What do you have to take into 2011?

I love my girls more than my life. I love them more than anything and sometimes they make me mad but the time I spend angry at them is miserable. My mom is angry with me. Partly because my opinions rub her the wrong way. I rub her the wrong way period. She baits me and I find myself going too far, saying wrong things. Things that hurt her like she hurts me. I don't really like my family much. There's always drama. Things that need not be said and we eat. We are mean fat people. I hate that and I hate being there. I expressed my hurt at some things that my mother said to me on Christmas over the phone on Christmas day. I thought the right thing to do would be to patch it up today, before the new year. It wasn't good and it makes me unhappy and frustrated. Nothing was made better. I shouldn't have called. My family will feel my unhappiness. I worry that she will die when we are fighting. I don't want that at all.

I don't ever want to be that way to my kids. My mom and I talked about my sister and her daughter. Her daughter is gay. My sister is determined to break it up. She has been for years and now that her daughter is over 18 and living away from home my sister has lost control over her. My niece is unhappy with the division but my sister is unreasonable over the whole thing. I don't see how she can't see that so long as she fights it, she loses precious time with her daughter. Even the time they spend isn't real because my sister is in some form of odd denial. It's been mentioned that I wouldn't be so sure of myself if it was my daughters. No, I wouldn't. It's not what I would have chosen but both daughters are past the age that all of this began for my sister and they are happy and well adjusted. I see them mess up and know it's the only way to learn. I see no reason to rebel against me or lie because I'm openly loving and they know what I hope for but they also know I am accepting and will love them anyway. Nothing's more annoying than someone who thinks they could have done a better job but at this time, I'm at home with my family. My husband and my daughters who love me very much and I love them. I'm not alone. My sister is.

I know this is harsh but my mom who was my best friend has become a bit bitter and hurtful. I miss her. I'll miss her when she's gone. The rest of them? My half siblings? I won't miss them. Not at all.

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Messiah 2010

The biggest chorus and biggest audience we've had. It was wonderful as always.

HUGE thanks to the amazing Xun Sun and Adrienne Tawa. Also the Orchestra of Southern Utah.

Christian? Do we teach respect and responsibility for our's and our children's actions?

Living in Utah is like no other experience on the planet. Most of the people I know who are LDS have been raised in the faith and in the state. This means that there is a rich inheritance of beliefs and opinions. That's not a bad thing, unless they aren't true. I think we're a bit more insulated than members in other states and countries. Here are some examples of what I see around me:

Homophobia. It's not your place to judge someone based on sexual preference. And how do YOU know that sexual transgressions rate higher on the degree of wickedness of sins than judging does?

And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. John 12:47

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 Nephi 14:2

Bullying: It's also not your place to punish what you perceive to be a sin.

Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God. D&C. 18:10

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. John 8:6

Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Matthew 25:40

Respect for President Obama:

And ye will not have a mind to injure one another, but to live peaceably, and to render to every man according to that which is his due. Mosiah 4:13

We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.” A of F 1:12.

D&C 138: 5–8,

All men should uphold their governments and owe respect and deference to the law;

Glenn Beck and Cleon Skousen are NOT prophets:

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you. 2 Peter 2:1

And that the Constitution is NOT scripture:
www.speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=7066

Dick Cheney finally gets his???

IF and that is a HUUUUUGE Cheney seriously goes down for this, it will be one of the single most satisfying events of the past 10 years. Satisfying in the "Al Capone tax evasion" sense but I'll take it.

Nigeria: Dick Cheney To Be Charged Over Alleged Bribery Case


Nigerian authorities will charge former Vice President Dick Cheney over a bribery scandal that is alleged to involve Halliburton, BusinessWeek reports. An arrest warrant "will be issued and transmitted through Interpol," said Godwin Obla, the prosecuting counsel at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Nigeria.

The charges center on an alleged $180 million bribery payment used to secure a $6 billion liquefied natural gas contract. Prosecutors are also looking into international companies Saipem and Technip. Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, before becoming George W. Bush's running mate. "As the CEO of Halliburton, he has the responsibility for acts that occurred during that period," Obla told the AFP.

Nigeria arrested 12 employees of Halliburton earlier in the week, reports Reuters. The firm's offices in Nigeria were raided by anti-corruption police, although the company said that the detentions "had no legal basis and that its employees had since been freed."

Nigeria's Guardian newspaper reported that charges against Cheney were confirmed by the government and included "criminal conspiracy."

Bristol Palin buys wins Dancing With The Stars

I love reality shows and so I'm ALL caught up in this Dancing With The Stars fiasco. I've seen some pretty unfair crap on that show in years past but this year takes the cake! I immediately picked Audrina and Tony to vote for but was shocked to see David Hasslehoff ousted first. Clearly he wasn't the worst. Then there was the whole Michael Bolton/Bruno debacle, which to me was a bit over dramatized by Bolton because please! You start your dance crawling out of a dog house with a bone in your mouth, you are asking to be trashed but Bruno was unnecessarily harsh. Right off I could see who was going to be good, who was going to be entertaining, and who needed to get the heck out of there and find a new hobby. I wasn't impressed with Jennifer Gray because she was clearly a front runner but dang! Want some cheese with that whine???? I thought her Patrick Swayze breakdown was a bit contrived and I understand she's had some major surgeries and she's 50 but clearly she's no amateur so right off I thought that was unfair. Brandy is a singer and actress, but singing talent and dancing talent don't go hand in hand. Plus I always give kudos to those who can survive Maks. Even though he's HOTTTT and one of my faves, he's certainly no picnic. Margaret Cho wasn't going to go far and quickly learned it wasn't a comedy thing after the first show. I had no feelings one way or the other for pro basketball player Rick Fox or pro football player Kurt Warner. Florence Henderson was pretty good and entertaining same with Kyle Massey.

The second really WRONG and SHOCKING elimination was Audrina. She'd had a bad couple of weeks but to me it seemed more Tony's fault for the choreography. She had been at the top of the leader board consistently and Bristol Palin clearly sucked. The judges were shocked as well. My kids like Kyle because he's on the Disney Channel plus he's fun and doing his best but he'd slipped back a but. Kurt wasn't the best or worst and Rick was steadily improving. The best part about Rick was when Cheryl chided him on his lack of grace especially in the foot work. She asked if he was that bad on the basketball court and he laughed. Apparently he's notorious for it and thus has the nickname "Tank" or something like that. HE was in my opinion the best in working to improve. At one point the stars were split up in a team dance with Apolo Ono and Kristi Yamaguchi. Rick's score suffered because of being teamed up with Bristol and Kyle giving Kurt an edge and Rick went home.

Now here we are, stunned by the upset of Brandy being sent home and Bristol in the finals. Bristol Palin is the finals of a dancing show is like Sarah Palin in the running for Vice President. Totally unqualified and flat out insane. How is she getting all those votes? Some of her more mentally unstable fans explain how they are doing it here: Jezebel.com

One good thing to come out of this experience is a public service message with The Situation from Jersey Shore. It plays more like a spoof because Bristol is clearly a grenade. Also, his message is better because aside from teen pregnancy hpv is a real issue and like it or not abstinence will often fail and pregnancy isn't the only danger. My doctor has diagnosed a 13 and 14 year old girl with cervical cancer.

I'm thinking that the Palin family is going to take over my reality show world. Bristol will be on Biggest Loser next, Willow on 16 and Pregnant. Todd and Sarah will be on The Amazing Race but without passports and they keep ending up in Russia.

Bristol is a busy girl. Being a teen advocate for abstinence is a full time job though she does find time to tag team with her sister Willow on Facebook. People act shocked by the gay slurs. I'm not. They are conservative wingnuts. Sarah shoots homosexuals from a helicopter when she can't find wolves. I'm more surprised by the openly foul language. Is this family the WORST examples for everything ever???

Here's my take and I may add more later: Bristol isn't a teen so she can't be considered a teen advocate. What they did approached bullying which is a serious matter. Bristol finds the competition unfair because some of them have experience.I find it unfair because she's not a star.


*More later*

Okay this is childish, but fun!

I was randomly surfing and discovered Twiddla. It's a community whiteboard. When I got there people were randomly scribbling but I enticed a random stranger into playing tic tac toe. Yeah... Insomnia gets boring.

This is the sandbox

Jon Stewart on Rachel Maddow

I like Rachel Maddow. I find her refreshing but as my mama said: you can walk through shite and come out smelling like a rose (okay my mom didn't say that but if she was British she might. She scored an amazing interview and she didn't waste a moment of it. She got Jon Stewart smack dab in the middle of the flu. She's a stronger woman than I am if she really came out of that believing she wasn't a touch radical and unfair. I am RADICALLY radical and extraordinarily unfair. I am linking to HuffPo because they have clips of highlights but I recommend sitting through the entire thing. It's all about responsibility.

If you are running for office and you campaign on a level that inspires fear then when you allow shouts talking of murdering your opponent or complete lies and don't stop that behavior, you are responsible.If you run a 24 hour news network you are responsible to provide news professionals. I could be an infotainer and in my small world I am. I am responsible for what I put here but I am not qualified to be on Fox News. Bobby Kennedy put himself into a political battle knowing the risks and died for his beliefs in civil rights. Martin Luther King knew he was putting himself in to a hateful war and likely knew his demise was a more effective signature to his great words than any other path could have been. President Obama was elected by idealists who believed he could change the country. Unfortunately the people who represent us have different motives. On some level he had to know he'd fail if he ever makes it through. I will never change my position on him. I have noticed a few Republicans with ideas that are less polarizing and of course I voted for a Lib and a LOT of Repubs (because there was no options. Welcome to Utah). I am responsible for my vote and for the work I do campaigning.

Now Jon Stewart has a satirical "news" program on Comedy Central. If you leave it on all day you'll see Blue Collar Comedians and a South Park or 2. Your kids will learn new words. So turns out Jon Stewart has a lot of fans. In an insane country he's become the face of sanity. He didn't run for office or move to a news network. He's a comedian on Comedy Central who has been made fun of for having an audience full of liberal stoners cutting class. Turns out you actually need a dictionary if you are the average American (see stupid people). He bears no responsibility for the choices made by viewers. But he's far more educated and far less invested in Mentholatum than other "commentators". When you see an emotion you can bet on it that it's real. You can be pretty sure you will laugh. Maybe even at yourself.

Yup, I'm guilty of extremism. Here's that link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/11/rachel-maddow-jon-stewart-interview_n_782538.html#snp_friends_module

Okay, I know this is like shooting fish in a barrel...

Palin Lashes Out At WSJ Reporter, Misquotes Story

The Huffington Post | William Alden First Posted: 11- 9-10 09:06 AM | Updated: 11- 9-10 11:33 AM

In what can only be called a valiant effort, Sarah Palin has defended her monetary policy remarks from the Wall Street Journal's pointed criticism.

On her Facebook page, Palin claims the WSJ reporter who has pointed out a factual error in her speech is himself in the wrong. "Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read the Wall Street Journal?," her Facebook note asks.

In remarks delivered at a Phoenix convention, and first leaked by the The National Review, Palin criticized the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing policy, in which the bank will purchase up to $600 billion of new U.S. government debt (as part of a plan that could reach $900 billion), and urged Fed chairman Ben Bernanke to "cease and desist."

As HuffPost's Shahien Nasiripour noted Monday, the Federal Reserve operates independently of any other government body, and so political criticism of it is unusual.

Even more unusual were the specifics of Palin's critique: As WSJ's Sudeep Reddy pointed out Monday, she doesn't get all of her facts right. In response to Palin's assertion that "everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly over the past year or so," Reddy wrote Monday that "Grocery prices haven't risen all that significantly, in fact." He notes that prices have actually increased only 0.6 percent over the past year. It's the lowest rate on record -- so low that it inspired a high-profile Twitter fight late last month.

But Palin would have none of it. She wrote in her Facebook note, "That's odd, because just last Thursday, November 4, I read an article in Mr. Reddy's own Wall Street Journal titled 'Food Sellers Grit Teeth, Raise Prices: Packagers and Supermarkets Pressured to Pass Along Rising Costs, Even as Consumers Pinch Pennies.' She continued:

Now I realize I'm just a former governor and current housewife from Alaska, but even humble folks like me can read the newspaper. I'm surprised a prestigious reporter for the Wall Street Journal doesn't.

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Reddy has responded to Palin on Twitter, pointing out that she has actually misread the WSJ article she refers to. As Reddy notes, the article's first sentence discusses "the tamest year of food pricing in nearly two decades."

The source of confusion comes in the next paragraph. The article says the cost of goods has risen, a burden that food sellers must decide whether to pass on to customers via prices. The rise in prices hasn't actually happened yet. Palin omits this key fact.

Reddy has also re-tweeted a tweet from Columbia Journalism Review's Ryan Chittum, who defends Reddy and blasts Palin for misquoting the WSJ story about prices. Here's Chittum:

Palin has a journalism degree, so I'm guessing she knows what an ethical no-no it is to misquote somebody like that. It ought to be awfully hard for her to get on her pedestal and condemn the media when she can't even quote somebody honestly. How about to make it up to Reddy, Palin lets a real reporter like him fly out to Wasilla to interview her for once instead of going to her house folks at Fox News?

UPDATE:
Sudeep Reddy has responded in the WSJ to Palin's Facebook note. He cites Labor Department data to reiterate that Palin's argument about food prices is not grounded in fact, and he continues:

Weak demand, high unemployment and thrifty shoppers have led retailers to keep many prices from rising despite the rising cost of some commodities, including coffee and sugar. ... Critics of the Fed's quantitative easing policy are focused primarily on concerns about potential future inflation.

Sarah Palin is a news analyst for Fox News, whose parent company also owns the Wall Street Journal.

Do you ask yourself:

What the heck has Obama done so far? You TOO can know the answer to that.

What the heck has Obama done so far?

Abominations to God according to Leviticus

My take on Chapters 18 and 19 from the book of Leviticus and why we're all going to Hell. The scriptures are from the King James version of the Bible. It's the version the Bible that The LDS faith uses. My observations are in green. They are simply what I am concluding and it doesn't mean I agree or understand them.
Chapter 18:
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.
3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them:  I am the LORD.
6 ¶ None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness. 
9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. 
10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.
11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.
13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt. 
15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.
17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life time. Sexual molestation and incest in every way shape and for is a very huge sin.
19 ¶ Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her. Adultery is a sin.
21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Homosexuality is an abomination and I'm going to assume that applies to women as well.
23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Bestiality is a sin
24 ¶ Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25 and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28 that the land spew not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.
29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God. All of these apply no matter where you are.

Chapter 19:
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths:
I am the LORD your God. Fear meaning honor and obey your parents in righteousness. On the 7th day God rested. He's commanded we do the same.
4 Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God. The obviously being the gold calf etc. Coins are molten and the money has become of such importance that it could be argued it is worshiped. I'm not too concerned with the words "In God We Trust" being taken off our currency because they are words. Our actions should show our respect to God.
5 And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it at your own will.
6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if aught remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.
8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Blood sacrifice was eliminated and made unnecessary through the atonement to Christ.
9 ¶ And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.
10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God. Provide for the poor and needy.
11 ¶ Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. The words "God" and "Jesus Christ" should only be spoken in reverence.  
13 ¶ Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind,but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
15 ¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor. Judge not lest ye be judged. Leave that to God.
16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am the LORD. Gossip is a no no.
17 ¶ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD.
19 ¶ Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come upon thee. Okay here we have one I wonder about. Anti-hybrid?
20 ¶ And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged: they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. Adultery is a BAD thing should be punished by the death penalty if you are the woman in the equation.
21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.
22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath done; and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
23 ¶ And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.
24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal.
25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am the LORD your God. That's a pretty obvious weird one.
26 ¶ Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. Horoscopes and psychic earrings=bad.
27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. No shaving. Suffer through premature balding and the beard to the floor in silence, okay?
28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. No tattoos, piercings, or surgery.
29 ¶ Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. So in the story of Lot (Sodom and Gomorrah) when he told the men who wanted to have sex with God's messengers he should have just said "No because homosexuality is wrong." WITHOUT offering his daughters instead.
30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. Sabbath day thing again and you shouldn't be defacing churches, mosques, etc. NOR burning Bibles, the Qur'an, the Book of Mormon or any other books that are considered holy and sacred.
31 ¶ Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
32 ¶ Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD. Respect your elders.
33 ¶ And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. Arizona's illegal immigration/racial profiling is a sin.
35 ¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
 

So I agree with the majority of this but somethings have changed like blood sacrifice. Homosexuality is a sin, in my opinion and according to my beliefs. But so is judging others. Also, according to Leviticus, shellfish (anything without fins and scales) are an abomination. It's worded the same as homosexuality. It's an abomination. So even with these words from God, I am committing an abomination because I like lobster and shrimp. I'm going to worry more about that than I am who loves who and who is committing abominations because what God ALWAYS talks about is love.

Am I a glass half full girl or what?

So in the aftermath of the monumental beat down that the Democratic party just received I've found the bright side... Pretty much can't blame the Dems/Obama Administration anymore. You are ALL represented by Republicans and chickens#it faux dems. Sucks to be you. We'll never know what could have been, now can we?

Sanity.

I truly loved Jon Stewart's closing speech at the end of The Rally to Restore Sanity. *Text and video* The number of people in attendance was staggering (reports of 250,000). 82 countries had rallies of their own to watch the live feed.

I've been very thoughtful of the interview on The Daily Show with President Obama. I've felt some frustration at the lack of progress. Jon Stewart called the President "timid". I disagree. I think we all hoped for more results and much quicker, but I have realized that he was put into office by a huge grassroots movement. Problem with that is that we ARE rooted. We worked hard to get him there but that is where our power ended. He needs support by his fellow Democrats in office and Republicans willing to reach across the aisle. It's like he led us into battle, so to speak. Running to conquer our countries problems only to look back and see that his army lost heart and he was alone. I wish we could have the time to see the results for good or for bad. I think that so many lack courage and some are truly corrupt.

Oh yeahhh Jon Stewart on top, yeah!!!

I wouldn't normally ask men, but please. This is one of the LEAST crazy thing in America right now.

Jon Stewart's Influence

Thanks for the tip Guest :)

Do you know what would be almost as cool as..

...Seeing my FAVORITE President of the United States of America in the city of my birth on the DAY of my birth???
This:

Obama To Do 'Daily Show' With Jon Stewart In Advance Of Rally, Election

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is taking his campaign message to "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart.

White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer says Obama is taping an appearance on Oct. 27, just days before the Nov. 2 elections. Stewart is coming to Washington next week for the "Rally to Restore Sanity" he is holding three days later on Saturday, Oct. 30, on the National Mall.

The host of the Comedy Central show says the rally is for people who think the loudest voices shouldn't be the only ones people hear.

Obama recently endorsed Stewart's event. It will be Obama's first appearance as president on Stewart's program.

(This version CORRECTS that it will be Obama's first appearance as president on "The Daily Show." )

WOW WOW WOW!!!

I am in love with this artwork. I'll post a link to the gallery but I'll post a couple of samples that fit the season:

The artist is Radojavar and here's a link to the gallery: Radojavor's amazing artwork

LDS church makes position clear on same sex marriage and bullying.

I wish that this statement would have been made LONG ago. It's not new, it's ALWAYS been the church's position. I understand that non-members may not have been aware of it, but for members it should never have needed to be made.

I would also like to point out that this has been MY opinion all along and also President Obama's
This is an article that talks about the interviews I saw. I can't find them in anything more that a sound bite:

The Democratic Presidential candidate appeared on MTV this weekend to come out against California's Proposition 8, which would overturn gay marriage in the Golden State. At the same time, however, Obama reiterated his belief that marriage is between a man and a woman. Said the Senator from Illinois:

I've stated my opposition to this. I think [Prop 8 is] unnecessary. I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

On a related note, the New York Times this Saturday ran an article highlighting the differences between Obama and rival John McCain's same-sex marriage opposition. While Obama's motivated more by religious elements, McCain's a victim of his time. Writes Patrick Healy:

As a Christian he is a member of the United Church of Christ Mr. Obama believes that marriage is a sacred union, a blessing from God, and one that is intended for a man and a woman exclusively, according to these supporters and Obama campaign advisers. While he does not favor laws that ban same-sex marriage, and has said he is open to the possibility that his views may be misguided,he does not support it and is not inclined to fight for it, his advisers say.

Senator John McCain also opposes same-sex marriage, but unlike Mr. Obama's, his position is influenced by generational and cultural experiences rather than a religious conviction, McCain advisers say.

I < 3 Halloween

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When do we ALL give up? I haven't... Yet.

One of the few things I've seen anger Jon Stewart was the claim during the 2008 elections that there were no "Real Americans" in certain areas mainly for him, New York City. I blogged on the anniversary of 9/11 of MY experience. It was horrible. It was like sleepwalking through a nightmare. I can't BEGIN to know what the horror was like for the people in New York. I know that in the rubble and horror and death and destruction the people in this country united like they never have in my lifetime. There was a surge in patriotism, faith, love, marriage, and tolerance. We were fired up to seek revenge and we went into war.

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I just finished reading a book on my daughter's list of required reading. The Kite Runner. I've been confused with our relationships with the Middle East. I had to print up a list of the characters of the book and a historical synopsis of the unrest since the 70's. So now that I have the Sunni and the Shiites sorted out. The Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, I ask myself this:
Umm, so we've been fighting the wrong country for all these years. We should have been in Afghanistan in the first place assuming that you really feel that bombing the hell out of a country is the way to go. It's been MY experience that Republicans LOVE war. In fact Bush and Cheney used false intelligence to take us into Iraq costing us trillions of dollars and lives that we can't begin to put a value on. So exactly what is it that President Obama is doing that the Republicans dislike? We're fighting in the right country now. I gotta say that Bush and Cheney should be imprisoned in my opinion but I'd settle for the Republican Party saying "Oops! Yeah we'll shut up now and listen to the intelligent people now. (Not to be confused with false intelligence.)"

So having any intelligence from the Republican party (forget the tea party, that's not worth mentioning) is a pipe dream. I'm not sure intelligence exists at all in our politicians. I also blogged on voter remorse (Jon Stewart on O'Reilly, remember?). Here's the thing... I voted for Hope and Change. I'm a brave little American and obviously I really could care less what people think of me for it as evidenced by the fact that I'm still a lone voice for President Obama in a sea of freaking conservative idiots in a small town, small minded, state. Now if we had some brave little Americans in places of power... We don't. WE HAVE STUPID PEOPLE!!!!!

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Really? We've forgotten the heroes of 9/11? And don't mistake my disdain for the pointless war for ingratitude for our troops. I believe they deserve the best we can give them. You know it's the benefits all the stupid politicians get.

Not why I had kids but and added perk!

So, I'm really not fond of my family. Honestly, when my mom passes away, I could care less if I ever see any of them again.

I love my kids and that's good enough for me. They are what is right with the world!

Rick Sanchez

So CNN correspondent was fired from CNN for calling Jon Stewart a bigot not to mention a bunch of crazy stuff about Jews in general. 'kay, I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart wouldn't be overly upset at the ridiculous tirade.

It's odd that CNN was able to look past this:

On December 10, 1990, Sanchez struck a drunken pedestrian, Jeffrey Smuzinick, with his car on a residential street near Dolphin Stadium (then known as Joe Robbie Stadium) and left the scene, returning two hours later.[11] Smuzinick was paralyzed and eventually died in an assisted living facility on November 2, 1995.[12] Sanchez had just left the NFL football game between the Miami Dolphins and the Philadelphia Eagles with his father when the accident occurred. Police breathalyzer results determined that Sanchez's blood alcohol level was above the legal limit for driving. He was not charged with causing the accident, but was charged with and pleaded no contest to driving under the influence (DUI)

Fox News certainly wasn't overly concerned when Glenn Beck called President Obama a reverse racist. However they are starting to feel some tension that their prize pony showing signs of mad cow disease (some of us ALWAYS saw the signs.) No one in their right mind would want Beck as their mascot, but he's in the right place for wrong minds, isn't he now?
Fox News divided

Here's what I think...

Okay what I am about to say is fact because I say so. I am the Omnipotent power of the Patch, therefore I only need "because I said so" to back me up. It works as being MOMnipotent too.

America is made up of people I agree with, people I almost always agree with, people I seldom agree with, and what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about people AKA stupid people.

Jon Stewart is in the first category. I agree with him 99.999% of the time.
President Obama, Former President Clinton, and pretty much Former President Carter are in the "almost always" group.
Jon Huntsman, Orrin Hatch, Jim Matheson are in the seldom because I can count on one hand the things I agree with.
I think naming names in the last group is beating a dead horse, or Fox, or bulldog with lipstick, ya know?

So Jon's rally:
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It's slated as non-partisan but there are some disagreements as to the truthfulness of that claim. One thing President Obama has NOT achieved is to bi-partisan cooperation, but that's not Obama's fault. I've seen very little effort made by Democrats AND Republicans. Stewart is no holds barred on calling out Obama when he's wrong and he's expressed his approval of McCain in the BP years (before Palin). McCain can DO bipartisan, but he hasn't since his defeat. Here's the problem uber-conservatives have with Jon Stewart: He uses big words and they need a dictionary to look them up. The words that he uses that they DO understand are usually bleeped. I think intelligent Republicans are watching. Why wouldn't they? Stupid people are fairly lost causes so they are pointless.

So here's President Obama's thoughts on the rally:



Seems a bit hypocritical to call out Fox news et al while showing approval of Jon Stewart. Here's where the distinction is: Fox, MSNBC, CNN, etc, are 24 hour news channels. The Daily Show lasts 30 minutes. Colbert too, but I'm not a fan.

In any case, it will prove to be interesting. I wish I could attend, but I'd be booted for my inability to use my indoor voice when I'm irate!!

Bill O'Reilly losing it?

Of course not! He never even had it to begin with. But shhhhhh, "the folks" still tune in.

So O'Reilly had Jon Stewart on the Factor. I'm not sure what he was thinking because even with Fox's Award winning editing department (okay they haven't won any award but they could make Janice Dickenson look 18 and demure, they are THAT good)he looked like an idiot. He's perpetually angry, embarrassingly insulting, coming off defensive, bigoted, and frankly uneducated.

See for yourself:


I have felt a disappointment with our country's leaders. I never believed Obama was a Messiah, but he's not had the support to bring about the change we all envisioned. Even his biggest supporters lack the courage to put themselves out there and what he HAS done he's done it with little to no support and an overwhelming amount of trivial insanity from "the folks". I still shudder to think of Palin in the White House. I can just imagine the reality show that would come of that. I'll be humming this all day:
(Sing to Beverly Hillbillies TV show theme song)
Come'n listen to my story 'bout a gal named Sarah
A quitter from Wasilla, barely kept her family fed
And then one day, she was winkin' at Putin
And up from Arizona come a babblin' fool
Republican, that is, party-of-no, pork-barrel champion
Well, the next thing you know, old Sarah’s a millionaire
Kin folk said, Sarah, dump Todd and move away from there
Said, the lower 49 is the place you oughta be
So she loaded up the truck and moved to DC
Lobbyists, ghost writers, that is, cocktail parties, corrupt politicians
Set a spell, take your snow boots off
Y'all come back now, hear?”
(Credit to Bronxdude)

I wonder if "the folks" noticed that Jon didn't include himself among the middle class that President Obama is trying to help with the tax cuts and stimulus programs. Because Jon Stewart, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Stephen ColberT, Sarah Palin... None of them hold a political office. None of them have all of the answers. Some of them claim to be scholars and some to be jesters. But none of them live like I do. None of them are "the folks" if by that they mean simple people who just struggle to pay the bills and raise the best kids that they can. I'm one of THOSE folks, but I think that Bill-O MIGHT be talking about the stupid people. I'm feeling guilty for spending $25 on a pair of Payless shoes and triumph at the formal I got on ebay for my teenage daughter for $32. That's who I am and I have no regrets.

Update:
I have no words... Okay I have 2 words: STUPID PEOPLE!

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The Grim Tale of the Peasants and the Koolaid Party or Why we don't like WWTC (condensed)

Once upon a time there was a fictional group of peasants who lived in a rural area. They lived there because they wanted to be free to worship, govern, and sustain themselves. They were humble, God fearing, and by, no means, rich, peasants, just hardworking. They were thriving, farming, and harvesting what they needed. They had their own local business that were the livelihood of themselves, their friends and family. But there had been problems between these peasants and the government of Evilland. Evilland had a huge hand in monopolizing the trade on many things because West Walmartia Trading Company (WWTC) was headquartered in Evilland. WWTC's trade route was so big and and the goods came in such huge quantities that the fictional people couldn't compete with the prices and they were none too pleased at the taxes either! The peasants no longer lived in Evilland, in fact they lived a sea away and the thought of the ruler of Evilland gettin' all up in their Koolaid really irritated them. So they disguised themselves and went aboard the big fat FREAKING WWTC ships and threw 90,000 pounds of Evilland Koolaid into Peasant Harbor. Evilland was very displeased at the rebellion and presented them with a bill to pay for all of that wasted Koolaid. The peasants laughed and said "Pshaw right!" Then blah blah blah Revolutionary War blah blah and the peasants formed their own government and called it the United Peasants of Peasantania.

They lived happily ever after.


Until....

Nearly 3 centuries later the peasants were bored and fat and lazy. They were fighting amongst themselves. The President of Peasantania didn't look like the original peasants or any of the Presidents that came before him. This freaked them out. They started marching with signs that made no sense (even if they HAD spelled everything right). They called their cause the same name the original peasants did without really knowing what happened then and what is happening now. I live in a small village in Peasantia and you know what I see? I see the little frame shop near the university go out of business. Clothing stores, grocery stores, mom and pop stores all gone now. What peasant would make all of those stops if they can get everything at once and for less money (and quality) at the local Walmartia Trading Company? So the dimwits with the signs and the Koolaid wrappers stapled to their hats have lost sight of what the Peasant party was REALLY about. Just like Evilland, Walmartia pays the Relephant party A LOT of money at campaign time. And as all of us middle class peasants sit here bickering over who is right and who is wrong, no one looks back to see where we came to this place that were in.


The characters in this story are purely fictional. Any similarities between them and real individuals are purely coincidental.

'Cmon little Patchling, you can say whatever you want, except that you like Glenn Beck.

I was listening to President Obama's Back to School Speech and wondering if my daughters were allowed to listen to him this year. He mentions his mother often when he talks about education. He makes it very clear that he is who he is because of her. Glenn Beck said that President Obama is reverse racist. He doesn't like white people. Glenn, his mama was white. I'm thinking he just doesn't like stupid white people. I don't even think he notices that they are white.

I'm voting Libertarian in my District House this year. I read a silly survey of questions that they each filled out. I know the Republican incumbent whose answers on dream car and favorite local restaurant makes it clear he's wealthy enough to be a Republican Politician. The Lib stated an affordable restaurant and the modest car he already drives. His answers were creative and amusing (showing that he'll play along even though it was stupid) and they were correct or else he's smart enough to know what the right answers are. Either way, I'm voting for him. Plus his name made me laugh all the way to the school and back.
VOTE BARRY SHORT!!!

So beautiful.

The Patch has had some requests.

One of them being the use of more Jon Stewart clips to emphasize some of my opinions on the more cracked individuals who had used their constitutional right of free speech it further reinforce how crude, rude, and unrefined some Americans can be ie. the entire Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachman, etc. I also have a guest blogger so stay tuned just in case the little Patchling decides to throw in her $.02.

Today's Daily Show clip is aimed at Fox News ignorance, and Terry "Yosemite" Jones, disingenuous change of heart. I think he and Glenn Beck are hearing the same party line voices in their head that they are attributing to God when in fact it's clear that they are seriously mental.
In case you are confused but who Terry Jones is and Yosemite Sam, this is for you:

(Yosemite Sam is the one that is clearly the most reasonable and intelligent looking.)

In one of the last clips of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart made a sensible argument about how stupid it is to worry what the radical Islamic people overseas think of us. Since when did WE start letting nut jobs influence our country. Oh yeah, that was the Bush Administration.. My bad.  But I'm with General Petraeus on this one. Burning the holy book of the Islamic people is an offense to the good people around the country that are kind and faithful people but it would also add fodder to the people in terrorist organizations just waiting for propaganda to stoke the rage and hatred against the American people.

Anywho.. Here's the clip of the day:

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Okay, I'm talking semantics right now.

We'll start off with The Most Trusted man in the media and his approach to this issue:

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So here's my take on the matter. Hatred and bigotry needs to go. The N-word is way worse because it means one thing and it's disparaging to black people. That being said, THEY need to stop using it too. It needs to be something that we teach our children is degrading and wrong along with other racial slurs.

Retarded has become slang for mentally handicapped individuals but it has other definitions:

re·tard
   (ree-tahrd)
–verb (used with object)
1.
to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
–verb (used without object)
2.
to be delayed.

For example: "The extremist right wingers are retarding the progress of our country for really stupid reasons."
Or: "The Minister who planned to burn Quran is retarded in his thinking." In other words he is hindering or slowing the acceptance of people's difference.
And don't forget that if you need to stop a fire, you use fire retardant. So can we move it along to something real? Sarah Palin is such a hypocrite. Her freedom of speech is more important that the rest of America's. She's very retarded in her way of thinking.

Remembering...

As I went through my day, yesterday getting everything ready for my youngest daughter's birthday party, I did it like I have for the past 9 years: In a daze. Not the same as the day she turned 4. It was so busy. I had to get her to preschool. The invitations were sent. I had come up with a cute idea to make her poster of her short life even better. I bought die-cut letters spelling out her name and strung them on yarn like a necklace that laid on the pictures of her first 4 years of life. But from the moment my husband called me telling me to turn on the TV to watch the horror of an attack that still makes no sense to me it was like sleepwalking. Only one tower had been hit and I watched in disbelieving horror as the second plane flew into and almost through, but not quite, the second tower. It never occurred to me to worry for MY safety or that of my kids. The terrorists were obviously making a huge statement by choosing targets of political and populated immensity. Everywhere I went the radio or television was on. When the attacks were over I was reminded that being a newscaster is probably not on par with rocket science as the pundits asked inane questions and offered useless commentary. The bewilderment of the people living in NYC became anger, resentment and a need for vengeance. It also united the country in a way that was astonishing and brief.
9 years later and our country is as divided as it's ever been or maybe that is just the way it feels to me. Hatred is a common commodity and it's bought and sold with ignorance. My daughter's party was a success. Far more successful than I was anticipating considering I was catering to a bunch of little divas. In the background we watched the horror of 9/11 replayed over and over on the History Channel. It's amazing to me that nine years have passed and I feel no sense of atonement. Our country is financially broken by a war that to me seems a farce. It's always felt that George H. Bush had no real end to Operation Desert Storm. Saddam Hussein wasn't dead and Bush couldn't have another term. The Clinton years pulled us out of the huge national debt. And George W. Bush Jr. former college cheerleader, part owner of the Texas Ranger Baseball team, and card carrying alcoholic "good ol' boy", set about to tie up Daddy's loose ends. And he did. Bush Jr. surprised many people by choosing Dick Cheney as Vice President, but probably not his co-members of the Skull and Bones Society where shaking hands with the devil is what they aspire too. Financed by daddy's oil and bloodshed and married to Haliburton prince of darkness George W. became the worst president the United States of America has ever had. After riding off into the sunset, free of puppet master Cheney, George hasn't had much to say in the last couple of years. That's been the wisest thing he's ever done, in my opinion.
I don't know when it was, in the past nine years that the unanswered questions started nagging at me. Questions like: Why Pearl Harbor? If you're going to poke a hornet's nest, do the most damage possible, right? And when the hornets begin to sting, they annihilate Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Killing so many innocent people. Doctors, nurses, civilians. Why?? What was the military strategy in that?
So it's 2010 and President Obama has shifted the war from Iraq to Afghanistan. The Al Quida has had plenty of time to regroup and like his father, George W. left office knowing that the bad guy slipped through his fingers. President Obama is left holding the bag, and the debt, and the unnecessary wars including a renewal of the war on racial prejudice. The Republicans, the bat shit crazy Tea Party/Birthers/9-12ers, etc. How does he face it? A self destructive country.
Who will be our first female president? Sarah Palin? I'm guessing one of the Bush twins. She can continue the tradition of cleaning up daddy's mess and even secure a pardon for all of the atrocities committed under false intelligence. There's no atonement for the events of 9/11/01. No redemption because we are tired of war, and lies. We're broken. And in some crappy hole in Afghanistan, a stinking man by the name of Osama Bin Laden laughs at American stupidity and greed.
Happy freaking birthday, youngest daughter.

Are you serious?

The Tea Party could be here to stay. I like it!! It's divisive and that is what we need in the GOP. I'm not being snide, I'm being honest. My minority in being liberal is a dead horse that I've completely annihilated but I've been genuinely floored by the insanity and ignorance in our country, my community, and in my circle of friends, family, and acquaintances. In the race for Alaska's senate seat, the GOP candidate who was considered a shoo-in, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, is trailing Joe Miller who is backed by the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. That is actually frightening! The extreme behavior and platforms that the Tea Party have been pushing is truly alarming. Many of ther residents of the state of Alaska has shown themselves to be willing to take a look at what Sarah Palin's agenda really is. I've watched the disillusionment and anger of some Alaskan residents at being abandoned by her as Governor. Realizing that she QUIT being their governor and taking her dog and pony show for shallow celebrity. Maybe they think back to the embarrassment of her interviews with Couric and Gibson (among others) that established the fact that she was completely unqualified for VP but drove home that her motives are questionable. She QUIT! She used her children to sell herself, she failed her state and she stole money from the GOP and the tax payers. But she's proving to have some determined sycophantic followers and she's doing it for her own selfish purposes. She doesn't represent the needs of the Alaskan people, she doesn't support the Constitution unless it suits her. She certainly violated several of Kathleen Gustafson and Billy Sullivan's rights in Homer Alaska.

The Republican Party has some very good people who seem genuinely ashamed of the behavior of the antics of the extremists. In fact, many have tried to distance themselves from some of the crazier people and their movements. More and more these extreme wingnuts are showing that their problems don't lie in the government as a whole, but with President Obama. Today I read about a newer movement and I wonder WHY doesn't this disturb more people? Starting with the one I read about today, I'm going to list some of these groups and what their agenda is:

Thirteenthers: They seem to be okay with the part of the 13th Amendment that banned slavery, but they want to reintroduce an amendment from 1810 stating that no one holding a public office that is bestowed a title of nobility. This mean that President Obama must step down because he won the Nobel Prize. Apparently unbeknownst  to those of us who HAVEN'T won one, the recipient is crowned King of Norway too! *Sarcasm, in case no one picked up on that* This appears to be mostly Iowa.
Tenthers: This one isn't so bad. I understand the mistrust of "big government" and this is about letting states govern themselves. Problem with that is that I don't want Utah's state leaders making my choices for me. Sheesh, if they had their way, Arizona could shoot Latinos on sight! Texas and Alaska would secede, but that could have it's up sides, as well.
Birthers: Talk about a dead horse!!! President Obama started snowing us at birth. Orly Taitz lost that one!
Teabaggers: I think I've covered that, but they are normally uneducated, racist, people with too much time on their hands.
Glenn Beckites: People who believe the rantings of a man that is a complete boob. This will probably become a religion because self proclaimed prophets are frowned upon by the faith whose members made him a wealthy man.
Foxtards: People who watch and believe a cable news network that isn't bright enough to let them Republican party BUY their favor, they are unfair and unbalanced and they paid the GOP to boot!


I may think of more later. I'm pretty POSITIVE I'll think of more :)

More on Fox owned government.

Fox News has become home to the crazier folk that bring ratings if not news. Sarah "I'm a really stupid quitter" Palin has her own platform there (along with a show on the Discovery Channel where she will be sharing the parts of Alaska that AREN'T ashamed of her very existence (mark your calendar for the upcoming episode featuring the OTHER MOTHER OF THE YEAR: Kate Gosslin! What a treat. Dr. Laura is going down like a circus clown for dropping the N-word 11 times on her radio show so she's likely a shoe in for a Fox show. Really Fox News equals intolerance.

UPDATED FoxPAC: Fox News' corporate parent gave Republican Governors Association $1 million

August 16, 2010 5:52 pm ET by Matt Gertz

Bloomberg News reports today (h/t Daily Kos' KingOneEye) that News Corp. -- the media giant which owns Fox News and The Wall Street Journal -- has donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, the GOP organization that helps coordinate Republican gubernatorial campaigns and pays for independent ads in support of their candidates.

Media Matters has confirmed Bloomberg's report using publicly available IRS filings. We also found no evidence of corresponding donations to the Democratic Governors Association in the current political cycle. News Corp. wants Republicans elected to office, and they're willing to spend money to make it happen.

According to the article, News Corp. is actually the RGA's "biggest corporate donor." Bloomberg suggests that News Corp. has made these donations due to their opposition to "proposed federal rule changes that would weaken the position of its Fox network in negotiations with cable companies," stating that "Governors may have a stake in the issue."

Whether or not that is the case, this large corporate donation to the GOP underscores News Corp.'s role as an appendage of the Republican Party.

UPDATE: Politico's Ben Smith has received the following quote from a News Corp. spokesman: "News Corporation believes in the power of free markets, and the RGA's pro-business agenda supports our priorities at this most critical time for our economy." They're not trying to hide it anymore. As the coverage of its media outlets indicates, News Corp. supports the Republican Party's platform. It's just now started putting its money where its mouth has long been.

Sixteen months ago, we drew attention to Fox News Senior Vice President Bill Shine's characterization of his network as the "voice of the opposition." Ever since, we've been demonstrating how the network has been living up to his words.

In September, we defined Fox News as a conservative political organization, noting that the network had been openly advocating against the Democratic Congress and White House through extreme promotion of anti-government rallies, witch hunts against administration officials, and by urging their audience to call Congress and the White House to protest Democratic policies.

In October, we revealed the revolving door between the Republican Party and Fox News Channel, with a number of former Bush administration officials, former and potentially future GOP presidential candidates, and Republican strategists on Fox's payroll and airwaves.

In November, we chronicled Fox News' promotion of Conservative Party congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie, and Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell in the run-up to the November 3 election. We also noted how Fox News hosts and analysts spent Election Day promoting their candidacies.

In January, we documented Fox's campaign for Scott Brown; in February, we pointed out the network's advocacy for fellow Republican Senate candidates Marco Rubio and Mark Kirk.

In April, we showed how Fox News hosts and contributors have raised millions of dollars for Republican candidates and causes in the 2010 election cycle. We also pointed out that in recent years, at least twenty Fox News personalities have endorsed, raised money, or campaigned for Republican candidates or causes, or against Democratic candidates or causes, in more than 300 instances and in at least 49 states.

And now we have Fox's parent company donating $1 million to elect Republican gubernatorial candidates. Are there still people who doubt that Fox is just an arm of the GOP?

Okay, a recap.

So Fox News, owned by News Corp. is a NEWS CHANNEL. Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck, both have shows on Fox News yet neither are newscasters. Or politicians but I digress.. Jon Stewart is a comedian on Comedy Central and yet in less than 10 minutes he can clear up pure insane crap that spews from Warrior Who Hears From God (or just batpoop crazy voices in his head) Glenn Beck.

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Soooo.. Vacation is over.

I haven't blogged for awhile. My heart hasn't been in it. I was considering making a separate blog toned down so I could share it then I remembered that this blog has never been about sharing. It's for my personal need to fight against the out of touch stupid people around me. I've decided to open it up BECAUSE of the people around me. It's not going to be a shocker that I'm opinionated, liberal, maddened, and painfully blunt. So, it is what it is.

I got the call I've been waiting for but half dreading a few days ago. I will be campaigning again soon. Actually I will be working security at Democratic events and voting. Yeah THAT sounds wise! I'd get in a smack down at CHURCH if I gave into my urge to fight back. I'll be calling again soon. But ONLY for candidates I believe in.

Prop8

Prop 8 overturned! I can't say I'm sorry to see it happen, because I have the church vs. politics or whatever it is about me that is sooooo different than most people I know.

I'm happy that couples who have been denied constitutional rights on a morality judgment (and exactly who is it that is morally superior?) can finally be married.

And yes, I AM still Mormon. Active and in good standing :)

Okay SERIOUSLY??

When O'Reilly thinks you are cracked, that's saying something.

1. Nanny state.. Glenn Beck can't see the value in Michelle Obama's fight an child obesity?? He's MORMON!!! The Word of Wisdom is all about eating healthy and getting exercise. Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh could use a stint at fat camp. If you melted down their blubber it would be an alternate form of energy!!

2. Michelle Obama isn't WEARING a dress in the pictures of her visiting the Gulf. She's wearing a blouse. IF that was some sort of political statement, wouldn't it be more along the lines of oil blobs washing up on pristine beaches???

3. President Spencer W.  Kimball, who was prophet in my childhood years, encouraged us to grow a garden. For the love of all that is good and holy, convert to a different religion, Glenn. You are so insane.

Independence Day...

The sun is going down so it's time to bring my flag in. My church begins at 9 a.m. and being the first Sunday of the month it was fast and testimony meeting (scroll to Fast Sunday). Our Bishop presided today which was perfect because he's unlikely hero, so to speak. He's a very humble, loving man, with a smile on his face always. He served in the Gulf war, Desert Storm, under Bush Sr. He said that 3 things can move him to tears when he speaks of them: his God, his country, and his family. He didn't get through any of it without emotion. I love him very much. He told a story of a time that they were fighting alongside soldiers from Kuwait. These men were so impassioned to gain back what belonged to them. When it became apparent that they were successful in taking back their land, the Kuwaitis insisted that they stop and offer thanks to their God. My Bishop said he could see no difference in the dirt or any sign that they had crossed into Kuwait but these men knew and they gave thanks. They took handfuls of dirt and they rubbed it on themselves, throwing it in the air to let it rain down on them. They kissed the earth of their homeland.

I thought today how our people would react to losing and then fighting to regain America. The patriotic hymns we sang to day, making me feel proud and humbled at our gift of freedom. I thought of the people who fought for this, the authors of the hymns, the people who protest every loving thing under the sun, do they recognize that they protest because they CAN??? They wouldn't have that freedom in every country. Perhaps we've grown soft and jaded. We no longer recognize what it is to love our country. We pay lip service to the hymns and the Pledge of Allegiance but we are ungrateful and we are disrespectful.

As I sang the fourth verse, I felt humble:
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

I leaned over to my daughter and said "From sea to shining sea? That's not counting Arizona right?" I'm not certain that these patriotic men or people who have fought to preserve our freedom ever imagined the horror that our country has become or the disrespect. It's nice to step back and think on what they intended it to be.

Blogger's block..

Just not feeling it lately. Sorry...

My sister. I love you.

I've opened myself to so much here I suppose because it's anonymous and safe. I'm on vacation but I got a call from my mom late this afternoon. My sister passed away today. My sisters are much older than I am, so in a sense it's more surreal because of that. I didn't grow up with them. I suppose I would say I was closest to her simply because I have so many memories of her. I'm not sure I remember a time that she was truly happy and frankly this isn't completely unexpected. Her life has not been her own for a very long time. I truly believe that she has now found happiness.

If tears could build a stairway
and thoughts a memory lane
I'd walk right up to heaven
and bring you home again
No Farewell words were spoken
No time to say good-bye
You were gone before I knew it
And only God knows why.

My heart's still active in sadness
And secret tears still flow
What it meant to lose you
No one can ever know.
But now I know you want us
To mourn for you no more
To remember all the happy times
Life still has much in store.

Since you'll never be forgotten
I pledge to you today
A hallowed place within my heart
Is where you'll always stay.

God knows why, with chilling touch,
Death gathers those we love so much,
And what now seems so strange and dim,
Will all be clear, when we meet Him.
I Knew you for a Moment
~Unknown

Okay NOW I'm scared...

So the headache.. Blah blah blah.
Of course I know that the blood pressure and things cropping up EVERY doctor's visit isn't boding well. I've known that for a very long time. It's something we joke about because no one thinks of it in real terms. I guess I joke about it, but it's the only way it's ever addressed.
So we're going out of town for a few days tomorrow. I've been printing up Google maps for the destinations of the places we are going. I printed up two maps for the nearest craft stores as my town's recently went out of business. I printed one for Michael's and one for Robert's crafts AND I printed up 40% off coupons for each store but I can't remember why. I can't remember what I need. It sounds stupid but it's never happened like this before. It's also disheartening that I KNOW that I've told everyone in my family but no one knows what I'm talking about. Why am I even here?
Reminds me of some lyrics to one of my favorite Evanescence songs:

Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
Maybe someday you'll look up,
And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one:
"Isn't something missing?"

I kind of can't wait until someday.

The amazing world created by Phil McDarby

I got an email today from Mr. McDarby who is the artist that created the picture that has become the mascot of my blog. At least the whimsical side of me that is Briar, rarely heard from because I usually blog about political frustration! I had done a search earlier to find his site and more of his amazing work. This is his site:

http://www.philmcdarby.com/

A little known factoid about me: I've actually written some stories that have been published but not in the form they were intended. They read like a poem but were meant to be a picture book. I lack the illustration skills (and persistence) to bring life to the world I see in my mind but Phil McDarby has shown the world I can only paint with words. I appreciate his generosity in allowing me to keep the picture up. Visit his site. His gift is astounding.

Facebook?

So, unlike the Patch, my Facebook page limits my freedom of speech. If you have it and are tired of Teabagger nonsense, here's a link to a group. I didn't name it and I've always said that no party has cornered the market on stupidity. To say that all Republicans are idiots would be stupid and I'm not stupid.

Enjoy:

Republicans Are Idiots And Arguing With Them Is A Waste Of Time

I will say that it broke the short truce I had with my sister who took offense even though I pointed out that I didn't name the group. That was totally predictable. I knew that day was coming. Like always, the story changes, but online conversations are forever. Like I wouldn't save THAT one knowing it was going to happen!! Again, I'm many things but I'm not stupid.

The wisdom of Winston Churchill and me.

"If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons."
~Winston Churchill

"When Glenn Beck claims to be a Mormon, a Vatican endorsed Warrior of God, that God speaks to, torturing the gullible night and day on the radio and Fox News, we can rest assured he'll be tortured night and day forever and ever. Because it says so in the book of Revelations."
~Me :)

I am mellowing out. Anyone notice that?

Okay NOW tell me you don't believe in Chupacbra!

I found these on a site I'm not going to link to because of the language, but they borrowed the pictures, so can I.

Yeah they only LOOK nice on Harry Potter:


This reminds me of someone.... I can't put my finger on it.


You know how Damien on the Omen was actually the off-spring of Satan and a jackel? I've SEEN this things children. Seriously scary stuff.. Worse than the images conjured while reading the book of Revelations!