Season finale of Breaking Bad..

 

OMG!!!  I just saw the commercial for the season finale of Breaking Bad and I’m already excited I thought I was getting bored with the show but I guess I was wrong because my heart just started pounding.

I don’t remember the last time I got this excited about a tv show.  Hmmm, now that I’ve thought about it, the last show I got into was HBO’s Six Feet Under I didn’t miss one episode of  the last season and the final episode left me in tears infact I’m tearing up right now thinking about it. I really miss that show.

However, I think the writers of Breaking Bad deserve a round of applause for keeping the show’s characters and the dialogue so realistic. 

I can’t wait to see what they do in Season Three.

UPDATE: OMG!!!! OMG!!! WHAT AN ENDING! I’m not going to spoil the ending just in case a couple of you haven’t watched the episode but all I will say is you will be SHOCKED !

And after you’re done watching it/have watched it tell me if you think he crashed them on purpose? I think he did.. Q is sick bastard we Trekkies know that..lol

10 surprising facts about US Supreme Court Justices

 

So it’s Friday and we don’t really want to read anything heavy right?

Well here are some very cool and not so cool (I’ll let you decide which ones aren’t) facts about the guys and gals that have sat in those seats.

1. Robert H Jackson was US Attorney General and a Supreme Court Justice and he didn’t graduate from law school.

2. Justice Byron ‘Whizzer’ White was once the leading rusher in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Steelers and the Lions.

3. Justice Thurgood Marshall was a big fan of soap operas  (so was my dad..lol) and he loved to play poker. I wonder if he was any good?

4. Sandra Day O’Connor was the first female jurist on the Supreme Court we all knew that but did you know that she learned to drive by age seven, had a bob cat as a pet and learned to shoot a gun before she was eight? She’s also a fan of the Olive Garden.

5. Before Frank T Murphy became an Associate Justice his professional career included: First Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Eastern Michigan District (1920-23), Recorder’s Court Judge, Detroit (1923-30), Mayor of Detroit (1930–33), Governor-General of the Philippines (1933-35), U.S. High Commissioner of the Philippines (1935–36), Governor of Michigan (1937-39) and United States Attorney General (1939–40). My goodness what did this guy do in his spare time?

6. Justice Hugo Lafayette Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

7. Associate Justice Charles Evans Whittaker got admitted to law school without a high school diploma. He dropped out in the ninth grade to go hunting, trapping and farming! Hmm how does one go farming? lol

8. The second US Supreme Court Justice John Rutledge was the only Justice in American history to be forced out of office against his will.

9. Celebrated Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis belonged to a polo club but never played polo but he loved canoeing. And apparently he preferred to reorder his suits rather than go shopping for a new one. I think he’ll get the support of most men on that one. 

10. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg took her love for opera to the next level when she appeared as an extra in two Washington Opera productions once in full costume and once as herself.

Have a good weekend!

Rihanna is a good girl again…

Rihanna WILL testify against Chris Brown next month.

On June 22nd the Barbadian entertainer will face Chris Brown and his lawyers in a California court. 

The preliminary hearing is to determine if there is enough evidence for the felony assault case to go to trial. 

I’m glad that Rihanna has finally come to her senses and decided to testify against Brown because for a minute there it looked like she was planning to stay with that joker/woman beater Chris Brown!

Six things you should know about the US constitution

Without the Constitution America and it could be argued the world would be a significantly different place.

 So here are six facts you should know about one of the world’s most important ‘living’ documents.

1. Over one hundred nations have used the American Constitution as a model to create their own constitution.

2. You will never find the word ‘democracy’ in the Constitution. Interesting…

3. Treason is the only crime defined in the Constitution.

4. The 10 amendments known today as The Bill of Rights (whenever I read the Bill of Rights I get goose bumps..lol) were added three years after the ratification of the Constitution.  

5. Bucking convention Vermont ratified the Constitution on January 10, 1791, even though it hadn’t officially become a state.You gotta love Vermont.

6. During World War II the constitution was moved to Fort Knox.

Unseat Senator Roland Burris

We all understand why Senator Roland Burris (D-IL) hasn’t resigned but why haven’t the Democrats found a way to unseat him? 

Hopefully, with the release of the FBI wiretap tapes  Democrats, maybe even President Obama, can now persuade Burris to resign since we now have proof that he was involved if only on the margins in the effort by former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to sell Obama’s US Senate seat. 

Burris is an embarrassment not only to himself and the Democratic Party but he has become a recognizable stain on the United States Senate. The longer Burris remains seated the longer, we the public, have to endure the media’s coverage of this egomaniac and  his pathetic attempts to cover up his role in this deplorable scandal.

You gotta hand it to Blago he knew what he was doing when he appointed Roland Burris but in the end all parties got something from this Burris/Blago debacle. 

Blago got a really good laugh not the last, mind you, but he got a hearty chuckle.

Burris gets to engrave the title Senator on his tombstone and Hardball Award recipient. 

And the American people got yet another shocking glimpse at high-level public corruption. 

 But enough is enough.  Democrats. Republicans. Independents.  GET ROLAND BURRIS OUT OF THE SENATE!!!

Mike Tyson’s world falls apart at the loss of his daughter..

Mike Tyson’s four year old daughter Exodus died yesterday in Phoenix, Ariz. The little girl was found dangling from a treadmill’s cord at his Arizona home. She had been on life support for a few days.

In recent weeks Mike Tyson has been travelling around the country promoting his new documentary that chronicles his struggles with addiction and alcoholism and his road to redemption.

Tyson has been at the precipice of self destruction more times than we can count. We can only hope that this horrible, horrible tragedy doesn’t push him over the edge entirely.

 

5 interesting facts about the US Supreme Court

In celebration of Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, all this week, I’m going to write a post about the Supreme Court and the US constitution. Hopefully at the end of this week we’ll all be a little bit more knowledgeable about the highest court in the land and the American constitution. 

1.The president of the United States has the right to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court!  Yup!   And the last president to argue a case before the court was Richard Nixon..he lost! 

2. The US justices used to wear white wigs, similar to the ones worn by British justices, but during the first session of the court in 1790 William Cushing was the only justice to show up wearing the wig (I guess he thought it was cool..)  But his fashion faux pas didn’t go unnoticed.  And Thomas Jefferson eventually convinced Cushing to get rid of it declaring that the wigs made the judges ” look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.”  

3. The US Supreme Court has no specific size and the number of Justices on the Supreme Court has increased as the US has grown geographically and as  judicial circuits have increased.  

4. If  the 10 000 bill was still in circulation it would be called a Chasey (at least that’s what I would call it..lol) because Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase appeared on it.

5. The 27th President of the United States William Howard Taft also served as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. He was nominated by President Warren Harding after the death of Chief Justice Edward Douglass White.  Wouldn’t you just love to have those two jobs on your resume?

So it’s Sotomayor!!

By now you would undoubtedly have heard or read that President Obama nominated  U.S. Court of Appeals Judge  Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court.

Sotomayor is the first Hispanic to be nominated for the highest court in America.

I can’t wait for the confirmation hearings..’cause you know the Republicans are just itching for a fight? We’re already hearing claims that while Judge Sotomayor’s personal story is inspiring,  she’s really not that smart and of course the Republican cliché is being tossed around repeatedly..she’s an activist judge amazing! 

I wonder what other types of mud will be slung at Judge Sotomayor? 

Republicans have to be extremely careful in resorting to their traditional tactics  as the confirmation hearings progress.

Republicans have already alienated a significant portion of the Hispanic community with their immigration policies which are widely seen in the Hispanic communityas anti-Hispanic and if their questioning of Sotomayor is viewed as unfair or discriminatory Republicans run the risk of losing the Hispanic vote completely.

Well that didn’t take long Rush Limbaugh is now calling Sotomayor a racist!!!

Here we go…

The deepest wounds and scars of war..

” The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” General of the Army Douglas MacArthur

 

You gotta love Dick Cheney!!

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s rebuttal speech on national security at the American Enterprise Institute in one word-stupefying!!!

This man is defiant!

He refuses to accept the world has changed and that his world view is no longer acceptable or rational.

And he refuses to lay down his arms and he still has the energy to fight the old battles against the New York Times, the peace loving liberals and those sissy Europeans man..he just wouldn’t let go will he?

Unfortunately, I must say that Dick Cheney is the real leader of the GOP!  

Is this what Michael Steele meant when he said the GOP had ‘turned the corner’ and that they were done‘ looking in the rearview mirror’?

I don’t think they can do that with Dick Cheney clinging to their bumper..

Michelle Obama isn’t pretty and she’s really a man..

First Iman says Michelle Obama is  ‘no great beauty’ and now a comedian has declared, that our first lady is really a man.

This is going to be a tough week for Mrs.Obama.

Honestly, I don’t care what the comedian Jay Mohr has to say. It’s his job to be offensive.  He knows that the more offensive he is the more airplay he gets and by extension the bigger his salary becomes.

But the no great beauty comment by Iman, well, that kinda hit home.

And before you say, “She’s just voicing her opinion,” her observation of Michelle Obama goes a lot deeper than just a casual comment by a public figure about a major public official as one blogger asked does Michelle Obama make dark skin stylish?

Obviously Iman doesn’t think so and to a wide section of the public we dark skinned black woman still have a long way to go before we’re considered as beautiful as our lighter skinned sisters  black or white and that’s with or without the First Lady’s help. 

Iman does go on to say that Ms. Obama is, “So bright and interesting looking and in the end that will always take you farther.” However, I don’t understand what Iman means by interesting looking?

Interesting looking?

An axolotl is interesting looking but they aren’t too many people out there want to look like that. And I’m pretty sure Michelle Obama like most women, myself included, like to be complimented on our beauty as well as our intellect.

But I’m sure Iman’s comments wouldn’t be the first time Michelle Obama has heard or been told ’she’s no great beauty’ or ‘that she’s not pretty’ by a sista.

I can relate to that.

Like most dark skinned black women I too, grew up being told over and over again by my peers and in some cases by adults that I was ugly and when I wasn’t told that it was often decided that I would be really pretty if I weren’t so black. 

Great! I would be really pretty if I didn’t look like me! LOL

Anyway, for some girls that would’ve been enough to inflict lasting emotional damage but what hurt the most weren’t the jokes about my dark skin, I got used to those, it was the barage of comments I would always undoubtedly face from a schoolmate if my mom picked me up or visited me at school.

The next day I would be asked one or all of these questions, ”Are you sure that’s your mom?” or  “Are you adopted?” and the best of them all, ”Your mom is so pretty..how come you look like that?”

And for the rest of the day I would be left thinking that the words pretty and beautiful were reserved for those with lighter skin (my mom is birracial and my sister has lighter skin) than mine and that I would never be called beautiful by anyone outside my immediate family.

Inevitably those thoughts would pass until the next time my mom visited the school and then the process of self doubt and self-pity would start all over again.

Those comments have help to shape my world view but they also prepared me to face the cruelty and pain in the world with grace and dignity. And although I no longer face ridicule, I have never allowed myself to forget what it feels like to be on the opposite end of hateful comments and I credit those bullies and ignoramuses for heightening my ability to empathize not just with those of my race or in my community but with my fellow human being regardless of gender, race or complexion.

But they were days that I was afraid to go to school because I knew that most of my day would be spent in emotional turmoil. A teenager has more than enough to deal with and managing emotional conflict with her peers shouldn’t be one of them.  

Luckily my parents didn’t allow those comments to destroy my self esteem or my self worth and I thank them every day for molding me into the woman that I am. But many black women aren’t as lucky as I was and millions of them continue to be at war with their dark skin and seek to change their complexion  by any means necessary.

A simple Google search, dark skinned black women, provides valuable insight into this psychological dilemma that continues to plague the black community and the world in general when it comes to seeing beauty in the black race.

Even the term classic beauty when Googled produces not one black woman in fact none of the top 20 women in that search have dark skin!

While our concept of beauty continues to evolve be it very, very slowly sadly we have not reached the point where a tall, dark skinned black woman can be considered a classic or great beauty by the majority on this planet.

I wonder when, if ever, we’ll reach that point?

Is the GOP looking for President Reagan to save them?

 

According to Michael Steele, GOP Chairman, Republicans are done ‘looking in the rearview mirror’.

But in his speech yesterday all he did was look back.

From his comments about Reagan to the fact that he failed to offer no new policy positions on any current issue all Steele did was remind millions of Americans why they aren’t Republican anymore.

Steele tried his very best to convince us that there is a new GOP we just haven’t seen it yet, ” Our comeback is well underway out in the states, I can assure you of that..the folks inside the beltway don’t know it yet but those of you who toil in the vineyards, spending time in communities, in diners, barber shops, and coffee shops where real every day people can be found…you know it is real.”

Steele obviously sees things that we don’t.

It has become quite obvious that the only reason Michael Steele got the RNC Chair is because he’s a black guy. And unfortunately, many GOP leaders wrongly believe the only way to effectively criticize President Obama is to have another black guy do it. That’s the only conclusion I can come too because Michael Steele has nothing else going for him.

He can barely rally the GOP base. He doesn’t have the support of the GOP leadership (what leadership there is) and he’s an ineffective leader and communicator and his money raising skills are mediocre at best.

So why is he still there?

Could this be the reason why millions are abandoning the GOP?

The GOP seems to be perpetually stuck in the past on everything and instead of moving forward Republican leaders are constantly looking over their shoulders as if they are hoping President Regan will ride in on his white horse and save them from themselves and those bad Democrats!

The GOP must STOP LIVING in the past and STOP DIRECTING their message to those who want to return TO THE PAST because if they aren’t careful they will become a PARTY OF THE PAST!

But who am I to offer any advice? I’m just a no good liberal right? LOL

Why aren’t we closing Guantanamo Bay again?

From what I gather we’re not closing Guantanamo Bay because some members of the House and Senate don’t think we can safely house the prisoners here in the US and Obama hasn’t provided the Congress with a detailed plan on what he wants to do with the prisoners.

Ok..so if Obama does provide the plan, which is only fair, he’ll get Democratic support to shut down Gitmo right? 

Wrong!!!

Even if President Obama provides Congress with a plan there’s no guarantee that Guantanamo Bay will be closed because our leaders don’t want the responsiblity of housing convicted terrorists in their backyards.

And it isn’t just the Republicans who are saying no Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid has joined them as well. He states emphatically, ” We don’t want them them around,” and if Reid can’t be convinced to shut dowm Gitmo how can he be expected to rally other Senators behind Obama’s plans? 

Greaaaaaaaaaaaat..Obama just celebrated his first 100 days a few weeks ago and already Democrats are stabbing him in the back.

Let’s see how long we keep that Democratic majority if Obama is handed significant defeats like this over and over again? You can bet it wouldn’t be too long..

Pittsburgh Steelers James Harrison is an idiot!

Pittsburgh Steelers and MVP James Harrison will not be going to the White House on Thursday to meet President Obama because he believes that Obama wouldn’t have invited them if they hadn’t one the Super Bowl!!!!

This isn’t the first time he’s told the President to shove his invitation and honestly I would suggest that meeting the last President wasn’t that high on the list of many people either but come on dude,  if there was a year of the black man last year was it and you happen to be in the top three and you’re going to miss out on it because, ” This is how I feel, if you want to see the Pittsburgh Steelers, invite us when we don’t win the Super Bowl. As far as I’m concerned, he would’ve invited Arizona if they had won.”

Dude are you fuh real? 

You are giving up the opportunity to meet the most powerful man in the world, who just happens to be the first black president of the United States because you wouldn’t have been there if you hadn’t one a major American sporting event?

Harrison has definitely suffered too many blows to his head!

 

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking

 

Yesterday I went on one of  my Google adventures  and guess what/who I came across?

The Westboro Baptist Church!!  You know those people that pickets the funeral of veterans and high schools claiming that we’re being punished for tolerance?

Honestly, I don’t know how I ended up on their page but you know how one click, leads to another click and then another suddenly you’re on the website of a bunch of crazy, homophobic people who live in Kansas.

Some of the things these people say OMG!!

Well, anyway like all my Google adventures this one had a happy ending I found this great site Phelps-a-thon.com that uses the protests of  Fred Phelps  (he’s the founder of the Church) and his band of crazies to raise funds for the local gay/straight alliance or LGBT community centers where Phelps and his haters (and they really are haters) are holding their protest

Isn’t that awesome? Not an original concept I know using hate to spread love but it’s still wicked!! And the best part is after the protest they send Phelps a thank you card telling him how much money he helped them raise! DOUBLE WICKED!!!!

At phelps-a-thon.com you can see where the haters are going to be next and send the counter protesters a few dollars of encouragement. Phelps and his haters will be protesting on May 22nd at Key West High School, Key West Florida from 3:45 PM to 4:15 PM and if you can and only if you can donate a little something to the local Gay Straight Alliance of Key West, Florida.

We want that frown on Phelps’ face to reach the floor after he reads that thank you card..LOL

Rihanna, Lady GaGa new song ’silly boy’ is a fake..

You may have heard that Rihanna and Lady Gaga had teamed up to do a new track about Chris Brown.

Well it turns out the song, titled, “Silly Boy” which first surfaced on Kanye West’s blog is a fake and Rihanna’s rep confirmed it when speaking to Us magazine said  ” This isn’t them..total fake track.” 

I think the public wants Rihanna to speak out so badly against Chris Brown that they keep clutching at straws hoping that she has I’m not going to lie I hope she does soon as well. 

Pelosi isn’t the only one telling tall tales, they’re all lying

After admitting that she knew the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was torturing detainees from as early as 2003 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has effectively said that for three years (Democrats retook Congress in 2006) she stood quietly and allowed others to break our laws and international treaties.

Pelosi has even asserted that she and other members of congress were lied too by the CIA about the types of techniques being used on detainees.

I didn’t believe Bush and Cheney then, I don’t believe Speaker Pelosi and the CIA now. 

They were all telling lies.

And I think one of the reasons those briefings are as vague as they are, in part,  is to protect the politicians.

These agencies expect politicians to protect their interests first and a combination of  fuzzy memories and ambiguous documents give them the cover to do that. 

We’ve seen it play out before a member of congress is being pressured for information on a controversial topic or issue she/he fingers or blames some governmental agency, opposition members pressure the agency, in this case it’s CIA, in order to clear their name the CIA waves their records  (the intelligence briefings) around asserting, “Of course the member knew what we were doing. Look it says so right here!”

In effect it forces the issue to a stalemate and who are we to believe in a situation like that?

A member of congress trying to cover her assets or a political agency seeking support for its past illegal actions? Hmm..it’s a tough one isn’t it?

I do think the Speaker of the House has given the Republicans the opening they were looking for. Her rambling press conference yesterday, the constant changing of her stories and her tacit support for their actions by her inaction, will allow Republicans to exploit the situation and damage her reputation.

Pelosi should’ve known and expected that the use of these enhanced interrogation techniques was going to comeback to haunt her and if she truly believed that what the Bush administration was doing was wrong and illegal she should have been more vigorous in her disapproval and more importantly have a record of her actions. And if she really wanted to make a stand against them she should’ve resigned and then speak out.

She wasn’t powerless and to suggest that she was Pelosi does herself and the United States Congress the biggest disservice.

Eliot Spitzer wants us to forgive, forget and move on..

 

 Eliot Spitzer wants back in. He wants back in baaaaaad.

The ex governor of New York is slowly creeping back into public life. He denies it up and down but all you have to do is watch his interview on The Rachel Maddow’s show earlier this week and you can see the eagerness all over his face.

He’s done several interviews in the past few weeks from cable news to news blogs he’s clearly testing the waters of public opinion to see if we’ve forgiven him for his indiscretion and private failings and if we’re willing to listen to him again.

Spitzer knows we’re angry as hell, at corporations, banks and Wall Street and as one of only a handful of men to have taken them on successfully  his opinion and insight on financial regulation and averting future financial diasasters is invaluable.

The financial crisis has created an opening for Spitzer and at first glance it appears that there will be no more wondering in the political wilderness for the disgraced attorney but before Spitzer leaps head first back into the public’s arms he should make sure that we are indeed willing to give him a second chance.

In a recent poll New Yorkers said they prefer Eliot Spitzer to current Governor David Pattersen but that doesn’t mean they want him back as Governor!  What this really says is that Patterson is doing a really, really bad job!

At best Spitzer’s record as governor receives a question mark because who knows what could’ve been? A 14 month term is not enough time to render judgment.

However, should Eliot Spitzer decide to seek public office again he has to accept that his wife and his daughters will be reliving his disgrace and humiliation alongside him. 

He has to accept that no question will be out of bounds and that  “No comment,” or “I’m not answering that,” will not be tolerated. Reporters and journalists will demand access to him at all times and full disclosure on every issue for obvious reasons. And on the campaign trail the mudslinging would be at unprecedented levels and the public probably will have no sympathy. 

The road back to the top will be extremely, extremely difficult but it can be done indeed it has been done. And if the public has forgiven him and more importantly wants him back Spitzer is well on his way back to the top of New York politics.

I don’t know if I can ever separate his private shortcomings from his well-intentioned, results driven crusades on behalf of the public interest and the fact that he is so talented and does brings so much to the public square does cause me to stop and think twice.

But Spitzer prosecuted men who were Johns and he even sought and signed stiff laws against the sex trade while spending over $80 000 on prostitutes. 

In my book that makes him a hypocrite. Listen to him yes, vote for him probably not.

Four year old girl raped and abducted in Jamaica!!!

 

 

A four year old girl was raped and abducted by a 53 year old man in St.Ann’s Jamaica on Friday. The Gleaner newspaper reported that the little girl was found wondering the streets naked after she was abducted from the home of a family friend.

A man is currently in police custody as the little girl recovers in the hospital from bruises and cuts she received in the assault.

You know, sometimes when I read stories like these it makes me glad that I don’t have kids because I honestly don’t know what I would do if that little girl was my daughter.

Swine flu goes waaaay back it was even around in the 80s..

You thought swine flu was a recent thing didn’t you?

Well, I did. Until last night. 

While watching a particularly sad episode of Cheers (it’s an 80s sitcom) one of the characters mentions the words swine flu (she mentions it at 2:38) to disparage the main character.

Imagine my shock and surprise when I found out that swine flu was flying around the world even back than?  I was left wondering however why they weren’t calling the virus by it’s ‘ proper name’  H1N1 (honestly, don’t those letters remind you of a formula for a mineral or something?) ?

The Centers for Disease Control and the US Department of Agriculture are unaware of this episode existence they must be?  Because if they had they certainly would have asked for that part to be dubbed over with the correct term for the virus…I can just see H1N1 rolling off Diane’s tongue just as easily as swine flu can’t you? LOL 

Heavy metal and politics unite for one night in Tempe, AZ

Alice Cooper and President Obama will both be attending Arizona State University’s commencement ceremony to be held tomorrow at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. Cooper will perform and Obama is delivering the commencement address.

ASU and Arizona officials are expecting 71, 000 people to attend ASU’s five hour long graduation ceremony some in the Arizona press have even begun to call the event ’a spectacle’ . Hmm if John Mccain was president and he was giving the commencement address would the event still be called a spectacle? 

Alice Cooper and the President of the United States on the same stage..I wonder if Obama will be able to resist the temptation to hold Cooper’s snake? I just couldn’t resist sorry..lol

So Rihanna has nude photos too, honestly, who doesn’t?

I’ve reached the point where I’m honestly expecting to wake up one morning to a banner headline on Google or a blog somewhere that shouts LOOK NOW!! RECENTLY RELEASED NUDE PHOTOS OF THE GOLDEN GIRLS!

I think having nude photos has actually become a prerequisite since it appears all stars even the D-list, unattractive ones have nude photos of themselves!

Rihanna is now the most recent member of that club.

Chris Brown says he didn’t leak the naughty photos of Rihanna well then if he didn’t, who did?  The drama surrounding Rihanna continues…

Edwards’ staff were planning to sabotage his campaign if he won..

It seems John Edwards was screwed from the beginning as he was out screwing around!!!!

Even his own staff didn’t want anything to do with him after they confirmed for themselves that he was having an affair. And according to George Stephanopoulos his own staff were planning on sabotaging him if he’d won the nomination!!!

Can you believe that? Talk about being stabbed in the back..

But seriously if you think about the situation it’s entirely in the relm of possibility especially in the world of politics-which is notorious for being a dog, eat dog kinda world.

But what I can never understand is why do their wives stay? And no I don’t believe the reasons Elizabeth Edwards gave to Matt Lauer this morning, ‘ because I believed he cared about other people’ and ‘because I really believe in the words better or worse’  blah, blah blah etc etc.

Gimme a break Elizabeth, you’re a smart woman, but that statement is almost, almost,  as unbelievable as the response your husband gave during one of the presidential debates, ” If there’s one flaw I have it’s that I care too much…” remember that one? 

From Elizabeth Edwards, to Hillary Clinton to Silda Spitzer these high profile women were embarassed and disrespcted publicly by their powerful, philandering husbands yet they all stayed and continue to stay with a man that seemingly cares very little about them or their marriage vows.

I think the real reason these smart, beautiful, accomplished women stay with their cheating husbands is because of the status, fame etc etc they gain/have gained by being the wives of these politically, powerful men.

Because as we all know trust can only be broken oh so many times before it’s gone completely and if there’s no trust in a marriage there can be no meaningful marriage or relationship. Period.

Ladies, I guess one of the only benefits of being the wife of a poor man is that when he cheats on you you get the satisfaction of telling (yelling most likely..lol) him to,  ” Pack his bags and get to hell out!” LOL

Miss California organizers want Carrie Prejean gone..

*****CARRIE PREJEAN GETS TO KEEPS HER CROWN!*****

This is ridiculous..

A few minutes ago the organizers of the Miss California contest in more than a few words said that Miss California is outta there!!!

And you know why they’re not happy with Ms. Prejean? 

 BECAUSE MISS CALIFORNIA HAD THE GUTS TO VOICE  her opinions.  Not because of some semi ‘nude’ photos that violated her contract and yet they have the audacity to claim they empower young women!

What bs and remember, I’m a liberal and an ardent supporter of gay marriage yet I disagree wholeheartedly with what’s being done to this woman. She has the right to her opinion even if she’s wearing the Miss California crown.

Just one more person has to weigh in on Carrie’s fate and make it official-Donald Trump.

Trekkies, live long and prosper…

STAR TREK RULES!!!

Rihanna’s got a new man

Rihanna may finally have dissed the punk Chris Brown.

THANK GOD!!!!

According to media reports  Rihanna is seeing her ex boyfriend another Bajan national Neagus Sealy whose arms she’s apparently run too after all the BS she’s suffered at the hands of Chris Brown. I’m sure his support, compassion and Barbadian sunshine are doing wonders for the lass.

However, Rihanna really should take things very, very slowly and if I were her there would be three things on my to do list right now. 1) I would start seeing a therapist, 2) concentrate on rebuilding and rebranding my public image and 3) find a domestic violence shelter/charity to volunteer with and you know having a good man by your side through all this doesn’t hurt either. I  hope she’s finally find a good one.

Leave Miss California’s breasts out of it!

 

 

Every single word Carrie Prejean, the reigning Miss California, has uttered about gay marriage I disagree with.

I think Prejean is on the wrong side of the issue and that her idea of  ‘protecting marriage’ from gay men and women is laughable BUT Prejean does have a right to her opinion as wrong and discriminatory as it maybe just as we the masses have a right to reject that opinion the first chance we get and in the near future America WILL reject her prejudice overwhelmingly.

However, the fact that Prejean is being attacked and dissed for her breast implants by commentators and news anchors is unacceptable. 

Last night Keith Olbermann and Michael Musto blasted Ms.Prejean but they seemingly forgot that Prejean is only using the platform she has been given to advance her belief in the validity and morality on an issue and her career.  Olbermann does it every night and politicians and celebrities do it everyday Prejean is only following their lead.

Who cares about her breast implants and who paid for them? What does that have to do with her opinion on gay marriage? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

And if pageant officials released the breast implant information to embarass and force Prejean off the national stage I’m not convinced it’s going to work she’s handled the questions  about her implants extremely well so far and support for her should the personal attacks continue will only grow.

Prejean’s views on marriage represent a significant portion of the American electorate and although I’m pretty certain we wouldn’t convince many on the religious right to support our views on specific cultural issues, like gay marriage, to demonize the opposition or resort to name calling or taunts simply because we don’t like their stance on the issue only deepens the divide (and is hypocritical) and does nothing to get us closer to full equality for gays.

So criticize Prejean’s views all you want but leave her breasts out of it.