Working on my design......Update: Design/Blog is finished....for now.....♥

It actually is NOT as bad as I 

thought it would be!

*The editing I am referring too!

:)) Anywho that is all now

I am back to work!!!

UPDATE: My BLOG is now updated!!  
Please let me know below what you think
& Thank you. 


I am using their options (pictures for background)  for now but so far it will do, I didn't feel like searching thru my tons and tons of pictures right now it's pretty late and I was working on this earlier but then fell asleep, so had to jump back on and finish it...so please LEAVE me suggestions/thoughts below & again thank you♥!

 

ACLU Bill of Rights Dinner.......& YOU (Any supporter) are invited!! *Giggles* x)~

 

Join the ACLU of Pennsylvania for our annual Bill of Rights Dinner!

Dear ACLU Supporter,

Wednesday, December 15 American Philosophical Society’s Benjamin Franklin Hall Chestnut Street (between 3rd and 4th Streets) Philadelphia Buy your tickets now! The deadline for purchasing tickets is next Tuesday, December 7.

This year at the Bill of Rights Dinner we are honoring Edward M. Posner (pictured), a partner at Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP and a stalwart supporter of civil liberties.

In addition, the evening’s program will include a discussion of the state secrets doctrine with attorneys Wilson Brown III from Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP and Ben Wizner from the ACLU’s National Security Project. Wilson Brown’s efforts to vindicate three families victimized by the government’s improper claim of state secrets privilege in United States v. Reynolds are the subject of Pulitzer Prize-winner Barry Siegel’s 2008 book Claim of Privilege.

Ben Wizner has litigated several post-9/11 civil liberties cases in which the government has invoked the state secrets privilege, including Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., a suit against a private aviation services company for facilitating the CIA's rendition to torture of five Muslim men.

I hope that you will join us for this celebration!

ACLU Important ANNOUNMENT!!! & IT GETS BETTER PROJECT!

A Parent’s Nightmare A Parent’s Nightmare Read more about Elizabeth and Alex's ordeal on our website. Today Isabella is a happy and healthy six-month-old living with her parents. New parents Elizabeth Mort and Alex Rodriguez thought the most difficult thing facing them when they arrived home from the hospital with their newborn daughter Isabella would be the sleepless nights. Instead, they were faced with the unthinkable – having their three-day-old daughter taken from them for five days by Lawrence County Children and Youth services because of Elizabeth’s false positive drug test performed by the hospital where Isabella was born. Elizabeth, who was eventually cleared of illegal drug use, had eaten an “everything” bagel with poppy seeds two hours before being admitted to the hospital, causing the inaccurate test result. “When Isabella was gone, our family was just at a loss of words,” said Elizabeth. “I couldn't stop crying. Alex just didn't even know how to be himself. It felt like our heart was ripped in pieces. The most important person was missing, and we didn't know when we would see her again.” The ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit yesterday, October 28th, to stop this from happening to other new mothers in Lawrence County. Find out more about Elizabeth and Alex’s case on our website. American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania www.aclupa.org

Help us continue to defend the Bill of Rights — become a member of the ACLU today! Follow us on Twitter and visit our Facebook page. Also, check out the ACLU of Pennsylvania blog Speaking Freely.

"Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers killed themselves. The only way im wearin it for them is if they all commit suicide." These were the words posted on Facebook by Clint McCance, a school board member in the Midland School District in Independence Country, Arkansas late last week. Quickly upon learning of McCance's actions, we called on our project's nearly 100,000 Facebook supporters to petition him to resign immediately.  And just one day later, live on CNN, Mr. McCance bowed to the pressure. Check out the segment here, then share your thoughts with us: Our project is about more than a collection of heartfelt videos, it's about creating awareness and calling out the Clint McCance's of the world and shining a light on their bigotry and hate.   It's about making our schools and communities a safer place by inspiring students, teachers, parents and community members from all walks of life to come together to advocate for change all across the country.  And it's about holding people like Clint McCance -- people who are making things worse -- accountable. It has been just over a month since our project began and we're seeing an impact, not just in Arkansas, but also in New Jersey where just last week lawmakers introduced an "anti-bullying bill of rights."  You've helped create an international issue out of something that was tragically ignored for far too long. http://www.ItGetsBetterProject.com/YourMovement Stay tuned in the days ahead for more videos and many more opportunities to act in your area. Thank you for reading!

DESIGN a T-Shirt for ONE.Org it's all for good causes. ♥

Last week ONE asked people to submit designs for "ONE’s Next Top T-Shirt", and I must say, I'm impressed by some of the excellent designs I've seen. But I know that sometimes true greatness doesn't come easy. So to make sure all of you have time to create something fantastic, we're extending our submission deadline to Monday, October 25th at 12:00 PM ET. So what are you waiting for?

After Monday's deadline, we'll narrow down all of the submissions to the top three and ask ONE members to choose their favorite. The winning design will then be printed on 100% organic cotton, African-made shirts and promoted to our over 2 million members around the world. Pretty cool, huh?

We've accomplished some truly remarkable things this year. We helped cancel Haiti's long-standing debt after the devastating earthquake. We helped pass the Cardin-Lugar Transparency amendment and helped secure more essential funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Designing a shirt might seem like small potatoes compared to all of that, but when we wear our ONE shirts, we show the world in a very public way that we’re proud to stand together in the fight against extreme poverty – and we hope that they’ll ask questions about our shirts and join the cause, too.

I can't wait to see what you guys come up with.

http://www.one.org/us/tshirt/?id=2005-5253255-JKS8LFx&t=2

Good luck,

ONE.org

The 1st photo from Breaking Dawn: The Twilight Saga♥

The first photo from 'Breaking Dawn' is here! Director Bill Condon gave 'Twilight' fans something very special to be thankful for by tweeting the picture to the Official Twilight Twitter account. It appears to be a taste of the anticipated honeymoon scene - meant to imply ecstasy without revealing anything explicit. Mission accomplished! Just one feather-clutching hand is enough to convey all manners of sexiness!

'Breaking Dawn' finds Bella and Edward finally getting married, and through the violent birth of their daughter, Renesmee, whose birth creates new trouble for the couple as the Volturi scrutinize her possible status as an 'immortal child' - strictly forbidden in the vampire world.

& please please please let ME know what you think of this first glimpse in the comments! 

Take Action for Vietnam Vets & everyone knows MY DADDY was one, may he RIP!♥

Take action to support the Vietnam veterans who were once spit upon rather than welcomed home.

Today is Veterans Day - a day to honor those who have bravely sacrificed so much for our country.

Top of mind are those who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade. But often forgotten are those veterans who made it home from the Vietnam War 35 years ago.

Upon return, Vietnam veterans encountered no cheering crowds, no speeches, and no parades. Those who sacrificed so much in a brutal war zone not of their choosing were instead spit upon, and bore the brunt of a divided nation.

Veterans Day is our chance to remember and honor the sacrifices of all soldiers, regardless of how we feel about the wars themselves.

That's why we're supporting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and asking Change.org members to remember and honor those warriors who served during the Vietnam War and finally tell them "Welcome home."

During the long conflict in Vietnam, three million Americans served and 58,193 died. More than 150,000 were wounded and at least 21,000 were permanently disabled.

We must never forget these soldiers, who did everything their country asked of them despite the bitter controversy about the war back home.

Today, on Veteran's Day, give Vietnam veterans the "welcome home" they never received.

The number of surviving Vietnam veterans is becoming fewer each year. With every generation, the memories and lessons of Vietnam fade. It's important we take every opportunity to reach out to those still with us today and tell them we honor their sacrifice.

Thank you for lending your voice,

The Change.org Team

TSA wants to see you naked

Dear ACLU Supporter,

Tell Secretary Napolitano to implement security measures that ensure passenger privacy.

Planning to fly this holiday season? You've probably already braced yourself for long lines, delays and extra fees just to check your luggage.

Unfortunately, you can also expect another hassle at the airport this year. 70 airports around the country are now using controversial body scanners—also known as "naked scanners." These machines use low-dose radiation to produce strikingly graphic images of passengers' bodies, essentially taking a naked picture as passengers pass through security checkpoints.

Yes, authorities at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) say you can opt out of the naked scan. But doing so will subject you to new and highly invasive manual searches of your body, including your breasts, buttocks and inner thighs.

All of us have a right to travel without such crude invasions of our privacy. Tell DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to put in place security measures that respect passengers' privacy rights.

The government is also violating travelers' privacy in another way: by searching and seizing the laptops and other electronic devices of international travelers. Never before in history have customs officers been able to routinely pour through a lifetime's worth of letters, photographs, purchase records and other data. This enormous invasion of privacy peers into people's lives in a way that has never been done before.

There's already an outcry building over all of these new searches. In fact, travelers and the ACLU have pushed back before against invasive screening, and the TSA quietly retreated back to a lighter touch. But if we want to stop these invasive practices, we've got to put our voices together.

Tell DHS to rein in these invasive, out-of-control searches and to implement security measures that ensure passenger privacy.

The ACLU has prepared a useful guide to help you navigate your options at the airport. It details ways to protect your privacy during air travel. It also describes how to file official complaints about any TSA trouble you encounter. View it here.

If you think your rights have been violated while you're traveling, please let us know about it. Just fill out this form online to share your story.

You shouldn't have to check your rights when you check your luggage. With the holiday travel season fast approaching, we need to make sure that security measures are in place that actually make us more secure without compromising passenger privacy.

Please write Secretary Napolitano today.

Thanks for speaking out,

Anthony D. Romero Executive Director ACLU

© ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004

GOOD NEWS!!!

FINALLY I got off my butt and headed over to the car lot, in not even 20 minutes I got a BRAND NEW DODGE CARAVAN!!!!!!! And my Hubz I am BUYING him a WHITE WORK VAN, its GORGEOUS!!!!!! STILL will only have one car payment BOTH are going to be smashed together (I know the guy-he is awesome and hookin us up) so my payments monthly will be 380. but I put down my one car so thats 12000 onto the payment and the next two jobs are HUGE I will be makin at least 10k so I can either PAY them off orrr just GO CHRISTMAS shopping !!!! Which sounds like the best PLAN, get it OVER and DONE with! & the funny thing is I brought my mother and Jim with me and my mom saw this one VAN and OMG she FELL IN LOVE and is NOW TRADING HER CAR IN TOO & getting that one! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I told her we can consider them EARLY Xmas presents!! *Giggles* I am sooooooooo happy now !


:( O and get some FOLLOWERS over here from my other blogs/social sites, that has to happen STAT but other then that man, it's just soooooo funny how shit plays out! Especially w/my stalker , ha HOW is the GHETTO doing?? BOUT TIME you went were you BELONG. YOU & EVERYONE ELSE KNEW (Why you had no friends and the neighbors hated you) THAT you were NEVER BUILT to live in an area of CLASS! HA, Told ya KARMA was a bitch! *Giggles*  -and to everyone else (NOT THE STALKER) Remember : HOW PEOPLE TREAT YOU is THEIR KARMA, HOW YOU REACT is YOURS!!!! 




Anywho that's all I can think of for now, I am just soooooooo damn stoked and so happy all this is coming together, O O O AND MY NEW HOUSE!!! WILL BE READY in 3 MORE WKS!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh CANT WAIT!!!! Finally EVERYTHING falls into place, FINALLY and let me tell you it feels damn good! * I am right where I NEED and LOVE to be * ♥ Gawd, how I love this ALLL TOO PERFECT AND CRAZY LIFE!

Send a Postcard *or many to the Soldiers........it's so easy ....using this....

HERE is a GREAT site to send a post card to a soldier and give him your thanks as well as wish him a happy holidays! It's free!!! & JUST ALL AROUND AMAZING!! 

Send a POSTCARD by clicking here & don't worry it's 100% FREE!!

The Soldiers LOVE It here is just a few replies from them.... 

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I want to thank Dominic for the solider postcard. It made my day. I have it on my desk to uplift my spirits when I'm feeling down. I even noted that he wrote the card on my son's birthday so it was blessing.

An Air Force sergeant

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In 1992, Mike Corrado bought his first guitar, learned three chords and started writing songs while at The Citadel. He then graduated and joined the Marine Corps to lead our nation's finest and see the world. His tours – both of duty and concert – would take him around the world, serving and performing from the North Carolina Coast to Iraq. Along the way, Mike crossed musical paths with Edwin McCain and John Mayer.

Then, on September 11, the world and Mike’s band was forever changed. Mike and his fiancé, a flight medic in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, were mobilized back to active duty. In 2002, Mike continued to train with the Marines and prepare for deployment. He married his wife Kate, who soon after was called to Afghanistan. During all this, Mike penned the song "On My Watch Tonight," a story of a Marine's journey from boot camp to the front lines.

In 2004, Mike re-recorded “On My Watch Tonight” and dropped off a copy to Greg Brady at WRHT 96.3 – “The HOT FM” – in North Carolina. “On My Watch Tonight” was posted on the HOT Morning Show's Web site and began receiving up to 5,000 downloads a week. Calls and e-mails continued to flood the station as military members, family members and fans were downloading the song and sending it to service members and loved ones across the country and deployed around the world. “On My Watch Tonight” was quickly becoming the anthem for U.S. troops deployed around the world and those here at home who keep a watchful eye.

Just days before deploying to Iraq in 2005, Mike released his CD Falling Awake. While in Iraq, he spent a year at Camp Falluja and served with some of the greatest people in the Marine Corps, Army, Navy and Air Force.

To listen to Mike Corrado’s “On My Watch Tonight” song and view photos taken in Iraq, click here.

Take a look at Mike's Web site at www.mikecorrado.com

As I was leaving an un-eventful Valentine's Day today, one of the mail clerks yelled "Adams!! You have a package!!" A package, I thought to myself. I'm not expecting anything. What could this be? I took the box into my office and closed the door. As I opened the box, a flood of joy came over me as I looked over the cards from you and the young ones, one of my co-workers walked in to see tears rolling down my eyes. I had never received a gift with this much love, packed into one little place from someone that I've never known.

As I thought about what the cards talked about with soldiers giving their lives and privileges up to ensure the freedom of Americans, it was nice to know that someone out there does not take it for granted. I don't know who you are, but you are truly a gift from God. The gift that gives me the drive to serve my country proudly. As you pray that the Lord keeps the soldiers here safe and brings us home, I pray to the Lord that people like you do not die off from this world. Your contributions are nowhere near inadequate. Please never forget what this means to a soldier. Thank you for your love and thoughts.

"There's nothing like getting mail from home. A letter has a sense of warmth and is more personal than e-mail.  With regular mail, it's all yours to keep and take with you when you’re on the move,"  said Specialist Tommy Brooks from the 2-130 Illinois Infantry Battalion served a 12-month tour in Iraq.

“Airmen from the 447th Air Expeditionary Group in Iraq with Let’s Say Thanks cards and a Give2TheTroops care package.”

“Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division in  Afghanistan reading Let’s Say Thanks cards.”

Members of the 149th BCT, U.S. Army from Louisville, KY hold postcards from the Let’s Say Thanks program.

Soldiers holding items from a Give2TheTroops® care package, including a Let's Say Thanks card.

Thanks♥ 

Short note from me...

Yes sooo I seem to have gotten this blog up and running Ive been working SO HARD on my other sites theyve BEEN set up but I am trying to set this one up w/my personal name for more of a personal feel and not just being a person behind a nickname. Hope you all like this, I like this layout all but the pink, I mean it's okay but I dunno I seriously need to take some time apart and work on this........maybe today will be that day, not sure. But this is it, I will definitely be keeping this blog and using it more and more.........Ive just been awful busy lately and I am trying to get everything else in order first then will move on to this! :)) Anywho so yup that's it, I did say it would be just a short note! :) Thanks for reading and to the other bloggers out there, HAPPY BLOGGING♥!

Some companies try and charge for a letter from Santa....

Some companies try and charge for a letter from Santa. 

 

Forget that.

If you (or maybe your child(ren)) send a letter with a first or second class stamp on it to

Santa

Reindeerland

SAN TA1

as long as it is received before December the 13th and includes a reply address. Then Santa will write back, with the kind aid of the Royal Mail !

I ho-ho-hope you save some money

Martin

Updated Note

A few more facts from the discussion below.

1. The website www.Northpole.com is Father Christmas's e-mail address apparently, and if children write there, he is now web enabled. It seems Mrs. Christmas personally installed good ADSL up there. !(thanks to Nololly for this suggestion).

2. Even if the address to Santa isn't correct, you should usually get a reply, however the above address is the one Royal Mail say Santa prefers.

I know of ONE more address that is for the actual Post Office, but I believe last year they had to cut the program due to cost....so I am unsure w/where to go this year other then the addy above.

 Operation Santa Clause♥ -- This link gives you a couple different states

locations on where to send your Santa Mail! 






Will Update when I find new addresses and information! :)) Enjoy..♥

Seriously.........

I love life! I can say through all the bad and good times this crazy life is WONDERFUL, I love ALL my friends (I have soo many) & family, you guys/gals mean the world to me! ♥ If you are not already following me on Twitter, feel free too, @SammiDeHart ☮