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Or you can read the entire artical....and you don't have to worry about making this stuff up. Romney is spot on. The rich don't need help, the poor don't need more help. The middle class is getting killed. Besides he's just preparing to defend his success. Certainly he's a bad person because he was successful. Romney isn't successful; his daddy was, and his granddaddy even moreso. Mitt has been groomed from birth by his family and religion to be the President; it's part of his LDS Patriarchal promise. He's inherited and been handed to. If someone hands you a few million $$, is that personal success? Archie Manning handed his 2 sons a football. Does that diminish their abilities?

That car is pretty damn nice too. A twin engine hybrid. WoW!!

That's a pretty racist response, don't you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgfA2b9YSag&feature=related You can't fix stupid.

Or you can read the entire artical....and you don't have to worry about making this stuff up. Romney is spot on. The rich don't need help, the poor don't need more help. The middle class is getting killed. Besides he's just preparing to defend his success. Certainly he's a bad person because he was successful. I did read the entire article, and he said he is not concerned about the very poor. I think a large portion of Americans believe, rightly or wrongly, that they are closer to very poor as opposed to very rich, and will be even more motivated to vote Democrat. Romney is doing nothing but banking on the historical fact that the poor have a very low turnout on election day. Fortunately for the poor living in Ameritopia, there are saftey net in place as Romney noted. Then by all means let's pick them all up in Limos, take them to get an I.D. and then Chauffer them to the polls and take them out and buy them a steak dinner after they vote for Obama. Cause Obama's got a "secret stash" he will take care of them with.

That is the best commercial EVER!!

Did you know that people have actually been shot by unloaded guns? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHsX7STHqNg&feature=related

In addition to the rumors that Facebook will file an IPO this week, I found these related stories pretty interesting. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_3rd_biggest_advertiser_is_a_bing_affilia.php http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/facebook-is-a-ponzi-scheme

This is a guest post from a former CTO who now does tech consulting for other start-up ventures and was briefed on Facebook’s advertising strategy. The story was edited and checked for accuracy by Betabeat. If you logged onto Facebook yesterday, perhaps you caught a link at the top of the News Feed that read: “About Ads: Ever wonder how Facebook makes money? Get the details.” The answers provided some context on the news that starting in January, Facebook will start integrating a type of ad, called “sponsored stories,” that display your friends faces next to content they have “liked” in larger-sized ads your News Feed mix. “Facebook makes its money from showing you ads,” the company told consumers yesterday and with the ramp up to its spring 2012 IPO, the social network is getting serious about that endeavor. In what seemed like an unrelated move, in September, Facebook announced a brand new type of profile called Timeline, where your whole personal history is laid out by month-by-month, all the way back to your birth. At the time, Facebook described it to consumers as a chance to: “Share and highlight your most memorable posts, photos and life events on your timeline. This is where you can tell your story from beginning, to middle, to now.” By the end of this year all 800 million plus Facebook profiles will have been converted to this new interface. What most users don’t know is that the new features being introduced are all centered around increasing the value of Facebook to advertisers, to the point where Facebook representatives have been selling the idea that Timeline is actually about re-conceptualizing users around their consumer preferences, or as they put it, “brands are now an essential part of people’s identities.” The name itself is cleverly designed to conceal the fact that your profile no longer arranges information chronologically. Yes, things are laid out by year and by month. But, when it comes to what’s displayed to your social circle at any given time, other metrics, including direct payments to Facebook itself, will now influence the ranking and placement of stories. This payola will be a crucial part of the graph rank, the new metric for placement that the social network uses to determine what appears on your profile. “Graph Rank” is a complex and non-published algorithm, but we know direct payments to Facebook and app/user popularity are important parts of the ranking. The newest thing is no longer on top. There is a rough month-by-month sort, but within the month it’s graph rank, not chronological order, that determines placement. For advertisers and social app developers, capturing user tastes (which used to be good enough) is now secondary to knowing what users are doing right now. Your reading habits, music tastes, guilty TV pleasures, holiday gift purchases and so forth are part of stream of information from which Facebook wrings profits and a new advertising channel in and of themselves. Disguising ads as your friends’ updates is being offered up as an antidote to the dismal click-through rates for traditional web advertising. Sponsored stories in your feed and sidebar ads based on your friends’ likes will become ubiquitous. Indeed in marketing materials, Facebook says these new premium ads are 90 percent accurate, compared to the industry average of 35 percent. “When people hear about you [the brand] from friends, they listen.” Facebook derives its revenue from advertising–an average of $100 million a month since last January. At this point, many understand that the business model revolves around selling the mountains of personal information people post to Facebook. In the ramp up to its IPO, the company is anxious to show better revenue growth. As the post from Facebook yesterday morning explained, sponsored stories are different from ads in that a user’s name or profile might appear alongside the ad, ”If you’ve liked that business’s page, the story about you liking the page (including your name or profile photo) may be paired with the ad your friends see.” While sponsored stories don’t include additional messaging from the sponsor, businesses pay Facebook to feature posts and activity that mention their brands. In both cases, these are only visible “to friends you’ve already shared this information with.” How long users will tolerate this is unclear. There’s already a class-action suit pending in California against Facebook for integrating user’s pictures without their permission in advertising based on “Likes.” Many Spotify listeners and Washington Post readers are no doubt regretting listening to that one good song from that otherwise unpardonable band, or clicking on that salaciously titled article, which then appeared on the screens of everyone they know along with their smiling profile picture. We have reached out to Facebook for comment and will update when we hear back. http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/23/exclusive-leaked-details-of-how-facebook-plans-to-sell-your-timeline-to-advertisers/

Objecting to the murder of American Citizens without due process equates to hating America? That's a pretty convoluted statement.

Or this? 1. Wake up in a happy mooo-d. 2. Don't cry over spilled milk. 3. When chewing your cud, remember: There's no fat, no calories, no cholesterol, and no taste! 4. The grass is green on the other side of the fence. 5. Turn the udder cheek and mooo-ve on. 6. Seize every opportunity and milk it for all its worth! 7. It's better to be seen and not herd. 8. Honor thy fodder and thy mother and all your udder relatives. 9. Never take any bull from anybody. 10. Always let them know who's bossy. 11. Stepping on cowpies brings good luck. 12. Black and white is always an appropriate fashion statement. 13. Don't forget to cow-nt your blessings every day.

You mean like 2 peanuts were walking down the street and one of them was assaulted?

Why stop and start there? To try and equate something Bush did as being equivalent to Obama's drone strike on Awlaki? Reminds me of someone with Tourettes Syndrome. Right in the middle of a discussion about Obama, thet can't help but spit out "Bush was worse".

Still got BDS, I see.

Why stop and start there?

What I see is you using any and all excuses to get a cheap dig at the President. It's pathetic. What's pathetic is people who defend and shield those who toss the U.S. Constitution in the trash in order to defend the indefensible. In fact, I'd say those type of actions are beyond pathetic. Thy border on collusion.

Well, it's good that you see the parity.

maybe the tax code should just get the hell out of 'favoring' anything and just tax the income that citizens generate in any imaginative way they can and let the market take care of it Why do you hate the elderly? my side hurt from you making me laugh - you'll hear from lawyer now Eat Me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DzcOCyHDqc

Why should SS be taxed at a lower rate than any other investment income? Isn't that just giving a tax break to many wealthy seniors?

I am special - can I get a lower tax rate than my neighbor? There's an app. for that.

This is the final straw. I'm boycotting Chik-Fil-A.

maybe the tax code should just get the hell out of 'favoring' anything and just tax the income that citizens generate in any imaginative way they can and let the market take care of it Why do you hate the elderly?

I would think just the profits are true income. You invest $100 and, when you sell, you get $150, then you have $50 of income - tax it just like you made it digging ditches. So would you apply the same tax rate to retirement income? After all, it's investment income, too. why don't you just assume that when I've said tax 'all types' income the 'same' about fifty different times in 4 different threads, that I mean it in this philosophical discussion. Because I don't read every post of every thread. then you can tell me either: I'm cruel and heartless to "insert special group here" people. or; OK, you are cruel heartless. that I don't understand just how complicated ((the government purposely and needlessly designed)) the tax code and I just don't understand why "insert special interest group" NEEDS to be treated unequally for the sake of the mankind. Why do I have to make a choice? Can't I accuse you of all those things? What, do you think you are special or something?

I had one that said "Eat Shit". Glad they didn't come after me for it.