The Audacity of Mendacity

Title credit is courtessy Stephanie Miller show, least I be accused of plagurism.  

Wednesday night at the convention was “Let’s build up Donald Trump’s ego” night.  We heard from his son Eric, and also others, how Trump doesn’t “need” this job the way Hillary does.  He’s not making the run out of a need to “get what’s been coming to him” the way it is with Hillary.  He can’t be bought or pressured or bribed or any of that stuff the way Hillary has to be.  KOCE channel 50 had live coverage of the convention and I wish I’d known that the first two nights.  However they still talk to death the event with their commentators.  They feel the need to talk ten minutes for every five minutes of a speaker.  Laura Ingram was the first up and she got praise from commentators.  Newt Gingrich spoke but he was cut off by commentators.  Later on Ted Cruz spoke and he gave the best speech of the evening.  However he disparaged Trump by not mentioning him by name.  As the commentators stated “He threw a lot of red meat to the audience priming them up for the big announcement of endorsement, which never came, and the audience didn’t take kindly at all to that.  They say Heidi his wife was on the verge of being physically accosted and had to be escorted out of the arena.   I saw replays of Governor Christie's speech and he laid it out like a DA plrosecution case and asked the crowd, "Guilty or not?"  This is the first time chants of "Lock her up" occurred with the crowd, but it also occurred later with someone else.  Then on ABC they had on Eric Trump, who was the one who spoke of Trump being a good and generous man who built an ice rink in front of Trump Towers or whatever because he was tired of construction delays and cost overruns by government contractors.  So after two and a half years, he got the job completed in six months and it came in under budget.  Eric Trump didn’t speak for that long and then it was more media comentatating.  Paul Ryan introduced somebody.  Mike Pence didn’t get his speech started till a quarter to eight.  The first part of his speech was  like a rerun of last Saturday’s production.  But then he got off into new material.  He spoke of all the areas where Donald Trump would be better than Hillary such as appointing conservative Supreme Court justices.  All in all Ted Cruz delivered the best speech of the evening.   I guess thing you could say about last night was that the crowd was more “into” the festivities and were attentive.

I looked at Washington's blog.  They say that the cutting of public school funding is styfeling creativity and self expression.  There was a posting on the national debt ballooning.  We have added 1.1 trillion dollars a year to the national debt under President Obama.  That’s a whole lot more than they are admitting to with only a 400 billion dollar deficit.  However I have some reason to suspect the motives of this posting since the goal of it seemed to be "cut everything" as far as the government is concerned and like Judy used to say 'We're headed over a fiscal cliff and we have to slam on the brakes even if it causes economic chaos or even a crash, because we can't go on the way we are going.  Hence the only cure for an economic recession is to Cause an economic recession on purpose, which otherwise wouldn't occur.  

The headings are “Make America Safe Again” and then “Make America Work Again” and then “Make America First Again” and finally, “Make America One Again”.   There were a lot of empty seats and 22 republican senators boycotting the convention.  One guy said he’d rather go out and mow his lawn.  Even during prime time the delegates, rather than listening avidly to the speakers on the podium, were talking on their cell phones.  So there is a definite "enthusiasm gap" between the conventions of the two parties.

 Melonia Trump admits to deliberately plagurizing Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech.  She liked that speech and thought she’d just use it.  Her lady advisor, Marideth Mc Kiver, ghost writer for a lot of Donald Trump’s books,  offered her resignation but Trump rejected the resignation.  This means Melonia Trump lied when she claimed that she wrote most of the speech herself.  I guess you could say that Marideth whats-her-name is such a valued employee with the Trump outfit that Trump dare not fire her.  It might be hard to find another loyal stooge like her.  

SAM-E is neither a hormone nor an herb but a substance produced by the body in metabolizing B 12 and Folic Acid.  It has a lot of other uses including liver detoxification.  I finally got around to looking it up.  The article said St John’s word increases drowsiness, which I haven’t personally noticed.  I think St John’s wort just has mild relaxation qualities.  Now Thom Hartman is having his ten minute before eleven phone interview. 

According to Thom Hartman, Donald Trump sees himself as a “head of state” rather than the head of day to day government like a Prime Minister.  People are afraid he’ll let Mike Pence set day to day economic policy such as trade agreements.  Also it’s said that Trump’s family will be exerting an unhealthy influence over Trump’s policies.  I’d like to see hard evidence.  When Ted Cruz mentioned the trade deals we've made being a bad thing the crowd cheered.  However if it's really true that Mike Pence is the one who will be setting day to day policy, this is a basic fact about the Trump campaign that desperately needs to be made known.   I grew drowsy and dozed and Bill asked me what time it was and it was 10:08 already and I mussed refreshment break.  I still need to take some new photos incorporating people I haven’t photographed at all such as Linda and Patty Hayes.   Patty likes to make herself as scarce as possible anyhow.