Email I was sent today
How many are actually paying attention to this?
There are African Americans,
Mexican Americans,
Asian Americans,
Arab Americans,
Native Americans, etc.
...And then there are just -
Americans.
You pass me on the street
and sneer in my direction.
You Call me 'White boy,'
'Cracker,' 'Honkey,'
'Whitey,' 'Caveman,'
...And that's OK.
But when I call you Nigger,
Kike, Towel head,
Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey,
Beaner, Gook, or Chink,
..You call me a racist.
You say that whites commit a lot
of violence against you,
so why are the ghettos the most
dangerous places to live?
You have the United Negro College Fund.
You have Hispanic History Month.
You have Martin Luther King Day.
You have Asian History Month.
You have Bl ack History Month.
You have Cesar Chavez Day.
You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi
You have Yom Hashoah.
You have Kawanza.
You have the NAACP.
And you have BET.
If we had WET
(White Entertainment Television)
...We'd be racists.
If we had a White Pride Day
...You would call us racists.
If we had White History Month
...We'd be racists.
If we had any organization for only whites
to 'advance'OURlives,
...We'd be racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce,
a Black Chamber of Commerce,
and then we just have the plain
Chamber of Commerce.
Wonder who pays for that?
If we had a college fund that only gave
white students scholarships
...You know we'd be racists.
There are over 60 openly-proclaimed
Black-only Colleges in the US ,
yet if there were 'White-only Colleges'
...THAT would be a racist college.
In the Million-Man March,
you believed that you were
marching for your race and rights.
If we marched for our race and rights,
...You would call us racists.
You are proud to be black,
brown, yellow and red,
and you're not afraid to announce it.
But when we announce our white pride
...You call us racists.
You rob us,
carjack us,
and shoot at us.
But, when a white police officer
shoots a black gang member
or beats up a black drug-dealer
who is running from the LAW and
posing a threat to ALL of society
...You call him a racist.
I am proud.
...But, you call me a racist.
Why is it that only
whites
can be racists?
On 08:51:41 May 29 2008 (-0 GMT) atyourwindow wrote:
well around this time evry year i remind you yet another birthday is comming for us lol....you look good for 22 hehe
Saw it a few days ago. Eh, it's ok. I don't like the way the kid keeps calling him old man and shit like that. I don't like that Karen Allen chick. I had heard long ago that Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) was going to be in it. But noooooooooo.....I liked her best.
I loved Temple of Doom. That was my Indy hit. I had the whole movie memorized and had gone to the theater to see it numerous times. Like, probably 10, or so. THEN, the renting of it when it came out on vid. And my Dad bought me a copy of it. I typed out the whole movie from memory. Ok, so I am a dork. I can recite most of Ghost Busters too, Star Wars trilogy (the old ones, the good ones), Romancing the Stone, Goonies, let's see.....I know there are more.
"When we stop and pay attention to ourselves, we begin to see clearly the habits and patterns that have kept us asleep and confused and misled for so long. With awareness, we can choose to shift from the selfish and narrow outlook of our personality to the all-embracing generosity of our soul, simply by changing our perspective.
Change your mind and you’ll change your world."
I have been doing ok except for my tummy hurting for the past week and a half I guess it's been. I haven't been on here since it's been hurting. I thought I was getting an ulcer or had one. It was scaring me. I got some DGL licorice herb/root and have been taking that, and it seems to be helping. Studies have shown it to be as good as prescription drugs, without the side effects, so I am hoping, hoping, hoping it helps. Also chamomille tea for healing. Some Reiki when I remember.
My daughter graduated from High School the 16th of May and that was pretty stressful too, getting all the announcements out, addresses, etc., and then company here the whole weekend. No rest.......But we are very proud of her!! She is great!
May 15, 2008
When Pain Comes Our Way
Honoring All Experiences
Honoring the experiences we have in our lives is an invaluable way to communicate with life, our greatest teacher. We do this when we take time at night to say what we are thankful for about our day and also when we write in a journal. Both of these acts involve consciously acknowledging the events of our lives so that they deepen our relationship to our experiences. This is important because it brings us into closer connection with life, and with the moment. Only when we acknowledge what’s happening to us can we truly benefit from life’s teachings.
It is especially important when pain comes our way to honor the experience, because our natural tendency is to push it away and move past it as quickly as possible. We tend to want to brush it under the rug. Yet, if we don’t, it reveals itself to be a great friend and teacher. As counterintuitive as it seems, we can honor pain by thanking it and by welcoming it into the space of our lives. We all know that often the more we resist something, the longer it persists. When we honor our pain, we do just the opposite of resisting it, and as a result, we create a world in which we can own the fullness of what life has to offer.
We can honor a painful experience by marking it in some way, bringing ourselves into a more conscious relationship with it. We might mark it by creating a work of art, performing a ritual, or undertaking some other significant act. Sometimes all we need to do is light a candle in honor of what we’ve gone through and what we’ve learned. No matter how small the gesture, it will be big enough to mark the ways in which our pain has transformed us, and to remind us to recognize and value all that comes our way in this life.
Kudos on the profile backup option! I just had to use it for the first time. Whew! I had to write him and tell him that he rocks.
Oprah has a show tonight on past life regression. I am really excited about seeing this on the mainstream tv, and with Dr. Oz even! It was on this afternoon, but I watch it at night.
A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Dr Nigel Bannister’s calculations were used for the Channel 4 Dispatches programme “The Mobile Phone Rip-Off”.
He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble – and compared that with the 5p cost of sending a text.
He said: “The bottom line is texting is at least 4 times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that.
“The maximum size for a text message is 160 characters, which takes 140 bytes because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5p. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte. At 5p each, that's £374.49 per MB - or about 4.4 times more expensive than the ‘most pessimistic’ estimate for Hubble Space Telescope transmission costs.”
Dr Bannister said it had been difficult to work out exactly how much Hubble data transmission costs. So he contacted NASA who gave him a firm figure of £8.85 per megabyte (MB) for the transmission of data from HST to the Earth.
“This doesn't include the cost of the ground stations and the time of the personnel along the way, but it is an unambiguous number for that part of the process. So that's £8.85 to get each MB from Hubble, to the first point of contact on the ground, but no further. Hence we need to go a little bit further to estimate exactly how much it costs to transmit data from Hubble to the end user - i.e. to the data archive which scientists can access. This is difficult, so I had to make some conservative assumptions.”
Dr Bannister estimated the cost of the data from Hubble could vary between £8.85 and £85 per MB- much cheaper than the £374.49 per MB cost of transmitting one MB of text.
He concludes: “Hubble is by no means a cheap mission – but the mobile phone text costs were pretty astronomical!”
You may have heard about all the tornadoes that hit here in Oklahoma and surrounding states. The main one that killed so many people started right by my Mom's house and where my brother is still living. I mean, right by it. It started around the corner from my brother and luckily went East. Here are a few videos of that twister.
And one from the 4th, I believe it said.
We are to have more severe weather tomorrow. That is what severe weather means here. Twisters in the spring and summer. Ice storms in the winter. Well we do have a few snow storms too.
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0508/519038.xml
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0508/519038_video.html
May 12, 2008
Congress seems ready to spend billions on a new "Manhattan Project" for green energy, or at least the political class really, really likes talking about one. But maybe we should look at what our energy subsidy dollars are buying now.
Some clarity comes from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), an independent federal agency that tried to quantify government spending on energy production in 2007. The agency reports that the total taxpayer bill was $16.6 billion in direct subsidies, tax breaks, loan guarantees and the like. That's double in real dollars from eight years earlier, as you'd expect given all the money Congress is throwing at "renewables." Even more subsidies are set to pass this year.
An even better way to tell the story is by how much taxpayer money is dispensed per unit of energy, so the costs are standardized. For electricity generation, the EIA concludes that solar energy is subsidized to the tune of $24.34 per megawatt hour, wind $23.37 and "clean coal" $29.81. By contrast, normal coal receives 44 cents, natural gas a mere quarter, hydroelectric about 67 cents and nuclear power $1.59.
The wind and solar lobbies are currently moaning that they don't get their fair share of the subsidy pie. They also argue that subsidies per unit of energy are always higher at an early stage of development, before innovation makes large-scale production possible. But wind and solar have been on the subsidy take for years, and they still account for less than 1% of total net electricity generation. Would it make any difference if the federal subsidy for wind were $50 per megawatt hour, or even $100? Almost certainly not without a technological breakthrough.
By contrast, nuclear power provides 20% of U.S. base electricity production, yet it is subsidized about 15 times less than wind. We prefer an energy policy that lets markets determine which energy source dominates. But if you believe in subsidies, then nuclear power gets a lot more power for the buck than other "alternatives."
The same study also looked at federal subsidies for non-electrical energy production, such as for fuel. It found that ethanol and biofuels receive $5.72 per British thermal unit of energy produced. That compares to $2.82 for solar and $1.35 for refined coal, but only three cents per BTU for natural gas and other petroleum liquids.
All of this shows that there is a reason fossil fuels continue to dominate American energy production: They are extremely cost-effective. That's a reality to keep in mind the next time you hear a politician talk about creating millions of "green jobs." Those jobs won't come cheap, and you'll be paying for them.
We are supposed to get some severe storms maybe later tonight and tomorrow. Hope they don't get too bad.
Danny brought home a baby bird last night, that was barely alive. As you know, we seem to attract wounded and lost animals....people....as a kid, I would take care of baby birds, lost, from being in storms.
This bird was not well though. It's eyes weren't even open yet. I held it and it was barely breathing. It took it's last breath in my hands.
Time to bury yet another animal. Danny said we have a pet cemetery over there!
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We are similiar being kind in heart, and I really would like to met you one day Jamie :) x
Aww, you are sweet babe! But then, birds of a feather eh? =) That would be great to meet! =)
I have to find another place for these damn cats. We are screwed, because we don't want them to die, so we feed them but they keep reproducing and killing the birds. The other night we found the two baby birds in our tree dead on our porch, nest empty. =( Tonight, another dead bird by the porch. These cats are fed on a regular basis and Danny buys them canned food to pamper them too. I want them outta here. NOW! I want a bird bath and have wanted one for years. I want bird feeders and bird houses. I am tired of my flowers getting broken and trampled on by cats.
"I myself is bi but ladies im not instreted, and guys no i wont do a three some with ya!"
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"ima protecter and a giver. if you want something from me you better not ask because i'll kick ur ass. you cant expect me to cry for you only laugh at you. for asking me for your simpithy i laugh to death. i dont take shit from nobody but i'll gladly give it. if you want on my good side you better not fuck up or your scrude then and there. so stay on my good side which is very hard to do.love me or hate me i dont give a shit. i'd rather you hate me then love me. so make that your chocie not mine. laugh and cry is what i live for. i laugh and you cry thats all there is to it. its not that hard to understand."
The damn Junebugs are out already. One bouncing on the screen. Ew. Mom was convinced they used to go after her sometimes. hahaha...
And there was one of those huge wood roaches/water bugs in the bathroom the other night! They come out in May and are gone usually in June. I always turn on the bathroom light and look all over the ceiling, etc. before walking in. I can't stand those things! They scare me. It was right by my hand the other night when I went to take a shower. "DANNY!!!!".
Last night I got a birthday card for my x-mother in law, Mary's, birthday. It's today, so I am a bit behind on getting it in the mail. In it, I wrote that we loved her and if she needed anything to call....if she needed me.
Tonight I called her around midnight. I loathe the phone, but needed to call her. She works nights, so she should be up, I thought. I gave her a 1-2 ringer just in case she was home tonight and went to sleep. She called me back. We had a nice chat. I hadn't chatted with anyone that long, since my Mom passed. We used to talk for hours on the phone, several times a week. I miss her so much.
Mary said that she is to go in for a biopsy on her breast on May 28th to see what a mass is. I told her that I would come stay with her a few days if she needed me to, or whatever she needs. I guess I foresaw this when I wrote in the card. I felt I needed to write it. She told me she loved me several times. I told her about Mom and what had happened. She knew about Mom passing, but not the whole story. She lost her husband, Bill, 7 years ago. We talked about how it won't ever get easier, missing our loved ones.
So when I go over to get Mom's last note to me at the end of the month, we will go see Mary.
Her own son, my ex, doesn't even call or see her. pfft......figures. And that's why we aren't together anymore. Ass.
The other day, the girl finally came over for me to do her senior pics. The first time she was supposed to be here, she didn't show up and when I called, she gave me 'tude and said she told me Sunday, not Saturday. "So you wanna do it tomorrow then?". "I have to get my hair done.". "Ok, why don't you call me then when you are ready.". *sigh*
So she calls and wanted it Thursday. They were late then too. The sun was setting lower and lower and LOST was coming on in a few hours! And when they finally got here, there were 2 girls to photograph, not one. Fine, I can handle that. But the lack of light was going to be a problem soon.
We did the shoot. Some here, and some at the park. They turned out nice. The couple wanted to have their pics the next day. I was like, "Ok, I can do that. 5 O'clock? My daughter has an art gallery show at 7pm.".
The next day, they didn't show up. Grr. And the girl called to pick up the pics, even though I said it was going to take a few days to edit and beautify them.
I got them all finished and to them today. They looked real pretty. I took out people from the background and made them all dreamy looking. I did over $200 in free work, going by what I have seen other sites charge for photoshop work. Probably more like $300 or so, because I worked on about 8 each, plus together shots. I charged $25 each. And now they can take the pics and get the sizes they need, wherever they want. Wal-Mart does a nice job.
They were nice girls though.
‘C. diff’ rivals MRSA as the next deadly bacteria threat, experts say
Courtesy Dr. Curtis Donskey, Clinical Infectious Diseases, February 2008.
Fri., May. 2, 2008
Amy Warren had never heard of the germ that made her so miserable.
In January 2005, weeks after giving birth to her daughter, the Ohio mother of two knew only that she was in pain, suffering cramping so severe she felt like she was still in labor. Then came the diarrhea, uncontrollable bouts up to 50 times a day, which left Warren weak and raw and stranded in her Maineville home.
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"I was so sick; I thought I had colon cancer and was dying," Warren recalled.
Three tests failed to detect the source of her intestinal trouble. A fourth, however, confirmed Warren as part of a toxic trend: She was among growing numbers of people sickened by an especially virulent form of the bacterial infection Clostridium difficile, known as C. diff.
Doctors told Warren she’d contracted the NAP1 type of the bacteria, a mutated version that produces roughly 20 times the toxins responsible for illnesses ranging from simple diarrhea to blood poisoning — and death.
“It’s like a science fiction disease,” said Warren, who struggled for six months through three relapses before controlling the infection. “That’s what scared me. People die from this.”
C. diff has long been a common, usually benign bug associated with simple, easily treated diarrhea in older patients in hospitals and nursing homes. About 3 percent of healthy adults harbor the bacteria with no problem. But overuse of antibiotics has allowed the germ to develop resistance in recent years, doctors said, creating the toxic new type that stumps traditional treatment.
"This is the one we're scared of," said Dr. Brian Koll, chief of infection control at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.
C. diff produces anaerobic spores transmitted through feces that are able to survive for months on most surfaces. People are infected when they ingest the bacteria, typically by touching contaminated surfaces and then touching their mouths, or by eating contaminated food.
Overall infections caused by C. diff more than doubled between 2000 and 2005, according to the latest government figures. In 2005, the year of Warren’s illness, 301,200 cases of C. difficile-associated disease (CDAD) were logged in discharge records kept by the nation’s hospitals. Some 28,600 people who had the infection died.
That's only hospitals, however. Counting nursing homes and other care centers, the number of cases nationally is likely closer to 500,000, experts estimate.
Contaminated health care settings remain the main source of C. diff infections, primarily because they treat so many people with serious diarrheal illness. The NAP1 strain has been found in other sites and populations in recent years, infecting young adults and pregnant women with no history of antibiotic use, according to federal sources.
Despite the concern, scientists don't know how many people contract NAP1 infections, or how many die from them. C. diff infection is not a reportable condition in most states, although a rare pilot project that mandated reporting in Ohio in 2006 found more than 14,000 cases in hospitals and nursing homes that year, according to the state health department.
Mutant strain detected in 38 states
What is clear is that the most toxic strain is taking hold, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In February 2007, 23 states told the CDC they'd seen cases of the NAP1 strain; by November, that number had grown to 38. Officials in the remaining states and territories contacted by msnbc.com said they hadn't detected the virulent bug, but most also said they don't look for it.
Better data about the scope of the C. diff problem may be available by this fall, when the Association for Professionals in Infection Control (APIC) presents the results of a prevalence study being conducted this month.
Last year, APIC was among the first agencies to note that rates of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, were about 10 times previous estimates. The so-called superbug claimed headlines last year when researchers linked it to more than 94,000 infections and nearly 19,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2005.
States with NAP1 strains of C. difficile, November 2007
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Some good quotes here. I like Clark's.
Yep....all true *smiles*
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