Not some. Not Most. Guaranteed health care for ALL.

Everyone knows Fidel Castro just stepped down, but only Dave could make me laugh out loud about Fidel's successor:

"Many observers believe Fidel Castro will either be replaced by his brother Raul, or by his idiot son, Fidel W. Castro."

Ha ha ha ha ha....

I just found out one of my first boyfriends died recently at the still young age of 48. No details about how it happened, I just know he's gone.

It was a long time ago but thinking back I have fond memories of this person. He's the only partner I've ever had that I never fought with, and we parted on fairly good terms wishing each other well. We did have a few intense moments toward the end of our relationship, because he had a drug problem and I was trying to escape that world, but otherwise I remember him as a pretty decent, mellow guy. From what I have heard about him since then he had also moved on and was doing very well.

I don't know what else to say except Aloha, Nick.

I know I'm not the first to make this observation — and Google knows it — but they simply don't seem to care about the cavernous contradiction between their two primary objectives: making money and fighting spam.

On the one hand, Google is constantly changing its algorithm to fight spam on the Internet, and with each arbitrary update, innocent non-spamming sites are penalized for accidentally fitting the profile. On the other hand, Google is paying the real spammers to continue doing what they do, by allowing its AdSense ads on obvious spam sites.

I also know I'm not the only one who can rarely find the search result I'm looking for without having to wade through tons of spammy crap.

WTF Google? Spammers spam because you have made it so lucrative to do so. Please stop the hypocrisy.

I have been following the story of Pretty Bird Woman House — a desperately needed shelter for battered women & children on the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota — since May of this year. I have always been an activist type who enjoys championing one cause or another, but due to a lack of funds I have to be very selective about where I donate money, which means that most of my pet causes have to make due with a contribution of my time. PBWH is the one charity I will donate to whether I can afford it or not — it's that important.

So much has been written online that I'll direct you to Daily Kos for the backstory, which I hope you'll take the time to read, but more urgently I want to call attention to the shelter's current campaign to raise funds for a new building (Chip In below). Please help if you can.

From the Pretty Bird Woman House blog:

The shelter is in dire straits right now. Its original building was rather run down but operable. However, this year there were so many burglaries in which people broke right through the walls that the building became so unsafe that they were forced to move out before they could find a new building.

Until they find a new house, Georgia Littleshield and her two staff are driving the women to 2 other shelters, one near the eastern edge of the Standing Rock Reservation and the other on the Cheyenne River Reservations. This strains the resources of the other shelters, and, due to the distances involved, limits the services that the PBWH staff can provide to the women of the reservation. The Standing Rock Tribal Council is now providing the shelter with free office space and storage, but PBWH really needs its own house in a safe location.

As you can see, the PBWH desperately needs a home of its own. A suitable house has become available across from a police station. Considering that there are only a few police officers patrolling an area the size of Connecticut, this would be the perfect location for the shelter.

We are asking for your donations to help the PBWH buy a new home and an electronic fencing and security system, which will finally ensure the safety of the women seeking emergency shelter. We will be kicking off a ChipIn fundraiser on October 31st. In the meantime, please feel free to send your checks directly to the shelter. The address is on the right side of this page.

Pretty Bird Woman House is a 501 (c)3 charitable organization, which means that your donations are fully tax deductible.

If you are uncomfortable with making an online Chip In donation, there is an address for sending a check by mail in the right sidebar of the PBWH blog.

· Harassment in the form of several phone calls EVERY SINGLE DAY.

· These nuisance calls continue even after you tell them you don't wish to donate.

· The operators refuse to take your phone number off the calling list no matter how many times you ask.

After experiencing these extremely annoying and unethical fundraising tactics, I wouldn't donate one penny to United Cerebral Palsy if it was the last charity on earth.

Way to inspire public confidence and a desire to help, you annoying fucks.

Your commercials that attempt to scare senior citizens out of supporting negotiation of drug prices are REPREHENSIBLE, as are the Rethuglican senators who blocked a bill this week that would have allowed negotiation by Medicare.

Lying, greedy, evil criminal scum is what you are, and don't you think for one moment that nobody notices.

Sadly, the Honolulu motorcycle police officer who was critically injured while escorting President Bush's motorcade last week, died Sunday. Steve Favela was only 30 years old, and he leaves behind his wife and four small children. Our deepest sympathies go out to Officer Favela's family. I doubt that they will ever feel thankful on Thanksgiving again.

In a statement, Bush said that he and the first lady send their condolences and that they are "deeply saddened" by the death. "Officer Favela risked his life every day to protect the people of his community," Bush said in the statement.

True, but he didn't die protecting the people of his community, did he? Why does that statement sound so insensitive to me? A little like oh well, it was part of the job. Just another notch on ol' George's pro-life, pro-war belt.

Unfortunately Mr. Bush will be unable to attend Officer Favela's funeral, as he is otherwise occupied with his never-ending campaign to start World War III.

Two more years is way too long.

I haven't posted anything for a long time. This blog took a different direction than I intended when the Lori Scheirer story broke around the same time I started it. I was never able to be 'myself' out of fear that anything I posted of a personal nature would enable her to identify me. Online stalkers are so much fun!

I'm ready to give it another go, so check back often and hopefully I'll have some new and interesting things to share.

Our favorite cyber psycho, Lori Scheirer, has been up to her old tricks again on the IMDB message board for the movie Wonderland. Since this time Ms. Scheirer has indicated that she may intend to cause me some unwarranted legal trouble, I've taken the time to update the documentation we have been collecting at Women Who Kill.

Pay close attention to the updated list of IMDB identities, many of which also coincide with Lori's AOL screennames. 19 in all, and that only includes the ones I could verify with certainty.

To the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas:

The first personality pretended to be…

A very smart PhD

The second personality pretended to be…

A closet monster
and a very smart PhD

The third personality pretended to be…

An angry psycho
a closet monster
and a very smart PhD

The fourth personality pretended to be…

A grieving family member
an angry psycho
a closet monster
and a very smart PhD

The fifth personality pretended to be…

A con-vic-ted thief
a grieving family member
an angry psycho
a closet monster
and a very smart PhD

The sixth personality pretended to be…

A hyphenated offspring
a con-vic-ted thief
a grieving family member
an angry psycho
a closet monster
and a very smart PhD

The seventh personality pretended to be…

An unwitting neighbor
a hyphenated offspring
a con-vic-ted thief
a grieving family member
an angry psycho
a closet monster
and a very smart PhD

The eighth personality pretended to be…

Yet another family member
an unwitting neighbor
a hyphenated offspring
a con-vic-ted thief
a grieving family member
any angry psycho
a closet monster
and a very smart PhD

The ninth personality pretended to be…

A bogus supporter
yet another family member
an unwitting neighbor
a hyphenated offspring
a con-vic-ted thief
a grieving family member
an angry psycho
a closet monster
and a very smart PhD

The tenth personality pretended to be…

A Nikkita imposter
a bogus supporter
yet another family member
an unwitting neighbor
a hyphenated offspring
a con-vic-ted thief
a grieving family member
an angry psycho
a closet monster
and a very smart PhD

The eleventh personality pretended to be…

JamieDawn the blogger
a Nikkita imposter
a bogus supporter
yet another family member
an unwitting neighbor
a hyphenated offspring
a con-vic-ted thief
a grieving family member
an angry psycho
a closet monster
and a very smart PhD

The twelfth personality pretended to be…

Another HurleySwirly
JamieDawn the blogger
a Nikkita imposter
a bogus supporter
yet another family member
an unwitting neighbor
a hyphenated offspring
a con-vic-ted thief
a grieving family member
an angry psycho
a closet monster
and a very smart PhD

Women Who Kill