April 11, 2012

Historical Priebus

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April 11, 2012

Relax, ladies!

Reince Priebus has just re-ASSerted that the war on women is fiction! Whew, what a relief! Glad to know that I've only imagined all that trans-vaginal ultrasound stuff and the republicans' refusal to extend the Violence Against Women Act and the languishing ERA and the republican legislators' efforts to redefine rape and and and and ...


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April 8, 2012

There used to be a cornfield.

Then the fracking companies were given dibs on our water. We are supposedly an agricultural community, but we now have more than 18000 oil/gas wells in the county. Somehow, oil on the cob just doesn't sound as tasty . . .



x-posted from GD

April 8, 2012

There used to be a cornfield.

Then the fracking companies were given dibs on our water. We are supposedly an agricultural community, but we now have more than 18000 oil/gas wells in the county. Somehow, oil on the cob just doesn't sound as tasty . . .

April 6, 2012

You know you've arrived when. . .

You know you've arrived when the local rightwing newspaper equates you with entities like MoveOn and the perennially "evil" Media Matters.

In this case, Eyes On Congress is a genuine grassroots bunch whose sole purpose is to keep an eye on our congressional representative. That the paper conflates our training effort with Sandra Fluke's testimony -- suffice it say that we're not even trying to figure out that bizarre stretch of non-logic. But we were just plum gobsmacked when this article came out.


http://www.greeleygazette.com/press/?p=14026.#

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April 4, 2012

To see ourselves . . .

April 4, 2012

Unzipped and Unreal

April 4, 2012

This just showed up on my facebook page:

http://www.occupyunmasked.com/

A film by Citizens United


Anybody got any info on this?

Clarifying: This was posted by a fellow occupier as a headsup. We're keeping our eyes open. Still wondering if anyone has heard anything about it.

April 4, 2012

Snot.

That's what we used to call someone who always made sniping comments about everyone else while casting themselves as oh so perfect.

All that other "definition" aside, that's just the word that comes to mind every single time Santorum speaks.

April 3, 2012

A caution for my benighted friends and family members: