THOUGHTS OF THE DAY

I'M BACK! Last few times I tried I could not get into my own blog to add a new post. Seems Blogger changed things a bit, but I've focussed enough to figure it out.

After commenting on Weather Underground blog about the continuing saga of whether climate change exists, and furthermore, if it's anthropogenic in part or whole, I decided to go back and try to update my own blog again. I do often chicken out when adding comments to blogs, which means editing out, so that's why I need to keep this blog going--to include what I often edit out of other blogs, not wishing to seem like a troll.


TO CATCH UP ON MY THOUGHTS OF LATE:
I recently heard on one of the news channels about the need for a strong, viable 3rd party. Some miss the likes of Ralph Nader (or even Ross Perot). As a strong proponent of this idea I finally arrived at a name for this party. I propose to name it the Gray Party to achieve some balance between the polarizing black and white tactics of the two main parties. It will be the party of the middle man, the middle class, the middle road. The color will be purple (red+blue) and the totem is a phoenix. So who would be the candidate? Al Gore, please raise your hand? Bill Mahr? Rachel Maddow? Charlie Rose? James Carville? I can think of many thinker-celebs that would probably be a great fit for being a candidate in 2014 (Sorry, Hilary I know you won't likely change parties...)
Then I remembered there are no longer limits to how much money corporations, etc. can donate to a campaign. So who could handle that as a third party candidate, who could even afford to run? Still, I remain optimistic and idealistic. DARE TO DREAM!

THE IRONY. After the Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Affordable Care Act it was eye-rollingly ironic to watch Romney talk about repealing "Obamacare" when much of it was based on "Romneycare" which Romney himself championed when he was governor of Massachusetts. 
I think people in general are very confused about what is true/false and right/wrong these days. There is so much spin, propaganda and obsfucation going on and not enough calling out the liars. Would not surprise me at all if some people actually vote for the GOP candidates just because they are "the right". 


THE SPIN. Let's spin on the many definitions of "right" in the following sentence: 

Having the right to make a profit does not necessarily make the means of obtaining that profit right, but this freedom is often a righteous opinion of the right.