A jaw-dropping twist in the story of the Great Recession has emerged from the very seed that spawned the economic collapse itself. A month after paying off its taxpayer provided, government loans AIG is now considering a lawsuit against the very government that saved it from oblivion. One must ask what wires crossed in the brains of the company leadership to think this would be an acceptable route to take.
Feel free to read more in the article below and be sure to read Elizabeth Warren’s response to the lawsuit talk immediately following.
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U.S. House Rep. Paul Broun, a Georgia Republican, doesn’t believe in evolution, the Big Bang theory, or the teachings of embryology. In fact, in a Sept. 27 talk at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Ga., the member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, who is also a medical doctor [a field of study rooted squarely in Biology, a scientific discipline based wholly on the Theory of Evolution] called those areas of science “lies straight from the pit of hell.”
But Broun also advanced his own theory of life on Earth.
“You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I’ve found out as a “scientist“ that actually show that this is really a young Earth,” he said. “I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.”
In another example of the “Do as I say, not as I do” hypocritical, moral authority, anti-choice Republican Party a Tennessee member of the House of Representatives is caught trying to persuade his pregnant mistress to have an abortion to save his marriage.
WASHINGTON — A pro-life, family-values congressman who worked as a doctor before winning election as a Tea Party-backed Republican had an affair with a patient and later pressured her to get an abortion, according to a phone call transcript obtained by The Huffington Post.
The congressman, Rep. Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee, was trying to save his marriage at the time, according to his remarks on the call, made in September of 2000. And, according to three independent sources familiar with the call and the recording, he made the tape himself.
In Mitt Romney’s attempts to appeal to swing voters he displays his unending strategy to say anything to win the presidency.
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio—With less than a month to go before Election Day, Mitt Romney faces a choice between whipping up the support of his conservative base or appealing to swing voters who could be persuaded to back his bid for the presidency.
In recent days, Romney has chosen to focus on the latter, pushing a more centrist message on the campaign trail. His latest turn came Tuesday when he told the editorial board of the Des Moines Register that he has no plans to push for legislation limiting abortion.
“There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” Romney told the Register.
In an interesting twist, after a poor showing by the President, a Reuters/IPSOS poll taken the day after the 1st 2012 Presidential debates between Romney and Obama shows a couple intriguing results.
Problematic voter forms have now been found in 10 Florida counties, reported the New York Times Sunday. The forms are linked to Strategic Alliance Consulting, a group that was hired by the state Republican Party to sign up new voters, but was fired last week as reports of suspicious forms first surfaced in numerous Florida counties.
The Times reports:
The Florida Division of Elections has forwarded the reports of possible fraud to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for investigation. Prosecutors in some affected counties are also investigating. It is unclear how many forms have been forwarded, in all: in Palm Beach County, the election supervisor found 106 suspicious forms, but the number in several other counties is far lower…
While Jon Stewart would be the first to admit what he does on The Daily Show is not news but intelligent satire, no one else has done more to reach down into the depths of which cable “news” media has sunk to hose off the muck and reveal the ridiculousness underneath.
Amidst a deeply partisan presidential campaign and the 4th quarter release of a damaging video showing the challenger degrading half the electorate, Fox “News” performs unfair and biased acrobatics to spin the situation into a defense of their candidate Mitt Romney.
See what happens when panic erupts on the conservative news channel:
Last night at the Democratic National Convention during his Obama nomination speech, Bill Clinton stated, “”Since 1961 … our private economy produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what’s the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 million.”
Are Democratic presidents better than Republican presidents at job creation? Former President Bill Clinton said so — forcefully — in his speech to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
“Since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24,” Clinton said. “In those 52 years, our private economy produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what’s the jobs score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42 million.” In the packed convention hall, it was one of the night’s biggest applause lines.
A jaw-dropping twist in the story of the Great Recession has emerged from the very seed that spawned the economic collapse itself. A month after paying off its taxpayer provided, government loans AIG is now considering a lawsuit against the very government that saved it from oblivion. One must ask what wires crossed in the brains of the company leadership to think this would be an acceptable route to take.
