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

Dinner was great - we hadn't booked it as a celebration, just a get together with a friend of Steve's and his wife. I've been really tired since Friday - stress relief I guess.

Ahhh ... if only we was a YouTube ... or had some jumpy things to bounce up and down.  I vote we stay boring  

Sending good vibes to all the east coasters.  Hunker down and be careful everybody! 

Blue, people always assume that hubby and I have either been married a VERY short while, or else are carrying on an illicit affair - because we love each other - hold hands in public - even (OMG) KISS!!!  how dare we carry on so when we've been together for over thirty years!!! 

Gosh, I often have dinner with my female friend Hansi, and I don't believe anyone has every thought we were a lesbian couple. I sometimes go out to lunch with married white guys and have not been accused of having an affair. I had l unch today with my lesbian rector and I don't believe anyone has called her partner to out her.

Need to rant....I doubt this idea will pierce the bubble but:

"African Americans can be many things: thugs, gangstas, Republicans, etc. But the one thing that we cannot be is racist. Although most people define racism as hatred for people of a different race, a more functional definition would be having the power to enforce that hatred socially, politically, and economically. And last time I checked, Black people did not posses that kind of juice."

Another concept that needs to pierce that bubble is that my last dollar does not have the same value as Mitt Romney's last dollar.  Ofcourse, his last dollar has far less value to him as he has so many of them!!!  My last dollar is worth far more to me, as it does to most of the people in the bubble, so if you think that taxing people fairly, means "equally," our last dollars are NOT equal.

Our "progressive" tax rates have gone from a high of 90% for the highest brackets in the 1960's to 35% today, so now a good portion of the middle class pay the same rate as the wealthest of wealthy income earners (except hedge fund managers who manage to pay the 15% rate) but let's face it, most of the truely wealth get their income passively....

Taxing Paris Hilton's last dollar at 15% or Mitt Romney's last dollar at 15%.....is just plain regressive and UNFAIR.

reference to racism definition

http://allhiphop.com/2012/04/09/can-black-people-be-racist-rodney-reginald-and-reverse-racism/

I'll have a hurricane, bartender, as we await the storm.  All NYC mass transit is closed for the duration so I'm not going anywhere.

Linda

Are you weaning yourself off your meds, E?  Is the pain subsiding?

Linda

I'm rarely off pain meds, Linda.

Settling in to my pre-hurricane dinner: salmon with a ginger-tamari glaze, squash, and (wait for it) spicy brussel sprouts with mint.

And I have a Cuba-style pork roast marinating in the fridge for tomorrow.  Gonna slow roast it all afternoon and have it with plantains and rice and sauteed peppers.

Linda

Make room for me - what E said!

I feel so pathetic...I'm making slow cooker enchiladas and a batch of lentil soup for the week.  That's the extent of my imagination and cooking abilities.  

Linda- I do have a coho filet to bake...ginger tamari glaze.  Is that difficult?

Scoots - sorry you have to take the pain meds.  Pain sucks.

I'll have a Cuba Libre please --- ah, just make it a double. 

Jackie

OMG, Kam! That is hilarious!! ROFLMAO!