Rantings of a Creole Princess

IS / ISIL / ISIS <--------- Same Thing

My brother asked me a question this morning.  I thought maybe you might be curious too.

1. IS:  Islamic State
2. ISIL:  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Levant - Eastern Mediterranean made up of Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and a part of southern Turkey.)
3. ISIS:  Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

First things first.  All of those are the same thing.  Whether it be IS, ISIL or ISIS...it's the same group.  Cool?  Cool.

For the purposes of this post...I'm going to say ISIS because that's what I refer to them as when I talk about them.

Now...where did they come from?  Remember the big, bad al-Qaeda?  Well...same people.  Kinda.  What was left of them joined up with these folks and other Sunni insurgent groups.  They started wrecking havoc on all sorts of stuff and went too far and then hit a backlash from Muslims.  They laid low-key for a minute and then came back with a vengeance.  To ensure that the Muslims who were against them learned to not question them...they became horrifically violent and started off taking over small pockets of areas by rolling in, doing some horrific stuff to the stronger residents of the area and getting everyone to tow the line out of fear.  Because of how dirty they got down...the actual organization of al-Qaeda backed up off them earlier this year and was like...um...we good over here.  Yall doing too much.  Yes...you read that correctly.  al-Qaeda was like...um...no.  That's too far.  They broke all ties with them.

We can't play with yall no mo'.

Let that sink in.

ISIS proclaimed their group as a caliphate which means that their leader is a successor of Muhammad and that they have power over and therefore should control all Muslims.  Well...obviously all Muslims do NOT agree.

Now...there is some controversy surrounding how ISIS got started because the people in the Middle East who don't want to have anything to do with them say that ISIS was started right here in the United States.  Iran says they have proof that we created the group.  Iran says when we realized we were losing big time in Iraq, we created them so Iran didn't take advantage of the weak Iraqi government.  They haven't released said proof yet but hey...we all know we've given our big cousin from the other neighborhood a $20 and a stick to handle some playground ish before.  That's how things get handled if the law and the people in power seem to be helpless in the situation.  Well...we're going to handle it our way.

I mean...everybody knows that we funded the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the Reagan administration.  Well, they became "uncontrollable" and turned into al-Qaeda using our weapons and weapons we paid for.  We also supplied weapons to the Iraqi army and guess who took that?  Yup...ISIS.  They balling outta control swinging M16's around riding on our tanks and whatnot terrorizing people.  

So, this problem didn't just start in February.  This is an ongoing threat that keeps morphing in size, power and leadership.  President Obama didn't create it but I'm sure he feels something has to be done because ISIS is getting bigger, badder and more deadly.

How do they get their money?  Black market oil dealings.  They steal oil from refineries after they seize the refinery and sell the oil to anybody with money.  And they are undercutting everyone and still getting paid big time.  Then?  They pay their people a salary.  YOU GET A CAR!  YOU GET A CAR!  YOU GET A CAR!  And, if the person gets killed or captured?  Their family still gets paid their salary.  Now that's one heck of a deadly union-pension plan.  They pay their rent, bonuses for performance.  All of that.  

They also seized a chemical weapons plant in Iraq that has folks feeling some kinda way and is why the UN is like...hey...we need to handle this swiftly.  And they're right.

ISIS needs to be stopped but I'm confused as to how they are going to be stopped with the current plan.  I guess we just wait and see.  The biggest fear to me is that many members of ISIS have United States passports.  This means they do not have to apply for a Visa to get permission to come here.  All they have to do is buy a ticket and get on a plane.  Imma need them to be identified and not allowed back in the country and...I hope they are identifying those here who are members of ISIS too and deal with them.  How should they be dealt with you ask?  I don't know...and I'm happy I'm not in charge of figuring that out.

Okay...just wanted to clear up that all those group names are the same and that they didn't just crop up out of nowhere.  

Um...if you're new to my writing, I write like I speak so my apologies in advance.  LOL!

 

 

 

 

In my own words: Israel and Palestine

Whenever my baby brother asks me something I can't confidently answer, I get a bit obsessed with finding the right answer for him.  I don't like sound bites and people telling me what the what.  I like to read up on some stuff.  He asked me about the conflict between Israel and Palestine and I only knew what I knew even as what I knew has always felt like an oversimplification of the details.  Being someone with friends whose only criteria is that they are good people...I, of course, have friends who are Jewish as well as friends who are Muslim so I reached out to them for some personal answers.

Truth be told...their answers were the type of which stem from true frustration with a situation that's long past gone too far.  And, as these friends live in the United States...maybe their history on the facts have been blurred a bit simply by living in an area they don't have to worry about the very real violence going down in their Mother country/ies.

And I just really wanted to understand what has been going down over there and why as much as I could. 

A friend told me about this book:  

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East 7th (seventh) Impression Edition by Fromkin, David published by Holt Paperbacks (2001)

And then...I understood more.  MUCH.MORE.

Pour yourself a glass of water.  This is a long one.

Using My Affordable Care Act Insurance

Ever since I found out I had cancer, my insurance has been extremely high.  The highest.  I've had no choice but to pay it because well...you need insurance and I love living.  When the enrollment period started, we went online to see how much it would cost us to be insured at the same level and we were pretty shocked at the difference in price.  We QUICKLY signed up.

QUICKLY.

INSTANT.MONTHLY.SAVINGS.

I won't say there weren't some snaffoo's initially because there were.  The website kept crashing...but we kept trying.  We signed up and then didn't get our cards for a while but we had the printout that said we were insured.  When we got our cards, we needed a few questions answered and it took a while to get someone to answer them but now...we have cards in hand.

I used it for the first time yesterday.  This is the time of the year where my pollen allergies create teeny tiny bumps around my eyes and they started.  I needed the cream my dermatologist prescribes for it and, since it's been a year, I needed to make an appointment.

My copay for a specialist was $40.  My doctor accepted my insurance even though she wasn't on the list.  When I called and asked them, they said yes.

Even though they weren't on the list.

I had no problems at all.  Got my cream, blood tests, etc.

And it is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper than I'm used to paying.

#SUCCESS

Any of you use it?  How has your experience been?  Was it cheaper than what you were used to paying?

 

Insurance Anyone?

I was talking to a young man who was mad about having to buy healthcare insurance.  He was going IN!  Says he hasn't been to the doctor in over three years so why should he HAVE to have insurance.

I asked him if he had insurance on his car and on his cellphone.

He said it's not the same thing.

I asked what does he think will happen if he left and got into a horrible accident in his insured car and he said he's sure he'd be taken to the emergency room.

Well...who's going to pay for that if you don't have insurance?

Him:  But why does medical treatment cost so much?  It shouldn't cost that much!

Me:  But it does.  That's not going to change while you're in the hospital having major surgery.  Hopefully the doctors working on you have had the best education money can buy and they're using the best equipment money can buy and the nurses are stellar and the facility is top notch...you see where I'm going here.

Him:  But that's a bit if.  IF I get in an accident.

Me:  Or IF you get cancer.  I got cancer when I was in my early 20s.  Thank God I had insurance back then or I'd certainly be dead.  

Him:  You had cancer?

Me:  Yeah...but that's neither here nor there.  If you got in a bad accident or got cancer or something else bad, the hospital social worker person would come to your room with a stack of papers and get you and your mother to fill them out so you can get some government assistance to help pay for your hospital bills.  And you know who pays for that?  Me.  That guy over there.  Probably that woman.  Your teacher from grade school.  Your mom who has worked her entire life.  We pay for that with our taxes and honestly...we're sick of it.  So...pay your own way and then your bitching about what the government makes you do might get more than an eyeroll from us.  You probably pay more per month for your phone than you'd have to pay for insurance so I'm not even trying to hear it.  Shit.

The deadline is today and I'm certain that young man didn't sign up.  Do YOU know anyone mad about having to get insurance?  Do you agree with them?  If you don't have insurance...what's your plan in the event of an emergency?  

 

Scott Walker and Thomas Nardelli's Nightmare

Yall aren't sleeping on this are you?

THE NIGHTMARE, reproduced in full below, was forwarded in 2010 by Thomas Nardelli, who was Walker’s chief-of-staff when he served as Milwaukee County Executive, to an undisclosed number of recipients, including Walker’s deputy chief-of-staff, Kelly Rindfleisch.

Thought Bubble

People. Hearts. "Must be nice."

When I ran out of gas on side of the road recently, I had a frustrating experience. I called roadside assistance and spent 20 minutes on the phone with them getting set up to have them bring me 3 gallons of gas. Turns out the idiot woman was sending the gas to my home address and not to where I was STRANDED ON SIDE OF THE DAMN ROAD!

I hung up on her FURIOUS and got out the truck and started walking. It was broad daylight and we were right near an exit. 

Clusterfug

Where is Uncle Joe?

Andrea Mitchell just asked David Axelrod where is Joe Biden during this shutdown stuff and why it seems that Harry Reid is keeping Uncle Joe out of all this.  Axelrod answered as a true political person should answer.

We all know the truth.  Uncle Joe would go in there and start slinging F-bombs and talking 'bout folks' mamas.  

Disrespect Intended

As I watched the news segments of the tea party ignorant bastards taking elderly veterans to the memorials on yesterday and make a mockery out of them by grandstand removing barricades...I got so pissed I think I was growling.

Who uses elderly veterans like that?

Joe the plumber wrote a post on his blog saying that it's not racist to want a White, Republican for President.  It's American to want that.  America Needs a White Republican President

Sarah Palin, that ignorant witch, said yesterday:  

"We are here to honour our vets," she told a crowd at the national mall, which has been fenced off since 1 October. "You look around though and you see these barricades and you have to ask yourself is this any way that a commander in chief would show his respect, his gratitude to our military. This is a matter of shutdown priorities."

Obama could lift the barricades if he wished, she said, adding: "Our veterans should be above politics."

FALL IN A HOLE, PALIN.  Make that a priority.

Larry Klayman is calling for Obama to put the Quran down:  

"I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up," said Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch, a conservative political advocacy group.

This MF Ted Cruz?  Lord...Texas...PLEASE, PLEASE stop him.  His level of ignorance, bigotry and ridiculousness is simply EMBARRASSING to say the least.  Yall have to do something about this wacko yall sent here.  You can't REALLY believe the shit he says can you, citizens of Texas?  CAN YOU?  

Ted Cruz: The Distinguished Wacko Bird from Texas

That MF is straight up loony bird.  LOONY BIRD!

14 days of government shutdown.  

This comment makes sense:

Ok, so I'm an active duty soldier, and my husband's a veteran. And the thing is, there are SO MANY people worse off than us during this government shutdown: federal employees who aren't getting paid, kids who go to Head Start, people whose SNAP and WIC benefits are in jeopardy... so take it from the start of this that I count myself very, very lucky here and that I am in no way complaining.

But IF the Tea Party morons actually wanted to focus on veteran and military issues, and how they're being affected by this shut down, the God damn war memorials would be the last thing on my family's list. Here's our list. My college tuition assistance, which is paid for by the military, is on permanent hold until funding is passed. Which means I am no longer going to college and working on my degree. My husband's veterans disability judgment is in limbo, since the people who process the paperwork are furloughed. My husband's GI bill benefits are on hold, so he is no longer able to get his college tuition payment paid, and his stipend that covers living expenses and books is suspended until a funding measure is passed. And the head of the VA is testifying that all veterans disability payments will be suspended on 1 November if funding isn't passed before then, which will affect millions of families.

So I mean, there is stuff here that matters people, even though, as I said earlier, there are people much, much worse than us who deserve the attention more. But even so! The Tea Party can't even be bothered to focus on the few military and veteran's issues that do matter! They're whining about a damn memorial barricade. It's gross, it's cheap, and it's boring. These guys disgust me.

From this article:  

Ted Cruz & Co. Rally in DC, Tell Obama to “Put the Quran Down”

Mood:  MAD

 

Senator Warren Speaks

Terrorists on 9/11 tried to shut down our government...

...they were unsuccessful.  

But the Tea Party has been successful.

Domestic terrorism with a racist outlook.

They have succeeded in shutting down our government protesting AN ALREADY SIGNED LAW WHICH GIVES AMERICANS MORE AFFORDABLE AND WIDELY AVAILABLE HEALTH CARE.

The Tea Party is America's public enemy number 1.  They need to be stopped.  Democrats and Republicans need to stand together and shut them down.  NOW!  Ted Cruz?  PUHLEEZE!  That man shouldn't lead carnival won fish.

Yall...we have to stop this.  You need to find out what's going on in your state and work to keep them out of office.  We're stuck with some for now...but they will have to be re-elected.  DON'T LET THAT ISH HAPPEN!  VOTE THEIR AZZES OUT WHENEVER YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY!

I can't believe this ish is going down.  I can't believe we are being held hostage by domestic terrorists and folks expect us to negotiate through this ish.  We don't negotiate with terrorists right?  

At least that's what I always thought as an American.

Obama...I need yall to stand oak mighty.  Don't negotiate with them.  THEY ARE TERRORISTS.  Let the American people, at large, finally see those fuckers as they really and truly are.  A bunch of ignorant bullies who only give a damn about what they want, which is NOT what the majority CLEARLY wants.  

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

So...who's been furloughed?  

 

Government Shutdown

Thoughts?

Do NOT look at your stocks.  Just don't.  In fact...just file the statements away without opening them for the next 6 months cuz yeah...they look like, once again, we're screwed.

*sigh*

What do you think about your representatives in Congress, etc?

Bill de Blasio for NYC Mayor Ad

Warning...do NOT read the comments on YouTube. You've been warned. Seriously.

Craptasktical Syria

The other day I was watching Secretary of State, John Kerry, on something and was struck by how much he's aged since taking over his post.  I was like...wow...he looks stressed out BIG.TIME.  That job is nothing nice.

Iran Plots Revenge, U.S. Says

Officials Say Intercepted Message to Militants Orders Reprisals in Iraq if Syria Hit

I just read that article and it proves my point...they are under a TREMENDOUS amount of pressure right now.  We need to collectively pray for our leaders.  Heck...pray for the leaders of the other countries too.  We need them to ALL prevail and rule with good sense and humanity.  *sigh*

Are you following this?  Thoughts?

(*********At 13700 the thought is that since it seems we won't have the votes to strike Syria...Iran only said that to make it seem like they punked us.  Interesting.  HOWEVER...Iran saying that could piss off members of Congress enough to make them change their votes and it could backfire because we'll strike and Assad will be like...say bruh...I was almost out of this and you go and poke the damn bear with a stick.  Do me a favor and don't do me no favors mmmmmkay?)

Legal Aid

Do you think an undocumented person who live sin the United States should be allowed to practice law (or other professional services) even if they were educated here in America?  

Is It Legal For Undocumented Immigrant To Practice Law?

 

Syria?

Are you following?  What do you think?  Do you think we should intervene?  What did you think of what the President decided to do?

Rafael Edward Cruz

This is what Obama Birthers see:

Foreign Policy Begins at Home

Richard Haass wrote a book basically stating that until we fix the problems we have right here in the United States...we don't need to worry about what's going on elsewhere in the world.

What do YOU think about that?  Do you think it's possible to fix what's wrong here?

President Obama Trayvon Martin Press Conference

What say you?

Trust

Name the politicians you currently trust.

 

Boycotting Florida?

What do you HONESTLY think about the cries to boycott Florida?

SIP DELETES...Hashtag #Trayvon

I did a lot of unfriending on FB since Saturday.  I was slicing folks left and right.  

No tears for thugs?  DELETE.

Using that word I DESPISE?  DELETE.

Talking about rioting and the revolution?  DELETE.

DELETE.DELETE.DELETE.

I didn't want to hear shit.

One young man used the word I despise twice.  All caps.  He was mad and calling for folks to rise up and get mad.

DELETE.

Who is Senator Wendy Davis?

Quite frankly...she's a BAD.AZZ.

She's the woman who wore these:

...and talked for almost 13 hours straight starting at 11:18 am yesterday to derail a vote in the GOP-dominated Senate.  She had to keep speaking on the bill until midnight, which was the deadline for the end of the special session.  She lectured, read testimony from women, doctors etc.  At one point, during one story...Senator Davis almost cried.

But she kept going.

There are specific, tedious and archaic rules to filibustering and Ms. Davis never even SKIRTED on the side of wrong during the first three hours of her REMARKABLE and just flipping AWESOME stand for women.  She is the perfect antithesis to Rick Perry and I damn sure hope she runs for Governor of Texas as soon as possible.  TURN TEXAS BLUE!!!!!!!!

Ms. Davis became a single mother at the age of 19.  She's the first person in her family to graduate from college.  Upon graduation from Texas Christian University, she went to Harvard Law School and put in her time clerking, being a business owner and then got involved in local politics.  Senator Davis is 50 years old.

She has championed bills which mean something, in my opinion.  Everything from payday loans to protecting sexual assault victims.  The bill she was attempting to derail was this one: Texas Anti-Abortion Bill - SB5

The Republicans succeeded in pausing her filibuster since she had three strikes.  One of the strikes she received was for receiving assistance in putting on a back brace while speaking:

Was Ms. Davis successful in stopping the bill from becoming law?  AB-SO-FLIPPING-LUTELY.  Why?  Because the vote was recorded at 12:03 am AFTER THE DEADLINE.

BOSS. 

THE BILL IS DEAD.

FOR.NOW.

"Today was democracy in action,” Davis said. “You all are the voices we were speaking for from the floor.”

Senator Davis is the reason I didn't go to bed last night until midnight thirty knowing I had a 6:15 am flight this morning and would have to get up at 3:30 am.  Senator Davis...I thank you for being a WOMAN WHO ROARS and for the exaggeration of the already heavy bags under my eyes this morning.  #TomFordSunglassEmergency

Did you watch?  It was sooooooooooooooooooo awesome!  It was like...AMAZING!  The energy, her steadfastness...yeah...all of that.  DRAMA!

Voting Rights Act Supreme Court Decision

Supreme Court strikes down key voting rights provision

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-ruling-93324.html#ixzz2XEwn5lkg

 

Do YOU understand what just happened?

Whoa...

Ronald Reagan Western Union Mailgram Response

Transcript:

Dear Mr Kirk

I appreciate very much your support of my defense policy. I believe I also can understand why you think me a “closet racist.” Certainly there has been a constant drumbeat of propaganda to that effect ever since I took office. Some leaders of Black organizations have joined in this whether to enhance their own stature by arousing the membership to anger or not I don’t know.

You of course would have no way of knowing the truth about me. May I point out a few things on my own behalf?

I was raised from childhood by parents who believed bigotry & prejudice were the worst things a person could be guilty of. My father once slept in his car during an Illinois blizzard rather than stay in a hotel that wouldn’t allow Jews. He was Irish Catholic.

As a Sports announcer broadcasting Big League baseball in the middle ‘30s I campaigned against the rule that prohibited Blacks from playing in organized ball. As Gov. of Calif. I appointed more Blacks to executive and policy making positions than all the previous Gov’s [sic] of Calif. put together. I too have a dream, a dream that one day whatever is done to or for someone will be done neither because of or in spite of their race. We are equal in the sight of God – we should be equal in the sight of man. By the way I was raised in poverty.

Sincerely R.R.

I thought this was pretty badazz.  

"A Closet Racist and Friend of the Rich": Reagan's Response to a Citizen Critic

Too Fat to be President?

Chris Christie underwent secret weight-loss surgery

We've all heard the scrutiny of Chris Christie being dubbed too fat to be president largely because the American people are too shallow to accept it on the whole.  Apparently, we like our Presidents to be slim and trim with a good head of hair and a Disney sparkling white smile.

GOOD MORNING!

How are YOU feeling about gun control?

The Republican "We Want Black Friends" Tour Comes to Howard University!

Rand Paul bringing his message to Howard University

SO EXCITING!

SIP:  

Hey!  I guess since the Libertarians don't mess with him anymore...HIM NEEDS NEW FRIENDS.  :)

Do YOU understand the sequester?

Do you know what it will mean to you and the people around you if they don't get their act together and resolve this ish by Thursday?????????  

What Is Sequestration and What Does It Mean for Me?

What say YOU?  Do you CARE?

 

NOBODY puts Hillary in the corner...

ATE.UP: Gun Control or Mental Illness?

I've been staying as far away from the specific details of the latest tragedy as I can.  When I heard about it I burst into tears horrified, simply horrified for all those poor babies and then...I stayed as far away as possible.  No news, no news channels, no NPR.

I just couldn't.  I found that I couldn't deal with any additional details.  I didn't want to know anything else.  Some say this was sticking my head in the sand.  I say thank God I'm not so desensitized about life and humanity where hearing about every detail of this horror isn't something I'm able to do without internalizing some major pain.

I just couldn't.

In the days which have followed, starting, unfortunately, on Friday, folks started a debate about gun control.  All over Facebook people were posting about their right to bear arms being in the Constitution.  Almost as an afterthought...the debate about mental illness awareness began as well as the details of the shooter's history of mental illness surfaced.

And some folks had drawn a line in the sand calling for either/or.

Better gun control.

Better assistance for mental illness.

My father was a gun enthusiast.  You name it...he had it.  I've very comfortable around guns because I've always known how to properly handle them.  I was taught at an early age to break down, clean, oil, put back together and properly store several types of guns.  He had a locked cabinet for his long barrel guns and a lock box for all but one of his handguns.  

And he slept with one under his pillow.

From My (and Tiffany In Houston's) Husband's Girlfriend...

Ole Miss Riot

Students protest presidential election results

What did YOU think of this?

Congrats President Obama!

What I Believe...

I was talking to some people recently being polite. The subject turned to politics and I was about to bail because I wasn't in the mood for a fight with strangers and people I don't know well. One of the men was someone I'd stereotyped as being a Romney supporter in my head and he said something that surprised all of us: 

"First time I voted Democrat was in 2008 and that was for Barack Obama. 

I officially switched parties two years ago because of what the Tea Party has done to the Republican party. They don't represent me or the way me and my family live our life and I'm not about to let them think they do. The Tea Party ruined the Republican party."

Basically he thinks the same way I think, the Republican Party of 2000 is NOT the Republican Party of 2012. 

I'm a woman who believes in pro-life for ME and pro-choice for others.

I believe women should have access to early detection screening for cancer.

I believe if you're sick, you shouldn't be left to fend for yourself.

I believe big business needs to be regulated so they are not allowed to rob our economy.

I believe the percentage of taxes you pay should be the same across the board.

I believe big businesses who make billions in profits should pay the same percentage of taxes that small business owners pay.

I believe companies who send jobs overseas in order to pay less in salaries should be dealt with appropriately.

I believe people should be able to marry who they love.

I believe our education system needs a major rehaul.

I believe college kids need much more help paying for college.

Those are just a few of the things I believe. 

I'm a Democrat.

I voted for Barack Obama.

I voted AGAINST Question 7.

I voted FOR Question 6.

GO VOTE for what YOU believe.

GO VOTE!

A Facebook "friend" posted that on my wall yesterday.

I was not amused and let it be known as only SIP can.

I've already voted and yall know I voted for President Barack Obama.

There's simply no way I believe Romney is right to lead our country.

The way he thinks is pretty much the same way the person who typed that tweet thinks and there is so much wrong with that...it's laughable.

Go vote.

What say YOU?

...about this title?

He wasn't lying 'needa...

VP Debate 2012 Review

Well?  What did YOU think?

Maryland Question 7

Have you ever had to vote for or against gambling in your state?  

How'd you vote?  

If your state voted FOR the gambling and it's been implemented...how do YOU think it's going?  

Was / is gambling a good thing in YOUR opinion?

Presidential Debate #1

My two cents? Romney did much better than I thought he would even though he still can't give SPECIFICS as to what he would do to get us out of the crap we're in.

Obama stayed the course and focused on specifics. He didn't get as many jabs in as I believe he could or SHOULD have but we all know our President is far more classier than I could ever hope to be.

I haven't been an undecided voter since 2007 (yup...I knew in 2007 that I was voting for STRAIGHT Democrats) so this debate really wasn't for me. That said...nothing changed for me.

Well...except for the fact that Jim Lehrer really made my teeth itch because he completely lost control and never really got it back. Seriously. 

I think I might go vote early this weekend just to make it clear.

What did YOU think?

 

Presidential Debates!

The debates start tonight.  Are you going to watch?

SIP:  MUST-SEE-REALITY-TV!!!!!!!!!

Samuel Jackson: "Wake the F*** Up!"

Hashtag This!

Has 'Mexican Mitt' Romney Fake Tanned For Spanish-Language TV Channel Univision?

C'mon...whatcha got by way of a hashtag for this one?

SIP:  #DumbAzz

 

Politics at Large

So...given recent revelations...how are you feeling about the election?

Have you changed your mind about your candidate?

Do you discuss politics with people who are supporting the candidate you're not supporting?

Do you actively turn OFF when politics are brought up?

ARe you tired of it all yet?

"Why I left the GOP" by Jeremiah Goulka

Yall!  

THIS ARTICLE IS AMAZING!  I truly hope you make time to read it and we can discuss.  

Love,  Monnie

Why I left the GOP

I grew up in a rich, Republican household, but after Katrina and Iraq, I realized my priorities were out of order

BY JEREMIAH GOULKA, TOMDISPATCH.COM

 

Navy SEAL Osama Book

What do you guys think about the Navy SEAL who wrote the book about killing Osama Bin Laden?

Do you think he should be punished?

Do you think he's a traitor?

Do you think he should be able to tell his story?

Do you think he should be able to make money off this?