Vicente Guerrero, Afro-Indio 2nd president of Mexico, who abolished slavery in 1829
Once again, the month of February is here, marked as Black History Month on calendars in the United States and Canada (October in Great Britan).
Schools, community groups and bloggers will focus attention on the historical contributions of blacks to our culture. When I was growing up it was called “Negro History Week.”
A friend of mine is preparing to retire for the second or third (or fourth) time, and I want to get him just the right gift. He is a highly educated person (Harvard, no less), older (70’s) and a modest, yet sophisticated, person.
Good morning, all! It’s Sunday, the day before Monday, the last chance to sleep late before the work week begins anew.
Today’s nosy questions: Who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl? What is the absolute worst household chore? Do you do windows? If so, will you come here and do mine? Who is the most famous person you ever met? (Let’s exclude political figures, that would make it way too easy for this crowd.) Photography: What’s your preference, color or black and white?
Twittermania
The inventor of the Etch a Sketch died today. His will was unreadable.
— Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) February 2, 2013
To get into Tea Party Community, you must submit a 140-character essay on why you love freedom. If it’s spelled correctly, you’re rejected.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 2, 2013
Big Oil companies made over $100B in profits in 2012, but we should keep sending them cash, say Republicans who voted against Sandy relief
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) February 3, 2013
#InTheEvidenceBasedWorld women are people, corporations aren’t people, & guns kill people.
— Eric Wolfson (@ericwolfson) February 3, 2013
At times I feel I am having problems with my short-term memory. At times I feel I am having problems with my short-term memory.
— carl reiner (@carlreiner) February 3, 2013
President Obama is the only black man in America to have to prove that he DID fire a weapon.
— phive (@phive0phor) February 3, 2013
There’s still time to ask your hooker for Ayn Rand birthday special – you do all the work and just enjoy people knowing it.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) February 3, 2013
40% of guns are sold in private sales with almost no documentation, but people want a verified slide show for POTUS skeet shooting?
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) February 3, 2013
GOP: “Our ideas aren’t the problem. Our messaging is the problem. We must find a way to make sure our messaging doesn’t mention our ideas”
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) February 3, 2013
The only way to stay off the NRA enemies list is to be an actual spree killer.
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) February 3, 2013
Hello all. I wanted to introduce myself, and let you know that I want to play. I write as rb137 at Daily Kos, and want a place where the diaries move a little more slowly and have a longer lifetime.
I am making some big personal changes, and as such I don’t have a lot of time for blogging lately. I miss it. I’ve been totally unable to devote the time it takes to participate as a regular community member. At DK, a dairy posts, and the threads are dead in a few hours. I might not get to that post until the next day. I find myself going to threads less and less often, and if it isn’t on the front page, I almost don’t have time to see it anymore.
Happy Groundhog Day! I almost wrote that as “ground hog” day, but that would be sausage. Actually, I guess it may yet be ground hog day, since I have some maple pork sausage in the freezer.
So, what are you having for breakfast today? How do you take your coffee? Have I asked that before? At what age did you finally grow up? What is the next thing you are really looking forward to? What’s your favorite dance? (I understand kirbybruno is partial to the Bunny Hop. I have video.) If you read comics as a kid, what was your favorite?
Ring ring ring ring Twitterphone
Not the first or last time I will quote plf:
A conservative is someone who wants to make it harder for people to love each other and easier for them to kill each other.
— Peter Flom (@peterflom) February 1, 2013
Democracy isn’t supposed to work by handicapping an agency whose mission you disagree with by refusing to approve anyone to lead it.
— Jason Febery (@JasonFebery) February 1, 2013
If I ever hear you say something is “impactful” you know what’s going to be impactful is this desk lamp on the bridge of your nose.
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) February 1, 2013
I really am trying to cut the spaces between sentences from two to one. But I’m a trained lawyer. Lawyers are all about the two spaces. #two
— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) February 1, 2013
Sad that Barney Bush died before he received his birthright of an NBC news dog affairs correspondent gig.
— Chris (@chriscesq) February 1, 2013
RIP Barney Bush. They say he died of lymphoma, but we all know it was from depression after Obama won a 2nd term.#BarneyTruther
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 1, 2013
Even if the GOP obeyed Jindal and stopped being the stupid party, it would still be the mean greedy ugly old bastard party.
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 2, 2013
Happy Friday! Don’t forget to tip your server without leaving snide notes!
Questions, I has them: What was your least favorite subject in school? Do you still hate it? Do you have any phobias? What are you allergic to? Are there any public figures that you might as well be allergic to? What present day fashion can you NOT get on board with?
Row, row, row your boat gently down the Twitter stream…
@scalzi “If only I could spread cookie on my cookie!” was the thought that led to an instance of infinite recursion which ended the galaxy.
— William Dass (@WBDass) January 31, 2013
If AR-15 is the weapon of choice for moms with crying babies then is a rocket launcher for lonely people that have cats?
— John Conner (@MotorCityLib) January 31, 2013
I quote @elonjames when I say, Lindsey Graham’s voice sounds like a ‘whites only’ drinking fountain. #p2 #TFY #ABLC
— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) January 31, 2013
More Americans being shot full of “Freedom Holes” yet again today. Thanks #NRA!
— Lalo Alcaraz (@laloalcaraz) January 31, 2013
If we don’t have gun laws because criminals will get weapons anyway, why do we have drug laws? #GunsKillPeople
— Alex Rubin (@MisterRubin) February 1, 2013
America. Where they’re more likely to come for your birth control than your guns.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 1, 2013
Chicken stove top stuffing and a liter of scotch covers all four food groups, right? If not, I can smoke a cigar for extra nutrition.
— John Cole (@Johngcole) February 1, 2013
I do appreciate that John McCain is engaged in a nearly never-ending campaign to remind us why we’re glad he is isn’t president.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 1, 2013
Unfortunately we learned more about warmongers John McCain, Jim Inhofe & Ted Cruz in today’s hearings than we did about Chuck Hagel
— Howie Klein (@downwithtyranny) February 1, 2013
Thursday already! Good morning, everyone! It’s National Popcorn Day, where is the Republican entertainment?
Today’s questions are: What is your favorite National Park? You don’t need to have been there, just want to go there, or simply love the idea of it. What is your favorite State Park? What is your favorite City park? Stealing a bit from Inside the Actor’s Studio, what is your least favorite word? What is your favorite word? What do you think is the most misused word today? What is your Pet Punctuation Peeve?
Selections From the Twitter Menu
I blame Manti Te’o less for thinking Lennay Kekua was real than the Yankees for thinking A-Rod was.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) January 30, 2013
Thanks to Wayne LaPierre, I now understand how laws against bad guys with cocaine ruined it for us good guys with cocaine.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 31, 2013
Some people trust teens with a gun, but not with contraception. They call themselves “pro-life”
— DC Debbie (@DCdebbie) January 31, 2013
Marlowe got excited and chased the cat. Instead of “NO CAT” which is the command she knows, “I shouted DON’T BE A DICK!” It didn’t work.
— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) January 31, 2013
Gabby Giffords has more brains than all those GOP asshats who were never shot in the head.
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) January 31, 2013
I know I’m going to hate myself for saying this, but I hope Cheney lives long enough to go duck hunting with Scalia again.
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) January 31, 2013
The Boy Scouts may leave decision to be homophobic up to local troop, just as the Catholic Church may leave pedophilia up to local parish.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) January 31, 2013
Just wanted to post a single diary to keep everyone updated on some community members from GOS, since there’s such a high crossover.
First – commonmass has a new diary about GMB02:
Update on GMB02’s Health Crisis – Hope and Change
They are working to wean him off of the ventilator using what is essentially a high-powered version of the CPAP people with sleep apnea use. In order to do that, they have had to “wake him up” from the deep sedation he was under. He knows me, and our priest, and his family, and he also knows he’s still intubated–which is not pretty to watch. However, they do have to “wake him up” to do this and there is hope that they can get him to an assisted rather than dependent breathing full-time in the next couple of days. His dialysis is less constant and his kidney and liver function is steadily improving. There is some (very common in ICU’s) staph pneumonia related to his intubation which is responding to treatment and his blood infection responded to treatment. He’s going to be in the hospital for a while, and his organs are beginning to function, but he’s not out of the woods.
Definitely better than we thought the situation was last week, but still a long road at this point.
Second, Teacherken’s wife, Leaves on the Current, is also in the hospital with a mass on her spine. His latest diary is here:
Just found out they have ordered another MRI, this time of her entire thoracic spine – I think just to be sure they have all the info and to verify the location and size of the mass on her back.
They’re waiting on biopsy results at this point and his wife has been fitted with a back brace (they were worried about the mass damaging her spine).
And third, I posted about LoreleiHI last night, who posted a plea to help her get away from her spouse, who is currently in jail for domestic violence:
From one of her comments, it appears she found someone she could stay with:
In good news, a Kos lurker who’s local contacted me, so there might be a solution in the works. I’m crossing my fingers.
Happy Wednesday, friends! January is almost over. As I asked a friend yesterday, do you have your Christmas shopping done yet? It will be here before you know it!
I have questions: What is the most difficult dish you ever made (successfully)? As kids many of us were stubborn and very closed minded about things. Food is one. I hated everything except Macaroni and cheese, but once I was out on my own, I learned to love all kinds of food. What foods did you hate as a child that you have grown to love today? How about music? Teenagers can be awfully contemptuous about what Mom and Dad like to listen to. What music did you not like as a kid that you have grown to appreciate, if not love, today? What is your thermostat set at? What was your favorite childhood toy? Do you still have it?
From my Tweetfile to yours:
I feel sorry for people who don’t have dogs.I hear they have to pick up food they drop on the floor.
— A Guy Named Kelly (@kellysdf) January 19, 2013
What wld America b w/out immigrants? I’d ask the natives but we killed most of them.
— Tina (@trcfwtt) January 29, 2013
Some folks don’t give a fuck where they drop an f-bomb.
— socratic (@socratic) January 30, 2013
“Buzzfeed: Ten numbers before the number eleven that you HAVE to know”
— Steve Murray (@NPsteve) January 30, 2013
We talk abt border sec like it’s been exercising since 07 and now it’s buff. Not so. It’s been on steroids & now it’s ragey and musclebound.
— Dara (@DLind) January 30, 2013
LeBron is too lovable to hate anymore and Palin is too irrelevant to annoy. I’m one great Nickelback song away from being totally lost.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) January 30, 2013
Paul Ryan is 43 today, but says “I’d be only 38 if it weren’t for Obama’s policies that are ruining this country.”
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) January 30, 2013
REMINDER: The only people coming for your guns are your kids. Lock them up.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 30, 2013
Any Meeses from Maine? LoreleiHI over at GOS has a diary up urgently needing help:
From her diary:
Those of you who know me or follow me know that I haven’t been active on Daily Kos for about a month now. That has not been completely voluntary. My spouse decided to give in to self-medicating her PTSD with alcohol… and it has been a bad month.
Two nights ago she was arrested for domestic violence.
She is looking for a place to stay out of an abusive situation that will take her & her service dog. It kills me that I’m too far away to help other than posting her plea over here.