We'll be hitting the road in a few hours toNYS as this weekend is a memorial for Oma.

She was born June 27th, 1919.
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24 comments (Latest Comment: 04/23/2015 22:17:09 by TriSec)

I believe Vel had offered to write something for today, but until then here you go.
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16 comments (Latest Comment: 04/21/2015 18:30:06 by Mondobubba)

Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago Ill way before Barack Obama illegally held office as a Senator. The year was 1946 and Hillary was already a staunch democrat by the age of 6 months. Her stuffed animal, a donkey named Professor T. Equality was her only friend until age 4 as she had no siblings, except for two brothers who were disappointingly, males.
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1 comments (Latest Comment: 04/19/2015 14:56:21 by AuntAzalea)

This week Tennessee tried to make the Holy Bible their official State book. The only issue they had getting it out of their state house – which version. Eventually they settled on the “Holy Bible”. The Governor, Bill Haslam, and state Attorney General, Herbert Slatery opposed the bill, with Slatery stating he believed it violated both the state and federal constitutions.

Thankfully, yesterday the Tennessee state senate killed it. It’s not because more level heads prevailed, it was because they felt it wasn’t the “…time or place now in the full Senate floor to delve into that. We really need to look into it in committee,” Really? You need a committee for that?


Senate kills bill to make Bible state book

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34 comments (Latest Comment: 04/17/2015 20:35:58 by wickedpam)

There are myriad ways that being a Republican believer means that you believe something to be absolutely true, despite evidence to the contrary (see Climate Change, Trickle-Down Economics, and The War on Christmas to name a few). Where things get dicey is in the topics that don't get a lot of discussion. In particular, lower and middle class Americans who consider themselves to be conservative have found scapegoats for their struggles, usually undeserved and tainted with stereotype. This often creates more problems. Perhaps we can do a "Snopes" on a few of these.
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22 comments (Latest Comment: 04/16/2015 04:18:51 by Will in Chicago)