Monday Reads: We’re going to the Dogs!!!
Posted: November 18, 2013 Filed under: morning reads 95 Comments
Good Morning!
I’m hoping for some sunshine today so Dad and I can walk over to the Bellevue Library and check out the periodicals and some books. I got to push up the thermostat on the heater since I’m here now on my own and the dog doesn’t complain, My sister’s house is a blend of oddly familiar family items and the typical northwest American view of pine trees, lakes, and hills. It’s so different from the bayous, palm trees, and 200 year old houses normally around me. I feel a little bit like I am visiting an alien zombie land. Well, the zombie metaphor comes from the yuppies, the late model upscale cars and busy, self-occupied looks of the crowds of people here zooming around inadequate infrastructure. New Orleans infrastructure is inadequate due to age and abuse. The infrastructure here is overwhelmed by over use and population. Everything here is new. I long to drive to the part of the city with the folks that wear black, sport tattoos, and celebrate outward and socially questionable sexuality. Unlike my sister, I ran from my socioeconomic upbringing. Strip malls and SUVS just creep me out. I’m hoping to head more west and north for a dose of urban Seattle and respite some time this week.
My sister and I have always been really really different but I can’t imagine doing what Liz Cheney did publicly to sister Mary. I just know my sister and I are different and that our lives are ours to make. Love and life should not be defined by the whims and proclivities of others. You shouldn’t shame your family in front of TV pundits and folks’ Sunday Brunch. It takes a special kind of sister to put politics and a shot at elected office before their sister’s significant relationship and selfhood. It also takes a lot of gall to go on TV and say that in a way that will one day cause one’s nieces and nephews grief. It appears that Liz Cheney has her priorities on holding elected office over her sister and her family. Kind’ve weird given that the evil old Dad won’t even throw Mary under the bus. What does that say about Liz?
“We were as close as sisters can be,” recalled Mary Cheney of her relationship with her older sister, Liz.
But now, a feud between the two has spilled into public view, involving social media, an angry same-sex spouse, a high-profile election and a father who feels uncomfortably caught between his two children.
The situation has deteriorated so much that the two sisters have not spoken since the summer, and the quarrel threatens to get in the way of something former Vice President Dick Cheney desperately wants — a United States Senate seat for Liz.
Things erupted on Sunday when Mary Cheney, a lesbian, and her wife were at home watching “Fox News Sunday” — their usual weekend ritual. Liz Cheney appeared on the show and said that she opposed same-sex marriage, describing it as “just an area where we disagree,” referring to her sister. Taken aback and hurt, Mary Cheney took to her Facebook page to blast back: “Liz — this isn’t just an issue on which we disagree you’re just wrong — and on the wrong side of history.”
But then Mary Cheney’s wife, Heather Poe, went further, touching on Liz Cheney’s relocation from Northern Virginia to Wyoming to seek office. (Liz Cheney is already battling accusations of carpetbagging in the race.)
“I can’t help but wonder how Liz would feel if as she moved from state to state, she discovered that her family was protected in one but not the other,” Ms. Poe wrote on her Facebook page. “Yes, Liz,” she added, “in fifteen states and the District of Columbia you are my sister-in-law.”
The feud reveals tensions not just within the family but in the Republican Party more broadly as it seeks to respond to both a changing America and an energized, fervently conservative base.
How is making family life difficult for a loving couple and their children a conservative value? Why should civil marriage laws be bound by 
religious views anyway? I just don’t get it at all.
I’m not sure you heard this news yesterday, but wonderful author Doris Lessing has passed at the age of 94.
As a writer, from colonial Africa to modern London, Ms. Lessing scrutinized relationships between men and women, social inequities and racial divisions. As a woman, she pursued her own interests and desires, professional, political and sexual. Seeking what she considered a free life, she abandoned two young children. Still, Salon, in an interview with Ms. Lessing in 1997, said that “with her center-parted hair that’s pulled back into a bun and her steely eyes, she seems like a tightly wound earth mother.”
It was this figure, 10 years later, who arrived at her house in sensible shoes to find journalists gathered at her door waiting to tell her that she had won the Nobel Prize for literature. “Oh, Christ!” she said upon hearing the news, adding, “I couldn’t care less.”
The Nobel announcement called her “the epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny.”
And in the presentation speech at the Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm, Ms. Lessing was described as having “personified the woman’s role in the 20th century.” (She accepted the prize at a ceremony in London.)
The New Yorker has reprinted “The Stare” to celebrate the life and writing of Lessing.
The two women spend mornings together, gossiping or shopping, but now Helen has a baby and they often go to Primrose Hill and sit on a bench with the pram pushed into some shade. There are other wives, Greek and Cypriot, and some mornings it is quite a little female community, but Helen and Mary are recognized as special friends. Some evenings the two couples make a foursome in one of the pubs, cafés, or restaurants, and on these evenings Mary often congratulates herself that she made all the right choices that brought her away from boring Croydon, to be here among people who laugh easily, or start singing, and who might end an evening with impromptu dancing, even on the tables. She might not have gone to Greece that summer, might have said no to Demetrios when her parents put pressure on.
On this day Mary goes home excited and restless and sits in front of her looking glass and examines herself. She often does this. She is plump, pretty, with ruddy cheeks, black curls, and a lot of well-placed dimples, and Dmitri calls her his little blackberry. But she has gray eyes, and he says that if it weren’t for those cool English eyes he could believe she has Greek blood. His black eyes easily smolder, or burn, or reproach. Mary leans her forearms among the little bottles of scent, the lipsticks, the eye paint, and tries out expressions. She puts a long unsmiling unblinking stare on her face and frightens herself with it. She shuts her eyes, so as to see that stare on Helen’s face, but fails, because Helen only smiles. Mary admires Helen. That is putting it mildly. Because of something Dmitri said, Mary actually went to the library and found a book called “Greek Myths for Children,” and there she read that a Helen once, thousands of years ago, was a beauty, and men started a war because of her. In Greece parents called their little girls Helen, as if the name were just Betty or Joan. Helen told Mary that Mary was the Mother of God, but Mary said she wasn’t really into religion.
A series of freakish late fall tornadoes hit the midwest yesterday and killed 5 people in Illinois. Global warming any one?
A string of tornadoes and severe storms left a trail of damage and flooding through the Midwest Sunday, leveling parts of a town near Peoria, knocking down buildings in Grundy County and prompting Bears fans to scatter for cover as the game at Soldier Field was postponed.
In Washington, in Tazewell County, one person was reported killed, two were killed in Massac County and in Nashville east of St. Louis, two elderly siblings were reported killed . Dozens of others were reported injured including at least six who were seriously injured as the tornado spawned warnings through much of Illinois and northern Indiana.
Need a good laugh? Wisconsin’s freakish governor Scott Walker believes he’s the best man for a 2016 Republican run. WTF is wrong with these people?
Walker offered who he think would be a good contender saying, “I think it’s got to be an outsider. I think both the presidential and the vice presidential nominee should either be a former or current governor, people who have done successful things in their states, who have taken on big reforms, who are ready to move America forward.”
Walker did not offer his definition of ‘forward’ however. And you can bet he just chose himself as the best candidate.
ABC reports, “In terms of his own future, Walker — who seemed to closely fit his own definition of the ideal GOP nominee — told ABC News he would not rule out a presidential run in 2016.”
Walker said, “I don’t rule anything out.”
Here’s a few good hypotheses to answer the question of why we don’t see a set of perp marches with bankers over their horrid actions that brought on a great recession and a huge financial crisis that cost us billions of dollars.
Theory 1: U.S. attorneys and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have other priorities, whether it’s antiterror cases after the Sept. 11 attacks, accounting frauds after Enron’s bankruptcy, or Ponzi rip-offs after Bernard Madoff’s huge scam. Financial frauds are particularly tough to crack, and many of the prosecutors with the requisite knowledge have been moved to other areas.
Theory 2: Law enforcement agencies have had to compete for a shrinking pot of money from Congress, and the best way to do that is by beefing up their statistics with smaller, easier cases and avoiding the years-long financial fraud probes that may turn up nothing. The Manhattan U.S. attorney, moreover, has been preoccupied with the sprawling insider-trading case against hedge-fund owner Raj Rajaratnam. Tapes of his conversations have been a gold mine — resulting in slam-dunk cases that have led to numerous convictions — for Manhattan prosecutors who previously would have focused on bank fraud.
Theory 3: The federal government’s involvement in the mid-2000s bubble — encouraging more people to buy homes, deregulating the financial industry, keeping interest rates low and giving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac way too much leeway — may also have given prosecutors pause.
Theory 4: The U.S. has shifted over the last 30 years from prosecuting high-level individuals to using delayed-prosecution agreements to settle cases against entire companies. That shift “has led to some lax and dubious behavior on the part of prosecutors,” Rakoff said, including allowing managers to sweep crimes under the rug.
How about they give lots and lots and lots of money to politicians in both parties and at all levels?
Watch out! Pete Peterson’s “Fix the Debt” is out on a rampage again! Astroturf any one? Why is Ed Rendell a shill for this asshole? Better yet, why does MSNBC let him do it? The best place to get a handle on wtf is going on with these obvious debt lies is here at The Nation.
Mary Bottari’s exposé names the ‘puppet populists’:
Behind this strategy are no fewer than 127 CEOs and even more “statesmen” pushing for a “grand bargain” to draw up an austerity budget by July 4. With many firms kicking in $1 million each on top of Peterson’s $5 million in seed money, this latest incarnation of the Peterson message machine must be taken seriously.
Fix the Debt has hired such powerful PR firms and lobby shops as the DCI Group, the Glover Park Group, the Dewey Square Group and Proof Integrated Communications, a unit of the PR firm Burson-Marsteller, which was the go-to firm for Big Tobacco. In the run-up to the “fiscal cliff,” these firms launched a flashy $3 million media campaign, blanketing Capitol Hill with TV, Internet, Metro and newspaper ads featuring slogans like “Got Debt?” and “Just Fix It.”
Fix the Debt’s stable of CEOs are a PR flack’s dream. Not only are they able to get meetings with everyone from John Boehner to President Obama; they can flood cable news with laughable messages of “shared sacrifice” and be treated with fawning respect. Fix the Debt’s David Cote, CEO of Honeywell, “brings serious financial muscle to the table” when he pushes “market credible solutions,” chirps The Wall Street Journal. There is no mention that Cote is a tax-dodging, pension-skimping hypocrite: Honeywell has a negative average tax rate of -0.7 percent and underfunds its employee pensions by -$2.8 billion, making Cote’s workers even more reliant on Social Security.
Creating a crisis is key. “America is more than $16 trillion in debt,” Fix the Debt’s website warns, calling it “a catastrophic threat to our security and economy.” The CEOs echo this warning, writing to Congress of the “serious threat to the economic well-being and security of the United States.”
It is so clear that we’re being overwhelmed with billionaires that throw money at politicians to influence government that any one who doesn’t see it must be living on a desert island called Delusion.
JJ pointed out that yet another child rapist has gotten away with it in Alabama. The DA, however, is not taking this lax sentence lightly.
An Alabama district attorney filed a motion today seeking prison time for Austin Smith Clem, who was convicted of repeatedly raping a teenager—twice when she was 14—but was given only probation and a stint in community corrections as punishment.
Brian Jones, the Limehouse County district attorney, told Mother Jones on Friday that his office was reviewing its options to “achieve a sentence that gives justice to our victim.” This afternoon, Jones emailed reporters a copy of a motion he filed to stay Clem’s sentence and incarcerate him.
Jones has also filed a petition for a writ of mandamus for the Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals. The petition argues that Clem’s current sentence is illegal, and it asks the appeals court to order the presiding judge in Clem’s case, Circuit Court Judge James Woodroof, to “vacate his sentencing order…and re-sentence the defendant according to the provisions of Alabama law.”
In September, a jury convicted Clem of two counts of second-degree rape and one count of first-degree rape. Woodroof sentenced Clem to 10 years in prison for each of the second-degree rape charges and 20 years for first-degree rape. But Woodroof “split” the sentence so that Clem would serve two years in Limestone County community corrections program, a program aimed at nonviolent criminals, and three years of probation.
Jones’ petition asks the appeals court to consider whether Woodroof, in doing so, violated the Alabama split-sentence statute and the Alabama Community Punishment and Corrections Act. The petition argues that Alabama law prohibits a sentence for a felony—such as forcible rape—from being served in a community corrections program. “Rape by force or compulsion must be treated by the criminal justice system as a violent offense,” the petition states. “To suggest otherwise runs afoul of thousands of years of both sound jurisprudence and experience.”
On Friday, in response to his punishment, Clem’s victim said she was “livid.”
So, that’s about it from me today. I’ll try to pop on during the day and add some more tidbits. I’m pretty sure I don’t need to name the celebs or the kind of dog breeds they preferred but kudos if you can find the names of these pampered Hollywood pooches! What’s on your reading and blogging?
peej
Carissa
ecocatwoman
mablue2
peggysue22
quixote
skydancingguestblogger
Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)
Sky Dancing 
At best you can say that Liz Cheney is her father’s daughter.
At worst you can say the same.
This is a woman who will say anything, even throwing her own flesh and blood under the bus, to get a vote.
My only hope is that she goes down in solid defeat.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again…..Quote by Madeleine Albright: There is a special place in hell for women who …
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”
(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA’s All-Decade Team, 2006)”
Liz Cheney reminds me of the people in my family who I came out to in the early 80’s. I was almost unanimously rejected and marginalized by everyone I loved, including some lifelong friends. Some of them came around quickly because I suppose they realized that they couldn’t change me, nor could they have me in their lives unless they accepted me as I am.
But, some of them came around much, much later, so much later in fact that I could find no room for them in my life when they finally expressed their change of heart. Some of them have even tried to rewrite their own history with me, but I have not and cannot forget what they did, even though I have forgiven them. It’s amazing how quickly you understand that forgiveness doesn’t cause amnesia.
I’ve seen this same story play out between family members so many times and it has almost always been the case that those doing the rejecting end up regretting it. Before you know it, this election will be over for Liz Cheney, but Mary Cheney will never forget her sister’s public expressions of disrespect and rejection. It’s sad when people fear the repercussions of a society, or of their friends, or of their job, or of their church, or of their constituency so much that they allow that fear to cause them to throw a loved one away.
Oh mouse, so glad you came and said something…
But the thing that gets me about all this shit…is that Liz was very much for it in 2009: Liz Cheney in 2009: “Freedom means freedom for everybody”
so she pulls the states rights bullshit…but it was pretty specific back then that she opposed a constitutional amendment ban, which now she does support?
She’s making what she considers s “good” political move at the expense of her sisters heart & soul. How much lower could a person go? And to top it all off, Liz is going to lose. I sure wouldn’t want the dose of karma she has coming.
Great post, Dak. I can totally understand your feeling disoriented in your sister’s neighborhood. I hope you do explore some other sections of the city.
Did you mix up Liz and Mary Cheney? From the NYT article it sounds like Liz is the one who opened up the wounds by talking about her sister on TV. It does seem that Mary and her partner are acting a bit childish, but I can’t blame them for feeling angry and put down. I think Liz is the one who needs to get her priorities straight. But then, I don’t want her in the Senate anyway.
From NYT:
Liz is an a-hole, IMHO, and deserves to lose her Senate race. If she wins, hate wins.
Ed Rendell is also an a-hole.
Yup … guess I did! Just fixed it!!!
OK. Thanks!
Greap post Dak. Speaking of total assholes …
GOP Ramps Up Smear Campaign Against Obamacare Navigators
WaPo: How we got Obamacare to work
An op-ed by Jay Inslee, a Democrat, is governor of Washington. Steve Beshear, a Democrat, is governor of Kentucky. Dannel P. Malloy, a Democrat, is governor of Connecticut.
Mike Pence is an a-hole.
Maybe I should move to Kentucky. It’s more civilized there. At least it will be when they vote Turtle Lips McConnell ( R-AHOLE ) out of office.
Geez, if only Nathan Deal would expand medicaid here in Georgia…
Death toll from yesterday’s tornadoes in the Midwest is now eight; six in Illinois and two in Michigan. In Indiana, the area most badly hit is where I used to live.
http://www.wdtimes.com/news/national/article_a366557a-5a85-545e-9d1d-5b797e6e51ea.html
My mom’s power is still out. Thank goodness, one of her friends invited her to stay with her for the duration.
BB, glad to hear your mom’s got a place to stay with power. Beata, glad to know you’re out of it.
So much devastation there. Just another reason we need functional government to step in, organize, and help out.
Washington, Illinois got the worst of it. That is in the Peoria area. The pictures look very bad.
My mom is back home with power, thank goodness!
Glad your mother’s okay, BB. I hope her power will be restored soon. Those were some scary storms.
Ditto, glad Mom has power now.
BB, Relieved for both your mama and for you too Beata!
Dak mentioned that these were freak late season tornadoes…remember the freak early season tornadoes that struck this year in OK?
Yup.
Healthcare.gov was forced to overreach by 36 Red states, Oregon did it to itself and still hasn’t launched. They are processing applications by hand and have cut their uninsured by 10% with an opt-in Medicaid program so movement is occurring.
Once A Leader, Oregon Exchange Hasn’t Enrolled A Single Person In Obamacare
Glad you are re connecting with your sister, and Dad…………..love the dogs Dak. Lately I’ve been tripping over my Murp, he crashes where he crashes, and since the change of weather he’s a little everywhere, so is hair. I’ve been in touch with my sister, speaking almost daily, she took a fall and broke her femur, about the same time that Beata’s mother broke her leg. She’s mending, back at home an so happy to finally get some much needed sleep. Both of us talk about foods, how bad it is in hospital, and upcoming holidays, and letting the kids/grand kids do the share of cooking and cleaning, and preparation for all the “emotions” that come into play at Christmas shopping, etc. I really have taken the opportunity to let her know who I have valued our relationship (though we are so different), and thank her for the help she gave to me, as her little sister. I could never ever ruin her life, her children’s life, or her relationship with others. At this point in my life, I like to lift people up, particularly women. Yes, it’s important to be happy in life, and those who don’t get it, well they are living miserable lives.
Here for the moment then gone forever:
Very sorry to hear that your sister broke her femur, Fannie, but I am glad she is back home and on the mend. Hope her doctors are controlling her pain well. She is so fortunate to have you as a sister. You all take care.
I always wanted a sister but I guess you and the other Sky Dancers are like my cyber-sisters ( Ralph is a cyber-brother ). I am grateful for that.
Love the song. It really speaks to me.
I really grateful for the cyber-sisters. Yes indeed! Thanks Beata.
Fannie, glad to hear your sister is back home and healing. Yes, that’s wonderful you have a connection with each other.
I echo what Beata said.
My own blood sister turned into a Rwingnut’s obedient and programmed wife. She’s done and said stuff far beyond the likes of Liz Cheney to her sister. Yet every so often there’d be a flashback to pre-programmed behavior. Alas, it was never very successful for long; I suspect the husband-master kept a sharp eye out for aberrant behavior and reeled in the leash. Too much misery there for me — I eventually declined to continue any contact. Much better to have no sister in comparison, I think.
I’m with you Luna!!!
Your sister is lucky to have you Fannie. Peace to you both
I think all your are the greatest……….admire you all respectfully, and thank you for treating me like the rest of the sky dancers.
Fannie,
You are a sky dancer!
Michael Hiltzik with a great news story which the rest of the MSM should read.
LA Times: The myths of Obamacare’s ‘failure’
The National Journal says Obamacare is on “life support” and pretty soon Democrats are going to vote to repeal the law.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/against-the-grain/why-obamacare-is-on-life-support-20131118
Yeah, right.
That’s really idiotic! Money must be passing around news rooms in wheel barrows.
Good grief, won’t somebody fact check these idiots? Detestable and stupid!
Fox News’ Hasselbeck: Obamacare is hurting ‘many’ elderly pregnant women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw
I didn’t know that 65 year old women are in their prime for birthing……………..and that Medicare Advantage were insuring them by the hundreds.
Isn’t that a hamster? It’s not a chipmunk, that’s for sure!
But Elizabeth Hasselbeck says it’s a chipmunk! She’s never wrong.
Squirrel! Over there!!!
It looks like a guinea pig or prairie dog to me.
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Vaginas are like “little hoover vacuums,” and other things abstinence lecturers get paid to tell teens: http://mojo.ly/1cDad9T
Holy shit, what a bunch of whack-a-loons! The public is paying for that junk. We’re so hosed.
wtf! this is so dumb, the kids will surely be smart enough to call BS.
WTF?!
You’re right. Did you see the guy’s photo? Our tax dollars are paying for this crap?!
Might hefty dose of misogyny along with the cuckoo “facts” in those presentations. Yrch.
What’s worse is that many of these tools are women. Can you imagine what jumbled messes their minds must be to do that to young girls?
Greenwald’s money man.
Hawaii Free Press: Pierre Omidyar: The Secret Empire of a Resort Developer
Mark Ames and Yasha Levine get the goods on Pierre Omidyar at NSFWcorp.
https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/extraordinary-pierre-omidyar/6b4357f9a5fc142baebec8a9374f9bd8c7fefd6e/
What a mess. Looks like Jay Rosen is joining the Greenwald troops now.
I read:
“A series of freakish late fall tomatoes hit the midwest yesterday ”
It wasn’t til I got to
“and killed 5”
I knew something was amiss.
I think we should hope those freakish late fall tomatoes hit the abstinence “educators”.
The tornadoes yesterday were no joke but that is a funny misprint. Thanks for the laugh!
lol!
Have you been watching the SyFy channel disaster movies? lol!!
LOL
This is …wow: Video shows near-vertical crash of Russian plane
I’d say that’s what they get for using non-union Machinists, but satire seems inappropriate with so many lives lost.
Wonder if they’ll ever find out the cause.
Luna, the airline is having financial trouble and the maintenance workers are on strike. On this particular flight, the airline company president’s son was killed…a criminal investigation is now on…
Politico:
SCOTUS refuses to weigh in on NSA surveillance:
Maybe the third times a charm? Shock News: Right Wing Hero George Zimmerman Arrested for Domestic Violence – Little Green Footballs
Twitter / Search – #Zimmerman
This guy should be locked away from society. He’s a ticking time bomb. I hope that jury that acquitted him as perpetual nightmares about it.
New mug shot here: Florida Police Arrest George Zimmerman For Domestic Violence Disturbance | ThinkProgress
This really should be more than enough.
He’s mini-OJ.
I saw TMZ says the girl friend is pregnant…so it is a felony charge.
There is Nothing more pathetic than a man who terrorizes a pregnant woman. Surely they can find a place for him UNDER THE JAIL!!!
Wait, wait, wait,…………he looking for money for his upcoming campaign, wants to be the Police Chief in Florida……….don’t you know?
BREAKING: George Zimmerman has been charged with assault & battery after allegedly pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.
http://abcn.ws/1ipktaI
Here is the full summary of events: George Zimmerman arrested for domestic violence – Orlando Sentinel
Oh no!!!! Didn’t we take bets on how long before he actually ended up back in jail? I think we did!!!!
Face it Zimmerman-apologists, this sorry little piece of rat shit is a menace to society. He thinks he’s Mr. Invincible since his acquittal and since his ex-wife feared him so much she refused to press charges against him. Let’s hope that he goes down this time and that they put in in the cell with a 6’8″ 350lb man of darker color who likes chunky little man tarts. More karma on the way!!!!
Wow, I am shocked, absolutely shocked, that Zimmerman is back in jail! /s
I hope his ass rots there this time.
This is a felony, used shotgun, and pregnant girlfriend. Bury him alive.
I guess Cheney Darth vader is siding with Liz…Dick and Lynne Cheney Pick Sides in Gay Marriage Feud Between Daughters | Mediaite
Of course, those rotting pus filled meatbags would side with Liz. She may have more power than Mary. After all, emotions are too human for them.
This is expected from the man who approved of “torture” and all the techniques that used sexual degradation and humiliation, in assaulting the prisoners………….Remember Bush and Cheney protected the administration, but not the soldiers who didn’t want to be seen as not supporting those higher up, and fellow soldiers.
Here we go again. Dick & Lynn reacting as if it’s some deep, dark family secret and that they’ve dealt with it internally all these years. Then pushing it all off as if it’s just peachy for Liz to object to equality in the law for her sister. I call BULLSHIT on Dick & Lynn and Liz……It’s about equality STUPID ASSES!!!!
BB, hope you are okay…Herald Bulldog First On The Street | Boston Herald
I saw one report that says a cutting tool was used…
I saw that early this afternoon. I can’t remember the last time we had a murder here. Two infants dead. Heartbreaking.
OMG, that is really close to where I live.
Yeah, that was why I was so worried…
It must have been a murder-suicide, because the police say there is no suspect at large.
Keep us informed……….let me turn on the news………..
And forgive my gusto everyone. My language gets really crispy & spicy when the hypocrites begin pushing my GAY equality button. Don’t tug on this old lesbians cape!!! 🙂
Go for the gusto, Mouse! Crispy & spicy is good! Glad you were here today to speak your mind. Your voice is always appreciated.
Proud of you Mouse………….my great granny was named spicy………….I really dig it.
Thank you my friends, Maybe tomorrow I will calm down a bit and clean up my act, or maybe not!!! 🙂
Please don’t!
Toronto mayor Rob Ford gets TV show.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/11/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-gets-his-own-tv-show/
He just got stripped of power by the Toronto city council. 😉
I love this comment …
Citing the ongoing problems with the Sports Illustrated website, the NFL announced today that it is shutting down and endorsing FIFA.
I think the media is desperately trying to get an “Obamacare isn’t working” meme fixed because it’s now actually working. The blogs and forums are full of anecdotes from people who hadn’t been able to sign up and now can. The anecdotes from people who can’t seem to involve unusual situations – like a GOS blogger with an old green card from before green cards had expiration dates, who couldn’t fill out the forms, because they needed his green card expiration date. My conclusion is that people in ordinary circumstances pretty much can all sign up now.
Those who don’t want the public to realize Obamacare signups *are* working are trying to convince people it’s failed and they can stop thinking about it . So the Wurlitzer is being cranked up to 11. Once people start saying “oh it’s working now – I’ll check it out” it’s all over for the Republicans.