5 Theories Why Romney Won’t Release His Tax Records | The Big Picture

Love this blog. His ideas are fascinating. His theory #5 why Romney refuses to release his returns seems plausible. It has to be a reason that is simply unspinnable. Paying 0 taxes, for example, could merely be described as perfectly legal. It has to be worse than paying no taxes.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/09/romney-tax-records/

" Profiting handsomely from a housing/stock market short could easily be turned into an anti-Romney sound bite that would only add to the narrative of the candidate as a ruthless über-capitalist concerned only for himself while the 47 percent moocher class struggles.

The bottom line is that there's something in Mr. Romney's tax returns that he doesn't want made public. Having bet against America would be at the top of my list –far more devastating, in my opinion, than simply having paid an absurdly low rate."
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The 47% explained

http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romneys-47-who-are-dependent-on-the-government-2012-9

Mitt Romney Just Lost The Election - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/mitt-romney-just-lost-the-election-2012-9

"This is an utter disaster for Romney."

JON STEWART On Romney - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/jon-stewart-on-romney-2012-9

Who are the 47%?

LA Times: Does 'Innocence of Muslims' meet the free-speech test?

"But words don't have to urge people to commit violence in order to be subject to limits, says Lewis. "If the result is violence, and that violence was intended, then it meets the standard." "

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-chayes-innocence-of-muslims-first-amendment-20120918,0,3112718.story

Actor duped into appearing in 'Innocence of Muslims' explains - latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-crawley-innocence-of-muslims-actor-20120918,0,6570528.story

" Watching that awful trailer, I thought about the other actors who had been duped as I was. I felt particularly bad for Michael, who played George. His character became Muhammad. I can tell you without any doubt that Michael would never have played the part if he'd known what it would become."

A Soviet Captain who was stationed in a prison camp answers your questions

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z8qwl/iama_former_soviet_red_army_sergeant_stationed_in/

Interesting opinions on Soviet leadership, Islam, the US, Romney, Obama, the Kardashians (he is Armenian).

LA Times - Californians spend freely on Amazon.com before sales tax deadline

http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?m=b&a=rp&id=2666310&postId=2666310

"The tax revenue from these online sales is being lauded as a win for the debt-ridden state of California, which estimates it will see an additional $317 million annually as a result; more than $83 million of that is expected to come from Amazon alone. "

"If anonymous has what they claim, the GOP is f&cked"

See game theory comment, attached

"Hackers Say They Nabbed Romney's Tax Records, Plan to Release: An anonymous individual or group is alleging that they have gained "all available 1040 tax forms" of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney by accessing computers in the Franklin office of the professional services firm PWC"

http://reddit.com/comments/ze9zn

Hackers Claim To Have Mitt Romney's Tax Returns - Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-claim-to-have-mitt-romneys-tax-returns-2012-9

"The deal is quite simple. Convert $1,000,000 USD to Bitcoins (Google if if you need a lesson on what Bitcoin is) using the various markets available out in the world for buying. Transfer the Bitcoins gathered to the Bitcoin address listed below. It does not matter if small amounts or one large amount is transferred, as long as the final value of the Bitcoins is equal to $1,000,000 USD at the time when it is finished. The keys to unlock the data will be purged and what ever is inside the documents will remain a secret forever.

Failure to do this before September 28, the entire world will be allowed to view the documents with a publicly released key to unlock everything.

Bitcoin Address to Stop Release:

1HeF89wMjC48bWNgWvVo7Wu3RaLW8XVsE8

And the same time, the other interested parties will be allowed to compete with you. For those that DO want the documents released will have an different address to send to. If $1,000,000 USD is sent to this account below first; then the encryption keys will be made available to the world right away. So this is an equal opportunity for the documents to remain locked away forever or to be exposed before the September 28 deadline.

Who-ever is the winner does not matter to us."

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Burning Man 2012 - one photographer's experience

Enjoyed this short blog and pictures about Burning Man. http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/09/03/welcome-home-to-burning-man/