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Post-Tampa, the 1% get their swag back??

Just in case you were beginning to think rich people were deeply misunderstood and that they feel the pain of those who are less fortunate, here’s the world’s wealthiest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, with some helpful advice.

“If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain,” she said in a magazine piece. “Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.”

Yeah, let them eat cake.

Rinehart made her money the old-fashioned way: She inherited it. Her family iron ore prospecting fortune of $30.1 billion makes her Australia’s wealthiest person and the richest woman on the planet.

Smh…

CLICK HERE or the title link above for the full article by Steve Kornacki.

Related:

- Salon debunks Ryan’s biggest lies and misrepresentations from his RNC nomination acceptance address last night HERE.

- Washington Post: Paul Ryan’s breathtakingly dishonest speech.

- Rachel Maddow on how Ryan lied to America last night.

- Politico Op-Ed by former Michigan governor, Jennifer Granholm: Lyin’ Ryan.

- Fox News on Paul Ryan’s RNC speech in three words: “dazzling, deceiving and distracting.”

- Salon: Paul Ryan’s brazen lies.

- Salon: Press turns on Paul Ryan - “One of Paul Ryan’s main assets was his popularity in the media. After his dishonest speech, it may be blown.”

Lupe Fiasco’s “Bitch Bad” is only the latest example of a male hip-hop star trying to empower women but actually demeaning them.

“Of course, “Bitch Bad” is only one song, and Lupe didn’t arrive here on his own. Hip-hop is littered with examples of men, most of whom mean well, treading into the lives of women and getting it flat wrong. The Atlanta collective Goodie Mob is one of the most talented and thoughtful groups to emerge in the mid-1990s, but even their ode to black women, the targets of the vast majority of the disrespect in hip-hop, falls short. In “Beautiful Skin,” group member and eventual solo star Cee-Lo offers up this lament:

At one time my mind couldn’t conceive, a woman had to dress a certain way to believe.

But in the same breath, allow me to say, that

If you believe young lady, you wouldn’t dress that way, and I,

Was attracted to yo’ class, I could not see all yo’ ass, and I was very content

The chorus then says that “you got to respect yourself before I can,” invoking the destructive notion that women who dress “provocatively”—a term whose definition is always in the eye of the beholder—aren’t ever deserving of respect.”

CLICK HERE or the title link above to read the full article.

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It may be subtle, but the Romney campaign’s message is tailored to its supporters’ implicit racial biases

CLICK HERE to read the article.

From the article, “Murray Energy Miners Allege They Had To Give Up Pay To Attend ‘Mandatory’ Romney Rally.”

CLICK HERE to read the full article.

The true face of the GOP. Click HERE to hear the words right out of candidate, Tom Smith’s own mouth. Smdh….

“What he said was indefensible and the way he handled it made it worse,” Rove told POLITICO’s Mike Allen at the first POLITICO Playbook Breakfast at the Republican National Convention.

“This is a program that he taped and obviously he saw nothing wrong with it in his tape,” Rove said, pointing out that Akin didn’t respond to the taped interview until two days later.

Rove said Akin has no option other than getting out of the race.

“I know Todd. He’s a good man. He has a good heart,” Rove said. “But he said a real stupid, indefensible thing from which there’s no recovery. And if he really cares about the values of conservatism and pro-life, then he will not go down in defeat with the biggest loss of any Republican candidate for Senate in the modern history.”

Talk about a self-inflicted wound! You hear that? That’s me playing the world’s tiniest violin. Read more HERE (or click link above).