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The Daily F Bomb, Tuesday 1/29

Happy Tuesday, Troopers!  Just another day in the neighborhood, with Alabama congresscritters proposing bills that would basically make government illegal, NRA jerks heckling the father of one of the Newtown victims, the Boy Scouts maybe allowing gays, immigration reform becoming a bit more possible… Oh, and I say Lincoln is better than Silver Linings Playbook, Les Miz, or Argo (of all the whatchamacallit nominees I’ve seen so far).

My nosiness remains boundless: What is your favorite music to clean house to? Nuts and chews or soft centers (candy, you fool)? Is cooked fruit OK? Are sweet ingredients (like fruit) OK in savory dishes? When you were little did you prefer to play indoors or outdoors? How about now?

Excerpts from the Twitter Stream of (un)Consciousness:

This still hasn’t been resolved as of my bedtime: What does Rep. Jack Kimble (Imaginary R, CA) want with Daily KOS?:

A burning local Los Angeles issue that I am completely on board with:

2012 – A Year of Photos

As some of you know, I am a photographer. As iriti found herself getting more and more fit through the winter of 2011-12, we decided we were going to do lots of hiking in 2012. As is my habit, I took my camera along for the ride sometimes. You will now be the benificiaries/victims of our wandering.

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question for this wonderful community

So, I am one of the recent moose to have migrated in the past few weeks from that other site.  (I peeked in today and man am I glad I am gone).  I have found this place to be wonderful change full of encouraging and inspirational people.  Great writing is always inspirational.  Well, I am no great writer but I would like to get more involved here.

The Daily F Bomb, Monday 1/28

Monday, Monday… much more like the Mamas and Papas than the Bangles. No matter how much coffee I pound down, I cannot be manic on Mondays. Not that my Monday experience matches this one…

Now, tell me… What is your favorite day of the week? Do you have it embroidered on your underwear? What is your favorite song to dance to, the one you can’t sit still when you hear it? What is the first record or CD you bought with your own money for yourself? What is the last music you bought?

Now let us partake of the tawdriness that is Twitter:

Now, sit down and pay attention to your history lesson!

Freedom of Speech? Only if you're a religious nutcase apparently

apparently, to the very religious, freedom of speech works, but only in one direction.  They have the right to speechify to YOU, you do NOT have the right to reply.    this has become a fundamental problem in the dialogue between the fundamentalist religionists and those of us who are free from religion.

The Daily F Bomb, Sunday 1/27

Good morning, Effers! I trust you have a pleasant Sunday planned.

Today is National Chocolate cake day, so if you please, describe your favorite chocolate cake. What is your favorite breakup song? What is the best vacation you ever had in your life? The worst? Should cornbread be sweet?

Now let us muddy our feet in the Twitter Stream. Forgive Bloombito, he’s making fun of Bloomberg’s mangled Spanish, not the language itself:

Now for some Sunday School:

The Daily F Bomb, Saturday 1/26

Salutary Saturday, everyone. I am tempted to sleep in. May I, please?

But first I have questions.  If money was no object, where would you retire to? What’s the best side dish found in the deli? What is your favorite commercial (of all time)? What is your least favorite/stupidest/most annoying commercial of all time? What is the best love song?

Today’s Twitter Stream:

Now let’s have some history:

DC Circuit Court of Appeals overturns Brown v. Board of Education!

In a decision that was both wide-ranging and as intensly partisan and activist as Bush v. Gore, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals today delivered an opinion which, in effect, overturns the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that segregated schools are “inherently unequal”.

 

 OK, I admit it. My first paragraph (and my title) are pure hyperbole. And quasi-snark. But, in many ways, it is true. And, an indication of just how much the decision in Canning v. NLRB (PDF)reflects both judicial activism and partisanship of the worst kind. Follow me below the squiggle as we go down the rabbit hole on this one.

The Daily F Bomb, Friday 1/25

F-ing Friday, finally!  Fancy that!

There is always talk about comfort food, that food we grew up on that takes us back to a time when we felt happy and secure and loved. I hope it does not make you uncomfortable for me to ask these. Of course I will start with the food. What is your absolute favorite comfort food? What song or album takes you back to those times when you hear it, that it could be called Comfort Music? What book is your Comfort Book? This one is not necessarily relating to the past: What would your perfect Comfort Room be? A space that would suit you entirely, that you could share or not share as you please?

Was that too serious? One more: Places that have great burgers but no fries. Deal breaker or not?

Now let us go wading in the Twitter Stream:

Now open your history books to page 3,458. There will be a test afterward.

I'm Baaaaaaack!!!

So it appears that it has been awhile since I graced the welcoming confines of the Motley Moose. Almost a year to be exact, amazing how time flies when you are out trying to win an election 🙂

So in that year what has happened? Well OFA sucked up an awful lot of time until late spring ’12 and then I just needed a break and took the summer off.  Did a lot of bike riding, went over to Maine and did the Lobster Ride and Roll.

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Went from that to the operating table to get my rotator cuff repaired. Which pretty much destroyed the rest of my summer 🙂 Don’t ask how I tore my cuff it is too embarrassing.

As soon as Fall rolled around and I could drive a stick again I was back volunteering with OFA, pounding the phones and knocking on doors.

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