The majority of women are now living without a spouse

According to a New York Times analysis of census results, in 2005, 51 percent of women said they were living without a spouse, up from 35 percent in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000.

"In 2005 married couples became a minority of all American households for the first time, the trend could ultimately shape social and workplace policies, including the ways government and employers distribute benefits.

"Several factors are driving the statistical shift. At one end of the age spectrum, women are marrying later or living with unmarried partners more often and for longer periods. At the other end, women are living longer as widows and, after a divorce, are more likely than men to delay remarriage, sometimes delighting in their newfound freedom. "

As Aimee Mann wrote:

"You fucked it up
You should've quit
Till circumstances
Had changed a bit

You fucked it up
You jumped the gun
I swore you off but
You climbed back on

And when you said
Of course you know
Could I be blamed
If I'd wished it so
I don't think so."
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The C.I.A. and the creation of Osama bin Laden

The illuminati conspiracy archive recently published a fascinating article by Norm Dixon on how the C.I.A. created Osama bin Laden, and his nefarious operations.

“Throughout the world ... its agents, client states and satellites are on the defensive — on the moral defensive, the intellectual defensive, and the political and economic defensive. Freedom movements arise and assert themselves. They're doing so on almost every continent populated by man — in the hills of Afghanistan, in Angola, in Kampuchea, in Central America ... [They are] freedom fighters.”

Is this statement from a bin Laden fatwa, or from the Taliban? Not so much. This encomium of the terrorist bin Laden and his Taliban stooges was uttered by President Ronald Reagan on March 8, 1985. The “evil empire” was, of course, the Soviet Union, and other Third World groups fighting US-sanctioned colonialism, apartheid and dictatorship. . .in the third world.



We created the monster and we engendered the toxic fundamentalist theology that lead to the war in Iraq, the savage deaths of thousand of Americans, and has us waiting for the other shoe to drop. As horrorific as 9/11 was, it was just a ride on the tilt-a-whirl compared to what might happen next.
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President Bush's secret plan to go down in the history books revealed

In the spring of 2006, President Bush came up with a plan to salvage his presidency in the history books. Phil Ronson of the All This Is That National Affairs Desk in Washington, (1580 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington, DC 20003), was informed earlier in the week of White House conversations that have apparently guided Administration policy for the last year.

A highly placed Administration aide told Ronson that the President told a group of advisors that if he couldn't be remembered as one of the great Presidents, at least he might be remembered as the worst. "OK, so things haven't exactly gone according to plan," he told the meeting of political aides, "well then we might as well be remembered as the worst." Two other White House personnel independently confirmed the tenor of that meeting.

"We'll give Grant, Harding, and Nixon a run for their money," President Bush said. "By the time I'm through, people will barely even remember those c***suckers!"



According to the leaker, White House staffers all agree the plan seems to be quite successful.
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Photograph: The Mannequin Factory

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Painting: Birds Of Prey

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Dave Stodden Takes Polygraph Test In The Murders Of His Wife And Daughter

Following up a sad story from last summer, investigators in the deaths of Mary Cooper, and Susanna Stodden, including the FBI, have pushed Dave Stodden to take a polygraph test. Once he took the test, they wanted him to take another. Invetigators have apparently uncovered nothing in the last half year. You never know what really lurks in the heart of men, but Dave Stodden was my daughter's soccer coach for many years. From everything I know of this gentle man, you are more likely to be guilty of this terrible crime than he is.


Dave Stodden

According to The Seattle Times today:

"David Stodden has come to accept that Snohomish County sheriff's investigators might suspect he had a role in the slayings of his wife and an adult daughter while the women were hiking last summer near Mount Pilchuck.


Mary Cooper front, Susanna Stodden back

"Stodden, 58, knows that spouses are often the first suspect in homicide cases, which he says is why he said he never pushed detectives for more details about their investigation into the July 11 slayings. When he was asked in November to take a polygraph test, Stodden said, he was angry but eventually agreed.

"But now, after undergoing questioning by a polygraph examiner on Wednesday — the results coming back inconclusive — Stodden says his patience with the investigation's focus on him is wearing thin.

"Nonetheless, Snohomish County Sheriff Rick Bart wants Stodden, of Seattle, to take the test again in hopes of obtaining a conclusive finding. But Stodden says he doesn't want to.

"I've done everything they've asked me to do, and I want the focus to be on the investigation and not me," Stodden said Friday. "I want them to solve the case. I think if I told them 'I'm not going to do this,' it could become their focus."

Earlier update: Detectives keep pursuing leads in hikers' deaths
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The Tears Of A President

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What would cause The President to weep? Click here to find out.
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Texas teacher charged with felony for zooming in on wrestler's nether regions

A Grand Prairie, Texas high school teacher has been charged under a Texas' peeping-tom law with videotaping girls' wrestling matches for sexual gratification. Sergeant John Brimmer claimed David Ware, 28, took numerous close-up shots of the wrestler's crotches.

"Improper visual recording" is punishable by two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The 2001 law is supposed to protect people from small cameras shooting in bathrooms or up women's skirts. Filming a person without consent for sexual arousal is a felony under the law.

Ware shot two hours of videotape, drawing the suspicion of a coach. Sergeant Brimmer claims the close-ups are "a purposeful act of zooming in." Ware's school was not entered in the tournament; his lawyer says Ware was just interested in girls 'rasslin.

It seems unlikely this law is constitutional. How DO you determine intention in a case like this? To prove sexual gratification would require the police to catch the culprit in flagrante, performing the gratification. And, in fact, schoolteacher Ware was not focused on the genitals at all, but the clothing covering those genitals—a maddening 1/4" beneath those tights.

Ware's attorney, Scott Palmer, asked "If you go to a Cowboys game and take a close-up shot of their cleavage, are you committing the same offense because you think that has sex appeal?" Would all the paparazzi in the world be guilty?
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The Arctic Blast Continues

I know how laughable it is to many of you to hear what kind of chaos an inch or two of snow can cause in the northwest. We just don't have much experience. There is a narrow band of temperature here—the overall average is 52°F, the August average is 66°F, and the coldest month (January) averages 41°F. In our last cold snap, everyone's power was off; at least we have juice this time!
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Poem: Snow Day In Kirkland, Wash.

In silhouette
Against blue bisque skies,
Crows bounce

On white tree branches,
Shaking snow to the ground.
They survey the valley

For prey
In stark relief
Against the powder-white fields.
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One More Reason Why I Am Scared Sh**less To Fly: Video Of Fixing A Jet's Wing With Duct Tape

If this video doesn't play—and, for some reason, they don't
always want to play—just go here on YouTube to see the clip.
Or go to Turbanhead's blog to the clip.


This is one of the reasons I need to be well-medicated to even approach an airport. I have flown more in the last few months than I have in all my life, and I have even made some of the flights without Xanax or any other sundry pharmaceuticals I beg from my Doctor and various people I know. A second reason I am terrified of flying is that about half of my high school classmates ended up as shoprats at Boeing. Knowing who actually builds these 'planes might give you pause as well, dear readers. . .
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Alien Lore No. 96 - Alien Sex: Antonio Villas Boas' Mad Night Of Alien Debauchery

23-year-old Antonio Villas Boas is the star of what is probably the most famous case of sex with aliens. It all went down on October 16, 1957, although Antonio believes he had seen the alien ship(s) for about two weeks prior to his abduction.


The grey temptress as described
by Boas

The ploughboy was working a field on his family farm when the engine of his tractor died and purple lights came down from the sky.

Greys in spacesuits emerged from a flying saucer and took him into their craft, and ran him throhgh a battery of what seemed to be medical tests. They took his clothes off (a recurring theme in most of these stories), spread a strange liquid over him and took a blood sample. And then, a beautiful, fair-haired, naked woman appeared.

Without speaking or kissing, they made love. She growled like a dog. Perhaps due to the alien liquid (a sort of interstellar Viagra?), Antonio was soon ready for seconds. "Before leaving she turned to me, pointed to her belly, and smilingly pointed to the sky."



Post-coitus, the aliens gave Antonio a guided tour of the spaceship. It was about 5:30 in the morning when Boas returned to his tractor, by his reckoning four and a quarter hours from the time he had been picked up. Antonio become a successful lawyer and still stands by his story 50 years later.

To read a detailed account of Antonio's wild night of Grey love, go to one of my favorite paranormal/conspiracy sites, the Illuminati Conspiracy Archive. There is a link to the main site on my links sidebar. You might also want to check out one of these books that also cover the story:

Architects of the Underworld: Unriddling Atlantis, Anomalies of Mars, and the Mystery of the Sphinx, by Bruce Rux; pp. 109-116

Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds, by Jacques Vallee; pp. 113-115

Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, by Ralph Blum with Judy Blum; pp. 182-184

If you read Spanish, check out this web site: LA ABDUCCION DE ANTONIO VILLAS BOAS.
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