The light comes on FINALLY

I have nothing against certain types of plastic surgery. (for others for sure what they do is up to them) Like the morning-after pill some types of 'cosmetic' surgery turn me off as a fixxer-upper kinda deal. That's kinda .... just icky to me. But, that's just me. I'm happy with what I have and where I'm going. Born like that and then raised to think; not to look in the mirror. What's UP with that?? LOL !! (thanks joe g and p)

The biggest issue I have with OPTIONAL cosmetic surgery is this kind of thing where someone else (WHO WHO ??) decides what is normal?? What the hell ??

This statement in this article drove me crazy.

'I think people just want to feel normal. That's what plastic surgery is about,' said Antell, who has seen a definite increase in the past 10 years. 'They're embarrassed to go to the beach, they're embarrassed to go the gym.' (I consider this to be unethical for a plastic surgeon to make this statement)

And, it's really sickening when you think about it. Outie belly buttons and all kinds of stuff are perfectly normal. Perfectly normal. AND, if we had seen 'models' or 'media-types' or maybe even a 'trusted public servant LOL' with an outie that would make it more acceptable??? More normal?

This guy, who stands to profit LARGE from some guy or lady's feelings of inadequacy or need to 'feel normal' pisses me off to both profit from it and to hold it up as perfectly NORMAL that you NEED plastic surgery to 'be normal'.

AND, he'd be the last plastic surgeon I would see. I know a plastic surgeon very well. I watched to see if once he picked up 'the laser' he would begin to appraise women or men and hint to them that he could 'work wonders' for them. He never has. Whenever he sees me he comments on how nice my skin looks and how great of shape I am in. He's awesome as a human being and a medical person. You know all it would take for some women would be a slender little remark about how they could be 'perfect' or 'normal' and they'd be under the knife. And, I find that very sad.

And you have to wonder -- are plastic surgeons 'noticing' a trend with people wanting to 'fix' their belly buttons or are they ENACTING a trend and ENABLING one?? hmmmmmmmmm

I spent the night with my BFF back when she had her breasts enlarged to help her around and to listen to her moan and such. They're perfect. I understand this isn't always the case; nipples being set off to the side and such. Don't laugh. She showed me the before and after pics and I kinda understood. But, I still had to wonder at her mom who had the same 'concavity' ... why the hell didn't she just teach my best friend to be comfortable 'in her skin??' My best friend is so beautiful. Inside and out.
This 'malady of the mind' kept my BFF from relationships and the fun stuff for ages. She was very self-conscious but because of prolonged access I was able to discern that her body was beautiful but her mom passed her own lack of love for HER body on to her daughter.
People sometimes have to remove scars or tattoos or 'fix up' other things that may happen to 'mar' their bodies. Heck, I enjoyed seeing my BFF buy her little strappy tops and show off 'her new girls' whenever she wanted.
I should add that some years later she had trouble: one leaked, they always felt cold (yep I touched them -- sure did damnit they were cute) she had a bad kind, they started feeling tough or some such so she had to go have the whole thing redone at some expense. Ahhhhhhh, she drove her merc. or her 'vette there; no big deal to her but ... to me, I can't justify that when any person suffers and I am off buying boobs. (TWICE!!) I do understand she had no choice.(the 2nd time) She also had a few minor and not so minor occurrences with cancer and I have to wonder if the leaking caused that. No cancer in her family, beforehand.

Men (and probably some ladies but they never let on lol) have always paid homage to 'my girls'. I dated a guy who bought things for them so he could still surprise me with sweet nothings after I accused him of attempting to buy my affection. (secretly I very much love thoughtful, artful listening or artsy doodads) He did not buy me sexual things, but normal, every-day cool gifts and to make me laugh he would say, "this is for the girls" and it was kinda funny. The girls got furs, rugs, heavy gold heart necklaces, long weekends here and there ..... he spoiled them) We're still great friends to this day and every now and then he buys me something 'for the girls'. Flowers, candy, baubles ... ya gotta laugh. I never really wore the furs; fur (and rabbit and mohair) makes my eyes feel like they have gunk in them but if my minks could talk ..... (they've BEEN PLACES) they've even been a few places I probably would have enjoyed but didn't make it to. That's a whole blog. I did used to drag them around to keep the peace and show appreciation. They are a slithery pain in the ass. But, I DID appreciate them because then my friends could borrow them and look slinky and stuff.

But, here's my point:

Please don't pass your self-esteem issues on to your daughters or sons so that one day they seek out a guy like this plastic surgeon who tells them what the hell 'normal' is.

Frankly, I think my girls are NOT all that but others seem quite entranced with them. What the hell? They've been around awhile now and I've befriended them. Be comfortable with yourself.
Honest. You're probably beautiful.

You're DEFINITELY NORMAL. If you don't think so come on by and I'll give you a free voxer evaluation. For free. Honest.

Normal is not defined by a plastic surgeon or a guy on the beach.

Beauty truly really truly IS in the eye of the beholder.

Ask the girls.


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Presidential Debates Discussed as to Time allotted

Debates have too few voices, too many topics

By Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON --

Does Barack Obama have twice as much to say as Joe Biden? Are his views really twice as important?
That's the impression left by Sunday night's Democratic presidential debate on CNN, in which the moderators gave Obama 16 minutes of airtime, and Biden less than eight minutes. Obama's in his third year in the Senate, where Biden's served 35 years and chairs the Foreign Relations Committee.
It was to be the same Monday evening in Washington at a forum on faith among the Democrats sponsored by Sojourners, a liberal Christian group. The only candidates scheduled to appear were Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards. Doesn't Chris Dodd believe in God? How about Bill Richardson?
This stilted, poll-driven format -- with national poll leaders Obama, Clinton the Sojourners forum -- is just one problem with the early debates.
Another is the drive to cover all topics in each debate, rather than exploring one at length and probing all the candidates and points of view.
Is it necessary to cut back talk about the economy or foreign policy to squeeze in questions about mothers in prison, as happened at another debate a few weeks ago? Is the question of gays in the military as urgent as the question of the military in Iraq?
There is an alternative.
On Wednesday, the Center on Politics and Foreign Relations at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies HELD a 90-minute Democratic debate solely on Iraq.
Serious people holding a debate on the most pressing issue of our time.
Most of the Democratic candidates stayed away. You can hear Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel and Joe Biden's transcripts and/OR videos HERE. (seriously this is the most important debate going and where were the supposed front-runners????? I wanna KNOW!)
Biden, who first proposed the idea during a debate weeks ago, will be there. So will Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel. But Robert Guttman, the center's director, has been unable to get commitments from the others.
"Senator Clinton is doing a fundraiser Wednesday. It's right down the street. We even changed the time so she could show up,'' (SEE, that's what you DO when you are trying to be fair to all candidates and you know who I am talking to !!!!) Guttman said.
No luck. The Clinton campaign didn't return a call asking for comment.
"Obama's people said, `We'll get back to you in two months.' That was Friday. There's a problem right there,'' he said.
Obama's campaign also didn't return calls seeking comment.
Even Dodd_ whose staff tallied the time each candidate got at Sunday's debate_ isn't going.
"It's the key topic of the campaign,'' Guttman said. "All these other debates spend 90 seconds or so on Iraq, then move on to abortion and immigration and everything else.
"If people want to be president, they should be able to speak for more than 90 seconds on the top issue facing the country.''
The center plans a Republican debate on Iraq this fall. (again this fairness. I like it, you know??)
Guttman also noted how much the news media focus on the so-called "top tier'' of candidates. That's the top tier as defined by public opinion polls. "People seem to think the American people can only handle two candidates at a time.'' (no, us smart ones know better. We know they are showcasing the Republican choices for Dem. candidate) i.e. hillary.
That might be true much later in the campaign, when primary voters in each major party focus most on those who are perceived to have a real shot at winning.
But this is awfully early. Democrats and Republicans have a right not only to hear all the voices in their parties represented in the debates but also to see all the candidates forced to speak to all those crosscurrents.
Take Kucinich. He's arguably the most anti-Iraq war candidate in the Democratic campaign. He speaks for a big part of the party's base. But he got only a small slice of the debate time.
Or Biden. He could end up the party's nominee. Remember, polls can and often do change wildly once the voting starts.
Should that happen, the media would have to look back and explain why they didn't spend more time exploring and exposing his thinking in these debates.

(no, they won't. We're going to break up the media monopolies and see who is still left. Like they did with the intellects and artists .... we'll leave these shills by the wayside. Let them become ... whatever else they want .....)

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Moonves makes himself look ....

CBS chief calls Rather comments `sexist'
By SETH SUTEL, AP Business Writer 56 minutes ago
NEW YORK - CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves shot back at former CBS news anchor Dan Rather on Tuesday, saying remarks Rather made about his successor, Katie Couric, were "sexist."
THIS IS SOOO FUNNY. Because if she had been a MAN she would still be doing what CBS wants and Moonves wants which is to dumb down the news and tart it up. There's plenty of men out there doing this exact same thing. For god's sake Moonves. You made an ass of yourself.

Rather, speaking on MSNBC by phone on Monday, said CBS had made the mistake of taking the evening news broadcast and "dumbing it down, tarting it up," and playing up topics such as celebrities over war coverage. (silly ol americans .. ya just can't fool ALL OF US)

The comments appeared in blogs and in a story published Tuesday in the New York Daily News.
While referring to Couric as a "nice person,"(really Dan, it's okay, I said it for you: IT IS NOT NICE to play games with the freedom of the press and the right of the American people to KNOW !!!) Rather said "the mistake was to try to bring the 'Today' show ethos to the 'Evening News,' and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience."
Moonves, asked about the remarks at an appearance in New York sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, called the remarks "sexist" and said he was surprised at the amount of negative coverage Couric was receiving. Couric, the first solo female news anchor, has been struggling in the ratings.
"She's been on the air for nine months," Moonves said. "Let's give her a break."

And, I could SWEAR I've seen her around longer than that. LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She's been on the air for AWHILE. She did this to herself trying to make US believe that Tom Cruise's baby was more important than the news.
Now, I know who to blame it on because I have not watched CBS since. Katie Couric, while a nice person, quite sucks at discerning WHAT is NEWS. But, it's purposeful I believe which perhaps then makes her NOT so NICE but just kinda cute. Lots of cute chicks out there get one who know what news IS.

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Dear MoveOn member, (i'll give them credit for the quickie cut and paste although we are currently having numerous spats as to the way they conduct themselves regarding impeachment, reality, organization, sheer idiocy in some respects and suspected party-splintering) For those who wonder why I only paste the moveon dealies that are worthy of action. Some of their stuff you better read a bit more carefully ..... like everything yknow do your OWN THINKING.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will decide this month how to use a huge chunk of our public airwaves. Last week, a stunning 250,000 Americans urged the FCC to use these airwaves to revolutionize Internet access in our country.
Modern-day innovators are ready to create a vibrant national wireless market—with high-speed Internet signals beamed to every park bench, coffee shop, workplace, and home in America. But big phone and cable companies don't want this competition to their Internet service. They want the FCC to give them control of our airwaves, so they can block out wireless innovators.
This Thursday, Senator Bill Nelson has a key role to play in this fight. He sits on the Senate Commerce Committee, which will hold major hearings on this exact issue. We need him to use these hearings to send a strong public message to the FCC commissioners—who will definitely be watching.Can you call Senator Nelson today about Thursday's hearing? Ask him to publicly demand that the FCC support "open networks" on our public airwaves and protect our airwaves from corporations like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast who want to stifle competition and innovation in the wireless market.
Senator Bill NelsonPhone: 202-224-5274
Help us track our progress. Report your call by clicking here:http://civ.moveon.org/call?tg=FSFL_1&cp_id=531&id=10516-6787274-pDbzbz&t=1
It's important to make clear that we're asking for a public statement—preferably spoken at Thursday's hearing and published on the senator's website—Senator John Kerry, who is on this committee, released a statement yesterday.1 We've seen in the past that this can have a major impact on the FCC's decision-making.
If your senator's office has specific questions about this topic, feel free to ask for an email address and send them this letter—sent to the FCC last week by over 40 technology and civic leaders: http://civic.moveon.org/airwaves/fccletter.html?id=10516-6787274-pDbzbz&t=2
Here is an excerpt, explaining what we are asking the FCC to do:
First, ensure new competition. Big phone and cable companies who have spent years laying wires in the ground have every incentive to stifle the growth of a competitive high-speed wireless market. Therefore, if America wants to bring high-speed wireless Internet to every community, the FCC needs to ensure that a significant portion of the newly available airwaves go to new market competitors. Such rules prohibiting incumbents from stifling competition and innovation in the marketplace have been used in the past, and numerous approaches can be used to achieve this goal.
Second, ensure "open networks." The FCC must set the terms of the auction so that whoever wins is prohibited from stifling innovation. For instance, wireless Internet providers must not be allowed to play gatekeeper over which websites their customers can access online—a power that phone companies exert right now to prevent handheld wireless customers from accessing Internet-based phone service. Wireless Net Neutrality will let the market decide which web-based services thrive instead of self-interested gatekeepers.
Also part of "open networks," the auction winners must not be allowed to blacklist new technology from entering the market. Companies must give consumers the right to attach any safe device to their own devices—the equivalent of the FCC's landmark 1968 Carterfone decision, mandating that phone companies let customers attach an answering machine to their landline phone. (Indeed, this "right to attach" paved the way for the dial-up modem, which sparked the Internet revolution.)
Your call to Senator Nelson today will make a big difference. Thanks for all you do.–Adam Green, MoveOn.org Civic Action Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
P.S. Many people haven't heard about this critical issue yet—so it's really important that we spread the word and get others involved. Invite your friends to sign the petition to the FCC by sending them this link:http://www.civic.moveon.org/airwaves/?id=10516-6787274-pDbzbz&t=4
P.P.S. Can you support this people-powered campaign today? As corporations like AT&T and Verizon spend millions to get public policy skewed in their favor, we will win these fights because of the power of regular people. A donation of $10, $20, or more would go a long way. You can donate here:https://civic.moveon.org/donatec4/creditcard.html?id=10516-6787274-pDbzbz&t=5
Sources:
1. "Sen. Kerry: Open the Airwaves for a Better Internet," SavetheInternet.com, June 12, 2007http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2657&id=10516-6787274-pDbzbz&t=6

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Jacking us A L R E A D Y

High cost of pensions straps cities

By A TIMES EDITORIAL
Published June 12, 2007

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The three-step method to soaring public pensions in Florida has typically worked this way: 1) Law enforcement union lobbyists tell legislators to increase the formula; 2) Lawmakers ask "how high, " and, 3) Cities and counties get stuck with the bill.

Whether local governments can afford these lucrative retirement plans for deputies and police and firefighters at a time when private companies are shedding pension plans is a reasonable public policy question. But the point this week is that lawmakers are trying to have it both ways. In many cases, they are the ones who have voted to enhance the pension benefits but are now blaming mayors and commissioners for a spending spree.

The pension contributions by no means account for all the extra local government spending in recent years, but their costs far outstrip any general cost-of-living spending cap the Legislature is trying to impose. The Florida Association of Counties reports that pension costs jumped $273-million, or 63 percent, in the past six years. In St. Petersburg, police pensions have jumped 166 percent in the past five years.

The fluctuating financial markets are a significant factor, but the state establishes the level of benefits for all county, sheriff and school employees and many city employees. So when the state decided to include medical technicians and forensics specialists in the category of high risk, for example, it was also sending the bill to counties. High-risk employees receive 90 percent of their salary, along with cost-of-living adjustments, after 30 years of service.

Former Gov. Jeb Bush did try to cut pensions for many state employees, (somehow I can't imagine this includes firefighters) but the Legislature stopped him. Now lawmakers are acting as though pensions are divorced from the rising cost of public safety. At a state gathering of firefighters on Friday, Gov. Charlie Crist went so far as to promise that "not one person" would lose a firefighting job to the property tax cuts now being considered. Does he make the same pledge about their pensions?

(and of course, you wonder why he's so careful to be sure the firefighters know this safety margin is there. Could it be that INFLUENCE they have over elections????)

Pensions are part of the cost of providing law enforcement in Florida, and lawmakers have contributed to their escalation.

(I don't mind the pensions for the good ones but why should we be paying for selectively hired, ill-educated, uncaring cons and thieves to leave folks lying dead, to stalk citizens and then to 'retire' when they are found out? They should lose their pensions when wrongdoing has been an issue, they should also be prosecuted.)

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And, it's GREAT for cops and firefighters and sheriffs. When they make mistakes or beat someone half to death or even to DEATH, they just switch to being a fireman and then retire and collect their full benefits. The guys who left the lady to die in Pasco County? He retired the same half hour. Guess who is paying him into his eternity? The one who just got busted for breaking into a cell-phone store? If he was eligible for any pension he's collecting it. The one who got the DUI and fleeing the scene? If he's not STILL WORKING as a Tampa Fireman he'll retire and collect a big fat-ass pension. ALL of it. I don't like to advise using google but key in "tampa firemen" and check the results. Besides what I have to say about them most of the results involve their benefit and pension meetings. AND NOW they want MORE. MILLIONS MORE.
Crass and Galling

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Another Great Idea

Impeachment Sells

http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/23553
By David Swanson

"I have a choice. I can either stand by and lead my constituents to believe I do not care that the president apparently no longer believes he is bound by any law or code of decency. Or I can act." -- U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers

The latest version of the lengthy report on Bush and Cheney's crimes produced by John Conyers' staff on the House Judiciary Committee includes a foreword by former Congresswoman Liz Holtzman which ends thus:

"This pattern of immunity for presidents must stop. Impeaching President Bush for lying to get us into a war will not only protect us from him, but also send an unmistakable message to future presidents: never again."

I'm sure Conyers likes that foreword, because he put it in there and it undoubtedly helps to sell books. Impeachment sells, and some people will do anything that sells, even faking decency. Some of the best paid prostitutes probably impersonate virgins.

"We can fire Bush!" Conyers likes to shout at rallies, later explaining that he simply means we can sit on our hands for two years until Bush's term ends. Conyers is refusing to even begin impeachment hearings, even against Cheney, even against Gonzales. He's refusing even to meet with the author of his book's foreword to talk about it. He's refusing even to meet with 400 of his constituents gathered to discuss it.

On May 29th, Conyers arrived early at a town hall meeting in Detroit that he had agreed to participate in. He left before it began, and never returned. He had, at the last minute, scheduled another public forum for the same time, about gas prices. The crowd at that one was reportedly much smaller and included a number of people who insisted on talking about impeachment.

Conyers' only legitimate excuse for not moving on impeachment would be if he were moving on criminal indictments. His report begins by listing numerous violations of law committed by Bush and Cheney. But Holtzman's short foreword argues for the advantages of impeachment over indictment. I find her case persuasive, and so apparently does some portion of John Conyers.

The question facing the world right now is how to send the rest of John Conyers an unmistakable message. An activist named Gordon Bennett sent me one idea:

"I am planning," he wrote of Conyers' book, "to tear out one page at a time, maybe highlight a key statement, and send it to his Detroit office with a short message pasted to the page from his book, something like,

"Congressman Conyers--
"WHY WASTE ALL THIS EXCELLENT RESEARCH? LET'S GET ON WITH IT!
"or,
"YOU'VE MADE THE CASE IN PRINT. PLEASE MAKE IT ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE!"

Anyone interested in joining in Bennett's effort can find Conyers' report for free at http://afterdowningstreet.org/constitutionincrisis or purchase it at all the usual online bookstores. Mail your page a day to
Chairman John Conyers
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
or
669 Federal Building
231 W. Lafayette
Detroit, MI 48226

Or, here's a better idea. Fax it each day to (202) 225-0072 or (313) 226-2085.

There is a portion of John Conyers that is absolutely golden, that means to do absolutely right by us and our descendants. But that is precisely why we are so reluctant to hold Conyers to account. We're willing to keep moaning about Bush and Cheney. We'll even denounce Nancy Pelosi for her efforts to pressure Conyers not to impeach. But the fate of this nation and all the nations it impacts around the world is too big a matter to allow our friendship and admiration for John Conyers to block us from demanding - and I mean DEMANDING - that he live up to his oath of office.

Conyers pushed this issue when his party was in the minority. His staff produced a brilliant report. But those facts make his failure to act less, not more, excusable. And let's be clear, after five months in the majority, Conyers is failing to act, not waiting to act. No more evidence is needed. No better evidence than what we possess for several offenses is even conceivable. And no investigations are going to progress much further, now that the White House has made clear that it is going to simply ignore subpoenas (actually, Cheney announced that before the elections, but who's counting).

Nor can Conyers be said to be waiting for his colleagues to gather together the numbers to guarantee passage of Articles of Impeachment. Those numbers will follow impeachment proceedings, not precede them. But Congress Members will only follow where their most senior and respected members lead. If no one leads, nothing will happen - except the ongoing commission of the sort of crimes chronicled so pointlessly and tragically in Conyers' report. The list of crimes is a smorgasbord of impeachment options. If the war is too tough a sell within Congress, Conyers can proceed with the spying, the signing statements, detentions, torture, Katrina, elections. He only needs to pick one in order to do what is needed. Not to act is to be complicit in all of them.

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Brought to you LIVE from THE TAMPA NAIL HOUSE ... : Proud members of the drive-by media (just like Thomas Paine, father of America)

... located in the midtown desired redevelopment center just one block from the river.
The City of Tampa and it's assorted city-sanctioned gang members need this property because it's in the middle of land they intend to develop for gambling facilities.
LaS VEgas here in Tampa : Ta-Vegas or Tam-Gas.
But it's going to cost YOU a helluva lot of money as they defend their criminal acts in federal court due to what they are doing to my family and I in
the process of attempting to steal our home.

Terrorist,"Cause" and Gang Stalking Perpetrated by Tampa Firemen and other Firemen -- revealed and written about.
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More mention of Firefighter and Police participation in gang-stalking
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