MarianJack
MarianJack's JournalWe just got back from the Augusta Maine showing of "The Road We've Traveled".
I won't spoil anything for those of you who haven't yet seen it. I will only say thiese few things.
I'm very proud of my President.
This President has opened doors for my African American son that not too long ago I thought would never be open. This President treats women and ethnic people as valued and equal partners in America's future promise.
The opposition considers my son to be less than human. The opposition considers my intelligent, beautiful, professional and accomplished wife to be a slut and a prostitute.
This is a president who MUST be re-elected, hopefully with solid Democratic majorities in both houses. We haven't gone as far down that road as we need to go, but we've gone too far to even consider going back.
BTW, you can see it as of 8PM EDT tonight at the campaign website.
PEACE! 
And so, andrew brietbart's final "devastating" video of a young President Obama...
...is him saying that students should open their hearts and minds to a professor who teaches inclusion and taking full advantage of their educational opportunities.
WOW.
I find it very fitting that his final BLOCKBUSTER is so insignificant that it will go over like a lead balloon. It's going to be about as popular, as my Mother used to say, as a fart in church.
Upon seeing this, I could only think of the fifth act, fifth scene of Macbeth and one of the most famous of all of Shakespeare's lines;
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
andy breitbart, an idiot full of sound and fury and signifying NOTHING!
How fiting that this will be the last thought that many of us, and most certainly me, will ever waste on this sorry allegedly human being.
PEACE!
A thought about bain romney's "inevitability".
I'm just running this up the flagpole. Some of you may salute, some of you may pee on the pole.
Supposedly, bain romney is solidifying his hold on the nomination by winning the state that he governed for one term before not seeking a second term because he knew what would happen. He won a neighboring state where he will have NO REMOTE POSSIBILITY of breaking much over 35% of the November vote. He won a state where his only opponent was an old racist with no shot at the nomination.
He has lost solidly red states like Oklahoma, Tennessee and North Dakota and, with 71% of the vote in, he is losing Ohio (a state that no republican has ever been elected without) to little ricky santorum.
Let me repeat that. He is losing to little ricky santorum. He of "JFK makes me want to throw up", He who was Virginia's 3rd senator when he was sent to the Senate twice from Pennsylvania. He who brought his abor...ooops, I mean miscarried fetus home to meet the siblings. He who has declared a war on rubbers. He who came within 3% of victory in one of bain romney's many home states.
This is the man who lost his last election so badly that it was the first race to be called on election night of 2006. It was the widest margin of defeat for an incumbemt senator in Pennsylvania history.
The inevitable nominee who is the favored candidate of establishment republicanism due to his "electability" is losing to little ricky santorum.
I can recognize it when I see a group of people try so desperately to talk themselves into a line of baloney. Hell, I've talked myself into a line of baloney a million times, but God forbid that I ever spend tens of millions of dollars to do so.
The funniest thing is that if bain romney is, in fact, the inevitable republican nominee, his loss will only be greeted by the teabaggers as being entirely attributable to his not being conservative enough. It will prevent the republican party's ability to finally make a move back to sanity by getting rid of the baggers from having any real influence in the party. "Ditto" for rush limbooger. Politically, I'm OK with that. In the long run, we do need 2 solid parties, hopefully both lucid.
I will continue to watch this fiasco unfold with great pleasure.
BTW, since I started to write this post, bain romney has inched closer to little ricky in Ohio with 85% of the vote in. I don't believe that invalidates my point, though. If I were little ricky santorum and lost Ohio in this way, I wouldn't quit.
Of course, If I were little ricky santorum, I think I'd have jumped out of a window a long tome ago.
That's my 2 cents, and quite possibly overpriced at that!
PEACE!
My almost 12 year old son is starting to get those pre-teen hormonal attacks!
Another DUer mentioned her 15 year old son's hormonal attacks in a great thread about how HE has more of a clue than rush limbooger.
My son worked in his first campaign in 2010 when he canvassed with me to attempt to get Libby Mitchell elected Governor of Maine. He is a young man that a friend trusted enough to come out to at the end of his 5th grade year because he knew that my son is a true friend. He will be working along side of his mom and I this year to get President Obama re-elected, put a Democrat in olympia snowe's seat and to keep the House seat in Democratic hands as well as to get the state legislature back.
That being said, he is very young and those hormones are starting to HOP. I pulled a dirty trick on him a few days ago.
He asked when he'd be able to watch "a movie with a lot of boobs in it". I told him that I'd put on a DVD with "a lot of boobs in it".
I played "Farenheit 911" for him and pointed out a LOT of boobs like bush, cheney, rumsfeld, wolfowitz, etc.
He went from very thrilled to very pissed VERY QUICKLY, but he did see the humor in it. He can always appreciate a joke, even when it's a good natured one at his expense. He WILL get me back for that one, however.
I just thought I'd share. I thought it was funny; a little cruel, but FUNNY! It's my 2 cents and quite possibly overpriced at that!
PEACE!
A question about our profiles
On my profile, I do see that there are a couple of people who ignore me, but where can I see those whom I've put on the ignore list?
Thank you in advance for your feedback.
PEACE!
My almost 12 year old son is starting to get those pre-teen hormonal attacks!
Another DUer mentioned her 15 year old son's hormonal attacks in a great thread about how HE has more of a clue than rush limbooger.
My son worked in his first campaign in 2010 when he canvassed with me to attempt to get Libby Mitchell elected Governor of Maine. He is a young man that a friend trusted enough to come out to at the end of his 5th grade year because he knew that my son is a true friend. He will be working along side of his mom and I this year to get President Obama re-elected, put a Democrat in olympia snowe's seat and to keep the House seat in Democratic hands as well as to get the state legislature back.
That being said, he is very young and those hormones are starting to HOP. I pulled a dirty trick on him a few days ago.
He asked when he'd be able to watch "a movie with a lot of boobs in it". I told him that I'd put on a DVD with "a lot of boobs in it".
I played "Farenheit 911" for him and pointed out a LOT of boobs like bush, cheney, rumsfeld, wolfowitz, etc.
He went from very thrilled to very pissed VERY QUICKLY, but he did see the humor in it. He can always appreciate a joke, even when it's a good natured one at his expense. He WILL get me back for that one, however.
I just thought I'd share. I thought it was funny; a little cruel, but FUNNY! It's my 2 cents and quite possibly overpriced at that!
PEACE!
So, little andy breitbart is dead.
Yawn.
I never wish death on anyone and I understand that he leaves a family behind. I never wish for a family to be broken apart. In this case though, maybe an upside is that mom can get a sane step-dad eventually.
Compassion for this little piss bag or mourning for his loss? Forget it!
Aside from all of the other reasons that other DUers have stated for having no sympathy for that walking bag of shit's death, I have one other point to add.
breitbart, as well as all of the other puss ball shit holes like him, would have only one reaction to any feelings of compassion that we on the left may express for his dying.
They would look on it with contempt as a sign of our weakness.
I will never give those hateful bastards the satisfaction.
Too bad his family lost a husband and father, but my eulogy for breitbart can only be given in one way.
I'll deliver it after eating a large can of baked beans and drinking a big bottle of Pepsi. It'll be real smelly so deaf people could enjoy it too!
PEACE!
My son made me proud IN A DREAM not long ago.
Before I elaborate, let me say that my son, who will be 12 at the end of this month, frequently makes my wife and I proud. Being the age he is, however, frequently he makes us want to kick his little round rump into the middle of next week.
A few nights ago, I was having a nice night's sleep. I had a dream that bain romney was up here in Maine and my family and I had the misfortune of being in his path as he was working his "magic" with the public. He approached my family and, speaking to my son first, he shook his hand and offered him 3 bain romney buttons "for your folks and you". The funny thing about this dream is that it would be HIGHLY unlikely that bain romney would approach my African American son or my Puerto Rican wife unless he had an army of photographers present to record how well he related to the "Peasants and the little Brown People".
Anyway, in my dream, my son politely and respectfully shook bain romney's hand and then handed the buttons back telling him that our family wouldn't need them and that we were actively supporting President Obama's re-election.
I know that this was just a dream. However, what makes me proud is the fact that I know that this is EXACTLY how my son would react in such a situation, even at his young age.
Also, given how I expect this fall's election campaign to progress, I don't think we'll see bain romney up here in Maine again unless he takes a Summer vacation here after getting his ass handed to him at either his convention or in the General Election.
I thought that some of you might enjoy this. I did. It's my 2 cents and quite possibly overpriced at that!
PEACE!
Hello from Maine. We caucaused today!
I live in Augusta, the state capitol. The turnout was way lower than 2008, about 60 people in all. We, of course, voted to re-elect President Obama. We heard from one of the Senate candidates and surrogates from the other 2, as well as for Chellie Pingree. I'll be a delegate to the state convention and I was selected as the recording secretary of the city Democratic committee. I had an opportunity to speak briefly on how well President Obama has done and how horrible little ricky santorum would be. I was very impressed with our candidate for DA of Kennebec and Somerset county and see her as a potential future candidate for Governor or Senator.
All in all, a pretty good day.
That was just my 2 cents, and quite possibly overpriced at that.
PEACE!
This almost 57 year old white guy wants 2012 to be even more of a year of the woman than 1992!
I'm running this up the flagpole. Some of you may salute and some of you may pee on the pole.
There are many women that I love in my life. Among them are my mother-in-law, sisters-in-jaw, neices and grand-neices. I love the memory of my little sister who left this world at a far too young age of 29 in 1996. I love my wife's best friend and her life partner who is also a woman. I love my best friend's wife in a purely platonic and respectful manner. My older sister and I have never liked each other, but I at least wish her no harm.
There are 2 women, however, that I love more than any others. They are my wife and my mother.
In WWII, my mother packed meat and had my sister while my father was overseas. After this, she worked while my father went to college on the GI bill. She went to Dayton, Ohio with him when he was recalled for the Korean War and was stationed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. After the war, she was raising my sister and I and keeping a great home while my father screwed around at every opportunity.
In 1962 my bastard of a father took off and married my step mother (whom I eventuall developed a small level of love and respect for) in such a rotten way that he was on his honeymoon before my mother even knew she was divorced. Remember that at that time there were no "deadbeat dads". There were "aggressive young business executives with a take no prisoners attitude". In the face of all this, she moved my sister and I into a nice apartment, went to work at the bank that would employ her for the 20+ years until she retired. When she didn't have the proverbial pot to pee in, she kept us in a warm and safe place where we were never hungry. She did all of this in the face people saying that she was "hot to trot", "didn't know how to take care of a husband", "a woman's place is in the home", "she's really a lesbian" and all the other stereotypical baloney that men used to shovel onto women at that time. I never had any idea when we were broke . She never let on that she was lonely. She never once said a negative word about my bastard father to me even though he was always bad mouthing her. My mother wasn't educated, so thought she was stupid. In reality, she was a clear thinker with more common sense than most ever have.
For most of her life, she believed that different races shouldn't mix, but my Irish Catholic mother grew to love and respect my Puerto Rican wife and, in her nearly 85 years of life loved NOBODY as mich as she did my African American son. a few years before she died, she told us that when she did go, her spirit was going to follow my son. If anybody gave him a hard time for being black, they wouldn't know where the kick in the ass came from, but they'd sure as hell FEEL IT!
Yes, she could be a big pain in the ass, but she was a great woman and a great human being.
My wife is my partner, my lover, my best friend and the woman I raise a child with. She is beautiful. She is way smarter than I am. She puts up with more BS from me that I can imagine. She is, simply put, the most remarkable and wonderful and beautiful woman ever put on the face of this earth. My love and respect for her knows no bounds. She has done many things in arts and crafts in the time we've been together. She has decided that she didn't like some of them. She has never done any of them badly. When she was a teacher, she was creative, inspirational and knowledgable. She is the best math teacher I've ever seen and she had the amazing ability to make her lessons seem like an adventure that she and the kids were making discoveries together.
To papaphrase an incredibly sexist commercial campaign from the bad old days, "My wife, I hope she keeps me!"
With these 2 fantastic women, who have and will continue to make such a major impact in my life, respect and high regard for women is hard wired into my system.
My marriage to one and my memory of the other are the reason that I practically tremble with fury when I think of the disgraceful "hearing" that was perpetrated by the republicans headed by grand theft auto izza and assisted by the 5 stooges who are, in GOP land, the experts in women's health based on their decades old degrees in theology. I thought that they were bad before, but seroiusly, a war on friggin' rubbers?
Their cluelessness is beyond incredible. Their contempt for women is detestable. Their stupidity is apparently beyond bounds and bottomless. Apparently, they believe that sarah palin(comparison)'s "mama grizleys" are an actual political force. In a near bushian stroke of "genius", they seem to think that the best way to get women to vote for then is to disrespect the entire gender.
I would be voting a straight Democratic ticket this year no matter what happened given the current state of the teabagger/fundie/koch/limbooger dominated republican party.
When I think of their disgraceful contempt for women and when I think of the remarkable woman who is my wife and the remarkable woman who was my mother, I want the republicans to lose very badly. I want President Obama to win 40+ states in a huge landslide that carries the baggers right out of the House and into small numbers in the Senate. I want the teabaggers and fundies to be absolutely repudiated and humiliated in a historic rout that wouldn't give even fox any grounds to rationalize.
For those 2 wonderful women that I love so much, I promise to do all I can do to make that happen.
Maria and mom, this one's for YOU!
Thanks for reading my rant. It's my 2 cents, and possibly overpriced at that.
PEACE!
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