I was sitting around checking my email updates from The Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism ( Don’t ask ) when a friend stopped by on her way to a weekend in the mountains.
This friend likes to talk politics - not boyfriends, hiking - not shopping, so I never mind when she stops in on her way through town. She often spends her weekends in the mountains west of here, a place some Washingtonians call “ The Country”.
Do you have a friend who always like to bring food to your house when they comes over to spend a few hours?
I do.
Does your friend know how to bake?
Mine doesn’t.
If I remember correctly the last time it was banana bread, and yes there were previous episodes. I don’t bake but I do eat, and though no culinary expert I knew there was a key ingredient missing from that bread which caused the center part to congeal unpleasantly. I cut this large piece of bread, took one bite, and realized even prolonged mastication would not make easy the swallowing of the chunky tasteless piece of bread. Having the baker sitting right across from me chatting pleasantly didn’t help. I believe I gagged part of it down.
The offering this time was another bread made with jalapeños and olives. The result was similar. We hike together often, and I have brought loaves of jalapeños and olive bread on our hikes, so knowing it is a staple of mine it was a really thoughtful of her. I just have to learn some avoidance techniques and possible buy her a baking book for her birthday.
The Olympics, titled by some The Genocide Olympics, finds sponsor Coca Cola conspicuously silent.
Coca Cola’s has been involved, their approach encompasses: immediate relief to those on the ground; investments to address water, one of the conflict’s underlying causes; and efforts to bring local and international stakeholders together to develop long-term solutions.Coca Cola Company Statement.
Yet to be silent, when to speak out is an option, is an unforgivable path for the company who wanted to teach the world to sing - in perfect harmony. Or maybe that makes sense. If we don’t say anything we can pretend it just isn’t happening. You see it’s not real harmony we are after, it is just a sense of harmony, a pretense of harmony.
Sshhh….if we don’t talk about the over four years of violence, rape and murder, we can go on with this illusion that we are working for a harmonious world. We’re doing all we can …..you don’t really expect us to speak about the issue now do you?
Links for activities for June 20th, events related to world refugee day, as well as links to information on protests being held outside headquarters of Olympic corporate sponsors nationwide are listed at the Darfur blog: Dream For Darfur Protests Planned June 20th - World Refugee Day, where this post had been cross posted as an enhancement.
The darling of A & E network racist asshole Dog Chapman is coming back.
I really didn’t think this was important at first. I honesty didn’t think anyone actually watched this stuff. I had to look him up because I didn’t know who he was. I have since found that ….there are creatures who do watch this stuff - rabid creatures. We can’t prevent the fools and the imbeciles from watching some asshole I’ve never heard of, but we can let A & E and their sponsors know that we would like to bring some respect for humanity back to media.
Especially their sponsors. Let their sponsors know.
Duane “Dog” Chapman: I don’t care if she’s a Mexican, a whore or whatever. It’s not because she’s black, it’s because we use the word ni**er sometimes here. I’m not gonna take a chance ever in life of losing everything I’ve worked for for 30 years because some fucking ni**er heard us say ni**er and turned us in to the Enquirer magazine. Our career is over! I’m not taking that chance at all! Never in life! Never! Never! If Lyssa [Dog's daughter] was dating a ni**er, we would all say ‘fuck you!’ And you know that. If Lyssa brought a black guy home ya da da… it’s not that they’re black, it’s none of that. It’s that we use the word ni**er. We don’t mean you fucking scum ni**er without a soul. We don’t mean that shit. But America would think we mean that. And we’re not taking a chance on losing everything we got over a racial slur because our son goes with a girl like that. I can’t do that Tucker. You can’t expect Gary, Bonnie, Cecily, all them young kids to [garbled] because ‘I’m in love for 7 months’ - fuck that! So, I’ll help you get another job but you can not work here unless you break up with her and she’s out of your life. I can’t handle that shit. I got ‘em in the parking lot trying to record us. I got that girl saying she’s gonna wear a recorder…
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