This and That Thursday (Including the Debate)

~~~ The Great debate lacked only one thing - spontaneity.

Both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum were well scripted.  Add to that a tag team play between Romney and Ron Paul. The tag team nature of the pair was about as transparent of a heavy weight wrestling match. Newt Gingrich reminded me of a referee more than a contestant.

Did we learn anything new? I don’t recall anything of the sort. The only reteaming moment of the night was when Newt blasted the media (yet again) for never asking Barak Obama why he voted to permit infanticide (do you recall the partial birth abortion fiasco?).

About the only good thing provided by watching the debate; I didn’t have to watch yet another poor Celtics showing.

~~~ Have you seen $6 per gallon gas yet?

Try Tampa, Florida. (http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/02/22/florida-drivers-shelling-out-nearly-6-a-gallon-at-some-gas-stations/)

~~~ In watching the goings on in Afghanistan makes me think we are a few years too late in pulling out of there. We have bent over backwards to bring some sense of order to this primitive peoples with no avail.

Declare victory over terrorism and go home. Maybe isolationism is the way to go for now. We should turn our focus to our hemisphere.

~~~ White House senior mouthpiece Valerie Jarrett said that unemployment stimulates the economy because people who receive unemployment checks are going out and spending them.

Talk about tortured logic. She appears normal so maybe she was only repeating what she was told to say.

~~~ While we’re on the subject of tortured logic there’s the case of former House Speaker and current Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi who contends the Catholic Church secretly "Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age that are Catholic use contraception,” Pelosi, a Catholic, said in a speech at Texas A&M University in College Station.

“So, in practice, the church has not enforced this, and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me," a CNSNews.com report quotes the Minority (Democrat) Leader.

Cya tomorrow.

Ciao…….Moe Lauzier