I went back to work this morning after taking a short vacation to visit with my son and his wife who traveled here from San Diego. We had a great time. Giles made sure we got tickets to the Husker game versus Baylor last Saturday. Getting game tickets for a Husker game is not an easy feat by any means. It was very thoughtful of him. Sunday I went to church with Chris then we drove to Mondamin to pick apples. Tom and Giles stayed in front of the HD TV watching football. Monday we all tried to find some ducks or geese to feed bread to but the ducks are already gone South, and the geese we did find were definitely not hungry. Still, I think they had a good time. I do miss my kids a lot.
I think sometimes, about moving back to California to be closer to them. I have a son & daughter-in-law and my own daughter plus 4 grandchildren (and they're growing like weeds)...I'm missing it! But then, I came to my senses. I couldn't live in Southern California again any more than I could sprout wings and learn to fly. There's just too much traffic, too many ambivalent people, too much crime and road rage, etc., etc., etc. I'd just rather not have that to contend with along with everything else it takes to get by these days. I'm still homesick though, for my kids, for the beautiful weather, lovely landscaping, beaches (ah, the beach), mountains, (I miss skiing), for a lot of the good things San Diego offers.
Maybe that's why I'm having such a bad day. I'm homesick, and I'm tired!
Going back to work after taking ANY time off is always a bummer. No one does your work for you unless you’re a clerk in a grocery store or something like that. Postal workers I guess wouldn't have 6 days of backed up mail to sort. Anyway, the day at work was awful and the politics is killing my spirit. I need to get out and play some kick ass guitar (preferably with another picker) and refill my spiritual gas tank.
I met Giles (late, because of work again) at the Chesterfield so we could get our Halloween costumes. We drove to our destination and did our thing. In the process, I had a short but nasty tantrum trying to get a piece of fabric unhooked from a hanger and the look I got from that man could've burned a hole through asbestos. I calmed down because it was just ME and I was getting it on him. I felt badly but didn't apologize. Anyway, when I dropped him off at his truck he said "I'm getting as FAR away from you as I can!" So, now I'm having a GREAT time and feeling FABULOUS about everything and he iced the cake with one sentence.
Now I'm sitting here writing this instead of packing. I'm supposed to move this weekend. But honestly, with everything that's going on at work, and personal family stuff that's going on, it's been a real challenge not to just throw my freakin' hands up and say,
FUCK IT!
Peace!
Patio Patty ©
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
If you're able and ambulatory, get out and VOTE!!
What would happen if the entire world could vote in our election? One guess
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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The entire world is, apparently, full of whiny no-good commie liberals.
It's true. This is the only logical conclusion, the only way you can possibly parse the piles of (largely unscientific, but still pretty damn convincing) numbers and data and full-blown emotional consciousness now pouring in from all over the world, pumping our little presidential election full of all sorts of cosmic meaning and profundity and oh-my-God-can-it-be-true.
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Check that: Maybe it's not the only way to parse it. But if you're a hard-core McCainite and/or are under some sort of unfortunate, chemically-induced delusion that Sarah Palin is just exactly the sort of dangerously harebrained, folksy, winking, nonsensical political confection we all really need right now, well, you might be more than a bit peeved to learn that the entire world has already cast its vote for our next president.
And of course, the world wants Obama.
Overwhelmingly. Crushingly. Rather staggeringly. By quite possibly the largest margin you will see anywhere except maybe Hawaii and D.C. and, well, San Francisco.
Did you already suspect? Could you not already guess? Because despite how here at home Obama is pulling nicely ahead by anywhere from five to 10 points almost across the board, we still call that a relatively close race. It's still "anybody's game," with both candidates currently whipping the battleground states into a frenzy and spending millions in a mad-dash sprint to an extraordinary finish.
The rest of the world? Not quite so divided. Not by a long shot.
Just look. Over at The Economist, they put together a rather ingenious tool, this Global Electoral College tracker thing, wherein we can ask, well, exactly that: What would happen if the nations of the world were divvied up in a way similar to our electoral college, with each nation getting a certain number of votes based on population? How might the world choose? Whom would they pick?
You might think the answer fairly obvious, given how many nations have been so violently insulted and ignored for the past eight solid years, and that the world's current shocking fiscal meltdown can, at least in part, be traced directly to Bush administration incompetence. It's no stretch at all to see McCain as merely a clone, more of the toxic, poisonous same, if not worse.
But come on, it can't be that much of a global landslide, right? Surely there must be some stiff, stoic nations out there who'd want a grumpy, tempestuous military man to lead the U.S., if only to have someone to play with in the grand sandbox of war and intolerance and oily greed?
Is there really no military junta, no dictator, no incensed bomb-gathering nation that really wants McCain, if only for the joy of mutual saber-rattling and for refreezing the Cold War? Putin fanatics? Tories? Papal knaves? Anyone?
Nope.
McCain gets Georgia (of course). And maybe Macedonia. Slovakia is relatively close, but leaning Obama. And, well, that's about it. At last tally, of the 9,875 available global electoral votes (195 participating nations, including the U.S.), Obama has 8,482.
McCain has 16.
It is not even a contest. It is not a question. The world sentiment is so devastatingly in favor of the calm, stable, intellectual Harvard-trained senator over the cantankerous Bush-loving war hawk that, well, it can only make you wonder.
Is the planet simply turning into one giant blue state, more tolerant and fluid and less combative overall, more eager to work together to solve the myriad problems facing humanity, as opposed to fracturing off into bitter, fear-promoting rogue nations? Or was the world leaning that way already, and we've had these blinders on for so long we forgot how to see it?
Or maybe the conservative political parties in these nations, the ones you'd expect to support McCain's style of isolationist, military-first governance, have become just as splintered and out-of-touch as our own, and therefore can't muster enough unity to cast a vote for a fellow old-school war hawk?
Or is it merely because all those educated international readers of The Economist -- not to mention all the other international newspapers of note, nearly all of whom see Obama as a historic, positive step, a true world-changer -- are really just a bunch of namby-pamby gay-loving tofu heads who should put down the pot pipe and pick up a Bible and a gun?
Wait: Perhaps it's something even more frightening and nefarious. Maybe the world wants Obama simply because they see him as weak and conciliatory, as easy prey, and so of course the perverted, terrorist-choked world wants him, because then they can more easily bomb our cities and steal our women and drink our oil and force us to marry gay people and enjoy universal health care and drive girly little hybrid Eurocars to the soccer game.
Whoops. Channeling Rush Limbaugh for a horrible second there. Sorry.
I realize, at first glance, this entire question might be just ridiculously lopsided, a bit loaded, sort of like asking the world if they would like another presidential term for, say, Iran's Ahmadinejad, an extremist demagogue widely ignored and scoffed at by his own citizenry, but who makes headlines by catering to his militant, fundamentalist base. Hmm. How oddly familiar that sounds.
Then again, the truth about this global sentiment might be even more obvious, compelling, simple. It's a truth in two parts:
One: No matter where you live, no matter which nation you hail from or to which political ideology you tend to adhere, the Bush/McCain approach to leadership -- belligerent, militaristic, religiously closed-minded, culturally stagnant, environmentally reckless, fiscally irresponsible -- has resulted in one of the most epic collapses of a world power in modern history, which in turn has made the rest of the world a more volatile, hostile place for all.
Two: Maybe it's the Impossible Thing. Maybe Barack Obama himself, while still only a politician, still flawed and human and not, in fact, a demigod, maybe this man really is capable of inspiring not just intelligent progressives, not merely normally apathetic youth, not merely women and minorities and academics and moderates and a jaded, wary media, but the entire unpredictable, contorted, diverse planet.
In other words, maybe he really does have something profoundly important, something rare and exceptional, to offer the world, and the world -- like the majority of us here at home -- recognizes a once-in-a-lifetime shot at enriching its destiny when it sees one.
This might give you a little perspective .... ahem!
Peace!
Patio Patty ©
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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The entire world is, apparently, full of whiny no-good commie liberals.
It's true. This is the only logical conclusion, the only way you can possibly parse the piles of (largely unscientific, but still pretty damn convincing) numbers and data and full-blown emotional consciousness now pouring in from all over the world, pumping our little presidential election full of all sorts of cosmic meaning and profundity and oh-my-God-can-it-be-true.
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Check that: Maybe it's not the only way to parse it. But if you're a hard-core McCainite and/or are under some sort of unfortunate, chemically-induced delusion that Sarah Palin is just exactly the sort of dangerously harebrained, folksy, winking, nonsensical political confection we all really need right now, well, you might be more than a bit peeved to learn that the entire world has already cast its vote for our next president.
And of course, the world wants Obama.
Overwhelmingly. Crushingly. Rather staggeringly. By quite possibly the largest margin you will see anywhere except maybe Hawaii and D.C. and, well, San Francisco.
Did you already suspect? Could you not already guess? Because despite how here at home Obama is pulling nicely ahead by anywhere from five to 10 points almost across the board, we still call that a relatively close race. It's still "anybody's game," with both candidates currently whipping the battleground states into a frenzy and spending millions in a mad-dash sprint to an extraordinary finish.
The rest of the world? Not quite so divided. Not by a long shot.
Just look. Over at The Economist, they put together a rather ingenious tool, this Global Electoral College tracker thing, wherein we can ask, well, exactly that: What would happen if the nations of the world were divvied up in a way similar to our electoral college, with each nation getting a certain number of votes based on population? How might the world choose? Whom would they pick?
You might think the answer fairly obvious, given how many nations have been so violently insulted and ignored for the past eight solid years, and that the world's current shocking fiscal meltdown can, at least in part, be traced directly to Bush administration incompetence. It's no stretch at all to see McCain as merely a clone, more of the toxic, poisonous same, if not worse.
But come on, it can't be that much of a global landslide, right? Surely there must be some stiff, stoic nations out there who'd want a grumpy, tempestuous military man to lead the U.S., if only to have someone to play with in the grand sandbox of war and intolerance and oily greed?
Is there really no military junta, no dictator, no incensed bomb-gathering nation that really wants McCain, if only for the joy of mutual saber-rattling and for refreezing the Cold War? Putin fanatics? Tories? Papal knaves? Anyone?
Nope.
McCain gets Georgia (of course). And maybe Macedonia. Slovakia is relatively close, but leaning Obama. And, well, that's about it. At last tally, of the 9,875 available global electoral votes (195 participating nations, including the U.S.), Obama has 8,482.
McCain has 16.
It is not even a contest. It is not a question. The world sentiment is so devastatingly in favor of the calm, stable, intellectual Harvard-trained senator over the cantankerous Bush-loving war hawk that, well, it can only make you wonder.
Is the planet simply turning into one giant blue state, more tolerant and fluid and less combative overall, more eager to work together to solve the myriad problems facing humanity, as opposed to fracturing off into bitter, fear-promoting rogue nations? Or was the world leaning that way already, and we've had these blinders on for so long we forgot how to see it?
Or maybe the conservative political parties in these nations, the ones you'd expect to support McCain's style of isolationist, military-first governance, have become just as splintered and out-of-touch as our own, and therefore can't muster enough unity to cast a vote for a fellow old-school war hawk?
Or is it merely because all those educated international readers of The Economist -- not to mention all the other international newspapers of note, nearly all of whom see Obama as a historic, positive step, a true world-changer -- are really just a bunch of namby-pamby gay-loving tofu heads who should put down the pot pipe and pick up a Bible and a gun?
Wait: Perhaps it's something even more frightening and nefarious. Maybe the world wants Obama simply because they see him as weak and conciliatory, as easy prey, and so of course the perverted, terrorist-choked world wants him, because then they can more easily bomb our cities and steal our women and drink our oil and force us to marry gay people and enjoy universal health care and drive girly little hybrid Eurocars to the soccer game.
Whoops. Channeling Rush Limbaugh for a horrible second there. Sorry.
I realize, at first glance, this entire question might be just ridiculously lopsided, a bit loaded, sort of like asking the world if they would like another presidential term for, say, Iran's Ahmadinejad, an extremist demagogue widely ignored and scoffed at by his own citizenry, but who makes headlines by catering to his militant, fundamentalist base. Hmm. How oddly familiar that sounds.
Then again, the truth about this global sentiment might be even more obvious, compelling, simple. It's a truth in two parts:
One: No matter where you live, no matter which nation you hail from or to which political ideology you tend to adhere, the Bush/McCain approach to leadership -- belligerent, militaristic, religiously closed-minded, culturally stagnant, environmentally reckless, fiscally irresponsible -- has resulted in one of the most epic collapses of a world power in modern history, which in turn has made the rest of the world a more volatile, hostile place for all.
Two: Maybe it's the Impossible Thing. Maybe Barack Obama himself, while still only a politician, still flawed and human and not, in fact, a demigod, maybe this man really is capable of inspiring not just intelligent progressives, not merely normally apathetic youth, not merely women and minorities and academics and moderates and a jaded, wary media, but the entire unpredictable, contorted, diverse planet.
In other words, maybe he really does have something profoundly important, something rare and exceptional, to offer the world, and the world -- like the majority of us here at home -- recognizes a once-in-a-lifetime shot at enriching its destiny when it sees one.
This might give you a little perspective .... ahem!
Peace!
Patio Patty ©
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
JUMP YOU FUCKERS!!!
Jump
by Leon Fisher
Jump, capitalist pig -- the party is over!
Jump, because you do not deserve any bailout, especially with what remains of the taxpayers' money.
Jump, it is only right, as you have looted and plundered the land of your birth without any regard of the consequences for your friends and neighbors or the future of our children.
Jump, you rotten bastards in your three-piece suits, your wingtip shoes, your Rolex watches and your damned suspenders, you who threw good hard-working men with dirt under their fingernails out of work.
Jump, you stinking rats who lied to the American worker, who bribed and corrupted the representatives of the people to send Americas good paying jobs to sweatshops in Mexico, China, to India, leaving in their wake minimum wage jobs while you stuffed your pockets at the expense of your fellow Americans.
Jump, you bastards, who called it business when it was really treason when you sold out your Nation for profit.
Jump, you miserable scum, as you have destroyed the American family, forcing mothers to leave their children with strangers to make ends meet.
Jump, for having sold your fellow human beings into financial slavery, chained to a lifetime of debt without end.
Jump, for making Americas currency all but worthless.
Jump, for throwing families off their farms, for taking away peoples homes, for the stagnating wages.
Jump, you bastards for influencing the foreign policy of America to make war in order for your corporations and banks to seize and control the resources of other nations.
Jump, for you have the blood of the innocent on your hands, murdered in the name of corporate greed.
Jump, you bastards, for helping to give us Bush and Cheney who would turn America into a corporate controlled fascist state.
Jump, you capitalist exploiters of humanity, at least give us, your victims, the satisfaction of seeing you jump, along with all the other Wall St practitioners of soulless greed and exploitation.
Jump!
FITNA -- The Movie WATCH THIS HERE OR BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK!
I hope this works. Everyone needs to see this!
Eve Ensler (Vagina Monologues) on Palin
I had to repost this ...
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country choose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It was a task from God.
'
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country choose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, 'It was a task from God.
'
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, 'Drill Drill Drill.' I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
GOVBUSHMENT BAILOUT
Sharing from my new favorite political blogger: Heather ...
Patio Patty ©
I can't speak for anyone else who gives their opinions here, but I can speak for myself. I don't just talk about. I write (snail mail), email, fax, fed-ex, UPS, DSL, telephone and otherwise bug the crapola out of my representatives so they know what I think. And I get friends (some I've never met) to do the same, and so on, and so on, and so on. Trust me, we've tried other methods. Getting heard and being a pest, and being persistant does work. Otherwise, they're out of a job. This is a good system, it's just BUSHIT outta control! I'll bet you my favorite antique that somebody in that room today said something like, "...hey, are YOU ready to go to war against U.S. citizens?..."
We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore and I'm pretty sure they know it!!! The bottom line is, there are more of us than them! We're armed and they know that too!
I sincerely understand that bailing out this bank is the quickest way to keep from economic disaster, but the BIGGER questions are
1. HOW did this happen?
2. WHO is responsible?
3. WHAT are they going to do about THAT?!?!?!?
Also, Grampa (who went through the depression) always said "The quickest way, is not always the best solution. Pain & suffering are reminders that we get lessons from. And those lessons, are the ones that seem to stick!"
Patio Patty ©
I can't speak for anyone else who gives their opinions here, but I can speak for myself. I don't just talk about. I write (snail mail), email, fax, fed-ex, UPS, DSL, telephone and otherwise bug the crapola out of my representatives so they know what I think. And I get friends (some I've never met) to do the same, and so on, and so on, and so on. Trust me, we've tried other methods. Getting heard and being a pest, and being persistant does work. Otherwise, they're out of a job. This is a good system, it's just BUSHIT outta control! I'll bet you my favorite antique that somebody in that room today said something like, "...hey, are YOU ready to go to war against U.S. citizens?..."
We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore and I'm pretty sure they know it!!! The bottom line is, there are more of us than them! We're armed and they know that too!
I sincerely understand that bailing out this bank is the quickest way to keep from economic disaster, but the BIGGER questions are
1. HOW did this happen?
2. WHO is responsible?
3. WHAT are they going to do about THAT?!?!?!?
Also, Grampa (who went through the depression) always said "The quickest way, is not always the best solution. Pain & suffering are reminders that we get lessons from. And those lessons, are the ones that seem to stick!"
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
SICK OF THE SHEEPLE!!!! CLICK HERE TO READ MORE!!!
People, no matter which side of the political fence they're on, each have their own opinions based on what they hear or read, and face it…most people don’t read much anymore. But, they do watch television. Unfortunately, most "news" stations are hardly more than Bush Butt Boys (some in drag). They "report" what the "administration" wants them to report, and nothing more. So much more is going on in this country that gets no press…don’t get me started! I’ll blog more on that later.
I heard a guy on TV just today say something like, "...unemployment is down, the economy is steady, there are good times ahead..." and I immediately thought, "WHAT THE FUCK PLANET DOES HE LIVE ON?"
I don't just read the American News; I pay attention to what's happening globally because for some time I've felt a gathering going on. I've discussed this with some of you and you know what I'm talking about. People are coming together, being drawn by similarities in their spiritual awareness, rocks and music seem to play a huge part, but lately, politics (of ALL things) is getting into the picture: American Politics especially.
For 8 years, Americans have been held captive by the opinions and commensurate actions of George W. Bush, et al. I am still astounded that the entire friggin' nation KNOWS he didn't win the election, but sat back down on their couches and said "OK" with their heads down. WHAT? I haven't seen such a show of complete compliance since the Warren Report! Shit, I was 14 years old then and I didn't buy that crap! Stepford comes immediately to mind.
That said, I challenge anyone reading this blog to get off your asses and vote! You unfortunately only have two choices, so make the right one. Get every non-racist person you know to register and get them to do the same, and then get out and JUST DO IT!! We absolutely MUST take our country back. The most recent request to bail out another financial firm is another scare tactic (and a pretty effective one) by all the BUSHIT!
Here’s the bottom line, it’s that or a revolution…I’ve talked about the need for another tea party for years…maybe it’s time!
San Francisco is going to name its water treatment plant the George Bush Sewage Treatment Plant to honor him . It was suggested putting the library there to so you can see and read all the shit in one place.
‘nuf said…g’night all.
Patio Patty ©
P.S. If the freakin’ BUSH BUTT BOYS read this, FUCK YOU TOO!!!!
I heard a guy on TV just today say something like, "...unemployment is down, the economy is steady, there are good times ahead..." and I immediately thought, "WHAT THE FUCK PLANET DOES HE LIVE ON?"
I don't just read the American News; I pay attention to what's happening globally because for some time I've felt a gathering going on. I've discussed this with some of you and you know what I'm talking about. People are coming together, being drawn by similarities in their spiritual awareness, rocks and music seem to play a huge part, but lately, politics (of ALL things) is getting into the picture: American Politics especially.
For 8 years, Americans have been held captive by the opinions and commensurate actions of George W. Bush, et al. I am still astounded that the entire friggin' nation KNOWS he didn't win the election, but sat back down on their couches and said "OK" with their heads down. WHAT? I haven't seen such a show of complete compliance since the Warren Report! Shit, I was 14 years old then and I didn't buy that crap! Stepford comes immediately to mind.
That said, I challenge anyone reading this blog to get off your asses and vote! You unfortunately only have two choices, so make the right one. Get every non-racist person you know to register and get them to do the same, and then get out and JUST DO IT!! We absolutely MUST take our country back. The most recent request to bail out another financial firm is another scare tactic (and a pretty effective one) by all the BUSHIT!
Here’s the bottom line, it’s that or a revolution…I’ve talked about the need for another tea party for years…maybe it’s time!
San Francisco is going to name its water treatment plant the George Bush Sewage Treatment Plant to honor him . It was suggested putting the library there to so you can see and read all the shit in one place.
‘nuf said…g’night all.
Patio Patty ©
P.S. If the freakin’ BUSH BUTT BOYS read this, FUCK YOU TOO!!!!
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I'm so sick of the news regarding this bank bail out I could just puke! Do you think people are going to finally stop following the crowd and get their own opinions out there? I'm reminded of the great Gary Larson's cartoon of a field of sheep where one stands up and says "Hey, we don't all have to be sheep!" My daughter refers to the entire nation as "sheeple" and I have to agree. However, I see hope springing ... I'm just not sure it's eternal.
When I was barely 20 years old my "husband" blew out of town without notice leaving me with a newborn and a 2 year old. I went to work two weeks after the 2nd child was born and was making $180/month ... $90 of which went to pay my rent. I had no food, no medical assistance, no car and no help. I made "too much money" to qualify for financial aid of any kind. Too much money? $180 a month? Honestly. I look back on those dark days as a period of self awakening. I figured out no one was going to help me so I worked 3 jobs for nearly a year and bought a car...got a better job...moved into a decent neighborhood and did all that WITHOUT ANY help whatsoever. I figure if I can do that, anybody can. If I were Hispanic I could have had medical insurance, financial aid, food stamps, you name it. But I'm white, American and those were the setbacks. Go figure.
If Bush bails out these financial institutions without sanctions and a payback plan, I swear, I'll move to another country. Too bad we can't all do it together. Somehow I think a mass exodus might force a little more educated pontification in these assholes, but then again... probably not.
Peace!
Patio Patty ©
When I was barely 20 years old my "husband" blew out of town without notice leaving me with a newborn and a 2 year old. I went to work two weeks after the 2nd child was born and was making $180/month ... $90 of which went to pay my rent. I had no food, no medical assistance, no car and no help. I made "too much money" to qualify for financial aid of any kind. Too much money? $180 a month? Honestly. I look back on those dark days as a period of self awakening. I figured out no one was going to help me so I worked 3 jobs for nearly a year and bought a car...got a better job...moved into a decent neighborhood and did all that WITHOUT ANY help whatsoever. I figure if I can do that, anybody can. If I were Hispanic I could have had medical insurance, financial aid, food stamps, you name it. But I'm white, American and those were the setbacks. Go figure.
If Bush bails out these financial institutions without sanctions and a payback plan, I swear, I'll move to another country. Too bad we can't all do it together. Somehow I think a mass exodus might force a little more educated pontification in these assholes, but then again... probably not.
Peace!
Patio Patty ©
Monday, September 22, 2008
GREAT MUSIC!!!
Out here in North Eastern Nebraska we don't get much in the way of what I consider real music. There are plenty of live bands here, but they're "cover" bands....meaning that they play the same stuff you hear on the radio. I listen to the radio while I'm driving. That's enough commercialism for me. I prefer to hear the real deal or nothing I guess.
The music club Brent & others are trying to get off the ground here put on a show last Friday that was so much fun, I bruised the heck out of my left ankle getting my funk on a little too hard! I don't heal like I did earlier in life, and it was worth it. I'm anxious to see the next show!
Meanwhile, I just heard The Eagles are coming to Omaha in November! I MUST GO!! Tickets are outrageous, but comeon, it's THE EAGLES! It's worth the ticket price to see how anybody else can get inside after Don Henley's head arrives! LMAO!
Peace!
Patio Patty ©
The music club Brent & others are trying to get off the ground here put on a show last Friday that was so much fun, I bruised the heck out of my left ankle getting my funk on a little too hard! I don't heal like I did earlier in life, and it was worth it. I'm anxious to see the next show!
Meanwhile, I just heard The Eagles are coming to Omaha in November! I MUST GO!! Tickets are outrageous, but comeon, it's THE EAGLES! It's worth the ticket price to see how anybody else can get inside after Don Henley's head arrives! LMAO!
Peace!
Patio Patty ©
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Today's Rant February 5, 2008
Every day that goes by I loose a little more. I used to pray for patience every day then I realized I had it all along. The trouble is, I keep loosing it. Mom used to say I needed to stop praying for patience since God wasn't going to give it to me in MY time, but rather, HIS. I know that to be true now.
I saw an off Broadway production of Evita last night at the Orpheum Theatre in Sioux City. Every participant in that musical was fabulous except for the woman they gave the lead role to. The nasal quality to her voice was ear piercing and annoyed me throughout the performance. Especially when she refused to sing the line "Star Quality" and shouted it instead. It was awful and really took away from the terrific performances of the other actors.
I saw an off Broadway production of Evita last night at the Orpheum Theatre in Sioux City. Every participant in that musical was fabulous except for the woman they gave the lead role to. The nasal quality to her voice was ear piercing and annoyed me throughout the performance. Especially when she refused to sing the line "Star Quality" and shouted it instead. It was awful and really took away from the terrific performances of the other actors.
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