Top Twenty Lies of Willard "Mitt" Romney

You can have your Romney he's veneer and he only lies
You can have his wealth but it will rot before your eyes
Romney's verbal agreements aren't worth the paper they're written on
And before you even know it, he'll be a long time gone

Being a loser is no disgrace for an honorable man
Being a winner is no virtue for a scoundral

"When a man lies, he murders a part of himself"   This quote is not original with Jim Morrison, though he has expressed a fondness for it.

"Were you lying then - - or are you lying now, or are you not just a chronic and habitual - - LIAR"   -Charles Laughlin

In three days we pick the next President of the United States.  Nothing except the Constitution, the future of the free world, and our own lives as we have known them, hangs on our response.

When the demon is at your door - -
In the morning it won't be there - No More
Any major dude - - - will tell you

To know Mitt Romney is to despise him
(message from MRMOJORISIN last night)

"You Didn't Build This" campaign quote taken out of context and used in a Romney ad

"If we continue to talk about the economy we'll lose" quote taken out of context and used in a Romney ad

"The private sector is doing just fine" campaign ad with comparrison between the growing private sector and the disasterous public government sector that's loosing the jobs

"President Obama" eliminated the work requirement for Welfare recipients - - statement used in Romney ad.

Mitt Romney said, "Under my Health Care plan, you will not be denied insurance coverage because of a pre existant condition, so stop making an issue of this, all you worry warts out there and trying to scare old people into voting for Obama".

"Catch, release, vote" as Obama's alledged new plan to deal with illegal immigrants according to Rush Limbaugh

"Obama's policies have made this economy worse", when there is Absolutely No evidence of this.  There isn't one statistic you can site to support this.  And there is another goat goes with it saying that "The double dip recession is coming".

"Since President Obama is secretly a Moslem sympathiser- - he almost relishes the idea of blaming the death of that Libyan ambassador on an anti Islamic film, because of course President Obama identified so closely with Moslem goals and asperations

President Obama WANTS high oil and energy prices to cripple our capitalist economy and that's why he's capped all the wells in the Gulf, so he can drive up the price and make us all ride bicycles to work.

"President Obama promised in speeches that the unemployment rate would never rise above eight percent"  The trouble is they have never been able to produce one tape of anybody saying this

"President Obama had a veto proof congress for two years and he still couldn't pass immigration reform and so all you minorities should be Mad because the President broke a promise to you"

"President Obama admitted he wants to redistribute the wealth of the country and is virelently opposed to the idea of private citizens ever becoming successful".  President Obama wants to divide Americans and has instigated "class warfare' as a "conspiracy" to keep the poor from trusting the rich.

"President Obama got poor grades in college but there is a massive move afoot to cover up this fact and this is why nobody has ever been allowed to view his college transcripts".

"President Obama deliberately orchestrated security leaks in his own administration because the new information is designed to make his foreign policy look more macho than it otherwise would"

"President Obama stole 719 billion dollars of your Medicare and therefore you won't get the proper care if you have to go to the hospital because hospitals will stop taking medicare patients"

"In four years we will see double digit interest rates because President Obama's hand picked Federal Reserve chairman has a goal of sabotaging the economy so that the people will rise up as one and demand a socialist revolution".

"President Obama plans to conthiscate all of your guns after he's reelected putting all of the guns in the United States, Mexico, and Canada under control of the United Nations"

"President Obama is shipping Chrysler jobs to China" when the truth is that Mitt Romney is a master of shiping jobs off to China and Mitt Romney personally profited from the GM and Chrysler bail out, which he claimed to be against.

"President Obama will institute Death Pannels" after health care goes into effect".  The truth of the matter is this 'Pannel" is expressly forbidden to make ANY recomendation of Patient coverage or procedure.

"Mitt Romney is a completely moral fellow without a spiteful bone in his body, because Mitt Romney is a Christian, and all Christians are moral, fair people.  So if anybody tells a story where people have suffered under Mitt Romney's actions or policies, it is a lie from the pit of Hell

Mitt Romney Reaps Windfall Profit from Delphi Deal

Mitt Romney Made $15 Million Off Taxpayer Investment in Auto Industry Despite Being Opposed to Auto Bailout

 Mitt Romney infamously and vehemently opposed the auto industry bailout, but "The Nation" reports that he and his wife Ann Romney made $15.3 million off of the taxpayer dollars that were used to save the auto industry. Furthermore, Romney's investment helped to ship former Delphi Automotive jobs to China.

Many of Romney's campaign contributors were also able to cash in on the auto industry bailout, and a few of his most prominent Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion.  The Bush administration made loans to save the auto industry, which was on the brink of collapse, in late 2008. After Barack Obama took office, even more loans and investments were made to Chrysler and General Motors to keep them from going out of business. At that time, Mitt Romney penned an editorial in which he decreed "let Detroit go bankrupt."  Delphi Automotive, which was formerly the Delco Division of General Motors, makes parts for GM's production lines. A bailout of GM or Chrysler would not have been successful if Delphi were also not saved. So the federal government also sent more than $12.9 billion to Delphi, which at that time was controlled by Wall Street hedge funds.  One of the hedge funds that profited handsomely from the Delphi bailout was Elliot Management, which was directed by Paul Singer. Singer has given $2.3 million to support GOP candidates, more than anyone else on Wall Street this election. His colleagues have thrown in another $1.1 million, bringing their collective donation to help elect Republicans up to $3.4 million.  Singer has significant influence with Romney, for whom he serves as an informal adviser. Singer was also instrumental in helping to get Rep. Paul Ryan on the GOP ticket.  Meanwhile, Ann Romney's blind trust also invested at least $1 million into Elliott before the fund began to buy Delphi for about 20 cents on the dollar. Elliott eventually took over Delphi at 67 cents a share. A mere two years later, shares of Delphi were trading at $22 each. Think about the profits they made with that deal - it's astounding.  Today, only four of the 22 Delphi plants that operated in the United States when Elliott began buying up control of the company actually remain. None of then employ even a single union production worker. Delphi now mostly makes most the parts used by GM and other automakers in China. Delphi employs just 5,000 in the U.S., but 100,000 overseas.  According to calculations by the U.S. Treasury and GM, without the billions in taxpayer money and slashing worker pensions, the hedge funds' investment in Delphi wouldn't have panned out and wouldn't have been worth even a single dollar.  Romney now tours the country attacking Obama for "using the Stimulus" to "ship jobs to China", when he was directly involved in the loss of jobs to China himself and profited off the investment of taxpayers into the auto industry bailout that he opposed. That is the definition of hypocritical.  In other auto bailout news, the Obama campaign released an advertisement in Ohio highlighting what the rescue meant to Buckeye state workers.

"I Love the smell of freshly minted pink slips in the morning" -Mitt

We now know, thanks to Greg Palast’s recent scoop in The Nation, that Mitt Romney reaped a large financial windfall from the auto bailouts. Romney didn’t talk up this shrewd investment while touting his business experience on the campaign trail, for obvious reasons—he is a strong critic of those bailouts.

But while Romney had ample political reasons to conceal his investment, he apparently had no legal justification for doing so. Federal law requires that candidates disclose stock holdings that are affected by government action—and Romney’s million-dollar (at least) investment in a hedge fund that bought up Delphi stocks surely fits that bill.  Now, unions and good-government groups are calling on the feds to investigate Romney’s oversight.  Thursday afternoon in Toledo, Ohio—where the story has received significant play in local media—United Auto Workers president Bob King joined Palast and Service Employees International Union vice president Tom Woodruff to call upon the US Office of Government Ethics to look into Romney’s financial disclosures and their failure to list the Delphi investments. Along with several groups like CREW and Public Citizen, the union leaders also sent a letter to OGE demanding a formal investigation.

“The American people have a right to know about Governor Romney's potential conflicts of interest, such as the profits his family made from the auto rescue,” said King. “It’s time for Governor Romney to disclose or divest.”  As Palast reported, a trust in Ann Romney’s name listed “more than $1 million” invested with Elliott Management, run by hedge fund guru and GOP mega-donor Paul Singer. (That’s the minimum amount of disclosure required by law, so it could have been much more than $1 million.) Singer subsequently snapped up large amounts of stock in Delphi at pennies on the dollar, and then, along with other hedge funds, demanded that the government assume pension responsibilities and bail the company out—or they would shut it down, thus crushing General Motors as well.  The government acceded, Delphi became lucrative again and then went public, and Elliott Management and its investors—including Romney—reaped enormous rewards. Under any rational interpretation of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, these are holdings that a presidential candidate would need to disclose, because they can be affected by government action. The Romney campaign doesn’t argue that they are not, but rather that, since Ann Romney’s trust is “blind,” there is no disclosure requirement.  Today’s letter points out, however, that Ann Romney’s trust is blind in name only. Romney himself has said that “the blind trust is an age-old ruse, if you will. Which is to say you can always tell a blind trust what it can and cannot do.” Moreover, this is not a federally recognized blind trust of the sort Romney would be forced to create if he won the White House. If it was, he would have never been able to reap his windfall from Delphi, the letter points out. Whether or not Romney broke the law will come down to this question of how blind this trust really is, and Romney at least has some plausible deniability there. But no doubt this is a story his campaign doesn’t want to see playing out in Ohio five days before the election.

This story is completely fantastic.  If ever there was a coveted “smoking gun” for Democrats, this is it.  I’m downloading a copy of this article to Word so I can continue to refer to it.

 
New York City is canceling their Marathon that had been scheduled for tomorrow.  I think cancelation is an excellent idea.  It's one idea Rush Limbaugh had that actually makes sense.  He said it was silly to bring in generators that could be used to power homes" to Central Park as part of the Marathon.  People who were dispossed and homeless were being kicked out of local Hotels to make room for the Marathon runners.  Also the weather is turning colder and snow is predicted.  Rush Limbaugh's rationalle for even having the Marathon seems silly.  He said it had to do with "global warming" and the "all natural" and "healthy human specimine" not vunerable to commercial sell-out or something.  In another area Google just informed me that my background picture will be yanked in a couple of weeks.  They are calling it an "improvement" just as eliminating "Desktop search" was a so called "improvement".

Pay Day - The Return of Good Times

"Only you know how to lay it down like it came from Above"

(I appreciate the vote of confidence) 

This is a late update on Friday November 2nd.  The unemployment figure is 7.9% which is still below the figure of "closer to nine percent than eight percent" that Mort of the Mc Laughlin group was predicting.  I expect to see a lot of desperate sputterings of the right wing today like from Rush about Michael Bloomburg's endorsement of the President.  One must keep in mind that none of the other tea party buddies who are Republican also rans, is compaigning with him.  This includes Governor Rick Perry, Richard Santorum, John Huntsman, and Newt Gingrich.  Where are they?? Most likely they don't want to be identified with a losing cause.  Stephanie Miller made ten "Romney suggestions" about how to deal with the storm on the east coast, and now we hear only Staten Island is still without power.  They are things like "During the storm be sure and use heavy duty rope to secure the dog on the roof of your car with" and "Don't worry,  Hurricane Sandy has to be over early, because she has to get home to fix dinner for her husband".  Did you know You Tube has the video of the entire Bangladesh concert in 1971.  It's amazing.  People pay money to see that.  I correct one word in the Spanish translation below para que yo dice mas que querro decir.  ("Huh??")

It’s after three and we just had the three o clock news on this happy Thursday November 1, 2012.  People are feeling more optimistic about the President’s chances now.  People are hoping against hope that the truth is seeping into even the thick heads of the so called “undecided voter” out there.  We can hope.  The President gave a great speech in Wisconsin today and I’d like to have a transcript of it because I would post it on line.  But perhaps people should just look for a video of the real thing, and I may do that.  It’s just a reminder of what an accomplishment we had under President Clinton we had with this economy, and how things fell apart under President Bush after the deficit inducing tax cuts for the rich.  Romney’s still unrevealed “plan” is still not “change we can believe in” except he wants vouchers for Medicare.  They are saying that 153,000 new jobs were added last month and that the estimated unemployment rate will come out at 7.4%.  If it were even down to 7.6% this would be wonderful.  Oscar is mopping the floor right now.  Of course Mort from Mc Laughlin is hoping against hope that the figure will be 8.1%.  He has over the months had to keep scaling back his dire predictions.  Randi says that the people in Missouri have a 6.9% unemployment right now, so why are they doing for Romney?   We are in rainbow as you can see and I believe the next file will be in dark green.  I plan to call this file “coalition” after the coalition that’s going to re elect President Obama on Tuesday.  Of course I think the President could be even more explicit about his vision of America for the next four years.  Randi Rhodes remarked “The 21^st century seems like a wonderful place.  I’d like to visit it sometime but haven’t had a chance to”.  None of us have had a chance too.  The first twelve years of the decade we’re off to a bad start.  It was sixteen long years ago that President Clinton talked about that “bridge to the 21^st century” and it’s sure taken us a long time to get there.  Hopefully after next Tuesday all of this tea party nonsense that’s plagued us these past four years, will all become yesterday’s news.  Hopefully.

Of course one conflagration didn't happen in a city in New Jersey where the sound of loud, hissing gas leaks could be heard throughout the town.  The gas was literally bubbling up through the water, just like Yellowstone.  They say that were the gas to be ignited it would go up in a localized flame, but the whole town would NOT catch fire.  Personally I wouldn't care to put it to a test.  Hoboken, NJ is still under water and cut off from help.  Keep all of these people in your prayers.  They say that power in many places won't be back for days, and whether the elections will be able to be held is in question.  Governor Christy of course is appreciative of all the President's help.  Just remember the Catholic maxim, "There but for the grace of God go you and I".  But you can't entirely dismiss Global Warming as a contributing cause, to have a hurricane this far north this late in the year.  But of course some would call such an accusation "too political".  It's a sad day when just speaking the Truth is considered "too political".

There is a plethora of videos – some silent movies - - of storm scenes back east, plus there is an extended NPR or something forty minute segment of news compilations.  All I can say is that George Washington’s blog, sure does a lot more postings than I do, and has garnered a fantastic amount of research, but nothing I personally care to download at this time.  And now it’s almost time for dinner.  Bill has left.  We’re scheduled to have chicken Alfredo.  The Lakers played Portland last night and I routed for Portland.  Bones and Jim Morrison (who contacted Bones saying he was for USC also) are routing for USC on Saturday, but Burt and I are routing for Oregon based on "karmic considerations". 

.  Moe Kelly was on, and his name is really O’Kelly, which presents a mailing problem for him appearing on voter registration records.  I went down for ten o clock coffee and got two cups from Dora.  Then I came back here.  UCLA will be instituting a “smoke free Campus” this spring of 2013.  Now the medical section is barred from tobacco, even outdoors.   But the beer cans and whiskey bottles still fill the trash cans and alcohol isn’t looked on as critically even though virtually all students are over eighteen, but a vast number of students are not yet of legal drinking age.  Nicities like that don’t seem to matter.  They say they are going to have the whole U C system “smoke free” by 2014.  Moe Kelly was against this campus-wide ban, and so I am I, but his studio companion, plus virtually all of the bank of callers waiting, are all for the ban.  I guess he’s appealing to the wrong crowd.  Both of these heavy shirts have shrunken sleeves in length now.  I would rather this wasn’t so, but I’m not going to stop wearing these shirts due to exposed wrists.

And now I’m going to attempt a quote of Beatle lyrics in Spanish, which appears on the late nite Latino station for the “missing” Hard Days Night album song.  Here is the long sentence fragment,

 “Entonces si me quierres – justamente como te falta – sabes que hacer”. 

 

THE MEAT OF THE LINE-UP

Best of George Harrison

Produced by Burt Lombard and Guy Owens

First movement - Disk One

Sour Milk Sea (demo White Album outtake)

I Me Mine (Let It Be film outtake as played on KLOS)

All Things Must Pass (Anthology version)

Apple Scruffs (demo version with less reverb)

It’s Johnny’s Birthday (from ATMP)

I Dig Love (album original)

Living in the Material World (album original)

Second movement

Deep Blue (1971 single)

Bangle Desh (1971 single)

Beware of Darkness (album original)

If Not For You (album original)

Sue Me Sue You Blues (album original)

Wah-wah (album original)

Let It Down (album original

Third movement -Disk Two

The Art of Dying (album original)

Simply Shady (from “Dark Horse”)

Run of the Mill (album original)

The Light that has Lighted the World

The Lord Loves the one that Loves the Lord

Don’t Let Me Wait Too Long

Isn’t It A Pity?

Final movement

Ring Out the Old Ring In The New

Dark Horse

Far East Man

Try Some – Buy Some

This Guitar Can’t Keep from Crying

Cracker Box Palace  (“Heil Zachery!”)

This Song