“The right-wingers are really having a field day with me,” she wrote. “…
*snort*
Let’s count all of the *I*s and *me*s!!!
The White House did not return calls seeking comment on the book.
*doublesnort*
SondraK, Lympian Slayer The high-top sneakers cost $215 at a San Diego boutique, but the designer is giving them away to migrants before they cross to this side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
These are no ordinary shoes.
A compass and flashlight dangle from one shoelace. The pocket in the tongue is for money or pain relievers. A rough map of the border region is printed on a removable insole.
They are red, white and green, the colors of the Mexican flag. On the back ankle, a drawing of Mexico’s patron saint of migrants.
On this side of the border, the shoes sit in art collections or the closets of well-heeled sneaker connoisseurs. On the other side, in Tijuana, it’s a utilitarian affair: Immigrants to be are happy to have the sturdy, lightweight shoes for the hike - or dash - into the United States.
Their designer is Judi Werthein, an Argentine artist who moved to New York in 1997 - legally, she notes.
On recent evening in Tijuana, after giving away 50 pairs at a migrant shelter, Werthein waved the insole and pointed to Interstate 8, the main road between San Diego and Phoenix.
“This blue line is where you want to go,” Werthein, 38, said in Spanish.
“Good luck! You’re all very courageous,” she told the cheering crowd of about 50 men huddled in a recreation room after dinner.
“God bless you!” several cried back.
Werthein has concluded that shoes are a border crosser’s most important garment.
”The main problem that people have when they’re crossing is their feet,” Werthein. “If people are going to cross anyway, at least this will make it safer.”
Only 1,000 pairs of the “Brinco” sneakers (it means “Jump” in Spanish) have been made - in China, for $17 each. The shoes were introduced in August at inSite, an art exhibition in San Diego and Tijuana whose sponsors include nonprofit foundations and private collectors.
Benefactors put up $40,000 for the project; Werthein gets a $5,000 stipend, plus expenses.
pick a song and sing a yellow nectarine
take a bath, I’ll drink the water that you leave
if you should die before me -
ask if you can bring a friend
pick a flower, hold your breath
and drift away...---Stone Temple Pilots
Thanks for beminding me, SparkS....
Gee, because it couldn’t POSSIBLY be that the Senate has more important things to do and really has no business with this crap.
And JEBUS why does everything have to be partisan???!!!
Chavez says Venezuela has good reason to be concerned given the history of U.S. military actions in places from Iraq to Afghanistan*
“The people of the United States are governed by a murderer ... a crazy man!” Chavez said in a speech Thursday night.
*hmmmmm....slip of the tongue, worried about something or just plain paranoid???????
When you take a hot shower in the winter, close the bathtub drain and let the warm water fill the tub as you shower. It takes a lot of energy to heat water and it is just wasted if you let it run down the drain while it is still warm. By saving the water in the tub, it will slowly transfer its heat to the room air and reduce the heating load on your furnace. It will also add humidity to the air, which most homes need in the winter. After about three hours, the water will have cooled and you can open the drain.
The only drawback to doing this is that it can leave some soapy deposits in the tub. If you use a detergent-based bar soap, not Ivory, the soap residue problem is minimal.
I dunno about this, but I’m just sooooo relieved that it didn’t say and save it for the next person’s bath like I was fearing.
Mom,
Be my voice. I want this message heard. It is mine and my platoon’s to the country…
Why of course, and with blessings.
...but what???
my Dalink Nicky
Hot moonbat on moonbat action!!!!!
For the most part, this world was created by longtime Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. .....
Songwriting, he writes, is “above all else and beyond all else, a language of direct emotion”; hence he did not allow his lyrics to be printed with Dead recordings initially, preferring listeners to mistake the words to their own liking.
“I never foresaw the day when someone would jimmy those words apart and do an encyclopedic search of their meanings,” he told Billboard in a rare interview. “Maybe it’s my age, but a lot of those (annotations) seemed obvious to me—but it occurs to me now that they might not be evident to succeeding generations.”Indeed, he pointed to a line in Dead classic “Truckin“‘: “She lost her sparkle, you know she isn’t the same/Living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine.”
”What suggested that was a (1950s) Pepsodent commercial,” Hunter said. “I thought a few people would pick up on it, but, of course, no one did.”
Yes, it all makes sense to me now.
...I wrote down random numbers to correspond with each line (such that) the first would have three syllables, the next five, then eight—or whatever. Then I took that format and wrote the words, and then wrote another verse to match. So I chose to obey a different numerical law than the usual type of rock song structure, and it came out as one of the strongest songs I’d ever written.”
Hold me.
My mother-in-law’s coming for Yule to New Year’s Eve. Again.
Last time she got her nose pierced.....time before that, a tattoo…
Why IS it that everyone who meets her automatically says..."HA, SondraK...I see where you get it”????
She’s JR’s MOM!!!
telephone: *ring*ring*
JR: Hello?
TM: Yes, we’re calling to offer you a great deal on replacement windows!
JR: We’re all set, thank you.
TM: Are they the new more efficient double pane ... blah blah blah...?
JR: Of course! We have our tin foil on the inside AND outside!!!
TM: *click*
With a heaping side of MORE government. Since when does $600,000 for nothing = you get what you pay for?
BTW...I see Bald Eagles flying over the dump waste reclaimation site every single time I go there, for what it’s worth.
Umberto Bombana, Chef de Cuisine at Hong Kong’s Ritz Carlton hotel, prepares ‘Lobster in Savoy Cabbage, Anchovy and sweet Garlic Sauce, Porcini Mushroom Emulsion’, with the 1.2 kg Alba white truffle at the hotel in Hong Kong November 18, 2005. The rare fungus was bought by a consortium of Hong Kong bidders during a satellite-linked charity auction in the Castle of Grinzane Cavour near Alba, Italy on November 13, 2005 for 95,000 euro ($111,477). The truffle was served at a private dinner in Hong Kong on Friday
