After the spiders' prompt (finding the inexplicably crawling on me in the car - tiny ones) that I should be spinning - it IS that time of year, after all...I've been spinning.  More hemp and bamboo for facial scrubbies.  The ones I made before are holding up, so I will attempt to make these more attractive and perhaps give them as gifts.

This is the ( Read more... )

Every now and then you have to redefine for people how you really feel.  About everything.  Every now and then, folks will get too comfortable with their narrowed focus of the world and express upset at your disagreement with them.  Because everything is essentially about them in their worlds, they cannot see beyond where their bubble of personal ( Read more... )

http://www.politicususa.com/catholic-bishop-goes-into-persecution-mode-claims-obama-is-hitler/

I honestly don't have words for the stupidity of this 'man of God'.  He should be drug out and stoned for treason.  As if First Amendment rights applied ONLY to Christians.  As if the Church didn't quietly condone Hitler's massacre of the Jews in WWII.  ( Read more... )

If it's not the hardline Muslims, it's the hardline Christians, if it's not either of those it's some random jackass thinking shooting up a school, church or a hospital, his enlisted brethren or his local Denny's is the answer to his life's problems.  Why can't these geniuses turn the guns on themselves first?  Dear gods don't let them hold hands ( Read more... )

“Women As Livestock” Bill Passes in Georgia - Duly Noted
http://inthesetimes.com/duly-noted/entry/12978/women_as_livestock_bill_passes_in_georgia/

This will continue to happen as long as there is the small minority of women who perpetuate the idea of having the right to be supported by their husbands, who claim with honor the privilege of having 'the ( Read more... )

Sometimes I am ashamed to be White.  That's right.  I am regularly ashamed to be from the South, especially from Tennessee.  Why?  Because of all the beauty to be found in our landscape in the south and in Tennessee in particular, there is so much ugliness in the soul of its people ( Read more... )

Please repost if you agree that women should be the final decisionmakers in matters of reproductive health care and should not be made criminals for miscarriages or made to carry children conceived in cases of incest or rape.  This measure will be voted on Tuesday in the state of Mississippi, and there are similar measures up for voting in several ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8223736.stm

I can’t decide if this man is taking a prudent course to avoid civil unrest, or if he is a coward backing down from a decision that would make him unpopular with other men.

ANY religion that uses oppression as a tool is WRONG.   ANY religion that espouses unequal treatment of people based on sex, is WRONG ( Read more... )

What kind of world are we leaving for our children, our grandchildren? 
Among those of the Christian faith, it is believed that none above God can love perfectly, without sin. They believe that the closest a human comes to this ‘perfect love’ is a mother’s love for her child, or possibly the love for a spouse after decades when the sizzle of sex ( Read more... )

http://www.feministing.com/archives/016792.html

I never liked Jimmy Carter while he was in office.  I thought he was ineffective.  Truth is, it was because he refused to compromise his priniciples for the Washington machine, thumbed his nose at the media, and they took it ( Read more... )