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Women gained the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified 91 years ago today. I’d very much like better women for whom to vote. I hang my head every time Michelle Bachmann confuses John Wayne the movie star with John Wayne Gacy the serial killer, or Sarah Palin quits mid term or makes up words or Christine O’Donnell walks out of an interview because she doesn’t have backbone or wit enough to answer the questions. 92 years ago women were not “allowed” to vote. We’ve come so far in 91 years let’s not set our own cause back a century, okay? Because honestly I don’t think these three have sense enough to vote for what cupcake flavor we should have for dessert let alone whether or not we should go to war.
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And while I’m on the topic of stupid, ill-advised women, did you see the video of the mom coaching her 9-year-old son to ask Rick Perry questions about evolution?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/rick-perry-faces-kids-evolution-question-14333330
Go watch it. I’ll wait. Seriously. What’s wrong with this woman? She needs to grow up and take her head out of her ass. Using your kid to corner a politician is morally fucking reprehensible. If you haven’t the nerve to ask your own question stay the hell home. I don’t like Rick Perry either but I’d have the courage to ask him my own question.
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Random fact … In my iTunes library you’ll find “MmmBop” by Hanson followed by “Right Here Waiting” by H.I.M.
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Seriously? Have President Obama’s staffers never seen The West Wing? Do they not know that perception is 9/10 of reality? Who got up one morning & said let’s send the president out into the country to talk to people who have no jobs and are struggling to keep roofs over their heads & food on the table 3 days before he heads to Martha’s Vineyard for vacation? *beats head on desk* No. Really. Were they absent the day they taught media & communications in college?
I totally maintain my opinion that he needs a new staff and new advisors. I know all presidents take vacations & that the job travels with them but don’t they realize it would be GOLD, GOLD I tell you if he and the fam decided to stay close to home & spend their vacation at Camp David? Don’t they realize how bad it looks when the president spends his vacations in Hawaii & Martha’s Vineyard when there are a good deal of citizens scraping money together to buy school supplies for their kids?
Do they not know that he cannot look credible & sincere if one day he’s feeling the people’s pain and the next he’s “off to the Vineyard” for 10 days? Ugh! If only they’d think. If only they’d stop giving pundits talking points. Don’t they know he’s got to run for reelection? Don’t they know how many brownie points he’d win if he had a working vacation at Camp David with visits from key democratic congressmen and women?
At this point the fictional characters of Toby and Mandy could do a better job than the president’s actual advisors.
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Have you seen this news story? Abercrombie and Fitch offered The Situation and the rest of the Jersey Shore gang to not wear their clothes. *laughs* I love it! Of course they actually previously sold a t-shirt that read Fitchuation.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/08/1….dist_smartbrief
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mt….ituation-224405
MTV is of course pissed off but willing to make a buck off the whole thing. *laughs gleefully* I love this shit! I wish I could have a career in PR. It’d be a riot.
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*claps hands* I love when you get like this (sorry, but I do). Enjoyed Thursdays Thoughts immensely and totally agree.
*laughs* Thanks Sweetie! (((huggies)))
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Want to get really mad? Do you know that after the election providing Mr O
wins again, they want to put up a 1% tax on your bank transactions. That’s right let that man get elected again and kiss away your money, every time you cash a check, do a bank transaction, every time a social security check comes in its 1%
deduction coming off. Nothing like giving us less money than we have on our checks. I think this is complete traversty, its hard to believe we are getting deeper in more of a mess than we already are in. Everyone needs to think and tell others what’s on the venue for after the election. No stopping them then. So think before you exercise your American right to elect and save us from losing our hard-earned money
Actually this Isn’t true. You can read about it here.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/debtfree.asp
I do not put anything past these people. The only promise that has come through from that man is that he would “change” the country. He sure has done that.
Suz, I allow all viewpoints and opinions here on my lil soapbox but I do try to stick to the facts, which is why I looked up the 1% tax on Snopes. I watch a lot of news and read a lot of political news and had never heard about the 1% tax and I figured if it were true there’d be pundits and tea party folks jumping up and down about it.
I’m going to stay positive and just say I love the squirrel picture! A squirrel just can’t not make you smile :)
Sarah @ made in usa challenge
He’s cute, isn’t he? He lives in my backyard and makes a mess of the bird feeder. LOL We fill a bowl with critter food for him but he insists on eating the birdseed. ha ha Nature, go figure.
Awesome post, and I LOVE your blog! I totally agree with everything you said about Obama and the women in politics today, it was refreshing to read such enlightened views, and I especially loved the cupcake flavor reference, fantastic! I’m sorry for what you’re going through, but I highly commend you for sharing your story so openly and honestly! I was just following up from last week’s #CommentHour, and am so happy to have found your blog because of it!
Thank you Millenial Monster. Your comment made my day. :-)
Yes, I think the advisors are the ones giving him wrong advice. Obama is losing his base, I know he’s stubborn. But he’s in a bubble. They complain about GWB and his many vacations, but that doesn’t make it right. I will still vote for Obama, only to keep a Republican out of office. The President needs to get out of the jail they put him in and talk to all of us, don’t take New Jersey for granted.