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Squirrel Queen is home.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A2moFdM1Yo]
It is a good day.
If you don’t listen to it all, your brain will explode.
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After California’s Supreme Court lifted the state ban on same-sex marriage, Ellen DeGeneres announced that she and long-term partner Portia de Rossi would tie the knot as did George Takei.
Ellen will be interviewing John McCain this morning on her talk show which was taped yesterday. Here is a snippet of what they talked about:
ELLEN: Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think that it is looked at and some people are saying the same that blacks and women did not have the right to vote. Women just got the right to vote in 1920. Blacks didn’t have the right to vote till 1870. It just feels like there’s this old way of thinking (that) we are not all the same. We are all the same people. All of us. You’re no different than I am. Our love is the same. (applause) To me what it feels like just, you know, I will speak for myself…it feels when someone says you can have a contract and you’ll still have insurance and you’ll get all that. It sounds to me like saying well you can sit there (points in one direction), you just can’t sit there (points in another direction). That’s what it sounds like to me. It doesn’t feel inclusive. It feels isolated. It feels like we aren’t owed the same things and the same wording.
MCCAIN: Well, I’ve heard you articulate that position in a very eloquent fashion. We just have a disagreement and I, along with many, many others wish you every happiness.
ELLEN: Thank you. So you’ll walk me down the aisle? Is that what you said?
There is also a video if you are so inclined at the link.
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I rather slammed this morning but I had to share this list from Neatorama about the nastiest elections in history.
Here’s an example from the campaigning files of Thomas Jefferson vs. John Adams:
In case you’re wondering exactly how down-and-dirty these campaigns got, consider the fact that this is the only election in history where a vice president has run against the president he was currently serving under. You can imagine that things were a little tense in the White House in the months leading up to the election.
Jefferson hired a writer to pen insults rather than dirty his own hands (at least at first). One of his most creative lines said that Adams was a “hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”
Wow. They don’t write insults like that anymore.
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Hoots has some really wickedly good hamburgers. We have juke joint burgers, a little family drive-in called K and N that makes a slaw burger (and slaw dog) that would make slap your mama and a restaurant also offers a burger called the “Big Ass Cheeseburger” that I believe is the size of poodle. Except for the latter, all of these sandwiches run about 2 bucks.
Well, say no more, you can now buy this in New York City.
A Manhattan restaurant is offering a hamburger that costs $175 and is topped with gold. It’s made of Kobe beef. It comes with black truffles, foie gras and Gruyere cheese in addition to gold flakes.
I realize that the gold and the truffles can make your burger a bit pricey as well as the addition of Kobe beef but I can tell you this without hesitation.
There ain’t a burger in the world worth $175.
Photos From Hoots
