On Cartoons

"If you can't be funny, be interesting." - Harold Ross

One thing that gets annoying about changing your phone number is having to change the tags on your pet. Koki, Mia and Max all have name tags with my phone number on them in case somehow they happened to get out and were found. It feels like I'm always headed down to the pet store to get them new ones when I get a new number. It does give me peace of mind though, and I guess that is more important.

I missed work on Thursday. It was some well needed rest. While I was home, I caught this note that my niece wrote on what my mom would call, her space.

Dear God,
Why did you have to take her so soon?I had not even entered middle school.Who is going to be there to help mepick out my dance dresses? Who is going to help give me advise about boys?Lord I really miss her:[ I want to be with her.I know you do things for a reason, but I can't accept that she is no longer with me.I feel like those moments we spent together, never happened :[ Can you pleasehelp me accept she is no longer here?
I hope you guys love your mom each and everyday! Mom's are so special.
Thanks for thosewho read this! It means alot
<3> Love, Bekka

Rachel Maddow Tops “Short List” For Own MSNBC Show : I watched her on Countdown while Keith was out and I was sad that she was gone...and that is my favorite show. She is great.

A New Yorker Cover For National Review: Andrew Sullivan pulls this editorial cartoon from David Horsey, and asks, "How would the Republican base react to this?"

I'm a bit tired of the issue to discuss it right now, so I'll let you read up on it and decide for yourself. Is it ironic, satirical and funny if most people are too ignorant to get it?

Jon Stewart put it best I think when he said, "Obama’s camp initially agreed that the cartoon was “tasteless and offensive”. Really? You know what your response should have been…let me put this statement out for you. Barack Obama is in no way upset about the cartoon that depicts him as a Muslim extremist because you know who gets upset about cartoons? Muslim extremists, of which Barack Obama is not. It’s just a f%#!-ing cartoon! But as always, no where was the anger at the media hotter, than in the media. "

I'm not a chatty mood today. Cynthia's birthday is on July 19th, and my sister Eliza's birthday is on July 21st. You should wish them a happy birthday.

Here is some news for my lady friends.

In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman’s access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth control 40% of Americans use, as abortion. Doing so protects extremists under the Weldon and Church amendments. Those laws prohibit federal grant recipients from requiring employees to help provide or refer for abortion services…read on

Elizabeth Dole Proposing Naming AIDS Bill After Jesse Helms

Why is this so unbelievably wrong on so many levels? Because of what Jesse Helms said about AIDS:
Joe Jervis of Joe.My.God says it all: Jesse Helms, the man who in 1987 described AIDS prevention literature as “so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up.”
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1988 vigorously opposed the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS research bill, saying, “There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.”
Jesse Helms, the man who in 1995 said (in opposition to refunding the Ryan White Act) that the government should spend less on people with AIDS because they got sick due to their “deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct.”

I'm on a news roll, I think this is a good video to end of on. Daily Show: Bush vs. Bernanke on the Economy

so far so good