Dear People of Blogland:
My mom has asked for just one thing for Mother’s day. She would like Hillary Clinton to be the nominee.
I can’t buy that for her. But you can help me get my mom what she wants. Anything you can do to help Hillary win means that I can give my mom the best Mother’s day present ever.
And if I butter her up with a present that she really wants, then maybe I can get her to let me play video games in the living room more often.
Thanks,
The Kid
I must admit to more than a wee bit of schadenfreude while the big boi bloggers realize that Obama is not the holy anointed one but is, in fact, a politician.
But here’s the real problem.
For months we have been treated like outsiders. We have been bullied, harassed, insulted and called racists for not supporting Obama with unquestioning loyalty.Our concerns about Obama’s casual sexism and the outright sexism of the media and Obamabots has been ignored at best, ridiculed at worst. Our concerns about his lack of experience and love of republican framing have been completely ignored.
But then Obama showed up on the enemies own tv station and started parroting soft Republicanism 101.
Now that those same bully boys have realized that Obama’s robes ain’t as spotless as they thought, I wonder if we will get a half hearted apology for having been pushed out of the main Democratic blogs? (Doubtful) or will we just get more of the shut up and love the unity pony bullshit.
Hey, you guys are the ones that bought this Unity Pony to begin with. You may regret it now, but that doesn’t mean that we have take a ride on the pony with you just cause you finally got a wee bit of sense in your head.
I don’t know if it’s still reproductive choice week or not. But shit, it’s reproductive choice week every week here.
Feminist me says “duh, making abortions illegal, no matter what the reason is, NEVER reduces the number of abortions”.
We use that as an argument here all the time. We say it just pushes women to find underground solutions. Rich women travel, poor women risk death and rusty coat hangars. But making abortions illegal doesn’t change the demand for them. This also works as an argument in places where abortions happen for reasons we find repellent.
Now of course I think aborting girl fetuses because they lack a penis is atrocious. But simply making abortion illegal is not going to make more girl babies be magically born. In a place like India, the only way to make daughters more desirable is by making them people and not property. And that takes a lot more laws, a lot more work, a lot more money.
Have I told you peeps about my tendency to play bathroom chemist? I get tired of trying to find the perfect product (or I just don’t want to spend gazillions of dollars) and so I make stuff.
I make salt scrubs, facial cleansers, my own special oil cleanser recipe (seriously, the only stuff you can buy ready-made is super pricey). I mix other products together to make better products. My bathroom is always crowded with little pots of this and that.
So my friend Amanda Panda and her friend Libby are thinking of going into business together. Both of them are message therapists. And I may start making massage oils for them and “glows” (can’t say exfoliant or you have to get an esthetician license) .
So I am trying to come up with some recipes for massage oil. And maybe a clay body wrap.
(RQ has more talents that you thought- it’s true)
Voting, the right to vote, the chance to vote, the hope that being able to make your voice heard that voting brings are the reasons why I keep holding onto hope for our country.
Do not drink and type
Do not drink and type
Do not drink and type
That is all
Bear with me- I’ve had a ton of cava and vodka. Typing is fucking hard. OMG how do people think they can drive like this?
My dear friend and future faux lesbian wife was over for dinner tonight. She bought and I cooked bloody steak, dill mashed potatoes and roasted asperagas, And much much booze. Do you have any idea how long typing this sentence took?
She is voting for whomever the Dem nominee is. Mostly because she is a dem, but also because her parents (who control her trust fund) are terrified that a Dem will tax them into oblivion and they will give her her money early. And then she and I can live the life of faux lesbian wives gallavanting around Europe as we have been planning. Her parents, steadfast southern republicans are terrified that a Dem is going to tax them into the middle class.
And they are especially scared that a black president is going to make them pay for all the benefits they have received as white southern landowners.
(I did mention earlier that all the real racists were already voting for McCain, nez pas?)
Wev, I’ve allready said I’m moving to SPain. My faux wife and I both speak Spanish,
So if I do have to leave the Democratic party, I not only get to vote for McKinney but I get to bum around Europe with a hot girl. At this point I am seeing a win win in either case.
OKay- typing while drunk is really fucking hard. THis took me 30 minutes. I type 60 wpm peeps.
That is all.
The key figure is 2.3 million — the total number of homes that are empty and for sale. That adds up to a vacancy rate of 2.9 percent, which is the highest, reports Bloomberg, “since the bureau started keeping count in 1956.” 2.2 million homes were vacant and for sale one year ago
.According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Second Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, released in March 2008, “the total number of homeless persons reported on a single night in January 2006 was 759,101.”
Assuming that number bears some reasonable relation to reality, that would mean there are 24 unoccupied homes for every homeless person in the United States.
The Kid and I, just after Georgie stole the White House in 2000, wound up homeless. For two years we couch surfed with various friends and family and occasionally (but thankfully not often) slept in our car. The only reason we have housing now is that I lucked into a program that fast tracked me into a Section 8 voucher. Those types of programs have been massively cut now. If we were homeless now we would be staying at the tent city (Hooverville) that temporarily set up in a vacant lot down the street. Families live there. Women with children live there. And we have 24 unoccupied homes for every single person in those camps.
I am so ashamed of our country.
Dear George Bush
Thanks for sending out those economic stimulus checks early. Lord knows my bank account could use it. But since the economy has been in the shitter for much longer than you will admit (and for us poor folk it’s been in the shitter since you took office)I am afraid that instead of buying these with my stimulus money
I will be paying my rent, paying my internet bill, covering my overdraft fees and maybe if I am very lucky buying some groceries.
Thanks!
The Working Class
(BTW- these shoes are made by the same people who made my most favorite ever, bought in Italy, strappy sandals. Aren’t they purdy?)
I posted this a million years ago but I love it.