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Skip to comments.James Dobson Endorsement Letter to Rick Perry
Posted on 02/26/2010 11:34:36 AM PST by mnehring
.."Over the years, Gov. Perry has established a record that is consistently pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-religious liberty, said Dr. Dobson. He has demonstrated his deep regard for the sanctity of life by signing more pro-life bills into law than any other governor in Texas history. He demonstrated his support for the God-given institution of marriage by strongly supporting the Texas Marriage Amendment. And he has helped lead the effort to establish the strongest protections for religious liberty in the state of Texas. No other candidate in this race measures up to the high standards established by Gov. Perry on these critical issues of our day."...
(Excerpt) Read more at rickperry.org ...
Do one of you all have the Pro-Life ping list?
Texas Ping
Go Perry!
I'm sure you would hope for that so you can root for Bill White's monorail projects.
Good letter!
James Dobson needs to go away, to put it lightly.
Are we so desperate to clean house of 'career politicians' that we jump on the bandwagon of Debra MEDINA, an unknown ex-nurse with zero experience, questionable judgement and loyalties and who worked on the RON PAUL presidential campaign???
Perry leans too far to the left at times for the taste of most of us, but consider this: Texas is in better shape than almost any other state in the union since it's been under Perry's governorship since 2000!
If we're going to kick him out, we'd better be D*MN sure we know just what we're replacing him with!
Just WHO would we replace him with?
Ron paul/truther nutter Medina?
Trecherous Washington RINO Hutchison?*
Or maybe Lib Bill White?
Nominate Medina and we'll surely turn over Texas to White and the 'rats. She CANNOT beat White.
Perhaps in the future a more Conservative candidate will emerge for Texas, but this time around WE HAVE NO CHOICE.
For God's sake, has anybody really looked into her platform- her background? Has this woman even been vetted?
She wants legalized drugs.
She backs gay marriage.
She has not spoken to her elderly parents for YEARS. They had to find out she was runing for governor of Texas by reading the newspaper!
What does this say about this woman's character?
And rumors are begin to surface about husband Noe's past associations.
Take a look at some of the statements she has made:
"I don't have all of the evidence there, Glenn. I think some very good questions have been raised. In that regard there's some very good arguments and I think the American people have not seen all the evidence there." (When Glen Beck asked her about the 9/11 conspiracy theory)
"Its a shame isnt it, that Republicans continue to ignore Hispanics especially here in Texas?
"Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?
"Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.
"I believe we too often get into race when its immaterial. (Obummer, is that you?)
I don't believe for one minute Medina's propaganda about wanting to strengthen the border!
La Raza probably has her in their back pocket!
This idea that Beck (or anybody else) sabotaged Medina is absurd. If you cant answer did the govt have anything to do with the 9/11 attacks? you're not be fit to run for dogcatcher.
Glenn Beck has once again helped the tea-party stay in the Republican mainstreamby by weeding out dangerous fringe thinkers like Medina.
Medina is NOT representative of the Tea Party movement. She USED them- latched herself on to them. Shes a hard core Libertarian who has realized that the Libertarian Party will never win anything and that the only possible way to get herself into office is to do what Ron Paul did and wrap herself in the Republican cloak in hopes that it will fool enough of the voters enough of the time. Thank God Glen Beck outed her in time.
Retrieve your sombrero from the ring and go home Senora Medina. You're Texas toast. . .
Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress
One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchisons amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.
I know, but it is hard for me to oval in Perry. I usually vote in the early period, but this year I am putting it off until March 2.
One reason I don't see voting for Medina is that she has yet to release her maiden name. If Obama won't release a long form birth certificate, why is Medina stonewalling on her name?
The one who said Medina would lose to White is so right! The rest of the country could go solidly GOP, with TX going Democrat (and for the legislature too) in 2010 if Medina is the nominee.
Lastest Rasmussen: White +10
There's no way that Medina would beat Perry in the run-off anyway. However, if voting for her puts her in the run-off then it will make national news and send a MAJOR message to both Republicans and Democrats. Imagine her beating KBH... all senators who voted for the bailout would panic.
Yeah I'm all for Perry, but if there is a runoff I hope it's between him and Medina. The KBH types NEED to go.
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I'm very sensitive and aware and attuned to energies of any and every kind when i'm settled,calm and open to FEEL you and your pain,energy, intention or desire. I've been to one of Bones' concert over a a decade ago. I saw and felt some things, some kinda ritualistic vibe seeking out Innocents in the crowd.
@Menace81, @Will-Tha650City and anyone else...what's your take on the lyrics below in bold and underlined?
Hell sent they call me RIP for a reason
I'm on a road to see bloody bodies just call me a demon
It's the psychopathic maniac, manglin' ladies stick a grenade in they pussy
The I start stranglin' babies
See, it's death to all my enemies that's RIP only tactic
But if by chance we kill each other our souls'll go at it
See I'm doggin' the triple six it's death by the sword
I told satan that I'm killin' him through the Ouija board
Bizzy Bone, BTNH, "Hell Sent"
I'll be fuckin' with y'all, slangin' my dogs
And em' all niggas been anxious lil' Bizzy, but it's all good
I still ball, and I know when ya roll
I'm snatchin' your souls with the Bone
We can show it, and since I'm a flow, and it's all of y'all realer
My niggas, I figured I'd let 'em all know it
Playas takin' up off the style, well, if you think I'm scared
You, dead wrong, did you think when I break you down
- Bizzy Bone, BONE THUGS N HARMONY "Shoot Em Up"
Take over the planet with my daily tortures
Of course it's the nigga that's takin no shorts
Smokin on the newports your ghetto resource
And bitch you wanna dig your own ditch
And hit you with levels beyond your control
My momma never raised no punks and hoes
Just relear niggas comin up snatchin souls for dough
Layzie Bone, BTNH, "Ready 4 War"
And I promised, that all tha soulz would last
Til the dayz of tha livez of tomorrow
And if you'd follow, tha end of the world
Should ah come ah so soon, so I just follow, I know
I know, hey, how ta get down foe my thang
Enemiez fold ya, lettin' me soulz, gonna catch ya
Flossin' all tha way
Welcome to Tha Land, where all my chemicalz unfold
Bizzy Bone, BTNH, "Clog Up Ur Mind"

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- Touch of Death on Kindle Touch of Death is now available for pre-order on Kindle. Yay! Find it here. And yes, that is a blurb from Jennifer Armentrout on my cover. So thankful to her for blurbing my book!
- The cold that won't go away! I feel like I've been sick forever. I just want to be healthy again.
- Shawnee Gallery The Shawnee Gallery is reopening under new management and they will be carrying copies of all my picture books. :)
- Love for Touch of Death This review is so good I admit I cried when I read it. Thank you to Kayleigh-Marie Gore. <3 font="font" you="you">3>
- Cyber Monday I admit I prefer Cyber Monday to Black Friday. I'm hoping to find some good deals today.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Monday Mishmash 11/26/12
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Hi kelly! Oh dear, hope the cold goes away soon - there is nothing worse than feeling rubbish and not getting better! Curse you winter colds.ReplyDelete
I might need to indulge in some cyber Monday deals ... cannot face crowds this time of year!
Have a good week!
Take care of yourself, Kelly. I wish I could mail you some chicken soup (Homemade of course!) If you can, drink lots of juice, and get rest throughout the day, perhaps in between Cyber Monday web surfing.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Taurean. I'm drinking lots of orange juice. My Amazon cart is overflowing already. ;)Delete
I got a lot of deals online on Friday. Goodluck with yours today!ReplyDelete
I hope you feel better! I should do some online Christmas shopping too, since I'm off school today. But what's really on my mind are a lot of unanswered questions that are screwing up my plot outlines for the next couple books in my series. If I can't answer them, I can't move forward. Arrrgh.ReplyDeleteReplies
Good luck with the plot questions, Dianne!Delete
You're ready for pre-orders already. I just got a tear in my eye. So happy for you, Kelly!ReplyDelete
Ahhh Cyber Monday-I'm with you there. *shudders* I'm too little for Black Friday. I'd get trampled. :)ReplyDelete
I hope you feel better soon. Happy shopping.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Beverly!Delete
Hope you feel better, Kelly. And congrats on a great review!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Karen!Delete
Keep feeling better. I might see if I can find a deal or two today.My babysitter is sick, so that makes getting anything done a bit harder.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, it does. Good luck!Delete
I am working on a re-design of my blog! I am very excited! Fell better!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Jodi, and good luck!Delete
Hope you feel better. I've never done Cyber Monday but I'd be more interested in that than Black Friday. Congrats on your review!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Auden. Cyber Monday is great!Delete
Feel better soon. :)ReplyDelete
Feel better soon. The holidays suck when you have a cold.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! Yeah, it's not fun being sick on a holiday.Delete
I'm coming down with a nasty cold and stomach flu...starting yesterday, so grrrr. Feel better too. Blurb by Jennifer is wonderful. I'm hoping to score PS3 for my son, but I know next to nothing about gaming systems.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks. Sorry you're sick. Feel better.Delete
Sorry about the lingering cold! Very happy about the book, though. Congratulations.ReplyDelete
I hope you get to feeling better, Kelly. I felt like I had a sinus infection over the last couple days, turns out it's my tooth!ReplyDeleteReplies
Wow! Really? Good luck with your tooth then.Delete
Congratulations on Touch of Death for pre-orders. Colds never do seem to go away these days.ReplyDelete
Feel better soon!ReplyDelete
I have a cold too. It turns out that having mono makes you get colds REALLY easily :\ but hopefully it goes away soon for the both of us!ReplyDelete
I worked on Black Friday for nine hours...so I prefer Cyber Monday too :PReplies
Ouch to working on Black Friday. Glad you made it through the craziness. I hope you feel better soon.Delete
I have been having lots of sinus problems for the past week and I feel like I am on the brink of it all getting worse. I am trying to keep the cold away! I hope you are feeling better. I am busy with report cards this week! Hope you found/find some good deals.ReplyDeleteReplies
I hope you don't get sick, Stephanie. Good luck with those report cards. My daughter got her very first report card last week. So exciting. :)Delete
On my mind today is a novella I am started working on. Oh, and having to drop my daughter off at the airpot. That is never any fun. I am sorry to hear you have the cold with claws of steel. You need a good steam in a sauna. Maybe that will rid you of the nasty germs.ReplyDeleteReplies
Brenda, I'm feeling a lot better today. Good luck with your novella and dropping off your daughter. I know you never like giving her back. I've had my daughter home for a week and as long as this snow doesn't close school, she's going back today, too.Delete
Hope you're feeling better soon, and definitely well for Christmas.ReplyDelete
This week is rather chaotic - I'm split between my children's social life, school events and attempting to kick my husband, *cough, persuade my husband to finish reading my novel (draft 2) so I can start on draft 3. I'm still working on my NaNoWriMo novel but dreadfully behind in wordage. I suppose it's going to be this chaotic until Boxing Day.
Have a great week.Replies
Good luck with all of that, Fi. This time of year is very hectic. You'll get through it though.Delete
Sorry about that never-ending cold, Kelly. As long as you're sure it isn't allergies... I swear by chicken soup. It cures nothing, but it's GOOD :)ReplyDeleteReplies
I have terrible allergies, but this definitely isn't just that. I'm feeling better though. Almost normal. ;)Delete
Today? I'm going shopping for real at Macy's. That's my present to myself for correcting a zillion student papers!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yay! Presents are always good. :)Delete
I had it earlier in the fall where I seemed to have a cold that just wouldn't go away, no matter how much I tried to get rid of it.ReplyDeleteReplies
I hear so many people complaining about it. That and the zombie flu. :)Delete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2012 at 6:03 PM
Awesome. I was waiting for the Kindle version. I pre-ordered. :)ReplyDelete
I've been congested for weeks. :(Replies
Aw, thank you! I really appreciate it, Medeia. :)Delete
Sorry to hear you've been congested. There are so many things going around lately.


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Doing the Devil
Sienna always hated dress-up.
Even as a kid, she resented having to peel off her own clothes to pull on the personality of someone else. She felt confident with who she was and didn't want to disguise herself. Yet, still, every year Halloween came round and she was expected to become a different person.
Tonight was no different. Now twenty-eight years old, her good friends—a married couple called Christian and Maggie—were throwing a party and she'd been invited. Though reluctant to make an appearance, she worried too many no-shows to this type of event would eventually result in her total exclusion from society.
So Sienna donned the unimaginative but customary 'sexy witch' outfit, complete with stockings, a very short skirt and a witch's hat, and headed out to the party. Pausing on her friend's doorstep, she smoothed down her skirt and repositioned her hat. Music and voices blared from behind the door.
Knowing no one would hear her knocking, Sienna let herself in. Bodies pressed on every side, drinks held in hand. The other guests eyed her as she passed. Most of their faces were hidden behind masks—ghosts, goblins and ghouls—and she had no idea if she knew any of them or not.
She spotted Maggie in the kitchen, doling out drinks to her guests. Maggie had gone for an outfit almost as unimaginative as her own—a cat—and black lycra clung to every inch of her extremely curvy body. A mask adorned her face, with not so cat-like sparkles all over it.
Maggie saw her coming and waved a hand, beckoning her over.
"Hi!" she exclaimed. "I'm so glad you came!"
"I can't believe you force me to come to these things. You know how I hate big parties."
"You can't stay locked up in your house on your own for the rest of your life. You're going to die an old maid."
"Thanks," she said. "But sometimes I think dying an old maid would be preferable to making small talk to a load of people I not only don't know, but whose faces I can't even see."
Maggie shoved a large glass of cold white wine into her hand. "Here, get that down you. It'll help loosen you up."
"I hope that wasn't a jibe at me being uptight."
Sienna scoured the party-goers, trying to figure out if she knew anyone. Someone caught her attention but it wasn't because she knew him. One of the guests stood aside from everyone else, not making the customary small talk or even drinking. Sienna caught his eye and had to stop herself stepping back in surprise. He had the most amazing amber eyes she'd ever seen—like those of a lion.
His face had been worked in some kind of make-up, like rippled, burned skin, and painted red. The red paint continued down over his naked upper-torso. He must have waxed because not a single hair marred his smooth skin or ruined the perfect paint job. Fur harem pants covered his lower half and bizarrely, big biker boots completed the outfit.
Despite the hideous disguise, Sienna couldn't miss the broad shoulders and well-rounded curve of this particular trick-or-treater's biceps. This guy was a hunk of beef, despite the freaky outfit.
"Who's that guy?" she asked, nudging Maggie in the ribs and nodding over at the well-built stranger.
Maggie's eyes narrowed behind her cat mask. "I'm not sure. I think he came with one of Christian's friends. Of course it's hard to tell with that weird mask, but I'm pretty sure I'd have clocked that body before if I knew him. Now please excuse me, I have to go mingle."
Her friend sauntered away, leaving Sienna standing in the kitchen feeling awkward. She took a large swig of her wine, hoping to relax. Her eyes were drawn back to the spot where she'd seen the man in the red make-up and her stomach dipped in disappointment. He'd gone.
A voice spoke next to her ear, "I couldn't help but notice you've been staring at me."
Sienna jumped and spun around to find the man she'd been watching staring down at her. His huge frame dwarfed her petite five-foot-four stature.
Her cheeks flushed. "It's the outfit," she said. "I've never seen anything quite like it."
"Thank you," he said, smiling at her, revealing beautiful, straight white teeth. "I always like to make an effort."
She raised her eyebrows. "I can see that. What's your name?"
"Prince," he told her, no hint of a smile on his face.
Sienna grinned. "Prince of what?"
"Prince of darkness."
She laughed, "Don't tell me you're like one of those method actors who always stays in character."
Now he smiled, flashing those perfect teeth. "No. I come in many forms."
Her eyes roved his chest. "I bet you do." She dragged her eyes away, aware that she was blatantly perving. "So who do you know here? Did you come with some of Christian's friends?"
"Oh, I know pretty much everyone," he laughed. "But that doesn't mean I enjoy hanging out with them. These things are always a bit much for me. I prefer things to be on a more intimate scale."
His words rang true to Sienna. Perhaps she and this beast of a man had something in common?
"I'm the same," she admitted. "I can't stand big parties."
"So let's go somewhere more private," he said, moving to take hold of her hand.
"Hey, no," she said, batting his hand away. His brazenness had taken her by surprise. "I don't like men who play dress up."
But he leaned toward her, his breath fiercely hot against her ear. "Who said I had dressed up?"
A delicious shiver ran down her spine and settled deep in her pussy. She couldn't deny this guy was unbelievably sexy. Even through the make-up, she could still see his luscious full lips and the depths of those amazing amber eyes. It had been awhile since she'd been laid bare in the hands of a man, and this guy seemed like a very good place in which to break her famine.
Sienna slipped her palm into his large hand and before she knew what was happening, he'd whisked her through the throngs of people and into one of the bedrooms. A pile of coats were bundled on the bed and she stood beside it, once again feeling awkward.
"Turn around," he instructed, his eyes burning in the dim light.
Burning? How could they be burning?
But she didn't get the chance to think about it any further because he pulled on her arm and twisted her around so she faced the bed. Her heart pounded in her chest. This was crazy! She didn't do things like this.
Yet somehow she wanted to. She never did anything out of the ordinary and here she was, about to put herself in the hands of this bizarre but charismatic man.
He bent her over the bed and pushed up her skirt, flipping it over her back. She stood, exposed in her panties, suspenders and heels, but even this modicum of clothing didn't last for long. His hot hands slid down the curve of her hips, catching her panties in his fingertips. In one smooth move, he rolled them down over her ass and thighs. Sienna stepped out of the ring of lace and he tossed them away.
His hot hands cupped her buttocks and his thumbs ran down the crack of her ass, dipping down into her pussy. Moisture flooded between her folds and her inner sheath clenched in anticipation. She'd never wanted to be penetrated so much in her life.
Heat radiated from his skin, burning into her back.
How could someone survive with such a fever?
Sienna ignored all the questions going through her head, lost in the sensation of his hot hands massage her sopping slit, rubbing back and forth, sliding further between her labia just a little more each time. Pleasure soared through her body, making her head spin.
She moaned and pushed her ass back, hoping he'd get the message and push inside her.
He got the message, but it wasn't his fingers he penetrated her with.
Instead, the fat, bulbous end of his cock pushed against her pussy. Feeling how big he was, Sienna spread her legs further, opening her cunt for him.
With a single, smooth motion, he pushed inside her, filling her. Sienna gasped—she'd never been filled so completely before and her inner muscles stretched to their limits to take him.
She dropped her hands to the bed, using the support to hold herself upright.
His cock reached up inside her as though it were an individual being, writhing, stroking, twisting. It seemed to touch every part of her, like an inquisitive animal nosing against her most intimate parts.
Sienna twisted her head around to get sight of the amazing cock, thrusting in and out of her.
His hand was wrapped around his thick length, pumping himself back and forth, masturbating over her back. Sienna's mind blurred. If he was touching himself, then what the hell continued to thrust its way in and out of her pussy with such finesse?
Her eyes widened as she saw something else reaching from between his legs; something long, and thick, and scaly.
A tail? Surely he wasn't fucking her with a tail?!
She tried to step away, but he caught the back of her neck in one long-nailed hand, holding her still.
I'm imaging things, she told herself, unwilling to remove herself from the crazy pleasure coiling and twisting deep in her cunt. She'd never experienced anything like it before—a whole new level of being fucked.
He stomped on the ground, the sound like horses' hooves. She glanced back to see his head tipped back, his lips parted as he revelled in his own pleasure. But just before she turned back to the bed, she caught a glimpse of something white and curved growing from his forehead—horns!
The fear she should have felt was smothered by the ecstasy racing through her body. Nobody had touched her in such a way before, as though he stimulated the essence of her soul.
To add to her pleasure, he reached around her body and his burning fingers found her swollen clit. Already engorged with arousal, the added heat and pressure of the circular motion he applied tipped her over the edge.
Suddenly her orgasm mounted through her, too powerful for her body to contain. The room swam, her consciousness washed away, battered by the storm.
Just before she lost consciousness, he leaned over and kissed the back of her neck, his lips burning her flesh, and she heard him say,
"Now you are mine."
Sienna woke up on the spare bed, confused and disorientated. From outside the bedroom door, the sounds of the party continued—music playing, laughter, people talking. She remembered what had happened and sat up, looking around. Her lover was no longer in the room.
Remembering how he'd kissed her, she got to her feet and made her way to the mirror. A light switch was beside the vanity stand and she flicked the switch, flooding the room with light.
Sienna twisted her neck around. Reflected in the mirror, her pale skin was now branded with a red birthmark in the shape of a kiss.
Prince of Darkness, he'd told her was his name.
And now she was his queen.
Copyright © 2012 M.K. Elliott
All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, or have been used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. No portion of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.


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Being from analytics world, I enjoy keeping myself abreast with the problems that can be solved with data. Psychology is one such field that finds its roots in mathematical techniques employed to make predictions and test the foundations of assertions propounded by the society or the hypotheses of social experiments. Designing the experiments is of utmost importance and should be done meticulously as the outcome of the experiments makes the prediction for the entire population based on the sample selected.
Last week I skimmed through a book called Experiments with people by Abelson, Frey, and Gregg and I enjoyed reading the premise and the conclusion of various social studies conducted in the 20th century. One of the study was by Matthew Ansfield and the conclusion was if you want to sleep and someone is playing loud music then the rational thing to fall asleep early is try to keep yourself awake. I will definitely try this one when my juvenile delinquent neighbor will have a late night party. Another experiment conducted by Solomon Asch in 1955 dealt with the idea that how people change their behavior to conform to the groups. A group that knows the right thing to do ends up making more mistakes if there are agents present in the group who want to take the wrong steps. The desire to be liked is a dangerous one and as French sociologist Gabriel de Tarde said "Social man is a somnambulist".
There was one very interesting experiment conducted in 1990 that caught my attention. It was called "Ackmians Are From Mars, Orinthians Are From Venus: Gender Stereotypes as Role Rationalizations". Curt Hoffman and Nancy Hurst tried to show that gender stereotypes can arise as a direct result of two groups taking on different social roles ( jobs, household care etc), even when the members of those groups share similar traits. The chapter started with an image of a man and a woman both with stethoscope around the neck and a question in subscript, doctor and nurse or nurse and a doctor? Very keen and interesting question it was. Alice Eagly had studied in 1987 that the underlying differences between a woman and a man are typically small. They become magnified, however, because men and women tend to take on or be assigned to different social roles. The researchers claimed that the differences between men and women are too small for people to detect them. In the society, agentic roles that require assertiveness and independence are attributed to men while communal roles of nurturing, social care are attributed to women. This role assumption has given rise to gender stereotype despite there being a trivial difference between a man and a woman. When it comes to assuming an agentic or a communal role, each gender can perform it with utmost perfection given a chance.
Why do such stereotypes exist? In short – they are explanatory conveniences that allow people to justify the social status quo. Researchers exposed the participants to fictitious species from a planet and they named the two members of the species – Ackmians and Orinthian. They were told that the members of the two groups were either child raisers or workers involved in high tech business etc. The result from the experiment – Ackmians or Orinthians were considered agentic if most of them had a job such as business, high tech etc, or relatively communal if most of them were child raisers, even though no group personality differences existed to corroborate such biased impressions. Not only gender but racial stereotypes also have no roots but they are there and segregating and hollowing the society for ages. There were many extensions of this research and it turns out that gender stereotypes were unaffected by ethnicity. In a study by Niemann and others in 1994, women irrespective of African, American, Asian, Latin American descent were found to be gentle, pleasant, and friendly by the participants while men were taken as tough, alpha creatures.
The book "Men are from mars and women from venus – by John Gray (1992)" amplifies these differences to preposterous proportions. It obsesses with gender differences. Had Phyllis Schalfly read it, she must have been overjoyed for she found another follower of her conservative thought process. Let's take height as an example, on an average men are taller than women but there are many women who are taller than men. Do we go on and make the unwarranted conclusion that all women are short while all men are tall? No, we don't. Then why is there a black and white stance when it comes to jobs in the market? The recent incidents at Uber show how sexist the workplace can be. Susan J Fowler's blog will tell you how a typical male chauvinist, sexist work culture might operate. The number of CEOs in the job industry is highly skewed towards males; people say that CEO is a high risk job that requires certain skills females don't possess while the truth might lie in the fact that women have been assuming the communal roles for too long and that's why they are not taken as assertive and strong.
This is a classic case of the logical fallacy – post hoc ergo propter hoc ( after this therefore because of this) and it is high time that we abolish such hypocritical stance and build an unbiased society.


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Updated again 9.26.10
If you are on Facebook and friends with Ozzie Clumber, you can see the identities of all or most of these people. The original story of the red hats is here. I've met more than a dozen of these folks in person. We are from all over. Our leader with the purple hat is MadPriest who lives in England. The gal with the drumsticks is Lindy who lives in Wuxi, China. Some of us are on the other side now. They have golden hats. As I said, I'm blessed with so many wonderful, caring and definitely interesting friends. And these are just some of my blog friends.


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You could create the query using a sprintf call that prints the number of digits you expect, i.e.
where $fv is the value to put in the query and $dv is the value from the database.
What that really does is use decimal representation and string conversion to set the accuracy of the floating point value. It's equivalent to querying the database for matches to a given level of accuracy:
For some reason, the comparison version bothers a lot of programmers, where chopping off digits in a string representation doesn't.
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He/She is mostly recognized from the YouTube channel "NISLT" by helping him out with the thumbnails for his videos and "Spamming" on his channel, which led to his comments being in a few of his videos such as "TF2: How to do 420% skilled triple airshot" at 2:06 minutes.
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Iron Cactus Table-Side Guacamole
Serves 4 to 6
2 ripe avocados (if need further ripening, put in a brown paper bag for a day or two)
1 T. finely chopped red onion (yellow onion would likely also be fine)
2 heaping T. chopped tomato (I used several cherry tomatoes)
1/4 t. Sriracha hot chile sauce (The restaurant used some finely chopped jalapeno, about half a pepper. I forgot to buy the jalapeno when I was at the store, so I substituted the hot sauce. This was fine, and it's easier than dicing the jalapeno.)
2 T. finely chopped cilantro
juice from 1 lime
juice from half an orange (juices together come to a scant 1/3 cup; less also OK)
Salt, to taste
- Mix lime juice, orange juice, salt, hot sauce or jalapeno, onion and cilantro together in bowl.
- Add avocado and mash with fork.
- Add tomato.
This makes a "juicier" guacamole than usual, but the fresh juice adds a lot to the taste.


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Monday Mix #8
S.T.E.A.K. – Peelander Z
Recently I trekked across blog land, collecting over 60 mp3s, in the hope of finding something good. After listening through them all, I emerged with just one usable track. It was absolutely worth it. Medium rare!!!!!
Easier - Grizzly Bear
It took my while to get into Grizzly Bear's critically acclaimed Yellow House. In fact I didn't even give it a listen until recently because I had found their previous album rather boring. Thankfully however, I got there eventually and was able to experience what was undoubtedly some of last year's best vocal work.
Bad Education – Tilly And The Wall
I don't what it is, but something about this song just grabs me. I almost feel embarrassed by this fact, like it's one of those guilty pleasures that you keep all to yourself (just pretend for the moment). But there's no point being ashamed of music you like, just get out there and enjoy it!
Dear Employee – Papercuts
If you can get past the slightly whiney vocals, you'll find that Papercuts make some great music.
Vintage Books - Cloud Control
It had been a quite while since I'd heard from Cloud Control, but now they've re-emerged with a swag of exciting new songs and an EP on the horizon. If you wanna see them live (and you should), they're playing Spectrum this Saturday. I hear the support is pretty hot too…..


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When is it time to call a day, gift-giving-wise?
Friendships can grow stale over the years, as we grow in different directions. Yet it can be hard to know when – or how – to bring the gift-giving years to a close. Will we be perceived as rude? Heartless? What if the other person sends a gift when we don't?
Consider: are you still in touch with the person fairly frequently – say, more than three times a year? Do you write or phone each other, or keep in touch via Facebook or other social networks, to share news? If living locally, do you ever meet for coffee or a meal? If the answer to these is 'no', then I think it's reasonable to 'downscale' to a more modest gift or maybe just a greeting card. If the gift-giving has become arduous rather than easy and joyful, that's another clue that maybe it's time to change.
If you're still reasonably close to the person, and feel you can raise the matter of gifts for this Christmas, chances are they will be just as relieved as you if you agree to downscale or even cease the gift giving.
With family friendships, what started out as a few cute gifts for a new baby may become harder to sustain as the children grow in both age and number. It can be a burden trying to purchase a gift for each child, particularly if you're no longer as close to the family and are less familiar with their needs, wants and current possessions.
My suggestion is to gradually move away from individual gifts, to one 'family' gift that everybody can enjoy, like a variety box of deluxe cookies, chocolates or a fabulous cake. Perhaps a gift hamper, a family movie pass, or a board game that they can play together. And in time, the family gift may itself become more modest in nature, and even move down to just a greeting card.


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I'm really excited by this, it's the 22 piece brush set! It pretty much has every single brush I wanted that I didn't already have, plus tons of eyeshadow backups for looks with multiple colors. I can't wait to start using it. (I need to wait for the brushes to dry, since I just washed them *impatient* )
|This is what the brushes came in. Love this brush roll/case! It's light and really convenient :)
|These are all the brushes included in the set, minus the fan brush which is further on the left in a separate compartment to keep it from getting squished by the other brushes. There is so many of them :D
So far, for the price I paid for the set (35$ + 9$ shipping), I'm really impressed. I've just washed them and none of them have shed or bled and all of them are super soft ♥
Up next is individual picture of all the brushes I most excited about. I took pictures of all of them, but since there's so many, it would be too long just to post them all! Tell me if you would like me to post a picture of one of the brushes in the set I didn't include!
|This is an angled brush. You can use it for contouring (which I'm not really into) or for placing blush or bronzer. It's a little smaller than I expected, but the quality is great.
|This fan brush is seriously large! I love it ♥ I was a little worried about this one since I read a comment on CS's page last week about the edges being a little rough, but mine is soft all over, phew!
|This is a standard foundation brush. I didn't have one so I'm glad the set included one. It's super soft and just the right size.
|This is a rounded crease brush. I didn't have any crease brushes that wasn't either a blending brush or angled so I can't wait to try this. I'm pretty sure it will be a lot more precise for placing colors in the crease.
|I think this is supposed to be a blending brush. I love that it isn't so fluffy so that you can just blend a little without making the colors muddy.
|This one is jut like the MAC 219 (at least the shape is the same from what I can tell of pictures - I don't own any MAC brushes so I might be wrong!) It's not too flimsy so it gives great control for detail-work.
This is the rest of the products I purchased at various drugstores:
|All the nail polishes I got. From left to right : Wet n Wild - Burgundy Frost, L.A Colors - White and Wet n Wild - Puple Potion
|I also got a sharpener with a large opening for my NYX jumbo pencils (mine were all flat), a glitter/cream shadow palette from the Wet n Wild Halloween collection and a NYX eyeliner in White.
|Here's a close up of the lip gloss! Isn't the shimmer so pretty? I love it :D
That's all I got! Tell me what I should review next! :)
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A beautiful Italian hand made glass tile mosaic pin set in brass.
The center floral design has flowers and foliage, it is framed with white tiles and then fine twisted wire.
The border design is a series of half circles in pink and blue with accents in orange and white.
The mosaic is mounded, the highest point is the oval of flowers.
The metal bezel has a row of raised beads around it.
Nicely made and in very good condition, no major damage, there maybe some tiny tiles missing, certainly not noticeable if that is the case.
It has the old safety pin C style closure and is marked Italy which is incomplete.
Measures 1&1/8" by 7/8".
A lovely example of Italian glass mosaic.
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It was last fall, as Americans dared hope that a new administration would take office just in time to save America, Bush announced a first big 'bailout' which would, we were told, prevent a financial collapse, a great depression, a panic! Not least among many reasons the bailout failed is the fact that the wrong people got the money.
Although Richard Nixon had famously claimed "We are all Keynesians now", nothing could be further from the truth now.Thanks to the misplaced reverence for Augustus Reagan, we are all still Friedman monetarists --not Keynesians. That is why the bailout failed and it is the reason future bailouts will fail unless something is done to address the root cause of collapse: the wrong people got the money!
It was only last fall that the FED and officials of the Treasury Department 'rode to the rescue' of all the wrong people, specifically, the very financial institutions that created this mess to begin with. In the wake of all this failure, incompetence and criminality, there was great hand wringing, wailing, gnashing of teeth because the 'n' word had been uttered. Nationalize the banks! At this point, it won't make any difference.As 'the Who' famously said, 'the new boss, same as the old boss'. What is needed is not a new boss following the same, tired, failed policies. What is needed is some intelligent thinking about what drives economies! Here are some clues: banks do not drive economies. Rich elites do not drive economies. Governments do not drive economies. Big corporations do not drive economies though many board chairs are deluded and believe themselves to be 'captains of industry'. Bullshit!
More than 83 corporations have offshore subsidiaries where their funds are protected in tax havens in the Caymen islands such as: The Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, AIG, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and even Pepsi and General Motors who received 13.4 billion have hundreds of millions of dollars in tax havens offshore. All these corporations receive protection from paying the US government their taxes and the loss to the US is into the 100 billion dollars of lost tax revenue.< Senator Carl Levin a democrat from Michigan and Byron Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota requested the report to be released and are pushing for new laws prohibiting these bailout scam corporations from being tax dodgers while asking for bailouts from the taxpayer
The Government Accounting Office includes 63 of the 100 largest contractors who receive government contracts also have accounts in tax haven countries.The bailouts failed because the wrong people got the money. The government would have done better had it just put billions of dollars in mason jars, buried them in a land fill and let the unemployed dig them up! That is as true now as when Keynes first proposed it back in the thirties. You can bet those folks would have spent the money and, by doing so, revived the collapsing, moribund GOP economy that Bush left us.
--Bailout Corporation Tax Havens in Caymen Islands
Instead, Bush gave the money to fat cats who parked it in offshore tax havens --a fact that may be solely responsible for the worst contraction of the US economy in a quarter century, an annualised 3.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008! That's the worst result since 1982, the year of Ronald Reagan's big tax cut. It was also the year of the 'Reagan Recession', the worst since Herbert Hoover's GOP 'Great Depression'!
Of the 100 largest public companies, 83 do business in tax-haven hotspots like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands, where they can move their income into tax-free accounts. .In the list of 100 companies that GAO studied were 63 with major federal contracts, including Caterpillar, BearingPoint, Boeing, Merck & Co. and Kraft Foods. ...Legislators gave particular attention to the 14 companies on the list that received bailout money from the Treasury in the recent financial meltdown.
--GAO Report: Off-Shore Tax Havens for Bailed-Out Companies and Government Contractors?In the meantime, more banks are going bust. Let them fail! Fuck the banks.
With two of the nation's largest banks buckling under yet another round of huge losses, the incoming administration of Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve are suddenly dealing with banks that are "too big to fail" and yet unable to function as the sinking economy erodes their capital.
Particularly in the case of Citigroup, the losses have become so large that they make it almost mathematically impossible for the government to inject enough capital without taking a majority stake or at least squeezing out existing shareholders.
And the new ground rules laid down by Mr. Obama's top economic advisers for the second half of the $700 billion bailout fund, as explained in a letter submitted to
- Congress on Thursday, call for the government to play an increasing role in the major activities of the banks, from the dividends they pay to shareholders to the amount they can pay executives.
--New York Times, Rescue of Banks Hints at NationalizationWe should have been bailing out the depositors. By 'depositors', I am not talking about big corporations, who, like the banks, have taken monies out of the US economy. For example --General Motors which pocketed $13.4 billion and then promptly squirreled it away in 11 offshore subsidiaries. GM's 'financing arm, GMAC received $5 billion in bailout and quickly exported to two offshore units.
GMACs majority owner is the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP. Boycott them!If Obama were a part of the 'revolution', he would have already nationalized the crooks, seized their assets and put the monies back into the hands of original depositors whose expenditures would most certainly revive the ruined economy that the GOP thinks it has washed its guilty hands of. The trend in which an increasing tiny elite of about one percent of the total population would end up owning more than the rest of us combined is, at last, having the effect I warned about.
The Reagan years can be summed up briefly. He doubled the size of the Federal Bureaucracy and tripled the national deficit. The most pernicious effect of GOP economic policy is the effect of declining opportunity, a corollary of decline in wealth among all but the very rich.It is merely rhetorical to ask: why does the GOP seem to repeat ad nauseam utterly failed strategies that have never been shown to work? Reagan's Budget Director, David Stockman called Reaganomics a 'Trojan Horse'. He understood that tax cuts were not intended to trickle down.
That's just how they are sold. Rather --the tax cuts always do precisely what the GOP insiders know they will do: they enrich the GOP base! They are 'laundered' pay offs. Thanks to enlightened tax policies during the administration of FDR, the US was at its most egalitarian throughout WWII and the post war era. Things did not change dramatically until the rise of 'Reagonomics', a polite word given the transfer of wealth upward to those already rich and will only invest it offshore where it cannot possibly help provide jobs at the local level. This is truly 'mainstreet' vs 'Wall Street'.
The rise of Ronald Reagan brought with it a spreading of wealth upward to the upper classes and Wall Street insiders, in fact, an increasingly tiny elite of just one percent of the nation which owns more than 90 percent of the nation's total wealth. That fact is graphically illustrated above. The result is factually documented by the government's own agencies --Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Commerce-BEA, et al. Income inequality is measured by what economists call the GINI index. The higher the GINI, the greater the inequality. These numbers, recognized and cited by economists from Friedman to Krugman, from Keynes to Galbraith, invariably increase during GOP regimes.Now --as the late Steve Kangas pointed out, 'conservatives' will claim that correlation is not 'causation'. I think conservatives are wrong on that point, but if, in fact, GINIS always go up under GOP regimes, what difference does it make?The pragmatic solution is simply this: fire the GOP! Permanently!
We cannot afford to continue to support both the GOP and its elite, pampered, privileged sponsors in business, industry and government. See more about 'income inequalities' at: What do liberals believe about income inequality? Also: Myth: The rich get rich because of merit.
The 'contraction' of an economy is typically called a 'depression'. The US economy is contracting due to 1) the transfer of wealth to but about one percent of the population; 2) this 'elite' has transferred most of its wealth offshore where it has absolutely no good effect on the domestic US economy. The current collapse of the US is the end result of a trend that was begun with the passage of Ronald Reagan's infamous tax cut for his rich, elite base. The year was 1982. Historians willl write of that date that it was the beginning of the end of the American empire.


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Yesterday, while driving between Toronto and London, my husband and I were brainstorming new names for my blog. I'll be returning to work soon, and since this blog's purpose was to document my maternity leave, it makes sense to retire it. Also, I hate the name of this blog. I only chose it because I'd already wasted several weeks trying to come up with a name I liked and and I suspected that if I didn't just pick a damn name, my leave would be over before I wrote my first post. I'm glad I picked something, but the name just doesn't work for me, so come end of February, I'm going to retire this blog.
There were we, in the rental car somewhere near Hamilton, DH at the wheel, me with iPad in hand, brainstorming blog names. Being a purist, DH insisted that we brainstorm properly, meaning we were to throw out words without judgement. This is difficult for me, as I'm a judgy McJudgerson. I was scolded a couple times, but more or less succeeded in withholding comment. This is pretty amazing given the doozies DH threw out. I mean, do I strike you as the type of person who would have the words lollipop or sparkles in her blog name? I thought not.
As part of the exercise, I decided to peruse my google reader feeds. This is how I discovered that I am currently following 66 sewing and/or quilting blogs. This doesn't include the 20+ knitting blogs I follow, or the 20+ general craft blogs I follow, or the 20+ mommy blogs I read many of which include writing about crafting with their kids. Nor does it include the various individuals I follow on Pinterest, Flickr or Facebook who craft it up. These are specifically blogs about sewing or quilting. Recall that I began sewing in July of this year, at which time I followed a grand total of zero such blogs. Aside: many of these 66 bloggers also began blogging within the last year. Many are extremely prolific. We sewists and quilters know how to commit, yo!
As this was my first year immersed in the craft blog world, I was not fully prepared for December. You see, come December, craft blogs become ALL CHRISTMAS, ALL THE TIME. There are Christmas mug rug swaps. Christmas tree skirt tutorials. Christmas cookie recipes. Christmas wreath ideas. Christmas ornaments to make with toddlers. Christmas ornaments to make with tweens. Quilted stockings. Gifts for teachers. Gifts for babysitters. Gifts for children, sisters, second cousins once removed.
I am not a Christmas person, although I try not to begrudge those who live for the season. As someone who doesn't celebrate Christmas, I generally do my best to tune out commercial Christmas. I avoid malls and mute the commercials on TV (I actually do this year round, but more fervently during the month of December). I find the whole secular holiday season a bit much, what with all the BUY, BUY, BUY. I don't like how people equate Hannukah with Christmas in order to be multi-cultural and/or to try to keep the Jewish kids from feeling left out. I never felt left out as a kid. I felt SUPERIOR. Because I knew Santa Claus didn't exist and all the other kids believed in him. Yeesh. How immature. (My mom made me promise not to tell the other kids in kindergarten what I knew to be true about Santa because that would be mean). Basically, when it comes to Christmas, I just try to get through December without being grinchy.
Having my beloved blogs taken over by Christmas has been annoying.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Green is for Grinch, or How December Ruined my RSS Feeds
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- AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 9:42 PM
Well... just for you, how 'bout eight days of Chanuka-related blogging? Are you with me?ReplyDelete
Sara...the whole point is that I don't *want* to blog about the holidays. Although...I did come across this block and could be talked into making and blogging it: http://generationqmagazine.com/2011/12/playdate-a/ReplyDelete
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To bridge the gap between the hearing and deaf communities, Buford Elementary School third-grade teacher Mary Anna Wilkes is spending her summer learning American Sign Language.
Wilkes' interest in learning sign language started at her previous job with the Head Start program at Southside Elementary School 10 years ago, where she had the opportunity to work with young children who had hearing impairments.
At Tuesday's meeting of Lancaster City Council, Charlotte Shaw, widow of the city's longest-serving mayor, was given a quilt made from his shirts bearing the city's logo.
Joe Shaw, who was mayor for 33 years, died last November.
Several months ago, Charlotte Shaw brought several of his shirts by City Hall to be given to municipal employees, but city staff decided to have a quilt sewn for her, instead.
Almost a month after an Ohio teen died from a "brain-eating amoeba" found in the water at the U.S. National Whitewater Center, officials are still deciding how to dispose of that water.
The U.S. National Whitewater Center closed June 24, but it still contains12 million gallons of water in a big pool.
The mobile game that has swept the nation in the past two weeks is getting many young Lancaster residents off their couches and into the city to play.
It's called Pokémon Go.
The "augmented reality" app ties the virtual world of Pokémon to real-life landmarks around downtown Lancaster and across the country.
Residents of Indian Land's Legacy Park subdivision say heavy construction traffic from a neighboring development is destroying two of the community's roads.
Leslie Jamieson of Xandra Court has lived in the neighborhood for seven years and walks her dogs along Vance Baker Road twice a day.
Jamieson said since July 5, a steady stream of dump-truck traffic in and out of a new development at the end of the road has caused severe cracking along the shoulder of Vance Baker.
John Newell, 97, was presented with a Quilt of Valor in May by the Springs Creative Open Hearts quilting group at his home in Lancaster.
Newell was in the Army for 23 years, serving in three wars. He was an infantry corporal in World War II. After leaving the military, he re-enlisted during the Korean War and served as an infantry staff sergeant. During the Vietnam War, he served as staff sergeant in an artillery division.
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"We have a mystery shopping assignment in your area and we would like you to participate," the employment ad said. "Your wages would be $260 for any work you carry out and you can carry out two assignments in a week."
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RICHBURG – There are a couple of new workers on the Lancaster & Chester Railway these days, but you might not recognize them. The new workers are a "mother-slug" combination.
L&C retiree Ed Sharpe said a mother-slug is basically two engines joined together.
CHESTER – The issue of whether or not Sunday sales of alcohol will be legal in the unincorporated portions of Chester County is now in the hands of voters.
On July 5, Chester County Council approved third and final reading on an ordinance that puts the matter on the Nov. 8 general election ballot.
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The tragic killings this week in Baton Rouge, Minneapolis and Dallas prompted reactions of anger, fear and hope for peace in Lancaster County as they did across the country.
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I was ambitious and considered being there when the doors opened, but when I saw the clock in the morning... it seemed a little ridiculous to wake at such an hour in the summer - even for a cupcake. By 8:00am, I was feeling ready to greet the day and a brand new cupcakery.
Of course I'm the queen of wasting time while getting ready, so I didn't arrive at Cupcake Royale on Capitol Hill until close to 11:00am. I was happy with that time; at least I beat the lunch crowd. The bakery was super cute! From the stained glass cupcake, to the crisp white walls, to clear glass window that held row after row of cupcake goodness.
I was just going to get a couple of cupcakes, but when I got to the front of the line, "I'd like one of everything, please," popped out of my mouth. She said, "So, how many do you want?" I replied with, "However many you have." It sounds excessive, but it wasn't as bad as you're imagining right now. I asked her to replace any full sized with a "Babycake" when possible. I ended up with six full size cupcakes and two babycakes. You thought it would be worse, didn't you?
The boxes hold four cupcakes neatly in place with a clear cellophane window so you can see the pretty icing swirls. I gotta say, I like Cupcake Royale's personality. Underneath their logo on the box are the words, "Does a Booty Good." Who's booty? I'm guessing with eight cupcakes, not mine. All sorts of other clever cupcake tips and tidbits are printed along the box - great packaging!
I finally made it home with my cupcakes in tow, and I just couldn't wait for Dear Ben to get home. I needed a taste pronto. I've only ever loved the red velvet from Sprinkles so I felt I might as well get this test over with first. I cut only a sliver. The first bite was cake only. Initially, I felt it wasn't as moist as a Sprinkles Cupcake, but then the flavor took over. It was a perfect red velvet. Then I had a bite with some icing. The top of the cake had a bit of a crunchy texture, and I loved it. Yep, I'm in red velvet heaven! I really wanted to keep eating and tasting every single one of them, but I wanted Dear Ben to see how cute they were in their boxes.
Red Velvet
After dinner at Phở Tic Tac (which you can read about in another post soon), I shared my cupcakes. The red velvet review from Dear Ben and Friend Jeff was consistent with mine. Dear Ben ate most of the carrot, but I had a bite too It was a very moist cupcake with shreds of carrot and perhaps bits of pineapple, but I didn't care for so many walnuts. Maybe you do, and if so, by all means go for it! The nice lady at the counter said the carrot was her favorite. It was Dear Ben's favorite too.
Other than a few speciality cupcakes, you will basically find a white cake and a chocolate cupcake base. The white cake was dense like a poundcake; they call it "buttercake." The chocolate cake was less dense, but you could definitely tell it was chocolate. The differences in the buttercream icing are what disguishes one cupcake flavor from another cupcake flavor - not the cake.
Strawberry Cupcake
The strawberry is their cupcake of the month, and it's made with 66% local ingredients. They say it tastes like Strawberry Shortcake, but better. If you look at it from that perspective, then yes, but Dear Ben said with his half smile and a gulp that he liked the Sprinkle strawberry cupcake better. He said he liked the price better at Cupcake Royale, however.
Friend Jeff got to have the lemon cupcake all to himself. He made a special request for that one, so it was all his! He said it was sweet and not tart, and he enjoyed the white cake base. The bonus Lemonhead candy on top was a great touch!
The last two cupcakes to try were the lavender and the coconut. The menu says that they stir in "delicate little lavender buds" into the icing of the lavender cupcake. To me, it tasted like white cake with regular buttercream icing. While tasty, it didn't have a bold flavor of anything other than vanilla to me. The coconut cupcake had sweet coconut flakes on top. Tastes just like you think it would.
I won't say that Sprinkles has been beaten, but I won't say that they've won either. They are two very different cupcake entities.
Cupcake Royale, I'm actually surprised at how much I enjoyed your sweet treats. I'm already making my list for the next visit... Triple Threat, Salty Caramel, and the Peppermint Party to start. If reading this post causes a cupcake craving and you can't make it to Capitol Hill - don't fret - they have locations in Ballard, Madrona, and West Seattle!
...and those are my Notes from the Napkin!
Hey Napkin Readers!
Do you have a favorite cupcakery in the Seattle area? Let me know, and I'll do the dirty work for you. Somebody's gotta do it, right?
Cupcake Royale
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Where has the time gone, it is the last day of November and time to do the Foodie Penpal Revel. This month my package came from Nae Carter who blogs at I Choose the Sun.
In our communication, I told Nae that I had a real sweet tooth. Boy did she hear that! My package was crammed with all sorts of goodies to take care of that sweet tooth. Nae sent so many wonderful treats that I have not yet finished them all.
First there was this little bag of Moose Munch (what a cute name). I love glazed popcorn, and this one had cashews in it, one of my favorite nuts.
I think I am going to use these dried pears in a snack mix. Interesting, I live where pears are grown, but I've never eaten dried ones that I know of.
This bag of trail mix was delicious.
Of course, a sweet tooth needs candy, and Nae took good care of it with these. I have been a good girl and restrained myself so there is some left.
Thanks Nae for sending me a great package to finish out the year.
Foodie Penpals was started by Lindsay over at the Lean Green Bean in September 2011. There is now an exchange in Canada and in Europe. For the month of December, we are making a contribution to charity, but the exchange will get rolling again in January. If you would like more information on how to join in the fun, drop by Lindsay's blog toward the end of December. She will have all the information up for getting started in the new year.
My package went to Barbara Geeco in Virginia who does not have a blog.
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Anoop makes top 13 of American Idol Season 8!!
Season 8 of American Idol has brought many surprises. One that made me extremely happy was that they added another person to the usual "top 12". My favorite ANOOP was given this lucky second chance. I think he will go very far.
I'll be the first to say the people who I think will make it through most of the season, if not, become the next American Idol: Danny and Lil. Both with extremely different vocals, Danny gives us the Daughtry/David Cook that we loved in American Idol past. However, Lil reminds us of our R&B queens Mary J, Keyshia Cole, and newer artists like Chrisette Michele and Jazmine Sullivan.
Even though I am usually not a big fan of this show, I have my favorites and hope to see them move further towards being Season 8 American Idol!


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We used watercolors to make abstract designs and looked for imaginary creatures in the painting- like looking for images in clouds.
Once we found our creatures, we gave them substance and depth with more watercolor washes, gesso and charcoal.
What amazed me is the variety of individual interpretations and artistic styles workshop members created. It's inspiring to see how the creative mind works in so many different ways.


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Atheists are making people thinking about God, again. How can I donate?
"BathTub said...Visit the URL on the poster perhaps? Not really pretending to be that dense are you? Mind you sometimes you definitely make me wonder."
I checked their website but there was no place to donate. So I called the organizers and left a message for John Rafferty the President of the Secular Humanist Society of New York. I said who I was, told him that I loved these signs that were reminding people about God. I told him to keep up the good work and that I hoped we could meet one day and have lunch.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Goods News for New York
Atheists are making people thinking about God, again. How can I donate?
Posted by Ray Comfort on 10/21/2009 10:17:00 AM
Goods News for New York
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The Bridge
McCaulley Mountain
Bald Mountain, Second Lake, Old Forge, New York
I was invited to spend three days in Old Forge this week with a good friend. I got to paint twice, which was a real treat. Both days it was high 80's and blue sky, perfect for painting. The bugs were very interested in what I was doing, so I was glad to have good bug repellent from Bert's Bees. I am experimenting with using a colored ground on these paintings. You can see the pink coming through. I like it much better than the white of the canvas board. This time I learned a few things: don't forget your umbrella, find a good bug spray, and bring a drop cloth. The drop cloth was good for protecting surfaces I set up on, but it also covered the tall grass where I set up to paint "The Bridge". This kept the bugs from crawling up my legs, which is very distracting!


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The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Violence Policy Center (VPC) are peddling the notion that concealed-handgun permit holders are a danger to society. Last month, the center released a report claiming that in the past three years, 166 people were killed by holders of concealed-weapon permits. A closer look at the evidence suggests that many of the so-called victims of gun violence were criminals. Because more than 6 million Americans hold permits, it is important to set the record straight.
As one of the most populous states with a right-to-carry law, Florida has the most concealed-handgun permits. Between Oct. 1, 1987, and May 31, the state issued them to 1.8 million individuals. So far, just 167 permits have been revoked over any type of firearms-related violation. Most of those involved trivial, nonviolent infractions. To put that figure into perspective, the annual revocation rate is a minuscule 0.00017 percent, with just three revocations since January 2008. More people are killed every year by falling vending machines than by holders of a concealed-weapon permit.
You wouldn't know that from the rhetoric of the gun-control groups, which portray Florida as a dangerous place to live because of its laws. According to the VPC report, the Sunshine State accounted for 17 of the 96 "killer" permit holders nationwide, far more than any other state.
A recent Fox News investigation shot holes in the study. No charges were ever brought in seven of the Florida cases. One case clearly did not involve a permit holder - the person was, in fact, charged with illegally carrying a concealed handgun. Two cases that are still pending apparently involved self-defense, with one local newspaper account suggesting that the permit holder had a "strong case" to show that he had acted properly. Another case involved the accidental discharge of a firearm. The gun grabbers score all of these incidents as kills, but at least nine of them are examples of right-to-carry laws being used by permit holders to protect themselves and their families.
Three cases did result in "convictions," but they hardly represent clear-cut examples. One involved an accidental discharge and a conviction for involuntary manslaughter. In another case, a convicted felon sparked the incident by confronting the permit holder. According to the prosecutor, the permit holder "was in some way defending himself during an escalating altercation between the men caught on the security video" and that, "People can look at that tape and interpret it two or three different ways." His conviction rested on the question of whether he had done enough to avoid the confrontation.
The Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center show their desperation by twisting legitimate examples of self-defense into crimes. The simple fact is that most gun owners are law-abiding citizens. Suggesting that burglars, rapists and other hardened criminals are "victims" of permit holders is a stretch, even for these groups. The real statistics show that America is a safer place thanks to more of its citizens having a right to protect themselves and their families.
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02 July 2010
Gun Grabbers Treat Criminals As Victims
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text: Question: Should you try various faiths to find the best one? Rushdy El-Ghussein, former president of the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City answers: It is difficult to "try" a religion because this action should be preceded by a great deal of thinking and study about the religion in question. The true practice of religion requires devotion, intent and commitment. Matters of faith are not established to one's likes and dislikes. Sometimes religious practices are not easy. But religious beliefs lead one to humility, morality, and compassion and love toward God, humanity and the environment. It brings comfort in times of tragedy and hardship. It makes you want to, and be willing to, help at all times. Your question assumes that the person who is choosing is mature and knowledgeable of all things. What about children? Should we ignore their religious instructions until they are mature and able to choose for themselves? What will happen to society if we do not instill in children high standards of ethical and moral conduct? It is the parents' responsibility to educate and raise intelligent and successful human beings.


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Not quite on track
I thought that once school let out, finals were over, and I had a break from working everyday that I would jump right into work on the two projects that I had planned to do this summer. I was wrong, dead wrong.
Instead I sleep in. I go to internship. I do chores. I job hunt. I bug my sister about giving me the DV tape she owes (because I'm broke and out of tape).
So now that I am working again and I have finally received the tapes from my sister, I feel I can actually start recording and continue collecting more source things. Can I Tell You A Joke is extremely simple and I can start whenever, but Confessions of a Blogger requires more research and a little bit of writing. It's funny because Joke requires the participation of strangers, which I'm not totally ecstatic about; but Confessions only requires myself in the privacy of my own home so I could get started whenever… Just have to get to it.
Otherwise, I'm really ready to graduate. I'm sort of just tired of school and when I found out last week that I passed the upper division writing skills test required for graduation, I was even more ready to go because that means I don't have to take a make-up class this fall and write five extra papers.
I'm still not sure what kind of employment I will get after I graduate. It'd be great to get a paid gig at my internship because it's a really great atmosphere and it's just two blocks away from the Embarcadero to boot; but they're a sub-group of a non-profit so maybe chances are slim, who knows?
I guess for now I'll scope out the job market on Craigslist and hope for the best come graduation.
I gotta do what it takes…
There's an award being given out in my department and I feel like I have a really good chance because Conceptual and Information Arts at SFSU is a really small department and the number of seniors eligible to apply for the award is even smaller, so I feel my chances of winning are really good.
The only thing is, the deadline to apply is this Tuesday and I have to submit a Proposal, a copy of my work, and a Curriculum Vitae. I just hate having to write resumes and anything resembling them, including CVs. They always make me feel like I don't have that much experience and that someone else is better than me or has more skills. I feel like I have at least a 10% chance of winning because of the small size of my department……. I guess I just gotta do what I gotta do because I really really REALLY could use the money.
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Another Project To Develop
I had an epiphany of an idea. Blogs. I'm amazed at how people are so ready and willing to post their life's happenings on a public forum for any stranger to read. For young adults, I think it may have something to do with a study I saw on the news about twenty-somethings and the rise of narcissism. That doesn't fully explain the popularity of blogging, but it does provide a platform to start from.
So my idea is to find personal blogs and perform or act them out in front of a camera. I'm still considering whether or not I should fully dive in and dress the part and make it seem like I'm in a confessional, or if I should just be me for all the blog entries.
The purpose I'm going after, I feel, is to look at the comfort people feel in posting their lives before complete strangers, but walking up to a person on the street and telling them what happened on your family vacation or that you despise your dad is absolutely out of the question. Also, it doesn't seem to bother folks to read all about a stranger's life. Is it then, okay, to see someone talk about their life on camera? That may add an element of "reality" TV to it, but more inwardly focused.
I'm really excited to work on this because I won't need any assistance and production can go by quickly.Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )
Menstruation. and Senior Show
I am proud of myself. When I first began developing "Menstruation." about 3 months ago, I envisioned it as a 2-channel installation type of piece and over time it turned into something else. I'm okay with that, I like what turned out.
While I would really love to develop it more, collecting more interviews to get a more diverse range of attitudes and opinions, for now I feel that I can be proud of it. Maybe I can submit is to art shows and exhibits, who knows?Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )


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Can someone help me with the end in the chamber..? I need some help getting past all the trolls in one of the doors..?
Go down to the common room for a scene where Harry and Ron talk longer than all the other scenes put together. They realise about the Basilisk...ah the end is near. Go down to the second floor and into the girls bathroom. Go into the toilet section for a scene. THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS: Ron doesn't follow you sadly, . You will now fight the big boss: the basilisk. A sword will be thrown down for you, I suggest you use it. The basilisk is a bit dumb, you're going to have to run right near it's nose for it to smell you. Once it does it will rear it's head leaving it's belly exposed. Aim and attack then. Your sword will be thrown away from you so you'll have to get it again. Four hits does the basilisk in, Riddle does the "Noooo...how could i die?" scene and then it's all finished. Well, not quite...there's still the small matter of 'house cup', if you beat Slytherin in the last match
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Punishments Done Right
Fun punishments should never be given out for something you don't want your sub to do. Only use them playfully, and in ways that your sub knows you are playing. Tone and attitude is extremely important. Make sure you are overly playful and cheery about it so he knows you're not seriously upset. For example, when my pet is massaging my legs and thighs (all the way up please) I'll tell him if he gets hard I'll have to spank him, or make him go down on me, etc. It doesn't even have to make sense as a punishment. You can pick pretty much anything you two enjoy for a fun punishment. All you have to do is treat it like one; tell him he's been a naughty boy and he must live with the consequences. These punishments are a lot of fun, and you can find countless great ideas online.
However, one area often overlooked is real punishment, and that's what I'd like to focus on. I call it Domestic Discipline, but I'm sure that's some sort of misnomer in the BDSM world. Sure, if your sub is horny, then almost any punishment has the potential to make him more horny, but the goal with domestic discipline is behavioral change, and it can be accomplished. To me, this is one of the most over looked perks of being a dominant in a D/s relationship. Most subs love the whole "training" aspect, and those that don't, readily accept it. You get a well behaved sub, and they get what they enjoy, being treated as your pet. Both sides enjoy the power exchange.
When dealing with the serious punishments, avoid punishments that are difficult or hard on you. If something is a lot of trouble, then it's also a punishment for you. The exception of course is if it's something you really enjoy, then it's worth the trouble. Perhaps you really enjoy pegging and your guy hates it, then this is still an acceptable punishment for serious offenses. But most men love pegging, and most women don't get any enjoyment from it. So, again, be careful with what you use as punishments. Don't let your sub trick you into a punishment he actually enjoys.
That said, one thing I've learned over the years is that serious punishments should always have a sexual element to them. You don't want your sub to be angry with you about being punished. Having a sexual element involved connects to him on a low, submissive, and sexual level, and reminds him that training is something he wants as well. This association will also help your sub accept his punishment, even if he feels he's being punished unfairly. While some punishments are solely sexual punishments, it's also fairly easy to add in a sexual element to otherwise normal punishments. For example, one vanilla punishment might be standing in the corner for 15 minutes. To add a sexual element to this, have your sub wear weights from his balls for those 15 minutes as well. If he is to clean the yard as part of a punishment, make him wear a butt plug.
For the most part I prefer to use punishments that are sexual in nature all on their own. My personal favorite is ball spanking. I call it spanking because it even sounds harsh. It's the punishment I most commonly give my husband for breaking any of the "pet rules." The pet rules started out as a list of pet peeves, pun intended, but I've added other offenses to the list, such as not getting the door for me. When he breaks a pet rule, I tell him to get himself ready for a ball spanking. If others are around at the time or we're not at home, at the first chance I get I let him know that he will be getting a ball spanking; then when it's time I tell him to get himself ready. This means he is to undress, secure himself to the bed, and wait for me. If he is hard I wait until he's not hard. When we begin I ask him what he did wrong, if I have to tell him then that's an extra spank to the balls. He then is to tell me it was wrong and that he won't do it again. I start with three spanks for a first time offense and increase it if it happens again, decreasing back down towards three if he hasn't broken that rule it in a while. (You might need to hold his cock out of the way depending on how it lays.) Make him count each slap out loud, an extra slap if he doesn't count quickly enough. With pets new to this you'll have to tell them what to do every step of the way, but they learn quickly, especially if you give them an extra spank for needing to be reminded. All you should need to say is, "go get ready for a ball spanking."
Again, be careful your sub isn't enjoying it more than he's disliking it. There are two types of subs interested in CBT (Cock and Ball Torture). The ones who get harder from it, or prefer they are hard during it, and those that will go soft from it, or don't mind being soft during CBT. I think most tops prefer boys from the first group, but there are a lot from the second. This makes this punishment a poor choice for some subs. (Although it could still work, try it if you're interested.) If you're lucky enough to have a sub from the first group, or you know he doesn't fantasize about this sort of thing, then it's a great punishment. With CBT you usually start light and work your way up. The endorphins slowly build up and your sub can take more and more pain. The trick is to administer the ball slaps before the endorphins kick in. Balls can take a lot of abuse, so you can be very rough with them without damaging them. In fact it takes less pressure to break a rib than to rupture a testicle. As I mentioned earlier, if your sub is erect, wait for him to get soft. Don't start slow. Do it fast, and do it hard. If he's getting an erection, hit him harder. I'll say it again, balls can take a lot. Don't be nice, be serious.
Another serious punishment I often use with my hubby is orgasm denial followed by a ruined orgasm, particularly in the case where he comes when he's not allowed. I feel it fits the crime. He doesn't enjoy going week(s) without being allowed to come, and he knows the resulting orgasm won't be as good as it could have been. So it works as a serious punishment. With different subs you'll need different amounts of time to get the same effect. With some, it just won't work, although you may find a ruined orgasm at the end does the trick. Also, since it's a punishment that occurs over a period of time, I have him tell me why he is not allowed to come each time there's a missed opportunity. During such denials I like to make my subs masturbate more, and will make excuses to play with him just so he has to tell me why he is being punished. I've found the repetition helps prevent repeat offenses.
Dealing with a sub on orgasm denial can be tricky as well. Some subs will ask or even beg for less time in orgasm denial. Ironically, I find these are often the ones who've fantasized about it but never experienced it. If your sub starts asking for a reduced sentence, add a day. They learn quickly, and trust me, it can get on your nerves. If a sub isn't asking for less time, but is still complaining, make a rule that any complaint related to punishment must include a thank you, or you'll add a day. I do these two things and it makes orgasm denial much easier to administer. If he comes during this punishment due to a fault of his own, then we start over and his cock isn't allowed any physical stimulation. And if it happened at his own hands, I also double the time. But this is a last resort as this kind of inactive denial can have a huge emotional effect. I can admit when I'm wrong though, and if he warned me he was close but I was having too much fun teasing him and I made him come, we just start the denial over.
I've had other pets in the past who would intentionally make trouble when I announced this was the punishment. I was surprised that men who love an orgasm so much would want to not have one so badly. But it's about the fantasy for them; when actually playing they almost always want that orgasm. When it comes down to it, many realize it's not what they really wanted, and they regret making trouble. What they really want is for you to take control of their orgasms as part of your control over them. (Which I suggest you do anyway.) The lesson here? Some subs fantasize about punishments that other subs hate. There's no fixed set of what works as a punishment. You just have to try things out and use what you know about your sub.
Getting started is easier than you'd think. Make some rules so your sub isn't surprised by your new approach, but feel free to punish him for other things that really upset or anger you. Make a list of things he's not to do, and when he does something wrong, punish him as soon as possible so he associates it with the punishment. If you prefer to wait, or have to because others are around, do your best to point it out to him at the time. And always remind him during punishment. Make him tell you that what he did was wrong, and that he won't do it again. You may want to start with a small set of rules so it's not overwhelming, but feel free to add things as you go. Even if it's just something that bothers you. For an example of the types of things you can fix, here are a couple of my pet peeves: the toilet left up, an empty toilet paper roll, clothes not in the laundry basket, towels on the floor, plates not in the sink, and trash not taken out when it's full.
A good serious punishment should be sexual in nature or at least have a sexual element, and there's a set protocol or guidelines as to how it's done. Most subs will melt when this approach is used, and it helps avoid arguing and resentment. Pick a punishment that's easy on you, and try it out a few times. If it's not working, try a different punishment. Also keep in mind that you'll get much better results if you're consistent with punishment. With the right approach, your sub will not only behave better, but he's going to be more horny. And that's always good.
18 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 13, 2013 at 4:36 PM
Excellent Article, my submissive is female but the same rules apply, I found it very informativeReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2014 at 2:43 PM
If you want to know the real meaning behind Domestic Discipline, you should read The Mistress Manual. It has a detailed chart explaining the difference.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 28, 2014 at 12:18 AM
I loved this.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 15, 2014 at 4:33 PM
My pet always disobeys the punishment I give what do I do?ReplyDelete
First I want to say thank you for an outstanding and exemplary article on punishment.ReplyDelete
As a male sub myself, I can testify to pain and humiliation of testicle abuse and it's remarkable how much punishment the testicles can take without any danger of rupture. But there's another genital 'correction' which is as effective and very painful which a Domme (or Dom) can inflict without permanent damage. It's a good cock whipping or beating with different implements, from various floggers to a straightfoward cane. An erect penis is most effective but even if flaccid the pain is intense. Furthermore, the bruising and likely bleeding from cuts will heal in time and serve as a reminder of the sub's misdemeanour. My first experience of this was a simple fifty lashes with a doubled-up shoelace which drew blood on my erect cock.
I am a kitten and my daddy gives me a real hard time because I'm always bad and he punishes me all the time.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2016 at 3:19 PM
Oh shut the fuck up!ReplyDelete
Thank you!!ReplyDelete
I can't really say I'm part of the BDSM community, but things like this are great (and informative) for when I get with someone into this type of thing.
I've read some of your other posts as well, and they're always super helpful.Thank you so much
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- AnonymousJuly 18, 2016 at 12:36 PM
I'm a new domme and my sub loves to be humiliated, so I'm having him post pictures of his member on SC. Anyone willing to help me by giving it a look? Just follow mm_subww if you can. Thank you loves!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2016 at 7:37 PM
Help! I am a woman who us fairly new to BDSM. My male partner doesn't like physical pain/punishment beyond spanking, he enjoys emotional and psychological humiliation and gender role reversal. He asks me to dominate, train, and discipline him. We don't live together and don't have a lot of toys (yet). This sounds stupid but I need suggestions on things to make him do/say, without being too hardcore. Can anyone offer advice? I am so used to boring partners this is all new to me! Thank you!ReplyDeleteReplies
Im a switch and dont domme often, but if you need something for a partner you dont live with, i may be able to help with afew ideas if you still need them. First off, have you tried hair pulling with him yet? Its a decent way to make him look at you without much physical pain/discomfort. Sexting/phone sex is also a good idea, not necessarily the whole nudes thing unless youre willing to do so and comment, but also asking him things like "have you been a good boy?", asking/telling him to beg for you, and administering "challenges" or schedules for when he pleasures himself or just plain isnt allowed to. Roleplaying over the phone is also an interesting concept for when you want to have sexytimes and cant see eachotherDelete
- AnonymousOctober 28, 2016 at 8:49 AM
im new to this but getting very turned on to being a sub male. im at pogo4321 on kik if anyone wants to make me their online sub.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2017 at 7:27 AM
This is a great article and all so true...my wife has been disciplining me for some time and has trained me to be more compliant and obedient...she uses the cane to punish me as she says this is the most effective...I get a maintenance caning once a week to remind me to behave this is painful but bearable the strokes are not too hard and I get a number of breaks to help me bear the pain....however a punishment caning {referred to as serious in the article} is a different matter and I dread it...depending on what I have done or not done she will sentence me to a set number of strokes of the cane....the sentence is usually texted to me at work so I have the whole day to think about what is to come....a typical punishment caning would be a minimum of thirty strokes...when I get home I will be told to strip and mount the whipping bench where my wrists and ankles are tied...Unlike a maintenance caning the strokes are hard and delivered steadily every five seconds with no breaks until the punishment is complete....the pain builds up rapidly and is excruciating...I can stop it if I cant take the pain but then have two choices...1.take the whole punishment again within 24 hrs 2.take a break but for every minute I have to endure an additional stroke...so for example if I have been sentenced to forty and only taken twenty and then have a twenty minute break I would still have another 40 strokes to endure..i can use this as many times as I need to during the punishment but in the end it just makes the punishment much worse. This is the most severe punishment and I do not have to take it too often but another my wife favours is enforced squatting..i am stripped naked and hands tied behind my back...she then sits facing the tv...I have to face her and go down into a squat position..she places her feet on my shoulders using me as a footrest whilst she watches tv..after a few minutes the pain in my legs and feet is severe but I have to hold this position until she releases me...this strict discipline has modified my behaviour and my wife is firmly in control!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 15, 2017 at 6:44 PM
Thank you so much for this article. I am a fairly new Mistress and this article is just what i needed to read to have some good ideas and a good understanding of punishments, both playful and serious! Thank you very much.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 3, 2017 at 7:50 PM
I might send this to my Dom partner. They don't alwsays know the difference between fun and serious punishments which sometimes confuses me. Like, are we joking around or was I actually being bad?ReplyDelete
Hes still new to bdsm and I think this may help him a lot. Well, kinda help both of us honestly...
An excellent and educational article. Your advice is spot on and I particularly like your use of ball spanking. This is a term that should send shivers down any male's spine! I don't care how brave they think they are, any man can be reduced to a quivering wreck by the most petite lady who has the courage to spank his balls. Don't think about what you are spanking just slap away and enjoy yourself! My own preference is for the man to wear a pair of tight, thin panties as this will hold the target area in a neat package and it is impossible to miss those testicles. A neat trick is to send him off to change into these when you discover his crime. He will then be reminded of what is in store every time he moves. When spanking, it also helps to pretend that it is a very small bottom you are smacking. This way it is easier to keep up a steady fusillade of powerful slaps rather than worry about the pain you are causing in his genitals.ReplyDelete
My only small criticism is the number of smacks you are using. Three!! Really? I would suggest that you use time to define the severity of the punishment. If he just needs a warning then 30 seconds to one minute will ensure that he doesn't forget. For more serious offenses you should be talking of 5 or even 10 minutes. That will really give him something to think about in the hours leading up to the punishment.


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