tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79290846763016113742024-03-19T05:21:57.528-07:00THE OOGiE BOOGiE MANPolitical blog with a touch of fabulosity....and a couple boogers. ENJOY !!!Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-35727597521462856422011-06-23T08:48:00.000-07:002011-06-23T09:19:24.103-07:00Hypocrisy: A bigger problem than the Unemployment Rate, the Debt, the Gays Who Want To Get Married, & the Terrorists Who Just Happen to be Muslim<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8lR_YFR0IJQTp1qvTkIE20mhihhlV9LW4jeegk8JzepUPdXuuvxW4HRcn4P0ssnXn51AHA67kNFplm5zSVVw8PJ1VDLpNuLo10ylMOpGLopE806Z85fKSWj5LJwxnE9mrCpatHqhpgrk/s1600/perfect.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8lR_YFR0IJQTp1qvTkIE20mhihhlV9LW4jeegk8JzepUPdXuuvxW4HRcn4P0ssnXn51AHA67kNFplm5zSVVw8PJ1VDLpNuLo10ylMOpGLopE806Z85fKSWj5LJwxnE9mrCpatHqhpgrk/s320/perfect.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621444883567506578" /></a><br /><br />I read an <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michele-bachmanns-holy-war-20110622?page=1">article today online in Rolling Stone magazine </a>about the true craziness and background of Michelle Bachmann. I must say, I watched the most recent republican Presidential candidate debate and I thought she did well. I disagree with about 99% of her positions, but she skillfully articulated her ideas and came off as a bajillion times more sane than I expected. I also developed a sliver of respect for her when she mentioned that she has 5 biological children and 23 foster kids, and that was part of her reasoning for respecting the sanctity of life and being staunchly anti-abortion. However, reading the article about her uber-religiousness made me think; so many people in politics are liars and hypocrites.<br /><br />If I asked any married, conservative, anti-gay politician, “hey did you bang your spouse before your wedding night? Were you a virgin until you got married?” I’m assuming they would get offended. At the very least, they’d tell me it was none of my business. And they’d be 100% right. So why is it that they have embarked on a crusade to interfere in the bedroom activities of others? It really boggles my mind. Also, why do these politicians and Tea Party especially, say they hate government, yet CONTINUE TO RUN IN ELECTIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN GOVERNMENT? REALLY. Also you have Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, possibly running for President. Dude, you were talking about Texas seceding from the United States 2 years ago. Now you want to be President? Word? That’s like Rev. Jerry Falwell wanting to be the Marshall of the Gay Pride parade in San Francisco. GTFOH.<br /><br />Former President Jimmy Carter was on Bill Maher a few months ago <iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q4KkUJpeAd4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> and what I took away from the interview was regardless of the words Democrat and Republican, ideas about how you should treat other people come from who you are as a person. It’s not that Democrats “care about people” and Republicans don’t, it just has to do with the kind of human being you were raised to be and the adult you turned into as a result of your upbringing.<br /><br />No one is perfect. We are all human, carbon-based life forms full of mistakes, love, evil, hopes n dreams, blood n guts, etc, all of which comprise our unique God-given humanity. We were made in His image, so why do we find the natural state of others (mainly nekkidness) and our differences (mainly homosexuality and differences in religion) so offensive? None of us is more human than another. I have a theory though. I took a look at Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. I really think that some people have stopped at the self esteem level. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXWoRFZSkji21f-uakZU-f0PEhzia6hqxSmpAWXGYu-aAW1lJx0Me6NMHAU50-ZYVb-5QIbzZ5867W8Gkss2kqkSzq3nyBP5V4ohVLKzin5XPV0xSZC7NdeiWFCMyDCNLH9V3u4BFCruw/s1600/maslow+needs.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXWoRFZSkji21f-uakZU-f0PEhzia6hqxSmpAWXGYu-aAW1lJx0Me6NMHAU50-ZYVb-5QIbzZ5867W8Gkss2kqkSzq3nyBP5V4ohVLKzin5XPV0xSZC7NdeiWFCMyDCNLH9V3u4BFCruw/s320/maslow+needs.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621444601043683394" /></a><br /><br />They have chosen to forgo self-actualization and chase self-esteem. Confidence, achievement, having the respect of others and the need to be a unique individual are their main goals. What do all of those add up to? Power. Certain people ruthlessly chase power and have no concern for the casualties they leave behind in their selfish wake.<br /><br />I don’t want to overly use <em>Republican</em>, <em>Democrat</em>, and <em>American </em>here because the situation is bigger than that. The Republican and Democratic parties have evolved greatly since they were founded, and also, there is no pure way of being “American” since this country was founded on lies, theft, and genocide. *If I have to explain that last sentence to you, then we probably shouldn’t be friends. And I bet you voted for McCain. And cried tears of Confederate-laced sadness when Obeezy won. By the way, he’s still President. And Black, too. You mad?*<br /><br />Therefore I have come to realize that maybe hypocrisy <strong>IS </strong>the American way. The Founding Fathers were slave-owners yet fought for “freedom” from British tyranny. I guess I missed the asterisk after “We the People*” . I also missed the footnote that stated <em>by “People” we mean, white, Anglo Saxon, Christian, landowning men. Women, gays, Jews, Blacks, immigrants who did not come to this continent on the Mayflower, and everyone else who isn’t “white enough” will get some rights at later dates and at non-scary, unspecified intervals of time. Assassinations, wars, various protests, and times of social upheaval will follow in pursuit of said rights. We white men will be terrified, but the rest of you will all get some rights in due time. Probably. No guarantees on that.</em><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_ubDTAHGJORIqZktiBg1t1pYcsAPpOtySRyqoNFm5eAUcN7Dxqr5Pvv622TJvT_rf8kTyPGBJ4QsF7VpeBdPlQmUd6Zf9GPu0yFx3hf2p1PYztiukg3k58DWQeOLAg7TTOAvHvzOacE/s1600/tea.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_ubDTAHGJORIqZktiBg1t1pYcsAPpOtySRyqoNFm5eAUcN7Dxqr5Pvv622TJvT_rf8kTyPGBJ4QsF7VpeBdPlQmUd6Zf9GPu0yFx3hf2p1PYztiukg3k58DWQeOLAg7TTOAvHvzOacE/s320/tea.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621450525153528130" /></a>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-81735351585394223262011-01-28T08:48:00.000-08:002011-01-28T08:51:30.994-08:00F**k this…IM OUT! : LESSONS LEARNED AFTER ABANDONING YOUR CAR AND WALKING .8 MILES IN THE SNOW<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc6cTP9hrnfWHDMzhfIDB83VkXFq85cV84u2sUzXgXAt4-lFLQc2F1dxwle2EKnaf1Jv9x02v5AxFW0nTQamc1AXPFjNxUu2LtH8WTQGE62Q9pIkwBJlLnbeOxpI6r2rkJZnIt2Dd5PMk/s1600/yell.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc6cTP9hrnfWHDMzhfIDB83VkXFq85cV84u2sUzXgXAt4-lFLQc2F1dxwle2EKnaf1Jv9x02v5AxFW0nTQamc1AXPFjNxUu2LtH8WTQGE62Q9pIkwBJlLnbeOxpI6r2rkJZnIt2Dd5PMk/s320/yell.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567280429525506706" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />So yes, Wednesday night, I was one of those people who didn’t make it home. This was a direct result of me making the 2nd dumbest descision of my life. For the record, the dumbest thing I ever did was run out of gas the first time I drove my first car because I didn’t realize that you couldn’t ride 2 days when the needle was showing in the orange. Me: “What the hell! You run out of gas when it goes ALLLLL the way to zero!” Dad: I put 5 dollars of gas in the car, drove it to va and home and then you drove to school and back in traffic. Its out of gas. Me: NO ITS NOT! YOU BOUGHT ME A BROKE CAR!<br /><br />Yeh, I’m pretty smart, but I have some (a lot) of dumbass moments. And so we continue on with one of them…<br /><br />Okay, so fed govt is closed 2 hours early. I dip out to my drs appt on rt 7 by seven corners. I’m moving to Bethesda on Monday so I wanted to get this painting and throw from ZGallerie in Tysons before the weekend because I don’t want them to sell out of it plus its on sale. **SIDE NOTE : If you want to help me move, that would be awesome. Im paying in booze and hugs**So I leave the drs office at about 448 pm and my gps tells me tysons is 7 miles away. At this point its sleeting and obese ass snowflakes are falling but the roads aren’t that bad and neither is traffic, just driving slow and kinda laffing as this mustang’s ass keeps swinging out to the side in front of me. I’m just thinking “what a dumbass this guy is, he cant even drive in the snow. I wish he’d get his act together or at least let me speed past him so I can drive at an unsafe speed towards MY destination. SHEESH some people are so inconsiderate”<br /><br />Fast forward to nearly 4 hours later. I clicked on the thingy in my car that tells u trip time and average speed n stuff. My average speed was 3 mph. Trip time was 3 hours 52 minutes. Distance traveled: 3 muther effing miles. I was cool up to that point. I was listening to the junglebunny music on the radio, had some juice & water in the car and was chillen. I was employing the old “smile and breathe” yogic approach to bad things happening. I was safe, didn’t have to pee and wasn’t cold. I was only like 2.5 miles away from the mall so SURELY I was just gonna get my stuff. Chill till like 9pm when the mall closed. Traffic would be done by that time so going home would be fine. Juuust fine.<br /><br />And then the proverbial shyte hit the fan.<br /><br />38 minutes later, I had not moved from the overpass under I-66. Well, at least snow isn’t falling on my car anymore- I thought. It was also 8pm. I figured that I wasn’t going to make it to the mall. Darn, well let me just go home, no point in getting mad, just go home, eat a pizza, drink a beer and go to sleep. HA yeh right. I get on A COMPLETELY UNPLOWED I-66 aka the ROAD TO HELL. Snow fuggin everywhere. About 5 inches of it. I see the exit for 495 back towards my house. Two cars are in front of me. as I turn on my signal, one car slides and jackknifes across the exit, the other car slides perpendicular into it. Jesus took my car and allowed me to go back into my lane without sliding. I say Jesus cuz forreal, I dunno how I made that quick move without going halfway across the freeway. That shoulda been game over right there, but thankfully, it wasn’t. I had 2 more hours to drive (and lose my mind)<br />So the GPS tells me to go on Nutley street and turn around on 66. So I get to Nutley, see the ridonkulous amount of traffic on 495, ANOTHER COMPLETELY UNPLOWED exit<br /><br />OH WAIT, I forgot I got stuck in some neighborhood and this guy who had sand bailed me out. Thought that was game over too. But it wasn’t!<br />Okai yeh so at this point (while driving still, prolly dumbass life decision #4 or #5) I was like, I’m not tryin to crash my car and I’m definitely not trying to die. Death is not really whats hot in the streets. So I decide to find a hotel in the area and stay for the night. I find an econo lodge on the gps but it keeps telling me to keep turning around thru the unplowed intersection where I can see several cars getting stuck. So X’ed out that option. I found out this morning that my co worker lives on Nutley street right where I was. FML. Then I decided well’ I cant turn around gotta find a hotel in this direction, preferably name brand because I don’t want bedbugs. Yucky.<br /><br />So where does Glenda the GPS take me? EFFING TYSONS. It says 2 miles so I’m thinking this shouldn’t take long. I’m on chain bridge road and traffic is moving, then just stops. This is where I lose it. The tears come, I’m blaming everyone on earth for the traffic, pretty much having a breakdown in my car, complete with “I WANNA GO HOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” screams, as if anyone can help me. I’m literally looking at the drivers next to me, blowing snot bubbles n shyte. No pride left. So then I get to within what my gps tells me is .8 miles of the marriott residence inn. And I stay within .8 miles for 45 minutes. Its 11 pm. I have to pee. A lot. Im HONGRY. IM MAD. IVE BEEN DRIVING OVER SIX FREAKING HOURS AND HAVENT GONE 7 GOTDAYUM MILES. I lost it. I parked my car on the first semi-plowed residential street I see. And I bounced. Prolly did the most pissed off walk of my life. Then I started running. And then I fell into A HOLE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD 3 FEET DEEP. I shit you not. Not a drain, A BIG ASS HOLE. Now my leg hurts. I start running again, this time in the street cuz that’s safer than fugging possibly disappearing into oblivion again on the side of the raod. Oh btw, theres no cars in the road. We weren’t moving cuz a car was stuck and dude in the other lane gets out to help, blocking both lanes. Its good to help ur neighbor in need, just do it efficiently #cmonson<br /><br />Cars are abandoned/stuck, ppl are walking by, I have on the meanest mug in the history of earth. But I can see mcdonalds so im good. Then I see 43 mexicans with paint on their pants going in the mcdonalds. I Debo them like fuck this, you aren’t here legally, no way you’re getting served before me! I PAY TAXES DAMMIT. Only to see 87453 more people in the mcdonalds. Fuckballs. So I go to taco bell. No one there, due to their food not being real meat apparently. So I get a chicken quesadilla.<br />Walk to the residence inn. No rooms available. Dude says every hotel in tysons is sold out. “no its not.” I say and bounce. I see a Hilton garden inn behind the hotel in the distance. Cant see the roads to get to it, so I walk thru parking lots and roll down humonguous embankment hills to get to it. Its big so they must have rooms! OH AND THERES A LINE! They must have rooms! Once again, I Debo the line and ask, please tell me yall have rooms….<br /><br />No, we’re completely sold out.<br /><br />NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! And at this point breakdown # 2 occurs. I sit in the lobby and cry like a biznatch. Facing the door so hopefully they see me, think im like 16 and give me a room. No such luck. I go outside, and call my mom who was blowing up my phone earlier. I called her back about 3 hours prior and said I was in a courtyard Marriott for the night and my car was in the parking garage. This time the convo went a lil different:<br /><br />“Yeh, so I lied. I don’t know where my car is right now. There are no hotel rooms AND IM IN TYSONS….AND IM COLD AND I GOTTA PEE-HE-HE-HE *crying stutter* AND IM SO HUNGRY-HE-HE-HE..UUUUUUUUUUUGHHHH EEEEEEEEEE *temper tantrum wail of frustration* WHAT AM I GONNA DO MOMMEEEEEEEEEE *SNOT BUBBLE POP*”<br />So I go back in the lobby and make the next logical descision. Not to eat my taco bell since I haven’t eaten since 1 pm: I HEAD TO THE BAR. DUH.<br />A black girl tells me, they just closed the bar. FML.<br /><br />So long story short, I Deboed this man for a couch (I did a lot of debo-ing that night) in the lobby. They opened the bar up, and I had some Jameson, and convos with an Iraq vet, slept on the couch, woke up, hungover, had the hotel buffet breakfast…and then the power went out. After my requestes to reopen the bar at 715 am went unanswered, I called out to work (other ppl didn’t make it home as well) and went back to sleep. My new friend, Namoshe, the black girl at the bar had kept me moderately sane throughout the ordeal. We also bonded thru our temporary homelessness and since her car was in the hotel,, she drove me back to my car. <br /><br />And then I went to Tysons and went shopping. Don’t judge me.Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-36895715222609781492010-12-08T09:33:00.000-08:002010-12-08T09:40:45.281-08:00Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place...Between Hell and Qatar in the Summer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR4XluKZsoQRQFqrU09WHH9igmbwaBpB59etlgAEsN2JMz1i0BSg3rPUVwoyd5kf5wYVb5kDlImHqqzkzxbj1rvpdC33BfSJRceGqLbsrvZeOzEYKY2_JJR2PWrYydxYIu-2CglFn3GEo/s1600/Meet+me+Halfway.bmp"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR4XluKZsoQRQFqrU09WHH9igmbwaBpB59etlgAEsN2JMz1i0BSg3rPUVwoyd5kf5wYVb5kDlImHqqzkzxbj1rvpdC33BfSJRceGqLbsrvZeOzEYKY2_JJR2PWrYydxYIu-2CglFn3GEo/s320/Meet+me+Halfway.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548367379162537394" /></a><br /><br />Last night I was infuriated to hear of the tax deal that President Obama struck with the Republicans in Congress. Most of that can be due to the outrage shown by Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. But I agree with them wholeheartedly. This may seem weird, but it kept me awake last night. The more I thought about it, the more uneasy I became. And I wanted to DO something. I implored my friends on Facebook to call Maj. Leader/MD Representative Steny Hoyer and our Senators. I even considered writing an email to everyone in my address book, asking them to do the same and even drafted an email they could submit through their member’s Congressional website, demanding that they vote NO on this tax policy.<br /><br />I didn’t send that email, though. Not because it would be doing the most (and it definitely would be). I read another article <strong> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/a-plan-comes-into-focus-a_b_793170.html">HERE </a></strong>about what exactly was in the tax policy. And then I became stuck between a rock and a hard place. Here’s why:<br /><br /><strong><br />The GOOD</strong><br /><br />Obeezy got a lot of stuff in this deal. Not only did unemployment benefits get extended for 13 months (the longest extension so far) but the middle class got to keep their tax cuts. Which is good because I don’t want a Republican-controlled congress spending my tax money anyways. The cuts mean that I will take home about $3,000 more of my salary in 2011. That’s like my entire shoe budget for 2011 so I’m grateful for that. And since Obeezy said he’s freezing federal employees’ salaries for the next few years, this tax cut is replacing the raise they would get.<br /><br />Additionally, the payroll tax and extension of child tax credits and a bunch of other NEW tax credits for the middle class will benefit the economy. The middle class are the real job-creators. Not through starting businesses, but through their support of businesses already in operation. People on unemployment tend to spend their entire checks, putting that money BACK into the economy, so that stores don’t have to lay off workers and can expand operations to hire new ones. And of course, had this deal not been reached, millions of families would have had one somber, austere holiday season when their only source of income disappeared.<br /><br /><br />Finally, the quicker we stop arguing about these tax cuts, the quicker Congress can get to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell !<br /><br /><strong>The BAD</strong><br /><br />It looks like Obama caved, AGAIN. He has failed to rally his base over the last 2 years, the same base that put him in office, and the same base that may look to another, more feisty Democrat come primary season 2012. This plan increases our ballooning deficit by nearly a trillion dollars. About $120 billion covers the high-end tax cuts and the estate tax cut, $450 billion covers Obeezy’s demands and $360 billion covers the middle class tax cut extensions both parties favored. Also, he got 13 months of unemployment benefits, while Reupbs got 2 years of tax cuts, basically the short end of a 2 fer 1 deal. Wackness. You got served, Obeezy.<br /><br />I feel Obama should’ve gotten Republicans to cave a little bit on their demands, not just give them everything they want, so we can get SOMETHING. Sen. Max Baucus submitted a plan to raise taxes only on families making $1 million and above, not just $250,000 and above. Sen. McConnell mustve said “f*ck off* to that plan. Which makes me realize that he has the interests of the rich at heart, not most Americans. When Obama says to him, “Really Mitch, you’re hosling the threat of ruining the lifves and holidays of 2million families over my head so you can get millionaires and billionaires more money? How do you sleep at night?” I can only imagine McConnell’s response…oh wait, I already know his response. He said “You’re exactly right.”<br /><br /><strong>The UGLY</strong><br /><br />“Republicans have held the middle class hostage for provisions that benefit only the wealthiest 3 percent, do not create jobs, and add tens of billions of dollars to the deficit. To add insult to injury, the Republican estate tax proposal would help only 39,000 of America's richest families, while adding about $25 billion more to the deficit." – Nancy Pelosi sums it up pretty well.<br /><br />I’ve recently read Third World America, Arianna Huffington’s newest book. Combine the knowledge of that book with what happened on the Hill yesterday, and this is what kept me from sleeping last night. The last 10 years, 8 of which Bush was President, we have had ZERO NET GROWTH IN JOBS IN AMERICA. <br /><br />I’ll write that again. IN THE YEARS THAT THE BUSH TAX CUTS WERE IN EFFECT, THOSE TAX CUTS CREATED ZERO NET GROWTH IN JOBS IN AMERICA. <br /><br />One more time for good measure:<br /><br /><strong>THE TAX CUTS THAT ORGINATED FROM THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DID NOT CREATE JOBS.</strong><br /><br />So, can someone please tell me why the Republicans are allowed to repeat this utter falsehood that giving tax cuts to the wealthy create jobs? <br /><br />The incomes of the wealthiest 5% in this country have increased over the last decade, while the income of the middle class has fallen. Why is it that WE, the middle class are asked to “tighten our belts” and sacrifice to lower the national debt, whole the wealthy get yet ANOTHER present, just for being wealthy?<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-P9wf3k11p4clmrjS_RG4b3HK24hdtEET7TpnUjCB8P-ORUMjmMk1jgtXIAb07sqwTsWB8LD2Utfxt3IQHnOj9D58u3ATrLtjZOADGQey2AKxT0iiN-68wxOggljHoRFQTmHw8YPmpik/s1600/TAX-CUTS.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 245px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-P9wf3k11p4clmrjS_RG4b3HK24hdtEET7TpnUjCB8P-ORUMjmMk1jgtXIAb07sqwTsWB8LD2Utfxt3IQHnOj9D58u3ATrLtjZOADGQey2AKxT0iiN-68wxOggljHoRFQTmHw8YPmpik/s320/TAX-CUTS.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548367135164474946" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />It also disgusts me that the main reason Republicans held unemployment benefits hostage is their claim that it’s fiscally irresponsible to add more debt to the nation’s bill without off-setting the cost via some other spending cut. Unless of course you want to give billions to the rich without offsetting THAT cost. Doesn’t that piss you off? It made me so mad, I got a headache last night.<br />Sadly, we will be right back at this juncture 13 months from now with a Republican-controlled Congress. I can only pray no one I know is amongst the ranks of the unemployed then. Cuz they are shit outta luck in the worst way.<br /><br />And oh yeh, decreasing tax levels on the Estate Tax…wowzers. Obeezy just gave a BIGGER tax break to RICH PEOPLE WHO INHERIT MONEY FROM THEIR DEAD RICH RELATIVES. AND THAT’S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT. WHAT THE HELL.<br /><br />Has anyone ever heard of the 99ers? Apparently there are 5 million people who get no unemployment benefits at all because they have been collecting for 99 weeks. No one has mentioned them at all in the tax policy discussion. I guess there needs to be more room on that boat going up Shit’s Creek without a paddle…<br /><br />The assault on the middle class continues. And I think Obeezy is still on our side but either lacks the balls to really fight, or his naiveté about the political process Is getting the best of him. Either way, I’m considering a career change. I’m trying to figure out 1. Where the richest people in America live. And 2. What is a service that I could provide and start a business with that would allow me to cater exclusively to the rich? Because having a “normal” job is no longer what’s hot in the streets. Rich people are about to be the only people with substantial discretionary incomes. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em…or at least sell ‘em something.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs5g_AwwNa6Ge9nxOmyi_CHQXUcpNoW3ACmnbiT5WYK5EMGSGoiyjRA99LdRF3Y1wqp_0sfDvgO3C6UO7rCwBzubT3kV3EWxpDk2uqCzy8r0sQV1kfHDNDK_mfNu0pKqvbeZJ-SVQDGpo/s1600/WOWZERS.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs5g_AwwNa6Ge9nxOmyi_CHQXUcpNoW3ACmnbiT5WYK5EMGSGoiyjRA99LdRF3Y1wqp_0sfDvgO3C6UO7rCwBzubT3kV3EWxpDk2uqCzy8r0sQV1kfHDNDK_mfNu0pKqvbeZJ-SVQDGpo/s320/WOWZERS.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548367517434260530" /></a><br /><br />What’s your opinion on the tax cuts?Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-81478648367888125992010-08-16T10:11:00.000-07:002010-08-16T10:17:05.942-07:00The Ground Zero Boogey-Mosque<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTBEQ0uBv_PdFSW3OQax3F5k52uruhvIUTFvut6F-9PHRb8bkZx-oJvTJyE3Gyi6Hjom8BCO4Xyd4aMpildzdBOc99Mva2EowjHghIt6v9PKADx23P6y-KfkuDeHAd6e0SsEkz_blWvu4/s1600/slideshow_1001629786_mike08132010.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTBEQ0uBv_PdFSW3OQax3F5k52uruhvIUTFvut6F-9PHRb8bkZx-oJvTJyE3Gyi6Hjom8BCO4Xyd4aMpildzdBOc99Mva2EowjHghIt6v9PKADx23P6y-KfkuDeHAd6e0SsEkz_blWvu4/s320/slideshow_1001629786_mike08132010.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506057717234094226" /></a><br /><br /><br />Could anything be scarier? Muslims worshipping a mere 2 blocks from the hallowed ground of Ground Zero? GASP ! A “Victory Mosque”? DOUBLE GASP ! On that dark day in American history when over 3,000 people lost their lives at the hands of Muslim extremists, our world changed forever; and not for the better.<br /><br />“Terrorist“ became a curseword. You must hold your pee on the airplane because getting up may cause you to be bumrushed and tackled by undercover U.S. Marshalls.<br />At first glance, I’ll admit, the idea of a mosque so close to Ground Zero was appalling. Why would they choose that spot? Everywhere in NYC is expensive real estate, why not somewhere cheaper? Somewhere less controversial?<br /><br />Honestly, in 2010, I can’t believe that we are really having a debate on whether or not a place of worship can be built because of the religion being practiced there. Wasn’t stuff like this decided way back in the 1700s when our Constitution was written?<br /><br />I will admit, legally, the Cordoba initiative has a right to build a mosque anywhere they choose. I came to this realization after Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) raised an excellent point on MSNBC last week. Lawmakers should not be commenting on the wisdom of building a mosque at that location. Lawmakers make and enforce LAWS. LAW is (for the most part) impartial and without emotion. When our lawmakers start putting their personal judgments and opinions into enforcement of law, that’s teetering on a dangerous edge. I respect him as a Congressman because despite the prodding of his interviewer, he refused to say whether or not he thought it was “right” to build a mosque there. That was not Rep. Weiner being a politician and avoiding the issue. Although we are nosy Americans and may want to know where he stands emotionally on this issue, we have no right to know and his emotions have no place in the legality of the issue at hand.<br /><br />I, however, am, not a member of Congress. I am not a lawmaker. I am a private citizen, therefore I can speak freely about my emotions on the situation. And I do not think the mosque should be built 2 blocks from Ground Zero. Is there really a reason to cause the families of 9/11 victims any more pain and anguish? I think for the Cordoba Initiative to consider building a mosque so close to hallowed ground is in very poor taste and is insensitive to the 9/11 victims and families. This also raises the question of how close is “too close” to Ground Zero? Two blocks? Five blocks? 911 miles?<br /><br />This is all semantics though, legally, anyone could build a mosque on the same block as Ground Zero. Legally, someone could also build a KKK Historical Center next to Rosa Park’s grave. But the determination of is it the “right” thing to do is up for individual interpretation.<br /><br />Yes, I know the 9/11 criminals were extremists, and their actions do not represent Islam as a whole. However, I don’t kid myself that we are engaged in a religious conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Interestingly enough, we are not engaged in a conflict with those countries specifically. Anyone who is reading this blog post should be smart enough to know that we are fighting the extremist sects of Islam who want to rule those two countries. America is a Christian nation, and those with whom we are engaged in conflict believe that theirs is the righteous cause in the eyes of Allah. And although only the Republican right wing crazies will say “God” out loud in public, and we refuse to admit it as a country, we believe that God and “good” are on OUR side. So, yes, we ARE in a religious war.<br /><br />Mayor Bloomberg and President Obama have both expressed their support for the legality of building a mosque at that location. Both of them have also refused to comment on the wisdom of building a mosque there, a wise choice since commenting on that puts them in the league of douchebag Sen. John Kyl; who has given in to the semantics of the issue at hand and has come out publicly to say that building the Boogey-Mosque is “not right” <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/08/10/a_mosque_at_ground_zero_106681.html">Read his article here.</a><br /><br /><br />Since polls show nearly 70% of Americans and 60% of New Yorkers oppose the Boogey-Mosque, I don’t doubt that personally, the President and Mayor Bloomberg also oppose the mosque. But their personal views do not matter in the context of the Constitution. While I agree with Sen. Kyl that “New York is a big city and there are other places to build”, as a private citizen, I can let my emotions influence what I do. What I do doesn’t affect millions of people. The same is not true for Sen . Kyl. He (unfortunately) matters more than I do and therefore should keep his emotions out of what is truly a legal debate.<br /><br />New Yorkers and non-New Yorkers alike–your thoughts?<br /><br />And oh yeh, speaking of 9/11, we still haven’t found Osama Bin Laden yet, have we? Okay, just checking.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUN-tFudwvDtkS5bTTdxT_7DIZvQkHYBMlxI4-DXqUdHsMB5AIJF9IZibAsBwyLi7QeC-jbFdRIOYpA2g5qRMrh2pQVzY6Yn3igQ2FRcHECGg5o-uH6_dEZL5OvjrwbZQA0ZhuGeF4Iow/s1600/margulies.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUN-tFudwvDtkS5bTTdxT_7DIZvQkHYBMlxI4-DXqUdHsMB5AIJF9IZibAsBwyLi7QeC-jbFdRIOYpA2g5qRMrh2pQVzY6Yn3igQ2FRcHECGg5o-uH6_dEZL5OvjrwbZQA0ZhuGeF4Iow/s320/margulies.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506057601908413474" /></a>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-48201679795964372272010-04-27T12:35:00.000-07:002010-04-27T13:11:00.740-07:00Is it Freedom O'Clock ?!?<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XVh3Z_0FGGY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XVh3Z_0FGGY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><br /> What’s hot in the news this week is the new anti-illegal immigrant bill signed into law in Arizona, that requires police to ask for a person’s citizenship status documents if they have a “reasonable suspicion” to believe that they are an illegal immigrant. People are likening this to the Gestapo of Nazi Germany, who could demand “papers” at any time, and saying that this will lead to racial profiling and the transformation of Arizona into a police-state.<br /><br /> People need to stop making this a semantics issue and let’s be real. If you are not here legally, no matter what your country of origin is, you DO NOT DESERVE TO BE HERE. The bill obviously focuses on Mexicans and those of Latino origin crossing the only foreign border in Arizona; Mexico. People like John McCain and Pat Buchanan’s feelings about this issue are more related to the white fears of the “browning of America” and the increase in minority population overall. My feelings are, if you are a <strong>legal </strong>immigrant from Mexico, El Salvador, Ireland, Somalia, or you chose to become an American Citizen after leaving your home country, you are just as American as I am. It doesn’t matter that your relatives and ancestors have no history in this country, but you do, because you made a choice to become a law-abiding citizen, and not an illegal alien aka a CRIMINAL. Yes, criminal. It is against the law to be here illegally. I’m not saying their illegal status makes it more likely that they will commit crimes. I am saying it’s illegal for them to be here because IT IS. THAT’S THE LAW, no racial element to it. If you’re illegal and Mexican or illegal and a hot blond Russian prostitute, you’re illegal! The racist psyche of the nation will view both people differently, but they are both illegal and need to be deported or fined or SOMETHING… ASAP. <br /><br /> The way to American growth was through jobs that benefitted and uplifted the American middle class, not the under-class of another country. That was the way to the bubble of the 1990s and the burst of the 2000s. Wonder why the US economy has not created ONE net job increase in 10 years? Illegal immigration is part of the problem [See my post from 2008 on this for my detailed opinion <a href="http://theoogieboogieman.blogspot.com/2008/12/let-backlash-begin.html">http://theoogieboogieman.blogspot.com/2008/12/let-backlash-begin.html</a> ]. Another part of the problem is outsourcing and the creation of pseudo-wealth known as derivates and stock market gambling.<br /><br /> People are beginning to think that this will be the civil rights debate of our time (I wholeheartedly disagree) and since Al Sharpton has made his way down to AZ, the issue of black Americans’ stake in the law has been brought up. <em>**SiDENOTE** why do white people still think that Al Sharpton is the spokesperson for black America? HE’S A GROWN ASS MAN WITH A PERM. Why do people still take him seriously….Le Sigh.</em><br /><br /> This isn’t going to sound pretty, but I keep it pretty in real life, and keep it real in my writing, no matter how ugly this sounds, I’m putting it out there:<br /><strong><br />We have no sentimental or logical reason as black people to stand with illegal immigrants in this situation.</strong> <br /><br /> It’s not like banning the law will stop racial profiling of blacks. We still get abused by the police regardless of every civil rights bill ever passed (see Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, & the Hurricane Katrina Danzinger Bridge massacre.) Nor should we champion this law and support targeting of Latinos or racial profiling in any form. But should we stand with them in the fight against the bill? I say nay. Mainly because something like 70% of Arizona’s citizens support the bill. They are the ones who deal with the implications of having illegal immigrants in close proximity as Phoenix has become the kidnapping capital of the USA, due to the increased violence of Mexican drug criminals sneaking into the country.<br /> <br /> I have read people saying “the civil rights movement didn’t get off the ground just by blacks alone. It took sympathizers who didn’t look like us (read: white people with influence) to help us in the struggle”. Let’s face it. In cities across the USA, especially in lower-income areas, the tensions between blacks and Hispanics run higher than those between all minorities and whites. There is no need to perpetuate hostility among the races, but let’s not imagine some utopian camaraderie that does not exist. See Exhibit A: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/14/fox.jackson/ ">http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/14/fox.jackson/ </a><br /> <br />The big picture really all comes down to the scarcity of resources. In this case, resources being jobs and public services. Jobs are non-existent in many areas of this country and tax revenue has plummeted because of the loss in jobs. Therefore, municipalities are unable to provide the services required to their citizens. It makes no sense to say that an illegal deserves a job and public services as equally as a tax-paying, law abiding citizen. There are legal ways for immigrants to live and work in this country, and they make a CHOICE to come here and ignore those legal inroads.<br /><br /> Now I personally don’t believe that ordinary state police should be the ones in charge of enforcing immigration law. The police force is not usually made up of the most mentally stable, coherent individuals. But the bill is in response to federal inaction on the topic. Which also is not the fault of the Democrats, (although it will undoubtedly be misconstrued to seem that way) good old Dubya tried and failed twice to pass meaningful immigrant legislation and was denied not just by Dems, but by many of his Republican compatriots.<br /> <br /> I also find it incredibly unfair that no one ever focuses on the business owners who HIRE illegal workers. They are committing crimes as well. And let’s face it, the majority of those hiring illegals are white **shudder & gasp**, but of course, you see no increase in crackdown on the white folk (have we EVER seen that? Hmmmm…). Illegals wouldn’t come here if there were no opportunities for them to work. This morning, I saw about 6 Mexicans get out of a van with some cleaning service logo on the side, about to wash some windows on a building on GWU’s campus. I wondered, if we were in Arizona, would the police question the Mexicans first, or go to the white man in khakis and the polo shirt with the logo on it?<br /><br /> Hey Tea Party! Here’s one of those "common sense, conservative solutions" that your Princess Sarah Palin loves to rave incoherently about: wanna help with the job creation woes being caused in part by illegal immigration? Why don’t you tell some of your small business owner members to stop hiring illegal immigrants and pony up the cash to pay American citizens decent wages? What’s that? Oh if you hire Americans you’d have to offer your employees actual benefits and have less of a profit for your greedy selves? Darn. I guess it’s hard out here for a pimp….. and a bunch of hypocrites.<br /><br /> To the firing squad of those ready to blast me because I wrote what you are afraid to admit…<br /><strong>**READY, AIM, FIRE**</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy8qG1uBVk1ErZq8JqY_CWOwfK3GECXXXt2rQcBy4h_p9K9lQJQdtls6KBDl1NjyKVcVRWCuXn4sHxZ4gN2tE09oKpccKUsdRjrkOIpDEcCGP7HdiAyXZlH1zyD8ucbDBLAF1QPm5K3kg/s1600/We+Are+Here.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy8qG1uBVk1ErZq8JqY_CWOwfK3GECXXXt2rQcBy4h_p9K9lQJQdtls6KBDl1NjyKVcVRWCuXn4sHxZ4gN2tE09oKpccKUsdRjrkOIpDEcCGP7HdiAyXZlH1zyD8ucbDBLAF1QPm5K3kg/s320/We+Are+Here.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464908479499443890" /></a>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-44975807583935245902010-03-25T10:13:00.000-07:002010-03-25T10:17:46.722-07:006 Steps to Dismantling Opposition to Gay Marriage<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKs-dmne3muwnM4TdIbXuiMMZMDCKx900btGL2ExcdsbntzK1noYZCsbluql6Qg83SST7lqtdY7g0_yy-2czO8NB20_eZlhuVKNtMiLmkkXkpQwj2cjED6tOkU23_x2-3SQ1QZjUdxrOE/s1600/stickers4web.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKs-dmne3muwnM4TdIbXuiMMZMDCKx900btGL2ExcdsbntzK1noYZCsbluql6Qg83SST7lqtdY7g0_yy-2czO8NB20_eZlhuVKNtMiLmkkXkpQwj2cjED6tOkU23_x2-3SQ1QZjUdxrOE/s320/stickers4web.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452621536045369810" /></a><br /><br /><br />I had an interesting conversation with my dad last night. He illustrated that most American ideology that is considered moderate is the result of liberal people’s own conservative PREJUDICES bringing them toward center-right. <br /><br />We were talking about Obama and healthcare and how he wants Obama to do more, he’s not feisty enough, etc. So then we got into liberals, conservatives, and moderates, and the conversation turned toward gay marriage. We had a rather spirited debate on this on Christmas Day, concluding with him repeating “Meg, the shit ain’t right!!” before I just gave up. This time, his reasoning for opposition to gay marriage was “It goes against God’s will.”<br /><br /><strong><em>**SIDE EYE OF THE CENTURY**</em></strong><br />(¬_¬)<br /><br /><br />Now for those of you who don’t know my dad, he was raised Catholic in the Bronx, and attended Catholic school his entire childhood. In 24 years of life I have only seen this negro go inside a church for funerals and weddings. But now going against “God’s will” is his (and Sarah Palin’s) most convenient reason to deny someone a Constitutional right. <br /><br />I knew this was complete BS and that his own extensive personal prejudices as a black Baby Boomer from New York were the real motives behind his political stance. It also was not hard to prove this via 10 minutes or less of conversation. I now present to you the deconstruction of his argument, which can also be used to deconstruct any other bigoted argument against gay marriage:<br /><br />1. It’s in the Bible.<br /><br />• First off, what book and verse? **SILENCE IS GOLDEN** You’re referring to Leviticuts 18:22 – “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” Don’t hide behind God as the reasoning for things you just don’t like or just don’t agree with. Leviticus 11:11 and 11:12 says: “Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination to you… and they shall be abhorrent to you; you may not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses you shall detest.” So I guess if you’ve ever eaten shrimp or crab, you’re going against the Bible, too. That’s called being a hypocrite. Feel free to follow the Bible , it’s a good book, although since the laws of Leviticus only apply to male Hebrew priests, you’re only violating the Bible if you’re a gay, male, Hebrew priest. If you’re not a gay, male, Hebrew priest, you should probably take a hint from Dave Chappelle and “Shut.The.F*ck.Up.”<br /><br />2. If you were to be gay, the family name and lineage would disappear.<br />• Gay or straight, if I’m not married, I’m not going to have kids anyway. Also, I’m a female, so I would take my husband’s name, and so would our children. If either of my brothers were gay, they could do artificial insemination with their sperm and a surrogate and the family name AND lineage would continue.<br /><br />3. Marriage is a sacred tradition of love between a man and woman, and has always been that way.<br />• Marriage is an ancient pagan tradition of OWNERSHIP of a virgin woman. That is why brides are chaste, wear white, and why their father gives them away to the husband at the altar, transferring ownership of the woman from one male to another. Gay marriage in America grants important legal rights to spouses and to deny same-sex marriage is to deny someone a right guaranteed to them in the US Constitution.<br /><br />4. Gay parents produce gay kids and if everyone were gay, the human race would die out.<br />• Actually, upwards of 95% of gay people were produced by 2 straight people having sex. Maybe there’s something wrong with the heteros. Anyone with common sense can see that everyone isn’t gay. Not even the majority of people are gay. The biggest threat to the human race is actually our own ignorance and violent nature, resulting in the imminent threats of nuclear holocaust and global warming. A dinosaur-extinction level event in the form of an asteroid is a more likely cause of our species’ demise than gay marriage.<br /><br />5. Pedophiles and sexual deviants are mostly gays.<br />• Actually, no, those are mostly straight people. Scientific sociological studies have proven time and again that homosexuality is not a learned or “contagious” behavior.<br /><br />6. It’s a choice.<br /><br />It’s not. The only choice that homosexual people make is to not live their lives as a humongous lie and to be true to the feelings in their hearts and minds, just as heterosexual people do. Why would anyone choose the hardest path in life? That’s like a white person in rural Alabama choosing to become a Muslim, tanning every day, and opening a mosque. In the words of Paul Mooney, “what a waste of white skin!”<br /><br />After all this, the truth finally came out as “Look, it’s disgusting and not right”. There we go, finally some honesty! I’d much prefer people were honest about their prejudices than hide behind false reasoning. Prejudices are not cool, but everyone has them. It’s a result of growing up in a country were 90% of the images you process on a daily basis are manufactured for you, and therefore it is unavoidable to escape their influence on your ways of thinking. A widely-held theory of marketing and psychology says people want their opinions to be perceived as socially desirable by everyone else. Everyone may not want the rest of the world to AGREE with them, but most people are not okay with being known as bigots, racists, or prejudiced, although those all would be accurate titles. Hopefully you can use the aforementioned tactics as a way to evoke honesty in people, and possibly even change their views.<br /><br />Peace Outside.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2-cS2cUAj1YFY63Efy3Y_QMKVRkFPe00uFHtw2Ffafon22jT_J6WnRlgf_8MTa3nC0125IGqdvpuNC1y_Da3jQAUKtMoZnhHc118Z7DSiulo4OOCxtv4hok9RNKCLsBE7JTsKGe8ELe8/s1600/bush-gay-marriage.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2-cS2cUAj1YFY63Efy3Y_QMKVRkFPe00uFHtw2Ffafon22jT_J6WnRlgf_8MTa3nC0125IGqdvpuNC1y_Da3jQAUKtMoZnhHc118Z7DSiulo4OOCxtv4hok9RNKCLsBE7JTsKGe8ELe8/s320/bush-gay-marriage.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452621382725993330" /></a>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-61013720053841368022010-03-18T13:07:00.001-07:002010-04-30T09:09:37.035-07:00THE BLiND LEADiNG THE BLiND<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcbB7JvqoiKYHvy4qMw486ZFtjZ1OwdArY_3A6b0Y6IQor8_k5LyutYyq9VStFd6Q1clDc6mXzb7CF_GpaILjC3OsCGBtle4fcu-F3JsoTb5M9MFWl04tolt-s91qLCH4kPUE_aTkkhs/s1600-h/Blind+Puppy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcbB7JvqoiKYHvy4qMw486ZFtjZ1OwdArY_3A6b0Y6IQor8_k5LyutYyq9VStFd6Q1clDc6mXzb7CF_GpaILjC3OsCGBtle4fcu-F3JsoTb5M9MFWl04tolt-s91qLCH4kPUE_aTkkhs/s320/Blind+Puppy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450068078787025858" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Anyone that knows me knows that I can’t see. Forrealz. If I take off my glasses, I couldn’t read a computer screen in front of me. Putting me behind the wheel would result in a fender-bender within 45 seconds or less. I might not be able to even read the letters on the gearshift to even know I had the car in drive. Thankfully, I wear glasses or contacts during my waking hours to ensure the safety of myself and those around me. However, today I went outside on this beautiful, sunny, March day, and I took my glasses off. I sat in front of the State Department and just watched the world on 23rd street NW.<br /><br />I use the term “watch” loosely because I couldn’t really see anything. I could tell the difference between a car and a tree, a man and a woman, but I couldn’t see anyone’s faces. Everyone looked like Bob the Builder dolls. I met some model-UN people outside and talked to them for a little bit, but it was very weird, not being able to clearly see their faces. Weird, yet refreshing as I didn’t notice every detail of their outfit or a strand out of place in their hair, the people walking around in the background, the cars passing by, etc. It was a very simplistic view of the world that I hadn’t had in a long time. It’s a hard notion to describe, especially if you have perfect vision. It’s actually NOT like taking one sense away and the other 5 are heightened. It’s closer to eliminating the clutter in a room, except the room is your consciousness. <br /><br />In the brief 30 minutes I was outside, I had a mini-ephiphany. I notice EVERYTHING. Sometimes I have a Rainman-like attention to detail and memory. I view the world like a Van Gogh painting close up. I notice the brush strokes of everything around me. Some may say it’s a talent or gift, you know, people make careers out of analyzing things. Journalism and higher education teaches us to think in this manner. Our innate human inquisitive-ness is magnified by this aspect of our lifestyle. I wonder what it would be like to just not analyze for a day or two. Don’t get me wrong, I relax like nobody’s business. I could be a professional “Chill-er” if there was such a job. But I wonder could we live life like a moment of meditation? To accept a stimulus and not process it? To allow what is…<br /><br />Just a thought.<br /><br /><br /><br />**SiDE NOTE**People have asked me why I’m no longer on Twitter. Well, honestly I never agreed with the whole Twitter concept in the first place; and job boredom, peer pressure, and curiosity came together like an unholy trifecta leading me to the over-indulgence of non-stop microblogging. I don’t judge my Tweeps, I just prefer the “luxury” of having more than 140 characters in which to express my thoughts. That’s all.Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-13098923964585931572010-03-15T13:12:00.000-07:002010-03-15T13:19:07.176-07:00THE R-WORD. NO, NOT RECTUM.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRIZ9kMGiBJTSiqV5vyyTl4KmgCuaTcyfIi6bPaLz49kVa1owTdSMJHwUBvtpiiGqvMmSzSqYeE62LoNg8G2LnwolxmJotgyijHn835YkJN4oyzmjzB7oehTsmWaErD4NINUYiAnhmBLs/s1600-h/No-Criticism-of-Religion-e.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRIZ9kMGiBJTSiqV5vyyTl4KmgCuaTcyfIi6bPaLz49kVa1owTdSMJHwUBvtpiiGqvMmSzSqYeE62LoNg8G2LnwolxmJotgyijHn835YkJN4oyzmjzB7oehTsmWaErD4NINUYiAnhmBLs/s320/No-Criticism-of-Religion-e.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448957131312149714" /></a><br />What if someone (a scientist, the President, the Pope, whomever) declared they had spoken to God, in person, and He told them that “we are here” simply for God’s entertainment. He laughs at us when we have wars in His name, nudges Jesus and Moses and chuckles when we deny that global warming exists, etc…. <br />First of all, would anyone believe this person? Those who “talk to God” these days are more likely to end up in the looney bin than at a nationally-televised press conference, or have anyone except those declared to be “in a cult” actually listen to them. Then if anyone believed that this person had a convo with God, then would they believe God’s message? He LAUGHS at us?? *GASP* Our, benevolent, all powerful being LAUGHS AT US!?! <br /><br />At this point, some of you guys are probably thinking, "wow, maybe Meg really is the Spawn of Satan."<br /><br />No, I’m not in any way related to Satan as far as I know. If I was, I’d probably be related to Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin as well. As far as I know, they are of no kin to me, plus relatives usually don’t induce vomiting when I think of them. In fact, I may not be a very religious person, but I do believe in God. I pray every day and I don’t denounce religion. What I don’t agree with is people’s manipulation of religion in order to increase their personal wealth, status, and power. I also don’t agree with how the manipulation of religion has become the face of religion worldwide, but most dangerously in America. <br /><br />I have a problem with Congressmen holding up health care claiming it’s over abortion when the language in the bill clearly prohibits federal funding for abortion (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/04/bart-stupak-abortion-lang_n_485341.html ). Roe v Wade was decided 3 decades ago. Every time a Supreme Court Justice nomination or Presidential election comes around, people question whether or not Roe v Wade is going to be overturned and its 100% a religious debate.<br /><br />I most recently have a problem with evangelicals pretty much being allowed to construe the Texas public school curriculum into some far-right interpretation of the truth, eliminating even teaching about Thomas Jefferson (I wonder if his Jungle Fever for Sally Hemmings had anything to do with that……hmm) along with Enlightenment, and neglecting to include the principle of the separation of church and State, and most ridiculous, requiring teaching about the 1980s and 1990s resurgence of conservative politics, but omitting hip hop as a cultural movement. WOW. Get the full story and related info here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/13/texas-textbook-massacre-u_n_498003.html#s73766 - craziness! Even more retarded is that Democrats walked out of this meeting, further ensuring these crazies would prevail without the Dems voting. SMDH.<br /><br />I have a problem with Catholic schools not allowing a student with two lesbian parents enroll because they are not in line with the teachings of the Catholic Church, but not checking to see if any other students’ parents have ever been divorced, or ever used birth control, cuz you know, those things aren’t in line with the Church’s teachings either.<br /><br />The Religious Right always wants to say the Left is inflicting its morals (or lack thereof) on the rest of the country, and it is unraveling the fabric of our society and a mockery to the Christian principles that this GREAT NATION was founded on. SHAME on the LEFT!!! I guess we need to get back to the same religious principles that allowed a bunch of white men to invade already inhabited land, proclaim it to be a “discovery”, exterminate the inhabitants, bring over some new people, enslave them, declare that they should be slaves because the Bible teaches a slave to obey its master, not allow women to vote or own land because they have vaginas, etc. the list of “Christian principles” in place when this country was founded goes on and on. <br /><br />Conversely, I honestly believe religion worldwide has helped way more people than it has harmed. Yes, it’s been the cause of countless wars, countless deaths, persecutions, and denial of human rights in the name of the Lord, Jehovah, Allah, etc. However, one cannot ignore the fact that religion has also spawned countless childrens’ centers, refugee camps, churches have fed and clothed innumerable amounts of people, helped to make them literate, provided help to the homeless, to college students, to every shade of human, to former drug addicts, etc. No one can deny the good that has spawned from religion over the centuries.<br /><br />No one with even a Sarah Palin-sized brain would believe that war would cease to exist if there was no religion in the world. Would there be less war if religion wasn’t involved? I don’t know, we cannot change history and I’m not a fortune teller. However if you’ve seen “The Book of Eli” you may answer “yes” to my previous statement. Would there be more war and everyone would be a god-less heathen if there were no religion? Probably not. People are already heathens by nature, religion doesn’t really seem to be majorly affecting this.<br /><br />If you continued reading to this point, thanks a bunch. If you still want to be my friend after reading this, double thanks. If you are nice enough to post your thoughts on the topic, triple thanks =) I always appreciate thoughtful dialogue on the topic, mainly because people are almost afraid to discuss religion, as if they are going to hell for putting into words what is already in their hearts and minds.<br /><br />Peace Outside.Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-84925297433664722592010-03-03T13:52:00.000-08:002010-04-30T09:34:52.715-07:00Life and Death<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAIDO49rNSjGx-knuNsD3Zn6NW2YygwPQLC0u6aCztJZIQgmJunauf1o2eHeJdzKNXEKokgqOrJmND4M2H3yQ4LOcc8ZxrIdV_74selV6QCSXm-y8yn_JIG9wc9mDNCD9aYeilYWcnqsI/s1600-h/grim.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 285px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAIDO49rNSjGx-knuNsD3Zn6NW2YygwPQLC0u6aCztJZIQgmJunauf1o2eHeJdzKNXEKokgqOrJmND4M2H3yQ4LOcc8ZxrIdV_74selV6QCSXm-y8yn_JIG9wc9mDNCD9aYeilYWcnqsI/s320/grim.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444529936882306338" /></a><br /><br />****UPDATE 4/30/10 Semi-related article in <a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/34300/">The Epoch Times </a>****<br /><br />*****<br /><br /><br /><br />So I almost didnt post this since it had been a while since the subject matter was relevant...but lo and behold, 7 am yesterday morning, I was blown yet again. Channel 4 news was reporting on a hit and run accident during rush hour. The reporter said we're trying to show you the accident without showing the victim since police have not removed the body. The camera pans to the truck that struck someone then pans down to avoid the body being shown. Then it pans back to the police, without titling down...and LINGERS ON THE GRISLY IMAGE OF THE VICTIM COVERED BY A WHITE SHEET LAYING DEAD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET.<br /><br />SMDH (-_-) ...<br /><br /> In our ever-changing, increasingly technological world, we are invited via many outlets to share every aspect of our life. Our every internal thought can be displayed for not only our friends, family, and acquaintances, but even to the entire WORLD if we wish; via outlets like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and MySpace. Technology can even save lives, look at the millions of dollars donated via text messaging to the people of Haiti. This interconnectivity has undoubtedly advanced our world and connected us in many useful ways, but has it gone too far? <br /><br /><br /> So I pose the question, is it now appropriate for us to share all aspects of our life…and death?? <br /><br /><br /> Our relatively new, celebrity-obsessed media culture has somehow made it a norm for every private aspects of a celebrity’s life to be broadcasted to the world. Too often in the past few years, these aspects have included the tragic deaths of these people as well. The incident that inspired me to write this blog happened last week, when Georgian Luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died during a training run for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. I was on Huffington Post at work when I saw that there had been an accident at the Olympics. Like any curious person, I clicked on it and read the story and watched the horrifying video of the crash. Then I scrolled down the page to view photos of the incident and was absolutely mortified by what I saw. There were photos of Kumaritashvili as he lay bleeding and receiving medical attention which showed his ear hanging off of his head. Gross, I know, but it gets worse. The next day, I asked my sister if she heard about the luge incident and proceeded to show her the page. To my surprise, even more pictures had been added, one of a close-up view of Kumaritashvili’s face, bloodied and pale, with his eyes and mouth completely open, devoid of any signs of life. I was amazed that such a photo would be posted on a respectable site like Huffington Post. <br /><br /><br /> Nodar Kumaritashvili was someone’s son, possibly someone’s brother, father, or husband. How dare the media post such morbid photos of him, likely without family permission, since the incident just happened. How disgusting that HP would post ADDITIONAL pictures of the tragedy! Even worse is that NBC repeatedly aired the violent crash several times.<br /><br />Yes, NBC eventually prompted all its subsidiaries to cease showing the accident, but shouldn’t that judgment call have been made PRIOR to releasing the footage to every newsmedia outlet worldwide? Not one upper or even mid-level executive thought “maybe this is too much?” Or was the almighty dollar in the form of ratings dancing like sugarplums in their greedy little minds…<br /><br /> This of course is not a new thing; I recall in February 2007, when Anna Nicole Smith died of a drug overdose, CNN.com posted pictures of her being taken out to the ambulance from her hotel. She was on a stretcher and I distinctly remember the photos being zoomed in to show her face as paramedics attempted in vain to resuscitate her. I believe she was dead in this picture since the reports were that she was found unconscious, covered in vomit, and not breathing in bed. Then her bodyguard tried to do CPR, then the paramedics came and tried CPR in the room, then she was taken out to the stretcher, where they continued CPR and she was pronounced Dead on Arrival. Often when several attempts to revive someone fail, they were already dead when they were found. These stretcher pictures are not hard to find and the integrity of serious news channels should be questioned for showing her dead body. <br /><br /><br /> Entertainment Tonight and OK! Magazine were the first to show the photos of Michael Jackson the day he died, as he was taken from his rented home in LA to Mount Sinai hospital. They called them the “last photos” of Michael while he lay dying, but let’s be real. Michael was dead and had been dead for several hours when that picture was taken. They tried to resuscitate him for over an hour before he got to the hospital and an hour when he got to the hospital. I was repulsed when I was in Safeway checkout line and saw the ENITRE cover of OK! Magazine was the photo of his face on a stretcher with breathing tubes up his nose. Again, money must’ve been on the minds of the editors, although I can’t imagine who would want to buy that magazine with that cover. Like many others, I bought memorial issues of magazines, but not for that sensationalist and disgusting picture, but as a way to grieve and celebrate the life of one of my childhood idols. I wanted something to remember Michael, no matter which of his faces was on the cover, just not that one devoid of any life, riding in the back of an ambulance. <br /><br /><br /> On TV shows and the news, you rarely see the face of a dead person. On the A&E show The First 48 they occasionally show blood and a dead body, but they always blur the person’s face out. This courtesy does not seem to be extended to celebrities though, as the world seems to have a ravenous hunger for that last image that proves their mortality. I have the feeling that the only reason why we do not see actual shootings on the 6 o’clock news is because there was not a videocamera there to capture it. Although if there’s a cell phone video (ie when a California man was shot in the back by police while handcuffed and laying on the ground or when a 15 year old in Chicago is brutally beaten to death by several students acting like a pack of savage animals), I guess that’s cool to broadcast as long as you put a “viewer discretion is advised” disclaimer on it. <br /><br /><br />Because of our technological connectivity to other human beings, have we lost grasp on our true sense of humanity? <br /><br /><br />Speak on it.Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-38217726515114142132010-02-19T07:00:00.000-08:002010-04-30T09:37:35.100-07:00Preview for upcoming article on DMVUnplugged…..<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0iqdwzF6jgoJ8n2CNGzUMo7NxCMhLQmdSGioKrot6LPoTvmDt-RpPaI2oIpBhzwP5Z9Kvsxx493cf5GBFDOrqTOAvoV_-7AY9NUkBcOp57E3Dc6HaaHvrKwLRaOXBSqiMGpt-XF7TuAk/s1600-h/grace+jones.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439970331421851122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 256px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0iqdwzF6jgoJ8n2CNGzUMo7NxCMhLQmdSGioKrot6LPoTvmDt-RpPaI2oIpBhzwP5Z9Kvsxx493cf5GBFDOrqTOAvoV_-7AY9NUkBcOp57E3Dc6HaaHvrKwLRaOXBSqiMGpt-XF7TuAk/s320/grace+jones.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><br /><br />****UPDATE 4/30/10: I'm not the only one who feels this way...check out a pictorial over @ <a href="http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-black/the-style-of---/2010/02/grace-jones">Italian Vogue</a> ****<br /><br />*************<br /><br /><div>I love Lady Gaga as much as Perez Hilton does. Really, I do! Many people view her as a gimmick but she is one of the most uber – talented people of our generation. I relate to her in so many ways, one, because she’s exactly one day younger than me, I empathize with thee “Aries-experience” , and I also understand what she’s trying to do with fashion, her image, and her music. She created “Lady GaGa” as an entity for her fans, and while GaGa is an expression of her own creative self, Stefani Germanotta is the real person, completely separate from the entity that is GaGa. I also love the fact that no celebrity gossip site has ever run a diva-esque story about her. No tantrums, outlandish tour rider requests, and she is sooo gracious and loving to her fans.<br /><br />But here’s my mini-beef with GaGa…<br />It’s not so much with her but with the society that endlessly praises her as “new” and “fresh”. I’m sorry hunny but hardly anything about what she’s doing is new and fresh. It’s something we’ve all seen before with a woman named Grace Jones. Jones was the Lady GaGa of the 1980s, with a cult gay following and a music career that gained most of its steam in the gay discotheques. You may remember Grace in Boomerang as Helen Strange <br /><br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QJC5hLOnHiw&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QJC5hLOnHiw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />and as May Day in James Bond movie A View to Kill. She also famously dated Dolph Lundgren of Rocky VI, Ivan Drago fame (big square head, looked like a cartoon Neanderthal character on steroids, “I must break you.” Yeah, him)</div><br /><div><br />***FOR THE REST OF THE ARTICLE CHECK DMVUnplugged.com/fashion soon !!! ***</div>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-92212819561189485432010-02-18T13:39:00.000-08:002010-02-18T13:48:20.481-08:00Stop Thinking and START MAKiNG MOVES !!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT8qOPrxks6LSklw6Bc-IDaHs4Ao0G0XhOO-9YLuVhyphenhyphen__8zDy_ChE4OOLes2QTp1gZfJ9P2rSKLvEQYtmYrudAox4dMs-SUUASZ0cFhNT73ayRGkrDUVTIUwyhx9Z7Of7gnv0zkxpcIyU/s1600-h/supreme+court+resegregation.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439703325898799714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 231px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT8qOPrxks6LSklw6Bc-IDaHs4Ao0G0XhOO-9YLuVhyphenhyphen__8zDy_ChE4OOLes2QTp1gZfJ9P2rSKLvEQYtmYrudAox4dMs-SUUASZ0cFhNT73ayRGkrDUVTIUwyhx9Z7Of7gnv0zkxpcIyU/s320/supreme+court+resegregation.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><div><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:georgia;"> We are too complacent these days. Technology has advanced our world in innumerable ways, but it has come at a great cost: we are now content to sit and watch our lives happen to us, rather than making things happen ourselves. We are too content to let our fingers do the walking across a keyboard, when our feet should be walking and marching across the pavement!<br /><br /> These are desperate times. Every day I see the country dangerously inching back toward the hostile, polarized social climate of the 1960s. Racial, political, and socio-economical issues are derailing our way of life in such a way that demands action by the American People. History has shown us that two things get results in this country: Money and Emotions. Look at the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). The Montgomery bus boycotts integrated the public transportation system how? By hurting the pockets of the transit companies. Many people were able to organize without the use of more than a telephone, but imagine if there was only an online petition against the segregation policy. Nothing would have ever changed because anger and internet “outrage” affects nothing in cyberspace. Had protesters simply started an online blog collective to protest segregation instead of being at sit-ins, getting hosed by the police, etc., and allowing the subsequent melee to be broadcast on TV, they never would have gained the support of Northern sympathizers. Who knows what the outcome of the CRM may have been???<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> Because of technology, idiots like Sarah Palin are allowed to interact with the media via Facebook and Twitter. How self-deprecating for a news organization (even Faux [Fox]-News) to engage in her little game. Even the despicable piece of flotsam that is Rush Limbaugh gives interviews to the media and allows them to ask him questions that aren’t pre-screened beforehand. But noooo, the entire news world plays into Palin’s game, reporting on her tweets and Facebook status updates as If that is considered news. She refuses to give interviews to anyone but Faux News and does so because she is incapable of putting together coherent answers unless asked about “commonsense, conservative solutions”. </span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"> The aforementioned practices, not technology in and of itself, are what’s damaging the fabric of our society. It may seem hypocritical of me to write this on a blog on the Internet, but I’m not saying stay offline, just use it wisely! Harness the Internet’s interconnectivity to organize, but in order to mobilize, sorry my dears, you’ve got to GET OFF THE COMPUTER.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439701945025352274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 247px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCTNvHhNGbBWenPaGshIKkd4Z3cOJdC78f0y-Gw8TexcM7h55-MKKPU7_oBzaK2skjPX7r9yYZW_ts3Gp2ellMx4z7VocdSO-sMQ_SKOPgxw7RMxeyD5npJdnT1fDouxzk_GJW-H3KO3A/s320/Bow+down+to+Wall+Street.jpg" border="0" /></span></div></div>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-16404335251646117852010-01-20T17:45:00.000-08:002010-01-20T17:55:04.286-08:00A funny thing happened on the way to the fair...a NIGGA MOMENT.<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/izdWZfdYXno&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/izdWZfdYXno&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well not to the fair, just to work. I was so upset by this because not only did it intensely annoy me, but I felt a slight tinge of racism and age-ism…let me know your thoughts.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Okay so I normally get a bacon, egg, and cheese starbucks sandwich every day before I get on the train for the retardely long ride into work. Occasionally, I take a bite or two of my sandwich because I don’t eat or drink before I get to the train, but by the time I get there, it’s about 90 minutes after I wake up and of course hours after my dinner, so I get a tad bit dizzy sometimes and might sneak a nibble from my sandwich. Yes, I know it’s illegal to eat on the metro. That law is in place to keep the subway cars and stations clean and to minimize litter. But I definitely am not littering by taking a bite out of my sandwich and putting the remainder back in the bag and back in my purse.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">So I sit down on the blue line and take a bite out of my sandwich. An old white woman taps me and says “you’re not supposed to eat on the metro” I take off my headphones, and ask “’What?” halfway hearing her. She repeats herself and the random white dude sitting next to her chimes in to point at the sign.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">*BITCHASSNESS PASS #1*</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am highly annoyed that she feels the need to police me, but I look at both of them, decide that neither one works for metro and say, “I know. But I just eat this before work because if I don’t, then I don’t feel good. I do this like every day and put it back in my purse. It’s fine”. Both whiteys say something else but I ignore them and put on my headphones again.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now for those of you that don’t live with me, I am a DEMON in the morning. I have the permanent “I WISH A NIGGA WOULD” mentality in the AM. I hate waking up before 11am no matter what day it is. Every day starts out bad because I have to get up at 645 am and I do not smile, talk, or even change my facial expression before I walk into my office at 845. And especially on the train, when all I want to do is listen to some techno or house, think about my good ass weekend, catch a few extra zzzs, and people watch, the LAST thing I want to do is hold a conversation. The ABSOLUTE LAST thing I want to do is listen to someone I DON’T EVEN KNOW lecture me at 8:10 AM.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyways.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">So 2 minutes later, I take another bite and old whitey taps me on my leg. I look at her and she says “do you want something else to eat? I have some in my bag”. WHAT IN THE FUCK.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">*BITCHASSNESS PASS #2*</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">At this point I’m too tired to even realize she’s being sarcastic. I just think she’s a crazy old lady who just offered me some food. I politely smile like I’m looking at a special person and say, “oh, no thank you” and go back to my music.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Then all hell breaks loose.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">White man breaks in with, “the sign is right there, it’s illegal! The fucking sign is RIGHT THERE”. WOAH. It’s now 812 AM, why are you cussin at me son? The 2 men behind them chime in “the sign is there, you’re not supposed to eat.” I try my best to stay calm because right now I am at my boiling point. Yes, it takes 2 minutes for me to get there and in the morning, it can be set off by the tiniest thing. I respond “ I see the sign, I’m really not even bothering anyone, can you please leave me alone.. It’s not a good morning for me” At this point, I’m quite impressed with myself. I realized the potential for a Nigga Moment as soon as the old whitey first spoke to me. I was now at the point where a Nigga Moment was virtually inevitable. I was like Sonic 2 when you stand on the edge of a cliff and Sonic goes up on his tippy toes. And if you push one button other than back, he’ll fall off the edge…that was me at 812AM.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">*THE FINAL BITCHASSNESS PASS*</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Now it’s sudden death. The reactions of these 4 people may decide if this train is heading in the direction of Franconia/Springfield or straight to Hell. Can you guess which destination they unknowingly chose?...</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I put on my headphones AGAIN and miss most of what they’re saying, at this point, they are still yelling at me. I notice people looking, but not really with the *tisk tisk, look at that rambunctious negro girl* - look. More like the “this is so random” look, and they’re really not looking at me, they’re looking at the people yelling. These fuckers are STILL talking so it looks like they want to switch the track in the Hell direction. NIGGA MOMENT IMMINENT !!!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I mentally prepare myself for this, I try my best to be as articulate as possible and try not to raise my voice louder than it needs to be to reach 2 rows behind me. Partial success. I rip off my headphones and say to all of them “you know what, I find it amazing that you have the audacity to say something as if this Is really messing up your day. This isn’t even worth arguing about!” then they start yelling sommore basically not letting me finish another sentence and I focus on the main hecklers, old whitey and random whitey. I look at random whitey and say, am I really offending you right now??? Is me taking a bite out of my sandwich really messing up your day THAT bad? “ Now I know they’re just fucking with me cuz he smiles and says “Yes, I can smell it.” I’m just like “woooooooooow. You’re ridiculous.” I try to go back to putting my headphones on, but THEY KEEP YELLING. At this point my lone semi-defender steps in. A skinny tall black dude who says to old whitey “let it go, she’s gonna do what she wants to do” Then I’m just hoping against hope that she gets in an argument with him just so they’ll leave me alone and I go to put on my headphones. But whiteys CONTINUE TO YELL. Oh and they ran out of Bitchassness passes...oh well.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">“ LISTEN, ITS NOT THAT FUCKING SERIOUS. WHY DON’T ALL OF YOU MIND YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS AND SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET ME RIDE THE TRAIN IN PEACE. I DON’T KNOW WHY YOU ARE TRYING TO MAKE ME MAD AND FUCK MY DAY UP, BUT IM REALLY TRYING TO BE NICE TO YALL … LEAVE ME THE FUC K ALONE !!!”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">So the 2 guys who are behind the whiteys don’t say anything else after that. But whiteys continue. Random whitey says “well, it must not be hard to make you mad” smiling all smugly n shyte. Old whitey says “ cant you read the sign?” I’m like " yes I can read the sign”,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">“oh, no I don’t think you can.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">STINKMEANER KICK IN THE CHEST MOMENT IMMINENT!!!!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I reply in my calmest, I-will-cut-your-fucking-eyeballs-out-and-use-them-as-jelly-on-this-fucking-sandwich-if-you-say-something-racist-aka-exactly-what-you’re-thinking-right-now tone,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Oh, really. And why is that, exactly?”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">The look on my face must have scared the shit out of her because she just sat back in her seat.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">30 seconds later, more yelling ensued, something about me being uncivilized and so I turn the tables and say to random whitey “oh, so I’m uncivilized but you all can sit here and insult me for eating a sandwich, and curse at me”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Random whitey - - “ I didn’t curse at you. I didn’t call you anything”</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Old whitey - -“no one insulted you”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">So at this point I begin to pray. Seriously. I’m getting madder than I’ve ever been because, 1) No one except my parents have tried to get in a dumbass argument with me that early in the morning. And I can’t hit family members, but I don’t know these fucktards, and I’m about to lose it... And 2) they are sitting next to me like 1 inch away cuz im in the handicap seats and they’re in the forward facing seats. And the train is extra crowded. I have no escape route and 2 immediate threats nearby. I still haven’t really wyled out verbally yet and am still holding things in and I can feel my face and chest getting hot. I’m clenching my hands so tightly into fists that my nails broke the skin on my palms...</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">So what did I do when faced with the dilemma of kirking out on these 2 whiteys trying to ruin my day? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I cried like a bitch. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well maybe not a bitch but 2 tears fell down my cheeks. I was beyond pissed. My hands were shaking any time I unclenched my fists. Praying wasn’t working cuz I wanted to choke the shit out of these assclowns. I’m dead-ass serious. Every time I opened my eyes I just wanted to reach to the right an go for their fucking jugulars…. Plus, I hate when people just try to do shit to me when I kno they are taking things too far, therefore when I’m right, I don’t back down. Ever. (Exhibit A: the night when a bouncer thought I snuck into the bar, when I had actually been there for 2 hours. And it took him 10 minutes to try and grab me and pick me up to throw me out. And then it took 2 additional bouncers to get ME off of his bitch ass when he shoved me, unprovoked. Refer to the scars on him as well) </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Anyways…I have never been so mad and felt so helpless: If I said anything else or had any further interaction with these people, I was going to get physical. I realized I could not beat up an old lady because she’s old and then I just look like the asshole; nor could I hit the random whitey guy because if I’m in any fight and charges are filed, I lose my job automatically. And my bomb-ass salary and office with a window is not worth a starbucks sandwich. I also could not hit efficiently from my position in the seat, a slap maybe , but it was so crowded, I couldn’t even stand up to deliver the jab to the jaw these fuckos deserved.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I was really upset though. More annoyed at the fact that someone that was not metro personnel was saying something to me about eating on the train. But FURIOUS at the fact that two things happened: 1) Racism and 2)Age-ism…but mostly racism.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">RACISM</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Why was this racist? Well, some white people have this crazy idea that because they have historically have tyrannically ruled most of the world, then whatever they say as a singular white person, must be adhered to. I forgot to mention that at one point during the yelling when asking the whiteys if I was really offending them by eating, I said “are you mad that I’m eating or are you mad because I’m not doing what you say. I don’t have to do what you tell me.” And she says “yes you do”. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">STUCK FACE. -_-</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">WHAAA? White people sometimes think that black people (and minorities in general) have no agency over themselves and whitey feels the need to so graciously exert their guidance upon us poor misguided negroes. Call it a generalization, but you KNOW it’s true! They’re always unnecessarily investigating things, and just sticking their noses in complete strangers’ business…and even worse, feeling that they are completely entitled to doing so. Well they can investigate DEEZ NUTZ as far as I’m concerned. I think the situation escalated because I just totally disregarded what she said, and that offended her. She was old enough to have probably called someone “colored” and it still have been politically correct in her lifetime, and probably wasn’t used to someone so readily brushing her off. Now as far as random whitey male, I dunno what his deal was. He probably has a small penis and is mad at everyone, every day. Or makes like $28,000 a year at some whack ass job. Or it could’ve been jealousy. I was skinny and pretty and nicely dressed in a suit with a Calvin Klein purse, matching suede and croc skin heels, and fierce velvet leopard-print gloves. While old whitey’s face looked like a bleached version of the grandmother oak tree in Pocahontas and she carried some canvas, desperately free bag from some old people’s convention, and random whitey is sitting there with his busted ass Rockport shoes, ashy khakis, and dusty ass Columbia jacket. Especially since she was actually “nice” I guess when she first mentioned the sign to me, but after I dismissed her, she waited and I assumed probably sized me up and decided to tap me again to make her snide “you want something else to eat” comment and then continue the remainder of her dialogue in such a nasty, condescending tone; I bet she was thinking <span style="font-style: italic;">“who does this girl think she is? Dressed all nice, thinking she’s somebody…thinkin she can just dismiss me?”</span> In a sane person’s mind, the real question is <span style="font-style: italic;">“hey old whitey, who the hell do you think YOU are, that you need to lecture people you don’t know on the rules of the metro when it DOESN’T EVEN AFFECT YOU? Are you the fucking safety patrol of subway car 12345? Where’s your orange belt bitch?”</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">*Let me just say that I have a certain respect for old people. However, they think they know everything and think just because they are old, they can say whatever they want to whomever they want. I do respect their years, but respect doesn’t mean obedience. The old lady was the original antagonizer so I focused mostly on her. But had this been a woman younger than 60 AND the random whitey (who was prolly like 30-ish) I probably would have been in a holding cell at 11 AM yesterday for aggravated assault and battery with a weapon (the iPod headphones cord I would have strangled them with).* </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-style: italic;">AGEISM</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am 5 feet, ½ inch tall and weigh about 105 pounds. I’ve had people mistake me for 17 years old (I'm almost 24). It is a complete possibility that everyone who said something thought I was a child and felt the need to chastise me. I really doubt the same situation would’ve happened to any big black male with dreads and a North Face on. Humans (at least while sober) choose their battles, and usually don’t challenge someone if they think they will fail. I don’t know what they thought I was going to do. Obviously they didn’t think I was going to get as crunk as I did. I probably shouldn’t have been so polite in my first interaction. They mistook my unwillingness to have a NIGGA MOMENT as weakness. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">That’s another reason why I was so mad though. I shouldn’t care what people think (on the train of all places)but unfortunately, I am socially aware enough to know that succumbing to my strong desire to coon it up in this situation would have resulted in an automatic LOSS for my self-respect. Do I call an old lady a bitch? No, I was raised better than that, but OOOOOHHH did I wanna cal her old fortune-teller lookin ass a <span style="font-weight: bold;">STUPID FUCKING BITCH</span> so bad…And every insult that I’ve written in this blog about them (wait, is it an insult if it’s true? I really haven’t exaggerated ANY part of this story…hmm); had I said it during the train ride, I probably could not have delivered them in any type of normal tone of voice, or normal volume.; nor could I have said one more sentence to them while seated. It would have been an in-your-face, you-touch-me-and-I-will-break-yo-MUTHFUCKIN-hand-off, people scattering with the “oh shit, sumthin’s bout to pop-off” look, just overall bad situation. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the end, I think I emerged the victor. On the train today, I got off at Foggy Bottom as usual and a girl (who looked like Precious, I swear) tapped me and said, “oh, you didn’t have any problems today?” with a smile. At first I was like huh? And then realized she must’ve been on the same train yesterday. I said, “Oh you saw that craziness over a sandwich?” and she says, “yeah, those people were ridiculous. I’ve never seen anyone act like that before. It was not that serious.” Then another dude in front of me was like “yeah I saw that too yesterday. Crazy”. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Oh and in case you were wondering, I did eat the rest of my sandwich on the train. If I couldn’t say anything else to them, a non-verbal “fuck you” still sufficed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">=)</span>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-84685811881640933592009-05-06T12:18:00.000-07:002009-05-06T12:34:09.773-07:00THE MISS CALIFORNIA DEBACLE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsaqRy3TEsCzGgtQyWsXEuCikQOI73Z0-6uiR7Wk7CmACrTMTWwg_-Yg1Gb_rNVuugd-NMdy1NLj0pgqUbsrXIGQtYZwRm_zz9ybmDEULLeA8Y-kpar1B23Hyy8fi2AS5siKLPl6jUL64/s1600-h/PREJEAN.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 190px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsaqRy3TEsCzGgtQyWsXEuCikQOI73Z0-6uiR7Wk7CmACrTMTWwg_-Yg1Gb_rNVuugd-NMdy1NLj0pgqUbsrXIGQtYZwRm_zz9ybmDEULLeA8Y-kpar1B23Hyy8fi2AS5siKLPl6jUL64/s320/PREJEAN.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332794301301309170" border="0" /></a>
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This was her answer:</p><p style="font-weight: bold;font-family:georgia;" class="MsoNormal">PEREZ: Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?
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<br />CARRIE: I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex <span style="font-size:100%;"><a id="KonaLink0" target="undefined" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;" href="http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2009/04/perez-hilton-calls-carrie-prejean-miss.html#"><span style="font-weight: 400; position: static; color: rgb(176, 0, 0);"><span class="kLink" style="font-weight: 400; position: static; color: rgb(176, 0, 0);">marriage</span></span></a></span> or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there but that's how I was raised and that's how I think it should be between a man and a woman.</p><p face="georgia" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p face="georgia" style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">I personally think this deserves a "HO-SIT-DOWN" as well as her crown stripped away, and here's why:
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<br />1. <span style=""> </span>She's abandoned her original platform cause of special needs children and now feels the need to actively campaign against gay marriage, becoming spokesperson for the National Organization for Marriage. In her contract , those holding positions in the Miss **** position must not become spokespersons for unapproved causes, nor are they supposed to have unapproved speaking arrangements, as Miss ShitForBrains has been doing all month on Faux (FOX) News and other places.
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<br />2. She lied to pageant officials. The contract asks if they ever took nude or semi nude photos; she answered NO. Penalties for discovery of such photos include crown revocation.
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<br />Faux News and Prejean’s supporters are saying a smear campaign has been run against her simply because she spoke her mind honestly. The term “Smear campaign” implies lies being told, yet nothing I’ve read about her has been untrue. She has taken it upon herself to speak out publicly about her opinions and now she's in the limelight and must deal with the backlash that comes with being a public figure. She is 100% entitled to her own opinions & beliefs, free to hate gays, blacks, anyone she wants to. But in a beauty pageant, you need to be diplomatic with your answers. She shouldn’t be punished for her personal opinion, but deserves to be punished for breaking rules of the pageant and the manner in which she is poorly representing the state of California.
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<br />However I do find it hypocritical that she received breast implants paid for by the Miss California Organization, yet they want this girl-next-door image. Only in California does the girl next door have silicone tigg ole bittys. However the stipulations in the contract she signed are the rules of the Miss California Organization. While misguided, those are rules she chose to play by; since she broke them, she should have to deal with the consequences.</p> <p style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">As a pageant contestant, there are many ways to answer controversial questions like that diplomatically. She could have easily said "I think it's great that we live in a country where we have the right to choose and vote on the subject of gay marriage. That is an issue that should be decided upon by the voters, and not just one person." I always see contestants give "pageant answers" and go on to win a competition and her bumbling, inarticulate answer was delivered terribly, regardless of her opinion.
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<br />Hot - Topic questions should definitely be included because representing the country- even as a beauty contestant, people (mostly young girls with pageant aspirations) look up to you. You never know, in this world of super-connectivity via technology, today's public figures have to deal with hot-topics all the time. You want to know that they won't crack under pressure as Prejean did.</p><p style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YI1u6bZ39YE&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YI1u6bZ39YE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
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Lots of shade being thrown lol</p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <p></p> Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-47998238295097846142009-01-23T12:02:00.000-08:002009-01-23T12:05:08.691-08:00I AM NOT A DUDE!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9aF394ZBJ20Jc0xs1b0kN0SSqSeu9RkczsmbIaAkcmCtgxVdiyXsyXJSp-QOUO-lgZ_4vyqdD1f4RNP5qitpcceokkza5N1-5xYC_ci9-Qdcrl9GqQWTlYLbNZFO7yF0Y3j40vn5eePk/s1600-h/rupaul.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9aF394ZBJ20Jc0xs1b0kN0SSqSeu9RkczsmbIaAkcmCtgxVdiyXsyXJSp-QOUO-lgZ_4vyqdD1f4RNP5qitpcceokkza5N1-5xYC_ci9-Qdcrl9GqQWTlYLbNZFO7yF0Y3j40vn5eePk/s320/rupaul.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294582634407110626" border="0" /></a><br /><br />It has just come to my attention that the gender on my profile said male....I rectified that mistake and would just like to clarify I was born and remain a girl lol....although I have the soul of a drag queen at times....Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-31164812713234116142009-01-19T14:53:00.000-08:002009-01-19T15:11:29.242-08:00THANK THE LORD<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx_DbviJy4jLpIYJXQpnie_wpc0MnXW0muq-i0ciNFlGVERW9zn5QkWwBHB6aumvoWN6B5L8w8i2c18Ie6_lZQZ7W8XY5FnQErLxi-o6loWcT9gtReLunCvELCFQ-vsMMqd5qducqlGqU/s1600-h/obamanddrkingblack.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx_DbviJy4jLpIYJXQpnie_wpc0MnXW0muq-i0ciNFlGVERW9zn5QkWwBHB6aumvoWN6B5L8w8i2c18Ie6_lZQZ7W8XY5FnQErLxi-o6loWcT9gtReLunCvELCFQ-vsMMqd5qducqlGqU/s320/obamanddrkingblack.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293146257780567746" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Sometimes people may not understand why there are so many Obama songs, memorabilia, etc, ie the FRENZY that is going on right now...ESPECIALLY among black people. Ihave heard people say, "why do black people act like he's only your President? He's everyones President?" Well I'm sorry, for the next lets sayyy....WEEK...... DAMMIT, MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK, MY DODGE IS CHAMPAGNE, AND IM POPPIN BOTTLES FOR BARACK’S CAMPAIGN.<br /><br /><br />I can’t tell you why every black person is so excited, but let me tell you why I’m SUPER SYCED....and why there is NOTHING you can say to take my joy, and if you try you are a hater who will be shut down, no matter what your color, race, or creed.<br /><br /><br />In a country where I am the descendant of people who were enslaved, the enslavers, and a people who’s land was stolen away from them by the founders of said country, this is only the second time I am Proud of my country. the first was on November 4, 2008 at 11pm, when California was awarded to Barack, making him the President-Elect. Being proud to be an American and being proud of your country are NOT the same thing. I am proud and thankful to live here, proud of all my heritage, but so often, I am not proud of my country’s actions and some of its people. As a student of history, when I thnk about how far this country has come in terms of its founding principles “Life liberty and the the pursiuit of happiness”, “Liberty & Justice for all”, and “ all men are created equal”...when I see Barack on tv with a Presidential seal behind him, it truly brings tears to my eyes every single time...<br /><br />In a country where Presidents and the government and the majority of its citizens SANCTIONED, several times, the genocide of the indigenous people. Sanctioned forcing them from their lands and making them walk many miles to reservations in the Trail of Tears, in the hopes they wouldn’t live to make the full trip. Made false treaties and lied to tribes, came under false pretenses as missionaries, when they really saw native Americans as part of the problem and would not blink at the thought of eradicating their existence if they did not convert and comply with the wishes of the “superior race”. A country where someone who looked like Barack Obama was considered, chattel, property and 3/5 of a person by the US Government. Considered sub-human for many years according to widely upheld “scientific research”. A country where the government, state and federal stood by so many times and did NOTHING as men, women and children, tax paying citzens were treated like second class citizens for over 100 years, simply because of the color of thir skin. A country where the federal government sanctioned COINTELPRO to promote lies, and falsehoods in order to discredit the righteous causes of the Civil Rights Movement. A country where citizens killed leaders who wantded nothing but equal rights for all, AMERICAN CITIZENS killed Lincoln, Kennedy, Evers, King, X (Little), and another Kennendy. A country where the President elect would have no choice but to be considered either a bastard child or a product of an illegal marriage because his parents were not the same color....And now I’m in a country where AMERICAN CITIZENS, the majority of them, voted for a man who wouldve been 3/5 of a person 150 years ago, and I am finally proud.<br /><br />I’m honest enough to say that I did not think he could do it, because America would not let it happen. You have someone smart, capable and qualified, and especially in comparison to the dunce of the last 8 years, the BEST man for the job. But he did not look like all the other men who sat in that Oval office. I honestly thought he would not have lived to win the Presidency, or lived to take the oath. And most certainly he probably would not have made it, if this was 40 years ago. But in Barack’s own lifetime, things have changed so much that he has reached a goal at age 48 that would have put a DEFINITE bounty on his head as late as age 10.<br /><br />This is not just about written history, its about personal history too. As a person who has been called a nigger by someone white, and have experienced malice from another person simply because of my race in my short lifetime; it means something to me to have a President who looks like me, a First Lady who has relaxer in her hair like me, and looks like me, who attended predominantly white universities like me and I feel comfortable with her representing women like me in America..... 2 little girls running around the White House who look like me and my little sister as children. I can only imagine what it means to my parents, my Grandma, aunts & uncles who have unique experiences in life, but who share a common joy in the coming days. I cannot imagine what this means to those who are still alive and marched with Dr. king and were a part of SNCC, SCLC, the Panthers and all the other groups that fought, lived and died so that this day could maybe happen in their lifetimes.<br /><br />On this day, (which Ronald Reagan and John McCain were one of those many who opposed celebrating the achievements of Dr. King as a federal holiday); it is the last day we live in a period of history. The last day when anyone can say there never was, never can be, never will be a black President.<br /><br />This is something like the Civil Rights Movement; the day of Brown vs. Board of Education. Things changed in one day, facts changed, but not everything changed, I’m not that naive to believe that. I know that racism and prejudice is not dead in this country. In the days after Brown v. Board of Ed, there was still segregation in schools and in society, leaders were still assassinated, riots still ensued; the world did not change.....but many things did change that day and in the days and years to come. On January 21 at noon, the President will be black. On January 22, the Senate will still be 99% white (thanks to Blagejovic and Burris for keepin hope alive lol), a person that was racist or ignorant on January 19 will remain unchanged on January 22. Our country will still be in a recession......but in the days and years ahead things will change and I believe the President will have success in changing things for the better. and I make no apologies for being happy simply for the fact that he looks like me, after 233 years of not feeling like the President was one of “us”.<br /><br /><br />So for all of these reasons, and more, I am extra happy for the next couple of weeks, and A LOT of it has to do with the fact that my President is black; so for that, I MAKE NO APOLOGIES. And I really don’t care if anyone, black, white, green, or yellow is NOT happy about it, cuz I am. And for ANYONE who wants to comment on this in a negative way, I really dont care what you have to say and if you can’t understand my joy, that’s okay, because its not meant for you to understand, cuz its MY joy.<br /><br /><br />OBAMA, BITCHES!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_LKqDKTCkUF6yTztn9bCjtkkr-Ecgin9-VOh1dIl9GYukt6cyLbGRDbXiIi3-VowXdgAf4xe59721OMynqOjjDK3Fhbm9RQtO_9uKT2CHHrfqwlGGc0fp_DsspCNerD3GjaPZlvPYu30/s1600-h/Barack.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_LKqDKTCkUF6yTztn9bCjtkkr-Ecgin9-VOh1dIl9GYukt6cyLbGRDbXiIi3-VowXdgAf4xe59721OMynqOjjDK3Fhbm9RQtO_9uKT2CHHrfqwlGGc0fp_DsspCNerD3GjaPZlvPYu30/s320/Barack.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293146336796171138" border="0" /></a>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-26232369247000032032008-12-16T12:20:00.000-08:002008-12-16T12:39:46.963-08:00REMINISCE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYBLVKwJdol46FkyUx38Tb0dzKRofyQOGxpVya_9-rXB9sb0Ln0HsNf0c2s-pHr03usDMGTpBn218lGcdBbuhPUJx2GlhvNyaM3e-sM82S0JrMZ6-DVaq16P2sTUD-KH7b54pwKXcyReY/s1600-h/impeach.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280490388687747714" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 278px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYBLVKwJdol46FkyUx38Tb0dzKRofyQOGxpVya_9-rXB9sb0Ln0HsNf0c2s-pHr03usDMGTpBn218lGcdBbuhPUJx2GlhvNyaM3e-sM82S0JrMZ6-DVaq16P2sTUD-KH7b54pwKXcyReY/s320/impeach.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><br /><div>Carl Bernstein, one of the men who helped discover President Nixon’s involvement in the Watergate scandal was a speaker for the main graduation ceremonies at the May 2008 Commencement for University of Maryland College Park. As I sat in my cap and gown, bedazzled and looking fabulous; clutching my cell phone texting in one hand, my flask full of tequila in the other, I had a bit of a revelation. I watched somewhat buzzed, as some of my fellow graduates dozed off, and I was just about to follow suit until I heard Mr. Bernstein say “I don’t understand why your generation does not question its leadership.”<br /><br />I listened half drunkenly (5-7 shots prior to the graduation ceremonies has that effect on most people) but his point was blindingly clear. Our generation is brilliant, but for some reason we have allowed the last 8 years to go on with no one accepting responsibility for getting us into this position in which we now stand. An article on the Huffington Post today ( <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/will-the-madoff-debacle-f_b_151219.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/will-the-madoff-debacle-f_b_151219.html</a> ) created a resurgence in the emotions I felt on that May afternoon. The atrocities of the Bush Administration, the financial industry, & Wall Street are to say the least, DISGUSTING. Not only with the current economic recession, but in regards to the Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Fish and Wildlife Services, Iraq, Afghanistan, tax laws, the record breaking budget deficit….the list goes on and on of areas in which the government and our leaders have either deceived or failed us completely.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Millenials/ EchoBoomers/Generation Y, we have come of age in the Information Era. It seems like more investigative journalism is devoted to the latest scandals and clubbing activities of celebrities and pseudo-celebrities even (yes you, LC, Heidi, Spencer, Real Housewives, and the rest of you talentless pieces of flotsam on cable networks) than to issues that affect our daily lives and ultimately, our futures. We have endless resources at our fingertips, yet I feel for so long we have let those in power commit injustices to us and the world, with ZERO accountability for their actions. Many of us may ask “what CAN we do?” well, there are things like blogs, to educate people and share opinions, possibly even come up with plans of action. There are also groups in different areas and college campuses, for example Community Roots (<a href="http://croots.org/">http://croots.org/</a>) headquartered at NYU and my alma mater, the University of Maryland, College Park. Should we overthrow the government?…No, of course not. But we should make educated choices in picking our leadership at a federal, state, and local level. And when those leaders fail us, we most of the time, have the authority to rally and impeach them, get them out of office, or at the very least, shame them through some means of public humiliation.<br /><br /><br />Here’s one thing I don’t understand and which perfectly explains the country’s attitude of relative ambivalence to our governments’ failures. An MSNBC poll ( <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904</a> ) cites 89% of those polled feel that Bush’s actions as President justify impeachment. In June of this year Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D), introduced 35 articles of impeachment against Dubya. The Judiciary Committee heard the resolution yet; it was not pursued any further. Also hearings at the Congressional and State party level have been raised supporting the impeachment of Bush. Democrats in Congress did not pursue it any further in order not to cause a stir of disunity before the Presidential election, and of course now they have much bigger items on their plate than impeaching Bush. Its crazy to me that we impeached a President over 10 years ago for getting his dick sucked and not telling the whole truth about it, yet let a guy go SCOT FREE when he is responsible for the deaths of over 4000 troops and billions of dollars wasted in a horribly managed war, along with about a dozen blatant violations of the US Constitution. I guess the millions of sperm that met their end on Monica Lewinskys infamous blue dress mean more to America than the billions of taxpayers dollars (including a budget surplus) squandered over the past 8 years.</div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>It seems like so many people feel that Bush should pay for his wrongdoings, yet no one wants to stand up and enforce any type of punishment. Not to Bush, nor to any of the executives who still collect their million dollar bonuses while their workers get laid off and their company accepts bailout money from taxpayers because they essentially FAILED at being profitable. No one seems to want to make these people pay; or at the VERY least, admit that they failed, and APOLOGIZE for the results of their ineptitude.<br /><br />My sentiments toward this country and my generation in particular can be summed up in two quotes from once of my favorite movies and tv show:<br /><br />“WAKE UP, PEOPLE”<br />~<em>Do the Right Thing</em>, Spike Lee<br /><br />“ASK QUESTIONS, TAKE CHANCES, MAKE MISTAKES”<br />~<em>The Magic School Bus</em>, Ms. Frizzle</div><br /><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280490238674075330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 262px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOiQ4DTbsx_mkMWmmyz5E-Q_LkjjHep8a8RCsNWuC5JrlIr-xrydrjMwzKdapNciIbK7QK3GT-iLEJitJUlsrCsFGrEYh6ABBNXk3kIaKcxju-8Jczv2lDDTCbPRTJE7R1FMsWz3AoQs/s320/torture.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div></div></div>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-47007036074958036632008-12-12T13:51:00.000-08:002008-12-16T12:41:40.086-08:00LET THE BACKLASH BEGIN!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRK1YjRqXCoDdExbfMm2XOIhil9Oin_EAeYZtyUicwh3AJrxtoAS66vrx7Ax_mtpxTBNTdwH3zWmyHJz8spKM77FqNscngqaQBXA-OAjuMp1SKSFq5Hx6z8YQDFZiC4AMJ8ZNWtyj0f5I/s1600-h/illegal.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279027347584489698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 254px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRK1YjRqXCoDdExbfMm2XOIhil9Oin_EAeYZtyUicwh3AJrxtoAS66vrx7Ax_mtpxTBNTdwH3zWmyHJz8spKM77FqNscngqaQBXA-OAjuMp1SKSFq5Hx6z8YQDFZiC4AMJ8ZNWtyj0f5I/s320/illegal.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>You’re probably going to think I’m racist, but I’m no more racist than any other American; which is to say that I have prejudices, we all do, but I would never do any racist action or anything of violence to anyone solely because of their race or ethnicity. I have to preclude this blog entry with that because I’ve gotten harsh criticism from people whenever I express my views against accommodations made for illegal immigrants in this country.<br /><br />So I was reading about Herbert Hoover in preparations for writing another blog and I came across the Mexican Repatriation Act. From 1928-1937 up to 2 million illegal and legal immigrants, citizens, and aliens were forcefully deported to Mexico. The reason was that American sentiment was that Mexicans were taking away jobs and aid from American citizens during the early stages of the Great Depression. Unfortunately, it turned into a classic example of the rampant xenophobia in the USA in the 1920s, with more than 60% of those deported being legal immigrants or American citizens. However, I agree with the premise of the program, and I believe something like it should be part of an economic stimulus program today.<br /><br />Today, every time I mention sumthin about illegal immigrants gots to go, someone always responds with “theyre not takin food off your plate” or “theyre doing the jobs that Americans don’t want to do” or “you’re so racist” “They’re boosting our economy with cheap labor”. What they fail to realize is that my sentiments against immigrants have nothing to do with their country of origin or socioeconomic status. It mainly has to do with their ILLEGAL status. First of all, they aren’t takin food off my plate, but they are using my tax dollars to pay for services offered to their children. They send their children to schools here ; 90% of the time it’s a public school, which is funded by taxes. Illegal workers don’t pay taxes to the federal or state governments, so basically citizens foot the bill for things used by children of non citizens. Second, they are not doing jobs Americans don’t want to do; they are doing jobs that would be offered to Americans at higher wages, but they’re doing it for lower wages because they’re illegal and basically have no legal right to demand minimum wage from their employers, and if they tried to start a legal battle, they aren’t protected by US laws as illegals, and would prolly be deported by the government. Cleaning hotels, kitchens, other domestic jobs and construction jobs used to be done by American minorities, not illegal immigrants; and things were that way for decades until the influx of illegals, mainly from Latin countries. Its not that Americans don’t want to do these jobs, the unemployment level among minorities consistently has always been higher than that of whites. It the fact that employers would much rather pay an illegal $4 an hour rather than have to pay an American $5.15 and offer them benefits.<br /><br />Also this cheap labor is NOT good for our economy. Those wages that illegals earn are not taxed. The money they earn also is not put back into the US economy on goods and services. Some of it is of course, but much of it is sent back to their home country to help their family there. Jobs are taken away from American citizens; so you have the double whammy of unemployment and money lost to US businesses; as a DIRECT result of illegal immigrants working and living here. How in the balls is that any type of good for our economy?<br /><br />Being an illegal immigrant is a crime, no matter if you are from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Spain, Ethiopia, England, or Scotland. Those who are illegal need to be deported or there needs to be some comprehensive plan for legalization. Bush tried to get a plan passed and it got shut down by his own Republicans because they consider legalization some sort of amnesty. Which it isn’t, it’s a path to citizenship. So basically for the past 20 years, the US has chose to do NOTHING and let the problem get blasted out of proportion ie an estimated 10 MILLION illegals in the US today. I personally think there should be a period of time where they are able to begin a period of legalization. If they pass, then welcome to American citizenry. If you fail, (ie have a criminal record, will need government aid of any sort, are mentally unstable ) ADIOS AMIGO, BON VOYAGE, MON FRERE…you GOTS to go. They even get a free ride home! And if you decide not to apply for legalization, well then you are knowingly and intentionally committing a crime and your ass needs to be deported. At that point, I definitely agree with immigration raids. It’s sad, because yeh, families will be broken up, a lot of these people are not criminals or delinquents, but when the legalization period passes, you are choosing to be illegal if you didn’t apply, and you must pay the price.<br /><br />Such a plan will cost taxpayer money, but in effect will create jobs as well. Create jobs in enforcing the deportations, but also allow many positions to open up for American citizens, who will have to be paid minimum wage. I know this has the potential to turn into violence because a lot of people have animosity towards immigrants of certain ethnicities, and we all know law enforcement aren’t always the highest on the IQ totem pole. It just so happens that our media chooses to focus on those of Hispanic origin as the troublemakers; but in my opinion, if you’re here illegally, no matter where you’re from, you need to BOUNCE, son.<br /><br />Most immigrants regardless of their legal or illegal status are upstanding people. People like them deserve to become American citizens. If you don’t wish to become citizens, go back to your country; or get a visa, work here, then when your visa’s up, go back to your country. This is the land of opportunity, not a free pad to crash at.</div><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279027480189296370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 290px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLAxPPdOKCQpxrZ63sBhGjPJ6kybOt3wYwV-upEMFa7PaxlnqHWWYeVm9OT5G151I4KP3w8BibHynqmlPdZGu7vWUUb1nq8x9rp9h31AxAgeaXEKRMelpcKoePMCzxw4mJd9zJ4EV1Nfk/s320/uncle+sam.bmp" border="0" /><br /><div></div>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-23940267442976931982008-12-12T10:39:00.000-08:002008-12-16T12:40:38.148-08:00I MAY BE WRONG, BUT I DOUBT IT<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOtpv_h-WUneI7EqHo0sm203Fd-6FyONgYhuX3CIFamW-uXR13s3I8_o9PJe1bGO9iRGO8XJ9enOnWpjejdxMY6uBOtt4taMXcJ2XcDaUxs7L1ZfGib_SqvHPenaNTEWIEHb11_Jzzek/s1600-h/bushmuseum.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Et1MnAdsiErdzlVwA_J2u6nMEgZrneNlYwdnLMX1BCVpiOl0XVA3sa7Tqi1J2toJPVN17Y1IPSP4k3qECd5j4nqtQbWYZgseIJQIgI-pK76Jicp7JUK5_NXKUGCFpdHtqmqm8bOTE3Q/s1600-h/doomsday+clock.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278979521514861506" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 298px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 294px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Et1MnAdsiErdzlVwA_J2u6nMEgZrneNlYwdnLMX1BCVpiOl0XVA3sa7Tqi1J2toJPVN17Y1IPSP4k3qECd5j4nqtQbWYZgseIJQIgI-pK76Jicp7JUK5_NXKUGCFpdHtqmqm8bOTE3Q/s320/doomsday+clock.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>Back in February, I predicted a recession or depression for the United States in 2008. Not on the blog of course, but to my NIH (National Institutes of Health) coworkers. I remember exactly why I predicted it too. I had read on WashingtonPost.com I believe, that CitiGroup had posted 10 billion in losses. I was like O SHIT. When’s the last time credit companies were posting billions in losses?…um the GREAT DEPRESSION. Then I looked at why they lost so much and a lot of it had to do with the defaulting mortgage crisi which began in the summer of 2007. I was like, they aren’t going to be able to regain those losses ever because if the people cant pay their mortgages now, they damn sure cant pay them later. Everyone who I told was like, “oh no, things will get better.” Or “dayum, why are you so pessimistic, its just a bump in the road”. But then what happened?…Gas reached $4 and $5 in some places, hundreds of thousands of jobs lost every month, GDP (gross domestic product) went down, and as of December 1, 2008; the USA is officially in a recession.<br /><br />So here’s another prediction, but I REEEAAAALLY hope I’m wrong. Okay, so the Big Three automakers didn’t get their precious bailout. GM and Chrysler supposedly don’t have enough cash on hand to get them to Dec 31 (Ford is allegedly okai for a few more months, but still wants some taxpayer moolah). The only way they stay afloat is if Bush/Paulson allows some of the $700 billion financial industry bailout fund go to them for an emergency loan. * By the way, there is no oversight board for the bailout funds in DECEMBER when the conditions of allowing the bailout stated there would be an oversight board when it was authorized in OCTOBER.* So I really don’t know if GM and Chrysler are gonna get bailed out but I do hope so, just because our economy cant afford for them to go bankrupt right now. Maybe we could’ve withstood it as recently as May or June, but not now.<br /><br />So if the Big 3 go under, we can pretty much count on another Great Depression. And you know how we’re going to get out of it?….World War 3. Yes, as of December 12, 2008; I’m officially predicting it within the next 2 years. Damn, I hope I’m wrong. But you know FDR did not fix the Great Depression. World War 2 did. I’m afraid history might repeat itself and the only way we’re going to get out of the impending Depression is going to be a global war. Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t going to get us out of it because we don’t supply anything to anyone to fight those wars. We fight them, pay for what we do over there with American dollars, yet get no revenue, much less profit from those wars…unless you count “safety of the American People” which isn’t exactly tangible and quite questionable; and can be more closely attributed to the work of the Department of Homeland Security than to the military’s efforts.<br /><br />You know where the next world war will probably start?…my bets are on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Here’s the 2 reasons why: First, not many people know that Pakistan was on the brink of nuclear war with India about 3 years ago. They really don’t fux with each other. Now you had the Mumbai attacks around Thanksgiving and Indians are PISSED with Pakistan because the terror group that committed the attacks was allegedy based in Pakistan. Pakistan is also the new hideout of the Taliban. Now with Obama’s pledge to put more resources in Afghanistan and do whatever necessary to find Bin Laden, including crossing the border into Pakistan, we have an impending shitstorm. The new powder keg is in the Middle East. Expect things to get worse when our presence in Iraq diminishes and Iran infiltrates and subsequently takes over.<br /><br />Now you can say that Obama wont take us to war over there but guess what, if something pops off in the United States again (Pearl Harbor sent us to WWII; 9/11 sent us to Afghanistan in the first place) we will be all up in the Middle East mix; or Obama will have his picture in the dictionary next to BITCHASSNESS. I truly hope I’m wrong only because I do not want to see a World War in my lifetime. Especially since everyone and their cousins have nuclear weapons now. Let’s hope the world leaders realize how dangerous those weapons are and choose to fight fairly (if there is such a thing these days). Honestly I just see it coming, and as of right now, I don’t see a way to get out of this mess without war =(<br /><br />Stay tuned for my next entry, which will further explain why history is repeating itself, with Bush’s Herbert Hoover-esque handling of the credit crisis. Its pretty crazy, this fool is almost exactly repeating Hoovers actions...What a dumbass.<br />JANUARY 20TH CANT COME FAST ENOUGH!!</div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278979815478464978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 220px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbIIyS6ZWchAC88Zz-0987cU8xpL-kIcjlpswKI7RgiyUkw8Z40QBpynbLGI-ESJkim-x7Xy5mNG5iyFgwLGBHk-_WyxtIltWVAEOrGWLKEqq6aPF8xIJHcAck5claBkLeEbSrGodu5b8/s320/bushmuseum.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div></div></div>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-3826588734031655872008-11-30T15:41:00.000-08:002008-11-30T15:47:25.876-08:00HAPPY THANKSGIVING!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMd3jCdN4I8B_qYBzM8zZN7wbIMkSQDodwwTv1RNGvMRhonTkt9AdR_OD0_WpDzeL4BRQsu3S9U5VB4iEVzeWD-MfbD8FrwKEtoEAMosnP8r8_XSWg623KOpRpkM9TVJBcpFhRdXlwi-E/s1600-h/mkiii4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMd3jCdN4I8B_qYBzM8zZN7wbIMkSQDodwwTv1RNGvMRhonTkt9AdR_OD0_WpDzeL4BRQsu3S9U5VB4iEVzeWD-MfbD8FrwKEtoEAMosnP8r8_XSWg623KOpRpkM9TVJBcpFhRdXlwi-E/s320/mkiii4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274601290876398946" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Yeh so i didnt work on my blog too much over this break, but I will be back at it this week. But just to keep you guys occupied; here's a lil widget I got off of Maxim.com.<br /><br />I think its obvious which one my favorite is =)<br /><span id="ctl00_ctl00_cphMain_cphLeftMain_BlogPostControl_Full"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style=";font-family:'Courier New';font-size:10;" ><embed src="http://cdn.maxim.com/36501-37000/36835_mk_board_em.swf" height="530" width="230"></embed></span></span></span>Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-28931120595523727642008-11-20T15:39:00.000-08:002008-11-20T23:01:38.905-08:00WOW, MY ANUS HURTS.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPySqq9kxprLuf61xAut93rrGsP6pWWlCVP9-VIu6Mfgo7qHYDahT4BUGjT_V8Bt0HIBtM8AtXztg5cU_UHoMvgOBZKiGL76ODLRCY-zBvGgE1TFNFq1GGLLfIBG6HIoCZdECdcw5JiNk/s1600-h/Kiss-My-Butt.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPySqq9kxprLuf61xAut93rrGsP6pWWlCVP9-VIu6Mfgo7qHYDahT4BUGjT_V8Bt0HIBtM8AtXztg5cU_UHoMvgOBZKiGL76ODLRCY-zBvGgE1TFNFq1GGLLfIBG6HIoCZdECdcw5JiNk/s320/Kiss-My-Butt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270892086196710626" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I’m curious to know, my fellow taxpayers; does yours feel the same? Ever since October, the government has been sticking it to us all without lube; don’t you think?<br /><br />First off we have this bailout plan, worth about $700 BILLION, not million, dollars. It’s complicated, but it can be summarized quite easily; its your standard pimp and ho relationship:<br /><br />* in Supafly Pimp Voice*<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">All us taxpaying hoes have been workin the streets hard fo dat monayyyy. Giving Pimp Daddy Government his share every April 15th . But oh naw baby, Pimp Daddy Government’s cousin Balls-to-da-Walls Street was slackin on his pimpin and needed a lil bit of help from Pimp Daddy G. So Pimp Daddy would neva eva leave a fellow pimp in need; since Pimp Daddy G has been a constant follower of the International Pimp Creed- “Pimps up, Hoes down”; since 1776, baby.</span><br /><br />Bush asked Congress for $700 billion dollars, he asked twice, first they said no, then said yes. Then Henry Paulson is in DC handing out money to banks, insurance firms, and other companies headed by millionaires now begging for taxpayer funds….and o yeh, there isn’t SHIT we can do about it. Enjoy.<br /><br />So yesterday, you have the Heads of the BIG THREE, GM, Ford and Chrysler; the domestic auto industry in a nutshell; peas in a pod of bitchassness. They fly in on their commercial jets, then tell us how great their cars are and even though they have been ignoring advice to produce cheaper, more fuel-efficient cars for the last 25 years, they are on their knees literally, BEGGING for $25 billion from the bailout fund. Here’s a lil bit about the * quite comical* hearing yesterday from the Washington Post:<br /><br /><br /><br />“With the impasse unbroken, Congress is on the verge of leaving the possible collapse of the domestic auto industry in the hands of the departing Bush administration. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) yesterday urged Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. to use his vast authority over the rescue money to help the car companies on his own initiative.<br />"Paulson knows he has authority to take the money," Reid said. "He just doesn't want to do it."<br />White House officials retorted that congressional inaction would be to blame for any disruption of the auto industry over the holidays.<br /><br /><br />"If Congress leaves for a two-month vacation without having addressed this important issue, and especially if the Senate leaves without Senator Reid even allowing a vote on this [Republican] amendment, then the Congress will bear responsibility for anything that happens in the next couple of months during their long vacation," White House press secretary Dana Perino said yesterday.<br />Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) to rub it in. "I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial," he said. All still at the witness table. "Second," he continued, "I'm going ask you to raise your hand if you're planning to sell your jet . . . and fly back commercial." More stillness. "Let the record show no hands went up," Sherman grandstanded.<br />Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), late in the hearing, reminded them again that "the symbolism of the private jet is difficult," and mischievously asked the witnesses whether, in another symbolic gesture, they would be willing to work for $1 a year, as Nardelli (CEO of Chrysler) has offered to do.<br />"I don't have a position on that today," demurred Wagoner (2007 total compensation: $15.7 million).<br />"I understand the intent, but I think where we are is okay," said Mulally ($21.7 million).<br />"I'm asking about you," Roskam pressed.<br />"I think I'm okay where I am," Mulally said.<br />And don't even think about asking him to fly commercial. “<br /><br />I have mixed feelings about the bailout for the Big3. Of course if they were to go out of business, millions of jobs would be lost, but BANKRUPT does not equal OUT OF BUSINESS. I’ll start with how they got into this poopy mess; which they pretty much can do the polar OPPOSITE of their mistakes over the past 25 years to get OUT of this mess.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mistake #1</span><br />Everyone knows the 1990s were much like the Roaring 1920s, prosperity everywhere. Soccer moms buying vans and gas guzzling SUV's to drive their kids around the suburbs. Everyone else with credit cards buying up a bajillion cars. Meanwhile our carbon footprint was getting as big as Shaq's and everyone acted like everything was kool. We're almost out of the first decade of the new millenium and they are still resisting producing energy efficient, inexpensive cars.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mistake #2</span><br />The Big3 are legendary and have had generations of people work for them. Which means all those Baby Boomers who rose to middle class thru the 60s n 70s are gettin paid out the ass with retirement benefits n healthcare. Which is why GM pays their workers (including benefits) an average of $75 an hour, while Toyota pays their workers (IN THE USA) $48. Couple that with dwindling sales and what do you have?..3 old ass dudes begging on Capitol Hill.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mistake #3</span><br /><br />Oh the evils of corporate excess. Son, you cant roll up next to me in a Benz then ask me for a dollar. Much like you cant roll up on 3 private jets to DC then ask for a loan. DAYUM. They got some nigga tendencies!<br /><br />They say if it aint broke, dont fix it. WELLLLL the shyte is more broke down than my 1993 Dodge Dynasty, but u dont see me puttin rims on that joint, do you?!?!? File bankruptcy, get chapter 11 protection. Yeh, the creditors wont get paid...right now at least. Bankruptcy will allow you to restructure your contracts, reevaluate your business model....overall GET YO SHYTE TOGETHER PIMPIN...makes me wanna slap these hoes with some baby powder or sumthin...SHEESH !<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3CnMWQx8_C_uNvSOkHO8OCKJszwj7z5UG8tC5kEVR8B3tOnRXD2y2oSSAxH0ct08mFenppeEs2-LbdMo1kTmlg5WKXixUxS5NMQrZDhg3WLm9yRYntEtVaKn7mJPmvPzgbCizHTUsDA/s1600-h/cagle00.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3CnMWQx8_C_uNvSOkHO8OCKJszwj7z5UG8tC5kEVR8B3tOnRXD2y2oSSAxH0ct08mFenppeEs2-LbdMo1kTmlg5WKXixUxS5NMQrZDhg3WLm9yRYntEtVaKn7mJPmvPzgbCizHTUsDA/s320/cagle00.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270890905854545618" border="0" /></a> Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-13976369997719109152008-11-19T15:51:00.000-08:002008-11-19T17:01:38.120-08:00WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO DIE....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgslUALPH2fjfX4IrkYc2LApZ8pyYzbT81yZePiJmEpDEGURkaDpzTkRhxlisb4T1XI4b1roVr3wd86zmnAxf_FITZ3GMSNjKbmDUTrd5Hmy5DBcoxCcd5mqPkOWM9ggap5Texpb2eNC0A/s1600-h/keefe.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgslUALPH2fjfX4IrkYc2LApZ8pyYzbT81yZePiJmEpDEGURkaDpzTkRhxlisb4T1XI4b1roVr3wd86zmnAxf_FITZ3GMSNjKbmDUTrd5Hmy5DBcoxCcd5mqPkOWM9ggap5Texpb2eNC0A/s320/keefe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270536624106422946" border="0" /></a><br />Okay, so everyone must be thinking, Meaghan’s shrooming again; what in the balls is she talking about. Thanks to Sarah Palin, everyone seems to think that the Republican party is a bunch of rednecks, conservative, evangelical, white, Christian, uneducated people. And I will be the FIRST to say, that is not what the Republican party represents. That IS however, what Sarah Palin’s supporters represent. That’s all we saw at the rallies for McCain/Palin, but that is hardly the majority of the party.<br /><br />Being a Republican doesn’t make you a bad person, being a Sarah Palin supporter just makes you kind of a dumbass. Okay, let me not get on a Palin rant, I’ll save that for another blog. I’ll just say I really wish she would GO AWAY and get violated by the Abominable Snowman in the Alaskan tundra, then have the baby since she hates abortion so much. *Cheap Shot =)*<br /><br />Right now the Republican party is at odds with itself. Half of them right now are known as the right-wing conservative party base who wants to engage in the second culture war of politics. Although they CLAIM to call Barack a Socialist because of supposed “spreading the wealth” policies, they actually have no wealth to spread since they have lower income, lower levels of education, lower socioeconomic standing; therefore they have a poor understanding of global and domestic economic policy issues; resulting in their culture war issues of GUNS, GOD, & GAYS. The 3Gs as I will call them are what they really base their votes on, and I personally have a problem with that because even in times of a prosperous economy because there are way more important issues than that; namely EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, SOCIAL SECURITY, FOREIGN RELATIONS, CRIME RATES, etc…<br /><br />Then you have the rest of the Republicans who are rational citizens, some of whom I wholeheartedly agree with on some policies. Like healthcare, before John McCain’s ridiculous “tax-credit” which really wasn’t a credit at all. I do not believe in government mandated or sponsored/subsidized healthcare. I believe that HMOs are the devil and the free market should decide healthcare prices, and therefore, that would bring the prices down to a rate that were much more affordable to American citizens. Also people love to think that Bill Clinton was the savior of our country in the 1990’s creating a balanced budget and a surplus. Well he was and is a great leader with great ideas, but it was a majority Republican Congress who helped to balance the budget; Bill didn’t do it alone.<br /><br />Believe it or not, the country is not half Republican and Half Democrats. Its actually more like a third of each, with the rest of the population registered as independent. We need the Republican party as a major party simply for the free flow of ideas and opposition to ideas. Whenever you have one party in a lopsided majority, it leads the way for corruption, greed and lack of challenge to authority. Democrats are not angels, people. They are just as corruptible as any Republican; if given the huge opportunity that the death of the Republican party would bring.<br /><br />What the Republican party is faced with is a dearth of ideas, and subsequently a dwindling constituency. Republicans are against science, quoting their unbridled faith in GOD, fiercely for all personal rights (which kind of defeats the purpose of a government) including GUNS, and a strictly conservative social view virtually equating GAYS with evil. Their current 3G platform alienates too many people. The country is getting less white and more educated every day, and the same old Reagan Rhetoric just isn’t going to cut it anymore.<br /><br />Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not an Independent, and DEFINITELY not Republican I’m a registered and faithful Democrat. But I believe that two heads are better than one. Believe it or not, on Capitol Hill, the Democrats and Republicans DO work together sometimes, and have the possibility to create great new ideas and directions for the country to go in. But the absence of an intelligent Republican party would inevitably mean that Democrats ideas would go unchallenged and no one would second guess them. The heart of our Democracy would be lost without an opposition party. PERIOD. And for the Republican’s party’s sake, they better PRAY that Mitt Romney or someone similar emerges as your party’s next leader, and not Sarah Palin. Otherwise, we may have a second secession from the union on our hands. You think a civil war cant happen again? Well they all said a Great Depression can’t happen again and look where we’re heading now. Call Sarah Palin your leader and see if we don’t have a second version of the Confederate states of America headed by Palin; and she will live at Fox News Headquarters.<br /><br />*for all my Republican friends, please don’t think there’s any chance of me joining your ranks any time soon, or EVER. All you Sarah Palin supporters can go back to Alaska with her and get molested by a big, GAY, multiracial, Socialist, Atheist, Abominable Snowman…o yeh, and the Media-Elite will videotape it and put it on YouTube. =)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Qc5CA0BvFlz_rQ4YBkw1601qBUxZRMbYqlO27OFBVq3BeV5cjcREHEA4HMUZYEhgidqCw6Z_e_ww6MeM9tvexumqRziq8hLNazMFhreRd0wkMmLdFAJBl2wbBco5C-UK5XSGwBdnPVE/s1600-h/sarah-palin-pantsuit.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Qc5CA0BvFlz_rQ4YBkw1601qBUxZRMbYqlO27OFBVq3BeV5cjcREHEA4HMUZYEhgidqCw6Z_e_ww6MeM9tvexumqRziq8hLNazMFhreRd0wkMmLdFAJBl2wbBco5C-UK5XSGwBdnPVE/s320/sarah-palin-pantsuit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270537976021125906" border="0" /></a><br />yes, another cheap shot, but they will continue until I write my full Sarah Palin blog entry; and get my complete disdain for her completely off my chest. After that, the cheap shots will be kept to a minimum =)Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-54770230279434337542008-11-19T15:49:00.001-08:002008-11-19T16:52:43.943-08:00HEY AL-QAEDA; YOU REEEALLY DON’T WANT IT WITH BLACK AMERICA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmV9HsA7hx4WRK6Ne6O5QyDgbwT92ApTCWhZv2mg3qRHk30nCmQG5k31Tv9_0JDyReeuEUvNnDi1ZKffpvl5E2U5-vaT7rt0FlTmXFx8J_MYHed0dfYO-y-TxGY8vV3PdHmX28jaJYnI/s1600-h/democrat-anti-negro-anti-republican-cartoon.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmV9HsA7hx4WRK6Ne6O5QyDgbwT92ApTCWhZv2mg3qRHk30nCmQG5k31Tv9_0JDyReeuEUvNnDi1ZKffpvl5E2U5-vaT7rt0FlTmXFx8J_MYHed0dfYO-y-TxGY8vV3PdHmX28jaJYnI/s320/democrat-anti-negro-anti-republican-cartoon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270536285959418546" border="0" /></a><br />So today the number 2 guy from Al Quaeda today made a statement calling Barack, Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell, “House Negroes”…and had the AUDACITY to invoke the words of the honorable Malcolm X…From Huffington Post:<br />“The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.<br />In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect _ along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice _ "house negroes."<br />Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."”<br /><br />Now many people think that they ARE house negroes; but I disagree. Okay maybe not so much with Condoleeza (she loves her some GW Bush, its true), but Colin Powell regained some dignity when he resigned from the Bush administration and when he endrsed Barack for President.<br /><br />Okay, so first of all, you have a majority of Americans who are rightly against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq right now. AlQaueda is making a HUGE mistake in dissing the most popular President-elect of modern times. First you have his overwhelming victory and the support of tens of millions of Americans and millions of people overseas who were overjoyed to see Obama win and for the first time in a long time support America because of it. And probably for the first time EVER, you have about 94% of black America who loves their President. For al-Zawahri to essentially call him a “House nigga” is opening a can of worms that he really doesn’t want to mess with. Don’t bring race into this, because that is one argument you will lose. Don’t try to be racist when you are claming that the USA is racist and xenophobic by invading your countries and trying to bring you democracy. We never should have been there in the first place, but your racist rants will only serve to give us a renewed spirit and dare I say, blacks will get behind a miliatry cause like never seen before.<br /><br />You had the slightly taken out of context quote by Muhammad Ali declaring part of the reason why he refused to enter military service in Vietnam was because “No Vietnamse ever called me nigger”.(the other was being a conscientious objector because of his Muslim faith). The quote was a bit inaccurate, but still displayed the sentiments of many minority Amercans at the time. Now with the Iraq war, we have a lot of people saying that we need to fix things at home before we start meddling abroad. But I GUARAN-DAMN-TEE that if you start bringing out the racist slurs, black America will have a reason to get up in that ass.Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929084676301611374.post-5839771877302127762008-11-19T15:42:00.000-08:002008-11-19T15:49:16.713-08:00MY FIRST BLOGHey, I'm Meaghan...I started this blog because I have a lot of opinions and I feel like the web is a good place to express them. This wont be a liberal blog, more in tune with my manz Lou Dobbs, if you mess up.....I'mma get in dat ass, Republican, Democrat, Fox News or MSNBC whatever....I'm keepin it mad real and too honest. =)<br /><br />Also, I hope to educate people, not because I'm always right, I just come with the educated, and researched view that I think is lacking these days.<br /><br />O yeh, and where's the title from/what does it mean? Its from the Nightmare Before Christmas, and its my favorite character....no significance other than that =)Meg O Licioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15171793625621151414noreply@blogger.com0