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“Lily Tomlin’s most remembered and best loved character creation is Ernestine Tomlin, the telephone operator. In this Rowen and Martin ‘Laugh-In’ sketch, Ernestine calls up Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, the chief of the F.B.I. to discuss the delicate matter of “listening in” on peoples’ telephone conversations. It was a 1972 Grammy Winning Classic.”

Enjoy the nostalgia of listening to Ernestine in this YouTube video.

Originally posted 2008-09-12 16:08:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Rusty Warren American comedian and singer often spoken as the mother of the sexual revolution, sang a number called, Bounce Your Boobies in her Knockers Up Album. It was and remains the best feminist revolt against sexism practices.

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“A Wall Street superstar this year who runs Balestra Capital Partners, Jim Melcher, says he’s “worried about a recession. Not a normal one, but a very bad one. The worst since the 1930s. I expect we’ll see clear signs of it in six months with a dramatic slowdown in the gross domestic product.”
The New York Sun

Originally posted 2007-11-12 16:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Happy Birthday, Kiki!

President Barack Obama on the environmental policy in the United States and on what you can do to take action for Earth Day’s 40th anniversary. Visit “A New Foundation for Energy and the Environment” at WhiteHouse.gov for more info.

A press release from The National Women’s Law Center released a call to action today in support of  The Paycheck Fairness Act. Furthermore, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed a year ago and passed by the House, women still earn, on average, only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. It is however, stalled in the Senate. We are fighting for the passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act, the essential companion legislation to the Ledbetter Act.

Its passage would empower women to negotiate for equal pay, create stronger incentives for employers to follow the law, and strengthen federal outreach and enforcement efforts. It would also strengthen penalties for equal pay violations — provisions that would have helped many. Moreover, the bill gives teeth to the protections against pay discrimination. And women, who are still shortchanged in the workplace, well deserve its protection. Act now!

Tell Your Senators to Support the Paycheck Fairness Act

Additionally, The American Association of University Women and the National Partnership for Women and Families teamed together and generated fact sheets for each state and DC. Details include the wage gap for each state and how much food, rent, mortgage payments and gallons of gas could be purchased for that money. Check it out.

It’s time to think about preparing and filing 2006 tax returns. This is an added one time shot for this year only. It’s called, the “federal excise tax refund credit”. So, what is all this hoopla about?
Check ‘er out...

Originally posted 2007-01-14 14:15:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

A key figure in the Civil Rights movement, a champion for voting rights, school desegregation, equal opportunity to employment and for fair and decent housing, Dorothy I. Height, died today at the age of 98.

Dorothy Height was sure to be found on the front lines to make a difference not as much to get noticed or credited. She was there to work. When there was a protest, Dorothy was there.  When there was a need for a lobbyist, Dorothy was there to lobby. When President Eisenhower failed to act on school desegregation, Dorothy Height took him to task. When Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of his dream, Dorothy Height was there to share his dream. All in all, Dorothy Height was a social justice warrior who left a legacy of action and participation for the next generation of activists.  Her role in history was as a leader who led by example. Her life is one to admire, to model and to remember.

Dorothy would often say, “We must learn to take our task more seriously and ourselves more lightly.”

This 1987 Alan Parson’s Project tune includes Orson Wells narration of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, A Dream Within a Dream.

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Not only are they FREE, they are PERMANENT PREMIUM AND FREE accounts. Use this link: File2Upload Hurry before they are gone. This might be a good way to not have to use yourfilehost or rapidshare. The file sizes allowed are 500mb to 1000mb.

Originally posted 2007-01-04 13:09:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Energy Conservation Quick Tips
Reduce your power use:

Shift your power use:

• The highest usage hours are from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. each day. Take steps to avoid power usage during these hours.
• Avoid using your major appliances like dish washers, washing machines and dryers during peak hours. When you run these appliances, run only full loads.
• If you have a pool, set your pump for off-peak hours.

Consider power upgrades:

• If you can, upgrade appliances to more efficient models. Remember that appliance costs include both the initial price plus the lifelong cost of operation.
• If you can, upgrade your windows to more efficient ones. While initial costs are high, efficient windows can result in 40 percent savings over old windows.

Originally posted 2008-07-18 10:15:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Today a Ninth Circuit three-judge panel issued the most interesting – and most important – Section 1983 opinion of the year: Newman v. Parks, No. 04-56103 ( link-PDF)

Let’s say you’re pulled over for some traffic violation. The police officer doesn’t like the “tone” you’re taking with him, and so he charges you with assaulting an officer. In your statement to the police, you note that you never touched or threatened to touch the police officer. The officer is simply lying to harass you. The D.A., after reading the arresting officer’s report, charges you with assaulting an officer. You know the case against you is built on lies. Since you make too much to get a public defender, you spend between $10,000 and $25,000 on a criminal defense lawyer. After a jury trial, you are promptly acquitted. Since the only reason you were charged with a crime was because the police officer lied, you decided to sue the officer for malicious prosecution.

Like 99% of Americans, paying for a lawyer almost bankrupted you. At the very least, you want to recoup your legal fees yet can your case go forward?

Originally posted 2006-08-11 18:10:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

“A man who is unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour.”
*Carl Jung

In Robert Bly’s book, The Shadow, the subtitled chapter, “The Long Bag We Drag Behind Us,” Bly supplies three metaphors. Each one takes a look at how we hide ourselves and the elements of our inherent energy is stored as learned repressed energy.

Firstly, there is the bag in which we stuff the parts of ourselves that individuals, communities, and nations reject. Secondly, there is the film can. We capture, compress, and edit negative stereotypes that enable us to cope with our anger. Thirdly, Bly takes a look at the term, projection. When we project our thoughts onto others and, we are all guilty of doing this, we give away parts of ourselves or play them out in the psyches of individuals or groups rather than in ourselves. The larger the bag we have, the less passionate, the less engaged, and less real we are. By reincorporating and reclaiming the shadow material in the bag, we become enlightened to the wisdom within us. By engaging with the world, we learn that what we see in our movies is not real. The connection with the shadow enables us to reclaim what we have projected unto others. This is our homework, if you will. In more modernized terms, it is referred to as “the journey.” The bottom line is that the story we have in us is one that has been prescribed by our soul. The journey itself is what each brave journeyer will find or discover about him or herself. Actively reading between the lines provides the authentically genuine self.

“Anything that is learned can also be unlearned” but it takes a conscientious effort. In order to achieve this goal we must become consciously aware of who we are and the elements that have shaped our present thoughts and ideologies. Claiming the shadows that lie deep within paradoxically empowers and releases us to be who we were born to be versus a sense of continuously living in self defeat due to the false accumulation of pleasing significant others in our lives. Additionally, learn more about Abraham Maslow‘s 1943 paper, “Theory of Human Motivation.” Conclusively, he developed the concept, Maslow’s Triangle aka Maslow’s ‘Hierarchy of Needs.’

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“All human beings are out of their fucking minds— Screwballs— Every single one of them.”
*Dr. Albert Ellis

Originally posted 2008-07-02 10:11:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Judge Denies Government’s Motion to Dismiss AT&T Case

San Francisco – A federal judge today denied the government’s motion to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) case against AT&T for collaborating with the NSA in illegal spying of millions of ordinary Americans. This allows the case to go forward in the courts.
EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston, EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn, and Robert Fram of Heller Ehrman LLP will analyze the ruling and answer questions in a conference call at 1:30pm.

EFF filed the class-action suit against AT&T in January, alleging that the telecommunications company has given the National Security Agency (NSA) secret, direct access to the phone calls and emails going over its network and has been handing over communications logs detailing the activities of millions of ordinary Americans.

Originally posted 2006-07-21 20:04:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

A heartwarmimg segment from The Texas County Reporter with Bob Phillips. For more information visit www.TexasCountyReporter.com or www.skidboot.com

*Note – For some reason or another, the video I had in this post isn’t working so I deleted it and now you can use the hotlink below to access the video itself on Google’s video page. I sincerely hope you’ll enjoy viewing it as much as I did.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5249518974978628334&q=skidboot&hl=en

Originally posted 2006-11-02 16:57:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

“If the earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing between. People would marvel at the bumps on it and the holes in it. They would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball and at the creatures in the water. The people would declare it as sacred because it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would come to pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and to wonder how it could be. People would love it and defend it with their lives because they would somehow know that their lives could be nothing without it.

If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter.”

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Originally posted 2006-10-05 00:28:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter