Louisiana Summer Sigh

Louisiana Summer Sigh: "Writing exercise in the form of a “simile smile” and an original poem about us and summer changing into the next season of life."

By Denny Lyon @ HubPages

From Denny: For several weeks now have been rolling around some thoughts on how to write a summer poem. Never content to write on only one level I had to think about it for a while! :)

Found some outstanding photos from my flickr friends to illustrate it. Take a look and enjoy the awesome photography, especially of the cute kids! They are a larger format on HubPages than the blogs so you can see the detail better.

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!

Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography @ flickr


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Video: The WHOLE Truth That Happened at the McCaskill Racist Town Hall Meeting

From Denny: As usual the media doesn't show the news clip with the whole story, therefore creating prejudice and feeding into inaccurate views: yellow journalism. Now the truth is coming out about the health care town hall meeting in Missouri with Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill. What everyone saw on the national news is a black woman being "escorted" out, OK, actually she was dragged out by a mob of police; the white people overwhelmingly and enthusiastically cheered her removal.

The black woman and her friend were booed by the room of white people when they came in and sat down with posters. When a journalist asked what was on the poster to elicit such booing and beratement they went to unroll the poster to show the reporter and that's when it happened. What this uncut unedited video proves is that she was attacked by an angry white man who got out of his chair, crossed the aisle and came from her blind spot as she was sitting in her chair with a poster on her lap. HE attacked her! What did the police do? They saw her go to retrieve her poster while the white-haired white man was tearing it up into shreds out of sheer spite.

Who gave him the right to destroy her property in a public place? Who is this guy? Why did a rush of police go to drag her out of the meeting when it was clear she was attacked? Why did only one, count them, one police officer half-heartedly and gently escort the white man away from the scene? Did they arrest him for attacking the black woman? Missouri must be one seriously racist and arrogant state. Glad I don't live there.

Shock of shocks: Even Louisiana isn't that stupid and mean-spirited as the Midwestern part of our country has become. Everyone talks about the South being so horribly racist; looks like the Midwest has taken over that "honor" and beauty queen tiara title. These people should be ashamed of themselves for denying a woman the right to own a poster.

What drugs are they on? Better yet: What drugs do they need to be on for such bizarre excessive belligerance and violence? Sounds like a need for mood enhancers like used for acute depression. Is that what all this racism in the country is really about: mentally ill people who have gone untreated for decades?

So what was the poster? Are you ready for the shocking truth? It was a photo of little ol' lady Rosa Parks. That's it. You have got to be kidding me! No kidding; these folks in Missouri are whacked in the head for that kind of over reaction to a poster. Remember the whole room applauded what that one guy did so they are as guilty and as weird by association - and approval of clear wrong-doing.




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Libations Friday, Funny Doggy Quotes, Test Your Moon Trivia with Funny Comments, Chocolate Videos and Recipes, Barbecue, Slow Cooking, Quotes

(I love collies!)

From Denny: Apologies to everyone for getting these posts out late. We had severe thunderstorms in our area yesterday and experienced power outage. Was unable to complete all my posting.

It was like the heavens opened up and burst forth. We thought for sure that Noah's Ark was about to make an appearance and float by in our front yard! :) The storm came on suddenly within minutes of me just telling my husband the news I read online about the hurricane season being downgraded on the Atlantic since so few storms had materialized. When the downpour appeared suddenly we looked at each other and wondered about these weather folks a bit... :) It sure felt like the precursor to hurricane weather.

Here are some titles from the various blogs that you might enjoy in case you missed any of these posts this week!

Libations Friday! 7 August 2009 - Featured today: Great historical, sometimes hysterical, coffee trivia, funny video using rap words to sell a car, original poem about how our words create our life.

3 Great Doggy Quotes - great funny photo, be sure to read the photographer's credit caption for a grin!

Video: Test Your Moon Trivia, Learn What's In Your Night Sky - Of course, with the answers I just had to provide a bit of slightly snarky commentary...

RECIPES

Video: How to Make Easy Chocolate Fudge Brownies

Video: Easy Marbled Chocolate Cookie Bark - I love fun easy chocolate recipes "so easy a Geico caveman could do it..."

Recipe: Boston Butt Braised in Coke - easy slow-cooking that is low maintenance and is a real crowd pleaser!

Recipe: Fast Easy Barbecue Bacon Chicken Breast - fast, easy supper kids really like!

Quotes with Commentary

What is the 1 Funny Decision That Makes It Difficult to Plan Your Day?

How Authentic a Writer or Blogger Are You? Quote Included.

How Do You Gauge How Happy You Are?

What is the Simplest Most Unusual Way to Live Our Lives to the Fullest?

Have a great weekend, everyone! Thanks for visiting!

Video: Making a Difference - Fathers Heart Ranch

From Denny: This is a wonderful story full of love to heal abused and abandoned boys in California. A retired professional baseball player turned non-denominational minister took his life savings to begin this endeavor. Heart-warming story from another person who chose to "make a difference" in the lives of others!

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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Cute Joke: Camel Questions

Image via Wikipedia

A mother and baby camel are talking one day when the baby camel asks, "Mom, why have I got these huge three toed feet?"

The mother replies, "Well son, when we trek across the desert your toes will help you to stay on top of the soft sand."
"Okay," says the son.

A few minutes later the son asks, "Mom, why have I got these great long eyelashes?"

"They are there to keep the sand out of your eyes on the trips through the desert."

"Thanks Mom," replies the son.

After a short while, the son returns and asks, "Mom, why have I got these great big humps on my back??"

His mother replies impatiently, "They are there to help us store water for our long treks across the desert."

"That's great Mom. So we have huge feet to stop us sinking, and long eyelashes to keep the sand from our eyes, and these humps to store water, but Mom..."

"Yes, son?"

"Do we really need all of these in the zoo?"

Link to Video: Hillary Clinton's Cutting Edge Digital Diplomacy

Image by US Army Korea - IMCOM via Flickr

From Denny: In my ongoing effort to keep from cluttering up The Social Poets, after all, this is my third post today over there... here's a link over at Dennys Global Politics blog to what Hillary is doing that is quite popular now globally! It is so refreshing to have people in government who are actually serious about carrying out government in a way to connect with the people they serve...

Video: Hillary Clinton's Cutting Edge Digital Diplomacy, go here.

Thanks for visiting! Just got back from my out of town sales calls today and am back at the keyboard posting... :) Happy Monday!

Joke: Smart Dog Goes Meat Shopping

Smart Dog

A dog walks into a butcher shop with a purse strapped around his neck. He walks up to the meat case and calmly sits there until it's his turn to be helped. A man, who was already in the butcher shop, finished his purchase and noticed the dog. The butcher leaned over the counter and asked the dog what it wanted today. The dog put its paw on the glass case in front of the ground beef, and the butcher said, "How many pounds?"
The dog barked twice, so the butcher made a package of two pounds ground beef.

He then said, "Anything else?"

The dog pointed to the pork chops, and the butcher said, "How many?"

The dog barked four times, and the butcher made up a package of four pork chops.

The dog then walked around behind the counter, so the butcher could get at the purse. The butcher took out the appropriate amount of money and tied two packages of meat around the dog's neck. The man, who had been watching all of this, decided to follow the dog. It walked for several blocks and then walked up to a house and began to scratch at the door to be let in. As the owner opened the door, the man said to the owner, "That's a really smart dog you have there."

The owner said, "He's not really all that smart. This is the second time this week he forgot his key."


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