If you haven’t gotten your loved one a gift yet, here is some timeless advice from the Goddess of Valentine’s Day…
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Whitney Houston: Rest in Peace….
She was the Voice of my Generation….
And ultimately our generation’s Judy Garland….
May she find peace, at last, while we remember the gifts she gave to us:
Whitney, at only 22, on Letterman:
And this one from when we were all so young…
From the Soundtrack of our youth:
And her amazing Christmas recording of “Do You Hear What I Hear'”:
And from her last album a couple of years ago:
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Greensboro City Council Votes To Oppose North Carolina Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment
Sometimes, I really love the city I live in! Frequently, in fact….
Tonight the Greensboro City Council voted 8-1 to oppose the proposed Constitutional Amendment to the NC State Constitution to ban Gay marriage and pretty much any recognition of any Gay relationship.
I’m so proud of Mayor Robbie Perkins and Councilman Zack Matheny, both Republicans by the way, for leading this effort to support Greensboro’s Gay Families.
The loan dissenter was Councilperson Trudy Wade- a local vet who will never touch our pets!
Thank you to the 8 decent people on the City Council who stood up for Equality!
From DigTriad.com:
The proposed amendment, which will appear on the May primary ballot, would state that “marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized” in the state of North Carolina.
Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins and councilman Zack Matheny are bringing the resolution in opposition to the council.
The resolution cites the city’s policy of hiring without discrimination and the policy to offer benefits to domestic partners as reasons to oppose the amendment.
“Whereas, This amendment, if approved by voters, would be inconsistent with the City of Greensboro’s goals, commitments, and policies, negatively impacting, among other things, the City’s ability to offer domestic partner benefits and compete as an employer.”
City Councilwoman Trudy Wade intends to vote against the resolution. She issued her own statement regarding the vote.
“The City Council resolution claims to be a reaffirmation of Greensboro’s commitment to be nondiscriminatory. In reality, however, it is a frontal assault against the institution of marriage.”
via Greensboro City Council To Vote To Oppose North Carolina Marriage Amendment | digtriad.com.
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A Great Mystery Solved: Contents of Queen Elizabeth’s Handbag Revealed
People have wondered for years and years what Queen Elizabeth II carries in that handbag she always carries….
Now, we know!
From royal Biographer Sally Beddell Smith via the London Daily Telegraph:
But a royal biographer has disclosed that buried alongside everyday items such as a mirror and lipstick, is always a crisply folded £5 note to donate to the church collection on Sundays.
Sally Bedell Smith, author of Elizabeth the Queen: The Woman Behind The Throne, claims that among the bag’s other secrets are a portable hook, which is used to hang it discreetly under tables.
The 85-year-old monarch’s church donation sometimes increases to £10 but apparently that is as generous a donation as she chooses to make.
Bedell Smith suggests that there is “no more familiar symbol” of the Queen than the classic Launer handbag that dangles from her left arm on public occasions from informal walkabouts to state dinners.
Her inside knowledge has been pieced together from anecdotes of those who claim to have snuck a peek inside the royal bag and ladies in waiting.
Bedell Smith, writing in The Lady magazine, disclosed that the handbag usually contains reading glasses, mint lozenges and a fountain pen, although rarely cash, except for the “precisely folded” £5 or £10 note on Sundays.
A dinner guest at the Berkshire home of Jean Wills, the Queen’s cousin, is said to have been surprised to see the Queen spitting into a plastic suction cup before attaching the hook under the table.
“I watched the Queen open her handbag and remove a white suction cup and discreetly spit into it,” the guest is quoted as saying.
“The Queen then attached the cup to the underside of the table. The cup had a hook on it, and she attached her handbag to it.”
Bedell Smith alleges that the most important items in the Queen’s bag are a small mirror and lipstick which she has been known to apply whilst still sitting at the table.
“At the end of a luncheon or a dinner, even a banquet set with silver gilt and antique porcelain, she has the somewhat outré habit of opening her bag, pulling out a compact and reapplying her lipstick,” she writes.
“When First Lady Laura Bush made a similar cosmetic fix during a Washington ladies’ luncheon, she cheerily commented, ‘The Queen told me it was all right to do it.’”
The biographer claims that ladies-in-waiting are responsible for carrying necessities such as extra pairs of gloves, needles, thread and safety pins for emergency repairs
via Contents of Queen’s handbag revealed: including £5 for church collection – Telegraph.
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Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama
This really is shaping up as a pivotal election in the social and political history of the US….
And the 1% know it….
They will do anything– and spend anything– to stop President Obama’s re-election or the 99% from gaining any ground in through House and Senate elections.
They will try to take over the airways with propaganda and lies trying to drive down turnout and stomp down Democratic turnout and motivation….
And thanks to the Roberts Supreme Court and the “Citizens United” decision there is nothing we can do about it….
We are about to see if an election can truly be bought in the USA….
From the Huffington Post:
At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other individuals pledged approximately $100 million to defeat President Obama in the 2012 elections.
A source who was in the room when the pledges were made told The Huffington Post that, specifically, Charles Koch pledged $40 million and David pledged $20 million.
via Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama.
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How Romney Treats His Dog Shows His True Character
I think how one treats one’s pets says more about their character than just about anything else….
And Mitt Romney showed a careless disregard for the comfort, feelings and safety of his pet when he put him in a crate on the top of the car and drove for 12 hours on vacation…
I don’t see how we can expect him to treat people any less callously…
Even most Conservative Republicans treat their dogs better than Romney did…
He’s really in a league of his own here and to me it shows a total lack of compassion, poor judgement, objectification of animals and pretty poor critical thinking skills…
Here’s an excerpt from great column from Susan Estrich in the Courier Post about Romney and how he treated his dog…
Apparently she agrees with me…..
Presidential elections are, in a very fundamental way, tests of character. You can’t predict all the issues or crises that will face the person you elect president, which means that character, ultimately, counts for more than position papers and platforms.
And in my book, as a dog lover, nothing tells you as much about a person’s character as how they treat their dog.
So what are we to make of that infamous family vacation during which Romney put the dog in a crate on top of the car — for 12 hours? Or the more recent revelations that the dog and the crate had to be hosed down a few hours into the trip when his bowels gave way?
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Political Divisions Between Conservatives, Liberals Have a Genetic Basis
I’ve said this many times: Conservatives look backwards with fear, while Progressive/Liberals look forward with hope.
Now there seems to be scientific evidence to back up my observations.
All I can say is, if it is Genetic and they can’t help themselves, I will try to be more understanding and accepting….
To do so, all I ask is that they accept the same Genetic basis for homosexuality and be equally as understanding and accepting…
Seems fair to me….
I encourage you to click the link and read the entire article from The Huffington Post:
If you walk away from holiday dinners fuming that conservative Uncle Morton just can’t see your point of view, or that liberal Aunt Betty just doesn’t get it, a new finding may make it easier to cool your jets. According to the study, conservatives and liberals pay attention to their environments differently, meaning the two sides of the political spectrum quite literally don’t see eye-to-eye.
Conservatives pay more attention to negative stimuli compared with liberals, the study found.
“They’re essentially monitoring things that make them feel uncomfortable, which does feel fairly consistent with conservative policies, actually,” study researcher Mike Dodd, a psychologist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, told LiveScience. “They tend to confront things head-on that they view as threats, things like immigration and so on.” [10 Significant Political Protests]
Dodd was quick to note that the kind of stimuli a person pays more attention to does not make them better or worse than someone of another political persuasion. But the findings could suggest a biological basis for political views.
“Based on your biology, you might be experiencing and processing something in a fundamentally different way from someone else,” Dodd said.
via Political Divisions Between Conservatives, Liberals Mirror Reactions To Negative Stimuli.
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Do People Become More Conservative as They Age?
This is a very interesting article to me…
I was raised in a Republican Family, was a member of the College Republicans (socially, of course) and worked for the GOP or a year or two 25 years or so ago…
Then I started thinking….
I became a Clinton Democrat and eventually evolved to be a solid Progressive/Liberal…
I can only explain this by the fact that I have an open and inquiring mind ….
I question everything and draw my own conclusions…
But if this article is true, I may end up being politically somewhere to the left of Mao’s Widow by the time I’m 80….
Still, this is good news….
From Discovery News:
Amidst the bipartisan banter of election season, there persists an enduring belief that people get more conservative as they age — making older people more likely to vote for Republican candidates.
Ongoing research, however, fails to back up the stereotype. While there is some evidence that today’s seniors may be more conservative than today’s youth, that’s not because older folks are more conservative than they use to be. Instead, our modern elders likely came of age at a time when the political situation favored more conservative views.
In fact, studies show that people may actually get more liberal over time when it comes to certain kinds of beliefs. That suggests that we are not pre-determined to get stodgy, set in our ways or otherwise more inflexible in our retirement years.
Contrary to popular belief, old age can be an open-minded and enlightening time.
via Do People Become More Conservative as They Age? : Discovery News.
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Ann Coulter Criticizes Newt Gingrich And South Carolina
The GOP establishment is letting all their major attack dogs loose on Gingrich now….
And none are scarier, loonier and more self-promoting than that junk yard dog Ann Coulter….
She’s kind of like a female Newt Gingrich…
If even she is after him, it is proof his South Carolina victory has really scared the Republican Establishment and, if he wins Florida, it’s going to be GOP Panic in the Streets time among the Washington elites…
Now, I’m just waiting for a nasty comment from Peggy Noonan when she “thinks” her mic is off– as so conveniently happened with her Sarah Palin comments.
We are heading toward a civil war in the GOP between the Establishment and that great big bunch of loonies who they call their Base….
The patients are starting to run the Mad House and the Corporate Republicans see the whole thing coming down around them in a loss of epic proportions if the Base takes charge and Newt wins their nomination….
Isn’t it lovely?
From HuffingtonPost.com
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter laid into GOP candidate Newt Gingrich and those in South Carolina who voted for him in the state’s primary on Saturday.
Coulter appeared on Fox News’ weekend edition of “Fox and Friends” on Sunday. Coulter, who staunchly supports GOP candidate Mitt Romney, criticized South Carolinians for rather having “the emotional satisfaction of a snotty remark toward the president than to beat Obama in the fall.” She criticized Gingrich for his debate performances, and said that he “would say things that didn’t really make sense. It’s what you usually associate with Democrats.”
Coulter continued to rip Gingrich and called him the “least electable” of the Republican candidates. She also described Gingrich as the “least conservative.” She added that in electing Gingrich, “South Carolina [was] going back to its Democratic roots.”
via Ann Coulter Criticizes Newt Gingrich And South Carolina, Defends CNN’s John King (VIDEO).
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Lost in the 21st Century 
The Novel Has Begun….
New post up on my other blog…
I’ve been playing with writing a novel and here is a very rough draft of part of the first chapter….
Click the link if you want to read more:
More: The Novel Has Begun…. | My Southern Gothic Life.
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