There are ordinary lies and there are "damn lies." Ordinary lies are told out of weakness and a desire to not hurt other people's feelings or look out for one's personal well-being. "Damn lies" are deliberately hand crafted to delude and deceive with salacious ulterior motives.
The Romney/Ryan campaign are masters of "damn lies." They desperately hope enough people will be gullible enough to believe them.
One of the most blatant of these "damn lies" is the currently playing campaign ads that tell the American public Chrysler is planning to ship auto production for the domestic market to China.
It's a total "DAMN LIE!"
Go to this article to get the facts about lyin' Ryan and lyin' Romney; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/chrysler-romney-jeep-ad_n_2046038.html
Be sure to check out the litany of other false Romney statements that accompany this article. I'm of the opinion that he's one of those idividuals who will tell a lie when the truth would serve him better, just to hone his skill.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
LET'S GET REAL!
On another blog I keep up with and often comment on, someone I've had words with before spewed out some Rethuglican nonsense I just could not resist countering. He thinks the problems with our nation are all the social programs which he considers that hated "socialism." He wants the past world of the robber barons back, like many other stupid so-called "conservatives." Here's my reply to him:
"'Let me hear a "Amen brother'!"
Not from me. Nor from any other true patriot who understands history and what is at stake.
You know where I stand, since we've had our words over it, and it's not with the 1% who are the real bankrupters with their welfare for themselves, poverty, want, national decline and Taliban-like control for everyone else with ill-conceived, unnecessary wars to enrich themselves while the country goes to hell and everything that made us great is destroyed.
Go stand with Romney/Ryan and their tyranical, lying, disgusting ilk and watch everything real patriots built until about thirty years ago with the election of "acting president" Reagan and the long so-called "conservative" plunge into national oblivion and theocratic fascism. (Their fanatical forerunners even succeeded in putting "under God" in the pledge of allegiance! I'm not under any god and my nation was never meant to be either. Those words never exit my mouth when the pledge is repeated. They won't stop until we're cringing under blasphemy laws and every other theist horror they can dream up.)
It's Rome all over again from where I observe and we just might get our Mormon Caesar. I admire Cato like George Washington and the other great founders of our nation did. He cut out his guts rather than live under Caesar's dictatorship with only the form and ceremony of original Rome. The republic was history, and he knew it. Ours will be history to if that evil cabal succeeds!
You might as well start shouting, "Viva Mormonism and Catholicism!" That's what we would have."
"'Let me hear a "Amen brother'!"
Not from me. Nor from any other true patriot who understands history and what is at stake.
You know where I stand, since we've had our words over it, and it's not with the 1% who are the real bankrupters with their welfare for themselves, poverty, want, national decline and Taliban-like control for everyone else with ill-conceived, unnecessary wars to enrich themselves while the country goes to hell and everything that made us great is destroyed.
Go stand with Romney/Ryan and their tyranical, lying, disgusting ilk and watch everything real patriots built until about thirty years ago with the election of "acting president" Reagan and the long so-called "conservative" plunge into national oblivion and theocratic fascism. (Their fanatical forerunners even succeeded in putting "under God" in the pledge of allegiance! I'm not under any god and my nation was never meant to be either. Those words never exit my mouth when the pledge is repeated. They won't stop until we're cringing under blasphemy laws and every other theist horror they can dream up.)
It's Rome all over again from where I observe and we just might get our Mormon Caesar. I admire Cato like George Washington and the other great founders of our nation did. He cut out his guts rather than live under Caesar's dictatorship with only the form and ceremony of original Rome. The republic was history, and he knew it. Ours will be history to if that evil cabal succeeds!
You might as well start shouting, "Viva Mormonism and Catholicism!" That's what we would have."
SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST
Phyllis just said something which got me thinking. She said it would soon be a system of the survival of the fittest and the devil take the hindmost if Mitt Romney somehow managed to win this election.
She was referring to Romney's goal of getting rid of first response organizations like FEMA, and who knows what else. He wants to unload all federal programs possible onto states, and even onto the private sector so rich people like him can make even more obscene wealth providing inept and inadequate emergency services to suffering, vulnerable humanity.
Mankind rose to the heights it occupies by organizing together to provide for the common interest and good. Things like natural disasters cry out for national solutions -- not some inept state by state hodge podge of under funded and communication breakdown ridden little local setups, or for-profit schemes handled by corporate lords with their eye on the bottom line and their position in the stock market.
Nature operates on the principle of the survival of the fittest and the evolutionary record shows that a whole bunch of species, numbering in the millions, if not billions, didn't have enough fitness when a crunch came along. They're long gone.
Humans have the mental capacity to figure ways around problems and emergencies, so we've survived and now constitute a population of around 7 billion. That's one great reason why national and international cooperation and programs are so essential. We have to stick together and work together to make the resources necessary readily available when a crisis comes along.
If we follow Romney's misguided, greedy, self-serving vision, we will devolve down to the point where survival is no longer a matter of who is the fittest, but who happens to be the richest. Eventually, that won't even work because the basis for being rich will have disappeared.
She was referring to Romney's goal of getting rid of first response organizations like FEMA, and who knows what else. He wants to unload all federal programs possible onto states, and even onto the private sector so rich people like him can make even more obscene wealth providing inept and inadequate emergency services to suffering, vulnerable humanity.
Mankind rose to the heights it occupies by organizing together to provide for the common interest and good. Things like natural disasters cry out for national solutions -- not some inept state by state hodge podge of under funded and communication breakdown ridden little local setups, or for-profit schemes handled by corporate lords with their eye on the bottom line and their position in the stock market.
Nature operates on the principle of the survival of the fittest and the evolutionary record shows that a whole bunch of species, numbering in the millions, if not billions, didn't have enough fitness when a crunch came along. They're long gone.
Humans have the mental capacity to figure ways around problems and emergencies, so we've survived and now constitute a population of around 7 billion. That's one great reason why national and international cooperation and programs are so essential. We have to stick together and work together to make the resources necessary readily available when a crisis comes along.
If we follow Romney's misguided, greedy, self-serving vision, we will devolve down to the point where survival is no longer a matter of who is the fittest, but who happens to be the richest. Eventually, that won't even work because the basis for being rich will have disappeared.
Monday, October 29, 2012
ESCAPED A RIPOFF
I work hard for what little I earn above and beyond that horrible handout we, as members of that slothful 47%, get each month for those terrible "socialist" programs like Social Security and state retirement. That makes me kind of careful how I spend it.
I made some money last week on carpet work and a wedding ceremony. So, I got the oil changed in Phyllis' car this morning. It was somewhat overdo, and we got the customary list of recommended things to do soon. Gotta wait for some more extra jobs to handle those. They have a maddening way of always being somewhere in the two hundred dollar range.
A few days ago, I opened the lid on our water softener and discovered we were almost out of the potassium cloride we use. Time to recharge.
Five years ago, I bought a forty pound bag of that chemical for just over ten dollars. I know things have had to go up just because of the increase in fuel costs, but gimme a break. The last time I recharged (partially) the bags were just under $24 at both WalMart and Home Depot. Both places were selling Morton brand.
This morning, I grumbled my way down to WalMart, and loaded up two bags now priced a few cents under $27. After I'd bought them, someone told me Home Depot now had another brand at a considerably lower price. I thanked them and hustled down to customer service for a refund.
At Home Depot, the price was $16.97. Just one problem. There wasn't a single bag in that spot. Seems the word is getting around.
A clerk got someone from the back and I was told a supply would be right out. It was, and I calculated that I could now buy three bags and did -- for less than the two bags were going to cost me earlier.
The water softener is now plumb full and should not need service until sometime next summer or fall.
Thank you, kind informant.
I made some money last week on carpet work and a wedding ceremony. So, I got the oil changed in Phyllis' car this morning. It was somewhat overdo, and we got the customary list of recommended things to do soon. Gotta wait for some more extra jobs to handle those. They have a maddening way of always being somewhere in the two hundred dollar range.
A few days ago, I opened the lid on our water softener and discovered we were almost out of the potassium cloride we use. Time to recharge.
Five years ago, I bought a forty pound bag of that chemical for just over ten dollars. I know things have had to go up just because of the increase in fuel costs, but gimme a break. The last time I recharged (partially) the bags were just under $24 at both WalMart and Home Depot. Both places were selling Morton brand.
This morning, I grumbled my way down to WalMart, and loaded up two bags now priced a few cents under $27. After I'd bought them, someone told me Home Depot now had another brand at a considerably lower price. I thanked them and hustled down to customer service for a refund.
At Home Depot, the price was $16.97. Just one problem. There wasn't a single bag in that spot. Seems the word is getting around.
A clerk got someone from the back and I was told a supply would be right out. It was, and I calculated that I could now buy three bags and did -- for less than the two bags were going to cost me earlier.
The water softener is now plumb full and should not need service until sometime next summer or fall.
Thank you, kind informant.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
THE EVIL CHAMELEON MASQUERADE
If you want to know how women's rights would fare under a Romney/Ryan presidency, you need only look to Romney's approach to women as an official in his Mormon Church. Ryan's approach is abundantly clear from public statements he has made, all harmonious with the dismal history of Catholicism and their oppression of women. They make a very harmonious team.
A very insightful blog article by Geoffrey Dunn lays out a very disturbing account of what women can expect from a president Romney. Read about it here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/mitt-romney-mormon-women_b_1956568.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
As I said earlier in another blog, when I see Romney's snake-like smiling face, I see the evil emperor portrayed in Star Wars films. Barack Obama praised him as a loving family man. Sorry, Mr. President, you are dead wrong. He is not loving. He is not good.
He is pure evil.
A very insightful blog article by Geoffrey Dunn lays out a very disturbing account of what women can expect from a president Romney. Read about it here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/mitt-romney-mormon-women_b_1956568.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
As I said earlier in another blog, when I see Romney's snake-like smiling face, I see the evil emperor portrayed in Star Wars films. Barack Obama praised him as a loving family man. Sorry, Mr. President, you are dead wrong. He is not loving. He is not good.
He is pure evil.
MORE RETHUG CLUELESSNESS
Newt Gingrich can't understand why so many people are upset over what Mourdoch said about rape and pregnancy. Here's the gist of his approach, word for word:
"He also immediately issued a clarification saying he was referring to the act of conception, and he condemned rape," Gingrich said. "[Mitt] Romney has condemned -- I mean, one part of this is nonsense. Every candidate I know, every decent American I know condemns rape. OK, so why can't people like Stephanie Cutter get over it? We all condemn rape."
Any decent person sees rape as a horror. That's not the point, clueless Newt.
The point is that you and the rest of your theistic bullies want to impose your interpretation of what your bronze age imaginary diety supposedly wills and decrees -- through you and whatever religious authority you espouse -- on everybody as the "will" of that non-existent bag of garbage.
There are a whole bunch of us who don't agree with your interpretations of the universe and ultimate reality. In your mind, we don't count because you and your ilk are the arbiters of ultimate truth that must be forced upon everybody else.
Mind your own damn business and quit trying to legislate your insane superstitions into our lives!
"He also immediately issued a clarification saying he was referring to the act of conception, and he condemned rape," Gingrich said. "[Mitt] Romney has condemned -- I mean, one part of this is nonsense. Every candidate I know, every decent American I know condemns rape. OK, so why can't people like Stephanie Cutter get over it? We all condemn rape."
Any decent person sees rape as a horror. That's not the point, clueless Newt.
The point is that you and the rest of your theistic bullies want to impose your interpretation of what your bronze age imaginary diety supposedly wills and decrees -- through you and whatever religious authority you espouse -- on everybody as the "will" of that non-existent bag of garbage.
There are a whole bunch of us who don't agree with your interpretations of the universe and ultimate reality. In your mind, we don't count because you and your ilk are the arbiters of ultimate truth that must be forced upon everybody else.
Mind your own damn business and quit trying to legislate your insane superstitions into our lives!
Friday, October 26, 2012
AIDING AND ABETTING RAPISTS
In addition to what I've had to say about stupid and totally reprehensible statements about rape that have proceeded from the mouths of our theocratic, christofascist politicians, I just camee across this wonderfully crafted article: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/10/25/a-fan-letter-to-certain-conservative-politicians/#comment-390067
No further comment needed. Just read it.
No further comment needed. Just read it.
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