Open Thread – Magnet of the Day
Sarah Palin likes to quote bumperstickers all the time, but I thought this magnet said it all. It was found in a little shop in Galena, IL by Mudflatter Sue who passed it along via email. It was the last one in stock, and she bought it!
It was kind of nice to take a day off today, sort of. It would have been nicer had I not spent the day filing. But it must be done once in a while to appease the gods.
Oh, that’s good. And true, too, also, in there.
Sarah doesn’t quote bumperstickers so much as she steals the material, hoping few will notice or remember.
If that counts as a ‘kick in the gut’, you’re welcome, Sarah.
That’s funny, I don’t care who you are.
@JCos — BTW, I quite liked your comment back on the Andrea thread:
“They asked this young woman if she felt uncomfortable playing a character with the same condition she has? Would you ask an Irish person if they feel uncomfortable playing someone from Ireland, you egregious assholes?”
I had the same reaction, but you’ve expressed it much better than I would have.
The NYT has started down the same slope as the WaPo — valuing reaction more than facts — so I suppose they are already on their way to hell.
Happily, Ms Friedman was utterly unfazed by the stupid question.
PRICELESS
Snap!
I wish President Obama was a magical creature who could wave his wand and make universal healthcare happen. And any number of other progressive concerns materialize. Oh, well. At least we have a president who understands science. President Obama Explains The Science Behind Climate Change http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPwHnU5ObPY&feature=player_embedded
This was too funny – I had to post it on my Facebook page with a shout out to Mudflats!
I NEED ONE!!! Sorry about the capitals, but it was necessary. Where can I get my very own…. That would be a sure fire laugh a day.
Great magnet! As much as I have my doubts about some of Obama’s policies and actions (namely, bowing to foreign leaders), this magnet’s message is so true! At least our president is hanging in, fighting as he sees best. $$$arah wouldn’t have made it through the inauguration speech…a hand palm can only hold 4 items, as long as one is crossed out. Where can I buy one?
i think i would put that on my car! of course it’s true. i tire of the lies coming out the other side. http://mediamatters.org/columns/201002190052 – here’s a nice round-up of the crap flying at the wingnut convention. along with others who have posted here, i have had it up to here with the disrespect they show to the president. dems would have been crucified during gw’s reign if they had been as contemptuous toward him, and he deserved it. in fact he and most of his administration, some of whom are still on the stage spewing their hate- and greed-filled vitriol, deserve worse than contempt. prison. they should be in prison.
Ms. Friedman sets the record straight, smacks down Palin and say Sarah hurt HER feelings. Thwap!!!
Watch it @ Palingates
I like that! Made my day. Thank you, AKM.
Or you can watch it here
http://www.theinsider.com/news/3204244__Family_Guy_Actress_Says_Sarah_Palin_is_Chasing_Votes
I just realized I said, “$$$arah wouldn’t have made it through the inauguration speech”. Boy, was I being nice. What I really meant to say is that she would have peed her panties long before the speech, and gone stark raving running towards the nearest limo. Yup, the limo to the airport, so she could board her chartered jet which would whisk her to her cabin in Alaska. Maybe then she’d remember Trig’s name, or even recognize her long-abandoned child. Also maybe, too, even scribble out a check for the unpaid property taxes.
Ah filing. The proof that the chaos theory really is a law.
Strangelet
“Happily, Ms Friedman was utterly unfazed by the stupid question.”
Sadly she has probably been asked that question many many time, in various forms. I guess its natural since non ADA persons can’t really know what situations might be uncomfortable or not.
At least better to ask than not ask. But you were making a point about an interview. Interviewers often ask stupid questions. There could have been a better way to get to that answer and a better interviewer would have done so.
Simply asking how she as a actress viewed the character she was playing would probably have gotten a more complete answer as it would have been asking about her thought processes, and would have been less personal.
Buzzflash has a 2×3 magnet but no bumper sticker.
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/2053
Also the Palin coloring book
We seem to be forgetting that Sarah did not run against Barack Obama; she was simply on the Republican ticket as a vice-presidential candidate. We don’t vote for vice-president.
Comparing her to President Obama (She would have quit by now) is a slap in the face to President Obama.
President Obama defeated John McCain in the Presidential election; Sarah just happened to be along for the ride.
I hate it when people (almost all of the Republicans) elevate her to ‘Presidential status’, as if SHE was the one running against President Obama.
Now that that’s off my chest; I agree if McCain had won, and she were his appointed Vice-President; yes, she would have quit by now.
http://www.ephemera-inc.com/search.asp?mode=results
Is the company that makes the stickers. They do show the magnet but not the bumper sticker.
Whispering (I think I remember that AKM said hubby had a gift shop, maybe he could order a bunch, as that one shop probably did, and let AKM sell some)
on the flats.
Doesn’t our President Obama have the nicest, warmest smile. When it was early days in the campaign and Hillary had dropped out, I started paying close attention to this young man of whom I knew nothing. And to paraphrase Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the things I learned.” But what hooked me the most was that smile – it goes all the way to his eyes, it’s in his whole face. I knew from that that he was a geniune person and spoke from his heart. Some people only smile with their mouths. I don’t trust them. You know who I mean.
I posted this on an earlier thread, but it seems appropriate to reprise it here. Some blogger found the source of Palin’s hopey/changey quote at the tea baggers convention on a t-shirt manufactured a year ago!
http://www.zazzle.com/obama_hopey_changey_thing_tshirt-235722371109427113
If you scroll down you find that if was manufactured on 3/28/2009!!!
@ NY Dem, # 17: Good point, NY Dem. It irks me when, too, when Palin fans immediately counter any criticism of Sarah with “But Obama did this & that & the other thing…” as though comparing apples to oranges makes any sense.
My first act of today was reading Slate. All mudflatters should check in and read Dave Cullen’s article on Auustin pilot/bomber Joe Stack, “Inside the Mind of Joe Stack; Seven Deadly Traits”. Mr. Cullen lists seven pyschological traits Stack shared with The Unibomber, Tim McVeigh, and Columbine mastermind Eric Harris. It is a chilling look at what drives killers, and even more frightening is that the traits that Cullen explores describe Palin to a T. I wish I could provide the link here, but if you just loo on to slate.com, you’ll find it.
Seven Deadly Traits
Narcissism/egocentricity
Grandiosity
Martyr/injustice collector
Superiority masking self-loathing (projection)
Isolationist thinking
Construing selfishness as selflessness
Helplessness/hopelessness
Had McCain been elected, Palin would find the VP role too boring – not enough visibility. So if she quit, and if McCain decided to go all mavericky and leave the presidency – wouldn’t Nancy Pelosi be president?
Putting a link on to Gail Collins op ed in the NYT. I have to say that it looks like our new Senator Brown (who has yet to put up a web site so he can be contacted) has about as much control over his mouth as Sarah Palin.
She also writes of our former Governor Romney. What the &^#$% are “liberal neo-monarchists”? Oh, and I had managed to forget that he had strapped down his dog on the roof of his car when they were coming home from a vacation . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/opinion/20collins.html
LiladyNY, I so agree about the smile. So much like the smile of Nelson Mandela, my former President.
OT: but you can get signed copies of the Sarah Palin coloring book through the author’s website at http://www.goingrouge.net/
I asked him to personalize mine.
And, the crayons are supposed to be pretty funny too, I’ve heard.
Good Morning Mud pups,
Completely Off Topic. This is for Dog lovers. I watch this movie last night on the Internet and it’s so good. Have plenty of Kleenex ready. Click on link, may take a few to load. Close advertisement in the middle of screen ( top right click on x) Click arrow in middle of screen movie will start playing. Enjoy !
http://www.videoweed.com/file/afaqbce1zztkm
” Hachiko: A Dog’s Story ”
Staring Richard Gere a December 2009 movie
A Drama based on the true story of a college professor’s bond with a abandoned dog he takes into his home.
…I’m not sure Palin would have quit…think of all the per deim she would have been able to collect by working from her kitchen in Wasilla !!
Tnx, NewfyDogs for the link to Gail Collins’ column – she does so well what so sorely needs to be done: refuse to take fools seriously. And with such graceful satire!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/opinion/20collins.html
Sarah quitting within a few months was probably something John McCain was counting on. She would join the ranks of VPs who resigned in office (John C. Cahoun and Spiro Agnew) and McCain would appoint his first choice, Joe Lieberman. All he had to do was make sure he didn’t die before Sarah decided she’d had enough.
I saw the “How’s that Hopey-Change thing working out for you?” quote on a bumper sticker on a car parked in the lot of a Wilmington NC Harris Teeter, maybe three or four months ago. Hated it then, hated it even more when Sarah said it as if she’d thought of it all by herself. An honest person would have acknowledged the obscure bumper sticker writer.
I’ve never thought about this before, but I also love our president’s smile. It is genuine and joyful and from the heart, not the “heh-heh-heh” snarky smile that we got all the time for George W. Makes me smile, just thinking about it.
Slight sideways tangent in this here Open Thread…
Knowing how much stock some folks place in the power of prayer to affect (and effect) healing, do you suppose that’s a major part of the ‘plan’ for the Quarter-Governor’s youngest son?
We know, already, there’s a prediliction in the family towards prayer and/or laying-on of hands to cast out witches and other undesirable elements from their persons ~ would it be plausible to assume they’re also employing that as a major component of ‘healing’ and/or a ‘cure’ for youngster’s DS?
Frankly, it’s the *only* explanation I can come up with for *why* ¼-G has not availed herself of the incredible publicity that would come, guaranteed, from her *actually being* a relentless advocate for DS/”special needs” families. If she truly were of a mind that medical and science interventions were, indeed, *essential and necessary* for DS/sn to reach their full potentials, she would be all over it like white on rice. She’d be the caped-crusader, the ‘face’, for all families with DS/sn members…and rightfully so.
Her NOT relentlessly advocating for the medical and/or scientific interventions *proven* to be effective for DS/sn (and crusading for the funding needed to advance and deliver, said), says, to me, that she doesn’t really believe in them.
To give her credit, she knows *her* ‘brand’ of xianity is *not* ‘mainstream’…or even close to being ‘in compliance’ with that of [her base] fundies. If she’s using/counting on/employing *prayer* from *her* sect as a major component of getting her youngest child ‘help’, it would be no wonder she didn’t trumpet that to the world…it would turn too many people off (aka: scare the bejeezers out of them.)
Undoubtedly, SP could –and would!– receive the attention, praise, and adoration she craves from people *across the board* (regardless of their political and/or religious affiliation) IF she were to throw herself into that role, IF she were to actually advocate fully for DS/sn families. Her ‘fan club’ would be –again, rightfully so!– enlarged by orders of magnitude!
But she *isn’t* doing that ~ instead, she’s fiddle-farting around with a very small group of people who are beginning to see she’s not quite the political whiz and/or ‘expert’ she’s put herself out to be. I’m just a’wondering, given her professed reliance on G-d in ALL things and from what we’ve already seen of her sect and their beliefs: Is she seeking the majority of ‘help’/'a cure’ for her youngest *from* her sect’s prayer-warriors/prayers/laying-on of hands, and because such a ‘plan’ is so counter-sanity and so whack-o, is she, therefore, unable to ‘share’ *her* plans for Trig’s so-called ‘therapy regimen’ with anyone? That sure would explain a lot.
Yup, I’m just a’wondering. beth.
Saw a car with Maryland plates not long ago with a thought-provoking bumper sticker: Sarah Palin, the new Aaron Burr.
ds55 @ 21: the reason they attack Obama instead of defending Palin is because… ?
(yeah, I know the answer, too)
Yes, he has a genuine smile.
I’m grateful that President Obama was elected and not the Palin ticket. The Palin’s not the McCains presidency. I’ve forgotten how she called it, making it apparent she regarded McCains tenure in the White House as a very short stint in office, since SHE was meant by her personal god to be POTUS,
She once joked that the governor wouldn’t have to worry about poison, if she got the secondary position in Alaska.
I always thought it a very reavealing remark.
I’m a cat person, but there’s no way in hell I’d ever stop bringing up Romney’s torture of the family dog. What an ass he is for that alone. It tells you more about his character or lack of it that he would do something like that to an animal.
How would he treat people who are essentially defenseless? I don’t want to find out. I will help those who run against him to prevent him from holding office because you can’t trust someone like that. Or $P.
The best ones are always true, aren’t they?
I’m in! I’d love to be able to go in person but……this works!
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But Melanie Shouse never gave up fighting for reform, and neither can we. Sign up now to be part of our virtual march
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??? Is there any word out about the property tax issue for those cabins ?? or will we have to wait until the annual tax bill is sent out to see what the bourough puts the value at ?
Sarah is absent for the CPAC meeting, where anyone who wants to have a voice in that side of politics seems to be right now. If she was seriously thinking of the possibility of maybe considering running for president in 2012, she is missing. Sarah will trot out one of her well worn phrases: “It would be absurd not to consider the possibility,” or “You would have to be naive to believe…” as a way to generate donations to her PAC.
As for the quitting stuff, look at the criticism, satire, political cartoons and editorial comments that are lodged against President Obama on a daily basis. If Sarah couldn’t take a joke on TV or stand up to the scant bit of scrutiny paid to her as governor, she wouldn’t have made it past the first week in a higher office. She is too thin skinned to ever be a serious political candidate again.
Sarah Palin’s Irish cousin disowns her.
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Sarah-Palins-Irish-cousin-disowns-her-84843802.html
Dear AKM et al, my commiserations re: filing.
Marnie @15 sums it up nicely “Ah filing. The proof that the chaos theory really is a law.”
I’m more of a piler than a filer, much like my dear daddy. I realized I was moving piles into boxes to tidy up, and that there are at least 5 file cabinets in my nest, with “archives” reaching back to the ’60s…shades of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
Oy, vey! Turned to DH Happy one day and asked him where I should start. He handed me a book of matches! (He knew I can be a bit eccentric when he married me, and just rolls his eyes muttering, “for better and for worse.”)
Fortunately my mama’s never been much of a collector so there is some recessive, dormant possibility that someday, I, also, too… But for now, baby steps. All, er, Most, of the boxes and piles are now gathered in the “study.” I tackle at least one pile or box or drawer every day, some little, some big. Bags of paper have been recycled and a few buried treasures have resurfaced and I can see floor in the study again. Learning (Home Schooling, there, you betcha) to let go and be more deliberate about what I pick up in the first place, contrary to my crow nature.
Filing (sorting) is much like laundry and dishes and library work; even when I’m done, just turn around and here we go some more!
*shaking it off*
It’s a beautiful day in the forest.
Wishing you all Shalom Bayit, Peace at Home.
Oh, and like Our President and Our Rachel and Our Andrea, with Learning and Working and Laughing and Chores, I don’t quit!
Also. Too. wink wink You Betcha!
Happy wants a bumper sticker for PALIN 2012-2013 and a half. I vote we put her on a pedestal outside the Wasilla Sports Complex and leave her there!
crowwoman…
i am wondering about my own “crowness”.
my dearest native american friend has determined that i am, too and also, a crow woman. the tendencies are there.
however, the shape shifter in me prefers the snake.
the rest of you mudpuppies can just skip on past this discussion.
Couple of things.
To all those above who write about Obama’s grin – YES! It’s so great that the rest of the world gets to see OUR president with that fabulous grin instead of the stupid smirk worn by the previous president!
To those above who wonder why Palin’s supporters constantly compare her to Obama? It’s because they are looking ahead to 2012, when they want her to run against Obama. I think she’ll be on the televangelist track long before then, though.
Our president is doing a great job. He’s not perfect but I think he and Michelle and his advisers are doing the best they can to bring our country back from eight years of Bush/Cheney. Do I approve of everything he’s doing? No, but most of it. I mention Michelle because I was just listening to her address to the NGA on childhood obesity. Excellent spokesperson for a very important cause. Even though she probably was reading from – gasp! – a teleprompter.
I also want to say that while I can’t stand the Republican reflexive opposition to Obama, at least it’s somewhat understandable. What I CANNOT take is the progressive Democrats who piss and moan about Obama not doing things “fast enough”. So, they’re pulling their support. Guys, it took eight years to get into this mess, it’ll take a lot longer than 14 months to get out of it! Stop sulking and look at what he has done.
29 Judy5cents Says:
February 20th, 2010 at 8:14 AM
and McCain would appoint his first choice, Joe Lieberman. All he had to do was make sure he didn’t die before Sarah decided she’d had enough.
It may have changed but I’m pretty sure Ford was elected VP by Congress or maybe just the Senate or House alone, when Spurius Anu* had to quit or be impeached.
Congress has been making up its own rules (should be Amendments) about succession should the ultimate calico cat fight break out in DC and they all disappeared in a cloud of cat urine, feces and fur.
Ahhhh,
To dream the impossible dream.
Stephen Colbert (regarding Palin’s “How’s that hopey changey stuff workin’ out for ya?”): Finally, a slogan for her next presidential run;
PALIN 2012
ABANDON ALL HOPE THAT ANYTHING WILL EVER CHANGE
If McCain had won,how long do you think it would have been before Mrs Paylin became POTUS ? Either she would have said something that caused him to have a stroke or heart attack,or one of her crazed followers would have handled it for her.Then she would quit as soon as she found out she actually had to work at it.
I think she has always assumed that it is a ceremonial position.In Wasilla,the mayor is part time and she had a manager.Todd ran Alaska while she did photo ops.
Maybe she was going to hire Cheney as her “country manager” while she did photo ops.
Polly @39…great link.
phoebes-in-sant fe@43…Well said. We all need to stand behind the President. He has been handed an incredibly difficult job because of the mess left by the last administration. He is trying to reunify a deeply divided country while bringing about difficult change. But without the support of those who elected him, without the support of his own party, we may find ourselves facing another change in 2012, a change back to the failed, illegal and immoral policies of the Bush years.
Anybody hear a twit from the DS crusader or her mouth piece daughter?
Wonder if Sarah’s famed “great political instincts” told her to get out of this fight and so she shoved Bristol out into the line of fire to take a bullet, so she could tell if the enemy were still lurking.
How’s the view of the underside of the bus Bristol? Hopey Changey? As Charlie Chan would say. (Charlie = fictional character = satire)
Mae-
Mrs Paylin blew off Cpac last year too.She knows that she would be there alongside the intelligent people who can articulate entire thoughts into conversation.She would easily be spotted repeating old campaign one liners and might have to speak off the cuff to reporters .She would need to hold intelligent converstion with people like Romney and Pawlenty,who may be using the anger she stirred up during the campaign and after to their advantage,but who are intelligent and knowledgable.
She knows she would look re-Todd-id
mommom@49…I thought that she didn’t show because no $ was offered but I think you’ve really hit the real nail on the head. She’d be in direct competition with these people and she couldn’t hold a candle to their intelligence or knowledge. She’d be exposed as the fraud that she is…and this is a friendly crowd. She wouldn’t even be able to play the victim card.
30 beth Says:
February 20th, 2010 at 8:20 AM
I think you may have come up with the most reasonable explanation for why Sarah is not using her DS stature to educate amuricans about what is involved in raising an ADA child.
You’d think her speeches would be sprinkled with all sorts of things she has learned about “progressin’” a child’s mental and physical development, and using those as analogies rather than things teleprompters and hopey changey tritenesses.
On the other hand maybe somebody needs to call child welfare services and get the Palins investigated for child neglect. I don’ give a damn who they are if they aren’t helping this baby’s mental and physical development they are breaking the law. And their negligence would be causing Trig irreparable harm. And Piper, also too.
If you look at Piper as the visible part of the Palin educational ice berg, …..
Beth; having been in the pentecostal tradition for a number of years, am thinking that maybe the christian base that first supported Sarah would no longer be in agreement with her lifestyle. Most, if not all, serious christian fundamentalist pentecostals do not drink. Period. They abstain from elements of the world, like hard entertainment, fanfare, and are encouraged to pursue holiness. And, lately the media stereotypes all pentecostals as “prosperity seekers”. That’s wrong. Many in the communities that I know do not accept or preach the prosperity gospel, rather they encourage living by one’s means, living in moderation. Women usually dress pretty modestly. Some wear make-up, but not slathered on with the fake eyelashes. They don’t mesh with the tel-evangelist industry either. They know it’s a scam.
The holiness element is to keep one as much away from worldly things as possible. Keeping oneself healthy, and healthy in mind; keeping watch and being sober at all times, in case they are needed to minister to others in a moment’s notice.
Other fundamental religions follow this tradition as well. Fasting, prayer, abstain from alcohol, drugs. For those christians who pursue the gifts of healing, prophecy, teaching, miracles, faith, they are encouraged to stay away from drunkenness. They have no problem getting medical intervention though, and do depend on prescriptions medications. Faith ain’t easy. A lot of these too will admit they are works in progress.
Am certain that SP speaking at the Wine and Spirits Convention in LV might raise red flags within the pentecostal community. Am not judging SP’s spiritual life. I don’t follow all the “rules” either. But her bots make her out as an extraordinary example of a christian mother. I’ve seen mothers with a lot less, very little money, have children with disabilities, make a lot of sacrifices, and don’t whine. They’ve never had their 15 minutes of fame, nor seek it.
I just reread Polly’s link @39. If anyone has a question about Palin’s plan to launch a bid for the WH, I think this article just answered it.
Mag the Mick @22, Chilling link about the “7 deadly traits” of our domestic terrorists. Knowledge=Power. Thank you.
Beth @30: I think you’re onto something. Prayer warriors vs Science for the little one’s DS. (Shaking head and sighing)
Prayer and science aren’t mutually exclusive to me. I say my prayers, but I also use the sense Hashem gave me to learn all I can, so I can be all that I can be with the sometimes-high-maintenance physical being I find myself in. Fresh air, good food, fun with family and friends, prescribed treatments and therapies…is not a hardship, not an inconvenience, but is a richly blessed life. $P is squandering her blessings, if you ask me….and even if you don’t.
I am distressed that so many people have no health insurance. It’s a big reason I’m a union activist. We have support personnel in my school district who practice faith-based health care: they pray they don’t get sick. Some have been “substitutes” for more than 10 years, so the district doesn’t pay health care and other benefits. It’s not illegal, but “it just ain’t right.”
I give thanks for the Power to Grow each day, and for AKM who created this friendly, fertile, Mudflats garden.
OMG @ 53 – whatever her intentions, she’s dead in the water due to her history. As that bumper sticker pointed out, she is the modern version of Aaron Burr. Anyone not familiar with Aaron Burr needs to read up.
Or do I need to do a comparative post on the two kindred spirits?
John McCain has described himself as “the original neocon”. Remembering his flag-waving bravado at his faux presidential press conference when Russia sent troops into Georgia, (without waiting for facts or for a response from President Bush or the State Department), his declaration that “today we are all Georgian,” his happy rendition of “Bomb Iran,” and a dozen other foreign policy issues McCain addressed in a way that made it clear his entire foreign policy philosophy could have been summed up as “a flag, a verb, and a bomb,” I think it’s important to remember that “the bullet we dodged” when the McCain-Palin ticket was defeated was in fact a pair of bullets, and that Palin did not necessarily represent a larger disaster for the U.S. than did McCain himself. The only issue I needed to consider to decide my vote in the 2008 election was foreign policy – everything else was peripheral. Now we have evidence that someone else we mostly regard as King of the Dark Loons wanted military conflict with Russia over the Georgia-S Ossetia-Russia conflict as well – our favorite torturer of morality, reason and the Constitution – Dick Cheney. McCain has consistently be on the same page as Cheney on larger foreign policy issues, I think it’s important that we remember that Palin was not the only loon on the Republican ticket.
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/book-cheney-pushed-war-russia/
Desert Mudpup-
Why of course he did!! Halliburton needed to make more money!!
The magnet is superb. I think the thing that upsets Palin and her idiot tribe of knuckle draggers is that President Obama and Andrea Friedman, each in their own way outshine both the Tundra Twit and her followers. That a black man and a woman with Down Syndrome are better informed and more articulate than them is simply infuriating to these bigots and causes them to lash out in the most vile, cowardly, and despicable ways imaginable.
While others cringe at their tactics, they seem to regard them as witty and edgy. They’ve clearly identified themselves as our society’s outcasts and bottom feeders. They are NOT attracting people to their cause with this kind of bigotry and meanness.
Another intelligent Irishman! Palin’s own relation disowns her!!
http://tinyurl.com/ydcfq2g
Since puttering around reading Mudflats, and the other political blogs, all morning is by definition ignoring the piles and NOT filing, I take some comfort in at least reading about being more organized! @thatcrowwoman – I feel yr pain…it’s the hidden jewels in the archival piles that keep us from just lighting a match….
Now , this is what a creative lumberjack does.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_ykd4MLGyJgo/R5Gymn8lOlI/AAAAAAAABt4/582hBf0CFY4/s1600-h/TRee.jpg
Good find Ripley.
You can tell a lot about a man from the way he treats animals. I knew Happy was a mensch when my dogs(of blessed memory) liked him and his dog (JoJo the Wonderdog, of blessed memory) liked me.
Shame on Mitt Romney. and anyone else in that vehicle, also, too. Shame!
Onto the pedestals beside $P with you!
amy @36, I signed up for Melanie’s March and to “caw” my congressmen that day. Thank you for the link.
BigPete @ 45: “PALIN 2012
ABANDON ALL HOPE THAT ANYTHING WILL EVER CHANGE”
hahaha caw Caw CAW!
Must s*ck to be them, living without any Hope and Change. (opening Big Red Dictionary… but it was worth it)
fawnskin mudpuppy, (SKIP ALERT: teh spirit world ahead)
I’ve had wings as long as I can remember, grew up to be a mountain crow with some bear and maybe otter (or is it rainbow trout?) nature. Flying dreams have always been such sweet ones, and swimming dreams, also, too.
Mated for life (over 3 decades and counting), curious (and thus intelligent),
resourceful, clever. Sometimes deeply Nordic Blue, but Generally Optimistic. Can be loud and raucous with a flair for the dramatic (which could also be from my “Viking” Norwegian grandmother), and forever picking up pebbles and shells and beads and all manner of flotsam and jetsam….
which brings me back, with the norwegian blue, to “the archives.” Not organized yet, but committed to progressin’ the process and not quitting also. I think I can almost see organized from my house… but, Sunday is my chore day.
My Shabbat is not for any drudge work (unless I’m helping someone else; then it’s a mitzvah). I’m a wandering Jew from the house of Hillel, by way of Reform and Arthur Waskow, with a concentration in comparative religion, and a life among many tribes, many peoples, so am observant according to my own understanding and choices.
Shabbat is my day to rest and do as I see fit after a rewarding but challenging work week. Mudflats and Public Radio and gardening and reading and baking and playing with family and friends on Shabbat, that’s good. I have declared Pajama Day today, as I do at least once a month when Littlebird is away at college. I’ll leave the nest, but I won’t leave the forest.
Ah, Freedom.
new post up
hmmm.
crowwoman,
you must meet up with buffalogal and me.
yes, you must
This is disappointing news, but I find it even more disappointing that the report likely tripped over the larger half of the story to focus on the bill to move the State’s money – and never gave it a second mention.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/19/bill-to-move-new-mexicos_n_469612.html
I think a more accurate headline would have been NM Republicans Deliver Two-fer for Corporate Masters. Why would legislators filibuster (or in Rachel’s new vernacular, break out “The Tarantino”) to kill a drug rehab bill that would have provided a lower cost alternative to incarceration if not for the money flowing from the recession-proof, mega-bucks private prison industry? And where do you suppose those mega-bucks corporations deposit their mega-bucks? And who in turn invests in the always-rising stock of those same mega-bucks prison corps? What a tidy package – and yet another example of a Republican minority exerting the power of the filibuster to sell-out the people to deliver for their corporate puppet masters.
it would be my pleasure.
I’m registered in the forum, but am an earlybird (especially on “school nights”), and don’t know if I can keep up in live chat…My typing is so slooooooooow it’s silly…peck…peckpeckpecketty peck….peck…
Joni has that wing-ed and snake thing going on. I give you Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgEiGJid9_U
# 49 mommom Says:
February 20th, 2010 at 8:59 AM
If McCain had won,how long do you think it would have been before Mrs Paylin became POTUS ? Either she would have said something that caused him to have a stroke or heart attack,or one of her crazed followers would have handled it for her.Then she would quit as soon as she found out she actually had to work at it.
I think she has always assumed that it is a ceremonial position. In Wasilla, the mayor is part time and she had a manager.Todd ran Alaska while she did photo ops.
Maybe she was going to hire Cheney as her “country manager” while she did photo ops.
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Wow, BITE YOUR TONGUE! (or maybe someone will bite Cheney’s and/or $P Grifter Granny’s tongue).
I, too, have always thought that President Obama’s smile was wonderful. I think the reason is that is comes straight from the heart, and that is why it shines so brightly.
Ont he other hand, I suspect that Dubya’s heart was, like the Grinch’s, three sizes too small. Can’t get much more than a sneer from a heart that tiny!
thatcrowwoman – I am also enjoying my Saturday of rest.
I accomplished one of my least favorite things to do this morning…got rid of my sparkling gray hairs so that my deaf students don’t practice one of their color signs by pointing to my head (yes, that really happened…just had to laugh!).
I filled up the birdfeeder yesterday and the birds finally discovered the bounty this morning, after abandoning my yard for several weeks while my supplies were out. Also put some special treats for the various critters on the back patio so I have quite the gathering outside my kitchen window. Television just can’t compete with the energy of nature!
Took care of a nagging family issue yesterday so I am enjoying the absence of a great weight that has been removed from my shoulders.
I have a nice long mystery to dive into this afternoon and one more day of vacation before I head back to school on Monday. Life is good on a snowy, sunny Saturday!
You can get those magnets from Buzzflash here:
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/2053
Sigh…
NY Governor David Patterson kicked off his campaign for reelection this morning at my alma mater, Hofstra University, where he went to law school. This afternoon, he’s flying up here to Rochester to give another speech (which I will NOT attend).
The infamous paralysis of the NY legislature is never easy to deal with and I know he’s tried, but he’s just an ineffective leader. Just wish he would take the many hints he’s been given over the past couple of years and not run. He’s only got 3 million dollars in his campaign fund. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has 16 million and he hasn’t even declared himself a candidate yet. Looks like his ‘accidental incumbency’ (thanks to Elliot “Lock up all the prostitutes except the ones I’m using” Spitzer) is not translating to a strong position for another term.
Then again, I suppose it could be worse…(Tim Pawlenty, Rick Perry, Mark Sanford)
C.Rock: There are two books on Hachiko: Hachiko and Hachiko waits. Thin, for younger readers. There is a statue of him at the train station. Along with Greyfriar’s Bobby there is an American dog: Shep.
I have no doubts my dog would join these loyal dogs if I were to take an extended absence without him.
And what did Mitt Romney do to his dog?
*waving to leenie17*
When my students talk about my grey, I tell them that my mama never colored hers, and that I’m going natural, like my mama and our President. Some of them mutter something about “so green” but most of them crack up laughing.
Have you SEEN Our President? Greying Gracefully with a Gorgeous Grin.
Off for a bite to eat and a romp around the forest.
See you later, sweet po-taters.
Birans valentine post is up at I Heart the Mudflats. Once again he has been getting around a bit!
http://iheart.themudflats.net/2010/02/20/brians-valentines-day-adventures/
And this isn’t just the best fridge magnet of them all!!!
mlaiuppa
see Newfoundland Dogs Rule @26
Okay. Found several articles.
What kind of cold heartless, son of a Palin, would do that to the family dog?
Windshield? Doofus, the wind turbulance would whip around the sides. I know because I’ve ridden in the back bed of a pick-up and even if you’re pressed tight against the cab, you still get wind-whipped. He hosed off the car and the dog after the dog expressed his disapproval in the only way he could and then put the dog back up on the roof? So now cold, wet dog is wind-whipped? 12 hours like that?
If I really expressed myself I’d be still be waiting for approval for my post.
This was a station wagon, right? Well, what was in the back? Why could whatever “stuff” was in the back be strapped to the top and the dog be put in the back. Carrier doesn’t fit? Well, then take the carrier apart and strap it to the top and let the dog ride in the car. He could manage on the floor in the back with the kids. Now this isn’t optimum, as he has no seat belt, but if that car is in an accident he’s much more likely to die being strapped on the top of the car than lying on the floor in the back seat.
The incident alone would be enough for me to shun Romney as a presidential candidate. It shows such poor judgment, poor being totally inadequate to express the extent of my disgust.
Romney will never be my president if I have anything to say about it. (My $voice being so soft compared to the $voice of a Corporate “person”.)
Dear Crow Woman: I love your posts and love you too. I am an agnostic Irishwoman, but I have always revered Rabbi Hillel. I know I am paraphrasing him, but his advice has formed my reactions to the world since I was in my teens:
“I am only one person, but I AM one person.
If not me, then who else?
If not now, then when?”
Which segues beautifully into wisdom from Bruce Springsteen:
“When they told me to sit down, I stood up.
Growing up.”
Wisdom is wherever it we get it.
Cheers, Mag the Mick
lookie, lookie……another weirdo SC sex scandal.
“The leaked e-mails are all from Eckstrom to Payne. Spanning from April 2009 to just a few days ago, they portray a turbulent relationship. In the words of a report in The State, “In the e-mails, Eckstrom expresses his love for Payne, 40, quotes Scripture and acknowledges he has ducked out of meetings with the governor, agency heads and the Budget and Control Board to take her calls.” In one passage, written last June when the couple was apparently having troubles, Eckstrom tells Payne, “You’re a remarkable girl!! I’m so comforted that you’re a Christian. We’ll be able to frolic together in Heaven one day!”
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Another-sex-scandal-in-South-Carolina-politics-84690657.html#ixzz0g6mpVX9u
Sarah Palin knows the dangers of socialized medicine first hand, the grandson who resides with her is a victim of it’s evils. Sarah must be desperately afraid that the death panel is in her immediate family’s future.
REPLY TO PARTIAL OPPOSITION TO MOTION FOR INTERIM CHILD SUPPORT
C. “…Tripp is an enrolled member of Curyung Tribal Council within the Bristol Bay Native Association consortium. Because the majority of Tripp’s health care costs are already covered by IHS and the Alaska Native Medical Center, Mr. Johnston has no need to purchase additional health insurance….”
I have been posting that Sarah Palins whole family is on government run healthcare because of todds heritage, including trig who would have been a victim of her imaginary death panels. Here is proof that what I have been saying is true.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/20/839027/-Palin-grandson-is-socialized-medicine-victim.-
okay, here’s a question I’d like reporters to ask the next time they are interviewing Scarah’s blindly faithful followers, because they seem incapable of saying or even thinking anything critical about her.
Question: “No person agrees with someone 100%, so what’s one thing you don’t like about or agree with when it comes to Scarah Palin?”
Or…… “No person agrees with a politician 100%, even those they support. What do you most like and dislike about Scarah?”
Or….. “Name one thing you most like and dislike about Scarah Palin.”
ha, would we hear any honest answers? would anyone dare to disagree?
I could honestly answer those questions about Obama, whom I happen to really, really like. Because I know and understand he is not perfect, I don’t expect perfection. And I also know that it’s okay to disagree with him on some things, but still support and trust him.
I also think he is a man who is willing to listen to ideas and discuss them. I don’t think he’s got all the answers, or that he thinks he does. I believe him when he says he’d love to hear new ideas to solve problems.
But hmmmm, could I find anything I like about Scarah? compared to what I dislike? if I was asked? hmm, thinking really hard, hmmm, nope. lol.
I could list things I think she’s very good at, like grifting, using people, schmoozing, flirting, lying, being sneaky and underhanded, which are all things I dislike in people, but I cannot think one little thing, that I like about her, oh dear, that’s sad.
Oops. Did not link to the title song from Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, and don’t find a link to Joni’s version. lo siento.
Cheers back at you, Mag the Mick, and love, also, too.
I believe in free will, and that we each have impulses to do good and to do evil.
We Choose how to live our lives, and are responsible for our words and deeds and the ripples that flow outward from them.
There’s plenty of trouble in the World, as we all can see from our houses. Scare-mongers, hate-mongers, domestic terrorists, racists, and entirely too much ignorance and fear and loathing. Imagine if those “evil-doers” chose goodness, instead. *imagining the light burning brighter*
Meanwhile, we keep after it…
I’ve long been a collector of songs and prayers and poems and stories and recipes and traditions. Everyone I meet has a unique spark all their own, and in my experience, most are willing to share. I weave it all into my life and wrap myself in it like metaphorical (metaphysical?) prayer shawl. All My Ancestors and All Those I Have Taken into my Heart as my Own, wrapped around me like the wings of Guardian Angels…
my how I’ve rambled on….
glass of wine, anyone?
here’s a summary recap of CPAC…….can you believe Beck is this years key note speaker? gah…..if last year was all about the need for Obama to fail, what will Beck guide the way for this year?
http://mediamatters.org/columns/201002190052
“For those watching closely, it’s becoming pretty clear how all of this works. Limbaugh says, “I hope Obama fails,” and he’s offered the plum speaking role. Beck calls Obama a “racist” who has “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture,” and he gets tapped for the honor.
[...]
It appears that Limbaugh and Beck have taught their followers well. This year’s lineup of CPAC speakers has been as light on truth and heavy on hateful vitriol as their leaders could possibly expect.”
Say No to Palin in Politics, there is ONE thing I like about $P. $he brought me to the Mudflats, and my life is much richer for that.
*thinking searching pondering*
Nope. Nothing else. That’s it.
But it is one REALLY GOOD thing, don’t you agree?
So where did Levi get that $300 number? Could it be that the Palins were asking $300 a month for Tripp’s healthcare?
Oooops.
Hahahahaha. Good one.
I am so disgusted by some fellow Alaskans… Just got the latest Hays Poll & $P still has a 53% positive rating. I’m sure some of it is the blind following the blind mentality of the Republican party but geez louise!
http://haysresearch.com/page2/page27/page27.html
Jackie, it appears that Parnell has high positive ratings also, too.
I’m guessing that there is not much mainstream reporting of negative stories of Palin in Alaska – the ADN seems to be her pocket, for instance.
So, unless Alaskans are online and reading these blogs, they may have no idea what is happening and think that she is what she has appeared to be – and has been promoted as in Alaska.
Are there many negative stories in the news about her and the family? TV? Newspaper?
I know that Shannyn is good about sharing information about buttercup, but that may not be enough.
J
“You betcha” Sarah wooda quit by now. Wink, wink. Love that Obama smile. Nice and sincere.
Oh yes, she would absolutely have quit by now. I WANT that magnet! Maybe if we clammer enough, we can get more in production??!
I am not in the least bit naive about President Obama – he is a politician, he is human, he comes with all the baggage that a professional pol come with and he will and has made mistakes. However – more than a year since January 2009 – I still support President Obama and I still believe he is the best man for this job. Palin may be able to fool some with her fancy pageant walking but it won’t be long before she wears out her welcome. People can only take so much incessant whining, blame shifting and her “I am the victim” schtick.
leenie17 @ 73 & thatcrowwoman @ 77: Speaking of gray hairs… My mother’s daughters are all ‘of a certain age’ and our hair is no longer towheaded as it was in our ‘seems-like-just-yesterday’ youth. The youngest daughter has opted to keep her hair a soft shade of blonde, the middle daughter has chosen to go ‘I Love Lucy’ red, and I, the eldest, decided to ‘let it go natural.’ Why? My pure white was progressin’ very nicely and naturally from the dark ash blonde it had become by my mid-30s, and, ‘sides, once it started to ‘change’ (about a decade ago), I had neither the time nor the inclination to keep it dyed ~ yeah, the word ‘lazy’ does come to mind. And, yeah, the word would be most accurate.
Anyway, I say “was progressin’,” because about a year ago, as my hair had reached a quite pleasant ¾ [white] to ¼ [ash blonde] mix, whoompfh!, it slowly started reversing its process! The ash blonde is still there, but what had been pure white, is now being ‘replaced’ with truly ‘gray’ hairs.** I’ve now more gray & ash blonde than I do pure white ~ quite odd.
But fascinating! I can’t predict, month to month, how much ‘grayer’ I’ll get by the next ~ keeps things interesting, for me, I must say…and, oh, how I do love life’s little surprises! I never woulda thunk, (when I first started turning white-haired), that 10-years out I’d be getting such enjoyment out of the unpredictability of my hair color! Yes, little things amuse me…
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mlaiuppa @ 76 ~ In my long-ago life, I saw the statue at Shibuya station all the time! When we took public transportation to school, we passed it as we transferred from the train to the bus (and vice versa, on the return journey.) We also passed the statue every time we took the family car to the [built above the train stop/station] department store…the parking lot for Toyoko abutted the plaza where the statue stands.
Ah, brings back sweet memories… hadn’t thought about the store, the train/bus, or the statue in years! Thanks for the memory ‘jog’. beth.
** re: ‘gray hair’…think: ‘house mouse’; i.e. the color(s) of this wee thing – http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/House_mouse.jpg b.
oh thank you, thatcrowwoman.
that is one truth, we can like, appreciate, and be grateful for…….she brought us here. I am smiling.
Seriously, thank you. Thank you.
Yes, thank you, thatcrowwoman, and all mudpups. What initially brought me here to Mudflats was a mainstream media story I found on the Internet. It said, “The Mudflats blog, which is expertly and humorously written, very highly rated and regarded, is not particularly enamored of Sarah Palin”. AH HA! I knew I’d found a new home.
As a long-time registered Republican (don’t shoot me), I at first thought I might be the only educated, mature person on the face of the earth who could see through the opportunistic, grifter Palin and her abysmal ‘family’ like a plate glass window. Had I been an Alaskan, I would have already known the truth.
I was appalled at the absurd fakery. The beaming Palin family on stage with McCain, Levi dressed to the nines. The carrying of precious Trig like a sack of potatoes, as his little head lolled amidst the deafening applause. The way McCain’s leering eyeballs undressed SSarah’s backside as he stood behind her on many a campaign stage.
I’m SO glad I was wrong. Thank you, all here, for your enlightening comments. There IS thinking, feeling life in the universe, after all.
And I also, too …would like to hear what you’ve found out about the delinquent property taxes on the cabin(s).
One last comment for the night. I totally agree with all of you as to why $$arah wasn’t at the SPAC shindig in D.C. today. Or ever, in fact. Even somewhere in her little scrambled pea-brain, $P knew she’d be out of her league bigtime. Can you even imagine the verbal massacre, as the intelligent ones baited her? Oh, the hilarious, delicious thought! Tina Fey, where are you tonight?
Sorry – “SPAC” = CPAC”