I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Elderberry, I like your headline: "strange objects that looked like women on brooms were seen in the night sky over _________" fill in the blank. Unidentified Ariel Phenomenon."
I'm thinking you meant “aerial" but Ariel works, too, as in a phenomenon of the female persuasion. (Trivia: my son named our first cat Arryl, pronounced Ariel.)
It is very touching that after 50 years together, you and your dh hold hands in bed at night, Elderberry..
I hadn't really realized how small a percentage of couples celebrate a 50th anniversary. We just got an invitation for a surprise 50th anniversary party for dh's sister and her husband. They were married over 15 years before I even met dh. They live something of a charmed life, active, healthy, financially well off, kids doing well, involved with their grandkids. They are not outspoken about it, but they are Trumpers. I think their strong ties to their church play a part in that. And white privilege.
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I hope Kevin Sorbo doesn't plan on working anytime soon. There isn't a production company out there that would hire him without a vaccination. They won't put their crews (not to mention other actors) in danger. The unions would shut them down day one.
My husband worked with Kevin years ago. He was pretty out there even then. Fairly nice, but very stridently right wing. Looks like he hasn't mellowed with age.
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -Melody Beattie
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True.
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We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen. -Sue Patton Thoele
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Some people will do any stupid thing in order not to face REALITY.
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If an obnoxious, bigoted female is referred to as a Karen, why isn't an obnoxious, bigoted, racist, misogynistic male referred to as a Donald?
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Works for me, Betrayal. Though I usually just call them MAGAts, since they're so often supporters of the Mango Mussolini.
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Trishyla: Love the Mango Mussolini and MAGAts as well.
Does Maria Bartiromo have the hots for him or what? She is absolutely discgusting in how she slobbers over him!
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In my opinion, one of the best songs ever, both lyrically and vocally, is "Nothing Compares 2 U", written by Prince and sung of course by Sinéad O'Connor. Here's an article from NPR on Sinéad, who has an autobiography out now (I'm on the library hold list for it of course). She really was before her time. The article is insightful:
Sinéad O'Connor Has A New Memoir ... And No Regrets
Sinéad O'Connor rose to fame in 1990 with a multi-platinum selling album. Two years later, a controversial TV appearance on Saturday Night Live threatened to derail her career. Since then O'Connor's struggles have often played out in the public eye. But with Rememberings, a newly published memoir, she's hoping to show there is a lot more to the artist "behind the music."
It all started in Ireland, where O'Connor says she was brought up in an abusive household. Her parents split up when she was nine, and, after a few minor scrapes with the law, she was sent to a notoriously tough Catholic reform school. There, thanks to unforeseen circumstances, her life began to turn around. "Sister Margaret was like a mother to me," O'Connor explains. "There was a punk rock clothes shop in Dublin called No Romance. She took me there and bought me a red parka, and a whole lot of punk clothes, and my first guitar and a book of chords for Bob Dylan songs."
She also brought in a guitar teacher, which led O'Connor to a songwriting collaboration with In Tua Nua, a band signed to U2's newly launched record label. Although O'Connor was too young to tour, she performed in and around Dublin, eventually attracting the attention of the London-based label Ensign. Ireland was an established proving ground for exports such as Thin Lizzy, the Boomtown Rats and U2. But when it came to women, its most well-known artist was a straitlaced pop singer called Dana, winner of the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest.
O'Connor had other ideas in mind, writing emotionally complicated songs that drew attention to social issues, sometimes referencing the difficult circumstances of her own childhood. Dissatisfied with the producer who was enlisted to work on her 1987 debut, The Lion and the Cobra, 20-year-old O'Connor took the reins herself.
When label bosses pressured her to grow her hair and dress in short skirts, she had her hair shaved and took on a decidedly anti-glamorous look. In her memoir, O'Connor writes that Ensign executives also sent a doctor to coerce her into having an abortion when they learned that she was pregnant. Instead, she gave birth to her first child a few short weeks before releasing the album
Directed by her record label to look more feminine, Sinéad O'Connor asserted her independence.
As for the music, there was nothing else like it on the radio, says music critic Jessica Hopper: "She just seemed like an emissary from a bold new world." Refusing pop formulas, one of the tracks opened with a Gaelic recitation of Psalm 91 by the singer Enya. Another featured a cameo from rapper MC Lyte. Yet another, referencing a poem by William Butler Yeats, was a dark, intense song about her mother, who died in a car accident when O'Connor was 19.
"She came along at a time when alternative music was just starting to cross into the mainstream, but she was straddling both those things," recalls Hopper, "She was immediately iconoclastic."
The album enjoyed substantial airplay on college radio and MTV. Future Riot Grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna says her roommate shared a copy she bought on cassette. "We just sat there in silence and listened to the whole entire record," Hanna recalls. "I don't even think we talked. It felt like being on a journey; it felt like someone had written songs that were already living inside me. It really felt like meeting myself."
The label expected to sell around 25,000 copies of the album; instead, it's sold 2,500,000 worldwide. The Lion and the Cobra earned O'Connor a 1989 Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. As a show of support for artists who boycotted the ceremony to protest Grammy's decision not to televise the award for Best Rap Performance, O'Connor performed with Public Enemy's logo shaved onto the side of her head.
She broke even further into the mainstream with her Prince-penned single, "Nothing Compares 2 U," and its unforgettable music video, which vaulted her 1990 sophomore effort, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, to the top of the charts in several countries, with estimated sales topping seven million worldwide.
Although O'Connor was nominated for four Grammys, she declined industry awards, asserting that they were too focused on commercial success, and not enough on artistic merit. When she was invited to perform on Saturday Night Live, O'Connor closed her set by tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II, a gesture intended to draw attention to the Catholic church's complicity in perpetuating child abuse, already in her native Ireland.
The Anti-Defamation League condemned O'Connor. So did Madonna and Phil Hartman. Conservative groups steamrollered her records. And when actor Joe Pesci hosted he threatened to smack her. Two weeks later, O'Connor was booed at a tribute concert for Bob Dylan, signaling the end of one phase of her career, and the start of another.
"She was the first celebrity in mainstream culture to be cancelled" Hopper says. Part of the scandal, she notes, was O'Connor's defiant refusal to act the way we expect pop stars to behave—particularly female artists.
O'Connor says that even though the rebuke was painful, she isn't sorry. She had wanted to use her voice to turn the trauma she had experienced into a powerful healing force.
By the mid-1990s, she'd stopped making hit records, but she never stopped making music. In addition to songs of her own invention, O'Connor restyled Irish folk songs, reggae and religious music. She brought her unique sensibilities to music made famous by others, artist collaborations, songs made for films and efforts to support human rights.
Over the years tabloid culture has remained fixated by O'Connor's creative and personal permutations, which have included explorations of spirituality and sexuality, candid personal disclosures, and occasionally inflammatory public comments. While male artists such as Bruce Springsteen have been lauded for openly discussing their struggles with mental health, O'Connor not so much.
As her book jacket states, she has "fascinated and outraged millions." But O'Connor has also inspired them, surfacing at a time before an alternative culture marketplace had been fully realized, and broadening the lane for other artists such as Fiona Apple and Michael Stipe to get their music across.
The exposure that came with O'Connor's commercial success had a particularly significant impact on young women, Kathleen Hanna says. "Because she was a punk who ended up making these pop records, or what could be considered pop records, they had such a far reach," she explains. "I think it was validating for a lot of people to hear her on mainstream radio."
In recent years O'Connor has embraced Islam and adopted a new off-stage name, Shuhada Sadaqat, which she says means "truthful witness." She also started reclaiming her musical legacy, playing a string of sold-out shows and garnering rave reviews.
Although the pandemic has paused touring, it's given O'Connor the chance to work on new music, and to resume her longtime goals, which she describes as, "Do what I love. Be imperfect. Be mad, even."
The one thing O'Connor isn't planning to do is apologize. "I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career," she writes in her memoir, "and my tearing the photo put me on the right track."
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I've always liked Sinead O'Conner. One of her best songs was Black Boys on Mopeds. Well, that and Nothing Compares to U. In my top five favorite songs.
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I am also liking the Texas Democrats!
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Ruth, me too! So glad somebody is doing something visible to protest the ridiculous goings on in Austin (to say nothing about Dallas!)
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another country, because they speak a different language, or because they take a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human. . . . Let us have but one end in view: the welfare of humanity. -Johann Amos Comenius
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Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who have more, we feel bad. When we compare ourselves to those who have less, we feel grateful. Even though the truth is we have exactly the same life either way, our feelings about our life can vary tremendously based on who we compare ourselves with. Compare yourself with those examples that are meaningful but that make you feel comfortable with who you are and what you have. -David Niven
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The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate. -Albert Einstein
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Most of them will still end up with their guns. They definitely are cons of one variety or other so they will access whatever fire power they feel they want or need.
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Just as an aside, I was reading this afternoon ( only able to skim more or less ) but the article talked about all those who are not getting the vaccine. Most do seem to be those on the right for the most part, or a lot of Republican states. It was opined that some of the suppressions taking place right now in the end might not work. The one thing that really would work would be un-vaccinated people. Got to thinking about this -- the writer said, you know, Reps. can be just as NICE as anyone and be could neighbors etc., etc. But they have a vision and they let nothing get in the way of that vision. They feel justified in other words -- whatever it takes they will do. So to get people out of their way -- it may be good to just discourage in any way you can life-saving measures like vaccinations.
The more I thought about it, the more it seemed that was a strong possibility. We do know Trump, Melania, and likely many in the family got their shots. Trump and Melania before they left the WH. I got to thinking -- many of these Reps. in the WH you'd have thought watching some of their behaviors should have gotten covid but have not and I think, why not. Some of course, have, but we don't know how many may have gotten shots but won't own up -- yet they discourage it so many times. The Fox News people and other rt. wing news outlets are discouraging -- but don't say they have had covid or the vaccines.
If they have had the vaccine, good for them. They are saving other people, but they have sinister motives if they are not going to reveal their true status -- especially while discouraging others.
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Just because you passed medical board exams doesn't mean you don't need common sense or the wisdom of others. You should always remember you are influencing people who did NOT pass the board, but may in fact, at times, know more than you.
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These COVIDiot morons who refuse to wear masks and get vaccinated also drive. Do they blow through traffic lights, or drive without licenses or plates? When they buy their vehicles, do they refuse to pay the sales and excise taxes? After all, how can government tell them when to stop and when to go, how fast they can drive, or register their vehicles? Do they refuse to pay sales taxes on other purchases or restaurant meals?
And they scream "my body, my choice." But they don't believe that applies to women's reproductive choices. They claim to protect the lives of the unborn (not just fetuses but embryos and even fertilized eggs that have yet to implant themselves in the uterine lining. But they disregard the lives of people all around them and their community--including the very women who are carrying those embryos & fetuses. (COVID often ends a pregnancy).
They delight in the prospect of "owning the libs." Kinda hard to enjoy "owning" us when they're ventilated, unconscious, dying or dead.
But one way to get under their skin (when they refuse to let the vaccination needle do so)? Remind them that the greatest surge in cases is occurring in those states & counties with the lowest vaccination rates; that 99+% of cases (and deaths, which lag 2-3 weeks behind diagnoses) occur in unvaccinated people; and that by "standing their ground" they are proving the theory of natural selection--they aren't doing God's work, but rather--by removing themselves from the gene pool--Darwin's.
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