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Friday, April 20, 2012

Re: Let Them Eat Cake: Romney's cookie joke prompts 'Cookie Gate' attack

Oh yes Tommy and sister democrat whores

That really co pares to Obama's massive unemployment and recession

You turds are about to get flushed. From the Senate for sure

On Thursday, April 19, 2012, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let Them Eat Cake: I bet Mitt would like to use the Etch-A-Sketch on
> this one! -T
>
> Romney's cookie joke prompts 'Cookie Gate' attack
> By Alicia M. Cohn - 04/19/12 08:01 AM ET
>
>
> Mitt Romney clearly did not mean to "dis" a beloved local bakery near
> Pittsburgh this week, but Democrats are leaping on his comments as
> they work to paint the likely GOP nominee as out of touch with voters.
>
> Romney, meeting with local residents Tuesday at an outdoor roundtable
> event in Bethel Park, joked about some cookies and launched yet
> another attack based on what critics call his aloofness to the daily
> lives of Americans.
>
>
> "I'm not sure about these cookies," Romney said, and continued to
> tease one of the women at the table: "Did you make those cookies? You
> didn't, did you? No. No. They came from the local 7-Eleven bakery or
> wherever."
>
> The cookies came from Bethel Bakery, a popular local spot, according to reports.
>
> "We wanted him to be welcomed with the best in the 'burgh, and he had
> no idea," bakery owner John Walsh told the local ABC affiliate WTAE.
> "This guy has no idea how beloved this institution is that provided
> these cookies."
>
> On Twitter, the hashtag is #cookiegate, and the Democratic National
> Committee was quick to make use of it.
>
> The Democrats ✔@TheDemocrats
> Mitt Romney disses a beloved local bakery in Pittsburgh—and 7-Eleven.
> #cookiegate pic.twitter.com/rm41Pzdw
>
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> The bakery is running a "Cookie Gate special" on Thursday, giving away
> half a dozen cookies with the purchase of a dozen.
>
> "I'm sure he meant it all in jest and didn't mean to slam a local
> bakery," Bethel Bakery spokeswoman Julie Lytle told CNN. "It's nothing
> that we want to get really upset about ... no reason to be angry.
> We're just having fun with it."
>
> But Walsh had one zinger for Romney in The Wall Street Journal later,
> saying: "Let him eat cake next time."
>
> It is not the first time Romney has been associated with Marie
> Antoinette. When he compared President Obama to the famously
> out-of-touch French queen last December, the DNC and Obama's campaign
> fired back separately, suggesting it was a "laughable" charge from a
> man who speaks French and is "a former corporate buyout specialist."
>
> Romney's cookie comments will likely be added to a list of previous
> comments that raised eyebrows, such as "corporations are people" and
> "I'm unemployed."
>
> But 7-Eleven, at least, accepted it as an innocent joke as well as a
> plug for the chain.
>
> "Actually, Mitt Romney got it right," 7-Eleven spokeswoman Margaret
> Chabris told the Journal. "There are bakeries dedicated to making
> cookies every day for our 5,500 stores."
>
> More:
> http://thehill.com/video/campaign/222467-romneys-cookie-joke-prompts-cookie-gate-attack
>
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> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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Re: QUESTION: What More Do We Need To Do To Help Bullied LGBT Youth?

School choice

On Thursday, April 19, 2012, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
> QUESTION: What More Do We Need To Do To Help Bullied LGBT Youth?
>
> With the tragic suicide death of bullied Iowa gay teen Kenneth James
> Weishuhn, 14, the subject of gay-teen bullying and suicide has come
> back to the forefront—if it ever, in fact, left.
>
> What more do we need to do to help bullied LGBT youth?
> As the statistics mount, many are saying things like It Gets Better,
> the Trevor Project and even in-school anti-bullying programs are not
> enough. But if that's true, what should we be doing?
>
> Is it a question of more interventions from parents, teachers and
> administrators? Stiffer penalties for bullies?
>
> Or are all the news reports, vigils and celebrity statements in effect
> glamorizing suicide? Should we be giving gay youth some tough love?.
>
> What's your take on it? Share with the group.
>
>
> Full story here:
> http://www.queerty.com/question-what-more-do-we-need-to-do-to-help-bullied-lgbt-youth-20120419/#ixzz1sWFjd8Nl
>
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> Tommy
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QUESTION: What More Do We Need To Do To Help Bullied LGBT Youth?

With the tragic suicide death of bullied Iowa gay teen Kenneth James
Weishuhn, 14, the subject of gay-teen bullying and suicide has come
back to the forefront—if it ever, in fact, left.

What more do we need to do to help bullied LGBT youth?
As the statistics mount, many are saying things like It Gets Better,
the Trevor Project and even in-school anti-bullying programs are not
enough. But if that's true, what should we be doing?

Is it a question of more interventions from parents, teachers and
administrators? Stiffer penalties for bullies?

Or are all the news reports, vigils and celebrity statements in effect
glamorizing suicide? Should we be giving gay youth some tough love?.

What's your take on it? Share with the group.

Full story here:
http://www.queerty.com/question-what-more-do-we-need-to-do-to-help-bullied-lgbt-youth-20120419/#ixzz1sWFjd8Nl

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Re: The Awakening

Stil trying to revise history, and march with TommyTomTom for,
"Equality".
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war is not about equality and I don't march with socialists

Keep on keeping on, and let us know how that whole revisionist
history and
that march is going for ya.....
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and you keep on sacrificing American soldiers and zionists for oil and
israel
you'll run out soon enough

On Apr 19, 1:57 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Poor PlainOl,
>
> Stil trying to revise history, and march with TommyTomTom for,
> "Equality".
>
> Keep on keeping on, and let us know how that whole revisionist history and
> that march is going for ya.....
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:52 PM, plainolamerican
> <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > tripe to warmongers
>
> > have fun in your religious war with the muzzies
> > you'll eventually run out of blind patriots and zionists who are
> > willing to kill for oil and israel
>
> > On Apr 19, 1:13 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What tripe. I couldn't even make it through the whole video.
>
> > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:01 PM, plainolamerican
> > > <plainolameri...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUQ_N_vHc0&feature=related
>
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Re: George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin, and Me

like Loewen, Zimmerman is a "Progressive" liberal.
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a socialist

On Apr 19, 1:49 pm, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's so ironic and telling about this article from James Loewen, is that
> like Loewen, Zimmerman is a "Progressive" liberal. Zimmerman supported
> Obama in the 2008 election. Zimmerman, up until this whole shooting
> debacle, along with his wife, tutored minority children in their school
> work.
>
> But because of the lies, hateful spew and race baiting from the likes of
> Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, TommyTomTomForNews and others, "White
> Hispanic" Zimmerman is now portrayed by idiots like James Loewen as a
> "Racist". As stated, "Ironic" and "Telling".
>
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> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin, and Me
>
> > hnns blog JAMES LOEWEN
>
> > I write late in the evening on Tuesday, April 10. This morning I woke
> > up famous, at least in certain circles. George Zimmerman, famous for
> > killing Trayvon Martin in Florida, had cited me on his new website.
> > Correspondents rushed to tell me. His site was receiving so much
> > traffic that it took seven minutes to log on to his home page. I could
> > not reach any subsidiary page, specifically the page titled "The
> > Facts," where I had been told Zimmerman prominently displayed my
> > words, until late in the morning.
>
> > Many other websites had picked up my quote, however. According to
> > "George Zimmerman Launches Website to Fund Legal Costs," an unsigned
> > article at JD Journal, a site whose motto reads "Nothing but the
> > Truth,"
>
> > The site carries a quote from sociologist James W. Loewen: "People
> > have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.
> > Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by
> > evidence cannot be given much weight."
>
> > At their websites, MSNBC, CBS, and many other news services also
> > included the quote. CBS termed it "a philosophy attributed to
> > sociologist James W. Loewen." By mid-afternoon at least 427 sites,
> > from the New York Times to the "Brother Of Yeshua Blogspot," included
> > the quotation.
>
> > I'm not the only person Zimmerman quoted, but I'm the only living
> > person. He also included a famous sentence by Edmund Burke: "The only
> > thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing."
> > A jury might take this quote to be a rationale for his vigilante
> > activism toward "evil." Hence Zimmerman's attorneys might well have
> > been unhappy with this posted quote, even before they resigned as his
> > counsel later in the day. However, the Burke sentence pales compared
> > to the macabre connotation of his second quotation, by Henrik Ibsen:
> > "A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."
> > Again, his lawyers could not have been happy that Zimmerman posted
> > this sentence, since a jury might infer that he wanted to make a "deep
> > impression" by committing a dastardly deed. Lastly, Zimmerman quoted
> > Thomas Paine: "The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren,
> > and to do good is my religion."
>
> > I'm happy to be in the company of Burke, Ibsen, and Paine. Who knows?
> > Maybe Zimmerman will get me into Familiar Quotations. (I had hoped
> > that my one-liner, "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to
> > repeat the eleventh grade," which I used at the beginning of Lies My
> > Teacher Told Me, might make the grade, but so far, only three websites
> > use it.) However, the first of my two sentences was said in essence
> > by Bernard Baruch in 1950, by various folks since then, and probably
> > by others long before. So I think I must search elsewhere for my
> > fifteen minutes of fame.
>
> > Still, it was jarring to see my name and quotation behind the talking
> > heads Tuesday as they told the story of Zimmerman's lawyers'
> > resignations on the evening news. I'm not happy with being used as a
> > resource by George Zimmerman, and I disclaim any relationship with him
> > and his cause. Of course, once they have unleashed words upon the
> > world—in particular, upon the World Wide Web—authors have no control
> > over their use, for good or ill. Moreover, one reason why I have not
> > written a thing about the death of Trayvon Martin is my lack of facts.
> > I know only what I have learned from the newspapers (yes, I subscribe)
> > and other media. Anyone likely to read anything I might write about
> > the matter has already read the same sources.
>
> > I would like to know how George Zimmerman learned of my words that he
> > used. They appear on page 358 of Lies My Teacher Told Me. While I
> > would like to believe he read the entire book, if he did, he seems to
> > have missed its anti-racist central message.
>
> > When it comes to "Brother Of Yeshua," who actually emailed me Tuesday
> > morning to tell me he had used the quotation, I think it's safe to
> > infer that he first encountered my words at Zimmerman's website or
> > news sites that quoted it. Again, he has a (Constitutional) right to
> > use my words to support any position he wants, and here is what he
> > used them for:
>
> > When rightly understood, what we are presented with is the
> > manifestation of the statement by James W. Loewen that while "People
> > have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.
> > Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by
> > evidence cannot be given much weight"—and while the facts demonstrate
> > that Mormonism is actually closer to the original Gospel teachings and
> > objectives, mainstream Christianity has been in denial of the very
> > facts that they have long censored and remain in denial of, to the
> > degree that those who believe they are Christian, have been
> > spiritually disenfranchised by the very Church they look to for truth.
>
> > So now my words are invoked to support belief in Mormonism as well as
> > George Zimmerman's innocence!
>
> > "Brother Of Yeshua" writes further, "2000 years ago I lived as Jacob
> > who people call James, and was known as the Brother of Yeshua/Jesus."
> > Such a statement does not carry the weight of fact. Elsewhere on his
> > site, he states that he holds to "Religion As The True System Of
> > Education"—again at odds with education based on fact.
>
> > At some point, I should relate all this to the study of history as
> > taught in our K-12 schools—on which I've spent much of the past twenty
> > years—so let's do so now. One reason why many Americans are not
> > critical readers and do not insist upon facts stems from their history
> > textbooks. Bear in mind that five-sixths of all Americans never take a
> > history course after leaving high school. High school history
> > textbooks include no footnotes or other system of references.
> > Moreover, even when issues remain contested, such as when and how did
> > people first get to the Americas, textbooks cite no evidence—in this
> > case, from archaeology, human biology, or anthropology. They just go
> > on blandly relating certainties, even on topics still ruled by
> > uncertainty.
>
> > Moreover, if Allan Cronshaw in Graham, North Carolina, writes as
> > "Brother Of Yeshua," that's not so different from what happens in the
> > K-12 textbook world. There, unnamed gnomes deep in the bowels of the
> > publishers write in the names of Daniel Boorstin, Alan Winkler, and
> > many other famous historians whose names grace the covers of books
> > they didn't write.
>
> > Nor does the style of history textbooks—written in a monotone,
> > presenting "information" to be memorized—promote critical thinking
> > skills or prompt students to question sources. Such skills might have
> > induced Mr. Zimmerman and others not to profile young African American
> > males, which—this much seems factual—he seems to have done.
>
> > Then there is Zimmerman's use of the American flag on his website. He
> > wraps himself in the flag to stop thought, not to start it. All six of
> > the twenty-first-century textbooks that I analyzed for the new edition
> > of Lies My Teacher Told Me similarly wave the American flag on their
> > covers, and for the same reason: to quell critical thinking.
> > Publishers wave it so prospective purchasers will not question them or
> > doubt that they are "good Americans." If instead these books would
> > distinguish between patriotism and nationalism, their flag-waving
> > might be different. I take my definition of a patriot from Frederick
> > Douglass, who said, "For he is a lover of his country who rebukes and
> > does not excuse its sins." Surely textbooks need to help students to
> > develop informed reasons to criticize as well as to take pride in
> > their country. Nationalists, on the other hand, take pride in their
> > nation no matter what—and do not care to think about its sins. If
> > textbooks made that useful distinction, then Americans might not
> > "follow the flag" even when our leaders take it into dangerous places
> > on behalf of foolish and even immoral purposes. If the flag connoted
> > "do your best critical thinking about the U.S.," then when
> > politicians, vigilantes, and textbook authors waved it to garner
> > unthinking approval, the rest of us would simply laugh at them.
>
> > I believe—at least I hope—that the millions of people who came upon my
> > statement comparing facts and opinions Tuesday do not infer that I am
> > George Zimmerman's ally. I am not. Rather, I hope that Americans will
> > ground their opinions about this case on the facts. We all surely hope
> > that a process has finally been set in place that will allow the facts
> > to emerge. Meanwhile, those of us far from Sanford, even far from
> > Florida, must set processes in place that will transform how we teach
> > about the American past in grades K-12. When we allow facts to
> > emerge—even awkward and untoward facts—when we encourage students to
> > question national and local policies—and yes, when we insist that
> > "opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight"—then we
> > are educating. Then we are producing Americans who are unlikely to
> > profile. Then we are patriots.
>
> > More:
> >http://hnn.us/blogs/george-zimmerman-trayvon-martin-and-me
>
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> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
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