Captain Richard's Musings and Other Things

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Right now this is my guess but it is too close for comfort.  We need to do better.  

Here are some numbers to mull over. Republicans at risk of losing the House

So Romney comes out with his 2011 taxes.  He uses less charitable deductions then he is allowed so he pays 14%, otherwise he would have paid 9%.  By the way most of his charitable deductions are tiths to the LDS church, which is basically a political organization IMHO.  It would look pretty bad if he only paid 9%.  But in December all he has to do is file an amended return. Is there a problem there or am I just looking for something.

I had to put this quote here from an article by Michael Tomasky. "As I’ve said many times, the ongoing debate about whether Romney is really conservative or really moderate has wasted lots of airtime and killed many innocent trees. He’s neither. He’s nothing. He’ll say or do whatever he needs to do, whatever the Koch brothers or whoever tell him to do. He’s been dreaming of the presidency since 1968, and as he sees it slipping through his fingers, he’ll be capable of anything. It’s going to be a nasty seven weeks."

This a question I received from my friend Jeff on Facebook today. "Hey Richard, Why is it you get to rant and rave about the republiican party but if anyone says anything against Obama and his staff you go off the deep in???????? Why is all his records still sealed?" Where do I start?  How about the first day of the Obama presidency.  On the inauguration day of the Obama presidency the Congressional leaders of the Republican Party, including Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and about 20 others had a meeting to agree on methods and processes to sabotage the Obama Presidency.  McConnell said afterwards that their number one priority was the defeat of Obama.  That month we lost over 700,000 jobs and the economy was on the verge of collapse.  So they didn't have a meeting to try to see how they could save the economy.  They had a meeting to see how they could screw up the Government even more to make Obama look bad so they could defeat him in 2012. ...

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Just a shot of the marina. Laid back day, not accomplishing much of anything.

I grew up in the South and am a product of my environment.  In the Greensboro, North Carolina of 1960, when I was just entering high school, we had legalized segregation of our schools, movies, swimming pools, our restaurants, water fountains and even our toilets.  I remember as a child, before I was even able to read, trying to drink from a water fountain with a sign above it saying "COLORED".  It was either my mother, my aunt or my grandmother (can't remember which) who rushed over and pulled me away.  It was like I was going to get a fatal disease and turn "colored" if I drank from that fountain.  For a 5 year old that made an impression on me that stayed with me for a lifetime.   During my high school years Greensboro was the scene of some significant civil rights activity. In February 1960 four black students, later known as the  Greensboro Four , from Greensboro's black AT&T University sat down at the lunch counter of the Woolworth stor...