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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (144574)	9/29/2012 7:13:21 PM
From: steve harris	8 Recommendations Respond to of 224759

If Romney loses, I'm going to retire, sit on my butt, hold my hand out for everything, and demand you pay for it. See how easy it is to act like 47% today? Let's see, get me an ObamaPhone, free healthcare, etc....

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (144574)	9/29/2012 7:22:14 PM
From: TopCat	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224759

"Go on TV promoting Viagra." Projecting, Kenneth?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (144574)	9/29/2012 8:58:01 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224759

philips...Gee, I hope this does not upset you...did you lose money like your idol Al? Al Gore bails from green-energy investment But climate-change prophet's company still touts profits of 'alternative' market by Colin Flaherty Saturday, September 29, 2012 wnd.com If you are thinking about green energy for your portfolio, Al Gore has a few words of advice: “Don’t do it.” “Of course he does not say that in public,” says Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. “Gore’s company still talks about how alternative energy is a good investment. How companies are adopting it, governments are subsidizing it and people are using it.” But SEC filings from Gore’s company, Generation Investment, tell a different story, says Gunderson, who hosts a nationally syndicated financial talk radio program and writes for MarketWatch and TheStreet.com. “Generation Investment says it is all about climate change, but it is just a typical investment fund with typical stocks,” Gunderson said. “It has Amazon, Colgate Palmolive, eBay, Nielsen, Qualcomm, Strayer University and a smattering of stocks from biotech and health care. Not one company that makes solar panels, or windmills or biogas or electric cars. Catheters and commercial real estate, yes. Solar panels, no.” Which is good, because the so-called clean tech sector has been a terrible investment for at least two years, Gunderson said. First Solar, America’s largest maker of solar panels, was one of the few pure climate-change stocks Generation Investment had in its portfolio. And it was a disaster. In the summer of 2010, Generation Investment bought about 440,000 shares of First Solar, worth almost $65 million Gore bought near the peak. As the price of First Solar plunged from $141 in 2010 to $30 in the first quarter of 2012, Gore’s company kept throwing good money after bad, buying more and more stock until its investment in early 2012 totaled about 1.12 million shares worth about $28 million dollars. Generation Investment sold it soon after, SEC records show. Generation Investment also has private investments and investments in other alternative energy companies that it is not required to disclose to the SEC. Among the companies listed in the “private and confidential client update” from Generation Investment are SMA Solar, the largest solar company in Germany. Its value has gone down 57 percent over the last year. In China, Generation Investment said it had an investment in the world’s largest solar panel manufacturer, SunTech. The stock has gone down 82 percent over the last year. Also in the portfolio are EcoSynthetix, Landi Renzo and Meyer Burger, which have lost 60 percent, 25 percent and 49.6 percent respectively over the last year In Gunderson’s newsletter and on his radio shows, he told his listeners and clients to “sell everything under the sun” and he was shorting First Solar at $121 in May 2011. Gunderson repeated this to the Toronto Globe in December 2011. “I don’t blame Gore for getting out of alternative energy,” Gunderson said, “even if he did it too late in the case of First Solar. “But when is he going to tell people that alternative energy is a lousy investment?” One of Generation Investment’s larger clients is the New York public employees pension fund. It has received $30 million in fees since 2009, said the New York Post. Gore also invests for the California teachers public employee union pension fund. Neither Gore, Generation Investment or the New York public employees pension fund would discuss the details of their purchases. “Everyone in alternative energy knows their goose is cooked because subsidies are going down, and so is the price of oil and natural gas if we are allowed to drill for it here,” Gunderson said. ‘”But if you want to have energy in your portfolio, there are plenty of American stocks producing traditional energy that are doing just fine.”

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (144574)	9/30/2012 11:56:37 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224759

Reasons we'll have President Romney: WORLD ON FIRE: AFGHAN SOLDIER KILLS 2 MORE AMERICAN TROOPS... String of Iraq car bomb blasts kill at least 32... Muslim protesters torch Buddhist temples in Bangladesh... Militant group al Shabab attacks church in Kenya... Bomb explodes near Islamic school in Nigeria... Grenade attack on fair in Thailand injures 30... Car bomb kills 4 in Syria...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (144574)	9/30/2012 12:11:52 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224759

Used car salesman will be perfect job for Obama. He's accustomed to selling shoddy material with empty words.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (144574)	9/30/2012 3:07:41 PM
From: locogringo	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224759

Polls: Romney leads Obama 51% to 44% in trust to handling the economy A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters trust Romney more when it comes to handling the economy. Forty-four percent (44%) trust the president more. siliconinvestor.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (144574)	9/30/2012 5:22:50 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224759

Obama Campaign Selling Soviet-Like Propaganda Poster Of Dear Leader… Below is a new poster being sold by the Obama campaign for $25. Keep in mind the “forward” slogan was used extensively by European communists in the 19th and 20th centuries. A 1924 USSR poster featuring Vladimir Lenin.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (144574)	9/30/2012 6:29:02 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224759

Romney +14 points w/Independents. His opponent has a disconnect with them and they decide US presidential elections. t.O.a.s.t. The Liberal Media Is Ignoring Romney's Strength With Independents September 28, 2012 RSS Feed Print In several battleground states, President Barack Obama is either tied within the margin of error or pulling ahead, which is getting a lot attention from the media. We get updates on every swing state there is. But here's one statistic we don't hear much about: Gallup reports that 22 percent of swing-state voters say they may still change their minds. Those one-in-five who say they might change their minds includes 10 percent who currently say they support Obama and 7 percent who support Romney. In swing states that are within the margin of error, that's huge. And we're not hearing much about that at all. Here's something else we're not hearing much about: "swing" voters. Whatever happened to the all-important independent voters Obama won by a large margin in 2008—52 percent for Obama to 44 percent for McCain—and who make up a record 38 percent of the electorate? According to Pew Research's numbers this summer, only 32 percent of voters identified themselves as Democrats, and 24 percent Republicans. Nearly 4 in 10 voters now are independents, the largest margin ever. [ Check out our editorial cartoons on President Obama.] There's not much news about horse-race numbers among independent voters, at least not in the last few months. I think if Obama were leading among independents, we'd be hearing all about them. Instead, we're hearing a lot of crickets chirping. You have to look hard to find mentions of independents at all. If you dug deep into a CNN poll taken earlier this month of both registered and likely voters—which showed an overall lead of 52 percent for Obama to 46 percent for Romney—you'd find that Romney led Obama among likely independent voters by a whopping 14 points, 54 to 40 percent. [ See a collection of political cartoons on the 2012 campaign.] Columnist Dustin Hawkins at breitbart.com pointed out this week that in swing states Ohio and Florida, nearly every poll that showed Obama leading also showed that Romney leads among independents. Hawkins noted that Obama won both states in 2008 by small margins, mostly by winning independents. In swing states like Ohio and Florida whose voters were polled by Gallup, a 20-point increase in Democratic enthusiasm made the headlines. This fact did not make the news: From June to September, the number of independents who are "extremely or very enthusiastic" about voting this year has similarly jumped 18 points, from 25 percent to 43 percent. [ Read the U.S. News Debate: Did the '47 Percent' Video Sink Romney's Campaign?] If you believe, as I do, that the central question in this election is whether to grow the government going forward or reform the government we have, then here's the most telling number of all: In Gallup's polling right after the Democratic convention, nearly two-thirds of independents said that government "is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses." That's almost exactly the opposite of what two-thirds of Democrats said that government should do more. That's a huge disconnect between the president and independent voters, and there's not a peep about it in the media. I don't think that's by accident.