And now for something completely different......

This is the funniest SH*T I've seen in my life. And so true - is there anything funnier than Amy Poehler and Tina Fey? Yeah....no!

Fight For Love

The above film is the story of a gay couple in Florida and their attempt to adopt their foster children. In Florida, gay couples are not allowd to marry and gay people are not allowed to adopt (though they are allowed to foster a child). I can't disagree more with these archaic laws that prohibit people from their right to give love and get love and have it be recognized.

I grew up in NYC and my High School is the HS of Performing Arts - the "Fame" School. In that school there were all kinds of kids - every color, every religion, every background and every sexual preference. This was a place where you were judged by your talent not your skin color. Here's an example - Chastity (now Chazz) Bono was in our classes. I could have told you then what we all know now - that she was unhappy withthe conventional moires of society and an alternate lifestyle would make her happy. And that would make her more capable of loving and receiving love.

Now let me also say something - I don't have children nor do I want any. I recently got married at the tender young age of 41 so it's not that I'm all - la la la - marriage and kids. It's exactly that reason that I am so against the fact that gay couples cannot marry in most states and cannot adopt in Florida and other states.

Here's my breakdown - love is rare. You think finding a job you like is difficult? Try finding someone that you want to spend the rest of your life with. And us heterosexuals don't do such a great job of finding a life-mate and raising children - I can cite very specific examples of failed marriages and bad child rearing in my own backyard (though I will not). I myself had a bad marriage under my belt and my parents were the worst parents you could have that didn't hit or take drugs or alcohol. So I know about heterosexuals getting all this marriage and kids stuff way wrong.

I will also tell you that I don't think that because a couple is gay they might do better at marriage or at child rearing. I will tell you one thing though - if you want something so bad that you will fight for it so hard and wait for it for so long you probably are not taking something like marriage lightly. In 5 or 10 or 20 years when gay marriage is legal will gay couples get drunk and get married by Elvis in Vegas - probably....but for now I think they should be allowed to try.

This particular time and place is both wonderful and scary. There is new technology every day but it doesn't bring us closer as people. There is a new President, a new administration, but there is still backward thinking. The small stuff that's trivial in life is abundant - you can buy clothes, get entertained but love....real love....that's rare. Denying a couple the right to celebrate that love and define it legally is wrong, bigoted and hateful. Most people do it in the name of religion which is the most cutting blow of all - because I don't think a Jesus or a Moses would care one rat's ass as long as love was present.

I was thinking back on Guess WHo's Coming to Dinner, a shocking movie of it's time about an inter-racial marriage. It was made in the 60's when that was taboo but already legal. Ten years earlier it was actually illegal for a white person and a black person to marry. The first interracial kiss was on Star Trek. Times change and now it's crazy to think that a man and a woman could be stopped from marrying because of their skin color - so why should two men or two women be stopped? It's illogical and unfair and hopefully we'll look back in a few years and wonder what the fuss was all about.

The NRA grassroots Minute - Mayor Bloomberg no Friend to The NRA (Duh)

I found this gem just now. In this NRA Weekly minute two young people (including a woman) who kinda look like they could be college students are recapping the latest gun news. One story is about Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York city, not being a friend to the NRA because he wants to impost stricter gun laws in New York City.

Let me first tell you that it's not at all easy to get a gun in New York City. And that not one person that I knew ever wanted a gun nor did they feel that a constitutional right was taken away - we simply never even wanted a gun. I remember having a couple of dates with a police officer (it was after 9/11 and a cop or a fireman was considered "the" accessory for a single girl - much I guess like sailors were during WWII). He put his arm around me and I felt a hard lump when he got closer - that's right! I felt his gun. I remember being totally freaked out that this man had a gun and I didn't see him afterward. Just grossed me out the fact that he had something that was literally an agent of death on him in a restaurant.

I am totally opposed to guns. I firmly believe that there is no reason to have a gun. My cousin Sharie found a gun and blew her brains out. A coworker of my father put a gun inside his mouth and pulled the trigger. I have seen deer, eyes still open dripping in blood hanging from cars. I can only see the destruction that comes from a gun.

I know that there's the second amendment. I've read it. And you can interpret it all you want but you have to agree that when the constitution was written there were wild animals and an English King with an army that wanted his land back. And only 10% of families were armed in those days. In fact guns were getting less popular in the U.S. for decades until a marketing campaign by Samuel Colt played on public fear and paranois (sound familiar?) and civil war soldiers returned home with their guns (if they returned home at all).

What I do know is that guns play a bigger role in offense than defense. And this is an ugly game. I know Hollywood has oh so many vigilante movies but I'm offering up this scenario to all of you - if a criminal came up to you with a gun - who would win? Would you be able to pull the trigger, aim better and fire one off before he got to you? He's had more practice and has no morals - I think he's got you beat. Or in the case of domestic violence or family fights - if you punch someone you'll regret it, maybe spend some time in jail and hopefully get a divorce in the case of domestic violence. Add a gun to the scenario - what was assault is now homicide or murder - two or more lives ruined in a gunflash.

Even I have had experiences. In my first marriage my then husband-to-be had a gun. For protection. For us. My ultimatum - get rid of the gun or me. The gun went and we adopted a German Shepherd for protection. I left my husband after a fight where he hit me. One was enough - what if the gun was in the house? Would he have gone for it? Would I have gone for it in retaliation or anger or self defense? Would that night have ended in a funeral for one and a lifetime in prison for the other? And he wasn't a bad man - stress from losing everything in Hurricane Andrew compounded with a little jealousy of me working with all men and some drinks led to that night. It could have ended worse.

Let's also put children into the equation. How many times have you read of a child blowing his or his friend's brains out after finding a gun under a bed or in a closet? And you can't hide anything from a child - I should know. I used to snoop as a child - I found locked boxes AND the keys to them, only to find a stash of Playboys, a penis shaped lipstick and some booze. But I could have found a gun.

And getting a handgun legally does not make it safe. For example, Buford O. Furrow, the man who opened fire at a Los Angeles Jewish community center in 1999, was armed with seven guns, including a Glock 9mm automatic handgun and a custom-made assault rifle--and every one of his guns was registered.

Similarly, Bryan Uyesugi, the man who shot and killed seven employees of the Xerox Corporation in Hawaii on November 2, 1999, had 17 firearms registered. Between June 18, 1990 and November 3, 1999, workplace shootings caused the deaths of 116 people. The Columbine killers famously bought their ammo at a local KMart.

And let's remember that private sales of any weapon are not even regulated - I can go out and buy any gun at a gun show or out of a car trunk and it's mine. I don't know the gun's history and the gun doesn't know my history - of possible alcoholism, depression, bipolar disorder, drug addiction or anger at a job, a wife, a mother, a President.

I was thinking that the NRA and the people that tout The Constitution are totally alright with getting a driver's license, insuring their car, making sure their kid gets a learner's permit and takes driver's ed. That makes them a responsible driver and a good citizen. These people pay their taxes, obey laws without too much fuss. Those same people object to any licenses, rules, regulations on any guns. And you could argue that there is more damage to be done in more places with more opportunities with a gun.

And for the people who say guns don't kill people....I agree. They don't. It takes the crazy or angry asshole holding it to kill people. And if that crazy Motherf***er didn't have the gun - they couldn't kill anyone with it!

Sen Edward Moore Kennedy - The End of An Era

I grew up with the Kennedys. I was born in the late 60's - during the turmoil of Bobby Kennedy's assassination, war protests and the wonders of space rockets and men on the moon. I think that everyone in NYC is a bit of a political wonk, but I surpassed my parents and everyone in the neighborhood.

I remember taking my father's JFK memorial record of his speeches and listening to them over and over. I remember at the age of 9 having my parents drive me to Manhattan to stuff envelopes for Jimmy Carter's campaign - the littlest volunteer (but I was taken seriously and allowed to help every Sunday). I remember getting my first cassette tape recorder - a red panasonic - and making a parody of Richard Nixon getting implummed and impolkadotted instead of impeached. But most of all, I remember the Kennedys.

I remember looking at this family with perfect teeth, wealthy but working so hard for kids, poor people and minorities. I remember discovering that little Jon Jon had grown up real good and my best friend giving me a calendar of JFK with a card - here are pictures of the father in law that you never got to meet. I remember in my early 20's buying ballgowns from Saks Fifth Avenue that I couldn't afford, tucking in the tags and crashing Kennedy Foundation parties at the Met, hoping for a sighting of a Kennedy and being rewarded by meeting Rory, Patrick, Caroline and seeing Ted at some of them - the Patriarch! I remember being a salesperson in NYC and working so hard to get the Hachette Filipachi account so I could have an excuse to be in the building that George Magazine was in, hoping to get a glimpse.

I remember all the Kennedy deaths and tragedies and taking them to heart like they were my family - Jackie, then the heartbreaking news of John Kennedy. I remember being riveted to my TV that sunny July afternoon hoping for good news, knowing it wouldn't come. I remember seeing Ted on the boat to pick up the bodies of his nephew - everyone's father - a role he was thrust into out of necessity, but one that he took to.

And I remember his speech at the Democratic National Convention where he passed the torch to Barack Obama. Practically calling him a Kennedy - the pride of Barack shining in his eyes - you would think there would have been some sadness, some irony - after all, Ted's own push to the White House failed and the new generation of Kennedys don't seem like the highest call is in the cards. But there was no irony. There was only pride. I do believe Ted Kennedy loved his country more than anything including his pride and the Family.

I know there will be people who will mock Ted Kennedy - there are people who have brought up Chappaquiddick (and you don't want to go there because in 1963 Laura Bush was in a vehicular homicide, too). There are people who will bring up his drinking and his womanizing. I agree - and his nephew, John Kennedy Jr. wrote that some of his family were posterboys for bad behavior. We all know that. Ted would have been the first to agree. But he without sin cast the first stone.

Teddy was born into great wealth - he could have given in to those baser emotions and temptations but instead devoted his life to making his country better. With all his flaws he managed to write over 300 bills that were passed. And not bills like putting treehouses in public parks or having poodles groomed within 50 feet of an elementary school. I'm talking about serious bills that changed the landscape of this country for the better, including The Minimum Wage Increase Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Matthew Shepherd Hate Crimes Act, The No Child Left Behind Act, the Medicare Act, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, The Mental health Parity Act, The Immigration Reform Act, The Individuals with disabilities Education Act and so many more.

Ted Kennedy will forever be known as a great American. The Liberal Lion who befriended people in both parties and often crossed the aisle to work with Republicans to get the job done. Let the record show that this was a man who truly loved America. He will be missed.

OMG! According to Glen Beck Cash for Clunkers Evil Plot to hack your computers!!!

Thank you Glen Beck for sharing this insight with us - because I am now so frightened that the Obama Administration can now find all my vacation pictures, the one picture that Jack took of me with food poisoning where my hair is messy and I have no makeup (the horror) and how I screw off on Facebook more than I should!

If Big Brother is watching me, I'm truly sorry I'm so boring!

Now Dogs Are Getting Into The Act?

I saw this really weird (and I have to admit slightly funny) video just now. In it, the nice granny-sounding lady is giving her dog a treat. The little dog (min pin perhaps) is taking the treat as she says - here's one from mommy....The little dog takes the treat as she says - here's one from daddy...then the little dog is given a treat from OBAMA - and refuses it! We try this again - one from mommy - (dog chows down) one from daddy (dog woofs it up) one from Obama (nada)....Even with a little coaxing (but Obama likes dogs) nothing.

What does this video prove? Not sure - I guess we should have put a veterinarian clause in the healthcare reform plan. Not that dogs should really mind, though. They always seem to hate the vet and we've been the death panel for dogs for centuries - muffy's past his prime (and wee weeing on the carpet) let's give him the BIG PINK DEATH JUICE - it's for his own good. He wouldn't want to live without dignity (and you without a clean carpet)....

As far as my dogs are concerned, I think the little shits would take cheese even from the hands of Sarah Palin - good thing they can't vote!

My Case Against Michael Vick

So Michael Vick has been picked up by the Eagles to play football again after his early release from prison for senselessly torturing and slaughtering fighting dogs.

With that one sentence I’ve just told you my views on the subject – I believe that any person who can torture and kill a creature that is smaller or weaker is a bully and a coward in the best terms I can put to the matter. Can I make exceptions…I’m trying and I’m thinking about what kind of exception I can make – a rabid guinea pig, perhaps or a psychotic “little person” on PCP on a rampage comes to mind, but I think you’ll all agree with me that the likelihood of these scenarios is slim.

some of you might say he’s served his time and paid for the crime and he’s repented. I’ll allow you the “served his time” (though technically he didn’t serve the full term of his sentence) but show me a man with a microphone in his face and an agent whispering in his ear to “be repentant if you ever want a fucking check from the NFL again” and I’ll show you a repentant man.

I’ll also allow the “you have to let a man earn his keep” speech – for one moment. All these are valid points and I will shatter all of them now:

First of all, when did society ever greet convicted felons back into the workforce with open arms? The jails are full of men and women that resorted to crime because society wouldn’t give them a break – ever fill out a job application? First question – have you ever been convicted of a felony? (which is a nutty question to ask because if you were convicted of a felony – would you be trusted to tell the truth about it?) so that argument goes down the drain really fast. If we want to treat Michael Vick like everyone else, shun him.

But secondly and most importantly – football players and other sports figures are looked at by children 9and some adults) as heroes. Heroes. I don’t agree with this, but they are. They are worshipped, their sweaty jerseys are saved and framed, cards are traded, pictures are saved. The athlete is supposed to be larger than life, a superman or woman that comes from out of the ordinary to make good. To be better than us. Used to be that you had to have a squeaky clean image. Now you can three or four DUI’s and a few bar brawls and assault and battery charges before someone bats an eyelash. But a hero that kills man’s best friend? What the hell kind of a role model is that for kids?

No. I’m sorry – I think this is a really bad move by the Eagles. And if Vick needs a job – the dog pound needs someone to clean up shit. And if we want to start being humane to people who have served their time, trying to reenter society with dignity - this is not the man to start with.

The Born in Kenya Smoking Gun

OK - I stand corrected - I guess the Birthers were right. I just discovered this definitive proof that Obama was born in Kenya.

What the F*** Happened to Tea Parties?

So when I was a little girl my friends used to have tea parties. You sit your dolls and stuffed animals around a little table and serve them tea out of a teeny tiny teapot, usually covered in teeny tiny pink rosebuds. Or...on your birthday, mommy would take you to the nice hotel or restaurant in the big city all dressed up for a real tea party - we used to go to Rumplemayer's on Central Park South. What adorable childhood memories. Here is a sample, for instance of the tea party menu at the American Girl Cafe at the American Girl Store:

Sample Afternoon Tea menu

Warm Welcome
Cinnamon buns

Savory Treats
Kaya’s Blueberry-Lemon Scones—served with fruit preserves and Devonshire cream
Cranberry Bread
Lemon-Poppy-Seed Bread
Kit’s Garden-Party Sandwiches with vegetable cream cheese and cucumber
Josefina’s Favorite Chicken-Salad Boats with cheddar-cheese sails
Kirsten’s Farm-Fresh Egg-Salad Tea Sandwich
Felicity’s Patriotic Roasted Turkey with cranberry mayonnaise
Sweet Surprises
Samantha’s Fruit Tartlet
Addy’s Linzer “Love” Cookie
Molly’s Victory-Garden Chocolate-Mousse Flowerpot



Sooo cute?...right? Uhhhh...no. Because this is how the republicans now want their little darlings to have tea party memories....So much more fun to stand around in signs saying "No more taxes" than to eat cookies and drink lemonade! Right on Conservatives!





Shouldn't these people be totally ashamed that they have their kids wearing teabags on their freaking heads and holding signs that are against the President of the United States? Screw that - pass me a f**king scone!

Ann Coulter - The Gift that Keeps on Giving......

I just found this little gem on Youtube.

Ann Coulter was on Donny Deutsch, which, as you know, is not really a political show. His show, The Big Picture, is basically how Successful companies and people became so successful. I enjoy watching him and he has had celebrities, CEO's and entrepreneurs on. He had Ann Coulter on because being conservative (and shocking) is big business for her. And here's where the interview goes straight to double hockey sticks!

Ann Coulter is asked what her perfect United States would be like - what is her version of the USA utopia that she dreams of when she rests that tortured blonde head down to sleep every morning in her red, white and blue casket......and she said...The Republican National Convention in NYC. OK - fair enough, I can see that - middle aged men in suits, lots of scotch and Ann Coulter as their muse. I get that. But then she is asked to describe what the country would be like -to women, to races, the everyday non-political people....and she says - just like the Republican National Convention in NYC....When Donny Deutsch asks her to be more specific (spit it out, bitch is his inner monologue) she says - you know everyone happy, everyone Christian......wait! Donny Deutsch catches that (and he's one of the tribe)....He says - I'm Jewish - you would want no Jews? You would want me to convert? And she says - no, we would just want to perfect the Jews by having them become Christians!

She then tries to explain that this is not hurtful or prejudice - simply fact. Christians are merely...perfected JEWS! They believe that Christ died for their sins while us Jews are apparently still sacrificing lambs to the angry hebrew God and worshiping golden calfs or something....

I would be so totally offended, but I gotta say - if there were no Conservative loony tunes what the hell would I have to write about - Paris Hilton and The Twilight Movie???? So I say - you go girl! You keep on talking Ann Coulter, to anyone who will listen...because sometimes a girl's gotta say Jews are heathens and I have a penis! And I will listen!

Bill Maher Birther Rant

Please - The birthers are the same people that wonder where the sun goes at night....brilliant!

Why so Angry???? And so Crazy???

Health protestor: Obama has 'broken his oath'Aug. 12: Craig Miller, the man who confronted Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., at a town hall-style meeting, joins msnbc's Dylan Ratigan to discuss the incident, as well as his feelings on the role of government. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32386333#32386333

My husband, Jack, got me hooked on Morning Joe on - as far as morning news shows go, I have to say that it's pretty intelligent (with the possible exception of the title host, Joe Scarborough). Actually I even like Joe - though he is a conservative, he plays well with liberals.

When Morning Joe ends, that's my cue to start the day - until yesterday and today, when I was fascinated by Morning Meeting host, Dylan reporting on the Town Hall Meeting uproars that are going on across the country. Yesterday he interviewed a woman who was waiting for The Obama Town Hall meeting to start in NH. She was the NH Tea Party Organizer. Barely coherent and not making sense, she reminded me of the cat ladies that sort of rant about conspiracy theories. She said that she expected to not be let in to the Town Hall, but wanted to express her concerns that Government was taking away her freedoms. When Dylan Ratigan pressed her for specifics, there were only the same talking points.....Cap and Trade......What about the Constitution......at least she was, by my accounts, wacky but mentally competent to stand trial, let's say.

But today.....oh today....Dylan gave me a piece of viewing that was both difficult to watch and fascinating at the same time. I think we all saw the clip of the man berating Arlen Specter at his Town Hall in PA yesterday. Of some man screaming at Mr. Specter, some other guy trying to hustle him out and then Mr. Specter getting between them to diffuse the situation as the crazed angry man was leaving and screaming "God will judge you".......

Well Dylan (my new boyfriend if he keeps this up) had the crazy "God will judge you" guy on the air today in a 9 minute interview! A 9 minute interview without commercial break, mind you. Mostly because this guy was ranting about 31 czars and President Obama broke his oath and was sworn in twice and Obama is a liar and Obama can't keep his word and....cap and trade and he wants to see an accounting of the federal reserve and..... what? what? what? This was the saddest and most pathetic thing I've ever seen. Now here's the thing that I saw. I saw a man that was mentally or emotionally disabled. I saw Arlen Specter handle this so well. Then I saw this on TV. Now at first I said what you're saying...if the man is mentally unstable (and look for yourself, the link is below)....., then why would MSNBC put him on the air...but then I realized that the man had pages of talking points on his lap and he was just reading the talking points so someone SOMEONE thought it was good idea from his side to put him on television.

I used to work at a conservative radio station, that I will not name. At that station there were many rabble who were on the air purely for ratings and didn't care a whoop what they were ranting about. They traipsed people like this around much in the same way that the Easter Seals telethon did the horrible marching of the crippled children in the early 70's. The people that are raging against the Obama administration and their local politicians are for the most part easily led, at best. They might be lonely, or subject to believing everything they hear, but they are not representing the American people.

These conservatives would have you believe that they are true Americans, trying to uphold the constitution and the American way of life. Don't be fooled. True Americans love this country and want it to be the greatest country in the world. They are open to critcisism but it has to be constructive. Violence is by its nature destructive, not constructive and these people are using violent words and actions. They don't want a dialogue, they want to stop the dialogue.

Now, what can we do? Well, just like an annoying mosquito or the town drunk when he wants to pick a bar fight after one too many....we should ignore them. We SHOULD go about our business of convincing the more rational people on the fence that there are no death squads, the DMV will not take over your annual pap smear and a government official will not be asking you to turn and cough.

And we should keep on letting these people expose themselves as robots with talking points and embarassing themselves - because they are the best advertisement for not taking them seriously.



Health protestor: Obama has 'broken his oath'Aug. 12: Craig Miller, the man who confronted Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., at a town hall-style meeting, joins msnbc's Dylan Ratigan to discuss the incident, as well as his feelings on the role of government. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32386333#32386333