Women Who Smoke!

by murphy on June 19, 2011

Famed Parris Island Marine base gets first woman General

Brig. Gen. Loretta Reynolds

Reynolds congratulates Col. Steven Hanson as he takes over her post at the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters April 28. Reynolds is also the first female Marine Corps general to hold a command post in a battle zone

Reynolds and Hanson salute during a Change of Command ceremony April 28. The 200,000-member Marine Corps has just 1,224 female officers

Famed Parris Island Marine base gets first female general
By Mara Gay, 17th June 2011

A female general has been appointed to the top post at Parris Island, marking the first time ever that the famed Marine Corps training depot has been headed by a woman.

Brig. Gen. Loretta Reynolds is taking command of the historic South Carolina base today, where a gruelling training regime turns out 20,000 new Marines each year, just 2,400 of them women.

In the 96 years it has graduated recruits, Parris Island has never seen a female commander.

Loretta Reynolds is the first female general to take charge at the famed Marine Corps training depot at South Carolina’s Parris Island
Reynolds, who is also the first female Marine to have held a position of command in a battle zone, may be just the woman for the job.

In a yearlong tour of Afghanistan, the one-star general — one of only three female generals in the Marine Corps — lead five Marine battalions and a Bahraini company.

Reynolds is also the first female Marine Corps general to hold a command post in a battle zone

The Baltimore-raised Naval Academy alum served until recently as the head of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Camp Pendleton, California.

She is credited with taking a military base in Afghanistan that was designed to serve 10,000 Marines and expanding it to accommodate the needs of 10,000 more, according to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force website.

Of more than 200,000 active-duty Marines, only 12,339 of them are women.

Reynolds and Hanson salute during a change of command ceremony April 28. The 200,000-member Marine Corps has just 1,224 female officers

Parris Island, which began accepting female recruits in 1949, remains the only Marine base that graduates women candidates.
Today, there are 1,224 female officers in the Marines, according to military figures.
As the top Marine at Parris Island, Reynolds will also be in charge of all Marine Corps recruiting in states east of the Mississippi River. She was promoted to Brig. General in January.

Read more: HERE

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1 TexasTigress 06.19.11 at 9:28 pm: OOOHHHHHH RRRRAAAAAHHH !
2 Zee 06.19.11 at 11:23 pm: Whoo-hoo!

It’s baccccckkk, ba-bay, yay! Whew. Puma!

For Dragonfly, regarding the animal totems of Goddesses:

very well known, is Arachne… weaver, Spider

Diana the huntress is deer and dog

Bear has several: Callistro, Artemis, Ursula

Please include bees…matriarchs of their own http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_(mythology)

Also, the crow or Raven ….Celtic war goddess/triple goddess Morrigan http://inanna.virtualave.net/morrigan.html#Titels

also well known image: Minoan snake goddess
3 DancesWithPumas 06.19.11 at 11:35 pm: Whoo-hoo! Zee is baccccckkk, ba-bay, yay! Whew.
I was wonderin’ where you been, girl!
4 freddiebrown 06.19.11 at 11:36 pm: Zee- what the heck are you saying ? Is it in code ?

Murphy – great post.Love reading about great women – that are still living
5 DancesWithPumas 06.20.11 at 12:06 am: Freddie
Zee’s comment it in response to Dragonfly’s request on the previous thread.
Night all.
6 Zee 06.20.11 at 12:18 am: Haha, thanks, dances…yes, Freddiebrown, it’s an animal code for goddesses, and I should’ve mentioned in response to Dragonfly in the thread below…who is making a calendar of animal totems for Goddesses.
7 goofsmom 06.20.11 at 12:27 am: ((Murphy))

Great posts – Sorry I didn’t comment sooner on the Saudi women drivers. It was awesome to read that and inspiring.

Congratulations to Brig. Gen. Reynolds. Show those menz how it is done right!!!

(Waves to Zee)
8 Zee 06.20.11 at 12:30 am: ohhhh, dances….I’ve been working and hanging out with my son, who is here for one more month. Such a weird summer…good weird. Ch-ch-ch-changes.

I feel feminine power is on the rise…and *weiners* on the wane. A *smoking* woman is running for mayor in my town, so excited for her and for us.

I’ve just been focused on family, on now…and on how best for me to move forward…I’ve been doing things I’ve long put off. Thinking of everyone, tho, and so glad to see this place crackling again!
9 Zee 06.20.11 at 12:41 am: hey, goofs! Ditto what you said….loved the Saudi women drivers post and the picture of the woman on the horse is stunning!
10 stoney42 06.20.11 at 5:27 am: DANCES – HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
11 TexasTigress 06.20.11 at 6:23 am: HAPPY BIRTHDAY , Dances !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12 Delle 06.20.11 at 6:53 am: Wow – I just noticed that someone is having a birthday today!

Happy Birthday Dances.
13 Delle 06.20.11 at 7:47 am: I promised freddiebrown another TSA story, so here it is:

http://www.blacklistednews.com/TSA_Now_Storming_Public_Places_8%2C000_Times_a_Year_/14353/0/0/0/Y/M.html

I hope the rest of you read it too.

Hint – the TSA is no longer confined to airports.
14 bellecat 06.20.11 at 10:10 am: Happy Birthday!Dances

and I wish you many many more!
15 DancesWithPumas 06.20.11 at 10:28 am: Thank you for the happy birthday wishes!
16 DancesWithPumas 06.20.11 at 10:28 am: The Supreme Court put the brakes on a massive job discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart, saying class-action status that could potentially involve hundreds of thousands of female workers was too large.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/20/supreme-court-rules-for-wal-mart-in-massive-job-discrimination-lawsuit/?hpt=hp_t1
17 goofsmom 06.20.11 at 3:45 pm: Wishing you a wonderful, peaceful and inspiring Birthday Dances!!
18 gojoyknocks 06.20.11 at 4:42 pm: Happy Birthday Dances…Think of five questions for tomorrow I commune with the Sea Goddess.
19 DancesWithPumas 06.20.11 at 5:26 pm: Thank you again for the birthday wishes! Vewry sweet.

gojoy…
fantastic! Thank you for the offer! BUT, I’ll have to give you my real name before you commune with the Sea Goddess. The last time you read for me, your reading was right on! Right on in terms of everything including verbatim statements, dates, and results. Thing is, you read someone else *through* me. This has happened to me before, so I’m thinking my real name might help. Whadda ya think?
20 Headclunker 06.20.11 at 8:10 pm: Happy Birthday Dances!
21 Headclunker 06.20.11 at 8:13 pm: I am an Army ROTC dropout. It is just a little problem I have with taking orders (especially from sometimes stupid men).

Marine General. Definitely smokin.
22 freddiebrown 06.20.11 at 8:41 pm: Happy Birthday DWP !
23 invalidresponse 06.20.11 at 9:15 pm: Quick birthday message for you on your day, Dances
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw2VX5wQYQg

more than my luggage,
justme
24 DancesWithPumas 06.20.11 at 10:01 pm: Thanks Freddie!
25 DancesWithPumas 06.20.11 at 10:02 pm: I *can’t* freakin’ believe I clicked on the brat’s link!!!!
26 DancesWithPumas 06.20.11 at 10:03 pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3chFhCP5mQ
27 invalidresponse 06.20.11 at 10:23 pm
28 invalidresponse 06.20.11 at 10:45 pm: another song for the birthday girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzSaoN2LdfU
29 DancesWithPumas 06.20.11 at 10:52 pm: OMG! I resemble that remark! lolol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzSaoN2LdfU
30 DancesWithPumas 06.20.11 at 10:54 pm: This past February my tax accountant was grilling me for write-offs and asked if I had done anything in my house to save energy. I told her I was napping more.
We bonded right then and there!
31 goofsmom 06.20.11 at 11:00 pm: Dances,

#30 – That’s just priceless. I may use that…
32 invalidresponse 06.20.11 at 11:10 pm: LOVE the “save energy, take more naps” idea!!! sounds like a new bumper sticker

more birthday songs!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsaqNKFnLLo
33 theamericanway 06.21.11 at 6:25 am: Clinton tries ‘quiet diplomacy’ on Saudi female drivers’ protest

Washington (CNN) — To those fighting for the right of Saudi women to drive, the issue seems to highlight the kind of discrimination against women that would be the perfect cause to elicit comment, and perhaps criticism, from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But Friday, as some Saudi women, prevented by custom and religious edict from driving, turned the key in protest and hit the road, Clinton said nothing publicly….

State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland [said] Clinton “has been engaged in quiet diplomacy.” For example, Nuland said, Clinton had a telephone conversation with Prince Saud that touched on other Mideast issues “and the subject of driving did come up.”

“I don’t think anybody can question the secretary’s commitment to universal human rights for women,” she said. “I think she is making a judgment on how best to support universal human rights for women. There are times when it makes sense to do so publicly, and there are times for quiet diplomacy.”

The women’s coalition says if Clinton speaks publicly in their favor, that could be a “game-changing moment.” A senior administration official, speaking on background because of the diplomatic sensitivity of the issue, said: “Let’s wait and see where this goes. She’s made her point at her level and let’s see what conclusions are drawn in Saudi Arabia.”

“The No. 1 issue in Saudi Arabia,” the official said, “is that women are taking this issue into their own hands.”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/20/clinton.saudi.female.drivers/index.html

How very ‘Hillary’ of Hillary!
34 Shadowfax 06.21.11 at 1:47 pm: Time to pass out the cupcakes!!!

Drudge’s headlines!!!

GALLUP PLUNGE (Photo of angry Ubama)

Approval -4, disapproval +5 — in one day!
35 freddiebrown 06.21.11 at 4:01 pm: Shadowfax… Good of you to send good news.
Any negative for Obama is a good negative if you ask me.
I hope it keeps plunging..
36 gordana 06.21.11 at 4:08 pm: This may be OT, but I’d be remiss, if I didn’t share. So sad to have the real idiot in our WH. Where’s Hillary?????

http://www.sarahnet.net/sarahnet-news/4658-mr-pinko-presents-the-ultimate-sarah-palin-is-a-moron-video.html
37 Shadowfax 06.21.11 at 4:19 pm: freddie, I hope the bottom falls out for the fraud.

MO can scoop him up in a pooper scooper and take his skinny ass back to Chicago in a brown bag.
38 Shadowfax 06.21.11 at 4:21 pm: gordana 06.21.11 at 4:08 pm

Where’s Hillary?????

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Check the Sec. of State website sometime and see Hillary is working her fingers to the bone.
39 gordana 06.21.11 at 4:31 pm: Thanks Shadowfax…
I didn’t mean “Where’s Hillary?” litterally…I’m just frustrated with the fraud and his blind followers. I would bet that most people who voted for the fraud, wouldn’t know for sure where Hillary is now!
40 Shadowfax 06.21.11 at 5:05 pm: gordana
I didn’t mean “Where’s Hillary?” litterally…I’m just frustrated
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I was just giving you a hard time, sorry.
The obots don’t want to know where Hillary is, as long as she keeps working and doesn’t run for President.

They need to be slapped harder in 2012.
41 DancesWithPumas 06.21.11 at 6:12 pm: Bawaaaahahahaha!!!
Controller Halts Pay for California Lawmakers
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s controller took the rare step Tuesday of halting paychecks for all 120 state lawmakers after he determined they failed to meet a voter-approved requirement aimed at getting the Legislature to approve balanced budgets on time.

Controller John Chiang said he reviewed the budget approved last week by Democrats on a simple majority vote and determined it was not balanced. Chiang, a Democrat, said lawmakers therefore did not meet the requirement for getting paid under Proposition 25, which voters approved in November.

Lawmakers can start receiving their salaries and expenses again once they pass a balanced budget. They will not be retroactively paid for the days the budget was late.

The decision sparked sharp criticism from fellow Democratic lawmakers and could be challenged in court. Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, said Chiang decided to withhold pay for political reasons.

“I halted a fulfilling private sector career path to enter public service. I now have to explain to my wife and daughter that we won’t be able to pay the bills because a politician chose to grandstand at our expense,” Gatto said.

Under Proposition 25, lawmakers don’t get their salary or living expenses if they miss their budget deadline of June 15 each year. The measure gives the state controller the authority to judge whether revenues matched or exceeded state spending.

Proposition 25, the “on-time budget act,” was born out of frustration with California’s late budgets, which stall pay for some state workers and vendors.

Chiang’s decision marks the first time the unique initiative has been put to use

more here: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/06/21/us/AP-US-California-Budget.html?hp
42 DancesWithPumas 06.21.11 at 6:15 pm: ““I halted a fulfilling private sector career path to enter public service. I now have to explain to my wife and daughter that we won’t be able to pay the bills because a politician chose to grandstand at our expense,” Gatto said. ”

Pfffffffft. These whiny bastards don’t mind so much when the shoe is on the other foot though and state workers are furloughed without pay because the state budget hasn’t passed on time. Screw ‘em.
43 goofsmom 06.21.11 at 6:38 pm: Dances,

#41 & 42 – Kudo’s to John Chiang!

If only we had this same law in US Congress.
44 Headclunker 06.21.11 at 8:13 pm: DWP #30

I think you have the best energy saver I know of. But that Tax Credit for energy savings is a good one. The max is to spend $5,000 and get a $1,500 Tax Credit. (Homeowners only)

And, if you are in Florida, the local utility is giving out some big rebates for solar systems: http://www.sunelec.com/index.php?main_page=fpl_rebate.

Before you install anything on your roof, make sure you check with you homeowners insurance. There are all kinds of pole mounts and trackers out there, too, but everything is high dollar.

Most of the stuff out there is the silicon based solar cells. There is supposed to be a technology emerging that is better, but it has not shown up yet. Just as lots of high dollar toys.
45 Headclunker 06.21.11 at 8:34 pm: I stand corrected on the above, 2011 does not have the $1,500 cap.
46 BigCatLover 06.21.11 at 9:55 pm: Happy belated birthday, Dances. I definitely resemble your napping more often to save energy remark.

Some Saudi women criticized HRC for not publicly supporting their cause, so she addressed it today by saying that is is not a USA matter, but she supports it.
47 BigCatLover 06.21.11 at 9:57 pm: The link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110621/ap_on_re_us/us_us_clinton_saudi
48 Shadowfax 06.21.11 at 11:05 pm: DancesWithPumas 06.21.11 at 6:12 pm

Bawaaaahahahaha!!!
Controller Halts Pay for California Lawmakers

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Good for him!!!!
I thought I just saw the Birthday woman drive by in her cup cake car?
Happy Birthday Dances.
49 DancesWithPumas 06.21.11 at 11:45 pm: Thanks Headclunker!
And thank you for the birthday wishes BCL…
and, BillieJo, I’d forgotten all about that cupcake car!!! lololo

and, YES! BillieJo and Goofs, Good for John Chiang!
50 DancesWithPumas 06.21.11 at 11:48 pm: Regarding John Chiang’s action in holding them accountable to us, the voters, by enforcing what we voted for, this quote is just way over the top:
““I halted a fulfilling private sector career path to enter public service. I now have to explain to my wife and daughter that we won’t be able to pay the bills because a politician chose to grandstand at our expense,” Gatto said. ”

Crying “Chiang is playing politics” is going to backfire on the whiners BIG TIME!! They think we haven’t noticed their grandstanding at OUR expense! Lackwits.
51 Zee 06.22.11 at 1:13 am: dances, hope your b-day was stellar…and lmao at #30..!
52 prplvette85 06.22.11 at 8:31 am: WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.
Millions of middle-class people could get Medicaid
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43490650/ns/health-health_care/
The change would affect early retirees: A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and still get Medicaid, said officials who make long-range cost estimates for the Health and Human Services department.
After initially downplaying any concern, the Obama administration said late Tuesday it would look for a fix.

I’m sure they will be looking for the fix…fuckwits
Maybe they should have READ THE FUCKING BILL PFFFFFT
53 DancesWithPumas 06.22.11 at 10:23 am: prplvette85 06.22.11 at 8:31 am

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.
Millions of middle-class people could get Medicaid
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Exactly! Read the damned bills you are signing, morons!
54 freddiebrown 06.22.11 at 1:35 pm: WEll, the most famous moron who pushed the Health Care bill through, said
“pass the bill and read it later”. Essentially, she was right. It would take
weeks and weeks to read the thousands of pages and they need to push it through
as the feather to cap Obama’s hat is waiting.
I would be surprised if anyone has not seen the video of her saying this but in case you have not: take your pick among all these videos.
http://www.google.com/search?q=nancy+pelosi+said+pass+the+health+care+bill+and+read+it+later&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
55 freddiebrown 06.22.11 at 1:47 pm: If you want to know how incredibly sickening big government is and how wasteful of our money (most of them say a few million $ is not that much)then watch these video’s by John Stossel’s series on Freeloaders …never mind that it is Fox, just look at the issues as he interviews both regular folks who are on the receiving end of endless free government money, if you know where to look.
I “hate” watching his docu-interviews – It makes me want to strangle the people who waste all of “someone else’s money… meaning ours”.
If you have time, watch these video’s and come back to discuss.
There was one where they were giving out free bike helmets in his neighborhood. He was incredulous because he said he lives in a neighborhood of celebrities so why are they giving his neighborhood free helmets when everyone there is fully capable of buying their own… watch their replies !
It is sickening..

http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/03/25/freeloaders-john-stossel-reports-on-the-pigford-scandal/

You can google more on “John Stossel and free loaders”.
That’s where a lot of our tax money is going, Dances…
56 DancesWithPumas 06.22.11 at 2:23 pm: In the “wake” of the wal-mart win, thanks to the smucks on the suprune court, the ERA has been reintroduced.
57 DancesWithPumas 06.22.11 at 2:28 pm: ERA Reintroduced Today
Posted by Melissa McEwan at Wednesday, June 22, 2011

This afternoon Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) re-introduced the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA currently has 160 co-sponsors in the House, including Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI), Chair of the Congressional Women’s Caucus.

Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal spoke at a press conference today announcing the bill’s re-introduction, stating, “Women and men deserve and need full equal rights. Without constitutional equality, too many women, and thereby too many families, are cheated. Americans overwhelmingly support constitutional equality. It is time—in fact, it’s long overdue—for us to move forward.”

…In response to the US Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of Wal-Mart in the sex discrimination case, Representative Carolyn Maloney underscored the importance of passing the ERA: “The Wal-Mart case reviewed by the Supreme Court this week is a classic example of how far attitudes must still come. The facts of the case support the view that over a million women were systematically denied equal pay by the nation’s largest employer.”

The passage of the ERA is even more important today following Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s comment this year that the U.S. Constitution does not protect women from sex discrimination. In an interview with the California Lawyer, Scalia stated that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees equal justice under the law for all persons, does not prohibit sex discrimination under the laws of the United States or its states.
The ERA was first introduced in Congress in 1923. It’s basically the Chicago Cubs of constitutional amendments.

Sure would be cool to hear our allegedly feminist president give a speech about how important the passage of the ERA would be for USian women.

Not that coasting on Ledbetter ( = car without an engine) isn’t an awesome demonstration of feminist principles and all, but maybe it’s time to kick it up a notch, ahem.

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/
58 FLBarbara 06.22.11 at 2:51 pm: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANCES wishing you Peace and JOY.
Sorry I missed it, I was remembering your party of 2 years ago..PUMA Conga line and sleeping PUMAs.
Very fitting your Bday is under women who smoke!!
Blessings.
59 Zee 06.22.11 at 3:24 pm: Thanks for that link, dances!

Sorry for the drive-by, but I have a lot more to get done today and I will try to come back tonight with the links…I just wanted to give a few heads up:

1. Has anyone been following the story on how the Nebraska nuclear plant nearly had a melt-down when the Missouri rose and flooded it? There still is a no-fly zone over it…and according to overseas sources, the Obama regime has ordered a news blackout on the event. The Nation has something on this, and some local stations.

2. Al Gore is blasting Obama on his wimpiness on the environment. Hmmmm….what would Gore have to lose by challenging Obama? He’d not be my top choice, but he could totally hold Zero’s feet to the fire in a primary challenge. Just a thought.
60 BigCatLover 06.22.11 at 8:46 pm: I heard a few sketchy reports on the Nebraska nuclear plant but then nothing. Official silence, huh?
61 DancesWithPumas 06.22.11 at 8:52 pm: FLBarbara and Zee: Thank you.

BCL I saw several tweets from different sources about the obama news black-out for the Nebraska nuclear incident. No details as to what may have happened there tho.

Poor HP… stuck on the last thread talking to herself. I’ll have to send a message via carrier pigeon.
62 BigCatLover 06.22.11 at 8:52 pm: I think John Stossel is one of the most dangerous voices on tv today. He does these so called expose’s in his sing songy voice like the subject he’s exposing is really so simple that you, the viewer, can even understand it. When in fact he is about as right wing as he can get and his reports are so biased as to be worthless. Don’t fall for his propaganda.
63 BigCatLover 06.22.11 at 8:53 pm: Go get HP, we need her.
64 DancesWithPumas 06.22.11 at 8:54 pm: 58
FLBarbara 06.22.11 at 2:51 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANCES wishing you Peace and JOY.
Sorry I missed it, I was remembering your party of 2 years ago..PUMA Conga line and sleeping PUMAs.
Very fitting your Bday is under women who smoke!!
Blessings.
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Thank you! Yes, I’ll never forget that party… it seemed to go on forever and I told myself that one was enough to last a lifetime, and I was right!

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65 DancesWithPumas 06.22.11 at 8:55 pm: BCL
I totally agree with you about Stossel. I stopped watching him a long time ago. Very unbalanced reporting.
66 DancesWithPumas 06.22.11 at 8:56 pm: BigCatLover 06.22.11 at 8:53 pm
Go get HP, we need her.
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Yeah, okay. I’ll book my flight right now!
lol
67 BigCatLover 06.22.11 at 8:58 pm: Yo, HP!
68 DancesWithPumas 06.22.11 at 9:00 pm: Yooooooohoooooooooo, HP! We’ve UP here!!
69 BigCatLover 06.22.11 at 9:05 pm: My cat says it’s bedtime, so I’ll be back tomorrow.
70 HP Boston 06.22.11 at 9:09 pm: OMG!!! I have been saved from my self imposed echo chamber!!
Dances you own me now, when you save someones life you own it. No good deed goes unpunished.
71 HP Boston 06.22.11 at 9:18 pm: BigCatLover 06.22.11 at 8:52 pm

I think John Stossel is one of the most dangerous voices on tv today. He does these so called expose’s in his sing songy voice like the subject he’s exposing is really so simple that you, the viewer, can even understand it. When in fact he is about as right wing as he can get and his reports are so biased as to be worthless. Don’t fall for his propaganda.

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Yup BCL Stossel SUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKS!
72 HP Boston 06.22.11 at 9:23 pm: OH BCL my cat Sugar is so upset. I never saw him slink around shaking as he did today. I am having construction and jack hammering was today to remove cement patio. My poor cat, took him to bed for a nap after the workers left, he burrowed under the blanket. He NEVER does that! So I soothed and talked to him, I never did say THEY’L BE BACK!
73 DancesWithPumas 06.22.11 at 10:19 pm: HP
You’re talking to yourself again. We’ve all moved upstairs again!

j/k
74 HP Boston 06.22.11 at 10:29 pm: HA I am not going to let you own me if you try to trick me you silly Dances!
75 DancesWithPumas 06.22.11 at 10:52 pm: LoL!!
Goodnight HP… glad you’re back on track!
76 Delle 06.23.11 at 4:23 am: Most of us knew this already, but OJ has finally confessed:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2006908/OJ-Simpson-confessed-Nicole-Brown-murder-Oprah-TV-interview-planned.html#ixzz1Q3utWsab

He said he killed Nicole in self defense. Bullcrap!

He was tried already, so he can’t get in any trouble for this double murder. And Oprah might get a boost in her ratings.

This makes me sick!
77 BigCatLover 06.23.11 at 8:59 am: The major flaw in OJ’s latest story is that the knife was found on the kitchen counter perfectly clean. She knew he was going to come after her and had it out but did not have time to use it. I saw a photo of it during the trial.

His self projection in this statement is classic for a narcissist:

“I was in such a rage that something just snapped. I couldn’t take her constant taunting of me with other men or her using drugs and drinking while my kids were living with her. I went beserk.

He was allowed to move on with other women but she was not allowed to do the same. She had to be perfect.
78 theamericanway 06.23.11 at 1:05 pm: What seemed to be incredibly good news for our PUMA sister Candice Britton, has suddenly turned sour, leaving her totally vulnerable. She “asks all Pumas and Hillary sisters and brothers to pray for me please.”

It has to do with a housing emergency, and I’m hoping that she herself will be able to provide details to you in her own inimitable way.
79 goofsmom 06.23.11 at 2:30 pm: theamericanway,

#78 – Please let Candice know I’m praying for her. Keep us posted if you can. Thanks
80 theamericanway 06.23.11 at 2:57 pm: goofsmom,
Sure, and thank you.
81 Delle 06.23.11 at 3:46 pm: Planes, Trains and Automobiles – The TSA Wants To Grope Us All:

http://www.naturalnews.com/032778_TSA_groping.html

FTA –
According to a recent report in Mother Jones, the TSA has requested 12 more units for its growing fleet of Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) teams, which are nothing more than unconstitutional security checkpoints eerily similar to those implemented throughout Germany during Hitler’s reign.
82 HP Boston 06.23.11 at 4:30 pm: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/06/tsa-swarms-8000-bus-stations-public-transit-systems-yearly

Delle,
Well it is a wonderful thing now that they can work with ICE and profile and deport too! Yup America ya come along way to kill freedom in America!! Our tax dollars at work against us,
molest us and zap us! I rather take a ride on a UFO!
83 Delle 06.23.11 at 5:06 pm: HP – if you find out where and when that UFO is taking off – please let me know.
84 BigCatLover 06.24.11 at 8:30 am: Thinking about Candice. Wishing her the best of luck with whatever her problem is.
85 Headclunker 06.24.11 at 5:21 pm: The Creole Folks talk about Obama:
http://creoleneworleans.typepad.com/creole_folks/2011/06/michelle-robinson-escapes-obamas-homosexual-lifestyle-in-african-trip.html
86 DancesWithPumas 06.24.11 at 7:52 pm: Follow-up
Los Angeles radio station started a food drive for whining Mike Gatto!!
He hasn’t accepted the donations yet.
He’s the freak who complained about his pay being docked one week as the Ca voter approved constitutional amendment requires. He doesn’t know how he’s going to explain this to his wife andone year old daughter … as if …
87 DancesWithPumas 06.24.11 at 8:01 pm: Headclunker, you can’t be serious with that creole link. Utter crap.
88 Headclunker 06.24.11 at 8:49 pm: DWP,

I have not idea about the validity of the post. The thing is that is interesting is that more and more people are expressing VERY negative opinions about The Once. The author of that blog is “Italian/French-Creole/African-American”. And he is not getting alot of push back on his opinion.
89 DancesWithPumas 06.24.11 at 9:06 pm: Good job, New York!! Good job Gov Cuomo!!
Rueben Diaz can kiss my ass!! Freak!
90 DancesWithPumas 06.24.11 at 9:08 pm: Headclunker, got it. As far as credibility, whenever someone writes that they know what another is thinking, in this case, Mrs Obama, theyve lost me.
91 DancesWithPumas 06.24.11 at 9:11 pm: PS the wrongly dated sig in the guest book took place in Ireland. AND, it was Bivwhack who dated that page, not Mrs Obama. Not much push back? It isn’t as if that piece was in the nytimes.
92 invalidresponse 06.24.11 at 9:48 pm: CONGRADS NY!!
After long hard fight, couples finally find equality in the marriage law.

WELL DONE!!
93 invalidresponse 06.24.11 at 10:31 pm: For those, like myself, who actually read the details…

A8354-2011: Enacts the Marriage Equality Act relating to ability of individuals to marry

http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/A8354-2011
94 CJK2 06.24.11 at 10:40 pm: Congratulations! May NY lead the way, once again, toward equality for all across this land.
95 goofsmom 06.24.11 at 10:46 pm: I’m late again… just read about NY stepping forward to promote equality for all. Great news for all loving couples!!
96 DancesWithPumas 06.25.11 at 12:24 am: During a brief recess during the voting, Senator Shirley Huntley, a Queens Democrat who had only recently come out in support of same sex marriage, strode from her seat to the back of the Senate chamber to congratulate Daniel J. O’Donnell, an openly gay Manhattan lawmaker who sponsored the legislation in the Assembly.

They hugged, and Assemblyman O’Donnell, standing with his longtime partner, began to tear up.

“We’re going to invite you to our wedding,” Mr. O’Donnell said. “Now we have to figure out how to pay for one.”
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Assemblyperson O’Donnell is Rosie O’Donnell’s brother.
97 Zee 06.26.11 at 8:53 pm: OK, I know HP is not a big one for drinking but I’m making a virtual wine punch for her to sip before reading this one.

Please take some calming breaths before reading the DEPRAVITY of this latest TSA atrocity:

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/mother-41324-search-adult.html
98 Zee 06.26.11 at 8:54 pm: Thumbs up on the victory in New York!
99 goofsmom 06.26.11 at 9:54 pm: Psst… Zee we’re upstairs…
100 DancesWithPumas 06.26.11 at 11:10 pm: Yoooooooohoooooooooooo…. oh Zeeeeeeeee-eeeeeeeeee! Upstairs, pal.

(what is wrong with you people anyway??)