Are you a patriot?
If you were to ask almost any American, their immediate impulse would be to say "yes". But are they really patriots? What makes someone a patriot anyway? The dictionary defines the term as follows:
"Someone who has strong feelings of love, respect, and duty toward their country"
or
"1. A person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.
Again, let's be clear. I'm not saying all, most or the majority of the Tea Party membership is racist or bigoted. However, when talking-head Sean Hannity says he can't find the racist signs at Tea Party events, he isn't looking very hard.
Racism is not patriotic. Inequality is not patriotic. Letting people die from disease and injury when we have one of the finest healthcare systems in the world available to save them is not patriotic. That we only provide emergent care to people who are dying when they don't have insurance doesn't seem to fit well with some words our founding fathers wrote:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Perhaps one of those self-described patriots can explain something to me. How do you reconcile letting a person who is dying but could be saved die, with those words and call yourself a patriot? Life is the most precious of our inalienable rights. It must be preserved wherever and whenever possible.
Now comes the tough question. How do we find a way to do that, and still be a fiscally responsible nation? I don't have an immediate answer, but as patriots, it is our duty to find one.
* * *
Yesterday I wanted to go to trivia, but wound up choosing to stay home. Now I feel guilty about not going because if I had been there, my team would have won the "premium" game as a bar. None of them knew the answer to the final question (you wager 50% of your cumulative score on the final, so missing it kills your chances), but I did. Oh well, my health is more important than a victory at Buzztime Trivia.
I did manage to complete work on some of my lesson plans, get all that stuff done at the VA, finish one film review and start another, and run a couple of errands. So why do I feel like I didn't accomplish anything? Simple. Because when it comes to judging ourselves, we set the bar too high. We know what we are capable of when we apply all our knowledge, energy and experience to our daily agenda, thusly anything less than total completion of the entire agenda seems like failure.
Yesterday was not a wasted day. I will hold onto that thought as I try not to waste today.
* * *
They may be the most powerful elected officials in the nation who aren't at the Federal level. One of the five has served in office for 33 years already and he won't be forced to leave office until three more years pass. I'm referring to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
The 55 members of the U.S. House of Representatives in California represent 38 million people. That's roughly 690,000 constituents each. The 80 members of the California State Assembly each represent roughly 465,000 constituents. California State Senators represent twice that amount, or 930,000 each.
But the five "kings and queens" of Los Angeles County each represent nearly 2 million of the roughly 10 million people who live in the county. They control $25 billion in public spending. And they are basically unaccountable to the people they represent. If not for the passage of term limits for supervisors in Los Angeles County in 2002, it is a safe assumption that none of the five would be leaving office anytime soon. It was nearly impossible to defeat an incumbent supervisor in an election in this county.
There's something wrong with this equation.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Tokyo was named as host city for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. That's good news for those who want to see the 2024 Summer Games come to Los Angeles.
A gym that caters to the over-50 crowd in Garden Grove is hosting classes in "cane fu", a self-defense method involving martial arts and a walking stick. Cane fu?
Ramen burgers? They laughed at cronuts at first.
Sergio Garcia, the illegal immigrant who is seeking a law license in California despite a federal law that bans him from receiving one should have his request turned down by the State Supreme Court. If you disagree with the federal law, change it. Until then, live by it. How can he take the oath to be sworn in as a licensed attorney if it requires him to support all of the laws of the nation and state? He's breaking one of them by being here until his status changes.
It is probably a smart idea to move the Miss World pageant from near the Indonesian capital of Jakarta to the island of Bali. If for no other reason, it will be safer.
Is it important that the Commander-in-Chief have military experience? I used to think so, but I've changed my mind. It is a good idea to have someone as your Secretary of Defense who has that experience, but it isn't necessary for a president to have it.
* * *
This Date In History:
70 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
1191 – Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
1228 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II landed in Acre, Palestine and started the Sixth Crusade, which resulted in a peaceful restitution of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.
1631 – Battle of Breitenfield (30 Years' War) Swedish troops commanded by Gustavus Adolphus win a decisive victory over Catholic Forces.
1652 – Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
1695 – Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end to all English trading in India.
1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
1778 – American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
1812 – French invasion of Russia : The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow and resulted in a French victory.
1818 – Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1822 – Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.
1857 – Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train.
1864 – American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1876 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
1893 – The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become one of the oldest Italian football clubs, is established by British expats.
1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1909 – Eugene Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
1916 – US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
1920 – Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Suomen Ilmavoimat, killing both crews.
1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
1921 – The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
1922 – In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
1929 – Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
1932 – The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
1936 – The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
1940 – Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
1942 – First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
1942 – World War II: Australian and US forces inflict a significant defeat upon the Japanese at the Battle of Milne Bay.
1943 – A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
1943 – World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
1965 – China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
1965 – Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
1970 – Fighting between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
1970 – Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
1977 – The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
1977 – The 300 metre tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, makes its debut.
1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
1986 – Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
1988 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Elizabeth I of England
Maria Anna of Austria
Thomas Talbot
Grandma Moses
J. P. Morgan, Jr.
Taylor Caldwell
Michael DeBakey
Max Kaminsky
Elia Kazan
David Packard
Anthony Quayle
James Van Allen
Peter Lawford
Daniel Inouye
Laura Ashley
Ronnie Gilbert
John Paul Getty, Jr.
Dan Ingram
Buddy Holly
Joe Klein
Gloria Gaynor (at first I was afraid, I was petrified)
Julie Kavner
Peggy Noonan (great writer!)
Morris Albert
Chrissie Hynde
Corbin Bernsen
Diane Warren (great songwriter)
Angie Everhart
Shane Mosley (loved watching him play in the NBA-Entertainment league, he had amazing stamina)
Briana Scurry
Shannon Elizabeth
Oliver Hudson
Evan Rachel Wood
Movie quotes today come from the 2005 movie "Pretty Persuasion" to honor the birthday of the lovely, talented and easy to interview actress, Evan Rachel Wood:
Randa: [watching a porno] Why is that woman - why is she doing those things with another woman? Why must they show this?
Kimberly Joyce: Because men like to watch it.
Randa: But it is a sin!
Kimberly Joyce: [laughs] Randa! Randa, you're gonna find out that a lot of things men like are a sin.
#2
Headmaster: We will not tolerate racial slurs at Roxberry. You can use them at any other time - at home, at the mall, at rock and roll concerts.
#3
Kimberly Joyce: Randa, what's the greatest thing about this country?
Randa: Sylvester Stallone?
Kimberly Joyce: No. It's that anybody can sue anybody at anytime over anything.
Randa: You wanna sue Mr. Anderson?
Kimberly Joyce: I suppose that it might jump-start me and Brittany's acting careers.
#4
Kimberly Joyce: Dad got me a digital video camera so that he can tape my violin recitals and then watch them later instead of actually attending them like a good parent would.
"Someone who has strong feelings of love, respect, and duty toward their country"
or
"1. A person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.
2. A person who regards himself or herself as a defender, especially of individual rights, against presumed interference by the federal government."
There are other, slightly different definitions but you can choose any dictionary definition you like. The question becomes, when you define the term, do you fit within the definition?
Others have described patriots differently. Samuel Johnson famously said "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" but then again, he was referring only to those who he thought of as "false patriots." Oscar Wilde said "patriotism is the virtue of the vicious" while Mark Twain said "patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." Voltaire chimed in with "it is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of mankind."
I am not an enemy of mankind nor do I know nothing about those things I "holler" about. I consider myself a patriot because I don't love my country right or wrong. Loving your country "right or wrong" is not the mindset of a patriot. I will defend my country. I wore its uniform for ten years of my adult life. I am a patriot. I've been one my entire life.
But my concept of patriot, patriotic and patriotism doesn't mesh with that of some people who don't strike me as patriots themselves. I agree with the portions of the agenda of the Tea Party about fiscal responsibility when it comes to reducing government's size and spending. But not those of things like overturning Obamacare. It isn't the best solution to the problem of healthcare but it is better than anything anyone else has advanced. The "plan" put forward by former Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan is ridiculous.
I won't label all or even most members of the Tea Party as racists or bigots but they have more than their fair share. Here are a few examples of racism among Tea Party members:
Again, let's be clear. I'm not saying all, most or the majority of the Tea Party membership is racist or bigoted. However, when talking-head Sean Hannity says he can't find the racist signs at Tea Party events, he isn't looking very hard.
Racism is not patriotic. Inequality is not patriotic. Letting people die from disease and injury when we have one of the finest healthcare systems in the world available to save them is not patriotic. That we only provide emergent care to people who are dying when they don't have insurance doesn't seem to fit well with some words our founding fathers wrote:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Perhaps one of those self-described patriots can explain something to me. How do you reconcile letting a person who is dying but could be saved die, with those words and call yourself a patriot? Life is the most precious of our inalienable rights. It must be preserved wherever and whenever possible.
Now comes the tough question. How do we find a way to do that, and still be a fiscally responsible nation? I don't have an immediate answer, but as patriots, it is our duty to find one.
* * *
Yesterday I wanted to go to trivia, but wound up choosing to stay home. Now I feel guilty about not going because if I had been there, my team would have won the "premium" game as a bar. None of them knew the answer to the final question (you wager 50% of your cumulative score on the final, so missing it kills your chances), but I did. Oh well, my health is more important than a victory at Buzztime Trivia.
I did manage to complete work on some of my lesson plans, get all that stuff done at the VA, finish one film review and start another, and run a couple of errands. So why do I feel like I didn't accomplish anything? Simple. Because when it comes to judging ourselves, we set the bar too high. We know what we are capable of when we apply all our knowledge, energy and experience to our daily agenda, thusly anything less than total completion of the entire agenda seems like failure.
Yesterday was not a wasted day. I will hold onto that thought as I try not to waste today.
* * *
They may be the most powerful elected officials in the nation who aren't at the Federal level. One of the five has served in office for 33 years already and he won't be forced to leave office until three more years pass. I'm referring to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
The 55 members of the U.S. House of Representatives in California represent 38 million people. That's roughly 690,000 constituents each. The 80 members of the California State Assembly each represent roughly 465,000 constituents. California State Senators represent twice that amount, or 930,000 each.
But the five "kings and queens" of Los Angeles County each represent nearly 2 million of the roughly 10 million people who live in the county. They control $25 billion in public spending. And they are basically unaccountable to the people they represent. If not for the passage of term limits for supervisors in Los Angeles County in 2002, it is a safe assumption that none of the five would be leaving office anytime soon. It was nearly impossible to defeat an incumbent supervisor in an election in this county.
There's something wrong with this equation.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Tokyo was named as host city for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. That's good news for those who want to see the 2024 Summer Games come to Los Angeles.
A gym that caters to the over-50 crowd in Garden Grove is hosting classes in "cane fu", a self-defense method involving martial arts and a walking stick. Cane fu?
Ramen burgers? They laughed at cronuts at first.
Sergio Garcia, the illegal immigrant who is seeking a law license in California despite a federal law that bans him from receiving one should have his request turned down by the State Supreme Court. If you disagree with the federal law, change it. Until then, live by it. How can he take the oath to be sworn in as a licensed attorney if it requires him to support all of the laws of the nation and state? He's breaking one of them by being here until his status changes.
It is probably a smart idea to move the Miss World pageant from near the Indonesian capital of Jakarta to the island of Bali. If for no other reason, it will be safer.
Is it important that the Commander-in-Chief have military experience? I used to think so, but I've changed my mind. It is a good idea to have someone as your Secretary of Defense who has that experience, but it isn't necessary for a president to have it.
* * *
This Date In History:
70 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
1191 – Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf – Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
1228 – Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II landed in Acre, Palestine and started the Sixth Crusade, which resulted in a peaceful restitution of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.
1631 – Battle of Breitenfield (30 Years' War) Swedish troops commanded by Gustavus Adolphus win a decisive victory over Catholic Forces.
1652 – Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
1695 – Henry Every perpetrates one of the most profitable pirate raids in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end to all English trading in India.
1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
1778 – American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies, before Britain is even aware of France's involvement in the war.
1812 – French invasion of Russia : The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow and resulted in a French victory.
1818 – Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1822 – Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.
1857 – Mountain Meadows massacre: Mormon settlers slaughter most members of peaceful, emigrant wagon train.
1864 – American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1876 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
1893 – The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become one of the oldest Italian football clubs, is established by British expats.
1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895–96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1909 – Eugene Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
1911 – French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
1916 – US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
1920 – Two newly purchased Savoia flying boats crash in the Swiss Alps en route to Finland where they would serve with the Suomen Ilmavoimat, killing both crews.
1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
1921 – The Legion of Mary, the largest apostolic organization of lay people in the Catholic Church, is founded in Dublin, Ireland.
1922 – In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
1929 – Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
1932 – The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
1936 – The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
1940 – Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria.
1942 – First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
1942 – World War II: Australian and US forces inflict a significant defeat upon the Japanese at the Battle of Milne Bay.
1943 – A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
1943 – World War II: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea.
1945 – Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
1953 – Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
1965 – China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
1965 – Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
1970 – Fighting between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
1970 – Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
1977 – The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
1977 – The 300 metre tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, better known as ESPN, makes its debut.
1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
1986 – Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
1988 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Elizabeth I of England
Maria Anna of Austria
Thomas Talbot
Grandma Moses
J. P. Morgan, Jr.
Taylor Caldwell
Michael DeBakey
Max Kaminsky
Elia Kazan
David Packard
Anthony Quayle
James Van Allen
Peter Lawford
Daniel Inouye
Laura Ashley
Ronnie Gilbert
John Paul Getty, Jr.
Dan Ingram
Buddy Holly
Joe Klein
Gloria Gaynor (at first I was afraid, I was petrified)
Julie Kavner
Peggy Noonan (great writer!)
Morris Albert
Chrissie Hynde
Corbin Bernsen
Diane Warren (great songwriter)
Angie Everhart
Shane Mosley (loved watching him play in the NBA-Entertainment league, he had amazing stamina)
Briana Scurry
Shannon Elizabeth
Oliver Hudson
Evan Rachel Wood
Movie quotes today come from the 2005 movie "Pretty Persuasion" to honor the birthday of the lovely, talented and easy to interview actress, Evan Rachel Wood:
Randa: [watching a porno] Why is that woman - why is she doing those things with another woman? Why must they show this?
Kimberly Joyce: Because men like to watch it.
Randa: But it is a sin!
Kimberly Joyce: [laughs] Randa! Randa, you're gonna find out that a lot of things men like are a sin.
Randa: Sylvester Stallone?
Kimberly Joyce: No. It's that anybody can sue anybody at anytime over anything.
Randa: You wanna sue Mr. Anderson?
Kimberly Joyce: I suppose that it might jump-start me and Brittany's acting careers.
#4
Kimberly Joyce: Dad got me a digital video camera so that he can tape my violin recitals and then watch them later instead of actually attending them like a good parent would.
posted by me at 7:02 PM
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