Motley Moose – Archive

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By: inoljt, http://mypolitikal.com/

Great Britain is a democracy and a country dedicated to helping spread liberty around the world.

At least today. There used to be a time when Great Britain was not a friend to democracy. Indeed, there used to be a very undemocratic thing called the British Empire.

One of the last great British colonies was a city called Hong Kong.

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I am sitting here pondering the power and/or worth of an apology.

Wondering when something that is deplorable beyond any measure of reason has been apologized for…is it ever really accepted? Should it be?

What has this subject in mind is a blog entry I just read from Alan Chambers, the President of Exodus International.

Yeah, THAT place.

The hateful organization that pushed the Ex-Gay/Gay Reparative Therapy crap onto untold numbers of victims.

What I read was an apology from him to the LGBT Community.

I feel like I am in Bizarro world.

Some midweek fluff for your enjoyment. 🙂

The sun has set, but night has not yet fallen. It’s the suspended hour… The hour when one finally finds oneself in renewed harmony with the world and the light. L’Heure Bleue is the moment when the sun disappears beneath the horizon and the sky is painted with night’s velvet. It is an atmosphere, an inexpressible rendering exceptional moments.

That’s from the website of parfumier Guerlain, which has been making a scent called L’Heure Bleue since 1912, and I think it’s a lovely description of the magic that happens at the end of the day, when the world holds its breath and, just for a moment, time stands still.

L’heure bleue in Venice.

Interrogatories

Do you like camping?

If so, to what level do you rough it? Tents? Trailer? Cabin? Where is the best place you ever camped?

It’s National Dry Martini Day. Tell me what you think a martini is.

I just learned today that men are oppressed. Men, please tell me how you are oppressed. Women, please tell me your favorite tools of oppression.

The Twitter Emitter

Pretty safe bet that the conservatives on the Supreme Court will do more actual legislating this year than the conservatives in Congress.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 18, 2013

@AriMelber: "Are we a democracy where voters pick politicians, or where politicians pick their voters?"

— Touré (@Toure) June 18, 2013

@AriMelber: "Are we a democracy where voters pick politicians, or where politicians pick their voters?"

— Touré (@Toure) June 18, 2013

Sometimes Jesus asks himself, "What would some self-righteous hypocrite do?"

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) June 18, 2013

House GOP: "Our bill will ban abortion after 20 weeks with exceptions in the case of rape, subject to the approval of the rapist of course."

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) June 18, 2013

Masturbation isn't a sin if you're a fetus. So many rules…

— Tom Wellborn (@TLW3) June 18, 2013

American prisons, i.e. the African American Isolation Program.

— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) June 18, 2013

House GOP on a pretty strict schedule now: meaningless legislation votes, pointless repeal votes, name things after Reagan, repeat cycle.

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) June 18, 2013

I think a lot of people touting CBO report that immigration reform will reduce deficit are forgetting that many immigrants have brown skin.

— rob delaney (@robdelaney) June 18, 2013

What medical school did these congressmen go to? The same one in the movie "Dead Ringers"?

— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) June 19, 2013

I’m glad banning abortions created all those new jobs.

— Larry Madill (@larrymadill) June 18, 2013

I see that the GOP rebranding is moving along nicely. #abortionbill

— Frank Vdl (@fvdlfvdl) June 18, 2013

So what are my duties as an apologist for the surveillance state? Should I call people randomly and say, "they're listening, sorry" ?

— rootless (@root_e) June 18, 2013

As it has unfolded, but one word comes to mind on the Greenwald, @Guardian scoop – Breitbartian.

— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) June 19, 2013

For those who are new … we discuss books.  I list what I’m reading, and people comment with what they’re reading.  Sometimes, on Sundays, I post a special edition on a particular genre or topic.

If you like to trade books, try bookmooch

I’ve written some book reviews on Yahoo Voices:

Book reviews on Yahoo

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.

Nomination by convention instead of a primary – it was GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli’s dream road to the party pick. He threw all his political power, and that of his allies, behind a nominating convention and they carried the day. With a convention process he avoided a prolonged confrontation with alternative candidates such as current Lieutenant Governor Bolling.

Unfortunately for the ultra-conservative, homophobic, anti-choice Cuccinelli, his party then blessed him with the gift that keeps on giving: a lieutenant governor candidate that even Cuccinelli considers extreme – Bishop E.W. Jackson, a man who makes Michelle Bachmann look lucid, perhaps even profound.

Most of us are familiar with Brown v. Board of Education, a class action suit, with Oliver Brown as the named plaintiff, which ended with a landmark decision by the Supreme Court in which the Warren Court, in 1954, declared unanimously that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional.

Many of us are not aware of the history of a decision that led up to Brown, Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla.  

In this case, the plaintiff, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, pictured above, was handed a victory, and was allowed to enter law school in Oklahoma.