Cherokee Sage Woman

Dan & I 1st met lo those 5+ years ago online via Match.com.
I had used their services for almost a year before meeting the mate of my soul. And always I felt very safe & protected by the rules of the company. I have always recommended them to my single '& searching' friends.
So if you find yourself in that position.. check out their website!
http://www.match.com

http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2006/062706.asp

Supporting whatever FOX news tells us to.. Baaaaaaaaaaaaah-Baaaaaaah
Cuz Jesus loves Amurica the best!

http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/06/19/ava-lowery-on-cnn/

I've mentioned her before, but she bears being placed on that pedestal once again. Watch her video about children in Iraq.. & try to remember that this girl is just 15!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/27/diamond-industry-claims-d_n_23896.html
I'm glad this story is getting out. Too bad DeBoers! That engagement ring that cost 2 months wages & financed the killing of innocent people in Africa.. shameful!

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002727811

Folks, we're in a police state & don't have the eyes to see it..

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/15/us-troops-killed-in-iraq-_n_23035.html

All for the Big Boys Corporations.. unreal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061406A.shtml
This tragedy is what is facing our female soldiers..
My ex-husband was in Gulf War I, & talked about how a co-ed situation threw women to the mercy of their commanders. (including him, as it turned out.. but I digress)
At that time, women were given injections of a 'new' 6 month birth control, which would make them not have periods for 6 months (just a nuisance to those oficers seeking sex, don't you know..)
This form of BC turned out to be quite a horror in the hormonal imbalances of a LOT of female soldiers. For some, it allowed them to become pregnant, but aborted the embryo. For others, the BC action continued for up to 18 months, rather than the stated 6 mo.
The gov't 'played' w/ women's sexual lives, for their own benefits.

Be that here or there.. this woman needs our support in a letter campaign for her 'warrant-less' arrest. 3 times in Iraq in a 4 yr period is ENOUGH! Send over the Bushit twins.. or the Cheney girls..
This soldier has paid her dues.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/06/12/listen-to-the-ring-tone-_n_22837.html

Click on 'read the whole story' & see if you can hear the new 'teen' ringtone that older adults can't hear.
I don't even think Lassie could hear that one..

Finding them in abundance in east TN..

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=860222006

Ooooooooooooooo.. I get it! It's the GIRLS drinking that gets them raped! Sum bitch..
I sure wish they'd told us this decades ago!
Idiocy is worldwide, folks.

Geez.. where has this week gone? I've had my head buried in the computer for lo, these many hours & the days have slipped right through my 2 typing fingers. (That's right I took 'Glee Club' rather than Typing 101.. & it's too late to bring those needed brain cells back into play to teach myself to type with anything other than the index-ies). They are calloused quite nicely at this point & time.

So anyway, you guys know me.. I don't clean, I don't do 'phones', I don't work outside the home now, & I don't cook! What to do?? Write a cookbook, of course. That's where my head has been for over a week now. Maybe I should've just placed it in the oven like Sylvia Plath did. But no.. I am determined to teach everyone to cook 'camp style'. And maybe by the magic of osmosis, some of those genes will take form inside my cook-free mind. I don't expect to trill like Julia, or maintain a poker-face like Martha. I just want not to amputate my hand while fourishing a 12" knife. (remember the old SNL skits where the chef would slash a wrist & arterial blood would splatter the kitchen?.. good times) That's what I'd like to avoid.
So most of my recipes revolve around rounded edges like teaspoons, & plastic measuring cups.
I 'blend', 'combine' & 'sift', rather than 'chop', 'mince' & 'dice'.
The beauty of this cookbook is you get to read it while outdoors! What's not to love about food prepared in the grandiosity of a pastoral setting; be it lakeside, riverfront, mountain-top, or jungle-esque. Granted.. flies, mosquitoes, wasps & rabid raccoons can temper the joy of great outdoor cooking.. but that's not the point.
The point is.. you WANT to buy my book. (Repeat that mantra 12 times without blinking).
Because understand this.. if the book doesn't sell.. you're looking at your next Christmas gift.
And that's the way the cookies crumble.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-06-senate-phone-companies_x.htm

Once again.. 'handing over' supreme power to the dictator & his pistol-packin' sugar daddy.
Where does one go to give up??

And so to find any sanity today, I had to go to my ole friend Molly:
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/37196/

and a little history on the subject..

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/religion/story/02712C8B225FA89286257182005EA213?OpenDocument

So if this is the last day, make it a helluva good one!

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/37116/

Kenneth J. Hamby, D.O.
Family Medicine

Congrats, son! Go heal the world..
Good luck in your new home.
Much love to the family!

Sports Teams Now Offering "Faith Nights"...
The New York Times June 1, 2006 at 11:12 PM
It has long been noted that in certain parts of the United States, a fine line separates sports from religion. But at a minor league indoor football game last month in Birmingham, Ala., fans may have witnessed as transparent an attempt to merge football and church as had ever been tried.
Before kickoff, a Christian band called Audio Adrenaline entertained the crowd. Promoters gave away thousands of Bibles and bobblehead dolls depicting biblical characters like Daniel, Noah and Moses. And when the home team, the Birmingham Steeldogs, took the field, they wore specially made jerseys with the book and number of bible verses printed on the back.

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I am reminded of a C&W song (true title!), 'Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goal Post of Life'
One can only imagine the Amish cheerleaders in bonnets & ankle length frocks at these gosh-darn fun games.

Bush Admin "Asking Internet Service Providers To Really Become An Arm Of The Government"...
USA Today June 1, 2006 at 12:57 PM

Top law enforcement officials have asked leading Internet companies to keep histories of the activities of Web users for up to two years to assist in criminal investigations of child pornography and terrorism, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller outlined their request to executives from Google, Microsoft, AOL, Comcast, Verizon and others Friday in a private meeting at the Justice Department. The department has scheduled more discussions as early as Friday. Last week's meeting was first reported by CNET, an online news service.

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Sure..c'mon guys.. sell out to 'Big Bro'. You be an 'arm of the govt' while the admin gives you the 'finger'.