Throwing Stones
March 18, 2008 Evangelicals have long blamed America (the liberals) for the 9/11 attacks. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson both were adamant in their belief that 9/11 was retribution for America's...
View ArticleFoxes and Hens (replay)
This was my first diary entry. I deleted it. I was pouting. But it IS a true story and it's my story and I'm proud of it. So here it is again. A day at the Pulmonary Doctor. Yes, I have become...
View ArticleStephanopoulos lacks testicular fortitude
Dear ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos can only be described as an hour long paid campaign advertisement for Hillary Clinton. When he did find the "testicular fortitude" to dare to ask Senator...
View ArticleCanning Tomatoes with Mom update
I know we're all supposed to say. "All Moms are Working Moms" but when I remember my Mother, I know that's a lie. She died in 2007 on Mother's Day. I have missed her every day since. When she was...
View ArticleTerms of disparagement
Let’s try this again. I think we got off on the wrong foot. I know I was supposed to read the instruction manual...but I didn’t. I usually wait till something breaks to read the instructions. I...
View ArticlePut the money in the mattress! (with film)
A previous post prompted me to post this is old letter to my Congressman. As you can see it had no effect. This is one of those small issues that never get any attention and eventually will drive...
View ArticleTime out
I have two kids, one of each. I have one A type and one B type. My girl came first and arrived complaining, "It’s too bright in here! That has an itchy tag!" The boy was quiet for far too long. He...
View ArticleDeath and taxes
I am bugged by the rethug word play today. I am tied of them forgetting my "ic" on the end of my Democrat. I am tired of their oxymoronic use of words. But there's more. DEATH TAX - Dead people...
View Article20 Minutes into the future
The other night on Air America and also on Countdown with Keith Olberman Rachel Maddow said this: Have you ever wondered what Bush and McCain mean when they say we are winning in Iraq? It doesn't make...
View ArticleChoose your battles, don't let them choose you
A long time ago, a good friend, a Republican, told me I had to start choosing my battles and stop letting them choose me. You see I was forever challenging authority. My daughter calls me the "rebel...
View Article12 Step Program for Drunk Republicans
As John McCain himself has said, the Republican Party has been acting like a drunken sailor. Recently, President Bush joked about it. It is obvious from their callous disregard of the damage done by...
View ArticleGive Us Barabbas
I watched two hours of the Saddleback church and had the strange feeling that I’d seen this movie before. The two men could not have been more different. One man, long and lean, was earnest and...
View Articleslim Pickens
I just got this email. A Personal Note from T. Boone Pickens Army: NBC is refusing to run one of our strongest ads, and I need your help in showing NBC they can't control what we can or cannot say....
View ArticleBuilding A Global Village
Now that the Clinton Wars are over – and especially since McCain just tried to sell us the Republican version of a feminist – I gotta defend Hillary. Until recently I was a fan of our former First...
View ArticleRick Davis "even if she's not on the ballot" UPDATE
Yesterday, on Morning Joe, Rick Davis said something that made my ears catch fire. No not the thing about the personality test. They were talking about the historic nature of the first woman...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor - Fort Worth Star Telegram
From Letters to the Editors @ Fort Worth Star-Telegram - today How racism works What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review? What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the...
View ArticleWhich Party Can Bring Us All Together?
Former NYC Rudy Giuliani Who put the command center in the Twin Towers against advise. Or This - Senator Hillary Clinton of NY Dedicated to Universal Healthcare as a right. Respected by Democrats and...
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Julie From Kansas Updated
In my Catholics for Obama group, I met a woman named Julie from Kansas, or as she calls it "Bloody red Republican Kansas" She is a devout Catholic and a dedicated Obama supporter. She is a single...
View ArticleMorning Slime with Joe Scarborough
Today's talking points? Joe Biden's Tuzla moment courtesy of that sleaze Master and disinformation expert, Jake Tapper. http://blogs.abcnews.com/... This Morning, Joe Scarborough is also claiming...
View ArticleFive Former Secretaries of State Support Obama Policy
Five former Secretaries of State tell Christiane Amanpour & Frank Sesno what advice they have for "The Next President." This was an excellent program and I am surprised it hasn't gotten more press....
View ArticlePalintology: taxes, energy and a wink
4. IFILL: Governor, please if you want to respond to what he said about Sen. McCain's comments about health care? PALIN: I would like to respond about the tax increases 5. IFILL: Would you like to...
View ArticleEddie's Drunk Beans
Thanksgiving doesn't need a special date or even a Turkey. It's anytime you can get the clan together to share your lives. The addition of food - especially tasty food - and a bit beverage - only...
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Katrina Response updated
This time we are drowning in foreclosures, layoffs, debt and despair. The Republican Response? Do an aerial drive by, rearrange the deck chairs, pat Brownie on the back and demonize a Democrat. Bill...
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Please tell them: Bring schools up to 20th century standards (no typo)
I remember watching as parents searched for school children after China Earthquate. Little bodies being pulled from the rubble. I can not imagine the terror of these parents. We dress them and feed...
View ArticleJobless bail out banks with new bank fees
For the last few days I've been watching the ruling class complain that rich people are an endangered species because Obama is redistributing the wealth. They are ranting that extending unemployment...
View ArticleOpen letter to Mike Huckabee
My Mom, who was born and raised in North Carolina, taught me never trust a preacher. She came from that part of Appalachia that only appears in old documentaries. These are the poorest of the poor....
View ArticlePlaying "Beat the Prez"
It’s going to be another day of the blame game. It looks like Congress is playing musical chairs and the last one standing has to take the blame for AIG and the entire Wall Street Meltdown. Well,...
View ArticleGlenn Beck's America Has No Color update
Beck Says: http://www.foxnews.com/... "I'm about to show you something here that I think will help tie everything together that we've been talking about for months. You know, when I first started this...
View ArticleHey Mr. Brokaw, stop "talkin bout my g g g generation"
I wasted two good hours watching CNBC's "Boomers" last night. Maybe I've seen too many episodes of "Lie to Me" but I just couldn't ignore the scowl on Tom Brokaw's face when both Bill Clinton and Tom...
View ArticleNote to Noonan, Dowd et al
In Haiti, the world broke apart in what must have seemed like Armageddon. People crawled out from buildings to follow the sound of voices they did not know. Then with bare hands they dug through the...
View ArticleWife Swaping Faith Healers
Hard times have forced me to live without the sweet pleasures of "on demand" cable programming. In fact, I’ve been forced to give up cable all together. For over a month now I’ve been going through a...
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Hillbilly Lasagna Update w/ Recipe
The secret to my famous Lasagna is the sauce and I learned all about making sauce from Phil. Until I met Phil, I thought that spaghetti sauce was made with cans – cans of tomatoes, cans of mushrooms...
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Texas BBQ Meatballs
People seem to wander in and out of my life. They show up at opportune moments. They bring recipes, they bring secret codes, they bring passwords, and they bring clues to the future. Like some...
View ArticleWhy they don't tell (triggers)
The news from Penn State has triggered all my memories of being sexually assaulted as a child. I am startled by the number of people who are ignorant of the topic. But then, most of us prefer to...
View ArticleJeanne's Whole Wheat Bread
Recipies are really the kitchen wisdom that one woman hands down to another. It is a lifetime of memories and lessons, celebrations and tragedy all punctuated with food. This is a recipe for bread....
View ArticleChristmas Cookies
You leave cookies on a plate for Santa to find when he leaves your presents. Websites leave cookies on your computer so it can leave a virus. Either way cookies are the bits of memory that can warm...
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Window Witness (and the Global Village)
When I first heard the story of Trayvon Martin all I could think of was my own 17 year old grandson. How many of those trips to the store did he make? How many times did he dawdle on the way home...
View ArticleWhen the game is rigged - change the game
I got a call today from Seattle Firefighters asking for $10.00. It's not much but I'm on Social Security and every dime counts. But hey, Firefighters! So I put the check in the envelope. Then I...
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Prepping For the End Times
My friend David came by - like he does every week - to bring me communion and say the Rosary. David works with elderly Jesuit Priests all day and then uses his lunch hour to bring me communion. He's...
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The Story of Two Men
This is the story of two men and how their lives intersected last week in North Africa. One man is a hero of the Libyan Revolution and is beloved by all of Libya. When others turned away, Chris...
View ArticleHow to Measure
This is part of a collection stories which are also posted at The Anorexics' Cookbook. It's about my brother and pudding, Hugh Hefner and how measure a woman properly. It's also about what we value as...
View ArticleTweaking the Recipe
While waiting to hear Lara Logan apologize for that debacle that was her Benghazi report, I listened to a profile of a surfer who became a millionaire. NO it's not the Food Stamp surfer that Fox news...
View ArticleHunting Fresh Game (A #MeToo Story)
This is part of a collection of short stories from The Anorexic’s Cookbooktheanorexicscookbook.com/...Fresh game is an acquired taste but it’s a taste I've yet to acquire. You can’t even trick me into...
View ArticleEaster Eggs (a #MeToo story)
(part of collection of stories from TheAnorexicsCookbook)How did the Lamb of God become a chocolate bunny? How did the crucifixion of the Messiah become baskets filled with colored eggs? It was not a...
View ArticleBetween Baked and Alaska - bureaucratic quicksand, broken AC units and living...
This is another story from a collection called the Anorexic's Cookbook I look to the sea. I have floor to ceiling windows in my living room that look west to the Pacific Ocean. I can see the towers...
View ArticleWhompie's Peanut Butter and Sweet Tea or The Lolita Lie (*trigger warning a...
This is another story from a collection called the Anorexics CookbookMost people see a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and they think of a tall glass of milk. Not me. When I see a peanut butter and...
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