Meme Dump Week!

Tuesday Thought #2

A Very Gay Monday!

It’s Helsinki Pride, y’all, and fast-food giants Burger King and McDonald’s are in full gay swing with both The Burger King and Ronald McDonald getting their kiss on. In ads posted all around Finland, entitled “Love Conquers All”, the two fast food icons give a king-on-clown, male-on-male smooch.

The kiss campaign was developed by the Burger King Finland team in creative partnership with TBWA\Helsinki and Virta Helsinki and, ad a statement from Burger King Finland explains, the painting is meant to serve as a celebration of love in all of its forms. And Burger King Finland brand manager Kaisa Kasila adds:

“Burger King has always stood for equality, love and everyone’s right to be just the way they are. The only instance where it might not seem so is when we’re bantering with our competitor. We thought, what a better way to convey our values than by portraying an all-encompassing kiss between Burger King and McDonald. We wanted to show that in the end, love always wins. And we know McDonald’s stands for the values we stand for, too.”

It’s kind of nice to see two mega-chains putting aside their competitive differences for love. And inclusion.

Now, bring it to America!

Random Musings

Well, well, well, another Christmas come and gone.

While Carlos and I did not exchange gifts -- except for the flu he gave me and the dirty looks I gave him -- because we're remodeling a bathroom as a Christmas gift, it was still a nice day.

Mellow and sleepy with one pleasant surprise right at the very end.

Last night, for the first time in many nights, i slept all the way through with no coughing jags and sneezing fits and bathroom runs and no Carlos snoring.

I'm feeling better ... in time to go back to work tomorrow.

Feliz Navidad my culo.

Enough of this talk about Climate Change; that's just a hoax.

The fact that is was 80 degrees in Smallville the Saturday before Christmas means nothing except that I had a Summer Cold , because on Christmas it was just 35-degrees and suddenly it was a Winter Cold.

Uh huh.

Look, I get me some Facebook; I’m on Facebook. I get some of my news from there and keep in contact with my Left Coast friends and family. But what I don’t do is let everyone know what I’m doing at every single minute of every single day…

Sitting down to chicken soup!

Off to bed. Night all.

Watching the _____ game! Go team!

Are you really enjoying the moment or are you just enjoying updating the moment to your status?

I don’t eat fast food; it’s just not my thing. But if I were a diner at a fast food establishment, I doubt I would be eating at McDonald’s.

An official from McDonald's Corporation announced at a Chicago Sports Commission luncheon last week that the company would not make a statement about anti-gay laws implemented in Russia:

"If we as a sponsor, or any sponsor, were to pull [out of their deal] or boycott, we'd be hurting the U.S. Olympic team. Our mission really is to make sure that we do not penalize the U.S. athletes. The [U.S. Olympic Committee] is not going to boycott, so we're not going to subjugate that by not supporting athletes."

No said boycott, they asked you to make a statement regarding the hateful anti-gay laws in Russia and you said ...

:::crickets::::

That same official then added,  "We try to keep the politics out of it and try to focus on sport."

And making money.

There’s nothing like a good Christmas movie on Christmas Eve to get ready for the big day … which is why we watched Frances, the story of 30s actress Frances Farmer and her descent into alcohol and drug addiction, and mental instability, ending up being raped in hospitals in exchange for money and then undergoing a lobotomy.

Good Christmas fare, no?

Well, it starred the great Jessica Lange and was really a good film.

Just sayin’.

Where does a single unwed mother with barely a high school education who made a name for herself dancing on TV and selling her private life to a reality channel get a pulpit.

Yes, Blister Palin, demon spawn of the Mama Grizzly Bore™ is speaking out, and throwing her considerable heft, behind bigot and homophobe, Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson, saying:

“[I]f you don’t agree with their lifestyle, they spread the most hate. It is so hypocritical it makes my stomach turn. They need to learn how to respect others’ opinions and not just jump to the conclusion that everyone who doesn’t support homosexuality and gay marriage is homophobic.”

This is what Robertson said about The Gays:

“They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil.”

And yet I am a hater because I question his statements?

Blister? Can’t you find another Alaskan unemployed hockey monkey to knock you up so you’ll go away again?

Glee’s Dot-Marie Jones, AKA Coach Shannon Beiste, married her longtime girlfriend Bridgett Casteen at their Los Angeles home last weekend.

Close friends had been invited to a holiday party at the couple's home, but Jones and Casteen surprised their guests by informing them that they were actually gathered together for a wedding.

Loverly. And congrats to the happy couple!

Since we were sick over the holidays there was a lot of movie watching — as in the Christmas Eve Frances Film — and one more we watched was Jason Segal and Emily Blunt in The Five Year Engagement.

Good movie, but I had no idea it would be told in real time.

Seriously. It seemed that long.

Filed under Finally:

This week the British government granted a royal pardon to Alan Turing, the computer genius who committed suicide after being chemically castrated following a conviction for homosexuality.

Turing, who played a major role in breaking the Enigma code – which arguably shortened the war by at least two years – was pardoned under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy by the Queen, following a request from the justice secretary, Chris Grayling.

Like I said, Finally!

The McDon't Decay

I am not a fan of The Fast Food. Sorry, DD, no Arby's for me.

I've always thought I could make myself a meal that is better tasting, more to my liking, and probably less expensive, than dashing out to the local drive-thru. And now, I have even more reasons to cook at home.

The kind folks at Good Blog bought a McDonald's Hamburger and a side of fries on Saturday, April 10, 2010. But they didn't eat it.

Instead, they photographed it every day for 137 days and, well, this is the sick part.....IT NEVER CHANGED.

Never got moldy. Never turned green.

On Day 137 it looked pretty much like it did on Day 1.

Yeah, all the more reason to stay out of the drive-thru.

You can see the whole :::ack::: progression HERE.

What Do We Want? McNuggets! When Do We Want 'Em? NOW!

Obviously, someone went off her meds.......

Mickey D Discrimination

There was an odd story online the other day; I saw it at various sites around the web and was going to post it, but then it slipped my mind. And it shouldn't have.

Down in Orlando, 17-year-old Zikerria Bellamy applied for a job at a local McDonald's. Filling out the application, she purposefully did check the box where it asked whether the applicant is male or female; it stated, near the gender question, that "failure to respond will not subject you to adverse treatment." Yet when Bellamy was interviewed, she says the manager forced her to check a box that would indicate her gender.

"Once I looked at his facial expression, when I checked off male, like the whole face just changed. He was upset. I seen the anger, you know, like you can tell when someone gets upset." Later on, she received a voice-mail from the manager that said, part:
"You will not get hired. We do not hire (expletive). You lied to me. You told me you were a woman."

That particular McDonald's has now released a statement saying:
"Sand Lake Road McDonald’s has a strict policy prohibiting any form of discrimination or harassment in hiring, termination, or any other aspect of employment in the organization. The restaurant requires all employees to comply with local, state and federal employment laws."
"The behavior of the individual in question is not reflective of the employment policies in the organization. Further, this individual acted outside the scope of his authority and was not responsible for hiring. The individual in question is no longer employed by the restaurant."

Bellamy is considering filing a lawsuit after the restaurant allegedly refused to interview her for a possible job. "I'm angry. I'm hurt," she said. "You shouldn't judge someone based on who they are."

No, we shouldn't, but it happens all the time, to gay people, people of color, the elderly, women, teenagers; we are, at times, too quick to judge based on appearance alone. Hopefully, this man who left that voicemail, and others, have learned something.