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August 30th, 2012 - 11:56 pm § in Misc.

Threats from the past

Oh for the good old days … when the only threat to the US labor force was robots,  At least they were our robots not Chinese workers![...]

August 30th, 2012 - 4:34 pm § in Misc.

ROMNEYISMS:

Tim Wieland, news director at KCNC, explained the conditions that the Romney campaign wanted BEFORE allowing a reporter to interview Mtt: We were contacted by the Romney campaign yesterday morning, late morning, and were told that we would receive an opportunity, one of just a few in the country, to[...]

August 30th, 2012 - 11:20 am § in Misc.

The Election

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August 30th, 2012 - 8:21 am § in Misc.

ROMNEYISMS: “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”

Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod pounced on the claim in a tweet: “Again, Ryan blames Obama for a GM plant that closed under Bush. But then, they did say they wouldn’t “let fact checkers get in the way.” On Monday, Romney pollster Neil Newhouse, defending the campa[...]

August 30th, 2012 - 7:38 am § in Misc.

ROMNEYISMS: accepting this nomination for Mitt Romney

Willard Mitt Romney, accepts the applause of the party of Lincoln.[...]

August 30th, 2012 - 6:04 am § in Misc.

Using Sex to Sell Beer!

Molson, came up with a cunning plan. Their market is primarily male, so they bought ads in women’s magazines, not to broaden their market, but to set up a ploy to appeal to men. November 30, 2011 Pharyngula  PZ Myers Here’s the ad they placed in Cosmopolitan, a magazine read primarily by women.[...]