tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81259402192916336742024-03-14T02:15:59.290-05:00PARSLEY'S PICSLeslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.comBlogger674125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-27975650768691730022014-12-12T17:32:00.001-06:002014-12-13T18:05:07.210-06:00Weeping While Congress Sleeps
Fifteen years ago in Denver, I was working on a research project for a reporter when a city editor came running in and yelled, "Stop what you're doing." Without another word she abruptly turned on her heels and stormed out the door, visibly shaken. When she returned a couple of minutes later, tears were falling as she reported the kind of news I never expected to hear in my lifetime.
AfterLeslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-87187931614762707592014-03-09T15:13:00.000-05:002014-03-20T09:15:38.642-05:00Tennessee Memo: Legislators Sell Their Souls Lock, Stock and Gun Barrel
Right to Bear Arms Co.
The Tennessee Senate passed a bill in February that, according to the Right to Bear Arms Co. in San Diego, CA is a "Great victory for gun owners in Tennessee as their cities and counties will not be able to ban guns from local parks. . . ."
The bill was sponsored by none other than Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville). The very same Stacey Campfield Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-11688830716477218012014-03-06T09:01:00.000-06:002014-03-06T09:01:54.704-06:00Ode to Sarah Palin
ODE TO SARAH PALIN
There are bitches who are full of glitches
There are witches who have no hitches
There are stitches which fall into ditches.
There are twitches who make our faces itches
There are snitches who we'd like to switches
Sarah Palin is just such a kitsches
Several of my blogging buddies have been discussing this vapid twit on Facebook. Who would ever have thunk thatLeslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-29533455275141962352014-01-28T11:28:00.001-06:002014-01-28T11:28:32.895-06:00R.I.P. PETE SEEGER - ALL AMERICAN HERO
MEDAL OF FREEDOM
TOO LATE
Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-26277573000482564522013-12-08T14:33:00.000-06:002013-12-08T15:28:17.368-06:00Nelson Mandela: His Day Is Done
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
1918 - 2013
Credit: Gideon Mende/Corbis
I've spent a lot of time looking at this photograph and reflecting on this man's life. I see kindness and gentleness in his face, deep intelligence and uncanny wisdom in his eyes. I see character. And dignity. And grace. I see a man with immeasurable intestinal fortitude and strength of character. A man with Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-70748761615463921362013-11-22T10:38:00.002-06:002019-03-17T15:36:51.219-05:00Ralph McGill Reflects on Hate in America - November 23, 1963
Artist: Edsel M. Cramer
I've kept everything from that time - newspapers, magazines, photographs - everything I could get my hands on. I've carried this stack of grim memories with me as I've moved from city to city, state to state - packed away in an old wooden box. Has it really been 50 years ago today that President John F. Kennedy was murdered? The image I have of where I was standingLeslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-33917263172244479182013-11-17T12:58:00.000-06:002013-12-04T09:53:01.084-06:00Marsha Blackburn's Cold, Cold HeartShe walks, she talks and she rolls on her belly like a reptile. Marsha Blackburn, U.S. representative from Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, will do anything for a buck. Some might even accuse her of being a corporate whore. Some might say she's a freak of nature - that when she was born her heart was replaced with a cold stone and her head filled with sawdust.
Photo by JacksonFreePress
Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-37702100310091351712013-11-03T06:03:00.001-06:002013-11-03T06:15:43.708-06:00You Are Not the Center of the Universe (Video)Several hundred billions of stars form our galaxy and there are a hundred billion galaxies out there. "You are not the center of the universe."
Best if viewed in full screen mode. Hat tip to Inga Trump.
Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-84007232460577363892013-10-24T12:57:00.001-05:002013-10-24T12:57:25.604-05:00A Barney Frank Clone?"During the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the Affordable Care Act federal exchange website on Thursday morning, Representative Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) severely castigated Representative Joe Barton (R-TX) for inaccurately describing a privacy requirement in the law, eventually calling the entire hearing a "monkey court."
Barton had just questioned Cheryl Campbell, the senior Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-39309604858181657092013-10-21T17:17:00.000-05:002013-10-21T17:17:40.264-05:00The Twilight Zone: A Political Version
Constitutional historian Richard B. Bernstein* writes in a Facebook post:
Friends keep asking me what I think about the nation's political future after the shutstorm. OK, here are some thoughts, submitted for your approval in the political version of THE TWILIGHT ZONE (where we've all been living for the last three weeks):
"First, a week is a long time in politics, as the late Sir Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-74794329055209373802013-10-07T15:40:00.000-05:002013-10-09T16:36:11.763-05:00Of Liars and Loons
California Republican Party Convention
I didn't watch Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation yesterday, so I have no idea if he ended his broadcast with his usual, "Both sides do it" - whatever "it" is at any given time. I hope not. I hope by now he has finally come to realize just how lazy, shallow and misguided he and the rest of the main stream media have become.
To keep saying "both sides do Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-33859166433238169952013-09-27T10:59:00.002-05:002013-09-29T16:22:21.006-05:00The Enemies of DemocracyFor several months now, maybe even for over a year, the raging flood of posts on Parsley's Pics have been slowing down to a mere trickle. Sometimes I feel like turning off the faucet altogether but in the end I can't seem to reach the knob that would permanently put an end to even the weakest of drips. There are many reasons for this, the main one being an all consuming anger, "loathing" to Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-51886030027548655592013-09-01T09:21:00.000-05:002013-09-18T14:34:06.041-05:00Celebrate Labor Day by Celebrating the Worker -- 2013
HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEKEND
BUT
DON'T FORGET TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO HONOR OUR WORKERS
These are the people who fix our roofs, repair our leaks, put out our fires, save our lives, build our shelters, teach our children, build our roads and bridges, grow and harvest our food, stock our shelves, keep our streets safe, maintain our parks. These are the people whoLeslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-25841981114944006512013-08-15T08:36:00.000-05:002013-08-15T08:36:22.736-05:00Terror in Japan
From DeadState comes never before seen footage of the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Nearly 30 minutes of gripping terror -- or as one viewer commented: "a living hell."
A haunting new video of the 2011 tsunami in Japan has emerged, showing how quickly the situation changed from a curious rush of water into a horrific torrent of nature.
Beginning at about the 3-minute mark, the video shows a Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-91914043630719550892013-07-28T08:04:00.001-05:002013-07-30T06:58:14.259-05:00Weiner Was Limp Before He Started Sexting
King Kong from The New Yorker
I don't get much pleasure kicking someone when they're down but even before his first sexting escapades came to light I never cared much for Anthony Weiner. I always thought he was a monumental blowhard, a stupendous egomaniac, and a political opportunist of unlimited proportions -- much in the same vein as a Dennis Kucinish but with even less to show for it.
ForLeslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-17341757461166045452013-07-13T17:26:00.002-05:002013-07-16T09:48:12.743-05:00Cross Your Legs, Ladies
This post is dedicated to all the warriors out there
who have been on the front lines -
men and women friends everywhere.
You are so awesome.
Thank you.
Yes dear ladies, it's time to cross our legs. Our minds and bodies are being invaded by a mob of crazed philistines who know little to nothing about our body parts. Like a convention of mad scientists, they insist on Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-59127268293079145122013-07-06T21:23:00.000-05:002013-07-07T10:14:01.326-05:00No Sex Ed, No Contraception, No Abortion: But What If . . . ?
Republican and Right-to-Life-Until-Birth groups are seemingly unable to make the connection between sex education and the number of teenage pregnancies or between not being able to afford contraception and the continuing cycle of poverty that the birth of a child often brings.
So, why would these same groups be expected to consider what would happen to a woman who is charged and Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-36939486063419315002013-06-21T20:37:00.001-05:002013-06-25T07:13:21.807-05:00"Oh, darkies how my heart grows weary"
You're damn right. My heart is growing weary, very weary -- of people like Paula Deen denying their racism while making unacceptable racist comments and then having the temerity to try to brush their blatantly bigoted remarks off as some kind of joke.
I have no compunction to forgive this woman -- none -- and how dare anyone be presumptuous enough to expect it. I've heard this kind of crap Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-33664741374406839622013-06-18T19:02:00.000-05:002013-06-18T19:02:13.002-05:00Ode to Darrell Issa: The Fool on the Hill
Rep. Elijah Cummings looking a tad skeptically at Rep. Darrell Issa-- and for good reason
From The Atlanta Constitution Blog:
U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, has released the full, complete transcript of a committee interview with the IRS manager who oversaw 501(c)4 applications in Cincinnati.
The transcripts confirm that nobody inLeslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-54445103863316395022013-06-06T12:52:00.000-05:002013-06-06T12:52:43.484-05:00Texas Pride: Before There Was a Movement, There Were Pavers
Cindy Noble Cole is a Texas spitfire who can cut through overblown rhetoric with precision and who can also capture the flavor of the moment with heartfelt poignancy. As the media is so quick to criticize Michelle Obama's reaction to heckler Ellen Sturtz of GetEqual, I would like for them and Ms Sturtz to ponder Cindy's words:
The heckling of our First Lady brought to mind an incident this Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-53361387266151091162013-05-11T17:37:00.000-05:002013-05-11T17:45:53.168-05:00R.I.P. Kansas
With a few minor changes in events, names and places Jason Probst's obituary for his native state of Kansas, which recently ran in The Hutchinson News, could be a lament for several other states these day, if not for the entire country.
"Kansas 1861 -2013"
"TOPEKA - The Great State of Kansas passed away on March 31, 2013, after a long and difficult battle with extremism that Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-53254805067079447902013-05-01T09:05:00.000-05:002013-05-01T10:07:31.689-05:00"How to Wink at a Muslim" -- Tennessee Style
One old coot on the Channel 4 video said he had no problem with it. The first commenter after the article, who goes by the name "Hostage", wrote, "I think its [sic] great !"
Apparently not all good citizens of Tennessee agreed with the above assessments because Coffee County Commissioner Barry West removed the post from his Facebook page this morning.
Too late, though. Funny how thatLeslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-69027408809550032422013-04-22T20:36:00.000-05:002013-05-04T07:52:24.124-05:00Campfield Under Pressure for His Tasteless Choice of Cooker: Updates
Senator Stacey Campfield
Yep. THAT Stacey Campfield. The very same Don't-Say-Gay-Campfield who wants to kick kids off of welfare when they don't make the grade and who wants teachers to inform parents when their kids are gay and who wants to allow graduate students in psychology to opt out of having to counsel LGBT patients.
Similar to a lot of homophobes Stacey has a very bitchy Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-11511958269592688332013-04-11T18:44:00.001-05:002013-05-24T10:42:24.062-05:00STACEY CAMPFIELD: REJECTED
GREAT THINGS HAPPEN TO SMALL PRICKS
via Channel Four News:
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV-AP) -
One of the most discussed bills of the current Tennessee legislative session died on the Senate floor Thursday morning but not before a big showdown between the lawmaker sponsoring the bill and an 8-year-old girl.
MORE
Welfare penalty for parents dead this session
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (APLeslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125940219291633674.post-57730093557225626872013-04-07T11:18:00.000-05:002013-05-24T10:42:56.350-05:00NC vs. TN: A Race to the Bottom
Last month I wrote about how Tennessee welcomes you unless you're gay, poor, or have special needs. I related how I was too embarrassed to tell people where I was from and didn't mind making something up - Boston, Denver, Seattle - anywhere but here.
That was before I started paying attention to what was happening in our neighbor state to the east of us. I used to think North Carolina Leslie Parsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com6