Great news! Some of THE best Puma bloggers have joined together and launched a new website/blog. It’s called Widdershins. Their About page tells us:
“Widdershins means to take a course opposite that of the sun, going counterclockwise, left hand-wise, or to circle an object, by always keeping it on the left.
The term “widdershins” was especially common in Lowland Scots, and was known in Scottish Gaelic as tuathal, or “left-hand-wise.” It uses the same root as tuath meaning countryside, originally tribal-land, folk, people.
“Merlin says that one shouldn’t go widdershins around the mistletoe lest one end up in the Fairy realm.”
Ok — I am HOOKED! Perpetually on the left of every question and pointed by the Druid Merlin toward Fairy Land?? Count me IN!
Not to mention that their writers include ardent feminists and all-around ASS-kicking original Pumas like Taggles, LadyBoomerNYC, MadamaB, and GaryChapelHill.
This is GREAT news and I am so pleased to see the phoenix Widdershins rising up.
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murphy 04.07.09 at 10:43 pm
widdershins posted in the blogroll under Puma Blogs.
expect to see them linked to regularly!
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 10:47 pm
I don’t get it…
is the ny pumas for women’s rights separate from the pumapac ny group…or has he new group/leadership abandoned the pumapac ny group?
murphy 04.07.09 at 10:54 pm
i do not know dwp — i imagine they havent abandoned them — i’m guessing it’s more of a shakeup-not-really-sure-what-to-do thing.
there was a really unpleasant break-up between most of the writers at widdershins and their old home . . .
but I bet the women at widdershins would be more than happy to answer the question.
gay gal 04.07.09 at 11:00 pm
Saw a great T-shirt today. “Where will I spend eternity? Where will you spend reality”. I guess it depends on if one counts time clockwise or counterclockwise.
murphy 04.07.09 at 11:03 pm
is reality eternity?
i wish it were, then I could live forever and find out.
FLBarbara 04.07.09 at 11:05 pm
Another brilliant statement by our leader
The United States is not a nation of Christians, Jews or muslims….we are a nation of aaaghh
Citizens. Wow a nation of citizens.
Bill oreilly will be talking about the small man bow in 2 mins
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:05 pm
Thanks murphy for the shout out! Really appreciate it!
you know a big part of my heart is here at puma pac, so don’t think you’ve gotten rid of me.
jenniforhillary 04.07.09 at 11:09 pm
Murphy,
I think that you are the most gracious person I know…..
and Dances is it too late for me to call you?
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 11:12 pm
The more the merrier…
I like the idea of creating a web of pumas, each with a variety of focusi (it is now!) on issues and actions. It’s all good.
murphy 04.07.09 at 11:12 pm
oh shucks. I meant to link to Mimi’s site for her 1st fundraiser tonight!
here it is:
If you have $5 or more to send to Mimi Planas, the FIRST Puma candidate for political office, please do!
campaignmanager@mimiplanas2010.com
gay gal 04.07.09 at 11:12 pm
Does a spiral go clockwise or counterclockwise? I think a black hole goes counterclockwise.
murphy 04.07.09 at 11:15 pm
we better not have Taggles!
we need your irreverence and ticked-off-ness. Not to mention your spot-on instincts and homing talents.
gay gal 04.07.09 at 11:17 pm
“The counterclockwise rotation of an object free-falling from rest at infinity onto a Kerr black hole is matched by the same counterclockwise rotation of an object thrown way from the black hole is such a way that it comes to rest at infinity.” Have no clue what that means, but seems on target.
TerryDo 04.07.09 at 11:17 pm
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:05 pm
Thanks murphy for the shout out! Really appreciate it!
you know a big part of my heart is here at puma pac, so don’t think you’ve gotten rid of me.
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taggles, how did your group chose it’s name?
According to Murphy’s posted description…..“Widdershins means to take a course opposite that of the sun, going counterclockwise, left hand-wise, or to circle an object, by always keeping it on the left.
That is another way of saying Retrograde.
Retrograde means… moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or–for planets–around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth.
I am just curious….
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 11:17 pm
Jenn…hiya!
I’m fading pretty fast right now… perhaps we can arrange a phone date for later in the week? I’d love to talk with you.
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 11:19 pm
it comes to rest at infinity
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Wow! I’d love to come to rest at infinity!
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:20 pm
Terry Do, it took days to decide on a name. I can’t remember how I came across it, but once it was suggested with the meaning it was just a perfect fit!
gay gal 04.07.09 at 11:21 pm
“it comes to rest at infinity”
Isn’t that so peaceful, Dances! I think I will go to bed on that one.
jenniforhillary 04.07.09 at 11:22 pm
I hear you…..I have many nights too late wanted to call. Too much work that will not wait, but then your life is over. I have been trying to balance better…
I will call earlier later
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:22 pm
Hey Jenni!
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 11:24 pm
Jenn
Email me and we’ll set a phone date.
Are you okay?
murphy 04.07.09 at 11:27 pm
come to rest at infinity makes me infinitely worried …
almost there almost there almost there
sounds about like life.
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 11:28 pm
almost there almost there almost there
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LOL! LOL!
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:30 pm
yes, you are infinitely trying to reach infinity. that is quite a task!
jenniforhillary 04.07.09 at 11:31 pm
taggles, not that this is the place or the time, but I have a feminist question (is there such a thing) for you…..
I know you detest the right (and for good reason), but why do you embrace the left? the left has given us pornography, prostitution, the ACLU (which mostly protects pornographers and pimps), lawyers who work full time fighting legislation to protect children because it might interfere with pedophiles (and yes, I can back this up), etc., etc.
Mind you I embrace NEITHER side, and this leaves me stranded looking for a home. And then I found PUMA.
I ask this question for many reasons, but most of all I wonder if women/americans do not forge a new party and leave all old behind we will be trapped in the same box without enough air. The left elected Nobama, and the left hurts women as much as the right (in my humble opinion). And yes there are many true believers and non-hypocrites–you being a most excellent example–but liberals as a whole do not help women and children. Not in effect (laws, money, etc.)……
I would really value your insight on this question…it haunts me in the sense that I do not see a way out if we don’t break free…
jenniforhillary 04.07.09 at 11:33 pm
Taggles—I have missed you and Dances I am fine just overworked. If I tried to explain it in one sentence or less it just seems as if everyone’s lives are falling apart in my immediate circle and between work and helping people I have about 4 hours a day to sleep. And while you at puma may not know this when I do not get to see and interact with you I feel very lonely even though I am surrounded by friends/family in my real life. I love puma very much ;(
TerryDo 04.07.09 at 11:34 pm
murphy 04.07.09 at 11:12 pm
oh shucks. I meant to link to Mimi’s site for her 1st fundraiser tonight! here it is:
If you have $5 or more to send to Mimi Planas, the FIRST Puma candidate for political office, please do!
campaignmanager@mimiplanas2010.com
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There is a strange happening Murphy, that when I click on the link: campaignmanager@mimiplanas2010.com
It brings me to my e-mail page???
gay gal 04.07.09 at 11:34 pm
“infinitely trying to reach infinity”
Hold the ambivalence.
jenniforhillary 04.07.09 at 11:34 pm
even if I am the meanest puma ever…
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 11:38 pm
Terry
That campaignmanager@mimiplanas2010.com is an email address…
can be used to email or to donate via paypal
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 11:38 pm
jenniforhillary 04.07.09 at 11:34 pm
even if I am the meanest puma ever…
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That you are, Jenn.
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:40 pm
Jenni, because I lean left does not mean I embrace the democratic party.
I understand your concern with the ACLU. However, I am also a big believer in fair trials, the rule of law and fairness of law etc. That doesn’t mean I agree with the ACLU on everything or that I want to see pedophiles and pimps get off.
As a matter of fact I would like to see pedophiles sent to prison for life and child murderers/sicko’s put to death. That is the one crime I have no problem in giving the ultimate penalty for.
I don’t want to be a part of the Democratic Party as it is. I don’t want to reform it, it is too far gone.
But I also hold dear to my values, which neither party represents. Those values, tilt left. And I will never find a home in the Republican Party.
So I am truly politically homeless in the two party sense. I am perfectly at home with PUMA.
Pookie 04.07.09 at 11:42 pm
I did’nt write this but a friend of mine did and sent it to me
Obama bowed to Muslim royalty- shameful
He just signaled to the Saudi’s and the Muslims that America is subservient to the Muslim world and the world of Islam and that they are superior to us . Someone desperately needs to teach him and his wife and staff proper protocol and how to act more dignified when in public and how NOT to skip down the steps getting off of Air Force One and not to hop up onto the podium when he gives a press conference again !! Someone really needs to teach him that he can stop campaigning now , the election is over with and he won and NOW it’s time to get to work instead of having his semester abroad and traveling at taxpayers expense !!
THIS IS AN AFFRONT TO EVERY AMERICAN.
I’ve avoided commenting on Obama’s gift of an iPod to the Queen of England – loaded with mp3 files of “great Obama speeches.” Never mind that the iPod was made in China. He put his speeches on it! What a self-centered, ego-maniacal narcissist he is.
But now, what the Hell is this President doing?!?!?!?!?!
Obama bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia! This really happened. See it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WlqW6UCeaY
First, Americans – especially American presidents – bow to no one.
Second, don’t give me any of that “He’s showing respect to a monarch” crap. Obama didn’t bow to the Queen of England.
Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush have all met with the King of Saudi Arabia, and not one of them bowed!!!
Maybe Obama is just bowing to his Muslim Master.
It emboldens the Muslims who see his bow as a sign of The Great Satan being subservient to the great Muslim ruler. I’m surprised Obama didn’t lick the bottom of the king’s shoes while he was down there…or shine them, for which he’s much better qualified.
Who the hell is teaching this damn fool protocol??!?!?!?!?!
Obama is not the “Manchurian Candidate”, he is the “Mecca Candidate”.
And, yes, I’m trying to stir up trouble. This really irrates me, big time………
jenniforhillary 04.07.09 at 11:43 pm
Taggles….and Dances I heard that and it put the BIGGEST smile on my face you can imagine…it is not that I think you are embracing the Democratic party but that by embracing the left you are in fact embracing the heart of the beast….
I would stand behind/beside/under you period. My fear though is that by saying you lean left you give power to the beast. What if we rethought how we leaned and said we lean PUMA or we lean WOMAN or we lean “fill in the blank.” The left truly is not a friend to women or good people and nor is the right.
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:45 pm
Jenni, the democratic party does not represent left values. That is why I became a PUMA.
jenniforhillary 04.07.09 at 11:46 pm
And the ACLU is owned by Hugh Hefner. He has paid for their offices/salaries for 20 plus years. If you want fair trials or laws that actually effect justice we need a new watchdog group for sure. I think I know of a few good women for the job….
TerryDo 04.07.09 at 11:47 pm
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 11:38 pm
Terry
That campaignmanager@mimiplanas2010.com is an email address…
can be used to email or to donate via paypal
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Thanks Dances, there must have been a glitch in my computer,when I first clicked it on, it open to my email page and showed all of my (in box) email; I just restarted it and this time when I click on Mimi’s email address showed up in the appropiate place in my email page as if I wanted to send her an email.
jenniforhillary 04.07.09 at 11:48 pm
See, you are a true believer and you walk the walk and talk the talk, and what I am saying is that Bill Maher and Hugh Hefner and worse are the left….that is what I am saying. And you are not them and the left is not friend to women….and you are and everything you say and the way you live your life is one bazillion times better than what the left is or could ever hope to be….
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 11:49 pm
Terry
Oh, okay. Glad it’s working for you now.
jenniforhillary 04.07.09 at 11:49 pm
I would like to put in an early wish list for santa (as a jew perhaps I can do this). I want to have a puma party and meet and have a puma national conference. I wonder if the Ritz is already booked for xmas????
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:52 pm
Jenni, some bad will come out of everything that tries to do good.
The ACLU draws a line in the sand and fights for Constitutional Rights. Sometimes bad things and bad people benefit as a result.
jenniforhillary 04.07.09 at 11:53 pm
taggles…I want to discuss this further because it is something I have been working with/on for years (the left and women in general). Dances, i will be calling you tomorrow so do not lose your phone. Murphy, if you have a chance to see my letter that would be so very nice.
My parting response before I drop from lack of sleep is this: The only thing right about Nobama’s bow is that he was closer to where he belongs…on his knees begging for forgiveness. And the answer is no.
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 11:54 pm
THIS IS AN AFFRONT TO EVERY AMERICAN.
I’ve avoided commenting on Obama’s gift of an iPod to the Queen of England – loaded with mp3 files of “great Obama speeches.” Never mind that the iPod was made in China. He put his speeches on it! What a self-centered, ego-maniacal narcissist he is.
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I think obama loaded the ipod with segments from the Queens visit to the US some years ago. Did your friend send sources for his comment about the contents of teh ipod gift?
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:54 pm
Jenni, just because I lean left does not mean I agree with Hugh Hefner or Bill Maher on everything or anything. You are stuffing this round peg through a square hole. LOL
TerryDo 04.07.09 at 11:55 pm
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Pookie 04.07.09 at 11:42 pm
I did’nt write this but a friend of mine did and sent it to me
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Tell your friend Pookie that is a great rant, it is funny and she/he is so right about the protocol….
DancesWithPumas 04.07.09 at 11:56 pm
Dances, i will be calling you tomorrow so do not lose your phone.
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I have several appointments this week after work…
leave a message with a number where I can reach you, and I’ll return your call.
“he was closer to where he belongs…on his knees begging for forgiveness. And the answer is no.”
LOL! Youre too much!
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:58 pm
So dances, the big day is next Tuesday? I am gonna miss you. I hope to see you online Tuesday evening. Is that asking too much?
mountainsong 04.07.09 at 11:58 pm
Murphy, You do live forever because you are forever
gay gal 04.07.09 at 11:17 pm It means they are the same. Iike yin and yang each make up the one whole. One is no more than a reflection of the other.
On a lighter note~~~I finally caught a break. I have the double-disc 30th Anniversaire Edith Piaf to listen to.
Yep, Barbara, sad but true~~56% and rising. Scary stuff, huh?
We can either step up and try to change this in ours and others life, or cower and wait for it to devour us. We DO have a choice; A HARD choice, but a choice nevertheless. Some of my ancestos chose to go down fighting, while others went to the living hell of the Reservation. I think you all know which choice I’ve made.
mountainsong 04.07.09 at 11:59 pm
Thank you for the compliments. I accept them in their intent, but I do not do what I do for pats on the back or a paycheck.
mountainsong 04.08.09 at 12:01 am
Dances is going to be just fine. She’s way too tough not to be. LOL Besides, she has all our love sending positive energy vibrations for quick and complete recovery, and return to us.
DancesWithPumas 04.08.09 at 12:02 am
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:58 pm
So dances, the big day is next Tuesday? I am gonna miss you. I hope to see you online Tuesday evening. Is that asking too much?
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I swear… I feel as if I’ve been talking about this silly two minute operation for years already… what will I be like if I ever have a MAJOR op?? I dread to imagine it.
Thanks taggles… seriously, I have no idea. I understand one wants to sleep a lot while the liver and some other stuff readjusts and heals. I’m looking forward to the sleeping part!
I just hope I don’t try to blog while medicated…I’m bad enough sober.
Thanks will miss you and yous too.
DancesWithPumas 04.08.09 at 12:04 am
mountain
Very sweet. Thank you.
taggles1 04.08.09 at 12:06 am
Alright, I won’t mention it again. So the big day is next tuesday??
DancesWithPumas 04.08.09 at 12:09 am
taggles
LOL!!!
DancesWithPumas 04.08.09 at 12:11 am
On that note, I think I’ll head off to my bedroom…it’s a bit closer than infinity.
DancesWithPumas 04.08.09 at 12:12 am
‘night all.
Sleep with angels.
TerryDo 04.08.09 at 12:24 am
Dances, the evolution of Gull Bladder (GB) surgery in a nut shell.
In 1952 my mother had her gull bladder removed and her scare was like a large crossroad.
Fast forward to 1975 my (GB) removal left me with a four inch souvenir.
In 1998 like mother like daughter, her GB was removed and you can barely see her 3 little (¾ inch) scares.
Now if hereditary hold true, my granddaughter’s removal of her GB will probably consist of a pill that somehow know to go directly to the gall bladder and dissolve it.
Good recovery on Tuesday Dances and with all this positive health energy arriving with you from Puma nation, I have no doubts that you will be blogging that very same evening…
mountainsong 04.08.09 at 12:33 am
TerryDo 04.08.09 at 12:24 am I love your perspective. How wonderful~~~
G’night, Dances with Gall Bladder (while she can)
LadyBoomerNYC 04.08.09 at 1:04 am
Murphy — Thanks for The Widdershins shout out! Love your welcoming post, and that you’ll come on down — I see you already did. Y’all come back, now!
Dances, I didn’t know about your upcoming Tuesday till just now! I’ll be thinking of you, sending good thoughts and prayers for all to go exactly right and your recovery to be quick and smooth.
LadyBoomerNYC 04.08.09 at 1:04 am
Night, all!
hillstheone 04.08.09 at 1:11 am
Hi mountainsong!
hillstheone 04.08.09 at 1:12 am
Hi everyone, I read this book about a year ago, I thought it was great. You might like it, too:
‘Eat, Pray, Love’ — and Talk to Fans
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/29/AR2009032902185.html
BillieJo 04.08.09 at 1:13 am
Personally I am a little sad to see blogs break up, splinter off and it seems wPUMAs are in a million pieces.
I remember when going to Just Say No Deal seemed to link everyone, then again, is PUMApac the link or is everyone just linked by posting the link on the side?
I wish we could all have a place to meet and do prowls together, and yet have all the great writers to read from each day.
One last thing, who has always been my favorite mystical hero…Merlin of course. I cried the day I found out he might not have been real. I actually disliked my English teacher for ever introducing us to him and find out he may not have lived at all.
TerryDo 04.08.09 at 1:16 am
BillieJo 04.08.09 at 1:13 am
Personally I am a little sad to see blogs break up, splinter off and it seems wPUMAs are in a million pieces.
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Ah BillieJo, don’t think of it as breaking-up, visualize it as growing, developing, expanding….
BillieJo 04.08.09 at 1:17 am
Sleep well Dances, will be thinking of you.
BillieJo 04.08.09 at 1:18 am
TerryDo, well I like to grow with friends near by, not have to wander all over to find them.
BillieJo 04.08.09 at 1:22 am
taggles1 04.07.09 at 11:45 pm
Jenni, the democratic party does not represent left values. That is why I became a PUMA.
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Yup, the Democratic party most of us felt a part of is not what is in the Whitehouse, DNC nor congress now. They like to call themselves progressives, fine, then we can still be liberals…but liberal PUMAs, women’s rights PUMAs.
Screw the progressives, they are running the Democratic Party into the dumper.
hillstheone 04.08.09 at 1:24 am
“OH, Brother…such a copycat!”
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/more_names/blog/2009/04/barack_obama_marthas_vineyard.html
“…Following in the footsteps of Bill and Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama may vacation this summer on Martha’s Vineyard, we’re told.
The White House wouldn’t confirm the first family’s vacation plans today, but word is the Obamas have rented a house for two weeks at the end of August in the East Chop neighborhood of Oak Bluffs.”
BillieJo 04.08.09 at 1:25 am
WTflyingF!!!!!
Fidel Castro to Congressional Black Caucus members: ‘How can we help President Obama?’
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/04/congressional-caucus-members-meet-with-the-castro-cousins-in-cuba.html
Did I die last night and wake up in Hell?????????????????????
hillstheone 04.08.09 at 1:25 am
I’m off to beddie-bye land…
(((nite-nite, BillieJo)))!
hillstheone 04.08.09 at 1:27 am
Ha,ha, no BillieJo, that’s my line, I died and went to hell a couple nights ago, caught a glimpse of Ann Coulter on TV dissing the President over the bailout plan & nodded in agreement, that’s when I knew I died & went to hell…!!!
BillieJo 04.08.09 at 1:27 am
((Hills))
“…Following in the footsteps of Bill and Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama may vacation this summer on Martha’s Vineyard, we’re told.
Maybe if he models himself after Kennedy, Clintons, Lincoln, Regan and enough other people he will represent someone with some experience?
What a bloody fool. Smoke and mirrors and playing the big man.
He makes me more sick each day.
BillieJo 04.08.09 at 1:28 am
Night Hills, sleep well.
BillieJo 04.08.09 at 1:33 am
I’m here alone………….oh well, have to post this off of Cinie’s blog…she out does herself with O’jackass’ name growing as the weeks go by.
appointed, and white folks-endorsed, black leader, Just Barely President and Celebritician, Baracus Hubris Maximus (Hail, Ceasar!)
Love this woman! She makes me laugh every day.
Go Cinie, go!
HP Boston 04.08.09 at 7:51 am
Well I think that timing is everything, a religious article just to coincide with Oblowinthewinds Islam praise!
The End of Christian America
The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become.
By Jon Meacham | NEWSWEEK
Published Apr 4, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Apr 13, 2009
http://www.newsweek.com/id/192583?GT1=43002
Notyoursweetie 04.08.09 at 7:56 am
Love them Widdershins!
And some cool Entourage news
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/watching-entourage-while-ethic-probes-bloom/
DancesWithPumas 04.08.09 at 9:07 am
Love them Widdershins!
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LOL! Love saying that name!
Widdershins!
Widdershins!
Widdershins!
murphy 04.08.09 at 9:20 am
hiya, dwp, hp, nys, tt, scarlet et al.
HP — we should meet for coffee and a cupcake and make some
plans . . .
murphy 04.08.09 at 9:21 am
please tell me the newsweek article says that the number of christians has gone down because the number of secular people has gone UP and NOT that the number of muslims has gone up?
pretty please?
bqueen 04.08.09 at 9:22 am
just saw this on Tenessee Guerilla Women. It’s too moving to miss:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuAsB7l9xmA
Hoo-ha! Vermont passed rights for gays to marry!
taggles1 04.08.09 at 9:23 am
where the heck have you been bqueen!
murphy 04.08.09 at 9:29 am
AND, the NYTimes has a front-pager sure to discourage the rabid religious fundamentalists:
“MONTPELIER, Vt. — Gay-rights groups say that momentum from back-to-back victories on same-sex marriage in Vermont and Iowa could spill into other states, particularly since at least nine other legislatures are considering measures this year to allow marriage between gay couples.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/us/08vermont.html?hp
woo-hoo! viva la US Constitution!
DancesWithPumas 04.08.09 at 9:32 am
Read a few years ago that Islam was the fastest growing religion.
scarlet 04.08.09 at 9:34 am
Citi chair tired of bank ‘demonizing’

#Citigroup Chairman Richard Parsons has grown tired of critics “demonizing the bankers” over the worldwide financial crisis.
“Everybody participated in pumping up this balloon and now that the balloon has conflated, everybody in reality has some part in the blame,” Parsons said Monday night in Hawaii, according to the Honolulu television station KHON.
“Demonizing the bankers as if they — and they alone — created the financial meltdown is both inaccurate and short-sighted,” he asserted.
“Everybody, in reality, has some part of the blame,” he added. “But it’s much more in the culture to find a villain and vilify the villain.”
Parsons conceded that Wall Street compensation “needs to and will undergo some serious change and modification going forward.” But he also pointed out that it’s “much more complicated than that.”
Parsons, who was an economic adviser on Barack Obama’s presidential transition team, also warned that reprimanding banks for spending funds on corporate retreats and travel hurts those on the lower end of the economic ladder more than it hurts the banks.
“Who is actually suffering are waiters and busboys and wait staff and cleaning staff at hotels,” he said. “It’s really affecting the bottom of the pyramid in terms of employment and little people.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21000.html
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Little people?
MKfromLA 04.08.09 at 9:35 am
TEMECULA, Calif. – A gunman opened fire at a remote Korean Christian retreat center Tuesday night, leaving one person dead and at least three people injured, authorities said.
Authorities were first called to the rural area about 7 p.m. after receiving reports about a man shooting his wife, California Highway Patrol spokesman Mario Lopez said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/ap_on_re_us/retreat_shooting
mountainsong 04.08.09 at 9:37 am
murphy 04.08.09 at 9:21 am Wish I could, but I’m not finding anything to the contrary.
So is this still our main blogsite? Or is everyone moving to Widdershins or some other?
scarlet 04.08.09 at 9:41 am
Chavez in China Touts ‘New World Order’
Associated Press
BEIJING –Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his two-day visit to Beijing this week is part of the creation of a “new world order.”
The frequent U.S. critic told reporters that power in the world is shifting from America to countries such as Iran, Japan and China.
“We are creating a new world, a balanced world. A new world order, a multipolar world,” Mr. Chavez said on arriving in China the evening before a scheduled Wednesday meeting with China’s president and Communist Party leader Hu Jintao.
“The unipolar world has collapsed. The power of the U.S. empire has collapsed,” he said.
“Everyday, the new poles of world power are becoming stronger. Beijing, Tokyo, Tehran .. It’s moving toward the East and toward the South.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123917904370300585.html
MKfromLA 04.08.09 at 9:48 am
#87 Scarlet
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his two-day visit to Beijing this week is part of the creation of a “new world order.”
Here’s an interesting essay by a sister Puma about Venezuela
http://patriotdems.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/its-all-about-oil-part-ii-venezuela/
DancesWithPumas 04.08.09 at 9:49 am
Leftist, Feminist, Pumas…
Go Widdershins!
MKfromLA 04.08.09 at 9:51 am
#82 Murphy
Gay-rights groups say that momentum from back-to-back victories on same-sex marriage in Vermont and Iowa could spill into other states
get on board that freedom train, California!!!
HP Boston 04.08.09 at 9:52 am
scarlet 04.08.09 at 9:41 am
Chavez in China Touts ‘New World Order’
Associated Press
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Scary crap Scarlet…..Oairheadboy and Chavez!
“New World DISorder!”
HP Boston 04.08.09 at 9:59 am
HP — we should meet for coffee and a cupcake and make some plans . . .
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OKAY!! This is BD week in my family..4…started yesterday. Gonna do it all together on Saturday, my birthday!!
You tell me where and when..if you prefer your lovely home I will come………
scarlet 04.08.09 at 9:59 am
Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
mountainsong 04.08.09 at 9:59 am
OK, *SonofaBastard+!!! I just got paged to meet law enforcement at the County hospital and assist a victim of sexual assault. Police report indicates First Degree Sexual Assault/with mulible abrasions and other *non-critical) defensive wounds. Definitely not the way either of us would have chosen to start our day. (Crying) BBL
scarlet 04.08.09 at 10:04 am
VIOLATION OF FEMALE MODESTY
Jewish Papers Alter Israeli Cabinet Photo
(April 7) – A pair of ultra-orthodox Jewish newspapers altered a photograph of the new Israeli Cabinet, removing two female ministers from the shot, the BBC reported. The papers printed the doctored images last week.
In one of the newspapers, female ministers Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver were replaced by two men in the inaugural photo of Israel’s new 30-member Cabinet, which is headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The other publication blacked out the women.
Why? Because many ultra-orthodox Jews view publishing photos of women as a violation of female modesty. Click through the photos below to see the before and after shots of the Cabinet followed by other images that have people scratching their heads.
http://news.aol.com/article/israeli-cabinet-photo/418596?icid=main|htmlws-main|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fisraeli-cabinet-photo%2F418596
girlsrule 04.08.09 at 10:04 am
Read it and weep:
Today’s headlines….no explanation needed:
Hmmmm……
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090408/D97E8SPO0.html
Spine chilling:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21008.html
No time for this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5096803/Barack-Obama-rejects-Normandy-trip-to-avoid-offending-Germany.html
Plenty of time for this:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c2e3700ab4e271bc32827b0fccfe560b.421&show_article=1&catnum=-1
It appears our new enemy is, well, us and our new friends……brutal dictators, imagine that.
WTH are we doing??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
http://www.drudgereport.com/
HP Boston 04.08.09 at 10:05 am
murphy 04.08.09 at 9:21 am
pretty please?
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Okay it is a long article BUT the absence of but one tiny Muslim mention is what worries me…………
Read it and weep Murph!
DancesWithPumas 04.08.09 at 10:07 am
Why? Because many ultra-orthodox Jews view publishing photos of women as a violation of female modesty.
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Gee. All that trouble when all they had to do was throw a couple of burqu’ahs over them.
murphy 04.08.09 at 10:08 am
pirates posted,
take it upstairs!
bring links . ..
BigCatLover 04.08.09 at 10:09 am
The Associated Press is tiptoeing around the issue of abuse by the Alabama man who killed his wife and 4 kids by insisting that he ‘alledgedly’ abused her before the killings (even though she had filed a court complaint. The headline is ‘Ala. wife alleged abuse before quadruple-slaying’. They are so worried about making him look bad that it is ridiculous:
PRICEVILLE, Ala. – A man who police say shot and killed his estranged wife, their daughter and two other relatives before burning down his house and committing suicide on the eve of their divorce trial gave no hints of the mayhem to come, police and court officials say.
While Kevin Garner’s wife accused him of being abusive in court filings, authorities said the 45-year-old chemical company worker gave no indication that their split could result in the violence that occurred Tuesday.
Garner’s behavior didn’t seem odd during a brief court appearance Monday, Circuit Judge Sherrie W. Paler said, and the divorce wasn’t considered particularly contentious by courthouse workers or the lawyers who were involved.
“I was terribly shocked and saddened by this unexpected tragedy,” said Jerry Knight, an attorney who represented Garner in the divorce, which was scheduled to go to trial Wednesday.
Knight, in an e-mail to The Associated Press, said Garner “had a terrific work ethic and value system.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/ap_on_re_us/alabama_four_dead
BigCatLover 04.08.09 at 10:11 am
Oops, he killed a wife, daughter and 2 other relatives, not 4 kids. I’m probably getting these family killings mixed up, there are so many of them.
HP Boston 04.08.09 at 10:28 am
Knight, in an e-mail to The Associated Press, said Garner “had a terrific work ethic and value system.”
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Oh ya you betcha! The man who killed was as stable as a 3 legged table! Seem the man that killed had a Muslim kinda value system his excuse, the killer, is he is part of the patriarchy! The worst part!
DancesWithPumas 04.08.09 at 10:30 am
Garner “had a terrific work ethic and value system.”
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In that case, it musta been her fault.
Zee 04.08.09 at 10:58 pm
LMFAO at the rightwing agenda blowhards freaking their considerable asses off at this new spin-off.
hahahahahahahaha. May you writhe like the obots who are writhing at his Bush-echo of the wire-tapping.
Meanwhile…we’ll go rebuild the left. halle-fuckin-leuiah!
Zee 04.08.09 at 10:59 pm
taggles…hahaha…love how you channel your passion and exhibit patience.
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