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Insensitivity, gaffes dog Romney

Narrative from Irish Times

AMERICA: MITT ROMNEY, who is likely to be the Republican presidential nominee, is hounded by the memory of Seamus the Irish setter.

My friend Orla reminded me of the story when I was in New Hampshire this week. It was history, I thought, underestimating the doggedness of US reporters.

Rachel Maddow devoted a long segment of her Thursday-night show on MSNBC to Seamus. The Dogs Against Romney website, founded in 2007, has been revived and is hawking T-shirts stamped with paw prints and the slogans “Mitt is mean!” and “Never Forget Crate Gate”. The subject is again being addressed by serious newspapers.

The incident occurred in 1983, and was first reported by the Boston Globe in June 2007, when Romney made an earlier bid for the presidency.

As recounted by the Globe , Romney, his wife and five sons set out in their Chevy station wagon on a 12-hour holiday journey to Ontario, Canada. Romney placed the family pet, Seamus, in a dog carrier, which he strapped to the roof of the car.

The eldest son, Tagg, watched out the rear window, “where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble. ‘Dad!’ he yelled. ‘Gross!’ A brown liquid was dripping down the back window, payback from an Irish setter who’d been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.

“As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station,” the Globe report continued. “There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back on to the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.”

Romney’s detractors have created a “Google bomb”, a method of redefining a name and pushing it to the top of Google searches. If you enter “spreading Romney”, the first thing that pops up is: “(rom-ney) v. 1. to defecate in terror”.

In August 2007, Fox News presenter Chris Wallace asked Romney how he could do such a thing. “This is a completely airtight kennel and mounted on the top of our car,” Romney said. “Love my dog. We’ve had a lot of dogs over the years. Love them. Seamus, as his name is, climbed up there all by himself, enjoyed his ride . . . it was a good ride.”

Wallace failed to ask the obvious follow-up question: why Romney put Seamus back on the roof after the dog’s distress became apparent.

New York Times columnist Gail Collins has retold the Seamus story more than 30 times in five years, and the Wall Street Journal recently asked Romney to rebut Collins’s insinuations. “Uh . . . Love my dog,” Romney replied. “That’s all I’ve got for ya.”

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Why are these people protesting all over America? What on earth do they want? What are their demands? Part of the answer for me was revealed on Tuesday, October 25, last night, when Rachel Maddow interviewed Glenn Greenwald on his new book “With Liberty and Justice for Some“

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666 is mark of the beast

Gathered from some pretty disreputable places around the Net

Dear Urban Legends:

To prove that Barney is Satan:

1. 1. Given the obvious:
CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR

2. 2. Now, as in the greek alphabet change all U’s to V’s:
CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR

3. 3. Extract all Roman Numerals:
C V V L D I V

4. 4. Convert to decimals:
100 5 5 50 500 1 5

5. 5. Add them together to get:
666

~~ Moron in FL

Oh Wait, It’s Dubya

Notice any similarity?

Absolute Proof it is Obama

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Re: UNDENIABLE PROOF that Obama is the antichrist Quote [+] #

Let’s review…

It’s Obama, not Reagan, not Prince Charles, Not Prince William, not Bill Clinton, not the baby born on 1/1/11 at 11:11, not Giffords, not the Pope… uh…. who else is it not? I like to keep track of these things, just a little bit of OCD as far as the AC is concerned…
~~ Smart Lady on Godlike

You Want More Proof?

Re: UNDENIABLE PROOF that Obama is the antichrist Quote [+] #

OP, you’re quite WRONG! President Obama is actually very godly. Even FOX(666) News reported last month, “Jesus would be a Liberal Democrat”.

The name ‘Lucifer’ is Latin for the Planet Venus: the ‘light-bearer’, Morning Star/Evening Star. Like the word ‘English’(7,74), ‘Lucifer’ has 7 letters and a gematria(8,74) sum of 74 (L12+u21+c3+i9+f6+e5+r18. Morning7 Star4).

Evil in the form of an individual deity is properly referred to as ‘Satan’ or the ‘Devil’ (d’evil). Lucifer is incorrectly applied to ‘evil incarnate’. Of course, the Bible refers to the “1st Beast” 666 & “2nd Beast”. Ronald(6 letters) Wilson(6) Reagan(6) was the “1st Beast whose actions were the opposite of the Christ, was ruler(74) of the world, lied to all nations, and was wounded yet lived.” – The Revelation Ch 13. George Walker Bush Jr was/is the “2nd Beast who imitated the 1st Beast and made ‘fire come down from the heavens’ with the ‘destruction of Babylon’(War in Iraq)” – Rev Ch 14, 16, 17, & 18.
~~ Anon Poster on Godlike

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Faux News Hires Joel Richardson

Thanks to Heather on Crooks and Liars for providing an accessible video of Rachel’s story. As the above entries show there is a good deal of confusion about the real Anti-Christ. Is it Barney, Dubya, Obama, Microsoft, Charley Sheen? Fortunately, Faux News has hired a consultant to sort it all out. Richardson’s creds include time at WorldNetDaily. Sorry, almost said Weekly World News which I really miss at the supermarket checkout queue. It was the only reliable newspaper.

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Santa loading toys produced by slave labor.

Senator Max Baucus [D-MT] has introduced a bill, S1631, which among other things would ban the import of goods produced by child labor, convict labor, or slave labor.

The bill is co-sponsored by Senator Charles Grassley [R-IA] the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

Business groups and the Heritage Foundation are working to relax this ban. A story by David Sirota gives the details. Search the Library of Congress website for text of the bill and its status.

Thanks to Rachel Maddow TRMS for bringing this to our attention.

The American people are smart enough to know that the goods they buy come from the store. So how could they be produced in any of these bad ways?

If you have moral objections to goods produced with child, convict, or slave labor, you might want to support this bill. If you believe goods produced this way compete unfairly with American workers, you might want to support this bill.

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Marilyn rambled all the way to New York’s 23rd Congressional district to endorse a candidate who does not live there. See the video for details.

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News about the ACORN Act which is different from the defund
ACORN Act. Goes with the Rachel Maddow Show continuing series about the war against ACORN

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This is episode five in a continuing series from the Rachel Maddow Show. Washington ‘gunslingers’ are available to say anything if you will pay them. Meet Rick Berman

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Will the next target for the right wing smear machine be SEIU? Episode four in a continuing series from the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC

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