Thank you so much for the bequeathment check from Grandmother Turner. I do so truly appreciate it. I plan on spending the money on christal methanphetamines and homosexual pornography (the really weird stuff). If I find I have anything left over, I might consider an endowment to legalizing marijuana or to the NAACP. I just can't decide. Any suggestions?
Well, that was my original response. Then I got to thinking.
You know, if Bill Turner was in charge of executing a will (and not just the Execution of our hopes and dreams) and his mother wanted $500.00 to go to the "kids", even if she didn't have it/never had it, he would have found a way to grant that empty request. Regardless of any hardship it would cause him or his family. He kindof passed that on to me too. Could his own annoying brother be that much different? Am I actually feeling sentimental towards that side of the family? I don't like this feeling.
Don't get me wrong. I have no hesitation cashing the check. I just feel like I should spend the money on something Dad would have approved of. Bus fare perhaps?
Regardless, the check goes in the bank tomorrow. Just who should I call to spend it? A drug dealer or the Department of Transportation?
Sometimes blogging hurts.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Even powerful without audio.
A LETTER TO OUR PRESIDENT
By Harvey Fierstein
To be read at the DEFYING INEQUALITY benefit on Monday, February 23, 2009.
Dear President Obama.
While fighting for the abolition of slavery, one politician qualified his stance, “I have never been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.”
That politician was Abraham Lincoln. Obviously time and experience brought Mr Lincoln to what would have been called the extremist view; that freedom cannot be compromised just to appease the majority.
And so he made a grander gesture reminding us of “…a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”. Passing a law would change the course of slavery, but those words changed the course of the history.
Mr Obama, I have heard you speak eloquently in favor of inclusion for gays and lesbians. But then you sternly state your opposition to marriage rights. It leaves me wondering if you are straining to be politic or, if like Lincoln, your views still need maturing.
Days after your historic election an aide of yours told me that you plan to do away with the military’s DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL. I applaud the gesture. But don’t kid yourself. Redefining that policy will do little to end discrimination against us.
With or without the Pentagon’s permission gays and lesbians have been serving in the military since the birth of this nation.
We may have served in silence.
We may have fought in secret.
But a complete ban of gays did not stop us from fighting and dying for our country.
Abolishing DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL won’t bring us into the military or end discrimination against us.
Legalizing gay adoption won’t end discrimination against our children in the playground.
Even legalizing gay marriage won’t bring about the whole cloth change our nation needs.
When you, leader of the free world, accept, tolerate and even invite bigots into your fold changing a policy is not enough.
In any case, we don’t need you to fight our small battles for us.
We will eventually win these on our own. Property matters, adoption rights, and even gay marriage will be won in courts of law as they are now being won in courts of public opinion.
Given time, our constitution, and the American values of fair play and justice, will prevail. We will win equal rights.
But what only you can give us is the grand gesture.
Mr President, we need you to be more than another reasonable voice.
We need you to raise yourself up out of the mire of majority opinion.
We need you to rise above the daily politics of compromise.
We need you to mount that bully pulpit our blood, sweat and tears have erected, and speak to the greater ideal.
America needs to hear you say, “We will no longer tolerate the oppression of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles. They are our family. They are we and we are they.”
The nation needs to hear you say, “We must prove ourselves worthy of the title Americans; protectors of the weak, standard bearers of freedom, and guarantors of equal rights for all.”
Mr President, history will record the day you say, “From this day forward no amendment, statute or law that seeks to deny full rights of citizenship on the basis of sexual preference will be tolerated. Hatred and bigotry are here forth banished to the dark recesses of small minds.
Let the Pledge of Allegiance light our way to tomorrow as “…one nation, indivisible, with freedom and justice for all.’”
That, dear son of Lincoln, is the grand gesture we need from you.
We need a hero, and you have been elected.
Sincerely,
Harvey Fierstein
By Harvey Fierstein
To be read at the DEFYING INEQUALITY benefit on Monday, February 23, 2009.
Dear President Obama.
While fighting for the abolition of slavery, one politician qualified his stance, “I have never been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.”
That politician was Abraham Lincoln. Obviously time and experience brought Mr Lincoln to what would have been called the extremist view; that freedom cannot be compromised just to appease the majority.
And so he made a grander gesture reminding us of “…a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”. Passing a law would change the course of slavery, but those words changed the course of the history.
Mr Obama, I have heard you speak eloquently in favor of inclusion for gays and lesbians. But then you sternly state your opposition to marriage rights. It leaves me wondering if you are straining to be politic or, if like Lincoln, your views still need maturing.
Days after your historic election an aide of yours told me that you plan to do away with the military’s DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL. I applaud the gesture. But don’t kid yourself. Redefining that policy will do little to end discrimination against us.
With or without the Pentagon’s permission gays and lesbians have been serving in the military since the birth of this nation.
We may have served in silence.
We may have fought in secret.
But a complete ban of gays did not stop us from fighting and dying for our country.
Abolishing DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL won’t bring us into the military or end discrimination against us.
Legalizing gay adoption won’t end discrimination against our children in the playground.
Even legalizing gay marriage won’t bring about the whole cloth change our nation needs.
When you, leader of the free world, accept, tolerate and even invite bigots into your fold changing a policy is not enough.
In any case, we don’t need you to fight our small battles for us.
We will eventually win these on our own. Property matters, adoption rights, and even gay marriage will be won in courts of law as they are now being won in courts of public opinion.
Given time, our constitution, and the American values of fair play and justice, will prevail. We will win equal rights.
But what only you can give us is the grand gesture.
Mr President, we need you to be more than another reasonable voice.
We need you to raise yourself up out of the mire of majority opinion.
We need you to rise above the daily politics of compromise.
We need you to mount that bully pulpit our blood, sweat and tears have erected, and speak to the greater ideal.
America needs to hear you say, “We will no longer tolerate the oppression of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles. They are our family. They are we and we are they.”
The nation needs to hear you say, “We must prove ourselves worthy of the title Americans; protectors of the weak, standard bearers of freedom, and guarantors of equal rights for all.”
Mr President, history will record the day you say, “From this day forward no amendment, statute or law that seeks to deny full rights of citizenship on the basis of sexual preference will be tolerated. Hatred and bigotry are here forth banished to the dark recesses of small minds.
Let the Pledge of Allegiance light our way to tomorrow as “…one nation, indivisible, with freedom and justice for all.’”
That, dear son of Lincoln, is the grand gesture we need from you.
We need a hero, and you have been elected.
Sincerely,
Harvey Fierstein
Monday, February 23, 2009
I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet. Then I just laughed at the funny looking man with no feet!
A Secret Service agent maintains a checkpoint into the neighborhood of former president George W. Bush's new residence in Dallas Friday.
Benjamin Franklin told me at a three day orgy one time:
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"
Wouldn't it be great if that was actually a law? Imagine, if you will, Bush and Cheney without Secret Service security. Now, I'm not advocating violence (necessarily). I'm just thinking about all the shoes that could be collected for charity. One at a time.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Oh, Buttars. You're getting yourself deep in a hole all over again!
"Threat to going down" "Everybody goes nuts" and "Buggers" Just what exactly is the sub-text here? Senator, just who are you trying to finger here? Your statements certainly are hard to swallow. Now, I hate to go off half-cocked on this, but this slip of the tounge really chafes my ass. My firm, high and hairy man-ass. Um, weiner.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
"She's gonna get her ass whipped"
You can not imagine the joy this causes me. You just can't imagine...
Singer disses Obama, Beyonce
Posted: 06:27 PM ET
Beyonce and James together at the Cadillac Records premiere.
(CNN) — The entertainment world may be in a swoon over Barack Obama, but one legendary soul singer is fuming at the new president and the pop star who serenaded the first couple on inauguration night.
Etta James, famous for her rendition of the song “At Last,” is apparently miffed that pop star Beyonce was tapped to perform the ballad as the president and first lady slow-danced during the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball on January 20.
“You guys know your president, right?” the singer asked an audience in Canada last week, according to audio posted on TMZ.com. “You know the one with big ears? Yeah, wait a minute. He ain’t my president.”
She then went after Beyonce: “That woman singing for him, singing my song? She’s gonna get her ass whipped.”
James added that she “can’t stand Beyonce” and that the starlet “has no business up there singing, singing up there on a big old President day, singing my song that I been singing forever.”
But is James flip-flopping on Beyonce? She did not raise an objection when the singer portrayed her in the film “Cadillac Records” — and just recently, James’s son told a New York paper that his mother was moved by the inauguration night performance.
Filed under: Beyonce • Etta James • President Obama
Singer disses Obama, Beyonce
Posted: 06:27 PM ET
Beyonce and James together at the Cadillac Records premiere.
(CNN) — The entertainment world may be in a swoon over Barack Obama, but one legendary soul singer is fuming at the new president and the pop star who serenaded the first couple on inauguration night.
Etta James, famous for her rendition of the song “At Last,” is apparently miffed that pop star Beyonce was tapped to perform the ballad as the president and first lady slow-danced during the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball on January 20.
“You guys know your president, right?” the singer asked an audience in Canada last week, according to audio posted on TMZ.com. “You know the one with big ears? Yeah, wait a minute. He ain’t my president.”
She then went after Beyonce: “That woman singing for him, singing my song? She’s gonna get her ass whipped.”
James added that she “can’t stand Beyonce” and that the starlet “has no business up there singing, singing up there on a big old President day, singing my song that I been singing forever.”
But is James flip-flopping on Beyonce? She did not raise an objection when the singer portrayed her in the film “Cadillac Records” — and just recently, James’s son told a New York paper that his mother was moved by the inauguration night performance.
Filed under: Beyonce • Etta James • President Obama
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
"It was like having a tooth pulled"
From CNN.com
Surgeons remove healthy kidney through donor's vagina
CNN) -- In what is being heralded as a "first-ever procedure," surgeons removed a healthy kidney through a donor's vagina, the Johns Hopkins Medical Center has announced.
Jennifer Gilbert, center, received a kidney from Kimberly Johnson, at right in green.
Although the procedure has been previously done to extract cancerous and nonfunctioning kidneys that threatened a patient's health, the January 29 surgery was the first time it was done for donation purposes, the center said in a news release issued Monday.
"The kidney was successfully removed and transplanted into the donor's niece, and both patients are doing fine," Dr. Robert Montgomery, chief of transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins, said in the release.
The surgery is considered less invasive and could pave the way for an increase in organ donations, it added.
"Removing the kidney through a natural opening should hasten the patient's recovery and provide a better cosmetic result," Montgomery said.
He told CNN on Tuesday, "We want to make it easier for people to donate, to have less impact on their lives, [be] in hospital a shorter amount of time and get back to their lives quicker."
The woman was chosen to be the first donor to undergo the procedure because a previous hysterectomy enabled doctors to operate without a uterus obstructing their efforts, he added.
The three-hour procedure typically allows the donor to return home within 24 hours.
The more traditional surgery requires a 5- to 6-inch incision through the abdominal wall and generally is followed by two or three days of hospitalization.
"If you asked our patient, she said it was like getting a tooth removed. She was walking that night and left the next day," Montgomery said.
The procedure is done by inserting "wand-like cameras and tools" through small incisions in the abdomen and navel.
Doctors then insert a hollow tube through the vagina with a bag at the end.
Once the kidney is cut loose, surgeons use video from the cameras to guide them as they maneuver the bag around the organ, place it in the tube and pull it out through the vaginal opening, Montgomery said.
A kidney weighs approximately one pound and is roughly the size of a clenched hand.
In an effort to ensure a more sterile procedure, the vagina is treated with Betadine, a sterilizing solvent commonly applied during surgery.
But some physicians wonder how clean the procedure can actually be.
"It's good to take such [sterilization] measures," said Dr. Jihad Kaouk, director of laparoscopic and robotic surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. "But the tube touched the vagina. And the bag touched the tube. And the bag touched the kidney"
He added, "delivering a kidney from the vagina, which is not sterile -- is it a potential risk or a real risk? We'll find out now."
Kaouk also expressed concern over the quality of the kidney once it has been squeezed into a tube.
"The concept of minimizing incisions and decreasing pain after surgery is always a good idea, but we should always check at what price," he said
Surgeons remove healthy kidney through donor's vagina
CNN) -- In what is being heralded as a "first-ever procedure," surgeons removed a healthy kidney through a donor's vagina, the Johns Hopkins Medical Center has announced.
Jennifer Gilbert, center, received a kidney from Kimberly Johnson, at right in green.
Although the procedure has been previously done to extract cancerous and nonfunctioning kidneys that threatened a patient's health, the January 29 surgery was the first time it was done for donation purposes, the center said in a news release issued Monday.
"The kidney was successfully removed and transplanted into the donor's niece, and both patients are doing fine," Dr. Robert Montgomery, chief of transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins, said in the release.
The surgery is considered less invasive and could pave the way for an increase in organ donations, it added.
"Removing the kidney through a natural opening should hasten the patient's recovery and provide a better cosmetic result," Montgomery said.
He told CNN on Tuesday, "We want to make it easier for people to donate, to have less impact on their lives, [be] in hospital a shorter amount of time and get back to their lives quicker."
The woman was chosen to be the first donor to undergo the procedure because a previous hysterectomy enabled doctors to operate without a uterus obstructing their efforts, he added.
The three-hour procedure typically allows the donor to return home within 24 hours.
The more traditional surgery requires a 5- to 6-inch incision through the abdominal wall and generally is followed by two or three days of hospitalization.
"If you asked our patient, she said it was like getting a tooth removed. She was walking that night and left the next day," Montgomery said.
The procedure is done by inserting "wand-like cameras and tools" through small incisions in the abdomen and navel.
Doctors then insert a hollow tube through the vagina with a bag at the end.
Once the kidney is cut loose, surgeons use video from the cameras to guide them as they maneuver the bag around the organ, place it in the tube and pull it out through the vaginal opening, Montgomery said.
A kidney weighs approximately one pound and is roughly the size of a clenched hand.
In an effort to ensure a more sterile procedure, the vagina is treated with Betadine, a sterilizing solvent commonly applied during surgery.
But some physicians wonder how clean the procedure can actually be.
"It's good to take such [sterilization] measures," said Dr. Jihad Kaouk, director of laparoscopic and robotic surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. "But the tube touched the vagina. And the bag touched the tube. And the bag touched the kidney"
He added, "delivering a kidney from the vagina, which is not sterile -- is it a potential risk or a real risk? We'll find out now."
Kaouk also expressed concern over the quality of the kidney once it has been squeezed into a tube.
"The concept of minimizing incisions and decreasing pain after surgery is always a good idea, but we should always check at what price," he said
It might be like having a tooth pulled. THROUGH YOUR VAGINA!!!!!
I promise, I will never ask any of you to do this for me. And I don't think I would want it if you did. And I promise, with God as my witness, you will never get anything from my vagina!
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