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See the picture below. This was sent to me by a person I care about. I thought the picture was misogynist and promoted violence towards women. I pointed this out to him. The sender took umbrage at this.
What do you think? Is it an appropriate picture? And just for grins and giggles if you do respond indicate your gender. And please keep your discourse civil as I said it is from someone I care about. Either he is off base or I am.
Then later on I passed Continue reading “Feedback Requested”
“If corporations and households taking in $1 million or more in income each year were now paying taxes at the same annual rates as they did back in 1961, the IPS researchers found, the federal treasury would be collecting an additional $716 billion a year… the federal debt to investors would almost totally vanish over the next decade.”
From an article by Sam Pizzigati — Plutocracy: If Corporations and the Rich Paid 1960s-Level Taxes, the Debt Would Vanish
When everyone has a piece of the pie, you may have seconds. To whom more is given, more is expected. American corporations need to remember that they need to dance with the one that brought them, the US of A.
Our current political/economic crisis is not that hard a problem to solve. We as a collective group should not let greed rule the day. We are all in this together, lets act like it. The American dream should not, must not include la noblesse. Keep your Marquis and Vicomte where they belong, to history.
Just in case you wondered, here is a link to a map of penile lengths world wide.
Seriously, I got here from a link in an article on economics… The article may have been tongue in cheek, but it was from a somewhat serious study correlating economic growth with penile size. Smaller Penis Size: Better Economic Growth (Really!)
“Thankfully, for the rest of us, Robertson’s many past predictions of our collective demise were so inane they might as well have been announced on an aircraft carrier with a “Mission Accomplished” banner in the background.”
From the AlterNet.org article For God’s Sake: The Idiocy of “Divine Inspiration” In Politics
I have a dear friend whom I have known for 7 or 8 years. His name is Leon, but I tend to call him ma
ny things. Brother Leon or Brother J are two of my favorite, not that he is associated with a church in any capacity. It just seems to fit.
When I lived a little further south I used to golf with him at least once a week. In the nice part of the year that once a week was usually 2 or 3 times a week. Life being what life is. And the economy being what it is, I have moved a couple times since I first met him. I’ve gone from being a military brat to a computer gypsy. Anyway you look at it I am not gathering any moss.
We do try to get together a few times a year to play golf and renew our friendship. Needless to say, Brother Leon knows my swing well. Since he does, I do not mind him giving me advice about my swing from time to time. He is usually dead on as to my particular issue that day. I could blame my mediocre golf game on lack of any real athletic ability! Well, okay, I will do that. One of my poorer tendencies in my golf swing is to get way too fast. Fast in golf swing seldom equates to distance or a good ball flight. Continue reading “Just do the Funky Leon”
This is video from MoveOn.org. It features former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who IMHO is one best economists we have in the public forum. The other one I like is Paul Krugman. Both are so dead on that it is scary. Unfortunately, money speaks louder than common sense.
We all travel in many circles in our life. I travel in several myself, and dip my toe in a few others. I’m golfer which is one circle. I’m a programmer which is a work or geek circle. I’ll let you choose. I travel in the middle class circle, but I am probably just a few missed paychecks from not being there. I’m an Okie. I’m a male. My girlfriend is Jewish. One of the best friends I have ever had is black. I count gay and lesbian folks among my friends. I know folks up and down the economic scale. I could name many more circles, but you get the idea. All of these are circles with their own set of rules and culture.
I’ve been to weddings that were sit down affairs with a full dinner, open bar and everyone dressed in tuxedos and evening gowns. I’ve been to weddings in pastures where you had to be careful where you stepped to avoid the meadow muffins.
My daughter-in-law wanted me to attend the wedding of her brother. The main reason was because her parents had never met any of her husband’s family. I thought it a small kindness I could easily do with pleasure. Besides, I was afraid her parents might be thinking my son Continue reading “Redneck Bookends”
Note: At the bottom of this post you will find a link to view the Faces of Meth.
If you are walking at night and come to the edge of the cliff, the smart thing to do is turn around. If you take another step the result is not likely to be good. Many drugs fall into the same category. To start taking some drugs is like walking up to that cliff edge, only the results are not so veiled. There have been many folks that have gone before you that have crashed and burned on the rocks below.
In the early 70s I lived in Rhode Island. I was single, and occasionally would party with a group of folks. Usually it was beer drinking and some pot. I had an ambivalent relationship with pot. Sometimes it made feel nice and mellow. Sometimes, though, it made me feel depressed and paranoid. I can achieve depression all by my lonesome, and feeling paranoid is no fun. At some point I decided that I did not like rolling the dice with unsure results. So I quit smoking pot. One evening before I quit, I went to visit my party friends. I walked in the house and they were all sitting around the coffee table. Upon the table were needles, a tourniquet, and other heavy duty drug paraphernalia. Continue reading “Faces on Meth, A Disturbing Reality”
If you are going to sag your pants down below your buttocks while wearing white boxers, you must use bleach whenever it is that you wash those things. Just in case you have not figured out your greyish boxers are particularly revolting. And I would bet you a house payment that they are not attracting the fairer sex.
Baggy/sagging pants, the defining link proving that “fashion” is bogus, and following the group is frequently stupid.
Since we have been going on about uncircumcised tally whackers… John Stewart of the Daily Show is adding to the fun.