Clint Eastwood loses his shit.

So, first off, the RNC convention is what I thought it would be.  A bunch of white blowhards, sucking off the rich and kicking the poor in the teeth.  Chris Christy didn't talk about Romney until 3/4 of the way into his speech.  No one was there to cheer on Romney, they were there to rip on the black guy in the White House and that's about it.  There was Paul Ryan's speech that was supposed to be the policy guy's main huzzah, but there were few details and a lot of lying.  There's also his logical fallacy of using the 'We Built This' as their motto for the convention.  President Obama was talking about roads and bridges, and the GOP took him out of context and says the president means businesses, which also means the rich shouldn't pay taxes or something like that.  If the GOP wanted to have an honest conversation about these things, basing the entire premise on a lie isn't a good start.  Also Ryan says if your business failed, it's the government's fault in his speech... umm... so is it you built this or the government failed to build this?  I'm confused, but I'm sorry, using logic, reason, and a period of time that goes back more than 48 hours... my bad.

Then there's Clint Eastwood... wow.  I'm not going to go into how nutty the speech itself was. I will talk a little shit about Hot 96, which is a local radio station that plays pop music.  They defended Eastwood by saying that he stuttered (his craziness in the speech was much more than a little stuttering), because.... he wasn't using a teleprompter.  Really?  REALLY?  That's your nonsensical, intellectually devoid excuse for a reason behind this old man's apparent senility, not to mention his logical fallacies?  Considering everyone else at this borderline KKK rally was using one.  You have an articulate black man who is the president.  He sounds far more intelligent than the last sad excuse for a human being you had in the White House, so you cut off that positive attribute by claiming it's only because he's reading his lines.  I'm sorry, but at least he can read, unlike Dubya, not to mention Romney uses one, and so does the pretty boy Ryan.  If it's something to rile up liberals, then whatever, but at least act like you have two braincells to rub together.

Secondly, I guess Eastwood didn't remember his Super Bowl commercial.  The GOP went nuts and attacked him non stop for like a week or two, because he showed faith in America.  The GOP wants the US to fail to make Obama look bad and they proved it in their reaction to Eastwood's commercial (not to mention the quote from Mitch Mcconnell).  That's the side he's chosen.  He's pro gay marriage and was attacked by these lunatics and this is the side he's chosen.  I, like most people, enjoy a lot of movies he's been in and still will, but goddamn.

 

 

As far as the rest of the convention goes, well there's this:

 



 

This isn't that surprising.  The GOP have been hyping up racism for a while, and quite a bit more since Obama's become president.  This is the side they've chosen, that's part of their team.  They could run away from it, but Romney made a birther joke recently, so they have no interest in not being racists or in the very least appealing to them.  It's disgusting and even though the people were escorted out, I think Romney and co. probably had a chuckle on the camerawoman's behalf. 

 

Also Ryan and Co. touched on 'Obamacare'... well it's the same as Romneycare, so I'm sure that type of criticism will work out great in the debates, which I'm soooooo looking forward to.  Obama is going to destroy Romney... I know he'll lie and stand by those lies, but we'll see what happens when he's not surrounded by yes men and people that agree with his 'birthright'.  Maybe we'll get another, 'Coorporations are people my friend,' or 'These locally baked cookies taste like shit (not exact quote)'.  One can hope.

 

I don't know how anyone can look at this convention and say, "This is what I want to vote for."  I just don't.  Unless your brain is so clogged with Fox News shit, and that you think that the teleprompter and birther jokes are legit and/or funny, then I see why you would... because you're an idiot.  Period.  I could go on, but I don't think there's a lot more to say about it right now.  I'll put up another blog in a couple of days.

 

 

 

On a personal note, I have found a job after looking for months.  It will pay more than my previous one, but the physical work will be a lot harder.  I'm okay with that, I'll keep writing in all of my blogs/freelance articles. 

Grandmother's Funeral aka I'm Going to Hell.... Apparently

So, my grandmother, like most of my family, is a christian.  She went to church a lot, etc, etc.  My mom by extension also goes to church. 

The preacher at the funeral started off talking about my grandmother, but then went into scripture nonstop.  Then said if you're not a christian, then you're going to hell and my grandmother isn't.  I almost walked out.  I refused to shake the man's hand.  I don't know what happens when we die, most likely with our brains shut down, we just don't exist.  It sucks and I hope that's not the case, but it's the most likely one.  That's the truth, and the truth matters more than my fear of death.  That being said, it was insulting that he didn't even flinch when saying this crap.  Not a question in his mind.  I frankly just saw it as a ploy to increase his paycheck by scaring people into the pews.  He needs that new car and how dare you suggest that churches pay taxes.  Sorry, off topic.

First off, it was a funeral, not a sermon.  It always seems that's what these things turn into.  I was okay with people praying and verses being spoken, but having shit like that thrown into my face was disgusting.  I guess he thought he was in safe hillbilly company.  I guess he didn't think there were Jews or Muslims there either.  He started talking about Scientology, like that was likely.  I guess it was the safe route, because if he talked shit about 'God's people' he would be anti-Semitic.  Nobody gives a crap about Scientology.  One has to ask though, how is what they believe, less ridiculous than what you believe?

If it had been anything other than my grandmother's funeral, I would have gone into full debate mode, but I'm not a prick... not like this douchebag.  He also said before he began his 30 minute, 'Your ghost is going to be tortured' rant, he said he wasn't there to be an evangelist.  Well guess what.  You lied. 

This is just stuff that Atheists have to deal with.  It sucks, but most of society wants us to die and have our ghosts tortured forever. Not only that, but apparently, we deserve it.  I normally would have thrown down in a debate.  How do you know that that's true?  Oh your book says so?  So how does a book written by bronze age goat herders apply to today and how is that more believable than Greek myths?  How are you with slavery in the bible or killing disobedient children?  Oh, I'm going to hell... that's nice, I win. Bitch.

Romney/Ryan Kill Medicare Budget/ Rapebies/ RNC Convention

First off, I haven't written anything in a while.  My grandmother died last week.  It was hard on my family and the amount of time at my disposal.  Also, last week was my wife's birthday and last but not least; one of my friends was kicked out of his girlfriend's house, so he's living with me now.  Busy, busy, busy.

The Romney/Ryan Kill Medicare Budget

So what do I have to say about the current state of things.  Well Paul Ryan was announced as Romney's VP a little over a week ago.  He might as well have been giving us a gift.  The Romney/Ryan budget, is now really the Romney/Ryan Budget.  They've been trying to swing things back and say The Affordable Healthcare Act is taking away from Medicare (it eliminates waste and fraud and therefore costs), but when you're trying to turn Medicare into a coupon program for private insurance, it's hard to make that argument.  The other half of that equation is that they're peddling the whole 'Repeal and Replace Obamercares'.  Well they haven't put anything forward, other than keeping the already activated provisions (keeping your kid on your plan until they're 26, etc), but who knows if they're lying about that.  So that means the Romney/Ryan healthcare plan would simply be to repeal the AHCA.  So combining these two things (Repeal and the Romney/Ryan kill Medicare budget) means that you could be denied insurance due to pre-existing conditions again.  So how is a 65 (or older if the GOP gets their way) year old person supposed to get on a new healthcare plan without getting outright rejected?  Not to mention that even if they do it'll cost them between $6,000 and $6,500 more a year according to all estimates.

My grandmother was in a nursing home for about 6 months before she died.  She COULD NOT have afforded that without Medicare.  COULD. NOT.  She worked in nursing homes most of her life, ironically.  She needed 24/7 around the clock care due to her brain tumor.  Without Medicare in it's current form, she would have been in the street or dead years ago.  Even if my mother or myself could have taken her in (I would obviously have done that if needed), I can't buy her the medical care she needs with no insurance.  My mom couldn't have either.  Neither of us have $6,000 to fill in the cracks if she couldn't get on private insurance.  We are just one story.  This is what the country would turn into with the Romney/Ryan kill Medicare budget.  Period.

Another story is one of the roommate of my grandmother.  She had to have a roommate for a little while.  She was on her deathbed more or less.  I checked her 'About Me' sheet that was posted on the wall.  She had been a waitress all of her life.  She couldn't have afforded her end of life care (Oh I'm sorry, DEATH PANELS!!!!!!!!!) without Medicare.  The more strain on the children of the elderly, the fewer goods that are bought and the more the economy suffers. 

The thing is that these things probably wouldn't take full effect until a Democrat won the White House again.  All of the horrible things that would result from this would be blamed on him/her.  The Bush Economic Crash is constantly thrown at Obama's feet.  We were losing 600,000 jobs a month the month Obama was inaugurated.  We gained 160,000 last month.  I think a million job per month turn around is a hell of a feat.  Things would be better without the Obstructionist House/the least popular Congress in US history.  The stimulus should have been bigger, but hindsight is 20/20. 

Rapebies and Todd Akin

So yeah... legitimate rape.  If you don't know what I'm talking about then here...

The thing is that in 2006, I remember that conservatives were all like, "Oh were against abortion, except in cases of rape or incest or mother's life being in danger."

I responded with, "Well, I don't believe you.  I think that's a convenient position, and eventually it will lead to all cases. Period."

"Up yours, lib."

Sure.  Whatever.  The position that Todd Akin has taken is the same as Paul Ryan and the GOP Platform that was confirmed last week.  Rape and incest will no longer be GOP abortion ban exceptions.  This is disastrous for the GOP.  This will be the end of them.  Period.  They will lose women because of this.  Ryan said in an interview that... well here.

The method of conception doesn't matter.  By that logic, women's lives being in danger will be on the platform of no exceptions by the next presidential election.  There will be no exceptions.  Period.  But let's just use the current platform as the reference.  This is punishing rape victims.  This leads back to religion hurting the country.  When I was a christian in my youth, we watched a video with some scar faced, ugly bitch talking about how she was a rapeby (rape baby).  She was glad her mother had her and getting an abortion is murder no matter what.  Then she went on about how she's not getting laid... blah blah blah.

First off, I would rather not exist than have my mother be raped and go through with the pregnancy.  I would think that a 'selfless christian' would feel the same way... I guess not.  Also, I would die to keep my mother from being raped or anyone really.  This is why you cannot call abortion, especially early term abortion murder, because by that logic, then rape isn't a good reason for one.  But it isn't murder.  If it is, then miscarriages are manslaughter. I guess if the mother's life is in danger, it would be killing in self defense? 

It used to be late term abortions, then rape, incest, life of the mother exceptions and now life of the mother is the only exception.  This is where liberals told you the GOP was going with their anti choice horse shit.  Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

RNC Convention

I don't have a ton to say about this.  It's been delayed due to the hurricane.

 

 

I can laugh at how the family values conservatives multiply the strip club business.  I can scoff at how they are having parties for the billionaires that give them money.

 



 

I can do a lot of things, but I'll wait until the convention is underway to really go for it.  I wish they would celebrate the American middle class and not the billionaire that inherited money and a company from his daddy, or as I like to call it, The Romney Way.

 

They may kick Todd Akin out of the convention, but they are backing his policies. The reason people are pissed about this is, yes Akin is stupid for believing this shit, but who is the worst person of the group?  The person who believes that rape victims can't get pregnant, but is too stupid to not know that is false?  Or the person who knows they can get pregnant, but doesn't give a shit?