On the Road to Philly -Cleveland, DayTwo

The theme of Day Two of the Republican  National Convention was "Make America work again".

Paul Ryan vowed to bring all offshore companies back home, tax them heavily and make them pay their workers a decent wage. "$15 an hour or bust" he shouted to the thunderous applause of the patriotic crowd.

Which Convention was this? Or is the W for "work?"

Or no, wait, That was in a dream I had. He really said something along the lines of  "Poor Americans deserve the right to a job like everybody else" Translation: "Get off your lazy asses and go to work," or "get a job you bums!"

Then it was back to business as usual, as Chris Christie held a mock trial of a Hillary Clinton in the court of (Re)public(an) opinion in which she was found guilty of every transgression from the death of Christ to the framing of Roger Rabbit.

Even the good Doctor, Ben Carson, called her the spawn of  the devil.

The Stepford children had their night in the limelight. Poor chipmunk faced Tiffany was nervous extolling the virtues of her kind, loving dad,and Donald Jr., who everyone in punditry agreed made the best speech of the evening, but I can't remember what he actually said,can you?

The Donald himself put in a cameo appearance with trademark squinty eyes and trumpet mushroom mouth, a scrap of his grandmother's musty old dead muskrat coat perched on his head, and said "You love me, you suckers."

Not sure which lines of tonight's speeches were plagiarized. Or whose songs were stolen. But we have two more days to go but predictions of a rousing stiff armed salute to lose out the proceedings are already popping up on the inter webs or will be when post this.

For tonight, drink a Moscow Mule or three and all will be well. Make America drunk again!

 From Esquire magazine:

The Moscow Mule is not, by the way, the first silly vodka drink. That distinction belongs to the Blue Monday, first printed in the English Savoy bar book in 1930. The BM, which appears to have been quite popular in Europe, mixes vodka with a splash of Cointreau, which is just a superior brand of triple sec or white curaçao, and blue food coloring. It's a simple step to premix the curaçao and the dye, yielding blue curaçao -- the first artificial liqueur (have you ever seen a blue-orange?).

Moscow Mule

Level: Easy

Ingredients

• 1/2 oz. lime juice
• 2 oz. vodka
• 4-6 oz. ginger beer

Directions

1. Squeeze lime juice into a Collins glass (or Moscow Mule mug) and drop in the spent shell.
2. Add 2 or 3 ice cubes, then pour in the vodka and fill with cold ginger beer (not ginger ale, although what the hell).
3. Serve with a stirring rod.