Sunday, November 3, 2013
Mitt Romney eliminated Chris Christie as a running mate and mocked him due to his weight.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was on Mitt Romney's vice presidential short list initially, but the GOP nominee took him off in part because of his weight.
In their new book Double Down, journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann reveal that one of the reasons Romney quickly eliminated Christie as a running mate was that he was bothered by his lack of physical fitness.
"Romney marveled at Christie’s girth, his difficulties in making his way down the narrow aisle of the campaign bus," the authors write. "Watching a video of Christie without his suit jacket on, Romney cackled to his aides, 'Guys! Look at that!'"
The Romney campaign had dubbed its search for a vice presidential nominee "Project Goldfish," and Christie was stuck with the code name "Pufferfish," according to a report on the book by The Washington Post.
Wow, as if we needed another reason to think that Mitt Romney was an asshole.
Look I am somebody who looks at Christie and worries that he may be unhealthy at that size, but to openly ridicule him is just cruel.
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Most Americans want to either keep Obamacare or expand it. Take THAT Ted Cruz!
More Americans want to keep the Affordable Care Act as it is or expand it than want to get rid of it, according to a new poll released Friday.
The Kaiser Family Foundation found that 47 percent of Americans want to expand (22 percent) or keep the law (25 percent). Conversely, 37 percent said they wanted to either repeal the law and replace it with some Republican alternative (13 percent) or repeal it without replacing it (24 percent).
That's despite the fact that more Americans have an unfavorable view of the law (44 percent) than a favorable view (38 percent), according to Kaiser.
The poll surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,513 Americans ages 18 and over. It was conducted from Oct. 17 to 23.
I think this is a rather small sampling, but I would bet my house that it pretty damn accurate.
Let's face it, the Republicans are offering nothing except attacks against the law with nothign to replace it in order to meet out health care needs.
I think most Americans who are not suckling at the Fox News teat realize that.
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Saturday, November 2, 2013
Rep. Stockman Seeking Special Prosecutors For Obama Scandals
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WND reports:
Congress needs to assign special prosecutors to investigate Obama administration misbehavior, charges a congressman who has distributed to members of the U.S. House copies of the book “Impeachable Offenses: The Case for Removing Barack Obama from Office.”
“From Benghazi to Fast and Furious to crony deals for ‘green’ energy to Obamacare the lawless Obama administration must be reined in. I am calling on Congress to establishment Select Committees on these scandals with full subpoena power,” said Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, in a statement Thursday.
“We’ve seen how the Obama administration smears and defames their critics. Congress should investigate these scandals and turn the matters over to special prosecutors,” he said. - WND.
A little less conversation...
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Laura Ingraham To Bill O'Reilly: Obama Guilty Of Fraud And Inducement
Laura Ingraham To Bill O'Reilly: Obama Guilty Of Fraud And Inducement Over Obamacare...
Audio aired last night on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor.
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The end justifying the means...
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WBTM.TV Host Talks Natural Born Citizen: We'll Hold Cruz's Feet To Fire
Video: WBTM.TV Host Talks Natural Born Citizen: We Will Hold Cruz's Feet To The Fire
Below is the full archive from last night's Heisenberg Report with Obama eligibility activist Rudy Davis...
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Can't Figure Out Art? A Zap To The Brain Will Help You Like It
Stumped trying to look sophisticated at a museum? New research suggests that a little electrical zap to your brain could help you appreciate fine art more.
A study in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that the experience of viewing art can be made more enjoyable by activating the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). A group of 12 volunteers rated paintings and photos depicting real-world situations more highly after a current was delivered through electrodes to that region of the brain, which has been implicated in the regulation of emotion. As previous studies have found, a little zap can be a powerful thing: Electrical stimulation to the scalp has been shown to improve people's math abilities and video game skills.
"The effect of stimulation was subtle, but still pretty remarkable considering the participants were basically just putting a battery on their head," neurologist Anjan Chatterjee told New Scientist about this study. Chatterjee suggests that perhaps activating this region of the brain improves your mood, making the experience of viewing artwork more enjoyable. In this study, the brain stimulation only enhanced viewers' appreciation of realistic art, not abstract works, which indicates that the process of viewing abstract art might involve different areas of the brain.
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Man finds human tooth in his Snickers bar, then things get weird
Snickers really satisfies, unless you bite into one and find a human tooth, then all it does is freak you the heck out. That's what happened to Robert Galvan, who was chewing through his daily portion of chocolate and caramel (actually, he's been a three-Snickers-a-day man for years) when he discovered that the peanut he chomped into wasn't a peanut at all. "I just can't do it," he told the Stevens Point Journal, adding that he felt sick to his stomach after his ghastly discovery. But — plot twist alert! — he went to the dentist last week and learned that the tooth was actually one of his own that had broken off into the candy bar. "I'm relieved," he said. "You could catch hepatitis from that." So next time that happens, call the dentist first, before the local news. [Source]
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