Idaho Pocatello - High Paying Jobs

Journal:"I am curious ...Where does Greg Rogers, of Idaho Commerce & Labor, get his statistical facts? He says the annual average wage of an Idahoan with a bachelor's degree is more than $50,000. Where are these high-paying jobs? In the years that I have graduated with a bachelor's degree, I have found jobs that barely keep my income above poverty level. These are mostly part-time jobs without benefits. It is rare to find a professional job with benefits at $24,000 a year (or even $18,000 a year, for that matter). Benefits are scarce, even for the professional who holds a degree (and often a large amount of debt). Unfortunately, it is not just a matter of picking the right degree. A college graduate many times makes half as much as a high school graduate who works in a specific field (think railroad, industrial plants). High school graduates in these areas can make up to $50,000 - an income a lot of college grads may never have access to. So, Greg Rogers, please light a torch to guide us "high-paid graduates" toward the big money to be made after college. It would be nice to at least stay a step ahead of poverty. You could ask any school teacher or social worker about that.....Joni Kuhlman, Downey Idaho" I also live in Pocatello and I agree with her I have friends, who have also gone to collage and decide to stay here and work when they get their degree's. They also say the same thing as what you have read above. If you want a job, to eat & sleep in-doors after going to collage(4+years) around here you'll make around $8.00-11.00 a hour (these usually are only part-time/ no benefits jobs, but you need a degree to just get them)-before tax's. And.. You'll have to be right on top of the job hunting skills to even find that!! Or if you're really lucky as a good friend of mine was last fall. Mind you he worked crappy jobs for 3-years, till he landed a job working for the Health & welfare which put him in the bracket of $21,000.00 a year before tax's. Lucky him!!... Then, the part that really sucks for these BA-collage people is now they have to also pay back those students loans they got to go to collage to better themselves at the price of around $400-$500.00 a-month on top of living expenses, for the next god knows 10-years!! Which would depress anyone. When you see high-school drop-outs making as much money if not more, after you pay your collage loans back each month... Working in Tel-phone-marketing jobs. Makes us wonder why go to collage if your going to stay in Pocatello, or if your smart. You'll move over the state border where the pay is 1/4- double higher. To tell you the truth I have thought about moving out of state many of times but never any extra money to make such a big move, so till I can.

I also will only dream things will change here in Pocatello Idaho, for my children.."

Bush Verses Hitler

Sen.Robert Byrd:" In the magical upside-down world of right-wing blogs, it is now an accepted article of faith that Sen. Robert Byrd compared George W. Bush to Hitler last week. Republicans are demanding an apology, many have taken to high dudgeon, and another pointless flapette is on. Actually Byrd, a noted scholar of the Senate and its procedures, made an interesting speech opposing the "nuclear option" of cutting off Senate debate on judicial nominees. Rumor has it there is a plot afoot in the Senate to curtail the right of extended debate in this hallowed chamber, not in accordance with its rules, mind you, but by fiat from the chair, said the elderly Byrd. He is also famed for his magniloquent speaking style, a splendid old-fashioned oratory known to older Americans who had to study rhetoric. Byrd tangentially mentioned Hitler, quoting historian Alan Bullock to make the following point:Hitler's originality lay in his realization that effective revolutions, in modern conditions, are carried out with, and not against, the power of the state: The correct order of events was first to secure access to that power and then begin his revolution. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. A point worth pausing over. Byrd went on to suggest the "nuclear option" ploy is similar in that it involves the same premise: If you can't win under the rules, you change the rules. Certainly a case of rhetorical overreach, but then, that is a hazard of public speaking.The blogger Wonkette posted an amusing collection of Republican politicians comparing this, that and the other to Nazi Germany - a ruling on abortion, stem cell research, even the Kyoto protocol. In 2002, former Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas managed to find a tax bill like something right out of Nazi Germany. I don't understand ... why all of a sudden we are passing laws that sound as if they are right out of Nazi Germany. Rhetorical overreach plagues many: George W. Bush once managed to invoke the tragic memory of 9-11 in aid of a capital gains tax cut. Byrd's really quite thoughtful speech should appeal to conservatives with its emphasis on historical precedent, constitutional responsibilities, and the system of checks and balances. Byrd also made a spirited attack on Franklin D. Roosevelt for his misbegotten plan to "pack" the Supreme Court. All of this was about Bush's decision to renominate 20 of his choices for the federal bench who never got a vote in his first term because of threatened filibusters. For some reason, Republicans have chosen to treat these rebuffs as though they were World War III, accusing Democrats of the dread obstructionism. Their own record during the Clinton years of knocking off dozens of President Clinton's judicial nominees gives not the slightest pause. The 20 retreads include some real dogs. One of these prizes is William G. Myers III, nominated for a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His qualifications consist of having spent most of his adult life as a lobbyist for Western mining, timber and oil companies. Bush named him top lawyer in the Interior Department in 2001, apparently on the grounds that Myers once compared the federal government's management of federal lands to the tyranny of King George III. Another gem is Janice Rogers Brown of California, nominated for the D.C. Court of Appeals, who described the New Deal as the triumph of our socialist revolution and praised an infamous line of Supreme Court cases from 1905 to 1937 striking down worker health and safety laws as infringing on the rights of business. (Of course your employer has a right to kill you - what are you, out of the mainstream?) Still another prize in this package is Claude A. Allen, who believes abortion rights are causing genocide of black people. A supporter of abstinence education, Allen backed the administration's decision to remove information about condoms from the Web site of the Centers for Disease Control. My personal fave is Priscilla Owen of the Texas Supreme Court, who is so far out that Alberto Gonzales once denounced one of her decisions as an unconscionable act of judicial activism. Then there's William Haynes, principal author and defender of the administration's dubious handling of several torture issues. All in all, a lovely bunch of coconuts, with a collective record showing opposition to human rights, civil rights, abortion rights pretty much everything but property rights. I agree....Sorry in my eye's....If the shoe fits!!"

American bison droppings

Idahofalls Idaho: "Dung and Dunger: a chip off the old bison Two Idaho artists have founded a company called Dung and Dunger that makes paper art from American bison droppings. Victor Bruha and Daniel Hidalgo say they plan to market their hand-made creations to tourists, KIFI-TV, Idaho Falls reported. "It's interesting because it's a local handmade product and ... A lot of tourists are looking for something that has a local flavor and by doing this we are upping the entire process -- making the paper, making the prints, selling the art work, it's all done right here," said Hidalgo. The artists say the process of making paper out of bison chips has been around for years. A single bison chip can yield 20 to 25 sheets of rustic paper that can be used for printing art. The artists said they plan to make Christmas ornaments from bison dung once the holiday season rolls around. I Live about 45min. Drive: From Idaho falls, guess I'll just have to check this out... Not sure how I feel about using paper made from animal..sh#t?...What's next human dung? Makes me think twice, about sticking paper in my mouth's next time... Yuck!!"

Iran's nuclear arms program

US-slim data on Iran:" The United States has inadequate intelligence on Iran's nuclear arms program, a U.S. commission is preparing to tell President Bush. The report is due to be given to Bush and an unclassified version to Congress March 31, but sources told The New York Times that U.S. intelligence agencies have had little success in the kinds of human spying necessary to understand Iranian decision-making. The nine-member bipartisan presidential panel, led by Laurence Silberman, a retired federal judge, and Charles Robb, a former governor and senator from Virginia, had unrestricted access to the most senior people and the most sensitive documents of the intelligence agencies during the past 14 months. The most recent statement by U.S. agencies about Iran and its weapons was an unclassified report sent to Congress in November by CIA Director Porter Goss, who said Iran continued "to vigorously pursue indigenous programs to produce nuclear, chemical and biological weapons." You know what upsets me about this more then anything is that, we have our people over their. We hear and are told that: American soldiers are safe, and our government is on top of everything to keep them safe, so they say. But then something like this comes out and it's scary, because you know inside of you their is truth in it.

U.S. hobbling German Sept. 11 trial

U.S. hobbling German Sept. 11 trial:"Hamburg : German prosecutors of a suspected al-Qaida terrorist are frustrated by U.S. testimony the suspect had little to do with the attacks of Sept.11, 2001.Moroccan-born Mounir Motassadeq is on trial in Hamburg before five judges.He is accused of more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder and membership in a terrorist organization, namely al-Qaida. But attorney Dietrich Snell, who headed the U.S. commission's team that investigated the role of the Hamburg cell, told judges the ring-leader, Mohamed Atta, and the other Sept.11 hijackers did not develop the idea for the attacks on New York and Washington plot on their own.Rather, Snell testified, they were recruited by al-Qaida chief - Osama bin Laden during a visit to militant training camps in Afghanistan. That was a blow for prosecutors, who must prove that important elements of the conspiracy took place in Germany, the New York Times said Wednesday. Motassadeq, 31, was convicted on the charges in 2003 and sentenced to 15 years in prison, the maximum under German law. But an appeals court overturned the verdict, ruling the evidence did not justify the result." Personally I don't feel we will ever know who was truly involution in the Sept.11, attack. And if we do, it won't be while I'm still breathing. Yes someday someone will brag or tell. But that day is and will be a long time away So as far this man do we really want to be the one's who burn him at the stake! Well.....I don't feel I would want to make that call, unless I was %100 sure it was him. Or to that matter, anyone.

Ebay This

ebay:"Governor candidate uses eBay for publicity. Self-employed contractor Larry Bays, a gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, is auctioning his services as a handyman on eBay to gain publicity. "The idea came to me one evening when I got this letter from (Ohio Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate) Kenneth Blackwell asking for donations for his campaign, said Bays, a contractor and Wayne County parks commissioner. At the same time I'm opening his letter, there was this story on the evening news about this pregnant lady who was putting her tummy on eBay and renting it out for advertisement. I thought that was a great idea, and it was exactly what I needed to do. Bidding began at $900, for chores such as painting, cleaning, carpentry and plumbing. The winning bidder gets one day a month of services during Bays first year in the governor's mansion. Oh Ya - He's a Republican." I saw this and laughed..Really should of known he was a Republican, it's all about money not what he can do to change things. Personally I think this type of ads on Ebay is stupid now was cute when the first time I heard about it but, I don't know about others but. I sure would never pay for this type of publicty least not for $900.00 min. bid

Saddam capture fiction

Public version of Saddam capture fiction:" Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated. Ex-Sgt.Nadim Abou Rabeh, of Lebanese descent, was quoted in the Saudi daily al-Medina Wednesday as saying Saddam was actually captured Friday, Dec. 12, 2003, and not the day after, as announced by the U.S. Army. "I was among the 20-man unit, including eight of Arab descent, who searched for Saddam for three days in the area of Dour near Tikrit, and we found him in a modest home in a small village and not in a hole as announced," Abou Rabeh said. "We captured him after fierce resistance during which a Marine of Sudanese origin was killed," he said. He said Saddam himself fired at them with a gun from the window of a room on the second floor. Then they shouted at him in Arabic: "You have to surrender. ...There is no point in resisting." "Later on, a military production team fabricated the film of Saddam's capture in a hole, which was in fact a deserted well," Abou Rabeh said." Does any one remember the story of Jessie James? If not well the story goes how someone caught him from the back, and shot him dead, and he went down in history as the man who shot Jessie James. Well if you read the book wrote by his family is tell a whole different story, about a man who live to a old age and died. What I'm getting at is, we as humans tend to believe what, our government tell us. Should we?

Thought this picture expressed how I was feeling to day, I was in a car accedent last night with some young girl from out of state and she just kept screaming at me how much she hated me. Well Police now say I have to take her to court and sue her to get my car fixed. so pretty upset over all of this as I have never been in a car crash before, sort of feel like God is flicking me because I did something wrong. No matter what I thought the picture said how I was feeling, hope you like it. 

Micheal Jackson

Oh My!! What Shall Wear I To Court

Gulf War illness

Newsletter:"never use Diet Coke to cook with. Heat turns the Nutri Sweet (aspartame) into methyl alcohol . It is thought that maybe all the gulf war illness could be due to the diet coke that sat in the sun and got warm. Do not heat anything sweetened with aspartame because it metabolizes into methanol, which is poison. That's why, at first, the manufacturer refused to put out any recipes for baking and cooking. Medical studies done in the past few years have shown many, many illnesses and syndromes to be connected to aspartame, neurological disorders, brain cancer and migraines were at the top of the last list I saw. I've known a number of people who had migraines and when they quit using aspartame the migraines didn't come back. Myself I will not drink any-brand of diet soda I just don't like the after taste even my doctor told me years ago stay away from them and I have."

Prostitution Placement Debated

:"How many brothels on one street make up a red light district is under debate in the Australian state of Queensland. The issue arose when the Prostitution Licensing Authority endorsed two brothels across the road from each other in Bundall on the Gold Coast, a major tourism destination. However, that prompted the state's conservative Opposition to ally with brothel owners from the Queensland Adult Business Association to call for the government to define red-light districts in the Prostitution Act. The act requires the PLA to refuse a license if the number of brothels and adult entertainment premises in an area would substantially affect the character of the area by creating a red-light district, but does not define such a district. QABA spokesman said approving multiple licenses put localities on a slippery slope to becoming true red-light districts." Okay...Would someone comment on this and clear this up for me? Personally I don't care, what someone does with their own body as long as it don't hurt anyone, and this is what they want of their free choosing. But why is it okay to sell.. Sex for money if you pay-tax's on it....This reminds me of something that happened 15yrs. Ago. I knew this couple that were on welfare, got caught up in a (Drug-Bust)...The legal system also charged: (Frauding the Grovement & Welfare Fraud) On the grounds they were working under the table and not reporting their income, and they were found guilty...Lets see this is a 50/50 chance you'll get busted any way. Remember if your collecting State $$ Funds....Make sure you report to your Social-worker your Profit's from your... DRUG or PROSTITUTION Income, don't forget to keep records of customer buys too, you'll need it for tax-time...Or Court to bail your ASS-out...LOL

Dead end Job

Weird News:"Around the year 1500"s - Old England is and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer." And that's the truth. . . (who ever said that History was boring)?" Now how would you to have to do this job? Talk about watching the dead, I've worked in some pretty dead in jobs. But never one this bad."

Surgery Follow-up

Hello everyone... Well it's been a week since my surgery went to see the Doctor, for my follow-up. He said I would live but, won't feel like it for another 30-days because of all the repairs he had to make in my ear. I have to go back in 3-weeks to have a hearing test done and also take out some more stitches, till then I now have to put these steroid drops in every two hours or 6 times a-day, to help the healing part also the drops help clean out the packing they put in stuff, they have in my ear to protect it till its all healed also said I would not hear much of anything till all the packing is out, and the tissue has healed which is normal according to him. What they did to my ear. Doctor said: Replaced the ear bone with a dead person's bone...Yuck! Did some repairs on a nerve called ( the 5th. Carnal nerve). And scraped a lot of scar tissue damage away from everything and then took a skin Graff of my muscle tissue and flatten it and made a ear drum out of it, to sew in place of the damage one. A lot of work done to a little ear huh. Well I hope it was all worth it in the end, guess I will just have to wait and see, wait that's hear..LOL Any way, wanted to thank all of you who sent me e-mail greeting of (get well cards) meant a lot to me, never knew I had so many friends...Thanks Debi

P.S....Word of warning I got a ear ache in the middle of the summer, and look what happen to me so if you get one don't mess around get to a Ear,Nose,throat- Doctor right away. I didn't I went to a family clinic and look what happen to.

Roman stone Legendary-says Pope will live

MSNBC:" Does a stone carving in one of Rome’s biggest cathedrals know whether Pope John Paul II will survive his latest health crisis? The monument to Pope Sylvester II, who ruled the Catholic Church 1,000 years ago, is said to moisten when the death of a pontiff is imminent. On Friday, a priest touched the carving in Rome’s Basilica of Saint John Lateran and confirmed it was dry and good news for the pope, who had windpipe surgery Thursday after being rushed to the hospital with breathing problems. The pontiff is also battling Parkinson’s disease and crippling arthritis. In the sacristy of Saint John Lateran, the pope’s “second cathedral” for his role as bishop of Rome, two elderly Italian nuns in gray habits said the monument’s prophesying power was well documented. “It sweats when the death of a pope is approaching,” one of them said. They did not give their names. “The stone cries. It’s true, it has happened. There are people who have seen it,” the other nun added. Both said they did not know anyone who had witnessed the phenomenon. Peeping out from their empty confessionals under the gaze of gigantic white statues of saints, several priests said they had been unaware of the legend. Father Edoardo was at first skeptical when told about the carving, framed by two yellow marble columns. “The stone feels cold,” he said on touching the carving and columns. “But dry.” Breaking into a smile, he added, “So the pope will live.” Forgive me for saying something bad about this as I have good friends who are catholic, and mean no dis-respect to them or anyone else, that may be also catholic. But I don't know, if its a blessing, to know when someone is going to die...To me it seems all most sad as I wouldn't want a rock laying around my house, that one day said....Oh! Your mom's going to die today. I feel that would just make then hurt more when I'm gone. I accept the fact their is a stone people believe in, but why does it have to be connected to death? Why not something nicer like a New Pope will take his seat over the people, that seems more pleasant to think about right?... Least to me anyway"

Hand Of Friendship

Sent to me: "Hello...Did Anyone Ever Tell You, just How Special You Are. The Light that You emit might even Light a star. Did Anyone Ever Tell You How Important You. Make Others Feel Somebody out here is Smiling About Love that is so Real. Did Anyone Ever Tell You Many Times, When They were Sad Your E-mail made Them Smile a bit.. In Fact It made Them Glad For the Time You Spend Sending Things And Sharing whatever You Find There are No Words to Thank You But Somebody, Thinks You're Fine. Did Anyone Ever Tell You Just How Much They Like You Well, My Dearest "Online " Friend Today I am Telling You....I believe that without a friend you are missing out on a lot!!! Don't be confused by friends and acquaintances, there is a difference! Because I care about you, It's National Friend-Care Week . . .. And you get to send messages to all your friends telling them that you care about them and make them feel good about themselves and if they write back . (just once) then that means that they care about you too. Have a nice day, and I'm glad we are friends!!!

A very nice friend from Colo. Sent this to me,we have never met but we talk on the phone and she e-mails me. She must of known I was feeling down because I opened up my mail this morning and saw this...Thank-you Gwen ...I wanted to post it, for all of you. To let you know you have a friend just turn around, and they will help you - I'm your friend Debi..."

Soldier-Message of love

MSNBC: "With premonition he wouldn't survive in Iraq, a GI left a video for his wife. In- Fort Benning Ga. - Before deploying earlier this year, Sergeant First Class David Salie was certain of two things: Serving in Iraq was the right thing to do and he wouldn't survive his tour. He shared that premonition with his wife weeks before he left. "He rolled over and looked at me and he said, 'D, I'm not coming back,'" recalls Deanna Salie. Sadly, David Salie's prediction came true. He was killed in a roadside bombing on Valentine's Day, just four days into his Iraq tour. His children and wife are now mourning a terrible loss. "I am a little mad at him for leaving me, because I don't know how to live without David," says Deanna. But Sgt. Salie knew one more thing, that he should tell his family how much he loved them, in a way they could never forget. "If you're seeing this, then I'm not coming home," begins a videotape Sgt. Salie made the night before he left. He secretly recorded messages for them with instructions to view the video only if he didn't return. "You're without a daddy, in person but I'm always with you. You're without a husband in person, but I'm always with you," says David on the tape. It's an eternal message of love from a husband and father to his family. There are other recordings for future milestones, like graduations and weddings I won't be there to share. But there was a bigger message for the present. "The price was worth it, in my heart," says David on the video. "What I have done was the right thing to do." Because everyone who loved David Salie knew that he believed in America and was willing to give his life fighting for Iraqi's to share American freedom. Deanna believes that too. "He sent word to a lot of the single soldiers' families," she says. "He said, 'Don't worry about your son, I'll stand in front of him.' There are a lot of little girls and little boys who are without their parents. And we're making those sacrifices to make their lives better." David's father, Jim, agrees. "My son died doing what he loved," he says. "He knew what the consequences were." There were no words for the family's sorrow, but they know David doesn't regret his sacrifice, because he said so." I had to post this and I hope you agree after reading this, yes this is a sad day for his family and wife. But he said it all in his last words...He has gone and done what he could for the future of freedom ! For all American people....He gave his life..... May he never be forgotten.............

Priest - Protestant and A Rabbi

: "It was a small town and the Catholic Priest, the Protestant Minister and the Jewish Rabbi were very good friends. Of course, there was a lot of kidding and joking between them all year long. To their surprise one year, the Priest and the Minister received a Christmas card from the Rabbi. It read: Roses are reddish, Violets are bluish When the Messiah really comes You'll wish you were Jewish." Sorry folks saw this and thought it was cute! Just a little humor. To cheer me up, and maybe you too...So if you got one better write it in the comments so we can all see it...

Scorpion

Okay...Your thinking, why did I post this? Well... I'm a Scorpion (water birth sign) and I'm always doing things in my life just because they are my character, don't make it right. But I always seem to do it...

cleanlaughs:"A scorpion, being a very poor swimmer, asked a turtle to carry him on his back across a river. "Are you mad?" exclaimed the turtle. "You'll sting me while I'm swimming and I'll drown." "My dear turtle," laughed the scorpion, "if I were to sting you, you would drown and I would go down with you. Now where is the logic in that?" "You're right!" cried the turtle. "Hop on!" The scorpion climbed aboard and halfway across the river gave the turtle a mighty sting. As they both sank to the bottom, the turtle resignedly said: "Do you mind if I ask you something? You said there'd be no logic in your stinging me. Why did you do it?" "It has nothing to do with logic," the drowning scorpion sadly replied. "It's just my character."

Recipe For Every Day Of The Year

Total Time: -1 min

Makes: - How ever many you want

Ingredients:

1- Cup of friendly words

1 - Heaping cup of understandings

1 - Heaping tsp. of time and patience.

1 - Pinch of warm personality

1- Dash of humor

Measure words carefully. Add heaping cups of understanding. Use generous amounts of time and patience.Keep temperature low - do not boil. Add a dash of humor and a pinch of warm personality. Season to taste with moods.....This recipe is guaranteed never to fail!"

Just a little something for my Blog-Friends, to let you know you'll be on my mind while I go in to surgery tomorrow, and hope I get well fast so I can see all your comments, so leave me lotz.."

Operation For Me

Just thought I would let you all know I may not be posting on my Blog for a few days, as I will be going in for surgery on ear, - Wed. Feb., 23rd. Some of you that are long time readers you may remember last year in July, when I {blew my ear drum } out really bad and lost 60% of my hearing and it hurt really bad. Well I have spent the last 7-8 months trying to get it to heal, and I did get most of my hearing back but the ear never healed and I keep getting infections, and now I have a twitch in my eye from a nerve they say that runs thru the ear drum to the eye. And are going to try and repair that too! Wish me luck and, as soon as I feel better and am up and moving I will write you all and tell you how it went...Pray for me, because I am scared my last surgery didn't go to good a year ago, so I am on edge about everything till this is over....Bye For now - Coffee Talk"

Sex may be boring for - Men

:"Study indicates sex may be boring for some. A survey says 48 percent of men admit falling asleep during sex and 11 percent of women admit nodding off. Some 10,000 adults participated in the survey by Dr.Neil Stanley, director of sleep at the University of Surrey, said there's a scientific reason why men in particular are prone to the more common practice of falling asleep soon after sex. "The blood rush after climax depletes the muscles of energy-producing glycogen, leaving men feeling physically drained. Was found in the survey to have the highest number of men who fall asleep after sex, with men managing to stay awake for just three to four minutes. Men claimed to take up to 20 minutes before falling asleep. Stanley said women can avoid their partner having a nod-off by planning sex away from the bed, playing upbeat music, or videotaping the lovemaking to review afterward." Okay just to let you all know my mate of 3-4 years & I, broke-up this week-end and it was a nasty hurtful finish for me, so I am really down on men and trust so excuse me if I'm a bit bitter on my comments okay. I understand this to some length, but what if they don't like most of the stuff they suggested you do, and the bedroom is the only safe place to do the deed, because you have older-children? Anyone want to comment on this?" mine claimed he couldn't even get any there, my feelings was maybe he should of tried harder and he could of..."

Allergic To Girlfriend

:"A British man has been told by doctors he's allergic to his girlfriend's hormones and must stay away from her four days a month. The mystery began several months ago when Mr.Blaines,26 & Ms. Height,24 moved in together in Manchester. A kiss or hug would result in Blaines breaking out in a red, itchy rash or welts. After unsuccessfully trying various soaps and lotions, the pair visited Blaines doctor, who explained it was heights hormones Blaines was allergic to, and followed her 28-day cycle. The couple has reportedly adapted well to the regime, Height said it had strengthened their 18-month-old romance. Dr. Chris Lovell, Association of dermatologist, said it was "an extremely rare case, but not completely unknown. "This is rare and it is also much more common for the woman to be allergic to the man during certain times of the month,though it is also possible for the male to develop an allergy to high levels of hormones," he said." Okay I love this one because now you guys, all of you out their have a new excuse if you want to break it off with one of us women for one reason or another...I can hear the LIES NOW! I really like you but you see I went to the doctor because I had this rash since the last time we were together, and......My doctor said I am ALLERGIC to you, so for my health I can't see you anymore....LOL.....Hey wait maybe us ladies can use that line too, Honey I really care about you but your rashing my ass!!

Adultery-16-year-old girl to be flogged for crime

"Something for all you church going folks...Okay People Didn't this type of unspeakable CRAP!! go out way back before the great flood? ( you all remember the one in the bible) This is insane that in these counrties women are still considered (Nobodys) holding less worth then the pet dog, wait I think they feel the dog is higher then women...And to think. We women are the reason men are on this earth!!"

Sudan;"The sentence of 100 lashes, passed on a 16-year-old school girl in the Sudan for the "crime" of adultery, to be commuted immediately. Amnesty International is also asking people all over the world to write to the Sudanese authorities asking them to stop the punishment going ahead. Intisar Bakri Abdulgader gave birth to a male child after becoming pregnant outside marriage. She was convicted of adultery and sentenced by a local court she was seven months pregnant. The alleged father of the child has reportedly not been charged but will have a blood test to establish paternity. Intisar is now caring for her four-month-old son, Dori. She is said to be very frightened at the prospect of the punishment and is reportedly eating and sleeping very little. Under article 146 of Sudan’s Penal Code, adultery is punishable by execution by stoning if the offender is married, or by one hundred lashes if the offender is not married. Adultery is defined as sexual intercourse with a man without being lawfully bound to him. Scores of people were sentenced to amputation or flogging in Sudan last year. Flogging is frequently carried out immediately after sentencing leaving no chance for appeal, even when there are concerns about whether a fair trial has been held."

World's Tallest Woman

about: "The tallest woman in the world is from Holland. She is over 7 1/2 feet tall, and weighs 320 pounds. Wonder where she gets her clothes? Poor thing must have a hard time finding clothing at the mall, and I thought I had it bad! Somebody needs to sign this girl to a Basketball contract, who cares if she can play she can learn!! Okay guys... Bet ya wonder how big everything else is huh...LOL"

Japanese kids think death's temporary

gophercentral:As a testament to the power of video games and movies, some Japanese children do not believe death is permanent, the Kyodo news agency said Tuesday. The Nagasaki prefectural Board of Education ordered a survey of children's attitudes on death and dying in November and December after an 11-year-old girl was convicted of murdering a fellow student. Of 3,600 fourth, six and eighth graders in public schools, 15.4 percent said they believe dead people can be resurrected based on what they had seen on television, movies and video games. In the case of the 11-year-old convicted of murder, a family court statement said the girl had only a "vague notion" of death. On releasing the survey results, a school board official called for parents to ensure their children learn the real, and not virtual, meaning of life.I too have to agree with them on this issues as I said in the next acrticle below this one. Read on to next post and you'll see my feelings on Video game-players and our children"

Video games Change us?

: " Students at the University of Sioux Falls, S.D., enrolled in the class Sociology of Video Games are required to play video games two hours a day. The university had offered courses that examine the impact of violence and sex in movies, so William Lugo, an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice, thought video games were a logical extension. "What a great opportunity to teach from a sociology perspective," Lugo told the Sioux Falls Argus. "Games are more interactive than movies, too -- you're the main character." Lugo said he has two goals for students: to understand the effect games have on them and to become aware that games tell us a lot about ourselves. For example, in the video game "Halo 2," its main character, Master Chief, portrays masculinity, with his voice and the way he acts. "He's portrayed like a godlike, masculine figure every boy wants to grow up as," said, a male-student who took the course." What are your thoughts on this video game class? I know for a fact that when my son had his PS-2 up and running, he would spend hours glued to it... And at times would become very angry and throw fits it he didn't win or was killed in a game or if it became to much stress for him. As he would yell and blame others because (if we even took a breath of air it made him lose, he said! ) So ...Yes I do feel that Video games change the levels in the brain after long periods of playing them. He would even go thru with-draw like signs if he couldn't play it for a time when I took it away. But I also feel that computer games are just as bad they are just TV-gameboys...( By the way I broke his machine- was not on purpose but now glad I did, as I find he has calm down abit more but it took about a-month to see the change)"

Comments On Blog's

Please forgive me if these seems like a whinny baby complaint, but I feel really bummed when I spend so much time trying to put my blog together and people just read, but don't bother to leave a comment, this is why I stopped writing for awhile it seemed nobody cared so why post so I stopped but I missed it and I'm trying again. Or we get the ones that are looking for something but never take the time to stop and see what your Blog has to say. Maybe I just expect the same out of ours that I give to them, if I end up in someone's blog page I always try to leave a comment about one of their posts, if nothing else I feel to let them know someone does care if they post and what they post. So I guess what I am saying not only for me but also for other fellow bloggers if you trip into our blogs. Please give us a moment of your time and stop and read what we wrote and leave us a comment, don't be rude and leave nasty comments, at least be nice to the person that wrote the Blog page you are in. Then we"LOL know their are people out in Cyber -World of Blog-sites...Thank-you
Just me at - Coffee Talk

Leg substituted for dead man's effects

Coffeebreak: "Police on Long Island, N.Y., were trying to determine how a grieving family was given a bag containing a human leg instead of the dead man's effects. Police received a frantic call from Mr. Runyan, 35, who made the gruesome discovery. His 77-year-old father, Paul, had died at Central Suffolk Hospital barely a week after learning he had cancer. A blue tag hanging from the toe bore the name of another man and was dated Jan. 13. Detectives learned a hospital worker had turned over the plastic bag to an employee at a funeral home, which immediately denied any involvement in the mix-up. The investigation is continuing, although it appears to be non-criminal, said Detective Best. The hospital launched its own investigation as well, their spokeswoman said. God knows how that can be confused with a bag of clothing," Runyan said. Okay you tell me...Did anyone bother to look in the bag before they handed it over to the family? This is creepy guess everyone better check out our bag, just like we do at the fast-food drive-thru before we leave to make sure we don't have the wrong bag...LOL"

Bipolar - Does Your Child Have it

" I know this is a very long article to read...Heck I cut it down it was 5-pages long. But I wanted to post this to let people out their know, and also because I also have two-children that 10-years ago was told had 3rd.genertion Bi-polar on their dad's side, I also did not know their father had this because he was adopted, his parents thought he was just a un-rule kids and sent him to live else where till he was grown. Guess what I am saying is. It's really hard to live with kids that have these problems and others don't understand! Explicitly those people that never had to raise a child like these kids. Because as their parent you try to do everything you can to give them a good life and make sure their happy, but at the same time it seems like someone is always un-happy no matter what you try to do. And people and the legal system think we are bad parents because our kids are out of control. People don't begin to know the hell we go thru...From a mothers view, be wait nine months to hold our child and when their born they are the best gift anyone could give us, then the hell begins, maybe not as soon for soon like some but it comes. Mine was when my son entered kinder-garden. I know the stares the rude remarks from outsiders, and all the people that feel if you took one million parenting classes you would be a better parent. Well let me tell you and their is proof out their. But the courts and schools don't want to listen, And doctors they don't seem to know much more then the rest of us...God help the world! But- they just want to blame someone, so it's us the parent. I feel that we as parents are doing every thing we can to help and love our child but the legal system and the schools, don't do enough, these people are not trained nor are payed enough to deal with these type of children so, why should they.. they feel right! Wrong these people want to take our rights as parents away and say we don't know what going on...Well I sure wish they would show us how to fix it...Instead of always telling us how. Sure would help some days....Well I feel better now...LOL Got that out of my system- Sort of. I just get so angry because I am trying so hard to be a good parent and some days I just want to walk away, and give up. As I"m a single mom, their dads visits, but he don't want to deal with it...Great huh!"

washingtonpost:"From the time her son was born, this mother suspected something was wrong. As an infant he cried inconsolably and slept mostly in hour-long snatches. At 3, he was always irritable and had prolonged tantrums triggered by the slightest change in his routine. A therapist told his mother he was emotionally disturbed. A year later a child psychiatrist made the diagnosis: the 4 1/2 -year-old was manic-depressive. A few months later, when his even-tempered sister grew moody and volatile, she took her to the same psychiatrist. They sat down with DeWeese's well-thumbed book about bipolar children and went through its symptom checklist. Based largely on those results and the family's history she learned that the children's father had been diagnosed as bipolar in high school psychiatrist told her 5 1/2-year-old daughter was bipolar,too. Now 6 and 8, this mother's son and daughter exemplify a trend that is roiling mental heath: the burgeoning number of children diagnosed with bipolar illness, also known as manic depression, which affects about 2.3 million Americans. As a result, some preschoolers barely out of diapers are being treated for bipolar disorder with powerful drugs, few of which have been tested in children. But some experts say the surge in diagnoses is a dangerous fad one critic called it "psychiatrist flavor of the month" a decision too often based on skimpy evidence, cursory evaluations and incorrect assumptions about genetic risk. These children are troubled,but most don't meet psychiatrist official diagnostic criteria for the lifelong psychotic disorder. Labeling severe tantrums in toddlers as a major mental illness lacks validity and undermines credibility in our profession. Studies have found that bipolar children are severely agitated and aggressive, grandiose(they tell the teacher how to run the class or think they have the same authority as a parent),hypersexual,imitate sexy rock stars,silliness, separation anxiety, night terrors, carbohydrate cravings, fidgeting, extreme bossiness, bed-wetting, lying, social anxiety and difficulty getting up in the morning, or use explicit language and experience very rapid mood swings, sometimes several times an hour, during which they can become explosively angry. They are also suggestive of a host of other problems: depression, anxiety, abuse, ADHD or a behavioral problem such as conduct, explosive or oppositional defiant disorder. Desperate parents search Web sites. It has been found, famous people were bipolar, Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig van Beethoven and Teddy Roosevelt. With systems of rapid cycling mood swings that occur as often as every few minutes throughout the day. Some desperate parents, who have struggled for years with their children's problems and an acute shortage of mental health feel so helpless.Until recently, many doctors were reluctant to prescribe the powerful mood-stabilizing drugs adults take for bipolar disorder to young children, whose central nervous systems are still developing. Most of these drugs, which can have serious and sometimes life-threatening side effects, including diabetes, significant weight gain, hormonal problems that can cause infertility, and fatal blood disorders have not been tested in children. Some are epilepsy drugs used to control seizures and not approved to treat psychiatric disorders, which are widely used anyway because some doctors think they are effective. These medications doctors say, are the cornerstone of treatment, even for very young children. The youngest patient heard of is an 18-month-old girl who was diagnosed as bipolar largely because she screamed incessantly and had a bipolar mother. The baby was medicated with lithium. Most children take at least three drugs simultaneously or more to control their moods and alleviate depression. Some try dozens of combinations and doses. One 8-year old, who has tried more than half a dozen drugs, some of which made her act like "a raging maniac," currently takes Abilify, an antipsychotic primarily used to treat schizophrenia in adults. The dose had to be cut after she started drooling and one side of her face drooped. Parents are often asked how they can give these drugs to their children. "We don't have any choice," comparing them to lifesaving chemotherapy. "Most of us are grateful these medications exist. In earlier days our children would have been institutionalized. These drugs can cause the very symptoms they have been given to treat: hyperactivity, insomnia and even psychosis. There's a lot of throwing medications at people without thinking about what the problem is. Once somebody has a label, it is highly unlikely that label will be questioned. And by the time your child has been on 20 different drugs, you can no longer figure out what's wrong. One 13-year-old had taken more than a dozen drugs since her diagnosis several years ago. If one doesn't work, the doctors' answer is to just keep adding more and more medications or increasing the doses, the rise in pediatric diagnosis of bipolar illness. Don't Blame the Parents, many parents say that a bipolar diagnosis meant they were no longer blamed for their children's behavior. At first he only had meltdowns in front of me, recalled a Navy scientist whose son was diagnosed last year at 5. Everyone told me it was me, that I was just not handling him well. It was the most horrible thing to sit there every day and have people telling you that. It is not a parenting issue, she said she finds it hard to ignore the stares when her 6-year-old son, diagnosed at 3, has a meltdown in Wal-Mart. We can't stop this from happening. It is nothing we can control or the child can control Such evaluations can take four hours or more and includes interviews and observations of the parents and child, psychological testing, a physical exam, detailed family history and information from teachers, coaches, day care staffers and others who know the child. A psychiatrist can make two or three times as much from an hour of medication checks than from an hour of therapy.Although it's not discussed much, misdiagnosis can have a profound impact. One woman, who agreed to be interviewed on the condition that her name not be published to protect her daughter's privacy, said that when the girl was 14, she was handed a prescription for lithium after a single visit to a psychiatrist. Four years later, doctors discovered that her severe depression and mood swings were the result of an undiagnosed pituitary tumor. She's really angry at the doctors and at me because I accepted the diagnosis too fast, the woman said. Her daughter, she said, "barely got through high school" and had side effects from the lithium, which made her hair fall out. Now 19, she said, her daughter is caught in a Catch-22: Because the family was open about her diagnosis, she feels the need to tell everyone she's not bipolar. And the reaction she's encountered is not what she thought. It's, Oh sure- (people say)- the bipolar doesn't think she's bipolar-right...Tell her to up her meads."

What Is Love?

Happy Valentines Day: "Imagine how many times the words "I love you" will be uttered. The word love is curious because it connotes such an intangible feeling that it defies defining. What do you mean when you say you love someone? I've heard of people saying they knew they loved someone the first week, they believe in "love at first sight," some hold back and don't say it for fear of getting hurt, and yet others use this phrase with ill intentions. This tiny, four letter word can wreak havoc or bliss on a relationship. But how do you know what someone else means when they bestow the word on you? And does it mean the same to you? What Is Love? Because love is an intangible emotion, it's difficult to know if you and your beloved mean the same thing when you tell each other you love them. We might know what WE mean when we use this phrase, but how do you ever know how deeply the emotions run for the other person? It's fascinating to me that "love" can be defined in a neat little box, established within certain parameters. When I surfed dictionary.com, there were several definitions listed for love: "A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that aris- ing from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness." A second definition was listed as "A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance." These definitions sound pretty close, but what exactly are YOU thinking when you say it to someone? Do you say it as a ready response to THEM saying it? Do you get the giggly feeling inside each time you say it to your honey? Have you ever said it and not meant it?. While none of us can begin to define love for ALL of us, we can each have our own ideas of what this emotion means. And then you need to do your best to articulate it to your partner. Allow me to propose MY definition of love (in no particular order): Love is supportive and encouraging. Love is kind, compassion- ate, and thoughtful. Love is sweet and nurturing. Love is your whole body coming alive when you see that person. Love is your heart singing an internal song out of pure bliss. Your heart, with all its attributes and flaws, has found its best friend. Love is your vulnerable, lovable self (however gently) willing to hand over your heart to someone else. Love is thinking of the other first, creating a safe and secure environment, and the calm and excitement in your day. And love is being proud of one another. Love is bringing out the best in each other and inspiring one another to do better. Love is about being the best you can be because you want to, for you AND your partner. Love is sharing similar (but not necessarily identical) outlooks on life, goals, and life issues. And most importantly, love is enduring. There might be times when one of you has to love more, but with a solid foundation of friendship, love won't fade. It doesn't go away. It just is. And, yes, love can be all the romantic things you read about in Hallmark cards. Feel free to disagree. Love is your heart swelling at the sight of his beautiful smile, the crinkling around his eyes, the sound of his voice, the way he is with his family, the way he watches over people and is protective, the thought of him first thing in the morning, throughout the day, and before you drift off to sleep. Love is happiness that he exists. Love is yummy in bed and the way his lovely lips feel on all your 2000 parts :) What love IS NOT. Many of you are experiencing rough patches in relationships and are confused about love. Again, but there are certain things that love ISN'T. Love is not selfish. Love does not make you choose between options that make you uncomfortable. Love does not ask you to compromise your beliefs and sense of who you are. Love does not force you to sacrifice your dreams. Love is not punishing and ugly. Love is not controlling, and love is not abusive."

To My Readers

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

If for every time I thought of you - a flower grew...

the world would be a beautiful garden, because you were in it."

Teddy Bear Bring Shame To Mental Illness

coffeebreak:" The president of the Vermont Teddy Bear Co. said she's sorry if her decision to keep selling the straitjacket-wearing bear has offended anyone. A day after the Vermont Human Rights Commission asked the company to pull the "Crazy for You" bear from its shelves, Elisabeth Robert said she has first-hand knowledge of how horrific mental illness can be. "You know, I feel as if I am being talked at, as if I don't know what pain can be caused," Robert told the Rutland, Vt., Herald. "I have, in my family, experienced real, profound pain over mental illness." The commission's campaign that started a month ago has drawn national attention and even prompted Gov. James Douglas to write a letter saying the bear is in poor taste and should not be sold. Robert said sales of the $70 bear picked significantly since word of the controversy spread. Response has split almost evenly between commission supporters and those who think the campaign smacks of political correctness.

Can you believe this!! Sometimes I think people will campaign for anything, if it means they get a chance in the spot light. Heck for all we know from the viewer point, This could be a smoke-screen from them to get their product out in the buying market, because I have a hard time believe someone is that bent out of shape...come-on its just a stuffed toy!"

Haunted - Windbreaker sells on eBay

coffeebreak :"A red fleece Chicago windbreaker haunted by a ghost named Phil has been sold on eBay, the Chicago Daily Southtown reported Monday. Construction worker Salvatore D'Andrea put the jacket up for sale for $2 Jan. 7, along with the jackets spooky background. He said he found the jacket in the closet of a home he moved into last summer. A day later, he said he heard crying from the closet. Then, he claimed his homes thermostat began to move without anyone touching it. The clothes in his closet rearranged themselves, with all the red articles moved to the front. D'Andrea said one night he saw a ghost who said its name was Phil. Said he didn't like kids or pets, was a friend of the family who lived there previously, and had been wearing the jacket when he died. Bidding on the jacket quickly moved beyond $2, and ended up being purchased by a Pennsylvania woman for $31.50, which D'Andrea said he'll use to buy another, ghost-free jacket.

You know.. I guess you never know what people will buy now days... In fact I also heard of some pretty strange stuff on JayLeno that he said people bought...Go Figure, so if life..LOL"

Women Careful What Your Mate Hands You

"They said our men don't love us. Seem like he's trying
to help her out of her misery...lol Married to him. "

State Dept. Blocks Adoption of Tsunami Victims

I understand people wanting to help these children because they may be alone now...But, has anyone took in the fact that if you were to take in a children lets say 5-years or old from this crisises. The amount of therapy and trauma this child and your family will have to deal with, let alone the mounting medical bills to go with it. I think the groverment is right in saying people need to wait and see if someone claims these children first. Beside think, how you would feel in you finally got a child after years of trying to get one and then to find out, after you spent all the money to adopt one of the poor souls and their parent's were found, and you had to return them. Think of the heart-break for everyone. So yes I think it will take at least 6-months or more, before any child from the Tsunami crisis should be allowed to be adopted.

State Dept. Blocks Adoption of Tsunami Victims;"In response to many inquiries from concerned Americans, the U.S. Department of State has stated that it will not be possible for U.S. citizens to adopt children who have been orphaned by the tsunami that struck parts of South Asia.According to the State Department, the international standard in a crisis is to keep children as close to their family members as possible. It can be extremely difficult to determine whether children whose parents are missing are truly orphans. In the current situation, many children have become separated from one or both of their parents. Even when children are indeed orphaned, they are often taken in by other relatives. Staying with relatives in extended family units is generally a better solution than uprooting the child completely. The State Department believes that it will take many months before the situation in those countries affected by the tsunami stabilizes to the point where the countries will be able to identify the children who are legitimate orphans. It is only if and when these countries decide to make these orphans available for international adoption that American citizens will be able to begin adoption proceedings for these children."

My - New Year's Resolutions

I found this while surfing the Web! And thought...You know what I want this to be my Resolution for 2005, hope it helps you make your better too!!

1. GIVE YOUR HEART, COMPLETELY - Let me preface this by saying that this only applies if you find someone truly worthy of your love. Easier said than done, I know, but keep in mind that if you are willing to give everything you have, then you deserve someone who will reciprocate. In 2005, give your heart without strings attached, without maintaining conditions, and without fear of the relationship ending up as not what you needed or wanted. It's all about the process, and you can't experience it if you get in your own way.
2. INCREASE THE ANTICIPATION FACTOR - A surefire way to kick-start a routine sex life is to increase the anticipation factor. I often talk about putting a note or picture here or there for your beloved so they are surprised and looking forward to seeing (and touching) you all day. It could be even simpler than that. Cuddle on the couch and watch television together and gently stroke each other's arms or legs. Make this a prolonged event so that the anticipation continues to build. Lightly touch each other throughout the program or two, but don't actually kiss. By the time you get to the bedroom later that evening, you will both be extremely hot and bothered. BONUS: the prolonged foreplay, if you will, helps the woman become more aroused before even beginning intercourse, thereby increasing her chances of orgasm

3. TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER - This applies to in AND out of the bedroom. The smallest acts of kindness or consideration can translate into the boudoir later. Do little things for each other to make the day go easier, but without hidden agendas or self-interest. You love your partner, so naturally you want to make them feel good and do nice things for them, right? This applies to foreplay, too. Really, really take time to love your partner's body and do whatever it takes to make each other feel good. It's that simple."

Welcome To * 2005 *

Okay I was web surfing and found this site and new year letter, so thought I would give all you that went out partying last night- Abit of the hair from the dog that (bit- you) ..He he

Up Yours!; "Dear Slugs,

Congratulations, you're all another year closer to death. I hope you all had a belly full of boozing and whoring last night because whether you realize it or not you are all accelerating down that slippery slope that leads inevitably and inexorably toward a cold, cold grave. An eternal oblivion whose only function is the slow decompo- sition of what was once a disgusting, useless bag of meat. Hey, why stop now? What else have you got to live for? There must be some sort of booze or drugs laying around the flop house you're squatting in. Crack open a luke- warm one and spark up. It's the only thing you have going in your wretched lives. Trust me, mutants, they say when you hit rock bottom there's no place to go but up, and that would be true if it weren't for the lead weights of ignorance, stupidity, apathy and plain and simple bad breeding which are hanging around your necks dragging you down into the hole of failure which will eventually turn into your grave. Happy New Year and Welcome to the Year 2005"

HAPPY * NEW * YEAR * BLOGGERS

" Do Re Mi Beer
By: Homer J. Simpson

DOUGH... The stuff that buys me beer.

RAY... The guy that sells me beer.

ME... The guy who drinks the beer

FAR... The distance to my beer.

SO... I think I'll have a beer.

LA... La la la la la la beer.

TEA... No thanks, I'm drinking beer.


That will bring us back to...

(Looking into an empty glass).... DOH ? "

Hope you liked this song I found - New-Year's Eve Tune, just in time to learn before the big night...Just remember the words!! Also....PLEASE!! Don't - Drive - Drunk or Let Your Friends get behind the wheel, show them you care!!

Department Stores Discover That, Um,.. Sex Sells

NewYorkTimes; "Men cluster to me like moths around a flame," Marlene Dietrich croons over the sound system in the lingerie department at Henri Bendel in New York. Encouraging customers to get into the mood, loose-limbed mannequins wield riding crops, and others flaunt black lace blindfolds and thongs so sheer they expose a wedge of explicit anatomy. In the store's windows, instead of the customary Santas and sprigs of mistletoe, there are a pair of mannequins, one draped in fox and little else, another crouching to show off her lacy white knickers. Induced passers-by to press in so closely that their breath fogged the glass. In a climate in which strip and burlesque shows have been revived as hip entertainment, it not surprising that retailers are flouting taboos of their own. "There was a time when if you wanted a garter belt, you would ask for it in a low tone. Now it's a thing that's out in the open, where grown men and children walk by. Visitors to Saks are greeted by store dummies sporting thongs beneath marabou bed jackets. A handful of shoppers do appear to take offense. Confronted by the central exhibit in the new 6,500-square-foot, seven-room lingerie department at Bendel's, some customers promptly spun on their heels and stalked out. Other customers seemed unfazed. As scholars point out, fetish-style corsetry, blindfolds, black stockings and peekaboo lace date back at least to the turn of the last century. By the 1920's, all these things were in place in the culture, and that just hasn't changed. So familiar are such items in women's arsenal of seduction, that they have become domesticated, Ms. Steele said. Women tell themselves, `We're playing with this naughty cliché. Big deal. So what?' The latest Bendel's innovation, to be unveiled in time for Valentine's Day, is Rykiel Woman, a boutique within the lingerie department conceived by Nathalie Rykiel, a daughter of Sonia Rykiel, the Parisian fashion legend. Ms. Rykiel plans to stock the shop with vibrating rubber ducks and lipstick tubes, displayed alongside cashmere loungewear and garter belts. That way the same woman who sells you a cashmere sweater can show you how a vibrator works, she said."

Well ladies I guess we don't have to be afraid to be nasty!! Because the world is saying play & have fun, but I don't know if I'm just to old fashion for this stuff? Don't get me wrong, my daughter talked me into buying one of those panties that have the thin strip up the butt!!... Well lets just say, I didn't like the feelings it was give my rear..LOL if you know what I mean, so least to say it was a waste of money and made the trash the first day..

Muslin - Men want tax- write off for extra Wife's

Ya right!! Forgive me but if men can get a tax break, just because he becomes a Muslins. Then women should be allowed to have more then "One Husband" Too!! I think alot of Woman out their would ARGEE!! Then maybe we would finally feel like things get done..In our homes & Bedroom...LOL
Sorry guys just had to reply to this..
Britain may grant tax breaks for 2nd wives.British tax officials are considering breaks for Muslims who are allowed as many as four wives under religious rules to make taxes more "family friendly." Existing laws allow deductions for only one wife for inheritance tax purposes but Muslim activists are asking Inland Revenue to relax therules, the Times of London reports. "Wives and immediate children should be exempt from inheritance tax," Ahmad Thomson, of the Association of Muslim Lawyers, told the Times. "If the government is family friendly, they should change a tax which is unfairly hitting minority religious values." British law currently bans marrying more than one spouse at a time and such action could result in bigamy charges. Muslim women with second-, third- and fourth-wife status are considered mistresses under the law and have no legal or tax rights."

Battle's on For - third 'Apprentice'

I & my sweetie have watched this show since the first one aired. And will probley be sitting right on the couch again, every Thursday like we have in the past when number -#3 starts, betting each other who will win!! I think this is the best reality show on TV...
news;"This time, it's about education and experience. With only high school diplomas in hand, street-smarts team Networth will battle book-smarts team Magna in various tasks involving companies such as Burger King, Home Depot, Domino's and Nescafe."Mark Burnett and I have decided to take the series into a new realm," Trump said in a statement. "We wanted to see what would happen if we pitted college grads against high school grads." The third season of The Apprentice premieres Jan. 20. There are some striking distinctions in the 18 cast members compared with the previous apprentices. There are more older candidates (the oldest is 41), more candidates with children (at least three are parents) and more candidates with real-estate experience."

Doctor's Looking At Street Drugs To Help Patients

I truly feel this a a good thing, if someone I loved was dying and wanted these drugs to help them I will probley help them if I could too!! Washington;"For some, the diagnosis comes out of the blue. For others, it arrives after a long battle. Either way, the news that death is just a few months away poses a daunting challenge for both doctor and patient. Drugs can ease pain and reduce anxiety, but what about the more profound issues that come with impending death? The wish to resolve lingering conflicts with family members. The longing to know, before it's too late, what it means to love, or what it meant to live. There is no medicine to address such dis-ease. Or is there? This month, the Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to a Harvard proposal to test the benefits of the illegal street drug known as "ecstasy" in patients diagnosed with severe anxiety related to advanced cancer. Has been referred to by psychiatrists as a drug especially good at putting people in touch with their emotions. Some believe it could help patients come to terms with the biggest emotional challenge of all: the end of life. The FDA's approval puts the study on track to become the first test of a psychedelic substance since 1963 at Harvard, where drug guru Timothy Leary lost his teaching privileges after using students in experiments with LSD and other hallucinogens. It also marks a milestone for a small but increasingly effective movement favoring a more open-minded attitude toward the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs, virtually all of which have been criminalized and disparaged for decades as medically useless. Already, being tested for its ability to reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Also studies are looking at the usefulness of magic mushrooms, in terminally ill cancer patients and in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Also hope to submit to the FDA an application to test psilocybin and LSD as treatments for cluster headaches. That would be a fitting birthday present for Albert Hofmann, the chemist who discovered both compounds while working for the Swiss drug company Sandoz and who turns 99 in January. Patients are being given psilocybin to see whether it can help them sort through emotional and spiritual issues. A "modest" dose of synthetic psilocybin, equivalent to two or three illicit mushrooms. They spend the next six hours or so in a comfortable setting with a psychiatrist, talking, thinking and sometimes listening to music with headphones. A 10-person study of psilocybin for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Also no complications in any of the five patients who have enrolled in his 20-person study for victims of violence struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. This is not about hippy dippy Halpern trying to turn on the world. I'm not looking at this as a magic bullet," he said. "But for a lot of people, the anxiety about death is so tremendous that there is no way to get their arms around the problems. Widow of the author and metaphysical pioneer Aldous Huxley, said her husband asked for and she provided a dose of LSD as he lay dying in 1963. "He wanted to be aware, took a wide array of psychedelics in the weeks leading up to his death from cancer in 1996. Some suspect the drugs clouded rather than sharpened his perceptions, but he died with a positive attitude. "It's kind of interesting really," he said of dying, talking to a friend in his final days. "You should try it sometime."

Naughty children lose gifts to eBay

MAGNIFIES:"The kids were naughty, Dad put the presents on eBay instead of under the tree — and Mom’s been crying ever since, even the tree’s down morning was sure not to be very jolly for three brothers — 9, 11 and 15 — who didn’t straighten up when their father told them Santa wasn’t too pleased with their fighting, cuss words and obscene gestures. Dad and Mom had warned their sons that the Nintendo DS video system — and the three games that go with it — were headed for the auction block if they didn’t get their act together. “No kidding. Three undeserving boys have crossed the line. Tonight we sat down and showed them what they WILL NOT get for Christmas this year. I’ll be taking the tree down tomorrow,” the man announced in his eBay posting. “If you don’t buy them, we’ll return them to the store,” the seller known online as magumbo—2000 reported on the site. Thursday night, the auction wound down with bidding at $465.01 — below the price the man had set. He said he would probably list the items again. A very bad day A single day of particularly bad behavior set the Christmas crackdown in motion. “These are normally really good kids,” said Dad, who asked the Houston Chronicle not to reveal his name. Dad even admits he and Mom are partly to blame for being too lax at times. But enough was enough. The warning of an impending sale came earlier in the week at a sit-down between offspring and parents. “We told them they were destroying each other and the calm and peace in the household. It had to stop,” said the man, who did tell the paper that he works as an information technology specialist and lives in Pasadena. The boys pledged to be nice, but were back to their old ways the next morning. That night, Dad announced that he would indeed be putting $700 in video games up for sale on eBay. The oldest boy double-dared his dad to make good on his word. Son shouldn’t have done that Dad said Mom has been in tears since the showdown “I don’t do it outwardly,” he said, “but I’m crying on the inside.” I wish as a Parent I should of done this a few times, maybe it would show then, nothing in life is a sure thing...Merry Christmas to everyone hope your's is better then mine, as I have the crude again bad and a burned hand all wrapped up. And at this moment my two teenagers are learning how much work it take's to make a holiday meal! Will let you know how it turned out...Bye

No Santa Claus !!

I was web surfing and found this...As I read it I knew I had to share it with others...Merry Christmas Remember!..Don't forget those who have less then you, at this time..
I remember my first Christmas adventure with Grandma. I was just a kid. I remember tearing across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb: "There is no Santa Claus," she jeered. "Even dummies know that!"My Grandma was not the gushy kind, never had been. I fled to her that day because I knew she would be straight with me. I knew grandma always told the truth, and I knew that the truth always went down a whole lot easier when swallowed with one of her "world-famous" cinnamon buns. I knew they were world-famous, because Grandma said so. It had to be true.Grandma was home, and the buns were still warm. Between bites, I told her everything. She was ready for me. "No Santa Claus?" she snorted."Ridiculous! Don't believe it. That rumor has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad. Now, put on your coat, and let's go."Off we went to Kerby's General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. That was a bundle in those days."Take this money," she said, "and buy something for someone who needs it. I'll wait for you in the car." Then she turned and walked out of Kerby's.I was only eight years old. I'd often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself. The store seemed big and crowded, full of people scrambling to finish their Christmas shopping.For a few moments I just stood there, confused, clutching that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy, and who on earth to buy it for. I thought of everybody I knew: my family, my friends, my neighbors, the kids at school, the people who went to my church. I was just about thought out, when I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker. He was a kid with bad breath and messy hair, and he sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock's grade-two class.Bobby Decker didn't have a coat. I knew that because he never went out to recess during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but all we kids knew that Bobby Decker didn't have a cough; he had no coat. I fingered the ten-dollar bill with growing excitement. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat!I settled on a red corduroy one that had a hood to it. It looked real warm, and he would like that. "Is this a Christmas present for someone?" the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid my ten dollars down."Yes, ma'am," I replied shyly. "It's for Bobby."The nice lady smiled at me. I didn't get any change, but she put the coat in a bag and wished me Merry Christmas.That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat in Christmas paper and ribbons. (a little tag fell out of the coat, and Grandma wrote, "To Bobby, From Santa Claus" on it and placed it in her bible).Grandma said that Santa always insisted on secrecy. Then she drove me over to Bobby Decker's house, explaining as we went that I was now and forever officially one of Santa's helpers. Grandma parked down the street from Bobby's house, and she and I crept noiselessly and hid in the bushes by his front walk. Then Grandma gave me a nudge. "All right, Santa Claus," she whispered, "get going." I took a deep breath, dashed for his front door, threw the present down on his step, pounded his doorbell and flewback to the safety of the bushes and Grandma.Together we waited breathlessly in the darkness for the front door to open. Finally it did, and there stood Bobby. Fifty years haven't dimmed the thrill of those moments spent shivering, beside my Grandma, in Bobby Decker's bushes. That night, I realized that those awful rumors about Santa Claus were just what Grandma said they were: ridiculous. Santa was alive and well, and we were on his team.I still have Grandma's Bible, with the coat's tag tucked inside: $19.95.

Thanksgiving - My House

My family is a little different,some would say,when I grew up. Now, that's not exactly true - I think that there is nothing different, unusual, strange, or just plain weird about them. However, from what I see on television and hear on radio, it looks like mine strays a bit from the norm. Take Thanksgiving, for instance. An easy thing to do since it's just a couple of days away. My family would not dress for Thanksgiving. OK, we do dress but we don't -DRESS! The formal way of saying ..dress up.. The general dress of the day for Thursday will be sweats and jeans, maybe the cook still in their Pj's cooking. There will be no candles or lovely centerpiece. The centerpiece will be whatever food item gets stuck in the middle of the table while everything else is being passed around. If there is room, it will be my gramma's old roaster/dutch oven filled with dressing, if there's no room, it goes on the kitchen counter. Flowers and candles, not something to eat or fight over, will be put to some place out of the way, of the food and hungry mouths. The -Good china- and family silver, whats that? if there is actually any. Is left locked wherever it is. We would use paper plates, plastic cutlery and cups, and paper napkins. Much easier to clean afterward and less likely to cause breakage if dropped or jostled. We didn't really have a, kids table. Instead, there is the table, the kitchen counter, the sofa and maybe an old folding table. You eat wherever you can find a place to sit. And pray you just get to sit on something other then, the floor to eat. While now days most families are dealing with the Atkins to- Low Cal wars on food, my family believed in the- RULE!-if it tastes good, someone will eat it ALL!-thinking. That explained why we had turkey, giblet stuffing, ham,goose or duck, every kind of bread-roll, vegetables-dripping in anything that taste like it was made from only sugar, cakes, cookies, pies, salads, soft drinks, iced tea, and Kool-Aid. If your favorite is not on the table, or the kitchen-some where or the counter or the stove, or some where in the house. It's either because you never told anyone what your favorite is or you don't have one. The television always on, even during the prayer and would, be tuned to one of the football games. In my family, Thanksgiving football-with the men was as much a tradition as dressing and pie, or even better, burping and un-zipped pants. The women and kids knew to remain silent for fear of recriminations. The conversation was always loud, robust, and overlapping. After the second, or third meal of the day of snacking. we'd all separate and head to our different homes and, more than likely, engage in our post- Turkey-celebration ritual - Then...a long nap until the leftovers beckon, to be ate or put away, if any left! So, if my family was a strange and different kind of family, when I was growing up. I'm thankful I was born into it, rather than a -Normal one....HAPPY THANKS-GIVING TO ALL!

Hallowed ground: Irving school field becomes memorial for Iraq casualties

Pocatello Idaho;"Vietnam veteran Gary Richardson hammers a cross commemorating a casualty of the Iraq war into the Field of Heroes at Irving Middle School's football field Sunday afternoon. The Field of Heroes will open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on today, Tuesday and Wednesday. A special ceremony on Thursday, Veterans Day, will begin at 10 a.m..... >>>What was once a football field is now hallowed ground. Sunday morning, Angie Cook started four solid days of camping behind Irving Middle School and patrolling the track on her bicycle to keep out vandals. There's a registry for people to write their feelings about the sacrifices of the deceased. There will be flowers and wreaths, and there have already been tears.It took all of Sunday for Cook and a group of volunteers to convert the grassy playing field into a cemetery, and a visual symbol of what the country has lost. Family members of Jerrick M. Petty III, a soldier from Idaho Falls who was killed in Iraq Dec. 10, 2003, Mayor Roger Chase and military dignitaries will speak from a podium on the 50-yard line during a Thursday Veterans Day service. It will be followed by a candlelight vigil.Small, wooden crosses are perfectly placed in rows of three. Volunteers used a tape measure to stake each row exactly 3 feet apart and crosses in the rows precisely 6 feet from one another. American flags line the sidelines. "Just appreciate these are our guys who have died, and we're not going to forget them," John Rogers, a Vietnam veteran, said while he carefully hammered a white cross into the earth. Each cross is labeled with the name of an American soldier and the date that soldier died. The 143 crosses from the conflict in Afghanistan stretch from the south endzone to the 5-yard line. Rogers calls the other 95 yards Iraq. It's covered with 1,128 crosses, and counting. Rogers knows the numbers precisely. He wouldn't dare forget a single soldier.Blank crosses are at the ready to post for soldiers who may die before Veterans Day. Irving teacher Raejean Cates and her husband, Mark, built the crosses with donated wood and paint. Irving's librarian made all of the laminated names. It took them nearly three weeks to make the crosses. Sunday morning, members of the U.S. Marine Corps arrived at the field to place emblems on the crosses of their deceased - 275 enlisted Marines plus several reservists. After several minutes of posting emblems, a few of the Marines approached Cook with teary eyes. "They said, 'Oh my gosh! I didn't realize there were so many," Cook said. "They cried, and I gave them a big hug." There are eight larger crosses with the names and stories of the Idaho soldiers who were killed in combat. The most recent cross is dated Sept. 26, 2004, a memorial to Capt. Eric L. Allton, of Boise, who was killed during a mortar attack in Ramadi, Iraq. During the Veteran's Day service, the volunteers will hand out carnations for people to place next to the crosses of their loved ones. They also encourage people to bring their own flowers and tributes. The cemetery will be open for viewing today through Wednesday from 9 a.m. through 4 p.m.The city has a tree draped with 60 yellow ribbons containing the names and ranks of Idaho soldiers. Rogers hopes to obtain additional names of hundreds more Idaho soldiers to add to the tree, which will be displayed at City Hall until Nov. 15. Upon their return, members of the Yellow Ribbon Campaign, made of Vietnam veterans and their families, give the ribbons to the soldiers. Idaho soldiers in the Boise-based 1-148th Field Artillery Battalion are expected to leave for Iraq in December."These guys are choked up about it, and it means a million dollars to them," Rogers said. "These are top-flight kids. I am proud that they're serving the country the way that they are. You would be proud to know every one of them. We're not bemoaning the dead. We want to say everyone in Afghanistan and Iraq is of that same quality. We want to teach these school kids that." I live by this school and I watched them work on it all day Sunday and Monday, I tip a hat to these people that worked so hard to, Allow us all the blessing to be able to pay respect to those who gave their life to fight for what they believed in and us. For giving their life's also For the......United States Of America

We will miss you Dearly...

Colombian airport police find $47,500 cash inside passenger's stomach

Damn!! That had to hurt to pass that much money, south of the Border..LOL But my thought is how did they get it up inside of him to begin with? Or did it go in the same way it came out? LMAO.. When read this!

sfgate;"A suspect swallowed nearly $50,000 in cash in a failed attempt to smuggle the funds out of Colombia, officials said Monday. Airport police said they X-rayed the suspect because he was acting nervous while preparing to board a flight for Lima, Peru. The photo showed dozens of latex-wrapped packets inside his stomach and police assumed it was drugs, since such a smuggling technique is used by traffickers. But as the suspect passed the packages from his body, police discovered they were filled with cash, $47,500. "We find drugs inside the stomachs of smugglers all the time, but this is the first time we've ever found dollars," the head of airport police, said. Passengers leaving Colombia can carry up to $10,000 in cash without having to declare it. Police say new anti-money laundering laws have made it more difficult for drug traffickers to send and receive cash, forcing them to adopt the same methods used to smuggle drugs. Vargas said interrogations of the suspect indicated the money was probably going to be used to pay for a drug shipment."

250 Cats Found in Feces-Infested Home

Now this one is worse then the lady with the zillion trash bags full of garbage that I did yesterday..The poor cats! I could some what understand the old women not being able to take care of them, but they said her daughter and son-inlaw lived with her? What was wrong with them.. Or did they just move out and forget about the poor animals, this was in a sense a sad story only because of the cruelness that these cats had to live in!

St.Croix Falls, Wis.;"The stench was enough to guide emergency workers to a house where a utility worker had responded to a report of a power outage and found a house full of cats. Police Chief Paul Lindholm described the smell as unbearable and said the cat feces in the building was several inches deep on the floor. Firefighters Thursday night removed 250 cats from the house, half already dead and the rest so ill they had to be killed. Lindholm said a Polk County circuit judge signed an order to euthanasia the cats because they were diseased. An 86-year-old woman lived in the home with her daughter and son-in-law, but they had not been located. Investigators said they may have been staying with relatives in the area."

Loaned Sweatshirt Leads to Robbery Arrests

Well Guess this just goes to show you, never borrow anyone anything with your name on it! And if you do make sure you get it back as soon as possible. I can't believe how many people they had to go thru to just find one sweatshirt. But looks to me like they got lucky as, this isn't always the case in something like this...

DUBUQUE, Iowa;"A sweatshirt loaned to a friend two years ago led to the arrest of two people for a series of robberies in Indiana. High School soccer player Adam Schmerbach said he loaned his sweatshirt, with his name and number on it, to a friend because it was cold out. "I actually forgot about it," he said. But then he got a call from a police investigator. It turned out the friend that borrowed the sweatshirt passed it on to an Indiana man who had ties to Iowa. That man, in turn, had a roommate who took it when he moved out, police said. That roommate, Haycraft, and another young man, Devore were arrested last month for six armed robberies They made off with about $5,000 in cash and cartons of cigarettes, authorities said. They were arrested after surveillance cameras at one of the store's that was robbed showed one of the men, later identified as Haycraft, wearing Schmerbach's -school-sweatshirt, police said. It was during that search that investigators found Schmerbach's sweatshirt and a car matching the description of one used in the robberies. Inside the car, investigators found a shotgun and two ski masks, authorities said. Police said it's unknown when, and if, Schmerbach will get his sweatshirt back because it's being held as evidence in the case."

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Woman Sentenced to Jail for Filthy House

You know..I use to think at times I was a slob..LOL But I guess after reading this, I am quite clean in this respect, with my house. My Lord I have seen homes like this, but never as bad as this. You would wonder how people could live like this ? The smell alone...And the FLIES!!

OMAHA, Neb;"After ignoring six years of prodding from the city, a woman is going to jail for having a filthy house. A Douglas County judge Thursday sentenced Rosie Fellman to 45 days behind bars for littering, with breaks every 10 days to clean up her central Omaha home. Trash and debris has been piled up to 5 feet deep in the house and garage, which are a health and fire hazard, the city's chief housing inspector Kevin Denker said. Last month, inspectors found more than 100 garbage cans in the driveway. City Prosecutor Marty Conboy said the city has spent six years trying to get Fellman to clean up. There was not much else the judge could do, Conboy said. At the end of Fellman's sentence, the judge will decide if she has improved the homes condition. If not, she could be sentenced to another 45 days in jail. The city has ordered the home demolished, but Fellman, who lives alone, is appealing the order. "If she doesn't clean it out we'll just tear down everything," Denker said."

Heads -up to all you Men

Okay guys just trying to give you some free fashion, don't get mad!

MSN;"Walk through your average mall, and what do you see? Guys who clearly don’t read G.Q. These guys pay attention to other guys who, fashion-wise, are stuck in 1987. Thus these mall-walkers are, in a sense, trendsetters, albeit most of the trends they set are seriously lame. This isn’t to say you have to emulate a G.Q. boy to look good, but you’d do well to avoid the following: The ponytail. If you’re sporting a long ponytail, the general public might think you’re a wannabe hippie. If you’re sporting a medium-sized ponytail, the general public might think you’re too lazy to get a haircut. If you’re sporting a short ponytail, the general public might think you’re a hopelessly out-of-touch record executive. Nicely styled long hair is perfectly swell—just leave that scrunchy at home. The single earring. Back in the ’80s, it was said that if a guy wore only one earring, you could get an idea of his sexual preference, depending on which of his lobes was pierced. Today, if a guy wears one earring, you can get an idea of his lack of taste, regardless of which lobe is pierced. Get both ears pierced and be symmetrical, or don’t get pierced at all. (Note: A single earring often shares a head with a ponytail. This is a situation where two wrongs most definitely don’t make a right.) Loafers without socks. Sockless loafers with jeans don’t work. Sockless loafers with shorts don’t work. Sockless loafers with anything don’t work. Plus most loafers don’t breathe well, so if you wear them sans socks, you run the risk of developing toe cheese. The goatee. A quick refresher course in facial hair terminology: A Van Dyke is a mustache/chin-hair combo, and if you keep it neatly trimmed, it can look very cool. A soul patch is a little blip of hair under your lower lip, and if it’s carved and sized just right, it too can be exceedingly hip. A goatee is a blob of hair on your chin, and it isn’t the least bit stylish—it just looks like somebody glued a blob of hair on your chin. The comb-over. If you develop male-pattern baldness, roll with it. Take what you have, and get it styled so it looks, y’know, stylish. Or, if there’s not enough there to style—and if you have a nicely shaped head—chop it all off. Not only will a total buzz make you look enigmatic and dangerous, but it’ll give you the opportunity to fudge the truth about your scalp: “I’m not going bald—I have tons of hair. I just like the way it looks when it’s shaved.”