UPDATE: ABC INTERVIEW- NO APOLOGIES, DUDE!
From HuffPo
Mitt Romney’s Signature Appears On Bain SEC Filings During Time He Said He Left Bain.
WASHINGTON — Between 1999 and 2001, Mitt Romney, then the CEO of Bain Capital, signed at least six documents that the private equity firm filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The documents run in direct contradiction to a claim that Romney has made repeatedly: that he had nothing to do with Bain, and therefore no responsibility for Bain investments, during that period.
It’s also a claim he made in August 2011 on the federal disclosure form he filed as part of his presidential bid. Romney didn’t leave any wiggle room: “Mr. Romney retired from Bain Capital on February 11, 1999 to head the Salt Lake Organizing Committee [for the 2002 Winter Olympics]. Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active role with any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way.”
BOTTOM LINE:
Between 1999 and 2001, Mitt Romney, then the CEO of Bain Capital, signed at least six documents that the private equity firm filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The documents run in direct contradiction to a claim that Romney has made repeatedly: that he had nothing to do with Bain, and therefore no responsibility for Bain investments, during that period. It’s also a claim he made in August 2011 on the federal disclosure form he filed as part of his presidential bid. Romney didn’t leave any wiggle room:
“Mr. Romney retired from Bain Capital on February 11, 1999 to head the Salt Lake Organizing Committee [for the 2002 Winter Olympics]. Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active role with any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way.” That is false. SEC files include at least six instances of Romney signing documents after February 1999, proving — unless the signatures were forged — that his claim to not have “been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way” is wrong.
Mitt Romney is making the media rounds on major tv networks. Yes, Mitt’s Traveling Down That River Called DENIAL.
FEBRUARY 11, 1999 That’s the date Romney’s brain has on REPEAT. He’s not going to change that tune.
No the attacks are not on Capitalism, Mitt. You’re being called out for your LIES & DECEIT on your record at BAIN Capital. and we’re going to STUFF BAIN down your throat.
Stay on him TEAM OBAMA!
And stay tuned folks, more videos of Mitt’s trips down DENIAL.
“Given the precedent set by past seven Presidents and Presidential candidates of releasing multi-year tax returns why is Romney making an exception?” Because he has a lot to hide, apparently.
He’s the only one that knows what’s in there, and apparently he’s made the judgement that he’s better off having us suspect the worst, rather than us knowing whats in there, which apparently in his mind is worse than anything we’re likely to imagine.
Possibilities include:
(1) He ended up with 120 million in his 401K by the trick of agreeing with Bain to grossly undervalue the market value of his stock, then a few years later have the stock get unvalued to the stratosphere.
(2) He participated in the tax avoidance amnesty program of a few years back, avoiding major tax penalties or prosecution.
(3) Any one or more of the other borderline legal but very bad smelling tax dodges– “in-kind” trades, “no-risk” trades, no-risk write-offs, the list is almost endless.
And BTW he HASNT even released all of his 2010 return, he very conveniently left off the foreign investments and deposits form. Very convenient.
And his argument that it would be “bothersome” to collect the tax data is a crock too– he supposedly collected 23 years of the stuff to show to McCain in 2008.
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Republicans betrayed their own conscience when they went against established Republican principles like the MANDATE over healthcare which was a Heritage foundation issue popularized by Gingrich.
Obama did more than his share to UNITE but the Republicans were out to oppose for opposing sake and not following any policy or principles. In the famous words of Minority Senate Leader Mitch McConnell the Republicans were out to defeat the Obama agenda even if it went against established Republican policies set by past precedent.
Mitch McConnell was out to make sure that President Obama remains a one term President and see where it has brought the Congress and its public esteem.
Gingrich out of his own admission was out to defeat Obama from the day he was sworn in as President.
You can not justify the Republicans as the “loyal” opposition as is the case in most mature democracies. They have been out to get President Obama by hook or by crook. A leader can meet the opposition half way but can not fold completely to their whims and fantasies like that of the current Tea Party affiliates.
Republicans will loose in 2012 just like they did in 2008 but with a smaller margin because of the dark money of Billionaires due to Citizens United verdict of the right wing Supreme Court.
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” … Mitt Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” the GOP candidate “retroactively” retired from Bain Capital after the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics began. … ”
No body who has been drawing at LEAST $100,000.00 per year from 1999 to 2002 from Bain Capital “retroactively” retires from Bain Capital AFTER the 2002!!! Then why draw the salary of at LEAST $100,000.00 per year from 1999 to 2002 from Bain Capital if Romney retired from Bain “retroactively” !!!
” … Gillespie continued, “He took a leave of absence and, in fact, Candy, he ended up not going back at all and retired retroactively to February of 1999 as a result.” … ”
However SEC documents show Mitt Romney as sole owner of all shares of Bain Capital. Romney is also shown as CEO, President and Chairman of Board of Bain Capital in 2001 and 2002 then LEGALLY speaking Mitt Romney has been responsible to all that goes on under the banner of Bain Capital. Then to run for Governor of MA Romney sought residency of MA by lieu of his Bain positions. Now either Romney was at the Olympics OR he was at BAIN.
Only one can be true not BOTH at the same time simultaneously!!! Will the true Willard Mitt Romney stand up and accept ONE thing? Does Romney want to accept untrue SEC filings and be called a Felon or agree that he represented Bain from 1999 to 2002?
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On Friday the 13th (7/13/2012) the very illusive Mitt Romney gave very defensive interviews to all FIVE networks on a single day at once!! Just a few days ago Mitt Romney said to FOX News that explaining means that you are WEAK. So his five interviews “explaining” his time at Bain were signs of his weakness!!
Presidential Candidate Mr. Mitt Romney maybe feeling the heat on his role in BAIN Capital, his business experience which was supposed to be his sole criteria for creating jobs and his greatest qualification for running for the American Presidency in the current economy in 2012!
However SEC documents show Mitt Romney as sole owner of all shares of Bain Capital. Romney is shown as CEO, President and Chairman of Board of Bain Capital in 2001 and 2002 then LEGALLY speaking Mitt Romney has been responsible to all that goes on under the banner of Bain Capital.
Mitt Romney can not just share the good like job creation from 1999 to 2002 and leave the ugly like Bankruptcies and layoffs behind as if he had nothing to do about them from 1999 to 2002.
If he really wanted to disassociate himself from Bain Capital he could have resigned and sold all his shares in Bain Capital in February 1999 then it would have been a different matter but to share in the glory of Bain’s job creation accept a salary of $100,000 or MORE (where are the Tax Returns?) for three years and only to refuse to take the responsibility of Bankruptcies and layoffs on his WATCH (1999-2002) is trying to have it both ways and then complaining of playing politics having been caught with his hand in the proverbial Cookie Jar that is the very essence of an ACTIVE LEGAL ROLE in Bain Capital till 2002!! Was Romney getting $100,000.00 or more to do NOTHING for BAIN Capital???
Mitt Romney will have to face the consequences of this leaving Bain “lie” that Mitt Romney has brought on upon himself. If we keep reminding the Romney campaign of the Bain exit lie and Romney’s ill effects on workers robbing them of their hard earned salaries and life long benefits all the way to November then 7/13/2012 (FRIDAY the 13th) will go down as the turning point of the 2012 Presidential election!
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Two-Faced Willard
“I was not responsible for what happened at Bain Capital” – Mitt Romney
“I was the Sole shareholder, Sole director, Chief executive officer and President of Bain” – Mitt Romney
“The Arizona immigration policy is a good model” – Mitt Romney
“I didn’t really support the Arizona immigration policy” – Mitt Romney
“The Massachusetts healthcare plan should be a model for the nation” – Mitt Romney
“Healthcare reform should be left to the states” – Mitt Romney
“Let Detroit go bankrupt” -Mitt Romney
“I’ll take a lot of credit for saving the auto industry” -Mitt Romney
“I believe Roe v Wade has gone too far.” – Mitt Romney
“Roe v Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.” – Mitt Romney
“I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose.” – Mitt Romney
“I never really called myself pro-choice.” – Mitt Romney
“It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.” – Mitt Romney
“I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and represent our country there.” – Mitt Romney
“I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.” – Mitt Romney
“Ronald Reagan is… my hero.” – Mitt Romney
“I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.” – Mitt Romney
“There’s no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.” – Mitt Romney
“I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.” – Mitt Romney
“I did not see it with my own eyes.” – Mitt Romney
“I would like to have campaign spending limits.” – Mitt Romney
“The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates without burdensome limitations.” – Mitt Romney
“I supported the assault weapon ban.” – Mitt Romney
“I don’t support any gun control legislation.” – Mitt Romney
ROMNEY’S ADMINISTRATION OUTSOURCED CALL CENTER JOBS TO INDIA AND HE VETOED LEGISLATION THAT WOULD HAVE PROHIBITED MASSACHUSETTS FROM SENDING STATE JOBS OVERSEAS
Romney’s Administration Signed A $160,000-Per-Month Contract With Citigroup For A Food Stamp System That Involved A Call Center In India.“When Romney was governor of Massachusetts, his administration signed a $160,000-per-month contract with Citigroup to operate an electronic food stamp system that included a consumer call center in India.”
[Boston Globe, Political Intelligence,5/1/12]
http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/05/new-obama-campaign-attacks-mitt-romney-for-outsourcing-american-jobs/GJi8Z4Mbi4CK4pV1dp4meN/index.html
Jonathan Karl Needs an Adult Diaper
by BooMan
Fri Jul 13th, 2012 at 11:16:27 PM EST
I wonder if Jonathan Karl thinks he did a good job of questioning Mitt Romney about the controversy surrounding his departure from Bain Capital. I hope Mr. Karl is currently hitting himself in the face with a 2×4 in some sort of ritual penance for dropping the ball.
The first question is like something out of tee-ball. Karl notes that someone in the Obama campaign mentioned that he might have committed a felony, but he doesn’t explain why, and then he just offers Romney a chance to rebut the charge. That’s pathetic, and it doesn’t help inform his viewers about the issue at all. It just makes it sound like an unsubstantiated allegation had been made.
His second question is to ask whether the president should apologize for the behavior of his staff. How’s that for hard-hitting?
With his third question he actually makes a go at being a journalist. He asks Romney if he can avoid being responsible for the actions of Bain Capital when he was the owner, the CEO, and the chairman of the board. But, when Romney insists that he bears zero responsibility for Bain’s action despite his positions, Karl meekly follows up by saying, “So you bear no responsibility?”
And then look at his next question and ask yourself if Sarah Palin could do worse:
KARL: So you don’t disavow what happened at the company, that they may have done things that were wrong, not wrong that you had nothing to do with. would there be something with being associated with Bain Capitol during those years
It’s as if Mr. Karl is too focused on the warm puddle in his underpants to perform basic syntax. What is he even saying?
After Romney’s nonsensical response, Karl pivots away from confrontation to ask for some meta:
KARL: So what happened here? This campaign, your private sector experience many thought was going to be your greatest asset in the campaign and so far it has been the thing you have been attacked for most relentlessly
That’s just more tee-ball.
And then Karl drops the subject entirely to inquire about rumors that Condi Rice might be on the VP short-list (which Romney won’t respond to) and to ask a question about Chinese-made uniforms our Olympians will be wearing.
He should have inquired whether Romney would be willing to change his Depend Adult Undergarment for him.
What kind of interview was that?
Do some homework for Chrissakes. Make the man explain why he isn’t a felon and point out that no one in their right mind thinks a man can be the 100% owner of a company and bear no responsibility for what that company does for four consecutive years.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/7/13/231627/193
***HOLLERING***
TPM Editor’s Blog
Weak, Weak, Weak
Josh Marshall-July 13, 2012, 9:56 PM
Honest question: does anyone think Romney helped himself with this round of television interviews? This is more fact-finding than rhetorical. And the people whose opinions I’d be most curious to hear are those of Republican operatives — people who want the answer to be ‘yes’ but are politically sophisticated enough to know if it’s not.
The headline in the Times is “Romney Seeks Obama Apology for Bain Attacks”.
In the Journal “Romney Defends Bain Capital Tenure”.
This is ‘bitch slap’ politics played with a gusto and coldness seldom seen from Democrats, at least since the Bill Clinton days. Asking for an apology is losing. Saying you want something you clearly have no power to get is losing.
There’s a meta-politics Obama is playing by slashing at Romney with suggestions he might be a felon. He’s wounding Romney, who is clearly rattled and angry about the charges, but just as clearly can’t defend himself or strike back. As I’ve noted many times, a thick layer of presidential politics (in a way that’s distinct from US politics at really every other level) resides at the brainstem level of cogitation — with gambits to assert power and demonstrate dominance. Obama looked in control of this situation; Romney didn’t.
TPM Reader JL could barely contain himself …
Bitch slap politics at it’s finest.
Step 1. Obama tells Romney to man up and take responsibility.
Coming soon …
Step 2. Romney whines that it’s beneath the office.
Step 3. BO Surrogates tell Mitt, you’re running for President for God’s sake. Don’t be such a girly man!!
I love it!! Are we sure Obama’s a Dem?
There’s another part of this equation: I’m not sure how many people watching this spectacle even remember that it’s nominally about whether Romney is responsible for outsourcing Bain did post-February 1999 or its investment in a company that serviced abortion clinics. I barely remember it myself. What’s driving this now is that the Obama camp has backed Romney into a position in which he looks ridiculous — something much more lethal for presidential candidates than most people appreciate.
Romney had absolutely nothing to do with Bain after 1999, no responsibility for anything it did, barely even knew what it did. Only he was the owner, the Chairman of the Board and the CEO. At least according to all the official documents, many of which he signed. Only he wasn’t any of those things, says Romney.
Partisans can be walked through the arguments of how this might be true, just as you could explain what John Kerry meant by saying he was for a bill before he voted against it. But it still makes no sense. And doubling down on nonsense makes you look silly and trapped. That’s especially dangerous for someone already saddled with a reputation for shifting his stories and positions to suit the moment.
This is and will remain a low single digit race. But the President’s team is making Romney look shifty and silly and weak. (I half expect them to start goosing surrogates to call him Slick Willard.) And they’re well on their way to defining him in a way that will be difficult to undo.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/07/honest_question_does_anything_think.php?ref=fpblg
BWA HA HA HA Thesse writeups on Mittens are on point and hillarious!
Why Is Everyone Focused on Bain Capital?
Jamelle Bouie
July 13, 2012
Because it’s Mitt Romney’s stated qualification for the presidency.
The past 24 hours have been abysmal for the Romney campaign. Not only has it scrambled to deal with revelations regarding Mitt Romney’s “shadow years” at Bain Capital, but further digging has led to more serious questions—and accusations—about Romney’s conduct. Put another way, you know you’re in trouble when even a friendly piece—by Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler—has to tackle the question of whether Romney broke the law.
Naturally, this has prompted a vigorous response from the Romney campaign, in the form of an ad that accuses President Obama of lying for political gain. Given recent revelations, the timing of the ad was a little awkward, but that hasn’t stopped the Romney campaign from deploying it in a serious way. As Greg Sargent reports, the ad is currently running in multiple media markets in each of the major swing states: Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, and New Hampshire.
This push has two goals: first, to challenge President Obama trustworthy image—he maintains high favorability ratings—and second, to suggest there’s something illegitimate about the Obama team’s critique of Romney’s time at Bain Capital. The problem with this approach, of course, is that Romney insists we judge him on the basis of his accomplishments in the private sector. I took Romney’s victory speech for the Republican nomination—which he gave after winning primaries in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York—along with his four most recent speeches, and plugged them into a word cloud. Here is the result
Massachusetts is nonexistent. Instead, we see references to “business”, “businesses,” and “enterprise.” According to Mitt Romney, it’s his time at Bain Capital that makes him qualified for the presidency. If that’s the case, then it’s only reasonable to ask questions about what came with the responsibility, and whether it’s appropriate experience for public office.
It should be said that it’s not hard to see why Romney would want to delegitimize attacks on his private sector experience at the same time that he touts it as his chief qualification. Americans like businesspeople, but they aren’t keen on business impropriety. Moreover, Romney’s conduct is illustrative of a disconnect between the world of elites and the world of everyone else. The Boston Phoenix’s David Bernstein explains:
http://prospect.org/article/why-everyone-focused-bain-capital
Yet Another Nugget To Undercut Romney’s Story
It was hidden in plain sight as a Bain press release in July 1999. Here’s how it described Romney’s position at Bain when he says he had no responsibility whatever, despite remaining CEO, Chairman and Sole Owner as far as forms filed with SEC testify:
Bain Capital CEO W. Mitt Romney, currently on a part-time leave of absence to head the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee for the 2002 Games said ..
So Bain now contradicts Romney. And one of the men mentioned in the press release, Marc Wolpow, described his relationship with Romney when Romney was on a previous part time leave in 1994 when running for Senate (while remaining CEO of Bain):
“I reported directly to Mitt Romney . . . You can’t be CEO of Bain Capital and say, `I really don’t know what my guys were doing,’” Mr. Wolpow said of Mr. Romney role at the company during his leave.
So this much is now obvious.
1. Romney didn’t quit Bain in 1999 for good, as he claims. He remained the CEO throughout, as SEC files show, and as the Boston Globe reported back in 2002.
2. He stayed active in Bain, but at a much reduced level, the entire time.
3. In any case, everything that occurred at Bain up to 2002 is completely fair game for criticism, since he was the formal CEO at the time and therefore responsible for the whole company. The SEC filings are dispositive. He has been lying about this in order to deflect some very dangerous stories about Bain in that period which shows it is knee deep in outsourcing and off-shoring, and because his signature is on a filing with respect to a company that Bain owned that disposed of aborted babies.
Romney basically said what was the most convenient for his self-interest at every juncture – and finally all the contradictions and changing stories caught up with him. When you have it both ways on policy matters – we’ll increase defense spending, lower taxes even further, and cut the debt! – you only look shifty. When you have it both ways on the simple facts about your life, you look like an opportunistic liar.
Campaigns have a way of revealing the truth about people, don’t they?
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/yet-another-nugget-to-undercut-romneys-story.html
Rachel had on Shannon O’Brien, Romney’s 2002 MA Gubenatorial opponnent. I’m looking for the Youtube clip from that debate. She gave that pansy a run for his money.
Romney’s Got Nothing
The gist of his big media interviews today is explained thus:
Mitt Romney on Friday night demanded an apology from President Obama for making what he called “reckless” and “absurd” allegations about his record while repeating his insistence that he left Bain Capital in 1999 to run the Olympics.
He then attacked the president personally:
What kind of a president would have a campaign that says something like that about the nominee of another party?” Mr. Romney asked during a brief interview with CBS News. Earlier, on CNN, Mr. Romney called the accusation of criminal behavior — which came on Thursday from Mr. Obama’s deputy campaign manager — “disgusting” and “demeaning” and said it was destructive to the political process.
“It’s something that I think the president should take responsibility for and stop it,” Mr. Romney said.
This is another lurch downward for Romney in this cycle, I’d say. For a simple reason. We have documentary proof that Romney told the SEC he was CEO of Bain through 2002, and that he drew a salary of more than $100,000 for doing that job. So was he telling the truth on television today when he insisted that “I left any responsibility whatsoever, any effort, any involvement whatsoever in the management of Bain Capital after February of 1999” – or when the company he solely owned filed with the SEC, and when Bain itself called him the CEO in July 1999, and when he testified under oath in 2002 that he was involved in many business and board meetings of Bain companies in the period in question?
To put it more succinctly: how does this statement
[T]here were a number of social trips and business trips that brought me back to Massachusetts, board meetings, Thanksgiving and so forth… [I] remained on the board of the Staples Corporation and Marriott International, the LifeLike Corporation [all Bain companies
and this excerpt from a press release from Bain in July 1999:
Bain Capital CEO W. Mitt Romney, currently on a part-time leave of absence to head the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee for the 2002 Games said ..
jibe with this one today:
“I left any responsibility whatsoever, any effort, any involvement whatsoever in the management of Bain Capital after February of 1999 … I went on to run the Olympics for three years I was there full time after that I came back and ran in Massachusetts for governor. I had no role with regards to Bain Capital after February 1999.
and this recent statement from Bain itself, declaring Romney had
“absolutely no involvement with the management or investment activities of the firm or with any of its portfolio companies.”
My italics. He had “no role with regards to” Bain Capital after February 1999 (a very broad statement) – except for being the CEO, and repeatedly returning to Massachusetts for board meetings of Bain-owned companies, which he “attended by telephone if I could not return”.
A false SEC filing is a serious offense; to say so is not disgusting. So is potential perjury in 2002 when Romney detailed his continued involvement in Bain-owned enterprises in the period he retained the CEO title and now says he had nothing whatsoever to do with Bain. The SEC filing rules apply to everyone – except, it seems, to Romney, and his well-paid legal and accounting team. They may have so internalized this immunity from any accountability that Romney may indeed genuinely feel disgusted by being called to follow the normal rules, or called out on logical inconsistencies.
I’m getting the feeling that Romney thinks he is above the level of accountability required in a presidential candidate or even in an average ethical businessman. He seems genuinely offended to be directly challenged with facts – which he still won’t address or rebut in detail. So he simply huffs and puffs and uses words like “disgusting” for a perfectly valid charge in the big boy world of presidential politics.
This does not seem to me to be like a candidate ready for prime time.
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/romneys-got-nothing.html
http://twitter.com/ryancmack/status/223927443994583040/photo/1
SHORT; FOLKS LOST JOBS, HOMES, HAD NO HEALTH CARE INSURANCE, WHILE I MADE SHITLOADS OF MONEY. BUT IT’S NOT MY FAULT!
UGGH; I LOATHE THIS SNAKE.
O’Brien Brings Her “A-Game” to Final Debate
Casts Romney as Heartless Capitalist; Will Electorate Buy It?
By Todd Sharek
October 30, 2002
Prior to their debate last week, Shannon O’Brien and Mitt Romney were in a statistical dead heat. At that debate, O’Brien’s performance was abysmal. No one-not even people on her campaign staff-could say with a straight face that their gal had performed admirably. Yet somehow this week’s Boston Herald poll shows O’Brien six points ahead of Romney.
Hmm.
Either pundits like myself missed some subliminal power punches thrown by O’Brien last Thursday or perhaps people aren’t watching these debates at all. The more likely explanation? While O’Brien’s performance was mediocre, Romney wasn’t exactly wowing the crowd himself. [I said as much in last Thursday’s column, calling Stein the winner of the fourth debate.]
In any event, last night’s debate at Suffolk University was “third-and-long” for Romney. He needed to win and his people knew it. Let’s face it, when your campaign manager tries to discount the Herald poll because “professional pollsters don’t poll on Friday and Saturday because the people who answer their phones at these times are not representative of the general voting public,” you’re in deep doo-doo.
http://www.massnews.com/2002_editions/10_Oct/103002_mn_o_brien_game.shtml
Romney said PBO should call off his campaign attacks and apologize.
MITT Romney ‘s Version of 1999
Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you; only want to make some profits
I was Lyin’ when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray
But when I woke up this mornin’,
Could’ve sworn it was judgment day
The sky was all purple, there were people runnin’ everywhere
Tryin’ to run from the destruction, you know I didn’t even care
Say say two thousand twelve party over, oops, out of time!
So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s February nineteen ninety-nine
I was Lyin’ when I wrote this, so sue me if I go too fast
But life is just for PROFITS and PROFITS were meant to last
War is all around us, my mind says prepare to fight
So if I gotta LIE I’m gonna listen to my Conscience tonight
Yeah hey, they say two thousand twelve party over, oops, out of time
So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s February nineteen ninety-nine
Yeah, yeah, hey
People, let me tell you somethin’
If you didn’t come to defend Bain, don’t bother knockin’ on my door, got more bling in my pocket
and baby it’s ready to roar, yeah hey
Everybody’s out of work, we could all die any day, oh
But before I let that happen, I’m gonna stash my cash away, oh ho
They say two thousand twelve party over, oops, out of time
(We’re runnin’ out of time)
So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s February nineteen ninety-nine
Ann, why does everybody talk about Bain?
Ann, why does everybody talk about Bain?
Did I hear right? He wants to make this an honest campaign and not a smear campaign. He is looking more like an idiot everyday.
Hi silentlyheardonce. Wanted to ask you if you’ve heard of Sjorgens syndorme? That’s the latest diagnosis for me this week.
I don’t know if you got my last reply. i was trying to reread for errors and it disappeared. I don’t know much about Sjorgens. What I do know is it’s a autoimmune disease. A lot of people with lupus have it. It cause your eyes and mouth to be dry. The mouth can get thrush, like babies get. Milky white. They treat the eyes with eye drops. It’s treated with steroids. It’s best to use sunscreen whenever you go out. The sun is the enemy to people with autoimmune diseases. Serena Williams was diagnosed last year with Sjorgens and she is still kicking ass on the tennis court. Be sure to get plenty of rest at least 8 hours or more. you can go to the Mayo clinic on line and/or join an online support group. There’s on Daily Strengthen, you don’t have to participate. You can read through the post and gather information from other members. Feel free to ask me anything or vent if you need to. I’m here. :D
Thank you for your support. I appreciate it. I knew you’d have some knowledge on this. I knew Serena had it.