Mitt's Mystery Money Machinations

 A Minor Sunday Morning Pensee

This morning, I listened to Fareed Zakaria (who never sounds hysterical) and Steve Rattner (who doesn't, either). 

For the first time in more than a year I have heard an understandable explanation for the much-vaunted and  convoluted financial gymnastics of the goppers' Presidential candidate - Willard Mitt Romney.

What I have gathered is that our boy, Mitt, is not so much a bad man as he is an enthusiastic and unscrupulous gatherer of wealth and power.

As Rattner said, "As a private equity guy, I am familiar with many of the things that he did,  and I know many people who have done many of the things that he did. I do not know anyone who  did EVERYTHING he did." (Emphasis mine.)

And that seems to be the crux of the argument and the mystery of Mitt Romney:  

He does everything; he says everything; he takes every side of every issue; he attempts to represent himself as "every man" in the currency of democratic values - and tries to look confident while he throws everything at the wall, hoping something will stick.


I remember as a teenager testing the doneness of spaghetti by doing this. It made one hell of a mess.

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Down With the Ipse Dixit Ditzes

While we are on Wall Street trying to right our ship of state, maybe we could expand the parameters to include ridding ourselves of those insidious, mind-rotting, soul-searing, science-denying peddlers of faith and self-styled morality.

Preachers, priests, shamans, witch doctors and, particularly, evangelical pastors should have preceded the Dodo bird but, unfortunately, superstition appears to have the upper hand.....still! 

Did you see and hear that little Texas pastor, Rev. Robert Jeffress, who addressed the gathering of the GOP faithful yesterday where he self-righteously made all those definitive declarations about faith and god?

His god. The god he is convinced is the only god. The god that he insists must be believed in before you can be elected to any office,  including dog catcher, or even before you can be considered a "bona fide" person. 

Who the hell ever wrote this on any rock, or edifice, or beating heart, or on a mind that contains all its working parts?
 

Unfortunately, it's hard for me to defend the obvious object of his criticism - Mormon Mitt Romney. While Jeffress is, to me, a vulgar, soulless little man who doesn't think Romney can be considered for office because of his cult membership status, I have my own criterion for a leader: a man who believes in magic underwear has an intellect that must come in for a fair share of examination.

I think I would crawl naked over glass if it would help to free mankind from this idiotic attachment to worshiping at the altars of man-made codes that have proved themselves fallible, evil, cruel, stupid and bloody at every instant of our history.

Further, the religious zealots appear to be getting dumber and meaner. Not to mention how many, on close examination, are sexually deviant.

What is it about the fundamentalist faithful that makes them so far from god-like, but so convinced that they can tell us - with no empirical proof - that they know what we must believe?

Resist,  thinkers of the world. We must overcome.

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