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Tuesday, 27 March 2012

  • Trayvon Martin


    Today, they released the fact that Trayvon had been suspended from school because of a baggie that had traces of marijuana in it. Because that somehow makes what George Zimmerman did okay?

    I was listening to the radio the other day and the subject was "The Talk". The Talk black parents have with their teenaged children. How they are sometimes, often subject to different rules. How they might, probably get pulled over or stopped while walking down the street. That these things happen. That they have to be prepared. It made my heart hurt. I can't imagine having that talk with a child. With my child. To have to prepare them for that.

    I heard Trayvon's mother crying as she said that they killed her son and now they are trying to kill his reputation. Have you noticed they keep saying that Zimmerman shot him? Zimmerman killed him. A 17 year old boy with his whole future ahead of him is gone. And for what? Because he was wearing a hoodie? Because some small minded man thought he could do better than a trained police officer?

    I have so many questions following this tragedy.

    Why?

    Why did he follow Trayvon?

    Why did he continue following him even after the 911 operator told him to stop?

    Why did he get out of his car?

    Why did he pull out his gun?

    Why did he kill Trayvon?

    How can I believe Zimmerman's chain of events?

    Why did the responding officers screen the victim for alcohol and drugs and not the killer?

    Why did these parents have to lose their child because of this kind of insanity?

    And why in 2012 does there need to be "The Talk"?

    How have we not moved beyond that?

Sunday, 18 March 2012

  • You know the Mayan Calendar thing?


    About how the Mayan calendar doesn't extend past 2012? And so some people think the world is going to end this year because of it? Yeah. I don't buy that. But if Rick Santorum wins? Even if it's just the elephant race? I might have to re-think that. Anywho here's Elephants in the lady parts, of which I think Santorum wishes to be president:



    I can't deal with a country that would elect Santorum as PotUS. Seriously. Please, don't let this happen, people of America. Please.


Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Monday, 19 December 2011

Sunday, 18 December 2011

  • Much ado about nothing


    So clearly I am getting old. I am doing work, but the tv is on in the background and that terrible (really terrible) movie, I Am Four is on in the background. My prevailing thought? Beyond how terrible (seriously, who greenlit this script?) it is? Huh. The star is cute and all, I guess? But Timothy Olyphant as the parental/guardian figure? Seriously hot. I'm ogling the parent. I am old. :p


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  • dingus6
    Wouldn't just about any place be a welcome refuge from New York?
    • Posted 6/1/2010 12:48 PM
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  • soobee72
    @dingus6 - I am not ignoring you. Isn't it one of the freezing in the winters and broiling in the summers states? I am not moving to Iowa.
  • dingus6
    You can ignore me, but I won't go away!
    • Posted 5/21/2010 4:47 PM
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  • dingus6
    You'll fit right in!
    • Posted 3/17/2010 9:08 PM
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  • dingus6
    Iowa is to the superannuated as Las Vegas is to gamblers, a mecca for senile elderly. It's like "Night of the Living Dead" with cornfields.
    • Posted 3/12/2010 2:21 PM
    • by dingus6
  • soobee72
    Sounds like a plan, but Iowa might be a deal breaker. :p
  • dingus6
    If marriage is out of the question, why don't we check into the same nursing home when we're old geezers? We can watch TV together and make sarcastic remarks about the political pundits.
    • Posted 3/5/2010 2:15 PM
    • by dingus6
  • soobee72
    I'm not not giving a chance to anyone. And frankly, at this point, I think even my dad might not care about color anymore. :p
  • dingus6
    Apparently not. And maybe you should move someplace where a higher proportion of the men are heterosexual.
    • Posted 2/5/2010 5:10 PM
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  • dingus6
    Are you giving white boys a fair chance?
    • Posted 1/13/2010 2:36 PM
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