You know, I'm no fake, internet therapist/psychologist (and no one in their right mind should be) but, I am a student of life. I've been at this for several decades and, I pay attention. The other day amidst the usual fight with the loyal minions of the fake therapist, the subject of Susanne Atanus, republican candidate for representative of an Illinois district came up. She's an awful woman who looks like a man who looks like a Silverback gorilla. I don't mean to be catty but, it's true. Worse though, she's running for public office and she believes God's punishments for marriage equality and abortions, are tornadoes, autism and dementia. That's awful but, it gets worse.
One of the fake therapist's minions stated that people should be able to look past that opinion of Atanus's and judge her on her other beliefs. In short, don't hold that against her. Insane homophobia is just a quirk for some people, I guess. It's not at all a deal breaker. Like, say what you will about Mussolini- he made the trains run on time!
Republican's are forgiving, quite often to a fault. Republican senator, David Vitter, is in the news today because he thinks the Koch brothers are "two of the finest American patriots in the history of the earth"! Wow. How old does he think America is? The whole earth, eh? Anyway, Vitter is yet another GOP family values republican. He's one who just happened to have been a client of the notorious "DC Madame" a couple years back. He, um, liked to have the prostitutes dress him in, um, diapers. Yeah.....family values...
Is it just me being an unforgiving, godless liberal, that I judge these people by the freak flags they so proudly wave? Is that so wrong? Is it my bad? Because, ya know, they've all be so good and understanding of our president.....
Poster Sublime- yeah him again- is very forgiving of republicans as well. I think he can relate because though a self-described happily married man and father of three, he and his wife like to swap partners with other couples. He openly flirts with other women on the internet. He's probably going to be Senator Sublime someday. Freak flags flying sure don't stop men from getting into politics. It seems to be a prerequisite.
It just seems to me that if someone is an adulterer, maybe he shouldn't be in charge of things? Marital multi-tasking is not a virtue.
I haven't seen it yet but scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson (the heavyweight champion of the Science World) has a show called "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey." I'm assuming it's the history of the creation of the universe and earth as seen by intelligent people. Creationists are demanding he allow them equal time to portray their Biblical tales.
I thought they had Sundays for that?
Sigh. What is it with Jim Crow Laws extending to science as well as elsewhere in politics? Separate but equal didn't exactly work with racial laws in this country. I don't see good application with science or history past or current. The same people (it seems) who complain about Black History Month want deGrasse Tyson to give equal time to the fairy tale of Noah's Ark just like the Sunday morning shows give attention to fairy tales of BENGHAZ!!!!! by teapublicans.
You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts.
That's a common refrain on the internet, where the Jim Crow Laws of debate are nearly impossible to overturn. Know why? Because the people who invoke them are impossible themselves! Thanks to the anonymity of the internet (at least where the threads are concerned) no one really knows how much of an idiot you are. You don't have to answer for your idiocy. Sublime and race are two fine examples, from the Chicago Regulars thread. Both are documented minions of stalker-troll, Angelique770 (currently doing business as Annabella) and both can deny her existence and proclaim it in the same post and not even blush despite a preponderance of evidence of over-familiarity. That both are republican is not the least bit surprising to me.
All in all it reminds me of convicts who, despite incarceration, never admit guilt. Despite facts, evidence, judges and juries, they feel as long as they hold out maybe someone will believe their proclamations of not-so-guiltyness....and they wish it had been one person their jury....
Too bad the Constitution doesn't promise a separation of fact from fiction.
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Did you know the creationist gang are going about the country buying up those 60' dinosaur parks? It's true. As the Jim crow flies, they've purchased our local Cabazon Brontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex. Familiar landmarks on the way to Palm Springs. That godless place where aging homosexuals go to restore Mid-century modern homes (then die).
You have to give the new pope a hand. Moving away from Martin Luther's Teabagger spawn towards an egalitarian role. Yes folks you heard it, the pope doesn't believe in Adam and Eve. It's a metaphor folks. And he doesn't believe in hell either. It's a existentialist conundrum. Didn't Sublime have a brief flirtation with God? I seem to remember him pouring out his heart over that - when he's not busy yammering on about his sexcapades or his high school heroics or….. Guess he dumped the old man in the clouds for a Craigs List hottie?
I'll have a slice of vegan friendly kinwa casserole for lunch.
Excellent post Ferrerman
I remember when Dinah Shore's roamed the earth, mostly in the LA area.
IDK if Sub ever flirted with God but, God probably flirted with him. That's generally how it goes with him. Women and omniscient, omnipotent beings find him simply irresistible and there's no telling where the money went.
I like Pope Joe Francis a lot. Hopefully he draws the line at "Nuns Gone Wild!" I don't think I'll get in the buffet line on his account but, I appreciate his 21st century thought. It's very timely! He's making some powerful enemies with the Christian Reich though. He should sleep with one eye open...
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There is a certain irony in that "Cosmos: A Space-time Odyssey" is broadcast on Sunday evening, unless you see it on-demand or on-line.
Dinah Shore [RIP] was awfully fond of another dinosaur *Stroker* Ace a.k.a. Burt Reynolds back in the day. I guess I can forgive her for that, but not sure my dad would. I've a picture of Ms. Shore visiting a group of convalescing soldiers including him.
Jim Crow, and similarly in many areas north of the Mason-Dixon Line, there was little equality in being separate.
I think there were rumors of Dinah being black, now that I think about it. Claude Akin too, though I don't think I spelled his name right. That 99% of people wouldn't be able to 'tell' by looking at or talking to them, speaks volumes as to why it shouldn't matter. Some day soon I'll relate my experience in this matter. It's an interesting story.
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It doesn't really matter, but I did it anyway. I'd never say it's impossible, but it doesn't seem likely that Ms Shore has any more "blackness" blood factors than most of the rest of us white folk could somewhere down the line of ancestors.
Out of Wikipedia, some of her childhood experience. She also graduated from Vanderbilt U.:
Born to Solomon and Anna (née Stein) Shore, Jewish immigrants from Russia, young Frances Rose was born and lived in Winchester, Tennessee. When she was two years old, she was stricken with polio (infantile paralysis), a disease that was not preventable at the time, and for which treatment was limited to bed rest. Her parents provided intensive care for her and she recovered. She continued, however, to have a deformed foot and limp, which did not physically impede her. As a small child she loved to sing, encouraged by her mother, a contralto with operatic aspirations. Her father would often take her to his store where she would perform impromptu songs for the customers.[1] She had a childhood recollection of her normally restrained father's exasperated reaction one evening when the Ku Klux Klan paraded in Winchester; despite the hoods the marchers were wearing, Solomon Shore, a dry goods merchant, recognized some of his customers by their shoes and gaits.[2]
When Shore was 16, her mother died unexpectedly of a heart attack, and Shore decided to pursue her education. She went to Vanderbilt University, where she participated in many events and activities, including the Chi chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority. She graduated from the university in 1938 with a degree in sociology. She also visited the Grand Ole Opry and made her radio debut on Nashville's WSM (AM) radio station in these years. Shore decided to return to pursuing her career in singing, so she went to New York City to audition for orchestras and radio stations, first on a summer break from Vanderbilt, and after graduation, for good.
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Did you realize that Claude Akins graduated from Northwestern U.? Akins was part Native American. It's certainly possible that African-American blood-line was present too.
Again, parts of Wikipedia:
Akins was born in Nelson, Georgia, and grew up in Bedford, Indiana. He served with the US Army Signal Corps in World War II in Burma and the Philippines. After the war, he was a 1949 graduate of Northwestern University, where he studied theatre[1] and became a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.
And Wiki has this one sentence -- In 1965, he was featured in an episode of Kraft Suspense Theater, playing a German infiltrator who went unsuspected (despite Akins' Native American ancestry.)
So, then there is:
http://matineeclassics.com/celebrities/actors/claude_akins/details/
While he never won any prizes or recognition for his involvement in the dramatic arts, he did die with an award for being the Outstanding Indian/Native American of the Year at the American Indian Exposition, proving that while many believe he was a talented actor, he was moreover a good person.
Not casting aspersions, DW. I just remember reading that both had had gossip about them concerning their racial make-up. I'm thinking of my story and how to present it.
byline: Deer Whisperer/Luke
re: Shore and Akins
Oh no, I didn't take it that you were.
I was certainly surprised -- and thought most would be -- about the education achievement by both at esteemed universities.
And the story about what Shore's father thought of the KKK.
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