Facts are the ingredients
Truth is the cake

Try to remember
the kind of September.....
September is one of my favourite months.  The Air is so flavourful, lush, bursting and fragrant - the kind that surrounds and assaults you - lush peaches, geraniums, marigolds, petunias, lavender - all giving their last best bursts.The stems of the maple leaves are red now and ready to move into the leaves.  I can touch them as they tickle my balcony railing. I loved September from the time I was a kid and dreamed that I would get married in September, but missed by 2 months.  At 66, there is still a  slight chance ?;>)
This is one of my favourite songs - I picked the Ed Ames version, but Jerry Orbach from Law and Order was the first to sing it in the Broadway show, "the Fantastics" or is it Fantasticks? Harry Belefonte has a lovely version too. And Julie Andrews. 

This blog piece was inspired by Dryad's blog piece, "Circular Egg Dancing" which is a gorgeous work of art.  Check it out.  Dryad is magic. 
http://lightdancing.gaia.com/blog/2008/9/cross-curricular_egg_dancing  

Neither.  Because most of the time, I don't think about anything at all. 
My mind is blank.  I have to tune in or turn on when need be and pay attention to the task immediately at hand.
This is courtesty of several brain attacks suffered over the past 8 years.
Each attack left me in a state of Now where it was very peaceful. I didn't want to leave.
I have balance now in the present. 

When I drift to painful past, I tell myself not to go there and revisit again.  I liken it to returning again and again to a restaurant that was dirty, had bad service, the food stunk. Why keep going back?  I revisit pleasant memories with my friends and family

Future?  thre future is now.  What you are doing right now will determine your future (and others'  futures)  You have a great responsibility to yourself and others to take care of Now, right now. 

Our minds can wander - we choose whether or not to go along for the ride.

Reduce
Repair
Recycle
Re-use
RETHINK PLASTIC!!!!

Sarah Palin wants to look as if she's too busy to spend time on her hair, but the style is carefully thought out.

By Celia Walden
Last Updated: 7:06PM BST 05 Sep 2008

 
Celia Walden shows off her Sarah Palin makeover Photo: CATHAL McNAUGHTON

When a woman wants to be taken seriously she can go down one of two routes: she can read the Economist from cover to cover, inject a little environmental hand-wringing into her dinner party repertoire and take a vow never, ever to mention designer footwear in public. Or, she can tie her hair up and don a pair of glasses.
 

As a former beauty queen, Sarah Palin - known in her basketball days as Sarah Barracuda - has a point to make: she's a female Clark Kent wishing to distance herself from the spandex and big hair of her cover-girl days; she's a hockey mom encumbered by her looks - or is she? That luxuriant hair, tied up so impatiently, is as carefully thought out as the spectacles; (I'm 90% sure they're clear glass).

"Palin wants it to look as if she's too busy to spend time on her hair, but this style would take a good hour to do at home," says Brendan Fowles at Daniel Galvin who "barracuda'd me" for the princely sum of £75. (US$131.91 at today's exchange rate)

"She's got very good hair but you need to put curlers in the whole head first, to get the volume, tie it tightly into a pony-tail and then pin down the bits at the back so that they look artfully tousled. The look is feminine without being feminine but quite repressed, and because of that oddly sexy."

Odd? Definitely. Sexy? No. But I left the salon feeling righteous, bossier than a sat-nav and dangerously contained.

The look Mrs Palin has perfected, offering the world a tantalising glimpse of her inner fox, is a winner. Her husband is the only one who gets the barracuda unleashed. Poor wholesome Todd had better not let the side down or Sarah'll get her gun.

From the Telegraph, UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/republicans/2689578/Celia-Waldens-verdict-on-the-Sarah-Palin-look.html

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I cannot believe the stupid spam that is being sent out. 
Evidently, ENGLISH IT NOT THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE!
Anyway, I am sure you have received even stupider ones than this example. Like Today....
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A friend sent this to me today.  Thought you might like it  and dance too!

Just keep breathing!

Image from:  www.thehumanbody.ecsd.net/student_gallery.htm

From the fabulous movie "Zorba the Greek" one of all time favourite movies.  This is the final scene where the uptight writer finally Gets It. I am going to read the book now - I think it is a play?  I will find out when I go to the library.

Now everybody, DANCE!!!!

The Federal Reserve is a private company made up of world bankers.  It is privately owned, not an arm of the US government.   Find out why the USA is in the mess it is.  Here is a document from 1995!  

The Fed and Financial Stability of the U.S. Government

From the Congressional Record 1/31/95

www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/fed-cr.html

check out more items in the whole section:
Money/Federal Reserve
like "who owns the Federal Reserve"

From 'Peace Is Every Step'
by Thich Nhat Hanh

"If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important.If in
our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not
only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to
live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile
affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The
source of a true smile is an awakened mind.

How can you remember to smile when you wake up? You might hang a
reminder--such as a branch, a leaf, a painting, or some inspiring
words--in your window or from the ceiling above your bed, so that you
notice it when you wake up. Once you develop the practice of smiling,
you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird
singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window. Smiling
helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding."

Subject: FW: Women Voting
 

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WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE
This is the story of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago. 

Remember, it was not until 1920
that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. 

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed
nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. 

And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.
Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing
went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of
'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'

(Lucy Burns)
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above
her head and left her hanging fo! r the ni ght, bleeding and gasping for air. 

(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.

Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking,
slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917,
when the ward en at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. 

(Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
http://memory.loc.gov/am mem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf
 
So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because-
-why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work?
Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?

Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new
movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle
these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling
booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.
All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the
actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote.
Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege.
Sometimes it was inconvenient.

My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history,
saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk
about it, she looked angry. She was--with herself. 'One thought
kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said.
'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use,
my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just
younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.' The
right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.'
HBO released the movie on video and DVD . I wish all history,
social studies and government teachers would include the movie in
their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere
else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing,
but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think
a little shock therapy is in order.

It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse.
 Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.
The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'

Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know.
We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote.
History is being made.

GET OUT AND VOTE - Women before you fought for you.  Vote please!


In the 1920s five Alberta women fought a legal and political battle to have women recognized as persons under the BNA Act. The landmark decision by the British Privy Council, the highest level for legal appeals in Canada at the time, was a milestone victory for the rights of women in Canada.

Background on the Persons Case

The British North America Act, or BNA Act, of 1867, created the Dominion of Canada and provided many of its governing principles. The BNA Act used the word "persons" to refer to more than one person, and "he" to refer to one person. A ruling in British common law in 1876 emphasized the problem for Canadian women by saying "Women are persons in matters of pains and penalties, but are not persons in matters of rights and privileges."

When Alberta social activist Emily Murphy was appointed in 1916 as the first woman police magistrate in Alberta, her appointment was challenged on the grounds that women were not persons under the BNA Act. In 1917, the Alberta Supreme Court ruled that women were persons. That ruling only applied within the province of Alberta however, so Emily Murphy allowed her name to be put forward as a candidate for the Senate, at the federal level of government. Canadian Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden turned her down, once again because she was not considered a person under the BNA Act.

Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada

For years women's groups in Canada signed petitions and appealed to the federal government to open the Senate to women. By 1927, Emily Murphy decided to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada for clarification. She and four other prominent Alberta women's rights activists, now known as the Famous Five, signed a petition to the Senate. The question asked was "Does the word "persons" in Section 24, of The British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"

On April 24, 1928, the Supreme Court of Canada answered "no." The court decision said that in 1867 when the BNA Act was written, women did not vote, run for office, nor serve as elected officials; only male nouns and pronouns were used in the BNA Act; and since the British House of Lords did not have a woman member, Canada should not change the tradition for its Senate.

British Privy Council Decision

With the help of Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, the Famous Five appealed the Supreme Court of Canada decision to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England, at the time the highest court of appeal for Canada.

On October 18, 1929, Lord Sankey, Lord Chancellor of the Privy Council, announced the British Privy Council decision that "yes, women are persons ... and eligible to be summoned and may become Members of the Senate of Canada." The Privy Council decision also said "that the exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours. And to those who would ask why the word "persons" should include females, the obvious answer is, why should it not?"

First Woman Canadian Senator Appointed

In 1930, just a few months after the Persons Case, Liberal Prime Minister Mackenzie King appointed Cairine Wilson to the Canadian Senate. Many expected Emily Murphy, a Conservative, to become the first woman appointed to the Canadian Senate because of her leadership role in the Persons Case, but Cairine Wilson's work in Liberal party political organization took precedence with the Liberal prime minister.

Biographies of the Famous Five

The five Alberta women responsible for the Persons Case victory are now known as "the Famous Five." Here are their biographies.

• Emily Murphy
• Henrietta Muir Edwards
• Nellie McClung
• Louise McKinney
• Irene Parlby

I couldn't help but laugh at this one - very creative and funny.  Hope you get a giggle too.
This might be an old one, but it is the first time I have seen this one
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WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change! The chicken wanted change!

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the Chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One, that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle  ground here.

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the Chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the other side. Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay, too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken 2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken 2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never crash or need to be rebooted.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?