Forgive me, but it had to come out of my head.  A cleansing of sorts…

While hitting my Google Feeds this morning I hit BMEWS to see what Drew was talking about this morning and found this entry. I have been pondering how to address this whole issue without sounding like a hysteric with too much coffee in her system so I decided after reading his entry that I need to just do it. So here it goes…

Barry O’s speech accomplished a few things this week and his comments since have brought to light a few more attitudes he seems to harbor. Whether he was addressing race to cover his ass about Jerry “Goddamn America” Wright, which is what any thinking person in this country believes, or if he was just moving up the date on a speech he had planned to deliver about race in this country, one thing is certain… he succeeded in stirring up a racial shit storm.

Yes, his approval ratings have suffered as a result of the eloquent but shameless rationalizing of his relationship with Rev. Wright. That said, Obama did manage to take the attention away from his startling ineptitude when it comes to the war in Iraq and national security in general. Is it a good trade off? Time will tell, but for the moment the country is talking about race.

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It is glorious in San Antonio today.  It has been so for a few days.  Spring is here or Summer Light as we like to call it.  The sun is shining and it is shaping up to be another mild and sunny day.  I have been putting off taking care of the last bit of settling in after my move and today I have to do it.  So i am going to assemble the last of the girl’s new beds so they are no longer sleeping on a mattress on the floor like some sort of savages.

It is Easter Egg night.  Woo woo.  Gotta dye them babies so they can hide and hunt them tomorrow after church.  The plan is to make egg salad as soon as they leave to visit their Dad in the afternoon.  I loves me some egg salad.

I decided a few years ago Easter had to be an easier holiday for me.  I do not cook a huge meal and usually I do not have extended family and friends here on this holiday.  I got a boneless ham to bake and some fingerling potatoes to bake with all sorts of good buttery seasoning.  I haven’t decided on the token veggie though I do have the stuff to make the cucumber and sour cream salad of Kat’s that I love so much.

The trick to Easter is to hide all the candy the kids get at the first opportunity.  Hide it from them, but more importantly hide it from yours truly.  There is a perfect confection in this world and it is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Egg.  Oh how I love the creamy salty goodness that melts in my mouth.  Every year I say I am not going to buy them and every year I manage to buy them.  They are the heroin of candy.  The only thing in the same ballpark are those Ferrer Roche thingies, not the gold foil ones, but the silver ones.  They are some sort of toasted coconut decadence and you can only buy them in a box with the others.  They are little nuggets of heaven.

Well the purpose of this entry was not so much to keep you all on the edge of your seats as to the details of my day as much as to give me yet another opportunity to stall about said tasks.    I cannot stall any longer.  I shall return.  If I am not back by this afternoon, call the president.

The twenty-five most emasculated, disempowered, henpecked husbands on the planet:

Ever since our prehistoric ancestors first crawled out of the ocean, took a deep breath of air, and uttered that familiar phrase “Sure, we can go to the Container Store on Saturday,” certain men have buckled under female domination.

Well, I for one cannot have a relationship with a man who is overly beta. I know it might surprise most you to find out I am somewhat aggressive and a tad outspoke. I know, I know… I come off so fucking demure. I have dated great guys who were just way to passive for me.

A few ways to tell if your man is whipped: (more…)

Stalker, neurotic, and now apparently occupying two separate realities. One where saying things like God Damn America, U. S. KKK A, professing the CIA invented AIDS to kill black folks, and saying the thousands of people killed on 9/11 were just getting what they deserved for being Americans. Then the one where a woman not all that long ago revered by her party merely points out if Obama was a white man he wouldn’t be where his is. Truth, but according to Olby, equivalent to a lynching.

What a fucking idiot.

via: Olbermann Watch

Canadian Sensitive Military Plans Found in Trash Can: My first thought was: Canada has a military? No fucking way?

Reports that these 26 Department of National Defense blueprints “show everything from the location of the security fence at CFB Trenton to the floor plan of the new home for the Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit,” an elite group that would respond to terrorist attacks or WMD-related incidents.

“The plans also show the electrical grid scheme for the unit’s computers and details about sewer systems, areas for workshops, sea container loading docks, and offices for the unit’s various troops,” The Ottawa Citizen reports. “There is also a blueprint for the storage bay for the unit’s robots, which are designed to detect chemical and biological agents.”

Stockwell Day, the public safety minister, tells reporters that the discovery of these documents is a “huge concern to me.”

Stockwelll expressed his concerns and informed reporters that as soon as he was finished with his Poutine he would get right on trying to figure this all out. (more…)

Wisdom:  Never grocery shop hungry.  I came home with all sorts of stuff I didn’t actually plan to buy.  You know they get you in the deli and cheese area.  Bitches.

Cheese:  There is no greater gift in the world of cheese that Triple Cream St. Andres.  I bought a bit of pate as well.  Why?  Because I was freakin’ hungry and suddenly wanted triple cream cheese, pate, and hummus.

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