Gentle Souls -- starting today, a new format:
For the Young, Uninitiated, Busy Multi-taskers,
just ONE item for the day, along with explanatory notes.
For us Older, Sadder, and Seen-It-Alls [in Portland, Oregon, they are
"Honored Citizens" -- NOT "Senior Citizens"],
there will be more items, either on the same theme as for the young, or on more themes as well.
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Today, the ONE item comes from Australia's travelling lefty wit, Guy Rundle -- heretofore described as Australia's 21st-Century version of the 1830's French nobleman Alexis deTocqueville, who wrote the classic travelogue for a curious aristocratic European readership, entitled Democracy in America.
Notice his take from a 5-star hotel in the middle of Tampa's Republican National Convention.
AND I QUOTE HERE GUY RUNDLE'S PITHIEST PARAGRAPHS, from his report filed a couple days ago:
"[The 2008 (Sarah Palin picked as Veep) GOP Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota]
was a long long time ago, and the party is older and a little wiser, at least as far as VP choice is concerned. They have as their candidate Mitt Romney, a man who excites no one, not even Mitt Romney. To appease the base, but purportedly avoid the bad craziness of the Palin trip, they have chosen Paul Ryan, a thoroughly competent, highly intelligent, utterly lunatic Ayn Randian manorexic from Wisconsin.
TROPICANA FIELD, TAMPA: 2012 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
But that doesn't make for much of a party, and the gathering at Tropicana was, well, not subdued -- the Republicans are too batshit crazy to be subdued -- but lacking a certain genuine zest of yesteryear. "I cannot believe that the American people will re-elect a man who knows nothing about what America is," said Jim, a huge man, near spherical, in a blue blazer and tan slacks. He was from Iowa, from whose name he removed the sole vowel, rendering it as "Ow", like a cry of pain. He was angry with the media, which had been grudgingly admitted. His wife, Maeve, a delicately boned woman in a lace dress, was more conciliatory.
"You're from Australia? Do you know about Barack Obama and what's he done?" She peeked out from behind her husband, orbiting him like a moon. Did they think Romney would win? "Yessir, but it's a battle," said Jim. Maeve: "What with the liberal media ..."
THE END -- FOR THE YOUNG & BUSY
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For our Senior ["Honored"] Citizens with extra reading time, here is more:
2. A nonpartisan new take on Medicare,
which argues that both Dems & GOP miss the point about what Medicare's future should be
-- creating huge savings through the simple step of "Wellness" steps:
http://trimet.org/v3/images/buspass/hcbuspass.jpg
3. Nobody likes a moocher, but if the GOP wins in 2012, there is much more they could do to cut down on mooching -- including Republican moochers -- and increase real American equality of opportunity besides cutting taxes on the rich:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-26/republicans-should-stop-talking-about-moocher-class.html
4. Mitt should drop his pandering foreign-policy positions, and instead
apply his corporate expertise to slashing huge excesses & inefficiencies from the Pentagon.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-27/romney-must-show-he-will-get-down-to-business-on-defense.html
1. British journals like The Economist -- not just the Australians -- have a low opinion of Candidate Romney's "programme."
http://www.economist.com/node/21560864
But that doesn't make for much of a party, and the gathering at Tropicana was, well, not subdued -- the Republicans are too batshit crazy to be subdued -- but lacking a certain genuine zest of yesteryear. "I cannot believe that the American people will re-elect a man who knows nothing about what America is," said Jim, a huge man, near spherical, in a blue blazer and tan slacks. He was from Iowa, from whose name he removed the sole vowel, rendering it as "Ow", like a cry of pain. He was angry with the media, which had been grudgingly admitted. His wife, Maeve, a delicately boned woman in a lace dress, was more conciliatory.
"You're from Australia? Do you know about Barack Obama and what's he done?" She peeked out from behind her husband, orbiting him like a moon. Did they think Romney would win? "Yessir, but it's a battle," said Jim. Maeve: "What with the liberal media ..."
THE END -- FOR THE YOUNG & BUSY
____________________________________________________________________________________________
For our Senior ["Honored"] Citizens with extra reading time, here is more:
1. Not just Australians, but also British journals like The Economist have a low opinion of Candidate Romney's "programme."
which argues that both Dems & GOP miss the point about what Medicare's future should be
-- creating huge savings through the simple step of "Wellness" steps:
http://trimet.org/v3/images/buspass/hcbuspass.jpg
3. Nobody likes a moocher, but if the GOP wins in 2012, there is much more they could do to cut down on mooching -- including Republican moochers -- and increase real American equality of opportunity besides cutting taxes on the rich:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-26/republicans-should-stop-talking-about-moocher-class.html
4. Mitt should drop his pandering foreign-policy positions, and instead
apply his corporate expertise to slashing huge excesses & inefficiencies from the Pentagon.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-27/romney-must-show-he-will-get-down-to-business-on-defense.html
1. British journals like The Economist -- not just the Australians -- have a low opinion of Candidate Romney's "programme."
http://www.economist.com/node/21560864
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