The Daily Mail ran a story yesterday comparing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Russian James Bond villain Rosa Klebb . But Clinton also shares a striking resemblance to this Russian nesting doll:
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Hillary Clinton: Russian spy or Russian toy?
Everyone knows former Vice President Al Gore once took a lot of credit for the creation of the Internet. And everyone laughs at it. At a campaign event in South Carolina on Wednesday, Mitt Romney tied Gore’s claim that he helped create the Internet to Newt Gingrich . Here’s what he said via the Spartanburg Herald Journal: “The speaker just the other day at the debate was talking about how he created millions of jobs when he was working with the Reagan administration,” Romney said. “Well, he’d been in Congress two years when Ronald Reagan came to office. That would be like saying 435 congressmen were all responsible for those jobs. Government doesn’t create jobs. It’s the private sector that creates jobs. Congressmen taking responsibility or taking credit for helping create jobs is like Al Gore taking credit for the Internet.” And here’s Gingrich’s quote about job creation from Monday’s debate Romney was referring to: “As a young member of Congress, I worked with President Ronald Reagan. We passed an economic growth package. We created 16 million jobs. The American people within a framework that Reagan had established created 16 million jobs. As speaker I came back — working with President Bill Clinton , we passed a very Reagan-like program, less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment dropped to 4.2 percent. We created 11 million jobs. Now, those are real numbers that people can verify out in the open.” h/t Politico
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Romney says Newt taking job-creation credit is like Al Gore’s Internet claim
Ron Paul gets snippy with Newt Gingrich in S.C newsletter . Is Chelsea Clinton done with NBC already? Actor Kelsey Grammar would be O.K with Mitt Romney presidency. Endorsement from Michele Bachmann will “take some time.” This spider monkey will predict which candidate will win New Hampshire primary.
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Midday snacks 01.06.12
It’s Rick Santorum’s turn to face the media’s attack gauntlet, and he’s certainly got a deep trove a material for his attackers. I defended Santorum on gay marriage earlier, but that story’s picking up steam as progressives never waste an opportunity to attack conservatives for alleged “bigotry”. See New York Times , ” Spotlight Shines on Santorum, Rough Edges and All .” Plus lots more at Memeorandum . And there’s even more progressive attacks on Rick Santorum’s alleged attacks on black welfare dependency, seen here at the MSNBC clip: All of that’s a given. More interesting from the GOP side is this report at Los Angeles Times , which shows Santorum clearly not an exemplary tea party-style candidate, ” Rick Santorum’s political evolution sparks scrutiny “:
I’m not sure why they’d be surprised. It’s not like the polls were all settled on a landslide winner, or anything. But see New York Times , ” Tight Race Catches TV Anchors by Surprise “: From their respective television studios in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, the liberal MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow and the conservative Fox News commentator Karl Rove looked to Iowa and saw the same thing: a Republican race that was “tight as a tick.” Finally, they could agree about something. For a few hours on Tuesday night, the nation’s television anchors and political reporters were transfixed by which candidates would finish in fifth and sixth place in the Iowa caucuses — not because they had projected the first-place finisher, but because they couldn’t. The race between three Republicans — Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum — appeared at first to be a three-way tie, far too close to call, delighting the people who had been promising viewers and readers a dramatic start to the 2012 voting season. “We have no idea when we’ll be able to call this,” said Ms. Maddow, sounding almost giddy during the 10 p.m. hour of her broadcast. “It’s great.” Chuck Todd, the political director for NBC News and an anchor for MSNBC, indicated that the network would have to wait for every vote to be counted. At one point in the evening, when about 48 percent of precincts had reported their vote totals, ABC said that just seven votes separated Mr. Santorum and Mr. Romney. Later, when 96 percent of precincts had reported and 113 votes separated them, The Des Moines Register called the two “deadlocked.” Most newspapers and late-night local newscasts were put to bed without the final results for the night. On Fox News and CNN, which decided to stay live several hours later than they had planned, the anchors sighed audibly as they waited for the last precincts to report results. Around 1:35 a.m., CNN actually reported that only one vote separated Mr. Santorum and Mr. Romney. Finally, at 2:30 a.m. Eastern, the Republican state party said definitively that Mr. Romney had won by eight votes. By then, CNN had itself started to tabulate the votes in one of the missing precincts, with the help of Edith Pfeffer, the Republican chairwoman in Clinton County, who the channel reached by phone. More on Ms. Pfeffer at CNN .
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Tight GOP Race in Iowa Catches TV Anchors by Surprise
**Written by Doug Powers It’s been over a year since I first heard that the government was spending a half million dollars for a study of shrimp on a treadmill. It’s the first research project of its kind since the Surgeon General’s office during the Clinton administration commissioned a study of the effects of an elliptical machine on Robert Reich. The “Let’s Move” program for crustaceans must be going well, because the total expenditure on the study is now almost $200k over the originally reported half-million. But that’s still fairly cheap for a study being done purportedly to help define the effects of global warming on marine life : Reports of $500,000 of taxpayer funds to study a project that has shrimp running on a treadmill hit the headlines early in 2011. A recent report now shows that $682,570 in grants has been awarded to the research effort. According to the National Science Foundation (NSF) website, the money has been granted to the “Taking the Pulse of Marine Life in Stressed Seas” research conducted by biology professors Louis and Karen Burnett at the College of Charleston. The research page describes the professor’s “big question” as “How are human-made marine stresses affecting the marine life that we need?” The website describes the process of the Burnett’s experiments, “First, a crustacean is infected, by injection, with the same types of disease-causing bacteria that are commonly encountered in the wild. Next, the animal is placed on a specially built, mini underwater treadmill. Then, the organism’s vital signs, such as its heart rate and blood pressure, are measured (as a proxy for fitness) while it walks on the treadmill–similar to the way that a person’s vital signs are measured while he or she& walks on a treadmill during a stress test. Finally, the treadmill performances of infected crustaceans are compared to those of their uninfected counterparts.” Maybe shrimp, lobster and crabs would be a little less stressed if people weren’t grabbing them and throwing them on treadmills — just a thought. By the way, any shrimp that are unable to make the cut are donated to the White House . What these reasearchers are not discussing is what is placed just outside the tank to make the shrimp run so fast, and it’s kind of cruel if you ask me. Somebody get PETA on the phone: **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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‘Your Tax Dollars at Work’ Update: Shrimp on a Treadmill
**Written by Doug Powers It’s been over a year since I first heard that the government was spending a half million dollars for a study of shrimp on a treadmill. It’s the first research project of its kind since the Surgeon General’s office during the Clinton administration commissioned a study of the effects of an elliptical machine on Robert Reich. The “Let’s Move” program for crustaceans must be going well, because the total expenditure on the study is now almost $200k over the originally reported half-million. But that’s still fairly cheap for a study being done purportedly to help define the effects of global warming on marine life : Reports of $500,000 of taxpayer funds to study a project that has shrimp running on a treadmill hit the headlines early in 2011. A recent report now shows that $682,570 in grants has been awarded to the research effort. According to the National Science Foundation (NSF) website, the money has been granted to the “Taking the Pulse of Marine Life in Stressed Seas” research conducted by biology professors Louis and Karen Burnett at the College of Charleston. The research page describes the professor’s “big question” as “How are human-made marine stresses affecting the marine life that we need?” The website describes the process of the Burnett’s experiments, “First, a crustacean is infected, by injection, with the same types of disease-causing bacteria that are commonly encountered in the wild. Next, the animal is placed on a specially built, mini underwater treadmill. Then, the organism’s vital signs, such as its heart rate and blood pressure, are measured (as a proxy for fitness) while it walks on the treadmill–similar to the way that a person’s vital signs are measured while he or she& walks on a treadmill during a stress test. Finally, the treadmill performances of infected crustaceans are compared to those of their uninfected counterparts.” Maybe shrimp, lobster and crabs would be a little less stressed if people weren’t grabbing them and throwing them on treadmills — just a thought. By the way, any shrimp that are unable to make the cut are donated to the White House . What these reasearchers are not discussing is what is placed just outside the tank to make the shrimp run so fast, and it’s kind of cruel if you ask me. Somebody get PETA on the phone: **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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‘Your Tax Dollars at Work’ Update: Shrimp on a Treadmill
Patch : By now the GOP presidential candidates have seen it all: hecklers, protesters, haters of all shapes and sizes. Well, mostly all. On Thursday afternoon in Iowa City, Michele Bachmann encountered a man dressed in a robot suit, who shouted her down with the aid of a built-in megaphone. He called himself, “roboprof,” and was booed and quickly asked to leave Hamburg Inn No. 2, where Bachmann made the campaign stop. “I am a gay robot. I oppose Bachmann’s position on gays, whether they are human or robot,” said the man, who declined to give his name, although he admitted to being the same robot who heckled Bill Clinton at the University of Iowa in 2007.
