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Milk


I love this photo, everyone loves a wholesome, sexual innuendo.

I've added a new, official belief to my already overly opinionated brain.

We're mammals. But since when does that mean we can drink from fellow mammals such as goats and cows? Is there an explanation
as to why your average human being is constantly breast fed by cows, via store-bought cartons, morning, noon and night? Aren't we supposed to stick to our own species when it comes to "nutritional" bodily fluids? Why would one breast-feed her child and then slowly ween them onto cow's milk?

Your average "family" drinks 104 gallons of milk each year. And that is excluding the milk-based products that are found is pretty much everything.

Before someone satisfies their craving for some type of sugary, corn cereal, there's enough negative evidence to think twice before he/she smothers every flake or pebble in milk. The facts are pretty gross and there's not yet an explanation strong enough to persuade me otherwise.

I've never been a big milk and cheese person, but I occasionally used skim milk; yet, I've been a vegetarian since I was 18, so why was I drinking cow's milk? Soy milk is what I turned to afterward, but even Soy milk contains the same health dangers and fattiness milk does.

What bothers me is that the industry has brainwashed the readily-consumptive-public into thinking milk can, basically, perform miracles on any human. Such as... whiten teeth, make you grow, give you muscles, lose weight, even sexual endurance... All of which make certain industries ridiculously filthy rich.

Your best bet?... Almond milk. Expensive? Yes. Tastes good too, but I don't think I like milk enough to blow $8. I'd rather buy a new scarf, shoes, swimsuit or other vain garment.


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Vanessa from India



My dear friend, Vanessa Pearce, was stolen from her family in India as a young child and adopted into Canada. As a result she has been through horrible trauma but has the courage to tell her story.

Please watch the video from Times Now (an English-speaking news source based in Mumbai), leave a comment and pass along as well. The story needs as much exposure as possible to help find family members.
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Legality meets social dictation...


Along with the prevention of animal cruelty and poverty, no cause hits closer to home than reversing a law that was established on pure discrimination...

I recently turned 22 years old. I was born in 1988. However, there's one thing that divides me from your average US citizen.


My birth certificate is stamped with the year of 1999. This is the year my adoption became legalized. It does not have that familiar scent that most 20+ year-old documents bear, it does not have wrinkles, grooves or discolorations that most 22-year-old birth certificates may have... The state seal of approval and issued year on my birth certificate matches that of my 11-year-old niece... According to the State Department, this is my one and only certificate of birth. I am legally prohibited from attaining my own original certificate and documentation that was assigned to me the day of my birth.


In eras before my time, adopted and/or children surrendered by their biological mother or father were referred to as "bastard" or "illegitimate" children. Merriam Webster defines the word "bastard" as:


1. an illegitimate child

2. something that is spurious, irregular, inferior, or of questionable origin
3. an offensive or disagreeable person

It is very hard for me to contain my annoyance and disagreement when explaining or speaking about this issue. Because very, very few know of it. And most are completely surprised when told.


It is the above definitions and the medieval ideals that accompany them that have produced today's "modern" law which denies adoptees in the United States basic access to their own information. It is discrimination based solely on a child's non-standardized way of entering the world.


Times have changed. What is socially acceptable of a family has changed. It's time this law caught up with today. I'm not a child, and neither is the 43-year-old American adoptee whom receives a slap on the hand when trying to gain the right everyone else has. This has nothing to do with being adopted, how much I dearly love my mom and dad, the state I live in, or where I'm from - it's about my basic right that the government believes I do not deserve - because I was born to a 16-year-old, unwed, orphaned, high school student. I look at my birth certificate and do not see a vital document, but instead a reminder that my original origins are illegitimate, and not worthy of legal documentation; and that I was not born in 1999.


God forbid I should ever run for President.


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mmmm that sweet smell...


My n-mom (that's "biological mom" for all you non-adoptees) has got me hooked on a new brand of coffee. It comes in 5 different flavors; I drank "Jammin' Java" and it was yowza... "Marley Coffee" does indeed come from the Bob Marley family. Who knew they did gourmet coffee?

Buy a bag if you have some spare change. And by spare I mean $12.99.


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Smoke & mirrors


This might come off a bit far-fetched, but I have to rant on this. Especially in light of what the Oscar films (which shouldn't have an influence at all) have brought to the huge table that is race and culture. You'll notice that I'm obsessed with social and racial issues, absolutely and completely obsessed. Not obsessed with the notions of it all, but obsessed with trying to persuade other people's mentality to what they're told is off limits, trying to get them involved. People forget the perks of living in a free country... you actually can make a difference. Forget patriotism.

The state of society right now - if you step back and look at the entire picture, you see that every problem is linked with another. The view society has of "adoption" is linked with post-racism, post-racism is linked with politics, politics is linked with culture. And it goes around and around again.

I watch CNN or BBC and realize the majority of the anchors whom are there to provide the full story, know very little about so many truths. It sounds so pathetic but I sit here in my jeans and World Cup t-shirt fiercely correcting them on inaccuracies and truths that much of society already knows. My point? A sturdy desk, pedestal, TV graphics, degrees or microphones do not make you smart, they make you lucky.

I wish some people, including myself, would gain the courage to take our talents and truths and use them for the benefit of those who need a voice the most; and others would just... sit the hell down. Especially those with brain capacities of birds.

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A spokeswoman for adoptees


Oh how I wish I could catch a flight to San Francisco to see this one. If you live in the SF area, please go, and report back.

"Ungrateful Daughter"
April 8th and 22nd, 2010
8:00-10:oopm
StageWerx Theater

San Francisco, CA


"Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Madonna have adopted black children. How could it not be good? Should you go pick one up? Especially after you see their faces on TV looking so sad? "Ungrateful Daughter", Lisa Marie’s riveting solo show, examines being a black girl adopted into a white family and how all that relates to these celebrity crazes, the Haitian and Ethiopian ‘orphans’ and the myth of colorblind love.
In the early 1970’s Lisa Marie is adopted by a couple seeking an “Asian-mix” baby and end up with a little black girl whose racial identity is hidden by the adoption agency. Funny and sharp, it is a story that thrusts us into the complicated racial knots of being a transracial adoptee that are so hard to untangle. Especially when your family doesn’t see you as black. In a rush of electrifying story-telling, spoken word poetry and hilarious, unexpected characterizations, Lisa Marie reveals a sometimes disturbing story that makes clear what it's like to attend an almost exclusively white, private elementary school; expresses her fierce love for her conservative, Republican, Christian, organic farmer parents and her thoughts on the new group of liberal, well- meaning, white adoptive parents that strain her patience--over and over again. Infused with a gentle sense of humor as well as a seething rage, Lisa Marie wonders if she will ever heal from the secrets, stolen histories and unknowns she and so many other adoptees share."

I have got to meet this woman(!!)
Visit the project site here.
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Isn't tonight that night where...


... ridiculously rich, well decorated, "pose for a picture with me please?", Vera Wang, "I want to thank the Academy", schmoozing over one another, giving-political-advice-with-gold-statue-in-hand, spending tax payer's dollars for a ginormous event of self-worship... night? I think it is.

I am one of those rare,
flaming liberals who actually loathes Hollywood. Yet I will buy a ticket to see my idol Morgan Freeman in Invictus or watch weekly episodes of my guilty pleasures such as Chuck and Mad Men. Does that make me a hypocrite? Yes. Without a doubt. But you know what, I'm foaming at the mouth paying off my student loans, finding an apartment, getting a better job, keeping relationships with friends and family healthy, and all the while attempting to look my best doing it... I need some down time to make sure Chuck outsmarts the computer geeks who stand in his way or which ladies the Mad Men will screw this week... because I deserve it. And because that's their job, to entertain people who carry knock-off Chanel bags such as myself. That's why they are what we call "the Entertainment industry". Unless one of them offers to pay off your student loans or works your job bagging items at the organic food store while booking you a trip to Cape Town, they're there for entertainment purposes only. Play by the rules, folks.

Yet tonight... there I will be, sitting on my couch with either a fruity alcoholic beverage or hot chocolate, watching to make sure they give Morgan Freeman the Gold; and taking whatever political, world-peace advice Susan Sarandon or Sean Penn will be giving to peasants like me up the ass. Because that's the price I pay for giving a damn. Let's hope I have enough will power to say no when Brangelina wants to adopt me simply because I liked her gown.

It's a vicious circle. But look how
sparkly it is.
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evolution, religion and cough syrup don't mix


I'm wondering what exactly would make the perfect first blog post. No idea. So I'm just going to start with my first thought.

Religion is never too far from my mind. I've only been out of the fog that is the church for about two years now. Wait, I take that back. I was never in the fog, all my life I had watched the fog from afar as my loved ones walked into it and disappeared, all the while being told I should hold my breath, enter, and be "born again". Mentally, I was a sinner. Now I know, the religious fog stinks. Devout church-goers must have God-given peppermint sap under their nostrils.

Evolution, religion and cough syrup don't mix. They can't. How can Christians, and
most all people of organized religion, deny all proven science, including archeological dates and evolution of mankind - when it is the same science that God's people adhere to when they fetch a bonus-sized bottle of Tylenol PM for a midnight headache - or why men of God whom have certain dysfunctions stock up on Cialis prescriptions from their doctors every three months? This is the same science.
How can we indulge in one side but play make believe with the other?

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