Mine, too.

I'm a 1953 baby. Hope she's the first of MANY more with that mindset.

GREAT post!

Pretty well sums up how I'm feeling this morning.

Don't care. I just want it to work. Sausage-making and all that.

UTTERLY!!!! Mighty proud of her! She just gets better and better.

And her voice is louder and louder, and more and more powerful and compelling.

She's inviting people to think differently about where our country's headed - rather than following along with the fucking reaganthink of "trickle-down" and "millionaires on parade" and bettering the haves and have-mores on the false and misleading PRESUMPTION that you'll somehow get a piece of that if you Just Keep On Voting republi-CON and Keep On Believing the fairy tale.

Our country has to snap out of that. And we've had this constant drumbeat of corporatism that's been force-fed to us and slipped into our morning coffee and our drive-thru McDonalds and our Cialis ads and Ryan Seacrest and the E channel. The CONS made selfishness respectable, starting with ronald reagan - the very most dangerous and damaging individual who ever set foot on a national political stage. The CONS sought to raise IGMFU (I Got Mine, F-U) to the sacramental level. They wanted to turn America away from the idea of the greater good for all rather than the good of a selfish few. The needs of the many, outweighing the needs of the few, or the one. The idea of the collective, the community, and the benefiting of same - just went out with the garbage on trash day during the reagan era. That's what it was all about. Changing the public mind - AWAY from the New Deal, the Great Society, the war on poverty, the sense of team, the sense of a more perfect union. And TOWARD the "you're on your own," IGMFU, ayn rand me-first-and-screw-you (or at best, me-first-and-maybe-we'll-get-around-to-you-later).

Hopefully Elizabeth Warren's arrival on the national scene will start changing that. Because we NEED that pendulum to swing back, and swing back DECISIVELY. And she's quite correct (as usual) - it is a profoundly uphill battle. But it's a battle we HAVE TO fight.

NO. And hopefully we've found a way out.

It's almost embarrassing to read - the torment this little girl endured!

Shit.

What pure courage and class and nobility. Just a child and she had to deal with all of that dreadful shit. Those people who ostracized her and tormented her and threatened her - I hope whoever they are, wherever they are, they're hanging their heads in shame before God.

This kitteh lover has to give it to the sofa dog this time.

I have a couple of dog-lover friends who are about to get that one in their email!

Well, then let THEM suit up and go to war.

OMG!!!!!

TOO funny!!!

This one's a keeper!

And YES. We all love Betty White! She's one thing upon which we can all easily agree.

Indeed. And john fund??????

Uh-huh.

Look who's supporting this. As soon as bill kristol opens his yap, my ears close, my feet turn toward the exit door, and my middle finger starts standing up straight and tall. When THAT particular PNAC armchair asshole decides to man up, suit up, and go personally to face full-on combat and put his comfy, coddled ass on the line in harm's way and fight in the wars he wants so desperately badly. When he does that, instead of sitting at home in his comfy chair and air conditioning and those nice high-tech TV talk show sets and getting his nice makeup done and collecting his nice speaking wrong-wing special-celebrity-guest speaking fees and the adulation as a "lion of the so-called right wing," then I just might listen to him occasionally.

My condolences. It really is losing a loved one.

Mine's sitting here at my feet. I just hosed her down outside and dried her off to cool her during this horribly hot day. She seems more comfortable already.

I don't know how we function without them.