It is time for True Confessions...

Hello my name is Parker and I am a potato chip-aholic. I am powerless when it come to these thin slices of evil.

This morning's diary was about "Comfort" breakfast foods this one is about "Shame" foods... yunno the ones that you berate yourself for eating. We have all been there...

We live in a society that expects perfection yet we are still just mere mortals. I decided that I can not give up chips ... I don't know if it is the salt or the mega carb loading ... so instead of "punishing" myself I just buy the smallest bag I can find. I have already given up cigs so I feel I deserve some "sin" in my life... how many Hail Mary's is this worth?

After reading DT's gross food diary I decided to dedicate my first FBC to yummy breakfast foods...

yum biscuits and gravy this is not "pretty food"... but you are bound to lick your fingers after a plate full.

Another of my family's favorite breakfast is cooked rice for breakfast. There was nothing better as a child to have cooked rice with butter and sugar drenched in evaporated milk... don't ask where this came from... so far I have only seen my family eat it this way.

Breaking the fast is celebrated throughout the world. Our UK cousins go for the "Full English"

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I could never get past the baked beans for breakfast... they are forever associated with hot dogs to my stomach.

One of my favorite places to have breakfast is in Turkey. They served a flat-ish bread, white soft cheese, tomatos (that taste like tomatos), olives and oranges (that tasted like oranges from 30 years ago in the US).... and of course the best coffee in the world. .

Another favorite was made for me by a Malaysian friend. It was a kind of a rice porridge with strips of chicken, fresh ginger and lettuce... there is nothing better to start a chilly day fortified with a belly full of fresh ginger...

I could go on and on... breakfast is my favorite meal of the day... sadly it is not something I celebrate often ... I usually just have a coffee and pastry in the morning at my desk... while opening my emails....

What is your favorite breakfast....?

There is something happening here... what it is ain't exactly clear

According to a New report from the Government Accountability Office: the FDA ignored scientific data and made a politically motivated decision on over-the-counter sales of Plan B Contraceptives

Listening to 'the Voice'
Ogborn was told to empty her pockets and surrender her car keys and cell phone, which she did. Then the caller demanded that Summers have Ogborn remove her clothes -- even her underwear -- leaving her with just a small, dirty apron to cover her naked body.

Summers says she never second-guessed what she was being asked to do, as she firmly believed the person she was talking to was a police officer. Ogborn says she trusted her manager to do what was right.

From: Alas a blog

The segment was about an incident that occurred at a McDonalds in KY. A caller phoned the shift manager, telling her that he was a police officer who needed her help in conducting an investigation of a teen employee, then on-duty, believed to have stolen a purse from a customer. The caller then made a series of instructions over about a three hour period, that led to the girl being strip searched, spanked, and humiliated. Finally, the supervisor is asked to bring her fiancé in to watch the girl, while the supervisor returns to work at the counter. The "police officer" then instructs the fiancé to have a girl perform a sex act on him, which he complies with. The girl is crying throughout this ordeal. At no point does anyone question the authenticity of the call, except for one teen worker who leaves in disgust, saying it's all BS. The security camera in the office, captured the entire assault.

It's the most troubling thing I seen, and frankly it kept me awake last night. The individual who made the call had been made hundreds of such calls to fast food restaurants all over the country. In 70 cases, the person answering the phone, complied with his requests, resulting in strip searches of employees and customers, and in some instances, cavity searches.

This case should spark a needed debate on our willingness to blindly respect "authority" figures, and our accountability when we participate in immoral acts.

Reading this sheds some light on the 35% of wingnuts who are willing to follow this adminstration into the bowels of evil...without questioning...

Is this the purpose of destroying the educational system and trying to replace it with religisosity...?

I asked the girls I teach and love last Sunday, "When you offer oral sex to a boy who does not love you and may not even like you and who will most probably destroy your reputation by telling his friends what you will do, are you proud of yourself? Do you think you are making your parents proud of you? Do you think this is what God wants you to do with your body? You are better than that. You are much better than that."

The shame... the utter shame... is it me or did the good Rabbi just reinforce a sterotype that little girls only use sex to be liked...

I asked the boys I teach and love last Sunday, "When you ask or beg or plead or coerce or manipulate a young girl who likes you and just wants to be popular to go down on you, are you proud of doing that to her? Do you think you are making your parents proud of you? Do you think this is what God wants you to do with your body? You are better than that. You are much better than that."

Boy... that is one hell of a POWER trip the good Rabbi is laying on these boys... who just wanted their dicks sucked...

Hey... I have a crazy far left wacko idea... maybe they are trying to engage in their version of protected sex... and call me crazy... but maybe it JUST FEELS DAMN GOOD. But it is nice to know that those supposedly in the know are trying to infuse shame a guilt into the picture... instead of acknowledging that sex is a basic human instinct... EVEN WHEN IT WAS REPRESSED BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS... Seems like it is easier for the religist to accept hypricrisy and guilt rather than truth...

Hypocrisy... the new morality

Oy vey...

"I am opposing my own relative so citizens of Utah will finally have a real choice since Democrats have adopted so many Republican policy positions in recent years," said Hatch, a lifelong Utah resident. He works as the state's coordinator for the Western Watersheds Project, a public lands policy group based in Hailey, Idaho.

Julian Hatch opposes the war in Iraq and will also campaign for abortion rights, affordable health care, tax reform and public land protection.

"We are building a populist third party to challenge the ruling two-party system that has become immersed in big money and entrenched in fascist ideology," he said.

I guess he did not get the memo that says: Increasing the number of Republican Democrats will protect librul values.... Looks like that folks are beginning to see  through that LIE.

Glad to see the Kaine Effect is waking up true progressives...

This is an "Open Diary" in progress what are your thoughts on this? Have you notice that Saddam's trial is no longer in the news? Do you think that the Dems can keep the pressure up for a full year?

I take Jerome's offer and ask him to send it to either one or divide the 100 dollars between both:

The Lilith Fund

Texas Equal Access Fund

As per Moiv's incredible diary: The Katrina Aid That Dare Not Speak Its Name

How many young women did we all see on our TV screens, bedding down on the floor at the Astrodome in Houston or Reunion Arena in Dallas with their babies and toddlers, surrounded by crumpled plastic bags that held all they had left in the world? There seemed to be thousands of them, and then more thousands.  As in any population of young women, many of them were pregnant.  And for a great number of those young women--the ones for whom unexpected and unwanted pregnancies represented a second disaster--the devastation that their lives had become was worsened by the anxiety of wondering how they could find the help they needed to have a desperately desired abortion.  

Fortunately, they didn't have to depend on FEMA.  Low-income women who are residents of Texas and who cannot afford the cost an abortion are able to rely on two sources of help--the Lilith Fund and the Texas Equal Access Fund--volunteer nonprofit organizations that immediately expanded their previous scope to offer all possible assistance to displaced women who were relocated to Texas in the aftermath of Katrina.   Lilith and TEA typically provide somewhere from $50-100 in assistance, and as providers, we generally find a way to make up the rest.  

I also enocurage any one else to give to this fund... you will be helping a lot more than giving to some Republican Democrats who want to take push women back to the stone age.

DailyKos and MyDD are front paging and praising The Club for Growth and Senator Coburn for their symbolic gesture and feigned attempt at being human. Then wacking NARAL longtime allies of the Democratic party.

MyDD and Kos's rhetoric about special interests groups sound like it was written by Arnold's "special election" propogandist... mutterings about special interest groups and entrenched "old school" players. They are under the spell of Simon Rosenberg and his NDN "Do Not Think" Tank... tell me... what good can come from and organization fathered from the loins of Lieberman and Breaux... except... a bastard child that terrorizes the Democratic Party.

Like I said I had high hopes for 2006 but this is beginning to turn into another Nightmare with DLC/NDN:Part 13. This is not a rant... I am too tired of fighting these fools... but when we lose ONCE AGAIN in 2006 the blame should be laid squarely on their shoulders on those promoting this DLC/NDN bullshit. This lie about having to run to the right inorder to win ... when it has been proven over and over again that IT DOES NOT WORK. Now the new line of attacking the base is that the party needs to believe in nothing (non ideological issue-less) inorder to win... this is going beyond stupidity... this is out right cretinous... they are making cyanide laced kool-aid for a mass suicide.

Banning is a sign of weakness... what did I do? I pointed out that MyDD had elevated a diary about the republican Massa to the recommend list eventhough another diary had more reccomends... (the comment you see after that is false... Jerome was not one of the two reccomends when I pointed this out).

Why is this on Booman... it is a telltale sign about the blogosphere in general and it's coming demise with people like Simon Rosenberg trying to force it into his "business plan" to sell to corporate lobbyists.

Simon Rosenberg and the DLC/NDN couldn't give a shit about the Democratic party... they started out as "business" selling favors from Democratic policitians to "Corporate SPECIAL INTEREST" groups, which is why the DLC and the NDN have been funded by right wing fascist like Koch Industries... somewhere along the way they realized that it was easier to just "create" their own politicians loyal to their corporate special interest groups. The fly in the oinment however, was that the Democratic party had its own so called special interest groups borne from the struggles of the civil rights movement, labor unrest and the women's revolution... just to name a few.

These "old school" special interests groups have conflicting values with the "new school" corporate special interests groups that the DLC/NDN represent. Therefore they have set out on a task since the eighties to dismantle and distroy the base of the Democratic party in order to clear the decks for their "new friends"...like the Club for Growth etc.

This is why the Democrats have LOST EVERYTHING because we let in this DLC/NDN cancer which has burrowed deep into the party and is killing off viable activism and support for traditional Democratic values. Rolling over on the party principles to be in accordance with the DLC/NDN corporate special interest groups has pulled the blanket of protection off of the "old school" special interests... who no longer feel part of the Democratic party... and naturally so. Why the hell would women champion anti-choice wingnut just because he has a miniscule "d" behind their name after years of struggle and women dying to get the right to control their own bodies. The BIG LIE that Kos and others proport is that somehow magically voting to Republican Democrats will in the future protect women's rights... I guess he thinks that all women fell off of the turnip truck yesterday... hey Kos I got a bridge in Alaska I'd like to sell...

It is not a coincidence the Simon Rosenberg is flooding the netroots with his 200 million dollars "Do Not Think" Tank... It is no surprise that the wife (Mary Maitlin) of the DLC biggest shill Carville (Democracy Corp) may be indicted along with her boss Karl Rove... it is no surprise that this administration as incompetent as it is, has surrived this long is due to complicity and aid from those high up in the Democratic Party.

Out of all of the bloggers I had the most respect for Jerome now he is just a petty pawn of the NDN... my only regret is I didn't get my 100 bucks back I tossed in to help him buy a new server.

This months Mother Jones is dedicated to Ohio and all it's glory.

Yeah the "New" Media machine... only they forgot to tell every one that it is turned inwards to attack progressives and to silence dissent and push their own agenda within the party...or whats left of the party.