But, But, But. . . .NOOOOOOOOO!

08 Wednesday Feb 2012

Posted by Sherry in African American, Astronomy, Election 2012, Gay Rights, GOP, Humor, Media, Mitt Romney, Reproductive Rights, Rick Santorum, Satire, US Ethnic Issues, What's Up?, Women's issues

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Black History Month, campaign finance, contraception, Ellen DeGeneres, gay rights, Humor, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, science, what's up? Election 2012

But, but, . . .I HAVE THE MOST MONEY!!!!!!!!!

I am Sir Mitt, thy Liege Lord, thou are my loyal minions of the realm!

I have entered into thy hovels and dirtied my boots on thy floors, and allowed thou to speak unto me, thy superior in all things!

You are sworn to ME!

What is this display of impudence? Who dost thy think thou art?

I can squash you like I do my court jester, Timothy of Pawlenty, whenever it pleaseth me.

You shalt, by thou stupidith behaviors, suffer for thy insolence. Thou shall be assessed even more in taxes upon thy rental lands, though shalt give unto me thy first-born for my armies, though shall grovel in the dirt before my castle begging for a crust of bread.

I, your Liege Lord, have spoken.

And Timothy of Pawlenty wept, knowing that he too could have shared in the surgeth forth to slay the black knight.

And throughout the land, the Grinch that Stole Christmas, the Wicked Witch of the North, the Joker, and others of their nasty ilk, stood in line to sign up for their turn on the merry-or-not-so-go-wheel of the GOP.

And you thought the fun was over did ya? HA!

Ricky is having an orgasm in his brain that will not stop. The man is on his knees thanking God, (of course God made it all happen).

And we turn from issues economic to focus on Ricky’s favorite topic, who is sleeping with who, and the “purpose of sex.”

The President, I swear was born under a very lucky star.

3ChicksPolitico is doing African-American History Month profiles. Today’s is Dr. Patricia Bath.

And everyone knows you cannot know TOO much about Tycho Brahe, known as astronomy’s “strangest astronomer.”

There is a publication out there you may not have heard of. I sure hadn’t and you might want to take a look: The Boston Review, has good conversations about real issues. This month they focus on the “Future of Black Politics“. Take a look. Think about a subscription. My thanks to We are Respectable Negroes for the H/T.

You already know all about the Ninth Circuit’s ruling on Prop 8, no doubt. What is even better is that the polling on marriage equality is moving faster and faster to the positive side. This is inevitable and long awaited. We are so pleased, as no doubt you are too.

As you might assume, the so-called “candidates” are all mewling that “activist” judges have done away with the “will of the people”. Given this logic, it’s hard to make a case why we have courts at all. Apparently we are to put everything up to a vote. Come to think of it, that is a pretty good argument for doing away with the Constitution itself. After all, they were just “activist” colonists. Who knows what the will of the people might have been.

Unintended consequences? A “growing number” of shareholders are asking their companies to disclose just how much money they are spending on political contributions. Now of course we know that shareholders in small numbers don’t get much chance to influence anything, but one has to stop and think. If 99% are NOT corporate board members and CEO’s and so forth, in large groups, their demands might become quite important. Just sayin’ it could be interesting.

Ellen DeGeneres has been hired as a spokesperson for JC Penny. That of course is unacceptable to the wacked-out right. The “Moms” group is from the American Family Association, well-known for its anti-gay venom. Ellen responded thusly:

I usually don’t talk about stuff like this on my show. But I really want to thank everyone who is supporting me. And if you don’t know me very well, if you’re just watching maybe for the the first time or you’re just getting to know me I want to be clear. And here are the values that I stand for. I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me those are traditional values, that’s what I stand for.

I have no doubt that there are way more of us than there are of the haters.

Ya gotta laugh at the claim that the MSM is “leftist”. They have blown this whole contraception thing all to crap, arguing that the President is in serious trouble here, and will be forced to compromise, or face losing his re-election.

This is utterly stupid and untrue. Ezra Klein points out the obvious truths: most Catholics use birth control and they want it to be part of their insurance coverage. The only folks who are seriously opposed are white evangelicals. Read the chart and get real.

Have a good day everyone!

Has the Market Rejected the Religious Right’s Hateful Social Agenda? (alternet.org)
Ellen DeGeneres Rips ‘One Million Moms’ For Calling for Her Firing: VIDEO (towleroad.com)
The petty bigotry of one million moms (atlmalcontent.wordpress.com)

Oh, He Stepped in It Again

02 Thursday Feb 2012

Posted by Sherry in African American, Election 2012, Evolution, Humor, Mitt Romney, Overlooking the Fields, Satire, What's Up?, Zoology

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Black History Month, dogs, Election 2012, evolution, genetics, Mitt Romney

Yep, Mittens just can’t keep the old foot out of the mouth. When unscripted, the dude just falls to pieces. You can almost hear the wheels turning–focus on the middle class Mitt, focus on the middle class.

And he did.

And he said he wasn’t worried about the poor or the rich.

Oops.

It’s not just the Left that is up in arms and shaking their heads. It’s the WSJ and Limbaugh, and his Right Wingin’ supports who are holding their heads and sobbing, “why can’t this man stop screwing up?”

Much is being made of Romney’s inability to “relate to the people”, and most put it down to his riches. But as many point out, riches do not a foot-in-mouth artist make. The Kennedy’s always related to folks just fine, as did FDR. Bloomberg seems to be “in touch”.

So it’s more than that, or other than that. It ain’t the money.

Dylan Ratigan suggested on Morning Joe today that it had a bit more to do with Romney’s living in Boston.

While Joe lamented that Romney was just “weird”, Ratigan noted that Romney has never been “accepted” by the insiders from the monied elite. Now, if you know anything about the elite in this country, you know there are two types of wealth–old family wealth and nouveau riche, those who have come by their money recently.

The two don’t mix. The nouveau rich must spend sometimes years, bowing and scraping to be admitted to the “best” homes. Romney was, so Ratigan offers, also not part of the inner “Wall Street” investment capitalists.

Couple this with his apparent personality of being ill-at-ease among people in general, and you have the Romney of today. Ratigan argues that Romney would be as “removed” if he were poor. This is man who was shocked and disgusted by the anti-war movement in the 60’s, he was out of touch with his peers.

So, look for more gaffes from Mittens. As much as they try to script him, (and that is painfully obvious too), he will slip the leash from time to time and venture out into the world “as he believes it is.” He will say things that sound “right” to him, but are simply awful to the rest of us. He can’t relate. He belongs in an office at the top of a building, working alone, and making people stop at the taped spot on the floor, so that he can maintain his distance.

To figure out why this guy wants to be President, requires a much deeper look-see, and I’m sure we will be getting to that as the months come.

They say it takes one to know one. Pick you “one”. In this case it seems to support the rule. Rich guy endorses rich guy. The Donald is going to anoint the Mittens man. How nice. Who the hell cares?

This is Black History month. Do yourself a favor and pick a African-American historical figure, and make a point of learning more about them. You will be better for doing so, and so will we all. History is what helps us to understand who we were, and who we are, and who we can be.

I’ve chosen to read some things about Sojourner Truth, an amazing abolitionist in her time, and the first woman honored with a bust in the Capital.

I remember seeing this show several years ago about dogs. It seems that left to their own devices (stray dogs), they pretty much all end up very much the same. Medium in size, fairly short-haired, with longish tails. It also turns out that genetically there is very little difference between a Great Dane and a chihuahua. Just a few genes control all this “stuff”. So most of the cosmetic differences are due to human tinkering. Geneticists had figured to find something quite different, since humans are apparently quite a bit more complicated with it comes to differences.

We survived the shopping expedition. Barely. We had gotten half way there, when the Contrarian discovered he had forgotten his license and cash. So I’m being driven by an “illegal”, and a poor one at that. The folks at the Chinese restaurant that we frequent most trips, like us and all, but I’m not sure they would give us our food for free.

So we had to backtrack. Which is okay, except the trip down the lane is one exciting and hair-raising experience. Actually, we don’t ride the lane, but traverse the fields, which are kinda washboardy with cut-off stalks of corn studding it all over.

Today is not my favorite day, because I have to haul half that crap back out of the fridge, and “prepare” it for the long haul. That means cleaning and packaging celery, green peppers, well all the fresh junk so it will last a week longer than otherwise. I got some beets, which by the way, are great roasted in the oven. Well, contrary to usual, the beet greens were fresh and succulent. (I love the word succulent. It sounds well, succulent) So I determined to save them. Washed and chopped and then steamed and packed in a freezer bag. I’ll have it with something or other, maybe some meatloaf or pork chops. Saute it in olive oil, salt and pepper, with a bit of balsamic vinegar perhaps?

I love to be efficient like that, using all the “stuff”. I even put the leaves from the celery in a bag in the freezer to chop up in some soup. Frugal. (I don’t like the word frugal by the way, it sounds, like a frog, and I don’t find frogs attractive usually, except the colored ones, and they say they are poisonous and shouldn’t be touched. If I’m ever in South America, where most of them are, I am determined to remember that. Which reminds me, that I haven’t written a crazy post in quite a while–what are you looking at?)

Until the mood strikes again. Au revoir. (Just to piss off the Right)

Romney tries to explain remark about “very poor” – CBS News (cbsnews.com)
Mittens: ‘I’m Not Concerned About the Very Poor’ – He says safety net will take care of them (tribuneofthepeople.com)
Rush Limbaugh Is Upset About Romney Not Caring About ‘The Very Poor’ (But For A Different Reason) (mediaite.com)

Hell of a Way to Start a Month

01 Tuesday Feb 2011

Posted by Sherry in American History, Chinese, Congress, Essays, Gay Rights, GOP, History, Humor, Media, Middle East, Recipes, Salads, Sarah Palin, Satire, teabaggers, The Wackos, What's Up?, Women's History

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It’s tomorrow. That stupid hauling out of an innocent but essentially stupid animal. Go ahead, subject him to lights, camera, and gawking humans.

Ask him if he saw his shadow. Hell, he doesn’t know what a shadow is. And I’ve yet to see the correlation between his shadow and atmospheric conditions across the vastness of North America.

We have enough trouble dealing with the massive slap in the face we are getting this afternoon in the form of a blizzard. (Actually we might get by with no more than six little inches, so I’m feeling frisky.)

Anyway, this is the last month of winter by my reckoning, and I’m intelligent enough not to go around asking woodland critters their opinion.

So, welcome to February. It’s gotta be all uphill from here!

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Picked this up from the Salon. It was just too good not to include.

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Fox Crap is reporting very little about what’s happening in Egypt. They are playing it as a bunch of Islamists bent on setting up an Al Qaeda-friendly government. Not truthful of course, but as the next article makes it quite clear, this is exactly what Fox does so very deliberately.

Andrew Sullivan points out that what Fox Crap does is not just misinforming their viewers, but is deliberately done that way. No other way to explain Beckian insanity, and the deliberate attempt to encourage their followers that they cannot trust anyone else to give them truth. This is some sick stuff.

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In case you missed it, Jon Stewart did a hysterical Sarah Palin gotcha. You remember her and her WTF little drivel? Well, Stewart, ala Fox Crap, or more specifically ala Beckian conspiracy theory, makes out a very convincing case that our Sarah is in reality a Russian spy. The Salon has it.

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Like Daddy, like daughter? Nope. Dubya’s daughter, one of them at least (the brunette?) I think named after grandmother Babs, has come out publicly in favor of same-sex marriage. In this case, the apple falls far from the tree, or acorn, or corn cob. Whatever, you get the idea.

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I haven’t posted a recipe in a long time. I saw this and it looked like it might be good. An Asian Coleslaw made with that broccoli slaw in the bags at the supermarket. Simple ingredients.

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Almost forgot. February is Black History Month. Here isa very nice speech given by Sojourner Truth. And check out the site, it’s one I’ve never seen and it looks like a good one! History buffs!

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See, it’s smart to not walk on frozen ponds if you are unsure. CRACK! Massachusetts Scott Brown’s dalliance with the TeaBuggers is apparently over. The NRT (National Republican Trust) PAC, who backed his election with money galore, has given word it will do its level best to unseat him in the next election. His crime? Not voting NO to every Democratic legislative bill. That was his duty according to NRT mouthpiece Scott Wheeler. Oh how quickly it all unravels. *SNICKER*

In other states, teabugger organizations are poised to get rid of Olympia Snowe, Orin Hatch, and Richard Lugar. These are all Senators, like Brown. What the dim lights fail to get is that they lost almost all of these Senatorial campaigns. Their following is too small to win anything but small congressional districts where like-minded narrow minds have gathered to live in covens of irrationality. Duh.

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Snoring Dog Studio, great friend of AFeatherAdrift, has a serious confession to make. I’m not saying, but I was utterly shocked. From a purist like me, well, I’m not sure we can remain friends. Perhaps we can, but I can’t let her in the house. They neighbors would be aghast. Bring Sno Balls as an offering. I could be persuaded.

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I gotta get busy with cooking.

What’s on the stove: fajitas!

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