What Sort of Man is Mitt Romney?

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So what sort of a man is Mitt Romney really?  You know he’s going to be a sitting duck because as Robert Gibbs said yesterday he’s great at making money for Bane capital, but only at the expense of bankrupting five long-standing corporations and showing no discomfort at all about sending so many workers to the unemployment line.  Also you must be reminded that Massachusetts was 47^th in job creation while Romney was governor there.  But his opponents will be able to attack him for “If you think Romney’s money doesn’t bother you remember you Newt and Ricky supporters how Romney buried your respective candidates with tons of opposition money when you know in your heart under any other circumstances your candidate would have won”.  Also it can’t help Romney that to bolster his “We love women” stance now people point to Romney’s record in Massachusetts.  Nobody is going to really believe that the reason why Black poverty is the worst now ever is because Mitt Romney is NOT President.  And to say the problem is because of Lyndon John’s passing of the Great Society- - like Paul Ryan claimed, I just might say that if Lyndon Johnson were still president and congress continued to pass legislation at the rate it was being passed them- - just imagine what a eutopian society we would have become by now.  It boggles the mind!  But let’s just do a reality check on this asshole this one Republican guy made on Meet the Press.  To review George Bush used to make fun of himself about “Searching for those weapons of mass destruction” like the Iraq war was all a big joke and something to make light of.  But nobody’s asked all those troops who died.  Then you have George Bush’s flippant Bin Laden remark about ‘I don’t know where he is - - - I don’t care”.  To contrast this flippancy candidate Obama said that if he got elected president that he would do everything he could to make sure Bin Laden were killed or captured.  He indicated a willingness to undergo a great risk to capture him.  So it’s only fair to point out that Mitt Romney weighted in with a - - different opinion in 2008.  Romney said that one man, not even Bin Laden was worth it.  So he’s expressed his thoughts- - and Joe Byden pointed them out in his speech last week.  But this Republican asshole on Meet the Press calls it “Divisive” for democrats to point this out.  Just as the tea party regards the Buffet Bill as “Divisive”.  What is divisive about basic fairness.  At least southern senators during debate on the 1964 Civil Rights act were not such big hypocrits they called that Civil Rights bill as “Divisive” because it was “class warfare” because “everybody knows them niggers should be kept in their place”.


Rush Limbaugh rightly states that Truth is not dependant on whether people believe it or not.  And he says even if 97% of the world's scientists state that we have global warming this does not detract from the "Ontological cartainty" that Global Warming is NOT occurring.  Does Rush Limbaugh even know what "Ontological" means?  I don't think so.  Rush then goes on to state that these wind farms actually contribute to warming of the immediate climate of the area where they are located but didn't offer a shred of evidence to back up his statement.  We are supposed to take that statement on Faith, just as the "Ontological proof" of God is basically a statement of subjective Faith, if Rush has actually studied theology, which he hasn't.  Ontology is the study of the necessity of something existing as an idea before it can exist in reality.  One might ontologically say for examjple it is Ontologically necessary to see merit in Barock Obama before you vote for him as President.  Also it is necessary for Barock to actually BE president before you can discuss WHAT he should or shouldn't be doing at a particular moment AS president.  Democrats put it this way.  For a program to succeed you need both a MOVEMENT for that program AND you need someone in power to IMPLEMENT it.  If you are lacking either one or the other, the thing won't happen.  This is therefore an argument of "Ontological" necessity.  Capish?  We turn to this issue of "pointing out things" like playing tapes of Gingrich or Romney making certain statements.  Pointing out facts and necessities is called "devisive" now by the Republicans. But here's a reality check.  If things ARE divided BECAUSE of actions Republicans have taken in the past, pointing them OUT and raising AWARENESS of them will do nothing to add to the reality (of being divided) that is already there, any more than a diagnosis of cancer will CREATE cancer one day later that somehow wasn't THERE before the day you were informed that it it existed.  Capish?  Good.  Republicans call any incident which shows them up with their pants down on an embassasing issue as "divisive".  Well, the only thing that's "divisive" I guess is the exposure of their bare ass.  No woman or ecologist, or black, or Latino, or poor, or older person is on bit taken in by these absurd Republican exercises in "word play" of the sort that people like Paul Ryan or this guy on Meet the Press last Sunday engages in.

PARAGRAPHS BELOW MAY NOT BE CONSECUTIVE

This is six o clock and ABC network news just concluded.  There have been three cases lately where famous TV stars played super heroes for real.  The latest was Patrick Dempsey who plays the doctor in Gray’s Anatomy on TV who pulled out a teenager from underneath some car wreck using a crowbar.  This weekend is famous for something else we haven’t mentioned and that is the Royal Wedding of April 30^th, which was on a Saturday last year.  I wish we had last year’s dates because May first would be on a Sunday and I would already have gotten my money from the ATM Friday morning.  Last night it was the same Presidential annual roast where next year they will be serving up barbecued pork if Mitt Romney gets in, ha ha.  The President made some stab at humor.  Last year the navy seals mission had already been approved and was under-way when the President was in a jocular mood that night seemingly without a care in the world.

I just ran through the coffee grounds again and managed to get a little more coffee brew out of the thing.  In terms of cigarettes today I’ve gotten only four whole cigarettes this entire day and the last one was at noon, and it’s six now.  I got one from Paul, and one from John, and two from Larry.  I asked Larry just now but he was in bed and said he didn’t have any.  Marsha apparently wants to charge for shorts.  She says I owe her three cigarettes.  But as I think I said before, people around here are walking advertizments for not even attempting to quit smoking because they are perpetually out of cigarettes but that doesn’t stop them from trolling the grounds trying to collar anyone they can for a cigarette.  There was a 37 foot Yacht in a yacht race that ran into a big freighter or something and sank off the coast of Ensenada and everyone aboard apparently drowned.  They now have an I phone app called the Ugly Meter.  What it does is scientifically measure the correct mathematical perportions of “the perfect face” and compare yours to it.  One not half bad looking man scored a 34 out of 100 on the Ugly meter.  Naturally mothers of young children thinks their kids should be protected such things.

The Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets today just before three wrapping up with a final score of 103 to 88 Lakers.  I went down for 2:10 coffee and got two cups from Laura.  A little after three I put on Disk two of Bob Dylan Bootleg starting at track seven and playing up through but skipping the long last track, “Idiot Wind”.   Isn’t that “conga bells” line included in two different songs?   These proposition 29 adds on the smoking tax are completely stupid of course and insulting to anyone’s intelligence who will instantly see through them.  The London Olympics begin in a few months and how they want to install surface to air missiles on the roofs of houses in London for security reasons- and the residents are going along with it.

I chose to come to dinner erring on the early rather than the late side.  We had beef Strogenoff, which was good but seconds began on the other side of the room so I didn’t chance it.  There was zucchini and we had bread pudding for the first time in a while.  Strangely enough everyone ate their bread pudding and I didn’t get extras.  Yadera reminded me that I have a dental appointment tomorrow.  I think I’ve actually coughed a few times today.  If Paul and Judy were to hear me they would say “That’s proof you have a chronic smoker’s cough”.  I hold out the greatest hope from Paul Evans right now as a possible source of future cigarettes.

We had Raison Bran for breakfast with scrambled eggs and an English muffin with butter and jelly, and the Oriental lady gave me her eggs.  Paul Evans gave me a cigarette on the way out the door.  He also informed me that Robin was dead.  She was found dead in her room, and I could not believe it and Phyllis said, “You better believe it”.  I just saw her yesterday even though she turned me down for a cigarette.  Death comes so readily around here.  The weather is overcast.  Today Magic Johnson will be finalizing the sale of the LA Dodgers to him.  I thought that had already been “finalized”.  The Dodgers are off to their best season since 1981.  The LA Clippers won play-off game number one against the Memphis Grizzly’s in grand fashion.

In Federation news Mal Evans came out with a “statement’ or whatever commemorating the twenty anniversary of the LA Riots on Friday morning.  I read it and I was unrestrained in my praise of it rejoicing that someone else actually sees things the way I do.  Jim Morrison was contacted on Andromeda D for his endorsement and to even put his name on the report and Mal said “If there is anything you don’t like about it, I can change it”.  Jim said it was fine the way it was written and he’d be honored to be given co writing credit for it even though he didn’t contribute.  Mal of course is grateful to Jim Morrison because it was just in late February of 1992 - - close to March first- - that Mal had regained his power in the Federation and Jim was always loyally at his side in those days.  The political situation was very different in those days.  You had Tom Bradley and Daryl Gates in charge – both completely apathetic on racial issues.

Some Thoroughly Despicable People

"The only thing that's infinite about God is he has an infinite ammount of Apathy"

"Christianity practices a fundamental and pro-active denial of the Obvious"

"Rush Limbaugh is such a thorough despicable individual I wouldn't spit on him if he were on fire"


Nobody is saying Romney is not a decent, moral human being, or at least he used to be.  But as with fundamentalist Christianity - - any wholesome and good inclination, any shred of humanity gets pummeled out of you by the insertion of all that tea party money.


People like Glen Beck say Obama's plan is to wreck this economy to create panic and arnarchy - - and then the people will protest and riot and force the instituting of some sort of massive socialist government.  But if Romney gets elected President, this very scenario they profess to dread may well come to pass.

Rush Limbaugh was fired from his radio program and is now a seventh grade counselor.  He has called this whimpy seventh grader into his office to have a little talk with him.  Rush says, "I hear you've been bullying that ninth grade varsity football star, what about that.  Kid:  He's been bullying me every chance he gets.  Rush: Well you know it's really your fault for provoking him.  Kid: How is that? Well just the presence of a straight A student like you sends him into a frenzy and the edreneline gets going and he can't help himself.  Kid:  Well I heard bullying was bad not only for the victim but ruins the character of the guy who engages in it.  What do you say about that?  Rush:  That's my point.  Your very presence presents a problem.  I suggest you volentarily "deport yourself" from this school right now.  Kid:  That's the biggest bunch of crap I've ever heard.  Rush:  Well, you've been going to this school exactly two weeks.  He's been a student here for five years.  So between the two of you who is presumed by the Navy - - er uh - - this school to be the more knowledgable?  Kid:  I am.  When I have a straight A average and he has to bribe a teacher just to get a D.  Rush:  Get out of here! And don't darken this door again.  You got that?


There is this guy from Wisconsin on now with the Republican response on KNX radio.  He’s another proponent of the E I B doctrine - - ever increasing bullshit.  Every word out of his mouth was bullshit and now it just ended.  All of these leaders on the right are thoroughly despicable people, and we’ll come to Paul Ryan in a moment.  But you know that one percent of one percent of Americans that control everything in terms of money.  You have Rupert Murdoch owner of the FOX network and FOX news and also the Wall Street Journal, which has taken a lurch to the right ever since Murdoch has been running it.  You know about the British tabloid stuff and the wire tapping and spying and all that that went on.  You have Grover Norquist and his “no tax pledge” every Republican has to sign, which in itself could be constrewed as a violation of their oaths of office.  You know about Louis Powell in 1971 before he got on the High Court and his letter to Nixon proposing steps for the far right to take power and his first pipe dream of an all Republican news network.  You know about Jude Waninsky and his “Two Santa Clause” proposal that was carried out first under Ronald Reagan.  You know about all of these rigged voting machines in Ohio in 2004 and since them in just about every election and the famed “red shift” that started in the last decade.  You know how because of this ‘red shift” the networks have given up doing exit polling because it’s too embarrassing.  And then as Chris Matthews mentioned on his program last night there is "angry money" where the Koch Brothers target swing stages and flood them with money to opponets who run against them running adds like "You know Obama is just too COOL to be President.  And you can throw in reminders like how we have not resisted Soviet advances and how we abandoned Chezchloslavia in the 'Prague spring" of 1968.  And of course congressmen can be strong-armed at will threatened they better vote for this or that corporate tax policy or whatever give-away is on the table at the moment.  You know about Mitch Mc Conell and his pledge to do everything he can to insure that this President utterly fails in everything he attempts.  Yet it dawned on me that it’s hard for me to picture someone voting for Romney who themselves have actually suffered in this recession.  Because there are a LOT of people who have never been out of work and suffered loss or deprived their kids of sports wear or new clothes for school or even new cars, or the latest I phone model - .  No.  And yet somehow you are supposed to pretend as though you had suffered losses.  The criteria isn’t whether you have suffered but what you heard on the news or heard from a friend of a friend about so & so suffering- - kind of like the anecdotal stuff Judy talks about.  The most thoroughly despicable person out there is Rush Limbaugh.  This is truly a pathetic excuse for a human being.  That’s why I say he wouldn’t be worth spitting on if he were on fire.  They had a thing on animal confinement on Bill Press this morning and how life on the farm isn’t all what it used to be, if you’re an animal.  You have these over-bred cows that produce fantastic amounts of milk to their own detriment in health.  You have crowded conditions of an unbelievable nature for pigs and sows and hens and the whole thing.  You have cattle tightly confined and wallowing knee deep in their own excrement.  They shoot the animals full of hormones and antibiotics, even though you wouldn’t give a human a drug without being sick but such conditions have to be anticipated to spawn illness.  You know Rush Limbaugh gets off on any animal suffering.  According to him “That’s what they’re here for”.  Burger King and others are trying to clean up their act.  But people like Rush not only despize doing the right thing, like paying more in taxes than your secretary, but Rush despises anyone ELSE would do the right thing.  Of course Rush doesn’t have a compassionate bone in his body.  He must have a reputation as a thoroughly dispacable individual growing up- - probably the ultimate bratty snob used to getting his own way all the time and not lifting a finger to help anyone else.  We know Rush’s contempt for women, and children - - lots of material there, and of course the gay community, and let us not forget blacks, and particularly his utter despising of the poor and anything even vaguely smacking of such terms as “fairness” or “equality”.  And now we come to Paul Ryan.   At this point I will insert material in from a previous paste.  Before dinner I played a lengthly segment of a Paul Ryan speech at Georgetown University, which is presumably Catholic.  It was wall to wall BS with virtually every sentence out of his mouth with twisted, mangled, time-distorted logic.  He contrasted Johnson's war on poverty with today's poverty rates and said that in essence "The Great Society" CAUSED the suffering these people are experiancing right now.  Can you believe that?.  Now they are talking about “Monkey-pox” on Eye Witness news.  Mitt Romney said recently, “The American people elect a President – not an expert on foreign policy.  That’s best left to his advisers.  Joe Byden pretty well demolished that argument.  Some lady named Hernandez was pepper-sprayed by a Beaumont officer and now the lady will be blind for life because of it.  Apparently the suspect was entirely cooperative.   

The whole bit about saying number one on our list as I now have it planned out in my mind is interesting.  It goes back to remember when we were over at Mom’s and my hair was a whole lot shorter than it is now actually.  And Mom said there were a few scraggly hairs or whatever and could she trim it and I said ‘No, Federico will be cutting hair in a week or so after I get paid”.  And she kept insisting.  And I remember the last time she had the clippers out and how shakey her hand was and I didn’t want to go through that again.  But she kept pushing and I kept saying “No” and I managed to prevail.  But I happened to think of the Dr. Phill thing about when a kid nags his parent to go somewhere or buy something he knows a parent has only so many “No” –s in him or her before she says “Yes, just to shut you up”.  Then there is the parable of the widow and the judge with the same idea.  And now the question is “How many No’s does God have in him?”  Well, the resavuar is infinite.  I’m sure there is a backlog of my prayers going back almost long as death row inmates in California prisons waiting to be executed.  In fact I’d like to read all these prayers I’d sent up to God.  There’s probably a whole lot I’ve forgotten that were really good and honorable prayers, done out of the best motives, and yet were utterly ignored by God.  You could probably publish a book of them if you could remember them, and the human brain as a self preservation mechanism has this tendency to forget the overly painful and frustrating.  So- - - hence we have slogan number one on our list.

As for slogan number two - - some interesting thoughts occurred to me.  I felt like saying something to Judy like “You know you and Paul talk about hypoglycemia.  But I have this new and wild theory.  I’m postulating that low blood sugar levels are caused by - - not eating enough sugar.  Yeah, that’s crazy, huh.  People like Dr. Levy say “Money won’t bring lasting happiness”  No, I guess the only thing that will bring about “lasting” happiness- - would be a fancy coffin well maintained after you’re dead, on a nice pastoral hillside or something with a lot of flowers around and a good view.   You’ll pardon me if my “happiness” goals are not so long range.  It’s kind of silly what Dr. Levy says.  To use his logic if a man or family were freezing in a mountain cabin in the snow - - then bringing him firewood would be pointless because “You’ll only be cold again when the wood runs out”.  So my wanting to have money to buy a package of crumb donuts is silly because “You’ll only be hungry again later”.  I think Mom doesn’t give me maybe twenty or forty or sixty dollars because she somehow thinks I’m going to go right out and buy a carton of cigarettes, and sit down and smoke one right after the other or something.  And this whole bit with [lady's name withheld] isn’t quite silly but it misses the mark.  She said quitting smoking may help my weight.  True.  One could say the same thing of coffee.  However ask yourself this question.  What if there were a better supply of food for us here and we had money for snacks?  So you think we’d be trying to “compensate’ for a fundamental lack of food with coffee or cigarettes. And then Bill Gunderson says the key to feeling fuller is to eat your food more slowly and Dr. Levy holds to the same falocy.  Resturants know if they make you wait longer for food you smell the food and get hungrier than you were and will decide to eat more.  And most dinners where much food is consumed spread the courses out.  This is just another case of BS saying the key to feeling full is eating slower.   Newt Gingrich says “The way to cure the unemployment problem is to have more people chasing the same amount of jobs”.  So how is this going to LOWER the unemployment rate.  Others say that we close the federal deficit by Cutting tax rates, even though this approach has Failed every time it’s been tried.  You can go back to the 1964 tax cuts that Larry Elder says was JFK’s biggest achievement even though he was dead by then.  These cuts were followed by an increased deficit, as were the tax cuts of 1981 and the Bush tax cuts of 2001.  So like I say in the heading - - Christianity embraces a fundamental and pro-active Indifference to the Obvious.  It’s like- - not to hit below the belt or anything but what if you said to one of these people “Are you going to make love to your wife tonight?  Why?  You’ll only want to make love to her again in a few more days so what’s the point?  Doing it tonight won’t bring Evernal happiness and since we should always have Eternity in mind as Christians, that means you shouldn’t do it.  He’ll look at you like you’re nuts of course- - but maybe a light bulb will eventually go on.