Human Right

Good quote via Andrew Sullivan:

"The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which ‘the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one’s skin or color or race’ are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs," - Hannah Arendt, Dissent, 1959.


I guess I should mention that the bridesmaid in the top vintage wedding photograph is my paternal Grandmother, Leona Meier, the dude behind her may or may not be my Grandfather....I'm not really sure.
(Seriously. My image of my Grandfather is of him as old, wearing an undershirt while sitting in his recliner and smoking a pipe. Which is why my husband is not allowed to sit in a recliner wearing an undershirt. Though, I do wish he would smoke a pipe. I like the way pipe tobacco smells.)
The bottom photo is just part of the collection of vintage pictures I have picked up over the years.
I liked her "Gibson Girl" style and as a bonus, thought the groom looked scared to death.

Back to Vintage

Election is over, Obama is President-Elect and Michelle wore an awesome dress to the White House.
Back to vintage.
Here are scans of a couple of vintage purses on my desktop calendar.


Mice at play basket bag with woven ribbon, 1960's.
Am I bad to think that "mice at play" means mice playing poker? Or even better Mice Plotting to Take Over the World?


Phone-cord bag in multiple colors, 1950's.

I love these bags and they were pretty popular from the 40's to the 60's so they come up quite often on eBay and vintage sites.
Here and here and here and here.

Why Do You Care?

Keith Olbermann's Special Comment tonight.
All I can say is...well, why do you care if Gays marry?
"Separate but equal" never works. It is always separate and never equal.

By the way here in Arkansas the evangelicals seem to get divorced more then anyone else.
Can you say "sanctity of marriage"?
I knew you could.

Fat Kitty

...is not pleased.

Dear America,

THANK YOU!

Sincerely,
The World

All That is Left

People died so you have the right to vote.
So go exercise that right no matter how long the line is.

Chill

The Boss

The Boss is in Obama's camp.



This generation's Woody Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band on Letterman earlier this year performing The Rising.

The Queen of Mean

Wow, and people thought Leona Helmsley was a bitch, but this gal takes the cake.
Mom and Dad Obama supporters?
No candy for YOU!

Wanna bet she calls herself a "Christian"?


Way to stay classy Republicans......

In Praise of Candy Corn

Don't judge me!
I love candy corn. I know that a lot of you purists out there will remark that it does not taste like corn.
So?
What it is is soft, pure sugary goodness.
No one else that lives at my house likes it.

More for me.

Cheif in a Box

Happy Halloween

What Obama did Not Say Last Night

While Palin is being snarky about Obama today in her speeches John Cole over on Balloon Juice reminds us of what Obama did not say in his infomercial last night.

Notice what is missing from that, conservatives? Attacks on John McCain. For 30 minutes, Barack Obama talked about what he thinks are the problems currently facing the country, about what he thinks he can do to help fix them, how you can help him, and why it is important to elect him. He did not spend his time telling you why you should not vote for McCain, he spent his time telling why you should vote for him. You may not agree with his ideas, but you can not argue he has them and is presenting them to the country in a clear and nonthreatening manner.

Since John and Sarah can't give a speech without lying about Obama I have a feeling their infomercial would be POW!WAR!AYERS!SOCIALIST!ISRAELHATER!TERRORIST! oh and did I say POW?!!!
I'm glad my candidate is the one who tells me what he will DO not what is wrong with his opponent, who lets me know what is ideas are to fix this country and who talks to me like an adult.

Vintage Monte-Sano Coat

Mrs. George Pope, photographed above in the I. Magnin hat
department, wears a rust tweed coat with fluted pockets,
pleated skirt; by Monte-Sanyo in Hockanum's
super soft nubby tweed. About $235

Vogue, 1948

Vintage Purses

Wicker strawberry-basket bag, 1950's

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil purse, 1940's.....
Cause really, who can hate a monkey purse?

Ceil Chapman, 1948

Vintage Ceil Chapman dress:

"Back gathered dinner dress (shades of skirt shapes to come), cut just over the ankle.
Of dark blue twill silk; Ceil Chapman."

Vogue, 1948

Vintage 1940's Hats

Crochet.
Yep, they are crocheted.
Pretty chic too.

Paul Newman

Requiescat in pace et in amore

LOLfatcats

Vintage Handbags

More scans from my calendar:


Classy Bakelite in Contrasting Colors, 1940's



Cheerful summer tote adorned with sequin flowers, Enid Collins, 1960

Vintage Irene Suit

Vogue, 1949

Newsflash

Elite Hillary backer joins the elitist party!
Sorry Baroness Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, but as a "regular person", I really could care less if a "insanely wealthy, titled aristocrat" leaves the Democratic party.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Chief and Morning Glories

Here is a new picture of Chief.
Such a big boy, no longer a little kitty.
He has begun venturing out on the back deck and into the yard.


The deck covered with wisteria and morning glories.

Vintage Suit

Lilli Ann, Vogue 1954

No Honor

The Republicans have no problem lying.

That we all know.
This goes beyond the pale.

I am speechless.
At least georgia10 on Daily Kos is not.

Oh, and some asswipe Republican tore the Obama '08 sticker off my car tonight while I was in the fucking WalMart parking lot.
I kid you not.
So.
Pissed.

We Are Not Amused

I promise this will be my final Sarah Palin post.

At least until she talks to real reporters who ask her tough questions.

Rick Davis from the McCain campaign has said:

Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself to any tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference." ... "Sarah Palin will have the opportinity to speak to the American people," Davis said. "She will do interviews, but she'll do them on the terms and conditions" the campaign decides.

Sarah, just a little hint, respect needs to be earned and so far honey, you have done nothing to earn mine. Having 5 kids means nothing to me when I know gals who have 7 or more kids and homeschool them all.

And Deference?
Seriously?
Just who the hell does she think she is....the fucking Queen?

Vintage Dress

Givenchy, 1953

Give Em Hell Joe!

Now this is what I'm talking about.

Ugly American

This post on Huffington Post pretty much sums up the way I feel about Sarah Palin, without my meanness.

Many pundits in reviewing her polished performance claim to see an unflappable and gung-ho winner on stage. My honest-to-goodness visceral reaction was quite otherwise. What I saw on that stage was the personification of small-minded smugness, an utter lack of humility, a kind of self-righteous entitlement based on little more than puffed-up narrowness. She struck me not as plucky but, rather, as stunningly immodest--to the point of arrogance. Some people are arrogant and maybe deserve to be. They know it, and flaunt it, while everyone else thinks they are jerks. But there's another kind of arrogance, perhaps harder to spot at first, an arrogance that apparently doesn't even recognize itself as such, a sanctified, self-satisfied presumptuousness that flows from sheer naïveté about oneself and the world and manifests itself in giddy ambition.

Sanctified, small-minded smugness.
Yep, I know this person.

Scary Kitties

I know I should not laugh, but there is something about bobcats taking over an abandoned home just hilarious.

I've Got you Covered

Well, we have just seen the Republicans use 9/11 as a way to get votes with a "9/11 Tribute Video". Why am I not surprised?
Here is your daily dose of reality from Obama to scrub the bullshit of the Republican convention.

Community Organizers

I'm still pissed about the derision that Rudy and Sarah displayed last night.
So in case anyone is wondering what a "community organizer" does here is a Photo History of Community Organizers.


That is a photo of one of my favorite community organizers, Dorothy Day who helped the poor and homeless and promoted social justice. I guess Republicans would call her a communist.

Ugh.

I was pretty appalled by Gov. Palin's speech. She was sarcastic and the speech had a very ugly
tone.

I promise you, every women out there heard who she was. She's the leader of the clique who
was cruel to you while she smiled at you, she is the gal who ran the PTA as her own little
fiefdom and treated like shit because your kid was odd or had problems, she is the petty woman who ruins your reputation or runs another family out of your local church with an ugly smear
campaign all the while smiling at them, she is the gal that gets the town to cancel Halloween and inferrs that those who disagree with her worship Satan.

I get who she is and it is not a person I like.
Just ugh and no.

WTF?

I'm wondering what Republicans have against "community organizers"...besides the fact that they help people...in communities.

I'm Mad As Hell

You know I was willing to be nice about Sarah Palin, but not now.
She represents the party that has trashed this country for the last 8 years and they do not get any more chances to make it right. All she is doing with her speech is piss me off.

So to anyone who says I should be nice to Palin.
I'm not ready to make nice, I'm not ready to back down, I'm still mad as hell....




Oh, and Republican party?
You can kiss my big fat ass.

Barf

I think I just thew up in my mouth.
Rudy scares me...

To help you make it though the bullshit spewing out of Republican's pie holes tonight I give you Bill, enjoy.

More Conservative Bullshit

Via Peggy Noonan on the WSJ.com

blahblahblah can't pick on Palin blahblahblah sexism blahblahblah.
And then this gem:

"For one thing, you assume evangelical Christians will be appalled and left agitated by the circumstances of Mrs. Palin's daughter. But modern American evangelicals are among the last people who'd judge her harshly. It is the left that is about to go crazy with Puritan judgments; it is the right that is about to show what mellow looks like. Religious conservatives know something's wrong with us, that man's a mess. They are not left dazed by the latest applications of this fact. "This just in – there's a lot of sinning going on out there" is not a headline they'd understand to be news.

So the media's going to wait for the Christian right to rise up and condemn Mrs. Palin, and they're not going to do it because it's not their way, and in any case her problems are their problems. Christians lived through the second half of the 20th century, and the first years of the 21st. They weren't immune from the culture, they just eventually broke from it, or came to hold themselves in some ways apart from it. I think the media will explain the lack of condemnation as "Republican loyalty" and "talking points." But that's not what it will be."

I do not know WHAT conservative evangelicals Noonan knows, but the ones around here are the biggest bunch of hypocrites on God's green earth.

They would be savaging this family if they were Democrats.

Fucking hypocrites.

UPDATE:

Noonan on open mic.

Peggy Noonan, I knew you were too smart to buy the bullshit you Republicans are shoveling...

and just let me say I think the Schadenfreude is so good I just want to roll around in it.

"Country First" My Ass

Here, this will help you get over the bullshit the Republicans were shoveling tonight.

Morning Thoughts

GOP platform on abstinence and education

"We renew our call for replacing 'family planning' programs for teens with increased funding
for abstinence education, which teaches abstinence until marriage as the responsible and
expected standard of behavior. Abstinence from sexual activity is the only protection that is
100% effective against out-of-wedlock pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, including
HIV/AIDS when transmitted sexually.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I love Republicans.
If it makes the fundis happy they will stick with a view, even when it is a proven failure that
puts the lives of teens in danger.

Some early morning thoughts:
On a political board I post on a few posters have flounced off over the night, always fun to watch the hissy fits with posters proclaiming "Screw you bitches, I'm outa here!".
I'll miss their special form of crazy.

Palin is obviously a commie traitor. What were the Republicans thinking? They must actually
hate America. Was McCain not wearing his "American" hat when he picked her?

OMG! Will someone PLEASE tell Elizabeth Hasselbeck to STFU? Jesus, that woman is an idiot.
Why does Barbara let her open her pie hole? Oh look, New Kids on the Block are back.
(I turned on the TV to see if we had tornado warnings and there was The View, Joy always
reels me in)

There is a Palin Candidacy Death Watch (With Poll) over on DKos, good times.

Palin is the gift that keeps on giving....if seeing Republicans is a form of entertainment
for you.
It is for me.

Last point.
I wish you could reach though the tv so I could smack Mary Matalin.

Thanks I feel better now.

Troopergate

What can I say.*
Troopergate.

"An internal trooper investigation had found Mr Wooten guilty of several infractions - using a Taser stun gun on his stepson, drinking on duty, threatening his then father-in-law and shooting a moose without a permit, the Anchorage Daily News reported yesterday."

If they all live in mobile homes, in the South**, this would be a Jerry Springer show.

Here, this will take your mind off the fail that is Palin***:




*I can say a whole lot more, but I'm not voting Republican so I could care less if McCain choose a right-wing, anti-choice creationist with the least amount of experience EVAH as his running mate. The fact that she has a vajay means nothing.

**Don't judge me bitches, I live in a mobile home, in the South.

***Yes, yes Michelle is made of awesome.

Turn Off The Talking Heads

If you are watching the Democratic Convention on one of the cable channels you are not getting the whole story.
Please, I beg of you, turn on PBS or C-SPAN to get your convention coverage without the opinion and spin of others.
Also you will see all the speakers and videos, like this on by Speilburgh on our military:


And this one with President Jimmy Carter on New Orleans and Katrina:

Wake Up America!

I'm all about the Democratic convention this week.
Here is Dennis Kucinich 'Wake Up America!'

He's Home!

Mr. Kitty, who has had issues since his near death experience, wandered off almost a week ago.
I have been so sad, crying over the weekend and just moping around.
Tonight, I went to lock the front door before I went to bed.
I looked out "just in case" and he just comes wandering up the steps!

sigh.
I feel very warm and happy right now.

CAKE!

Via a post on Feministing I have just discovered Cake Wrecks where in they make fun of cakes.
Yes, decorated cakes.
"When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong."

This is the kind of shit you cannot make up.

Cakes for cat lovers:
"I think the baker captured that blank look of mortal terror quite well, don't you?"

"I think I saw this outfit modeled on one of Maury Povich's "Who's the Daddy?" episodes."

More Vintage Lilli Ann

Fabric of France "Bamboo", Marvelous blending of mohair, worsted and silk created by Faques Exclusively for The exciting new Lilli Ann Couturier Dress Collection. Lime, Cognac, Fawn, Blue, Violet, garnished luxuriously with mink flowers....

Fabric-Of-France "Embossed Nuage" Rhinestone studded silk and cotton fabric created exclusively for the exciting new Lilli Ann Couturier Dress Collection. Black and White, Gray and white, Brown and white with dramatic velvet trim.....

Both 1954....

Not sure how I feel about the mink flying monkey thingees (yes I know they call them "mink flowers"...they look like monkeys to me) on that halter though.
Creepy.

Living The Vintage Life

Interesting article on the Daily Mail about a few couples in England who live their lives completely in the past.
Cool.
Who wouldn't want a kitchen like this:


I would LOVE to re-do my house like the one above.
Seriously cool.

I don't even mind that they are housewives who live for the comfort of their hubbies.
That is their beeswax and what was the woman's movement for if not to allow women to make any choice they want?
Except they make the mistake that many do of forgetting that not everything was so good in the good old days.

Remember the good old days?
Without AC? Or computers? Or microwaves? Or chemo? Or polio vaccines?
Remember Jim Crow and "separate but equal".
How about having to get your husband permission to go on birth control?

Life was slower and in someways gentler so I do understand the desire to retreat to a fantasy world, but that is all it is because the world of Andy Griffith and Lucy never really existed.

sigh

Color me disappointed....

Of course if John McCain, who fooled around on his wife and then divorced her for a newer, richer model can run for President, I don't see why Edwards can't at least be Attorney General.

The Cuteness....

Carol over at Dandelion Vintage has a new addition!


and here is a new picture of Chief....


Now everyone say awwwwww.....

Vintage Emma Domb

Coming soon to Damn Good Vintage, this wonderful vintage Emma Domb dress.

Just In Case

Just in case that rat bastard Karl Rove comes to your town and you end up contemplating a citizen's arrest like the 4 folks in Iowa, here is a short lesson on preforming a citizen's arrest from Nathan Robinson.
I'm just saying....