Peter Croce Project
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An amalgam of thoughts, ideas, propositions, and media from yours truly. My aim is to make you think and entertain you.
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probably written by a sociologist. hahaha
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This is quite an interesting video. Hum.
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Song of the day from my skate playlist: “Feel It All Around” - Washed Out
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It really is amazing.
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There are so many things that are amazing about this.
Stephen: “Must be nice. Rick Santorum understands the real American dream that if you work hard enough, your children can have fewer opportunities that you did.”
Just to be clear, Rick Santorum actually said that.
(via sociolab)
Word clouds from the President’s State of the Union speech and the Republican response.
![thedailywhat:
Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns of the Day: Semi-bowing to political pressure, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney released his tax forms this morning and — surprise — he’s stupid rich.
How stupid rich? In 2010, Romney made $21.7 million. In 2011, the former Massachusetts governor made $20.9. In both years, the overwhelming majority of his income came from personal investments — capital gains, dividends, and interest.
In both years Romney owed significantly less taxes than the average American — 13.9% in 2010; 15.4% in 2011 (thanks George Bush) — while earning 900 times the median American salary without lifting a finger.
As becoming of the sort of comically wealthy person he is, Romney’s tax forms reveal he also maintained bank accounts in notorious tax havens such as Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Switzerland.
His forms show he paid taxed on all three accounts, before closing them. Of course, given the minuscule glimpse into Romney’s tax history, it’s difficult to tell if the two forms paint a complete picture.
To his credit, Romney did donate some $7 million to charity over the course of the last two years. (The majority of which went to the Mormon Church, but it still beats Biden’s $369 a year.)
All in all, nothing earth-shattering, although the forms certainly cement in the minds of the average voter just how above-average Romney is in the fortune department.
And it’s worth noting, as Wonkette does, that Romney released 23 years of tax returns to the McCain campaign, and they picked Sarah Palin for veep over him, so something in those other 21 years may have spooked them.
[photo: theatlantic.]
President Obama, please address tax reform tonight. Sincerely, Americans who know.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lybai4K0Cf1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns of the Day: Semi-bowing to political pressure, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney released his tax forms this morning and — surprise — he’s stupid rich.
How stupid rich? In 2010, Romney made $21.7 million. In 2011, the former Massachusetts governor made $20.9. In both years, the overwhelming majority of his income came from personal investments — capital gains, dividends, and interest.
In both years Romney owed significantly less taxes than the average American — 13.9% in 2010; 15.4% in 2011 (thanks George Bush) — while earning 900 times the median American salary without lifting a finger.
As becoming of the sort of comically wealthy person he is, Romney’s tax forms reveal he also maintained bank accounts in notorious tax havens such as Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Switzerland.
His forms show he paid taxed on all three accounts, before closing them. Of course, given the minuscule glimpse into Romney’s tax history, it’s difficult to tell if the two forms paint a complete picture.
To his credit, Romney did donate some $7 million to charity over the course of the last two years. (The majority of which went to the Mormon Church, but it still beats Biden’s $369 a year.)
All in all, nothing earth-shattering, although the forms certainly cement in the minds of the average voter just how above-average Romney is in the fortune department.
And it’s worth noting, as Wonkette does, that Romney released 23 years of tax returns to the McCain campaign, and they picked Sarah Palin for veep over him, so something in those other 21 years may have spooked them.
[photo: theatlantic.]
President Obama, please address tax reform tonight. Sincerely, Americans who know.
click here or the photo to sign!
then reblog as much as you can to get the word out!Why doesn’t ACTA get the attention of you all like SOPA did? ACTA is practically global, even if your country hasn’t signed it yet - it will affect us all.
Only 3,380 more needed.
ACTA is similar to SOPA and PIPA. sign this, call your congress people. back to being fairly a-political up in here after this.
I’m not going to stop being political, but sign this! At this point it’s a lot less than 12,000 (more like 1,100.) Speak up!
Amateur Night of the Day: President Obama sings the sultry opening line from Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” during a campaign event tonight at the Apollo Theatre.
Green, who was in attendance at the historic event (the first visit to the legendary Harlem landmark by a sitting president), has yet to share his thoughts on Obama’s loving homage.
[@alex_ogle.]
This is massive. Having a human president is really a beautiful thing.
This generated a ton of buzz today so here’s a repost. Quite a good read regardless of your affiliation.
It doesn’t matter if you’re right or left leaning, this effects everyone in the country. Submit this message to your senator!
But I thought the media had a liberal bias?!?!
Republicans frequently complain that news reporters are cheerleaders for President Obama. But a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism says it’s Obama who “has suffered the most unrelentingly negative treatment” of all the presidential candidates over the past five months. Pew found that only 9 percent of news stories about Obama were “positive” during that period. On the GOP side, Texas Gov. Rick Perry got the best treatment, with 32 percent positive coverage. Has the press soured on Obama?
Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
(via thedailyfeed)
