If Polygamy Was Still O.K. This Wouldn't Be A Problem

So Big Head's in trouble again (if you can call people laughing at him "trouble") for last night's "binders full of women" comment during the debate - and also for what it reveals about him:

                                                The "c" word I've stressed repeatedly.

 No, not that one:

Romney’s noblesse oblige response to a question about women in the workplace with an anecdote about how he went out and, gosh darn, found himself some ladies for his cabinet provoked a strong response because it reeks of classic Romney condescension. When he explained to the Town Hall questioner that he has a staffer who told him, “I need to be able to get home at 5 o’clock so I can be there for making dinner for my kids and being with them when they get home from school,” it was telling, not because flex time isn’t an important issue but because, dude, you had two minutes to discuss women’s progress and you spent it congratulating yourself for the extraordinary effort you had to make to hire women, and how they need to get home to make dinner. Oh, and here’s a huge shock: Romney did not, in fact, actively solicit those now infamous binders. 

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, "condescension," the magic elixir that makes holier-than-thou Mormonism some people's cup of tea. And don't forget lying - as Joseph Smith's tales prove, you can't even have Mormonism without lying - and, as a Mormon bishop who makes $10,000 bets, Mitt Romney is no exception:

MassGAP, the women’s coalition responsible for the effort to get more women appointed to state government, gives the Washington Post a statement saying Romney has it wrong – they, and not Romney, initiated the process . The group also notes that female appointments actually fell off during Romney’s tenure.

But he marched with Martin Luther King! And the Mormons discovered cold fusion! And Jesus is "coming back" to Missouri! And he'll get his own planet when he dies! And it'll be filled with women!

But not Ann Romney, because he'll probably be "sick of her" by then, like I am.

His former Anybody-But-Mitt (but now breathlessly-screaming) "supporters" know what he probably meant - Hey - they flip-flopped changed their minds, too! 

But wait - let's do one more:

During the second presidential debate, Mitt Romney touted his efforts to hire women as governor of Massachusetts. 

“We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. 

“I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks,’ and they brought us whole binders full of women.” Romney, however, did not have a history of appointing women to high-level positions in the private sector. Romney did not have any women partners as CEO of Bain Capital during the 1980s and 1990s. 

The venture capital and private equity fields were male-dominated, to be sure, especially during Romney’s time. Women started to break into the upper echelons of the firm after it started a hedge fund, called Brookside in 1996. 

Today, 4 of out of 49 of the firm’s managing directors in the buyout area are women.

Folks - I'm no feminist - but there are more women contributing to TMR than that,...

 

Bill Maher On Mitt Romney & Bain Capital: "This Is The Same Thing That Makes Guys Like Tony Robbins Rich"

What a nest of vipers we live under. ("Under" being the operative word.) Or is it a "hive," as Arthur Brisbane, the outgoing public editor of the New York Times called it?

Snakes out to bite us, bees out to sting us, it's just so hard to tell anymore. 

Whatever it is, naturally, when Bill Maher made the statement that's become the title of this post, he probably didn't know Oprah Winfrey - the woman who brought us Barack Obama and promotes Tony Robbins - also parks her money with Mitt Romney's Mormon-owned Bain Capital, but it figures, doesn't it?

As Oprah privately (yet famously, thanks to publisher Nan Talese) told author James Frey after dishonestly grilling him on her show about (what else?) honesty:

"It's just business."

Yep, business, that's all it is.

Along with a few healthy doses of hypocrisy, and deception, and lying:

Winfrey was mentioned at a recent national cult conference in Connecticut, according to Philadelphia-area expert David Clark. A former Bible-based cult member who later worked as an exit counselor, Clark said attendees recommended Winfrey get cult-awareness training so she would be attuned to how people can be brainwashed.  

"My main concern is Oprah's long history with New Age people," Clark said.  

Clark remembers Winfrey criticizing brainwashing early in her TV career. Since then, he said, she's been associated with New Age spirituality gurus whose messages and tactics have some cult-like qualities.  

Guests who have appeared on Oprah to promote mystical philosophies include Gary Zukav, who offers "spiritual guidance," and self-proclaimed "lifestyle-makeover expert" Cheryl Richardson. Winfrey has also been aligned with New Age-religion author Marianne Williamson and celebrities who promote similar beliefs, such as actress Shirley MacLaine and spiritualist Deepak Chopra.   

"She definitely has a New Age cocoon of sorts," Szimhart said of Winfrey. 

So now, after nests and hives, we have a cocoon. Well.

Call cultism what you will, but - the more I look into it - the more incestuous it is, the more deadly, and - now with TWO presidents wrapped up in it - it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger,...

I'll Post Anything With "Romney" And "Bunga-Bunga"

You're So Bain, Part I (The Vetting Of Mitt Romney,...)

A promise is a promise, and I promised you something on presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, Mormon leader Joseph Smith, and his love (and his cult's love) for con games and scams - and here it is. If you click on the links - and you'd better if you plan to understand the totality of what I'm saying here - you'll be getting information on LOTS of cultists, cultish thinking, and cult networks, all in an effort to assist you in seeing a more complete picture of The NewAge Movement, than what is merely on the surface of the post. Have you ever heard a NewAger say, "It's all connected"? Well, Chillin's, this is exactly what they're getting at - but re-engineered to expose information rather than obscure it.

Go slow, check out each link, and wait for the "A-ha!" moment. It might take some time as you surf the site but it'll happen - I promise - and, unlike with conspiracy sites, you can rest assured my stuff is all 100% true. It's just a vaguely understood topic, deliberately "occult" (hidden) and so, rarely covered as a whole, rather than in bits and pieces.

So where to begin? (I like how Mitt is all, "Must you?" in this photo above. Yes, I must,…) Let's start with a post I did some time ago on Dan Hurley's outstanding book, "Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry," back when I was attempting to give you a glimpse at the kinds of criminal lowlife's behind the scam of supplements and vitamins. Birds of a feather always flock together. And look - here's another one now, in the Nutraceutical International promotional link provided by my reader, (Miss) PW:

Nutraceutical's beginnings date to 1993, when Bain Capital, Inc.--a Boston-based private equity company--paired with senior management to organize Nutraceutical and consolidate what its leaders thought was a very divided nutritional supplements industry. Bain Capital's leader was Mitt Romney, the Mormon Republican,...

Well, fancy that. And while Bain Capital is located in Boston, where is this nutritional supplements consolidation machine, Nutraceutical, located? According to it's website, it's plopped down right in the power center of Mormon country, just outside of Salt Lake City:

1400 Kearns Blvd., Second Floor, Park City, UT 84060.

How am I doing so far? You following me? Mitt-Mormon-Bain-Nutraceutical-supplements. Oh, baby, we're cooking with fire now! Let's turn up the flame a bit, because, dammit, I promised you people some Mormon-fried weinies:

When Nutraceutical was founded in the early 1990s, it joined a natural products industry in Utah that had a long and colorful history. For example, in a 1979 article, writer Elaine Jarvik said that six Utah herbal companies were not only "the first companies in the world to put herbs in capsules, but they now account for 85 percent of the nation's herb business,…" 

In 1998, the Los Angeles Times ran a four-part series on alternative health. The third article focused on how Utah became what writer David R. Olmos called the "Silicon Valley of herbs." He pointed out that the state's herbal and supplement industry was "bigger even than the skiing trade." In addition to entrepreneurship, Olmos credited Utah's Mormon culture. Although the LDS church had long accepted modern scientific medicine, many of its members used herbs and other forms of alternative healing, partly due to the church's "Word of Wisdom" found in founder Joseph Smith's Doctrine and Covenants. Thus, herbalism, capitalism, and religious factors all took part in creating the history of Utah's herbal products industry.

O.K., that's already a lot to unpack, but I don't mind because it gives me a chance to show you the deceptive game these "nice" Mormon folks are playing on us. Let's look at a previous quote again:

Bain Capital, Inc.--a Boston-based private equity company--paired with senior management to organize Nutraceutical and consolidate what its leaders thought was a very divided nutritional supplements industry.

If that's true, then why are we, all of a sudden, talking about herbs? Who doesn't like herbs? Herbs aren't even "alternative" medicine - real medicine is made from herbs.

The use of the term "herbs" is a Trojan Horse to lure you in. See, it's like when you're nailing some Left-wing alarmist on "global warming" and they immediately switch to the more slippery "climate change" (and I hate when they do that!) their hope is that you won't catch on to the movement of the goalposts:

"Quackery is a pejorative term. Some time ago we recognized that words raise emotions and mental pictures. We recognized the cognitive dissonance raised by them, so we tried to eliminate quackery. We recognized the cognitive dissonance raised when one discusses acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, and healing at a distance as if they were quackery when we made claims. For a century, most people just could not allow for the possibility that these things really work. 

So over time we recognized that we had to do something about our language. That would be the first step in enabling the thought revolution that is upon us, and changing the paradigm in medicine and science. We simply changed the adjectives, and gave alternate names to the methods, added a few phrases to eliminate negative reactions, and shifted the negative terms to descriptions of the Medical Establishment (and, note the caps in that one.) 

We now use words like unorthodox, nonstandard, unconventional, alternative, complementary, and the latest, “integrative.” They produce no emotional reaction. Along with this we invented false dichotomies, which became accepted facts; like holistic vs. reductionist, Western vs. Eastern medicine, linear vs. non-linear thinking. The dichotomies reinforced people’s feelings that these things were opposites, but of equivalent linguistic and scientific value."

But, of course, they aren't. Herbs and supplements are two totally different things - and Mitt Romney is in the business of supplements - it says so, right there on his company's website:

Welcome to Nutraceutical, one of the nation's largest manufacturers of nutritional supplements sold in health and natural food stores.

Not a word about herbs - or herbs and supplements - are we clear?

ARE WE CLEAR?

Yeah, Big Head, because you won't come clean with us on your own - and nobody else is going to vet you - I'm going to have to do it myself. And I'm the guy who knows EXACTLY what you're doing.

To be cont'd,...

 

HUGE Fart Coming (Prepare For A Bain In The Ass,...)

You know what's wild? I'll tell you what's wild: 

The way people can be looking at something cultish or cult related - I mean staring right at it, like a one eyed cat peeking in a seafood store - and still not see it for what it is.

This is especially bad when I think of journalism, or like, my fellow bloggers, who can actually write "ETHICS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE," while wondering why this little person is always on them about their ethics.

They're BLIND, I tell you, BLIND.

For instance, we've all been reading about Bain Capital, right? Mitt Romney's old firm? You know Mitt Romney, right? He's the cult member. The cult member I get major push-back for calling a cult member because - and I quote - "All the Mormons I've known were/are good, honest people... except for those that are not." Now THAT'S a classic cult endorsement if I've ever seen one!

What anyone's impression of individual cult members means when picking a president, I don't know, but that's the "logic" some have got working for them. I mean, let's forget Mormons for a second. Let's talk about another popular cult for a moment, the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Anybody ever met a mean Jehovah's Witness? There they stand by the subway, holding The Watchtower, not forcing it on you or anything. Nice folks, right?

But do you think, even for a second, that if a Jehovah's Witness was about to become President of the United States, there wouldn't be a few questions directed his way, even by these very same folks crying "bigotry" whenever Romney's "faith" comes up? Say, about presumptive President Jehovah's feelings on, oh I don't know, whether children with cancer should be able to get blood transfusions maybe?

Come on - you people have GOT to be joking.

Anyway, Bain Capital, a great place. Our new shining example of capitalism in action. Or so I am told. Obama calls it an example of "vulture capitalism," but - this is the part where looking right at something comes into play - Obama doesn't know how to sell it, which is why he's pivoting to Romney's time as Governor of Massachusetts. Bad move, NewAge-Cult-Boy, bad fucking move.

Bain Capital is a goldmine. Not only because it's an example of horrible capitalism, but because it also reveals how cults work, and how those "good, honest people" in the Mormon "church" are up to their ears in Joseph Smith's favorite pastime:

Conning the public. 

See, a reader who goes by "PW" noticed I'm not crazy about evertybody's favorite mongoloid Mormon, or "alternative" medicine, and - along with some interesting tales about how those "nice" folks in the Mormon "church" behave in the real world - he directed me to a company called Nutraceutical International that is a *perfect* jumping off point for a bit of the ol' investigative journalism nobody else seems interested in doing because WE MUST DEFEAT OBAMA!

Now, I agree we must, that much has been impressed upon me. But I'm also always impressed when political concerns are allowed to get in the way of exposing the truth - especially about cults - so prepare yourselves:

I'm looking to impress YOU now,...