With the recent departure of the JokePa metallic abortion from the front of the stadium in Unhappy Valley...the vacancy left more than a few Pennsylvania political hack Regents with a driving desire to fill the void with a slightly less demeaning, demonic and disgusting gaggle of brass bullshit. And, since the Saddam statue had been on a "Buy it now, or Best Offer since sometime in 2004...
Okay, so...I made up at least part of that teaser. The bottom-line is, after taking the fourth call from a Penn State alum earlier today, I decided that there was a story here, which had to be told.
I apologize for not taking this opportunity to comment on the new Obama tv spot which launched today, the Syrian Non-Threat to use chemical weapons if either a) Damascus is attacked, or b) donkeys fly...the ongoing euro banking collapse, or any one of the other 79 more appropriate political themes which might have occupied tonight's column.
However...when I took that fourth call earlier today, from the Penn State alum who still to this day believes that "there is no scandal...it's a witch hunt'...it was time to let 'er rip, and call these clowns out, in the same way in which we felt compelled to re-introduce myself to the gun nuts, just yesterday.
As usual, the course of my life has placed me in a position to have met the late Coach Bonjourno on more than one occasion. The very first time I met this legend in his own mind, was while I was still in high school. JokePa was recruiting a guy I played football with...and who happened to be one of the greatest running backs never to make it out of the Jerry Sandusky Memorial Group Shower.
JokePa promised my teammate that he would be the next (fill in the blank, superstar from Penn State). The Joke said he was going to stop recruiting players at that position that year if he got a commitment from my teammate. Joe also told the player not to worry at all about whether the player's family could afford to make the long trip to Unhappy Valley every saturday.
I don't know exactly what else The Joke had to say to my friend. Those things were all that were said in public.
I also don't know exactly what happened once my friend actually got to Penn State. Maybe Jerry Sandusky offered my friend a piece of candy, or a ride in his car...or offered to towel him down after practice?
I do know that on the first day of practice, The Joke told this incredible athlete that he had decided that my friend should be moved to a new position...a position that he had never played before. And, three plays later, with absolutely no instruction at the new position, my friend and former teammate suffered a career ending injury.
This was still at a time when a full scholarship meant that your four year scholarship could be taken away from you the following year, for any reason or no reason...and while my friend was still in the hospital recovering from surgery...the pedophile coddling Joke Paterno, showed up to tell my friend that he would have to pay his own way back to Penn State the next year, BUt...that Joe The Joke hoped that my friend would still come back...and walk-on to football tryouts, because..."You know, I care about you as a person".
About ten years later...when I saw The Joke in New Orleans, while I was on business and he was lounging prior to the Sugar Bowl...I approached him in a small, out of the way restaurant...and asked Paterno if he was aware of the fact that my friend from high school had committed suicide (after a long bout with depression, following his injury). Paterno's one word response told me everything that anyone ever needed to no, about what kind of a man he wasn't.
"Who?"
The last time I met this grand bastian of all things hypocritical...was at a major football banquet. Jerry Sandusky was there, too. And, while I didn't know it then...I know now, that the timing of this event operated as evidence that even after The Joke knew that Jerkin' Jerry was having his way with those who were unable to protect or defend themselves.
And, when MSNBC followed the story of the Colorado Movie Murderer, with the announcement that, "In our OTHER top story of the day...Penn State gets to continue..." to let football and the almighty dollar determine whether or not raping children in university showers is an appropriate matter to bring to the attention of the local police...it became more than apparent that absolutely nothing has, or will ever change.
Yes, the university was fined the equivalent of ONE YEAR'S football revenue.
Yes, the NCAA took away a few scholarships, and restricted the team from competing for championships for a couple of years.
Yes, current players can transfer without waiting to play at another school.
HOWEVER...if University-sponsored and sanctioned child rape is not enough to get a program shut down...what the hell is?
What if Jerry and JokePa dyed their hair orange and shot up a movie theater?
Think even that would have been enough?
At least the Widow JokePa still gets her HALF MILLION DOLLAR A YEAR pension benefit. That's the bad news...
The good news is, she gets to join Mrs. Madoff, the Widow Arafat, and other noteworthy ex-successful ladder-climbing spouses at an afternoon tea, where they all spend time telling each other that the money means absolutely nothing when compared to the fact that all of them...used to be somebody.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Sunday, July 22, 2012
My new novel, "Broken Law" IS NOW AVAILABLE!
To all of my friends, family, colleagues, contacts and of course...all of YOUR friends, family, colleagues ad contacts...
My new Legal Thriller, "Broken Law"...the 1st installment in "The Stephen Westminster Series" featuring the fictional character of the same name...
IS NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM, AND KINDLE'S KDP DIRECT!
AMAZON AND KINDLE HAVE TAKEN A 90 DAY EXCLUSIVE ON THE WORK...WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE THRU APPLE AND MULTIPLE OTHER DELIVERY PLATFORMS IN NOVEMBER, 2012.
AMAZON PRIME MEMBERS CAN BORROW THE BOOK FROM NOW THRU NOVEMBER AT NO COST.
NON-PRIME MEMBERS WILL BE CHARGED $5.99 FOR AN INSTANTANEOUS DOWNLOAD.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF MY BLOG.
PLEASE CONSIDER ENJOYING "BROKEN LAW" EITHER BY A NO-COST LOAN, UNDER AMAZON PRIME...OR FOR THE VERY RASONABLE PRICE OF $5.99.
PEACE!
BILLY V.
My new Legal Thriller, "Broken Law"...the 1st installment in "The Stephen Westminster Series" featuring the fictional character of the same name...
IS NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM, AND KINDLE'S KDP DIRECT!
AMAZON AND KINDLE HAVE TAKEN A 90 DAY EXCLUSIVE ON THE WORK...WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE THRU APPLE AND MULTIPLE OTHER DELIVERY PLATFORMS IN NOVEMBER, 2012.
AMAZON PRIME MEMBERS CAN BORROW THE BOOK FROM NOW THRU NOVEMBER AT NO COST.
NON-PRIME MEMBERS WILL BE CHARGED $5.99 FOR AN INSTANTANEOUS DOWNLOAD.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF MY BLOG.
PLEASE CONSIDER ENJOYING "BROKEN LAW" EITHER BY A NO-COST LOAN, UNDER AMAZON PRIME...OR FOR THE VERY RASONABLE PRICE OF $5.99.
PEACE!
BILLY V.
How Many Gun Nuts Does It Take To End YOUR LIFE?
The drum beat has begun, yet again. Gun nuts in all shapes and sizes and from almost every walk of life have had their sleeper cells activated. And, whether or not anyone cares about their answer or even asks a relevant question...their mantra spewing about freedom and their genetically mutated mis-interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, is underway.
The guns didn't kill and injure 82 people. The weapons were legal. The guy was nuts. If guns are illegal only criminals will have guns. This guy was nuts. Blah...blah blah, blah blah.
At what point is someone going to stand up and challenge these gun nuts, stop spouting buzz words and phrases that were learned at the age of 8 when their parents sent them to "Gun Camp"...and stop this senseless killing?
Before I get into the totality of arguments offered by the gun nuts which are unsupportable in their entirety, there are a few facts which should in and of themselves make that effort thoroughly unnecessary.
Every year in the United States...EVERY YEAR...There are more than THREE to FIVE TIMES the number of GUN-RELATED DEATHS in the United States, THAN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF United States Soldiers KILLED IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.
In the ten years since the start of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, roughly 6600 US Troops have been killed.In the ten years since the start of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, BETWEEN 250,000 and 300,000 FREE AMERICANS have lost their lives in gun-related incidents.
So...How many gun nuts does it take to end YOUR life?
In the Colorado movie theater incident, as in most if not all of the last 30 mass killings in this country, the weapons used were legally acquired and possessed by the murderer. The gun nuts want no new laws rstricting anyone's right to acquire these weapons of mass destruction. Of course not. Gun nuts have rights. Right?
A person with a sinus condition can't purchase three packages of Pseudophed or Mucinex within a 30 day period, and haS to show their government-issued photo ID, give a thumb print, and swear allegiance to Eli Lilly just to get the first two.
A mass murderer in Colorado, or anywhere in the United States can acquire nearly 10,000 rounds of ammunition, semi-automatic weapons, convertible to automatic weapons, tear gas canisters, flash-bang grenades, full body-armour...and, do so without restriction or limitation...and while swearing allegiance to no one.
But...WHAT ABOUT THE 2ND AMENDMENT?Don't we, in this "greatest nation on earth" have, yes...a GOD-GIVEN RIGHT to kill ANYTHING WE WANT TO...even if our bullseye happens to be trained upon someone else's 7 year old 2nd Grade little boy or girl?
Which is of greater importance in the year 2012...
The 2nd Amendment...or a 2nd Grader?
Before you answer, let's examine what the gun nut response has been to every other mass murder committed using the world's most deadly weapon of mass destruction.
After a run of school shootings:
"ARM THE TEACHERS!"
After shootings at colleges and universities:
"ARM THE TEACHERS AND THE STUDENTS!"
After shootings at a Seattle coffee shop:
"ARM THE BARRISTAS!"
After the September 11th attacks:
"ARM THE PILOTS!"
After the shootings of a Congresswoman in Arizona:
"ARM THE CONGRESS!
"What can we expect from the gun nuts after the mass murder in a Colorado movie theater?
"ARM THE GIRLS AT THE CANDY COUNTER!"
In case we haven't figured this out yet...ARMING MORE PEOPLE ONLY GETS MORE PEOPLE DEAD!
But...what about the 2nd Amendment?
Let's talk about the 2nd Amendment for just a moment.
The 2nd Amendment was adopted in the year 1791. In 1791, "arms" which Americans had a right to keep and bear...were forged BY HAND, and took anywhere from 1 to three minutes to fire a SINGLE SHOT.MASS MURDER, in 1791 WAS A PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY, unless a group of 82 people (like in the Colorado movie theater) was set upon BY AN ENTIRE ARMY of murderers...or, unless the 82 people being attacked, WERE ASLEEP.
From 1791 until Antonin "THE ANTI-CHRIST" Scalia vitiated the intent of the Framers of the Constitution in 2008...anyone with 2 live brain cells understood that THE PURPOSE of this "right" to keep and bear arms...was very specific...that being to support a "well-regulated militia" because that was necessary "for the security of a free state".
But...220 years after first adoption, Scalia, a Life Member of the NRA no doubt, decided, in his own infinite lunacy, that what the Framers REALLY meant, was that any American who had FIVE FREAKING DOLLARS to pay for parking at a gun show...and thus avoid a background check, could buy all of the convertible automatic weapons he could fit in his trunk...and then as many Free Americans as he could afford hollow-point bullets.
Of the 36 wealthiest nations on earth, the United States has a gun-related murder rate TWO HUNDRED TIMES HIGHER THAN JAPAN, over thirty times higher than Great Britain, and already shows over three guns in place FOR EVERY CITIZEN OF THIS NATION.
The facts COMPLETELY REFUTE the rhetoric of the gun nuts.
Of the last 30 mass murders in this nation, ONLY TWO of the murderers had ANY prior criminal records of note. The people commiting these heinous crimes are NOT career criminals, nor are they, by and large, documented crazy people. So...enforing existing laws WOULD NOT have prevented their crimes. Likewise, if you took THEIR guns away, the result WOULD NOT BE that "only criminals would have guns".
The truth is, if you took their guns away...hundreds of Free Americans would still be alive, and hundreds more would not have been wounded...and at least one LESS "criminal" would have his own arsenal.
NO ONE would be injured, or have even been denied a "constitutional right" if these murderers had their guns taken away.
And...since we have absolutely NO IDEA who the NEXT gun nut to have a spontaneous breakdown might be, where that will occur, or how many people THAT gun nut will kill...well...the simple solution to this complex problem, is to fix it so that no gun nut has the capability of taking even so much as one Free American life, just because he lost a job, couldn't get a job, had a rough day at the office, his double wide got repossessed, momma ran off with the Maytag Repairman, or his kids got a bad report card.
Gun nuts tend to swear by the slogan, "Kill them all...and let God sort them out".
I think a much more effective life-saving adage is to TAKE ALL OF THE GUNS AWAY...AND GOD WILL HAVE FAR LESS SORTING OUT, TO ATTEND TO".
Without a radical course correction, the killing will continue, and...it will only take ONE gun nut, to make YOU or your entire family...NEXT!
The guns didn't kill and injure 82 people. The weapons were legal. The guy was nuts. If guns are illegal only criminals will have guns. This guy was nuts. Blah...blah blah, blah blah.
At what point is someone going to stand up and challenge these gun nuts, stop spouting buzz words and phrases that were learned at the age of 8 when their parents sent them to "Gun Camp"...and stop this senseless killing?
Before I get into the totality of arguments offered by the gun nuts which are unsupportable in their entirety, there are a few facts which should in and of themselves make that effort thoroughly unnecessary.
Every year in the United States...EVERY YEAR...There are more than THREE to FIVE TIMES the number of GUN-RELATED DEATHS in the United States, THAN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF United States Soldiers KILLED IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.
In the ten years since the start of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, roughly 6600 US Troops have been killed.In the ten years since the start of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, BETWEEN 250,000 and 300,000 FREE AMERICANS have lost their lives in gun-related incidents.
So...How many gun nuts does it take to end YOUR life?
In the Colorado movie theater incident, as in most if not all of the last 30 mass killings in this country, the weapons used were legally acquired and possessed by the murderer. The gun nuts want no new laws rstricting anyone's right to acquire these weapons of mass destruction. Of course not. Gun nuts have rights. Right?
A person with a sinus condition can't purchase three packages of Pseudophed or Mucinex within a 30 day period, and haS to show their government-issued photo ID, give a thumb print, and swear allegiance to Eli Lilly just to get the first two.
A mass murderer in Colorado, or anywhere in the United States can acquire nearly 10,000 rounds of ammunition, semi-automatic weapons, convertible to automatic weapons, tear gas canisters, flash-bang grenades, full body-armour...and, do so without restriction or limitation...and while swearing allegiance to no one.
But...WHAT ABOUT THE 2ND AMENDMENT?Don't we, in this "greatest nation on earth" have, yes...a GOD-GIVEN RIGHT to kill ANYTHING WE WANT TO...even if our bullseye happens to be trained upon someone else's 7 year old 2nd Grade little boy or girl?
Which is of greater importance in the year 2012...
The 2nd Amendment...or a 2nd Grader?
Before you answer, let's examine what the gun nut response has been to every other mass murder committed using the world's most deadly weapon of mass destruction.
After a run of school shootings:
"ARM THE TEACHERS!"
After shootings at colleges and universities:
"ARM THE TEACHERS AND THE STUDENTS!"
After shootings at a Seattle coffee shop:
"ARM THE BARRISTAS!"
After the September 11th attacks:
"ARM THE PILOTS!"
After the shootings of a Congresswoman in Arizona:
"ARM THE CONGRESS!
"What can we expect from the gun nuts after the mass murder in a Colorado movie theater?
"ARM THE GIRLS AT THE CANDY COUNTER!"
In case we haven't figured this out yet...ARMING MORE PEOPLE ONLY GETS MORE PEOPLE DEAD!
But...what about the 2nd Amendment?
Let's talk about the 2nd Amendment for just a moment.
The 2nd Amendment was adopted in the year 1791. In 1791, "arms" which Americans had a right to keep and bear...were forged BY HAND, and took anywhere from 1 to three minutes to fire a SINGLE SHOT.MASS MURDER, in 1791 WAS A PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY, unless a group of 82 people (like in the Colorado movie theater) was set upon BY AN ENTIRE ARMY of murderers...or, unless the 82 people being attacked, WERE ASLEEP.
From 1791 until Antonin "THE ANTI-CHRIST" Scalia vitiated the intent of the Framers of the Constitution in 2008...anyone with 2 live brain cells understood that THE PURPOSE of this "right" to keep and bear arms...was very specific...that being to support a "well-regulated militia" because that was necessary "for the security of a free state".
But...220 years after first adoption, Scalia, a Life Member of the NRA no doubt, decided, in his own infinite lunacy, that what the Framers REALLY meant, was that any American who had FIVE FREAKING DOLLARS to pay for parking at a gun show...and thus avoid a background check, could buy all of the convertible automatic weapons he could fit in his trunk...and then as many Free Americans as he could afford hollow-point bullets.
Of the 36 wealthiest nations on earth, the United States has a gun-related murder rate TWO HUNDRED TIMES HIGHER THAN JAPAN, over thirty times higher than Great Britain, and already shows over three guns in place FOR EVERY CITIZEN OF THIS NATION.
The facts COMPLETELY REFUTE the rhetoric of the gun nuts.
Of the last 30 mass murders in this nation, ONLY TWO of the murderers had ANY prior criminal records of note. The people commiting these heinous crimes are NOT career criminals, nor are they, by and large, documented crazy people. So...enforing existing laws WOULD NOT have prevented their crimes. Likewise, if you took THEIR guns away, the result WOULD NOT BE that "only criminals would have guns".
The truth is, if you took their guns away...hundreds of Free Americans would still be alive, and hundreds more would not have been wounded...and at least one LESS "criminal" would have his own arsenal.
NO ONE would be injured, or have even been denied a "constitutional right" if these murderers had their guns taken away.
And...since we have absolutely NO IDEA who the NEXT gun nut to have a spontaneous breakdown might be, where that will occur, or how many people THAT gun nut will kill...well...the simple solution to this complex problem, is to fix it so that no gun nut has the capability of taking even so much as one Free American life, just because he lost a job, couldn't get a job, had a rough day at the office, his double wide got repossessed, momma ran off with the Maytag Repairman, or his kids got a bad report card.
Gun nuts tend to swear by the slogan, "Kill them all...and let God sort them out".
I think a much more effective life-saving adage is to TAKE ALL OF THE GUNS AWAY...AND GOD WILL HAVE FAR LESS SORTING OUT, TO ATTEND TO".
Without a radical course correction, the killing will continue, and...it will only take ONE gun nut, to make YOU or your entire family...NEXT!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Romney's Problem Isn't Bain...It's Romney.
Okay, Mitt Romney ran Bain Capital at some point in time...for some period of time.Maybe, he lied about whether he continued to run the company.
Maybe, he kept his name on SEC documents in order to capitalize on tax loopholes, OR, because he couldn't or wouldn't give up control until his golden parchute had landed, OR, maybe he really didn't continue to run the company regardless of what any SEC documents might have indicated.
And...maybe during some, all, or none of that time, he either did, OR didn't send any jobs to India.And...maybe, President Obama and his advisors did, OR didn't manipulate the logarithim used to calculate the number of Bain jobs which might OR might not have left the country for their own selfish political purposes.
The bottom-line is...none of THAT really matters.
Ya see...in a time when tens, if not hundreds of thousands of American College Students are staying at home and attending junior colleges, while the children of Indian and other foreign parents are finding their way into midwestern 4 year college dorms IN DROVES......it doesn't much matter if Mitt sent ONE job overseas, or ran Bain for even so much as 23 seconds.
George Bush 41 was elected President in the first instance because he followed Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan's seemingly 72 years as President of these great Untied States of 'Merica. Not soon after, and for the first time in the history of the nation during wartime...Bush, Sr. was made a one term President...NOT because we read his lips and remembered his no new taxes pledge. George H.W. Bush was made a one term President because...the more we got to know him, the more we knew he wasn't like us.
He didn't know how grocery store or department store scanners worked, how much a package of underwear cost...or how to pump his own gas.
And...neither does Mitt Romney.It's the reason a certifiable psychopath like Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky's good buddy, Rick Santorum was a heartbeat away from the republican nomination for what seemed like the same 72 years that Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan was in office.
It's the reason why high unemployment, high taxes, high foreclosure numbers, higher and higher corporate profits, a still unchecked financial industry, and an entire world economy in danger of yet an even more destructive collapse STILL can't pull The Mighty Mittster even with a President who pissed on his own base, adopted multiple policies (foreign and domestic) which were far right of George DUBYAH Bush, and has spent as much time running for re-election as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton did in securing their first terms.In 2008, a major issue in the Presidential election was, whether the country was ready for a Black President.
Well...President Obama may not exactly be Black (he's technically Bi-Racial)...but the truth is, we were and are, far more prepared to re-elect a "Black" President, than we are to elect the Bill Gates Edition of the Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man.
Mitt is whiter than white. And, at a time when census figures show that Whites are no longer a 51% majority race...the fact that he has a Mormon view of minorities (or rather, majorities), wants to build the fence, strap the dog to his car roof, refuse to release his tax returns, has no answer to how many off-shore tax loopholes he's taken advantage of, has never met a pair of polar oppostie positions he wasnt willing to simultaneously support...and, oh by the way...has never bought his own groceries, pumped his own gas, can't tell you the price of anything except his 16 personal residences on four continents...AND...happens to be worth close to half a BILLION dollars, well...I say again...Mitt Romneys problem isnt Bain Capital.
It's Mitt Romney.
Not even a Georgia redneck whose auto plant is closed, whose pension is gone, who can't send their child to a four year college, can't find a job himself, and believe me...pumps his own gas when he can afford it...AND, knows the price of used underwear from the Goodwill Store...is ig-nint enough to think that even though White, Mitt Romney either has the same core values and ideological principles, OR...is any more "like him" than is the Sitting President.
And, God Bless us one and all...if he IS (that ig-nint, I mean).
Barack Obama may not be every, or even any Progressive American's dream of either the perfect President...or even the bill of goods he was sold to ME as when I voted for him. However, if I found myself on the wrong end of a game of three card monty, whether the crooks were New York City Street Hustlers...or the other leaders of the not necessarily free world...I would want a Chicago Politician telling me where the red card was, over a billionaire animal abuser any day of the week.
And, it wouldn't matter if he was CEO of Bain Capital, Ronald Reagan's horse holder, or William F. Buckley.
If Americans are entitled to a jury of our peers when we are on trial for murder...why would we want the Poster Boy for The Aristocracy to make any decision, during any one of those days or decades which we are otherwise fighting for our lives?
It's good to be back...
Billy V.
Maybe, he kept his name on SEC documents in order to capitalize on tax loopholes, OR, because he couldn't or wouldn't give up control until his golden parchute had landed, OR, maybe he really didn't continue to run the company regardless of what any SEC documents might have indicated.
And...maybe during some, all, or none of that time, he either did, OR didn't send any jobs to India.And...maybe, President Obama and his advisors did, OR didn't manipulate the logarithim used to calculate the number of Bain jobs which might OR might not have left the country for their own selfish political purposes.
The bottom-line is...none of THAT really matters.
Ya see...in a time when tens, if not hundreds of thousands of American College Students are staying at home and attending junior colleges, while the children of Indian and other foreign parents are finding their way into midwestern 4 year college dorms IN DROVES......it doesn't much matter if Mitt sent ONE job overseas, or ran Bain for even so much as 23 seconds.
George Bush 41 was elected President in the first instance because he followed Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan's seemingly 72 years as President of these great Untied States of 'Merica. Not soon after, and for the first time in the history of the nation during wartime...Bush, Sr. was made a one term President...NOT because we read his lips and remembered his no new taxes pledge. George H.W. Bush was made a one term President because...the more we got to know him, the more we knew he wasn't like us.
He didn't know how grocery store or department store scanners worked, how much a package of underwear cost...or how to pump his own gas.
And...neither does Mitt Romney.It's the reason a certifiable psychopath like Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky's good buddy, Rick Santorum was a heartbeat away from the republican nomination for what seemed like the same 72 years that Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan was in office.
It's the reason why high unemployment, high taxes, high foreclosure numbers, higher and higher corporate profits, a still unchecked financial industry, and an entire world economy in danger of yet an even more destructive collapse STILL can't pull The Mighty Mittster even with a President who pissed on his own base, adopted multiple policies (foreign and domestic) which were far right of George DUBYAH Bush, and has spent as much time running for re-election as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton did in securing their first terms.In 2008, a major issue in the Presidential election was, whether the country was ready for a Black President.
Well...President Obama may not exactly be Black (he's technically Bi-Racial)...but the truth is, we were and are, far more prepared to re-elect a "Black" President, than we are to elect the Bill Gates Edition of the Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man.
Mitt is whiter than white. And, at a time when census figures show that Whites are no longer a 51% majority race...the fact that he has a Mormon view of minorities (or rather, majorities), wants to build the fence, strap the dog to his car roof, refuse to release his tax returns, has no answer to how many off-shore tax loopholes he's taken advantage of, has never met a pair of polar oppostie positions he wasnt willing to simultaneously support...and, oh by the way...has never bought his own groceries, pumped his own gas, can't tell you the price of anything except his 16 personal residences on four continents...AND...happens to be worth close to half a BILLION dollars, well...I say again...Mitt Romneys problem isnt Bain Capital.
It's Mitt Romney.
Not even a Georgia redneck whose auto plant is closed, whose pension is gone, who can't send their child to a four year college, can't find a job himself, and believe me...pumps his own gas when he can afford it...AND, knows the price of used underwear from the Goodwill Store...is ig-nint enough to think that even though White, Mitt Romney either has the same core values and ideological principles, OR...is any more "like him" than is the Sitting President.
And, God Bless us one and all...if he IS (that ig-nint, I mean).
Barack Obama may not be every, or even any Progressive American's dream of either the perfect President...or even the bill of goods he was sold to ME as when I voted for him. However, if I found myself on the wrong end of a game of three card monty, whether the crooks were New York City Street Hustlers...or the other leaders of the not necessarily free world...I would want a Chicago Politician telling me where the red card was, over a billionaire animal abuser any day of the week.
And, it wouldn't matter if he was CEO of Bain Capital, Ronald Reagan's horse holder, or William F. Buckley.
If Americans are entitled to a jury of our peers when we are on trial for murder...why would we want the Poster Boy for The Aristocracy to make any decision, during any one of those days or decades which we are otherwise fighting for our lives?
It's good to be back...
Billy V.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
THE RETURN OF BILLY V.
As it became apparent that Mitt Romney would be the Republican nominee for President...politics took a temporary backseat to the combination of rehabilitating following my auto-pedestrian accident, completing MY NEW LEGAL THRILLER, "Broken Law"...and preparing myself spiritually for becoming a Deacon in my Church.
Thank you again to all of you who have continued to promote ThoughtsAtThreeAM on Twitter and numerous other sites during my absence. Thank you for all of the incredibly encouraging emails and other communications, as well. Beginning MONDAY, JULY 16, 2012..."Thoughts" will return on a daily basis with the most piercing commentary regarding the upcoming presidential election.
PLUS...on, or before JULY 31, 2012...
"Broken Law," my brand new Legal Thriller will be available EXCLUSIVELY thru Amazon.com's Kindle KDP Select...and then will be available EVERYWHERE eBooks can be acquired, as of NOVEMBER 1, 2012.
Look to this blog, and my synced blog at Goodreads.com for promotional opportunities to acquire "Broken Law" at no cost.
See ya, MONDAY, JULY 16, 2012 and everyday thereafter.
Billy V.
Thank you again to all of you who have continued to promote ThoughtsAtThreeAM on Twitter and numerous other sites during my absence. Thank you for all of the incredibly encouraging emails and other communications, as well. Beginning MONDAY, JULY 16, 2012..."Thoughts" will return on a daily basis with the most piercing commentary regarding the upcoming presidential election.
PLUS...on, or before JULY 31, 2012...
"Broken Law," my brand new Legal Thriller will be available EXCLUSIVELY thru Amazon.com's Kindle KDP Select...and then will be available EVERYWHERE eBooks can be acquired, as of NOVEMBER 1, 2012.
Look to this blog, and my synced blog at Goodreads.com for promotional opportunities to acquire "Broken Law" at no cost.
See ya, MONDAY, JULY 16, 2012 and everyday thereafter.
Billy V.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Romney Takes The Lead...In The New Muppet Movie!
No...This is not a cheesy reference to Goldman Sachs executives referring to their clients as "Muppets".
This is just...one of those times when you really do have to take a few steps back, look at your life as a whole and think..."BOY, am I glad I'm not an almost BILLIONAIRE with a God complex and a presidential fantasy."
In case you haven't noticed...and from this past month's emails...a surprising number of you have...I've gone to great lengths to eliminate "profanity" from this blog. Oh sure, there has been the "occasional" use of the classic "F-apostrophe-d" in moments when referencing something just too outrageous to be appropriately indicated using a more conventional 15th Century vernacular.
However...when you really examine not only a republican PRESIDENTIAL RACE which opened with:
1. The suggestion that SARAH PALIN HAD ANY RIGHT TO EVEN PLACE HER DISGRACED NAME IN NOMINATION,
2. The DECLARATION that Michele Bachmann was the first "frontrunner,"
3. The observation of a morally bankrupt and certified MORON (in 37 States, and by AT LEAST "4 out of 5 Doctors) like Herman Cain...AGAIN, having the testicals to deem himself worthy to occupy the same office which housed Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt and only 44 people...EVER,
4. The assembly for discussion on a near-nightly basis...of the largest single collection of pungent, sphincter-esque expulsions, ever assembled in one room, on one stage, IN THE HISTORY OF TIME...cloaked in the guise of presidential debates...WHERE THE ONLY DEBATE WAS, "WHO IS...THE MOST COPIOUS DOUCHE BAG, FROM AMONG THIS GAGGLE OF CERTIFIED MEDICAL DEVICES?"...
4. A guy who was once 3rd in the line of succession to the presidency...AND WHO GOT FIRED IN LIEU OF BEING PROSECUTED... THINKING THAT 330 MILLION AMERICANS HAD A COLLECTIVE BRAIN FART AND FORGOT WHO HE WAS...
5. A defeated and "PSYCHOTIC BY ANY STANDARD" former Senator WHOSE ONLY SIGNIFICANT CLAIM TO FAME IS THAT HE ONCE EQUATED GAY MARRIAGE AS THE NATURAL PRECURSOR TO "MAN ON DOG LOVE"...AND MARRIAGE TO "INANIMATE OBJECTS SUCH AS THE EIFFEL TOWER"...and who should have been HERMETICALLY SEALED IN A HEFTY CINCH SACK before even announcing the results of his most recent psychotic break...
I mean...
...Is there no one among us, who CAN'T SEE why Mitt had to be licking just a little more than his chops at that first Iowa Debate?
"Heck"...I'm guessing Mitt was printing tickets to the Inaugural Ball even before downing his first ten pounds of fried butter.
He probably had 7 or 8 additional First Ladies-In Waiting all lined up, and was already negotiating to replace the Goldman Sachs portion of the Cabinet...with Ex-Bainers.
HE WAS RUNNING AGAINST SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DOLTS!
THE SITTING PRESIDENT IS IN FIVE WARS, WITH RECORD UNEMPLOYMENT, EVEN THE WHITE HOUSE IN FORECLOSURE...AND GASOLINE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN "THE ESSENCE" OF THE FATTEST OF SEVENTEEN KARDASHIAN SISTERS.
And then...I remembered something.
Something my Grandfather used to say to me as a child.
Something he said to me every time I acted like there was only one possible outcome to a set of circumstances...
...when I simply could NOT BELIEVE that things didn't turn out even BETTER than I had planned, programmed and DECLARED them to be.
And, though my wonderful Grandfather has been gone for more than three decades...TO THIS DAY...when-EVER I find myself confident to the point of nirvana...there it is...
...that unmistakable voice...loud, clear, and as though God and Fred (my Grandfather) were knocking back a cold one and watching over me directly.
My guess is that Fred doesn't really WANT to say it...BUT...God is probably egging him on...
"Do it, Freddie...Say it again. C'mon, My Son...I'll...cure the common cold...Anything you want."
Same story, different cure. Either way, the next thing I know...my best laid plans are following my life into the crapper...and the pseudo-Godlike voice of my Grandfather wants to know...
"FUCKHEAD!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!"
To alllllllllll of you said such nice things about not using a lot of capitals...and not using profanity...all I can say is...
A. THAT'S WHAT HE USED TO SAY...AND HOW HE USED TO DAY IT, and...
B. With everything that has happened in this campaign...there is no more appropriate recipient of that admonishment, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD...than Willard "I got my Mitt stuck in my zipper" Romney.
Trust me on this, Friends...you honestly don't have to be a visionary to know or see how the world, and this country have changed since 2008.
Sure...it didn't START in 2008. But, it sure as "heck" crystallized. Yes, there has always been some level of polarization, politically, ideologically...and in countless other ways. To suggest otherwise would be to deny the occurrence of the Civil War, the battle of the Sexes, Lite Beer Commercials...and of course Voodoo Economics.
And...I honestly DO understand that the hardest thing to accept about ANY significant change in the way ANYTHING is done...is THE TIMING at which the change is implemented or takes place.
"NEW"...contrary to Madison Avenue hype...is rarely "IMPROVED".
It's just new.
Human beings have a documented "natural aversion to change". We don't like it. We want to do things THE WAY WE HAVE ALWAYS DONE THEM.
In a sense...it's the essence of conservativism.
And, in this instance...we have an absolutely convoluted situation where a misguided attempt to do things...the way they've always been done...had created a serious of scenarios...liked none that any of us had ever seen before...
...at least not in this lifetime.
There have been conflicts. Never has everyone who wanted a job, had one. There was always that one family...or two...that your church gave canned goods to...
People like Barry Goldwater and Michael Dukakis were able to get nominated. And, guys like Bill Clinton and The Shrub even got elected...twice.
But...ANYONE in 2012...who thinks that just because they have the most money, the best teeth, more Armani suits than Georgio, himself...friends who own at least their own planet, if not galaxy...197 IMMEDIATE family members to act as surrogates... No major closet skeletons rattling to get out...other than being a member of an arguable cult...
...well...why WOULD anyone else think they could beat that guy?
He was 2nd last time...AND...THAT'S THE WAY WE ALWAYS DO IT.
Mitt was "ENTITLED" to this nomination. He started working for it from the day he was born the Son of a Governor. And, when he took an ass-kicking from Insane McCain back in '08...Willard did what every republican Also-Ran had done since 1860.
He started icing down the champagne wrapped in a sheet of plastic under a sign that read, "Do NOT open until 2012"...
...to which I can only reply...
"FUCKHEAD!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
Sure, you are NOT "a Massachussettes Moderate"...At least not by choice.
Yes...you have a...sense of entitlement, no clear position on any issue, you love firing people, your wife can magically drive two cars at once, you own your own plane, you don't really care about the poor, you baptize dead Jews in order to save them...you...drive cross-country with MAN'S BEST FRIEND strapped to the roof of your car, you sent more American Jobs to India and China than the fired and disgraced Carly Fiorina...you don't drink or smoke...excessive skiing and chess are your only vices...you can OWN Pepsi (The Company) but, you can't drink your own product...and, oh yeah...you're a member of a cult whose dogma includes the notion that Satan is the Brother of Jesus Christ...
Then again...you WERE 2nd in the last go-round.
Hmmm...knowing what we know about the emergence of the Tea Party, the fact that Citizen's United DIDN'T ONLY APPLY TO YOU...Christians, DON'T CONSIDER MORMONS...CHRISTIANS, AND...
ALL OF THOSE THINGS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED WHICH YOU DIDN'T SEE AS IMPEDIMENTS TO SUCCESS...but really are...
Please, Willie...and I understand...it wasn't easy bein' Green for Kermit the Frog. It isn't easy having to count all of your money, cars and houses. It isn't easy, what with ALL of those deceased Jews that only you can save. It isn't easy not being able to suck down a COKE ZERO on a summer day. And GOD KNOWS...
...IT AIN'T EASY WATCHING THE TWO-HEADED DEVIL ITSELF take you apart piece...by...piece...when you KNOW, and even God KNOWS...that if ever this world would SELF "F'in" DESTRUCT...
IT WOULD BE THE DAY TRICKY SANITARIUM BECAME THE MOST, POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD.
I mean...YOU have to be about a month and a half away from shooting up a Post Office.
No...wait. I got that wrong. We USED to shoot up Post Offices when we got depressed. We' ve gone on to schools and colleges...and courthouses. And, there aren't 1 or 2 families getting free food from churches...99% of families need free food. Only "Snobs" go to college anymore. Only "Sluts" go to law school". Only Ex-Governors get indicted, get reality television shows...or both...and...
I'm sorry, Mitt...but, even I have to ask...
...with EVERY OTHER ASPECT of life life as we knew it...TOTALLY CHANGED...since as recently as 2008!!!!
...and virtually the ONLY THING you had going for you being that you finished second...in a nominating process that occurred BEFORE THE ACTUAL CHANGE IN THE "NEW & IMPROVED" WAY WE DO THINGS, actually was introduced...
C'mon...say it with Freddie...
"FUCKHEAD!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
And...to my readers...
Not only did God give me a pass on this Posting, BUT...with any luck...He'll also send a cure for Terminal Santorum.
This is just...one of those times when you really do have to take a few steps back, look at your life as a whole and think..."BOY, am I glad I'm not an almost BILLIONAIRE with a God complex and a presidential fantasy."
In case you haven't noticed...and from this past month's emails...a surprising number of you have...I've gone to great lengths to eliminate "profanity" from this blog. Oh sure, there has been the "occasional" use of the classic "F-apostrophe-d" in moments when referencing something just too outrageous to be appropriately indicated using a more conventional 15th Century vernacular.
However...when you really examine not only a republican PRESIDENTIAL RACE which opened with:
1. The suggestion that SARAH PALIN HAD ANY RIGHT TO EVEN PLACE HER DISGRACED NAME IN NOMINATION,
2. The DECLARATION that Michele Bachmann was the first "frontrunner,"
3. The observation of a morally bankrupt and certified MORON (in 37 States, and by AT LEAST "4 out of 5 Doctors) like Herman Cain...AGAIN, having the testicals to deem himself worthy to occupy the same office which housed Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt and only 44 people...EVER,
4. The assembly for discussion on a near-nightly basis...of the largest single collection of pungent, sphincter-esque expulsions, ever assembled in one room, on one stage, IN THE HISTORY OF TIME...cloaked in the guise of presidential debates...WHERE THE ONLY DEBATE WAS, "WHO IS...THE MOST COPIOUS DOUCHE BAG, FROM AMONG THIS GAGGLE OF CERTIFIED MEDICAL DEVICES?"...
4. A guy who was once 3rd in the line of succession to the presidency...AND WHO GOT FIRED IN LIEU OF BEING PROSECUTED... THINKING THAT 330 MILLION AMERICANS HAD A COLLECTIVE BRAIN FART AND FORGOT WHO HE WAS...
5. A defeated and "PSYCHOTIC BY ANY STANDARD" former Senator WHOSE ONLY SIGNIFICANT CLAIM TO FAME IS THAT HE ONCE EQUATED GAY MARRIAGE AS THE NATURAL PRECURSOR TO "MAN ON DOG LOVE"...AND MARRIAGE TO "INANIMATE OBJECTS SUCH AS THE EIFFEL TOWER"...and who should have been HERMETICALLY SEALED IN A HEFTY CINCH SACK before even announcing the results of his most recent psychotic break...
I mean...
...Is there no one among us, who CAN'T SEE why Mitt had to be licking just a little more than his chops at that first Iowa Debate?
"Heck"...I'm guessing Mitt was printing tickets to the Inaugural Ball even before downing his first ten pounds of fried butter.
He probably had 7 or 8 additional First Ladies-In Waiting all lined up, and was already negotiating to replace the Goldman Sachs portion of the Cabinet...with Ex-Bainers.
HE WAS RUNNING AGAINST SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DOLTS!
THE SITTING PRESIDENT IS IN FIVE WARS, WITH RECORD UNEMPLOYMENT, EVEN THE WHITE HOUSE IN FORECLOSURE...AND GASOLINE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN "THE ESSENCE" OF THE FATTEST OF SEVENTEEN KARDASHIAN SISTERS.
And then...I remembered something.
Something my Grandfather used to say to me as a child.
Something he said to me every time I acted like there was only one possible outcome to a set of circumstances...
...when I simply could NOT BELIEVE that things didn't turn out even BETTER than I had planned, programmed and DECLARED them to be.
And, though my wonderful Grandfather has been gone for more than three decades...TO THIS DAY...when-EVER I find myself confident to the point of nirvana...there it is...
...that unmistakable voice...loud, clear, and as though God and Fred (my Grandfather) were knocking back a cold one and watching over me directly.
My guess is that Fred doesn't really WANT to say it...BUT...God is probably egging him on...
"Do it, Freddie...Say it again. C'mon, My Son...I'll...cure the common cold...Anything you want."
Same story, different cure. Either way, the next thing I know...my best laid plans are following my life into the crapper...and the pseudo-Godlike voice of my Grandfather wants to know...
"FUCKHEAD!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!"
To alllllllllll of you said such nice things about not using a lot of capitals...and not using profanity...all I can say is...
A. THAT'S WHAT HE USED TO SAY...AND HOW HE USED TO DAY IT, and...
B. With everything that has happened in this campaign...there is no more appropriate recipient of that admonishment, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD...than Willard "I got my Mitt stuck in my zipper" Romney.
Trust me on this, Friends...you honestly don't have to be a visionary to know or see how the world, and this country have changed since 2008.
Sure...it didn't START in 2008. But, it sure as "heck" crystallized. Yes, there has always been some level of polarization, politically, ideologically...and in countless other ways. To suggest otherwise would be to deny the occurrence of the Civil War, the battle of the Sexes, Lite Beer Commercials...and of course Voodoo Economics.
And...I honestly DO understand that the hardest thing to accept about ANY significant change in the way ANYTHING is done...is THE TIMING at which the change is implemented or takes place.
"NEW"...contrary to Madison Avenue hype...is rarely "IMPROVED".
It's just new.
Human beings have a documented "natural aversion to change". We don't like it. We want to do things THE WAY WE HAVE ALWAYS DONE THEM.
In a sense...it's the essence of conservativism.
And, in this instance...we have an absolutely convoluted situation where a misguided attempt to do things...the way they've always been done...had created a serious of scenarios...liked none that any of us had ever seen before...
...at least not in this lifetime.
There have been conflicts. Never has everyone who wanted a job, had one. There was always that one family...or two...that your church gave canned goods to...
People like Barry Goldwater and Michael Dukakis were able to get nominated. And, guys like Bill Clinton and The Shrub even got elected...twice.
But...ANYONE in 2012...who thinks that just because they have the most money, the best teeth, more Armani suits than Georgio, himself...friends who own at least their own planet, if not galaxy...197 IMMEDIATE family members to act as surrogates... No major closet skeletons rattling to get out...other than being a member of an arguable cult...
...well...why WOULD anyone else think they could beat that guy?
He was 2nd last time...AND...THAT'S THE WAY WE ALWAYS DO IT.
Mitt was "ENTITLED" to this nomination. He started working for it from the day he was born the Son of a Governor. And, when he took an ass-kicking from Insane McCain back in '08...Willard did what every republican Also-Ran had done since 1860.
He started icing down the champagne wrapped in a sheet of plastic under a sign that read, "Do NOT open until 2012"...
...to which I can only reply...
"FUCKHEAD!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
Sure, you are NOT "a Massachussettes Moderate"...At least not by choice.
Yes...you have a...sense of entitlement, no clear position on any issue, you love firing people, your wife can magically drive two cars at once, you own your own plane, you don't really care about the poor, you baptize dead Jews in order to save them...you...drive cross-country with MAN'S BEST FRIEND strapped to the roof of your car, you sent more American Jobs to India and China than the fired and disgraced Carly Fiorina...you don't drink or smoke...excessive skiing and chess are your only vices...you can OWN Pepsi (The Company) but, you can't drink your own product...and, oh yeah...you're a member of a cult whose dogma includes the notion that Satan is the Brother of Jesus Christ...
Then again...you WERE 2nd in the last go-round.
Hmmm...knowing what we know about the emergence of the Tea Party, the fact that Citizen's United DIDN'T ONLY APPLY TO YOU...Christians, DON'T CONSIDER MORMONS...CHRISTIANS, AND...
ALL OF THOSE THINGS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED WHICH YOU DIDN'T SEE AS IMPEDIMENTS TO SUCCESS...but really are...
Please, Willie...and I understand...it wasn't easy bein' Green for Kermit the Frog. It isn't easy having to count all of your money, cars and houses. It isn't easy, what with ALL of those deceased Jews that only you can save. It isn't easy not being able to suck down a COKE ZERO on a summer day. And GOD KNOWS...
...IT AIN'T EASY WATCHING THE TWO-HEADED DEVIL ITSELF take you apart piece...by...piece...when you KNOW, and even God KNOWS...that if ever this world would SELF "F'in" DESTRUCT...
IT WOULD BE THE DAY TRICKY SANITARIUM BECAME THE MOST, POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD.
I mean...YOU have to be about a month and a half away from shooting up a Post Office.
No...wait. I got that wrong. We USED to shoot up Post Offices when we got depressed. We' ve gone on to schools and colleges...and courthouses. And, there aren't 1 or 2 families getting free food from churches...99% of families need free food. Only "Snobs" go to college anymore. Only "Sluts" go to law school". Only Ex-Governors get indicted, get reality television shows...or both...and...
I'm sorry, Mitt...but, even I have to ask...
...with EVERY OTHER ASPECT of life life as we knew it...TOTALLY CHANGED...since as recently as 2008!!!!
...and virtually the ONLY THING you had going for you being that you finished second...in a nominating process that occurred BEFORE THE ACTUAL CHANGE IN THE "NEW & IMPROVED" WAY WE DO THINGS, actually was introduced...
C'mon...say it with Freddie...
"FUCKHEAD!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
And...to my readers...
Not only did God give me a pass on this Posting, BUT...with any luck...He'll also send a cure for Terminal Santorum.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Didn't You Hear Those Banjos? Run, Romney, Run!
Just when you thought that it was safe to go back into the cotton field again...
The Mighty Mittster done went and got hisseff interdoosed to da bidness end of a bailer.
That would be the very rectangular looking and obviously Mormon gentleman, with the wire wrapped around him...that them two boys is liftin' up into that truck...over yonder.
NOTE TO MITT:
The next time someone opens a question to you, with the words, "You ain't from 'round here now, are ya?
...The proper response on your part is, "Ah...excuse me a moment, will you? I think I hear my hopes and dreams being placed in a shallow grave on the outskirts of town. I'll...be right back."
Then...you run like hell to ANY state where "reasonably proper English" is the first language of the locals...and stop pretending that "grits" are anything other than what made you piss your pants laughing when Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei introduced you to them in a scene from, "My Cousin, Vinny".
Ya know...some of the worst things that can happen in a political campaign, happen one right after the other...when the candidate starts actually believing his own spin. And...when this does begin to happen, the one and only way to deal with it is for YOU, the candidate...to get off by yourself, and start telling yourself the truth.
I like Matt Drudge, as a person...and for a decade, defended him when others questioned his journalistic integrity. I never "blamed" him for Andrew Breitbart...or, as some referred to Andrew..."Frankendrudge". And trust me...it pains me to acknowledge that anything either Newt, or Tricky Ricky would say, might be true. But, Drudge has been nothing less than another arm of the Romney campaign PR Machine, since Day 1.
Even up to literally, 8:01 PM,, when the polls closed in Alabama and Mississippi...Drudge updated to put Romney at 42% in Mississippi...and came as close to projecting Romney a winner, as would have been possible without actually using the word.
The out that Drudge had...at least at that moment anyway, was that Fox, numerous others, and even Politico, had been running articles and stories all day long, which were legitimate setups to Drudge's punchline. Romney had the Governor endorsing him...Oh, wait...Didn't the Governor of South Carolina ALSO slip on a complimentary pair of the Magic Underwear in advance of the ass-kicking that Romney took in THAT state, too?
I think so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...you can say that the big story was Tricky Ricky pancaking BOTH Romney and The Fat Lizard.
You can say that the big story was exit polls showing SIXTY PERCENT of voters in the two states AGREED that Romney was "Most Electable"...and they STILL fed his ass to...who or whatever it is that eats things left in the forests, swamps and trailer parks which make up the vast majority of them there two states. (So much for math scores, and no child being left behind. It appears that at least a few southern A-dolts might wanna be more concerned about being left behind at this point.)
You could say that the manufactured frontrunner with the printing press and endless supply of black ink and green paper...can't keep calling himself the frontrunner if he keeps cashing a "Show" ticket.
You could even say that the smart thing for both mainstream and downstream media outlets to do would be to stop believing that pimping for Mitt will end the race. Or, better yet...just stop pimping for Romney.
And, you might want to say that Romney should realize that in this day and age...unless the money you are handing out, is AT the polls, TO voters, in the form of small, unmarked, non-sequential bills...the days of buying an election are farther away from the building than Elvis.
In a way, it is unbelievably comforting to see that the uproar over Citizen's United...has turned out to be far less necessary than could earlier have been perceived. I mean, it is completely correct to say that ALL Of Romney's primary wins have been the result of his "indirect" access to working capital. However...the expenditure of those funds, even in states where wins were generated...had at least as much to do with a broad spectrum of other factors which had absolutely nothing to do with funding...as did the funding, itself.
But...having said all of that...no pundit or commentator thus far this evening or morning, has talked about some of the real keys to these two primaries...or how and what they portend to the next few months.
First...In two states where the vote was dominated by white, evangelicals...and even where the majority of THEM felt Romney was most electable...they couldn't bring themselves to pull his cult-like lever. Yes, several cable and internet outlets touched on this...BUT, not from the perspective that it re-establishes the issue of faith as a dominant negative...NOT, as the race moves to Missouri, Maryland and Illinois...but, as the party must legitimately begin to work toward settling on its compromise candidate, when no one shows up at the convention with enough swag to secure a first ballot victory.
Second...It wasn't even finishing third in these states (where he had been projected to WIN BOTH...by the now TOTALLY DISCREDITED "Rasmussen RAG") which should cause the most concern.
What should cause a larger concern for Romney was that he WENT AFTER these two states...especially after Rupert Rasmussen told him he could win...and got told to "talk to the grit"...BY MORE THAN SEVEN OUT OF TEN VOTERS in the combined two states.
Gingrich wants Santorum out so he can go one-on-one with Mitt. Santorum wants Gingrich out so HE can go one-on-one with Mitt.
SHUT UP, GIRLS!
You're the SAME CANDIDATE...with 97.326% of the SAME MESSAGE.
If there were TWELVE OF YOU...you would ALREADY be going one-on-one with Mitt.
The MISTAKE that both Mitt (and the Establishment republicans), as well as the media is making is that in MANY areas of the country which are KEY to a republican victory...the votes for Santorum and Gingrich ARE NOT "Anybody But Romney" votes (as has been written about since this race started.).
THEY ARE the cries of a party that wants to brand itself as just to the "right" of Bashar al-Assad.
Better than 50% of republicans in Alabama and Mississippi primaries indicated in exit polling, that they identified as "Tea Partiers"...and Romney received NEXT TO NONE of those votes.
Still think the "Baggers" are either dead, or a non-factor?
What does it say...when the best educated and most rational of the four republican candidates for president receives FOUR and FIVE PERCENT of the vote in yesterday's primary contests?
What does it say...when THE GUY THE PARTY WANTS...CAN'T GET A THIRD OF THE VOTE...OR EVEN THREE IN TEN?
What does it say...when the combination of a guy THE WORLD KNOWS is batshit crazy...and a guy HIS OWN COLLEAGUES KNOW has brown eyes and bad breath because he IS full of shit...end up with SEVENTY PERCENT SUPPORT?
Catholics fled Santorum in Ohio...because in reality, the Catholic BUSINESS isn't about "faith" nearly as much as it is about BUSINESS...and, because Santorum's view of the spiritual universe is significantly more "Radical Baptist"...than it is Catholic. Most Catholics I've spoken to, some in my own family...think Rick Santorum is "F'd in the head!" On the other hand...committed Evangelicals...WHO THEMSELVES see little difference between Mormons and Catholics...have embraced Santorum, while being unable to cast a vote for someone EVEN THEY DO SEE as "more electable".
I keep saying this...and one day, someone is going to have to acknowledge it.
THERE IS NO REPUBLICAN PARTY!
There is only, "The Three Faces of Abe"...
And, Mitt can spend A TRILLION DOLLARS...but, unless he either hands it out at the polls, or snuffs Newt and puts the balance in the Santorum kids' college fund (which they won't need...because hey...who needs college with a trillion dollars in the bank? What do you think they are...SNOBS?)...Mitt better just hang the shingle back at Bain, and let the dream die a respectable death. (Don't feel TOO bad, Mitt...John McCain couldn't get the nomination this year, either.)
I was the first to write that the NOMINEE is not now in the race. I was the first to suggest that an Open Convention was not just a possibility...but a virtual certainty. And, with Ron Paul dropping faster than Kim Kardashian's "Friday" Panties...and Buddy Roemer gaining traction at AmericansElect.com, watch how soon the Ronulans beat feet to a location where their internet and caucus strategy might still have a chance to keep a mike in front of the Good Doctor for another eight months.
There IS a solution for The Three Faces of Abe.
They actually COULD win in November...or, rather...a reasonable, rational, logical group of individuals even remotely committed to even a FEW of the traditional republican ideological components of any platform put forward by the party since 1856...COULD re-package itself in time to be competitive.
How, you ask?
Sorry...they don't pay me enough to make THAT reveal.
My best advice to Mitt? SPEND THAT TRILLION! The economy could use it.
Best advice to Ron Paul? Don't let Buddy get too far ahead at that other party that already has $30,000,000.00 for you to play with.
Best advice to Santorum and Newtie? Just keep doin' what yer doin'.
Best advice to Barack Obama? Get the "F" out of Afghanistan. Do something to help the MILLIONS of homeowners whose mortgages ARE NOT with Fanniie or Freddie...and TRUST ME...understand this, and understand it WELL!
SIX DOLLAR GAS...WILL BE YOUR UNDOING. (Even in a one-on-one with Tricky Ricky...)
Oh...yeah...I forgot. If Romney finishes third, or even FOURTH in the Missouri Caucuses on Saturday, (even after THE THOROUGHLY DISCREDITED RASMUSSEN RAG POLL predicts another Romney win...) will the Secret Service formally change his Code Name to "Alf Landon"?
The Mighty Mittster done went and got hisseff interdoosed to da bidness end of a bailer.
That would be the very rectangular looking and obviously Mormon gentleman, with the wire wrapped around him...that them two boys is liftin' up into that truck...over yonder.
NOTE TO MITT:
The next time someone opens a question to you, with the words, "You ain't from 'round here now, are ya?
...The proper response on your part is, "Ah...excuse me a moment, will you? I think I hear my hopes and dreams being placed in a shallow grave on the outskirts of town. I'll...be right back."
Then...you run like hell to ANY state where "reasonably proper English" is the first language of the locals...and stop pretending that "grits" are anything other than what made you piss your pants laughing when Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei introduced you to them in a scene from, "My Cousin, Vinny".
Ya know...some of the worst things that can happen in a political campaign, happen one right after the other...when the candidate starts actually believing his own spin. And...when this does begin to happen, the one and only way to deal with it is for YOU, the candidate...to get off by yourself, and start telling yourself the truth.
I like Matt Drudge, as a person...and for a decade, defended him when others questioned his journalistic integrity. I never "blamed" him for Andrew Breitbart...or, as some referred to Andrew..."Frankendrudge". And trust me...it pains me to acknowledge that anything either Newt, or Tricky Ricky would say, might be true. But, Drudge has been nothing less than another arm of the Romney campaign PR Machine, since Day 1.
Even up to literally, 8:01 PM,, when the polls closed in Alabama and Mississippi...Drudge updated to put Romney at 42% in Mississippi...and came as close to projecting Romney a winner, as would have been possible without actually using the word.
The out that Drudge had...at least at that moment anyway, was that Fox, numerous others, and even Politico, had been running articles and stories all day long, which were legitimate setups to Drudge's punchline. Romney had the Governor endorsing him...Oh, wait...Didn't the Governor of South Carolina ALSO slip on a complimentary pair of the Magic Underwear in advance of the ass-kicking that Romney took in THAT state, too?
I think so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...you can say that the big story was Tricky Ricky pancaking BOTH Romney and The Fat Lizard.
You can say that the big story was exit polls showing SIXTY PERCENT of voters in the two states AGREED that Romney was "Most Electable"...and they STILL fed his ass to...who or whatever it is that eats things left in the forests, swamps and trailer parks which make up the vast majority of them there two states. (So much for math scores, and no child being left behind. It appears that at least a few southern A-dolts might wanna be more concerned about being left behind at this point.)
You could say that the manufactured frontrunner with the printing press and endless supply of black ink and green paper...can't keep calling himself the frontrunner if he keeps cashing a "Show" ticket.
You could even say that the smart thing for both mainstream and downstream media outlets to do would be to stop believing that pimping for Mitt will end the race. Or, better yet...just stop pimping for Romney.
And, you might want to say that Romney should realize that in this day and age...unless the money you are handing out, is AT the polls, TO voters, in the form of small, unmarked, non-sequential bills...the days of buying an election are farther away from the building than Elvis.
In a way, it is unbelievably comforting to see that the uproar over Citizen's United...has turned out to be far less necessary than could earlier have been perceived. I mean, it is completely correct to say that ALL Of Romney's primary wins have been the result of his "indirect" access to working capital. However...the expenditure of those funds, even in states where wins were generated...had at least as much to do with a broad spectrum of other factors which had absolutely nothing to do with funding...as did the funding, itself.
But...having said all of that...no pundit or commentator thus far this evening or morning, has talked about some of the real keys to these two primaries...or how and what they portend to the next few months.
First...In two states where the vote was dominated by white, evangelicals...and even where the majority of THEM felt Romney was most electable...they couldn't bring themselves to pull his cult-like lever. Yes, several cable and internet outlets touched on this...BUT, not from the perspective that it re-establishes the issue of faith as a dominant negative...NOT, as the race moves to Missouri, Maryland and Illinois...but, as the party must legitimately begin to work toward settling on its compromise candidate, when no one shows up at the convention with enough swag to secure a first ballot victory.
Second...It wasn't even finishing third in these states (where he had been projected to WIN BOTH...by the now TOTALLY DISCREDITED "Rasmussen RAG") which should cause the most concern.
What should cause a larger concern for Romney was that he WENT AFTER these two states...especially after Rupert Rasmussen told him he could win...and got told to "talk to the grit"...BY MORE THAN SEVEN OUT OF TEN VOTERS in the combined two states.
Gingrich wants Santorum out so he can go one-on-one with Mitt. Santorum wants Gingrich out so HE can go one-on-one with Mitt.
SHUT UP, GIRLS!
You're the SAME CANDIDATE...with 97.326% of the SAME MESSAGE.
If there were TWELVE OF YOU...you would ALREADY be going one-on-one with Mitt.
The MISTAKE that both Mitt (and the Establishment republicans), as well as the media is making is that in MANY areas of the country which are KEY to a republican victory...the votes for Santorum and Gingrich ARE NOT "Anybody But Romney" votes (as has been written about since this race started.).
THEY ARE the cries of a party that wants to brand itself as just to the "right" of Bashar al-Assad.
Better than 50% of republicans in Alabama and Mississippi primaries indicated in exit polling, that they identified as "Tea Partiers"...and Romney received NEXT TO NONE of those votes.
Still think the "Baggers" are either dead, or a non-factor?
What does it say...when the best educated and most rational of the four republican candidates for president receives FOUR and FIVE PERCENT of the vote in yesterday's primary contests?
What does it say...when THE GUY THE PARTY WANTS...CAN'T GET A THIRD OF THE VOTE...OR EVEN THREE IN TEN?
What does it say...when the combination of a guy THE WORLD KNOWS is batshit crazy...and a guy HIS OWN COLLEAGUES KNOW has brown eyes and bad breath because he IS full of shit...end up with SEVENTY PERCENT SUPPORT?
Catholics fled Santorum in Ohio...because in reality, the Catholic BUSINESS isn't about "faith" nearly as much as it is about BUSINESS...and, because Santorum's view of the spiritual universe is significantly more "Radical Baptist"...than it is Catholic. Most Catholics I've spoken to, some in my own family...think Rick Santorum is "F'd in the head!" On the other hand...committed Evangelicals...WHO THEMSELVES see little difference between Mormons and Catholics...have embraced Santorum, while being unable to cast a vote for someone EVEN THEY DO SEE as "more electable".
I keep saying this...and one day, someone is going to have to acknowledge it.
THERE IS NO REPUBLICAN PARTY!
There is only, "The Three Faces of Abe"...
And, Mitt can spend A TRILLION DOLLARS...but, unless he either hands it out at the polls, or snuffs Newt and puts the balance in the Santorum kids' college fund (which they won't need...because hey...who needs college with a trillion dollars in the bank? What do you think they are...SNOBS?)...Mitt better just hang the shingle back at Bain, and let the dream die a respectable death. (Don't feel TOO bad, Mitt...John McCain couldn't get the nomination this year, either.)
I was the first to write that the NOMINEE is not now in the race. I was the first to suggest that an Open Convention was not just a possibility...but a virtual certainty. And, with Ron Paul dropping faster than Kim Kardashian's "Friday" Panties...and Buddy Roemer gaining traction at AmericansElect.com, watch how soon the Ronulans beat feet to a location where their internet and caucus strategy might still have a chance to keep a mike in front of the Good Doctor for another eight months.
There IS a solution for The Three Faces of Abe.
They actually COULD win in November...or, rather...a reasonable, rational, logical group of individuals even remotely committed to even a FEW of the traditional republican ideological components of any platform put forward by the party since 1856...COULD re-package itself in time to be competitive.
How, you ask?
Sorry...they don't pay me enough to make THAT reveal.
My best advice to Mitt? SPEND THAT TRILLION! The economy could use it.
Best advice to Ron Paul? Don't let Buddy get too far ahead at that other party that already has $30,000,000.00 for you to play with.
Best advice to Santorum and Newtie? Just keep doin' what yer doin'.
Best advice to Barack Obama? Get the "F" out of Afghanistan. Do something to help the MILLIONS of homeowners whose mortgages ARE NOT with Fanniie or Freddie...and TRUST ME...understand this, and understand it WELL!
SIX DOLLAR GAS...WILL BE YOUR UNDOING. (Even in a one-on-one with Tricky Ricky...)
Oh...yeah...I forgot. If Romney finishes third, or even FOURTH in the Missouri Caucuses on Saturday, (even after THE THOROUGHLY DISCREDITED RASMUSSEN RAG POLL predicts another Romney win...) will the Secret Service formally change his Code Name to "Alf Landon"?
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