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Last login: 19 hours agoBluezfire: Lee is a 36 year old married woman from Tennessee, USA.; Likes 5,482 pages, 115 videos, 320 photos • 401 fans • Received 92 reviews; Member since Oct 02, 2005

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Anna Jarvis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: May 11, 8:36am 2 reviews american-history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Jarvis; Happy Mother's Day

Anna Jarvis is recognized as the founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the United States of America. Funny thing, though, is that just a few years after Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day as a national holiday, Jarvis and her sister became sour with the commercialization of the holiday and spent the rest of their years campaigning against it. What a shame.

I'm a mother. I have a mother. And I honestly can't stand Mother's Day. It's not that I don't think mothers are worthy of recognition - I do. I just refuse to sit back and let a government mandated holiday run by big corporations like Hallmark tell me that it's time to appreciate my mother and let her know how much she means to me. I'm fairly capable of figuring that out all on my own, thank you very much. And for the record, it happens more than once a year.

For those who simply love this holiday and look forward to the bouquet of flowers, box of candy, and loving Hallmark card that your children bestow upon you every year at this time, I hope you have a wonderful day of celebration and I hope it's enough to last you for the rest of the year.

I mean it. No sarcasm intended at all.

Charlotte Business | Charlotte Observer: May 11, 5:14am 3 reviews bizarre
http://www.charlotte.com/business/story/614873.html; From the page:

"There is a great history of people using religious images to sell products," says Daniel Sack, "You are talking about combining the great American traditions of religion and consumption."

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Forget Greenwashing. Introducing the new and improved: GODwashing. Pay $2 for a bottle of water with a picture of Jesus on it, read a prayer, and feel like you've been to church.

Oh.My.God.

Thanks for the laugh this morning, Shell.

Absolutely Hilarious JCPenney Catalogue from 1977 (You HAVE to read!) | teamsu…: May 11, 4:25am 3 reviews clothing
http://teamsugar.com/group/46813/blog/771943; Follow this link for scenes from a 1977 JC Penney catalog and be amazed!

Seriously, I have a picture of me at 6 years old - 1st grade - and I swear the outfit looks almost identical to this one. Except it was brown. And I'm a girl. So I'm supposing it was the matching one for girls? Or maybe my mom dressed me in boys clothes?

Now I'm going to have to find that photo when I'm at my mom's house next time, just to see.

I'm just thankful that photos are really the only thing I have to go by to remember those days. I can at least say I didn't dress myself, so I can't be held responsible.

Video: McCains "Spiritual Guide" Wants America to Destroy Islam: May 10, 5:44pm 10 reviews politics
http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38133-mccain-s-spiritual-guide-wants-america-to...; Where is this continuous sound bite on CNN, FOX News, and all the other media centers around the nation?

Savage-Unprettys profile - StumbleUpon: May 10, 7:22am 43 reviews stumblers
http://savage-unpretty.stumbleupon.com/; Truly a place on SU where a person can find something tantalizing and never be disappointed in the selection of treats. Savage-Unpretty is a woman after my own heart. I mean, c'mon, she has my favorite Ray Lamontagne song on her front page right now. How can a person go wrong with that?

What world peace looks like to me on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: May 9, 6:34pm 1 review photography, photos, flickr-favorites
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aarynb/2423570357/; What world peace looks like to me

© elladog

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Wow! is really all I can say. This is an amazing capture of a most beautiful little girl and the title used to describe it is perfect. How can anyone look in the eyes and face of a child and not envision world peace?

NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS by Austin Kleon: May 9, 5:53pm 24 reviews poetry
http://www.austinkleon.com/category/newspaper-blackout-poems/; What's not to love about this?

Read the Numbers on Your Fruit | Skrewtips: May 9, 5:41am 64 reviews health, cooking, nutrition, food, gmos
http://www.skrewtips.com/2008/04/13/read-the-numbers-on-your-fruit/; Kudos to Shell for sending this to me and kudos to the author for writing this. Why? One look at how he gets slammed in the comments will explain it all. Warning: it takes longer to read through the comments than to read the article. But hey, if you're up for some good 'ole heated debate on the safety/relevance of GMOs, you might enjoy it.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | No Sun link to climate change: May 8, 7:03pm 4 reviews environment, global-warming, climate-change
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7327393.stm; From the page:

Scientists have produced further compelling evidence showing that modern-day climate change is not caused by changes in the Sun's activity.

Vegetarian myths, debunked. - By Taylor Clark - Slate Magazine: May 8, 5:05am 8 reviews vegetarian
http://www.slate.com/id/2190872/; From the page:

As long as we're discussing restaurants, allow me a quick word with the hardworking chefs at America's dining establishments. We really appreciate that you included a vegetarian option on your menu (and if you didn't, is our money not green?), but it may interest you to know that most of us are not salad freaks on a grim slog for nourishment. We actually enjoy food, especially the kind that tastes good. So enough with the bland vegetable dishes, and, for God's sake, please make the Gardenburgers stop; it's stunning how many restaurants lavish unending care on their meat dishes yet are content to throw a flavorless hockey puck from Costco into the microwave and call it cuisine. Every vegetarian is used to slim pickings when dining out, so we're not asking for much�"just for something you'd like to eat. I'll even offer a handy trick. Pretend you're trapped in a kitchen stocked with every ingredient imaginable, from asiago to zucchini, but with zero meat. With no flesh available, picture what you'd make for yourself; this is what we want, too.

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This is an excellent letter from an herbivore to an omnivore, explaining exactly what being a vegetarian is - for most of us, anyway. Read the entire thing. Well worth it.

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