Ramblings of a
Liberal Hypersomniac

Perez Hilton posted this Video about an USA citizen talking about why they don't want Obama as president. I know racism still exists, and 8 years of Bush is proof ignorance exists, but this video shows the blatancy of it in America. Watch this video and tell me what you think.



Misconceptions of Obama fuel Republican campaign - 13 Oct 08

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My God-Sister sent me an article written by Cintra Wilson about Sarah Palin. It is indignant, and funny, but true. I don't like Sarah Palin for Vice President and Wilson's article captured many of the reasons. My favorite passage in the article is this:

The Republicans are, in effect, saying: We're not
going to win this race on the basis of being the better candidates. Barack Obama
is going to make you think. You don't like thinking. Here's an It Girl vice
president who is easy on the eyes, you stodgy old white baby boomer. She's like
a grown-up version of Mary Ann from "Gilligan's Island." She embodies the raw
conviction that everything the Republicans have ever done has been right. She'll
make you feel better about yourself for voting for Bush. Twice.

Relax: The war is God's plan. (Or whatever.) Women,
even if they are vice president, can always look pretty, worship their husbands
in the fear of God and never, ever resist invasions from unwanted sperm.

Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my
friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater
beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in
reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National
Socialism.

-"Sarah Palin: White House Bunny" by Cintra Wilson

If you like that little bit of the article you should read the rest here then you can let me know what you think.


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“It wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t take us so long to figure out.” -Dr Stephen Franklin quoted on Babylon 5 Episode "Soul Hunter" referring to Meaning of Life, Death and a Human's short life span.

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You know how Oprah has, on her show sometimes and in her magazine every month, the section called "This is what I know for sure"? Other people say they know that Death and Taxes are for sure. I've paid taxes and I've experienced Death. I know I will die. What comes after that is a mystery. I was raised in a religious household. I celebrated Christmas, Easter and Lent. I've been to church, not often mind you, but I do know that these holidays mean more than candy and presents. But if I'm honest I can't tell you for sure that I know there is a Heaven or a Hell. Whether there is an afterlife or just nothingness I don't know. I won't know for sure until I get there. But none of this is what I'm talking about.

What I do know is that my Mother died almost 5 years ago. And since that day there have been two incidences that have made me sway more towards the there is something afterlife than not. I'm not a holy roller that is why I admit to my lack of church upfront. I'm a suspicious person who relies more on fact and science than on mysticism. But twice in the past 5 years, as I was sitting at my computer, I smelt something. Not the cat's litter box which needs to be changed or the garbage that needs to go out; But a smell that was unique. The bodily smell of my Mother. I know you think I'm nuts. You think that I miss her so much that I'm imagining her. Maybe you think I was doing something that involved her or a memory of her and my mind conjured up her smell. Because smell and memory are very closely related.

The connection between odor, memory and emotion has an anatomical basis. The primary olfactory cortex, which receives information about smells from nerves in the nose, links directly to the amygdala, which controls expression and experience of emotion, and the hippocampus, which controls the consolidation of memories.

Odor-evoked memories may seem clearer or more intense than other memories because they appear to be more emotional than memories triggered by visual, audio or other types of cues, Herz finds.

Psychologist Rachel Herz, PhD, of Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia was quoted in the article "Certain smells evoke stronger memories". There are many article like this that report similar findings. Smell and memories, emotional ones, are intrinsically linked.

I have distinctively smelt my mother 2 times. Her bodily oder which is something I think we each may know of only a few people in our lives. Our spouse or significant other, our children and our parents. Maybe a few others depending on the person. But it is definitely the people we feel closest too, who we've spent a lot of time with because we Americans spend so much time showering, putting on lotions, deodorants and powders that is is rare to know the real smell of most of those around us. So it is those we spend a lot of time around. Good times and Bad. Stressful times and Non stressful times. The times when we really sweat. When our truth whether it be smell or otherwise comes out.

I smelt her and it made me take pause. Why was her I smelling her now as opposed to other times? I'm not sure exactly yet. I'm trying to analyze that. Maybe she is just letting me know she is here. Maybe the universe is just letting me know that there is something more. Something beyond. Or maybe my mind needed hope and my olfactory senses gave it to me by conjuring up the smell out of the millions of molecules around me. I don't know the why or how for sure. All I do know is it did happen and I'm better for it.


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The took down the following lines as I was watching the SCI-FI show "Battlestar Galactica" episode called "Escape Velocity" (Season 4 Episode 406). I took them down cause each line made me think of something in my own life. Do they make you think too? Lemme know.

Sometimes the right thing is a luxury. -President Roslyn commenting on Lee Adama

I wasn't afraid to die. I was afraid of the emptiness I felt inside. I couldn't feel anything and that's what scared me. You came into my thoughts. You filled them. It felt good. -Captain Adama reading a book to President Roslyn

I'm not a priest. I haven't been a particualrly good man. I have in fact been a profoundly selfish man but that doesn't matter. You see something in the universe loves me. Something in the universe loves the entity that is me. I will choose to call this something God. A singular spark that dwells in the soul of every living being. If you look inside yourself you will see this spark too. You will but you have to look....Deep. Love your faults. Embrace them. If God embraces them, then how can they be faults.

Love yourself. You have to love yourself. If we don't love ourselves, how can we love others?

And when we know what we are, then we can find the truth out about others. See what they are.

The truth about them. And you know what the truth is. The truth about Them, about You, about Me? Do you?

The truth is we are all perfect....just as we are. God only loves that which is perfect and he loves you. He loves you because you are perfect. You are perfect. Perfect just as you are.

Gaius Baltar preaching

I'm not a particularly religious person I call myself more spiritual but I like the thought that something in the universe loves me and that I'm perfect just as I am. Now if only I could really believe those things ;)

PS To anyone else who watched this episode: How strange was it to see Baltar "mysteriously" rise up when the guards wouldn't let him back into his quarters?....Reminiscent of another man who mysteriously rose up?....Food for thought.

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