Well, she was calling ’em like she sees ’em. But not half.
But wait. For the big orange orangutan’s apologies (I am not running for president), the line for that, begins down the road.
Did the Republican candidate apologize for:
Mocking disabled NY Times reporter Serge F. Kovaleski?
Calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas?”**
Calling the federal judge in the candidate’s alleged fraudulent university a “Mexican?”
For calling Hillary Clinton “Lying Hillary?”
Saying Ted Cruz’ father was involved in the John F. Kennedy assassination?
Calling Ted Cruz “Lying Ted?”
Calling Marco Rubio “Little Marco?”
Oh, one could go on and on and on …
**The only thing that could have been worse would be for the candidate to follow that remark by repeatedly tapping his mouth with his hand, dancing around, and uttering “Whooop-whoop-whoop-whoop.”
Well, the GOP presidential candidate managed to draw the ire of one of the most editorially conservative newspapers in the United States. The day after its editorial dissed the GOP-candidate, The Dallas Morning News, today, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. This is the first time in 75 years that the News endorsed a Democrat.
The Republican candidate also flip-flopped on some outrageous utterings he made back during the primary elections. He said today that, upon entering office, he will give the Joint Chiefs of Staff 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. As one TV general said this morning: “That is what (the generals) have been doing for the last eight years.”
Anyone following the Republican presidential campaign might remember the candidate saying “I know more about ISIS than the generals do.”
Another mouth-shooting-off memory of this candidate is when he said that he had a plan to defeat ISIS, although it was secret, as he wants to keep the enemy guessing.
The candidate, whom I refuse to name due to his previous media over-exposure, also threw out the traditional Republican red meat. He wants to increase the military, build more ships, and more fighter planes. In other words, he wants to toss more money to the military-industrial complex that President and former 5-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation of before leaving the presidency.
That candidate may have sounded “more presidential” during much of his bullshit speech this morning. He still used words to insult Clinton and President Obama.
In looking into the defense industry pandering today, the candidate tosses aside the reality of modern warfare, nasty as it is.
Look throughout history. Once a war is done and won (that not always being the case) a military establishment shrinks. That is the nature of wars and the economy.
People who weren’t born before WWII and do not study history, are doomed to repeat it. But those who don’t study history should do so. There are those who think the nation was just asleep at the switch in 1941 Pearl Harbor. But, as was the case leading up to the previous “war to end all wars,” the U.S. was about the last nation to get involved.
My parents and other elders talked of the great 1940 Army Maneuvers, a.k.a. the “Louisiana Maneuvers,” held in western Louisiana and across the border in the East Texas Pineywoods. Stories abound of George Patton, Omar Bradley and even Eisenhower — setting up commands in the local towns. About 400,000 soldiers participated and some two dozen soldiers died in the exercise, most from drowning in the Sabine River between Texas and Louisiana.
Look, even my four years of Navy active duty will attest to the fact that the military never stops preparing for war. The U.S. military has reserve and National Guard troops who have all been involved in our perpetual war in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is difficult to see these days where the active service members begin and the reserve and Guard, end.
The GOP candidate is a military faker and he thinks his private military school is similar to military service. Real military service was not even a thought with his deferments during Vietnam. None of his offspring, despite their love of guns, served in the military.
The problem is that today, these ships and planes are a whole lot faster and powerful. One of these days a Russian plane or an Iranian patrol boat or North Korean, whatever, will screw with the wrong ship or plane on the wrong day. Someone needs to be steady at the ship of state to ensure such things do not happen. Also, that the GOP candidate seems to continually play up his bro-mance with Russian President Vladimir Putin is concerning. If something makes us uncomfortable about the GOP candidate, it should be this relationship with Putin.
Perhaps the candidate has in his IRS return that he refuses to release some actual financial link with Putin. But who knows, the GOP candidate is the first since Richard Nixon to not release his tax returns..
UPDATE: 5:30 p.m., CNN announced that a report from Reuters said the Mexican president told the GOP candidate that Mexico would not pay for the “wall.” A border wall and having Mexico pay for it has been the central issue in the candidate’s campaign. He told the press this afternoon in Mexico City where he met with the Mexican president that the two had discussed the wall but did not discuss who will pay for it. Not surprising, a lie from the despicable candidate. Too bad the Mexican president didn’t say it while answering about four questions from the press.
While awaiting remarks about the idiot GOP candidate for president and the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, I have decided to do a little stream of consciousness here.
Also scary, I had my first pedicure yesterday at a local cosmetology school. But even more out of character for me: I had my first haircut in some 16 years. Here is my reasoning.
My avoidance of the shears stems from price but also I kept a hairstyle that didn’t require a trim. The price of a haircut was way more than I wanted to pay around the turn of the century. That’s the 21st century. A cut these days are even more costly. But practicality was probably the main reason for the shaved head.
Since my male pattern baldness reached its peak around age 40 or so, shaving my head seemed like a pretty reasonable hair style for me. The shaved head wasn’t considered exceptionally weird back then, so I would shave my head every other day. Lately, I just became tired of the hassle. I grew what hair I had for a few weeks. It looked like crap on a stick. I then used my shears to cut the hair close enough where shaving my head would not be significantly difficult. I had gone without a shave of my head for about two weeks up until yesterday. Most recently, to paraphrase David Crosby, I almost cut my gray-white hair. But then I had an idea.
I have been growing a beard since using an electric shaver for several months. The contours of my face, I noticed, after a few days was so that I might have a pretty good beard — a Van Dyke of sorts — in the making. So, I let my beard grow out. Along with my hair needing a trim, my beard needed one as well.
It’s a beard, by damn!
I have diabetes so I have to be careful with my feet. Yes eight feet deep has to take care of his feet. This is especially so since during the last year or I have had a couple of toenails removed and hammer toe surgery. So, a nurse told me that I should get a pedicure and could get one at a decent price at local cosmetology schools. That is what I did.
The same student, a friendly young lady, did both the haircut and the pedicure. She did a really phenomenal job. My feet still feels good from the foot job. And both the spa pedicure and haircut cost only $23. I think I will begin going back once a month. So …
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Okay niños y niñas, the Mexican president Peña Nieto and the GOP presidential candidate-jerk are about to speak. Here they go.
The Mexican president talked about the importance of NAFTA in both countries. Forty percent of materials imported into Mexico are made in the U.S., Nieto said. He also said that his responsibility is the welfare of Mexicans, both in Mexico and elsewhere. Implicit in those remarks were Mexicans who are in the United States.
The candidate for president repeated many of his contentions he has made through his campaign. Perhaps the central plank in his run for president is to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and to make Mexico pay for it. He said that the wall was discussed. But in some questions from the press , GOP guy admitted:
“Who pays for the wall? We didn’t discuss that.”
Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon, speaking on CNN’s The Lead With Jake Tapper called the GOP candidate “a hypocrite.”
The candidate gives his big foreign policy speech tonight in Arizona where he will be welcomed by his good buddy, sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio. I honestly wonder how this d**khead keeps getting elected as he did during the Republican primary yesterday in Arizona. Arpaio has admitted to contempt of court charges for ignoring a federal judicial order. Too bad he wasn’t put in his own jail, in a tent.
What a day off this has been for me. Hopefully, American voters will see through all this bull***t from the candidate, whom I still will not give his name a mention.
Journalism has been my chosen profession for 30 years, off and on. I worked full-time as a journalist for 15 years and have freelanced off and on for the past 10 years. For another five or so years I was a “budding” journalist. Why is that important?
I feel quite competent to testify that the so-called “news hole” has for years had a voracious appetite for news to go in that hole. While news hole is an old print journalism term for the amount of non-advertising space, it seems appropriate to use the term for all news. With 24-hour cable and internet, that hole for news is like a death-row prisoner at his last supper. Why is that important?
It is important to keep in mind on days such as today, when a impending divorce of a top aide to Hillary Clinton is the big story.
Anthony Weiner, well he’s a piece of work. Because Weiner has become a serial “texter” with pictures of his, well, weiner, and the fact that his wife is a somewhat important politico, is why Abedin and Weiner find themselves into the top of today’s news hole. That is, at least, what news executives would tell you is the reason why this is such a big story. I happen to disagree.
Once again, the story of Weiner and Abedin, is big news. So big shot news honchos will tell you. But still, I find myself asking: Why is that important?
Looking at some of the folks today sitting behind the candidate look hot and bored. They — and by the way I see a wider shot on the screen and still see no African-Americans — like trained seals, lift their signs with the candidates when they apparently are prompted. Okay, I do see two black faces. There are a few more Asian faces. A few supposed veterans with their vet organization caps. And perhaps five or six brown faces.
I am tired of listening to the lies and droning on by the candidate who says: “I am the change agent. I am the change agent.”
Now he complains about Hillary and Bill Clinton making money after leaving office. That is certainly chump calling the kettle black, this alleged billionaire who says he alone is funding his campaign. What utter bullshit.
Well, I hope this change agent changes into a human being. I hope he will change into the former GOP presidential candidate.
