StumbleUpon | yobaba's blog posts

http://yobaba.stumbleupon.com/review/38616082/

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:24:04 -0800

The word "Yule" [Jul] came from the aboriginal Scandinavians, and has always meant only one thing: the festival at the Winter Solstice. For ancient Germanic and Celtic people, the impulse to celebrate the cycle of nature and a reaffirmation of the continuation of life.

Ah, another winter solstice come and gone.

At 5:47 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (that's 12:47 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) Monday, the Northern Hemisphere marked the mid-point of another year, as measured by the sun's highest position each day above the horizon. It marked the day with the fewest hours of sunlight this year.

http://yobaba.stumbleupon.com/review/38566766/

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:35:15 -0800

OK - just practicing here, so don't get all excited. When transferring an image from photobucket, the drop-down menu no longer contains a direct link to SU [is photobucket trying to tell us something here?] But I was able to copy "using HTML for another program", e.g., StumbleUpon.

Thanks Shaun. As soon as I hit "add a blog" we will see if your suggestion works! :o)

Of course, if I don't "believe in" the "power of Jesus Christ" it follows that I don't give much credibility to the devil, either. But it IS a funny comic. The more I think about it the better I like it.

http://yobaba.stumbleupon.com/review/38552020/

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:11:59 -0800

I will ask it again - why am I being directed by the stumble tab to EXACTLY the kinds of sites I have no interest in landing on? Conservative politics? PLEASE SPARE ME. Where on my list on interests did I ever put CONSERVATIVE POLITICS??? These websites are among the most hateful, delusional, psychotic and ridiculous pages on the internets.

Seriously - this is what will drive me away from Stumble Upon.

http://yobaba.stumbleupon.com/review/38182821/

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:24:22 -0800

The mayor of Arlington, Tenn., told his Facebook friends this week that "our muslim president" scheduled Tuesday night's address to the nation about Afghanistan to knock The Charlie Brown Christmas Special off network TV.

"Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch 'The Charlie Brown Christmas Special' and our muslim president is there, what a load.....try to convince me that wasn't done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it....w...hen the answer should simply be 'yes'...." URL

ME: I should not have to post this as a "BLOG" - but for some reason SU won't let me post so-called 'breaking' articles found on NPR. Hmmmm. Could this be because some stumblers have been bellyaching about NPR being a "spammer"??????

You know, I would have liked to have been able to link to the real URL, but since I was blocked from doing that - and blocked from also "discovering" this site - I made up my own title. Sadly I won't be able to include any TAGS, so on one will see it anyway.

Is this the NEW SU or is this just a silly little bug that will go away? Don't know. But it's only been happening since the beginning of December.

Meh.

Not only that, but I entitled this gem: A lot of Republicans are t*rds. I notice that the title was omitted also.

http://yobaba.stumbleupon.com/review/38181937/

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:45:24 -0800

Native American Boy's Right To Wear Braids Moves To U.S. Appeals Court

December 3, 2009

By Frank James

It seems like something from an earlier century in which native American children were forced to give up their Indian ways and for the culture of whites.

A five-year old native American boy in Texas was punished for wearing his hair in two lengthy braids.

School officials deemed the kindergartner's braids in violation of the Needville Independent School District's dress code which forbids long hair for boys.

The ACLU sued on the boy's behalf and earlier this year, a federal district judge said the child had a constitutional right to wear his braids as an expression of his religion. On Friday, the case will be heard by the U.S. Appeals Court in New Orleans.

As the ACLU explained in a press release:

"School officials, who had initially placed the student in in-school suspension for violating the school district's dress code requiring boys to have short hair, appealed the ruling.

The ACLU and ACLU of Texas sued the NISD in October 2008 after school officials refused to exempt the boy from its dress code requirements and instead mandated that he stuff his long hair down the back of his shirt while at school -- a requirement that would cause A.A. shame, embarrassment and physical discomfort."

ME: As I remember, it was a kid from Texas back in the 60's who first used the ACLU to sue for the right to wear his hair beneath his earlobes and/or shirt collar.

Texas has certainly come a long way since then.

URL

http://yobaba.stumbleupon.com/review/37910850/

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:26:00 -0800

" Joe Lieberman is a sanctimonious, thin-skinned, self-satisfied monster. And a pious, amoral scumbag. And a narcissistic, deluded underminer who represents everything that is wrong with the United States Senate. And a war-mongering, concern-trolling religious zealot. And, generally, a bastard. And probably a racist. But why would this weasel-human hybrid - who is actually literally slowly receding into his own asshole a little bit every day - suddenly pipe up on health care reform with a position at odds with most Connecticut residents and a vast majority of the Democrats he claims to represent?

Because no one had been paying attention to him! (And also because he is owned by the various insurance companies of Connecticut. And AIPAC.)

So our "what is Joe Lieberman doing" possibilities are:

* He is just following the golden path of his own of self-delusion, thinking he will be remembered as a `mavericky' hero who bucked the status quo once he retires in 2012.

* He's going all-in as a Republican in the desperate hope that a 2012 GOP landslide will win him one more term.

* He is just trying to sink health care completely for his insurance company friends, who will give him a lucrative post-Senate job.

* He is just trying to force Harry Reid to pay him fealty once again, because it makes him feel nice.

* He is just a prick."

For some reason SU absolutely would not allow me to post anything from this
site. So here is the link to the original - read it quick because I don't know how long it will be legible here.

http://yobaba.stumbleupon.com/review/37744449/

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:38:11 -0800

Archives 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90

http://yobaba.stumbleupon.com/review/36893069/

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:17:25 -0700

Whatever happened to Meatloaf?

Maybe he eventually did "that"...

http://yobaba.stumbleupon.com/review/36782642/

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:39:15 -0700

OK. SO I have my I.D. number [given to me by SU].
I have my nickname: yobaba.
I have the fact that my regular email address is the same one I gave to SU a couple of years ago - the email address that (for some reason) the system does not recognize.
And I have the password that I established in December of 2008.

I am going off-line now. If you guys do not see yobaba again in like, say, 10 minutes, it is because SU does not recognize me AT ALL. Like they won't let me back through the portal or something. In which case I will make up another identity.

Such a waste. Or not, depending on how one looks at it.

Wish me luck. I feel rather as though I am now going to take a sip of Kool-Aid.

***

YAH - it worked! I got back in! I truly am part of the Borg!

And now I can disconnect this 10-yr-old relic of a computer and hook up my new machine! Yippee!

http://yobaba.stumbleupon.com/review/36743111/

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:31:10 -0700

So ... I just tried out the new look ... hate it.

So ... everyone's pages are going to look alike (white?)

So ... what happens to the stumblers who like being creative with their blogs and have done a damn good job of it? Too Bad?

I see a lot of dropouts coming. I can't imagine most of my 'friends' and 'favorites' continuing to blog on this platform.

How very sad.