selfishness is not a virtue. torturing your wife and kids because you are lovesick for another woman is the epitome of a self-centered, narcissistic life. could someone please tell governor mark sanford that?
mark and jenny sanford and their sons
i haven’t wanted to write much on him and his whole sordid affair just because i find his behavior so incredibly disgusting and tabloid. it’s one thing to cop to lies told about ‘his disappearance’ on father’s day weekend from the state so he could have an illicite romp with his mistress. its entirely different to blubber on and on about this ‘affair of the heart with his soul mate’ to any reporter who will listen, while his wife and 4 boys are trying to make sense of how upside down their lives have become.
there is no nobleness or dignity in shouting about your forbidden love from the rooftops like a post-pubesic lovesick teenager when your wife of 20 years and your 4 boys are the proverbial broken-hearted elephant in the room. what mark sanford is doing is nauseatingly self-indulgent and represents a painful, most obscene kind of selfishness toward those you say you love.
the relationship between a father and son is sacred, and much about how a boy transitions into a man is dictated by the experiences he shares with his daddy. there is a level of faithful trust in such a relationship that molds a wee boy’s character, and teaches him how to grow up to be a decent, hard-working human being in the process of providing him with all the personal tools he’ll need to be successful in his life. watching his parents interact in marriage gives the son a living example of how to treat women in general and his future wife in particular.
i look at these boys faces and see how fun they look - impish, innocent. i hope that they can still grow to be accountable, stand-up men despite their father’s careless and reckless actions, and use this experience as an example of overcoming the transgressions of a lesser man.
mark sanford is no romantic hero like some in the media are trying to say. this story isn’t a movie. real life has real people with responsibilities, and i think it is a poor reflection of what we’ve become as a society when actions like this get overly romanticized for the sake of crafting some make-shift love story. bah!
maybe mark sanford IS in love with this argentina woman. fine. but he has responsibilites and commitments in his home that need to be sorted out - especially with those boys - then he can move to argentina forever. dltdhyotwo.
it’s been said that virtue is one of the first things that go when someone gets into politics. in democrat circles, you can be a bastard — there are quite a few in leadership right now like ted kennedy — and still be successful politically. but for conservative republican mark sanford, his political days are thankfully over. we don’t like and certainly don’t want clearly unrepentant, uber-selfish, lying, piggy, maroons representing ‘we the people’.
today is ‘national sovereignty day’ in iraq. the US has pulled back from baghdad and other urban areas, leaving iraq’s elected government and its own security forces to maintain order and keep the peace.
MOSUL, IRAQ - The commanding general in charge of US forces in the north says American combat troops pulling out of Iraq’s most volatile cities are being shifted to areas encircling the cities to try to stop what has proved to be a resilient Al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent groups.
dear iraq: though some would say you are not grateful to us, we know from many eyewitness reports, that you recognize and appreciate the sacrifices our country has made in blood and treasure for your freedom and liberty. we are waiting and watching as your neighbor iran takes to the streets in the great hope of having what you now have. we are praying for your great success as a democracy-loving nation!
just the thought of one existing is quite likely my most disgusting thought in a long, long time. in fact, i am poking out my minds’ eye even as i write this! but it does give me yet one more reason to play one of my all time fav vids… sing along now!
silky pony feels pretty
so according to one of john edward’s former aide’s, who just inked a book deal, one exists of silky pony and his baby mama and mistress, rielle hunter. and if indeed it does exist, it will inevitably be leaked.
leave it to silky pony to have an affair with somone much less attractive then himself and record it for posterity — it just seems his smarmy, narcissistic style.
reverse racism - but then we knew that. the supreme court has ruled on ricci v destefano. that’s the case of the white firefighters in new haven, connecticut who were unfairly denied promotions because of their race. this ruling reverses yet another decision that high court nominee sonia sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
you can read the 5-4 opinion here. oh, and here’s the money quote from justice kennedy who wrote the majority opinion:
‘Whatever the City’s ultimate aim—however well intentioned or benevolent it might have seemed—the City made its employment decision because of race.’
awkward? heck ya. but judge sotomayer’s high profile reversal in the ricci case really won’t affect her appointment to scotus - the dems have the votes. it will, however, give the (R)’s more incentive to paint her, and The One, as the radicals with leftist ideology that they are.
for me, it just more evidence that judge sotomayer, with her now 66% reversal rates by the supremes, is simply no wise latina but rather a somewhat angry latina with racist tendencies who uses her authority to swat instead of judge.
michael jackson dead. he was only 50 years old. and though i grew up a rocker chick, as a kid i would watch michael jackson videos over and over to try to moon walk!
this is the michael jackson i loved, not what he’s been in the last 20 years.
michael jackson’s ‘beat it’
jackson 5 ‘abc’
so much talent. so much was expected of him at such a young age. so much tragedy and drama always surrounding him. a very troubled soul indeed.
why does john ‘reporting for duty’ kerry say these dumb things? you’d think after being excoriated on the campaign trail 6 years or so ago, he would have learned his lesson, but no he didn’t.
some think john kerry said this not because he hates sarah palin but because he is just a jerk. i happen to think both are true: he hates sarah (they all do) AND he is a doofus-jerk.
The Bay State senator was telling a group of business and civic leaders in town at his invitation about the “bizarre’’ tale of how South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had “disappeared for four days’’ and claimed to be hiking along the Appalachian Trail, but no one was really certain of his whereabouts.
“Too bad,’’ Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.’’
The Democratic-centric crowd laughed.
by the way, he said this before governor sanford’s shameful press conference, so the good news is he wasn’t implying an affair. the bad news is he was wishing what? death? harm? kidnapping?
and lest you forget…
thank god president bush won re-election.
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sorry i haven’t been able to blog as much as i had hoped. being the history geek that i am, i just have way too much to see and drink in here. i return to oregon this weekend so blogging should return to normal then.
nice mockery. and did you notice the ears? heh.
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btw: i am in washington dc all week (yes, i really do have a life away from this blog) so blogging may be a wee bit strange. please check back often. i will do my best to not get arrested in front of the white house.
peta gets more and more ridiculous if that’s possible. now they are exploiting the granddaughter of infamous ernesto ‘Che’ guevara, the cuban revolutionary leader, in a new campaign called ‘a vegetarian revolution.’ here’s a photo from lydia guevara’s peta ad:
lydia guevara’s peta pose
of course we all know that che guevara was the bff of fidel castro. he played a pivotal role in fidel’s rise to totalitarian power in cuba. he died like the rat he was in the jungles of bolivia in 1967.
now, here is the way peta presents their latest anti-food campaign:
Lydia Guevara poses semi-nude in a PETA campaign that tells viewers to “join the vegetarian revolution,” said PETA spokesman Michael McGraw. …
In the ad, Lydia Guevara wears camouflage pants, a red beret, and bandoliers of baby carrots while standing with one fist on her hip and the other outstretched.
“It very much evokes the tag line of the ad, which is ‘Join the vegetarian revolution,’” McGraw said. “It’s an homage of sorts to her late grandfather.”
homage to che?
i don’t know anything about lydia guevara except she looks too skinny and could maybe use a good steak. i really don’t care about knowing anything. but lydia’s grandfather, che guevara, was one of the most profoundly evil psychopaths in the history of totalitarianism.
did you know he personally executed children? for generations, che personified anti-Americanism throughout the counter culture. and now, in the age of obama, che is all the more popular and almost mainstream. this rise in his popularity obviously gave his granddaughter lydia cache among kooky liberals in their chronic attempts to force us all to eat their tofu crap and things with no eyes.
yawn. give me a rib eye from outback with a baked potato and ceasar salad. yummy!
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July 2, 2009 
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ecclesiastes 10:2
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