Well…this little nugget just popped into my head and I thought I’d share it….this goes back to ole Mitt’s statement that “corporations are people, too, my friend” on the stump and highlights an unintended dig that Mitt had for those same corporations. When you look at the numbers, you’ll find that many, many corporations like GE did not pay any income taxes in the past few years….so does that make them part of the 47% that ole Mitt so callously derides? To me, this just points out the incoherence and ignorance that is the core of the repub candidate…I thought I’d seen the stupidist (I know that’s not a real word) candidate for president when I saw ole GW…but Mitt is in a class of his own and makes even Rick Perry look like a genius….bring on the debates…geez…
September 19th
Well…it was a day yesterday…man, I’m getting repetitive on the first sentence…so, let’s try something different…the day was a bore? the day was the most exciting thing I’ve ever witnessed? Nope, none of that works so I guess I’ll just get into it…it was cold sitting outside at the coffee shop to the point that I skipped the last paper and came back here in the warm to read it…and it looks like today is even colder so it may be an indoor morning…and at 40 degrees, I’m not sure that I’ll even put the top down….I just loved the Mitt video from a couple of days back…and I can’t wait to see what effect it has on the polls…okay, no politics here…it was a no cocktail night so I have lots of energy and I think I’ll take the rest of the week off to continue to feel okay…might make for boring nights but I have to think about the bigger picture…not much to do today….I am going to continue the cleaning streak around here and start getting rid of stuff that I don’t need…might even make a run out to Kohl’s to see if I can get some clearance stuff…
Have to take on this latest “mitticism”…
Well…ole Mitt has done it again…reveling what he truly thinks about the American people who are not rich, who are not part of the privileged few like him who have been given everything and think they earned it. The latest from this idiot comes from a fundraiser earlier in the year where he shows his disdain for almost half of the people of this country who, by his measure, are the “takers” who pay no income tax and will never vote for him…and he shows that he would not give a damn about them if he is elected. First, let’s get this straight…even those who do not pay income taxes, and this is mostly a result of the Bush tax cuts, pay payroll and other taxes that average almost 16% of their income and they can’t use any loopholes to reduce this tax burden…which is more as a percentage than ole Mitt pays in income taxes…and, the second thing is that, in the 47% that don’t pay income taxes, you have all retirees on social security and the unemployed, but you also have the working poor whose wages have been in real decline due to repub policies that have rewarded companies for offshoring jobs….and now you have Mitt blaming these folks for the policies that he still champions….why any working person would ever vote for this idiot, I just can’t fathom…geez…
September 18th
Well…it was another in a long line of days yesterday but I finally did get some cleaning done around here so I feel good about that..and, I met up with G for a couple and got to drive the car with the top down in the dark which was just a bonus…and I think I slept okay but I am still tired or worn out or something…but, the pain in my back is much better so I think I’ll take that one as a win…and I can’t really think of anything else to say right now so I won’t say it…back later for more…
Some news and other stuff…
Well…as you know, I’ve been watching the continuing rise of Obama in the polls and it has made me smile some…and the latest, where he is up by 11-14% in Pennsylvania just adds to the smile…and if you add in the 10 plus that Obama is up here in Michigan, ole Mitt must be really, really concerned…I cannot wait for the debates where I’m sure Obama will torch ole Mitt and force him to admit that the only economic plan he has is more of GW’s tax cuts and spending cuts…one thing we do need to remember when the talk comes from the right about the national debt, that most of it happened under ole GW’s watch…12 trillion of it to be exact so no one should listen to the repubs on anything economic…they just don’t ave a clue. One other thing that I do want to comment on is a statement that came out of the ‘value voters” summit that was held last week sponsored by the usual suspects on the right; the Family Resource Council, AEI and their ilk….something that sounded just like something that would come out of the Taliban of radical Islam…where they said that women should dress more modestly or they should expect men to act badly around them…really? In the US, in 2012? Again, these folks that push personal responsibility to the point of nausea now turn around and say that men just can’t help themselves and it is womens fault if they don’t dress in a burqa? The last thing we need in this country is to elect these folks…and Romney and Ryan both support this nonsense…geez…
September 17th
Well…it was another Sunday yesterday and it was really just a total veg out…I did meet up with T for a couple and it was good to see her but then it was back here for a continuation of the “Boardwalk Empire” marathon that was on the free HBO weekend on the dish….slept okay but no dreams again and I’m not sure if it is the melatonin I’ve been taking or not…should find out tonight since it will be a no cocktail night….not much to do today…I do need to get back into the fitness routine since I took the day off yesterday to try to heal the back and legs….not sure if it helped but we’ll see in a little while….more later….
Here’s the difference…
Well…I think things are starting to turn in the election and I do believe that it comes down to the competing visions that the two parties have for the country…the dems have a vision of possibilities and a greater future with fighting for the middle class while the repubs have a vision of a diminished America of going backwards on the rights of citizens and giving more and more away to corporations and the rich. The American people are starting to see the repubs for who they are and they don’t like it…they don’t like ole Mitt trampling on the memories of the 4 Americans killed in Libya and they don’t like that he appears more and more like he is in no way near ready to be president….and the media is starting to call them on their vagueness and lies…I am really starting to have hope that the repubs are being seen for what they are…they are not like the rest of us to be sure…
September 16th
Well…it was a day yesterday…didn’t do a whole lot…decided to stay in last night with the back pain I have been having that has stretched from my neck down…but I’m sure that it is not structural so I’m just going to have to ride it out…might even take the day off of the bike today to let things settle down…might have something to do today..supposed to meet up with T later but I’m not sure if that is going to happen….but, I don’t have anything else to do so it’s no big deal…I will be back later for another one after I digest the news of the day…
September 15th
Well…it’s Saturday so you knew I was going to be late getting to this..it was an okay day yesterday…won at pool but you know that makes me feel kind of crappy today…and I am still sore from golfing last Sunday..or, I think I am…my lower back is killing me today so back to the ibuprofen and aspirin….I do have some things to do today but I’m not sure if I’m going to do them or not…a bonfire out in Cedar for later but I want to watch the new Doctor Who tonight, too, so I may just skip it…will have to go out to see the Michigan game since they dropped the big ten network from the dish and I am starting to get really annoyed with them…okay…going to go get more coffee and watch the tube for a while…
Flip flopping must be contagious..
Well….it looks like flip flopping might be contagious with the comment that Paul Ryan made yesterday on the role of government in peoples lives…in case you are unaware, ole Ryan is the author of many bills that would restrict the right of women to contraceptives and abortion…so, yesterday he comes out and uses for an example of government abuses the new contraceptive requirement that he feels is taking away the rights of the Catholic church to control the women that work for it..so, he thinks it’s bad for government to impose regulations that would help women but he thinks it’s just peachy when government is used to take rights away….what a crazy, screwed up idiot…and this is the future of the repub party? I hope so…then we will never see another one in the White House…geez…