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?Your time is limited, so

chucktrotter — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 03:04:15 +0000

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“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Steve Jobs

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Oxy Mora — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:06:28 +0000

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There you go. Thanks, Aunt

Oxy Mora — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:05:04 +0000

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There you go. Thanks, Aunt Sam.

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Aunt Sam — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 03:21:34 +0000

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Right, I wasn't so sure that

Oxy Mora — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:44:27 +0000

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Right, I wasn't so sure that the Paul folks were on board with anything about this ticket.

And Walmart, I just can't go into the place. But I go into Lowes and H.D. a lot and the turnover is very high and the staff generally looks depressed and uninterested. It used to irritate me and I would get frustrated but now I try to be nice, knowing of the lack of training and poor wages they get.

I went to Target today and the cashier was a woman with Cerebral Palsy. She had a difficult time just asking me if I wanted a Target card. I was very moved that a company would hire a person like her and it raised my estimation of Target about a thousand per cent.

I'm trying to find some news, any news, which doesn't include the Republican Convention. I've resorted to watching Current T.V. and have really enjoyed some of Spitzer's interviews, including one with Judge Pozner, a Reagan appointee and de-regulation architect who now admits that de-regulation of the financial sector was a huge mistake.

Hey, I just have to share

artappraiser — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:25:14 +0000

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Hey, I just have to share this with someone, the NYTimes site has this naughty headline up right now, plus it also means I should probably scratch that part about Ron Paul fanboys being on board:

At Convention, 2 Disruptions: Tropical Storm and Ron Paul

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

As a tropical storm diverted attention from the delayed Republican convention, Mitt Romney’s campaign was monitoring a potential challenge from restive delegates when it does begin on Tuesday afternoon.

P.S. "Walmart moms" sounds like a demographic description keeper to me.

Is it just me that is noticing (on my travels outside the NYC borderline) that "Walmart/HomeDepot/Staples/supermarket-cashier moms" seem much more miserable of late? It's strange, now that I think on that more, any super-friendly helpful mega store staff that I've lucked into running across the last six months or so have been young men, usually young minority men, real eager beavers, begging you to record your pleasure with their service on the store website. Everyone else on staff runs, hides, is cranky about doing something like a return, or rolls their eyes at you interrupting them. I've had these kind of jobs and I know that's a sure sign of overwork, and poor treatment of workers by management, and, it's strange that despite that, some young guys seem to buying into the "just work harder than everyone else you'll get ahead thing"...

Thanks, Artsy. I just heard

Oxy Mora — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:56:49 +0000

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Thanks, Artsy. I just heard that the welfare ads are cutting ice with women as well as men. So, we are most likely days away from Willie Horton ads. At any rate, I suppose if---Walmart Moms?--are in the ad equation, a strong women's rights approach might be more effective than I thought. But, again, it's about the effectiveness of the message.

Re the two personalities, the debates should be fascinating. Obama has said he thinks Romney's string of lies will catch up with him during the debates. We'll see. The medium is the message?

Thanks, Aunt Sam. Along with

Oxy Mora — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:48:35 +0000

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Thanks, Aunt Sam. Along with that thought, Jeb Bush apparently said stop blaming his brother and move on. It's an easy one for Obama, because it's the Bush policies, as re-incarnated in Romney, that are the issue, not Bush himself.

This No more niceness:

artappraiser — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:55:09 +0000

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No more niceness: Obama, Romney try to rain on each other's parade
By Alex Mooney, CNN White House Producer, August 27

When President Barack Obama's campaign announced plans for a full-court press while Republicans hold their convention in Tampa, Florida, this week, some veteran political watchers marked the end of an era [....]

On Tuesday, the day Ann Romney and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are scheduled to address the convention in prime time, Obama will kick off a two-day, three-state tour of swing states that include stops at college towns in Iowa, Colorado, and Virginia. The Obama campaign strategy: contrast the expectedly older demographic that historically is represented among Republican convention attendees with images of the president rallying thousands of enthusiastic young people.

The Obama campaign also planned to dispatch Vice President Joe Biden to Tampa itself on Monday but scrapped the trip on Friday because it said it was concerned that a vice presidential visit would stress law enforcement resources already stretched thin by Tropical Storm Isaac. On Saturday, the campaign canceled Biden's Tuesday events in Orlando and St. Augustine.

The Romney campaign says it has similar plans to "bracket" the Democratic convention next week in Charlotte, North Carolina, though the exact campaign schedules of Ryan and Romney have yet to be released [....]

hints to me that what people like Articleman are saying about this election is probably true:

that both teams have decided that "get out the base" is the way to win. And they're not going to try too hard to get those who are not naturally pre-disposed.

Suggests to me "Reagan Dem" Joe-the-plumber working class white guys (and elderly) are therefore mostly being considered a lost cause. Though "send in Joe Biden " will probably be the case when turning a few of those votes could help win a state. Also that this will be the situation with Romney and single & young women, too--he will only tepidly try to get some of those votes in certain places. And the Obama team will continue to try to rally them to get out and vote with continual emphasis on those issues.

Cavaet: I'm just reading tea leaves from one article here. And I still think Citizen's United money is a real wild card and could upset the best laid plans of ~~mice~~ Romney team and ~~men~~ Obama team.

P.S. Have also been thinking how the Paul Ryan VP pick sorta assured that the fervent GenX libertarian fanboys of Ron Paul would come along on the Romney train, and they will help bring their "fathers" with them. Again, strategists: probably thinking: lost cause. And also how it's kinda ironic how two men alike in many ways in personality and temperment are going to try to make this look like a choice between night and day.

How about Obama hits 'em hard

Aunt Sam — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:13:12 +0000

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How about Obama hits 'em hard with, gasp, a message only about his plans for social security, medicare, et al. Don't mention Romeny by name, but how about Obama v. what 'they' want, plan to do, etc. Otherwise it's viewed by most as just another pissing match, all about 'Oh ma, he's being mean to me' and/or nothing new here, just a bunch of jibber jabber.