Respect My Ah-thor-i-tay!

August 8, 2009 / Anita Marie / 4 Comments

Do you remember what happened to people who did not “respect” the flag, the US Constitution or the status quo back in the day?

Let me refresh your memory:

John Filo's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year-old runaway, kneeling over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot by the National Guard.

Alabama Protest Against Desegregation.

ST. PAUL, MN - SEPTEMBER 2: A woman is taken into custody by police near the Xcel Energy Center, the site of the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC) September 2, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota. The GOP will nominate U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) as the Republican choice for U.S. President on the last day of the convention. (Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

Now days you can get away with showing the same

disrespect….

assuming of course you have an elected offiical

from

The Republican Party at your side like this young woman

Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA)

What else can I say besides

That’s Progress…GOP Style.

Coffee, Tea or um…

February 21, 2009February 21, 2009 / animar / 1 Comment

kerf-r

LYNNWOOD (WA).– An espresso stand featuring semi-nude baristas that opened next to a preschool and across the street from an elementary school is raising hackles. Story HERE

The Mayor of Lynnwood says this is a ‘touchy’ subject and someone left a comment on this article that reads in part: Please quote the portion of the article that says children can see naked breasts from the school.

You know, why a million more of these stands didn’t open up in Lynnwood right after this article appeared in the Herald I will never know.

So.

What do I think about Coffee being served by girls in their underwear down the hill from where I live?

I hope they don’t spill any on themselves, that stuff is hot.

Yeah.

That’s about it.

To Fact or Not To Factor?

March 6, 2008 / Anita Marie / Leave a comment

I’m wondering.

Did she really ‘stumble over the fact ‘?

Or was it more like a kick in the ribs?

“No person has ever won the White House without winning the Ohio primary, in either party…Somehow the people of Ohio end up picking the winners.”
–Hillary Clinton, interview with Columbus, Ohio, TV station, March 4, 2008.

From The Fact Checker

It has become part of political mythology that you cannot win the presidency without carrying Ohio. (Actually John Kennedy pulled off this feat in 1960, winning the general election even though he lost Ohio by 273,000 votes.) But can you win the presidency without winning your party’s Ohio primary? History suggests that Hillary Clinton is wrong on this point.

The Inhuman Condition

March 5, 2008March 6, 2008 / Anita Marie / Leave a comment

I’ve heard this may be a hoax.

I would like to believe that’s true

because

what concerns me is this:

If you’re able to do this to a defenseless animal.

What on Earth are you capable of doing to a defenseless human being?

Monroe family threatened over video of soldier throwing pup

The controversial Internet video that purports to show a Marine throwing a puppy off a rocky cliff has triggered threats against a Monroe family related to the soldier shown in the video.

full story from KOMO News HERE

Why

March 2, 2008March 6, 2008 / Anita Marie / 2 Comments

When I was about 5 my baby cousin died from SIDS.

When I was in my twenties my friend put a shotgun into his mouth and ended his life.

When I was in my 30’s I slept with my phone because on some nights because I was ” On Call ” as a Mortician’s Apprentice and those calls meant that I was going somewhere to meet a family who were going through a devastating experience.

All of these events unfolded in my life with the same thing.

A ringing phone.

Years later I still equate the sound of a phone ringing me out of sleep with Death.

And now there’s this campaign ad:

“It’s 3:00 am and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing,” the male narrator says in the ad. “Something’s happening in the world. Your vote will decide who answers that call.”

The only word that comes to my mind now in regards to a candidate

who has so much to offer

would use this tactic….

Why.

Walking Distance

February 13, 2008March 6, 2008 / Anita Marie / Leave a comment

People

have told me how much better things would be for us all if we

went back

and

reclaimed a time when things were better.

This scene from ” The Twilight Zone ” describes

what we should probably take into consideration

before we do that.

Walking Distance

written by Rod Serling

Robert Sloan: Martin.

Martin Sloan: Yes, Pop.

Robert Sloan: You have to leave here. There’s no room, there’s no place. Do you understand that?

Martin Sloan: I see that now, but I don’t understand. Why not?

Robert Sloan: I guess because we only get one chance. Maybe there’s only one summer to every customer… That little boy, the one I know – the one who belongs here – this is his summer, just as it was yours once. Don’t make him share it.

Martin Sloan: Alright.

Robert Sloan: Martin, is it so bad where you’re from?

Martin Sloan: I thought so, Pop. I’ve been living on a dead run and I was tired. And one day I knew I had to come back here. I had to get on the merry-go-round and listen to a band concert. I had to stop and breathe, and close my eyes and smell, and listen.

Robert Sloan: I guess we all want that. Maybe when you go back, Martin, you’ll find that there are merry-go-rounds and band concerts where you are. Maybe you haven’t been looking in the right place. You’ve been looking behind you, Martin. Try looking ahead.