September 30, 2014 at 4:57 am (culture, entertainment, music, Uncategorized)
Tags: Angus, culture, entertainment, Julia, love songs, music, music habit, stones
I soooo enjoy the music these two make together and apart. Hence their new album am sharing.
Don’t say I never served anything delicately delectable.
Time to hit play and open another tab for surfing while feeding the music habit.
For music, tours and more visit their site —>> http://www.angusandjuliastone.com/
What new music have you been hearing in 2014?
Share if you care to.
September 29, 2014 at 5:43 am (Uncategorized)
Some things need repeating, hence this post from Dear Kitty regarding the Berkeley protests and Free Speech.
From the Los Angeles Times in the USA:
Graying activists return to Berkeley to mark ’64 free speech protests
By Larry Gordon
UC Berkeley has been hesitant to embrace its turbulent past until now
UC Berkeley is welcoming back the radicals of 1964 as heroes and historical figures
Reagan said students should be ‘taken by the scruff of the neck and thrown out of the university’
September 27, 2014
Fifty years ago, Jack Weinberg was the first to be arrested in an unprecedented student protest over free speech restrictions on the UC Berkeley campus. Thousands of demonstrators surrounded the police car in which Weinberg was detained for 32 hours. Subsequent protests went on for months.
While UC authorities had hoped for a quick return to order, a seminal youth rebellion — the Free Speech Movement — was born on Sproul Plaza instead. Historians say its national influence persists through decades…
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September 27, 2014 at 9:45 pm (contemplation, culture, food, issues, life, nature, people, random, relationships, thinking)
Tags: attraction, babies, baby formula, breast cancer, breast implant, breast implants, breastfeeding, breasts, business, cultural issues, food, glands, implants, money makers, sex, sex education, Victoria's Secret, women, YouTube
Have you had your silicon implant fix today? Hmm?
This is a miss-take on the old sensual Saturday music themes of old. If this breast talk offends anyone I’m not apologizing because, after all, breasts have been around as long as humans in any variety. Without them Homo sapiens wouldn’t be here. Newsflash– baby formula is a profit motivated industry and boy oh boy, have modern folks bought into it big time. In the OLD days, if a mother couldn’t feed her baby for some reason, then a wet-nurse was found to provide sustenance. Yes, other women fed the babies of other mothers. Imagine that.
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Is that sexy or what? Hmm? I’m still waiting for the male underwear model version of this to hit prime time television. Anyone got any information on THAT? What?!
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Hmmm, just another profit driven industry?
Or?
Is all this breast business really all only sexual attraction?
Medical reconstructive surgery for breast cancer patients aside, of course.
Ironically, sex, not the stork, is the means for procreation. Shhhh, don’t tell the people who don’t like sex education in schools about this or they may do something drastic to shut down the sharing of the facts. Mother Nature doesn’t comprehend the people who are offended when women breastfeed their babies in public. Heavens forbid anyone should see the real thing doing what it was created to do. Does it sound like I’ve got an agenda here? Yeah, I suppose it does. Hmm….who’d have thunk it?
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What do babies need? Food. Where does it come from? No, not from the Gerber factory. It comes from some glands. Who knew?
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Wow, women have breasts for something other than filling out bikinis and bras for interested parties to ogle and grope. So much for second basing.
As for the next video, the Islamic element was unexpected but not distracting , and of all the videos I viewed on the tubes of you this one made the points that interested me in the manner I found most appealing today: bonding, nutrition, IQ, stress reduction. The text flows a little fast for my reading speed so you might want to hit pause when a new frame appears. I suspect there’s some irony loitering in between these lines at the moment.
Why this post at this point?
It’s about time I got this off my chest. 🙂
I feel so much lighter already.
Comments? Questions? Funny stories?
Anyone care to share the money numbers on the breast implant or the baby formula industries? If not, I’ll try to update with some $$$$ information when time allows. Thanks for visiting. Refreshments are in your fridge. I’m having pistachios and pomegranate juice. 🙂 Cheers.
September 27, 2014 at 6:27 am (books, culture, education, entertainment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, history, Indigenous People, Native Americans, people, politics, publishing, random, thinking, Writing)
Tags: Alaska, Aleuts, American history, An Uncommon History of 1776, Beavers, book review, books, Claudio Saunt, Creeks, Cuba, history, reading, West of the Revolution, Writing
One minute book review:
Why is it that people on one side of the globe think they have a right to the land of the people living on the other side of the earth?
Oh right–they’re all a bunch of greedy egocentric egomaniacs who are only interested in how to turn a profit. Yeah, I knew that.
Of course there’s genocide, racism and missionaries spreading misery in spades–but, there’s also the beaver trade and the Cuban connection too in West of the Revolution wherein Claudio Saunt fills history buffers in on what was going on elsewhere in North America during that war for some colonies’ economic independence from merry old England. This is an darkly entertaining and easy read with odd maps, chapter notes notes and a very strange illustration depicting beavers in action on page 129. Saunt offers some very disturbing stories about human behavior on the part of everyone and a decided lack of brotherly love. Yeah, forget all the first Thanksgiving propaganda, it’s a no go in Alaska with the Russians and Aleuts. And Jesus Christ, what is it with the damn priests and their bad habits on west coast and the southwest? Some things just never change no matter what century you’re digging around in. I suppose that’s because human behavior doesn’t seem to be evolving for the better anywhere. I could, and might do, an in-depth review of this recent new book–but right now I’m settling for two thumbs up review mind mode. Why? Because I learned a few things, like why the Creeks tried so hard to get some real trade going with Cuba. They understood their dire economic situation quite well. As for the Indians doing business with the Hudson Bay Company and others ~~ well, they could teach Wall Street a thing or two about insider trading of a certain sort.
And then there are those beavers and their dams . . . . 
September 26, 2014 at 8:27 am (entertainment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, films, life, movies, music)
Tags: Alaska, Battlestar Galactia, entertainment, films, Hera, House M.D., I Aim To Misbehave, Inuit, Irish, lyrics, Massive Attack, Mexico, movies, music, pilot, purpose, rescue, San Patricios, Serenity, Teardrop, television, The Snow Walker, war
A few days ago I caught a rumor via Bearspawprint that there’s a music theme of Purpose on the docket. Purpose has many faces and takes many forms. It’s not always easy to discern when you’re searching for one. I’ve found it surprisingly challenging to reference music thematically concerned with ‘purpose’ that had meaning for moi. Perhaps something is a tad askew in my braincase these days? Perhaps the problem has been with my sense of purpose? Maybe I’m just out of the swing of blogging? Maybe my purposes have all gone haywire one time too many?
At any rate, here’s my purpose music and film menu for the moment.
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I Aim to Misbehave ~ Serenity ~ Soundtrack, instrumental.
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Movie scene to go with music. I Aim to Misbehave – Serenity film speech scene–Mal plans to rock the big bad boys’ boats big time.
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The Saint Patrick’s Battalion ~ Battalion de San Patricio ~ Damn, just when you think you’ve got a handle on American history the Irish come along and kick the slops bucket.
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Battlestar Galactica – Adama’s speech for the mission to rescue Hera Agathon–Helo and Sharon’s Human/Cylon child.
150,000 years ago there was a child born out in space and she changed everything by simply be-ing.
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Some doctors practice medicine primarily for profit, especially in the American Medical system, and others have different purposes in their minds. Could a real House thrive and survive? I wonder.
Teardrop – Massive Attack ~ House MD Theme
Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Fearless on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me makes me lighter
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath
Nine night of matter
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath
Water is my eye
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire of a confession
Fearless on my breath
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath
You’re stumbling in the dark
You’re stumbling in the dark
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The Snow Walker — Pilot’s plane takes a nosedive in the Alaskan wilderness and he is rewired for survival purposes by a young Inuit woman. If you haven’t seen this film, you’re missing out on a great story.
I’m not sure how well any of this is working, but this purpose has been served as is.
For more Purpose-full music theme links I encourage you to visit Bear’s blogcasa –> at http://bearspawprint.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/purpose-music-themes/
September 15, 2014 at 5:35 pm (culture, education, ethics, issues, journalism, life, people, publishing, random, Writing)
Tags: armed forces, article, GQ, issue, journalism, magazine, masculitinity, men, Men Don't Get Raped", military, Nathaniel Penn, news, rape, review, September, sexual assault, sexual assualt, son, Writing
I love my local public library’s book and magazine holdings–even if I don’t always love what I learn via all information sources. While browsing the magazine racks this weekend I came across GQ‘s red tagged Special Report on sexual assault in the U.S. military–“Son, Men Don’t Get Raped” by Nathaniel Penn. There’s a certain irony in this September 2014 issue of GQ as this is its style edition and there are lots of photos of great looking guys wearing wonderful clothing throughout the magazine. So many in fact that I had some trouble navigating my way to the article that had caught my attention. To clarify, not because I was distracted by the images, but because of the sheer amount of fashion pictures. It’s all about a man’s image. And this article offers a haunting and compelling counterpoint to all those slick photographs of handsome, healthy masculinity. What happens when a basically healthy man is destroyed by his fellow man via sexual assault?
Penn’s piece offers a shattering look at the ongoing, and increasing, issue of male sexual assault in the military. The number of victims are in the thousands, these men have no recourse for medical aid of any kind from the VA, they are discharged from all branches of the service if/when they report being sexually assaulted by their comrades and superiors, and the consequences damage them for life. Penn eschews a straightforward narrative prose approach by letting dozens of quotes from victims speak for themselves to tell their stories, which taken as a whole present a damning portrait of how the American Armed Forces across the board is NOT dealing effectively with sexual assault by men against other men. The issues of power and control are in full throttle swing here on multiple levels and the picture is appalling. Indeed the military has succeeded in de-humanizing itself from the very top ranking officers down to the lowest ranking private. There is no compassion, there is no legal redress, there is no medical treatment offered, there is no accountability. There is only abuse and destruction of men by other men on the psychological, physical and emotional levels. There’s not much to recognize of the noble ideal of officers and gentlemen in this scenario which is destroying the lives of men who joined the military to serve their country.
The bottom line is that–the men who swear to defend the United States of America by doing military service do not defend each other—they enter a system in which rape, a crime of power and control, is rampant–and clearly no one within the system gives enough of a damn to do what needs to be done to address the problem. Other countries have–but not the United States. Here the victim still pays the price for the behavior of the criminal.
Yes, son, men do get raped all the time in the military — and it’s not by enemy forces, but by their so-called brothers in arms.
Kudos to GQ for publishing this devastatingly candid article about an issue apparently no one in the U.S. government really wants to do anything about. Why is that? Refusal to face reality that the military system is dysfunctional and destructive and therefore counterproductive? Because it’s run by damaged people with power and control issues of their own? Because the public lives in denial of reality? Because it’s hard to accept that the ideal is not real? Or ____ ?
Link to GQ — “Son, Men Don’t Get Raped”
http://www.gq.com/long-form/male-military-rape
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