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He keeps a half billion dollars in a money market account on the planet Kolob
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People will find out he took a $10,000 deduction for Brylcreem
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He’s afraid the Mormon Church will find out he short-changed them by $150 million.
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After your 17th second home, the IRS gives you the 18th for free
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He declared RomneyCare as a permanent disability
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It will expose how expensive magic underwear really is.
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He listed George W. Bush as a dependent
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He didn’t declare the pair of lederhosen he got for opening his super-secret Swiss Bank Account
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His money stashed in the Caribbean is tied up in Bermuda Shorts stock certificates
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He once tried to corner the market on crosses, mirrors, garlic, and wooden stakes.
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Bosom Buddies, Dick Cheney and Mitt Romney, Sing Praise For Each Other
on July 15th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Ah, the good life. One day you’re in the Hamptons hobnobbing with America’s aristocracy, the next you’re in Aspen breathing in high society’s rarefied air. Who says running a presidential campaign is tough?
Before heading across the Atlantic to court more ultra-rich political donors in London, Mitt Romney had a chance to drop in on his good friend Dick Cheney who was holding a little 30,000 a plate dinner for his new favorite Republican neoCon in Wyoming.
Cheney, who generally avoids retail politicking, is still a controversial figure because of his hawkish foreign policy stances and support for enhanced interrogation techniques — like waterboarding — that many consider torture. Obama banned those techniques after he took office… After Cheney introduced him, Romney praised the former vice president as “a great American leader.” Read more at Fox News
While Romney has distanced himself from the failed presidency of George W. Bush, never speaking his name and referring to him only as “the predecessor” of President Obama, Fox News reports that Romney has cozied up to many of the people in charge of the Bush Presidency;
Romney has embraced Cheney in the past. Last year, he told an Arizona town hall that Cheney’s “wisdom and judgment” would provide a model for choosing his own vice president. Many of Romney’s policy advisers were officials in the Bush White House.
Mitt Romney likes to point out how much money he gives to charity. It turns out, however, that most of the money Romney hands out goes to one place;
According to tax documents viewed by Business Insider, the vast majority of the money Mitt Romney gave away in 2009 and 2010–80% of it–went to The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon church. Read more at Business Insider
Most of Mitt Romney's charitable giving goes to his church in Salt Lake City, Utah
While Mr. Romney would like us to think that his charitable giving comes from the goodness of his heart, it’s actually a requirement for being a member of the Mormon Church. All LDS members are required to tithe 10% of their earnings to Mormon headquarters. It’s interesting to see what constitutes charity when the Mormon Church is involved.
Late last March the Mormon Church completed an ambitious project: a megamall. Built for roughly $2 billion, the City Creek Center stands directly across the street from the church’s iconic neo-Gothic temple in Salt Lake City… When it came time to cut the mall’s flouncy pink ribbon, the church’s president, Thomas S. Monson, whom Mormons believe to be a living prophet, flanked by Utah dignitaries, cheered, “One, two, three—let’s go shopping!” Read more at Business Week
Strange behavior indeed for a tax-exempt religious organization. While the Mormon Church is highly secretive about its finances, here are a few things we know;
- First among its for-profit enterprises is DMC, which reaps estimated annual revenue of $1.2 billion from six subsidiaries… a newspaper, 11 radio stations, a TV station, a publishing and distribution company, a digital media company, a hospitality business, and an insurance business with assets worth $3.3 billion.
- AgReserves, another for-profit Mormon umbrella company, together with other church-run agricultural affiliates, reportedly owns about 1 million acres in the continental U.S., on which the church has farms, hunting preserves, orchards, and ranches.
- The church also runs several for-profit real estate arms that own, develop, and manage malls, parking lots, office parks, residential buildings, and more.
- The church owns several nonprofit organizations, some of which appear to be lucrative.
- The LDS Church is likely worth $40 billion today and collects up to $8 billion in tithing each year.
- A study co-written by Cragun and recently published inFree Inquiry estimates that the Mormon Church donates only about 0.7 percent of its annual income to charity; the United Methodist Church gives about 29 percent.
To many people, this kind of operation sounds more like a corporation than a church.
In case Armageddon and the end of the world comes about, the Mormon Church requires its members to keep enough emergency food and supplies in their homes to last a year. Mormons consider survivalist preparation a “commandment.” This is a commandment that comes straight from the church president and stretches back to the beginnings of the religion and early Mormon teachings about Armageddon and the second coming of Christ.
Throughout Utah, there are stores called Emergency Essentials that appear to be outdoor stores. They are in fact Mormon survivalist stores, carrying essentials like 72 hour food kits and camping gear.
Anybody who keeps 55 gallon barrels of water and 100 pound sacks of rice in their basement while preparing for Armageddon probably keeps a few automatic weapons and plenty of boxes of ammo there as well. We can agree that Mitt Romney has a lot to protect when the world falls to hell.
It gives me a very uncomfortable feeling that a man who thinks like this might get his hands on the nuclear trigger. For our own safety, maybe we should keep him a safe distance from the White House.
Dinesh D'Souza has used right wing think tanks to trash the United States
Dinesh D’Souza was born in Bombay, India and came to America as a 17 year-old exchange student. Then he never left. D’Souza had no special technical skills or talents and, under Mitt Romney’s immigration plan, would never have gotten citizenship, but somehow he managed to get his green card. He has spent the last thirty years tearing down America through numerous books and media appearances. He is currently leading an assault against President Obama, claiming that the President is unAmerican. Can you believe it? America had the good graces to adopt this ungrateful misanthrope and he pays her back with daily punches to her nose? Is that how a normal person behaves?
Rupert Murdoch isn’t even an American, he’s Australian, he doesn’t even live here, yet he feels it’s his responsibility to tell America what to think. He pours his multi-billion dollar international fortune into making sure the American government does what he tells it to. Murdoch is, of course, owner of Fox News, Fox Studios, the Wall Street Journal, and many other media outlets. He is intent on making the Republican Party his own little tool so that the American people will bend to his will.
Stuart Varney is another transplant that America has adopted who seems to think it’s his duty to slam the country whenever he sees fit. Varney regularly bashes the President on the Fox Business Channel. “I was born and raised in Britain,” states Varney, and ”I do not buy the criticism that Fox carries a conservative bent.” Really? I suppose if you’re not from America, that opinion might seem reasonable, it doesn’t here.
It’s quite an odd thing for these ungrateful right wingers to be so openly hostile to the country that took them it. Most of us can agree that this kind of behavior is unacceptable and quite beyond the pale. These men are like strangers you take in off the street who rob you blind in the middle of the night.