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calimary's JournalLOVE it!
They'll hang on the "extremely careless" bits for dear life and try to make something of those crumbs. Her enemies probably got some tiny crumbs falling off the edge of the tablecloth. Unfortunately for them, they were expecting and probably planning on a ten-course dinner.
Both those girls remind me of long-stemmed roses.
Those long slender legs. Reminds me of my best friend who had those long slender legs at that age. I was BEYOND jealous.
Frankly, anything with Brownback involved qualifies.
He's just a twisted idiotic apostle of trickle-down and other quackery.
I remember all that, too, Warpy!
Childhood in the Midwest up til we moved out to California in the early 60s well before the JFK assassination and the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. But I remember - all the shows were whites-only. The stuff my parents watched, and, when our next door neighbors got the neighborhood's first color TV, we'd all go over there every Sunday night to watch that map catch fire, ushering in "Bonanza"! Buncha white cowboy/rancher types. "Leave it to Beaver", "The Donna Reed Show," "Father Knows Best," "Ozzie & Harriet," and then all white moms & dads with kids who all had white friends and classmates. There was "Amos & Andy," which featured black characters. I was too young to remember that. But shit - the variety shows were all white. Perry Como's show, and Danny Kaye's. The evening news was all-white. Local and network, from the "Camel News Caravan" with John Cameron Swayze, WAAAAAY back when, also which I was too young to remember.
But it was ALL WHITE. Except for movies with the Rat Pack in them. Because Frank and Dino had Sammy Davis Junior in their gang, too. And Jack Benny did have Rochester.
I remember either reading or listening to an interview about the "I Love Lucy" show. What trouble the network brass had with the idea of the Cuban band leader with the Spanish accent! He so glaringly wasn't Anglo. Where's the white bread? What's this tortilla stuff? I ALSO remember, a few years later, when a similar conversation took place regarding fears about Eva Gabor's thick Hungarian accent, and what made that problem go away was somebody in the room who piped up with - "well, Desi Arnaz. And look how that turned out." But back then, it HAD to be white. And not even just any white, either. White bread. White as snow. White, Middle-America, suburbia with the white picket fence, even. Dad with the briefcase and Mom in her nice house dress and pearls making cookies or running the vacuum, with two or three kids, the dog, and the station wagon. In the pretty middle-class white neighborhood with pretty middle-class white single-family homes. I remember the controversy about the sitcom "Julia," about an African American nurse/single mom, starring Diahann Carroll. Man, they took a risk, centering a series on a black lead. They weren't sure about that one at all. It was a hit show, though, and as expected, she was perfect in it. But ... but ... but ... er ... uh ... well, the American people won't watch a show about a black gal. But... but... but... er... uh... well, yup! They did! But sheesh, I remember the press it got. So controversial. So experimental. Hang onto yer hats, this is real cutting-edge stuff here. Ooooooooooooh. Shit! So? It's only a sitcom! It's not like there's no such thing as a single mom who's African American and might also be a nurse or other professional. But MAN-oh-MAN there was so much coverage about it!
Hell, the doctors on the doctor shows were white. The detectives and cops on the cop shows were white. The private eyes on the private eye shows were white. The lawyers on the lawyer shows were white. The cowboys on the Western series were white. It was only in the later 60s and 70s that this started changing. Norman Lear rocked the world with "All in the Family." That appeared in prime time in 1971. By then, we'd had the uproar of the '60s with all the assassinations and anti-war rallies and campus unrest and social upheaval galore, revolutions in popular music, anti-heroes like Nicholson and Hopper, Woodstock - where, gasp! we got to see black artists like Hendrix and Havens, the draft and Vietnam, so maybe we were broken in a little, as a society or as a peculiarly American culture. And I remember what a whoop-de-coo accompanied the arrival of "All in the Family." Holy Cow! THAT was a revolution. But that was the America that all this shit is rooted in.
It was easy for white America to have that myopic misconception reinforced. It was everywhere you looked. Even during the commercial breaks. You make such a good point, Warpy - about people who grew up back then and "think Leave it to Beaver was a documentary."
No. Freakin'. Shit.
And it's NOBODY'S DAMN BUSINESS in the first place!
The bedroom busybodies certainly still think so, but the rest of us don't.
I have a friend who, every so often, mumbles "baby-killers" under her breath. She now knows better than to do that around me. She was ranting about it one of several times, awhile ago, and the conversation somehow got around to how it applied to her own daughter (who's old enough to be on her own and yes, able to make her own decisions about everything including her own body). And I had to say "... and who gets to make that decision? Some men in Washington who neither know or care about her circumstances or her well-being? Some priest or American mullah who won't bother to contribute to help raise that unwanted baby or maybe adopt it, and rages on about how his taxes are too high?"
Who gets to make that decision - for her?
Shouldn't it be she herself who gets to make that decision?
But... but... but... there MUST be a pony!
Under all that horse shit - there MUST be a pony!
There simply MUST be a pony!!!
Yet ANOTHER big K&R!
Seems to me it's turning into textbook poor sportsmanship at this point.
Bernie doesn't seem to realize how unfair he's being to his own legacy. He's squandering whatever legacy he worked to build, over several decades. Kinda like Ralph Nader did.
Is he one of those who also, let's see...
sought to keep the DOJ from beefing up embassy security? Because no funding was approved - BY CONGRESS - to do so? Despite multiple requests?
Let's not forget that, either. Pennywise, pound-foolish. They sucked it straight outta reagan's teets. Save a few bucks here so we can waste a few lives over there.
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