Cuomo - ration gas in New York

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Wednesday November 07, 2012 · 9:40 AM PST

2012/11/07 · 09:40

Recently Governor Andrew Cuomo was complaining about the panic buying of gasoline in the areas hurt by Sandy. Right now, the only way drivers in Long Island can get gas is to find a station that has it, wait in line for hours, and hope they don't run out before you get to the front of the line. This pattern is set in place, and the only hope to break it is significant government action. We propose several steps to help accomplish this.

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Monday August 06, 2012 · 9:55 AM PDT

2012/08/06 · 09:55

Reid says his anonymous source tipped him off that Romney is hiding his taxes for a very good reason. The mighty Right Wing Spin Room Bluster Machine says that Reid is lying, and Romney doesn't have to release his taxes to prove this. I've got a way for Romney to prove himself without going through the embarrassing prospect of letting voting citizens know how much money he made.

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Tuesday July 17, 2012 · 6:11 AM PDT

2012/07/17 · 06:11

The only information presented in Romney's Bluster Offensive last week was that he left Bain in February of 1999 and that was the end of the story. If the Obama team wants to claim anything else, they're just being mean and unpresidential. Being the curious sort, I wanted to go into the news media and prove Romney right. Since I work in a law library, I have access to Lexis and WestLaw, so I went into the news sources and came up with this:

"Mitt Romney, the Republican businessman who failed to unseat U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., in 1994, is quitting Bain Capital, the Boston-based investment firm he owns, to get back into politics... Romney is giving up 100-percent control of Bain Capital to 26 managing directors...
Providence Journal, R.I., Business Briefs Column August 26, 2001"

This was printed some 2 and a half years after Romney "quit" Bain, but notice the present tense here. Maybe that press release was sitting on their desk for 30 months before they got around to printing it. I don't think so. This appears to be what they mean by "Retroactive Retirement," which has to be the dumbest concept to ever emerge from the spin room.

The full article ends with a list of the great job-creating companies started by Bain - the Sports Authority, Staples and Domino's Pizza. These are job creators if you are counting minimum wage employment with no benefits.

In response to many requests, here is a link that contains the full posting.

http://xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/...

Republican Fairy Tale Theater - Part 1, Arizona Immigration

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Friday February 03, 2012 · 1:32 PM PST

2012/02/03 · 13:32

The problems facing Arizona are simple - the state is the victim of hordes of Mexicans who come in and steal jobs from real citizens. The way to solve the problem is to tighten our efforts to identify and deport the unwanted visitors. That is the Republican version. The problem is that this is utter nonsense.

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Tuesday July 13, 2010 · 11:20 AM PDT

2010/07/13 · 11:20

Republicans and TeaBaggers seem to have trouble remembering any history that was in effect before January, 2009, so I am covering a few points to help them out.

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Thursday April 15, 2010 · 12:05 PM PDT

2010/04/15 · 12:05

MTA subways and trains have recently been blaming curtailed service on various fatalities, fire events and police activities at other stations. The problem is that these"fatalities" and fires and so on are not covered in the news. Somebody is either lying, incompetent or covering up. Possibly all three.

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 1:04 PM PDT

2010/03/25 · 13:04

Mark Twain once wrote a short piece called The War Prayer about what people really are asking for when they pray for their troops' victory. I adapted the words to cover today's righteous mobs. It didn't take much.

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Monday March 15, 2010 · 6:52 AM PDT

2010/03/15 · 06:52

Somebody needs to set the record straight on Christianity. All that peace, love and tolerance stuff just isn't cutting it in the age of Rush and Glenn.

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Monday March 08, 2010 · 10:38 AM PST

2010/03/08 · 10:38

We as a people are at war against a dedicated and ruthless enemy. It is best to know your enemy.

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Friday February 26, 2010 · 10:53 AM PST

2010/02/26 · 10:53

Republicans are going out in force this week to deliver the talking point handed down by the Ministry of Truth. "Reconciliation is the same thing as the nuclear option." Only when Democrats do it.

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Thursday February 11, 2010 · 7:44 AM PST

2010/02/11 · 07:44

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. In looking at a bar chart comparing the USA with other major countries, I saw a picture that sent an arrow into the heart of the problem.

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Tuesday February 09, 2010 · 7:36 AM PST

2010/02/09 · 07:36

The other day on Fox News, Sarah Palin mentioned that Obama could help his chances for re-election by declaring war on Iran. There's just one problem with that statement.

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