Tuesday Talk
Posted by Michelle Moquin on September 15th, 2009
Zen Lill: As I was reading your story that same song that Kent mentioned, “Who’s making love to your old lady, while you are out making love?”, also went through my mind. Too funny. I’m sure the cheaters never think about that when they’re cheating. So I thought you would like the joke :)
Great idea to blog about ‘the (mother/daughter) talk’. I can only speak from experience being a daughter, but I am sure you have some great advice to add. Will add it to my list of topics Thank you.
Al: How silly I am. Of course that’s what it means. I was so struck by the title, that I couldn’t even think past a different meaning other than how I saw it. Thanks for pointing it out to me. I guess I am a perfect example of how “reality TV’ can have an affect on someone…Can I laugh at myself now? :)
Your last post was so right on. Hearing something over and over again has power. And when people have the power (advertising dollars) to be in your face telling you what they want you to believe is truth over and over again, people take it as truth. It can be the same in fashion and music and the arts. Slap a stars name on a clothing label and women who have no sense of style will flock to buy it just because of the label regardless of whether is is of good taste or not. Fortunately, how one looks isn’t going to have a lasting affect on anyone, but who we choose to run a country will.
Billy: Love it. Here’s one “Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.”
On another note, Billy, (I am assuming the same Billy as above ) I have enjoyed this little back ‘n forth between us. It has added some lightness and fun to my day so I thank you for starting it up and keeping it going. I will miss it. I wish you safety in Afghanistan and I look forward to hearing from you when you get there. Madaline is on a mission but she is not far away. Her presence is huge, so tap into it when you need it, and she will give you strength.
Kent: No, I am not a trial lawyer or and assistant DA but thank you for the compliment. And considering that you are a newbie to my blog and have only read a few of my posts, I hope that you’ll stick around. I don’t always ‘vent’.
Helena: They got my signature – thanks for posting.
Readers: We talk about racism a lot on this blog. I hope that you read Helena’s post yesterday and clicked on the link. If not click here. It only takes a few second to support. Thanks again for all you do.
Irene: I don’t screen or edit my blog. If you do not want your daughter to read my blog, may I suggest that you take the matter in your own hands, be a responsible parent and block my blog from her access. Thank you.
A Pastor: Not sure from your comment if your wife questions what abomination I am up ‘to’ or up ‘on’ lately. I like to think it is the latter as I don’t consider myself as casting any evil upon others. Although, considering some of the comments I do receive I have no doubt that some readers see me as evil.
So, with all respect, due or not, what I discuss on my blog is out there, it is happening. If the abominations of this world are not brought to light by me or someone else, it does not mean they don’t exist. How I wish, if we just stuck our heads in the sand or saw the world through rose colored glasses, all of the atrocities of the world would cease to exist. If that were the case, I would be the first to dive in the sand, or the first to don a pair. But unfortunately life isn’t like that. I may sound trite for a lack of a better phrase, but knowledge is power.
Angie: Ditto to what I said to Irene – and yes, crazies are welcome too.
Ruth: Excellent article. And I agree with you, we need the Georges of the world to have a voice…to keep us on our toes, as you say. As I mentioned above, racists exist and blocking them from being here does us no good.
Zung: What a statement and so true. I have to repost it for my readers just in case they skimmed over your comment:
Why worry about aliens from outer space making a meal of us when the real evil walks among us every day in sheep’s clothing.
We are powerless against the aliens, but not with the racists. Right on.
Zen Lill: And yeah, people accepted McEnroe’s attitude. Even to this day they joke about it. Have you seen the car rental ad TV commercial that he stars in? Classic McEnroe. Wed aft would be a good time to talk.
Oh…peeps I thought I was going to write an article today but I had too much fun just chitchatting with all of you to bother with posting anything else. Have a great day!
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September 15th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Beverly
As a white woman, I hate to admit it. At first I agreed with those that claimed the reaction was not racist, but justified.
After reading your comments, I decided to re read the comments. I found that I had subconsciously sided with the white commenters. It took a different opinion by a white woman to make me take a second look.
My second look was as your first was. It is obvious that the commenters who are attempting so arduously to make a point that they are being unbiased with their view points are covering their bigotry with sophistry.
Most of the time that sophistry works when the listener is predisposed to accepting it because of their own racial bias. I was.
I enclose a comment from Soncerai93. I cannot explain why it made no impact on me the first time I read it. Except to say perhaps my racial bias conditioned me to ignore it.
“Mr. Kimmel’s post is exactly what we need to help get perspective. He appreciates the inapporpriateness of the outburst while at the same time framing perspective. We are not at the feel good era that many thought would happen voting for Barak Obama. This truth is what it is. The election and the resulting ragefilled displays are symptomatic of deep-seated and as uet unresolved hostility. The author did not say McEnroe et al did the right thing. He reminds us how we’ve celebrated such boorish behavior. He doesn’t say that Serena was right. What he explains brilliantly is why the response to her is so different. Truth hurts.”
We are the way we are because of our upbringing. I hope from this moment on, I will be a better person.
Hilary
September 15th, 2009 at 8:27 am
MAGIC PROBLEM-SOLVER: WALK BACKWARD TO SHARPEN THINKING
Trying to solve a thorny problem? Try taking a few steps backward. That’s what a study with 38 students at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands suggests. The researchers set up a study to test the effect on mental functioning of “approach” movements, such as walking toward something, and “avoidance” movements, such as backing away. The study, published in the May 2009 issue of the journal Psychological Science, found evidence that suggests stepping backward may boost your capacity to deal with difficult situations.
WALK THIS WAY
The students took a test in which color words, like red, were sometimes printed in matching ink (like the word red written in red ink) and sometimes in another color (the word red written in blue ink). The test was to quickly name the ink color, suppressing the natural tendency to read the word, immediately after walking four steps forward, backward or sideways. Each participant walked in each direction twice. When the color names and inks matched, reaction times for correct answers were similar no matter which way the students walked. But when color names didn’t correspond to inks, reaction times for correct answers were fastest after walking backward. Backward locomotion appears to be a very powerful trigger to mobilize cognitive resources, say the researchers.
STEP BACK FOR FORWARD-THINKING
Stepping backward isn’t an inborn trigger for increased mental control, but a learned one, notes social psychologist and study coauthor Severine Koch, PhD. “Over a lifetime, the movement is habitually performed in situations that require increased control, such as when people encounter a dangerous or difficult situation,” she explains. “Because of this associative link between backward movement and a vigilant state of mind, stepping backward seems to enhance cognitive functioning even in the absence of actual danger.”
Okay, so in modern life we’re not typically retreating from a lion and it’s not so realistic to be walking backward — but we certainly face other challenges that require intense concentration and enhanced mental capacity. Will stepping backward open the mind to new solutions? Dr. Koch said that the practical applications of this study require further research, but she speculates that people in jobs requiring constant alertness could benefit from avoidance movements. Meanwhile, you may want to take a step backward the next time you’re plagued by a problem.
Source(s):
Severine Koch, PhD, department of social and cultural psychology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
September 15th, 2009 at 8:38 am
I live on the east coast. This is scary. I thought I would share it.
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Did a lake trigger a deadly disease?
Researchers hope to explain why Lou Gehrig’s disease seems to occur more often in people who live near lakes and ponds where cyanobacteria bloom
By Terry J. Allen
Globe Correspondent / September 14, 2009
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Researchers investigating a deadly disease cluster near a New Hampshire lake are tracking clues that stretch from a delicacy eaten on Guam to a 3.5 billion-year-old type of bacteria and the green scum that coats many New England waters.
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The scum – blooms of cyanobacteria often misnamed blue-green algae – produces a toxin that doctors at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., suspect might have triggered cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis along the north shore of nearby Mascoma Lake.
Using patient records and mapping software, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock team looked for ALS clusters in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Their preliminary data suggest that the disease, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is about 2.5 times more prevalent among people who live within a half-mile of water bodies with past or current cyanobacteria colonies.
The incidence of ALS was highest near Mascoma Lake, where nine patients have been diagnosed since 1990, all but one since 2000 – a rate at least 10 times the US average of two in 100,000 people diagnosed annually.
The neurodegenerative disease eventually immobilizes patients and, inevitably, destroys their ability to swallow and breathe. In one survey, doctors said ALS is the diagnosis they most dread giving.
“The disease can progress so fast, and their struggle is so hard,’’ said Dr. Tracie Caller, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock resident who designed the mapping project. Eight of the Mascoma Lake patients are already dead.
In most cases, the cause of ALS is unknown. But scientists suspect genetics loads the gun, and environment pulls the trigger.
Paul Alan Cox, executive director of the Institute for Ethnomedicine in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and a small group of researchers around the world are investigating whether BMAA (ß-methylamino-L-alanine), a toxin produced by cyanobacteria, is one such trigger – for ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases. Several studies have reported that some ALS victims’ brains contained BMAA, and Cox and other researchers have found it in the brains of a small number of deceased North American Alzheimer’s patients.
But the research is still at an early stage. Cox cautioned people not to overreact. After news reports of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock research earlier this year, some area residents voiced concern about going in Mascoma Lake.
“If our hypothesis is correct, only very few people are susceptible to the toxin,’’ said Cox, the pioneer of research into a possible link between ALS and cyanobacteria. “And, until there is an animal model showing that low, chronic doses of BMAA over a long period of time can produce progressive irreversible neurodegeneration, the hypothesis remains unproven.’’
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Thanks Michelle for providing the medium. You are so popular on the east coast, I know that it will get wide distribution.
Chloe
September 15th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Kent
You bastard! I never got married. I just wanted to spare you the hurt. You fucked that woman and let me feel so bad for 6 years. I hate you.
September 15th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Kent, why didn’t you tell D. about your little escapade? And what about your continued affair with S? How is your story more about bad women than it is about continued bad behavior by men?
Michael
September 15th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Zen Lill
Thanks for the recipe. We have been competing to see who makes the best batch. We are now combining our reading and interpreting skills so as to see who comes up with the best example of how to do the new exercise precisely as you describe it, the first time.
Besides, it gives us an excuse to exercise together. We seem to need the encouragement of each other.
Our butts are richer for the experience, that’s for sure.
September 15th, 2009 at 9:00 am
The Indian press has given quite a lot of coverage to the Serena incident. I found this on the web from the american press.
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Let me start off by saying that I am a true tennis fan and player (albeit an incredibly out of shape one compared to my not so illustrious days on my high school team another lifetime ago). I should also add that I am enough of a tennis nerd that I remember the days when Kim Clijsters and Lleyton Hewitt were sort of like the Prom King and Queen of tennis, so I was proud to see Kim, a new mom, battling her way into her first Grand Slam final in years, on sheer grit, determination, and talent.
And then she got a little unnecessary help from a lineswoman.
Now I want you to honestly ask yourself the following. If a lineswoman had called a questionable foot fault on Andy Roddick in the final game of his marathon Wimbledon battle royale against Roger Federer, near match point no less, what would the general reaction of most tennis fans — particularly American tennis fans — have been? Or if a linesman had called a foot fault on Melanie Oudin at a crucial point during her fairy tale like run at the Open (where I had the immense pleasure of seeing her play) what would the general reaction of the fans filling Arthur Ashe stadium have been? If the way we behaved during her match against Dementieva is any indication, then I’m guessing we would have seen an Attica-like riot.
Before the eye rolling begins, let me be clear. I am not arguing that Serena Williams — with her countless titles and millions of dollars — has somehow been a victim of racial bias. But I don’t think anyone who is a real tennis fan can argue that she hasn’t been a victim of some bias throughout her and her sister’s, history-making careers, and Saturday night was one such moment.
In spite of how they have dominated the sport at near Tiger Woods like levels, it has long been acceptable to not like and not root for the Williams sisters even though they have been one of the few bright spots for American tennis fans of the last few years. (During her 2001 meeting with Clijsters at Indian Wells, Serena Williams was booed so badly that she and her family have never returned to the event).
One can’t simply blame race. After all, James Blake has enjoyed immense popularity among American tennis fans, many of us hopeful that he will one day fulfill the promise so many of us see in him. With the Williams sisters it has always been less about what color they are and more about who they are: from Compton, not from Connecticut; wearing wildly colored fashion combos, instead of pristine tennis whites; talking loud and proud of their roots, instead of quietly trying to blend in; rocking braids and cornrows in the early days, instead of joining the ranks of Beyonce (and some of the rest of us) by getting a more socially acceptable, “lady-like” weave.
And then there’s the dad. When Richard Williams held up a sign during the 2000 Wimbledon final proclaiming, “It’s Venus’ Party and No One Was Invited” there were more than a few Americans — including many black Americans — who cringed. But he came by his over-the-top nature honestly. He and his daughters have made no secret of the role class played in their early struggles to find acceptance on the circuit. (Let’s be real. Tennis remains, to this day, very much a country club-esque sport and while the Williams scream a lot of things, country club is not one of them.) In one of their earliest “60 Minutes” appearances a sports journalist recalled that it was common knowledge that many in media and the sports world had rooted for them to fail, if only to spite their abrasive father. Subsequently their love, hate relationship with American fans became a bit like debating which came first: the chicken or the egg. Some wondered how they could lift their rackets with such huge chips on their shoulders and for a while it seemed to become a self-fulfilling prophecy: They acted as though the whole world was against them and the whole world obliged.
There’s a saying: “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean ‘they’re’ not after you.” In the case of the Williams sisters there have been questionable calls over the years that have cost both of them grand slam matches before this latest one, including a 2004 call that cost Venus a Wimbledon match (and cost the umpire in question his participation in the remainder of the tournament) and a series of questionable calls in the 2004 U.S. Open that led to Serena’s loss, including one that former player and analyst Tracy Austin labeled “quite literally the worst call I’ve ever seen.”
Instead of their attitude and outbursts being cited as proof of their passion for the game, as it had with other players (Mac the Knife anyone?), it became further proof to some that they didn’t belong.
But in those moments when they seemed to forget about the rest of the world and just let go and play, they managed to give us tennis fans a real gift. (Even their father displayed moments of grace that surprised many, such as when he said of Venus’s Wimbledon opponent Lindsay Davenport, “I love Lindsay…She’s a wonderful human being.”)
Which is why Saturday’s events leave me so saddened.
Yes Serena was wrong.
But so was the lineswoman.
And so is every tennis fan who isn’t willing to honestly admit that Saturday’s call never would have happened, nor been deemed acceptable for any other player under those circumstances.
But other players are not named Williams.
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Whites have affected our culture in a bad way too. As a result dark Indians are looked down on. Most men look for very light skinned brides.
My mother refused the hand of my first bridal offer because she was “too dark” even though her dowry was very handsome.
It is a shame because my mother is dark. So are her daughters, my two sisters. This cycle of prejudice has to stop some time. But when?
Akashat
September 15th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Michelle
You mentioned that Madaline is around. Could you send her to see us in Iran?
Allah will bless you for all you do.
Zaranj
September 15th, 2009 at 10:57 am
The Slime
I am gross and perverted
I’m obsessed and deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I am the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can’t look away
I make you think I’m delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin’ out
From your TV set
You will obey me while I lead you
Eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don’t need you
Don’t got for help…no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That’s right, folks..
Don’t touch that dial
F.Zappa
September 15th, 2009 at 11:42 am
In the spirit of Al’s educational snippets I would like to start with this.
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ME TALK PRESIDENTIAL ONE DAY
Matt Latimer worked as one of Dubya’s speechwriters during the president’s final twenty-two months in office. He was there to help sell the surge to a skeptical public. He was there as we pretended that the fundamentals of the economy were strong. And he was there to see a president who failed to grasp his own $700 billion bailout package—even as he was pitching it to the American public on live TV. A disillusioned insider reveals for the first time just how messy things got
“You mean the stock market?” I asked.
“No, I mean the entire U.S. economy,” he replied. As in, capitalism. As in, hide your money in your mattress.
The secretary of the treasury, Hank Paulson, had sketched out a dire scenario. And Chris said we’d have to write a speech for the president announcing his “bold” plan to deal with the crisis. (The president loved the word bold.)
We had to reassure the American people that everything was going to be okay. As it turned out, Secretary Paulson had a plan that would fix everything: a $700 billion bailout of the financial system. The plan, like the secretary himself (who’d been pretty much a nonperson at the White House), seemed to come out of nowhere, as if it had been hastily scribbled on a sheet of paper in the secretary’s car on his way to work. Basically, it could be summed up as: Give me hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and then trust me to do the right thing.
There was no denying it. This plan was certainly “bold.”
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AS A YOUNG POLITICAL GEEK growing up in Flint, Michigan, I’d always dreamed of heading to Washington to work for a conservative president and help usher in another Reagan Revolution. As soon as I was able, and with the support of my baffled liberal parents, I packed up my old maroon Dodge Dynasty and said good-bye to my sleepy hometown.
My youthful exuberance cooled as I moved up the rungs of power. On Capitol Hill, I worked for a congressman who “misremembered” basic facts, such as the “Eisenhower assassination.” I worked for a senator who hid from his own staff. I was assigned to coach Republican senators on how to reach out to the media and entertainment world. (You try explaining The View to a group of 65-year-old white Republican men.) At the Pentagon, as chief speechwriter to Donald Rumsfeld, I battled an entrenched civil-service system and an inept communications team.
In 2007 I finally made it to the Bush White House as a presidential speechwriter. But it was not at all what I envisioned. It was less like Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing and more like The Office. After watching Karl Rove’s bizarre farewell to White House staffers and hearing the president dismiss the conservative movement I believed in (“I know it sounds arrogant to say,” he told me, “but I redefined the Republican Party”), I thought I could muddle through till the end. Washington might not have been the city I had dreamed of, but I figured things couldn’t get much worse.
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There is more.
Ruth
September 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
OOps, sorry that wasn’t the first page. Did this ever happen to you Al?
Here is page one.
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ME TALK PRESIDENTIAL ONE DAY
Matt Latimer worked as one of Dubya’s speechwriters during the president’s final twenty-two months in office. He was there to help sell the surge to a skeptical public. He was there as we pretended that the fundamentals of the economy were strong. And he was there to see a president who failed to grasp his own $700 billion bailout package—even as he was pitching it to the American public on live TV. A disillusioned insider reveals for the first time just how messy things got
By Matt Latimer
AS A SPEECHWRITER FOR GEORGE W. BUSH DURING THE FINAL YEARS OF HIS PRESIDENCY, I’d seen crises and controversies. But nothing prepared me for the imminent collapse of America’s free-market system.
I was in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with another speechwriter, a young man named Jonathan. (His last name was Horn; the president nicknamed him Horny.) We were chatting casually when the president’s favorite speechwriter came in. Chris Michel was in his midtwenties, with sandy blond hair. He was usually chipper, though at the moment his face was so pale he must have been the whitest man in the Bush White House. And that was no small accomplishment. Chris had just come from a secret meeting in the Oval Office, and without so much as a hello he announced: “Well, the economy is about to completely collapse.”
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At least no one will have to shove a ball up my ass.
(come laugh a little)
Ruth
September 15th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Ruth
Already the repugs have their spin on your writer’s remarks. Here is one from a writer on Alaska’s Anchorage News paper.
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President Bush: Sarah who? Guv of Guam?
Published: September 15th, 2009 07:49 AM
Last Modified: September 15th, 2009 10:12 AM
Link: New York Daily News President George W. Bush was a serial disser of fellow politicians, his former speechwriter Matt Latimer writes in an upcoming memoir, “Speech Less: Tales of a White House Survivor.” Among the semiprivate insults flung by Bush was this one at Sarah Palin: “I’m trying to remember if I’ve met her before. What is she, the governor of Guam?” The Raw Story reports further that Bush thought she was the wrong pick for John McCain’s running mate: “This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for,” he said. A former aide to Bush and Palin disputes the account in an interview with CNN, saying Bush was fully aware of who Palin was and met her three weeks before she was chosen by McCain. Besides, the aide says, Latimer was a nobody at the White House.
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They have no mercy on whistle blowers
Terese
September 15th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
One thing the President is not , and that is naive. Presidents started a long time ago either talking to the people in washingtonease or pandering to their base.
We as the public have become way to accustomed to our own indifference , so when someone starts talking in real terms about the way things should be , we tend to have a knee jerk reaction.
The President continues to talk about bipartisanship, but backs up his words about what he is going to do… if he receives only lip service.
He puts forth to the american public what he thinks the ideal should be and then goes out and tries to achieve it. He has prioritzed what he wants done, but also what needs to be done first.
I think you will see the President next year lay done the law with wall street after majorities increase in both houses.
Money might buy a representative or senator outright , but the american people realize they can change that with a vote. THEY aren’t naive…wait and see ;)
September 15th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
the only fight we need to undertake is the one to run lobyists out of washington. Outlaw monetary “contributions” to legislators from corporations and corporate proxies … make all campaign funds strictly public financed.. and make the law have teeth.. getting the money out of washington is the only way we will see any financial reform, and it is the only way we will ever have any real chance of meaningful healthcare reform.
September 15th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
agree with you W, 100% Lobbyists and their contributions and perks should be completely abolished. The problem is that even when a candidate runs on a no corruption platform, they are quickly seduced by the campaign donations and access to the people and connections that make campaigns run. The only solution as I see it is completely free elections – not campaign reform, candidates and lobbyists will always find a way around it. Completely free elections with set amounts given to candidates along with an allotment of TV time will level the playing field so that candidates will no longer be guaranteed a win if they simply have more money. Hence no more debts to be paid off at the expense of the people that elected them. Remove money from the equation and lobbyists will have nothing to bargain with and candidates will also be free to vote and behave in a way that is truly best for their constituents. Another bonus for voters – we would probably see much shorter and cleaner campaigns. If there is limit on TV time, you certainly won’t have the time to waste on superfluous non-issues.
September 15th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
This would be funny if it wasn’t so scary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y&feature=player_embedded#t=558
Here is some STAGGERING FOOTAGE and INTERVIEWS!!!!
September 15th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Evelyn
They even lied about how many people showed up. Imagine trying to make 60, 000 into 2,000.000? These bigots have no shame.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y&feature=player_embedded#t=558
Here is some STAGGERING FOOTAGE and INTERVIEWS!!!!
September 15th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Check out the lying Glenn Beck.
Glenn Beck: 1.7 Million Attended Tea Party March; Cites “University Of — I Don’t Remember” (VIDEO)
September 15th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Hi Mischa, Weds aft is good, talk then…
Kent, apparently ‘in love’ and ‘in lust’ fucking and just plain old fucking with people aren’t all that clearly defined for you, have you no boundaries man? Good luck with sorting out which 2 you produced with S, although they may just be her hubby’s and she’s just good at fucking with your head for the hell of it, it happens. And, Michael, right on, dude, thank you for illustrating the real point of Kent’s story. D, can say I blame you babe, but don’t let Kent’s behavior stop you from finding love with a real man.
A pastor, you don’t get awarded automatic papal status with me, though I’ll be kind just because…so here’s the scoop: you ‘demand that she (your wife) stop visiting the blog’???? Puh-lease. Hey, a Pastor’s wife, here’s my message to you: visit whatever blog you want to visit and tell your hubby to deal. That ‘demanding’ thing is just nonsense control. Why do people have to control each other, are they afraid you’ll stop loving them unless they step in and ‘demand’ stuff? For a partor, ye have little faith in your wife’s ability to sort through her own truths, shame on you.
(A pastor also) Irene, oh so it’s all OK with you as long as I say things YOU like, just what ‘Zen Lill shit’ did you want screened? The part where I use the word shit? Tell me, I’d like to know. I’d bet it’s the part that doesn’t go along with God fearing ways, am I right? Like Mischa, I do not FEAR God or a God, why would a real God need my worship and/or my fear?
Brenda, you’re so sweet, I hope LA doesn’t swallow you up. I’d be curious to know where in LA you plan to call home. I’ll chat with your mother now, Hariett (sp?) your girl is concerned for you and I am also, I grew up with a difficult man for a father, although in his last years we had the best relationship amongst the family it’s only bc I told the truth and risked his wrath no matter how unfounded it was. Telling him to go to hell is a basic start but forgive me here, it’s an unskilled way (and very similar to his way) of handling things. I can’t suggest a way to handle it bc I don’t know the type of man he is, what I do know is, when I look at family photos the one totally unsmiling face always was/is my mother, it ruined her. I feel for her, she was a flake but she’s my flake, and he defeated her into submission regularly. sonething he obviously failed at with me, huh?! That’s his catch-22 I came out just like him only I’m way more evolved in terms of my awareness of my words, their effect and how control/jealousy rarely gets you the end game you’re looking for. If you have it in you, follow your girl to LA, even if you tell yourself it’s only temporary, it’s a fine mind game to play, once out form under you will probably see that there’s no point in returning.
For the record, I’m not against marriage, just against control/obligated love, if you love so damn much why can’t you just engage in the now and love, where’s the trust, even a pastor doesn’t ahve it in his wife’s ability to sort info that could be true or not?
Ma Qin, tell your hubby about tyhis quickie recipe, it’s for all those brocoli stems – oh and this one totally converts broc haters, it’s amazing…cut the stem of the broc off, slice thin about 1/8″ (makes funky little amoeba looking pieces) steam for 5, crisp not hard, in another pan heat 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1/4 teas minced garlic (better than fresh for this purpose bc fresh overpowers with it’s juicyness) sprinkle lightly with salt and white pepper, sautee’ for 2 minutes and then off burner, toss with lemon and grated Parmasan reggiano cheese, oh yeah…!
Caroline plus! I’m so glad you have women to exercise with, let me know who gets bridge right, hint: it’ll be the one who’s ass and inner thighs feel worked manana! i know my recipes are not an exact science, I usually do not measure, I just mess around in the kitchen and good things happen.
I have another for you tomorrow that’ll be a staple veggie main or side dish for lunch, dinner, etc…I eat it 3x’s a week for lunch, this is a recipe cliffhanger, ever heard of it?!
Sorry for the lengthy diatribe, had much to say today, luv, Zen Lill
PS Al a mode’ and Howie, please make a comeback, did I piss you off with my 5 inch personality comment? Hope not, it was not intended for either of you : )
September 15th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Donald, of course the repugs will lie at every opportunity. Here’s the one I found.
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9/12 March ‘Tea Party’ Photo: False Image Spread By Anti-Reform Activists
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Tea Party protesters trying to tout the size of their march on Washington last weekend have been passing around a photo of a packed National Mall. But the picture is years old.
Politifact asked Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the D.C. Fire and Emergency Department, if the rally was big enough to fill that space. Piringer said no — and moreover, the picture can’t be from 2009.
“It was an impressive crowd,” he said. But after marching down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol the crowd “only filled the Capitol grounds, maybe up to Third Street,” he said.
Yet the photo showed the crowd sprawling far beyond that to the Washington Monument, which is bordered by 15th and and 17th Streets.
There’s another big problem with the photograph: it doesn’t include the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the corner of Fourth St. and Independence Ave. that opened on Sept. 14, 2004. (Looking at the photograph, the building should be in the upper right hand corner of the National Mall, next to the Air and Space Museum.) That means the picture was taken before the museum opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn’t show the “tea party” crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.
“I’ve seen bigger crowds at Montreal Expos games, but I still wouldn’t fake a photo just to justify your predictions of millions descending on Washington,” said one gleeful Democratic media strategist. “This is grade-A stupid and just plays into the argument that these were astroturf protests to begin with. They’ve always brought the noise, but the question that was supposed to be answered this weekend was, could they bring the numbers? In that respect this was an unmitigated disaster.”
The photo had been circulated on blogs and Twitter. A number of conservative blogs have since taken the photo down. Some have corrected their posts. Others say the circulation of the picture was a left-wing conspiracy to discredit the event. However, many of them are still claiming that at least a million people attended the march. Nate Silver estimates about 70,000 protesters showed up.
It isn’t the first failed attempt by the protesters to inflate the size of the event. On Saturday, organizer Matt Kibbe announced on stage that ABC News had estimated a crowd of 1 to 1.5 million. ABC News had reported no such thing.
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Trying to make 70k into 2 million takes huge gall. But when you are talking to the dimwitted it just might work. They were there, and they know there were no 100,000 people there. But those idiots will believe that there were if they are told not to believe there own lying eyes.
Janet
September 15th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Oh yes, and a shout out to barbara, Susan, Maple, Janet, Reba, Anna and chammarras, Uwella (did I forget anyone who wrote in? Yes, the French women, forgot names sorry…) – Ma Qin we already chatted, Caroline plus, too…hope you’re all hanging in as well!
Ah, it’s Stacey I’d really like to hear from. Stacey, how’s that ‘tubbo’ nickname thing going? I’d like to hear the word: ‘OVER” but if it’s not working that way, let me know, I have other methods to bring em’ around in a nice but firm way. maybe I should let it go but it’s women like Stacey that concern me most. – ZL
September 15th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Zen Lill
I can’t believe you remembered me. I have had a few bad moments. My mother-in law is not speaking to me. I asked her not to call me tubbo any more. She said that I was being too sensitive. So I said that I hope she would feel that way about the fact that for now own I will call her the Miss Abandoned since her husband left her for the their baby sitter.
She threw a fit and called me terrible names. That was the start. But I must say I feel a whole lot better now that I am speaking up for myself.
Thanks for all your help.
Stacy
September 15th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Zen Lill
You missed me. I am following your advice to the letter. So are my sisters. We are dedicated, determined and doing it daily.
Barber and the ZLers
September 15th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
I am with you Stacy. I told my family and friends to Bigomi. I said the next person who does will find that i have a moniker for them. Stick to your stance. Take no prisoners if they continue to disrespect you.
I won’t
Naiomi
September 15th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I am tired of Obama the nice. What we need is some Obama, the arm twister, the butt kicker, the head butter, and the intimidator. He’s a wonderful, intelligent person, but if he thinks he is going to get done what needs to be done, he needs to turn on some I am a big, bad mean dog who is going to chew up and spit out the people who threatening this country from within.
Kenye was what he said, but Wilson was every bit as bad, and Obama needs some spine and needs to stand up and fight Wall Street, the banks, and everyone standing in the way of a better America. For once, show some indignation and some anger when it is deserved.
September 15th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Barbara, you are the first name there, babes : ) and so glad to hear you and your sisters are ZL-in’ it!
Stacey! So glad you wrote in and Naiomi, too. Do what you must but I’d like to explain one thing, and I know you’ve been wronged so givin’ it back with a knife and a twist is sooo tempting…hear me out…I would urge you to stick with the broken record and not let up, no name-calling in return although Stacey I’m sure your MIL understands quite clearly now what being ‘too sensitive’ really means : ) no need to apologize for that in yer face shot – I guess what I’m saying is: let’s segue into walking softly and carrying a big stick ; ) and I’ll give you my pendulum theory now :smile: just bc it’s so appropo as a life thing. When we are treated/behave/been betrayed, etc…we tend to go to extremes to correct (actually an overcorrection but we don’t see that at the time) and that pedulum swings over the other way, so one day we’re allowing people to call us ‘tubbo’ and the next we’re standing in their face having a screaming match (nothing wrong with this in your case, stacey, you probably had a cathartic moment with it) – I just want you to have an awareness of the center point of that pendulem – that’s where no one (ok once in a great while) can ever throw you off your game no matter what they say or do. That center point is the commitment to follow through on this program and I mean it, give me a year of your time and you will be healthy body-mind-spirit, you won’t need that swinging pendulum thing again, a swinging something else : ), well perhaps – if that kind of thing makes you happy : ) and rarely will man/woman or child screw with you again bc you will be speaking the truth as you see it (nicely if you can), unencumbered by a need for their agreement/approval.
Thanks for taking the time to write in and keep me posted, ZL
September 15th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
TX
The only reason people are behind what Obama said to Kenye West is because West is a black man. If Obama had said the same thing about a white man the media and the rest of us whites would be all over him.
My farther says he likes the fact that Obama has shown he has some balls. But that’s because he finishes up the comment with those niggers need to kept under control. My sister’s response. She brags about her support of Obama.
But her response was “that poor white girl must have been scared to near death by that crazy black guy.” Its racial. But you will never hear the media heads or pundits say something a white person did was racial.
We wait for the injured party to say that so we can claim they are playing the race card. Then those like my sister and farther can feel justified siding with the white offender.
Lil George
September 15th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Zen Lill, I know that Al has been commenting daily for about a week. I myself just do not have much to add to anything lately.
As far as being insulted. Hell no. I am not sensitive about your comment on five inch personalities anymore. It is played out by now.
I am still here, checking in, and when I get the urge to comment, I will. You have not offended me in any way. OK?
HOWIE
September 15th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Zen Lill,
Very funny, HaHaHa, neither Howie nor myself are in the 5 high club. I mean, are you kidding me or what, and I have been putting something up on this blog everyday for the past week, at least. I’m just not holding a G note between my ass cheeks. But other than that, I like the sound of your program.
You go GIRLS.
Michelle,
Yes, you are not silly. Not at all.
Ruth,
Stuff like that happens to me every single day. I guess you are enjoying this series I am posting on the sorry state of our mass media. I have been reading your stuff as well.
Celeste,
I guess you are enjoying them as well. You know I have not verified any of those statistics. But I would bet they are fairly accurate.
Al
September 15th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Hey Michelle,
Got another for you.
“Diplomacy”
In the weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, U.N. weapons inspectors and the international community tried valiantly to come to a peaceful resolution. The effort was doomed from the start, as the U.S. wanted nothing to do with diplomacy, only to finish the war that Bush senior had started during his administration. While the trendy propagandistic catchphrases of weapons of mass destruction and terrorist support networks were thrown around to appease and pacify the public both here and abroad, the U.S. readied for the unprovoked invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation. The vehement and honorable French opposition to the war was openly mocked, going so far as a presidential mandate renaming french-fries and french toast as freedom-fries and freedom toast. Having not already burned enough diplomatic bridges, the U.S. proceeded to invade Iraq in spite of Germany’s stern misgivings and without U.N. sanction. Clearly American diplomacy is best expressed by cruise missiles and assault rifles.
Al
September 15th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Howie, sorry…and know that i did not put you and Al in the angry 5 club : ) so anyway, Hi.
Al, I’ve gotten so busy reading your content loaded comments as opposed to your funny more subjective comments that I forgot it was you commmenting in. I was having a blond moment, what can I tell you?! It happens…
- ZL
September 15th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Mischa, forgot BABE, years ago I had a whole series of gestures I used to dance out to that song about who’s making love to your old lady while you’re out making love, hahaha, guess you can imagine some of the moves ; )hahaha…ZL