Want a funny? Most neo-conservative women buy Harlequin slurpy, wet panty pulp “romances”, not high quality books, despite all the “family values” rhetoric that spews forth from their brazen mouths. Similarly, neo-conservative men are the most avid, if furtive, consumers of porn.
Since yesterday’s stint with the AMA, I am in so much pain and abject misery that I’d like to just shoot myself. The whole “testing me” for the things that hurt and don’t hurt, work and don’t work has stirred up misery the likes of when I first came home from the accident.
Fun…though I wouldn’t want to be in front of him while he’s perfoming.
I seem to be stuck in some sort of hazy holding pattern today — very unlike me. Tuesday, I watched Obama become President, and, as someone else said somewhere, I can proudly say “my President” again, something that has not been true for eight, if not sixteen, years, but especially these last eight with GW Asshole. Wednesday and Thursday were hell days, though. Kind of a “back to work” nightmare with emergencies to handle with a client’s email and DSL troubles and bookkeeping/tax work to accomplish. Then there was the “lasted into the wee hours” meeting with business associates. After all that, I went to bed promising myself that I would get back into my “regular working routines” tomorrow.
Well, tomorrow is today, and today was like this vague daze. I walked around unable to even contemplate doing anything productive. Oh, I tried, all right, but every time I sat down to approach a project, my brain just went on standby. I couldn’t even line out a decent priority to-do list of what remains on my plate to get finished by the end of the month.
Just not like me.
My mother calls it taking a breath. Or is this limbo? Whatever it is, I can’t seem to fight it, so I might as well take the rest of what’s left of today off with good will and acceptance.
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On a positive note ending this post, when the WordPress told me “no misspellings found,” it gave me a grin. Thanks, WP. I needed that!
Winter started late here, around December 15th, but when it started, it opened up the gates with vengeance. The day before it snowed the first 18 inches in one dump, I had a “niggle” to get straw down on the roses. I did that, spending hours banking roses and other perennials. That night, bam, eighteen inches of white stuff, then plunging mercury to the tune of -7 degrees. I shoveled the snow from the driveway onto the straw I’d set, and just in time, because then came the wind at 45 mph, with bursts to 60, all from the Northeast — bitter with wind chills to -45. Wow. And, uncannily, it kept throwing down snow, though typical of cold, bitter weather, it was relatively light in accumulation with very little water in it — light to shovel.
This cold weather lasted a solid week and a half. Then it warmed up and snowed some more — warm at 20 degrees, mind. And it’s kept right on snowing and snowing and snowing. We’ve had a good, solid five feet that has compressed itself down to about three and a half feet when one day it had the audacity to warm up above 34 and RAIN — yes, rain — and load what was down with water, decreasing height and increasing weight dramatically. Then it was back to more snow, snow, snow…and it is STILL snowing.
Last winter we had record breaking snows of eight feet down here in the valley. This year we are well on our way to the same sort of volume, and it all has to be shoveled or blown. Which is what I’ve been doing to three places since December 15th.
And the new snow blower? Ariens, no less? Very expensive, to say the least? And supposed to be a top of the line heavy duty commercial machine? HAH!!! I does fine with the light stuff, but bogs to hell and gone with anything that resembles N. Idaho normal snow. Blasted thing was obviously designed for California suburbanites — paved drives, once in ten years snow accumulations of one inch, and wowy-zowy, see how pretty I can do it. Here? Ah, nope. I spend more time wrestling it out of trying to climb over itself as it bogs and upends its front end, or digs its wheels down and stalemates itself. Ugly. And I paid how much for this monster? *Sigh*
I’m getting very, very tired.
I sit outside watching snowflakes drift, a vague sun shining, icicles shimmering with dancing motes of reflected light. It’s quiet. It’s calm. It’s still. Softly, far away in the background, Enya sings gentle Christmas carols.
I can breathe. There’s no hurly-burly. And I think. I think about this last year. About the year before. And about the one coming in a week. It’s time for changes. Changes for me. I know what I’m going to do, now.
So, according to Sarah Palin, rape isn’t rape? It’s the male prerogative, that prerogative granted by (her) Christian god? And, to make matters even more startling, any young female old enough to menstruate is old enough to suffer that male prerogative, and, in fact, should feel “under the Grace of God,” especially if she winds up pregnant?
And John McCain selected THIS ugly excuse for a vagina-packing ( …or is that packed) misfit to be a U. S. Vice Presidential candidate? I don’t know about you, but this is the LAST thing this country needs in a position of executive privilege.
Tell me this isn’t happening.
Don’t vote the McCain/Palin ticket. Please.
Thought You’d All Enjoy “The Lighter Side” of Sarah Palin’s Candidacy!
This just came out, and you can tell me that you would trust McCain and Palin with the executive power of the White House? Read my previous post. If they get into office, this country and everything it stands for is toast, flushed down the sewer, screwed…and so are we, its citizens.
Yesterday [09-02-08], John McCain’s campaign manager told the Washington Post, “This election is not about issues.”
It’s clear why the McCain campaign doesn’t want to focus on the issues — their platform is the most extreme we’ve ever seen from the Republican Party.
The Republican platform opposes embryonic stem cell research. It denies a woman’s right to choose, even in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. It fails to mention equal pay for women. And it barely acknowledges the $10 billion a month we are currently spending in Iraq.
While many of the policies listed in the 2008 Republican Platform are laudable, the scary ones outweigh any good:
A constitutional amendment that bans abortion
A constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between a man and a woman only
A ban on stem-cell research
Returning prayer in school and allowing religious influences in government.
Allowing organizations the right of free association…if they are Christan-based, but denying other organizations, including states, the right of condemn or blacklist organizations which discriminate based upon Christian prejudices and biases against gays, lesbians, and non-Christians.
You want to read a run-down? Click here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080826/pl_bloomberg/avmvtejizjbw
You want to read the ratified, “official” 2008 Republican Platform? Here it is: 2008 Republican Platform (PDF) It can be found at: http://www.gopplatform2008.com/
Want to compare it to the 2008 Democratic Platform? Here it is: The 2008 Democratic Platform (PDF) It can be found at: http://www.demconvention.com/assets/downloads/2008-Democratic-Platform-by-Cmte-08-13-08.pdf
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WHAT THE REPUBLICANS REALLY THINK OF PALIN. THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE SAYING BEHIND THEIR HANDS WHEN THEY THINK NOBODY IS LISTENING
It’s funny what Republican pundits say when they think nobody’s watching. Today, John McCain’s former campaign chief Mike Murphy and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan were caught on tape after an NBC interview. They shared their real thoughts on McCain’s judgment in selecting Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Noonan asked, “The most qualified? No.” She called the selection of Palin “political [B.S.].” Murphy called McCain’s selection gimmicky and cynical. The video and transcript are below. This is a breaking story today—it’s on many top blogs and is climbing the YouTube charts.
Have you ever looked into the agenda of the far right? Imagine a country (ours) settled by people who were escaping religious persecution and political intolerance now ruled by people who practice intolerance and ideological persecution. And not only do they practice ideological persecution, they hold it as their duty as good Christians to their god.
Palin is a Pentecost. That’s an extreme Baptist sect. One could also define them as a cult. They do “alligator dancing” in the aisles of their churches “when the Spirit moves them”; they “speak in Tongues” (garbled gab of no meaning effusing from their mouths, often accompanied by foam). And what do they advocate? They, as my ex-brother-in-law so pointedly informed me, are commanded by their god to kill anyone (“pick up a gun and shoot you” to quote) who isn’t part of their congregation…which means anyone not a Pentecost, though I believe they’ll hold their fire against other Baptists, Assembly of God, and similar extreme “right” denominations. So that means everyone from atheists and agnostics, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Taoists, Wiccans, and Jews to Lutherans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics, Mennonites, Mormons, Methodists…any Christian or non-Christian believer and unbeliever will be open gaime, gleefully terminated when and if they run them down and get them in their gun sights. That’s scary to think of.
“Oh, no,” say the “rationalists.” The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights guarantees us freedom of religion. That won’t happen.”
I remember the “freedom of religion” argument brought up before, and the response? “‘Freedom of religion’ doesn’t mean ‘freedom from religion’” the religious right screamed back. And what does that twist mean to them? It means, yes, you have the right to believe or not believe as you choose, BUT they have a right to inflict whatever damage upon you and yours they choose, their religion delivering (the from religion part) the verdict of pain, harm, and, if mob mentality, Pat Robertson (a Southern Baptist), and the religious rightwing cronies have their way, death, preferably by stoning. Stoning, by the way, is a very painful, horrible way to die…but, then, these folks enjoy inflicting pain on others, believe in it as their right, because, according to them, you, the “mis-believer” or unbeliever, are possessed by (of) the devil, and it’s the devil they perceive themselves to be stoning.
But, let’s get back to this U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights for a moment. Do I need to remind everyone of our right to habeas corpus (…until G W Bush abnegated it, that is), of our right to privacy, of our right against unlawful search and seizure and all the rest? Did that stop Bush, Cheney, Rove, and the entire Bush administration? Nope. It sure didn’t. And they got away with it, with the (stupid) American people and (stupid) Congress, including the (treasonous) Supreme Court who planted Bush in the White House, giving them the green light to do it.
Palin is a Pentecostal Christian who believes that her god has given her this opportunity to set America “right.” Beware. AND, in choosing Palin as his vice-presidential nominee, John McCain has aligned himself with that Pentecostal-saturated agenda. Their version of America is to DICTATE how you believe, to dictate your choices of body, mind, soul, and spirit, and, should you be found guilty in their eyes of being less than “righteous,” they will eradicate you. That’s Palin’s and, by choosing her as his vice-president, John McCain’s agenda for America and its citizens.
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