Month: March 2007

So, I think I’ve gone at least 2 weeks, maybe closer to a month since I decided to ditch IMs and not hang out on the internet that much. What have I accomplished….well, I’ve been going to bed fairly on time, waking up around 7 now, and being functional by 9.30 and out of the house by 10 at the latest. My mood has been seriously better, even though the lows have been bordering on violent. I’m also half-way through learning my Danish, which was the main reason I ditched things. I’m happy with my progress through that fun stuff, down to the point I’m starting to dream in Danish and German (go fig). The funny parts are when I don’t know the word for something and use the German instead. Least it’s not the French that’s replacing it. But, I will say, that my love of languages is starting to come back, so we’ll see how I’m feeling after my visit to Scana, about adding a 6th language. I do need to get my German and my French back into practice (hear that French Wench? Get working!).

And have I mentioned that I absolutely love my Kundalini class? Oh yeah, and after my friend Chris’ review of 300, I think I need to get back to actual writing and criticism. That was one push behind my latest political posts. Getting the style and formatting back into practice, as well as the critical thinking involved in putting that type of critique into writing.

So, today I start the first day of my 2-day fast. I already broke it. 😀 I’ve decided, that due to the nature of my lifestyle, I have to at least eat breakfast. We’ll see if I feel the need to do so tomorrow. It’s the one problem that I’ve found with most fasts I’ve looked at, lack of protien. I can function ok without the carbs and whatnot, but the minute I cut out the protien I end up with muscular issues. So more than likely, I’ll be downing my usual protien shake for lunch. The positive side, is that I’m down to 123.6 today, without clothes. Yesterday I was at 123.4 in the morning and 125 even after dinner. That’s a positive sign, and I’m not feeling too funky with the diet change. The one thing that I am trying to get used to, is not eating to fullness. Been using the smaller plate theory, which has helped. I don’t go back for seconds, and I’ve been eating salads for 2cd lunch. So, pretty much, my schedule goes like this:
8AM- Turkey bacon and one egg for breakfast
11AM- 1/4th a protien bar snack
2PM- Protien shake lunch
4.30PM- Ceasar side salad with light dressing snack
6PM- 1/4th protien bar snack
8-9PM- light dinner with bison/chicken and veggies

For today and tomorrow, we’ll see how I can manage on this liquid stuff. I’m expecting the need for a shake around my normal time.

Scorpio for this week:

I foresee a time when women’s earnings will match men’s and when women will compose half of every governmental body instead of a measly ten percent. I predict an awakening that will help men understand that the global conspiracy to cripple and demean female power damages them as much as it does women. Until the coming of that happy day, I recommend that you celebrate International Women’s Day every day–and especially during the next three weeks. Your health, wealth, sex appeal, and wisdom will flourish in direct proportion to your efforts to give female intelligence more room to be expressed.

FreeWill Astrology

Ummmmmm. OK. Now, I just don’t get this one. I’m not a feminist in the sense that I have to celebrate the fact that I’m an innie and not an outie. I’m human, just happen to be of the female persuasion. In fact, I never understood these whole celebration things. Where’s the International Men’s Day? I don’t really think there’s any conspiracy (outside of a few religions and societies) to quash the female intelligence or whatnot. In fact, I’d like to see some group manage it, as the only way to actually do that would be to kill off all the women in said group. I think the problem in regards to women being in governmental bodies, is the fact that they spend too much time on the “mothering” side, and not so much time as the “lioness protecting her cubs” side. There seems to be an absolute vacuum in that regards, in relation to women in politics. The only one I see actually standing up to the process is Hilary, but she’s got too many rotten apples in the orchard to do anything with her fruit. Up there, they want to help and coddle, they aren’t willing to stand up and be the Bitch and get the things done that need to be done. And I don’t think there are enough of those who will, to go around. Hell, want to see a microcosm of it? Show up to my fight training on any given day, the instructors will go after the women to see if the lion will come out. If she doesn’t, she goes back to the fitness classes, if she does, she gets put on the team track. As my Professore likes to say, “In training, I want to see bunnies running around. But the minute you step out to represent your team in competition, that bunny better be a lion.”

Oh how I love when the constraints of a free society work the way they were intended. To update from my little rhetorical commentary from yesterday, it seems that the public has gotten some of the message….oddly enough, from places like DailyKos.com:

“One of the best ways to communicate one’s distaste for Coulter’s repeated incidents of hate speech is to respectfully but firmly let her advertisers know you are deeply troubled by their indirect support of bigotry through their advertising on Coulter’s Web site,” the blogger VolvoDrivingLiberal wrote on DailyKos.com on Sunday.

Verizon, Sallie Mae and NetBank said the ads were put on a variety of sites by a third party company. In many cases, advertisers do not know which sites feature their ads. source

As a result, Verizon has made their adjustments and their ads are now no longer placed on her site, and the other 2 are currently working on doing the same. See, this is the way things are supposed to work. Not all these stupid laws, and whatnot. People reacting and using their granted ability to change what they don’t like. No, I’m not a fan of Coulter, but I give her credit for being willing to shove her foot in her mouth to make a point, however convoluted she manages to make that point by not shutting up. But, in the typical trickster style, she stirs shit up, that needs to be stirred. Now only if the other side could find someone with that ability too. Kennedy would be good, if he could actually do it consciously instead of unconsciously. He’s a natural, just needs to put more thought into his efforts.

“Ann Coulter’s use of an anti-gay slur yesterday was un-American and indefensible,” Edwards said in a posting on his Web site, http://www.johnedwards.com.

“In America, we strive for equality and embrace diversity. The kind of hateful language she used has no place in political debate or our society at large.

“I believe it is our moral responsibility to speak out against that kind of bigotry and prejudice every time we encounter it.”source

I’ll have to take a cue from ALa, in regards to the whole free-speech thing….

Hate speech, such as Coulter’s example, is protected by the 1st Amendment. Her calling Edwards a “faggot” is well within her right, and in all honesty, utilising the rights granted in the Bill of Rights is perfectly American. If she were advocating that someone go beat the crap out of him, or harm him or his family as a result, then we’d be getting into different issues. Now, where does this go….Well, this is going back to a tanget that ALa spoke about, in regards to people who champion the whole free-speech ideal, as long as it is speech that doesn’t offend them. Once that speech is deemed offensive, they’re all about silencing said speech. Granted, I don’t believe I’ve heard Edwards championing free-speech, but the minute he does I’ll be firing off a letter to him about it…..oh wait, he utilised that right when he decided to ask Cheney about his lesbian daughter….. With that said, I think he needs to grow a fucking spine and learn what inciteful speech is all about. Hell, the guy’s a bloody lawyer, and a defense attorney at that, you’d figure he knows how to sling shit well enough, unless he’s just that bad of a lawyer (no, I haven’t looked up his record to know that info).

With that said, I wonder what he has to say about all the cartoons and various commentaries that came out of the last election, about him being all buddy-buddy with John Kerry? Or would he be grouping all of that insinuation that he was gay, with Coulter’s actual labelling him as such?

And the best line of the article: But the New York Times reported that she responded, in an e-mail, “C’mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean.” Go Anne, now that’s commentary I like to hear.