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Lucille Ball

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I see some idiots are questioning my suggestion that Bernie Sanders espouses National Socialist views. Now that statement is uncomfortable in reference to a man whose family survived the Holocaust to be sure, but it's also accurate. His rhetoric does indeed make a whole slew of other races and countries the scapegoat for our poor economy, just as the National Socialists of the 3rd Reich used Jews and Romany and many other races and countries as the scapegoat goat for their problems. If that's uncomfortable for you to realize, take it up with Bernie.

In the Bernieverse, there’s a whole lot of nationalism mixed up in the socialism. He is, in fact, leading a national-socialist movement, which is a queasy and uncomfortable thing to write about a man who is the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and whose family was murdered in the Holocaust. But there is no other way to characterize his views and his politics. The incessant reliance on xenophobic (and largely untrue) tropes holding that the current economic woes of the United States are the result of scheming foreigners, especially the wicked Chinese, “stealing our jobs” and victimizing his class allies is nothing more than an updated version of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s “yellow peril” rhetoric, and though the kaiser had a more poetical imagination — he said he had a vision of the Buddha riding a dragon across Europe, laying waste to all — Bernie’s take is substantially similar. He describes the normalization of trade relations with China as “catastrophic” — Sanders and Jesse Helms both voted against the Clinton-backed China-trade legislation — and heaps scorn on every other trade-liberalization pact. That economic interactions with foreigners are inherently hurtful and exploitative is central to his view of how the world works.

Sounding more than a little like Donald Trump — and that’s not mere coincidence — Bernie bellows that he remembers a time when you could walk into a department store and “buy things made in the U.S.A.” Before the “Made in China” panic, there was the “Made in Japan” panic of the 1950s and 1960s, and the products that provoked that panic naturally went on to be objects of nostalgia. Terror of the Asian Economic Superman is a staple of modern American politics: A quarter century ago, the artist Roger Handy published a book of photographs titled Made in Japan: Transistor Radios of the 1950s and 1960s. We all remember Captain Lion Mandrake’s account of being tortured in a Japanese prison-of-war camp: “I don’t think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of having a bit of fun, the swines. Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.”

Like most of these advocates of “economic patriotism” (Barack Obama’s once-favored phrase) Bernie worries a great deal about trade with brown people — Asians, Latin Americans — but has never, so far as public records show, made so much as a peep about our very large trade deficit with Sweden, which as a share of bilateral trade volume is not much different from our trade deficit with China, or about the size of our trade deficit with Canada, our largest trading partner. Sanders doesn’t rail about the Canadians and Germans stealing our jobs — his ire is reserved almost exclusively for the Chinese and the Latin Americans, as when he demanded of Herself, in the words of the old protest song, “Which side are you on?” The bad guys, or American workers “seeing their jobs go to China or Mexico?”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421369/bernie-sanders-national-socialism

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Leslie Knope's Five Stages of Grief

Denial

Anger

Internet Commenting

Cat Adoption

African Dance

Cat-Returning to the Adoption Place

Watching All the Episodes of Murphy Brown

Not Giving a Flying Fart

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White House in the Garden District. New Orleans, LA.

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but really guys

tampons/pads marketed to young kids who just started getting their periods

should be a thing

wrappers with dinosaurs and planets and glitter and cats and sea creatures 

make kids feel comfortable about something natural that happens to their bodies. 

and for goodness sake

don’t sexualize it

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Witches Reblog If...

• New, young, or considering witches can ask you questions

• Your blog is free of hate and is a safe learning community (this includes bashing christians/non-pagans)

• No questions (as long as they aren’t creepy) will be laughed at or shamed

• It’s okay to ask you for advice or opinions, even if you are an experienced witch.

• Your blog is inviting and welcoming and is a space for education on the craft.

I will follow you, because tumblr needs more of these witches.

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Yoko Ono's Cleaning Pieces

CLEANING PIECE I Write down a sad memory. Put it in a box. Burn the box and sprinkle the ashes in the field. You may give some ashes to a friend who shared the sadness. CLEANING PIECE II Make a numbered list of sadness in your life. Pile up stones corresponding to those numbers. Add a stone, each time there is sadness. Burn the list, and appreciate the mount of stones for its beauty. Make a numbered list of happiness in your life. Pile up stones corresponding to those numbers. Add a stone, each time there is happiness. Compare the mount of stones to the one of sadness. CLEANING PIECE III Try to say nothing negative about anybody. a) for three days b) for forty-five days c) for three months See what happens to your life. CLEANING PIECE IV Write down everything you fear in life. Burn it. Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes. CLEANING PIECE V Let a list of arbitary names come into your mind as you go to sleep. Say “bless you” after each name. Do this with speed, by keeping a constant rythm, so, in no way, you would hesitate to bless them.

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Someone is watching and laughing. I respect that someone.

loving this concept

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Quick and dirty candle infographic for the most common uses of different coloured candles. There are more, of course, but here are the basics.

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Looking up Scottish mythological creatures and

Wulver: a werewolf in Shetland, that is said to have had the body of a man with a wolf’s head. It was reported to have left fish on the windowsills of poor families.

That is the nicest Werewolf legend I’ve ever heard of.

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#mylife

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People getting tanned, toned, and ready for summer and I’m over here like

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