tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83450357657912062602024-03-13T09:29:39.549-04:00Lakota Phillips' Hole in the WallBreaking Taboo and DAMage Report stories, art, book pimpage and more!Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-48115265560981226792011-07-11T14:16:00.002-04:002011-07-11T14:16:55.574-04:00BREAKING TABOO - Can’t See the Forest for the Killing Fields<div class="uiHeader uiHeaderBottomBorder mbm" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="clearfix uiHeaderTop" style="display: block; zoom: 1;"><div><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">by Lakota Phillips</span></em></span></h2></div></div></div><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix" style="display: block; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">The politicos have been demanding for months that Americans “suck it up,” stop whining, tighten their belts, deal with the realities of unavoidable cuts to social programs, to healthcare programs, to education and pretty much anything and everything that provides any modem of support to a nation crumbling under a devastating economic crash and staggering unemployment. Yes somehow, with an awesome debt of $14.3 trillion hanging like the proverbial albatross from America’s neck, our fearless leaders found a way to ADD $17 billion to the Defense Department budget.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Has anyone stopped to point out to the DOD and our President and our fine, upstanding leaders on the Hill that if they keep this shit up there won’t BE ANYTHING to DEFEND?</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">What – you’re going to feel all mighty and patriotic defending a land filled with starving, miserable people who have lost hope and no longer give a fuck? It is political grandstanding still. It is territorial pie fighting. It is a very clear indication that the Powers That Be don’t have a fucking clue because I guarantee that THEIR lives will not be impacted by the changes to social security, by eliminating arts and education programs, by slashing and burning health programs. It doesn’t touch them. All they can see is their fucking slice of American money pie. Eat up. You’re serving it over the killing fields layered with the bones of the citizens of this country.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">As our esteemed President said today “he's prepared to take "significant heat" from his party over certain elements of the deficit reduction deal he's currently negotiating.” I’m sure he is.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">HIS kids won’t go hungry tonight. But hey, that’s okay because as our President pointed out today, ours can “eat peas.”</span></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110709/NEWS/107090344</span></div></div></div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-61291986670645980462011-07-11T13:10:00.002-04:002011-07-11T13:12:42.751-04:00BREAKING TABOO - Thrown Under the Jezebel Bus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4EhS_iXFpDg/ThstvyvdEuI/AAAAAAAAA3g/T0NuAecnjfk/s1600/BurningJoan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4EhS_iXFpDg/ThstvyvdEuI/AAAAAAAAA3g/T0NuAecnjfk/s320/BurningJoan.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Breaking Taboo today at 4pm PST -live streaming from our new studios in Hollywood on <a href="http://newdissidentradio.com/">newdissidentradio.com</a> with new correspondent S. Paul Forrest of <a href="http://www.spaulforrest.com/">America Revealed</a>. Call ins 323-289-2410 for last segment of the show</span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thrown Under the Jezebel Bus<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A 15 year old girl gets a life sentence in Mississippi for the miscarriage of her baby. Georgia tries to pass legislation that would mandate the women would need to PROVE their miscarriages occurred naturally. Extremist anti-abortion groups are pushing to outlaw contraceptives, saying by killing sperm they are committing infanticide. <span class="apple-style-span">Four states have</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">defunded Planned Parenthood</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">and a new Ohio law bans abortions as early as six weeks without exceptions for</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">rape or incest. Over half the states</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">have introduced fetal homicide laws intended to be used against violent attacks by third parties. Instead the laws have been turned on the pregnant women. In South Carolina, only</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">one case</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">has been brought against a man for assaulting a pregnant woman, while 300 women have been arrested under the same law. </span><strong><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">In Alabama at least 40 cases have been brought under the state’s “chemical endangerment” law</span></strong><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Drugs and pregnancy bad. So is smoking and pregnancy. So is alcohol and pregnancy. So is horseback riding and sometimes bike riding and…. Well – there’s a number of things that can endanger a pregnancy. Tripping and falling included. Will women who have miscarriages by any of those means also face jail time? See the thing is this – with cases like the 15 year old girl, there is no proof that she did drugs while pregnant or that she intended to harm her baby. Yes she drank rat poison but with the intent to commit suicide, not murder. Ten years ago she would have been seen as needing psychiatric help. Today they dredge up a 130 year old law that has never been used to throw a CHILD into prison. For life. This is the society we have become.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Women are systematically being shoved back into the dual role of the subservient breeder and the evil destroyer bitch. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When you pile all together the outlandish legislation that has been aggressively shoved to the political forefront by anti-abortion fanatics in the past 8 months; the hostile and often shocking news stories that depict girls and women as willing rape victims (they were asking for it by how they were dressed or where they had the audacity to venture); the subtle (or not) media witch burnings of women that somehow manages to make completely intelligent people forget that we used to be proud of our innocent until proven guilty system of justice; and a very frightening picture begins to emerge. Just as women begin to find an equal place in society where we comprise over half of the workforce, have more advanced college degrees than men, and are shattering the crippling stereotypes and social behavior patterning that have inhibited generations – we suddenly have this unbelievably aggressive attack and vilification of women. I don’t think it is “men” fighting in patriarchal terror, because there are just as many women casting their own gender under the Jezebel bus. I do think it is a desperate fight by narrow-minded religious fanatics who have risen to political power and are now using that power to “set things right” by any means necessary. Their “right” is so very ethically wrong. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span">Hey if they can legally reinstate witch burnings in Australia in 2010, then I supposed we’re being civilized by throwing our teens into jail for life </span><span class="apple-style-span">for having a miscarriage.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/01/256823/pregnant-women-criminal-charges/">http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/01/256823/pregnant-women-criminal-charges/</a><o:p></o:p></div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-64509774348164685552011-06-27T15:42:00.000-04:002011-06-27T15:42:52.124-04:00BREAKING TABOO- "yes, we Cannibus"<div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Guests for today's show at 4pm PST / 7pm EST on www.newdissidentradio.com are the owner of a new smoking accessory store Bryan Connor, comedian Suzzanne Monk and correspondent Rev. Jeffrey Brunk. Tune in today for a little Pot, a little Gender discrimination and a really awesome show. Brought to you by Blaze-Jane.com</span></i></b></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; line-height: 12px;">Breaking the Stereotypes: I promise - someone <br />
you know smokes pot and he or she doesn't look like a dweeb like this dude.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> by Lakota Phillips </span></div><blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The War on Drugs, which is celebrating its 40th year, has been a colossal failure. It has curtailed personal freedom, created a violent black market, and filled our prisons. It has also trampled on states’ rights: Sixteen states have legalized “medical marijuana” — which is, admittedly, often code for legalizing pot in general — only to clash with federal laws that ban weed throughout the land.” </span></div></blockquote><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The canyon of discord between those opposing the legalization of marijuana and those supporting has slowly but steadily narrowed over the past decade, especially recently as the info highway known as the internet has dispelled for some the many myths and outright lies associated with use of the drug. Now to be clear – the federal legislation is NOT mandating that use, distribution and growth of pot be made legal. Instead it is putting it in the hands of the states, which is where it should be. It would however, if passed as proposed, allow those 21 years and older to buy marijuana at licensed outlets. The number of stores per county would be set by the state Liquor Control Board. Also, taxes would be levied by the Liquor Control Board and could net the state an estimated $215 million a year in new revenue. I don’t have a problem with that. I’d rather see the money go into the hands of the states. Plus we tax the shit out of alcohol and tobacco – might as well throw cannabis onto the pile. The proposed measure would apply drunken driving laws to those driving under the influence of marijuana and it would allow qualified people to grow it for medical purposes without being slapped in handcuffs.</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br style="line-height: 16px;" /></span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Face it. Alcoholism is far more deadly than potism. Terms like “reefer madness” and “lazy pothead” create a misguided social stereotype that keeps people misinformed. We are such suckers for negative spin in America.</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some quicky myths dispelled:</span></div><ul style="line-height: 16px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of the more than 800,000 people are arrested for marijuana each year, the vast majority of them for simple possession., approximately 88 percent were charged with possession only. Them’s a lot of taxpayer court costs right there.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Most marijuana users never use any other illicit drug – it is not a gate-way drug</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Most people who use marijuana do so only occasionally. Fewer than 10% of those who try marijuana meet the clinical criteria for dependence, while 32% of tobacco users and 15% of alcohol users do.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Marijuana use has not been shown to increase risk of cancer.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Marijuana has been proven helpful for treating the symptoms of a variety of medical conditions.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Marijuana use rates in the Netherlands are similar to those in the U.S. despite very different policies.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Unlike alcohol, Marijuana has not been shown to cause long-term cognitive impairment and There is no compelling evidence that it contributes substantially to traffic accidents and fatalities.</span></li>
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<div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Today it’s all things that go bump in the night and for once we aren’t talking about sex.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">A nice big giant taboo is the paranormal. Most people get uncomfortable if asked whether they REALLY believe in ghosts or not. It’s okay to love ghost stories, and even okay to say yeah there might be something to that (as long as it’s followed with a depreciative chuckle) but tell people you’ve SEEN a ghost or that you absolutely believe in them… or reincarnation… or anything else related to the paranormal and you get that look. The one that says “you believe in santa claus too”, doncha? In fact, we’ve been taught so well to NOT believe in anything outside the safe boundaries of this reality we stomp around in , that most people who do encounter something outside the norm tend to instantly disbelieve their own senses. Was that….? Nawwww. Did I just see….? Nawwwww. Oh and sugah, definitely don’t run around town yelling “ghosts” with absolute conviction, because society has a nice tidy white cell with your name on it if you do. Well, unless you’re a professional ghost hunter, professional psychic, or a filmmaker (ie. entertainers.)</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">It is more comfortable for us to deny and discredit than to entertain an unproven possibility. That applies in most things but especially in the area of paranormal. Ironically, as a culture we LOVE to be teased and titillated with stories of ghosts and vamps and aliens and bigfoot and fairies. Horror and fantasy are huge sellers. But that’s okay because we can reassure ourselves that it isn’t real.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The need to have a nice tidy explanation for everything often compels us to either make all things possible or nothing possible. The truth usually lies somewhere in between the extremes. The study of ghosts has taken on not only a popular mantle of entertainment, but also the trappings of very high tech science as ghost hunters track down evidence of altered existence. As with anything, you’ll have your charlatans and fame seekers that keep the doubtfires glowing, but you also have teams of people who sincerely are trying to provide that ever elusive proof that something of us exists beyond death.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">A friend told me recently that all that remains are echoes of ourselves. Supernatural experiences can be explained via the science of our very complex brains where the power of suggestion and the mind’s ability to perceive illusionary images where none exist have been proven. But I don’t believe in black and white answers in a grey world. The flip side of the coin is this – while ghosts may not have been proven to exist to the skeptics’ satisfaction, neither have they been disproven to the believers’ satisfaction.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The spook factor definitely keeps life interesting. Especially when you keep company with ghosts.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Evidence-Scrutinized-The-Haunting-of-Fort-Sam/hhm8ZBJick2SnJ-QNLNmFw.cspx" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Evidence-Scrutinized-The-Haunting-of-Fort-Sam/hhm8ZBJick2SnJ-QNLNmFw.cspx</a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">(moving chair footage mentioned in the related tv station story is located near the end of their fairly long 7min video)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-6794465582825561042011-06-13T17:22:00.001-04:002011-06-13T17:23:05.007-04:00Breaking Taboo Stories for June 13, 2011<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tune in today at 4pm PST / 7pm EST to listen live on www.newdissidentradio.com.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or catch the show on replays and in the archives this week. We're also on itunes.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Call ins are at the end of the show - 323-289-2410 or skype: lakotaphillips (add prior to show)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Guests today are actor Steve Gelder and correspondent Rev. Jeffrey Brunk.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Let Them Eat… Nothing</b><o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span">An Orlando ordinance restricts food donors to feeding groups of 25 or more two times per year in public spaces.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">A federal court ruled the ordinance unconstitutional </span></span><span class="apple-style-span">in 2008, deciding that Food Not Bomb's activities are a protected form of free speech. But in April, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the earlier ruling.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> Consequently, members of the activist group who are trying to bring awareness of the plight of the growing number of homeless have been repeatedly arrested for putting their money where hungry mouths are. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This isn’t a problem of those “shiftless vagrants” who are too lazy to get a job and expect the hard-working American public to carry them. My people -you need to grasp this – THAT America, where the middle class were busy pursuing the lovely grail of the American Dream is gone. The people who are homeless – they could easily be your family, your friends, your loved ones… it could just as easily be you. They are not there because they have nothing to offer society. The growing number of homeless are hungry and without homes because our society has collapsed. There aren’t enough jobs. Their homes have been repossessed due to a corrupt system. Some are the handicapped that are now out on the streets, unable to care for themselves because budget cuts have closed the programs we tried to put in place to help them. The consequences of a collapsed economy with not enough jobs have families living in cars, squatting in abandoned homes, sleeping in cardboard boxes, shanty communities, and going hungry while they try to hang on. It’s a vicious catch-22 nightmare that is nearly impossible to climb out of and which our leadership – which we elected - has all but ignored – as if the homeless will vanish if you don’t have to look at them. Now, when we need to REALLY be making aid a priority because the number of homeless is growing like crazy, we are instead allowing laws to be passed that punish anyone trying to help. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space">This problem will get worse. It will become one of our biggest nightmares. Think back to the great depression when the cries of misery in this country rang so loud that we remember it still, generations later. </span><span class="apple-style-span">The recession will force around 2 million people into homelessness over the next year. A recent report cites “major increases in the number of homeless in 19 out of the 25 states.” That doesn’t even take into account the huge numbers of “new adults” that have to sleep on friends’ sofas or stay with parents because they can’t find a job; can’t start their own lives. You know that American Dream of their OWN home, where they can start their OWN family? These young adults are unable to contribute to society due to no fault of their own. They live in limbo. From 2008 to 2009, the number of unemployed in America increased by 60 percent </span><span class="apple-style-span">from 8.9 to 14.3 million impacting heavily on the existing homeless situation. Just imagine what that number will be next year and the year after. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="apple-style-span">Don’t let them snatch food from the mouths of the hungry. Don’t. The scary truth is, unless you are one of the wealthy few, the person that might not be fed tomorrow might be you.</span><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><a href="http://floridaindependent.com/33406/twelve-activists-arrested-for-violating-group-feeding-ban-in-orlando-mayor-calls-them-food-terrorists"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://floridaindependent.com/33406/twelve-activists-arrested-for-violating-group-feeding-ban-in-orlando-mayor-calls-them-food-terrorists</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">________________________</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Contributed by Jeffrey Brunk:</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="uiHeader uiHeaderBottomBorder mbm" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><div class="clearfix uiHeaderTop" style="display: block; zoom: 1;"><div><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">"Welcome to America. You Want Combo?"</span></h2><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></h2><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Welcome to America. A smorgasbord of opportunity awaits those who relocate to our fine, fat country. America is, after all, the land of the free and home of the Whopper. The numbers are out, rounded-off, so to speak, and the numbers are getting larger. One out of three Americans is obese. Not pudgy or ‘soft’ but obese. To try and put this in context, ponder this a moment: According to the CDC, in 2009 there were 33 states that were greater than or equal to 25% of the population classified as being obese and 9 of those 33 were equal to or greater than 30% of the population classified as being obese.</span></span></h2><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"><br />
</span></h2><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;">Talk about a growing population. Now it seems that immigrants to the land of milk and honey are swelling at the same rate as America’s home-grown populace. Apparently, being an American requires one to eat like an American which, in turn, causes one to eventually look like an American … fat and saggy.</span></h2></div></div></div><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix" style="display: block; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">America is now one of the world’s most overweight countries. This past week, I was at Disney World and marveled at the irony of the size of the people entering and exiting the ‘It’s a Small World’ attraction. I figure that it only a matter of time until the ‘Small World’ attraction features twirling, dancing and singing robotic obese children. There are those who go as far as to claim that parents of obese children are guilty of child abuse.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our nation’s thundering herd is being blamed on everything from genetics to media to the workplace and technology. Technology? What does a serving of Google and a side of iPad taste like, anyway?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Truth be known, I suppose blame can be assigned to nearly anything when it comes to the blubbering-up of America, much like almost everything causes cancer. But when it comes down to the meat of the matter, the only cause of America’s population enlargement is a working jawbone. Each of us has one and most of us know how to use it. It’s just that many have no idea how to let the jaws rest.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes, welcome to America, brethren from afar. In order better serve you and enhance your experience, please pull around to the window and have your money ready. That’s how we roll in the U. S. of A.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">____________________</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Letter Sent today by Breaking Taboo Guest Steve Gelder:</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"></span></div><div class="actorName actorDescription" data-ft="{"type":2}" style="font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 3px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=661478710" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=661478710" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">Steve Gelder</span></a></div><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 14px;"></span><br />
<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_4df67f3d43ffc0e30993879" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="line-height: 14px;">After reading today's story about the Mayor in Orlando and his stance on feeding the homeless, I felt compelled to send him a note:</span><br />
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="line-height: 14px;">Dear Mayor Dyer,</span><br />
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<span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="line-height: 14px;">I was disturbed and disappointed to read your stance on feeding the homeless in Orlando, and your reference to a group feeding needy people as "food terrorists".</span><br />
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At a time when our country faces record unemployment and greater economic problems on a daily basis, with millions homeless in need of assistance, to take a stand such as yours is inhumane and incomprehensible to me. Would America have survived the Great Depression if there had been these limits on helping our fellow citizens had been imposed back then?<br />
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It saddens me that someone chosen to lead his community has turned his back so completely on a section of it, simply because they have fallen on hard times. Shame on you, Sir.<br />
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If anyone else feels compelled to do the same, his email is: buddy.dyer@cityoforlando.net</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333;"></div></div></div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-55397649689325550302011-03-28T06:53:00.000-04:002011-03-28T06:53:09.535-04:00Breaking Taboo LinksListen live today at <a href="http://www.newdissidentradio.com/">www.newdissidentradio.com</a> - live streaming out of LA at 4pm PST / 7pm EST<br />
Guests today are comedian, psychic and ghost hunter <a href="http://www.karenrontowski.com/">Karen Rontowski </a>and my new correspondent <a href="http://www.facebook.com/THETHUNDERKOK">Unkomik Thunder Davad.</a><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the 1960’s a Hebrew inscription on a broken storage jar, found in Sinai and dated from the beginning of the eighth century BCE (<em>Before Common Era)</em><em> </em>reads: 'I bless you by Yhwh of Samaria and his Asherah.' Lots of other references to Asherah exist and archeologists have been having a field day ever since sorting through the rubble. Why? Because it’s impossible to study humanity and try to grasp the inner workings of mankind without digging into the past.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The evolution of belief systems and our resulting societies… because face it – we are what we believe – is an intricate and endlessly fascinating puzzle. That puzzle has led us to where we are today. The recent news stories about God’s wife, Asherah, may seem like meaningless drivel, but there is in fact a great deal we can learn about our problems today by studying the past. Does it REALLY matter if the Jewish god Yahweh had a consort or wife? Not so much. Beliefs evolve and change over time. They assimilate and toss out what isn’t popular at any given time. Does it matter that all references to her were erased or reworked until she disappeared? Yes, it does actually. Not just as a reminder that history and the stories of a culture are written by the scribes in power<strong><em> (Can you say media megalopoly?)</em></strong> It should raise questions about what is believed to be Religious as well as Cultural Truths. It should raise questions regarding why even in this day and age women are not viewed as equals to men. Just look at the recent spat of legislation being proposed that takes away a woman’s control over her own body – and much of that in the name of religion.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div class="photo photo_left" style="clear: left; float: left; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; width: 180px;"><div class="photo_img" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img class="img" src="http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/199390_162625630458985_146016505453231_307970_3871273_a.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div class="caption" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">See any resemblance to the ark of the covenent in this Asherah statue?</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">What we reap today fell long, long ago - perhaps even at the felling of the sacred tree of knowledge that was Asherah – the other half of the ancient dual gendered god Elohim.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><em> </em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><em>“Then Elohim said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness….’</em></span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8398099/Bibles-Buried-Secrets-Did-God-Have-a-Wife-review.html" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8398099/Bibles-Buried-Secrets-Did-God-Have-a-Wife-review.html</span></a></div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-3337915218715743962011-03-28T06:42:00.000-04:002011-03-28T06:42:10.180-04:00Breaking Taboo - THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION<div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">LAUGHING PHILOSOPHERS </strong><strong style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">STUCK IN THE PRISON OF TIME </strong><strong style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">AND THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION</strong></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By DAVAD M DAVAD</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Roughly five hundred years before anyone decided to make up the arbitrary and silly mythology that is the Jesus Christ concept, a real man rose from Thrace and told us about atomic structure, galactic civilizations and Evolution. His ideas were amazing, considering there was no real science at the time. In fact, the Greek Democritus is known as “the father of Science.” And he was a happy, yet displanted soul, lost in a sea of brutal mediocrity, surrounded by ages of ignorance in all directions of space and time. </div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">He was light years beyond those around him. Democritus wrote prodigious books and papers on philosophy, ethics, and a vast number of other previously unknown scientific disciplines. During his ninety years on the planet, he wrote about Evolution, and his ideas had features similar to Darwin’s theory. This was a man who was a contemporary of Socrates and Plato, and despite Democritus’ writings, racist bigots like Aristotle created the ridiculous color coded ideas of “Fixed Speciation and ‘The Golden Class.” And for reasons unknown…they all hated Democritus’ guts. Maybe they were jealous.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So, why am I telling you about some long dead Greek dude? Because he sat around, without a microscope and knew that Evolution, Astronomy, Biology, Anthropology, and science itself, existed, and that was well over TWO AND A HALF THOUSAND FUCKING YEARS AGO. </div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Meanwhile, at this very moment in time, Kentucky has something called “The Creation Museum” where the ‘<em style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">science</em>’ they use, suggests that humans lived with dinosaurs, that the world is only a few thousand years old, and ordering huge saber tooth steaks so heavy they tip over their foot propelled cars was all part of life for the stone age families. </div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sometimes I want to scream at kids with Cigarettes, because my mother; who is in her seventies, stopped smoking back in the sixties, the moment they said “Hey, this causes Cancer” some fifty years ago. Why do people still smoke? Well, the same reason people still believe in stupid shit like Creationism and Intelligent Design concepts. </div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And I might add, ‘concept’ is as far as they go. There is no theory there, not even hypothesis. Those formulas belong to the heady realm of Science. If I say that “Glenn Beck is the Devil,” that’s just an idea. If I say “Glenn Beck is the Devil and that is why the world is going to hell.” and I can prove it - that is a hypothesis. If I can show you empirical evidence of him eating babies and traveling to hell and back on a whorey steed woven from the souls of duped Republican Teabaggers and have photos and video to back it up and seventy million other people saw him too…well…that starts to stray into the ‘theory’ department. But only after strict longitudinal testing.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So, let’s just discount all that bullshit, and not dwell on it. Lets concentrate on allowing our minds to understand Evolution and the broader implications of what math plus matter plus energy plus space plus time; have wrought for us at this stage of the game, some thirteen billion seven hundred million years since some George Carlin lookin dude opened up a can of multiversal whoopass.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Now, most folks want to talk about Evolution in terms of us. Its all about us. That’s known as Anthropogenics, or as I like to call it ‘being selfish Monkeys.’ But the Evolution of humanity and Evolution itself are not just concepts but the provable factual theory that is very fabric of the universe. We move ever forward, entropy destroys, energy creates, and situations make us become. Life is an expression of the universe, just like a black hole or a neutron star, or even Charlie Sheen. Yes, even him.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If I ever get my time machine working again, I plan to go rescue Democritus from his two and a half thousand year deep prison and bring him to an age that can truly appreciate him…chiefly, the twenty ninth century.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">UNKOMIK THUNDER</div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-47530230039980799672011-03-10T00:00:00.000-05:002011-03-10T00:00:01.565-05:00GHOST HUNTER - NEW from ELLORA'S CAVE!<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--PiU9qQB07I/TXZI4IQkulI/AAAAAAAAF-U/-xg8pAVsxRQ/s1600/Ghost%2BHunter%2BWebsite.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581728917299182162" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--PiU9qQB07I/TXZI4IQkulI/AAAAAAAAF-U/-xg8pAVsxRQ/s320/Ghost%2BHunter%2BWebsite.jpg" /></a><br /><div>I'm so excited to announce I have a new book out with Ellora's Cave! It's a paranormal romance called<strong> GHOST HUNTER</strong>, and it's got a hunky hero, a kick-ass heroine and a serial killing ghost that's scary as hell! Not to mention a smokin' hot cover!<br /><br />I love when I come up with an idea for a book out of the blue, which is what happened with <strong>GHOST HUNTER</strong>. When I heard my local RWA chapter set up a lecture with a team of paranormal investigators, it got me thinking right away about writing a book about a ghost hunter. Because the chapter is far from where we live, though, we didn't actually go to the lecture. I was a little bummed about that, especially since they were giving out EMF detectors. On second thought, maybe it was better we didn't go. Ghosts freak me out, so having something that can detect them probably wouldn't be a good idea.<br /><br />Enough about me, back to the story behind the story. While I knew the hero was a ghost hunter named Trace, I wasn't quite sure how the heroine fit into the story, or even who she was. So, my hubby and I played around with a few ideas at our local PF Chang's (we come up with a lot of story ideas there!) We both decided that having the heroine Cassidy need the hero's help because her house was haunted or something like that didn't seem original enough, so we made her a budding romance writer who tags along with the hero and his team to do some research. Like any good story, though, it had to have some conflict, which is why Trace and Cassidy completely rub each other the wrong way right from the beginning. Actually, he thinks he's a jerk. But don't worry, Cassidy discovers underneath that rough ghost hunter exterior, Trace is just the man she's been looking for. It doesn't hurt that he's hot!<br /><br />Okay, so we had our hero and heroine. Now we needed a bad guy. That's where the ghost comes in. He's not your standard, everyday ghost, though. He's a serial killer who attacked Cassidy that comes back from the grrave to continue his string of grisly murders, and she's at the top of his list. To make things even more interesting, not only can he do all the regualar ghostly stuff like walk through walls and materialize out of thin air, he can also take solid form.<br /><br />I'm not going to tell you any more than that, though. Don't want to give too much away, you know. I will add that my editor at Ellora's Cave told me she got so caught up in the story, she completely forgot she was reading a submission!<br /><br />Now that you know the story behind the story, I think I'll tease you with an excerpt. Enjoy!<br /><br /><br />BLURB:<br /><br /><br />Almost getting murdered by a serial killer gives Cassidy Kincaide a new lease on life and convinces her to go ahead and tackle that ghost-hunter novel she's always wanted to write. So, she hooks up with a gorgeous paranormal investigator named Trace McCord to do some research.<br /><br />Cassidy and Trace rub each other the wrong way right from the beginning, but they have to put aside their differences when the serial killer who attacked her comes back from the grave to continue his string of grisly murders, with her at the top of his list.<br /><br />Trace has to keep Cassidy close to keep her safe, and as they try to stay one step ahead of the ghost while figuring out how to stop it, he and Cassidy end up in each other’s arms. While Trace has a whole list of reasons why he shouldn’t get involved with her, he finds himself falling in love with the beautiful blonde anyway. And even though Cassidy started out thinking he was a jerk, she learns that underneath the rough ghost hunter exterior, he’s just the man she’s always been looking for. Now, all they have to do, is live long enough to be together.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />EXCERPT:<br /><br />Trace was only a few miles from the address Robert had given him for Cassidy when his cell phone rang. At first he wasn’t going to answer it, but some sixth sense made him change his mind. Now he was glad he had.<br /><br />He was about to disconnect the call when he heard a muffled scream on the other end of the line. It was quickly followed by a loud clatter, then nothing.<br /><br />“Cassidy!”<br /><br />No answer.<br /><br />Trace felt his chest tighten. Swearing under his breath, he shoved his cell phone in the pocket of his jeans and floored the pedal on the Hummer, running a red light to get through the intersection. The other drivers honked their horns as they squealed to a stop, but he ignored them. There was no way he was going to let Cassidy die.<br /><br />Five minutes later, he slid into the parking lot outside her apartment, running over an ornamental fence and a flower bed to come to a screeching halt a few feet from the front door. Jumping out of the Hummer, he ran around to the back and grabbed his duffel bag full of gear. Throwing it over his shoulder, he raced up the steps and charged through the door into the building, scaring the hell out of two women carrying laundry baskets.<br /><br />“Where the hell are the stairs?” he demanded, not wanting to waste time with the elevator.<br /><br />The women timidly pointed around the corner.<br /><br />Trace didn’t thank them as he ran in that direction. He hit the steps hard, taking them hree at a time. Once on the fourth floor, he ran down the hall, checking the room numbers on he doors. When he came to the right one, he didn’t even bother to slow down. Instead, he icked the door in as hard as he could, reaching into his bag for his shotgun as the frame plintered and the door flew open.<br /><br />He looked left and right as he entered the apartment, but there was no sign of Cassidy or el Vecchio. Trace’s blood ran cold at the scene that met his eyes. The living room looked s if a cyclone hit it. The couch and throw pillows were sliced to shreds, stuffing still floating hrough the air. The coffee table was lying on its side, as were the two end tables, and the amps that had been on them were smashed to pieces along with practically everything ele in the place. Even the walls had been slashed.<br /><br />“Cassidy?” Trace called.<br /><br />“In here.”<br /><br />Trace followed the sound of her voice until he came to the kitchen. Cassidy was standing in the center of the room inside a wobbly drawn circle of salt, ready to throw a handful of something in his face. She sagged with relief at the sight of him, letting the stuff in her hand trickle out onto the floor. That was when he realized she was holding a big container of oregano.<br /><br />“Is he gone?” she whispered.<br /><br />Trace nodded. “Yeah, he’s gone. But I’m getting you the hell out of here anyway.”<br /><br />He didn’t wait for an answer, but simply slung the shotgun over his shoulder by the strap, then walked into the kitchen and swung Cassidy up in his arms.<br /><br />She put one of her own around his neck. “Is it safe for me to leave the circle?”<br /><br />“Yes. I’ll keep you safe. Trust me.”<br /><br />Apparently she must have believed him because she didn’t resist. She cuddled the container of oregano close to her body and leaned against his chest.<br /><br />He frowned. “Cassidy, you did great with the salt circle. It saved your life without a doubt. But what are you doing with the oregano?”<br /><br />She looked up at him with big, blue eyes. “Isn’t it what you used to get rid of ghosts?”<br /><br />His mouth twitched. “That’s sage and garlic. You can ditch the spaghetti spice.”<br /><br />“Oh,” was all she said. Resting her head on his shoulder, she let the container of oregano tumble to the floor, then put that arm around his neck, too.<br /><br />Giving the place one more look to make sure Del Vecchio hadn’t come back, Trace carried her out of the apartment and right passed the alarmed neighbors who had come out into the hallway to see what the ruckus was all about. Trace imagined they got their money’s worth seeing a big guy with a shotgun and a duffel bag slung over his shoulder carrying a beautiful half-naked woman in his arms. He abruptly realized he probably should have taken a few minutes to let Cassidy grab some clothes. But then the lights in the hallway flickered and he decided he could get her clothes later. They were getting the hell out of there.<br /><br />“Is she being kidnapped?” one elderly woman asked another in a low voice as he and Cassidy passed them.<br /><br />“If she is,” said the other old woman, “then I want to want to be kidnapped next.”<br /><br />Any other time, Trace would have laughed, but right now all he wanted to do was get Cassidy someplace safe. Fortunately, he knew exactly where to take her.<br /><br /><br /><br />Watch the Trailer Here!<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7c6DgZ-fHs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7c6DgZ-fHs</a><br /><br />Get your copy of <strong>GHOST HUNTER</strong> at Ellora's Cave!<br /><a href="http://www.jasminejade.com/p-9148-ghost-hunter.aspx">http://www.jasminejade.com/p-9148-ghost-hunter.aspx</a><br /><a href="http://www.jasminejade.com/m-615-paige-tyler.aspx">http://www.jasminejade.com/m-615-paige-tyler.aspx</a><br /><br /><br />*hugs*<br />Paige<br /></div><br /><div>"Stories so hot, they'll make your cheeks blush!"</div><br /><div><br /><a href="http://www.paigetylertheauthor.com/">http://www.paigetylertheauthor.com/</a><br /><a href="http://paigetylertheauthor.blogspot.com/">http://paigetylertheauthor.blogspot.com/</a> </div><br /><div></div>Paige Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04160083721050979492noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-30651774606337923532010-12-10T00:00:00.000-05:002010-12-10T00:00:07.591-05:00Get DEAD SEXY and Show a Zombie Some Love!Thanks so much for letting me guest blog today!<br /><br />Readers often ask me how I come up with ideas for my books, so I thought I'd give you a little behind-the-scenes peek at how I came up with my new release, a paranormal erotic romance from Ellora's Cave called <strong>DEAD SEXY</strong>.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pflHCvkDsik/TP-95DRswLI/AAAAAAAAFtc/Gkl7LZPyTr8/s1600/Dead%2BSexy%2BWebsite.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548362053773476018" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pflHCvkDsik/TP-95DRswLI/AAAAAAAAFtc/Gkl7LZPyTr8/s320/Dead%2BSexy%2BWebsite.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Before I say anything else though, isn't that cover too hot for words?! When the art department sent it to me, I probably gazed at it for a good ten minutes in mouth-drooling appreciation before I could email them back telling the artist it not only rocked, but totally fit the book. The hero is "Dead Sexy," after all!<br /><br />Okay, back to the story and how I came up with it. First, to set the stage, I need to share a little something with you about myself. Well, about my hubby and me, actually. We love zombie movies, from the George Romero gems to Shaun of the Dead and everything in between, including "Walking Dead," the new series on AMC. You just can't go wrong with a movie full of walking dead people, can you? Well, if you've ever seen a zombie movie (or even you haven't), then you know the creatures aren't the heroes of the film. I mean, how can they be, right? They're all dead and decayed and downright unattractive, not to mention pretty damn scary. Which was why you can imagine my surprise when my hubby suggested I write an erotic romance about a zombie hero. I was like, you're kidding, right? What woman in her right mind would fall in love with a dead guy? No way could that possibly work, or so I thought.<br /><br />Turns out, my hubby wasn't kidding. In fact, he started working up ideas for the story.<br /><br />"The hero didn't have to be a zombie all the time," he told me. "Think outside the box - take a little literary license!"<br /><br />Okay, I thought. I suppose I could be open minded.<br /><br />My hubby told me that in his out-of-the-box world, the hunky hero got cursed by an evil Voodoo priestess and only turns into a zombie sometimes.<br /><br />"I'm listening," I said.<br /><br />"And when he does go zombie, he doesn't have to be like the kind in the movies," my hubby added. "Well, he has to look like one, you know all dead and stuff, but he doesn't have to be a mindless creature or attack humans or eat anything gross."<br /><br />So, brains are completely out, thanks goodness!<br /><br />"Think Jensen Ackles or Jared Padelecki, with a really, really, really dark tan - (yes, my hubby knows I've got a thing for the Supernatural hunks!) - well, maybe more gray and black than tan, but you get the idea."<br /><br />I thought about that for a minute. "So, the hero's dead, but he's still sexy, is that what you're saying?"<br /><br />"Exactly," he said, giving me a grin as my eyes lit up with understanding.<br /><br />By that point, my hubby had pretty much sold me on the idea. Of course, I knew if I ran with it, I was going to have to sell it to a publisher, and I knew that could be tough since the hero is a zombie. But I ran with it anyway and ended up with a full-length novel. And it came out pretty damn good, if I do say so myself! I still had to find a publisher for it, though.<br /><br />About this same time, It just so happens that several of my other books were in the process of being picked up by Ellora's Cave and I thought what the heck? Why not pitch it to my editor there and see what she thinks? So I did, and she told me to send it to her. She was interested to see how I handled the whole zombie-thing. Well, long story, short, she liked it. A lot! My zombie romance with it's dead-sexy hero had a home! I was thrilled and my hubby walked around for a week with a smug, "I-told-you-so" look on his face.<br /><br />I've been getting the word out there about DEAD SEXY ever since I signed the contract for it and I'm thrilled with the interest from readers who can't wait to get their hands on it! I can't wait for them to read it, too!<br /><br />Now that I've revealed the story behind the story, I thought I'd share the blurb and an excerpt just to whet your appetite for more!<br /><br /><br />Blurb:<br /><br />Romance author Simone Kent thinks she might just have found the most perfect guy in all of New York City - in bed and out. But Drake Parrish is about as far from perfect as any man can get. Eight years ago, he was cursed by an evil Voodoo priestess to live part of his life as a zombie. Since then, he has lived like a recluse on New York’s Upper East Side, afraid to go out for fear he’ll suddenly turn into one of the walking dead.<br /><br />The sex is the hottest either of them has ever experienced and Simone discovers just how naughty she can be with Drake, while he finds himself feeling things for her that he hasn’t felt in a very long time. When the Voodoo priestess learns of their relationship, however, she comes after him again. She is determined to make sure he won’t have a future with Simone, even if that means killing both him and the woman he loves.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Excerpt:<br /><br />As she led him up the steps to the second floor, Drake found himself wondering if she would ask him in. And wondering what he’d say if she did. When they came to a stop outside the door to her apartment, Simone turned to give him a smile.<br /><br />“I had a great time tonight.”<br /><br />“Me, too.”<br /><br />She caught her bottom lip between her perfect white teeth and chewed on it thoughtfully as if unsure what she wanted to say next. It was probably an unconscious gesture, something she did whenever she was thinking, but to him, it was sexy as hell and all he could think about was kissing her.<br /><br />Surely, one kiss couldn’t hurt. He desperately wanted to. He hadn’t kissed a woman in so long. It would be nice to see if he still remembered how.<br /><br />Before he could stop himself, Drake tilted Simone’s face up to his and pressed his mouth to hers.<br /><br />She tasted just as sweet and delicious as he thought she would. Her lips were soft and pliant under his as she kissed him back, her tongue eagerly seeking his out.<br /><br />Drake groaned and slid his hand into her hair, deepening the kiss. Simone sighed into his mouth, running her hands up the front of his shirt to grasp his shoulders. The feel of her touch was like a tonic to his deprived soul and he let out another groan, deeper this time.<br /><br />He ran his free hand up her side and around to her breast, cupping it through the soft material of her dress. He couldn’t stop himself and apparently, Simone didn’t want him to. She moaned and arched against him. He could feel the heat of her pussy through their clothes as she pressed up against his hard cock. Damn, she felt good.<br /><br />Drake drew her bottom lip into his mouth and gently suckled on it before slowly kissing his way along the delicate curve of her jaw. Simone clutched his shoulders and tilted her head back. He eagerly trailed a path of hot kisses down her neck, then back up, his mouth finding hers again. Simone looped her arms around his neck, pulling him in even closer as their tongues met.<br /><br />Down the hall, a door slammed, reminding him where they were.<br /><br />Drake dragged his mouth away from hers, his breathing ragged as he tried to regain control. He had to get it together because he was about five seconds away from doing something really stupid. Like taking her to bed. “I should go.”<br /><br />Her lips curved into a sexy, flirtatious smile. “Or you could stay.”<br /><br />God, how he wanted to. But as much as he’d love to spend the rest of the night exploring every inch of her body, he couldn’t take the chance he might go zombie on her right in the middle of sex. Talk about coitus interruptus, And it had already been almost four days since he last turned, which meant he was already pushing his luck.<br /><br />“You don’t know how much I want to,” he groaned. “But I can’t.”<br /><br />Simone looked up at him with those big, blue eyes. “Why not?”<br /><br />“Because I…” He hesitated, trying to come up with something that would sound believable. “I have a column due in the morning and I haven’t even started on it yet.” She knew all about deadlines, so she would understand that. Besides, he did have a column to write, it just wasn’t due until next week. “Rain check?”<br /><br />She looked disappointed, but she smiled anyway. “Absolutely. How does coming over for dinner tomorrow night sound?”<br /><br />It would be crazy to agree when he could be so close to having an episode, but he couldn’t say no. Not when she asked in that soft, sultry voice. “Sounds great.”<br /><br />“Good. Be here at seven.”<br /><br />“Seven it is.”<br /><br />She pulled him down for another long, slow kiss on the mouth. “Don’t be late.”<br /><br />His mouth twitched. “I won’t.” He bent his head to kiss her again, then groaned. “If I don’t go now, I’ll be here all night.”<br /><br />Simone laughed. “Would that be such a bad thing?”<br /><br />“Not to me, but my editor at Money Issues might not be too understanding when he doesn’t find my column sitting in his inbox tomorrow.”<br /><br />She sighed. “Deadlines can be a real pain in the butt sometimes. Okay, go home and write your column. I’ll cuddle up with a bowl of ice cream instead.”<br /><br />He chuckled. “Sounds better than taking a cold shower, which is what I’m going to be doing when I get home.” He closed his mouth over hers once more. “See you tomorrow night, beautiful.”<br /><br />Resisting the urge to pull her into his arms again, Drake turned and walked down the hallway toward the stairwell. At the top of the steps, he glanced over his shoulder to see Simone standing where he’d left her, a sexy curve to her lips.<br /><br />It took every ounce of strength he possessed not to go back and pin her against the door for one more long, lingering kiss. God, what he wouldn’t give to spend the night with her. Man, it was going to take more than a cold shower to get her out of his head.<br /><br /><br /><br />Hope you enjoyed the excerpt and that you can't wait to read more! You can get <strong>DEAD SEXY</strong> from Ellora's Cave at <a href="http://www.jasminejade.com/ps-8917-50-dead-sexy.aspx">http://www.jasminejade.com/ps-8917-50-dead-sexy.aspx</a><br /><br />You can also check out the trailer here!<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5D_YH6bYrE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5D_YH6bYrE</a><br /><br /><br />If you decide to pick up <strong>DEAD SEXY</strong>, let me know how you like it!<br /><br /><br />*hugs*<br />Paige<br /><br /><a href="http://www.paigetylertheauthor.com/">http://www.paigetylertheauthor.com/</a><br /><a href="http://paigetylertheauthor.blogspot.com/">http://paigetylertheauthor.blogspot.com/</a>Paige Tylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04160083721050979492noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-78761023896905250032010-11-08T16:02:00.001-05:002010-11-08T16:03:28.252-05:00<h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">BREAKING TABOO at 4pm PST/7pm EST with guest Teri Ahlstrom discussing "The Scarlet Tramp Stamp", also the unholy Rev. Jeffrey Brunk with Legalizing Prostitution live streaming out of LA on <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=124949994212400" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=124949994212400" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">New Dissident Radio</a> Come get your Dissident on.<br />
<a href="http://newdissidentradio.com/" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://newdissidentradio.com/</a></span></span></span></span></h3><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">_________________________________________</span></span></div><div><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Top Story -The Scarlet Stamp Tramp</span></span></u></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">As a society we still embrace the ridiculous notion that “good girls don’t” while “bad girls do.” What is it they do or don’t do? Sex. Plain and simple. It doesn’t even have to be wild, kinky, bondage sex. If you’ve bumped naughty bits with more than a few men (exact number depends on who is judging you) you’re a ….slut. Pass me the scarlet tramp stamp please.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Slut’s a word that is spilling from a lot of lips lately, thanks in part to the on-going hysterics over a Duke University man-eating power point, AND the recent media tittering over right-wing female political candidates denouncing female sexuality or being covered in mud due to their own past “indiscretions.” Why is it that the slut stamp can still be flung at women as a weapon? Some of the worst abusers ARE women.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">The stereotype and name calling is stirring up a shit storm and bringing into question what exactly is feminism these days. It’s not about women’s domination over men, revenge for past wrongs, or even proving who is better. AND it shouldn't be about slut-bashing. The era of the femi-nazi is over...despite certain factions whining in morale outrage.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">We’ve finally, finally entered a time in our society when a large number of women, particularly women in their prime, are becoming comfortable with their own sexuality. They are tossing off the restrictions placed on them by the values of others and making up their own minds about what they like, don’t like and who they want to do it with and how often. What right does anyone have to call women who are discovering their own sense of empowerment and equality, sluts? Think about the mixed messages this is sending to teen girls. No wonder we’re all fucked up.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Like priests who rant against gays while hiding little boys in their closets, me thinks the judgmental protest too much.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">On the plus side I'd rather be called a slut than a narrow-minded, shriveled up, judgmental prude. Just sayin.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=28829" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=28829</span></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">_____________________________________________</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Douche Bag Island - News link:</span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/world/asia/08burn.html?_r=1&hp">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/world/asia/08burn.html?_r=1&hp</a></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Here you're shunned as a slut, there you're stoned. or set on fire. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">____________________________</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">"We Love You Long Time...."</span></span></u></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Contributed by the Unholy Rev. Jeffrey Brunk</span></span></em></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Recently, the United Nations Human Rights Council dove little head first into the plight of sex workers in the United States. The report submitted by the Best Practices Policy Project, Desiree Alliance, and theSexual Rights Initiative focuses on civil and human rights violations of those engaged, or perceived to be engaged, in sexual trade and sex work in the U.S.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Prostitution is a dirty word, much like Cancer, colonoscopy and Snooki. Cancer is an unwelcomed reality of life. Colonoscopies are an unwelcome result of that reality and, well, Snooki happens whether we like it or not. However, the question of whether prostitution should be legal, even decriminalized, is a moral issue. Sex workers do not sell themselves. They sell a service and are paid for that service. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Agreed, there is a plethora of pros an cons, tangent arguments and a seemingly insurmountable mountain of education needed in order to bring the stigma of those who choose to engage in sex work to the masses for consideration.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">The advocates make a case for the humanizing of those holding fast to the oldest profession. Their reasoning "isn't that prostitution is great for women, or that trafficking and abuse aren't real threats. The proposition is pretty sane and simple, from a workers' standpoint: The sex trade, like many other "legal" jobs, falls on a wide spectrum of exploitation within a capitalist labor system. The work itself may represent realities that people find immoral or disturbing. But the people doing the work are more than mere proxies in a culture war; they're human, and that alone entitles them to equality before the law."</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-chen/sex-workers-try-to-enter-_b_779925.html" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-chen/sex-workers-try-to-enter-_b_779925.html</span></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">_________________________________</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Guests Today:</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"></span></div><div class="GBThreadMessageRow_Info" style="margin-bottom: 4px;"><span bindpoint="authorLinkWrapper" class="GBThreadMessageRow_AuthorLink_Wrapper" style="font-weight: bold;"><a class="GBThreadMessageRow_AuthorLink" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=555931569" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Teri Ahlstrom</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></span><span bindpoint="authorLinkWrapper" class="GBThreadMessageRow_AuthorLink_Wrapper" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">- </span></span></span></div><div class="GBThreadMessageRow_Body" style="float: left; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; width: 400px;"><div class="GBThreadMessageRow_Body_Content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">I’m a regular gal who grew up all over the place as an Air Force brat. I married at 21, had three fantastic children and divorced after 18 years of a bad marriage. My kids are all in their twenties now, and have given me two beautiful granddaughters. At age 50, I’m living and loving in Virginia and learning to adapt to the southern lifestyle (after many years in Southern California). My wonderful partner of five years lives with me and I refer to him as Yummy (or Master, depending on the game we are playing). It was never my intention to become involved again in a long term relationship but he is an exceptional person who lets me be who I am, making no demands. I’ve discovered by observing other good relationships that the key foundation is mutual consideration and respect. I’ll now have no other kind of relationship in my life. I’m in the process of writing a book called, “Give a Man an Inch and He’ll Try to Give You All Six!” It should be completed by the time I’m 65. ;)<br />
I have two main beliefs about men and women.<br />
One is a quote by Katharine Hepburn ~ “If you want to exchange the admiration of many for the criticism of one, then go ahead and get married.” The other is that pussy is always the commodity.</span></span></div><div class="GBThreadMessageRow_Body_Content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="GBThreadMessageRow_Body_Content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">And of course our favorite unholy Reverend, the one and only disfunctional genius Jeffrey Brunk. You can keep in touch with him when he's not breaking taboos on the air by visiting his blog: <a href="http://yelpsfromthecloset.blogspot.com/?zx=24ff6d78ec2c363c">http://yelpsfromthecloset.blogspot.com/?zx=24ff6d78ec2c363c</a></span></span></div><div class="GBThreadMessageRow_Body_Content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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</div></div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-7218789079436987002010-11-01T12:58:00.001-04:002010-11-04T13:44:55.682-04:00Breaking Some Taboos - Topics and Guest for Nov. 1<h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">LINKAGE TO PODCAST of this show: </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.newdissidentradio.com/breaking_taboo.html#archives">http://www.newdissidentradio.com/breaking_taboo.html#archives</a></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">_______________________</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Today on BREAKING TABOO we'll be discussing Male Stereotypes and Prison Myths, with an inside look at what prison is REALLY like with special guest <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001059841786" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001059841786" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Maury Lipschitz</a>. Only on<a href="http://newdissidentradio.com/"> http://NewDissidentRadio.com</a> Monday 4pm PST/ 7pm EST</span></span></span></span></h3><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Happy Day of the Dead!</span></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">___________</span></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Alpha Who? Male Gender Roles</span></span></u></b></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Shockingly little attention is given to male stereotypes in current society. Its as if men have fallen through the crack of awareness with ALL the focus on fixing the female roles. Which should be fixed, don’t get me wrong. There is still a glass ceiling in many industries and women are second class citizens in many cultures. BUT, the neglect in addressing how men are “defined” and how they define themselves is disturbing. Because as the female role changes, so does the male. A sociological imbalance has been created between what is taught to men and what they have to deal with in reality. Remember – we are constantly shaped subconsciously by the gender role messages and attitudes of our media, our education systems, our peers, and our families.</span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">There is a serious catch 22 that is mostly ignored by not only society but by men themselves. The empty well that now exists creates an environment where some men long for the "good old days, when men were men and women were women" as illustrated by the popularity of shows such as Mad Men. But the men are left feeling incomplete and off balance, because of course, those days are gone.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">It isn't that the male gender, specifically their subconscious, longs for women to be second class citizens and know their place. <em>(Okay – some here in the south do, but they’re Neanderthals.)</em> To my mind, it is more of a hunger for a clearly defined role in society.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Most women KNOW what we are striving to achieve as women, and if we don’t there are a million magazines, Oprah, and self-help books and studies to tell us. Men - on the other hand have been raised to believe that a real man cares for his family, gives them the good life, blah, blah, blah. But guess what, he struggles to achieve that in a society where women now contribute as much and in some cases more than the male in a family. So where does the self measurement of personal success come from then? The old gender models need to be addressed and not just discarded, but replaced with new measures. Because pressure to succeed as a “male”, to meet societal and familial expectations leads to shorter life expectancy, stress, heart problems, ulcers, alcoholism, crime, drugs, etc. The fact is it is no longer needed or called for. But society has failed to let the males of our culture know that.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><a href="http://manzine.org/2009/09/03/manliness-in-the-modern-age/" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://manzine.org/2009/09/03/manliness-in-the-modern-age/</span></span></a></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">________________</span></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Under the Big House - Prison Mythconceptions</span></span></u></b></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">American prisons and jails held over 2.3 million inmates in 2008. About one in every 18 men in the U.S. was behind bars or being monitored. The numbers have dropped in 2010 apparently do to reforms in sentencing but it’s still way the hell up there with the largest number of inmates by far being male.</span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Given the pressure to succeed at any cost, the innate aggressiveness that many males seem to have… and are encouraged to have – it really isn’t a surprise is it? As women step up to a more equal footing in society, the number of women in prisons is rising. Stress, fear, greed, anger, hatred, desperation – these are all factors that can contribute to someone making a bad decision that leads them down the merry road to prison hell.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">I’ve now heard several times: the only difference between a convict and everyone else is that we were just never been caught. We all have done something wrong at one point in our lives. Something illegal. Something that breaks the law of the land.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Prison used to be the boogyman land. We were told you went to prison and had to work in chain gangs, survive knife fights, deal with being raped nightly. It was a place to live in terror of because the men came out worse than they went in.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Somehow that changed and suddenly prison is practically a country club, with inmates passing their time with free meals, television, gym, free schooling and no pressure to have to deal with the “real world.” Especially for those white collar criminals. They have plush cells and their own internet. If it wasn’t for the prison gangs still trying to make everyone their bitches, it would probably be a damn fine vacation. That’s why criminals can’t be rehabilitated – they don’t mind going back in. Jail is a free ride for them on the backs of the tax payers. Oh and don’t forget, they all claim they’re innocent.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Guess what. We’ve got most of it all wrong. Maybe it’s the fault of the media, movies, television, word of mouth or a combination of all those. Maybe it’s the fault of fear.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><a href="http://www.honoluluweekly.com/archives/coverstory%202003/07-02-03%20Prison/07-02-03%20Prison.html" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://www.honoluluweekly.com/archives/coverstory%202003/07-02-03%20Prison/07-02-03%20Prison.html</span></span></a></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">____________________</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RViCIIhOxX8/TM7xX7xSN2I/AAAAAAAAA08/TzGbtOg91uc/s1600/mauryLipschitz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><img border="0" height="247" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RViCIIhOxX8/TM7xX7xSN2I/AAAAAAAAA08/TzGbtOg91uc/s320/mauryLipschitz.jpg" width="320" /></span></span></a></span></div><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="UIStory_Message"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">What Maury sez about Maury Lipschitz:</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">"Maurice Lieb Lipschitz - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">43 years old, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">ex-con, securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud</span></span></span></span><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">60 month sentence-----early release 27 months</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">College athlete (Wrestler)</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Went to Wall Street the day after graduation from college.</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Started career at Lehman Brothers-----</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Institutional and retail stock broker for 13 years in NYC</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Ran an OTC trading desk----produced daily research reports, managed investment </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">portfolios</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">High School Rock and Roll star. Artist. Sometimes insecure, but always love people.</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Over achiever----fear of failure sometimes becomes an obsession.</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">All-in kind of person....never goes half-way.</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Catholic.....but chose the most Jewish sounding name I could think of to play the </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">obnoxious super agent to the stars, as my alter-ego.</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Hates religion...loves spirituality. </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Religion is a farce made up by men.....but I believe in the power of positive thinking and </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">focus to achieve goals. </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Entrepreneur. Owner of several small businesses.</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Likes to talk about the market------LOVES to talk about health and fitness.</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">I love to find things to laugh about every day.</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Don't think I've ever turned my back on anybody that asked for my help.</span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">I know prison life. It ain't fun."</span></span></span></span></h3><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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</span></div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-8991615141863691392010-10-31T09:26:00.000-04:002010-10-31T09:26:50.639-04:00Massa Sage Where ARE you?Southern Sage blog is gone, his facebook is closed, his email account deleted. It doesn't look good for finding out how one of my long time friends is doing.<br />
It's karma in a way I suppose considering I have up on vanished online several times on people due to various "issues". There is a real sorrow in losing someone you've known for years, knowing you are unlikely to hear their special brand of humor, delight in their wit and just know they are there for you to reach out to when you need them.<br />
Where ever you are out there Massa Sage - hope you're doing well and thanks for the wonderful friendship.<br />
~laying flowers on the grave of your alter ego and shedding a tear~Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-42418536578568094312010-10-25T11:23:00.000-04:002010-10-25T11:23:05.873-04:00B REAKING TABOO -The PAges Are Stuck Together So We Can't Finger the Remote Control<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>contributed by Rev. </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a class="mention" contenteditable="false" href="http://www.facebook.com/lakotaphillips#" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: default; text-decoration: none;" tabindex="-1"><span contenteditable="false" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Jeffrey Brunk</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Last week, the Parents Television Council mis-placed their collective remote control and picked up a GQ magazine. One can only imagine that a soccer dad has a stash of GQ, Maxim and Details magazines hidden in the spare tire compartment of the family truckster. Unfortunately for him, while mommy was vacuuming stale Cheerios from the trunk she stumbled across the stash and discovered, to her horror, that cast members of the television show 'GLEE' were involved in a sexualized photo spread in the latest GQ.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Council has spoken. Council president Tim Winter claims the photos border in pedophilia and are nearly pornographic. The group is correct in stating that GQ is an adult male magazine. The group, however, fails to mention that the female cast members in question, Lea Michell and Dianna Agron, are both in their mid-twenties. The PTC also suggests on its website that 'America's Funniest Home Videos' may not be suitable for families due to 'occasional nudity, usually a bare baby's bottom.'</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">At issue is more than a photo spread of young, clothed women nestled between three hundred pages of advertisements for men's fashion and grooming needs. Those more open-minded individuals might wonder why a Television watchdog group bent on censorship is now policing print media. The PTC will claim it is an on-going effort to shield little Chelsea and Johnny from the evils of the adult world. Stand in a checkout line at your local supermarket and peruse the plethora of women's mags that blare pictures and headlines about celebrity sex lives. Where is the PTC outrage? Dads nationwide will now be TiVo'ing 'GLEE' in order to better educate themselves on its lurid, 'hyper-sexualized' cast. They also want their magazines back.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/20/parents-group-calls-glee-_n_770295.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/20/parents-group-calls-glee-_n_770295.html</a></span>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-13960127782291875142010-10-25T09:21:00.000-04:002010-10-25T09:21:33.187-04:00BREAKING TABOO - Pervin’ on Porn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RViCIIhOxX8/TMWET2xLRBI/AAAAAAAAA04/L9Yav5IVqRE/s1600/khajuraho.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RViCIIhOxX8/TMWET2xLRBI/AAAAAAAAA04/L9Yav5IVqRE/s320/khajuraho.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><em style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><strong style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Join me on BREAKING TABOO with very special guest Porn Star and Director Rebecca Lord discussing the Porn Industry. Also joining us is the Unholy Rev. Jeffrey Brunk covering the PTC Not Feeling the Glee. Live streaming from LA at 4pm PST/7pm EST. Station Link: www.<em style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><strong style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">NewDissidentRadio.com - l</strong></em>isten anywhere in the world. </strong></em></span></strong></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</strong></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><em style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><strong style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"></strong></em></span> </strong>Pornography is going to bring about the moral decay and collapse of society. It’s been working on it for the last… ohhhh… 30,000 years, give or take a millennium or two.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Greeks and Romans had erotic sculptures and frescos showing homosexuality, orgies and more, while in India the Kama Sutra was being snatched off the scroll shelf by the boatload. Ancient Peru got their kink on with ceramic pottery and the Japanese perv’d to erotic woodblock prints, and the Chinese turned dildo-making into an art form. Actually, the oldest <em style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">verified</em> dildo is from 30,000 years ago. How much you want to bet it played a starring role in a little Palaeolithic voyeurism?</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The likelihood of porn bringing about the collapse of civilization – probably not all that great, unless you count it as a 30,000 year downward spiral. According to some sources, the highest users of porn are teens, with more than 11 million regularly viewing porn online. Worldwide, there are 4.2 million pornographic websites, 420 million pornographic web pages, and 68 million daily search engine requests. I’m not sure how they got their teen stats since I’m pretty sure most teenagers wouldn’t confess to viewing porn – even though they do. And have. Since the beginning of time.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The news is speckled with stories of porn stars who reveal the “truth” about porn. In almost every case they seem to have left the porn industry to either work for a sex addiction clinic, promote a book about the evils of porn, joined a ministry, or in some way ditched the horns for the halo agenda. Really, isn’t that still just selling themselves in a different way? And while most of us don’t sell our sexual talents, almost everyone who works has to sell themselves on a regular basis. So get the fuck over the hypocrisy and holier than thou judging already.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Is it a risky business? Definitely as highlighted by the recent HIV scare. Does it entail dumbassedness – yup – just look at the lack of mandatory condom use. But there is a mix of truths and lies about the porn industry. Which is true and which is false depends on who you ask. So we’re asking Rebecca Lord.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><em style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">True or False - the porn industry:</em></strong></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Industry is rife with violence and coercion.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Only perverted men and boys enjoy it.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Porn stars are dumb and can’t get a better job.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Normal / nice women don’t like porn.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Porn degrades women.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Male porn stars have to take Viagra.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Most porn is outside the sexual mainstream and depicts depicting bestiality, pedophilia, rape and BDSM.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Drugs and sexually transmitted diseases are rampant.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-There is no supporting data connecting porn with criminal behavior.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Strippers and porn actresses are just college students looking to make some extra money.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Female porn stars become lesbians because they get tired of all that dick day in and day out.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-75%-90% of porn performers are prostituted women.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Porn actors have personal backgrounds of abuse and neglect.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">-Once you’ve worked in the Porn industry no one will take you seriously as an actor, dancer, etc.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;" /></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11561576</div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-29513323483095956482010-10-24T21:15:00.002-04:002010-10-24T21:15:48.041-04:00HEADS UP (no pun intended)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You don't want to miss Monday's BREAKING TABOO and my very special guest Porn Star and Director </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001383244900" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001383244900" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Rebecca Lord</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> discussing... you get one guess. 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</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RViCIIhOxX8/TMTaEF1p1II/AAAAAAAAA00/vgRnCcJlVw0/s1600/rebeccalord.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RViCIIhOxX8/TMTaEF1p1II/AAAAAAAAA00/vgRnCcJlVw0/s320/rebeccalord.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><u>A Bit About Rebecca Lord</u></b></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Rebecca has been in every major magazines in the US (except for Playboy, cuz her boobies just aren't big enough she says.) and UK, France and has been the number one porn star in Japan for several years. She is also the first porn star to tour Japan since Tracy Lords.</span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">She has appeared in over 200 porn movies and directed and produced several videos she's starred in. She became less active in porn movies but hasn't retired. She has been married to the same man since the age of 17.</span></span></span></span></div></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Rebecca's latest movie as a director is "The Secretary" for French Production Marc Dorcel will be released in November this year. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Her Movie and Magazine lists can be found here: </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.rebeccalord.com/html/bio.htm" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">http://www.rebeccalord.com/html/bio.htm</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Her website:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.rebeccalord.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.rebeccalord.com</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">On a personal note - Becca has been an online friend for over two years and has one of the most wicked senses of humor of anyone I know. The woman is bloody brilliant and has an enormous heart. I've adored her forever so having her on the show is a special treat for me.</span></span></span></span></div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-5219054300855115232010-10-18T14:41:00.001-04:002010-10-19T07:15:13.346-04:00BREAKING TABOO Stories for Monday October 18<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.4pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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</span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">It's going to be a super hot Breaking Taboo with erotica authors </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=785247459" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=785247459" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Eden Bradley-Eve Berlin</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">, </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001514115589" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001514115589" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Crystal Jordan</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">, and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Between the Sheet's</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=623100347" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=623100347" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Lora Somoza</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> - it's all about the taboos surrounding masturbation & objectifying men as sex objects. Live streaming on Newdissidentradio.com today at 4pm PST/7pm EST. Podcasts available after the show on station website. </span></span></h3><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">_____________________________________________________________________________</span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.4pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Two-Finger Tango</span></u></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.4pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Masturbation is word of the week…month… maybe the year, thanks to dorky O’Donnell. As much as I dislike her ideas, I approve of the dialog that her bumbling has sparked. The word masturbation is shrouded in shame, denial, fear, loneliness and perceptions of perversion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">This is especially true when it is associated with women. Society has created an absurdly contrary stereotype: women who never masturbate and are less than sexually enthusiastic are prudes; while women who not only enjoy some Clit’o’rama but also talk about it and admit to being sexually liberated are labeled as sluts. Granted, most women fall somewhere in the middle of that – they masturbate, enjoy sex, but don’t openly discuss it. The problem with that is silence feeds the misconceptions and outright falsehoods that surround a topic like masturbation. It perpetuates the cycle among the youth as they mimic the shame of the adults around them. Children are told it is abnormal, not natural, when in truth it is very much a natural act. Shame lays the bricks for the tower of sexual repression in our society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">There is less of a stigma attached to men masturbating because you know, they just can’t control themselves, sexual beasts that they are. Medical studies point to masturbation as an aid in preventing prostrate cancer. For women there are apparently no benefits except pleasure. I fail to see why that’s a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.4pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Gimme Your Studly Sex</span></u></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.4pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Men have been objectifying women as sex objects since…well… forever.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">I’m told by male friends objectification is alive and well, particularly in certain cultures. Worst case dehumanizes the subject to the point where the offender treats the object of lust with disrespect and abuse. But for most, objectification takes the shape of lust, fantasy, and in some cases those desires are acted upon for a meaningless bumping of naughty bits. This is where the old double-standard rears its ugly head.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">When a woman objectifies men, pretty much turning the tables, she’s greeted with disbelief and shock. She’s a whore if she’s had more than a handful of lovers. Yeah - even in the 21st Century. Go figure. She’s a slut if she admits she just wanted him for his big cock and hard body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">It’s ridiculous that a powerpoint about a woman’s conquests went viral and made the news. The attitudes of society with its “girls must act this way, while boys can act any old way they want” is totally delusional. Wake up. Women ARE sexual creatures. An enormous percent of women LOVE sex. And a growing number aren’t ashamed of it. In fact – women are beginning to celebrate their own sexuality in record numbers. We look at male eyecandy and drool. We nudge our girlfriends and make raunchy sexist remarks about tight male butts. And it’s not because the men are lined up begging to be objectified. Although they are.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Forget all the feminist propaganda and political correctness bullshit for a moment. Women are every bit as mentally naughty as men and objectify men ALL the time. Sometimes (gasp) they even act on it and enjoy an evening of no-strings sex. It doesn't make the women sluts or whores. Just sexually confident and on the same playing field as men.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">What we're really talking about are choices between consenting adults with the woman taking the initiative. Truly the how, what and wherefore, are no one else’s damn business. So stop with the judging.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Now drop your jeans and bend over so I can check out your ass.</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span><a href="http://jezebel.com/5652114/college-girls-power-point-fuck-list-goes-viral-gallery" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://jezebel.com/5652114/college-girls-power-point-fuck-list-goes-viral-gallery</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-84129039636297467852010-10-11T17:24:00.001-04:002010-10-11T17:24:44.856-04:00Breaking Taboo - on newdissidentradio.com<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">In Sane Artists<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">I’ve said this many times in discussions, artists have the biggest egos and the greatest insecurities of anyone. It takes giant cohones to think that you can create something unique and original and then put it out there for the world to see and rip apart. Because artists invest so much of themselves into their creations, they also battle vicious insecurities. This stewpot of emotion is spiced by peers who view those artsy types as …well, not quite right in the head. Some critics blame the father of label slapping, Freud, for promoting the theme of artistic madness, but historically, that perception pre-dates his psycho-babble.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Examples of famous artists who have been termed "</span></span><span class="fadewordcontainer"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">crazy</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></span><span class="fadewordcontainer"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">artists</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">" include Charles</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/who-is-charles-dickens.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Dickens</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">, Virginia Woolf, Leo</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/who-is-leo-tolstoy.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Tolstoy</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/who-is-john-keats.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">John Keats</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">, Sylvia</span></span><a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/who-is-sylvia-plath.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Plath</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Gaugin, Michelangelo and of course the poster child - Vincent Van Gogh.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Some battled with depression, others with alcohol and/or drugs. But is that a symptom of seeing too much, of perceiving the world differently or visa versa? Okay, so It’s true a good number of artists tend to be emotional. A dispassionate artist is a rarity. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Were they labeled as insane, eccentric or outright nuts by their societies because they didn’t quite fit into the “normal” box of that particular time? Or because they defied convention, had original thoughts and heaven forbid – expressed them? If you define abnormal as the opposite of normal, but normal is something that fluxuates depending on the culture and the point in history – then really who are the crazy ones? Those that live outside the imposed boundaries or those that choose to bind themselves up with them?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">There is no doubt that most artists tend to see themselves as somewhat separate or mentally existing outside general society, but aside from playing on the freedom that eccentricity allows, most are not and do not consider themselves crazy. It doesn’t take insanity or depression to create great art. The myth that suffering equals great art is a lie that needs to die. Usually the opposite is true, since critical and original thinking require heightened awareness and the ability to make huge jumps in logic and creative problem solving. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">In fact, if you ask most intensely creative people, they will tell you, they are by and far much more sane than the majority of humanity that lives an uninspired existence.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Who Put Date-Rape Drugs in the Holy Water?</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Westboro</span></span></span></st1:placename><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span><st1:placename w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Baptist</span></span></st1:placename><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span><st1:placetype w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Church</span></span></st1:placetype><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> resident lump of clay Fred Phelps, </span></span><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Louisiana</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> pastor Martin Denesse, Albert Mohler, the Southern Baptist leader who calls yoga an anti-Christian practice .... they have each been busy gaining notoriety for absurdities while blatantly displaying hypocritical behavior that contradicts the very messages contained in the Holy Tomes that they so revere.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">It's quite disconcerting that Lindsay Lohan is continually locked up and forced to wear an ankle bracelet to monitor her alcohol intake yet 'tards like Phelps and his crop of dingleberries can spew fallacies and hatred at a funeral without fear of reprisal due to religious freedoms. More disconcerting is that backwards-thinking, ignorant religious leaders like Phelps and his ilk have hundreds if not thousands of faithful followers who will swallow anything that their shepherd tells them as being the verbatim words and will of God ... with the exception of another man's phallus, unless it is determined that Jesus truly was gay. Then it's going to be an 'every man for himself' melee as Phelps runs naked through the streets of Washington, dingus in hand, aiming to 'Stick it to the man', quite literally.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">There is little wonder why many of the world's religions look at Christianity as a blight upon humanity. Not all Christians are bad. Most are fine people, as are their respective pastors. What fringe leaders such as Fred Phelps equate to are the suicide bombers of radical Islam and al Queda, the rock throwers in </span></span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Gaza</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> and the ignorant publicity-seeking dimwits of politics (Hello, Christine O'Donnell). For now, we can raiseth our hands to the sky, beckon the Great Energy of the Universe to send extra energy to these creatures of mental deficits and hope that the added ampage blows their bulbs. Who wouldn't love for Fred Phelps to be blown.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-31439006172053442152010-10-04T18:00:00.002-04:002010-10-04T18:00:28.574-04:00Breaking Taboo - Gimme my Fame at Any Cost<h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message">From the sleaze wallowing studio gutter of the Jerry Springer Show to the invasive videocams of young boys having sex and posting it online, we have created a society that no longer knows shame nor stops to consider consequences. We want it now, we want it free and we want it with little or no<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">work, thank you very much. Welcome to the by-product of a fast food society.<br />
Technology has made privacy a cherished privilege. It is supposed to be a right.<br />
Where is the line between filming a police officer punching a young girl in the face to posting a young man’s sexual encounter online? It would seem obvious to me. There is a line where respect for the rights of others comes into play. The moral and ethical line has thinned as people forget common decency in their quest for popularity and fame.<br />
There are even Do It Yourself guides on how to make yourself a viral hit online that includes taping someone being injured – cuz y’all know that shit it is so funny on you tube. Yeah but what if it is YOU being splashed across the world? Oh wait – half the viral videos ARE of people making total asses of themselves. I don’t have a problem with that. Just don’t try to ride to fame on the broken back of someone else.<br />
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This lack of sensitivity, as well as the psychological distance the internet provides has given birth to a new brand of bullying that is resulting in trauma, hate and suicides. From vengeful posting nude photos of an ex on social media to cyber-spying for frat house chuckles to viciously vilifying someone because of their sexual preferences – it all reflects a growing maliciousness in society.The “do unto others” credo has somehow become “do unto them before they do unto you so you get your fifteen minutes of fame.” </span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />
<a href="http://www.kget.com/news/local/story/Tehachapi-boy-is-one-of-four-teen-suicides-in/WJ6kizE10EKKrm35hFu3nA.cspx" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span>http://www.kget.com/news/local/story/Teh</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><span>achapi-boy-is-one-of-four-teen-suicides-</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span>in/WJ6kizE10EKKrm35hFu3nA.cspx</a></span></span></h3>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-41418027122910156822010-10-04T17:59:00.000-04:002010-10-04T17:59:09.609-04:00Breaking Taboo - The Misinformation Highway<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">One of the major disasters of the great information highway called the internet is information laziness. The other is gullibility. We see it in print and we not only swallow it, we regurgitate it and pass it on. Never stopping to consider that what we pass on as fact may actually be nothing bu</span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;">t conjecture or outright lies. Being inundated with as much info that hits us constantly in the eyeballs, most people skim, grab and pass. Social media has taken this to a new level.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />
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<span class="textexposedshow">We have to remember that we are now living in the balloon boy era, where people will lie, steal, cheat, slander and punk anyone and everyone if it will get them a viral moment of fame. Just because the news runs with a breaking story doesn’t mean its all true. A perfect example is the story I did on the Rape-Axe. If I had stopped at the first 8 or 9 stories while doing research I would have passed along the false information that the anti-rape condom is being distributed in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Only by digging deeper did I discover it was never released. The age of yellow journalism, where sensationalism is more important than veracity, has returned full force.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">It’s all about the drama.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #151515;">Notes:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;">So what does it matter if it’s true or not? After all it will be old news in 15 minutes. Welllll – guess what? Libel is alive and well, especially in our litigation happy culture. And people can be sued, for spreading false information via twitter and facebook, in addition to other communication avenues. Social media is technically considered a publishing platform, which means that publishing liabilities, copyrights, and other legalities apply. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #151515;">As the man says “The world has fragmented into millions – if not billions – of tiny one-man media outlets.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #151515;">The moral? Don’t believe everything you read, online or in the news without doublechecking for the truth yourself. And definitely don’t pass it along as fact unless you are positive it is indeed fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes time and is a pain in the ass but do it or it may be your ass that is held over the fire someday.</span></b><span style="color: #151515;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #151515;"><a href="http://www.technewsdaily.com/information-anarchy-dont-believe-what-you-read-0218/">http://www.technewsdaily.com/information-anarchy-dont-believe-what-you-read-0218/</a></span></b></span></div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-81323848382889794262010-10-04T12:42:00.002-04:002010-10-04T12:44:12.768-04:00Breaking Taboo - Stop Porn in Loveland<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">I love this title. It’s taken directly from a protestor’s sign in front of the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">Loveland</span></st1:placename><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><st1:placename w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">Municipal</span></st1:placename><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span><st1:placetype w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">Museum</span></st1:placetype></st1:place></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">. We have another case of religious themed art causing the Christians to storm the castle… I mean gallery walls. I examined the art closely and below the word "orgasm" there is a boy giving a blowjob to what is clearly "jesus in rapture" (as seen in thousands of works of art over the centuries) with a cross in the background. Initially I cried foul, because the city's cultural services director told reporters that "Jesus is not having oral sex.” Ummm – yeah lady, he is. But as David pointed out on facebook, technically he’s not “having” oral sex – it’s being done to him. Reminds me of a bunch of bad jokes about eating the body of Christ. Which may have been the artist’s intent. Let's be clear on one thing. This isn't porn. I don't know about you but I definitely do not find the image of Jesus getting a blowjob sexually arousing. (follow link to view) <a href="http://www.sharksink.com/printview.asp?printid=216&artists=15">http://www.sharksink.com/printview.asp?printid=216&artists=15</a></span></span></div><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span> <span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">I don't deny the artist's right to make the art, the public's right to view, and the christians' right to protest. But i do take exception to Miss Verbal Two-Step twisting the truth like she’s a disciple of the School of “a BJ isn’t REALLY sex.”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span> <span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">And most importantly – this is displayed not in a privately owned gallery but in a city museum that children frequent and apparently without warnings of offensive content. Ehhh – yeah… I’m siding with the Christians on this one. And what if it had been a picture of Mohammed getting a blowjob? I do believe it would never have been displayed. Cuz I'm pretty sure in Islamic cultures that a BJ equals sex.</span></span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/25239730/detail.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/25239730/detail.html</span></a></span></span></span></div><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"> </span></o:p></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">Additional NOTES:</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">Image has sexually arousing appeal- as decided by the average person applying the standards of the community; portrays sexual conduct in an offensive way; </span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">and </span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">lacks serious artistic, literary, scientific, or political value.</span></span></span></div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-66052355800017750782010-09-27T15:20:00.001-04:002010-09-27T15:21:27.118-04:00Breaking Taboo - Topics for Today's Show<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
<h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Breaking Taboo today 4pm PST on New Dissident Radio.com. Guests Johnny Dam and Jeffrey Brunk. Call-in 323-284-5532. Podcasts of shows available on newdissidentradio.com</span></span></span></i></span></h3></span></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">____________________________</span></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">BREAKING TABOO: The Ugly Reality Behind the Anti-Rape Condom Sensation<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span> <span class="uistorymessage"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">A doctor in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">South Africa</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> created an anti-rape device with plans to distribute it during the World Cup there this year. It hit the international news in a big way. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></o:p></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">"Rape-aXe is essentially a female condom with hooks inside. A woma</span></span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">n can insert the device with an applicator similar to that of a tampon. Should she be raped, the hooks attach to the rapist’s penis, just in the skin, not deep enough to draw blood. Impossible to dislodge, the device will need to be removed by a doctor, resulting in the rapist’s inevitable arrest."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span> <span class="textexposedshow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Sound barbaric? Sound like a recipe for disaster? What it sounds like to me is a desperate attempt to fight back for the 1 in 2 woman who are raped there every year. A woman is raped every 17 seconds in South Africa NOT including child rapes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">A girlfriend who lives there carries condoms just in case she is attacked and in hope the rapist will use it. With the HIV epidemic there, rape CAN be a death sentence for the victim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></o:p></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">And forget reporting it because the cops are as likely to rape you as the soldiers, street gangs, and any number of other males living there that believe the women “enjoy” the rape.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span> <span class="textexposedshow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Truth is only 1 in 36 rape cases is reported and only 15% see a conviction. Guess what, Islamic zina (fornication) law applies to many of the women so they’re liable to be whipped or stoned for reporting the rapes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></o:p></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Despite the media reports, Rape-axe is only an idea, not a reality. Dr. Sonnet Ehlers managed to raise a whopping $120 in donations to distribute 30,000 of the devices at the World Cup. The Vagina Dentata teeth snapped shut on itself. Sponges with razor blades are more affordable to desperate women who live in a daily state of fear. If I lived in </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">South Africa</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> I would absolutely wear one of those anti-rape condoms if they were available and take my chances on the rapist becoming more violent - because living in a barbaric reality calls for barbaric means of fighting back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></o:p></span></h3><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cherrytv.com/blog/a-condom-with-teeth-to-prevent-rape/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://www.cherrytv.com/blog/a-condom-with-teeth-to-prevent-rape/</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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Contributed by Rev. Jeffrey Brunk<br />
Allegations of sexual abuse leveled against religious leaders are becoming almost fad-ish. The Catholic church is noteable for having holy men with a penchant for boys. But recently, Eddie Long, pastor of a predominately african-amer</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">ican Atlanta mega-church was called out by several young men for taking indecent, nay, homosexual liberties with them while acting as mentor, spiritual advisor and daddy-figure.<br />
Now, in and of itself, sexually taking advantage of someone while in a position of religious authority can almost be considered as detrimental to someone's well-being as taking advantage of someone's emotions and fears while in a position of religious authority.<br />
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But, at the root of any same-sex encounter is a more pressing question ... one which can be posed applied to God-like, haughty pastors as easily as the seemingly 'straight' married man who decides to frequent restroom glory-holes in search of something which most consider forbidden - a same-sex encounter.<br />
Are all men and women hard-wired to desire same-sex encounters or have we been taught and programmed to believe that same-sex desires, thoughts and encounters are wrong, which in turn goes against human nature?<br />
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The increasing frequency of revelations of homosexuality within religious institutions may suggest that, in the end (so to speak), human nature may have the final word, after all. </span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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</span><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gays-anatomy/200810/gay-guise-when-straight-men-have-sex-other-men" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/gays</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><wbr></wbr></span><span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">-anatomy/200810/gay-guise-when-straight-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><wbr></wbr></span><span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">men-have-sex-other-men</span></a></span></span></h3>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-2685296314745058032010-09-23T07:50:00.000-04:002010-09-23T07:50:37.974-04:00The Naked Truth of Religion and Art<div class="MsoNormal">Catch me today on the 3x award-winning DAMage Report - live streaming from LA on newdissidentradio.com at 2pm PST/ 5pm EST.</div><div class="MsoNormal">_____________________</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RViCIIhOxX8/TJs-wMOk2tI/AAAAAAAAA0E/Gv0U6Hmtpmk/s1600/img3927.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RViCIIhOxX8/TJs-wMOk2tI/AAAAAAAAA0E/Gv0U6Hmtpmk/s640/img3927.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">Rodney Pople has caught the attention of the christian communities with his recent exhibition that depicts a combination of religious iconography and sexually explicit art. The art in the exhibit is powerful and stark - using famous works of religious art and church interiors combined with magazine collages of porn. Visually attacking the corruption in society by utilizing imagery such as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>women having anal and oral sex, women with legs splayed showing genitalia on altars, as well as an altar boy on the cardinal's lap with genitals partially exposed.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RViCIIhOxX8/TJs-vjnD_wI/AAAAAAAAAz8/H0b0Ccbd35M/s1600/524.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RViCIIhOxX8/TJs-vjnD_wI/AAAAAAAAAz8/H0b0Ccbd35M/s640/524.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Cardinal with Altar Boy - "in the cardinal's lap - echoing the classic pieta pose of the crucified Messiah - is an altar boy, his genitals partly exposed as he offers his own innocence to the figure of religious authority."<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">While i have no problem with porn personally, i can't deny that it works well as a symbolic reference to explotation, selling of one's self, as well as getting fucked over by society - figuratively and literally. Pople claims his works aren't religious critiques, which may or may not be true considering the power of religions on society. Some pieces are clearly darts thrown at the catholic church (such as Cardinal and Altar Boy), but given the recent exposure of the church's nasty secrets, it can also be taken in social context. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The outrage of the religious towards art that in any way makes a negative or critical statement is actually pretty fascinating. They behave as though their beliefs will be contaminated by the existence of the art. The outrage is often self defeating since it generally draws the public eye toward whatever they are protesting. I wonder if any of the protesters viewed Pople's exhibition before setting up a prayer vigils outside the gallery or if they protested blindly on what they had "heard" the show was about. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I don't take issue with the religious sects that protest use of their sacred icons in art. It is their right. I do take issue with anyone censoring and demanding that the art may not be shown, thereby trying to dictate what someone like me can view and learn from. The world does not revolve around their singular religious beliefs, as shocking as they might find that. The world is bigger and more diverse than that. Considering the many crimes against humanity that are tied to most, if not all religions, it is only natural that artists - the visual historians and cultural seers of society - should dig down deep into those areas, ripping off the hypocritical facades.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">By the way - should you think - well, that's <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region> - it has no relevance here... try bringing that show here and see what happens. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> is embracing censorship - especially on anything related to religious topics. I wonder if we would even allow the show in the country. After all we have to protect the innocent minds of the population from the naked truth.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">http://wentworth-courier.whereilive.com.au/news/story/art-draws-prayer-protest/<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">relevant links:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/cardinal-sin-triggers-alarm-bells-at-art-gallery-20100904-14v6u.html<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">http://sify.com/news/oz-artist-s-nude-paintings-set-against-religious-scenes-cause-outrage-news-international-kjpskhdcbje.html<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">http://www.rodneypople.com/<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/spiritual-works-that-dont-flinch-from-taboo-themes-20100827-13vzh.html<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">http://www.blakeprize.com.au/entries/2010-winners</div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-77572400342233988542010-09-20T17:38:00.001-04:002010-09-20T17:38:43.166-04:00Breaking Taboo Topics - Sept. 20<h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Breaking Taboo today 4pm PST on New Dissident Radio.com. Guests Simone Elizabeth and Saxon Day . Topics: 2 + 1 = Testosterone Fantasy; It’s a Period, not the Bloody Plague; Listener Call-in: Is Txt Killing the English language? Call 323-284-5532 - i'm hoping to have time to take at least two callers. Podcasts of shows available on newdissidentradio.com</span></span></span></i></span></h3><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">________________</span></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
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<span class="UIStory_Message"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">2 + 1 = Testosterone Fantasy</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">If I had to guess at the percentage of hetero males that fantasize about a little ménage action with two women I think I’d be pretty safe to conservatively guesstimate 90-95%. Everyone knows guys like the idea of having sex with two hot women. But bring lesbianism into the conversation and they flinch, scowl or sneer. They lust for some girl on girl, but by goddess the girls better be straight. Not gay. Not bi-sexual. The paradox is mind-boggling. They go nuts over seeing two girls flirt but definitely want to be the center of that attention. Bring up some guy on guy (hey turnabout is fair play) and almost to the man, they’ll run screaming from the room. Why is it okay for “them” to lust for some kinky threesomes but not women? I should clarify – we can lust for a ménage as long as it includes another straight female and one guy. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Threesome fantasies aren’t for everyone but the popularity of threesome porn and erotica has grown over the past five years. It is amusing to note that in porn it is typically the 2 girls and 1 guy, while in erotic romances it is typically 2 guys and 1 girl. And not always with the guys totally focused on the woman. Some of the hotter stories include some bi-sexual play. I’m thinking women in general are just a wee bit more open minded about sexual exploration than men. Bi-sexuality is one of those topics that repels and fascinates the majority. There seems to be some bizarre perception that a person who is bi is confused, conflicted or can’t make their damn mind up. There’s a certain amount of scorn from both the gay and the hetero communities. Personally, I applaud those that are comfortable enough with their own sexuality to admit that they find both genders attractive and brave enough to embrace that attraction. The attitudes are changing, slowly – but they ARE changing. Teens today have no problem admitting they are bisexual or exploring both genders while dating. Makes sense to me. How do you know what you like unless you try it?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20895468/ns/health-sexual_health/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20895468/ns/health-sexual_health/</span></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">_________________________________ </span></span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">It’s a Period, not the Bloody Plague</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">A consumer letter to Proctor and Gamble bitchslapping some marketing genius that decided to put “Have a Happy Period” on each Maxipad got me thinking about menstruation and how it is viewed as something nasty, unfortunate, distasteful and definitely not to be discussed in polite society. Ask your significant other to run to the store and grab you some tampons and pads – some men will flat out refuse, while others see it as a mark of their generous sensitivity for complying. They’re just fucking female products. It shouldn’t be a big deal. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">The irony is that menstruation is part of species creation. Without it – we ain’t got no peoples. So why has it been reviled throughout the ages? In the past women in countless cultures were secluded, so they couldn’t contaminate anyone. They were considered tainted during that time – or even all the time due to their “weakness.” Even today – having a period is seen as a flaw, a weakness, a detriment. Can’t have a woman president – she’ll blow the country up once a month. Please. We don’t get any more hormonal and emotional once a month than guys do while watching a football game. And we’re generally appeased with chocolate. Just don’t put any dumbass and insulting smiley faces on our feminine products, stay out of our way, agree to everything we say, and it’s all good. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">With all the negatives in society tied to having a period – isn’t it bizarre than once a woman goes into menopause and STOPS having one – she is considered less of a woman? You would think with all the bitching that women and men do about menstruation that finally getting rid of “the curse” would be a cause for celebration. But being the contrary creatures we are – of course its not. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></span><span class="UIStory_Message"><a href="http://open.salon.com/blog/velina/2009/02/06/so_funny_i_did_not_change_a_word"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://open.salon.com/blog/velina/2009/02/06/so_funny_i_did_not_change_a_word</span></span></a></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">______________________</span></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"></span><br />
<span class="UIStory_Message"><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIIntentionalStory_Names" data-ft="{"type":"name"}"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></span></b></span><span class="UIStory_Message"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">“Spank It” – Listener Call-in topic</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
Is Texting and chat-speak killing the English language? Do other countries have the prevalent use of texting as well? Is chat-speak creating a universal language? Will spelling become a lost art, utilized only by professional writers? It is impossible to convey complex thoughts while </span></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">chatting in high speed so will we lose our ability to comprehend complex thoughts eventually?<br />
There is no doubt that texting, twittering, chatting online and condensing communications down to the bare bones to be banged out as fast as possible on computers and mobile phones is here to stay and growing popularity. But how is it affecting us and reshaping how we will communicate in the future, but also how we will think in the future?</span></span></span></span></span></h3></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">____________________________</span></span></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"></span><br />
<span class="UIStory_Message"><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Breaking Taboo Book/Art Pimp: "Naked" by </span></span></span></b><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1164858131" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1164858131" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Megan Hart</span></span></span></b></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
There is something exquisitely satisfying in reading a story that is so well written, has such magnificently complex, REAL characters that the story digs under our skin and molds itself into our psyche. The first book I ever read of Megan's, "Broken" did that to me to</span></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">o. She writes stories that move me on a personal level, even if i have nothing in common with the characters. The situations, the layers of story have nuances that are relevant and resonate. If you have ever poo-poo'd reading a romance or erotica, i suggest you pick up this book. The brilliant and often humorous use of language will tickle you, while the characters will captivate. Olivia is conflicted, with her past impacting her choices as she struggles to come to terms with the issues she just doesn't know how to resolve so she can move beyond them. This is powerful story is a work of art and I applaud Megan. She is definitely one of the finest writers and artists I know.</span></span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Megan-Hart/dp/0373605463" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Megan-Hart/d</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><wbr></wbr></span></span></span><span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">p/0373605463</span></span></span></a></span></span></h3></span></div>Lakotahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028892947791179389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345035765791206260.post-3443983101891539402010-09-15T08:08:00.002-04:002010-09-15T08:09:33.892-04:00Damage Report - Do As I Say, Not As I Do<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Join me today on The DAMage Report for ARTS DAY. 2pm PST / 5pm EST live streaming from LA on </span></b></i><a href="http://www.newdissidentradio.com/"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">www.newdissidentradio.com</span></b></i></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">____________</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Think of society as a scale. The aim of course is to maintain a perfect balance of ideas and community structure. Realistically, individual and group input tips the scale a little to the left, then a little to the right in a constant dance of “this is how things should be.” </span></span></div><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">It was no surprise to discover that uber conservative </span></span></span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Amarillo</span></span></span></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">, </span></span></span><st1:state w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Texas</span></span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> is home to an art gallery and theater that is pushing radical, controversial arts into the public eye. The more rigid and moralistically uptight a community is, the more the artists in the community will try to rip back the hypocritical facades and reveal the truth laying underneath. The double talk of so-called community leaders like Reverend Grisham reeks to high heaven. In a perfect example of “do as I say, not as I do” he stated</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="uistorymessage"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">"you have to be cautious about what you promote (in art), because you might pr</span></i></span></span></span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">ompt a dangerous action based on those ideas."</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">He promptly attempted to burn the Koran during the same damn week. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></h3><div></div><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Nicely counterbalancing that type of religious fucktardedness in </span></span></span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Amarillo</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> are stage productions like</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">"The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?" which contains references to incest, homosexuality and bestiality. Incidentally, the work won a Tony Award for best play in 2002.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></span></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Hypocrisy and subjective interpretation are common weapons used against the arts – especially art that is trying to show us something about ourselves and our societies. The loosely defined definitions of what is and is not obscene or inappropriate is a double-edged sword. It gives the illusion of freedom of expression while cloaking a giant bitchslap fist that enables individuals to impose their personal tastes and preferences on the creativity of others. Observations that true art that pushes the envelope must stand the test of time and prove itself by “longevity” is moronic and indicative of the nonsensical garbage that art critics spew. Please explain how art that is banned survives the censorship to prove its longevity to the public? But that’s okay. Really. Because artists are society’s rebels and hypocrisy is something we will push right past. We’ll just keep jumping up and down on the left side of that scale, forcing it back into balance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span></span></div><a href="http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2010-09-12/radically-redefining-art"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2010-09-12/radically-redefining-art</span></span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">For Anyone wanting to see the story of Rev. Grisham being thwarted from burning the Koran by a skateboarder, check this out: </span></span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/skateboarder-foils-would-be-koran-burner-in-texas-2010-9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">http://www.businessinsider.com/skateboarder-foils-would-be-koran-burner-in-texas-2010-9</span></span></a><br />
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