I Should Be Laughing: Random Musings

Thursday, September 06, 2012

Random Musings

Okay, this might be good.

Vanity Fair, this month, has an article about the Church of Scientology and their struggle to find a suitable wife for Tom Cruise, post-Nicki and pre-Kate. And, okay I’ll say it, ALLEGEDLY a woman was chosen and groomed and audited--a CoS method of getting inside your head--and groomed to be Missus Cruise. But apparently she made the head of the CoS, David Miscavige angry because she kept asking him to repeat himself when he spoke to her and Scientologists are all about making themselves clear, so this was considered unforgivable.

The woman, Iranian-born, British-raised actress Nazanin Boniadi, was then banished from TomVille, and even removed from his home where they shared a bedroom, and then it was, again, sigh, ALLEGEDLY, decided that Tom needed a more famous wife and, well, since all the famous wouldn't stoop to marry Tom--literally because they're all taller than MiniTom, Katie Holmes was chosen and the rest is history, or her story.

Interesting reading, so I'll be picking up a copy of VF.

Paul Ryan is a liar. And he does so by quietly misrepresenting the facts and leaving out parts of the story to make his truth seem true.

Like when he said candidate Obama pledged to keep a Wisconsin auto plant open...and then Ryan skips over the fact that before Obama took office the plant closed under W...and yet the plant closed a year later.

See, he tries to make it look like Obama made a promise and then didn’t keep it.

Semantics, perhaps, bending the truth for sure, but, really, it's a lie.

And then, well, he did it again.

Ryan had said in a radio interview that he had run in a marathon, and that his personal best time was "under three [hours], high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something."

Big surprise,

Click to emBIGGERATE

It turns out Paul Ryan, who has run just one marathon so it's not like he got it confused, actually ran the 1990 Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota in 4 hours, 1 minute, and 25 seconds.

Not "under three" and certainly not "high twos."

Now, sure it might be silly to call him out on this, but, when one runs a marathon, one usually knows their time fairly well; especially if one runs just one marathon.

So, why the lie?

Does it make him sound more like a good candidate for vice president or does it make him sound like a man who wouldn't know the truth if it smacked him in the face?

Of course, he's spinning it now, saying that his "comments on the [radio] show were the best of his recollection."

Which is what folks say when they get caught in a lie.

Again. source

Has anyone seen the commercial where the mom is getting her son and daughter ready for bed and then the dad comes in wearing a whole bunch of flashlights and then starts shining them at his kid's crotches because they're wearing Huggies glow-in-the-dark Pamper-y things?

I think it's kinda odd that someone would want to put underwear on their kids that has some glow-in-the-dark technology near their genitals, and, the commercial seems creepy when the dad waves a big hard flashlight at his kid's crotches.

But that's just me....

Oh yeah, so Paul Ryan lies.

But then so does Ann Romney.

See, after that whole wack-a-doo Clint Eastwood lecturing a chair episode at the RNC last week, Ann Romney had several comments.

She told "CBS This Morning" she didn't know what to expect when Eastwood came on stage and called Eastwood's rambling conversation "unique."

Which is a nice way of saying "WTF was that?"

But then on ABC's "Good Morning America," she said of his speech, "I frankly hadn’t given it much thought. I didn’t know he was coming on stage."

Huh? Didn't know he was coming on?

Really? Your husband is the star of the show--or at least he was supposed to be the star until Clint's nuttiness--and you expect us to believe you had no idea he was coming on the stage?

Liar liar, like your husband.

I loved some of the Democratic speeches this week. Cory Booker was on fire and Julian Castro was right on point. Of course, for me, the highlight was my BFF Michelle Obama speaking. She talked about her husband's passion for life while, in contrast, a week earlier Ann Romney tried to passionately convince us that her husband is even alive.

But, another highlight for me was Elizabeth Warren, who is running for the US Senate in Massachusetts and does not mince words:

"The Republican vision is clear: 'I've got mine, the rest of you are on your own'. Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends. After all, Mitt Romney's the guy who said corporations are people."No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don't run this country for corporations. We run it for people."

Hmmm, maybe a Clinton/Warren ticket in 2016?

So, we have Warren, and Castro and Booker and Obama and the Clintons, but, well, not all Democrats are so wonderful. Case in point: Democrat, and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who represents Brooklyn, New York.

Clark appeared on Stephen Colbert’s 'The Colbert Report' this week and stumbled, okay, mangled a little bit of US history.

Colbert asked her: "If you could get in a time machine and go back to 1898, what would you say to those Brooklynites?" Colbert asked in the segment.

And Clarke responded: "I would say to them, 'Set me free.'"

Colbert, kinda stunned, asked what exactly Clarke would be setting the people of Brooklyn free from, and she replied, "Slavery."

Colbert: "Slavery. Really? I didn’t realize there was slavery in Brooklyn in 1898."

Clarke: "I’m pretty sure there was."

Colbert: "It sounds like a horrible part of the United States that kept slavery going until 1898. Who would be enslaving you in 1898 in New York?"

Clarke said it was, ahem, the Dutch.

Yeah...she did.

But, um, most folks, and one would hope most state representatives, know that slavery was abolished after the Civil War in 1865. And most folks, and, again, one would hope most state representatives, know that while the Dutch did settle in New Amsterdam, which became New York in 1667, America was an independent nation by the turn of the 19th century.

Oops.

And, because I'm shallow like that, well, here's a few hot Dems from the convention: