The deal on the debt! Hello George!

Who caused the deficit?

This chart should accompany ALL discussions of the deficit!



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Secrets to a Long & Happy Marriage!

7/11 - Today on the Right!

Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney switched places as the frontrunner in an already tight Republican primary race in Iowa.   Bachmann is now leading Romney 25 percent to 21 percent in a poll conducted for The Iowa Republican.


Rick Santorum pledges not to cheat on his wife by signing “The Marriage Vow”.   Aside from the Marriage Vow asking candidates to practice personal fidelity it also asks them to reaffirm that marriage is between a man and a woman, defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, end anti-marriage parts of the tax code and to fight against the enactment of Sharia Law in the United States.   Oh...and then there WAS that statement about black folks in America!

Tim Pawlenty does not support gay rights but offered up that he likes a Lady Gaga song that does!

Somos Republicans, the nation’s largest Hispanic GOP watchdog group with an Iowa affiliate, has taken exception to statements made by Herman Cain (back in June) that the way to solve the nation’s concerns with illegal immigration is to build a moat filled with alligators and an electrified “Great Wall of China.”

Newt Gingrich labeled the economic situation in the U.S. as the “Obama depression,” just days after a dismal jobs report and signs negotiations on the debt deal are faltering.

Rush Limbaugh says "Media should pretend Caylee Anthony was aborted", so they don’t feel bad!

Sarah Palin is shocked by the price of Slim Jims!

Crazy Eyes signs "The Marriage Vow"

Michele Bachmann signed "The Marriage Vow -- A Declaration of Dependence Upon Marriage and Family", a requirement for earning the Iowa conservative group The Family Leader's endorsement.   The pledge also requires opposition to Sharia law and banning pornography.

The document also contained this statement, which was removed over outrage:

"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President."

Rick Santorum has also pledged to sign it.

Oh well...another missed opportunity!

Believe it or not...I watch this dude (Dr. Stanley) for a few minutes every Sunday morning (off and on...while I'm channel surfing and every one else is tithing).   He scares the hell out of me (no pun intended!)



92% of Christian American believe there is a God!   So be it...to each his (or her) own!

Another Bill Cosby rant and I happen to agree!

"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.

I can't even talk the way these people talk:

Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...

And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.

And then I heard the father talk.

Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads.   You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.  
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.

These people are not parenting.   They are buying things for kids.

$500 sneakers for what?

And they won't spend $200 for "Hooked on Phonics".

I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.

Where were you when he was 2?

Where were you when he was 12?

Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?

And where is the father? Or who is his father?

People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?

Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

What part of Africa did this come from??

We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa .....

I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American.   That is totally stupid.

I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents.   I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany, Scotland, England, Ireland, or the Netherlands.   The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa.   So stop, already!!!

With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ......... And all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

We have got to take the neighborhood back.

People used to be ashamed.   Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.

We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs.   We, as black folks have to do a better job.

Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.

We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

We cannot blame the white people any longer."

Olbermann...Same Sex Marriage

Unfortunately...Mr Olbermann's "Countdown" (currently televised on Current TV) is not carried by my cable provider (yet)!   We're working on it!

Loving versus Virginia...Happy Anniversary!

On June 12th, 1958, two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a "Negro" woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia pursuant to its laws.   Shortly after their marriage, they returned to Virginia and established their marital abode in Caroline County.   Four months later (in October of 1958) a grand jury (in the Circuit Court of Caroline County) issued an indictment charging the Lovings with violating Virginia's ban on interracial marriages.   On January 6, 1959, the Lovings pleaded guilty to the charge and were sentenced to one year in jail; however, the trial judge suspended the sentence for a period of 25 years on the condition that they leave Virginia and not return for 25 years.   The trial judge in the case, Leon M. Bazile proclaimed that :

“Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents.   And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages.   The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix”.

Fortunately, times are changing (within some areas of America).   I am proud to know many married interracial generation X and Y couples…including both my daughters!   I only have two daughters!   As I said…I am proud.   Why?   Because this issue never appeared on their, or our, radar screen!

Herman Cain? WTF?

“I want people in my administration that are committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.   I don’t want any inkling of anybody in my administration who would put Sharia law over American law.   I have not found a Muslim that has said that they will denounce Sharia law, you know, in order to support the Constitution of the United States.”

Then on the Glen Beck show!
GLENN BECK: So wait a minute, are you saying that Muslims have to prove, there has to be a loyalty proof?
CAIN: Yes, to the Constitution of the United States of America.
BECK: Well, would you do that to a Catholic or a Mormon?
CAIN: No, I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t because there is a greater dangerous part of the Muslim faith than there is in these other religions.

Then again on homosexuality.....
"I believe homosexuality is a sin because I'm a Bible-believing Christian, I believe it's a sin.   But I know that some people make that choice.   That's their choice.   And I believe it IS a choice."

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Source: DILBERT by Scott Adams

Pope's Pedophile Advisor

Father Riccardo Seppia, a 51-year-old parish priest in the village of Sastri Ponente, near Genoa, was arrested on pedophilia and drug charges.   Investigators say that in tapped mobile-phone conversations, Seppia asked a Moroccan drug dealer to arrange sexual encounters with young and vulnerable boys.   "I do not want 16-year-old boys but younger.   Fourteen-year-olds are O.K.   Look for needy boys who have family issues," he allegedly said.   Genoa Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, who is the head of the Italian Bishops Conference, had been working with Benedict to establish a tough new worldwide policy on how bishops should handle accusations of priestly sex abuse.

Do you know someone like this?

• Talks to people stating the obvious as if they don't know the obvious
• Comes across as the authority on everything
• Always offers unsolicited advice
• Blames the outcome of most things on others
• Unbeknownst to him/her, the tone of their voice/conversation comes across as argumentative/confrontational
• More often than not, comments directly to a person on their appearance (weight, clothing, etc.)
• Doesn't realize that the reaction of others may have been the result of his/her own actions
• Doesn't realize that (given the above) he/she offends others because they are hesitant to tell him/her so

I know someone like this!   Do you?

On a lighter note...again!

NobleWorksCards

Doomsday!

It came and went with no earthquakes, no tsunamis, and without a meteor hitting the earth.   Harold Camping is currently in hiding and his followers were left with dejection and puzzlement.



"I was hoping for it because I think heaven would be a lot better than this earth," said Keith Bauer, a tractor-trailer driver and Camping follower.   Bauer "had some skepticism" but put it aside because he believed in God.

Robert Fitzpatrick of Staten Island, New York, famously spent his life-savings to finance a massive ad campaign for the 'Doomsday 'message.   When 'Doomsday' failed to materialize, Fitzpatrick was stunned.   "I don't understand why nothing is happening.   It's not a mistake.  I did what I had to do.  I did what the Bible said"

It's OK to be Takei

A bill that would prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in the classroom before the ninth grade has advanced in Tennessee's Senate.

Another reason I could not retire/relocate to Tennessee…not to mention the floods this year.   Who could give a f**k about eliminating the use of the word gay.   Obviously the good citizens of Tennessee do…that’s who.   Stop the insanity!   Some of my best friends are gay!

Sponsored by state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R), who unsuccessfully pushed the same measure for six years while serving in the House, the so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill would make it illegal for educators to discuss any sexual behavior apart from heterosexuality with students in kindergarten up through the eighth grade.

I need to check the literacy rate of the folks from Tennessee!   Oops...bible belt country!   Nevermind!

NBC = Nothing But Commercials!

OK...the routine around here is that when we wake up...and turn on the TV...it's WNBC's Today Show.   Yesterday we turned on the TV at about 7:45 AM and I noticed an incredible amount of commercials from that time until 8:00 AM!   I guesstimated about 20 or so commercials.   I couldn't believe it...and thought that perhaps it was a unique situation!   Well...today when we woke up...about the same time...I grabbed a pen & paper (just out of curiosity) to see if yesterday's commercial deluge was unique.   It wasn't!   Same thing!   At about 7:46 AM the commercials started...and went practically non-stop until 8:00 AM.   21 commercials in all!   Unbelieveable!   Most of them ran about 30 seconds!   Here's today's (no pun intended) line-up!

• At 7:46 AM - Wake up & turn on the T.V....then...
• Chili’s Restaurant
• Oreo Cookies
• General Electic’s Vscan
• Mercedes Benz
• ACT Total Care Dry Mouth
• Samsung Washers
• Ortho Home Defense Max
• At 7:50 AM - About 15 seconds of Meredith, Al & Ann telling us (the teaser) what's coming up next at 8:00 AM...blah blah blah...then...
• McCafe’s Frozen Strawberry Lemonade
• Petsmart’s Big Bonus Sales
• Lyrica (relieves Fibromyalgia)
• Straight Talk cell service from Walmart
• “Fight Back fast with TUMS”
• American Express Membership Rewards
• “America’s Got Talent” TV Show
  
• Broadway’s “Book of Mormon”
• Jennifer Convertible Sofas
• At about 7:58 AM...one minute of local news...then...
• Bridesmaids (The Movie)
• PNC Bank’s Virtual Wallet
• Empire Carpets
• Huntington Learning Center
• Broadway’s “Catch Me If You Can”
• At 8:00 AM - back to Matt, Meredith, Ann & Al

Time to channel surf! I've had enough! "Good Day New York" is looking better and better every day!

37 Years!

Could Your Marriage Pass the “Green Card” Test?
(per the 2010 NY Times Marriage Test?)

Here are some sample questions provided by lawyers who sit in on such interviews.

Your Wedding

• On the day of your wedding, where did you wake up?   What about your spouse?
• How did you get to the wedding?   What about your spouse?

Home and Money

• How many televisions do you have in your house/apartment?
• If you are standing at and facing your kitchen sink, where is the microwave oven?
• Is your microwave stationary or does it have a revolving plate?
• How much money did you receive in your last paycheck/deposit?   What about your spouse?

How You Met

• Where did you and your spouse first meet?   When was it?
• Who first spoke to whom?
• Why were you there?   What about your spouse?

Into the Bedroom

• Where do you keep your clean underwear?   What about your spouse?
• What color is your toothbrush?   What about your spouse’s?

Family, Friends and More

• What did you do last night after work?
• What is the name of your spouse’s manager at work?
• What day is trash picked up at your house?

Being Presidential before being President

Candidate Barack Obama debating Senator John McCain in 2008!

To the Mother of my Daughters!

Reflections on the Freedom Riders

May 4th marked the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders.   If you didn’t know, Freedom Riders were civil rights activists (both black and white) who rode interstate buses into the segregated south.   The first Freedom Riders left Washington D.C. on May 4th 1961…they never made it to their final destination…New Orleans.   They were met with violence in Mississippi and elsewhere as witnessed below.



I was only 14 years old then and living in the south Bronx (New York City).   At that time, I had never been further south than Philadelphia, PA… and anywhere further south than that seemed like another country to me.   My view of the south was based on what I had seen on our black & white TV (like the picture above) and when my grandfather reported on what he had read in the newspapers.   Years later…my uncle also told me his story about accompanying my great-grandmother on a train trip from New York City to Manassas, Virginia back in the late 40’s.   Once they arrived in Washington, D.C. they had to switch trains…and had to sit in the car designated for “Negroes” for the remainder of their short trip to Virginia.



Even as a child, and then a Bronx teenager, I could go to any public bathroom.   My friends and I enjoyed movies at the infamous Loew’s Paradise theater on Fordham Road…in an exclusively white neighborhood and we weren’t relegated to the balcony!   Sure we knew that there were a few neighborhoods within the Bronx that were not the most hospitable to “Negroes” and we avoided them (check out “A Bronx Tale”…awesome!)   Never the less, I had several white friends in elementary school (before their parents moved out of the area within a few years).   Can you imagine, one of my closest friends was named Igor Heitlinger!   (I need to try to find him).

I was one of two “coloreds” in Junior High School (my Mom falsified my address so that I could take advantage of what she perceived was a better opportunity…which it was).   Then, I attended James Monroe High School…a miniature “United Nations” at the time.   I had friends of all ethnicities…and still do!   A few interracial couples even attended the prom!   It was during the later years in high school that I became more and more aware of the atrocities happening in the south.   But again…that was another world to me.

Then I attended the University of Dubuque, in Dubuque, Iowa (that’s a whole ‘nother story).   With a total student population of just over 1100, there were about 20 “Negroes” attending the university during my freshman year.   Given my past school experiences…this low ratio didn’t phase me at all.   And besides…I was in Iowa…a state not heavily populated with us folk!   In subsequent years…more “Negroes” attended…many from the south.   At the time, to me, Dubuque was an island, isolated from the craziness of the racial turmoil escalating in the south.   I used to joke “light-heartedly” with the southern “Negroes” attending the university, how they put up with this?   I just could not comprehend it.   Little did I know about the crap they had to live with while growing up.   It was just incomprehensable to me.

Now…50 years later…knowing what I know, I would love to have an in-depth conversation with those southern “Negroes” to get their perspective on what it was really like growing up in the South back in those days.   I ask now because I think they may have been somewhat “at a distance” from the white folks during their Dubuque experience.   That’s just my perception.   At the time, as a boy from the “integrated” north, I couldn’t see nor understand why there may have been this “distance”.   After watching some of the coverage last week on the Freedom Riders…now I think I know why.   I will definitely be watching the “Freedom Riders” special on PBS next week.   I’m sure I’ll learn even more!

As my immediate family and close friends will attest, one of my favorite sayings is that “you are a product of your environment”!

Happy Easter!

This is absolutely priceless!

Is Palin old news???

Source

Pastor Ken Hutchinson & Genesis 2:24

This rabid homophobe is spearheading a letter campaign asking all other homophobes to unite and send a letter to every member of congress for a mere $29.95!   Below is his campaign's message.

"Now there is a way to fight back.   It’s an innovative, high-tech, grass-roots lobbying campaign called “TIME TO DEFEND MARRIAGE: The Genesis 2:24 Campaign.”   Supported by the Family Research Council, Dr. James Dobson, Gary Bauer and dozens of high-profile Christian leaders throughout the country, headed by Ken Hutcherson, pastor of the Antioch Bible Church in Washington state.   It’s a project of a new coalition called “The Initiative for Moral Excellence” – or TIME.   The campaign allows you to lobby all 535 members of Congress to fight legal challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act, a piece of legislation defining marriage as an institution between one man and one woman and signed by President Clinton into law.   Nothing short of a complete repudiation of those legal attacks on the law will save marriage in America.   By participating in this campaign, you can send copies of the letter below to all 535 members of Congress for one low price of $29.95 – far less than postage alone would cost you if you tried to do it yourself."

PASTOR Ken also officiated at Rush Limbaugh's wedding (and Elton John sang)...go figure!

Terry Jones - More Opiate for the Masses

THIS whack job...


PLUS some of these wingnuts...


EQUALS this!