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09:30:42 02/08/12
(RMBS, ASTC, OXBT) CRWENewswire.com Stocks In Action
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Good Morning, It's Wednesday February 8th, 2012, I'm Christina Collins with CRWENewswire Stocks In Action Rambus Incorporated - symbol RMBS - reported that it has signed a patent license agreement with NVIDIA, which covers the use of Rambus patented innovations in a broad range of integrated circuit products offered by NVIDIA. Astrogenetix Corporation, a subsidiary of Astrotech Corporation - symbol ASTC -, has entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA, (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to Continue Developing Medicines in Space to Save Lives on Earth and lastly; Oxygen Biotherapeutics Incorporated - symbol OXBT - and Aurum Biosciences Limited previously reported that they have signed a long-term agreement to develop a better tool for defining the extent of injury in acute ischemic stroke and for treating this emergency in the important early hours after the attack. Thank you for joining me and have a great day! For CRWE Newswire, Stocks In Action, I'm Christina Collins ******************************************************************** THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY OR SELL ANY SECURITY! Disclaimer: Never invest in any stock featured on our site or emails unless you can afford to lose your entire investment. CRWENewswire.com publisher and its affiliates and contractors are not registered investment advisers or broker/dealers. Our disclaimer is to be read and fully understood before using our site, reading our newsletter or joining our email list. Release of Liability: Through use of this website viewing or using, you agree to hold CRWENewswire.com report and Crown Equity Holdings Inc. CRWE, its operators, shareholders, employees and/or contractors harmless and to completely release them from any and all liability due to any and all loss (monetary or otherwise), damages (monetary or otherwise) that you may occur. (Read more at http://crwenewswire.com/disclaimer). Rule 17B requires disclosure of payment for investor relations. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) is a media-advertisement and newswire company. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB), in some cases, provides media advertising and public awareness for both public and private companies, as well as disseminating news. As such, in some cases, when Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) advertises for a particular client, Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB) charges an advertising fee which it must disclose under 17B. The fee may be in cash, in free trading stock or in restricted stock. Crown Equity Holdings Inc. (CRWE.OB), if paid in stock, can and may sell those securities during the advertising period.
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05:45:58 02/08/12
Chillcast Video #76: Artemis
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Returning to the show today is San Francisco artist, Artemis . She just released a brand new animated video for a remix of her dreamy song, "Easy." This lovely video was created by Sara Abtahi, an Iranian artist currently living in Germany. You can download the song "Easy (Mijomix)" or the full Auralei EP from Bandcamp , with their unique "pay what you want" option. Artemis is in the process of completing a new album and participating in the Song-A-Day challenge , posting her work online for your listening pleasure.
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04:46:29 02/05/12
YAH'S DOOM OF Satan's FALSE BLUE BEAM RAPTURE UFO'S ALIENS HOLOGRAMS REPTILIANS ORGONE
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Video originally done by EFESIOSSEISDIEZ Please visit http://www.amightywind.com and http://www.almightywind.com YAHUSHUA (עשוהי), a Hebrew Name, is the original Name of JESUS. We are still saved in the Name JESUS but the antichrist will use the name Jesus Christ for himself IN THE TRIBULATION, so learn YAHUSHUA's NAME for then. THE FALSE 'BLUE BEAM' RAPTURE February 21, 2008 Translated into Spanish EL FALSO RAPTO HAZ DE LUZ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwGQQuFIyGc These are the Words of YAHUVEH, YAHUSHUA and the RUACH ha KODESH. These Words are what they have said regarding the False Blue Beam Rapture. These Prophetic Words have been compiled from the Prophecies spoken and written through Apostle Elisabeth Elijah Nikomia. Please click on the Prophecy number and title to read Prophecy in its entirety. We pray you hear the voice of YAHUVEH, YAHUSHUA and the RUACH ha KODESH and you will not be a victim of the False Blue Beam Rapture.. Now I give a new warning to you. For those that believe in the coming of YAHUSHUA again, you use the word rapture, the catching away of MY faithful Women and Men and Children. I warn you now, BEWARE MY CHILDREN of a COUNTERFEIT RAPTURE devised by those you trust. When they say, "Jesus is here," when they say, "Jesus is there, come and meet us there." (Matt 24:23-24) Beware MY Children of the HOLOGRAM in the sky, that will be satan coming in disguise. For new weapons shall mow you down. For those who do not listen, for those who do not know, they will be evaporated, they will be nothing more than smoke. For you need not go anywhere for YAHUSHUA to come, MY Son will come where you are. Beware MY Children of the BLUE BEAM RAPTURE, which is no rapture, for it is evil being caught away, when they thought they were coming to behold the face of Jesus. I allowed them to be deceived, for if you were truly hearing from ME you would know your word, you would know even the very elect would be deceived. This is the plan, this is the plot of the enemy, just to show you what evil is. Not all who gather will be evil, some just haven't heard the warnings, some don't know how to hear MY voice, so I tell you to warn them. For MY Son doth come but the devil tries to go before, so warn them. Test the Spirit that speaks. Yes, it is true that the dead in the MESSIAH shall arise, and you which remain will be caught up in the air to meet MY Son but the devil goes before. Be warned those with ears, listen, those with spiritual eyes, see, so you will not be fooled when this counterfeit tries to appear before thee. When your own politicians around the world look up to the sky and say, "There is a greater GOD coming than I," they will see apparitions; yes they will say they see space ships. It will make your news. An alien will even be interviewed. Remember MY Children whence this comes, satan goes before MY Son. Satan mocks me in all ways, the greatest mockery is trying to steal MY true Babies, Bride, Chosen ones and Elect away. Science
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17:23:25 01/27/12
JUSTIN BIEBER SAVES LIVES!!! -- SMASH PILOT! -- KARDASHIAN JEANS!
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JUSTIN BIEBER SAVES LIVES!!! -- SMASH PILOT! -- KARDASHIAN JEANS!
WATCH SMASH PILOT! bit.ly Tell Them Buck Sent You! :-) Please LIKE/COMMENT/SHARE/SUBSCRIBE! (oh you know!) Comment Questions Of The Day! (Answer Any Or All) 1. What did you think of the Smash pilot? Report back after you watch!!! Go leave comments! YAY!!! 2. Are you an organ donor?? 3. Did you know what Candies is? LOL 4. What Kardashian Jean are you? BONUS COMMENT: Any weekend plans? Just say hey- tell me how you are? Compliment me- you know how it goes! LOL HAHAHAHA! I love you! ______ Business Email: Booking/Sponsorship/Advertising media@buckhollywood.com ME ME ME! buckhollywood.com MAIN CHANNEL: SUBSCRIBE! youtube.com SECOND CHANNEL: SUBSCRIBE! youtube.com PHONE CHANNEL: BE AFRAID! youtube.com Follow Buck on Twitter: twitter.com Friend Buck on Facebook: www.facebook.com NEW! DON'T TELL buckhollywood.tumblr.com PLEASE NOTE Smash Pilot Available for viewing in United States only From: WHATTHEBUCKSHOW Views: 83499 4233 ratings Time: 06:58 More in People & Blogs
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23:21:46 01/25/12
Much Different Interview: Man vs Machine
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The world of multiplayer gaming is about to change and you are invited to be part of it! On January 29th 2012, 16.00 CET, Swedish tech-company MuchDifferent is asking you to join in on a world record attempt. The goal: a once-in-a-lifetime event. One battlefield, One thousand players, in an in-browser FPS game. Gamers and game developers will have a chance to face-off against each other in a massive carnage. Since there will only be 1000 players, secure your place by buying a ticket. These can be found on the Engineers Without Borders - Stockholm organization’s website, so all the earnings will go straight to them. Never before have so many players fought each other in an FPS, on one battlefield, in the browser. And never before has so much time been spent on a game only to be played once. Don’t miss it! http://www.muchdifferent.com/1000PlayerFPS Why? Three years ago MuchDifferent was looking for a big technical challenge. Friends at CCP, Dice and other gaming companies told us that the hardest and most difficult challenge they were all facing was the scalability of virtual worlds. Not only did we solve the problem, but we also offered a solution that may revolutionize the way games are made, as well as have an influence on other consumer web areas. How? MuchDifferent has created a dynamic traffic router/load balancer, PikkoServer, that divides the battlefield between the game servers and glues the result together for the clients, multiple times per second. Although Man vs Machine is based on the Unity Engine, any modern game engine could easily be retrofitted with the technology to create something similar in a few months time. During the development of this technology, MuchDifferent has created a range of related tools, the UnityPark Suite, that provide a full backend solution for Unity developers, released for the public on January 2nd 2012. “I’m really impressed with the product suite that MuchDifferent is offering. It’s an incredible piece of technology that I’ve seen running. The amount of time and money developers can save from using this software is immense and it kinda makes me wish I was developing on their technology.” (Minh Le, creator of Counterstrike) Who? MuchDifferent is a non-profit organization that not only develops tools that change the way online games are made, but is also a leading technology provider within the field of signal processing. The organization has its headquarters in Uppsala, Sweden with a team of 24 people. However, they are also present in South Korea, Belgium and Iceland.
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03:22:44 01/25/12
Chillcast Video #75: Favorite Flava
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Returning to Chillcast Video this week is, Favorite Flava , from Gothenburg, Sweden. Today's video for the trio's song, "Stacy," features Paul Mac Innes (AKA Psaul ) on lead vox. He will be my special guest on the next episode of The Chillcast audio show, as we peruse his soulful catalog of music past and present. You know, Favorite Flava made my Chillcast Top 20 of 2011 podcast, so be sure to check that out, as well!
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22:21:59 01/19/12
RnRTV #272 - Eddie Van Halen Gives Guitars and No Doubt Hacked!
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Rock n Roll TV gives you the rock news with brevity and levity! Eddie Van Halen donates guitars; Kid Rock apologizes for lighting up and Rihanna doesn't; Madonna reveals new name and No Doubt is hacked!
Eddie Van Halen has donated 75 electric guitars from his personal collection to the Mr Holland's Opus Foundation , a non profit organization that supports music education in public schools across the country. Per Eddie's request, The Foundation will distribute the guitars to music programs in public schools throughout Los Angeles where there are not enough instruments to meet the demand of the students.
"If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing. Music has provided a good life for me and hopefully it can help make life better for others with this donation."
Kid Rock apologized for lighting up a cigar at a smoke free Travis Tritt show in Detroit and on the opposite coin, Rihanna was photographed puffing on a suspicious looking cigarette in Hawaii and went on Twitter to brag about its cannabis content. Ohhhh. Really? A pop star who smokes weed? How dangerous.
E street guitarist and Sopranos star, Steven Van Zandt will play a mobster again in a new Netflix series - Lilyhammer.
Legendary guitarist and famed hunter Ted Nugent is putting his name on …. wait for it… bullets. Pierce Ammunitions will start producing Nugent branded ammo in the next few months and they will be available for purchase by June of this year.
Steve Jobs will be awarded a posthumous Grammy award in February for his contributions to the entertainment industry.
Madonna has revealed the name of her new album will be MDNA.
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Justin Bieber has been spotted with much darker hair now.
Katy Perry's parents want their daughter to date Tim Tebow.
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No Doubt and Rise Against have had their Twitter accounts hacked by followers of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. Both bands found tweets on their accounts endorsing the libertarian politician. Fortunately, both acts caught the fake tweets quickly and pulled the messages down and set the record straight stating they do NOT support Ron Paul.
Meanwhile.. No Doubt confirmed their long awaited new album will come out this year.
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12:18:10 01/14/12
Amightywind Cult - I Have A Complaint!
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Dear Amightywind: I really must insist that you give me a little bit more stand out billing on your lavishly long "Enemies List". I realize that it probably slipped your minds for a moment that you hate me more than the rest of the people on the list so I changed the formatting on it for you so you can pray for my death more easily and send what ever curses you may with the ease of picking up a spill with a sham-wow! No need to thank me - really it is my pleasure to help out. I mean you know anything for the cause right? You know in my years as a Messianic believer in Messiah Y'shua I have seen many prayer lists from many churches and ministries. Yours is the first one I have EVER seen that had hundreds verging on a thousand names that are slated to be prayed curses against. Disgusting really - You need to get saved - really you do! See the website EXPOSING this CULT and of prophetess at http://www.amightywindfalseprophet.com.
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13:14:46 01/13/12
US to Withdrawl 7,000 Troops Based in Europe;Game Words With Friends Saves Man's Life
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US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the United States intends to withdraw up to 7,000 US troops of the 81,000 troops based in Europe --- Panetta said two brigade combat teams of 7,000 US troops, would be withdrawn from Europe, with rotational units maintaining strong military presence in the region --- Panetta added that the United States security commitments to Europe and to NATO are unwavering --- The move is part of a 10-year defense strategy that President Barack Obama presented on January 5, giving strategic priority to the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions.The Scrabble-like word game Words With Friends, played on smartphones by millions of people around the world saved the life of one man living in Australia --- Beth Legler, who lives in Missouri met Georgie and Simon Fletcher from Australia while playing the game on her mobile phone --- While playing the game late last year, Georgie mentioned to Beth that her husband Simon wasn't feeling well and described some of his symptoms --- Beth's husband Larry happens to be a doctor, and when Beth relayed Georgie's message, Larry said get him to a hospital, quick --- Doctors found Simon he had a 99 percent blockage close to his heart --- The two couples have never met in person though they believe they'll be friends for life after all that's happened --- Words With Friends was released in 2009 and can be played on iOS and Android devices, as well as on Facebook --- Thank you for joining me for and stay with us for all your latest in News for CRWENewswire NewsUpdate, I'm Christina Collins
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13:14:46 01/13/12
US to Withdrawl 7,000 Troops Based in Europe;Game Words With Friends Saves Man's Life
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US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the United States intends to withdraw up to 7,000 US troops of the 81,000 troops based in Europe --- Panetta said two brigade combat teams of 7,000 US troops, would be withdrawn from Europe, with rotational units maintaining strong military presence in the region --- Panetta added that the United States security commitments to Europe and to NATO are unwavering --- The move is part of a 10-year defense strategy that President Barack Obama presented on January 5, giving strategic priority to the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions.The Scrabble-like word game Words With Friends, played on smartphones by millions of people around the world saved the life of one man living in Australia --- Beth Legler, who lives in Missouri met Georgie and Simon Fletcher from Australia while playing the game on her mobile phone --- While playing the game late last year, Georgie mentioned to Beth that her husband Simon wasn't feeling well and described some of his symptoms --- Beth's husband Larry happens to be a doctor, and when Beth relayed Georgie's message, Larry said get him to a hospital, quick --- Doctors found Simon he had a 99 percent blockage close to his heart --- The two couples have never met in person though they believe they'll be friends for life after all that's happened --- Words With Friends was released in 2009 and can be played on iOS and Android devices, as well as on Facebook --- Thank you for joining me for and stay with us for all your latest in News for CRWENewswire NewsUpdate, I'm Christina Collins
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01:04:12 01/10/12
HUNDAR HUNGERS - The Legend of Skyrim!
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HUNDAR HUNGERS - The Legend of Skyrim!
www.youtube.com Click here to watch HUNDAR HUNGERS - Skyrim: Lydia Must Die! Boethiah's Calling! HUNDAR HUNGERS - The Legend of Skyrim! Hundar means Dogs in Icelandic and today Skyrim and The Legend of Zelda were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and then the baby looked at me and it was this video. Enjoy! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This Realm video will show you: How to dragonshout in Hyrule How to save Zelda from Alduin How to absorb heart containers - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Like Machinima Realm on Facebook! facebook.com Enlist in the Respawn Army! therespawnarmy.com FOR MORE MACHINIMA, GO TO www.youtube.com FOR MORE GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE SPORTS GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE MMO & RPG GAMEPLAY, GO TO: www.youtube.com FOR MORE TRAILERS, GO TO: www.youtube.com Tags: yt:quality=high Machinima Realm Hundar ZBOT Grit Ian Joel Kitty RPG MMO Epic Win "Legend of Skyrim" "Hundar Hungers" Machinima Realm Hundar Science Fiction" Skyrim Dovahkiin Link Zelda "Legend of Zelda" Triforce Volvagia "Ocarina of Time" "Wind Waker" "Skyward Sword" "Majora's Mask" Hyrule Tamriel Dragon "Fus Ro Dah" Epona Dragonborn Dragonshout RPG Adventure Epic Win Fantasy "role play" Games Massively "How to" Multiplayer online PC "dragon soul" "heart container" Ganon Gleeok From: MachinimaRealm Views: 17464 508 ratings Time: 02:31 More in Gaming
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00:00:40 01/06/12
Mitt Romney, a Profile in Cowardice
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For months, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has made Barack Obama's supposed "failure of leadership" a centerpiece of his campaign. But like his ill-advised comparison of President Obama to Marie Antoinette , Romney's sound bite could well boomerang. After all, when Multiple Choice Mitt isn't comically reversing his stands, he's too afraid to take any at all .
That cowardice starts with his tax returns . While John Kerry and John McCain at least presented a summary of their (and their well-to-do wives') payments to Uncle Sam, the $250 million Mitt has so far refused to do so. Despite his famous demand in the 1994 Senate race that Ted Kennedy release his tax returns to show he has "nothing to hide," Romney reiterated his own paperwork would not be forthcoming. "We don't have any current plans to release tax returns, but never say never," Romney said, adding: >
"I can tell you we follow the tax laws, and if there's an opportunity to save taxes, we like anybody else in this country will follow that opportunity."
Or as he put it to CNN's Wolf Blitzer last week (at around the 6:40 mark): >
"I don't put out which tooth paste I use either. It's not that I have something to hide."
That's one interpretation. Another is that Mitt Romney is desperate to avoid the horrible political optics his tax returns would inevitably produce. After all, because Romney's continuing millions in annual income from Bain Capital (a company the Los Angeles Times recently explained "often maximized profits in part by firing workers") are taxed at the 15 percent capital gains rate, Mitt already pays a much lower share to Uncle Sam than most middle class families .
Romney's pusillanimity extends to his own tax proposals as well. Unlike virtually all of his GOP rivals , Romney has held back on endorsing either a flat-tax or the complete elimination of the capital gains tax. As he seemed to suggest to the Wall Street Journal , discretion is the better part of valor when it comes to telling voters about the massive windfall the Romneys would reap under the tax policies that dare not speak their name: >
What about his reform principles? Mr. Romney talks only in general terms. "Moving to a consumption-based system is something which is very attractive to me philosophically, but I've not been able to sufficiently model it out to jump on board a consumption-based tax. A flat tax, a true flat tax is also attractive to me. What I like--I mean, I like the simplification of a flat tax. I also like removing the distortion in our tax code for certain classes of investment. And the advantage of a flat tax is getting rid of some of those distortions"... >
Amid such generalities, it's hard not to conclude that the candidate is trying to avoid offering any details that might become a political target. And he all but admits as much. "I happen to also recognize," he says, "that if you go out with a tax proposal which conforms to your philosophy but it hasn't been thoroughly analyzed, vetted, put through models and calculated in detail, that you're gonna get hit by the demagogues in the general election."
Mitt Romney's fear of getting hit was also on display during the debt ceiling debate this summer. As the GOP's brinksmanship over defaulting on the U.S. debt reached its climax in late July, Romney turned his tail and fled. As MSNBC reported at the time: >
NBC's Garrett Haake reported that Mitt Romney told reporters in Ohio yesterday that he would not comment on the debt negotiations in Washington. And so far, he has refused to either endorse Boehner's legislation (as Huntsman has done) or oppose it (as Pawlenty and Bachman have done). Our question: How does someone who wants to be the leader of the Republican Party not have a position on one of the biggest issues facing Washington, especially after the dueling primetime speeches by Obama and Boehner? It's actually quite surprising; this isn't just another Washington fight. Is the lack of a position proof of how fragile Team Romney believes its front-runner status is right now?
(Ultimately, Romney used Facebook to announce his support of the Boehner bill, but only after it passed the GOP House .)
As it turns out, Ohio was the scene of another of Mitt Romney's moments in cowardice.
After visiting a Republican phone bank calling voters about the state's controversial Issue 2 curbing public unions , Romney amazingly refused to take a position: >
"I'm not saying anything one way or the other about the two ballot issues."
Embarrassed by his obvious lack of backbone, Romney endorsed the measure the next day. Ohio voters, who handily defeated the Republican measure, won't soon forget Romney said goodbye to his spine in Columbus.
Romney's vertebra similarly went missing on immigration and abortion , two issues near and dear to the Republican primary voter's heart. As Steve Benen recounted, Mitt's campaign simply would not answer Joe Klein question about what President Romney would do about the 12 million illegal immigrants already in the country: >
The evasion wasn't exactly graceful. Klein asked what Romney would do with the undocumented immigrants who are already here, and Fehrnstrom replied, "He would not grant them amnesty." Right, Klein said, but instead of amnesty, what would Romney do with these people? "He would not grant them amnesty," Fehrnstrom answered. Got it, Klein said, but what, specifically, would Romney do? "I just told you, he's not going to grant them amnesty," the campaign spokesperson said. When Klein then explained that this isn't actually an answer, Fehrnstrom, once again, said, "He would not grant them amnesty."
The Romney camp built a similar stonewall after their man seemingly came out in support of the soon-to-be defeated "personhood" initiative in Mississippi . But the day after the ballot measure went down to crushing defeat, Team Romney insisted "he's being falsely characterized as supporting a proposed amendment to define a fertilized egg as a 'person.'"
On matters small and large, duck and cover is Mitt Romney's posture. Afraid to admit that he has obviously been running for President without interruption since his failed campaign four years ago, Romney's wife claimed his 2012 run was all her idea. As Ann Romney told Wolf Blitzer last week (starting around the 2:30 mark in the video above): >
BLITZER: Is it true that you had to talk to Mitt into running again? >
ANN ROMNEY. ROMNEY: It is true...after the last campaign, it was kind of ironic that I was the one that said I'd never do this again, and now, this time around, I'm saying, you know what, Mitt, you've got to do this again.
But in Mitt's telling, his latest White House bid is all due to Barack Obama. As he told the Wall Street Journal just days ago, Mitt was content to hang out in his $12 million, soon-to-be doubled-in-size California beach side home : >
The Republican presidential candidate says he never intended to run for office again after 2008--"I went back and bought a home which was far too expensive and grandiose for the purposes of another campaign," he jokes. He was drawn back into public life amid Mr. Obama's bid to "fundamentally transform" the country, to use the president's own words, into "an entitlement society," to use Mr. Romney's.
Given his Boston area townhouse and lakeside mansion with man-made beach in New Hampshire, a third palatial retreat would have seemed excessive for a candidate Romney. After all, Mitt Romney's running for office as a " man of the people "; he can't have mansions, for Pete's sake .
"If it seems like this keeps coming up with the former governor," Benen concluded, "it's not your imagination." >
Romney refused to take a stand on Paul Ryan's budget. Romney refused to take a stand when asked about voters booing a U.S. soldier serving in Iraq during a Republican debate. Romney refused to take a stand when Rick Perry dabbled in Birtherism. Romney initially refused to take a stand on Ohio's campaign to undermine collective-bargaining rights, and then sheepishly backpedaled when the right complained. >
There's going to come a point next year when the Obama campaign is likely to say, "Mitt Romney lacks the courage and the character to be a leader." And the criticism will sting because it's based in fact.
And so it goes for the man George Will rightly described as a "recidivist reviser of his principles." On the issues where he doesn't change his mind, Mitt Romney - the man who would be leader of the Free World - lacks "the courage of his absence of convictions."
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives. )
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00:00:40 01/06/12
Mitt Romney, a Profile in Cowardice
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For months, likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has made Barack Obama's supposed "failure of leadership" a centerpiece of his campaign. But like his ill-advised comparison of President Obama to Marie Antoinette , Romney's sound bite could well boomerang. After all, when Multiple Choice Mitt isn't comically reversing his stands, he's too afraid to take any at all .
That cowardice starts with his tax returns . While John Kerry and John McCain at least presented a summary of their (and their well-to-do wives') payments to Uncle Sam, the $250 million Mitt has so far refused to do so. Despite his famous demand in the 1994 Senate race that Ted Kennedy release his tax returns to show he has "nothing to hide," Romney reiterated his own paperwork would not be forthcoming. "We don't have any current plans to release tax returns, but never say never," Romney said, adding: >
"I can tell you we follow the tax laws, and if there's an opportunity to save taxes, we like anybody else in this country will follow that opportunity."
Or as he put it to CNN's Wolf Blitzer last week (at around the 6:40 mark): >
"I don't put out which tooth paste I use either. It's not that I have something to hide."
That's one interpretation. Another is that Mitt Romney is desperate to avoid the horrible political optics his tax returns would inevitably produce. After all, because Romney's continuing millions in annual income from Bain Capital (a company the Los Angeles Times recently explained "often maximized profits in part by firing workers") are taxed at the 15 percent capital gains rate, Mitt already pays a much lower share to Uncle Sam than most middle class families .
Romney's pusillanimity extends to his own tax proposals as well. Unlike virtually all of his GOP rivals , Romney has held back on endorsing either a flat-tax or the complete elimination of the capital gains tax. As he seemed to suggest to the Wall Street Journal , discretion is the better part of valor when it comes to telling voters about the massive windfall the Romneys would reap under the tax policies that dare not speak their name: >
What about his reform principles? Mr. Romney talks only in general terms. "Moving to a consumption-based system is something which is very attractive to me philosophically, but I've not been able to sufficiently model it out to jump on board a consumption-based tax. A flat tax, a true flat tax is also attractive to me. What I like--I mean, I like the simplification of a flat tax. I also like removing the distortion in our tax code for certain classes of investment. And the advantage of a flat tax is getting rid of some of those distortions"... >
Amid such generalities, it's hard not to conclude that the candidate is trying to avoid offering any details that might become a political target. And he all but admits as much. "I happen to also recognize," he says, "that if you go out with a tax proposal which conforms to your philosophy but it hasn't been thoroughly analyzed, vetted, put through models and calculated in detail, that you're gonna get hit by the demagogues in the general election."
Mitt Romney's fear of getting hit was also on display during the debt ceiling debate this summer. As the GOP's brinksmanship over defaulting on the U.S. debt reached its climax in late July, Romney turned his tail and fled. As MSNBC reported at the time: >
NBC's Garrett Haake reported that Mitt Romney told reporters in Ohio yesterday that he would not comment on the debt negotiations in Washington. And so far, he has refused to either endorse Boehner's legislation (as Huntsman has done) or oppose it (as Pawlenty and Bachman have done). Our question: How does someone who wants to be the leader of the Republican Party not have a position on one of the biggest issues facing Washington, especially after the dueling primetime speeches by Obama and Boehner? It's actually quite surprising; this isn't just another Washington fight. Is the lack of a position proof of how fragile Team Romney believes its front-runner status is right now?
(Ultimately, Romney used Facebook to announce his support of the Boehner bill, but only after it passed the GOP House .)
As it turns out, Ohio was the scene of another of Mitt Romney's moments in cowardice.
After visiting a Republican phone bank calling voters about the state's controversial Issue 2 curbing public unions , Romney amazingly refused to take a position: >
"I'm not saying anything one way or the other about the two ballot issues."
Embarrassed by his obvious lack of backbone, Romney endorsed the measure the next day. Ohio voters, who handily defeated the Republican measure, won't soon forget Romney said goodbye to his spine in Columbus.
Romney's vertebra similarly went missing on immigration and abortion , two issues near and dear to the Republican primary voter's heart. As Steve Benen recounted, Mitt's campaign simply would not answer Joe Klein question about what President Romney would do about the 12 million illegal immigrants already in the country: >
The evasion wasn't exactly graceful. Klein asked what Romney would do with the undocumented immigrants who are already here, and Fehrnstrom replied, "He would not grant them amnesty." Right, Klein said, but instead of amnesty, what would Romney do with these people? "He would not grant them amnesty," Fehrnstrom answered. Got it, Klein said, but what, specifically, would Romney do? "I just told you, he's not going to grant them amnesty," the campaign spokesperson said. When Klein then explained that this isn't actually an answer, Fehrnstrom, once again, said, "He would not grant them amnesty."
The Romney camp built a similar stonewall after their man seemingly came out in support of the soon-to-be defeated "personhood" initiative in Mississippi . But the day after the ballot measure went down to crushing defeat, Team Romney insisted "he's being falsely characterized as supporting a proposed amendment to define a fertilized egg as a 'person.'"
On matters small and large, duck and cover is Mitt Romney's posture. Afraid to admit that he has obviously been running for President without interruption since his failed campaign four years ago, Romney's wife claimed his 2012 run was all her idea. As Ann Romney told Wolf Blitzer last week (starting around the 2:30 mark in the video above): >
BLITZER: Is it true that you had to talk to Mitt into running again? >
ANN ROMNEY. ROMNEY: It is true...after the last campaign, it was kind of ironic that I was the one that said I'd never do this again, and now, this time around, I'm saying, you know what, Mitt, you've got to do this again.
But in Mitt's telling, his latest White House bid is all due to Barack Obama. As he told the Wall Street Journal just days ago, Mitt was content to hang out in his $12 million, soon-to-be doubled-in-size California beach side home : >
The Republican presidential candidate says he never intended to run for office again after 2008--"I went back and bought a home which was far too expensive and grandiose for the purposes of another campaign," he jokes. He was drawn back into public life amid Mr. Obama's bid to "fundamentally transform" the country, to use the president's own words, into "an entitlement society," to use Mr. Romney's.
Given his Boston area townhouse and lakeside mansion with man-made beach in New Hampshire, a third palatial retreat would have seemed excessive for a candidate Romney. After all, Mitt Romney's running for office as a " man of the people "; he can't have mansions, for Pete's sake .
"If it seems like this keeps coming up with the former governor," Benen concluded, "it's not your imagination." >
Romney refused to take a stand on Paul Ryan's budget. Romney refused to take a stand when asked about voters booing a U.S. soldier serving in Iraq during a Republican debate. Romney refused to take a stand when Rick Perry dabbled in Birtherism. Romney initially refused to take a stand on Ohio's campaign to undermine collective-bargaining rights, and then sheepishly backpedaled when the right complained. >
There's going to come a point next year when the Obama campaign is likely to say, "Mitt Romney lacks the courage and the character to be a leader." And the criticism will sting because it's based in fact.
And so it goes for the man George Will rightly described as a "recidivist reviser of his principles." On the issues where he doesn't change his mind, Mitt Romney - the man who would be leader of the Free World - lacks "the courage of his absence of convictions."
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives. )
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17:15:35 01/01/12
C&L's Top 50 Videos of 2011: #8 Sarah Palin's Unconventional Route To The Presidency
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I know, you all are shaking your head and asking why this is on the top list of videos when Sarah Palin isn't running for President. At least, she's not "officially" running for President like the others, who are fiercely engaged in nattering with each other in far too many ridiculous televised debates.
The video begins to answer the question, as does this post by Dave Neiwert earlier this year, but here's the short version: Sarah Palin believes she has been called by God to be President of the United States. She believes God works in unconventional ways, and she is therefore not bound by conventional means.
Sarah Palin's fondest hope is that the Republican party will cry out to her to save them from the current crop of front-runners. This is already surfacing a bit in Iowa, where her supporters are mounting a campaign to show up at the caucuses and " vote rogue ."
Here's the ad: > "Are you unhappy with the current GOP field?" says a narrator in a radio ad. "Let me tell you something, you are not alone. Join thousands of Iowans as we vote rogue. It's the caucus for Sarah Palin on January 3. Let Iowa and the entire country know we want real leadership and real reform in DC. So come on Iowa, vote rogue on January 3!"
If the GOP nomination goes to a brokered convention or an outright floor fight, look for Palin to try and ride in on her white horse. She longs for it.
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C&L's Top 50 Videos of 2011: #8 Sarah Palin's Unconventional Route To The Presidency
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I know, you all are shaking your head and asking why this is on the top list of videos when Sarah Palin isn't running for President. At least, she's not "officially" running for President like the others, who are fiercely engaged in nattering with each other in far too many ridiculous televised debates.
The video begins to answer the question, as does this post by Dave Neiwert earlier this year, but here's the short version: Sarah Palin believes she has been called by God to be President of the United States. She believes God works in unconventional ways, and she is therefore not bound by conventional means.
Sarah Palin's fondest hope is that the Republican party will cry out to her to save them from the current crop of front-runners. This is already surfacing a bit in Iowa, where her supporters are mounting a campaign to show up at the caucuses and " vote rogue ."
Here's the ad: > "Are you unhappy with the current GOP field?" says a narrator in a radio ad. "Let me tell you something, you are not alone. Join thousands of Iowans as we vote rogue. It's the caucus for Sarah Palin on January 3. Let Iowa and the entire country know we want real leadership and real reform in DC. So come on Iowa, vote rogue on January 3!"
If the GOP nomination goes to a brokered convention or an outright floor fight, look for Palin to try and ride in on her white horse. She longs for it.
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22:00:09 12/31/11
Gingrich Tears Up Over His Mother
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Here we have Republican Newt Gingrich tearing up as he recalls times with his mother, who struggled with mental illness and died of cancer in 2003 - or - here we have Republican Newt Gingrich desperately trying to save his floundering campaign by crying a couple of days before voting starts. Your call.
"You'll get me all teary-eyed, Callista will tell you, I get teary-eyed every time we sing Christmas carols. My mother sang in the choir and loved singing in the choir," Gingrich said, referring to his wife, as he fought back tears.
"But I identify my mother with being happy, loving life, having a sense of joy in her friends, but what she introduced me to, is late in her life she ended up in a long-term-care facility. She had bipolar disease, and depression, and she gradually acquired some physical ailments, and that introduced me to the issue of long-term care, which I did with Bob Kerrey for three years, and that introduced me to the issue of Alzheimers, which I did with Bob Kerrey for three more years, and my whole emphasis on brain science comes indirectly from dealing with the real problems of real people in my family," the former House Speaker continued, at moments stopping to cry.
The audience sympathetically cheered for Gingrich as he spoke about his mother.
"I do policy much easier than I do personal," Gingrich joked.
Republican pollster Frank Luntz asked how his mother would react if she was at the event Friday, Gingrich said she would have been working the crowd.
"She'd be talking to all these people, and she'd be telling them how nice I was," Gingrich said to laughter.
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