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July 12, 2009:
He said Michael Jackson's genitalia were oddly colored with both light
and dark colored skin, and the description and photos taken showed it, and all were exactly
what the child in the case had attested to. He said that Michael had only skin involvement
of Lupus (that was shown in his nose), so it wasn't extreme. The nose had scarring from
the Lupus and the attempts to fix it didn't work. He was trying to look like a normal guy.
Otherwise he was pretty healthy. Dr. Klein was the only one who could calm down Michael.
MJ paid $15.3 million to the Chandler family. Furthermore, the doctor said that it isn't
completely normal for a child to describe the genitalia in such detail under normal
circumstances. So, the fact that this child could do so, was unusual. But, what actually
took place between them, he had no way of knowing.
Another doctor named Sebi talked about MJ coming to him for help because MJ was delirious,
couldn't sleep, and was undernourished. He gave him
bromides, iodizes, carbonates, phosphates. Dr. Baden said that it sounds like
herbs, harmless drugs, and that it probably didn't help MJ, but it didn't harm.
I am not surprised at all that the boy who accused MJ of molestation could describe MJ's genitalia.
In the early 1990s, I had a dream about a music star who was like the Pied Piper, luring young
children to his lair, in which he would tempt them with toys and treats. Once he had them in
his spell (so to speak), he would give them substances to relax them. He would also have them
photographed. There was more to my dream that I will not write here. When I woke up, I knew that the music
star in my dream was MJ, and I was shocked. It was like a light bulb went off in my head. When the
molestation trial came up in 1993, it made sense to me.
I don't believe MJ was killed as a conspiracy for his money and assets. If somebody wanted
money from him, he'd be better off alive than dead. What LaToya is accusing, makes no sense to me,
unless she can provide some kind of written contract showing MJ transferred stuff to someone else
right before he died. I don't believe MJ was murdered intentionally. I think he did himself in with
the help of a doctor who let him have meds he should never have had, and didn't have the right help when
he needed it at the end.
July 8, 2009:
July 7, 2009:
Do you know how much this circus costs Los Angeles? Millions. I hope the Jackson
family and Staples will pay for it. There is no reason we taxpayers should pay.
Interesting that this was not the most popular show today - some venues even
cancelled for low turnout.
This doesn't make sense to me. Why would the Jackson family have a funeral service at
Forest Lawn, and THEN bring MJ's coffin with them to Staples? Why wouldn't it be buried
while they were there? Why did they have to schlepp it around? (I think it was a decoy.)
His soul isn't in there. His soul is still probably so drugged and groggy it has no idea
where it is, what happened, and it will take some time for it to clear itself to know
what is what and be healed.
I feel sorry for the children - Michael is the only parent they knew. I hope they
will be placed with the right person to raise them from now on. They need a mother,
but not Rowe. I wonder if the children ever asked their dad, Michael,
why he used to be black and ended up white, and why his face changed so
much. How could he look them in the eye and tell them to feel good about themselves,
accept themselves just as they are? Can the African-American culture really mean
they love Michael when he did everything possible to not appear African-American?
Those children should have the right to know who they are, too. Who are their real
biological parents.
One speaker (Jermaine or Marlon) said that God
decided to take Michael, and Stevie Wonder said God must have needed him more. How arrogant!
No - Michael took himself out, say it like it is. If a grown person is living
a life that has him unable to sleep without a major drug to knock him out,
and ultimately kill him, then something is wrong with that kind of life! Get
out of denial and deal with it. Marlon also hoped that "they" would leave Michael
alone now. Michael didn't like being left alone, that's why he tried to make
a comeback - because he knew his career was dead for years. Then, Smokey Robinson
wondering how a very young Jackson could know about loving somebody who hurt you
and then losing them and wanting them back. Need we remind Smokey about Michael's father?
And that embarassing display by a Congresswoman from Texas!
Why does the government get involved in a funeral of someone that was not a statesman?
She never said anything like that about our troops putting their lives on the line and dying
every day! Look in the mirror - indeed. Michael couldn't stand seeing himself in the mirror.
Can she look at her own reflection and love what she sees? If that wasn't enough, there were
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton - both make me ill with their need to fabricate a racial issue
out of Michael Jackson's death, not to mention how overdone their praises of Jackson were.
I wish those two men would just shut up and stay out of other people's business already.
Every network had to cover this
show, as if there was no other important events happening today. The media has become suckers.
And oh - about the child molestation cases? Acquitted doesn't mean he did nothing. Remember,
Michael paid off something like $20 million to make one case go away. Let's also remember
that Michael openly admitted that he slept with other people's children in the same bed.
I leave you with a great comedy routine by the late Richard Jenni (who sadly took his own life a couple of
years ago).
I love the music to Jackson's song "They Don't Care About Us" but who are the us he's referring to?
I also don't understand why he used these words:
July 5, 2009:
July 3, 2009:
Happy Independence Day!
July 2, 2009:
June 28, 2009:
June 26, 2009:
June 25, 2009:
Jackson was a man who didn't know what it was like to be a man, just as he didn't
know what it was like to have a childhood. He was abused as a child and hated
himself, therefore all the plastic surgery. He did try to be a good father, but
he called two of his sons Prince Michael (1 and 2, 2 often being called "Blanket",
gag me - couldn't he give them each a unique name of their own?), and he felt like
he was the royal king of an imaginary country...Neverland. He dangled his baby
upside down out of a hotel window, he made his kids wear veils in public. He traveled
around the world, moving from home to home, blowing his money on anything and everything.
He didn't keep his word and contracts he made. He didn't respect his employees - those
at Neverland weren't paid for months and suddenly Jackson was gone, left them dangling,
too. Too bad they didn't see it coming. He used people (and vice-versa) and was terribly fearful of real
life, often concoting medical excuses for not appearing. He made his court dates a circus.
Even today, people thought this could have been one more ploy to get out of his
upcoming tour. He was addicted to substances. Grace Rwaramba, his children's nanny
who worked for him for 17 years, said she often had to pump his stomach because he
mixed medications. He didn't even keep his house clean and had no money for his
kids at home. Is this the man you want to idolize? The man wasn't perfect, nobody is.
He wasn't a saint. He was a sad and sensitive man who never found real peace and kept
trying to be adored by the public. He's in a much better place now, and I only hope his
kids will be, too.
Let's learn from Jackson how a life out of balance can have tragic
consequences, and yet he tried to give his children the life he never had as a child.
He tried to bring joy to children, and he did bring joy to many. While he did get
joy from watching happy children, unfortunately what he sought for himself he did not really obtain.
It will be interesting to find out what the cause of his death was. He was a frail man
who supposedly ate only one meal a day. Was he anorexic and did the stress of the tour
prove too much for his body?
June 22, 2009:
June 22, 2009:
In the first presidential address to parliament in 136 years, Sarkozy faced critics who
fear the burqa issue could stigmatize France's Muslims and said he supported banning the
garment from being worn in public.
"In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from
all social life, deprived of all identity," Sarkozy said to extended applause at the
Chateau of Versailles, southwest of Paris.
"The burqa is not a religious sign, it's a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement -
I want to say it solemnly," he said. "It will not be welcome on the territory of the French Republic."
June 20, 2009:
I support the Persian people for their protests against tyranny and corruption.
I hope they will not give their power away to anybody else and will keep
fighting for equality and freedom. No more martyrs, either! That is completely
unnecessary. Nobody has to martyr themselves. What use is a dead martyr?
It is meaningless and the waste of a life. I hope people will calm down
and regain a centeredness and focus on peace and empowerment for all people.
Amadinejad and the Ayatollah - their time is finished. It is time for a new
Iran. Now the Persians see how their own leaders treat the people who peacefully
demonstrated, and journalists for taking pictures. A wake-up call, indeed.
We also can look at what's happening in Iran as a reflection upon our own freedoms.
Are we losing our freedoms? How? How important is your freedom? What does the
Constitution mean to you? Do you feel our government is upholding our Constitution
and what our founders intended for our nation? I sure don't think they are. What
would you do to keep your freedom intact? Because when people are pushed too far,
they will rebel because freedom is our natural and divine state of being that no
government has a right to deny us. Please remind yourselves about what America
is all about by reading the basics of the Constitution.
June 16, 2009:
More power to the Persian people for standing up to their dictatorship and wanting freedom.
The world reaction to Netanyahu's speech has done exactly what he set out to do:
June 14, 2009:
If Palestinians really want a peaceful co-existence, why don't they work WITH Israel, IN Israel
and share the country, the army, all that it means? No, they don't want that because they want
all of Israel. Okay, so now In his first speech accepting the concept of a two-state solution
for the Middle East conflict, Netanyahu set rigid conditions for moving forward. Among them:
unequivocal Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish national state with Jerusalem as
its capital, and full demilitarization for a Palestinian state -- no army, no rockets or
missiles, no control of airspace. I think it must include the removal of the PLO Charter
which calls for the destruction of Israel.
"I say this in a clear voice -- if we receive a guarantee of this demilitarized unit, we
will be prepared to reach agreement to a demilitarized Palestine side by side with the
Jewish state," Netanyahu said, according to a direct translation of his speech at Bar-Ilan
University's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Ramat Gan, Israel.
This is the most acceptable way to have a Palestinian state for now. They are the threat
to Israel and have to prove that they mean peace and will live peacefully. It sure will be
better than what they now have, and if they don't like it, once again I pose the question
to all of the other Arab nations - if you truly care so much, then why don't YOU give YOUR LAND
for a Palestinian state? Nobody stops them from doing so.
The connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel goes back more than 3,500 years,
the prime minister said. "This is the land of our forefathers.
"The right of the Jewish people to a state in the Land of Israel does not derive from the
catastrophes that have plagued our people," he said. "True, for 2,000 years the Jewish people
suffered expulsions, pogroms, blood libels and massacres which culminated in a Holocaust - a
suffering which has no parallel in human history.
"There are those who say that if the Holocaust had not occurred, the State of Israel would
never have been established. But I say that if the State of Israel would have been established
earlier, the Holocaust would not have occurred." Regarding Jerusalem, Netanyahu said it "must
remain the united capital of Israel with continued religious freedom for all faiths."
RIGHT ON. The full text of the speech can be read here.
June 12, 2009:
Can you imagine what would have happened had David Letterman called Hillary Clinton's,
Michelle Obama's looks as being slutty airline attendants, or their underage daughters by saying that they would get "knocked up" by
a baseball player during intermission? Does that comment about slutty looks go for the male attendants,
too, Letterman? Or, are you still living in the 1950s?
So why is there still a double standard when it comes to Sarah Palin? Why is it alright
for her to be attacked with such words by Letterman, and CBS does nothing about it?
Letterman and CBS had plenty of time to edit those comments off the show before air time.
Palin is right in saying that Letterman should apologize to ALL women in America
for his comments. Letterman, like Johnny Carson had, has a history of demeaning
speech about women. (That is one reason why I don't watch his show; the other reason
is that I don't find his humor intelligent or funny.) It's time he's held accountable to
what he says. It is time that male talk show hosts and comedians stop demeaning women
and children, while believing that it's funny.
June 8, 2009:
Can you tell me who founded the original "Palestinian" state in ancient history? What form of
government did it have? What was its borders? What was its capital? What was its official
language and form of currency? What kind of food, religion, or culture did it have? Why
did nobody say anything about this so-called "Palestinian" state until after Israel won
the 1967 war? Why were these so-called "Palestinian" people living mostly in Jordan?
(Philistines were Greek. Delilah and Goliath were Philistines. The Philistines died out.)
Why were they kicked out of numerous Arab nations? If you don't know the answer to these
questions, then you don't know anything about the history of Israel and its surrounding
Arab neighbors. You don't even know that this "Palestine" is a recent fabrication by Muslim
Arabs that has only one goal - the complete destruction of Israel, and that hasn't changed.
If Arab hatred toward Israel is based on their love and support for their Palestinian
brethren and their wanting to have their own state, where were those concerns before
modern-day Israel? Why didn't they rise up and speak out when the Kingdom of Jordan
temporarily ruled the area? Why didn't the Arab world and the United Nations call on
Jordan to stop occupying Palestinian land? Fact is, the Palestinian people didn't exist
until 1967, LONG AFTER Israel became a state. Prior to that they were just Arabs belonging
to different Arab nations.
June 3, 2009:
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April 30, 2009:
April 21, 2009:
Blogger Perez Hilton was also enraged, calling Prejean a "stuipd b***h" in a video
tirade he aired on his blog. [Wow, that's not very loving and tolerant of other viewpoints,
and yet they demand Prejean share their beliefs?]
But the backlash is having little affect on Prejean, 21, she says.
"I wouldn't have had it any other way. I stated an opinion that was true to myself,
and that's all I can do," she told Billy Bush, who hosted Miss USA, on his radio
talk show on Monday.
"It did cost me my crown," Prejean continued. "It is a very touchy subject and
[Hilton] is a homosexual, and I see where he was coming from and I see the audience
would've wanted me to be more politically correct. But I was raised in a way that
you can never compromise your beliefs and your opinions for anything."
"I feel like I won," she said. "I feel like I'm the winner. I really do." [I agree - good for her.]
Prejean also said that her sister, a second lieutenant in the United States Air
Force, and a supporter of gay marriage, was not offended by her answer.
"She was just in my hotel room and she said, 'Sis, I'm not offended by anything
that you said. We have two different opinions and I love you because of it.
I love you because you stood up for what was right, and it's not a matter of
being gay or not gay, it's a matter of you competing for Miss USA and getting
a question and answering it to the best of your ability." [Now, that's a cool attitude!]
Miss California's answer sparked a shouting match in the lobby after the show.
"It's ugly," said Scott Ihrig, a gay man, who attended the pageant with his partner.
"I think it's ridiculous that she got first runner-up. That is not the value of 95
percent of the people in this audience. Look around this audience and tell me how
many gay men there are."
Charmaine Koonce, the mother of Miss New Mexico USA Bianca Matamoros-Koonce,
argued back.
"In the Bible it says marriage is between Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!"
The winner, Miss North Carolina Kristen Dalton, a 22-year-old aspiring
motivational speaker and entertainer from Wilmington, edged out Prejean
and second runner-up, Miss Arizona USA Alicia-Monique Blanco, of Phoenix.
April 20, 2009:
When asked by judge Perez Hilton, an openly gay gossip blogger, whether she believed in
gay marriage, Miss California, Carrie Prejean, said "We live in a land where you can choose
same-sex marriage or opposite. And you know what, I think in my country, in my family,
I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense
to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised."
Keith Lewis, who runs the Miss California competition, tells FOXNews.com that he was
"saddened" by Prejean's statement. "As co-director of the Miss California USA, I am personally
saddened and hurt that Miss California believes marriage rights belong only to a man and
a woman," said Lewis in a statement. "I believe all religions should be able to ordain what
unions they see fit. I do not believe our government should be able to discriminate against
anyone and religious beliefs have no politics in the Miss California family."
[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517137,00.html]
My god, is no one entitled to their own ideas, beliefs, religious faiths? Does everybody
have to think alike, and does everybody have to embrace gay marriage? I thought we live
in America and in a freer society than some other countries in the world. Lewis and Hilton
seem to want us to think otherwise. Why are they entitled to their beliefs and lifestyles
but Miss California isn't? Because she didn't conform to gay thinking she was held back
from being Miss USA. This is just another form of a dictatorship, and this is calling our
attention to beware of how some people are trying to control our personal beliefs and
make it policy. Shame on them!
April 15, 2009:
April 14, 2009:
Phil Spector was convicted of 2nd degree murder with the use of a firearm and he's
in jail. This is a victory for justice and for all women, and most certainly for
Lana Clarkson, her family and her memory. I feel better knowing that Spector is
behind bars and can't harm another woman. He'll spend the rest of his life in jail.
April 4, 2009:
March 25, 2009:
This year my favorite singer is Adam Lambert. He is a true artist in every sense of the
word, knows how to play the game, gets into character, executes his songs brilliantly.
What he does, how he does it, is incomparable to anybody else on this season's show. I
think he is the best male singer to ever be on American Idol. I was fortunate enough to
see his live performance in "Wicked" a year and a half ago. He then caught my attention
as somebody to watch. If you can, view him on youtube, or on America Idol's site, and you
can get his songs on iTunes if you like them. For me, he's this year's Idol.
Tonight Adam made a VERY SMART MOVE dressing up as he did in a classy, shiny suit and an
Elvis/Kurt Russell look - no make-up. He knew that he had to show his diversity in order
to not alienate some of the population. He sang beautifully - he always knows exactly how
to sing a song and get its meaning across. I have an affinity for the guy because we share
this connection with musical theatre and to ancient Egypt and the ankh. Ankhs rule!
Danny still comes in a strong second and Alison ties with him. I only wish Alison would
not choke on her voice when she sings, but open her throat for a fuller sound. Kris and
Matt were enjoyable. Megan's singing and arrangement was horrible (I used the same word
as Simon). I agree with Simon that she is in serious trouble this week. Kara was right
"My Guy" would have been the perfect choice for Megan. Anoop was just alright, a little
boring. I liked Michael's performance, even though there were some rhythm mishaps, and
it was a bit overdone. Michael loves singing, he has good energy, he appeals to the
audience and he's good for warming up the audience. He might not be "the star" but he's
good - he needs to take some more risks (as my husband says, and I agree). Lil can sing,
and I like her, but I think "Heatwave" was not the best song for her - too much yelling
and she went off-key. Scott, I'm sorry to say, will be low on the list this week with Megan and Anoop.
March 23, 2009:
A group of Saudi clerics urged the kingdom's new information minister on Sunday to ban
women from appearing on TV or in newspapers and magazines, making clear that the country's
hardline religious establishment is skeptical of a new push toward moderation.
In a statement, the 35 hardline clergymen also called on Abdel Aziz Khoja, who was appointed
by King Abdullah on Feb. 14, to prohibit the playing of music and music shows on television.
"We have great hope that this media reform will be accomplished by you," said the statement.
"We have noticed how well-rooted perversity is in the Ministry of Information and Culture,
in television, radio, press, culture clubs and the book fair."
Although it raises the pressure on the new minister, the recommendation is likely to have
little effect. Khoja's appointment was part of a government shake-up by Abdullah that
removed a number of hardline figures and is believed to be part of an effort to weaken
the influence of conservatives in this devout desert kingdom.
"No Saudi women should appear on TV, no matter what the reason," the statement said.
"No images of women should appear in Saudi newspapers and magazines."
Saudi Arabia was founded on an alliance with the conservative Wahhabi strain of Islam
that sees the mixing of sexes as anathema and believes the playing of music violates
religious values.
The former information minister, Iyad Madani, earned the ire of hardliners several
years ago by allowing music in government-run TV and female journalists to interview
men, despite the country's strict gender-segregation rules.
Women also appear on Saudi television with their faces showing, though most in public
totally cover themselves.
Newspapers publish pictures of Saudi women, but almost always with their heads covered,
while pictures of Western entertainers are shown but bare arms and cleavage are painted over.
The clerics include several professors from the ultra-conservative Imam University,
Islamic research scholars, a judge in a court in the resort of Taif and some government employees.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, in town for meetings with Saudi officials,
told a news conference that during lunch he sat between a female Saudi surgeon and a
female journalist. He said while one woman is allowed to perform surgery and another
is allowed to teach, neither is permitted to drive.
"I find that bizarre," he said. [no shit]
March 18, 2009
This abuse is indicative of a much larger issue of disrespect across the board. We see it everywhere
in how people treat one another from people loudly talking on cell phones letting everyone hear
their foul language and private business, to the inability of a company to know how to handle
customer service. I personally feel that this began with the Reagen era in Washington and
reached its peak during the Bush Administration, with their cockey and threatening attitudes,
their lack of respect for others. Now we see it in politics in the Democratic Party, and the
rudeness and corruption went full throttle during the past election. So why is anybody surprised?
You're allowing it.
Respect must have a comeback in schools, in homes, in the workplace. Common decency and kindness,
compassion. Abuse in any form is NOT love. Pleae read my complete article on abuse.
March 13, 2009:
When Anna's son, Daniel (who was not a drug addict) died from a drug overdose, my intuition said that Howard K. Stern was responsible for giving
the drugs that killed Daniel. I had posted my concerns in Feb. of 2007 on this blog (see below)
because I felt Stern was going after Anna's fortune, and the money she could be inheriting from her
deceased husband's will. Stern would first find a way to get rid of Daniel so he would not be a
threat to him, someone who would stand in the way of Stern inheriting Anna's money. Secondly, he manipulated and abused Anna
to get control over her new baby and her fortune with the commitment ceremony. Remember also that Stern took
photos of Daniel's dead body because he thought (and said) that the photos would be worth a lot of money
some day. Stern also filmed Anna looking like a clown in a drugged-out stupor so he could make
money off of the film. And yet denies any involvement in the deaths of Daniel and Anna, and he
has the ghaul to say, "I loved Anna and Daniel more than words
can express," Stern states. "I would never have done anything to harm either of them." If he
really meant that, he'd never have abused Anna, filmed her and Daniel as he did, for money.
Stern also tried to keep Anna and Larry (the father of the baby) apart in
every way, lied when he said that the baby was his, he lied about being responsible for drugging
Anna, and he and her doctors were responsible for her huge collection of drugs obtained illegally,
by deceit, and responsible for the abcess Smith received via an injection Stern gave her that contributed to her death.
Stern is a dangerous man and I feel that the law has yet to uncover and/or expose all of his motives
and methods. I hope he is put away for life for what he did.
Casey Anthony murdered her daughter for three reasons: to make her parents suffer because they
loved Caylee more than Casey; her mother (especially) forced her to give birth and raise Caylee
against Casey's wishes; Casey didn't want to be a mother, she wanted her freedom. There is also
heresay that Cindy was threatening to legally adopt Caylee as her own the week Caylee went
missing. Casey's father was a cop - hmmm...maybe it's also a thrill for her to outsmart her
cop father?
Caylee's death was premeditated. There was never any nanny. Furthermore, why would Casey need a nanny
when she had no job or income? How could she afford one? She doesn't report her child missing
for a month? And Casey spends her time partying? That reminds me of Simpson and after the criminal trial
how he'd go golfing and say he's looking for the "real killers". Caylee's remains were found
(where Casey used to bury dead pets), with objects from her home, her head decapitated, duct
tape wrapped around her mouth and skull and a heart sticker over that part covering her lips.
I feel Casey's brother knows more about Caylee's death than he's telling. Casey is a very disturbed woman,
a pathalogical liar, a sociopath, and I don't believe that she has a conscience - she's completely
narcissistic, just like Scott Peterson; both only thinking of themselves. They have no feelings
for anybody else. I sincerely hope the prosecution will not flub the trial, thereby allowing
Anthony to be freed.
Phil Spector has nearly a lifelong pattern and history of abuse, of hating and threatening women
and a few men (including John Lennon) and of shooting off guns when he would get drunk and angry.
"All women are fucking cunts and deserve a bullet in their heads." [Phil Spector] Spector killed Lana
Clarkson and should spend the rest of his life in jail - and he doesn't have a very long life ahead
of him for health reasons. Spector admitted he killed Clarkson to the limo driver, and to three police officers.
After Clarkson was killed he didn't call 911. Instead, he changed clothes and tried to clean up and tamper with the evidence before the police
arrived to his house, the murder scene. His blood is found on Clarkson and her blood is found
around his house and on him. There is NO WAY Clarkson committed suicide. No way a woman who
planned to go to a friend's party in the near future and who shopped with her mother and bought
8 pairs of new shoes for her new job that she was excited about goes right off
to work and three hours later and kills herself! She met Spector while she was working and he
convinced her to go home with him for a drink. She only knew that her boss told her Spector was
an important customer and to treat him well. She felt she had to go with him. Boom - she's dead.
Not by a gun she owned and had with her, but by Spector's gun (one of many he owns). She has her
purse around her shoulder and arm, her coat, she's ready to leave to get her car, and the defense
wants the jury to believe that she just spontaneously got severely depressed and committed suicide?
Clarkson had no history of risk-taking, or suicidal attempts or threats.
How can anybody respect a lawyer who lies and defends murderers? There is no way Spector's attorneys
believe he's innocent. That is a crime in itself, in my opinion. I hope the present jury will convict
him. (Spector's wife is with him mainly for his money and show.)
Drew Peterson - guilty of murdering his wives and disposing of at least one of their bodies.
March 10, 2009:
November 4, 2008:
McCain didn't do so badly after all, considering he spent significantly less than Obama,
their popular vote wasn't that far apart. Change would be coming with either candidate -
although different versions of change. I'm glad Bush will be out of the White House. I think
this election was revolutionary in that it brought people out of their homes to vote,
people who either never voted or felt that voting could make a difference. If only they
were voting all along, eh? So it's good that people feel empowered and let go of feeling like victims.
It's always time to remind certain politicians that they work for us and not the other way around.
I never view voting for somebody for any reason other than feeling they are the best for
the job. I don't feel Obama is that person. However, I do think it is a great breakthrough
moment in history. I hope each one of you listened to the speeches tonight by McCain
(gracious and heartfelt). This is what I have always seen in McCain. And Obama's speech -
(he is a bit of an egomaniac), but at least he gave
credit due McCain. I hope you paid close attention to the choice of words in Obama's
speech about his plan for the future. He is already telling you that his plan may not
manifest in one term. He is also saying that everybody has to make sacrifices and work
harder. I hope Obama will move more to the center, as it would be better for the majority.
I have not fallen under the Obama spell - I see things many people don't see,
or don't want to see. I truly hope that this "change" is the change you really think is
coming and what you want, and know you are creating it, therefore have no regrets. I hope
that this election heals race, gender, and party issues because the campaign didn't make
them any easier. We still have a LONG way to go until women are treated equally in America.
At least now a bi-racial man can be president. I hope America has seen how nasty it has
become and will not go down that path again. Do you think now the world will love America?
I hope that now no one will use the past as an excuse for not doing something now. And, I
hope nobody ever forgets what America is all about - liberty.
As for California's ballot - this is a very strange state. A state that will vote for Obama,
but not for same sex marriage nor rights of a girl to have an abortion without notifying a
parent, even an abusive parent. I just don't get it - seems a contradiction to me. At least
the prop to help animals in confinement did pass.
October 23, 2008:
DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF SOCIALISM:
so-cial-ism - Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [soh-shuh-liz-uhm] Pronunciation Key -
Show IPA Pronunciation
noun
1. a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and
control of the means of production and
distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
2. procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.
3. (in Marxist theory) the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism,
characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.
This is what Obama is planning for America, and he's going to do it with forcing higher taxes,
and creating a class war (which has already began). His distribution plan will make sure that
those who are not paying taxes now and living off of the taxes from the wealthy will have
absolutely no incentive to do better because they will be punished for financial success (just
as the wealthy). He will create an even poorer lower and middle class. PLUS, the wealthy will
not want to have their businesses in America because the government would control them, so more
and more will take their businesses elsewhere. Socialized medicine is another example, and if
you think it's free - you're wrong. There will be more regulation, more unionization, higher
taxes, more government controlling what we can do and how we can do it. Americans will lose.
I don't want less freedom, do you? And I never thought it would come to this with a Democrat.
I feel that this election is a crucial challenge to everybody to come to a honest grip with
how we view ourselves and what we expect from our government. Do we want a government to be
our parents, or do we feel we have evolved into being more of an adult, personally responsible
for our own decisions? I choose the latter.
I believe that in America, and even on this planet, we have enough to help everybody have a
life that includes education, health care, food, clothing, shelter. But not when it's forced, a
nd not when it abuses one group of people for another.
You know the Chinese proverb "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to
fish and you feed him for a lifetime?" McCain is for teaching the man to fish; Obama is for
tossing the fish for a meal. That means making people MORE dependent upon the government as
their caretaker, and less free.
One of the scariest things about an Obama presidency is that Obama is ready to sit down with
tyrants without preconditions. Just today, Iran issued its own set of preconditions in which
it will sit down with America - like it's running the show.
And finally: If Israel falls, so will all nations. When Israel is strong, we are safer from
terrorists and democracy will survive. This is not debatable - it is a fact.
Here's a good article that may remind some people of a past election issue:
It used to be there was no crying in politics. Just ask "Crying Pat" Schroeder.
Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney all were able to show their softer sides during the 2008 campaign, but a stifled sob two decades ago was political suicide for Schroeder, a Democratic congresswoman from Colorado who had hoped to become America's first woman president.
Schroeder had formed an exploratory committee after Gary Hart's campaign imploded when his relationship with Donna Rice made the headlines. But Schroeder was unable to raise enough money to make a full-fledged bid for the nomination, and she withdrew from the race in September 1987.
And she cried.
Like Sarah Palin, Schroeder became fodder for Saturday Night Live. Comedian Nora Dunn parodied her by crying several times during a mock Democratic primary debate.
Today, 68-year-old Schroeder just shakes her head and laughs.
"It was hysterical. If you look at the tape, it was 2.5 seconds. I kind of choked and came back and they had me absolutely having a nervous breakdown. It was unbelievable," she told FOX News.
"Then all the men that year had to choke up and cry and show how emotional they were. If men do it, isn't that wonderful? If women do it, what's wrong with them?"
The double standard still gets under her skin.
"I thought the classic for Hillary was when people would show up with signs that say, 'Iron my shirt,' but if somebody showed up at an Obama rally saying, 'Shine my shoes,' all sorts of whites would have stood up and said that was racist," Schroeder said.
"Unfortunately, with sexism its usually only women who stand up to fight it, and then people say they don't have a sense of humor."
Schroeder calls her 24-year political career an accident of fate.
"We had a Republican incumbent in the district who was the most popular person in Colorado, and nobody wanted to run against him," she recalled.
Her husband was on a committee to find a candidate, and Schroeder's name had come up at a meeting. He told her, "You won't win, but somebody's got to go out there and argue these issues," she said. So she ran, thinking a win was impossible. She didn't even quit her job.
A few months later, she was surprised to find herself in Washington, one of 16 of women serving in the House of Representatives.
During her 24 years in Washington, Schroeder took on family and work issues, including family medical leave and family services for the military. She fought for whistle-blower protection and sought to reform the National Institutes of Health. She was the first woman to serve on the Armed Services Committee.
In 1997, Schroeder retired from politics and spent a semester teaching at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs before being tapped to head the American Publishers Association.
She has been its CEO and president for eleven years and shows no signs of slowing down.
"Life just keeps bubbling along," Schroeder said. I keep thinking I'm going to retire and I never do. With this new downturn, nobody knows. Can any of us ever quit working?"
[from Foxnews.com]
My note about the article:
Thankfully today, we have men who are boldly standing up along with women against sexism and not afraid to call it like it is. Interestingly enough, Newt Gingrich is one of them standing up for Palin, and not just because of the Repbulican Party.
October 9, 2008:
September 14, 2008:
September 13, 2008:
September 12, 2008:
As a 56-year old adoptee, I can tell Palin she is talking about two different issues. Pregnancy and adoption should be choices. Women should be treated as sovereign adults capable of making their own decisions regarding their body, just as men have the right to decide what they do with their body. Row v. Wade the law doesn't order women to have abortions. It's a choice. There is no religious or moral judgment - it is a personal decision, and must remain so. In the case of rape or incest, a woman MUST have the right to an abortion if she wants one. Rape is a criminal act of violence. A raped woman has not given her consent for sex. She is victimized, tortured, terrorized, and humiliated in the process. In the case of incest, the crime is even worse because love and trust of a family member (who should have been even more vigilant to protect the female) has been betrayed and destroyed. To ask the female to then have a full term pregnancy and give birth to a child conceived without her permission, through victimization, is forcing another victimization upon her - taking away her free will and rights a second time.
Adoption is not the answer or solution to forcing her to have a pregnancy and give birth to an unwanted and often hated child. Furthermore, that child in the womb will know it is not loved or wanted and have a spiritual trauma in life that will need healing if it survives. Then, there is the possibility of contracting an STD and AIDS. How can anyone force a woman to go through this? This tells me that the individual wanting to remove her rights and personal empowerment has no clue what she is going through, no compassion for her and her situation. Why would a woman with particular religious views want to torture another woman, and more than once? We have religious freedom in America, and that should also apply to how we choose what happens with our physical bodies. We fight wars in other countries which, and help women gain their sovereignty and power in those countries. Why not in America? Palin's personal feelings about birth control should remain her personal views. I truly wish Palin would reconsider what she's saying to women and leave free choice to all of us. I wrote a personal e-mail to Palin and wonder if she will answer it.\
September 11, 2008:
Those who died as victims of the Muslim terrorists deserve more respect. In memory of those who died in the planes, in the crashes at the Pentagon and Pennsylvania, and at the World Trade Center, and those who died later on as a result of 9/11, you are not forgotten. You will always live in our hearts and in history. May you be at peace and surrounded with love and light. May your loved ones be healed and at peace. May America and the world never forget, and be vigilant so it never happens again. May we all have worked with our own inner terrorist, with our anger, and our fear of separation from the Source - for we are never truly separate from the Source. May we all strive to live more with love, gratitude, joy and compassion. May we walk in balance and harmony.
This song was written by a CERN science writer - and it's about
the hadron/particle eccelerator - like a mini science lesson on it.
Large Hadron Rap.
A great way to teach and learn.
September 10, 2008:
However, there is another issue directly linked to weddings and bridges of any age, the money one pays for a bride. Many old men temporarily marry young girls and divorce them soon afterwards. This is like paying for the services of a prostitute or child abuse. Take away the girl's virginity against her free will because they paid the parents for her, and then dump her. This practice must end. Women and children are not property to be bought and sold and abused. They should be free to decide for themselves who they marry, or even if they marry, and with whom they have sex. Saudi Arabia needs to address the purchasing of human slaves or this age minimum issue for marriage is only half resolved.
OBAMA IS FOR CHANGE, ABSOLUTELY: ASK HIM A QUESTION AND HE'LL CHANGE THE SUBJECT. [my own quote of the day]
SEXISM IN THE ELECTIONS
Sept. 2, 2008
There is another choice - voting Independent for Alan Keyes. Although Keyes is against abortion,
I agree with many of his policies. I especially think he's the smartest guy in the elections and the
most experienced and knowledgeable when it comes to the Middle East. He is a true and long
supporter of Israel, and for me that's vital. A world without Israel is not a world in which I'd want
to live. And that's a huge subject and I won't get into that here. I'm still disgusted that the media
does not focus on anything other than the two main parties. Yes, there is less of a chance the
independent parties will win the election, but they can have a better chance to win with more coverage.
Why are they being so silent? We have to actively search them out on our own in order to know
who is running for these parties.
SARAH PALIN
Here are some comments from people like Dick Morris and the real comparison between Obama and Sarah Palin.
I think the fact that McCain thought hard and picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, shows he's not at all like Bush, and he made a wise decision.
"Comparing Bush and McCain and saying they're the same, and saying Palin is the same, is like comparing Cameron Diaz with Doris Day." - Dick Morris.
There's a difference between someone running for teacher and someone running for student. It would be nice if the Democrats nominated someone like her - someone ready for the office. Palin took on the corrupt politicians, challenged them in the primary fight, got the attorney general fired, probably the only governor in America who beat the incumbant governor of her own party in a primary fight. She is a heroine, and to have somebody like that coming in to Washington to clean up Washington, is extraordinary. She went after Republicans. Dick Morris just said this on the news.
She has more executive experience than Obama, more in the private sector, more community experience. More experience in having specific accomplishments. Obama is being defensive now and desperately trying to say that McCain and Palin are like the same old thing. He's wrong. She served on the state oil board, found corruption, and did something about it. The governor tried to fine her and get her fired and she went public with it. She won. She's very honest. This is a crusader. She has a very high approval rating. She had more executive experience just as the Mayor than Obama has ever had.
I see a very genuine person in Palin and I like that. She's true to herself. I don't feel the same about Obama. When I look
at Obama trying to speak without a prepared speech, he comes across like Bush on a bad day. The energy isn't there,
the authenticity isn't there, the clear speech isn't there, and I feel a controlling personality with Obama. That
is a warning flag for me. I also am very upset and disappointed with Obama not offering Hillary a VP job, and
with the Democratic Party. I'm surprised Obama doesn't see Iran as a threat.
My main concerns with McCain and Palin are the Supreme Court, equal pay for equal work, and Roe v. Wade.
While I wouldn't have an abortion, I believe it is a personal choice and wouldn't stop a woman who is getting
an abortion. I am not comfortable with laws governing women and their bodies and not allowing free choice.
It's like Alan Keyes, who ran for president...he is very anti-abortion, yet talks about freedom.
What's that all about? Either we believe in real freedom, or we don't. We can't be hypocrites.
VOTING DEMOCRATIC OR REPUBLICAN?
Gore and the Clintons are in my generation, but considered the old school, some of the people
the Obama people say they want to get away from. But look what they are saying - they're awesome time
after time. They're having ovations like never before. PAY ATTENTION! They're even trying to equate
Obama with Lincoln and Kennedy and MLK (and he's none of those), to get you to vote for him. They're
doing all of his work for him. And you'd rather have Obama, who has no experience and limited knowledge?
Frankly, that concerns me. It concerns me that people are voting for Obama only because he's half-black - in
their eyes only African-American. Most people don't know anything about him. Partly because they haven't
bothered to read up on the guy, and partly because Obama hasn't really told you much about himself because
there's not much governmental experience of which to speak. After seeing the Clintons and Gore, don't you
wish at least one of them were on the ballot? I do.
On the Republican side - McCain is not Bush. McCain is pro-choice, for one thing. He's more moderate, for another thing.
What Richardson said about McCain not having to be elected president just because he is a war hero
is true, but why not because of it? Who better to know how to lay one's life on the line for America,
or know the horrors of war, torture, the values of freedom? McCain was a governor.
My main concern in our next president is that
he will not dis our Constitution as the Bush family has. And, we do have the Democrats in power in the
houses and they can do a lot no matter who is in office. It's a hard call for me. I am not comfortable with
Obama in the international arena and fighting terrorism. Frankly, we got the problem of terrorism under
the Democrats and Clinton, who did nothing after the first attack on the World Trade Center.
A vice-president can do only so much. Or, will this presidency really be Biden's, keeping Obama the puppet
he already is? There's a lot to consider.
HILLARY CLINTON'S SPEECH AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
I'm very happy that Geraldine Ferraro is reminding people of the blatant sexism in this campaign against Hillary,
that John Dean did not speak out, and that the Democratic Party is partly to blame for it, and the media is also
to blame. I will not foget this and I do not forgive it. I spoke out at the time, as did other women, and we were
laughed at or ignored. Some people actually had the nerve to criticize us for speaking out saying that we
are too sensitive and are commenting on something not real. My ass it's not real. Therefore, they will have
to deal with me not voting for Obama. (Please read my Feb. 2008 post below about why Hillary is the only
real change for America we could have in this election.)
Addendum: Aug. 27: Obama was just confirmed as the Party's candidate. I'm glad California passed on the vote.
Right away all the news agencies sent out headlines that the first black or first African-American was nominated.
Barack Obama is NOT only black or African-American. He is half white, and half African Muslim. Why does the
media ignore the half-white part of him? That half-white part of him was from the much praised mother who raised
him as a single mother while his father wasn't present. Are they racists? What ticks me off the most about this is
that Obama used his half-black side as an issue, and now the media focuses only on that side of him. Not that
he is a person, a man, an American. They perpetuate racism.
HOW TO RUIN A LED ZEPPELIN SONG
Let Leona Lewis sing it.
Alright, I'll go into more detail. Led Zeppelin is my favorite rock band. I adore Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Sadly, Leona Lewis, Simon Cowell's greatest discovery (his own words), performed "A Whole Lotta Love" with Jimmy Page at the closing ceremonies of the Olympics tonight, August 24, 2008. Should never have happened. I don't want to hear a schpiel about bridging some generation gap, or the marketing ploy that this was really about for Lewis and Cowell. There was no excuse to allow her to sing this classic song and destroy it, save for Page's superb guitar work. Blach! I will do my best to erase that performance from my memory. The very least they could have done was have the brilliant Annie Wilson singing it, as she's the only female who could do it justice. Not some youngin' singing like a Minnie Ripperton rip-off who has no idea what that song or the era it's from is about. HUGE mistake, Simon, HUGE. You should have let Lewis sing her own stupid song about bleedin' love and leave the rock to the pros.
Before you say anything, let me assure you that I know Annie Wilson isn't British. Okay, for Brit female, let's try Joss Stone. She might be able to get away with singing one song in place of Robert Plant.
WOMEN MUST UNITE
What many women in America fail to get after so many years is what the right to choice
really means. It means we have the right to choose. It doesn't mean because we have
the right to choose we must have an abortion. It is an option - and it is never an easy decision.
Removing that right puts women in jeopardy, a life or death situation for some women,
hardship for many. With the women who don't want to be pregnant and raise unwanted
children, children are raised with problems. It's a vicious cycle and it has to end. It has
to end with we woman saying ENOUGH. Men, stay out of our choices and telling us what
we should do. Women, stop fighting over this very personal issue. We cannot tell another
woman what is right for her. We can only decide what is right for ourselves. Take back
the power from men and do NOT make this an issue, ever again!
OBAMA & BIDEN - WHAT A MISTAKE OBAMA JUST MADE
Last year, Biden angered members of the black leadership network Project 21, who say Biden's
remarks are elitist, condescending and insensitive. "Joe Biden's comments are completely unacceptable and clearly elitist," said Project 21 member Ak'bar Shabazz. "By praising Obama as the first 'articulate, bright and clean' black presidential candidate, he isn't only insulting the senator from Illinois, but all black Americans who strive to polish themselves and provide a positive image in the community. Biden clearly needs to open his aristocratic eyes and realize that there are many well-qualified, educated and capable blacks out there who are serving our country in the government and the private sector." You can read the full article here.
I bring this up because Obama focuses on his race so much: Obama isn't an African-American - he's maybe one quarter black (from his Luo grandmother),
and mostly Muslim, and white. This man's ancestors were not slaves, they were slave owners, and if you know Muslim history in Africa, it was (and continues to be) one of forced conversion through torture or death, slavery as a trade for centuries, and the abuse of women and children. And that is the personal history through the father he barely knew that Obama identifies with and is proud of while saying he's a Christian. Don't be fooled by this power-hungry chameleon. I watched my local NBC news last week when the seasoned anchor started to talk about Obama (and the film clip was of Obama disembarking from a plane) - but what came out of his mouth was the name Osama bin Laden - then he fumbled an apology when he realized what he had said. Maybe his subconscious was trying to tell him (and the public) something?
I'm not saying that McCain is the answer, either. Neither of these candidates are right for America. I'm just surprised
that the other independent parties haven't said a word. And Hillary R. Clinton, what is she up to? I think she's playing
this very wisely. She does not want to be the bad sport in this and have it all come down to her destroying anything
within the Party. Clinton wouldn't go for being a V-P. She knows the limitations of that job. She must have struck a deal
with Obama to be Secretary of State if he wins the nomination. That would give her a top position and influence, and
she's knowledgeable about world leaders and would do well. If McCain wins, and maybe she's helping to ensure he
does, she would have four years to gain more experience, people would be sick of Republicans in office, and Clinton
would run again for President in 2012. Then the Democratic Party really would owe her the top place - no more excuses.
Either way, she can win, and so could we.
JOHN ASHCROFT: WATERBOARDING DOESN'T CONSTITUTE TORTURE
July 1, 2008:
July 1, 2008:
June 22, 2008
Through the years my family and I attended his events in person, enjoyed every show he was on for television, never missed a show of his. He was the often angry, frustrated voice of common sense and criticism of our government, our planet, how humans have become - but made it all funny. He spread his message to be sovereign and strong and intelligent through his comedy. I didn't always agree with everything he said, but I respected his views and right to express them. I always felt he would work until his time was up.
Numerologically, his birthdate (May 12, 1937), his date of death, today at 5:55pm, all show he was a great master - and indeed he was. I don't know if everybody is familiar with Carlin, but I encourage you to watch and/or listen to his work. He will be greatly missed, but will live on through his recorded performances. Thank you, George Carlin, for being you and for having been here.
June 9, 2008:
June 6, 2008:
OBAMA CONTINUES TO MANIPULATE, LIE, AND SUCK UP
Months ago Obama said in the debates that he wanted to sit down with our enemies
and ask them what they want. Now he says this:
"Contrary to the claims of some, [WHAT CLAIMS? HE SAID IT!!!] I have no interest in sitting down with our adversaries just for the sake of talking. But as president of the United States, I would be willing to lead tough and principled diplomacy with the appropriate Iranian leader at a time and place of my choosing -- if, and only if it can advance the interests of the United States." Tonight he says we have to deal with our real dangers in the world. Did he just wake up? I think he just got a dose of reality.
I'm sorry to say this, but I think black people only see
the black in Obama and ignore the white. Obama is half black and half white.
I think some whites only see the black in Obama for a couple of reasons - guilt and
to appear to be hip.
I am angry with the Democratic Party because they put Obama in to try to make sure
Hillary wouldn't win. They relied on ignorance of the public and it worked.Obama is
a puppet. How many people really know anything about Obama? Watch Jay Leno's
Jaywalking some time and maybe you'll be as sick as I am with the ignorance and apathy
in our country. Think Obama can just march into the White House and offer a golden ticket to Americans?
Obama is a manipulator, he knows to speak well and say what people want to hear.
He speaks to their emotions and fears, and pretends he's different from Bush or
Amedinejad. They cheer and cheer - all for an illusion. It seems that people would
rather have a male president than a female at any cost. I'm disgusted. This is
"our time". I have a news flash for Obama - it's ALWAYS our time. Obama will
have a lot to prove to me what he's made of before I'll change my tune.
DISAPPOINTING FINAL FOR EUROVISION
SECOND SEMI-FINALS FOR EUROVISION
My favorites are: Israel, Iceland, Ukraine, Greece, Turkey, Sweden, Norway, Armenia, Finland, UK.
Use this to watch Eurovision performances.
The rest of the songs were for the most part average, or just plain dull.
EUROVISION - THE FREAK SHOW IS ON
The rest of the participants' performances were a nightmarish joke. What is with these groups singing in
hideous tones and with ridiculous costumes and themes? Ishtar? Estonia? The group from Azerbaijan?
Bozia-Herzegovina? An Irish singing stuffed chicken with Carmen Miranda-like dancers? Pirates? Angels? Come on!
What the hell was all of that? What a circus of clowns! A freak show! Are these people mentally ill?
Why all these silly gimmicks to sell a song? If a song is good, it doesn't
need a gimmick. It sells itself through feeling, and that's how Israel's song is this year - it touches the heart.
Some of the songs were so bad they put me to sleep, or so off key that it hurt my ears enough to turn off
the volume.
The only GOOD thing about the Eurovision televised broadcast is that it was well done, with colorful and creative
intros into each song, and bits here and there showing life in Serbia. The finals are on Thursday night - god help us. I'm
glad I'm not fully covering Eurovision this year, as that was my promise last year after another disappointing presentation and win.
May 10, 2008:
Well, EXCUSE ME, but this man is in denial. Rape, which tragically occurs every day, is one's will forced against another's. That is a huge lack of life value, and it has nothing to do with birth control. BUT, if a female was on birth control she might not have to give birth to an unchild resulting from rape! If the Pope is concerned about the dignity of a person, then he should respect a person's right to freedom, to choose birth control, or anything that effects them personally. When a couple is ready to have a child, they can do so, and that greater mystery still occurs. The problem with religion is that most refuse to change, even when it is humane and makes sense.
ELI STONE - ONE OF THE BEST TV SHOWS, EVER
While for some people it might take a disease to wake-up, it is not necessary
to suffer from illness in order to wake-up to the more authentic reality. It shows that WE are the
ones in charge of our lives, our experiences, our travels between dimensions and bringing back
what we gain from them and sharing them and defining them, defining divinity - for good. Love it!
I hope season one will soon be on DVD. If so, rent it, buy it, watch it. It's a masterpiece.
THE HYPOCRITES ARE AT IT, AGAIN
What is free in Catholicism? Women aren't free to become priests, nor have total control over
their body - they cannot have abortions. The Catholic Church is among the richest nations in
the world and how do they help people, really? Ever hear of the Church donating millions to
any cause to help others? The Church hoards art and books and who knows what else that
it obtained in questionable ways and keeps much hidden from the public. The Church keeps
secrets and wants control over all Catholics Let's not forget to mention the sex abuses by priests,
most of whom have not been punished. Or, their stance on homosexuality and stem-cell research.
Some freedom and morals. And this Pope ass-kissing comes from our tax dollars. To quote
Donovan ("Poke at the Pope"): "Would you trust yourself with this man?"
POLYGAMISTS AND SLAVERY OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
I am still amazed and shocked at how many people believe God is this monsterous
being that would demand that men have many wives in order to enter Heaven, or that
women and men are not to be treated equally, not to be free and not allowed to enjoy
life, that females are to be kept dumb and enslaved.
Of course, I do understand the destroyed person held captive and that they frequently
have been so abused that they don't even know they CAN leave such a sick environment
and get help and have a real life, especially when they are told such crap like they will be forced
to wear certain clothes, hairstyles, make-up. Fear and control, once again, in the name of God and religion
and in America. It's not only Muslims, or Catholics, or even the minority of extremely Orthodox
Jews who practice fear and control and inequality, such tragedies and crimes against humanity.
It all points to ONE THING that keep these folks locked in: these religious fanatics fear God, which means they
fear themselves, they fear life, they fear everything to such an extent that they don't even
believe in their own religion enough to life it without forcing others to join them. Because
inside them, they KNOW it's wrong and against God. They KNOW they are abusive
and they love it - otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. They think they're fooling themselves
and others, but they're not fooling anybody. These are the truly sickest, saddest and most lost souls
on Earth. I hope those who have been rescued in the raid wake up and get the help they
need and have a good life from now on, free from lies, slavery and abuse. May they
tell their stories to help free others. For the rest of us - don't turn your backs on these
women and children held captive. If you know of women and children in these situations,
get them to safety and help, tell them they can get out and be more than alright. Freedom for all!
Isn't this a kicker: On April 18, CNN reported "The U.S. government paid more than $1.7 million in defense contracts over the last decade to companies owned by leaders of Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect. The contracts, for airplane parts for the Air Force, continued even while Jeffs was on the FBI's "Most-Wanted List." The Pentagon stands by the deals."
CHINA, TIME FOR A REALITY CHECK, April 8, 2008:
The Chinese government's policies and activities are notorious for being vicious and inhumane.
I have always been wary of supporting China for those reasons. To add to that, during the past
couple of years (with the tainted food and toy products from China), I have made a conscious
effort to purchase products from anywhere but China. Mostly supporting Amerian-made products.
I don't do this to punish the Chinese people - I do it to HELP the Chinese people to wake up and
be responsible, to stand up for themselves and democracy and freedom. I do it for safety issues.
I do it to protest the Chinese government and military, and to support America.
Should our atheletes attend the games? Yes. This is not about them and they should not
be punished. Will taking a strong stand against China have any effect? Should Bush not attend the Opening
Ceremonies? Yes, and a strong stand will, eventually, as long as we keep showing them the
backwardness of their thinking. Protests as despicable, with the
excuse that the protests show lack of respect for the Olympics? Au contraire; it is BECAUSE
we respect the Olympics and human rights. With the western world's consciousness trickling
into China, exposing people to democracy and freedom, things can change. That is my hope.
March 16, 2008:
Who is Wright trying to fool? This is not about attacking the history of the African American church. It's about him, and he's
not taking responsibility for his actions. If he was truly teaching Jesus' words, he'd be preaching acceptance, forgiveness, and love instead
of hate, blame, and rage.
Obama's Pastor, March 15, 2008
Obama claims that he's never heard Wright spew the kind of stuff caught
on numerous cameras, and now says that that kind of language is incendiary
that he couldn't object to strongly enough. Are we to actually believe that
in twenty years Obama never knew about Wright and his views, never heard
a peep on these issues out of him? I just find it very hard to believe. I think
this is exactly a portion of what I felt I could not trust about Obama. I'm glad
it's coming out for more people to see what has been going on behind doors.
Did you see the congregation jumping up and down in glee with Wright,
obviously agreeing with his warped views? After professing himself a devout
Christian and church-goer, don't tell me Obama had no idea and did not support it.
Quote of the day, March 8, 2008:
Kristen Breitweiser's article in Huffington Post, March 7, 2008:
"I am dismayed that Obama would not consider a unity ticket yet -- according to him, it is too premature to contemplate. That's a shame. But it reminds me of another time when Obama spoke about being way too premature.
"In November 2004, Oprah asked Obama if he would be the first black President. Obama's response:
Great quote from SNL:
"And finally, the most important women's news item, we have our first serious female presidential candidate in Hillary
Clinton. And yet, women have come so far as feminists tha his warped vion't feel obligated to vote for a candidate just
because she's a woman. Women today feel perfectly free to make whatever choice Oprah tells them to. Which raises
the question: why are people abandoning Hillary for Obama? Some say that they are put off by the fact that Hillary
can't control her husband and that we would end up with co-presidents. Because that would be terrible. Having two
intelligent, qualified people working together to solve problems. Ach. Why would you let Starsky talk to Hutch? I want
to watch that show "Starsky." [snip]
"Then there is the physical scrutiny of her physical appearance. Rush Limbaugh (the Jeff Conaway of right wing radio)
said that he doesn't think America is ready to watch their president "turn into an old lady in front of them".
Really? They didn't seem to mind when Ronald Reagan did that.
"What bothers me the most is that people think that
Hillary is a bitch. Let me say something about that, because you know she is. So am I. And so is this one [points to
Amy and Amy agrees]. Bitches get stuff done, that is why Catholic schools use nuns as teachers and not priests.
Those nuns are mean old clams, and they sleep on cots and they're allowed to hit you. At the end of the school year
you hated those bitches, but you knew the capital of Vermont. I'm saying it's not too late. Texas and Ohio get on board.
Bitch is the new black!" Tina Fey, SNL
FURS
FEBRUARY 21, 2008:
FEBRUARY 14, 2008:
And filling up another good portion of today's news was the shocking, horrific
event of 70 year old Jane Fonda saying the word "cunt" on television. Oh my god!
Does nobody watch Bill Maher's show, or Comedy Central's roasts or BBC America? Or a movie?
Come on - people swear all of the time on these shows. Is the
big deal about that Fonda said it on a channel that wasn't cable?
As if no kids ever watch cable. Just tonight I watched the roast
to William Shatner and guess what - a female comedian used
the same term Fonda did. Will she or Comedy Central get slapped
with a million dollar lawsuit for it?
Yes, that term used it not a nice term and Fonda could have used another one.
But, what is wrong with Americans that a little word, a little
exposed boob, and they go nuts? What is all this bogus puritanistic nonsense?
I'm not saying we have to swear. I'll bet in daily conversation most people swear a little.
Put on a tube in most countries (except Muslim, I suppose because they're
still living in the Dark Ages) and you'll hear a lot more than that being said on the air.
Grow up, America, get out of the Victorian Age. It's shameful already. People say all
kinds of things, the human body is beautiful, people have sex and that's why you're
alive, and that's life - enjoy it instead of trying to spoil it and getting hung up on nonsense.
Today, Sunday, February 10th, Spring has sprung in So. California.
Everywhere trees suddenly exploded into bloom - the cherry trees
and fruit trees are covered with blossoms. The day is warm, in the
80s, and clear and dry, and it's gorgeous. It's good to be alive.
FAVORITE FILMS OF THE YEAR
CLINTON VS OBAMA: HAVE YOU NOTICED....?
February 1, 2008:
People's memories are very short-lived. Clinton is not the first woman to
run for the presidency: Geraldine Ferraro (an brilliant politician), and Shirley
Chisholm also ran for office.
Okay, I watched the Democratic debates with Clinton and Obama last night.
In my opinion, Clinton rocked; she was the best prepared, showed the most
experience, knowledge, planning and explanations for everything raised.
She also managed to get in a few good jokes and a great jab at the Bush
presidents: "It did take a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, and I think it might
take another one to clean up after the second Bush," she said. My husband was greatly
impressed by Clinton - and it's not easy to impress him. He said she is one smart lady,
and he respects her even more after seeing how she conducted herself last night. In fact,
the more he hears her speak, the more he likes her.
I don't know if it's his arrogance or tone of voice (or both), but when he speaks Obama
bores me. I just don't feel anything from him but a man who is power hungry and manipulates
the audience. He rarely gives any substance to his words, while Clinton is all substance.
One thing he said that was a red flag for me was that he wanted to sit down with our enemies,
Muslim nations, and talk with them and find out what they don't like, reach an agreement.
But, we already know what they don't like, it's not news. They don't like freedom and
they don't like Israel. And most of them want to keep women subservient. Would Obama
go along with what THEY want? I could not help but think about Obama's father, a Muslim,
and just what agreement does he think he can reach with terrorists who have already attacked
America and many nations around the world? What change is Obama? Just because his last
name is not Bush or Clinton?
And what about the war with Iraq? Iraq is largely Muslim.
Why wouldn't Obama want to attack a Muslim nation? So he accused Clinton of
being wrong in supporting the war in order to throw people off the scent. SORRY!
Clinton was NOT wrong. She did what she thought was the best for our country AND she did not
work alone. She also did not implement the war. Don't forget that she also supported her party,
just as Republicans supported theirs. They did the best they could with the information they had at the
time. That was not wrong, and they could not predict the future. This needs to be corrected by
our media and by Obama, and I hope by Clinton in maybe clearer words than she already spoke.
Fact is, Saddam Hussein did have WMDs and the U.N. did get rid of what was left. He bluffed
about the rest. But, at the time no one knew for sure. Obama is hoping the public is too lazy
to know the facts and will believe whatever he throws out there.
I think it's rotten what Ted Kennedy did - creating divison within the Democratic Party.
The Party knew what it was facing, and it could have united and thought this through
a lot better. This division is forcing people to choose between a woman and an African-American man.
That is what it comes down to now, and Obama is playing the race card, himself. That's a no-no.
Say what you will - I'm saying what I will (lol), but I think Clinton has shown that she is
strong, confident, not ego-driven. She has a good mind and heart, and is no novice to politics and
government. I agree wholeheartedly about changing our entire educational and health care systems.
Obama could use about ten more years to gather more knowledge and experience before
becoming a president, I think. As a woman, I think it's important to finally have a female leader;
someone who understands the value of giving and nurturing life, and who has a long background
in helping families.
Some comments have been made on the networks about this being such a history-making
election - a black man and a woman running for President. I think some people still find it
hard to accept a female leader and would rather have a man no matter what is the color of
his skin. I can't forget that black men had the vote before women in America. I sure hope
that won't predict an outcome this year - meaning that a black man must be president before
a woman (based on that alone, of course). My vote isn't based on race or gender, but it
is on substance and quality...that's why I am more inclined towards Clinton now that Edwards
is out of the race (he was my first choice).
Today Romney ran an ad attacking Clinton. Why? Clinton hasn't yet been picked as the
Democratic candidate, and Romney hasn't been chosen as the Republican. Isn't that fishy?
Why now? Why this tactic?
I will tell you a personal story about Hillary Clinton. Years ago, I wrote an article about her
when she was the First Lady. She read it and wrote to me a very nice and personal letter.
You can read it here.
OBAMARAMA
January 28, 2008:
I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s and my generation grew up with JFK and knows
how to do a real love-in. Obama is a far cry from being like JFK.
All I've heard from Obama are words, words words, empty words geared to make
you believe in something - but what is real here? Do you really know who the
real Obama is? I've seen a couple of hints at who he is: ego-driven, ambitious,
and blaming Hillary because she's married to Bill (like Obama didn't know that
when going in for the campaign and Hillary was already in it). As an American,
I'm concerned when I see young people yelling cheers for somebody they
don't know anything about and think he'll make a good leader. Based on what?
Can these people tell me about Obama's experience in the Senate? Most
American young people can't even pick out the U.S. or Iraq on a world map!
We're in serious trouble, I think.
And an important reminder before you vote: YOU CAN WRITE IN THE CANDIDATE
OF YOUR CHOICE IF THEY'RE NOT ALREADY ON THE PRIMARY BALLOT, as
long as they qualified for write-in candidacy.
EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION DOES GOOD!
January 6, 2008
THE CHINESE RESTAURANT POSSIBLY HOAX NEAR YOU
December 15, 2007
Fast forward to today. You go to your favorite Chinese restaurant and order shrimp in lobster
sauce and you prepare yourself for a great meal. You take a bite and wonder where is the lobster....it
doesn't taste the same. What's going on? You ask the restaurant owner if there
is any lobster in the dish and he tells you no. "So," you say, "how can you call this shrimp in lobster
sauce if there is no lobster?" "Oh," he explains, "this is how everybody makes it. It's just a white
sauce." I told him that is false advertising. He says, "Oh?" This is what I went through last night.
I checked several Chinese restaurants in my area, including a famous large chain (P F Chang's), and
read their menus. No lobster in their shrimp and lobster sauce! How are they getting away with
this lie? I say it is UNACCEPTABLE! Bring back the lobster to the dish or rename it shrimp in
white sauce - mock lobster. Yes, I know lobster is costly. My solution is that if people want to have
shrimp in lobster sauce, restaurants can use a portion from a lobster tail and figure in the cost to the dish.
Those who really want it will pay for it. We have enough lies in our world, so let's get rid of this one today.
THE WORLD IS INSANE
Nov. 29, 2007
And speaking of insane, the U.S. government just might start regulating the amount of sodium put into manufactured foods. Yup, that's right. The government just isn't in our private business enough. I say SHUT UP, get the hell out of my private life and do the job you're there to do for which we are paying you. You work for us, not the other way around. You have no right to tell me how much salt I can eat, the kind of water I can drink, if I can or cannot smoke, or what clothes I can wear, or how I should vote. This is not the Sudan or Saudi Arabia or Iran - or is it? After all, when a government refuses to accept that it was voted into office by adults who are more than capable of making their own decisions, and wants to dictate every bit of your life, it's no different from a Muslim nation.
LARRY KING'S SHOW ON UFOS
NOV. 9, 2007, ON UFOs
I tell ya, it makes me gag that adults can't be totally honest and stop worrying about the reaction of a minority. King's own poll shows that 85% of the viewing public believe in UFOs/ETs. That is a huge jump from years ago. They're real. I've seen them, been on them, I know many people who have seen them and been on them. Who are the others to tell me that my experience was not real? They weren't there. Come on folks, isn't it time to grow up and get over this silliness?
Shirley MacLaine, who was on the show, talked about people's concept of God that would be an issue if one saw a UFO. Yes, that's part of it. What happens is that seeing crafts or ETs can seriously throw one's concept of reality out the window. It challenges reality, and for some people it has major effects, positive or negative depending upon one's perspective, openness, or fears. Reality is challenged also because then it hits people that we are more than just physical bodies in this dimension: we are multidimensional, interdimensional beings.
I think it also has to do with fears, primal yes, but more of aliens (again, thanks to War of the Worlds and dozens of negative ET films - thanks for the few good ones including Close Encounters).....but really, what or who is an alien? I wrote an article years ago that was in Sedona, Journal of Emergence Magazine on this subject. If you're interested in reading it, it's here
I sure hope something good will come out of Monday's meetings. The past meetings with tons of people from the military, government, all walks of life who went to Washington to demand open records, disclosure, and the truth weren't very successful.
SOY INK SUCKS!
LOS ANGELES HAS THE DUMBEST JURIES IN THE COUNTRY
Look at the basic facts of the case: Lana Clarkson spent the day with her mother buying
seven pairs of new shoes so she could be comfortable on her job. After work, she reluctantly agrees
to go with Spector to his home for a drink. He wants her to leave her car in her workplace lot, she wants
to move it to the street so she can drive herself home later. She had no intention of spending
the night with Spector. She ends up dead, shot in the head, and Spector appears to his limo
driver holding the gun, with blood on him, telling the driver, "I think I killed somebody." Lana
is slumped in a chair by the front door with her purse over her shoulder. She had tried to
leave; and as has been customary with Spector when he drinks and tries to force women
to stay and have sex with him when they want to leave, he threatens them with a gun. Why was
the gun loaded? Furthermore, he's said that he thinks all women should have their heads blown off.
He attempts to clean up the murder scene and does not call for help. During the trial his defense team
trashes the victim and blames her for her own death! DUH! What is wrong with the jury?! How on earth could they
believe Clarkson killed herself?! Three weeks and they can't figure it out? Idiots are in our courts and
turning them into a farce. Kudos to Judge Fidler, he was fantastic and very fair. The jury just
didn't understand a damn thing about the case. And another murderer walks free. Gee, thanks a lot.
You've just contributed to making Los Angeles the laughing stock of the nation, and proved
that if you're rich enough, you can get away with murder. [Afterward: There will be a retrial.]
BRIDGE COLLAPSE
RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BLACKMAIL
Religious coercion isn't limited to the U.S., however. This week Pope Benedict XVI said that he supports the excommunication of politicians who legalized abortion in Mexico City. Church teaching calls for automatic excommunication for anyone who has an abortion. In Mexico City, where abortion was legalized during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, church officials have said that doctors and nurses who perform the procedure, as well as lawmakers who supported its legalization, also would be excommunicated. Can't get into heaven if you have an abortion, either.
The Pope also believes in making people suffer to death. Can't have compassion for anybody with a terminal illness who wants to end their own life and suffering, oh no. You must remain a slave to the church. So, can anybody tell me where the teachings of love and compassion fit into this picture?
A woman still can't be a priest, so why do women belong to any church unless the believe they are inferior to men and have negated and denied Miriam (Mary Magdalene)'s role in Christianity?
Make no mistake about the hypocrisy in America: Oliver North and the U.S. military say they have had great success in invading
Afghanistan and Iran and helping girls and women in those countries so they have freedom, education, safety. Yes, schools have
been built, but they are still booby-trapped with bombs by Muslim militants to threaten girls who go to those schools. Yes, women
can vote. If you're read my web site you know I'm in favor of helping Muslim women and girls, women and children everywhere.
Now I get to the hypocrisy part: we claim to bring freedom to the Muslim women in those nations, but we still keep American women
slaves from freedom because of those who want to take away our rights to choose! You elect a Republican president again,
and you are sealing more slavery for women and the removal of more freedoms from ALL Americans with the bullshit story
that Republicans believe in less government. Like hell they do. Just like they believe in lowering taxes....hypocrites.
A woman's right to make decisons regarding her own body isn't allowed by the church and some people are doing their darnest
to make sure the government won't allow freedom, too. Make a woman go through an unwanted pregnancy in order to give that
child up for adoption, without any consciousness of how that affects the baby! Listen to your politicians (including Rudy Giuliani)
preaching that! That's called inhumane, compassionless, stupid and it's slavery, folks! Slavery against our Constitution. And if abortion is legal, it doesn't mean one must have the procedure. It's an option. Women who have been impregnated by rape, or whose lives are in danger due to
pregnancy DO NOT COUNT. The church doesn't know when a fetus' life really begins. If that fetus can live outside of a womb on its own, then it's an independent life, a human being. Not before then - it's a fetus whose gender isn't even decided until the 4th month in pregnancy. A fetus' life isn't more valuable than the woman who is carrying it in her body! Her body comes first, sorry, men. How about preaching more birth control instead of adoption? Guess the Pope thinks he's God, judge and jury of every soul - the kind of thinking goes against what Jesus believed and taught and yet the Pope tells you it's in the name of God and Jesus.
I sure hope people in North America will be smart enough to see the religious manipulation that continues to come from the churches into our private lives
and realize that they don't need other people to tell them what to do. Unfortunately, in South America where the Pope just gave his speech, people think they aren't able to do anything without the church's permission - they obviously don't want to figure anything out for themselves. Be very
wary of anybody who has only one book and follows it blindly. It means their god is right you are a non-person.
AFTERMATH OF HORRORS
I think it's of value to look at what is going on and ask ourselves some important questions.
Do these events speak to you of something more going on than just an isolated event?
What does all of this coverage do to you, personally? What does it do to the public? How have you been feeling
all week? Are you reacting emotionally and/or physically to these events? If you have had trouble sleeping, eating,
with your digestion, or had buttons pushed (like fear or helplessness)? Or, have you been able to observe these
events for a time, without emotional involvment, then turn them off and go on with your life? Are you able to feel
grateful for what you do have and enjoy your life right now?
I'll tell you what I did on Monday night. I watched the news all day and felt empathy for all those who were
at Virginia Tech, all those whose lives were forever changed by the senseless massacre. But, I did not
get caught up in the drama of it, the emotions of it. I was able to observe and realize that I'm here, my family
is here and well, and I'm going to celebrate that. We went out to a nice restaurant and had a wonderful dinner,
enjoying one another. No, we were not in any denial of the day's events. We acknowledged it with respect,
and we chose love and joy for us in the present. I am not watching the news all day, every day. It's not
healthy and it doesn't serve me or anyone else to be in the drama or in misery. The event is over; there
is nothing one can do to turn the clock back and change or prevent what happened. We can be more
observant in the future when we feel or see things that don't feel right - maybe then we can prevent
another massacre from taking place.
We have to be here now, value our lives now, and value those in our lives now. If not now, when? Love and joy are the
most powerful energies. Fear and hatred cannot coexist with love and joy. If we chose to be responsible for our reactions and
responses to events and that choice includes love and joy, without a doubt these are a great service and respect to everybody,
including those who died in the massacre. For, with love and joy their souls will be healed.
VIRGINIA MASSACRE
Will gun control help? Yes, it will. Who needs automatic weapons, for one thing. And why would a college student living in a dorm need guns and be sold guns? I know it is hard to crack down on all weapons, but this is a start. No one need such weapons. Having a gun means the owner WILL think about using it, and probably will because they don't consider any other methods of dealing with problems. Then think about a psychopath, such as Hui - who is given psychological counseling before a gun purchase? For self-defense, as a last resort, I support having a basic old-fashioned gun. Not automatic weapons, not rifles, not for sport. Now I ask you - what the hell is Homeland Security doing? Our money is wasted under the guise of protecting us. All it is doing is taking our freedoms away, but there hasn't been much change in security at all.
The next thing is to learn from Israel, a country that was forced to take high security to protect kids in school from suicide bombers. The school should have been locked down immediately after the first shooting. There needs to be more security on campuses and only certain paths allowed in and out of schools (although that will be very hard to achieve in American schools).
We will remember this day for many reasons - the news media did not talk AT ALL about the Holocaust, but now this day takes on an even sadder memory. As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 75-year-old survivor sacrificed his life to save his students in Monday's shooting at Virginia Tech college that left 32 dead and over two dozen wounded. Professor Liviu Librescu threw himself in front of the shooter, who had attempted to enter his classroom. The Israeli mechanics and engineering lecturer was shot to death, but all the students "lived - because of him," Asael Arad, an Israeli Virginia Tech student told Army Radio. Librescu's wife, Marlena, told the NRG Web site that her husband had loved his job with "all his heart and his soul." The couple immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1978 and then moved to Virginia in 1986 for his sabbatical, but had stayed since then, their son, Joe, told Army Radio. In the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history, the attacker, who had yet to be positively identified, cut down his victims in two attacks two hours apart before the university could grasp what was happening and warn students. I bless you and the memory of all those who died today and in the Shoah.
I've discussed this terrible event with several people today and it's been a continuation in a line of
discussions about creating one's reality. Was this karma being played out? Why would
all these people choose such a death? Would parents want their children to be murdered?
Of course not. Many people believe that we choose absolutely everything we experience.
I don't share that belief. I think that life is a combination of what we can control and what is chance.
We are responsible for ourselves and for our responses and reactions to what occurs, but no way
are we in control of or choose everything. I am reminded of part of the Serenity Prayer that says:
LIBERALISM
April 10, 2007
IMUS, ET. AL.
April 10, 2007
Our society has become increasing rude, angry, ignorant, and intolerant. Mel Gibson, Michael Richards, Rosie O'Donnell, Bill O'Reilly, Don Imus, the entire entertainment industry are the ones who get seen the most because they're on the air, on the tube. Who buys Rap music? Those who support anger, verbal and emotional abuse, insults, and physical violence. They defend their right to do so under the First Amendment - free speech.
I'm sorry, but that does not work for me. For years I've written about this. Free speech doesn't mean the right to scream fire in a public theatre, and it doesn't include the right to intentionally abuse others. I don't think it should include the right for Nazis to publicly demonstrate because their message is one of hate and incitement to violence. But at least if they do demonstrate, we know what they're up to. Freedom comes with responsibility. It should come with some compassion, intelligence and wisdom, but sadly it does not. Perhaps these incidents are pointing this out?
If I don't like what I'm watching or hearing, I change the channel, or turn it off. I sure won't buy their products or support their stations. The more we turn off these jerks, the message will be received by the media and their sponsors.
MORE ABOUT ANNA NICOLE SMITH, HASHIMOTO'S DISEASE, & DRUGS
Thursday, April 5, 2007
HASHIMOTO'S DISEASE
Hashimoto's Disease (named after the Japanese doctor who first described it) occurs when the thyroid gland is being attacked by the immune system. This can create hypothyroidism because there will not be enough normal thyroid cells left to make the amount of thyroid hormone that the body needs to work properly.
Symptoms of Hashimoto's Disease include tiredness, weight gain, dry skin, often feeling cold, coarse, dry hair or hair loss, hoarseness, constipation, yellowish skin, enlarged thyroid, difficulty remembering things, decreased concentration, depression, irregular or heavy menstruation, infertility, muscle aches, lack of coordination, high cholesterol, slowed heartbeat, low body temperature.
It seems that there were 600 pills missing (within about a week) from the prescribed medications (all given by the same doctor, a neighbor to Anna, and made out to Howard K. Stern). Did Anna take 600 pills in such a short time? Or, were these people selling the drugs to make money? I thought I heard reports that they were having money problems.
THE JESUS FAMILY TOMB
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
In 1980 a construction crew in the Jerusalem suburb of Talpiot chanced upon a first-century tomb, which are not uncommon in that city. The Israeli Antiquities Authority found 10 bone boxes there, and stored them in a warehouse. In 1996, the BBC made a film suggesting that. given the combination, it might be that family. The idea was eventually discounted, however, because, as University of St. Andrews (Scotland) New Testament expert Richard Bauckham asserted in a subsequent book, the names with Biblical resonance are so common that even when you run the probabilities on the group, the odds of it being the famous Jesus's family are "very low."
The filmmakers claim that the DNA test performed from the remains prove that Jesus and Mary were married because two of the individuals in the tomb were not related. This does make sense, because why else would a man and two women, man, and a child be buried together unless they were a family? To produce this combination of names just once in a large city of Jerusalem is astrounding. The names, Jesus, Maria; Mariamene e Mara (Mary Magdalene); Matthew; Judas, son of Jesus; and Jose (the nickname of Jesus' brother listed in the Gospel of Mark). The odds are 600:1 being in favor of this being the tomb of Jesus. What is amusing is the religious community's immediate denial that this could be the actual Jesus family tomb. The filmmaker says to go to forensic archaeologists and statisticians for proof.
But what is happening? An uproar about what some people believe is the actual word of God. Why anybody believes the bibles literally is beyond me, but they do. Do they not know about the Council at Nicea, in which a group of men threw out what they didn't want in the New Testament, manipulated and added what they DID want in it? There were heavy political reasons for why they did this. Given that one fact alone, how could anybody believe that the New Testament is the word of God? (I encourage all of you to read up on the REAL history of Christianity, including the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Gnostic Gospels.) Don't you all know that many PEOPLE wrote the bibles?
What is scaring the hell out of people is that IF this is true, then Jesus didn't physically ascend to heaven. Well, he didn't. People saw his spirit. He was a man with a high level of consciousness, but he wasn't a god, nor the only son of God, he wasn't THE God. He was a Jewish man who taught Judaism with a little new spin of his own. Christianity didn't come into being until more than thirty years after his death. Jesus was never anything BUT a Jew. Why shouldn't he have been married? It is known he had a close, respectful and loving relationship with Mary. In fact, Mary was the ONLY one he trusted to teach his apostles. She knew his teachings better than anybody else - she was also a learned woman - NOT a prostitute. That lie was concocted by men who wanted the Church to be run only by men - following the trend set by the woman hating and jealous Apostle Peter. Being married, it would be natural for the couple to have children. But people don't seem to want to accept that Jesus was just a man. They need to make him more, and ironically, in making him more and preaching his teachings, few people actually live them or have understood his messages. If they had, they'd realize they are doing everything anti-Jesus.
So, I think it's important to ask yourselves what this information means to you. What if this is the actual Jesus family tomb? Would your world crumble? Would you still believe in God? Would you stop believing in God? Would you realize how much and how long the Church has lied to you? Would you trust the Church after this? What would Jesus and Mary mean for you now? Could you accept that these were people and not some "special" beings that God favored? Could you accept that you are equal to them in the eyes of the Source? Could you let go of needing to believe in anything other than yourself, the here and now?
I will watch this special and then report my thoughts about it on this page. I hope you will be watching, too. I don't know if anyone can prove this is the actual tomb with genetic data, since we don't have any genetic data we know for certain belonged to Jesus (unless the bones in this tomb are his). So it will be fascinating to see how this continues to unfold and how it affects people. I just know one thing: the Church will continue to deny the possibility that this could be real - because if it is real, that means their jig is up. They fear the backlash and their future. Those in the Church who bought into the fantasies about Christianity might flip out. Where will their money come from, and how would they continue to control people if the truth finally came out? Oh my goodness, that could mean millions of people would have to find the real Source on their own! Imagine that. I think that would be a real modern-day miracle. We are our OWN saviors and divine just as we are. Isn't that what Jesus taught? Yeah.
Copyright, 2007 E. Nora H. Amrani
Sunday, February 11, 2007
One couple immediately stood out - couldn't miss them. At first glance we thought maybe they were in charge of a party that was going to be held in the room. Their ages are probably late 50s, early 60s. The husband wore a black suit with a deep red shirt. His wife wore a get-up that looked like she performed in strip club for older folks who never got out of the 1960s. She wore black fishnet stockings with red decorated pumps. Her dress was black, with a black net covering the top of her torso and upper back and arms - the arms and skirt (that was too short and tight for her) were trimmed with red boa feathers. I just tried to imagine eating with those feathers dipping into my food or falling off into my food. Not very appetizing.
The table was completely decorated by the couple. They brought their own vase with flowers. On the two chairs opposite from where they sat were gift bags. Gift bags were also on the floor and on the table, as were wrapped little gifts and cards. If that wasn't enough, the husband was still wrapping presents and then handing them to his wife who promptly opened them.
We stared at this very odd couple, obviously out of place on a Sunday night, the 11th of February. They were odd, funny, sweet, and a little creepy. The husband kept getting up and shifting the gifts around, making sure the waiter brought an ice bucket for the champagne they had brought with them, ordering for his wife. They opened present after present, read cards, and drank their wine. We just watched, a bit in awe.
During our stay the lights kept dimming and then flickering brighter. This is common at this restaurant, but I had to make a joke out of it. When our waiter came back to our table I loudly asked him, " So when are you going to stop electrocuting people in the back room?" The other couples looked startled, which made me laugh. He didn't waste a breath - he nodded and said, "Oh, you mean our ghost." Exactly. So we talked with the ghost for a minute and asked it to dim the lights again if it really was a ghost.
Halfway through our meal, the wife got up and came over to our table and the table next to us, and gave us a handful of Hershey's kisses (in red foil, of course), telling us "Happy Valentine's Day." We thanked them. Her husband explained to the five of us in the room that this was their early St. Valentine's Day celebration because on the actual date the place would probably be packed, and they work. We smiled, understandingly.
My husband, who at first was quiet about this couple, suddenly couldn't stop whispering about them. He couldn't get over this big production they were making. He said, "They even brought their own flowers!" I laughed at him and said, "Yes, I know. Look at this as learning experience!" Then it dawned on him that this week was Valentine's Day. He smacked his forehead and then pushed over all the Hershey's kisses to my side and said, "Happy Valentine's Day!" I cracked up and said, "Cheapskate!" We all laughed, and I repeated, teasingly, "Learn."
We finished our meal and on the way out wished them a happy Valentine's Day. My husband got teased by us, "This means that now you'll never forget about Valentine's Day." But we know that after this night, none of us will ever forget it.
THE WHO'S YOUR DADDY SYNDROME (Anna Nicole Smith's death)
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Since Anna Nicole Smith died I've had some very unsettling feelings about what's going on with Stern and her baby. I'm not accusing anyone of anything, just sharing some thoughts.
Ms. Smith was responsible for her life - she made her life's choices and they weren't the best, in my opinion. While I'm sure she and Stern shared feelings for each other, I don't trust Stern for a second. I think he's in it for the money only. Why was he present when both Danny died? Why was he on Methadone? What a plot that could be: first get rid of the son, then the mother, then have the baby and the inheritance for himself. (That's going the extreme route, I know.) What illness did Anna have - HIV/AIDS? Is that why they didn't want to do the paternity tests? Why the nonsense of a commitment ceremony and not a real marriage when he's a lawyer and knows the baby is involved, legalities are vital? Where is her will? Why does he not go for the paternity test, if he cares about the baby? It's very suspicious to me. Larry Birkhead has only been after the best interest of the baby and he wants the test. I believe he's being honest about wanting to know who the father is and feeling certain he is the father. Now Zsa Zsa's husband (what is his problem?) is trying to get in on the baby and the money deal. And there is a report that Anna's sister said that Anna used frozen sperm from the old geezer she married (the one who died) and whose money she wanted to inherit. That would be a sneaky way to ensure inheritance, eh? (This was declared a hoax by Geraldo Rivera.) The whole thing stinks. Whoever is the judge in this case better look at everything VERY carefully before awarding that baby to anyone.
P.S. Have you ever noticed that Anna doesn't smile in the photos? She snarls - and I find it very ugly. Some people say she was very smart. I feel she was a needy, sad fool who left this world finally feeling free and leaving the rest to fight in court for battles for which she had no more energy.
THE "N" WORD CONTROVERSY
Saturday, February 3, 2007
When it comes to the "N" word, I have long felt there has been a double-standard at play. It's okay for African-Americans (who used to be called by their racial cateogry Negro - by the way, is Negro okay to say just as Caucasian is? - to being called Blacks) to call non-African-American people cracker (i.e., Chris Rock) and all other sorts of insulting names. It's okay for African-Americans to call one another the "N" word, but others can't use that term. That is being racist, in my opinion. Why the double-standard? By the way, what is the PC term for Caucasians who are African-American? Does it conflict with Blacks? It gets confusing. Maybe people need to get clear on who they are and if labels are that important? Are they separating people more? I think in some cases, they do. For instance, why are there Black Awards? What if we suddenly had White Awards?
So what should we do with the "N" word? One alternative is that people can say it's just a word and anything goes for anybody. The other alternative is that the "N" word should not be used by anybody, not those who are comics or musicians or other entertainers, those in the media, nor in books that are not of the Civil War or pre-Civil Rights Movement times, when that word was used and is part of history. (Used in the proper context of time.) Why? Because that particular "N" word IS a derogatory word, just like calling all women "hoes" or "bitches", all Native Americans "savages", or calling all Jews "Hymies" are derogatory (remember that Farrakhan scandal?). How about we tackle all these offensive words right now and treat one another respectfully?
I don't think calling a name is a crime, but can be hurtful and offensive. What we have to look at is WHY we use these terms. I think it's fair and honest to say that most people all over the Earth have used a derogatory term towards someone other than their own "kind." People have a need to feel better, special, and that often means the other has to be lesser than they are. It is also a way people refuse to be personally responsible for their own condition in life. There are jokes of all races, religions, nationalities, genders. People make fun of each other. How many Polish or Italian or Irish jokes do you know? Yeah, we all laugh at each other when we know it's meant in good humor. But, how many of you have blamed the Jews or Israelis for all the problems in the world? I know a lot of you have. That's a cross-over of anger and racism.
However, anger out of control or a need to blame, to have a scapegoat, are often the culprits or derogatory terms with an intention to harm. And there are people who will act like jerks because of their own issues. So, this points to only two things - the lack of personal responsibility and compassion combined with respect for others. We can examine if our own mirror being presented to us (such as the hecklers and Richards are mirrors for each other). This reminds me of my own message for the energies of 2006 - mirrors and reflections are major this year
WHAT YOU CAN OR CAN'T SAY ON TELEVISION
February 2, 2007
CARS IN CALIFORNIA
January 9, 2007
January 6, 2007
GOVERNOR ARNOLD'S SWEARING-IN CEREMONY
January 5, 2007
HYPOCRITICAL CENSORS ON TV
December 23, 2006
Once in a while this particular comedy network will show a movie without censoring the words - during the daytime. Why this whacky way of doing things? And what criteria is used to decide if a word should be censored? Can say bitch - why? Let's get picky for a minute: It's a derogatory term against women (not talking about dogs here) - like the "N" word is against African-Americans. Why is bitch not bleeped? Can say ass, but can't say asshole - the hole is bleeped! Can say bull, but not bullshit. Can't say dick, or fuck, laid, or numerous other words some idiot censor decides ADULTS can't hear after 9pm, or anytime. As if adults can't figure out for themselves that if they find something offensive that they can change the channel or turn off the set.
What is the point of showing any standup specials when 99% of the show is bleeped out? No one knows what the person is saying, nothing makes sense, and it's aggrevating as hell. I watched one show tonight and in some sentences every word was bleeped out. So why is it even on? And you know what? The networks don't give a damn about what we viewers say about it. I've written many times and never have they written me back or changed their policies. I wonder how these networks stay in business because they've lost me and probably many other people as viewers, that their sponsors must be suffering. Thank goodness for XM Radio where there is NO censorship and people are respected and free to choose what they want to hear.
MEDIA & SECURITY
December 22, 2006 |