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Got this in my email this morning and its so great I had to share. Of course that will make it very clear which side I’m on

Since we are not going to get gasoline back to $1.50 per gallon and coffee to $2.00 per pound maybe this would be a solution we could live with.

DIVORCE AGREEMENT –

This is so incredibly well-put, and I can hardly believe it’s by a young person, a student!!  Whatever he runs for, I’ll vote for him!

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, regressives, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et. al.:

We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce.  I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.

Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let’s just end it on friendly terms.  We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.     Here is a model separation agreement:

1.  Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion.  That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement.  After that, it should be relatively easy.  Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides had such distinct and disparate tastes.

2.  We don’t like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.

3.  You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.

4.  Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.

5.  We’ll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.

6.  You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O’Donnell.  You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.

7.  We’ll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.

8.  You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.

9.  We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s and rednecks.

10.  We’ll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood .

11.  You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.

12.  You can have the peace-niks and war protesters.  When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we’ll help provide them security.

13.  We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values.

14.  You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLain.  You can also have the U.N., but we will no longer be paying the bill.

15.  We’ll keep the SUV’s, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars.  You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.

16.  You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors..

17.  We’ll continue to believe healthcare is an earned luxury and not a right.

18.  We’ll keep “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “The National Anthem.”

19.  I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute “Imagine”, “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing”, “Kum Ba Ya,” or “We Are the World”.

20.  We’ll practice trickledown economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.

21.  Since it often so offends you, we’ll keep our history, our name and our constitution and our flag.

22.  Would you agree to this?  If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete.  In the spirit of friendly parting, I’ll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.

Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American

P.S.:  Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and Jane Fonda with you.

P.S.S..:  And you won’t have to “Press 1 for English” when you call our country..

I realize my readers have come to expect book reviews and author interviews when they stop by.  In a way, today’s post isn’t too far off, as Amy Winehouse wrote many wonderful songs.  Comments today have ranged from “what a waste of great talent” to “I’m surprised she lasted this long”.  Almost everyone mentions the drugs that were so present in the past few years.  I have read only a few comments that actually acknowledge Amy–not her talent, not the drugs–Amy Winehouse, a young woman who fought demons much deeper than many of us can imagine.

You see, drug and alcohol use aren’t the problem in many instances, they are merely symptoms of something deeper, something a person finds too strong to fight.  Amy herself gave us a clue to this pain, scattered throughout the songs she wrote:  “My tears dry on their own.”  “I tread a troubled track.”  “I’m not going to spend ten weeks having everyone think I’m on the mend.”  “I don’t want to drink again.  I just want a friend.”

The first time I saw Amy perform, my mothering instinct kicked into overdrive.  Take the time to view a few of her live performance videos.  Amy always took a deep breath and physically straightened as she entered the stage–an act so common with someone about to face something they fear.  Each song ending saw a look of pure relief, a silent “I made it through”.  Her eyes did not seek out the audience, but submissively looked away, as one fearing rejection.  Pictures abound of this beautiful woman–and in only one did I see a real smile–one that lit up her face and crinkled her eyes.  Maybe it is the Psychologist in me, or the involvement I’ve had with others like her, who tried to fight their demons with drugs and alcohol.

Amy was one of those old souls who found herself in a world beyond her understanding–a world that requires an inner hardness that old souls seem incapable of  developing.  Look around you,, if you want to see what I mean, wee all know someone who has had the drugs or alcohol become their existence.  Think back to before the drugs and you will see what I mean.  Many of these individuals were those who couldn’t “fit” into the “competitive, do better than everyone no matter who gets hurt” lifestyle that seems so prevalent today.  These were the ones who reached out to the outcasts, gave all to see someone smile–the gentle souls who tried to make the world a bit kinder.

Is Amy Winehouse’s death a waste of talent–no, for what she gave us, however briefly, will remain. giving us moments of joy and pain, comfort–and maybe understanding.  Amy tried to tell the world what she felt–but few, if any, heard her.  She did not hide her fear, her confusion, but few, if any, saw.  Amy’s death wasn’t a waste of talent–it was the loss of a special individual who could have taught the world love, compassion and looking beyond the obvious.

Amy Winehouse may you find the peace that so often deluded you here.  Tonight I mourn the passing of, not a star with great talent, but a young woman who had so much to give if only someone would have listened.

Guest post by Joyce Anthony – http://joyce-anthony.blogspot.com

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable

April 16, 2010
for Immediate Release
Contact: Earl Ofari Hutchinson
323-383-6145

Press Advisory:

Civil Rights Leaders Demand Orange County GOP Fire GOP Official For Ape Depiction of President Obama and his Family

Issue Official Apology to President Obama

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders on Saturday, April 16, demanded that Orange County GOP Chair Scott Baugh immediately fire Marilyn Davenport from her post on the Orange County GOP Central Committee. Davenport sent out a racist, inflammatory, and despicable photo depicting President Obama and his family as apes. Davenport’s depiction and Baugh’s inaction mock the GOP’s repeated contention that the GOP vigorously condemns racism and has launched an aggressive minority outreach effort.

“Davenport’s vile, crude, racist depiction of the President and his family,” says Hutchinson,” demands immediate action by the GOP. Davenport must go, and the GOP’s failure to oust her and issue an apology to the President and his family reinforces the notion that the GOP tacitly condones racist word and acts by its officials.

Endorsers:

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, President Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable

Dwayne Wyatt, L.A Black Employees for Fairness

Lita Herron, President Youth Advocacy Coalition

Eddie Jones, President Los Angeles Civil Rights Assn.

Reverend EW Tuloss National Action Network (Al Sharpton) West Coast Representative

Pedro Baez, Founder Voice of the People

Willis Edwards, NAACP National Board Member

I admit – I’m a huge fan of the older movie stars and some of the old TV shows. I’ve had fun watching short excerpts from What’s My Line and want to share some of those. Here’s one for your watch enjoyment -

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Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here’s Lucy and Life With Lucy. One of the most popular and influential stars in America during her lifetime, with one of Hollywood’s longest careers,^[2] especially on television, Ball began acting in the 1930s, becoming both a radio actress and B-movie star in the 1940s, and then a television star during the 1950s. She was still making films in the 1960s and 1970s.

Ball received thirteen Emmy Award nominations and four wins.^[3] She was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986 and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989.^[4]

In 1929, Ball landed work as a model and later began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name Dianne Belmont. She appeared in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures. Ball was labeled as the “Queen of the Bs” (referring to her many roles in B-films). In 1951, Ball was pivotal in the creation of the television series I Love Lucy. The show co-starred her then husband, Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo and Vivian Vance and William Frawley as Ethel and Fred Mertz, the Ricardos’ landlords and friends. The show ended in 1957 after 180 episodes. They then changed the format a little – lengthening the time of the show from 30 minutes to 60 minutes (the first one went 75 mins), adding some characters, altering the storyline somewhat, and renaming the show from “I Love Lucy”, to “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”, which ran for three seasons (1957–1960) and 13 episodes. Ball went on to star in two more successful television series: The Lucy Show, which ran on CBS from 1962 to 1968 (156 Episodes), and Here’s Lucy from 1968 to 1974 (144 episodes). Her last attempt at a television series was a 1986 show called Life with Lucy – which failed miserably after 8 episodes aired although 13 were produced.

Ball met and eloped with Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz in 1940. On July 17, 1951, almost 40 years old, Ball gave birth to their first child, Lucie Désirée Arnaz.^[5] A year and a half later, Ball gave birth to their second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr.^[6] Ball and Arnaz divorced on May 4, 1960.

On April 26, 1989, Ball died of a dissecting aortic aneurysm, at age 77.^[7] At the time of her death, she had been married to her second husband, standup comedian and business partner Gary Morton, for twenty-eight years.^[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_ball