Thursday Update - REALLY? Edition

(Looking through the Internet news for today, most of the stuff I read anymore leaves me out of breath, and only one word comes out ... Really?  I digress ...)

• Republican presidential candidate Willard Cummerbund Romney has stated several times in his run for governor and again for President that he could not be blamed for bankruptcies and layoffs from Bain investments after February 1999 because he departed for the Olympics at that time and thusly was not in any control of the company.  But Lordy, apparently documents Bain Capital filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission after February 1999 state that Romney remained the firm’s “sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and president.”  And in 2003 Romney’s state financial disclosure forms indicate he earned at least $100,000 as a Bain “executive” in 2001 and 2002, separate from investment earnings.  But, Willard cried, "I wasn't running the company." (Quote made-up.)  Okay, Mitt, maybe so, but you, as 100% owner, are responsible for the company. Really.  Period.
• Jeeze, this story will just make you sick.  Some people, savvy people in the business, people who actually KNOW things as opposed to those who just make things up, say that our beloved right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh HIRES people to call into his show.  Holy Crap! is there NOTHING sacred anymore?  I mean, if you can't believe every frickin' thing Rush Limbaugh says what's the use of going on?  I mean REALLY.
• Mitt Romney got booed the other day as he gave a speech to the NAACP.  Not just a little polite boo here and there, but a full 20 seconds of sustained boo.  And all he had to do was mention how the first thing he was going to do after taking office is eliminate "ObamaCare."  Not only did this grossly out-of-touch candidate not seem fazed by it, he explained later that the only reason he got booed is because black people just want free stuff.  You go, Mitt.  No, really.
• One more thing about this booing the Mittstir got at the NAACP convention; Mitt's campaign people are pointing out how much applause he got, during and especially after his speech (accompanied by an organ fercrissakes), and we can either write that off as the distinguished African-American people attending are polite and dignified people, or we could say it was all a conspiracy on Mitt's part to look better than he really is.  Really?
• Are you on board?  Labor has been getting its ass kicked all over the United States recently, and when I say "Labor" I mean Unions, the people who gave us weekends and forty-hour weeks, remember?  Being a retired bus driver and 41 year Union member, when Larry Hanley, the President of the Amalgamated Transit Union, says building coalitions with riders, not organizing more drivers, is the top priority for his union’s future, I sit up and listen. “I think Wisconsin shows,” says Hanley, “that at this moment in time, the right wing and the billionaires who support them have been successful in convincing a significant minority of working people that their interests are tied to falling wages in the public sector.” Hanley adds that Walker’s re-election demonstrates politicians’ success in framing unions as a “special interest,” and “saying there are working people, and then there’s organized labor.” Hanley noted he was particularly surprised by polls showing a substantial minority of union households backing Walker. “We have to – starting with our own members – make sure that people understand that we’re all in this together, we’re not all in this alone… Really.