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.:Anyone Who Wants To Watch Slither?:.
I have two tickets to give away for the WAVE premier of "Slither" this Tuesday night, in Megamall or Galleria, I believe.
If you want to watch them, feel free to contact me so we can meet up and I can give you the tickets. I won't be going to the premiere, so you can take a date, a friend, or whoever along with you.
Thanks, jabronis. Happy weekend.

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Lettuce Green Beans Garlic
Sweet and White Potatoes Butternut
White Russian Kale Radishes Napa Cabbage herb bag: Parsley Arugula Chives
We're grateful that this Thursday's rain held off long enough to get most of the veggies out of the field. Hopefully it will let up enough to pack the van without getting too soggy. Your Napa cabbages will be rain washed today.
So – this is the last official delivery of the Fall Extended Season. We will NOT be here next week. We will miss you. Thank you all so much for sharing this part of the year. It's been a wonderful Fall and we appreciate sharing it with you. We're hoping to take some pictures of the garden and post them on the blog or FB. There's still an amazing amount of food out there.
However, we're taking a little break. Some friends are arriving to watch the chickens and turkeys and we'll head north (a little counter-intuitive perhaps) to visit family in Canada. When we return (pre-Thanksgiving), we'll drop a line and offer more greens, turnips, salad fixings. We hope you will partake. The broccoli is shaping up nicely, probably just in time for Thanksgiving, and the Red Ball Turnips are just beautiful.
I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it, but Kale Chips are real. Mostly, we love our kale steamed with butter and maybe a touch of balsamic vinegar or nutritional yeast flakes, but for those of you who have trouble with kale, this is worth a try. Lulah wants to eat kale for breakfast now (no small feat). Here's a rough recipe, pulled from the internet, for you to get started with.
1- Preheat oven to about 300*
2- Use about a salad spinner's worth of kale. Tear the leaves off the thick stems into bite size pieces, or just cut out the mid-ribs and leave the halves whole.
3- Place leaves in a large bowl. Drizzle with about 2 tsp of olive oil.
4- Sprinkle with salt, pepper, Parmesan, Asiago or your seasonings of choice. Toss kale with oil and seasonings until the leaves are well coated.
5- Spread in a single layer (very important that they not do much overlap) on baking sheets. Bake for about 20-25 minutes, until kale is very crispy when moved in pan.
These 'chips' probably won't last long, but if you want to, you can store them a couple days in a zip lock bag. This crispy kale can be crumpled up and used on soups or grains as a green garnish too! Our thin flat leafed kale doesn't work as well as the Lacinato and White Russian for this treatment. It's important not to use too much oil. Experiment – enjoy!
We've had a couple requests for Kimchi information. I've posted a link to Sandor Katz's website, www.wildfermentation.com on our blog. He has some basic fermentation info on there, as well as a lengthy list of on-line fermentation information resources. I'm paraphrasing his book Wild Fermentation for this Kimchi recipe.
Basic Kimchi
1 lb Chinese cabbage (napa or bok choy) 1 daikon radish or a few red radishes
1 or 2 carrots 1 or 2 onions/leeks/scallions
3 to 4 cloves garlic (or more!) 3 to 4 hot red chilies (or more, or none, as you like)
3 Tablespoons fresh grated gingerroot (or more!) sea salt
1) Mix a brine of about 4 cups water and 4 Tbsp salt. Stir well to thoroughly dissolve salt.
2) Coarsely chop cabbage, slice radish and carrots, and let the vegetables soak in the brine, covered by a plate or other weight to keep them submerged until soft, a few hours or overnight. Add other vegetables (snow peas, seaweeds) if you like.
3) Prepare spices: Grate ginger; chop the garlic an onion; remove seeds from the chilies and chop or crush, or throw them in whole. Kimchi can absorb a lot of spice. Mix spices into a paste.
4) Drain brine off vegetables, reserve it. Taste veggies for saltiness. You want them to taste decidedly salty, but not unpleasantly so. If too salt, rinse them.
5) Mix the vegetables with the spice paste. Mix everything together thoroughly and stuff it into a clean quart size jar. Pack it tightly into the jar, pressing down until brine rises. If necessary, add a little of the reserved brine to submerge the vegetables. Weight the vegetables down with a smaller jar or a zip lock bag filled with water or brine. Cover the jar to keep out dust and flies.
6) Ferment in a warm place (kitchen counter usually works fine). After about a week, when ti tastes ripe, move it to the refrigerator. Traditionally, kimchi is slowly fermented more slowly with more salt and kept in a crock in a cellar or hole in the ground.
Almost any kind of leafy green can be treated with way with interesting and delicious results. Paul eats kimchi with his breakfast porridge. It is full of natural lactic acid, vitamin C, and pro-biotics. It's good for you, and yummy too. Kimchi pairs well with rice, eggs, beans. Enjoy.
We've not said enough about the sweet potatoes this year. It was such a good year for them. We hope you're enjoying them as much as we are. If you have not been a sweet potato fan in the past – give it another try. These are much more flavorful than your average store boughten sweets. We're always amazed when we eat conventional potatoes, what a different flavor these home grown foods impart. We just bake them, unwrapped in a medium oven until they are completely soft throughout. Peel off the skin (or eat them!), add butter or olive oil, salt and pepper if you like. Good food can be so simple.
A couple notes about storage crops – if your butternuts and potatoes are piling up – you can keep them a long time if you're careful. Sweet potatoes and butternuts like to be kept warm and dry. A shelf in a room temperature closet works well. Sweet potatoes will sprout if kept in sunlight or moisture for too long. White potatoes, on the other hand, need to be kept cool (not cold) and dark. Dark is key to their keeping qualities. We store these crops for our own use all winter (we just pitched out a few straggling butternuts from two years ago). You can too.
Be well and we hope to see you soon!
With Love, Paul, Coree, Lulah and Levon
"Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are." – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
We are a small family with a large garden in Red Boiling Springs Tennessee. We share our produce with some folks nearby and this is where we post our newsletters and some photos to share. enjoy!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
week 24
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- cella neapolitan said...
simple food = good food ... si! just had lunch of sauteed greens, garlic, and sliced potato w/ sour cream dollop :D
also, if i could afford it more often, i'd tell brillat-savarin i was his cheese ;)
love + safe travels - cella
- November 4, 2011 at 11:52 AM
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I will use the work I've been doing there as an entrance point into just how difficult these things can become. Whenever I pen a single line, it is clear to me that there are tens if not hundreds or thousands of silent assumptions lurking behind that line, which support it, bring me to say it, and which, submerged under the surface, contain the actual inter-mixture of truth and fallacy which our statements generally contain. There is no means of gaining a statistical analysis of most of the sweeping generalizations that are required to perform any kind of philosophical investigation of myth, culture, or psychology. Even when there is, the results are dubious.
For example, how does one really remove the cultural bias from a study on social cognition done in the United States? Pushing this one question and refusing to back down is the reason why I began college a psych major and finished in another department. You cannot! And the fact that you cannot is not something that should be pushed under the carpet. This would sidetrack my main point here but there was a recent article in the NY Times that made the case I've been making for years:
...This unnerving possibility springs from recent research by a loose group of anthropologists and cross-cultural psychiatrists. Swimming against the biomedical currents of the time, they have argued that mental illnesses are not discrete entities like the polio virus with their own natural histories. These researchers have amassed an impressive body of evidence suggesting that mental illnesses have never been the same the world over (either in prevalence or in form) but are inevitably sparked and shaped by the ethos of particular times and places. (Article here.)
But we are still left in the cloud of unknowing. Non-fiction, analytical writing has the aura of science to it. We are taught to support our arguments, to verify, verify, verify. But what this actually means is we are taught to lie, lie, lie: as no true verification is possible. All that we can do is "philosophical due diligence."
And here is the rub: the culturally shaped analytic/individualistic mind-sets may partly explain why Western researchers have so dramatically failed to take into account the interplay between culture and cognition. In the end, the goal of boiling down human psychology to hardwiring is not surprising given the type of mind that has been designing the studies. Taking an object (in this case the human mind) out of its context is, after all, what distinguishes the analytic reasoning style prevalent in the West. Similarly, we may have underestimated the impact of culture because the very ideas of being subject to the will of larger historical currents and of unconsciously mimicking the cognition of those around us challenges our Western conception of the self as independent and self-determined. The historical missteps of Western researchers, in other words, have been the predictable consequences of the WEIRD mind doing the thinking. (Article here.)
|James Lincke
Let me be clear at the extent of this: I'm not even convinced that there is such a thing as "culture." A footnote from my introduction on this,
A note about characterization, and the usage of terms such as "capitalist society." It should be obvious that, within the contexts we are beginning to explore, "capitalist society," "existential philosophy," "corporate culture," and so on are all myth-structures that we're essentially presupposing. Like any other myth they may or may not relate to a series of facts, but more important the effects of the characterization is real. In other words, there are sufficient people that believe in such a thing as "capitalist society" as to make it worth talking about, even if, speaking very strictly, there may be no such thing. Even "culture" can be considered a myth in this sense, as Manuel De Landa explains in 1000 Years of Nonlinear History. This applies equally to phrases like "world-view," a term which has become fairly commonly even outside anthropological writing. Terms like this sometimes create more questions than they answer. What exactly does it mean? Is it a passive or active process? Can it be willfully changed, or is it provided fully-formed? We will attempt to engage with as many of these terms as possible, but there must be a level of approximation in using such terms, or else we would be footnoting every couple words, and the book in front of you would be thousands of pages long. Let us say that it could be either of these things, in different contexts, and move forward. (Immanence of Myth)"Culture" is... a useful fiction. But you can't observe it like a table, and it operates on a scale such that the trends we observe that we think of as proof that there "is" culture could be any number of other things.
The extent to which we're stumbling around in the dark amazes me, mostly due to the fact that so many seem to have this deluded sense of certainty. It is not some philosophically rhetorical reduction to say: I know that I don't know. I depend increasingly on intuition for this very reason: because it seems to draw a holistic image which, though also fallible, is often a great deal more informed than the conscious processes I might otherwise attempt. The challenge there lies more in unifying the intuition which might say "YOU MUST GET ACROSS THAT RIVER," and the actual process of somehow doing it. Intuition does not provide that, it only provides the direction. The mechanics are up to us. Should I build a raft? Should I try to swim? Should I see if I can circumvent it by foot? How strong is the current, and how deep does it get? Intuition doesn't help us with any of those things. It just screams in your ear, with no explanation, GET ACROSS THAT RIVER. And you'd best pray that the intuition is right, that it isn't a desire posing as your intuition, and that halfway across, another impulse will suddenly scream into your ear WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS RIVER, YOU FOOL? CLIMB THAT MOUNTAIN OVER THERE!
Faith for the faithless is a tricky proposition. But else do we have?
I'm going to start working on that raft...


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Spare the Rod... Spoil the Child
36 comments:
- Christine said...
Love it. I cannot watch Supernanny for the very fact I can't believe there are people out there that are complete doorknobs.
Discipline is lacking in this country. And Prayers
- March 27, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- TheSeeker said...
so So SO true!! Stuff like this is ridiculous. What is a 14 year old girl doing unsupervised on a computer anyway?? She has no business on that hell hole called Myspace. Gross.
- March 27, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Hey! I mostly lurk here, but faithfully so...lol. My dad followed us in a car as well and our made sure he was throughly cleaning guns when I got picked up. Hey!Thought you mght want to know about this new military blog out. You will enjoy his sense of humor given yours. The posts for next week are hilarious. He and his battalion are headed out in a few days for Al Asad. Hope your hubs is okay, too. www.castrapraetoria1.blogspot.com
- March 27, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- Cheryl said...
A friend of my 14yo son sent pictures of his girlfriend around on his cell, too. He's been talked to by the police and so have all the kids in his cell phone number list.
My ex is a registered sex offender because of computer porn and I am trying my damndest to keep his influence on my boys to a minimum even though we share custody. (Not even gonna start on that one...)
- March 27, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Hope! Good to see you again... I have you on the prayer list on the sidebar. Did you deploy yet? Keep me updated!
Be Safe!
- March 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM
- warren said...
I'll tell you June...this is all so true...so many people want to be friends with their kids...it's insane. They need tender ties and some freedom and all that, but when it comes down to it, they are kids and need to be taught right and fast what is right and wrong...no pussy footing around it...
as for "Did I eventually stop getting asked out on dates because I had a great big father who made teenage boys squirm by simply looking at them?"
It's the main reason I hit the gym every day...I am gonna kick anyone's ass who messes with my kids...and I am gonna break in two any pencil neck who lays a hand on my daughter...and I am gonna kick my son's ass if he lays hand on anyone else's daughter
Oh wait...that's all hypothetical and cannot be used in a court of law...
- March 27, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Warren... TheWard has the same philosophy for his daughters and son.
It takes a strong man to be a good father.
- March 27, 2009 at 12:09 PM
- The Wannabe Redhead said...
I was terrified of my dad when I was growing up. Hell, I have many moments where I'm STILL scared Sh*%less of him. But (I hope) it's made me a better person overall...
Don't get me wrong, I'm now brave enough to 'fight back' from time to time...but I'm usually a good 10yards away from him before saying anything (I'm getting to be a fast runner and he's getting to be an old man--works out well for me)!
Whenever I become a parent, I'm going to use the same scare tactics my parents used. Like you said...kids need parents to make them tow the line!
Great post!
- March 27, 2009 at 12:26 PM
- Mimi said...
I've gotta say it does not work for all kids. We spanked my son when he was little. Then he would go to the preschool the next day & hit someone who he felt was doing something wrong. Then we would spank him because he was suspended, hmm the circle of violence just continued.
Making your kids scared shitless of you may work for some folks, but if kids are scared shitless of you, will then really come & tell you when they're in trouble? Will they confide in you the things that you would want to know?
I speak from experience. A girl who's parents made sure not to "spare the rod" found herself in trouble. She had no one to turn to. She made a horrible choice instead of telling her parents since she was scared shitless of them. Now they all have to live with the tragic consequences.
My only point is that every child is different & what may work for one will not necessarily work for all. I believe, the issue is much more gray than black & white.
- March 27, 2009 at 12:49 PM
My parents used the wooden paddle - after a few times the three of us figured out we needed to obey. Period. Most kids have enough friends - they want parents.
- March 27, 2009 at 1:16 PM
With respect to Mimi's comments....there is a difference with administering the rod with love and administering the rod with anger.
Kids know the difference and trust me it works.
- March 27, 2009 at 1:24 PM
- Sarah (JOT) said...
The key, I think, that June is trying to tell us: parents PLUG THE FOOK IN with your kids. Be connected; pay attention; don't be afraid to discipline your kids and be prepared to not be liked in the process. I just had the don't fook with me conversation with my oldest boy and told him if he didn't believe me, he could talk to aunt Mary and uncle Bill (my siblings). My anger directed hits the mark hard. Fortunately, BECAUSE I have stayed tuned in, spanked when necessary, lectured, disciplined in other ways . . . our kids are okay. They aren't great, but what kid is? My kids do not get a second chance with some behaviours, simple as that.
- March 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Personally my mom used the fly swatter, and boy the sound of that thing when wacked on the kitchen table was enough to put us in line.
Now my husband he needed something a bit stronger, I think his dad used a piece of fire hose.
Great post June, this ones been brewing a while!
Love ya,
- March 27, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Out on a Limb said...
I had an experience this weekend where a 13 year old girl from church asked me if I "wanted to take this outside lady" as she puffed out her chest at me. This isn't an inner city kid with a horrible upbringing. This is a suburban girl with two parents who try too hard to be her friend. I'm telling you I was thisclose to taking it outside and I even told her so. LOL! I just didn't want to be arrested.
I can't begin to make judgments on anyone with teenagers as mine aren't that old yet, but I can assure you if it were my kid that said that, I would have backhanded them right there. (And mom was standing right there with me).
Anyway, all of that to say I whole-heartedly agree.
- March 27, 2009 at 1:48 PM
- Paula said...
My mom spanked us and we all turned out good....I spanked my kids and one turned out okay and the other followed another path. Am I sorry I spanked them? Nope! Do I think spanking him had anything to do with how he turned out? Nope! I think it is a decision parents need to make for themselves. But there are sure plenty of problems in this world since the good Dr. Spock started teaching that spanking kids was wrong! Good luck parents....
- March 27, 2009 at 3:40 PM
- Schmoochiepoo said...
I agree 150%.
The only thing worse than the knowledge that when Dad got home I was going to get my butt spanked was the look of dissapointment in his eyes. I remember every spanking I got from my Dad and what I did to deserve it.
I'm almost 40 and I still strive to never ever see that look.
I work with a lot of teenagers and observe younger kids with their parents /friends and I cannot believe how rude, entitled, lazy and obnoxious they are. I am worried about the future.
- March 27, 2009 at 4:03 PM
- Jud said...
My rear still stings when I think about the whack of a wooden spoon! My mother even snapped one in two once. My father tended to use a belt. He wore a uniform and would slowly take off the thick, black belt. The tension was incredible. And a spanking from him came after the one from mom.
And Lord help you if you had disgraced the family by getting in trouble at church or school. Whatever penalty the most devious assistant principal could devise paled in comparison to what would happen at home.
I agree with those who said the worst was the look of disappointment in their eyes. I find that being disappointed with my daughter works as well as the whippin's.
Thanks June!
- March 27, 2009 at 4:17 PM
- Mary said...
Preach it, sistah! Children need to have a strong sense of right and wrong and CONSEQUENCES instilled in them by their parents. My parents didn't do a lot of spanking, but I can safely say I deserved every one of them. I didn't like spanking my kids, either, but I did it on occasion--when they needed it.
The fear of your parents should be similar to the fear of God. A healthy respect and the knowledge that they make the rules, for your own good. When you transgress, you will get what you deserve, but they will never stop loving you.
- March 27, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- Counselormama said...
I wish corporal punishment would be brought back to public schools, then we could use something to motivate the kids to behave!
- March 27, 2009 at 5:45 PM
- TRO said...
This may have been said before and I don't know because I am much to lazy to read the comments, but here are my opinions on this matter:
1. Parents do not need to be "friends" with their young kids. That comes later in life when they are like 30 and have their own kids.
2. Corporal punishment is a good thing when used in a rational, judicious, and non-abusive manner. Parents should do it. Schools should be allowed to do it. Any other line of thought on this topic is liberal bullshit.
3. Child porn charges against this girl are way out of line. The parents need to ground her forever and she should have to do some really nasty community service on a much, much lesser charge.
There, I have spoken. So let it be written, so let it be done.
- March 27, 2009 at 7:49 PM
- That Girl said...
I agree! My mom used to always pick up the phone and tell me to hang up now.
- March 27, 2009 at 9:58 PM
OH my god no kidding. I have the perfect example of a little darling who was allowed to do what the hell he wanted to. Remember John Walker Linde aka Johnny Taliban? He was a special boy, who got to wander all over hell as a teenager, even to Yemen and then to Pakistan to study in a Madrasa, and then he finds himself at an Al Queda training camp during 9-11. And he is captured in Afghanistan and ends up being taken to Mazr i Sherif where there is an uprising of captured Taliban and Al Queda fighters and after a CIA Agent, who had three little kids and a beautiful wife at home was EXECUTED, they find mummys dear little boy in the rubble looking like a piece of lice covered filth. Yep this is the prime example of why sometimes a good swift kick in the ASS is the best medicine a brat can get.
- March 27, 2009 at 10:10 PM
- Urban Mom said...
LOVED this post! Nobody stands a chance against the Urban Dad. And I'm a beeyotch and a half, so that's covered too. I have a Facebook flair that says, "mean moms have good kids." My sister is a cop -- she would love it if more parents opened up a can of whoop-ass now and then. Her job would be so much easier. Oh, and a friend of mine is married to a computer geek who knows how load software that reports on EVERYwhere a user goes. His daughters don't stand a chance. I plan to pay him for his talents in the future.
And if pix of the U-Kids end up on MySpace anyway? I'll slow down in front of the nunnery long enough for them to tuck and roll out of the car.
Good on Ya for this post!
Peace out,
- March 27, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Cheers to you, June!
- March 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Thank you so much for posting this! I am a teacher, and it is absolutely amazing how parents ignore their children. My mother had 3 girls and she gave up everything for us, so it has been a shock for me to see how much my students are ignored by their parents. The TV and Playstation have become babysitters. A lot of people don't talk to their kids at all. Parents act all kinds of upset when they find out their child is misbehaving in school, but the minute it's time to be consistent and actually RAISE a child, they don't want to do it because they need to live their life. It is so sad, because the ones who pay for this are the kids. Of course, not all parents are this way. There are really wonderful parents out there too. But it is very upsetting to be blamed for the downfall of education, when teachers are not the root of the problem. Without parent support, a teacher is powerless. Teachers do their best with what they get, but no teacher can control what her kids go home to at night, or the people who shape their values, self-esteem, and beliefs. Again, thank you so much for posting this, and for making the decision to raise your kids. It's the hardest, most important job you will ever do!
- March 28, 2009 at 12:38 PM
- Robin said...
I wrote a post about spanking a long time ago. Just the other day I got "hate comment" by some woman who said I needed parenting classes and my kids were probably just so afraid of me.
They better be. I refuse to have kids who turn into disobedient brats who can't control themselves. They also know I love them to the ends of the earth.
- March 28, 2009 at 8:37 PM
On a serious note [rare for me], I'm a mean look type father, when that doesn't work then a 2 hour lecture on the reason they shouldn't do what got them in trouble & finally a single swat to the butt if all else fails as I tell them I'm disappointed with their actions but that I love them no matter what. I tell people that my wife has done an amazing job raising our house full of kids, that all I do is play with them. Big rule in our house is we all eat dinner together when I'm home to get the skinny on what they're involved in & who did what to whom. Real lucky to have amazing if over achieving kids who love me back. Hopefully we've raised our kids to be smarter than to post nudie pics but if one of my kids posted nude pictures on their myspace or facebook site, they'd be eating off the fireplace mantle for awhile. Was raised by real involved parents & trying to raise mine the same way.
That said, I've been a bad boy & may need a spanking, haha.
- March 29, 2009 at 2:49 PM
- Beth said...
YES! I've seen what happens to kids when there are no boundaries and no discipline. I really really hope it doesn't happen to my kid! She is turning rotten already and she just turned two! We are pretty strict with her already though :)
- March 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM
What did you have to sift through on Google images to get your opening photo? Yikes! Perhaps you had something already.
- March 29, 2009 at 8:40 PM
My parents would have beat my ass, too,and they weren't the beatin ass kind of parents, even though I grew up during the Smack Your Kid 70's. I was smart enough to know they would smack my ass, so I made sure I never gave them reason to smack me.
When my duaghters were younger, I would gesture with a wooden spoon with a metal handle in a threatening manner. I never had to smack them with it because they thought I would smack them with it. I don't think I would have and that's why it worked.
Ame I. in TN
- March 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM
- Kasia said...
I suddenly have so much more comprehension for my mother and the pancake turner...
- March 29, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Judd-- I don't use the wooden spoon anymore.
I use a plastic salad spoon-- and the sound of it coming out of the utensil jar is enough to keep the kids in line. T
- March 30, 2009 at 10:19 AM
I think the depression and drug problems came from kids who were spanked with a lead pipe and a bathroom sink.
- March 31, 2009 at 1:17 AM
- Buddha Mom (aka Mitzi) said...
Loved this....!
- March 31, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Kayla said...
This is too true. All kids need boundries and it is the parents' job to provide those. Being your child's friend is one of the main problems today. Kids need PARENTS who act like PARENTS not friends who are afraid the kid might get mad. Any one of mine is mad at me daily for something! Might as well at least give them a reason. I mean, I made one actually smile for her school pictures. Geez.
- April 1, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- Courageous Grace said...
As a child, I was physically abused by my father, and spanked by my mother, so I have a pretty good idea of the difference. And trust me, there IS a difference! My father's beatings were given out of anger, my mother's spankings out of love. I didn't end up "afraid" of men (I managed to snag a pretty good hubby!), and I have a very good relationship with my mother. Since I'm an adult and a mother now, I am "friends" with my mom. Do I think she could have spanked me less? Sure. But I can clearly remember a few that I did deserve.
Do I spank my son (15 months old)? When he gets into a dangerous situation like trying to grab a hot nightlight bulb or has been told "NO" enough times, I'll give him a swat or two. Little bugger has a diaper on, for crying out loud. He barely even feels it. A baby or toddler doesn't know what "NO" means without some sort of physical discipline attached to it at first. Otherwise it's a meaningless word. Will I spank him when he's older? If I need to as a last resort, of course!
First and foremost, I am his PARENT, not his friend.
That being said, I think the authorities are going a bit overboard with pressing charges that will put her on the sex offender list. That's abuse of the system, IMHO.
- April 5, 2009 at 12:57 AM


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WHEN: January 2, 2015 (didn't waste much time, did I?)
WHERE: Nordstrom.com
WHAT: 2 pairs of Tucker & Tate Pajamas–one solid pink (size Large), one pink and white striped (size Medium); $24 each
WHY: My 18 month old (who I shall heretofore refer to as HK) goes through PJs like a boss. She's in between sizes in Hanna Andersson and I was looking for a slightly warmer, footed option. You know, for our chilly San Francisco winter. [Bracing for hate mail from my East Coast friends.]
WELL? Both of these went back. No quality issues but the sizing was weird. The Medium would have fit for her for roughly 2 nights (maybe less, if I account for dryer-related shrinkage) and the Large was huge. The search continues. I will say that, in the meantime, I'm happy I invested in a Merino Kids sleep sack a few months ago–it was pricey ($120 on Amazon.com) but HK has worn it nearly every night and the fabric is flame retardant and magically prevents baby from overheating or getting chilled.


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oh vegetarian dishes can be very expensive.. I had it once for CNY gathering dinner few years back.. wow, the costing dept all ladies one ah??ReplyDelete
Reunion with ex-colleagues... how nice! Here's wishing you a very happy, healthy and prosperous new year. Xin nian kuai le to you and family! :)ReplyDelete
Food and more food. Happy New Year Hayley to you and your family.ReplyDelete
Your photographing skills seems improving a lot. Too bad now you can't share the gossip with us anymore. Sob... sob... hope you still remember some of them and share with us on our next meet up.ReplyDelete
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The Children Of Huang Shi
In this epic film about the Japanese occupation of China in 1937, Chow Yun Fat reunites with his Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon co-star Michelle Yeoh and is joined by Radha Mitchell & Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The visuals look good and it's got some good roots embeded in the director Roger Spottiswoode (awesome last name), the director of Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!....damn. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Check out the trailer here.
The Water Lilies
Diving into the seedy underbelly of ultra competitive synchronized swimming....actually I just made that up. I really have no clue what this film is about after watching the trailer (seeing the studio description kind of helped afterwards) but the images from this French film are pretty captivating. Check out the trailer here and see what you can gather from it.
Chaos Theory
I'm a fan of Ryan Reynolds. I guess I have to be since he's my future ex-wife's current boy toy but besides that little matter, he brings an aire of humor to his roles that transcends real nicely to the audience every time I see him on screen (plus he's playing freakin' Deadpool in the Wolverine film!). And this looks like it might be a good role for him. Check out the trailer here.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Dem Trailers: Film Festival Edition
The Children Of Huang Shi
Posted by brodiemash at 12:56 PM
Labels: Chaos Theory, Children Of Huang Shi, Dem Trailers, Water Lilies
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- PartyMarty said...
Oh those trailers.
The Children of Huang Shi:
Epic? Maybe. I honestly don't see myself shelling out $10+ to sit in a theater to watch this one when I can wait 6 months and pick it up on Redbox for $1. But if E-Lo sees that it's "based on a true story" I'm done for.
Water Lilies: C'mon BroMash, I don't even watch synchronized swimming during the Olympics. A movie about synchronized swimmers, yeah, sure. It looks like it might be interesting but again, not something I'd be found watching in a theater on a Friday/Saturday night, if it even makes it to the big screen in Fresno. Redbox rental:probably not, I'd feel like a pedophile if someone caught me renting this at FoodMaxx at 2am.
Chaos Theory: Three words; Crappy, crappy, crappy! Damn, these cheesy ass date movies. It seems lame and as the trailer suggests, not very funny. Ryan Reynolds?... dude. Although I'll admit Sarah Chalke is lookin nice and it's not every day you see Becky Conner in lingerie. You and "significant other" enjoy that one though. We'll be next door watching The Children of Huang Shi *yaaawn*.
- April 18, 2008 at 3:06 PM
- Roque said...
Can't all be Iron Man trailers, man. Most of these will no doubt be rentals for me as well. Except for Huang Shi, that I might go and see theatrically. And the kids of the Water Lilies...yup! That one just screams "AWKWARD!" when someone walks in and sees you watching that by your lonesome. And as far os Chaos....what can I say, Becky Conner is pretty hot nowadays...
- April 18, 2008 at 3:13 PM
- PartyMarty said...
I think I'm getting took to see Horton Hears A Who this weekend with E Lo and the kids. I'm not too upset though, I like me some Jim Carrey. We'll see how it goes. You guys down for some giant, cartoon, elephant, Dr. Suess,...... goodness????question mark??
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Werner Herzog and George and the junge
Werner Herzog reading George and the Jungle. I have to give credit to Dj/ Rupture for posting this on his blog Mudd Up! It is truly wonderful, and I have no choice but to repost...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
New York Times Article
While reading the New York Times yesterday I stumbled upon this wonderful article on Midtown Memphis' indie music scene. We are, as you Know and our banner reads, a Memphis music blog.
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Back Up & Kickin
Hey, sorry about that sixth month hiatus. I would love to tell you the team behind SMS (us) spent that time in introspective isolation in a forgotten monastery three kilometers southwest of the Tibeten city of Lhasa, but sadly that was not case...
Fortunately, one of our favorite artists has been busy. Ted Leo is working on an upcoming album, The Brutalist, which is set for release on March 9th, 2010.
Even Heroes Have To Die (mp3)
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Friday, October 16, 2009
LCD Soundsystem: New Song
LCD Soundsystem's new song, Bye Bye Bayou is streaming at 22tracks.com
Its a repetitive psychadelic electronic rock song just like the ones LCD Soundsystem has becomes known for, but with an environmental twist.
It's about the loss of the Louisiana Wetlands.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
DJ Rupture confirms new album
DJ Rupture is releasing a new record called Solar Life Raft out on Agriculture Records on November 11. Matt Shadetek is co-producing the new record which contains "about 30% of its original material and remixes from us".
Rupture has the ability to blend music from a variety of genres in a way few others can match. This should be a great release. Here is a music video of Baby Kites and Nokea from Uproot.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
not Seeing Dead Weather in NYC
Since my last post I have quit my boring summer job at a poorly managed coffee house to write full time for SMS, study Russian, and travel a bit. My first stop after my temporary retirement was NYC.
While I was in NYC from July 15th-19th Jack White set up a temporary record store in the East Village to celebrate the release of Dead Weather's new album. The band also played a set on that Wednesday, but I couldn't make it. I did manage to snag a few shots of the set up while I was in the area.
If you haven't already heard Dead Weather is a new groupComprised of Alison Mosshart (of The Kills and Discount), Jack White (of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes). Here is a picture of the two day record store, Third Man Records.
I also took a couple quick shots of the line wrapping around the bloc.
But Wait let's take little closer look at the red sign on the left...
mmmm.... situational irony....
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Belgrade Sound System
Belgrade Sound System is music collective in Belgrade that makes some great Jazz/electronic/indie music as well as hosting a radio radio show and setting up a music festival called Dispatch. This is just an awesome music video.
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Mark 5: 33-34
But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. And He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed of your affliction." (NASB)
Faith is believing without seeing. Faith, moreover, is loving Christ with a devoted heart, even when we lack the physical evidence. As our Lord said to St. Thomas in John 20:29, ". . . Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe." After the our Lord's glorious resurrection, the apostle Thomas doubted the Lord's identity and desired to see His wounds to verify that Jesus was truly resurrected. In John 20, St. Thomas' actions contrast with Christ teaching about faith in the Gospels. In almost every miracle that our Lord performs, He states that it is our faith that saves us. For example, one of my favorite episodes in St. Luke's Gospel (Luke 7:36-50) tells about the sinful woman who was forgiven. It is amid the Law-focused, hypocritical Pharisees that this sinful woman shows a beautifully contrasting humility and love for our Lord by cleaning His feet with ointment, her tears, and her hair. Christ lovingly tells her that "(the woman's) faith has saved (her); go in peace" (Luke 7:50). Likewise, faith is defined when blind Bartimaeus, in his beggarly position outside the walls of Jericho and among the crowd, calls out to Jesus as He passes. Christ gives Bartimaeus sight and says,"Go; your faith has made you well" (Mark 10:46-52). Finally, the absence of faith can define its importance. When Jesus enters his hometown to preach the Good News, people shun him and don't believe that this son of Joseph and Mary could be the Christ. In Matthew 13:58, the evangelist states that "(Jesus) did not do many deeds of power there, because of their unbelief." Faith, therefore, is not only the belief in the unseen, but it also is an essential ingredient in the salvific power of Christ to touch our lives. We need faith in order to grow closer to Our Lord and should pray for a deepening of our faith daily.
In defining faith, I come back to its significance in my relationship with God. God offers me the opportunity to receive faith from Him. Faith, therefore, is a gift, an offering from God to bring me into loving communion with Him. Faith is not something I posses outside of God, nor is it something that I can work hard for and earn. Faith is a gift freely given to me, a gift that I am called to embrace, and something that I pray thanksgiving for each day. There were certain moments in my life that I always maintained faith in God and held Christ in my heart, but my life did not reflect that gift of faith through acts of love. For example, there were many years that I fell away from the Church. Although I tried different brands of Protestantism, I struggled to find truth without result. I ended up not attending Mass or any ecclesial community for a long time. Although I convinced myself that I had faith in Jesus in my heart, without any active pursuit of faith-based love, I struggled to find meaning in everything and easily slipped deeper into a world of secularism. Blinded by the world, flesh, and devil, my faith was dead, reduced to mere words without loving action. Faith is a gift offered by God and requires acts of love in order to bloom, and it is what so wonderfully defines us as Catholics. Once Jesus offered a conversion which I embraced, it reverted me back home to the Church.
Faith is the active gift that I embrace each day in my communion with Christ. If and when my faith falters, I pray for God's grace and ask like father of the boy with the unclean spirit did in Mark 9:24: "I believe; help my unbelief." My faith, like me, is not perfect, but with prayer and heartfelt acts of love toward God and neighbor, God lovingly offers this gift of faith, and through the strength of my Savior Jesus Christ, I embrace it.
This blog includes Christ-centered posts and my personal meditations on Scripture, faith, and loving God and neighbor. I am a devoted follower of Jesus Christ, seeking to know and love Him more each day. Although imperfect, the thoughts and reflections contained herein are my own and offered with love in Christ to all.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Mark 5:33-34: Loving Jesus in Faith
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"It's almost like living in a police state," graduate student Marissa Gilburd said Friday, sitting on the front step of her apartment with her husband, Joe, and sister-in-law Rachael.
"I would rather they do this, though," she said of the police shutdown.
"These guys really knew how to make bombs."
The manhunt for bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ended Friday night when he was found by police in Watertown, a Boston suburb. His brother died early Friday after a gunfight with police.
While the manhunt for Dzhokhar centred on Watertown, which is on the Cambridge side of the Charles River and several kilometres away, the state ordered Boston residents to stay inside for hours. Universities and businesses closed, and taxis were briefly ordered off the roads. By mid-afternoon, home games for the Bruins and Red Sox had been postponed.
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- Locked-down Boston connects online
It's still wasn't a quiet city.
Emergency vehicles became a permanent part of Boston's sound, to the point where it was odd when there wasn't the sound of a helicopter overhead or a convoy of police cars racing to a new site of concern. Since the marathon, anything remotely suspicious merited an emergency response.
'They're afraid'
On Newbury Street, two bomb squad trucks — black pick-up trucks with huge boxes of equipment on the back — roared past construction manager Marcos Pires.
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Pires had been locked out of his Copley Square office, but still came to work Friday, unlike some of his workers.
"Many of my guys didn't want to work," Pires said. "They're afraid."
Not everyone stayed inside.
"I'm so sick of waiting around," one woman stopped at a red light during a morning run said. Several people walked their dogs.
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The Massachusetts Avenue and Newbury Street area is one of Boston's main shopping destinations and when Boston's universities are open its cafes and stores full of people.
On Friday, nobody was window shopping. Those outside were glued to their phones, checking for news about the manhunt.
'What's the point?'
Memphis resident John Langan, visiting Boston while his wife is at a surgery conference, decided to come out and photograph one of Boylston Street's memorials for the marathon victims. He had been watching it grow all week, and it left him wondering why bombers went after the marathon.
"I don't know why someone would do this … I mean, what's the point?" Langan said, shaking his head.
Langan said he wasn't worried about being out in the Boston streets, despite the gruff warnings from local police. One barked at him: "If I wasn't here I'd be home, locked in my house."
Langan wasn't alone in ignoring the police orders. Chris Kourtidis runs Steve's Greek Cuisine, the only restaurant open near Massachusetts Ave. and barely a kilometre from the scene of the marathon blasts.
"We're here, people are coming, so we're open," Kourtidis said, adding he'll stay open until police tell him directly to shut down.
CBC News speaks to Canadians in Boston
CBC News offices across the country have also spoken to Canadians stranded in Boston. Here's a round-up:
- Calgary: Deserted Boston streets 'eerie,' says Calgarian.
- Edmonton: St. Albert students in Boston amidst lockdown.
- Saskatchewan: Sask. man in Boston describes lockdown, manhunt.
- Manitoba: Ex-Winnipegger describes 'post-apocalypic' Boston.
- Windsor: Canadians describe lockdown in Massachusetts manhunt.
- Montreal: Quebec students sit tight near Boston as manhunt continues.
- New Brunswick: 40 New Brunswick tourists stuck in Boston during manhunt.
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My desk in my room. I don't have a problem... I also.. never clean. :p
I've been doing a bit more art journaling lately and working on some random projects. It's so relaxing. I just plug in my iPod. Turn on pandora and work for a while.
I've got almost a week off of school this week because of the Super Bowl screwing up downtown. Yay for the super bowl. It means I don't have to go to my chem lab! Score.
I have done absolutely no schoolwork since wednesday. Thats gonna bite me in the ass I'm sure. But I just hate my classes so much. It's not good. I've got to actually buckle down and get some work done at some point soon.
Mostly all I can think about is traveling.. Which I'll never have enough money to do unless I pass these classes and get into nursing school. But all I want to do is get on a plane. Because I think about how much student loan debt I'm going to have when I graduate.. and all I'm going to want to do is go somewhere. But I'm going to have to live like a monk for like 5 years after I graduate. Probably at home with parents. Awesome sauce.


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My wife, having been Hindu for much of her life before she became Christian, has helped me a great deal in sharing her fresh insight as she looks at Christians and the ways in which we live and espouse our faith. For instance, not long after becoming Christian, she asked me, "Why does the church building have walls? Shouldn't everyone hear and see them worship?"
I had never heard that question before and I had no answer other than to say, "I think it's because people don't want to see what's going on inside." But in the years that have passed, I have often wondered if the people inside have not truly wanted those outside to come in.
I know that it can often be hard to listen to questions and challenges to the status quo of the church, but I think it is always a good time to listen. We may find that what we have been trying to communicate all this time has not been what we had intended. And that even by the observations of "new believers" (as though you could even earn seniority) can be extraordinarily helpful. Walter Brueggemann has characterized it as such: that we undergo a process of orientation, disorientation, and then finally a re-orientation in our spiritual formation.
Perhaps it is good then that we have a time of disorientation, not because we feel that deconstruction is to become normative, but that through it, we have the ability to seek answers to our own questions, and more importantly, question the answers of others.
I admire this young man for speaking so boldly. I don't agree with everything he says, but I do think he might be closer to re-orientation than most Asian Americans. Many Asian Americans choose not to even broach the questions.


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*I'm glad Quentin won for best original screenplay,even though I really wanted Wes.
* Skyfall winning best Original Song was honestly my only really happy moment of the night.
*Um Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty got MAJOR snubbed. Lets just leave it at that ok?! Before I CUT somebody.
* Life of Pi was my other major choice and it got quite a few awards, so I'm content with THAT.
*we ALL knew Paperman was gonna win. But we were all still happy, admit it :)
*Amour won everything foreign? Yeah.
*Really wanted Wreck-It Ralph to win, but Brave made me cry, so it's all good.
* Soooo glad Ang Lee won for Life of Pi, that movie was phenomenal. I feel him and/or Benh Zeitlin deserved it most.
*Happy about Christoph Waltz winning but I REALLY wanted Tommy Lee Jones. Either way, Christoph Waltz developed more of a character, whereas Tommy just carried all his lines superbly.
*I feel bad for Amy Adams but yeah, I was rootin' for Anne Hathaway just like everybody else. Someday Amy, someday.
*Seth McFarlane? best choice you made Academy.
*OKAY - I love JLaw as much as the next gal, genuinely, she's wonderful. I love her. She did not deserve that Oscar. IF she were to have won an Oscar it SHOULD'VE been Winter's Bone. Today Jessica Chastain should've won. With every fiber of my being. Jen's performance was a caricature. By far the most predictable film I've ever witnessed be nominated. I knew exactly what was gonna happen the entire time. The only character that didn't seem an overt PARODY of the mentally ill was Robert DeNiro, everybody else was just... Too much. JLaw is a phenomenal actress, can control her face like no other but she did not have an Oscar worthy role.
* Daniel Day-Lewis: Duh. As long as he's making movies he will take the Oscar home, it's not even fair to the other actors. He literally should just have his own category so the other guys could get a chance.
* Argo????!!!!! Freakin Argooooo???!!!! No! Ok?! No! I quit you Academy! I'm done. Argo was a good film. The best film? Hell naw!
Basically ANY other choice besides Silver Linnings Playbook should've won. ANY. ANY of those movies would've been more productive, and powerful to the history of cinema. URRGGGHHHHHH.
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New! Changes to degree programmes
Executive MBAs are increasingly self-funded these days. Professor Koen Dewettinck, Executive MBA Programme Director, explains the upshot of this trend: "Participants who fund their MBA themselves are keen to do it in their own time. Also, an MBA is seen as a journey of personal development rather than simply a means of acquiring knowledge. While we've always positioned the executive MBA in this way, we've now redesigned the programme to effectively enhance the experience.
"Some of the changes should make the different groups more diverse in terms of nationality and gender. We noticed that the three-weekly format in Leuven[1] resulted in more diversity, with 44% international participants and 28% women, compared to 25% and 10% respectively for the weekly format in Ghent[2]. And finally, we wanted to build in flexibility in order to be able to improve or update our programme more easily."
"We no longer work with mixed groups comprising first and second-year participants. This may be great for networking, but often complicates programme design. Working with fixed groups makes it easier to take into account participant feedback for future improvement.
"As in the full-time MBA, we've introduced elective courses, which can be combined into a track. Electives enable participants to tailor the programme to their individual needs, while tracks allow them to deepen their understanding of a particular subject.
"The programme has been redesigned to improve flow and consistency. Three tracks, or themes, run through the programme from start to finish and are incorporated into the different courses: the in-company project, leadership development and career guidance. Career guidance focuses on personal development and is now standard for all participants. The courses are no longer divided into a first and a second year, but grouped into modules. A new one-week e-learning module brings participants up to speed. Further modules focus on the broader contextual factors and various functional areas of an organisation. In-between modules are also organised: the electives, the BRICS trip, seminars and games.
"We've shortened the programme from 24 to 18 months and have changed the format for Leuven and Ghent to three-weekly. Classes will be held on Saturday and Sunday in Leuven and on Friday and Saturday in Ghent. This should help improve group diversity, as it makes it easier to combine work and study and eliminates the need to commute on weekdays. At the Brussels campus, we've maintained a weekly format, with the programme spread over 22 months. This should typically appeal to the expat community working in Brussels, as they won't have to commute."
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President Bush is again calling for greater corporate responsibility as another U.S. company faces a billion-dollar accounting scandal. The Xerox company announced Friday that it had overstated its revenue by more than $1 billion over the past five years. It is the second major U.S. business scandal in the past week. The president said he will hold corporate managers accountable for mismanagement.
President Bush said business leaders have responsibilities to both shareholders and employees to be above board at all times and give honest and accurate financial reports. It is the third day in a row the president has spoken out against a series of corporate scandals that have rocked the business world.
On Friday, Xerox Corporation stocks fell sharply following reports of accounting irregularities. The company admitted it had overstated revenue by more than $1 billion between 1997 and 2000. That announcement came just days after revelations that the nation's second-largest long-distance telephone company hid nearly $4 billion in expenses to artificially inflate profits.
Speaking at a fundraiser for a Republican member of Congress, President Bush says the Justice Department will prosecute those responsible for corporate wrongdoing. "Corporate America has got to understand there is a higher calling than trying to fudge the numbers, try to slip a billion here or a billion there and hope nobody notices, that you have a responsibility in this country to always be above board," Mr. Bush said. "We expect high standards in our schools. We expect high standards in corporate America as well. I intend to enforce the law to make sure there are high standards."
With legislative elections approaching, some polls suggest the Republican party may be vulnerable to Democratic attacks feeding-off public concern over a series of corporate scandals including the energy firm Enron. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating accounting practices at another energy company during the time when Vice President Dick Cheney was its chief executive.
Senate Majority leader Democrat Tom Daschle Friday called the corporate failures a threat to the core of the economy and said the Bush administration is not doing enough to back needed reforms.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says the president is confident in the overall recovery of the U.S. economy and is not concerned about the potential political fallout from corporate corruption. "Some in Washington may want to focus on the politics of this," Mr. Fleischer suggested. "The president is focused on people's jobs and the fact that corporations have a responsibility to be above board, to honor the call of ethics and high ethics. Just as the president calls on all in our society to honor their role in the responsibility era, the president calls on corporate America to do the same thing."
The president's weekly radio address Saturday will also focus on corporate responsibility, as will a speech in New York next month where officials say Mr. Bush will outline new measures to improve corporate accounting.


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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Moving Day
The time is now...
Yup, today's moving day. A day of excitement, sadness, physical labor, emotions all over the place...
I feel like I'm on hormones or something.
Prayers for a safe, enjoyable day would be GREATLY appreciated!
I'll post pics as soon as I can.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
A New Day
It's been a rough few weeks around our house.
While the children's sicknesses seem to have hit the road for now, Hubby and I have found that we've been having these deep-down feelings about moving. And these feelings kind of crept up and unloaded on Monday.
- Nervous over our current house not being sold yet
- Anxiety about Saturday's big move
- Sentimental feelings and tears over leaving this home, the memories made here, the awesome neighbors staying behind...
I don't think that either one of us realized these feelings were there. The past few weeks have been CHOCK-FULL of doctor's visits, paper-signing, busyness at work, trips with families...go, go, go and not enough time to sit back and dig deep.
However, long drives to NJ and then to the mountains in one weekend (yes, with the kiddos...and yes, we're nuts) produce a lot of time to think. And it all came to a head.
Are we doing the "right" thing? Do we really want to move? Where is this fear coming from? Why am I so edgy? Will our current house ever sell, or will we be in complete trouble in a few months, still trying to handle both homes?
Then a realization hit me yesterday. I'm so tired of wondering "what if" and if we are doing the "right" thing. What's the "right" thing, anyway? Who said that everyone needs to live this cookie-cutter life where things always fall right into place without any hitch...any stretching...any growth?
(here's the real kicker)
God wouldn't clear the way for us to buy this house and then leave us sitting at the curb, handling the rest on our own. Pretty much my brain blew up yesterday and said, "Hey, dummy...God's still here. Why are you thinking He's not in control of this whole 'selling the house and moving' situation?"
Yup, we thanked God 'til we were blue in the face for giving us our current home...we thanked Him when our children were born...we thanked Him when our offer was accepted for the home we are moving to...we thank Him for safety, family, friends, love, etc., etc., etc....BUT, we then stuck Him in a box and basically told Him we'd handle the rest from here. And by "handle" I mean keep the stress, worry, fear, and anxiety right on our shoulders and not surrender it all to Him.
And I know that you know what I'm talking about. It really sucks the life right out of you, doesn't it?
So, today's a new day. Today is when we use that realization and actually do something with it.
I'll continue on with the packing, house-showing, working, moving, being-a-Mommy gig...but it's now with a lot less worry and a bit more excitement. Because, although my nickname might be Wonder Woman, I realize that ultimately I'm not in control and can't do ANYTHING without the One who put me here.
Here's to a new day...
Sunday, May 17, 2009
The ER Visit
This picture says it all. "Sooo...you're saying I shouldn't eat my sister's paint kit, then leave the evidence in the background? Ooohhh...."
Yeah, you read that right...the Exergen temporal scanner (that I won from Metropolitan Mama...she's great!) read 106. I kept checking...and checking...and checking. Seriously, I swiped that kid's forehead at least 15 times in a row, and each reading was between 104.5 and 106.5. I called the doctor, who directed us to go to the ER, and we were headed out the door.
At the hospital, a nurse triaged her, gave her a dose of Tylenol and a dose of Motrin, and we waited for the doctors to see her. The fever broke after 40 minutes, and then they called us in. After almost 4 hours in the ER, Danae was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection. They gave us the antibiotics and sent us on our merry way.
So, prayers for continued healing would be AWESOME! Hubby is also battling some type of virus/fever thing, and I have allergies/a cold. I feel like I dispense medicine and vitamins so much that I should be a pharmacist. Bring on the healing!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
An idea for Wal-Mart
This came from personal experience, very recent in fact (today).
After fulfilling the large shopping list in hand, with both kids in tow, we managed to get back to the car in one piece.
Got one kid in the car.
Got the second kid in the car.
Time to start unloading the massive cart, but...
For a split second I thought I was completely losing it. How did I get to the car with two kids and no cart? That's when I heard the rattling noise and saw my newly purchased storage bins and
And that's when the sprinting ability kicked in and anyone who may have been around saw this woman making a mad dash for a runaway cart, which was, in fact, seconds away from hitting a car.
Yeah, just what I need. Another random bill to pay.
Anywho, all that to say...listen up, Wal-Mart. Some of us moms might appreciate brakes on your carts. It could lead to fewer parking lot accidents, less I-just-ran-the-cart-into-the-back-of-Mom's-legs incidents, and a possible decrease in our blood pressure.
Just a thought.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Relaxation and Baby-Proofing
Friday night brought errand-running and a meeting with the bank to sign
Yes, that would be a little girl's belt wrapped around her little brother's waist. How she got him to sit still long enough to get the belt around him is beyond me. But making Baby crawl around and petting him brought her great joy and us a lot of laughter.
On Saturday, I got to do something that, I feel, has been long-coming. For my birthday, Hubby gave me a gift certificate to a spa for a massage. I have been waiting, trying to pick the perfect time to go. And since this past week was full of more child sickness, lawn mower issues, increased workload, meetings, and the such, I decided that Saturday morning was "MY" morning. Even if someone was vomiting, I was outta here! You see, I'm not one that relaxes well. Even when watching t.v. or even a movie, I constantly feel like I need to be multi-tasking...maybe making a "to-do" list, or doing a cross stitch...something to get two things done at once. So to go to a spa and just get a massage for an hour was truly glorious. (Thanks, Hon!)
While away, Hubby started on a project that I like to call "child-proofing". Yes, we already have a 3 year old and yes, the house should already be child-proof. But apparently it wasn't. You see, when we bought this house, the basement door had a small cat door installed by the previous owners. Since it didn't bother us, and since our Peanut never really touched it or played with it when she was a baby, we left it alone.
But of course, I have always been told that boys are different. So I should have known.
This little guy thinks the cat door is great. Something to swing, throw his sister's toys through and laugh...that sort of thing.
I should have known.
I should have guessed that one day, he'd try to shove his head through, then his body, then tumble down the stairs and land on the carpeted floor.
I was right there, at the bottom of the steps when he landed. After scooping him up and a few tears (on his part, Danae's, and mine), all was done...and the boy went back to the cat door, smiling at me and laughing. He knows he's going to give me a heart attack one day.
So, I promptly called Hubby and said that, even though we are moving in three weeks, that door is to be given the eviction notice.
We parted ways with the door on Saturday. And while my little man crawls over to the new door and looks for his favorite way to make me jump, I now have a peace knowing he can't get to the basement by himself anymore.
On Sunday we decided to meet up with Hubby's parents at a park/walking trail after the kids' naps. It was a beautiful afternoon, and Peanut loved feeding the ducks. No huge fear of animals from this one!
All in all, a fun yet accomplished weekend!
Monday, May 4, 2009
9 Month Update
...now weighs 21 pounds, is 29 inches long, cut his first tooth this past weekend, and is already 9 months old! WOW! I'm pretty sure I popped him out not too long ago!
Caedon is also a fast crawler and loves to get into his sister's toys...probably just to make her scream and cry. Seriously, he'll crawl right up to her, pull her hair, and laugh. Yup, pure boy. But, we'd take him no other way. :o)
Racing Girls
Back to the races.
So, since I barely trained (the last time I ran was at least a week prior), and dealt with sickness all week, my time was H.O.R.R.I.B.L.E.
Really bad.
Not as bad as if I would have walked (which I didn't, so there's a plus!), but still...really not good. I don't know what in the world I was expecting. In my mind I totally knew I wouldn't and couldn't place in my age group because I didn't train, but still. Oh, and the surprise hill kind of threw me, too. Somewhere I read this was a "fast and flat" course. Right. Within the first mile the course turns a corner and WHAM! There loomed a hill, and I instantly thought, "Yeah...as flat as my behind!" It could also be the age. I'm wondering if turning 30 has a direct effect on race times...hmmm...
No more complaining. I really did have a good time, didn't walk, and really liked the course (despite the "flat" hill). Hopefully some training will bring back my normal race time...
The other highlight of the morning that was the most fun was the kid's race! We entered Danae into the 3 & 4 year-old race, and for the past week the girl kept telling us she was going to win. Even though we told her it's okay if she doesn't win and other kids pass her, she would promptly tell us, "Yeah, but I'm going to win." We should have known we'd have a problem on our hands...
Right when the horn blew and the short 40-yard race started, a little boy darted out in front of her. From the sideline I saw the look of confusion then disappointment come across her face, so I flew to Hubby at the finish line, where he was already holding our crying girl. She just kept saying, "I'm not racing anymore! I didn't win!" HOWEVER...
Even though three boys finished before her, Danae was the first girl across the finish line! It took some calming down and talking, but she eventually stopped the waterworks, got her hand painted, ate ice cream, and had a ball. First girl, fourth overall...that's my racing girl. :o)


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Mermaids, Bollywood, Skeletons...Yep! It's Olympics Synchronized Swimming Costumes!--Rio 2016 Olympic Games Synchronized Swimming Duets
One of my FAVORITE events to watch during the Summer Olympics--besides Gymnastics of course!--is Synchronized Swimming. Naturally, it is because of those bright, sparkly swimsuits! (Oh and yes, those AMAZINGLY synchronized routines!). Now, we have heard (and read) all about the Olympic Gymnastics leotards and how expensive they are. According to this report, they can take as many fittings as a wedding dress and the competition (really sparkly ones!) can cost up to $1200. Frankly, I would charge much more--all those Swarovski crystals, all those fittings, but that's just me! What I am here to discuss today is the Rio 2016 Olympics Synchronized Swimming Duets costumes and some of my favorites. Now, if the gymnastics leotards cost upwards of $1,000, I would assume these numbers have to cost upwards of $2,000!!! here are some of my favorites:
Elizabeth Taylor in "Cleopatra"--But I realize this headpiece might have been problematic for those lovely synchronized swimmers
Synchronized Namaste!


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Khloe Kardashian Has 'Orgasmic' Experience With Scott Disick — Watch
Talk about family bonding! In this brand new 'KUWTK' clip, Khloe Kardashian is feeling down in the dumps, but Scott Disick cheers her up with an 'orgasmic' experience!
Who better to have fun with than Scott Disick? Khloe Kardashian knows to call on the Lord when she needs to have a good time, and she certainly does! Keep reading for more on orgasms, tomato soup and tater tots…trust us, just watch it.
'KUWTK': Khloe Kardashian & Scott Disick's 'Orgasmic' Lunch
It's no secret that Khloe Kardashian has had a rough year. The youngest Kardashian sister is still dealing with her very public split from Lamar Odom and was moving out of the home that they shared together on the premiere of KUWTK.
"The last few years have been not great so I really cherish being silly and laughing and doing dumb things," says Khloe in the brand new Keeping Up With The Kardashians clip (WATCH above). "If there's anyone that I can guarantee doing dumb things with, it's Scott."
Apparently, "dumb things" equates to eating tater tots from a food truck in Scott's mobile "office" — it's a spruced-up Mercedes van.
"This is orgasmic," says Khloe. "It's like life-altering."
She lets Scott try the tots, and he full-heartedly agrees: "Oh my lord," says the Lord. "This is too much to handle."
Side note: let's take a minute to talk about Khloe's food truck getup — dark lips, plunging neckline and thigh-high boots all for tots? Those do sound orgasmic.
HollywoodLifers, WATCH the hilarious scene above, and let us know if you wish you had a family member like Scott Disick to hang out with!
— Elizabeth Wagmeister


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Why We Left The United States:
Because on December 12, 2000, the United States Supreme Court nullified the results of a national election and installed George W. Bush as president. And then I saw millions of my fellow Americans deliriously happy the Rule of Law was broken by the Supreme Court of the Land so "their guy" could… "win."
That's when I knew partisanship had ultimately won out over reality. More Americans believe in angels than election fraud. If millions of Americans could turn a blind eye to a stolen election, simply because their side stole it, and then have that coup legitimized by not only the Supreme Court… but by all of MainStreamMedia… then I knew the country I lived in was not the land of my birth.
I can't emphasize this enough. Millions of Americans were ecstatic that George W. Bush won regardless of how he won. Unquestioning blind partisanship was more important than the law to these people. But more ominous was MainStreamMedia ratifying the coup. At that moment Corporate Media proved they were committed to the destruction of our democratic republic.
That was pretty scary to witness. We've all heard of similar ham-fisted tactics used in banana republics South of the border… but this was happening… here!
That's when I began formulating my Crazy Stupid People Theorem. Whoever thought the Supreme Court's decision was part and parcel with a "Normal Transfer of Power" was either Stupid, Crazy, or… Evil. Americans who didn't know it was essentially a coup were either Stupid, or Crazy, or a little bit of both. If anyone knew it was an outright theft of Americans' votes… and they were perfectly OK with that… well… what else could you call it other than Evil? The subversion of our right to choose our elected representatives strikes at the heart of our country's founding principles. But again, and this is what continues to confound me, millions of Americans thought it was just fine and dandy.
Along with millions of sane Americans… I didn't "Move On." I could not understand why it was so important the institutions Americans trusted most to protect its freedoms and principles had crammed George W. Bush down our throats.
Then 234 days into Bush's first term as president … the attacks of September 11th 2001. And from that day on… everything the Bush/Cheney regime did to distort and transform the United States of America into something… unrecognizable… was because of 9/11. It all came down to 9/11… period. The buck stopped there.
And as we were all walking around in a daze, coated with the ash of human beings and pulverized concrete, we were spun into the Ultimate War Crime; wars of aggression. As Chris Hedges wrote, " … We became what we abhorred. The deaths were used to justify pre-emptive war, invasion, Shock and Awe, prolonged occupation, targeted assassinations, torture, offshore penal colonies, gunning down families at checkpoints, massive aerial bombardments, drone attacks, missile strikes and the killing of dozens, and soon hundreds, and then thousands, and later tens of thousands, and finally hundreds of thousands of innocent people."
Then the dawning realization… the 9/11 trigger mechanism that caused Hell on Earth for the people of Afghanistan and Iraq… was a grotesque lie. [YEAH!] This was the ultimate Horror piled upon horror.
Hundreds upon hundreds of statements from members of the Senior Military and Intelligence Services, Law Enforcement, Government Officials, Engineers, Architects, Pilots and Aviation Professionals, Professors, 9/11 Survivors and Family Members, Artists, Entertainers, and Media Professionals, are on record saying the Official Account of 9/11 is: "False", "Impossible", "A Bunch of Hogwash", "Total B.S.", "Ludicrous", "A Well-Organized Cover-up", "A White-Washed Farce", "Absurd", "Fatally Flawed", "Not Possible."
The lies the Bush/Cheney Regime told us that led our country into The Ultimate War Crime were predicated upon the lies the government previously told us about the attacks of 9/11.
As Ralph Lopez wrote, "The biggest problem with the 9/11 Truth Movement is where it leads: a place dark and evil beyond imagination. …when hundreds of American military officers, pilots, engineers, and CIA veterans stepped forward to say they believed the official story to be a monstrous lie, I was shaken to the core. …The conspiracies led to the deep dark hole that we are ruled by criminal psychopaths."
This is about as bad as it gets. We knew the government covered up how and why 3,000 people died on 9/11, and then went on to use the attacks as an excuse to do everything we find reprehensible today. And again… corporate media ran cover for the government.
If we can't believe the government's cover-up, we're left with three options:
- Conclusion One: They Made It Happen.
- Conclusion Two: They allowed it to happen.
Or …
- Conclusion Three: The attacks of 9/11 were possible because of massive incompetence on the part of the Bush/Cheney Regime.
If Incompetence is the least offensive rationale to explain the actions of the Bush/Cheney regime, then… why has there been no accountability?
Involuntary manslaughter is an unintentional killing that happens during the commission of a misdemeanor or because of gross negligence or carelessness. According to Federal sentencing guidelines, Involuntary Manslaughter is punishable by 6 years in prison.
Shouldn't someone (or a lot of someones) from the Bush/Cheney Regime be prosecuted for the gross negligence that led to the deaths of almost 3,000 people? Not in post-9/11 America.
But while we struggled to map out just exactly what a post-9/11 America looked like… another stolen presidential election knocked us to our knees.
We knew it was stolen in Ohio. We knew how it was stolen. [Kerry had ample funds left over from his campaign to pay for a recount or an investigation and refused to challenge the results in Ohio.] And once again the corporate media buried the truth by ignoring it. And the blind partisan Crazy Stupid People rejoiced in the prospect of "Four More Years" of the Bush/Cheney Regime.
Throughout it all the majority of Sane Americans made the same strategic blunder over and over and over again. We were used to signing petitions and having protest marches. We treated these people like they were politicians. But the Bush/Cheney gang were not politicians. They were Gangsters and Thugs. Politicians periodically bend to the will of the people. Thugs. Don't. Care. These people wipe their ass with petitions. When Dick Cheney was told that two-thirds of Americans said the war in Iraq was not worth it, Cheney replied, "So?"
That's who we were dealing with. Gangsters who completely ignored the will of the people. We could write all we want, and call all we want, and demonstrate all we want… but by following their rules… we had the unlimited freedom to be ineffectual.
The Republican Machine, aided and abetted by Corporate Media, stole the presidency of the United States twice. Together they started two wars and have killed over a million people. How could we think they would back off and play nice because we all wrote scathing e-mails or marched in protests? They were Thugs. We were supposed to arrest Thugs, put them on trial, and if guilty, put them in jail. But we didn't do that.
We decided to "hope" instead. We hoped the Bush/Cheney Regime wouldn't completely destroy the country before 2008. We hoped the same corrupt voting systems that delivered us George W. Bush would magically allow us the autonomy to elect someone to save us from "the Evil-doers." We hoped a Constitutional law professor would restore the Constitution. But most of all we hoped, for the first time in living memory, that a politician would deliver on his campaign promises. [Hope is a feel-good emotion that ignores the current facts and promotes a delusion as something positive.] [George Bush also ran on "hope and change" in 2000. Doesn't anyone else remember but me???]
The policies of the Bush/Cheney Regime are still in place under the Obama administration. We still have the wars of aggression and occupation. Innocent people are still killed every day. We still hold prisoners in Guantanamo Bay who after almost ten years have yet to be charged or tried for any crime. The Bush/Cheney/Obama Regimes have given away trillions of dollars to people who engineered the largest financial swindle in recorded history. And they, along with our honest-to-god war criminals, continue to walk free, unindicted, unaccountable, and above the law.
As Michael in NY wrote you in October 2009, " … my belief is that the American system has lost its capacity for reform." I'll take that to the next step… the American system has lost its capacity to govern! Corporate interests under the guise of Partisanship über alles.
And as Paul Craig Roberts wrote the other day, "Obama regime appointee Cass Sunstein, a Chicago and Harvard Law School professor, thinks the 9/11 movement, for challenging the official "truth", should be infiltrated by US intelligence agents in order to shut down the fact-based doubters of government propaganda. When a law professor at our two most prestigious law schools wants to suppress scientific evidence that challenges government veracity, we know that in America respect for truth is dead. The notion that a country in which truth is dead is a "light unto the world" is an absurdity." [Don't forget, the Milton Friedman Neo-Liberal school of economics also comes from Chicago, a city famous for their gangster culture.]
I find that nothing short of terrifying. And real solutions are nonexistent.
And so… after 10 long years, and finally having enough money… we left. It may be completely illusory, but it feels like we have a future here. It feels more substantial than… hope. It feels like we finally have come home.
Regards, Bob
And in reply, Felix Bartholomew added this:
Well, ever since the Marbury v. Madison case of the early eighteen hundreds, our Supreme Court has systematically taken more & more power from the other two branches of government (the Executive & Legislative) that was never voted on, never introduced as ideas or legislation, and has never been challenged.
We worry about money in politics and poverty or apathy? We should worry and be angry about our nine (well really five) kings in black robes
Our interpretation of law by inserting unanswered and focused, partisan direction through precedent has led to the damaged and broken version of this idea call the United States of America we accept today. Unfortunately, from our failed education system through monetary starvation and our monopoly media Republican propaganda delivery system, the very people that can, and should demand the return of rule of law through legislation don't even know that it is they, not an ethereal they (the government) that need to demand this be reversed. It can be done, and maybe some day, it will be. Or not.
The one thing that gives me some hope is this. This nation, these United States of America, this constitutionally limited, democratically elected, representative republic is the only one of its kind in the entire history of man that was founded on an idea, not through genetics or geography. As an idea cannot be destroyed, it will stand through all of this. But, an idea can be repressed and/or perverted. It is our legacy and responsibility to restore this grand experiment, this honorable idea of the governance of a society through the strength of our example of human rights and self respect must be restored if this is not to falter and become something studied for its demise and not for its collective desire to strive toward 'a more perfect union'.
Its up to us, the we, in We the People, to change this back to the foundation that we started out with where there were three equal, branches of government ...
... not nine kings & queens in robes dictating to their subjects what they will or will not do. This is precisely what we fought back against in the first place when we declared our independence from England. Ironic, really, don't you think?
"A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.