Motley Moose – Archive

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Yesterday, ThinkProgress posted “ThankProgress: 9 Things Progressives Can Be Thankful For“, a list of things that we made progress on over this past year.

Here is their list (click the link for details):

1. States are enacting protections for undocumented immigrants.

2. Same-sex couples have more access to marriage benefits than ever before.

3. More workers are getting raises and taking sick leave.

4. Uninsured Americans are signing up for health insurance.

5. The U.S. is taking steps to address the consequences of climate change.

6. States are enacting prison reform.

7. College activists across the country are fighting back against rape culture.

8. Solar power is on the rise and prices keep dropping.

9. Number of homeless Americans on the decline.

When you look at that list, you could just as easily say “but … but … we didn’t get it all!!!”. And you would be right … we didn’t get it all … but we did make progress.

Interrogatories

How was dinner? Did it treat you well?

What is the first video game you ever played? What was the last? Where/are you any good?

Have you ever square danced? Line danced? Any other form of group dancing?

Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? Will you shop today (Black Friday)? Did you shop on Thanksgiving Day?

What do you do with your change (coins) every day?

The Twitter Emitter

Buy stock in George Zimmerman lawyers…

— Political Line (@PoliticaILine) November 26, 2013

Paul Ryan: "Pope Francis wants the Catholic Church to be 'a missionary church focused on the poor'? No way! Jesus would never want that."

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 27, 2013

"Hobby Lobby" is probably their secret name for the room where they keep their Gimp.

— David Waldman (@KagroX) November 27, 2013

Nothing quite says "I don't worship capitalism" like freaking out when the Pope says you worship capitalism.

— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) November 27, 2013

Limbaugh rejects Pope's call for “dignified work, education & health care” for all, asks sluts to send him sex-tapes 4 birth control instead

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) November 27, 2013

At least Dayna Morales, the lying un-tipped New Jersey waitress, can take solace in the fact that Lara Logan still believes her.

— TBogg (@tbogg) November 27, 2013

Mitch McConnell: "If the Senate doesn't pass a resolution, the pardoning of turkeys will be unconsitutional under Advise & Consent Clause."

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 27, 2013

When you see my face on a tortilla or a grilled cheese sandwich that means it’s my lunch, leave it alone.

— Jesus Christ (@Jesus_M_Christ) November 27, 2013

What does the Fox say? Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben Ghazi.

— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) November 28, 2013

Next up on Fox News: We'll interview 10 death row inmates who claim innocence who are upset that Obama pardoned turkeys instead of them.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 28, 2013

Good morning, Moosekind. TGIF! Hope it has been a good week for everyone.

Interrogatories

If you’re an old movie fan, which movie studio’s output (MGM, Warner, Paramount, RKO, etc.) your favorite?

Who was your favorite comedy team or troupe?

Are you obedient of the speed limit, even when traveling long distances? How many speeding tickets have you received?

What football teams are you rooting for today?

The Twitter Emitter

I am thankful for adjectives.

— David Lubar (@davidlubar) November 26, 2013

The South will rise again. But this time, the odds are it will accidentally shoot itself.

— David Waldman (@KagroX) November 26, 2013

@KagroX Why dont you ever tweet about the stories where people use guns to successfully defend themselves from bullet ricochets? #Bias

— Political Line (@PoliticaILine) November 26, 2013

If a zygote bypassing implantation inside a stranger keeps you up at night, but not hungry kids next door, you may be anti-choice #prochoice

— Liz (@childfreediva) November 27, 2013

What kind of vodka did the pilgrims drink at the first Thanksgiving?

— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) November 27, 2013

I think we should have a public vote on whether to legalise cannabis. We could call it the 'Reefer-endum'.

— Adam Roberts (@arrroberts) November 27, 2013

What about MY first amendment rights to shame MY female employees? #tcot

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 27, 2013

Does America manufacture more outrage than any other product?

— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) November 27, 2013

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Click Here: With the match, $1 will provide 18 meals.

When I was asked to do a blog post for a Feeding America Blogathon a few years ago, I set my Googles to the task: first, to find out what Feeding America was, and second, to find out a little bit more about food security in America and the food stamp program, SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program).

Feeding America has some pretty simple origins:

In the late 1960s, John van Hengel, a retired businessman in Phoenix, Arizona began volunteering at a local soup kitchen, and began soliciting food donations for the kitchen. He ended up with far more food than the kitchen could use in its operations. Around this time, he spoke with one of the clients, who told him that she regularly fed her family with discarded items from the grocery store’s garbage bins. She told him that the food quality was fine, but that there should be a place where unwanted food could be stored and later accessed by people who needed it, similar to how banks store money.

Van Hengel began to actively solicit this unwanted food from grocery stores, local gardens, and nearby produce farms. His effort led to the creation of St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix, the nation’s first food bank.

(I want to pause here for a minute to think about a time when a food kitchen had too much food).

Interrogatories

Have you ever been to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade? How about the Hollywood one? The Rose Parade? Any parades?

Did your family follow politics when you were growing up? Do you remember watching the conventions and debates with them as a child? What was that like?

Do you prefer things to be scented or unscented?

How worried are you about the Supreme Court’s ultimate decision over this religious exemption?

The Twitter Emitter

#ThanksgivingTips Be sure to yell when arguing about Obama with young, liberal relatives. First one to raise their voice wins the argument!

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 26, 2013

Walmart could pay its employees a living wage if it would stop trying to make some of the richest Americans richer. http://t.co/esn92X6mnj

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 26, 2013

Obama's approval ratings fell again on news that he's trying to make healthcare affordable for all and prevent nuclear war.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 26, 2013

Must be hard to be a neocon at #Christmas. Having to cross PEACE off every card and scrawling WAR instead #WarOnChristmas

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) November 26, 2013

Sobering to know in a few days you'll be sitting at the dinner table with family members who don't care if you die from lack of healthcare.

— eclecticbrotha (@eclecticbrotha) November 26, 2013

I don't care what the Supreme Court says, corporations should have the right to a religion when they also get the right to go to jail.

— glenn o'brien (@lordrochester) November 26, 2013

There is no war on Christmas, dammit, but the war on Thanxgiving is REAL. The impoverished in America have nothing to be thankful for.

— David (@ahzoov) November 26, 2013

Ted Cruz believes that life begins when your boss says it begins. http://t.co/pWeyNOYufc

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 26, 2013

Religious exemptions are the road back to feudalism.

— Brent S. Sirota (@BrentSirota) November 26, 2013

If the Supreme Court allows religion in the workplace first thing I'm doing start a religion where work is prohibited on Monday mornings…

— Political Line (@PoliticaILine) November 26, 2013

Good morning, Moosekind, and welcome to the pre-Thanksgiving, in-transit check-in. Clan iriti are headed to Memphis to spend the holiday with family. Hope yours is marvelous!

The common Moose, Alces alces, unlike other members of the deer family, is a solitary animal that doesn’t form herds. Not so its rarer but nearest relative, Alces purplius, the Motley Moose. Though sometimes solitary, the Motley Moose herds in ever shifting groups at the local watering hole to exchange news and just pass the time.

Champagne Ellison, San Jose State University senior, at protest rally (Karl Mondan)



Colleges and universities are supposed to be “institutions of higher learning”. They are also places we expect our children to be safe. Yet once again there are headlines highlighting racism on campus.

No – not in Alabama or Mississippi, or Georgia.

This time it’s at San Jose State in California.

I’m tired of people pointing at the south as the last bastion of racism in the U.S.

I’m also tired of headlines using the term “hazing”. It diminishes the severity of the racism.