edwards incites envy in the beating heart of mankind including pseudo-male coulter.

I am a sittin and a readin hullabuloo a political web site on it a story about journalistic ethics and their, the press corps, none to subtle attempt to tank Edwards campaign. A nice looking man that seems to cause little shmendric reporters hearts beat with envy and petty viciousness. I wonder exactly where the public got the Idea that they could trust the press to tell you the truth about anything...Occasionally a social injustice might be so grave that it elicits a outrage and one of them goes on a campaign but that is a rare occurance..once in a blue moon a ethical man that happens to good writer who is apolitical in loyalties will appear on the scene..But most of these people write what the owners politics and beliefs are. Shading their stories with what the Man wants on paper..COme on Yellow journalism was born and bred in america...A Blogger will tell you honestly what their political leanings are and do not pretend hypocritically that they are sancrosant and unmoved by political or financial agendas. The press cannot even come close to such honesty...

Well the mantra about Edwards is he is a Hypocrite because he is rich and wants to help the poor..Bad EDwards such a class traitor, just like the Hollywood liberati...Honest rich people want to exploit the poor, women and coloreds of all stripes, including their mixed raced bastards. Heaven forbid, there has never been any rich people so treacherous as Edwards...I believe that the press has forgotten about the new caring conservatives in office that cannot seem to buy Kevlar vests for soldiers and fortify the armor on their Humvee's yet slash at any given moment the taxes the rich pay... Because the rich suffer so much more delicately and more refine pain at tax time, than shot-up and blown-up soldiers.

Yes the press had hit it on the nail the rich do not care about the people of the lower classes..America is beginning to look more like Versailles in Louis time that the republic of the common man..soon the tribal drums will start beating and the wheel will turn and the new jacobins will appear on the american landscape and maybe 5,000 dollar handbags will be the rallying cry for outrage when it finally enters the america consciousness that they are the poor not the rich and to support the wealthy in their exploitation of the poor is being a class traitor despite what the preist or the preacher say...

Merrie part from the hinterland.. working to return america to the common man, one step at a time. one sacred cow at a time...

skewed judgment

Well I was on Feminsting as I read a came upon an interesting blog one on judging women and use of judgemental opinion as driving force in public policy concerning women's issues....Someone did a survey about women that have ordered PlanB and their opinion about it being available to women over the counter...they thought it was a good Idea except that some women might use it as an excuse to party down and fuck everything in sight. These are the amorphous women that inspire around the world religious regimes and mysognist societies to do horrendously physical acts and pass evil barbaric laws that affect all women in order control these shadow women...These are the women that men see when they rape a little teenager in a mini-skirt because she is asking for it...These amorphous baby-eatin, dog-fuckin, cock-destroyin, castratin She monsters that society must be protected from...Unlike the nuclear bomb buildin, destructive, womin-hatin, sexually assaultin, murderin, doggin He-monsters that rarely affects society and wrecks havoc. It is the sluts we need to worry about and not the insanity of the male species. I suppose that these women with these fears of the Plan b pills never thought that women they fear will misuse the pill are the ones least capable raising children and are the ones the should given or put on contraception as quickly as possibly, do not pass go...But then we would be promoting promiscuity instead of protecting infants and repressing sex is much more important than protecting a child..

in the crucible of war Who is the enemy?

On the Fourth of July there was a bitter melancholy at watching America Celebrate a country that I once loved to the point of beleiving inane and delusional political beliefs that I held because I wished to protect America..In my youth I once thought Before the TRilogy of Idiocy that I partly participated the REagan, Bush and Bush theocracies. I was proud to be american to be born here, Now I realize that the help of my Goddess and a accident of tragic luck. None my good fortune now that has occured because of my ex-political beliefs and of ex-friends and family. For if they had their way being another Vet under the Freeway overpass would have been my fate..I think that they would relish the sympathy of that. Than having to accept the fact that getting federal help for a disability service connected is easing a leftist liberal ingrate.. Conservatives love to wave the Flag tell people how patriotic they are, but when it comes to raising the salary of soldier or the fact they always are working to limit Veteran Benefits they are not infused with generosity even should I imply christian charity ...A few months ago I read about a Vet that is being hunted in a military witch hunt because he wore his cammies at a protest, despite removing insignia which makes his uniform Illegal and not a uniform. Complaining a pundit of the right, groused about the fact that the VET was so ungrateful to Bush for his gift of camoflague wear(and a all paid trip to the middle east) the said vet should summarily lose all his Veteran Benefits..WE are so generous to our patriots, the freedom ain't free class, that now they have their wish Veteran's no longer have their freedom of speech for fear of not getting medical help.

But I read the post on the blog Group News Blog about the fact that in Iraq there are more paid mercenaries in the employ of the US of A...in fact 160,000 about forty thousand more that fighting US soldiers there.

Much of the talk about War crimes swirl around these Mercs. Exorbitantly paid Mercs and Below minimum wage paid US soldiers it still the underpaid warrior showing any true compassion to the Iraq's but to them merc or army they still considered America soldiers..

Conservative will use false platitudes to see that every one knows they love the troops..But in their mind like the deserving poor, there is also a new class, the deserving Veteran.. If they could help the deserving veteran with right attitude, religion and even war wounds and filter out all the shwalele. Then caring and conservatism would be so much easier, kinder and caring conservative.

Merrie part from the Hinterlands and behind enemy lines in the battle to return America to Freedom and greatness. One state at a time, one court battle at a time. FReedom ain't free until your freed.

Never giv up!!!!!

Today I have reading about the live concert and how some people are wondering if it is a futile gesture towards helping Mama Earth..that it might not accomplish any thing...The thing about gesture metaphorical, political or literal is that they are things remembered later long in to the future by those who view it and at many times very effective on the ones that at the time were least able to do something about the problem being expounded by the gesture.

When I was young I remember a EArth DAy celebreation on the network TV channel I think it was ABC...It had all the newest stars Meryl streep and Beth Midler doing skits trying to reach middle america and give them the newest science about pollution and the destruction of the environment...So youngins if an oldster tells you they did not know about global warming and et al..when they voted for the trilogy of idiocy, REagan,Bush and Bush they are lying it was out there in prime time Family hour with with pretty Stars playing out skits that explained and made environmental science so family friendly even an evangelical could understand it..

I became an environmentalist because of it..Also the people who argue for using the Age old slash and burn technology of the past to develop the third world>Use such illogic in their arguments you wonder if they learned their debating skills at Liberty U.

At these venues you do learn alot of info about the small things you can do at home..During WW2 alot of homebound americans did little things that helped change the course of WW2..IN the battle to end the destruction of GAia it will also take alot of small things and inconveniencies to win..But it is not impossible and Live Earth is the way to get across to people that in everyday life you can make a difference ,for if not, then we either live in denial or swallow a bullet..

all in youur head or bed

Well today on Hecate is an article about the ex-members of exodus that gave an apology to gay persons for belonging to a organization that believes you can pray away Sexual Orientation...But america is a strange country they believe one a can pray away Addiction and send addicts to 12-step programs and a then disappointed when only .08 of these people are cured or control the illness. Americans love to exorcise the mentally ill and then are surprised when not Jesus, but anti-psychotics ten years later down the line cure and control the problem the only demon there was the one called Bio-chemical defiency, oh my what is the Aramaic name for that.

IN america there is a belief that if it is strange or percieved as immoral it is done completely at the will of the person doing the behavior....Why because self Matyrdom is a great love of americans...I could eat that hamburger and be fat, but I have discipline, poor me, evil fat people... I could be gay but I like to stup women, evil bitches, evil gay men..For being a country that is supposed to be so noble and so generous, we really have little true compassion for others and since it is de riguer to be racist or anti-semetic: homophobia, sexism and fatism is now acceptable to preach and practice....even in pagan podiums..the idea that a woman might want to be treated as human being and might not want to practice malnutrition as a way life, to accomodate some men and thin women thus allow them to feel validated, or a women or man not want to stup each other is so radical it must be stomped out with shame, ridicule and law> one wonders exactly what Freudian horrors lie under the subconscious of mainstream america OHH to be the forensic psychoanalyst that studies early 21st century america what a fetid core they will digging up to scruntinize...

Low down and lido

All New-Agers All Pagans All Buddhists...
Christians believe there is only one way to heaven Through christ..One way to achieve salvation and redemption through Christ to be called a Christian one must believe that...The people running the Christian Churchs all believe this or whyforeall would they be sending Missionaries to Hot Humid places but to make more christians not for the Missionaries health and relaxation... People who do not believe this are apostate and disliked and feared by church hierarchy...So liberal Christian support corrupt entities keeping their mouths shut and their wallets open..ANd those running church cynically throw them a Ecumenical bone once in a while especially during Holocaust memorial services (because we pagans caused the event, the new Spin, no need to beg as much when apologizing)...Much breast beating bonding with Jewish Bethren and pointing the blame elsewhere.

There are no liberal christian churches except for Quakers and Unitarian Christians not even 15%of the christian community are these groups..

What is happening to a political Pagan in Maine Rita is happening with tacit approval of the christian community I doubt the political entities of the christian church are crying out at the abuse of a Pagan by one of their orgs..There may be good people who called themselves christian that are horrified, but ARE most christians really that horrified??? They abruptly stopped donating money to the Kennebec democratic Commitee when it was learned they were run by a Pagan...How much is this wing nut and how much is it that christian community stands by its bigoted and intolerant people and organizations

REbellious or growing up

I read an article in the new herald of a christian sect I sometimes read what they are saying just to touch and know what is going on with the dark side...A little bit of yoda exercising....There is a trend among so-called christian intellectuals and pseudo-liberals to tell pagans and others and also imply that we Pagans are middle class spiritual adoloescences futily rebelling against the maturity and wisdom of the church..

I see it another way I am really not rebelling but growing up... The old fairy-tale and hat tricks no longer sell...Why does god hate women?? The answer because of EVe, is no longer acceptable...Why is my buddhist grandmother's soul going to hell?? pray she finds jesus is not acceptable...No pagans are not rebelling they have seen the light and are growing up

BLESSED BE
Merrie part from the hinterlands....

Daddy Dearest gave me his ring

Once again stories about Purity Balls are showing up in my environment..I have a big problem with this new custom that the fundies want society to embrace...The Idea that Purity can be coerced in teenage girls in pretend pseudo-incetous environment and bribing the girl with gold rings and princess ball gowns. At a time when these girls should going to proms with young men and learning how communicate with the male sex... these girls are dancing the night away with daddy and get pinned to daddy dearest....But seeing where this is coming from I am not very surprised at the emotional incest being perpetrated with these girls and their fathers.

IN the mid- 80's I was in the recovery movement in Los Angeles and I went to ACA meetings...ACA=Adult Children of Alcoholics or really any dysfunctional family would do. I learned there that the people that quoted the saying put the fun in dysfuntional were Asinine morons in denial or looking for attention...I really became grateful for the fact the whatever excess my family had and childhood abuse I suffered it was much smaller than the burden life had put on other poor souls..There in those meetings many dealt with child sexual abuse and many came from very religious families but in Los Angeles the amount of people suffering was a moderate minority of people..

I moved to the bible belt in the mid-nineties and it did not matter what recovery group I was in there was many people mostly women who qualified to call themselves incest survivors or survivor of childhood sexual abuse....There was no ACA to help them deal...But plenty of Christian Therapists to make certain they were sedated enough and remain christian enough for the Bible Belt....Alot of these women listening to their stories one could find that church was always in the background of the incidents...Many of the perpetrators were in the same church or religion and the religion nearly always denigrated women and viewed them as handmaiden to men....All were terrified to speak up when young because they were afraid that family and church would see them as unpure(that they had commited an sin that needed to be kept quiet to protect the family)...Now these young girls the inheritors of the mantle of handmaiden are being exhorted and bribed with a great deal of money to stay pure and never forget their first love DAddy...The problem is what happens to the girl that does not pass the purity test. What are her psychological problems in the future...Or do fundementalists just want the hymen intact..Another funny thing when I see the pictures of praticipants of these events they tend to be uber-white blond girl with hollywood thin bodies in white ball gowns...It is as though there is a tacit agreement amongst the fathers that fat girls do not count and those daughters can stay at home because the fat has nuetered them sexually....Are fundamentalists really that vain and stupid or maybe they did not think anyone would notice.

Oh well merrie part from the provinces

Fat of the Land

the American Sexuality Magazine has a Article about Women and their feelings of vulnerability in the public place...I need to say that a great number of women deal with the vulnerability with one quick and easy way weight gain. I have done it this way and I have seen many women Molested in childhood or raped as young adult deal with it as weight gain.. I have always wonder if the hatred and contempt that fat people generate in their thin counterparts due more to envy by thin people than anything else. I know from being a thin person and hearing other thin women state that the fear less for the safety of fat friends than thin ones in things like waiting for them enter there houses safely after dropping them off. I see this envy in modern fashion mag when an socially conscious editor brings in a story about Fatism(Yes the discrimination of fat people) it is innudated with letters stating that fat people need to grow up and lose weight..Is the need to be vicious to fat people because we can no longer can be openly mean to someones race or sex or sexual orientation and still be thought of as a thinking person...or is it that being thin is a burden and hard work and can place one in danger from violent sexual perverts..And it disgusts us that we cannot eat and are in danger..and push come to shove are thin people really that healthy especially with all that smoking..These little thoughts percuolate in the thin..leading to hostility and matyrdom of the slender..

oh well merrie part from the hinterlands...

Oh the Shame of iT!!!!!!!!

Well today I was busy matting a large quantity of prints and packaging them for sale ... so when I finished with the computer and the printer I went downstairs to assemble them while listening to the Television..It was a sad night on the dish...I have a weakness I like true crime shows it comes from my childhood my father was addicted to True Detective Story magazines and I got hooked at an early age.. It got to the point were the liquor store guy would see me coming to buy soda pop and he would have the new mags laid out ...of course my father padded my allowance in case I found a mag he did not pick up it was a win win situation..

For years now I troll the channels looking for shows that I never seen before there aint that many out there....But I am an optimist when it comes to tv I grew up with 7 channels as a child so tv.. now days is bountiful and thank Goddess documentaries are popular nowdays..Unfortunately the court tv was all reality shows today and not any cases when I was watching..

So I put it on Nancy Grace and yes she does care about the victims but I know why she is not a prosecutor anymore She has no objectivity...Innocent before the law until proven guilty is a concept that she failed to learn in law school watching her makes you glad that real witch hunting is a dead sport nowdays unfortunatley Nancy's show proves that metaphorical use of the witch hunt in real life is alive and well...

I learned watching court tv is that the old Russian proverb Never marry a Deacon or a priests son is correct...If I had a nickel for good church going women who gets rubbed out by her husband I would have a Mutual fund acct by now.... If I had a nickel for how many good church going people who go on to massacre small town loads of relatives and friends before a savvy detective looked beyond the facade of respectability I would have a sizeable IRA going...

I learned if you are a Goth, vamp, pagan or have couple of Dion Fortune books in your library and the police show up on your doorstep you might as well give away your belongings because your ass is heading to death row with no get out of jail card even if you find Yahweh in the ninth hour..these are the lessons one learns from true crime literature in it all the victims go to sunday school and If a pagan does the crime its the religion of polytheism that is at fault and if a Monotheist does it might be Satan..Unless you are muslim all bets are off on them..

Paris Hilton is the fourth Sign of the Apocalypse at least that is how conservative pundits are acting or may be she is the Anti-christette...Liberal pundits are all clicking their tongue like a bunch of old Marxist Grandmothers and pretending to be shocked and horrified...A female Celeb goes to jail for a few days For sassing a judge and it is the decline of the western civilization. While male celebs have declared open season on their wives and people shrug their shoulders, Oh well. Dui checks Spousal murder... Paris is the villian not OJ, Barretta or Spector.. She is the reason we are decadent and deserve end times...Yeah Like all this moral indignation about Paris As IF any of the people screaming bloody murder at this event would not if they were in Paris's shoes call in all debts and find A way out of jail..Yeah Little Princess Hasselback like your ass wouldn't be at the phone calling abc and Barbara the minute you hit the station..America Grow up A woman in Northern California was Gang RAped with Three witnesses willing no demanding to give statements and it is not going to be even investigated...Paris is not the Problem it is a country in which Crime against women are viewed as inconsequential and Female delinquencies recieve outrageous attention worthy of gang rapes or sadistic murders... Attention that most rapes and murder do not receive because the victims are women..

Oh Gee maids

I have been reading the blog Hecate and I love it because I always am forced to think when I read it.. one of the entries was about Womb envy and a blog written by Josh Whedon on the Stoning of a Woman in a part of the world that still loves to publicly practice virulent Woman Hatred/// Unlike other parts of the world that like to practice it privately. Since women do have some financial clout in these areas and stoning them to death is contraindicative to a healthy economy and consumptive spending.... A dead and bleeding woman is unable to buy a Five thousand dollars purse..Hecate pointed out the frustration men have at womens power to procreate and I agree that it is a main component of misogny but in a world becoming rapidly overpopuplated I see womb envy as less of a driving component to misogny...I see what Socrates pointed out in ancient times that without misogny and the denigration of women other societial institution such as slavery and racism would not exist...

IN teaching men to view the people most close to them Mother, Wives and sister as other and less than it teaches men to view other men as other and less than.. ALLowing Class structure to form, ethnocentrism and eventually enslavement of other men...For the enslavement of mothers, wives and sisters allow men to easily enslave themselves and allow them to become tools of those in political class system.

But the enslavement of women allows another tool of the elite it works as a safety valve it allows the disenfranchised male and the enslaved male a servant...As a women you are always servant or Handmaiden.. But even a male slave can have a woman to push around..even the lowest male on the totem pole is still one up on a women...Mysogny would not be so enshrined in human kind if it only answered males envy of procreation more than that it allows them to feel superior at least in one area in life..in Mysogny any woman can have a child it takes a penis to be a man.

bye bye

Well good ole Jerry is gone...I really am keeping away for the whole news about him..I do not believe just because you die automatically we forget immeadiately what an ass you were..Rehabilitation of a person reputation and character by death smacks of hypocrisy by the rehabilitators and really does not do the dead any goood they are dead , WHo cares? When my husband told me Falwell was dead I immeadiately told him, I do not want to enjoy this event... I have purposely kept my mind on not celebrating or wish any dire underworld event occur to the man, but I can see why others would enjoy celebrating..the man was an ass in biblical proportions in believing and saying Cruel demeaning and Hateful things about others..In turn others should feel the right to do the same to him especially those he speciously attacked...After crowing at REagan's death I am purposely keeping quiet about Falwell's.. IT is not conducive to raising good energy to gloat and I have been doing energy work..

nattering and ranting and blessings

Yesterday a fashion Mag entered my possession the mail person brought it and today I went on a Marie Claire binge as I had not read any of them for 3months..It is a good mag and tries hard to be politically savvy. Unfortuantely amongst the writers is a faint whiff of contempt for feminism while trying at heart to be feminist in helping to better the women's lot in life around the world..This is the conundrum, the last thing women want is to be tarred with the any hint of feminism... It is like the women who want equal protection in the work place but politically distance themselves from the clear-eyed people trying to achieve it ... They want the benefits of feminism but they do not want the ridicule that comes with being a feminist.(abit chicken shit of mine and the next generation). It is as though we fear that good-looking and charming sexist will not want to be with us If we show some back bone and political radicalness..

I cannot chastize without admitting during the 80's I back down from feminism and sucked in my gut and bit my tongue and married a Charming sexist..It got after 5 years, me being kicked out and on my parents doorstep...Of course in therapy for being a recalcitrant woman because that is what we do to troublesome women. They are sent to therapist or 12-steps...What I needed was consciousness raising exactly what poor Britney Spears and dear Lindsey LOhan need...

A little black belt feminism goes along way in 90's rereading Germaine Greer, Simone,BrownMiller and the modern Backlash. These Women Invigorated me and imaginary addictions disappeared and happy fatness occured..for the first time in ten years I went to a restaurant did not eat rabbit food. Yes immersion into Black belt feminism worked miracles that our father or the serenity prayer could never achieve it was salvation through activism and spirituality became clean like a diamond sutra for women: feminism and Yes Goddess Worship, because If you cannot worship OUR Goddess Or see the Divine Feminine then it dose not matter what your liberal ecumenical creds are you are still a conservative women because FEMALE DIVINITY IS SO IMPOSSIBLE YOU CANNOT EVEN SAY THE PRONOUN SHE IN CONNECTION WITH GOD OR FEAR TO SAY IT..you are not superior in calling God He because God is sexless you are too afraid to go among people and say it..SHE 3 letters that you cannot say because of male conditioning given you disgust for femaleness equating it with bestiality, unholiness and thus whenever you hear someone say She you feel a need belittle them by implying they are nitpicking when they performing an act of courage..

In movies 13 Warrrior to Gaudi Afternoon Goddess worshipper are demonized as horrors or ridiculed as hypocrtical leeches by real working lapsed catholic intellectual women...THat are too afraid to tell the church to go fuck off..It is really enraging as well as disheartening and depressing to go to a movie Start to Enjoying it and Discover it is really an exercise in Lynching Goddess spirituality, idealogy and Goddess worshippers...Masquerading as a adventure or a comedy but hiding the message disdain to women and men who actually view the feminine as holy.

But I will look at the bright side If we must be demonized or ridiculed then Goddess resonants in the world...Where She has kept quiet now She speaks..The Seventh age is over And Mother is back, pushing into the back ground a shame faced Son...Goddess is back...Goddess bless.

picture by Mark ATwood = Pele Rising

Merrie part from the Hinterlands............

Child Day stump

Today is Mother's Day and to the unfertile a problematic day..I could look at this day in two ways misanthropically or spiritually.>>I did not realize I had a choice..But in fact I can hate mothers day sorrowfully or cantakerously or view it as a day to celebrate DM the Great Mother the guiding intellegence of the universe...Thinking about it further I can do all three all day...I am not a person that tends to be impressed the title mother...Having been mothered badly as a child and viewing bad parenting as a constant in reality around me... I am not impressed by the title mother or father and do not fall to the ground in awe the few times that they get things right with their children...I do love children and believe that they need to be worshipped... The poor things did not have a choice in the families they are in, Tibetan Book of the DEAd not withstanding....Of course mother's and father's love to complain about the burden of childrearing in the world and then vote in anti-child government administration run by people whose wives most probably allowed a nanny to raise the child...We need a child day holiday without the religious bells and whistles something that honors all the love that children give their parents until they realise it is not the they(child) that the parents love but the fantasy child that they(the parents) are molding into existence...

gravy boat is broken,, OH dear,,

Conservative has suggested a military coup is the answer...Having created and promoted the most corrupt administration since the Teapot Dome scandal...Unable to admit that they were wrong and that conservatism has become the political equivalent of a country club for corporate hacks and strong arm men...The belief now is that democracy is the problem and that the freedom that the Fundie Muslim do not want is the progenitor of the whole mess..The so-called freedom they used to flatter us into war...Now it has outlived its usefullness and a military coup is the answer....

Oh dear!!! unable to say we made a mistake,, we conservatives have allowed ourselves to be corrupted by absolute power, The siren call to them is more power and illegally if possible... why I wonder is the future so bleak to them? The thought that they screwed up so bad and showed how arrogant and uneducated in the simple things like science, biology and sociology. That they know it will be incredibly hard to fudge the election results this time..Is there, in them a fear that they and their corporations will have to pay the same percentage of tax that a middle class person must or worst a poor person in the same ratio of tax per income...Or horrors of horror be made to clean up after themselves like recalcitrant Adolescents...

Are they afraid that the gravy train has left the tracks and they are standing on the platform morosely watching it leave the station...Yes the gravy train has left and I hope it transforms into the peace train and segues into the freedom train..

Yeah humble pie don't taste so good, so much so, that treason is perferable...

Merrie part from the Hinterlands.

oh the humanity

I really getting irritated at human beings specism as a PETA friend calls it... I am listening to a movie downstairs as I roam the internet...Once again I hear How great we are because we are the only species who know that we die..Last time I talked to my dog or cat or snake I did not have philosophical conversation with them...It went more along the lines of "Dammit couldn't you wait till I let you out" or "What you want to eat again"...The language barrier made it impossible to discuss the futility and the fatality of life and so that and any thealogical discussions were impossible so I don't know how much they comprehend...But the Human need to assume that they are so much better than the animal world constantly smacks of insecurity as any misanthrope like Swift would point out maybe we are not the apex of the animal kingdom but the horses behind..

merrie part from the hinterlands

Pentacle follies

well the pentacle is accepted and of course the mundanes and the unimaginative have begun beating their drums and circling the wagons..or is the pagans beating the drums.. of course to the fundies it is a sign of the apocalypse since nothing about the VA is found in the bible they are running to their worn books of the Left Behind series to find out what this means in the grand scheme of apacolypto..The NY Post finds the Idea of Pagans dying for their country hilarious and showed a tongue and cheek look at a VA headstone..Luckily Pagans are a relatively peaceful lot compared to Mono's we do not recommend that said tongue be torn out or the cheek branded as some religions would of reacted at this kind of insult in the past or right now...The only fatwa we believe in is the fat in the suet of our figgy puddding and usually that is veggie fat..So Pagans should not think this is the end of it because in ten years in Podunk, Bible belt some pagan is going to need to sue a vet cemetary to get said Pentacle because stonewalling by some fundie monomaniacal beureuacrat....Unless a future republican congress makes it against the law to sue against such stonewalling ...The VA is a machiavellian org and just because they say they will don't mean they will...

peace

Sometimes something happens that numbs you and you cannot think about your daily irritations and that sorrow makes one let go of daily concerns. Whenever Alot of people die who were doing nothing but what they were supposed to be doing good and productive things...It's shocking and knocks one off their equilibrium...I hope that the grieving people find a measure of serenity on the rest of their paths I hope that the dead find peace...

one little piggy, two little piggy, three ect.

Well people are kvetching about fundie orgs that are aligning themselves with neo-nazi scientists like Mr. Cameron and his org...But instead of jews, gypsies,the mentally ill, physical disabled and gay people being lumped together as early twentieth century eugenics proponents did...They are begining with gays they are starting small and then will build up to final crescendo a purging of all the ungodly as identified to them by god. Read, Left Behind, if you wish to know if you are on the list or study the 20th Century Eugenics Movement. A movement that was invented at the turn of the century by the doctor brother of a fundementalist preacher and spread across the prairie by eugenic faires/revival meeting...Later on brought to German scientists by German American Doctor were it was married with Psuedo-scientific Antropological theory to form Nazi Doctrine... So the marriage of Fundies with questionable scientific theory is not new or a fad or them being mislead is a marriage going back to the turn of the century... the last century

Merry Part from the weather confused Hinterlands.....

Rascally Rabbits

Well Easter is over with a pleasant family meal and no talk of religion at it..Thank Goddess Quiet and the food was delicious my sister-in-laws cooking has improved a great deal since she started cooking diabetic...My downstairs is almost finished my obsessively watching Clean House and Niecy Nash has paid off I have a kitchen worthy of a small magazine spread now when I am depressed I just go to the kitchen look at it and sigh the sigh of a contented amatuer interior designer...Of course being the large and overfed children at heart that my husband and I are we have plastered fat and jolly dragons on the wall above the sink and stove using the excuse that the dragons will protect the paint job from splatters of grease and dirty dish water...Something a Style mavens would shudder at...But I believe any excuse to decorate with a Fairy or dragon or preferably both is a good excuse.

So reading blogs and listening to fundamentally bent acquaintances I get the feeling that people of the fundie persuasion wish to exorcise the ghost of pagan past from Christmas and now Easter...Unfortunately amongst the english that was tried by the Calvinists called puritans or roundheads...But they did not call it the pagan influence it was a push to get rid of popery and popish(catholic) influence in the Church of England....A civil war occurred in which many noble things were espoused and then religious fanatics took over england and the Massachusettes colony..the good old pilgrims made any partying a illegal...Any celebration of Christmas or Easter left one open to a large fine or the stock depending on your social class....This lasted about twenty years in which all competing forms of Christianity to the Calvinist were outlawed and many of other sects especially the Irish Catholics died in inhumane Pogroms by the puritans...

This ended with the death of the puritan leader Cromwell and led to the monarchy being restored and the English embarking on a twenty year party to celebrate the end of the reign of a christian version of the taliban...That is kind of like why I laugh when I hear so-called historians talk about the pilgrim coming up with the notion freedom of religion or democracy...Religious fundamentalists do not believe in freedom they do not trust it or want it...

Modern Democracy was born in the Age of REason by Philosphers and social scientists. It was not fundamentalist christian, political or social conservatives who created created modern democracy they were busy defending the divine right of kings and waging war between Protestants and Catholics...Suffrage for the common man and literacy for them also, was the provenance of the radical at that time...To say America is a Christian Nation is true alot of Americans are christian and most of the signer of the declaration of Independence were Christian If any were Atheists or agnostics is lost to history as that time being a vocal atheist meant that the crown could torture you, take away your property and burn you to death...much harsher fate than the mere hanging that signing the declaration would have brought them...There is a legit reason why atheists hate religion that goes beyond their belief in atheisms superiority...Atheist have always been tied on the stake next to the witch, case in point Italian Astronomer Bruno.

So to take to Heart the Easter Bunny survived the puritans and it will survive the fundies gunning for it the way Elmer chased Bugs all over the forest, she will just keep goin and goin like the Goddess.