ONE BIG HAPPY  FAMILY

Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia, the Earth Mother, the ever-sure foundations of all...

And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills. She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of love. But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire.

                                                                                                       HESIOD

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

                                                                                                      Proverbs 10:1.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

                                                                                                      ARISTOTLE

Remember folks, everybody has a mother. But some people never even had a father.

                                                                                       The Book of Matthew

Get off the goddamnable floor and go to bed mother!!!

                                                                                                     Dickday

Some Frenchman noted that animals do not even celebrate Mother's Day.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

                                                                                                   Voltaire

But today marks a time when we humans must honor our MOTHERS.

For instance, mothers care very much about prayer:

SEAN HANNITY: President Obama refused to publicly commemorate the National Day of Prayer today. His public schedule made no mention of the event whatsoever. And a new poll shows his opposition to the day puts him at odds with the overwhelming majority of Americans.  http://mediamatters.org/research/201005060053

And they care about our seat of government.

GLENN BECK:  The Capitol will fix itself, if we just stand between Washington and Lincoln. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201005070040

And they care about who can rescue us during our hour of need.

BRAT HUME: No, what Brown said was that once this had happened that he believed -- and he was not put out. He was asked on, and he was a guest on Neil Cavuto's program. He said that he believed that the administration was looking for a way to take political advantage of the situation to move itself away from the position that it had taken on offshore drilling and it deliberately used it in that way and responded as it did. I happen to think that's nutty. I don't think that's what the administration did at all. And if Robert Gibbs wanted to complain about Brown having said that, it seems to me he could direct his complaints to Brown. We have all kinds of people on Fox News who say all kinds of things. I don't recall Neil Cavuto exactly endorsing what Brown said. But it's certainly different from what he -- from the way it was characterized today. http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005040066

And mothers wish us to speak up once in awhile.

SARAH PALIN, I did talk to a couple of reporters already and said that a bunch of stuff that they write is bogus, but we had a great conversation about it and we agreed to disagree on a lot of things. One thing we can all agree on, though, is how much we respect and want to protect the freedom of the press and we have that in common, so at the end of the day, I think as long as we're protecting that and not abusing the right - we have to be writing truth - then we'll get along just fine tonight."  http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005080011

And Mothers are concerned about our being able to defend ourselves against the sea of troubles confronting us:

MICHELE BACHMANN: I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people -- we the people -- are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country. http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/republicans/a/michele-bachmann-quotes.htm

And if there is one mother among all the mothers out there it's THE RUSH:

RUSH LIMBAUGH: I'll give you the perfect analogy: This is no different than the Republicans supporting amnesty back in 2007 because they don't want to offend anybody and they hope to get these votes. So you have the ownership of the Phoenix Suns, the Los Suns, and whoever -- "We don't want to offend the portion of our fan base. We want to appear to be politically correct. We want to appear to be all-inclusive" and so forth. Well, fine and dandy, but what happens when that contributes to the overall deterioration of the culture of this society? I just think it's cowardice. I'm sorry. I think it's cowardice, pure and simple.

The bottom line here is it's cowardice that's running this. It's cowardice disguised as supremacy, cowardice disguised as 'I'm better than you.' Cowardice disguised 'I'm more open-minded than you.' Cowardice disguised as 'I'm more worldly than you are. I'm a better person than you. I'm more tolerant than you are.' It's just cowardice, pure and simple. And if it isn't cowardice, it's pure ideology, nothing other than political liberalism that's guiding the opinions on this, which is common and OK in politics, but tell us that.

You know, don't give us this superior "I'm better than you are" or multicultural garbage. Just tell us you're a liberal, you disagree with the law, and you don't think that the jerseys ought to say "Suns" because it offends you. Don't hide behind holier than thou, you're better than everybody else stuff. This is the thing about liberals -- they just can't be honest about who they are. They have to always denigrate everybody else.

"Well, we have to wear these 'Los Suns' jerseys because there are so many racists in our state and we have to battle it." Sorry, it doesn't fly here on the EIB network

Yes this mother is always with us, five days a week and year after year after year. And people listen to Mother Rush:

SALT LAKE CITY -- Republican Sen. Bob Bennett was thrown out of office Saturday by delegates at the Utah GOP convention in a stunning defeat for a once-popular three-term incumbent who fell victim to a growing conservative movement nationwide.

Bennett's failure to make it into Utah's GOP primary - let alone win his party's nomination - makes him the first congressional incumbent to be ousted this year and demonstrates the difficult challenges candidates are facing from the right in 2010.

"The political atmosphere obviously has been toxic and it's very clear that some of the votes that I have cast have added to the toxic environment," an emotional Bennett told reporters, choking back tears.

"Looking back on them, with one or two very minor exceptions, I wouldn't have cast any of them any differently even if I had known at the time they were going to cost me my career."

Bennett survived a first round of voting Saturday among roughly 3,500 delegates but was eliminated when he finished a distant third in the second round. He garnered just under 27 percent of the vote while businessman Tim Bridgewater had 37 percent and attorney Mike Lee got 36% percent.

Now this mother rush has teeth, I mean real teeth. He can get rid of those moderate repub cowards with one long rant. Of course Bennett is 76 years old and I wonder what the left would have lost from all this, let alone Utah.

Oh I am a moderate repub. That means that I never once questioned the place of my President's birth I never clamored for the right to free guns. I never called my President a communist or a terrorist or even a radical Muslim.

I just calmly and sociably met with my caucus every day AND THEY TOLD ME HOW TO VOTE.

If Snowe and her sister from Maine and all the courteous members of the repub Senatorial club were expelled from this august body tomorrow, who the hell would really care?  I mean what would be the difference in real terms. Would there be more filibusters? Hell the losers have joined in more filibusters in a year than we used to see in a decade. At least Arlen Specter never voted for a filibuster once he changed parties.

But I digress.

So many mothers out there and so little time.

What's a mother to do?