Are you a runner dissatisfied with your latest marathon time? Well now you, too, can run as fast as Paul Ryan (in his dreams).
The Paul Ryan Time Calculator appeared this week in response to the vice presidential candidate's recent remark that he ran a marathon in under three hours. Runners can enter their actual time, the distance of their race and gender. The calculator does a little math, and the result is a "Paul Ryan-adjusted marathon time." It's as easy as that.
During an interview last month with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Ryan estimated he clocked "under three, high twos. I had a two-hour and fifty-something."
Ryan later admitted the claim was false after Runner’s World magazine found evidence his marathon time in 1990 was in fact 4:01:25.
The online calculator was created by grad student and runner Erik Westlund.
"It's funny that Ryan is popular for being an intellectual, straight-shooting, clear-thinking numbers guy who supposedly remembers each line of the federal budget, but he can't remember his marathon time within an hour," he told the Washington Post earlier this week. "Everyone who takes running seriously knows that is nonsense. I've run a few marathons and a bunch of other races and I know all my times pretty much down to the second going back many years. His excuse just didn't seem plausible to me."
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Its funny how 20 years will add inches to your waistline and to that really big fish you caught or the measurements on the antlers on that buck. It's more a function of memory lapse and the usual bragging self agrandizemeht. But if you are hinting that Ryan might have deliberately intended to deceive in recalling his one and only one attempt at a marathon run, what ever will you do with the information that Barrack Obama wrote a memoir of his time over 20 years ago saying he had a black girlfriend (who was actually white), and that his paternal grandfather and his step father's father were heros of the Kenyan and Indonesian anti-colonial revolts.
Some people make mistakes, and admit them. Others try to cover them up with bizzare claims of literary devices used of making compositions of out old girlfriends and his wife Michele, and stating that the reality of the anti-colonial heros in his two paternal families were cherished family myths that he felt duty bound to preserve. Please...have you had enough Lawrence, I have more. Like the Elizabeth Warren Cherokee Indian affirmative action application for admission to college. I actually inquired of the Warren campaign if I could make a donation in my daughters name (she has made her career in Massachusetts where I brought her up, and leans considerably more to the left than I do), but wondered if the Warren campaign was accepting contributions in WAMPUM that they could use to entice real people of Native American heritage (of which I am one, partially, Western Abaneki) to her support.
MR. PRESIDENT ,
You need to stand up against the lies the right is making on the National debt.
They are accusing you of spending $6 TRILLION during your term.
I know for a fact that they are all GOP policies that caused it.
Fixing the GOP screw ups is not your spending Mr. President it is theirs.
Stimulus to save the GOP screw ups are LOANS not spending.
INTEREST on the GOP TRILLIONS of debt is NOT yours to be responsible for.
MR. President,
They will say the Democrats had a “majority”.
But we all well know the filibustering, obstructing GOP has the “CONTROL”
The unfunded wars were GOP started wars based on deception.
Mr. President,
The $16 TRILLION National Debt is GOP Policies of the past 32 years.
Stand up for your record and denounce those accusations.
Use their debt clock against them.
Mr. President,
Use ARITHMETIC against them.
Democratic policies that added to the National Debt = ????
Deduct that from $16 TRILLION
The balance will equal GOP DEBT.
This is NOT blaming the GOP or BUSH.
This is ARITHMETIC Mr. President.