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       hey i love you again i am sorry i still have slight hestitations and fears with you but i am sure they will melt away soon today was a relazing tv and swimming alone day tonight i 50 gosh when ever i think of it i feel sick and my head hurts i want it to be wonderful like but i have feelings like that it is exactly going to be like, and i dont drink and i will miss the people i care about because they are all far away and hmm its like whatever i do at a given time i pour myself into like i fully involve everything i am into things for instance when i watch a movie i feel it and fall in love with the main characters and feel what they feel and when i talk to people i let all of who i am out and soak in and understanding of what they project as themselves, i miss talking to you, it seems somewhat distant now and i dont like it i feel sorta like alone in the world but life is ticking now so its hard but dont lose touch with me i love you so and it hurts my heart ahh yes i do agree i like those that was funny hmm i am sleepy and upset and i just got back from over night and i am sorta wishing my life would end tomorrow because i dislike everything so much right now sorry but life isnt being nice to me recorded in prehensile's LiveJournal:
    [ live other ways ]
    Wednesday, January 26th, 2033
    8:36 pm
    teach me more with each passing hour


    by your side
    i know i will cower
    is it true that you have the power
    to capture this moment in time


    Current Mood: so i won't have to speak
    Current Music: Maria Nayler - Naked and Sacred
    Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
    4:24 am
    seeds
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    This true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea,
    rescued from confusion, from in-distinction, from immersion in the common, the
    nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.
      We must be saved from immersion in the sea of lies and passions
    which is called "the world."  And we must be saved above all from that
    abyss of confusion and absurdity which is our own worldly self. 

    The
    person must be rescued from the individual. 

    The free son of God must be
    saved from the conformist slave of fantasy, passion and convention.  The
    creative and mysterious inner self  must be delivered from the wasteful,
    hedonistic and destructive ego that seeks only to cover itself with disguises.

    To be "lost" is to be left to the arbitrariness and pretenses of the
    contingent ego, the smoke-self that must inevitably vanish.  To be "saved"
    is to return to one's inviolate and eternal reality and to live in God.

    If, therefore, I do anything or think anything or say anything or know anything
    that is not purely for the love of God, it cannot give me peace, or rest, or fulfillment, or
    joy.

    To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my
    existence, for God is love.  LOVE is my true IDENTITY.  Selflessness is my true self. 
    Love is my true character.  Love is my name.

    the basic Christian answer to hatred, is not the
    commandment to love, but what must necessarily come before in order to make the
    commandment bearable and comprehensible.  It is a prior commandment, to believeThe root of
    Christian love is not the will to love, but
    the faith that one is loved.

    For Christianity is not merely a doctrine or a system of beliefs, it is Christ living in us

    "I in them, and Thou, Father, in Me,
    that they may be made perfect in One...  And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given
    them, that they may be One as we also are One."  In hoc cognoscent omnes quia mei estis
    discipuli, si dilectionem habueritis ad invicem.  "In this shall all men know that you are my
    disciples - if you have love one for another."
      "HE THAT LOVETH NOT ABIDETH IN DEATH."

    The one end that includes all others is the love of God.
      However, the TRUEST SOLITUDE is not something outside you, not an absence of
    men or of sound around you; it is an abyss opening up in the center of your own soul.

    And this abyss of interior solitude is a hunger that will never be satisfied with any created
    thing.

    and become the servant of bodily impulse.  Therefore his mind and his will are
    not fully his own.  They are under the power of his appetites.  And through the medium of his
    appetites, they are under the control of those who gratify his appetites.

    the most
    difficult of all natural appetites to control and one whose undisciplined gratification completely
    blinds the human spirit to all interior light.

    God did not invite the Children of Israel to leave the slavery of Egypt:  He
    commanded them to do so.

    The poet enters into himself in order to create.  The CONTEMPLATIVE enters into God in
    order to be created.

    you live in death, even though you may
    seem to have all the other virtues.

    If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to PRAY.

    You would profit much more by patiently
    resisting distractions and learning something of our own helplessness and incapacity.  And if your
    book merely becomes an anesthetic, far from helping your meditation it has probably ruined it.

    and keep your will peacefully directed to Him in simple desire, while the
    intermittent shadows of this annoying movie go about in the remote background
    .  If you are
    aware of them at all it is only to realize that you refuse them.

    we pass out of ourselves into the joy of emptiness, of
    nothingness, in which there are no longer any particular objects of knowledge but only God's
    truth without limit, without defect, without stain.  This clean light,

    It is the
    light of Christ, "Who stands in the midst of us and we know Him not."

     in which you do nothing except defeat the work of
    grace:  for all this is an elaborate subconscious device of your nature to resist God,

    is not to study how to talk and reason about contemplation,
    but withdraw ourselves as much as we can from talk and argument and retire into the silence and
    humility of heart in which God will purify

    and we will find ourselves doing it
    without being quite able to realize how we got there, or how it all started.  And by that time the
    work will not absorb us in a way that will disturb our minds.

      Therefore I identify myself with my enemy's own secret self.



    Current Music: Fickleness and Indecision are signs of SELF-LOVE
    3:03 am
    2:38 am
    Downtown by Philippe Starck
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    New condo developments ALWAYS lie about SF.  Even if I measure their own floorplans I come up with 5-10% less and many times I've pulled out my tape measure and measured it myself and they are wrong!  Once a bedroom was shown as 12' wide, after the broker insisted it was 12'   I measured it with her help and sure enough it was 8'!   She must have felt like an ass...



    Current Mood: its own bowling alley
    Current Music: its own basketball court
    Monday, October 26th, 2009
    8:49 am
    magnetism




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    It is at this point that he comes upon a winged figure standing with one foot in a brook, the other on a rock. The radiant creature pours something from one flask into another. Drawing closer, the Fool sees that what is being poured from one flask is fire, while water flows from the other. The two are being blended together!

    "How can you mix fire and water?" the Fool finally whispers. Never pausing the Angel answers, "You must have the right vessels and the right proportions." The Fool watches with wonder. "Can this be done with all opposites?" he asks. "Indeed," the Angel replies, "Any oppositions, fire and water, man and woman, thesis and anti-thesis, can be made to harmonize. It is only a lack of will and a disbelief in the possibility of unity that keeps opposites, opposite." And that is when the Fool begins to understand that he is the one who is keeping his universe in twain, holding life/death, material world and spiritual world separate. In him, the two could merge, as in the vessels that the Angel uses to pour the elements, one to the other. All it takes, the Fool realizes, is the right proportions....and the right vessel.


     

    There is, however, another angle to the card, that of merging seemingly impossible opposites.

    Belief that fiery red and watery blue cannot be merged may be the only thing standing in the way of blending the two.

    This is one of the hardest cards to interpret. I think, perhaps, Crowley is most helpful in understanding it, as he calls the card: "alchemy." It sometimes works best for me to imagine the Angel wearing a lab coat and very carefully pouring measured amounts of colored liquids into beakers rather than cups.



    Current Mood: reason & sensitivity
    Monday, October 19th, 2009
    9:44 pm
    3:44 pm
    12:03 am
    you say


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    Higher vitamin D levels were also associated with longer leukocyte telomere length, indicating that vitamin D sufficiency may play a role in preventing age-related diseases.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_d#Role_in_all-cause_mortality

    Sunday, October 18th, 2009
    11:08 pm
    receiving the nobel peace prize with a lil bow wow
    \





    Current Mood: After all, he is their savior
    Current Music: Good little ACORNS - MC Soetoro
    10:14 pm
    because they had stars in their eyes. LOL


     Obama avoided "Fox News Sunday" when he visited five Sunday morning news shows last month; three aides carried the administration's message on Afghanistan, health care and the economy this Sunday to ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC, but not Fox

    Still, Axelrod said administration officials would appear on the channel. He shrugged off News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch's remark to shareholders last Friday that since the White House began criticizing Fox News commentators their ratings have risen.





    Current Mood: who's sayin' hussein, onyango?
    Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
    5:08 am
    Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky
    \
     “I’m not into partnerships,” he says dismissively. I don’t even know what it means.” He “couldn’t care less” about gay marriage. “Does anyone care what Americans think? They’re the worst-educated people in the First World. They don’t have any thoughts, they have emotional responses, which good advertisers know how to provoke.” You could have been the first gay president, I say. “No, I would have married and had nine children,” he replies quickly and seriously. “I don’t believe in these exclusive terms.”

    There is a trace of thwarted ambition about him. “I would have liked to have been president, but I never had the money. I was a friend of the throne. The only time I envied Jack was when Joe [Kennedy, JFK’s father] was buying him his Senate seat, then the presidency. He didn’t know how lucky he was. Here’s a story I’ve never told. In 1960, after he had spent so much on the presidential campaign, Joe took all nine children to Palm Beach to lecture them. He was really angry. He said, ‘All you read about the Kennedy fortune is untrue. It’s non-existent. We’ve spent so much getting Jack elected and not one of you is living within your income’. They all sat there, shame-faced. Jack was whistling. He used to tap his teeth: they were big teeth, like a xylophone. Joe turned to Jack and he says, ‘Mr President, what’s the solution?’ Jack said, ‘The solution is simple. You all gotta work harder’.” Vidal guffaws heartily.



     

    3:59 am
    Thursday, October 8th, 2009
    5:16 am
    2:41 am
    Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
    1:58 pm
    like an animal

    WORLD'S WORST LOVERS:

    1. Germany (too smelly)

    2. England (too lazy)

    3. Sweden (too quick)

    4. Holland (too dominating)

    5. America (too rough)

    6. Greece (too lovey-dovey)

    7. Wales (too selfish)

    8. Scotland (too loud)

    9. Turkey (too sweaty)

    10. Russia (too hairy)

    WORLD'S BEST LOVERS

    1. Spain

    2. Brazil

    3. Italy

    4. France

    5. Ireland

    6. South Africa

    7. Australia

    8. New Zealand

    9. Denmark

    10. Canada


    2:32 am
    Why women want to do housework after sex
    \

    Professor Elwyn Isaac of the University of Leeds said researchers believed the female housework phase (which lasted over a week at a time) was a compulsion rather than lady's choice.

    'Females who mated with males that produced sperm without the sex peptide continued to take their siesta,' he said.

    'So we're certain that this change of behaviour is chemically induced by the male.'


     

    Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

    Oh look! The "anointed one's" wife is wearing curtains from the boiler room of the White House! How appapro! Such fashion sense, huh darling? I love the way the curtain eyelets hang dutifully from her shoulders. Makes a BIG statement, now doesn't it? Oh and what is that tying it all together????? Oh, it's a rope. Most definitely from the manger from which Obama was brought into this world. Under a starlit sky, no doubt! The shoes??? They must be from the "Three Kings of Orient are bearing gifts they traversed so far." Maybe the Frankincense and myrrh or just the ganja he smoked in Chicago?



    he said, 'don't ever blame anyone else if things go wrong. You're in charge, so it's your fault.'



    their groups are entitled to every possible appropriation, regardless of the larger public cost.





    Current Mood: heeeeeeyy! macarena!
    Monday, September 28th, 2009
    3:44 pm
    To fear the worst oft cures the worse
     
     

     

    I saw the Arab map.

    It resembled a mare shuffling on,
    dragging its history like saddlebags,
    nearing its tomb and the pitch of hell.
     

     

    -Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said] (b. 1930), Syrian poet. The Desert (Diary of Beirut under Siege, 1982). 



    The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.


    -Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Scottish essayist, historian. On Heroes and Hero-Worship, "The Hero as Prophet" (1841).






    The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.

    -Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), Spanish churchman, founder of the Society of Jesus. Spiritual Exercises, "Second Week," no. 138 (1548).

     
     

    Should there be maniacs who raise the idea, they will encounter an iron fist which will leave no trace of such attempts.

    -Yitzhak Shamir (b. 1915), Israeli politician, prime minister. Quoted in: Times (London, 11 Aug. 1988), on advocates of Palestinian self-government.





    "The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good"   (Carl Jung).  
     



    5:10 am
    it's all a genetic crapshoot
    \

    It's kind of like the pot legalization crowd claiming that pot is completely benign (when numerous studies show that, while still probably better for you than abusing alcohol, abusing pot can lead to lung disease and various mental impairments).


    The human body has two fueling mechanisms, ketogenic or glucose.


    Plant based diet = starch and glucose =
    Meat based diet = ketogenic =

    Friday, September 25th, 2009
    10:07 pm
    "yuanfen," a Chinese concept of predestined chemistry between people
    \

    "Five minutes after I got into the hotel room these guys came bursting into the room and before I knew it, the two of them were sticking measuring tape around my thigh. It seemed a little personal to me," Mr. Buffett says. "But they sent them to me and I never had to have an eighth of an inch changed."

    Mr. Buffett admits his knowledge of men's clothing isn't equal to his investing prowess. "I'm not enthused about buying clothes. They don't interest me," he says. "But this is a perfect solution. I feel good about these suits.  And not just because they are free."


     


     Critics include billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who has said the plan would amount to a “massive” tax burden on businesses and ordinary Americans.

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said yesterday that senators will “push climate as hard and as fast as we can.”

    The Senate and later President George W. Bush rejected that pact on the grounds it would hurt the economy and because China and other developing countries aren’t required to cut greenhouse-gas emissions under the accord.


    Monday, September 21st, 2009
    2:16 pm
    States With Dirtiest Taps


    *Reporting based on an in-depth survey of tap water in 42 states, from 1998-2003


    Most distressingly, state governments and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declined to prosecute the majority of offenders that flout the Clean Water Act, which regulates the integrity of the nation's bodies of water. With 40 percent of U.S. community water systems in violation of the Safe Water Drinking Act, which sets drinking-water quality standards and is directly linked to the Clean Water Act, 23 million people received low-quality drinking water.

    10. New Mexico
    Between 1998 and 2003, nearly 3,000 violations of tap water regulations were reported in New Mexico. About 1.3 million people drank water that contained amounts of arsenic

    9. Ohio
    Ninety-two contaminants, primarily from industrial sources, and a smaller portion resulting from sprawl and urban pollutants, were detected in the Ohio tap water. The population exposed to substances in excess of safe limits: 9.6 million residents.

    8. Pennsylvania
     The biggest culprits: industrial pollutants. Analysis showed that 9.3 million residents were exposed to total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) -- and 8.8 million were exposed to amounts over health-based limits

    7. Nevada
    In Nevada, 85.9 percent of water systems violated the health-based drinking water standards

    6. New York
    One hundred and four contaminants were detected in New York State tap water, including nitrate, barium, copper, chloroform and lead. More than 800,000 New Yorkers were exposed to amounts of chloroform. Water that contained contaminants that exceeded health-based limits was served in 418 communities.

    5. Texas
    More than 17 million Texans were exposed to contaminants that exceeded healthy limits. Nearly 12 million citizens in over 1,000 communities turned on their taps to water that included, among other compounds, excessive and potentially dangerous amounts of bromodichloromethane, a byproduct of disinfectants that can cause gastrointestinal or liver toxicity, kidney toxicity and neurotoxicity.

    4. Florida
    Among the 17 million people exposed to a combination of over 107 contaminants, 9.2 million were exposed to the mineral barium, which seeps into water from drilling and mining runoff as well as erosion of natural deposits.
    Over 11 million Floridians also may have consumed radium-226, a radioactive element found around uranium deposits in their water.

    3. North Carolina
    In this state, 6.1 million citizens were exposed to 59 contaminants that exceeded the EPA's limits. Nitrate, which can have a negative impact on kidneys, blood, the heart and the reproductive systems, was the most common contaminant. The suspected carcinogen enters water through fertilizer runoff, leaching septic tanks and erosion of natural deposits. Bromodichloromethane showed up in amounts that exceeded health limits in 373 communities

    2. Wisconsin
    One thousand eighty-nine local water systems serve nearly four million people in America's cheese capital. Of those systems, only 51 produced uncontaminated water. The most prolific of the 118 contaminants detected were copper, lead and barium -- from drilling, mining, industrial waste, corrosion of household plumbing systems and the erosion of natural deposits.

    1. California
    The Golden State's local water systems showed 145 contaminants, nearly half of which exceeded health limits set forth by the EPA,  water that was primarily contaminated by industrial waste, like nitrate, and to a lesser extent acetone and lithium


     



    Current Mood: white wine vinegar
    Current Music: perfectly poached eggs
    Sunday, September 20th, 2009
    11:32 pm
    The Best Tuna Sandwich Hero in the World
    \

    is currently melting in my mouth




    Current Mood: from the nearby 24/7 deli
    Current Music: for $4
    Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
    1:22 am
    Barack Obama is the best thing that could have happened for conservatism


    He's openly admitted that this whole "green jobs" thing is a sham, a ruse, a trojan horse to get to his real goal - and the goal of the man who picked him - the transformation of America from a a free market system to a total government run society, i.e., something very much like what we used to see in Eastern Europe.

    Jones and Obama with him are watermelons. Green on the outside. Red on the inside.

    We're all getting sick of their edited, re-edited and regurgitated news...

    The mainstream press has become merely another arm of the Democratic party. As "journalists" they are derelict.

    this man can be elevated to a position in the White House where he oversees a $30 billion budget, and no one in the media or Washington thinks it's, well, strange. How did the media and the FBI let this get so far? How could a guy that wouldn't or shouldn't even get a security pass to be in the White House get a job there? I think Eric Holder has some explaining to do about security issues.

    the Internet is now our samizdat.

    He also accused Clinton of going to war to cover up his Lewinsky scandal.

    ``This is using dead Third World bodies to cover up his own unzipped pants,'' declared Van Jones, director of Bay Area PoliceWatch, an organization that until now has focused on alleged misconduct by law enforcement officers.

    Don't forget that Putin, of all leaders, cautioned Obama not to go down the socialist road to hell during the Davos meeting, given the experience the Russian and their satellite peoples had to suffer.

    Mr. Jones is right. Republicans are a--holes.   (:Þ)

    The story was the victimization of Jones instead of his being held responsible for his actions and statements (on record).

    But, then again, victims and aggressors are a common theme among liberals. Seems most situations are seen through this prism.

    The sad part is that Obama has depicted health care through this prism, pitting the uninsured against the evil insurers.

    It's the same old tune every time.  The bias of the opinion shaper columns started bleeding into the reporting.

    But the Internet is just aces over kings now. Their news monopoly, as Byron York says, is broken. Can't play the old games anymore.


    Monday, September 7th, 2009
    10:25 pm
    Bush says Obama 'deserves my silence'

    Maybe if Obama sent his daughters to an inner city DC public school instead of that $30,000+/year private school they go to, he'd understand why kids:

    - don't listen to their idiot teachers who likely carried 2.0 or worse GPA in some shithole community college where they graduated with a (non)degree in "Education" and are only quasi-literate if at all

    - don't stay in school because it's too fucking dangerous and traumatic and besides they're not learning shit there anyway

    It's sort of duplicitous and hypocritical for him to lecture them when his own kids are spending their days in the cushiest school in the region and will never face the hellish realities those urban youth face every day of their lives. Like 99.9% of all gum-flapping by politicians, this speech amounts to a bunch of symbolic, feel-goody bullshit and no substance.

    If he wanted to make a real statement, he would announce that he's sending his girls to the worst public school in DC, because that's how confident he is that he's going to reverse the decay of the US public school system.



    Look, you're making my point for me. The inner city schools are very dangerous. They're unsafe. Kids get raped on the school grounds. They get assaulted. It's a terrible learning environment. So isn't it kind of fucked up for the President to tell kids not to drop out when they're facing that kind of shit daily? Who the fuck is he to lecture them? His kids go to a $30,000 private school. jesus



    I favor    the separation of government and education.


    but for now let me point out two things:

    1. Before America had a standardized public school system, its populace was considered the most-educated, most well-read on the planet.

    2. You're talking about a process which has to undo decades of damage. It's not going to happen overnight. There has been so much misallocation of resources over so long a period of time that it can't be fixed quickly. I hate this argument you guys make. Your government creates ungodly problems with years of stupid policies, creates mass dependency and destroys the infrastructure and institutions which used to exist before the government got involved, and then you want to know how we can possibly survive if we scale down the government. It's like medicare, medicaid, and social security -- you create this dependent class which did not exist before, and then you want me to tell you how we can painlessly turn off the government handouts. jesus


    Saturday, September 5th, 2009
    11:22 am
    obama exaggerates like pelosi...both can be cured by a sledgehammer to the forehead


    (and the president's own adviser--Warren Buffett-- now opposing it openly in the media),



                                                              gluttony@gmail.com





    Current Mood: john kerry nigger equivalent
    Current Music: nigger solution - 'let's pour more money... and hurry'
    Friday, September 4th, 2009
    3:27 am
    So I made a big mistake,

     The editor at the New York Times confessed to being "fascinated" by the piece but conceded that he wouldn't "be able to get it in."

    One editor at a West Coast newspaper, a genuinely fair liberal, considered it carefully. We went back and forth. I was shocked to see that neither the editor nor his staff would do any investigating, not placing a single phone call to Kennedy's office. In the end, the editor rejected the piece, telling me: "I just can't believe Kennedy would do something that stupid."

    Finally, a postscript for these liberal Democrat "journalists:" We know they don't care that Ted Kennedy did this to Ronald Reagan. Fine. Well, how about this? As the Mitrokhin Archives reveal, Senator Kennedy did something similar
    to President Jimmy Carter in 1980 -- his own political flesh and blood.
    Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
    2:53 pm
    Saturday, August 29th, 2009
    9:38 pm
    dance




    So the US government cannot secure the borders but they can control the internet. I see what the bigger threat to this president is. It's the citizens.



    Because the very same Internet that is broadcasting the White House Millennium Evenings was also responsible for breaking the White House sex scandal, the reporters asked the First Lady if she had rethought the critical remarks she made about the Net's ability to spread "lies."

    "We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this," she answered, "because there are always competing values. There's no free decision that I'm aware of anywhere in life, and certainly with technology that's the case."

    Although technology's new developments are

    "exciting," Hillary continued, "There are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function. What does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation, or to respond to what someone says?"


    Why has Barack's legal team been paid in the neighborhood of one million dollars to PREVENT the issuance of his real birth certificate (not the joke of a document from Hawaii)? Why can we not see his transcripts and other documents from his years at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard? Under what conditions was he given scholarship funds, i.e., as a citizen of what foreign country? He is a lying, treacherous buffoon who cannot even speak at a rodeo without a teleprompter. America has suffered a coup d'etat and the masses are completely unaware.




    Current Music: Endless Waltz
    Monday, August 24th, 2009
    1:09 pm
    Friday, August 21st, 2009
    11:43 pm
    see more, say more

    • Several celebrities either have been accused or willingly used other people's property and claimed them as their own.
    • In 2004, a lawsuit was brought against MTV by the real owner of Ja Rule's "crib" alleging unauthorized taping of the interior and damage to the property caused by Ja Rule's partying. [1]
    • The first MTV Cribs episode with Robbie Williams showcased Jane Seymour's house as his home. In reality, Williams was renting the home from actress Jane Seymour. In an episode of The Kumars at No. 42, Seymour confirmed that she owned the property.[2]. Williams later admitted the con and then showed off his real home in a later episode of Cribs.
    • 50 Cent's MTV Cribs episode showed him with three Ferraris (A Yellow Enzo Ferrari, and Red versions of the Ferrari F50 and Ferrari 599) with 50 Cent claiming they were his "whips." All three Ferraris were owned by a private collector who lent out the rides for 50 Cent's Cribs episode and related music video work.[3]
    • Lil Bow Wow showcased his crib, along with a selection of exotic cars (which included a Bentley, a Lamborghini, and a Cadillac Escalade). They were later found out to be rented from a luxury car rental outfit in Miami via a plate spelling out the company's name on the cars.[4]
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    10:44 pm
    You cannot transcend what you do not know
    \

    It doesn't really matter what the bill says it will do. The government has never been able to do what it has intended to do with social security, medicaid/medicare, or other social programs even with good legislation. Specifically, costs are always more than expected and the results are never as good as predicted. To illustrate, "Cash for clunkers" has been a nightmare for small dealerships due to hiccups in government payout. It doesn't matter what the government promises or puts into legislation; it cannot implement programs effectively because of the sheer monstrosity of the projects that it undertakes. Our founding fathers understood this and were correctly convinced that all reform must take place at the state and local level in order to be successful.

    I will tell the Medical Community a FACT: Vitamin D PREVENTS MANY DISEASES if it is present in the body at the correct level. MUCH higher than the present MDA.

    BUT you will NOT hear ANY OF THEM SAY THIS PUBLICLY. WHY? BECAUSE it will PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS!!!


    The author cites "Factcheck.org" as if it's a solid reference. It's frequently NOT factual. This article is obviously biased in favor of govt controlled health care..

    As a health care provider that frequently uses and refers patients to this site, I am dumbfounded that you would post such a biased opinion.

    'If you're concerned about primary care, you may be better off in another developed country,'' says Hobson.' If you need to see a specialist, you can't beat the U.S.''



    HR 3200 is the most widely cited of the Bills being discussed which is why many of the previous posters keep referring to "the Bill".
    Some points to know:

    3200 will create a situation where rationing will occur. Private insurance does cause some rationing but "the Bill" creates a situation where a given hospital can only admit a patient with a particular condition if they are not already holding X number of patients with that same condition. IE, each hospital has only so many allotments for different common conditions. (imagine lots of obese niggers littering hospitals)

    Next, 3200 not only raises taxes to help pay for "the Bill" it also uses the IRS as an enforcement agent if you do not buy into some government sanctioned plan. In other words, at the end of the tax year, you are "fined" (taxed) for not having coverage. That "fine" is applied to all levels of income, not just the highest.

    The Public Option in HR 3200 also has an unfair advantage in that all costs for the healthcare coverage are subsidized by these "fines" and taxes. This effectively makes the Public Option look more attractive to the average consumer because they will see an upfront cost to them that seems less than private insurance, but not the additional costs happening behind the scenes, effectively attracting people to the public option over private insurance.
    This would be unfair competition for private insurers and could drive many out of business. Not the sort of thing you want to do in a bad economy.


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    Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
    1:48 am
    puppy love

                                    
    12:36 am
    slippery tongue “imploding,”


     “We know there must be change,” Doig said in a recent interview ...



    Wait a minute!
    I thought you guys are always espousing how the Republican Party is nothing more than a bunch of toothless, gun-toting, trailer park rednecks? Now you're saying we're all a bunch of rich stock holders and politicians?

    Make up your mind.  .If Obama fails, America wins.

    They dont want anyone to read this stuff...they just want it passed!

    Obama says that there are 47 million Americans uninsured...it turns out that 11 million are illegals. Obama said that MEDICARE pays $40K for amputation procedures, it turns out it is $600. Obama says no rationing, but if you put even 30 million people into the system while taking $300B out of the MEDICARE budget, the only possible answer is reduced services which means RATIONING. Obama has refused to address the high costs of medical care. Where is his tort reform? Why doesn't he just eliminate the $100B plus in MEDICARE fraud he talks about.

    BTW that race card you just threw out, is so worn, no one is listening.

    That and I'm about half native American, and we are still waiting for OUR first president, you don't see us crying all day. That and WE already know all about how well the government runs programs, so shove it, pitiful little person you are.

    for a conservative, charity is giving out of your own pocket to help another. For a liberal, charity is about taking from someone else's pocket to give to another.

    lefties have CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, WSJ, et.al., but Fox News leaves you spinning on your heads?

    Seriously, do you really think you can add 50 million new insured... and add NO new doctors.. won't result in a long line somewhere ? use your brain



    Current Music: That is why they say "hurry, hurry."
    Monday, August 17th, 2009
    10:14 pm
    In Case You Missed It...
    Below is a list of 841 city pension recipients paid benefits at a rate of $100,000 per year or more. It includes retirees or beneficiaries from general government agencies 

                                                                                                              Six-figure L.A. city pensions

    trying to have it both ways here. On the one hand Obama promises to appease his boyfriends; on the other hand, he promises to defend those laws when challenged in court.

    Walter Dellinger, a former solicitor general during the Clinton administration

    took both sides of the issue. "Are you for us or against us?" he was asked. He replied, "Yes".

    Current Mood: special
    Sunday, August 16th, 2009
    4:00 am
    Don't worry, they'll get there. Baby steps.


    Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age.

    Rather than increase government spending and control, we need to address the root causes of poor health. This begins with the realization that every American adult is responsible for his or her own health.

    Unfortunately many of our health-care problems are self-inflicted: two-thirds of Americans are now overweight and one-third are obese. Most of the diseases that kill us and account for about 70% of all health-care spending—heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and obesity—are mostly preventable through proper diet, exercise, not smoking, minimal alcohol consumption and other healthy lifestyle choices.


     

    Thursday, August 13th, 2009
    9:03 pm
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    Americans have become so naive and uneducated about their political system that they are willing to believe the Congress works for the President and that the President’s plan is what Congress is implementing. The Congress will send the President legislation-it doesn't need to be the "plan" It isn’t and it won’t be.. AND, it will be loaded at the last minute, as always, with changes that no one reads. The President is so desperate to have "reform" that he will sign whatever he gets - just as Pelosi has said.

    The Congress is supposed to represent the people who gave them their votes - yet they sell those votes to lobbyists. People get upset about lobbyists, but not at their “representatives” for being influenced by lobbyists? Naïve. People accept that the President makes law? Naïve. People accept that lobbying isn’t just another name for legal bribery (because Congress made that law)? Naïve. People listen to the
    not-news spouted on all the networks? Naïve. People accept that legislation absolutely must be passed this month or … what? Naive





    11:15 am
    12:33 am
    Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
    3:29 am
    The apostolic counsel "Pray constantly" (I Thessalonians v, 17) is the key here.
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    It is impossible to pray unceasingly in  full consciousness, but it is certainly possible to carry over prayer from consciousness into the  unconscious, where it can operate unceasingly. 



     (otkrovennye rasskazy strannika dukhovnymn svoimu ottsu)


    (Gospodi lisuse Khriste — Syne  Bozhiy — pomiluy  mya greshnego)
    Sunday, August 9th, 2009
    11:16 am
    Cabin owner Onyango fed liberals for years despite state's pleas


    Liberals fed by humans lose their instinct to fear "the one" and "they expect that food source to continue," he said.

    "Not only are you putting yourself at risk, you're putting anyone else who may come in contact with these animals at risk because they are expecting a handout," Baskfield said.



     

    Monday, August 3rd, 2009
    11:14 am
    Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
    11:59 am
    Friday, July 31st, 2009
    10:41 pm
    Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
    9:42 pm
    Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
    11:27 am
    What matters is the quality of the indoctrination.
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    I can do most things that a man can do; I am independent, competent and earn a high salary. All this might make me think: What do I need a man for?

    Yet, what do I crave more than anything? To be a real, old-fashioned woman. To have a man who cares for me and to have a home to manage
     (as opposed to managing stupid IT projects.)
    11:00 am
    Monday, July 27th, 2009
    1:19 pm
    Who hath sought? Who hath understood?

    Only they that seek shall find!


                How far?  How far is tomorrow to any soul?
    How far is yesterday from thy consciousness?


         One that will always be either very good or
    very bad, very wicked or very much given to good
    works. Ultra in all forces. Very poor, very rich.
    One scaling to the heights in intellectual ability
    and capacity, or groveling in the dregs of self-
    condemnation, influenced at such times by those
    forces either coming as afflictions from the various
    phases of developing, from which the entity
    has received its experience, or controlled by will
    as exercised in the present sphere.
    Friday, July 24th, 2009
    9:41 pm
    "Speaking only and narrowly in political terms, this is so ignorant as to be astounding."
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    His news conference the other night was bad. He was filibustery and spinny and gave long and largely unfollowable answers that seemed aimed at limiting the number of questions asked and running out the clock. You don’t do that when you’re fully confident. Far more seriously, he didn’t seem to be telling the truth. We need to create a new national health-care program in order to cut down on government spending? Who would believe that? Would anybody? 


    You don’t exercise, you smoke, you drink, you eat too much, and “the rest of us have to pay for it.”


    When everyone pays for the same health-care system, the overseers will feel more and more a right to tell you how to live, which simple joys are allowed and which are not.


    9:12 pm
    The Beautiful Side
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    the Irish ran Hudson County and Jersey City, the Italians had Hoboken and Newark,
    and in later years Hispanics muscled into West New York and Union City. They did not share.
     Look at the names on yesterday's arrest list, and it's a beautiful rainbow of wretchedness.
    Italians, Jews and Irish; Hispanics, blacks and whites. Democrats and (one) Republicans.
    Men and women. People from age 33 to age 87.
    4:56 pm
    first black male cheerleader dies
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    Current Music: Sara Bareilles - "Gravity"
    3:20 pm
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