Sunday, October 7, 2012
LIES ARE LIES
Robert Gibbs has stated that Mitt Romney's debate statements were "fundamentally dishonest."
They sure were, but I prefer a much less "nicey nice" approach in terminology.
THEY WERE LIES! MITT ROMNEY IS A LIAR!
Barack should have challenged them as such during the debate, and I hope he will do so in the coming debates instead of letting himself be bowled over by the confusing, totally lying change of approach Mitt used.
The whole damn Republican party has become a bastion of lies and liars!! The "big lie" is their stock in trade!
We've become a nation of put the gloves on and be nice water downers. Plain speaking is judged "uncouth" in most circles, so we use euphemisms like "fundamentally dishonest" when "lie" would be much more accurate and hard hitting.
Lies are lies, dammit.
Let's speak clearly.
Friday, October 5, 2012
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, REPUBLICAN?
There is no such thing as a Republican party anymore. It's a total misnomer for what is in fact the American Fascist party.
I just heard on MSNBC from Rachel Maddow that even though the courts had disallowed the Pennsylvania photo voter ID law, official Pennsylvania state websites still published the draconian rules that struck down law mandated until she and MSNBC called them on it and forced them to change what their website was stating. They were still trying to intimidate non-republican voters into not exercising their constitutional rights.
I don't care who likes my saying it. The Republican party ceased to exist a long time ago and has been replaced by a theocratic fascist party which has comandeered the name "Republican." Their stock in trade is lies, obfuscation and strong arm oppression.
Romney and Ryan are the fuhrers of that party and just as dedicated to the big lie and oppression as any European fascist ever was.
I just heard on MSNBC from Rachel Maddow that even though the courts had disallowed the Pennsylvania photo voter ID law, official Pennsylvania state websites still published the draconian rules that struck down law mandated until she and MSNBC called them on it and forced them to change what their website was stating. They were still trying to intimidate non-republican voters into not exercising their constitutional rights.
I don't care who likes my saying it. The Republican party ceased to exist a long time ago and has been replaced by a theocratic fascist party which has comandeered the name "Republican." Their stock in trade is lies, obfuscation and strong arm oppression.
Romney and Ryan are the fuhrers of that party and just as dedicated to the big lie and oppression as any European fascist ever was.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
NOT A GOOD DAY
I watched the debate last night. It was a terrible experience. I don't like debates to begin with. They're nothing but big arguments that crafty con artists make hay with.
Last night was no exception. Romney was his usual Mormon, Bain Capital lying chameleon conman self who walked all over "too nice" Jim Lehrer and Obama seemed taken aback and unable to command his masterful speaking skills and knowledge of the facts to his advantage.
I can only hope that future debates will find Barack much more ready to outflank the lies and carefully crafted misinformation and false statistics in a more dynamic fashion. He has to quit being "Mr. nice guy." Romney is not "nice." He's a savage, blood thirsty predator and has to be dealt with accordingly.
Barack needs to study general Patton who had the instinct to go for the throat and "Let the goddamn enemy worry about his flanks."
Last night was no exception. Romney was his usual Mormon, Bain Capital lying chameleon conman self who walked all over "too nice" Jim Lehrer and Obama seemed taken aback and unable to command his masterful speaking skills and knowledge of the facts to his advantage.
I can only hope that future debates will find Barack much more ready to outflank the lies and carefully crafted misinformation and false statistics in a more dynamic fashion. He has to quit being "Mr. nice guy." Romney is not "nice." He's a savage, blood thirsty predator and has to be dealt with accordingly.
Barack needs to study general Patton who had the instinct to go for the throat and "Let the goddamn enemy worry about his flanks."
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
DEATH -- COPING IS INDIVIDUAL
She's my friend, but I've never met her in person. I follow her blog and admire her character and her ability as a writer.
Greta Christina just lost her father with whom she had not been very close. Nevertheless, his death has plunged her into intense grief which she narrates on her blog, through which we, her friends, try to help with our comments. I just posted this one.
"Don’t know if I’m normal or abnormal, but I didn’t go through intense grief when either of my parents died. I expected it. They both had lived into their mid and late nineties and life was not treating them well. It was more of a relief than grief. Of course, I miss them being here. Yet, not an overwhelming feeling of loss.
My uncle died after a long life which was ended by lukemia. The doctors tried to keep him alive with blood transfusions, but he was so miserable he just begged “let me go.” They did. He went. He’s gone. The world goes on.
One day, I’ll go. Some will grieve, but I hope not too deeply because I’ll be better off without the life that is becoming more of a struggle and disappointment every day. I’m a shadow of the man I was just a short time ago.
So, don’t worry about your feelings. Let them play out and do what you have to do to cope in your own individual way. Your feelings and reactions are just you. There’s no right or wrong about them. We, of all people, should not feel guilty about how we feel. After all, no one has any right to pass judgment on how we feel or how we cope. It’s really none of their business."
That's exactly how I feel on the subject. This concept of having to do certain things and feel certain ways so others, and especially some sky fairy "god," will approve of us is just plain nonsense.
I really don't know oftentimes why I think and feel the way I do. Why can I put things like my youngest son abandoning the family and not communicating with any of us for over 5 years now in the back of my mind without it tying me up in emotional knots? It just doesn't. Does that make me a hard-hearted, uncaring person?
I don't think so.
I'm just pragmatic and analytical enough to know there is nothing I can do at the moment to change the situation and it would be a waste of time and emotional energy to let it consume me. I think he will eventually come down off whatever "high horse" he is riding and seek to resume contact with me and his brother and sisters. I've tried to locate him. I even sent a letter to an old address, but he's no longer there. I can't afford to hire an investigator to locate him. So, I've concluded that I just have to wait it out and not worry about what anyone else might think about the situation.
I don't, and won't, let it consume me. I'm not going to tear myself apart emotionally worrying about what I could have perhaps done better to avoid the situation.
Guilt parties are not for me. They are another tool theists use to keep people feeling guilty and unworthy so they have to grovel before an imaginary god, and it always involves them bowing and scraping -- especially paying -- through those theists as "god's" representatives. The catholics have that one down to perfection, but protestants are pretty damn good at it too.
How I react to life and it's problems and events is just me. It reflects the sum total of what I have experienced and learned, along with the tendencies I inherited through the crapshoot of genetics.
I am who I am.
I think what I think.
I feel what I feel.
That's just going to have to be good enough.
Anybody who wants to judge it can just go take a hike.
Greta Christina just lost her father with whom she had not been very close. Nevertheless, his death has plunged her into intense grief which she narrates on her blog, through which we, her friends, try to help with our comments. I just posted this one.
"Don’t know if I’m normal or abnormal, but I didn’t go through intense grief when either of my parents died. I expected it. They both had lived into their mid and late nineties and life was not treating them well. It was more of a relief than grief. Of course, I miss them being here. Yet, not an overwhelming feeling of loss.
My uncle died after a long life which was ended by lukemia. The doctors tried to keep him alive with blood transfusions, but he was so miserable he just begged “let me go.” They did. He went. He’s gone. The world goes on.
One day, I’ll go. Some will grieve, but I hope not too deeply because I’ll be better off without the life that is becoming more of a struggle and disappointment every day. I’m a shadow of the man I was just a short time ago.
So, don’t worry about your feelings. Let them play out and do what you have to do to cope in your own individual way. Your feelings and reactions are just you. There’s no right or wrong about them. We, of all people, should not feel guilty about how we feel. After all, no one has any right to pass judgment on how we feel or how we cope. It’s really none of their business."
That's exactly how I feel on the subject. This concept of having to do certain things and feel certain ways so others, and especially some sky fairy "god," will approve of us is just plain nonsense.
I really don't know oftentimes why I think and feel the way I do. Why can I put things like my youngest son abandoning the family and not communicating with any of us for over 5 years now in the back of my mind without it tying me up in emotional knots? It just doesn't. Does that make me a hard-hearted, uncaring person?
I don't think so.
I'm just pragmatic and analytical enough to know there is nothing I can do at the moment to change the situation and it would be a waste of time and emotional energy to let it consume me. I think he will eventually come down off whatever "high horse" he is riding and seek to resume contact with me and his brother and sisters. I've tried to locate him. I even sent a letter to an old address, but he's no longer there. I can't afford to hire an investigator to locate him. So, I've concluded that I just have to wait it out and not worry about what anyone else might think about the situation.
I don't, and won't, let it consume me. I'm not going to tear myself apart emotionally worrying about what I could have perhaps done better to avoid the situation.
Guilt parties are not for me. They are another tool theists use to keep people feeling guilty and unworthy so they have to grovel before an imaginary god, and it always involves them bowing and scraping -- especially paying -- through those theists as "god's" representatives. The catholics have that one down to perfection, but protestants are pretty damn good at it too.
How I react to life and it's problems and events is just me. It reflects the sum total of what I have experienced and learned, along with the tendencies I inherited through the crapshoot of genetics.
I am who I am.
I think what I think.
I feel what I feel.
That's just going to have to be good enough.
Anybody who wants to judge it can just go take a hike.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
EVASIVE MITT
Trying to figure out where Mitt Romney stands is like chasing half-set Jell-o around a plate with a fork. I kind of feel sorry for the guy. He's trying to put himself forth as just an ordinary, hard working, straight talking, self-made dude like you or me and most other Americans when he clearly is not.
He's trying to be a master of evasion in a world of instantaneous information that shows him up for the haughty, superior- minded prevaricater he is. He demands ten years of tax returns from his vice presidential hopefuls but will only show the last two of his and tries the innocent "trust me" approach all con-men use. Sorry, Mitt, been around the block a time or two. You want trust? Verify!
He's had so many conflicting positions about so many things that figuring out what he really means has become an exercise in futility. He's a political chameleon! His position depends on the situation he figures he's in at the moment!
I'm reminded of the kid who happened to come upon a tourist visually searching a tree. He asked what he was looking for. The tourist replied, "chameleons." "Oh, you want a chameleon? That's easy," replied the kid and he gave the tree a hefty shake. Out dropped a half-dozen chameleons.
I picture Mitt sitting on a political branch and trying his best to blend in to the picture he wants people to see and accept. Along comes something like Bill Clinton's convention speech or the surreptitiously recorded fundraising comments to shake his "tree" and he comes crashing to the ground!
I've had more rolling on the floor laughter from this campaign than any other I've ever experienced. Mitt's a comedian's dream come true.
He's trying to be a master of evasion in a world of instantaneous information that shows him up for the haughty, superior- minded prevaricater he is. He demands ten years of tax returns from his vice presidential hopefuls but will only show the last two of his and tries the innocent "trust me" approach all con-men use. Sorry, Mitt, been around the block a time or two. You want trust? Verify!
He's had so many conflicting positions about so many things that figuring out what he really means has become an exercise in futility. He's a political chameleon! His position depends on the situation he figures he's in at the moment!
I'm reminded of the kid who happened to come upon a tourist visually searching a tree. He asked what he was looking for. The tourist replied, "chameleons." "Oh, you want a chameleon? That's easy," replied the kid and he gave the tree a hefty shake. Out dropped a half-dozen chameleons.
I picture Mitt sitting on a political branch and trying his best to blend in to the picture he wants people to see and accept. Along comes something like Bill Clinton's convention speech or the surreptitiously recorded fundraising comments to shake his "tree" and he comes crashing to the ground!
I've had more rolling on the floor laughter from this campaign than any other I've ever experienced. Mitt's a comedian's dream come true.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
HAVE A BELLY LAUGH
I just got through laughing at Jon Stewart's latest comedy bomb, "Chaos on Bullshit Mountain." Find it here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/jon-stewart-fox-news-romney-47-percent-video_n_1899787.html
Be sure to listen to all three videos.
You're welcome.
P.S.: Colbert nails it also: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/stephen-colbert-mitt-romney-47-percent_n_1896549.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy
Be sure to listen to all three videos.
You're welcome.
P.S.: Colbert nails it also: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/stephen-colbert-mitt-romney-47-percent_n_1896549.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy
Sunday, September 16, 2012
WHY I LEFT THE CLOSET
If you've read much of my blogging, you know I am no closet atheist. For a while I was, but not after I saw how important the cause was. Besides, with my activist instincts and drives, staying in a closet is virtually impossible.
There was another good blog statement on Pharyngula this morning, and it sums up my feelings rather well:
"And so I finally crossed from atheism to anti-theism. I believe that religion is wrong. Wrong for every reason. Wrong for humanity. Wrong for our future. Any time a single human gives up their capacity for critical thinking to worship or obsesses we all lose. We lose their contribution to our innate humanity. Their ability to be a part of a critically thinking community.
Therefore I believe that any theistic belief system is a negative impact on humanity. Only by releasing ourselves to think critically can we improve ourselves. Only by questioning and re-questioning will the answers become apparent. Through this path, letting go of our structured belief systems, and testing them to break and transfigure will our true humanity reveal it’s place in the universe.
Think critically, test often, and enjoy the results."
That is why I am also an anti-theist. Theism is stultifying. It champions ignorance and the status quo. It sets this nation on a path to retrogression. Progress is impossible when education is hamstrung by bronze age myths shoved down innocent children's intellectual throats -- not just in home schooling of a few unfortunate captives to parents' misguided drive to indoctrinate, but forced into our public schools by activist school boards held captive by religious fanatics.
The chinese nation was once one of the most progressive kingdoms on earth. Then, an emperor came along who insisted on isolating the nation from the rest of the world of "barbarians." Progress stopped. The society became set in cultural and scientific concrete. It has taken centuries for them to begin advancing again, and the old culture had to be destroyed before it could even begin.
We are in a similar situation right now. There is a desire on the part of far too many powerful people to go backward and reverse course into old superstitions and repressive policies they label "conservatism." I have nothing against being truly conservative about truth and moral/ethical values. However, the "conservatism" being championed today is nothing more than retrogression into a repressive way of life our forefathers denounced and abandoned.
At it's core is theism. Theism has destroyed and brutalized every society over which it has gained control. It is well on its way to destroying and brutalizing my beloved nation!
There was another good blog statement on Pharyngula this morning, and it sums up my feelings rather well:
"And so I finally crossed from atheism to anti-theism. I believe that religion is wrong. Wrong for every reason. Wrong for humanity. Wrong for our future. Any time a single human gives up their capacity for critical thinking to worship or obsesses we all lose. We lose their contribution to our innate humanity. Their ability to be a part of a critically thinking community.
Therefore I believe that any theistic belief system is a negative impact on humanity. Only by releasing ourselves to think critically can we improve ourselves. Only by questioning and re-questioning will the answers become apparent. Through this path, letting go of our structured belief systems, and testing them to break and transfigure will our true humanity reveal it’s place in the universe.
Think critically, test often, and enjoy the results."
That is why I am also an anti-theist. Theism is stultifying. It champions ignorance and the status quo. It sets this nation on a path to retrogression. Progress is impossible when education is hamstrung by bronze age myths shoved down innocent children's intellectual throats -- not just in home schooling of a few unfortunate captives to parents' misguided drive to indoctrinate, but forced into our public schools by activist school boards held captive by religious fanatics.
The chinese nation was once one of the most progressive kingdoms on earth. Then, an emperor came along who insisted on isolating the nation from the rest of the world of "barbarians." Progress stopped. The society became set in cultural and scientific concrete. It has taken centuries for them to begin advancing again, and the old culture had to be destroyed before it could even begin.
We are in a similar situation right now. There is a desire on the part of far too many powerful people to go backward and reverse course into old superstitions and repressive policies they label "conservatism." I have nothing against being truly conservative about truth and moral/ethical values. However, the "conservatism" being championed today is nothing more than retrogression into a repressive way of life our forefathers denounced and abandoned.
At it's core is theism. Theism has destroyed and brutalized every society over which it has gained control. It is well on its way to destroying and brutalizing my beloved nation!
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