My husband said that he had a very beautiful vision of Anna and her son dancing in heaven together, overjoyed. There is no death just eternity to work it out. Anna Nicole died of a broken heart. Every mother knows this.
Rest in peace and Love's Blessings to you Anna and Daniel. I have been crying all night, and can't say why this afffects me so deeply, except that once you have a child you are never the same. A part of your soul goes to that precious child. Children are not meant to die before their parents, and for someone as fragile as Anna, the heartbreak was unbearable.
Death brings peace and serenity to the one that has died, but it brings grief and brokenness to those they leave behind.
ReplyDeleteThat was very beautiful, Lydia. I'm the same way when things like this happen. I never truly understand why I am so personally saddened and affected by these things in such cases where I never knew those involved, but regardless, it still touches me deeply. I myself cried more than a few tears for Anna and Daniel, and I know she is embracing her beloved son where she is. She truly couldn't live without him, and in her last interview, it was so evident how completely broken she was. In life, her strength endured so much, but she could go on no longer. Anna Nicole did die of a broken heart.
ReplyDeletePutin: U.S. policies create arms race
ReplyDeleteBy DAVID RISING,
Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 21 minutes ago
MUNICH, Germany
- Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that the United States' increased use of military force is creating a new arms race, with smaller nations turning toward developing nuclear weapons.
Speaking at a conference of the world's top security officials, including the Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, Putin said nations "are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations."
"One state, the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way," he told the 250 officials, including more than 40 defense and foreign ministers.
"This is nourishing an arms race with the desire of countries to get nuclear weapons," Putin said, but did not elaborate on specifics and did not mention the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Jacq thank you for your beautiful heart. I remember a couple my parents knew who were inseparable. When the wife died, the husband died six months later, of "natural causes." Of course we've all heard of this happening countless times.
ReplyDeleteLike I have said a dozen times, if we don't control him, other countries are going to step up.
ReplyDeleteIts getting dangerous now.
Worf, Putin is correct.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching The Secret again this morning, and remembering what I know spiritually, we must promote peace, think peace, and "resist not evil" as the Great Peacemaker commanded.
A new age is dawning, the age of PEACE.
Larry, you're right. I think we are spiritual beings having a human experience. It is crushing for those left behind but we have to start viewing ourselves with a new lens.
ReplyDeleteIts more than Putin just being correct Lydia.
ReplyDeletePutins words are a warning.
Even if republicans in this country are content to sit back and watch Bush invade and ravage independent nations at will, doesn't meant the rest is.
Putins words are a stern warning to Bush, and to us, that the international community is not going to sit by forever and watch Bush conqueor all the small oil rich nations of the world.
If Bush attacks Iran, other countries, like Russia and China, will come to their aid.
We could be looking at World War III.
ReplyDeleteThe Russian leader also voiced concern about U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in eastern Europe — likely in Poland and the Czech Republic — and the expansion of NATO as possible challenges to Russia.
ReplyDelete"The process of NATO expansion has nothing to do with modernization of the alliance or with ensuring security in Europe," Putin said. "On the contrary, it is a serious factor provoking reduction of mutual trust."
On the missile defense system, Putin said: "I don't want to accuse anyone of being aggressive" but suggested it would seriously change the balance of power and could provoke an unspecified response.
The democrats are busy passing health care reform, while Bush is off starting World War III.
ReplyDeleteAmen, Lydia.
ReplyDeleteGuys, Putin said a LOT more than the AP reported. I have it up on my blog.
How do we stop him? Why can't we freeze his war powers? Does anyone think our founders thought a dicator could take power so easily? Granted, it's the lack of consensus in Congress, but I wonder who is being blackmailed? Why aren't all republicans jumping ship. The public does not want this aggression.
ReplyDeleteWE can't stop him Lydia.
ReplyDeleteThe democrats hold power in the congress. They can stop him, but they don't appear to posses the will, or the courage to do it.
They need to pressure their right wing counterparts and force votes in the congress to get him out of office along with Cheney, asap.
This ball gets rolling, and we may not be able to stop it.
BBC defence and security correspondent Rob Watson, in Munich, said Mr Putin's speech was a strident performance which may well be remembered as a turning point in international relations.
ReplyDeletea turning point in international relations.
ReplyDeleteI read your blog Carl. And I agree.
ReplyDeleteLydia,
ReplyDeleteI was pondering that very question this morning.
I'm hoping that our next President, Hillary :-), will arrest him for trial at The Hague.
Short of that, I can't imagine anything to stop him or any other President from abusing his power.
If you ever get the chance, find a book called "The Rubicon" (I think) which describes the fall of the Roman Republic (not the empire...this is pre-Julius Caesar stuff).
It's a good scare for a rainy night.
While I was posting to my blog earlier, I had the eeriest chill that maybe we've all been missing the point of the Iraq incursion, that PNAC wasn't about confronting the oil crisis, but about finally winning the Cold War.
ReplyDeleteRight now, I think I'll have some soup.
ReplyDeleteFreedom Fan said...
ReplyDeleteI never watch sitcoms; that goofy canned laughter is an insult to my (admittedly limited) intelligence.
The first HONEST post you've ever made, asshole.
But you know, the canned laughter is designed for morons, so you shouldn't look down at your betters.
It looks like it was Ladies' Night last night.
ReplyDeleteI get it...when Worf or I or Clif aren't around, you boys get your one pair of testicles between the three of you out of the closet and take off your bras and open up a bag of Cheetos and figure "Man, I must be cock-o-the-walk, blogging on a libtard blog"
It's only because Lydia is far too nice to you jerk-offs. You ought to be a lot nicer to her and stop posting here.
You know, as Grouch might say "Any blog that would let me post, I don't want to belong to"...
It looks like it was Ladies' Night last night.
ReplyDelete-Suzy
Ow! A friend of Dorothy who calls me a "lady". Pardon me while I go cry.
Indeed PP, I only dare post when you aren't around, because I quake at the thought of crossing rapiers in the arena of wit with someone who wields your awesome powers of cognition.
After all, no one has the temerity to challenge you -- a writer, an actor, an ordained priest of liberalism, and a legend in his own mind.
For those of you unfamiliar with PP's many, many accomplishments, he played the comic love interest of one of the stars in Broke Wind Mtn.. That's right he played one of the prettier sheep.
Lydia, I have seen so much on Anna in the last couple days, that I'm ready to scream, but what you wrote touched me. May I say that of all the coverage I have seen on that subject, yours alone was tastefully done.
ReplyDeleteOf our media had devoted 1/10 the coverage to every fallen hero in Bush's war, that it has to Anna, the war would have ended long ago.
Wow Tomcat, you are so right. I think it everyday, and am disgusted with our media (the new series "Dirt" with Courtney Cox draws parallels.)
ReplyDeleteIf people could see a soldier a day, for over 3,000 days -- one soldier profiled who was killed - or the 18,000 who were maimed. We should start a channel that profiles these true heroes, and the people would clamor for an end to war.
an end to the military industrial complex which runs our country. But did you hear about the 2.5 billion dollar submarine they're trying to get funding for?
If you don't like what you read John then why don't you read elsewhere, like that hate blog you thrive on.
ReplyDeleteAnd to the uninvited guest from Idaho, you are not welcome here and your attacks on Lydia's family are not going to be tolerated.
ReplyDeleteSo leave.
And if you can't find the door, I am sure I can assist you.
Get him/her/it Worf.
ReplyDeleteWe can talk about random trivia and trade insults with the trolls but consider this next article and ask yourselves what the most important thing in the world right now.
ReplyDeleteBecause we've been here before, in 2003. And we're here now, standing on the cusp of a great and terrible evil, that once committed cannot be undone.
Read the next article, and ask yourself whats really important right now.
While I was posting to my blog earlier, I had the eeriest chill that maybe we've all been missing the point of the Iraq incursion, that PNAC wasn't about confronting the oil crisis, but about finally winning the Cold War."
ReplyDeleteCarl your completely correct, clif and I have discussed this in depth last year, The Neo Cons could care less about high oil prices or ending our dependency on oil, their purpose is twofold.
1) World domination by controlling access to the rich oil and natural gas fields of the Middle East.
2) opening up those rich relatively undeveloped oil and natural gas fields to American Energy companies who can make trillions either developing or buying up portions of their reserves as well as maintaining the Petro Dollar.
Winning the cold War is a good analogy Carl, because in the 21st Century he who controls the worlds energy is a Superpower and the Neo Cons who are also in bed with big oil are after two thinks world dominance and power and money, and in their view toppling the USA hostile governments of Iran and Iraq and installing puppet governments beholden to the USA will help them achieve both objectives.
U.S. weighs divulging Iran-Iraq proof
ReplyDeleteKATHERINE SHRADER and ANNE GEARAN,
Associated Press Writers
1 hour, 41 minutes ago
WASHINGTON
The Bush administration is haunted by the history of intelligence blunders about Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction as the United States tries to document that Iran is providing lethal help to Iraqi fighters.
After weeks of preparation and revisions, U.S. officials are preparing to detail evidence supporting administration's claims of Iran's meddlesome and deadly activities. A briefing was scheduled Sunday in Baghdad.
Worf said "WE can't stop him Lydia.
ReplyDeleteThe democrats hold power in the congress. They can stop him, but they don't appear to posses the will, or the courage to do it.
They need to pressure their right wing counterparts and force votes in the congress to get him out of office along with Cheney, asap.
This ball gets rolling, and we may not be able to stop it."
The Dems need to get moving faster on impeaching this piece of trash, we need more Dems like Jim Webb.
Well you guys may be right. After all Bush has to know that Russia is not going to sit still while we invade their good friends in Iran.
ReplyDeleteBut maybe he does. Maybe he thinks they won't do anything.
But one things for sure. The White House making a public case against Iran is a prelude to war.
Plain and simple.
Congress is wasting their time with tax reforms, non binding resolutions and health care.
We are going to war people. Bush is going to strike Iran.
Thats the only thing that matters.
Well Worf, I would hope that this time that Congress shows a spine and doesnt just vote to bomb Iran because they are afraid of getting smeared by Karl Rove in the next election, and that is regardless of another mysterious 9/11 type event happening to scare people into supporting war.
ReplyDeleteBut the American people do have the power to pressure congress. But we're too busy with our lives and careers to really do anything.
ReplyDeleteSo while we sit, and watch, Bush is going to invade another country, only this time, I don't think the rest of the world is going to sit back and let us.
Mike said...
ReplyDeleteWell Worf, I would hope that this time that Congress shows a spine and doesnt just vote to bomb Iran
We shouldn't even have to wish for that. It should be a no brainer.
If Congress allows Bush to invade Iran, then we're lost as a nation I fear.
When blood and the sword become your countries claim to fame, its ususally not long before blood and the sword find their way to your doorstep.
Beware people.
The day is nigh at hand.
America needs to repent.
ReplyDeleteRepent and turn a deaf ear to the warmongers and those who thirst for blood and battle.
America needs to humble itself and repent of this evil, before it consumes us all.
Worf said "But one things for sure. The White House making a public case against Iran is a prelude to war."
ReplyDeleteI agree, and I want to see this SOB impeached just as bad as you, but they have to wait till he exposes his hand with this so called evidence on Iran and makes his intentions clear to all, and they have to move forward vigorously with the hearings and investigations to make sure impeachment is a slam dunk.
With the lies leading up to the war, the lost 12 billion dollars, the illegal spying on American citizens, and the outing of Valerie plame etc....that we allready know NOW, I think we have the grounds to impeach this idiot, but we need to make sure we have him dead to rights and its a slam dunk.
And Worf your right The Democrats NEED to start pressuring and smearing the repugs that still support Bush, they need to smear them just like Rove did, so if they want to be re erlected they will bend to the will of the people.
I agree that China and Russia wont just sit back and allow us to do as we please in the world any more than the world allowed Hitler to exert his will on the world.
Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
ReplyDeleteBut in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
The word which [God] sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ
Act 10:34-36
ReplyDeleteBut in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
I don't think we have any time left to wait for anything Mike.
ReplyDeleteIts now or never I fear.
Now or never.
Your right Worf, it should be a no-brainer just like global warming is a no brainer, but the repugs try to muddy up the waters and make it a partisan us vs them issue because they have nothing else, look how they have tried to smear liberals and say we are in league with or support the terrorists, we want our country or our soldiers to fail and we want to bankrupt corporate america because we believe in the proven science of global warming and want to do something about it.
ReplyDeletetheir arguments are so weak, empty and illogical that its ludicris.
Let me make my position Clear, I've wanted this tyrant impeach since about 3 years ago from yesterday, however a failed impeachment could be disasterous in preventing these fools from reclaiming power in 2008, and I dont think we have the votes to get an impeachment now.
ReplyDeleteWe need more hearings and evidence to paint the repugs still supporting Bush into a corner where they must choose between suporing Bush or sacrificing their own political career and committing political suicide.
Bush cant attack Iran unless he gets approval from Congress, thats most likely why he's making his case just like he did in 2002, we need to deal with things as they happen.
ReplyDeleteHe very likely could goad Iran into attacking and that will probably be the route he takes, but short of another toothless resolution they need to get the goods on him and impeach him ASAP.............But i'm just as mpatient as everyone else.
That would be "ludicrous", dude. Ludicris is a gansta rapper.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm pretty sure y'all libs are brainiacs when it comes to predicting global climate change, market economics and other easily understandable phenomena.
Screw global warming. Screw the right wing idiots like FF whose souls were sold to the devil years ago for pride and screw it all.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that matters now, is Bush is going to attack Iran.
There is nothing else that matters.
While the devils minions taunt, chide and mock the people the master plots and plans, and now his plans are coming to fruition.
ReplyDeleteEvil, blood and horror is what they offer, while the rest of us stand idly by.
Wolves in sheeps clothing, as we were warned 2000 years ago, have infiltrated the flocks and herds and led us all astray.
ReplyDeleteIf you were the devil, what better disguise could you wear than the robes of a priest?
Falwell, Robertson, Angley, Haggard.... wolves in sheeps clothing.
ReplyDeleteThey promise peace and preach the sword. They offer prayers for blood and hate for love. They call evil good, and good evil.
And their followers spread their gospel of evil as men in power lead us all, carefully and quietly down to hell.
On a long, windy road paved with our good intentions.
ReplyDeleteFor I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
ReplyDeleteActs 20:29
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
ReplyDeleteYe shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew 7:15-16
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
ReplyDeleteWherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Matthew 7:18,20
And what fruits has Bush produced?
ReplyDeleteBlood and horror.
Death in divers places.
Pain, anguish.... utter destruction.
If you don't know that, then turn on the news.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
ReplyDeleteMatthew 7:20
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
ReplyDeleteAnd the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Matthew 7:24-27
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house...
ReplyDeleteand it fell,,,
And great was the fall of it.
My heart is so sad because of her death and because of the life she had to live (which wasn't too bad really but the last few years were tough on her).
ReplyDeleteI hope the baby girl is well taken cared for and not used as a pawn like her mother was. I wish I could hug this little one.
Anna was suffering these past few months after her son died. Just the look in her eyes the few times I saw her on tv talking about his death and him you could tell she just wanted to run away to get away from the memories in her head. How painful to watch!
ReplyDeleteIf she took her life, it will be a tragedy. If she was murdered, it will be a tragedy. But if she died of a broken heart, then I will have some comfort knowing they're together.
I bet in those 5 months Anna loved her daughter more than a lifetime. That is how Anna comes across to me. She's a lover.
Thanks Lydia for your tribute to Anna and her family. Okay, I'm crying again....
My guess is we got about 3 weeks, give or take.
ReplyDelete3 weeks until events are set in motion that may prove to be unstoppable.
I'm sorry Anna died too, but lots of people died yesterday. Particularly in Iraq. And a lot more people are going to die tomorrow, until congress acts as the constitution decries and stop this warmongering president before its too late.
I give it around 3 weeks.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, times up.
Freedom Fan said...I only dare post when you aren't around, because I quake at the thought of crossing rapiers in the arena of wit with someone who wields your awesome powers of cognition.
ReplyDeleteAs well you should. I would be embarrassed to be as stupid as you are. In fact, I'd probably throw myself in your loved one's grave...
Freedom Fan said...Libs are brainiacs when it comes to predicting global climate change, market economics and other easily understandable phenomena.
ReplyDeleteWow. You're finally getting it, shit-fer-brains!
Ironic that someone who was just whining about homophobia on this blog would himself smear someone else as a "friend of Dorothy"...what next, Fawnbot? How many other derogatory names are you going to call people here?
ReplyDeleteTake my other advice: go find a blog where people might actually welcome your posts.
Like the blog for Section G at Bellevue Hospital...maybe there, MASTER RACIST, you'll get all the respect you deserve.
But here? You're just a stream of electrons. And a yellow stream at that.
*doing troll stomp dance*
ReplyDeleteTomCat and Lydia: I am completely sickened with the way the media has treated this and so many other tragedies. All to sell newspapers and make money. It's a living I wouldn't want.
ReplyDeleteThe Guardian reports that the U.S will be ready by spring to launch a full attack on Iran, in spite of Bush's denials.
ReplyDeleteWorld War III is coming soon.
Where are the Democrats when we need them?
Read the article and senario about Bush's upcoming attack on Iran.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tomdispatch.com
Larry said...
ReplyDeleteWorld War III is coming soon.
To a "theatre" near you.
Larry said...
ReplyDeleteWhere are the Democrats when we need them
Thats what I'd like to know.
The bad thing is this theatre will not need special goggles to appear larger than life.
ReplyDeleteAlthough you may need special goggles to shield your eyes from the blast.
ReplyDeleteBush will be huddled up in some lavish bunker somewhere waiting to reap the spoils of whatever is left.
ReplyDeleteIronic that someone who was just whining about homophobia on this blog would himself smear someone else as a "friend of Dorothy"...what next, Fawnbot? How many other derogatory names are you going to call people here?
ReplyDelete-PP
Looks like PP is just as quick to sell out his friends in the gay community, as he is to sell out America's free enterprise system to the marxists.
I think I heard Howie Mandell talk about that once. He asked if money was really an object if you were trying to cure something like that...
ReplyDeleteBacon? Are you kidding?
ReplyDeleteYou people are mean.
Well said, Lydia. I am sure she is doing well high on that mountain along with Daniel, along with Linda Sobek, Selena, Rebecca Schaeffer, River Phoenix, Marilyn Monroe, and Kurt Cobain, among others -- up and comers who had their lives taken away so very soon.
ReplyDeleteIt's very sad to think 15 years ago when she made her debut (as Vickie Lynn Smith) that she had a bright and promising career ahead of her, just like Pam Anderson, Corinna Harney, Lisa Matthews, and other Playmates...and her career ended this way, leaving her five-month daughter without a mom.
She was very sad in her final months; still she tried her best to continue living on.
I know of one other person (who is known mostly in Texas) who went through the same path Anna Nicole did, and that is pro wrestling and judo star Chris Adams.
More on that on my next blog.
Enjoy the weekend, everyone.
Mark my words. Bush is planning to attack Iran, and soon. If he's allowed to, then there may be no turning back.
ReplyDeleteThe question is will the Democrats have the oysters to stop him?
ReplyDeleteWell they'd better whip em out if they do, cause its now or never.
ReplyDeleteIts f@#k or walk gentlemen....
ReplyDeletef@#k or walk.
They haven't done much to impress so far.
ReplyDeleteWe were in this situation 4 years ago Larry. Only then we didn't even have the majority, but we still handed over power to the warmonger in chief.
ReplyDeleteWell now we're right back in the same situation. Like God is giving us a second chance or something.
And its just passing us by.
The dems are doing nothing.
If they don't act now, it could be too late down the road.
I had a sister die right before my 9th birthday, so I was able to see the selfless acts of a mother while her heart was breaking.
ReplyDeleteIt was also right before Christmas, and my mom and dad did everything they could to make the most of that holiday, so any jerk could paint them bad for that.
We need to ask ourselves this question as a people.
ReplyDeleteIs it worth attacking Iran because someday they might come up with a functional nuke or two, and some possible future vehicle for launching one or two, and even risking war with Russia, who has 16,000 of them, with about half of them pointed at us?
Is that a smart move?
The difference is 4 years ago most everyone was afraid to say no because of 9/11.
ReplyDeleteBush has changed all that with his war lies coming to the forefront.
I hope the Democrats don't cower this time.
Robert, Thank you for this bittersweet comment on my blog, and for your beautiful words on your blog.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting about Playmates. I was almost a Playmate, but decided I couldn't pose nude because I didn't want my children to ever see it (future children.) Now that I am raising 2 sons, I'm glad. But I really feel for these women, the machine they go through. It was bad enough on a sitcom.
God Bless you.
Baghdad:
ReplyDelete30 Iraqi's were killed and 50 injured in another suicide bombing.
One U.S soldier was killed in Iraq today.
Do they still want war?
Freedom Fan said...
ReplyDeleteLooks like PP is just as quick to sell out his friends in the gay community, as he is to sell out America's free enterprise system to the marxists.
Thank you for noting my staunch defense of the free enterprise system as promoted by Adam Smith.
You know, the guy who said "big is bad" and "government should oversee the markets"? The guy who wrote, "Wealth of Nations"?
Your ignorance is bleeding through your white pointy hat. It takes a village to have an idiot, and you come complete with the costume!
Is that the best you can come up, MASTER RACIST? Your Aryan ancestors must be fuming in their graves...oh...wait...that's just brimstone and hellfire, probably because your buddy just joined them!
Lydia,
ReplyDeleteYou could have been a Playmate!?
Curse your moral heart! :-)
You know, I'm trying to think of one Playmate (aside from Marilyn Monroe) whom you can actually speak of as having had a "career".
Sorry, Robert, but I'm not seeing your point.
Those women were objectified (kudos to you, Lydia, for turning them down!) and still are. None are taken seriously for anything other than their boobs. Or mocking their boobs.
Robert, Chris Adams is a guy, first off. Second, to call a wrestling star a "career path"...Jesse Ventura, John Layfield, The Rock, and Mick Foley are the only wrestling stars I can think of that were successful in some other field and mostly then, they leveraged their idiotic images for that success.
ReplyDeleteTwo of those never even really left the exploitation industry (Rock and Foley). Ventura all but made a complete ass of himself as governor, and Layfield works for Fox which is a lot like working in pro wrestling only without the respect of people nationwide.
Worf,
ReplyDeleteIran is going to have nuclear power. That's a given. They're thirty years past peak oil and it's either that or destroy their national economy by hoarding their own oil.
The question is, how seriously will Putin and Hu make America pay for trying to stop them?
AP: David Addington Chief Legal Advisor for Cheney told the jury Friday that he was taken aback when the White House issued statements saying Rove and Libby were the CIA leakers.
ReplyDeleteAddington told the jury he asked Dan Bartlett why they were issuing those statements, and Bartlett replied "your boss Cheney is the one ordering them."
Addington says Cheney, Rove and Libby were working to rebut the claims of Joe Wilson.
Looks like everyone is turning on Cheney.
Some people say it's rude to speak of the dead in unflattering terms, but Anna Nicole Smith died early because she looked for happiness in megadoses of drugs and megabucks from an old man in a wheelchair. Did she have any shame?
ReplyDeleteLike anything -- fire, for instance -- money and drugs can be used properly.
But Anna Nicole Smith was NOT a heroic figure in life, and is not an iconic figure in death. She does not deserve to have a place in the pantheon of American heroes. She represented the spiritual sickness of America. She was a money-grubbing, gold-digging hussy whose twin missions in life were to relieve old men of their millions, and to medicate herself into the faux peace and happiness that her money and fame did not bring her, though she always thought they would.
We may mark her passing with lofty words and quotes from poets (e.g., "What made us dare to dream that she would comb gray hair?" etc.), but, in the end, she was responsible for her own demise. We wish her family well, but she was no hero.
SmalllTexan said...
ReplyDeleteSome people say it's rude to speak of the dead in unflattering terms
Yes. Some people do say that.
Those people are called "decent people".
Or in your neck of the woods they call them "good God fearin folk".
ReplyDeleteBut a snake or a worm?
ReplyDeleteYea I imagine that sort of person would disrespect the recently departed, before the bodies even buried in the ground.
It takes all kinds....
smalllTexan said...
ReplyDeleteDid she have any shame?
Why?
You obviously don't.
Worf, how about your Liberal buddies over at DU who started a thread that went something like "Ford, Dead at Last."
ReplyDeleteI spoke the truth. I'm not here to be polite. The wall-to-wall coverage of her death may very well encourage young women to emulate her.
She died the same way Elvis did: fat, face down in his own vomit, and as an addict. I see no glory in that, but he did make some good records. What did Ms. Smith ever do? Take her clothes off?
ReplyDeleteWhy is it men, and I use the term loosely, like you, always try to excuse their own shallow behavior by funding examples of others acting in a likewise shameful manner?
ReplyDeleteI am not glorifying her TT. In fact, I pointed out earlier that other people died that same day, and tried to shift focus back to more important matters. Like stopping the butcher you support from butchering more people.
ReplyDeleteBut I am not disrespecting the recently departed either, as you are.
I was raised better than that.
Those who rejoice at the death of others may find their own grave being pissed on.
ReplyDeleteI'm not rejoicing at her death. I am taking issue with all the kudos and accolades that are being directed at her. I am taking issue with those who have been glorifying her life. I am saying that girls and young women should not be tempted to try to be her with all the beautiful words that are being spoken about her.
ReplyDeleteYou do all those things by trashing her.
ReplyDeleteTypical.
He shows us his character Larry. His true character.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of what you think of someone, unless they were some sort of mass murderer or something, good people, decent people, do not disrespect the recently departed.
We have all stated the over the top media coverage was ridiculous, and Lydia's article even talks to that.
But small texan ignores those statements, and begins lecturing people on her, and disrespecting her death before the body is even in the ground.
He shows his true nature. His lack of character. And he shows us he is not good and decent man as he purports.
TalllTexan said...
ReplyDeleteI'm not rejoicing at her death.
No one said you were "rejoicing".
We said you were "disrespecting" her and her passing.
Which in my book, makes you a foul little person.
He would rather throw slime at a dead woman that discuss the 30 Iraqi's that died today.
ReplyDeleteHe would rather spew venom at a dead mother, than discuss how Bush sent another soldier to his death today.
smalllTexan said...
ReplyDeleteI am taking issue with all the kudos and accolades that are being directed at her
Lydia's article, and the comments in here have already addressed that. You just skipped right over that, and began lecturing us while you demean the memory of someone who's body is not even in the ground yet.
And I hope you get equal sentiment on your own passing.
If he would lavish insults at a dead mother, he no doubt has shown that to all those in his circle of comfort.
ReplyDeleteHis grave will receive a lot of water.
"The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point."
ReplyDeleteMahmud Shabistari
Fox News ultra neo-con William Kristol says that Obama would support slavery if given the chance.
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We need to reframe the entire anti-war argument and speed things up , bring solutions, and stop this insane focus on petty gossip in the media. the Nancy Pelosi "plane" incidentn is a perfect example of distraction.
ReplyDeleteI want to post profiles of soldiers who died in this war. Does anyone want to submit a story?
I'll combe the internet for one.
In the meantime, regarding TT's comments. I do understand what he's saying about young girls getting the wrong idea, the way the media is making Anna Nicole into an icon.
I certainly don't admire her choices in life. But the moment her son died, it's as if everything snapped into crystal clarity: none of the superficial worldl things she was striving for had any meaning. Her soul longed for the only thing that mattered: love, her loved one, her child. All the money and fame and accolades in the world cannot replace the loss of a loved one.
That's the Greek tragedy. It's always the same story. We go after all the wrong things in life, only to find that home is where the heart is.
Anna Nicole stated that if she had it to do over again, she would have stayed on a small farm and had lots of children, and been happily married.
I look around at what I have here at home: a loving family, and this brings me such joy.
Watch THE SECRET: the kingdom of heaven is within you, not outside. There is no heaven far off somewhere; it's in our hearts. And when we ALL turn our hearts to love, that's when we will see heaven.
Once you have this consciousness of love, the outside changes.
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ReplyDeleteRight wing TV preacher Jerry Falwell is gearing up his political operations to put another President of "like mind" in the White House in 2008.
Didn't Falwell bring us the current President of "like mind?"
Lydia, the key word in your excellent post is "choices." She made the wrong choices, but you are right, we need to focus on the real heroes. The great unwashed masses may concern themselves with American Idol, and yet the vast majority of Americans don't vote and can't name the current vice president. I fear we are turning into a nation of zombies and boob tube idiots.
ReplyDeleteI don't revel in anyone's anguish, but her celebrity, in life and in death, is a reflection of what we are becoming as a people. As you said, Lyidia, what you focus on gets bigger, and the mindless bullcrap that most Americans focus on is only expanding. Anna Nicole, the Astro Nut wearing diapers -- it never ends. It's all BS.
Republican or Democrat, we, as a people, can do better than having all three cable news networks cover Anna Nicole Smith's death like a presidential funeral.
Lydia, yes, I did hear about the sub and some other high end systems in Bush's budget, better suited for use in the cold war, but needed to keep the $GOPork flowing. I'm so ready for a regime change. Oh, if you have time, the next article in the religious left series id up at my place.
ReplyDeleteJacq, you sure have that right. It's all about selling soap. Did you notice that the channel describing the tragedy with the most cleavage shots was 'family values' FAUX Noise?
TT, for once we agree. We should be able to do better. And certainly the choices Anna made were her own. That's what we get when broadcast media is allowed to forget their social responsibilities to the extent that they have devolved from informing onto infotainment.
OOPS!! Typo!! Change onto to into please.
ReplyDeleteCarl, I know Chris Adams was a guy. He was also one of my friends. His brother is a two-time silver medalist in Judo (1980 and 1984).
ReplyDeleteAs for the situation with Iran, I don't like it. Bushgate is getting out of hand, and I'm with Lydia, regarding how to freeze his war powers. Take heart, he can't run again in '08.
Crude oil up $2 the other day...you have to wonder if the Iran story has something to do with it.
RD
Thanks tomcat and Robert.
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TalllTexan said...
ReplyDeleteLydia, the key word in your excellent post is "choices." She made the wrong choices, but you are right, we need to focus on the real heroes. The great unwashed masses may concern themselves with American Idol, and yet the vast majority of Americans don't vote and can't name the current vice president. I fear we are turning into a nation of zombies and boob tube idiots.
Thanks to the Reagan education cuts and the further rape of our public schools by Bush.
This is PRECISELY how your overlords want it, Texasshole...they want the vast majority of Americans stupid and ignert, so they'll vote Republican.
Just. Like. You.
Beautifully said, Lydia. I agree, I think she died of a broken heart. The bond between a mother and her child is stronger than life and death. No earthly chain can bind that kind of love.
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