Saturday - July 21, 2012

the great bagel war of 2012?

stringent regulations brought in by Locog, the London 2012 organising committee, which

bans businesses from using words such as Games, Two Thousand and Twelve, and

using the Olympics five-rings logo.

Yeah well sometimes some slack ought to be granted in the name of common sense.

This is a story about ….. Bagels.  Alright maybe not exactly bagels but rather how the bagels are arranged.  I understand that the officials have to worry about infringements on their trademark and logos etc.  Especially if a person is running a business and tries on some underhanded stuff.  But please take a good read of these stories. The bagels and the florists for example.  Who the heck are they gonna hurt. Are they going to steal business away from paying Olympic sponsors?

Oh btw … while I think about as I’m liable to forget the question I’d like to put to you.

Does the much praised, admired and over hyped Olympic torch look a bit like a toilet brush to you folks?  Just asking cos it does to me.  Are you aware that the much vaunted torch trip from the day it got here, travels more by auto and the ppl walking or running with it don’t even go that far. And it should NOT be torch in singular but torches. There are about 800 in use. Did you know that already? 

OK, back to bagels. Sorry bout the detour.

Here ya go. Read for yourself.

Dough! Olympic ring bagels banned from cafe window… despite the Government saying bakers should NOT be prosecuted

· Council orders bagels off after claiming shape breaches Olympics copyright
· But Sports Minister says 2012 snoopers should ‘go easy’ on small business
· Florist, doll maker, cake bake and butcher among those previously warned
· Even the Middleton family could be in breach with its Olympic party range
By SAM GREENHILL

A cafe manager who displayed five bagels in the style of Olympics rings was stunned to be raided by ‘community wardens’ from the council.
They took it upon themselves to declare the light-hearted window display ‘unauthorised’, and threatened him with court.

They proclaimed it a breach of laws brought in to prevent businesses exploiting the 2012 Games unless they are official sponsors.

Despite no one from the Olympics, the Government or any official sponsors complaining about the display of bread, the cafe had the book thrown at it by Southwark Council in South London.

Two ‘community wardens’ swooped on the House Cafe and Gallery, in Camberwell, within 20 minutes of manager David Adams putting up the display.

They claimed that putting the circular buns on show breached copyright rules.

HERE, for a lot more

See the comments that follow the article. Many are well worth your time.

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   Friday - July 20, 2012

Sorry

Posting from me has been pretty light the past couple of weeks and will continue to be light for several more. Family obligations - my MIL’s failing health and all that it entails - are absorbing much of my time. Also, I am trying to simultaneously quit several addictions, one of which is the internet. I’ll post when I can, but I simply don’t have, and can’t allow myself to spend, the amount of time online, that I once did. “Concise” must be my new watchword, instead of the dozens of paragraphs and link nobody reads anyway.

On top of all of that, the window cleaning thing has gone belly up and I need to find a real job with a real paycheck ASAP. Oh, and lose a bunch of weight while I’m at it.

Stress? Who me??

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eye candy for friday

For you art critics ..... below the fold is definitely NOT for work. 

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crime and punishment? where’s the punishment part?

More lunacy …. can’t get away from it.  With compliments from the usual boneheads on the left.
If you check here on a regular basis you will recall a post I did a week or two ago.
It had to do with taxpayer money in the thousands being given to the bad guys, in the cases I wrote about, Yoots.  And often very bad ones. You’ll recall that the authorities at some council sent one yoot damn near around the world, he had a great time visiting Egypt. This was supposed to turn him from crime. You will also recall it didn’t and he was back doing the same old same old in a week of his return.

Well, this fellow we have was featured about a year ago here at BMEWS because he too was given a holiday at the expense of the same overburdened folk.
There’s a recap (a short one) below.
The newer thing is at the very end and after the laugh when you realize it isn’t a joke, even if you are not a Brit I think you’ll see a shade of red at least, over the nerve not just of the gremlin.  After all, he will only attempt what those in authority will allow.

In previous years, the delinquents would have been locked up in borstals or sent to approved schools.

But in the mid-1990s they had become ‘disadvantaged young persons’ who were given all the help the taxpayer could afford.

Clinton Bowen was treated to a three-month £12,000 barge holiday in 1997 in an effort to deter him from crime. ($18,700.00)
The 15-year-old became known as ‘Canal Boy’. He grew up to be a drug addict who specialised in raiding the homes of the elderly.
In 2001 he was jailed for three years for stealing from a 91-year-old great-grandmother and in 2009 he got five years for carrying out 22 burglaries while on parole.

His brother Casey earned the name ‘Pocket Money Boy’ when he was paid £60 a week after 37 arrests between 1992 and 1994.
After paying out £1,560, social services stopped the money because his offending increased.

Jason Cooper was branded ‘World Tour Boy’ after going on holidays costing the taxpayer £50,000 to ‘instil feelings of self-worth by broadening his horizons’.

But Cooper, now 39, progressed to a life in and out of jail for crimes including conspiracy to rob a post office, burglary, fraud and car crime.

Hang on people. here it comes.

He even tried to sue social services claiming he had not been taught basic life skills such as how to claim benefits.

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keep ur i on the ball guys. and forget the bikinis.  that should be easy. yeah right.

This should have a category called Gimme-a- break.

How many women I wonder actually watch this so called sport which is really a summer pastime game or something like that. But okay. You wanna think of it as a sport, fine.  Doesn’t bother me. What does tho is the high highfalutin idea that people and by that term I mean men and you know I did, men shouldn’t be obsessed with the outfits she and the ladies wear.
Gimme-a-break.

Men aren’t going to watch this activity in the present numbers with the girls covered. To be critical of the lookers which means most men, is a denial of the only reason they do watch.  Skimpy outfits.  What the hell did this dingbat think brought this game, this pastime, this whatever you call it, what brought it to public attention?
Skimpy outfits on fit women.

So anyway, here’s the headline that greeted us on page 9 of today’s Mail.

We’re fed up with obsession about our skimpy outfits, say scantily-clad GB volleyball girls

By SPORTSMAIL REPORTER

Female beach volleyball players vowed that they would keep wearing their bikinis – despite admitting it was ‘upsetting’ that the sport was known only for skimpy outfits.

Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin, who form part of Britain’s first ever Olympic beach volleyball team, said bikinis were still the best kit for the sport, despite rule changes which would allow them to cover up if they wished.

‘It’s perfect for our sport,’ Mullin, 27, said. ‘We play in hot countries and I can’t imagine wearing anything else on the sand. I will still be wearing my bikini.’

The players said their family and friends hated the fact that they were recognised only for wearing bikinis.

‘They find it really upsetting. They say to me, “How can they still be talking about your bikinis? Don’t they understand how hard you work?”

‘I try and tell them it will change eventually. But yes, it does upset them.’ Miss Mullin said that whenever the team played, most of the men who attended were there only to see girls in bikinis.

‘It doesn’t really bother me, but I hope they go home with a different attitude once they see us play,’ she said.

Players have been given the option of wearing shorts rather than bikinis during the Olympics. And with dismal weather forecast during the Games, they may well wish to change.

But Dampney, 26, said: ‘If it’s warm, we will be in our bikinis.’

Meanwhile, the teams have learned the identity of their first-round opponents for the tournament starting on July 28.

The women’s team of Dampney and Mullin have been drawn in Group F alongside Greta Cicolari and Marta Menegatti of Italy, Russia’s Ekaterina Khomyakova and Evgenia Ukolova, and Marie-Andree Lessard and Annie Martin of Canada.

OBSESSED WITH SKIMPY OUTFITS?  YOU BETCHA.

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what’s wrong with the freekin world is the left and pc and caving in to minorities

What wrong with the damn world? I will tell ya even if you have not asked cos that is one of the things these blog thingies are for.  Venting. Rants. Anger. Impotent Rage because we know there is nothing we can directly do. 

What is wrong is the whole idea of PC to begin with, and the constant bending over backwards to placate every single minority group everywhere no matter what their pin head demands are.  Appeasement seems to be the rule of the day. Someone “claims” their tender feelings are hurt or even mention that they could be, and if they’re a minority member, out come the pacifiers. And the belated apologies.

Words of no harm to anyone can be made into words of harm on the say so of just one miserable meat head with no life.  And the bad part is, there does not seem to be any end in sight of this dumbed down practise.  In fact, it has become an every day part of our lives and accepted without question.  And here’s just another example of the stupidity of our world today. 

Taken from a small piece seen one of our morning papers The Daily Mail.
Here is the latest word to cause offence, the name removed on the complaint of just ONE PERSON.

The story comes from Australia, where a racehorse has had to be renamed because it’s original name was deemed as “offensive to aborigines.”

BLACKMAN !

Yeah. The horse was named Blackman after artist Charles Blackman, known for his Alice in Wonderland series of paintings.
But the trainer was ordered to change the name after racing officials received ONE complaint.  White folks worldwide are not getting smarter. 

The horse has been renamed Lady Blackman.

That should by all rights piss off every single logical thinking Australian of any colour.  The whole country should be up in arms.  A fatwa should be declared.
Or at the very least, the one idiot bringing the complaint ought to be, (Self Censored)

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   Thursday - July 19, 2012

an unusually satisfying music video for your pleasure.

I do not often post music videos here and when I do, it’s naturally because I believe they are worth the time and a desire to share something unique with folks. As many here may already know, I am not into the more modern tuneless screaming over amplified noise produced by the talentless for the tasteless tone deaf.

I don’t know who the person is who put this video to the old Glen Gray recording of Moonlight Serenade.  I stumbled on it while looking for another tum from the band, and being over the top cat mad, I happened to see this cat and so clicked on it and got this.
I know it’s my opinion, but I found it to be the best video I’ve found at YT.

Lay your eyes and ears on this.

Don’t forget to go FULL screen to watch this.

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bra and undies found in castle vault, thought to be 500 yrs old.

Whatcha think people?

I enlarged this to a point where I could hardly go any more, to try and see the threads and the stitching and I’m still not sure.  The stitches could have been made by machine. (?)

Question for anyone who might know.
Is it possible to fake carbon dating?  These items look .... not fake maybe.  If you go to the site and enlarge the top photo and see the stitching, wouldn’t you wonder how they’d have managed to make a needle that fine to produce that kind of stitch?

Okay, if this is all for real, it’s a heck of a find and story.

Discovered in a castle vault, the scraps of lace that show lingerie in use 500 years ago

By DALYA ALBERGE

It is hardly racy by today’s standards but this skimpy lingerie has certainly shocked historians.

The lace and linen undergarments date back to hundreds of years before women’s underwear was thought to exist.

They had lain hidden in a vault beneath the floorboards of an Austrian castle since the 15th century.

Despite their state of decay, the knickers bear more than a passing resemblance to the string bikini briefs popular today, while the bra has the fitted cups and delicate straps of its modern-day counterparts.

While it was known that medieval men wore undergarments like modern-day shorts, it was thought that women simply wore a smock or chemise.

It was thought that knickers didn’t make an appearance until the late 18th century.

Bras were thought to be an even more modern invention, not appearing until around 100 years ago.

Hilary Davidson, fashion curator at the Museum of London, said the discovery ‘totally rewrites’ fashion history, adding: ‘Nothing like this has ever come up before.’

She believes it is ‘entirely probable’ that something similar was worn by Britain’s medieval women.

‘These finds are a very exciting insight into the way people dressed in the Middle Ages,’ she continued.

‘It’s rare that everyday garments of any kind survive from this period, let alone underwear.’

The undergarments were among almost 3,000 fragments of clothing and other detritus found in Lengberg Castle in East Tyrol during recent renovations.

It is thought that they were buried when the building was extended in 1480 and that the exceptionally dry conditions stopped the fragile garments from disintegrating over the centuries.

Beatrix Nutz, of Innsbruck University, who made the find, initially faced scepticism but radiocarbon-dating tests confirmed her suspicions.

The haul included four bras and two pairs of pants. Two of the bras resemble modern counterparts but the others are described rather bluntly as ‘shirts with bags’, the August issue of the BBC History Magazine reports.

SEE THE PIX HERE

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is there a cut off age at which time men must stop looking at women?

Don’t know about how you may feel, and perhaps if you’re a female reading this your opinion may differ. 
First, the guys here will all agree I think, or surely most will, that we love looking at women.  They don’t even have to be naked believe it or not, to grab our attention.  Of course, half clothed or no clothed is always gonna be bonus for us and age generally does not inhibit our desire to look.
Believe me, our male lives could be easier had mommy nature given us a break but no.  We’re born this way.
But I do have a serious objection with an attitude shown in this article, and one that many women are quick to refer to about men and girl gazing.
It’s the awful use of the following three words used together.
“Dirty old men.” OK, I suppose there are such men. But are they dirty merely because they’re old?  Is there some written in stone age at which men should stop looking?  Are the invitations we’re swamped with on TV and magazines and on line and newspapers, meant to be seen only by men up to 25?  30?  Where?  What age is the cut off when the male is supposed to go blind and ignore the images he’s surrounded by? 
Our lives would be easier if we lost all interest at the point where women were no longer interested in us.  But no. We go on long after our use by date. 

So now on to this article that has to do with art and peep shows. Yeah.  Kind of stupid and you can trust some dippy art house to come up with with this sort of artsy fartsy thing. Read the article and you’ll understand why I say that.
The national gallery has pictures on display and in addition someone had the bright idea of combining a peep show of nude or semi so to go along with famous paintings.  Look, there are naked models on display.  What the hell did the idiots expect?  Are they neuters?  They’re upset because men came to see the naked ladies but not the art.  DUH.  Well imagine that.

Does this tell you anything about how art is presented and even label as “art?”

Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger, whose previous work includes a video of himself dressed as a bear wandering aimlessly around a gallery.

That’s described as ‘his work.’ Imagine that will ya. His work?  Seems like anyone calling themselves an artist can do just about any dumb thing they want, and as long as it’s labeled as “art” well heck.  It must be. Rubbish. And ppl buy this nonsense.  They take it all kinds of serious. Which of course encourages the meat-heads.

Here ya go.  Take a look at this and then share your thoughts please.

Curators disturbed by ‘dirty old men’ at the National Gallery: Titian peepshow attracts unwelcome audience
By DALYA ALBERGE

It was supposed to be a tribute to a Renaissance master.

But the National Gallery’s latest exhibition – which features women recreating nude scenes from Titian’s paintings – is attracting a type of visitor not normally found in the capital’s cultural landmark.

Curators are disturbed at the plethora of ‘dirty old men’ who come to look through peepholes at the naked models, ignoring the masterpieces on the wall.

The Diana installation, part Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, was conceived by Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger, whose previous work includes a video of himself dressed as a bear wandering aimlessly around a gallery.

His piece is inspired by Titian’s Diana paintings, in which the hunter Actaeon stumbles upon the chaste goddess as she bathes.

Since the show opened last week, men have been sidling up to staff and asking for directions to ‘the peepshow thingy’.

One has visited five times in just seven days, while some older men have even complained to staff about the quality of the nudes – and the small size of the peepholes.

One worker, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Daily Mail: ‘The gallery used publicity shots of the youngest and prettiest model, and dirty old men have got a bit aggressive that [most of the] models are women in their late forties and fifties.’

Another said: ‘We really have sunk to new lows with this idea. These visitors have no interest in art at all.’

Last week the Mail observed a series of lone men peering through each peephole to study the model from every available angle. Few paid any interest to the three Diana paintings, which are being shown together for the first time since the 18th century.

‘I’ve come to the gallery just for this,’ one youth admitted. An older man, on being approached, muttered ‘sorry’ and fled, shielding his face.

Potential peepers should be advised that, according to myth, Diana turned her onlooker into a stag who was torn to pieces by hounds – as depicted in The Death Of Actaeon.

Wallinger called the story the ‘ultimate fable about voyeurism’. He told the Huffington Post: ‘Diana is about watching and being caught in the act, and evolved out of my desire to find a way of representing Diana bathing in a contemporary way.’

He used Twitter to find six Dianas, who strip off and behave in a manner that is ‘suitably goddess-ish’ for two-hour shifts.

Last week Nicholas Penny, the gallery’s director, said Wallinger’s work ‘makes you think about the spectator’s position in relation to art’.

The artist won the controversial Turner Prize in 2007 for his replica of Brian Haw’s anti-war protest site outside Parliament Square.

He had first been nominated for the prize in 1995, but was beaten by Damien Hirst.

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Damien Hirst. Now there’s a great con man masquerading as an artist.  And he’s a millionaire.  Label it art and ppl will buy anything.

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   Wednesday - July 18, 2012

Three Pair

Blondes, brunettes, redheads. Who can choose? So here’s a small collection of 2 of each. Pretty girls. Love ‘em.

clicky, biggy. Remember Forrest, life is like a box of chocolates.

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ASS-WIPE JUDGES, BLOODSUCKING LAWYERS AND LEFTY WHITE VERMIN

I read this in yesterday’s paper and must share the idiocy.  Hastings is right, and many Brits are outraged at the idea.  But not apparently, the asinine judges who make dumb decisions.  But then, after all.  What can you expect from a place run by lunatics who let off criminals who assault ppl with the excuse that it wasn’t the gremlin who was responsible but the booze they drank.  Why should anyone expect more from a place run by apologists and hand wringing leftists who are actively working to destroy this country.  And trust me. They are.

If only the Queen would utter the words, “Who will rid us of these left wing nut cases,” surely some patriots would rise to the occasion and slay the red dragons.
At the rate things are progressing, maybe the things I didn’t think would happen as soon as in my lifetime, will.
And will ya get a load of those goofball names below. Jeesh. Bunch of letters strung together. Now who do you suppose convinced these life forms who normally grunt and swing thru trees, to launch a legal action?
Stupid fuckin guilty white folks and their leach like vampire lawyers.

I despair.  I really do. 

be sure and see the link for all of it and all the photos.

The folly of judges, vulture lawyers and a nation addicted to masochism

By MAX HASTINGS

At the High Court in London yesterday, the hearing began of a case in which three elderly Kenyans — Paulo Muoka Nzili, Wambuga Wa Nyingi and Jane Muthoni Mara — are suing the British Government for appalling injuries allegedly inflicted on them during the Mau Mau insurgency almost 60 years ago.

The British Government sought to argue at an earlier hearing that the defendants’ claim should be thrown out ‘given the length of time elapsed and the complex legal and constitutional questions the case raises’.

However, a judge rejected this appeal to common sense and decreed that the claim should go forward.
In the weeks ahead, we shall hear a banquet of evidence deeply unflattering to the British colonial regime, with evidence from academic witnesses and revelations from hitherto secret government files.

There is no danger that the lawyers who earn fat fees from all this will find the rich seam of taxpayers’ gold running out. There is much more where the Kenya case has come from.
Alleged atrocities are being resurrected from the Fifties Malayan Emergency (the 1948-60 conflict fought between UK, Commonwealth and other security forces against Communist insurgents in Malaya).

The Metropolitan Police has just established a task force of 30 officers to prepare prosecution cases against potential British Army murder suspects for Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972. Their inquiries are expected to last three or four years.

All this, to my mind, represents an exercise in state masochism to which no other society on Earth would subject itself. It is just the latest venture for the human rights and compassion industry, with almost unlimited scope for profitable expansion.

As a historian, I am under no delusions about the shortcomings of British behaviour during the uprising of the Mau Mau, who wanted to drive the white man from Kenya and to which I will return in a moment.

What seems extraordinary is that, after the lapse of many decades, we can subject ourselves at vast expense to legal flagellation by foreign claimants.
Who can imagine that any British plaintiff with similar grievances would have a cat’s chance of securing redress in any overseas jurisdiction?
British prisoners who suffered appallingly at Japanese hands during World War II, and, for that matter, Chinese women who were forced into sexual slavery, have whistled in the wind for a hearing in Japan for almost 70 years.
Martin McGuinness, a career killer for the IRA, shook the Queen’s hand the other week. He commanded the Derry Brigade. Who could suppose that if the dependants of victims of Irish terrorism sought to take McGuinness, Gerry Adams or their comrades before an Irish court, they would get past first base?
The Mau Mau insurgents were exceptionally brutal people who, mostly between 1952 and 1954, murdered some 2,500 of their own people and around 100 whites, terrorised villages and inflicted ghastly atrocities on those who refused to take their blood oath.
But when Kenya became independent in 1963, Mau Mau veterans became celebrated as freedom-fighters.

In rather the same fashion, the two Jewish terrorists who murdered the resident British minister Lord Moyne in Cairo in November 1944, and were hanged for the crime the following year, were exhumed in 1975 at the insistent request of the state of Israel, and reinterred in the nation’s Hall of Heroes.

Much the same has happened to several old Irish nationalist killers. Although it may seem deeply repugnant that old terrorists should be raised to national heroic status, most of us can live with it as the way of the world.
But it is cringe-making to watch the spectacle of citizens of former colonies that have been independent for many decades turning up in London to exploit our feeble-minded justice system.

judges see things differently. I fear that the human rights bonanza has gone to their heads.
Such is their conceit that they believe they can divine truth across the fog of decades. Such is their contempt for real life that they care nothing about the colossal waste of taxpayers’ money over which they preside.

Look, for example, at Lord Savile, who squandered £200 million conducting his Bloody Sunday inquiry, and still cannot understand what the rest of us think he did wrong. 
If the former Mau Mau plaintiffs win their case at the High Court and receive a truckload of cash, this will open the way for thousands more claimants from every corner of the old Empire.

Some enthusiasts say the opening of this case was a proud day for British justice, showing our determination to face up to our dirty colonial past, and our commitment to human rights.

To many of us, however, it merely highlights the folly of the judiciary and their inability to bring the smallest crumb of common sense to the lofty business of administering justice.
The Kenyan case is properly the business of historians, not of Britain’s legal vulture culture.

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Up In Smoke In Afghanistan

Eighteen fuel trucks and four supply vehicles were parked in Aibak, the capital of Samangan province, when a bomb ripped through them, wounding one person, local police said.

“At 2 a.m. the mujahideen attacked the invader NATO trucks,” the Taliban said in a statement, referring to the wagons which had been driven from Uzbekistan to Afghanistan’s north.

The trucks were attacked in the same province where prominent anti-Taliban lawmaker Ahmad Khan Samangani was killed on Saturday at his daughter’s wedding, in a suicide bomb attack that killed 22 other guests.

“We put explosives on a fuel tanker. When it exploded, we fired on the trucks,” Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in a telephone call.

Sidiq Azizi, a spokesman for the province, said many tankers and semi-trailers caught fire after the bomb went off around 2 a.m.

By mid-day, heavy black smoke still poured from the Rabatak area of the province where the truckers had stopped to rest. Firefighters were spraying water on the burning vehicles.

“There was a big boom,” Azizi said. “It’s possible that is was a magnetic bomb from insurgents. We are investigating.”

“I counted 20 fuel tankers burning. There is still a very big fire,” said Azizi, who was at the scene. “The weather is very hot and it’s hard to get close to the fire.”

The tankers in the convoy were transporting fuel south toward the Afghan capital, Kabul, from neighboring Uzbekistan to the north.

Earlier this week, three NATO supply trucks were destroyed by militants in Sayd Abad district of Wardak province in eastern Afghanistan.

I don’t see the point of our being in Afghanistan any more. Is there any benefit in it for us? Was there ever, after the first 6 months? Sure, after we crushed the insurgents in Iraq the few left and went north. Then we crushed them their, or so it seemed. But that was a couple years ago, and somebody over there is still blowing up our stuff and killing our guys. 172 or more so far just this year.

The Brits have announced they are planning another troop drawdown there. What about us?

Isn’t it time to end Obama’s War??

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It’s A Start

AKRON, Ohio--Mitt Romney continued his war on President Barack Obama’s ties to political donors, releasing a new television ad Wednesday that attacks the president for routing taxpayer dollars to supporters and overseas companies.

The spot begins with a shot of burning cash falling across the screen.

“Where did all the Obama stimulus money go?” a narrator asks. “Friends, donors, campaign supporters, special interest groups.”

Lucky for me that I already have a post category called No Shit, Sherlock.

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I’d Go With Reason #6

Romney digs in his heels even as some Republicans say it’s time for him to give the public a better look at his personal finances

With President Obama’s campaign hammering Mitt Romney over his personal finances, even some Republicans have begun calling for the presumptive GOP nominee to release more than two years of his tax returns. Conservative political analysts say Romney is allowing people to assume he has something to hide. “It’s crazy” not to release several more years of returns, “tomorrow,” says William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard. Despite the pressure, Romney said Monday on Fox News that he was releasing his 2010 and 2011 returns, and nothing more.

Wait, what? You run the headline Why Romney Won’t Release His Tax Returns: 6 Theories, and in the very first paragraph you’re telling us that he is actually releasing his tax returns? Some of them? Misleading headline, much?

So you make up a list of maybes, pure supposition, and you then call this news? You’ve got to be kidding me.
1. Romney is really rich, therefore evil.
2. Romney is really rich, therefore evil, and can afford the best accountants, thereby not paying any taxes at all and thus more evil.
3. Romney is really rich, therefore evil, and therefore his riches came from exploiting everyone else, legally or illegally, therefore he has something to hide. Which makes him more evil.
4. Romney is really rich, therefore evil, but he’s one of those sex cultist morons Mormons, so he probably does that perverted tithing thing, and seeing his tax returns would show just how close his fiscal ties to that sicko cult really are. Which makes him more evil.
5. Romney is really rich, therefore evil, and he’s all stuck up about it because he thinks he’s better than everyone else. Which makes him more evil.
6. Romney is ... damn, I’ve run out of reasons. Maybe he won’t release his tax returns because IT’S NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS.

He’s not telling us how many guns he owns either. And we’re not seeing text message pics of his man junk. Because that’s none of our damn business either. And I hope it stays that way.

It’s not like you or I or almost any journalist could make sense of his tax returns. The guy has bucks, big ones, so I’m assuming his investments are broad and deep. That implies that his tax returns are large and highly complex. They’d be clear as mud to everyone except other seriously rich people and the tax accountants who work for them. So if the IRS isn’t coming after him, I say that’s good enough. And the press should eff off.

The IRS only requires you to keep records going back 7 years. The press would really like to see at least that far back, even further, so they can make a bunch of noise about his time at Bain Capital. I think it’s time some of these baying hounds were given a NoBark collar with a double battery pack.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/18/2012 at 10:16 AM   
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