Pay It Forward....

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

- Louise Brown

Anger's Gift

Anger is nothing to be feared. It is natural to feel angry when another person tries to overstep your personal boundaries, when they attempt to squash your dreams, or interfere with your plans. Anger is a natural way to get the energy that you need to regain control of your personal situation and let the other party know to respect you or to leave you alone.

The trick is to do this before you become enraged. Anger is a gift. It alerts you to the fact that something is wrong. Listen to it so that you can understand why you feel it. Then try to set the situation straight. Anger is your friend: anyone who insists on violating your personal space is not.

Too much Harry Potter...

You know your friend is a control freak when he does something completely asinine but rather than apologize he'll perform an elaborate love spell in order to win your heart.

Pass the holy water please...

Some fool is going on a diet...

Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up...

a fool who is full of food,

an unloved woman who is married...

~Prov 30:21-23


Who says that I have to cook the kind of food my fool likes? From today forward, it's beans, tofu and other vegetarian dishes all the way baby. The Earth will certainly tremble around my house because he'll be begging for the Beano (okay, if he's nice I'll soak the beans in fennel to decrease the gas...but I'm pretty pissed and want to be rude)!

Maybe he'll lose enough weight to find my replacement.

Problem solve.d

Nothing is wasted if you learn something...

If someone loves you, it should feel like they love you. - Robert Burney

Question of the Day

If a woman happily gives her neighbor the shirt of her back, does her propensity towards being an exhibitionist minimize her kindness?

Protection or Slavery?

That man over there said that [a] woman needs to be lifted over ditches and
to have the best place every where. Nobody ever helped me into carriages, or
over mud puddles, or [gave] me any best place and aren't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns and no man
could head me - and aren't I a woman?

I could work as much and eat as much as a man when I could get it, and bear the lash as well - and aren't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen them almost all sold off into slavery and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heard - and aren't I a woman?

- Sojourner Truth

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Much injustice towards women, children, and minorities are done in the name of protection.

Is protection just a veil for slavery?

If women are so weak, why do we often end up doing so much more than the men in our lives?
Think about it.

Keep on Shining....

"What female heart can despise gold?"

- Thomas Gray

Happy True Love Forever Day!

Blind Bush

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

- Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (Chief Joseph)

This great leader was right: our creator did not create one man to act as the sole chief with the divine right to tell everybody else how to live, what to say and do, and how to die.

A bad chief can order an end to all war protests, he can spy and threaten, and he can scare everyone into compliance. A great Chief rules with love while a bad one puts on his blinders as not to see his mistakes. History will remove those blinders and everyone will eventually see through the great charade.

In the Words of a Genius...

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them! - Albert Einstein

Grrrrr....

E-Nail: An angry email sent with the intention of making a sharp point.

Ho, Ho, Ho,

Spotted Bumper Sticker:

"Dyslexic Devil Worshippers Sell Their Souls To Santa"

To my Liberal, Horny, Foreign Friend...

Please do not call or email me anymore to share your deep, dark, and dirty fantasies about "bushes" or anything with the word "dick" or "chain/chainy" in it. You may want to save those stories for Hustler. As of now, we may have an audience and you really don't want to get those boys out in DC too excited, do you?

You know I'm all up to listening to all your deep, dark and fun filled fantasies and wonderful experiences. But dear, no more talk of golden showers because I've heard enough to last me a lifetime: a bunch of submissive and short-sighted people just pissed all over the Constitution.

My Modern Theory of Cupid

I think Cupid gives each woman an allotment of three golden arrows. If a woman like me gets hit with three of these and all the romances sour, Cupid begins to aim with a gun.

Failure to Communicate

When I was younger, I used to daydream about marrying a man who spoke Japanese so that our only shared language was, well, physical because I couldn't understand a word he said.

Upon reflection, I think I married someone whose language was a bit more complex and a bit harder to understand: he's a tax auditor!!

Funny love...

Love your enemies. It really pisses them off!

Prime Time

If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
- Anonymous

Worlds Apart Yet Still Too Close

"Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.” - Anonymous

Hitting Peace Activists at the Bank...

"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, & find criticism subversive."

-- Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998)
Historian and author, Source: Freedom & Order, 1966

Read the latest Executive Order that is meant to end all war protests in the U.S.: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html

Yet again, history repeats itself.

Update: August 13, 2007

I sent an e-mail to my Senator to express my outrage. I figure if other politicians realize that this can hit their campaign coffers, they may try to intervene. Below is my letter and Senator Salazar's (D-CO) response. I was hoping to be told that I could give money to the DNC and not risk losing my home, but no, I didn't get an definite answer and it scares me to death.

Dear Senator Salazar,

I have read, with great concern, an executive order signed by President Bush on July 17, 2007. I am referring to Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq.

On the surface, it appears to be an attempt to take away the financial assets of individuals who fund organizations that contribute to terrorist groups outside of the United States. This executive order is fairly vague and if broadly interpreted it could make it illegal to donate money to any organization and/or individual that opposes the war in Iraq as well as make it against the law to protest said war. The possible misapplication of this order is disconcerting to me as well as a number of other people (simply Google the title of the order and you will find a number of individuals confused and angry about it).

My question to you is this: under this order would an individual risk forfeiture of his or her assets if he or she decides to donate to the campaign of any Democratic nominee who has publicly stated that the war in Iraq should end?

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. I look forward to your reply and feel fortunate that you are representing our State at such a crucial time in history.
I wish you the best of success.

Respectfully,

S.

Dear S.

Thank you for contacting me with regard to the recently issued executive order entitled "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq." I appreciate hearing from you.

As you know, this order authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury – in consultation with the secretaries of defense and state – to freeze the assets of individuals deemed to have directly or indirectly supported insurgent operations which undermine the political and economic reconstruction of Iraq.

I share your concerns about the broad language contained in this order as to what constitutes “destabilizing Iraq.” As the Treasury Department develops rules and regulations to carry out this order, please rest assured that I will monitor the situation closely to ensure that the civil liberties of U.S. citizens who peacefully object to the Iraq war are protected.

Again, thank you for taking the time to share your views.

Sincerely,

Ken Salazar

United States Senator

I want you to know...

Someone believes in you; your talents, your abilities, and your vision for the future.

I do.

Whether it is a sales presentation, art show, proposal, scholastic paper, home improvement project, something mundane that has to get done, or something so wonderful no one else can conceive of it yet, I believe in you!

Give it your all and I know you'll do well.