Class Warfare and I'm Offended

Mostly, I've worked all my life. At 14, I worked in the summer, and I haven't stopped since. I'm not killing myself, but I am a typical American. I work at least 40 hours a week. When it comes to work, I have done the right thing my entire life.

I vote Democratic. I pay taxes. I pay income taxes. I am not jealous of those who pay no income taxes and live a modest life, but I am terribly offended by the comments made by Mitt Romney suggesting that I am a freeloader. Any look into the numbers shows that the elderly are least likely to pay any income taxes. Overwhelmingly, they vote Republican.

Mr. Romney would make far more than me if he sat in his pajamas for the next 5 years and smoked a pipe on his balcony. In this case, he would pay no payroll taxes. I would not think of him as a freeloader. I would also not think of him as a "maker."

If Mitt Romney had ever been a regular guy, he would understand this. Though he thinks I am lazy, I am not angry at him. Though he suggests I am a moocher, I am not upset. Though he says I feel entitled, I know he does not know any better. He is truly out of touch.

No one knows what goes on beneath the surface of our thinking. Today's GOP seems to agree with Mr. Romney's point of view. Whether this view is malicious or not, I cannot say. Clearly, however, they do not know what they are talking about. Considering the fact that 9 of the 10 states with the fewest income tax payers are Red States proves that this view does not hurt them.

On the other hand, the press that the GOP calls biased -- the liberal press -- they get it. They are educated. FOX does not count of course; their real journalists are embedded among the Republican proxies who double dip for network and campaign. FOX doesn't count.

Mr. Romney has made another error. He should give thanks that his opponent is so blindly despised by so many. It's Mitt's only chance. In a world with so little actual justice, Mr. Romney may even come back and win.

I can't say I know what's inside the hearts of the GOP, but I now know clearly what they mean when they talk about class warfare.

The Innocence of Muslims

I made a big mistake and re-posted this after reading it on Andrew Sullivan's Daily Beast:

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A Jewish idiot makes a film, a Christian idiot promotes it, Muslim idiots kill over it, and Republican idiots condemn Obama.

Turns out, the first part is untrue, and I should have smelled it, but I didn't so I am guilty and ashamed. I wish I hadn't done it and I shouldn't have. 

There are indeed a lot of idiots on the planet beside me, and the issue about who should do what, when, and to whom is a political classic. To most, opinions are like ears; everybody has one, even Van Gogh.

Following the attack and the riots, everyone checked in. Initially, I thought this was the problem with social media. The need to respond quickly leads to carelessness. On the other hand, lots of folks can quickly ascertain who is ready for prime time and who isn't. I am obviously not ready to be the President of the United States of America, but it seems I'm not alone.

On Freedom of Speech, I fall on the side of those who consider it over-rated judging from this case. since free speech already has limits.

Where's Rodney King when we need him?

Lyin' Ryan

Paul Ryan gave me the serious willies last night. Doing his best, young, sweaty Richard Nixon imitation, Mr. Ryan whipped the rabid Republican masses into a frenzy with his passionate, fiery rhetoric. I couldn't sleep all night.

I noticed this morning that the actor Steve Franken died. He played Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. the insufferably, arrogant nemesis to protagonist Dobie Gillis. It isn't just his brown-nosing that made Chatsworth so reprehensible, it was a sort of gift for being creepily odious. Paul Ryan has this gift. While Ann Romney may have come off as a likable sort of FOX anchor, Nurse Ratched type the previous evening, Ryan, was simply the liar of hyper-inflated self worth nauseating the truth itself with his transparent lies.

His whoppers prove that presidenting while being black is a bigger crime than inverting the truth so obscenely that it makes the guy who gives the homeless man under the bridge a quarter seem somehow like the victim of a Ponzi scheme. Like the Olympic Gold Medal winner in some important sport -- say verbal gymnastics, Paul Ryan's masterful garbage attempts to portray the Decathlon winner as a spear chucker.

Paul Ryan doesn't need a fact checker, he needs an exterminator. He's leading the rats into the center of the community.Republicans are thinking Ryan is promising the path to prosperity, but it's really the path to Pinocchio.

I Look Trustworthy So Trust Me

Ann Romney's speech was nice and friendly, but the core message was the same as always. It's good she loves her husband. Respect. He too seems like a loving husband. Respect again. She has been through a lot. Respect.

On the other hand, Mrs. Romney did not mention any policy. Basically, she says that Mitt is a good husband; therefore, he will be a good husband. She should support policies which help woman and the poor. This would be respectful too.

She says that we should trust her. But Mitt says trust him on his taxes because he is hiding something. If he weren't hiding something, he would release his taxes like his dad did. Perhaps Ann Romney is hiding something too -- like a GOP platform which is anti-woman? She never mentioned any policies.

Sorry. I do not trust you. I prefer to check the fine print.

Release Your Taxes Mitt

I know for a fact that some say that Mitt Romney has not paid any taxes for the past 10 years. He can prove me wrong if he will just release his tax returns like his father did years ago. What is he hiding?

Frustrated

You don't care if my family has to work on Sunday, work the night shift, toil 60 hours per week, or perform two jobs without any health care. You call it Obamacare and leave it at that.

You tell me that the United States is the greatest country in the history of the world and that I should be grateful.

You don'tcare whether I take walks through the park with my children, if there is a playground where they can explore, if there is a clean, rapid bus coming near my house so my kids can get on it an and visit another area where they can see beautiful shop windows, sit in cafes, and meet friends.

Instead, you tell me that the United States is the greatest country in the history of the world, because I have cable TV 24 hours a day, because there is an Applebee's on an industrial highway, and because there is a mall movieplex showing 16 films at the exit of the interstate.

You don't worry if my family drinks 64oz.cokes, eats KFC a few times a week, watches reality TV every night, surfs the internet simultaneously, and goes into massive debt to pay for the clothes, cars, insurance, and two year contracts in order to be connected to friends at all times.

You tell me that the United States is the greatest country in the history of the world, that you are working to protect my freedom to gut the school system, to hate Muslims, to check to see if the birth certificate is a forgery, to drill baby drill, and so my son can legally buy the assault weapons that George Washington wanted me to have in order to serve in the militia protected by the Constitution.

You just don't care about the quality of life in the United States, as long as you get your sick way.

Dazed and Confused

It's not whether you win or lose, but whether you won. I believe the term used a while ago was "silly season," but it's always silly season in the USA circa 2012. Soon we will hear the chants, "USA. USA. USA. USA," as our networks try to perfect their journalistic jingoism. I do not expect you to understand this expression -- journalistic jingoism-- but it's not that I am somehow thinking that I am in anyway superior. You might then accuse me of elitism. While we want our Olympians to be elite, our companies to be elite, our actors to be elite, and Lebron James to be elite, we do not want our President to be elite. He would then be a liberal elitist. We want him to be extemely average like President Bush was, a nice guy, a .200 hitter.

We are dazed and confused about so much. We HATE Obamacare so much that 30% of the American population were unaware that the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. Who cares, right? Had they ruled it unconstitutional, they would have been wonderful. It's only whether you win or lose. Never mind that many of our fellow citizens cannot find the Iraq they supported so deeply during the war, or should I say the surge, on a map. They would recognize Joe the Plumber, however, do think of teenage mother Bristol Palin as a beacon of morality, and would certainly regard my point of view as -- what's the word they use -- vitriol.

Dazed and Confused, Fair and Balanced -- call it what you want. Tell the government to keep it's hands off your Medicare. Believe that the government wants to take your guns away. Be certain that Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a Muslim until Reverend Wright is brought up. Even then, his birth certificate is surely a forgery. Stop illegal immigration and blame President Obama for the recent rise in gas prices, but drop it when the prices fall.

It's not whether you win or lose -- it's only about derangement and winning.