Bloomfield Hills consistently ranks as one of the top five wealthiest cities in the United States with population between 2,500 to 9,999 — it currently is listed at the number four position and in 1990 it was ranked number two, and has the highest income of any city outside of California, Florida or Virginia. The median income for a family is over $200,000. In 2000, 49% of residential property in Bloomfield Hills had a value of over $1,000,000.
This is my sacrifice
This is my life
This is my only regret
That I ever was born
F. Murray Sandyclam wrote:You're not talking about the Adams book that was made into the miniseries, are you?
RE: that, I was actually angered by the fact that they chose Sewell to portray Hamilton. WTF?
The one I'm reading is different, simply called John Adams by Page Smith - I need to read about some of the more exciting founding fathers next, probably go right to Washington. Adams was like the pudgy kid who whined that if only everyone listened to him, things would be great. Not to short shift his diplomatic skills, which were his biggest contribution to the revolution, convincing France and Holland to give us tons of loans.
Back to today, there is starting to be some serious separation in the swing states and purple states:
* OHIO: Obama 53%, Romney 43% - Obama +4% net since August (CBS/NYT)
* FLORIDA: Obama 53%, Romney 44% - Obama +6% net since August (CBS/NYT)
* FLORIDA: Obama 49%, Romney 46% (Insider Advantage)
* IOWA: Obama 51%, Romney 44% - Obama +5% net since August (Public Policy)
* PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 54%, Romney 42% - Obama +1% net since July (CBS/NYT)
* PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 53%, Romney 44% - Obama +4% net since August (Franklin & Marshall)
Chevalier Mal Fet wrote:
* OHIO: Obama 53%, Romney 43% - Obama +4% net since August (CBS/NYT)
* FLORIDA: Obama 53%, Romney 44% - Obama +6% net since August (CBS/NYT)
* FLORIDA: Obama 49%, Romney 46% (Insider Advantage)
* IOWA: Obama 51%, Romney 44% - Obama +5% net since August (Public Policy)
* PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 54%, Romney 42% - Obama +1% net since July (CBS/NYT)
* PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 53%, Romney 44% - Obama +4% net since August (Franklin & Marshall)
Chevalier Mal Fet wrote:
* OHIO: Obama 53%, Romney 43% - Obama +4% net since August (CBS/NYT)
* FLORIDA: Obama 53%, Romney 44% - Obama +6% net since August (CBS/NYT)
* FLORIDA: Obama 49%, Romney 46% (Insider Advantage)
* IOWA: Obama 51%, Romney 44% - Obama +5% net since August (Public Policy)
* PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 54%, Romney 42% - Obama +1% net since July (CBS/NYT)
* PENNSYLVANIA: Obama 53%, Romney 44% - Obama +4% net since August (Franklin & Marshall)
I love it. This applies Rasmussen's weighting to all polls. Of course Rasmussen is notorious for changing their weighting a week before election day so that they can claim accuracy later. More important than the numbers themselves is how the numbers move, where the momentum is, that is really the way to read these polls in terms of momentum.
I'm not sure I buy these 8-10 point leads, but 4-5 is fine with me, outside the margin of error, and basically meaning hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people in these states all have to suddenly change their mind in this last month. Time is running out and the movement is not in Romney's direction. The media will call it a horse-race until Romney is literally glue. If the polls stay like this or increase, then the not so dedicated Republican voters decide there is no reason for them to pull the lever for a douche-bag they hate anyway and would rather do something else with their time.
How bad is it? Obama is starting to spend ad dollars in Arizona.
The dude just can't help it. He HAS to fall into every rich guy stereotype there is. Of course he's going to pick a white republican golfer as the "Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century".
It reminds me of how several year ago Vancouver had a right wing "establishment" asshole mayor who happened to be wheelchair bound.
His charity of choice? Some bullshit providing support for "disabled sailing."
Hey asshole, if someone can afford sailing as a fucking hobby, disabilities or not, they probably don't need any charity.
Zerohero wrote:shooting cum on that hot chick that is my altar.
doubleblumpkin wrote:Guess who's riding a pig through the jungle
hahaha i used to fucking terrorize my brother for joining the GOLF TEAM in his high school. he was such a fucking wannabe yuppie larvae his entire life..
Oh man, I know this total crust warrior dude who is an avid golfer, and he has a golf shirt that he wears when the course requires it. So he's out golfing in his golf shirt and his black shorts made out of patches.
Zerohero wrote:shooting cum on that hot chick that is my altar.
doubleblumpkin wrote:Guess who's riding a pig through the jungle
F. Murray Sandyclam wrote:The plebes will always have Golden Tee!
Haha....my boss has built a bar/lounge area in the basement of the building I work in and we have a Golden Tee '96 machine. It's memory is all fucked up and the volume changes randomly to ear splitting levels at times.
If Obama would lift these burdening tax restrictions on small business we could update our Golden Tee machine into the 2000s....
A small word of thanks to Cardinal Dolan, Robert George and K-Lo for helping shift the Catholic vote massively toward Obama with their summer campaign for religious liberty. And special thanks to Paul Ryan. No actual Catholic could ever find anything but puerile cruelty in the works of Ayn Rand, or rally to the idea that home-care for the elderly should be sacrificed to reduce tax rates for the super-rich. Paul Ryan believes that the basic principles of Rand can be compatible with Catholicism. American Catholics are just not that dumb or confused about their faith.
Fuck, the Romney/Ryan ticket is an absolute disaster if even some Catholics would jump ship like this.
F. Murray Sandyclam wrote:To be a fly on the wall in their meetings when they were trying to decide on a running mate. I hope they had all that shit on a whiteboard...indexed tic-tac-toe categories of sucking, danger, potential advantages, alienation, good hair, political heft, cock size, size of khaki collection, golf handicap, whiteness of teeth, favors owed to cronies, lie/truth ratio, fetish liabilities, old girlfriends...
it would provide the same feeling as that whiteboard from the Metallica documentary containing all the potential album titles... from which St. Anger was chosen
good thing I'll be dead soon, cause I'm tired of liars winning
Pisscubes wrote:I wonder if America will ever even TRY to stop off-shore banking? Seems to me like a good idea-- shit ton of revenue just waiting to be harvested. And I highly doubt many people with off-shore bank accounts would have even the slightest change in their life-styles if they had to pay taxes on those trillions out there.
They're trying. There have been a ton of prosecutions and settlements with wealthy U.S. citizens and Swiss banks over tax havens. New legislation is trying to curtail shadow banking, which involves substantial off balance sheet transactions. The risks of lax regulation in offshore spendthrift trusts, funds, and partnerships create minimal economic growth, but provide vehicles to hide losses or create a false impression of solid liquidity (like hiding debts offshore while transferring equity onto the books.)
The risks are HUGE compared to the amount of investable income not subject to tax that somehow makes it back onshore.
