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Ann Coulter on O’Reilly: Tiller Murder a ‘Termination’ — Politics Daily
Here’s a little preview of the venomous one’s spew:
"I don’t really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester."
When pressed by O’Reilly on this statement, Coulter replied,
"I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don’t want to impose my moral values on others."
Buzz Aldrin Opens Up About Alcoholism
Who knew?
“After retiring from NASA and the Air Force, the longtime military man found himself adrift with no structure in his life. Rather than feeling liberated, Aldrin was tormented by loneliness and uncertainty.
"I realized that I was experiencing the ‘melancholy of things done.’ I had done all that I had ever set out to do," he explains in the new book.
The old fighter pilot was trapped in a death spiral of mental illness and addiction.
"I moved from drinking to depression to heavier drinking to deeper depression," he writes. "I recognized the pattern, but I continually sabotaged my own efforts to do anything about it."”
Recently I’ve had some conversations with female friends about body image and dieting. The common theme seems to be that “diet” really IS a bad word and that societal expectations of women’s bodies are still way off the mark in terms of reality and health.
I really like this post from Margaret Cho (who I happen to really did, anyway. If anyone can introduce me to her, please do.) I especially like the idea of throwing away food – if you only want a bite, just have a bite. There is so much guilt attached to food and eating, and in so many ways: First for wanting to eat, then for the actual eating; if you don’t clean your plate, guilt! If you do clean your plate, guilt!
Here is Margaret’s post about the “Fuck It’ diet, from http://www.margaretcho.com/blog/2003/11/06/the-fuck-it-diet/
I have lost some weight which has set off a strange wave of paranoia among people that I have either had my stomach stapled or shut off with a rubber band, or am on some freaky raw food diet or whatever.
What happened was that I was fucking sick and tired of dieting and working out. I fucking was sick and tired of buying clothes that were too small for me so I could ‘thin into them.’ I was fucking sick and tired of eating 5 to 7 small meals a day. I was sick and tired of no carbs. I was fucking sick and tired of thinking about food and not thinking about food. I was fucking sick and tired of my trainer and any type of exercise. I went to a nutritionist and I lost a lot - of money. I never left his office without dropping at least a grand on bullshit. Shakes, pills, supplements, food substitutes, exercise programs. I said “FUCKING FUCK THIS FUCK IT FUCK IT SERIOUSLY FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK IT FUCK FUCK FUCK IT!!!!”
I stopped going to Fred Segal and getting the one thing in the whole store that fit me. I started buying clothes that fucking fit me, like now. I put away all notions of what diets meant to me, what I was supposed to eat and not supposed to eat. I altogether lost the thought process that carried me through my life - my dieting and exercise regimen - and started thinking about the people I loved, hated, tolerated, laughed at, laughed with. There was a lot of time to read. I wanted to watch old movies. I ate a lot of shitty food. I gained some weight and it was scary. But it didn’t really make a difference. Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. I stopped exercising, and started writing. I played with my dogs. I looked at shit on Ebay. I started to eat what I wanted - and kept doing it. Not a food vacation - not a respite between diets. I just was going to eat eat eat eat eat eat and fucking eat some more.
Then, I kind of started to get weirdly thinner. I get it now. Because I don’t care about food, it is there when I want it, I don’t crave it and want it and think about it. Since I can have everything, nothing is that important. I don’t need to eat a whole cake because I can eat a whole cake every day every meal if I want and I don’t care. I don’t prepare to eat because I might be hungry later and ‘they’ won’t have what I have to eat. When I am hungry, I eat. You know, that is what the weird diet is.
Here is what I usually eat every day. In the morning I have a bowl of cereal with two kinds mixed, granola and LIFE. If I am in a hotel, I have granola and yogurt, croissants, one chocolate and one regular and then a big cranberry juice. I drink a lot of water, and a lot of lemonade, regular COKE - no diet anything ever. After that, I usually eat a peanut butter cup or something like that. Then I get to work, which is writing usually, recording sometimes, interviews, etc.. I get hungry later around early afternoon, and so I eat what I think is a good thing at the moment, which could be mac and cheese, or pizza. I eat as much as I want, but it is usually too rich to eat all of it and since I am not dieting and I don’t need to cram the forbidden food in before the diet starts up again, I eat as much as I feel good eating and leave the rest. I leave a lot on the plate because I need not clean my plate. Why? I don’t have to. And the value of not having to finish all my food, probably has been the biggest contributor to my healing around food. I used to feel like I needed to eat all of it, all and then some, but actually, it doesn’t feel good to do that. It doesn’t taste good. I can have more when I am hungry again. I eat dinner late, usually with friends. I like appetizers. I will order 3-4 types, so I can have a variety of edible treats, instead of an entrée. If I order entrees, it would be more than one, because I deserve to eat what I like. I never eat leftovers. I never take anything home. I never eat anything that doesn’t taste heavenly. I never eat when I am not hungry. I never let myself get too hungry. I never deny myself a fucking thing because I have denied myself enough for 1000 lifetimes and there is no more denial for me in the way that I live. I deserve all the mozzarella sticks, all the fucking chocolate, all the fucking pizza, all the chicken a’la king, and I deserve to leave what I don’t finish on the plate.
So there you go. Big secret diet. Love. Love and the audacity to actually waste food.
Cheney: No link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11 - CNN.com
Anyone who knows me knows that this headline made me laugh. The kind of laughter that is a cover-up for tears…
I’m disgusted.
Here’s a peek at the story, from CNN Politics.com:
“WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning or execution of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says Saddam Hussein "provided sanctuary … and resources to terrorists."
He strongly defended the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq, however, arguing that Hussein’s previous support for known terrorists was a serious danger after 9/11.”
George Tiller Killed: Abortion Doctor Shot At Church
Follow the link for a bunch of updates, including a suspect being caught.
“WICHITA, Kansas — Dr. George Tiller, a Kansas doctor whose clinic received national attention for performing late-term abortions, was shot to death as he entered his Wichita church on Sunday.
"Members of the congregation who were inside the sanctuary at the time of the shooting were being kept inside the church by police," the Wichita Eagle reported, "and those arriving were being ushered into the parking lot."
Media reports said the suspected killer fled the scene in a blue Taurus. Police described him as a white male in his 50s or 60s.
Tiller has been among the few U.S. physicians performing late-term abortion, making him a favored target of anti-abortion protesters. He testified that he and his family have suffered years of harassment and threats. His clinic was the site of the 1991 "Summer of Mercy" protests marked by mass demonstrations and arrests. His clinic was bombed in 1985, and an abortion opponent shot him in both arms in 1993.
Tiller’s clinic also provided group and individual counseling, as well as chaplain and funeral services for people who were grieving.
The anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, which runs a "Tiller Watch" feature on its website, released a statement condemning the shooting. "We are shocked at this morning’s disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down. Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means, and through the proper channels to see him brought to justice. We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning. We pray for Mr. Tiller’s family that they will find comfort and healing that can only be found in Jesus Christ."
Tiller remained prominent in the news in recent years, in part because of an investigation begun by former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, an abortion opponent.”
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Phil Spector found guilty of 2nd-degree murder - omg! news on Yahoo!
Holy crap! Phil Spector could get 18 years in the pokey!
Back when he was the MAN…
EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Jameson Gives Birth to Twin Boys! - omg! news on Yahoo!
Okay, yeah, yeah, whatEVer, Jenna Jamison had a baby. Two babies. What really caught my eye about this story is the following:
“Being able to give birth to two healthy babies is joyful for Jameson, a self-proclaimed devout Catholic.”
and
“ “It was all in God’s plan,” she told Us two years ago.”
and
“Will the [sic] she and Ortiz, 34, get married now that they have children?
“Jameson — who split from adult film studio owner Jay Grdina in 2006 and from porn star Brad Armstrong in 2001 — said they have no plans to walk down the aisle.
“I think I’m gonna stay unmarried and just go for the babies!” she told Us. “I’m following in Angelina’s footsteps!”
Okay, so here it is:
Devout Catholic. Porn star.
Porn star. Devout Catholic.
“One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn’t belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
“Did you guess which thing was not like the others?
Did you guess which thing just doesn’t belong?
If you guessed this one is not like the others,
Then you’re absolutely…right!”
The word is SANDWICH, people, SANDWICH.
Please please PLEASE.
It seems that my post about the racial slur “cartoon” in the NY Post a few weeks back has been misunderstood.
Those who know me well know that I have long been involved in fighting for the rights of others, and that such ugliness as “Obamonkey” would not be MY own words, or reflect any thoughts I would have.
(Hey, I’m the person who burst into tears when she got home on election night, turned on the TV, and thought that McPalin was going to win!)
Anyway, I’m writing this post from work in response to a note from a new friend who doesn’t yet know me well enough to know that I’d not say something racist and hateful like that. (Never intentionally, anyway - I’m always willing to be wrong, and hope to always have the humility to be able to “stand corrected.”)
As I recall, I originally was going to post something about Obama’s address, and in so doing, came across a bunch of hateful posts (somewhere on Yahoo!, forget where, but it’s in a post below this one) where I saw the use of that word (”Obamonkey”). I’d not heard or seen it previously, but it provided the dots necessary to comprehend that afore-mentioned ‘cartoon.” (Also below, I believe.)
When that cartoon first hit the news, I couldn’t comprehend it. Well, yes, it seemed obvious that the monkey represented President Obama, but I didn’t get WHY. Yes, of course, there have been the crude references of African Americans and apes - simply unconscionable. But it seemed like such a stretch to me, even for the NY Post. (Foolish me, I know.)
So then I came across that word and the lightbulbs went off like a freakin’ Broadway sign. The monkey-”Obamonkey” connection had been made.
I dislike it just as much now as I did then, and I don’t much like typing that word - so I won’t again, at least not in this post. If it becomes necessary again in the future, so be it.
Now, then, I urge you to march your asses over to the Southern Poverty Law Center and make a donation. Tell Morris Dees I sent you.
Yours,
FW
