A Sunday Fruit Salad

A little this... A little that to greet Summer Solstice......

A rich guy with Tourette's..

is one of the people funding the fight against marriage equality...

He had problems with his parents...so he takes it out on the rest of us by paying for hate campaigns..

So how to do you continue to hate parents who died 44 years ago and left you 300 million dollars...

This guy, Howard Ahmanson, contributed nearly a million dollars to defeat Prop 8..

he is a disciple of a religious zealot who advocates putting America under the jurisdiction of a theocratic commission..

Which among other things mandates that people be stoned to death for being homosexual...

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Juneteenth Celebrations..

Happening all across America....What Juneteenth is not...is the day that slavery ended in America as I heard one clueless newscaster say this morning... The Emancipation Proclamation became law on January 1, 1863..

Juneteenth celebrates the day that Texas slaves found out they were free....on June 19, 1865...two years late because Texas plantation owners refused to tell them....

and since there was no Twitter back in the day...it took em a while to find out...

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Pass me the Sports section, please....

The US Open is in progress at Bethpage Black, as we speak....Tiger was the preemptive favorite going in...But he's having one of those tournaments where at least this week...I can beat him...

The talking heads are beginning to count him out...

Too Stoopid....Can't count Tiger out til the final putt goes down on 18 on the last day....
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Wimbledon getting ready to fire up...

Nadal's out....Federer will win....

So will a Williams sister....Just think it will be Serena this time...

Even though the Wimbledon trophy is officially named “The Venus Trophy”....not after Venus Williams..it's had that name since it was created...

Venus Williams fulfills her destiny by claiming it more often than not..
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Give me a break, please....

Now the critics are ticked off because the Obama's are allowing pop culture in the White House instead of doing stodgy and boring formal state dinners....

Damned if they do....damned if they don't....

Like it or not.....we have a real Christian in the White House...not one of the fake born again variety...

We have a man who dates his wife...not put his mistress on the payroll at double the going rate.....

A man who makes time for his kids...Not let them run wild

A man who seemingly lives the rest of his life as if he really, really pays attention when he goes to church....

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Father's Day

I am blessed with coming from a two parent home....My dad turns 81 in a couple of weeks...my mom reached 79 back in January...They're will celebrate 59 years of marriage in a couple of months...

My Mom has always been the rock.....My Dad....well all you have to do is pick up the phone and say..

“ Hey Dad, I need some help...”

Knowing that his help meant he would literally take over the project, making you the assistant....

Don't get me wrong...We ain't the Cleavers ...we are as dysfunctional as every other American family..but still...there was and there still is...some good stuff going on...

On this day....I choose to think about the good stuff...

watching him Box on television, when I was four....he was a professional light heavyweight...32-2 before he quit...his knees gave out....he retired...

he said he quit because he was “too pretty to stand there and get hit”...My dad boxed dancing on his toes before Muhammed Ali...never flatfooted...

learning how to work on cars despite my gender....he taught me....and even today, I'm better at it then most guys I know...

Getting up before dawn to pick up our grandmother and go fishing at Lake Chetaq or the Doctor's lake..

Hearing from other people...how proud my Dad was because I was the morning anchor on the TV newscast....

Happy Father's Day...Daddy..

Thinking Out Loud

Mexican Drug War

Word that Obama is going to help Mexico battle the drug cartels on the border...Seems to me that the best way to do this is to simply end the failed war on drugs....

Admit that some people are going to use, no matter what....

Legalize the market, just like liquor stores, tax with user tax, controlled from state store...

the war on drugs is another failed program that has gone on for way too long...Prohibition war on alcohol is the precedent....it didn't work then...it's not working now...

legalizing the market....immediately stops the violence at the border and in the neighborhoods...

legalizing the market....immediately stops warehousing people in private prisons for profit...

legalizing the market....can work with the planned revisions in health care in America...revise everything in health care toward prevention, rather that penalty for illness...because addiction is illness...not crime...

This country spends billions on this war....more than Iraq and Afghanistan put together...

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Tim Geithner

My gut tells me he's a crook, just like the rest of them....but we're in a position of having to trust him...so let's hope his handlers know what they are doing...

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Barack the Magic Negro

Man, that song must have gotten some traction, somewhere...all these folks throwing tea parties and protests because of what the prez is doing....

He's only been in office about 60 days give or take....

They really do believe that he is magic if they actually thought he was going to be able to clean up this mess in about 2 months on the job....

Ya'll need to chill....

Other Magic Negroes have taken a while to find their game, too...

After all...

Michael Jackson didn't make Thriller as his first record...

Micheal didn't win a championship the first year he got to Chicago...

How old was the Doctor the first time he dunked....

Michael Johnson didn't win his first 400m dash...did he?

Tiger didn't win the Masters the first time he played it...

Arthur Ashe didn't Grand Slam his first year on tour....

I don't think Hank Aaron hit a home run the first time he stepped up to the plate...

Even Willie Mayes dropped a fly or two in the outfield...

Patience, grasshoppers....Barack will work his magic....give him a minute or two..

2009, Year of the Ox

I don’t make resolutions, but one of the things that I do is to check out my horoscopes to see what the stars have lined up for me this year. I am a leo, born in the year of the tiger, for all you Chinese horoscopes afficionados.

This year coming,  is the year of the Ox, from January 26, 2009 until February 13, 2010.  This is also the year of three Friday the 13ths, two of them are back to back, in February and March. The third one is in November. 

Since my grandmother was also leo, and she faithfully read her horoscope, daily, I knew that I was a leo, almost before I knew my name. I didn’t learn about the Chinese horoscope until much later in life. 

I’m not triskaidekaphobic, but my mom tells me I was due to be born on the 13th, which was on a Friday in my birth year and month. However, I came two days later, so I’m not a jinxed at birth child.  Actually, truth be told, I’m a pretty lucky person, well blessed, in today’s parlance. 

According to star gazers, this year is going to be a power year for almost all of us. It’s not going to be an easy year, and if you’re like me, success is scheduled to come later in the year as opposed to early or right now. I guess what it’s telling me, is that I need patience in the beginning of 2009. 

Some of you may be wondering about your oriental stars, well, the story goes like this... It is said that Buddha invited all of the animals in the world to join him for the New Year celebrations, but only 12 animals showed up. The  Buddha rewarded the twelve with a year named after each one of them The order was set by the way they arrived at the party. The first to arrive was the rat, the last to come was the pig.

It is thought that those born during the  year of a particular animal, inherit some of the good and bad personality traits of that particular animal. Also, each year is influenced by whatever animal in which it falls. Strength,  commitment and duty will be the keywords for 2009. Creatively and artistically, the Year of the Ox could see influential and  new works and creations being announced. Environmental and green issues should  also dominate the world stage with countries establishing tighter controls and regulations.

For those of you who want to find out more about your Chinese influences, check out Moonslipper.com.