Can't make this stuff up folks--this is politics in 2012!!

"Former
state Senate Democratic Majority Leader Malcolm Smith is considering
running for mayor — as a Republican — in a move that could shake up the
2013 mayoral contest."   Read more: https://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/gop_eyeing_mayor_malcolm_SUprNv2u1ro3ap5g0yHgjK#ixzz22JYMIKAz

1) I was going to rant against Republican and/or Conservative bloggers who are a breed of their own but they don't know how to read just to copy and paste the party line and/or lie so on to other things . (Though I still might say something further down the list!)

2)
Don't remember where I read this but it is smart: "To the optimist and
to the pessimist--this is from the realist--while you were arguing
whether the glass was half full or half empty, I drank it."

3) Former
Senate leader Fist and 2 other Republicans said, "Stop wasting time and
money and get with the Health Care program"--smart men.

4) I really enjoy watching "The Newsroom" and "Political Animals".

5)
Chick-A-Fil spokesperson Donald Perry died last Friday. Karma? Payback?
Coincidence? Mother always said, "If you can't say something nice about
someone don't say anything" so I won't.

6) Get rid of negative people in your life and you will have a better life--they feed off you so ignore them.

7) When you get a compliment just say "Thank you"--don't add a 'but'.

8)
Blogs are a funny thing--on 2 sites I get some responses, on 2 others I
get more and on 3-4 I get a minimum of 10-12 comments. Unfortunately on
1 site the people are rude and crude, name callers, some not liking
anyone who isn't like them with a majority of them being two faced.

9)
A couple of people asked, regarding my "7 Decades" series--from
1972-1979 I paid 35-37% in taxes and still had everything I wanted and
needed.

10)
I wonder why people blog if they are going to disable all comments
unless they are so alone they have no one to talk to and get things off
their chest?

11)
I fell for it--there is a blogger  called myolympicjourney who caught
me in her web--I thought she was really writing a journal regarding her
first experience of participating in the Olympics when all the time she
was a student doing  a writing experience--I usually read a blogger's
profile and first blog but I didn't in this case--that's okay as others
fell into the trap also which makes me feel better! LOL

12) What makes Blu-Ray so much better than a regular DVD?

13)
I never understood, still don't, about the 'friends' topic--I have over
250 'friends' on one of my blogging sites and I don't know most of them
nor have I ever heard from them after they requested to be my friend
and I said yes. And if people are going to do 'friends only' posts why
not just e-mail them?

14)
Strange--all we hear is about the 1% and higher taxes--meanwhile
AT&T has raised their residential rates and cut back their lifeline
by $4 and no one, including AARP or other organizations, have complained
that poor people are paying an extra $6 a month.

15)
Did the Right really think the British did the Health Care segment in
the Olympics opening night ceremonies purposely against them and not
because they are very proud of their system and part of their history?

16)
We lost some great entertainers recently like Tony Martin, Gore Vidal
86 Sherman Hemsley 74 and Chad Everett 74 with the latter 2 younger than
me but Tony made it to 98.

17)
Though most TV commercials are as annoying as hell there are a few I
enjoy each time I see them like Shaq in the Buick ad where he points his
finger at the camera at the end and gives that 'cute kid' smile. Then
there is John Cleese in the DirectTv commercial and I crack up each time
I see the 'wooing my daughter' Toyota and one in the Subaru where the
father and daughter chase the rainbow. And I won't get into the Ford ads
with the hunk! LOL

18)
Oh heck, I've been good up to this point so (if the shoe fits wear it)
why are most Republican/Conservative bloggers homophobic but will die
saying they aren't while posting anti-gay blogs? And why don't they ever
answer a direct question with a direct answer? Why are they so quick to
call people names and get uptight if you call them a name? And because
Romney said something stupid in Britain why did Republicans have to
write such horrible posts about Britain and the English knowing many
bloggers are British?

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