Showing posts with label Brian Schatz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brian Schatz. Show all posts

Thursday, February 06, 2025

Bobservations

One morning in Savannah we went out to breakfast at b. matthew’s, a rustic little eatery on Bay St; we chose it because we have a friend named Byron Matthews and I joked that he was the secret owner. The real story is that Brian Matthew was a baker and had owned a bakery at that location for many years and when he sold it and it became a restaurant, the owners kept the name.

But I digress … Carlos ordered a ham-and-cheese omelet and grits and when it arrived and he began eating it, he told me he thought it was fish.

“Why would it be fish?”

“I don’t know but it takes like fish.”

“Well, I doubt they’d give you a ham-and-cheese omelet and accidentally make it with fish.”

“Taste it.”

It was ham; bless his heart.

Later in the day he inexplicably ordered a ham sandwich at a small café and I questioned him about ordering fish twice in one day.

This Tuxedo Says is from July 2020 … Ain’t it funny how government—made up of mostly old white men who think they control the bodies of more than half the electorate—works?

Just a thought … on March 21, 1933, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as chancellor of Germany. The same day he pardoned 8,000 people who had committed violent acts starting with the failed Hitler coup in November 1923.

If you don’t learn from history you are doomed to repeat it … and we did.

Mississippi Democratic State Senator Bradford Blackmon introduced the "Contraception Begins at Erection Act" to troll Republican anti-abortion laws that claim life begins at conception. The bill would make it illegal for men to "discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo." The bill, of course, will not pass in the GOP-controlled Legislature but Blackmon knew that.

Smart move, sir. Well-played.

Oh look!! Nothing says Happy Birthday like a  box of balloons and some silky-smooth caramel birthday cakes!!

Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker has ordered that everyone who took part in the January 6th insurrection be banned from working in state jobs in Illinois—undermining The Felon’s attempt to give them all a fresh start.

It's time that every Democratic Governor issued the exact same order. Make these traitors pay.

I'm not explaining the economics of tariffs to people who think workplace diversity crashes planes.

If you liked Bishop Mariann Budde when she took on The Felon right to his face, you love her even more if you didn’t know this:

Did you know that for 25 years Matthew Shepard had no permanent resting place due to concerns that his grave would be vandalized and desecrated? And that when Bishop Budde learned of this she invited the Shepard’s to inter him inside the Washington National Cathedral and officiated the service that welcomed Matthew to his final resting place?

Today’s so-called “Christians” need to listen and learn … if they can.

It's now clear that the 47th President of the USA is an even bigger disgrace than the 45th president.

Remember that Pete Buttigieg is a DEI hire and there was not one plane crash on his watch

Look! An actual Democrat with a plan … Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii has vowed to put a “blanket hold” on all of The Felon’s State Department nominees until the administration’s attack on USAID [United States Agency for International Development] a humanitarian organization ends.

Such a hold would halt the Senate’s ability to move bills quickly and require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.

Thanks for taking a stand, sir.

Noah Luis Brown was discovered at age 17 through Instagram and a month later he was on the Louis Vuitton catwalk in Paris; cool story, but Would You Hit It?

Friday, March 17, 2017

I Didn't Say It ....

John Barrowman turned this week, and launched a new T-shirt campaign supporting transgender equality:

“Our transgender friends and family need our help and support as a lot of decisions are going to be made on their behalf that don’t take their needs and rights into consideration. Most of us have the luxury of being who we are and living our truth. We must stand in solidarity with those who are not as lucky… Let’s show our support for our transgender family because it was never about bathrooms.”

We all know it’s about fear and transphobia and ignorance.
Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] Administrator, on whether or not carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to climate change:

"I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see."

I mean, we’ve been hearing for decades about pollution, ozone layers, global warming, automobile emissions, factory emissions, and this tool is in denial because, to be enlightened would mean his and _____’s buddies would make a few less coins doing their business.
Brian Schatz, Democratic Senator from Hawaii, responding to Pruitt:

"Anyone who denies over a century's worth of established science and basic facts is unqualified to be the administrator of the EPA. Now more than ever, the Senate needs to stand up to Scott Pruitt and his dangerous views."

No amount of corporate wealth will save the planet when asshats like Pruitt are in charge.
Resist.
Charlie Hunnam, on what he does to keep his body in shape for his movies:

“I’m interested in having a high fitness level across the board. Running, swimming, jumping rope, hiking, jiu-jitsu—I try to do it all. I also try to make love as often as I can. That’s an important part of fitness.”

If I can ever be of service, Charlie, call me. I’d enjoy the workout myself.
Just sayin’.
Van Jones, news commentator, on _____ driving liberals insane:

“I mean that there are two ways that Trump can be normalized. One is for us just to get used to him saying crazy things, lying, and attacking people, and that’s a big danger. There’s a more insidious danger, which is a danger of his becoming normalized at an emotional and social level. He is completely fear driven, he is completely polarizing, he is completely caught up in his own drama, and I’m starting to see liberals act the same way. We’re almost trying to fight polarization with polarization at this point, and I’m afraid that we’re feeding what we’re fighting. .... There’s always a danger that you become the thing that you’re fighting. We could absolutely oppose all of his policies and his crazy personality, but, at the end of the day, we’re trying to assemble a governing majority. You can take your eyes off that prize. ...  I’m focused on trying to figure out how do we fight him but do so in a way that leaves a bridge open to definitely motivating more liberals, but also, understanding and converting more people who are right now in the Trump camp.

He's right; we need to focus on the bigger picture than rant and rave at idiotic deflections that _____ uses. And we need to work, work, to find people who will do in office what we need and want them to do. And if someone isn't working for We The People either Red or Blue, Vote Them Out.
PS Van Jones is hot. Just sayin'.