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Friday, March 29, 2013

GOOD FRIDAY: Bohemian Waxwing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This afternoon I was treated to a delight, as I quietly watch through binoculars from my sun room, a flock of birds of a species I've never notice before, thoroughly enjoying themselves at a birdbath located my back yard.

A very lively as well as skittish bunch,
with marking obviously pathogonomic,
having made themselves easily found and researched by Internet.



Bohemian Waxwing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) is a member of the waxwing family of passerines. A sleek bird, 18–21 cm long with a pointed crest, it travels in large, nomadic groups with a strong, direct flight. It breeds in coniferous forests throughout the most northern parts of Europe, Asia and western North America. As the Cedar Waxwing inhabits only North America and the Japanese Waxwing only Asia, the Bohemian Waxwing is the only member of this family whose range circumnavigates all the continents just below the sub-Arctic latitudes.


Like other waxwings, its diet consists primarily of berries supplemented by insects, especially during the breeding season.


This species is irruptive, moving in unpredictable migration patterns from year to year, and particularly moving south, often in huge numbers, if the berry supply fails in winter, often reaching as far as Great Britain and Ireland; large numbers appeared in both countries in the winters of 2011-2 and 2012-3. The largest irruption was probably that of 1946-7, caused by one of the most severe winters of the century: as many as 12,500 birds reached Britain.


Birds in winter can be quite confident around humans and will come into gardens for berry bushes and trees, a favourite being the rowan.

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Today is Good Friday.
Gustave Doré shows the Crucifixion of Jesus in his wood engraving from the year 1866. 

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And the second solo turns toward the first solo...(?)
+
Doesn't really matter any way the wind blows...(?)

If Jesus of Nazareth died becoming Christ going one way...


Why can't James Edward Avery, DVM
live...(?)
becoming anti-Christ going the other way?

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Obama Makes Impassioned Plea for Gun Control - NYTimes.com


Obama Makes Impassioned Plea for Gun Control - NYTimes.com: “Less than 100 days ago that happened, and the entire country was shocked and the entire country pledged we would do something about it and this time would be different,” Mr. Obama said, his voice rising with indignation. “Shame on us if we’ve forgotten. I haven’t forgotten those kids. Shame on us if we’ve forgotten.”

 
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What I have been trying to imply with the use of these three signs in my front yard:
 
Had this massacre not taken place in an elementary school located in the fairly affluent neighborhood of Sandy Hook,
public outcry for change most likely would not have reached critical level enough prompting current administration to act.
 
The Conservatives as usual always resistant to change; Obama this time believing enough public support enabling him to get some meaningful measures past.
 
The fickle public as ususal,
first encouraging then abandoning
a leader willing to lead a call for change
at a critical moment.
 
 
No wonder Obama...
a
well deserved 
"Messiah Complex!"
 
by
Simply Jim:
One Pearl,
Total Pig,
Anti-Christ.
 
 

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Makeover for Minnie Mouse Features Lanvin, Tiara Instead of Bow

 
"Mickey. 
You can't divorce Minnie just because she's crazy."
~(Judge)~
 
 
"But Judge!
I didn't say she was crazy. 
What I said was,
'SHE's FUCKING GOOFY!'"
~(Mickey Mouse)~


Makeover for Minnie Mouse Features Lanvin, Tiara Instead of Bow: The high fashion house of design, headed by Alber Elbaz, has assisted Minnie in her makeover, dumping the seriously outdated red and white polka dot frock for a more elegant – and slimming – royal blue with jeweled appliqués dress. Gone too, the giant bow, replaced by a sparkly red tiara.

Minnie, the iconic Disney mouse partnered with Mickey, was first imagined by Walt Disney, and drawn by Ub Iwerks in 1928. She made her debut in the animated short "Plane Crazy" in 1928, in which she parachuted out of a plane rather than kiss Mickey.

In the late 1930s, Minnie lost a fair amount of screen time to Mickey’s new sidekicks, Donald Duck and Goofy. She staged a mini-Renaissance in the 1980s, even scoring a starring role in her own TV show.

Republicans have a Pope Francis problem - Washington Post

The pope is radically suspicious of the libertarian approach to “autonomy” and “choice”—especially when it ends up hurting the vulnerable and opening the way for violence.
 


Republicans have a Pope Francis problem - Washington Post: Consider that this pope from Latin America has views about strong state and international government energetically standing for the poor and vulnerable, ecological protection, and nonviolence that are to the left of Nancy Pelosi. He would likely be considered too liberal for a prime time speaking slot at the 2016 DNC convention. The pope is radically suspicious of the libertarian approach to “autonomy” and “choice”—especially when it ends up hurting the vulnerable and opening the way for violence.

 
 
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Strange,
how when working on this blog entry,
yet before being published,
I received this text message:
 
From:
202-644-0772
Users of Ocella, Yasmin, or Yaz whose quality of life has suffered may be eligible for compensation.
Mar 26, 9:17 pm
 
You will have to read the full article, "Republicans have a Pope Francis problem," as well as researching the three drugs listed if necessary, to fully understand the oddity of receiving this text message.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Alice in Wonderland (2010 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Charles,
you have  finally lost your senses. 
This venture is impossible."
~(Potential Investor)~
 
"For some, Gentlemen,
the only way to achieve the impossible
is
to believe it is possible."
~(Charles)~
 
"That kind of thinking could ruin you."
~(Different Potential Investor)~
 
"I'm willing to take that chance."
~(Charles)~
 
 
"You're mad, bonker, off your head.
But...
I'll tell you a secret.
All the best people are."
~(Charles)~

Alice in Wonderland (2010 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated and live action fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film stars Mia Wasikowska as Alice Kingsleigh, as well as Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, and Helena Bonham Carter. The film was shot in the UK and the US.

The film is inspired by English author Lewis Carroll's 1865 fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Mia Wasikowska plays the now nineteen-year-old Alice who, 13 years after her previous visit, returns for the first time as a young woman. She is told that she is the only one who can slay the Jabberwocky, a dragon-like creature controlled by the Red Queen who terrorizes Underland's inhabitants.

Several reviews criticized the decision to turn Alice into a "colonialist entrepreneur" at the end of the film setting sail for China. Given Britain's role in the Opium Wars during the Victorian era and subjugation of China through "unequal treaties", China expert Kevin Slaten writes, "Not only is it troubling imagery for a female role model in a Disney movie, but it's also a celebration of the exploitation that China suffered for a century."

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Plaque of the Archangel Micheal slaying a dragon above living room fireplace.
 
 
I find the story in the ORACULUM of Alice slaying the Jabberwocky
similar
to the story of Archangel Micheal.
 
The bible with my name printed on the cover was a gift to me
from
First United Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas.
 
The plate,also a gift,
supposedly
an antique from China.
 
 

Republican senator with gay son now backs gay marriage | Reuters

 
This undated photo of Sen. Rob Portman's family shows, from left to right, son Will Portman, wife Jane Portman, Sen. Portman, daughter Sally Portman, and son Jed Portman. Sen. Portman is now supporting gay marriage and says his reversal on the issue began when he learned his son Will is gay.

Office of U.S. Sen. Rob Portman/AP


Republican senator with gay son now backs gay marriage | Reuters: But Republican strategist John Feehery said Portman's announcement could change attitudes in the party.

"I think so. The fact of the matter is Dick Cheney has been out there on this. Ted Olson, Rob Portman. And what's becoming clear is if you know somebody who happens to be gay, you feel much differently about this issue. The fact is we all know somebody who is gay. So I think this is going to be another indication that times are changing on this issue." he said.

In his op-ed piece, Portman wrote of how he has "wrestled" with reconciling his Christian faith with the desire for his son to have the same opportunities as his siblings.

"Ultimately, for me, it came down to the Bible's overarching themes of love and compassion and my belief that we are all children of God," he said.

Keith Cottrell, 40, an IT professional who lives in Cleveland, said he didn't "see much nobility" in Portman's decision because he only lined up behind gay rights after learning of his son's sexuality.

"I mean I'll gladly take his vote but would we applaud someone who constantly voted against women's rights if they changed their mind after having a daughter?" Cottrell said.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Why women trash successful women - CNN.com

Why women trash successful women - CNN.com: Consider, for example, the very different way the activism of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has been received. Hughes, like Sandberg, is extremely, even obscenely rich, and he and his husband have used part of their wealth to become major champions of same-sex marriage. Maybe someone somewhere has argued that their work for gay rights means little because it stems from self-interest, or that they shouldn't be focusing on a bourgeois issue like marriage that does little for, say, homeless gay teenagers. If such critics are out there, though, they're certainly not on the pages of our major newspapers.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Douglas Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Douglas Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.

Adams became known as an advocate for environmentalism and conservation.  He was a staunch atheist, famously imagining a sentient puddle who wakes up one morning and thinks, "This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" to demonstrate the fallacy of the fine-tuned Universe argument for God. Biologist Richard Dawkins dedicated his book The God Delusion (2006) to Adams, writing on his death that "Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender."[

Friday, March 8, 2013

International Women's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



International Women's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women's Day, is marked on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievements.  Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries, primarily Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet bloc. In some regions, the day lost its political flavor, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother's Day and Valentine's Day. In other regions, however, the political and human rights theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.

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Mona Lisa Smile
 
 
 
Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Julia Stiles. The title is a reference to the Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and the song of the same name, originally performed by Nat King Cole, which was covered by Seal for the movie. Julia Roberts received a record $25 million for her performance—the highest ever earned by an actress.
 

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Elderly Folks Behind the Steering Wheel of Cars

"Left here feeling like I really shouldn't be driving that far in that traffic. 
Made it just fine. 
Actually drive better than I walk."
 
 
"Donna has things worked out so we can come to Atlanta on the 20th. 
Hope we don't have to visit you in jail."
 
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How funny.
 
Have a court hearing March 12th regarding this email's violation
of
Bob and Janet Gary's restraining order:



Thu, October 20, 2011
7:26:01 PM

[No Subject]

From: James Avery
To: ggary@emory.edu
Cc: Janet Gary

Dr. Gary,
 
I just got back from Georgia Regional Hospital with copies of my medical records as well as those from Dekalb Crisis Center. While I was there, I spoke to my doctor, Dr. Parker, a small black women. I had just received another pathetic letter from my mother, whom I stopped all communication with, still believing her son has a mental illness. What I wanted to know from Dr. Parker, was my diagnosis which not told to me on release, as well as, what was told to my mother.
 
Bipolar being the diagnosis, I tried to show her copies from my blog www.twistedpurplecow.blogspot.com which came to creation, from my anger at both you and Janet concurring against me from right across the street. You may or not be aware, but over the cellphone with my family in Arkansas, you've concurred with my mother against me as well; being all it took sending my life into a tail spin. It does not have to be intentional to fit the definition of "conspiracy."
 
Dr. Parker refused and began to get nervous, anxious, in a hurry to rush me out of the facility. Very calmly and professionally, I told her:

 
(Dr. Parker
when I went back with proofs to show her why I was so angry with my family for having me involuntarily committed to Georgia Regional Hospital on one of their visits.  Refused to let me show any of them to her.   How wrong it was for DeKalb county to take advantage of a fifty year old avowed practicing homosexual's complicated relationship with his eighty year old rural Arkansan mother.  Claimed she had patients she had to attend to.  She certainly didn't talk with me any time during the five weeks I WAS THERE!)

 
"Dr. Parker, hate to inform you; not only have you have failed in your responsibility to me as your patient, it's ..not.. bipolar if good reasons."
 
She could not even explain to me what happens when I start thinking ...clearer... on medication that takes months to see any results? How would we know when it's working? Not even what made her think I wasn't thinking .....clearly...now? Making it worth riskng serious effect associated with those medicines?
 
Last thing she said as she pushed me out the door:

"If you yell at your neighbors across the street again, you will be brought back here."
 
That was all I needed to know.
 
As my definition of "LIBERAL" is honest, fair, and reasonable; believe I have accummulated enought evidence to justify my end,
 
the reason being:
 
Those with a supplus are better able to control their circumstances; those without are control by them. One is not always able to excercise good judgment.
 
"Those" and "them" being the day Janet started concurring with you against me, a simple honest man with a hearing impairment keeping distance between him and his dysfunction family in Arkansas.
 
I'm getting ready to find a civil lawyer to represent me here in Atlanta; one in Arkansas representing both my finacial interest here and there in Prescott.
 
There will be no more yelling and screaming. You will be amazed how much I've learned just living across the street from George Robert Gary, Thb. just know his wife; the resourses available to him I did not. All I wanted that day I scared Janet was some grandfatherly advice at that time.
 
My problem being then: how does one go ask for help if not sure where to begin?
 
Wanted some advise on where to go; not able to understand some returns with personilized search engine on my computer as well as an opportunity/openening for a mid-life crisis career change.
 
James Edward Avery, DVM is not unempolyed; just retired from clinical practice of veterinary medicine wanting into the polical arena.
 
Until you two stop concurring against me and remove that restraining order; you are neither liberal or mature Christian inside or outside a church. I do understand confict of interest, and why resistent to women as ordained ministers; do not have to respect yours, Emory University, even that of my family if not fair, reasonable with me.
 
Why can't Phil be a writer as well as a preacher, Bob?
Just call it fiction.
All he has to do is make sense.
 
Next move is your's and Janet.

Only then will I be able to forgive and forget.
 
Total Grace; not Christian Grace.


I've already spent two and a half weeks in Dekalb County Jail,
because of this email, 
waiting for my mother to bail me out;
her phone number being the only one I had memorized. 
Was not even allowed to bail myself out. 
Once in jail,
they will not let you back to your wallet
once
taken away from you.
 
Been waiting almost a year an a half for my court hearing. 
The restraining order is expired. 
It is my understanding...
 might still have to spend up to a year in jail.
 
Looked up the following email my mother's letter reminded me of:

 


 
 
From: Jams Avery (jimedavery@att.net)
To: jgary@LearnLink.Emory.Edu;
Date; Mon, May 16, 2011 6:10:34PM
Cc:
Subject: [ No Subject ]

Hello Jim Ed,

You must know that in the future, there will be clear boundaries for making contact with Janet and me, especially Janet. This is not to say there will be no further contacts with us, but it must be under a number of conditions.

Janet wanted to add her word before we set the conditions together. Here is her note to you:

Jim Ed,

I was more than a little disturbed by your visit on Wednesday. In the spirit of neighborliness and the Thanksgiving holiday coming up, I opened our house to you, even though I felt s bit uncomfortable doing so, especially in Bob?s absence.

We ironed out what you perceived to be a rejection on my part.

When you wanted to share the symbols that are meaningful to you, I was interested, although having a hard time ?getting it? in the way you told it to me. No input from me seemed to even get through to you, or matter at all.

I was very disturbed when you talked of your depression, thinking about getting your gun, and when you told me you are the ?Anti-Christ? and a ?crack-head? I began to be somewhat afraid of you and wished I had not opened my door to you.

When I told you I needed medications and even that didn?t stop your monologue, I said it again and began to leave the room. At that point you did thank me for listening and left, saying you would leave your stuff so you could come back. You either didn?t hear me or didn?t pay attention when I said, ?No, take them with you.?

Bob and I both feel we and our space were violated, and Bob has drawn up some conditions under which we may all co-exist as neighbors. I concur with what he has written below. Janet


The Conditions:
1. There can be no further non-negotiated visits on your part with either or both of us.
2. We are not available to participte in your theological doctrines
which you presented to Janet for more than one hour and fifteen minutes. You failed to leave our house until the second time Janet indicated she needed a break for medicines. You may not know that Janet has Parkinson's and extended stressful events activate her symptoms. Furthermore, Janet needed to take her
medicines and tried to bring your theological discourse to a close,
but you continued. Furthermore, you left your basket of possessions in
our house in order that you would have assurance of returning to our
house. That is far too presumptuous for us.
3. You do not have permission to enter our property or phone our house
unless you can abide by these limits.
4. We do not listen to religious talk from anyone, let alone invite
them into our home. We do not do that with you. We share our faith
with people who ask questions of us and our religious convictions. You
had no questions for Janet, only pressing her to agree with your
doctrine.

G. Robert Gary, Sr. ThD


Dear Mrs. Gary,
Despite the fact it was you who came over to my side of the the street first, that same replying, "Oh, we're not that kind of Christian," when I volunteered I was gay as well as Atheist, then insisting equally head of household as Bob when I had suggested otherwise; it is not you I am angry at. Bottom line.....you are woman.....and will always be.....the weaker sex.
 
Your last email to me is the proof.
 
I watched you the other day getting into your car. I was horrified how frail you looked that day. You had no business getting into a car that day. What was so important that you felt you had the right to put others in danger? How sad you felt you no other choice? Or were you happy not stuck at home alone?
 
The bottom line, the sick old woman I saw getting into that car is not the woman I thought I knew, the one described to me in her emails, the one I thought I was opening myself up to. Then I realized you are still wife and mother, and that's a tough possition to be in.  
 
What angered me most of all was how you started off your email calling me Jim Ed twice, then ended it with G. Robert Gary, Sr. ThD.
 
Well to James Edward Avery, DVM, G. Robert Gary, Sr. ThD is just another overly inflated primate.
 
How convinient, I've always said, " Jesus Fucking Christ backwards is just Christ fucking himself. Either way, FUCKED! FUCKED! FUCKED!"
 
Well I"m sorry BOB, "It's still just BOB!"
 
I do have one question for you, "Why were you so excited about selling your house, that day you came over to my side of the street first?"
 
Don't underestimate the effect little old women have on their grown sons; even the the sons of others.
 
"If I know of you, then you are part of my story."
 


Like I told my mother when she tries bringing her age into our arguments:
 
"You (Bob and Janet Gary included) still drive your own cars! 
You vote! 
It's that part of y'all brains...
 I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO LET YOU GET AWAY WITH!"
 
An email, any email, should never be treated as if more dangerous than elderly folks behind the steering wheel of a car or anyone driving under the influence of a cellphone!
 
That is just downright ridiculous!

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Identifying mentally ill only small part in gun debate



Identifying mentally ill only small part in gun debate: Federal law prevents people from legally purchasing guns if they have been judged "mentally defective" or if they have been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital, Wintemute says. Such patients are supposed to be reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and barred from purchasing a gun.

That casts a wide but porous net — identifying lots of people with mental disorders who are not violent, while often missing the few who do pose a significant risk, says Jeffrey Swanson, a professor at Duke University School of Medicine.
Research shows that most mentally ill people aren't violent, although they are more likely than others to become the victims of crime. Only 3% to 5% of violent crime is due to mental illness, says Paul Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry, medicine and law at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.

In spite of horrific events such as Newtown, the nation's overall "problem of gun violence is not due to mental illness," Appelbaum says.

"What's likely to be the most helpful intervention of all is likely to be the one that we seem least able to consider, which is to reduce the number of guns in circulation in this country, particularly those weapons that seem designed to kill large numbers of people," Appelbaum says.


 

 
 

Friday, March 1, 2013

Bonnie Franklin, Actress, Dies at 69 - NYTimes.com



Bonnie Franklin, Actress, Dies at 69 - NYTimes.com: Bonnie Franklin, whose portrayal of a pert but determined Ann Romano on the television show “One Day at a Time” in the 1970s and ’80s spun laughter out of the tribulations of a divorced woman juggling parenting, career, love life and feminist convictions, died on Friday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 69.

Ms. Franklin also acted on the stage and in movies and for years sang and danced in a nightclub act. But she was most widely known in the role of Ann Romano, one of the first independent women to be portrayed on TV wrestling with issues like sexual harassment, rape and menopause. Ms. Franklin — green-eyed, red-haired, button-nosed and 5-foot-3 — brought a buoyant comic touch to the part.

The show’s topicality fell squarely in the tradition of its developer, Norman Lear, who had gained renown for introducing political and social commentary to situation comedy with “All in the Family” and other shows.

 
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Growing up...
loved watching this show!
 
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