Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
One Million Moms — a project of the American Family Association — is very angry at JC Penney.
No, not because it sells sweater vests (heck, Rick Santorum is a fan of those), but because the Texas-based department store has hired Ellen DeGeneres as a spokeswoman.
And DeGeneres is — cue the scary music — gay, and open about it.
“Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families,” the million (or so) moms write on their website. “DeGeneres is not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store. The majority of JC Penney shoppers will be offended and choose to no longer shop there.”
One Million Moms is asking people to call JC Penney to complain.
With this campaign, One Million Moms, which claims to be “the most powerful tool you have to stand against the immorality, violence, vulgarity and profanity the entertainment media is throwing at your children,” is going after one of the country’s most-beloved television hosts.
The moms want JC Penney “to replace Ellen DeGeneres as their new spokesperson immediately and remain neutral in the culture war.”
Fat chance, says the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination.
“A vast majority of Americans today support Ellen as well as their LGBT friends and family members,” Herndon Graddick, a GLAAD spokesman said in a written statement. “Selecting an out performer who has inspired and entertained millions, is not only a smart business practice, but a reflection of how LGBT Americans today are an integral and valued part of the fabric of our culture.”
DeGeneres’ daytime talk show has more viewers than the American Family Association has moms. Between January 16 and January 22, “Ellen” averaged 3.38 million viewers — or 2.38 million more people than the AFA has moms.
Funny, but the website for the 'one million' women doesn't even have 3,000 people who like it and/or talk about it, so where did the one million stem from... imagination?
My guess is that these kind of women are the same kind who like Santorum on his views for that nasty thing called abortion... not the fact that that his wife had an abortion.
Or Newt's views on marriage, of which he's on his third.
Or let's talk about Romney's close personal relationship with the poor, since he too is out of job while he resides in his several homes bemoaning his 'poverty'.
Great, great, fucking GREAT role models for the upcoming election. Really. A stellar grouping!
And now these handful of women are banding together to show they have a problem with a gay woman being the spokesperson for JC Penney? All the gay rhetoric aside, since Ellen and everyone else can take care of that end of it, but let's get to the real issue here... you mean to tell me people STILL shop at JC Penney? Go on with ya...
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No, not because it sells sweater vests (heck, Rick Santorum is a fan of those), but because the Texas-based department store has hired Ellen DeGeneres as a spokeswoman.
And DeGeneres is — cue the scary music — gay, and open about it.
“Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families,” the million (or so) moms write on their website. “DeGeneres is not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store. The majority of JC Penney shoppers will be offended and choose to no longer shop there.”
One Million Moms is asking people to call JC Penney to complain.
With this campaign, One Million Moms, which claims to be “the most powerful tool you have to stand against the immorality, violence, vulgarity and profanity the entertainment media is throwing at your children,” is going after one of the country’s most-beloved television hosts.
The moms want JC Penney “to replace Ellen DeGeneres as their new spokesperson immediately and remain neutral in the culture war.”
Fat chance, says the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination.
“A vast majority of Americans today support Ellen as well as their LGBT friends and family members,” Herndon Graddick, a GLAAD spokesman said in a written statement. “Selecting an out performer who has inspired and entertained millions, is not only a smart business practice, but a reflection of how LGBT Americans today are an integral and valued part of the fabric of our culture.”
DeGeneres’ daytime talk show has more viewers than the American Family Association has moms. Between January 16 and January 22, “Ellen” averaged 3.38 million viewers — or 2.38 million more people than the AFA has moms.
*From qfab
Funny, but the website for the 'one million' women doesn't even have 3,000 people who like it and/or talk about it, so where did the one million stem from... imagination?
My guess is that these kind of women are the same kind who like Santorum on his views for that nasty thing called abortion... not the fact that that his wife had an abortion.
Or Newt's views on marriage, of which he's on his third.
Or let's talk about Romney's close personal relationship with the poor, since he too is out of job while he resides in his several homes bemoaning his 'poverty'.
Great, great, fucking GREAT role models for the upcoming election. Really. A stellar grouping!
And now these handful of women are banding together to show they have a problem with a gay woman being the spokesperson for JC Penney? All the gay rhetoric aside, since Ellen and everyone else can take care of that end of it, but let's get to the real issue here... you mean to tell me people STILL shop at JC Penney? Go on with ya...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
A Questionable Statement
For years and years I've heard this...
And I've always wondered about it, but could never put my finger on the exact reason why I always wondered about it until just the other day, when it hit me!
God helps those who help themselves... okay, for all intents and purposes it comes across as a good thing, but it's saying that God helps those who are already doing the work... so intrinsically what do they need with God? And if God only helps those who help themselves what does He do with people who can't help themselves?
Yes, yes, I'm sure I shouldn't think about things to such a degree, but how many people has this exact saying destroyed over the years simply because they were either incapable or not knowledgeable enough to know how to help themselves?
It's like: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me.
Please. What dillrod came up with that one? It should read: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will send me into years of therapy. You want to damage a child for life? Call him a name.
First of all, if someone is lobbing sticks and stones at you... it's hurting like hell and this is how, in the Old Testament, they used to KILL people... today though- call the cops. Second, verbal abuse is sometimes a more insidious weapon than sexual abuse ever could be. People actually block out sex abuse or a traumatic event (As I did with the 3rd degree burn on my chest which I don't remember happening whatsoever) but the names that are lobbed at them, such as: Worthless, Stupid, Lazy, Hopeless... those aren't forgotten over time and sometimes actually help to form who the person is, never allowing them to move beyond the 'descriptions'.
So instead of the moronic "God helps those who help themselves"... how about we just reword it to say, "God helps everyone, because He loves everyone" and go with that?
Sound good? Yeah, it does to me, too.
God helps those who help themselves.
And I've always wondered about it, but could never put my finger on the exact reason why I always wondered about it until just the other day, when it hit me!
God helps those who help themselves... okay, for all intents and purposes it comes across as a good thing, but it's saying that God helps those who are already doing the work... so intrinsically what do they need with God? And if God only helps those who help themselves what does He do with people who can't help themselves?
Yes, yes, I'm sure I shouldn't think about things to such a degree, but how many people has this exact saying destroyed over the years simply because they were either incapable or not knowledgeable enough to know how to help themselves?
It's like: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me.
Please. What dillrod came up with that one? It should read: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will send me into years of therapy. You want to damage a child for life? Call him a name.
First of all, if someone is lobbing sticks and stones at you... it's hurting like hell and this is how, in the Old Testament, they used to KILL people... today though- call the cops. Second, verbal abuse is sometimes a more insidious weapon than sexual abuse ever could be. People actually block out sex abuse or a traumatic event (As I did with the 3rd degree burn on my chest which I don't remember happening whatsoever) but the names that are lobbed at them, such as: Worthless, Stupid, Lazy, Hopeless... those aren't forgotten over time and sometimes actually help to form who the person is, never allowing them to move beyond the 'descriptions'.
So instead of the moronic "God helps those who help themselves"... how about we just reword it to say, "God helps everyone, because He loves everyone" and go with that?
Sound good? Yeah, it does to me, too.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The Rudest Sumbitch award goes to...
My neighbor, Terry, who just today, was coming home and not one driveway away from his own, he stopped in his large SUV to take a cell phone call. Right there on the street and if you knew how small our street is you'd get it why this is so incredibly rude other than the main reason. Our street is the size of an alley and there he was, parked in front of a neighbor's house, talking on his cell phone, not thirty feet from his own driveway and his own garage, taking the call as if 'his self importance' couldn't wait until he drove up his driveway to park. Nope, I guess it couldn't because he was stopped out there and continued to sit out there until the Special Ed bus came by and honked at him, then... and only then... did he drive forward and then turned in front of the bus in order to back into his driveway.
My God... how self-important does someone think they are when they behave this atrociously? Or is it that he was talking to his 'girlfriend' and he didn't want his wife to find out? I'm betting the second reason is more applicable, but he couldn't park in his own driveway and answer the call? What as ass.
So Terry, this one's for you... Ya rude asshole!
My God... how self-important does someone think they are when they behave this atrociously? Or is it that he was talking to his 'girlfriend' and he didn't want his wife to find out? I'm betting the second reason is more applicable, but he couldn't park in his own driveway and answer the call? What as ass.
So Terry, this one's for you... Ya rude asshole!
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Bullshit!
And a staunch, so-far-from-God bunch of religious bigots should?
These people need to get thee a life! Somebody needs to tell them the Dark Ages ended back in the 1600's and we don't need their mindless, retarded thinking here in the 21st Century, no matter how tightly that cross is wedged up their ass.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
For my Honey on Valentine's Day...
A Valentine's Day Poem:
Of all the Valentine's there are in the world
I couldn't imagine one better suited for this girl
Glasses, beard, mustache and those green eyes
Forget about that, let's talk about thighs...
Or the lips that break into that gorgeous smile
That I'd walk to see, so much more than a mile
Or that splendid ass that sits below your back
All the fun things to touch, you certainly don't lack...
There's one more thing that I have yet to mention
About your delectability that breaks all convention
As Bob Hope aptly said and I will not dare to spin it
"I never forget a face... and I'll get to yours in a minute."
Of all the Valentine's there are in the world
I couldn't imagine one better suited for this girl
Glasses, beard, mustache and those green eyes
Forget about that, let's talk about thighs...
Or the lips that break into that gorgeous smile
That I'd walk to see, so much more than a mile
Or that splendid ass that sits below your back
All the fun things to touch, you certainly don't lack...
There's one more thing that I have yet to mention
About your delectability that breaks all convention
As Bob Hope aptly said and I will not dare to spin it
"I never forget a face... and I'll get to yours in a minute."
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