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the battle of who cares...

 

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But precisely because the decision saved the president from disaster on health care, it only reinforced the importance of the economic argument Obama and Romney have been having for months. And here is where Romney’s Bain problem kicks in.

As Democrats, mostly from Washington and New York, debated the efficacy of attacks on Romney’s role in Bain, an entirely different conversation was being driven in the swing states, courtesy of ads broadcast by the Obama campaign and especially by Priorities USA Action, the pro-Obama super PAC. The ads portray highly sympathetic workers who lost their jobs and companies that collapsed even as Bain’s principals made substantial profits.

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll last week provided surprisingly dramatic evidence of how much these commercials are wounding Romney.

In the country as a whole, 23 percent said they viewed Romney more positively because of his experience “managing a firm that specializes in buying, restructuring and selling companies,” while 28 percent said this made them view Romney more negatively. But in this year’s 12 battleground states, many of which have gotten a heavy run of the anti-Bain ads, only 18 percent viewed Romney’s business experience positively; 33 percent viewed it negatively. Obama led Romney by three points nationally but by eight in the battlegrounds.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-dionne-jr-mitt-romneys-bain-problem/2012/07/01/gJQA3oFqGW_print.html

 

the golden plates...

Smith eventually obtained testimonies from eleven men, known as the Book of Mormon witnesses, who said they had seen the [golden] plates.[4] After the translation was complete, Smith said he returned the plates to their angelic guardian. Therefore, if the plates existed, they cannot now be examined. Latter Day Saints believe the account of the golden plates as a matter of faith, while critics often assert that either Smith manufactured the plates himself[5]or that the Book of Mormon witnesses based their testimony on visions rather than physical experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Plates

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I personally believes in the dinner plates... with visions of Swiss cheese, because of the holes in it...

a bet each way at the romneymittus monkey bar games...

 

 

At a minimum, all adult members of the clan are expected to take part in a mini-triathlon of running, cycling and swimming. But after nearly losing to a daughter-in-law who had given birth just two months before, the 65-year-old Mr Romney expanded the games in an effort to compensate for his advancing age.
The family now compete to hammer the most nails into a board in two minutes, saw the most logs and hang on to a pole for the longest time before losing their grip.
''We added some things I excel at so I don't come in last every year,'' Mr Romney said.
The former Massachusetts governor's ultra-competitive streak is hardly unusual among contenders for the White House. President Barack Obama is known to become prickly during games of basketball and is reportedly not above stacking his team with the best players to ensure victory.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/papa-calls-the-shots-at-camp-romney-20120702-21dbj.html#ixzz1zW60NIL5

 

 

 

Meanwhile at the religious art of betting each way:

 

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church [Mormons]), continuing revelation is the principle that God or his divine agents still continue to communicate to mankind. ... Church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. used the example of the Lord's revelations to Moses in Deuteronomy to explain the importance and necessity of continuous revelation to guide "those who seek diligently to know [God's] precepts":

God said, "Thou shalt not kill"[2] at another time He said, "Thou shalt utterly destroy."[3] This is the principle on which the government of heaven is conducted-by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed. Whatever God commands is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire . . . 
—Joseph Smith, [1805- 1844] Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 256–7.

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Meanwhile: A schism in the schism

By the spring of 1844, a rift developed between Smith and a half dozen of his closest associates. Most notably William Law, Smith's trusted counsellor, and Robert Foster, a general of the Nauvoo Legion, disagreed with Smith about how to manage Nauvoo's economy. Both also said that Smith had proposed marriage to their wives. Believing the dissidents were plotting against his life, Smith excommunicated them on April 18, 1844. The dissidents formed a competing church and the following month, at Carthage, the county seat, they procured grand jury indictments against Smith for polygamy and other crimes.

On June 7, 1844, the dissidents published the first (and only) issue of the Nauvoo Expositor, calling for reform within the church. The paper decried polygamy and Smith's new "doctrines of many Gods," and it alluded to Smith's kingship and theocratic aspirations, promising to present evidence of its allegations in succeeding issues. Fearing the newspaper might bring the countryside down on the Mormons, the Nauvoo city council [controlled by the Mormons] declared the Expositer a public nuisance and ordered the Nauvoo Legion to destroy the press. In the words of historian Richard Bushman, Smith "failed to see that suppression of the paper was far more likely to arouse a mob than the libels. It was a fatal mistake." 


Destruction of the newspaper provoked a strident call to arms by Thomas C. Sharp, editor of the Warsaw Signal. Fearing an uprising, Smith mobilized the Nauvoo Legion on June 18 and declared martial law. Carthage responded by mobilizing its small detachment of the state militia, and Illinois Governor Thomas Ford appeared, threatening to raise a larger militia unless Smith and the Nauvoo city council surrendered themselves. Smith initially fled across the Mississippi River, but shortly returned and surrendered to Ford. On June 23, Smith and his brother Hyrum were taken to Carthage to stand trial for inciting a riot. Once the Smiths were in custody, the charges were increased to treason against Illinois. 

On June 27, 1844, an armed mob with blackened faces stormed Carthage Jail where Smith and Hyrum were being held.  Hyrum, who was trying to hold the door, was killed instantly with a shot to the face. Smith fired a pepper-box pistol that had been smuggled into the prison, then sprang for the window. He was shot multiple times before falling out the window, crying "Oh Lord my God!" He died shortly after hitting the ground.  Smith was buried in Nauvoo.  Five men were later tried for his murder, but all were acquitted. 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Joseph_Smith


One can read between the lines here that the LSD Church (sorry LDS) could equate the murder of Smith as a glorious martyrdom, nearly equivalent to that of christ hisgodself...  "Oh lord my god why have you forsaken me?..." Anyone who believes in this crap should have their heads examined and is not fit to rule over the future of the world...