Birth of a National Candidate for President

I don’t seem to be hearing that tidal wave of birther stuff re Canadian born GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Oh, that’s right. He’s not black. My bad!

BILL

"I Know a Lot About Benghazi; I Saw The Movie!"

Someone actually said this to me. However, there’s a danger in getting one’s “facts” from a movie, a point perhaps comically proven by watching “Titanic” again and noticing that the two chaps stationed high in the crow’s nest as lookouts for icebergs take a few seconds to spy upon Jack and Rose as they smooch away on deck. The two quip back and forth about not wanting to do the same to stave off the chill, their spying upon the young lovers and somewhat tawdry exchange occurring just before they spot the actual iceberg yet still comprising sufficient time to ensure Titanic’s fateful contact with it. (You’ll recall the ship just barely grazed it.) Alas, a few more seconds in the ship’s favor and James Cameron has a lot less money. Yes, one can make the case by watching the movie that the Titanic itself sank because of Jack and Rose.

BILL

PS: And don’t even get me started on Oliver Stone’s “JFK.”

Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings

True believers need to learn the difference between feeling something very, very, very, VERY strongly and actually “knowing.” The two are NOT the same, despite the fact that one group, the 9/11 terrorists, would tell me differently, “knowing” as they did that the infidels should be killed.

BILL

Debate Post-Mortem

To watch last night’s wrestling match of a Republican Presidential candidate debate was to catch a glimpse of the sheer genius of Mike Judge’s 2006 comedy “Idiocracy,” where the once mighty United States of America has intellectually crumbled into a dim-bulb netherworld of absolute morons. The childish bully antics of Donald Trump managed from time to time to pull even the other “serious” candidates down to his boorish level, the four of them pelting each other with fistfuls of verbal sand in pathetic attempts to garner the cheers of their own portion of knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers populating the rube-infested audience. While no fan of FOX News, I couldn’t help but admire – and, yes, feel sorry for - the three hosts who did their best to soldier on valiantly, heads held high in attempting to bring some level of respectable discourse to this sorry affair, each frequently being booed and heckled for having the audacity to ask what I thought was a consistent presentation of not only fair-minded but hardball questions, the type that an informed electorate should welcome when vetting the highest office in our nation. Sadly, what we saw instead was a national embarrassment.

BILL

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Night of The Sand Crabs

After a stress-filled day at the office yesterday, it was nice to simply go home, kick back and watch the kids play in the sandbox.

After the GOP debate I ordered a pizza.

BILL

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Admit It, This WOULD Be Funny

Clinton wins in November and during her election night victory speech says: “And now I’d like to introduce a very close friend of mine,” and out comes Donald Trump.

BILL

A State With a Lot of Bulls Will Always Have a Lot of Bullshit

The mortality rate for women having abortions in the United States was less than one in 100,000 between 2008 and 2011. This is lower than the mortality rate for colonoscopies and liposuction.*

One can certainly understand then when Texas lawmakers enact endless restrictions on abortions in an effort to “protect women’s health.”

Ahhhh, that’s so thoughtful of them.

BILL


*Source: 3/2/16 Los Angeles Times