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Karyn

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Karyn Suzanne aka Nightbird is a woman from Ny By Birth, Floridian By Fate, Florida, USA

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Child of God and the universe, wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, patriot and breast cancer survivor.

Centrist/moderate political junkie with a definite lean toward the left. Strong believer that patriotism involves more than flag-waving and requires citizens to scrutinize their government and hold their officials accountable.

Lover of life, truth, people, all things tropical, and chocolate.

Beach bum at heart.

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"You laugh at your dream's absurdities, and at the same time you feel that in the fabric of those absurdities some thought is hidden, but a thought that is real, something belonging to your actual life, something that exists and has always existed in your heart." Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot 3.10

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    Created Feb 09 2009 •



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      May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths and superficial relationships, so that you will live deep within your heart.

      May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation of people, so that you will work for justice, equality and peace.

      May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation and war, so that you will reach out your hand to comfort them and change their pain into joy.

      And may God bless you with the foolishness to think that you can make a difference in the world, so that you will do the things which others tell you cannot be done.

      - Author Unknown



    The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus, 1883

    Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
    With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
    Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
    A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
    Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
    Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
    Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
    The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
    "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
    With silent lips.
      "Give me your tired, your poor,
      Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
      The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
      Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
      I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"











      Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism. - Salt Lake City, Utah Mayor Ross C "Rocky" Anderson

      It doesn't give me anything, but along with these other results it gives you just about the most twisted antisocial bunch of psychopathic deformities I have ever run into... you've got one religious maniac, one malignant dwarf, two near idiots, and the rest - I don't want to think about. - Psychologist in "The Dirty Dozen"      (Reminds me of Bush and his cabinet.)

      Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens. - Britney Spears, Tucker Carlson interview, September 3, 2003


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  • http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080711/wall_street.html

    Rated Jul 11 2008 • 2 reviews • energy industry, economy, stock market, bush economy • yahoo.com

      From the page: The well-being of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is crucial because they hold or guarantee about $5 trillion worth of mortgages -- roughly half the $9.5 trillion debt of the United States. Their troubles are just the latest depressing turn in a year-old credit crisis that shows no sign of ending, disappointing some stock traders who thought just months ago that the worst was perhaps over.

      Meanwhile, Citigroup Inc., also struggling with the consequences of failed mortgages, announced it will sell its German retail banking operation to France's Credit Mutuel for $7.7 billion. Global banks and brokerages have scrambled to sell assets and raise capital in an effort to offset nearly $300 billion of write-downs linked to the credit crisis.

      Investors also had little reason to shop for bargains Friday because many financial companies are reporting results next week and are expected to announce another round of big write-downs. And there is nervousness on Wall Street over corporate results in general; they're expected to be down overall, and if results are worse than forecast, stocks could take yet another beating.

      The market's other trouble spot, oil, continued its ascent on supply concerns. A barrel of oil vaulted to a record above $147, raising more concerns about inflation and the overall economy.