Jan 8th, 2012
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Showing posts with label New Hampshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Hampshire. Show all posts
Sunday, January 8, 2012
More GOP Debates... Seriously.
Jan 8th, 2012
What the heck happened last night? Where were the attacks on Romney everyone, myself included, expected? Newt Gingrich may be holding back somewhat until the rematch later this morning. However, the "not-Romneys" fought among themselves (and with Ron Paul) far more than they did with the presumptive front-runner.
I recommend Sullivan's live-blog of the event HERE and his reaction round up HERE. ABC News has a fact check worth reading HERE.
Newt was asked about his recent broadside against Romney's tenure at Bain. Romney's response is repulsive. This is going to be one of the central issues in the general election, assuming there is not a Santorum upset.
What the heck happened last night? Where were the attacks on Romney everyone, myself included, expected? Newt Gingrich may be holding back somewhat until the rematch later this morning. However, the "not-Romneys" fought among themselves (and with Ron Paul) far more than they did with the presumptive front-runner.
I recommend Sullivan's live-blog of the event HERE and his reaction round up HERE. ABC News has a fact check worth reading HERE.
Newt was asked about his recent broadside against Romney's tenure at Bain. Romney's response is repulsive. This is going to be one of the central issues in the general election, assuming there is not a Santorum upset.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Perry Watch - WTF Happened In New Hampshire?
Oct 31, 2011
Gov Rick Perry's recent appearance in Manchester, New Hampshire has raised more than a few eyebrows. I am not the only one who thinks he was seriously intoxicated. It's the only plausible explanation.
Gov Rick Perry's recent appearance in Manchester, New Hampshire has raised more than a few eyebrows. I am not the only one who thinks he was seriously intoxicated. It's the only plausible explanation.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Who ARE We?
June 23rd, 2011
Who are we indeed? What do we value? What matters to us? It is rare that a story so disturbing as the one that follows comes across my desk. The headline could just as easily have read No One Notices Man On Fire
Simon Black writes for Business Insider:
"Late last week, Thomas James Ball reached his breaking point.
Driven to desperation by a system that bankrupted him and destroyed his family, Ball walked up to the main door of the Keene County, New Hampshire courthouse, doused himself with gasoline, and lit himself ablaze.
Hardly anyone seems to have noticed.
Conversely, when a 26-year old Tunisian man lit himself on fire a few months ago after police confiscated the fruits and vegetables he had been selling without a proper permit, it launched a wave of revolution across the Middle East.
People were shocked into taking action… protests and riots swept the region and one regime after another crumbled.
Rather than sparking an “American spring” and shocking US citizens into taking their country back, though, Mr. Ball’s act of self-immolation seems to have been largely ignored. There has been scant coverage (and scant is being extremely generous) of Mr. Ball in the mainstream media, and what little coverage there is generally discredits the man as a troublemaker."
The question of whether or not Thomas James Ball was altogether rational is not what is important here. The question is when did we become a country in which a fellow citizen could set themselves on fire for a political purpose in a public square and it wasn't news?
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Simon Black writes for Business Insider:
"Late last week, Thomas James Ball reached his breaking point.
Driven to desperation by a system that bankrupted him and destroyed his family, Ball walked up to the main door of the Keene County, New Hampshire courthouse, doused himself with gasoline, and lit himself ablaze.
Hardly anyone seems to have noticed.
Conversely, when a 26-year old Tunisian man lit himself on fire a few months ago after police confiscated the fruits and vegetables he had been selling without a proper permit, it launched a wave of revolution across the Middle East.
People were shocked into taking action… protests and riots swept the region and one regime after another crumbled.
Rather than sparking an “American spring” and shocking US citizens into taking their country back, though, Mr. Ball’s act of self-immolation seems to have been largely ignored. There has been scant coverage (and scant is being extremely generous) of Mr. Ball in the mainstream media, and what little coverage there is generally discredits the man as a troublemaker."
The question of whether or not Thomas James Ball was altogether rational is not what is important here. The question is when did we become a country in which a fellow citizen could set themselves on fire for a political purpose in a public square and it wasn't news?
Monday, June 13, 2011
Raising Cain
June 13th, 2011
by F. Grey Parker
Brian Beutler has a fun piece this morning over at TPM:
"Not since the first head-to-CPU contest between Gary Kasparov and Deep Blue has the world waited so breathlessly for the kind of battle of the minds we're likely to witness Monday evening."
It is very disappointing to see that Gary Johnson, the two term Governor of New Mexico has been excluded from tonight's show. Frankly, his answers in the previous FOX News "debate" regarding the role of the military, the size of Pentagon budgets and the responsibility of government to adhere to the basic protections guaranteed under the Bill of Rights made me sit up and take notice.
by F. Grey Parker
Here they come. The Republican Presidential "contenders" will be duking it out tonight in front of the American people in the second debate of the season.
We can expect most of the afternoon to consist of "expert predictions" and "reading the tea leaves" which is amusing considering that the lineup is, for the most part, an utterly unpredictable collection of irresponsible rabble-rousers who don't stand a chance.
Brian Beutler has a fun piece this morning over at TPM:
"Not since the first head-to-CPU contest between Gary Kasparov and Deep Blue has the world waited so breathlessly for the kind of battle of the minds we're likely to witness Monday evening."
It is very disappointing to see that Gary Johnson, the two term Governor of New Mexico has been excluded from tonight's show. Frankly, his answers in the previous FOX News "debate" regarding the role of the military, the size of Pentagon budgets and the responsibility of government to adhere to the basic protections guaranteed under the Bill of Rights made me sit up and take notice.
I guess we can't have that sort of "sanity factor" potentially marring tonight's festivities.
Here's the line-up: Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), Newt Gingrich, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and of course the new darling of FOX, Herman Cain.
Let's be honest. The real draw tonight is Cain. Not even Rep. Bachmann looks crazy or unqualified in comparison to the Pizza King's series of pronouncements over the last month. You find that too bold a statement?
Then you haven't been paying attention. Last week, Herman Cain made the most amazing proposal for security on the southern U.S. border I have heard in my adult lifetime.
Here's the line-up: Tim Pawlenty, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), Newt Gingrich, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and of course the new darling of FOX, Herman Cain.
Then you haven't been paying attention. Last week, Herman Cain made the most amazing proposal for security on the southern U.S. border I have heard in my adult lifetime.
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