BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

White Man's Dilemma


 


Sibling Rivalry

Like most kids of my generation,
southern ones anyway,
 grew up watching lots of war movies. 
One television.
One man of the house.
One LazyBoy.
What he wants to watch
we watched!
That is,
until he starts snoring

A scene from one movie, a civil war one, stands out in particular.
Group of Confederate soldiers, being chased by Union soldiers,
had managed to escape being captured,
when my sister starts cheering not for the blue, but for the grey soldiers.
I was horrified.
How could someone so UN-AMERICAN be chosen
 HOMECOMING QUEEN! 

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Ridiculous the fuss conservative blogs are making over the movie

AVATAR.

Don't remeber anyone fussing about:
PLANET OF THE APES.

White man got his ass kicked in that one!

INDEPENDENCE DAY.

Basically an AVATAR with roles reversed.
Almost got our ass kicked!
Next time we may not be so lucky.

On a positive note,
at least they can't be accused of being
CLUELESS!

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Get over it.
"You've done it before!"

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Posted by
"One thing I like about the Digital age: having the dictionary at my fingertips, how easy it is to look up unfamiliar words as I go along reading." "At least....... until, I played my first game of SCRABBLE on the internet. Wow! I had no idea you could spell so many words with seven letters every time." "Now I feel pressured to catch up!"