NUMBER FIFTY AND COUNTING

Here’s a small explanation on how or why 
I got to this point

Well can it be here so soon, but it is, this is my fiftieth entry in my blog. Fifty. Well I guess I do have an opinion or two. Maybe I should shut up or start a blog or something. Oh. That’s right. I did. Usually when I start these things I get too busy, life gets in the way. Before you know it a year goes by. So either I have too much time on my hands, I think too much about too many things, that are just too important to me to not stop thinking on, or I’ve found my calling. You tell me. 
I have two players in my current life to thank for even getting this far in the just beginnings of what this blog could become. Facebook and all our political leaders that give me so much information to play with. Facebook? Yes Facebook. As some of you know (Those who actually read this) might recall [amazing how indulgent of me to think that anyone actually read anything I write]. I had a harrowing experience last Spring at a certain Hospital... and well the only thing that kept me sane [I was wavering on the edge], was my entries from the hospital on Facebook. But more importantly the responses I read from my Facebook ‘friends’, literally kept me going. I survived, and what came out of that experience is why you read this today.

My frustration at the stupidly of some people. My amazement at how blind others are at things right in front of their eyes. How rigid their beliefs are, that when confronted by the truth and anything that completely upends their reasonings, they will say you are lying. That your facts are wrong. I know by my commentaries here and my conversations to others, some might think my leanings or beliefs are stuck in cement. I’ve always hoped that if confronted with a different viewpoint, that I would always give that viewpoint a chance. And over the years have had my eyes opened and I've been taught a few things and learned a lot of lessons. So here it is, Number Fifty. Can't wait for the next ones.
Here's just a sample of the latest bumper crop of stories that got my creative juices flowing.     

QUOTES TO GET SMACKED FOR:

 #1  REPEATING THE SAME OLD SAME OLD AND DOING THE SAME OLD SAME OLD 

Whining and then lying and then whining some more

“We can do better,” Boehner said shortly before McConnell unveiled his proposal. “It’s time for us to sit down and have a serious negotiation and solve this problem.”

Haven’t we heard this before. Ring around the rosie. Mister Boehner you keep saying that, but instead we get, we can’t do anything. And as usual, this is after you’ve agreed. The vote comes in or you enter a big room with your Tea Party brethren and then the next thing we hear is. The bills no good, in fact I’m not gonna even allow it to come up for a vote. Lets do the filibuster dance. 

QUOTES TO LOSE A CAMPAIGN BY:

 #7   CHANGING THE HISTORICAL FACTS WHEN TOUTING YOUR RESUME 

It seems the ex-speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich doesn’t have his facts straight

“For four years, we balanced the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt,” Gingrich said in May as he kicked off his campaign. “We’ve done it before. We can do it again.”

“I worked with President Clinton ... and we ended up with about 11 million new jobs in a four-year period, went down to 4.2 percent unemployment,” Gingrich said in a recent debate, suggesting that as president, he could do it again.

As far as I can recall, their relationship was far from cosy, didn’t Newt have the government shut down on his .

QUOTES TO LIVE FOR:

 #2   THE ‘TAKING SOMEONE’S NAME AND USING IT AGAINST HIM AWARD’ 

GOES TO

‘RECALL THE KOCHSUCKER NOW!”

Or better yet, the extended version that I just discovered on the web:

‘If you don’t like being called TEABAGGERS  We’ll be happy to call you  KOCHSUCKERS'

Not child friendly but boy talk about in your face. Another T-shirt just waiting to happen.

This brilliant zinger of course is a reference to reports that billionaire Koch Brothers have been providing funding to Governor Walker through their PAC.  And of course the famous prank call made to Walker by a Buffalo journalist pretending to be David Koch.

QUOTES TO LOSE A CAMPAIGN BY:

 #8   SAYING SOMETHING SO OUT OF LEFT FIELD THAT ITS JUST A LITTLE TOO OUT THERE

Man who writes your script Romney. Thanks to you, this campaign has just turned into an old Warner Bros. melodrama. 

“I’m not allowed to communicate with a super PAC in any way, shape or form,” Romney said. “If we coordinate in any way whatsoever, we go to the big house.”

I read about this a few days back, but there’s been so much to talk about I thought maybe I’d skip it. But: “we go to the big house?” What are you John Garfield? Well I tell you one thing Mitt, you sure helped liven this week. I mean the Middle Class Tax break fight is a real bummer. So thanks for giving me a even more material to kvetch about. Oy!
Just one man’s opinion

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Thurs., Dec. 22, 2011