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| "LIPSTICK ON A PIG" is defined here as an action or statement that attempts to make acceptable a bad or shameful situation or thing. An example: In June 2005, the U.S. Senate passed a bill apologizing for not ever having passed an anti lynching law. The Senate could not pass the bill on a roll call vote because the senators who did not support the bill did not want to be known. Passing an anti lynching law and apologize would have been the proper thing to do, but to begrudgingly pass just a "voice vote" bill apologizing is at least putting a little lipstick on the racist system that allowed lynching. That is also what we are calling "putting lipstick on a pig." You may send us your example. Click Here to send your example of LIPSTICK ON A PIG. | ||
| Another Lipstick Example: In July 2005, some South Carolina churches are holding “reconciliation services” for their lack of preventative actions in the period of lynching and particularly for the lynching of a Black farmer in 1916. In this notice of the services was no mention of the 400 acres of land taken after the lynching. Until someone pays this family for the land and apologizes this is what we are calling, "putting more Lipstick on an ugly pig." You may send us your example. Click Here to send your example of LIPSTICK ON A PIG. | ||
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| A New Jersey person sent this one. It said, "Recently on network television, when a person left the prepared script and said, "George Bush does not care about Black people," NBC and the other networks deleted these remarks before the program was aired on the west coast. Now really, do you think those network folk are the same ones who argue for free speech? Do these highly paid executives at the networks think that deleting this man's statement is going to keep folk from knowing that racist nations elect racist presidents? Well, maybe these executive were just putting a little lipstick on the well known racism in America pig." Click Here to send your example of LIPSTICK ON A PIG. | ||
The Katrina Quid Pro Quo Pig: A man from Canton Ohio writes: “Do you think that there is any accident that the Republican President accepted all the responsibility for anything that went wrong at the Federal level one day before the Democratic Governor of Louisiana accepted all the responsibility for anything that went wrong at the State level? Do you think that there is any accident that the media (mainly CNN) has focused on the National Guardsman who barricaded themselves in the Convention Center in New Orleans while little six year old girls were raped? That is because no one, media or politicians, wants to explain how DOT workers can light up the highway at night like it is day time to lay asphalt, but no one could get any lights, water, food, or potable toilets for six days at the Dome in New Orleans. The answer: It is called two things. One is the Quid Pro Quo Pig because the fight over who’s the blame visa vie the State or the Feds would have been too nasty and embarrassing for both parties so they decided to adopt a strategy of you put some lipstick on my pig and I will put some lipstick on your pig. Second, the media is so indebted to the Republican Party for allowing them to buy and own multiple media outlets, they cannot help but try to protect and bolster President Bush as his public rating plummet. That is called, you owe me some lipstick for my pig and you had better pay me back while I so desperately need lipstick.” Thank you goes out to the Ohio person who sent us this. | ||
One Military man wrote: Subject: RE: Emailing: lipstick Good Morning Spoonbook.com, Lipstick on a Pig is interesting reading. All I know is that Halliburton can build a city for 10,000 with toilets and showers in about 10 days. The government can seize any merchant vessel or airliner during a time of war, but they couldn't divert hundreds of grocery store trucks to the area (of course FEMA would have paid for the goods anyway). Hell, I could have done a better job than those monkeys that George W. Bush hired. Anyway, I know Gen Honore and he's a good guy. The question is will he get all the resources he needs and when?Click Here to send your example of LIPSTICK ON A PIG. | ||
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| A lady from Texas wrote: "Lipstick on the a pig is not the worst thing that happens. The worst problem is "the Sneaky Pig!" The Bush Administration is sneaky by taking a billion dollars out of the Katrina disaster fund to reward pro-Bush pastors and churches. Bush claims that this is a part of the "Faith Base Initiative." It is simply a sneaky payoff for the pro-Bush crowd. Further, Bush sneakily spends tax payers money to buy control of farmer's organization, colleges / especially minority colleges, charities, and it is all done very sneaky. Bush grants and payoff silence these groups who might otherwise help enlighten the public of his frauds in office. The Bush Administration is so sneaky but bold, they do not bother to put Lipstick on a Pig." | ||
| A Johnson C. Smith University student wrote: "What do you say to senior college student who is eloquently explaining why we need to get rid of the death tax and double taxation? This poor girl has never earned more than seven dollars an hour part time. Her one parent home's mother only got off welfare after her eligibility expired. The parade of Bush Administration spokespeople who frequent the campus must be the blame but shouldn't this senior know better on her own? This is not lipstick I know. This is simply pitiful for her and for America that a person can graduate from college and still not be able to reason for themselves to determine what is in the their interest or the country's interest. The media, who has sold out to Bush, is also the blame but, I ask, what do you say to a fool like this?" | ||
One Columbia South Carolina man wrote: Subject: RE: Emailing: lipstick Dear Spoonbook.com/lipstick: I lost a girlfriend of fifteen years to Katrina and Bush. I knew her since she was in college at the University of South Carolina. I saw her develop and grow and I have always been supportive of her in everyone of her little entrepreneurial endeavors. I loved her and I thought she love me as I wanted to see her succeed. Recently she came by my house with two of her friends that I quickly recognized as Republican Party spinners. Spinners are secretly paid workers of the Republican Party who are paid to spin stories in the community like they are just simple grassroots people. These three Black women were bent on leaving me with a Katrina story that blames the victims for not having prepared better and for having unjustifiably gotten $2,000.00 of their tax money. These women were angry because they had proof that one of the victims who got the $2,000.00 relief check had bought a designer hand bag. They went on to say, "Black folk like these in New Orleans have never had money before." I was so seriously offended by this remark, I asked them, "How much are you been paid to spread a story like this.?" With that, all three of them proclaimed, "You are not being very nice to us. We are your guest and you have always been better to us than this." As I apologized for being blunt, I pointed out that if you divide the money being spent for Katrina recovery by the number of victims, it would come to about $250,000.00 per person. President Bush has given most of the money to his friends in no bid contracts. How could you Black women be so upset and attacking this alleged woman who bought a handbag? They had no answer. They left and I have not heard from my dear friend or her friends since. I no longer think of my girlfriend as a friend, I think of her as not having just attempted to put "Lipstick on the Bush messed up Katrina relief Pig," I think of her as the damn pig. For a few sheckles for her own purse, she is willing to work for the Republican Party to demean Black poor folk. She is a sad Judith pig. Please keep a look out for these kind of pigs in your neighborhood. I lost a dear friend to Katrina and Bush. I hate that because I regard friends as precious keepers. | ||
| One letter came in that said: Re: Choice in buying cable programs: Dear Spoonbook.com/lipstick.htm: We have suffered for years with the cable industry selling us packaged "basic programs" that includes at least three or four stations of no interest to us. Now, someone in the Bush Administration has ambitions to divide the cable viewing audience into "blue states and red states" by allowing people to choose only the programs they want. The cable companies will be allowed to keep their incomes steady by charging more for your choices thereby off setting any income loss due to the cost of customer choice. The proponents hope that this "choice" plan will result in less hip hop, Latino shows, and Black content programming being purchased to go into red state's homes. Even more, they hope this "choice" plan will cause even less diverse programs to be produced because the market will not be able to guarantee feasible returns from distribution for such projects. SHAME ON THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. These folk can take a great idea like choice in buying cable programs and turn it into a way to express more hate. The lipstick on this pig does not even hide their divisive motives. However, since I know that God does not like ugly, I hope the idea of choice passes into law. I think the Bush Administration and the Christian Right will be surprised at how many Americans in red states and blue states love diversity in programming content and the public will choose and buy more diversity rather than less. It is entertaining to me to watch the Devils work at creating hate and fail. Post this, and keep up the good work Lipstick! OKAY! The gist of your letter is up, thanks for sending it. | ||
| Several letter said in essence: President Bush has no lipstick: The State of the Union speech given by President Bush on January 31, 2006, did not mention the catastrophic loses of the peoples of the Gulf Coast until the last few minutes. Given the magnitude of the suffering that is still going on in the area of New Orleans, it seems that the President is intentionally neglecting these people. The President could not even find any Lipstick to dress up this racially motivated hateful pig in his Administration. After the speech, the Mayor of New Orleans said, "The President speech was positive but honestly I expected more. I expected the President to say that he was doubling the resources." The Mayor must not have learned yet that the Bush administration is more interested in transferring that land once owned and occupied by Black and poor people to his friends for luxury housing on the coast. The white house strategist have not yet found any way to put lipstick on that greedy pig. | ||
| Another letter said: "I saw the comments about the "marriage of corporate America and corrupt politicians in your comments about how Hampton Automotive mistreated you." (see Consumer Be Aware @ www.spoonbook.com) Do you know that the Bush Administration funneled Katrina relief monies to mega churches to corrupt them in preparation for the 2006 elections? If you consider the marriage of churches, big businesses like Hampton Automotive, and corrupt politicians, then you can not expect the State Consumer Agency in SC to protect you. Lip stick will not do this one. This is a pig that will take generation to undo; if ever." | ||
| Another email said: A Black man named Claude Allen worked for a White acknowledged racist; Sen. Jessie Helms of North Carolina. Sen. Helms won his last election in North Carolina on a campaign playing on the racist White fear that Black folk were taking White folk jobs. Claude Allen help espouse this claim all over North Carolina and I guess it paid well. Claude Allen was later rewarded with a job as the "Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to President Bush. He then went around the country telling Black people how well it pays to be a Black Republican because Democrats have "taken Black folk for granted." This week Claude Allen was arrested in Maryland for a fraud scam in refunds for goods at a Target Store. He, knowing this arrest was coming, resigned a month prior from the Bush Administration. It is assume that the Republicans will take care to see that he gets out of this trouble. Here is the lipstick: President Bush says: "If this true, something must have really gone wrong in Mr. Allen's life." No one in the Bush Administration expressed that anything was wrong with Allen, a Black man, when he was working against Black interest in North Carolina. | ||