To our Aussie Mates, Happy Australia Day!

by Jan.25, 2012

AustraliaDay To our Aussie Mates, Happy Australia Day!

A large party of Taliban soldiers are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand-dune. “One  Australian soldier is better than ten Taliban.”

The Taliban commander quickly sends 10 of his best soldiers over the dune whereupon a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence.

The same voice then calls out: “One Australian is better than a hundred Taliban soldiers.”

Furious, the Taliban Commander sends his next best 100 troops over the dune And instantly a huge gunfight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence.

The Aussie voice called out, “One Australian is better than one thousand Taliban”.

The enraged Taliban Commander musters a thousand fighters and sends them over the dune.Cannon, rocket and machine gun fire rings out as a huge battle is fought. Then silence.

Finally, one wounded Taliban fighter crawls back over the sand-dune and, with his dying words, tells his commander,

“Don’t send any more men, its a trap. There’s two of them over there!”

Originally posted 2010-01-25 16:22:45. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Activism, Relationships Please leave a comment 

St. Patrick’s Day

by Jan.16, 2012

As a bagpiper, I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man who had no family or friends. The funeral was to be held at a cemetery in a remote countryside and this man would be the first soul to be laid to rest.

I was unfamiliar with the backwoods area and became lost moreover, being a typical man, did not stop for directions.  I finally arrived an hour late.  I saw the backhoe and the crew who were eating lunch but the hearse was nowhere in sight. I apologized to the workers for my tardiness and stepped to the side of the open grave where I saw the vault lid already in place. I assured the workers I would not hold them up for long but this was the proper thing to do. The workers gathered around, still eating their lunch. I played out my heart and soul.

bagpiper11 St. Patricks Day

As I played the workers began to weep. I played and I played like I’d never played before, from Going Home and The Lord is My Shepherd to Flowers of the  Forest. I closed the lengthy session with Amazing Grace and walked to my car.  As I was opening the car door and taking off my coat, I overheard one of the workers saying to another, “Sweet Jeezuz, Mary ‘n Joseph,  I never seen nothin’ like that before  and I’ve been putting in septic tanks for twenty years.”

Originally posted 2009-03-17 09:42:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Various 5 Comments 

by Jan.16, 2012

Anophtalmus%20hitleri%20or%20hitler%20beetle POPULAR WITH NEO- NAZIS
Hitler Moniker Imperils Blind Beetle
A blind cave beetle found only in Slovenia is under threat as collectors snap up the insects. Why? The creature has the misfortune of being named after Adolf Hitler.

Categories: , , , ,

Originally posted 2006-08-19 18:59:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Various Please leave a comment 

Blogging for the Environment 2007

by Jan.16, 2012

never Blogging for the Environment 2007 October 15, a week from today, is Blog Action Day, and the theme this year is the environment. If you have a blog and want to join in, all you have to do is use that day to post something related to the environment, in whatever way, shape, or form you prefer. You can pick an environmental issue that has meaning for you and let us know why it’s important. Organize a beach or neighborhood cleanup and tell us about it. If you’re into fiction writing, write a story with an environmental theme. The idea here is to have a mass effect on public awareness by sharing as many ideas in as many ways as possible.

If you’re game for participating, go register your blog with the 7,000+ other blogs (with 5 million readers!) that are already signed up. Additionally, see the Blog Action Day blog for more on how bloggers can change the world.

Related:
7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People
How to Make a Great First Impression

I did my best with this little quiz. It was difficult answering the questions because they didn’t apply to me but, oh well. As it has been said before, “read it and weep”.


purist expert socialite Blogging for the Environment 2007

Originally posted 2007-10-09 09:38:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Activism, Relationships, Science 5 Comments 

Thank you, Mr. Solove!

by Jan.16, 2012

Daniel Solove of Concurring Opinions has just offered the World Wide Web a pretty sweet deal. Mr. Solove the author of this book is also an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. He is offering the book below as a free read. It’s an offer that absolutely no one who reads can possibly refuse, I would hope. Click on the image. It will take you to the actual website. You can also download a copy of it from his general interest legal blog at: Concurring Opinions. If you’re interested, Mr Solove provided a hotlink for the download on his blog. I’ll let you go for it, though. Simply follow the previous link and it will take you right to it.

future of reputation free2 1 Thank you, Mr. Solove!

As for me, I’ll be ordering it from Amazon.com I read books much better when it’s in my hands. Yet for your convenience, you can also purchase his book at Barnes & Noble.

Originally posted 2008-02-17 22:56:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Various Please leave a comment 

Mville quotes

by Jan.16, 2012

cam bluejay 300x240 Mville quotes“We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women who pass by without exciting attention, and who betray to the world nothing of the conflicts that rage within them except possibly by a nervous breakdown. What is so difficult for the layman to grasp is the fact that in most cases the patients themselves have no suspicion whatever of the internecine war raging in their unconscious. If we remember that there are many people who understand nothing at all about themselves, we shall be less surprised at the realization that there are also people who are utterly unaware of their actual conflicts.”

* Carl Jung (New Paths in Psychology)

Originally posted 2010-06-02 12:26:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Mville quotes Please leave a comment 

Bikers Gear Up for Hells Angels Party

by Jan.16, 2012

support+your+local+hells+angels+post Bikers Gear Up for Hells Angels Party

A street sign stands outside the Hells Angels’ clubhouse in Oakland,Thursday, March 29, 2007. As the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary this weekend, police were gearing up Thursday and adding extra officers although they said they expect a peaceful celebration. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Read On

Originally posted 2007-03-30 01:30:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Various Please leave a comment 

Tonight on TV: Nichols/Moyers on Impeachment

by Jan.16, 2012

John Nichols will be on The Nation tonight, Friday, July 13, on PBS’s”Bill Moyers Journal,” the national public television program, discussing the case for impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Be sure to watch it. The hour long program, which will air on PBS stations nationwide at 9:00pm and other times, features Nichols and former Reagan administration lawyer Bruce Fein, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, making the case for articles of impeachment against the President and Vice President.

Nichols is the author of the best-selling book, The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism (The New Press), and has written extensively about impeachment issues in The Nation magazine as well as in The Online Beat. Check its website for local listings in your area.

You can also listen to a podcast of an interview Nichols taped today re: impeachment on Utah Public Radio.

============================================================
msnbc.com

President Bush ordered his former White House counsel, Harriet Miers, to defy a congressional subpoena and refuse to testify Thursday before a House panel investigating U.S. attorney firings.

Cornell Law.edu
Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees

Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or obstruct compliance, in whole or in part, with any civil investigative demand duly and properly made under the Antitrust Civil Process Act, willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material, answers to written interrogatories, or oral testimony, which is the subject of such demand; or attempts to do so or solicits another to do so; or Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress— Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section US Code 18)

USC Sec 18 [Definitions]

Originally posted 2007-07-13 17:29:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Various Please leave a comment 

Yes, Marjie Nailed Me!

by Jan.16, 2012

I was tagged by our on the move gal pal, Marjie this morning to participate in this meme. I’ve been laying low in anticipation of it making its way here so, Marjie, thank you for thinking so highly of us and being such a dear. I know that you didn’t want me to feel left out of the swing of things, snork!

It’s okay, Marjie, really it is. I still have you in my sidebar of good online neighbors and friends. ~:o)

The Rules:
“Each person posts the rules before their list, then they list 8 things about themselves. At the end of the post, that person tags and links to 8 other people and then visits thos
e peoples’ sites and comments letting them know that they have been tagged, and to come read the post, so they know what they have to do.”


**I am demanding cheese and crackers to go with my whine.

**It will be a feat for me to locate 8 people who will actually do this meme. Trying to tag my online friends will be futile effort because they have already done this tag at least once or twice. By the time I am done with them, they will rue the day they even met me. But we’ll cross that bridge when we get there. I will be brave; I will hold my head up high. But for now on with the show. Here is a bit of rag on me:

Colgate smile
I broke most of my teeth at the age of 8 while teeter-tottering. My play buddy decided to jump off while I was in the up position on the dang thing. My second grade teacher, Mrs. Burke, cried. I think she cried more than I did so I felt more badly than what was required because of that. It was projected that I would have caps on my teeth by the age of 16 but my teeth replenished themselves naturally. I am still thought of as the girl with the beautiful smile.

Order of Birth
I am the youngest of three and the only girl. Needless to say, I grew up a tomboy until I began modeling clothing at the age of 45. Satin and lace all the way, hey, hey! Add to that a few leather outfits and I’m ready for anything. My hair is very, very long. It is below my butt and it is a natural shade of gray; its shine is one of good health. It is my crown of glory.

Still a Tom Boy

I rode motorcycles in the low desert TT races when I was a young woman. I rode scooters until the beginning of this year but not as a fender bunny. My father rode Indians and he introduced me to them. He also taught me to drive a 4 speed automobile when I was 12. It was a 57 Ford Fairlane. I also drove big rigs during women’s lib.

Young looking

I look younger than I my real age. Most people believe that I am in my early 30s when we first meet. I will be 54 tomorrow July 11th. I was born at 6:30 am. Astrologically, I am a triple Cancerian. I blame my young appearance on my family’s gene pool. Moreover, I’ve come a long ways, Baby!

UFOs aren’t alien

I was born in Roswell, New Mexico at St. Mary’s Hospital. They got rid of the evidence when they tore the place down. Roswell no longer has an acute hospital from what I understand but I fooled them. I still have the original birth and baptismal certificates.

My Roomy
Jewyiss de Fuzz Nutz is my feral cat of 5 yrs. I found him abandoned, cold, and hungry. He was mean as a helpless kitten then and remains a terrorist today. He allows me to share this place with him. He’s worked hard at training me as his servant. On good days I call him, “Butthead”. He’s a twit yet, I don’t know how I would manage without him. He is a real nag. All he does is eat, chit, and meow, but hey, he’s all mine, right? Such a deal. He and I also audibly communicate. When he speaks, I listen. When I speak, he looks at me and laughs.

Last of the Mohiccans

I have outlived my nuclear family members. All died suddenly except one who died in a freak accident. What relatives I have left either live in Texas, New Mexico, or Connecticut. I wouldn’t recognize any of them if I saw them on the street. It’s been well over 35 years since we’ve been together in one place. It will probably be another 35 years before we meet one another again, if even then.

Rude Awakening

I am a maternal type of female. I ooze with mommy beliefs and tactics. I have had the pleasure of having many children who called me Mom and Grandma yet my 33 yr old goddaughter became a grandmother this past January. I am still amazed about it. My deceased son was born 5 yrs before her. If he was alive, I could very well be a great grandmother when indeed I had difficulty with the thought of even being called Mom but, hey, I try. It didn’t hurt but I still find myself laughing her because she always thought I was so dang mean to her.
At one point, she and her best friend were fussing at each other and driving the rest of us crazy so I made them both put on a pair if boxing gloves with the order for them to beat the crap out of one another until they could be nice to each other. That went over like a lead balloon.

She now appreciates what that meant. All of her juvenile antics have returned to her three fold, hehehe. She understands now that I had been mean to her and didn’t give into everything she wanted or have everything her way and now she’s she’s the bad guy. It seems that she also cares enough about her children to pull the reins on them at times, just like I did. Bless her heart, she only wants her children to live happy and successful lives exactly as I wanted for her. Bad Mommy, bad.

I call it vindication and it could even be thought of as sweet revenge; moreover, I absolutely love it. Her life proves that I made my grade as did her real mother who is now deceased. Both of us were and are still real proud of her and our accomplishment with her life as an end result. She is a wonderful mother, loving wife and, a delightfully wise adult whom I call my friend.

On that note, let me leave you with a quote made by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to learn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a little bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

Just a note:

I am going to leave this meme open so that anyone can play along. Feel free to accept the baton anytime you are into pain and abuse and then you can run with it a while. Share the love, it’s the American way. We will even help you with any Democracy issues of your choice. Invest in your child’s future, buy war bonds.

Originally posted 2007-07-10 00:54:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Various 4 Comments 

Saturday’s Oldies But Goodies

by Jan.16, 2012

pause Saturdays Oldies But Goodiesplay Saturdays Oldies But Goodiesrewind Saturdays Oldies But Goodiesfast forward Saturdays Oldies But Goodiestoggle repeat Saturdays Oldies But Goodies

Related:
Lao Tzu & The Tao Te Ching: Being Ordinary and Balanced
Change your life

Originally posted 2008-09-06 09:23:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Various Please leave a comment 

Del Monte Pet Products Voluntarily Withdraws Specific Product Codes of Pet Treats and Wet Dog Food Products

by Jan.16, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO, March 31, 2007
As a precautionary measure, Del Monte Pet Products is voluntarily recalling select product codes of its pet treat products sold under the Jerky Treats®, Gravy Train® Beef Sticks and Pounce Meaty Morsels® brands as well as select dog snack and wet dog food products sold under private label brands. A complete list of affected brands and products is below.

Read On

Originally posted 2007-04-02 15:11:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Various Please leave a comment 

by Jan.16, 2012

Israel: Investigate Attack on Civilians in Lebanon

IDF Must Take Precautions to Protect Civilians Fleeing Areas at Risk
The Israel Defense Forces should provide details about a bombing on Saturday that killed 16 people in a convoy of civilians fleeing a Lebanese village near Israel’s border, Human Rights Watch said today. Under international humanitarian law, all parties to an armed conflict must take all feasible precautions to protect civilians fleeing areas at risk.


Categories: , , , , ,

Originally posted 2006-07-18 09:15:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Various Please leave a comment 

We Had a Visitor Who Left Tracks Yesterday

by Jan.16, 2012

Yesterday was an interesting day to say the least.

Earlier in the day, I was notified of an online gal pal’s demise . She died with Cancer after going through its grueling effects on her on the 19th of July. I had received the news about it in the afternoon and it was not a very nice surprise, either. You see, we had both gone through HCV treatment together almost 4 yrs ago and we had become close friends while struggling through the treatment’s nasty effects it had on us. Ultimately, we both cleared HCV, yet for her, more trouble was yet waiting for her on the horizon. Upon beating HCV, Cindy found out that she had Cancer a short time later. It finally took her. Rest in peace, Buddr.

Still a bit numb from trying to fully comprehend that bit of disquieting information, I decided to check out Maryannaville’s stats while still chewing on Budd’s transition and while doing so, I discovered a referral link from a Darfur IP who was checking out our action here. I’m sure that s/he left a bit disappointed. We had another one visit here today from the same url and you’ll not ever guess where it took me. I ended up on an online dating site. How we are being advertised is hysterically funny now but I feel badly for the desperados who have been duped into showing up here while looking for a hot cyber date. The more I think about it, the funnier it gets. Check it out. You can access it here.

This is the actual post that stakes its claim regarding Maryannaville’s function in our Super Information Highway.

Now, ain’t that just precious? Better yet, I have an idea who’s behind it, too, unless I can prove differently. Moreover, a volunteer work crew of Maryannaville’s friends and experts are on the move with this one. We began the investigation yesterday. There is more but I’m not privy to discussing it now.

Isn’t social networking an awesome thing?

To be continued…

Update:07/10/07
Orangutans only like blonds with tatoos. I was beginning to get worried for a while there. I guess that rules me out for those who are looking for dates with Orangutans and end up here.
Okay, kids, now you know exactly all that I know about Orangutans and their dating habits, for now.
I’m sure that Buddr is rotflhao or at least she would be if she was alive and knew this scientific information.

Originally posted 2007-07-31 10:26:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Various 6 Comments 

by Jan.16, 2012

7seals.0

Coulter’s a prime example of the survival of the fatuous…
The unhinging continues.
An upcoming television special produced by a Christian broadcaster that features conservative pundit Ann Coulter
links Charles Darwin to Adolf Hitler.
“Author and Christian broadcaster Dr. D. James Kennedy connects the dots between Charles Darwin and Adolf Hitler in Darwin’s Deadly Legacy, a groundbreaking inquiry into Darwin’s chilling social impact,” announces a
press release issued by Coral Ridge Ministries.
“To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler,” says Dr. Kennedy. “Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.”

Originally posted 2006-08-21 05:29:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Category: Various Please leave a comment 

January 18th: National Blackout Day of Protest Against SOPA

by Jan.16, 2012

Reddit is committed to black out its site on January 18 for 12 hours in protest of the US government’s pursuit of the SOPA act. We will also honor that, and will be blacked out as much as possible.

The freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity that the Internet enables is in jeopardy. Congress is considering legislation that will dramatically change your Internet experience and put an end to reddit and many other sites you use everyday. Internet experts, organizations, companies, entrepreneurs, legal experts, journalists, and individuals have repeatedly expressed how dangerous this bill is. If we do nothing, Congress will likely pass the Protect IP Act (in the Senate) or the Stop Online Piracy Act (in the House), and then the President will probably sign it into law. There are powerful forces trying to censor the Internet, and a few months ago many people thought this legislation would surely pass. However, there’s a new hope that we can defeat this dangerous legislation.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

There is an incredible amount of activism organized by Redditors at /r/sopa and across the Reddit community at large. Everyone has made a differenceand as we near the next stage, we have decided to join Reddit and the others on January 18th from 8am–8pm EST (1300–0100 UTC).

Thank you for your faithfulcommitment to an oppressive-free internet.

Category: Activism, Opinion, Relationships Please leave a comment