Romney Roulette u - The Friedlander Group · 2013. 12. 11. · Romney Roulette His VP Pick is bold,...
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27 AV 5772 // AUGUST 815 2012 // AMI MAGAZINE 15 BY YOSSI KRAUSZ Romney Roulette HIS VP PICK IS BOLD, DANGEROUS MURDER WILL OUT ART CONSERVATION TOOL BECOMES CRIME-FIGHTING WEAPON U ntil now, the presidential campaign has felt like a name- calling contest. Now it’s finally feeling like a chess match. Mitt Romney took a decisive, if risky, move this weekend by announcing that Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would be his running mate. The decision was reportedly made over a week earlier, on August 1, and was kept quiet, with Ryan eventually slipping through the woods behind his home on Friday afternoon to avoid reporters and meet with the Romney campaign. Ryan is best known for promoting conservative fiscal policies. For several years he has promoted reduced taxes and reduced spending. Since 2008, he has authored several versions of proposed budgets that have come to be known as the Ryan Budget. He is the chairman of the House Budget Committee. Ryan is a Tea Party and fiscal conservative favorite. While his budgets have gotten less extreme in order to gain more support, he has successfully promoted strong reduction of Medicare growth and eventual privatization of the Medicare system, continued Bush-era tax cuts and other tax cuts, and systemic changes to Medicaid. Ryan’s views on fiscal reform have become more popular in the Republican Party. His first budget, in 2008, didn’t move past committee; his latest version, this year, won 228 votes in the House, with all but 10 of the House Republicans voting for it. Newt Gingrich was strongly criticized by Republican political and media figures when he suggested early in his campaign that Ryan’s plan represented “right-wing social engineering.” Mitt Romney has been urged by many right-wing pundits to run his campaign based on Ryan’s budget. Romney’s move endears him to right- wing Republicans, but allows the Obama administration to aim squarely at Ryan’s budget, even if Romney hasn’t clearly endorsed it. Until now the Romney campaign has been vague on fiscal policy. Ezra Friedlander, CEO of the Friedlander Group lobbying firm has met Ryan one-on- one, and told Ami that the congressman has a sharp mind and strong curiosity. In July, Ryan asked Friedlander about the differences between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews. “He also wanted to know about Orthodox Jews and their struggles. “The Ryan choice means that the Romney camp must see a weakness in their candidate’s appeal inside the party. They must have internal polling numbers that show him not doing well among the base. There are times when a presidential candidate chooses a running mate because they are not going to cause any uproar. [Senator] Rob Portman [of Ohio] would have been a pick like that. Ryan is not.” Some pundits have pointed to the Ryan pick as an analogue to the pick of Sarah Palin by John McCain in the 2008 elec- tion, a choice of a younger and exciting candidate to enliven an older, less energiz- ing one, but Ezra pointed out a difference. “The Palin energy was about personality; adding Ryan is about policy.” T he murderer has tracked blood from his victim around the crime scene. Not able to clean up, he decides to take a different tack to cover up: paint over the blood. Researchers at the University of Western Australia at Sydney have come up with a way to uncover such dark deeds. Since the 1930s, the art world has used infrared cameras to discover drawings hidden under paintings, common in paintings from times when new canvas was an expensive commodity. Because the underlying drawing often used pigments made of carbon, such as charcoal, the infrared film picks up the image; carbon is a good absorber of infrared light. The researchers used infrared cameras to shoot pictures of horse blood that had been covered by paint. Even under six layers of black paint, the camera still picked up the traces of blood. Color didn’t matter much either; even red paint, which a murderer might pick as the most obvious color to cover bloodstains, wouldn’t cover the blood under infrared. White acrylic paint best covered the blood, needing only two coats to obscure it. That’s probably because of lead or titanium pigments that are often used in such paint. Finding blood can often be important in solving a murder case, because DNA can identify the victim or the murderer. There’s an old phrase that says that blood will tell. And apparently so will paint. Romney and Ryan
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by yossi Krausz
Romney RouletteHis VP Pick is bold, dangerous
Murder Will Outart conserVation tool becomes crime-figHting weaPon
until now, the presidential campaign has felt like a name-calling contest. Now it’s finally feeling like a chess match.
Mitt Romney took a decisive, if risky, move this weekend by announcing that Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would be his running mate. The decision was reportedly made over a week earlier, on August 1, and was kept quiet, with Ryan eventually slipping through the woods behind his home on Friday afternoon to avoid reporters and meet with the Romney campaign.
Ryan is best known for promoting conservative fiscal policies. For several years he has promoted reduced taxes and reduced spending. Since 2008, he has authored several versions of proposed budgets that have come to be known as the Ryan Budget. He is the chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Ryan is a Tea Party and fiscal conservative favorite. While his budgets have gotten less extreme in order to gain more support, he has successfully promoted strong reduction of Medicare growth and eventual privatization of the Medicare
system, continued Bush-era tax cuts and other tax cuts, and systemic changes to Medicaid.
Ryan’s views on fiscal reform have become more popular in the Republican Party. His first budget, in 2008, didn’t move past committee; his latest version, this year, won 228 votes in the House, with all but 10 of the House Republicans voting for it. Newt Gingrich was strongly criticized by Republican political and media figures when he suggested early in his campaign that Ryan’s plan represented “right-wing social engineering.” Mitt Romney has been urged by many right-wing pundits to run his campaign based on Ryan’s budget.
Romney’s move endears him to right-wing Republicans, but allows the Obama administration to aim squarely at Ryan’s budget, even if Romney hasn’t clearly endorsed it. Until now the Romney campaign has been vague on fiscal policy.
Ezra Friedlander, CEO of the Friedlander Group lobbying firm has met Ryan one-on-one, and told Ami that the congressman has a sharp mind and strong curiosity.
In July, Ryan asked Friedlander about the differences between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews. “He also wanted to know about Orthodox Jews and their struggles.
“The Ryan choice means that the Romney camp must see a weakness in their candidate’s appeal inside the party. They must have internal polling numbers that show him not doing well among the base. There are times when a presidential candidate chooses a running mate because they are not going to cause any uproar. [Senator] Rob Portman [of Ohio] would have been a pick like that. Ryan is not.”
Some pundits have pointed to the Ryan pick as an analogue to the pick of Sarah Palin by John McCain in the 2008 elec-tion, a choice of a younger and exciting candidate to enliven an older, less energiz-ing one, but Ezra pointed out a difference. “The Palin energy was about personality; adding Ryan is about policy.”
The murderer has tracked blood from his victim around the crime scene. Not able to clean up, he decides to take a different tack to cover up: paint over the blood.
Researchers at the University of Western Australia at Sydney have come up with a way to uncover such dark deeds. Since the 1930s, the art world has used infrared cameras to discover drawings hidden under paintings, common in paintings from times when new canvas was an expensive commodity. Because the underlying drawing often used pigments made of carbon, such as charcoal, the infrared film picks up the image; carbon is a good absorber of infrared light.
The researchers used infrared cameras to shoot pictures of
horse blood that had been covered by paint. Even under six layers of black paint, the camera still picked up the traces of blood. Color didn’t matter much either; even red paint, which a murderer might pick as the most obvious color to cover bloodstains, wouldn’t cover the blood under infrared.
White acrylic paint best covered the blood, needing only two coats to obscure it. That’s probably because of lead or titanium pigments that are often used in such paint.
Finding blood can often be important in solving a murder case, because DNA can identify the victim or the murderer.
There’s an old phrase that says that blood will tell. And apparently so will paint.
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