Motley Moose – Archive

Interrogatories

Today’s holidays include National Coconut Cream Pie day and No Socks day. Do you like coconut cream pie, and if not, what is your preferred cream pie?

What color of socks aren’t you wearing today? Do they match?

Do they even have school nurses anymore? Do you appreciate yours?

Does your mental age match your physical age? At what age level does your sense of humor reside?

The Twitter Emitter

Maybe if all those female soldiers who were assaulted had a gun they would… #Nevermind

— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) May 7, 2013

Stocks are at record highs. Home prices are rising. Unemployment’s dropping. Clearly, Obama has no idea how to run the country.

— Donald J. Drumpf (@RealDonalDrumpf) May 7, 2013

NASDAQ may be preparing to use chemical weapons.

— David Waldman (@KagroX) May 7, 2013

BREAKING: US and Russian announce they will pressure Syrian regime “to make peaceful regime change in strongly-worded email.”

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 7, 2013

Any president has to be held up to public scrutiny and have their actions questioned. But the hate and racism are not part of the deal…

— GStuedler (@GStuedler) May 7, 2013

Dow closes above 15K for the first time ever – all under the watchful eye of President Bush…I mean, Obama, that socialist Kenyan.

— Highly scatological (@RaisingOneBrow) May 7, 2013

I was getting annoyed with whoever made their phone’s notification sound birds chirping until I realized that we had opened up the windows.

— a brantley (@mr_brantley) May 7, 2013

A fart is just the contented sigh of a well-fed soul. #DailyAffirmationTweet

— Joseph Scrimshaw (@JosephScrimshaw) May 7, 2013

Pssst – Mark Sanford just sneaked out of South Carolina to visit another election.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) May 7, 2013

UM: How many hearings did House Republicans hold on the bad intelligence that led to the Iraq War and 4,487 dead soldiers?

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 7, 2013

The Michigan GOP believes in smaller government the way your dealer prefers selling dime bags. detroitnews.com/article/201305…

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 7, 2013

Mark Sanford hopes you did not #VoteColbertBusch today, as he needs the Congressional expense account for his honeymoon.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 7, 2013

Remember when press wanted every detail of Hillary Clinton’s medical records? Christie has secret surgery under fake name & he’s a hero.

— Teresa(@TeresaKopec) May 7, 2013

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Good morning, Moosekind. Don’t forget to let your peeps know where to find you.

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.

Re-creation of burned Greyhound Freedom Rider bus, National Civil Rights Museum

The recreation of the burned out Greyhound bus pictured above doesn’t begin to capture the horror of the actual event, that took place on Mother’s Day outside of Anniston, Alabama.

Perhaps this actual photo illustrates more of the tale that is told by those Freedom riders who were on the bus that day.

It is May. Springtime. A month of hope and rebirth. It is also a month of memories that we need to revisit yearly until the seeds of hate no longer can sow sorrow in the U.S.A.

I was only 13 years old in May of 1961. Not too young to be concerned with civil rights however, and I looked up to those young people, only a few years older than I, who packed up their bags and headed off to do battle against racial segregation.

They were black, and white, and they knew they were facing possible death.

Yet they got on buses and headed south.

Okay, sure … “Republicans run amok” can be entertaining, “Republicans acting stupid” makes us feel superior, “Republicans in disarray” can be energizing in that it gives us hope that we can defeat them electorally.

However, it is one thing to point out the flaws and strong points of our political opponents in order to strategize over how to beat them … it is another thing entirely to admire their hatefulness and divisiveness and call one of them the “most talented and fearless Republican I’ve seen in the last 30 years”.

Interrogatories

For National Teacher’s Day, what teacher(s) did you have that made you interested in something that you thought you could never be interested in?

For Roast Leg of Lamb day, how do you like your leg of lamb? (Vegetarians may skip this question or describe their ideal salad.) 😉

Do you like getting dressed up, or are you happier in casual? What does your work require?

Do you think Pluto was treated unfairly and deserves to be a planet?

The Twitter Emitter

I can see how typing the word “prolly” instead of “probably” is a huge time saver. Much like the cotton gin.

— Steve Carell (@SteveCarell) April 29, 2013

So you’re going to be the first troop into Syria, right @lindseygrahamsc ? You could probably start your invasion now and we’ll catch up.

— Karl (@JerryMander) May 6, 2013

That awkward moment when Eric Cantor pledges to have another vote to repeal Obamacare and no one can remember if it’s the 38th or 39th.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 6, 2013

Oh by the way, America, while they have you focused on Benghazi, Congress is trying to take away your overtime pay.

— allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) May 6, 2013

Lesson of the day: the only thing standing between you and fabulous wealth is a truly inventive conspiracy theory.

— Hunter (@HunterDK) May 6, 2013

Remember when the GOP attacked Bush when 60 were killed in embassy/consulate attacks btw 2002-08 pre-#Benghazi?

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) May 6, 2013

“Pope threatens to excommunicate Irish PM for promoting abortion legislation.” WHERE ARE THE EXCOMMUNICATIONS FOR PEDOPHILE PRIESTS?!

— God (@TheGoodGodAbove) May 6, 2013

#ThatAwkwardMoment when Republicans argue that 15 is too young to get contraception then give a 5-year-old a gun

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) May 6, 2013

It’s not too late. Reading one good book can erase the damage of ten reality shows.

— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) May 7, 2013

Patina makes things more expensive, unless you’re talking toenails.

— Andrew Gatto (@AndrewGatto) May 7, 2013

  Make sure you let your peeps know where to find you!  

The planets Earth and Saturn are currently aligned in the same general direction from the Sun. April 28th was the date of the most direct alignment called opposition. Saturn was in the opposite direction of the Sun as viewed from Earth. Saturn rises in the east each evening at about the same time the Sun sets. By late evening it is positioned high and is a pleasing sight in a telescope.

I am fortunate to have an account with the University of Iowa’s Robotic Telescope called Rigel. It is located at the Winer Observatory near Sonoita in southern AZ. The children of the Rigel director were in my physics classes years ago. He kindly gives me the account for my use. On the night of May 4, the Rigel telescope obtained this image for me of the planet Saturn.

How cool is that? I got to use a telescope over a thousand miles away to get this image. What if I could use a spacecraft actually orbiting Saturn to see images up close and in great detail? I would want to see some of the fine structure details of the rings. Galileo called the rings ‘ears’ when he first saw them in 1610.

I have done just that. I gathered several beautiful pictures for you of the rings up close and personal. Would you like to see?

Sound great. Let’s go see them.

I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I featured this past week in “Cheers & Jeers”. For example …..

The entertainment world is full of surprises …..

OLDER-YOUNGER SISTERS? – veteran TV and stage performer Sandy Duncan and the author/magazine editor Tina Brown.

   

OK, you’ve been warned – here is this week’s tomfoolery material that I posted.

I have to admit that rather than being angry about Republican attempts to lure black voters by twisting and spinning and blatantly lying about who they are as a party and who and what they stand for, I have been watching their contortions with an almost unholy glee.

They have had it so easy fogging the minds of low-information white folks who consist on a steady diet of Fox news, conspiracy theory, and panic-driven racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia, that blinded by buying their own propaganda and bigotry, they have bought the package they sell and continue to make futile attempts to steer us “blah” folks to vote for them, even as they spit on us in public on a daily basis.