I can hardly believe that it has been nearly 2 months since I've logged into MySpace.
I had planned on cancelling my internet and cable service, at home, after a series I was watching on TLC ended. As the day came, I decided that I couldn't give up my couch potato ways. Oddly, as I dozed on the sofa, the day I had planned to have my service terminated, my television/pc monitor ceased to work. It took me a few minutes to realize that there was just sound and no picture. I don't believe in "God" per se, but I do think some things are just fated.
So, I was forced into living a real life as opposed to a cyber one, at home anyway. I became obsessed with Spring cleaning and getting my home clean and organized. Then I turned my obsession on to work. When I finally did turn on my work computer........ nothing but some groaning. It had caught a virus. It's been up for a few weeks now, but I'm sooo out of the computer groove.
In the process of living a life apart from machines, I've lost a ton of weight and now fit into all the clothes I was wearing before the depression I slipped into after my last relationship ended. I've been thinking about dating. I just can't seem to bring myself to do it. If I met someone I really liked I doubt I could stop myself from being hopeful and wearing my heart on my sleeve. I'm not digging the idea of being open and vulnerable again. I'm not the kind of girl men want to spend their lives with... only a detour. I don't think I can be that detour again without losing my mind entirely. When I fall in love I don't fall out easily. I still miss and think about my very first boyfriend.
I've been spending my time walking, reading and painting. I just finished portraits of both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, and I'm currently working on a huge depiction of Venus and a tiny reproduction of John William Waterhouse's "Hylas and the Nymphs." I finally finished reading "Adolf Hitler" by John Toland, and am in the process of reading "Stalin" by Radvinsky as well as Greg Palast's "Armed Madhouse," Aichenbach's "Grand Idea" and one bit of fluff called "Sacred Cut," a fictional murder mystery that is entertaining, but sooooo much a "Davinci Code" knock off.
This morning I had one of the best mornings ever. I left my apartment just after 5. I walked to St. Paul's church and discovered the cannon ball embedded in it's facade from the Revolution. I saw koi fish, fishing egrets and, was almost run over by a squirrel (that's a switch). I found a tiny, public garden not far from the McArthur Memorial. I wished I had brought my camera when I got to the Wisconsin. The sky was clear and the water was still and mirror like. The reflection made by the old warship was breathtaking. I really really really wished I had my camera when I stopped to watch a yacht and tugboat making their way down the Elizabeth River with several pods of dolphins riding in their wake. I must have seen 15 dolphins this morning. I always think that dolphins are an omen that something wonderful is about to happen, and they always make me think of the god Apollo.
I signed up for a motorcycle training course at TCC yesterday. I have decided to bite the bullet and buy a Vespa, an Italian motor scooter. My best friend wants me to buy a Harley (I'm so not a Harley kind of a girl), my boss wants me to buy a smart car (although he doesn't pay me enough), but my mothers are both thrilled. I think they both remember Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck on a Vespa in the film "Roman Holiday." This morning I saw a woman get on a scooter with a short skirt, high heels and two bags of groceries As she zipped down Tazewell. I thought... "That is sooooo me!" I wonder if "Ciao!" is available as a license plate.
I am madly in love with Norfolk, and I am beginning to fall in love with it far more than I was in love even with Manhattan. Norfolk is just so much more approachable. My boss keeps trying to get me to move back to the beach. I hated Va Bch with as much fervor as I adore Norfolk. I would change jobs long before I considered moving from where I am.
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The Sacred Cut
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David Hewson
Release date: 2006-08-29
The People Get the Government They Deserve.....
Category: News and Politics
Last night I caught up on John Adams on HBO. I can’t say I learned anything new about history, other than Thomas Jefferson having invented the swivel chair. However, I was reminded about the stark differences between America in 1776 and Amerika now. In 1776 most of the colonists desperately wanted freedom. They knew what it was like to be occupied and to be taxed without being represented. They knew, first hand, what it was like to be without liberty. They also knew how absolutely precious it was. They knew liberty for all generations to come was larger than themselves and their children. They were willing to sacrifice themselves for it.
On Monday night I watched a really awesome German film called Sophie Scholl. The time and place was very different. This film taking place in Germany in 1943, but the message was very much the same. Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl and their fellow anti-Nazi pamphleteer, Christopher Probst were caught distributing Anti-War, Anti-Hitler and Anti-Nazi pamphlets at the University in Munich. They were tried for treason and demoralizing the troops. The sentiment was, if you are against the war, you are against the troops. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
It occurred to me, watching Sophie Scholl, that when the government is working on their own behalf, and not in the best interests of the people, free speech is always threatened. We saw it while we were English colonies, the Germans saw it during Hitler’s rule, the Soviets saw it under Communism. In Banana Republics, like Pinochet’s Chile and Uganda under Idi Amin, citizens who were outspoken against the government disappeared in the middle of the night, never to be heard from, by their loved ones, again. It’s happening here, now. In fact, so much of what happened during the the early to mid thirties in Germany, as Hitler and the Brownshirts took power, are happening here, now. We saw it with Comcast’s meeting with the FCC over net neutrality. The internet is the only free communications media that is left, and they are working very hard to censor the net. Television and many print publications media are already controlled by the same corporations that own Washington and barter your freedom for their greed. These corporations are snatching up all of the remaining impartial news outlets left and right.
The deal with Net neutrality is nothing more than huge corporations believing they should be able to make money off of your use of the internet. They don’t provide the internet. They don’t support the internet, financially. However, they believe they have the absolute right to charge you to use it, and as a result, be able to censor what you can and can’t do online, what you can and can’t read on line, and what you can and can’t say online. China is a prime example of this. They government of China forbids internet search engines to display any websites or stories that show China in a negative light. We, for the moment, have a free and open internet. What happens, however, when Comcast wins the battle with the FCC over net neutrality because you are being shut out of the battle using Hitler-like tactics silencing you from the discussion?
Yet, I can’t help but think that the people are getting the government they deserve. It has been so many generations that have passed since American’s had a taste of tyranny that we have forgotten how to recognize it. We have been free for so long that we take it for granted at every turn. Americans are no longer willing to trade their lives for freedom. In fact, they believe their lives so precious that they are willing to trade their freedoms for safety and comfort. All you have to do is watch Nancy Grace crying over the death of a pregnant mother or rape and murder of a child and you are willing to hand over your right to bear arms. If you are so impressed with the preciousness of human life, that you believe all rights should be removed for your protection then you are a pussy who deserves the oppression of the nanny state you have allowed to replace the democratic republic of the United States of America. Your vision has narrowed, America. Our forefathers saw the big picture. They saw that they were simply stepping stones to liberation. They did not feel themselves so great that they dare not sacrifice themselves. They were willing to sacrifice EVERYTHING on this grand experiment of personal freedoms and "Inalienable Rights." You can’t even make the sacrifice to head out to the voting booth once a year, or give up an hour of your day to check up on what your government is currently doing legislatively.
You want the government of Nazi Germany. You say you don’t. You act like that is an abomination, but it is what you have allowed to happen. It is, even, what you have demanded. This nonsesense with the seat of Governor in NY is proof of this. A person’s (yes, even a public figure’s) sex life is none of your fucking business, America, as long as it is consentual between those with the mental and emotional fortuity to make their own decisions. Threesomes, extra-marital affairs, kinky fetishes, and any other form of sexual entertainment should never enter into your mind as you head into the voting booth, and frankly, I don’t give a damn about the possibility of your child becoming exposed. You, yourselves, expose your children to far worse by allowing them to see your retarded, superficial, predjudicial, judgmental attitudes. I see it in my own family. My sister and brother in law become outraged over their children being exposed to sexual behavior on television. Yet, they are allowed to play Mature video games that show graphic violence.
Almost every human being will have sexual experiences in their life times. Very few human beings will kill someone in their life time. Sex is natural. Stop fearing it. Embrace it, even. Orgasms are delightful. Fantasies are fun. Consentual sex, even extreme fetish sex is harmless when safety is practiced. Sex is not the downfall of society. Remove the stick from your asses and see that war, oppression, self absorption, laziness, biggotry and greed are. Maybe if more of you were having fulfilling sex lives, you’d actually stop looking at other people with fingers pointed, and start doing something that matters.
By the way, in Adolf Hitler, by John Toland, I am up to 1932, Hitler is in his late thrities, and he’s still a virgin. He, staunchly, did not believe in sex before matrimony. If you had any sense at all, America, you would have scoffed at the anti-Clinton sentiment because of his oval office hummer. You would understand that all people have sexual desires, and all people act upon those desires. You need to stop judging people on what they do when they are behind closed bedroom doors, and start worrying about what they do behind closed office doors that effect policy. Worry about crimes committed against the Constitution and stop worrying about who your leaders are sticking their dicks into. I know that Bush is sticking his dick into all of our asses, without our permission. That is something you need to be outraged by.
I can’t teach you to think rather than react. I wish that I could. If it were up to me, America would be a land of many free thinkers and few sheep. Unfortunately, it is opposite.
Ok Ok.... I lied. I’m a fake... Blogging to Save Oz
Category: MySpace
That's right, contrary to popular belief, I did not sit for the painting that I have up as my profile picture. I'm not 99 years old. Actually, I'm not even 36 like my profile said before tuesday. I just turned the dreaded 40, and I'm not really sure why I bothered lying about my age. 40 is awesome.
My profile isn't a complete fake. At least not this one. Actually, it is very much me. I do get shits and giggles from my completely fake one. I like to call her "Debbie." She is my polar opposite. She is a widowed mother of a little boy. Her husband was a soldier who died in Iraq, and she loves Jesus. I used a pic of a centerfold who died in the 80's. You would not believe how many stupid guys fall all over Debbie. Or, maybe you would. I created her to be a sweet, vacuous, common sheep. She's completely accessible and very low on the intimidation scale. The real me, not so much. She's not very bright. She likes teddy bears and Hello Kitty. The real me is a hater of all things cute, and, although not Stephen Hawking, I'm a bit smarter than the "average bear" according to my best friend, who is a guy who has definitely got more gray matter than I do.
I love fake profiles, and I don't just mean mine. I love that my friends list includes Jesus Christ with a rocking bod in Calvin Klein underwear, Jesus as a brain eating zombie, Hitler, The Heat Miezer, Chuck Norris and a homosexual sasquach. Why? Regular people suck. It's like TBS says "character's welcome." I love that there is a fake profile friend for everyone. My Jesus friends are completely disrespectful and perfect for an Atheist who thinks all you Jesus freaks are superstitious, moronic sheep who operate on emotion instead of gray matter. There are Jesus profiles for you too. The same Jesus who hangs out in prison and rehab hangs out on MySpace. Sadly, he doesn't have many friends. Tommy Lee has way more.
So, who is the real me? I'm pretty much exactly who I portray. I'm a smart, rebellious oddball. I like shoes. I love black, designer clothes, I hate politicians. I really hate sheep. I'm not much for kids. I don't think it is my duty to be politically correct, and have no problem speaking my mind. I'd rather be home than anywhere else. I look like a tranny - I'm a big girl, tall, big muscles, small hips. Oddly, men who are very attracted to me have asked me if I was always a woman. Which, I take as a compliment. I mean, have you seen a lot of those trannies? Can you say Gorgeous? In fact, I have an admirer who is always trying to get in my pants because he thinks I look like a gorgeous tranny... his ultimate fantasy. So, honestly, I embrace my high levels of testosterone. I'm not for every guy. A lot of them are scared by me because I can kick their asses. I do alright though.
I just turned 40 on tuesday and quickly realized that 40 was a great thing. Young guys hit on me all day, and by young I mean almost half my age. In fact, I think I fell in love at first sight with a twenty something guy who works at the burger joint my mom loves. I'm done with the old guys who bring tons of baggage and doubt into relationships. Besides, I may be 40, but I've got the messy life of a 23 year old. I suck at managing money, and I try to avoid responsibility at all costs. My last 40 something boyfriend was fun, sometimes. Other times he reminded me of my father. Who needs that?
I think about the insanity that has a hold of our country nearly 40% of the time. 30% of the time I think about art. 20% of the time I think about food, and 10% of the time I think about sex. If I were actually in a sexual relationship, sex would occupy my mind 80% of the time, and I probably wouldn't give a shit that we were slipping into fascism, at least for a little while. I'm some what obsessed with MySpace, and really proud to be a breasted citizen of MANtana. I'm trying to break away a bit, though. I started reading 4 books after Christmas, and just finished my first of them yesterday. I forced myself to sit away from my computer and read when I didn't have customers. So, finally, I finished Blackwater: The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Now I'm going to concentrate on John Toland's definitive biography of Hitler.
I hate sitcoms. I don't like much reality t.v., except that which is fashion based like a"Project Runway," "HGTV's Next Design Star," and "America's Next Top Model." I like that Sci-Fi show "Most Haunted." I get a big kick out of watching these morons ask the spirit to make a noise, and then see them acting like huge pussies when the spirit complies with their request. I love the History Channel, true crime and I pretty much despise all other t.v. I went to school for interior design, and although I sell flooring for a living, I still do the occasional design or painting job...
I like odd music, too. I love 80's and 90's hair metal, Italian Opera, Big Band from the 40's and 50's and some ethnic stuff like Peruvian pan flute and African tribal and pop. I just bought a mirimba, and love to play it, although I have no idea what I'm doing.
Most of my friends are guys, and there are almost always men hanging around somewhere. My female friends are all old enough to be my mother. I love my sister's kids even though I am definitely not a kid person. My favorite relative, besides my mothers (one adopted one biological) is my cousin, Vicki. I haven't heard from her in years. The other day I was telling my friend Gail about her, and how much I missed her. I came home that day to find a notice that UPS had left a package, from her, at my building's office. She remembered my birthday, and sent me a coach bag, some hot & flashy toilettries, and some really fabulous hair stuff she sells.... www.sillystuff.us
Ok, I guess that is the real me. Probably a lot more than you wanted or needed to know.
Oz wanted to know who I think he is. I think he is a combination of the creepiest things on earth... a clown, a politician and Christopher Walken.
Ok... So that is my blog to save Christopher Walken.... oooops, Oz.
Comcast, the FCC, Hitler and You....
Category: MySpace
This is important for every one on the internet....
Yesterday there was a public hearing in Boston about net neutrality. Comcast, a corporate giant with deep political ties wants the FCC to censor the internet. In order to make it look like there was no support for web neutrality, Comcast filled all of the seats with paid "participants." Over 100 supporters of Web Neutrality weren't allowed in to the meeting because there were no seats.
This is a page right out of Hitler's book. He would stack meetings of his opposition parties using his brownshirts and then take over the meetings. Wake up people. What do they have to do before you do something?
It will be too late when you find yourself inside a FEMA internment camp.
They have had an unhealthy relationship from the start. Why? Because it is rather incestuous, you see. As my friend Jefferson pointed out in one of his most recent blogs, huge corporations own all the major news organizations. Huge corporations, whether you like it or not, currently own the government and your rights as a citizen of the United States. In fact, I'd be more accurate saying that they are responsible for your lack of rights and freedoms as a citizen of the United States.
Since the Bush Administration took office, or more accurately since 9/11 gave them an excuse, the Constitution has practically gone through a paper shredder. The only amendment in the Bill of Rights that Bush and his cronies have not violated, to my knowledge, is the 3rd Amendment, the illegal quartering of troops. As I've said before, though, I've got plenty of extra blankets on hand, just in case.
If you get your news from mainstream news sources, you might as well be reading from the Brother's Grimm or Mother Goose. The press reports what they are told, and they ignore stories they are told to ignore. In fact, they have been aiding and abetting the Bush Administration in its many crimes against the "Goddamned piece of paper!" he swore to preserve and uphold and the citizens of these United States. Freedom of the press is now just a myth of the American Landscape, much as freedom, itself, is.
On 9/11, a young MSN reporter, Ashleigh Banfield, grabbed my attention. She put herself in the middle of the chaos and delivered reports that rivaled the field reporting of Dan Rather during Viet Nam. She was tough and poignant. My mother and I looked forward to seeing her reports, day in and day out. One day, shortly after the war in Iraq began, Ashleigh was gone. No one knew what happened to her. Was she fired? Did she quit? Did she do something terrible, like the guy who was fired for making up stories at the NY Times, or Dan Rather, himself, for vouching for a source that turned out to be unreliable?
No, Ashleigh did something far worse. Speaking at Kansas State University, Ashleigh had the unmitigated gall to say that the media was not portraying the war in Iraq accurately. She, essentially, said they were reporting through the Pentagon's rose colored glasses, and that if Democracy was brought to Iraq, the first thing the Iraqi people would do is tell the United States to "Get Out." Less than a year later, she was gone.
I just read a blog on the Huffington Press that, essentially, says that the corporate owned media is complying with the Bush Administration because it doesn't want to look "Unpatriotic" and lose ratings. So, they have replaced hard hitting news stories with fluff, like Anna Nicole's death instead of the Scooter Libby/Valerie Plame scandal. Plame was outted as a CIA agent in retaliation for her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, writing an OP Ed piece in which he stated that the Bush Administration exaggerated claims, from an unreliable source, that Iraq was trying to buy yellow-cake nuclear explosives from Niger. Robert Novak outted Plame in his column in the Washington Post. Later, it was discovered that the info came from Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby. Cheney and Rove's names were both thrown around in relation to this scandal. Libby was the lesser man, however, and, much like Ollie North during the Iran/Contra scandal, he was the fall guy.
This also brings to mind the debauchery that happened in the House of Representatives two weeks ago when the House voted to investigate Harriet Miers and Josh Bolton for obstruction of justice and failing to appear before congress when subpoenaed. Miers and Bolton followed the Bush Administration's M.O. of Ignore it, deny it, say you don't remember it, and when all else fails, claim people want to kill us for our freedoms. The GOP "STAGED" a walk-out. No one in the press asked why they were waiting at a microphone stand for the GOP to "spontaneously" walk out of the House. They just reported the bullshit like it was perfectly normal to be informed, ahead of time, that a random event was about to happen. Why not? The ATF was informed, ahead of time, that the Murrah building in Oklahoma City was going to be bombed. FEMA showed up in Manhattan on the night of 9/10/2001. The public is buying the misinformation so completely, that they don't even try to cover it up anymore.
The press just does what it is told. It avoids stories that the Pentagon and Bush Administration tell it to avoid, and it covers the stories that will get good ratings, like drugs in Major League Baseball, Britney Spears, and Heath Leger. Montell Williams, by the way, got canned after saying that it was a travesty that the news was spending so much time on Heath, and ignoring the 28 soldiers who died in Iraq within days of Heath Leger's death. Reporters no longer report. They just read the same stories every other reporter reads all over the United States. They are not reporters, at all, anymore, but entertainers. Am I the only one who has noticed that the ladies of Fox News all seem to have the most luscious, plump lips? I like to call Laurie Dew.... Laurie Big, dewy lips. And the guys? I would totally do Shep Smith (even though he's a bit of an asshole) and that total hottie, Bill Hemmer. I'm sure my mother wasn't hot for Walter Cronkite, but it was his job to deliver hard-hitting, honest news stories. He was not an entertainer.
Then you have the cry babies who are part of the machine. These shows are designed to scare and outrage you, right into willingly giving up your freedoms. Take the Blow-Hard Queen, Nancy Grace. Night after night her shows focus on "Victims" of violent crimes, usually either against women or children, and almost always sexual in nature. She scares you into thinking everyone around you wants to kill your mother, sister, daughter or wife. She incites people to look at sex offender registries and lynch their neighbor. This recently happened in Arkansas, when a man's house was burned down, and his wife killed by his neighbors because he appeared on the registry. What they don't report is how few of the men on the registry are "violent" offenders, and an alarmingly increasing amount is consensual with the age difference under 5 years. That would not incite fear, though. When you are afraid, you will give up any and all rights to be protected. Well, not me, but I'm not a pussy. When one of my MySpace friends claimed rape should be legalized. Some fools cried in protest. I just laughed and posted a painting depicting Lorena Bobbit "dismembering" her husband, John Wayne Bobbit. That, however, is a very old-fashioned way of thinking. I have to admit to having a certain "Old West" attitude. I want my freedom. I understand that liberty comes with a certain amount of danger, and I'm cool with that. When I was 26 I stood up to four teenage muggers. The outcome was them telling me that they would break my legs "next time." My response to this was "What is wrong with THIS time?" Then, I calmly, turned my back on them and slowly walked away. My attitude is rare in this day and age. Almost every other woman would have given up her money and then cried to the city "Why didn't you protect me?" I see it as my liberty and my job to protect myself. Period.
Every time there is a shooting at a school or a mall, Chris Matthews cries for repealing the 2nd Amendment or increased gun control measures. No one tells you the odds, though. I couldn't find an exact figure of how many college students there are, currently, but with thousands of colleges, and several thousand of those colleges having tens of thousands of students.... I would imagine the number to be somewhere in the tens of millions. 20 kids were killed in school shootings this year. Across the U.S. more than 20 college age kids lose their lives, every day, in car accidents. So, how relevant is gun control?
Just over 12,000 people die annually from murder. Way less than half of that is stranger murder. Most of the time, murderers have intimate relationships with their victims. Yet, the media makes every story of stranger murder sooooo important. Why? Seriously? My ex-best friend lived, for the longest time, in terror that someone would break into her house at night and kill her. She didn't live in the same terror that she'd be struck by lightening. She didn't play the lottery or worry about shark or bear attacks. She didn't worry about heart attack as she was eating her McDonald's Quarter Pounders with cheese, super-sized. So, why was she sooooo scared of murder? Media hype. Plain and simple. The media has been helping the government disarm you. You don't have to worry about the government taking your weapons away, by force. Thanks to strategic news stories, you will hand over your guns, willingly.
Thanks to the media you believe Islamic terrorists want to kill you for your freedoms. What freedoms? Seriously? We are in the top three countries for citizens being spied on by their government. Free Speech is under attack. Books are disappearing from shelves. I even read a news story that said the Bush Administration is putting pressure on librarians and booksellers to divulge lists of people who take out or buy certain titles, just like J. Edgar Hoover was doing. Now that's scary. Well, probably not for most of you. The government doesn't care if you read Sci-Fi or non-fiction. House and Garden is fine. They probably wouldn't waste time on you if Stephen King is your thing. But what about people like me who read about Hitler, Stalin, the Founding Fathers, and books by whistleblowers and dissidents like Naomi Wolf, Greg Palast and Jeremy Scahill?
Your kids aren't even learning United States History in school anymore. They say it is because of sensitive subject matter, like slavery, and not wanting to offend. So, by not wanting to be offended, our children no longer learn about the Revolution, the Constitution and their rights as American Citizens.
You know who else had been aiding and abetting the Bush Administration in covering up their crimes? We the people, that's who. Every time you clamor to your television to see the latest Britney meltdown... every time you turn the channel from a "boring" news story to find out why Heath Leger ended up dead and naked in an Olson Twin's bed... every time you accept the bullshit that is being crammed down your throat and repeat it like it is REALITY.... every time you criticize someone for speaking out and call them "unpatriotic" ... You are helping Bush to commit crimes against you, against me, against your children, and against the Constitution, which is more than a "Goddamned piece of paper!" as Bush declared. It is our Nation, itself.
Humans are hunter/gatherers by nature. So, it's only natural that we gather collections. Some things we collect are material, but other collections are not 3 dimensional objects at all.
Recently, I was talking about collections with a friend. I had, until I analyzed it, believed that I had collected nothing. It's probably because I do not consciously do it. I never waited, impatiently, for the latest Beanie Baby to hit the store shelves. I never went on vacation and hit the gift shops looking for shot glasses or ash trays.
When I was a little girl, I collected dolls. The collection, however, was started for me by my mother and my aunt. I adored my dolls, but when I grew out of them, that was the end of it.
I think what you collect can define you, as a person. I once dated a guy who collected plastic football helmets. "What a tacky, silly thing to do," I thought. In the end, he was a tacky, ridiculous person. One of the reasons we broke up was that he spent so much on plastic helmets that he never had money for dinner or a movie, and he would manage to avoid the check each and every time.
I've known lots of overly emotional women who collect silly little figurines like Precious Moments, which I think of as horrific abominations of cuteness. My mother, besides collecting dolls, now for herself, collected hummels, the precious moments of her generation. She is a very emotional woman. My former best friend and sister both collect precious moments. Which, also, to me indicates a lack of substance. Besides collecting precious moments, my former best friend also collected Star Wars Toys. She loved fantasy and wanted an escape from life.
I'm not really sure what my collections say about me. Honestly, I hadn't, until recently, realized they were collections.
Here is my list...
1. African carved masks
2. African woven baskets
3. Ancient Religious figures, Buddha, Isis, Horus, Sekhmet and Ganesh
4. Little black dresses, preferrably by Michael Kors or Isaac Mizrahi
5. Black designer shoes and boots
6. Ex-boyfriends, by far my biggest collection, there's pretty much one for every year I've been alive.
7. Extra pounds, which, now that I've decided to commit foodicide, is rivaling the exes.
8. And sea shells. I used to collect seashells when I was younger, and have them card cataloged by family and species. Now I just buy pretty ones and put them on my flat surfaces to collect dust.
I think my collections say that I am diverse and curious about other cultures. Since I collect nothing specifically marketed as a "Collection, " I also think it says I'm a rebel. All of which is true. Oh, and that I can't commit..... oooops.
So, what do you collect? What do you think it says about you?
Here's to you, Clueless Moron with a voting card and a remote control....
The government couldn't exist without you.
1. You dare to be the same. Your voter card says _insert Democrat or Republican here_, and that's exactly how you plan to vote. A man who tried to date me once said that he knew the Republican party had become corrupt, but he would still vote for them and hope they eventually fixed the problem.
Um..... that's like John Bobbit waiting for his penis to grow back.
2.You use the Bible and God (an imaginary friend I like to call Mr. Wiggles) to back up arguments. That'll show 'em. Afterall, EVERYONE is Christian, and if they aren't they are WRONG, and must be saved. You hold the truth. It was passed down 6 thousand years ago, when the earth was created. You think science is flawed, but that idiots from the dark ages who thought the world was flat, bats were birds and an angry god, who found the smell of burning livestock pleasing, spoke to them in shrub fires, had the Ultimate Truth. They didn't even have toilet paper.
3.You think Pat Robertson is doing "Mr. Wiggle's Good Work," and you donate a percentage of your salary to the church. My question is..... "What is Mr. Wiggle's Good Work?" Is it the day spa, the 4 star restaurant, the luxury condos? Maybe it's the high end shopping mall he wants to build? Is helping Pat Robertson build a Neiman Marcus in Virginia Beach really going to get you a golden ticket into the Christian version of "Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory"? Might as well just save your money and go to Hershey Park in PA. It really does exist, and they have Reese's peanut butter cups which are far more delightful than harp strumming angels.
4. You like Wal-Mart. Hey, those camoflage pants and sweatshirts with stags on them are pretty sweet, and you can hardly notice the stickers that cover the nail holes in the furniture. So what if they inject their meat with broth to pump up the weight? Supporting all of those little kids in China who slave away manufacturing Wal*Mart products is just doing your part for World economy and human rights. Those 7 year old girls have to support themselves, somehow. They don't have breasts yet, so they can't strip.
5. You get scared whenever the terror alert changes color. OMG... It's ORANGE! You don't mind giving up your rights as long as the government keeps you safe from the imaginary bad guy. You could be attacked by a terrorist almost as easily as you could win the lottery on the day you were bitten by a shark while being struck by lightning. You are starting to think that American citizens shouldn't carry guns. After all, there are 12,000 murders committed every year. So what if you fire up a Marlboro Light every ten minutes? You choose to be one of the 440,000 fatalities from smoking related illnesses per year, and so what if you speed and drive recklessly? Those 42,000 annual deaths weren't just innocent children. Some of those people had to be liberals, commies and the jerkoffs who cut you off on the interstate.
6.You think Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton are viable news stories. You didn't really care that the senate just passed a bill that evicerated your free speech and gave telephone companies immunity for allowing Bush to illegally spy on your phone calls. Are the Olson Twins really involved in Heath Legers death? Can you believe Brittney Spears doesn't want her kids back? Those are the stories that really matter. And you would never waste your time reading a work of non-fiction. Why learn the truth when you can immerse yourself in fantasy? John F. Kennedy? Nahhhh.... Spiderman is a true American hero. You like your brightly colored blinders.
7. You believe the O'Reilly Report really is a "no spin zone" and that the White House press releases are honest truth, cross my heart and swear to die! You don't think there is a conflict of interest to have oil barons and defense industry leaders running the country, and that it is a coincidence that gas prices have gone through the roof and we've been in a constant state of war since these idiots took office.
8.You believe George Bush has been endorsed by your imaginary friend, Mr. Wiggles. Why? Because like all jail birds and reformed drug addicts he too has found Mr. Wiggle's son Jesus Wiggles (pronounced Hey- seuss). He found him in his favorite hang-out, rehab. Sometimes when people ask me if I've found Jesus, I ask them if they've checked in between the sofa cushions. If he's not there, or rehab, he's probably gone back to prison where he and Muhammed play hide and seek with the felons.
9. You're easily led. Leading free thinkers is like trying to herd cats. Not you, though. Just mention gay marriage, abortion, prayer in schools or Communism and you are at the voting booth before you can say "MIND CONTROL."
10. You think there are two shades, black and white. Multi-dimensional thinking is flawed. You're either with us or against us. You're either Conservative or liberal. You're either good or bad. You either follow Christian morals (do what you want as long as no one is looking, and then give Mr. Wiggles a hand job) or you're going to hell.
11. You think everyone who doesn't think like you is crazy. How can someone think that our government is out to harm us? They are OBVIOUSLY just PROTECTING you from PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL YOU FOR YOUR FREEDOMS. How can someone think that freedom of speech is more important than your child possibly running into naked titties online? So what if you were looking at far more than titties in those National Geographic magazines when you were 8? YOUR CHILD MUST BE PROTECTED FROM THE TITTY!
12.You really do believe that Muslims hate us for our freedoms. It has nothing to do with our oppressive foreign policy and the fact that we are funding death squads to destabilize governments we would like to attack for their natural resources. It's just a coincidence that our enemies are all in the path of the Caspian pipeline, and Cheney was the sitting CEO of the company who has profited the most from the war on terror. You are ready to suit up, grab a gun and go over to Iraq to kick Iraqi ass.
13. You think it's the government's job to regulate trans fats and make it illegal for McDonalds to serve people with a Body Mass Index above 30. They are only doing it to protect us. It has nothing to do with the health insurance lobbyists wanting to maximize profits while minimizing your freedoms. Freedom doesn't keep us safe. That's, your Nanny, Uncle Sam's job.
14. You think if some guy named Ted marries a dude named Bob the sanctity of your marriage is threatened. To you, homosexulity is an abomination. Mr. Wiggles told you so. That's why you don't talk about the incident that happened between you and your buddy Joe, when you jerked each other off in Joe's basement. That doesn't count, and to prove it you punched each other in the gut and looked at Joe's sister getting out of the shower through the key hole.
15. You think it is your business if a teenage girl you've never met ends her pregnancy. It is wrong to kill a clump of dividing cells that would fit on top of a quarter, but it is perfectly fine and justifiable to make war and execute prisoners. So what if innocents die as a result of war and the death penalty? You are out there saving babies.... even if you can't tell the difference between a human fetus and a newly fertilized chicken.
In closing, I'd like to say... just keep on being sheep. Without folks like you, the Holocaust would never have happned, Stalin couldn't have murdered 25 million of his own people (sheep lining up to the slaughter) and George Bush couldn't have stolen two elections, hijacked the Constitution, committed crimes against you while he told you to look the other way.... LOOK! IT'S BARRY BONDS, AND I THINK HE'S TAKING STEROIDS! OVER THERE!
Robert A. Heinlein said, in his book Take Back Your GOVERNMENT!, "Hitler's government was a popular form of government. The vast majority of Germans preferred the rule of gangsters to the effort of thinking and doing for themselves. They adbidacated their franchise."
YOU are adbicating YOUR franchise.
While you were asleep criminals and gangsters filled the halls of Congress and staked the ground of the Oval Office.
Just yesterday, The House of Representitives voted to launch and investigation of Josh Bolton and Harriet Miers in the shameful Attorney General Scandal, where Alberto Gonzalez was caught, by a whistle-blowing blogger, firing the Attorney Generals in swing states who did not have a record of siding with the Republicans on all issues brought before them.
In a shameful show of cowardice, the GOP staged a walkout in The House, and this crooked, douche bag, dickhead
Boehner, Republican, Ohio, and Minority Leader, made the following statement about it... "We have space on the calendar today for a politically charged fishing expedition, but no space for a bill that would protect the American people from terrorists who want to kill us."
I don't know about you, but I am FUCKING SICK AND TIRED OF THE GOP AIDING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S CRIMES BY USING TERRORISM TO AVERT ATTENTION FROM THE CRIMES AND GROSS MISCONDUCT OF THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS AIDS.
"It is astonishing and deeply troubling that after months of delay on passing a bill that will help our intelligence professionals monitor foreign terrorists who want to kill Americans, the House has instead turned its attention to the silly, pointless, and unjust act of approving these contempt resolutions, " said Dana Perino, Bush's spokeswoman.
ENOUGH! I AM NOT AFRAID OF TERRORISTS! I AM AFRAID THAT MY GOVERNMENT HAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED THE CONSTITUTION AND IS WORKING ON REVOKING MY INALIENABLE RIGHTS, WHICH, BY DEFINITION, ARE NOT THEIRS TO REVOKE. THEY ARE MY RIGHTS, AND NO ONE CAN TAKE THEM! COME ON.... TRY!
A bill is currently being drafted, that if passed, will require all US citizens, between 18 - 42 to serve the government either in a military capacity, or by providing cheap labor, as in "work camps."
TIME IS NOT ON OUR SIDE. WE'VE LET THE CRIMINALS IN. WE NEED TO ACT NOW!
Over the next couple of days I will be drafting a letter that I plan to send to every member of Congress and both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. I also plan on sending copies of this letter to all major news sources.
I NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
We need to take them to the mat, and let them know that we are through here.
1. We are not willing to exchange our freedoms for terror alerts.
2. We want our President, Vice President and Congress held accountable for their crimes. There is NO IMMUNITY for their actions when it comes to the American People.
3. We will decide what issues are important, thank you. Lying to the people 935 times to get them into a war for corporate greed's sake IS IMPORTANT. Prosecuting criminals who took oaths to uphold the Constitution and have done nothing but run it through a paper shredder IS IMPORTANT. Government officials who have conflicts of interest with oil and defence contractors NEED TO STEP ASIDE, NOW.
4. Every person, from Bush, Cheney and all Senators and Congresspeople who have supported legislature that is Un-Constitutional and not in the best interest of the American people, but in the best interest of companies such as Bechtel, Americorp, Halliburton and the Carlyle Group will be tried as traitors to the Constitution and the American People.
5. Although they have forgotten, we have not forgotten that they govern by our consent, and ultimately, work for US. They get their powers from us, and we can take those powers away. WE WILL TAKE THOSE POWERS AWAY
6. We will not obey any laws that violate the Constitution and encroach upon our INALIENABLE RIGHTS. PERIOD!
I WILL ASK, WHEN I HAVE DRAFTED SAID LETTER, THAT YOU EACH PRINT IT AND SEND IT TO YOUR OWN REPRESENTITIVES AND LOCAL NEWS ORGANIZATIONS, AND URGE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO DO THE SAME.
I WOULD ALSO URGE THAT WE ALL ORGANIZE A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION ON OUR NATION'S CAPITOL. RON PAUL IS ORGANIZING SOMETHING, THAT MIGHT BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW UP AND LET THEM KNOW WHO THEY DERIVE THEIR POWERS FROM....
RADICAL RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOMS
This Douche Bag....
Knows what he's doing by vowing to change the Constitution to reflect God's Law. He's playing to a very scary group of American Radicals. These radicals are Evangelical Christians who believe that Christians, in particular Christian children, need to have the same faith, dedication and willingness to die for Christ as the Muslims have for Allah.
Below is a full documentary showing the gaining momentum of this growing group of stupidity.
They KNOW they have the truth.
To this I can only say that before Christopher Columbus humans KNEW the earth was flat
Science is flawed and Creationism is the only thing that provides answers to all of the questions...
Yeah, the WRONG answers
Christians need to take back this nation for Jesus
When did Jesus ever own the United States?
This Country was founded on Christian principles
I'm going to let Thomas Jefferson, himself, answer this one.....
"The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
How about James Madison, the Father of the Constitution....
"The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well-meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity "
If you have time, please watch the documentary below. It is quite frightening.
Oh, and you will laugh your ass off at the 300+ lb Jesus Camp leader as she complains to the children that Christians have become "FAT".
Thomas Paine said, "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
Execution of prisoners is fundamentally anti-American. We believe we are "Endowed by our creator certain inalienable rights. Among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
The only real reason we need government at all is to provide for public and national safety. PERIOD. Government was not formed to collect revenue on your personal property, provide healthcare, make sure you have money when you are old, wage war for profit, and everything else we have come to understand government to be. Punishment is not a function of government, either. The reason for jails and prisons is to remove dangerous individuals from society. It sure as hell wasn't to exact revenge, either..
Most humans are EMOTIONAL first and LOGICAL second. The death penalty is an EMOTIONAL issue because it touches upon a base desire. That base desire is REVENGE. Even a two year old understands the concept of revenge. I watched my nephew, at two, hit his twin sister when she got more attention than he did, or when she had a toy he wanted. Two year olds are not logical. They are emotional. The death penalty says, loud and clear, that we have not evolved, logically nor emotionally, since we were toddlers.
The biggest problem with the blind emotion that is brought out by the death penalty is that it usually follows the blind emotion that calls for "SOMEONE" to a PAY. It is far too common for the state, eager to appease a scared, outraged and vengeful public, to rush to conviction. Many people have been put to death and were later found out to be innocent. But, the people got what they wanted, SOMEONE PAID FOR THE CRIME.
The death penalty has also been used, in the United States, to punish political enemies who were innocent of the crimes they were accused of. In 1927, two men, Sacco and Vanzetti, who were convicted of a crime they could not have committed, were electricuted. Both men had air tight allibies. One was on a fishing boat and the other sitting for a family portrait when the crime was committed. Both men were political activists and Anarchists. The jury was stacked with anti-Anarchists and men with predjudice against Italian immigrants. There was almost no evidence in the case. The only evidence presented was that the men had guns on them when they were arrested. They could not tie these guns to the crime.
The judge said, to the jury, in a statement stricken from the records, "This man, (Vanzetti) although he may not have actually committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions." That is about as Anit-American and Anti-Constitution as one can get. This man should have been immediately removed from the bench and tried for treason.
But this could never happen today, right?
WRONG.
This is Damien Echols. He was convicted of murdering three seven year old boys in 1994, and currently sits on death row. The crime took place in at a location called Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis, Arkansas. Damien Echols was quickly arrested for the crimes based on his "goth" look and Wiccan beliefs. The police said the murders were ritualistic. There was no physical evidence, other than a knife found in the woods close to Echols house. That knife was not linked to the crime, however. The only evidence was a confession by one of the other boys.
The confession was a joke. Jessie Misskelley Jr, then 17, has an iq of 72. After 12 hours of intense questioning, the police told him he could just go home if he admitted to the crimes. Believing he would be free, he confessed. The confession had many facts in the murders wrong, and the police actually corrected him by saying things like "Don't you mean 5:30pm?" "Don't you mean you strangled them?"
Evidence that could have exonerated the boys was ruled inadmissible by the judge and other evidence was destroyed or lost. Bite marks were found on the body of one of the victims and the impressions did not match any of the West Memphis Three. John Mark Byers,
the step father of one of the boys, however, had all of his teeth removed after the evidence of the bite mark was made known. A year after the conviction of the "West Memphis Three", John Mark Byers wife, and the mother of one of the victims was found dead, in their home. A bungling criminal investigation could determine no exact cause of death.
These boys were convicted by EMOTION. The press and the locality deemed them "Devil Worshippers." Damien Echols, a teenager when he was convicted, has been subjected to multiple rapes and prison abuse, and lives his life in hell.
This is not uncommon. To date 126 prisoners have been released from death row due to DNA evidence. However, DNA is very expensive, and many localities will not submit evidence for new testing. There have even been cases of people remaining in prison, after being exonerrated, because the law says they were "convicted" of the crime. HEY, SOMEONE'S GOTTA PAY, RIGHT?
Now, lets get down to the issue of your tax money going to pay room and board for these murderers for the rest of their lives. IT COSTS AN AVERAGE OF $800,000 TO IMPRISON SOMEONE FOR LIFE. That figure might not be accurate, either, since many prisons are actually profitable. I sell flooring, and many of my "hand scraped" wood floors are products of prisoner labor. So, that figure only takes into account how much it costs to feed and house convicts. It does not consider how much revenue the prisoner earns the state through labor. IT COSTS AN AVERAGE OF $2,150,000 TO EXECUTE SOMEONE. Yep, almost 3xs as much. The majority of that are court costs. There is a mandatory appeals process that requires three appeals before someone is executed. Many narrow-minded, over EMOTIONAL, under LOGICAL people say we should cut the appeals process out. Lets, for once, put yourself in the position of someone wrongly accused on death row. Wouldn't you want a system that gives you a chance to prove your innocence? Put your mother, your father, your spouse, your child in that position. Would you be raising your voice for the fascist justice of shoot first, ask questions later? These guys did....
As Governor of Texas he presided over 154 executions. The most executions by any United States Governor in modern times. He showed no mercy. He even mocked Karly Faye Tucker's pleas for clemency. Is that justice? Is that the way the American justice system works? Or, how about this Douche bag...
He says Jesus would support the death penalty because he, himself, was executed. Wow, that is LOGIC at work.
Actually, it's not supposed to be logical. Politicians use the death penalty to play to people's blood lust and need for REVENGE over JUSTICE. They do this with religion. They do this with gay marriage. Religion, homosexuality, the death penalty, abortion are all EMOTIONAL issues, and politicians know that EMOTION = VOTES. LOGIC = IMPEACHMENT. How long before we start seeing executions for "Homegrown" terrorism? By that I mean, radical ideas that oppose the government. It's coming, and by condoning the death penalty, you are paving the way. By condoning the death penalty you are telling the govenment, loud and clear, that they have the right to deny you of an inalienable right, which is a contradiction in terms. Don't be an idiot. The death penalty costs more, doesn't deter crimes, and is not always just or fair. Stop the insanity of emoting like a toddler.
