Barack Obama, our next President

[brown eyes]

TheIndependentMajority wrote:

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Beats being so full of rancid chit that it makes yer eyes brown.
VIVA la TEA Party!!!
CAP, CURB, B-U-D-G-E-T, Balance and live with in the your own damn means-because the world (Especially hard working class, tax paying citizens!!!!) doesn't owe you a DAMN thing.
Welcome to OUR geneRATIONAL realities!!!
GOD Bless America, our families, the troops and TERM LIMITS (dictatorship-commieTic PREVENTION) on the office of POTUS.

TEA Party sign We Came Unarmed This Time. Peaceful bunch wouldn't you say.
August 7. 2012.
Northeast Pennsylvania Spirit of 1776, a branch of the Tea Party, They sent out an e-mail blast with Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Patrick Henry and others, taking turns assaulting President Barack Obama, reports Think Progress. According to these self-proclaimed American Patriots, it's just for kicks and giggles. The Tea Party loves humor except not about them and their humor is violent or it's not funny. Hypocrites.

[mr owl II]

RealDave wrote:

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We are bringing troops home from war & you bitch about it claiming Obama is firing troops. And you have the nerve to call someone else a dumbass.
Pathetic.

you are still a dumA$$

[mr owl II]

dem wrote:

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Morning, imbecile.
I trust the election results are why you have been hiding like a pussscccee.

He's on the way out homey....
we know he's a goner...

stop schlurping on ding dongs and learn to read a calendar....

[mr owl II]

Pres Obama, voter demographics, and idiots....

{"Russian Newspaper: Obama Was Re-Elected by "Illiterate Society"}

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/201...

[mr owl II]

Talk a bout a war on women and their va J Js....

"They got her in the end: Mexico's fearless woman mayor who survived two drug gang assassination attempts is beaten to death and dumped by the roadside"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-22385...

[mr owl II]

Pres OBama, cleaning up a mess in the event of an election loss, and drones...

"Obama Rushed To Complete Rule Book On Assassination In Case Romney Won."

http://floppingaces.net/2012/11/25/obama-rush...

[moshx]

Lily Boca Raton Fl wrote:

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What a load

check for yourself.

[sonicfilter]

UC Study Uncovers Tobacco Industry Efforts to Undermine Secondhand Smoke Link to Cardiovascular Disease

The documents show how tobacco companies funded epidemiological and biological research that was designed to support claims that there was little or no harm from secondhand smoke. The Circulation article identifies a pattern within the studies of exposure misclassification for nonsmokers that biased results against finding an effect from secondhand smoke. Study results were then used to call into question evidence linking secondhand smoke to the increased risks of cardiovascular disease.

Such studies, the authors also say, were often published in scientific journals that had industry representatives on their editorial boards. In one case cited by Tong and Glantz, the manuscript for a manuscript by RJ Reynolds' scientists was reviewed for Inhalation Toxicology by an employee of RJ Reynolds before its publication in 1998.

"The process was presented to the outside world as having peer review," noted Glantz. "The true level of the tobacco industry's involvement in such studies was rarely disclosed in an adequate manner."

Unfavorable research results also were suppressed by the tobacco industry, according to Tong and Glantz. Their report cites a 1995 industry study that found nonsmokers exposed to more than seven hours of secondhand smoke suffered statistically significant changes in blood lipids, inflammatory markers, pulmonary function tests and urinary mutagenicity, all of which can be biomarkers for cardiovascular disease. Those findings, say Tong and Glantz, appear to have been briefly revealed at a conference and only partially published elsewhere.

The pair note in their report that when tobacco-funded studies in the early 1990s demonstrated that secondhand smoke increased atherosclerosis, the industry criticized the findings and withdrew funding. Tong and Glantz also point to several industry studies that attempted to provide alternative explanations for the direct cardiovascular effects of secondhand smoke by attributing findings to an unproven "stress" response in individuals from the odor of smoke rather than its inherent toxicity.

Tong and Glantz suggest one of the key reasons why tobacco companies have hindered efforts to ban smoking in public places is to maintain corporate viability in the marketplace. They note that smoke-free workplace rules can reduce cigarette consumption among smokers by approximately three cigarettes per day, or about 30 percent.

"What the documents we reviewed show is an industry strategy that, in their own words, will continue to question the evidence about secondhand smoke as a way 'to keep controversy alive,'" said Tong. "Tobacco companies want to debate this forever because it helps challenge no-smoking policies. And since such policies diminish cigarette consumption, it obviously strikes at the heart of corporate revenue."

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2007/10/7345/uc-stud...

So some would have us believe that a government study is not a viable source, while an industry funded study is.

The thing is, every study that says that second hand smoke is not bad for you has been funded by big tobacco. Though it seems some that say the opposite were also funded by big tobacco. Imagine that.

[the_rac_on_teur]

Oracles on taxes...

"Warren Buffett: Hike tax on $500K earners"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/842...

[the_rac_on_teur]

the no-one under $250K a year will see a tax hike legend...

"ObamaCare's 7 Tax Hikes On Under $250,000-A-Year Earners"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/201...

[the_rac_on_teur]

Rich flourish thanks to Obama...

"Two-thirds of the wealthiest people in the U.S. added to their fortunes, boosting their average net worth by $400 million to a record $4.2 billion..."

http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

[nanoanomaly]

mr owl II wrote:

Talk a bout a war on women and their va J Js....
"They got her in the end: Mexico's fearless woman mayor who survived two drug gang assassination attempts is beaten to death and dumped by the roadside"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-22385...

Yep. These are the people that Obama is handing the country over to. Betcha can't wait until we have a Mexican president.

[sonicfilter]

A must read....

Revenge of the Reality-Based Community

My life on the Republican right—and how I saw it all go wrong.

By Bruce Bartlett

"I know that it’s unattractive and bad form to say “I told you so” when one’s advice was ignored yet ultimately proved correct. But in the wake of the Republican election debacle, it’s essential that conservatives undertake a clear-eyed assessment of who on their side was right and who was wrong. Those who were wrong should be purged and ignored; those who were right, especially those who inflicted maximum discomfort on movement conservatives in being right, ought to get credit for it and become regular reading for them once again.

I’m not going to beat around the bush and pretend I don’t have a vested interest here. Frankly, I think I’m at ground zero in the saga of Republicans closing their eyes to any facts or evidence that conflict with their dogma. Rather than listen to me, they threw me under a bus. To this day, I don’t think they understand that my motives were to help them avoid the permanent decline that now seems inevitable."

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articl...

"At least a few conservatives now recognize that Republicans suffer for epistemic closure. They were genuinely shocked at Romney’s loss because they ignored every poll not produced by a right-wing pollster such as Rasmussen or approved by right-wing pundits such as the perpetually wrong Dick Morris. Living in the Fox News cocoon, most Republicans had no clue that they were losing or that their ideas were both stupid and politically unpopular."

[Chicagoan by Birth]

Anonymous of Indy wrote:

<quoted text>Marion County, Indiana's most populated county, supported the Republican candidates from 1968 to 2000, before backing the Democrats in the 2004 and 2008 elections.
the state's(Indiana) Democrats tend to be somewhat more conservative than their counterparts in the rest of the country, especially on social issues.
Politics of Indiana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Indi...

That's true. It's still the bluest county in the state, except Lake County? Who did Marion County support in 2012? Bet a dollar to a doughnut it was Barack Hussein Obama?

[the_rac_on_teur]

sonicfilter wrote:

UC Study Uncovers Tobacco Industry Efforts to Undermine Secondhand Smoke Link to Cardiovascular Disease
The documents show how tobacco companies funded epidemiological and biological research that was designed to support claims that there was little or no harm from secondhand smoke. The Circulation article identifies a pattern within the studies of exposure misclassification for nonsmokers that biased results against finding an effect from secondhand smoke. Study results were then used to call into question evidence linking secondhand smoke to the increased risks of cardiovascular disease.
Such studies, the authors also say, were often published in scientific journals that had industry representatives on their editorial boards. In one case cited by Tong and Glantz, the manuscript for a manuscript by RJ Reynolds' scientists was reviewed for Inhalation Toxicology by an employee of RJ Reynolds before its publication in 1998.
"The process was presented to the outside world as having peer review," noted Glantz. "The true level of the tobacco industry's involvement in such studies was rarely disclosed in an adequate manner."
Unfavorable research results also were suppressed by the tobacco industry, according to Tong and Glantz. Their report cites a 1995 industry study that found nonsmokers exposed to more than seven hours of secondhand smoke suffered statistically significant changes in blood lipids, inflammatory markers, pulmonary function tests and urinary mutagenicity, all of which can be biomarkers for cardiovascular disease. Those findings, say Tong and Glantz, appear to have been briefly revealed at a conference and only partially published elsewhere.
The pair note in their report that when tobacco-funded studies in the early 1990s demonstrated that secondhand smoke increased atherosclerosis, the industry criticized the findings and withdrew funding. Tong and Glantz also point to several industry studies that attempted to provide alternative explanations for the direct cardiovascular effects of secondhand smoke by attributing findings to an unproven "stress" response in individuals from the odor of smoke rather than its inherent toxicity.
Tong and Glantz suggest one of the key reasons why tobacco companies have hindered efforts to ban smoking in public places is to maintain corporate viability in the marketplace. They note that smoke-free workplace rules can reduce cigarette consumption among smokers by approximately three cigarettes per day, or about 30 percent.
"What the documents we reviewed show is an industry strategy that, in their own words, will continue to question the evidence about secondhand smoke as a way 'to keep controversy alive,'" said Tong. "Tobacco companies want to debate this forever because it helps challenge no-smoking policies. And since such policies diminish cigarette consumption, it obviously strikes at the heart of corporate revenue."
http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2007/10/7345/uc-stud...
So some would have us believe that a government study is not a viable source, while an industry funded study is.
The thing is, every study that says that second hand smoke is not bad for you has been funded by big tobacco. Though it seems some that say the opposite were also funded by big tobacco. Imagine that.

"Marijuana Legalization Wins Solid Majority Support In HuffPost Poll"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/mari...

Since 1964 the Surgeon General has been against smoking...

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/initiatives/tob...

[sonicfilter]

the_rac_on_teur wrote:

Rich flourish thanks to Obama...
"Two-thirds of the wealthiest people in the U.S. added to their fortunes, boosting their average net worth by $400 million to a record $4.2 billion..."
http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

Then no need for them to complain about having to pay more taxes.

[the_rac_on_teur]

We have a winner!

Lucky 10K get to stay in Afghanistan...

http://www.france24.com/en/20121126-10000-us-...

[the_rac_on_teur]

Say no to Marinol...Legalize enhaled marijuana...

"Smoking 'rots' brain, says King's College study"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20463363

[the_rac_on_teur]

Congratulations pot smokers...

"Beginning with the first report in 1964, smoking has been the single most important issue for all the Surgeons General of the past five decades. The reports of the Surgeon General on tobacco have alerted the nation to the health risk of smoking and have transformed the issue from one of individual and consumer choice to one of epidemiology, public health, and risk for smokers and non-smokers alike."

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/initiatives/tob...

[the_rac_on_teur]

sonicfilter wrote:

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Then no need for them to complain about having to pay more taxes.

What will the idiot you voted for do with all that extra cash?