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Crony Capitalism With Barack Obama and Steve Westly
Remember Steve Westly is a long-time California Democratic POL who once ran for Governor.
Looks like Westly made a pretty good crony capitalism deal with President Obama. I mean ten to one is pretty good.
No?
Watch the embedded video below and scratch your head on where your taxes are going:
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President 2012 Poll Watch: Obama 48% Vs. Romney 46%
In the battle for the White House, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in a close contest nationally. According to this McClatchy-Marist Poll, 48% of U.S. registered voters including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate support President Obama compared with 46% for Romney. Less than one percent backs another candidate, and 6% are undecided. “The race was close yesterday, it’s close today, and may even be close on Election Day,” says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “You need to look no farther than the president’s approval rating to see how divided the electorate is.”Not a good sign for Team Obama as they have been spending heavily with the Bain advertising attacks against Romney.This race will go down to the wire in key battleground states, especially Virginia and Nevada. -
Gallup: U.S. Unemployment Down to 7.9% in Mid-July
According to the latest Gallup Poll.U.S. unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, was 7.9% in mid-July, down 0.1 percentage points from June and May. Gallup’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate also declined 0.1 points, to 7.7% in mid-July.
These results are based on Gallup Daily tracking surveys conducted from June 15 to July 15, including interviews with more than 30,000 U.S. adults — 68.0% of whom are active in the workforce. Gallup’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate incorporates the adjustment used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in the same month of the previous year.
On both an unadjusted and an adjusted basis, the mid-July unemployment readings, if sustained the rest of the month, would be the lowest monthly rates since Gallup began tracking unemployment daily in January 2010. Gallup’s adjusted unemployment rate incorporates the downward seasonal adjustment of 0.2 points the BLS applied in July 2011. Gallup’s unadjusted unemployment rate for July 2011 was 8.8% and the adjusted rate was 8.6% — both substantially higher than they are now.
And, underemployment has decreased to the lowest levels since 2010.
So, what does this mean?There has NOT been any dramatic improvement in the American unemployment rate for the past three months. Although the rate is a little better than last year, it is not good news for folks looking for a job or incumbent politicians
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The Morning Flap: July 17, 2012
These are my links for July 16th through July 17th:
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Colgate Dental Implant Care Website Features Digital Sharing Between Dentist and Patient – Colgate Dental Implant Care Website Features Digital Sharing Between Dentist and Patient
- Day By Day July 17, 2012 – Garden Variety Americans – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day July 17, 2012 – Garden Variety Americans
- The Incredible Bain Jobs Machine– Did Mitt Romney and Bain Capital help office-supply retailer Staples create 88,000 jobs? 43,000? 252? Actually, Staples probably destroyed 100,000 jobs while creating millions of new ones.Since 1986, Staples has opened 2,000 stores, eliminating the jobs of distributors and brokers who charged nasty markups for paper and office supplies. But it enabled hundreds of thousands of small (and not so small) businesses to stock themselves cheaply and conveniently and expand their operations.It’s the same story elsewhere. Apple employs just 47,000 people, and Google under 25,000. Like Staples, they have destroyed many old jobs, like making paper maps and pink “While You Were Out” notepads. But by lowering the cost of doing business they’ve enabled innumerable entrepreneurs to start new businesses and employ hundreds of thousands, even millions, of workers world-wide—all while capital gets redeployed more effectively.
- Romney Narrows Veep Short List – Uh oh! RT @politicalwire Reuters says Mitt Romney’s veep short list down to three: Portman, Pawlenty and Jindal…
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-07-17 – Flap’s California Blog – Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-07-17
- Wisconsin offers California lessons on balancing budget– Now that three California cities have declared bankruptcy, perhaps it’s time to consider the lessons of Wisconsin.One of the reasons Wisconsin Democrats couldn’t unseat Republican Gov. Scott Walker in the state’s recall election was that his challenger exemplified how Walker’s narrowing of collective bargaining privileges for government workers benefited the state.
- Hillary Clinton: Romney ads featuring her a ‘waste of money’– She’s been featured in two negative television ads from Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the spots would have little effect on voters who already know the story of the 2008 Democratic primaries.Speaking in Jerusalem at the tail end of a two week diplomatic trip, Clinton said in an interview with CNN Foreign Affairs Reporter Elise Labott the spots were a “waste of money.”
- Romney Video Mocking Obama’s Singing Pulled Over Copyright Issues– The Romney team’s ad showing President Obama at a fundraiser singing Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” has been removed from the campaign website and YouTube, where visitors were greeted with a message saying, “this video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by BMG_Rights_Management.”A Romney spokesperson said the campaign plans to fight to get the video back up, telling the Huffington Post: “Our use was 100% proper, under fair use, and we plan to defend ourselves.”The video was a response to a stinging ad over the weekend from the Obama campaign showing Romney singing an off-key “America the Beautiful.
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-07-17 – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-07-17
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Colorado Dentist Stephen Stein Accused of Exposing Patients to Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS By Reusing Needles – Colorado Dentist Stephen Stein Accused of Exposing Patients to Hepatitis and AIDS By Reusing Needles
- USDA Pulls Spanish Food Stamp Novelas But Obama Still Vulnerable on Welfare – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – USDA Pulls Spanish Food Stamp Novelas But Obama Still Vulnerable on Welfare
- AD-38: Scott Wilk Endorsed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association – Flap’s California Blog – AD-38: Scott Wilk Endorsed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
- CA-26: Tony Strickland Leads in Fundraising With $ 1 Million Cash on Hand – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – CA-26: Tony Strickland Leads in Fundraising With $ 1 Million Cash on Hand
- Pipelines bypassing Hormuz open – FT.com – Oil Pipelines bypassing Hormuz open
- Oil Pipelines bypassing Hormuz open – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have opened new pipelines bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, the shipping lane that Iran has repeatedly threatened to close, in a move that will reduce Tehran’s power over oil markets.
The quiet opening of the pipelines comes amid heightened diplomatic tensions over Tehran’s nuclear programme. Iran’s oil production has fallen to its lowest in more than 20 years due to the impact of US and European sanctions, prompting Tehran to repeat its threats to shut down the strait, the conduit for a third of the world’s seaborne oil trade. - CA-26 Video: Tony Strickland Opens The GOP Election Headquarters – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – CA-26 Video: Tony Strickland Opens The GOP Election Headquarters
- Take Your Vacation or Die? – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. – Take Your Vacation or Die?
- Will More California Cities File for Bankruptcy? – Flap’s California Blog – Will More California Cities File for Bankruptcy?
- Flapsblog Posts / More California City Bankruptcies? San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris ponders a question Wednesday, July 11, 2012, regarding the Tuesday city council vote authorizing a bankruptcy filing outside San Bernardino City Hall in San Bernardino – More California City Bankruptcies? San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris ponders a question Wednesday,
- The Morning Flap: July 16, 2012 – Flap’s Blog – The Morning Flap: July 16, 2012
- Speculation mounts on Romney VP pick – FT.com – Speculation mounts on Romney VP pick
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Day By Day July 17, 2012 – Garden Variety Americans
Chris, there are strategic problems with Obama being the “Divider in Chief.”All of his constituent groups must NOT be conflicted and MUST show up on election day.
This may indeed be a “tall” order.
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@Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-07-17
- Flap's Dentistry Blog: Colorado Dentist Stephen Stein Accused of Exposing Patients to Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS By … http://t.co/bn9E9ove #
- Colorado Dentist Stephen Stein Accused of Exposing Patients to Hepatitis and AIDS By Reusing Needles http://t.co/MtWW3NQz #
- USDA Pulls Spanish Food Stamp Novelas But Obama Still Vulnerable on Welfare – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's De… http://t.co/O10vZ4qI #
- AD-38: Scott Wilk Endorsed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association – Flap's California Blog http://t.co/Y3vY0xJG #
- USDA Pulls Spanish Food Stamp Novelas But Obama Still Vulnerable on Welfare http://t.co/8mVKCF7y #
- AD-38: Scott Wilk Endorsed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association http://t.co/ufy1CP43 #
- CA-26: Tony Strickland Leads in Fundraising With $ 1 Million Cash on Hand – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/7T0HXN6J #
- Pipelines bypassing Hormuz open – http://t.co/jcDV2nLa http://t.co/Bmkwnd05 #
- CA-26: Tony Strickland Leads in Fundraising With $ 1 Million Cash on Hand http://t.co/AgpevSK2 #
- Oil Pipelines bypassing Hormuz open http://t.co/KB70aLVn #
- CA-26 Video: Tony Strickland Opens The GOP Election Headquarters – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/spIh8Oi7 #
- CA-26 Video: Tony Strickland Opens The GOP Election Headquarters http://t.co/7WgEhBxu #
- Take Your Vacation or Die? – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. http://t.co/SQLdw8QG #
- Will More California Cities File for Bankruptcy? – Flap's California Blog http://t.co/RzJkACb7 #
- Flapsblog Posts / More California City Bankruptcies? San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris ponders a question Wedne… http://t.co/kjtueyzI #
- Take Your Vacation or Die? http://t.co/q0RnDHH2 #
- The Morning Flap: July 16, 2012 – Flap's Blog http://t.co/Any08FPM #
- Speculation mounts on Romney VP pick – http://t.co/jcDV2nLa http://t.co/X29rE3h3 #
- Will More California Cities File for Bankruptcy? http://t.co/VY1O7FUc #
- More California City Bankruptcies? San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris ponders a question Wednesday, http://t.co/mwjIFj7e #
- The Morning Flap: July 16, 2012 http://t.co/ZPi6ENba #
- Obama – 'If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen' http://t.co/FVI53E2K #
- Speculation mounts on Romney VP pick http://t.co/ygpznQcA #
- CA-26: Republican House candidate Kim Vann, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, and House candidates http://t.co/yo604mTY #
- CA-26: Republican House candidate Kim Vann, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, and House candidates http://t.co/GLqWk4nG #
- CA-26: Tony Strickland meets with other California GOP Congressional candidates – along with Rep. Ke http://t.co/U9PMvIKu #
- Has Mitt Romney Selected His Vice President? – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/R3gvWUHh #
- Flap's California Morning Collection: July 16, 2012 – Flap's California Blog http://t.co/MkTd1mvL #
- Flap's Dentistry Blog: ABC News Investigative Report: Death, Greed at the Dentist: American Children at Risk http://t.co/2l4fzLYj #
- Has Mitt Romney Selected His Vice President? http://t.co/FD7AsGPn #
- Flap’s California Morning Collection: July 16, 2012 http://t.co/peUbBXTC #
- ABC News Investigative Report: Death, Greed at the Dentist: American Children at Risk http://t.co/ilQi5KaJ #
- Day By Day July 16, 2012 – Signs of the Times http://t.co/kXUHKjSf #
- Welcome to California: America without Republicans http://t.co/Ehy15eJ5 #
- Sarah Palin Still Waiting for Romney Invite to Tampa http://t.co/0wbIRWUu #
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-07-16 http://t.co/priDDg1N #
- Sheldon Adelson gives $5M to Eric Cantor-backed super PAC http://t.co/C3P75uxl #
- Good Grief! RT @thehill Report: Former Rep. Weiner considering return to political life http://t.co/zklw7Zc3 #tcot #
- RT @politicalwire Romney has decided on a running mate and may announce as soon as this week… http://t.co/iSIRLarQ #tcot #
- RT @cnnhealth Vacationing is good for your health http://t.co/gqUJb5BF #
- Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
– William B. SpragueHappy Monday! #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2012-07-16 http://t.co/WUxFEA3q #
- Log In – The New York Times http://t.co/KePjKih3 #
- Medicaid’s New Tug of War – Economic View – http://t.co/JHRYpuyC http://t.co/qesbYiVy #
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