Well, Nick. A google search on "Big Dig Corruption" returned the following:
About 911,000 results (0.18 seconds) Take a few minutes to educate yourself on this particular topic. --Doug On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Eric, **** > > ** ** > > [...] > > ** ** > > As for the corruption, I just don’t know. **** > > ** ** > > Nick **** > > ** ** > > *From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On > Behalf Of *ERIC P. CHARLES > *Sent:* Sunday, August 19, 2012 7:49 PM > *To:* Douglas Roberts > *Cc:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] PRES12_WTA Prospectus - The University of Iowa**** > > ** ** > > Doug, > As an adamant atheist, this is still low on my list of reasons to dislike > Romney. > > No one has really talked about what Bain Capital does - I have nothing > against raising money, but he should *not *be allowed to claim he was a > job creator <http://doonesbury.slate.com/strip/archive/2012/07/02>. Also, > the idea that he will be less in Wall Street's pocket than Obama is > laughable. > > No one has talked about how he was Governor for the biggest pork-barrel, > corruption riddled, big-government, public-works disaster in US history - > Boston's "Big Dig <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Dig>", $14.6 > BILLION dollars... and then the ceiling collapsed. > > People are still not sure how to handle his roll in the Mass health care > laws. > > He pulled off not-raising taxes while governor of Mass, only by > implementing an incredible number of "fees" and slashing funding to > education. > > When you look at his record, he sure seems to be for big, intrusive, > expansive government - the opposite of his supposedly republican values - > and he seems to be war-mongering recently and getting even more > invasion-of-your-home preachy in recent speeches. > > That said, he ebbs and flows with the poll results as well as any > politician I have seen. It almost seems bad enough that if the polls showed > he would win as a Hindu, you might have a new list of odd believes to > complain about pretty quickly. > > Eric > > P.S. These complaints should in *no way *be seen as an endorsement of > some other guy (or gal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein>). > > > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 05:41 PM, *Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net>*wrote: > > **** > > Or, possibly it's due to the growing education of the masses, and > the attendant dawning realization that Romney believes that god is a space > alien who lives on the crystal planet Kolob. And that he baptizes dead > people. And that before 1978 he held to church doctrine that black people > were "loathsome unto thy people". After 1978, of course, black people were > just hunky. **** > > ** ** > > In other words, it's becoming clear that he believes in really goofy shit, > and his judgement may therefore be a bit suspect.**** > > ** ** > > I mean, of course, the above belief set as compared one that requires > believing in a sadistic god and a useless savior; walking on water, rising > from the dead, big floods and ocean-going animal husbandry, etc.**** > > ** ** > > But maybe all of the above is just my perception, and the fact > that atheism continues to sound reasonable. Perhaps people are beginning to > realize that the better they get to know Romney, the less there is to like > about him.**** > > ** ** > > --Doug**** > > ** ** > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> > wrote:**** > > There has been an increase in the divergence between the two parties, > possibly due to the VP choice?**** > > ** ** > > -- Owen**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > [image: Inline image 1]**** > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org**** > > > > **** > > ** ** > > -- > Doug Roberts > drobe...@rti.org > d...@parrot-farm.net**** > > http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins**** > > > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell**** > > ** ** > > **** > > ** ** > > ============================================================**** > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv**** > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College**** > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org**** > > > ------------ > > Eric Charles > Assistant Professor of Psychology > Penn State University > Altoona, PA 16601 > > **** > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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