Wake Up!

haven’t been able to post here forever – user name and password were messed up – maybe I got banned or something ..
Oh well , Happy Easter anyway !

HI TT! You banned…never.

Oh, YES I am ready for a new beginning. It’s been a long, cold, wet, emotional winter. It’s supposed to be sunny a few days next week in No.Cal. I can’t wait. Happy Easter everyone!!!

the coming of spring and the re awakening of nature is celebrated by every culture , this celebration is truly a cultural and human universal ………….

Hi Murphy and Pumas,

Happy Easter! I am reading 90 Minutes in Heaven.

It is a new beginning for me.

My husband and I will be having a delicious dinner
which is already cooked.

Thank you Murphy, I love the post and the photos.

I love that photo of Skipper asleep with her peeps! Priceless!!!!

My test pancake is 20something now, but while he sleeps in longer than I did, I will make up an ‘Easter basket’ for both of us…yes, with yellow and pink peeps included. (We both stay up very, very late when the next day is not a work/school night.) I guess I never grew up either.

My PUMA Jr. had to move back home to stay in college, no jobs out there for him right now. We have both had to make adjustments to deal with this recent arrangement, but leaving out the peeps is not a change I am willing to make.

Just hanging with family and friends today, the strong rains will be back shortly and I like the idea of a new start.

Happy Easter, passover and what ever you celebrate or not, be happy, smell the flowers and know you are loved by PUMAs.

Big hugs to Murph, MamaPUMA and all my PUMAs.

Eat, Pray, Love … Hate?
Strong Reactions to Book, Movie

I thought this an interesting article on the book and upcoming movie:

But Eat, Pray, Love the book (and soon, “Eat, Pray, Love” the movie, starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem) has turned out to be a lightening rod of controversy in the most disappointing of ways. The negative reactions to “Eat, Pray, Love” show just how resentful, bitter, contradictory, and quite frankly, hate-filled we are towards a woman who does something for herself.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/eatpraylovehate-/story?id=10245510&page=1

Won’t Back Down – I was curious enough to read your link on Eat, Pray, Love. It is so true that for whatever the individual agenda, some women are reluctant to wholly support other women, whether they personally know them or otherwise. I see it as basic envy and jealousy, which is understandable as well. What they can’t have, they vilify. Whatever happened to “to each his/her own”. Life is really the bed you make to lie on. I love hearing about strong women who chart their own course in life and live it on their own terms.

How many adult people actually eat those peeps and other Easter type candies? Try as I might, I just cannot do it.

Dances,

#16 – I felt it… initial reports… 6.9 in SSW of Guadalupe Victoria, Baja Mexico. From USGS online

goofsmom 04.04.10 at 3:10 pm
freddiebrown 04.04.10 at 3:24 pm

Glad you found it revealing too! I was curious enough to go back and look at the site referred to in the article “Jezebel” and to view the Trailer and read some of the comments on the site.

Also, it’s not even due out until August 17, I think, but it looks like a lot more are getting into the bashing: “Hindus are concerned over release of Eat, Pray and Love”.

I loved the trailer! What an adventure! Here is the “Jezebel” site with Trailer and interesting comments:

http://jezebel.com/5496313/eat-pray-love-trailer-maybe-magical-maybe-just-annoying

And, here is Elizabeth Gilbert’s website:

http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/eatpraylove.htm

Dances,

Yep, I was having a nap too… Stuff swayed in the house, cracking and popping noices… low rumble…

Reports are being filed at USGS from all over… Yuma felt it stronger than we did…

Yucky… grabbed the cat…sat up and was getting ready to head for the doorway.

I rolled out of bed and headed for the courtyard where some of my neighbors were gathering.
Funny, none of us were in street clothes!

Think I’m going to do that… taking the mock turtle.
See yas later.

wontbackdown,

#26 – Yep, no warnings yet for earthquakes. This one started with slow rolling motion, then built up in intensity and then died away…

Dances,
#25 – Not to be totally noisy, but why would you need to go into work because of an earthquake?

goofsmom 04.04.10 at 6:26 pm

I was just reading a tweetfeed about it. Some are saying it was a looooong rolling one.

Eh Dances – I am embarrased to say, I not so much walked but galloped out of Henry’s (grocery store) when I saw the windows rattling and stuff falling off the shelves.. In my hurry to get outside, I discovered I left my bag on the cart so I had to go back. It was a bit nervy this one. I told a lot of the senior citizens to go outside but they seemed a bit unsure what to do. I figure better be seen as silly than have something fall on me… you never know when the big one might come.

wontbackdown,

#30 – yes, it’s pretty large. Imperial Valley in California just had a 5.1 so shifting is moving north…

freddie,

Smart move… I’ve always thought about the big one hitting and me being in a Costco or something…

Never feel silly… be safe!

freddiebrown,

#36 – I’ve done that in bumper to bumper freeway traffic, because I don’t want to get stuck under the overpass…

I don’t worry about the honking horns… seen enough bridges and overpasses come down to really care what others think… Starting with 1971 earthquake on…

Heh, listening to the history channel while I fix dinner…
Talking about people left out of both Bibles and why.

Two women they talk about were the first feminists…
1- Lilitha, Adams first wife that was made equal out of dust like he was. Adam tells her to lie beneath him, she tells him to fu@k off, not willing to be under his thumb and is made into a demon.
I like this painting of her…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith

2- Theckla (sp?) She learned from, I think it was Peter, that being a virgin was totally cool, and could get you to heaven. She refused to have sex with her wealthy fiance, and was going to be burned at the stake, God sent down rain and put out the fire.
Then she takes off preaching with Peter, some other rich guy falls in love with her, same story, Just say No, then they toss her in a den of Lyons, the female Lyon lays down and protects her from the male lyons that want to attack her, the women and Queen cheer……..

The History channel say these stories are left out of the bible, we all know why, and the bullshit of all the churches keeps on keeping women down.

That’s my Easter story for the day.

BillieJo 04.04.10 at 7:00 pm:

Glad I got to see your Easter post – one of the best of the day, BJ!

Goofs
came to work to assess damage and make calls to tradespeople to schedule repairs.

All is well. Bucolic when here I was expecting something closer to colic!

Dances,

#43 & 44 – Very good news, drive safe.

Soooo happy to see the Easter pictures, and hear that the California PUMAs are ok after the earthquake. How strange to hear how you all maneuver to stay safe at any given moment!

And freddiebrown….no, I never could eat the peeps, but always bought them anyway. The malted milk robin’s eggs are the best easter candy, and real pectin jellybeans, if you can find them!

Thanks for the stories, Billie Jo….I’d not heard of Theckla.

I have two borrowed books I’m supposed to be reading….one is on Emily Dickenson and spirituality, the other is on the veil and the male elite in Islam. But my allergies are so bad I mostly have to do things that don’t require visual focus….allergies and contact lenses don’t mix well….

I hope everyone got outside…a shout out to our Sea Goddess priestess, if she’s in the house. I found a couple of pieces of sea glass today when I took the hound to the shore….

Ai, freddiebrown….shakes and aftershocks…I just can’t imagine.

And I thought I had it rough facing down a wolf spider when cleaning the front porch today.

I’m not sure about taking any allergy remedy…right now my only symptom is itchy eyes, and I do have drops, but can’t use them with contacts. I have a wrung out cold compress with a touch of witch hazel that I’m somehow applying while trying to browse the net…

omg. Remember how I mentioned I’m actually afraid to protest in NYC due to the police?

Case in infuriating point:

A 12 year old girl doodles, in erasable marker, “I love my friends Abby and Faith,…Lex was here. 2/1/10″ and a smiley face….and she was dragged from class, physically searched, taken to the police station, handcuffed to a pole for 2 hours….DENIED THE MOTHER the right to come be with her pre-adolescent daughter in this inexcusable ordeal….

http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/girl-arrested-for-doodling-on-school-desk-sues-new-york-city/19425428

The girl and her mother are suing for one million dollars…if I were on the jury I’d give them 10 million. THIS is why we have police??????????

Getting ready to go home. I had a wonderful Easter dinner with a couple dear friends. Happy Easter PUMAS! I am truly blessed!! Below is a link to a post about my campaign from a very special Still4Hill! Good night, blessings and prayers!
http://departmentofhomegirlsecurity.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/candice-britt-britton-a-hillary-clinton-homegirl-runs-against-the-machine-in-district-1-missouri/

Is there anyone out there between the Obama loyalists and the Tea Party? Not according to the media
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/are-there-any-unhappy-democrats/

(((((skipper))))) – a little tin-type of her mother, what a pair (from Carousel)
(((((pumacraig))))) – you are awesome!

A new way to advocate for ‘Human Rights for Women World Wide’?

For some time I’ve been cogitating about protesting effectively and efficiently. The process currently has this bit of definition:

Groups gather by circumstance; individuals remain for as short or long a duration as they can spare; while they are gathered they simply sing “We Shall Overcome.”

To initiate each protest, there would need to be several women who agreed to assemble (just to establish that particular protest), most likely at a supermarket. As other women come by to shop, they could join them in singing for whatever time they could spare (or their young children would tolerate).

Overall, it would be a slow process, but one that can be implemented nearly on-the-spot. No pre-planning. No commitment ahead of time. How beautiful would it be to see this protest catch on all over the world?

http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/04/obama-birtheligibility/

ooops

#54 Dragonfly
My husband told me yesterday that “Benedict” Arnold Specter was Einhorn’s attorney, and I confirmed it. Ugh. Please don’t vote for Benedict Arnold Specter!

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/einhorn/bonded_2.html

#60 Since the passage of the health care plan, enthusiasm for the President has increased markedly among Democrats. That is reflected in the growing number of voters who Strongly Approve of his performance. However, the passage of health care legislation has had little or no impact on support from Republican and unaffiliated voters. That’s why the number who Strongly Disapprove has remained over 40% for months. It’s also why 53% of voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on the health care issue.
_________________________________________________________________According to Rasmussen this is due to Dimocrats! They will be the last to learn, apparently.

Dragonfly 04.05.10 at 4:55 am:

Just a quick note to you. Your dream is not too big. I discovered a few months ago that my dream to end all violence against women and children was never big enough.

Saturday night, as I was thinking, “my dream is too big, grandiose, crazy” domestic violence unfolded, in our parking, right below my balcony.

I could hear the sounds of him slapping her and the children in the car crying. I called the police – but was too afraid to physically intervene – too afraid that he would come after me. I know it could be heard all over, but no one else intervened, either. The police got there quickly, because I stayed on the phone with the dispatcher – with my head out the patio door and she could hear it too.

They arrested him but I never could go back to sleep thinking about her and the children. Everything about violence against women and children is a terror – even the sound from a distance – or the stories in an article or in the news. Hate it! Hate it! Hate it!

And so, I shut off any remaining doubts about “my dream being too big.” I would rather live and die with my grandiose, crazy dream turned to action in calling ALL violence against women what it is in an effort in end it ALL. It can’t be any “bigger or crazier” than being resigned to the noises of the violence I have lived, read about and still witness that will forever drive my terrors in the night.

#65 wbd

Good for you. Fear is a factor in intervening. I’m still working on an intervention in my neighborhood….I definitely fear reprisal.

Well put, dances. Males are mutants by definition. The basic life chromosome is X. Women are XX. The mutant is XY.

They definitely have a lot of evolving to do.

DancesWithPumas 04.05.10 at 11:08 am

After reading about the latest barbaric event of a 7 year old being raped by 5 monsters…

No SH!T!!! That’s why we’re about to launch a very big vision. Calling this barbaric bullshit EXACTLY WHAT IT IS!

Zee: Before you do – maybe you could wait until you have something in hand that I think will get the point across.

It’s not worth getting targeted for reprisal – unless there’s too many of us to go after – fuck em’ – it’s time for an all out war against this shit! In my opinion! Fuck em’! Fuck em’ Fuck em” – I could give a rat’s ass anymore about offending the murderous, ravenous, barbaric male gender – as a whole!

I’m tired of hearing about women getting slaughtered – just because men can!

It is what it is… two more days… and we shove it in their faces!

#71 wbd…. I have been trying to track down an old neighbor of mine, who is a nurse and may be able to help. I don’t want her targeted, tho, either. A PUMA suggested I call adult protective services…but I would be the obvious source of the call, so I’m trying to locate a relative of the elderly woman. Very frustrating.

This was in the comments section of this story (7-year-old).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100404/ap_on_re_us/us_teen_sister_sex

This is disgusting, and having experienced this with my daughter (She was raped by a 15 year old when she was 4) I can tell you what will happen. The sister will be tried as a juvie and do a few month in some cushy treatment center and the men and boys well they may get a few months to a few years. THat is how our wonderful system works and it sucks. Ours happened in IL and the prosecutor, Kathleen Bachman of DuPage county, cut a deal. She assured me that the perpetraitor would serve at least 18-24 months which was the best we could hope for in a treatment center and he only did 9 months and is now having a great time. His life is going on as if nothing happened and we go to counseling every week with our daughter so she can recover. That is the reality of this world and justice system. (end of comment)
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This is the county I live in and can’t find any up-to-date information on this prosecutor. She may have left the state, but I will find out.

National Sex Offender Registry

http://www.familywatchdog.us/

P.S. Zee: You cannot imagine how fearful I used to be of calling the police. I feared retaliation that much. Today, I won’t hesitate to call and actually celebrate like a wild-woman when they arrive!

If you were ever a victim of a crime, you would pray someone called the police. You dont have to give your name when you call to report an incident. Matter of fact ask them what is the best way to go about reporting anything

scarlet 04.05.10 at 12:51 pm

National Sex Offender Registry: http://www.familywatchdog.us/
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I just looked up my zip code – OMG! The numbers are staggering!

Then I looked up several more and, still, they are EVERYWHERE in large numbers!

goofsmom # 84:

“Back in the day it was unheard of to interfere”
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I know what you mean, Goofsmom.

But, good for you! (“I peeked out the windows and was overjoyed when not one but 2 squad cars arrived. The hauled the son away in cuffs.” )

WOOT! I’m with ya on the overjoyed!

Kudos for everyone here that bothered and called 911 to help others. It could be your call that saved someone. God forbid, when we need help that someone would take the trouble. It is the only decent thing to do when we cannot jump in to help. Though sometimes I wonder if intervening at a crucial time, may be the only thing that saves a person before the cop comes – I hope I never have to make a judgement call.

Everyday a woman/girl/boy is lost or killed or abused. Only because they cannot defend themselves. If the perpetrators know that their victims are not helpless or defenceless, I think they will think twice.

I have just sent a pink pepper spray to a business acquaintence/friend in Hong Kong. She travels to Spain / France etc by herself to meet clients and is a tiny thing. A few weeks ago, she withheld part payment to a supplier when their products all broke on arrival to Japan – figuring that it was only fair. The supplier was a guy and he sent 2 big bullies to her office of 3 girls and they demanded that she did an online transfer of funds right there. She was concerned for the female employees and did. I told her to take precaution ASAP so that this does not happen again so that no one can just walk into their office – that they were lucky that they only wanted money. She was so shaken she has to take a day off. Two days later, they came back and asked for more as the first payment that they asked for was not enough. She had no choice. But now her office is like a fortress with an alarm that goes straight to the cops. This poor girl has been abused by a male family member when she was young and took her years of therapy to get her life together and she is so leery and hateful of men that she thought she was gay. She just came to the realisation recently that she isn’t. That’s another story.

But

BillBoardsAgainstObama.com?

http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=142459&catid=3

#76 sistermoon….and the “news” about what Michelle said is something we heard in 2008. It’s 2010.

Sistermoon….on the other hand, today the tabloids at the supermarket have said new photos have emerged of Obama’s childhood Muslim experience…haven’t had time to google it yet…that’s old news, too, but Zero has never come clean on it.

#80 dances….

arg, that’s hard.

Hiya GoSue
It was one of the neighborhoods I lived in before I was emancipated. The bulk of my growing up was in Spanish Harlem (wasnt called that then) and the Lower East Side. Queens was a bit later when I was 15 or 16 or so.

Zee – In California, you get a wayy stiffer sentence if your crime is against a senior citizen. I was in a jury where the guy hijacked an old couple’s car and threatened “to kill” them.. He didn’t know how to drive stick shift (idiot!) and stalled the car. But because he threatened them, he got life. So elder abuse is not good.

I thought Obama was a corporatist not a socialist?
Anyway seeing “socialist” tossed around is an immediate turn off for me.
Reminds me of the fuckwits (republicans) trying to own terms like “patriot” and lapel pins and the us flag. “Socialist”, “communist” , pinko liberals, all meant to scare the duller among us into believing the parties perpetuating fear mongering are the new political saviors when all they really want is turn satiating themselves at the taxpayers trough. Fuck ‘em

They’ve all been Capitalist-Maxist-Fascists, with a little Socialism thrown in to make the working class feel hopeful, the elitists feel charitable, the government feel democratic and the entire voting public always desperate for change and going back for more.

Anyone else’ grandparents say that ‘all politicians are corrupt’? That was 50 years ago.

CodependentISM or Gov-CitizenISM are as good a term as any.

oh, no, dances! And Northern California also had an earthquake they called “unrelated.”

Anyone know if there have been more of them than usual this year?

I am glad Zee that you are looking out for the elderly. These dirt bag scums some called relatives are no doubt preying on the elderly for money. I cannot stand to see the elderly being bullied in any form.

stay safe, California PUMAs….good night! I hope you get some rest!

Zee 04.05.10 at 11:38 pm:

The elderly couple I told you about has a neighbor who is losing her house. She has positioned herself like “a daughter” to these people. Recently, that neighbor said that she thinks they should do a “reverse mortgage” and take the equity out of their house and give her the money so she can save her own house, then ‘she’ll let them come live with her and take care of them.’

This same neighbor talks behind their back like they’re a total pain in the ass and that she can’t stand being around them, unless it comes to the issue of them leaving her their house. These people know the neighbor well – that she isn’t really there for them when they need her and won’t even spend a holiday or time with them, although their only a few homes apart. Still, the elderly woman defends her because she has this ‘daughter fantasy’ that she will take care of them.

These people have a somewhat mentally challenged son – he can be mean and difficult and even physically abusive to them – which is why they can’t let him live with them. But, he is still their only child and given his mental struggles, it seems to me that they need to be thinking about themselves first – like selling their home and investing in assisted living – and then him as their only heir?

It’s fucked up. But, what you are up against is people wanting to live out their days in their own home. You can’t blame them. But, without the elderly having family that truly cares or is willing and able to step in and be there for them at home… there comes a time when it’s just not safe for them.

It drives me crazy, because you want so much to help, but you can only do what you can do. Also, it’s not easy to take care of the elderly or terminally ill at home – and I personally enjoy the elderly. I did it with my father and he died at home and although I don’t regret it, it’s so painful, even when you have a lot of support, that I wouldn’t volunteer for it for a fucking mansion in the sky.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/times_sq_riot_NsfFMtmqon1PC09nmFX8UP

I was ignorant of this “ritual” in New York on Easter Sunday of all days of the year. Apparently, Easter Sunday is also called by some, “Gang Initiation Day.”

The young men, including juveniles, create havoc in Times Square, including shooting guns.

This brings to mind male elephants who, upon reaching maturity, gang up with each other and leave the herd, which is lead by grandmothers and great-grandmothers. The only males in the herd are young males still with their mothers. Male elephants who are mature are sometimes treated as holy in India, and a man will be responsible for the care of the elephant. Some men are killed by their elephants, who occasionally go into rages linked to their hormones.

And people talk about PMS . . .

h/t Notyoursweetie

Take what you need/ live by what you desire

Housing protest leads to takeover of duplex

(04-04) 19:06 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A group of homeless people and housing activists took over a privately owned Mission District duplex on Sunday in what served as the climax of a protest designed to promote use of San Francisco’s vacant buildings as shelters for the needy.

But the owner of the property – who was targeted over his eviction of a tenant – said the demonstration was nothing more than breaking and entering.

More here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/04/BUTO1CPN1U.DTL

#80 DWP

The Kitty Genovese incident was shocking!

It was actually brought home to me by a song, written and performed by Phil Ochs, one of my favorite folk singers of the time.

The song was called “A Small Circle Of Friends” which was a sarcastic commentary on public apathy.

Unfortunately, I’m afraid the apathy continues.

http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-taxes-crushing-small-businesses.html

oh yeah, way to go, we are now heading for tax heaven

omg….have I lost my mind????? There is an Obot meeting in my town tomorrow….I might go undercover.