The other day I posted a comment on my facebook page which sparked a spirited discussion: "FBI officials admitted they knew months ago that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was e-mailing a radical Muslim cleric overseas.---Anybody else disturbed about this?" Points were made as to whether or not there were enough facts pointing to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan being associated with terrorists, and that the shooting at Fort Hood should be considered an act of terrorism and that the government would have been able to prevent this tragedy had they dealt with Maj. Hasan. Following is my two cents:

The U.S. was founded on the principles of sovereignty, religious freedom, liberty, individual rights, and equality. Our Constitution was written to provide American citizens justice, domestic tranquility, a common defense, promotion of our general welfare, and the preservation of “ the blessings of Liberty”. These principles have attracted immigrants for over two centuries. We cannot forget, however, that the men and women who shaped this nation in its earliest stages were all immigrants. The colonists who fought/served in our Revolution were immigrants, the Founding Fathers were immigrants, etc. Ironically, the economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have, for two centuries, caused controversy regarding ethnicity, religion, economic benefits, job growth, settlement patterns, environmental impact, impact on upward social mobility, levels of criminality, nationalities, political loyalties, moral values, and work habits. Each influx of new residents from different cultures presents us with challenges.

Our government’s present-day challenge is to honor its commitment to protect the liberty of our Islamic citizens who are loyal, peaceful and law-abiding while diligently searching for and investigating the militant, radical Muslims in this country, citizens or otherwise, who have declared war against our very way of life. Any Islamic citizen of America who is indoctrinated with the fundamentalist, militant Muslim ideals to destroy us and plots to do so is a TRAITOR and should be treated as such. We, as citizens, have a right to be afraid and to demand that our government protect our society from this type of individual.

I Pledge Allegiance to..Obama?

I just heard about the "Obama Pledge" video featuring Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, David Arquette, Courtney Cox and other celebrities pledging to do/not do various things and knew I just had to see it for myself. At first the pledges seemed innocuous and some even noble, but a chill ran up my spine when Ashton and Demi came on at the end and pledged to "serve President Obama" while other celebrities chimed in saying "I pledge" while being added to the screen in squares a la Brady Bunch. An earlier shot featured Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers kissing both of his biceps while pledging to serve Obama. In my opinion, we are not to serve our president. We are to serve our COUNTRY in whatever capacity that we are called to, from enlisting in the military to recycling to voting. We owe no allegiance to a president, only to our country. Our founding fathers would be appalled by any other notion.

WE WILL NEVER FORGET

Image from the Flight 93 Memorial, Shanksville, PA

Today is September 11, 2009--have you forgotten? I hope not.

The Ugly Truth of Obamacare

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ART IMITATING POLITICS

The works speak for themselves...

NEW BLOG

I think I'm going to have two blogs. This one will appeal to my need to spout off about political & social issues-serious-and the other will appeal to my silly, whimsical, right-brained nature. I think I like this idea!

DOES AMERICA REALLY WANT THIS?

Taken from House Republican Leader John Boehner's blog (gopleader.gov/blog/):
House Republicans, led by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) and House Republicans on the Joint Economic Committee (JEC), July 15th outlined a chart detailing the bureaucratic nightmare of the House Democrats’ $1.5 trillion health care plan that relies on massive tax hikes on small businesses and job creators in the midst of a deepening economic recession - and will cause as many as 114 million Americans to lose their current coverage to boot.

After seeing these quotes in an article I read this afternoon, I HAVE to read this book! “The rise of Idiot America ... is essentially a war on expertise ... In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.” — Charles P. Pierce, from “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free”

Charles P. Pierce calls the “Three Great Premises” of America’s decayed TV celebrity culture. First, “Any theory is valid if it moves units,” i..e. sells advertising. Second, “Anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough.” Third, “Fact is that which enough people believe. Truth is measured by how fervently they believe it.”

UNION JACK-ED UP!

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it." ~Benjamin Franklin

FARRAH-IN MEMORIUM

This may be late, but I'm a busy gal! Anyway, I was saddened by Farrah's suffering in her end days and her death. When I was a child I was fascinated by her beauty and when my friends and I played Charlie's Angels, we fought over who was going to be Jill (Farrah). I also had the famous haircut, although it didn't look as good as hers!
I do not feel this way because she was famous. It is because she was a real person who suffered horribly and died as a result of cancer--an illness that strikes millions of people worldwide regardless of class, wealth or fame. Her type of cancer is very rare, however, and her documentary helped to raise awareness of this type of cancer. Many people who think they may have this type of cancer are embarrassed and don’t seek treatment until it is too late because it is so stigmatized.
No doubt fame & wealth got her documentary aired and viewed by millions. However, she had the character to show us her humanity. She was stripped of her beauty and deathly sick but was determined to document her struggle. In regard to this, Ryan O’Neal commented, "Farrah has never, ever talked about how unfair it is," O'Neal said. "There was always courage there, and a quiet dignity. Farrah never changed."
So, I will remember her not for her hair, her beauty, her stint on Charlie's Angels or even her 3 Emmy-Award winning roles; but I will remember her for her vulnerability coupled with inner strength and character as she lived out her last months.

COMMERCIALS

I was looking at comments people posted stating which commercials they liked/hated and why in response to an article titled I Hate That Commercial You Love. Multiple comments made about the Quizno’s oven commercial confirmed that I really am not crazy and I do not have a filthy mind (some may beg to differ on either point). Many people commented on the sexual innuendo in the commercials. I hated the one when the oven tells the submaker, Scott, to “put it in him”. I cringed every time I heard that! I found it creepy and disturbing, and wondered if it was meant to have a sexual undertone. If Quizno’s goal was to impart to us that their subs are soooo delicious that we need to get one right now, why didn’t they have the oven say something like, “Load me up, Scotty” (heh heh, like Star Trek!), “Fire me up” “ I just melt for them..” you get the idea…or another phrase devoid of sexual innuendo? If they really wanted to get sexual, they should have had some sexy female co-worker with “Scott” to say that instead of the oven in my opinion.
Many people said they were creeped out by the Geico stack of money with eyes. Personally, I think it's funny, especially since Rockwell's Somebody's Watching Me plays when people spot it. The money and the song is just so corny that I have to laugh.
The commercial I hate with a passion right now is the one for Wendy's twisted frosties. I want to punch that guy at the end right in the teeth when he says "FROSSSTY!" like he's some kind of hottie. YUCK!

"No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people." ~ Thomas Paine

Caption reads, Cowbell-you need more of it.

I've got my SNL Walken as Bruce Dickenson tee on. My husband & daughter HATE it, but I don't care! I LOVE IT! "I've got a fever and the prescription is MORE COWBELL!" Christopher Walken is one of my fave character actors, I love the skit on SNL and I love that song! However, I seriously hate cowbells in rock songs. As a teen I used to get pissed at Motley Crue for using too much cowbell in some of their songs on their first album, Too Fast For Love (upper-right corner).

Yes, I said album--no typo--I have this in vinyl! Still have it and many other albums.

SHAVED PUSS

I laughed my arse off when I saw this pic. Why the hell would anyone want to make their poor cat look this freaky?And if you are going to do it, why not shave the whole cat? I can't decide which looks more ridiculous--the fluffy paws or the poofy bobblehead?! WTF! Actually, I would love to do this to my Aunt Kathy's cat Bentley. I clean her house once a month because she is in poor health. It only took me about 2-3 hours to clean it before she adopted Bentley, her long-haired cat. He's friendly and adorable, but now it takes me twice as long to clean her house because of all the friggin' cat fur 1) covering every square inch of carpet; 2) blowing across the hardwood floors like tumbleweeds; and C) (that was for the benefit of my hubby) embedded in the couches & chairs. Little f%&@er!!
I am SO tempted to do this, but I don't think either one of them would appreciate it. I can fantazize, can't I?

CONGRATULATIONS, PENS!

AND IN THIS CORNER...

For those that know me, I'm no prude and enjoy the occasional crude, crass, tasteless joke. However, I agree with Gov. Palin that David Letterman's jokes (supposed to be)aimed at Bristol, her 18-year-old daughter, were indeed tasteless and "crossed the line". Letterman erroneously thought that Palin's older daughter was at the New York Yankees' game with her family when he joked, “There was one awkward moment during the seventh inning stretch. Her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.” Letterman also said the hardest part about the Palins’ trip to New York was “keeping [former New York Gov.] Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter.” It was Willow her 14-year old, not Bristol, who attended the game. Palin suggested that Letterman's jokes about her daughter contribute to a culture “that says it’s OK to talk about statutory rape." Palin also said that the attitude displayed in Letterman’s routine “does contribute to some acceptance of abuse of young women.” She called it “a sad commentary on where we are as a culture, as a society, to chuckle and laugh through [such] comments.” Even though Letterman set the record straight that the jokes were about Bristol and not Willow, I still don't think the jokes are funny and I agree with Senator Palin that statutory rape and similar acts should not be fodder for jokes and us laughing at such jokes is a "sad commentary" on American culture. I stopped listening to Howard Stern years ago when, on one braodcast, he and Robin were making jokes about someone in the news who was sexually abused as a child. They were making really sick jokes and making disturbing noises and such. I got sick to my stomach and turned off the radio, totally pissed off. I do believe in freedom of speech and I practice what I preach--if I don't like something, I turn it off. But I also believe that with free speech comes responsibility and accountability. 'Nuff said for now.

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

BIRD-BRAIN

From TMZ posted 5/6/09: Official photo of Sony Dong, who was busted recently by the Feds for smuggling songbirds into the U.S. from Vietnam. Dong has been charged with three counts of illegally importing wildlife, three counts of importing goods by means of false statement and conspiracy. What a ding-DONG!

HAPPY MEAL INDEED!

According to a report on PMSnbc, a 7 year-old Swiss girl found a condom in her McDonald's Happy Meal..among the french fries! My, my, my; many scenarios are playing about in my warped brain. Swiss police said Monday they were investigating where the condom came from and how it got into the Happy Meal. They said an analysis was being done to determine if the condom posed a health risk. (Translation: they are looking it over to see if it was used or not!) YUCK! I hope the condom was unused and the poor girl doesn't get sick, because if she does, I will feel guilty for laughing about this.

" In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
-Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968

JUST...WHY???

SOAPS--MY GUILTY PLEASURE

I've watched Soaps since I was a pre-teen, and I have been following the same ones since then (CBS soaps). However, I can only watch one nowadays on my lunch hour now that I have a 9 to 5'er--The Bold and the Beautiful. One of the reasons is obvious: I like to look at the hot men! The other reason it that they are extremely funny to me. The cliches, one liners and chick battles are most entertaining. I love the powerful bitchy mavens and the trouble they cause, like my favorite, Lucinda on As the World Turns. She is not being shown too often lately, and I miss her sarcasm, witty remarks and haughtiness. I swear she ad libbed a lot of her lines. I also love plot lines with rivalries among business moguls like the one among Victor Newman/Jack Abbot/Brad Carlton in The Young and the Restless, and the Everybody vs. Alan Spaulding in The Guiding Light. Right now I'm getting a huge kick out of Ridge Forrester vs. Rick Forrester on B&B. I will now give myself some B&B eye candy!
RICK--HOT!

RIDGE--HOTTER!!

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited to the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were." --John Keats

TO HELL WITH CATNIP

Pictured is the bong-like contraption that Acea Schomaker of Lancaster County stuffed his girlfriend's cat into and smoked marijuana from it. Scomaker said that he constructed it in such a way that it wouldn't immerse the cat in too much smoke. He also said that he did it to calm the cat down, because it would bite and scratch both him and his girlfriend and they feared it would be euthanized if they took it to an animal shelter. AWWWWWW, such a kind thing to do! Schomaker was caught after local sheriff's deputies responded to a domestic disturbance at his residence. He was quoted as saying, "Every time we took her (the cat) out she would pretty much just lay down and proceed to clean herself and act like a stoned person". NO SHIT!

McMELTDOWN!

A Fort Pierce, Florida woman, Latreasa L. Goodman, called 911 THREE times after being told by McDonald's employees that they were out of Chicken McNuggets and was refused a refund. Stated Ms. Goodman, "This is an emergency. If I would have known they didn't have McNuggets, I wouldn't have given my money, and now she wants to give me a McDouble, but I don't want one." She was cited on a misuse of 911 charge, but was sent a gift card for a free meal because she should have gotten a refund. Personally, I think she should have also gotten a McBoot in the arse!

OBAMA HEALTH PLAN: KEY POINTS

*Expand Medicaid eligibility to include greater numbers of the uninsured
*Mandate coverage for children
*Create a national exchange through which the uninsured could purchase a public or private policy
*Provide subsidies to lower-income individuals and small businesses to help defray the cost of purchasing insurance
*Tax medium- to large-size firms that decline to provide their employees with health insurance. (This point irks me!)
*Small businesses would be exempt from mandatory coverage or contributions and would receive a tax credit of up to 50% on health care premiums for employees.

I have A LOT of questions regarding this plan, the dominant one being how will this be paid for?

As I said above, I have an issue with imposing a punitive tax on certain businesses that opt out of providing insurance to their employees. This is the land of the FREE--free choice included. That means the employers should make the decision without fear of governmental penalty whether or not they will provide health insurance. Additionally, people are free to choose jobs that provide health insurance. This may sound too simple and maybe a little unsympathetic, but I believe in a free market society and freedom of choice, not governmental control.

My first job: food service

I was only 14 and my mom came home from work one night and asked me if I was interested in working as a dishwasher at the restaurant she was working in. I took the job and that was the start of my +-20 year career in the restaurant industry. It was a very small, upscale Italian restaurant and I had been there with my father & brother to pick up my mom, and I was fascinated with the place. It had a 'mafia' theme, complete with a 'Godfather Table' , fake machine gun in a violin case as a wall decoration, and a giant charcoal sketch of Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather. My mother had to wear a black silk shirt, black short skirt, black beret, white tie and white gun holster (with a cap gun in it!) as her uniform. The male waiter had to wear the same, minus the skirt, of course. I have many fond memories of my time there (14-17)

I just joined Twitter to see what it's all about, and Shaquille O'Neil is one of the people you can follow. This is one of his best tweets:

"People n phoenix u have 5 min to touch me I have 2 laker tickets n my hand I'm on a corner at a bus stop" -- Shaquille O'Neal

Can you believe that? I wonder if anyone saw his post and touched him to get the tickets?! Well, he did say on his Twitter profile that he was going to "perform random acts of shaqness".

I WAS A CUCKOO?!

I was just reading posts commenting on a short interview in US News & World Report with Deborah Kotz, an author who feigned mental illness to investigate three different mental health facilities she checked herself into. The name of her book is Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin (Viking, 2008).The interview and the following comments were intriguing to me, because I myself have suffered from a mental illness (clinical depression) and have been treated both as an inpatient and outpatient. Yes, mental illness is a serious condition and it is extremely important for those in need to be very cautious in choosing the facility in which to receive treatment (if they have a choice, that is!!!) and the truly mentally ill need compassion like everyone else. However, I am a person who believes that humor is so important in life and sometimes we cannot take ourselves too seriously. Yes, the previous statement is a lead-in to something people may consider offensive, but I feel okay with it because I don’t mean to offend anyone and I have a heart for the mentally ill. All of us have quirks, anyway. Okay-- so I found the following post which made me laugh hysterically. I don’t know if this person is truly crazy or just making some jackass comment to rile people up, but it struck me as incredibly funny and I want to post it!!!! Also, it gave me a visual of my first ex-husband doing this to himself…I CAN’T HELP IT!!!

"I avoid going to hospitals or clinics when I am feeling depressed, it costs way too much!! I have learned to treat myself at home. I just get good and drunk and hook myself up to my little machine I made.
I took a momentary contact switch, similar to a doorbell button, a ballast for fluorescent light bulbs, and just attach the output leads to various places on my body, such as my elbows
knees or fingertips, or between my toes, plug it in and sit down and watch some good comedy on TV, while knocking off a six-pack of beer and a pint of BACARDI 151 rum, when something on the show gives me a good laugh, I just tap the button once or twice. When I wake up in the morning I feel a whole lot better and I ask myself (WHAT DEPRESSION)!!!
I am ready to take on the world! DON’T GET IN MY WAY!"

I’m still laughing! Some people took offense to a comment that the author made about the facilities having a great pool of characters to write about, including the staff. Here again, I can’t blame her because I did the same thing. I had a horrible bout of post-partum depression after my lovely daughter was born and I was in an abusive relationship at the time, so one night I thought I was going stark-raving mad with anxiety and I checked myself into a local hospital. When I got into the mental unit, (my mom came along with me for moral support), I looked around at the other patients and said to my mom, “Oh my God! I’m in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST!” We couldn’t help but laugh. I said that because I was depressed and anxious but I didn’t feel “crazy”, for lack of a better word. Most of the other patients had issues like mania, schizophrenia and psychosis. I felt like I didn’t belong there and I was using humor to cope and to ease my mother’s fear. Thank God there was no Nurse Cratched !! I also passed the time by giving certain people nicknames, like the woman with schizophrenia who stole my John Grisham book. I called her The Mumbler because she was constantly walking around mumbling to herself. Judge me if you will. My good friend Stephen & I used to do the same thing when we were doing the city club circuit. There were regulars at certain clubs and we had code names for them. At one club there was Robert Smith (from The Cure), Cali Surfer Dude, and The Turtle. At another there was Marilyn (Manson, not Monroe) and Jesus—he didn’t look like Jesus, he just had this certain dance move where he would stand still and fling out his arms in a crucifixion-style pose, shirtless. I’M CRACKING MYSELF UP JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS STUFF. I haven’t thought about these club characters in a while. I worked my way through college as a waitress and did the same thing with customers...YOU may have been one of -em!! More about that another time!

MOST PIERCED WOMAN

The world's most pierced woman, Elaine Davidson, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, has added to her collection with a 6,005th piercing, the U.K.'s Telegraph reported. She added that many of her new piercings are internal...OUCH!

WHAT WE DIDN'T HEAR AT OBAMA'S SPEECH

PELOSI (breathlessly) "Happy Fifth Week...To You. Happy Fifth Week..To You. Happy Fifth Week, Mister Pwez-i-dent, Happy...Fifth...Week...To...You..."
BIDEN (to himself): "I'll be damned! He said 'nobody messes with Joe'. Now I can take on Hillary!"

TAKE THIS,PETA!

Designer Bruno Frisoni for Roger Vivier designed these shoes--The Dovima, as the shoe is known. Yes, those are rose pink-dyed taxidermy birds perched delicately on each toe. Each stuffed bird also has a crystal-encrusted head and is further complemented by 24 ct gold-coated mesh, silk, ribbons, and crocodile-skin rosettes. Plus every pair comes with special protective crocodile or snakeskin platforms that attach before you wear them to keep the shoes from ever touching the ground. All for just $43,000 and three months of waiting after you order.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

MY AFFORDABLE DREAM CAR

I was just killing a few minutes by reading an article from a writer covering the 2009 Detroit NAIAS, which was accompanied by a slideshow of 10 significant Mustangs. The above was one of them-- the 2007 Shelby GT500! I freakin' love it! I have wanted one since the very minute I first laid eyes on it. The reason I call it my affordable dream car (a bit of an oxymoron) is that we could afford it but my hubby says "Dream On!" when I tell him we're getting one--says I have a lead foot, tailgate and I will end up killing myself and/or someone else with it. Yes, I am tempted to speed from time to time, but I don't tailgate!! Anyway, I'm gonna get that car someday, the 2010 version, in silver with black stripes! I promise I'll wear a helmet...

That said, I'll show you my Unaffordable Dream Car (SIGH!) The 2010 Bentley GTC Speed. SLEEK and SEXY!

I'M FO SHIZZLE DIZZLE!

"There's not a hoax," Phoenix said. "Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention."
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He looks like he's channeling Jim Morrison in this pic; not looking like a rapper at all.

Whatever his intention, whether it be an actual transition to music or an elaborate, Andy Kaufmanesque stunt, I can't get enough!! Watch the YouTube video of him rapping to promote his new movie or his recent appearance on Letterman! FUNNY, FUNNY STUFF!

Joaquin is such an excellent actor that I hate to think he's finished acting for good. If Casey Affleck is actually going to produce the documentary he's filming of Joaquin's "career change", that is definitely a must see for me.

BEEF--IT'S WHAT'S FOR DINNER!

In addition to being incredibly insensitive and insulting to African-Americans, the PETA ad comparing the AKC to the KKK IMO is ideologically inaccurate and it bugs me that these idiots don’t know their history. PETA accuses the AKC of creating a “master race” of canines which, in their minds, likens it to the KKK. It was the NAZIS under Hitler, not the KKK, that believed in creating a master race and, as we all know, committed widespread, egregious acts of violence against Jews, gypsies, and other “undesireables”, culminating in the Holocaust.
Although the KKK is as loathsome a racist, anti-Semitic organization as the Nazi Party, it never attempted to “create’ a master race though genocide and sick medical experiments.
I may be splitting hairs here, but hey, that’s in my nature! And no, I do not condone the beliefs of either of these parties—I just like to pick out inaccuracies!!! At any rate, IMO PETA is an organization full of hysterical people that believe animals have the same rights as human beings. I do not share this belief and believe that animals were put here on this earth to help humans in many ways—as beasts of burden, companions, sources of clothing and, God forbid, FOOD! PETA is just another bunch of fanatics that take an idea too far. Yes, I believe in treating animals in a humane manner in both domestic and commercial settings and that all life deserves respect, but I don’t go so far as to say that animals are on the same level as humans. A calf is not the equal of a human baby for f**k’s sake!!!! There is a certain hierarchy in the animal kingdom, of which we are a part, and we are on the top of the “food chain”!

HORROR STORY-- STARRING SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

TOKYO (AP) - A 69-year-old Japanese man injured in a traffic accident died after paramedics spent more than an hour negotiating with 14 hospitals before one admitted him, a fire department official said Wednesday.
The man, whose bicycle collided with a motorcycle in the western city of Itami, waited at the scene in an ambulance because the hospitals said they could not accept him, citing a lack of specialists, equipment, beds and staff, according to Mitsuhisa Ikemoto. One of the 14 finally admitted the man when the paramedics called it for a second time.
It was the latest in a string of recent cases in Japan in which patients were denied treatment, underscoring the country's health care woes that include a shortage of doctors.
Ikemoto said the victim might have survived if a hospital accepted him more quickly. "I wish hospitals are more willing to take patients, but they have their own reasons, too," he said.

More than 14,000 emergency patients were rejected at least three times by Japanese hospitals before getting treatment in 2007, according to the latest government survey. In the worst case, a woman in her 70s with a breathing problem was rejected 49 times in Tokyo.

Pay attention America, this could be our future!

HERE, KITTY KITTY!

2009 TAX CODE FOR MEN

The only thing that the IRS has not taxed yet it the male penis. This is due to the fact that 69% of the time it is hanging around unemployed, 10% of the time it is hard up, 20% of the time it is pissed off and 1% of the time it is in the hole. On top of that, it has two dependents that are both nuts!

HOWEVER, effective January 1, 2009, the penis will be taxed according to size:

10” -12” Luxury Tax $300.00
8” – 10” Pole Tax $250.00
5” – 8” Privilege Tax $150.00
3” – 5” Nuisance tax $ 30.00

Males exceeding 12” must file capital gains tax!!! Anyone under 3” is eligible for a tax refund! PLEASE DO NOT ASK FOR AN EXTENSION!

"ROB ZOMBIE APPROVED" COUTURE!

This outfit was selected as one of the ugliest of 2008, but I don't think it's ugly...just bizzare-- but in a cool way! I have appreciation for wearing things to shock people 'cause I did it in my teens and 20's. Only Grace Jones could pull this one off and look wickedly cool! The outfit wouldn't have worked if it wasn't all black, IMO.

FUGLIEST OUTFITS OF '08

SJ Parker in Aqua Ring and Lucy Lieu donning the entrails of a Giant Squid...

I ain't So Ravin' about this Dominatrix meets gym class outfit!

It's BJORK, what do you expect? Looks like my daughter's craft kit exploded in her face!

BaiLing-A-Ling recycling a Walmart plastic Christmas tablecloth!!!! Deck the halls!

Princess Leah for the new millennium!

LAZINESS CAN BE FUNNY...

CHANGING OF THE GUARD

I am not a fan of Barack Obama due to his liberal/socialistic political views, but I do feel proud that a legacy of bigotry and racial hatred in this country has taken a major hit by his election as our President. I know that these destructive attitudes will persist in not just this country, but all countries in our world. However, I do feel that we as a nation have taken a giant step toward showing the world that we are not a nation of bigots and racists and we can overcome dark epochs in our great nation's history. There may never be any reparations or restorations made, but that doesn't mean that we can't move forward, and we have in many ways leading up to this date. This is just a major jewel in the crown of those who have worked and are working toward racial equality in the United States. I say those who still want to be angry and hate the "white man" are only hurting themselves and should give forgiveness a try.
NOW, on another note, I read that some in the crowd (at the Inauguration) booed president Bush when the large viewing screens near the World War II Memorial flashed an image of the exiting president arriving at the swearing-in. Others cheered when they heard a television broadcaster announce, "George Bush is no longer president of the United States." Still others in the crowd broke into chants of "Na-na-na-nah, hey, hey, hey, goodbye."
How classless and juvenile was that? Regardless of whether one agrees with his policies and performance, I think it is in poor taste to boo and attempt to humiliate the former leader of the free world. What a lack of tact!! Bush, however,
unfazed by his unpopularity, smiled and waved throughout the day's activities. He blew a kiss out the window of his limousine as he left the White House with Obama. Now that was very presidential and classy. I wish all the best for George W. and Laura, and I will be praying that Obama and his cabinet will make decisions that are right for America and that Obama will handle his position with wisdom, strength, integrity, humility and faith in Almighty God.

PITTSBURGH'S GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL...AGAIN!

YOU MAY BE A REDNECK

You may be a redneck if, instead of watching the ball drop in Times Square on New Year's Eve, you were in Brasstown,North Carolina attending the "drop of the Possum"!!WTF!?