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Just ideas, thoughts, and meanderings.
I keep a fantasy blog here: http://www.MermaidBlog.com, and this one is just light and musy, as in just musing. Or- sometimes it's opinionated, ranting, raving, or generally misbehaving in print.
Isn't that what a blog is for?
Also, sharing information and links, ideas, dreams, and plans.
I might write about being a singer and a songwriter and producer here too.
And I will post articles, and post my artwork sometimes.Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-74465563558351293862012-10-07T13:27:00.001-07:002012-10-07T13:45:11.112-07:00<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">In several genres, Ocean's songs showcase her vocal and songwriting range, some in soft rock, some Latinesque, and some R and B, others soulfully cosmic, some rad Trance Dance House music, instrumentals for soundtracks, and sassy rap and pop tunes too!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Ocean is an author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as a lyricist, has a great interest in preserving our environment and in using her talent to spread compassion.</span></div>
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Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-45075127693843849592010-12-23T09:35:00.000-08:002010-12-29T10:57:56.811-08:00Beyond Hooters' Cafes - Dickies! - Equal Rights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/TROLNwBHzMI/AAAAAAAAAf8/nqTSAbyWFx8/s1600/low+pants.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/TROLNwBHzMI/AAAAAAAAAf8/nqTSAbyWFx8/s1600/low+pants.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Candidate for Dickies' Waiter</b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hey, do the Mormons allow us to have as many husbands as we want too?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just wondering.</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If so, there'll be a mass stampede of women suddenly interested in that pseudo-religion!</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And hey, how does that group operate in America anyway? Certianly not legally, right?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Does this fall under the reason that women have never gotten the equal pay for equal work thing?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just wondering that too.</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Where are the equal rights in these things?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why aren't you wondering too?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And - why not, since the sexist pig-looking male patrons at Hooters want to bring future consumers, in the form of their little children, into their "food" establishments - let <i>Playboy</i> sponsor a "bring your kids to the Mansion" thing too? </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Not only sexualize the kiddies early, but make damned sure they know exactly what females are for - servicing, turning-on, and whoring, right?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Stop it at the beginning, the way TV already does excellently well - make sure that little "whores in training" never get the idea that anything matters but their looks and getting male attention, right?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Don't let them think they matter on any other level.</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And make sure that little boys understand this as well, so they can learn to dominate the females on the playgrounds and be getting sexual favors by the age of eight or nine from the girls - make sure they compete, guys, for the little boys' attention, too!</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As the clothing for little girls gets more and more risque and provocative - shades of Jon Benet? - and as sexual behavior on TV gets more viewable by more kids, then naturally, they're getting the idea!</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The old talk shows used to parade strippers on who'd talk about how much money they made - but not about any of the down sides to their trade.</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now there are centerfolds on all channels, hookers, and all sorts of excellent role models for the little girls to emulate! Whoopee for pedophiles! They won't ever have to train their captives again! And - they'll be happy to know that now they, too, can hang out at Hooters where they can view the little kids beings sexualized by their parents for them!</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">AND - all you Hooters Dads - extra fun for you! - you can all let your little girls know that you're leering at their older (or younger ) sisters already, their school pals, and that all the other Daddies of their little friends are leering at them already! Oh, joy for you all! After all, aren't you already dressing your little dolls like hookers? And starting young is great for you, isn't it?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And that Las Vegas showgirl who's missing now? She'd given up a lucrative corporate career to follow her dream of slutting it up onstage - isn't this just what the doctors ordered? I mean the plastic surgeons whose incomes depend upon the constant supply of soulless, insecure litlte girls who now demand plastic surgical "correction" even in pre-teen years?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Cool for the male public, right? I mean, unless you're a father - the old-fashioned, caring type - not like the pimpy ones like the one who pander their kids into showbiz, for instance, so they won't have to work themselves.</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Clever, right?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I can think of three huge star names right now who'd merrily delivered up their sexualized young teen daughters to media frenzies, just like the pimps do on the corner.</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Anyway, back to Hooters' cafes, who now claim they're <i>good</i> for children!</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Forget happy meals and so on, now women in push-up bras and shorts so short they reveal just about everything, (according to a Hooter's Waitress on the <i>Headline News</i> show) - why not just sex the kids up early?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">By pass the childhood parts, the fairytales, the jungle gyms and just feed 'em the facts of life?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But - hey - here we get to the equal rights.</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Don't you think these men who just love Hooters and taking their little kids in will just LOVE my idea?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I want to get investors and start a nationwide "Family Food Chain" (as Hooters maintains it is), called "Dickies"! </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With - you guessed it - really hot young guys with no shirts on, sporting extremely low-slung, sexy shorts to see theot back cleavage - extremely attentive, fliirty, college boys, maybe, who cater to the new women - women with lots of disposable income - don't you think the same men who revel in going to Hooters will love going with their wives to Dickies?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Oh, and I plan on the waiters wearing a special groin-enhancing form of underwear, leaving not much to the imagination, right?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then, won't the Hooter's fans just love going there with their families? Kids and all?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then the little boys and girls can learn what it's all about for real! Since the fathers who frequent Hooters want their boys and girls to learn that it's proper to get turned-on only by young women in forms of undress, (and not, presumably, by their wives - in other words, women who have had children are not, by their definition, hot or to be wanted by men any more) - then shouldn't the same wives teach the same boys and girls that it is also improper to be turned on by one's old, fat, used-up husband, and that, instead, wives should flirt with and leer at the proper objects of their lust - young guys, also in states of sexy undress?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What's good for the gander, right? Is better for the goose!</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So, now that there is a great, rich class of females out there, let's start the counterpart to Hooters today! Dickies!</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After all, childrens' proper education is at risk!</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Any backers out there? Who's game for real equal rights?</span></b><br />
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</span> </b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Empathy for Madonna Figures along with Children?</span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Children receive the lions' share of empathy in these bad mommying cases, while the mother receives only vilification and hatred. Fathers fare much better, sadly.</span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Where is the empathy for that mother, who was clearly duped by TV's constant ploy of pushing women to breed and probably by her family whose "misery loves company" attitude had also forced her to feel she needed to have children in order to keep their love. </span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then, of course, they threw her out. </span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She's clearly unable to manage life, was terrified of letting her kids go to foster homes, as we all are, having seen shows like Nancy Grace continuously feeding us fearfulness.</span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span> </b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yellow Journalism</span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Naturally, the odds are that all kids will be OK wherever they are, but the focus in our society - or at least in the media - is to keep us all hopped-up on adrenalin-fueled fight and flight stress, thinking something horrible happens to every individual. </span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why?</span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Fear sells. Fear compels humans to watch these werid but exciting shows and the Mommy Mafia audiences, led by attack dog, Nancy Grace, always go for the throats of the mommies who cannot afford nannies, unlike themselves, and who can barely eat.</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ask yourself: why is it that the fifth amendment only benefits the salespeople who shovel garbage into society in the name of "business", despite the poisoning of the minds of the victims, the viewers? Yes, the poor do not have a DVR ability to rush through ads or to choose better programming, so they're trapped in this way too.</span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span> </b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How about not just being a child advocate. How about being an advocate for all people? And even beyond?</span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How about caring for each individual caught in poverty with poor nutrition and in constant worry and stress?</span></b></div>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-51767986530770938642010-12-16T07:35:00.000-08:002010-12-16T07:35:19.533-08:00Spirituality<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/cosmicmagazine/cosmic-articles/being-vegan-is-being-cosmic"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Being Vegan Is Being Cosmic</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>In this hard time for so many innocent beings of all species, the very least of them are the farm animals.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Please ave prayers and money gift for them in Jesus' name.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Jesus allied Himself with innocent beings, the very most sweet and helpless, from the time He was born and throughout His life. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Compassion is the key and was His whole message a He said.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>So, please remember His caring for all His creattion in His season.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>And you know that when you do good, you feel good. You heal as you spread healing to those who cannot help themselves. This is the meaning of Christmas.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Thank you, and Bless You All</b></div>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-46025775274143683302010-11-20T08:28:00.000-08:002010-11-20T08:46:40.019-08:00Jane Velez-Mitchell and The Humane Society<div style="text-align: center;"><b>JVM, Jane, is my FAVORITE person on TV!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Her compassion is complete - meaning, she cares about everyone on our planet - every living being!</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
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<b><div style="color: #050505; font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I was waiting for the next TCM film and for the ads to finish on CNN just now - 8:08 EST, July 22, 2010, when I flipped through a few channels, and was shocked to see women of no conscience and no consequence pawing over some ugly snakeskin shoes!</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Where have these Jerry Springer women been?</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Don't they realize the entire world is being beseiged right now by special interest people who market cruelty to people, and that the hip and cool women had long since abandoned any cruelty items as completely unfashionable?</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">How unchic can ABC get?</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I, for one, will not be watching their channel again, let alone their tediously boring Early Show.</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Upset over whether some shoes had real python skin on them, these old-fashioned harpies apparently had no qualm about killing snakes for their skin, or about wearing dead bodies on their feet.</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">What kind of man would be turned on by those shoes? Worthless old creeps only.</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Normal men are scared by women who totter around on heels that look like weapons!</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Those weird women on ABC obviously only dress for shock value.</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">No wonder they're so desperate! Why don't they wear red lights on their heads instead? It's just as ridiculous.</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Want to be hot? Buy from cool companies like </span></b><a href="http://living.peta.org/2009/petas-cruelty-free-guide-featuring-kelly-carlson"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">these</span></b></span></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">!</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Gorgeous chicks only wear compassionate shoes.</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">How to find chic, compassionate eco clothing?</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I shop in all kinds of stores, with the foremost thought to be whether shoes are made with animal skin or with man-made faux "pleather" materials.</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">If I like the design, who cares about the label?</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">What kind of stupid person would wear a certain label rather than follow their own sense of style and ethics? Isn't it the height of stupidity to wear something merely because of the designer's name?</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Isn't this the 21st century? Are all the morons on the ABC Early Show in the nineteen fifties?</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">What happened to fashion enlightenment and chic?</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Beauty is as beauty does.</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Think for yourself. Find your own way and make it Compassion First - which, of course, will save our world - and the dogs that are routinely fed to these giant snakes to fatten them up.</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">So when you wear snakeskin, you are killing innocent dogs who cry pitiably, knowing full well what will happen. Did you know it's a very slow, painful crushing death they suffer?</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Do you care?</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Think about it.</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Think about the world.</span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Think about the horrible people who trap or breed these hapless ankes and keep them in deplorable conditions - or even worse - who give a show to crowds who revel in watching whimpering dogs be fed to hungry pythons.</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Think of all the activists and all the decades it had taken for America finally to pass laws protecting endangered species and laws protecting all animals from cruelty.</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">And then see what you're doing - by-passing these laws to buy from ruthless companies who don't care about cruelty to innocents, our world, endangered species or anything sacred.</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Do you really want to support the destruction of our world?</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Of dogs?</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Don't you at least care about dogs?</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Go to </span></span></b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://Peta.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Peta.org</span></a></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> now and protest with me!</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">And </span></span></b><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/exoticanimals/exotic.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">sign petitions here</span></span></b></span></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"> protecting our wildlife from harpies like this!</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">And here, go to ABC and tell them what you think about the cruel witch coven they put before us!</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">And watch other channels instead. Preferably uplifting ones.</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">And also, why would anyone want to spend that kind of money on shoes?</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">How desperate can you get!</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">If you're a hot chick, you don't need devices, duh!</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">If you're not, then try being yourself, cultivating interests and dressing not like a stripper but like a cool chick instead, with class and elegance, which naturally means wearing compassionate clothing.</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">And, by the way, do you love dogs, ABC and The Early Show?</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Then think about this - the pythons' skin you're wearing on your feet came from pythons fattened on DOG MEAT!</span></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Read This:</span></i></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><br />
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<b>Think of it - if they'd depicted a woman in office as a porno star, for instance, with skimpy or no clothing, trashy outfits (even more trashy that Sarah Palin's outrageously strippered-out spike heels), or, if they'd depicted a Mexican with a bandito sombrero outfit, a grizzled grin, and criss-crossed bullet straps, what do you think would have happened?</b><br />
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<b>Even a chihuahua on Taco Bell's ads caused such a stir and calls of "racism" a few years ago that I'm surprised that there hasn't yet been a nation or world-wide outrage against the completely white group of right-winger reactionaries known as The Tea Party.</b><br />
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<b>Why don't we all form a party of our own?</b><br />
<b>The sane among us.</b><br />
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<b>Call it The Coffee Party!</b><br />
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<b>Think of all the shades of skin that would love to be represented there, from cafe au lait to darkest, richest brown.</b><br />
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<b>We need an antidote to this party - one that reflects us all - all the whites who are outraged at The Tea Party, and at the Republicans in general!</b><br />
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<b>The best thing is to join and become active with the Democratic Party!</b><br />
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And fun!Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-62443219505617676122010-01-27T09:35:00.000-08:002010-01-30T08:50:26.494-08:00Jean Simmons Tribute by Ocean<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/S2CEkW64GYI/AAAAAAAAAVI/Ozz7pOUBuG8/s1600-h/Varinia+and+Spartacus+Photo+Use.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 156px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/S2CEkW64GYI/AAAAAAAAAVI/Ozz7pOUBuG8/s320/Varinia+and+Spartacus+Photo+Use.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431486910771501442" /></a><div>Jean Simmons, the mesmerizingly brilliant actress of many of the finest movies ever made, has gone from this plane, but for the wonderful films she has left us.</div><div>I could not help crying.</div><div>Not only do I adore her in every role I've ever seen - and yes, I may not know the names of any current actors or actresses, but I, a constant TCM viewer, know all the real stars - but I know someone personally whom she has helped in times of need.</div><div>She is - was - as noble a person in real life as were the heroines that only she could play, like Varinia, the wife of Spartacus in Kirk Douglas' pivotal film, <i>Spartacus</i>. </div><div>Were you aware that all the filmmakers had chosen <i>Spartacus</i> as the best film ever made?</div><div>I hadn't known that when I, as a child, had selected it as my favorite of all time, and it still - largely due to the timelessness of Jean Simmon's enchantingly haunting portrayal of the slave heroine - stands as the very best ever made.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you've never yet been lucky enough to have seen one of Jean Simmon's great films, do so now, and experience the agelessness of time, the irreplaceable aspects of otherworldliness and femininity that she brought effortlessly to the screen, and to film history.</div><div><br /></div><div>A generous person in real life, she exuded qualities that we would like to think had applied to some of our beloved historical figures. Whether or not the reality fit the glamorously beautiful ideal that Simmon's portrayed or not, I'm sure the actual historical heroines would have given everything just to look like Jean Simmons, and Spartacus, who in actuality did not, or at least we don't know, have a wife, but if he had, he would certainly have won that revolt just to be able to be with someone so divinely gorgeous and regal.</div><div><br /></div><div>Rent Spartacus and go back in time as you fall into instant belief in romance, heroism, and tragedy as you watch the unforgettable Jean Simmons.</div><div><br /></div><div>Below is from the Daily Telegraphs' Homage to Jean Simmons:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(64, 64, 64); line-height: 17px; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7063304/Jean-Simmons-remembered-tributes-to-the-demure-doe-eyed-British-beauty-of-film.html">"As writer and film historian Alan K Rode said when her agent announced she had died on Friday at her Santa Monica home after a long illness: ''Jean's jaw-dropping beauty often obscured a formidable acting talent...</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px;font-size:13px;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7063304/Jean-Simmons-remembered-tributes-to-the-demure-doe-eyed-British-beauty-of-film.html">Terry O'Neill, the celebrity photographer, pictured Ms Simmons many time in the heyday of her career. ''She was a stunning beautiful young woman and a lovely, lovely, gentle lady,'' he said. "The camera absolutely adored her and she had tremendous patience. The thing that always stuck in my mind about Jean was her dignity. She belonged to that illustrious band of British actresses who were utter stars and were so very ladylike. Her death will bring great sadness to her many fans.''</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;">From a nice film tribute to Simmons:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana, helvetica, arial;font-size:medium;">"<a href="http://www.classicmovies.org/articles/aa112998.htm">It is debatable whether any actress ever portrayed a better combination of strength and vulnerability than Jean Simmons. The beautiful British-born actress got her start at age 14 and, like Elizabeth Taylor and Natalie Wood, dazzled from the beginning, landing her first big role as young Estella in the best screen version of </a><i><a href="http://www.classicmovies.org/articles/aa112998.htm">Great Expectations</a></i><a href="http://www.classicmovies.org/articles/aa112998.htm"> in 1946.</a>"</span></span></span></div>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-46732971271749426812009-11-28T11:52:00.000-08:002009-11-28T12:00:37.551-08:00Sky Saxon and Arthur Lee - R.I.P.I can't believe I just heard of Sky Saxon's transcention - I'll use his own beliefs, since he was a truly cosmic soul and a huge force, as was Arthur Lee, in music.<br />All our music.<br />From the mid sixties, these two giants weren't household names, but both were pivotal in the ovement music took.<br />Simple turns of fate brought both of these remarkable talents to less-than-famous paths and weirdly, both died while in plans for new come-back tours.<br />In case you're either too arrogant, if you're musicians, to look back and to know the originators of the music we all play now or in case you're not into music, Arthur Lee was the lead singer and guitarist of Love and Sky Saxon was the leader and singer of The Seeds.<br />Look up their music, and, in the case of Sky Saxon, who was a fruititarian and an advanced soul, his life philosophy.<br />Both very cool icons who deserve to be applauded posthumously. <br />And I think they'll both hear us.Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-63381763045527844292009-05-25T08:59:00.000-07:002009-05-25T09:06:46.773-07:00How To Be Hot<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/ShrBj9rkNiI/AAAAAAAAANg/OHJ7ICvqoBU/s1600-h/How+To+Be+Hot+z-+by+Ocean+-+BookMermaid.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 277px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/ShrBj9rkNiI/AAAAAAAAANg/OHJ7ICvqoBU/s320/How+To+Be+Hot+z-+by+Ocean+-+BookMermaid.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339793131798017570" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">How To Be Ho</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">t, my new ebook, is being released this coming week!!!<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">I'm very excited, since my entire idea, which was pushed along by those in the know who thought everyone would benefit from my Hot Tips, was that I believe Everyone is Hot!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">I see everyday guys and chicks who are all shapes, all sizes, and in all states of health, wealth, and happiness - too often, that means not happy - who I know have a Hot Self inside them, just waiting for the inspiration to be Hot!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">So, I'm happy to share what I've been lucky enough to learn along the way in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">How To Be Hot.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">It is available here : <a href="http://www.EBookize.com">Ebookize.com</a>, so indulge your senses, get ready for an entertaining and fun guide to becoming more attractive, happy, healthy, and cosmic, and join the Hot Mailing List, too!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-35954844678803353802009-03-21T19:15:00.000-07:002009-05-11T17:38:59.824-07:00Twittering, Twitching, Blogging, and Verbally Flogging, Trodding, Plodding, and Becoming Blithering Idiots<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 20px; font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(170, 221, 153); line-height: 94px; "><a href="http://oceansinger.blogspot.com/2009/02/horses-need-our-help-now.html" style="font-weight: bold; display: inline !important; color: rgb(153, 170, 221); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:24px;">FIRST - HORSES NEED OUR HELP NOW!</span></a></span><br /></div><div class="post-header-line-1"></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:Times;"><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(34, 139, 34); "><strong><a title="MerHorses" href="http://www.ecoize.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 221, 214); text-decoration: none; "><img height="157" src="http://www.ecoize.com/images/my%20horsie%20FOR%20LETT.jpg" width="216" style="width: 127px; height: 86px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " /></a></strong></span></p><div face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="11px" style="text-align: center; "></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:24px;">A very urgent matter needs your attention - Please visit </span></span><a href="http://www.ecoize.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 221, 214); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:24px;">MerHorses </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:24px;">now and continue to the Humane Society page where you can send an email to save Horses!</span></span></span></div></span></div></span></div><div><br /></div>It's so manic, the internet.<div>Compulsively expressing ourselves - millions of us.</div><div>And with Twitter - it's moment-by-moment, mood, just tiny phrases-ful of notions - and it's quite addictive!</div><div>It seems we can all be summed up in tiny sound-bytes.</div><div>Just a nuance, a nano-sentence needed to sum us up.</div><div>On Twitter, only a sentence to sum up one's whole self - one's life.</div><div>Fragmented, shattered, streamlined, and that's what we all are - in the end, at least - on our tombstones, if we're lucky enough to have one - it might read only stats, like name, and dates between which we'd once existed.</div><div>Meanwhile, we live between the fragments flung outward into the internetted abyss for whomever to view, to care, to share, observe, judge, like, dislike, follow, take up, drop, commiserate, and so on - but mainly in order to self-promote.</div><div>Everyone's selling something, even if only ideas - peddling maybe only thoughts - like bubbles - popping off to no one and to everyone at once.</div><div>Who's listening? No one. We're all too busy expressing ourselves.</div><div>It seems.</div><div><br /></div>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-46412209197778995632009-03-19T07:44:00.000-07:002009-03-21T19:25:28.518-07:00It's a Dark Day In America - Human Birth Rates Top Record<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 20px; font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:Times;"><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255); font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/ScJfAOmATqI/AAAAAAAAALw/Z6mP9QsfZtY/s1600-h/overpopulation.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/ScJfAOmATqI/AAAAAAAAALw/Z6mP9QsfZtY/s320/overpopulation.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314914967772745378" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 66px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">Human Overpopulation Becomes Even More Unmanageable</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">Today is a day of mourning.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">Mourning for all the people who will die as a consequence - most of them children, babies, for the places that will become deserts due to tree-felling, for the water, now clear, that will soon become rank. Today, the announcement has come that human overpopulation in America has reached the mark of that of the height of the baby booming year of 1957, meaning that we are now, officially, spiraling very quickly downward toward hellish life conditions and world destruction - UNLESS - and only unless - most start to opt-out of breeding. I have. I have taken the <a href="http://www.ecoize.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=369">Child-Free Pledge</a> to stay child-free and/or adopt. I can't understand why we, at this point in our history, are not, if not outright ostracizing and even throwing things, at least draping the homes in black of people who choose to have more babies in a world that is overrun by human overpoulation already.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">In a world where most children starve every day of their lives worldwide, suffer untold misery in their short lives, and wish that someone in a developed nation would adopt them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">This is so sad - sad for us - if you think you feel crowded now, look out - watch as every year churns out even more drivers on the road, even more self-centeredness, even more desperation, even more rudeness, and all the other negatives that overpoulation always brings.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">Get ready for dire weather warnings, due to the turmoil of ever-growing, ever-advancing stampedes of people grabbing land, tearing down trees, and spoiling the waterways - after all - our planet is our only nest, and you know what you're not supposed to do in your own nest, right ?</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">But just being alive is going to make sewage, make despoilation, make pollution grow.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">And one child in a developed nation usurps the energy and resources that literally thousands of children use up in undeveloped nations.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">So do not rejoice when you hear of someone's pregnancy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">Ask them instead, "How could you? Are you really that uncaring a person ?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">Then ask them, "Do you have ample - and I mean very ample - resources to keep that child in case you can't work, die, or break up with your support ? Because why should we- as a society - pick up the check for your unbridled selfishness ?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">Then ask your government - "Please take out tax penalties on people who breed. "</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">And get active.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">Stay child-free if you are so lucky.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">Date only those guys who are cool enough to get a vasectomy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">If you do make a mistake, own up to it. Do the right thing. (Don't think of abortion - let someone adopt your kid.)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Use at LEAST two forms of contraception at all times, and do not drink while on a date. Stay lucid.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">And adopt by all means, if you can or if you feel a need to parent.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:18px;">And wake up others to the realities of life <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">now</span></span> - not of life two thousand years ago !</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Also, Read:</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Thinking of having a baby ? Read</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></strong><a title="ChildFix" href="http://www.ecoize.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=91" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 204); text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; "><span style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#6666ff;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">ChildFix </span></strong></span></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">first and take the questionnaire.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Think of the world as o ne household. The house is small, the income fixed, and they cannot move. The family already has a child, and cannot feed another, and yet they think of having another child. Either the quality of life will suffer and each will have less food, they will put one out to starve, close the windows, and not heed his cries, or - they will do the kind thing, the spiritual thing, the sane thing and stop having children.</span></span><br /></strong><a href="http://www.ecoize.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=122" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; "><strong><span style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">EcoChildFree</span></span></span></strong></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><a title="GetFixed.org" href="http://www.getfixed.org/" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; "><span style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Stop Human Overpopulation<br />GetFixed.org</span></span></strong></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span><strong><span style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"><a title="ChildFix" href="http://www.childfix.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">ChildFix</span></a></span></span></strong></span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-weight: bold; line-height: normal;font-family:Verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-weight: bold; line-height: normal;font-family:Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">AND - By the Way - Are you aware that we who do not have children are in the majority ? That means we, the Child-Free, are a potent political force.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(153, 255, 153); font-weight: bold; line-height: normal;font-family:Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Let's combine and create some law changes !</span></span></div></span></div></span>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-15110112818428694712009-03-12T11:37:00.001-07:002009-03-19T08:11:17.168-07:00Anti-Rand Rant - Ayn Rand, There Is No Virtue In Selfishness<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 20px; font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="margin-top: 0.25em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 140%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(170, 221, 153); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; ">OK. </span><br /></h3></span></div><div>Having watched the Colbert Report, and realized that there are actually nut-cases out there who think that the weirdo, repressed he-woman, Ayn Rand, had any points at all, except those in her brain-damaged head, I have to weigh in on this.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">There is no virtue in selfishness.</span> Well, there is to the evil among us, but in civilized society, among the moral, the religious, the sane, the normal people, caringness for everyone takes precedence.</div><div><br /></div><div>Rand was an embittered woman, unappealing, most likely attempting to gain the attention of a remote father, or to be the son he'd wanted, a twisted person who, in the time of great national suffering, during which, as now, there were not enough jobs or resources for most people, she would smugly decide that others didn't deserve anything - a dog-eat-dogism - and that the successful ( oh, please, don't resurrect the old God pre-ordained blessings on his chosen thing! ), merely work harder...where is concern for others ? Has the human overpopulation crisis already caused this level of hatred for the under-productive ? </div><div><br /></div><div>Which brings us to the point about which all this Ayn Randism has been dug out of a moldering grave to prop up the conservatives' notions about unfairness to them - the Obama campaign to bail out the mortgage holders. After all, who else do they have who would openly espouse selfishness as a virtuous thing to endorse (except for the odious pustule named Rush Limbaugh )? Why else would the hyper-conventional (they all dress alike ) Conservatives come out en masse for this extremely odd and subversive female writer ? Ordinarily they'd shun her like they would all other bohemian types!</div><div><br /></div><div>First of all - if you own your own home, you're not desperate.</div><div>Why not help the ones who really need it? The renters?</div><div><br /></div><div>These home-owners - many of whom heeded those stupid late-night ads and land-grabbed to the tune of, as in my neighbor's case, owning in excess of hundreds of rental properties - are not the desperate ones. I cannot tell you how many vacant homes I see every day in the beach areas. The Bush-men had given tax breaks to the greedy ones who wanted not one but TWO homes - and why not force these second homes to be offered (at a Federally-mandated low rate ) as rental properties for those who need homes?</div><div><br /></div><div>This is a bail out to stabilize the banks, and the middle-grubbers in between them and the consumers, the mortgage industry creeps. The bottom-feeders who have the nerve to look down upon workers - whose industries have been closed down or moved to other countries ! Where is the sympathy and help for them ? The American Worker doesn't even have unions any more!</div><div><br /></div><div>Oh, where is F.D.R. when we need him again ? Would that he, like Arthur, could return - but NOT Ayn Rand!</div><div><br /></div><div>I, like many who voted Obama in, am not thrilled about many things the new administration is doing, but this is a move that should have the Repubs clicking their collective (Fascist) heels together!</div><div><br /></div><div>It's giving money to the banks, essentially, which may or may not get to them if it's given to homeowners instead.</div><div><br /></div><div>This could be good for stabilizing the economy, but it will do nothing to help the ones who sorely need help in this economy - those without jobs, without homes, renters, and so on.</div><div><br /></div><div>I just cannot cry over those who own homes when so many others, less advantaged, are in trouble.</div><div><br /></div><div>Why not choose another novelist to quote ? Let's go for Steinbeck now, at least, since he cared about the ordinary man - the masses - the disenfranchised - the elderly - the hungry kids - the single parents - the less-abled - the poor.</div><div><br /></div><div>So do I.</div><div><br /></div><div>Quotes That Matter :</div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.</span> - John Steinbeck</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana; min-height: 17.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Love others as you do yourself</span>. - The Bible</p></div>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-85627156006307997132009-03-09T09:35:00.000-07:002009-03-09T09:38:53.261-07:00PRESIDENT OBAMA - BE BETTER THAN BUSH ! - SAVE OUR WILDLIFE AND WILD LANDS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 139, 34); font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(165, 42, 42); ">URGEN</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(165, 42, 42); ">T</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">- HELP</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"> <a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/212960066" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 255); font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; ">WOLVES</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NOW! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PLEASE SIGN THIS AND</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WE LOVE OUR WILDLIFE - WE VOTED HIM IN TO PROTECT THEM!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(165, 42, 42); ">BE BETTER THAN BUSH! THAT WAS THE POINT OF VOTING YOU IN!</span></span></span>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-34637218522123261102009-02-27T08:01:00.001-08:002010-07-22T07:18:16.038-07:00Research The Facts Of History - In Historical Novels and Historical Films<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="color: #aadd99; font-size: 140%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://oceansinger.blogspot.com/2009/02/horses-need-our-help-now.html" style="color: #aadd99; display: block; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FIRST - HORSES NEED OUR HELP NOW!</a></h3><div class="post-header-line-1"></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: forestgreen;"><a href="http://www.MerHorses.com/" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; color: #99aadd; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="MerHorses"><strong><img height="157" src="http://www.ecoize.com/images/my%20horsie%20FOR%20LETT.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; height: 86px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; width: 127px;" width="216" /></strong></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 48px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #33ffff;">A very urgent matter needs your attention - Please visit </span></span><a href="http://www.MerHorses.com/" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; color: #99aadd; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #33ffff;">MerHorses </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #33ffff;">now and continue to the Humane Society page where you can send an email to save Horses!</span></span></span></div></span><br />
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</div>Most of our historical fiction is just that - fiction.<br />
<div>Even on The History Channel, so much so-called history is factually inaccurate, that I suggest that everyone do what I do - research the subjects and find out the real truth. It makes these histories more enjoyable and we should all teach kids to research facts.</div><div>It will make them learn to think and not to just take what they hear and see without a grain of salt.</div><div>The old adage to believe half of what you see and none of what you hear is a good byword for life - especially in historical movies !</div><div><br />
</div><div>For instance, in the film, "The Other Boleyn Girl", they made what were really two girls put forth as concubines by their family, as was common in those days, into rivals, bitches, and they reversed many facts about them.</div><div>Here are some facts:</div><div>Facts on The Boleyn Girls:</div><div><br />
</div><div>MARY WAS OLDER THAN ANNE BOLEYN</div><div>MARY DIED BEFORE ANNE</div><div>LITTLE ELIZABETH WAS RAISED AT COURT</div><div><br />
</div><div>So, while we can admire the way writers take the truth and twist it into their own tales, let's all learn the truth by researching the facts in everything. </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.blogged.com/directory/family-home/cooking/vegetarian-vegan"> <img alt="Vegetarian & Vegan Blog Directory" border="0" src="http://www.blogged.com/icons/vn_ocean_1478637.gif" title="Vegetarian & Vegan Blog Directory" /></a></span></div>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-62889083106799988522009-02-20T11:31:00.000-08:002009-02-20T11:34:57.573-08:00HORSES NEED OUR HELP NOW!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:Times;"><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(34, 139, 34); "><a title="MerHorses" href="http://www.ecoize.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 255); font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; "><strong><img height="157" src="http://www.ecoize.com/images/my%20horsie%20FOR%20LETT.jpg" width="216" style="width: 127px; height: 86px; " /></strong></a></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:48px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"></div><div face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="11px" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">A very urgent matter needs your attention - Please visit </span></span></span><a href="http://www.ecoize.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">MerHorses </span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">now and continue to the Humane Society page where you can send an email to save Horses!</span></span></span></span></div></span>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-71771858264619735962009-02-19T07:05:00.000-08:002009-02-19T07:37:20.429-08:00Dog Poem - For Dog Lovers Everywhere - by Ocean<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/SZ16-MnJTTI/AAAAAAAAAKY/k_20TJLYe_g/s1600-h/my+Boys+running+Sunny+and+Thor,+rescued+pets,++at+beach+with+Ocean.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 235px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/SZ16-MnJTTI/AAAAAAAAAKY/k_20TJLYe_g/s320/my+Boys+running+Sunny+and+Thor,+rescued+pets,++at+beach+with+Ocean.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304531145068203314" /></a><br /><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">OUR DOGS AT SHORE</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(A poem for our rescued half-Labrador Retriever and his Brother, a rescued half-Rottie)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> - by Ocean, <a href="http://www.ToOcean.com/">http://www.ToOcean.com,</a> <a href="http://www.OceanPoetry.com/">http://www.OceanPoetry.com</a></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And, vist </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.OurSunny.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.OurSunny.com</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, for Dog Health Information, a homage to our Boys</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">OUR DOGS AT SHORE, BY OCEA</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">N</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">CAVORTING,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">RUNNING,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ECSTASY !</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THEY COME AND </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THROW THEMSELVES</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AT ME,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AND WILD IMPLORE</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THE BALL ONCE MORE</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">TO TOSS IT OUT TO SEA</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">GO FETCH !</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">RETRIEVE !</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THEIR REVELRY</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">CAN SCARCE</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">CONTAIN</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">WITHIN THEIR FRAMES,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AND JOYOUS BARKS</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">BRING OUT THE GRINS</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">OF US AND OTHERS</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">WATCHING THEM,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">LIKE THEIR PALS</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THE DOLPHIN POD</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AT OUR OWN BEACH,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THEY GAZE AND NOD</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AND KNOW THEM WELL,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">OUR BOY DOGS,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AND JOIN THEM THERE</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AND WE, AS ONE,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AMONG THE SKIES</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THE THRILLING WAVES,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THE RUSHING SWELLS,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">THE SHUFFLED AIR,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">OUR SUNNY’S EYES</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">MAKE US HIS SLAVES,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">AND HAPPINESS</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">HAS NEVER COME</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">IN SUCH HUGE,</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">OVERWHELMING SUM !</span></span></p>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-78556542159734707472009-02-14T18:18:00.000-08:002009-02-14T18:42:04.430-08:00CosmicFix Magazine<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/SZd72pZ1SSI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/aJ1s5Y7Ralw/s1600-h/CosmicFix+Logo+12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t7SL2GnLASw/SZd72pZ1SSI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/aJ1s5Y7Ralw/s320/CosmicFix+Logo+12.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302843265009404194" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://CosmicFix.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">CosmicFix Magazine</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Spirituality - our connection to the universe - to the cosmos surrounding us like a great sea.</div><div>They tell us it's empty, that it's airless, a void, and yet, the luminous stars are there, shining, burning with energy, beaming intensively, like our own Sun.</div><div>Even if being cosmic only means that we stand in awe at the hugeness of everything beyond us, that we shudder at the mysteries we can barely contemplate, that we, lying on grassy hillsides at nights, savor starry showers and lunar limbos, we love the idea of the Almighty and His creations.</div><div><br /></div><div>And yet, experience tells us that there is more than what we reason should be happening in our own lives - and our yen for spiritual connection with the unseen takes us on voyages of imagination, seeking answers to these open questions.</div><div>Religiosity alone does not always quench our curiosity, and faith, as exquisite a gift as it is, sometimes is not enough.</div><div>Questing itself is seen by some as irreligious, and yet, God, being immense as He is, must understand our need to know Him, and can't we learn more about our universal home and still be faithful to our beliefs ?</div><div><a href="http://www.CosmicFix.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">CosmicFix Magazine</span></a>, a wonderful online source of ideas and articles, asks for submissions from writers who love to explore these areas : cosmic thought, astronomy, inspiration, E.S.P., psychic phenomena, cultural differences, world religions, inner worlds, intentional thought and acquisition or consequences, "The Secret", the history of intellectual investigation into synchronicity, Jungian ideas, personal experiences with the beyond, ghosts, premonitions, wraiths, stories on these themes, and poetry involving the cosmic realms.</div><div><br /></div>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-69984789142879777422009-02-12T06:45:00.000-08:002009-02-14T17:44:23.029-08:00Writing and Writers- Article by Ocean<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family:arial;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-family:arial;font-size:16px;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Writers and Writing - Article by Ocean</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Most of us write something on something. Even if it’s raging graffiti or just angsty scribblings of expression or even stick-figuring to let your feelings vent most of us write. Even to stab at the ground with a twig is writing. Or even air writing to trace the stars at night. We primates are fingery and holdy about things in our fingers and our fingers are the routes out from the triggers fired off in the brain, so… don’t let anyone tell you he or she doesn’t write. We all do.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> And even before “writing” was invented, we wrote and talked and these noises and vocalizations somehow meandered through eternity fueled by our emotions and found a way out through those limbs down to the old fingers and the famous opposing thumb. Alphabets aside, thinking in words and pictures are the same thing since words stand in for both emotions and for pictures for places and events and for imaginary worlds and airy inventions that haven’t found creation yet.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Writing is cool, essentially.All animals do it but maybe not as formally as we do.We’ve compartmentalized ourselves into a neat little package of beliefs that are unsubstantiated where we’re always the center of everything. The other animals sit around and wonder at it, I’m sure.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Anyway, they all express themselves to. Throwing coconuts down onto a meanie’s head is as much writing as is a headline of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New York Times</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Head-butting just as much writing as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">War and Peace</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. And a crow squawking on a fence is as much writing as is 50-cent giving out with diatribes as is the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Guernica </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as is Woody Guthrie twanging as is Hemingway’s </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Sun Also Rises</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Degrees are the only difference and I just mean – open your mind and notice what a weird thing writing really is, and how cool.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> That a feeling can find it’s way to being into the mind and clothe itself in a made-up picture and into a thought and into a word and into a way to communicate that word.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Writing is the way out of a lot of things. The pen is mightier than the sword and so many wars and revolutions have been started with just a little written dynamite that the power of the word really speaks for itself – and loudly. Or softly.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Even though people who never learn to read have way better memories than those who learn to depend on written words, reading still bestows a wealth of experience – a way of mind-reading and time-traveling and understanding that few of the ones who still don’t know how to read would not envy.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> To wield the pencil is to hold power in one’s hand, but to make abstract symbols on paper come alive is quite another thing. The magi among us, the shamans and shamanesses like, for instance, Toni Morrison, who’s captivating power of words ensnared me when I first picked up one of her books somewhere and read only a few lines can literally create worlds through words. Words that literally climbed out of the page and coalesced into a vine, a living thing, strung with colors and images and wound themselves around my mind and my soul. She is a master.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> There are only a few real masters in, of, any element, and their charisma and skill is well beyond that of ordinary mortals.I want to commend them here. To honor and applaud them and to turn you onto them. Beware their wicked spells, because they really are capable of awesome things.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Something is at work in our universe that grows out of a certain type of fecundity of spirit. Great writers and other artists have this and it’s far more than mere talent. And works have their own lives to lead. They express themselves. Who knows? Maybe they choose their own vehicles and not the other way around. It certainly feels that way at times.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> I like to write songs, but really, I compose music, and the melodies just sort of create themselves - they just appear in my mind. And the lytics, too, sort of create themselves and I merely give them expression. Writing is fun on subjects I enjoy, and I don’t include myself in this secret tribe of shamen, by the way, and I advocate it for everyone. We can’t all be geniuses but thankfully we can all enjoy their artistry. I’m going to have this page for links to writings and info on some masters I really admire.</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> I’ve gone into other worlds and have been transformed by the magic of many of these writers, so…I’d like to share the secrets of their existence with you. Some are ultra-famous still, others more obscure. I may not keep up with every writer on the new horizons but whenever a book falls into my hand, or an article, and when it begins a life of its’ own, unbidden, I know I’ve stumbled again upon a magician, so..</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> I have so many favorite authors – too many to name, but I’ll spotlight a few here. Some are enormously known and some need to be recognized more.Every life is an adventure, and some of these heroes of mine led amazingly interesting lives. Without that sense of adventure, who’d want to read their ideas anyway ?</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The tedious lists of people writing even best-sellers who know absolutely nothing about life don’t interest me any more than do the makers of recipe films or music. In this day of blogdom, everyone writes who can grab onto a laptop. It’s no great feat to string words together in imitative ways or through formulas learned at school.The geniuses still exist, though, who can stir the blood of people seated in easy chairs.This gift is still a marvel, and I’ll focus on the ones I think should be applauded as I continue to find more heroes to exalt in this little Pantheon of mine.</span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 16.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Would you like to know of a great place to post your own writings ? Articles, blogs, and promo on your novels? Visit </span><a href="http://Novelist.ning.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);">Novelist</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and create your own pages!</span></span></p></span></div></span><div style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><br /></div></span></div></span>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-27884777222326552892009-02-11T07:03:00.001-08:002009-02-14T17:46:55.147-08:00It's Only Valentine's Now, So Why Am I Already Having Spring Fever ?It's in the cosmic atmosphere.<div>I can just <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">feel</span> it.</div><div>Spring is on the way !</div><div>Even when, as I usually do, living in the tropics or in the sub-tropics at least, a type of Winter exists, but it's really more than whether the weather has behaved well or not, more than the cold factor - it's our planetary connection to the seasons, to the turning of our own orb, to the placement of the moon - at night, now, I can hardly sleep - the full moon has been reflected in my pool outside, and the double glow of moon and mirror has been so intense, plus the countless reflections of the sea, just outside - I sleep with the curtains drawn - I must know the night sky and the stars are in view - has made the most beauteous flourescent violet light !</div><div>So, just lying around and sighing, like some Romantic poet, has been my reaction of late, to the impossibly gorgeous days, with butterflies flitting around each other in circles, couples, in love, talking intimately, no doubt, about how wonderful life is, and newborn leaves coming in, and night-blooming jasmine spreading its' irrepressable charms through a perfume that lures us outside just to breathe it in heady draughts ! What must it do to the moths ?</div><div>Night and day, the spells cast by the early Spring is almost too much to bear !</div><div>Errands ? Put 'em off!</div><div>Chores ? For bores !</div><div>Just lying in the clover, gazing up at fleecy clouds is enough - for now.</div><div>Soon, the reckless, tumbling tumult of full Springtime will arrive, and even at a far off coast, I'll be thinking of the roar of mountain streams, rushing down through valleys and meadows of tender wildflowers, strewn in enormous blankets, along Colorado's hillsides, of buttercups emerging in wild fields all over the South, of Nesturtiums covering my homeland of California.</div><div>I miss it all. Does God use his power like I would ? Does He walk, unnoticed, among each and every country, enjoying His every flower - every field - every tree in blossom ?</div><div>Travel is the best we'll ever do. Traveling, and remembering.</div><div>Appreciate every day !</div><div>As my eldest Brother has reminded me - count the handsful of seasons you have had, and will have, if you're lucky. </div><div>They're very few.</div><div>Enjoy this one !</div><div><br /></div>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2205798071269811838.post-62744737037166218152009-02-06T07:23:00.000-08:002009-02-17T13:25:18.636-08:00NEW ENERGY - Landfill Energy and World Co-operation, Communication, and Saving Our Planet - by Ocean, http://www.ToOcean.com<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">First Beings First - please visit this link - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Go to </span><a title="ASPCA.org" href="http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=lobby_lookup&JServSessionIdr006=bisncxeou1.app27b" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 255); font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">This Link</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And this one -</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><a href="http://www.aspca.org/pressroom/press-releases/020509.html">Economic Crisis Could Lead to 1 Million Homeless Animals</a></span></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><img src="webkit-fake-url://1F0DEEDC-D6C8-4242-8214-2019A689CEA7/aldus1.jpg" alt="aldus1.jpg" /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://dogsdeservebetter.org/">Dogs Deserve Better</a></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:Verdana;">Please pray for all those who are affected by the cold, and find ways to help.</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So many have lost their jobs, and so many of our elderly cannot afford heating costs. Ask someone in, offer them a meal, a warm room, an over-night stay...buy some wild bird feed or sprinkle whole grain bread crumbs for the birdies and squirrels and chipmunks...put a cardboard box with bedding in it for a stray cat with some food...ask neighbors to put their dogs inside for the duration - I've bought many igloo dog houses with bedding for hapless doggies who must endure living outside. You can make dog houses out of crates and other materials... and very sweetly offer them to someone who's dog is living outside.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Just some ideas</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;">!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">On ABC news this morning, I heard someone report - completely erroneously - that some American had pioneered the practice of creating methane gas for energy usage from landfill refuse.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">My family's country, Sweden, has been using this form of energy for all governmental vehicles for over a decade!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Give credit where credit it due!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><br /><a href="http://www.ecoize.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=277" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 204); font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; "><span style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#6666ff;">New Energy Ideas</span></a><br /><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><span style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#6666ff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 204); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Also, the irritating reports, constantly giving children the idea that the Wright Brothers had invented planes is also wrong - airplanes were invented in Germany!</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Why is this ego-centrism that certain Americans have adopted so well perpetuated by the news teams ? Is is that they do not hire well-educated people who spend time, as they well should, researching subjects before they hand the papers to the anchorpeople for them to read on air?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">I'm not sure, but the History Channel is also a body of not-quite-accurate reporting.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Many of their shows are quality productions - mainly, the ones produced elsewhere, like in Britain, but where is the scholarship in America ?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Plenty of wonderfully-educated people live here, are educated here, and probably apply for jobs in these media outposts, but why are they not allowed to function as real historians would - by mining for the truth of stories before they're presented to a huge audience ?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Responsibility to the kids who learn from these emissions from conglomerate-owned entities should be tantamount to profit.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Sound bites, disclaimers, brevity, and streamlining aside - still, they could research the accuracy of their reports ( not just consume the press releases of profit-hungering people like the man who claims to have "invented" the landfill fuel idea, for instance ), and they could give us, the people, the truth - or as close as they can ever come to it.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Come on, History Channel and News Teams - research first, THEN report !</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Links I've been sharing for years! </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br />It's Better To Green Your Diet Than Your Car.<br />Why? Read </span><a href="http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18825304.800-its-better-to-green-your-diet-than-your-car.html" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 255); font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">This</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">.<br /><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;"><a href="http://www.agores.org/" target="" title="" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 255); font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; font-variant: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Sustainable Energy Info!</span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Naturally, I'm thrilled that this technology - turning landfills into fuel - has FINALLY been recognized and implemented.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">I myself have been promoting it for YEARS! Telling people, posting, even stating the Swedish way of using landfill-created energy from trash, and anything we do to help our ailing planet is welcomed by me.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">I wish we could learn, as Americans, that we are not alone in the world - that to work along with all the other countries, with all the other ideas, groups, and individuals who are doing their best to find a way to keep our planet liveable for the future generations is the only way to do things.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Harmony, inclusiveness, and realizing we really are all one will help.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Sharing ideas and concepts is vital !</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">You might enjoy these </span><a href="http://www.ecoize.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=269"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Ecoize Quotes</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Oceanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09520206595263111645noreply@blogger.com0