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As I grow in age, I value women who are over 40 most of all. Here are
just a few reasons why:

A woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask,
“What are you thinking?” She doesn’t care what you think.

If a woman over 40 doesn’t want to watch the game, she doesn’t sit
around whining about it. She does something she wants to do. And, it’s
usually something more interesting.

A woman over 40 knows herself well enough to be assured in who she is,
what she is, what she wants and from whom. Few women past the age of 40
give a hoot what you might think about her or what she’s doing.

Women over 40 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with
you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of
course, if you deserve it, they won’t hesitate to shoot you, if they
think they can get away with it.

Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what
it’s like to be unappreciated. A woman over 40 has the self-assurance
to introduce you to her women friends. A younger woman with a man will
often ignore even her best friend because she doesn’t trust the guy
with other women. Women over 40 couldn’t care less if you’re attracted
to her friends because she knows her friends won’t betray her.

Women get psychic
as they age. You never have to confess your sins to
a woman over 40. They always know.

A woman over 40 looks good wearing bright red lipstick. This is not
true of younger women. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over
40 is far sexier than her younger counterpart.

Older women are forthright and honest. They’ll tell you right off if
you are a jerk, if you are acting like one! You don’t ever have to
wonder where you stand with her.

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons.
Unfortunately, it’s not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart,
well-coiffed hot woman of 40+, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow
pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress. Ladies,
I apologize.

For all those men who say, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk
for free”, here’s an update for you. Now 80% of women are against
marriage, why? Because women realize it’s not worth buying an entire
pig…

…just to get a little sausage.

Posted by Palestar on 30 November 2006 at 6:34 pm under reflections of....
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Rockefeller Center and the 74th lighting of the annual Christmas tree…

Wishing everyone very peaceful holidays – with many prayers to bring home all missing children from the Rez to Iraq – from around the world and back again to safe and loving homes – Remember… Mitakuye Oyasin – We Are All Related! Love and families… TYGS – HO!

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By Terry Collins
Star Tribune

RED LAKE, MINN. – After five days of expansive searching, authorities called off the air and ground search Sunday for two young brothers who have been missing on this northern Minnesota reservation since Wednesday.
The investigation, however, will continue in the baffling disappearance of Tristan A. White, 4, and Avery Lee Stately, 2, last seen playing outside their home in the remote Walking Shield area.

“That’s a promise,” FBI special agent Paul McCabe said during a news briefing. “We won’t stop until they are found.”

Those sentiments were later echoed by Red Lake Chairman Floyd (Buck) Jourdain to dozens of people at a post-search gathering at the tribe’s Humanities Center on Sunday evening.

Jourdain said that tribal officials are expected to meet today to “restrategize” their efforts, which will likely include searching on a much smaller scale.

“I can’t say how much I’ve appreciated you taking the time from your families and your lives to help us try finding these two boys,” Jourdain said. “Your efforts were not done in vain. … It’s not over.”

The decision to halt the massive search, at times in freezing temperatures, came after scores of people — including dive teams from three neighboring counties, unmanned aerial vehicles flying overhead and teams of search dogs that grew with each passing day — came up empty.

“There is some disappointment that they couldn’t help bring the kids home,” McCabe said about the search parties. “But we feel confident that the search has been extensive and thorough.”

McCabe said authorities will continue to investigate whether the boys wandered off or whether foul play was involved.

No evidence of foul play has been discovered, Jourdain said. He also said there has been no sign the boys were attacked by wild animals or fell into nearby small lakes. Other areas such as log piles were triple-checked, as were three bear dens discovered during the searches.

A hot line set up Friday has led to about 70 tips, double the total announced on Saturday, McCabe said Sunday. However, the tips have not led to any substantial leads.

Investigators will continue to pursue any possible leads, he added.

Meanwhile, several weary and befuddled volunteers attending the post-search gathering listened to what the next steps would be. They were assured repeatedly that the search to find Tristan and Avery won’t stop.

“What will happen is what we call a limited continuance search,” said Paul Burke, a consultant with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. If there is a significant piece of evidence or information, another large-scale search could commence, Burke said.

“If you hear or see something, tell the authorities so they can check it out,” Burke urged them.

Burke also thanked them for the thousands of hours of going through woodsy areas, trying to find anything to provide clues to where the boys are.

“I gotta tell you, it’s going to be hard for me to leave this place. The effort and energy put into this search for these two boys is deserving, and I know that the family appreciates it,” Burke said. “Stick together.”

Several Red Lake citizens could be seen comforting each other. Judy Roy, a former tribal secretary who lost to Jourdain in a hotly contested battle for chairman this summer, hugged her onetime opponent.

“Just call me if you need anything,” Roy said to Jourdain, who nodded in appreciation.

Others, such as Red Laker Pete Neadeau, who’d spent the past four days searching, told Jourdain he’d be ready to search again if needed.

“If that’s what the community wants to do,” Neadeau said. “I’ll be there.”

Anyone with information should contact the FBI at 612-376-3200, or the Red Lake Tribal Police Department at 218-679-3313.

Please keep praying for these little ones – let them be home safely and healthy

Posted by Palestar on 27 November 2006 at 10:39 am under reflections of....
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UPDATE: Sadly these little guys were found they were not alive and very near their home – i still pray for them and their families – via con dios – little ones…

By Mike Iyall Other Voices

These babies must be found – send your prayers to protect them – T.Y.G.S. – HO!

RED LAKE, MINN. – A team of 10 volunteer searchers deployed Thursday to the yard where Tristan Anthony White, 4, and his brother, Avery Lee Stately, 2, were last seen. The boys had been playing Wednesday morning outside their house in the woodsy Walking Shield area of Red Lake, and sometime between 9:30 and 9:50 they went missing.

“I had a dream last night, and I saw a hole,” the search leader told his team members, assigned to comb through the bramble thickets behind the house. “So look for holes.” But first, he gave each searcher a pinch of tobacco, and they took turns tossing it into a small wood fire burning in the yard. The smoke rose, a plea for a successful search.

A man, a relative of the missing boys, stood by the fire and greeted each searcher in turn. “Mii-gwetch,” he said. “Thank you.” Searches by hundreds of volunteers, some on all-terrain vehicles or on horseback, some scouring the woods from the air, turned up no sign Thursday of the two young brothers. “It’s not been a very joyous Thanksgiving here,” Red Lake Tribal Chairman Floyd (Buck) Jourdain Jr. said late Thursday, as darkness fell and the last of the search teams came out of the woods. “Many of those people didn’t eat dinner today,” he said. “They’ve been out looking for those little boys. There are citizens from surrounding communities here, too.”

About 20 FBI agents and personnel from the U.S. Border Patrol, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and other state and federal agencies joined the search Thursday, and efforts to find the missing boys are expected to resume this morning. FBI special agent Paul McCabe said that scores of law enforcement officers also were investigating whether the boys might have been abducted. “While this is going on out here,” he said, gesturing toward searchers, “there’s just as strenuous an effort going on to determine whether foul play may have been involved.” He said that no Amber Alert was issued “because it doesn’t meet the criteria. You need some proof or information that they were abducted, and we don’t have that. “But what we’re doing with the media, getting the word out, is about as good as an Amber Alert.”
Jourdain also said there is “nothing to indicate the children have been abducted — no evidence that someone pushed them into a car or something. But we aren’t ruling out anything. “They’re so young, so small — you wouldn’t think they’d get very far on their own,” he said. “We’ve looked high and low, but we can’t find them. “It’s been a very frustrating two days.” Jourdain said that the children were “just out playing in front, and the family called for them, and there was no response.” When a quick search through neighboring yards turned up nothing, family members called police, and within 45 minutes the Red Lake police were conducting a ground search. McCabe said that officers also searched about 30 houses in the area, including crawl spaces.

The Walking Shield area is near the reservation’s main entrance off Hwy. 89. Searchers had to move slowly and carefully to get through woods thick with brambles, brush piles and downed branches. A blanket of oak leaves covered much of the ground. Colder weather is expected.

Temperatures fell into the 30s as the search wound down Thursday, and forecasters said light rain or snow was possible after midnight. Colder weather is expected this weekend. The team that began with tobacco offerings scared up a rabbit and poked flashlights into woodpile tunnels, occasionally calling the boys’ names, but found no sign of them. “Watch out for people’s dogs,” the leader said as he gave his search instructions. “They may not all be tied up.” And he had the searchers practice an Ojibwe word, gwajema, for the dogs. “It means ‘go away,’ ” he said. Al Downwind brought his children — Danielle, 11, Alvin, 13, and Brandon, 7 — to join in the ground search. “We felt the need to help,” he said. “All I know is that there are two young boys missing.” Danielle said only that she was tired, “and sad.”It’s a tight-knit community,” McCabe said, and the disappearance of two children inevitably caused many people, Red Lakers and visitors alike, to think of the loss suffered by the Red Lake Nation in March 2005, when several children were among the victims of a shooting at Red Lake High School.

“It hits hard, especially with how young they are,” said Doug Kingbird, who rode his ATV through ditches, brush and fields for several hours Thursday. “It isn’t looking good, with rain and snow maybe moving in tonight.” Tristan is about 3 feet 6. He was wearing a dark blue Spider-Man jacket with yellow trim, jeans and winter boots. Avery, about 2 feet tall, had on a gray pullover sweat shirt with “Timberland” on the front. He was wearing faded jeans and Spider-Man tennis shoes.

Anyone with information should contact the FBI at 612-376-3200, or the Red Lake Tribal Police Department at 218-679-3313.

Posted by Palestar on 25 November 2006 at 8:45 pm under friends-friends-friends..., just being grateful for anything and everything..., moving on and paying it forward..., reflections of....
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Ho – Ho – Ho we’ve gotta run -

…down thru the chiminy comes good St. Nick…

Mele Kalikimaka – Hau’oli Makahiki Hou

Feliz Navidad y feliz año nuevo

�誕快樂暨新年快樂

Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo

Joyeux Noël et bonne année

クリスマス�新年��慶�を申�上���

ВеÑ?ёлого РождеÑ?тва! С Ð?овым годом!

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

No matter where you’re from or what language you speak – it all means the same -with love and best wishes to you all – remember what we are truly celebrating – Prayers for PEACE…may we all be safe and warm and nourished!

Posted by Palestar on 24 November 2006 at 9:20 pm under reflections of....
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Shut Up and Sing – Dixie Chicks Documentary

HBO: Hacking Democracy

An Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore and Company –

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While you are out shopping or whatever – take a break – see a movie – go home have a hot chocolate – RELAX…ENJOY.


Santa Clause lll

Happy Feet

Dream girls

The Pursuit of Happyness

The Fountain

The Holiday

Charlotte’s Web

Deck the Halls

I will add more gradually…

Posted by Palestar on 24 November 2006 at 2:05 pm under reflections of....
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Thanksgiving is a traditional American Holiday where families all over the United States sit down for dinner at the same time — Halftime!

Thanksgiving Divorce

Joe, in Phoenix, calls his son Mark in New York the day before Thanksgiving and says, “I hate to ruin your day, Mark, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough.

“Pop, what are you talking about?” Mark screams.

We can’t stand the sight of each other any longer, “Joe explains. “We’re sick of each other, and I’m sick of talking about this, so you call your sister Sally in Chicago and tell her.”

Frantic, Mark calls Sally, who explodes on the phone. “Like heck they’re getting divorced,” she shouts, “I’ll take care of this.”

She calls Phoenix immediately, and screams at her father, “You are NOT getting divorced. Don’t do a single thing until I get there. I’m calling my brother back, and we’ll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don’t do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?” and hangs up.

Joe hangs up his phone and turns to his wife Nora. “Okay, it’s all taken care of,” he says. “They’re coming for Thanksgiving and paying their own way.”

Sending prayers to all – for a very peaceful day and may it spread thuout the world.
Mitakuye Oyasin – We Are All Related! T.Y.G.S. HO!

Posted by Palestar on 23 November 2006 at 7:58 am under reflections of....
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Thank God – we all know he did it – he should not have the right to make money doing it over again!
He lies and deserves NO respect – apparently – Murdock agrees…

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Last night Michael Richards – [formerly of Seinfeld] – went off in a comedy club using the n-word and ranting for quite awhile. People were walking out in disgust. This was supposedly caused by hecklers – 2 black men.

First of all to Michael I say – “What are you nuts? – I can understand being upset when you are heckled – but there is absolutely NO DAMNED EXCUSE to say those words or to react the way you did. Who do you think you are – Mel Gibson? You could have walked off the stage and chosen NOT to lower yourself to that level!!!”

To the Men who did the heckling I say – “What are you nuts? You all came into a club with others around who PAID to be there – you started heckling the Richards for what ever reason – and without respect to any one else in the audience – you both could have walked out and asked for your money back – you DID NOT have the right to offend and disturb all the others who had PAID for the RIGHT to be there. You could have chosen NOT to lower yourself to that level!!!”

It almost goes without saying Michael’s reaction was so WAY over the top and inappropriate and demeaning to him and to the abusive hecklers. The hecklers were abusive – and they were guilty of disturbing the peace of all – they did not have the right to do it.

Personally – I think you all acted like assy little brats. You SHOULD all be APOLOGISING!!! Thank you very much for being such great role models – yea, I know you didn’t think you are role models – but get over it – as ADULTS? we ALL are.

I just viewed the full video on [http://www.tmz.com] I am so disappointed [and angry] with these people – SO my final message to all today is – Connect your damn brains before your stupid mouths in to gear!!!!!! You ALL did teach us a valuable lesson – on how NOT to act!!!

I have to take a break – I had NO idea that this would affect me the way it has. To be honest I Do NOT care what shade you are – if you want respect – you must earn it! FIRST – respect yourself. Enough – Basta – Genug!!! I NEED to take a shower and let some of this gross feeling dissipate…

“All men are brothers. Every man is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth.” MLK

Posted by Palestar on 20 November 2006 at 12:53 pm under reflections of....
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George Carlin’s View on Aging

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

“How old are you?” “I’m four and a half!” You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five! That’s the key.

You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

“How old are you?” “I’m gonna be 16!” You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . . You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony . . YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There’s no fun now, you’re Just a sour-dumpling. What’s wrong? What’s changed?

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50…

And your dreams are gone.

But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

You get into your 80′s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90′s, you start going backwards; “I Was JUST 92.”

Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. “I’m 100 and a half!”

May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

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HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay “them!”

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. “An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.” And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9 Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Have a wonderful day!!!!!!!

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