06

Jul

Racist Piece Of Shit Jesse Helms Is Dead

Posted by Dock Ellis as Celebrations, Guest Author, LOL Douchebags, Op/Ed, Politics

July 4, 2008 was a great day for America- it was the day we were finally rid of the cancer known as Jesse Helms. Helms was an evil, racist man who repeatedly tried to send our nation back to the dark ages with his hypocritical mix of professed christianity, support for big business, and hatred/fear of anyone who wasn’t white and heterosexual. The modern Neocon movement has its beginnings with Helms’ early understanding that scared, angry white men vote in droves.

To give the devil his due, Helms was one of the most effective operators in 20th century American politics. He (along with fellow racist Strom Thurmond) brought the south out of it’s antebellum political rut and helped found the Republican juggernaut that rapes our land today. Helms was in the first wave of politicians that revived the Republican party in the south with a molotov coctail of religion, racism, and good ol’ boy populism.  “White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories?” read a 1950 ad Helms worked on for Senator  Willis Smith.  He also famously referred to the 1964 Civil Rights Act as “the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress”.

In 1972,  Helms became the first Republican Senator from North Carolina of the 20th century. Four years later he backed Ronald Reagan in the state’s presidential primary, handing Reagan’s lost cause campaign a victory that revived him enough to pose a serious challenge to  Gerald Ford at the Republican convention that year. Reagan lost the primary, but was positioned to take the party’s nomination in 1980- something that would have been impossible without the 1976 win in North Carolina.

Helms was savvy enough to know that fear and divisiveness alone don’t ensure victory at the polls, so he often resorted to old-fashioned cheating.  Helms’ North Carolina Congressional Club was repeatedly fined by the Federal Election Commission for illegally financing his campaigns. In 1992, the Helms campaign itself was penalized by the FEC for for mailing postcards to 125,000 black voters, threatening them with jail if they tried to exercise their right to vote.

For someone who professed such deep christianity, Helms racked up quite a reputation as a slumlord in Raleigh, even having separate management companies to handle his properties in the white and black sections of town.

It would be nice to believe that the death of Jesse Helms is symbolic of the decline of the politics of fear in our country- that maybe someday raising a boogyman (communists, blacks, muslims, gays, etc) won’t be enough to win elections or push agendas that go against the interests of average, working Americans.

I guess we’ll see in November.

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31

Dec

Happy New Year!!!

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Celebrations

raleigh-acorn.jpg

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25

Dec

Dinner

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Celebrations

christmas-dinner.jpg*sighs*

Wow.  Who would have thought slaving away in the kitchen all day would result in a meal that looks, well, modest?  Then again…everything is made from scratch (including the growing of the potatoes, the milling of the flour and the slaughtering of the cow - kidding).

Keeping with our tradition of the past four (or is it five) years, Dock and I enjoyed our typical Jul/Christmas fare.  A little Jewish and a little WASP sprinkled with some Swedish cuisine.  I have no idea how this started, but it’s our thing and we love it.  Oddly enough…I completely forgot about making the cucumber salad.  Grrrrrrr.

As luck would have it, I managed to burn out fairly early.  The fever is back and I’m having that brain melting feeling.

Time to curl up with a book and drift off to sleep.  The perfect ending to any holiday, in my opinion.

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25

Dec

Books! Books! Glorious Books!

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Amusement, Celebrations

It’s 08:52.  Dock and I have already disposed of the Christmas pressies.  Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful gifts were received (giving?  what’s that?  we’re too poor to do engage in that game.).

No present exchange would be complete without books.  After all, this is Dock and me, we’re talking about here.  We had to remind ourselves to put down our new treasures and continue with the present opening at times.

My haul of literature is quite diverse and probably not the most, “intellectually” impressive.  At least, it is nothing that would get me into Grad school, let alone the 5th grade.  But it amuses me and that’s all that matters.  Me.  Oh wait…I mean amusement.

Kang’s book haul:

Tis a true embarrassment of riches. 

Score! 

I failed to mention two are hardbacks.  The best kind!  …Until one must move, that is.

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23

Dec

Jul IRC

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Amusement, Celebrations, T3h Intarweb

Melanie and I resurrected #local on IRC. 

It’s Christmas.  Spend time with those you love.  Even your cyber peeps.  =)

If you are new to irc, you can find the instructions are here.  If you become confuzzled and stymied, as I do, please do not hesitate to email me at marniemarnie (@) gmail.com.  I will be connected all weekend and will be more than happy to guide you through the process (to the best of my quasi-limited abilities)

For those of you who do not post on The Local, please do not hesitate to stop in and say hello.  This is a great, great group of people and you won’t be sorry you avoided annoying, drunken Uncle what’s-his-name to spend time with us.

BYOG (bring your own glögg) and see you there, fgts!

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23

Dec

Merry Christmas och God Jul!

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Celebrations

Now I’m wondering if, “Father Christmas” by The Kinks is my favorite Christmas song.  I think it’s been replaced.

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won’t see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I’ve got a feeling
This year’s for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They’ve got cars big as bars
They’ve got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It’s no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing “Galway Bay”
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

You’re a bum
You’re a punk
You’re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it’s our last

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can’t make it all alone
I’ve built my dreams around you

Merry Christmas och God Jul my cyber peeps.

Much love ~ Marnie

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04

Dec

Oh boy! Oh boy!

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Celebrations, IJC, Religion

It’s that time of year!  Time for Dock Ellis to score some He’Brew (The Chosen Beer) for his Sayanim Honeybunny, High Priestess Kang.  Yay!  Yay!  Oy vey!

Monumental Jewbelation (picture on He’Brew website) is a whopping 10% alcohol.  Good thing North Carolina popped the cap!  I cannot wait to get loaded on He’Brew and latkes.  I cannot wait to play drinking dreidel.  I cannot wait to engage in all sorts of tawdry activities which would make the devout shun me.

Chanukkah begins on 24 Kislev (or 15 December for my Gentile friends).  I’m counting the days!

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23

Nov

Gobble gobble gobble!

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Celebrations

caketurkey1.jpgHappy Thanksgiving, y’all!!!

May you have a wonderful day, wonderful meal and no overdoses on leftovers!

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31

Oct

Trick or Treat!

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Amusement, Celebrations

cat-pumpkin.jpgBoo! 
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18

Sep

Yarrrrrrrrrrrr!

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Amusement, Celebrations

jolly-roger.gifReminder: Tomorrow, 19 September 2006 is Talk Like a Pirate day.   

I need to remind Dock to hang the Jolly Roger up on the flagpole (thanks, Scooter). Oh…and curse at Dock for not buying me my blunderbuss.

For those of you unaware, this is the one day during the year when we are permitted to wander the Earth speaking like a pirate. Yarrrrrr!!!!

Links for your amusement:

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
http://www.talklikeapirateday.com/
http://www.yarr.org.uk/

and my favorite:

Piratpartiet - The Swedish Pirate Party

History of the Party

The Swedish Pirate Party was formed by Rickard Falkvinge, and he created the embryo of this site and mentioned the address once on a busy DirectConnect hub on January 1, 2006. Within two days, the site displayed three million hits, and the first thousand or so members joined up. The principles of the Pirate Party soon began to take shape, as more and more members joined up, and in February they were voted through in the 3.0 version, which you can read in several languages further down on this page. The reform of copyright laws, the abolishing of patents and working against installing more regulations, and remove the Data Retention Act, that are seriously threatening citizens’ privacy are the only articles in the Pirate Party agenda.

The aim is to hold the balance of power, to be the tie-breaker, in the Swedish Riksdag and through that offer a collaboration of parties to gain the majority and thus give the governmental status, to either left or right. The difference between left and right, we feel, are no longer obvious, and therefore makes it easy for us to take this measure.

The issues that we represent are sorely missing, or are only fragmentarily represented, with an alarming display of lack of knowledge, and we hope to be able to bring in the legislative groups of Sweden into the 21st century. Feel free to show us your support by sending us a donation or a cheer in the Visitor’s corner when you’re here!

Oooops…wrong pirate. Heh heh heh.
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