The latest news from Tampa Bay is that the Convention schedule has been dramatically revamped. It used to be that Anne Romney would be giving the major speech Monday night in praise of her husband. But they have changed that pushing up the schedule two days and having Mitt Romney nominated on Monday, skipping all the preliminary stuff. Now they are saying that Hurricane Isac will not score a direct hit on Tampa Bay, but my experiance is that most of the time if they err in their forecast they err to the left, and the hurricane usually hits a little to the right of where they say it will. Of course it will be the windward side of the storm that will punch Tampa Bay. Meanwhile Scott Walker's role in the convention is being scaled way back because of his implemented policies failing to add jobs in Wisconsin. Wisconsin lost 1,300 jobs last month in Wisconsin. Meanwhile they say a lot of people in the State aren't even that fermiliar with Paul Ryan because he represents just the one House district. They said that Wisconsin has voted in the democratic collum every year since 1988, and personally I see no indication that this year will be any different.
Now Mitt Romney has a new problem, and that one has to do with remarks he made about education and "scaling the department of Education way back" and also his saying "Small class sizes are not relivent in terms of student performance. This is in the light of a major speech the President made on education last week in Ohio. Eisenhower says that for every battleship produced you take away money from housing, or food for the poor, or education, or all sorts of different things. The same is true for tax cuts for the rich. If they come at the price of X number of school teachers being fired, Stephanie Miller wants to know when school teachers became the villains? Back in Michigan- - Mitt Romney is doing "dog whistle' speech to all the discredited Birthers out there when he said, "This is the city where Anne and I were both born, and I was born at this hospital and Anne was born in that one over there, and nobody wants to see my birth cirtificate because they know full well where I was born".
Lance Armstrong has officially had his seven medals for winning the Tour de France from 1999 to 2005, officially stripped, and Armstrong will not appeal that ruling. Of course Sixty Minutes broke the blood doping story months before the governments even took action. We had been told things such as Armstrong being blessed by being born with an abnormally large heart with a high blood capacity. While this level of punishment for an individual may be appropiate, I don't think the stripping of Pennsylvania State of all of its sports records since 1998 is at all appropiate for what one bozo did in a locker room. I believe the student body and alumni more broadly, have every right to resent this Ruling.
Well it seems that FOX officially "outed" the name of the Navy seal in division six or whatever that was the one directly responsible for doing in Bin Laden last year. As it turns out this Seal had written a book telling his whole story as to just how he did it. But this Seal was already in trouble because people suspected he was revealing classified information. He wrote his book under a psudonym just to be safe. But FOX news has revealed his real name, and so it could be that both FOX news and the Seal himself are in trouble. You know there are a lot of books on the market now that are best sellers often on the most absurd of subjects. So it's ashamed that we may be denied an edifying firsthand account of a major national triumph such as the taking out of Bin Laden. Surely the marine could have checked for clearance of his Material.
One Marine was thrown into a mental institution for "evaluation" for 72 hours or whatever, because of an entry he'd put in his Facebolok account. I was just alluding to scenarios such as this, but I hadn't yet encountered this particular story. I guess the government must monitor such entries closely. Anyhow the Facebook entry said, "I have personal knowledge that the 9 - 11 attacks were an Inside Job by the Government, and that President Obama has secret plans for a one world banking system, and that the country is sliding rapidly into a state of Corporate Fascism which will rule everything". He then said that "This battle must be waged by somebody and if there is no one there to help me, than I shall have to wage it alone". Mike Meloy points out that- - this is a FAR less insane entry than the routine babbelings of tea party leaders like we saw yesterday in Texas - - about armed rebellion. It's the tea party who is really insane but as I have darkly suspected myself, we're getting to a state where the Inmates are running the Assylum".
Mitt Romney's $250 million fortune is largely a black hole: Aside from the meager and vague disclosures he has filed under federal and Massachusetts laws, and the two years of partial tax returns (one filed and another provisional) he has released, there is almost no data on precisely what his vast holdings consist of, or what vehicles he has used to escape taxes on his income. Gawker has obtained a massive cache of confidential financial documents that shed a great deal of light on those finances, and on the tax-dodging tricks available to the hyper-rich that he has used to keep his effective tax rate at roughly 13% over the last decade.Today, we are publishing more than 950 pages of internal audits, financial statements, and private investor letters for 21 cryptically named entities in which Romney had invested—at minimum—more than $10 million as of 2011 (that number is based on the low end of ranges he has disclosed—the true number is almost certainly significantly higher). Almost all of them are affiliated with Bain Capital, the secretive private equity firm Romney co-founded in 1984 and ran until his departure in 1999 (or 2002, depending on whom you ask). Many of them are offshore funds based in the Cayman Islands. Together, they reveal the mind-numbing, maze-like, and deeply opaque complexity with which Romney has handled his wealth, the exotic tax-avoidance schemes available only to the preposterously wealthy that benefit him, the unlikely (for a right-wing religious Mormon) places that his money has ended up, and the deeply hypocritical distance between his own criticisms of Obama's fiscal approach and his money managers' embrace of those same policies. They also show that some of the investments that Romney has always described as part of his retirement package at Bain weren't made until years after he left the company.
Shooting incidents are never in short supply. If you want to wait before acting on a gun bill for a time "when we haven't just had a mass shooting story", you'll have to wait a long time. In yet another shooting incident, a man in New York shot four people near the Empire State building today. But what is disturbing about this story is that - while the cops "took him out with one shot" - - others disagree saying that innocent bystanders on the street were shot in police crossfire. It's funny how people make decisions involving lives of others for a long time like 'It's OK if we have collateral damage". Last night on a program they had this female surgon who amputated the leg of a little girl who'd been in a horrible accident without permission of the family. You know- - what if that lady doctor had to spend as many years in the Afterlife with only one leg- - while the rest of the crowd had angel wings and were flying around and she had to go through x number of years in a hobbled state. If God were really a just god, such punishments and retrobutions would be routinely meted out.
This next story is one where I'm tempted to attack Bill Handel from the right, which is unusual for me. We know how Bill Handel's favorite pasttime is Immigrant bashing. Therefore I was surprised when Handel labeled this law suit by an ICE agent as "crazy". There is an ICE border agent who is filing a law suit against President Obama saying that he "cannot be forced to violate either the constitution or the laws of the federal government to please an illegal action by this President". It seems that President Obama isn't demanding proof of ellegability for people whom the Dream Act applies to. It has also had been alleged by this ICE agent that presieent Obama has been pulling a lot of border agents off their posts in some major cut back or border agents. If you want an "arrest deferment" till after you get an education- - "If you think you qualify they'll accept you". Bill Handel then talked about the local DA where a guy had his car stolen - and he'd just bought it and it was a nice one and he was out a lot of money. But the District Attorney decided on his own "We"re just not going to Prosecute because we have limited resources and there are bigger fish to fry". Call me old fashioned but I believe if you swear to do your job "well and faithfully" than that's how you should do it. I don't have a bit of a beef for a person filing such a suit on Principle. Bill Handel said "This ICE agent's suit is obviously political". I don't see it that way one bit. Just because Bill Handel is political, don't assume that everyone else does things for as politically biased reasons as you yourself do something- - and there aren't people who stand on principle.
We also heard more from the Fork Report, where they use the 'Food, glorious food" theme that's apparently from the musical "Oliver", which I have never seen. Of course for many years up through the end of 2003 it was obviously the Melinda Lee theme of her cooking show mid day Saturdays on KFI. I guess they are having another of their Food and Wine festivals September first through third. I wonder if sales of madera, a red wine, have risen since the Master Chef revealed that the secret ingrediant in a tasty dish was "madera" rather than port.
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