On the twelfth day of Winter, a Pagan sent to me...
twelve covens chanting
eleven heavy cauldrons
ten brooms for sweeping
nine books of shadows
eight pounds of amber
seven chakra candles
six crescent cookies
five silver rings
four corner callers
three quartz points
two black cats
and a pentacle to hang on my tree
Friday, December 30, 2005
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Monday, December 26, 2005
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Friday, December 23, 2005
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Appliances
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This morning on the radio, the DJ's were talking about Christmas gifts, and how you should never give a woman an appliance.
Maybe I'm just a more down-to-earth woman, but I *like* the things that plug in that my hubby has given me over the years. He's gifted me with 3 different kinds of coffee makers. Now I can have good coffee at home, good coffee while I'm camping, and espresso wherever there's a heat source.
I've gotten tools to work on my car, a grinder for polishing metal, and a hand made potter's wheel. All of those gifts brought me joy. So bring on the appliances!
I'd really like a food processor :D
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This morning on the radio, the DJ's were talking about Christmas gifts, and how you should never give a woman an appliance.
Maybe I'm just a more down-to-earth woman, but I *like* the things that plug in that my hubby has given me over the years. He's gifted me with 3 different kinds of coffee makers. Now I can have good coffee at home, good coffee while I'm camping, and espresso wherever there's a heat source.
I've gotten tools to work on my car, a grinder for polishing metal, and a hand made potter's wheel. All of those gifts brought me joy. So bring on the appliances!
I'd really like a food processor :D
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Can We Impeach Him Now?
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From Capitol Hill Blue:
Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
(I copied the entire article to keep everything in context. Lots more great stuff on their site http://www.capitolhillblue.com/)
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 9, 2005, 07:53
Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.
Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.
GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”
And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the shit that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that “goddamned piece of paper” used to guarantee.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”
Put aside, for a moment, political affiliation or personal beliefs. It doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent. It doesn’t matter if you support the invasion or Iraq or not. Despite our differences, the Constitution has stood for two centuries as the defining document of our government, the final source to determine – in the end – if something is legal or right.
Every federal official – including the President – who takes an oath of office swears to “uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls the Constitution a “living document.”
“"Oh, how I hate the phrase we have—a 'living document,’” Scalia says. “We now have a Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The Constitution is not a living organism, for Pete's sake.”
As a judge, Scalia says, “I don't have to prove that the Constitution is perfect; I just have to prove that it's better than anything else.”
President Bush has proposed seven amendments to the Constitution over the last five years, including a controversial amendment to define marriage as a “union between a man and woman.” Members of Congress have proposed some 11,000 amendments over the last decade, ranging from repeal of the right to bear arms to a Constitutional ban on abortion.
Scalia says the danger of tinkering with the Constitution comes from a loss of rights.
“We can take away rights just as we can grant new ones,” Scalia warns. “Don't think that it's a one-way street.”
And don’t buy the White House hype that the USA Patriot Act is a necessary tool to fight terrorism. It is a dangerous law that infringes on the rights of every American citizen and, as one brave aide told President Bush, something that undermines the Constitution of the United States.
But why should Bush care? After all, the Constitution is just “a goddamned piece of paper.”
© Copyright 2005 by Capitol Hill Blue
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From Capitol Hill Blue:
Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
(I copied the entire article to keep everything in context. Lots more great stuff on their site http://www.capitolhillblue.com/)
By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 9, 2005, 07:53
Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.
Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.
GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”
And, to the Bush Administration, the Constitution of the United States is little more than toilet paper stained from all the shit that this group of power-mad despots have dumped on the freedoms that “goddamned piece of paper” used to guarantee.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”
Put aside, for a moment, political affiliation or personal beliefs. It doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent. It doesn’t matter if you support the invasion or Iraq or not. Despite our differences, the Constitution has stood for two centuries as the defining document of our government, the final source to determine – in the end – if something is legal or right.
Every federal official – including the President – who takes an oath of office swears to “uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he cringes when someone calls the Constitution a “living document.”
“"Oh, how I hate the phrase we have—a 'living document,’” Scalia says. “We now have a Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The Constitution is not a living organism, for Pete's sake.”
As a judge, Scalia says, “I don't have to prove that the Constitution is perfect; I just have to prove that it's better than anything else.”
President Bush has proposed seven amendments to the Constitution over the last five years, including a controversial amendment to define marriage as a “union between a man and woman.” Members of Congress have proposed some 11,000 amendments over the last decade, ranging from repeal of the right to bear arms to a Constitutional ban on abortion.
Scalia says the danger of tinkering with the Constitution comes from a loss of rights.
“We can take away rights just as we can grant new ones,” Scalia warns. “Don't think that it's a one-way street.”
And don’t buy the White House hype that the USA Patriot Act is a necessary tool to fight terrorism. It is a dangerous law that infringes on the rights of every American citizen and, as one brave aide told President Bush, something that undermines the Constitution of the United States.
But why should Bush care? After all, the Constitution is just “a goddamned piece of paper.”
© Copyright 2005 by Capitol Hill Blue
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Once Again, American Media Ignores News
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There's a beach in Australia... well, ok... there are a lot of beaches all around the edges of Australia, but there's a specific beach that's been having a gang problem.
Groups of young men of (apparantly) Middle Eastern descent have been terrorising the lifeguards and beachgoers for a couple of years. Last Sunday, it escalated to the beating of some lifeguards.
Caucasion Australians responded by converging on the beach this Sunday to protest. After a day of drinking, the protesters went in search of brown-skinned people to beat up. It became a full scale riot. That night, the Middle Easterners retaliated.
And the US news chooses to talk about whether Arnold Schwartzinegger will commute a death sentence or not.
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There's a beach in Australia... well, ok... there are a lot of beaches all around the edges of Australia, but there's a specific beach that's been having a gang problem.
Groups of young men of (apparantly) Middle Eastern descent have been terrorising the lifeguards and beachgoers for a couple of years. Last Sunday, it escalated to the beating of some lifeguards.
Caucasion Australians responded by converging on the beach this Sunday to protest. After a day of drinking, the protesters went in search of brown-skinned people to beat up. It became a full scale riot. That night, the Middle Easterners retaliated.
And the US news chooses to talk about whether Arnold Schwartzinegger will commute a death sentence or not.
Friday, December 09, 2005
Knitting and Snow and Random Geekiness
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KNITTING
I'm knitting a scarf for my sister's birthday and it's almost done!
I have a cousin who's the same age as my son. He lives 2 houses away, so he comes over fairly regularly to play video games etc. Poor kid was born on September 11, back when it was just another day.
Anyway, I was knitting along, and he asked me if it was hard to do. I said, "Not at all. Knitting is really easy." *pause* "Would you like me to teach you?"
I grabbed some yarn and freed up a pair of needles, cast on 13 stitches and knit 2 rows, then I handed the needles to my cousin. The kid is a natural. I let him have a pair of needles and some blue acrylic yarn to play with. It was really cool, teaching a 14 year old boy to knit.
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SNOW
We had our first real snowfall yesterday. It snowed for 6 hours. It was beautiful.
When I picked L up from school, there were cars all over the sides of the road. It seems like everybody was spinning out. I saw several cars that just baffled me. There was one halfway up a hill, facing the highway. It was snow free, and there were not noticeable tire tracks. It was as if it had fallen from the sky.
Another was sitting over a ditch, resting on it's bumpers. It made a little car-bridge over the ditch with it's back bumper on the highway side, and it's front bumper on the onramp side. None of it's tires touched the ground. It had spun out counterclockwise, sweeping an arc in the snow, and coming to rest as a perfect bridge. There was a towtruck on the scene, and a very puzzled looking towtruck driver. I'm puzzled too. I mean, how fast does a car have to be spinning to wedge itself across a ditch? I swear, the thing was level.
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GEEK
My husband has a computer monitor showing a live feed of Busch Stadium. Or I should say: the pile of rubble that was once Busch Stadium, and the beginnings of the new Busch Stadium.
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KNITTING
I'm knitting a scarf for my sister's birthday and it's almost done!
I have a cousin who's the same age as my son. He lives 2 houses away, so he comes over fairly regularly to play video games etc. Poor kid was born on September 11, back when it was just another day.
Anyway, I was knitting along, and he asked me if it was hard to do. I said, "Not at all. Knitting is really easy." *pause* "Would you like me to teach you?"
I grabbed some yarn and freed up a pair of needles, cast on 13 stitches and knit 2 rows, then I handed the needles to my cousin. The kid is a natural. I let him have a pair of needles and some blue acrylic yarn to play with. It was really cool, teaching a 14 year old boy to knit.
...
SNOW
We had our first real snowfall yesterday. It snowed for 6 hours. It was beautiful.
When I picked L up from school, there were cars all over the sides of the road. It seems like everybody was spinning out. I saw several cars that just baffled me. There was one halfway up a hill, facing the highway. It was snow free, and there were not noticeable tire tracks. It was as if it had fallen from the sky.
Another was sitting over a ditch, resting on it's bumpers. It made a little car-bridge over the ditch with it's back bumper on the highway side, and it's front bumper on the onramp side. None of it's tires touched the ground. It had spun out counterclockwise, sweeping an arc in the snow, and coming to rest as a perfect bridge. There was a towtruck on the scene, and a very puzzled looking towtruck driver. I'm puzzled too. I mean, how fast does a car have to be spinning to wedge itself across a ditch? I swear, the thing was level.
...
GEEK
My husband has a computer monitor showing a live feed of Busch Stadium. Or I should say: the pile of rubble that was once Busch Stadium, and the beginnings of the new Busch Stadium.
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