Maybe TikTok "influencers" should actually try and get a real job for a change.
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This will be about the first thing Trump signs into law, assuming the Senate follows the House. The "gender identity" issue was always a no-win for Democrats and likely hurt them in some races.
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White nationalists have all kinds of rotten ideas they want to make happen in the U.S.
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Obit from the other day: Osamu Suzuki, head of the motor company of his last name, died Christmas Day of last year. He died of lymphoma at the age of 94.
Snip with this interesting fact about his last name:
Not born with the name, Suzuki embraced it in the late 1950s when he wed Shoko Suzuki, taking on her family moniker and rising to lead the company founded by his wife’s grandfather, Michio Suzuki. In doing so, he helped turn the brand into a global name and, perhaps more notably, took a chance on establishing Suzuki in India, helping revolutionize the car industry there.
He began his career at the company in 1958, rising through its ranks before becoming president and CEO in 1978. One of his major focuses was to expand Suzuki into new markets. He established manufacturing plants in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, and elsewhere. Suzuki’s biggest move was bringing the company to India, where outdated, near obsolete vehicles dominated its landscape. His venture was not just a success, with the company all but controlling the market by the 1990s; it also helped set the stage for other auto manufacturers to locate there, too. Suzuki eventually expanded the company to 31 countries for manufacturing and 190 for sales.
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Typical dumb shit man thinks that women aren't capable of leadership. It is the same old crap I have heard for decades.
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LOL!!!!
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Obituary: Singer Anita Bryant, 84, who, thanks to her rather unscrupulous first husband Bob Green's relentless pressure, had her career damaged by being involved in opposition to the gay rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida, way back in the 1970s, has died. She actually died December 16, but her death was disclosed today.
The ordinance did pass (in 1977) but not without a ton of controversy. Bryant was in the thick of it.
Bryant personally didn't have much beef with the gay community, but it didn't matter. At one time, as I recall, she received a pie in the face in response to her activism. Bryant ditched Green a few years later and married a man named Charlie Dry, who passed away. She still continued with her singing career, but it was way more low-key.
Anyway, Bryant was known for her pitching television ads for Florida orange juice, but she lost that gig thanks to the gay controversy. She also did commercials for Coca Cola.
She had been second runner-up in the Miss America pageant in 1959, won by Mary Ann Mobley, who later became an actress and passed away in 2014.
From the obit:
Born on March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, to Lenora (Berry) Bryant and Warren Bryant, Anita spent her early years surrounded by the love of her family and the Christian faith that would guide her throughout her life. Her passion for music and performance blossomed early, leading her to a career that included her own TV show at the age of 12, her crowning as Miss Oklahoma at the age of 18, guest spots on Arthur Godfrey's CBS programs and on Dick Clark's "American Bandstand," and chart hits “Till There Was You," “Paper Roses,” “In My Little Corner of the World,” and “Wonderland by Night.”
For seven consecutive years, Anita performed with Bob Hope's holiday tours for U.S. troops abroad. Hope dubbed her his troupe's “den mother” because of her propensity for taking care of others. She sang at the White House for President Lyndon B. Johnson and at his graveside service. In 1968 Anita sang at both the Republican and the Democratic national conventions. She was known especially for her rendition of "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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Obit: Peter Yarrow, 86, the "Peter" in the 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. The cause was bladder cancer.
The group had many hits including one I despised and I think John Denver wrote, "Leaving on a Jet Plane." That song was a huge hit when I was a freshman in high school in 1969-1970. I would see people who were listening to that song and crying tears over it. It made me want to puke.
It was released as a single for the group in 1969. Denver did write it, composing it when he was 23 in 1966.
Most of the time, the group was okay. As noted in the article, Yarrow got himself into big trouble back in 1970 to the point of serving some prison time for "taking indecent liberties" with a fourteen-year-old girl. He was pardoned later on during the end of President Carter's term.
Of the trio, only Paul Stookey is still alive. Mary Travers passed away in 2009.
Snip:
In their 1960s heyday, the group had six US Top 10 singles and one No 1, a cover of John Denver’s Leaving on a Jet Plane, as well as five Top 10 albums.
They were also politically significant. In August 1963, the progressive trio joined the March on Washington and sang a cover of Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, which cemented the song’s legacy as an anthem of the civil rights movement.
Yarrow’s songs were often political, telling the story of a war objector on hunger strike in The Great Mandella, from 1967, and suggesting to his son, on Day Is Done, that his generation could make a better world.
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The world has one less fascist now that France's Jean-Marie Le Pen has died at the age of 96.
Snip:
Le Pen's supporters saw him as a charismatic champion of the every man, unafraid to speak out on hard topics.
And for several decades he was seen as France's most controversial political figure.
His critics denounced him as a far-right bigot and the courts convicted him several times for his radical remarks.
A Holocaust denier and an unrepentant extremist on race, gender and immigration, he devoted his political career to pushing himself and his views into the French political mainstream.
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No more of those unfair offsets which amounted to outright theft of benefits, especially the misnamed "Windfall Elimination Provision."
I stand to get around $120 a month increase in my Social Security benefits.
The White House moved up the signing ceremony a day because of other things going on in D.C., especially the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter.
Repeal is now official.
There is no "working class" in the U.S., so what this author says is complete nonsense. There are blue collar workers and white collar workers (and pink collar workers for those with a feminist bent). We are not Europe with an aristocratic class and where "working class" may well apply.
What he REALLY means is the aggrieved white males, especially those without a college education, but there are plenty of those who are allies of the misogynists and racists.
Also, this handwringing because Democrats lost an election needs to stop. I have heard this bullshit over and over and over again my entire life after Democrats lose a presidential election, and it continues to be bullshit.
Where is the handwringing when the GOP loses an election? Crickets
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The main news today, the sad news, really, was the death of former President Jimmy Carter, who had turned 100 in October. He was the longe...
