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raybond  - posted
Day three of his world tour, day one of the Olympics, and things aren’t getting much better for our boy Willard. Having been monstered by Fleet Street for his criticisms of the preparations for the Games, contradicted by the Prime Minister, and ridiculed by the mayor of London, the Mittster is now facing criticism from one of his own nation’s greatest athletes, the sprinter Carl Lewis.

“Every Olympics is ready,” Lewis, who won nine gold medals at four different Olympics, told the Independent. “I don’t care whatever [Romney] said. I swear, sometimes I think some Americans shouldn’t leave the country. Are you kidding me, stay home if you don’t know what to say.”

A chastened Romney evidently agrees with Lewis about London being prepared. Retreating from his earlier remarks faster than a burglar who has stepped on a sleeping Pit Bull, he said to Brian Williams on NBC’s “Today” show: “After being here a couple days, it looks like London is ready…. I’m absolutely convinced that the people here are ready for the Games. In just a few minutes, all the things politicians say will get swept away because athletes will take the stage.”

If you think that smacks of wishful thinking, you aren’t alone. In Britain, at least, Romney’s ungracious remarks and his apparent obliviousness to how they would be taken have turned him into a laughing stock. In its Friday edition, the Sun, Britain’s best-selling newspaper, labelled him “Mitt the Twit.” It may not be entirely coincidental that the Sun is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has recently been busy denouncing Romney on Twitter. But other British papers have been equally critical of Romney, including the conservative ones that are apt to be sympathetic to Republicans. A columnist at the Daily Telegraph—a.k.a. The Torygraph—called him a “wazzock,” a term of abuse that I hadn’t heard since my childhood in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

According to some accounts, a wazzock, in the original usage, was a bull’s penis. When I was young, it was used to describe a hapless idiot who blunders around doing and saying things he or she shouldn’t. Wazzocks don’t necessarily have bad intentions, but they tend to bring trouble to themselves and others. Romney, for all his business success and Harvard degrees, sometimes seems to fit the description. Clearly, he didn’t mean to insult his British hosts when he sat down with Brian Williams on Wednesday. But didn’t he think about how his words would be taken?

Evidently not. The whole thing is another reminder of why the Romney campaign keeps such tight reins on the candidate. Despite his four years in elected office in Massachusetts and his experience in two Presidential campaigns, he still lacks the political antennae of a lifelong politician. The true pol is a master of what game theorists refer to as “backward induction.” Before doing or saying anything, a filtering mechanism in his (or her) brain looks ahead and figures out how it is going to look in tomorrow’s newspapers. For somebody like John Boehner or Chuck Schumer, it no longer takes any conscious effort. The filtering mechanism works automatically, ensuring that the voice box serves up nothing but pablum and political attack lines.

Romney just doesn’t have this self-preservation instinct. He is still naïve or arrogant enough to think that when Brian Williams asks him a seemingly harmless question about the preparations for the Games, which have certainly encountered some problems, it is an opportunity for him to demonstrate his mastery of the subject. A regular pol would say something like: “Well, Brian, we all know that staging an Olympics is a massive task. Recently, our British friends have been encountering some issues with security and transportation arrangements, but I’m sure they’ll work things out, and that once the Games start they’ll be a resounding success.”

But that wasn’t good enough for Mitt. Instead, he said, “There are a few things that were disconcerting. The stories about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials—that obviously is not something which is encouraging.” Adding insult to injury, he also appeared to question whether the British people were behind the Games, saying, “Do they come together and celebrate the Olympic moment? And that’s something which we only find out once the Games actually begin.”

Small wonder, then, that when Boris Johnson, London’s voluble Conservative mayor, took the stage in Hyde Park on Thursday night, at a ceremony to mark the arrival of the Olympic torch, he openly mocked the G.O.P. candidate before a crowd of more than fifty thousand:

"People are coming from around the world and they’re seeing us. They are seeing the greatest city in the world! There are some people who are coming from around the world who don’t yet know about all the preparations we’ve done to get London ready in the last seven years. I hear there’s a guy called Mitt Romney who wants to know whether we’re ready—he wants to know whether we are ready. Are we ready? Yes we are! The venues are ready; the stadium is ready; the aquatic centre is ready; the velodrome is ready; the security is ready; the police are ready; the transport system is ready; and the Team G.B. athletes are ready. They are going win more gold and silver and bronze medals than you’d need to bail out Spain and Greece together."

At the end of the ceremony, Johnson led the crowd in a chant that brought to mind one of Obama’s campaign slogans from 2008.

“Can we put on the greatest Olympics games that have ever been held?” “Yes we can!” “Can we beat France?” “Yes we can!” “Can we beat Australia? “Yes we can!”

It was just as well Romney wasn’t there. By coincidence, he was just across the park, attending a fund-raiser packed with people who are almost as unpopular in the U.K. as he is: investment bankers, hedge-fund managers, and private-equity executives. This whole trip has turned into a disaster. At this stage, about the best Romney can hope for is that something goes wrong at this evening’s opening ceremony or during the events that follow. A chaotic London Olympiad is about the only thing that could make him look more like a savant than a wazzock.


For the moment, though, a WAZZOCK it is.


(WAZZOCK - n. - One who is foolish, one who has made an arse of themselves, one who is rather daft.)
 
raybond  - posted
Election

Romney Cuts Off Press Access To Israeli Fundraiser Following London Gaffes
By Igor Volsky posted from ThinkProgress Election on Jul 28, 2012 at 4:00 pm

Following a series of well-publicized gaffes in London, Mitt Romney’s campaign may be trying to restrict press access to the former Massachusetts governor as he travels to Israel, violating a pre-negotiated agreement.

Romney, who is flying with a group of reporters on his international trip, had agreed in April to allow limited media coverage of all finance events held in public spaces. But on Saturday, the campaign suddenly reneged on that deal and announced that a fundraiser with big-money American donors — including controversial casino magnet Sheldon Adelson — in Jerusalem’s King David Hotel would be “closed press“:

But Romney’s campaign announced Saturday that it would block the news media from covering the event, which will be held at the King David Hotel. The campaign’s decision to close the fundraiser to the press violates the ground rules it negotiated with news organizations in April, when Romney wrapped up the Republican nomination and began opening some of his finance events to the news media.

Under the agreement, a pool of wire, print and television reporters can cover every Romney fundraiser held in public venues, including hotels and country clubs. The campaign does not allow media coverage of fundraisers held in private residences.

Campaign spokesman Rick Gorka declined to explain the campaign’s decision to violate protocol with the Jerusalem event. Pressed repeatedly by reporters to offer an explanation, Gorka said only that the fundraiser was “closed press.”
“That’s all I’ve got for you — it’s closed press,” Gorka said.

Politico notes that Romney “allowed press into his London fundraiser Thursday night.”




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glassman  - posted
I swear, sometimes I think some Americans shouldn’t leave the country. Are you kidding me, stay home if you don’t know what to say.”

Ich bin ein Berliner- [Big Grin]

The Ich bin ein Berliner speech is in part derived from a speech Kennedy gave at a Civic Reception on May 4, 1962, in New Orleans; there also he used the phrase civis Romanus sum by saying "Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was to say, "I am a citizen of Rome." Today, I believe, in 1962 the proudest boast is to say, "I am a citizen of the United States." And it is not enough to merely say it; we must live it. Anyone can say it. But Americans who serve today in West Berlin--your sons and brothers --[...] are the Americans who are bearing the great burden."[1] The phrases "I am a Berliner" and "I am proud to be in Berlin" were typed already a week before the speech on a list of expressions to be used, including a phonetic transcription of the German translation. Such transcriptions are also found in the third draft of the speech (in Kennedy's own handwriting), from June 25. The final typed version of the speech does not contain the transcriptions, which are added by hand by Kennedy himself.[2]

In practice sessions before the trip, Kennedy had run through a number of sentences, even paragraphs, to recite in German; in these sessions, he was helped by Margaret Plischke, a translator working for the US State Department; by Ted Sorensen, Kennedy's counsel and habitual speechwriter; and by an interpreter, Robert Lochner, who had grown up in Berlin. It became clear quickly that the president did not have a gift for languages and was more likely to embarrass himself if he was to cite in German for any length.[2]

But there are differing accounts on the origin of the phrase Ich bin ein Berliner. Plischke wrote a 1997 account[3] of visiting Kennedy at the White House weeks before the trip to help compose the speech and teach him the proper pronunciation; she also claims that the phrase had been translated stateside already by the translator scheduled to accompany him on the trip ("a rather unpleasant man who complained bitterly that he had had to interrupt his vacation just to watch the President’s mannerisms").[4] Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (2008) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the "jelly doughnut misconception", below,[5] a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.[2] Robert Lochner claimed in his memoirs that Kennedy had asked him for a translation of "I am a Berliner", and that they practiced the phrase in Brandt's office.[2]

Consequences and legacy
Plaque commemorating Kennedy's speech next to the front entrance of Rathaus Schöneberg

While the immediate response from the West German population was positive, the Soviet authorities were less pleased with the combative Lass sie nach Berlin kommen. Only two weeks before Kennedy had spoken in more conciliatory tones, speaking of "improving relations with the Soviet Union": in response to Kennedy's Berlin speech, Nikita Khrushchev, days later, remarked that "one would think that the speeches were made by two different Presidents."[8]

There is a misconception that Kennedy made a risible error by saying Ich bin ein Berliner (emphasis added): the claim is made that Kennedy referred to himself not as a "citizen of Berlin", but as a "jelly donut" (US) or "jam doughnut" (UK), known in parts of Germany as a "Berliner".[8][9] Kennedy should, supposedly, have said Ich bin Berliner to mean "I am a person from Berlin", and so adding the indefinite article ein to his statement implied he was a non-human Berliner, thus, "I am a jelly doughnut".[10] However, while the indefinite article ein is omitted when speaking of an individual's profession or residence, it is still necessary when speaking in a figurative sense as Kennedy did. Since the president was not literally from Berlin but only declaring his solidarity with its citizens, "Ich bin Berliner" would not have been appropriate.[10]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner
 
raybond  - posted
Romney Praises Israel’s Universal Health Care System, Which Includes Individual Mandate
By Amanda Peterson Beadle on Jul 30, 2012 at 9:30 am

Throughout his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney has been running away from the individual insurance mandate in the Affordable Care Act — even though a mandate is a cornerstone of the former Massachusetts governor’s health care reform law. “If I’m President of the United States, we’re gonna get rid of Obamacare and return, under our constitution, the 10th Amendment, the responsibility and care of health care to the people in the states,” Romney said during a GOP presidential debate.

But during his trip to Israel, Romney inadvertently praised the individual requirement and universal health care. “[F]or an American abroad, you can’t get much closer to the ideals and convictions of my own country than you do in Israel,” he said. And according to The New York Times, Romney spoke favorably about the fact that health care makes up a much smaller amount of Israel’s gross domestic product compared to the United States:

“Do you realize what health care spending is as a percentage of the G.D.P. in Israel? Eight percent,” he said. “You spend eight percent of G.D.P. on health care. You’re a pretty healthy nation. We spend 18 percent of our G.D.P. on health care, 10 percentage points more. That gap, that 10 percent cost, compare that with the size of our military — our military which is 4 percent, 4 percent. Our gap with Israel is 10 points of G.D.P. We have to find ways — not just to provide health care to more people, but to find ways to fund and manage our health care costs.”

Israel spends less on health care because of a universal health system that requires everyone to have insurance. Every Israeli citizen has the obligation to purchase health care services through one of the country’s four HMOs since government officials approved the National Health Insurance Law in 1995. People pay for 40 percent of their HMO’s costs through income-related contributions collected through the tax system, and the state pays the remaining 60 percent. And by many standards, Israelis are getting better health care than U.S. citizens. The infant mortality rate is much lower, and its mortality rate due to heart disease is half the U.S. rate.

Orly Manor, dean of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Braun School of Public Health, said U.S. officials could “learn a lot from the Israeli system. The quality is high, and the outcomes are good.” And it seems that, following his trip to Jerusalem, Romney would agree.
 
CashCowMoo  - posted
Maybe we should have studied the Israeli system more. Obama went about it the wrong way. Bribing senators to vote for Obamacare just lets me know it was slimy.
 
glassman  - posted
quote:
Originally posted by CashCowMoo:
Maybe we should have studied the Israeli system more. Obama went about it the wrong way. Bribing senators to vote for Obamacare just lets me know it was slimy.

slimy? yeah, American Politics ayyaz Stayandard Operaytin' Prusedjyuour diyictaytes? heeyell yeeah.

it's just the way this country doesn't really run cash...

something Churchill(?ithink)said: The Americans always get it right, AFTER they have tried everything else.....

that really was spot on by the old bloke...
 
CashCowMoo  - posted
quote:
Originally posted by glassman:
quote:
Originally posted by CashCowMoo:
Maybe we should have studied the Israeli system more. Obama went about it the wrong way. Bribing senators to vote for Obamacare just lets me know it was slimy.

slimy? yeah, American Politics ayyaz Stayandard Operaytin' Prusedjyuour diyictaytes? heeyell yeeah.

it's just the way this country doesn't really run cash...

something Churchill(?ithink)said: The Americans always get it right, AFTER they have tried everything else.....

that really was spot on by the old bloke...

Well its nice to look at it that way, the same way most people do (sarcasm). Obama said his administration was going to be sooo different and sooooo transparent. Nothing of the sort, but its ok right? Because everyone does it so we should not hold him to the standard he set in 2008.
 
glassman  - posted
cash,Oabma's Adminstrarion it is different. being non-racsit is not about being colorblind. It is about recogninising the differences as ways of enhancing everything.

as to blaming Obam for waht eh Congress does/ that's just BS. We do not live in a "democracy, nor do we live in Dictatorship or a Royal System.

we live in Democratic republic. Even Obama was elcted by the Electoral College, not the Populace.

there is no way for Obama to "make" any fo them do anything. As to the Tea party getting electe in after the health care bill was apssed? I belevi that in nost cases, Americans recognise deep down that they don't really want the whole of the elected rperesentatives to be run by one party... in other owrdds/ That was actually a good thing even tho i don;t like what they are up to now...

i don't like the fact that all of these guys refuse to work on the real problems we face, instead they spend all of their time making up lies about each OTHER,and flinging poo like monkeys do....
 
raybond  - posted
Romney Aide Tells Reporters To Stop Asking Questions: ‘Kiss My Ass’
By Annie-Rose Strasser on Jul 31, 2012 at 8:27 am

A Mitt Romney spokesman told reporters to “kiss my ass” when they tried to ask the candidate questions about his trip abroad on Tuesday.

Seemingly without irony, traveling press secretary Rick Gorka told reporters to “show some respect” and to “shove it” because they were trying to get Romney to answer questions about his numerous gaffes abroad while at the Polish tomb of the unknown.

Reporters have had virtually no access to the candidate during his three-country tour. When they frustratedly told Gorka “we haven’t had another chance to ask him questions.” Gorka responded, “kiss my ass.”

While Romney has granted interviews to numerous TV stations in the US, as well as some foreign media, the campaign has blocked the traveling press pool from interacting with the candidate in unstructured settings, as CNN’s Jim Acosta explained this morning. Reporters who flew to England, Israel, and Poland with the candidate have only been able to ask a total of three questions — all on the first day.

Gorka has since apologized for his comments, and Romney adviser Stuart Stevens said of the trip “I think it was a great success.”
 
glassman  - posted
“kiss my ass.”
that's preety much what we can expect form the white house if he gets electd with a GOP majority in the House too...

Obama sortof said the same thing if yo think back...
"Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won."
 
The Bigfoot  - posted
I love that sentence.

Kiss my ass. This is a sacred place for Poland, show some respect.

lol

The man who wants to be president of the United States answered a whole 3 questions on his over seas tour, screwed up in two of the three nations he visited, and his press aide told the press to kiss his ass. Beautiful.
 
glassman  - posted
that's the 1% for you Big.

what did the Duke Energy CEO who quit day one and gets to collect 44million? by his actions? he said th esame thing with tongue.

"you do what we say,and we do what we wanna do" [Razz]
 
CashCowMoo  - posted
quote:
Originally posted by The Bigfoot:
I love that sentence.

Kiss my ass. This is a sacred place for Poland, show some respect.

lol

The man who wants to be president of the United States answered a whole 3 questions on his over seas tour, screwed up in two of the three nations he visited, and his press aide told the press to kiss his ass. Beautiful.

Funny how he was right on the olympics. Talk about problems.
 
The Bigfoot  - posted
Right about what Cash? You seen a repeat of Oylmpic Park Atlanta, Georgia so far, cuz I haven't.
 
glassman  - posted
quote:
Originally posted by CashCowMoo:
quote:
Originally posted by The Bigfoot:
I love that sentence.

Kiss my ass. This is a sacred place for Poland, show some respect.

lol

The man who wants to be president of the United States answered a whole 3 questions on his over seas tour, screwed up in two of the three nations he visited, and his press aide told the press to kiss his ass. Beautiful.

Funny how he was right on the olympics. Talk about problems.
cash, i dunno why you say he was "right on"... Olympics always have probelms so do trackmeets and football games and even Nascr races.. in kentucky the sprint cup race last year was a total flop... this year th estate police took ove rht eroad for miles and changed everything for a PRIVATE event..

now, the olympics ahas always been soemthin that the country cotnributes to out of pride...

but watch a Romney presentation from his Governor campaign:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgYLBk_0t6w&feature=related

also remembr that Romeny registered officially as Lobbyist for the The Salt Lkae Olympics committee, not the the IOC -then he had to wirhtdraw his lobbyist registration cuz they were GIVING AWAY tickets to tehir buddies (in congress too) and that was illegal for lobbyists to do...

the only real problem i have heard from the London Olympics so far is that they gave awya tickets to people who didn;t use them and now they can't get tehm back and there's empty seats that they could fill with actual Fans.. that's pretty typical crap tho.. people want the tickets then change their minds about going..

the worst problem is that the womens beach volleyball players are wearing clothes instead of bikini's -sheesh i wait four years to watch that and they can't even get it hot enough to wear the right outfits... i vote for thongs next olympics..

one last hing abour Romney bailing out the Olympics... he din't bail out th eOlympics so much as h ebailed out UTAH! who was not ready for th eolympics... it wasn' the IOC who effed up it was UTAH that effed up
 
glassman  - posted
i beleive that if Romney wins? we will see one to two years of impressive ( but unrealistic) DOW and stcok growth, i think we'll see no more job growth than under Obama because the president can't really do that by himself (neither of 'em)... then we'll get the double dip like 9000 again out of the DOW and the Depression will be on big time... Romney will blame Obama and the Senate democrats and he'll be half right... [Big Grin]

i am looking for 5- 10 acres for my next house to buy a couple cows so i can eat beef when i am not eating my chickens... hey i like raising animals so if i'm wrong/ i won't really lose much other than time spent fencing [Wink]
 
IWISHIHAD  - posted
Originally Posted By Glassman:

"the worst problem is that the womens beach volleyball players are wearing clothes instead of bikini's -sheesh i wait four years to watch that and they can't even get it hot enough to wear the right outfits... i vote for thongs next olympics.."
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There should be an Olympic law that requires the womans volleyball games to have a minium temperture of 95 degrees in the facility there played at.

And of course no more pro basketball players allowed on the US team and all games must be televised on free TV!

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glassman  - posted
some more complaints about the Olympic that i have...

what on earth is synchronised diving anyway?

Why do they ahve all these wierd wimming strokes... for crying out loud, swimming is gettin form one palce to anohter, i use the back stroke wheni am feelinglazy, there is only one stroke for racing ....

if they want to make it harder? make the swimmers drag a buddy [Big Grin]

Why don't they show the shooting sports? I saw like two shots from the skeet shooting and the guy did a perfcet score... perfection is worth checking out a little more...

and why does the media follow Phelps around like dogs in heat? can't they see they messed him up already drooling all over him last time [Big Grin]
 
IWISHIHAD  - posted
Then we can get into gymnastics.

Who ever thought of putting a 2x4 sideways and having people try and tumble and jump on it.

Guys must wear a steel cup or have no.... because you know they have to miss sometimes, that's why we never hear any interviews from the mens gymnastics teams, they don't want us to hear their high voices

Then you have the horse you spring off of.

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glassman  - posted
yeah did you notice the Guy who won the gold inmens gymnastics? he looks just like one of the japanese animee characters on pokemon
 
IWISHIHAD  - posted
There was an article in the paper today that was
complaining about the olympic participants paying taxes on the money they get when winning a medal.

I never knew they got paid for winning a medal,
25,000 for gold.

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glassman  - posted
i must have been watching the same thing as you cuz i didn't know there were cash awards either until they just mentioned it the other day;
i guess that money is lieu of a real 24K gold medal which would be worth alot today:

ccording to the Olympic Charter, the gold and silver medals must each be made of at least 92.5 percent pure silver and the gold medal must be gilded with at least six grams of gold.

The price of gold changes daily. Assuming there's six grams of gold in each medal, at 31.1 grams per troy ounce, that is about 0.2 troy ounces. With gold at $1100 per troy ounce, the value would be about $212.

The remainder of the gold medal is made out of silver. The price of silver also fluctuates, but at an average of $14.50 per troy ounce, and assuming the entire medal weighs 500 grams, the remaining silver in the gold medal hovers around $230, bringing the total value to around $450.

Additional facts: The Beijing 2008 medals also include Jade for the first time, which could impact the value. The 2010 Vancouver medals are the largest in Vancouver history, weighing at about a pound each.


(just for you pagan)
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_value_of_an_Olympic_gold_medal#ixzz22brsyQ DF

notice those old metal prices... we are up almost double on silver and about 50% on gold since then
 



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