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Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz... You Are a Bette!
You are a Bette -- "I must be strong" Bettes are direct, self-reliant, self-confident, and protective. How to Get Along with Me
- * Stand up for yourself... and me.
- * Be confident, strong, and direct.
- * Don't gossip about me or betray my trust.
- * Be vulnerable and share your feelings. See and acknowledge my tender, vulnerable side.
- * Give me space to be alone.
- * Acknowledge the contributions I make, but don't flatter me.
- * I often speak in an assertive way. Don't automatically assume it's a personal attack.
- * When I scream, curse, and stomp around, try to remember that's just the way I am.
What I Like About Being a Bette
- * being independent and self-reliant
- * being able to take charge and meet challenges head on
- * being courageous, straightforward, and honest
- * getting all the enjoyment I can out of life
- * supporting, empowering, and protecting those close to me
- * upholding just causes
What's Hard About Being a Bette
- * overwhelming people with my bluntness; scaring them away when I don't intend to
- * being restless and impatient with others' incompetence
- * sticking my neck out for people and receiving no appreciation for it
- * never forgetting injuries or injustices
- * putting too much pressure on myself
- * getting high blood pressure when people don't obey the rules or when things don't go right
Bettes as Children Often
- * are independent; have an inner strength and a fighting spirit
- * are sometimes loners
- * seize control so they won't be controlled
- * figure out others' weaknesses
- * attack verbally or physically when provoked
- * take charge in the family because they perceive themselves as the strongest, or grow up in difficult or abusive surroundings
Bettes as Parents
- * are often loyal, caring, involved, and devoted
- * are sometimes overprotective
- * can be demanding, controlling, and rigid
Take Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz at HelloQuizzy
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Oct 4, 08 at 12:43pm] |
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nacho_cheese posted a vid from Huffington Post... which led me to reading a seperate article on how JMC could still win. it's really interesting & idk if any of you have seen this article or read it yet. i'd like to see what you think of it..
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin discussing when she would deploy "nucular weaponry," the "be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet," as she put it in last night's vice presidential debate. She never actually answers the question.
So, you think it looks really good for Barack Obama. Well, maybe so. After all, the economy is in the tank, he's moving ahead in battleground states, John McCain has backed off his big attempt to win Michigan (where Obama never campaigned in the primary and which, until recently, had a disgraced African American mayor of one of America's most dysfunctional big cities). Sarah Palin, though she didn't further humiliate herself in last night's debate, clearly lost to Joe Biden. Oh, and the economy is in the dumper, credit markets are locked down, and McCain is tightly tied to the administration which not only mismanaged the US economy but also not one, but two wars.
And yet, Barack Obama can still lose this election. Though I'm not planning to head over to Vegas to shoot craps (John McCain's favorite), or indulge in any other form of gambling on that deal.
Here are 12 key reasons why this is still not over.
** Steve Schmidt is Mike Martz. John McCain's campaign director, the sort of Karl Rove acolyte who doesn't like that notion, though he ran the Bush/Cheney war room in 2004, who I know very well from his turnaround management of Arnold Schwarzenegger's landslide 2006 re-election as California's governor. He is the national political equivalent -- at least in this crazy race -- of the NFL coach Mike Martz. "Mad Mike," as he's known, was the master of the hurry-up-offense and the trick play as the coach of the "Greatest Show On Turf," the famed St. Louis Rams offense of the late '90s and early part of this decade. I won't bore you with football talk, or the details of what actually underlies what Schmidt is up to -- something I discussed with him at length two years ago called "the Boyd Cycle," a theory of warfare developed by retired Air Force Colonel John Boyd that is focused on a series of very rapid analyses and disorienting moves-- but suffice it to say that McCain was dead in the water when Schmidt took over three months ago and then bedeviled Obama constantly until the present financial fiasco. The one other thing I'll say about the Mike Martz offense is that all its inherent risk-taking allows an aggressive opponent to sack the quarterback on a regular basis.
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Sep 18, 08 at 1:14am] |
this video.. made me cry. it brought tears to my eyes [i'm sorry Jen & Ash, i don't have the text to it atm but if you'd like it, i'll type it up for you]
the speech that begins at 4:36, here's the full version of it:
( the text to the speech )
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Sep 4, 08 at 2:22am] |
first off: this is xposted out the yin yang.
secondly: to the comm's non-politically-related.... this isn't to spark a debate. this is just who i like & decided to make icons/bases of =)
so i went onto Flickr awhile back & saved a huge amount of photos from the Obama campaign. & have just now got around to making icons/bases out of them all. PHEW! these are primarily intended to be bases in which you may edit as you so choose. but, if you like it as is - that's cool, too! XD ANYWAYS.
REQUESTS:
[-] please don't holtink =(
[-] these will be moved in a week's time
[+] comments = ♥♥♥
[+] credit = optional. i didn't take the pictures personally, so feel free to just snag =D
[+] ENJOY!
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Aug 30, 08 at 11:04pm] |
MOOD:  amused MUSIC: JOURNEY ~ don't stop believin'
saw this in midst of journal-hopping... i do that way too often. it seemed quite interesting & i decided to play along =) i like a challenge & i hope to come back to this list in a year & have championed quite a few more of those on the list..
When reposting, please link to [http://www.neabigread.org/]
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, and strikeout the books you read but didn't like.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only 6 or less and make them read.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh .
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen .
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan .
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac .
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry .
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White - i always hated this book, even as a kid.
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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Aug 29, 08 at 4:15pm] |
MOOD:  excited MUSIC: just the band playing from the video of Michelle Obama speaking
HEY! - remember this:
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( WELL IT'S ALL GONE NOW! )
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Aug 18, 08 at 10:43am] |
*** i decided to create a template for those of you wishing to email the WB Execs on their AWFUL decision to move the HP movie. copy/paste as you wish***
DEAR _____,
Hello there. As one of the many millions of Harry Potter fans, I'm reaching out to you via e-mail to make you aware of how poor a decision you & your team at Warner Bros. have made. With an already 16 month wait time, needless to say we highly anticipated November 21st. Even magazines within your own parent company were publishing articles about the excitement of the upcoming release. But, for reasons yet to justified, you & your team saw fit to postpone the movie a whole 7 months longer. This is ridiculous. You cannot say it's for money because Harry Potter is one of the top selling & most highly anticipated movies & has some of the largest fan-base for a literature/film following. We go to the movies, we buy the books, we create the memorabila. We've got posters, backpacks, ink pens, bed sheets, stickers - & this doesn't come close to including all things we've created to the theme of a magical world (wands, spellbooks, actual robes for Houses, etc.). We go to the movies dressed as specific characters, we write fanfiction based off these stories, we've supported you & your company since 2001's release of Sorcerer's Stone. As you see, we like our Harry Potter.
Part of being in this fan base, the movies are something we look forward to seeing. Most of us, undoubtably, prefer the books to the films but it's always exciting to see what parts of the book have come to life. We've lived Harry Potter for the past 9 years. J.K. Rowling never postponed the release date of her books, why should you be any different? Why, after 16 months - if not more - of planning this movie's release to be in November, have you suddenly chosen to make it next July? I sincerely hope you didn't expect us fans to just accept this & get over it. I'm afraid you're very wrong if you did, because we're angry. We're pissed off at you & Warner Bros. for making this decision & completely neglecting the fan base in this. You should have handled this better.
BRING BACK HARRY POTTER & THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE TO NOVEMBER.
Sincerely,
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| ICONS! |
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Aug 9, 08 at 10:35pm] |
so, recently i posed the question of what icons would you people enjoy seeing more of. one of my *favorite* responses was color themed! i love to make the color themed icons, mostly because i like doing things differently on purpose. i recently scoured a few places & got some icons for you =) & i'm working on batch 2 at the moment. in the meantime, you've got 75 new icons behind the cut. 25 Red, 25 Orange, 25 Pink.
REQUESTS:
[+] don't bother crediting me, im not the creator of any original images. i just make them into icons.
[+] these will most likely be deleted within a week.
[+] comments = ♥♥♥!
[+] ENJOY!
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ETA: i will say this.. it was EXTREMELY difficult to finish "Orange". seriously, every other image was of the fruit, Orange, or orange flowers [there's really only so many orange flowers to see before they all run together]. so, apologies for the lack of creativity in that dept ♥
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Thursday
Jul 24, 08 at 9:19pm] |
You're the love of my life but it cuts like my knife & I feel that I'm being misled
See I'm a little concerned for I've recently learned of the swastika tattoo on your head.
& it makes you smile when you hear "Sieg-Heil", you love the smell of a burning cross in the yard.
You do goose step salutes in your Doc Martin boots, & you quoted "Mein Kampf" in our 5th anniversary card.
I think you're a nazi baby. Are you a nazi? You might be a nazi baby...
You keep extensive files on the Nürnberg trials, & you watch them whenever they're airing.
I guess I should've known when you bought a new bone for your puppies named Göbbles & Göring.
You showed up late to our very first date, I said "how are you" you said "white power".
Call me paranoid but I'm not overjoyed when you ask me if I want to shower...
I think you're a nazi. Don't be lying baby, Are you a nazi? Are you anti-Zion baby?
Your every dress is monagram SS, you hold an Aryan picknick & bash.
It makes me irate when you say I look great when I wear a litle tiny moustache.
Your social politics say that races dont mix, & you call it pure blood pollution.
Whenever I'm sad, you say it's not so bad, for every problem there's a "Final Solution"...
I think you're a nazi, Give me an answer baby. Are you a nazi baby? You drive a fucking panzer baby
You say that love is blind so how could I have guessed? But then again I met you at the Wagner Fest
I know you're a nazi & that's why I'm leavin'. I know you're a nazi sure as my name is Stephen, Lynch-Berg-Stein.
& another one of my alltime favorites:
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