This week, March Madness extended beyond college basketball to the GOP presidential contest as former 16th-seed-turned-title-contender Rick Santorum continued his bracket-busting run by shooting the lights out in Mississippi and Alabama to win the South regional. Luckily for Mitt Romney, the GOP nomination, unlike the NCAA tournament, is not a one-and-done competition -- but it's looking more and more like the game might go down to the final buzzer, if not into overtime. Will the GOP convention actually end up being a jump ball? It might if Romney continues to babble on about all the super-rich sports team owners he knows (this week's gaffe centered on Peyton Manning's free agency). Here's an idea: Romney should just release a list of all the super-rich sports team owners he knows and get it over with. Or perhaps it would be simpler if he just named the super-rich sports team owners he doesn't know.
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If the "game" goes into overtime.......does it end by "sudden death"?
If that's the outcome, who dies?
One, or more, of the Republican nominees presidential ambitions?,
or thanks to Citizens United, will it be Democracy in America, that pays the ultimate price?
That decision by the Supreme Court may have the backing of law, but is it "right"?
"Once I build the bomb, it isn't my responsibility who it gets dropped on, my hands are clean"
Not......... in my opinion......... a particularly ethical or helpful answer to Nuclear proliferation.
The "It's the law" ruling by the Supreme Court may well signal the end of Democracy in America, as we have come to know it.
Decided by a 5-4 split decision. One person made the difference.
I hope they realize that......................................I just wonder if they care?
If the standard of living of the actual people who live in this country is at the bottom percentile of industrialized countries, we might as well stay in debt. The country is it's people.
Already 40,000 Americans die each year because of lack of health insurance and most of the are working class. It's only going to get worse as the rich pocket what's left of the "Safety Net" That isn't trivial.
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Since then the GOP has done a lot at the State level to disqualify eligible and probable Democratic voters. They have controlled the media with their 3 years so far of hate the President, hope the government fails and demonizing attacks on Democrats. Their political extremism, disguised as conservatism has overwhelmed the media and news and the millions of uninformed voters with their endless debates and primary campaigning. And Citizen's United and a Republican partisan majority on the Supreme Court has given them endless camaign funds to tell their lies with. Plus you can't turn the radio on without hearing 24/7 free campaign ads attacking the President disguised as talk radio shows.
Meanwhile, many Democrats and name brand liberals do nothing to expose the radical extremism of GOP candidates and do nothing to cover Obama's back and cheer for his accomplishments and good intentions.
PS: I watched a show about Doomsday preperation people the other day. A few years ago I would've dismissed it as paranoid absurdity. Now, not so much.
If you would like to learn the actual difference between the political left and right, you must observe how these two ideologies play out in EU and the Scandinavian countries. There is no such thing as radical left in the US and, the US media would certainly be considered quite conservative abroad. For instance, check out how often the US media even mentions the superiority of those social systems for average citizens.
I am not into March Madness, so I am happy that Payton is grabbing some headlines for NFL football.
Here in MA the St Patric Day's hoopla is especially interesting because we are all waiting for reports of jokes by Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren. Warren said the only magazine that would have her as a centerfold is consumar reports, however, the more the MA voters get to know her the more she drops in the Polls.
Obama took China to the WTO over Rare Earths, and made a very political speech to union workers and US manufacturing, which was so disengenuous that folks think China has some 90% of the worlds supply of rare Earths and is refusing to share them. That is false, China has a little more than i/3rd of the world's known supply, and has been sharing more than 90% of the worlds needs.
http://diggchina.blogspot.com/2012/03/obama-accuses-china-over-rare-earths.html
The people in Pakistan are in full revolt against Obama's policy of threatening sanctions on Pakistan over the IP/I gas pipeline, and the recent outrages in Afghanistan threaten the TAPI gas pipeline. This is of course the real reason for our war in Afghanistan and sanctions on Iran, but one would never know it from the balony our media dishes out.
http://shadowrag.blogspot.com/2012/03/is-tapi-gas-pipeline-at-risk.html
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The best defense they can muster is changing the subject to talk about their opponent in the championship.
Sportscasters would be fired if they ignored the current game to blather about the next one.
If we are stuck with one of the four GOP nominees, Mitt is probably the best by far. Look at the records of all four in government; Mitt's is probably the most humane and the most inclusive of compromise (with the singular exception of Ron Paul's views on the wars). So, go beyond the media trivia and who puts dogs on the roof of their car or who rests on a chaise lounge without a shirt, and focus on the issues and the record. If we are stuck with one of these turkeys, Mitt is the gobbler of choice.
Yet JFK fought for his Country in WWII as if he were a poor man. And FDR is the best man to ever grace US politics. To put these three guys in the same category shows extremely poor political comparison skills.
"Or perhaps it would be simpler if he just named the super-rich sports team owners he doesn't know."
Cheers,
Ed