Open Thread – They Got the Mouth Right
Check out the fascinating exhibition which will be held on the grounds of the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennesee from May 20-July 24, 2011.
h/t Wickersham’s Conscience
April 20, 2024
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Putting the goober in gubernatorial -Friday, January 28, 2022
Check out the fascinating exhibition which will be held on the grounds of the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennesee from May 20-July 24, 2011.
h/t Wickersham’s Conscience
Dan Choi was beaten and arrested by Russian police for marching in their Gay Pride Parade. Hillary (in fact, everyone in US government) has not said a word. Here’s a petition to Secretary of State Clinton, asking her to condemn this:
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6006/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4187&tag=email
Mike, my Orioles here (three different species) drink out of the hummingbird feeder more than any Hummingbirds do. I know birds don’t have teeth, so how does one explain the Oriole’s sweet tooth?
Taste buds are on the tongue. Sweet tooth is just an expression (unless you want to call your orioles’ predilection “sweet beak.”
Birds aren’t supposed to have taste buds,which is why you can put red peppercorns in a bird feeder to convince squirrels to leave the bird seed alone. Must only be Orioles that like strawberry jam,the sparrows stop to see what the Orioles do and they don’t eat jam or oranges. Go figure.Is your feeder red or orange? I’m trying to psycho-analyze them from Iowa. Maybe they are smarter than other birds especially when you consider the stuff vultures scarf down or that our great National Symbol lives happily on sushi. Have you or anyone seen hide or hair of Dreamgirl? I’m getting kinda worried about her. Zyxomma is getting kinky.
My feeder is orange and kind of flying-saucer shaped. Despite the color, hummingbirds visit it too. It’s very easy to clean, which alleivates my fears of inadvertantly killing the little tweeters.
How do you figure Orioles and Hummers can go through life without knowing and severely disliking the Quitter? We should all be so blessed.
Has the clueless one ever done or had an original thought? She seems to be taking cues from many who came before. Does any one know the dimensions fo that piece of artwork? I can’t tell if its in scale with the brick building.My Orioles love strawberry jam and don’t seem to fond of fresh cut orange. Go figure.
Bob Cesca features a must-view Thom Hartmann clip:
http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2011/05/thom-hartmann-kicks-ass.html
What did that Rolling Stone article on Roger Ailes say?
“According to recent polls, Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of all news consumers. They are 12 percentage points more likely to believe the stimulus package caused job losses, 17 points more likely to believe Muslims want to establish Shariah law in America, 30 points more likely to say that scientists dispute global warming, and 31 points more likely to doubt President Obama’s citizenship. In fact, a study by the University of Maryland reveals, ignorance of Fox viewers actually increases the longer they watch the network.”
So, anytime we see someone drooling about makers/takers in some online forum, we know pretty much that they’ve swallowed a week of Fox propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
For those who might want to clear their heads about $P for a while —
Insightful article, highly recommended:
Tale of the Tapes: Wisconsin’s ‘Dog-and-Pony Show’ Faith-Based Supreme Court Election ‘Recount’
by Brad Friedman
May 20, 2011
www(dot)opednews(dot)com/articles/Tale-of-the-Tapes-Wiscons-by-Brad-Friedman-110520-439(dot)html
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….Just take a close look at the photo at the top of the article. The WI Supreme Court election was April 5, yet the voting machine tape read MARCH 30! — a week before the election! Yikes.
And there’s much more.
Election fraud? I hope Joanne Kloppenburg pursues this to the very end. She probably did win.
Personally,I think the Grifter has to run and she wants to win so she can give her middlefinger to all Americans. She is building a vast reservoir of resentment that will make her head explode like a watermelon with firecrackers in it. I’d like to check her blood pressure when she spews her hate on television. This ……ah……..woman will likely lose her mind if she isn’t named Potus,which will bring us back to the year 2000 and a right-wing Supreme Court that stated Dubya would suffer irreperable harm if he wasn’t appointed Potus. Still have a 5-4 rwnj majority that is even more right wing than in 2000.
I feel Bailey’s pain……it is just one crisis after another.
AKM, what do you think of Lawrence O’Donnell’s statement that $P will not run? It’s hard for me to imagine her NOT running knowing her lust for “winning” and so loving her new found “celebrity”. I hope he is right. But even if she doesn’t run she will continue to insert her wicked self into affairs of our country. Wishing she would just bake herself in her AZ compound. I sooooooo agree with others who spoke of their hate for this woman. It almost frightens me how much I loathe her.
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I think she will run. https://themudflats.net/2011/05/25/palin-the-undefeated/
But, I’ve been known to be wrong. I think O’Donnell is thinking like someone who knows how politicians think, not like someone who understands how Sarah Palin thinks. We’ll see… AKM
I know exactly how you feel when you say, “It almost frightens me how much I loathe her.” As I wrote an earlier comment, I agree with others who say they have never felt hate towards anyone prior to Sarah and though it shames and appalls me, it is a reaction that simply grows stronger every time she speaks out.
However, it is just as scary how many people she can “wee-wee-up.” Her legacy is hate and it seems to be growing like a noxious weed.
Ah yes, and therein lies the answer – knowing how $P thinks! Thanks.
Rolling thunder, motor cycle riders for vetrans and MIA, ride this weekend. They DIDN’T invite her, but she announced she was attending.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43195935#43195935
This could get interesting. He clearly doesn’t like what she has done.
This really steams me. She has no sense of shame in attaching herself to any and everything she can to further her own interests.
My husband and I ride a cycle. We are also older citizens, so I wonder how many people will now look at us and think we support slimeball Sarah. Arrrgggh!
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/letter-fukushima-mother
“by williambanzai7
on Fri, 05/27/2011 – 09:35
#1316185
If you are wondering what to do…repost the letter somewhere else.
Remember, our own government is complicit in the Fukushima information blackout.
Do you really think this is not impacting our West Coast?
Just remember the Claude Junckers all over the world: “Lying can be justified for the common good.”
I agree with the author of this article but echo the horror of Andrew Sullivan’s question: what is she wins?
“Now, with the coming bus tour and hagiographic film—it should be titled “The Iquitarod,” wrote an inspired contributor to a list of parodic names on the blog Balloon Juice—it appears that Palin’s intentions are set. Like most liberals, I’m happy to sit back and watch the multi-car pileup in the Republican Party that she will inevitably induce. But for the same reason that we try to avoid inviting the drunk relation to Thanksgiving dinner, I’d actually prefer never having to think about her again, and I preemptively lament the corrosive effect her unvarying diet of lies and demagoguery will have on our politics. The Republican primary will likely set up in such a way that she’ll be able to pull the field, and the party, hard to the right, and while that will be fine for Barack Obama come Election Day, it will help cripple any attempt to do anything constructive afterward.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-27/sarah-palin-queen-of-right-wing-reaction
Love the name Iquitarod. I hope it sticks to her like a second skin that she cannot shed.
For those who missed the link Aussiegal77 posted on Comment 18 or the internal link in the article the link takes you to, be sure to read the warnings of that internal link (in an article on Pauline Hanson who seems to be the role model Sarah has followed and stolen slogans and ideas from). It should send shivers the spines of us all.
http://socialist.org/socialist/sum98/6.html
Don’t let the “evil word” socialist put you off. The message is a profound one that we best not ignore. We might laugh at Sarah, but what she represents and what she can conjure up is as scary at the movement alluded to in the link above.
Thanks again to aussiegall77 and OMG.
Will she, won’t she, will she, won’t she, will she join the dance? Palin or her Mini-Me?
““She’s a very good campaigner. She’s kind of Sarah Palin with a better attention span and a greater strategic sense,” says Larry Jacobs, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2011/0527/If-Sarah-Palin-runs-will-she-face-her-own-Mini-Me
She ought to love that sculpture! It looks like she’s waiting to have people pitch pennies into her mouth. While she’d like something bigger, she’ll take any money anyone will toss at her! 🙂
The work is called “We’re Having a Tea Pearody.” $P with REAL tin ears.
Perfect!
That’s funny.
I have to correct you. The National Ornamental Metal Museum is in Memphis, not Nashville.
Corrected. Thanks!
My Post Deliverer just handed me my copy of Blind Allegiance—is it too early (East Coast) for a good glass of wine?
Just a tad, Cassie. However, on this side of the pond…….. 😉
I’d say go for it, but keep the bottle on standby.
Nope, it’s 5pm somewhere. Also depends on if you want to be able to do anything else today.
Mimosas are good any time of the day. 😉
Never too early for a glass of wine! But better just sit down with a cuppa, then read all day, then celebrate your reading in late afternoon. That way you will have read more of the book!
Mine came in mail today, but I’ve got to finish Dunn’s book first!
You will need it. Whoof. What a book!
That’s too funny! Sort of a combination of Sarah Palin and Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.”
Your observation is what forever distinguishes you from the bots. I suspect none of them would ever be competent to make that statement. Intelligence is a treasure beyond measuring. You have quite a store of gems – and seem to be one yourself!
With Fox now reporting that Palin will stay on the payroll, you’ve got to wonder if she told (lied to?) Ailes that she would not seek the nomination. Hmmmmm if she later decides that she will indeed run (again lying to Ailes saying that she had been forced by her fans and Tea Party fate to do so) then she has made a very powerful enemy. However, if she and he are in cahoots to shore up her image for a run, then let the games begin. Will Ailes be duped by Palin (again)? Or will he be complicit in furthering her presidential aspirations when he cut the Fox financial cord of other wannabes? Interesting times ahead.
A bargain among thieves…
Good points. I wonder if there will be lawsuits. Please, please, please let there be lawsuits over at Faux News betwixt and between them all.
You know, I am astonished how many people still do not realize that Roger Ailes was a key Republican strategist and operative for decades. It amazes me how fact-resistant some folks are.
Veddy interesting. I’ve been wondering about this, too. Some have said they will just not have her
appearing on FOX as a contributor at this time. Her time of deciding whether to run or not.) Somehow, I can’t see Ayles letting her get away with this. If she has, indeed, led him to believe she is not running, then ends up doing so, I believe he will smack her down good – and yes, law suits.
OMG i think i have been giving Sarah too much credit for being the puppeteer when i believe all along that Murdoch is and will be the one who pulls the strings. i think Ailes is the go between the two of them.
that this country is under attack from fascists who call themselves Christians and or Conservatives is longer in doubt. jut saying
Maybe Fox, Murdoch and Ailes are all complicit in this somehow …… they’re purposely postponing it just to keep everyone on the hook wondering what she’s going to do. Wouldn’t put it past them.
Sullivan’s take:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/05/if-mccain-hadnt-picked-palin.html
Good point made that Palin should have been the next in line, but isn’t quite there. Also, that T-Paw is being given the serious candidate treatment when, in actuality, it is doubtful that he will stay the course. Thanks for the link.
Not sure if everyone has seen this yet but Oz Mudflats has a great post up about Sarah Palin and the odd (read: UNORIGINAL) similarities between Palin’s One Nation tour and racist Australian (sad to say) Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party.
Hint: they’re pretty much the same bigoted person – just on different continents. (Yes, Sarah, Australia is a continent also too. Just like North America – where the US is located.)
http://ozmud.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/sarah-palin-steals-pauline-hanson%E2%80%99s-trademarked-party-name-%E2%80%9Cone-nation%E2%80%9D/#comment-2201
“One Nation” is the large umbrella organization of Progressive and Liberal groups who had the march on DC last fall. http://action.onenationworkingtogether.org/content/main
Hope they go after her for trying to highjack their name.
Thanks for the heads-up and link. That was an enlightening and important read. I hope every mudpup gets over there to read it and then passes the link along.
Gee – I wonder if Sarah will follow Pauline’s example for being jailed. Would make so many of us so happy that there is justice and it prevailed.
Again, thanks for the link!
“Art Cooker: Taste/See (May 20 – July 24)
Handmade cookers from artists across the US and Canada will be on display in our sculpture garden.”
http://www.metalmuseum.org/exhibits.html
AKM and WC-
This is even more delightful after having tracked down the exhibit 🙂
ol whatzername’s mouth as a cooker…?!
Oh, the possibilities…
First day of sunshine this week! We will take it, TYVM. No bad storms predicted, sunshine, taking Mother out to lunch, nice!
Haven’t seen the young hawk since the Wednesday storm. It was a bad one, and he may have been killed by it. I hope not.
Hate to burst your bubble,however it is raining in my neck of the woods and looks to be here all day.
He’s back! I went out at about 11 to pick up the recycle barrel to take back to the garage, and there he was, sitting in the fountain looking as if he meant to be there. Silly thing fell in again. He had nothing to say about where he’d been since the big storm.
I left to take Mother to lunch and do her errands, and when I got home, he had moved to the wonderful old steel glider we have on the front porch. I went up there and explained that he was going to scare the UPS guy to death and he had to move on, so now he is hanging out in the huge old Grandfather oak in the back.
We will get rain tonight, but we haven’t had any for 24 hours, so I guess we are due. *insert eyeroll*
Glad he’s back. I was getting nervous.
I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day.And though its cold outside,its still the month of May.Sorry about that,I felt like bursting into song and that sounded appropriate until it rains some more. Glad you got your hawk back. Now let’s see if you can keep him.
“We’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day,
And when it’s cold outside, we’ve got the month of May.
Oh-whoa, I guess you’d say
What can make us feel this way?
Michael, Micheal, Michael,
Michael from Iowa, Michael…”
SP probably doesn’t want to really really really be POTUS. She has always liked the “idea”… of the perceived power and “glory.” She is in a hard place now— how to NOT run, without causing a huge uproar from her “fans” and “donors”…. hmmmm
Some of the bots have been saying they will not make any contributions until she delcares that she is running. Are they finally getting it?
I’d say those waiting to see are the ones finally “getting it” And it’s about time.
We can only hope.
declares even
No. Just broke. She has been fleecing them for 3 years now.
Poor fans and donors…too stupid to see her for what she really is….they are blinded by her stage presence and deaf to her word salad.
Like the old Sister Sarah who preached from a stage, the great unwashed followed her everywhere she set up her tent and gave their last dime to just stand in her shadow.
Now we have a new Sister Sarah who does the same and tells her followers she is just like them…how can she be, she has their money, lives in a mansion, eats better then they do and drives a better car.
She is not one of us, she sees us as the little people who are just stepping stones to more adoration and cash.
What a sad, sad story.
“will re-emerge Sunday as she begins a national bus tour that will put her back in the spotlight and no doubt renew speculation about a possible presidential bid.”
Well, if she’s driving it, or telling someone else how to drive it, then we know that at the very least it will get lost, be late, or preferably go straight over a cliff.
So true.
I can hear Fake Noise claim SP is getting death threats from bloggers. Faux-where the noise is far right and biased.(IMHO)
Think she’ll stop by on her little tour? I heard some joker on Fox this AM say that “there’s nothing political about this bus tour.” Gag.
Do not quote me but….if she plans to run she can not still work at Faux News correct???
Then why is she still there(against Ailes rules to run and work Faux) and also asking for her base to contribute more money???
What a grifter she and her clan have become and I lay it at the doorstep of Mcain…….
Just like there was nothing Political in Sarah Palin’s Alaska.
Guy who organizes Rolling Thunder just on Andrea Mitchell. Says she was NOT invited and will not be allowed to speak. They can’t stop her from riding. He seemed very annoyed with her trying to grab the spotlight from this nonpartisan event.
I just saw that! He is NOT happy. He said that his time is being wasted answering Palin calls and people asking if they are endorsing her. She has made it look like Rolling Thunder is coordinating with her bus tour to get her to speak at the rally WITH them. His name is Ted Shpak, Legislative Director of Rolling Thunder.
Good!
And here’s the video – he thinks she is using the huge crowd Rolling Thunder attracts to claim as her own:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pro-veteran-spokesman-is-unhappy-that-sarah-palin-is-stealing-his-rolling-thunder/
Good morning all. My book was waiting for me when I got home last night! I was pretty tired but still found myself staying up half the night to read. My roses have burst into bloom and I have made an interesting discovery. Last year I prune the roses back fairly hard and this year one of the bushes is growing a hybrid in the middle of it. I am thinking that the little red roses were all root stock and the hybrid grafts were neglected over time. Right now there are long stems growing out of the bushes with different leaves. Who is our master gardener here? I know we have one that could make suggestions of what I might want to do with the roses.
There isn’t a whole lot that you can do. You can prune back the root stock shoots, and keep doing that. Or, you can have a cat fit with the nursery where you bought the plant, which probably won’t do any good. You can dig up the rose and start over. I wouldn’t leave the root stock shoots there, because they are going to overwhelm the grafts.
I didn’t buy them they were here when I bought the house. I always thought they were little red rose bushes. I have no idea who planted them. They were over grown and unruly when I moved in. I guess i’ll just leave them as is and just keep them pruned back. If they produce two different roses at once, then so be it. Makes it even more curious. ; ) Viva la difference!
Merry you know that i know nothing about gardening but your rose bush sounds interesting. i wish i could see the flowers.
i heard tell of a tree that has lemons,oranges and i believe grapefruit or some other citrus.
i find this grafting business fascinating. you never know how things will turn out.
Bubbles, you are thinking of the fruit salad tree. My son has one.
Bubbles, I just posted some pics on my Facebook page.
I saw one years ago in Phoenix AZ. It had oranges/lemons/grapefuit/limes. Quite colorful too. They called it a “Fruitcocktail Tree”.
Wait ’til Palin gets ahold of this story,the mongrelization of the Rose races. She’ll get paid a bundle to say something superbly stupid how having an African American Potus set the stage for flowers to cross-breed and before long they will all be on welfare. Then the taxpayers will be forced to pay for their schooling and soon the world will be over-run with Gay and Lesbian flower children and they’ll all move to San Francisco and soon California will have an extra Liberal Congressman or two and ain’t this all against god’s master plan for Sarah? When someone says Palin is beside herself with anger,she will accuse them of wanting her cloned and that will be her next big payola speech. Maybe the “Moonies”will kidnap the Queen.
Mike, you’re on a roll today.
Just a reminder to post your reviews on Blind Allegiance over at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Allegiance-Sarah-Palin-Tumultuous/product-reviews/1451654405/ref=cm_cr_pr_btm_link_2?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addFiveStar&pageNumber=2
Hey, Irish! Just picked up my copy from the Post Office. (Am on the last pages of Dunn’s book.)
Will comment for sure! And thanks for the reminder.
Thanks! Would love to see what those of you who read the book think of it over there!
Well, I loved the book. It was my first review ever and I did give it 5 stars.
i gave it five stars also. too.
i was going to fool around but i thought to meself. hmmm ‘spose AKM makes a trip back East this summer? ‘spose i ‘self’ can’t outrun her?
ya gotta think of these things ya know?
Are you up for another mudstock? The tax man just gave me a present!
I will also hound them everyday so that you don’t have to.
From the tone of many of the reviews is sounds like this can be the basis for a great movie. Hope the authors hold out for an A List producer. Maybe a George Clooney or Matt Damon or even Babs.
Frank’s had a remarkable journey through the “soul” of modern American Conservative politics. His emergence from the underbelly of the movement seems to really be touching many Christian who have fallen for the marketing.
I second that! I have to admit, I’m still waiting for my copy, so mine is forthcoming. But I read many of the reviews …… great job, guys! Now, as for those 1-star wonder reviews (written by those who obviously have not read the book), they need to be questioned in the Comments. And I noticed that for the most part, they were.
It would be great if Baily could get an interviews with newspapers and local news stations in the path of Palin’s tour.
Wow, they certainly did get it right. But did they include a soundtrack, one that is on an endless screechy loop?
LOL!! Perfect!
You know, I have never hated anyone or anything in my life, the word hate was never used in our home. You always said “I dislike that” or “I dislike that person.”
But, Palin has me saying “HATE”…I just want her to go away and all she does is keep coming back and still the men on the news networks talk about a tingle they get when they think of her….it just makes me want to toss my cookies.
Can not those who support her see that she just wants their money?
Oh right, I forgot, they are as dumb as she is and I keep forgetting that.
And Bachmann is another Palin…what do with do with that one?
I hear ya, Bev. This woman challenges my better nature on a daily basis. I’ve never felt such a strong , negative reaction to anyone , ever. During the 2008 campaign I found myself so distressed by her that I had to do something to relieve the anxiety or I’d explode. I decided to start praying for her and her children.
And y’know what ….. it didn’t help ! I still pray for peace and love for the children but my prayer for Palin has turned in to , ” Please help me to not loathe this woman so much and pleeeeeeze make her go awaaaay ! “
As much as I disagree with Bachmann’s policies and think she’s a certified nut job, I do have to give her credit for her work ethic, which is more than I can say for Palin. Bachmann has two degrees beyond her bachelor’s—a J.D. and an L.L.M., she’s practiced law, served in state government and now the federal government. I also recall hearing that she and her husband adopted a lot of children and have some kind of business related to that. I deplore her “X-tian-based” stance on most issues and feel that probably fuels the motivation for much of what she does. Having given her credit, I still don’t want her any nearer the White House (as a resident) than I do Palin, but I wouldn’t put her in the same grifter class as Palin.
And to think, with all those degrees she still has no idea where Lexington and Concord are LOL
Education does not means intelligence, just means you paid your way through and made it out and if you do not either retain what you’ve learned or obtained street smarts, you just wasted your money.
Once you hear where she got her degrees, it makes more sense that she is so clueless.
The family business is Praying Away teh Gay. See photo of totally gay husand, Marcus. My gaydar was flashing Red and I live in NYC, was in the theatre, so my gaydar is finely tuned.
Those foster kids were girls, babysitting age.
I find that curious.
And her degrees are from Christian Colleges.
I agree that something seems amiss since no one has turned up any of the foster kids. Curious?
i am with you Lilybart. Bachmann gets no kudos from me re: her degrees. she might as well had stayed home and got some e-degrees.
this ‘prey on teh gays’ grift they have going on may not be against the law but it’s still disgusting.
imo. these two are shady and shifty.
I didn’t mean to sound like I was endorsing Bachmann. Never in a million years. I know she didn’t go to the best colleges and I know she doesn’t seem to have learned much from the experience. I was just saying that I give her some credit for trying and for having something on her resume besides grifting and quitting. I pretty much agree with everything else everybody has said about her.
never thought so for a moment G. always look forward to your posts. now that i think of it i see you have a point. a good point dang it.
my problem with bible colleges and is that they double down on ignorance and narrow minded thinking. anyone can open up a school with one book and call it a college or even a university. what’s your take?
I with you on this. In fact, I can’t think of anyone who I really detest but Palin wins the prize. Hopefully she will be the first and the last of loathsome people to darken our thoughts.
Oops…”I’m”
I thought I’d reached this milestone when George W. Bush came into office. My blood pressure started to register “tilt” whenever one of his soundbites were played on TV or radio or I read something about one of the inane things he said. However, I was wrong to think I had reached the depth of my ability to loathe someone.
Sarah Palin is indeed capable of making me hate. Considering that there are people out and about like the Koch brothers, David Duke, and others of that ilk, this is saying something indeed. None of them, however elicit the visceral contempt that Sarah does. Just one syllable from her bile-bleaching mouth sends me right up the wall. I can barely read what she says, but I cannot listen to her any longer.
There is something deeply disturbing about her, something naturally repellent. It is as if our survival instincts and moral guides are flashing “warning, warning, warning.”
Bachmann is a danger as well, but she elicits ridicule. Palin elicits responses much darker because she herself is a more fundamental menace – or so it seems.
I think most of us try not to think in terms of hating anyone because it’s usually in response to something the person has done to us personally. It seems like a selfish and uncharitable emotion and one we should try to rise above.
However, we’ve seen the extraordinary damage that Palin has done to our nation, our political system, to Alaska, to children with disabilities….to more groups than I can even mention, and to our President who is trying his hardest to rescue us from the depths of an economic and political disaster. Suddenly, our loathing is directed at someone, not for what they’ve done to US personally, but on behalf of nearly everyone around us. It would be easier to rise above the emotion if she had hurt us individually, but when she does so much harm to everything she touches, we become defensive and protective and just want to make it STOP!
That’s it in a nutshell. We are outraged on behalf of those who are too blind, or busy, or weak to see for themselves.
Love it – the perpetually open mouth spewing bile.
You’ll like this article.
“As if the death of Osama bin Laden weren’t enough good news for one month to offer the once-sagging political fortunes of the Obama administration — the terrorist mastermind was killed May 1, though it already seems like a year ago — when you include the failure of the Republican Medicare overhaul to pass in the Senate, plus indications that Tea Party darling Sarah Palin might actually run for president, the mood at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue must border on unbridled jubilation.
Can’t you see Obama skipping through the halls the White House, swinging his arms wide, perhaps singing a few verses of whatever childish doggerel pops into his swelling heart — “A tisket, a tasket, a green-and-yellow basket . . .” — while staffers tip back in their chairs and grin giddily at one another?” 🙂
http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/5612185-452/a-sarah-palin-presidential-campaign-would-be-gift-from-heaven-above.html
Looks like the artist was inspired by a visit from a friendly Spirit as he/she got the empty head and wrinkles spot on,too,still yet.
Good Friday morning, mudpups and hushpups.
Our seniors finished their exams second period yesterday, and tearfully left campus; graduation June 7.
Memorial Day off so a long weekend approaches *heavy, contented sigh*
then underclassmen exams next week
and this school year will be history.
This was a rough year in the library (closed more than one of every 3 days for “testing”!!!!) but my end-of-the-year reports are quite instructional. Next year Will be Better.
stay safe and take good care of yourselves
L’Shalom,
thatcrowwoman
I’m home recovering from a knee replacement, but you have all my sympathy for enduring the bittersweet end-of-the-year-crush of testing and activities. Be sure you read Gryphen’s post on NCLB or go here
http://www.hollandsentinel.com/opinions/x227108199/COLUMN-Teaching-in-America-No-Child-Left-Behind
The article really puts it in perspective.
I teach at an alternative high school, and it has been a difficult year. A terrific student disappeared in March while celebrating graduation with friends. His body was just found in the river. His ambition was to be a kindergarten teacher.
May you rejuvenate this summer and have a wonderful 2011-12 school year!
oh my goodness WakeUp. what a year it has been for you also. i hope the knee replacement is working well and that you are recovering from that serious operation.
i am sorry to hear of the loss of your student. his death is a loss for us all. may he rest in peace.
My sympathies for the surgery and recovery period. I had a hip replaced a couple of years ago, so I know how difficult physical therapy can be but isn’t it great to be out of pain? Everyone I know who has had knee replacement surgery is now active and feeling better than they had in years, so I wish the same outcome for you. Just be sure to follow the rules and do your exercises and you’ll be walking, dancing or what have you in no time.
One word of caution, though. One of the teachers in our district got both knees replaced and felt so much better for having her chronic knee pain disappear that she went nuts with the exercise therapy. True story: the muscles in her buttocks “locked-up” and she had to undergo a new round of physical therapy and walk with a cane until those muscles “relaxed.” That took several weeks. Now she seems to have one side smaller than the other and tries to stand for photographs with the tinier buttock to the camera. Honest!
Great recommendation about the Gryphen post, by the way. He conveyed the impact perfectly. I am going to recommend my husband and his fellow teachers distribute that post to whomever complains about President Obama’s efforts to repeal NCLB.
Sorry about the loss of a promising student. Any loss is difficult, but to lose someone who wanted to make a positive difference and had the talent to do it is an even deeper tragedy. So few people want to commit to teaching these days – and understandably so given the attitudes of the media and the public at large and the fact that you can often earn more with less effort in the private sector.
May you have a rapid and complete recovery – just don’t go getting one-sided on us (buttock-wise that is).
ROTFLMAO!
Bubbles and KS Sunflower,
Thank you for your heartfelt comments. I totally understand about the over-working the buttocks. My knee felt great right away, and I made the same mistake. Part of the problem was that I waited too long for the replacement, and the muscles of that leg and hip had atrophied. Of course the spectacular fall I took in the hospital didn’t help, or maybe it did. I went down like a pinball in a pinball machine, hitting everything in the tiny bathroom. There I was butt-naked and completely devoid of dignity. I told the nurses I better not find pictures of myself on YouTube when I searched on “fat a**” or “beached whale.” The doctor said that the complete flexion and extension of the knee during the fall probably put me 2-3 months ahead in therapy. It’s been 3 weeks, and I’m driving and walking unassisted for short distances, so he must be right.
As for my student who died, it is a great loss for all of us, but it is an especially tragic lesson to the students who were celebrating with him. Drinking alcohol and playing by a river will always be a bad idea. I feel certain that they will be haunted by his memory for the rest of their lives.
I am so sorry for the loss of your student. How sad.
Hooray for the new knee! Take care, and have fun.
WUA, you have my sympathy and condolences. As for your knee, I wish you a speedy and complete recovery. Your sense of humor certainly was unaffected by the fall!
((((((((( WakeUpAmerica )))))))))
I am so sorry, WakeUpAmerica. Speedy recovery to you.
It’s so sad to hear this kind of news about a child, my sympathies to you, his family and friends.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
Have a great recovery and do all the exercises they have you do to get back your mobility. Had my knees for 15 years now and they are great!
Wow, you are all so kind and caring. Thank you so much. This is where I come for warm fuzzies.
Just finished the last day of three solid weeks of state and district testing. We have two more days of 4th grade state science testing in June and then the tests are FINALLY done for the year. This has been a killer year for extra benchmark, field and mock tests that we’ve never had before so it feels like all we’ve been doing since January is getting ready for or taking these damn tests. I can’t remember when we last had a week that DIDN’T have some kind of test! And that doesn’t even include all the individual tests for the kids getting their annual reviews for their IEPs!
All the kiddies I was working with this week had different test mods so each one had to be tested individually. I was administering tests from 8:30 in the morning to 1 or 1:30 in the afternoon every day. I stopped on the way home this afternoon and picked up a nice bottle of wine to celebrate my surviving the week!
I am SOOO going to enjoy this three day weekend!
OK, OK, what is it? A trash barrel? A public urinal? A book burner?
any of ’em…all of ’em!
🙂
The 21st Century version of a Trojan Horse?
It’s alive! It’s alive! It’s trying to speak! Very difficult to decipher what language it is using! Wait! It appears to be saying, O-B-A-M-A !
You are amazing. I can never decipher what word salad means. No habla word salado.por favor.
Correction is needed – The Museum is in MEMPHIS, not Nashville. Wish it was Nashville as that is closer to me than Memphis and I’d love to take some photos with Brian perched on her bumpit!
Brian on her bumpit!
hahahahahahahaha caw Caw CAW CAW CAW!!!!
That big gaping mouth would make a perfect display case for a handful of copies of “Blind Allegiance” and “The Lies of Sarah Palin” – perhaps sitting on top of a pile of plastic salad greens.
( and I’d love to see Brian peeking out of that bumpit . perfect GG2C ! )
Correction made. Thanks!
Hey ladies and gentlemens!
We have a mudpup in hospital who needs cards/postcards..
Can you help? If yes click here to check out the post with info on the forums –
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Thanks!
Snoskred
thanks for the info !
Thank you for the heads up.
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Let’s redecorate that hospital room with cards! 🙂
I thought it was going to be Meg Stapletongue until the photo loaded. That’s probably her look after someone read Frank’s book to her.
Wait! Wait! — There’s someone in Snowdrift Snookie’s idol worship circle who can read?!?!?
.oOo.
Sorry. I couldn’t resist the snark. The ability to read implies a certain level of intelligence {for some definition of intelligence}. I still can’t reconcile intelligence with hagiography/ideologue cramdown/Domionism crap. In my mind, pride of being stupid {anti-elite} and enough intelligence to read and put two and two together equates to ‘epic fail’.
*snorts*
Good one!
true that.
Bravo! *clap clap clap*