Interesting Polling Out of Missouri
RUSH: You know, the polling data out of Missouri, a little surprising. Claire McCaskill, the incumbent Democrat senatorette, 55% disapproval. Seventy-seven percent of Republicans have forgiven Todd Akin, and she only has a one-point lead over Akin. Public Policy Polling. But they only oversampled Republicans by two points instead of nine points in their last poll. Mmm-hmm.
But one hopes Independents were the ones watching!
Romney Speech Could be Least-Watched Acceptance in TV History
RUSH: Folks, I can't get over it. I was moved by this convention. I hate to tell you, only three million people watched it on NBC. This may be, when all the numbers are in, the least-watched presidential acceptance speech TV history, which is a shame. It's too bad. Because it was good.
And according to Rush, Obama is "following" him there.
Obama, and indeed, any politician, has always had problems with things like this, although today with all the opposition media it's worse...
Does Obama go to New Orleans and be accused of exploiting the tragedy there for political profit, or does he not go, and be accused of not caring about the tragedy?
I'm sure Romney will be accused, by the other side, of exploiting the situation for his political profit.
Here's what Rush had to say:
Obama Follows Romney to New Orleans
RUSH: Well, this is interesting. Romney's first stop leaving Tampa today, New Orleans. Obama's first stop, Texas. Guess what? Obama changed his itinerary. Obama's now going to New Orleans. I kid you not. Romney announces he's going to New Orleans. It's been the lead item on Drudge for an hour or so. Leaving Tampa, also same item, on Drudge, Obama headed to Texas. What's Obama doing in Texas, by the way? And what's he doing all this time in Iowa for?Now, why is he going to New Orleans? They've written Louisiana off. That's why Obama and the boys haven't been there during the actual hurricane or the storm. I mentioned this yesterday. They've already written it off. Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, going Romney. There's no reason to send FEMA in there. The photo op, don't need that. It's all about electoral votes now. But now that Romney's headed down, Obama's itinerary is changing a little bit and Obama's going into New Orleans. Fascinating.
Stack of Stuff
--Romney Speech Could be Least-Watched Acceptance in TV History
--Obama Follows Romney to New Orleans
--Interesting Polling Out of Missouri
9:30 am
The President departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews
South Lawn
Open Press
9:45 am
The President departs Joint Base Andrews en route El Paso, Texas
Press Information
1:30 pm
The President arrives in El Paso, Texas
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Biggs Army Airfield
Open Press
2:15 pm
The President participates in a roundtable discussion with service-members and military families
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Fort Bliss
Closed Press
3:00 pm
The President delivers remarks to troops
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Fort Bliss
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4:10 pm
The President departs El Paso, Texas en route Joint Base Andrews
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Biggs Army Airfield
Open Press
7:45 pm
The President arrives Joint Base Andrews
Press Information
8:00 pm
The President arrives the White House
South Lawn
Open Press
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president
11:00 am
The Vice President delivers remarks at a campaign
Lordstown, Ohio, UAW Local 1714
Open Press
10:30 am
The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press
12:30 pm
The President and the Vice President meet for lunch
Private Dining Room
Closed Press
VP has no other schedule.
LOVE: My parents immigrated to this country with ten dollars in their pocket and a hope that the America they heard about really did exist. When tough times came, they didn't look to Washington. They looked within. The America I know is grounded in the determination found in patriots and pioneers, in small businesses with big ideas. It's found in the farmers who work in the beauty of our landscapes and our heroic military. It's found in the Olympic athletes and every child who looks at the seemingly impossible and says, "I can do that." That's the America I know. (applause)
RUSH: We edited the applause, but it went on and on and on. The New York Times and the LA Times, "Well, they just put these brown people up to make the party look like it's diverse, and they put brown delegates in the front row," is what Chuck Todd said "they put the brown delegates in the front row to make it look like they're diverse." They're all racist. They're all racist thugs. They all are. They're the ones who are the bigots. What in the world is there to disagree with what she just said? This woman loves her country. And for that, because she's black, she got tarred and feathered all over the Internet, her Wikipedia entry was forged. Yeah. It's outrageous. I chalk this up to they've gotta be scared to death. They have to be scared. They're worried about the Mia Loves; they're worried about Clarence Thomas; they're worried about Artur Davis; they're worried about this, these defectors.
Here's more. This is where Mia Love's speech really took off. She went after America's problem: Barack Obama.
LOVE: President Obama's version of America is a divided one, often pitting us against each other based on income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed us. We're not better off than we were four years ago -- and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or Hollywood campaign ad can change that.
CONVENTION: (cheers and applause)
RUSH: Right on! Right on!
LOVE: Mr. President, I'm here to tell you: The American people are awake, and we're not buying what you're selling in 2012.
CONVENTION: (cheers and applause)
RUSH: Let's hear it for Mia Love!
CONVENTION: (cheers and applause)
Saratoga Springs, Utah, mayor running for Congress. She's an African-American. She loves her country and thinks the biggest problem it faces is Barack Obama. She was on around six o'clock, I think, six or seven, long before the primetime stuff hit. And here's the last bite that we have. This really, really gets to the libs. She references Dr. King and Rosa Parks.
LOVE: The American dream isn't just my story. It isn't just your story. It's our story. It's a story of human struggle, standing up and striving for more. Our story has been told for over 200 years, with small steps and giant leaps. From a woman on a bus, to a man with a dream. From the bravery of the Greatest Generation, to the innovators and entrepreneurs of today. This is our story! This is our America! This is the America we know because we built it!
CONVENTION: (cheers and applause)
RUSH: Right on, right on. Now, you understand...?
CONVENTION: USA! USA! USA!
RUSH: You understand why MSNBC wouldn't want their viewers to see Mia Love? You understand why NBC wouldn't want their viewers to see Mia Love? Or CBS or ABC or the New York Times or the Washington Post?
Stack of Stuff
--Teacher Helped Kids Cheat Because They Were "Dumb as Hell"
--You Don't Own Your Music or E-Books
--NOLA Mayor Announces Curfew
--Tonight: RINOs Plus Ryan...
The two people were removed from the convention, but their names weren't given. Which is a pity, because I'd like to know who they were. Were they actually Republicans, or were they Occupy Wall Street-type folks who wanted to embarrass the RNC by pretending it was full of racists by verbally abusing this camerawoman?
Because how stupid is that - to make racist comments to a black newswoman (I assume a cameraperson would count as a newsperson - they've got a camera after all) at the RNC when you're fighting to replace a socialist President with a Republican president and you're accused all the time of being racist because the socialist President is also black!
I would be very interested to know these people's names. They are either cretins - in more ways than one - or plants. Saboteurs.
From HuffPost: Republican Attendees Threw Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman, Called Her An 'Animal'
Two attendees at the Republican National Convention were thrown out of the convention center in Tampa on Tuesday after throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman and saying, "this is how we feed the animals."CNN reported that multiple witnesses saw it happen, and police immediately removed the two people from the premises. Former MSNBC and Current host David Shuster, who is attending the convention, tweeted about the incident earlier on Tuesday:
Talking Points Memo then reached out to CNN, which confirmed that an incident had taken place in a statement it later sent to The Huffington Post.
"CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum earlier this afternoon," the statement read. "CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment." There was no immediate mention of the attack on CNN's air.
The convention condemned the incident in a statement, saying, "Two attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated."
The incident would be ugly anywhere, but it is especially troubling for a party whose nominee attracted 0 percent of the black vote in a recent NBC poll.
USA Today: Fact check: Christie's keynote address
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie largely avoided factual claims in a Republican convention keynote address that was heavy on generalities, opinion and platitudes. The pugnacious former prosecutor exaggerated a bit, though, when he bragged about his accomplishments as governor, and he repeated the common but false claim that the president's health care law interferes with the doctor-patient relationship.
•Christie said he delivered "three balanced budgets with lower taxes." Actually, he cut the state Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income residents and the popular property-tax rebate program for renters and homeowners. It's a matter of interpretation whether those are tax hikes or spending reductions. A proposed 10% income tax cut hasn't been enacted.
•He said he took on public-sector unions to reform a pension system "headed to bankruptcy" and "saved retirees their pension." That's accurate as far as it goes. But the state is not fully funding the revamped system, and the pension liabilities gap will begin to grow again.
•Regarding teachers, Christie said he ended "the guarantee of a job for life regardless of performance." That's correct. Christie worked with a Democratic Legislature to make significant changes to the tenure system — even providing a path to fire tenured teachers with negative evaluations.
On state taxes, Christie said "we have three balanced budgets with lower taxes." First of all, New Jersey, like many states, requires a balanced budget. But did he balance the budget "with lower taxes"? He did sign into law some business tax incentives, but broad-based income and sales taxes have not changed. He has proposed lowering income taxes by 10% across the board, but that measure has yet to pass.
In fact, Christie has cut state payments that his critics say amount to tax increases. He cut more than $800 million from the state's popular property-tax rebate program in his fiscal year 2011 budget. The Star-Ledger reported that Christie "eliminated rebates for nearly 103,700 renters and cut rebates for everybody else by 75%." He increased funding for the program in fiscal 2012, but has not fully restored the cuts.
Christie also cut the state Earned Income Tax Credit from 25% of the federal benefit to 20% in fiscal 2011, and later vetoed a bill to restore it. The left-leaning New Jersey Policy Perspective estimates that the $100 million cut over two years has reduced tax credits by $200 per family.
Christie has made some sweeping changes in state pensions and teacher tenure rules in a state with strong labor unions.
The governor said he overhauled the state's pension system and "saved retirees their pension." As we have reported before, Christie last year signed a law that required public employees to pay more into the pension system, suspended cost of living increases for retirees, and reduced the state's growing unfunded pension liabilities.
But four months later, the Star-Ledger wrote — in a story headlined "Christie's overhaul may not save N.J. pension system" — that the state was underfunding the pension system and, as a result, the unfunded liabilities gap would begin to widen again.
The paper said, "The 'unfunded liability' — the difference between how much the pension system has and what has been promised to current and future retirees — dropped from $53.9 billion to $35.4 billion after the law was signed, the state said in bond documents. But because the state won't be making full pension payments, the gap will swell again to $58 billion by 2019, according to the state's estimates."
Fred Beaver, a former state pension director, told the Star-Ledger the governor's changes were "admirable" but ultimately "paper reform" unless the state makes its payments.
On the other hand, the Star-Ledger called the governor's overhaul of the state's tenure laws "dramatic."
Star-Ledger, June 25, 2012: The bill would make a series of dramatic changes to a law first enacted in 1909. The most important would institute a new system of yearly evaluations for teachers and principals based partly on growth in student test scores — a move that sets New Jersey on the same path as Indiana, New York, Washington, D.C., and others….
But any teacher, regardless of seniority, could be fired after two years of negative evaluations. Disputes would be handled through arbitration instead of administrative law judges, which proponents say would drive down costs for school districts that can get enmeshed in costly battles.
Christie also repeated a false claim about the health care law interfering with doctor-patient relationships.
Christie: Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest health care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
As we just said in our first item on the convention, the Affordable Care Act doesn't create a government-run system, like that of Britain or Canada, nor does it regulate the work of doctors. Republicans often call the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which would recommend ways to slow the growth of Medicare spending, "bureaucrats" that would ration care. But the IPAB, made up of health care professionals, economists and others, wouldn't have the power to do that, according to the law.
11:40 am
The President departs Fort Collins, Colorado en route Charlottesville, Virginia
Local Event Time:
9:40 AM MDT
Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport
Open Press
2:40 pm
The President arrives Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport
Open Press
3:30 pm
The President delivers remarks at a campaign event
Charlottesville, nTelos Wireless Pavilion, Virginia
Open to pre-credentialed media
6:25 pm
The Presdident departs Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport
Open Press
7:10 pm
The President arrives Joint Base Andrews
Press Information
7:25 pm
The President arrives the White House
South Lawn
Open Press
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president
No public schedule
RUSH: Ellen Barkin, the actress, one of the many ex-wives of the Revlon chairman, Ron Perlman, openly said that she hoped the hurricane kills every pro-life, xenophobic, gay-bashing SOB at the Republican National Convention. "In the aftermath of the Family Research Council shooting, prominent voices on the Left have not tapped down their violent rhetoric against their opponents. Two Baby Boomer celebrities have taken to Twitter to hope pro-life, pro-family individuals and U.S. Congressman Todd Akin suffer a drowning or a same-sex rape, respectively.Rush does this a lot. The Dems "hate" the Republicans. Ellen Barkin "hates" the Republicans. But let's face it - Republicans hate Democrats too. If you ever read the Hannity.com message boards, there is literally hate dripping from the boards. Their hate is for "socialism"."On Sunday, Ellen Barkin expressed her hope that Tropical Storm Isaac would smash up the Republican National Convention in Tampa and drown all its delegates. She retweeted the message of one of her followers that read: 'C’mon #Isaac! Wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman, xenophobic, gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean!'" She retweeted it, and it was retweeted. She didn't say anything about it.
Samuel L. Jackson, noted actor, "tweeted it was 'unfair' that Tropical Storm Isaac had spared the GOP convention in Tampa and appeared to be heading for New Orleans. Jackson said in a profanity-filled tweet that he was 'not understanding God's plan' given the fact that the storm was not disrupting the Republican gathering. 'Unfair s---. GOP spared by Isaac! NOLA prolly f----- again!' Less than a half-hour later, Jackson apologized for the earlier tweet, writing that it had stirred up a hornet's nest. 'Apologies to God, Tampa, da GOP& Isaac(sp)!'" He apologized to the hurricane as well. And remember, now, this the party of love and tolerance, compassion, all that. Rotgut. They're better people than we are, folks. They're cool. They're hip. They're likable. They are the real party of hate. And they hate us more than they have ever hated. And their hatred is real. Their hatred for us is visceral. They despise us. I'm not exaggerating.
Now, what is Ellen Barkin calling the Republicans? Well, xenophobic is unfair. I guess that's a dig at the fact that Republicans are trying to stop ILLEGAL immigration.
Pro-life? Well, according to Dems, Republicans want to force women to have babies - but then they don't give a damn about their quality of life after that.
Republicans are homophobic. (Although I dislike that term. They aren't afraid of gays. They're homo-despisers.) If you believe that gays are being unfairly targeted by Republicans, that homosexual youths are committing suicide because of the way they're treated, etc. etc.,
Frankly, I think Independents will turn to the Democrats because they don't like the way the Republicans treat gays and women who want abortions for whatever reason.
And of course there's the charge that all Republicans are racist. Once again, you just have to go to the Hannity.com boards. Posts spewing hatred for the President for his socialist tendencies and bankrupting this country would be understandable - but more than one guy there has referred to the President as "uppity" or as a "jive" president....terms they would never use for a white President...
Stack of Stuff
--Penn State Shelves Sweet Caroline
--Hollywood Celebs Wish Death on Republicans
-- Where's the Outrage? Jindal Slams FEMA
--Fox Split Screens Obama
--GM Shuts Down Volt
--Dems Complain About Charlotte
There's probably no sinister reason - like the diplomatic core is engaged in doing things they don't want us to know about - it's just that they've got one person who updates the schedule and that person must be on vacation or something. It'll probably resume in Sept.
But it is annoying.
10:00 am
The President delivers a statement on Tropical Storm Isaac
Diplomatic Room
Pooled Press
10:30 am
The President departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews
South Lawn
Open Press
10:45 am
The President departs Joint Base Andrews
Press Information
1:05 pm
The President arrives Des Moines, Iowa
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Des Moines International Airport
Open Press
2:05 pm
The President delivers remarks at a campaign event
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Iowa State University
Open to pre-credentialed media
4:40 pm
The President departs Des Moines en route Fort Collins, Iowa
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Des Moines International Airport
Open Press
6:10 pm
The President arrives Fort Collins, Colorado
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Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport
Open Press
7:30 pm
The President delivers remarks at a campaign event
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Colorado State University
Open to pre-credentialed media
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president
No public schedule
Remember way back when Waters was telling her constituents that they wouldn't criticize Obama unless her constituents gave her permission? There's plenty to criticize him about...but they dare not do it. This is really scary.
NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, brace yourselves. This is key to understanding what will follow. The question in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, it's about five days old, just dug it up. Question: He cares about you. Obama up 22 points over Romney. He cares about you. And that is an improvement over April. April it was 52 to 20-something. Now, in the same poll, only 31% think that Obama is doing a good job or what have you. But he cares about you. That's Obama up 22.Along those lines, Mitt Romney has told The Politico what the convention theme is gonna be. The convention theme is gonna be "Obama's a nice guy, he's just incompetent." That's the theme of the Republican convention. Obama's up 22 points, and he cares about you. (interruption) What? That is the theme. It's almost word-for-word what the theme of the convention's gonna be. Obama's a nice guy, but he's incompetent. The theory is that the convention will attract people paying attention to politics for the first time all year. And the people who are already paying attention already know what a slime ball Obama is so they don't have to be told. The theory is that people tuning in for the first time don't want to hear a negative tone.
So it is apparent to me that the Republican establishment running this show does not think that we are in a defining moment in America. This is just another election cycle. The Democrat national convention theme is Romney killed the guy's wife. Our theme is, Obama's a nice guy, he's just incompetent. And Romney says, look, I'm who I am. I don't rip into people. I'm not gonna start ripping into people now. I am who I am.
Stack of Stuff
--Romney Up One in WaPo Poll That Oversamples Dems
--No, I'm Still Not Going to the Convention
-- When's the New iPhone Coming Out?
Debbie 'Blabbermouth' Schultz was taken to the woodshed by Anderson Cooper." Now, folks, can I say something about this? We've got a lot of sound bites on this, and there's no question: Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz went on CNN and tried to lie about a story in the LA Times and Mitt Romney.
Anderson Cooper would not let her get away with it.
Anderson Cooper just jumped down her throat, and made her look like the blabbermouth fool that she is. Now, stop and think about this. I'm getting e-mails all night. The conservative media press came to a stop. "Stop the presses! Look what's happening!" And it struck me how rare real journalism is, how rare it is that a mainstream media outlet actually questions the honesty and veracity of a Democrat. How rare that is that, when it happened last night on CNN, everybody stopped what they were doing and told everybody they knew about it?
To me, that alone is an illustration of just how out of whack the media is.
and
The media collaborates with the Democrats, pure and simple. With the regime. I don't know what it is, but they've been going after Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz lately. When was the last time? Who was the last sound bite we had? Somebody went after Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz. It might have been somebody on Fox. So, anyway, Cooper says to Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz, "Factually speaking, Mitt Romney didn't design or direct the writing of the Republican Party platform. In particular, the language on abortion is the same as it's been for years. You can fault Romney and Ryan, as you did, for not pushing their position, but you can't say that they designed the abortion section."
SCHULTZ: Anderson, we definitely can say it because even in the previous platform... Mitt Romney has embraced previous Republican Party platforms and embraced that language and said he'd be delighted to support a constitutional amendment banning all abortion.
COOPER: You have to acknowledge he has, for years, publicly said that he supports abortion in the case of rape, incest, and where the life of the mother is at stake.
SCHULTZ: I can certainly acknowledge that he says that out loud. And I think it's very clear that Mitt Romney talks the talk; certainly doesn't walk the walk.
RUSH: Anderson Cooper is not accepting that...
COOPER: Do you at least acknowledge that --
SCHULTZ: And people should know that.
COOPER: -- the quote you gave from the LA Times is completely incorrect?
SCHULTZ: No, I don't acknowledge that. I know that's what you're what saying, but (stammering) what I acknowledge --
COOPER: Well, I can read it to you right now 'cause --
SCHULTZ: -- is that --
COOPER: -- what you said is, "Guess what...?"
SCHULTZ: Anderson, what I'm saying is: It doesn't matter.
COOPER: I think what you say does matter. You're quoting the LA Times. And, again, you've misquoted them to back up a position.
SCHULTZ: Anderson? Anderson? The point of the e-mail -- and there's no getting around that, and I would think you would agree -- that there's no way that a presidential candidate, a party's nominee, can separate themself (sic) from that party's platform.
COOPER: He has.
SCHULTZ: There is no exception --
COOPER: I mean, he has.
SCHULTZ: -- for rape or incest --
COOPER: He has.
SCHULTZ: -- in the Human Life Amendment.
RUSH: Interesting story today from USA Today: "Obama Has Millions of Fake Twitter Followers." Wait 'til you hear this. "President Obama's Twitter account has 18.8 million followers -- but more than half of them really don't exist, according to reports. A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obama's crowd includes 'fake followers,' the New York Times reports in a story about how Twitter followers can be purchased. 'The practice has become so widespread that StatusPeople, a social media management company in London, released a Web tool last month called the Fake Follower Check that it says can ascertain how many fake followers you and your friends have,' the Times reports." So they ran it on Obama's site, and 70% of his 18.8 million Twitter followers don't exist! I'll bet you the same thing's true in all these polls that show Obama at 60% likability and all that kinda stuff.Rush didn't mention one of the final paragraphs in the article:
Republican opponent Mitt Romney has far fewer Twitter followers -- not quite 900,000 -- but it's a good bet that some of them are fake as well.Why didn't the folks from StatusPeople check on his followers too?
Stack of Stuff
--Obama Has Millions of Fake Twitter Followers
--Rasmussen: Obama Takes Lead in Missouri
--Media: Gas Prices Don't Matter Anymore
--NYC Shooter was Fast Food Addict ...
6:00 pm
The President departs from the White House en route Camp David
South Lawn
Open Press
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president
4:00 pm
The Vice President and Dr. Biden attend a campaign event
Bridgehampton, New York
6:15 pm
The Vice President and Dr. Biden attend a campaign event
Bridgehampton, New York
"Stop Snitchin'" is the name of the DVD, and it shows drug dealers talking about the terrible things that happen to people who cooperate with the police. Carmelo Anthony of the "New Yawk Knicks," with a DVD called "Stop Snitchin'". He's appearing there with Obama, and the DVD tells drug dealers what happens to 'em if they talk to the cops, if they cooperate with the police. One of the men on the DVD goes on tell how he would take care of snitches by "putting a hole in their head."Obama's appearing with a guy who is one of the sponsors of this DVD!
I didn't know this 'til I read this story.
I don't keep up with the NBA anymore. There was a time I used to, but I don't keep up with it anymore. Apparently these are the kinds of people that Obama and his campaign considers to be heroes. (summarized) "Yeah, don't snitch to the cops! Let me tell you what happens. You snitch to the cops -- you participate, you cooperate -- you end up with a hole in your head." That's a video being circulated in Baltimore. Carmelo Anthony is part of it, and he's appearing there with Obama. And Obama is saying it's very rare that he goes anywhere where he's, "like, the fifth or sixth most interesting person"?
Here's the story. Daniel Halper wrote it. "This evening in New York City, President Obama will be fundraising with 'NBA heroes,' according to his spokesman. Those 'heroes' include Michael Jordan (who is also a failed baseball player), Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, and, perhaps most interestingly, Carmelo Anthony. Anthony helped make the pro-drugs YouTube video called 'Stop Snitchin.'" This thing says Denver Nuggets star, but he's with the Knicks now.
"'Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony is featured in an underground DVD that is circulating in his hometown of Baltimore, Md,' the Denver Channel reported. The DVD is called 'Stop Snitchin'' and shows alleged drug dealers talking about what happens to people who cooperate with the police, and Anthony is standing next to one of them. He is also seen on the DVD talking about his Olympic bronze medal and saying that he threw it in a lake. The man he stands next to later goes on to tell how he would take care of snitches by 'putting a hole in their head.' However, Anthony does not appear to be taking part in that portion of the discussion." But it's on the DVD.
These are Obama's heroes. These are who he's hanging with.
Stack of Stuff
Will Hurricane Threaten EIB Southern Command? ... Percentage Chances Isaac Hits Tampa --Michelle Obama: Vote November 2nd
--Young People Angry About Economy
--VP Debate Moderator was Married to Obama Official
--Poll: Fix Deficit Before More Education Spending
--No El Rushbo at RNC
Today being Thursday, I also have my Scrabble Club tonight, and won't be home til about 9.30. so should post about that time or no later than 10. Mountain time. Meantime, Phil MIckelson appears to be playing well at Bethpage Black (I love the name of that golf course). go Phil!
Has no one complained about this? I haven't, but I owuld have thought someone would. Maybe I better!
12:45 am
The President arrives the White House
South Lawn
Open Press
12:05 pm
The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president
12:05 pm
The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press
I can only assume that the SoS and her staff are traveling, but that only one staff member has been detailed to keep the schedule up to date and they're out sick or something, with no replacement.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule
2:05 pm
The President participates in a roundtable discussion with teachers
Local Event Time:
9:05 AM PDT
Canyon Springs High School, Las Vegas, Nevada
Pool Spray
12:40 pm
The President delivers remarks at a campaign event
Local Event Time:
9:40 AM PDT
Canyon Springs High School, Las Vegas, Nevada
Open to pre-credentialed media
1:50 pm
The President departs Las Vegas, Nevada en route New York City
Local Event Time:
10:50 AM PDT
Nellis Air Force Base
Open Press
6:05 pm
The President arrives New York City
John F. Kennedy International Airport
Open Press
7:35 pm
The President delivers remarks at a campaign event
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, New York
Press Information
9:45 pm
The President attends a campaign event
Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York
Closed Press
11:35 pm
The President departs New York City
John F. Kennedy International Airport
Open Press
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president
1:15 pm
The Vice President attends a campaign event
Detroit, Michigan
3:00 pm
The Vice President delivers remarks at a campaign event
Renaissance High School
Open Press
5:00 pm
The Vice President attends a campaign event
Detroit, Michigan
So, today Rush talked about the Democrat representative soliciting oral sex on Craigslist.
I dont' care if it's a Democrat or a Republican, anyone who solicits sex instead of dating and getting a significant other to perform those functions is an idiot. I wonder if this guy is married with a family?
Note the bolded portion below, "It was only sex, it doesn't affect his ability to do his job."
Bushwa. Does a guy who solicits sex from Craiglist to be trusted with anything? I mean...Craiglslist? Meeting total strangers for sex, strangers who could attack you, kill you, take your money?
Guy's an idiot.
And which one of them urinated on the woman's car????
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Gauthier is openly gay, so at least he wasn't cheating on his wife. But in a way that makes it worse. If you're openly gay, then what are you doing trying to get sex this way? If people know your gay, then why don't you just do the dating scene like everybody else, gay or straight? Why advertise for stranger sex on Craigslist?
RUSH: Folks, there is a story out there that hasn't gotten a lot of coverage. It is in the New York Daily News, but it's not gotten much traction. Let me share with you the details here. "Democratic leaders in Minnesota are demanding a state lawmaker withdraw from his re-election bid after police claim he admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old boy at a rest stop. While Rep. Kerry Gauthier, 56, will lose support from fellow Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party members if he continues with his campaign, party leaders stopped short Monday of asking him to immediately resign."Now, this guy has admitted to give sex with a 17-year-old boy at a rest stop. (interruption) That's right. Gerry Studds in Massachusetts got promoted for this in the House of Representatives. He got a standing ovation in the process for hanging tough against calls that he should quit. You want to talk double standard? And again, there's nobody saying that this guy is doing damage to the Democrat "brand." And, quite frankly, he's not, because there aren't any lofty expectations of Democrats.
When you hear that a 56-year-old Democrat has admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old boy at a rest stop? Meh! What's unusual about that? It just doesn't register. "So?" It's not that big a deal when a Democrat does it, and the Democrats know it. "The first-term legislator wasn't charged in the alleged July 22 encounter because the legal age of consent in Minnesota is 16 and no money was exchanged, according to the St. Louis County attorney's office.
"Police say the two had oral sex behind a rest stop pavilion in Duluth after the teen responded to Gauthier's Craigslist ad looking for a 'no strings attached' sex. Police reports made public last week say Gauthier came clean about the rest stop rendezvous. The teen reportedly told officials that Gauthier was a stranger and he lied to the unmarried lawmaker when he said he was 18 years old. Troopers were alerted to the alleged incident by a woman at the rest stop who was complaining about a male urinating on her car."
Now we go to all of these ingredients in a story involving an elected Democrat, not a Democrat candidate for anything, and there aren't any stories about any damage to the Democrat brand. This guy's story did not cause Obama to end his two-month boycott of the media. We haven't heard Obama speak out against Mr. Gauthier, or Gauthier, however pronounces his name. "Trooper Scott Parker wrote in a report that he came across another man -- later identified as Gauthier -- behind a rest area building, the Duluth News Tribune reported.
"'It was at that time I noted his zipper was open and part of his shirt was hanging out. I asked him why his zipper was down and he said he didn't know,' Parker wrote. 'I told him to zip it up and leave. The male seemed nervous.'" Zip it up and leave. (interruption) It is. It's a Ted Kennedy moment: Zip it up and leave. "Gauthier took office last year representing the Duluth area in the Minnesota House of Representatives." So it's a local guy.
It's a state office; it's not a national office. The chairman of the Democrat Farmer-Labor Party "Ken Martin said in a statement Monday that Gauthier's actions are 'inexcusable.' 'No one in our party condones what he did, nor will we defend him in this matter,' Martin said..." But Democrat-Farm Labor "[P]arty leaders stopped short Monday of asking him to immediately resign." So we just mentioned this.
They're saying it's a private encounter, and it didn't affect anybody's ability to do their job, and it was only sex. You know, the usual excuses we get when Democrats are involved in this kind of thing. From the Pioneer Press newspaper: "Gauthier's district is a reliably Democratic one and the situation may complicate efforts by Democrats to regain control of the House." Might. It "might complicate" efforts. It's not guaranteed to complicate. It might not complicate, either.
Doomberg: Send Immigrants to Detroit
RUSH: We're talking about stupid things that people say, and maybe stupid people. "Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York said last week that the federal government should assign immigrants to live in cities such as Detroit and 'if they survive seven years' make them citizens. 'All the federal government’s got to do is say, "We’re gonna welcome here in this country--first come, first served--families, if they’re willing to come here under the following terms."'" Bloomberg was in Boston. It was August 14th he said this."We’re going to assign you a city -- let’s say Detroit -- you got to agree to not be arrested and not take any federal, state or city money, and you’ve got to live there for seven years, and if you survive seven years, we’ll make you and your family full citizens." Honest to God. He said it. Now, is anybody suggesting get this guy out of there? It's Cybercast News Service. Make immigrants live in Detroit. If they survive seven years, make 'em citizens. The mayor of New York City said that. He said this back on August the 14th. He was in Boston when he said it. It's a week ago that he said it. I'm not aware of anybody saying, "Oh, my God, oh, jeez, this guy's a Republican, oh, my God, he's embarrassing us, oh, jeez. Oh, we gotta get rid of Bloomberg." I don't even think anybody in Detroit said that.
How would you like to be the mayor of Detroit, Dave Bing, and you get up and the mayor of New York says, "Hey, all you illegals, we're gonna send you to Detroit. You survive seven years there, not taking any federal or state money, and you qualify for citizenship.
Stack of Stuff
--It's Great to be Back at WRKO!.
--Dems Send Biden to Wrong Convention
--Akin Asked State GOP Chairman to Step Aside for DUI
--Doomberg: Send Immigrants to Detroit
--Regime: We Want Small Crowds
--Democrat State Rep. Caught Having Sex with 17-Year-Old Boy at Rest Stop
He also mentioned that Akin had said that women's bodies prevent them from getting pregnant if they had been raped, and Rush of course pointed out this wasn't true.
But that triggered a memory... maybe Akin knows about ducks?
On the Hannity forums, someone had brought this up a few weeks ago. http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/12/22/ballistic-penises-and-corkscrew-vaginas-the-sexual-battles/
A female duck has a corkscrew vagina.If she's mounted by a male duck that she doesn't like, she's able to do things internally so that this duck's sperm gets caught in the corkscrew before it can reach a place to make her pregnant.
But, if she's attracted to the male duck, she does stuff that makes it easier for him to penetrate all the way, ensuring that she is "with duck" by him.
Rush also talked about the fact that the baby in all this is innocent. Which is true. But it ain't a baby until it's been in the womb 3 months. So prior to 3 months, preferably within a few days, actually, abort away.
I have read a few stories in the papers about kids found locked in closets and emaciated...they have siblings who are treated just fine but one kid is locked away....how can a parent do this? Well, one wonders if this victimized child is the product of a rape.
Or let's say mother carries baby to term because she believes in life, and gives it up for adoptioon..but the baby's a boy and grows up to look exactly like her rapist...and not knowing its parentage comes looking for mom wanting to know why she gave him up...what a family reunion that would be.
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Presumably when Akin said "legitimate" rape, he meant the one where you are attacked by a stranger - not thinking that date rape or acquaintance rape is as bad. But I'd say it's equally bad - someone you've trusted takes advantage of you, destroying that trust and your feeling of security.
As a woman - I can only speak for myself and not other women - but if I were raped - whether date raped or rape rape, and got pregnant, I sure as hell wouldn't carry that pregnancy to term. Nor would I let the father live if I knew who he was or could find out his identity, either. Well, I'd let him live a long life...but he wouldn't enjoy it.
From CNN Politics: Akin flub puts abortion at center of campaign debate
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ashington (CNN) -- A campaign flub by a Republican Senate candidate shifted the political focus Monday to abortion and women's rights, as certain GOP nominee Mitt Romney and his conservative running mate faced a town hall-style meeting in New Hampshire. U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Missouri, said Sunday he misspoke when he said in an earlier interview that "legitimate rape" rarely resulted in pregnancy. Akin also expressed opposition to abortion in cases of rape. The comment by Akin, who won Missouri's Republican primary to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in November, drew immediate criticism from Democrats and forced the Romney campaign to distance itself from the GOP candidate in a key race. In addition, the Akin statement forced the Romney campaign to declare a definitive stance on one of the most volatile political issues of the day. A Romney spokeswoman issued a statement Sunday night that said the former Massachusetts governor and his running mate -- Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin -- differed with Akin on the matter. "Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan disagree with Mr. Akin's statement, and a Romney-Ryan administration would not oppose abortion in instances of rape," Romney campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg wrote. The issue is particularly sensitive for Ryan, a devout Catholic and staunch anti-abortion politician who has previously expressed opposition to abortion in all cases except when the life of the mother is endangered. A Romney-Ryan campaign official, speaking on condition of not being identified, confirmed to CNN that Ryan's personal view opposes abortion in the case of rape. The campaign official said Ryan's stance differed with Romney's view, which was described in the statement Sunday and is the formal position of the GOP presidential ticket. Democrats immediately challenged the Romney-Ryan team on the issue. "They've been trying to distance themselves from it -- but Congressman Ryan has already partnered with Akin on a whole host of issues that restrict women's ability to make their own health care decisions," said a statement by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. "This kind of 'leadership' is dangerously wrong for women." Meanwhile, Republican colleagues also criticized Akin. "As a pro-life conservative, a husband, and a father of two young women, I find Representative Akin's remarks to be offensive and reprehensible," said Rep. Denny Rehberg, a Republican candidate for a Montana seat in the U.S. Senate this year. "There is no such thing as a 'legitimate rape.' I condemn Representative Akin's statements in the strongest possible terms." A spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Campaign, Brian Walsh, said Akin "did the right thing by quickly correcting the record and acknowledging that he misspoke." The abortion focus comes in a week when the Romney team wanted to sharpen its focus on economic issues in the run-up to the Republican National Convention, which begins on August 27 in Tampa, Florida. Now, Romney and Ryan will face questions about the volatile abortion issue and women's rights, giving President Barack Obama and Democrats an opportunity to further strengthen their advantage with women voters -- a demographic that already favors them, according to the polls. Akin, answering a question from KTVI about whether or not abortion should be legal in the case of rape, explained his opposition by citing unnamed bodily responses that he said prevented pregnancy. "First of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare," Akin said of rape-induced pregnancy. A clip of the interview was posted online by the liberal super PAC American Bridge. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," Akin continued. He did not provide an explanation for what constituted "legitimate rape." He added: "But let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something. You know I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child." In a statement Sunday, Akin wrote that he misspoke in the interview. He maintained his opposition to abortion for victims of rape. "In reviewing my off-the-cuff remarks, it's clear that I misspoke in this interview and it does not reflect the deep empathy I hold for the thousands of women who are raped and abused every year," he wrote. "Those who perpetrate these crimes are the lowest of the low in our society and their victims will have no stronger advocate in the Senate to help ensure they have the justice they deserve."Akin continued that he recognized that abortion, "and particularly in the case of rape, is a very emotionally charged issue."
"But I believe deeply in the protection of all life and I do not believe that harming another innocent victim is the right course of action," he said. "I also recognize that there are those who, like my opponent, support abortion and I understand I may not have their support in this election."
Statistics on pregnancies that result from rape are difficult to produce, since rape is a crime that often goes unreported.
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, along with Planned Parenthood, each estimate that 5% of rapes lead to pregnancy. A 1996 study from the Medical University of South Carolina found the same percentage, adding that 32,101 pregnancies occurred annually from rape.
Akin, a six-term U.S. congressman, touted his socially conservative values on the primary campaign trail.
He opposes abortion in all circumstances and has said he also opposes the morning after pill, which he equates to abortion.
McCaskill responded almost immediately to her opponent's comments Sunday, writing on Twitter: "As a woman & former prosecutor who handled 100s of rape cases, I'm stunned by Rep Akin's comments about victims this AM."
She later released a statement condemning her rival as "ignorant about the emotional and physical trauma brought on by rape."
"The ideas that Todd Akin has expressed about the serious crime of rape and the impact on its victims are offensive," she continued. McCaskill's website also splashed Akin's comments across the homepage, and included a link where supporters could donate money to McCaskill's campaign.
Republicans consider McCaskill, first elected in 2006, highly vulnerable in her bid for a second term. Ahead of the GOP primary, a Mason-Dixon poll showed the senator falling behind Akin and the two other main GOP primary competitors in hypothetical match-ups among registered Missouri voters.
Akin was one of the first members of Congress to join the Tea Party Caucus in 2010 and has easily won re-election in recent years. The lawmaker has raised a notable $2.2 million this cycle, as of July 18.
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Now, should Obama give a hand to a step-sister or step-brother that he doesn't know?
If he were a normal person, just getting by, I'd say no. If you don't know the people - if you didn't even know your dad - just that he was your biological father and nothing else, why should you be expected to people who are only accidentally related to you?
But...Obama wrote a book called Dreams of My Father. Despite the fact that his dad abandoned him, Obama apparently had/has feelings for him. So why not for the rest of his children?
Plus, Obama is all about sharing the wealth and making people pay "their fair share" to help out those who weren't born with silver spoons in their mouths.
Yes his half sister and half brother don't get a dime from him. That's really all they'd need to make their lives better. $100 and they'd live a life of luxury on that for a year.
Of course Obama could be doing it to keep them safe. "Don't kidnap them," he's saying. "I won't pay a dime for their return."
From the record of their lives and writings, it’s clear that Barack Obama Sr. and Barack Obama Jr. both share the anti-colonial view that blames Western colonial exploitation for the poverty and suffering of the Third World. Yet George doesn’t buy it. He observes that at the time of its independence in the early 1960s “Kenya was on an economic par with Malaysia or Singapore. Look where we are now, and where they are. They’re practically developed and industrialized, while Kenya is still a basket case.” George believes that poor countries should take responsibility for their own situation. “What’s our excuse for failure? We don’t have one. We’ve only got ourselves to blame.”Incredible though it seems, George Obama is, within the context of his own society, a conservative. He doesn’t worship at the shrine of Barack Obama Sr. and he espouses an ideology diametrically opposed to that of his father and his famous brother. George has experienced first-hand the empty rhetoric of the two Baracks, and he rejects it based on his actual experience of Third World poverty.
No wonder President Obama despises George, doesn’t want him around, doesn’t care to hear George’s views circulated in America, and won’t lift a finger to help him even when George’s son is in the hospital.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/16/how-became-george-obama-brother/#ixzz23r0R9QAj
Touré said: 'That really bothered me. You notice he said anger twice. He’s really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man. This is part of the playbook against Obama, the "otherization", he’s not like us. 'I know it’s a heavy thing, I don’t say it lightly, but this is "niggerization" - you are not one of us, you are like the scary black man who we’ve been trained to fear.'Here's my question. Who is training white folks to fear blacks?
The news media?
Ever read a newspaper, Toure? You can read all the time about 18 -year-olds attacking someone, and juveniles attacking someone, and 30 year old raping and murdering 90 year olds...but we're never told race of attacker or victim. (But on the 1 in 10th or 1 in 15th event, when the attacker is white and the victim black, then the races of each are trumpeted to the skies and "is this a hate crime?" is asked.
The media? With commercials featuring intelligent blacks, and stupid whites? (At least, the white male is always stupid, mom is tolerant of her husband's stupidity and cute kids know everything. )
TV Shows? There's a whole host of "buddy shows" out there - Psych, Scrubs, the new one about the two young cops who dislike each other...it goes on and on.
There's no "training" involved.
And this, according to the writer of the article, has "shocked' post-apartheid Africa.
What's to be shocked? That black African police/army will kill striking black African workers just as heartlessly as white police/army are supposed to have done? (Although the only one we've heard about - admittedly bad enough, was Steve Biko.
But what people have to realize is that whites in no way have a monopoly on racism, and that if you're in Africa, which is full of mostly black people (there are white Africans but they are descendants form the Boers, etc - immigrants. ) racism is rampant. If you're the wrong tribe, you're scum and they'll go after you with a machete.
The Hutu and the Tutsi in Rwanda, for example. Ever heard of the Burundi genocide? That wasn't white Burundians massacring those inferior black Burundians. Nope, that was the black Tutsi massacring 100,000 Hutu. Including some poor souls who'd sought refuse in a church and were burned alive. Rwandan genocide? That was 800,000 killed and millions displaced. And again, it wasn't whites doing the killing. It was one tribe - again the Hutu and Tusi - killing the other.
Kenya? About a thousand Kikiyu were killed a couple of years ago after unpopular elections...and they weren't shot, they were hacked to death with machetes.
White rule in Africa ended in the 1950s, except for the holdouts of South Africa and Rhodesia. Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980 now, 30 years later, where it once was the "breadbasket" of Africa, it is now one of the poorest countries there. Johannesburg, the capital of South Africa, is now the carjack/murder capital of...if not quite the world, then pretty close. It has had a black President (Nelson Mandela) since 1994.
So the tragedy of the killing of these striking miners - what's to be shocked about? (Saddened, yes. Even outraged. But shocked?)
According to Wikipedia:
In post-apartheid South Africa, unemployment has been extremely high as the country has struggled with many changes. While many blacks have risen to middle or upper classes, the overall unemployment rate of blacks worsened between 1994 and 2003. Poverty among whites, previously rare, increased. In addition, the current government has struggled to achieve the monetary and fiscal discipline to ensure both redistribution of wealth and economic growth.Since the ANC-led government took power, the United Nations Human Development Index of South Africa has fallen, while it was steadily rising until the mid-1990s. Some may be attributed to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and the failure of the government to take steps to address it in the early years.
In May 2008, riots left over sixty people dead. The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions estimates over 100,000 people were driven from their homes.
Migrants and refugees seeking asylum were the targets, but a third of the victims were South African citizens.
In a 2006 survey, the South African Migration Project concluded that South Africans are more opposed to immigration than anywhere else in the world. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2008 over 200,000 refugees applied for asylum in South Africa, almost four times as many as the year before. These people were mainly from Zimbabwe, though many also come from Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. Competition over jobs, business opportunities, public services and housing has led to tension between refugees and host communities.
While xenophobia is still a problem, recent violence has not been as widespread as initially feared
From Wikipedia:
Douglas Urbanski (born February 17, 1957) is an American theater impresario, occasional film actor and film producer.Urbanski is a business partner with actor Gary Oldman and he also runs a talent management firm, DMG.
Urbanski's film producing credits include The Contender, which received two Academy Award Nominations and starred Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Christian Slater, and Sam Elliott, and Nil By Mouth, written and directed by Gary Oldman for which Urbanski received the 1997 British Academy Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year, and for which Oldman received the Best Original Screenplay British Academy Award. The film received a total of 4 nominations for the 1997 BAFTA's. For 1997's Cannes Film Festival, Nil By Mouth was selected to inaugurate the Main Competition and received the 1997 Cannes Film Festival Award for actress Kathy Burke. In 1998 the film received six nominations for the British Independent Film Awards, and won three awards.
During the 1980s, Urbanski and/or his companies were active theatrical producers on Broadway and in London.
In 2010, he is featured in David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's motion picture The Social Network, playing the role of Larry Summers, for which he shared the Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award from the Hollywood Film Festival along with Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake. Also in 2010/11 he Executive Produced the film version of John leCarre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which stars Gary Oldman as master spy George Smiley, and also features Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, and Kathy Burke and is directed by Tomas Alfredson. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy received Eleven 2012 British Academy Award Nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director; the film has also received three Oscar Nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards.
Urbanski is married to television producer Diane Wilk (The Nanny).
And what's the need? Well, there are millions of guys in this country who STILL have unprotected sex, get a woman pregnant, are told by her that he's the father, and then have to pay child support for the rest of their lives to some kid who isn't theirs.
Now, on the one hand you could think - serve the guy right for having unprotected sex in the 21st century, when he should be smart enough to know he could get a woman pregnant, or could get a sexually transmitted venereal disease, or could get AIDS.
I mean - jeez. Everyone by this time must know how they can get AIDS, right? They must know by this time that unprotected sex can lead to babies, surely!
Yet they go right ahead on having unprotected sex.
But now...they won't have to pay child support for babies they don't think are theirs, because of this entrepreneurial businessman:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/08/15/whos-your-daddy-truck-offers-answers-with-dna-tests/
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It is a sign of the times — getting a quick DNA test is now as easy as walking up to a truck.The “Who’s Your Daddy” recreational vehicle is selling DNA tests, mostly to fathers who suspect their children may not actually be theirs.
“They flag us down, they pull us over, they talk to us,” owner and operator Jared Rosenthal said Wednesday. “Sometimes, because of the nature of the services, they want to be a little more discreet about it, but they do come or they’ll call the number.”
In this business, Rosenthal said he deals with all kinds of crazy situations all day, every day.
“We have people that want to get the specimen from their spouse without them knowing about it,” Rosenthal said. “We deal with a lot of drama, it’s constant drama.”
There have been instances where men have walked in with a baby to give DNA samples only to find out later they’re not related.
When asked by CBS 2’s Dave Carlin why he was taking the DNA test from the traveling truck, one unidentified man explained, “I’m paying child support anyways and I would do it anyways. You just want to know.”
“There’s a lot of difficult situations and tough moments and heartbreak,” Rosenthal said, adding that there are happy endings as well. “There’s a lot of good news that we’re able to deliver and there’s a lot of happy moments.”
For example, the test helped a 44-year-old Harlem man find his long lost 20-year-old daughter.
Rosenthal maintained that his credentials are legitimate and that his business is legal. In fact, he said he believes he is providing an essential service.
“It’s not something people talk about, but there is a big need for it,” he said.
Inwood resident Kesha Veras agreed.
“The mother is like ‘You’re the father.’ He says ‘No the heck I’m not.’ You don’t know. Right there, that’s how you find out,” Veras said.
As you might imagine, wherever Rosenthal’s truck goes it attracts attention. Reactions range from people saying ‘How could he?’ to others who saying ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’
“Yeah, more power to him,” said Manny Castillo of Elizabeth, N.J.
“It’s a good idea!” added Marlin Martinez of Inwood.
“He’s gonna always have customers, unfortunately,” Dominique Dale said.
Rosenthal said he takes it all in stride.
“Half the job is to be a psychologist to folks,” he said.
The DNA tests, which cost between $299 and $575, require a simple cheek swab from each participant and lab analysis. Results are available in a couple of days.
