Displaying 211 To 240 Of 4,429 Comments JOIN THE LIVE BLOG TONIGHT: GOP Debate at Reagan Library Yabbut, she has nice hair, knows how to eat sausage and is a submissive Christian woman who helps her husband pray the gay away! » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 6:37 pm I don’t believe that they actually think. » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 6:33 pm and they fart rainbows! » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 6:28 pm Did they all raise their hands? » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 6:25 pm And to think that one of these Tea Partiers will be debating President Obama. » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 6:24 pm Has anyone said anything at all about JOBS? » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 6:20 pm Not quite. He’s still a Republican that favors the rich and hates the poor. » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 6:06 pm Free samples! LOL » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 6:02 pm Have they mentioned Sharia Law yet? » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 6:01 pm What did he say? No cable here! » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 5:53 pm He might sound sane, but he’s still a Republican in believing that tax cuts for the rich and the privatization of SSI and Medicare will somehow create jobs. He’s wolf in sheep’s clothing. » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 5:52 pm It makes perfect sense. Pay Americans paupers wages, therefore no one will be able to buy gasoline, not to mention that no one will be able to afford to maintain a vehicle, but due to supply and demand, gasoline will go down to 10 cents a gallon! » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 5:49 pm Is that a Bachmann quote about gasoline by chance? » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 5:45 pm LOL! » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 5:44 pm Hey, the corporations don’t have to worry about clean water, clean air or healthy food! » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 5:42 pm I’m late! Isn’t that the game tonight – take a drink every time Reagan and Obama are mentioned? Okay, I’ll try to read all the comments to catch-up! And hi everyone! » Posted By javaz On September 7, 2011 @ 5:39 pm Americans Elect – A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing? You post on DailyKos? Under what name, if you don’t mind me asking. (and you don’t have to answer that!) DailyKos is not what it used to be, in my very humble opinion. I’ve very opinionated opinions (LOL) about KOS, and would never dare to speak my mind on that site. It’s not a liberal or progressive or even Democratic site anymore. The only diaries that I participate in are the community diaries – BlackKos being number one for me, and the Pootie Diaries are much fun and then of course, the IGTNT diaries and Sara R and her quilts – those are the only diaries that I do there. DailyKos has turned into an anti-Obama site, and to think that it’s supposed to be a site that’s to elect more and better Democrats. So much racism happens on KOS and it’s disgusting, while people who support Obama and call out the racism, those people are banned. And they accuse Obama supporters – Obama-bots or the Clap Louder Crowd, and there’s even a group that calls Obama supporters Republican and/or Karl Rove Operatives or White House shills. While if someone calls them out on their racism and/or accuses them of being Firedog Lake supporters, they get HR’d into oblivion. I like that site though, beyond everything that I’ve just typed, because of the BlackKos and Deoliver, or Denise who was just hired as a front pager. I grew up in a very racist atmosphere. I apologize if this is off-topic from your article. But I am an older person and am growing, and proud that I do not have a closed mind, but am willing to learn and to say that I’m sorry for my past bigotry and racism. Who knew that electing a black man as president would bring out such ugliness, but at least for me, it made me face my own failings, and admit how very wrong I’ve been. This is a worthwhile diary to read about racism – » Posted By javaz On August 31, 2011 @ 3:36 pm Weekend Music Thread – Love Me Tender I know that when it comes to Elvis on this site – and I am joking about this – but awhile back we had a little friendly confrontation about Elvis! 🙂 I do not think that I can outdo the Elvis posted, but since it’s raining here, and God knows how much us Arizonans pray for rain and how much we revel when it rains – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcY3FH208l8 ELVIS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-v38lbPNZs I actually saw ELVIS LIVE back when I lived in Detroit. » Posted By javaz On August 26, 2011 @ 5:53 pm It’s PlanetPOV’s 2nd Anniversary! Please Support our Donation and Membership Drive! Aw. I feel badly reading this, as I like to think that I was one of the original members! I’m not active anymore, but I have been checking in lately, and I’ll tell you why. I signed off from blogging, as it became so very depressing. Last February, I signed back in, but on DailyKos, and let me tell you, that things went from depressing to hell. Does anyone here read DailyKos? It’s a right-wing site under the guise of Liberal or Democrat imho, so I’d like to come back here, and be an active blogger. I just do not know how, since this site has changed, and would I be welcome here? » Posted By javaz On August 18, 2011 @ 7:04 pm Romney or Perry – Pick Your Poison Paul Ryan is going to run and be portrayed as the sane one. President Obama should be able to beat them all, but then again, you never know. Americans do know that something is wrong, and what’s wrong is outsourcing. Why do the politicians keep cutting taxes for corporations, with no promise that they’ll hire Americans? Citizen United proclaims that corporations are people, too, yet corporations are global, so that means that corporations are not Americans, yet they are American people and able to control our elections. Believe it or not, this has happened before, before the Robber Barons, it will not stand, but for those of us who are older, we may not live to see it. Interesting times we are living, but never lose faith in Americans, we’ll right this wrong, but for those of us who are older, it won’t be in our lifetimes! LMFAO! » Posted By javaz On August 16, 2011 @ 4:58 pm Isn’t it amazing how addictive blogging is? Have you ever met anyone from the Interboobs? I did once and it was enlightening, and not in a bad way exactly. It wasn’t from a political site, but from a Yahoo game site, so maybe that makes it different? She was a very nice person, very nice, but nothing like you’d have imagined. OH! That was by chance and when she said that she blogged on HP and proudly announced that she had over 300 friends, and she noticed our Kerry/Edwards sign in our yard, she hoped that we were Arizona people and not winter visitors. Ended up that I knew her from HP and had her as a friend, and even though I recognized her name, she didn’t recognize mine. I never did do good on HP, as I was honest in my opinions back then. I’ve learned to temper voicing my opinions. » Posted By javaz On August 31, 2011 @ 4:24 pm OMG! Crap, I can’t remember now when I left that POS site – but think it was when I discovered the PPOV. Never went back. Once you go PPOV, you never go back – damn, was hoping for a rhyme. » Posted By javaz On August 31, 2011 @ 4:02 pm Here I sit at 8000 feet up from Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and we’re staying longer than we planned. It’s hunting season. Now, coming from Arizona, a state that has THE most liberal gun laws, you’d think we’d be used to it. Before hunting season, the majority of people here are from Texas and Oklahoma, and they loved to brag about their guns. There was that Doughtery Gang that were headed here and I was comforted that so many people were packing heat. What is discomfiting, is we’re up in the wilderness, and since it’s hunting season, well, hearing guns, the big bang from guns, I’m no longer feeling safe. We walk every morning, and we’re up to 6 miles, and that’s quite the feat, as we are climbing steep hills, but hearing gun shots, and we don’t wear the bright orange. I’ve nothing against guns. But it’s scary walking and hearing guns too close. We have seen deer and my God is that awesome. We walk along a dirt road with traveling streams of water and in the middle of the forest. And to think that I was worried about bears. At least bears are not armed. » Posted By javaz On August 28, 2011 @ 5:56 pm Have you seen this Teapublicon intimidation? http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/26/305501/webster-town-hall-watchlist/ » Posted By javaz On August 26, 2011 @ 5:31 pm Well, shoot. No more Friday youtubes. YIKES Just saw it, so am gonna play as long as have WIFI. Wish I knew how to post pictures as we have a Flickr thing and lots of fun photos to share, if anyone would like to see them. We really are in the boonies – 20 miles outside of Pagosa Springs and up, up, up in the mountains and it’s so incredibly beautiful. If it weren’t for the winters here, we’d move here. » Posted By javaz On August 26, 2011 @ 5:27 pm Hiya Planet POV! We’re in Colorado at 8,000 feet right outside of Pagosa Springs, and if I may – let me brag to my fellow Arizonans! It’s pouring rain and it’s cold! Since being here, we get the monsoon, and when it comes to Arizona, monsoon storms like this are just but a memory. We’re in a massive downpour with much rumbling thunder and scary lightning, and goodness, but I love our little trailer. The temperature right now is 67 degrees, and being Arizonans, we’re freezing. We’re going to stay another month because we don’t want to go back into the extreme heat, and because we can. It’s incredible that the WIFI is still working at this campground, as we are in the boonies. We miss PBS and we have a ROKU box and it only works in the early morning hours, but at least we get to catch up on Rachel Maddow and the BBC news. A special HAY to B’ito! And special HAY to all my friends at the PPOV! Hope to maintain power and WIFI long enough to do Friday youtubes – you still do Friday youtubes? I’ve got to check! I’ve missed you all horribly. » Posted By javaz On August 26, 2011 @ 5:24 pm Years ago when I was in the 4th grade, my father received in the mail an advertisement from AAA, which was his auto insurance company, and within the advertisement was the most beautiful map of the United States. My father gave the map to me, as I was the child in our family that just loved things like that. I’m a list-person – a very organized person to the point of obsession. When my father gave me that truly beautiful map of the United States, I sat at the old Singer sewing machine that I used as a desk in my room and imagined owning a motor home and traveling the USA. I charted my course, and outlined leaving the Detroit area and driving down to Ohio and then up to Maine, and I had pages and pages of how many hours I’d drive before stopping and how much time I’d spend in every area. It would have taken me years to travel the USA, and then summer ended, and school started, and I forgot all about that childhood dream. I had planned out very young that I would attend college, have a career in biology back then, and marry at the ripe old age of 24 years old. Turned out that even though I did attend college initially as a biology major, my true calling was math, as I was just very good at it. Back in the days of my college years, once I changed majors to math, calculators were just coming onto the scene, and they were so outrageously expensive that I never even considered asking my parents to buy me one, so I got by with a slide-rule and having a very good memory. I eventually went into mechanical engineering, due to the insistence of some very helpful professors that advised me in my charting for my life. I worked in Detroit for Rockwell International initially, and I so owe that first break, the first step in the door to a professor who called me at home and told me to apply for the job. I’m a woman, and Affirmative Action had just been introduced, and if it wasn’t for AA, I’d have never been given the chance. I paid for Affirmative Action my entire working life as an engineer, and believe me, I know how much white males hated me for it, but I succeeded regardless and was quite good at my job. I worked in the Detroit area for 10 years, and worked for GM mostly as an automotive engineer but as a job-shopper, and then moved to Arizona to try my hand at aeronautical engineering. It was in Arizona that I met my husband and I was much older than my original plan of marrying at 24 years old. Upon marrying my husband, I acquired a teenaged daughter, and once we survived getting her through high school and then onto her moving out and making a life of her own, we started talking about traveling. My husband and I sacrificed and saved since getting together as we shared the goal of retiring young. Even though we made fairly decent money, we saved, saved, saved, never lived high-on-the-hog, as both of us grew up with struggling parents, and of course, put our daughter through college and helped her once she moved out and moved to Albuquerque. We never planned on buying a motor home until we were both retired, but then I lost my parents, who died quite young for parents, and we met people who advised us to do it when young, because one never knows about ones’ health upon retirement. So, we began our search for a motor home and ended up buying a well-used C-class, and then we began traveling. Since we were working, we started off on 2 week journeys, going back to Michigan to see a brother or going to the south and visiting Civil War memorials, as my husband is a Civil War buff. Back then, trips were always rushed, and the old motor home was always breaking down, and it was a gas guzzler. Eventually, I walked away from my career, because quite frankly, I couldn’t take it anymore. So, I retired younger than we planned, but all was good. My husband is a genius, and he really is a rocket-scientist, and the company sent us to Paris, France for 2 years, whereby we traveled Europe extensively, and my God, neither of us ever planned or expected that. Upon returning, my husband worked one more year and then he retired, but the company called him back and asked if he would work part-time, and so he did. They then sent us to Montreal, Canada, and we drove up in our old motor home, and we broke down so many times, but the company footed the bill, as the reason they sent us was because they knew that we would live in that old motor home for 4 months in Canada and it was cheaper for them than relocating us. It was a small motor home – very small – and it’s a good thing that my husband and I get along so well as we would have killed each other, otherwise. Once we got back to Arizona after 4 months in Montreal, it was quite a relief, and our 2-bedroom, 1200 square foot home was palatial. The company, regretfully for everyone, was forced to let my husband go, but then he was only supposed to be part-time anyway, so it wasn’t as though his ego was crushed or anything. We didn’t travel for nearly a year after returning from Montreal, and then we decided to go again, but closer to home for 2 weeks up to Show Low, Arizona and Fool Hollow. Of course, we broke down driving out of the Salt River Canyon, and trust me, that was very frightening. While at Fool Hollow, there was a storm and the awning ripped off, and we said that’s enough. I don’t even want to think about how much money we spent on that old motor home, but we put over 70,000 miles on that old motor home and it’d be easier for me to tell you the states that we didn’t visit. We never towed a vehicle in that C-class and that means that when we ran out of bread or milk, we either walked to the nearest store, or rode our bicycles. Finally, we decided to buy a trailer and a pickup, and we did just that! I had a pickup that I had bought new in Detroit to drive out to Arizona, and so we traded that 26 year old truck in and traded in the old motor home, and even though the cash-for-clunkers didn’t cover either of them, the dealers gave us the deals anyway. Plus, when we bought the brand new trailer, which is 26 feet and the bathroom in this thing compared to that old motor home is to die for, and when we bought the new pickup, the economy had collapsed, so we were able to make a deal and we made out, as the dealers were desperate. It took a bit of practice for my husband to learn how to tow, and I will save my husband the embarrassment of divulging his first mishaps, but let me just say that it was an expensive ordeal. Last year we took our first major trip towing up to Glacier National Park in Montana. We stayed for one week in Erwin, Idaho on the Snake River. We stayed one week right outside of Glacier, and everywhere we’ve been since having the trailer, we’ve unhitched, and we’re able to drive the truck to site-see. And this year, here I sit 20 miles outside of Pagosa Springs, Colorado and up in the Rocky Mountains, and remembering when I was in the 4th grade that I charted my life and now I’m living it. You never know what life holds, so never give up your dreams, as dreams do come true. » Posted By javaz On August 11, 2011 @ 5:44 pm Or perhaps a diversion from the ‘Fast and Furious’ investigation against Holder? » Posted By javaz On October 12, 2011 @ 11:06 am Happy Mother’s Day–A Special Day My mother was my best friend, too. So when it came to her dying, and my older brothers, they lost their mother, whereas I lost my best friend. It’s hard. And I don’t care how long it’s been, time does heal, but the pain never goes away. » Posted By javaz On May 9, 2011 @ 6:07 pm Friday Music Thread – Suffragette City This youtube isn’t related at all, at least I don’t think so, but it’s another one of my absolute favorite songs of all time – yet it’s not available on any CD or album. I love Sheryl Crow and love Sting –
And Norah Jones, well, she reminds us of our daughter that was killed in 2003 and we both so love Norah Jones – and if you could see our daughter’s pic and if you could have heard her play guitar and sing, I think that you’d think so, too.
We’ll never get over losing her, but life goes on, but my GOD, how we miss her so very much. » Posted By javaz On April 9, 2011 @ 4:38 pmComments Posted By javaz
Holy moly, I think we’re gonna need more beer!
Corporations don’t breathe, eat, or drink water even though they’re people, too!
But I brought popcorn and Colorado beer called ESB Ale!
The net connection is extremely S-L-O-W at the campground, but how many times has Reagan been mentioned?
And btw, I always promote PlanetPOV when someone asks for a pro-Obama/pro-Democratic site.
I really hate to admit this, but my parents were racists, too.
I hate to admit this – so was I, but not as badly.
I didn’t realize that I was racist, and I’m working on it,
I’ve learned so much from the BlackKos group on that site and unlike many who harbored racist attitudes since Obama was elected, my racist attitude has NOT increased, but lessened.
I’ve never been more aware of racism in our country or the meaning of white privilege.
I think back then it cost me 22 dollars to see him at Cobo Hall and that was a lot of money for a person making $1.90 an hour.
But for me, it was money well spent!
LOL
And I actually did meet, right in my neighborhood, a woman from HP!
LOL
People still post on HP?
Because no one in their right mind would go back to Arizona, and yeah, we are definitely not in our right mind or anything else.
Liberal gun laws do have their moments.
We’re no longer in Kansas, Dorothy.
Or no longer in the desert.
LOL
I feel safe from lightning as the thing sets on rubber tires.
We get 4 TV stations through their cable and of course, FOX is the best, but we still refuse to watch it.
Hope all is well with you, my friend.
Hey!
Maybe I’ll maintain WIFI here and be able to do the live-thing.
My 3 older brothers, when cleaning out their school things, would always give me maps, books, and empty notebooks, and I always just loved taking them and studying them and charting my course in life.
And I loved math.
I loved the formulas and theorems.
I loved proofs.
I survived several down-sizings, and it was downright depressing, plus my coworkers truly made my life a living hell.
Considering all that we’d been through, the awning ripping off was so minor, but it was the last straw.
And if anyone is reading this, do Walkie-Talkies, as that will save your marriage!
We stayed one week in Gros Ventre right outside of Jackson Hole and on the foothills of Yellowstone Park.
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