The stars have aligned!

Sheriff Cody Jeremiah Jefferson: Am I early?
Star: Actually you're a little late cowboy. What? You want me to put on a pretty party dress so you spend all night trying to take it off me? Why don't we skip that part?

Star: Flowers?
Sheriff Cody Jeremiah Jefferson: Roses. Their organic.
Star: Thank you.
[takes bite of flower]
Star: Ever eat a rose?
Sheriff Cody Jeremiah Jefferson: No I've eaten a lot of thin-
[Star puts rose in his mouth]
Star: See?... That's just the first thing your going to learn tonight
Sheriff Cody Jeremiah Jefferson: Um, You know, I believe we knew each other before
Star: Now we're going to know each other now

Star: Listen to me. You might be one of the great lovers of the western world, I'll give you that. And if, broccoli juice and yoga can turn all men into the bunk bunny you are, I will start paying for group fares to India myself, just--- knock it off with the gooey stuff, okay?

Open letter to my senators

Misters Bennett and Udall,

While many democrats see the current health care "reform" as the best we can get and appear to jump on this bandwagon without looking over the song, the so-called reform that is currently being talked about is far from reforming anything. And if it makes health insurance mandatory, then the insurance companies have won-- big time. Even if the bill tries to force insurance companies to offer a lower costing insurance, they will still be the ones to profit from the added customer base while having the additional benefit of not having to cover as many people over the age of 55! And medicare costs will go through the roof with the weight of the additional numbers of older customers. This is a pro-business bill and is apparently all we can expect from Washington anymore but I for one am sick of corporate interests always coming out on top.

Vote no on this bill if there is no way to cut costs for medical care and if there is no reasonable option for healthcare for the working middle class.

(I posted this to their websites-- I don't expect them to read my blog.)

Book search

"This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression. Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been 'authorised by the Bible' and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit."

Helen H Gardener 1853 - 1925

I am in search of this woman. Clearly she was ahead of her time and I would love to find more of what she wrote. I will post any findings!

god

Perhaps it is the fundamentalist in me that screams: "You just make god up as you go along" Yet, is it not true that people perceive god to have the same "values" they have- view the same issues (i.e. gay rights or fetus "rights" or women's rights)with the same fervor and regard as they do? god never reveals something to them that goes counter to their cultural values... well, nothing important anyway.

In this same vein, it was ingenious for the church to move away from the priestly "this is who god is" to a personal god- one with whom you can have a personal relationship with. Without conceding that they no longer define who god is (and of course their sermons certainly wouldn't reflect that), people are given the idea that god speaks to them directly, personally. It's better than having a red line to the president! gives people a special feeling of importance!