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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
You're not a lawyer either. Now take your hysterical and emotional anti-affirmative action rant to your "imaginary black friends".
and not a single digit bump in the polls. Some candidate.
Thanks for your post. Good thoughts.
Just keep rambling on about wigs and hair plugs and the transgressions of long-dead members of the Kennedy family. If you want to get some digs in at Teddy, go right ahead, but unfortunately for you, "time" has already been called on this scandal. It was tragic and unforgivable, but most of us have moved on. I do thank you for your condescending attempts to educate the grubby masses of benighted Americans on the whys and wherefores of the thing, but as usual, you are made of epic FAIL.
I don't expect any response, but if I do get one, can you please make lots and lots of literary reference with absolutely no relation to the subject at hand? Because that's what we all tune in for Maureen, to see what stream-of-consciousness drivel you'll cook up next. Personally, I'm hoping to hear more about wigs! WIGS! FTW!!
and TWO of them are about me. You're a clever clogs really, as your screen-name means "in secret". Your coded message tells me that you might have an obsession with me but you just wouldn't be my type. I'm not one of the UNO DUCE,UNA VOCE (NOT a literary referenc) faction as you so evidently are. There's also a strong possibility that you're a wig-wearer because I wrote about wigs pages and pages back. It obviously needled you considerably. I hope yours is not made from human hair but from some synthetic although well-heeled people can afford the more natural human product, usually Asian.
You don't like PUMAS either. In a very, very sparse output of letters (5) two are focused on me and three on them. You are a funny bunny. All the best now and may all your troubles be little ones.
Depressing. A journalist gives a personal impression of a presidential nominee's wife's speech, and shares her opinion of her demeanor, dress, grace and relevancy to the job ahead. Of course there will be scores of others, mostly republicans, registering their disgust in every way imaginable. Now, impressionable me, I think she was exquisite, but then I'm an Obama fan.
But I must say, I haven't even seen Mrs. McCain's big night yet, and my opinion's already tainted. Some LW above called her uber plastic (right-on) and someone else mentioned her husband's jest about her breasts (uh, dude!) but here's what I think we're supposed to be looking for: I am looking at a bigger picture when I look at our 'package deals'; I'm trying not to be swayed by the obvious and trying to look at who will make a better 1st lady in terms of service to our country, and history of service already rendered since adulthood. And, dress and demeanor and hair extensions aside, we vote first for the candidate and the candidate's running mate, and then, how the 1st lady's performance and 'record' (or lack of)will most likely affect us? And their histories, I'm afraid, do speak volumes about their characters. Am I wrong? If we're just talking 1st ladies, here, what does Cindy McCain got going for her so far? At age 24 she (and her parents) become quite taken with the very married (but obviously puttin' out the vibes) 44 year old McCain. We skirt around the dates, but it's easy to see they began to 'see each other' while McCain was still married, but go easy on him because he lost 5 years of his youth, after all, in a prison camp, and it's expected that he would go sniffing around a sweet little thing soon-to-be heiress....maybe capture some of his lost youth. Not enough? How about the day the DEA put her in cuffs and took her away after a long investigation for stealing illicit drugs from the hospital on whose board she served? (O.k., a glitch...)
Let's make much of the two precious orphans she (saw in the window, sorry) rescued and brought home, impromptu, to John. He meets her at the airport and it's a total surprise. By his own account, at the airport to pick her up, it goes something like this: "Who are these babies, Cindy?" And she does the "aren't they precious? I couldn't leave them! They're ours, now!" thing, which, I'm sorry, sounds like she just found some cute strays and just had to have 'em. Ask Angelina...what's a few more when you're inestimably rich and have nannies galore?
Okay. Sounds snarky of me, I know. But if we're just simply comparing apples to apples here in the 1st lady aisle, which one would you want in the big house? And remember how Mom always said you could tell a man by how he treated his mom? Does it bother only me that our war hero dumps his wife (she who waited patiently, lovingly, achingly at home all of those years for her man...)for a over-peroxided Barbie Doll who has outspokenly said she has no interest whatsoever in being in D.C. any longer than necessary and will undoubtedly stay in Arizona doing her thing?
made of Mary Jo Kopechne's and Mother Teresa's pubic hair. Then I can get smashed on some of Joe Kennedy's old stash. And go driving. Over a bridge in Massachesetts.
Where, oh where, are my happy pills, says Maureen.
She is lovely and very talented actress-- right out of "Oprah world."
Chris Rock, like most comedians, used the same punch line, if you will, for a different though similar context. The thing about comedians mixing social and political commentary in their routines is that a rip-roaring laugh doesn't make what they say true or otherwise.
When I first heard of affirmative action (as a teenager), I was disturbed that after years of meritocracy even amongst ourselves in segregation, here we go with something even more ridiculous than forced integration. I never thought we needed it. As I said before, the most brilliant Black people I've met were products of the segregated south. I am not praising segregation, but , again, through honest competition and merit, the cream rises. I've no doubt that there are thousands of us who have prospered through AA. Probably a lot have failed being fast-tracked and not prepared. There must be a lot of stories of un-intended consequences.
In short, a contentious and wrong solution to a real problem.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
