ROMNEY AND THE COAL MINERS

For the last couple of weeks there has been a political commercial running where Mitt Romney is giving a talk and standing behind him are coal miners that look like they support him.  It has become known that those miners were not there voluntarily. The owner of the mine a big Romney backer told his workers to be there.  The owner said it was mandatory for them to be there.   When the owner was asked about that he said yes it was mandatory but they didn't have to go.  The word mandatory means compulsory. I am sure the workers that didn't support Romney would have faced consequences if they hadn't shown up.  Why is it that Romney and his minions can't be honest about anything?

ROMNEY THE WORST EVER

I don't know about all the  people who have ran for President. I do know about the one's in my lifetime. Mitt Romney is by far the most unprepared and  unworthy person to run for the leader of the free world.  If we want to be the laughing stock of the world elect him.  The thing is after awhile with him in office no one will be laughing. He will destroy this country with his ignorance and his arrogance. Why do people who support this kind of  guy always look for the least qualified person instead of the best? President is the hardest job in the world, and anyone who doubts it is a fool.

GOP AND THEIR FACTS

I have to repeat myself.  I.ve been harping on Mitt Romney as not being honest because when it’s pointed out that he said something untruthful he just keeps on repeating it anyway.  It could be a Mormon thing.  It’s okay to lie about or to someone as long as it isn’t another Mormon.  Now we have Paul Ryan. His acceptance speech was full of misstatement or as I like to call them lies. The scariest thing about that is when these things were pointed out a spokesman said we are not going to let facts dictate our campaign.  I guess if you have to lie to win the White House they think that is okay. Ask yourself this question. If they lie now what will they lie about in the future?

DISHONESTY

I have written about this before.  Why are Republicans specifically unable to tell the truth?  They'll say or do something and then deny they did it.  You go down the list starting with Romney and Ryan to congressman and state officials, and it's a common theme.  Oh, they say I didn't say or mean that.  It is so disenchanting as an American to see the incompetence and flat out dishonesty in our new breed of people who want to be part of the government.  I don't exclude Democrat's, but it seems to me the preponderance of the dishonesty is coming from the Republican side.

THE CRAZIES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM

The state of Louisiana is providing state funding for some private schools.  It has come to light that several of these schools are faith based, and have some strange ideas they want to teach.  The one that jumped out at me was the one statement from a text book that says the book The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck perpetuates the “rumor” of foreclosure of homes and high unemployment in the 1930’s.  It’s like the depression never really happened.  These are the same kind of people who deny the Holocaust.  For some reason facts mean nothing and reality is whatever they say.  Is it any wonder that the Republicans are against education for the masses?   They want to keep their base stupid. They are easier to brainwash with all their crazy ideas.   You don’t have to look hard in the Republican Party to find the deniers of science or history, just check out Michelle Bachmann or Steve King.  These people are nuts.

HIDING YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND

William Donahue head of the Catholic League was trying to sell his book, and was talking about Catholicism.  Let me be honest. I think this guy is an arrogant jerk, and I have absolutely no respect for him.  He was relating his answer to the question that was posed about the Catholic Church’s scandal.  He said that was easy to answer. All people are sinners and they should be forgiven.  At no time did he actually mention the pedophile priests.  He doesn’t seem to understand it isn’t just the priests that are the scandal; it’s the Catholic Church’s hiding of the problem.  They covered up at every opportunity, and even today try to minimize it.  They transferred suspected pedophile priests to other parishes so they could abuse more young boys, or they retired many and kept their month shut about them.  Donahue is the same guy who tried to justify the priest’s crimes by saying these really weren’t children but teenagers.  I guess in his mind that makes a difference.  Their trust in an authoritative and spiritual figure was taken advantage of and a lot of these kids lives will never be the same.  Mr. Donahue is just as responsible for covering up these sexual crimes against children as the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.

SUPREME COURT RULING

The Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Health Care Act. I wasn’t surprised, but I was surprised who the 5th vote was. Justice Roberts. I have to give him credit for voting on the law instead of his political leanings. Unlike Thomas, Alito, and scalia who only vote on political leanings instead of the law. Of course the Republicans will cry and whine and try and make political hay out of the ruling, but they have to get over it and move on and actually try and do something for this country instead of being obstructionist.


By-the-way I intentionally left scalia’s name uncapitalized, he doesn’t deserve it.