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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>125</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-5064793185954637549</id><published>2012-01-13T14:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-13T14:57:46.350-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Romney'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canada'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seamus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mittens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vote'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animals'/><title type='text'>Dogs Against Romney</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-adXURCHzPlc/TxCzZ33eKYI/AAAAAAAAANo/ADGZByIibEw/s1600/Aia3Bg_CQAEyuMT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="238" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-adXURCHzPlc/TxCzZ33eKYI/AAAAAAAAANo/ADGZByIibEw/s320/Aia3Bg_CQAEyuMT.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Obviously children and animals can't vote, or we wouldn't be in this mess. &amp;nbsp;I know some children are monsters (like we-have-to-talk-about Kevin), and that some animals eat other ones, or just kill them and drag them around the house in their mouths all day, but still, why shouldn't we have a say in the people who get to make all the rules that we have to follow (and if we don't, we have to take meds)? &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;If you can't find another reason to not like Romney (then there's something wrong with you or you're the 0.01%), then just ask yourself if you really want the commander in chief to be a man who drove to Canada to escape the draft with the "family" dog strapped to the roof, and his kids in the back horrified at the dog shit dripping down the windows. &amp;nbsp;I'd hate to think what he'd do to a dog who wasn't a member of the family (and don't even get me started about the Mormons and their "family" values). &amp;nbsp; And please don't call Mr. Rommell "Mittens" because I know a cat named Mittens, and he's a nice cat and his name shouldn't be dragged 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href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2012/01/dogs-against-romney.html' title='Dogs Against Romney'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-adXURCHzPlc/TxCzZ33eKYI/AAAAAAAAANo/ADGZByIibEw/s72-c/Aia3Bg_CQAEyuMT.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-7312383034624581190</id><published>2011-12-31T15:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-31T15:16:00.562-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noah&apos;s Ark'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='atheism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='god'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sunday school'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='worship'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='honor killing'/><title type='text'>How I got expelled from Sunday School</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;o:DocumentProperties&gt;   &lt;o:Template&gt;Normal&lt;/o:Template&gt;   &lt;o:Revision&gt;0&lt;/o:Revision&gt;   &lt;o:TotalTime&gt;0&lt;/o:TotalTime&gt;   &lt;o:Pages&gt;1&lt;/o:Pages&gt;   &lt;o:Words&gt;385&lt;/o:Words&gt;   &lt;o:Characters&gt;2196&lt;/o:Characters&gt;   &lt;o:Lines&gt;18&lt;/o:Lines&gt;   &lt;o:Paragraphs&gt;4&lt;/o:Paragraphs&gt;   &lt;o:CharactersWithSpaces&gt;2696&lt;/o:CharactersWithSpaces&gt;   &lt;o:Version&gt;11.1282&lt;/o:Version&gt;  &lt;/o:DocumentProperties&gt;  &lt;o:OfficeDocumentSettings&gt;   &lt;o:AllowPNG/&gt;  &lt;/o:OfficeDocumentSettings&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:WordDocument&gt;   &lt;w:Zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:DoNotShowRevisions/&gt;   &lt;w:DoNotPrintRevisions/&gt;   &lt;w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery&gt;0&lt;/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery&gt;   &lt;w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery&gt;0&lt;/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery&gt;   &lt;w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin/&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;     &lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"&gt;We were asked to talk to God. &amp;nbsp;Here's my "talk". &amp;nbsp;It was pretty one-sided&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"&gt;: &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"&gt;Alright God.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What the fuck?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;First of all, I want you to know that I am here under duress.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I am forced to come here because my parents/owners are making me.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I don’t believe in you, and if you are real, then we should definitely not be worshipping you.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;No, Mrs. Hoogen, I will not “pray” silently.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Why shouldn’t the other children hear what I have to say?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They’re being brain-washed, even if they’re supposed to silently do it to themselves.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;God is a sham/scam/lie.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Really?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;He’s going to send me to hell?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Is that the same as the principal’s office?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Why, because I asked a question? Pointed out the obvious?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You were the one who taught us about God telling Abraham to kill his son.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Then why don’t we worship the Son of Sam?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Now if you’ll excuse me, I was talking to “god.”&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I normally would not talk to you, but since I’m in your “house,” whatever.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I’m not going to talk to you anymore after this, because you’re an egomaniac, or just a maniac.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Everyone praying to you and treating you like god, and you think you’re all that – and you periodically drown everyone and destroy cities, and you killed Mrs. Lot because she disobeyed and looked, but you let Mr. Lot offer his daughters to the rapist mob and then take them to the mountains and impregnate them himself.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You should be in prison, not owning all the biggest houses in every town and city.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You might have the rest of the people fooled, but not me.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You’re NAKED!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Like Noah was.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And it’s not a pretty sight.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You’re disgusting.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And I’m not an atheist except it depends on how you define believe in.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I’m not going to say you don’t exist, because I don’t know.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I don’t know a lot of things.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;But if you do exist, I don’t believe in you – like people believe in love or magic.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I don’t believe you have my best interests at heart.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;How come those 10 commandments involve respecting your parents, but not your children?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They don’t need to be respected, because they’re bigger and can kill us if they want to –and a lot more children are killed by their parents than parents are killed by their children.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;That’s right.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They’re afraid of us.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;How come children who kill their parents get harsher sentences than parents who kill their children?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Or at least fathers who kill their children.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Mothers get harsh sentences too, I guess because it’s considered unladylike – and of course mom is killing HIS children.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And maybe juries and judges are afraid that if their mothers could kill them they would.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Anyway, I’m getting off the track.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I don’t like these ten commandments, and I think they say an awful lot about you and what’s wrong with you.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Honor?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Honor me, motherfucker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-7312383034624581190?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/7312383034624581190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=7312383034624581190' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7312383034624581190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7312383034624581190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-i-got-expelled-from-sunday-school.html' title='How I got expelled from Sunday School'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-3537516326248883370</id><published>2011-08-31T17:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-31T17:12:22.166-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='disney'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear farms'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kung fu panda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='medicine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suicide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='planet of the apes'/><title type='text'>I WISH it was the Planet of the Apes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Asia/Story/A1Story20110805-292947.html"&gt;Mother bear kills cub and then itself&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7K9jzgKYtR8/Tl7NoawuTvI/AAAAAAAAANk/kdczE3oXuqQ/s1600/20110805.165822_bear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="208" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7K9jzgKYtR8/Tl7NoawuTvI/AAAAAAAAANk/kdczE3oXuqQ/s320/20110805.165822_bear.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't even know what to say about this, except to say that she should've killed the humans instead.  ALL the humans.&amp;nbsp; What is wrong with people?&amp;nbsp; This momma grizzly is a hero (unlike Palin, who would probably approve of people keeping bears in cages and "milking" their gall bladders to make "medicine" for penis enlargement or whatever.) &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Didn't people watch the Planet of the Apes?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I'm not saying all Chinese would do this.&amp;nbsp; I know there are animal rights people everywhere, but the Chinese government doesn't seem to have a problem with it, and when they take over the world next week then we shouldn't be surprised if us Americans end up in cages with metal vests on having our pancreases milked so the newly diabetic obese Chinese boys (cause that's what the children pretty much are) can have fresh insulin.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it's time for a remake of Kung Fu Panda - but this one won't be a Disney movie.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-3537516326248883370?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Asia/Story/A1Story20110805-292947.html' title='I WISH it was the Planet of the Apes'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3537516326248883370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=3537516326248883370' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3537516326248883370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3537516326248883370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2011/08/i-wish-it-was-planet-of-apes.html' title='I WISH it was the Planet of the Apes'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7K9jzgKYtR8/Tl7NoawuTvI/AAAAAAAAANk/kdczE3oXuqQ/s72-c/20110805.165822_bear.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-7466286720843852184</id><published>2011-07-05T12:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T12:16:25.689-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='praying mantis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='otters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ducks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gender'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elephant seals'/><title type='text'>Gender labeling of meat</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SRBTnfzDNxw/ThNht8DNESI/AAAAAAAAANU/o8eQm0fGEi4/s1600/19846529_0e8ed20723.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SRBTnfzDNxw/ThNht8DNESI/AAAAAAAAANU/o8eQm0fGEi4/s320/19846529_0e8ed20723.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--j5KHG2PwHg/ThNhuGF1nAI/AAAAAAAAANY/mNmGiuqLgeY/s1600/cruellykilled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--j5KHG2PwHg/ThNhuGF1nAI/AAAAAAAAANY/mNmGiuqLgeY/s1600/cruellykilled.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eB5CzaOWQys/ThNi_nlKlFI/AAAAAAAAANg/DMu6MVqcgFo/s1600/meat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eB5CzaOWQys/ThNi_nlKlFI/AAAAAAAAANg/DMu6MVqcgFo/s1600/meat.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;It seems that there is a lot of violence in the animal world: &amp;nbsp;gang rapes by ducks, elephant seals attacking the females and "accidentally" killing baby seals, male otters beating up the females in order to "mate" (see my last post). &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Meat should have gender labeling so that only the brutal animals will be eaten (if you still eat meat!). &amp;nbsp; And before you get all "women do the same thing to men, so everything is all fair and let's just leave it all alone" it's not ALWAYS the males abusing the females. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Female praying mantises eat the males - but still gender labeling will make that clear, so if you eat praying mantises or black widow spiders, then you'll know which ones to eat. &amp;nbsp; We should be eating the abusers, not their victims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eat your enemies, not your friends!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-7466286720843852184?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/7466286720843852184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=7466286720843852184' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7466286720843852184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7466286720843852184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2011/07/gender-labeling-of-meat.html' title='Gender labeling of meat'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SRBTnfzDNxw/ThNht8DNESI/AAAAAAAAANU/o8eQm0fGEi4/s72-c/19846529_0e8ed20723.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-135309785464761</id><published>2011-06-29T12:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-29T12:32:58.790-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='malibu surfside news'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animal nature'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feminist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='domestic violence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='malibu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wildlife'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='otter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mating'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rape'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animals'/><title type='text'>Our revolution must extend to the Otters (and beyond)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Below you will see a cute picture of an otter, one of my favorite animals. &amp;nbsp;But then, I read the caption, which I made bigger for you below that so you can read in horror what I read. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--fj1lApEf1c/Tgt7sf9sVaI/AAAAAAAAANM/o2W4bxNgmyw/s1600/Otter+pic.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--fj1lApEf1c/Tgt7sf9sVaI/AAAAAAAAANM/o2W4bxNgmyw/s320/Otter+pic.png" width="237" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2F04pDeQKJ8/Tgt7tBzv0mI/AAAAAAAAANQ/BgAW0QVh1Kw/s1600/otter+text.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="96" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2F04pDeQKJ8/Tgt7tBzv0mI/AAAAAAAAANQ/BgAW0QVh1Kw/s640/otter+text.png" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I can no longer say that otters are my favorite animals. &amp;nbsp;Only the female otters.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It says "This otter, identified as female - her scarred face is an indicator of mating practices--" &amp;nbsp; What???? &amp;nbsp; There's domestic violence among otters? &amp;nbsp; he has to scratch and chew her face as a part of 'mating practices'? &amp;nbsp;How exactly does that lead to more baby otters? &amp;nbsp;If she doesn't like you, then get off, you jerk otter. &amp;nbsp; people always excuse men for being violent and raping by saying they're just expressing their "animal nature." &amp;nbsp;Well if that's true, then we need to expand our feminist revolution to the animals, because at least half the animals are girls, and I don't think they're down with the "it's animal nature" argument.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So listen up Mr. Otter, next time you try to mate with a cute little female otter, you better check first and make sure she's not sporting a praying mantis tattoo!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-135309785464761?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/135309785464761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=135309785464761' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/135309785464761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/135309785464761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-revolution-must-extend-to-otters.html' title='Our revolution must extend to the Otters (and beyond)'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--fj1lApEf1c/Tgt7sf9sVaI/AAAAAAAAANM/o2W4bxNgmyw/s72-c/Otter+pic.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-7224429858906878437</id><published>2011-06-27T16:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-27T17:43:01.631-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='moose'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='make-a-wish-foundation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='turkey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bears'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HUnt of a Lifetime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hunting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tina Pattison'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cancer'/><title type='text'>What is wrong with this picture?</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="credit" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 1em/normal georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;iStockphoto/MoniqueRodriguez&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 1.3em/1.5em georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;Tina Pattison is in the wish-granting business. As president and founder of the nonprofit organization&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.huntofalifetime.org/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"&gt;Hunt of a Lifetime&lt;/a&gt;, Pattison helps kids with life-threatening illnesses fulfill their dreams of shooting their first elk, or moose or boar. If your son is dying and wants to visit Disneyworld, well, she can't do anything for you. But if your son wants to go out in the wilds of Maine with a high-powered rifle and bring down a really big bear, Pattison's the woman you want to see.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;If you're dying wish is to murder an animal, then your death is not tragic; it's too late!! I'm sorry you have cancer, but leave the animals alone. What if I had cancer, and my dying wish was to shoot a kid who's dying wish is to shoot an animal? Where's my foundation? According to this article, the Make-A-Wish Foundation will no longer arrange for these hunting trips, because an animal rights activist got to them, which implies that they used to do it! WTF? I'm gonna start a foundation to help ill children with the unusual, and to some, alarming dreams that I personally approve of. My Manifesto will be coming out soon, and frankly, I can use a small army of kamikazi children to take out anyone (adults mostly) who get in my way.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-7224429858906878437?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/7224429858906878437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=7224429858906878437' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7224429858906878437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7224429858906878437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-is-wrong-with-this-picture.html' title='What is wrong with this picture?'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-5556016894443693564</id><published>2011-06-20T13:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-20T13:43:38.402-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='India'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='infanticide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Georgia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='armenian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='missing girls'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sex-selection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Azerbaijan'/><title type='text'>My missing sisters (aka the war on girls)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O-D2xCKwPjA/Tf-wtUuXJOI/AAAAAAAAANI/OVkWLrxQ_3Y/s1600/a18804ea6310e9b3b2aa32d2ee6b094e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O-D2xCKwPjA/Tf-wtUuXJOI/AAAAAAAAANI/OVkWLrxQ_3Y/s1600/a18804ea6310e9b3b2aa32d2ee6b094e.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's a new book out called&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="parseasinTitle" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span id="btAsinTitle"&gt;Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;by&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Mara Hvistendah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;In nature, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. This ratio is biologically ironclad. Between 104 and 106 is the normal range, and that's as far as the natural window goes. Any other number is the result of unnatural events.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Yet today in India there are 112 boys born for every 100 girls. In China, the number is 121—though plenty of Chinese towns are over the 150 mark. China's and India's populations are mammoth enough that their outlying sex ratios have skewed the global average to a biologically impossible 107. But the imbalance is not only in Asia. Azerbaijan stands at 115, Georgia at 118 and Armenia at 120.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;I think they are going to regret this later on. &amp;nbsp; LIke on prom night!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-5556016894443693564?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/5556016894443693564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=5556016894443693564' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/5556016894443693564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/5556016894443693564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-missing-sisters-aka-war-on-girls.html' title='My missing sisters (aka the war on girls)'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O-D2xCKwPjA/Tf-wtUuXJOI/AAAAAAAAANI/OVkWLrxQ_3Y/s72-c/a18804ea6310e9b3b2aa32d2ee6b094e.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-2923058866673458695</id><published>2010-11-02T10:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-02T10:37:51.427-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chihuahua'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Halloween'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='costumes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animals'/><title type='text'>PS on Halloween: Chihuahuahontus is wrong too!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/TNBMNAB6QbI/AAAAAAAAAM8/KJFCdqpgq08/s1600/chihuahuahontus.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="210" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/TNBMNAB6QbI/AAAAAAAAAM8/KJFCdqpgq08/s320/chihuahuahontus.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-2923058866673458695?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/2923058866673458695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=2923058866673458695' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2923058866673458695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2923058866673458695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2010/11/ps-on-halloween-chihuahuahontus-is.html' title='PS on Halloween: Chihuahuahontus is wrong too!'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/TNBMNAB6QbI/AAAAAAAAAM8/KJFCdqpgq08/s72-c/chihuahuahontus.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-8791508545762542006</id><published>2010-11-01T12:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-02T10:38:42.075-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ethel spiliotes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prostitution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='girls'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ethel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Halloween'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hookers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='candy'/><title type='text'>Hmm.  Voting day is curiously close to Halloween.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-4bc33a04742bf38a" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v12.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D4bc33a04742bf38a%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1329958470%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D825D2BBD10895B60439718153C559AE3A3973D3D.3246842E1B99FD6DA051FBBF1575DD17CB02A26F%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D4bc33a04742bf38a%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DZqP4FubZX6hgtRGhhNMH0U8TQs8&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v12.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D4bc33a04742bf38a%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1329958470%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D825D2BBD10895B60439718153C559AE3A3973D3D.3246842E1B99FD6DA051FBBF1575DD17CB02A26F%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D4bc33a04742bf38a%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DZqP4FubZX6hgtRGhhNMH0U8TQs8&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-8791508545762542006?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/8791508545762542006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=8791508545762542006' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8791508545762542006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8791508545762542006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2010/11/hmm-voting-day-is-curiously-close-to.html' title='Hmm.  Voting day is curiously close to Halloween.'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-2033039115028608004</id><published>2010-06-04T13:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-04T13:51:05.451-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poison pet food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shrek'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cadmium'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Jersey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='glassware'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='McDonald&apos;s'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recall'/><title type='text'>McDonalds is poisoning the children again</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/TAll3oZgSZI/AAAAAAAAAMo/qNMVSoNFAJ4/s1600/ap_McDonalds_Recall_100604_mn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/TAll3oZgSZI/AAAAAAAAAMo/qNMVSoNFAJ4/s400/ap_McDonalds_Recall_100604_mn.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;h1 class="contentTitle" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;McDonald's Recalls 12 million Shrek Glasses Due to Cadmium Levels&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;And guess what? &amp;nbsp;These tainted goblets weren't made in China. &amp;nbsp;They were made in NEW JERSEY.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-2033039115028608004?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/2033039115028608004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=2033039115028608004' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2033039115028608004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2033039115028608004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2010/06/mcdonalds-is-poisoning-children-again.html' title='McDonalds is poisoning the children again'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/TAll3oZgSZI/AAAAAAAAAMo/qNMVSoNFAJ4/s72-c/ap_McDonalds_Recall_100604_mn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-2377911847600269728</id><published>2010-06-04T13:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-04T13:39:55.881-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gulf of mexico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='murder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oil spill'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BP'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fossil fuel.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bird'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animals'/><title type='text'>THis is murder.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/TAlkAJnQWMI/AAAAAAAAAMg/YCC6VUrSTus/s1600/56595.92Gulf-Oil-Spill.sff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/TAlkAJnQWMI/AAAAAAAAAMg/YCC6VUrSTus/s320/56595.92Gulf-Oil-Spill.sff.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: x-small;"&gt;A bird is mired in oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;Or maybe this BPs way of making more oil, by killing the animals and turning them into fossil fuel.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-2377911847600269728?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/2377911847600269728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=2377911847600269728' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2377911847600269728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2377911847600269728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-murder.html' title='THis is murder.'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/TAlkAJnQWMI/AAAAAAAAAMg/YCC6VUrSTus/s72-c/56595.92Gulf-Oil-Spill.sff.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-5999854800507250878</id><published>2010-05-05T12:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T12:16:51.672-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='child murder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children&apos;s civil rights'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lead toys'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poison pet food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kindergarten'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stabbing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='abraham and isaac'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='china'/><title type='text'>lead toys, poison catfood, and now stabbing 4-year-olds</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/masnyu/Chinese%20Children.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="237" src="http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/masnyu/Chinese%20Children.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;What the hell is happening in China? &amp;nbsp;I used to think it was terrible that they were giving away the girls to be adopted in America, but now I think maybe the girls are the lucky ones. &amp;nbsp; Or maybe this is what happens when you have too many men!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Chinese man stabs children in kindergarten, 31 hurt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Reuters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Thursday, April 29, 2010; 5:08 AM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;BEIJING (Reuters) - A knife-wielding man injured 28 children, two teachers and a security guard in a kindergarten in eastern&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/china.html?nav=el" target=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;China&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, state media reported on Thursday,&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;the fourth such stabbing case in recent weeks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Xu Yuyuan, 47, an unemployed local man, broke into a classroom in Taixing city of eastern Jiangsu province on Thursday morning, attacking the children with a 20 cm long knife, the official Xinhua news agency said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The injured children were all about four years old, and five are in critical condition, it added.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;If there was any doubt about the need for a children's civil (or even just human) rights movement, it's gone. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Of course, children have been murdered - usually by their parents - since Abraham and Isaac and even before that, but it's usually one by one. &amp;nbsp;Now people (okay men mostly) are just going to where the children are corralled and killing as many as they can.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;It happens in the United States&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;too, but usually involves guns instead of knives, but I don't think we had 4 all in a row. &amp;nbsp;I just hope this doesn't become China's newest export. &amp;nbsp;I hope instead that they start making cheap Hello Kitty tazers for our little hands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/S9xuOsSAPyI/AAAAAAAAAMY/G7tha3Nfs5U/s1600/links.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/S9xuOsSAPyI/AAAAAAAAAMY/G7tha3Nfs5U/s320/links.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;my friend Angela complained that she couldn't link to individual posts, so I fixed it. &amp;nbsp;Now you can go through all my archives and share all your favorite Ethel posts (to a billion different places)!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay everyone, spread out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-1304242535554646156?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/1304242535554646156/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=1304242535554646156' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1304242535554646156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1304242535554646156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2010/05/linky-link-link.html' title='Linky link link'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/S9xuOsSAPyI/AAAAAAAAAMY/G7tha3Nfs5U/s72-c/links.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-6392259340606590748</id><published>2010-04-29T17:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-29T18:04:38.493-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='murder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meatball'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='indonesia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='monkey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='matzo ball'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='soup'/><title type='text'>Monkey Meatballs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/S9orpZJpYGI/AAAAAAAAAMI/qilDEc19WWw/s1600/53684791-javen-langurs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; 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display: inline; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; width: 140px; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="columnRight" style="float: right; display: inline; clear: right; margin-left: 10px; "&gt;&lt;div class="relatedRail gridPanel grid2" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; width: 140px; "&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="articleText"&gt;&lt;span id="midArticle_start"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="midArticle_0"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="focusParagraph"&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; "&gt;(Reuters) - Indonesian police have arrested a couple who made meatballs from the flesh of protected monkeys, an animal conservation group said on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="midArticle_1"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; "&gt;The pair poached dozens of rare Javan langurs, also known as silver-leaf monkeys, from Baluran National Park in the east of Java island, according to a statement released by Indonesia-based animal protection group ProFauna.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span id="midArticle_2"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; "&gt;"Police found 30 kilograms (65 pounds) meat estimated to come from 20 - 25 individuals, two rifles and a live langur," the statement said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span id="midArticle_3"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; "&gt;"The couple admitted that they had known what they did was against the law and they hunted the monkeys for their meat because beef and chicken were more expensive than the protected monkeys."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span id="midArticle_4"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; "&gt;Meatball soup, known locally as bakso, is a popular dish in Indonesia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span id="midArticle_5"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; "&gt;The statement said police were now broadening their investigation to include checks on vendors suspected of selling the monkey meatballs, while ProFauna was in talks with the national park caretakers to prevent further poaching.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span id="articleText"&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span id="midArticle_6"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Indonesian law states that perpetrators of wildlife crimes face a maximum five year prison term and a fine of 5 million rupiah ($555), but the law is not always strictly enforced.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; "&gt;Of course the meat was cheaper than chicken and beef, because it's not for sale!!!!!!!!!  Human meat is cheaper too.  Why do you need meatballs in your soup?  Monsters.  Why can't people just eat matzoball soup instead of murderball soup.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-6392259340606590748?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/6392259340606590748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=6392259340606590748' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6392259340606590748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6392259340606590748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2010/04/monkey-meatballs.html' title='Monkey Meatballs'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/S9orpZJpYGI/AAAAAAAAAMI/qilDEc19WWw/s72-c/53684791-javen-langurs.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-5538282852859208906</id><published>2010-04-29T10:33:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-29T10:34:12.970-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Boycott Aryanzona</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/S9nC_fNhwwI/AAAAAAAAAMA/lLVLDnj8ays/s1600/united-states-flag_2104_85328098.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; 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cursor:hand;width: 247px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/S9DkXyOi6AI/AAAAAAAAAL4/a9_fd68m6MQ/s320/article-1267663-0939D67A000005DC-119_634x822.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463117445271316482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My grandmother said that my grandfather went to the first earth day back in 1970 - so he could meet other women to have sex with.   That seems pretty much in line with the Supreme Court who are celebrating this earth day by declaring open season on the animals - fuck em, stomp em, make them fight each other to death, and then film it and call it speech.   I really hope that movie "Furry Vengeance" is a documentary.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I don't think I ever want to develop any sexuality.   It seems like people get off on all kinds of things that involve pain for someone or something else and they say they can't control themselves (or sometimes that they shouldn't have to).    Yesterday I was at a grocery store and a woman at the dead fish counter ordered Chilean Seabass.  I told her not to because there are only like 8 of them left, and she said, "but it tastes so good."   It tastes good?????  What is wrong with people?  I bet her liver would taste good too, but that doesn't mean we should kill and eat her...necessarily.    I guess as long as we think that our desire to eat, fuck and wear things is a reason to do it, we should just forget earth day and wait for more unpronouncable volcanos to make us sit the fuck down and chill.   And that's another thing.  People are actually mad at Iceland for that.  Lucky for Iceland it went bankrupt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-843330264554424434?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/843330264554424434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=843330264554424434' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/843330264554424434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/843330264554424434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-earth-day-whatever.html' title='Happy Earth Day - whatever'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/S9DkXyOi6AI/AAAAAAAAAL4/a9_fd68m6MQ/s72-c/article-1267663-0939D67A000005DC-119_634x822.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-3824822218312808017</id><published>2010-04-15T16:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T11:15:29.024-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='disease'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='child rape'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Girl Scouts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homosexual'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FBI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pedophilia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pope'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pedophile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vatican'/><title type='text'>There's No Such Thing As Pedophilia</title><content type='html'>The idiot Vatican is saying that it's only the homosexual priests who are pedophiles and then not even as much as regular people.  Once again I have to point out WHAT ABOUT ALL THE GIRLS WHO GET MOLESTED BY PRIESTS????  DON"T THEY COUNT????  Okay, but besides that, there's NO SUCH THING AS PEDOPHILIA.  It's just a made up disease to excuse bad behavior.   People who rape adults aren't called adultaphiles.  People who steal other people's stuff aren't call theftophiles.  People who murder aren't called murdophiles.   &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We ALL want to do things that we can't do because it's illegal or it would hurt someone else. So mostly we don't do those things.  And when we do, we're the asshole and not the victim! Wanting to do it is not a crime.  It's not even abnormal (given how many children are preyed on by adults - mostly their own relatives (according to the FBI and my fellow girl scouts), so we should stop talking about it like it's some shameful disease and just admit that children are attractive to a LOT of people (mostly men), or maybe we're just smaller and can't get away as easily, or no one will believe us, or we're already stuck in your house, or it's easier to threaten to kill us if we talk and have us believe you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But we have a right NOT to be groped and raped by jerks who care more about themselves than about us.    Children who get raped don't always turn out so good, so if you can't control yourself for the sake of the children, then you better watch your back if you ever end up in prison (remember Father Geoghan?)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Meanwhile, stop calling it a disease and pretending people just need therapy .   They need to be  put somewhere where they don't have access to their chosen sex objects (though we prefer to think of ourselves as PEOPLE), or better yet - send them to me and my gang.  We'll take care of the "illness" with a raging case of "beat-the-crap-out-of-you-philia."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-3824822218312808017?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3824822218312808017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=3824822218312808017' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3824822218312808017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3824822218312808017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2010/04/theres-no-such-thing-as-pedophilia.html' title='There&apos;s No Such Thing As Pedophilia'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-6045118146604566516</id><published>2010-04-05T17:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-09T15:22:56.492-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lifetime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fox'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='television'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Simpsons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='establishment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bottled water'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family guy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='girls'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pop culture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='south park'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Oxygen'/><title type='text'>Who's Afraid of Ethel?</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Apparently a lot of people.  Idiots.  In case you don't know what I'm talking about, there was some talk about me getting my own TV show.    I even had some meetings, with bottled water.  But apparently I am way too threatening to the establishment.  Here's what a big agent said:&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;Most of the ‘edgier’ channels/buyers skew male, and won’t program a youthful female protagonist.  And you're way too edgy for the female skewing buyers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;And this was an agent who LIKES me.   Okay, so there can't be an Ethel show on channels that have shows like South Park or Family Guy or Simpsons  because if there's a GIRL who's not just a side character then it's not "universal" and boys and men can't relate cause it must be just for girls.  And the channels who make shows that are especially for girls don't want me because they're trying to sell thong underpants and makeup and easy bake ovens and they think that I would be encouraging girls NOT to buy those things -- which they're right about, even though I can think of some alternate uses for some of those things, like thong slingshots and easy bake chemistry experiments (product placement, right?).  Anyway, what's a girl supposed to do?   It's 2010 We're just gonna have to start our own networks - yeah right.  It's hard not to be hating, but we must continue to battle on toward justice no matter how stupid and assholish the people in charge are.  Plus if we weren't trying to change things we'd already be on the air.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;FIght on my sisters (and good brothers).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-6045118146604566516?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/6045118146604566516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=6045118146604566516' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6045118146604566516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6045118146604566516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2010/04/whos-afraid-of-ethel.html' title='Who&apos;s Afraid of Ethel?'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-1438849661284270485</id><published>2010-04-04T17:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T17:49:23.877-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nazi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='child abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='priest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jesus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='benedict'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='germany. Belgium'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='child sexual abuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pope'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RICO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='catholic'/><title type='text'>The Pope is going to hell!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/S7kyu37h2BI/AAAAAAAAALw/P4L7ylBcZwM/s1600/Vatican_Easter_Mass_328018k.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 169px; height: 121px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/S7kyu37h2BI/AAAAAAAAALw/P4L7ylBcZwM/s320/Vatican_Easter_Mass_328018k.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456448204405069842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The Vatican says that all the people whining about being raped by priests are just badmouthing the church.  Oh, and happy Easter!!!!!!!!!&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 31px; "&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Holy Father, the people of God are with you, and do not let themselves be impressed by the gossip of the moment, by the challenges that sometimes strike at the community of believers,” Cardinal Sodano said. Jesus spoke of courage in the face of tribulations, the cardinal continued, and referred to the apostle Peter’s account of Jesus during the passion: “When he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.” (from the NY TImes on Easter Sunday)&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;What would Jesus do?  I think he would break his own rule about turning the other cheek and kill the Pope.  I'm kind of glad the Pope is still acting like an asshole, because then maybe people will finally realize that he's just the head of a big child-abuse ring.  (Most people think it's just boys who are being molested, but it's girls too - it's just that that's considered normal, so no one even notices).   The Pope was a Nazi, and his brother is some bigwhig in Germany and part of the scandal there, though he says he never molested anyone, just beat them sadistically -- oh, so much better.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyway,  the pope is big fat turd and people should start admitting it and saying shame on you to the pope instead of to the people (like me) who don't show him the respect which he does NOT deserve to have, because when the archbishop of BELGIUM says you're wrong, you know you are REALLY a pervert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-1438849661284270485?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/1438849661284270485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=1438849661284270485' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1438849661284270485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1438849661284270485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2010/04/pope-is-going-to-hell.html' title='The Pope is going to hell!'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' 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width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-7105f3fbd36134b9" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v2.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D7105f3fbd36134b9%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1329958471%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D66DEDCD88F431C9D92EE7CEE2689699594799773.D8A33EFF9A798DE8882C3BFC85C2F142D86A003%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D7105f3fbd36134b9%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DHcNpMgk19IinBg53L_O0K9PKVnQ&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" 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src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-4322107568819163121</id><published>2009-11-04T16:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T17:05:12.685-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Noah&apos;s Ark'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children&apos;s education.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sunday school'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sacrifice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rainbow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animals'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-d2935d104b4b26da" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v13.nonxt2.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Dd2935d104b4b26da%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1329958471%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D55912B8D8041591498B5DC8F11114777D85378B5.7AF0984EA7A487790E03655A5888C03A7FC2E6F7%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dd2935d104b4b26da%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DrIBfmTt9tRINp5hdd7JnOTpAwC0&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v13.nonxt2.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Dd2935d104b4b26da%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1329958471%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D55912B8D8041591498B5DC8F11114777D85378B5.7AF0984EA7A487790E03655A5888C03A7FC2E6F7%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dd2935d104b4b26da%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DrIBfmTt9tRINp5hdd7JnOTpAwC0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;These are my favorite versions of the bible stories.  Finally a version that actually makes sense (and it's funny).  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-4322107568819163121?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/4322107568819163121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=4322107568819163121' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4322107568819163121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4322107568819163121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2009/11/these-are-my-favorite-versions-of-bible.html' title=''/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-5321747751497776948</id><published>2009-10-24T15:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T18:18:26.621-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='serial killer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hooker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prostitute'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dixon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Halloween'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pimp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='costumes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aileen Wuornos'/><title type='text'>My First Hooker Halloween</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzgLQN-ayI/AAAAAAAAALo/RKu--0afdvY/s1600-h/sexy_working_large.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzgLQN-ayI/AAAAAAAAALo/RKu--0afdvY/s320/sexy_working_large.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398936537247148834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzfO1Nzd3I/AAAAAAAAALg/-wG0mwVY-Bw/s1600-h/pet_dog_dorothy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzfO1Nzd3I/AAAAAAAAALg/-wG0mwVY-Bw/s320/pet_dog_dorothy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398935499206522738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzfOkqjMaI/AAAAAAAAALY/IBrCKLeQkLk/s1600-h/pet_dorothy_dog_costume.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzfOkqjMaI/AAAAAAAAALY/IBrCKLeQkLk/s320/pet_dorothy_dog_costume.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398935494763688354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzfObFzcuI/AAAAAAAAALQ/I19XEtjptAk/s1600-h/300188-girlie-hundekostuem-dog-costume.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzfObFzcuI/AAAAAAAAALQ/I19XEtjptAk/s320/300188-girlie-hundekostuem-dog-costume.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398935492193645282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzfOCIoCXI/AAAAAAAAALI/DyVeFeSOZdA/s1600-h/dogweirdcostume05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzfOCIoCXI/AAAAAAAAALI/DyVeFeSOZdA/s320/dogweirdcostume05.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398935485494593906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzfNxxdCvI/AAAAAAAAALA/efWV3ZfG7jA/s1600-h/dog-costume-dracula.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzfNxxdCvI/AAAAAAAAALA/efWV3ZfG7jA/s320/dog-costume-dracula.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398935481102437106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Halloween is for children.  And I guess for dogs too, but I don't think they enjoy their costumes as much as we do.   I used to love Halloween, it's the only day of the year our neighbors let us  kids into their houses and then give us candy (and we don't even have to go in the back room with Mr. Dixon).   And what isn't great about a holiday where we can wear/be whatever we want and eat as much free candy as we want?  But now that I've reached puberty (well, I haven't but, but most of my classmates have),  it's hooker everything:  hooker nurse, hooker pirate, hooker vampire, hooker veterinarian, hooker supreme court judge.   Only  for the girls, though.   The boys still have normal costumes, but everything for girls has high heels, mini skirt, boobs, underwear, like all we girls want to be is hookers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year I'm going to be a hooker, too.  But a real one.  I'll have a black eye and torn clothes, and an angry expression on my face, and I'll have a gun too, to kill any pimp or john who messes with me.  In fact, I'm going to be Aileen Wournos, who was supposedly a serial killer, but really it was a spree killing.  She was a prostitute who killed rapist/johns - seven of them.  She got punched or raped one too many times.   Then they executed her.  A horrible tragedy.  Cause she was not finished with her work.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-5321747751497776948?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/5321747751497776948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=5321747751497776948' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/5321747751497776948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/5321747751497776948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-first-hooker-halloween.html' title='My First Hooker Halloween'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SuzgLQN-ayI/AAAAAAAAALo/RKu--0afdvY/s72-c/sexy_working_large.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-2207374789023514871</id><published>2009-09-30T17:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-30T17:59:59.907-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='child rape'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='petition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='whoopi goldberg'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woody allen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='polanski'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='martin scorcese'/><title type='text'>France has children too</title><content type='html'>Shock of shocks.  Woody Allen came out in support of Roman Polanski.  He thinks the only mistake Polanski made was not marrying the girl.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What is wrong with these people?  I'm actually glad that people signed the petition to "free Polanski" cause now we know who supports child rape.  Good to know.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;here's a list of names: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "&gt;Woody Allen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; "&gt;Wes Anderson&lt;br /&gt;Darren Aronofsky&lt;br /&gt;Jonatham Demme&lt;br /&gt;Stephen Frears&lt;br /&gt;David Lynch&lt;br /&gt;Martin Scorsese&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; "&gt;Full list: (it might have been quicker to name &lt;em&gt;who didn’t&lt;/em&gt; sign the petition)&lt;span id="more-237530"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; "&gt;Fatih Akin, Stephane Allagnon, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alexandre Arcady, Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Darren Aronofsky, Olivier Assayas, Alexander Astruc, Gabriel Auer, Luc Barnier , Christophe Barratier, Xavier Beauvois , Liria Begeja , Gilles Behat, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Marco Bellochio, Monica Bellucci, Djamel Bennecib, Giuseppe Bertolucci , Patrick Bouchitey, Paul Boujenah, Jacques Bral, Patrick Braoudé, André Buytaers, Christian Carion, Henning Carlsen, Jean-michel Carre, Mathieu Celary, Patrice Chéreau, Elie Chouraqui, Souleymane Cissé, Alain Corneau, Jérôme Cornuau, Miguel Courtois, Dominique Crevecoeur, Alfonso Cuaron, Luc et Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jonathan Demme, Alexandre Desplat, Rosalinde et Michel Deville, Georges Dybman, Jacques Fansten, Joël Farges, Gianluca Farinelli (Cinémathèque de de Bologne), Etienne Faure, Michel Ferry, Scott Foundas, Stephen Frears, Thierry Frémaux, Sam Gabarski, René Gainville, Tony Gatlif, Costa Gavras, Jean-Marc Ghanassia, Terry Gilliam, Christian Gion, Marc Guidoni, Buck Henry, David Heyman, Laurent Heynemann, Robert Hossein, Jean-Loup Hubert, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Gilles Jacob, Just Jaeckin, Alain Jessua, Pierre Jolivet, Kent Jones (World Cinema Foundation), Roger Kahane, Nelly Kaplan, Wong Kar Waï, Ladislas Kijno, Harmony Korinne, Jan Kounen, Diane Kurys, Emir Kusturica, John Landis, Claude Lanzmann, André Larquié, Vinciane Lecocq, Patrice Leconte, Claude Lelouch, Gérard Lenne, David Lynch, Michael Mann, François Margolin, Jean-PierreMarois, Tonie Marshall, Mario Martone, Nicolas Mauvernay, Radu Mihaileanu, Claude Miller, Mario Monicelli, Jeanne Moreau, Sandra Nicolier, Michel Ocelot, Alexander Payne, Richard Pena (Directeur Festival de NY), Michele Placido, Philippe Radault, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Raphael Rebibo, Yasmina Reza, Jacques Richard, Laurence Roulet, Walter Salles, Jean-Paul Salomé, Marc Sandberg, Jerry Schatzberg, Julian Schnabel, Barbet Schroeder, Ettore Scola, Martin Scorsese, Charlotte Silvera, Abderrahmane Sissako, Paolo Sorrentino, Guillaume Stirn, Tilda Swinton, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Radovan Tadic, Danis Tanovic, Bertrand Tavernier, Cécile Telerman, Alain Terzian, Pascal Thomas, Giuseppe Tornatore, Serge Toubiana, Nadine Trintignant, Tom Tykwer, Alexandre Tylski, Betrand Van Effenterre, Wim Wenders.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; "&gt;EDIT: new names&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; "&gt;Isabelle Adjani&lt;br /&gt;Antoine Aronin&lt;br /&gt;Paul Auster&lt;br /&gt;Morgane Beauverger&lt;br /&gt;Candice Belaisch-Goldchmit&lt;br /&gt;Yamina Benguigui&lt;br /&gt;Pascal Bruckner&lt;br /&gt;Jessika Cohen&lt;br /&gt;Philippe Corbé&lt;br /&gt;Jean-Paul Dayan&lt;br /&gt;Katarina De Meulder&lt;br /&gt;Arielle Dombasle&lt;br /&gt;Nathalie Faucheux&lt;br /&gt;Corinne Figuet&lt;br /&gt;Pierre Forciniti&lt;br /&gt;Louis Garrel&lt;br /&gt;Albert Gauvin&lt;br /&gt;Johanna Gozlan&lt;br /&gt;Davide Homitsu Riboli&lt;br /&gt;Taylor Hackford&lt;br /&gt;Isabelle Huppert&lt;br /&gt;Neil Jordan&lt;br /&gt;Thierry Kamami&lt;br /&gt;Milan Kundera&lt;br /&gt;Gaelle Lancien&lt;br /&gt;Claude Lanzmann&lt;br /&gt;Bernard-Henri Lévy&lt;br /&gt;Sam Mendes&lt;br /&gt;Camille Meyer&lt;br /&gt;Patrick Mimouni&lt;br /&gt;Yann Moix&lt;br /&gt;Mike Nichols&lt;br /&gt;Sandra Nicolier&lt;br /&gt;Marie Nieves Perez Neël&lt;br /&gt;Salman Rushdie&lt;br /&gt;Carine Sarna&lt;br /&gt;Ysabelle Saura Del Pan&lt;br /&gt;William Shawcross&lt;br /&gt;Olivier Soares Barbosa&lt;br /&gt;Steven Soderbergh&lt;br /&gt;Nil Symchowicz&lt;br /&gt;Danièle Thompson&lt;br /&gt;Eugenia Varela Navarro&lt;br /&gt;Diane von Furstenberg&lt;br /&gt;Scott Foundas&lt;br /&gt;Margaret Walker&lt;br /&gt;Elsa Zylberstein&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; "&gt;and yay for French director Luc Besson who disagreed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; "&gt;and by the way.  Does everyone think that the one he got convicted of raping is the only girl he ever raped?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-2207374789023514871?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/2207374789023514871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=2207374789023514871' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2207374789023514871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2207374789023514871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2009/09/france-has-children-too.html' title='France has children too'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-724046794013996453</id><published>2009-08-19T13:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-19T16:25:39.793-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='slavery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Universal studio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mail order bride'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ethel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trafficking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='protest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bride expo'/><title type='text'>Bride Expo Exposed!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SoyFtp5kQQI/AAAAAAAAAK4/JoE30dhC6w8/s1600-h/Mail-Order-Bride.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 228px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SoyFtp5kQQI/AAAAAAAAAK4/JoE30dhC6w8/s320/Mail-Order-Bride.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371815474934071554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 face="lucida grande" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"&gt;NOTICE!!!  Two upcoming bride expos demand massive protest and actions to save these women.    I can't believe they are advertising for this.  How dare they just sell women like that right out in the open like it's okay?  Just because you call her a bride doesn't make it not selling women, and these poor women probably came here thinking they were going to work as waitresses or in a factory.   Traffiking is trafficking and it's wrong - no matter how much cake and lace you put on it (and I DO love cake).  DON'T let this offense to women and girls everywhere go unanswered.  We will be gathering at the dates and places listed below.  If you don't want to get arrested you can peacefully protest (in the doorways - as thickly as possible).  If you are underage, like me, then you don't have to worry about your permanent record--meet us at 9am on the 23rd in front of the Jaws ride.  The liberation of enslaved people is never wrong - that's Ethel's Law!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 face="lucida grande" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 face="lucida grande" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"&gt; Next week there's one in Los Angeles, and in October in Orange County (details are below - so be sure to come if you're anywhere close).  But they have these bride expos everywhere, so plan to go to the local one if you can't make the ones here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 face="lucida grande" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;h2 face="lucida grande" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);" href="http://www.expobridal.com/index.php?bridalshow"&gt;Universal Hilton Bridal Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-family: lucida grande; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;555 Universal Hollywood Drive-Universal City 91608&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-family: lucida grande; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Sunday August 23rd from 11am-4pm&lt;/h2&gt;Hyatt Regency Irvine Show&lt;br /&gt;17900 Jamboree Road - Irvine, CA 92614&lt;br /&gt;Sunday October 4th  11am-4pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: lucida grande; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);" href="http://www.expobridal.com/index.php?october25"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-724046794013996453?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/724046794013996453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=724046794013996453' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/724046794013996453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/724046794013996453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2009/08/bride-expo-exposed.html' title='Bride Expo Exposed!'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SoyFtp5kQQI/AAAAAAAAAK4/JoE30dhC6w8/s72-c/Mail-Order-Bride.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-1576598835543960539</id><published>2009-02-03T14:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-03T15:48:33.873-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Phelps'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='milk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shoes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Olympics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='planes'/><title type='text'>Current Events</title><content type='html'>If you're flying a plane, don't hit the birds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just because you lose your job and don't have money is not a reason to kill all of your children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Michael Phelps has to apologize for smoking pot, then the rest of us should have to apologize for NOT winning 8 gold medals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Ashleigh said she wanted to be a cosmetologist,  Angela, who wants to be a lawyer,  said "that should be your second choice."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If cows have to have babies to make all that milk, what happens to all those babies? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does the kind of shoe you throw at a politician matter?  Which makes a better statement, a child's shoe or a cowboy boot with spurs?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First Bush and his party had a giant party and trashed the country, and now they won't vote for the stimulation package so ALL children are going to be left behind.  It's not all bad though, cause us children in Orange County finally know what it's like to have a snow day.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-1576598835543960539?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/1576598835543960539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=1576598835543960539' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1576598835543960539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1576598835543960539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2009/02/current-events.html' title='Current Events'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-8070342308461334776</id><published>2008-11-05T18:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T18:32:28.543-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ronald Reagan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='California'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mccain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='election'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='traditional marriage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Palin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gay marriage'/><title type='text'>The Sadly Effect</title><content type='html'>For the first time in my life, I'm not totally horrifed to hear that country song  "I’m proud to be an American."  But I’m NOT proud to be a Californian.  What kind of bullshit is that?  Black is okay now, but fuck the gays?   I guess they’re just afraid of the millions of Mexican lesbians who are going to come here for green cards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    I’m really happy that Obama won and that he crushed his nasty old opponent and his horrible mate.     And I really hope that our democracy gets restored so I can vote when I'm old enough.  I did get to vote in the mock election at our school (the Ronald Reagan Elementary School).  Obama won, but there were a lot of idiots who voted for McCain cuase they said Sarah Palin was a hottie and they didn't want us all to have to be communists.   I'm starting to think that maybe they are right to not believe in evolution because clearly they are not participating!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, I don't know if I'm gay or not yet, but I'd like to have that option, thank you very much.  And I know for sure that I oppose traditional marriage:  that's where the husband's in charge and gets to make all the decisions and beat his wife and children and fart as loud as he wants to without saying excuse me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-8070342308461334776?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/8070342308461334776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=8070342308461334776' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8070342308461334776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8070342308461334776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2008/11/sadly-effect.html' title='The Sadly Effect'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-7047159692952823609</id><published>2008-08-20T16:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-20T16:46:05.108-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cunt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mccain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='candidate 2008'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='election'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hillary clinton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trollop'/><title type='text'>Some new bumper stickers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SKysgoHVhhI/AAAAAAAAAGk/QynyMNVcKfQ/s1600-h/%2708.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SKysgoHVhhI/AAAAAAAAAGk/QynyMNVcKfQ/s400/%2708.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236750143249024530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SKysg-yK3-I/AAAAAAAAAGs/ZuXLBCcWVVM/s1600-h/Obamajpeg.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SKysg-yK3-I/AAAAAAAAAGs/ZuXLBCcWVVM/s400/Obamajpeg.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236750149334261730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SKysg3JfccI/AAAAAAAAAG0/KhV5Ss5KdOc/s1600-h/mcCain.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SKysg3JfccI/AAAAAAAAAG0/KhV5Ss5KdOc/s400/mcCain.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236750147284595138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-7047159692952823609?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/7047159692952823609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=7047159692952823609' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7047159692952823609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7047159692952823609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2008/08/some-new-bumper-stickers.html' title='Some new bumper stickers'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SKysgoHVhhI/AAAAAAAAAGk/QynyMNVcKfQ/s72-c/%2708.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-7003481337303001111</id><published>2008-07-28T14:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-28T14:44:55.000-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gyllenhaal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mamma mia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='joker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chick flick'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ledger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='streep'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Batman'/><title type='text'>Batman is a dickflick</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SI49jxBhpfI/AAAAAAAAAGc/VUD0oi9gBFc/s1600-h/2007_mammamia_moviefan_post-779476.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SI49jxBhpfI/AAAAAAAAAGc/VUD0oi9gBFc/s400/2007_mammamia_moviefan_post-779476.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228183902088177138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SI49dou_NII/AAAAAAAAAGU/_GFVelerIZQ/s1600-h/dark-knight-intl-poster-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SI49dou_NII/AAAAAAAAAGU/_GFVelerIZQ/s400/dark-knight-intl-poster-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228183796783723650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SI49XzqPqKI/AAAAAAAAAGM/-ADMDrv-rlU/s1600-h/mamma-mia-poster-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SI49XzqPqKI/AAAAAAAAAGM/-ADMDrv-rlU/s400/mamma-mia-poster-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228183696637405346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SI47sf9d58I/AAAAAAAAAGE/UGDhFGPwpYI/s1600-h/the-dark-knight-20080428083006072_640w.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SI47sf9d58I/AAAAAAAAAGE/UGDhFGPwpYI/s400/the-dark-knight-20080428083006072_640w.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228181853103318978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok, before I talk about the movie I just want to point out something I noticed in the paper.  there were two big ads next to each other.  One  for Batman and one  for Mamma Mia.  They both listed their stars like all movie ads and posters do.  Batman had 6 men and one woman, and the picture  showed only men.  Mama Mia listed 4 men and 4 women and had a picture with all of them.  The one with half women and half men is considered a chick flick, and the one that has 6 times as many men as women is considered to be for everyone.  Just a normal human movie.   What the fuck?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-7003481337303001111?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/7003481337303001111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=7003481337303001111' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7003481337303001111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7003481337303001111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2008/07/batman-is-dickflick.html' title='Batman is a dickflick'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SI49jxBhpfI/AAAAAAAAAGc/VUD0oi9gBFc/s72-c/2007_mammamia_moviefan_post-779476.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-3595856743547216190</id><published>2008-07-19T17:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-19T17:31:09.985-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wounds'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pigs military'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PETA'/><title type='text'>Beyond Abu Ghraib: Soldiers Playing Doctor with Actual PIGS!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SIKEAr7GfgI/AAAAAAAAAF8/H73pq721H4o/s1600-h/15046436.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SIKEAr7GfgI/AAAAAAAAAF8/H73pq721H4o/s400/15046436.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224883665028677122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not dead, i was just gone for a long time, for a few reasons, most of which I cannot go into now or I will lose the "privilege" to do my blog again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The military wants to shoot pigs with automatic rifles and then practice treating the wounds.    If they're being attacked by the pigs so that they need to shoot them, then why do they want to learn how to fix the pigs?  Seems to me if they don't want to have to worry about treating soldiers with big gun holes, then they should bring them back home and leave the pigs alone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, when they're done with shooting and playing doctor with the pigs, do they eat them or just throw them away?  People give me crap for not thinking that humans are superior to all the other animals, but humans are the only animal I know of that shoot other animals and then practice fixing the holes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-3595856743547216190?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3595856743547216190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=3595856743547216190' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3595856743547216190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3595856743547216190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2008/07/beyond-abu-ghraib-soldiers-playing.html' title='Beyond Abu Ghraib: Soldiers Playing Doctor with Actual PIGS!!'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/SIKEAr7GfgI/AAAAAAAAAF8/H73pq721H4o/s72-c/15046436.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-8942979815423256498</id><published>2008-02-04T09:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-04T10:24:52.074-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='taliban'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ratatouille'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='downe&apos;s syndrome'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='animation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jerry seinfeld'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bee Movie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Girl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pet market'/><title type='text'>Pet Mart</title><content type='html'>Okay, a couple of days ago I heard that there were two explosions at pet markets in Iraq, which is totally heartbreaking.   As far as I can tell the animals aren't members of any tribe and have a hard enough life to begin with. Plus I think most of the people at the pet markets are nice animal-loving people (except for the few who are really getting them to eat).  But THEN I heard the bombers were women and I was even more sad because I expect women to behave better.  Women blowing up animals?  that just ruins my whole way of seeing the world.  But THEN I found out that it was really retarded (Down's Syndrome) women who didn't even know they were bombers: some men strapped the bombs on them and told them to go pet the animals.  My world view was restored, but it is so horrible I don't know what to do.   I love animals so much that if someone gave me a heavy vest and said I could go pet the kitties, I would.   What is wrong with these men?  And why doesn't anyone call it what it is?  which is just old-fashioned male culture- which seems to be about terrorizing women and children and animals and smaller men. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That night I was trying to feel better and we rented Ratatouille, and that helped not at ALL! Because in the whole movie there was only one female character (except for the old lady with the shot gun at the beginning).   Even the rats were all male.  How do you have a whole colony of rats and they're all boys?  Who gave birth to them all?  or did they just kill off all the females before filming started (I know it's animated).  Have the rats gone all Taliban?  Even animation, where you can make up whatever world you want is the same old boy, boy, boy.  The BEE Movie?  That was all about boys too.  I got news for you.  Bee colonies are almost entirely female.  Drones are females.  There is no Jerry Seinfeld bee in real life.  And me and my friends are totally sick of it.    How come we're expected to watch and enjoy (and then ask for the related toys) all the shows that are about boys and boy characters, but if there's a girl character then only girls are expected to watch?  Next thing you know they'll be strapping a vest full of bottle rockets and roman candles to a retarded girl and telling her to go play with the dolls in the American Girl store. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Someday I'm gonna make an animated movie, and it's going to be MY fantasy.  I promise you THAT will be explosive.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-8942979815423256498?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/8942979815423256498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=8942979815423256498' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8942979815423256498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8942979815423256498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2008/02/pet-mart.html' title='Pet Mart'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-6496852466463010445</id><published>2007-12-26T10:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-26T10:25:56.895-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Phil and Ike up a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span name="intelliTxt" class="black2pt" id="intelliTxt"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Music mogul PHIL SPECTOR has hit out at OPRAH WINFREY and WHOOPI GOLDBERG for "demonising" his friend IKE TURNER on their talkshows. Spector used the musician's funeral on Friday (21Dec07) to voice his anger at the U.S. TV stars - as well as others who have criticised him over the years. He went on to say that Ike - whose musical career was overshadowed by his image as the drug-addicted, brutally abusive former husband of Tina Turner - was "demonised and vilified" by his ex-wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um, Mr. Spector, if you kill a woman at your house you don't get to criticise people for criticising your wifebeater friend.  You idiot!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-6496852466463010445?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/6496852466463010445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=6496852466463010445' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6496852466463010445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6496852466463010445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/12/phil-and-ike-up-tree-k-i-s-s-i-n-g.html' title='Phil and Ike up a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-120993193682414212</id><published>2007-11-14T11:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-14T11:52:33.714-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='date rape'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roofie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aqua beads'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='play date'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GHB'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toys'/><title type='text'>Play-Date-Rape Drug</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RztRsBWGm5I/AAAAAAAAAF0/KyluYuiQgZs/s1600-h/aquadots_thumb_petpals.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RztRsBWGm5I/AAAAAAAAAF0/KyluYuiQgZs/s400/aquadots_thumb_petpals.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132786017036049298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aqua Dot beads turn into roofies when you eat them.    How did they figure that out?    Now not only do we have to avoid small parts, but if the strange man offers us toys instead of candy, we could be in big trouble, cause apparently children will eat anything, even if it doesn't have the delicious taste of lead.    But I guess they had to put the roofies in the toys because it's hard to get kids to drink beer or grain alcohol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's a lot of kids in our school who's houses are for sale or got repo'd by the bank and a lot of kids have been told that they shouldn't expect much from Santa this year.  But maybe that's good because the worse the country does then the less toys from China we can buy.  Of course we can't afford food so well either, and that might lead to more bead snacks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-120993193682414212?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/120993193682414212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=120993193682414212' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/120993193682414212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/120993193682414212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/11/play-date-rape-drug.html' title='Play-Date-Rape Drug'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RztRsBWGm5I/AAAAAAAAAF0/KyluYuiQgZs/s72-c/aquadots_thumb_petpals.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-2887781301674412976</id><published>2007-10-23T18:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-24T08:39:23.081-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='National Guard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='FEMA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Katrina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='childrens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Orange county'/><title type='text'>HELP!!! -- FEMA's coming!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rx9mPAR-phI/AAAAAAAAAFk/iaTjwk7PjiY/s1600-h/33417852.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rx9mPAR-phI/AAAAAAAAAFk/iaTjwk7PjiY/s400/33417852.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124927308930393618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Bush is coming - like we don't have enough trouble.  We can't afford to have any of our fire or police worrying about his sorry ass.  And now in addition to the hellfire and raining ash, they're sending FEMA, which as far as I know still hasn't taken care of Katrina, which was more than two years ago, but then again this is Orange County, and we have mostly white people and a lot of Republicans.   School is out, so the childrens are not learnings for the tests, so I'm sure we'll have to have a lecture about that.   But since our developing lungs are breathing toxic air, and our health insurance got vetoed, we are urging all children who can get out of the shelters to meet him with a bandana around your face and rage in your heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is one piece of good news.  The Governor called for the National Guard and the only ones they could find were guarding the Mexican border, so now we'll be able to get someone to harvest whatever food survives the fires.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-2887781301674412976?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/2887781301674412976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=2887781301674412976' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2887781301674412976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2887781301674412976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/10/help-femas-coming.html' title='HELP!!! -- FEMA&apos;s coming!'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rx9mPAR-phI/AAAAAAAAAFk/iaTjwk7PjiY/s72-c/33417852.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-9182616667681859602</id><published>2007-10-12T12:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-02T10:56:26.288-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='resolution'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='armenian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='turkey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fighting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Genocide'/><title type='text'>Giving Turkeys A Bad Name</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rw_XIwR-pgI/AAAAAAAAAFc/v_KKhOaZH0Q/s1600-h/turkey.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120547846742779394" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rw_XIwR-pgI/AAAAAAAAAFc/v_KKhOaZH0Q/s400/turkey.jpeg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We got sent home early today because there was a fight between a Turkish boy and an Armenian boy.   The Armenian boy said it was a genocide, and the Turkish boy said it wasn't and how dare he say that. &amp;nbsp;Of course, the slaughter of the Armenians by the Turks happened over 90 years ago, so I don't think any of the killers are still alive.  I can't understand what the problem is.  Maybe Congress should pass a substitute resolution that says "we condemn the mass murder of the Armenians that LOOKS like a genocide, but isn't one," and that way we can keep flying our troops out of their airbases so we can go kill a different group of people.   Then the children can stop fighting and we can get back to learning important things, like history.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-9182616667681859602?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/9182616667681859602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=9182616667681859602' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/9182616667681859602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/9182616667681859602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/10/giving-turkeys-bad-name.html' title='Giving Turkeys A Bad Name'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rw_XIwR-pgI/AAAAAAAAAFc/v_KKhOaZH0Q/s72-c/turkey.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-4770735283150531727</id><published>2007-10-09T13:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-09T13:57:28.405-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='murder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='expert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Phil Spector'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='engineer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lana Clarkson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LA jury'/><title type='text'>A Haunting Spectre-or</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwvqzQR-pfI/AAAAAAAAAFU/nTsBgfxau_E/s1600-h/halloween.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwvqzQR-pfI/AAAAAAAAAFU/nTsBgfxau_E/s320/halloween.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119443567701304818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm glad that he hasn't gone totally free and that at least 10 of the 12 jurors were not engineers, but I'm worried about the next round.   Even though there aren't that many lawyers left who haven't defended him yet, and probably no intelligent hearing seeing person who knows nothing of the case, I'm sure they will buy the same "expert" witnesses, who just happen to always testify for the defense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But mostly I'm surprised that they haven't charged Lana Clarkson with damaging Spector's reputation and messing up his floors.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-4770735283150531727?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/4770735283150531727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=4770735283150531727' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4770735283150531727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4770735283150531727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/10/haunting-spectre-or.html' title='A Haunting Spectre-or'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwvqzQR-pfI/AAAAAAAAAFU/nTsBgfxau_E/s72-c/halloween.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-4588523560047868345</id><published>2007-10-09T12:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-09T13:33:02.768-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Unicef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Congo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rape'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='femicide'/><title type='text'>Men Behaving Badly</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwvkmQR-peI/AAAAAAAAAFM/plyUYG3FSVk/s1600-h/33.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwvkmQR-peI/AAAAAAAAAFM/plyUYG3FSVk/s320/33.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119436747293238754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwvcKQR-pcI/AAAAAAAAAE8/2Exx-hiMcOc/s1600-h/CongoPoster_thumb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwvcKQR-pcI/AAAAAAAAAE8/2Exx-hiMcOc/s400/CongoPoster_thumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119427470163879362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwvkVAR-pdI/AAAAAAAAAFE/4yEWSowra7Y/s1600-h/33.jpg"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know I try to keep the blog humorous, but this is an emergency!!!    There's a femicide going on right now in Congo.   Of course, there's a femicide going on everywhere, but it's more pronounced and obvious right now in the Congo, so please get on it.     They are raping women and girls and babies - sometimes to death, and we have to help &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;UNICEF&lt;/span&gt;  and &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-weight: bold;"&gt;VDAY&lt;/span&gt;  stop it.  Please go to the &lt;a style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" href="http://www.vday.org/contents/drcongo"&gt;VDay&lt;/a&gt; site and do what you can.   Thanks friends.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-4588523560047868345?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/4588523560047868345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=4588523560047868345' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4588523560047868345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4588523560047868345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/10/men-behaving-badly.html' title='Men Behaving Badly'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwvkmQR-peI/AAAAAAAAAFM/plyUYG3FSVk/s72-c/33.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-997507984967221831</id><published>2007-10-02T19:18:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-02T19:28:01.014-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='smarter than a 5th grader'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='game show'/><title type='text'>Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?</title><content type='html'>Well I am a fifth grader, so I guess that means I can't play because I can only be exactly as smart as a 5th grader.   But I seriously think they should change it to "Are you smarter than the President?"  First of all more people could win, and that means they'll have more money to buy things and that will help the economy and defeat the "terrrists."   But also, maybe people would realize that most of them are smarter than the president and then maybe they would realize that he SHOULDN'T BE RUNNING THINGS!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-997507984967221831?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/997507984967221831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=997507984967221831' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/997507984967221831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/997507984967221831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/10/are-you-smarter-than-fifth-grader.html' title='Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-8331903808420800843</id><published>2007-10-02T18:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-02T19:17:20.207-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My Grandfather&apos;s Son'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='supreme court'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anita hill'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clarence thomas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='If I did it'/><title type='text'>Clarence Uncle Thomas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwLuUAR-pbI/AAAAAAAAAE0/bsJKgr9vvH8/s1600-h/media_spotlight45.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwLuUAR-pbI/AAAAAAAAAE0/bsJKgr9vvH8/s320/media_spotlight45.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116914154086507954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Injustice" Clarence Thomas' new book came out yesterday called "My Grandfather's Son," and it's not a tribute to his father, it's a tribute to himself!  Does he mean that his grandfather "begat" him with his own daughter?  If so, that would explain some things.  But I don't understand why the book wasn't called "If I Did It."   I guess that was taken.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-8331903808420800843?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/8331903808420800843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=8331903808420800843' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8331903808420800843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8331903808420800843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/10/clarence-uncle-thomas.html' title='Clarence Uncle Thomas'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RwLuUAR-pbI/AAAAAAAAAE0/bsJKgr9vvH8/s72-c/media_spotlight45.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-1522443024336861607</id><published>2007-09-29T11:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-29T11:32:26.997-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='health care'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='veto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='medicare'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kanye West'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><title type='text'>Kanye Didn't Go Far Enough</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rv6Z0QR-paI/AAAAAAAAAEs/3xx4Pex9Wwc/s1600-h/Bloody+Hands.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rv6Z0QR-paI/AAAAAAAAAEs/3xx4Pex9Wwc/s320/Bloody+Hands.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115695349742085538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"President" Bush doesn't care about children either (even the white ones).   He plans to veto the bill that would give health care to more children.  But ALL senior citizens have govt. covered health care.   How does Bush think they're gonna pay for the senior citizens (aka voters) if the children are too sick to work?  But I guess then just the fittest will survive and then we'll get healthy slaves from other countries (aka illegal immigrants  or sometimes actual real slaves) to make up the difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is he still in charge?  And why are we supposed to respect our elders again?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-1522443024336861607?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/1522443024336861607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=1522443024336861607' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1522443024336861607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1522443024336861607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/09/kanye-didnt-go-far-enough.html' title='Kanye Didn&apos;t Go Far Enough'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rv6Z0QR-paI/AAAAAAAAAEs/3xx4Pex9Wwc/s72-c/Bloody+Hands.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-2729778238548770372</id><published>2007-09-27T12:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-27T14:54:34.213-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='std'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exploitation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nevada'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contract'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cbs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kid nation'/><title type='text'>Kid Nation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RvwimQR-pZI/AAAAAAAAAEk/n2OlOKkkuW4/s1600-h/photo_default.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RvwimQR-pZI/AAAAAAAAAEk/n2OlOKkkuW4/s400/photo_default.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115001317386790290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"40 Kids, no Adults" -- yeah except for the ones with the cameras. And I'm pretty sure it wasn't a kid who wrote the contract the kids parents signed  that gave away their rights to sue the network and the show's producers if their child died, &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;was severely injured, or contracted a sexually transmitted disease during the program's taping.  &lt;/span&gt;They also gave CBS the right to "search the  minor's person and the Minor's belongings (including, without limitation, by x-ray or similar device)." Additionally, the agreement notes, "Kid Nation" participants "will have no privacy," except when they are in the bathroom. Provided, of course, that the child is actually "in the process of showering, bathing, urinating, or defecating."  (how would they know that?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes.  I'm sure this is how children would set things up if they were really running things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the show, I would put Emilie in charge, and I'm worried about Greg, who already had a lot of experience butchering (why?!?!) and then killed the chickens "for the other kids" who wanted "fresh meat" and then they didn't give him the gold star.  By the way, both of them are from Nevada, so it's not a geographical thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I feel gross watching it and promise not to buy any of the products that advertise, but I don't think that'll be too hard.  I don't know who the target audience is, but they had an ad for Vagisil.  I know it's dry in the desert, but...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-2729778238548770372?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/2729778238548770372/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=2729778238548770372' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2729778238548770372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2729778238548770372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/09/kid-nation.html' title='Kid Nation'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RvwimQR-pZI/AAAAAAAAAEk/n2OlOKkkuW4/s72-c/photo_default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-7108743971113601721</id><published>2007-09-25T19:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-25T19:33:37.967-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fuck'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='profanity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='murder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Warren Jeffs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LA jury'/><title type='text'>the Scared and the Profane</title><content type='html'>A man wrote a comment today about my "Support our Sister" blog entry saying that if I'm in 5th grade then I "need to learn to write/speak without using profanity."  Who the fuck is he to tell me that?  Oh, it's okay to swear if you're an adult but not if you're ten?  Is that another one of those privileges you only get if you're big?  He also said in his comment  "before you ask, yes I have taken a human life."  Uh, I wasn't going to ask because it never occurred to me.  Still, I'm glad that whoever JR is he (or she maybe?) wrote to me and is reading my blog. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was glad to hear today that Warren Jeffs was found of guilty of forcing a 14 year old girl to marry an adult and get raped by him.  It's lucky that it wasn't an LA jury.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-7108743971113601721?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/7108743971113601721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=7108743971113601721' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7108743971113601721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7108743971113601721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/09/scared-and-profane.html' title='the Scared and the Profane'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-3229813114994378503</id><published>2007-09-17T16:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-17T16:42:52.863-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cunt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Supercunt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Brave One'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jodie Foster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aileen Wuornos'/><title type='text'>Supercunt</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Ru8Qx4qGKJI/AAAAAAAAAEc/MOpG6c8wFzk/s1600-h/brave1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Ru8Qx4qGKJI/AAAAAAAAAEc/MOpG6c8wFzk/s400/brave1_500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111322551297386642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frances and I went to see the Brave One this weekend.  The lead character, Erica Baines, gets an Aileen Wuornos Environmental Clean-Up Award, though unlike Aileen Wuornos, she doesn't get killed in th end, and I think maybe she retires.  Still she does some good work.   In my favorite scene a bad man calls her a Supercunt and then when she tells him do something and he says, "what if I don't" and she says "Then I'll be the last Supercunt you'll ever see."     Then after that every time she did some "clean-up"  I shouted "GO SUPERCUNT,"  which thrilled me and Frances and freaked out all the nice Orange County people at the theatre.  (We live in Orange County - so that was pretty much everyone in there.)  Now I want to get T-shirts made that say "Supercunt", though I'm pretty sure that we'd get sent home from school.  But next time someone calls me a cunt I'll say, "No, that's SUPERcunt, thank you very much."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-3229813114994378503?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3229813114994378503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=3229813114994378503' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3229813114994378503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3229813114994378503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/09/supercunt.html' title='Supercunt'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Ru8Qx4qGKJI/AAAAAAAAAEc/MOpG6c8wFzk/s72-c/brave1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-9104785924371573371</id><published>2007-09-17T13:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-17T14:29:27.210-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rush To Judgement</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Ru7xbIqGKII/AAAAAAAAAEU/_Ogu3vDYfiQ/s1600-h/OJ.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Ru7xbIqGKII/AAAAAAAAAEU/_Ogu3vDYfiQ/s400/OJ.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111288075594901634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just because OJ Simpson beat his ex-wife and "if he did it" slaughtered her and her friend, doesn't mean he is also guilty of armed robbery.  I mean just cause someone would maim and kill doesn't make him a thief.     And there are lots of thieves who would never hurt anyone, and I'm sure they don't consider him one of them.   So we shouldn't assume that he did it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just hope he wasn't wearing gloves.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-9104785924371573371?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/9104785924371573371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=9104785924371573371' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/9104785924371573371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/9104785924371573371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/09/rush-to-judgement.html' title='Rush To Judgement'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Ru7xbIqGKII/AAAAAAAAAEU/_Ogu3vDYfiQ/s72-c/OJ.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-6743688137840284082</id><published>2007-09-08T11:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-08T11:28:36.012-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OJ'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='murder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='misogyny'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Phil Spector'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Robert Blake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rebellion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rodney King'/><title type='text'>Okay Girls, Get Ready</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RuLpHmdFhTI/AAAAAAAAAEM/AVuiZdPbg5A/s1600-h/images-4.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RuLpHmdFhTI/AAAAAAAAAEM/AVuiZdPbg5A/s400/images-4.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107901244182463794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RuLpHmdFhSI/AAAAAAAAAEE/hgHAijMf4sA/s1600-h/images-1.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RuLpHmdFhSI/AAAAAAAAAEE/hgHAijMf4sA/s400/images-1.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107901244182463778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The trial of Phil Spector is over, and the jury is debilitating.      OJ and Robert Blake went free, and if Phil Spector goes free then it's time to take to the streets.  Prepare.  Only a full scale rebellion will make it clear  we will no longer tolerate the murder of our sisters.  It will be hard for us to burn down our own neighborhoods, because we don't really have any - we've been dispersed and separated, but there are more of us than there are of them and if we stop accepting the way things are, then they're not the way things are anymore, you know what I mean?   I can't say here what specifically I have in mind, but I know you have earned your creativity badges and are ready.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is probably just an exercise in emergency preparedness, because Phil Spector is way too ugly to get away with it, but you never know.  Grosser people have gotten away with murder and other things...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-6743688137840284082?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/6743688137840284082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=6743688137840284082' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6743688137840284082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6743688137840284082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/09/okay-girls-get-ready.html' title='Okay Girls, Get Ready'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RuLpHmdFhTI/AAAAAAAAAEM/AVuiZdPbg5A/s72-c/images-4.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-4647888990988327505</id><published>2007-09-05T13:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T13:41:07.687-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Quit eating the dolls you idiots</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1 class="storyheadline"&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today Mattel announced a third toy recall, mostly involving Barbie toys.  I know  babies like to put everything in their mouths, but what babies are playing with Barbies?  Of course it's probably their older brothers and sisters who are trying to kill them with the lead pieces, but trust me, if they want to kill them or make them eat gross things, they don't need lead painted toys to do it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-4647888990988327505?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/4647888990988327505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=4647888990988327505' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4647888990988327505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4647888990988327505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/09/quit-eating-dolls-you-idiots.html' title='Quit eating the dolls you idiots'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-5569396460657134272</id><published>2007-08-28T10:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-28T10:41:45.870-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='doll'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boycott'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Girls Inc.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='girls'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American Girl'/><title type='text'>AMERICAN GIRL DOLL ACTION</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RtRdomdFhRI/AAAAAAAAAD8/b94jGx704gQ/s1600-h/MDP_tn_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RtRdomdFhRI/AAAAAAAAAD8/b94jGx704gQ/s400/MDP_tn_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103807229816309010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My troop came across a cache of "American Girl" Molly dolls.  I can't tell you the details, but suffice it to say, we have a few hundred of these pricey dolls that just came our way.   To earn our charity badge, we have set up a program to donate the dolls to our unfortunate sisters whose parents have been having a boycott of all "American Girl" dolls for the last two years, because the company made a donation to &lt;a href="http://girlsinc.org/"&gt;Girls Inc.&lt;/a&gt;, which does a lot of good things for girls, including helping with self esteem and education, and because it believes in girls' rights, it also supports our rights to our bodies, and the (supposedly) Christian wrong thinks they should not have that control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Mind you I would never buy one of the dolls, because they cost like $90 and I hate dolls anyway, I would always choose a stuffed animal (or better yet, a real one - but I would never &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;buy&lt;/span&gt; it, I would always only rescue one), but there are girls who like them, and why should their rights to their dolls be denied or abridged because of their parents idiocy and prejudice, and  determination to take away their own daughters rights?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   SO, if you are one of these girls, please write to us through the blog, and we will arrange to get you one of these naughty dolls (in a plain brown wrapper - send to a safe location) and you and the other girls in your church can have secret meetings to play with your dolls and whatever else deprived people might do in secret (hint, hint)...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-5569396460657134272?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/5569396460657134272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=5569396460657134272' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-3245836824784494087</id><published>2007-08-17T13:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-17T13:35:28.475-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Abe Lincoln'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jesus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><title type='text'>Some Bumper Stickers I Saw and Liked</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RsYGTWdFhNI/AAAAAAAAADc/YTVB3h7mv8o/s1600-h/image-2.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RsYGTWdFhNI/AAAAAAAAADc/YTVB3h7mv8o/s320/image-2.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099770557558523090" 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href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RsYGTmdFhQI/AAAAAAAAAD0/1fhpWiLdcmk/s1600-h/image.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RsYGTmdFhQI/AAAAAAAAAD0/1fhpWiLdcmk/s320/image.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099770561853490434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-3245836824784494087?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3245836824784494087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=3245836824784494087' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3245836824784494087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3245836824784494087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/08/some-bumper-stickers-i-saw-and-liked.html' title='Some Bumper Stickers I Saw and Liked'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RsYGTWdFhNI/AAAAAAAAADc/YTVB3h7mv8o/s72-c/image-2.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-502538135418876588</id><published>2007-08-15T09:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-15T11:36:32.312-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tanner'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mattel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chinese'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barbie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lead paint'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Batman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recall'/><title type='text'>Is It Safe?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RsMwTQhHm-I/AAAAAAAAADU/qYAWClaRSqA/s1600-h/Affected_J1946.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RsMwTQhHm-I/AAAAAAAAADU/qYAWClaRSqA/s320/Affected_J1946.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098972310523059170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RsMvoQhHm8I/AAAAAAAAADE/P5IN1moNQa0/s1600-h/barbie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RsMvoQhHm8I/AAAAAAAAADE/P5IN1moNQa0/s320/barbie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098971571788684226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mattell has recalled a lot of toys, and of course they are blaming the Chinese for using the yummy lead paint and tiny magnets.  I thought these toys were dangerous enough all on their own.  Look at them.  What is wrong with these pictures?   Batman is an S/M steroid freak.  And Barbie's an anorexic, plastic surgery addict.  At least Barbie got a service dog to help her walk because her feet are permanently high-heeled, and she cant' stand up on her own.  (By the way, the dog eats and poops - the food and the poop are the same pellet, which is pretty accurate, because our dog eats cat poop - right out of the litter box - we call it 'almond rocca.')&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-502538135418876588?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/502538135418876588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=502538135418876588' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/502538135418876588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/502538135418876588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-it-safe.html' title='Is It Safe?'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RsMwTQhHm-I/AAAAAAAAADU/qYAWClaRSqA/s72-c/Affected_J1946.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-3389235574187637365</id><published>2007-08-09T13:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-09T13:47:28.835-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hello kitty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='girl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Thai police'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shame'/><title type='text'>Who's Ashamed of Hello Kitty?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="mxb"&gt;     &lt;div class="sh"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;      Thai cops punished by Hello Kitty&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;                                                                                                           &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;       &lt;!-- S BO --&gt; &lt;!-- S IIMA --&gt;     &lt;table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="203"&gt;    &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;    &lt;div&gt;     &lt;img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44043000/jpg/_44043954_hellokitty203.jpg" alt="A police officer wears a pink armband featuring 'Hello Kitty&amp;quot; to show reporters" border="0" height="220" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="203" /&gt;     &lt;div class="cap"&gt;The armband is designed to shame the person wearing it&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;         &lt;!-- E IIMA --&gt; &lt;!-- S SF --&gt; &lt;b&gt;Police chiefs in the Thai capital, Bangkok, have come up with a new way of punishing officers who break the rules - an eye-catching Hello Kitty armband.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;In the interest of full disclosure I have to say that I'm a big fan of Hello Kitty:  I have a Chococat wallet and some tiny hello kitty temporary tattoos.   I find nothing shameful about it.   I would proudly wear a Hello Kitty armband, although I think the hearts look pretty stupid.  But why don't they just make them wear an armband that says "girl" on it, or pink underpants on their heads?   Why is everything &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;girl&lt;/span&gt; so shameful to men?  I hope Hello Kitty retaliates and starts wearing a blue armband with a little Thai cop on it.&lt;br /&gt;---Ethel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-3389235574187637365?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3389235574187637365/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=3389235574187637365' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3389235574187637365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3389235574187637365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/08/whos-ashamed-of-hello-kitty.html' title='Who&apos;s Ashamed of Hello Kitty?'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-8489019103473019314</id><published>2007-08-01T14:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T14:44:43.851-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='homicide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='girl shoots father'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pennsylvania'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chiild abuse'/><title type='text'>Support our Sister</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Elizabeth Township girl charged in dad's killing&lt;/h2&gt;   &lt;h3&gt;Police are silent, but neighbors say teen was victim of sexual, physical abuse for several years&lt;/h3&gt;   &lt;p style="text-indent: 0px;"&gt;Tuesday, July 31, 2007&lt;/p&gt;   By Torsten Ove and Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;p&gt; A 13-year-old girl fatally shot her father in the face with a shotgun early yesterday morning as he slept in their Elizabeth Township home, according to police.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   &lt;!--BEGIN PHOTO--&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;!--END PHOTO--&gt; Rachel Booth was held without bond last night in the Allegheny County Jail, charged as an adult with homicide in the death of Matthew J. Booth, 34. She faces a preliminary hearing Friday.&lt;p&gt; In an affidavit supporting the arrest, Allegheny County police did not reveal a motive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Detectives said only that the girl acknowledged that she killed Mr. Booth with his 12-gauge shotgun at 2:21 a.m. on the first floor of 5802 Pitt St., where Mr. Booth lived with the girl and her 14-year-old brother, Matthew Booth Jr.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; But a close neighbor said the girl told her that Mr. Booth had sexually and physically abused her since she was 7.  [there's more, but you should just look it up]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"&gt;Well let me be the first to say that this type of self-defense is a trend I'd like to see pick up.   Of course they want to charge her as an adult for homocide because we can't have the children defending themselves like that (never mind that it was HIS gun).  But if this scares at least one abuser, then that's awesome, and of course that guy will not be hurting anyone anymore.  I'm sure a lot of people will be shocked, but I wonder why it doesn't happen more often.    Hey, at least she killed her abuser and nota bunch of schoolmates.  For that she gets the Aileen Wuornos award for environmental clean up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there's anything I can do.  I stand ready with the Girl Scouts to help a sister in need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ethel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-8489019103473019314?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/8489019103473019314/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=8489019103473019314' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8489019103473019314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8489019103473019314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/08/support-our-sister.html' title='Support our Sister'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-4846470082570168532</id><published>2007-07-20T10:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-07-20T15:05:55.963-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NFL'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vick'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dogfighting'/><title type='text'>Vick needs a vapor rub</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RqEsuufqm0I/AAAAAAAAAC0/3KT1RZNQGHs/s1600-h/Vick.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RqEsuufqm0I/AAAAAAAAAC0/3KT1RZNQGHs/s320/Vick.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5089398235171822402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RqEsuufqm1I/AAAAAAAAAC8/_hL-y6jhnhU/s1600-h/dogfight.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RqEsuufqm1I/AAAAAAAAAC8/_hL-y6jhnhU/s320/dogfight.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5089398235171822418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Vick,&lt;br /&gt;What is wrong with you?  how can you do that to animals?  I guess you like an adrenaline rush from angry animals trying to kill each other, but isn't that what the NFL is for?  You are that animal, you idiot.  If you're ever allowed to play again, you should play for no money, with no padding, and have to live in a little cage and eat Alpo.  I think the point of "Gladiator" is that it is wrong to do that to people.   Dogs are just like people, only mostly nicer.  We're supposed to take care of them, not torture them and execute them.   I think we should throw you to the dogs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-4846470082570168532?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/4846470082570168532/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=4846470082570168532' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4846470082570168532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4846470082570168532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/07/vick-needs-vapor-rub.html' title='Vick needs a vapor rub'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RqEsuufqm0I/AAAAAAAAAC0/3KT1RZNQGHs/s72-c/Vick.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-6421969802226298936</id><published>2007-06-18T16:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-18T16:09:54.497-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Can't Get 'em Young Enough</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1&gt;      &lt;div class="source"&gt;       &lt;a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/brand/SIG=br2v03;_ylt=Am1U91zpmJ3WGa9y6LJ.ULpbbBAF/*http://www.ap.org"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;div class="source"&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/brand/SIG=br2v03;_ylt=Am1U91zpmJ3WGa9y6LJ.ULpbbBAF/*http://www.ap.org"&gt;&lt;img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/ap_small.gif" alt="AP" border="0" height="20" width="120" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;      &lt;/div&gt; Police smash global pedophile ring&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt; LONDON - British police, with aid from U.S. investigators, have shattered a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, authorities said Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Some 200 suspects are based in Britain, said the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center, a government agency. Of the 31 children, some only a few months old, more than 15 were in Britain, the center said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I couldn't help noticing that some of the rescued children were only a few months old.  What is wrong with these people?   Why can't they wait until they're six years old, like normal people!&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-6421969802226298936?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/6421969802226298936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=6421969802226298936' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6421969802226298936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6421969802226298936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/06/cant-get-em-young-enough.html' title='Can&apos;t Get &apos;em Young Enough'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-6967021494731850011</id><published>2007-06-18T15:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-18T15:59:25.579-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Today's Heroine</title><content type='html'>This is a Canadian girl addressing the United Nations Environmental Summit in Brazil (the one that Bush didn't bother to attend or send anyone on The USA's behalf).   I hope she grows up to be President of her country:   &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8cmWZOX8Q"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.   Her group is called Environmental Children's Organization (ECO) &lt;span class="" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-6967021494731850011?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/6967021494731850011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=6967021494731850011' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6967021494731850011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/6967021494731850011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/06/todays-heroine.html' title='Today&apos;s Heroine'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-1284233796152492412</id><published>2007-05-19T09:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-19T09:55:10.183-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='honor killing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shame'/><title type='text'>I'd like to do some honor killing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rk8rklD7pUI/AAAAAAAAACs/Au_5STv3KWU/s1600-h/story.iraq.stoned.02.cnn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rk8rklD7pUI/AAAAAAAAACs/Au_5STv3KWU/s320/story.iraq.stoned.02.cnn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066316013238986050" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A 17 year old girl was beaten and stoned to death by her family and other people in Iraq - to protect the honor of her family?   I'm so glad we "liberated" the Iraqis so that they can create honor by murdering girls and women.   It's 2007.  What is wrong with these people?  (If America really wants to help they should offer to adopt all the women (and children) in the Middle East who want to come here.)   They say they had to kill her because her falling in love with a man who wasn't the 100-year-old uncle she was probably promised to brought shame on them.  Oh, I see, but you don't feel shame for KILLING HER?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm drawing up my "honor roll" right now, and you better believe I'm going to be getting rid of a lot of shame.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-1284233796152492412?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/1284233796152492412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=1284233796152492412' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1284233796152492412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1284233796152492412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/05/id-like-to-do-some-honor-killing.html' title='I&apos;d like to do some honor killing'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rk8rklD7pUI/AAAAAAAAACs/Au_5STv3KWU/s72-c/story.iraq.stoned.02.cnn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-5743187415884577061</id><published>2007-05-15T20:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-19T09:04:17.930-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='doll'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ebay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='selling babies'/><title type='text'>Selling babies on ebay</title><content type='html'>People give us baby dolls when we're little girls, but me and my friends prefer stuffed animals.  Baby dolls are for older kids to learn in parenting class how hard it is to take care of a baby and maybe not have them when they're in high school.   I found this on ebay:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RkqEbVD7pTI/AAAAAAAAACk/l89SScGSQTI/s1600-h/eli8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RkqEbVD7pTI/AAAAAAAAACk/l89SScGSQTI/s320/eli8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065006335976514866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RkqEG1D7pSI/AAAAAAAAACc/p3TvArMhh24/s1600-h/eli6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RkqEG1D7pSI/AAAAAAAAACc/p3TvArMhh24/s320/eli6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065005983789196578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes! They are selling baby fuck dolls now.   And don't say I'm sick because it's just a baby doll for a lonely person or a really rich kid (it's over $500!), because any thing that says "This is a private listing.  Your identity will not be disclosed to anyone but the seller," is not some innocent toy.   How is this even legal?  Why do you want to buy a fake baby that's "anatomically correct?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope it's a trap and the seller is some kind of sting operation, and the buyers end up in prison being treated like that baby doll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr bgcolor="#ccccff"&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/globalAssets/ltCurve.gif" height="8" width="8" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/gift_icon.html"&gt;&lt;img alt="[GIFT!]" title="[GIFT!]" src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/gift/gift.gif" border="0" hspace="2" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="6" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="titlePadding"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class="titlePadding" width="100%"&gt;&lt;h1 class="itemTitle"&gt;Reborn*NEW* CELINE E.Wosnjuk  ANATOMICALLY CORRECT Boy&lt;/h1&gt;BABYFACE BUNDLES~LIFELIKE~True-2-Size Newborn Baby  ELI&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;         Item number:          330118735703&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align="right" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/globalAssets/rtCurve.gif" height="8" width="8" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="6" bgcolor="#5f66ee" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="4" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#ccccff"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bg="" style="color: rgb(238, 238, 255);"&gt;&lt;div id="FastVIPBIBO"&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;table bg="" style="color: rgb(238, 238, 248);" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="100%"&gt;&lt;span class="standard"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bidder or seller of this item?&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&amp;ru=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D330118735703"&gt;Sign in&lt;/a&gt; for your status                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td id="watching" align="right" nowrap="nowrap" valign="top"&gt;&lt;span class="standard"&gt;&lt;span class="standard"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://cgi1.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MakeTrack&amp;amp;item=330118735703&amp;ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:us" title="Keep track of this item by watching it in My eBay."&gt;Watch this item&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; in My eBay        &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td rowspan="7"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="5" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="5"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td rowspan="7"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="5" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="50%"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;This is a private listing. Your identity will not be disclosed to anyone except the seller. If you are already bidding on this item, &lt;a href="http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&amp;amp;item=330118735703"&gt;view your bidder status&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="5" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#cccccc" width="1"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="5" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="50%"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="50%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/private.html" onclick="return openHelpWindow(this.href);" target="helpwin"&gt;Learn more&lt;/a&gt; about private listings.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="5"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="5" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#ccccff"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#ccccff"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#ccccff" width="100%"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#ccccff"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" name="mac_img" class="cssMessage" border="0" /&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="4"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"&gt;          var ss0ImageUrls = descImageUrls =  [              [    "http://i11.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/9e/65/49b9_12.JPG",    "http://i11.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/9e/65/49b9_2.JPG",    "http://i11.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/9e/65/49b9_0.JPG"    ,"http://i11.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/9e/65/49b9_12.JPG"    ]    ];&lt;/script&gt;&lt;td align="center" valign="top" width="206"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="206"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border: 1px solid rgb(192, 191, 191);" bgcolor="#ffffff"&gt;&lt;table style="width: 204px; height: 201px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="height: 206px;" align="center" valign="middle"&gt;&lt;div id="ss0ViewportWellLyr"&gt;&lt;div id="ss0ViewportImgLyr"&gt;&lt;a name="ss0ViewportLnk" href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Reborn-NEW-CELINE-E-Wosnjuk-ANATOMICALLY-CORRECT-Boy_W0QQitemZ330118735703QQihZ014QQcategoryZ48921QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting" onclick="setEbayLink('{#ss0ViewportLnk#}')"&gt;&lt;img title="" src="http://i11.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/9e/65/49b9_2.JPG" name="ss0Viewport" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4" style="padding: 30px 0pt 5px 5px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" bg=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none;font-family:arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Reborn-NEW-CELINE-E-Wosnjuk-ANATOMICALLY-CORRECT-Boy_W0QQitemZ330118735703QQihZ014QQcategoryZ48921QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="6"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="1" width="6" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" width="100%"&gt;&lt;div id="FastVIPDetails"&gt;&lt;input name="MfcISAPICommand" value="BinConfirm" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;input value="1" name="fb" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;input value="" name="co_partnerid" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;input value="330118735703" name="item" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;input value="1" name="quantity" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;div id="datacomm"&gt;&lt;iframe id="datacommframe" style="visibility: hidden; display: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="4" width="100%"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="5" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="left" nowrap="nowrap" width="25%"&gt;&lt;span id="DetailsCurrentBidText" class="titlePurchase"&gt;Current bid:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap"&gt;&lt;span id="DetailsCurrentBidValue"&gt;&lt;b&gt;US $330.00 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="85%"&gt;&lt;form method="get" action="http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll" name="PlaceBidForm1" style="margin: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;input name="MfcISAPICommand" value="MakeBid" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;input name="maxbid" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;input name="item" value="330118735703" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;input name="fb" value="1" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;input name="co_partnerid" value="" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;button type="submit" class="VIPriBtn" name="input_bid"&gt;&lt;span class="btn"&gt;&lt;span class="btn"&gt;Place Bid &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/button&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;span id="DetailsReserve"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/buyer-reserve.html"&gt;Reserve not met&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="4"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif" height="20" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;form method="get" action="http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll" style="margin: 0pt;" name="BinConfirm"&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;tr valign="middle"&gt;&lt;td align="left" nowrap="nowrap" width="25%"&gt;&lt;span class="titlePurchase"&gt;&lt;img src="http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/bin_15x54.gif" alt="Buy It Now" align="middle" /&gt; price:           &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="yes"&gt;&lt;b&gt;US $549.00&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td nowrap="nowrap" width="85%"&gt;&lt;button type="submit" class="VIPriBtn" name="input_bin"&gt;&lt;span class="btn"&gt;&lt;span class="btn"&gt;Buy It Now &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/button&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pages.ebay.com/help/pay/immediatepayment-buyer.html"&gt;immediate payment required&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-5743187415884577061?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/5743187415884577061/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=5743187415884577061' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/5743187415884577061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/5743187415884577061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/05/selling-babies-on-ebay.html' title='Selling babies on ebay'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RkqEbVD7pTI/AAAAAAAAACk/l89SScGSQTI/s72-c/eli8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-3204009619456650904</id><published>2007-05-12T12:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-12T12:30:09.592-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='doll'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gallery of the absurd'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alec Baldwin'/><title type='text'>The New Daddy Dearest Doll</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RkYU2K74zoI/AAAAAAAAACE/Avhugs38cok/s1600-h/daddydearest.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RkYU2K74zoI/AAAAAAAAACE/Avhugs38cok/s400/daddydearest.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063757751905734274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this is from &lt;a href="http://galleryoftheabsurd.typepad.com/"&gt;Gallery of the Absurd&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-3204009619456650904?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3204009619456650904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=3204009619456650904' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3204009619456650904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3204009619456650904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-daddy-dearest-doll.html' title='The New Daddy Dearest Doll'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RkYU2K74zoI/AAAAAAAAACE/Avhugs38cok/s72-c/daddydearest.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-2983263284144451086</id><published>2007-05-09T20:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T21:07:22.846-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mark foley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alcoholism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mel gibson'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chris albrecht'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='michael richards'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='betty ford'/><title type='text'>Another poor alcoholic (NOT)</title><content type='html'>Here's a headline I just read:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:+2;" nd="3" &gt;HBO Chief Takes Leave of Absence to Sort Out Sobriety&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently him beating his girlfriend (and a few other ones before that HBO had to pay off) was just some sort of weird side effect of alcohol.  That's what they should teach us in our anti-drug classes:  that the evils of alcohol include: anti-semitism, having sex with children, calling people niggers, and beating up and/or choking your girlfriend, and then they should have Mel Gibson, Mark Foley, Michael Richards, and Chris Albrecht come to our schools and tell us that we shouldn't drink or we'll be just like them.  It's amazing what alcohol can do.   It must be a very powerful drug to make these otherwise nice men do these terrible things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think Betty Ford should tell everybody that these men are full of crap and might be alcoholics, but are also criminals and jerks and are giving alcoholics a bad name and they should stop it.  Alcoholism might be a disease, but that's not what these men have  - they have the disease of being allowed to do whatever they want because they're rich and powerful and white and male, and then they each got caught on tape (or email, or police report, or whatever).   I guess that's one good thing about all the videophones and cameras and internets is that you can't keep secrets as much as you used to.     Na na na na na.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS.  Me and Frances drank a whole bottle of concord grape wine and we didn't do any of those things.  We just laughed a lot and danced and threw up.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-2983263284144451086?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/2983263284144451086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=2983263284144451086' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2983263284144451086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2983263284144451086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/05/another-poor-alcoholic-not.html' title='Another poor alcoholic (NOT)'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-4560630025408533241</id><published>2007-05-08T12:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T13:00:41.494-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Self-Determination for Ireland</title><content type='html'>Someone wrote a comment saying that not all fathers are like Alec, and I believe that is true (but the ones in the "father's rights" movement pretty much are.  And that's totally beside the point, because there shouldn't be ANY abusive fathers, and there are a lot and they're allowed - it says so in the bible.)  And then the commenter, like so many other people, and especially Alec said that Kim is at fault too because she released the recording and was just trying to attack Alec - using their daughter as a weapon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has it occurred to  NO ONE that Ireland might have leaked the recording?  It was her phone after all, and she had a lot to gain by releasing it: making the world understand why she doesn't want to answer her phone and to get the court to see that HE is alienating her himself, and that she deserves protection from him, not to be served up to him on a legal platter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not saying she did it, cause I don't know her yet, but if it was on MY phone, I would've released it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-4560630025408533241?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/4560630025408533241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=4560630025408533241' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4560630025408533241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4560630025408533241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/05/self-determination-for-ireland.html' title='Self-Determination for Ireland'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-7443345797682559524</id><published>2007-05-08T07:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T08:20:00.869-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='serial killer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BLT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BTK'/><title type='text'>Ethel's Restaurant</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RkCU5a74znI/AAAAAAAAAB8/OLFd3zqoppA/s1600-h/images.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RkCU5a74znI/AAAAAAAAAB8/OLFd3zqoppA/s320/images.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062209695368400498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to open a restuarant the serves only child-rapists and sociopaths.  No other meat will be on the menu.  There'll be some salads and other vegetables and LOTS of desserts, but if you want meat, it will be Bundy Burgers or Ramsey ribs or BTK BLTs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-7443345797682559524?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/7443345797682559524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=7443345797682559524' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7443345797682559524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7443345797682559524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/05/ethels-restaurant.html' title='Ethel&apos;s Restaurant'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RkCU5a74znI/AAAAAAAAAB8/OLFd3zqoppA/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-3342493926711065011</id><published>2007-05-07T20:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T20:38:31.285-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Queen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mother'/><title type='text'>Bush calls Queen a Mother</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj_u7a74zmI/AAAAAAAAAB0/S77HyIZndpc/s1600-h/294514.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj_u7a74zmI/AAAAAAAAAB0/S77HyIZndpc/s320/294514.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062027210797928034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:130%;" &gt;"President" Bush said that the queen is hundreds of years old and when he realized his mistake said, "She gave me a look that only a mother could give a child."  Yeah, a mother who is thinking she forgot to drown one. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Geneva,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:130%;" &gt;  What an idiot.  First he said she was a million years old and they he called her a mother.  Maybe she could take him home with her and teach him some manners.  And then keep him!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:130%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-3342493926711065011?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3342493926711065011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=3342493926711065011' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3342493926711065011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3342493926711065011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/05/bush-calls-queen-mother.html' title='Bush calls Queen a Mother'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj_u7a74zmI/AAAAAAAAAB0/S77HyIZndpc/s72-c/294514.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-1734838409476373107</id><published>2007-05-07T11:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T11:41:54.579-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sex slave'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prostitute'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gentlemen&apos;s club'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='billboard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roofie'/><title type='text'>"Gentlemen's" Clubs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj9yKK74zlI/AAAAAAAAABs/7Ni1kBZe26k/s1600-h/181318.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj9yKK74zlI/AAAAAAAAABs/7Ni1kBZe26k/s200/181318.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061890025247526482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj9w8674zkI/AAAAAAAAABk/QvrxrymCAjM/s1600-h/splash.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj9w8674zkI/AAAAAAAAABk/QvrxrymCAjM/s200/splash.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061888698102632002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj9vua74zjI/AAAAAAAAABc/TjxstVbZz0Q/s1600-h/crazysbc1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj9vua74zjI/AAAAAAAAABc/TjxstVbZz0Q/s200/crazysbc1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061887349482901042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj9vUa74ziI/AAAAAAAAABU/K7_AbEBc1xM/s1600-h/images.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj9vUa74ziI/AAAAAAAAABU/K7_AbEBc1xM/s400/images.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061886902806302242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a lot of billboards on the way to my school that advertise Gentlemen's clubs.   They all have pictures of women who are dressed up like prostitutes and look like they are on roofies.   I don't think these men are gentlemen, but I guess gentleman really means a man who likes to pay for women to service him.   I want to rescue all those women, and I can't believe the signs are right out in the public.  If there was a sign for "White People's Club" (I guess they'd be called &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Purity Club&lt;/span&gt;s or something like that) that featured a black man with his head bowed carrying a tray (or looking like he'd been roofied), I think people might notice that there was something really wrong.   Why is okay for one group of people (who happen to inhabit almost all the positions of power - and who make almost all the money - and who are the biggest) to have clubs where the other class has to be their slaves (a sex slave is a slave - you idiots)?   Why aren't those billboards on fire?  Why aren't the police (I mean when they're not being "gentlemen") raiding those places?  Why do I even have to write this?  What the hell is going on?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and most of these "clubs" also advertise steaks.  I guess cause when you're consuming women (who were already abused  by gentlemen (often called a 'family man')  when they were children and have big drug habits to feed), you want to eat the flesh of another oppressed group that someone (clearly NOT a gentlemen) murdered so you can be gentlemen together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forget the billboards, why aren't the clubs on fire?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-1734838409476373107?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/1734838409476373107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=1734838409476373107' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1734838409476373107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1734838409476373107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/05/gentlemens-clubs.html' title='&quot;Gentlemen&apos;s&quot; Clubs'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rj9yKK74zlI/AAAAAAAAABs/7Ni1kBZe26k/s72-c/181318.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-7549357657918050345</id><published>2007-04-27T10:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-27T11:29:41.218-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alec Baldwin Ireland fathers rights'/><title type='text'>Fathers' Wrongs Children's Rights</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RjJAxK74zgI/AAAAAAAAABE/vU2ZWKVifQA/s1600-h/image1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RjJAxK74zgI/AAAAAAAAABE/vU2ZWKVifQA/s400/image1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058176544983797250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, poor Alec Baldwin.  Men have it so tough.  They are so oppressed they have to start a father's rights movement.  They should tell the truth and call it "father's Wrongs".  If your kid does not want to be with you, then you did something wrong.  Kids don't listen to their mothers, so how can you think that "she" is the devil that made your kids hate you?  You don't even want your kids, you just don't want to have to pay child support.  Or maybe you just want your kid around so you can straighten their asses out as much as you want.  Or do whatever else you want with their asses, cause you think  we are your property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Children are not yours to wear, eat or experiment on.&lt;/span&gt;   Why don't you fight for children's rights.  Then you would be a father who's worthy of your children.   Meanwhile, you can whine all you want to Barbara Walters, but you are still a big bully asshole baby and now we all know it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-7549357657918050345?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/7549357657918050345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=7549357657918050345' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7549357657918050345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/7549357657918050345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/fathers-wrongs.html' title='Fathers&apos; Wrongs Children&apos;s Rights'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RjJAxK74zgI/AAAAAAAAABE/vU2ZWKVifQA/s72-c/image1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-8638379820730259741</id><published>2007-04-25T11:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-25T11:31:37.668-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Liberation for Ireland</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Ri-eH674zfI/AAAAAAAAAA8/KheDZeQTHvs/s1600-h/images.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Ri-eH674zfI/AAAAAAAAAA8/KheDZeQTHvs/s400/images.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057434765477072370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Rotten little pig" Ireland Baldwin's father is an idiot and would not get a parenting license from me, and I think I should get to decide who gets one (and there would be a LOT of denied applications).    If you say "I'm gonna straighten your ass out," to anyone but a family member, it is assault.  Of course he is a giant man and she is a small child, so it's not only criminal, it's creepy.    I've heard crazier more violent abusive people aplenty, but something is wrong with an adult who thinks a child of humiliated him.  What is wrong with you?  You're supposed to be the adult - go to therapy and accept that it's probaby YOU who is "alienating" Ireland.  You IDIOT.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-8638379820730259741?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/8638379820730259741/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=8638379820730259741' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8638379820730259741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8638379820730259741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/liberation-for-ireland.html' title='Liberation for Ireland'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Ri-eH674zfI/AAAAAAAAAA8/KheDZeQTHvs/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-3220155001450087936</id><published>2007-04-23T09:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T10:12:08.105-07:00</updated><title type='text'>At least one of the Commandments is propaganda</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rizo0hNjsFI/AAAAAAAAAA0/APvDjiUbto8/s1600-h/DeMilleTenCommandmentsDVDcover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rizo0hNjsFI/AAAAAAAAAA0/APvDjiUbto8/s400/DeMilleTenCommandmentsDVDcover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056672470596300882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parents are bigger than childen (for a while anyway), and they have all the rights to control them.  This is a dangerous situation because it means that you have to get lucky and get a nice parent or you're f'ed.   We're all supposed to listen to and obey the 'fathers'.  That's what all the religions say, that's what most parents say, and that's what George Bush wants us to do (with him as the father) and that's what the Supreme Court wants us to do.  Most of them don't want to have to beat us to make us do what they want.  They prefer if we just do it because "they said so."  And this has been true for thousands of years, at least since the ten commandments, which &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;had &lt;/span&gt;to include "honor thy father," because if you didn't say it it wouldn't be obvious because he clearly doesn't deserve it.  Maybe there were some men who were good and wise and people just did honor and respect them and follow their advice, but most of them had to rely on "God" telling everyone to listen to them, and if they didn't they'd go to hell and burn forever in excruciating pain. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know it's tempting to use your bigger size and power to control other people (I do have a younger brother - and I admit to wanting to control him - and using all my advantages to do it - actually he'd tell you all about it, but I have disabled his blog), but a lot of parents one day want their children to take care of them, and they should be nice to them or they'll end up in a really bad nursing home.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-3220155001450087936?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3220155001450087936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=3220155001450087936' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3220155001450087936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3220155001450087936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/at-least-one-of-commandments-is.html' title='At least one of the Commandments is propaganda'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rizo0hNjsFI/AAAAAAAAAA0/APvDjiUbto8/s72-c/DeMilleTenCommandmentsDVDcover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-2828604379081416680</id><published>2007-04-23T09:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T11:01:46.116-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nbc'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Va Tech'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chiild abuse'/><title type='text'>McBeefy Dreams</title><content type='html'>I had a dream last night.  Cho was talking to me.  I made him put down the guns and then I would listen.  He said “what the fuck?  Could I have possibly have been any clearer?  I wrote TWO plays about children being raped and the adults getting away with it and squashing the children.  I said in my note to NBC that this was for the all the kids who were being fucked.  And then I shot a LOT of people to make sure the message got out, and still they can’t imagine what went wrong.  Do they think I was upset cause I didn’t get that puppy when I was six?  What the hell?  If I was alive now, I’d REALLY be frustrated.    I thought I was a martyr for the cause, but I guess it’s going to take an army of children rising up and shooting fuckers for people to understand that you can’t keep fucking the kids and think you’re going to get away with it forever.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I told Cho that he was an idiot and he should’ve just killed perpetrators and then it might’ve been clearer (and a better thing to do, though he still would’ve been punished – like Aileen Wournos).  He said it was everyone’s fault cause they all went along with it and acted like everything was just fine.  I disagreed and he aimed his gun at me.  I roundhouse kicked his hand and the gun went flying.  I have a yellow belt in tae kwon do.   He got mad because it’s a Korean martial art and he didn’t think I should be able to use it on him because I’m not Korean and I don’t eat kimchi.  It wasn’t a good kick, but I had the element of surprise, plus the fact that it was &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;my&lt;/span&gt; dream.  Then I took his guns away and told him he couldn’t shoot anyone else cause he was dead, and that if the FBI statistics are right then he probably shot like ten other people who had been sexually abused as children.  Then he said “I don’t know what you’re talking about, I was never abused.”  And I said “what do you mean? You wrote all about it.” And he said, “yeah, but those were just words, I have no memory of being raped as a kid – in fact I don’t remember anything at all before age ten.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then i woke up.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-2828604379081416680?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/2828604379081416680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=2828604379081416680' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2828604379081416680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2828604379081416680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/mcbeefy-dreams.html' title='McBeefy Dreams'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-3515680646484783213</id><published>2007-04-17T20:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T19:49:36.082-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='school shooting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='domestic violence'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canaries'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mcBeef'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='children'/><title type='text'>Women are canaries</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RiZMYcrizmI/AAAAAAAAAAs/Jx_JtT4tfbU/s1600-h/images.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RiZMYcrizmI/AAAAAAAAAAs/Jx_JtT4tfbU/s400/images.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054811614669360738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is everyone so shocked by the Va Tech shooting?  Some people are angry that he wasn't stopped before he went to the classrooms.  And they should be.  Before killing the 30 people in the classrooms, he was ONLY involved in stalking two women and then killing two people in what they were (and are still) calling a DOMESTIC incident (as opposed to MURDER).  Why do people think that "people" who &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;only&lt;/span&gt; stalk and/or kill women are not dangers to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt; safety?  Aren't women part of the public?   First they kill small animals, then women, and then they go for the real people.  So watch out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I read the shooter's play called "Richard McBeef".  Hmm, I wonder if he was sexually abused.  Hello?!  People really need to stop fucking the children.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-3515680646484783213?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3515680646484783213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=3515680646484783213' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3515680646484783213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3515680646484783213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/women-are-canaries.html' title='Women are canaries'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RiZMYcrizmI/AAAAAAAAAAs/Jx_JtT4tfbU/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-8049105299439541182</id><published>2007-04-17T11:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T19:46:40.467-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bush'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Iraq'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='school shooting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Va Tech'/><title type='text'>Over there</title><content type='html'>"President" Bush is going to Virginia Tech today.  I guess some murders do register with him (at least politically).  I expect he'll suggest that we have to make sure that massive school shootings happen &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;over there&lt;/span&gt; (Iraq) so we don't have to have them here.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-8049105299439541182?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/8049105299439541182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=8049105299439541182' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8049105299439541182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/8049105299439541182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/over-there.html' title='Over there'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-1613750951063739991</id><published>2007-04-16T11:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T19:45:37.932-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Va Tech'/><title type='text'>Yet another one</title><content type='html'>The shooter at the Virginia Tech massacre was a man.  Can you believe that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet another man, who killed a girl - he started out killing out his ex-girlfriend (gee, can't imagine why she'd want to break up with him) - and then killed another 20 or so just cause.  I guess Virginia's not for lovers any more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"President" Bush said "schools should be places of safety, sanctuary and learning," and that people feel violated after an incident like this.   I guess the Iraqis should just say that all their markets and cities and towns and houses are "schools."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-1613750951063739991?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/1613750951063739991/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=1613750951063739991' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1613750951063739991'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/1613750951063739991'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/04/yet-another-one.html' title='Yet another one'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-4462277304892756252</id><published>2007-03-26T14:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T14:29:46.815-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Who put the rat poison in the cat food?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rgg5IQW3GSI/AAAAAAAAAAc/jCePY3AKEFU/s1600-h/images.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rgg5IQW3GSI/AAAAAAAAAAc/jCePY3AKEFU/s320/images.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046346196461230370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Not to mention who put the rat poison in the RAT food?  Why are we still killing things?  Thanks to globalization, now killing on a worldwide scale is much easier.  People who eat cats (and dogs) better beware, or they'll be eating the rat poison too. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the first (and only) time I'm glad my father was too cheap to buy the wet food.   Plus he thinks wheat gluten is a communist plot, and he hopes all the hippies and liberals die from their fake meat.    It's too bad that MenuFoods doesn't cater for the White House, cause I'd like to see a little shake up in the food-chain-of-command.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-4462277304892756252?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/4462277304892756252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=4462277304892756252' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4462277304892756252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/4462277304892756252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/03/who-put-rat-poison-in-cat-food.html' title='Who put the rat poison in the cat food?'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/Rgg5IQW3GSI/AAAAAAAAAAc/jCePY3AKEFU/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-2573273382323509172</id><published>2007-03-14T09:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T09:17:33.390-07:00</updated><title type='text'>PS on the IKEA story</title><content type='html'>I went with my father to return the same rug and they took it back no questions asked, full refund, and didn't "take it in the back to inspect it".  Hmmm.   Still no cinnamon bun.  Dad said mom would smell it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-2573273382323509172?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/2573273382323509172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=2573273382323509172' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2573273382323509172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/2573273382323509172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/03/ps-on-ikea-story.html' title='PS on the IKEA story'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-3115830569005499953</id><published>2007-03-08T16:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-08T16:30:00.452-08:00</updated><title type='text'>more on the missing women</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RfCqd79rE_I/AAAAAAAAAAU/3D4BtRcGwvQ/s1600-h/images.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RfCqd79rE_I/AAAAAAAAAAU/3D4BtRcGwvQ/s320/images.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039715414316880882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, I found something in wikipedia under the subject of "sex ratio".  It seems that unlike China and India where the girls are missing because of infanticide or sex-selected abortions, in the arab countries there is a normal male female ratio from birth to age 15, but after age 15 suddenly there is HUGE drop off of women, suggesting that they are being killed (or maybe just not fed).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is International Women's Day.   Could you please wait til tomorrow to stone your wives and daughters?  Honor killing?  I'd like to engage in a little honor killing to protect my sisters who had the misfortune to be born into male supremacist dictatorships.  I'm going to start selling chocolate bars to raise money to arm the women&lt;img src="file:///Users/elizabethsalkind/Desktop/stoning.jpg" alt="" /&gt; and girls of those countries.  Why not?  Our government and companies armed the men!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-3115830569005499953?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/3115830569005499953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=3115830569005499953' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3115830569005499953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/3115830569005499953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/03/more-on-missing-women.html' title='more on the missing women'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RfCqd79rE_I/AAAAAAAAAAU/3D4BtRcGwvQ/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-9223041996963418311</id><published>2007-03-08T11:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-08T11:35:37.196-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Raccoon Noises Fixed</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RfBlb79rE-I/AAAAAAAAAAM/T69Rz4j4MYI/s1600-h/baby+raccoon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RfBlb79rE-I/AAAAAAAAAAM/T69Rz4j4MYI/s320/baby+raccoon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039639513654825954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;minor technical note.  i fixed the sound links to the raccoon noises on the "More on the War" post.  It's worth a visit.  they're very cute.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-9223041996963418311?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/9223041996963418311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=9223041996963418311' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/9223041996963418311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/9223041996963418311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/03/raccoon-noises-fixed.html' title='Raccoon Noises Fixed'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D3PBi1l37H0/RfBlb79rE-I/AAAAAAAAAAM/T69Rz4j4MYI/s72-c/baby+raccoon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-721292667541462671</id><published>2007-03-07T17:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-08T10:34:08.277-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='muslim'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='missing girls'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IKEA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='middle east'/><title type='text'>A perfect storm</title><content type='html'>We had a little incident at a store yesterday.  It was early afternoon and my mom hadn’t eaten anything and she hadn’t taken her meds (that the drug companies claim are not habit-forming, but trust me, she’s addicted), and she had her receipt and attempted to return a rug that she bought three weeks ago – at IKEA.  They took the rug in the back and then after a half hour came back, said they’d checked it out and it was used so they’d only take it back at a 40% discount.  Mom was furious (this was not her first IKEA returns problem – they make it almost impossible to return anything).  After things escalated and they called security, she threw the rug back in the cart and left saying “your father will have to return this and we are now boycotting IKEA – forever.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a little scary to see my mom lose it like that, but I have to admit a certain thrill in having security called on her.  Unfortunately I did not get my cinnamon bun as we were going to get them after the return, and got caught up in the boycott.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m actually surprise that women aren’t throwing fits of rage ALL the time.    I’ve heard a lot about how girl babies are killed in China and India because they value boys more, but while I was doing a book report I came across a chart in a book (The Economist Pocket World in Figures 2006 Edition.)   This chart is called “Most Male Populations”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Number of males per 100 females&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  United Arab Emirates          214&lt;br /&gt;2. Qatar                                                                   206&lt;br /&gt;3. Kuwait                                                               150&lt;br /&gt;4. Bahrain                                                            132&lt;br /&gt;5. Oman                                                                   128&lt;br /&gt;6. Saudi Arabia                                           117&lt;br /&gt;7.Greenland                                                      113&lt;br /&gt;8. Jordan                                                               108&lt;br /&gt;9. Afghanistan                                              107&lt;br /&gt;    Andorra                                                             107&lt;br /&gt;    Brunei                                                                   107&lt;br /&gt;    Faroe Islands                                           107&lt;br /&gt;    Libya                                                                       107&lt;br /&gt;14. China                                                                  106&lt;br /&gt;    Pakistan                                                          106&lt;br /&gt;    Papua New Guinea                      106&lt;br /&gt;17. French Polynesia                          105&lt;br /&gt;    Guinea                                                                105&lt;br /&gt;    India                                                                       105&lt;br /&gt;    New Caledonia                                    105&lt;br /&gt;    Niger                                                                      105&lt;br /&gt;    Taiwan                                                                105&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don’t know what’s going on in Greenland, but aside from them, all the top ones are arab or middle-eastern (and muslim), and the numbers are WAY higher than china.  China is 106:100.  United Arab Emirates is 214:100!  Where did all the girls go?  And if the slaughter of the females isn’t enough for you, why hasn’t anyone talked about maybe this is why all the men are so angry and violent in the middle east.   And of course the rich and powerful men have lots of wives leaving even fewer for the rest, and homosexuals are executed, so how is this Israel’s fault?   I’m not saying the men are mad because they don’t get women, but how can you have a peaceful society when you have that much testosterone in the population and no one to tell them to go to their rooms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we watch the news about the middle east I always wonder why they only ever talk with men and we almost always only see men on the TV, but now I know it’s because there AREN’T any women.  How could this be and no one talks about it?   The US defended Kuwait, and though people talked about how the women weren’t allowed to drive, why didn’t they talk about how they weren’t allowed to live?  And Qatar (206:100), aren’t they our “allies”, and Saudi Arabia?  Someone’s got a LOT of explaining to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS.  I checked out Andorra, and it’s a tiny European country and they live forever, so the 110 year old men are skewing things, and there aren’t very many people there (71,000).  And the Faroe Island (pop 48,000) are some islands off of Denmark, and I guess the women chose the mainland over the sheep and fishermen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPS.  I hope people comment on this one, because I’d really like to know where the girls went and what could be done about this.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-721292667541462671?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/721292667541462671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=721292667541462671' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/721292667541462671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/721292667541462671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/03/perfect-storm.html' title='A perfect storm'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-117096352184358412</id><published>2007-02-08T11:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-08T13:08:59.520-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Man Code</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/1600/925451/codes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/320/492399/codes.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently SF Mayor Gavin Newsom broke the "man code."   That's what it said in the paper.  I knew they had one, I just didn't think they'd admit it in public like that.  &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;I'd&lt;/span&gt; like to break the man code.  It's something like the DaVinci code, except it has to do with not touching each other's "property."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was another violation last weekend when two men kissed over a snickers bar.  They freaked out and in some versions of the ad got violent, and this upset some people.  I guess no one noticed that the whole Superbowl is about men touching each other and breaking each other's bones.   I think all the football players who have been convicted of domestic violence should have to play without padding.  That would &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;really&lt;/span&gt; break the man code, but I'd pay per view that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-117096352184358412?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/117096352184358412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=117096352184358412' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/117096352184358412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/117096352184358412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/02/man-code.html' title='The Man Code'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-117017690540221793</id><published>2007-01-30T08:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-30T09:08:25.510-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Check the other 7th graders for stubble</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/1600/987873/1_61_011907_sexoffender1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/200/167131/1_61_011907_sexoffender1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the exception of the teachers and the administrators and the custodial staff and the other adults at school, I used to think we were safe at school.  Of course students do assault each other--and more often than anyone knows--but now I'm gonna have to ask all the kids I play with for two forms of ID.  What if this "student" tried to infiltrate my Girl Scout Troop -- though the only boy we let in is Hector, cause he's my friend and his mom is one of the troop leaders, and he's small so I could take him if I needed to, and he's way cool anyway, but HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;PHOENIX - A convicted sex offender attended at least two Arizona middle schools, sat through seventh-grade courses and turned in homework as he moved around the state pretending to be 12 years old, officials say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Authorities in Yavapai County have accused Neil Havens Rodreick II, who is really 29, of assaulting a girl.&lt;/blockquote&gt; He went to at least TWO schools.  And at the time he was living with a 61 year old man who thought he was having sex with a 12 year-old (so &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;he&lt;/span&gt; should be convicted too even though his 12 year-old is really 29).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and get this, he got kicked out for poor attendance! Not for being an adult child molester.  I wonder if they would've even caught him if he wore a fox costume to school and asked all the other kids to put on the chicken outfits.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-117017690540221793?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/117017690540221793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=117017690540221793' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/117017690540221793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/117017690540221793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/01/check-other-7th-graders-for-stubble.html' title='Check the other 7th graders for stubble'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-116959246330422626</id><published>2007-01-23T14:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-23T16:34:19.406-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The LA Weekly sells flesh</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/1600/347471/LAW_Section-Logo_Generic.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/320/663235/LAW_Section-Logo_Generic.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All these papers that think they are so progressive and do exposes of businesses and politicians (especially right wing ones) and talk about freedom and liberation actually make all their money pimping.  Look at the pages and pages of girls and women for sale in the back.  And a naked massage is not therapy.   And then there's the ads that are trying to make all the women who don't have pimps into whores too (except more voluntarily and for free).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;LA WEEKLY advertorial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Heart &amp; Pole&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trina Lance bringings [sic] her unique blend of humor and sensuality to this class that is truly designed for women from 18-30.  This class teaches you classic pole moves and reconnects you to your feminine power. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, first of all, "truly" designed? As opposed to "not really" designed for women 18-30 (instead it's truly for women 0-17 and 31-99).  And "classic" pole moves?  Is that like "classic" Christian rock?  To reconnect me with my FEMININE POWER????  I think Hilary in the White House is real Feminine Power.  Humping a pole so some man can believe you would want to do that to him is NOT power.  You're humping a pole with a piece of floss stuck in your butt.  Most of the women who pole dance didn't have the option of being a Senator or the President, but don't try to sell this to us as some kind of liberation.  1984 is OVER, you pimps.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-116959246330422626?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/116959246330422626/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=116959246330422626' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116959246330422626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116959246330422626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/01/la-weekly-sells-flesh.html' title='The LA Weekly sells flesh'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-116934220037987767</id><published>2007-01-20T17:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-20T17:59:08.860-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Now you can wear Ethel's Law</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/1600/846767/Ethel%20tshirt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/200/701156/Ethel%20tshirt.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you can join me in my children's civil rights movement by buying and wearing my stuff.  There's a link on the left where it says "links."  or you can link right here:  &lt;a href="http://www.cafepress.com/ethelslaw"&gt;Ethel's Merch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-116934220037987767?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/116934220037987767/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=116934220037987767' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116934220037987767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116934220037987767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/01/now-you-can-wear-ethels-law.html' title='Now you can wear Ethel&apos;s Law'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-116931758901432702</id><published>2007-01-20T09:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-10T18:43:49.816-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Gloves Are Off</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.adoptionblogs.com/media/Crying%20baby%20boy_01.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://www.adoptionblogs.com/media/Crying%20baby%20boy_01.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A CA state legislator named Sally Lieber is trying to pass a law that says you can't spank (beat) a child under 4 years old.  And people are publicly whining about this!  It just goes to further make my point that children are slaves.  'Parental rights' are about owning your 'property', and if you want to wreck or destroy or sell your property, then who is the government to tell you not to.  Here's an example of a proud owner:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The day that the [government] gives birth to my children, then they have a right to raise them," wrote Esther. "Till then they are mine to do with as I please. I will raise them the way I see fit. If I think that those little butts need a swat … I will be the one to give it to them."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just because you got drunk and pregnant doesn't give you the right to own the poor creature who had to come through your body to get here.  You don't get to grow your own victim.  [And you should think about how you treat your kids if you don't want to get smothered in your nursing home bed!]&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;At one time we had a civil war because some people wanted to be allowed to own other people, and some people thought that that was wrong. It's time for another civil war.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-116931758901432702?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/116931758901432702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=116931758901432702' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116931758901432702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116931758901432702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/01/gloves-are-off.html' title='The Gloves Are Off'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-116905404105001300</id><published>2007-01-17T08:51:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T09:14:01.060-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Get out of the cult you idiots</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/1600/693449/lucyspups_mutts02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/320/596956/lucyspups_mutts02.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some Jehovah's witnesses had a litter of babies and of course the babies were premature and now they need blood transfusions but the freak parents won't let them because the bible says they can not eat blood.  First of all, JWs are not vegetarians, so they're total hypocrites - &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; flesh eaters (cannibals in my book).  And people don't eat transfusions --they get them through a shot.  And these idiots who won't eat blood, apparently eat fertility drugs (like candy).  God didn't want you to have any babies - that's why you were infertile!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-116905404105001300?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/116905404105001300/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=116905404105001300' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116905404105001300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116905404105001300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/01/get-out-of-cult-you-idiots_17.html' title='Get out of the cult you idiots'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-116900111758009269</id><published>2007-01-16T18:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T07:21:37.196-08:00</updated><title type='text'>More Dignified Killings please</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/1600/344721/capt.sge.ite20.160107195759.photo02.photo.default-365x512.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/320/768090/capt.sge.ite20.160107195759.photo02.photo.default-365x512.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/1600/787475/240-T.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/320/726329/240-T.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Iraq they executed two more of Saddam's gang, and when they hung one of them his head fell off.  Condoleeza said that she wished it would've been more dignified.  Maybe everyone should've been wearing tuxedos at the event.  Keep your heads on people!  Otherwise it's so gross and disturbing that it might make people think the death penalty is not a giant step forward toward democracy.  But I guess if the majority of people vote for heads to fall off then it &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; democratic (though I don't think the people who's heads would fall off would agree.)  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe next time they could use some kind of tape or something so they don't have this problem.  My dad has some extra duct tape from when the government told us how to protect ourselves during the orange alert.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-116900111758009269?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/116900111758009269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=116900111758009269' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116900111758009269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116900111758009269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/01/more-dignified-killings-please.html' title='More Dignified Killings please'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-116865290426490338</id><published>2007-01-12T17:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-10T18:48:54.956-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Some children SHOULD be left behind</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/1600/576242/4974-309766-d.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1824/957/320/232808/4974-309766-d.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am of course referring to the "President."   Things are going badly so he wants to do  more of the same.  And now they are having such a hard time finding troops that they are sending army men into the elementary schools to try to tell us how great a job it is so we'll sign up the second we're old enough  (and in the meantime sign up for army email and start playing their videogames).    I think we should be able to vote a few times before we have to go fight for some idiot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    I've started a petition to ask my public school to start teaching shoemaking, cause it's pretty clear that in a few years China is going to call in our debt and then we're going to be making THEIR shoes.  I think that will be easier for more Americans than learning Chinese.   Chinese is a lot harder than Spanish, and even though we practically live in Mexico, I don't know very many "Americans" who can say much more than "por favor, limpia mi casa ahora."   It would be nice if my classmates would go to college and learn how to be world citizens (as opposed to drunken idiots on Spring break), but I think we'll be leaving most of them to poverty and worse if we don't at least teach shoe-making.  I'm not excluding myself either.  I want to know how to make a nice oxford (from naugahyde - not real animals).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-116865290426490338?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/116865290426490338/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=116865290426490338' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116865290426490338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116865290426490338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2007/01/some-children-should-be-left-behind.html' title='Some children SHOULD be left behind'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-116483224181273629</id><published>2006-11-29T11:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-05T10:08:38.960-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm Back</title><content type='html'>Sorry about my absence -- both for my fans and my enemies.  I just got out of rehab.  Not really, but that's my story.  Well it's sort of true.  I got "diagnosed" and given Ritalin, which would be fine if I was past puberty and could enjoy it for recreation, but at my age, it's like thorazine.  Of course I stopped taking it (and am hiding my growing stash of pills for future projects).  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course there's nothing wrong with me.  It's the rest of the world that needs to be medicated.  Just because I noticed the pattern of attacks on girls and thought we should protect ourselves, I get labeled sick.  But the men who rape and shoot the girls, well, they're just boys gotten a little out of control.  Of course they do always shoot themselves afterward.  But why don't they ever shoot themselves first?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For my part I refuse to explain ANY of my behavior (they accused me of "incitement") by saying I had a drug problem -- or a lack-of-drugs problem -- because there is nothing wrong with my behavior.  I am the only rational one around.  I'm tired of everyone blaming their sicko behavior on alcohol, like that idiot Foley.  "Oh, yeah, I'm an alcoholic and I'm going to rehab now."  That was very confusing, cause Mel led us all to believe that alcoholism causes anti-semitism, not pedophilia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I gotta go back to class now, but I'll be back later.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-116483224181273629?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/116483224181273629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=116483224181273629' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116483224181273629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116483224181273629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/11/im-back.html' title='I&apos;m Back'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-116009863305625590</id><published>2006-10-05T18:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-02-10T18:57:32.710-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The PLAN</title><content type='html'>In light of the terrorism against girls (i.e. boys and men shooting schoolgirls), and the unlikelihood that girls will be armed and trained to shoot, we feel there is no alternative than for all girls to boycott school until there is a war on the terror against us.   Schools are unsafe and we will not go to our slaughter when they ring the school bells.  DO NOT GO TO SCHOOL.  Instead, girls are urged to meet with each other in girl scout troops or other girls organizations and plan for protecting ourselves.  If not now, then when?   If not us, then who?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-116009863305625590?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/116009863305625590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=116009863305625590' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116009863305625590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/116009863305625590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/10/plan.html' title='The PLAN'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115991639362898807</id><published>2006-10-03T15:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-03T15:59:53.630-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/realms_tough_girls.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/400/realms_tough_girls.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115991639362898807?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115991639362898807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115991639362898807' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115991639362898807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115991639362898807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115991604610987931</id><published>2006-10-03T15:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-03T17:57:38.393-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Emergency Session</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/nl%20186b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/400/nl%20186b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me and my girl scout troop are in an emergency session given that it's now open season on school girls.  I'll be back to the blog soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, enjoy Henry Darger's painting of girls with guns.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115991604610987931?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115991604610987931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115991604610987931' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115991604610987931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115991604610987931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/10/emergency-session.html' title='Emergency Session'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115956482735307060</id><published>2006-09-29T14:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T14:25:49.780-07:00</updated><title type='text'>(un)Holy Foley</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Foley.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/400/Foley.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) planned to resign today, hours after ABC questioned him about sexually explicit internet messages with current and former Congressional pages under the age of 18."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Foley was chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And why are there NO missing or exploited children in the missing and exploited children's caucus?  Is the purpose of the committee for the Congressmen/pedophiles to trade tips?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They tell us we're supposed to tell.  But I don't think we should tell THEM, we should tell the children's militias, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;which need to start forming&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115956482735307060?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115956482735307060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115956482735307060' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115956482735307060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115956482735307060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/09/unholy-foley.html' title='(un)Holy Foley'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115946543509710145</id><published>2006-09-28T10:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-29T09:28:37.586-07:00</updated><title type='text'>And You Thought Barbie Was Bad</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/babydoll2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/320/babydoll2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/anatomical%20baby%20doll.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/320/anatomical%20baby%20doll.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, here's what I found in the news today:&lt;br /&gt;"agents discovered several "inflated, anatomically-correct child sexual dolls, which were dressed as children .... During the ICE raid, List, a hospital employee, told agents that he had dressed the inflatable dolls himself."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It didn't say how he dressed the dolls, and I'm not sure which I find more disturbing: garanimals or a JonBenet outfit.  Dolls are for children you sicko.  I'm glad he didn't have dressed-up anatomically-correct stuffed animals, though, cause then I could never look at Flopsie the same.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115946543509710145?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115946543509710145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115946543509710145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115946543509710145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115946543509710145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/09/and-you-thought-barbie-was-bad.html' title='And You Thought Barbie Was Bad'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115801472732196335</id><published>2006-09-11T14:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-01-18T14:25:23.980-08:00</updated><title type='text'>dirty old sperm</title><content type='html'>They finally figured out that it's old man sperm that is causing all the autistic children (boys).   I don't even want to think about this, because it's gross, and I'm ten and should know nothing about it, but I have to go to school with these boys, who are becoming as popular (common -- not popular as in cool and everyone wants to be their friend) as twins and triplets and quintuplets.  You can get viagra and ditch your wife for a younger woman, but don't think you can have a second family that will turn out better.  Meanwhile it's the old eggs that lead to Downe's syndrome, and young parents don't know what the hell they're doing, so NO ONE should be having children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile they (you know they - the ones who control everything, who have all the money and make the decisions) are selling padded bras to little girls - in size 6! -- as in for a SIX YEAR OLD (which size I still wear, but that's cause I'm small -- failure to thrive).   What is wrong with them?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115801472732196335?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115801472732196335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115801472732196335' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115801472732196335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115801472732196335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/09/dirty-old-sperm.html' title='dirty old sperm'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115646202618091725</id><published>2006-08-24T15:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-06T11:40:51.816-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pluto Out, JonBenet In</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/pluto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/320/pluto.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pluto is not a planet anymore.  &lt;br /&gt;They changed the definition.&lt;br /&gt;But JonBenet is still dead.  she was still murdered - and raped - they haven't changed the definition of that yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/jonbenet2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/400/jonbenet2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/jonben-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/400/jonben-5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice the bruise near her right elbow.   You can't teach children "good and bad touch" and to just say "NO" to the bad touch, because no one ever asks them if they want to be touched, and even if they say no, what giant person who owns them is going to listen?  JonBenet might have liked being on stage, cause no one could rape her without witnesses there, but I think it's pretty obvious that her parents just made her a "Beauty queen" so they could charge more for her to the pedophiles and child pornographers who were their friend.  YES, Mr. Karr was their friend.  The billions of dollars people are making exploiting her even ten years after she was killed should go to arming children so they could back up their "NO - that is bad touch" statements. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;By the way, Hector has pointed out that if JonBenet was brown or black - or even dark-haired, we would never even know about her.  And what kind of name is JonBenet anyway?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115646202618091725?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115646202618091725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115646202618091725' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115646202618091725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115646202618091725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/08/pluto-out-jonbenet-in.html' title='Pluto Out, JonBenet In'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115516732914853960</id><published>2006-08-09T16:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-02-10T19:07:04.900-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Everybody to the principal's office.  Now.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/oil%20fire.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/320/oil%20fire.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the people who start the wars and keep them going should be grounded.  Someone hit an oil factory in the middle east and now there's a big oil spill and a fire.  It's already over a hundred degrees in the desert (which is swallowing the whole earth).  We don't need any more fires.  What is wrong with them?!?!?&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;But, trees that took 200 years to grow take us like 2 hours to burn, so I guess we are making progress.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115516732914853960?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115516732914853960/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115516732914853960' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115516732914853960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115516732914853960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/08/everybody-to-principals-office-now.html' title='Everybody to the principal&apos;s office.  Now.'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115445991691817855</id><published>2006-08-01T12:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-09T23:41:05.943-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. Apocalypto Just Drunk?</title><content type='html'>Mel Gibson, the producer of a traumatizing snuff movie that lots of Christian children were forced to see as a family outing, says he was 'just drunk' when he went on his little Nazi ventfest.  I've heard this same excuse from wife-beaters and child-rapists.  My dad gets drunk sometimes, and he's the same idiot as usual, just louder.  He doesn't suddently try to rape a child or blame a Jew.  So what is that?  And what is wrong with those idiots in Hollywood to say he just needs to go to Betty Ford?  Betty Ford should refuse to let him in.  He'll just make all the other drunk people there start drinking again.  What happened to Mel when he was a child?  And ABC wants him to do a mini-series about the holocaust?  I think it's going to be a VERY MINI series, like 30 seconds - which should be enough to say that it never happened.   It is a DISNEY channel after all.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115445991691817855?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115445991691817855/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115445991691817855' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115445991691817855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115445991691817855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/08/mr-apocalypto-just-drunk.html' title='Mr. Apocalypto Just Drunk?'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115402047376432495</id><published>2006-07-27T10:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-27T10:15:05.553-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Technical note</title><content type='html'>I figured out how to make links in here, so the links to the raccoon sounds are fixed in the "More on the War" blog (June 11).  I especially love the sound the 'sow'(the mother - she's not a pig) makes.  I like to listen to it over and over (it's short), which drives the rest of my family crazy, but I like it.  It sounds like a big happy cat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115402047376432495?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115402047376432495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115402047376432495' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115402047376432495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115402047376432495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/07/technical-note.html' title='Technical note'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115395682321594619</id><published>2006-07-26T16:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-27T06:42:57.490-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Salamander in Chief</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/bush-merkel-backrub4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/320/bush-merkel-backrub4.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How can "president" Bush even understand what a signing statment is?  he's an idiot! and we have almost three more years of him (if we survive it).   He's stupid. Now that the whole country is roasting and people are dying, he's trying to dismiss it all as just a publicity stunt by Al Gore.  It's a good one if it is.  And even if people don't want to hear what he has to say, at least his movie shows in air-conditioned theatres, which probably adds to the global warming, but maybe people will go home and turn off their A/C.  "Governer" Arnold (who is short like me, by the way) told us we should keep our thermostats at 78 degrees.  I find it hard to believe that he has HIS thermostat that high.  But if he does, please don't put him on TV.  I don't want to have to see his disgusting sweaty, steroidy, sexual-harrassing, body.   And speaking of sexual harassment, I'd like to see Bush take his skeevy hands off of the German President and do the same thing to his little buddy Tony Blair.  I know he probably has already, but I mean in PUBLIC!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115395682321594619?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115395682321594619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115395682321594619' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115395682321594619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115395682321594619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/07/salamander-in-chief.html' title='The Salamander in Chief'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115363275544222464</id><published>2006-07-22T22:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-23T07:10:14.066-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Is it hot enough for you?</title><content type='html'>Even the atheists are starting to believe in hell -- and it's here on earth (like the Jews say).  Lucky for me I live in Orange Countty, where everything is air-conditioned (though not OVER air-conditioned like NY office buildings -- so hairy, sweaty men can still wear their 3-piece wool suits -- idiots!)  I feel sorry for people in Europe and New England who are still stuck in the old-days of the occasional two or three day heat wave.  Is it a heat wave if it lasts for months?  I think is's more of a heat tsunami.  Katrina's going to look like the little sister of the monsters that are coming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know what it was like in the "normal" times that the adults still believe are normal and that we'll be getting back to any minute, but I can say that as long as I can remember it's HOT,  VERY HOT, and it's getting worse.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;whatever trees are left are going to have to start breathing a lot more heavily.  So people better get over their "a man and a woman"  "missionary position only" sexual prejudices and hope that some of those tree-huggers move on to heavy petting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115363275544222464?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115363275544222464/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115363275544222464' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115363275544222464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115363275544222464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/07/is-it-hot-enough-for-you.html' title='Is it hot enough for you?'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115282862205619800</id><published>2006-07-13T14:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-13T15:54:38.036-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ENDLESS SUMMER</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/images.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/200/images.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know why people think that summer is so much fun.  It's more like hell if you ask me.  It's hot.  Very hot.  Too hot.  I know it's wrong but sometimes I have to go stick my face in the freezer.   I want the remaining glacier(s) to melt and the cold water to come turn my bed into a float.  Not really, just in my fantasy (a real fantasy - as opposed to pervert fantasies which are not really fantasies because they really happen.)   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also hate summer because I don't get to see all my friends at school, and I have to spend more time with my brothers who unfortunately are not incapacitated by the torturous heat.  People misbehave in the heat--there are more murders.   My cat Kevin has been trying to rape our other cat Jamal, and my idiot brothers just point at him and say "Kevin's a faggot!  Kevin's a faggot!"   I don't care if he's gay.  He's a RAPIST!  Jamal clearly doesn't want him to do it.  He cries and tries to get up.   I yell at Kevin and he looks at me like he doesn't understand, so I have to pick him up and take him off poor Jammy.   It must be because he's in captivity, but if I let him out, he'll get run over by some idiot in an SUV, so what am I supposed to do?  They're both neutered, but I think my brothers let Kevin watch the Discovery channel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't wait til I can go back to school, where the girls do well, and the boys do nothing - because they DON'T HAVE TO, BECAUSE THEY GET ALL THE JOBS AND THE MONEY AND THE PROPERTY ANYWAY!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115282862205619800?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115282862205619800/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115282862205619800' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115282862205619800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115282862205619800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/07/endless-summer.html' title='ENDLESS SUMMER'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115197633445972391</id><published>2006-07-03T18:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-08T16:24:31.060-07:00</updated><title type='text'>England hates this holiday</title><content type='html'>Yet another holiday that involves burning animal parts in the backyard.   I am all for independence day, and I like to blow things up as much as the next ten year old (which is a LOT), but I don't want to go to the town park with my family and watch a lame firework display that upsets all the dogs and babies. (The best part is the accidental (every year?) brush fire afterward.)  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would rather get together with other children to declare our independence and target our oppressors.  I'd like to put some fireworks in Mr. Chudgewhistle's stretch pants.  He's the fifth grade science teacher who's always trying to get the girls to fish the candy corns out of his pockets.   Then I might want to go after the senior citizens who are stealing all of our money.  They get free health care even if they're rich, but not all kids do, and they get much more money than schools because they vote and whine and all the politicians are afraid not to give them whatever they want.  Us children on the other hand, are FORBIDDEN to vote.   We have no say in our government.  Wasn't that the reason American rebelled and became an emancipated minor????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fireworks are dangerous, and sometimes things that aren't supposed to accidentally catch fire.  And I just hope that when the kabooms go off I'm not anywhere near any of the Iraq war vets, cause they might mistake me for a ten year old Iraqi girl.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115197633445972391?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115197633445972391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115197633445972391' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115197633445972391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115197633445972391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/07/england-hates-this-holiday.html' title='England hates this holiday'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115058535113746143</id><published>2006-06-17T16:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-02-10T19:22:29.350-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Which day exactly ISN’T fathers’ Day?</title><content type='html'>Which day exactly ISN’T fathers’ Day?   They all are.  Children are still their property all over the world.    Priests are called Father.  God is called the Father.  And one of the ten commandments is ‘honor thy father’.   Why?  Because we have to be told to do it, because he certainly doesn’t earn it.  It’s a racket I tell you.  What if your father is a mean bastard?  The holiday acts like all fathers are good – just because they are fathers  (and we all know what they did to become that – not very much, and it usually involves alcohol and tricking a woman).  We’re supposed to buy them things, like BBQ tools so they can cook in the only way they will – which is to burn dead animals outside, and poke at it with long metal sticks.    If the fathers want a day to celebrate themselves, then they better start honoring us children, and treating us REALLY well, or Father’s Day is going to get ugly.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;PS.  If you’re one of the good fathers (i.e. benevolent dictator) then I’m probably not referring to you, and I don’t want to hear you whine about my statements.  Police your own, and then we won’t have to talk about it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115058535113746143?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115058535113746143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115058535113746143' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115058535113746143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115058535113746143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/06/which-day-exactly-isnt-fathers-day.html' title='Which day exactly ISN’T fathers’ Day?'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115040952066572614</id><published>2006-06-15T15:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T15:15:06.996-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CUBA</title><content type='html'>There's a lof of talk these days about Guantanamo, and most of it's not good: force feedings, torture, "suicides" (aka asymetric warfare - yeah, one side has all the guns and runs the prison, and the other one gets to hang themselves with sheets).  Um, Guantamo is in CUBA!!!!!  And we officially HATE Cuba, and we're not allowed to even go visit there.   How is it that we have a prison and a big army base there?  How can we pretend that Cuba is a threat, when we have an army and prisoners in their backyard, and they can't do anything about it?   Aren't we Cuba's illegal immigrants?  And if the army can be there, then why can't I go to Havana and smoke a cigar (I mean aside from that I'm ten, and I don't smoke, and the smell of cigars make me want to vomit)?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115040952066572614?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115040952066572614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115040952066572614' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115040952066572614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115040952066572614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/06/cuba.html' title='CUBA'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115022167020766030</id><published>2006-06-13T10:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T15:16:50.363-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Excuse me, but she's NOT an orphan</title><content type='html'>There's an eleven year old girl in Palestine named Huda Ghaliya, who's father and siblings (and father's other wife) died in an explosion on the beach.   This is awful, and we should all be outraged at this and all other senseless acts of violence.   Now, the two Palestinian factions are fighting over who will get to adopt her.  I thought that was wierd enough, cause I'm pretty sure there are plenty of orphans to go around.  But then I found out that she's not really an orphan at all.  SHE HAS A MOTHER, but Palestinians consider a fatherless child to be an orphan.  What is wrong with them???   I realize people have different beliefs--I have two parents and consider myself an orphan, but I don't expect anyone else to.  And I don't see any politicians lining up to adopt me.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If a fatherless child is considered an orphan, then if the Palistinians really cared about children then each woman would have extra husbands, so if one died the children wouldn't have to be orphans.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It should be up to Huda to decide if she wants to be an orphan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11675200-115022167020766030?l=ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/feeds/115022167020766030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11675200&amp;postID=115022167020766030' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115022167020766030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/11675200/posts/default/115022167020766030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ethelspiliotes.blogspot.com/2006/06/excuse-me-but-shes-not-orphan.html' title='Excuse me, but she&apos;s NOT an orphan'/><author><name>Ethel Spiliotes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14061920601988803122</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1824/957/1600/Ethel%20tiny.0.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11675200.post-115004799832595019</id><published>2006-06-11T10:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T12:39:59.617-08:00</updated><title type='text'>More on the War</title><content type='html'>Okay, I do have to deal with the fact that I am living with murderous people who want to kill other creatures, and I’ll get to that when the crisis is over.  For now I have to save the animals.   I went to retrieve the poison and throw it away, and I discovered that they are not eating the poison.   My family is freaking out, because they are making so much noise that it sounds like there are hundreds of them.  But today I figured out that it’s not rats, but raccoons, and I can prove it, because they were making &lt;a href="http://www.sound-effect.com/sounds1/animal/Treeanimals/raccoon1.wav"&gt;raccoon noises&lt;/a&gt;.  That’s the mother – and she has some babies.   This is the sound the babies make: &lt;a href="http://www.sound-effect.com/sounds1/animal/Treeanimals/raccoon2.wav"&gt;babies&lt;/a&gt;.  So I found this on the web to prove to all these idiots that it’s wild animals, and not rats, and and you’re not allowed to kill wild animals.   And so now they want to put in one way doors so when they leave they can’t come back.  Two problems.  One is that if the mother leaves, the babies will die in the walls.  The other problem is probably a blessing, and that is that the pest men are such slackers that they probably won’t find where the raccoons come it, plus even if they do, the raccoons will find another way, cause they’re very smart.   I’m trying to make them wait for the babies to grow up enough to leave with their mother.  I’ll keep you posted on that effort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you use the links I made to the raccoon noises, please know that I did not google hunting aids, and it is a hunting site -- which I don’t’ understand, because why do hunters need to know what raccoons sound like?  Or lots of the other animals on there?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s the weekend now, so the animals are safe from the killers, and hopefully they have not eaten any of the poison that is supposed to only kill rats.  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