What that $%^%##^^&%$#3948^*%$(## is Gingrich talking about! I’m so mad I could spit nails. At him. What a pontificating, pompous, stuffed shirt, pathetic excuse for a living creature.
My husband and I both got unemployment insurance. We still ran up debt, but it saved our bacon. I’m so glad it was there, I can’t tell you.
Now, I’m employed part time (though I work full time) and Mr. Dozen, a man of ingenuity, compassion, and courage, is starting up a small business with a formerly unemployed friend. Mr. Dozen, a man in his 60’s, and Mr. Dozens’Friend, a man in his late 70’s, found themselves in dire straits with the downturn and are willing to start all over again. I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for these two guys.They’ve started to make a little money. Both are working hard at something they’ve never done before and pooling their strengths to make a go of it. They think maybe they’ll need some part time help in a month or two. No benefits, but, still, some work for someone. I’m working at my own business as well, and Mr. Dozen is a tower of strength and support in my efforts. We wouldn’t be in a position to help ourselves or to help others by creating jobs, however modest, if we hadn’t had the unemployment insurance.
Just what has that overinflated, suit-wearing ego done to help anyone be employed? Oh, that’s right. He keeps divorce lawyers in the money single handedly.
No offense to divorce lawyers.
I’d tell him to stick to subjects he knows something about, but that would consist of three subjects: marrying, cheating, and speaking on subjects you know nothing about.
..Fits right in there with the rest of them, doesn’t he ??? 🙂 Huntsman is the only one with a functioning brain out of the whole bunch…. Newt was always a demeigogue
….had a GREAT time watching a really funny comedy tonite…just ended a little while ago…. name of the show was…… wait for it……. Republican presidental debate……… oooohhhh what a bunch of yahoos….@
The Tan man needs to hear from all of us. After all, they are getting their big pay checks, retirement and medical insurance at the expense of the taxpayers. It is time to help the people without jobs. You can tell him what you think here:
Call Speaker Boehner’s office now at (202) 225-0600 — tell him not to let politics get in the way of creating jobs, and ask him to help make sure Congress passes the American Jobs Act.
Mississippi Mudpups, or anyone here who knows anyone in Mississippi, there’s another one of those awful “personhood” bills to vote against. This came into my inbox from the Center for Reproductive Rights:
Dear [Zyxomma],
This is simply unbelievable. Zygotes, embryos—even a fertilized egg—defined as a person?
That is what Mississippi voters will be deciding just a few weeks from now on a ballot initiative.
If anti-choice extremists in Mississippi have their way, abortion will be banned—and birth control pills, IUDs, and even fertility treatments could be, too.
This is just the latest in an avalanche of anti-choice attacks we’ve been fighting across the nation—and we urgently need your support to keep going. Please make an emergency gift today.
Radical “Personhood” initiatives define life from the point of conception and are cropping up across the country. The anti-choice opposition is emboldened because they see Mississippi as a potential victory, but they are wrong. Just last year, Colorado voters resoundingly defeated a “personhood” ballot measure. We stood strong with Colorado then, and we will stand strong with Mississippi now.
Wherever there has been a major threat to reproductive rights, the Center has been there to fight back. This summer alone, we’ve gone to court to block:
Texas’ mandatory ultrasound law
Kansas’ sham licensing regulations seeking to shut down all abortion clinics
A North Dakota law banning all medication abortions
And these are just the new cases. We also continue to fight hard against anti-choice attacks in Oklahoma, Alaska, Maryland, New York, Louisiana—the list goes on.
Our mission is to use the law to advance and protect reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right—but we can’t do that without you. Please make an urgent gift today to help us fight back against attacks whenever and wherever they occur.
What’s happening in Mississippi is just the tip of the iceberg. The Center is ready to fight back against attacks to women’s fundamental human rights, but we need you to keep standing with us.
Thanks, as always, for all you do,
OK, pups! (And I do love the dog photo, AKM). Visit and sign up for action alerts, or (if you can), make a donation. Here’s where to start:
Thanks MerryCricket! I posted this on my Facebook page with a hat tip to you. Really amazing to hear it spoken out loud, even though we know it’s true. AKM
I am sure the State Troopers that keep you safe are glad to hear that gov.
yep Merry. i bet they are over the moon. let’s hope they show him how glad next election.
Well, that article didn’t make me feel any better. The idea that people are nodding and smiling over Perry’s stand on Social Security (or anything else) is not encouraging.
I think I’ll go back and look at the picture of the dog. Maybe we can make all the current crop of republicans walk by and the dog can take care of them for us.
Will be watching the debate tonight. Heard that Rommey is going to call Perry on the Soc Sec Ponzie scheme thingy . I would like to hear a question about his statement on Israel, that he (Perry) made yesterday. I wonder if the people in Florida really know how dangerous this man really is.
There are a lot of retired people in Florida—–maybe the answers to these question will ring a bell for some.
Love the sign! We have a small team here in upstate NY, but our sign is much more mundane (the typical “caution – sled dog crossing”). Guess we gotta get a new one! This was refreshing after all the Palin chatter this morning over the McGuiness book.
Thanks for the chuckle, AKM! I was really needing that today. Miss Suzie is awfully confused these days. Stress of the move, etc. I am asking the children to please get together and give me a week so I can get some rest and peace. Needing it badly. They are going to figure out vacation days, etc.
Ah, well. I am trusting that once that move is over and she settles in to her new apartment, as the director has promised me she will, she will come back to us a little bit. And, if she doesn’t, then we will just love up on the Miss Suzie she is at the moment.
I send some soft hugs to you, jimzmum, this day… I hope your days for rest and peace will come soon and reinvigorate you with new strength that carries you into the future.
I have known so many families that have gone through this…know you are not alone and so many of us hold you, your family and all those struggling with these issues in our hearts!!
Too, too funny! E-mailed to several of my friends as an example of Alaskan humor!
Not so funny are the headlines I woke up to about the Troy Davis execution. All I could think of was that indeed, that was “The night the lights went out in GA”. I’ve ever known of a case like this where so many folks came out in support of either a delay, stay or re-trial, from the Pope, a former FBI director, a former President and governor of GA on down. I don’t think this will bode well for Perry on this subject. It will be interesting to see if this comes up in the debate tonight.
We need to keep fighting against the death penalty in Alaska! We don’t have it now. Let’s keep it that way. And help other states abolish it any way we can.
After prolonged debate, the Alaska Territorial Legislature abolished capital punishment in 1957 in a briefly worded measure stating, “The death penalty is and shall hereafter be abolished as punishment in Alaska for the commission of any crime.” The abolition measure was sponsored by Representative Warren Taylor (D-Fairbanks) and Representative Vic Fischer (D-Anchorage).
Baker’s Doz @ 16
You forgot one thing—–he runs up hugue bills at Tiffianys.
True. True.
What that $%^%##^^&%$#3948^*%$(## is Gingrich talking about! I’m so mad I could spit nails. At him. What a pontificating, pompous, stuffed shirt, pathetic excuse for a living creature.
My husband and I both got unemployment insurance. We still ran up debt, but it saved our bacon. I’m so glad it was there, I can’t tell you.
Now, I’m employed part time (though I work full time) and Mr. Dozen, a man of ingenuity, compassion, and courage, is starting up a small business with a formerly unemployed friend. Mr. Dozen, a man in his 60’s, and Mr. Dozens’Friend, a man in his late 70’s, found themselves in dire straits with the downturn and are willing to start all over again. I have nothing but admiration and gratitude for these two guys.They’ve started to make a little money. Both are working hard at something they’ve never done before and pooling their strengths to make a go of it. They think maybe they’ll need some part time help in a month or two. No benefits, but, still, some work for someone. I’m working at my own business as well, and Mr. Dozen is a tower of strength and support in my efforts. We wouldn’t be in a position to help ourselves or to help others by creating jobs, however modest, if we hadn’t had the unemployment insurance.
Just what has that overinflated, suit-wearing ego done to help anyone be employed? Oh, that’s right. He keeps divorce lawyers in the money single handedly.
No offense to divorce lawyers.
I’d tell him to stick to subjects he knows something about, but that would consist of three subjects: marrying, cheating, and speaking on subjects you know nothing about.
Jeez! He really frosts my b^tt!
..Fits right in there with the rest of them, doesn’t he ??? 🙂 Huntsman is the only one with a functioning brain out of the whole bunch…. Newt was always a demeigogue
….had a GREAT time watching a really funny comedy tonite…just ended a little while ago…. name of the show was…… wait for it……. Republican presidental debate……… oooohhhh what a bunch of yahoos….@
The Tan man needs to hear from all of us. After all, they are getting their big pay checks, retirement and medical insurance at the expense of the taxpayers. It is time to help the people without jobs. You can tell him what you think here:
Call Speaker Boehner’s office now at (202) 225-0600 — tell him not to let politics get in the way of creating jobs, and ask him to help make sure Congress passes the American Jobs Act.
Here is something cool, a website that will tell you what your ‘slavery footprint’ is. Go to http://www.slaveryfootprint.org
Read more about it here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/the-slavery-footprint-how_n_975516.html
The slavery footprint site is overwhelmed – come back later.
Mississippi Mudpups, or anyone here who knows anyone in Mississippi, there’s another one of those awful “personhood” bills to vote against. This came into my inbox from the Center for Reproductive Rights:
Dear [Zyxomma],
This is simply unbelievable. Zygotes, embryos—even a fertilized egg—defined as a person?
That is what Mississippi voters will be deciding just a few weeks from now on a ballot initiative.
If anti-choice extremists in Mississippi have their way, abortion will be banned—and birth control pills, IUDs, and even fertility treatments could be, too.
This is just the latest in an avalanche of anti-choice attacks we’ve been fighting across the nation—and we urgently need your support to keep going. Please make an emergency gift today.
Radical “Personhood” initiatives define life from the point of conception and are cropping up across the country. The anti-choice opposition is emboldened because they see Mississippi as a potential victory, but they are wrong. Just last year, Colorado voters resoundingly defeated a “personhood” ballot measure. We stood strong with Colorado then, and we will stand strong with Mississippi now.
Wherever there has been a major threat to reproductive rights, the Center has been there to fight back. This summer alone, we’ve gone to court to block:
Texas’ mandatory ultrasound law
Kansas’ sham licensing regulations seeking to shut down all abortion clinics
A North Dakota law banning all medication abortions
And these are just the new cases. We also continue to fight hard against anti-choice attacks in Oklahoma, Alaska, Maryland, New York, Louisiana—the list goes on.
Our mission is to use the law to advance and protect reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right—but we can’t do that without you. Please make an urgent gift today to help us fight back against attacks whenever and wherever they occur.
What’s happening in Mississippi is just the tip of the iceberg. The Center is ready to fight back against attacks to women’s fundamental human rights, but we need you to keep standing with us.
Thanks, as always, for all you do,
OK, pups! (And I do love the dog photo, AKM). Visit and sign up for action alerts, or (if you can), make a donation. Here’s where to start:
http://reproductiverights.org/
Pass This Bill!!!
The President of the United States needs our help dear pups. here he is today in Cincinnati Ohio. enjoy.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44627879#44627879
Not all evangelicals dance the end-of- times pro- Israel tango:
http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/sarahposner/5139/evangelicals_call_christian_zionist_uncritical_%22support%22_for_israel_%22appalling%22_and_%22intolerable%22/
Excellent article. Thanks for sharing the link. Now if we could just get everyone else to read it and understand it.
Elizabeth Warren has it right!
http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/i_got_your_class_warfare_right_here
Thanks for that link!! She has it SO right!! Wish more could paraphrase it like that for people to understand. That is a gift in itself!!
“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44627879#44627879”
this woman is magnificent!
and you too of course Lacy Lady.
oh dear. i meant this.
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.
You built a factory out there—good for you! But I want to be clear.
You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for.
You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.
You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.”
sorry ’bout that.
God if there were only more like her to shake up this pathetic Congress.
Gov Kasich: we are at war with these people (public employees)
http://www.plunderbund.com/2011/09/19/kasich-on-public-employees-we-are-at-war-with-these-people/
I am sure the State Troopers that keep you safe are glad to hear that gov.
Thanks MerryCricket! I posted this on my Facebook page with a hat tip to you. Really amazing to hear it spoken out loud, even though we know it’s true. AKM
I am sure the State Troopers that keep you safe are glad to hear that gov.
yep Merry. i bet they are over the moon. let’s hope they show him how glad next election.
Double Ditto! (Hmmm – does that make 4??)
You are welcome AKM. People need to know what an arrogant jerk he is and exactly who he is working for because it isn’t the residents of Ohio.
You can read more about Perry in Florida here.
http://wptv.m0bl.net/r/nwzm3
Well, that article didn’t make me feel any better. The idea that people are nodding and smiling over Perry’s stand on Social Security (or anything else) is not encouraging.
I think I’ll go back and look at the picture of the dog. Maybe we can make all the current crop of republicans walk by and the dog can take care of them for us.
Will be watching the debate tonight. Heard that Rommey is going to call Perry on the Soc Sec Ponzie scheme thingy . I would like to hear a question about his statement on Israel, that he (Perry) made yesterday. I wonder if the people in Florida really know how dangerous this man really is.
There are a lot of retired people in Florida—–maybe the answers to these question will ring a bell for some.
Love the sign! We have a small team here in upstate NY, but our sign is much more mundane (the typical “caution – sled dog crossing”). Guess we gotta get a new one! This was refreshing after all the Palin chatter this morning over the McGuiness book.
I’m in Central Oregon and the sign on our gates is “Sled Dogs on Trail.” I’d love to know where they got that sign!
Thanks for the chuckle, AKM! I was really needing that today. Miss Suzie is awfully confused these days. Stress of the move, etc. I am asking the children to please get together and give me a week so I can get some rest and peace. Needing it badly. They are going to figure out vacation days, etc.
Ah, well. I am trusting that once that move is over and she settles in to her new apartment, as the director has promised me she will, she will come back to us a little bit. And, if she doesn’t, then we will just love up on the Miss Suzie she is at the moment.
I send some soft hugs to you, jimzmum, this day… I hope your days for rest and peace will come soon and reinvigorate you with new strength that carries you into the future.
amen. hugs and kisses for Jimzmum and Miz Susie.
Stress can do that. Patience, love and gentle reassuring hugs are the medicine. Sending them to you and Miss Suzie.
I have known so many families that have gone through this…know you are not alone and so many of us hold you, your family and all those struggling with these issues in our hearts!!
{{{{{jimzmum and Miss Suzie}}}}}
Thank you all, so very much.
Too, too funny! E-mailed to several of my friends as an example of Alaskan humor!
Not so funny are the headlines I woke up to about the Troy Davis execution. All I could think of was that indeed, that was “The night the lights went out in GA”. I’ve ever known of a case like this where so many folks came out in support of either a delay, stay or re-trial, from the Pope, a former FBI director, a former President and governor of GA on down. I don’t think this will bode well for Perry on this subject. It will be interesting to see if this comes up in the debate tonight.
We need to keep fighting against the death penalty in Alaska! We don’t have it now. Let’s keep it that way. And help other states abolish it any way we can.
After prolonged debate, the Alaska Territorial Legislature abolished capital punishment in 1957 in a briefly worded measure stating, “The death penalty is and shall hereafter be abolished as punishment in Alaska for the commission of any crime.” The abolition measure was sponsored by Representative Warren Taylor (D-Fairbanks) and Representative Vic Fischer (D-Anchorage).
A number of attempts have been made to reintroduce capital punishment to Alaska since 1957.
http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/25/4winter2009/f_death-alaska.html
http://www.aadp.info/
Now that’s funny.
Thanks for starting my day with a smile. 🙂