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Goooood morning all!

Guess what?! THE BINDER IS A LIE!

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Morning, comrades!

There is a credible rumour out there this morning from Venezuela that Castro is dead. According to the source, "expect an announcement within 72 hours."

That would be perfect - this funeral would instantly be a party.

RUMOR. Americans spell that word R-U-M-O-R. Look it up.

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Morning, comrades!

There is a credible rumour out there this morning from Venezuela that Castro is dead. According to the source, "expect an announcement within 72 hours."

That would be perfect - this funeral would instantly be a party.

RUMOR. Americans spell that word R-U-M-O-R. Look it up.

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Since I was still feeling like crap last night. I blew off the debate and went to bed about 9:30 ish. Sounds like I missed some excitement, didn't I?

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Morning, comrades!

There is a credible rumour out there this morning from Venezuela that Castro is dead. According to the source, "expect an announcement within 72 hours."

That would be perfect - this funeral would instantly be a party.

RUMOR. Americans spell that word R-U-M-O-R. Look it up.

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I always write it "theatre". From here on out, I'll use British spellings more often (I pronounced the "t" in my head) so as to appear erudite, as well as purposely annoy Mondo.

CROWLEY: Governor Romney, the question is about assault weapons, AK-47s.

ROMNEY: Yeah, I’m not in favor of new pieces of legislation on -- on guns and taking guns away or making certain guns illegal. We, of course, don’t want to have automatic weapons, and that’s already illegal in this country to have automatic weapons. What I believe is we have to do, as the president mentioned towards the end of his remarks there, which is to make enormous efforts to enforce the gun laws that we have, and to change the culture of violence that we have.

And you ask how -- how are we going to do that? And there are a number of things. He mentioned good schools. I totally agree. We were able to drive our schools to be number one in the nation in my state. And I believe if we do a better job in education, we’ll -- we’ll give people the -- the hope and opportunity they deserve and perhaps less violence from that. But let me mention another thing. And that is parents. We need moms and dads, helping to raise kids. Wherever possible the -- the benefit of having two parents in the home, and that’s not always possible. A lot of great single moms, single dads. But gosh to tell our kids that before they have babies, they ought to think about getting married to someone, that’s a great idea.

Because if there’s a two parent family, the prospect of living in poverty goes down dramatically. The opportunities that the child will -- will be able to achieve increase dramatically. So we can make changes in the way our culture works to help bring people away from violence and give them opportunity, and bring them in the American system. The -- the greatest failure we’ve had with regards to -- to gun violence in some respects is what -- what is known as Fast and Furious. Which was a program under this administration, and how it worked exactly I think we don’t know precisely, where thousands of automatic, and AK-47 type weapons were -- were given to people that ultimately gave them to -- to drug lords.

They used those weapons against -- against their own citizens and killed Americans with them. And this was a -- this was a program of the government. For what purpose it was put in place, I can’t imagine. But it’s one of the great tragedies related to violence in our society which has occurred during this administration. Which I think the American people would like to understand fully, it’s been investigated to a degree, but -- but the administration has carried out executive privilege to prevent all of the information from coming out.

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I always write it "theatre". From here on out, I'll use British spellings more often (I pronounced the "t" in my head) so as to appear erudite, as well as purposely annoy Mondo.

I always factor in a Mondo Annoyance Quotient in all my blog posts. Get with it, people!


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I always write it "theatre". From here on out, I'll use British spellings more often (I pronounced the "t" in my head) so as to appear erudite, as well as purposely annoy Mondo.

I always factor in a Mondo Annoyance Quotient in all my blog posts. Get with it, people!


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It is pretty easy to annoy me. I have a low threshold for being annoying. It is a curse.

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oh, here's a question from Mom - she wanted to know by Romney's money is still in a blind trust there past 8 years since he hasn't been in office since for a while

good question. Could it be that he has been running for 8 years?

But a blind trust does have one crucial advantage for a politician: It becomes an easy answer to any conflict-of-interest question. Mitt Romney used it in the Republican primary debates earlier this year.

"My investments are not made by me," he said at the time. "My investments for the last 10 years have been in a blind trust, managed by a trustee."

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oh, here's a question from Mom - she wanted to know by Romney's money is still in a blind trust there past 8 years since he hasn't been in office since for a while

good question. Could it be that he has been running for 8 years?

NPR gives a good explanation:

But a blind trust does have one crucial advantage for a politician: It becomes an easy answer to any conflict-of-interest question. Mitt Romney used it in the Republican primary debates earlier this year.

"My investments are not made by me," he said at the time. "My investments for the last 10 years have been in a blind trust, managed by a trustee."

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Here I am clicking on a picture, wondering why it won't play...

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Here I am clicking on a picture, wondering why it won't play...

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Raine, Bob, thanks for a great blog.

I think that Obama had a masterful performance last night and that Romney looked like he was not ready for higher office.

Romney showed that he did not want to follow the rules, and was prepared to be rude and lie. He did not look like a man ready to face the leadership of China, Iran and Russia. He was not credible in his statements on the economy.

Fixity!

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:breaths into starbucks cup: Don't make me destroy you.

Thank you. And important topic, and one which I learned a great deal about, particularly as I was serving as governor of my state, because I had the chance to pull together a cabinet and all the applicants seemed to be men.

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Morning, comrades!

There is a credible rumour out there this morning from Venezuela that Castro is dead. According to the source, "expect an announcement within 72 hours."

That would be perfect - this funeral would instantly be a party.

RUMOR. Americans spell that word R-U-M-O-R. Look it up.

colour
centre
labour
theatre

I always write it "theatre". From here on out, I'll use British spellings more often (I pronounced the "t" in my head) so as to appear erudite, as well as purposely annoy Mondo.

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Is the thee-ay-ter is next to the lye-berry?

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Nate's got the prez arresting the slide, which is hopefully not a dead cat bounce.

However, any debate rebound won't show in the polls for a few days yet.

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That's a hella audio gap, Fox...

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from the Fox News transcript of the debate...

CROWLEY: Governor Romney, the question is about assault weapons, AK-47s.

ROMNEY: Yeah, I'm not in favor of new pieces of legislation on -- on guns and taking guns away or making certain guns illegal. We have-

(AUDIO GAP)

OBAMA: because I do believe that if our young people have opportunity, then they're less likely to engage in these kind of violent acts.

WHA????

CROWLEY: Governor Romney, the question is about assault weapons, AK-47s.

ROMNEY: Yeah, I’m not in favor of new pieces of legislation on -- on guns and taking guns away or making certain guns illegal. We, of course, don’t want to have automatic weapons, and that’s already illegal in this country to have automatic weapons. What I believe is we have to do, as the president mentioned towards the end of his remarks there, which is to make enormous efforts to enforce the gun laws that we have, and to change the culture of violence that we have.

And you ask how -- how are we going to do that? And there are a number of things. He mentioned good schools. I totally agree. We were able to drive our schools to be number one in the nation in my state. And I believe if we do a better job in education, we’ll -- we’ll give people the -- the hope and opportunity they deserve and perhaps less violence from that. But let me mention another thing. And that is parents. We need moms and dads, helping to raise kids. Wherever possible the -- the benefit of having two parents in the home, and that’s not always possible. A lot of great single moms, single dads. But gosh to tell our kids that before they have babies, they ought to think about getting married to someone, that’s a great idea.

Because if there’s a two parent family, the prospect of living in poverty goes down dramatically. The opportunities that the child will -- will be able to achieve increase dramatically. So we can make changes in the way our culture works to help bring people away from violence and give them opportunity, and bring them in the American system. The -- the greatest failure we’ve had with regards to -- to gun violence in some respects is what -- what is known as Fast and Furious. Which was a program under this administration, and how it worked exactly I think we don’t know precisely, where thousands of automatic, and AK-47 type weapons were -- were given to people that ultimately gave them to -- to drug lords.

They used those weapons against -- against their own citizens and killed Americans with them. And this was a -- this was a program of the government. For what purpose it was put in place, I can’t imagine. But it’s one of the great tragedies related to violence in our society which has occurred during this administration. Which I think the American people would like to understand fully, it’s been investigated to a degree, but -- but the administration has carried out executive privilege to prevent all of the information from coming out.

I’d like to understand who it was that did this, what the idea was behind it, why it led to the violence, thousands of guns going to Mexican drug lords.

That's a hella audio gap, Fox...

Fox being fair and balanced alright! Sheesh they aren't even trying to maitain that charade any longer are they? They are just treating their audiance like morons.

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Nate's got the prez arresting the slide, which is hopefully not a dead cat bounce.

However, any debate rebound won't show in the polls for a few days yet.

I noticed that meself. I don't think it is a deceased feline bounce.

Romney did have several women in prominent positions -- such as Beth Myers, as chief of staff, or Healey, as lieutenant governor – and he made an effort to hire more women.

Midway through his four-year term, 42 percent of his 33 new appointments were women, according to a study done by the UMass Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy using some of the data collected by MassGAP.

But over the next two years, women made up only 25 percent of the 64 new appointments Romney made. By the end of his term, the number of women in high-ranking positions was slightly lower than it was before Romney took office.