Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments The mea culpa Hume asserts as part of Christianity has no more impact than any other act of reflection and redemption. All one has to do is look at the wide range of Evangelicals who tearfully confess their sins – and hop right back into doing what they had confessed. I don’t tell Faux news how to do broadcasting. They should stop practicing conversion. Hume is working above his pay grade. » Posted By choicelady On February 23, 2010 @ 11:30 am My thought exactly. And the guy who shot up the Holocaust museum, the one who murdered the police in Pittsburgh, and on and on. All native born or at least white Americans. I once took training for the FBI Citizens Academy. The first session was on terrorist activity in our area, including the anti-government and white supremacists. At that point, since I monitor hate crimes, I asked that since Aryan Nation leader August Kreis had avowed support for al Quae’da, what would one look for in terms of potential supporters and risk. At that point EIGHT FBI agents and 2 Asst. US Attorneys rose to their feet to say that was not accurate and don’t worry about it. (It was true – got it from an FBI monitoring list serve to which I belong.) At the break, the woman next to me asked, “What was THAT all about?” I laughed and said, “That was their way of saying, ‘Lady – you should NOT have asked that question!'” I told one of the agents shortly thereafter that I belonged to the list serve, and the guns were figuratively replaced in their holders… A week later Kreis was on 60 Minutes stating his support publicly. This was about 4 years ago, so this is NOT new. There are MANY extremists that have been arrested and tried for acts of domestic terrorism. We are lulled into complacency since they rarely rise to the level of McVeigh and we do tend to get them before they act. That does not mean they are not a serious threat. There may not be 3000 people killed all at once as in 9/11, but if you start adding up the incidents and the victims, it is pretty damned scary. » Posted By choicelady On February 22, 2010 @ 1:47 pm It’s all true. What makes this so interesting is that it was the WASP movement against the immigrants of their day – East Europeans, Italians, Jews – all the “inferior” types that were not wanted here by the then-WASP majority. A prominent pediatrician of those days wrote an article decrying immigrants as “scum” but was referring to people such as Tancredo’s forebears. Birth control for many years was supported by prominent women who wanted to assure that immigrants and Blacks did not overwhelm the U.S. with their presence. There was nothing noble about it – it was ethnic revulsion pure and simple. The support for healthy babies is not the reverse of this. If you scratch a “pro life” legislator deeply enough, you will find they are unwilling to provide funding for healthy MINORITY babies or their pre-natal care. Double opposition if those babies have immigrant mothers. Apparently the huddled masses are welcome if and only if they are WASP or Aryan. Even Celts, Jews, Scandinavians, and others who were neither English nor German (and Germans were not welcome at various times) were good enough. We are such a hypocritical nation! » Posted By choicelady On February 22, 2010 @ 1:38 pm Now that’s funny! Wonder if he’s suing FAUX News? There are those in the tea bag movement that will BELIEVE it! » Posted By choicelady On February 22, 2010 @ 1:26 pm I don’t agree with the cotton candy/pork analysis at all. At least in CA the stimulus money is pretty tightly controlled. I want a definition of “pork”. I realize a bridge to nowhere is pork since NO one needed it, but every project has to be somewhere. Even part of an interstate goes through someone’s state. I think legislators SHOULD bring home projects that create jobs and improve the economic, social, and even cultural life of their areas. So what is pork if it’s not a project some other Representative or Senator got but you did not? The late John Murtha was King of Pork, but I know a lot of his district and probably got paid as a consultant out of the “pork” he obtained. He helped to build a significant program honoring American industrial heritage that was based in 7 counties in the Johnstown area. It was a good project, it got a lot of historic structures pinned down and saved from demolition, built a number of interpretive centers, and left a legacy that benefitted ALL Americans because so many had family who worked in one of that area’s industries before they moved on. Is that worthless? It anchored a significant portion of US history. Is that any different from Gettysburg or Mt. Rushmore? Our mocking of science programs that get federal funding is also worrisome. On the face of it some university in Wisconsin got pork (so to speak) studying methane emissions from dairy cows. But even though cow flatulence might seem incredibly stupid, the issue was the impact of industrial farming on global climate change. Money for cow farts seems a waste; money for climate impact from agricultural practices – whole different story. Ports, airports, harbors, canals, river widening or dredging, roads, etc. – all is pork if you don’t need it, but it’s essential infrastructure if you do. Don’t we need to stop throwing the terms around and look at the merit of the activity rather than the fact that it is in a particular district? Everything has to be somewhere. That does NOT in and of itself make it pork. » Posted By choicelady On February 22, 2010 @ 12:02 am OK – here is MY invention: a quilted bag that snaps to make arm covers or sleeves like the 1980s thing. BUT it has FEET in it. Let’s face it – it’s either back to robes and sweats as bito noted. If we are determined to have something to cover all the cold parts, it HAS to be quilted, and if it’s quilted, it cannot be a ‘sack’ since you then can’t move at all. Must have feet. What we all seem to seek is a heavy, quilted yet flexible “onesie” like the thing babies and toddlers wear but with quick-open access for fast trips to the bathroom. Here is where the velcro front would be helpful. On the whole – sweats work the best. But I think some people don’t like the elastic around the waist. So – back to the easy-open quilted onesie. In adult sizes, of course. Whatdaya think? » Posted By choicelady On February 21, 2010 @ 11:47 pm Cher – before you Velcro, read my flannel warning! » Posted By choicelady On February 21, 2010 @ 11:40 pm I think they’re for certified couch potatoes. It’s assumed that the couch is your backside cover. They seem to have forgotten intermission and the hunt for snacks, however. Remember about 30 years ago there was a quilt that you got in, and it folded down and snapped so you were in a giant sleeping bag with sleeves? Those manufacturers forgot answering the phone – or a call of nature. You could not walk, had to hop. As for cats, when I lived in the cold, cold upstate NY area, I wore flannel nightgowns and had flannel sheets. I had three cats that used to lie alongside me for warmth. I’d try to move and found not only was I pinned down under cats, but flannel-on-flannel was like being Velcroed! I used to call it “Flannel Jam”. If the house were afire, I’d have been toast. Whole system of staying warm yet mobile needs work. » Posted By choicelady On February 21, 2010 @ 11:38 pm Good morning Kalima – hope you’re rested up from your shopping – aka full body contact sport – yesterday. Glad you got brussel sprouts since I like them, too. Thank you for always having this for us to read. I love the work you do for us, and it is always interesting. I usually read and dash, but I wanted to linger today to thank you for giving this gift to us all. Happiest of holidays to you! » Posted By choicelady On December 24, 2010 @ 8:43 am Mid-Atlantic Trip Part 10: Mount Vernon As always a wonderful set of photos and excellent commentary. Thank yo for sharing these! I’ve not been to Mt. Vernon since I was 13, but I remembered so much from your pictures. In those days discussions of the slaves never bothered to care about them, simply that they were there. This WAS a few years back… Thank you for all of your trip – it’s been marvelous to see! » Posted By choicelady On December 9, 2010 @ 3:06 pm Where were you 30 years ago today when you heard? Hi kes – I’m in the same boat. I think I was home and heard it on the news. I was a huge Beatles fan, but not so much the men as individuals. I thought it was sad, a loss indeed, but I rarely have much emotive outpouring for pop culture icons, like them though I may. I think I’m weird that way. Later that year, however, I was having dinner with some of my parents’ more conventional friends and did wind up discussing the Beatles (mixed reviews among the elders) and why their music was worthwhile. It rather surprised me that I was that supportive since I did not think I really cared that much. What I like about contemporary culture is that even when someone is lost from our presence, their art and contributions carry on through recordings and video. I wonder how people felt when Mozart died? His written music endured, sure, but not his performances. Hmmm. Never thought about that before. Sure must have made a difference to the small numbers, relatively, who had heard him. But far fewer would have had an inkling who he was than who knew Lennon. Food for thought… » Posted By choicelady On December 8, 2010 @ 1:05 pm bito – think of this as a giant drum roll for your music thread! » Posted By choicelady On December 8, 2010 @ 12:55 pm Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees Holy crapo, a kapo???? You’ve GOT to be kidding?????? OK – I know you’re not. That’s the kind of knee jerk response that is being flung over there. When I mentioned concern that Wikileaks could “out” human rights activists in dangerous parts of the world – some troglodyte wrote, “Boo hoo crybaby.” Do these dorks even READ what they write? » Posted By choicelady On December 9, 2010 @ 3:24 pm There was a mob forming to attack the insurance execs at their annual meeting, too – and it was RIGHT OUT OF THE OPERATION RESCUE playbook. It was SO scary to read words I’d helped fight in court – “Wanted” posters, insistence that there be “citizens arrests” of execs for “illegal practices” (no they did nothing illegal – just immoral) and other OR tactics. I went nuts because it has led to murders of doctors, and we can’t prove all liberals are totally wrapped tightly. Mob mentality is everywhere. It’s getting REALLY scary out there. » Posted By choicelady On December 9, 2010 @ 3:21 pm I’m still waiting to see what Pelosi demands. I tried to send a FAX but can’t get through. Will try in a bit when it’s more quiet. The plan is good. Imperfect, does keep the rich richer, but so what? We got stuff we’d NEVER get piece by piece, and it is all for the benefit of ordinary people. The DailyKos piece is brilliant, Lawrence O’Donnell went after folks again, Ezra Klein backed him up along with Robert Greenstein from Center on Budget & Policy Priorities. The Dems just have to stop snarking, liberals have to stop snarking, and we have to look at who REALLY benefits. O’Donnell said to Alan Grayson – are you prepared, when you’re out of office on Jan 1, to tell really low income people WHY their taxes just rose FIFTY percent???? To my sorrow, Grayson would NOT own that. Sad, sad state of affairs. » Posted By choicelady On December 9, 2010 @ 3:15 pm Hi SueinCA – Hey everyone – Sue and I met yesterday, and Sue is WONDERFUL. So now it becomes even more fun – I know what she looks like, neener neener. The “leftcoast” is us, Sue; everyone who’s out here from Mexico to Canada. Lizard brain? Not so sure. I’ll leave that to others. We “leftcoast” (left is where it is on a map) people all are supposed to be liberal, drink Merlot, and eat brie. I’m 1 for 3. How about you? » Posted By choicelady On December 9, 2010 @ 3:11 pm Marion – I do think this should be sent far and wide. It’s REALLY good. BTW – as for Rabbi Lerner: I know him (though he’d never remember me; I’m too inconsequential to him) and have tried – really, really TRIED, to work with him and his Network of Spiritual Progressives. What happens is that he wants everyone in all the faith communities to do HIS bidding, but he will never cooperate with anything anyone else is doing. NEVER. When he was hiring an Executive Director for his massive (in his mind) revolutionary (in his dreams) new program of economic reform, the ad for the job said that anyone taking it ‘had to be in total agreement on every issue with the NSP founder.’ Now one of his plans was “the new corporate bottom line”. He was going to get corporate CEOs to sign a pledge to work and play well with their employees, the communities, etc. and be good corporate citizens. Only one problem – over the last 20 years, corporate law for all major companies FORBIDS the consideration of workers’ rights, environment, community impacts if any of that affects the bottom line. ANY of it. Lerner was told – by me – of that legal barrier to his “sign on pledge” and refused to believe me or take any note of it at all. So you know how many corporations have signed? NONE. They can’t. He refuses to learn, to listen, to heed. He has ALL the answers. And because Obama did not immediately end Israeli -Palestinian conflict, Lerner (who IS good on that issue) has washed his hands of Obama. (Except – today Obama refused an arms deal for Israel. They are NOT getting the weapons they took for granted they would get. That is HUGE.) Lerner is probably the quintessential progressive zealot who is as unthoughtful and unyielding as any ‘bagger. It’s truly scary to see such hate and ego on “our” side. » Posted By choicelady On December 8, 2010 @ 10:48 pm Thank you for saving and showing the debate from last night, bito! I was OVER the moon at O’Donnell’s fury with the selfishness of the snarky so-called progressives. Tonight was almost as good though he gave AH a pass because he has blogged on her site. She, interestingly, tempered HER comments when O’D teed off at Grayson and she saw that O’D was not interested in blather. I liked Grayson, but he was AWFUL tonight and refused to take ANY responsibility if the cuts all expire and the bottom rate goes up 50% – on POOR people! We may be in a whole new ballgame with O’Donnell. As I noted, he’s a former colleague of a friend, so I’m feeling VERY proprietary. Don’t worry – I don’t know how to stay puffed up. There’s always someone writing me to take me down a peg or two. It’s just my 15 seconds of vicarious fame… » Posted By choicelady On December 8, 2010 @ 10:36 pm Thanks for this, bito – I posted to our members much the same thing today. MOST people were fine with it, found it eye-opening and hopeful. Marion – you nailed it – Obama found a way to do many things for those in peril by granting a TWO YEAR extension. Still one person hollered at me (via email) that we were immoral for creating a $700 billion deficit. Except – that’s a 10-year projection, not 2 year. And the person who yelled runs an organization boosting the well being of working women. Well, whom does she think benefits from the EITC and the preservation of the tax cuts???? Her population is not well paid. The lowest income people would have gotten a FIFTY PERCENT tax HIKE – the LOWEST income people – if the cuts all expired. What we GOT, for those of us who care about justice, is simply awesome! I hope most of you caught Lawrence O’Donnell on “The Last Word” laying it out AND laying into so-called progressives who were fine with letting the poor fall – until O’Donnell called them out on it. Jane Hamsher from FDL simply LIED about what had happened, and he hollered at her about here total incompetent drivel. He pointed out that of the people present, only he, as Moynihan’s Chief of Staff, had EVER written tax law, and that it is vastly more complicated than what a couple of the goons were portraying. I have a particular fondness for O’Donnell because I was good friends with another Moynihan staffer, and I knew a lot about what was going on in those years from him. As O’Donnell pointed out – if Senators such as Voinovich and Landrea are now pretending that keeping the cuts for upper incomes is “immoral” then where the hell WERE they both to lobby their peers AND to vote. Voinovich did not even VOTE. If the Blue Dogs, Feingold, and Voinovich had voted – it would have passed cloture. But then – would we ever have secured the rest? The EITC, the tax credits for college and kids, 13 months of unemployement extention, and the other benefits? No. We’d have gotten even with the rich for their voracious greed – and nothing more. I HATE the cuts for the rich. I detest the dislocations in income SO much I once gave a friend a T-shirt that said, “Eat the Rich”. But I lobby. Like O’Donnell I know what works – and what does NOT. This agreement is imperfect. But it secured, spectacularly, benefits for those teetering on the brink that otherwise we never would have had. It buys time. That alone is worth something. We will never get another benefit for those in need so long as the House is in GOP hands. I’m thrilled we got this – it makes ALL the difference to those in peril, and I for one am proud this president and vice president crafted such a moral bill. Now – let’s lean on Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, and the other progressives and TELL them that. LETTERS – more LETTERS (only FAX them so they don’t sit in the mailroom waiting for anthrax checks) and CALLS, CALLS, CALLS. It is imperative our voices be heard because the naysayers are out in droves – and they pretend they are friends to the poor. They are only angry. And that does not make good policy. » Posted By choicelady On December 8, 2010 @ 7:36 pm I understand, but I never thought Obama was aggressive – it is that which attracted me to his candidacy in the first place. His calm, cool voice of reason, his refusal to fight the schoolyard bully on the bully’s terms, his understanding of how governance works. All of that was clear and obvious. It was his strength in the debates – and now we want him more pugnacious and angry, though I sure thought that’s what came through in his press conference. The anger. Has he made a mistake thinking civility counts? Obviously yes. Does it count? Obviously it does – but not so’s you’d notice in DC. Thuggery prevails. I do wish he’d put more of the engagement in public – what he asked, what they demanded, how they betrayed us. He needs to call out the Blue Dogs and their cowardice – he’s quite right that you don’t need to be mean about it. He is NOT LBJ. But he might make clear that being a Dem means standing for PEOPLE not the powermongers. He does not have to name names, but he does have to name principles. It was NOT the GOP who brought this vote down – it was his own party. OK – And Voinovich, the sniveling coward. Did not even vote though he then said he opposed the cuts continuing for the rich. I think Obama has done some amazing things but I don’t know if he will survive any better than Carter. On the other hand – Clinton was in exactly this place after his first two years, too. Of course he DID cave, over and over, but he WAS re-relected. What saved Clinto was OK City. He rose to the occasion, was masterful in his compassion and presence. Had that not happened, I’m not sure he would have been re-elected. Obama’s made none of Clinton’s false starts and has passed legislation Clinton did not – yet the progressives still prefer Clinton for – I don’t know why. I know I hate politics in America. I hate blaming a decent man for using the system as written instead of abusing it. Strength under these circumstances MUST be made manifest through the regulator powers of the Executive, and that could be a game changer. But the professional whiners have to get over themselves and figure out what they want, and they have to lean on Blue Dogs when and wherever they can, and they have to re-learn how democracy works and then figure out if they actually believe in it. I don’t think they do. They’re looking for an imperial president on THEIR team. I just know that before Jan 3 when the CA legislature comes back and whatever date Congress returns, I really, REALLY need a nap. » Posted By choicelady On December 7, 2010 @ 4:35 pm I was over on the Dark Side reading message after message about how this is IT, it’s over for Obama. He caved. He’s just a Republican. He’s betrayed us. And I ask – what could he do when the Blue Dogs wouldn’t pass the cloture and Voinovich, cowardly bleep that he is, did not vote at ALL but says extending the tax cuts for the rich is WRONG. Talk is cheap. Ladrieu is cheap. I’m not “exhausted of defending” Obama – I’m exhausted at trying to get LIBERALS and PROGRESSIVES to remember how our government works. If it were not my job to push activists to act, I would be with Marion – and we’d be giving each other pedicures, eating bon bons, and reading trashy novels with wine in one hand and the book in the other. Neither of us is really giving up, but wow – is it tempting! Much as I hate the GOP, I’m coming to hate my allies more for they are speaking completely without foundation. It’s disgusting. » Posted By choicelady On December 7, 2010 @ 3:37 pm Marion – I remember middle class, and I even remember when blue collar people were that, too. I worked with union folks, middle class all, but NOT when it came to status. As a sociologist I learned that class has many components, only one of which is income. That said, yes, most blue collar folks were in the middle class even if their education levels did not equal that of doctors, CPAs, etc. I do see your link between class and race – again, the blue collar folks I knew well were fighting for racial and class equity. You’d look far afield to find a more comfortably integrated union than UAW and many others. But the wedge driven among us came from both the right and left, with the latter deciding that there were status differentials bigger than income – dress, preferences in wine and cheese, education, tastes in cultural things. I knew very few college professors who’d hang out willingly with working people. So, having found the white collar middle class hostile to the blue collar middle class and to especially BLACK middle class people, I was not remotely surprised that the intelligentsia turned on Obama almost immediately. Depressed, yes. Surprised, no. One of the themes in my life as someone working with the faith community is very odd – every progressive group will tell you they “have to get the Black churches” engaged in —fill in the blank. They NEVER say that about white or even integrated churches. Why? If you dig deeply enough, you will discover that white progressives think Black people culturally and historically cling to the Black churches – because they are not smart enough NOT to. If they really were well educated they’d be indifferent or outright atheists. Only historic oppression makes them cling to God. And if that ain’t racism, I’m not sure what IS. The fragmentation of the middle class and the racism that goes along with it tears my heart because there was a time when that was NOT what was going on, when we were on a good path. Then came Reagan and the overt effort to smash solidarity – the snide “welfare queen”, the misunderstandings about Affirmative Action vs. court mandated “catch up programs”, about the whispers that people of color were being given preference over US in hiring. Never mind we white people outnumber Black people 12 to 1. “They” were getting all the middle class jobs. It’s “their” fault we aren’t middle class anymore. Of course now it’s immigrants, but the damage was done. So it all fell apart, the Left can be just as snarky on race as the Right if more covert about it, and we now wear our racism openly as “being honest”. “Speaking the truth”. Since the ‘truth speakers” I know never spent a second with anyone Black, I find it disingenuous at best that they “know” what Black people need – and aren’t afraid to say so, never realizing how freaking patronizing they are, and how wrong. I miss some of the old days – not the racism of the 50s but the hope of the early 60s. In five short years, 1963-1968, everything got blasted from us – JFK, MLK, Jr., RFK, the war – on and on and on. I remember thinking Nov. 22, 1963 – is this the beginning of the end? And it was in a way. The end of innocence, the end of trust, the end of hope. Those who revere the 60s I find odd. They were horrible, and the legacy is not flower power but napalm and racism, corporate dominance, and anti-democratic power grabs. Still and all I must have something left – or I’d not be here on the Planet. I’d not be doing my job. Maybe it’s memory of times when we tried to be better and nearly succeeded. Maybe this time we will try – and we’ll make it. All of us. Together. Keep hoping! » Posted By choicelady On December 6, 2010 @ 7:29 pm Mid-Atlantic Trip Part 9: DC, at the Museum Seconded from someone who is NOT a mom but would care very much that you stay safe. That said, my father was in the Coast Guard during WW II and served well. He came through just fine – but his sister ship was blown up with all hands other than 10 who were ashore at the time. So think this over! Life is hard enough without putting yourself in harm’s way. » Posted By choicelady On December 6, 2010 @ 5:04 pm The style of sculpture on the FTC building is a derivation of German Expressionist or Symbolist – same “school” as the work of Rockwell Kent. Very much a part of Art Deco, but not design so much as politics. All carefully hidden, of course, but whoever did this probably came a cropper with McCarthy. Bold, brawny working people were clear evidence the artist was a Commie. Right? If Sarah gets in, this is history. Thank you Khirad – I love DC, and you’ve found some of the small details that make it so fascinating. I love your photos and appreciate your sharing the trip with us. » Posted By choicelady On December 6, 2010 @ 5:02 pm The Legacy of Nixon: This Democratic Party WTS! At LAST! A DEFINITIVE analysis of the End. You have NO idea how that warms my heart. By 2091 I will already be dead. No prob! Kes – no clean up! Thank you! Next time I see the circling vans, I will stop them and tell them and refer them to you. Or at least Action Comics. You’re the MAN! » Posted By choicelady On December 5, 2010 @ 8:23 pm kes – I can see you’re just following on Sharon Angle’s platitude about making lemonade from lemons. Bummer it’s your daughter’s birthday though – personally I’m always prompt where cake and ice cream are concerned. (I pinched that line from a Snoopy birthday card. Sorry.) I like your forward thinking – no clean up. I guess I’d have the party EARLY, you know, just to have fun. It seems to validate the other saying: “Life’s uncertain. Eat dessert first.” Given their gloom and doom, that seems particularly apt now. I am still counting on May 22 and our Neener, Neener rally. These folks remind me of the Millerites of the 1830s. And that got me thinking how very much this time is LIKE the 1830s. I rather suspect no one wants me to drag out the “evidence”, but it was a period of upheaval, depressions, anti-union zealotry, hyper religiosity, and anti-immigrant stances, so there are enough parallels to keep me happy thinking about it. The Millerites had the day and time down, too. Again, and again, and again… Most of his followers stuck by him, but there were some who simply got tuckered out hauling themselves up the hill where it was all supposed to happen. I guess you can wear out even True Believers after awhile. Getting back to the thread here, Marion – should it be true, you can count on ONE thing: you really will NOT have to worry about politics anymore. On a serious note – the amount of money that clearly has gone into this (if you look at the map of where they have done their salvation work, it’s HUGE), I’m sort of concerned about the possibilities of large numbers of suicides on May 22 and thereafter. You can count on the True Believers to hang in for a recount, but a lot of followers who’ve given up all they own to wait for the Rapture that never comes? I fear for them. So maybe we should have a Neener, Neener I’m Sorry that you got Hornswoggled Day? Compassion is never wrong, not even for these folks. » Posted By choicelady On December 5, 2010 @ 8:05 pm OK – for those following the End of the World scenarios, here’s the full scoop: 2011 AD—On May 21st, Judgment Day will begin and the rapture (the taking up into heaven of God’s elect people) will occur at the end of the 23-year great tribulation. On October 21st, the world will be destroyed by fire (7000 years from the flood; 13,023 years from creation). Their web pages with “authoritative” information: http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/may21/index.html Now back in the 90s I was taught an entirely different set of calculations from the anti-abortion End Times zealots: Earth to Jesus – 4000 years. Jesus to now – 2000 years. This was the end of the “sixth day of creation” where “a day is as a 1000 years, and 1000 years is as a day”. Problem? By their own reckoning, the Rapture should have come c. 1997. (Neener, neener). Now they can’t just arbitratily change it, so NEW CALCULATIONS. All Biblically based, of course. Now it’s a longer period, but it ADDS UP to 7000 on May 21 so that’s the end of the six days of creation (more or less) with the Rapture the start of the Seventh. Yes, yes, I know that’s poorly calculated, but I’m merely the messenger. I knew about these folks – just never thought I would SEE them. I wonder if one of the motorhome drivers is Ron Brock who used to drive the “Truth Truck” with interchangeable signs decrying abortion on one side and the horros of gay rights on the other. Since the vehicles are new, it would answer my question about – what would he do with a THIRD issue? Where would he keep the extra signs that were all very large. Answer – bigger motor home! Back in 1999 Operation Save America descended on Buffalo to picket clinics JUST as the GLBT community was holding its annual Region IX Drag Queen Competition. Some of who were straight, and grateful for all the help the LGBT community had given us at clinics, volunteered to stand guard outside the events. Ron had his truck circling the drag queen competition venue with his “abortion kills babies” signs plastered all over. We kept yelling at him that his message was rather lost on this particular crowd. He never quite seemed to understand. So if he is one of the drivers, at least he’s come up in the world. Better vehicle, bigger signs, less nauseating pictures. Gotta hand it to him – he’s found his life niche. So there you have it. The schedule for the end of the world. Personally I think it’s been and gone, but that’s just me. » Posted By choicelady On December 5, 2010 @ 6:59 pm LOL!!!! Something to live for! We on the Planet can plan a BIG event for May 22 – the Neener, Neener Day! On the other hand, what are these folks willing to DO to bring it about? Remember – Tim McVeigh was in their camp… I hope the FBI is crawling this site and theirs – I never take for granted something AWFUL cannot happen here. It already has, several times over. If these people think God needs a little “help” – you know, a nudge – then…???? But with any luck and good intelligence info from our security people, NOTHING will happen, and we can have the Neener, Neener Day celebration. No brie and merlot allowed. » Posted By choicelady On December 5, 2010 @ 6:47 pm WLA – was Lee Atwater Raptured? Is he evidence of the Second Coming next May 21? If so – YIKES! » Posted By choicelady On December 5, 2010 @ 9:55 am Oh Khirad – I know those same Unitarians! The merlot! The brie! I am on the state stragegy group for single payer health care, and when they insist that EVERYONE supports it because everyone they KNOW supports it – my mind flashes to the rallies where we all talk to one another – and ONLY one another – and to the brie and merlot parties. Thanks for validating that with and for me! For all my care for blue collar former auto and steel workers, for my care for those whom I knew in TN, I have to say Middle TN State University was the only place I ever met a person who declared without a moment’s hesitation that he believed in slavery. I said OK – but whom did he think should BE enslaved? Funny – I never got an answer… There is just so much one can do to both connect with people that different and then try to speak calmly with them. Sometimes you just have to walk away. I know there aren’t a LOT of people such as he, but they do exist. I am pretty sure my aunt would have agreed. Bravo for your father! The willingness to shake off generations of prejudice is NOT easy. He must be a really great man. Mine was, too, and we’re lucky to have had them in our lives. Thank you for telling us about him. » Posted By choicelady On December 5, 2010 @ 12:02 amComments Posted By choicelady
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