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They have lots of time on their hands in Myrtle Beach I guess. Just so you know, from L-R, it’s Romney, Newt, Huntsman, Perry, Santorum and Paul.
While we were busy doing other things (getting totally immersed in the new show Alcatraz), the clown show was doing its level best to wow ’em in South Carolina. True to form, when we miss a rare debate, we miss the best of them.
Juan Williams had the unmitigated (it’s always unmitigated by the by) gall to question Newtster as to whether his “little black boys becoming janitors” might be a bit, ya know, talking down to darker folks. For this he was roundly booed by the good citizens of drawl.
Similarly, we understand that Mr. Mittens made some remark about his Mexican heritage and for that he was also booed. That story is another of those, “you cannot make this stuff up” moments. When Mormons were being persecuted in the US, Mittens grandpa took the family down to Mexico, and they stayed there for some time, and Mittens papa was born down there. When the Mexican revolution broke out he moved the family back to the US–get this–as illegal aliens. Sooo, I’m thinkin, Mittens needs to go back to Mexico and get at the back of the line. Fair is fair after all.
While Mittens may be inevitable at this point, the right-wingers are intent on making it clearly known that they don’t want no Black and Hispanics muddying up their white GOP waters. I rather think their desire will be accommodated come next November. But, as the Rightie-Tightie’s are quick to point out, there ain’t no bleepin’ racism in Merika no more!
It used to be that the GOP could always make an issue out of crime. Crime being down everywhere, they have pretty much lost that issue, but both Frothy Mix and Mittens assured everyone that no dirty ex-felon would ever pull a lever in a voting booth if they had their druthers. So there.
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Andrew Sullivan, who writes for the Daily Beast, has by all accounts a great article on the Obama Administration accomplishments to date in Newsweek. Given what he has had to work with, it’s actually pretty amazing. And remember that it was Obama that pushed the stimulus, which contrary to all GOP rhetoric has been successful. It has been Europe who refused his suggestions and opted for austerity, that finds itself in deeper and deeper trouble. While our economy is certainly not robust, it has been making a steady climb upward for more than ten straight months.
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Now this is no gossip column, I want that to be perfectly clear. But good grief, how can one pass up juicy stuff like this:
It seems that Santorum’s wife, Karen, who is now a rabid anti-abortion crusader, used not to be well, so inclined.
It seems Karen, before she met the Rickster, was the “live-in” love for many years of one Tom Allen, a Pittsburg obstetrician, abortionist, and t0-this-day outspoken advocate of a woman’s reproductive freedom. He knows Karen quite well, having delivered her himself. Karen was into older men at the time. Karen was 22 when she remet Allen, then 63. Their affair lasted six years.
You cannot make this stuff up.
So, if you wonder how Frothy Mix gets all those perverted notions in his little noggin, well, . . .just sayin’.
This ranks high on the scale of Newtzpah!
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I re-heard part of Martin Luther King, Jr’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail last night. I have to go read the entire thing. It is powerful stuff. MLK was an extraordinary and eloquent writer. You can go read it here.
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Call me crazy, but I find articles like this intriguing. Do Sports Build Character or Damage It? The Chronicle of Higher Education weighs in, and makes for an entertaining and thoughtful piece. The comments are good too. This all from a professorial perspective. How else would Plato, Hector and Lawrence Taylor end up in the same place?
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Betty White turns 90 today, and is busy, healthy, and funnier than hell. She gives me hope.
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You guys probably don’t read the Blaze much. I don’t “read” it either, but I do check out the headlines and read the comments of one’s that I am sure will be “hot”. One of the most dangerous and compelling tools in the Blaze readership arsenal, is their willingness to “boycott” all those bad folks they find. Mostly they are Hollywood types and of course whole broadcasting networks, most of them in fact. They have boycotted so many people I can’t keep track. People like Morgan Freeman, and Spielberg, and Ron Howard, and George Clooney, and so forth.
The boycotts are because they are black and are “playing the racist” cards (code for reminding us of our damn bigotry), or they are supporting that racist/socialist/communist/fascist/Muslim jihadist/half-black/Merika-hatin’ Obummer dude.
I always feel sorta bad for ’em. They got nothing to watch, nothin’ to read, nothin’ to do except fume. They are down to Rush and Glenn and WorldNewsDaily. Gotta be rough.
And I can tell that all those Hollywood types are sweating out these boycotts. I mean the must be losing pennies a month. Rough.
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What’s on the Stove? Something called Smashed Tacos. And today’s posting will be an awesome Autumn Squash soup.
Extraordinary Words: Musings on the state and ethical behavior (suitably vague huh?)
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There is at least a possibility that Mrs. Santorum’s tough anti-abortion stance is fueled by a sense of guilt over past behavior (six years of sex and no full-term pregnancy?). Cheap psychology again (on my part) but not altogether different than the burning ex-gay who hates all practicing gays. And it reminds me that the pro-lifers often feature as speakers women who chose abortion for themselves in the past and later regretted it.
Don’t get me wrong – I think regret and even remorse is understandable after an abortion – but it is a failure of brain to start feeling so damned guilty and sinful about it that you decide God’s forgiveness is not enough if you do not campaign to take away freedom of choice from everyone else.
Note: my reference to the ‘six years of sex’ was to the potential first Lady’s affair with the abortion doctor, not to any hiatus in her later married life.
Indeed, I assume she is a very “repentant” sort of woman, who now is actively rabid in her opposition to her sinful past. Ex smokers are often like this. I think you are most likely quite right.
Will go explore some of those interesting links you have posted! Am highly amused about the story of Santorum’s wife’s previous romantic relationship. As you said, you can’t make this stuff up.
yeah, I know. I mean, it’s none of my business what her past is, but good grief, the hypocrisy of it all. It simply defies one’s brain to wrap around it all.
John, you may have a very good point there.
You are a plethora (I like it when I get to use that word) of information Sherry. I like it.
oh plethora is one of my favorites as well. I use it constantly. I have a rather bizarre reader that simply spews out all kinds of interesting stuff, or at least so to me. Which can be problematic. Ya just never know what may slide down the chute on this blog.
Will Santorum even be talked about outside the Bible Belt? I mean, really – other than derision, the only other kind of attention he’ll get is silence. I believe we’ll hear no more of him very soon.
Love the long-awaited acknowledgement from Romney that his effective tax rate is 15%. Yeah, he’s just like the rest of us 99%.
Yes, Santorum will pass into oblivion I assume. He is not an electable person anywhere I don’t think. As to Romney? Oh there is much to be found for the looking, I’m guessing.