Charissa’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2008)

Charissa’s comments from the Axis Mundi X group.

I can't even imagine how awful it would be to die that way. Or what a fire must have been like to catch entire towns like that. Hell itself.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/10/c...

40% of prisoners released on the streets all in one day?

Oh joy. This can't possibly be good.

http://wicked-4-tw.livejournal.com/77...

a LJ friend posted some pictures of the fires and their aftermath. she says 181 people are dead, most of which are children. it's horrifying.

yes indeed Ruth

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/religi...

Does anyone understand the intricacies of this particular insanity? Does the Pope think he's actually going to change this man's mind? Is this why Nazi Pope was voted in? So that he could bring back into the flock all the anti-Semites in the Catholic Church? Or is he just trying to rationalize what he was determined to do in the first place?

I'm sending my prayers out to our Aussie friends this week. The fires there have been brutal, and it looks like there may be as many as 100 dead in the town of Marysville in Victoria. It looks like it may have been arson. Pretty horrible.

My prayers also go out to the wildlife that has been made homeless, or orphaned, or left with burns. It's the worst fire in the history of the continent.

Abe Lincoln is certainly a good choice to emulate in my opinion. Considering the difficulties the man faced I count him as the greatest president of all. But, of course, the difficulties faced now are in many ways greater. We certainly live in more complex times. With even more at stake. One of the things I appreciate about Obama which reminds me of Lincoln is his gift and skill at statesmanship. Of course only the years in office can bear out the promise a leader shows. For now I am content focusing on doing what I can in my own life. I'm leaving the big questions to those in the position to do something about them. Or to even truly understand them.

It's sad that Lincoln barely had the chance to enjoy the peace when the war was finally over. Pretty raw deal. I don't envy anyone in the Presidency. You can tell by the way it ages people just how frakkin brutal the job is. What do they have to do, stare into the face of the Great Abyss every evening before going to sleep?

pearls before swine ::;sigh:::

Gorgeous Ruth!!!! Oh I LOVE that!!!! Reminds me of something my daughter did when she was five in our bathroom. She painted squares of cotton gauze with watercolor paints and stuck them to the bathroom mirror with water like a giant quilt. It was wild. I like yours better though, cuz it's that lovely color of sea foam.

Larry, you can blow smoke up my ass any time you want.

I'm brilliant all the time, Bunny. Especially when I'm screwing up brilliantly. Or being a brilliant asshole. If I were developmentally disabled, I'd be the most brilliant retard in the state home.

::::trips over her own feet and falls down the stairs::::

or dance in the rain!

dude, that was the whole point. it was making fun of all those plot devices!! that was it's brilliance!!

mmmm.... iron beds with chipping lead paint. yummy.

I always wanted to design and build a self cleaning home with water proof walls and floors and run off gutters and drains, and then a sprinkler system. Once every few days you could put away your stuff into water proof drawers and turn on the cleaning system which would just spray down the entire house. No need to vaccume and dust.

I realize this is probably impractical, but it makes me feel better to imagine it.

My daughter and I watched 'Hamlet 2' tonight. It was way funnier than I thought it was going to be. The "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" number about gave me a hernia I laughed so hard. Frakkin brilliant. Get thee to a DVD player and watch it. Perfect antidote to the doldrums of our current winter of discontent.

That is sage perspective indeed Ruth. I keep trying to figure out why I thought I needed to hang onto the stuff I have in a storage Pod that I haven't needed for the past 4 years. Maybe I didn't actually need to hang onto it after all.

AHHH Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... you have my vote.

omg, I'm exactly the same way. Sometimes in order to clean I have to redecorate. Drives my daughter insane. She hates change. But now that we've moved into this new place I have only been rearranging the livingroom furniture. Everything else stays where I put it the first time. Last time I moved furniture I told her next time she could arrange it where she wants it. Of course it has stayed where it is now... that's how much she hates change. LOL

I have been tempted to set my stuff on fire more than once. In fact, one place I lived many years ago I started chucking the dirty dishes out the back door into the compost heap if they were too nasty to deal with. HA HA HA HA. I'm such a total oakie.

Step One to Intellectuals Keeping House: Resist setting fire to your home in order to avoid doing dishes and laundry.

Sure, letter writing is great. Every Xmas season I knit scarves for soldiers and we all send letters with our scarves as well, so they know who knit it for them. It's really a great program, even if they do need batteries more than hand knit scarves. They still appreciate the homey touch.

It was definitely the Power of Myth that he was lecturing about, Sherrie... but it wasn't the one with Bill Moyers interviewing him. It was just him giving lectures and showing slides at some woman's college on the east coast. Brown or something.

Love the History of the English Language. Especially the part in the Appalachians. Har, Flar, Over thar. Hee!!