When I was a little kid, I used to like that song “Little Boxes”   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boxes just because it was simple and  like something kindergarten kids would like- as a woman, I don’t like it. It makes fun of suburbia, it makes fun of the “American Dream” , and in doing this, in an insidious way, it makes …

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 Alienating and being hostile , constantly mocking  Christians does not pay -It’s just not good strategy – As far as numbers go,  these groups know how to put the squeeze of  political & economic pressure on – lots of their issues are our issues- and our enemies KNOW this. These groups some WNs may deem “too mainstream” or “I’m …

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I’ve been interested in what has been called the “voluntary simplicity” movement for years, but am now getting harder-core where it concerns holidays and children especially, given the indoctrination and  propaganda on TV- so far I have managed to convince my kids that most stuff on TV is crap, almost every commercial and most programming-  http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Environment/Consumerism/  http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Lifestyle_Choices/Voluntary_Simplicity/ http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Holidays/Christmas/Opinions/Social_and_Economic/  Protests Against …

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This is going to pretty pretty dry and involve numbers- if you like that stuff , you might  do better than I at deciphering what these codes mean- We try to boycott certain places for political and other reasons, but  it is not a guarantee when we avoid  products marked with THAT code, that we …

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The Archdiocese of New York has apparently just released new coloring book for kids, all about how to be safe in an age of fear and predation. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2007/12/12/notes121207.DTL&o=0         Fear of  this is why my oldest son never got baptized.  The Roman Catholic  priest  wouldn’t do it when he was an infant …

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http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/food/2007/12/06/2007-12-06_balduccis_offers_ham_for_chanukah.html “I just thought it was funny,” Shapiro, a self-described “unobservant Jew,” said. “I wasn’t offended in any way. I just thought, here’s somebody who knows nothing about what Jews eat.” Shapiro said that when she went back to the store Tuesday, the first night of Chanukah, the signs had vanished. A Balducci’s official was …

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2007/12/11/MN4ITQULT.DTL http://www.surfline.com/video/video_player/video_player.cfm?id=12653&mv=ncl Master surfer cheats death in biggest swell of season at Maverick’s Riding the Waves at Mavericks, SF coast, these guys are nuts. “Definitely the worst wipeout I’ve seen,” said photographer Frank Quirarte, whose stunning still images (more on http://www.mavsurfer.com) captured a session not even visible for fog-shrouded spectators on land. “There was a …

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http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2007/12/10/4716451-sun.html http://www.paulfromm.com/ http://www.canadafirst.net/ http://www.canadianheritagealliance.com/ http://www.canadianfreespeech.com/homepage.html Two of Canada’s leaders on opposite sides of the Internet hate debate — Ottawa anti-racism lawyer Richard Warman and controversial Toronto teacher Paul Fromm — plan to go toe to toe in a hearing room in Toronto. The twist: Warman just won a $30,000 libel suit against Fromm. Besides owing …

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(for some reason the links aren’t ‘live’ but you can copy and paste them into your browsers address bar) You probably were aware that life sucks for Palestinians, but maybe you didn’t know it was getting worse. Occupied Palestine (AKA artificial land of Israel) denies or delays medical care , even children die just because …

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Pic from movie Brothers Grimm, whose stories I will be reading/recording soon- This time, reading stories by Hans Christian Andersen, hope you enjoy http://www.savefile.com/files/1240295 Little Match Girl http://www.savefile.com/files/1240309 Children’s Prattle http://www.savefile.com/files/1240304 Delaying is not forgetting

Omar Barghouti:  No State Has the Right to Exist as a Racist State http://www.voltairenet.org/article153536.html  Excerpts from the  article After September 11th, Israel became much more belligerent and now really cares little about international opinion. During the seventies and eighties, even into the nineties, Israel was extremely sensitive to western public opinion. In the twenty-first century …

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http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/latest-world-news/2007/12/07/kiefer-sutherland-chooses-christmas-in-jail-91466-20215905/  http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/kiefermug1.html This is your second DUI!  Straighten up and fly right, K.  I had a thing for Kiefer since before Lost Boys, now I find out the guy is prob an alkie. Makes me sad. As does the new movie starring his brother, described below. I have not seen it, nor do I intend to after reading …

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Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fIFa9RcCmI Some movies not classfied as horror actually are. The Woodsman is one of these . The title apparently stems from the Little Red Riding Hood  tale, where the woodsman saves her from the big, bad wolf, but in this movie, they try to convince you the wolf can sometimes redeem himself and turn into …

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 Someone tell me what the BP’s were protesting anyway? It’s not like anyone was dragged from a truck here, the ones who got shot and killed were  breaking and entering into private property, probably to steal (or worse).  Is it now not “PC” to protect yourself?  I don’t get why the BP would involve themselves in this just because …

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Vassilis Saleas & Mikis Theodorakis – Litany 23 March 1999 | FM Records | Contemporary Instrumental – New Age |  01. Prologue 01:21 02. Dakrysmena matia (Weeping Eyes) 02:58 03. Meneksedenia Ta Vouna (The Violent Coloured Mountains) 05:25 04. An Thimithis Toneiro Mou (The Honeymoon Song) 04:28 05. Omorfi Poli (Beautiful City) 03:02 06. Oloi …

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More fairy tales-  or are they? you might have to  go to the original link  below ,as some of the copied links may not transfer directly- http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/antisemitic.html The Jews’ Stone (Austria) Link to the original text: Der Judenstein, Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, Deutsche Sagen, Nr. 353 Link to a well documented study of the blood …

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