July 16, 2012 - Pensito

War on Drugs Is Lost — Coke Cheaper Now Than 30 Years Ago

July 16, 2012 Buck Banks

$117.26

Average street price of a gram of pure cocaine — 74% cheaper now in the U.S. than it was 30 years ago, an indication that supplies are more abundant than ever and the war on drugs has flopped, says The New York Times. Prices for heroin and methamphetamine have similarly fallen. Only marijuana has risen in price.

Tempers Over Tampa

July 16, 2012 Buck Banks

The Tea Party questions Romney’s intentions,
And is threatening a crisis intervention.
But it’s looking more like
Old Mitt just won’t invite
Sarah Palin to the GOP Convention.

McCain 2008 Opposition Research on Romney’s Economic Record in Massachusetts: Raised $700 Billion in Taxes, Spending Went up 24%, Left $1 Billion Deficit

July 16, 2012July 16, 2012 Jon Ponder

The hits just keep on coming. After a week of pummeling by the Obama campaign over the Romney campaign’s conflicting record about Mitt’s exit from Bain Capital — did his control over the company end when he “retroactively retired” in 1999, before it outsourced thousands of American jobs overseas, as he claims now, or in 2002, as he claimed in sworn testimony later — now Buzzfeed has obtained the document used to vet Romney as a prospective vice presidential nominee by the McCain campaign 2008.

The entire document is here [Scribd] but here’s the McCain oppo research summary of Gov. Romney’s economic record. It’s no wonder they did not choose him — and it’s too bad Fox viewers will never see this. Their heads would explode!

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Emanuel to Romney: ‘Stop whining!’

July 16, 2012 Buck Banks

I give him his own advice: stop whining.

— Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), in an interview on ABC News, on Mitt Romney demanding an apology for the attacks on his tenure at Bain Capital.

Ryan Claims People Don’t Care about Bain or Romney’s Wealth

July 16, 2012 Buck Banks

People are not worried about the details as to when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital to save the Olympics or the details about his assets, which are managed by a blind trust for Pete’s sake.

— Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), in an interview on Face the Nation.

Prez Election to Be Decided by Less Than a Million Voters

July 16, 2012 Buck Banks

4%

Of the voters in six states — Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, New Mexico, and Colorado — or 916,643 people will decide the election, assuming that 48 percent of each state’s voters will go for Obama, and another 48 percent will decide for Romney. The American president will be selected by fewer than half the number of people who paid to get into a Houston Astros home game last year.

Tiny Fraction of U.S. Population Steering Election with Donations

July 16, 2012July 16, 2012 Buck Banks

.000063%

Of the U.S. voter population, or 196, Americans have given more than 80 percent of the super-PAC money spent in the presidential elections so far. A tiny number of Americans — .26% — give more than $200 to a congressional campaign; .05% give the maximum amount to any congressional candidate. Just .01% give more than $10,000 in any election cycle.

Republicans Calling for Romney to Release Tax Filings

July 16, 2012 Buck Banks

He should have put it to rest back in 2008 when he ran originally because he knew all these things were going to be problems. There’s clearly a problem with the tax returns otherwise he would release, you know, ten years of tax returns. He’s only released one year of tax returns. That’s a problem.

— GOP strategist Rick Tyler, in an interview on MSNBC.

Press is Deforming Characters, One Lt. Gov. at a Time

July 16, 2012July 16, 2012 Trish

Unfortunately, as an elected official character deformation that is totally fabricated can occur like this and there is not much I can do.

Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll (R-Fla.), emailing a supporter and blaming the media for recent allegations that she was having a lesbian affair with her travel aide. We think Carroll meant, “character defamation,” but then, we thought she was straight.

Time Travel

July 16, 2012July 16, 2012 Trish

Zimmerman stayed in the car. #Retroactively.

One of many tweets using the hashtag #Retroactively, following a statement by Mitt Romney spokesperson Ed Gillespie that his boss had retired from Bain Capital “retroactively.” Also: “Michael Jordan retiring #retroactively, denies responsibility for those two seasons on the Wizards.” Is making something disappear retroactively better than Etch-A-Sketching it away?

Day: July 16, 2012

War on Drugs Is Lost — Coke Cheaper Now Than 30 Years Ago

$117.26

Tempers Over Tampa

McCain 2008 Opposition Research on Romney’s Economic Record in Massachusetts: Raised $700 Billion in Taxes, Spending Went up 24%, Left $1 Billion Deficit

Emanuel to Romney: ‘Stop whining!’

I give him his own advice: stop whining.

— Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), in an interview on ABC News, on Mitt Romney demanding an apology for the attacks on his tenure at Bain Capital.

Ryan Claims People Don’t Care about Bain or Romney’s Wealth

People are not worried about the details as to when Mitt Romney left Bain Capital to save the Olympics or the details about his assets, which are managed by a blind trust for Pete’s sake.

— Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), in an interview on Face the Nation.

Prez Election to Be Decided by Less Than a Million Voters

4%

Tiny Fraction of U.S. Population Steering Election with Donations

.000063%

Republicans Calling for Romney to Release Tax Filings

— GOP strategist Rick Tyler, in an interview on MSNBC.

Press is Deforming Characters, One Lt. Gov. at a Time

Unfortunately, as an elected official character deformation that is totally fabricated can occur like this and there is not much I can do.

Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll (R-Fla.), emailing a supporter and blaming the media for recent allegations that she was having a lesbian affair with her travel aide. We think Carroll meant, “character defamation,” but then, we thought she was straight.

Time Travel

Zimmerman stayed in the car. #Retroactively.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“They’ve invested heavily in AI labs. They’ve invested heavily in data centers. So, the first family has a financial stake in this industry, and as a result, the president of the United States is compromised.”

— “Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Monday said President Trump will likely not heed calls from technology leaders to implement guardrails on the development of artificial intelligence because of his family’s investments in the industry,” NewsNation reports.

— Jane Haman

“We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards.”

— Jared Kushner, quoted by CBS News, on the lack of progress in Gaza.

Numerati

470

Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.

$184 million

50%

38%

31%