Everyday Is A LSOS Day
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 9th, 2012
Good morning!
Since I don’t have a designated LSOS day…and considering that the LSOS’s don’t ever have a day off from lying…evidently everyday is a LSOS’s day for lying, I thought this was a perfect post for any day and today is the day.
The Biggest Mitt Romney Lie (So Far)
As you’ve probably observed already, Mitt Romney is a lie machine. Steve Benen at Maddow Blog has been tracking Romney’s mendacity and the tally is usually 20-30 items per week. That’s a lot, and Benen probably doesn’t catch all of them.
Any normal human being has to work hard to lie that much. But Mitt Romney is doing it as a matter of campaign strategy, specifically as a way to fire up the gullible and desperate tea party base. By the time a Romney lie is fact-checked, it’s already too late, and, besides, Romney supporters won’t actually read/believe the fact-checkers who are obviously part of the liberal conspiracy to re-elect a communist Muslim. It’s a strategy based on the maxim: “A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.”
Meanwhile, as I’ve documented here, Republican legislatures have passed laws in 11 states requiring photo IDs in order to cast a ballot. These laws will make it more difficult for lower income registered voters to participate on Election Day even though numerous studies, including a five year investigation by the George W. Bush Justice Department, have proved that voter fraud is practically nonexistent.
Recently in Ohio, Republicans tried to significantly cut back the window for early voting from five weeks to three weeks. They failed to keep the law on the books, but the Republicans managed to ban early voting on the weekends, except for military veterans who can continue to vote on Saturdays and Sundays.
However, the Obama administration filed a lawsuit against Ohio to restore weekend voting for all registered voters. Soldiers would retain weekend voting privileges, and voters would once again be allowed to vote on those days. Once again, the Democrats are trying to make voting easier and the Republicans are trying to strip people of that fundamental right.
Over the weekend, Mitt Romney, while clearly benefiting from Republican voter purges and Voter ID laws meant to discourage minority and working class voters, accused the Obama Justice Department of somehow trying to disenfranchise military voters. In other words, the Democrats are the ones who are trying to disenfranchise people — and they hate the troops, too! The troops!
The Romney Unit on The Facebook:
President Obama’s lawsuit claiming it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period is an outrage. The brave men and women of our military make tremendous sacrifices to protect and defend our freedoms, and we should do everything we can to protect their fundamental right to vote. I stand with the fifteen military groups that are defending the rights of military voters, and if I’m entrusted to be the commander-in-chief, I’ll work to protect the voting rights of our military, not undermine them.
In addition to sounding like a Patrick Bateman speech, that’s arguably the biggest Romney lie so far (although his new welfare reform attack might have topped it). There’s nothing here that’s even remotely close to the truth. The Obama administration has absolutely not done what Romney says it’s doing — in any way. The president is actually trying to extend weekend voting to everyone, while preserving it for the troops. Romney has used this twisted Orwellian Karl Rove style backwards logic to trick his supporters into buying this bag of hooey while reinforcing the myth that the president — the commander in chief of the armed forces — hates the military. At the same time, he’s reversed the Voter ID debate by making it seem as if the Democrats are trying to disenfranchise voters.
And it’s in print. It’s not a jittery, Uncanny Valley Romney gaffe or something he blurted out on a cable news show. He (his advisers) carefully crafted this one, and it’s entirely untrue. And, for what it’s worth,Politifact declared it to be “False” while entirely debunking the Facebook post.
It is simply dishonest for Romney and his backers to claim that Obama’s effort to extend early voting privileges to everyone in Ohio constitutes an attack on military voters’ ability to cast ballots on the weekend before elections.
But none of that matters because it’s out there now. The Facebook post has been “Liked” more than 152,000 times and shared by more than 19,000 Romney Facebook friends. And it’s a lie by every measure. To wit, here are some choice comments from Romney’s Facebook:
“Obama is trying to make it more inconvenient for the military to vote. Obama is a db.”"suing Ohio for equal voting days between military and civilian voters , is an attack on military voters .common sense something dipshit liberals dnt have …”
“What a hypocrite! He sues to overturn voter ID laws so that no vote is turned away and then sues to prevent servicemen and women from disgusting! He is a disgusting President!
Everything is taken at face value because Romney’s lies are crafted to be exactly what the base wants to hear. They want to hear that the president is a hypocrite who hates the troops. They want to hear that it’s the president who doesn’t want people to vote — not the GOP state legislatures and governors. So Romney gives them what they want: red meat, irrespective of its veracity.
*R*O*M*N*E*Y*L*S*O*S*
Readers: My internet was down this morning. I will reserve my responses till later.
Peace out.
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August 9th, 2012 at 11:53 am
The continuing saga of Tsarme:
Tests are being administered to determine the extent of Tsarme’s memory loss. It is believed that there is a direct correlation between the number of years he has regressed and the amount of memory loss he is experiencing.
From questioning it appears that he has lost most of his memory relating to his time on earth. He remembers the instructions he received when he arrived and his debrief concerning Roi but not meeting Viv who greeted him upon the MBP, the ship he crossed the Emperor’s web in to enter earth’s solar system.
Tsarme has been through so much and now it is determined that he has lost his memory permanently.
HOWIE
August 9th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Great story line. Howie what does MBP stand for.
Scott
August 9th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Diabetics: The Body Part That’s Aging Faster Than the Rest of You
People with type 2 diabetes have a lot of balls to keep in the air, medically speaking.
They need to, of course, keep their blood sugar in check, get regular eye screenings and monitor their feet, which often can suffer from nerve damage.
Now new research may add another item to that already-long checklist.
It suggests that people with type 2 diabetes should start getting colonoscopies earlier and, perhaps, get them more frequently.
Here’s why…
TYPE 2 DIABETICS HAVE “OLDER” COLONS
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis reviewed colonoscopy records of male and female patients over a six-year span, comparing the incidence of precancerous polyps in three groups—
those ages 40 to 49 with type 2 diabetes…those ages 40 to 49 without type 2 diabetes…and those ages 50 to 59 without type 2 diabetes.
Their first finding was expected, since age increases the risk for precancerous polyps. Nondiabetics in their 50s had a much higher rate of precancerous polyps (32%) than nondiabetics in their 40s (14%).
But their second finding was alarming. Diabetics in their 40s had nearly the same rate of precancerous polyps (30%) as nondiabetics in their 50s (again, 32%).
And this was after individual cancer risk factors—such as gender, race, obesity, smoking, high cholesterol and alcohol use—were taken into account.
“It’s almost as if the colons of diabetics are 10 years older,” study author Hongha Vu, MD, a clinical gastroenterology fellow at the university, told me.
It’s believed that the culprit is a high level of insulin in type 2 diabetics, since insulin is thought to promote cell growth in the colon, she said.
SHOULD SCREENING GUIDELINES CHANGE?
Current guidelines from the American Cancer Society (ACS) suggest that colorectal cancer screenings should begin at age 50 for people at average risk for colon cancer.
ACS advises those at high risk (anyone with inflammatory bowel disease, a personal history of colorectal cancer or a family history of colorectal cancer) to get screened even earlier (the age varies by risk factor).
In addition, the site for the American College of Gastroenterology says, “Recent evidence suggests that African-Americans should begin screening earlier at the age of 45.”
What about people with type 2 diabetes? The American Diabetes Association, while acknowledging that type 2 diabetes is linked with a higher risk for colorectal and other cancers, urges diabetics to reduce lifestyle-related cancer risk factors but doesn’t deviate from the “begin screening at age 50” recommendation for those at average risk.
Dr. Vu, however, is hoping that her research—and future studies that replicate it—will change that. Her study suggests that type 2 diabetics should consider getting their first colorectal cancer screening earlier than age 50.
In her view, doctors should be open to discussing the idea of earlier colorectal cancer screenings with diabetic patients based on their overall risk factors, and it might help to bring a copy of this article with you if you want to broach the idea with your physician.
Unfortunately, if you’re a type 2 diabetic who wants to get a colorectal cancer screening before the age of 50 but you’re considered to be at “average risk,” according to the current guidelines, it’s unlikely that insurance will cover it, said Dr. Vu, and a colonoscopy can cost around $1,200 or more.
If more research confirms Dr. Vu’s findings and screening guidelines change, colonoscopies are more likely to be covered in the future.
If you’re a type 2 diabetic who is over the age of 50 and you’ve already started getting colorectal cancer screenings, Dr. Vu said that there is no data yet on whether or not more frequent screenings are necessary, but if you’re concerned, talk to your doctor.
Also: This increased risk for colorectal cancer does not apply to people of any age with type 1 diabetes, said Dr. Vu, because type 1 is caused by a lack of insulin.
Source: Hongha Vu, MD, clinical gastroenterology fellow, Washington University, St. Louis, and lead author of a study presented at the May 22, 2012 Digestive Disease Week in San Diego.
August 9th, 2012 at 2:18 pm
It’s hard to believe the righties will fall for a lie that is so far fetched. Nobody hates the troops and wants to make it harder for them to vote, especially the President – that is just nonsensical.
It’s like when they claim Pres Obama wants gas prices to be high – yeah, right. Seriously, the right wingers spread unfactual gossip like a playground of 4th grade girls. They must not ever stop to think about whether it makes any kind of logic at all.
They just enjoy the feeling of air flapping over their blabbering lips as they revel in their manufactured indignation.
August 9th, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Scott, I knew you would ask.
MBP stands for a ship especially designed for Planets Between Mercury and Mars.
HOWIE
August 9th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
PrP:
I have looked at your blog on three occasions. I personally do not care for the groovy New Age black-background and colored type.
There is no dilemma or reason for trepidation for anyone commenting on your blog. The fear factor never existed.
I was not being coy in the way I told the Tsarme saga. That is simply not true. It was told to me in installments by Carr and he had his reasons for doing so. The attack on Krijo was avoided. It saved Krijo from attack by informing those who knew nothing about what was really happening to Tsarme.
Everything was just as it should be. There was no coyness involved. I do not play those games and do not like being accused of such.
Good Day.
HOWIE
August 9th, 2012 at 5:24 pm
HOWIE:
I understand. I don’t like unfair accusations either. I tried to temper the opinion others had, as I hope you noticed.
To each his own as to visuals.
Good day to you as well.
PrP
August 9th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Yeah, c’mon, enough with the gop BS and tell us all those crimes Obama has committed. Funny how not one person has caled for his arrest for his “crimes.” You repubs are pathetic.
Even more, you are just so damn gullible. That’s what comes of repubs always cutting education funding,. They want ignorant, gullible folks like you to swallow every lie they say.
You’d think you’d get indigestion from swallowing so much crap, but you keep asking for more.
August 9th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
And it’s in print. It’s not a jittery, Uncanny Valley Romney gaffe or something he blurted out on a cable news show. He (his advisers) carefully crafted this one…”
And that should be the next campaign ad by one of those independent groups that’s absolutely not co-ordinating with the Obama campaign or any other Democratic party candidate:
Mitt Romney–Carefully Crafted Lies
August 9th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
To be a good conservative one has to follow their rules:
1. Lying is allowed because je$u$ is on our side.
2. Tax cuts for wealthy are already mentioned in bibIe.
3. People are only willfully poor, otherwise they would be rich, but they don’t want to.
4. US is going bankrupt because poor has taken all the money.”
August 9th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
Remember how many manufacturing jobs left the country right after the Bush tax cuts were passed?
We have a tax code that encourages companies to outsource our jobs and then keep the money overseas.
When the dems tried to repeal part of it last month, the republicans wanted to tie the bill to tax cuts on the wealthy. I agree with you in that the larger issues are being ignored.
August 9th, 2012 at 10:01 pm
It’s hard to believe the righties will fall for a lie that is so far fetched. Nobody hates the troops and wants to make it harder for them to vote, especially the President – that is just nonsensical.
It’s like when they claim Pres Obama wants gas prices to be high – yeah, right. Seriously, the right wingers spread unfactual gossip like a playground of 4th grade girls.
They must not ever stop to think about whether it makes any kind of logic at all. They just enjoy the feeling of air flapping over their blabbering lips as they revel in their manufactured indignation.
August 9th, 2012 at 10:02 pm
When you have no answers to the problems facing this nation lies are the only thing left.
August 9th, 2012 at 10:03 pm
Ending voting before the last Sunday before election day was designed to do one thing: Prevent the congregations of Black churches from getting on a bus and showing up at the polls after Sunday Services, which is common in poorer predominately black urban districts.
August 9th, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Well of cource, the Republican fed shock jocks dumbed down tea partiers and evangelicals just in time so they’re ripe for Romney’s lies.
This is the reason I leave TV turned off most of the time. I can find better things to do than listen to the Super Pac lies. Everyone, contact the networks and tell them you either turn off, tape to avoid Ads or “mute” all of the Ads.
I’m wonder, since Romney professes he is a devout Mormon, why he wasn’t taught that lying is against religious rules.
I don’t trust anyone who is caught in lies even one or two times, much less several times every week. Hey you FOX, Limbaugh listeners, weren’t you taugh that lying is immoral?
August 9th, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Well of cource, the Republican fed shock jocks dumbed down tea partiers and evangelicals just in time so they’re ripe for Romney’s lies.
This is the reason I leave TV turned off most of the time. I can find better things to do than listen to the Super Pac lies.
Everyone, contact the networks and tell them you either turn off, tape to avoid Ads or “mute” all of the Ads. I’m wonder, since Romney professes he is a devout Mormon, why he wasn’t taught that lying is against religious rules.
I don’t trust anyone who is caught in lies even one or two times, much less several times every week. Hey you FOX, Limbaugh listeners, weren’t you taugh that lying is immoral?
August 9th, 2012 at 10:24 pm
Those responsible for curbing the storms encompassing Guam need to tighten up the allowances.
k/7
August 9th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
News Flash, MITTENS business practices are too shady even for Italy!!!
Bloomberg: “Romney Persona Non Grata in Italy for Bain’s Deal Skirting Taxes”
That’s because Bain Capital, under Romney as chief executive officer, made about $1 billion in a leveraged buyout 12 years ago that remains controversial in Italy to this day. Bain was part of a group that bought a telephone-directory company from the Italian government and then sold it about two years later, at the peak of the technology bubble, for about 25 times what it paid.
Bain funneled profits through subsidiaries in Luxembourg, a common corporate strategy for avoiding income taxes in other European countries, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News.
The buyer, Italy’s biggest telephone company, now has a total market value less than what it paid Bain and other investors for the directory business.
….Bain moved profits through a series of subsidiaries in Luxembourg, a country that makes it easy to get cash out without paying taxes, according to corporate filings. Corporate records in Luxembourg show Bain carried out technical steps for a tax- free repatriation of profits to the U.S.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021081334
August 9th, 2012 at 10:35 pm
I enjoy the Romney videos. They make me really think about the two candidates. I’m voting for Romney!!!
August 9th, 2012 at 10:37 pm
Mitt may very well care about the people who lost their jobs based on Bain’s actions. If he does he’s doing a great job of hiding it.
He comes across as intelligent but aloof, cold and uncaring. His handlers should work on that. Remember, trying to make him seem like an everyday guy won’t work.
He just doesn’t have it in him. He is who is he is. The voters will make the final decision.
August 9th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
I love how everyone is cheering on an ad that is a complete lie….again. Don’t you ever get offended by how dumb your Democratic party leaders think you are? Accusing Romney of causing the death of a woman 7 years after the fact and while she had health insurance is despicable and you cheer it on as if it’s a victory.
How ignorant do you have to be to cheer on a President that has no respect for you…so much so that he will perpetrate flat out lies and not even question whether or not you will call him on it…Obama knows that not only will you not call him on it but you will cheer about it.
August 9th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
My concern is with the Main stream media in the way they ignore the lies of the Right. The words and views are an insult to veterans and educated people who recognize the rhetoric.
Why pretend to be offering a balance…the views of dems and repubs are not equivalent! Those who would pretend there is an equivalency are morally bankrupt hacks…off with their talking heads…
off to join the dangerous crazies on fox…I cannot allow my grandchildren to be exposed and contaminated when they attempt to make repub proposals acceptable, simply by wrapping these ideas in the name ‘Jesus’.
All the lofty religious rhetoric is easy to spot if one follows the teachings of Jesus. Remember what was promised for those who mislead and harm God’s sheep.
Ironic that Jesus, being a dark skinned man from Palestine, would most likely suffer the same insults and threats as President and Mrs.Obama do today. Apparently nothing has changed!
August 9th, 2012 at 10:46 pm
Hank, Lets see…. Adds that are complete lies…….offended by party leaders….ignorant followers….president with no respect for citizens……
I got it now……… You are talking about bush and the republican party. All you left out was funny hats.
August 10th, 2012 at 1:03 am
If I haven’t told you lately. I love you.
August 10th, 2012 at 1:07 am
Mitt Romney is the political equivalent of Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian. He is a puppet of the GOP ruling elite and the media, having no position he hasn’t altered his stance on at least once. He is a political windsock whose stances on the issues are dictated by what he hopes will appeal to his red meat base.
August 10th, 2012 at 1:10 am
is it really going to matter if no one likes Romney…the republicans are making sure the democratic vote is surpressed in states with republican governors.
The most notable…Ohio.. People in republican leaning counties will have more time to vote….those in democratic leaning ones will not. Why is this being allowed.
Talk about messing with the voting act law and democracy itself with one’s right to vote. Looks like the republicans will do whatever they have to to win.
This country has gone to hell in a handbag. Goodbye democracy. Thanks republicans.
August 10th, 2012 at 1:11 am
Why the Republican candidate Romney will never win this election? Look at their agenda:
1. Voter suppression, to block young African Americans and seniors from voting for Obama.
2. Suppressing the Women’s rights
3. Protecting the rich and taxing the poor
4. Throwing tens of millions of people under the bus by repealing Obama care
5.Eliminating the E.P.A. to allow wealthy industrialists like Koch brothers to dump nuclear waste in your backyard.
6.Downsizing the Educational system by laying of teachers and shutting down schools
7. Closing down the post offices to cut costs to aid the wealthy.
8. Refusal to repair and rebuild the much needed infrastructures
9. Romney’s greed for money, his ultimate access to the US Treasury and Fort Knox.
10. Lack of skills, diplomacy and totally ignorant on Foreign affairs.
11. His refusal to release his tax returns for the past 10 years. , and his
12. Eagerness to muzzle in and invade other countries, just like GW did.
Each and every one of the above reason would spell doomsday for Romney’s future plans to be the Commander in Chief of this country.
August 10th, 2012 at 1:13 am
As fair and loyal Americans we should offer Romney a “Quid pro quo”. Tell him that he can have all our votes if he agrees to provide 10 years of Federal Income Tax returns, one week before the election.
On the day of the election we will have Federal Agents at his door ready to arrest him for income tax fraud. The hunter gets captured by the game.
August 10th, 2012 at 1:14 am
Why did the Republicans choose Romney? They must want to lose in November. Obama has been such a disaster, I thought a dog catcher could beat him and then there was Romney.
August 10th, 2012 at 7:50 am
We all find Robme unfavorable but I don’t take anything for granted. After the Bush/Gore voting debacle I’m expecting Karl Rove and his cronies to come up with something bigger to rob President Obama of another four year term.
August 10th, 2012 at 11:25 am
Hi Michelle:
You inquired about Adam, AH and Bita. I can tell you what is up with them and why we haven’t heard from them recently.
They are stuck in the time May 18, 2014. If they can not find a way to escape they will live that date continually until this one catches up with them. Adam managed to achieve the leap to the future. But it is actually the past because the parallel plain he accidentally shifted into itself was the victim of a shift in time in relationship to our earth’s time.
The far side of that galaxy got caught up in a pull from an exploding nebula that was being pulled by dark matter into a yoder. A yoder is a time hole that broke away from a worm hole in a particular time zone. They can range from a several-century loop to a few hour loop. Anything caught in its dark energy wake is frozen in time along that loop until they die or find a way to escape.
So the swirl is the same in location as its counterpart on our earth, but the reflection of time is not mirrored. 2014 is merely a loop being experienced continually by the three time travelers. If they do not find a way to escape, they will remain there until our earth’s time catches up with May 18, 2014 at 1623 hours.
They must be able to slip through the wormhole corridor that will open up for about 37 minutes and emerge on this side. They are lucky that they ended up in a parallel galaxy that is part of a parallel universe that exists simultaneously with our Milky Way Galaxy. One in a billionth stroke of luck. Otherwise they would be stuck there in that time loop until they perished.
Adam and AH are now working together to solve the equations Adam used to program their time machine. AH thinks it is a hardware problem and not the software problem Adam thinks it is. Bita is learning to operate and navigate the time machine since all she has on her hands is time.
HOWIE