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Spent sat. aft. in the 2 shops, where I buy most of our *rags*, preaching from my stool in
back of counter, about the evils of repugs and make believe Dems, a la Mark Pryor....
set me to thinking....wouldn't it be nice to hear a man or woman on the stump say;
1. I don't want to be in your town or even in your shitty state & if elected will never come
here again.
2. None of your damn business who I shag, FK, or blow.
3. Where and when I go to church is my private business, ditto for praying.
4. I can't promise you a damn thing.
5. I can't bowl, jog, swim, play basketball, football or tiddly winks. When I retire, for the night,
I'm on the net looking at porn.
6. All babies are ugly and disgusting and I refuse to hold/kiss any one of them.
7. A lapel pin is just a piece of tin that won't make me a better american even if I stuck one
up my ass.
8. I don't even like most of you silly sheep and never want to see you again.
9.My wife/husband is a fridgid robot who I intend to cheat on, if we don't get divorced.
10. I detest guns, country music, nascar, wrestling, monster cars, hypocrits, all the
Huckabucks and Duggers and Jerry Cox and fundies.
Wonder how far any truth teller would go????

Don't know how much the politicians would cotton to all that truth telling, jazzy, but it sho' nuff sounds good to me.

Damn, jazzy, that was sweet. How far would they go? 'bout as far as a real severance tax in Arkansas. . .

jazzy, he/she could go far up in the ReichLand of Benton County, if the candidate says s/he is Republican.
A ham sandwich could be elected to office in the Reichland so long as it's a Republican.

And the no mo taxes bit. The Reichland doesn't even buy into that anymore. They're very willing to raise taxes for more big truck bypasses. See name.

Last week the big island in Hawaii made all beaches, parks, and recreational areas smoke free. Let the LR parks people know that public space is for the public not the tobacco industry.

Jazzy - you know I always love your posts, but who is Jerry Cox? Am I behind the curve?

Goof, he's the anti-gay,,,,Family Research Center guy..????? I blank on the title of his org.,
someone help me.
Just watched Craig Fergerson on c-span.......he hit repugs and Dems.........
of course, idiotmoron was his usual goofy (no insult to you) self.

OK Jazzy, it's Saturday night. Tell me a good story about New Orleans.

jazzy, that is an interesting proposition that you have run up the flag pole.

However, my personal opinion is that anyone who doesn't (1) like babies, (2) enjoy meeting and being around people, and (3) who doesn't respect his/her spouse has no reason asking for my vote as I don't think they are qualified to hold public office.

I don't trust folks who don't like people, children, or their spouse.

Max,
Not that I'm trying to blame this on you - it is due to my own drunkedness and inattention - but maybe its not such a good idea to put an open line so close to a School Board post.
Those people up there on the next one, who have some genuine interest in the welfare & education of their lit'lins around the Rock, might be a little shocked to see a post on there about my brother's copropheliac dog.

I don't either, Old Blue Eyes, that is my point, I think what I imagine is exactly what many of
them would like to say, if they told their true feelings and quit pandering for votes, might be
refreshing.
Goof, N'Awlens....well, I had just turned 23 when we transferred there. Everything ok till we
drove south of Alexandria and I began to think I wasn't in Kansas anymore. Quite a culture
shock, the heavy, humid air, fields of sugarcane, instead of a baptist church on every corner
there was a bar, open 24/7, ocean going ships, in Mississippi, riding as high as the levee,
people I couldn't understand and who couldn't understand me, friday night football games
played on sunday afternoon and a priest there to bless the catholic boys, shopping for
groceries in Schegmanns, a huge local business with a bar taking up half the space....cajuns
shopping w/all the kids, drinking beer, with 25 lbs. bags of rice and red beans.....I felt
ashamed of my 5 lb. bag of red potatoes.
H turned into A,,,,Herbert was no longer Herbert,but, Abear, I was no longer Patricia but
Patrice, and every other word ended in letter X.....learning all the local food, I thot no
human could ever think of eating, and finding out that every dish starts with a ROUX.
Enough tonight,,,,here's a song for you........
CLICK

Another favorite saying of mine is:

"Never trust a young man who cannot cry or an old man who cannot laugh."

AMEN, OBE, I cry at Walmart openings and movies about kids or animals. I put on a tough
exterior but, am all mushy pudding inside,,,,men should learn this from us women folk,
a good bawl is a cleansing for the soul, and, makes a stronger man.
Too bad we raised our sons NOT TO CRY. I'm sorry I did but, I was so young and green and
knew no better.
We learn our lessons too late.

jazzy.....if'n we ever meet face to face I'm gonna kiss you on both cheeks and maybe in the middle too! You are simply a delightful human being.

If you have a some time to learn and are interested and are having a bright moment so you can digest complicated conversation, click on my name to watch Bill Moyers talk to Obama's preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I can't for the life of me disagree with Rev. Wright and generally I'm not terrible fond of preachers.

Also I posted a nasty anti-Obama email on the Billiken blog that I received tonight which is supposedly from some missionaries in Kenya. It has been proved to be a hoax at snopes.com. I got it from one of the Greatest Generation that Fox News loves to scare and make total fools of. At times, I'm not sure this country is worth saving.

Not much talk about Governor Beege (big gas) and the 80 million dollar shortfall at the student loan foundation. I can't believe the media isn't holding him accountable for his gas giveaway. We could really use those extra millions of dollars that a tough, well-spoken man of the people might have attempted to gain.... Click my name for a nice discussion on the subject.

Thanks, DBI, I could go for that smoochy stuff.
I always watch Moyers and can't fault the preacher man either as, I think I know what
he had in mind when he made his remarks,,,,G-damn the stupid media, american people for
letting a retardedidiotmoron, and his vice, run rough shod over OUR country w/out nary
a word.
Power was off 2 hours this morn,,,,G-damn Entergy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a nice day, now I have to go to Kroger 'n see if theres anything I can afford, might
have to sell my body for a sack of flour.

Don't sell it, jazzy, just sub-let it!

Racist remarks should never be tolerated
even when made by a pastor that grew up
being treated as a second class American.
Such comments just keeps racism going.
How you can claim you want to lead this
country and bring it together when you
provided zero leadership for 20 years on
a personal level?

Bold, I don't think you've actually spent any time listening to Rev. Wright. It sounds like you've listened to those talking ABOUT Rev. Wright...which gives a different picture than the one I've got after investing the time in studying this man who said Goddamn America.

Rev. Wright is often called a white hating racist because he dares to tell blacks that they don't have to accept the white man's view of black history. As he points out, the victors write our history books, so we rarely ever get history as seen by those not resting comfortable atop the heap. When he tells black people to be unapologetically black.....it scares the socks off us white folks. But in what I've read and listened to, he's telling black people to rise up and be responsible and proud...not kill whitey.

His sermon delivered right after 9-11 beautifully condenses exactly what I was thinking after I saw that 2nd plane hit the tower on my TV set. America's chickens are coming home to roost.....actually what I said was SHIT! But Rev. Wright summed up my feelings much more eloquently.

Rev. Wright actually lifted the phrase, America's chickens are coming home to roost from watching Ambassador Edward Peck, former Ambassador to Iraq and a white man. He caught Peck on TV the day before explaining why, in his opinion America had been attacked. Here is a little of what Rev. Wright said and I can't find fault with any of it. Ma always told me what you sow so shall ye reap. On 9-11, tragically, the American chickens came home to roost and we did a powerful amount of reaping.

"We took this country by terror, away from the Sioux, the Apache, the Arowak, the Comanche, the Arapaho, the Navajo. Terrorism. We took Africans from their country to build our way of ease and kept them enslaved and living in fear. Terrorism. We bombed Granada and killed innocent civilians, babies, non-military personnel. We bombed the black civilian community of Panama with stealth bombers and killed unarmed teenagers and toddlers, pregnant mothers, and hardworking fathers. We bombed Qaddafi's home and killed his child. Blessed are they who bash your children's head against a rock. We bombed Iraq. We killed unarmed civilians trying to make a living. We bombed a plant in Sudan to payback for the attack on our embassy, killed hundreds of hardworking people, mothers and fathers who left home to go that day not knowing that they would never get back home. We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye. Kids playing in the playground, mothers picking up children from school, civilians, not soldiers, people just trying to make it day by day.

We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and Black South Africans and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

DBI I have heard him plenty. He and others
like him, keep the racial problems in this
country going. It's up to the rest of us
to tell them to be constructive and not
flame the fires. All the good a person
has done in their lives doesn't undo the
damage caused by their racists and
hateful comments.

Your comment mentions his criticisim
of the US. Well, my comment did not.
You might want to take note of that.

"He and others
like him, keep the racial problems in this
country going. It's up to the rest of us
to tell them to be constructive and not
flame the fires."

My Dad is over 80. He's a nice man--even tender nowadays--well-liked, polite, law-abiding, and respectful of others for the most part.

Back in September when we were observing the 50th Anniversary of the desegregation of Central, I asked my Dad for his perpective on things in those days. He had two young children not yet in grade school, and my mother was over 8 months pregnant with a third. I would come a few years later.

He said, "We didn't have any problems with the blacks. They went to their own schools, their own churches, and everyone got along. You remember I was friends with so-and-so (a black man he worked with--kind of a gopher as I recall from later years). But I don't think they needed to do all that they did (with the schools). I think the nine that started school that year were sincere, but twenty years later THOSE black kids were just uppity. Do you remember when your cousin "Jane" was walking up the stairs at Central and that black boy reached under her skirt and pulled her pubic hair?"

They're not all Roosevelt Thompsons, he said.

No. I didn't remember the story about my cousin. But I did have my father confirm for me that everyone got along as long as "they" moved to their side of the sidewalk; as long as they lowered their eyes when they passed; as long as they didn't cause any trouble.

The way my Dad saw things, the black boy who reached under my cousin's skirt in the '70s obviously did so because he was black--not because he was a teenaged male.

It was extremely frustrating and disheartening to me that my father couldn't see the difference between a whole race of people being treated so differently, that it wasn't a matter of uppitiness, but of abject inequality.

So, as bold/blue says, it's people like Rev. Wright--fanning those flames of racism--who keep the racial problems going in this country. Those people are supposed to know their place in society.

Ah, jazzy...you had me back in Louisiana...and it made me hungry, of course!

I spent one loong summer in Homer LA (even got pregnant there...ha); and come back thinking it was it was a place without much middle ground, the best/worst of many things. Of course the food made up for 99 percent of the bad...delicious, homemade and always with a cold beer. (I don't remember going anywhere where beer wasn't served...yeah.) I honestly didn't know that shrimp could taste that great and I've had my fair share of coastal shrimp. We even hauled home enough to get us through the winter and it was delicious to the last shell! I think I ate my way through the summer. I loved the old homes/graveyards. I loved the history. I loved the food. I loved the friendliness/liveliness of the folk. (Who could not love people who find reason to celebrate just about everything!) I loved the food. I LOVED New Orleans...how could anyone think of not making her whole again? I disliked the sexist cajun men...damn, like stepping into a time warp. (They did make Arkansas men seem especially enlightened) I disliked the constant smell of rotting trash/stagnant water, too; it seemed to be everywhere. Maybe things have changed but at that time Louisianians littered their roads/byways like the garbage can was a cultural affront. Oh well, the shrimp/cold beer and happy folk made me very happy!

I LOVED THE FOOD!!

Speaking of...you're right, jazzy, use to be going to the store was more about deciding what you wanted to eat and what was best, nutritionally-wise, for the family...with some budgeting. Now it's about me standing there gawking at the $2 a lb onions...or the $4 loaf of good wheat bread. Now it's about whether we're going to be forced to eat cheap crap or get to continue eating healthy food. Kind of like 25 million families a week 'choosing' to lose their homes.) Then there's the gas station... Thank you President Shit for Brains and thank your incompetent band of Republican nincompoops!

Zelda, did you mean Homer or Houma?? Homer is just south Arkansas, now, Houma is down
yonder in my former neck of the woods, and, yes very cajun.
Goof likes my stories, had g'parents on Louisa or Julia st., in the city.
I got preggy, first time, at Ft. Sill, OK.....thot I had a tumor growing in my belly.
Those military docs are/were some mean s.o.b's

Oh lordy, jazzy, sometimes I shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard...it's Houma. Some days I'm lucky to remember my own name, much less know what I'm talkin' about!

How's your weekend? Enjoyed today...though it was cold, at least the biting things were kept at bay. Planted flowers...made me feel good/happy...child's alive...good friends/loved ones...ahhh...a glass of wine!

Zelda, I knew it had to be Houma,,,,ain't no cajuns or shrimp in Homer....ha
Get some rest honey.

"Those people are supposed to know their place in society."

Racist remarks by whites or blacks have no
place in our society if we are ever going to
try to heal this country. Your suggestion
that my condemning hateful comments by
someone that is black is trying to keep
him in his place is racist. Obama talks
about moving beyond divisions yet he,
and people like you, apparently don't
really mean it. Racist comments have
no place regardless the color of the
person making them. We should all
know our place in society and making
racist comments is not it.

You use the word "racist" four times in one short paragraph, The Bold and The Blue, as you have used it many times above, and yet you don't have any specific reference to what you call "racism".

I don't think you're talking about racism. I think you're talking about race.

You use the word "racist" four times in one short paragraph, The Bold and The Blue, as you have used it many times above, and yet you don't have any specific reference to what you call "racism".

I don't think you're talking about racism. I think you're talking about race.

"Those people are supposed to know their place in society."

Sheesh, wo/man! You just don't get it, do you? Earlier in the thread you said of Rev. Wright:

"He and others
like him, keep the racial problems in this
country going. It's up to the rest of us
to tell them to be constructive and not
flame the fires."

You make it sound as if a person brings up race or talks about racial inequality on any level, that person is "flaming the fires" of racism. By this line of thought Martin was flaming the fires until he was gunned down. How dare he!

Hugh are you mentally challenged?
Can you read and comprehend?

I SAID:

Racist remarks by whites or blacks have no
place in our society if we are ever going to
try to heal this country.

I am talking about anyone that makes
racist comments. I'm not talking about
anyone that brings up the topic of
racisim. Stick to what I have said and
stop trying to claim I've said something
I didn't.

Ok let me dumb this down for you so you
can understand:

You don't fight racism by making racist
comments yourself.

Mkay dude, thanks for dumbing it down for me.

Rev. Wright fights his own battles how he sees fit, and his perspective as a black man is different from mine as a white man. I don't defend everything he says, but I also don't just write it off because I disagree with his approach. And I certainly don't disagree with everything he has said.

Well I don't think you have to be black
to condemn racially divisive comments
but Obama has and he's black. Does
he pass your test of eligibility to criticize
Wright?

The bottom line is that regardless what
you think about the comments, Obama's
lack of leadership for 20 years has lost
him a lot of votes. If he is the nominee,
Republicans will not have to work hard
to use it to their advantage.

You can keep your head in the sand and
keep attacking me for pointing this out
all you want. It won't change reality.

Keep attacking you?

*snort*

I liked what I heard Wright say today on the radio, which I'm going to paraphrase: "I'm not divisive; I'm descriptive."