Posted by Pistol Pete
Note to anonymous:When you commented about me using the terms ‘Obastard’ and ‘death panels’ in my last post,I took it as an inference that I seemed hypocritical being it was a good-news grudge.Let me explain:When I called our beloved president Obastard,I was giving him the benefit of the doubt.As for death panels,now that he has been re-immaculated the reality of it has now reached the level of metaphysical certitude.One thing that separates us from left-wing blogs is that we don’t need excessive profanity to express ourselves.We don’t waste our time being angry or looking for enemies.I have posted over 500 times here and have used the ‘F’-bomb less times than a Kos Kid does in one sentence.Chrissy has done thousands and has never used a curse word.I don’t know how long you’ve been visiting our little garden,but the regulars can attest that when I get on an epic rant I end up speaking in tongues.
Most of us grew up in the fifties when adults didn’t use coarse language around children much past ‘hell’ or ‘damn.’ I sense you are younger than most of us and missed the chance at a happy,unfettered childhood.More’s the pity.I learned the really good words at school from kids whose parents were more tolerant than mine were.I made the mistake of dropping the Queen Mother of cuss words within earshot of my granny one time.She promptly used her finger as a tongue depressor after she dipped it in pink dish soap.I swear it happened.I doubt I’m the only one who experienced a lesson in oral cleanliness.
It was such a traumatic event when our nation sounded its death knell on Nov. 6,I divorced myself from politics completely.The next four years will be pretty much a repeat of the last four,only to a more intense degree.The Democrats will get more outrageous and commit constitutional atrocities and the media will either ignore or twist to blame Republicans.The GOP will put up token resistance but will submit in the end,since they’re all playing the same game.
I don’t have a social life and I owe my friends here more than I can ever repay.I prayed on how to continue fellowship with my buddies without going into politics.When I really started looking I discovered there is much more to life beyond politics.I majored in English and minored in Theater Arts in school and some say I can be pretty funny when I want to be.These days we all need something to get us through this ordeal.I hope to make someone’s day a little brighter whenever I can.
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FAMILY OF BABY WITH RARE DISEASE GRATEFUL TO A STRANGER
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/family-baby-rare-disease-grateful-110126208–abc-news-topstories.html
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Kleenex alert!
“Racing enthusiast Ron Cook, from nearby Arlington, who raffled his beloved 1957 Chevy Bel Air netting $11,000 for the family, who were complete strangers to him before he saw a report on ABC News’ affiliate KOMO. The good deed was then carried on when the winner of the car, octogenarian Della Phillip, vowed to sell it and donate the proceeds to the Buswell family.”
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GIRL PEE WEE FOOTBALL STAR,9,ON WHEATIES BOX
http://patdollard.com/2012/11/girl-football-star-9-on-wheaties-box/
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HUNTERS BEWARE:THAT ANTELOPE MAY BE POISONOUS
Rare critter escaped from sanctuary.Meat is deadly poisonous.
http://bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view/20221123where_the_antelope_plays/srvc=news&position=also
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Nilgai … good word for Scrabble. I have a lot of trouble with i tiles and that word has two of them. 🙂 Interesting to note, the meat of the nilgai is not the problem. It’s the sedatives she’d been given in an attempt to load her for shipping to a new home.
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SOMETIMES YA JUST GOTTA LAUGH
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I love this!
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SISTERLY LOVE-SHENIKA STABS DEONTE IN THE NECK WITH SERVING FORK OVER THANKSGIVING DINNER
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237646/Shenika-Allsup-stabbed-half-brother-neck-large-serving-fork-Thanksgiving-dinner.html
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HO HO HO!
I laughted so hard at Santa he put me on his naughty list!
The marines come in with those handy weapons, a pair of scissors, to cut off the fake beard!
I hope he did not pee in his Santa suit from embarrassment!
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“She has been charged with assault and is being held on $1million bond.”
A MILLION dollars? I wonder what else is on her rap sheet to warrant that kind of bail.
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BURBANKE TOWNE CENTER IN BEVERLY HILLS HAS A UNIQUE VENDING MACHINE
It dispenses caviar,truffles and escargot.Yummy.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/11/23/caviar-dispensing-vending-machine-opens-at-burbank-towne-center/
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Yes, but does MOOchelle approve?
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FLORIDA WOMAN ARRESTED ON CHARGES SHE RODE A MAN(atee)
She must be really,really lonely
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Fla-Woman-Arrested-For-Allegedly-Riding-Manatee-180698281.html
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Ho Ho Ho again!
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THE DEFINITIVE RANKING OF THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY
Money is #6
http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/the-definitive-ranking-of-things-that-make-you-hap
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The title says “things that make you happy” but the list is really about “things that feel pleasurable.” Happiness and pleasure are two very different things.
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And then there’s contentment, which is another thing altogether!
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Good point, Bob.
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I’ve heard all my life that money can’t buy happiness, but that’s nonsense. When people win the lottery, it makes them happy. If they receive a large inheritance, it makes them happy. Give a teenager a big fat check for his/her birthday, it makes him/her happy. The problem with happiness is that it’s always temporary and fleeting. That’s why contentment — the one thing that money CAN’T buy — is so much more desirable, and valuable.
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Interesting. I define what you’re calling happiness to be pleasure, which is similar to excitement in being fleeting. I was wondering after reading your previous post how happiness (as I think of it, that deep down thing that persists even through hard days) is different from contentment. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I think of happiness as being more similar to pleasure: a transitory thing, dependent on events or circumstances. The root of the word “happiness” is the same as the root for “happen” or “happenings,” which reinforces the idea of its being dependent on things outside oneself — like good fortune. But contentment is rooted in one’s attitude, which comes from within rather than without. Unlike happiness, contentment is something over which I have some control. I can’t just decide to be happy, but I can decide to be content.
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Now that is really interesting! I never looked at the word roots before. This makes a lot of sense.
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In fact, I’ve done this … made a positive choice to be content. It was an act of the will, so definitely not in the ballpark with pleasure or happiness. I like this, Lucy. Your language skills are such a joy to me. 🙂
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True, and for me, as well. Still, I think the author of the original quote about buying happiness must surely have meant what Bob calls contentment. It’s the only thing that makes sense. I suppose language is like any other technical pursuit. It’s important to be precise, eh?
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And since the people answering meant who knows what about the words in the question, the results are meaningless. The thing I always go back to is what people on United 93 chose to do with their last minutes before their assault. Without exception, they phoned their loved ones to tell them they loved them. Some also left messages about where their important papers were, which is a sign of love too, to think about how to make their own deaths easier on their survivors.
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This little bluebird didn’t major in English for 4 years for nothing.
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LOL
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HOLIDAY MIRACLE AS MAN AWAKES FROM MONTH-LONG COMA
After being shot in the head defending his girlfriend
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/11/holiday-miracle-as-man-awakes-from-monthlong-coma/
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Wow! He was given only 25% chance of SURVIVING, yet he now remembers everything except the shooting, including “his computer passwords and address.”
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TO KICK OFF THE HOLIDAY SEASON,THIS MAY BE THE WORST RENDITION OF ‘DECK THE HALLS’ EVER RECORDED
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THIEVES STEAL 18 TONS OF AUSTRIAN CHOCOLATE
I only included this because DW has a shirt that says ‘Hand over the chocolate and nobody gets hurt.’
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/thieves-steal-18-tons-chocolate-factory-article-1.1207325
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I WANT ONE OF THOSE SHIRTS!!!!
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Just gimme the chocalate!
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ROFL
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The REAL four food groups: Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate, Hot Chocolate, Fudge.
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You can keep the milk chocolate. I’ll take the dark chocolate, the hot chocolate, and the fudge. (And then I’ll have insomnia for half the night.)
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I agree. The dark stuff is better.
Make your own hot chocolate. I use organic cocoa, almond milk, vanilla, cinnamon and sweeten it with honey.
A healthier not guilty pleasure.
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Mmmmm, that sounds yummy. I’ll have to try it!
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Something puzzles me. If, apparently, 100% of the PoliNation population knows that dark chocolate is better (and it is), why is it so hard to find? Me and Mrs. Grunt spend way too much time (like addicts) cruising food stores trying to find good dark chocolate. When Target has dark Kit Kats, we buy them out, but the inventory moves so slowly they’re frequently stale. We could go hit the Godiva store at the mall, I guess, if we won the lottery. Is it like politics, where 70% of people are just idiots and don’t know what’s good? Serious question.
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Do you have a trader Joe’s? They have a great selection. They use to have these amazing cocoa covered almonds, but they stopped carrying them. I complain everytime I am in the store. But they still have regular dark choc, covered almonds. Did you know that eating nuts with chocolate helps to balance the glycemic index? They also have these giant dark choc bars. Aldi also has a selection of dark chocs. from around the world and they are cheap.
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Thanks, GP! Unfortunately, we don’t have TJs or Aldis here. Walmart actually has a pretty good candy aisle, but they’re heavy on sugary, carmel filled dark chocolate bars, and not so much on the really good dark w/ almonds or dark w/ pistachios and things like that, and when they do them, they’re $4 for a tiny bar. But I guess that’s the price we snobs pay, huh?
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I only eat dark chocolate these days. I just got a bar yesterday :o). MMMM.
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MAINE NEWSCASTERS GIVE STUNNING ON-AIR RESIGNATION
Fed up with having to repeat incessant claptrap
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/21/maine-newscasters-give-bosses-figurative-middle-fingers-by-resigning-on-air-video/
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TAXES COULD FACTOR IN TO BASEBALL PLAYERS’ NEGOTIATIONS
Get the money quick–before it’s too late
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/20169524/tax-increases-could-factor-in-mlb-negotiations
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This is how they will control all salaries. All athletes, doctors, lawyers etc, will be capped at $249, 000.
Except of course for the pols. They will still have all their loopholes intact.
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GUESS WHICH FOX NEWS HOST USED TO BE A VICTORIA’S SECRET UNDERWEAR MODEL
Victoria’s Secret is the grown man’s Chuck-E-Cheese
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/which-fox-news-host-used-to-be-a-victorias-secret-underwear-model/#
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Guess what MSNBC host use to model for Horse and Hound.
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LOL
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27 EVERYDAY THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW HAD NAMES
CHRISSY AND BOB:Some really good words for your scrabble games.Like ‘glabella’ and ‘chanking’
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/everyday-things-you-never-knew-had-names
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I love the game Balderdash. If you have not played it, and love words, you must get this game.
You get a real word and get to make up definitions.
I always win. I bet PP would be impossible to beat.
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I checked the words with the Tournament Word List that Lucy and I use for our games. Only six are legal:
Glabella (the space between your eyebrows, where you get frowney wrinkles.)
Zarf (a holder for a hot coffee cup)
Niggly (to be preoccupied with trifles or petty details. 2. To find fault constantly and trivially. E.g., MSNBC News)
Darkle (to grow dark, become clouded, gloomy or concealed in the dark)
Snollygoster (a politician whose only principle is personal gain. Examples spring to mind, too many to list here! LOL)
Frisson (a brief moment of emotional excitement, may be positive like Chris Matthews’ thrill or negative like the cold chill we felt when Romney conceded)
PoliNation Challenge: Use all six in a sentence. Points will be given for making me laugh with your pithy, political snark. 🙂
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“Who’s the silly biden with the nards ta darkle the door o’ this pub, standin’ there wearin’ a necktie like a snollygoster, too pelosi to know this is a Bristol-only room, more than likely to get hit right in the glabella with a zarf before he could get a good frisson goin’ at the bar; and ah won’t niggly you, he looks more than evil enough to obama the lot of us in the arse with some legal summons or writ before you can say Bub Kerry’s yer uncle.” 😀
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ROFLLLLLLLLLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO snort
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Okay, Grunt, that made me laugh out loud. My family is going to think I’ve finally lost it.
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Very creative!
I won’t even attempt to match that!
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You really should give it a shot, GP. We can’t let the 2 Scrabble Yodas have all the fun! 🙂
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You ladies are way too kind, but this is just the usual conversation at the dinner table, so there’s no creativity involved. I’m honored that I made Bob laugh, though! 🙂
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Is Balderdash one of those games where you have to be really good at bluffing? If so, I would lose for sure. Everyone can tell when I’m bluffing.
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REJECTED BEATLES’ AUDITION TAPE DISCOVERED
Wonder whatever happened to the record exec who decided they were going nowhere,man.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/the-beatles/9695499/Rejected-Beatles-audition-tape-discovered.html
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Hey, even Guiseppe Verdi got rejected when he applied to music school. They told him he didn’t have any talent.
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HIS NAME WAS WILLIAM CLAUDE DUKENFELD
True comedy is ageless
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OMG
Now I can see where Biden gets his routine from!
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My dad once reamed me out for saying “crap.” I swear to you, I meant to say “crud.” I am still certain I did say “crud.” But he heard “crap” and I got a blistering earful about using bad language.
My older sister starting saying s&&t in high school and I was shocked! Shocked, I tell ya! I remember experimenting in private with saying it out loud. It felt so ugly and it was satisfying to know I had an ugly word to use when I needed it.
The problem with that is that it gets too easy to use the ugly words. They start slipping out for less important reasons and creep their way into your everyday vocabulary. It not only makes you sound cheap and stupid; it takes away the power of the language for expressing the ugly emotions when they need expressing.
By the time Mama Buzz was learning to talk, I had spent 5 years on college campuses and one year driving a school bus. My fellow students laughed at me to my face for going to church. My fellow drivers laughed at me for having a Bible and speculated out loud about my “cherry.”
I tried, but my language degraded. So one day, little Mama Buzz, the exceptionally bright and observant toddler, hears me express myself explosively following a major toe stubbing incident. She tucked it away and later on, when she had a boo boo, shouted out, “Oh Shhhh…. [pause] what’s that word you use, Mommy?”
Funny story now, but I was ashamed and made much more of an effort after that to keep the bad words out of our home. I was so tickled the day I heard one of my little ones counsel her playfriend, “At our house, we say oh my goodness, not oh my god.”
They’re all military now and I am certain they know language I have never heard. But it doesn’t come into our home. When they slip, they blush and apologize. I like that. It shows they respect me and our home.
I just wanted to say to whoever is reading this that when I use words like asshat, I am very aware that I am doing it and it is a sign of the emotional turmoil the Left causes me on a regular basis.
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I remember when I would get in trouble for not even saying a word. All I had to do was look disrepectful and I would be grounded.
Nowadays, it is the parents who catch hell from the kids if they dare to talk back.
And don’t get me started on how a student can harass a teacher, and tell a teacher to f off. Remember when a kid would get suspended for pulling that crud?
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Reminds me of my gf who said once, “Misbehave in church? I don’t remember misbehaving in church. I remember being hauled out by the elbow, lectured about what would happen when we got home if I didn’t shape up, and dragged back in.”
She of course had the disadvantage of no older siblings. I, on the other hand, didn’t need to get dragged out. I’d already seen enough at home to know when my parents made a threat, it was anything but IDLE.
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Oh, and Pete? I am SO GLAD you figured out a way to keep coming here and posting. The garden just doesn’t feel right without you. {{{{{{Pete}}}}}
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Agreed! We need to plant seeds of health and happiness, and propagate friendships now more than ever.
The thought of four more years of pergatory is too much to take in.
Laughing is the only way to survive!
PP-Thanks for your committment to keep us laughing.
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Dittos to what CTH and GP said.
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Back at ya, Pete. You caught my drift.
While I just missed the 50’s, I also grew up in an environment where mom had a bar of soap and neither she nor the other mothers in the neighborhood were afraid to use it. (Yes, when they were actually able to discipline other kids without a law suit). It was not tolerated inside or outside of the house. Leaving me amazed how bad language has lost much of its meaning or impact from over use today.
I also benefited from learning a few things long ago things like; don’t judge another man until you have walked a mile in his shoes, so while I may have a strong opinions I am generally open to all views. The right slant here is not hard to detect. I was also schooled that if you surround yourself only with like minded people don’t be surprised to learn that you all start thinking alike, so getting an objective answers can become a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. Making my non-agenda for stopping by from the logical wisdom bestowed upon me that without venturing out and exploring no one can really be sure if they are on the right track or just following others on the same track.
I majored on the technical side of the house and work has kept me closer to the keyboard then I normally like as of late. I can and do appreciate your humor and views. I hope everyone understands there is no personal, left/right or other agenda from this side of the keyboard. Questions, views and opinions Yes, agenda No.
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I’m enjoying the fresh blood in comments here. We don’t want to get stale. Our only requirement is for commenters to exercise the same kind of respect here that my kids give me in our home.
The world has gotten to be an increasingly ugly place. We come here regularly, because we need a safe place where we can relax and chat without having someone scream at us.
[Thank you again to Bob, who vanquishes the occasional troll commenter.]
As I understand it, anyone can post as “anonymous.” I’m hoping you’ll choose a handle and gravatar so we will know your comments are by you.
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This is interesting. I guess the kid has a contract. Maybe by speaking out publicly, the show will break the contract for him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2238825/Angus-T-Jones-brands-Two-Half-Men-filth-extraordinary-outburst-religious-video.html
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Anonymous:all viewpoints are welcome here.Anybody who claims to agree with you 100% of the time is either shining you on or has no will of his own.What you have found here is when people have an opinion they’re prepared to back it up.What drew me here was there are not thousands of posters and you really don’t get to share your thoughts with people who matter in your life.Everyone here is of above-average intelligence and we all lift each other up in times of trouble.It works..I know it for a fact.Perhaps you missed my favorite grannyism,which I posted a long time ago:
‘profanity is the feeble attempt of a weak mind to express itself forcefully.’
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Y’all, I’m Racist By Miss Ruth
I have a confession to make, y’all. I’m a racist. Yes, you read that right. I am a RAAAAAAAAACIIIISSSSST!
I believe people should take responsibility for their actions no matter how rough their upbringing was. I know, “That’s racist.”
I believe life begins at conception and if a person doesn’t want a baby they should go buy their own birth control or even – wait for it – abstain! Yes, yes, go ahead and say it, “That’s totes racist and sexist.” I got a two-for-one deal on that one.
I believe all color is beautiful and color is a gift from God to make our world vibrant but I don’t believe in using color as a crutch or way to further a person’s career or social status. For this I wear the “racist” badge.
Read the rest @ http://misfitpolitics.co/2012/11/yall-im-racist/. It’ll pump her numbers. 🙂
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I started (but never finished) composing a rant for bluebird of bitterness, about how I finally realized that our country really IS racist. Not racist in the sense that liberals use it (meaning “someone who is winning an argument with a liberal” or “someone who didn’t vote for Barack Obama”), but racist in the original sense of considering one race to be inferior to another. I realized, to my sorrow, that America really is racist when we re-elected the worst president the country has ever had, simply because he is the first black president and we don’t hold black presidents to the same high standards that we hold white presidents. Everyone knows that any white president of either party with a record like Obama’s would have been defeated in a landslide if he’d tried to run for a second term. This election was the perfect illustration of what a paler president once called “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
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“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago, and a racist today.” –Thomas Sowell
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Even MLK wanted people to be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
If Obama was white he would have been impeached by now.
If JJJ was white, he would have never been re elected while he was off in the looney bin.
If Al Sharpton was white, he would have been kicked out of Congress for ethics violations.
etc etc.
It is time that we hold people accountable, no matter what color they are.
The only way it is ever going to change is if they stop defining race. The question needs to be taken off of every application and form.
I am sick and tired of having to denote race. It needs to be two choices-
American citizen or non citizen
period
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In the space for “race,” I always write “human.”
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Good one!
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