The Lovely One and her father share a taste for low jokes. (more…)
So, a New York Times columnist, Charles M. Blow, twittered:
“Let me just tell you this Mitt ‘Muddle Mouth’: I’m a single parent and my kids are *amazing*! Stick that in your magic underwear.”
I think I get where Mr. Blow was coming from. His words were in response to Romney saying:
“When you have 40 percent of kids being born out of wedlock, and among certain ethnic groups the vast majority being born out of wedlock, you ask yourself, how are we going to have a society in the future? Because these kids are raised in poverty in many cases, they’re in abusive settings. The likelihood of them being able to finish high school or college drops dramatically in single-family homes. And we haven’t been willing to talk about this.”
Romney called attention to men like Mr. Blow fathering illegitimate children, with the idea that it’s a bad thing. Hence Mr. Blow’s attention drawn to what’s girding Romney’s loins and lashing out as best he may.
Before looking up any other words published by Mr. Blow, I’m 98% certain he has advocated any-sex marriage. As I wrote last week:
“Entwined with our various social pathologies is the noxious phrase, ‘A family is a group of people who love each other.’ Maybe there’s a mother and father married to each other. Or maybe they aren’t married. Maybe the father(s) live somewhere else and love their children from afar. Or maybe Dad is out of the picture altogether, but Mom is there loving her children and they her. Unless she’s not; maybe the kids live with their grandparents. Whatever. It’s all good. Just so long as there is someone who loves someone. That’s what a family is.”
[UPDATE]: In an interview with Brian Lamb, Mr. Blow said that his children where born to his ex-wife, from whom he divorced a couple years after the youngest’ births. If Mr. Blow or anyone on his behalf felt that my erroneous assumption that he had fathered illegitimate children was an insulting misconstrual of Mr. Blow’s tweet, it is heartening that you feel that way.
['NOTHER UPDATE]: Mr. Blow has since tweeted a straight-up apology: “Btw, the comment I made about Mormonism during Wed.’s debate was inappropriate, and I regret it. I’m willing to admit that with no caveats.”
Yesterday, my state’s legislature tried twice to pass any-sex marriage in the lower house and they’ll be at it again at noon today. (more…)
Two headlines from the morning’s news:
“Highlights of Obama’s $3.8 trillion spending plan for 2013″ [$12,000 per man, woman or child in America]
“10 of top 15 richest counties are in D.C. suburbs” [Median household incomes ranging from $119,540 to $87,007 compared to the $49,445 national median]
Joseph Smith says
All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes.
Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, Margaux Hemingway*, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Oh, ye fair ones!
(*I was going to list just singers, but I had a crush on Margaux. She was just a few years older than I, and I loved how she didn’t pluck her eyebrows.)
My name’s Bookslinger, and I’m an alcoholic. (“Hi Bookslinger!”) It’s been 10 years since I’ve had a drink…
I’ve experienced three earthquakes, one while living in Los Angeles, and the other two in Maryland. I also once watched a nuclear explosion sway the family Christmas tree.
I’m glad to see that Rick Santorum won Colorado, Missouri (non-binding, no delegates), and Minnesota.
I think that in the general election, Romney has a better chance of beating Obama. But, in terms of conservative credentials, I admire Santorum more. I think Santorum can win the general, but it will be more of a squeaker. Elections can still be beauty contests, and Romney’s physical looks will just win over more people. Santorum still has somewhat of a high-school nerdy look to him. I wish he had begun more of a physical makeover before the primary campaign.
If I understand the candidates’ history, Santorum is closer to being a Reagan conservative than Romney. Romney is too much a get-along/go-along kind of guy.
My way of judging who the better candidate is, is not by what they say, but by what they’ve done, their track record. A candidate can say whatever they want. They have professionals come up with the words and speeches, and those words may or may not have any bearing to the history and intentions of the speaker. But to better judge a man, look at what he’s done. Acta non verba.
For Pecos Bill: Police force cut back, justifiable homicide up 79% in Mo-town. Private security business booms. Daily Mail.
Manufacturers tell us that manufacturing is the heartbeat of America, and small business owners say that small business is. It may surprise you to learn that the National Active and Retired Federal Employee Association has other thoughts on the matter. (link) You and I can rest assured that the true heartbeat of America is readers and writers of Junior Ganymede, or it would be if any of us had a heart.
Shock headline from the Daily Mail (UK):
How Mitt Romney’s family baptized wife Ann’s atheist father into Mormon church a year AFTER his death (more…)
Over the past several years I’ve made several comments at various blogs that same-sex marriage (which is a very big step in the overall destigmatization of homosexuality) will lead to homosexuality becoming a socially acceptable choice.
Well, it has started sooner than I thought it would. I refer you to recent statements by Cynthia Nixon, who, after a 15-year marriage to man, claims she chose to be gay.
Couple this with primary and secondary school textbooks being rewritten to contain positive homosexual characters, and arts and media presenting positive homosexual characters and role models.
I invite you to connect the dots and extrapolate.
In the mood for a doughnut, I stepped in a bakery this morning, and when the clerk rang up my two sour cream doughnuts, the kind that used to be buttermilk and not quite so sweet, I decided to pick up a Washington Post as well. $2.20 changed to $3.26. Surprised, I looked at the front page, and sure enough, in the corner where it used to say 75¢, it now says $1. Answering my question when that happened, the clerk said since Monday.
Sub-titled: “The Jong remains the same.”
Someone (connected to this blog?) has a photo blog consisting of photos of the now-deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il looking at things, usually accompanied by his high-ranking military officers.
And it seems his son Kim Jong-Un, wearing a similar style coat and accompanied by some of the same officers, has kept up the tradition.
Update: And the photo blog of Jr. looking at things is up.
So, Rick Santorum would like to triple the Child Tax Credit (WSJ), or in other words, he feels that a family with three children should have their federal income tax cut by $6,000. (more…)