She writes stacks and stacks of letters!
I hope the Letterman reference amused the old-school late-nighters among you. Anyway!
I think the Patriot Act is sort of lame and while well intentioned, really poorly executed. So now that it’s up for renewal (a process not without contention, I might add), there’s some discussion in Congress and because [...]
It hasn’t been today all that long, but it is September Eleventh or Nine/Eleven or Nine One One or whatever it is you wish to call it. Some have referred to it as Patriot Day. This really REALLY bothers me. I’ve been thinking about it off and on since last weekend when I turned a [...]
Honestly. If you haven’t heard yet, the guy running things here in the States just gave a speech on health care insurance reform. He used this opportunity (addressing a joint session of Congress) to clear up some misunderstandings and outright lies that have been told about what sorts of things he wants passed as part [...]
I filled this in at the Media Matters website. They are a media watchdog organization. I like them because they are equal opportunity: They call shenanigans when there are shenanigans, whether it’s a left winger or right winger, and I like that. One of their current actions is trying to keep CNN’s Lou Dobbs from [...]
OK, here I go with more politics. Just so you’re warned.
Also: If you’re here to validate your own health care reform opinions or you just want to tear me down for mine, I’m sorry, that’s not gonna happen.
I do believe the cost of health care is out of control, and whether there’s a public plan [...]
…so here’s the letter I wrote to all the members of Portland’s City Council who voted unanimously to rename SE 39th Ave to Cesar Chavez Blvd.
Commissioners:
I am disappointed you did not take the wishes of the residents of 39th Avenue into account when you voted yes. Why not a compromise on a new building someplace? [...]
(Just to catch you up in case you aren’t up to speed: Banks in the US did some REALLY appallingly boneheaded things and directly contributed to the current WORLDWIDE economic goings-on. Those banks were giving some REALLY appallingly vast amounts of money by the US Government. Said banks then continued to operate in much the [...]
I’m a bit late to this but I want to preserve it. Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson gave the following invocation at an inaugural event. You can also see video of him delivering the prayer. I just want to preserve it because when I think about religion and all those years of church and classes and [...]
I have a LOT to say on this subject. I didn’t until I read the whole thing. I don’t feel like commenting over there for a number of reasons so I am posting this brain vomit here:
* Why does Amy Ruiz have ANYTHING to do with this? Is WW having a sour grapes moment because [...]
I am signed up for MegaVote which tells me about what all Congress is up to and how my representatives there voted and so on. It’s very informative. They also have links for telling your reps what you think, so I hit the one to tell mine that I am against the auto bailout (I [...]
So you may remember that at one point I was quoted as saying some unkind things about Southeast 82nd. And no, I still won’t call it the other thing. Well there’s another round of 82nd angst going around right now, because of the No-Hooker-Zone and it being allowed to expire and all this nonsense.
Oh you [...]
Since I know posts fall off Craigslist after awhile, I wanted to preserve this before it was gone forever.
Ten Reasons Gays Shouldn’t Marry
10. Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control.
9. Heterosexual marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are property, blacks can’t marry whites, and [...]
I have to say a bunch of things on my mind right now. So here they are:
* This does not mean we are not a racist country. This does not mean there are not more people who will take a shot (literally) at him. People who are Americans.
* This does not mean we are finished. [...]
I live in Oregon (in case you weren’t sure). Here we are in the midst of our SUPER FANTASTIC vote by mail process, and it is so the nicest thing. I remember waiting patiently at the Grange Hall for my mom to vote, and really I like this idea better. Or at least I did [...]
In my last post I briefly mentioned at the bottom that John McCain can’t send an email. Since his campaign does not deny it, I am going to presume it true.
You know what really grinds my gears? (Or as The Ambassador would prefer me to call it, You Wanna Know Why? I’ll TELL You Why!) [...]
(Or: The Day Banana Lee Stayed Home and Accidentally Watched Hardball.)
At the very end of Hardball today with these two particular guests on (whose names escape me at the moment) Chris Matthews asked, “You know, every candidate for President in our lifetime has had a very succinct message if he won the Presidency: ‘Get this [...]
Once again, nobody asked ME if it was a good idea. If anyone had bothered to say “Hey there Banana Lee, you come from a place with colorful language. You can still say ‘lipstick on a pig’, right?”
Because, you see, if they had, I could have said “Oh, no no no. Don’t do it. You [...]
Cliff Richard, who’s been making music for FIFTY years, is coming out with a book and a box set. I like some of his songs, and happened across an article talking about his book and how he refers to his “companion”. I presume they mean partner or boyfriend or husband or something like that, it [...]
…I do not think it means what you think it means.
I’m referring to the word “support” and how the wave of “do as I say not as I do” in the current administration is leading me to believe they either have no idea what the word means or they have such contempt for ‘Mercans they [...]
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