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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 08:45 AM Jul 2012

Mitt, meet EDGAR. Hammer, meet nail.

SAT JUL 14, 2012 AT 05:00 AM PDT
Mitt, meet EDGAR. Hammer, meet nail.
by 8ackgr0und N015e

"Excuse me, Mr. Romney, but I believe this is your signature...."


Romney can get red in the face defending his honor. He can hold his breath until he turns blue waiting for an apology. But he can't deny what he wrote in black and white. Well, he can try... but it won't work.
Looking at the database holding documents relating to Romney's tenure at Bain shocked me. I was shocked to realize this was the same database that introduced me to the web twenty years ago.

In 1992, a software application called Lynx was released for beta testing. By today's standards it wasn't very exciting. It was a crummy little text-based browser for something called the World-Wide Web. But twenty years ago, when 28.8 modems were the norm, it was revolutionary. For the first time in history, individual investors had the tools they needed to search the EDGAR database on their own FOR FREE.

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As you would expect, this is dry stuff. But it is searchable. THAT makes it interesting. For example -- if you enter the search string "Romney Bain" and limit your search to the time frame 2000 and 2012, you know what you find?

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Your search matched 14 documents.

Before you start stepping on the links and go running off down the rabbit-hole, read the synopsis of what you will find. It will save you time and make your adventures more productive. If you know how to use EDGAR -- have at it. Romney is the Reporting Person on all the filings


JUST LOOK HERE:
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar?text=romney+bain&first=2000&last=2012
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/14/1109807/-Mitt-meet-EDGAR-Hammer-meet-nail
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Mitt, meet EDGAR. Hammer, meet nail. (Original Post) kpete Jul 2012 OP
Very interesting. myrna minx Jul 2012 #1
Folks should read this. earthside Jul 2012 #2
damn........or damned. nt nc4bo Jul 2012 #3
+ underpants Jul 2012 #4

earthside

(6,960 posts)
2. Folks should read this.
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 08:56 AM
Jul 2012

Important information.

Rmoney has got a serious problem here if the pressure is kept on him and the MSM is forced to do some actual reporting.

Of course, the pressure really means that Rmoney is going to have to release his tax documents ... or if he doesn't, his campaign will be mortally wounded (which the tax records may also do to him).

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