Retroactive Retirement?????

From the National Journal


Mitt Romney's top campaign adviser [Ed Gillespie] insisted on Sunday that Romney has no responsibility for any decisions made at Bain Capital during the three years from 1999 to 2001, during which he claimed that he had resigned from the company to go run the Olympics in Utah, explaining that Romney had "retired retroactively to 1999" from the company.


Two thoughts:
1) How the hell do you retire retroactively?

2)  The Romney Campaign has spread so much Bullshit around that they are now stepping in it.

Thought for Today

While reading this article (When did the GOP lose touch with reality?) I had the following thought:

Today's Republithugs make Gerge W. Bush look like a liberal.

Thought for Today

So many people believe in a god of vengeance and rage and not of peace and Love.  "God is Love." is all the religious guidance anyone should need.  If everything is viewed through the lens of Love - all will be well.     jcs

Thought for Today

The way for Satan to succeed is to turn the religion of Love into one of hate.

Jay Simser

Thought for Thursday

Bishop John Shelby Spong writes in his column this week that we should 

"...examine the content of Christianity.  It is a radical movement!  In Christ, says St. Paul, all tribal identities fade away.  One can hardly be an uncritical super-patriot and be a Christian.  Christianity calls us to love our enemies.  That makes support for wars of aggression difficult.  Christianity calls us to deal with the poor in a sensitive manner even if it raises our taxes.  A member of Congress who opposes the current version of health care bill, which covers forty million previously uninsured Americans, has an obligation to offer a bill spelling out an alternative way to cover these uninsured.  Otherwise, honesty demands that there be a public admission that he or she does not really care about the issue of forty million people without health care because they cannot see beyond their own needs.  I mean by this to suggest that I believe political tactics can always be debated, but I do not see how Christians can fail to agree on the goal of universal health care coverage for all our citizens." 

Thought for Today

You know I may not like the results of the election but one thing I do like is that I live in a country where power is transferred peacefully without violence or assassination.

Thoughts on Bullying

I woke in the middle of the night.

All of the anti-bullying rhetoric that is going on right now has missed one very important thing.

DADT, DOM, gay jokes by comedians, Anti-gay screeds from right-wing politicians and preachers and the myriad of other things such as "marriage is only for one man and one woman" are just institutionalized bullying. It is no wonder that children bully children, adults do it all the time. Come on people we can build our world on better than this.

Thought for Today

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)

Thought for Today

Thought for today. As I read this, I realized that President Obama has achieved one other goal. Bi-partisanship, I don't think either the Democrats or the Republicans like him very much.