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To: puborectalis who wrote (671918)	9/6/2012 11:14:10 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586426

You never heard of a test for mitochondria, yet you asked, "How is your mitochondria?"

To: puborectalis who wrote (671918)	9/6/2012 11:21:37 AM
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Quotable Charlotte: Part I Hand-cut and slathered in zesty freedom barbeque sauce for good eatin': "Today’s Republican Party believes in two sets of rules: one for millionaires and billionaires, and another for the middle class. And this year, they’ve nominated the strongest proponent---and clearest beneficiary---of this rigged game: Mitt Romney. Never in modern American history has a presidential candidate tried so hard to hide himself from the people he hopes to serve." --- Harry Reid - "If Mitt was Santa Claus, he'd fire the reindeer and outsource the elves." --- Fmr. OH Gov. Ted Strickland - "What's missing from the Romney-Ryan plan for Medicare is Medicare." --- HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius - "Women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money. … Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars." --- Lilly Ledbetter - "Tonight I want to talk to you about a scary subject for many, many Republicans. I want to talk about facts." --- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn - "Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back." --- MD Gov. Martin O'Malley - "There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time. Believe me, if it existed, I would have found it. Each crisis was so deep and so dangerous; any one of them would have defined another presidency. We faced a once-in-a-generation moment in American history. Fortunately for all of us, we have a once-in-a-generation president." --- Rahm Emanuel - "My fellow Democrats, my fellow Texans, my fellow Americans: I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century---President Barack Obama!" --- San Antonia Mayor Julian Castro - "I’ve worked on a lot of fun movies, but my favorite job was having a boss who gave the order to take out bin Laden---and who’s cool with all of us getting gay-married. Thank you, invisible man in the chair, for that, and for giving my friends access to affordable health insurance and doubling funding for the Pell grant." --- Kal Penn - "Last week, Mitt Romney had a chance to show his support for the brave men and women he is seeking to command. But he chose to criticize President Obama instead of even uttering the word "Afghanistan." Barack Obama will never ignore our troops." --- Tammy Duckworth - "Republicans mocked our desire to heal the planet, but we will heal it for Republicans too, and we will create jobs for Republicans too." --- Rep. Jared Polis (CO) - "My message is this: it is time for Democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe! Quit waiting for pundits or polls or Super PACs to tell us who the next President or senator or congressman will be! We are Americans! We shape our own future!" --- Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick - "If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire...if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life on our shores...if women could be dragged to jail for seeking the vote...if a generation could defeat a depression, and define greatness for all time...if a young preacher could lift us to the mountaintop with his righteous dream...and if proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love...then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream. Because in the end, more than anything else, that is the story of this country: the story of unwavering hope grounded in unyielding struggle." --- Michelle Obama - "I'm Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama's big brother, father of four and head coach of Oregon State University's men's basketball team. Any seven-footers out there, gimme a call!" --- Craig Robinson

To: puborectalis who wrote (671918)	9/6/2012 11:48:40 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586426

news.yahoo.com Did hackers really steal Mitt Romney's tax returns? By The Week's Editorial Staff \| The Week – 6 hrs ago In an alleged caper right out of Mission: Impossible, thieves claim to have stolen Mitt's well-guarded tax secrets — and demand $1 million to not release them It's like the plot from a movie: Thieves break into a locked office and copy secret documents closely guarded by a presidential candidate, then threaten to release them to the public a month before the election if they don't get a $1 million ransom. That scenario may sound outlandish, but the Secret Service is taking the purported theft of Mitt Romney's tax returns seriously enough to open an investigation. Romney has released his 2010 tax returns and estimates for 2011, but has famously resisted pressure to release any earlier tax documents. Here, a brief guide to the case of the (possibly) missing tax returns: How did thieves purportedly steal the tax files? In an anonymous posting to the hacker-frequented website Pastebin, first flagged by The Nashville City Paper, the self-proclaimed thieves say they broke into the Franklin, Tenn., office of PricewaterhouseCoopers on Aug. 25 after a "gentleman working on the 3rd floor of the building" let them in. The "team" then moved down to the second floor, set up shop in an empty office, and when night fell, broke into the PwC offices and copied "all available 1040 tax forms for Romney." The documents were then encrypted, copied onto flash drives, and mailed to the PwC office and the local Republican and Democratic headquarters. SEE MORE: Mitt Romney's 'good enough' convention speech: 6 talking points What are their demands? A cool $1 million, paid in Bitcoins, "an untraceable online currency popular in the criminal underworld," says Chris Taylor at Mashable. Flash drives with the encrypted files will soon be sent to "all major news media outlets," the thieves say, and if Romney fails to pay the ransom to a listed Bitcoin account by Sept. 28, they'll release the key to unlock the files. If the GOP presidential aspirant pays up, the keys will be "purged," leaving the files "a secret forever." But noting that Romney's tax returns "before 2010 will be of great interest to many," the hackers also offer the unencrypted files to anyone who pays the same $1 millions before Romney does. "Whoever is the winner does not matter to us," the note concludes. Is this theft plausible? "The posts and scenario are bizarre enough to warrant deep skepticism," says John Herrman at BuzzFeed, but PwC and the Secret Service are taking them seriously enough to open a formal investigation. Oh, come on, "this has got to be total nonsense," says Julia La Roche at Business Insider. Not only is the story of how the returns were purloined "implausible," but "an anonymous post on Pastebin asking for Bitcoins? That's basically a parody of hackers." Well, at least the part about sending the thumb drives to the GOP and Democratic headquarters is true, says Josh Adams in The Tennessean. But neither office took the threat seriously until the Secret Service called. "A million dollars seemed kind of low," says Williamson Co. GOP chairwoman Jean Barwick. "If you're going to go for a million, why not go for $100 million." SEE MORE: GOP convention: Is the party's platform an albatross for Mitt Romney? What happens next? The Romney campaign is referring all questions to PwC, which says it has uncovered no evidence that there was any unauthorized access to any data in the office. But "whether or not the hackers are blowing smoke, attempted blackmail of a presidential candidate is a pretty serious offense," says Mashable's Taylor. And the Secret Service should be able to handle this case fairly easily. "Given that the tax return theft was described in such precise detail, it should be the work of a moment for agents to find out if it actually happened." If it did, it will take a little longer to track down the thieves. But regardless, clearly there is more to this story than is public knowledge. And if it is indeed true, and Romney doesn't pay, we'll know in a few weeks.