"Rick Santorum" — I deserve a break today

Keb' Mo' America The Beautiful

I stand with Lysistrata..... cause I like to get laid, see!!!

Lysistra.: There are a lot of things about us women

That sadden me, considering how men

See us as rascals.

Calonice.: As indeed we are!

So back in 411 BC, or something like that, a guy named Aristophanes, or some such, wrote a play called Lysistrata.  Yadda, Yadda.  I always thought reading Greek plays was boring.... and in college relied heavily on Cliff Notes.  Anyways.... good old Lysistrata was awfully tired of Greek men fighting each other and the Trojans and the Persians and whoever else.  Greek men fought alot because mostly there was no NASCAR or NFL football and there were no really cool bars to hang out in and shoot darts.  So, anyway, good old Lysistrata got together with the other women, see, and they made a deal: no sex until the men stop fighting and learned to pick up their own dirty togas and take out the garbage and do so goddam dishes once in awhile.

Well that was the drift.  I saw the play once..... big cast &stuff.  My first impression was "Wow, they really cut up a lotta bed sheets to make them there togas".  Second impression... well that makes sense.... and told that to my girlfriend of the time who dragged me to the play.  I did want to get laid, too.  I am no genius, but I am not totally stupid, either.

Well maybe it's time to pull that trick again.

Rick Santorum is leading a Right Wing Charge... against birth control, womens' health,prenatal care, sex education.........and gosh... probably good old fashinioned fun filled licentious behavior.

What a idiot.  He is running for what?  President?  and he is pissing off 50% of the voters?

That's pretty Dumb.  Dumb is as dumb does.... and I for one, need no more dumb.

The planet adds about 80 million people each year.  EIGHTY MILLION.  But there is a shortage of clean water, land, fresh air.  Which we deplete each day.  Thirty some years ago the buzz was "Zero Population Growth.  The idea was have one.. or two kids... and NO MORE.  I have two great kids, a boy and a girl.  That was plenty.  After a duly judicious amount of procrastination..... I went in for a snip job.   End of story. (so what do those cats think of vasectomies, anyway.)    INFORMATION   .

SO, as I see it.... guys like Santorum and Evanjizzical Right wingers just don't get it.  When they attack women.... they are also attacking me.  From my right to get laid with a willing woman... my right to have a decent planet.  Screw them.  Figuratively.

Last night after watching a BUNCH of news about what is happening to Planned Parenthood funding....stupid shit congressional hearings... what is happening in Virginia EXCELLENT OPINION    WELL.... I got a little upset.  I posted this on a FB page.....

The radical conservative wing of the Republican Party has declared war on women's rights.....I stand with my sisters! It is time for men to Join the fight for women's rights. Gees...it's God's will....he told me so over coffee this morning.

 

... and I meant it.   And God did speak to me....just a poor humble atheist.  I figure, even if I don't believe in her... she can talk to whoever she wants to.... duh, she's God, right.

*and besides... football is another 6 months off and I hate NASCAR

 

It's Got To Be...YOU SEE... A Conspiracy....

I have hought about this a long time..... oh, at least twenty minutes or so... which is probably longer than Rick Santorum thinks before he opens his mouth.

from the San Francisco Chronicle...
(Santorum) sought over the weekend to explain his statement that Obama practices "a different theology" that is "not a theology based on the Bible."

... but when he was called on that statement, he rebutted himself...

"I was talking about the radical environmentalists," Santorum said. "That's why I was talking about energy. This idea that man is here to serve the earth, as opposed to husband its resources and being good stewards of the earth, and I think that is a phony ideal."

So WTF did he mean in the first place? No Radical environentalists in the bible, so Obama is a fake Christian??????

But, but, but HE CLARIFIES....

At another stop in Ohio on Saturday, Mr. Santorum waded into what he called the "phony theology" of Mr. Obama's agenda.
"It's about some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology," he said. "But no less a theology."
In later comments to reporters, Mr. Santorum said while there are "a lot of different stripes" of Christianity, he believes that "if the president says he's a Christian, he's a Christian."

WELL THAT REALLY STRAIGHTENS THAT OUT! 
On the campaign trail and on national television over the weekend, Santorum said he is the Republican best able to draw a clear contrast with the Democratic president.

Well, gosh....he sure is a clear contrast with the Democratic president, & a very clear contrast to about everything else, too, including moon cheese.

Rick believes in conspiracies.... see, Climate Change is 'not' real science... it is political science.


The Associated Press reports:

Rick Santorum says President Barack Obama is pushing a radical environmental agenda that unwisely limits energy production and turns its back on science.
Santorum told voters in eastern Ohio on Monday that science is on the side of those who want to aggressively produce more oil and natural gas in America. He said the notion of global warming is not climate science but “political science.”
Santorum said Obama and his allies want to frighten people about new oil-exploration technologies so they can get your dollars and turn it over to politicians to win elections “so they can control your lives”…

"so they can control your lives"


Well.... I believe that there is a vast conspiracy involving Americans for Posterity, the Koch Bros, the Republican Party, CPAN,Fox News...... and probably a vast many more... to foist off on America candidates that are so fucked up... so foul, so stupid, that come August in Tampa Bay, The Republicans will pull someone out of the hat... that no one has heard of, that will allow little time for vetting...that will seem sensible.  That the Conservative Right will embrace.  The modus operandi appears to create chaos..... and then prevail with artificially created common sense.  Seriously.  Think Grassy Knoll.

just a little Shel

“Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understood each word the caterpillar said,
Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings,
And shared a conversation with the housefly
in my bed.
Once I heard and answered all the questions
of the crickets,
And joined the crying of each falling dying
flake of snow,
Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . .
How did it go?
How did it go?”

BALLS !!!! It's Little Ricky!

"The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire."

"I love soup"

Amanda Jean

"Sorry. No soup for you."

"I love cookies"

Billy

"Drop that fucking cookie, Kid!  If it isn't for procreation, it ain't good"

"I love Jello"

Willy Jo

" I don't give a shit what Cosby says....you drop that goddam spoon right now!"

"We Love Pizza"

Kim, Akeesha, Sam and Emily

"Sorry.  If it is not for procreation, too fucking bad. No No No No!  Like that faggot Mick Jagger said, 'you can't always get what you want''

Santorum seems to know exactly how to regulate people.  That is not 'small government'.  It is not really conservatism... not Republican... not Libertarian.... it is just plain... nutty.

“This idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do…that is not how traditional conservatives view the world.”  Rick Santorum.

He wants, your cookies, soup, doughnuts, pizza..... and wants to regulate what you do in your bedroom.

But what if it was HIS nuts.... hmmmmmm

Oh Brother!

well, if you have seen one Republican debate, you've seen them all. And if you have seen them all.... you are a masochist. Or have a broken leg and a lost remote control..... or some such.  It is all vitriolic rhetoric.... and I try to pay it no mind.

So, anyways, I was looking at a small clip of one of them... I think it was in Iowa, whatever, but it reminded me of a photo my brother sent me....

I kinda liked the picture.  They are his chickens sitting out back by his pond.  He has raised free range chickens for years.  The eggs are good. He also grows his own apples and pears and kiwi, it is a good climate for fruit where he lives, in the far west corner of Washington State.  His wife is a field biologist for a Canadian/US fishery commission.  They home can their own tuna, salmon and halibut.  Make jams and jellies, press fruit juice. He has lived out there for almost 25 years... but it doesn't seem that long, or that faraway.  We talk weekly.  Sometimes more.  He has spent the last month recovering from ankle surgery so lately it is more. Growing quickly and playing basketball and football kind of screwed up his ankles.  But he was always my 'little brother'.

We shared a bedroom when we were kids.  He grew very rapidly.  Ended up 6'8".  Means I could not pick on him much. I remember being pissed off when Mom would try to get me to wear his hand me down clothes, they wouldn't fit and as I never got over 6',  it was kind of humiliating.

Uncle John

When he was living in Minneapolis.... he had some difficulties of the romance thingee.  My phone bill spiraled.  When he decided to move to Idaho, years ago, I rode west with him and his alcoholic parakeet.  Seriously.  The bird loved beer and tequila.  I remember having to push his pinto station wagon to the top of a pass in Montana.   When my son was six, and John was in Seattle, we toured the Olympic Peninsula and the San Juan Islands. Slept on top of mountains and beaches, sans tent.  Tents are for weaklings, he believed. He has a voice that rather rumbles up to you with the tenor of a dump truck spitting down a gravel road.  We called him Lurch because of that.  He taught me how to brew beer and learn what good beer really was.  He also made Mead and wine.... but his beer was the best.

He called me this morning.  Wished me a 'happy valentines day.'
He is that kind of guy.

I love him, too.