The Gypsy Within

It's Been Soooo Long

2009-11-22T09:30:00.002-07:00

Haven't been here for 2 years. Wow!! How time flies when you're having fun. NOT!! Two years ago I brought my mom and stepdad to CO from FL to live. Packed up their 2400 sq. ft. house iin 5 days, got the movers lined up, bundled them up, and went from tropical climate to snow in 4-1/2 hours. He had been sick - his kids around but no one helping either of them, so they were basically alone, both in their 80's. She was in hospital and I went to take care of her. Finally said - Enough!! I can't travel back and forth each time you are not well. Either here or......

So we're in CO. He took ill on New Year's Eve, went to hospital on New Years Day, left us on the 31st. We knew it would happen, just not as quickly as it did. So now to get her back to some kind of functioning health. Trying to do that and maintain some kind of personal life. Yeah, right!! Haven't had that in 2 years now. Everytime there's a hint of my having a life, boom! something happens. Pneumonia, back pain, headaches, a fall, etc. etc. Well, finally got the health issues sorted out. Pain under control - as long as I don't have a life it is (that's how it feels). My own health issues crop up when I don't live my life as I need to. So two years of my own health going down the drain. Finallly getting that under control for myself, and whammo!! The back pain is back......

Ugh!! More later. Got to go.

Thanks for being here for me to rant a bit.

Ho Ho Ho? and other offensive shit

2007-11-18T23:28:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry, but I'm definitely not offended when Santa rings out with his HO HO HO.

What's with all of you peoples??!! Please please get a life. He doesn't say Ha Ha Ha, it's Ho Ho Ho. Don't know about you, but no one's called me a ho lately. Pretty soon you'll want him to slim down because he's offensive to fat people (oops, I shouldn't say the f word - sorry, overweight people).

What does offend me is the latest Burger King commercial showing angry moms wanting to 'off' the king because he makes a sandwich that's better than theirs are. Now that is truly offensive. Why would anyone make a commercial with violent moms wanting to kill someone - never mind that it's over a stupid sandwich. What are we trying to teach our kids. No, it's NOT funny!! Now that's offensive.

Someone Like You

2007-11-18T23:25:00.002-07:00

I am so into Van Morrison lately.

So my favorite Van Morrison song got pulled from YouTube. Go figure!!
Sorry folks. Will look for another version.

My rant for the day

2007-11-01T14:11:00.001-06:00

I am so sick and tired of everyone having to apologize for anything they say that might offend someone in this universe, or for anything they might do that is funny that might offend someone in this universe. What ever happened to free speech and the right to laugh at ourselves. Oh yeah, I forget, the shrubs and the bushes get in the way of our sight and we can no longer express what to many is just funny. If we can't laugh at ourselves, damn....get a life, people!!

I was lucky to grow up in a city with many different cultures and ethnic backgrounds represented. I had black friends, white friends, German, Polish, Italian, Jewish, Irish, Catholic, Protestant. We ALL joked about ourselves, laughed about ourselves, and we all knew it was about certain truths that were part of our lives and heritages. I can't remember any of us being offended, since we ALL laughed out loud and told the jokes about our own.

So what's the deal, peoples. Someone cut off your laughing buttons? Someone say you cannot ever say in humor what is sometime truth without offense? How did Don Rickles ever make it in this world? Or Johnny Carson, for that matter. What ever happened to calling a spade a spade?? And how dare you impose your own moral code on mine!!! I happen to think mine is pretty good, probably even better than yours since I wouldn't even dream of imposing mine on you.

Okay, I'm done for right now. There will probably be more.

I just had a birthday - a real Halloween baby - born during a full Blue moon many eons ago.
:-)
I can rant all I want.
So there!
Have a great November.

HEALING ARTS SAMPLER IN NIWOT, CO

2007-11-01T14:04:00.000-06:00

HEALING ARTS SAMPLER

Saturday, November 17, 2007

The Grange

2nd Ave & Franklin St.

Niwot, Colorado
From 11:30am - 4pm
Practitioners provide 20 minute alternative healing sessions for only $10.
This is an opportunity to sample different healing modalities such as massage, energetic healing, cranial sacral therapy, intuitive readings and more.
Sponsored by Boulder Healing Arts Association. www.boulderhealers.com/sampler/
Live Music with Sue Scudder on Keyboards

Gayatri Mantra

2007-10-21T03:20:00.002-06:00

Deva Primal

AUM BHOOR BHUWAH SWAHA,
TAT SAVITUR VARENYAM
BHARGO DEVASAYA DHEEMAHI
DHIYO YO NAHA PRACHODAYAT.

Oh God! Thou art the Giver of Life,
Remover of pain and sorrow,
The Bestower of happiness,
Oh! Creator of the Universe,
May we receive thy supreme sin-destroying light,
May Thou guide our intellect in the right direction.

Soothes the soul.
Yesterday was a great day.

Peace, love, healing and harmony.

The building is mine - is ours. Universe......

Why doesn't he like kids?

2007-10-03T17:03:00.000-06:00

Or anyone else for that matter!

Rep. DeFazio on the President’s Veto vs. the President’s Iraq Request

Let's see - $600 billion WAR, $10 billion KIDS
600B = WAR
10B = KIDS

Yeah, let's save money and cut out the kids' stuff. Besides, no health care means less mouths to feed in the long run, anyway.

hmmmmm.......

2007-10-03T16:58:00.000-06:00

WHERE

2007-09-16T10:29:00.000-06:00

has my country gone?

tears rolling down my cheeks.

2007-09-09T09:11:00.000-06:00

HEALING ARTS SAMPLER

Saturday, September 15, 2007

The Grange
2nd Ave & Franklin St. in Niwot, Colorado

From 11:30am - 4pm

Practitioners provide 20 minute alternative healing sessions for only $10.

This is an opportunity to sample different healing modalities such as massage, energetic healing, kinesiology, cranial sacral therapy, intuitive readings and more.

Sponsored by Boulder Healing Arts Association. www.boulderhealers.com/sampler/

Live Music with Sue Scudder on Keyboards

Dear Mr. President

2007-07-24T13:00:00.000-06:00

More tears, more pain. Heart! Break. Brake!!! Empath!! Enough!!
Thank you, Pink. And the maker of this video.

Happy Bastille Day

2007-07-14T20:33:00.000-06:00

La Marseillaise

I thought we did this once already, by george!

2007-07-04T16:05:00.000-06:00

Declaration of Independence

[Adopted in Congress 4 July 1776]

The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levey war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

WE THE PEOPLE

2007-07-04T13:27:00.000-06:00

of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Oh, pain........ (tears in eyes for what was love and pride of country)

Thank You World

2007-06-16T23:32:00.001-06:00

Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately

COME TO THE FAIR!!

2007-05-27T14:05:00.001-06:00

HOLISTIC/INTUITIVE ARTS FAIR

Saturday, June 16, 2007

From 11:00am - 5pm

The Grange
2nd Ave & Franklin St. in Niwot

Free workshops at 12:30pm and 2:30pm.

Practitioners provide readings and alternative healing sessions for only $1 a minute. We feature readings, body work, energy work, aura photos, numerology, automatic writing, and more. Sponsored by Boulder Healing Arts Association.

www.boulderhealers.com/holistic/

Please someone explain to me......

2007-04-25T14:07:00.000-06:00

So are we now very selective on choosing which terrorists to fight against?

U.S. Frees International Terrorist
Posted on Apr 24, 2007
By Amy Goodman
A terrorist lives in Miami. He is not in hiding, or part of some sleeper cell. He’s an escaped convict, wanted internationally for blowing up a jetliner. His name is Luis Posada Carriles. As the nation was focused on the Virginia Tech shooting, the Bush administration quietly allowed Posada’s release from a federal immigration detention center.
It was Oct. 6, 1976, a clear day in the Caribbean. Cubana Airlines Flight 455 departed from Barbados, bound for Cuba, with a stop in Trinidad. Posada then ran a private investigative firm in Venezuela. Two of his employees were on the flight, deplaned in Trinidad and left C-4 plastic explosive on board, disguised as a tube of toothpaste. Shortly after takeoff, the bomb exploded and the plane went down. All 73 people on board were killed.
Among them were six young Guyanese students on their way to Cuba to study medicine. Now an American citizen, Roseanne Nenninger, sister of Raymond Persaud, one of those students, was 11 years old when her brother was killed: “We had a huge farewell party for our brother and everyone came, the family members, everyone from the local community, all his friends, school friends, so it was a great day for all of us. And the next day, we all went to the airport. He was dressed in his brown suit that was made by a tailor especially for him getting on a plane. It was his first time on an airplane. We watched him walk on the tarmac and head onto the airplane. And it was a great moment for all of us.”
Within hours, he was dead. He was just one of the victims, one of 73. There was also the entire Cuban Olympic fencing team, young athletes. Each with a name, each with a story. The Cubana Airlines bombing remains to this day the only midair bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere. Posada was tried and convicted in Venezuela of organizing the bombing. He was imprisoned, then escaped in 1985......

Read the whole thing here.

HEALING ARTS SAMPLER IN NIWOT ON APRIL 21

2007-04-17T15:36:00.000-06:00

Healing Arts/Holistic Health Sampler

Saturday, April 21, 2007

The Grange

2nd Ave & Franklin St. in Niwot

From 11:30am - 4pm, with free workshops at 10am and 1pm.

Practitioners provide 20 minute alternative healing sessions for only $10. This is an opportunity to sample different healing modalities such as massage, energetic healing, kinesiology, PUSH therapy, cranial sacral therapy, intuitive readings and more. Sponsored by Boulder Healing Arts Association. www.boulderhealers.com/sampler/

Live Music with Sue Scudder on Keyboards / Dylan Neal with Guitar solos.

PELOSI RULES!!!

2007-04-17T15:21:00.000-06:00

http://speaker.gov/

I am the Empress

2007-03-03T04:55:00.000-07:00

So I took this test to find out what Tarot card I am. Yes, yes, I am The Empress. So there!

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents, beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Wicked and artful men

2007-02-02T14:16:00.000-07:00

I really need to share this - from today's Huffington Post.

Have a great weekend, y'all.

COME TO THE FAIR

2007-01-29T16:40:00.000-07:00

Come to my healing fair:

HEALING ARTS SAMPLER
Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007
11:30am to 4pm
The Grange - 2nd Ave & Franklin St., Niwot, CO

Healing arts practitioners provide 20 minute healing sessions for only $10. Try massage, Reiki, acupuncture, kinesiology, cranial sacral therapy, intuitive guidance, reflexology, dreamwork and more. AlwaysFREE admission - Free workshop at 1pm. See website for details.
www.boulderhealers.com/sampler

This is a great opportunity to try different alternative healing modalities without too much out-of-pocket expenses. If it works for you, then go for it.

Hey, and get a reading or two. You'll like it!!

(Yeah, I know, finally time to get back to work - enough of this lolling around doing almost nothing!! First fair of the season - first one at this location. FUN!!)

Interview with Rep. John Conyers

2007-01-28T15:31:00.000-07:00

Am I ever on a roll today!!

Black Hawk Down

2007-01-28T15:17:00.000-07:00

A must-read

Tears ~ why??

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

2007-01-27T21:56:00.000-07:00

John Lennon

PEACE

2007-01-07T02:37:00.000-07:00

Esther Sparks

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

2006-12-24T02:08:00.000-07:00

I wish to all a joyous holiday, filled with love and peace and much harmony within and without. May the new year bring you more love, abundance in things good, and the enjoyment of good health and balance in your life.

To my friends, thank you for being who you are, and for being in my life and allowing me to be in yours.

To my family, thank you for your love and support through the years and for also being who you are and for choosing to be a part of my life.

To those who are in Iraq and other places far from home - and should be home - much love and protection for you and for your families. Thank you for serving and for your sacrifices and may you be brought home safely and honored as you deserve.

To our leaders, wake up and know that you are here to make things better for us ALL. May you be blessed so that you may see what is for the highest good of ALL. May you be blessed to know what is your duty to those you represent - that we may be brought back to wholeness, with peace and prosperity for ALL. May you know joy in your heart to do what is for the highest good of ALL. May you be blessed to see truth, hear truth, and speak truth.

To mother earth, may you be blessed to continue to allow us to live in your glory and protection. We thank you for the bounty you have given us through the eons, and will continue to give us as we are blessed to receive.

So much more.......

Peace - Love - Healing - Harmony - Prosperity
Bring in the NEW YEAR!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

2006-11-23T15:21:00.000-07:00

This gypsy mama wishes you all a happy thanksgiving holiday. A time to look around us and be thankful for those we love who are in our lives, for situations we desire to have in our lives, and thankful that we can change what we do not want.

Colbert, Steinem and Fonda

2006-10-30T12:00:00.000-07:00

Kevin Tillman - After Pat's Birthday

2006-10-21T01:48:00.000-06:00

AFTER PAT'S BIRTHDAY

It is Pat's birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets me thinking about a conversation I had with Pat before we joined the military. He spoke about the risks with signing the papers. How once we committed, we were at the mercy of the American leadership and the American people. How we could be thrown in a direction not of our volition. How fighting as a soldier would leave us without a voice... until we get out.
Much has happened since we handed over our voice:
Somehow we were sent to invade a nation because it was a direct threat to the American people, or to the world, or harbored terrorists, or was involved in the September 11 attacks, or received weapons-grade uranium from Niger, or had mobile weapons labs, or WMD, or had a need to be liberated, or we needed to establish a democracy, or stop an insurgency, or stop a civil war we created that can't be called a civil war even though it is. Something like that.
Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.
Somehow our elected leaders were subverting international law and humanity by setting up secret prisons around the world, secretly kidnapping people, secretly holding them indefinitely, secretly not charging them with anything, secretly torturing them. Somehow that overt policy of torture became the fault of a few "bad apples" in the military.
Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a five-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It's interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a five-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat.
Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes.
Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground.
Somehow those afraid to fight an illegal invasion decades ago are allowed to send soldiers to die for an illegal invasion they started.
Somehow faking character, virtue and strength is tolerated.
Somehow profiting from tragedy and horror is tolerated.
Somehow the death of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people is tolerated.
Somehow subversion of the Bill of Rights and The Constitution is tolerated.
Somehow suspension of Habeas Corpus is supposed to keep this country safe.
Somehow torture is tolerated.
Somehow lying is tolerated.
Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma, and nonsense.
Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.
Somehow a narrative is more important than reality.
Somehow America has become a country that projects everything that it is not and condemns everything that it is.
Somehow the most reasonable, trusted and respected country in the world has become one of the most irrational, belligerent, feared, and distrusted countries in the world.
Somehow being politically informed, diligent, and skeptical has been replaced by apathy through active ignorance.
Somehow the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country.
Somehow this is tolerated.
Somehow nobody is accountable for this.
In a democracy, the policy of the leaders is the policy of the people. So don't be shocked when our grandkids bury much of this generation as traitors to the nation, to the world and to humanity. Most likely, they will come to know that "somehow" was nurtured by fear, insecurity and indifference, leaving the country vulnerable to unchecked, unchallenged parasites.
Luckily this country is still a democracy. People still have a voice. People still can take action. It can start after Pat's birthday.
Brother and Friend of Pat Tillman,
Kevin Tillman

Free Hugs

2006-10-15T05:38:00.000-06:00

Cajun Moon - Herbie Mann, Cissy Houston

2006-10-08T19:20:00.000-06:00

some truth

2006-10-08T18:50:00.000-06:00

It's fall, October already. My, doesn't the time fly when you're having fun! Hope you all have enjoyed the Harvest Moon. For some reason, this full moon period has been causing havoc with some - lots of transition, lots of emotional unrest, and more. This has pretty much nothing to do with the video below, but I just thought I would write something besides show what others have written or filmed. I started this blog with that intention, but keep getting caught up in the politics of the moment. I also swore to myself to stop reading/looking/listening to what was going on and not allow this total bullshit into my reality, but can't help it sometimes. It's pretty much become a big joke and I can't wait for the next laugh.

Caught this video on Firedog Lake. Thought it was right on. Its an interview with Gen. John H. Johns, and truth speaks.

Olbermann - Unacceptable

2006-09-19T14:07:00.000-06:00

Thank you, Mr. Olbermann

2006-09-14T18:47:00.000-06:00

From 9/11/06

Five years later, Mr. Bush, we are still fighting the terrorists on these streets. And look carefully, sir, on these 16 empty acres. The terrorists are clearly, still winning.
And, in a crime against every victim here and every patriotic sentiment you mouthed but did not enact, you have done nothing about it.
And there is something worse still than this vast gaping hole in this city, and in the fabric of our nation. There is its symbolism of the promise unfulfilled, the urgent oath, reduced to lazy execution.
The only positive on 9/11 and the days and weeks that so slowly and painfully followed it was the unanimous humanity, here, and throughout the country. The government, the President in particular, was given every possible measure of support.
Those who did not belong to his party -- tabled that.
Those who doubted the mechanics of his election -- ignored that.
Those who wondered of his qualifications -- forgot that.
History teaches us that nearly unanimous support of a government cannot be taken away from that government by its critics. It can only be squandered by those who use it not to heal a nation's wounds, but to take political advantage.
Terrorists did not come and steal our newly-regained sense of being American first, and political, fiftieth. Nor did the Democrats. Nor did the media. Nor did the people.
The President -- and those around him -- did that.
They promised bi-partisanship, and then showed that to them, "bi-partisanship" meant that their party would rule and the rest would have to follow, or be branded, with ever-escalating hysteria, as morally or intellectually confused, as appeasers, as those who, in the Vice President's words yesterday, "validate the strategy of the terrorists."
They promised protection, and then showed that to them "protection" meant going to war against a despot whose hand they had once shaken, a despot who we now learn from our own Senate Intelligence Committee, hated al-Qaida as much as we did.
The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war, on the false premise that it had 'something to do' with 9/11 is "lying by implication."
The impolite phrase is "impeachable offense."

God/dess Bless

2006-09-11T17:01:00.000-06:00

We Are All Americans

Have YOU Had Enough?

2006-08-28T10:46:00.000-06:00

Share this with a friend

Here Here

2006-08-25T18:51:00.000-06:00

A good read

Church? State? Separation

2006-08-24T15:37:00.000-06:00

Guard against those men who make a great noise about religion, in choosing representatives. It is electioneering. If they knew the nature and worth of religion, they would not debauch it to such shameful purposes. If pure religion is the criterion to denominate candidates, those who make a noise about it must be rejected; for their wrangle about it, proves that they are void of it." .....Rev. John Leland, July 4th 1802.

I wonder

2006-07-28T12:37:00.000-06:00

Sometimes I get the feeling that there are people in this country really wanting to do away with everyone who is poor, homeless, elderly, ill, and just not willing to be a sheeple. Do you ever get that feeling? 'They' are really pushing it especially in Nevada with their 'do not feed the homeless in parks' law. How does one know if someone is deliberately feeding a homeless person, or not just sharing something with a fellow park enthusiast? Why punish people who are wanting to help another human being. (I guess that's why 'they' won't advocate any kind of cease fire It's the humanitarian thing to do in order to 'discuss' possibilities.) And why are 'they' pushing legislation for women's rights back to the 50's. I remember working with a woman who's daughter died from a back-alley coat-hanger abortion. Do the men making lesgislation really want a Stepford community? Do they feel so threatened by a woman having a right to make decisions for herself? Why do I feel like I've been there, done that?? What do my grandchildren have to look forward to?
Sorry - had to get that off my chest. It bugs the hell out of me to hear about what is going on in the world, and I feel so helpless and useless in all this. Why is there such a low price on human life these days? Or on basic humanity? Oh, questions questions questions. Problem is, I probably know the answers deep inside and they aren't what I want to see, hear, feel, know.

Gotta go. My 'puter keeps refreshing the page - I think it has a bug or something, although nothing ever shows up on my scans.

Anyways, have a happy weekend. Enjoy the music below. I really am having fun with it..

Enjoy the weekend

2006-07-28T12:29:00.000-06:00

Dario G Lyrics

Dario G Music Video Codes

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About the size 2 thing

2006-07-28T11:06:00.000-06:00

In reference to my last post, I started thinking about things. Well, I didn't just start thinking about it, just finally wrote something about it. You know, when you think about something you can change your mind, but when you write it, it's different. Anyway, in thinking about all the marketing hoopla and the weight loss ads and the models we are supposed to replicate (?), seems to me that the world really just wants a bunch of little girls to play with. A world of Barbies? Do we have a bunch of pedophiles running the show here? What's with that?

I don't understand this

2006-07-24T23:05:00.000-06:00

I was just watching a commercial about a chick who was so excited to have lost so much weight that she was now a size 2. ???? I spent most of my adult life trying to make it from a size 2 to a size 6. So now I'm almost 62 yrs. old, and I finally look like an adult woman, wear a size 8, have boobs and a butt and clock in at 120 lbs. Can't tell you how happy I am. I just don't get it.

An excellent quote from William F. Buckley

2006-07-23T14:32:00.000-06:00

"If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign." William F. Buckley

Well said

2006-07-19T04:22:00.000-06:00

An Angry Old Broad: Dear Oppressed Christians,

New discovery

2006-07-17T03:14:00.000-06:00

I discovered the joys of putting video on the web. Oh Halleluyah!! So I spend hours looking up music I want to use, and I decided that Bruce will make the grade. I saw him on PBS the other night, and this song got me clapping away, and jumping up and down and dancing all over the place. Hey, maybe you can do the same thing. Some joyful movement.

Clap your hands and Jump for Joy

2006-07-17T03:12:00.000-06:00

Bruce Springsteen Lyrics

Bruce Springsteen Music Video Codes

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Ah yes!!

2006-07-01T19:56:00.000-06:00

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

http://www.peacetakescourage.com/declaration.html
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The Constitution of the United States of America

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

Bill of Rights

*Amendment I*
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The rest: http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html

Happy 4th.

(I know, I know, it's early yet, but I might forget)

GypseeMama

My first Blog

2006-06-28T19:01:00.000-06:00

Now I know I'm in sync with the rest of the world. My world, anyway. I have a blog!!!!! I guess this means I get to spill my guts and you all get to comment on it. **grin**

Now that I have this up, I pretty much have nothing to say. Go figure. But that won't last long. Have lots to say - about the gypsy within, life, family, work, my broken arm, life, you get the picture.

Happy Wednesday, Everyone.

GypseeMama