I love this state. I really do. Even if it does tend toward republican and we begat Jerry Falwell and Patty Robertson. We have some great stuff here. We have Monticello and Mount Vernon. We birthed a whole passel of presidents, and some good ones, too – think Washington and Jefferson. We’ve got mountains, beaches, and rolling pastures in between. If you’ve never seen the farms in Orange County, you should – they are truly beautiful landscapes of peace, cows and green green grass.
And sometimes, we’ve got more than our fair share of stupid. We tend to be a tit-for-tat kind of place. When a statue of Abraham Lincoln was placed at the old Tredegar Iron Works (which was the Confederacy’s ammo factory until the Union army blew it into the rivah), the bigots responded by offering to erect, for free, mind you, a statue of Jefferson Davis. They wanted to put it right next to Lincoln. The irony obviously escaped them. Well, the statue was rejected by the city, and they should not have been very surprised. Our City Council is majority African-American, and they take a dim view of Jefferson Davis, for obvious reasons. The last I heard, ol’ Jeff Davis is still sitting in storage, awaiting his “ratful” place at Tredegar.
Now, the tit-for-tat is over license plates. Virginia allowed anti-choice license plates to be issued. So, of course, the pro-choice activists have to have a rebuttal. I completely agree that a rebuttal is necessary. What I don’t agree with is stylized license plates. Period.
I hate the things. We have everything from birds to fetuses, now, and it’s gotten…well, it’s just damned annoying. You see, I don’t believe in putting a darwin fish on my car, even though a lot of christians around here wear their beliefs on their bumper. I put my darwin fish where it belongs – on the fridge, right over the chinese takeout menu. You see, if someone is in my house, they have been invited. If they take offense, they don’t have to come back. When you’re stuck in traffic at 7:30 in the morning behind a yahoo with an anti-choice license plate and a “W” sticker still in the back window, it’s enough to make a Bee want to swarm.
The anti-choicers got their license plate. Great. Goody for you, like the rest of us driving behind you care. I don’t care that you “heart jesus”, either, and I couldn’t care less if you love your Yorkie, either. Not to mention, it riles the pro-choice contingency, who feel they have to compensate. And maybe they do, but it still chaps my behind. I am pro-choice, but I don’t feel the need to put it on the back bumper. Call me a curmudgeon, but I miss the good old days, when a license plate had the number, the State name, and nothing else. Nothing fancy, nothing trumped up, and nothing that is just plain TMI.
Sometimes it’s as if the entire country has become a bad parody of a Monty Python movie.
Stan: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But you can’t have babies.
Stan: Don’t you oppress me.
Reg: Where’s the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?
Don’t even get me started on license plates that say “diva.”
Tags: anti-choice, Jefferson Davis, license plates, Lincoln, Monticello, Monty Python, Pat Robertson, pro-choice, Tredegar, Virginia
First, I would like to thank everyone again for their kind words and help this past week while it was decided that the old site just wasn’t working anymore, and it was time for a change. Thanks, Ya’ll! So, let’s grab our forks and dig in. First on the agenda, WTF??
- WTF?? #1. John McCain Just Can’t Keep His Mouth Shut. This past week, we saw John McCain flip-flop over the impending repeal of DADT (and I call it impending because I believe it is – a page is starting to turn, as we’ll see in a bit under the Strikes My Fancy section). Now, he’s prattling on about the census bureau running an ad during the superbowl. According to McCain, the ad is symptomatic of the spending practices of the federal government and the Congress in a way that is completely out of touch with what’s going on out there in the real world. Actually, Johnny-boy, it’s symptomatic of how out of touch you are that you evidently aren’t aware that John Boehner has warned that the Census would waste billions of taxpayers dollars and Michelle Batpucky Crazy Bachmann already said she won’t fill out her census form. Why not? Because she’s batpucky crazy, that’s why.
- WTF?? #2. Sarah Palin at the teaparty convention in Nashville. ’nuff said.
Now for a bit of Strikes My Fancy:
- SMF #1. Court Victory for Transgender taxpayers . In 1997, Rhiannon O’Donnabhain began the long journey of gender reassignment. When Rhiannon filed her 2001 tax returns, she deducted medical expenses relating to her reassignment. She was, of course, audited. This month, the Tax Court ruled that Rhiannon’s medical expenses were the result of medical treatment and were therefore deductible. You can read the court’s decision here. A page is turning, folks, a page is turning. Descrimination against the GLBT community is getting more and more difficult to rationalize and maintain. This is indeed a good thing.
- SMF #2. Every Now And Then, Something Turns Up. Eleven years ago, an Everest expedition found the remains of George Mallory , who died while trying to climb the mountain in 1921. Now we learn that while renovating the Antarctic shed used by Ernest Shackleton, cases of 100 year old whisky was discovered. Something about men and women who quite literally risk it all to do something no one else has done appeals to me. So when the artifacts of the early explorers is found, it really strikes my fancy.
I hope everyone has a very good rest of the weekend. The Bee still has some renovations for the Hive in mind, so I’ll head off to put on the steel-toed’s and don my toolbelt. Huzzah!
It was like birthin’ babies. Now, remodeling – check back soon!
The switch to a wordpress theme is not yet complete, but it is completely functional. So far, I can live with it. I will be tweaking it here and there, so watch for little changes here and there. You know, new rug, different sofa, that kind of stuff.
And best of all, the frakking comments work!! 
So thanks to all my good buddies (SW & Jolly) who told me how easy it was. It wasn’t. It is now, but getting it up and running ’bout broke my brain. However, you were correct, sirs, posting is easier. I was never un-happy with my previous page, but this is better.
Thanks to everyone for sticking in there with me this past week, you are appreciated
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