Pam's House Blend - Recent Comments

The one time...

Darkrose — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:50:54 GMT

...I wish I still worked there.

Thank you, Bill Donohue!

Lev Raphael — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:49:53 GMT

I am so glad that you took it upon yourself to accept an un-offered apology from Pastor Hagee for his Jew-hating remarks. It's always wonderful when we benighted Hebrews have some wiser, more godly Christian take over for us because we are so deeply ignorant and helpless.

Pox vobiscum.

How come he never

Regan DuCasse — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:45:54 GMT

goes to the Adult Expo or IAFA (international adult film awards) in Las Vegas?
How come he's not invited (or goes) to the Playboy Playmate of the Year party?
How come he and the folks at AFT aren't picketing Vivid Entertainment over here in Studio City? They have a WHOLE high rise building to themselves.

How come he never says anything about the HUGE billboards for the 'gentlemen's club' outlets and locations all over the country, if not CA?
How come he's not saying anything about stores like Frederick's, Trashy Lingerie or Victoria's Secret ads for that matter?

Mr. Leather contest? Is he not aware of the big contest for dominatrix that takes place in various parts of the country?

Are the only places he can talk about is the Folsom Street event and Mr. Leather...or are ALL those heterosexual events nothing he wants to rock the boat over?

He thinks homosexual = sex obssessed?

I don't know what planet he's on, but I am reminded daily here in Silicone Valley that heterosexuals are seriously sex obssessed and are not ashamed of it.

Who does Pete think he's fooling?

And I only feel comfortable saying that

PhoenixRising — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:30:35 GMT

because I don't care if y'all think that I failed because I didn't do it right.

I failed because they are backward, angry and ignorant union and post-union Democrats.

So while I had hope that this country could be healed, I also had my eye on some property in Canada. One of those things is still with me at the moment.

Yes

Fiona — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:28:53 GMT

Our taxes did pay for this and that makes us morally responsible. I think that is one of the reasons why (as if the horrifying pictures themselves are not enough) this thread is so upsetting to many.

That being said. I am the mother of my children. I am responsible for them...their well being; their emotional as well as physical well being. I know them better than you do. I am the better judge of what they are ready to see or not see. I am not in Iraq where I wouldn't have a choice about this. I am in a (reletively speaking) safe, secure and free country. I am lucky to be here and I know it. Now. NO ONE will tell me what I should or should not let my children see except my partner who is also their parent. Other children may be ready to view these pictures. Mine are not. I do have control over what they see and will continue to have that control for a while yet, hopefully long enough to see them mature to be able to handle things like this. They are not there yet. You may call it censorship if you want. I don't care. I call it being a responsible parent. When they are ready, they may view some or maybe even all, and I will explain to them what these pictures stand for. However, I will NOT be rushed into it because someone else is passionate about the subject. I will not let MY CHILDREN become another victim of this stupid war emotionally or otherwise. I don't care if you like that or not. I am their mother and I will protect them with everything I have within me. And yes, I know the mothers (and fathers) of those poor dead and injured children felt the same as I do. Doesn't change my mind about my children. I do hope I make myself perfectly clear here. Nothing you say will change my mind.

not fully on board here

Regan DuCasse — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:27:20 GMT

Soul searing pictures, yes...we shouldn't avert or be averted from the images of what the confusion and damage of war can do.

Before we even showed up in Iraq...does anyone here remember the atrocities committed on the Kurds and other Iraquis?
Does anyone remember how it's virtually impossible to know how the snakes in the grass that run Irawq, Iran, or Saudi Arabia become duplicitous and sell to the highest terrorist bidder?

Are we to sit back, and allow them to do whatever they want unchallenged?
We have the unfortunate role of being the world's police. NOT conquerors. It's hard NOT to make a horrible mistake when insane dictators play all kinds of ends of the street and don't care what risks they put their own populations in.

Hussein existed through FIVE American presidential administrations and when HE went to far, he got slapped back. And he never learned his lesson.

The terrorists in our world are stealthy and embed themselves among civilian and innocent populations. Young men and girls are conscripted sometimes to serve ad hoc militias and America gets blamed for EVERYTHING even as we are the bread basket to the world, only to have the bread hoarded by despots.

I'm not on board with the policies of Rove, Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney or any other old boy's club that sprung up, that did their own foreign policies behind the back of the President .Ollie North and John Casey included in that nest of men who acted outside of the law of foreign policy.

Can Terrance find the pictures of the Americans killed on 9/11? I lost four friends on that day, includind a gay couple and their three year old adopted son. They could have been Terrance and his husband and Parker that were killed in that way.

In my forensic photo pathology class, I had to see those pictures. My path teacher is an ME and he aided in the effort to catalog the 9/11 dead.
And yes, I'll admit it...I wished we'd nuked the Saudis for that outrage.
And Hussein shouldn't have played cat and mouse with us, look what happened. A terrible mistake his people and he finally paid for.

So now...I see terrible things in MY OWN BACK YARD because of my job. And illegal aliens cause a lot of it and some of it is simply poisonous parenting and local governmental corruption.
Hussein brought a lot of grief to his people and now there is no easy way to just go away and no end plan on what condition to leave Iraq.

I feel sorry for any populations stuck with dictators that will go to hell, but they obviously plan on taking a lot of people with them.
That goes for the sad people of Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, North Korea...the list is long. These places are perpetual basket cases...I don't hear any bright ideas about what to do about them.
Just slide shows of shattered children and their families.
Those flag draped coffins mean something too. Some of those soldiers have been very committed to helping the Iraqi people.

Muqutada al Sadr doesn't. and I hope he gets his too, because some of these same injuries and death was caused by HIM.
So where is the outrage at tin pots that did a lot of bad things before anyone ever heard the name Bush?

I hate to be predicting so accurately, but...

PhoenixRising — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:26:31 GMT

This is exactly the problem: Decent people are ashamed to be racist.

I think it's healthy for people to say exactly where these scared voters are coming from, so that all the kumbaya fantasists realize we have a lot of work to do...

I agree that it's healthy to air this stuff so that the dreamers who've got hope but no experience with racial thinking can get reality.

I only wish that this reality therapy were mandatory for all Americans, but it's not.

So when will we know that we've done enough airing, needless to say without any actions flowing from the sharing, and it's now counterproductive to offer a platform to this type of thinking?

I'm having a cynical day, but that's because I'm the Ohio-raised child of KY and WV parents which means that I've been bathing in racism and ignorance for the past month. As far as I can tell, not one vote moved, while I had to live with the shame of being related to a bunch of backward, angry ignoramuses.

Is this why most white people prefer to avoid the topic of race entirely?

I support WITHOUT DOUBT the importance of putting these pictures front and center

The Educated Eclectic — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:26:25 GMT

I feel privileged every day to be a part of this Community, and that this cyber-publishing venture might bring some awareness to the apathetic.

Thank you, Terrence.

Thank you.

NancyP — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:21:25 GMT

Anti-gay violence occurs in the big cities as well. No-one is immune.

These vets with PTSD are the ones for whom the slides are a trigger

NancyP — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:19:26 GMT

I don't know how much young children take in about photos of death and violence, perhaps it seems not real, not having a sound track. But the vets, who were there - major trigger.

he's too....TOO

Regan DuCasse — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:04:12 GMT

Cute, pam! I love me some babies and you and Kate are lucky aunties to that little bundle of cuterness. Yes...it's a new word.

My new neighbors have a newborn baby girl and she's four months now. I can't get enough of her, and her big sister, aged four is full of giggles and exploring and getting to know her baby sister.
Children are fascinating, aren't they? And I can't believe so many of us survived the years before car seats, let alone seat belts or other safety devices.

As with all loved and well cared for children...their parents are the great ones. Your nephew is having a great life and it shows on that precious little face.

Keep the pictures coming, he can make you day just looking at him.

The Bushies just do whatever they want to.

Karen in Kalifornia — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:52 GMT

We are responsible

steerpike66 — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:58:58 GMT

Our taxes paid for this; we have a moral imperative to see these things. Not to do so constitutes the lowest cowardice. You're children will have nightmares? These children and dead and maimed. Did anyone ask them whether they wanted to die? You think that images like this didn't get out into the major media during the VietNam War; you live in a bubble of censorship: you see nothing.

He was in favor of the one two years ago...

Karen in Kalifornia — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:58:24 GMT

this one is a defintion only one. Of course he's in favor of it.

Um, Mark, you do remember that West Virginia broke away from Virginia

Kathy — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:56:08 GMT

in order to remain part of the Union after Virginia seceded? The heinous t-shirt and sign were spotted in Marietta GA, which has a long history as a Klan stronghold.