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Flap’s Links and Comments for May 17th on 19:49
These are my links for May 17th from 19:49 to 20:09:
- Arnold’s True Love Child: California’s Deficit Problem | Mother Jones – Arnold's True Love Child: California's Deficit Problem
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 17th on 19:42 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for May 17th on 19:42 #tcot #catcot
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Flap’s Links and Comments for May 17th on 19:42
These are my links for May 17th from 19:42 to 19:47:
- Is This Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Love Child? – News of Arnold Schwarzenegger having fathered a child with a member of his household staff more than a decade ago shouldn't come as a surprise. The alleged existence of an out-of-wedlock son, including his name and his mother's name, was reported by the London Daily Mail in 2003. That's him playing high school football.
UPDATE: I just heard from Wendy Leigh, the Schwarzenegger biographer and Daily Mail reporter who broke the love-child story in 2003, and she believes that today's revelations might be about a second love-child. "I'm hearing that this is a different child," she says. "Which means there are two." Leigh stands by her 2003 account Schwarzenegger being the father of Tanner Tousignant, but if what she's hearing today pans out, then Schwarzenegger's statement today wasn't about Tanner. So while he's still a Schwarzenegger love-child, he's not the latest Schwarzenegger love-child.
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How did Arnold cover it up so long?
- Arnold’s True Love Child: California’s Deficit Problem – And what about Arnold? He insisted that this stuff was so far in the dim past that he could barely remember it. But it wasn't. Today we learn that he had cheated on his wife and had a child out of wedlock just a few years before. His megawatt-smile denials were pure pap, and if knowledge of his affair had been public it's almost a dead certainty that the recall would have failed and Gray Davis would have remained governor. The car tax would have stayed in place, no bonds would have been issued to make up for it, and California's deficit problems would have been less than half as bad as they turned out to be under Schwarzenegger.
That's what comes of running a politically motivated snap election with weird rules in six weeks: you don't really know what you're getting. In the end, the Times was right about Schwarzenegger, and his folksy boys-will-be-boys denials were lies. We've paid a pretty high price for that.
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Nice revisionist history from Kevin Drum.
California structural budget deficits were set up many years before Arnold came upon the scene and were at issue when Gray Davis, Arnold's predecessor was in office.
California voters were fed up with Democrat Governor Gray Davis who imposed higher taxes, including the car tax, sweetheart public employee union contract deals (California Correctional Peace Officers Association) and was responsible for the poor handling of the California electricity crisis, where utility bills skyrocketed – among other issues, including the refusal to appeal Prop. 187 on illegal immigration.
But, Arnold did nothing to improve California's dire financial situation and was inept as he was ineffective.
- Is This Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Love Child? – News of Arnold Schwarzenegger having fathered a child with a member of his household staff more than a decade ago shouldn't come as a surprise. The alleged existence of an out-of-wedlock son, including his name and his mother's name, was reported by the London Daily Mail in 2003. That's him playing high school football.
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Day By Day May 15, 2011 – Tourist Guide
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Flap’s Links and Comments for May 17th on 15:55
These are my links for May 17th from 15:55 to 15:58:
- Nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers are gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi’s district – Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama’s administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Northern California district.
That’s in addition to the 27 new waivers for health care or drug companies and the 31 new union waivers Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services approved.
Pelosi’s district secured almost 20 percent of the latest issuance of waivers nationwide, and the companies that won them didn’t have much in common with companies throughout the rest of the country that have received Obamacare waivers.
Other common waiver recipients were labor union chapters, large corporations, financial firms and local governments. But Pelosi’s district’s waivers are the first major examples of luxurious, gourmet restaurants and hotels getting a year-long pass from Obamacare.
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Good ol' Democrats gaming the system with corrupt practices – shocker.
- University Insiders: Illegal Immigrants Get Affirmative Action – This week, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a bill to require the state's public universities to give undocumented aliens — generally illegal — in-state tuition privileges.
The bill, known as the Dream Act, is already the law in ten other states, including California, New York, Texas and Illinois.
But critics argue that the bill will give illegal aliens better treatment than Americans and legal immigrants — thanks to existing diversity policies at universities.
University of Maryland (College Park) computer science Prof. James Purtilo told FoxNews.com that, during his time as an associate dean, he frequently saw admission officers favor students because of their “undocumented” status.
"They favor students with special circumstances. 'Undocumented alien' would be one of these special circumstances… They help fill out the diversity picture for the admissions office."
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In state tuition and admissions preferences paid for by American citizens and legal permanent residents.
Unfair?
You bet.
- Nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers are gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi’s district – Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama’s administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Northern California district.
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President 2012: Mitch Daniels State PAC Raised More Money Than Other Potential Presidential Candidates
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels speaks at the Conservative Political Action conference (CPAC) dinner in Washington February 11, 2011
Does anyone still think Mitch Daniels is NOT running for President?While Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels coyly dodges questions about his presidential intentions, he quietly raised more money for his state political action committee than any other potential 2012 Republican candidate.
According to a new report from the National Institute on Money in State Politics, Daniels’ Aiming Higher state-level PAC raised $2,182,953 in 2010. The next closest total during this time period comes from Mitt Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC, with $1,623,044.
Only two other candidates have raised money via state-level PACs, according to the report: Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s Freedom First PAC, with $337,570 and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s PAC, with a reported $2,250, plus an undetermined amount in Pennsylvania. The four combined to take in over $4.1 million during 2010.
So, when Mitch was asked by the AP about fundraising he replied.
Daniels said the fact that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, another possible Republican presidential contender, raised more than $10 million in a single day Monday doesn’t add to the pressure on him.
“I guarantee you that if we did it, I think we’d have the best letterhead and plenty of money,” Daniels said. “I just don’t think these things get settled by money. … I think it’s going to be a lot more about the quality of ideas.”
And, the fact that Daniels is being helped by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in tapping the Bush family of Presidential donors, also does not hurt.
In 2010, Daniels collected money through only one PAC, in his home state of Indiana. Romney, who collected almost $600,000 less than Daniels, registered PACs in Alabama, Michigan and the key primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. iWatch News recently reported on Mitch Daniels’ tenure at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. His state PAC received at least $80,000 from top Lilly executives in the 2004 and 2008 election cycles.
Under federal election laws, donors can give a maximum of $5,000 a year to a federal PAC. Those rules don’t apply to state-level PACs, and some states allow donors to give massive amounts of money to a candidate of their choice. The development of state level PACs is often seen as a sign of a serious presidential contender. Donors to state level PACs can contribute from all over the country, leading some campaign finance experts to worry that state level PACs create a back door to avoid federal campaign limits.
Daniels is running and believe me the donors are being called.
Wait for the leaks….1….2……3……
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Flap’s Links and Comments for May 17th on 06:21
These are my links for May 17th from 06:21 to 13:10:
- Perry Quietly Feels Out Presidential Bid – RT @pwire: Sensing a vacuum in the GOP field, Texas Gov. Rick Perry quietly feels out a presidential campaign…
- President 2012: Mitch Daniels Close to a Decision | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Mitch Daniels Close to a Decision #tcot #catcot
- Dilbert May 8, 2011 – Doing Better | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Dilbert May 8, 2011 – Doing Better #tcot #catcot
- President 2012 Video: Fred Malek Says Sarah Palin Will NOT Run for President | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 Video: Fred Malek Says Sarah Palin Will NOT Run for President #tcot #catcot
- President 2012: Bill Bennett Puts a Stake in the Heart of Newt Gingrich | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Bill Bennett Puts a Stake in the Heart of Newt Gingrich #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links and Comments for May 16th through May 17th | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for May 16th through May 17th #tcot #catcot
- California “Card Check” Legislation for Farm Wokers Passes the Assembly – Goes to Governor Jerry Brown | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – California “Card Check” Legislation for Farm Wokers Passes the Assembly – Goes to Governor Jerry Brown #tcot #catcot
- Newt Gingrich owed six figures to Tiffany’s – Jake Sherman – POLITICO.com – President 2012: Newt Gingrich owed six figures to Tiffany's
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: New Dental Caries Causing Species of Bacteria Identified – New Dental Caries Causing Species of Bacteria Identified #Dentistry
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Florida Physicians Refusing to Treat Obese Patients – Florida Physicians Refusing to Treat Obese Patients #Dentistry
- Updated: President 2012: Should Paul Ryan Run for President? Tommy Thompson to Run for Wisconsin Senate – Ryan Won’t | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Updated: President 2012: Should Paul Ryan Run for President? Tommy Thompson to Run for Wisconsin Senate – Ryan Won’t
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Pasadena Half Marathon – May 15, 2011 – Race Report – Pasadena Half Marathon – May 15, 2011 – Race Report #Dentistry
- Day By Day May 14, 2011 – All Wet | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day May 14, 2011 – All Wet | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- Arnold Schwarzenegger and His Love Child Not a New Story | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Arnold Schwarzenegger and His Love Child Not a New Story | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-05-17 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-05-17 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- President 2012: Should Paul Ryan Run for President? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: Should Paul Ryan Run for President? #tcot #catcot
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President 2012: Mitch Daniels Close to a Decision
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels greets first lady Cheri Daniels before she speaks at the state Republican Party fundraiser in Indianapolis, Thursday, May 12, 2011
This is what the Indiana governor tells the AP.Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday that it won’t be long before he makes a decision on whether he’ll run for president in 2012.
Daniels said he doesn’t have a timetable for announcing the decision once it’s made, and that he’s really only focused his attention on the issue since the legislative session ended in late April.
“It’s only been a couple of weeks,” Daniels said. “I’ll decide pretty quickly.”
Political observers are watching Daniels’ every move for signs of a possible decision. Some recently speculated on Twitter that he would run, which Daniels seemed to find surprising Tuesday.
“I don’t Twitter so I wonder who made the decision,” Daniels said. “It didn’t start with me, obviously.”
Daniels also laughed at speculation that he would announce his plans at the Indianapolis 500 or sometime after the May 29 race.
“I don’t have a fixed date,” Daniels said before speaking at a meeting of Indiana state agency officials to review state government performance.
“I’m not going to take much longer with it,” he added.
What about organization and fundraising for a Presidential GOP Primary campaign?
I have it on good authority that Daniel’s campaign has been meeting with the Bush Presidential donors with the help of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. So, when Daniels says he will have plenty of money for a campaign, he knows how much and from where it is coming.
Why do you think Mitt Romney put on such a fundraising display yesterday?
I predict that Daniels will announce shortly before or shortly after Memorial Day and the Indianapolis 500 Race.
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Dilbert May 8, 2011 – Doing Better
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President 2012: Bill Bennett Puts a Stake in the Heart of Newt Gingrich
The audio is here and listen to it all as Bill Bennett dissects Newt Gingrich while he is still alive.
And, Jennifer Rubin takes Bennett’s knife and twists it.
It is a stunningly effective interview, revealing Gingrich to be both unprincipled and dishonest. In as pleasant a tone possible, Bennett undoes the former House speaker, eventually telling him he didn’t advance the cause of conservatism on “Meet the Press.”
Bennett was understandably not willing to write Gingrich’s epitaph. But he came close. And really, Gingrich did himself in, as he always has.
Newt, it is over….
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President 2012 Video: Fred Malek Says Sarah Palin Will NOT Run for President
Pretty much the conventional wisdom.
“I haven’t talked to her in many months.
I consider her a friend and a good person, and I think she’s a very constructive force, but I don’t think she’s going to run.
I think she’s got a wonderful life, and there’s no reason for her to run.”
Fred Malek, a veteran GOP fund raiser and friend of Sarah pretty much closes the door on her for 2012.