Would the REAL Pres. Mitt Romney Cut Our Hair?

Posted on May 11, 2012 by theHoundDawg

Revelations of the past few days about the childhood hobbies of Willard “Mitten” Romney have gotten far less coverage than they deserve. At a time in our history when Bullying has become a major focal point of concern, and when the rights of minority groups long ignored and long ridiculed have finally gotten the support they have long deserved, Romney should be vilified from all directions for his disgusting conduct.

As reported in the Washington Post, while a student at an exclusive, private prep school, Romney not only bullied, but ridiculed, assaulted and battered (with a pair of scissors) at least one fellow student who was “different”. What is worse, this disgusting excuse for a human being – let alone an a aspirant for the Presidency – not only says he doesn’t REMEMBER the event, but smirks and chuckles when discussing it.

The event, according to the Post and the half dozen or so witnesses to the event that were interviewed for the story, involved Romney leading a posse of students to tackle and hold down a student whose hair style offended Romney, as Romney cut off the kid’s hair with a pair of scissors, continuing despite cries for help.

Romney’s response? Why he DOES NOT REMEMBER this event, but he did “… participate[d] in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school,…”

Hijinks and Pranks? Bullying, Torture, and Assault is more like it. If he had had a gun, Romney could now be considered the perfect gop candidate.

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Yea, Republicans Love Guns, Even at Their Convention

Posted on May 3, 2012 by theHoundDawg

Republicans and Guns – the stories just never quit.

The gop convention will be held in Tampa, Fla. Floridians, in particular gop Floridians, LOVE guns, and carrying weapons, loaded weapons, concealed loaded weapons, is a legal, common practice in those parts.

Gather together several thousand republicans in the August heat of Tampa, Florida, amidst thousands of law-abiding, gut-toting citizens, and add in the thoughtful, concerned views of the town’s Democratic mayor, Bob Buckhorn, and what do you get? A request by Buckhorn of the state’s ultra-ultra righty, gun-toting governor Rick Scott, that maybe, just maybe, it would be a good idea to briefly suspend the “right” to carry concealed weapons in the area around the convention.

Scott’s response? Guess.

In elaborating upon his definitive “No!” to the request, he wrote as follows”

“It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.”

Why have police? Hell, why have an army? Just let the citizens fight it out in the streets.

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Who Would Be Mitt Romney’s Boss?

Posted on May 2, 2012 by theHoundDawg

The American People? That’s a laugh.

His BOSS would be Grover Norquist.

Romney has signed Norquist’s written pledge NEVER to raise ANY tax for ANY reason, and would clearly be one of his unthinking followers, just like the tea bagger house members who say no to every important piece of legislation, and only seek to strip benefits that are the lifelines for the poor, for the elderly, for the disabled, and now, for women.

What does Norquist want a president Romney to do? Nothing.

Nothing, that is, except sign whatever legislation a conservative Congress puts in front of him.

Speaking at this year’s CPAC convention, Norquist said exactly that. Here are excerpts from his speech

“We are not auditioning for ‘fearless leader’.

“We don’t need a president to tell us what direction to go – we know what direction to go. We want the Paul Ryan budget.

“We just need a president to sign this stuff – We don’t need someone to think it up or design it. We have a House and a Senate … The leadership of the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.

“Pick a republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become President of the United States.

“We need someone who understands his job is to be captain of a team and sign the legislation that’s already prepared, already worked through.”

And here is a video of him saying it, and disgustingly, much more:

Is this what the American people want in a President – an inhuman machine who doesn’t even need to read the bills presented to him, but signs in rote whatever his conservative masters present to him?

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Wine Growers, Climate Change, and the Big Picture

Posted on April 29, 2012 by theHoundDawg

I recently completed an article for the website Nifty-Home-Bar.com about climate change and how wine growers have accept its reality and acted accordingly to prevent climate variability from having a catastrophic effect on the wine industry.

As early as 2006, wine industry leaders had already recognized the effects climate change was having on vineyards, and the first International Global Warming and Wine Conference was held. Industry leaders got together to discuss the indisputable facts that changes in rainfall, temperature, and other weather elements were causing significant havoc on traditional methods, schedules, and product, in the industry.

In various parts of the world, grape harvesting had to be done as much as a full month earlier that had been done for decades, if not centuries. Wines were being produced with less acidity and higher sugar and alcohol content, due to warmer growing seasons, and in fact, the terrior of wines was changing, with the very real fear that traditional wine growing regions would soon no longer be able to produce the grapes traditional to the region. In 2011, a Stanford University study predicted that within 30 years, California, producer of 90% of US wines, would lose as much as 50% of it wine growing areas.

Largely putting aside the partisan politics of climate change, leaders of the wine industry have broken with the right wing big business corporate mantra of denial, and actually have taken expedient actions to counter the effects of climate change on their industry.

The question remains, when will leaders in other industries realize that science is science and not political myth or mysticism, and similarly act to save not only their own industries, but the world?

See the entire article here: The Wine Industry and Climate Change

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Birmingham High – Another Charter School Criminal Enterprise

Posted on April 25, 2012 by theHoundDawg

The Los Angeles Unified School District is about to take action against yet another charter school that has been a cesspool of corruption, deceit, and misappropriation of both public faith and public funds.

Citing a laundry list of documented misdeeds, Superintendent John Deasy has put the school’s officials on notice of an impending vote to strip the school of it charter.

Deasy specifically mentioned the school’s

  • Mishandling of student expulsions
  • Mishandling of services to disabled students
  • Allegations of racial discrimination

In fact, there is an ongoing discrimination investigation by the Federal Office for Civil Right, and the LA Times has reported that the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating missing school funds.

As could well be expected, internal school “investigations” whitewashed all such activities, finding no wrongdoing.

We’ve previously documented corruption in charter schools in Los Angeles and around the country. They continue to steal taxpayer funds, draining resources from REAL schools whose goals are to educate students and prepare them for life in the real world, as opposed to the mission of the charter school, which is to unduly and illegally enrich charter school owners and operators, while failing miserably to educate or prepare students for anything but failure.

See also:
Charter School Owners and Operators Lie, Cheat, & Steal, Continue to Rake in Taxpayer Dollars
Charter School Operators Engaging in Yet Another Scam

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Mad Men? Really?

Posted on April 22, 2012 by theHoundDawg

So Mad Men was off for two years because the producers and the network couldn’t agree on new contract terms, and the cultists went crazy, fearing that their manna could be gone forever.

But terms were agreed upon, contracts were signed, money was paid, words were written, and cameras rolled once more, and the new season began last month. The first new episode, two years in the making, was the worst show this group of talented writers, actors, producers, and daydreamers ever created. They followed that a week later, by one of the best.

Some downs, but mostly ups followed, and then came tonight’s episode – clearly the strangest of the many strange 64 minute shows they ever put together. The time and space displacements were disturbing but by the third time the same brief scene was shown, you sort of got used to it. What was most disturbing was not knowing what was TV reality, and what was LSD phantasy. A couple of weeks ago when Don strangled a female pursuer, kicked her under the bed, and then went back to sleep, you knew it was not TV reality, but where do you draw the line in this episode? And not just the LSD tripping-or-not scenes. Is Roger really getting divorced again? Does his wife really speak Yiddish? Is Ginsburg really from Mars? Or WAS he born in a concentration camp? And didn’t they have ushers in movie theaters in the mid-1960s?

I’ve been a fan of Mad Men almost since its beginning, and I’ve seen every episode, but this is the first one I that I really need to watch again to try to figure out what the hell happened. But I intend to leave the room during the Heinz Bean promotion scene. That I NEVER want to see again.

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GOP Voices Offer Threats and Slurs

Posted on April 12, 2012 by theHoundDawg

Allan West, the teabagger Congressman from Florida, who has distinguished himself in the past by 1) going on a disgusting rant against fellow Florida Congressperson Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, 2) having progressive commentator Nicole Sandler manhandled and then arrested for daring to ask a question at a town hall meeting, and 3) while in the military famously firing a gun near the head of an Iraqi prisoner and then lying that the technique resulted in the obtaining of valuable intelligence information, has now directly insulted 20% of Congress and indirectly insulted the entirely of the American public.

At another of his infamous public gatherings, West has now claimed that as many as 81 members of Congress – now just any members, but members of the Progressive Caucus, as card-carrying members of the Communist Party:

Just for the record, Libero Della Piana, a vice-chairman of the national Communist Party, later told the media that there are no members of Congress who are members of the Communist Party, “not even … Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).”

Then, just a couple of days later, billionaire financier of right wing causes Foster Friess, went on the fixed noise business channel and told America that now that Mitt Romey had united republicans who could now focus on the general election, “that they have trained their barrels on President Obama, I hope his teleprompters are bulletproof.”:

More with guns. More with threats, More with baseless, inflammatory declarations. Is that ALL these right wing teabagger lunatics know?

Will conservatives wake up? Will that portion of the voting public ever open their eyes and see what they are promulgating, what they are following, what they are electing to office? Guns, hatred, and lies, lies, lies. That is the republican mantra.

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Obama Campaign Video Refutes Parcel of Romney Lies

Posted on April 6, 2012 by theHoundDawg

This short, 84-second video prepared by the Obama-Biden re-election campaign, shows Mitt Romney espousing many of his most common lies about the President. This time, each lie is followed by a clip that dramatically demonstrates the fact that the statement is a lie, by showing something that Romney has no familiarity with: The Truth.

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