OHHHHH This is going to be cool!!!!

Obama to Meet With Mormon Leader
By Michael A. Fletcher

President Obama is scheduled to hold an Oval Office meeting Monday with Thomas S. Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Monson, who has headed the church since last year, will be joined at the afternoon meeting by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), himself a Mormon.

The LDS Church does NOT hate people who are gay. The fact is that some of these people who were kissing on church property is private property, not public which is trespassing. For example, people who advocate eating Pork and munching BBQ pork sandwiches on the grounds of a Jewish Tabernacle is considered trespassing, but they are free to voice their beliefs on any public property or places adjoining with the Tabernacle's property. Respect people and religious boundaries. Furthermore, the Church is not against gays working in the workplace, housing, restaurants because of their sexual orientation. We even teach bashing against gays is a sin. We acknowledge some members who are gay but if they live the worthy standards of the church, they can go forth or progress like any other member as long as anyone does not participate in homosexual behavior in word, thought and deed. I have good friends who smoke, and I don't, and don't reject them because they smoke. I have some gay friends and they know my beliefs but we don't make a great deal of it, just like a Democrat and Republican thing.

It seems you may not be aware there are very many minorities in the church, you're invited to visit a local congregation. Keep in mind large cities mostly have congregations who are minorities but you will surely still find a couple of minorities in some areas that may have larger homogeneous populations. I remember a great ward who had a wonderful bishop who was black and the only black member in a white congregation. We all loved him because he was a compassionate man and leadership, nothing about the color of his skin.

From the beginning of the restoration of our church our Prophets from Joseph Smith on down to the present time and we are not looking for a hand out. We want to help. No matter how tight things are in the world and in our church, the President of our Country can always count on our church to be involved in any humanitarian effort no matter where it is. We are always prepared to help.

Ummm..

My mom hurts me. I don't know if she doesn't realize she's insensitive sometimes or not, but it hurts.

Okay Snarky Mc SnarkSnark is back..

Mark Sanford SHUT UP!

When Governors are voted into office that implies that the people in their state trusts them, in good times and bad, sickness and health, until death or electing someone better do us part.

Now Mark Sanford broke that trust with his state and his wife. He should step down. He refuses. Here's a sample of his latest verbal diarrhea:

"(W)hile none of us has the chance to attend our own funeral, in many ways I feel like I was at my own in the past weeks, and surprisingly I am thankful for the perspective it has afforded..."

Not really in the best of taste considering the high funeral toll of genuine American icons recently, but since he went there, can we trade and get one of them back?
Then he did the blah blah blah thing and played the God card, which we learned early on that he's clearly not been listening in Sunday School (he probably just pretended devotion as he read and reread the Song of Solomon).
In my opinion he should step down and shut up. He owes quiet and genuine amends to his family and probably should find a new state.
Meanwhile while all seems quiet on The Last Frontier as we wait to hear why their quit, version 5.0.
Can't complain about living in Utah. Our Governor seems to have gotten a brain transplant when no one was looking...

And that's the way it was...

Yesterday "America's Most Trusted Man" died at age 92. I've been searching the internet far and wide to find the name of the news break that came on in the middle of Saturday morning cartoons. I remember the sound and the little spinning globe and I will never forget Walter Cronkite. He interrupted my cartoon watching!!! But I eventually began to pay attention to what he said and how he said it. It never occurred to me that he could be wrong. As I look back at his amazing career he rarely was.

A decade after he retired he kept the crown of America's Most Trusted Man, maybe even beyond. His career as a news anchor spanned some of the most historic events our nation has ever seen. His written news career began in 1939, but in 1944 he TAKES part in the Normandy assaults with the allied troops in South Africa. Post WWII he works to establish posts for the United Press in various places overseas. 1950 he came onboard CBS broadcasting company to help establish the television news department in Washington D.C and eventually made his mark on the CBS Evening News.

He saw Presidents of the US and other countries come and go. He covers political conventions and missions to space. He lost composure enough to exclaim "Whew, boy!" as he reported on the moon landing and again as words fail him and tears take over as he announced the death of John F. Kennedy (and it was real, Glenn Beck, no need for Mentholatum to summon tears). He later apologized for the show of emotion as unbecoming a news anchorman. In '65 he went into Vietnam as a war correspondent. His report of what he saw was personal and profound:

"We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds," he said, and concluded, "We are mired in stalemate."
After the broadcast, President Lyndon B. Johnson reportedly said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."

He reported on the death of Martin Luther King and race riots and war riots. Spiro Agnew called him biased and Archie Bunker called him a "pinko" (which was probably among the best praise a man could get considering the sources!) He never lost his childlike fascination with space and the missions he reported to us. He reported on Watergate and Reganomics. He came back after retirement to anchor John Glenn's second space flight in '98 (he reported the first in '62) He won numerous awards but one that had to be dear to him was NASA's Ambassador of Exploration Award in 2006. The first non-astronaut to win the award.
In 2004 he offered a commentary in the movie OUTFOXED on the overtly political and alleged unethical practices of Fox news (that we still SOOOOOO enjoy *sarcasm*)
In 2005 he lost his wife of nearly 65 years but he lived to see the historic day that America elected it's first black President into office. President Barack Obama who had this to say about his passing:

For decades, Walter Cronkite was the most trusted voice in America. His rich baritone reached millions of living rooms every night, and in an industry of icons, Walter set the standard by which all others have been judged.

He was there through wars and riots, marches and milestones, calmly telling us what we needed to know. And through it all, he never lost the integrity he gained growing up in the heartland.

But Walter was always more than just an anchor. He was someone we could trust to guide us through the most important issues of the day; a voice of certainty in an uncertain world. He was family. He invited us to believe in him, and he never let us down.

This country has lost an icon and a dear friend, and he will be truly missed.

In a world of 24 hour news, where people the likes of Perez Hilton, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh can make or break people and be paid millions of dollars to do so. Where tears come cheap and news is reported from a lazy boy recliner. We've lost sight of the integrity of the press. It's freedom abused and twisted into a mockery. Racism and hatred is manipulated and it's victims are often self serving. Never having fought for their rights as a soldier of our country. We have so few Rosa Parks, Bobby Kennedys, Martin Luther Kings. We are spoiled, indulged and lazy.
No, the news didn't die yesterday. The news died when the anchor on the screen no longer could say "And that's the way it is".
Walter Cronkite ended each report with those words and we knew we could trust him because he'd been there. The greatest newsman of all time died yesterday, and those who remember him mourn. The newsman that can be trusted died a long time ago.
Rest in Peace Walter Cronkite.


For a complete time line of his career visit: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/walter-cronkite/career-timeline/562/

*I found the PBS show he created called 'Why In The World?' but I don't remember if that is what the Saturday morning news breaks were called. It doesn't sound right, though.

Hehe.. The gift that keeps on giving!

You know, our church can help you with the fact that you are a RAGING PSYCHO!!!!

The always inspirational, embarrassment to the Mormon faith, Glenn Beck, went postal on a caller on his show. I wish he'd do some research and stop wigging out. This is especially effective if you watched the interview in my previous post with Kathleen Sebelius.
Can we start telling people he's in the religion that is MISTAKEN for the LDS church that Warren Jeffs is the loony leader of?

Why don't the people on TV ever listen when I scream at them???

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?????
Why didn't President Obama listen to me when I told him to pick Kathleen Sebelius? I ♥ her. We all know my love for Jon Stewart but he was clearly no match. Kansas has to be in mourning STILL over her departure. (Call Alaska, they'll cheer you up ☺ )

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Kathleen Sebelius Pt. 1
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Kathleen Sebelius Pt. 2
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Do dreams come true?

Today at the library I stopped and read one of my favorite speeches of all time. "I Have a Dream, by Martin Luther King.

This is a short portion of it:

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I read this today, as well:

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), seeking to discredit Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy, cited her 2001 “wise Latina” speech, and contrasted the view that ethnicity and sex influence judging with that of Judge Miriam Cedarbaum, who “believes that judges must transcend their personal sympathies and prejudices.”

“So I would just say to you, I believe in Judge Cedarbaum’s formulation,” Sessions told Sotomayor.

“My friend Judge Cedarbaum is here,” Sotomayor riposted, to Sessions’ apparent surprise. “We are good friends, and I believe that we both approach judging in the same way, which is looking at the facts of each individual case and applying the law to those facts.”

Cedarbaum agreed.

“I don’t believe for a minute that there are any differences in our approach to judging, and her personal predilections have no effect on her approach to judging,” she told Washington Wire. “We’d both like to see more women on the courts,” she added.

Cedarbaum, a pioneering woman lawyer who graduated from Columbia Law School in 1953, goes way back with both participants in the colloquy. Cedarbaum mentored Sotomayor after she joined the federal district court in Manhattan in 1992, and they have been close friends ever since.

In 1986, Cedarbaum and Sessions were both nominated to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan, and were members of the same orientation class for future judges. Their paths then diverged, however. Cedarbaum was confirmed, but Sessions nomination floundered over a controversy surrounding comments he made involving the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP.

Link: Sotomayor Surprises Sessions (The sentence in bold was done so by me.)

I read this comment from Michael Steel:

Yes, that's right. To lure African-Americans into the GOP, Steele is offering "fried chicken and potato salad."

(Bil Browning.
LGBT blogger and new media consultant)

Back to Martin Luther King:

And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.

The case, Alan Keyes, et al. v Barack H. Obama, et al. was filed on Inauguration Day and is one of a raft of suits alleging Obama is ineligible to be president because he is not a "natural born citizen.”

Link

Enough with enhanced interrogation over every loving decision our President makes. Why is every thing he does, every appointment he makes, challenged? The nominees raked over the coals??? Let him do his job without the deliberate stonewalling. We may never know how and how quickly he could have instituted a solution. The GOP will continue halt his ideas and water down the plans that may have worked. But the majority want him to fail. All at the expense of the people of the U.S.

*Edited because one of my quotes disappeared and it looked like I was blogging under the influence.*

Traitors.

Alan Keyes get some skin bleach and a life. Apply to be Michael Steele's gofer or bootlicker.

And isn't this treason??

Clickity click.

I think this may be old news, but new to me.

Oscar G. Mayer died at age 95. There's been a few generations of Oscar Mayers, but this is the one that was (retired)the chairman of the Wisconsin based meat company that bears his name. It sent me into a retrospective of old commercials. Some I remember, some are way older:

This one I remember:

This I don't remember but how alarming is it???

These I remember: