My Blogosphere Comments and Writing

Response to a post at: http://ladyfreethinker.com/dominos-needs-change-pizza-box-right-second September 19, 2014 By Lady Freethinker Some of my youth was spent on a small (5,000?) acre farm in northwest Wyoming. Milking and caring for cows was part of my job. You may recall the classic photo of a farmer milking cows and squirting cats in the face. Been there, done that. Growing hay and grain for feed for those cows. Done that. Rounding up the cows every day of the year so they can be milked and fed. Done that. But that farm became relatively inefficient and we moved away to the big city (Cody, Wyoming) before my tenth birthday. Others were finding more efficient ways to produce milk, meat, and grain. And that’s part of the story of how things got to be the way they are today on modern industrial farms. As the world approaches 8 billion people even more efficiency is pursued. Meanwhile, yesterday, at Fresh Pond Reservation, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 30th most densely populated urban area in the country, I found this calf wandering around, having lost its mama: https://flic.kr/p/phzacX

It looks obvious that SC gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley did have an extramarital affair (Guess which party)

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/05/virtual_paper_trail.php
. . .years of emails, voicemails, and texts . . .

So, there’s only one thing left to do, right?

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/haley_my_enemies_are_behind_bloggers_claim_of_affa.php
Haley: My Enemies Are Behind Blogger's Claim Of Affair With Me

Oh yeah, and this . . .

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/05/nikki-haleys-palin-approved-family-values-ad/57217/
Nikki Haley: I am a woman who understands that through the grace of God all things are possible. . . . Announcer: Nikki Haley supporter, Governor Sarah Palin. Gov. Sarah Palin: A strong pro-family, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro-development, conservative reformer, your next governor, Nikki Haley.

Oops!

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/05/upping_the_ante_1.php
Conservative South Carolina blogger Will Folks is now saying that his claimed one-time paramour, Nikki Haley, and her campaign staff actually asked him for advice about how to handle the revelation of their affair shortly before he went public on Monday.




Vito Fossella, Former Congressman With Second Family, May Run Again May 11, 2010

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/11/vito-fossella-former-cong_n_572287.html




Another GOP Family Values Champion Resigns in Sex Scandal September 9, 2009

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977806186#comments



Top 10 Democratic sex scandals in Congress:

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976808442

Labels: "republican sex scandals" "family values"

Ritchie

Apr 18, 2009 5:49 AM GMT Consider looking at the few economists who did see this coming, and asking how they think the problem can be solved. I suspect it was not a question of forgetting the Depression, but it was in their best personal economic interests to continue saying everything was fine--maybe just a tiny recession--but then things will improve again. Or, as Upton Sinclair once said: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

What Good Are Economists Anyway? BusinessWeek, April 16, 2009

Open letter to my liberal friends: And other racists, by *Carol ~Your Humble Queen of La La Land~ D.

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977610988

Carol: "I see him as the former most liberal senator in the nation..."

Whenever a Democratic Senator is running for the Presidency the Republicans ALWAYS start calling him the most liberal Senator. Here's more on that subject: http://mediamatters.org/items/200802060001

To see an accurate rating of Senators from the conservative point of view: http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2006/0604052pr.asp

Notice that Kerry is no longer on the list. It would eventually be revised to make Obama the most liberal Senator--just in time for the 2008 election. Keep an eye on this and other pages to have it reaffirmed exactly who is the most liberal Senator--as long as a Democratic Senator isn't running for President. Then the list will likely be accurate.

If you REALLY want to know how your Senators rank on the liberal-conservative scale, using actual voting records, numbers, facts, and stuff like that, then take a look at VOTEVIEW.COM.

It is left as an exercise for the reader to determine who conservatives considered the most liberal Senator in 2000, as Vice-President Gore was the Democratic candidate. Would anybody like to make a guess as to how close conservative ratings for Senators came to how VOTEVIEW.COM ranked them?

APE 131313: "Glad Richard got schooled here about the reference to The ONION..........wonder if he also believes The Colbert Report leans to the right."

Of course the Colbert Repore leans to the right. He's the only true conservative on television. Everybody knows that! Why even Tom Delay, who you would certainly agree is a conservative, has used the Colbear Report videos on his web site.

Jeff H: "Ah yes......the election is over and Obama won but hatred still is more attractive than happiness. The main stream media did a story about your kind.......

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_win_causes_obsessive

That was an excellent hack, Jeff. But most of the wingnuts here will simply not realize you have made a link (which I've HTMLed for you--ask some of your high school classmates how to make a web link--its easy) to a satirical newspaper!

And here's my favorite Onion headline:

Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'

On January 17, 2001, just before assuming the presidency, President-elect Bush vowed that "together, we can put the triumphs of the recent past behind us."

It was, in my opinion, his greatest speech ever, and also the greatest speech he will ever make, when he makes his greatest speech, which has now happened.

You can watch a video of one person voting on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Click the web address below:

http://rlg.smugmug.com/gallery/4171253_S69w4#410170306_QFrz7-A-LB