Comin' up on Mud Season
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Well, for one: Howie's still first!
ReplyDeleteAnd for two: Helen and Margaret, lol!
The Elephant in the Room is a Kangaroo
Margaret, I really do like this President. He is young and smart… and I think he is trying his best under bad circumstances to do the right thing and create change for good. Not easy these days… Sort of like your convincing Howard that seeing a doctor annually at his age is still preventative medicine. You’ve both got a tough sales job ahead of you.
I really do appreciate his trying to reach across the aisle - as they say – and get Republicans to work towards bipartisanship. But honey, that dog just don’t hunt. Trying to reach bipartisanship with this particular Republican Party will probably achieve bipolarism instead of bipartisanship.
Harsh? Well yes maybe I am being a bit harsh. Part of the problem? Well maybe that too. After all bipartisanship requires a little give and take from both sides. So who am I to suggest that the problem is mainly with the Republicans?
ReplyDeleteGood questions all of them – particularly because I was the one who asked them. You know me, Margaret. I’m always trying to play both sides of the same issue. Well what do you expect from a woman who invented the all pie diet?
To all my Republican readers out there – I have had quite enough of your nonsense.
Your party gave us Sarah Palin and George W. Bush – dumb and dumber. He’s the guy whose mission still isn’t accomplished and she’s the gal who couldn’t handle being governor of one of our least populous states. Even the “professional” wrestler was able to finish the job in Minnesota.
Your party had an issue with President Obama telling school children to stay in school and study hard. I guess a black man can’t be trusted with your children regardless of his credentials. And your party decided the tradition of separating church and state had an expiration date. You love the constitution but you seem to pick through that document the same way you pick through the Bible – with all the effectiveness of eating corn on the cob through a picket fence.
We are actively involved in two wars, but you just can’t understand why the deficit is so big? Regardless of what you have been told, every time a bomb is dropped, an angel does not get her wings. Hint: Defense spending represents almost one quarter of all federal spending.
Today’s Republican Party has an issue with abortion, but then fights against healthcare reform knowing full well that more than 9 million children lack health insurance. A stretch argument to be sure, but then again 18 19 Children and Counting is a big hit.
My party at least recognizes the need for increased access to birth control. Your party is pro-life right up until they cut the cord and then you turn your attention to electing judges who promote shortening the waiting time on death row.
And for Pete’s sake your party has an issue with gay people, but you gladly send your straight children to war while telling gays they cannot serve. This one, more than any other, has me scratching my head. Aren’ t you just delaying their eventual trip to Hell?
You actually have Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck as your spokesmen. Rush Limbaugh? Are you serious? Even the NFL didn’t want Limbaugh. And Beck… Glenn Beck? When people use the expression ”nuttier than a fruitcake” Glenn Beck is the main ingredient.
The Republican Party of yesteryear was respectable. You were all about a small government that carried a big stick. Now you are just despicable. You used to be the Party of Lincoln and now – honest to God – you make Archie Bunker look progressive.
ReplyDeleteIf it wasn’t for Fox News you would be irrelevent. That’s right. You have become a party that owes its entire existence to a cable news channel owned by an Aussie. Your mascot should be a kangaroo instead of an elephant. After all, the last guy you sent to the White House arrived there thanks to a kangaroo court ruling rather than an election. He then spent the next 8 years bringing our nation to its knees. How about sitting down and shutting your damn pie holes long enough to see if the guy in office now can actually clean up your mess. Honestly, you are embarrassing yourself.
Look. My party has problems too. It’s biggest problem might be in attempting to please everyone, the Democratic Party seems to please no one. But diversity of opinions is something I am willing to work through. Bigotry and ignorance is not. I mean it. Really.
Helen, dear, one of the many things I love about you is your ability to see the positive in just about every situation. Now it might take you a while to get there and it might involve scalping a Republican or two along the way, but eventually you do and life is a much better place for it. Now, could you please just explain to me why my Howard thinks now is the perfect time to get a good deal on a new Toyota? Honestly, Helen, that man will be the death of me yet.
HAPPY MARCH 1st!
ReplyDeleteHAPPY NO MORE FEBRUARY!
HAPPY Howard Dean is still first! :-)
Happy we're heading home today.
Traveling mercies!
ReplyDeleteWoowhoo!! Much warmer and sunnier than predicted! And now the predictions for the whole week have changed, too. (Had about five days of snow in it; now just one. . . . )
ReplyDeleteCelebrating the beginning of March with temps in the mid 40's. It would be nice if this continued...
ReplyDeleteWatched Ben Her last night. Not a bad movie at all; though I think I liked Sparticus better. Some bits were to visual though. I'll have to try and get the book. The Robe was a much better book than movie IMo BTW. I liked Quo Vadis. Was that a book too?
Over the weekend I read In The Woods by Tana French. This is a mystery/Suspense set in and around Dublin, published in 2007. Good story, well written, but unsatisfying ending. Two of the three recently published Suspense novels I've read are like that. It must be the latest fad. Not to my taste. Also finished The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe. Talk about a disappointing ending! Poe cops out pure and simple. Claims the last few chapters of the manuscript were lost. That's serious cheating! It's much worse than claiming, as John Masefield does at the end of The Box of Delights, for instance, that the whole thing was a dream. I thought Poe had more honor than that. Continuing with The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and still enjoying it. Haven't gotten back to The Idiot. But, I'm in Part IV, so must be nearing the end. Will probably finish it sometime this week. I don't really understand the actions and motivations of the characters. But, it's definitely a worthwhile read.
Cat, sounds like you're going a mile a minute. Me? Just waiting for enough snow melt to get out of my driveway and to town. I can't believe how empty my freezer is looking, lol!
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Empty freezer, not good. I sure hope you can get out soon!
ReplyDeleteA mile a minute? well, no. Just an insomniac. I can't get it together to do much of anything.
No problem, Cat: plenty of boxed goods, bagged goods, canned goods. This lady ain't likely to to go hungry. Nor is her cat. Just getting a biggol case of cabin fever. . . .
ReplyDeletePuddle, cabin fever I can grok.
ReplyDeleteFrom his FB posts, it sounds like Charlie is pretty down. If anybody can call him, now might be a good time. It might cheer him up. I presume he has a cell phone? I hope so, anyway. He's currently in Kissimmie.
ReplyDeleteCharlie's candle page:
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Graps
testing...
ReplyDelete♜ ♝ ♞ ♟ ♠ ♡ ♢ ♣ ♤ ♥ ♦
Are you playing chess or cards? [grin]
ReplyDeletePuddle, I enjoyed the moon photos and the poems, especially Saturday's poem. Love the image of a saber tooth tiger with a song in his ear.
ReplyDeleteHi Bill!
ReplyDeleteHi Bill!
ReplyDeleteNo, I was trying to figure out the Ascii code for a shamrock so I could post some on Ally's family website. :-) ♣
Thanks as always, puddle!!! ♡ ♣ ♡
ReplyDeleteThanks! ♥ Got in safely around 8:00pm. :~)
ReplyDeleteAh, thank you! I'm especially fond of the unicorns with pomegranate stains on their lips. . . . That image has showed up in several poems now, lol!
ReplyDelete"The oldest known iconographic representation of an instrument displaying the essential features of a guitar is a 3,300 year old stone carving of a Hittite bard."
ReplyDeleteWow!
Liked that too. It reminded me of the unicorn song, you know the one I mean...
ReplyDeleteThere were green alligators and long necked geese
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and elephants but sure as you're born,
The loveliest of all was the unicorn.
The pomegranate wine explains a lot. 8)
hugs back ♥
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