Well…I know I’ve been on the case of the repubs for their breathtaking lies over the past couple of months but it has been earned by them….starting with the Romney campaign responding to the media’s calling them out on the lies by saying “we are not going to let fact checkers run our campaign”….basically saying that they are going to continue to lie since the only other thing they have is tax cuts for the rich and benefit cuts and tax increases for everyone else. Then, we have ole Ryan’s speech last night that was all lies and misrepresentations that have been pointed out by many, many media outlets…even Fox news has called him a liar and when fox criticizes any repub, hell is certainly freezing over. The most egregious of ole Paul’s lies center on two things…the first being the GM plant that closed in Ryan’s hometown with Ryan saying it was Obama’s fault…but, the uncomfortable fact is that the closing was announced in the spring of 2008….months before Obama was elected…what was he supposed to do? Invent a time machine and go back to save the plant? The second huge lie centers on the cuts to Medicare PROVIDERS that is included in the ACA…again, Ryan lied when he said it was BENEFIT cuts that would mean there would be 716 billion dollars less in care for seniors because of the ACA. the irony here is that the repub touted Ryan budget does exactly the same thing with exactly the same cuts. These guys have taken lying to a whole new level that I have never seen in a presidential campaign….if they lie about this, what else are they lying about? Geez…
August 30th
Well…it was just another day yesterday with a cocktail night so I do feel a little slow today…but I slept okay and may even have eaten enough so that might help today…I was just so tired yesterday it had to be undereating…or the allergies…not sure which. I don’t remember the dreams so they must have been unremarkable….today is going to be a little busy with putting the clubs in the car to go out and hit a bucket this morning to see if my back is going to hold up for the tournament out in Seattle…and then I need to meet up with T and G and D later so it is going to be busy….I may take the day off from working out and riding to try to make the pain go away…have been hurting all over….more later…
The liars convention…
Well…I think things may be changing in the coverage of the repubs lie machine that is their convention and that makes me smile just a little bit…it started this morning with the fact checker in the Post gutting the theme of “you didn’t build that” that the whole convention has been built around and the deliberate lies the repubs using to support it…then, we had ole Rick Santorum going on about the “gutting of the work requirement” for public support that is also a huge lie…and then moving into all of the other speeches that are still pushing the idea that tax cuts and deregulation will get the economy moving when it it exactly those policies that have gotten us to where we are. Then there are the racists that threw peanuts at an African-American camera operator and shouted “this is what we feed animals” all the while still asking for Obama’s birth certificate. But, finally, the media is starting to challenge these idiots and their war on women, their war on the truth, and their war on the American middle class….the desperation is starting to show because they know that if they don’t win this year they never will…the crazy right wing rhetoric and demographics will make the repub party just a footnote in political life here in the US and none too soon…geez…
August 29th
Well…it was a busy day yesterday with all of the errands I had to run..put almost 100 miles on the car running around but today looks quite a bit easier…slept okay but tossed and turned all night and I am still tired this morning…part of it is only eating 3 tacos for the day yesterday but I am going to try to do better today…I do need to make the grocery run today because I am tired of tacos and chicken…really, I’m tired of everything but I do need fuel so I will force myself to eat today…the car has been perfect since I fixed it and has been fun to cruise around in…might go down to K-zoo today but I’m still not sure I want to hang around with the old folks in the Miata club…I do need to put the clubs in the car and get out to the range since I’ll be playing golf in Seattle and I don’t want to look ridiculous…more later…
Jerry Ford is spinning in his grave…
Well…reading the news this morning, I see there is a love-fest going on for Jerry Ford at the repub convention in Florida this week and all I could think of is that Jerry must be spinning in his grave. In today’s repub party, Jerry would never even get nominated with the right wing ideologues that have taken over and driven the party into a caricature of what it was when Jerry was in Washington. All of the things Jerry stood for…putting the country above party, compromise to get the best solution for the most people, and for the fairness that used to be what this country stood for is now anathema to the idiots that are the supposed statesmen and “brains” of the party. Jerry would laugh at Ryan, Romney, McConnell, Palin, Bachmann and the rest of them….he would rightly say that these are small politicians who have never understood what true conservatism is and who have no clue that government is compromise; not the scorched earth combat they have turned it into. He would laugh at the tea party idiots and their “keep your damn government hands off my Medicare” slogans and dismiss them as the destructive force they are…he would laugh at how easily they are manipulated by the big money interests that have as their agenda the destruction of the jobs that the tea partiers now have….
Jerry Ford was a man of integrity, honor, and duty that the idiots like Ryan and Romney could never stand next to and I find it personally offensive that the congressman that I voted for, that I held up as the model for how to govern is being used by these charlatans to make themselves look like they are the same, moderate party that Jerry belonged to….shame on you…geez…
August 28th
Well…another pretty normal day yesterday but I am sore all over and I can’t figure out why….slept okay but was up at 3 again so I am a little worn out…it may have to do with not eating enough yesterday…I don’t think a chicken thigh and a small baked potato is enough but I’m having trouble eating….so, I’ll try to do better today….I did have dreams about some weird place that had lots of vodka and mean people but the rest of the details have faded already so it must have been somewhat painful….not much to do today,,,I do have to run out to Kohl’s to look for a dress shirt for the Seattle trip and to see if I can find some new shoes…and then meet up with T later in the day….I hope I get some energy or I may have to skip the bike ride today…
Ole Jase is running from Roy…
Well…this is a topic that I just need to come back to since it is the most egregious attempt at voter fraud perpetrated by the repubs this year…well…not really, the voter suppression laws that were voted on here in Michigan were worse but at least Snyder vetoed some of them. What happened in the past couple of days is that Jase Bolger the speaker of the repub controlled house here in Michigan has basically thrown Roy Schmidt under the bus as he tries to protect his power in Lansing…even though his fingerprints were all over ole Roy’s change to the repubs from the dems and the manipulation of the process to make sure there would be no dem challenger. Ole Jase has said that Roy is basically dead in the water and has abandoned him as his plans have blown up in his face. That is just like the repubs…no moral compass, just political nonsense to win at all costs…geez…
August 27th
Well…as always, I’m running late again today and I’m not sure how to fix it…it was a fun day yesterday with getting out to see the twins for a few minutes and seeing a new bar downtown…only spent 4 bucks so that was a good thing since I’m still broke and need to put some cash together for the Seattle trip…but, I hope that works out this week….I did have dreams last night but I don’t remember what they were so does that mean they didn’t exist? Hmmmm…I do need to go out and get the papers and have coffee so I’ll come back later for more…
August 26th
Well…running late again today…wanted to get the bike ride in before I got to this…it was an okay day yesterday with going out to look at some of the cars on 28th street…did see another Miata there that was in much worse shape than mine that they were asking 4500 bucks for so I feel better about what I paid for mine…and that one was a ’90 even….and it was hot out there and I sweated through everything…it was a too much sports night last night with the race, Lions and Tigers all being on…almost wore out the remote switching back and forth….won’t have that problem today since there is nothing on but the Tigers…not much to do today…I should clean the bathroom but the allergies are keeping me with little energy to do anything…we’ll see…
Mitt is still a liar…
Well…this is going to be a short one about ole Mitt’s smug comment the other day that “no one has ever asked me for my birth certificate” while he was campaigning in Michigan….today, we find that it was just another lie since a reporter named Jim Newell came forward and tweeted that he has asked ole Mitt numerous times for the certificate…does this guy just have to lie about everything? Just points out that ole Mitt will say anything to get elected….and most of them are lies…I was going to quote a Pink Floyd lyric but I don’t want another letter from the record company…