard this before
AngryOld WhiteGuys Unite
August 30th, 2012
8:58 pm
The Salt Lake City Olympics! That’s where Mitt went to the federal government and begged for millions upon millions of our tax dollars to bail his sorry butt out since he could not pay for his huge waste any other way. He cheated the US out of other people’s money to pay for the olympics and then claimed that he built that. We built that. It was our money.
Thulsa Doom- pompous ass extraordinaire
August 30th, 2012
8:59 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 30th, 2012
8:43 pm
“Hmmmm.. oh I get it. GE and other corporations who pay zero taxes are not really contributing to economic growth.”
Apples and oranges. GE paid numerous taxes through its employees. And if you have a problem with them then perhaps you should take it up with O since Immelt and he are good buddies and he was the head of O’s jobs council. The zero taxes is that we pay for all those investments in “green energy” pipe dreams of yours. Surely you’ve heard the economics term- There is no free lunch. If you haven’t then let this count as econ lesson # 2.
“Those Bain companies that went bankrupt were of course adding to economic growth when they took all those government funds and pocketed them.”
Typical kook left thinking. In many cases the govt doesn’t “give” a business anything. They simply confiscate less of what that company earns. And the kooks then think something is being given. Secondly you must not know much about business. In business not every company makes it. Some fail. That’s just life missy. Bain capital has many success stories of companies like Target that made it big and employ tens of thousands of tax paying people and stores. But they’re not going to be able to save every company. Your fundamental misunderstandings of both business and the economy are frightening.
Soothsayer
August 30th, 2012
8:59 pm
This whole RNC thing perplexes me. If RepugNOwecan’ts had this great “plan,” why didn’t they just use it during “Ws” presidency? Why wait until after he is disgraced? I sure am curious as to what this “plan” is. Can anyone on this blog tell what the “plan” is? I would really like to hear it.
Peadawg
August 30th, 2012
9:00 pm
“EPL has been going on for the past two weeks.”
A bunch of sissies flopping all of the place if they get poked in the arm? Very exciting 0-0 scores?
No thanks.
AngryOld WhiteGuys Unite
August 30th, 2012
9:00 pm
The only thing Mitt Romney has built over the years are his Cayman Island tax dodges.
TRUTH
August 30th, 2012
9:01 pm
You feelin’ lucky………., PUNK?!!!
BWHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHHHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHHAA (Burp) HAHHAHHAHHAHHHAHHAHAHHSAHHHAHAHHHSHAHHSHHAHH Whooooooooo……
The Comedy THAT IS the GOP…
OBAMA 2012
Brosephus™
August 30th, 2012
9:01 pm
Oh, I know, she’s a Republican. You would think that liberals would celebrate some black woman who rose from the Selma bridge crowd and thought for herself.
I don’t recall Condolezza Rice ever stating she marched in any protests during the 1960’s. She might be from the Selma Bridge generation, but if she wasn’t in the street, just living during that time doesn’t automatically make her part of the crowd.
One of the people who works for my alma mater actually marched in the first attempt across the Edmund Pettus Bridge as an 8 year old. SHE is part of the Selma bridge crowd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheyann_Webb
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Smallest Freedom Fighter” and co-author of the book, Selma, Lord, Selma. As a eight year old, Sheyann Webb-Christburg took part in the first attempted Selma to Montgomery march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday.
Thulsa Doom- pompous ass extraordinaire
August 30th, 2012
9:02 pm
“EPL has been going on for the past two weeks”
Nothing like watching guys running around kicking a ball everywhere in a game that ends up 1-0.
L
A
M
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I’ll take the man’s game of American football. The kooks can stick with kickball.
Soothsayer
August 30th, 2012
9:02 pm
Well . . . do ya punk?!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 30th, 2012
9:04 pm
Pompous Ass, you’re dancing and spinning nonsense.
It counts one way, but not another…. blah, blah, blah. You got nothing but hot air. LAME
getalife
August 30th, 2012
9:05 pm
The gop will lie and the dems will tell the truth.
Facts don’t matter.
If the people don’t show up to vote like in 08, they win like 10.
moore predicts robme will win because he has more money to get people to vote.
That is what it comes down to.
josef
August 30th, 2012
9:06 pm
THULSA
You might want to go back and review the stats on lynching…the GOP West beat out the Dem South and GOP North alike…things getting slow? Go string up and mow down a few Indians and make sure you get the women and children…nits make lice, don’t you know…?
That shift, three years off having little to do with it, was dramatic and wholesale…Blacks had already begun to move toward the Democrats with the Al Smith campaign, the rise of the KKK up in the North in relation to the anti Catholic stance of the GOP had shown them what was in store…
And Plessy v Ferguson etc, and “comparison to the Jim Crow…” Stop and look at it, and put down the Sharia…those two decisions are what UPHELD Jim Crow…
All of what you cite…poll taxes, etc. had the seal of GOP approval…and, just pointing out a little something here that you GOPers (and no small few Democrats)citing Sharia just seem to completely overlook in your Black-White world the genocide of the American Indians, the genocide of the Native Hawaiians, the bloody repressions in the Philippines. Let’s not forget the Robber Barons, etc. etc…
Thulsa, honestly, the GOP has presided over some of the worst outrages of American domestic and foreign policy…
Now, the Democrats…don’t get me started there…but either party trying to come off as holier than thou in relation to the Gilded Age into the 1960s is an exercise in hypocrisy…
yuzeyurbrane
August 30th, 2012
9:07 pm
Actually, I think Mitt gives it a pretty good read. No followup questions please.
Thulsa Doom- pompous ass extraordinaire
August 30th, 2012
9:07 pm
I’m not quite sure what you mean by this. : /
Looks like dharma bum had an issue translating liberal gobbledeegook.
They BOTH suck
August 30th, 2012
9:07 pm
Bro
Don’t tell me she is a Democrat. If she is it is because the Democrats bought her vote via handouts……………….
As least that is what they tell me on this blog
You know minority Democrats do not have the ability to think for themselves. Wasn’t said exactly that why, but with all the vote buying that goes on, I am not sure how else to take what was said today.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 30th, 2012
9:07 pm
Bro
She is an amazing story. I salute her for helping stand up to that hatred back then.
G Mare
This is the bridge I was wanting to sell. It’s newer and in much better shape.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hooverdambypass.org/images/22_lowrez.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hooverdambypass.org/const_photoalbum.htm&h=400&w=500&sz=101&tbnid=yiOcr9s78cN9dM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=123&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhoover%2Bdam%2Bbridge%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=hoover+dam+bridge&usg=__b2_7uyE34u5po6BGHwV6Y1elI0s=&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ig5AULTvIOjz0gHL1oD4Cw&ved=0CEUQ9QEwBA&dur=2322
Brosephus™
August 30th, 2012
9:07 pm
The shift came following the Flood of ‘27, Blacks voted overwhelmingly for FDR and he recognized that support by appointing the first Black (and woman, that liberal love of twofers) to the cabinet.
That was the big shift. The push actually began at the tail end of the Reconstruction period. The flood was just one of many catalysts that helped the shift progress along.
I read my history books.
Towncrier
August 30th, 2012
9:08 pm
“TC, so how do YOU explain how the GOP has elected exactly four black US Senators since the first year of the Chester A. Arthur administration? Yeah, I thought so. LOL…”
I’m back for a bit. Dang, JV, you have really exposed your flank a bit with this statement. When I responded before, I didn’t have any idea how many Republican black senators there had been but just assumed you were right and that there likely had more Democratic senators. WRONG! There have been exactly 3 for both parties:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_United_States_Senators
You were probably thinking of the 3 and a half or so to 1 ratio of Representatives since Reconstruction…I don’t know since you haven’t got your facts straight to begin with. Perhaps you meant 4 Representatives since Arthur’s term began – but that wouldn’t be right either (since there have been 13).
Now, would you please answer my question about what is wrong with race-baiting liberals like you? And, while you are at it, please explain just what president Obama has done to solve our economic problems (as that is the main issue)?
They BOTH suck
August 30th, 2012
9:08 pm
Bro
Joking aside. Those were brave folks and I am sure you are honored to know that lady
Soothsayer
August 30th, 2012
9:08 pm
Did Lord Willard already speak? Don’t tell me I missed it!
USMC
August 30th, 2012
9:09 pm
DemocRat led Fulton County Government uses institutionalized RACISM in Hiring practices
Jury: Fulton discriminated against white, male job applicant
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/jury-fulton-discriminated-againt-white-male-job-ap/nRPnf/
Doggone/GA
August 30th, 2012
9:09 pm
“I don’t recall Condolezza Rice ever stating she marched in any protests during the 1960’s”
She was born in 1954
JamVet
August 30th, 2012
9:10 pm
Keep, the pirating cons always steal lib music and try to co-opt it as their own. There are tons of examples.
Usually the artists tell them to FOAD and to go steal somebody else’s stuff!
Too busy working to educate the historical revisionists, but let me say that the last great Republican to do anything for black American’s had a nickname of Honest. (grin)
If you watched her speak, surely you now know the difference between a pretend intellectual and the real thing.
Riiiiight!
Real intellectuals use paper notes, but anyone who reads the exact same words using a digital medium is a fake intellectual.
Silly Luddites…
wah
August 30th, 2012
9:10 pm
I think Jay must always use one of those evil devices for writing his lame columns,only his, comes from the liberal (everything said by the Republicans is evil,OR RACIST) talking points. He, among all the other liberals (media included) are the most racist, because they, are the ones so obsessed with the subject. I only look at his column occasionally,but every time I do, it is always, ALWAYS,about disparaging the other side,and how wrong conservatives are. They are a bunch of lemmings. Jay,I know you are a uber liberals. But everything conservatives say is not mean spirited or evil. Grow a spine. Send Obama all your money,so you can help the poor. I have given enough.When has a poor person given you a job?
AngryOld WhiteGuys Unite
August 30th, 2012
9:11 pm
Here’s how Romney would go about “liberating” a company: A private equity firm like Bain typically seeks out floundering businesses with good cash flows. It then puts down a relatively small amount of its own money and runs to a big bank like Goldman Sachs or Citigroup for the rest of the financing. (Most leveraged buyouts are financed with 60 to 90 percent borrowed cash.) The takeover firm then uses that borrowed money to buy a controlling stake in the target company, either with or without its consent. When an LBO is done without the consent of the target, it’s called a hostile takeover; such thrilling acts of corporate piracy were made legend in the Eighties, most notably the 1988 attack by notorious corporate raiders Kohlberg Kravis Roberts against RJR Nabisco, a deal memorialized in the book Barbarians at the Gate.
Romney and Bain avoided the hostile approach, preferring to secure the cooperation of their takeover targets by buying off a company’s management with lucrative bonuses. Once management is on board, the rest is just math. So if the target company is worth $500 million, Bain might put down $20 million of its own cash, then borrow $350 million from an investment bank to take over a controlling stake.
But here’s the catch. When Bain borrows all of that money from the bank, it’s the target company that ends up on the hook for all of the debt.
Now your troubled firm – let’s say you make tricycles in Alabama – has been taken over by a bunch of slick Wall Street dudes who kicked in as little as five percent as a down payment. So in addition to whatever problems you had before, Tricycle Inc. now owes Goldman or Citigroup $350 million. With all that new debt service to pay, the company’s bottom line is suddenly untenable: You almost have to start firing people immediately just to get your costs down to a manageable level.
“That interest,” says Lynn Turner, former chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission, “just sucks the profit out of the company.”
WE JUST DON’T GET IT, HUH! Guess again, Mitt Gekko.
G Mare
August 30th, 2012
9:12 pm
Sorry, I am not a sports person. What is EPL? Yes, I could google, but figured you fans would have fun enlightening me.
Not to mention that I really don’t care enough to google it ….
Probably forgot to mention: I really hate sports!
Okay, I get that my attitude re sports is going to rain opprobrium on my head. Meh!
Brosephus™
August 30th, 2012
9:12 pm
They BOTH
I’m not sure if she’s a Dem or Repub. What I can tell you is that many that were intimately involved in the Civil Rights Movement came off the campus of Alabama State University (College back then) in Montgomery. The Masonic lodge that I belong to has a few distinguished names on the charters of the lodges and Eastern Star chapters that were formed there.
NoCom
I listened to her give a speech about that one time. I have never, in my entire life, been witness to someone who has opened up so much emotion on a stage in front of an audience before. The things she described at that time were validated when I actually got the chance to meet others who were on the bridge that day. I hold those people up as icons.
Josef
August 30th, 2012
9:14 pm
Doggone
1954 was a good year to be born
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 30th, 2012
9:15 pm
USMC:
Good for him. VPPD is a great assignment. Lots of good travel and plenty of free parking for your private vehicle at the Naval Observatory ………………….
P.S. You sure are catching it tonight. Must have really stirred them up !
getalife
August 30th, 2012
9:15 pm
usmc,
I told you cons that was coming.
It is called karma.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 30th, 2012
9:16 pm
G Mare
EPL = English Premier League.
What we call soccer
Doggone/GA
August 30th, 2012
9:17 pm
“1954 was a good year to be born”
My sister would agree, I’m sure!
AngryOld WhiteGuys Unite
August 30th, 2012
9:18 pm
Why aren’t any small vendors allowed in the Republican convention. I thought they said they were for small business. Republicans lie, small businesses die.
Brosephus™
August 30th, 2012
9:18 pm
She was born in 1954
Doggone
Check the link I posted about Mrs. Sheyann Webb. She was born in 1956 and participated in the march on Bloody Sunday. There was a tv movie made based on the book she wrote.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171728/
Seems like nobody can get her age right though. Based on her DOB, she would have been 9 years old. The movie states she was 11, and the wiki page says she was 8. She’s a pretty cool person to know though.
Thulsa Doom- pompous ass extraordinaire
August 30th, 2012
9:19 pm
josef,
I’ll have to go and read some lynching history but I have to admit that I do have a hard time believing more black people were lynched out west then in the south. I don’t see how that’s possible but I will look it up.
As for all the other stuff you brought in about the treatment of the Indians and all that you’re opening up a can of worms that Jamvet and I weren’t going into. We all know American presidencies of both parties have done all sorts of bad throughout history. That was not the scope of what we were talking about.
Jamvet was simply saying that in regards to blacks that the GOP had treated blacks poorly for 130 or 150 years or whatever it was. And I simply pointed out to him that prior to WW 2 or lets say 1927 that blacks had fared better and been treated better in GOP northern states than in Southern DEM states. And I don’t think too many people were argue that they weren’t.
G Mare
August 30th, 2012
9:19 pm
Re Clint Eastwood: he is a GREAT actor! Hard to overlook his politics, tho.
They BOTH suck
August 30th, 2012
9:19 pm
Bro
Very cool and educational to be able to get 1st hand information of the account.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 30th, 2012
9:20 pm
josef
yes 1954 was a good year, except for the fact that I was born in 1956 (along with Jay and we are both Virgos) LMAO.
Doggone/GA
August 30th, 2012
9:20 pm
“Check the link I posted about Mrs. Sheyann Webb. She was born in 1956 and participated in the march on Bloody Sunday.”
I wasn’t trying to say anything about Ms Rice…just to give some insight into what her age would have been at the time.
getalife
August 30th, 2012
9:20 pm
I am watching real football.
Who dat?
redneckbluedog
August 30th, 2012
9:22 pm
Let’s ruin it again…!!!!! Romney/Ryan 2012…
AngryOld WhiteGuys Unite
August 30th, 2012
9:23 pm
Take a typical Bain transaction involving an Indiana-based company called American Pad and Paper. Bain bought Ampad in 1992 for just $5 million, financing the rest of the deal with borrowed cash. Within three years, Ampad was paying $60 million in annual debt payments, plus an additional $7 million in management fees. A year later, Bain led Ampad to go public, cashed out about $50 million in stock for itself and its investors, charged the firm $2 million for arranging the IPO and pocketed another $5 million in “management” fees. Ampad wound up going bankrupt, and hundreds of workers lost their jobs, but Bain and Romney weren’t crying: They’d made more than $100 million on a $5 million investment.
WE JUST DO GET IT, MITT GEKKO! You didn’t build anything. You suck the life out of everything you touch.
They BOTH suck
August 30th, 2012
9:23 pm
G Mare
I personally do not care what any entertainer has to say about politics. Some do some great work in various areas, but in my opinion a lot of it is publicity stunts.
With that said, Eastwood is one of my favorites.
The Spaghetti Westerns were the best.
Gran Torino was awesome.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 30th, 2012
9:24 pm
AngryOld WhiteGuys Unite
Why aren’t any small vendors allowed in the Republican convention. I thought they said they were for small business. Republicans lie, small businesses die.
——————————————————————————————–
They are outside the convention hall and they are called hookers or strippers LOL
Towncrier
August 30th, 2012
9:24 pm
“I don’t recall Condolezza Rice ever stating she marched in any protests during the 1960’s. She might be from the Selma Bridge generation, but if she wasn’t in the street, just living during that time doesn’t automatically make her part of the crowd.
One of the people who works for my alma mater actually marched in the first attempt across the Edmund Pettus Bridge as an 8 year old. SHE is part of the Selma bridge crowd.”
Are you claiming that a lot of children marched in the protests of the 60s? Rice was born in 1954 and would not have been much older than Webb. But it is clear she grew up a child of segregation and probably should not be marginalized by liberals in some way just because she is a black Republican.
G Mare
August 30th, 2012
9:24 pm
Common Freaking re bridge, COOL. Question: does it go anywhere?
Thulsa Doom- pompous ass extraordinaire
August 30th, 2012
9:24 pm
“What is EPL?”
English pansie league. You aint missing nothing. Its not quite as boring as watching paint dry but it runs a close 2nd.
Soothsayer
August 30th, 2012
9:25 pm
China’s Growing Economic Crisis
China has hit a wall. Just as in 2009, the premier is visiting key industrial cities such as Guangdong and Zhejiang. Wen is facing dour looks from manufacturers surrounded by mounting piles of unsold goods, a rare experience for the main engine of China’s economic rise.
Factory warehouses are cluttered with excess stock, store shelves are filled beyond capacity, and dealerships are choked with cars that used to speed from showroom to road. And yet Wen’s team in Beijing has been eerily silent about how it plans to revive things. That may be because the short answer is, it doesn’t.
Can it be that the absurd Worldwide neoliberal economic policies have reached their logical endpoint? Can it be that — by shipping well-paying jobs to low-wage countries — Worldwide demand has been destroyed to the extent that no recovery is on the horizon?
Let’s step back and take a look shall we? Greedy corporations can make more money by firing you and giving your job to a guy in China who will work for $200 a month. The mistake they made though is not realizing that “supply does not create its own demand.” The mistake they made is that demand, once destroyed is not easily revived.
So now we have a World where supply is king but there is no demand.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 30th, 2012
9:25 pm
getalife
They should name it something else.
Only three plays when a “foot” actually touches a ball.
Kickoff, punt, and field goal.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 30th, 2012
9:26 pm
(Reuters) – “The Pentagon warned on Thursday that it was considering legal action against a former U.S. Navy SEAL for material breach of non-disclosure agreements with his his first-hand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.”
I guess the attorneys at the Pentagon are too young to remember the Pentagon Papers. They face an uphill battle.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 30th, 2012
9:26 pm
G Mare
of course it does. Across the canyon
Brosephus™
August 30th, 2012
9:27 pm
Doggone
I know, and I understand your point. To her father’s credit, I would have probably tried to shield my children from the violent incidents as much as humanly possible.
Researching history has been cool at times. Hell, I found a book that marked out a very detailed outline of the Civil Rights Movement that even mentioned my male DNA donor. PBS also did a documentary on people who participated in the March on Washington where he was interviewed as well.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 30th, 2012
9:29 pm
So now we have a World where supply is king but there is no demand.
But…but…but…prophets, er um profits!
Towncrier
August 30th, 2012
9:31 pm
“With that said, Eastwood is one of my favorites.”
He has turned out to be a very fine actor-turned-director. He has done some really good work. I liked the first three Dirty Harry movies with the comic lines he is given.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 30th, 2012
9:33 pm
Brosephus:
Have you ever heard of John Casor and Anthony Johnson ?
They BOTH suck
August 30th, 2012
9:34 pm
TC
I glossed right over Dirty Harry. Those are classics.
I know he was Mayor and I assume a moderate to right of center Republican, however don’t know much else.
But I must agree, he is a damn fine entertainer for my money and time
Josef
August 30th, 2012
9:34 pm
Thulsa
Where is it written that lynching must have a Black victim? Seriously, it is this type of thinking that blinds us to ever coming to terms with our history beyond the trivial pursuit. I’m ipading now and can’t really go into it now..but this is a point you and many others need to get past
AngryOld WhiteGuys Unite
August 30th, 2012
9:34 pm
there’s absolutely no way to look at what Bain did at KB and see anything but a cash grab – one that followed the business model laid out by Romney. Rather than cutting costs and tightening belts, Bain added $300 million in debt to the firm’s bottom line while taking out more than $120 million in cash – an outright looting that creditors later described in a lawsuit as “breaking open the piggy bank.” What’s more, Bain smoothed the deal in typical fashion by giving huge bonuses to the company’s top managers as the firm headed toward bankruptcy. CEO Michael Glazer got an incredible $18.4 million, while CFO Robert Feldman received $4.8 million and senior VP Thomas Alfonsi took home $3.3 million.
WE JUST DO GET IT, MITT GEKKO! You are a liar and a crook. You never built anything except you own person fortune off the backs of the real workers.
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (aka "Knuckle-Dragger")
August 30th, 2012
9:35 pm
Running out of things to talk about, Jay?
Here’s a few – epic, sustained unemployment; the price of gas (with no mention from president kardashian that he intends to try to do anything about it); four years of trillion-plus deficits (unprecedented and reckless); no budget presented by Democrats in three years; expected recovery on Solyndra around 5%; GAO expects costs to taxpayers for GM around $25 billion (just so they can stop production on the Volt); only God knows what Chrysler will cost us taxpayers (remember, the Germans walked away from it), etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum. If I had about 2 million more gigabytes I could list all the supreme leader’s “accomplishments”.
Hopefully, Jay, this will keep you busy.
Doggone/GA
August 30th, 2012
9:35 pm
“To her father’s credit, I would have probably tried to shield my children from the violent incidents as much as humanly possible.”
I agree. Of course it depends on the age of the child, but there are some ages when it’s better if they don’t have TOO graphic a view of violence, if it can be avoided. Sometimes it can’t and that is the saddest thing.
AngryOld WhiteGuys Unite
August 30th, 2012
9:37 pm
They are outside the convention hall and they are called hookers or strippers LOL
I hope there are enough outside to satisfy that pent up demand inside.
Towncrier
August 30th, 2012
9:37 pm
“Too busy working to educate the historical revisionists, but let me say that the last great Republican to do anything for black American’s had a nickname of Honest. (grin)”
Wow…I might have to spam this post over and over again. Just what are you educating “historical revisionists” with, JamVet? Myths? Fabricated “facts”? Teacher, teach thyself:
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/08/30/the-big-mystery-of-the-2012-gop-convention/?cp=11#comment-1056797
Brosephus™
August 30th, 2012
9:37 pm
Scout
Yep. Read up on the both of the. Casor was the first person to be ruled a slave for life by the court. Johnson was indentured, bought his freedom, built up a good life for himself, and then had his land taken by the government after his death because he was not deemed a citizen because of his race.
Brosephus™
August 30th, 2012
9:40 pm
Gotta run for the evening..
Scout here’s one for you. Ever hear of Frank Thomas, James F. Smith, or Robert Avery?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33239513/Nobody-Turn-Me-Around-A-People-s-History-of-the-1963-March-on-Washington
Those are some of my hometown people.
Towncrier
August 30th, 2012
9:40 pm
“But I must agree, he is a damn fine entertainer for my money and time.”
Yes indeed. You mentioned “Grand Torino”. One thing I liked about that movie is how he tackled the whole issue of racism in an exaggerated way that really had a good morale nonetheless.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 30th, 2012
9:41 pm
TORONTO (AP) — “Canada has ordered the deportation of a female soldier who fled the U.S. military in order to avoid the war in Iraq, officials said Thursday.”
Suck it up private !
JamVet
August 30th, 2012
9:41 pm
LOL at me AND you, TC.
In the past 130 years there has been exactly ONE black US Senator of the Republican persuasion!
And to your point the ratio IS three to one!
Now, let;s take a really ugly (for you) look at the black members of the United States House of Representatives in the past 77 years.
Republicans – 4
Democrats – 96
Man, you guys suck at this issue!! With a capital S!!
That you have “issues” with this issue (LOL) explains why any historically, empirically accurate reference to the damning truth does not meet your approval is deemed race baiting.
Tough t*tties. Like I said at the rate you cons are going, it may well be another 100 years before you elect another five members to the US Congress!
AngryOld WhiteGuys Unite
August 30th, 2012
9:43 pm
Come on up, Mitt Gekko, and take a bow. You really know how to give it to the unsuspecting.
Which brings us to another aspect of Romney’s business career that has largely been hidden from voters: His personal fortune would not have been possible without the direct assistance of the U.S. government. The taxpayer-funded subsidies that Romney has received go well beyond the humdrum, backdoor, welfare-sucking that all supposedly self-made free marketeers inevitably indulge in. Not that Romney hasn’t done just fine at milking the government when it suits his purposes, the most obvious instance being the incredible $1.5 billion in aid he siphoned out of the U.S. Treasury as head of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake – a sum greater than all federal spending for the previous seven U.S. Olympic games combined. Romney, the supposed fiscal conservative, blew through an average of $625,000 in taxpayer money per athlete – an astounding increase of 5,582 percent over the $11,000 average at the 1984 games in Los Angeles. In 1993, right as he was preparing to run for the Senate, Romney also engineered a government deal worth at least $10 million for Bain’s consulting firm, when it was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 30th, 2012
9:43 pm
Brosephus:
But the larger point is that the first case in the new world that established the horror of the legality of slavery involved a black slavemaster.
I don’t think you find that taught in our schools.
Josef
August 30th, 2012
9:44 pm
Gotta run…G’night…
Oscar
August 30th, 2012
9:46 pm
The positions and makeup of political parties changes so much over the years that comparing or talking about their histories and trying to use that to judge their present states is completely meaningless.
The only way to judge them is by their present make up and platforms. Who belongs to the parties now and what do they stand for.
William Jennings Bryan died long ago. So did Lincoln and Andrew Jackson.
They BOTH suck
August 30th, 2012
9:48 pm
TC
Much needed dialogue for sure and it that would benefit us if all sides could remain somewhat civil.
He tackled more than just the white / black dichotomy. Josef has mentioned that several times. It can rear its ugly head in many ways and at any given time encompass more than just blacks or whites.
As the racial demographics continue to change we are going to need people from all races and political ideologies to work through these issues in a constructive manner.
I think you are probably older than I am, so you have seen the changes good and bad.
Even with the bad, we as a nation have come a long way on racial issues. Doesn’t allows seems that way, however we have moved forward and the people of this great country ought to be proud.
Oscar
August 30th, 2012
9:48 pm
I don’t think you find that taught in our schools
______
You are also not taught that the slaves were already slaves in Africa. Bought by sea farers from New England and brougt to the New World.
Brosephus™
August 30th, 2012
9:48 pm
I don’t think you find that taught in our schools.
You also don’t find it taught that many Blacks owned slaves or were Freedmen who were forced/sold into slavery after living here free for most of their lives. You also don’t find it taught that Blacks sold Blacks into slavery.
I could go on and on, but it’s lights out time for me. I can say, though, I’ve done quite the bit of reading on the ins and outs of slavery.
JamVet
August 30th, 2012
9:48 pm
Are you claiming that a lot of children marched in the protests of the 60s? Rice was born in 1954…
At least she is not a lying sack of ___ like Herman Cain!
The groper was born in 1945 and said that he was “too young to participate in the Civil rights movement”.
What a disgraceful coward, huh?
Brosephus™
August 30th, 2012
9:50 pm
I don’t think you find that taught in our schools.
To get a bit of a dig at you, all in good fun though… The old saying is that “He who writes the books get to tell the history.” You should take a look at who’s writing the books that really get into the absolute truths about slavery.
I’m gone now…
They BOTH suck
August 30th, 2012
9:52 pm
Scout @ 9:41
I must agree. I commend all those who have served in the military or any sort of police occupation. Once you join the military, you are aware of the potential risks and possibilities and should be ready to follow through.
Towncrier
August 30th, 2012
9:52 pm
“That you have “issues” with this issue (LOL) explains why any historically, empirically accurate reference to the damning truth does not meet your approval is deemed race baiting.”
The post to which I responded was not an instance of race-baiting. It is all of the other inflamatory posts you have made over the months I have been here. The primary reason there are so few black Republican Representatives is because there are so few black Republicans! The reasons blacks have flocked from one party to another is still a question to be answered in my mind. Brosephus has tried to explain it as some kind of Pavlovian conditioning, but I don’t think that is a good explanation in and of itself. I have a hard time believing blacks are that unthinking in today’s information age. I think it has a lot to do with perceptions and that perhaps explains why so many liberals seem desperate to paint conservatives as racist because they feel it is the only way to keep blacks in the fold. I have said a number of times that I would have voted for Obama had he been less liberal just because he was “black” (or perceived that way – he is mulatto). And I would have liked Rice to run as VP in 2008 or this time.
Towncrier
August 30th, 2012
9:55 pm
“The groper was born in 1945 and said that he was “too young to participate in the Civil rights movement”. What a disgraceful coward, huh?”
I wasn’t aware he had said that. Are you sure? Please don’t make me look up something that is not accurate. If true, then I would agree that he was trying to cover over his non-participation.
Transcript Facts
August 30th, 2012
9:55 pm
Love the clown quote about Bush not using a teleprompter because Bush couldn’t read. Well less see, as almost all of us know, Bush college transcripts were released and they were better than those of Kerry. Now, when do we get to see odumba’s? Why oh why does he hid them?
RIght, he is just another dumb liberal.
Thulsa Doom- pompous ass extraordinaire
August 30th, 2012
9:56 pm
“Where is it written that lynching must have a Black victim?”
josef,
It doesn’t. As a matter of fact I’ve told some of our black friends on here that many whites were also lynched. I’ve mentioned this several times because some of our black guests seem to think all lynching victims were black when that is far from the case. But again you miss the point. The point is that me and Jamvet were discussing the particulars of Dem vs Rep treatment of black citizens- not whites or anyone else. You continue to deviate into things that we weren’t talking about.
Regardless though Jamvet has ended the issue for us all. Upon his proclomation that we Suck with a capital S I now yield my position. A post like his 9:41 just don’t get much funnier even if it do come at our expense.
Brosephus™
August 30th, 2012
9:56 pm
Are you claiming that a lot of children marched in the protests of the 60s? Rice was born in 1954 and would not have been much older than Webb.
Missed your comment earlier, but to answer your question. Yes.
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_childrens_crusade
On 2 May, more than a thousand African American students skipped their classes and gathered at Sixth Street Baptist Church to march to downtown Birmingham. As they approached police lines, hundreds were arrested and carried off to jail in paddy wagons and school buses. When hundreds more young people gathered the following day for another march, commissioner Bull Connor directed the local police and fire departments to use force to halt the demonstration. Images of children being blasted by high-pressure fire hoses, clubbed by police officers, and attacked by police dogs appeared on television and in newspapers and triggered outrage throughout the world.
On the evening of 3 May, King offered encouragement to parents of the young protesters in a speech delivered at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. He said, “Don’t worry about your children; they are going to be alright. Don’t hold them back if they want to go to jail, for they are not only doing a job for themselves, but for all of America and for all of mankind.”
That actually took place in Birmingham, Dr. Rice’s hometown. The good thing about growing up in Alabama was the ability to hear about many of these events with first hand knowledge. I still haven’t been able to get my mom to open up much about anything she did though but not for a lack of trying.