One thing I can’t understand about Tiger Woods issueWhy isn’t he being made the heterosexual POSTER CHILD of the hypocricy of SAVE MARRIAGE bat sh*t crazies. GOD KNOWS any gay or lesbian who divorces or seperates the opposition crows over and rubs in our faces.
When we are GIVEN a gift of major hetero who has every advantage, and still can’t keep his vows, to an admittedly beautiful wife, we should capitolize on it.

Rule #1 of Costco1.  If you see something you want – Buy it then, it may be gone the next time you go there.
2.  Go around opening time – maybe get there just as the mob has filtered in the door, then leisurely get a cart with ease.
3.  Check the far ends of the aisles for items that are nearing the end of Costco carrying them.
Of course there are more…

Went to church today (a UU Church)Service was great as was the sermon. Near the end of the service, we sang an old spiritual, “Over My Head” (A variant of this served a the title of James Baldwin’s last novel).
Well. You can take the boy out of the church and…you know the rest…so I was really trying not to…you know, cut up. And then the congregation started clapping and it was sounding a little bit like black church but still…just wasn’t the same.
Thinking of the words of the spiritual and especially of the origin of the song in slavery days was very, very, very moving and powerful though.
As far as mostly white folks sing old spirituals…I like it, I love it but…you know…y’all just don’t do it the same. I was ready to clown…

Celebrate the holidays in January if you don’t have little kids to buy forGay friends of mine celebrrate twelth night, which by the Chistian calendar is when the Magi gave their gifts.
It’s about Jan 6th, and everything will be further reduced after Xmas. THERE is the true war on Christmas, not buying into (pun intended) the whole Pavlovian dog syndrome of shopping on demand of the date Dec 25th (which just a winter soltice rip off anyways.)

Any woman who’d allow that maggot to crawl up on her, even for a billion dollarsDeserves what she DOESN’T GET. He OBVIOUSLY couldn’t satisfy his first three wives.

I’d kill that link in Keori’s postIt triggered some rotten anti virus proposal wanting to download to my puter and scan my files.

Thing Of The Past“Then again, what holiday presents I did buy so far I purchased online.”
From what I see, packed stores during the holidays is pretty much a thing of the past, aside from that 1 day I like to go out and get a dose of the holiday shopping spirit, and whatever last-minute Xmas gifts people have to buy.  
Why be bothered with screaming kids, crowds, people coughing and not covering their mouths, long lines etc when you can easily shop from your computer, take your time and in many cases, free shipping to your front door!
I mostly give CD’s and DVD’s, and Tower has free shipping for orders over $20-25.  Plus it helps that I keep my eye on sales year-round and store away Xmas gifts until I’m ready to wrap them all.

Nice to see the Planned Parenthood ad hereKEEP THEIR FILTHY LAWS OFF OUR BODIES

or “IT CAME FROM PLANET BAT SH*T”I can see the Screaming 1950′s horror movie starlets along side the logo.
   http://lifeofstew.com/word/wp-…

Oh god I’m so sorry Petey!!!Nothing popped up for me. I alternate between my Mac and Ubuntu, so I’m pretty much immune to all that crap.

One Tennessee wingnut on Charlie Brown and the PresidentAccording to Associated Press this week:
http://www.google.com/hostedne…

ARLINGTON, Tenn. (AP) – The mayor of a suburban Memphis city accused President Barack Obama of deliberately timing his speech about the war in Afghanistan this week to block the airing of the “Peanuts” Christmas television special.
According to The Commercial Appeal, Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman posted the statements on his Facebook page and said the president is Muslim. Obama is Christian.
“We sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there, what a load…..try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose,” he wrote, according to the newspaper.
Wiseman downplayed the posting when contacted by the newspaper Thursday. He did not immediately return phone calls from The Associated Press on Friday.

This highlights the mentality of the whole “War on Christmas” crowd of Christianist Dominionists – the same sort of people who are gathering stones for the day they can start legally killing us with them.

not your problem Keoriit must be a very aggressive anti virus pop up they have.
It looked like a warning of massive infections in your files, and is quite like a Microsoft and Norton anti virus warning. Then it wants you to respond, and keeps asking if you want the download to continue.
The blame lies in how that site allows an ad like that, and how dishonest and sneaky that anti viral company is.

It didn’t do that for me.I’ve occasionally had that anti-virus thing show up at random when I go to a new site.

Tiger and his wife as poster children for “traditional” marriage?http://www.suntimes.com/entert…
According to the cited article from the Chicago Sun-Times, Tiger is paying through the nose to keep Elin Nordegren Woods married to him for at least the next two years, and apparently she is agreeing to a “gag” provision that would keep her from writing about the situation.
Isn’t it heart-warming to the supporters of “traditional marriage” to see marriage reduced to the same sort of economics that drives sex work?
If one strips “traditional marriage” of the things it shares in common with same sex marriage, it reduces to an arrangement by which a heterosexual male attempts to insure that the children in his household are biologically his by insuring that a certain woman will be having sexual relations exclusively with him.  
Men like Tiger tend to stray because they don’t really believe that the marital fidelity thing is there for any purpose other than to insure that the progeny in his household are his and not someone else’s.
On the other hand, Tiger and his wife don’t really represent “traditional marriage” ideals.  But the proponents of “traditional marriage” who oppose marriage equality, do not have a single sensible argument on their side – all they have in their favor is the institutionalized prejudice that a large majority can wield agaunst a small minority that is sufficiently different from themselves.

Good post!That Peanuts and Outkast mashup was great!
That said, yes I curtailed the amount spent this year. Times are tough.
BTB, as someone who used to build POS systems the retailers know within 24 hours what their sales for the day are. If they have a live connection (E.g. BestBuy) they know by the second.

It’s bad!

I’d be shockedif they ever showed the Rankin Bass Little Drummer Boy special ever again on network TV.  

She Must Be A Gold-Diggerbecause if this doesn’t look like an obligatory kiss, I don’t know whose kiss does!
http://static.thehollywoodgoss…
Now all she needs is a tiny gold outfit, cinnamon buns on the sides of her head and a chain wrapped around her neck.

Ask and ye shall receive…
“Black church”?
“clapping”?
Two for the price of one, plus two giants…in a couple of minutes of priceless “home movie.”

He doesn’t do Over My Head, but those wanting to hear what black gay civil rights icon Bayard Rustin’s speaking AND excellent singing voice sounded like might look into purchasing Bayard Rustin Sings Spirituals, Work & Freedom Songs. It’s a live recording from a benefit concert[s] Rusting did decades ago that includes a spoken, historical introduction to each song by Rustin, including such facts as singing Steal Away was a signal among slaves that an escape attempt was being planned.
NOTA BENE: this is not really a professionally recorded production, there is the occasional ambient stage sound, and Rustin sings as much unaccompanied as by piano.  Still, it’s a fascinating recording that might make a good Xmas present for anyone interested in its history as much as its music, as would be other Rustin items available at the same site including a DVD of the documentary Brother Outsider and a book about Rustin for children. [A second CD I haven't heard appears to be a "studio production."] All at: http://www.neoflix.com/store/Q…

Not to end on a sour note, but while Tiger Woods might always be a million times more famous than Rustin the fact that one can be the greatest golfer ever and also, despite a force field of highly paid reputation protectors around you, a schmuck was apparent to those daring to see long ago:
http://www.esquire.com/feature…
[NB: includes one of Tiger's favorite lame lesbian jokes.]

Keori and others WARNING ABOUT THAT LINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MAN that link gave me a nasty virus scare!! I opened it in Mozilla and this thing called antispy something or other opened all over my computer!! Yikes!! Just an FYI!!!

PeteyDo we do anything with that? I tried closing it and it wouldn’t. Mozilla advised to do a control alt del close, but I’m terrified my computer got infected with something.

I did control alt delete tooAs long as it didn’t begin a download I don’t think it’d be a problem

My Norton wasn’t showing any virus, so I wouldn’t worry unnecesarilyIf it was spreading a viru, it would defeat this company trying to sell it’s product

I tried scanning for malwareand it found something called “hijack” something or other. I got rid of it. That scared the crap out of me.

Keori’s “RushBo” commentSince others were concerned that the link in Keori’s comment might sometimes lead to a computer virus, I’ve deleted the comment (and the thread that followed it – sorry, that’s the way it works).  Here is the original comment w/o scary link.

Meanwhile RushBo is getting married AGAIN
Kathryn Rogers will have the distinction of being “the fourth wife.”
Vomit.
God save ornery old queens! – kevinchi
by: Keori @ Sun Dec 06, 2009 at 14:50:11 PM EST
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Thanks, LurleenAgain, sorry about the link, folks. It was to a page on Politico, and my computer (Ubuntu) was just fine.

dog bakerieswent window shopping with my gal this weekend in what turned out to be a rather gentrified section of columbus.  a decade ago when my brother lived in the area i wouldn’t have expected what we ran into.  two dog bakeries on the same block , odd trash art ,$8 greeting cards, every other shop had boutique in the name.  thing was, all the shops were packed.  on the sidewalks were homeless folks.  

Kathleen Battle singing “Over My Head”unfortunately, I don’t know how to embed this as you did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Sister Rosetta TharpeNow this is closer to what I’m talking about.
(warning…the gaydar will go out of control if you look at this…not at sister Rosetta Tharpe, but her choir)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
I also like this more secular version of the song, actually.

Here ya go…

Tiger’s Behavior is Par for the CourseI had a friend who was a sports journalist and way before Magic Johnson “came out” he told me that these superstars live in a world of power, privilege, narcissism, and endlessly available sex. He saw it but it was kept out of the news (and away from the players’ wives). Tiger’s a famous, young, good-looking billionaire.  Why would anyone assume he’s immune from thinking himself a demi-God outside the rules, no matter what his PR image is?

Only a really really really naive, nay, willfully blind wife of these guys doesn’t know what is standard operating procedure for professional star athletes.

Double StandardIf Rihanna had been the one who was sleeping around (instead of questioning Chris Brown about another woman), if the lyrics of her song “Unfaithful” were based on reality, would anyone be saying that that justified what Chris Brown did? Would anyone be talking about her infidelity no matter how many people she slept with? Even if she denied it happened (like Tiger Woods), would anyone buy it? Would SNL be doing a skit making fun of it? Would Pam be writing about her thinking with her vagina? Of course not.
And as for “living outside the rules”, what if the rules are suffocating? Gay men used to live outside the rules too, and many of us still do. Now I don’t approve of cheating but I am fortunate to live in a sex-positive community where monogamy is not the only option. I can be happily married and still be a slut if I want to. Tiger doesn’t live in that world. Neither do most straight people.
No one is anyone else’s property nor are their genitals. If a spouse cheats and you don’t like it you can leave but you do not have a right to physically injure them. It doesn’t (or shouldn’t) matter what the gender of either party is.

So, I’m just trying to get the word out on this…http://www.petitionspot.com/pe…
There’s a petition going around asking Canadian PM Stephen Harper to cut off all aid to Uganda if the anti-gay bill is passed.
If you’re Canadian, sign it and pass it on. If you’re not, pass it on anyway.

Nine ho’sI can’t wait for the tell all books by the mistresses.
“Ridin’ Tiger’s Wood”

The reason gender mattersin cases of physical assault / violence / fights is because most males are larger and stronger (because they are larger) than most females.
This is especially the case when professional male athletes, who are obviously stronger than the typical male, are involved. Especially since in the case of the star male athletes they have physical AND financial dominance AND in many cases, the female partner has sacrificed her life / career to support the male athlete’s career (though this is much much less so in the case of Tiger)
That necessarily doesn’t make violence acceptable, but it explains the double standard.
The rules regarding marriage and sex might be suffocating, but no one is forcing Tiger to live within them. He chose to. He didn’t have to marry Nordegren. He could have lived the lifestyle of a bachelor superstar athlete, see for example, Derek Jeter.
As for people talking about Tiger’s affairs, people talk not because of gender, people talk because of the image he has tried very hard to project, and because he is a MUCH bigger star than Rihanna AND Chris Brown combined.

Nelson-Hatch arguments over abortion on C-SPAN2   http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-…

Hatch-Nelson failed 54 to 45Only two Republicans voting down Hatch-Nelson (Which failed 54 to 45)
Collins and Snowe
Democrats supporting Hatch-Nelson
Bayh, Casey,Conrad, Dorgan, Kaufman, Nelson, Pryor

Today I baited with rat poison under our houseWht ever critter is gnawing under our bathroom I hope grabs a few quick bites of that block. It looks like a block of honey coated seeds, so I hope it’s hungry.

Laura IngrahamI go through her site to links of other batsh*t crazy sites but I noticed she’s made a feature of matching up photos of Democrats to other images, so I thought I’d return the favor.
   http://s810.photobucket.com/al…

Greece Threatens BANKRUPTSY could severly damage EuroThere’s a lot of talk about the declining dollar, but we might better be worrying about the euro.  Greece may finally be reaching the end of its ability to borrow at any price, and what the euro zone does about this crisis–the EU is statutorily forbidden to intervene–may determine whether the euro ultimately survives.
Greece has already accumulated a mountain of debt that will be difficult if not impossible to pay off. The government has borrowed more than 110 percent of the country’s economic output over the years, and if investors lose confidence in the bonds, a meltdown could happen as early as next year.
That’s when the government borrowers in Athens will be required to refinance €25 billion worth of debt — that is, repay what they owe using funds borrowed from the financial markets. But if no buyers can be found for its securities, Greece will have no choice but to declare insolvency — just as Mexico, Ecuador, Russia and Argentina have done in past decades.
   http://meganmcardle.theatlanti…
and
  http://www.americablog.com/

Off to NOLA this afternoonI’m helping take down the winter wonderland we did for a couple’s hanukkah party.
Knowing what a NIGHTMARE NOLA traffic is in evening rush hour, I may just go find a restaurant and eat a leisurely dinner there, Chinese food is sounding tasty to  me. They have damn few ethnic restaurants way out here in the boonies.  

that trip was a total CLUSTERF*CKdrove two hours to NOLA, to meet the woman I worked for,and remove the decorations. No way to get the owner to open their house they both are working. So then they asked if I wanted to slreep in NOLA and go tomorrow morning.
NO
so drove back another 2 hours through BOTH NOLA’s and Baton Rouge’s rush hours. Then got within three blocks of home and ten cars involved in an accident, sat there 15 minutes, then directed to turn this cargo van around on some little pissant road over a bayou, and go another mile to the next road.

Cut holly branches for a wreath my hubby is making for an old NOLA friendHe used to decorate her mansion, and she said…”I haven’t had a pretty Christmas since you stopped.”
She said she has a magnolia wreath that she doesn’t like, and will throw it away when she gets his holly wreath. She is having her 80yh Birthday this summer we may help decorate.
We grow three holly bushes here, that are about 5 ft tall now.

Holly wreath is almost finishedOur hands are all scrathed and poked. I cut the tips of the brances while my hubby puts a metal pick in the ends and shoves them in the ribbon covered wreath form.
I always said, ” I hate them little pr*cks”
grins

Christmas card New Orlean’s styleOur friend who manages the events at the Superdome sent us a funny Christmas card
   http://www.louisianagreetings….
it’s the card titled Jackson Square.
Santa is flying over Jackson square in a pirogue (a shallow canoe) pulled by alligators and a crawfish hanging off the back. The lead alligator has a red glow coming from it’s snout.