Boy, are we fucked!

It's a crying shame that we are quickly losing a national treasure. There is a generation of American women that has always personified grace, culture and courage. No matter how ugly life could become we were always able to look to these women to see how we should act in our own lives. Jackie Kennedy Onassis was one of them and now, we have lost another...Coretta King. These women went through some of the most awful things that occur in life and still managed to do it in a way that is still held up as a standard to the rest of us. When I think about the pressures that Mrs. King had to face as the very public wife of a black leader at the forefront of the civil rights movement, it makes my angst over having to blaze trails as a female police officer seem so trivial. You have to remember that a large amount of ignorant crackers thought nothing of physically or verbally attacking black people during that time period. In some areas, it was an accepted and "socially correct" behavior. It is something that really boggles the mind when contrasted with today. I truly believe that it had to be more difficult to be the wife of MLK because of the added pressure of being a woman and having to respond to morons in a ladylike manner. They don't make 'em like Coretta King and Jackie O., anymore, and that is a loss for all of us.
This point was never so glaringly evident than with the debacle at the State of the Union speech, this week. I don't care how you feel about our President, when you are attending an important function within a forum that represents this country's most serious duties, you accord the proper respect to which it is due. I'm not referring to Cindy Sheehan...fuck her, I expected her to act like some moron. However, I certainly expected more from the wife of a US congressman!
Lady, I don't care if it WAS a display of support for our troops...what fucking possessed you to think that it was perfectly okay to wear a T-SHIRT to the State of the Union speech? Does your husband's congressional district consist of nothing but trailer parks and Jerry Springer watching white trash? You'd certainly better hope so, because that's about the only people that should be voting for him. You need to be apologizing to his constituents for being such an embarassing, stupid twat. It reminds me of the dumbasses that would show up to court in a t-shirt, jeans and baseball hat and then wonder why the judge tore them a dozen more assholes. It's pretty obvious from your behavior that you have little respect for the things that your husband is supposed to be representing (oh yeah...he's just as fucking bad for publically ranting about your freedom of speech), I sincerely hope that the voters give you a new shirt:
"I went to Congress and acted like an ass...and all I got was this stupid t-shirt."

Each of you probably knows a woman that typifies that wonderful, classy generation: a mother, grandmother, aunt, friend or even mentor. Do me a favor...call, visit or write to her. Tell her that she is a true treasure- before it is too late.

Goddess gem: Granny, I miss you so.