Imagine if sexism were policed, both socially and literally, as strongly as racism is.
ATWATER [California] — In the past several months Atwater City Councilman Gary Frago has sent at least a half-dozen e-mails to city staff and other prominent community members containing racist jokes aimed at President Barack Obama, his wife and black people in general.
In all, the Sun-Star obtained seven e-mails that Frago sent from October 2008 to February 2009 from an anonymous source.
Some compared Obama to O.J. Simpson while others suggested that “nigger rigs” should now be called “presidential solutions.”
Perhaps the most overboard e-mail was sent on Jan. 15. It read: “Breaking News Playboy just offered Sarah Palin $1 million to pose nude in the January issue. Michelle Obama got the same offer from National Geographic.”
(h/t Mablue)
Yep, that’s pretty damn racist. But, can you even imagine a world in which sexist “jokes” were treated the same way? It’s difficult, no? Every morning dances and/or I clean out the spam filter of anywhere from 30 to 60 pornographic comments (with a fair number of cialis and adderall ads in the mix). I gotta tell ya, it’s a really sucky job (dwp gets there before me almost every day, so if it’s depressing for me it must be even moreso for her.) Teen handjobs, teens having sex with animals, Granny porn, incest of every possible variety, torture videos. It’s disgusting. It’s perverted. It’s assaulting. And it’s 100% legal. To even object to it invites people to call you a whiner or a frigid, uptight, sexless hag.
I’m not saying all pornography/erotica is inherently sexist, some of it probably isn’t. But that’s not the point. Not all ethnic jokes are offensive. Or are they? We’ve advanced socially to the point that most people object to Italian/Polish/Catholic jokes almost as strenuously as they do to racial jokes. That’s great. But nagging wives still sell beer on TV. And bitchy, back-biting women still form the majority of television roles. Bimbo jokes? No problemo, especially when aimed at the governor of Alaska.
As I said earlier, the important question is WHY? Why do public women invariably become targets of SEXIST attacks? Pelosi’s looks, Clinton’s Cankles, Janet Huckabee the Ugly Dog, Palin the Bimbo, etc etc. Why is it socially acceptable to target ANY woman with sexism?
When obama is targeted for attacks on his politics/policies/resume/job performance etc etc it is perfectly acceptable. But when he’s targeted for racist attacks everyone but the most diehard neanderthals objects. Strenuously.
But women in politics dont get that. I dont know why it’s so difficult for some people to see the distinction between attacking a politician on substance and attacking him with racist stereotypes of gorillas or slaves or black-man-as-animal. Oops, when I type it that way, EVERYONE gets it. But if I type: I dont know why it’s so difficult for some people to see the distinction between attacking a politician on substance and attacking her with sexist stereotypes of bitches, uppity women, or woman-as-sex-object of men. When typed THAT way, otherwise intelligent people seem to temporarily lose some brain cells.
As Hillary supporters we saw first hand how frenzied and insane the Clinton Derangement Syndrome was. We correctly identified the very level of vitriol aimed at her as inherently sexist.
Unfortunately, some on the Left continue to be either willfully or ignorantly blind to the damage done TO THE LEFT and our principles of Palin Derangement Syndrome.
The problem for the Obama Movement during the Primaries was how STRONG Hillary’s support was. They didnt count on that. They also didnt count on how strong and capable SHE was .And since they couldn’t kill Clinton on policy, campaigning, politics, resume, or public support, they killed her with sexism and cheating.
Which is exactly why the continuing countenancing by those on the LEFT of CDS or PDS or any other sexist attacks on public women is so pernicious. If Clinton had run in an environment in which sexist attacks were utterly impermissible the Obama Movement would have been left with only cheating to win.
And then he would have lost.
So. Yup, I’m going to continue to object to PDS and to encourage Sarah Palin to run for President. Even if I don’t freaking vote for her I really WANT her to run. This nation has a SERIOUS woman problem. And the only way we’re going to solve it is if we KEEP TALKING, keep fighting sexism whenever and wherever it shows its ugly face, and keep encouraging MORE and MORE women to enter the race. Sarah Palin IS a target of sexism. She’ll likely lose if she chooses to run because of the double and triple standards applied to women who run for office, not to mention the truly appalling sexist caricatures the LEFT won’t stop drawing of her.
But in order for us to live in a world in which sexism is policed as strongly as racism is, we’re gonna need a few more martyrs.
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HP Boston 07.18.09 at 10:58 am
Maybe we can get Jimmy Carter to run as her VP and he can keep talking the disgrace of woman bashing in every literal sense. He will do just fine probably outlive Biden who has a terminal running off at the mouth disease, hoof and mouth.
PALIN/CARTER that’s the ticket!
Swannie 07.18.09 at 11:05 am
It is not just this country Murphy , it is global and we absolutely must keep fighting , we have no choice . We have to raise the consiousness of the world . For ouselves, but even more so for our daughters and sons and their children !
HP Boston 07.18.09 at 11:09 am
Confirmation number: 2YL92265UL2503000. $50.00
#1
persephone 07.18.09 at 11:16 am
myiq goes to bat for…Palin!
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/
he must be one of those “pseudo-Pumas”
haha
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 11:20 am
myiq
could be. and, I for one, think myiq’s growth in the past few months (weeks? posts?) is apparent. I no longer scroll past anything with his name attached to it, and that’s a welcome change.
just sayin’
HP Boston 07.18.09 at 11:24 am
persephone 07.18.09 at 11:16 am
You have mail…love mom
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 11:26 am
I have about 6 oz left to drink of my cuppa coffee and then I have to head out. This weekend is “Pride” in Hillcrest, San Diego… thousands began arrivng yesterday. If I don’t leave soon, I won’t be able to leave at all.
I’m going to head west and north… along the pacific coast on pacific coast highway (Hwy 1), and see where I end up for the night. Will send postcards.
camera, laptop, aircard, iPhone… oh, I guess I should bring along food and drink… required necessities…ugh.
see yous later.
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 11:29 am
Shoot… I should have ordered a pumapac license plate holder from:
http://www.cafepress.com/DancesWithPumas/6806060
where all profits from sales go to Puma PAC.
HP Boston 07.18.09 at 11:32 am
Have a great weekend Dances!
Headclunker 07.18.09 at 11:45 am
Boy, am I one pissed off PUMA today. I even went prowling around some of the boards where obots post so I could tell them AGAIN what I thought of “THE ONE”, but they have been silent for about a day now.
The obot gushers were messing all over themselves because the DOW did a little better last week http://www.flickr.com/photos/31592459@N08/3731645548/
BO’s Rasmussen Approval Index is -8% and has been averaging -7% for the last week or so.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
HOW ABOUT A PROWL FOR PALIN on those nuisance ethics charges. Why are presidential resources going into making mess instead of developing solutions to the economic mess he has made worse?
persephone 07.18.09 at 11:54 am
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/18/report-fired-inspector-general-sues-obama-job/
Thanks CJ and others who are making their voices heard on the Walpin firing.
persephone 07.18.09 at 12:03 pm
Massachusetts Universal Health Care Cuts
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill battle to create a nationwide health care system to cover all, Massachusetts is struggling to keep the state’s groundbreaking universal coverage program up and running.
Facing a massive budget shortfall, lawmakers are cutting roughly 30 thousand legal, taxpaying immigrants out of the state subsidized Commonwealth Care program.
Health Care for All, a Boston based advocacy group, is taking hundreds of calls on their help line from people like El Salvador native Eugenio Hernandez who is battling prostate cancer and will be among those losing coverage.
more:
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/07/17/massachusetts-universal-health-care-cuts/
persephone 07.18.09 at 12:09 pm
“Fighting for influence in Obama’s White House:” (HRC, that is)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,636565,00.html
Zee 07.18.09 at 12:12 pm
#10 headclunker…I noticed that, too. When the obots are quiet it means they’re hunkered down somewhere waiting for Jon “the groper” Favreau to come up with the next batch of talking points.
Zee 07.18.09 at 12:14 pm
#12 persephone…
Wow…that’s sad. The zoo, the health coverage…mass is shutting down?
persephone 07.18.09 at 12:22 pm
Hi Zee!
MA has been trying to hold the HC program together until Obamacare passes, as it’s being held up as some sort of model (ha!)
Hospitals that serve the poor are being forced to cut services (BMC and Cambridge Hospital) because of reduced payments by the state.
Cambridge hospital will be forced to shut down part of it’s psych facility (one of the state’s few) and also an inpatient clinic for substance abusers.
persephone 07.18.09 at 12:26 pm
Massachusetts in Suit Over Cost of Universal Care
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: July 15, 2009
BOSTON — A hospital that serves thousands of indigent Massachusetts residents sued the state on Wednesday, charging that its costly universal health care law is forcing the hospital to cover too much of the expense of caring for the poor.
The hospital, Boston Medical Center, faces a $38 million deficit for the fiscal year ending in September, its first loss in five years. The suit says the hospital will lose more than $100 million next year because the state has lowered Medicaid reimbursement rates and stopped paying Boston Medical “reasonable costs” for treating other poor patients.
more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/us/16hospital.html
Zee 07.18.09 at 12:28 pm
btw, good post, Murphy!
Those emails from that councilman were vile, but it’s too bad the paper only mentions the racism and not also the sexism.
Zee 07.18.09 at 12:30 pm
Hey persephone!
Yes, that’s all we need, fewer psych facilities…those have always been the first to go, and the people end up on the street!
persephone 07.18.09 at 12:30 pm
More on MA healthcare-damned scary stuff, considering the feds are holding it up as a model:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/us/15insure.html
Legal immigrants holding green cards for less than 5 years will be denied coverage??
persephone 07.18.09 at 12:33 pm
Yes, that’s all we need, fewer psych facilities…those have always been the first to go, and the people end up on the street!
________________
absolutely true.
so under the great MA plan, are things better, or worse?
people can’t afford the shitty coverage they are forced to carry and the ones getting free care will be rationed according to how many years they’ve been in the country?
wtf.
sistermoon3 07.18.09 at 12:39 pm
Murphy I must say i do appreciate your willingness to call everything the way you see it from both sides. I could care less
who would, won’t ever vote for palin if she ever decided to run for pres. I cant even say I would, because as of yet i havent seen her run for that position. But, that said, the debates and the policies and issues that would be on the table of such a run
would be very interesting indeed. Who knows where our country will be should i ever witness that day. No one does actually.
But, it’s been a brutal past year for women in general.
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 12:45 pm
Ummm … I had to get on the freeway to get across the street that is 1/4 block from my house
Now I’m stuck in a parking space in a McDonalds due to blockades and tow~awaying. I’m hoping I don’t have to spend the night in McD’s… 1/2 block from my house !
Reporting from the field, cub reporter dwp olsen.
Swannie 07.18.09 at 12:46 pm
OOPS wrong thread anyway ….
I am dedicating the EVA CASSIDY version oF IMAGINE TO YOU on GODDESS RADIO TODAY and to this post and wondering if you wuold be up for an interview via phone on GODDESS RADIO sometime in the future I think it would be FUN
whaddya think ?? recorded for podcast and easy downoad too
http://audio.cygnusradio.com:8000/cyg1_hi.m3u
Swannie 07.18.09 at 12:49 pm
Dances you are outstanding in the field ..I hope you get to come in soon
persephone 07.18.09 at 12:53 pm
dances, you should have gotten out of Dodge last night.
get a happy meal and get comfy
persephone 07.18.09 at 1:01 pm
White house foreclosure plan a “bust”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25095.html
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 1:01 pm
I’ll be damned! I just climbed up to the roof of my camper and I have the BEST seat in the house!!
BigCatLover 07.18.09 at 1:06 pm
The fact that Obama chose to have another press appearance the same time as Hillary Clinton makes her first major SOS speech in this country is tacky, but predictable. But saying that the fact that the cable channels were covering other stories means she is a weak SOS is a cunard designed to 1) put her down, and 2) stir up a controversy around her. I don’t ever remember the major news tv shows covering an extended SOS speech. I don’t remember Madeline Albright or Condi Rice getting full tv coverage on SOS speeches (Condi got some coverage as National Security advisor, but not as SOS). SOS is supposed to be a behind the scenes influence position. You could listen to her speech in it’s entirity on c-span, so it was available. They will never rest in trying to embellish the Clinton/Obama story.
BigCatLover 07.18.09 at 1:09 pm
DWP
You’re sitting on the roof of your camper with your computer watching a parade? Hahaha.
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 1:14 pm
BCL
Using my iPHone.
Using it to take pix too while my camera batt is charging.
My scene is slightly bizarre, even to me.
Waving to Pumas
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 1:17 pm
Lots of Newsom for gov signs . I’ll be following pumasfs lead and probably vote
for Meg. Even though newsom is good for the lesbian/gay community, I’ll still be a woman
BigCatLover 07.18.09 at 1:18 pm
DWP
I’ve never used an iPhone. Can you turn it on yourself and post a photo for us?
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 1:30 pm
Bcl
it’s very easy to turn .. yes even I can turn it on myself!! LoL
BigCatLover 07.18.09 at 1:32 pm
DWP
LOL. Just kidding.
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 1:45 pm
On monsterous line for my happy meal
BillieJo 07.18.09 at 2:08 pm
Here’s our girl Hillary smiling and hugging women again…
Hillary Clinton in India
* What Hillary’s visit really mean for Mumbai?
* Clinton begins meet with India’s top industrialists
* Hillary Clinton meets leaders of India Inc
http://secretaryclinton.blogspot.com/2009/07/clinton-meets-women-artisans-in-mumbai.html
God do I love this woman. I see her out their with her busted wing, bringing joy to other women, working her buns off to help our country while the ‘minority’ pretender sits and F’s stuff up faster than a child could do in his position…
The King of the Ego’s needs damage control.
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 2:15 pm
Happy meal devoured. Dykes on Bikes just passed (be still my heart
)
FLBarbara 07.18.09 at 2:27 pm
Hi Pumas
Murphy as always a great post..when you’re hot you’re hot.
Maybe Boston Medical Centre should hire Michele O since she was good at directing poor patients to other hospitals in Chicago LOL
Dances
I am picturing you sitting on the roof of your camper eating a happy meal blogging away watching a parade.
Good field assignment for you.
Put on sun lotion.
Don’t want to burn.
FLBarbara 07.18.09 at 2:30 pm
Dykes on Bikes? Is that a groups name?
Or something you made up?
It is funny.
FLBarbara 07.18.09 at 2:36 pm
Oh I just love the picture of the girl blowing bubbles.
Remember when?
That is what we should all do today
Go out and blow bubbles.
FLBarbara 07.18.09 at 2:39 pm
I am talking to myself which is not unusual in the least.
Dances
Have you fallen off the roof of your camper? Or did you take off on the back of a bike?
I hope you’re riding off into the sunset.
HP Boston 07.18.09 at 2:50 pm
The Mass Gov is pushing for MORE Charter schools, MONEY?? Not so much…..spend on new and screw the Health costs…asshole we have in charge is called a Governor….
Can’t wait to push the Dem’s out and A REPUB in place..same thing. It will piss the progressives off and I am for that.
There is no democratic party it has morphed into the Reprobates of oligarchy!
PumaRhythm 07.18.09 at 2:52 pm
WoHoooooooo! Murphy Rocks!!!!!! Thanks Murphy!!
going to make lunch and then read some more.
bbl
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 3:02 pm
Great post, Murphy !
Nope . Haven’t fallen off the roof. . Starting to fry tho
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 3:14 pm
FLBarbara 07.18.09 at 2:30 pm
Dykes on Bikes? Is that a groups name?
——————
A few decades ago, motrocycle riding dykes organized themselves as a group and started off the Pride March in San Francisco.
That vrooooooooom vrooooooooom always excites the group and gets the energy up!! They’re great!
A few years before I relocated to San Diego from Berkeley/Oakland,I started a weekend camping group for lesbians and their children. Named it Tykes of Dykes on Hikes. The mothers loved it… they sat around chatting while I occupied the children with games, and exercises, and nature mini-walks. We’d get a group site not more than an hour to hour and a half from Berkeley… close to home as a precaution for emergnecies and terror of nature (never happened tho).
I LOVE|D it!!!
okay. I’m getting out of town now… need the ocean!
ciao for niao
murphy 07.18.09 at 3:24 pm
Donna Darko, who trackbacked to this post above has a Righteous Roundup on the topic at hand:
http://donnadarko.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/now-conference-infiltrated-by-now-members/
murphy 07.18.09 at 3:27 pm
Tykes of Dykes on Hikes???
I LIKES!!!
xoxoxo dwp. dont get sunstroke!
Deb55 07.18.09 at 3:39 pm
Looks like Canada’s “FREE” healthcare, isn’t free..taxed .11 on every $1.00 earned..What do you make a month, $5,000..you pay $550. + your husband makes $10,000..he pays $1,100..that is $1,650 a month..together you make 180,000 a year..now “O” keeps $19,800 for insurance. + SS + MEDICAD (yes we will still pay that)+ FICA + State taxes…hel* no!! I will keep my Blue Cross/Blue Shield at $5,800 a year.
The upper class will be taxed additionally to cover the poor or non working…we will all be paying the way it will work..just the millionairs will pay an additional tax.
And guess what… ALL Canadan’s are NOT covered!!!
By the way did you know… the head of Canadan Health is in Washington to help “O” get his health bill passed!! READ the Bill.. we are following the Canadan plan.
http://www.thestar.com/article/445835
prplvette85 07.18.09 at 3:41 pm
Dances hope you have a great time! Wish I was there. I remember the first time I attended the gay pride parade, in 1978. I was taking my kids camping for 2 weeks up to Yosemite. We stopped in San Fran for the night. All the hotels were booked, but I found one room in this flea bag hotel right on the main strip. The hotel desk told me why all the rooms were booked, for the parade. He told me I might want to stay in my room with my kid! Well of course I set him straight (so to speak). I took the kids to the parade and of course I began to explain what “gay” was. we were standing there when the Dykes on Bikes came bye. It was so funny cuz back then…my wild days…I had a Harley. My son yells out mom…are you a Dyke on a bike? He was to young then to understand gay even meant. To this day both my kids and grandkids attend the gay pride parades!
It was as much a part of teaching them equality forpeople with different sexual preferences, as it was for racial equality. Something I think in most households is missing today. Not enough open conversation with children.
catsrlove 07.18.09 at 3:43 pm
“He” will do anything to upstage Hillary. He knows he didn’t win that election, so he wants to keep her silent. He doesn’t want those whose kool aid has worn off to see that they picked the wrong person.
I wish Hillary had not left her Senate seat. She could be much more vocal there. She was our best and only chance to win the White House. I think the fact that people chose to elect an inexperienced first term Senator instead of the most qualified person to run for office since her husband ran, shows us women are not seen as equals.
That makes me damn mad…
Have a good weekend PUMAS
PumaRhythm 07.18.09 at 3:45 pm
#37 BillieJo I know BillieJo….I love her too.
found this at DipNote:
During the visit, the artisans themselves took center stage as they demonstrated their embroidery and sewing techniques to the Secretary, while explaining how SEWA, through the access to markets, microloans, and banking services it offers, allows them to make a living from their craft.
The visit ended with a moving rendition of the Gujarati language version of “We Shall Overcome.”
Rise Hillary Rise
http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entries/clinton_sewa_mumbai/
Deb55 07.18.09 at 3:52 pm
Dances
Better get another Happy Meal fast..heard this morning MickeyD’s is in talks to move their Corp Office off shore, because of “O”‘s new taxes.
“O” will charge us a $5.00 sir charge on our happy meal and take away our toy…next!!
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 3:57 pm
Oh! I wondered what that colorful thing in the bag was!
Rough going down but it tasted pretty good!
goofsmom 07.18.09 at 4:06 pm
Dances,
LMAO… a little extra roughage with your meal…
persephone 07.18.09 at 4:10 pm
Obama’s “Organizing for America” pressures dems to support Obamacare:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/18/obama-political-team-turns-its-sights-on-house-dems/
PumaRhythm 07.18.09 at 4:13 pm
….and I would also like to say…
Rise Women Rise!!!
gotta go for now bbl Pumas
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 4:30 pm
CJK
You have email, FINALLY – TWICE
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 4:32 pm
Hi ((Pumas))
Sorry have not had time to read so if posted already – sorry
BillieJo, Shadow and all Hillary lovers:
Nice report on Hillary’s visit to India – non conventional – stays in hotel in Mumbai attacked by terrorists last year – meets with the “people” first 2 days and government officials on last day – nationally televised town hall discussion – met with business execs (half women) – rural women (Self Employed Women’s Association). “We simply will not make progress in our world if we leave women behind.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/18/AR2009071800652.html?hpid=moreheadlines
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 4:34 pm
Wontbackdown – again sorry if posted but if you had not seem scarlet’s post see
Check out the site scarlet posted last night
Join the Grassroots Movement to Make Barack Obama’s Third Term Possible!
scarlet 07.17.09 at 11:39 pm
http://www.end22.com/
Repeal the 22nd Amendment
murphy 07.18.09 at 4:36 pm
{{{{{{{prplvette!}}}}}
CJK 07.18.09 at 4:44 pm
persephone 07.18.09 at 11:54 am
Welcome back, persephone! And thanks for the post above and the link to the article re Mr. Walpin suing BO. There’s a link inside the Fox story to another article, which notes in the final paragraph that Mr. Walpin’s attorneys said the firing ‘raises serious questions of age discrimination.’ I am so happy that Mr. Walpin is taking legal action! Thanks to all PUMAs who have spoken out/continue to speak out against Mr. Walpin’s unwarranted, illegal, unconstitutional firing!
——
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 4:30 pm
Thanks, RemNov! You have e-mail now, also. To PUMAs interested in the Walpin firing, there will soon be another letter that you can send to your particular Congress Rep/Senator.I will post to the thread, and e-mail Dances, Murphy to consider posting it to the Action Center also.
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 4:46 pm
From previous thread:
———-
Zee
hahaha! They’ll never repeal the 22nd amendment while Bill Clinton is alive. Hillary could run with Bill as VP. Too funny.————
Yes and yes!! Thanks Scarlet for posting that site. True, Zee that Serrano has sponsored this bill every 2 years since 1999 – way before BO was on the scene – but you can be sure it will get more traction now.
Scarlet – thanks also for clarifying the attachment of hate crimes to defense bill – ugghhh
CJK 07.18.09 at 4:50 pm
Hi Murphy! Great post. IMO, however, we don’t need ‘martyrs.’ IMO, women will not have equality of rights until they absolutely, unequivocally insist on it! Yes, we must keep on pointing out and combatting the sexism/misogyny wherever we find it. But, remember, the male-dominated patriarchal political/financial/social/religious infrastructures of the United States and the rest of the world have benefited and profited for centuries via the subjugation and inequality of women. They will not relinquish their dominion until women take the rights that are deservedly theirs.
CJK 07.18.09 at 4:52 pm
Gotta go. BBL…
Headclunker 07.18.09 at 5:02 pm
Feck Team Update (posted on FECK Team Forum)
BO’s Quarterly Campaign Finance Report is out.
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00431445/425085/#DETAILED
Looks like he is making some foreign refunds. From the amounts, it looks like he has a way to go. http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00431445/425085/sa/ALL
prplvette85 07.18.09 at 5:03 pm
((((((((((Murphy))))))) Great posts as usual. Oh and guess what? My grandson just made 1st Team Ivy League for 2009 and 2nd Team National All American! Woot Woot!!
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Harvard sophomore cornerback Matthew Hanson highlights a list of nine Crimson football players who are recognized in the 2009 Phil Steele’s Football Preview Magazine. Hanson was named to the All-America Second Team in the publication while Harvard was ranked 23rd nationally.
Hanson, from Lafayette, Colo., joined what has been the nation’s top defensive backfield last season and dazzled as the Ivy’s Rookie of the Year. Hanson led Harvard with four interceptions and tied for second on the team with 10 passes defended.
Here is a picture of him….
http://gocrimson.com/sports/fball/2009-10/releases/090717_Hanson
Sorry ya all just got excited and had to share lol
goofsmom 07.18.09 at 5:20 pm
(((((((((prplvette85 and grandson)))))))))))
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 5:22 pm
Hiya Prpl!!
Great shot of your grandson!! Great accomplishment too!!
All of your grandchildren do you and their parents great honor!
Pumas are very proud of them… and you!
goofsmom 07.18.09 at 5:25 pm
(((((Dances)))))
Hi ya…. hope you aren’t texting and driving….
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 5:30 pm
Murphy
Great post and great Donna Darko trackback. Now I know what PINOs are!
Dances and Pumas chatting re the parade – thanks for the chuckle
prplvette85 – congratulations to you and your grandson – great pic!
Where else can you go for a daily chuckle, inspiration, support, friendship, encouragement, information, news wrapup etc. Thanks everyone
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 5:36 pm
Prpl
Nuh uh… parked camper near the bay… like eight feet from the shoreline … secret place. I’m the only one here. Nice breeze and quiet. Two small families about a quarter of a city block away fishing off a small pier. Perfection.
goofsmom 07.18.09 at 5:37 pm
(((Dances)))
Sounds idyllic…
prplvette85 07.18.09 at 5:45 pm
(((goofs))), (((remnov))) thank you so much. Dances…sounds like pure Heaven! Cant wait to see some pics…hint hint
LJSNAustin 07.18.09 at 5:45 pm
DWP, on our next visit to San Diego, I’ll know who to call!
wontbackdown 07.18.09 at 6:11 pm
prplvette85 07.18.09 at 5:03 pm
((((Wow!)))) Great Pic!!! Thanks for sharing the news!!!
Deb55 07.18.09 at 6:19 pm
For those tracking the repeal of the 22nd amm..found this when searching for the lawyers in Chicago, who in 2005 started trying to appeal it connected to “O”.
This is NOT the first time…
Thomas Libary of Congress…3/6/2003: H.J.res.25 Rep Hoyer with 7 co sponsors to repeal 22 ammendment.. of Presidential term limits.
Like I keep saying “O” had been in the works for years Hillary..wouldn’t play ball..so she was put out of the game.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d108:38:./temp/~bdRzJv:@@@L&summ2=m&
wontbackdown 07.18.09 at 6:24 pm
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 4:34 pm
“Wontbackdown – again sorry if posted but if you had not seem scarlet’s post see”
Thanks Rem! http://www.end22.com/
If, by some fraud, this thing is even close to getting passed… I wish Hillary and Bill would announce they’ll RUN… his arse all the way back to Indonesia.
I guess they’ll be wanting us to next vote for building a bridge to Cuba?
scarlet 07.18.09 at 6:27 pm
Churches, mosques say broadband is about “economic justice”
A host of Christian churches in the US (along with the Islamic Society) are calling on the US government to bring broadband access to everyone as a matter of economic justice.

Jesus said that the poor would always be with us—but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to bring them broadband. A coalition of Christian churches and the Islamic Society of North America has launched a new campaign to bring broadband to everyone in the US so that “our poorest communities, our rural areas, our public libraries, our public schools, and community centers” benefit from the communications revolution that the Internet hath wrought.
The “Bring Betty Broadband” campaign casts the broadband debate in moral terms. It’s about the “right to disseminate and receive information,” it’s a “right that helps to define ourselves as human beings and political actors,” and it’s absolutely essential for everyone in a modern society.
In addition, in the modern economy, just distribution of access to communication and information is essential to promote economic justice,” says the group. “Increasingly in the United States, the fundamental right to communicate is meaningless without high speed Internet access.”
More at
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/churches-mosques-say-broadband-is-about-economic-justice.ars
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Huh?
DeadGirl 07.18.09 at 6:28 pm
Dances, I only vacation where there is ATT (Iphone) data coverage… lucky for me, the Outer Cape is saturated. But I only use my phone for ipod when I am on the beaches… and save the browsing etc for kicking back in the cottage….
Deb55 07.18.09 at 6:29 pm
#77
Want link over to Thomas..shuting us out.
Try this link: repeal the 22 ammendment
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD003+@4((@1(Rep+Hoyer++Steny+H.))+00566))
BillieJo 07.18.09 at 6:33 pm
Murph-
But in order for us to live in a world in which sexism is policed as strongly as racism is, we’re gonna need a few more martyrs.
———–
We need a whole boatload of martyrs to even out the political arena and make it fair for women running.
That’s why God made PUMAs, flood our society with out spoken women, minor martyrs that help deflect some of the heat off of women like Hillary and Sarah.
We haven’t shut up-
We haven’t sat down-
We haven’t gone away, nor into hiding.
We haven’t stopped since over a year ago.
We are not as politically naive as we were a year ago.
No pulling the wool over our eyes any longer and never going to buy the BULLSHIT again.
NEVER!!!!
If these boyz want to pull this crap on us again, all holy hell is gonna rain down on them!
wontbackdown 07.18.09 at 6:42 pm
Murphy: Like the “Quote of the Day” from Jimmy Carter.
Southern Baptists have always been the pillars of “Sucks!”, imo.
Have never met a single one that I wouldn’t nominate for the Self-Righteous, Pig-Headed, Bubbas For God Award.
Yes, I meant it.
Deb55 07.18.09 at 6:42 pm
If you go over to Thomas Libary of Congress.. from Deb55 #77
Check out Rep. Hoyer ammendment… H.R.809(on same page) Prohibit viable fetus abortions…no different than how most Rep’s feel.
I happen to agree with this..but many strong Dem’s do not. Just strange how so many get bashed for this.. yet a Dem put this bill before congress.
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 6:45 pm
Scarlet
good, let the churches, mosques, temples, synogogues, and every other religious club that doesn’t pay taxes, but wants to tell us how to spend them, pay for broadband themselves.
prplvette85 07.18.09 at 6:46 pm
(((Wontbackdown)))thank you so much.
Billie Jo:
Amen Sister! Last year was our awakening! Murphy led the way…and we are the ones no one expected….and we are still here…bigger and better and bolder than ever before. We know that we know…It will never happen again! Wontbackdown’s name says it all! We are PUMA!
scarlet 07.18.09 at 6:56 pm
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 6:45 pm
Scarlet
good, let the churches, mosques, temples, synogogues, and every other religious club that doesn’t pay taxes, but wants to tell us how to spend them, pay for broadband themselves.
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No kidding. And, thanks for the following post which has kept me LOL most of the day:
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 3:57 pm
Oh! I wondered what that colorful thing in the bag was!
Rough going down but it tasted pretty good!
This one, too:
wontbackdown 07.18.09 at 6:24 pm
I guess they’ll be wanting us to next vote for building a bridge to Cuba?
wontbackdown 07.18.09 at 6:58 pm
Going to check out the Hillary Pics again.
They always give me hope for Institutionalized Women.
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 7:09 pm
DeadGirl
been to Ptown only once, in the autumn
loved it.
I’ve started a spreadsheet, listing pumas, their locations, dates, durartions, and vacation destinations. Working up a new retirement plan!
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 7:15 pm
LJSN
DWP, on our next visit to San Diego, I’ll know who to call!
________
heck yeah! Come on over!!
BillieJo 07.18.09 at 7:22 pm
This looks like a good movie coming out for anyone that has kids or is a kid at heart…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–N9klJXbjQ
scarlet 07.18.09 at 7:29 pm
July 17, 2009, 9:15 AM ET
Commerce Secretary: Americans ‘Need to Pay’ for Chinese Emissions
With the U.S. secretaries of energy and commerce in China this week, much of the attention focused on the standoff over emissions reductions or small breakthroughs in clean-tech cooperation.
But yesterday, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said something amazing—U.S. consumers should pay for part of Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions.
The idea that rich-country consumers should pick up the tab for some of China’s industrial emissions has been gaining currency lately—but not from within the Obama administration. The argument is that many of China’s factories churn out cheap stuff for the West, not for domestic consumption, so those consumers are actually responsible for the emissions. China, of course, loves the idea.
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/07/17/commerce-secretary-americans-need-to-pay-for-chinese-emissions/
prplvette85 07.18.09 at 7:35 pm
wontbackdown 07.18.09 at 6:24 pm
I guess they’ll be wanting us to next vote for building a bridge to Cuba?
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only if it is “shovel ready”!
hey that can be a new bumper sticker for Dances…
shovel this you sacashit!
BillieJo 07.18.09 at 7:44 pm
prplvette85 07.18.09 at 7:35 pm
wontbackdown 07.18.09 at 6:24 pm
I guess they’ll be wanting us to next vote for building a bridge to Cuba?
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only if it is “shovel ready”!
hey that can be a new bumper sticker for Dances…
shovel this you sacashit!
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Good one Prplvette, I would wear that t-shirt.
‘Shovel Ready’
We need shovels to get out of all this crap!
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 7:55 pm
Prpl
love seeing you on the blog again.
I loved those little strolls we used to take in Denver.
BigCatLover 07.18.09 at 7:57 pm
Just ran across this story in the Thoroughbred Times about the phenonemal super filly Rachel Alexandra who has become a sort of unofficial blog mascot this year. Her owner announced that she will be racing against the boys again in the Haskell at Monmouth Park on August 2. One of her competitors is the male horse (Summer Bird) that won the Belmont Stakes where Rachel Alexdandra did not race due to the track surface. There is a second story about a blazing fast workout she just had. Just wanted to post a heads up to mark your calendars to watch her race again if you like to watch beautiful horses run.
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/racing-news/2009/July/14/Rachel-Alexandra-to-start-the-Haskell.aspx
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/racing-news/2009/July/13/Mine-That-Bird-Rachel-Alexandra-have-workouts.aspx
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 7:59 pm
SHOVEL THIS YOU SAKASHIT
lol love it!
And
Take Your Shovel and Shove It!
prplvette85 07.18.09 at 8:05 pm
Dances,
Thanks! I am happy to be back! I will be back full time with a vengeance real soon, next week I think! I will tell you all about it when we talk, maybe Monday evening? Sure could use a stroll when this is over
wontbackdown 07.18.09 at 8:17 pm
I really didn’t want to give this any more life, but the majority of comments are really reaming them on this. They wouldn’t publish my comment which was:
“Why don’t you put a pic of Obama and his teleprompter beside a caricature of Hannibal Lecter with all of Obama’s broken promises hanging out of his mouth… Hillary Clinton is the legitimate Secretary of State of the United States of America – you incomprehensible morons”
Hold your nose and get ready to be pissed off!
http://www.tmz.com/2009/07/18/hillary-clinton-living-doll-saturday-
prplvette85 07.18.09 at 8:25 pm
Fuck TMZ…..just sayin….
gossip mongers…
wontbackdown 07.18.09 at 8:40 pm
prplvette85 07.18.09 at 8:25 pm:
Yep, wish it hadn’t been sent to me… but it shows the pervasiveness of blind insanity.
LJSNAustin 07.18.09 at 8:43 pm
I am watching a show on the LOGO channel about Billie Jean King. WOW, that’s a REAL feminist! Some man was asking her, back in around 1972, why she thought the women tennis players didn’t get the attention that the male tennis players did. She said “Because the men are in control.” Sing it, BJK! I’m going to email her…how inspiring! Murphy, she SMOKES!
wontbackdown 07.18.09 at 8:53 pm
Speaking of upcoming can’t wait to see movies!
Meryl Streep as Julia Childs in “Julie and Julia” (I loved Julia Childs and Meryl is brilliant in everything she does, imo!
http://www.julieandjulia.com/
wontbackdown 07.18.09 at 8:57 pm
“Julie and Julia” is the latest Nora Ephron (she’s really brilliant, imo) film
* (1983) Silkwood (writer)
* (1986) Heartburn (writer) (novel)
* (1989) When Harry Met Sally… (writer) (associate producer)
* (1989) Cookie (writer) (executive producer)
* (1990) My Blue Heaven (writer) (executive producer)
* (1992) This Is My Life (director) (writer)
* (1993) Sleepless in Seattle (director) (writer)
* (1994) Mixed Nuts (director) (writer)
* (1996) Michael (director) (writer) (producer)
* (1998) Strike! (executive producer)
* (1998) You’ve Got Mail (director) (writer) (producer)
* (2000) Hanging Up (writer) (producer)
* (2000) Lucky Numbers (director) (producer)
* (2005) Bewitched (director) (writer) (producer)
* (2009) Julie & Julia (director) (writer) (producer)
Casper Cat 07.18.09 at 9:10 pm
wontbackdown…. Yes! I do think Meryl Streep is the Queen of the Actress industry…. I have alway’s loved her…. She did a hell of a job… in the movie… Doubt…. WOW! Powerful…. She is just the best!!!!!!!!
LJSNAustin 07.18.09 at 9:23 pm
Last statement from Billie Jean in this documentary: “When you’re a girl or a woman, you’re supposed to be really happy with the crumbs. I don’t want the crumbs. I want the whole cake, and the icing, and everything else.” YEAH!
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 9:29 pm
Pumassssssss
I’m hoooooooooooooo-mmme
(almsot typed:
Pumassssssss
I’m hoooooooooooooo-mmmo
goofsmom 07.18.09 at 9:31 pm
Dances,
Casper Cat,
How are your animals doing with this heat???
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 9:34 pm
prplvette85 07.18.09 at 8:05 pm
Dances,
Thanks! I will tell you all about it when we talk, maybe Monday evening? Sure could use a stroll when this is over
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Monday’s good.
Come on out… we’ll take a coupla strolls.
BillieJo 07.18.09 at 9:40 pm
Dances, it’s hotter than crap up here…is it cool down there?
Is this global warming or my anger that our country is going in the dumper by Baracko Lord of the Flys….
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 9:42 pm
Well, here you all are, relaxing and talking about movies and I was just going to post about Conyers backing down from the ACORN investigation.
Hate to spoil the moment – shall I wait until Monday?
Casper Cat 07.18.09 at 9:43 pm
Hey, goofsmom…. Thank goodness for Mister spray fans… and portable plastic swimming pools….. I keep watching my dogs and they think….’what could a few laps around the koi pond hurt’….
They are doing fine… and the feral and semi feral cats too… They have misters with fans in their houses…. However, they (cats) do not like the Mister Fans… typical of cats…. they want it their own way…. Oh, wait… I think I am kinda like that….. 
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 9:44 pm
BillieJo
It was hot in my neighborhood and much cooler by the bay.
The downstairs (cooler part) of my house was 78 degrees when I got home around 6pm. A/C is on now.
It’s been around 80 all week…
115 in Palm Springs, and in the 90s where some of our So CA Pumas live!!
Casper Cat 07.18.09 at 9:45 pm
DWp…. If you have trouble tonight digesting that high fiber plastic MD’S toy… let me know… I’ll bring over some Matzo Ball Soup…..
You are too funny!!!!!!!! 
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 9:47 pm
Hi BillieJo! Well it’s still 106 degrees at 6.45 pm and the high was 107 today – a bit north of you – was 114 a couple weeks ago. Could be global warming but the anger adds to the sensation…..What’s the temp down there. Dances had the right idea – sitting by the ocean……. mmmmmm
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 9:47 pm
CC
Oh yeeeaaaaaaaah… I never did get to taste your Matzo Ball soup!!
Hey, Pumas, how long has Caspie been promising me matzo ball soup now?? Loooooong time, right?
pfffffffffffft!
Casper Cat 07.18.09 at 9:50 pm
DWP…. I think today we were well over 100 degrees in Riverside…. and no wind…. very hot and humid…. So, I enjoyed going back and forth checking on the dogs and cats and standing under their misters…
How was your trip? 
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 9:52 pm
Ohhhh – I need to come south to where Dances is! Hi Caspie, hi Dances, hi Goofs and WBD and LJSN Austin and anyone I missed – hope you are cooler than me!
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 9:53 pm
Casper,
My trip was short but cooling and relaxing. I enjoyed it. Will head out again tomorrow morning… hopefully earlier than I did today!
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 9:54 pm
RemVem
Come oooooooooon down!
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 9:55 pm
Caspie – how do you walk your dogs in this heat? I stepped on the cement in bare feet one day and could not believe the heat – wondering if I should buy some booties for my old dog – we are from the Bay Area – a much cooler climate.
Casper Cat 07.18.09 at 9:56 pm
RememberNovember…. are YOU in Las Vegas? I know it was very hot there today.. I have friends and family that live there…. Anytime, you want to come down south we will all welcome YOU!!! So. Cal Pumas are a warm welcoming bunch of great people who find it a pleasure to welcome any Puma who wants to come on down….
LJSNAustin 07.18.09 at 9:58 pm
Hi, RememberNovember and all wonderful PUMAs this evening! It’s still 94 degrees in Austin at this hour…we’ve actually had a “cool” front move through!
Casper Cat 07.18.09 at 10:02 pm
DWP…. glad to hear you had a relaxing trip!
So, here is the important details…. I know your gall bladder was removed…. How do you handle onions? Because, I can substitute Leaks for Onions without the effects of the onions (for those who cannot tolerate them)….. Just asking ….. Getting ready to make a big pot of Matzo Ball Soup and want to make sure I get some to YOU!!!!!!!!!! 
OH, wait… Do I see a trip to Riverside in DWP’s near future? 
Oh, and I really mean it!!!! 
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 10:04 pm
“Originally” from the Bay Area – I’m sure Marin is not this hot today!
Oh I wish I could Dances – love to see your Zoo again too. BTW when you are planning your retirement locations you should take the season into account for your North East CA visit! Of course we have AC but it’s no fun if you can’t go out!! We have wild turkeys and deer and eagles that you can see through the windows!!
Caspie – no, north east of Sacramento. Thanks for the invite – reciprocated any time but like I said to Dances – choose the season…
Mmmmm Austin – I like Austin – was there for a conference once
Well Pumas – will post my ACORN news later – don’t want to spoil your evening – may be back later
Off to find dinner 
Casper Cat 07.18.09 at 10:05 pm
RememberNovember…. My 5 dogs have an acre of property that is all theirs….. I do not walk them… I play with them throw balls and take them for rides… They are content ‘just having fun and doing what dogs do best’…. Which is, just hanging out and enjoying life…
Oh, DWP…. Look what you started…. Re: post 121 ‘caspie’ Its Casper…. Ha! Ha! 
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 10:07 pm
Casper
I can eat / tolerate anything except lima beans, liver (chopped / pate fine!), and monkey brains. Anything else, I’m good to go.
Have you ever eaten at DZ Aikens, Jewish deli / restaurant about 20 minutes east of me. The best in San Diego!
goofsmom 07.18.09 at 10:08 pm
Hey Pumas,
Sorry got kicked off line on the lap top…. Casper, glad the puppies and kitties are fine…
Lovely Riverside was 102 today… still air and humid…
It’s 93 right now…
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 10:09 pm
CC
It’s a term of endearment… enjoy it from all who use it.
Maybe if/when I’m exasperated with you, I’ll call you, Caspuh.
RememberNovember 07.18.09 at 10:10 pm
Oh, Casper, I checked with you before and you said Caspie was fine…
Lovely space for your dogs – we have lots of space around us but there are rattle snakes……..
Well my dog is now yelling for her dinner, must go
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 10:11 pm
Lovely Riverside was 102 today… still air and humid…
It’s 93 right now…
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Oh my gosh! Winter has arrived in lovely Riverside!!
93! Brrrrrrrrrr
goofsmom 07.18.09 at 10:12 pm
(((Dances)))
#131 – Smartie Puma… hehehe
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 10:15 pm
goofs
I was dripping sweat from this morning/afternoon, standing in the blazing sun, and when I got to the cooling breezes of the bay, I had the chills for a while.
Casper Cat 07.18.09 at 10:18 pm
DWP… No I have not…. I only get to SD about 2-3 times a year…. So, I guess that will have to change now….
Now, that I know you are there, I will come more often…. 
Oh, can you handle ‘toe jam’ ? Yeck!!!!!!! 
Just playing with YOU….. 
You know, the stuff between elephants toes…. 
some people find it tastie… Like fish eggs….. YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
BillieJo 07.18.09 at 10:25 pm
((RememberNovember))
Hi BillieJo! Well it’s still 106 degrees at 6.45 pm and the high was 107 today – a bit north of you – was 114 a couple weeks ago. Could be global warming but the anger adds to the sensation…..What’s the temp down there. Dances had the right idea – sitting by the ocean……. mmmmmm
Hiya Remember, this heat is keeping me from sleeping and it makes me pretty grumpy. Dreaming of Pina Coladas on the beach in Maui. Ahhhhhhhhhh
Casper Cat 07.18.09 at 10:26 pm
RememberNovember… I was just giving DWP a hard time…
I really, do not care about the simple stuff in life…. 
I am glad to see all of YOU and hope we can be a incredible movement to rise above the fray and be a powerful force to reckoned with…. 
I know it will take time… But, remember…. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” —Margret Mead
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 10:29 pm
Casper
One of the gifts among many that I received from my parents was a willingness to try any kind of cuisine…
albeit sometimes I prefer the euphemisms than knowing what it actually is I’m eating.
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 10:37 pm
Prplvette,
http://www.cafepress.com/DancesWithPumas/6814631
Casper Cat 07.18.09 at 10:41 pm
DWP… OH!!!
Mine was ‘alway’s know what you are eating… And, if you don’t…. Well, then don’t eat it’… 
I know, I understand!!!! 
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 10:44 pm
CC
Wow… completely opposite.
Although, I always knew what I was eating.
I can’t imagine life without mussels and clams and oysters and tripe, etc., (although, I don’t tend to eat internal organs, I would if that’s what my host served).
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 10:45 pm
anchovy pizza
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 10:47 pm
pickled pigs feet
gefilte fish
knish
matzo
I must be hungry.
bbl
Puma-SF 07.18.09 at 11:30 pm
You’re making me hungry, Dances. Check out these awesome pictures of Hill:
http://www.commongroundpolitics.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=47279
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 11:38 pm
BillieJo 07.18.09 at 9:40 pm
Dances, it’s hotter than crap up here…is it cool down there? Is this global warming or my anger that our country is going in the dumper by Baracko Lord of the Flys….
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or
Baracko Lard of the Fries
Puma-SF
Thank you! Will do.
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 11:42 pm
Puma-SF
Good ones!!
Reminds why the boiz trash her all the time…
it’s because they are afraid of her. They’re afraid of all women. They know the power we hold, esp the power over them when push comes to shove. That’s the reason they recognize racism (it’s color coded) and turn a blind eye to sexism and mysogyny.
Pathetic putrid punks.
DancesWithPumas 07.18.09 at 11:54 pm
I have to go to bed now…
hot hot sun and fresh air seems to have knocked me out.
Goodnight Puma Nation!
Puma-SF 07.19.09 at 12:04 am
Pathetic putrid punks is right, Dances. G’night.
wontbackdown 07.19.09 at 1:00 am
Have I said that I think Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the greatest women of my time?
Just look at her sign the Remembrance Book for 26/11 victims of the bombing of Mumbai Taj Hotel.
Thoughtful, authentic, takes her time to express her compassion for people, committed to real resolve… I could go on and on about how much this one video compels me to admire her…
IMAGINE:
…if this were “the one”… he would pose while leaving India his autograph and couldn’t get through 2 sentences without a pen-e-prompter.
Yes, Hillary Clinton is the most honorable representative of, and for, all women all over the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwiwYhULIPE&feature=player_embedded
Juliette 07.19.09 at 1:13 am
HPBoston
Palin-Carter, thats the ticket.
I am afraid you are dreaming HP. Carter was an Obamafallator. He remains loyal to the party that compleatly snubbed him at the democratic convention last year.
I remain broken hearted over what has become of Jimmy Carter.
I support a home land for the Palestinians, but to believe that that would change the Muslim world to a kinder gentler place is beyond naive.
wontbackdown 07.19.09 at 1:28 am
Goodnight.
Dances on top of her camper eating a Happy Meal watching Dykes on Bikes pass by…
One of those times where, surely, a few words are worth a thousand pictures? Got em on Flickr yet, Dances?
Juliette 07.19.09 at 1:28 am
France’s Sarkozy bans the burka!
Now only if America would ban O’Burka.
wontbackdown 07.19.09 at 1:33 am
Juliette 07.19.09 at 1:13 am :
For Carter to shirk the Southern Baptists, maybe he’ll get it that Islam should be next on the list. It’s hard for me to separate the two, quite frankly.
wontbackdown 07.19.09 at 1:37 am
Goodnight.
Juliette 07.19.09 at 1:46 am
Goodnight wontbackdown.
Juliette 07.19.09 at 1:58 am
Jimmy Carter
“I have always felt very deeply that the ultimate interpreter of the scripture is Jesus Christ.”
theamericanway 07.19.09 at 6:33 am
A fateful moment 40 years ago this morning
By: MARC SANDALOW
Special to The Examiner
July 19, 2009
Forty years later, there are still more questions than answers.
Why did Kennedy, then a 37-year-old married senator, leave the party with 29-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne? Why did he drive in the wrong direction, swerve off the bridge, fail to pull her body from the water, and take 10 hours to report the accident? Did a concussion blur his judgment? Might Kennedy have become president?
This much is certain: Kennedy’s fate and the nation’s history were altered by what happened on Chappaquiddick Island, Mass., in the summer of 1969.
It was 40 years ago this morning that Kennedy, dry and sober, walked into the Edgartown police station — across the channel from Chappaquiddick — and told police that he was the driver of the black Oldsmobile that had already been discovered upside down with Kopechne’s corpse inside.
Exactly what happened on the previous hot July night will probably never be known.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/A-fateful-moment-40-years-ago-this-morning-51097822.html
Notyoursweetie 07.19.09 at 7:22 am
Breaking! Conservatives writing at WaPo wish that Obama was more…like Clinton!
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/shall-i-compare-you-to-w-or-carter/
HP Boston 07.19.09 at 8:01 am
Juliette 07.19.09 at 1:13 am
HPBoston
Palin-Carter, thats the ticket.
I am afraid you are dreaming HP
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No not dreaming, jesting! Carter has always been a simpering, whimpering twit to me. I find most overly religious men repugnant.
HP Boston 07.19.09 at 8:10 am
I support a home land for the Palestinians, but to believe that that would change the Muslim world to a kinder gentler place is beyond naive.
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Juliette,
I support the Israelis…the Palestinians are fucking loony tunes muslim terrorists!
murphy 07.19.09 at 10:12 am
cupcakes posted,
take it upstairs!
DancesWithPumas 07.19.09 at 10:56 am
HP Boston 07.19.09 at 8:10 am
I support a home land for the Palestinians, but to believe that that would change the Muslim world to a kinder gentler place is beyond naive.
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I support a homeland for Jews… just not the current one.
Moreso, I support a homeland for women.
HP Boston 07.19.09 at 11:07 am
Dwp I support your support of women……I feel support here in the Puma homeland.
DancesWithPumas 07.20.09 at 12:05 am
HP Boston 07.19.09 at 11:07 am
Dwp I support your support of women……I feel support here in the Puma homeland.
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Absolutely… and we can’t live full lives online…
I would love to see a women’s homeland where women oppressed by religion, political parties, the patriarchy, and the barbarians it breeds, could find a welcoming refuge.
A matriarchal egalitarian homeland for women and men to live in with consideration and mutual respect for one another… or get the eff out.
Zee 07.21.09 at 8:02 am
Count me in for Amazonia!
http://www.newser.com/article/d99im9n01/muslim-woman-to-be-flogged-in-malaysia-over-beer.html
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