On 2012-07-19 05:42, ed rhodes wrote:
Getting back to "The Dark Knight," have you seen where Rush Limbaugh is claiming that the character Bain is being used deliberately to smear Mitt Romney since he used to be CEO of a corporation called Bain Capital?

On 2012-07-19 08:29, S2000magician wrote:

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On 2012-07-19 05:42, ed rhodes wrote:
Getting back to "The Dark Knight," have you seen where Rush Limbaugh is claiming that the character Bain is being used deliberately to smear Mitt Romney since he used to be CEO of a corporation called Bain Capital?

Rush Limbaugh gives too much credit to the Democrats. Even if Bane were spelt "Bain", the Democrats couldn't have planned something so elaborate; does he really think that they'd have had another Batman movie ready to go if Newt Gingrich were the presumptive candidate?

On 2012-07-19 09:47, Woland wrote:

That's not what Rush said. He said that the homonyms would be used in that fashion, not that the name "Bane" ahd been created for that purpose.

On 2012-07-19 05:37, Woland wrote:
How much money did how many students borrow in order to take courses on comic books and find good jobs as what?

On 2012-07-19 09:59, rockwall wrote:
Balducci, context and tone are everything. He doesn't think the character was created to attack Romney. He expects the left to use that angle. He thinks dopes that 'think' Bane would equal Bain are the same dopes that the left will push this too.

OK Woland, I don't normally disagree with you but I'm going to on this one. I believe it's one subject. How would taking this subject be different than taking a subject on Greek Mythology?

Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that as many as one out of three college graduates today are in jobs that previously or historically have been filled by people with lesser educations or none. The U.S. now has 115,000 janitors with college degrees, along with 83,000 bartenders, 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers, and 323,000 waiters and waitresses.

Employers, because they realize that many college graduates aren’t really educated, now routinely quiz job seekers on what they majored in and what courses they took, a practice virtually unknown a generation ago. Good luck if you majored in gender studies, communications, art history, pop culture, or (really) the history of dancing in Montana in the 1850s.

Current and former collegians now owe more than $1 trillion in student loans—and only 26 percent of the debtors are currently paying anything back, down from 38 percent five years ago. (These loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, a reform imposed to stymie borrowers who would graduate and promptly file for bankruptcy.)

The cost of college rose 440 percent between 1982 and 2007, compared with cost of living increases of 106 percent and family income growth of 147 percent over the same period. The Sallie Mae report indicates that even students from high-income families are taking out student loans—27 percent used federal loans in 2012, up from 19 percent last year.

It has been observed that movies can reflect the national mood. Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being put out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: A highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past . . . who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society.