The Texas Tavern is OPEN on the Thanksgiving thread
Calif. House Majority Leader Toni Atkins
I had an interesting morning today — a late breakfast at the Texas Tavern with Toni Atkins.
She’s 50, grew up in Roanoke, in Old Southwest, graduated in 1980 from Patrick Henry High School, then in 1984 earned a political science degree from Emory & Henry College.
She wanted a job in social services, but she couldn’t find one in Roanoke. So she worked at a dry cleaners and a couple of convenience stores. She left town in the fall of 1985, as the floodwaters were rising. She remembers Victory Stadium was underwater that day.
She moved to San Diego, and now she’s one of the most powerful women in all of California politics.
Atkins, a former member of San Diego City Council (she also served as acting mayor) was elected to the California Assembly, the equivalent of Virginia’s House of Delegates, in 2010. And now she’s majority leader of it.
She’s one of eight openly gay California state lawmakers, and she’s one of two who’s married. She and her spouse, Jennifer LeSar, were married four years ago, before Proposition 8 outlawed gay marriage in California. That law remains under legal challenge.
So how did it come to pass that we met? That falls under the category of “Gee, it’s a small world.”
My brother John Casey is her chief of staff. She hired him two weeks ago, after John decided not to follow his mentor, Sen. Alan Lowenthal, to Washington D.C. Lowenthal was recently elected to Congress.
John and Toni were on the phone Wednesday, and she told him she was in Roanoke visiting her sister, Tina Phillips, who still lives here.
“Holy cow, my brother’s a columnist there!” John said. So the called me, and I called Toni and we plotted a meeting place today.
“Where should we meet?” she said.
“How about the Texas Tavern?” I asked.
“Oh my God I love that place!” she said.
November 22, 2012 - 1:59 PM
You have such an interesting life! Small world indeed.
She’s one of eight openly gay California state lawmakers, and she’s one of two who’s married. She and her spouse, Jennifer LeSar, were married four years ago, before Proposition 8 outlawed gay marriage in California.
#26.” Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
Check.
Suzie seems to feel so threatened by gays. It’s hilarious.
Those braying the loudest are usually the ones cowering behind the closet door. Anybody remember the last time suz used a male avatar? Me neither.
Suzie seems to feel so threatened by gays. It’s hilarious.
No, I just marvel at how many of the Communist goals for America from the 1950s has come to pass. Nobody talked about homosexuality in those days. I never heard of homosexuality until I was like, 12. It’s been done so smoothly, people think it’s always been there.
It’s like Dan and his carrying water for the Democrats while trashing the conservatives. He probably isn’t even aware he’s the third layer down from the CPUSA directives. He’s been an unwitting tool, but he’s been encouraged to think it’s all been his idea. That goes for all the liberals in here. You’ve been used, people.
I want to share with you all one of the most revealing and meaningful Thanksgiving messages I’ve ever read:
“I am thankful that in this country it is still possible to achieve everything your ambition, talent, and work ethic will allow, while simulataneously making a direct difference in hundreds even thousands of lives. This is truly living. Money is a nice bonus, but the real significance of wealth is the corresponding contribution it means you have made to society. There is no better feeling.” — posted by Screwzie, Thanksgiving, 2011
Then she followed it a bit later with this post:
“In yesterday’s Thanksgiving remarks (made with a teleprompter, if you can believe that) 0bama didn’t mention God one time. God should be first and foremost mentioned in any message of thanksgiving.”
Go back and read Screwzie’s first Thanksgiving message.
Now go back and read her second message.
No mention of God in her first message.
Screwzie is a Communist.
Suzie’s fears run as deep as the night is long.
We may have to develop a “fear” list..
solely based on her own offerings.
“She’s one of eight openly gay California state lawmakers, and she’s one of two who’s married. She and her spouse, Jennifer LeSar, were married four years ago, before Proposition 8 outlawed gay marriage in California. That law remains under legal challenge.”
Irrelevant to the story and irrelevant to life. Why do we continue to bring the sexual orientation of someone up when they are gay. We don’t make sure that every person who has a story written about them that is heterosexual is introduced or at some point announced that way. Give it a rest and let us celebrate the casual meetings and wow moments that keep us all amazed and excited. Cool connection and opportunity regardless of sexual orientation Dan.
Dan..
Something similar to me 10 or so years ago at New Orleans airport.
I was standing near the ticket counter waiting to meet someone there.
a guy walks through the main entrance . I did a flash back 20 years
and saw what I thought was a kid I caught the school bus with.
..except with a much bigger body. He even had the same haircut.
Yea..it was Jimmy Cannaday…and he must have thought similarly…we briefly
spoke..and he was off to points unknown…I stayed for gumbo and an Abita
I’m sure this linked article will cause SuzieQ & her Tea Party collegues choke on their turkey.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-things-to-tell-your-republican-relatives-at-thanksgiving-dinner/2/
Another indication that the Republicans don’t have a clue.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/boehner-wants-affordable-care-act-on-fiscal-cliff-chopping-block/
Wow Dan, “third layer down”… Small fish big pond or big fish small pond? Suzie, please go fish, your time warp is melting.
Ron May, Suzie is exhibit one in the “Republicans don’t have a clue” exposition. We really ought to be paying her. That she does it for free is manna.
Go back and read Screwzie’s first Thanksgiving message.
Now go back and read her second message.
No mention of God in her first message.
This is what Contra spends his Thanksgiving Day digging up.
Ron May, Suzie is exhibit one in the “Republicans don’t have a clue” exposition.</eRon May, Suzie is exhibit one in the “Republicans don’t have a clue” exposition.
You can have the best candidate and the best ideas of all time, but if they’re stealing your votes, it won’t matter. The theft of this election is the most grievous act in American history.
Job One is ‘How to we clean up the process?”
At least suzie’s having a miserable Thanksgiving. She seems to be thankful for nothing at all.
And she keeps carrying that water for the paranoid commie behind every tree party. How easily she gets sucked in these days.
Contrasuzie:
“Go back and read Screwzie’s first Thanksgiving message.
Now go back and read her second message.
No mention of God in her first message.
Screwzie is a Communist.”
Great post Contra!
NU SCOTT:
“Irrelevant to the story and irrelevant to life. Why do we continue to bring the sexual orientation of someone up when they are gay.”
Lefty praise points, I guess. I have to agree with you NU SCOTT. It will never really be normal until it is no longer noteworthy. What a bummer it would be to have an accomplished political career and be remembered primarily for being gay. For HER sake, there was no reason to even bring it up.
well said, NU SCOTT.
I don’t recall ol’ dano ever mentioning ANY chance meeting, or any meeting at all, with… a described non-gay person. hmmmm?
Hey dano, i bet she would have loved meeting you at The New Yorker…
Go back and read Screwzie’s first Thanksgiving message.
Now go back and read her second message.
No mention of God in her first message.
This is what poster #14 spends their entire year trying to avoid notice for.
#15: “The theft of this election is the most grievous act in American history.”
Poster #15 thinks the 2012 election result was worse than 9/11, the murder of Lincoln, the dispersal of smallpox blankets to Native Americans, or Pearl Harbor.
What a stupid poster.
Yes Suzie…u are right..
and you can choose to stay delusional
the rest of your life..each day alienating
yourself further and further from reason.
..My money says thats your political path.
Do give us a list of your most “rational”
sources and tell us the ones that are plinking
their tin cups chanting “stolen election”
Give us something for once other than “I think”.
Suzie:
“This is what Contra spends his Thanksgiving Day digging up.”
I’m glad Contra did. It shows your colors. It’s a better read than your Alinsky/Commie posts #4-11,478. You’re to the point of appearing creepy about it now. Please stop. I totally agree with you in so much as we are in serious trouble and in the direction our government is heading overall, but absolutely no amount more talking at these people will convince them and you are way past the point of counterproductivity now. The record here will forever show that you warned them, and to a lesser extent, so did I. Time to hang that topic up for the time being; it has shot its wad.
NEXT……!!!!!
This person is SO cool because she is GAY! Actually real gay! It’s cool because it’s really, really rare.
Oh, and she got elected to some office or something. But she’s 100% gay.
Perhaps some of you are ignorant of the struggle for the gay community in gaining equal rights, respect and beating back discrimination?
That struggle and the accomplishments of “openly gay” Americans is a BFD, and relevant to both the story and life precisely because of it.
It will mean that equal rights have been accomplished when we no longer need to acknowledge the hurdles they overcame to get where ever we are congratulating them on being.
“…absolutely no amount more talking at these people…”
You think we can un-elect the guy? You forget why Jethrene is here, it’s all about the attention. Hope everyone had a nice turkey day.
Like I said, Lefty praise points!
My civility actually seems to annoy some liberals more than when i was more outspoken. I don’t understand that.
Dan, great story about a Roanoke native whose done well, made even better by her excellent choice of eating establishments! On this weekend of Thanksgiving, I am thankful for Ms. atkins and the TT.
#26 Of course, suzie, there’s absolutely nothing civil about your incessantly repeated lies claiming Obama and Dems are criminals. Or that they’re commies.
Boy, that was easy.
Why don`t the Caseys, Stevie C`s, Art Hills, Richard Beasons, Ron Mays of the liberal homosexuailty movement, all pair up and get to procreating…We`ll all sit back and wait for the results…If it takes, I`ll go as the first Conservative to back abortion.
I can’t speak for the Steve Cs and the Art Hills, but I, Ron May and Richard J. Beason all have offspring. What about you, Jeff Doto. Or have you been conserving your reproductive efforts?
Three of the Casey kids are voting age, btw (the 4th, and youngest, will vote in the next presidential election). And guess how they vote!
26 Of course, suzie, there’s absolutely nothing civil about your incessantly repeated lies claiming Obama and Dems are criminals. Or that they’re commies.
You don’t think voter fraud is criminal?
And guess how they vote!
I’m guessing they vote themselves out of jobs they are educated for.
#29 Dolto comes back to provide yet more evidence of his nickname.
3 more sheep on the Democratic plantation.
#31 “You don’t think voter fraud is criminal”
I don’t think you’ve come even close to proving the election was stolen, something that not even loser Romney is alleging. Yet you keep claiming it. IOW, your posts are just as ugly and trollish as they always were, just with fewer direct insults.
Suzie,
The only fraud in the recent election that I’m aware of was not not “voter fraud” but “voter registration fraud.” That was in Harrisonburg, where a Republican “registration” operative was arrested and charged with throwing a bunch of registration applications in a commercial dumpster. He now faces trial on 13 felonies and misdemeanors.
Now, that is a specific guy, who committed specific actions, and who is charged with specific crimes. They were (allegedly) so outrageous that even Ken Cuccinelli has been embarrassed into agreeing to investigate.
All you’ve got is vague suppositions and groundless speculation. You can’t cite any charges (like I have above) in which actual people (Democrats) have been charged with crimes relating to the president’s re-election. It’s all just vague horse manure, like most of your posts.
hey dano,
of COURSE the casey kids will vote like dad….although, it’s plausible that one or more casey kids merely TELL dad they voted as he demands…
Re: “The theft of this election is the most grievous act in American history.”
Hum?
Whiskey Rebellion?
Slavery?
Civil war?
Assassinations?
Various other murders and heinous crimes?
The rampant violence of prohibition?
The sex slavery trade?
Etc?
Etc?
ETC?
Yeah-right!
I`m so sorry I left you out of the homosexual post of late, Gdud. I feel certain this was the reason your panties got into a wad….you were certainly entitled to inclusion. Now, go find a man and pro-create.
Voter fraud ? Don`t waste your time with these idiots, Suzie…It could be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, and these re-education camp zombies would still be in denial.
Re: Warren — November 22, 2012 @ 10:17 pm
Thanks for bringing up the smallpox blankets to Native Americans and other such atrocities against out indigenous population.
I intentionally left out 9/11 and Pearl Harbor — so as to focus on acts committed by us against our own. However, I did forget those truly American grievous acts.
” Or have you been conserving your reproductive efforts?”
With his winning personality I’m sure that’s not much of a challenge.
More importantly, following is a list of companies that monetsrily backed the demorats…I know I`ll boycott them…Hope you do too : Price Club/costco..rite aid..Magla(stanley tools,Mr Clean)Warnaco(undergarments) Estee Lauder..Guess..Calvin Clein..Liz Claiborne..Levi..Olan Mills Joseph Seagrams(yes, the liquor)Gallo..Sonic…Arbys…AND GET THIS Heinz(John Kerry`s wife, Teresa) $64,000 to repubs $21,300 democrats…John Kerry knows fuels this economy, although he`ll look you in the eye and lie about it,,,it keeps him in office with his zombie constiuents.
Re: gdad @ 9:56 am
gdad,
The GOTPers have written Romney off. Hence old Rant & Raves (w/ lies) is total unimpressed with what he is or is not alleging. They are circling their wagons around their own fantasies and delusions in order to defend against all “outsiders” — including even someone such as Romney. Only true-believers are allowed to drink their kook-aid.
Of course there may have been a plan to steal the election. But it got burned. This does explain Rovies meltdown on Faux election night:
http://protectourelections.org/index.php?q=node%2F1107
My apologies it this as been posted already.
My civility actually seems to annoy some liberals more than when i was more outspoken. I don’t understand that.
Comment by Suzie — November 23, 2012 @ 6:36 am
Allow me to help you. It’s because you’re fake. People don’t respond well to disingenuous manure. Just because you’ve added sprinkles and other candy-coated toppings, doesn’t mean you’re not still serving up crap. Your old persona was fake. Your new persona is fake. You’re a fraud. Fraudulent people decrying fraud and phantom menaces is boring, tiring and irrelevant. You’re the Milli Vanilli of Dan’s blog.
Listening to anything you say is like having Charles Manson educate us on race relations or the environment. You’re just a washed-up, old never-was. You’re way past your prime, your notoriety has waned and nobody is buying your latest product.
Still, I have to say that watching you scramble to hold onto the only amount of [dubious] fame you’ve ever had is hilarious. You’re a mastodon in a tar pit. Do everyone a favor, including yourself: Stop struggling and accept your fate.
You’re nothing but fallow fields and dried-up rivers. You’re a wasteland, Suzie.
“The theft of this election is the most grievous act in American history.”
Recall, Dave Hicks, we are dealing with someone who would have informed upon those radical revolutionaries, the founding fathers. She’s a stuck-in-the-mud regressive Tory all the way.
“Voter fraud> . . . It could be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, and these re-education camp zombies would still be in denial.”
Apparently the conserves are just too fraidy cat to “prove” it. Because they haven’t yet. Obama must really scare them.
Re: J.M. White @ 11:00 am
“… disingenuous manure [with] sprinkles and other candy-coated toppings….”
Outstanding imaginary / description.
Well done, sir.
‘No, I just marvel at how many of the Communist goals for America from the 1950s has come to pass.”
You’ve been listening that Paul Harvey table from 1964 haven’t you?
Very few people, aside from your deluded ilk, fear much in the way of a communist future in this country. I also find it ironic that as we collectively grant greater freedoms and protections directly to certain groups of people, folks like you pretend that increasing liberty is a communist plot. I chalk that up to strange things brains can do when they have the Read Only Memory of ideology.
“The theft of this election is the most grievous act in American history.”
If my memory serves me correctly, you have now modified your view. Prior to this false claim, the worst thing ever was an act of sex committed by President Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky. Somehow, according to you, that changed course of human history in some magical way. As far as I can tell, it was something the dry cleaners could have fixed.
In any case, it surely has been fun watching you chase your tail since the election. I knew it was going to rub you the wrong way, and think most people suspected you’d claim the election was stolen, but it’s fun to see the wheels of conspiracy turn in your head.
Given your massive personal fortune, I can’t see why you don’t hire an aggressive law firm to look into this massive fraud. You could be the Orly Taitz of the ROV and do frequent spots on Glenn Beck’s show, or maybe even meet the master of AM radio himself.
Stop the bickering and do something to help, rather than hurt. Both sides. Go to http://www.applewoodgrilling.com These folks have a great way to flavor the burgers, ribs, chicken, etc., of your grilling sessions. It tastes absolutely delicious, plus it also helps the children stricken with cancer. Please lay down your sticks for a moment and do something worthwhile. We did and now have a much better taste in our mouths.
Re: J.M. White @ 11:00 am
“Fraudulent people decrying fraud and phantom menaces is boring, tiring and irrelevant.”
—————–
Yup!
However, more to the point, IMHO, that delusional rant is only deluding old Rants & Raves (w/ lies), herself — and maybe a very few of her/his hand puppets. Loser delusion feeding loser delusion.
As John Wilburn said yesterday @ 10:43 pm it is “way past the point of counterproductivity now.”
Old Rants & Raves (w/ lies) did not get it before the election, does not get it now, will never get it.
Here is another nightmare for some of the posters here:
http://tinyurl.com/av3bw24
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November 23, 2012, 11:43 AM
In Oakland, a New Kind of Federal Courthouse — 100% Female
By Joe Palazzolo
The federal courthouse in Oakland, Calif., is unlike any other in the nation. All of its judges and magistrate judges are women. Five of the six of them are women of color.
SNIP
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Wonder if someone here will do a pseudo probability analysis of that happening w/o fraud?
Only Suzie could come in here today and turn a fabulous story about a very successful Roanoke native who is self-made, and obviously extremely capable, and smart, into multiple rants against same sex folks, communists, voter fraud, etc. etc. etc. What a complete and total warpness and deviance of the human mind…
Wonder if someone here will do a pseudo probability analysis of that happening w/o fraud?
Comment by Dave Hicks — November 23, 2012 @ 12:12 pm
DaveH, I’d love to do that analysis if you could come up with the number of courtrooms that are filled with nothing but white male judges, and have been for hundreds of years.It might put this particular courtroom in perspective.
Of course, no one would call “fraud” on a bunch of pudgy white guys on the bench.
Only Suzie could come in here today and turn a fabulous story about a very successful Roanoke native who is self-made, and obviously extremely capable, and smart, into multiple rants against same sex folks
I didn’t bring up the unrelated gay interjection, and I wouldn’t have commented had Dan not brought it up.
Wonder if someone here will do a pseudo probability analysis of that happening w/o fraud?
Wow. Six compared to 19.620.
Am I the only person in here who has ever studied advanced math?
Re: Kristen @ 12:49 pm
… “fraud” on a bunch of pudgy white guys on the bench.
—————-
Can one call something that is blatantly open “fraud”?
Are other glass ceilings “fraud”?
Was the suppression of the right to a vote prior to 19A “fraud”?
Ridiculous suppression? Yup.
But in your-face-discrimination are not an act of deceiving or misrepresenting, IMHO.
#30 Jethro the Dodo posted “Why don`t the Caseys, Stevie C`s, Art Hills, Richard Beasons, Ron Mays of the liberal homosexuailty movement, all pair up and get to procreating…We`ll all sit back and wait for the results…If it takes, I`ll go as the first Conservative to back abortion.”
Comment by Jeff Doto — November 23, 2012 @ 9:35 am
No need to wait any longer, Jethro! It appears that I was smote by the righteous hand of God and actually delivered the “results” you so rightly predicted. Yup, the blessed event occurred this morning. It happed right after I had a huge bowl of extremely high fiber cereal washed down with half a pot of coffee. Anywho, so I go up to my special “reading room” with the Saturday paper, and after like 15 minutes of labor the miracle of life occurred. For a second I thought he might be kin to you but then it occurred to me that he was, even in his infancy, far smarter than you’ll ever be.
“far smarter than you’ll ever be.”
My prime was spent trying NOT to have kids, if you catch my drift.
” Don`t waste your time with these idiots, Suzie”
From your mouth.
Suzie:
“Wonder if someone here will do a pseudo probability analysis of that happening w/o fraud?….Am I the only person in here who has ever studied advanced math?”
I have a friend who might be game for this. He’s a somewhat famous statistician. I’ll drop him a line.
Steve C, I cannot burn that story out of my mind.
Forgetting all the politics, I am amazed that you suggested the Tavern in the first place. Amazed, but proud.
#40 OK, so Dolto is one of them homophobes. And you know what they say about the folks who protest the most.
BTW, Dolto, I have two children, so i already procreated. With my wife of 33 years. I note that you had no reply when asked by Dan if you have children. Wonder why.
#46 OK, so I’m guessing that maybe the right wingers on this blog who confidently predicted a landslide for Romney somehow knew of this Rove plot.
#65: “OK, so Dolto is one of them homophobes. And you know what they say about the folks who protest the most.”
gdad, we’d better cut Doto a break. After all, look at the products (#44) that according to him he’ll be boycotting now: Estee Lauder, Liz Claiborne, Guess, Seagram’s, Gallo Wine, Sonic, and undergarments.
So, as he’s told us himself, Obama’s reelection for Dohto is gonna mean foregoing his usual shots of whiskey with a box wine chaser after his meal from Sonic while wearing women’s clothes, perfume, and no undergarments. But those who love liberty as much as he does are willing to make the hard sacrifices to protect America from the gays!
“Suzie says:
Go back and read Screwzie’s first Thanksgiving message.
Now go back and read her second message.
No mention of God in her first message.
This is what Contra spends his Thanksgiving Day digging up.
Posted on November 22nd, 2012″
By not denying she’s a Communist, Screwzie admits to being a Communist.
Suzie, how about an Alegebra I refresher.
332>206
51%>48%
62,615,406>59,142,004
A little heavier concentration in History, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology (be careful here), Ethics, Biology, and Religion amy help you understand the world in which you live.
Re: John Wilburn yesterday @ 5:18 pm
The bulls-eye or sharpshooter fallacy is the result of trying to apply formulas to events or data that are not random, when those formulas were developed and are only valid for calculating probability and/or degree of certainty in randomly generating events or to random samples of randomly distributed data.
In the case an election, the cherry-picked data clusters to suit one’s argument (or finding a pattern to fit a presumption) fits the fallacy even were the total data random.
Finding such clusters is to be expected — given the likely causation being the results of something (say demographics, economic stratification, legitimate politic ground game, the other party having written off the precinct, etc. ) and to be totally unrelated to Suzie’s assumption/argument (fraud).
gdad:
“I note that you had no reply when asked by Dan if you have children. Wonder why.”
Perhaps Doto IS Suzie….. Hopefully BOTH of those trunks will never bear another branch.