Finally someone in the media remembers and acknowledges Whitney’s bisexual moments:
Whitney Houston’s relationship with Robyn Crawford does much to explain her tragic life and death.
Whitney was happiest and at the peak of her career when she was with Robyn. Sadly, she suffered family and church pressure to end her greatest love of all. Continue reading
There are strong forces that find it convenient and useful for people to remain fearful. Please do not feed into them by buying into the fear. Instead, please acknowledge that these forces do exist and understand that they only have power because you make it so.
We do co-create our own reality and our conscience does have an effect on the outside world. Because we are so interconnected we also have to deal with the realities and effects of others.
2012 is about a planetary alignment with the center of our galaxy – please use this as a prompt to make your own personal alignment with the center of your being.
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Last night I stopped by Walgreen’s on my way home. It was the one on Franklin Street just up from the old Cathedral Hill Hotel which looked like the end of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) “January 20th Day Of Action”
I should say that I agree something should be done to fix things in this country and that those responsible for ruining the global economy for their own personal gain should be held accountable.
Having said that, I think the SF Occupy group is completely and utterly embarrassing.
To be fair, this could have been a small splinter group of misguided mostly white middle class hippy types. From what I could see it was maybe 50 people mostly sitting around or standing in the middle of the street while some anarchists broke into the old hotel. This is supposed to call for the need for more housing or something. It was difficult to read their banners and so many people answered when I asked what this was all about that I couldn’t really understand them.
As I went into the store I heard them playing some Talking Heads song. I can’t remember which one but David Byrne has a super distinctive voice.
When I came out of the store I had to walk past the cops laughing at the demonstrators and making fun of their music. It was some Gangster Rap song – which in and of itself wouldn’t be so bad except that it’s kind of disgusting to see privileged white people glamorize poverty and underclass criminality to such an extent.
As I got closer to the group blocking the street, most were just sitting in clumps around the sidewalk or standing in the street. About ten of them were dancing around and most of the ones standing in the street were bopping to the music.
This is where they lost me completely and I can no longer in good conscience take them seriously.
The lyrics I heard – that they were all so into were:
I treat that bitch like my ATM card
SRSLY… as if misogyny weren’t something they should be protesting… the song was glorifying the use of hookers to bankroll an extravagant lifestyle and none of them took umbrage with it. I thought banks acting like pimps was one of the things they were protesting but by occupying the hotel I guess they’re protesting Obamacare because the developers are turning the hotel into a hospital.
I’m glad popular culture has moved beyond Gangsta Rap – it sounds so weak and dated now – I mean nothing says early-to-mid 90′s more except maybe “Grunge” and most of the people I saw there were stuck in that look…
I don’t pay attention to the corporate media anymore but from what I can see with my own eyes – the Occupy “Movement” hates cross town traffic, female prostitutes, state of the art urban medical centers and convenient access to quality medical care.
And quite possibly any music or fashion created after about 1994.
Ever since it was legal for me to do so, I have voted. Every year the people I vote for loose and every year I resent the older, deeply entrenched forces holding back progress, innovation and efficiency from not only the political process but from the machinations of government.
Ever since I began voting, I’ve often thought the establishment candidates promising change but delivering more of the same wouldn’t have a chance if they had to campaign shirtless.
Yes I have expressed this sentiment in a variety of settings over the years and usually as a toss-out laugh line in a bar. But honestly, deep down inside I truly believe the dinosaurs and their special interest pandering wouldn’t stand a chance if they had to campaign while showing only skin from the waist up.
Of course this policy might favor women – at first but I think it will also favor younger people with fresh ideas. They are the demographic that has to live the longest with the policy enacted by the current government so why shouldn’t they be better represented in the chambers of power?
Now that the Rapture predicted for yesterday has proven to be more rupture than rapture, we can look forward to the next event in the terror monger’s calendar – Armageddon 2012.
Yes, the ancient Mayan calendar ends on the Winter Solstice in 2012. Yes, they are probably the most time obsessed culture our planet has ever known but they do have another calendar to use for the day after this one runs out.
My pal Mark Heley has written a book about the big transition/transformation/transubstantiation to occur in 2012.
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If you’re still embroiled in fear and terror that 2012 will be more Armageddon than Apocalypse, you might want to check out this kit.
Summer officially begins on the Summer Solstice exactly a month from today. For many people though, summer unofficially begins next weekend with Memorial Day. The three day holiday bookends warm weather for most Americans between now and Labor Day weekend in September.
2011 has been an interesting mix of mayhem and music so far and I’m excited to see what’s in store for the summer season ahead. As with the past three summers, economic issues will be front-and-center so it could be a cruel summer monetarily for many. For me, I hope it’s just cruelly hot as the song below suggests. I love San Francisco during a heat wave.
Preacher and evangelical broadcaster Harold Camping has announced that Jesus Christ will return to Earth this Saturday, May 21, and many of his followers are traveling the country in preparation for the weekend Rapture.
The Associated Press still won’t let it go. As if all the pre-wedding coverage wasn’t enough, they’re still wringing every last drop out of last week’s royal wedding. At least they’ve finally noticed that Kate Middleton is just the most recent in a long line of commoners to wed European royalty.
I was so happy to see the Dutch Princess Maxima mentioned in our local paper. Her royal wedding on 02/02/02 was all but ignored by the American media even though it had all the elements they seem to love: fairy tale love of a prince marrying a commoner, scandal and controversy with her family history and the couple’s ties to New York City where they began dating. She is now so popular in the Netherlands that there is already a retrospective on her first ten years in the country.
It seems I’m not alone in having mixed emotions about the assassination of Osama Bin Laden. The reactions I’ve seen online and reported in the media have been just as mixed. They’ve ranged the gamut from elation to ambivalence. From sadness at the loss of life to fear of reprisals.
I understand the government and military following Islamic protocol in disposing of the body and not wanting to release images of his dead body to avoid outrage and backlash from Muslims.
I do, I totally get it but I also think they can’t have it both ways. Either this guy wasn’t a true Muslim because he espoused a murderous ideology of hatred toward “infidels” that is anathema to ‘true’ Muslims or he was a proper Muslim who deserved a proper Muslim burial.
Not wanting to upset Bin Laden’s compatriots seems a specious argument because they hate us already and no matter what we do they will still do everything they can to recruit new members and to attack us at every chance they get.
Quartknee with Mark Bingham
It’s cool that we’ve closed a chapter in our nation’s history with Bin Laden’s death but the news for me feels bittersweet because it won’t bring back my friend Mark or anyone else that died on 9-11.
“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” – Mark Twain
I pray that this event marks a real turning point in our confrontations with islamofascists and that we can move forward to increase the peace.
The American news media has jumped the shark – need proof? Review any/all of the air time devoted to coverage of the impending nuptials of Brittani’s Prince William & Kate Middleton.
Besides acting like an echo chamber for every rumour and innuendo about all the wedding related minutia, they’re acting like this is some important event with a global impact
The royal wedding is only really important to Americans because the American media makes it out to be and I for one, am utterly sick of it.
The subtle and inarticulate implication is that nothing else is as important – not the economy, rising costs of gasoline or health care or all four of Obama’s active military actions around the world.
Nothing is more important than organizing a royal wedding viewing party and every news outlet has some unique or tawdry angle to make their coverage hit us like water torture – each drop seems small and innocuous on its own but taken together its excruciating!
Today marks the anniversary of the 1906 Great Quake and Fire that ravaged San Francisco. There was also a small 3.8 earthquake on the peninsula just south of San Francisco today.
On Saturday, March 19, the moon’s expected to be about 350,000 kilometers from the Earth, — the nearest it will have come since 1992, according to NASA. And while the moon’s distance change is marginal, a “Supermoon” falling on a full-moon night has only happened 15 times in the last 400 years.
Previous “supermoons” occured around the time natural disasters – including the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and Cyclone Tracy which devastated the Australian city of Darwin in 1974 – but scientists say there is no evidence to suggest the phenomenon is a sign of impending doom. It’s helpful to remember that correlation does not indicate causation.
