Disclaimer:
I apologize in advance if you don't like what you are about to read. I am normally a nice...well...I am normally a reasonable, woman. :D But today, I don't really want to be PC.
The Rant:
I am a studio designer. These are my questions as I read a blog that I really like, but was thrown off because she is knocking studio and home based designers.
What if I don't want to have a bucket shop?
What if I do and I just can't afford it now in this economy?
What if retail space is almost $10k in my area?
Does this make me less of a designer than you?
What if I freelance for other studios and floral shops and I like working my own events and want to set my own hours.
What if I charge $100 for my basic bridal bouquets, and you charge $300..should I adjust? Or should you?
What if I have worked for bucket shops and their stuff is garbage and they hire me to do some stuff that I can't put my name on or document because they get the cred?
What if I my flowers were published but I couldn't get the cred because I was technically working for studio and moonlighting at the same time?
What if I am better in my baby stages than you are in your 10th or 16th year?
What if your business model sucks and you aren't competitive because of your overhead and it sucks to be you right now?
What if, hehe, what if you can't be competitive because you pay other designers to make your designs because you and your flowers are dated....
*sigh* that was the one that made me feel better to type.
So now I'm coming back to happy land.
Just do me a favor, don't knock our hustle.
You don't know what we are up to, but we are coming. :)
Hitting publish before I change my mind.
Monday, August 31, 2009
AS SEEN ON TV: JACQUELINE SUSANN, TWICE
From Monument Valley to "The Valley Of The Dolls".... 
To make a complete break from our August theme of TV Westerns, the "As Seen On TV" showcase begins September with a look at Jacqueline Susann. And on top of that, it's "Two For Tuesday"!
"Isn't She Great?"
AS PLAYED BY:
Bette Midler
She's seen in that last picture with Irving Mansfield, her husband (played by Nathan Lane).
Michelle Lee also played the author with a more glamorous and more scandalous flair in another TV movie....
"Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story"
AS PLAYED BY:
Michelle Lee
I have no clue who the woman - or the actress playing her - could be in that near-kiss picture......
BCnU!
To make a complete break from our August theme of TV Westerns, the "As Seen On TV" showcase begins September with a look at Jacqueline Susann. And on top of that, it's "Two For Tuesday"!JACQUELINE SUSANN
AS SEEN IN:"Isn't She Great?"
AS PLAYED BY:Bette Midler
She's seen in that last picture with Irving Mansfield, her husband (played by Nathan Lane).Michelle Lee also played the author with a more glamorous and more scandalous flair in another TV movie....
JACQUELINE SUSANN
AS SEEN IN:"Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story"
AS PLAYED BY:
Michelle Lee
I have no clue who the woman - or the actress playing her - could be in that near-kiss picture......BCnU!
The End Of The Line
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
AS SEEN ON TV II: DODGE CITY
After today's "As Seen On TV" showcase loaded up, something gnawed at me that it was wrong; and a nap finally sorted out my post-vacation mind - "As Seen On TV" should feature historical figures as they're portrayed in Toobworld. Just because Commander McBragg was wearing cowboy duds that doesn't qualify him to be presented, even if August was a our month to salute the TV Western.So to mollify the situation - probably only of concern to me! - here's Dodge City, Kansas, as seen in the Tooniverse in that same "Dodge City Dodge" cartoon; one last location for the TV Western salute.....
First up, the bank:
Then we have one of the town bars, of which I'm sure there were several:
This is the Cactus Cafeteria: 
And for a touch of the politically incorrect, here's a behind the scenes look in the kitchen: 
Here's a shot of the main street, as Commander McBragg faced off against all of the town's blackguards: 
And off in the distance, that's the water tower which proved instrumental in the Commander's cleaning up of Dodge: 
There. That should settle the score.....BCnU!
W.N.I.D.?: T.S.R.: Rained Out
Mongo has had a tough go of it on the bike since last Monday's Hammerfest. The weather, along with my work schedule, has only allowed me about seventy miles in the saddle. Luckily, I went out early Saturday morning just in case it was going to rain yesterday...and it did.
Tonight is the final 23/2300 Hammerfest of the Summer season. The weather is clear, and there are still positions up for grabs, so Mongo is expecting a huge turnout. It has been an extremely enjoyable Summer of "Festing". My fitness and skill levels are at an all time high, so I'm planning on seeing this last one out with a bang...Stay tuned for the race report!
The Stink Is Gone: "Slappy" Wins
At least the National Champion's jersey won't smell like doping, shame, and embarrassment for the next twelve months.
(Photo:Jon Devich/CyclingNews)
Avast! Can ye not see him? It's the White Whale, boys!
Ed Morrissey, the tireless commentator over at Hot Air breaks the day's news with this startling bulletin on The Chief Pantload's Rasmussen numbers:If Barack Obama thought he could ride sympathy over the death of Ted Kennedy to new support for his legislative agenda, the latest Rasmussen polling will throw cold water on that hope. Overall approval for Obama has now reached 46%, with 53% disapproving. Strong disapproval now comes within five points of overall approval, almost within the margin of error.Several thoughts come to mind, principally, that this is indeed rich! And so-o-o-o-o appropriate considering “Dead Ted’s” downfall — his “underwater index” — came about because he..ahem..left someone under water.
Cj, over at The Illustrated Conservative has a terrific entry on Kennedy and second on what a free pass this guy got for all of his indiscretions. Pay particular attention to the chronicle of actions after Kennedy abandoned Mary Jo Kopechne in his submerged Oldsmobile. Also, a must-read is this searing 1990 GQ article.
..it's not that we don't like this guy, it's just that we feel that he ought to check out with all of the baggage he has been carrying over the years.
Notebook: Photos of Resistance
Photos by Brenda Norrell: Jose Matus, Yaqui, in the Zapatistas stronghold in the mountains of Chiapas, Indigenous delegation to Chiapas 1995. Photo 2: Riley, Choctaw from Oklahoma, marching in Tucson and remembering the victims of the Acteal massacre in Chiapas. Photo 3: Filmmakers Chris Eyre and Norman Brown at Sundance Film Festival.Tar Sands: Obama failing promises on global warming
Message:
Reversing this permit is key.
Tar sands-based gasoline is expected to have a very significantly higher greenhouse gas impact than normal gasoline, probably putting it on a par or worse than coal, due to all the extra energy required. The tar sands development process itself is like combining open-pit mining with petroleum refining, "cooking" sediment to release the fuel. It destroys ecosystems.
President Obama made some strong statements against global warming earlier this year on a visit to Canada. Unfortunately, the Administration did not follow through.
Contact http://www.whitehouse.gov/contactand ask the Administration to reverse the Enbridge Energy/Alberta Clipper pipeline permit decision, denying a tar sands pipeline.
---------In a decision issued on August 19th, Leech Lake Tribal Court Judge BJ Jones declined an attempt by Enbridge LLC to keep members of the Leech Lake tribe from voting on Enbridge’s contract with the Leech Lake Council. The decision keeps alive a David versus Goliath lawsuit between members of the Leech Lake tribe and Enbridge LLC.
The previous week, Leech Lake tribal members went to court to seek an injunction to revoke permission for Enbridge Energy Company to build its pipeline on Leech Lake Tribal land.
"Controversial Enbridge pipeline permit sparks criticism in Canada, U.S.
By CAROL CHRISTIAN,
Today staff
The U.S. presidential permit granted Thursday for Enbridge's controversial Alberta Clipper pipeline has launched environmental protests on both sides of the border, with opponents vowing a legal challenge.
According to a coalition of environmental and Native American groups, the decision goes against U.S. President Barack Obama's promise to cut global warming pollution and America's addition to oil while investing in clean energy.
The groups — Earthjustice and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy as well as the Canadian and American offices of the Sierra Club and the Indigenous Environmental Network — have vowed to challenge the decision in court.
In addition, the indigenous network based in Minnesota is looking into the validity of the permit, as it wasn't signed by Hillary Clinton, U.S. secretary of state, as required. Marty Cobenais of the network said it was signed ..." (30 August 2009)
More information at: http://www.ienearth.org/tarsandscampaign_stopenbridgeoilpipeline.html
Reversing this permit is key.
Tar sands-based gasoline is expected to have a very significantly higher greenhouse gas impact than normal gasoline, probably putting it on a par or worse than coal, due to all the extra energy required. The tar sands development process itself is like combining open-pit mining with petroleum refining, "cooking" sediment to release the fuel. It destroys ecosystems.
President Obama made some strong statements against global warming earlier this year on a visit to Canada. Unfortunately, the Administration did not follow through.
Contact http://www.whitehouse.gov/contactand ask the Administration to reverse the Enbridge Energy/Alberta Clipper pipeline permit decision, denying a tar sands pipeline.
---------In a decision issued on August 19th, Leech Lake Tribal Court Judge BJ Jones declined an attempt by Enbridge LLC to keep members of the Leech Lake tribe from voting on Enbridge’s contract with the Leech Lake Council. The decision keeps alive a David versus Goliath lawsuit between members of the Leech Lake tribe and Enbridge LLC.
The previous week, Leech Lake tribal members went to court to seek an injunction to revoke permission for Enbridge Energy Company to build its pipeline on Leech Lake Tribal land.
"Controversial Enbridge pipeline permit sparks criticism in Canada, U.S.
By CAROL CHRISTIAN,
Today staff
The U.S. presidential permit granted Thursday for Enbridge's controversial Alberta Clipper pipeline has launched environmental protests on both sides of the border, with opponents vowing a legal challenge.
According to a coalition of environmental and Native American groups, the decision goes against U.S. President Barack Obama's promise to cut global warming pollution and America's addition to oil while investing in clean energy.
The groups — Earthjustice and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy as well as the Canadian and American offices of the Sierra Club and the Indigenous Environmental Network — have vowed to challenge the decision in court.
In addition, the indigenous network based in Minnesota is looking into the validity of the permit, as it wasn't signed by Hillary Clinton, U.S. secretary of state, as required. Marty Cobenais of the network said it was signed ..." (30 August 2009)
More information at: http://www.ienearth.org/tarsandscampaign_stopenbridgeoilpipeline.html
Sunday, August 30, 2009
AS SEEN ON TV: COMMANDER McBRAGG
Vacation is over and today is the last day of our Western theme for the "As Seen On TV" showcase. So let's close it out with a bit of fun......
In "Dodge City Dodge", Commander McBragg (a notorious liar and teller of tall tales about himself) told how he helped Wyatt Earp clean up Dodge City by flushing out all of the vilains of the day - like Billy the Kid and the Dalton gang.
I'd show you what those outlaws looked like in that cartoon, but I've got to save something for next August, don't I?
BCnU!
COMMANDER McBRAGG
AS SEEN IN:
'Underdog'
AS PLAYED BY:
Kenny Delmar [voice]
In "Dodge City Dodge", Commander McBragg (a notorious liar and teller of tall tales about himself) told how he helped Wyatt Earp clean up Dodge City by flushing out all of the vilains of the day - like Billy the Kid and the Dalton gang.I'd show you what those outlaws looked like in that cartoon, but I've got to save something for next August, don't I?
BCnU!Vintage Plastic Jewelry Box
A find from the weekend's thrifting . . . this pretty box. I will use it for my desk to hold paper clips and such.
Love Letter
I have been without a home desk for far too long. I've taken to carrying most, if not all, of my paperwork with me back and forth to work. Why, I have no clue. It's not like I have hours on end during the work day to tackle home bills or organizing personal files. We have a computer table in the craft room with a file cabinet (which holds the printer), but that space isn't designated mommy space. And so this past week I rearranged a bit, moving the seafoam green chest of drawers from the ken into the living room, replacing the typing table behind the sofa with the maple tea cart, and relegating the typing table to the ken to become my own personal space (I also moved my file cabinet out to the ken, putting the printer onto a small chest of drawers in the craft room). I can't tell you how liberating it was. All my stuff in one place. Instead of taking up valuable desk space with a lamp, I brought a floor lamp out from the bedroom. And hung this beautiful "Love Letter" from papaya art on the light switch. Here are some of the beautiful letters in the collection:
Notebook: Photos of Native American Resistance
Photos by Brenda Norrell: Photo 1: Cordell Tulley and Earl Tulley at Roberta Blackgoat's home in Cactus Valley near Big Mountain, waiting for the threatened forced relocation of Navajos and arrival of agents. The sign: "Sue the Creator." Photo 2: Ulali with Oneida comedian Charlie Hill and Hopi/Navajo photographer Larry Gus on Alcatraz. Photo 3: Whale jaws: Navajo filmmaker Arlene Bowman on Seri land on the coast of Sonora, Mexico, during a gathering to uphold fishing rights of Indigenous fishermen. Photo 1: Feb. 1, 2000: Deadline Day
BIG MOUNTAIN, Ariz. -- On the morning when Kee Watchman and Roberta Blackgoat were officially declared in trespass in their own homes in this rugged canyon country, they sat by an open cookfire together and placed their faith and fate solely in the Creator.
Placing his hand firmly on his heart, Watchman said, "In my feelings in my heart, from the bottom of my heart, it doesn't feel like eviction is going to happen."
"Traditional Hopi told us don't ever take what the government offers us, and don't ever leave the land. They said if we do, 'That will be it. Black Mesa will not be safe.'
On the short wave radio at Blackgoat's stonehouse in the remote Cactus Valley area of Big Mountain, Navajo resisters were linked with Floyd Westerman and addressed a relocation protest at a federal building in San Francisco.
-- Brenda Norrell, Feb. 1, 2000
In memory of Roberta Blackgoat, Kee Watchman and Floyd Westerman.
MORE PHOTOS:
MNN: Capitalist moral reality
CAPITALIST MORAL REALITY
Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknatinnews.com
MNN. Aug. 13, 2009. Capitalism is based on a few ruling elite exploiting Indigenous land, stealing our resources and enslaving everybody. The worldwide economic melt down shows that people are resisting. They want something new, not a system of privilege for a few.
Capitalism does not meet human needs. It is breaking down. The oligarchs want to avoid losses. Violent struggles are breaking out. They scream the need for an international government in the hands of a few to protect their interests.
This economic collapse came at the same time as when we Indigenous began to object to the decline, decay and extreme parasitism of these greedy oligarchs. We began to resist the destruction of our environment, the dissolution of social programs, jobs and our lives.
The oligarchs do not work. They treat workers like slaves. The capitalists sit back and take at least 40% of the profit. The economy has gotten smaller with less to make, take or share. To keep money coming in, the capitalists moved companies to third world or off-shore locations to exploit cheaper labor. For a time the profits increased by reducing the cost, making more products and not raising the prices. Microsoft and Walmart used cheap labor in China.
The US encouraged spending on credit. Buying and selling increases the value of the share but not the value of the asset.
The real value of a house might be $150,000. The market inflates it to $500,000. The banks, insurance and other middle men pocket the difference of $350,000 by passing the property around and bailing each other out as if it’s a $500,000 asset. If the owner defaults on the mortgage, they foreclose on the loan and seize the house. They make money without investing a cent!
The European bourgeoisie ran world finances after WWI. After WWII global stabilization relied on the bankers to manipulate Indigenous resources. Europe and Japan became dominant through higher technology and superior production methods. The US dollar became the international currency based on $35 per oz. of gold. In 1971 it collapsed when Nixon suspended the gold standard. The U.S dollar was treated as if it was gold and became the world currency. The U.S. has deteriorated in the world economy and the dollar is now declining in value.
Mergers and acquisitions created monopolies with control in the hands of a few. A company was taken over and then put out of business, to eliminate competition and to control the market. The financiers make money in the process. Then they use the profits to buy other companies. The emphasis is on short term gain for themselves rather than long term good for the people. The taxpayers are forced to cover the fall out.
Companies pretend to own Indigenous resources. Our land and resources are put up as collateral to gouge money from the public on the stock exchange. This is fraud. Then the oligarchs pocket the money.
The capitalist system is parasitic and corrupt. The middle class have been impoverished. Workers pension schemes are being bankrupt and robbed to impoverish us in our old age. Medicare may not be around for us.
Today monopolies want unionized workers to accept a two-tier working condition and pension system, one for the older generation and another for the newly hired. The capitalists want the new workers to lower their standard of living, work harder and longer for no benefits and less money. Millions of desperate displaced workers are being created into an army of migrant slaves without any rights.
Private ownership of production and wealth is in a clash with the real needs of society. The old oligarchs are desperately clinging to their class privilege. They are obstructing sensible solutions because it would undermine their wealth, status and desires. They have control of the money, government, state machinery, army, police and prisons.
The world needs to be transformed into another level of consciousness. The resources have to be preserved and everybody has to be equitably looked after. The U.S. is falling behind. This is leading to fierce competition which could lead to war. People need to demand an anti-war government.
The strategy of corporate raiders is lay offs, union busting, wage cuts and reducing benefits to control the wealth and the people. Capitalism’s downfall will lead to violent political convulsions, dictatorships, rampant militarism, fascism and, maybe, war.
We Indigenous must stop the looting of our resources. The true custodians of the land and resources have a rich political history that is based on everybody being equal, having a voice and a concensus on how we shall proceed. The Great Law is a true democracy based on our relationship with the natural world and preserving the environment. The time will soon be here where we will have to look after each other. Stock up and grow gardens!
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Note: Your financial help is needed and appreciated. Please send your donations by check or money order to “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Or go to PayPal on website. Nia:wen thank you very much. Go to MNN “World” category for more stories; New MNN Books Available now!
Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknatinnews.com
MNN. Aug. 13, 2009. Capitalism is based on a few ruling elite exploiting Indigenous land, stealing our resources and enslaving everybody. The worldwide economic melt down shows that people are resisting. They want something new, not a system of privilege for a few.
Capitalism does not meet human needs. It is breaking down. The oligarchs want to avoid losses. Violent struggles are breaking out. They scream the need for an international government in the hands of a few to protect their interests.
This economic collapse came at the same time as when we Indigenous began to object to the decline, decay and extreme parasitism of these greedy oligarchs. We began to resist the destruction of our environment, the dissolution of social programs, jobs and our lives.
The oligarchs do not work. They treat workers like slaves. The capitalists sit back and take at least 40% of the profit. The economy has gotten smaller with less to make, take or share. To keep money coming in, the capitalists moved companies to third world or off-shore locations to exploit cheaper labor. For a time the profits increased by reducing the cost, making more products and not raising the prices. Microsoft and Walmart used cheap labor in China.
The US encouraged spending on credit. Buying and selling increases the value of the share but not the value of the asset.
The real value of a house might be $150,000. The market inflates it to $500,000. The banks, insurance and other middle men pocket the difference of $350,000 by passing the property around and bailing each other out as if it’s a $500,000 asset. If the owner defaults on the mortgage, they foreclose on the loan and seize the house. They make money without investing a cent!
The European bourgeoisie ran world finances after WWI. After WWII global stabilization relied on the bankers to manipulate Indigenous resources. Europe and Japan became dominant through higher technology and superior production methods. The US dollar became the international currency based on $35 per oz. of gold. In 1971 it collapsed when Nixon suspended the gold standard. The U.S dollar was treated as if it was gold and became the world currency. The U.S. has deteriorated in the world economy and the dollar is now declining in value.
Mergers and acquisitions created monopolies with control in the hands of a few. A company was taken over and then put out of business, to eliminate competition and to control the market. The financiers make money in the process. Then they use the profits to buy other companies. The emphasis is on short term gain for themselves rather than long term good for the people. The taxpayers are forced to cover the fall out.
Companies pretend to own Indigenous resources. Our land and resources are put up as collateral to gouge money from the public on the stock exchange. This is fraud. Then the oligarchs pocket the money.
The capitalist system is parasitic and corrupt. The middle class have been impoverished. Workers pension schemes are being bankrupt and robbed to impoverish us in our old age. Medicare may not be around for us.
Today monopolies want unionized workers to accept a two-tier working condition and pension system, one for the older generation and another for the newly hired. The capitalists want the new workers to lower their standard of living, work harder and longer for no benefits and less money. Millions of desperate displaced workers are being created into an army of migrant slaves without any rights.
Private ownership of production and wealth is in a clash with the real needs of society. The old oligarchs are desperately clinging to their class privilege. They are obstructing sensible solutions because it would undermine their wealth, status and desires. They have control of the money, government, state machinery, army, police and prisons.
The world needs to be transformed into another level of consciousness. The resources have to be preserved and everybody has to be equitably looked after. The U.S. is falling behind. This is leading to fierce competition which could lead to war. People need to demand an anti-war government.
The strategy of corporate raiders is lay offs, union busting, wage cuts and reducing benefits to control the wealth and the people. Capitalism’s downfall will lead to violent political convulsions, dictatorships, rampant militarism, fascism and, maybe, war.
We Indigenous must stop the looting of our resources. The true custodians of the land and resources have a rich political history that is based on everybody being equal, having a voice and a concensus on how we shall proceed. The Great Law is a true democracy based on our relationship with the natural world and preserving the environment. The time will soon be here where we will have to look after each other. Stock up and grow gardens!
Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Note: Your financial help is needed and appreciated. Please send your donations by check or money order to “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Or go to PayPal on website. Nia:wen thank you very much. Go to MNN “World” category for more stories; New MNN Books Available now!
CUE UP JACKSON'S "BAD".....
From the BBC website:Michael Jackson's death was homicide, primarily caused by the powerful anaesthetic Propofol, the Los Angeles coroner has confirmed.
The singer suffered a cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home in June, aged 50.
Propofol and the sedative Lorazepam were the "primary drugs responsible for Mr Jackson's death", but four further drugs were also found, the report said.
Yes, it's crudely made, and oh so wrong. But as Eddie Murphy once said on 'Saturday Night Live' - "It's funny, so who cares?"
BCnU....
BCnU....
Cicero and the Great Law
CICERO AND THE GREAT LAW -
Mohawk Nation News
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MNN. Aug. 24, 2009. History repeats itself. As Cicero said [106-43 BC], “A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less dangerous, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the people. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor doesn’t appear like a traitor. They speak in the accents familiar to their victims. They wear their face and their clothes and appeal to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of their people. They rot the soul of a nation. They work secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a community. They infect the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."
Sounds like the colonial band and tribal council system set up by the invaders, which violates the Great Law, our constitution and philosophy. The only legal national governments on Great Turtle Island are those of the Indigenous Peoples. Those band or tribal councilors secretly negotiating with these pirates are committing treason [Great Law, Wampum 58].
At the near empty U.S. border crossing on the south shore a few trucks sit while cars cross the bridge.
The Canadian border mobsters have left Akwesasne for good. The temporary checkpoint tent set up by the Canadian Border Services Agency CBSA sits on a small sliver of Akwesasne land. These robber barons sit around waiting to pounce on passers-by to confiscate money and favors.
The old abandoned Canada customs house in the middle of Kawenoke on Cornwall Island rests empty, boarded up like those foreclosed homes and businesses caused by capitalist corruption. It has a lonely sign telling us to proceed slowly. Spiders, raccoons, ants, birds, bats, coyotes, foxes and mice are sniffing around waiting to start making permanent homes. Vines and natural growth are already starting to envelope the buildings. As time goes on, this and other imperial neo-con infra structures will crumble and mother nature will take over. Great Turtle Island will once again look like a garden burying colonial ghosts. The portable checkpoint looks like those quickie cardboard stolen goods salestables on the sidewalks of Time Square.
This posse wants us to come across from the US side of Akwesasne, drive over the bridge, go through Kawenoke and over the bridge to Cornwall. Then they want us to check in with them so they can extort something and let us cross the bridge back to our homes in Kawenoke. Few actually do it. Everybody knows the checkpoints of these two invading entities are legal. Our law predominates on Great Turtle Island. [Read the Mohawk Manifesto].
On August 13th at the Canadian border tent eight Mohawks were pulled over, handcuffed and arrested. One was charged with running the port in a previous lifetime. They were kept in a compound without food or water. One was seven months pregnant. One managed to use his cell phone, “They’re detaining us”, he yelled.
The goons got angry at the detainees for speaking Mohawk. They supposedly had just finished taking cultural sensitivity training, which seems to be making them oversensitive to us. They could learn to politely say SEGO, ONEN and NIA:WEN? They probably want a law making Mohawk at the border a criminal offence.
A group of elders and people went over to see what was going on. The border goons refused to let them see the detainees. Natalie the Liar came out and told us, “Believe me, believe me”, two have been sent to Ottawa, two to the RCMP holding station and two to Cornwall. It wasn’t true.
Eventually the detainees were charged with “hindrance”, or not smiling or something, and released at 1 am, except for the one who supposedly ran the imaginary line.
In the North Shore Claim Mohawks want the land back and refuse money. The Canadian band council puppets want money. CBSA knows they will soon have to break camp and move again.
Trying to confuse the issue are a few people who declare themselves to be natural human beings, not Mohawks. These hippie types are flashing around Egyptian symbols. They say we signed the preposterous Camel Hair Treaty of 409 AD that brought down the Roman Empire!! They even carry new age camel hair identity cards. Shouldn’t they be on stone tablets? They tell us the Moors were here before us. A few of our people are being recruited to become mindless flakes to eliminate Ongwehonwe thinking. These preachers gave up and incite others to give up.
We Mohawks have a responsibility to assert our inherent relationship on Great Turtle Island and to uphold the Great Law. Those adhering to foreign doctrines are committing espionage, conspiracy and treason.
Our birthright cannot be blurred by cult followers or anyone else. Such false prophets and their illusions might be sent in to disrupt, demoralize and confuse us. We should rely on ourselves, our own laws, our language and our relationships that we can substantiate.
These foreign fantasies are trying to overshadow what we know, touch, feel and see. It’s meant to stop us from working in harmony with each other, the natural world and the Great Law.
To stop the CBSA from coming in, we need to keep our fire going and to erect a building. To help, please contact akwpeoplesfire@bell.net 613-937-1813 613-937-1813.Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Note: Your financial help is needed and appreciated. Please send your donations by check or money order to “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Or go to PayPal on website. Nia:wen thank you very much. Go to MNN “BORDER” and “AKWESASNE” categories for more stories; New MNN Books Available now! Purchase t-shirts, mugs and more at our CafePressStore http://www.cafepress.com/mohawknews; Subscribe to MNN for breaking news updates http://.mohawknationnews.com/news/subscription.php; Sign Women Title Holders petition! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Iroquois
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MNN. Aug. 24, 2009. History repeats itself. As Cicero said [106-43 BC], “A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less dangerous, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the people. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor doesn’t appear like a traitor. They speak in the accents familiar to their victims. They wear their face and their clothes and appeal to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of their people. They rot the soul of a nation. They work secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a community. They infect the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."
Sounds like the colonial band and tribal council system set up by the invaders, which violates the Great Law, our constitution and philosophy. The only legal national governments on Great Turtle Island are those of the Indigenous Peoples. Those band or tribal councilors secretly negotiating with these pirates are committing treason [Great Law, Wampum 58].
At the near empty U.S. border crossing on the south shore a few trucks sit while cars cross the bridge.
The Canadian border mobsters have left Akwesasne for good. The temporary checkpoint tent set up by the Canadian Border Services Agency CBSA sits on a small sliver of Akwesasne land. These robber barons sit around waiting to pounce on passers-by to confiscate money and favors.
The old abandoned Canada customs house in the middle of Kawenoke on Cornwall Island rests empty, boarded up like those foreclosed homes and businesses caused by capitalist corruption. It has a lonely sign telling us to proceed slowly. Spiders, raccoons, ants, birds, bats, coyotes, foxes and mice are sniffing around waiting to start making permanent homes. Vines and natural growth are already starting to envelope the buildings. As time goes on, this and other imperial neo-con infra structures will crumble and mother nature will take over. Great Turtle Island will once again look like a garden burying colonial ghosts. The portable checkpoint looks like those quickie cardboard stolen goods salestables on the sidewalks of Time Square.
This posse wants us to come across from the US side of Akwesasne, drive over the bridge, go through Kawenoke and over the bridge to Cornwall. Then they want us to check in with them so they can extort something and let us cross the bridge back to our homes in Kawenoke. Few actually do it. Everybody knows the checkpoints of these two invading entities are legal. Our law predominates on Great Turtle Island. [Read the Mohawk Manifesto].
On August 13th at the Canadian border tent eight Mohawks were pulled over, handcuffed and arrested. One was charged with running the port in a previous lifetime. They were kept in a compound without food or water. One was seven months pregnant. One managed to use his cell phone, “They’re detaining us”, he yelled.
The goons got angry at the detainees for speaking Mohawk. They supposedly had just finished taking cultural sensitivity training, which seems to be making them oversensitive to us. They could learn to politely say SEGO, ONEN and NIA:WEN? They probably want a law making Mohawk at the border a criminal offence.
A group of elders and people went over to see what was going on. The border goons refused to let them see the detainees. Natalie the Liar came out and told us, “Believe me, believe me”, two have been sent to Ottawa, two to the RCMP holding station and two to Cornwall. It wasn’t true.
Eventually the detainees were charged with “hindrance”, or not smiling or something, and released at 1 am, except for the one who supposedly ran the imaginary line.
In the North Shore Claim Mohawks want the land back and refuse money. The Canadian band council puppets want money. CBSA knows they will soon have to break camp and move again.
Trying to confuse the issue are a few people who declare themselves to be natural human beings, not Mohawks. These hippie types are flashing around Egyptian symbols. They say we signed the preposterous Camel Hair Treaty of 409 AD that brought down the Roman Empire!! They even carry new age camel hair identity cards. Shouldn’t they be on stone tablets? They tell us the Moors were here before us. A few of our people are being recruited to become mindless flakes to eliminate Ongwehonwe thinking. These preachers gave up and incite others to give up.
We Mohawks have a responsibility to assert our inherent relationship on Great Turtle Island and to uphold the Great Law. Those adhering to foreign doctrines are committing espionage, conspiracy and treason.
Our birthright cannot be blurred by cult followers or anyone else. Such false prophets and their illusions might be sent in to disrupt, demoralize and confuse us. We should rely on ourselves, our own laws, our language and our relationships that we can substantiate.
These foreign fantasies are trying to overshadow what we know, touch, feel and see. It’s meant to stop us from working in harmony with each other, the natural world and the Great Law.
To stop the CBSA from coming in, we need to keep our fire going and to erect a building. To help, please contact akwpeoplesfire@bell.net 613-937-1813 613-937-1813.Kahentinetha MNN Mohawk Nation News, www.mohawknationnews.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com Note: Your financial help is needed and appreciated. Please send your donations by check or money order to “MNN Mohawk Nation News”, Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0. Or go to PayPal on website. Nia:wen thank you very much. Go to MNN “BORDER” and “AKWESASNE” categories for more stories; New MNN Books Available now! Purchase t-shirts, mugs and more at our CafePressStore http://www.cafepress.com/mohawknews; Subscribe to MNN for breaking news updates http://.mohawknationnews.com/news/subscription.php; Sign Women Title Holders petition! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Iroquois
BLOG ISLAND
Hey there, hi there, ho there!I'm back from vacation - didja miss me? I really did miss you - or at least, I missed filing Toobworld stories for your perusal. And thanks for the comments left about the 'Stories Of The Century' series that ran while I was gone.
I spent two weeks up at "the Lake", the place where I would spend my entire summers as a boy, with a mini-vacation in the middle: my brother Bill and I went to Block Island last weekend for four days to spend with our cousins. That proved to be a perfect get-away, even with the threat of Hurricane Bill's approach (which never materialized except in a stronger than usual surf).
All of the usual programming that I watch was relegated to the guardianship of my DVR, although if it didn't air until 10 pm, then I sometimes was able to catch it. I did catch the serial killer episode of 'The Closer', and there was no way I was going to miss either of the two episodes from the return of a favorite, 'Leverage'. And as it turns out, my cousin Marilee is a BIG fan of 'Mad Men' - she watched this season's second episode twice in a row, just to make sure she caught all the nuances in the dialogue. So I saw that, even before seeing the first episode of the third season!
When it came to TV, it was mostly live broadcasting that occupied me on vacation - by the end of the vacation, that meant coverage of the death of Senator Kennedy. While on Block Island, of course that meant a LOT of the Weather channel and local (R.I.) news programs for forecast updates on Hurricane Bill. But as I mentioned, that mostly passed us by. What little rain we experienced happened overnight on Saturday while we were all sleeping.
But I did bring a duffel bag full of DVDs with me to the Lake, just in case the weather did turn bad, or I got really bored. Here's what I watched:
"The Quare Fellow" - based on the Behan play, starring Patrick McGoohan and Sylvia Syms, with a small role played by a favorite character actor, Aubrey Morris.
'The Murdoch Mysteries' - the first in the series, from 2004, with Peter Outerbridge as Toronto-based Victorian detective William Murdoch and Keeley Hawes as the doctor/coroner. I'm eager now to continue with it, but not sure how I'll feel with the return of the series a few years later with a new actor. (Longtime readers know how I feel about recasting!)
[Both of those were from Netflix.]
"The Girl Most Likely To....." - a 1970's TV movie starring Stockard Channing and written by Joan Rivers. I remembered this fondly from that one time I saw it back then and was happy to see that it held up for the most part. Great supporting cast! (Ed Asner, Jim Backus, Chuck McCann, Carl Ballantine, Joe Flynn, Larry Willcox, Fred Grandy, Warren Berlinger, and a dear favorite, Ruth McDevitt.)
'Kingdom' (Season Two) - I don't know why Season One isn't currently available on DVD here in the States, but at least I saw that on public TV before I left. I was disappointed that the Honore story-line was dropped so abruptly, and too much time was spent on Simon's situation (although I did come to like the actor in the role). But Stephen Fry, as always, delighted as Peter Kingdom, and it's always a treat to discover a new Richard Briers role.
'Sherlock Holmes And The Leading Lady'
'The Incident At Victoria Falls'
Two Holmes mini-series, both with Christopher Lee and Patrick Macnee as Holmes and Watson in their golden years. Plenty to work with about alternate dimensions of Toobworld (especially with Macnee as a different Watson than the one he played in "Sherlock Holmes In New York"). But mostly there are the real-world characters who can be used for the "As Seen On TV" showcase, among them Emperor Franz Joseph, King Edward VI, Elliot Ness, Lillie Langtry, Sigmund Freud, and former President Teddy Roosevelt. (Teddy was played by Claude Akins, who also assayed the role in the fourth 'Gambler' mini-series, "Luck Of The Draw". But the two appearances are from different TV dimensions.)
"The Best Of Friends" - Since McGoohan passed away, I've watched this adaptation of the play at least five times; I never tire of it.
"Shadow Of The Thin Man"
"The Thin Man Goes Home"
"Song Of The Thin Man"
The Chief of Security at work will be happy to get these back tomorrow, I'm sure. I've only been holding on to them for months. Scattered among the casts were faves like Keenan Wynn, Harry Davenport, Lloyd Corrigan, and in the last movie, Dean Stockwell as Nick, Jr.! I only wish there was somebody out there in the movie biz like William Powell today.
One personal anecdote - when I was a teenager, I was watching some movie with one of my brothers and my Dad. I forget what it was, but the star was quite buxom and a real turn-on for me. (I think we all were thinking along the same lines.)
I asked my Dad during a commercial break who was the actress that he found the most exciting when he was my age and without hesitation, he replied "Myrna Loy".
I laughed, which pissed him off. But at the time, all I had to go on was her various motherly roles and a guest appearance on 'Columbo'. But having seen her in the "Thin Man" series, I can see why he thought so. She was beautiful, she was classy, and she could deliver a comedy line with zing. All turn-ons for me, as well.
There were also a lot of bootleg cartoon DVDs starring Underdog, Hekyll & Jekyll, Crusader Rabbit, and Fractured Fairy Tales for when my 4½ year old nephew showed up. I also showed him "The Empire Strikes Back", which got me into hot water with my sister when she found out. (Damned kid can't keep a secret and tells her everything. But at least he learned a new word from me: "betray".) I took the dressing-down without protest, but then I don't think it would have mattered had I told her that he barely watched it. Quite frankly, he was bored through most of it. Just when the one scene that did interest him started (the climactic light saber duel), we had to turn it off because She Who Must Be Obeyed returned to pick him up.
So anyhoo, that's what I watched while I was on vacation......
It may take me a few days to return to normal activities on the Inner Toob blog while I re-acclimate myself. But I did write a few posts while at the Lake and I'll spread those out over the week as I re-adjust.....
BCnU!
Saturday, August 29, 2009
AS SEEN ON TV: BELLE STARR
AS SEEN ON:'Stories Of The Century'
AS PLAYED BY:
Marie Winsdor
Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr, better known as Belle Starr , was a notorious American outlaw. She was murdered on February 3, 1889.
For the last two-plus years of her life, she took on a series of lovers with colorful names, including Jack Spaniard, Jim French and Blue Duck, after which, in order to keep her residence on Indian land, she married a relative of Sam Starr, Jim July Starr, who was some 15 years her junior.
On February 3, 1889, two days before her 41st brithday, the outlaw queen met her own tragic end. She was riding home from a neighbor's house when she was ambushed while eating a piece of cornbread. After she fell off her horse, she was shot again to make sure she was dead. Her death resulted from shotgun wounds to the back and neck and in the shoulder and face.
There were no witnesses and no one was ever convicted of the deadly crime. Suspects with apparent motive included her new husband and both of her children.
(from Wikipedia)
I thought it made for a nice coda on this theme to finish it off with one of the "ladies"....
BCnU!
A PASSING IN THE TOONIVERSE
Marty Murphy, a leading light behind "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" and 'Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home', has passed away.
Here's the report from Mark Evanier....
BCnU.....
Here's the report from Mark Evanier....
BCnU.....
Not Exactly The Toughest Field
Am I the only one who finds it statistically baffling, as well as fairly amusing, that the top three finishers in the US Cycling Pro TT Championships are named Zabriskie, Zirbel, and Zwizanski ?
(Photo:Trish Albert/CyclingNews)
Sundance Chief to fast at White House for Peltier
"Sundance Chief to Fast at White House in Honor of Leonard Peltier: Seeks meeting with President Obama"
Message:
As a result of Leonard Peltier's recent PAROLE DENIAL, Sundance Chief Ben Carnes, a member of the Choctaw Nation, will go to Washington, D.C.to stand & Fast in front of the White House between September 5 - 12, 2009, in hopes of securing a meeting with President Obama.
As a written, request for a meeting with President Obama made by The Leonard Peltier-Defense Offense Committee was denied earlier this year by the White House
We are also calling for a 24 - Hour, World Wide Birthday Vigil on September 11th , beginning at 8:45 AM through September 12th , 2009
Leonard Peltier has reached International celebrity, based upon critical questions surrounding his conviction in 1977 in the deaths of two FBI agents. Amnesty International has designated Peltier, as a Political Prisoner in which a U.S. prosecutor has admitted in court during an appeal hearing that he did not know who killed the agents and cannot prove who did. A federal judge who heard this statement was unable to afford any relief, wrote a letter to Sen. Inouye to ask the President to grant Clemency.
Message:
As a result of Leonard Peltier's recent PAROLE DENIAL, Sundance Chief Ben Carnes, a member of the Choctaw Nation, will go to Washington, D.C.to stand & Fast in front of the White House between September 5 - 12, 2009, in hopes of securing a meeting with President Obama.
As a written, request for a meeting with President Obama made by The Leonard Peltier-Defense Offense Committee was denied earlier this year by the White House
We are also calling for a 24 - Hour, World Wide Birthday Vigil on September 11th , beginning at 8:45 AM through September 12th , 2009
Leonard Peltier has reached International celebrity, based upon critical questions surrounding his conviction in 1977 in the deaths of two FBI agents. Amnesty International has designated Peltier, as a Political Prisoner in which a U.S. prosecutor has admitted in court during an appeal hearing that he did not know who killed the agents and cannot prove who did. A federal judge who heard this statement was unable to afford any relief, wrote a letter to Sen. Inouye to ask the President to grant Clemency.
Friday, August 28, 2009
AS SEEN ON TV: THE DALTON GANG
AS SEEN ON:'Stories Of The Century'
AS PLAYED BY:
Myron Healy as "Bob Dalton"
Fess Parker as "Great Dalton"
Robert Bray as "Emmett Dalton"
John Mooney as "Bill Dalton."
The Dalton Gang was an infamous outlaw group in the American Old West during 1890-1892. They specialized in bank and train robberies. They were related to the Younger brothers who rode with Jesse James, though they acted later and independently of the James-Younger Gang.
On October 5, 1892, the Dalton gang attempted this feat when they set out to rob the C.M. Condon & Company's Bank and the First National Bank in Coffeyville, Kansas. Since the locals were aware of what they looked like, they wore fake beards. But they were still identified by one of the townspeople.
While the gang was busy trying to hold up the banks, the people armed themselves and prepared for a gun battle. When the gang exited the banks, a shootout began.
There were three townspeople shot, and Town Marshal Charles Connelly was killed when he ran into the street after hearing gunfire, returning fire before he died killing one member of the gang. Great Dalton, Bob Dalton, Dick Broadwell and Bill Powers were killed. Bill Dalton had not been at Coffeyville, but there are legends that he was holding the horses in the alley and escaped when it all went to hell.
Emmett Dalton received 23 gunshot wounds and survived. He was given a life sentence in the Kansas penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, of which he served 14 years before being pardoned. He moved to California and became a real estate agent, author and actor, and died in 1937 at age 66.
(from Wikipedia)
BCnU!
Industrial Chic
I love it when couples are willing to try something new.
I love that someone wants to see what copper mesh and succulents would look like and mostly, I love creative freedom. :D
A while back I made a napkin ring holder that was a lotus pod made out of copper mesh and decorative wire. I liked it but I didn't have a place where I could show it off. I also wanted something to mix it with something sustainable and so I found the perfect union. I have a bunch of horsetail and succulents growing outside, and left over copper mesh and copper wire, so I suggested to a bride that was looking for something in green to consider the addition of copper.
I love that someone wants to see what copper mesh and succulents would look like and mostly, I love creative freedom. :D
A while back I made a napkin ring holder that was a lotus pod made out of copper mesh and decorative wire. I liked it but I didn't have a place where I could show it off. I also wanted something to mix it with something sustainable and so I found the perfect union. I have a bunch of horsetail and succulents growing outside, and left over copper mesh and copper wire, so I suggested to a bride that was looking for something in green to consider the addition of copper.
Here is what I call Industrial Chic.
This is a corsage with a matching boutonniere.
Here's a close up of the boutonniere, it's made out of equisetum and a small succulent with a copper mesh wound around it.
Hope you like!
This is a corsage with a matching boutonniere.
Here's a close up of the boutonniere, it's made out of equisetum and a small succulent with a copper mesh wound around it.
Hope you like!Last Minute Predictions
1. Schleck(A)
2. Valverde
3. Sanchez
4. Basso
5. Evans
6. Kreuziger
7. Schleck(F)
8. Devolder
9. Gesink
10. Vinokourov
Mount Rushmore: Anniversary of Occupation
Press contacts:
Quanah Parker Brightman- 510-672-7187
Gay Kingman 605-484-3036
Native Americans to gather in Keystone, South Dakota to Commemorate the 39th Year Anniversary of the Historic Invasion and Occupation of the ''National Shrine of Democracy' Mount Rushmore and to bring awareness to the importance of Protecting our Mother Earth & Demand Clemency For Leonard Peltier.
What: Gathering to Reclaim Sacred Sites & Freedom For Leonard Peltier When: Saturday August 29th, 10:00am to 3:00pm Where: Amphitheater, Mount Rushmore National Memorial Amphitheater, Keystone South Dakota Sponsors: United Americans Inc.(U.N.A)
August 29, 2009 marks the 39th anniversary of the historic Mount Rushmore Occupation of 1970. Native Americans representing groups from around the Country will gather to Demand President Obama to Return All Stolen Lands to the Indigenous People's of Turtle Island and To Free Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier after Over 33 Year's of Wrongful Incarceration. Our Mother Earth is a precious resource that has been and continues to be desecrated and abused for money and greed. Action must be taken NOW to save what few sacred sites indigenous people still have and return land that has been Illegally taken by the United States of America.
On August 29th 1970, a small group of young Indians invaded Mount Rushmore, the so-called ’national shrine of democracy' The invasion brought together Indians form different tribes and reservations who converged to help the Sioux Nation in their efforts to reclaim the sacred Black Hills and to force the Federal Government to be held accountable for the illegal taking of their Lands. At 7pm on August 29th, after eluding authorities, the group of young natives reached the top of the mountain near the four faces of the presidents where they hung a large flag with the words: SIOUX INDIAN POWER. The Paha Sapa-The Black Hills-is a sacred place for all Sioux People. It is where all Sioux life began,where our creation stories originate from 'The heart of everything that is'
United Native Americans is sponsoring the gathering and demanding that all sacred sites across turtle island be returned to the First Nations People of America, that The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 be Recognized and Honored by The United States of America. U.S. Courts have recognized the illegality of these actions and offer modest payments, but the Sioux Nation Remains determined to get the Black Hills Returned to Tribal Communities & To Demand Clemency for Leonard Peltier.
UNA inc. calls for President Obama to lead us into the future with an environment that is safe to live in with out having to wear a mask to step out side or to be fearful of the water we drink that pours out of our faucets. We call on the EPA to step up and stop the mass consumption of our natural resources for there will be No future for our mother earth….NO future for our children!
Climate scientists have clearly stated that we need to reduce our emissions by 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020, and 80-95% by 2050. If we do less than that, we risk crossing a tipping point that will bring about the worst impacts of global warming — devastating floods, droughts, wildfires, and storms.
Unfortunately, the House of Representatives recently passed a climate bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), that sets targets far below those mandated by science — largely because the fossil fuels industries were allowed a huge amount of influence in revising the legislation. The bill is so weak that it may actually spur a new generation of dirty coal and dangerous nuclear plants
Source: Eco Factory
Quanah Parker Brightman- 510-672-7187
Gay Kingman 605-484-3036
Native Americans to gather in Keystone, South Dakota to Commemorate the 39th Year Anniversary of the Historic Invasion and Occupation of the ''National Shrine of Democracy' Mount Rushmore and to bring awareness to the importance of Protecting our Mother Earth & Demand Clemency For Leonard Peltier.
What: Gathering to Reclaim Sacred Sites & Freedom For Leonard Peltier When: Saturday August 29th, 10:00am to 3:00pm Where: Amphitheater, Mount Rushmore National Memorial Amphitheater, Keystone South Dakota Sponsors: United Americans Inc.(U.N.A)
August 29, 2009 marks the 39th anniversary of the historic Mount Rushmore Occupation of 1970. Native Americans representing groups from around the Country will gather to Demand President Obama to Return All Stolen Lands to the Indigenous People's of Turtle Island and To Free Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier after Over 33 Year's of Wrongful Incarceration. Our Mother Earth is a precious resource that has been and continues to be desecrated and abused for money and greed. Action must be taken NOW to save what few sacred sites indigenous people still have and return land that has been Illegally taken by the United States of America.
On August 29th 1970, a small group of young Indians invaded Mount Rushmore, the so-called ’national shrine of democracy' The invasion brought together Indians form different tribes and reservations who converged to help the Sioux Nation in their efforts to reclaim the sacred Black Hills and to force the Federal Government to be held accountable for the illegal taking of their Lands. At 7pm on August 29th, after eluding authorities, the group of young natives reached the top of the mountain near the four faces of the presidents where they hung a large flag with the words: SIOUX INDIAN POWER. The Paha Sapa-The Black Hills-is a sacred place for all Sioux People. It is where all Sioux life began,where our creation stories originate from 'The heart of everything that is'
United Native Americans is sponsoring the gathering and demanding that all sacred sites across turtle island be returned to the First Nations People of America, that The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 be Recognized and Honored by The United States of America. U.S. Courts have recognized the illegality of these actions and offer modest payments, but the Sioux Nation Remains determined to get the Black Hills Returned to Tribal Communities & To Demand Clemency for Leonard Peltier.
UNA inc. calls for President Obama to lead us into the future with an environment that is safe to live in with out having to wear a mask to step out side or to be fearful of the water we drink that pours out of our faucets. We call on the EPA to step up and stop the mass consumption of our natural resources for there will be No future for our mother earth….NO future for our children!
Climate scientists have clearly stated that we need to reduce our emissions by 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020, and 80-95% by 2050. If we do less than that, we risk crossing a tipping point that will bring about the worst impacts of global warming — devastating floods, droughts, wildfires, and storms.
Unfortunately, the House of Representatives recently passed a climate bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), that sets targets far below those mandated by science — largely because the fossil fuels industries were allowed a huge amount of influence in revising the legislation. The bill is so weak that it may actually spur a new generation of dirty coal and dangerous nuclear plants
Source: Eco Factory
Hoax article: Placing blame on outsiders to build a power plant
The Washington Examiner attempts to blame outsiders for the protest against the proposed Desert Rock power plant. The article is void of the facts. It has always been Navajos living on the land who organized Dooda Desert Rock and are protesting.
The Washington Examiner's article is a typical spin article for the energy company.
The Washington Examiner's article is a typical spin article for the energy company.Photo 1: Four Corners power plant. Photo 2: Elouise Brown,
Navajo, coordinator, Dooda Desert Rock. Courtesy photo Dooda Desert Rock.
Today's hoax in the news comes from the Washington Examiner, which tries to place the blame for the protest against the Desert Rock power plant on outsiders. Don't be fooled by this article, it is actually the Navajos who live on the land in the area around Burnham
, N.M., on the Navajo Nation, that have always been leading this protest and occupying their homeland.
The scam article is typical of the articles in efforts to ramrod polluting industries in remote Indian areas. Either the article is directly paid for by the power plant planners, the result of backdoor deals, or the authors and the Washington Examiner just don't know their facts.
If the authors were to actually go out to the land and talk with the Navajos who live there, they would write an entirely different story. They would discover that the 88 Navajo councilmen and Navajo President Joe Shirley, pushing for this power plant, receive the bulk of their salaries and expense dollars from the revenues from disease producing industries on the Navajo Nation: Coal, power plants and oil and gas industries.
The Navajos who live on the land are sick and tired, and sick and dying, from the coal mining, power plants, oil and gas wells and radioactive uranium tailings that are already there. They don't want another power plant and organized the longstanding local protest: Dooda (NO) Desert Rock.
Blaming the outside "greens" in the hoax article appears to be an easy fix for the energy company, but it is not. It just magnifies the last ditch efforts of the power plant makers attempting to profiteer from putting another dirty industry on Indian lands.
The assumption that a dirty, life-destroying power plant is the only way the Navajo Nation can make money is racist.
Don't expect the media to cover the Navajos who live on the land and protest this power plant and the other power plants strewn over this region. Grassroots Navajos, many living without running water, electricity and gas money to get to town, don't have public relations dollars to spin articles like this one.
Of course the Navajo Nation has those dollars. Yes, you guessed it, most of the revenues come from those filthy polluting industries.
The hoax article is at:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/55434227.html
Journalist Brenda Norrell lived on the Navajo Nation for 18 years, most of those years were in the Chuska Mountains, not far from the proposed site of the new power plant.
Today's hoax in the news comes from the Washington Examiner, which tries to place the blame for the protest against the Desert Rock power plant on outsiders. Don't be fooled by this article, it is actually the Navajos who live on the land in the area around Burnham
, N.M., on the Navajo Nation, that have always been leading this protest and occupying their homeland.The scam article is typical of the articles in efforts to ramrod polluting industries in remote Indian areas. Either the article is directly paid for by the power plant planners, the result of backdoor deals, or the authors and the Washington Examiner just don't know their facts.
If the authors were to actually go out to the land and talk with the Navajos who live there, they would write an entirely different story. They would discover that the 88 Navajo councilmen and Navajo President Joe Shirley, pushing for this power plant, receive the bulk of their salaries and expense dollars from the revenues from disease producing industries on the Navajo Nation: Coal, power plants and oil and gas industries.
The Navajos who live on the land are sick and tired, and sick and dying, from the coal mining, power plants, oil and gas wells and radioactive uranium tailings that are already there. They don't want another power plant and organized the longstanding local protest: Dooda (NO) Desert Rock.
Blaming the outside "greens" in the hoax article appears to be an easy fix for the energy company, but it is not. It just magnifies the last ditch efforts of the power plant makers attempting to profiteer from putting another dirty industry on Indian lands.
The assumption that a dirty, life-destroying power plant is the only way the Navajo Nation can make money is racist.
Don't expect the media to cover the Navajos who live on the land and protest this power plant and the other power plants strewn over this region. Grassroots Navajos, many living without running water, electricity and gas money to get to town, don't have public relations dollars to spin articles like this one.
Of course the Navajo Nation has those dollars. Yes, you guessed it, most of the revenues come from those filthy polluting industries.
The hoax article is at:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/55434227.html
Journalist Brenda Norrell lived on the Navajo Nation for 18 years, most of those years were in the Chuska Mountains, not far from the proposed site of the new power plant.
So long Teddy; We hardly knew ye..
While the episode at Chappaquiddick is being talked up as a tragedy for this last knight of Camelot -- sans the more sordid details -- one should remember that this fat tub of goo was engaged in a veritable lifetime of drinking, debauchery, spousal abuse, and general indulgence in what he thought was accrued to his posiition, power, and station as a member of the Kennedy clan. (Note that these sources are your typical, right-wing conservative whack-job outlets: ABC and Time Magazine.)
I am surprised that no fond rememberance of that infamous pub-crawling incident with his nephew, William Kennedy Smith, where the old coot almost got caught in a rape charge except by testifying that he was too inebriated to remember anything. Of course, the Kennedy lawyers got the little trouser-snake acquitted.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Family Portraits at the Hilton Hawaiian Village
This family celebrated Mom's birthday at the Hilton Hawaiian Village recently. Dad surprised mom with a family portrait session, something she has been wanting for a while. While the kids were hunting for hermit crabs, we took some photos of mom and dad.
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