I just finished watching HBO's "Grey Gardens". It is a movie based on the life and documentary of Edith Beale Sr and Jr. They're aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
It takes place in the very expensive area of East Hampton and Manhattan from the 1930s through the 1970s. It was more entertaining to me because of its location, I think. Although, eccentric people fascinate me.
Seeing Long Island in its splendor, albeit just some glimpses with the outdoor shots (which could've very well been photographed somewhere else completely) made me yearn for home.
Anyway, I've not the energy to complain about political issues today. So I just felt like expounding on this.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Sarah Palin, Redux
So she's given her 2 week notice. As of the end of this month, Sarah Palin will no longer be the governor of Alaska. From what I could extrude from the glop of goo coming out of her mouth, she cannot tolerate the "attacks" anymore. Plus, she is a lame duck (which must not be her style) and the media and bloggers were mean to her.
Lame duck, huh? I think this is very telling. If she were to run for another term as governor in 2010, then she'd not be considered a lame duck, would she? Of course, I'd like to bet Alaskans have seen the error of electing her and would never place her back in the governor's office. Yet, I can't imagine SP has this opinion.
So, calling herself a lame duck means she would not be pursuing a second term as governor. We all know how much she loved running for VP. Once you get a taste of the lower 48 it's hard to imagine retreating back to the frozen tundra.
I just read SP is threatening to sue an Alaskan for libel. This Alaskan is a blogger, a Huffington Post contributor and frequent source for MSNBC. Yup, she's a liberal. That's definitely the enemy camp. Those darn liberals can see things SP just can't. They have a remarkable ability to notice how many times SP has quit things (colleges, boards, and now a governorship). When things get tough, Sarah gives up!
I must say I am very disappointed. I enjoyed the superiority I felt to those who supported this woman. There are people who believe SP should be our next president! I can't imagine why. They claim she brings in crowds. Uh, yeah, but so does Britney Spears. Do you want her to be president, too? (I lifted that sentiment from another blog. I just can't remember which one).
Lame duck, huh? I think this is very telling. If she were to run for another term as governor in 2010, then she'd not be considered a lame duck, would she? Of course, I'd like to bet Alaskans have seen the error of electing her and would never place her back in the governor's office. Yet, I can't imagine SP has this opinion.
So, calling herself a lame duck means she would not be pursuing a second term as governor. We all know how much she loved running for VP. Once you get a taste of the lower 48 it's hard to imagine retreating back to the frozen tundra.
I just read SP is threatening to sue an Alaskan for libel. This Alaskan is a blogger, a Huffington Post contributor and frequent source for MSNBC. Yup, she's a liberal. That's definitely the enemy camp. Those darn liberals can see things SP just can't. They have a remarkable ability to notice how many times SP has quit things (colleges, boards, and now a governorship). When things get tough, Sarah gives up!
I must say I am very disappointed. I enjoyed the superiority I felt to those who supported this woman. There are people who believe SP should be our next president! I can't imagine why. They claim she brings in crowds. Uh, yeah, but so does Britney Spears. Do you want her to be president, too? (I lifted that sentiment from another blog. I just can't remember which one).
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Governor Mark Sanford
I've read and heard all the ups and downs of Gov. Sanford's disappearance and eventual return to South Carolina. He held a press conference and I watched it. Then I saw it in parts on many different shows the rest of the day.
Yes, he did wrong. What's worse, he's one of those holier than thou Republicans who has demanded that others, in similar situations, resign! And I agree to a certain point. If a political representative is whoring around I don't want him representing me. If he's managing his office and can keep his peccadilloes out of the public eye, then I guess I'm none the wiser.
What I saw yesterday was a man who was ill prepared for the press. That, along with the emails that were made public (between him and his lover) leads me to believe he is in love with this Argentinian woman.
Yes, his wife has stood beside him for 20 years. She doesn't deserve this. Yet, no one knows the condition of their marriage. It looks like he's planning on remaining the governor and trying to repair his marriage. That seems dishonest to me. I'd feel much better about him if he was honest. Told everyone that he loves this other woman and resigns from his office.
Yes, he has children. That is always the lynch pin in these matters. Perhaps he could arrange for his lover to move to the US (possibly with her children)? It's difficult, I know. After all, his wife knew about the affair, they split up with the idea that he'd get straight with his feelings. Why did he spend so long in Argentina or better yet, why did he go at all? I know I wouldn't trust he was over his affair if he just HAD to go there to break it off. No. I just detest forced reconciliations. They make me so uncomfortable.
Yes, he did wrong. What's worse, he's one of those holier than thou Republicans who has demanded that others, in similar situations, resign! And I agree to a certain point. If a political representative is whoring around I don't want him representing me. If he's managing his office and can keep his peccadilloes out of the public eye, then I guess I'm none the wiser.
What I saw yesterday was a man who was ill prepared for the press. That, along with the emails that were made public (between him and his lover) leads me to believe he is in love with this Argentinian woman.
Yes, his wife has stood beside him for 20 years. She doesn't deserve this. Yet, no one knows the condition of their marriage. It looks like he's planning on remaining the governor and trying to repair his marriage. That seems dishonest to me. I'd feel much better about him if he was honest. Told everyone that he loves this other woman and resigns from his office.
Yes, he has children. That is always the lynch pin in these matters. Perhaps he could arrange for his lover to move to the US (possibly with her children)? It's difficult, I know. After all, his wife knew about the affair, they split up with the idea that he'd get straight with his feelings. Why did he spend so long in Argentina or better yet, why did he go at all? I know I wouldn't trust he was over his affair if he just HAD to go there to break it off. No. I just detest forced reconciliations. They make me so uncomfortable.
Waaah, Waaah
What is wrong with Sarah Palin? No, I don't mean "I'm a liberal and she is my antithesis". I am serious. What the heck is wrong with her?
I just read about a satirical picture of her. It was originally of her holding her baby, Trig (lest you ever forget what one of her children's names is). The picture has been doctored so that a local conservative talk show host's face appears instead of Trig's.
It is obviously, to those of us with evolved brains, a commentary on how much this talk show host would love to be "cuddled" by the governor. It's called satire.
Well, as usual, Palin is whining. She claims the image is an iconic one showing the love between a mother and special needs child. She calls what was done DESECRATION! Isn't that word only used for sacred items and places?
This woman is a poor excuse for an adult. She doesn't understand satire. She blames President Obama for this "desecration" because it was done by a Democratic National Committee's official blogger in Alaska.
Just imagine. There was a chance, however slight, that this woman could've been our Vice President and, gulp, possibly our President. We dodged a bullet, a great big beehive hairdo bullet on that one folks.
I just read about a satirical picture of her. It was originally of her holding her baby, Trig (lest you ever forget what one of her children's names is). The picture has been doctored so that a local conservative talk show host's face appears instead of Trig's.
It is obviously, to those of us with evolved brains, a commentary on how much this talk show host would love to be "cuddled" by the governor. It's called satire.
Well, as usual, Palin is whining. She claims the image is an iconic one showing the love between a mother and special needs child. She calls what was done DESECRATION! Isn't that word only used for sacred items and places?
This woman is a poor excuse for an adult. She doesn't understand satire. She blames President Obama for this "desecration" because it was done by a Democratic National Committee's official blogger in Alaska.
Just imagine. There was a chance, however slight, that this woman could've been our Vice President and, gulp, possibly our President. We dodged a bullet, a great big beehive hairdo bullet on that one folks.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The Right Wing Mentality
I have not been quick witted enough to put it into words. Glenn Greenwald, at Salon.com has done it for me. http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/12/self_absorption/index.html
I agree profusely. The Right Wing is black or white, never any shades of gray. They don't empathize at all. They're just not right, I mean, correct.
I agree profusely. The Right Wing is black or white, never any shades of gray. They don't empathize at all. They're just not right, I mean, correct.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
This is why they're called 'Right' (gag)
Did you know that President Obama has failed? Yup, just 4½ short months after taking office, he has managed to ruin our economy, ruin our standing in the world by "apologizing" for the foreign policy mistakes made before he was inaugurated ('cause we know there weren't any mistakes), is currently ruining healthcare and what was he thinking by selecting Judge Sotomayor for the SCOTUS?
Former President Bush didn't send out tons of money to the financial sector. Obama did...and did so as quickly as possible. He must have made some promises to some bad actors on Wall Street. Our economy was swimming along just fine until President Obama lied to us and claimed that we needed to spend trillions and trillions of dollars to shore up our economy. He even had the audacity to claim we might fall into a depression similar to the one back in the 1930s! As if that could ever possibly happen again, LOL.
Then Obama proceeds to travel to foreign nations to apologize for our foreign policy of late. Doesn't he realize that Europe is permanently indebted to us for our aid in WWII? We saved their butts and they should be damn glad to be affected by anything our country does, such as starting wars or contributing to the economic condition of the world.
The Middle East should also be damn glad we stepped in to wrestle those weapons of mass destruction, er, um, to bring democracy to Iraq. We made a strategic point to ramp up our involvement in Iraq to make sure Saddam Hussein was removed from power and the citizens could bring him to justice. We'll get bin Laden, eventually. Our plan to allow enough time to pass that capturing bin Laden would be anticlimactic has worked out marvelously!
And this healthcare idea of his, what is he thinking? The people in this country, who have insurance, work darn hard for it. It's not our problem if some lazy people don't have it. They should pull themselves up by their bootstraps. We can't be expected to provide healthcare to all of our citizens! What first world country does that? The Constitution doesn't mention healthcare as one of our rights in this nation. It doesn't matter that health insurance was not even a concept when the Constitution was written. We should only do those things that our Founding Fathers deemed correct. After all, there's nothing more important that being a stagnant, unmoving country, which doesn't consider things outside the box. It's not like we have any people in place to ponder what really is suitable for our government to consider or implement.
And what's the deal with this racist, militant, vitriolic woman he has selected to be our next justice on the Supreme Court? She is a radical racist with aggressive tactics who obviously fooled people on her way through the educational system because she certainly couldn't have earned her Ivy League education and her position in her graduating class (not to mention her position on the Yale Law Review). Oh yes, there is something fishy going on there, for sure!
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Well, my tongue is now spasming for being in my cheek for this length of time. I am not a GOP admirer, duh. I am not a Democratic Storm Trooper, either (Star Wars reference, I do see the Dems' faults).
What I don't understand is how RW television and radio fans can really believe the tripe that is pumped into their ears. No one is as bad as they purport our president to be. Gosh, I hate to even type this but even GWB wasn't as bad as they claim our current president to be....well, he was close, but not quite.....
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President Obama was just on television explaining that he is trying to resurrect Pay as you Go. This plan worked for Clinton in the '90s and was dismantled. There are a number of financial institutions, which are prepared to repay taxpayers the bail out money they received, plus interest.
Good news!
Former President Bush didn't send out tons of money to the financial sector. Obama did...and did so as quickly as possible. He must have made some promises to some bad actors on Wall Street. Our economy was swimming along just fine until President Obama lied to us and claimed that we needed to spend trillions and trillions of dollars to shore up our economy. He even had the audacity to claim we might fall into a depression similar to the one back in the 1930s! As if that could ever possibly happen again, LOL.
Then Obama proceeds to travel to foreign nations to apologize for our foreign policy of late. Doesn't he realize that Europe is permanently indebted to us for our aid in WWII? We saved their butts and they should be damn glad to be affected by anything our country does, such as starting wars or contributing to the economic condition of the world.
The Middle East should also be damn glad we stepped in to wrestle those weapons of mass destruction, er, um, to bring democracy to Iraq. We made a strategic point to ramp up our involvement in Iraq to make sure Saddam Hussein was removed from power and the citizens could bring him to justice. We'll get bin Laden, eventually. Our plan to allow enough time to pass that capturing bin Laden would be anticlimactic has worked out marvelously!
And this healthcare idea of his, what is he thinking? The people in this country, who have insurance, work darn hard for it. It's not our problem if some lazy people don't have it. They should pull themselves up by their bootstraps. We can't be expected to provide healthcare to all of our citizens! What first world country does that? The Constitution doesn't mention healthcare as one of our rights in this nation. It doesn't matter that health insurance was not even a concept when the Constitution was written. We should only do those things that our Founding Fathers deemed correct. After all, there's nothing more important that being a stagnant, unmoving country, which doesn't consider things outside the box. It's not like we have any people in place to ponder what really is suitable for our government to consider or implement.
And what's the deal with this racist, militant, vitriolic woman he has selected to be our next justice on the Supreme Court? She is a radical racist with aggressive tactics who obviously fooled people on her way through the educational system because she certainly couldn't have earned her Ivy League education and her position in her graduating class (not to mention her position on the Yale Law Review). Oh yes, there is something fishy going on there, for sure!
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Well, my tongue is now spasming for being in my cheek for this length of time. I am not a GOP admirer, duh. I am not a Democratic Storm Trooper, either (Star Wars reference, I do see the Dems' faults).
What I don't understand is how RW television and radio fans can really believe the tripe that is pumped into their ears. No one is as bad as they purport our president to be. Gosh, I hate to even type this but even GWB wasn't as bad as they claim our current president to be....well, he was close, but not quite.....
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President Obama was just on television explaining that he is trying to resurrect Pay as you Go. This plan worked for Clinton in the '90s and was dismantled. There are a number of financial institutions, which are prepared to repay taxpayers the bail out money they received, plus interest.
Good news!
Strange People
Maybe I am the strange one? There's a poster at the migraine discussion forum I frequent who, to me, seemed to lash out strangely about a doctor who posts at the forum. Then he lashed out at those who called him on it. Later he lashed out at most everyone, telling them they weren't as intelligent as him.
I took it upon myself to start a new thread to lambaste this guy. It was similar to a mother grabbing her toddler who was having a tantrum and smacking him on the bottom. This guy needed to be taken to task for the irresponsible comments he made.
Luckily, most of the other posters agreed with my take on things. I saw some later posts by this guy which seemed to be more rational and then out of nowhere, he seemed to blow a gasket again!
I'm done with this. He's obviously not a rational person but there's nothing I can do about it. I have stuck my nose in it enough. If someone else gets fed up with him, maybe the moderator will be contacted. Until then, I'm staying away from this guy. I will cross the cyber street to avoid being within ear shot of his nonsense.
I took it upon myself to start a new thread to lambaste this guy. It was similar to a mother grabbing her toddler who was having a tantrum and smacking him on the bottom. This guy needed to be taken to task for the irresponsible comments he made.
Luckily, most of the other posters agreed with my take on things. I saw some later posts by this guy which seemed to be more rational and then out of nowhere, he seemed to blow a gasket again!
I'm done with this. He's obviously not a rational person but there's nothing I can do about it. I have stuck my nose in it enough. If someone else gets fed up with him, maybe the moderator will be contacted. Until then, I'm staying away from this guy. I will cross the cyber street to avoid being within ear shot of his nonsense.
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