i had someone else going with me to the rest of Alabama than came with me
to
Birmingham.
Unfortunately I got the same loon in Chicago
I note that I will not need her in Chicago as there would be no justice if
I
couldn't
hook up with someone there so I wouldn't have to spend time with her. Got
to be at least one show I can go to once I get there
I can imagine my friends sleepwalking as I have seen them do this before
i think it is sort of more ok to celebrate columbus than that the Robert
Lee
dude, especially
on the same day as MLK
that makes me want to scream
o wait i have screamed about it before, and near got kilt in many a
roanoke
establishment
I do not know the difference between burdock and poke. It's all blurry
green til it turns blurry brown.
marika wrote in message ...
>when I was in Birmingham i didn't get to see very much. It had been
>a bad week. The water main to the hotel broke and we worked late so we
were
>major
>tired. We travel with a partner. In part, my inability to see
Birmingham
>is a
>result of my partner's inertia.
>
>I hope that once in Mobile I will have more op****tunity and younger or
more
>excited partner.
>
>In the meantime it is cracking me up that my friends houses are in such a
>state of disarray.
>Doesn't sound like my friends' shouses, sounds like my house.
>
>
>marika wrote in message ...
>>yeah it was all true
>>
>>and another cool thing that happened to me
>>
>>I was walking through the breezeway to where I would be training.
>>
>>There were a male and female desk clerk security guard team there.
>>Walking up to the woman I though oh my those are the most beautiful
>>luxurious braids I shall have to compliment her on them. I saw them
sway
>>seductively
>>
>>As I got closer i noticed she had very short hair, and nothing in any
part
>>of her uniform could be interpreted as long hair. I asked her whether
she
>>had recently had braids and cut them
>>
>>She acknowledged she did
>>
>>I told her that I saw them and they were beautiful
>>
>>I don;t think she cut them because she wanted to
>>marika wrote in message ...
>>>I think the dead guy's ghost in the hotel room i first tried to rent
had
>>>his revenge as the water mains broke the next day
>>>
>>>marika wrote in message ...
>>>>
>>>>I was in Birmingham Alabama for a week.
>>>>I checked in to the Sheraton. About 3. The electronic swipe card
>worked.
>>>>But old fa****oned hardware prevented me from entering. Either the
guest
>>>>forgot to check out, was a squatter, was having ilicit *** in an
unpaid
>>>room
>>>>and didn't answer when after the third time I could not get in, or
was
>>>just
>>>>plain dead.
>>>>
>>>>I am sorry I killed him, but mr lefkowitz at the front desk apologized
>and
>>>>said he figured maybe i didn't/ I bought a copy of the local paper to
>see
>>>>if i was complicitous. Never could figure out how you could use that
>lock
>>>>bar if there isn't someone in the room.
>>>>
>>>>So there had to be someone in there.
>>>>
>>>>Murder mysteries always say it was a bullet or knife made of ice,
don't
>>>they
>>>>
>>>>SO then, I went to the restaurant and had a martini. And Goldfinger
came
>>>>on. I told the waitress that Ernst blofeld could probably use my
drink
>to
>>>>dissolve the gold paint.
>>>>
>>>>She asked me for the repeated nth time if my meal was still ok. I
told
>>her
>>>>tha tthe spinach in the middle of the plate had turned into a dragon
and
>>>>tehrefore it had ceased being ok
>>>>
>>>>mk5000
>>>>
>>>>"Can you say "brisk and refre****ng"?"--jeffrey mccann
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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Date: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: Chipping Away At Reverse Racism
>
>Yonkers wrote in message <468af86c.55151968@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>...
>>
>>Try more snow, Eboneesha.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: marika <marika5000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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>Date: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 11:50 AM
>Subject: Re: INTERNATIONAL STUFF - US Independence Declaration | Eateries
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>German-Caribbean Food
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>>
>>Frank Kalder wrote in message
>><1183532679.196308.193310@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>...
>>>
>>
>>>> so to me it was all diana again
>>>>
>>>At the end they showed Nelson Mandela crediting her utterly.
>>
>>oh yes I remember that now. I mentally tuned it out so I don't remember
>>what he said.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>. US Independence
>>>
>>>> WHICH reminds me that tomorrow is 4th of July, day of US Independence
as
>>a
>>>> colony.
>>>>
>>>Greatest event in the US history.
>>>
>>>"The United States Declaration of Independence was an act of the
>>>Second Continental Congress, adopted on July 4, 1776, which declared
>>>that the Thirteen Colonies were independent of the Kingdom of Great
>>>Britain. ..."
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
>>>
>>
>>
>>It's fascinating tho to contrast this, greatest event, with the Iraqi
>>similar greatest event that the US "gave" them with their constitution
and
>>first independent voting.
>>
>>This is now contrasted by what some characterize as the Iraqi civil war.
>>
>>It's an interesting contrast, because of course the US had its own civil
>war
>>about a hundred years after its independence. No one in the North of US
>>celebrates the civil war, though there are some holidays celebrated in
the
>>South. For instance, Virginia still celebrates Robert E Lee day 3rd
weekend
>>of January. Ironically, the state and the US celebrate Martin Luther
King
>>day on the same day.
>>
>>I think of this now because I saw a confederate flag yesterday. The
>>confederate flag was the flag of the non-north. The confederates were
for
>>slavery or as they put it "state's rights" which included their right to
>>decide keeping slaves was ok.
>>
>>It's still bitter to some here, and thus they fly the confederate flag.
>>
>>here are some confederate flags
>>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=confederate+flag&btnG=Google+Search
>>
>>it's navy not black and what I perceived to be dots from far away are
>>actually stars
>>
>>
>>the real reason I went to see this is because I saw an odd one
yesterday.
>> A totally white flag with the confederate flag in the corner where the
>>50stars are in the US flag. (incidentally Google US changed it's banner
>>today to reflect the 4th of July)
>>
>>some people think of Lee as a traitor to the US, others emulate and
>>celebrate him. Fascinating
>>
>>mk5000
>>
>>The Character of Lee
>>
>>
>>by John Williams Jones
>>
>>
>> He possessed every virtue of the great commanders, without their
vices.
>>He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a private citizen
>>without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without
hypocrisy,
>>and a man without guilt. He was a Caesar without his ambition;
>>a Frederick without his tyranny; a Napoleon without his selfishness; and
a
>>Wa****ngton without his reward. He was obedient to authority as a
servant,
>>and loyal in authority as a true king. He was gentle as a woman in life;
>>modest and pure as a virgin in thought; watchful as a Roman vestal in
duty;
>>submissive to law as Socrates, and grand in battle as Achilles.
>>
>>
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