Romney advisor compares flip-flopping to an etch-a-sketch

A senior Romney advisor was asked whether taking far right positions against Santorum and Gingritch would hurt him in the general election against Obama.

Listen to the reply!

He's just another say-anything-to-get-elected candidate.

Workers get fired for wearing matching orange shirts?

A Florida manager saw orange and fired everyone wearing the color, for a total of 14 people.
A group of 14 workers decided to all wear orange shirts to work, and they got fired because of it.
One of the workers thinks it was just an excuse to fire workers.

Was it the right thing to do?
Was it just an excuse?
should the law do something about it?

Man who claims "Self Defense" will not be charged for shooting an unarmed Teenager

An unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a man who claims that he shot him for "self-defense. The Florida law allows police on the scene to decide if the self-defense claim is relevant. In this case, they believe that it is. 28-year-old George Zimmerman was on neighborhood watch when he started to follow 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. He believed that Martin looked suspicious and said that Martin attacked him after he had given up on following him and was heading to his truck. He then shot and killed Martin in self-defense. Zimmerman will not be charged.

"Crump, the Martin family attorney, said the teenager weighed about 140 pounds and was carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of ice tea he had bought at a nearby convenience store when Zimmerman began following him in his sport utility vehicle. Zimmerman, meanwhile, weighs around 200 pounds and was armed with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun, which he had a permit to legally carry.

"So the facts that have come out that I have become aware of, would tend to indicate he should not be granted immunity," Roger Weeden, an Orlando defense attorney closely following the case, said of Zimmerman."

I believe that Zimmerman should be charged. His self defense claims are weak, and I don’t see a need for him to have shot Martin.

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=157&sid=19673410&title=hundreds-march-in-nyc-for-fla-teenager-shot-dead
Honestly?  I've been thinking a about this kind of stuff recently.  People get so passionate about nothing.  I mean, really, what are they trying to achieve by this?  By my estimation, all this does is increase racial tension.  The best way to stop racism is to stop talking about it.   If the guy murdered the other guy, put him on trial.  Who cares if he did it because he doesn't like black people?

Utah Legislature HB 363

HB 363 is a bill that passed in Health Education Amendments sponsored by senator Margaret Dayton.
It defines sex education in Utah as abstinence-only and bans instruction in sexual intercourse, homosexuality, contraceptive methods and sexual activity outside of marriage. It's pretty simple but it was quite controversial up at the legislator.
Here's a list to the Utah legislator highlight list and you can read about it there, the other link is just an article about it with some of the senators views.

http://le.utah.gov/session/2012/pdfdoc/selectedhighlights.pdf

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865551672/Senate-joins-House-in-passing-abstinence-only-bill.html

Carmen

Joseph Kony victim demands justice

Jacob Acaye tells his story about how he was abducted from his small town of Koro by LRA rebels working for Joseph Kony. 40 kids were taken along with him. The boys were forced to become soldiers, while the girls were turned into sex slaves.

Acaye -- sitting a few meters from where he was abducted -- told CNN: "Whenever a brother is in a problem, whenever anybody is in a problem, it should get the attention of everyone in the world.

"It has been going on for the last 26 years. It shows that we are failing to solve it. And if there are any means that someone can help and it goes to end, then why not Americans get involved."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/12/world/africa/uganda-kony-abductee/index.html?hpt=wo_t2

here is the video- email me if it doesn't work
http://www.kony2012.com/

Equal Application of a Principle

Quote from Secretary of State Clinton:

We reject any equivalence between premeditated murders by a government’s military machine and the actions of civilians under siege driven to self-defense.

Could she be talking about Syria or Israel here?

Super tuseday

On Tuesday, Ten states held their primaries.  Because of this Republicans thought that would dominate the media.  But, on that same day, Obama held a press conference, which effectively turned most of the medias attention to him rather than it all being focused on Supper Tuesday.  The actual primaries were interesting though, Mitt Romney won six states, Ron Paul won none, Rick Santorum won three, and Newt Gingrich won one.   This just shows that the person who has the most chance of competing against Obama for presidency is Mitt Romney even though many do not agree with him. 


Here is a link to an article on this topic. 

This is the power of social media.  I am curious to know if anything is going to come of it.  


"On Tuesday, the Invisible Children  organization launched a program it called Kony 2012  to draw attention to the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, and agitate for his arrest.      

By Wednesday, #stopkony   was trending on Twitter. On Thursday, “uganda” (one of the bases of operation for the LRA) and “invisible children kony 2012” were trending on Google at no. 5 and no. 11 respectively. At last glance, its video on YouTube  has been viewed more than 55 million times.

The effectiveness of this campaign to make Kony famous – and to pressure US politicians to commit to helping stop Kony's two-and-a-half decades of violence – is because of the way that Invisible Children took full possible advantage of current social media tools."

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2012/0309/How-Kony-2012-campaign-went-viral-and-focused-rare-attention-on-Africa

Amendment to end corporate personhood?

Vermont has started a movement to amend the constitution to deny corporations the same rights as natural persons. 

Since the supreme court's citizens united ruling, corporations have even more rights that natural persons to influence politics.  An amendment may be the only way to stop corporations from becoming über-citizens.  After all, the same 14th amendment language of "person" which gives corporations free speech rights, also states that "Representatives shall be apportioned ... counting the whole number of persons in each State".  The obvious implication of this is that Delaware, which has 907,135 "natural" persons and 909,000 "artificial" persons, should have twice the representation in congress that it currently has.

Md Congressman Denies Support For Mustache Tax Credit

I'm not quite sure how to describe this in my own words, so here are a few quotes to thoroughly confuse you.

 WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- Maryland Congressman Roscoe Bartlett is denying reports that he's spearheading a drive to give men with mustaches a $250 dollar federal tax credit.

It's called the STACHE Act: the Stimulus for Critical Hair Expenses. And it's sponsored in a perhaps not so serious way by the American Mustache Institute.

 "Honestly, with people in District 6, probably 15% unemployed, I think we have other issues that are more important than facial hair'" say Del. Kathy Afazli

I have a feeling that we have some very bored congressmen. just saying.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/193677/158/Md-Congressman-Denies-Support-For-Mustache-Tax-Credit?hpt=po_bn6