Well…this is going to be a short one on the jaw dropping assertions by Michelle Bachmann that a muslim aide of Hillary Clinton’s is connected to the Muslim Brotherhood and is, in effect, a traitor that is trying to bring Islamic rule to the US. Yep, in the world of Bachmann crazy, this one is even crazier than most and just shows how stupid and biased these folks are. But, then, along comes John McCain (who lost his soul in the last election and is entirely responsible for unleashing Sarah Palin on the US) to rise to a full throated defense of this woman, calling her a great American for her service to the country and slapping ole Michelle for her normal nonsense….now, if he could just do the same to the tea party idiots that he helped get elected so we can get back to some sanity in the national discourse…geez…
July 19th
Well…it was a long day yesterday but it appears that the weather has broken for at least a little while with it raining right now and some comfortable temperatures….I’m still running on empty but I know it’s from trying to survive on 1,000 calories since I still have no appetite…I may have to try some really spicy foods to jump start my taste buds but nothing even remotely interests me so that is going to be problem….I have been good the past few days and I don’t feel any better for it…well….I do feel a little better but the boredom of the nights kind of cancel that out and I’m not sure if I want the trade off….it a conundrum that I will wrestle with until I have to go to the grocery store this morning….not much to do today…it may be good if it continues to rain…might skip the bike ride and let the legs heal again…but, probably not….more later…
Mitt’s just such an easy target…
Well…I know you may be getting tired of all of the focus here on ole Mitt, but he is just so darn tone deaf about everything that I just have to keep hitting these hanging curveballs. The latest bit of idiocy from his campaign just points up the crony capitalism that is part and parcel of the circles he runs in and should disqualify him from the presidency if only for his stupidity. The latest, if you haven’t heard, is his fundraiser that is being put on in London in a couple of weeks…and who is it being put on by? The chairs of this event are all involved with the interest rate fixing scandal that just cost Barclays bank (headed by one of Romneys supporters) 450 million dollars in fines…and these folks include at least three other bank executives that are also involved in the scandal….one of them being Barclays chief lobbyist in Washington. So, these are the type of people that Romney is “pallin’ around with” and who are trying to buy Romney the election so they can steal even more money by their unethical behavior. Is this the kind of America we want…one where the banks can steal with the blessing of the president? I sure don’t…but if anyone votes for Romney, that is exactly the America we’ll get….geez….
Gonna keep piling on ole Mitt….
Well….I had to laugh the other day when ole Mitt came out and said that some of the things that the dems have said about him and his time at Bain have hurt his feelings and that Obama should apologize for the ads….what would ole Mitt do if another world leader called him names or hurt his feelings…would he ask for an apology? This just points up something that Mitt has been his entire career…thin skinned and eager to play the victim…would he do this going up against Putin? I think he just doesn’t have the stones to be a world leader and to have someone actively oppose what he thinks…when that happens, he crawls back to his rich supporters and insular world to lick his wounds. How is he going to stand up to anyone when he has never had to in his entire privileged life?
Oh, one last thing that I found interesting in the papers today is the speculation that the reason ole Mitt won’t release his tax returns from 2009 is that he may have been one of the Americans that took the IRS amnesty for hiding income in Swiss banks and not paying the taxes he owed on it. With the revelation of the hidden accounts in the Cayman Islands and the other financial chicanery that he has used to avoid paying his fair share of taxes…this could be the smoking gun that finally reveals how un-American ole Mitt really is…geez…
The only voter fraud is being done by the Republicans…
Well…if you are a regular reader here, you might have seen me do a post on the shady dealings here in GR (that’s Grand Rapids to those of you that aren’t from around here) where a long time Democratic rep Roy Schmidt waited until it the last few minutes of the filing deadline to switch parties, ensuring that the dems would not be able to register anyone to oppose him; leaving the dems to the arduous task of a write in campaign for their candidate. This sleazy nonsense has had some details put to it over the past couple of days, and it is even worse than was reported a few months back. It appears that rep Schmidt and the speaker of the house Jase Bolger, both repubs, put together a nasty little plan that tried to place one of rep Schmidt’s sons friends on the ballot as a dem with the stipulation that this young man not run any campaign so that rep Schmidt would have no opposition and would fix the election for him. Rep Schmidt even went so far as to pay this young man $1,000 dollars if he would register and even had his chief of staff file the paperwork…even though the young man didn’t live in the district. Then, we have the prosecutor for Kent County saying that while the move was sleazy, it didn’t break any laws. But, this is not true…if you prompt someone to make a false statement in court or on a political filing…it is called suborning perjury and it is certainly against the law. There is enough evidence here to charge both Schmidt and Bolger with this crime, this voter fraud that they say they are so opposed to and are so afraid of. At the very least, these two should immediately resign so a fair election can take place…after all, it’s what the repubs say they want….geez…
July 18th
Well…it was a little disappointing this morning at 5:40 when some storms rolled through with a lot of noise but nothing else…it did trigger some dreams afterward that included riding my bike with a long neck in my hand and a collage of places I’ve been mashed together….and it was a crappy night of sleep so I am a little worn out right now….and there were hundreds of cars parked on the lawn here for some reason….I am getting tired of the heat and I hope it breaks today…it is wearing to be sweating all the time and it is almost too hot to put the top down on the car….not much to do today…more resumes, of course, but I do need to clean this place up since the spiders are taking over and I just don’t like the looks of it….and I am going to try to cut the deficit in half today so come on back and take a look…
Mitt is now a liar and a time traveler…
Well…had to get this one down before I forget it…the latest bit of nonsense coming out of ole Mitt’s campaign made me laugh out loud for the audacity of it…this weekend, one of ole Mitt’s advisers went on a Sunday talk show to try to explain why SEC filings show that Mitt was still the head honcho at Bain until 2002, not 1999, the date that Mitt has used to try to say he had no role in the outsourcing of jobs that Bain pioneered….and the adviser used the phrase “retroactively retired” to explain the discrepancy…You gotta hand it to these folks, creating their own reality that bears no resemblance to the truth and hoping that no one will notice….I am awestruck with the new ways they have found to lie…but, Mitt is such an expert that I shouldn’t be surprised…geez…
Oh, one last thing we should remember about these dates, most of the job creation that ole Mitt is taking credit for happened after 1999 when ole Mitt said he was no longer running Bain…so, he takes credit for jobs when he says he was retired but won’t take responsibility for outsourcing in the same time frame? Just more lies from the king of them…
July 17th
Well…it was a day yesterday and the day got away from me but you know that since I didn’t come back for a second one…I am exhausted today and not thinking too clearly so this one is going to be short for now…I did have dreams that had T in them but I don’t remember them very well so I won’t report them right now….not much to do today…I am going to try to get out for coffee since I think the lack of coffee yesterday has something to do with the tiredness….and I do need the papers to get back on track….more later…
Okay…that was a HOT ride on the bike and it’s been over for a half hour and I am still dripping…just read an interesting fact in one of the newspapers…we have, on average, 11 days in Michigan that are over 90 degrees every summer, but, so far this year, we are already at 19 and counting…it looks like we will be over double the number by the end of the week…I can’t remember a summer this hot and I’m really old…going to need to put the air on later and run the electric bill up…
July 16th
Well…it was a day yesterday and I was successful doing nothing for my birthday…but, I have lots to do today so I need to get at it here in a couple of minutes…even going to skip coffee and the papers today which means that I will have to be creative for the second one for the day…I do still have the online papers but won’t get to that until after I get some work done around here and then get cleaned up….and then out for pool later so it will be a full day…I’ll be back later for more but should get to it right now…
Another one?
Well…I have been pretty successful at doing nothing today and I have been trying to remember a couple of topics that I wanted to write about but haven’t had any luck…I could muse a little about aging but I don’t feel any worse than I did 10 years ago so I shouldn’t bitch too much…I could use a break from this weather, though, it is getting a little trying when every day is over 90…and I don’t even want to see the electric bill after running the air every day to cool off enough to sleep at night…it looks like everything is set for my daughter’s wedding but it is going to cost me almost a grand that I don’t have but it looks like one more of the kids is coming so that will be cool…and, who knows, I might have a job by then….I wish there was something in politics to talk about…maybe I’ll go and re-read the paper for a topic…