~~~~HALF BREED~~~~ Nov 7, 2008 10:19 am 708 Views My father married a pure Cherokee.... My mother's people were ashamed of me... The indians said I was white by law... The White Man always called me "Indian Squaw"... Half-breed... that's all I ever heard... Half-breed... how I learned to hate the word... Half-breed.... she's no good they warned... Both sides were against me since the day I was born.... We never settled... went from town to town... When you're not welcome you don't hang around.... The other children always laughed at me.... "Give her a feather... she's a Cherokee"... Half-breed... that's all I ever heard... Half-breed... how I learned to hate the word... Half-breed.... she's no good they warned... Both sides were against me since the day I was born.... We weren't accepted and I felt ashamed... Nineteen I left them... tell me who's to blame... My life since then has been from man to man... But it can't run away from what I am.... Half-breed... that's all I ever heard... Half-breed... how I learned to hate the word... Half-breed.... she's no good they warned... Both sides were against me since the day I was boooorrnnn... Half-breed... that's all I ever heard... Half-breed... how I learned to hate the word... Half-breed.... ****************************************************************** CHER "HALF BREED" found on youtube posted this for national native american month. 4 Comments

~~~~THE LAST WHITE WHALE....THAT REMAINS IN THE OCEAN~~~~please find time to read this Nov 7, 2008 7:50 am 740 Views Japan might kill world's only white whale Australians fear that the world's only known white humpback whale could be slaughtered as Japan's whaling fleet prepares to embark on its annual hunt in the Southern Ocean. Update: 'We'd deploy military to stop Japan whaling' Scientists make monkey cloning breakthrough Burgers from cloned animals 'by 2010' The unique male whale, named Migaloo - an Aboriginal word for "white fella" - has become a celebrity in Australia since being spotted for the first time in 1991. Migaloo with another whale, and diving. In Sydney, anti-whaling protestors have formed a giant whale Each year Migaloo - along with thousands of other humpbacks - migrates from the icy seas of Antarctica to the warm shallows of the South Pacific and the Great Barrier Reef. A few months later the whales, the females leading their newly-born calves, return to Antarctica. The arrival of 45ft-long Migaloo - believed to be the only completely white humpback in the world - is keenly anticipated by whale watchers along Australia's east coast. He has been hailed as modern day Moby Dick, even though the creature in Herman Melville's 1851 classic was a sperm whale. Conservationists fear that Migaloo is so accustomed to whale watching and fishing boats, that he will be easy pickings for Japanese hunters. With the southern hemisphere summer approaching, the Japanese whaling fleet is preparing to leave port within days. It refuses to say exactly when. It has declared that for the first time it will kill 50 humpbacks, as well as 50 fin whales and hundreds of minke whales. The Japanese argue that after decades of hunting fin and humpback whales have recovered to sufficient levels that they can now withstand being harpooned again. advertisementThe Fisheries Agency in Tokyo refused to rule out killing Migaloo today, with officials offering a blunt "no comment" to media inquiries. Instead the agency called on Australia and New Zealand to ensure that the Japanese fleet would be protected from anti-whaling ships operated by a militant environmental group, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Last year Sea Shepherd threatened to ram the Japanese fleet with a ship fitted with a bulldozer-type blade. The group has been branded environmental terrorists by Tokyo. "Those two countries maintain the same position as Japan does against the violent action of terrorists," spokesman Hideki Moronuki told ABC Radio. "[We] need support from those two countries in order to secure the safety of our crews and (our ships)." But the captain of Sea Shepherd's two vessels, Paul Watson, said he had the law on his side because whale hunting was illegal. "They're targeting endangered species in a whale sanctuary in violation of a global moratorium on whaling. "If Japan reacts violently to us, causes any injury at all to any of our people, that will backlash very severely on Japan because Japan is the criminal nation here," he said. Japan uses a loophole in International Whaling Commission laws to hunt around 1,000 whales each year in the Southern Hemisphere, ostensibly for the purposes of scientific research. People who have encountered Migaloo on his epic journey of migration describe the sight as a once in a lifetime experience. "He turned the blue water around him jade-green for two or three metres," one awe-struck Australian whale-watch operator said of a sighting two years ago. Scientists are uncertain whether Migaloo is a true albino, or simply has white pigmentation. In a sign of how healthy the population of humpbacks has become, a female and her calf paid a short visit to Sydney Harbour today. The pair was noticed entering the harbour from the sea by passengers on a passing ferry and spent about three hours in sheltered waters before continuing their journey south. ***************************************************************** By Nick Squires in Sydney ***************************************************************** this is something to get your children interested in... before God forbid anything happens to it. just wanted people to see such a whale...to some its probably ugly but I would love to see it in real. 12 Comments

~~~~THE SNOW HAS COME....~~~~ Nov 7, 2008 6:55 am 704 Views Fierce early-season blizzard traps SD/MN motorists 11/7/2008, 5:46 a.m. CST "This is a dangerous storm," Gov. Mike Rounds told reporters in a telephone conference call Thursday evening. "Western South Dakota is basically under a no-travel advisory." A long stretch of Interstate 90 was closed, and Rounds said most of the dozens of vehicles stranded along the stretch of highway had not been moved. Some have been stranded for more than 24 hours, he said, adding that search teams can't get to them because of zero visibility. "We cannot see a thing in many areas where we're out actually searching for people," said Tom Dravland, state Public Safety secretary, who added that the top speed for some rescue crews was as little as a half-mile per hour. Dravland said he did not know how many people are stranded. The Highway Patrol has responded to more than 400 calls for assistance, including 10 crashes. No fatalities were reported by late Thursday afternoon. The storm already has dropped 45.7 inches of snow near Deadwood, in the northern Black Hills. Reports of 10 inches to 2 feet of snow were received from many West River counties. In some towns, residents reported drifts were blocking their doorways, and in the southwestern corner of the state, 20-foot snowdrifts were reported on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Dozens of schools, agencies, businesses and attractions, including Mount Rushmore National Memorial, were closed because of the weather, which included wind gusts higher than 50 mph. The snow started Wednesday afternoon and was moving east. Greg Harmon of the Sioux Falls National Weather Service office said winds should subside in the west early Friday and in the east later in the day. The wind and heavy snow caused many power failures, but repair crews can't get to the downed lines because of the blizzard, Rounds said. More than 10,000 customers lost power at some point in Nebraska and South Dakota. In North Dakota, parts of Dunn County received about 9 inches of snow, the Weather Service said. "The wind is blowing so hard it's hard to tell how much snow we got," said Terry Sarlsland, street superintendent in Bowman, N.D. "We got 4-foot drifts in some places." Sharon Gjermundson, a postmaster in Taylor, N.D., said that about a foot of snow kept her from punching in at work Thursday, and that she and her husband were worried about their livestock. "We hope all the cattle are OK," she said. ***************************************************************** so yes we are getting our first falling snow ... the kids are thrilled of course!!! I-90 interstate is closed off from Mitchell on towards Rapid and it is still snowing... 200 motorist in the ditches reported this morning... 3 Comments

~~~~So Alone,...But Yet Not Alone~~~~ Nov 6, 2008 9:06 am 706 Views Grandson, Why is it You drink The white-mans poison? Because I am alone grandfather, So all alone. But grandson, Know that You are never alone. Grandson, Look around you. Here there is life, All of your relations. All of your relatives. So alone you say, But You can not be alone. Grandfather, When I drink, I feel sad sometimes. All alone. I feel depressed sometimes. All alone. I feel stressed. All alone. I feel frustrated. All alone, And yet grandfather, You say, I am not alone. In the Indian world grandson, The white man, He wants you to be alone, But you have your Four-legged relations; You have your Winged relations: You have the trees, Rocks, Mountains, Rivers and streams, And though you say You are alone, Yet you are not alone. Grandson, In the Indian world, All of life Is our relation, For in our world All living matter Is related to us. The white man Would have you drink His poison; Would have you feel alone, But remember always grandson, In the Indian world, With all of life, Together, We live as one. Written: December 5, 1991 by: Larry Kibby ***************************************************************** 5 Comments

~~~~JAPAN KILLING OUR WHALES~~~~ Nov 6, 2008 8:52 am 699 Views <<< hope this picture shows up. Ready to block Japanese whaling again... 3rd November 2008 Conservationists have promised to ramp up their campaign against Japanese whalers when they depart Brisbane for the Southern Ocean next month. About 44 volunteers from the Sea Shepherd conservation group will try to block the whaling ships from killing humpback, minke and fin whales over the four month period of the Japanese whaling season. They will leave Brisbane on December 1 aboard their flagship vessel, Steve Irwin, and expect to come up against eight Japanese ships six harpoon vessels, one supply ship and a factory ship. The whaling vessels are believed to have coastguard escorts. Ship manager Ben Baldwin said the operation was dangerous and since Captain Paul Watson was shot at during the last blockade early this year, extra funds had been poured into upgrading the ship. He said Captain Watson was saved by a bulletproof vest. "We have been working really hard this year to get the ship up to standard," Mr Baldwin said. A helicopter deck and hangar have been built on the Steve Irwin and every room has been refitted for efficiency. Mr Baldwin said Sea Shepherd was a non violent organisation but under international law they were obliged to carry firearms on board. "We haven't had anyone killed or injured during our 31 year history," he said. "Our goal is to sink the whaling ships economically by preventing them from reaching their quota. "We have stopped them from reaching their quota every year (in the past four years of this mission) and last year we halved it. "We think their quota is 1,050 whales; the same as last year. "We aim to stop them from killing any whales." A helicopter will be used to locate and film the whalers and the action taken against them. ongoing battle since 2000 from: the daily ***************************************************************** "If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys." ~~Chief Dan George~~ 6 Comments

~~~~A GREAT DAY FOR AMERICA....OBAMA WINS!!~~~~ Nov 5, 2008 4:29 am 762 Views I am very thankful and excited that he won.... We certainly need this change in America... I don't think this president is going to "beat around the bush"... simply quoted: "So voters remembered the past and decided that they didn't want to go back. They wanted to move ahead. Even if that meant rolling the dice." I think we will see countries with less war and more peace... and education will be looked at with higher concern. I am just so proud for Michelle and Barack Obama... and for Jill and Joe Biden. People didn't think he should visit his grandmother... and I was thankful he did... obama's grandmother didn't make it to see him win... but he deeply loves her for all she did for him.... here is a quote about his grandmother... "She's the one who taught me about hard work," he told a packed stadium in Denver the night he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination. "She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. "She poured everything she had into me." Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer,” Obama said in a joint statement with his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. “She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength and humility.” Dunham, 86, helped raise Obama from the age of 10 while his mother was working in Indonesia. many thanks to Madelyn Dunham for raising our 44th president. and also to his mother Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, the parent who most shaped Obama. who also has passed away... some things about Ann from TIME magazine: Then, when Obama was almost 1, his father left for Harvard to get a Ph.D. in economics. He had also been accepted to the New School in New York City, with a more generous scholarship that would have allowed his family to join him. But he decided to go to Harvard. "How can I refuse the best education?" he told Ann, according to Obama's book. Obama's father had an agenda: to return to his home country and help reinvent Kenya. He wanted to take his new family with him. But he also had a wife from a previous marriage there—a marriage that may or may not have been legal. In the end, Ann decided not to follow him. "She was under no illusions," says Abercrombie. "He was a man of his time, from a very patriarchal society." Ann filed for divorce in Honolulu in January 1964, citing "grievous mental suffering"—the reason given in most divorces at the time. Obama Sr. signed for the papers in Cambridge, Mass., and did not contest the divorce. Ann had already done things most women of her generation had not: she had married an African, had their baby and gotten divorced. At this juncture, her life could have become narrower—a young, marginalized woman focused on paying the rent and raising a child on her own. She could have filled her son's head with well-founded resentment for his absent father. But that is not what happened. Ann took a job teaching English at the U.S. embassy. She woke up well before dawn throughout her life. Now she went into her son's room every day at 4 a.m. to give him English lessons from a U.S. correspondence course. She couldn't afford the élite international school and worried he wasn't challenged enough. After two years at the Catholic school, Obama moved to a state-run elementary school closer to the new house. He was the only foreigner, says Ati Kisjanto, a classmate, but he spoke some Indonesian and made new friends. Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, but Obama's household was not religious. "My mother, whose parents were nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists, was one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew," Obama said in a 2007 speech. "But she had a healthy skepticism of religion as an institution. And as a consequence, so did I." 12 Comments

~~~~AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL~~~~ Nov 4, 2008 8:01 am 789 Views O beautiful... for spacious skies.. For amber waves of grain.. For purple mountain majesties... Above the fruited plain!... America!... America!... God shed His grace on thee... And crown thy good.... with brotherhood.... From sea to shining sea!... O beautiful.... for pilgrim feet... Whose stern impassion'd stress... A thoroughfare for freedom beat... Across the wilderness!.... America!... America!... God mend thine ev'ry flaw... Confirm thy soul... in self-control... Thy liberty in law!... O beautiful.... for heroes proved... In liberating strife... Who more than self.... their country loved... And mercy more than life!... America!... America!.. May God thy gold refine.. Till all success... be nobleness... And every gain divine!... O Beautiful for patriot dream... That sees beyond the years... Thine alabaster cities gleam.. Undimmed by human tears!... America!... America!... God shed His grace on thee... And crown thy good with brotherhood.... From sea to shining sea!.... O beautiful... for spacious skies.. For amber waves of grain.. For purple mountain majesties... Above the fruited plain!... America!... America!... God shed His grace on thee... And crown thy good... with brotherhood.... From sea to shining sea!... ***************************************************************** America, The Beautiful Lyrics by Katharine Lee Bates - 1913 can be found on youtube >> i like willie nelson version ***************************************************************** 10 Comments

~~~~HEAVEN'S SPOONS....HELL'S SPOONS~~~~ Nov 3, 2008 10:45 am 740 Views A man spoke with the Lord about heaven and hell. The Lord said to the man, "Come, I will show you hell." They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot of stew. Everyone was famished, desperate and starving. Each held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle so much longer than their own arm that it could not be used to get the stew into their own mouths. The suffering was terrible. "Come, now I will show you heaven," the Lord said after a while. They entered another room, identical to the first - the pot of stew, the group of people, the same long-handled spoons. But there everyone was happy and well-nourished. "I don't understand," said the man. "Why are they happy here when they were miserable in the other room and everything was the same?" The Lord smiled. "Ah, it is simple," he said. "Here they have learned to feed each other." ~Ann Landers~ US Advice Columnist (1918-2002) 10 Comments

~~~~THE POWER OF ONE~~~~ Nov 3, 2008 9:16 am 723 Views this blog was inspired by a little tiny bird who had a feather in its mouth...the wind was so strong that it blew the feather right out of her little tiny beak...but she continued and chased the feather till she caught it again. Totally adorable teeny tiny bird...but the crazy wind didn't stop her...she knew what had to be done. The Power Of One One song can spark a moment, One flower can wake the dream. One tree can start a forest, One bird can herald spring. One smile begins a friendship, One handclasp lifts a soul. One star can guide a ship at sea, One word can frame the goal. One vote can change a nation, One sunbeam lights a room. One candle wipes out darkness, One laugh will conquer gloom. One step must start each journey, One word must start each prayer. One hope will raise our spirits, One touch can show you care. One voice can speak with wisdom, One heart can know what's true. One life can make the difference, You see, IT'S UP TO YOU! ~ Author Unknown~ 8 Comments

~~~~WELCOME TO H*LL~~~~ Nov 2, 2008 8:03 am 732 Views I’m your caseworker.... NOTE: for fun only! you know you are the rooster and those are all of your babes following u 6 Comments

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