Three years ago I started this blog not entirely sure what shape it would take. Today I find I’m really happy where it’s at now. Through this blog I’ve met so many interesting people. Thank you to all my readers. It fills me with such gratitude to know you like my little corner of the net.
Now onto the contest. Winners are listed below their prize. I will be emailing you shortly to ask for mailing addresses.
Thanks to everyone for entering and for reading my blog!
Babeland prizes:
ShowerBabes
Melanie
Misty Kaye (Miss K)
Babeland Silver Bullets
Rori
Evil Bender
Jamye Waxman’s book Getting Off: A Woman’s Guide To Masturbation
Selena Kitt
Lickable Body Dust
Dirty Girl
JT’s Stockroom prize:
$50 gift certificate
Dances With Books
Love Honey prizes:
Waterproof Rabbit Vibrator Aquagasm
Heather
PowerWand Mini Vibrator
Amethyst
Remote Control Dream Egg
Bad Bad Girl
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For the Iraq War Anniversary I looked for different stories to blog about. The numbers of dead, of wounded have just grown more depressing. The scandals of the war-from Abu Ghraib to Walter Reed-are seemingly endless. Bummed out I skipped writing anything.
Today though I was on the Common Dreams website and found two stories that really uplifted me. Yes the war is still going on but more and more people want it to end. The resistance movement is growing. Change is happening. Sure it’s slower than I’d like but things are changing. If you were bummed out by yesterday perhaps these two articles will lift your spirits as well.
Resistance is Futile - Or Is It?
“It was a time without precedent in American history. The commander-in-chief voiced his intention to take the country to war - a voluntary, preemptive war with no clear catalyst, no faraway invasion or Pearl Harbor or sinking of the Maine - and millions of people shouted their opposition. With plenty of time to avert war, the protesters warned the invasion would be a costly disaster.0319 08
They were right. And it didn’t matter.
The war in Iraq was a test of our democratic ideals. It was a test that this country failed, a failure that has been felt by the people of the United States, Iraq, and elsewhere for the last five years. For many, the refusal of the US government to heed the demands of its citizens left them disillusioned and disempowered.
But others say it sparked a political change that woke up an apathetic citizenry, pulled the Democratic Party back to the left, and may have averted war with Iran.”
Five Years Later
“Five years ago and more, many of us vehemently, passionately opposed the war in Iraq. We opposed it by marching in the streets on February 16, 2003, in one of the biggest marches in this city’s history, part of the biggest demonstration in world history with people standing up on February 15, 2003, against war on every continent-including the scientists in Antarctica, small towns in Inuit Canada, South Africa, New Mexico, Turkey, Bolivia…. We were right, and now sheepishly, fudging their change of heart, everyone from Hillary Clinton on is busy erasing the memory of being for the war, of buying lies, of dismissing deaths, terrible deaths, the deaths of so many children, so many mothers, so many brothers, the deaths long ago of far more Americans than died on September 11, 2001, the unrelated event used to justify these five long years of slaughter and destruction, the destruction of the fragile psyches of the young, the ancient landscape of Iraq, the bodies that survived this war mutilated and disabled and shaken to need our care for decades to come. Five years ago we opposed this war, and we were right that it would be ugly, a quagmire, an international disaster, that it would make nothing safer, that it was about oil and geopolitics and never ever about justice and utterly unrelated to September 11, 2001. Five years ago here in San Francisco we shut down this business district to show how passionately against the war we were as it began.”
Posted by Vixen as News, Activism at 12:26 PM CDT
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