Houshphandzadeh wrote:someone sell me on a third party candidate. I don't care if they can win

cshort wrote:It seems to me, anyone applying for college should just check the Native American box, since apparently no one is checking. You'd then have 80-90% of applicants being Native Americans, thus negating any advantage.

I think from now on I'll be 1/64 Lenape.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:jh, why the insistence that it was a preplanned attack, rather than an opportunistic attack? Seems that's just an issue of semantics. The question about security is still a problem, regardless. Clearly there was a large degree of unrest, and Libya is a volatile nation where there is a lot of firepower just hanging around.

ThinkProgress
Romney deliberately overpaid his 2011 taxes so that his tax rate wouldn't contradict his public statements on the matter.

Sam Stein ‏@samsteinhp
If Romney had taken all his deductions, he would have paid closer to 9% tax in 2011.

Squire wrote:

pacino wrote:i feel like i care less and less what someone thinks they are, or their motivations or reasons for how htey got there. she checked a box because it's couldnt hurt. maybe she was proud of it at the time? who knows? they stated it didn't help. i don't htink it was anything nefarious. it's a who cares when we have real issues. it's good for two days of talk, not basing an entire campaign off it, which brown has done. obama isnt basing his entire campaign on paul ryan's fat percentage.

fwiw, she also said delaware in addition to cherokee. she is from oklahoma, i wouldnt be surprised if lots of people raised there were part indian. different people place different importance on their ancestry and heritage.

What is the (Republican) probative value equivalent of the Harvard Administration issuing a statement to let the Massachusetts Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate off the hook? I'm thinking its like the Goldman Sachs Board of Directors saying Romney is a swell guy.

Phan In Phlorida wrote:Being of Austrian heritage, I guess there's a possibility I'm related to Schwarzenegger.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Houshphandzadeh wrote:someone sell me on a third party candidate. I don't care if they can win

http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/issues/d ... icy-reform

jerseyhoya wrote:So Mitt gives a lot of money away and pays a lot of taxes and has paid a lot of taxes every year.

Now we can go back to distracting issues like whether Americans needlessly died in Libya.

In 2011, the Romneys paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 in mostly investment income.

The Romneys’ effective tax rate for 2011 was 14.1%.

The Romneys donated $4,020,772 to charity in 2011, amounting to nearly 30% of their income.

The Romneys claimed a deduction for $2.25 million of those charitable contributions.

The Romneys’ generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:better than Romney, but I'm not really feeling his economic policies

give me another

might just vote for Schwarzenegger

Ari Melber ‏@AriMelber
Romney's just released his taxes for last year. And yes, his rate was *lower* than those takers chipping in via payroll taxes. (14% v 15%)