Saturday, March 10, 2012
One of those days.... well, weeks...
Thursday, March 8, 2012
I found (liberal) gems on FB.
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| If this is true, it is very disturbing. It's 2012! Ladies, do we need another bra burning? |
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Santorum CANNOT be my president.
I cannot live in a country where Rick Santorum is the leader.
According to him:
1) homosexuals are a threat. He has said horrible things.
2) the dangers of contraception lead to more children born out of wedlock. (scroll about 4/5 of the way down).
How does this make any sense? Stephen Colbert equated it to the way fire extinguishers start fires (on his 2/29/12 episode).
3) there should be no abortion exceptions for rape or incest. Even rape babies are a gift from God.
Clearly he cannot begin to understand what rape does to a woman. My God is more empathetic.
4) college is a liberal boot camp for snobs. Ironic considering he has a master and law degree beyond an undergraduate degree. He was so quick to jump on Obama for the college speech.
Santorum said that:
“There's technical schools. There's additional training, vocational training. There's skills and apprenticeships. There's all sorts of things that people can do to upgrade their skills, to be very productive and great workers here in America who provide for their families and build their community.”
Now let's look at what Obama said:
"I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. This can be community college or a four-year school; vocational training or an apprenticeship.... this country needs and values the talents of every American.”
5) He won't help "blah" people. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and he didn't say "black" people: who are "blah" people? Why differentiate at all? Because I get the feeling that to Santorum and Gingrich black = poor, the terms are interchangeable. And they don't understand why that's offensive.
6) He is in the Urban Dictionary. Both he and what his name means are distasteful; how great of a person are you if that is named after you?
Let's not get started on Virgina's transvaginal ulstrasound requirement....
Just in case someone in hell is playing with snowballs and Santorum does become president, I'm going to start daydreaming of places to go live...
According to him:
1) homosexuals are a threat. He has said horrible things.
2) the dangers of contraception lead to more children born out of wedlock. (scroll about 4/5 of the way down).
How does this make any sense? Stephen Colbert equated it to the way fire extinguishers start fires (on his 2/29/12 episode).
3) there should be no abortion exceptions for rape or incest. Even rape babies are a gift from God.
Clearly he cannot begin to understand what rape does to a woman. My God is more empathetic.
4) college is a liberal boot camp for snobs. Ironic considering he has a master and law degree beyond an undergraduate degree. He was so quick to jump on Obama for the college speech.
Santorum said that:
“There's technical schools. There's additional training, vocational training. There's skills and apprenticeships. There's all sorts of things that people can do to upgrade their skills, to be very productive and great workers here in America who provide for their families and build their community.”
Now let's look at what Obama said:
"I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. This can be community college or a four-year school; vocational training or an apprenticeship.... this country needs and values the talents of every American.”
5) He won't help "blah" people. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and he didn't say "black" people: who are "blah" people? Why differentiate at all? Because I get the feeling that to Santorum and Gingrich black = poor, the terms are interchangeable. And they don't understand why that's offensive.
6) He is in the Urban Dictionary. Both he and what his name means are distasteful; how great of a person are you if that is named after you?
Let's not get started on Virgina's transvaginal ulstrasound requirement....
Just in case someone in hell is playing with snowballs and Santorum does become president, I'm going to start daydreaming of places to go live...
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Ok, I'm back
I apologize that I have not posted since last fall. I hope you're still reading.
I'm back from my last two field research trips in Louisiana. We found no spotted skunks of course. But did find Hispid cotton rats and an Eastern box turtle in our traps.
We got our usual visitors to the track plates: opossum and white-footed mice. On camera we got a coyote, raccoons, opossum, mice, armadillo, and a starving dog unfortunately...
Then I went over to Orlando to visit Liz and my brother Ben. That was a very nice break.
Alan and I need to go to Louisiana one more time for me to defend my thesis and to appear in court against our former landlady. Our lawyer thinks this may be in April so I need to finish up my thesis.
So then what? We have a low cost of living right now in Myrtle Beach thanks to the generosity of my parents. But there's no real job potential for me here; I'm not going into the tourist industry as a career. So we would need to move and that costs money. But one thing at a time.
I'm back from my last two field research trips in Louisiana. We found no spotted skunks of course. But did find Hispid cotton rats and an Eastern box turtle in our traps.
We got our usual visitors to the track plates: opossum and white-footed mice. On camera we got a coyote, raccoons, opossum, mice, armadillo, and a starving dog unfortunately...
Then I went over to Orlando to visit Liz and my brother Ben. That was a very nice break.
Alan and I need to go to Louisiana one more time for me to defend my thesis and to appear in court against our former landlady. Our lawyer thinks this may be in April so I need to finish up my thesis.
So then what? We have a low cost of living right now in Myrtle Beach thanks to the generosity of my parents. But there's no real job potential for me here; I'm not going into the tourist industry as a career. So we would need to move and that costs money. But one thing at a time.
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