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    January 30, 2008

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    January 28, 2008

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    January 27, 2008

    I'll Be Back Tomorrow, Pinky Promise

    What can a woman do when her males are in the house? Sit on the couch with them and watch flicks.

    My husband gets neurotically jealous of Internet activities of mine while he's home. My son needed me for an English project on figures of speech.

    Now is time for cheapo Chinese made for American palate delivery. And another flick.

    No school tomorrow. Yey! That reminds me of an old favorite of mine. Let's see if I find it. I can't believe it's already of driving age in California. With you a great video of "School" from Reading Festival, in England.

    Choose life.


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    January 26, 2008

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    January 25, 2008

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    January 24, 2008

    It's O-ver, It's O-ver, it's O-ver!

    How about this? Click and you'll see what I mean. For a Democrat to have praised the Great Communicator, who tattled on so many in show business was a fatal mistake. He who suppported the Contras, whose war reduced NIcaragua to a country where the streets have no names. Ronald Reagan, who named names in Hollywood. What an accomplished leader, f'r shure.

    Click on this link, I just got it in from ... Click and you'll see. Now tell me more about fairy tales of gathering millions on campaign money thru donations of twenty or twenty-five bucks. It's pouring here. As Craig Ferguson said last night only in Los Angeles rain opens the news.
    I hope you dig this song. I do.

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    January 23, 2008

    Circumstances Beyond My Control

    I need to communicate to you, readers and searchers, I am and will be on reduced pace re. blogging. I am very tired of the fight with the keyboard and frankly, the Hillary v. Obama campaign has taken over my soul. TV is addictive.  There. The newspapers have been more appealing to me than a computer thru which it's a struggle to express myself.

    I'll be coming in less often and I will try to keep my del.icio.us network going.

    Thanks to all, stealing Ahnold favorite expression, "I'll be back." Now watch this, please, straight from Chicago, about that Mafioso guy, Antoin "Tony" Rezko, Obama's patron since 1995.

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    January 21, 2008

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    January 20, 2008

    Don't Ask Me How -- For Womin Only

    When these politicians say they feel what I am feeling, I'd better remind them I also have fibromyalgia. Frankly, I don't feel the pain anymore. We feel very sorry for all the people who have been duped into f*d up mortgages.

    There is something going on here. I am just so slow in making progress in posting. Maybe it is a Reaganism, a forgetfulness I cannot help. It is all in the hands of Blue Cross and my assigned neurosurgeon. I hope it is really hydrocephalus and I have a surgery and change the stant without major complications every two years.

    My breasts implants are up for a more detailed review: fifth year. Whether due to bilateral mastectomy, as in my case, or for vanity reasons, breast implants half a shelf life, so to speak, of up to twenty years with good luck.

    I'm glad I stay indoors so my asthma, acquired at a smoky outdoor concert at the Greek, second-hand smoke for sure, my asthma doesn't flare up. It was a metal concert I really wanted to watch: Dio, Deep Purple ;
    a band whose singer is Je    sus Superstar has to be good.And the Scorpions. That was my 52nd birthday. Four years ago.

    I did go outside and communicated to my husband what needs be done. Our garden has lost its beauty, not completely, but some, due to the lack of supervision. A woman's eye is better trained for details and that is why she should stay home told me a Franciscan friar when I was getting married. I was appalled.

    The big buzz is Apple this week. And some flying car. The big scare was Obama bringing up "The Great Communicator" as something great. Okay, who has any memory left in a nation of processed foods and unprocessed facts? Here today, gone in the next segment of CNN.

    So, Sistah Hillary, if you really want to break that glass ceiling, get ready for more of the same machoism and blows. (I didn't say jobs) Wasn't it screwy for people to be asking her all over again about Monica Lewinsky ?

    Anyway, the choices one has as a menopausal woman who wants to remain sexually active are atrocious. An IUD for one kind of hormone and stinky vaginal supositories for the second hormone. Yikes!  Does that mean a lubricant that is fruity chewing gum flavored to disguise the smell? It's pretty akin to incense to disguise the pungent odor of marijuana.

    And that's all, folks! Don't forget to click on the links, please. They are just for you.

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    January 19, 2008

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    January 18, 2008

    Digging anarchic_universe del.icio.us links

    Coy_plumbago_21707_2 Dahlings, I am exhausted. It is my purpose to offer you a varied perspective on education, politics, entertainment and whatever turns you on. It takes a long time to go here and there, read and say to yourself, yes, this is okay, or this is crap.

    I confess the political scene has been an overdose. I have very low tolerance for people who start extolling the virtues of Barack Obama, especially johnnie-come-lately bloggers in Brazil, where blacks are still uneducated and poh. Most Brazilians would be black here, but have money there; therefore, they are white.

    Okay, I could say No Child Left Behind is the main reason education is in such a mess. Just check Dr. Krashen's site on my list of favorite readings. Truthfully, SMMUSD was always cheap and biased.

    What I have to say about SMMUSD and its repeated requests for money is SAY NO on PROP R.

    Tomorrow you'll see a variety of links I got for you. Tonight I mmust say I am ready for organic macaroni and cheese and grassfed beef. Whatever veggie suits me fine. The boys are in the kitchen while I wrap it here.

    I'll leave you with a photo of a plumbago(say what?) It's the flower  the hummingbirds love the most. Did I tell you I got an empty hummingbird nest? It's the cutest thing and it tells us spring is around the corner. Sorry, Seth A. for all the cold weather in Chicago.

    See you tomorrow, with more delicious links, right below my mini-rant.

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    January 17, 2008

    Wassup? The sky, that is...

    The truce between Hillary and Obama didn't last a day, I guess. Today some news organization scooped out some dirt on Bill never heard of before. Common sense would dictate this "scoop" would have been divulged when Bill Clinton was being chastised like a horny dog for behaving like, well, a horny dawg.

    This allegation says Bill had a racist uncle(who wasn't racist in the old South) and this uncle influenced Bill for him to kick out some African_American Democrats from the Party. What is funny, if it weren't so sad, is that Obama actually retired five party members so he could represent his congressional district, all civil rights veterans. In Obama's quote, "They can't write a petition."

    Anyway, I listened to CNN while I typed my blogs and other stuff such as our great anarchic_universe links for tomorrow, expect a variety of subjects, from entertainmet news to education news, I couldn't get any new idea of what was going on. The funniest images in my mind remain Bush in "Presidential Speeches" and then Bush again with a light saber next to the Saudi prince with another light saber. Too bad Craig Ferguson's program goes well into the wee hours.

    All I know is the economy is center now for every candidate. There'll be links about that too. All have promises, and "I've seen that film before," as my mother was fond of saying in the days she talked too much. Now she can't talk so much, but puts on airs as if she were the Queen of Shebah at her convalescent home. That's my mom, another smartie panties like Hillary and me.

    There we go in Air Force Hil One!

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    January 16, 2008

    I Know What You Did Last Night - Apple, Inc.

    After blogging all day, and I have to write slowly so I avoid typos, I fell asleep from seven to nine. When I get up, guess what my husband and teen son had been doing? No wonder the journalist in the Los Angeles Times called Apple users "Followers." That's right. That is a link in today's del.icio.us. links below.

    While I was sleeping the boys were watching Steve Jobs annual presentation at the annual Apple convention. You'll ask what I did. I watched it, too, and scolded them to go to bed, both. I had no patience, however, to watch Steve Jobs after Number 3, whatever that was. The thin Air computer is awesome, the renting of films will be the last blow on neighborhood cinemas, coupled with Apple TV 2. I pooh-pooh iPods because I don't need them. The rest, iPhone, all power to Apple, seems to have gone beyond my tech sophistication or needs.

    The best news was Apple's alliance with Google. Only Google can make Apple computers more palatable to the rest of the world. I was really happy to hear about their small alliance for now in the iPhone.

    I went to read on Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. I highly recommend you read these entries on wikipedia.

    You may ask if I am part of the flock of the Apple faithful? Yes, I am, but a little tired of Steve's presentations and repeated "Kewl, really kewl. Innit?" He's really thin, I guess on purpose, and looks older than he should. It must be the pressure, self-imposed and imposed on others. I kinda feel sorry for him. There is no use for millions when you are stressed and unhappy even remarried to a much younger wife.

    So that was what we were doing last night. Now it's breakfast and newspaper. I tried to get info from CNN last night on Hill, Bill and Obama to no avail. Oh, well, enjoy our del.icio.us links, whose comments are open. I'll be back shortly after my long breakkfast break. I have been working since six-thirty and now must eat. Oh, the comments on our anarchic_universe links are open. Go ahead and make my day. Good line for a cop movie.
    See ya!Steve_jobs

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    January 15, 2008

    In Honor of the Rev. Marin Luther King, Jr.

    There is nothing I could say Martin Luther King didn't say or write more eloquently. I used to teach about him from a Swedish authored English for foreign learners series, New Horizons, aka Lost Horizons. It was caught in the transition  between "Repeat after me" and more cognitive challenging teaching styles.

    However, in Book 6 there was an excerpt of "I Have a Dream" and a short narrative about The Rev.Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr.

    Here is a complete video and transcript of that beautiful stand Dr. King made by the Lincoln Memorial. Just click here.

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    One for snacktime - On Bloggers

    Enjoy while I have breakfast and read the paper. I'll be back.

    • The blogger was such a high brow, his comments had footnotes.

    • The blog was so multidimensional, you'd find more op-ed positions there than positions in the Kamasutra.

    • It was such a confusing blog it was written in Portuguese about USA politics for disinterested Brazilians, ignoring any geopolitical difference between Ilinois and Iowa, or a caucus and a primary.

    • It was such a spiritual blog,  the blogger believed in the absence of pork in Congress, both American and Brazilian.

    • It was such a naïf blogger, he bought the video on American ignorance of international geography flmed  with tourists in front of The Sidewalk Cafe,Venice Beach, California, which is also OLD. We are ignorant of geography at our convenience or the Panama Canal wouldn't have been built.

    • It was such a juvenile blog, its owner asked for Elementary School Id cards from its readers.

    • It was such an idiotic blog it kept its aura among the elementary school children by creating a sect mentality; and then another and another.

    •This blogger was so full of herself, at night she had to go out to see others thru plastered eyes.

    •It was a politically incorrect blog. It found no followers, a fact that remains inexplicable to this day.

    • It was a blog dedicated to writing about technology in third grade language. The problem was that its followers were second grade nerds.

    • It was an obscure blog, written by a multilingual blogger, in obscure syntax and language, followed by pseudo-intellectuals like her.

    Don't forget our fantastic anarchic_universe del.icio.us links. Our group has changed to: Tom Watson, w1zard, Seth A., who's known me since the flame war I won but had to leave my blogs behind, Gabriela Zago,
    André Marmota, a star blogger in his own right, and yours truly, the abstruse Tina Oiticica Harris.

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    January 14, 2008

    Don't Forget Our Delish Links Tomorrow!

    I must go have dinner now and call it a day. Taking care of a teenager and keeping up two blogs is harrrd work when your health is not so good.

    Keep an eye on my hand-picked del.icio.us links. They have  been picked from my new anarchic_universe group. Tom Watson, da man, Seth A. from B12 Solipsism, my blogger link and friend since my Blogger days, Gabriela Zago, who witnessed my blogs under attack  by 400 vandals, but I won the flame war in the end, and w1zard, who finally joins us. Finally, one of the top stars of the Brazilian blogosphere, André Marmota, my friend for a year now.

    There's art, photography tips, politics, Bush, a lot of stuff I picked and they picked. We have a top team with select links for you. You can comment about them here.

    Night-night!052007_1341

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