Toothless

 Friday... and my weekend begins.  

I slept in until 0600, usually I'm up at 0500.  Truthfully, I was awake before the alarm went of, I just lazed around dozing.  What really roused my ass was Lily going downstairs and barking at an early morning dog walker.  

Last evening, I watched "Brittany Runs a Marathon."  I had seen the trailer some time back and thought the movie looked... well, like it might be fun.  Ouch.  Billed as a comedy, there are funny moments, but this story of an over weight party girl who takes up running to get healthy, and ends running the NYC marathon turns into what some might call a dramedy.  If you like movies about chubby, self-entitled women whose lives are built around a string of clichés Brittany might be the movie for you.  It took me 2 glasses of wine to get through this mess, so that's what I'm rating it.  🍷🍷

Of course, I'm going to do some editing today.  And I want to get in a bike ride or a run.  And I also want to try and find a healthy Instant Pot recipe.  

If you're paying any attention to American politics, you've noticed that the party of "No" has returned.  If you has thought there might some bipartisanship between the 2 parties, you can forget it right now, not while the GOP worships the Loser.  The only thing left for us Centrists to do is knock their legs out from under them, and then kick them in the teeth a couple of times when they're down.  Not until they are toothless will they ever learn a lesson.

Paul Ryan - dishonest

One of the big things to come out of the RNC Convention is the public dishonesty of Paul Ryan, he makes things up and changes facts.  I thought it funny watching Conservative reporters dance around this subject, pretty much saying that at a convention facts could be subjective and not objective.  Of course, this is something the party has been doing for years.  It was the Little Bush who said "if you repeat something often enough people will start to believe it."  So, when Ryan blames a Obama for letting a plant close while the Little Bush was president one can only wonder if he doesn't understand veracity.  Or, perhaps the truth is he hits the confessional booth on a daily basis.

The problem with Ryan's lack of honesty is people are checking his facts.  People are tired of politicians just out and out lying.  One of the latest facts to be checked was Paul's claim to have running a marathon in under 3 hours.  Hhhmmm.  Serious runners, and those not so serious, dug deep.  He did run a marathon.  But then the truth runs out.  Independent voters find this chronic lying offensive, doesn't the Republican Party understand this?  I guess not.