heaven on earth, Arizona...

Family Pictures Taken With Santa, Machine Guns: MyFoxPHOENIX.com

baaaa

rememering these two...

on their birthday

Roberta Josephine Smith Mills 11.24.1929-12.26.2008
Edward Feingold 11.24.1911- 10.29.1982

and very thankful...

for these two!

Mary Grantham Smith 3.26.1917
Laura Mac Smith Feingold 9.15.1920

apt

save us...

just in case you 4got

there's no doubt

Not too long ago, a Tea Party leader
sent a message to Tea Party groups
not to hire people so that the economy can fail.
Their goal for doing so is to make President Obama fail.






The message urges small businesses to refrain from hiring until President Obama is out of office. At least one business, U.S. Crane LLC, is doing just that.

“The poor have
sometimes objected
to being governed badly;
the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
~ G.K. Chesterton

Occu-pies.

new yer talkin' !

As the General Assembly got underway, the atmosphere at City Hall was convivial. The Boys in Blue are part of the "99%," too. We should NOT forget that the turning point in showdown at the first "occupation" at the statehouse in Wisconsin was when the police and firefighters unions pledged solidarity with the teachers - despite those that wanted to turn them against each other.

~ with Ann Humphreys at Austin City Hall.

where ARE we?

lest we forget...

if only

"If Anthony Weiner had sexually harassed women in person instead of on Twitter,
he'd have a political career today."
~Andy Borowitz

how much more do they NEED?

In her book A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, Barbara Tuchman writes about a peasant revolt in 1358 that began in the village of St. Leu and spread throughout the Oise Valley. At one estate, the serfs sacked the manor house, killed the knight, and roasted him on a spit in front of his wife and kids. Then, after ten or twelve peasants violated the lady, with the children still watching, they forced her to eat the roasted flesh of her dead husband and then killed her. That is class warfare. Arguing over the optimum marginal tax rate for the top one percent is not.


(from Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them")

joni @ 68

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do
~ Golda Meir

many thanks to wblake9 for Flickr photo

the Paving of paradise continues...
~The Apocalyptic Landscapes, a photographic tour
of Alberta's oil sands

http://bit.ly/rSm89k

File this one in the "Joni Mitchell song lyrics come to life" folder. Local artist Karen Tauches' "Paradise" installation is now a parking lot. The collaboration with Cooper Sanchez converted a vacant lot at the corner of Carroll and Tennelle Streets in Cabbagetown into a vibrant meadow of wildflowers. For a night, a sign hung above the lot glowing "PARADISE" in neon blue letters.

happy birthday walt

"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system." ~Walter Cronkite

many thanks to Magentaraven for Flickr photo

Joni Mitchell
Court and Spark tour
w/Tom Scott and The LA Express Anaheim Convention Center
March 5, 1974

many thanks to ultomatt for Flickr photo

it's Joni week

Joni Mitchell is greeted affectionately by Robbie Robertson as she comes onstage to perform "Coyote" in Martin Scorsese's great film, "The Last Waltz"





many thanks to ScotiaIsles for Flickr photo
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