Secret fundraiser footage
Think Mitt Romney doesn't pay enough in taxes? Well, the feeling is mutual. And he also thinks you're pretty much a loser. Mother Jones has the secretly-recorded audio of what the candidate says when he's palling around with other guys in his tax bracket.Yet just because the recording was done without the approval of the candidate and his team, I'm not convinced that it provides that all-too-rare glimpse into his true feelings. I'm not sure Romney knows himself what he believes and what he doesn't.
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Are you better off now than you were four years ago? What an intentionally-loaded, but actually very interesting question when posed to citizens of a dying empire.
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Rick Santorum says what he's thinking even when he knows the tape is rolling. He announced last week that he's giving up on the political support of smart people.
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I gotta see that new P.T. Anderson film inspired by L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. I predict it will be my favorite movie of the year-- and I have a really good record of predicting what my favorite movie of the year will be before I've seen it.
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Before their Monday Night Football game tonight, ESPN had a montage of all the personal fouls and cheap shots taken by players in NFL games yesterday. They are the direct result of having incompetent scab officials (a redundancy), with no authority and no discipline, on the field. And it's bad enough that they're lousing up the fairness of the games themselves.
Again, the words of one of America's legendary authors, Jack London:
"After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab.
A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out. No man (or woman) has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with.
Judas was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself. A scab has not. Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British army. The scab sells his birthright, country, his wife, his children and his fellowmen for an unfulfilled promise from his employer.
Esau was a traitor to himself; Judas was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country. A scab is a traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class."
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A sign held up by a bald-headed kid at a Phillies' game last Thursday night: "If I can beat cancer, you can beat the Astros."
Young Philadelphia sports fans, same as the old. The Astros won 6 to 4.
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