Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Oh, and isn’t called something Muerta or something like that? When we lived in Paris, we went to the underground whereby there were all these bones, I forget what it’s called now but you pay like 3 bucks to go down there. Their cemeteries filled up, so they dug all the bones up and moved them down below the streets of Paris. What a trip – and we did it on All Soul’s Day – and it’s actually done with all due respect, but it is the creepiest thing to see all these human bones and skeletons and skulls. They actually made art – it’s hard to explain but they placed the bones and skulls into symbolic art and then there are famous quotes from writers and poets in both French and English, and it’s just creepy. They say that’s where Anne Rice got her ideas for her vampire Lestat and it’s just the creepiest thing to walk through the tunnels under Paris and see all these bones and skulls, but let me reiterate that it is done with the greatest of respect for the dead. YIKES. That’s why I’m choosing cremation! LMAO Maybe I’ve once again said too much. » Posted By javaz On March 29, 2010 @ 6:53 pm Hey B’ito! That’s a Mexican tradition – Day of the Dead – isn’t it? And it’s around Halloween, correct? I’m still waiting for dr’ to get home from the baseball game today. They had to do the bus and then the train in Phoenix to get to the A’s game – like we never rode trains, subways and buses in Europe, but our friend Dick has never done any of them things, and now he’s going to learn the problems with that especially in Phoenix. That crap takes time, and especially in Phoenix, since it’s new. » Posted By javaz On March 29, 2010 @ 6:43 pm Or an Insurance Company delivering a baby and then denying it coverage because of a pre-existing condition. » Posted By javaz On March 29, 2010 @ 3:58 pm Wow, another great idea, Cher! A woman marrying a health insurance company would be a good one since every mother’s dream is for her daughter to marry a doctor, right? and an insurance company would be even better! Proctor and Gamble – do they still exist? – cleaning toilets, Kraft Foods making meals in the kitchen, whoever makes Pampers changing a baby, Gerber feeding a child, and a pharmaceutical taking the temperature of a child and giving them an aspirin. » Posted By javaz On March 29, 2010 @ 3:38 pm That’s a great idea, Cher! » Posted By javaz On March 29, 2010 @ 3:26 pm Yae! GROW is on the move! I suggested this before, but will suggest it again for the heck of it. AdLib, you are a computer genius and natural humorist and you’ve already made a couple youtube type videos – the Sarah Palin interview with Larry King for one. Would there be a way to grab actual photographs from the net of Wall Street and banks as a backdrop, and then have cartoonish characters following WTS’s drawing for Dr. Suits? Not sure how you do the voices, but there would be the child asking the questions – can corporations jump rope – then have the child jump rope and then stare at the dark foreboding and cold buildings as they loom in the background and then the mother answers the question. Perhaps the cartoon child could walk up to the dark, cold and foreboding buildings extending an ice-cream cone when he asks if corporations can eat ice-cream, and then ride his bike, swing on a swing, as the buildings loom behind him. The 5 court justices should have some visual surrounding them of floating money. Like I said before, I can visualize it, but cannot explain it well, and anyway, that’s my .02 cents again! » Posted By javaz On March 29, 2010 @ 3:25 pm Coalition of Church and State – The Family Another great article, Sue. Everyone knows by now about the Hutaree Christian Militia and their fear or preparation for “end of times” and their anti-government stance. I’ve read a few articles this afternoon about them, and they are a zany, faux Christian radical bunch of loons in that they are also prepared to defend the country in case Canada invades! Most troubling is the quote they have on one of their websites from Matthew 10:34 that they translate to give them credence : Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. They are predicting that Christ will return with a sword to fight the anti-Christ, and a recent poll showed that a certain percentage of Republicans believe that Obama is the anti-Christ. Then there’s Glenn Beck not helping matters with his paranoid rants and telling his sheep to stockpile food and water, which is actually a Mormon thing since they believe the war of religion will come up through South America and Mexico into the US. There are crazy people that certain groups – Fox and their pundits and the religious right – that prey on their insanity. Republicans, Fox, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh et all are playing a very dangerous game. And among the list of charges against the Christian Militia is sedition – haven’t certain Republican governors, senators and congressman talked about sedition? Why isn’t a crime for the Palins to join a sedition group in Alaska? Why isn’t this from Palin deemed a crime? To the teams that desire making it this far next year: Gear up! In the battle, set your sights on next season » Posted By javaz On March 29, 2010 @ 2:56 pm The sometimes sordid history of smoking and Hollywood Questinia, you are a soulmate – we are bad, and ain’t it great? I”m sorry to leave now right when you come on, but my husband is whipping out the guitars, and we are going to disrupt the neighborhood and play to our hearts content and as loudly as we can! Not easy to do when playing acoustic, but we give it our best shot. Have a good night all. » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 5:10 pm Questinia, you are one naughty, naughty person, like how you came on last night during Vox Populi and you got them all started about mesc and absinthe, and I respect that quality. 😆 » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 5:01 pm I had to google TLI and here’s what I found – TLI Transport Level Interface Is that what you meant? » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 4:56 pm TMI! LMAO » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 4:52 pm My grandparents, well, only one of them made it close to 80, and that was my maternal grandma, and I really do not know what killed her, because I was so young. But she’d been very sick and lost her sight, and had to be placed in a home and those are very sad memories for me because homes back in that day were horrible. Diabetes also runs in my family, but I actually took control of that, and am not considered a diabetic any longer as I changed my diet, got real serious about exercise, and lost weight, whereby my brothers are diabetic and on insulin. I was diagnosed as diabetic roughly 7 years ago, but another thing that runs in my family is thyroid, and we’re all on thyroid meds. The brother that died last December actually had thyroid cancer, and they removed his thyroid and salivary glands, but that was back when he was in his early 30’s. That brother died from heart failure and I won’t go into the details, but I want to go that way, if I could have a choice. He died in his home, in his bed with his cats by his side and in his sleep. Man, this is depressing talking about this, but it’s a fact of life for my family. I am vowing to be the one that is the last one standing!!!! And having one hell of a good time all the way. Oops, want to add that I really cannot drink alcohol because I am so close to being a diabetic, and when I do drink, it really messes me up mentally and physically. LMAO It’s not my fault that I’m crazy! LMAO Yeah, yeah it is my fault, but what the heck – what’s life without a beer or cigarette once in awhile? LMAO » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 4:15 pm And I’d like to point out one more thing before I read AdLib’s post, is that to be fair, Audrey Hepburn did not die from smoking. John Wayne was also a heavy smoker and drinker, and he did not die from smoking, but from working on a film in Nevada back in the days when they did them atomic tests, and he wasn’t the only person on that film that contracted cancer and died from radiation. Not to excuse smoking, but one of the oldest people on record was a little old lady in France who always drank two glasses of red wine per day with a cigarette or two, and they took away her wine and cigarettes, and then she died within months. It’s a genetic thing pretty much. Lung cancer kills more women today than ever before, and non-smokers. Women who have never smoked a cigarette ever in their lives are dying from lung cancer. I could go find the proof for that, but it was just reported not that long ago. My father died of cancer as did the majority in his family. Heck, I’ve even lost 2 male cousins on my father’s side to breast cancer and they were not smokers. On my mother’s side, they all die from heart attacks. My goal is to hit 70 years old as that would be for me to outlive my parents. My parents never drank alcohol nor did they smoke, yet my dad died at 66 and my mom at 69 from a massive heart attack, and then we just lost one of my brothers and he was 62. My oldest brother has cancer and he’s 67, and then that leaves another brother and me, and if I can hit 70, I’ll be happy. It’s just not in our genes to live long. Wow. That sounds sad, doesn’t it? It’s not because I am living life for all it’s worth, but I’m still trying to quit smoking! LMAO » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 3:51 pm I know about the judgmental thing, too, Khirad when it comes to smokers that have to smoke in public! How hypocritical of me, but we have friends that we used to dine out with, and his wife is something whereby she believes that smoking is her God-given right. The last time we dined out with them, and it was years ago because I’m on her shitlist now for that night, but it was winter in AZ, and cold and we had eaten dinner and when we were done, she asked me if I wanted to go outside and have a smoke with her, and I declined. I just do not smoke ever in public, so she went out by herself, and then she came back so angry because people were waving their hands back and forth over their faces and giving her the EVIL eye, and she got mad at me because I didn’t go outside with her, and she knows I smoke. You know it’s a weird thing, because I have no problem with not smoking when in public or after eating when in public, or when we drive in our vehicles or visit people. I only smoke at home or when we camp, I’ll smoke because most times people have campfires and most times while camping folks are drinking and smoking. We have to quit, Khirad. Maybe we could start something here on PPOV whereby we tell our struggles and share in our pride. » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 3:35 pm ABFab is one of our absolutely favorite shows! LMAO – I laugh just thinking about that show and Patsy and what was the other woman’s name? And do you recall the episode where they went to some ville in France and thought they were snorting coke and then Patsy got detained at the airport and it ended up that the coke was powder? That was the best show. » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 3:24 pm I’ve actually known heroin addicts but years after they were clean and sober and successful people in society and they did it cold turkey. It’s like with any addiction, well, except for smoking because that is a different thing – but people who quit drinking or quit doing drugs they must stop being friends with fellow addicts. They have to change their life style and that means for them to stop hanging out with people that have the same addictions and that’s a hard for them, because they have to walk away from friends, good friends, that they’ve known for years. But to get clean, they have to walk away. Smoking isn’t like that, because it’s not like everyone in your circle of friends are smokers. It’s hard to explain. » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 3:17 pm You know what makes me so irritated by I Love Lucy, and I do love Lucy, but it was when Ricky would spank Lucy. A little domestic abuse anyone? Since when did domestic abuse become funny? Kiss Me Kate is another one, as is The Quiet Man – we’ve come a long way in that bs, and while smoking! LOL » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 3:10 pm E’cat! I love Hamish MacBeth! Have seen them all. If you like that, have you ever seen the Monarch of the Glen? Och! Oh, and now that we’re off topic for a bit, is tonight the night that we turn all our lights off for an hour while NOT smoking? 😆 » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 3:07 pm Don’t apologize, KQ, for being down on smoking. It’s a good thing to be down on smoking. I quit once, after years and years of trying to quit, but I actually quit one time for an entire year. Heck, I cannot even believe that I did that, and for some reason my head during that year was in the right place and it was an easy thing to do. I think it’s more of a habit than an addiction, and don’t get me started on the gum and drugs that the Big Pharma try to help people quit, because well, just like wanting to lose weight, it’s all a money-making scheme for them. Smokers need to be shamed, they truly do, and I say that as a smoker. Oh, and btw, when I quit for that year, it was cold turkey, whereby now I’m weaning myself off, but I must say after following this conversation, I’m mightily tempted to go cold turkey again. No apologies for telling the truth, KQ! » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 3:01 pm Shaming is a good thing when it comes to smoking, Pepe! I have changed my smoking habits so much over the years as our society went from smoking everywhere – do you remember when you could smoke in grocery stores or during college classes? I never smoke in our vehicles or in public, as there is such a stigma now on smokers, and I think it’s a good thing because it’s better for everyone, but especially the smoker. In defense of smokers though – people who have been addicted to heroin say that quitting smoking is harder. I’m going to stop, except for one per day, and who knows, maybe I’ll even stop that, but I’ve been following the steps to stop, because it is a real addiction and I’ve set the goals for myself with an end date. Every month, I cut back on one! I’ve been smoking since 14 years old and well, it’s a hard habit to break, but I am getting there! So, keep it up, seriously, keep on telling the truth about smoking! » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 2:47 pm Oh gosh, may I say as a smoker that all of you are making me feel lower than low and ask you all to keep it up! Never thought of smoking as a character flaw but I guess it is in that it is a weakness in knowing it’s not only a very expensive and gross, smelly, stinky, dirty habit, but it’s very unhealthy. I would just like to say that I’ve been working on quitting and I’m down to 10 ciggies per day from a pack and half habit since Pepe’s first article that shamed me. My goal is to get down to one per day because imo, there’s nothing like the first mug of coffee every morning with a cigarette. If I can do that, and I will, I will thank you all! In fact, I thank you now for my cutting back as much as I have. Thank you! » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 2:35 pm Good post, Pepe, but another thing that brought cigarettes to more people and hooked them were the wars. During WWI and WWII and the Korean War, GIs were given cigarettes for free and more young men became addicted than might not have had it not been for the wars and perception that cigarettes helped with the boredom and stress. » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 12:44 pm Vox Populi – AfterChat – 3-26-2010 Just wanted to add that I tried absinthe while in France, and I thought it looked like and tasted like cough syrup or NyQuil. I do believe it was the favorite drink of Toulouse-Lautrec. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 1:16 pm LMAO! You guys had fun last night, and in fact, a very good discussion until, well, heck, even I feel as though I’ve contacted a virtual buzz from the last bits! I agree with whoever said something about the Republicans aka The Tea Partiers framing the conversations about HCR and subverting the anger from the banks and Wall Street to anger against HCR. We also allow the Republicans aka The Tea Partiers to frame our discussions on the issues, imho. Monday should have been a day of celebration because HCR was approved despite the odds, yet I sensed an immediate downer from a great buzz by the threats coming from the right and their threats to repeal and blah-blah-blah. The MSM is still allowing the Republicans aka The Tea Partiers to control the message of retribution, instead of reporting on the success of President Obama and the Democrats for passing historical HCR. Monday morning, the MSM briefly covered the good points of HCR, but immediately focused on the anger and the hate from the right. I agree with whoever said that the Democrats and the left need to get out there and celebrate a victory for Americans and even with the nasty threats coming from the right, we’ve got to somehow downplay it maybe or at the very least stay focused on the positive message of HCR and not be sidetracked, which is what the Republicans are so adept at doing. Someone else said the excitement and positive energy from HCR is contagious and that is so true! Hope that made sense. » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 12:38 pm Planet Music Night: Celebration Or, how about this one, did anyone post this one? Rare Earth – I Just Want To Celebrate –
» Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 2:02 pm Did anyone post this one? Kool And The Gang – Celebration –
oops! just noticed that KQ posted it in the thread! » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 12:24 pm The Singing Salmon From Wasilla But is it Kosher? » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 4:50 pm Love this one, too, Cher – Get Hammered and Sickled! Isn’t there a song? Lemon aide, lemon aide – oh, now I’m going to have to search the youtubes. » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 4:44 pm 😆 😆 » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 4:38 pm LMAO B’ito!!! I can see Mexico from our rural part near the Superstition Mountains, too! We’re all teabaggers! How uncomfortable did McCain and Cindy look with that stupid camera-loving teabagging bitch? Did you know that Joe the Plumber was in Phoenix yesterday, talking about small businesses and how the 1 cent tax would hurt them? Joe is not a plumber nor is his name Joe! Salmon Sarah was at a high school here today and it they are not going to see McCain, but to see her assholiness. She actually called Hayworth Mr. Hay? Guess that makes sense since she had a hard time with Biden’s name in that she kept calling him O’Biden! What a freak show. » Posted By javaz On March 27, 2010 @ 4:29 pmComments Posted By javaz
It does seem to be a very bad habit of mine!
Why isn’t it a crime for them?
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She died from colon cancer.
Every single woman on my father’s side, and they are not nor have ever been smokers, get breast cancer, and it’s still happening today to my cousins.
LMAO
Slapping the little woman or spanking her was the way to tame her?
That be a good show and beautiful scenery.
I was diverted by the dancing cat!
Leninade!
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