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Let's have a Mittmentum open thread before I accuse him of assaulting George Zimmerman.

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[podesta]

Gingrich is done. Santorum is done. Mitt is the Republican nominee. Obama will crush him. It won't even be close. Indiana, North Carolina..unheard of will be heard again.

[Jack is Back!]

A lot of "walkback" on Zimmerman v. Martin scuffle in the news. Eyewitness #1 says scuffle on the grass not near sidewalk, #2 is 13 year old mother says was pressured by police. Stay tuned, all that to and fro on last thread may have been based on false information.

[henry]

WI will be an interesting primary. Tuesday's vote may get lost in the background due to the Walker recall mess. All 4 candidates are here (actually Paul is at UW in Madison). I get robocalls every half hour, they run 3-1 recall vs primary. Don't get caught up in the polls, turnout may be low because people are excited about Walker and not the primary.

[Jack is Back!]

henry,

Just saw the interview with the school custodian who was fired for having a Walker sign in the back of her car. The Fascists are officially in control of your school system.

[AliceH]

henry - so many new rules and judges issuing stays, I'm a bit lost on the rules in effect this go round.

Is there still same-day registration at the polls? Is VoterID in place/required? Is it an open Primary?

[henry]

JiB, that was on the radio a couple weeks ago. I had forgotten. This week has been an increasing flow of discoveries from the online recall db: reporters at a newspaper and TV station in Madison, local "Republican" elected officials (a mayor and a school board chairman) in Waukesha County, etc. the more they find, the more Breitbarts go looking. I think future school board candidates, judge candidates, town board candidates will get a vetting and have to explain themselves. I have some research to do before the Tuesday elections (plus pick an appropriate garden gnome).

[henry]

AliceH, it is possible the WI SC will act before Tuesday and change things, but not likely. Right now voter ID is out. Same day registration is in (?). It is an open primary.

Tuesday is the regular spring election (local offices / judges) plus the Pres Primaries.

Later today we expect the GAB to finalize dates for recall primaries and elections -- pending lawsuits on whatever they come up with.

[AliceH]

Thanks, Henry. In googling around, discovered WI seems to have a real problem with Military/Overseas ballots. From someplace on GAB website I found their statements that of 1851 municipal clerks
* 65 reported missing the Feb. 18 deadline for sending out ballots, delays ranging from 2 days to over 3 weeks
* 347 have not responded to multiple requests to the question.

That sounds pretty shoddy to me.

[daddy]

Piers Morgan is interviewing Zimmerman's brother.

Piers is saying that Zimmerman chased TM and Zimmerman's brother is trying to say that that is not factual.

Piers is saying that the Zimmerman's video from yesterday is proving that Zimmerman had no injuries. The brother replies he sees his brother with a swollen nose on the video having known him.

Each time Zimmerman's brother starts to reply in a reasonable manner that is factually opposite of what Piers Morgan suggests and wants to hear, Piers Morgan immediately interrupts the brothers comment and changes the question to another question that he obviously hopes will trip the brother up and make Zimmerman guilty of something equivalent to intentional manslaughter.

Piers is dying for an "Ah ha, Gotcha'!" moment from Zimmerman's brother. The brother in my view is doing an excellent job. I'm surprised he is doing the interview.

Piers says he has heard a tape where Zimmerman uses a racial epithet. The Brother refutes that.

[AliceH]

hey, daddy and JiB. A humble request: there are 100 Trayvon/Zimmerman threads to post on. Could we leave this one to every other topic?

[AliceH]

Just the 3 Primaries next Tuesday - DC (19 delegates), WI (42), and MD (37).

We've got school board elections here. I really don't know if it's appropriate for me to vote on that, given I have no info on any of the people running, and short of calling them at their homes and surveying them myself, don't know how I'd be able to find anything. Might just have to sit this one out.

[daddy]

No problem AliceH,

I'm off to work. I do find it ironic though that Piers is now trying to use a man who bit off a black mans ear, Mike Tyson, as some sort of Civil Right's spokesperson to comment on the interview he just had with Zimmerman's brother.

Bye.

[pagar]

Thank you, AliceH. If we had one hundredth the interest in making sure the prediction made in post one never comes true this world would be a 1000% better off.

[jwest]

Just one more and I’ll leave it alone…

Did the enterprising ABC reporter who got the video of Zimmerman arriving at the police department also get the 7/11 video of Trayvon buying Skittles and iced tea? It would be interesting to see how he looked the night of the incident.

[Jane (Where is Jon Corzine?)]

Did W endorse Mitt yesterday?

[centralcal]

I think it was his dad, HW, Jane.

[narciso]

Piers is a slimy git, who never suffered the proper feedback for having slurred British troops in Basra, 'Is Larry King Alive' was never that bad.

[NK]

Henry-- you are the man on the spot for all of us in Wisconsin.What do you see of the ChiTown Dem/union mafia moving into Wisc for summer and November elections? I imagine that the Dems/AFSCME/SEIU will use every trick fair and unfair to pull down Walker and his reforms. With Indiana going Right to Work, the Illinois mafia can't stand another free labor state to the north-- have you seen any reports like that. PS: good luck buying a lawn gnome.

[Janet]

Did the enterprising ABC reporter who got the video of Zimmerman arriving at the police department also get the 7/11 video of Trayvon buying Skittles and iced tea?

jwest, Here is an interesting post at Conservative Treehouse about how the ABC obtained video is a video of the video.

"Go look at it again. This footage is video of a video. Meaning that surveillance camera used in the police station does not move. Yet the video is moving and shadowing the police and Zimmerman.

This is footage taken on an i-phone by someone recording the screen at a Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) panel monitor and feed. You can tell in a few segments of the video that show the exterior frame of the monitor being filmed."

[henry]

NK, Rahm was in town yesterday with Milwaukee mayor Barret-- whether that was to pressure him to run in the recall or to get him to sit it out in favor of the union bought Falk is something we won't know for a while (he would have to file by Apr 10). The whole recall thing was run by the Chicago machine, they will be here in force from now until June.

[AliceH]

It seems MO is trying again to implement VoterID and explicit max # days for early voting. The ballot language submitted was shot down, but there's time to amend, resubmit and (maybe) get it approved in time for August or November ballots.

I also learned we already went through this process and implemented VoterID in 2006 (signed into law by Gov. Matt Blunt), but the Missouri Supreme Court struck it down.

Both R's leading the current effort are running for Secretary of State this year. Robin Carnahan (ptui) is not running again.

[NK]

Henry-- I assumed as much. So what does that mean? does it mean an avalanche of votes will be manufactured in emptied out Milwaukee precincts and the Dems take victory, or do 'real' people resent it enough to re-elect Walker? Your take? Again-- these Wisc reports are so important-- please keep it up. June could be huge, Walker wins-- again; Obamacare invalidated. Here's hoping.

[narciso]

This was from last night' thread, something 'we should have been aware of sooner, I had to go to the cache;

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[Janet]

This is a great t-shirt -

from pictures of the 3-27 rally by Datechguy.

[henry]

AliceH, the MO SC is why the left likes appointed judges. You may need a constitutional amendment to get past them. (Naturally I forget what hoops that requires even though I had to read the MO Constitution to graduate high school).

[NK]

Dear All -- an end of the week pick me up from the charming Matt Continetti-- if you had a bad week-- cheer up, 'Bam and the Dems had a dreadful week: http://freebeacon.com/democrats-in-disarray/

[Jim Ryan]

'Is Larry King Alive'

LARRY: How does it feel, losing a child in such a terrible tragedy?

GUEST: Well, Larry, at first you're in shock, and then you-

LARRY: Tomorrow night! The entire cast of Three's Company!

[Captain Hate]

I think it was his dad, HW, Jane.

Yes, the same person who gave us Souter, the ADA, increased taxes, urged Eastern Europe to proceed cautiously against throwing off the yoke of communism and ran such a brilliant campaign against Slick. Who wouldn't want him in their corner?

[henry]

NK, current CW is that Voter ID will be in place by the June recall election. Walker looks like a winner, but turnout is everything. For the rest of the recalls, they key is to have primaries so they all face the voters with Walker (the turnout thing again). Sarah Palin had a good writeup on the forgotten one, Lt Gov Rebecca Kleefisch. If she faces recall on a different date than Walker she is in big trouble. Other concerns in recalls: Galloway resigned from the senate (and her husband quot his job as well) due to an unspecified family emergency, an assemblyman from her district will try to hold for the Rs but this all happened late in the cycle. Van Waanggard is in a finicky district-- I have to get all my neighbors to show up and vote.

Given the redistricting is approved (senate anyway), the state senate will still be 17-16 R after November, then go strongly R after 2014.

[AliceH]

henry - I've forgotten most of what I learned through independent research about the "Missouri Approach" for appointing judges. My general recollection, though, is that it was a good thing, but there were some...questionable appointments that were just shy of abuse of the method. I guess I'll have to look into it again, in light of this new (to me) info.

[narciso]

'Poppy' was a nice guy, not the image of a one time spymaster, although that was a political post, He did understand that the Dems need to be beat decisively, something
McCain nor Dole, understood,

[Jim Ryan]

Maybe I'm missing something. Is there a plausible argument that the oil fields should not be depreciated and written off just like a capital equipment investment? Or is it just a flat out lie to call the deductions "oil subsidies"?

[narciso]

No, the Missouri Approach, yields the candidates least likely to confront the status quo, it limits the options to those
preferred by Duke and Duke,

[henry]

AliceH, my understanding of the MO method is the bar association submits three candidates for the Gov to choose one. Given the source all options will be lefties regardless of the political leanings of the Gov. The left in WI has been pushing the MO method here given the public will not vote lefty judges into the SC.

[narciso]

Also from last night's thread;

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/29/bolton-accuses-administration-leaking-story-on-israeli-planning-along-iran/

[henry]

The GAB will rubber stamp the staff certification of the recalls later today. initial elections would be set for May 8. Races requiring primary elections would then hold final recall elections on June 5. Right now, the Walker and Waanggard recalls will require primaries.

[narciso]

They hate ridicule, even over factual criticism

http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/waaah-democrats-crying-over-scalias-performance-this-week/

[AliceH]

More tasks on my "to do list" I guess. I certainly understand the negatives pointed out, but just need to point out definitely included my prior assessment the trusty "compared to WHAT" elements. Given the lack of even name recognition of judges, much less actual substantive info on rulings or abilities, I'm not sure general elections of judges leads to measurably good results.

[jimmyk]

Or is it just a flat out lie to call the deductions "oil subsidies"?

I believe it's a flat out lie, Jim. Like many depreciation rules, it may not closely match the decline in value of the asset, but the notion that it's just a tax loophole or subsidy is just leftist propaganda.

[narciso]

Granted, Alice, it's just one more thing, that narrows the options, in favor of the status quo,

[Captain Hate]

He did understand that the Dems need to be beat decisively

I'm still waiting for those donk spending cuts in return for the tax increases to kick in. I'm not sure who had his ear on that but whoever it was deceived him as much as Powell did.

[Jim Ryan]

I see, Jimmy. Yes, depreciation rules. I remember those from the three semesters of accounting I took not too long ago. Rough-and-ready rules, close enough.

[Bill in AZ sez it's time for Obama/Holder murder trial in Mexico]

Like many depreciation rules, it may not closely match the decline in value of the asset, but the notion that it's just a tax loophole or subsidy is just leftist propaganda.

Probably the first time dumbass Zero ever heard of depreciation or depletion.

[Janet]

Bill Whittle's latest Afterburner. He is serious. Merchants of Despair.

[Jim Ryan]

Am I the only one who loved his accounting classes? What a great field.

[pagar]

"Or is it just a flat out lie to call the deductions "oil subsidies"?"

Every thing they say is a flat out lie, IMO. The truth is not in them.

[jimmyk]

Yes, Jim, I think you may be.

Seriously, it can be interesting, but my idea of hell is spending an eternity mired in the Federal tax code. Wasn't that Dante's fifth circle?

[Captain Hate]

Am I the only one who loved his accounting classes?

No, I particularly enjoyed the one I took in grad school when I wasn't nearly as immature as I was as an undergrad. It has its own sort of logic that lends itself to IT applications.

Btw, per narc's Bolton link, is that what the Saint Trayvon nonsense was meant to obfuscate?

[NK]

CaptHate-- now now, let bygones be bygones, GHWB was a terrible conservative on fiscal and domestic policy, but he is a patriot and a lovely man. About 8-9 years ago I played golf in Greenwich with an 80+yo man who was a member of the family Bush Episcopal Church in Greenwich for decades. So I asked about the family-- he didn't know GWB, he said GHWB was a lovely man, good christian, Senator Prescott Bush?-- "a real sonofabitch". In dealing with Dems, I do wish GHWB was more like his dad.

[matt]

The Noonster sorta, kinda, almost gets it. LUN

[Captain Hate]

jimmyk, I never took tax accounting and am sure I'd have regarded it as a grind.

[Captain Hate]

a member of the family Bush Episcopal Church in Greenwich

As a lapsed member of the COE I think I'm seeing the source of the problem.

[pagar]

"The victim accused the wrong man."

This is really going to upset the leftists. They were so sure they were going to be able to discredit the Tea Party.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/03/sorry-libs-charges-dropped-against-tea-party-leader-there-was-no-rape/

[Threadkiller]

Narc, where does you mangled link at 8:55 go?

[Captain Hate]

Marty makes some sense now that he's away from the vermin at NR: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577311464081519098.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

Now if he'd just stop defending Manbearpig.

[Danube of Thought]

Minus 13 at Raz today.

Leads Romney by 1.

[Jim Ryan]

Jimmy, NOT tax accounting. Just the stuff that actually helps business create wealth.

[Ignatz]

--Marty makes some sense now that he's away from the vermin at NR--

Marty? Marty? Finally concluded it was going to be something by Martin Feldstein but couldn't remember him hanging around Lowry and the other Nat Review vermin. :)
Should have been TNR obviously.

[Ignatz]

--Jimmy, NOT tax accounting. Just the stuff that actually helps business create wealth.--

Jim, not sure who was teaching your class but I was always taught accounting was to help business hide wealth not create it. :)

[OldTimer]

Romney should keep up the pressure on our increasing national security vulnerability, thanks to the Obama 'flexibility' doctrine:

Via Krauthammer -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-flexibility-doctrine/2012/03/29/gIQA9ZMtjS_story.html

[pagar]

For long links such as the 08:55

www.tinyurl.com

is one of the easiest things on the internet to use, IMO. Someone here posted it before and I thank them.

[Captain Hate]

It felt strange when I was writing it Iggy. Anyway, he seems to do his best work by submitting op-eds for the WSJ; one following Lurch's defeat in 2004 was such a good take-down of the horse-faced cabana boy of the rich and clueless that I was willing to almost overlook that a lot of the animus came from "Don't you know who I am"'s dismissive attitude toward Weird Al.

[Jim Ryan]

Double-entry accounting, income statements, balance sheets, cash-flow statements are topics of exquisite elegance. People who make good dough doing that stuff are living large. They're helping a business stay in control of itself.

[Captain Hate]

Nooner, meet the morons: http://minx.cc/?post=327964

[Jim Ryan]

Ignatz, ha!

[Ignatz]

--Anyway, he seems to do his best work by submitting op-eds for the WSJ;--

CH,
I get more frustrated and angry with guys like him and Dershowitz or Bob Kerry than True Believers.
How do they have the sense part of the time to see reality and then the rest of the time get lost in the ozone again? (h/t Commander Cody)

[Janet]

Instapundit reminding us that we can all do a little something for the cause...

[NK]

CaptH-- thanks for the link. It's things like Noonan that validate your Duke & Duke theories. What a moron. 1993 was anybody but Dinkins in NYC, 2012 will be ABO.

[Jim Ryan]

Back in 2008, Peggy was thinking with her [REDACTED].

[Dave (in MA)]

Janet, LUN

[Janet]

Wonderful, Dave! I'm faithful about doing it.

[Cecil Turner]

Minus 13 at Raz today.

Leads Romney by 1.

How is that even possible? Of all the folks with no strong opinion on Obama's job performance, Obama wins by +14? That means (let's see, 28SA to 41SD means 31% left over . . . 2x-14=31 . . .) Romney pulls 8.5% of the undecided and Obama gets 22.5%? Egads.

Well, I see from the latest high-level endorsments that the fnork have spoken. No doubt the sheeple will follow, and Mitt will win the endorsement. I can't remember a time in my life where I was so unenthusiastic about the GOP candidates. (But the alternative is such a disaster . . .) Nose? Gonna be holding my whole face this time.

[NK]

Ryan endorses Romney-- personally I'd be very satisfied with POTUS Romney, VP Rubio, treasury Sec Ryan, Sec State Petraeus. Very Solid Admin. repeal Obamacare, pass Ryan's Budget, frog march Bernanke back to Princeton, pump oil and gas, get jobs for everyone who wants one, save the republic. Works for me.

[centralcal]

I can attest to Janet's diligence, having received a cash contribution from her for a gift to one of our ailing JOMers. I was so thrilled to see she had neatly printed "Tax Cheat" with a Sharpie in brilliant red! Nearly framed the damned thing, it was so cool.

[Janet]

For the longest time my FB page always had ads for gout...now I've got weiner dog oil & vinegar bottles? what's that about?

[Dave (in MA)]

When I posted it to Facebook, one of my self-described "moderate Republican" acquaintances found it necessary to point out that "it's a violation of Federal law to deface currency", so I said that if I ever catch the culprit he's going to be in big trouble.

[AliceH]

Does the ad selection algorithm weight more heavily the topics/words YOU put on your own page, or the data profile info those sneaky marketers grab from those people who VISIT your page?

[NK]

Link to AP below: Writer claims SCOTUS conference today on Obamacare and votes taken, then Roberts assigns majority opinion writer (If Roberts is in the Majority). In our cynical age, it amazes me that the Court keeps its deliberations quiet -- a tribute to them I think. The story: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120330/D9TQLQDO0.html

[NK]

AliceH-- TomM will know-- that ad algorithm pays him the big bucks.

[Janet]

if I ever catch the culprit he's going to be in big trouble.

Ummmm, yeah...yeah..same here, Dave! D#%n defacers.

[AliceH]

Oh, thanks NK. I don't really care - was just laying out a "reasonable doubt" defense for Janet, i.e. to blame someone/something else, in case she finds a need for it in future.

[Dave (in MA)]

Ads? What ads? The Chrome AdBlocker plugin sticks 'em in /dev/null right alongside featherboy spew.

[Janet]

Hahaha..thanks AliceH! I'm gonna blame Clarice (our resident cook) for the tacky oil & vinegar cruet! She must visit my page a lot. :)

[Ignatz]

I'm taking TM at his word on the title of this thread for this OT.

What the heck is the difference between usage for sensual and sensuous?
Is it simply that sensual is used for sexual subjects and sensual is everything else?
Even after Binging it's still confusing.
I loved this explanation which is oh so clarifying;

These two words can be different although their meanings are same. They are both adjectives but are used with the following nouns frequently:
sensual~
-pleasure
-mouth
-desire
-woman
-voice

sensuous~
-mouth
-lips
-pleasure
-colour
-music

[narciso]

Meanwhile, Mr. Peabody, (Bowles) offers some light comedy, Obama ignores or humiliates you,
and they ask for more like Chip Dillard, also
in the Journal, also Jess Bravin, the legal
correspondent that doesn't care about the constitution (also a disseminator of Levick Grp talking points) and Neil Lewis, dinging
Mittens for pointing out the truth, crikey
what's the world come to.

[Ignatz]

--When I posted it to Facebook, one of my self-described "moderate Republican" acquaintances found it necessary to point out that "it's a violation of Federal law to deface currency"--

So by that standard couldn't Turbo Timmy be arrested for putting his tax cheating name on it?

[narciso]

Btew, from the previous thread, in the LUN

[Ignatz]

--crikey
what's the world come to--

Despite reading that post three times I am still unable to answer your question, narc. :)

[Ignatz]

--Btew, from the previous thread, in the LUN--

OK, that one I got.

[narciso]

Bowles writes a silly Op Ed, that Obama is actually following his recommendations, Bravin
writes a piece that says Roberts will go along
with the unconstitutionalists, Levin takes issue with the rather mild critique of Obama's embrace of Medvedev,

[sbw]

Deface? And I thought the bills came with the description already printed in red as a way to detect counterfeits.

[Ignatz]

Thank you narciso.

[narciso]

I think this is a requirement when you take
the 'king's danegeld'

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/03/29/gen-dempsey-to-rep-ryan-were-not-liars/

[narciso]

Most of it, is inaccesible, but the first passage is almost Python worthy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577311493914582110.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion

[narciso]

Now really anybody who thought Betamax Brown
was a good a idea, deserves a big Gibbs slap

[pagar]

The witch hunt against the SC governor has been outlined here.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/gov_nikki_haley_to_be_indicted_for_tax_fraud_comments.html#disqus_thread

No word on Jon Corzine or the vaporized 1.2 trillion.

[AliceH]

It's not illegal to write notes on a U.S. Bill.

"The language of the U.S. Code as it applies to defacing currency restricts it to acts that individuals commit with an intention of defrauding others or making currency unfit for reissue. Other acts, such as writing notes on a bill or causing the kind of damage that occurs naturally, are not illegal. However, the U.S. Treasury discourages all types of currency manipulation."

http://www.ehow.com/list_6535889_defacing-u_s_-currency-laws.html

[pagar]

The efforts to destroy our economy, by the political party that couldn't run a lemonade stand continue.

"Employment Policy Institute fellow Michael Saltsman on a Democratic proposal to raise the minimum wage by 35%".

http://tinyurl.com/7wkgo6

[Melinda Romanoff]

Biden says they want to introduce a "Global Tax".

Somehow, I'm seeing this as a winning theme.

[GMAX]

However, the U.S. Treasury ( currently headed up by Tax Cheat Tim Geither ) discourages all types of currency manipulation", its embarassing.

Fixed