GOP's Financial Record

In Florida the GOP's financial records were released this past Friday under federal investigation for lavish spending and superfluous expenses. The record confirmed that over 7 million dollars in American Express credit cards was spent under 31 past and current elected officials - including ex-chairman Jim Greer and the former party executive director Delmar Johnson.

According to the Miami Herald it was a loophole in election law that kept their receipts from the public eye. Despite being subpoenaed in the grand jury investigation of Ray Sansom (R-Destin), elected officials and Greer refused to release their foot-high pile of AmEx credit card slips.

An excerpt from the Miami Herald reads:

According to American Express billing statements obtained by the Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times, he charged nearly $500,000 to his American Express card since he was hand-picked by Gov. Charlie Crist in January 2007 to head the party.

The bills include luxury hotels, costly entertainment, high end dining, spas, stylish clothing and gifts. Not long ago we watched as Kentucky senate minority leader Mitch McConnell attended a private meeting behind closed doors with Wall Street elites like Hedge Fund alongside Texas Senator John Cornyn. It is these actions from the GOP that reveal economic misunderstanding and a lack of empathy toward the public interest. In knowing, it is not difficult to conclude why the GOP is against financial reform.

Meltdown Mogul's Senate Agenda - Through Time

Jeff Greene has found a way to belatedly jump into the Florida Senate race and win the democratic primary. He is a proud owner of a time machine.

Jeff Greene's Time Travel Agenda:

1. Circa 2006
- Greene will try to convince himself not to steal financial ideas from John Paulson to kick start his involvement in the bank crisis. He will tell himself not to hedge his real-estate investments by shorting subprime mortgages via credit default swaps. Scientists warned meeting his past self may collapse the space time continuum. A Greene spokesman responded "...but running for senate demands a candidate that didn't help create the recession. "

2. Circa 1980's
- Greene will spawn in front of Harvard business school, disguised in pink-rimmed sunglasses and acid-washed jeans, to warn himself not to register under the GOP or to run as a GOP member. He will tell himself that running for an open seat in the California House will fail and that it just looks bad to his democratic primary since he won't be challenging an incumbent. He will also suggest that he moves to Florida before 2008.

3. Circa fall 2008
- Greene will intersect with actor Ron Howard before his past-self offers a six-month lease of a home in Brentwood for $28,500 a month. This time he will be truthful to Howard and inform him that the home is infested with rats, has faulty appliances and that the water is polluted. He will not tell Howard that this will save himself a $616,000 dollar lawsuit.

4. Circa winter 2008
- Greene will pay a challenger to fight against Mike Tyson on the day of his wedding so that the convicted rapist will no longer be able to attend as his best man.

5. March 2008
-Greene will call his mother and ask that she google Heidi Fleiss before attending Passover dinner. Mrs. Greene will no longer attend nor condone that Heidi remain a house guest in her son's home.

6. September 2009
- Greene will ask his friend Paris Hilton to persuade the Tampa Tribune Editor not to publish:

“Greene was a Pioneer in Credit-Default Swaps and Got Out Before the Financial Implosion.”

The editor will instead publish,

"I thank Greene for making my dreams come true, albeit temporarily."

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Logic 101

On one of my cross posts to the Tallahassee Democrat I was left a link beneath the following comment (it's noticeable that most of the comments are not related to the post itself, which consists solely of Gallup Poll graphs):

"...a socialist teacher abusing tax payer money go figure!"

It is worthwhile to look into smelly hyperlinks left on the blogosphere's doorstep because most of the time there is going to be information that goes against the point of linking it in the first place or they just failed to deduce the information with logic. For instance, the false dichotomy - one of the most basic logical fallacies learned in critical thinking.

The article was about the Oregon middle school teacher who is being investigated for using school hours for an anti-tea party website that encouraged others to attend their rallies in order to discredit the movement. He would do so by holding racist signs, wearing Hitler costumes and acting as irrational as possible to "embarrass" the party; a party already notorious for racist and irrational behavior. Levin said in an interview with Talking Points Memo,

"Our goal is that whenever a Tea Partier says 'Barack Obama was not born in America,' we're going be right there next to them saying, 'Yeah, in fact he wasn't born on Earth! He's an alien!'"

Some would hold both claims as equally outrageous. Now this teacher is being described as a comrade to socialism. In this conclusion, as defined by supporters of the tea party, anyone who is against their movement is a socialist. I guess I am socialist also for thinking that joining the tea party or being a socialist aren't the only two options. Or just thinking, period.

Additionally no post was inclined to focus on the fact that the investigation was launched only after the founding of the website and that any possible evidence against Levin's misuse of school property are yet to be discovered.