Are You Learning to Listen?

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Deepak Chopra tells us there are no accidents, only cause and effect.  Like an echo our actions return to us from all directions as spiritual messages to catch our attention. Less disasters in your life means you are listening.  Good Job!

Overflowing Abundance

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"material abundance will come not from struggling to attain it as a goal in itself, but rather as a natural by-product of experiencing a deeper state of psychological abundance."
Tao of Abundance, Laurence G. Boldt

Centuries of Repression

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Human cruelty if often considered part of human nature.
The drive to hurt, belittle and ostracize what we don't understand or accept in others is as old as human history itself.
Sexual repression, outspoken voices - the parable of our time.


Voices shout from roof tops against what lies deeply within .... see Eddie Long, Bishop in Atlanta
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/24/eddie-long-atlanta-bishop-sex-abuse-4th-man_n_738897.html

Speidi broke, broke, broke

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"We were immature, worrying too much about the famous part instead of the actual business part,"

ballots against Obama, Pelosi

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Bam Bam says his party got a "shellacking" - backlash against Obama and Pelosi's filibustering.

Although voters accept the bubble bursting was of Republican and not Democratic making - they expected Obama and his team to have turned the ship in a mere 18 months of helming.

Obviously this is unrealistic but predictably voters have little or no soul searching to their thinking.

I'm the realest that run it, I just happen to rap

I ain't gotta clap at 'em niggaz scared of that black

I drop that +Black, Album+ then I back, out it

The O's to opposite, Orphan Annie

I'm like a young Marvin in his 'hey

I'm a hustler homey, you a customer crony

Got some, dirt on my shoulder, can you brush it off for me?

You gotta get, that, dirt, off your shoulder

Jay-Z "Dirt off your Shoulder"

You're now tuned into the muh-fuckin' greatest

Don't hitch Obama still love you fierce

Hassel Who? Me

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That Elisabeth Haselbeck annoys me so.  She highjacked my show long ago.

I love The View - never saw Debbie Matenopolous (happily) but missed Lisa Ling (wished she wouldn't go), Meredith Viera (left for the Today Show), Rosie O'donnell and Star Jones (were great).

Whoopie Goldberg, Whoop, Whoopster, Whopeeeee (is the best), Joy Behar and Barbara Walters (are the firmament) and Sherrie Shephard (has a brain that comes and goes but she is much better than before).

BUT Hasselbeck hassels my soul.  She becomes insufferably more so during election time and flaps her mouth sucking out all the air of The View studio.

I keep hoping she will leave but she won't. 

Rumour has it she is Bill Geddie's Republican plant, his Republican attempt to balance the liberal Democratic slant.

Elisabitch Hassel-me loosing her shit on TV during '08 election coverage

Should violent video games be sold to kids?

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              http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39969372/ns/technology_and_science-games/

NO!
HELL NO!

WHAT IS IT WITH PEOPLE?  WHY POP OUT CHILDREN WITH NO IDEA HOW TO PARENT?

Dimwits force the state to step in to tell them that this and other issues are harmful to their children.

Those "games" are vile.  Why should your child saturate their mind with those images?  Never heard of childhood imagination?  That's the wrong kind!

Kathie-Lee and Hoda highlighted a stencilled picture of a long legged woman, billowing hair, ass out to there, swirls of some sort of graphic snaking its way over her body.  The graphic adorned the back-pack of a 7 year old boy.

The school asked him to desist and his father fought the issue - the child's right as he saw it to carry this bag.  Resolution - child takes bag to school, then takes all his books out and leaves bag in principal's office until the end of school day.  I wonder if this father teaches his child with equal passion to defend human rights, bigotry and abuse in this world?

Lots of folks say, "its my opinion" and I assure you every nit-wit has one.  An opinion is not a hair-brained notion from over-heard third party conversation or anecdotal information shared with neighbourhood cronies.  An opinion is informed, has some facts, some empirical information, proof!

Folks are running around "defending" positions because they can and yet countries are hard pressed to find people to join causes against human slavery, animal cruelty, environmental damage, child abuse, hate crimes, the maladies of this world are endless but its defenders are minimal.

I have seen cats and dogs show more responsibility to off spring than some human beings.

Consciousness is such a subtle thing - it guides the mind - into the light or the dark - which one are you?

The Abbasid Caliphs

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Rulers of a vast multi-cultural Islamic Dynasty

Purveyors of peaceful sophistication, other conquerors pillaged and plundered but Muslim rulers were recognized for their forays in social administration, mathematics, philosophy and literature.

I have attempted over the years to explain this historical testiment to the true nature of Islam.  A faith not founded in extreme fanaticism but cultured sophistication.

Click topic for BBC LINK of a discussion on the Abbasid Caliphs of the Middle East.

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Alhambra.html

explore one of the greastest fortresses in history - the Alhambra Palace

a beautiful, self-sufficient ancient citadel

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ISLAM/CALIPH.HTM

the Caliphate - a political organization of the relatives of Muhammed, solidified the institutions of Islam

Lets Bring Back -- Diana Vreeland

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"....never mind being vulgar, only boring."

Fashion Editor of American Vogue, predecessor of Anna Wintour, Diana Vreeland lived her mantra - beauty can be strange, even alarming.  Her "faction", a mix of fact and fiction bolstered the image she projected to the world.....
           "There's only one thing in life, and that's the continual renewal of inspiration."

Lets Bring Back - Ali MacGraw

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Lesley Blume's Icons of Style series illumines Ali MacGraw, assistant to fashion editor Diana Vreeland and later star of  Love Story [1970] with Ryan O'Neal.


In her youth she wore scarves - she loved them as do I - and tablecloths as wrap-around skirts.

The Sphinx of Giza

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A Northern wall protected the great Sphinx of the Giza Plateau in Egypt from the ravages of swirling desert sand.

King Thutmose IV received the idea in a dream which promised he would be Pharoah if he constructed a protective wall.

Ricky Martin

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GOD DOES NOT MAKE MISTAKES!!!

.....the words of Ricky Martin on The View telling young gay viewers he loves them and they are important to him. They have value, are beautiful with much to contribute to the world.


GOD DOES NOT MAKE MISTAKES!! - Don't allow homophobes to steer you wrong!!

Veruschka von Lehndorff

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Veruschka ... rage of the 60s graced the 2010 runway at London's fashion week.

.....designers no longer have skills to dress women who are not children with bodies that look like ironing boards.  "In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation.  It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk."

Pierre Cardin

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 "There is no more fashion because there is too much fashion."  Pierre Cardin



Cardin's 60th Brand Anniversary was celebrated on his first Parisienne runway in a decade - interviewed by WWD ahead of the event....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/29/pierre-cardin-spring-summer-2011-runway-show_n_744089.html

Polygamists ... chaste religiosity

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For our viewing pleasure Life.com have unveiled photographs of polygamists in 1944 of Salt Lake City, Utah.  Famous names in polygamy; Rulon Clark Allred, Rulon Jeffs, Warren Jeffs, Joseph Lyman Jessop

The children of polygamy learn as soon as they speak to assume the burden of the family secret ~

Historic 1953 raid of a polygamist town....
http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/50191/raid-on-a-polygamist-ranch-1953



Child of polygamy and acclaimed writer Dorothy Allred Solomon's website!
http://www.dorothyallredsolomon.com/index.html

Deepak Chopra

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Order, evolution, balance, intelligence
This is the force of spirit
This is the crest of the wave of life.
This is the surge of love that makes me
A privileged child of the universe.

                 Deepak Chopra

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

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RHWOBH is the most lavish group in the franchise.

This week the well-heeled group took in a Jay-Z concert at the Palms Hotel and Casino ... the dancing was horrific, embarassingly so, yeeesh.

Camille Grammar does dance, like a pole dancer.  She pawed her married friend who popped in temporarily, was insensitive to the women while she flirted for their husbands' attentions.  Kelsey was absent and we now know what she did not then, he had left her.  It is becoming increasingly hard to fault old Kelsey for fleeing this blondette.

Taylor, unhappily married to Russell and is yet to know it, strangely made love to cotton candy.  Behold the crazy...

the sexy cotton candy.....

Russell, hmmmmm

Taylor begins sexual simulation with cotton candy

we assume it was for the benefit of Russell

things are getting really awkward

so Lisa grabs cotton candy and pretends to be in love with it

Fluff Palin Puff

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Ghandi meerkat

I am a lover of all things political.  Not the politics that people perceive but the politics as originally conceived.  No group of people in the history of civilization have lived without politics - it is how humans seek to organize and manage their affairs.  The oft heard lament of people who disdain the political process are living in fairy land because once there are people there will be politics.  We would be better served to plug in and understand the issues in an informed, intelligent (dispassionate) way and vote!

I am not a fan of political intrigue, it often bores me.  I love the real deal, the issues, the debate, the manifestos that discuss solutions - short, mid and long term policies.  The intrigue, rawr-rawr, red meat nonsense is what voters love and that my friends is the problem.

Politicans must do what is expedient - it is the bitter twist.  They are chosen to make sound decisions but must also do so popularly and the two do not meet.  Politicians chose popularity, political machinery is geared to win or they lose campaign funds.  The electorate is the author, manager and decider in all things - not the politicians, despite their obvious perks they are lowly servants with a fickle master.

Politicians are carved from the electorate, they did not hatch in a county where politicians are bred.  They come from within and if they should be corrupt, cowardly or cock-eyed then they represent us because they are us.

It is widely accepted that the briber is more heinous than the bribee.  The money facilitates the bribe.  Who bribes? A member of the electorate, of course!

This past time of hating on politicians is so convenient, so comforting, after all blame them and the electorate continue to live in their jekyl/hyde existence - responsible for nothing, accountable for nothing.

Which brings me to Palin, the originator of dumb politicos.  She has spurned a locust pandemic of the righteous ignorant.  It is just a phase people - they do not have the chops to last the course.

In my love of all things political I know having been there that the loud mouths are usually encouraged by the party to take a position, run for a seat.  They are very good at bloating the ego, growing the fire of ambition  here-to-fore unknown that becomes a no-brainer - of course! I knew it all along - I am a politician with the spectre of power within my grasp!

The loud mouth steps on the national stage and then their short-comings are exposed, not well-read with deep prejudices for minority groups and so on.

I always say - the politician is always the brightest in the room, not the loudest, they are the ones who can stay the course.

Palin is not bright, the efforts to paint her as such are futile.

Fashions' 100 year journey at WWD

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Hey folks ... the very few folks who pass by ... my blogs on fashion will begin after today to have a burlesque shoe at top of the page ....

Today! 100 Remarkable Moments of Fashion from Women's Wear Daily - part of their commemoration of 100 years in the business.


CCCHHHHEEECCCCKKKK IIITTT OUT !!!!!!!!!

the pictures are delicious deluxe....a snap shot at the link!

Homophobe Alert!

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These types of folks always get my goat! 

Their anti-stance on homosexual rights drew the usual hypocritical mush - we are not homophobes, we just don't recognize civil-unions as marriage or deem the life-choice acceptable.  The Johns have been blocked from fostering children in the UK, the result of their strong opposition to homosexuality.

Predictably they have religious objections, they are morally and spiritually opposed, they say.  They have gained support of senior clerics icluding the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The church has failed for all of the arch of history to recognize human leaps of conscience or consciousness.  The church had denied and villified ... Galileo comes to mind.  The church has silently witnessed history's worst atrocities and supported others ....  the Reich atrocities, trans-Atlantic slavery.  The Catholic church facilitated the protection of paedophilia in its ranks.  Now the church in its wisdom continues to implore that homosexuals are abhorent, aberrant, non-members of humanity.

This Christian couple, the Johns, have fostered scores of orphans and are challengers in a legal test case to set as precedent the right of Christians to foster without compromising their faith.

What does this right mean?

The right to deny homosexual children a place in society.  The right to decimate false truths in society.  The right to enshrine bigotry as a religious service to our Creator, God of love. 

Have staunchly Christian families not faced the confusion of having a homosexual child and then faced rejection from society and the church cold shoulder?  Many have disowned their child, forcing them into the arms of promiscuous stereotypes, smugly realizing what they ultimately envisioned.  Where can a dejected homosexual child go?  Is it possible to expect dignity and normality?  Many homosexual couples have achieved this and should be commended and accepted!

Stable homes are best for children whether the adults are homosexual or not.  Many homosexuals have homes of love and nuture and structure but are rejected as foster parents but heterosexuals in arrogant right declare their objections and demand their right to perpetuate hate in childrens' minds.

Is our Creator a God of love? YES!

For bigots who perpetuate hate and rejection in the world .... this is how I see you:

ol' blue eyes Frank Sinatra

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"Possessive, jealous and liable to explode fast.  When I lose my temper, you can't find it anyplace.  He's the same." .... the doomed union of Gardner and Sinatra

Never will forget Camelot

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Rare and intimate photographs of Camelot in the new book Portrait of Camelot: A Thousand Days in the Kennedy Whitehouse by political historian Richard Reeves.

The world will always have big love for the Kennedy days of Camelot!

Hitler's bunker and the Women of the Reich

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Never seen pictures of Hitler's bunker after Russian and allied soldiers vanquished Berlin.  Life photographer, William Vandivert took these haunting images unveiled by Life.com.

WOMEN OF THE REICH

http://www.life.com/image/50715844/in-gallery/23132/wwii-women-of-the-reich

Dracula's Castle?

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Dracula's castle in Romania, an off the trail tourist attraction was the residence of Vlad Dracula, defender of Wallachia, south of Transylvania.

Why is a Dollar called a Buck?

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Animal Spirit

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O.G., puddy, kitty, pudella, poo pet, pudding, puddy poo - the family cat - 15 human years




Animals are spirits too who we have the responsibility to protect.


Kitty is human-like in the opinion of the humans who know her; she has an individaul personality. 


Domesticity allows animals to grow in spirit through intimate interaction with humans.



**** waiting for my Linx to tell me all is well in spirit

The Night Sinatra Happened

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Check out Vanity Fair article - excerpt of Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan....