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calimary's JournalMAN what a come-down.
I'll bet the ground over the final resting places of Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Mike Wallace, and certainly Don Hewitt - is seriously displaced. Because those gents buried underneath ARE spinning in their graves!
Dear GOD what has happened to "60 Minutes." Never thought I'd see the day when that program was finally perverted by the wrong-wing. But it sure has happened. Never thought I'd see the day when you can't trust "60 Minutes" anymore. NEVER. And it is indeed here - now.
DAYUM!!!
LOVE this part:
On the uproar over his attack on trickle-down economics: "There is nothing in the Exhortation that cannot be found in the social Doctrine of the Church. I wasn’t speaking from a technical point of view, what I was trying to do was to give a picture of what is going on. The only specific quote I used was the one regarding the 'trickle-down theories' which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and social inclusiveness in the world. The promise was that when the glass was full, it would overflow, benefiting the poor. But what happens instead, is that when the glass is full, it magically gets bigger. Nothing ever comes out for the poor." (That's pretty much one of the most succinct, apt descriptions of the failure of American capitalism you're gonna read.)
LOVE this! That, singlehandedly, made me a HUGE fan of this Pope.
hensarling sounds like laura bush when the car crash in which she killed another kid came up in the
news during the 2000 campaign. I'll never forget her response: "I'm sorry it happened and I'm sorry it was reported." She was sorry the public found out. Thoughtful woman...
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore named one of their daughters Scout after the character of Atticus's
daughter in the film.
A WUNNNNNderful movie. Good to see how well it was received. Still one of my all-time favorites.
Why is the Grinch being used almost exclusively by cartoonists?
Just pisses me off. Here's ANOTHER absolutely STELLAR way to win the PR war - to dramatize to any idiot out there what's going on. Utter perfection at this time of year, too - and of course the Dems aren't picking up on it or milking it for all it's worth. Tone-deaf AGAIN.
As a mother myself, I could not agree with you more.
Apologies for getting preachy for a moment, but THAT is part of what being pro-choice is all about. It's someone else's choice to make, and it's all THEIRS. It just has to be. No one's entitled to make that serious and heavyweight and life-changing a choice for somebody else.
My husband and I have always concurred with the ZPG idea - just replace yourselves. Two kids max. That's what we did. My body sort of made that decision for me - my husband didn't want to risk it again because it was too physically rough on me. I didn't either. Two were PLENTY enough!!! How can you take care of more kids than that? How can you afford more kids than that - unless you're independently wealthy? How do you have the TIME to care for more than two kids? Seemed to me that any one parental unit could only deal with two kids max, anyway. One kid per arm.
We're in no hurry to become grandparents, either. Heck, I told the whole band that! "Boys, you do NOT have permission to make me a grandmother while you're out there on tour! Use a condom, dammit!!!!"
Babies in general are a miracle, BUT that does NOT change the fact that we now have an increasingly serious overpopulation problem on this planet, and there are just too many mouths to feed - compared to the resources and/or capability to feed - and otherwise care for and accommodate them all. We had a visiting tour band from Wyoming stay with us all weekend, and they'd never been to L.A. before. HUGE city compared to the huge open spaces they were used to back home. They were almost reeling with the culture-shock. It was an easy contrast for them - the effects of a huge population on a given area: crowds, traffic, pollution, congestion, rudeness, stress, etc., that they just don't have in their lives in Wyoming. Their idea of a big city was a population of about 600-thousand. Compared to seven-to-eleven MILLION here, depending on which geographic parameters you're talking about!
Population growth is simply becoming unsustainable. Scares me to death! I remember when pat robertson was running for president and would go out on the stump and repeatedly yowl - "what America NEEDS is MORE CHILDREN!" And it just made me shudder. That's what we DON'T need so much. We need wise management and custodianship of ALL our resources, including our ability to breed. For the sake of our very survival on this planet.
Well, isn't that basically what they ARE?
Seems to me it fits the definition perfectly. I mean - look at what they're doing. Listen to what they're saying.
This is a meme WELL-WORTH repeating.
This. ^^^
Every word. Bravo!!!!! Couldn't have stated it any better. Totally spot-on. And all things considered, I agree with you that President Obama might just be one of the best, if not the best, of presidents in history. Up there with Roosevelt, and hopefully FAR more transformational in the long run than ronald reagan ever purported to be. I'm hoping that President Obama leads the way to the REAL transformation this country needs - AWAY from the damnable, contemptible, disgraceful, disgustingly unfair, and thoroughly UN-Christian blight of reagan. That ALL has to be undone and rolled back and reversed. BIGTIME. ALL of it. FOREVER. And do what the Romans did to Carthage after they burned it down to the ground: sow the earth it stood upon with salt, so nothing more will grow there. That's what I hope to see done with the abomination of reaganomics. NOTHING good came of it and a whole lot of detestable ICK got spawned.
Welcome to DU, politichew!
Glad you're here! This is SO spot-on. And so infuriating. And so completely embarrassing. It's most galling when our side joins the crap-spew. Like they expect him to be perfect. NOBODY is!!! Certainly not them! I keep trying to remind people here and elsewhere - "and so you'd be happy with the alternative then? You'd prefer mcsame/palin, or wrongney/ryan? How would THAT work out for ya? You'd like THEIR Supreme Court picks better? You'd like THEIR nice new multiple wars then? That'd be okay with you? More screw-the-poor and fuck those without insurance - just let 'em die, hopefully sooner?"
I stand by my President. PERIOD. And I'm damn grateful it's not another republi-CON in OUR White House!
Lots of cute littles! LOVE 'em! But I'm gonna send the guitar case cat photo to my son!
He'll think that one's the best!
Love 'em, SCE!!!!
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