Helen Philpot Asks

     My granddaughter, Daphne: I want women to have complete equality

        in this world – not only in America, but around the world

Sometimes a damned good question just stops me dead in my tracks and causes me to wonder excitedly why I didn’t think of asking it.
by Charlie Leck

I’ll be brief today. In her most recent blog, the GOP could learn something from the gays – stop worrying about what my vagina is doing (Margaret and Helen), Helen Philpot asks this remarkable question:

“And who should make the decision about ending a pregnancy – the woman who realizes now is not the time to bring a child into the world or Rick Perry who humiliates and traps women into having an unwanted child and then denies those same women and children healthcare and a decent education after the delivery?”

Honestly
Then, Helen really opens up in the next paragraph, which begins with her commonly used word, “Honestly,…..”

Good old Helen isn’t posting so much anymore, but when she does, she’s still the best there is. If you want to read a damned good blog, go ahead and read this one by Helen.

My Favorite Blogs
Here is an updated list of blogs I never miss (a number of you have asked me to update this list because some of those included on a previous list have stopped publishing)….

Daily Dish – Andrew Sullivan (daily from the The Daily Beast)

Dick Cavett, NY Times (approximately weekly)

Governor Arne Carlson (approximately monthly)

Huffington Post (daily and among world’s most powerful blogs)

Marbury (daily, British blog on American politics)

Margaret and Helen (infrequently)

Out of Ur (religious and several times per week)

Prairie Ponderings (only occasionally I’m sad to say)

Robert Reich (two or three times per week)

Scott Kelby – Photoshop (photography – almost daily)

Stanley Fish, NY Times (approximately weekly)

Talking Points Memo (daily, hundreds of thousands of readers)

Tony Rugare’s Musings – or whatever he might now be calling it (daily)

Trout n’ Caviar – Foraging the North (approximately weekly)

Van Peebles Land (a few times per week)

and... Copy Blogger (all about blogging… if you don’t blog, you won’t like it)

_________________________

Why not become a follower?
If you read my blog regularly, why not become a follower? All you have to do is click in the upper right hand corner and establish a simple means of communication. Then you'll be informed every time a new blog is posted here. If all that's confusing, here's Google's explanation of how to do it! If you don’t want to post comments on the blog, but would like to communicate with me about it, send me an email if you’d like.

Helen Philpot on Women’s Rights

Helen has one, though it’s 80 years old!

by Charlie Leck

Margaret and Helen don’t blog as much as they formerly did – an 80 year old broad has a right to get tired, I guess. I sure do miss those blogs, however, and I jump like an excited kid in a candy store when I see that one has been posted. That’s what happens when you’re a follower – you get notified when a blog you’re following gets posted.

So, a few days ago I noticed that Helen had written another blog. I blushed when I saw the title (Vagina is a Six Letter Word), but I rushed to it anyway. Wonderful! I laughed myself silly. You’ll find it here: http://margaretandhelen.com/2012/06/21/vagina-is-a-6-letter-word/

_________________________

Why not become a follower?
If you read my blog regularly, why not become a follower? All you have to do is click in the upper right hand corner and establish a simple means of communication. Then you'll be informed every time a new blog is posted here. If all that's confusing, here's Google's explanation of how to do it! If you don’t want to post comments on the blog, but would like to communicate with me about it, send me an email if you’d like.

Margaret & Helen Are Back

It’s an election year and the campaign is getting red hot! The heat brings Margaret and Helen out of hibernation and I’m so glad to have them back.
by Charlie Leck

"Good Lord, where did the Republican Party dig us these idiots?” [Helen Philpot, of Margaret & Helen Blog]

Hooray! Good old Helen Philpot is back out of her long lay-off and she is giving the Republicans hell again.

“Margaret,” Helen wrote yesterday, “tell Howard he is full of shit!”

That’s my girl. Helen sort of took Margaret and disappeared for just the longest time and their blog went for months without any entries. Now, beginning slowly late in the past year, they’ve emerged from hibernation – brought out of their hole by the coming election – and they are giving the Republicans hell again.

Oh, boy! I feel like a new man and I’m as happy as hell. Helen is wound up and ready to tell it like it is (which is the only way she knows how to do it).

I was so worried when their blog dried up. I had terrible imaginings that Helen was ill and unable to write (and I even thought things might be more final that that), but she seems like her old self in that blog of hers of yesterday (2 Feb 2012).

Who, for instance, can say it any better than this?...

“Despite what Gingrich wants you to think, Obama isn’t a Socialist. I doubt most of the Gingrich voters even know the definition of socialism. After all, it has three more letters in it than Muslim. I do know this – taxes piss everyone off. Nobody likes to be taxed. But we all kind of like our roads, schools, healthcare, national security, law enforcement, energy… Those things represent the majority of what our taxes go to. And speaking of majority, the majority of welfare recipients are children. You know, those precious little bundles of life that the Republican base likes to ignore once the cord is cut.”

Oh, my, oh my! I’m leaping for joy and my heart is pumpin’ and my corpuscles are jumpin’ this morning. Go get ‘em, Helen, and don’t let up on ‘em, girl!

“Three cheers for Virginia State Senator Janet Howell who gave the Old White Guys a taste of their own medicine. Virginia law makers are trying to pass their own version of the Texas law that requires a woman to have an ultrasound before terminating a pregnancy. Good ‘ole Senator Howell added an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication. I like how that lady thinks. Considering most of them have their head up their ass, a finger up the butt just might knock some sense into their brain.”

Hoooray! Helen is back and it’s just in the nick of time. No right wing nutcase is safe now!

All of you, you be sure now to start following Margaret & Helen! Carefully bookmark the blog where you can always find it.


And check out Helen's blog of a couple of weeks ago on Newt Gingrich. It is absolutely precious! Precious!

_________________________

Why not become a follower?
If you read my blog regularly, why not become a follower? All you have to do is click in the upper right hand corner and establish a simple means of communication. Then you'll be informed every time a new blog is posted here. If all that's confusing, here's Google's explanation of how to do it! If you don’t want to post comments on the blog, but would like to communicate with me about it, send me an email if you’d like.

Two Old Bags

These old ladies do get it right most of the time. This time they nailed it!
by Charlie Leck

I hate to keep sending you to Helen and Margaret’s blog because I think the old girls are fictional and it’s really written by two young girls at Smith College or Vassar.

Nevertheless, here I am sending you to their blog again today.

Helen covers some of the basic rules of life that should be in play in America – in order for it to consider itself a great country. An example follows.

“No child should go to bed hungry and no parent with a sick child should have to worry about not having health insurance.”

Makes sense, doesn’t it? That is, in a really great nation!

Or, how about this one?

“At the intersection of all the major world religions, you will find the Golden Rule. It’s a place where you will never run into Limbaugh, Coulter or Palin. We all should have directions to that intersection.”

There are lots of others in-between and I recommend you give them a read and then drop me a note, thanking me for the favor of sending you there.

[Read the old bitches, Helen and Margaret: WE HAVE A DREAM!]