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Gender: female Member Since: June 30, 2006 Last Signed In: October 31, 2009 Profile Views: 9244 Blog Views: 29491 The Womans Conference~ 2009 Men Who Stare At Goats Birthday A Counterpoint To The Race Card: Acknowledgement and Healing Chaos:Remember to say I love you. Hubble New Images~ Beautiful ! Western End of Station Fire Under Control Death Panels are Real: So is Everything Else (hummor) What makes a Nazi a Nazi ? Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation July 06 August 06 September 06 October 06 November 06 December 06 January 07 February 07 March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 "Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats." Diane Arbus My life seems to operate sideways~ backwards almost~ and I have come to see thats right for me. A rain of snakes,disruption that cause's growth ,the world split in two.Everyone has there own path,mine has been one of thought,mostly of things folks today seem to disregard. Truth, personal integrity,politeness,...not all eschew these things.For me its been the easiest way to be~ any other way leads me to more trouble..and a sense of humor,above all about myself. Laughter keeps a person sane,and I enjoy seeing the coyote in myself~ the eternal trickster 
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There is a great session right now with Annie Lebovitz ,her photos and end of life experiences. Beautiful. This afternoon a session with Shriver,Edwards and St. James,who have all suffered loss, have a session called Grief,Healing and Resilience.
Live stream here I caught wind of this film about 7 months ago and apart for those poor goats( no real goats were harmed in the making of the film) this looks like a good time. We all need a good laugh now and again. This is a link to Huffington Post video that shows the real men behind the story. Opens November 6th.
If it were winter, those deep dark frigid days could let me pretend Imagine that scene in the movies: You have had your last meal; you are walking down that long corridor with a holy man intoning prayers. They place you in the chair, wet the cloth, lay it upon your head, attach the wires and the warden says the last words you will ever hear. Electricity surges through you until you are dead. Now imagine you are completely innocent. Christopher ~ Oct. 19, 1970 ~ April 13, 2004...till soon son. The Hubble is back up and these new images are being released. The "butterfly" is my favorite, but like a certain potato chip, it is hard to pick just one. Go here to see more. "Near a large shade tree where crews get their twice daily briefings, firefighters set up a makeshift memorial for Capt. Tedmund Hall and Specialist Arnaldo Quinones. The fallen firefighters helped save about 60 members of an inmate fire crew last Sunday as flames approached their camp when they set a backfire that allowed the group to get to safety. The pair died when their truck plunged 800 feet down a steep mountain road as they sought an escape route." The rest here Say a prayer for these firemen this weekend~ Send positive thoughts to those still on the lines,to the families and friends of the fallen. If the bickering stops for a moment...someone may actually see this.The folks at Funny or Die have done it again~ see the clip here. Warning: May upset some people. A light hearted attempt to get us all~ left,right and in the middle~ to laugh just a little. :-) I normally do not do the cut and paste tango ~ but this column embodies what has been on my mind ~ we do not respect each other anymore,we respect history even less. Those two things combined will bring down this country faster than anything or anyone could. I am sick and I hope you are too. Sick of demonizing "the other". Here are the words of Mr. Pitts~ What makes a Nazi a Nazi? We all need a history lesson on the topic By LEONARD PITTS JR.lpitts@MiamiHerald.comI hope this column makes you sick. See, we'll be talking about Nazis, something many of us are doing lately. Indeed, just this week a fellow named Joseph e-mailed me about a caller he heard on a radio show. The man, vexed over healthcare reform, likened President Obama to Adolf Hitler. Asked why, he said, ``Hitler took over the car companies, then healthcare and then he killed the Jews.'' Said Joseph: ``I almost swerved my vehicle off the road when I heard that.'' But the caller is hardly unique. Google ``Obama + Nazis'' and you get almost seven million hits. Nor is the phenomenon new. Substitute President Bush's name and you get nearly 2.8 million. An invasion of sorts Even granting that many of those hits are benign, it seems obvious the Nazis have invaded American political rhetoric in a big way. As in Rush Limbaugh declaring healthcare reform ``a Hitler-like policy,'' swastikas popping up at protest rallies, a poster depicting Obama with Hitler's mustache and a pamphlet that says: ``Act Now To Stop Obama's Nazi Health Plan! It's important to remember that the Nazis are passing out of living memory; U.S. soldiers of that era are said to be dying at the rate of 1,200 a day. Which makes it too easy, I think, for a nation of notorious historical illiteracy to remake the Nazis as some kind of all-purpose boogeymen for slandering political enemies and scoring cheap rhetorical points. So I thought it would be good to make you sick, i.e., to spend a few minutes reminding some and teaching others what you invoke when you invoke the Nazi regime. For the record, then: It was Nazis who shoved sand down a boy's throat until he died, who tossed candies to Jewish children as they sank to their deaths in a sand pit, who threw babies from a hospital window and competed to see how many of those ``little Jews'' could be caught on a bayonet, who injected a cement-like fluid into women's uteruses to see what would happen, who stomped a pregnant woman to death, who once snatched a woman's baby from her arms and, in the words of an eyewitness," tore him as one would tear a rag.'' Ideology over reason That's who the Nazis were, ladies and gentlemen -- those obscenities plus six million more. They were the triumph of ideology over reason and even over humanity, the demonization of racial, religious and political difference, the objectification of the vulnerable other. And the authors of a mass murder that staggers imagination, still. You would think, then, that where they are invoked to draw a parallel or make a point, it would be done with a respect for the incalculable evil the Nazis represent. You would think people would tread carefully, not because of the potential insult to a given politician (they are big boys and girls) but because to do otherwise profanes the profound and renders trivial that which ought to be held sacred by anyone who regards himself as a truly human being. But in modern America, unfortunately, rhetoric often starts over the top and goes up from there. So fine, George W. Bush is ``a smirking chimp.'' Fine, Barack Obama is ``a Chicago thug.'' We have a Constitution, after all, and it says we can say whatever we want. It doesn't say it has to be intelligent. Historical amnesia And yes, you are even protected if you liken Obama or Bush to Hitler. Yet every time I hear that, it makes me cringe for what it says about our collective propensity for historical amnesia and our retarded capacity for reverence. Once upon a lifetime ago, six million people with DNA, names and faces just like you and I, were butchered with gleeful sadism and mechanistic dispatch. Six million people. You and I may no longer respect one another, but is it asking too much that we still respect them? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here is a link to the Miami Herald.
I was amazed by this~ hope you enjoy! Kseniya is a young artist,embodying the WW2 German invasion of the Ukraine.
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