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Cheyenne Jackson, [left] on his American Horror Story: Hotel co-star, Matt Bomer [right]:
“No matter if you’re a man, woman, cat, hamster, you will get lost in Matt Bomer’s eyes. Channing is right. Matt looks like he’s carved out of cream cheese. He’s just so perfect and smooth and gorgeous. We were in hair and makeup one time, sitting side by side, and I was like, “Are you kidding me with that face?”
Yer preachin' to the choir, Cheyenne, and you ain't so bad yourself!
Bryan Fischer, American Family Association anti-LGBT bigot, claiming to have been born that way:
“I think, actually, that’s a good argument. The way I am, I was born this way. And you know, you think about it…who would choose, at this time in our nation’s history, to be a Christian? You’re ridiculed. You’re mocked. You’re made fun of. You get fired … I mean, who would choose a lifestyle where you are the unending subject of ridicule, mockery, and contempt by liberals in society, by elites, by professors, on the media, by politicians? Who’s going to choose that? So our defense is, hey, I was born that way.”
Funny, what he's describing--being fired--is not legal for Christians, but in many states is perfectly legal to do to gay folks.
Donald [t]Rump, on the ALLEGED War on Christmas:
“I’m a big believer in the Bible. And you know when I see really beyond liberty there’s an assault on anything having to do with Christianity. They don’t want to use the word ‘Christmas’ anymore – department stores. There’s always lawsuits and unfortunately a lot of those lawsuits are won by the other side. I will assault that. I will go so strongly against so many of the things when they take away the word Christmas…Absolutely there’s an assault on Christianity and we’re gonna reverse that big league.”
Um, first off, Don, recite your very favorite Bible passage and tell us what it means to you
:::crickets::::
Um, then perhaps you could tell us your "plan" for reversing the War on Christmas ... or is it Christianity.
:::crickets:::
Ronnie Floyd, head of the Southern Baptist Convention, throwing shade at Josh Duggar's wife in a sly reference to Josh's adultery:
“Adultery, being sexually or emotionally unfaithful to your spouse, that’s wrong. Some of you are on the other end of someone else destruction. And that enemy is going to take your spouse away from you. Both men and woman have their sexual needs met by someone, somewhere, somehow.”
So, cheating is okay if your spouse isn't putting out? Hell, ain't that Christian!
Ben Shapiro, on Josh Duggar's epic fall:
“The war on hypocrites isn’t a war on sin: it’s a war on standards. Josh Duggar may be an evil human being, but his evil springs not from the standards he attempted to preach, but from his failure to meet those standards. … Josh Duggar deserves to pay for his sins, and pay richly. He’s vile. But those who fight against basic standards of morality don’t have any moral authority to act as the agents of that judgment. For such jackals to play at such judgment smacks of the same hypocrisy they condemn.”
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Friday, August 28, 2015
I Didn't Say It ...
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Random Musings
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So, the other day at work a client comes in and when I ask how I can help him, he actually says to me:
Hey! How ya doin’ today? You keepin’ it real?
Yes, he was apparently a visitor from 1984. But, to make matters worse, that night I told Carlos about this Flash From The Bad Past and now Carlos has taken on the Keepin’ It Real Mantra, much to my chagrin and disdain and terror. Oh, and he’s added a dance, too.
FML.
In another example of how presidential he is, this week Donald [t]Rump kicked out Jorge Ramos, a respected Univision reporter from a press conference because he asked a question [t]Rump didn’t like. And Teabagistan cheered.
Now, imagine all the hateful and idiotic things said and asked of Obama, and picture him throwing a reporter out of a press conference — take your time, I know it’s hard to conjure up the image of Barack Obama being a petulant child because he is a grown-assed man with manners and ethics — and then remind yourself how the Tae Party and the GOP would have crucified him for doing so.
But when [t]Rump does it they say nothing … which says volumes about them.
Also in GOP presidential candidate news, prepare yourself for the announcement that Miss Ricky Perry will be dropping out of this race for the White House, too, because he has no more coins.
This week, Perry’s Iowa chairman, Sam Clovis, stepped down because the campaign cannot, and did not, pay him.
No coins, no White House, Ricky.
I am not a computer wizard by a long-shot, but around our house, I am the IT guy — IT, as in Idiot Tech — and I like to have fun with it.
Carlos: Since you’re the smart one on the computer could you help me for a second?
Bob: You just said way too much.
Carlos: What you do mean?
Bob: You should have started and stopped with, ‘Since you’re the smart one.'
Carlos: :::crickets:::
Casey Davis, the Kentucky clerk who is defying the Supreme Court’s on marriage equality says he’s willing to die fighting for man-woman marriage:
“Our law says ‘one man and one woman’ and that is what I held my hand up and took an oath to and that is what I expected. If it takes it, I will go to jail over — if it takes my life, I will die for because I believe I owe that to the people that fought so I can have the freedom that I have, I owe that to them today, and you do, we all do.”
First off, Casey, you’ll die to keep Adam and Steve, or Madam and Eve, from marrying? Prioritize, you fool. But then Steve goes on to show how much more stupid he really is:
“[The Supreme Court has] no right to tell us, the state of Kentucky, that our law that was voted with what was 70 percent of the people that it was wrong, they had no right.”
Um, Casey? Yes. They do. And what I find especially funny about idiots like Casey is that if the ruling had gone the other way, he’d be crowing about how the Supreme Court is the law of the land and we all need to obey.
Hypocritical, homophobic numbnut.
I was perusing the channels one morning this week and came across the Today Show with Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford. I would have instantly switched away before the corneas of my eyes started to burn, but they were interviewing Amy Schumer, whom I love, so I watched for a minute.
Then Hoda asked Amy if she’d be interested in dating their stage manager, Yosef Herzog, and I expected to see some ass-cracking Teamster looking slob on camera.
But no .. Yosef is hot … bald and hot. And they showed a picture of shirtless Yosef on a paddleboard. Um, Amy? If you turn him down, can I have him?
So, again, last week at work, I opted for a more casual look.
My shoes were bugging me, so I chose to wear a pair of boots — kinda work-bootish … workbootish? Man, am I gay … but I digress. Then I threw on a pair of Levis and a nice plaid shirt and when someone questioned my wardrobe I looked down at my clothes, and then said:
Oh my God! I’m a Lesbian!
No offense to lesbians, but I was a tool-belt away from switching sides..
In other County Clerks Who Refuse To Follow The Law news, according to the Sixth Circuit Court, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis has “little to no likelihood” of prevailing upon appeal that would allow her to keep her job and be a homophobic bigot and hypocrite.
She’ll have to start giving marriage licenses to The Gays … like the four clerks who gave her marriage licenses in the past for her four one-man-one-woman marriages, did.
Josh Duggar has entered a long-term sex addiction rehab to cure him of his need to scour the internet searching for strippers to bang while his pregnant wife sits at home reading the Bible.
Oh, and apparently, it’s the same kind of rehab Josh went to 15 years ago to “cure” himself of being a child molester. You know, the rehab where he spent the summer doing construction.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says budget cuts are the reason it will close 45 of the state’s 49 DMV offices.
Uh huh. And Alabama wants y’all to know that these closures are not happening so that low-income Alabamans will not have easy access to getting state-approved IDs so they can vote.
Remember, this has nothing to do with Voter Suppression.
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The Summer of Josh
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This could go down in history as “The Summer of Josh AKA The Summer of … in His Words … The Biggest Hypocrite Ever!”
In addition to being outed as a child molester, accused of molesting five young girls, including his own sisters, and then having the world learn that he was cheating on his wife via not one, but two Ashley Madison adultery accounts, and then using an OkCupid account, as well as a fake Facebook page to hook up with strippers, Josh Duggar is now being sued by a man, Matthew McCarthy, for using his picture on his fake accounts; Matthew is the attractive man up top at the right, while Josh is the pasty-faced cheater on the left.
Oh, and let’s toss in the recent Facebook posting of Josh’s brother-in-law, brother of Josh’s wife, Anna, who is publicly calling for his wife to “divorce that pig” and this really is “The Summer of Josh.”
And keeping in mind that Josh is one of the most virulently anti-gay men in the country and has often publicly spoken about The Gays ruining the sanctity of marriage, possibly while he was boning strippers and models as Matt, this is even better.
See, now Matthew McCarthy, whose photo Josh used on his fake OkCupid just might be suing the Duggar, who apparently found the photo while Googling ‘random guy.’
Matthew says he's already lost a DJ gig because the club felt he was part of the sex scandal and so he’s suing for defamation of character.
Get in line, though, Matt, because Josh is reportedly facing another possible lawsuit, by one of the non-family victims of his child sexual molestation scandal.
Ah, the Summer of Josh … he’ll never forget it.
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Rand Paul Just Bought An Election
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You often hear the GOP clamor and moan about protecting the Constitution when they seem to be most interested in dismantling it especially when it protects some thing, or someone … Hello Gays! … they don’t like.
Take Kentucky, for instance. The state has a long-standing law that bars politicians from running for two offices at once, the idea being that if you want to be a Senator from Kentucky, finish your term as Congressman and then run; don’t run for Congressman and Senator and then take which ever job you want more.
And this should … should … apply to one Rand Paul, who spouts rules of law and following the law and the law the law the law, all the time, especially now that, as a sitting Kentucky Senator he is running for President.
See, Paul should have quit being a Senator before running for the White House except that even he knows he doesn’t have a chance in Hell of sitting in the Oval Office as the Leader of the Free World, so he wanted to hedge his bets and keep his job as Senator after he fails at his presidential bid.
And to make that happen, Rand Paul has convinced the Republican Party of Kentucky to literally change the primary election to a caucus so, in effect, Rand Paul is not running for the presidency while being a sitting Senator because there will be no election in Kentucky, just a caucus, where the public will vote … but that’s not an election.
And to make this even viler and more disgusting and more Republican is that the cost of the non-election-caucus election is $250,000 and it will be paid for by … Rand Paul.
Rand Paul has bought himself an election, and if the people of Kentucky want to allow their Senator, in a bid to be President, to circumvent the law for his own personal agenda, then, well, they deserve what they get … Rand Paul as their Senator.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Architecture Wednesday: Lakecrest Residence
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Lakecrest Residence sits atop a rocky cliff above a lake in Whistler, British Columbia. The 5000 square foot home is surrounded by panoramic views of mountains, lake and forest, making it a difficult build, with a spectacular outcome.
The social areas—living room, kitchen, dining area and media rooms — are organized along a spacious "circulation spine" that creates gathering spaces facing out to the views; the spine terminates at the Great Room which cantilevers over the existing steep terrain and opens up to the views in all directions.
The private areas — bedrooms and baths — are located in a separate wing that open onto a more private courtyard and backyard.
It’s not a huge home, and it’s not the most high-end with the finishes, but when you open your eyes in the morning and see those views, well, it’s all worth it.
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Jeb! Still The Stupid Bush
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So … anchor babies, right?
It's an offensive term being bandied about by Donald [t]Rump and Jeb "I’m the smart one" Bush on the campaign trail recently. And when Jeb was asked about the use of the term and he responded with what other term might he use, the Clinton campaign replied with a near perfect Tweet: ‘How about calling them ‘babies,’ or ‘children’ or ‘American citizens.?
:::crickets:::
Until yesterday when a reporter asked Jeb to clarify his remarks and he replied:
“No. Look, as I said in Spanish, my background, my life, uhh, the fact that I'm immersed in the immigrant experience...this is, this is ludicrous for the Clinton Campaign and others to suggest that somehow I'm using a derogatory term. What I was talking about was the specific case of fraud being committed, where there's organized efforts, and frankly, it's more related to Asian people coming into our country, having children in that organized efforts, taking advantage of a noble concept with birthright citizenship. I support the fourteenth amendment. Nothing about what I've said should be viewed as derogatory towards immigrants at all. This is all how politics plays, and by the way, I think we need to take a step back and chill out a little bit as it relates to the political correctness...”
Oh, so you meant that offensive term only applies to Asians.
Yeah, that’s okay … much better. Asshat.
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10 Black Women Kicked Off Of Train For Laughing Too Loudly
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There is nothing worse … nothing … than being on a train with a bunch of colored women laughing. I’m guessing.
See, while riding the train with these eleven Black women, well, ten Black women and one white woman … what the hell was she doing there … who were having a good time, a white woman was infuriated by all the laughter and walked right up to the women and told them their laughter was bothering her and that this was “not a bar.”
At the next stop, the Eleven Angry Women were escorted off the train and met by police, though no charges were filed.
Oh, wait, I got ahead of myself. I hate when that happens.
See, these eleven women were part of a book club, and were riding the train … in California … in the Napa Valley.
It was a wine train that takes people through wine country and serves wine while doing so.
According to a Facebook post by Lisa Renee Johnson, one of the women in the group, the trouble started when the woman in that photo approached them and said she was annoyed by their laughter. A maître d’ then came by and told the women they were making too much noise and when he was asked who was complaining he replied, “People’s faces are uncomfortable.”
Huh. What?
The Napa Valley Wine Train posted a message to their Facebook page accusing the women of “verbal and physical abuse toward other guests and staff” but they quickly deleted that post, though not before Johnson captured a screenshot.
The group received a full refund but Johnson also wants an apology.
“It was humiliating. I’m really offended to be quite honest. I felt like it was a racist attack on us. I feel like we were being singled out.”
Let me see if I have this right; a group of women, out for a day of traveling through wine country, on a wine train, while drinking wine, were laughing and having fun, but because some people’s faces were “uncomfortable” they were removed from the train to face the police.
Uh huh. Welcome to America where it’s apparently not all right to be caught #LaughingWhileBlack.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Jeb Bush's Campaign Strikes Again With The Stupidity
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I’m kinda wondering if Jeb Bush’s campaign team doesn’t actually work for one of his opponents.
I mean, last week they announced that he’d had a meeting with Black Lives Matters activists and that turned out to be a big fat lie — see post HERE — and now this?
Jeb’s SuperPAC, Right To Rise [whatever that means] has raised some $100 million to buy him, er, elect him president, but they made a huge gaffe this week when they mailed a flier to 86,000 Iowa households touting Jeb’s candidacy.
Look closer, at the Jeb on the right. It appears that one of Jeb’s hands is black.
Uh huh.
Now, by way of an update, Right To Rise says the reason Jeb’s hand “appears” to be black, is that in the original image he was standing next to a woman, who cast a shadow on his hand. The image was altered and then used in the mailer.
But it makes you wonder … with a $100 million war chest they couldn’t Photoshop Jeb’s hand back to its natural color?
Seriously?
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The Baldwin Promise: Send Every High School Graduate To College
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So, Baldwin, Michigan; ever heard of it? Yeah, me neither, but that’s about to change.
See, about a decade ago, less than half of the graduating Seniors — and it’s a small number, yes, but still — chose to go to college, and of those that did and then graduated from college, well, that number was two.
This year, nearly every single graduating student is going to college; so, what happened? In 2009, the Baldwin Promise was created; a fund which offers to pay up to $5,000 a year for any student from the Baldwin public schools to attend a public or private college in Michigan.
The Baldwin Promise was started by Rich Simonson, a Baldwin native who left the area for his career in politics — he ran Gerald Ford’s campaign in Michigan — and then returned to Baldwin when he retired. One day while having breakfast with friends, Simonson came up with a proposal: Why not ask everyone they knew to give some money to the community so that every local student could go to college?
Now, most people thought that idea kind of crazy, but Simonson did not; he began asking everyone he knew for $500. He even convinced school employees to donate and then asked Baldwin’s summer residents to give, too. People who couldn’t afford $500 all at once made payments to the Baldwin Promise; Simonson’s goal was $140,000, but they raised over $160,000.
Sure it sounds easy. Get people to donate and then give the money away. But it’s more than a check and a handshake. It starts with the kids in school, and the change in mindset that college is not something for other people an unaffordable dream, but something for everyone if you work toward that goal.
Now, when figured into the cost of higher education — a private college might cost $31,000 a year — $5,000 doesn’t sound like much, especially considering things like the Kalamazoo Promise — funded by anonymous donors — which is a “first-dollar” scholarship that pays 100% of tuition and fees at public colleges and universities, and can be added on top of Pell Grants. The Baldwin Promise is a middle-dollar scholarship, which means it comes after the student has applied for Pell Grants and institutional scholarships.
But … the Baldwin Promise came about because of Simonson and because the town and its people changed the way they talked about education, the value placed on education. From their first days in kindergarten — where students are taught to excel — and through elementary, middle and high school, students, teachers, administrator and parents, and the town itself, think about college and life after Baldwin schools.
And that’s the change; sometimes college seems like a lofty goal, an expense maybe out of reach, but in Baldwin, it’s talked about from the moment you start school, and talked about, and taught, all the way through; and when you grow up realizing there might be a helping hand, heck, in Baldwin, there will be a helping hand, you’re more apt to think that college is something for you, and not something for everybody else.
And to be fair, the Baldwin Promise is not the answer to the high cost of higher education, but if it helps even the students in one small town, and it helps those students from day one to understand and strive to go to college, then think about all those Baldwin kids and what they’ll take away from this.
And what they’ll make of it.
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Read more at The Atlantic
Monday, August 24, 2015
GOP Lawmakers Propose ‘Dress Code’ So Congressman Won't Feel The Need To Harass Teenage Girls
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I know most people who read this blog thing already know this, but it bears repeating: the GOP neither likes, nor understands, women; and they think women are to blame for the way men, especially GOP men treat them. Like GOP member, and Missouri House Speaker, John Diehl, who resigned in May after he was caught “sexting” a college freshman.
And so, to stop this kind of behavior from happening, two Missouri Republican Representatives, Bill Kidd [top right] and Nick King [bottom right], are proposing a “modest dress code” for teenage interns. You know, because when a girl dresses provocatively, she’s “asking” to be sexually harassed by a member of the Missouri Congress.
“We need a good, modest, conservative dress code for both the males and females. Removing one more distraction will help everyone keep their focus on legislative matters.”—Nick King
Yup, these GOPers firmly believe that the best way, perhaps the only way, to keep these old Republican crones from hitting on teenage girls is to tell the teenage girls how to dress and what to wear, lest they be considered to be "asking for it.” Funny though, but not even in Missouri are the female lawmakers having problems keeping it in their pants around their teenage male interns, but still, let’s blame the women.
When the dress code was suggested, Democrats immediately spoke out against it. Senator Claire McCaskill said the proposal “reeks of a desire to avoid holding fully accountable those who would prey upon young women and men seeking to begin honorable careers in public service,” and Democratic Congressman Jeremy LaFaver took it a step further:
“If my plaid jacket or the sight of a woman’s bare knee distracts you from your legislative duties, I would look for other work.”
Indeed.
The new Missouri House Speaker, Republican Todd Richardson, apparently isn’t goose-stepping to the anti-women GOP proposal because he said “the house will not be implementing, changes to the dress code as the House already has in place a code that applies to all members, staff and interns equally.”
Here’s the deal: the problem isn’t with what women are wearing to government buildings in Missouri, the problem is the GOP men in Missouri who use their positions of power to hit on young girls, and then turn around and blame the clothing the women wear for their indiscretions. By proposing that females “cover up” Kidd and King are shifting the blame away from the lawmakers who should know better and placing it on the girls.
This is just like saying that the girl who wore the short skirt deserved to be raped. You do not ever blame the victim of sexual harassment for causing the sexual harassment.
Blame the perpetrators. Blame Bill Kidd and Nick King, and the GOP’s anti-women stance.
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