Maybe it's just me

... but I'm less concerned with the "God" in the DNC platform than with the fascism in the DNC platform.

Anybody else feel the same?

DNC Day 1 Theme: You will be Assimilated!

I'm not watching the Democratic National Convention.  I know what those people think and I don't want to hear it again.

But reports from those who are watching are frightening.

Fellow SLOB Beers with Demo:

We're proud of the Democratic Party. We really are. Instead of shying away from or backing down from their "You Didn't Build That" rhetoric and underpinning philosophy, they are doubling, nay, tripling down on their full-service, 24/7 statism.

Check out the following ad from the DNC: [link]

"The Government is the only thing we all belong to"

This is news to us. With respect to that quote above, there's wrong and then there is wrong on a scale of enormity that it almost defies description. This fits the latter.

[...]

No. We don’t belong to the government. You don’t belong to the government. We are individual citizens of this country. We belong to this country.

Conflating government with country is precisely in keeping with this dangerous statist philosophy that your individual rights as a citizen flow not from the Creator or natural law as codified by the Constitution rather the government.

Amen. And see Ann Althouse's take:

7:19: The chair of the Congressional Hispanic Congress, Charles Gonzales, uses the motto "e pluribus unum" — out of many, one — to mean that all the people become one, instead of the idea that the states were brought together into one nation. The idea that the people merged into a single entity — that sounds like fascism to me. Oddly, as it repurposes the old motto, it expresses the old fashioned idea of the melting pot.

[...]

7:42: Nancy Pelosi is introduced along with all the Democratic women of the House. There's disco music playing. The hell? Then I detect that it's "I'm Every Woman." Again with this creepy merging of individuals into the whole.

These people are scary. It's not the Muslims who hate us because of our freedom. It's the Democrats.

Those Poor Rich

Christiano Ronaldo is likely to go down as one of the greatest soccer players ever. The guy is a fantastic footballer. He plays for Real Madrid and makes about 30 million a year. Oh and he’s also very good looking and has everything going for him. YET:

"I am sad and the club knows it, that's why I didn't celebrate the goals," said Ronaldo, who also scored two goals during the two-legged Supercopa triumph over Barcelona. "The appropriate people inside the club know why I'm sad. I won't say anything more."

The poor dear apparently isn’t making enough money. The interesting thing about Real Madrid is that it’s a state subsidized team. They get deals from the City of Madrid that shhhhh, don't talk about it in public, or at least until you get to Barcelona. Now Spain is on the verge of collapse and Chrissy here is sad because he isn’t making enough.

It just seems that the 0.1% are clueless about the plight of the dirty masses. Or maybe not; "let them eat cake" as they say.

FailBook is now JailBait

She's under 18.



How's that working out for those geniuses at CalPERS?

Look who's #Eastwooding now!

Tomorrow is National Empty Chair Day.

Joe Biden couldn't wait.

Convention bounce

Romney up by four nationwide (from tied to down two before the convention) and up by two in battleground states.

Why aren't people as outraged as Old Zeke and Huffington Post by the Great Paul Ryan Marathon Scandal?

Will Obama get a convention bounce? I wonder who would even want to watch the DNC. We've had four years of Obama and Biden in our living rooms. What more can they say? Hillary has urgent business in the Cook Islands. And look at this truly pathetic line-up of party hacks and retreads. Three nights of bitter leftists talking about vaginas and collective bargaining? No thanks, I'll be watching Breaking Bad on Amazon Prime.

Aaaand we have verification

Zeke here again.  Seeing as I lightly follow the farce that is U.S. political choice, it wasn't til a couple days ago that I paid any attention to dapper young Paul Ryan.  I reported my initial impression in these pages, namely that the guy is a phony.

And what's this now?

Hewitt asked the vice presidential candidate whether he is "still running."

Ryan answered that he "hurt a disc" in his back," so he doesn't "run marathons anymore." Instead, he said. he just runs 10 miles or less.

The conservative radio host then asked him what his personal best time is. For a marathoner this is a badge of honor, but Ryan couldn't recall exactly.

"Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something," Ryan said.

Hewitt was surprised, saying, "Holy smokes."

Ryan replied: "I was fast when I was younger, yeah."

But it turns out, he's only run one and it wasn't under three hours or even under four hours.

You don't say.