Never Forgotten

IN HONOR OF AFRICAN ANCESTORS AT BOTTOM OF THE ATLANTIC

Vicissitudes Underwater Sculpture - Grenada, West Indies

Artist Jason de Caires Taylor, with Johanna Fernandez , Ari Merretazon and Tina Varick, NPR article about the artists' work.

What Makes A Villain?

“A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.”

A. Repplier | Compromises (1904)

Damn!!! The GOP Don't Like Ladies It Seems

 
This is a list of the kind of plans they are working on for the fairer sex. From MoveOn.org:
Top 10 Shocking Attacks from the GOP War on Women

1) Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they're actually trying to redefine rape. After a major backlash, they promised to stop. But they haven't.
2) A state legislator in Georgia wants to change the legal term for victims of rape, stalking, and domestic violence to "accuser." But victims of other less gendered crimes, like burglary, would remain "victims."
3) In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care. (Yep, for real.)
4) Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.
5) In Congress, Republicans have proposed a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.
6) Maryland Republicans ended all county money for a low-income kids' preschool program. Why? No need, they said. Women should really be home with the kids, not out working.
7) And at the federal level, Republicans want to cut that same program, Head Start, by $1 billion. That means over 200,000 kids could lose their spots in preschool.
8.) Two-thirds of the elderly poor are women, and Republicans are taking aim at them too. A spending bill would cut funding for employment services, meals, and housing for senior citizens.
9) Congress voted yesterday on a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers, one of the most trusted providers of basic health care and family planning in our country.
10) And if that wasn't enough, Republicans are pushing to eliminate all funds for the only federal family planning program. (For humans. But Republican Dan Burton has a bill to provide contraception for wild horses. You can't make this stuff up).

For research site the many site sources are after the jump

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The other side of the Blogsphere......

Alright, as the curious mind that I am I get online and I wander around....and in doing so if your open minded enough you will come across sex in all its unique forms of expression.My 1st time crossing porn online was during an innocent yahoo search for JJJ or James Jonna Jameson.Any comic heads will know that was Peter Parker's boss at the Daily Bugle.Now I found what I was looking for but on the same page of results was a JJJ Porn gallery.Now at that time I never heard of a porn gallery.I knew porn of course but what was the gallery, so of course I clicCed it.SMH......Everything and anything was available for free.Sad. But anyway that's how I find most things online.I look for one thing whicvh leads to other but always stumble onto sex.It can be in searches, community sites and now....its happened in the blogesphere. Clearly in a realm where people share their life experiences this was destined to happen. I started on one blog innocently enough that lead to this blog and things are still good then this blog, ok a lil more daring but still cool in my book which leads to this blog.
Oh my Damn.....now the thing is you know that there are all types of folk in the world and we all have many different sides.Its just interesting to read the detailed explicit and graphic descriptions of their lives.
Damn the internet.Its a real Love/Hate thing.


***In case of misunderstanding(Jae :P)I have no problem with any of the blogs referenced as I currently following all of them***