Mitt Romney: The Bully

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Posted to Politics on Thu May 10, 2012 at 06:55:14 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

While the rest of the blogosphere discusses the wide difference in stance between Mitt Romney and President Obama on the gay marriage, it appears that the gay rights and other issues were on a young Mitt Romney's mind while he attended a prestigious boarding school. According to an investigative report by the Washington Post the then high school senior was aggrieved by a younger student's hairstyle. That student, who was a known homosexual, was physically assaulted, held to the ground by Mr. Romney and friends. Mr. Romney then cut the student's hair with scissors while the young man cried and screamed for help.

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Another Moderate Republican Loses His Primary

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Posted to Politics on Tue May 08, 2012 at 09:17:38 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

After 35 years of Senate service, Richard Lugar (R-IN), whose reputation for foreign policy expertise and bipartisanship has long been well-respected, got cashiered by Indiana Republicans, who chose Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock to run for U.S. Senate as their candidate instead of Lugar.

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For President, Gary Johnson

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Posted to Politics on Sun May 06, 2012 at 10:22:38 PM EST (promoted by Acefantastik). RSS.

The Libertarian Party has nominated former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson to lead its ticket in the upcoming Presidential Race. Normally fractious Libertarians chose him overwhelmingly on the first ballot. The party usually needs multiple rounds of voting to pick somebody.

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Pinkwater's Pineapple Problem

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Posted to Etcetera on Fri May 04, 2012 at 12:32:52 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

Can someone please tell me why I'm not dumb? I got all those questions the first time through and am sure I haven't gotten better at standardized tests since the 8th grade.

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I'm still a red man deep inside

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Posted to Politics on Fri May 04, 2012 at 12:32:12 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat Senate candidate running against incumbent Scott Brown in Massachusetts, is in heap big trouble. It turns out that she claimed minority status -- from 1/32rd part Cherokee heritage -- to get a leg up in the law school hiring/tenure processes during her early years teaching at Oklahoma State College and Harvard. At no time was she listed with official tribe records, and her ten-year listing as a minority curiously vanished from subsequent AALS listings after receiving tenure.

Warren is now claiming that she listed her status to aid in networking, although apparently she personally made no attempts to engage other Native Americans in legal academics.

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Business Case Study: Whither the Best Buy?

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Posted to Business on Thu May 03, 2012 at 08:43:12 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

A valued member of the Best Buy computer repair team defamed a customer as a homosexual on face book and was subsequently terminated. This obviously brings up the tangentially related at best question: When will Best Buy go out of business and how can a company with such obnoxiously poor customer service control such a large segment of the market (link goes to source, in addition to a picture of a semi-comely lass). Here's more ranting internet people.

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What kind of keyboard do you have?

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Posted to SciTech on Thu May 03, 2012 at 10:19:34 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

I decided to get myself a mechanical keyboard. Though, I probably have used mechanical keyboards in the past many, many times I forgot how they felt, having used mostly laptop keyboards and slim-profile chiclet-style keyboards. It's really amazing the kind difference more tactile feedback can make with something like a keyboard. The sound and the feel of the keys has already improved my typing and has also improved how my hands feel - my fingers don't get as fatigued. The keyboard I bought is considered a gaming keyboard, the Razer BlackWidow. I don't do any gaming, so my whole reason for buying it was for the mechanical keys. I'm happy with it so far, but I also heard that the Das Keyboard is a very good keyboard. I couldn't find it in the store though, only online, and I preferred to test the keyboard before buying.

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Obama's Energy Policy

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Posted to Politics on Wed May 02, 2012 at 01:44:28 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

A couple weeks ago, President Obama proposed spending as much as $52 million to increase regulatory supervision of "speculators" that Democrats apparently believe have increased the price of gasoline. Now that gas prices have dropped, I eagerly await the president's public thanks for the "speculators'" altruistic losses on their trades.

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Gotta get down to it

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Posted to Legal on Mon Apr 30, 2012 at 07:55:31 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

Four good men, lost to gunfire in Oregon.

There they were, peacefully engaging in illegal and threatening activity, when homeowners hopped up on violence and self-sufficiency cut them down like dogs -- sometimes with only two verbal warnings to leave the premises, sometimes never even attempting to retreat from the single-door bedroom where the gentle crowbar-wielding robbers entered.

Four good men, lost in four separate incidents of so-called "home defense".

Thanks to a 2007 court ruling, these shootings aren't even crimes. And the future could hold more of the same, if advocates of a "Castle Doctrine" initiative manage to have it placed on the November, 2012 ballot. My God, what has become of Oregon?

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The Stalking of Dan Lee

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Posted to Media on Mon Apr 30, 2012 at 07:46:38 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

The Internet is filled with conspiracy theories, where ideas like the 9/11 Truffers and Obama's birth certificate fill gigabyte after gigabyte of the aether. But in Korea the same thing can happen with a hiphop artist.

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Founders backed Mandates.

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Posted to Politics on Mon Apr 30, 2012 at 07:45:55 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.

Those bastards.

The founding fathers, it turns out, passed several mandates of their own. In 1790, the very first Congress--which incidentally included 20 framers--passed a law that included a mandate: namely, a requirement that ship owners buy medical insurance for their seamen. This law was then signed by another framer: President George Washington. That's right, the father of our country had no difficulty imposing a health insurance mandate.

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Reconciling Modern Motherhood and Feminism

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Posted to Media on Wed Apr 25, 2012 at 05:39:52 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by Acefantastik). RSS.

The release of an English translation of French feminist Elisabeth Badinter's book The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women has unleashed a storm of angst in the feminist blogosphere.  The premise?  Attachment parenting, breast feeding, natural childbirth, the need to make sure your child has the best organic whole grain snacks - all of these requirements for being a perfect parent that upper class Western women impose upon themselves - are setting back women's social advancement by re-confining them to the home and childcare duties.  Anything to this, or maybe just more #FirstWorldProblems?

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