Showing posts with label Spirit Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spirit Day. Show all posts

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Bobservations


Carlos’ hernia surgery is scheduled for November 5th. Last week he said he wanted to call the surgeon:
“Why?”
“It’s not bothering me anymore so maybe I don’t need the surgery.”
“Honey, you still have the hernia and the surgery is still necessary.”
“But it’s not—”
This week he said he wanted to call the surgeon again:
“Why?”
“It’s really bothering me now.”
November 5th cannot get here soon enough!

He was looking into new cell phones this week, and I muttered something about wanting a laptop. He said:
“We can talk about that, but I’d like to do the phones first.”
I said:
“How come when I want something it’s ‘Let’s talk about that later,’ but when you want something you get it right away?”
In his howler monkey voice, he shrieked:
“What am I getting?”
I smile sweetly and said:
“You get to have surgery.”
Luckily, I wrestled the frying pan from his hands before he could use it.
Bigot, homophobe, and woman-hater Karen Pence, AKA Mother, says she loves the way _____ treats young women according to The New York Times’ White House correspondent Katie Rogers:
Tonight, in Minnesota, a state the campaign really wants to win, [Karen Pence] is on stage praising POTUS. She says she likes how he treats young women and sees the respect he has for his daughters. ‘As a mom, I was all in’ after seeing how he interacted with her daughter, Charlotte.”
Yup, she self-avowed Christian is ‘all in’ with a man who has been married three times, cheated on all three of his wives and said this:
I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and fuck her. She was married. And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, ‘I'll show you where they have some nice furniture.’ I took her out furniture—I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn't get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden, I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look… You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
Karen Pence thinks that this is a man who treats women well.
Delta Airlines flies from Salt Lake City to Houston every day, but one recent trip was completely different: this time Delta took 120 girls between 12 to 18 to NASA's Johnson Space Center for International Girls in Aviation Day, an event designed to encourage more women to enter the male-dominated field.

Even better, these 120 girls, who came from area STEM schools, flew on a  with an all-female pilot and flight crew, ramp agents and gate agents on the ground, and women in the control tower giving pilots instructions.

Girl power in action.
Twitter user Mercurial Era celebrated their grandmother Winnie’s birthday on the social media site with a clip of their 100-year-old grandmother holding up a Make America Great Again hat and saying:
“All I want for my birthday is for someone to impeach this sucker.”
Let’s give Grandma Winnie the best gift ever!

See the clip HERE.
Last week Kellogg put Raisin Bran, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops and Frosted Mini Wheats “all together” on one box to make a statement about LGBTQ inclusivity. The company also made a $50,000 donation to GLAAD to support its annual anti-bullying Spirit Day, saying:
“We all belong together. So for the first time in history, our famous mascots and cereals are offered exclusively together in the same box for All Together Cereal. It’s a symbol of acceptance no matter how you look, where you’re from or who you love. We believe that all people deserve an environment where they can be their best selves. That’s why Kellogg’s has joined forces as an official partner of GLAAD to celebrate Spirit Day, the largest most visible anti-bullying campaign in the world where millions wear purple to stand up against bullying, and to support a more accepting world for LGBTQ youth. Kellogg is donating $50,000 to GLAAD to support their anti-bullying and LGBTQ advocacy work. Each limited-edition box of All Together Cereal includes individual boxes: Raisin Bran, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops and Frosted Mini Wheats.”
And bigots and homophobes everywhere went nuts, telling Twitter they would no longer eat a Kellogg cereal.

Kellogg, a billion-dollar corporation, basically went, “Oh well …”
Across the pond, over to the UK, a shopping center where England’s first Chick-fil-A opened a few days ago has announced this week that the anti-LGBTQ chicken franchise’s lease would not be renewed because of backlash from the LGBTQ; said the shopping center in a statement:
“We always look to introduce new concepts for our customers, however, we have decided on this occasion that the right thing to do is to only allow Chick-Fil-A to trade with us for the initial six-month pilot period, and not to extend the lease any further.”
It’s all because, even though Chick-fil-A pledged to stop giving to anti-LGBTQ groups, a new report shows the company actually increased its Hate Donations.

Oh, so sorry, Chick-fil-Hate, but you gotta shutter that shop because Hate don’t pay in the UK.
Cyrus Amini is a French model of Spanish-Iranian descent and yet he’s giving me young Colin Farrell vibes and whenever I get a Colin Farrell vibe I … where was I? Oh, Cyrus. He’s a good poser, too; I’d like that second photo as a statue for the yard at Casa Bob y Carlos.


He rocks a suit, and a swimsuit, doesn’t he?


Briefly speaking, I’m back at those vibes …


Oh, Baby Jeebus, the man simply smolders.


Swoon.


Thursday, October 20, 2016

Random Musings

Today marks the sixth annual Spirit Day to show support for LGBTQ youth and take a stand against bullying.

Go purple in support, if you can, and talk about bullying. Take it out of the closet and take the shame away from the victims and spotlight the bullies.

Go purple.
Oh, this is lovely; a new Donald bumper sticker featuring a Confederate Flag Man kicking a Rainbow Flag Man.

Apparently the decal and its opposite, a Rainbow Flag Man kicking a Confederate Flag Man, was available for purchase from FastDecals, but a quick Google search leads to the FastDecals page but finds no matching items; it appears they’ve stopped selling the offensive sticker.

You know, because one if a flag of Pride and acceptance and one is a flag of Hate and intolerance.
So, a couple of weeks back, Hurricane Matthew visited Casa Bob y Carlos, and the neighbors, and sent one of their trees crashing into our yard, taking down three, or four of our trees, and our fence, in the process.

That’s the bad news; the good news is that the neighbors came by once the weather cleared and the ground dried, and spent two days completely removing their tree and ours from our yard; they even offered to replace the trees we lost — we said no because there are roughly two hundred tree of all kinds on our lot and we really aren’t hurting for more trees. Next, they’re going to have our thirty feet of downed and damaged fence replaced and we’ll be good as new.
On the bad side, an agent for our homeowner’s insurance came out and said they wouldn’t pay for the leaky skylight because it had been repaired in the past so, yeah, prior damage. He did try and see if we needed a new roof and maybe that would help in fixing the skylight leak, but unfortunately, or actually fortunately, our roof is in really good shape.

As for the snapped off tree in the front yard? Insurance won’t pay for it to be removed because even though it was damaged in the storm it didn’t fall down.

Gosh, if only it had hit the house … I kid.
Dayum; FLOTUS looked hot at a White House dinner honoring Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife, Agnese Landini.

I think she should be FL-FLOTUS … Fabulous Looking First Lady of the United States.
Pharma-douche Martin Shkreli had apparently planned a fan meetup — yes, this dick has fans … dicks who are fans — at the Henry St. Alehouse in Brooklyn Heights.

The good news is that it was shut down by the bar just hours before it began; rumor has it Shkreli picked Henry St. because it is close to the U.S. Federal Court building where he facing an ongoing securities fraud case.

Shkreli Tweeted:
FAN MEETUP: 5pm Henry Street Ale House -- 62 Henry St, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Drinks are on your boy. I have court just before and nearby.”
And that caused the bar to respond:
“There is NO meet-up for @MartinShkreli at our place today. This is not happening.”
Then a spokesman for the bar said:
"We knew nothing of this beforehand nor can we accommodate large groups, let alone one from a controversial figure such as Shkreli. We are a low-key, small neighborhood bar/restaurant, not an event space.”
To his credit, Shkreli apologized to the bar for not notifying them ahead of time and began looking for a new bar prompting one, Brooklyn Public, to Tweet:
Please be advised our drink prices just increased over 5000%.”
Snap.
So, this week there was a firebombing at a GOP headquarters in Hillsborough, North Carolina and here’s how both sides responded:

Tom Stevens, Hillsborough’s GOP mayor called it “political terrorism,” while GOP presidential nominee Donald No-Last-Name blamed it on, wait for it, it’s nothing new, Hillary Clinton and her animal’s, er, supporters.

The Democrats took a different tack, and created a GoFundMe page that raised more than $13,000 to pay the salaries of those Republicans out of work because of the fire.

One side blames the other, while the other side steps up to help those who lost their jobs.

Um, yeah, Vote Blue.
Carlos and I love Scandal, and because Kerry Washington had the nerve to get herself pregnant this year, the new season is postponed until early next year.

In its place a new show called Notorious — think of it as Scandal at a news show — is airing, and, well, yes, there’s Man Candy:

Daniel Sunjata, top left, plays a hot shot celebrity lawyer and he is just fine, from head-to-toe, and I know this because I saw him nude on Broadway in the play Take Me Out. It was real and it was fabulous.

Also hot is boy-toy Ryan Guzman, top right and, well, yeah, bottom, who plays the part of a beautiful but kinda dumb assistant on the show. Acting? I dunno, but a photo I found reminds me that he also has a fabulous ass.

Just sayin’.
Meanwhile, back at Donald … when he hosted Saturday Night Live last year he said that “part of the reason I’m here is that I know how to take a joke.”

Yeah, not so much. After last week’s lampooning of Donald at the second debate he called for the show to be canceled and said Alec Baldwin, who is a better Donald that the actual Donald, wasn’t even funny.

You decide; this is what Baldwin said in the skit:
“Tonight I’m going to do three things: I’m going to huff, I’m going to puff and I’m going to blow this whole thing.”
The sketch also touched on Donald the Racist, Donald the Stalker, Donald the Misogynist, Donald the Groper and his to turn the tables by bringing in Bill Clinton’s accusers:
“Martha, she is trying to silence these women but they need to be respected, they need their voices heard.”
“What about all the women accusing you of sexual assault?” asked Cecily Strong’s Martha Raddatz.
“They need to shut the hell up.”
Donald then Tweeted:
“Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me. Time to retire the boring and unfunny show. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!”
Funny that, his addition of media rigging election; it’s so random … I’ll have the soup. Media rigging election … and makes Donald sound like an old man who’s lost his mind.

True dat.
So, it’s no secret that Fox News’ Shep Smith is a big old homo, though he’s never officially come out, but this week he did open up about his sexuality after a reporter directly addressed it though he never said the words, “I’m gay.”

He was talking about former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes’ ALLEGED homophobic comments about him and other journalists and the rumor that that is the reason Smith never officially came out:
“That’s not true. He was as nice as he could be to me. I loved him like a father. I trusted him with my career and with ― I trusted him and trusts were betrayed. … He treated me with respect, just respect.”
Funny though, Shep, that it wasn’t until after Ailes was ousted that you, albeit in a sideways slant, came out as a gay man.

So, take a seat, please, and keep quiet.
Last May, when the Dodgers played the Cubs in Chicago, the team stayed at the Trump International Hotel and Tower -- except for first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, who made accommodations to stay elsewhere … presumably because the hotel is owned by Donald:
“I didn’t stay there. I had my reasons.”
It's assumed that Gonzalez's reasons include Donald’s anti-Mexican stance and his constant blathering about that great wall; Gonzalez is Mexican-American, and is involved in numerous charitable efforts in Mexico.

Good on him for taking a stand.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Spirit Day ... Go Purple ... For Them

What is Spirit Day?

Spirit Day is an annual day held on the third Thursday of October when millions of Americans wear purple to speak out against bullying and to show their support for LGBTQ youth and to speak out against bullying. 
Spirit Day was started in 2010 by high school student Brittany McMillan as a response to the young people who had taken their own lives. Observed annually, individuals, schools, organizations, corporations, media professionals and celebrities wear purple, which symbolizes spirit on the rainbow flag. 
Getting involved is easy ...
Just go Purple.
And do it for ....



For more info, check out Spirit Day at GLAAD

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Go Purple Today

Today is Spirit Day, when millions of Americans wear don a purple shirt, or rock a pair of purple pants, or even slip into some purple under-things, as a sign of support for LGBTQ youth, and to speak out against bullying, which has taken lives and affects the lives of so many. 
Spirit Day began in 2010 when teenager Brittany McMillan, in response to the numbers of young people who had taken their own lives, decided to put her voice to good use.
Observed annually on October 20, individuals, schools, organizations, corporations, media professionals and celebrities wear purple, which symbolizes spirit on the rainbow flag. Getting involved is easy--just "go purple" today.
Create a world in which LGBTQ teens are celebrated and accepted for who they are.


for more info, go to GLAAD