tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155270662024-03-13T15:11:30.890-07:00The little brown girl speaks her mindHey! I'm talkin' here!Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-37824210105638478602008-10-19T16:33:00.000-07:002008-10-19T16:52:46.350-07:00Obama turns the other cheek....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SPvIDS5WM8I/AAAAAAAAALI/g8t00EqEF2k/s1600-h/images.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SPvIDS5WM8I/AAAAAAAAALI/g8t00EqEF2k/s320/images.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259016948822717378" /></a><br />The election of Senator Obama will never change the minds of those who think that the color of a person's skin is a reflection of their worth. It will never convince some that by supporting Republicans, they are voting against their own best wishes and it will never convince others that FOX News and Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the like are nothing more than well paid propagandists who care not one whit for the common man. Obama's hoped for election will never do all that, but it will START the change because Senator Obama turns the other cheek.<div><br /></div><div>Politico reports a story today of a visit Barack Obama made to a predominantly white diner in Fayetteville, North Carolina. As he entered, a woman began shouting, "Socialist! Socialist!" and yelled at him to get out. </div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote>Obama arrived at the barbecue joint around 12:30 p.m., where an older and majority white clientele of several dozen were eating lunch after church services. Many patrons applauded as he walked into the diner, but Diane Fanning, 54, began yelling, "Socialist, socialist, socialist-get out of here!"</blockquote>But Senator Obama didn't leave. Instead he later went over to the woman's table and....</div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote>He held out his hand to her and asked, "how are you, ma'am?" but she declined to shake his hand.</blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>He will never change old thought patterns...</div><div><br /></div><div></div><blockquote><div>But some of the other older white diners looked surprised and slightly uncomfortable as Obama stopped at their tables to shake hands. "</div><div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>But a President Obama will be a start. </div>Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-75331133912904366162008-10-19T16:31:00.000-07:002008-10-19T16:32:06.560-07:00Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-17587062141448190732008-09-08T11:14:00.000-07:002008-09-08T11:15:52.598-07:00Truth? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Truth….<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SMVru3L1tHI/AAAAAAAAALA/AiRwAiWrAMI/s1600-h/temper_tantrum.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SMVru3L1tHI/AAAAAAAAALA/AiRwAiWrAMI/s320/temper_tantrum.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243715793974572146" /></a><br />I woke up this morning with a sinking feeling in my stomach and now I know why; two national polls are showing that the McCain/Palin ticket is ahead. I’m beyond disappointed beyond disbelief. I’m in that horrible state of resignation. Sort of what I imagine it must be like to find yourself stuck in quicksand. You fight for a while and then stop because you reach a point where you know it’s over. So, you stop fighting and allow yourself to slowly sink out of sight. I’m sinking. We’re all sinking. <br />See, it doesn’t matter that we keep pointing out that Palin is a liar or that McCain is a liar. It doesn’t matter because no one is listening. They’ve bought the new, improved Republican product and it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t work. Truth is boring. It requires actual time and attention to understand and people today don’t have time. It’s easier to just assume that everything is going to be okay. Easier to believe that, “it can’t happen here,” it being fascism. Well folks, I hate to tell you but it is happening here. Surprise!<br />I hope I’m wrong. I hope I stop resigning myself to slowly sinking deeper into quicksand. I don’t want to go under, I want to scream for help but how can that help if no one is listening? Sigh. Sorry for the downer thoughts but it’s what I’m feeling right now. We’re screaming for help and no one is listening.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-49023540317947682652008-09-01T12:07:00.000-07:002008-09-01T12:21:01.213-07:00The Uh-Oh Moment<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SLxAjGtUhEI/AAAAAAAAAHs/P2l9tcDyCZo/s1600-h/surprised+woman.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SLxAjGtUhEI/AAAAAAAAAHs/P2l9tcDyCZo/s320/surprised+woman.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241135038192714818" /></a><br />The Uh-Oh Moment<br /><br />Back in 1999, when I first heard George W. Bush had decided to run for President, my first reaction was, “Uh oh.” Didn’t matter that he was a knucklehead. As a Texan, I’d seen him win the Governorship in Texas using lies and dirty tricks so as soon as I heard the news, I knew we were sunk. Enter Sarah Palin. My first reaction when I heard the news of her candidacy was “Uh oh.” <br /><br />It’s George W. Bush all over again. I smell a Rovian rat. Take an unqualified but sellable personality, and create a candidate. Doesn’t matter that Palin thinks the Pledge of Allegiance was created by our Founding Fathers! What do facts and knowledge have to do with running the country? She’s not going to be making any decisions on her own because she’s there to do as she’s told. Besides, most people don’t know that the Pledge of Allegiance was created in the 20th century and it’s precisely this lack of knowledge that makes it so easy for Rove and those like him to sell the people a wolf in a sheep’s clothing. Already, the news today of Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy, instead of torpedoing her candidacy, is already being spun as a wonderful story of parental support for a child in need. These people know how to turn crap into gold. <br /><br />We’re in trouble. Obama and Biden are the real deal but up against the propaganda masters, their message will be lost because we’re up against theatrics here, folks. Palin as a candidate is all about image and nothing about qualifications. She can be sold. Mass marketed to a willing public who want nothing more than cheap goods that aren’t made to last, only to look good. <br /><br />We’ve got to fight it by exposing the wolf underneath. We’ve got to pull off the sheep’s skin and expose them for the liars they are! But how? The media is not on our side and unfortunately, a lot of voters are ready, willing and able to buy the lies because a large number still operate under the delusion that those in authority would never lie to us. How do we fix this? How?Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-17356042936787450532008-08-30T13:38:00.000-07:002008-08-30T13:40:30.196-07:00Do Not Underestimate the Bun<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SLmwM903YoI/AAAAAAAAAHk/ZwnGNHt9ZhE/s1600-h/Gov-Palin-2006_web.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SLmwM903YoI/AAAAAAAAAHk/ZwnGNHt9ZhE/s320/Gov-Palin-2006_web.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240413378223497858" /></a><br />In terms of needed Vice-Presidential experience and capabilities, Sarah Palin is a featherweight, but in terms of what the Neo-Republican Party needs to scheme, bully and lie their way into the White House, Sarah Palin, with her sexy librarian glasses and hair loosely gathered in a bun, is the Featherweight Champion of the Year. <br /><br />The fundamentalist base that was in threat of being lost to McCain is back in the fold. They love her! She is a fervid evangelical and a mother of five. The youngest, her son Trig, was born with Down syndrome, which she and husband were aware of before the child was born. Talk about an anti-abortion heroine! Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council says she’s a “pro-family, pro life champion.” <br /><br />It doesn’t matter that she doesn’t have the gravitas needed for the vice-presidency; all that matters is that she will carry their message. It doesn’t matter that she was elected Governor of Alaska less than two years ago with less than 200,000, it only matters that her state is sitting on the largest oil reserves in the country and she wants to drill. Damn the environment and the polar bears, which she refused to put on the endangered species list; we want that oil! It doesn’t matter that she may have abused her power as Governor when she tried to get her brother-in-law fired and then unable to do so, fired the man who refused follow her orders, it only matters that she’s willing to defend her family and willing to abuse her power! It doesn’t matter that she’s anti-abortion and wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade, it only matters that she’s a woman!<br /><br />From a political marketing viewpoint, she’s a Rovian dream! She’s the mother of 5 children! She’s young and attractive. Imagine the photo ops! But best of all, in Rove’s world, she’s a water bearer. She doesn’t question the Right’s agenda because she learned long ago to shoot first and ask questions later, if at all. She doesn’t have to know about anything because she is there to be programmed and she knows that. But she’s not dumb. I’ve heard her speak and despite an unattractive shrillness to her vocal tone, she’s intelligent, confident, and very telegenic. In other words, she’s the Democratic Party’s nightmare. <br /> <br />Let us not forget that, the other side is a master of propaganda and they have the mass media on their side. Last night I switched from the gushings of Hannity, to Beck and to the other Republican lapdogs and they all said the same thing, “She’s terrific!” <br /><br />We need to be on our toes. Despite the power our party displayed during our convention; we cannot rest on our laurels. It doesn’t matter that we’re in the right, it only matters that we win. So though she may look harmless enough, do not underestimate her loosely secured, bun; it’s stronger than it looks.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-77612017882187097672008-08-06T09:56:00.000-07:002008-08-06T10:19:36.310-07:00We ain't so dumb anymore....The "journalists" of today are experiencing a rude awakening. In the past 8 years, the "press" has been staffed with sub-standard, sub-intelligent reporters. The equivalent of the Bob Jones University graduates that made up Bush's Department of Justice, (knuckleheads) sit at the news desks of all the major networks. The intelligent and sensible questions of a Bill Moyers has been replaced with the ridiculous innuendos of Katie Couric. These networks have been very successful at passing off their "news" programs as "intelligent journalism," but now, faced with Barack Obama, they're finding out that their junior high school level of journalism is no match for an intelligent, rational and telegenic Democrat. <br />Watch as this FOX wannabe tries to do the old, "I'm going to ask stupid questions to try and trip you up and then the network will notice me and hire me and I'll be bigger than Bill O'Reilly!" question route. It is to laugh.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-11689032590122730102008-06-10T20:06:00.001-07:002008-12-09T03:26:49.739-08:0019-inch Fall<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SE9B0LOhRuI/AAAAAAAAAHc/ZpvHAArIJwY/s1600-h/littlebrowngirl%27s+wig.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SE9B0LOhRuI/AAAAAAAAAHc/ZpvHAArIJwY/s320/littlebrowngirl%27s+wig.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210455658513647330" /></a><br /><br />When I was a little girl, maybe 10 or 11, I got it into my head that when I grew up I was going to turn into a white woman, with blonde hair and blue eyes. After all, that’s what I saw on TV. (The year was 1970.) So, to hurry up the inevitable, one Christmas, I ordered myself a blonde wig out of the Sears Catalog. The wig was $6.88 but then I saw another wig for only $3.44, so I ordered that one. On Christmas morning, I excitedly opened my presents looking for that blonde wig. Finally, I opened a box and saw the beautiful, long blonde strands of hair I longed for. I took out the wig but when I started to put it on my head, I noticed that what I’d bought wasn’t a full wig, but a fall; a partial wig designed to make short hair look longer. <br /><br />I looked in the mirror and as I looked at myself, a little brown girl with black hair peeking out from under fake blonde hair; I realized. I wasn’t going to have blue eyes. My skin wasn’t going to fade from brown to white and my hair wasn’t going to be long or blonde. My skin was brown. My hair was black and my eyes were a dark, dark brown. That’s how it was and that was how it was going to be. I took off the hair and never wore it again.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-62018087725409871242008-05-08T13:12:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:26:50.028-08:00Har-de-Har-Har!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SCNhTw-YSLI/AAAAAAAAAHM/WKLCeq3CtNg/s1600-h/fossella072006.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SCNhTw-YSLI/AAAAAAAAAHM/WKLCeq3CtNg/s200/fossella072006.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198105387107633330" /></a><br />Once again, the mask falls off one of these pompous, self-righteous hypocrites. I love it! Fathered a child out-of-wedlock! Caught driving drunk! Ha! His girlfriend was the one that picked him up after his arrest! Man! Conservative Republican my ass! !Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-81071666241531778682008-05-06T19:43:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:26:50.183-08:00Don't Piss Down My Leg and Tell Me it's Raining...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SCEaXGqVeXI/AAAAAAAAAHE/g_DGAeepinA/s1600-h/art.clinton.mon.afp.gi.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/SCEaXGqVeXI/AAAAAAAAAHE/g_DGAeepinA/s200/art.clinton.mon.afp.gi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197464429189757298" /></a><br />When Hillary Clinton speaks of her "from behind" victory in Indiana, she once again shows us she is an accomplished graduate of the Karl Rove School of Crap. She was never "behind" in Indiana. She was always expected to win. But she was expected to win by much more than she did. That fact she conveniently left out of her ridiculous, "on to the White House!" victory speech. <br /><br />They lie to our faces and they get away with it because:<br />1. We're sheep.<br />2. We're innocent and trusting.<br />3. We've been programmed to trust those in authority (or on TV). <br />4. We're sheep. <br /><br />If elected, she will continue to lie to our faces and the duplicitous media will continue to cover it as fact. <br /> Just don't tell me it's raining.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-40257910706604772452007-10-25T09:44:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:26:50.297-08:00Let me tell you what's wrong with LIFE....<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RyDc6I6P0OI/AAAAAAAAAG8/4-PuP5nu7XI/s1600-h/life-cast.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RyDc6I6P0OI/AAAAAAAAAG8/4-PuP5nu7XI/s200/life-cast.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125339267329937634" /></a><br />So I've been watching this new NBC show, Life, on Wednesday nights. Now, truth be told, it has more to do with the lead actor, and the fact that Alan Arkin is part of the cast, but there you are; I watch it. It's the story of a former policeman who was framed and sentenced to life for a crime he didn't commit and then, after 12 years in prison, is found innocent and awarded $50 million in an wrongful imprisonment suit and been reinstated on the police force. He's back on the force because he wants to find out who framed him and why. The premise, I thought, was that his experience had given him a new found way of looking at "life" helped him to solve crimes using unconventional methods.<br />The first show was good. It didn't give us too much information, just enough to intrigue and keep the audience coming back. I did. But now, after 4 shows, I'm beginning to think the original character has been lost along the way. Charlie Crews is supposed to have found some sort of Zen-like peace in prison and is now this changed person. He has a lot of money but doesn't care about it. He lives in an empty mansion with his ex-con friend, Arkin. The mansion is empty because, like I said, the money doesn't mean anything to him. Or at least, because he's found this inner peace, he doesn't want to money to mean anything to him. But lately he just seems detached and almost bored and lazy. <br />The guy struts around like a Miami Vice wanna-be. He poses while wearing expensive suits, expensive watches, expensive shoes and expensive sunglasses. Which doesn't make sense to me. If the guy was an ordinary police detective and then in prison for 12 years, where did he suddenly develop this killer style? Did he read a lot of GQ in the slammer? Supposedly, he didn't even know cell phones had cameras but he knows the difference between a tailored suit or one bought off the rack? No. No. That doesn't ring true. <br />Also, the crime he was convicted of was the murder of a family. A brutal, bloody slaughter. Why would anyone think he did this? Why would everyone he knew, his partner, his wife, his fellow officers, be convinced that he would be capable of such a serial killer like crime? This has never been explained and it needs to be. <br />And another thing, in the first couple of episodes, he solved crimes because he saw things differently. He was like a hyper aware detective. He used his new found inner peace, to ask questions the other detectives didn't think to ask or to notice things no one else would. But lately, he just seems to be along for the ride. He and his partner stumble across clues or "get lucky." Boring. And about his partner, she was really engaging in the pilot. She's a a recovering addict being given another chance. It was also implied that she's also expected to keep an eye on Crews and report back on him, if he does anything wrong. There are people on the force that would rather he not be there. But this angle has been dropped on recent shows.<br />Anyway, in the pilot, there was this scene where they break into some suspects house and she gets covered in cocaine powder. She freaks and jumps in the shower and washes it off while her new partner, Charlie, watches in surprise. It was a great scene which said a lot about the character and her addiction problems. Unfortunately, we haven't really visited this subject much in recent shows. At least, not with that intensity and depth. <br />Now about last night's show and why I don't know if I can keep watching LIFE. The show starts with a woman, wearing angel wings, falling out of a window and hitting the roof of a car. When they get to the scene, it's pretty obvious which window she came out of,but they never discuss the fact that the woman didn't scream as she fell. Was she drugged? Was it a suicide? No, immediately they assume murder. The way they discover the identity of the woman is ridiculous. First, in Los Angeles, where I live, if a woman fell from the sky wearing angel wings, I doubt the police station would be full of weirdos claiming to know the woman. But, in this episode, their offices are full of people, all claiming to know the woman. Crews notices one meek guy allowing everyone to cut in front of him in line and of course, he's the woman's husband. What develops is a connection with the Russian Mob and the introduction of a Russian bad guy, who can't be arrested because he's an informant for our government. The Russian bad guy was the best thing in the show. <br />But the breaking point for me was when they were trying to get some information from a friend of the deceased Russian angel. They put this huge picture of the deceased, that they'd found in a suspect's home, on a chair directly in front of the friend. Then they left the room and monitored her reaction from the camera in the room. This woman, who was not chained to the table, just sat there staring at this picture. For hours, as the detectives just watched and waited for her to crack. Which of course, she finally did. She started crying. RIDICULOUS!!! The woman could have just turned the picture around, but no, she sits there and faces it. STUPID. STUPID. Why didn't Crews use his new Zen insight to get the information he needed that way. Instead we are forced to watch a scene where a woman stares a picture and the detectives stare at a woman staring at a picture. BORING. <br />At the end of the show, the Russian Mob guy calls Crewes and for some reason, gives him a clue that leads to his former partner. Gee. How convenient. Wouldn't it have been better if Crewes, because he sees things differently now, would has noticed things about his former partner that he never noticed before. And that these things would have led him to discover the clue himself? Isn't he a detective? <br />That's all I have to say about that. Oh, except I'll keep watching because of my aforementioned fascination with the lead actor, who by the way, is English pretending to be American. His American accent isn't very good. It sounds like he's from "Joisey." But I can put up with that. It's the bad writing and confusing characterizations that will drive me away.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-79120292329594032772007-10-19T11:39:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:26:50.473-08:00How old is an "underage male?"<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/Rxj8Ba_2ymI/AAAAAAAAAG0/g-ktYu-PrIU/s1600-h/au_lrobertslarge.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/Rxj8Ba_2ymI/AAAAAAAAAG0/g-ktYu-PrIU/s200/au_lrobertslarge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123121677491161698" /></a><br />More on Mrs. Lindsay Roberts, the wife of Richard Roberts, Oral Robert's son. The most interesting part of this account is:<br /><br />"The more detailed account alleges Richard Roberts' wife, Lindsay, spent the night in the ORU guest house with an underage male "on nine separate occasions," and was photographed 29 times with an underage male in her sports car, among other allegations.<br /><br /><br />She likes young men, but how young? "Underage," I'm assuming, is under 18. <br /><br />Nothing these self-righteous types do surprises me anymore but their arrogance always does. Allegedly, this woman thought nothing of using OSU property for her trysts and felt perfectly comfortable driving around with these young men. The thought in her mind must have been, "I'm entitled to this."<br /><br />Fascinating.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-40092328933998805302007-10-10T17:48:00.000-07:002007-10-10T17:53:02.844-07:00One less thing to worry about..."...the Chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, John Tanner, contends that while it's "a shame" that elderly voters may be disenfranchised by new Photo ID restrictions at the polls because many don't have driver's licenses, minorities don't have to worry quite as much. Why? Because "minorities don't become elderly the way white people do. They die first<br /><br />As a brown person, I am concerned to find out that we minorities don't last long. I'll have to let my 85 year old Mother know she's a freak of nature.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-19627545257705922922007-10-08T15:10:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:26:50.720-08:00"Mrs Roberts, are you trying to seduce me?"<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/Rwqwv6_2ylI/AAAAAAAAAGs/Th2vT7HQ5nE/s1600-h/perspective-2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/Rwqwv6_2ylI/AAAAAAAAAGs/Th2vT7HQ5nE/s200/perspective-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119098263797418578" /></a><br />My only hope is that this story leads to the destruction of the dishonest business built by Oral Roberts on the backs of little old ladies handing over their last two dollars. Oral's son, Richard, is proving himself a chip off the old block, though not as slick as his father. It seems Richard is facing a lawsuit alleging misuse of Oral Roberts University funds. But it wasn't only Richard misusing funds, it seems his wife was busy spending money on "extracurricular activities." <br /><br />She is accused of dropping tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, awarding nonacademic scholarships to friends of her children and sending scores of text messages on university-issued cell phones to people described in the lawsuit as "underage males."<br />- A longtime maintenance employee was fired so that an underage male friend of Mrs. Roberts could have his position.<br />- Mrs. Roberts - who is a member of the board of regents and is referred to as ORU's "first lady" on the university's Web site - frequently had cell-phone bills of more than $800 per month, with hundreds of text messages sent between 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. to "underage males who had been provided phones at university expense."<br /><br />Underage males? Hmmm. Was she counseling troubled boys struggling with their budding sexualities? Perhaps she was saving them from the evils of "homosexuality?" More things Mrs. Roberts and her husband are accused of....<br /><br />- Mrs. Roberts spent more than $39,000 at one Chico's clothing store alone in less than a year, and had other accounts in Texas and California. She also repeatedly said, "As long as I wear it once on TV, we can charge it off." The document cites inconsistencies in clothing purchases and actual usage on TV.<br />- Mrs. Roberts was given a white Lexus SUV and a red Mercedes convertible by ministry donors.<br />- University and ministry employees are regularly summoned to the Roberts' home to do the daughters' homework.<br />- The university and ministry maintain a stable of horses for exclusive use by the Roberts' children.<br />- The Roberts' home has been remodeled 11 times in the past 14 years.<br /><br />Tsk. Tsk. Oral Roberts claimed that Jesus spoke to him and told him to build the university. Richard Roberts now claims to receive messages from Jesus. <br /><br />As Max Von Sydow said in Woody Allen's "Hannah and her Sisters,"....<br />"If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in His name, He'd never stop throwing up."Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-37350164702201086302007-10-07T09:35:00.000-07:002007-10-08T15:10:51.758-07:00Of Cowards and Betrayers....The current Democrats in Congress are dishonorable. They are worse than Republicans. Republicans may pretend to be a lot of things (straight) but for all of their venal weaknesses and illegalities, they're not very good at hiding their motives. The Democrats, on the other hand, portray themselves as the shining knights of protection but confronted with true danger, they fold up like a damaged accordion. <br /><br />I you ask me, it's a far bigger betrayal when the good guy turns out to be a coward than when the bad guy turns out to be a bad guy.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-8637206575428669552007-10-02T18:11:00.001-07:002008-12-09T03:26:50.854-08:00Don't Mess with Brown Texans.<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RwLzxq_2ykI/AAAAAAAAAGk/-skYuq5aUVc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RwLzxq_2ykI/AAAAAAAAAGk/-skYuq5aUVc/s200/images.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116920161327565378" /></a><br />Michael Chertoff, a particularly scary-looking individual, opened his big mouth and said that the borders are dirty because, basically, Mexicans are dirty. <br />"Illegal migrants really degrade the environment. I've seen pictures of human waste, garbage, discarded bottles and other human artifact in pristine areas," Chertoff said in a telephone interview. "And believe me, that is the worst thing you can do to the environment."<br /><br />What does he think these people are doing out in the deserts? Having a picnic? They're risking their lives, pendejo! Sorry they didn't have time to properly dispose of the plastic bottle that held their last drop of water before they died of thirst out in the middle of nowhere!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.kxan.com/global/story.asp?s=7159416">Well, some border town Mayors in Texas, which are predominantly Mexican-American, are paying him back.</a><br /><br />I'm not saying it's related but it should be.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-57140580764011216892007-10-01T14:57:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:26:51.185-08:00You're bothering me, I say, you're bothering me boy....<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RwF9_a_2yiI/AAAAAAAAAGU/lA6fbhts7OY/s1600-h/Foghorn+Leghorn.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RwF9_a_2yiI/AAAAAAAAAGU/lA6fbhts7OY/s200/Foghorn+Leghorn.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116509180201978402" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RwF9_q_2yjI/AAAAAAAAAGc/bD9wBqLyP9w/s1600-h/Rush+Limbaugh.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RwF9_q_2yjI/AAAAAAAAAGc/bD9wBqLyP9w/s200/Rush+Limbaugh.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116509184496945714" /></a><br /><br />Rush Limbaugh, after calling the troops who protest the war, "phony soldiers,", is now denying he ever said it. (That's what bullys do, once caught, they deny, deny, deny. "I didn't do it.") He says,<br /><br />"He has prepared a letter to be sent to the CEO of the company that syndicates this program, and that letter he asked as many senators as possible to sign, offering them the opportunity to demand of my syndicator that I be condemned for something that I did not say, which Harry Reid knows I did not say."<br /><br />In a blustering, bombastic bravado tone, rivaling only that of the legendary Foghorn Leghorn, he protested.....<br /><br />"It is unconscionable for an esteemed United States senator to launch an all-out assault on a private citizen, which is a lie from front to back, in order to cover your own actions and words, which have been the true demoralization of the US military -- and if anybody owes the military of this country an apology, Senator Reid, it is you. It is Jack Murtha. It is Dick Durbin. It is any and all who have joined your effort to secure defeat of the United States and the United States military in not only Iraq, but the war on terror. Sir, have you no decency left? Have you no shame whatsoever?"<br /><br />Then he said "hurumph" and scurried off in his high heels. At least Foghorn was funny. And not real.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-65346386718342694612007-10-01T10:35:00.001-07:002008-12-09T03:26:51.602-08:00Not that there's anything wrong with that.....<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RwEv9K_2ybI/AAAAAAAAAFc/AFFmtGvbiXc/s1600-h/Counselor2909MOS_468x365.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RwEv9K_2ybI/AAAAAAAAAFc/AFFmtGvbiXc/s320/Counselor2909MOS_468x365.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116423379640306098" /></a><br /><br /><br />All I'm saying is, this neo-con Republican party, which is running the country into the ground, seems to be made up of a lot of people who are so full of hate and self-loathing that they dump it on others in an attempt to somehow "redeem" themselves. I think the picture of Ms. Cagan speaks for itself.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-37961753680661122822007-09-26T17:57:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:26:51.694-08:00Today is a bad, disheartening and hopeless day....<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RvsIHK_2yaI/AAAAAAAAAFU/6T4PTKu9_MU/s1600-h/surprised+woman.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RvsIHK_2yaI/AAAAAAAAAFU/6T4PTKu9_MU/s320/surprised+woman.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5114690721113622946" /></a><br />Okay, so on this 26th day of the month of September, 2007, <br /><br />*The Democratically controlled House of Representatives joined the weenie Senate and voted to "condemn MoveOn.org's controversial "General Betray Us" ad that ran 16 days ago." The vote? 341-79. This Democratic House won't move towards impeaching the biggest bunch of criminals to occupy the White House but they will condemn an independent group for exercising their right to free speech. WTF?<br /><br />*The Senate passed, by a large margin, 76-22, the Lieberman-Kyl's Iran amendment which basically says, "Iran bad and our next target." Geez! Even Jim Webb didn't vote for it! Hilary did, though, Republican that she is. <br /><br />*The Democrats agreed to spend even more money on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. $190 Billion more. They could have said, "no more." but that takes a real desire to end the madness. Obviously, they are complicit in the plan to destroy the country. <br /><br />*Senator Larry Craig, he of the "wide stance, " somehow managed to hang on to his Senate seat for another day. He may actually be able to withdraw his guilty plea. That cruising in the men's room? Never happened. <br /><br />*Katie Couric spoke at the National Press Club last night. She spoke out AGAINST the war. She was acting all tough and stuff, you know, pretending to be a real journalist. She said she would, "feel totally comfortable saying any of that at some point, if required, on television." Another WTF! Oh, so she can't say that now, cause it's not "required" of her to speak the truth, but if her bosses came to her and said, "Katie, it's okay. Tell the American people the truth about this war." Then she would gladly tell us? WTF!WTF!WTF! I thought it was a journalist's job to report the truth! Obviously, she's the kind of reporter who tells the truth ONLY when her bosses require it of her! <br /> <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/26/111344/859">Blogger Kagro X at THE DAILY KOS, has an excellent diary on this topic.</a><br /><br />So today was a bad day. The Democrats broke my heart today. They broke my faith. Hopefully, I will feel differently tomorrow so I can go out there and kick some Democratic butts.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-41364836952381994132007-09-18T18:13:00.000-07:002007-09-18T18:46:56.299-07:00I'm beside myself with glee!One of my favorite Republican morons is under investigation. Rachel Paulose, she of the elaborate swearing in ceremony wherein she had not only a color guard and a professional photographer but a choir singing presumably to God in gratitude for her existence, <a href="http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/s39841.shtml">(watch the video!)</a>is under investigation for possible mishandling of classified information. Apparently she kept secret files out in the open in her office and threatened to fire a fellow attorney who pointed out to her that maybe that wasn't such a good idea. They're also investigating mistreatment towards her employees and the usage of racist terms against an African American worker. (The woman herself is Indian-American.)<br />She's just another example of the self-hating Republican. Be they ashamed of their sexuality (Larry Craig) or ashamed of the color of their skin (Alberto Gonzalez, Condi, Ms Paulose) they hide behind their American flag lapel pins and shouts of "hallelujah Lord!" hoping that somehow they can repress whatever it is about themselves that they hate. They treat others as beneath them as seat themselves atop flimsy pedestals. What a bunch of "maroons", as Bugs Bunny would say.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-76751496174653603612007-09-15T16:32:00.001-07:002008-12-09T03:26:52.042-08:00My week in front of the TV<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RuxruTPUPKI/AAAAAAAAAFM/5JJzsjSah4g/s1600-h/television(1).jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RuxruTPUPKI/AAAAAAAAAFM/5JJzsjSah4g/s320/television(1).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110578120341339298" /></a><br /><br />Let's see....<br />MONDAY: I watched HGTVs HOUSE HUNTERS and DESIGNED TO SELL. I watch these shows everyday when I get home from work. Why? I don't know. I guess it's something about having choices and taking action but I'll leave that to my shrink to figure out. Then I watched the season finale of THE CLOSER. Pretty good show. Pretty good finale. No cliff hangers, which was unusual. I tried to watch the Holly Hunter show that comes on afterwards, SAVING GRACE, but I just cannot get into it. I love Holly Hunter but I just don't like Grace. What makes her so special that God sends her an angel? What about me! If I develop a drinking and sleeping with married men problem will God send an angel to help me, too? <br /> The last straw with this show, was a scene I caught a couple of weeks ago. This actor, don't know his name but you'd recognize him if you saw him, in face he's in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 as the manager of the resort. (I didn't watch the whole thing;it's unbearable. I only watched enough to acquaint myself with a popular culture phenomenon, but I saw this actor in it.) Anyway, this actor is playing some friend of Grace's who's has to put his beloved cat to sleep. He shows up at Grace's drunk and depressed about his cat. Grace wants to comfort him but the only way she knows how is to strip naked, straddle and seduce him on her living room floor. It was an uncomfortable scene to watch, especially since this guy always plays the nerdy dad or neighbor and I'd just seen him in HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2, for God's sake! And now I see his paunchy white gut naked, while he rolls around on the floor with an equally naked Holly Hunter? No thanks. <br /><br />TUESDAY:I watched SCI FI's, EUREKA. It was pretty good last season, but this season has been uneven. They're trying to develop a continuing storyline but it's been very unsatisfying. Last season's finale suggested things that would happen in the future but this season seems to be ignoring all of those events. And where is Matt Frewer? He was a big part of last season and he's only been in one episode this season and then he disappeared. Weren't he and Jo supposed to continue their tentative romance? Instead they've paired Jo with a generic good looking actor who's BORING and a bad actor. And where's Deborah Farentino? She's the evil spy but she's disappeared too, though she turns up in flashbacks. She's part of the this "developing storyline" yet she's gone. What? They couldn't afford her? She didn't like Canada? STOOPID and yet I watch.<br /><br />WEDNESDAY: Speaking of stoopid, Wednesday is more SCI FI Channel and GHOSTHUNTERS. The most aggravating show on TV. They never find anything! Well, I take that back, on a couple of shows, they've found "something," but mainly it's nothing but a lot of "did you hear that?" and "did you see that?" and "Dude, I swear, I saw a shadow, or something, overthere." There are usually some EVP's, paranormal voice recordings. These can be creepy sounding but it always bugs me because what I hear as breaths and grunts they always turn into ominous words. "I think it's saying, "Get out!" And they say this to the homeowner or whoever has asked them to come investigate their spooky sounds! Don't tell a person who thinks their house is haunted that you recorded a creepy voice telling them to 'GET OUT!' Nuts! <br /> The lead investigators are Grant and Jason, the good cop, bad cop of the ectoplasmic world. I don't like Jason. He never smiles and is a hard ass and he's always the one who "interprets" what he thinks the EVP is saying. What is he, a sadist? Grant always goes along with whatever Jason says. The two of them always hint at why they became interested in the paranormal. They've both had "significant" encounters but they don't tell us what they are. Why not? Did the ghost tell you not to? After watching reruns of GHOSTHUNTERS, I realized I'd forgotten to watch RESCUE ME. Luckily, FX repeats it a lot, so I'll catch it later. <br /><br />THURSDAY: I flipped through channels and didn't find anything interesting to watch. <br /><br />FRIDAY:Usually, I watch TLC's, WHAT NOT TO WEAR, but it was a rerun, so I watched VH1's, ROCK OF LOVE. I hate this show but I can't look away. Bret Michaels constantly wears a kerchief around his head cause it's his "signature look." But I think it's cause of, "thinning hair." <br /> In this episode, Bret Michaels narrows the list of ladies, or "ladies" down to three. They go to Vegas and two of them get fall down drunk, then Bret spends two different nights with two different girls. I don't get it? Did he have sex with them? Is that in the contract they sign to be on the show? STOOPID but highly entertaining. Next week we meet the parents of the girls and the previews looked "white trashy" good!Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-8514219104632936732007-09-12T17:53:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:26:52.282-08:00Global Warming? I'll get to that later.<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RuiS_DPUPJI/AAAAAAAAAFE/708XCLJAm6A/s1600-h/we+can+do+it+smaller.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RuiS_DPUPJI/AAAAAAAAAFE/708XCLJAm6A/s320/we+can+do+it+smaller.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109495389150788754" /></a><br />You'd think that comparing the growing problem of global warming to a nuclear war would have everyone running out to buy fluorescent lightbulbs and trading their cars in for hybrids, but no, it's just another story that people see and say, "oh my." and then return to their lives. Why are we not worried? See this sentence from the story:<br /><br />"Overall, it said 65 countries were likely to lose over 15 percent of their agricultural output by 2100 at a time when the world's population was expected to head from six billion now to nine billion people."<br /><br />WHAT YEAR? 2100? OH, WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF TIME. HELL, I'LL BE DEAD BY THEN, WHY WORRY ABOUT IT NOW?<br /><br />All of us reading this story are going to be dead by 2100. The year 2100 is too far into the future for us to worry about. That's how people are, we procrastinate. Don't tell us it's not going to effect us until 2100, tell us about how it's effecting us now! That's the only way you're going to get our attention! Remember, a great number of people on this planet can barely see through to next month much less the year 2100. Break it down into bite size pieces. 2007-2010-2015...Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-65931897137028051422007-09-12T11:55:00.000-07:002007-09-12T17:21:38.871-07:00Since when do Facts Matter?Following the M.O. of the Republican party, Thompson is shouting out untruths hoping no one will notice. Unfortunately, it works every time. Regardless of the physical proof provided by video, audio and print, the facts remain hidden by the loud assertions of dishonest cretins. Down the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole">memory hole</a> it goes.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-88235509259374694612007-09-07T12:33:00.001-07:002008-12-09T03:26:52.419-08:00Where's that Karmic reward when you need it?<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RuMHW87XdcI/AAAAAAAAAE0/I6BfMm7cSIc/s1600-h/KARMIC+reward.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RuMHW87XdcI/AAAAAAAAAE0/I6BfMm7cSIc/s320/KARMIC+reward.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107934493261919682" /></a><br />After making a fool of himself to an international audience (again), Bush took off from the podium, in the wrong direction. (again. Remember China?) <br /><br />"Then, speech done, Bush confidently headed out—the wrong way. He strode away from the lectern on a path that would have sent him over a steep drop. Howard and others redirected the president to center stage, where there were steps leading down to the floor of the theater."<br /><br />A "steep drop" indeed.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-1205374076348426792007-09-07T10:40:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:26:52.564-08:00Big Bloated Blowhards<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RuGN087XdbI/AAAAAAAAAEs/sw4odrPRWFY/s1600-h/fredthompson_stageright.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/RuGN087XdbI/AAAAAAAAAEs/sw4odrPRWFY/s320/fredthompson_stageright.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107519393262695858" /></a><br />I have had it with Fred Thompson! I've had it with all of the ass kissing Republicans and their propanganda that seeks to destroy this country! They don't like dissent because it threatens them! They don't like people to have their freedom because it threatens them! <br />In this article, Freddie, as he was known before his father-in-law at the time told him he had to change his name if he wanted to go into politics, this was the father of his high school girlfriend whom he got pregnant and married when he was seventeen....anyway, in this article, Freddie, "repeatedly warned against the perils of a "weak and divided" nation, raised the specter of unspecified terrorists with suitcase bombs, and expressed a willingness to employ nuclear weapons against Iran."<br />Same old M.O. Scare the sheep and they will do anything you tell them to and damn them if it doesn't work. When did we become this nation of wussies?Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15527066.post-56104261378186556972007-09-05T11:55:00.000-07:002008-12-09T03:26:52.677-08:00Republican Karma?<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/Rt7_287XdaI/AAAAAAAAAEk/m762P1PyJXM/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5MzhqujspLI/Rt7_287XdaI/AAAAAAAAAEk/m762P1PyJXM/s320/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106800347017868706" /></a><br /><br />Republicans seem to be experiencing mercury in retrograde.Sir Evelyn De La Fontaine, Esq.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01457759684561831034noreply@blogger.com0