June 28, 2007

• Ask Me About My Dead Son, Soccer Playing Nuns & The Liberation

   

  Someone needs to throw rotten fruit in Ann Coulter’s ugly hateful face.  This absolutely sickens me.  Whether you’re a Republican or Democrat this kind of evil must be stopped.  Boycott this woman in any way you can.  She’s a filthy, smug, hatemonger.  I wish someone would have projectile vomited on her face. And if you haven’t already seen the clip of her referring to John Edwards as a faggot, click here.

  Elizabeth Edwards is a real class act, as is her husband, and if you read her blog, she talks about drowning out the hate. So, I take back my hateful words, but I only hope that this raises awareness of what good people the Edwards’ are. To wit: (Update:  They duped us all!)

  “Now it is our turn to drown out the hate. Find a way — whether it is contribution here that sends a message to Miss Coulter and those who applauded her (which, of course, I prefer) or whether it is a statement on this blog or others or all of the above — but please find a way not to sit silent in acceptance. It doesn’t change until we say we will not be silent when this happens.”  Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards.

  

  Ann Coulter is such a right wing nut job that even George Bush hates her!!

    

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  I saw a nun yesterday.  Not exactly something I’m used to seeing walking down Santa Monica Blvd!!  I wanted to stop and talk to her, but she didn’t really seem too interested in the dogs.  She made me think about nuns though.  Does anyone remember the show “The Flying Nun“?  It was, in hindsight, an absolutely ridiculous television show starring Oscar winner Sally Field as a nun who could fly. Yes, fly.

  

  “The show was commended by several Roman Catholic orders in the late 1960s for humanizing nuns and their work. It also offered a difficult typecasting obstacle for star Sally Field to overcome. Its three season run left such an indelible impression upon its viewers that, more than 30 years after it ceased production, it continues to be satirized and referenced in modern films and television.”

  The nun I saw yesterday was in the more traditional habit, like this photo I took in 2000 of Mick’s aunt, the soccer playing nun!

  

  Left to right that’s:  Kurt, Eva, Mary, Mick’s aunt, Sabine (in liederhosen I might add!!), and Mick.  We were having a party at Mick’s parent’s house in Bavaria, Germany. So, in retrospect a flying nun is just plain silly, but a soccer playing nun is absolutely fabulous!!

  Seeing yesterday’s nun and remembering Mick’s aunt made me wonder about habits, so of course Wikipedia had the answer:

  Catholic Canon Law requires only that it be in some way identifiable so that the person may serve as a witness to Gospel values, simple as a mark of detachment from vanity and greed, and becoming.

  Interestingly enough the paradox of veiling a nun in a habit and a Muslim woman in a Hijab is becoming blurred.  As reported in The Guardian last year,

  “In the 1840s, not long after Catholic emancipation, people were so enraged to see nuns brazenly wearing their habits in the streets that they pelted them with rotten fruit and horse dung. Nuns had been banned from Britain since the Reformation; their return seemed to herald the resurgence of barbarism. Two hundred and fifty years after the gunpowder plot, Catholicism was still feared as unassimilable, irredeemably alien to the British ethos, fanatically opposed to democracy and freedom, and a fifth column allied to dangerous enemies abroad.

  Many women, whose mothers had happily discarded the veil, adopted the hijab in order to dissociate themselves from aggressively secular regimes. This happened in Egypt under President Anwar Sadat and it continues under Hosni Mubarak. When the shah banned the chador, during the Iranian revolution, women wore it as a matter of principle – even those who usually wore western clothes. Today in the US, more and more Muslim women are wearing the hijab to distance themselves from the foreign policy of the Bush administration; something similar may well be happening in Britain.”

  I guess my point is, things aren’t always as they seem.  Though nuns can’t fly, they can play soccer.  Though burqas and Hijabs may symbolize the oppression of women, they might also signify their shared identity.  Just something to think about.

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  And to end on something lighter, here are a few photos just taken around the neighborhood:

  

  Saw this while walking the dogs yesterday. It was thrown out of a window.  Talk about  having yout PC crash!!

  

  Sunset Blvd.

  

  

  

  

  The Hollywood Sign through the smog.

  

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  And finally, in the “This is why they hate us so much” category:

  

  Here’s Jake Byrd from the Jimmy Kimmel show.  This will crack you up!!

   

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