I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Yes- a puggle is a pug/beagle mix. Chico reminds me of my daughter's (now-ex) boyfriend's dog. Puggles are really cute. 

Mary 

Cute, Bren!

Mary 

That's so sad about Arlen Specter - thanks for the link, Kam.

Bren, I've heard you talk about your grandkids, but I don't believe I've ever seen pictures of them!  They are seriously cute.

Linda

Well, well, well, I'll do absolutely anything ----  Republicans just hate fact-checking.

Who
could ever have guessed? Here in Ohio, Frederick Douglass,
former slave, orator and statesman, has come out in favor of Governor Mitt
Romney in the coming election. Douglass has been dead since 1895; but that
couldn't stop him from rising from the grave to endorse Romney and the complete
Buckeye State GOP ticket. It's a surprising turn of events for several
reasons.

First
of all, Douglass is...dead.

Second,
the brochure handed out by a group calling itself "Women for Liberty"
(treasurer: Susan Holzapfel) says Douglass was for "private wealth creation"
whereas President Obama is working to "redistribute wealth." In other words,
Douglass would be for "individual freedom and success" if he was still living.
(That rat, Obama? He wants to "create a culture of dependency.")

Yeah,
nothing like "private wealth creation," circa 1818, when Douglass was born. His
father, a white slave owner, got his mother, a slave, pregnant, and when mom
delivered, presto, we're talking wealth creation! Little Frederick is your
son/slave and you can "create wealth" if you put him up for sale! It's the 19th
century version of "trickle down" economics.

//
//

Well,
no wonder then that Deceased Douglass wants us to vote "Romney/Ryan 2012"
(although, come to think of it, would his ghost really have a picture ID?) No
culture of dependency for those slave owners, baby! No siree. You want your
cotton picked, you pick it yourself. Isn't that the way it worked on
every plantation before 1865?

What
else would Douglass "like" about today's GOP? "Limited government." That's what
the group that put together this flyer wants us to believe. Yeah. Don't you hate
it when, in 1954, a few "activist judges" overturn all those great state laws
that denied blacks the right to sit in the front of the bus, enter restaurants,
go to the movie theater, get into college, ride in the same taxi or play
checkers with white folks?

It
says right here on this brochure: Douglass would be for "school choice."

Remember
in the last debate when Mitt insisted states can handle health care better than
the pushy federal government? No doubt the ghost of Frederick Douglass would
agree. Think back, for example, to the pushy federal government that forced
through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which put the hurt on great states like
Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana and required them to start letting
dark-skinned folks show up at the polls and vote. Damn the federal government,
sticking its nose in where it doesn't belong.

HOLY
SHIT! Is there any way to read this brochure other than to see
it as a craven attempt by forces on the right to fool a few confused swing state
voters?

Are
the women of "Women for Liberty" really so dense? What makes them think that
Frederick Douglass would support Mitt Romney when 98% of African-Americans today
do not? Do they know so little of our history that they can delude themselves
into imagining that Douglass, who fought for racial equality all his life, would
fail to notice the latent and blatant racism of right-wing types today? Ooooh,
the scary black guy, Barack Hussein Obama, doesn't have a birth
certificate! Ooooh, he doesn't think like a real American....

Ooooh,
he's not really one of us.

Come
on, right-wing knuckleheads. You're better than this. If you want to bring back
dead people to endorse Mitt Romney, bring back Joe McCarthy. He'd be for Romney,
for sure. And George Wallace. Now that's a dead American we know would like the
GOP today. And don't overlook Pitchfork Ben Tillman! What about Marie
Antoinette? She might not, technically, be a U. S. citizen, but she would love
the disdain your party has for the 47%.

Susan
Holzapfel, do you really believe that a man who lived through an era when Jim
Crow laws were spreading like a plague -- and when blacks who stood up for their
rights were lynched by the hundreds -- would support all the new Voter ID laws,
designed with clear intent to disenfranchise as many minority voters as
possible? Are you so blind as to think a former slave would side with
billionaires and vote for a candidate who admits he doesn't care about people
who are down and out in American society?

We
know right-wing types prefer to live in the past rather than face reality, and
we also know they're on the wrong side of history. Conservatives once stood with
emperors and kings. Conservatives once stood with slave owners. Conservatives
once insisted that only men should vote, then only white men, and now they hope
to amend state constitutions, and the U. S. Constitution if necessary, to insure
that gay Americans will never, ever marry. Oh, of course. The ghost of Frederick
Douglass would be for that.

The
man who fought to see the 14th Amendment added to the U. S. Constitution
(guaranteeing equal protection to all citizens under state law), yeah,
he'd be on the side of hate, intolerance and bigotry if he were still alive
today.

Sure,
"Women of Liberty." Sure he would.

Idjuts is the word I'm looking for. Guess I will say it one more time.....not that the above Repulicans could benifit,

but no wonder the party looks like they often don't know you must look up to see the sky. Zowie.....I thought I'd seen everything

but a couple more of these just waltzed into my in-box. Poor souls........Must be horrible not to know your stupid, but then that

must be how they get away with it.  _ Rominy" fits in so well with this crowd. 

Jackie

Rofl! Jackie, great post. You could not MAKE these idjuts up.

Off to see what Sensata is about....

Good article:

"The father of Christopher Stephens, the United States ambassador who was killed in the attack in Libya last month, said Saturday that it would be "abhorrent" for his son's death to be politicized in the presidential campaign.

In an interview with Bloomberg News, Jan Stevens said the attack on Benghazi and the ensuing investigation has no place in the upcoming election.

"The security matters are being adequately investigated," Stevens, who is getting briefings from the State Department on the investigation, said. "We don't pretend to be experts in security. It has to be objectively examined. That's where it belongs. It does not belong in the campaign arena."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/14/chris-stevens-libya_n_1965009.html

Excellent!

Sad day here.  We just had the vet out to put down our chocolate lab AND one of our miniature horses.  

Bren, love the grandkids.  How many do you have now? 

Pip....very sad news.  So sorry!

Pip - your chocolate lab.:( I'm so sorry.