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DEDICATION TO AN OLD BODY O

2012-02-02T12:54:00.000-08:00

I dedicate this blog to every single young and old person.
No one seems to get out of here alive! RubyNorma *o*

CRABBY OLD MAN / WOMAN
When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in... North Platte, Nebraska, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital. One nurse took her copy to Missouri. The old man's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the St. Louis Association for Mental Health.. A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem. And this little old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this 'anonymous' poem winging across the Internet.
Crabby Old Man
What do you see nurses? . . What do you see? What are you thinking . . . . . when you're looking at me? A crabby old man, . ... .. not very wise,
Uncertain of habit .. . .. . . . . . with faraway eyes? Who dribbles his food . . .. . . . . and makes no reply. When you say in a loud voice .. . . . .. 'I do wish you'd try!' Who seems not to notice . ... . the things that you do. And forever is losing . . . . .. . . . . . A sock or shoe?
Who, resisting or not . . . . . . .. . . lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding
The long day to fill? Is that what you're thinking? Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse . . . . . you're not looking at me.
I'll tell you who I am. As I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding, . . . . . . as I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of Ten ... . . . . . with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters . . . ... . . . . . who love one another.
A young boy of Sixteen . . with wings on his feet,
Dreaming that soon now . . . .. .. . . a lover he'll meet..
A groom soon at Twenty. My heart gives a leap. Remembering, the vows . . . . .. . that I promised to keep. At Twenty-Five, now . . . . . . . . I have young of my own.
Who need me to guide . . . . And a secure happy home. A man of Thirty . . . . .. . . . ..
My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other . . . . . . . With ties that should last.
At Forty, my young sons .. . have grown and are gone,
But my woman's beside me . . . . . . . to see I don't mourn.
At Fifty, once more, babies play 'round my knee,
Again, we know children . . . . . . . My loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me . . my wife is now dead.
I look at the future ... . .. . . . . . . shudder with dread.. For my young are all rearing . . . . . .. young of their own.
And I think of the years . . .. and the love that I've known.
I'm now an old man . . . . . .. .. . . and nature is cruel. Tis jest to make old age . . . . look like a fool. The body, it crumbles .. . . . . . . grace and vigor, depart..
There is now a stone . . . .. . . . where I once had a heart.
But inside this old carcass . . a young guy still dwells,And now and again . . . .. . . . my battered heart swells. I remember the joys . . . . . . . . .. I remember the pain.
And I'm loving and living . . . . . .. . . . . life over again.
I think of the years, all too few . . . . . gone too fast.
And accept the stark fact . . . . . .. that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people . . . . . . . . open and see.
Not a crabby old man. Look closer . . . see ME!!
Remember this poem when you next meet an older person who you might brush aside without looking at the young soul within . . . . we will all, one day, be there, too!

Another Neil

2012-01-24T13:13:00.001-08:00

My first cousin Neil recently passed over to be with God. He was younger than me. We were reunited a few years ago and well on our way to becoming close when suddenly, Neil was gone. I am grateful for the quality, although too brief, that we had as pen-pals. Needless to say, it has been a bittersweet time. Not since many, many decades ago, when there was a series of deaths in my immediate family in a very brief few years, have I seen so many funerals bunching up like bullets shooting targets point blank! It's a Category Five Hurricane, with no place to hide from the harsh reality. There's a ferocious sense of helpless tears. I find myself praying so much that it seems like I just do not stop.

My wonderful lifetime friends were expecting a new grandbaby and had been traveling away from America, so did not know about our family loss of Neil. Today I decided to call them and see if the baby had been born yet. Sure enough a baby boy was born a wee bit after our Neil went to God. Guess what the new baby's name is? "NEIL!" Boy did I have a smile on my face hearing this name. Some would call it coincidence. I do not believe in coincidences. Some might call this serendipity. I call it a lovely gift of acknowledgment that life goes on.

Blest Be. RubyNorma *o*

Para-Norma-lly Yours re: KARMIC RETRIBUTION

2012-01-17T10:21:00.000-08:00

I recently discussed the growing lack of justice in America with a very wise pal. He was furious over our judicial "injustice" system. Needless to say, I too see our judicial system failing us. Below is my spiritual answer. You do not have to agree with me. Yet, it's my deepest faith that no one gets away with evil or good, without first being judged by our Maker. When my friend was not having any hope for American justice in a particular major judicial matter, I wrote the following: =

"When and if this Earthly injustice is possible, the All Knowing Universal Mind Bookkeeping System kicks in. No one ever escapes it.
Call it KARMA, Justice, or anything other, I have seen KARMIC LAW WORK! It has no pity, mercy, or good or bad. It simply doles what the KARMIC recipient has earned with thoughts, deeds, behaviors and etc. Yes, it can take a wee bit longer in man-made-artificial-time!!!!! Buttttttttt..... IT WORKS THROUGHOUT ETERNITY!

Please comment and know that everything posted here is cleanly stated. Thank you all.

Blest Be,

RubyNorma *o*

COMMENTS: = From experience of Justice systems in a number of countries, I have to look back at my time in Africa, when most issues were sorted out by the use of a Panga. This is the name for a very large knife, and a tribal court. Kept the peace beautifully.
It was instant justice even if it was a bit cruel. R in Australia

WOW! When you put it that way, I feel a whole lot more optimistic. R from NYC

Are you saying that we have lost our way in America by allowing guilty people to have liberal pronouncements for their sentencing? Yes, I also see this happening.

B in Chicago.

No way! We die and nothing happens to us for our good or evil. anon in California

You have to be kidding. I get away with things all the time and no one does anything to me. Brat in TX

I find this to be very true Doctor Yanez. As a lawyer, it is my job to win. On occasion, I have won while justice is definitely NOT served! anon

Thank you for saying what I have felt all my life. I work in Hospice with dying people. You should see the guilt many have that they are going to hell. I appreciate the merit in having a Universal Judicial Bookkeeping System. Brainy in Iowa

Once again another wise spiritual gem. When we were in the Basque Country, a farmer used to ill treat his animals with cruelty including beating sheep and cows with long sticks. His actions were noticed by his farmer friends as he used to do them in the market too. One of his peers told him that one day that he would get back what he had dished out, but he sneered, swore, and carried on. Well one morning, he had taken some cows to the local market and put them in these cages you see in cattle markets. Somehow one of the cows got spooked and believe this or not, she cleanly jumped the barrier and her front legs hit this farmer on the chest and they both ended up on the ground. The farmer died on the spot with multiple crushed ribs, collapsed lungs and internal hemorrhage.
The word then going round was that he had reaped his very bad deeds to his animals, even as the ambulance was picking his dead body from the market floor. So you see Karma is the spiritual garden market force, because we are the ones responsible for the sowing, whether we accept it or not, where our good or bad deeds are grown and make no mistake about it, we ourselves cannot help but reap the fruits of our labours. It is a spiritual fact. That is my take on it. Have a nice day. N in Australia

We practice a Caribbean religion brought to The Americas by kidnapped slaves. Yes, we certainly do believe that no one escapes judgment, whether living, or passed over to the next plane. I love how you put it so simply and clearly for anyone to understand. You would love our religion. We believe in One Almighty God but also have spiritual helpers, like The Ocean, The Rivers, Volcanoes, Thunder, and very wonderful natural things. We do healings on people that truly help and have been scientifically documented. Yes, there's lots of prejudice against us. What a shame when what we practice is founded in LOVE! W in Miami, Florida

Do you also believe in reincarnation? I'm told most of the world believes this. Is this true? Paolo in Brazil

Thank you for this tasty blog. It resonates well in my heart. Please write more on these subjects. In olden times, everyone was far more intuitive just in order to survive.

M in Russia.

Having been clinically dead and experiencing the other side very clearly, what you have just written is absolutely the truth!
An Ethiopian Jew living in Israel.

WHEN I LEAVE YOU-Author Unknown To Me o

2012-01-05T19:25:00.000-08:00

Today I attended a memorial for my friend Art. This poem was written on his bio. It so moved me, that I decided to put it on Norma's Ark Blog. I wish I knew the author to give credit? Please enjoy! Blest Be RubyNorma *o*

"When I leave you don't weep for me.

Pass the wine around and remember

How my laughing pleased you.

Look at one another, smiling,

And don't forget about hugging.

Sing the songs that I loved the best

And dance one time altogether.

As for me, I'll be off running

Somewhere on the beach, and I'll fly

To the top of the tree

I always meant to climb.

When you're ready, I'll be there

waiting for you, take your time."

Comments: =

Awesome tribute for a memorial.........touching.

Oh, so beautiful.

Who really understands the passing of dear ones?

This poem made me feel deep inside my heart.

Dr. Yanez, thank you for printing this. We just lost our baby.

Even though the author cannot be given credit, I want to say this is stunning to read.

Happy Healthy New Year 2012

2012-01-05T16:12:00.000-08:00

Photo by John Squires

Here's to a wonderful new year and happy beginnings for us all.

Dr. RubyNorma Yanez, Ch.t

Comments: = For all the many years of pleasurable reading you have given us, my family and I wish to send you our very best wishes.

Thank you. Dr. Ahmed S. and Family in MD

Be Careful What You Pray For

2011-12-18T14:02:00.000-08:00

Reprinting Be careful What You Pray For.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 www.normasark.blogspot.com/

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR. YOU CAN GET IT AND REGRET IT!

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR. YOU CAN GET IT AND REGRET IT!
Once upon a time a gahtrillion years ago, I was taught to pray by my Grandma Minnie. She told me to "Ask God for whatever I wanted, and if I prayed hard and long enough in front of the Friday night Shabbos candles, God would listen to me." Some of my prayers got answered but did not bring happiness. I pondered this for many years until studying with a plethora of gurus from assorted spiritual beliefs. One very important concept came out of the years invested in my studies.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR. YOU CAN GET IT AND REGRET IT!
To bring it down to simple terms, I re-learned how to pray. Always, before asking Almighty Mind for the goal, I preface it by saying, "In the right and perfect way in YOUR eyes I ask....." For me to pretend I know what is "right and perfect" is silly. I do not. The unhappy answered prayers proved it beyond any shadow of any doubt to me. Think or meditate a little about this concept, and please let me know your thoughts? Blest Be. Ruby *o*

Comments:
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR. YOU CAN GET IT AND ...": I too have learned and relearned this lesson in prayer. There really is an art to praying. No matter what your religious belief, it seems to help if lots of sincere emotion is part of it. Thanks for the blog. It makes good sense to me. anon in Chicago

I greatly appreciate all who make comments to Norma's Ark Blog. Thank you for your readership and loyalty.
RubyNorma *o*
New Comments:
And the same back to you. Great Blog! Holly in Minnesota.

What a pretty lady and pretty words. Fong Lee in Singapore.

In these times I am glad to read your blog. It is uplifting. Warren in Seattle.

The Holy Days are getting harder in this changing land. We wish you happiness Dr. Ruby.
Reina and Family in NYC

Nice to see a happy face wishing me good things to come.
Hannah Leon in Miami.

2011 Holy Day Message from Ruby o

2011-12-16T14:21:00.001-08:00

Here's to great happiness, fantastic health, and lots of good luck for us all.

Blest Be. ~ Dr. RubyNorma Yanez *o*

WILL I OUTLIVE YOU? By Dr. RubyNorma Yanez, Ch.t

2011-12-10T10:57:00.000-08:00

Dedicated to My Victor and all he loves. You really got to my heart last evening.

amen *o*

Who would have thought when I was young that I would/could outlive so many pictured here and in the background???? Certainly, not I. The reality of losing those who are most important does not respect age, social status, or even if they were in good health. In all the years I have experienced in this life, nothing has moved me more than this or witnessing the abuses foisted upon us by MAN! What makes us tick? Why do nice people die young or violently? It used to make more sense to me than nowadays. Perhaps I am not nearly as smart as I used to be when I knew so much, and had tons of opinions on everything? Or at least, I thought I did! grins ;-)

My circle of friends and family has thinned out to the point that causes a longing and a loneliness that is unrequited. For example: No one has ever been able to replace MOM.

No one has ever been able to replace my soul-pets. Why? What Karmic ties did we have that were so irreplaceable that no one else could fill the void? My humble answer is that I just do not know. I can guess at it though. Believing in life after life and reincarnation is not mine to own. Much of the world joins me in this belief. So is it plausible to say that the energies we call our loved ones, are repeats of those we have inter-mingled with in past lives? I would never argue faith, but merely put this out for you all to ponder? Could it be that they genuinely aren't replaceable, and that is the simple truth?

Knowing them was and still is, the best and most meaningful of relationships. So why replace them when duplicates do not exist? Thank you in advance for your wonderful replies, which I know will be forthcoming. Of course you can disagree and it will be posted. To Life! L'Chaim *o*

WHO EVER SAID LIFE WAS GOING TO BE SIMPLE?

2011-12-05T14:17:00.000-08:00

Looking into a crystal ball to see what life will bring us is for the very few gifted mediums. Otherwise we are pretty much equal when it comes to making our life choices. Why do some people have fabulous lives and others get snuffed out at a young age from assorted illnesses or accidents? Is it really all PRE-ordained by what some refer to as KARMA? Or can we change things by using wisdom, and learning from our mistakes? Today a four year old is fighting for life from full-blown Leukemia. My friend just won millions in the Lottery, but has serious health issues.

There is no day that people are not asking for prayers. This is part of what I do as a Trauma Resolution Therapist. Knowing why most people would choose to come to me for help puts me into a position to pray. Trauma is no joke. Is it the young person just back from front lines in warfare with PTSD? Or the gal who is terrified of her fiance who beats her to a pulp and still will not run away from his violence for her very life? So you can see why I find it so beneficial to pray. And pray I do before every session.

The things I have seen in the years of counseling have put a tough veneer on me. It is my job to hold the energy during session for the safety of a patient, as well as for my own well-being. This is how I choose to spend life, since the average person in America today cannot easily retire. The economy has brought more negatives to many people who cannot put food on the table and have lost a great deal. HOPE is a four letter word. Hope is part of what I do in order to give the gift of strength to someone asking for help. Without HOPE, how can one continue?

Watching so many I have worked with overcome and succeed is the greatest joy for me. It means that all the years have been spent with a relatively positive outcome. When the realities become too much for me, I always pray. It removes the weight from my shoulders and allows me to continue doing what I love. I have seen atheists bow in surrender to the higher forces. I have seen deeply spiritual people scream at God. In the end, we all must give this life the best we know how.

WHO EVER SAID LIFE WAS GOING TO BE SIMPLE?

Blest Be. Ruby *o*

Re-Dedicating Another RAINBOW BRIDGE

2011-11-29T10:46:00.000-08:00

This blog is dedicated to too many of our loved ones to even list in a short blog. Suffice it to say, all who are being prayed for by you, me and our brothers and sisters, are waiting to be re-joined with us in the next spiritual zip code. With love and blessings to everyone of you, here and in spirit. amen RubyNorma *o*

Friday, February 20, 2009 www.normasark.blogspot.com/

ANOTHER VERSION OF RAINBOW BRIDGE

For all of us who have loved ones in Heavenly Rainbow, I am reprinting this beautiful essay by an unknown author. The photos are of our precious Sir Magick, now passed on into the hands of Eternal Nurture, and our Treasured RubyGlow who still visits and plays with her progeny. I love you Sweet Magick. I love you My RubyGlow. Thank you for the memories.

Your Human Mom ~ aka Dr. Ruby Yanez *o*

As the midnight hour approaches on any holy-day, a tremendous celebration begins....... AUTHOR UNKNOWN

If you listen closely you will hear the exuberant sound of Bridge-kids preparing for the remarkable moment that comes many times a year.Puppies romp through the tall green grass, chasing butterflies and rolling over and over until fits of giggles bring them to a tumbling stop. The volume increases as fluffy kittens, cats, tigers and lions purrrr in pure delight while the wings of snow white doves gently caress the air. The babbling brook that runs beneath The Rainbow Bridge overflows onto the edge of mossy banks and fins of treasured aquatic life quiver in anticipation of these most joyous event (s) . Nestled in the midst of this happy choir of Bridge-kids are the smallest angel tots staring in awe at the majestic holy-day tree adorned with flowing strands of angel hair. Effervescent, twinkling stars see-saw elegantly from the sky and land in glorious harmony upon the stoic limbs of Heaven's most perfect tree. Swaying to and fro in nearby rocking chairs are grandmothers, grandfathers, parents, aunts, uncles and loved ones. The sound of their whispered lullabies permeate the air as they sing to tiny angel babies resting quietly in their arms. Like magick, the clock approaches midnight and a great stirring is heard in the distance. Each Bridge-kid stops and listens, knowing the time is near, and they choose a fleecy cloud on which to snuggle. The roar of purrrrs drops to barely an audible hum, the babbling brook ripples hypnotically and the flutter of downy feathered wings fall silent. Heaven's spirited toddlers climb expectantly upon the laps of angels while babies coo in tranquil unison. Amidst the warm glow of candlelight, which rises from the earth below, the arms of the Eternal Bridge Keeper caress the heavens, and into the precious hands of each child and in front of each animal a holy ~sacred gift is placed. With grand exuberance the ribbons are removed and left to fly on a tender breeze where they dissolve into showers of angel diamond dust. As the golden lids of these heavenly gifts are raised, an amazing aura fills the sky, reaching down to the very core of the earth. Ascending from each and every box is the greatest gift of all. Unending, unconditional, all-encompassing love. This blessed love gently wraps itself around the cherished souls of heaven, warming their hearts with beacons of radiant light and bringing forth from angels an exquisite chorus. As the clock strikes midnight the distance between heaven and earth is vanished. It is at this very moment on all holy-days that the Bridge Keeper's children, angels and Bridge-kids send a message to their earthly loved ones on the wings of this unbridled love. Listening carefully with an open heart we will hear the familiar voice of our own angels whisper softly into our ear their Holy-Day message...."Let me share with you this love of mine, always and forever. When you need me know that I am here. We are all here for you. I have not left you for I am in your heart where I belong. Our love is eternal, as is the brilliant glow of candlelight which illuminates the path ....to the heavens and The Rainbow Bridge.I wait patiently as do you for our inevitable and glorious reunion. I love you, I love you, I love you." - Author unknown ~ Comments: = Holidays can make us pensive. Such a beautiful sentiment, Dr. Yanez. Thank you. Stan in NYC

For those of us who believe life continues, this brought me to tears. Honey in GA

Give me a break. We all know that life ends when we stop breathing. anon in NM

Wonderfully stated. That litter of kittens with the proud mother cat is stunning. Randy in Wyoming

I don't know what to believe. All my loved ones are gone and I feel lonely for them. Thom in Reno

I do not believe we die. I do believe we change in our energies. Ahmed in Jakarta

ADDICTED TO SPENDING, Let Them Eat Cake o

2011-11-26T15:11:00.001-08:00

Reprinting a two year old ++ blog. It is even more current now than two years ago. How sad that your government is what it is. History has not taught anyone how to curb the insanity, not in America, nor in The European Union! Will we become a Greece? Tune in tomorrow Ladies and Gents for the ongoing saga of how morons rule.

Dr. RubyNorma Yanez, Ch.t *o*

Saturday, October 03, 2009 www.normasark.blogspot.com/

ADDICTED TO SPENDING, Let Them Eat Cake

If you do not understand the "LET THEM EAT CAKE" portion of my title, then please look up Marie Antoinette and The French Revolution. As with all known societies, uncontrolled power eventually corrupts those who misuse their power. This is precisely what has come to pass in America with the out of control spending by its citizens. Not only has the public gone out of control with spending, but the government has become addicted to spending. This is the manner in which addiction proceeds in its history. Once addicted, it is most rare for addicts to stop on their own.
An inevitable crash is what can and will stop the addict, at least temporarily. Whether the addiction is to spending, gluttonous eating, narcotics/booze....or to gambling, ADDICTS will not stop on their own.
What kind of crash will stop your government from the gluttonous spending on warfare, welfare handouts, bailouts, career politician corruptions, and let us not forget those underpaid CEO's? I am no genius. But, I am old enough to recall when 'Made in America' and quality still had a long lost meaning. I am also old enough to recall that our educational system was once admired instead of reviled. Once a government can control minds and pockets, it controls YOU! Once a government can control YOU, it runs rampant over your rights. Once a government controls your rights, it is an ADDICT to power, spending, corruptions, and greed. Please help your government control its addictions? If not, then you fill in the blanks - - - - - -
Comments:

We have received too many comments to post. This one says it all.

= Anonymous said...I once had a job. My multiple college education(s) have no meaning these days in the destroyed job market, since in my field of endeavors America sent our jobs overseas. We pulled our kids from college and lost our home. This article fully explains the depravity going on today in our nation. Our politicians are insane with spending and greed. And yes, they do remind me of Marie Antoinette! Anon and Family in America

MONOTHEISTIC PAGAN

2011-11-21T15:04:00.001-08:00

Today I described myself as a "MONOTHEISTIC PAGAN." hehehe

Then I had to analyze exactly what it was I was attempting to say.

The monotheistic portion seems to be that I feel Almighty Mind to be completely INSCRUTABLE, but yet.... I can somehow sense it in the primal essence of self. I most certainly do belief in a higher power than MAN.

The Pagan aspect gets a wee bit more complicated. I revere nature and the stunning energies bestowed upon this planet. When viewing volcanoes, massive upheavals of boulders, or breathtaking views, I literally blend with them in their infinite energy.

Feeling quite comfortable in other peoples' religions is normal for me. Yet, I follow no one specific religion. Instead, what becomes something of beauty is generally accepted, and given its due respect.

How I wonder where The Buddha, Jesus, and so many other avatars would go to worship? My heart says they would choose a natural setting that does not close them up inside of a labeled religion. Before organized religions, there was still personal worship.

Today's religious prejudice is not of GOD/Goddess Almighty. It is of MAN.

Blest Be. Dr. RubyNorma Yanez *o*

PREPARING FOR THE PASSING OF A LOVED ONE

2011-11-16T15:15:00.000-08:00

Someone very close to me just asked if I was prepared for the impending deaths of aged, and gravely ill loved ones. I am not.

Here are photos of Sir Magick, Aunt Kay, and my cousin Bob, who passed at only 29. How does one do this preparation? Do we ask friends, family, shrinks, clergy? For some reason, in my many years of counseling others, I never learned this monumental wisdom. What I have learned is to pray, meditate, give thanks for the time we had together, and cry.

Boy can I cry. Hehehe, I even cry when I am over-joyed. Who among us is so prepared? I really wonder?

My way of loving is totally loyal, deeply, and intensely. So yes, passion is part of my persona. When they leave us for the next spiritual zip code, I will feel, mourn, and probably need to be quiet for a while. It's the only way I can do it.

When a patient comes for grief counseling, we use a method I learned so many years ago from a few great teachers like Brent Baum. The patient is taken to a time of love and safety to meet with the loved one who passed. Sometimes it is many loved ones which we handle only one at a time. They say all the gorgeous things loved ones should say, and leave a great energy gap filled with this security blanket. The relief I have seen in doing the hypnotic protocol just described, has been nothing short of amazing. Yes, I do use it for myself.

Please feel free to speak with me on this topic? Blest Be. *o*

DEDICATED TO ALL I HAVE LOVED. *o*
Comments: =

This inspired me. Thank you. C. in Fayetteville

Some important wisdoms here, Dr. Yanez. anon in Seattle

Really gave me things to think about. V in DC

No matter how much we learn in life, death of a loved one is a tragic event.

Dr. R in Nevada.

Sometimes when a cherished one dies, it is a blessing b/c they were suffering.

Yet I still mourn. Fannie in Oklahoma

I would like to have a session with you please? Reilly in AZ

PRAYING

2011-11-14T08:51:00.001-08:00

Do you pray or meditate? I ask this of you, because it is such a powerful energy in my own spiritual tool chest? In fact, without prayer and meditation, I honestly do not believe I would still be here. These intended acts of positive energy flow allow many good things into our lives. For example: My blood pressure lowers while doing this act. The problems that seem insurmountable become conquerable. The courage I thought I lost, comes back in the face of turbulent times. The strength that appears to be waning arrives once again to allow me to do all, or at least almost all the physical parts of my life. A feeling of one-ness with the totality of eternity and infinity melts itself into me.

I no longer ask "WHY" because if it is not to be revealed, the strength it takes to ask "WHY" is better spent in the doing of life. Praying also helps me make difficult choices. By meditating, which is somewhat different than praying, but still has a relationship to prayer, I let go of all thoughts and simply allow. It saves many tears and heartbreaks to do this act of letting go. Thank heavens for this wonderful behavior I was taught. I hope you enjoyed reading my little tome. It is truly from the heart.
Blest Be. RubyNorma *o*
p.s. Of course, the fiery side of me is still alive! grins ;-)

Healing People And Animals With The Laying On Of Hands

2011-10-25T11:34:00.000-07:00

Reprinting this blog with permission of author.

Friday, August 31, 2007

We can trace the laying on of hands back to prehistoric times. I have no doubt that ancient cave shamans were using this remarkable healing device for hunter/gatherer injuries eons ago with positive results. Please contact us with your own stories about how gentle healing/touching has helped you personally or others, animals, and even your plants at: ohmygods13@yahoo.com

Touching with the intentionality of love in order to ease suffering, or simply to comfort another is instinctual. One need only to look upon a mother and her newborn baby to see how important it is to touch. This act ignites a chemistry for growth in newborns. Without it, chances are the baby will not thrive and could die. In the animal kingdom, we see a mother licking, rubbing, and feeding her babies as a natural progression to the birthing process. If the mother abandons her baby or does not touch it, it is a clear sign that unless there is an intervention, this baby animal will die. Many of us in the healthcare professions have studied and become certified in an ever-growing variety of modalities to accommodate the needs of our patients. We have Healing Touch, Touch For Healing, Reiki, Polarity balancing, magnetic therapies, chiropractors, physical therapists, and even distance healers who tune into the energy of a photo. I participated in a double blind scientific experiment about twenty years ago where we were provided with photos of mice injected with cancers. We were to pray and touch the photos, speaking loving words and care to the pictures. My mouse was named Mickie. When the final results came in, the mice who were left alone died much sooner than did the mice who were prayed and spoken to via their photos. Amazing? Not really. Medicine is now realizing that there are mental energies we can use to help others and one of them is prayer. Another is gentle healing touch."The Laying on of hands" is used throughout a multitude of worldwide religions. Can anyone, including you, perform this kindly act with the intention of healing? The answer is "YES!" All that is really necessary is a desire to see someone feel better. In no way is this to say that medical care, medications, surgery when needed, etc. is not to be done. This is an adjunct to other treatments. Education with respected and qualified teachers is better yet. But even if no training were to take place, your intent and focus will be powerful to keep in your medical tool chest. I think of it as mental aspirin. grin :) The next time you are in a situation where it feels right and socially acceptable, you may wish to give a gentle touch with their permission, to someone who is suffering. You will be surprised at how well this is appreciated.

Reprinted with permission of author, Dr. InaNorma Yanez, Ch.t, from
The Arizona Networking News

Another Side of Life-Para-Norma-lly Yours

2011-10-15T10:29:00.000-07:00

After a lifetime of investigating beliefs other than Judeo-Christian, I am convinced that the true religion is =
"I love INSCRUTABLE God and God loves me." All the rest is man-made-spam.

I have been clinically dead four times with lucid, total recall of the other side. It was beyond mere words. The magnitude is inscrutable for my few languages. I was held with gentle love, fabulous nurture, total safety, and..... there were no lies, no crimes, and they took me to see the eternal universal infinity. I did not wish to return here. Every time they sent me back saying, "There is more work to complete." The next time, is the last for this incarnation. Thank you God. Amen *o*
p.s. "THEY" = my angelic guides.

OUR FAMILY-ONCE UPON A TIME

2011-10-14T13:36:00.001-07:00

THE LAST BREATH

2011-10-09T14:54:00.000-07:00

Ever since MAN began to think, the concept of an after-life has been around. To visually illustrate this notion, I have included a stone door the Ancient Egyptians believed led them to their
after-life. How many times have I held another life-form while it took its last breath? Too many times, in my humble opinion. Yet, it has always imprinted upon me with such a power-filled energy that I am now compelled to write about it for you to ponder.

The very first time I recall being in this kind of spiritual, emotionally charged situation was in a hospital, waiting for my own major surgery. Next to me inside closed curtains, I heard a rustling sound. Something forced me to seek out what was happening. There lay a dying woman all alone sans any family. She spoke to me through her hazed-over, nearly shut eyes and asked telepathically for water. I brought a glass with a straw but she could not move. So I gently held her in my arms and placed the straw in her mouth. Even though she could not speak, her still living mind spoke to me and said "thank you lady." Then she went completely limp in my arms and I saw a greyish vapor come out of the top of her head. It was surreal. Her body weight became lighter in my arms, and I knew she had taken her last breath on Earth.

My entire mind, body, spirit was filled with such a rejoicing on her behalf. The misery of Cancer had left her body and she died with a smile on her lips. This was more than profound. It was a magickal and spiritual connection to life after life. Somehow, I managed to limp slowly over to the nursing desk and tell them. Shortly afterward, they wheeled me into major surgery, with the mind boggling sensation that I had been given a precious gift of eternal knowledge.

It has been many decades since I held this nameless dying woman in my arms. Since then, I have played the shamanic role more times than memory can count. Always, together with the human sadness, comes the spiritual euphoric knowing that they/we move on to another plane of existence.

I wrote this little story for you in honor of my beloved friend Betty, who died yesterday from advanced Lung Cancer. God, Almighty Mind, bless our loved ones, here and in Heavenly Rainbow. Thank you. amen *o*

MIRACLE TYME, by Dr. RubyNorma Yanez o

2011-10-01T17:47:00.000-07:00

My Humble Prayer For Today!

In the right and perfect way, I ask INSCRUTABLE God Goddess Almighty Mind.....for exponential good health, happy wealth, sincere and nurturing love, and purrrrfect self-expression ASAP, for us, and all that we love. amen *o* PLUS.... The EARTHLY TYME to enjoy it thoroughly! grins ;-) ~ Love RubyNorma *o* and Her Precious Meows

Today brought me joy-filled-news of a miraculous event that I must share with you, my readers. A wonderful friend, who has had a very challenging life and is in poor health, just called to confide that over three million dollars was just won from The Lottery. I am not at liberty to say name, gender, or state. The family wants privacy to fully savor this miracle, and to plan wisely for its use. One thing they will do is rescue abandoned animals. Knowing this wondeful soul, I am sure many will share in the incredible win.

There is genuine joy in my heart, as I know how life can be an up/down see saw ride. This is a beautiful reminder that miracles really can and do happen.

It will be so special to share our mutual miracles for the public to read because we are facing really ???? events in America and globally. Your stories are very welcomed. Norma's Ark was and is designed for spiritual uplifting when the mood strikes. And the mood is striking. I will periodically share some of my own wondrous miracles and hope to hear from many of you.

Thank you. Be happy for my friend. Smile *o*

COMMENTS: =

1-It is great to hear that something wonderful happened to a dear friend! I pray for her/his health and happiness, as I am sure she/he will wisely decide what to do next!

2-Remember this - - - The Lottery is also gambling.

3-Oh how wonderful!

4-:-)

5-WOW!

6-Many Lottery winners mis-use their lucky miracle.

7-You show a generous and loving side of yourself with this blog, Dr. Yanez.

8-Miracles really do happen.

9-This is some story. American debt should be so lucky.

10-And the next lucky winner should be you RubyNorma.

Obama Administration Set to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns

2011-09-25T11:51:00.000-07:00

How do you feel about this latest ban?
Does it seem fair in your opinion? Dr. RubyNorma Yanez *o*

Obama Administration Set to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns
3:00 PM, Sep 23, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration would rather make people with Asthma cough up money than let them make a surely inconsequential contribution to depleting the ozone layer:
Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec. 31 to other types that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, an aerosol substance once found in a variety of spray products.
The action is part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other nations to stop using substances that deplete the ozone layer, a region in the atmosphere that helps block harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from $30 to $60.
The Atlantic's Megan McArdle, an asthma sufferer, noted a while back that when consumers are forced to use environmentally friendly products they are almost always worse

All comments on Norma's Ark are anon, unless the author's name is requested and we O.K. it.

There are too many replies to print. Here is a small sample: =

Comments..... So when my husband is gasping for air who do I sue?

Typical Obama, pick on the minorites. You lost our vote.

Is he crazy?

I am beyond repulsed by this unfair targeting of a minority of dis-abled people.

Does Obama have the slightest idea of how costly it is already to be asthmatic, or what it feels like not to be able to breathe?

Who are the evil advisors to Obama? Or did he come up with this atrocity all by himself?

We are a family of asthmatics. Do you have a glimmer what this illness costs in order to remain alive? To make it even more costly is inhumane, Obama. We voted for you. Never again!

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS ADDICTED TO SPENDING

2011-09-21T08:16:00.000-07:00

With legal permission from the author of this brief blog, I am publishing the powerful statement which was given to DC in a concerned citizen petition.

"The Federal Government is addicted to spending my tax dollars plus all they can borrow. America is drowning in unscrupulous mis-management. From Bush to Obama, we have fallen into quicksand and exponential debt.
Stop the disgusting over-priced-wars. Stop the disgusting spending. If I have to budget, so should YOU!"
"THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS ADDICTED TO SPENDING"
Comments -
Anonymous said...
Whoever wrote this is simply brilliant, and completely on target.
8:58 AM

Anonymous said...
We are an older married couple living on very little money. We did everything the right and legal way when we came to America from a foreign land. All our savings were lost in our retirement plan. Yet over the many years of working hard, we paid in a large fortune of money to the state and Federal governments. We want our money back. Those in charge have wasted our hard-earned tax dollars. We do not believe in The Nanny State type thinking. Why should people be on the dole and not have to work for it, or even be drug tested as we were for our employment? The Current American System of governing is a broken failure, corrupted, and a farce-imbedded scam on we working Americans. After Bill Clinton's infamous reign, we went down hill. Nor do we believe in all our lost American wars. Why is America always at war these days? Why are Americans still believing all the lies? We aren't exceptionally smart, yet we can see and smell the ugly socialistic signs we ran away from.
9:28 AM

REQUEST

2011-09-10T12:54:00.000-07:00

Prayer Request

I have a prayer request. There's a lady I've known forever. She's very sick. On top of that, she's being abused by those to whom she has given everything. Just breaks my heart. Seems there's nothing I can do alone. But maybe, if we join in and lift her up together we can heal her. She's well over 200 years old, but way too young to die. Her name is America ... and I love her.

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT POLITICS

2011-09-08T13:03:00.000-07:00

PLEASE SMILE AT WISDOM THROUGH THE AGES. Ruby *o*

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.-- Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.-- Will Rogers

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.-- John Adams

If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.-- Mark Twain

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.-- George Bernard Shaw

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.-- Aesop

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.-- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people inrich countries to rich people in poor countries.-- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.-- Voltaire (1764)

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!-- Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.-- Mark Twain (1866)Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.-- Anonymous

There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress.-- Mark Twain

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.-- Thomas Jefferson

Why Do We Live And Die, And Live Again?

2011-09-04T19:37:00.001-07:00

Before you get the idea that I am going to tell you the answers, let me be perfectly honest with you. I do not know. What I do know from a long and very dramatic life is that life and death are two sides of the same coin for me because = I have survived four NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES, and come back from the other side with super-lucid recalls each time.

This series of encounters over a very long period have taught me that life continues in other energetic formatting after our physical bodies stop breathing. With each of these NDR's, I came back very changed. Sometimes it took years for the changes to settle. Sometimes they engulfed me as soon as I regained consciousness.

An example of this is:

Much of this incarnation has been spent in show business. Fancy gowns, stage make-up, and glamour, plus lots of traveling, were quite important to me. Yet after the last NDR, none of the glitz gave me as much satisfaction as it had in the past. My life then veered off onto healing, research, and finishing degrees in order to fulfill my dramatically altered new interests that occurred after coming back from the fourth near death encounter. I must say that not once did I want to return, and argued with my angels to allow me to remain with them in spirit. Tell me what is spirit? Only God truly knows that answer!

Hahahahah. No one can argue with an angel. I was tossed back to this earthly plane for more learnings than I bargained for!!!! Yes, I have also had profound experiences with becoming one with GOD ALMIGHTY! But for the life of me, I do not even have the words to describe that adventure. So many religious representatives will tell us all about heaven, hell, and the grades in between. Do they know more than than we "Returnees?" I have spoken with uncountable numbers of people who have returned from the other side with far different experiences than mine. Some say they were with Jesus or Krishna or The Buddha. Some claim they were with their deceased family, pets, loved ones. A few were taken to horrifying Hell. Each culture can give varying accounts due to their unique beliefs and religions.

I cannot speak for anyone other than what I repeatedly went through. And yes, I really felt swooped/scooped through some kind of a tunnel. And that was in both directions...

Please write in and tell us about your own NDR's???? You are in safe company with me. Blest Be. RubyNorma *o*

P.S. The author of this stunning photo is unknown. But, thank you anyway!

Because of the many comments, I will post them inline for my readers.

Comments: =

Absolutely stunning to read. Thank you Dr. Yanez. Rihanna in GA

I'm one of those RETURNEES who was taken to see HELL. Have never been the same since. Many of my core values changed. Bob in Utah

Cannot say I believe in any of this stuff. But it was a very nice story to read. A. in Buffalo, NY

Lots to think about. Please write more on this subject?

Juan in Toronto

Heaven is where I was taken in an NDR. You validated my experience. The doctors merely poo-pooed my adventure on the other side while clinically dead. Khalid in Detroit

Are you kidding me? Things like this do not happen. F. NYC

You go girl. We are glad they sent you back four times to report all you learned on the other side! Keep writing on that subject. We loved it. MORE Please? Vincenzo in Belize

I still want to know why we have to return here? Stella in PR

RubyGlow ~ Reaching out from Beyond

2011-09-01T09:28:00.000-07:00

Once, a very long time ago, we lived with Precious RubyGlow.

In all her twelve years with me, I cannot ever recall a time I did not marvel at RubyGlow's wisdoms. She was as much my teacher, as my beloved roommate and dear friend. Where did all her wisdom come from? It is my humble belief that she and I have been together many times.

Ruby enjoyed helping me with patients and would volunteer when her special intuitive gifts were called for. One favorite and very remarkable experience we shared was with a woman who was in excruciating pain from having been crushed. Her back and neck were broken in an airline accident. Unbeknowns to me, my patient had recently lost her kittie and was in deep mourning. When RubyGlow asked permission to help she jumped up on the table and began kissing the right cheek of my patient. I asked if the gal felt o.k. with this and she said yes.

We resolved many things in this one, extremely long session. After it was completed I asked the lady her impressions? She said that RubyGlow was kissing her recently deceased kittie who was lovingly visiting precisely next to her right cheek throughout the entire therapy/hypnosis session. And here I thought it was the lady Ruby was kissing. hehehe..... My RubyGlow did so many acts of kindness that it boggles the mind to remember. She was the Alpha female in my home, and earned her title with wonderful deeds of love, compassion, courage, and an intelligence that almost defies my ability to describe.

God Bless you My Precious RubyGlow. Forever inside each other's souls. amen

Love MOM *o* Until we reunite in Heavenly Rainbow.

Comments: =

Sweet Memories. B. CT

This made me cry. E. MD

We all love our pets and miss them when they cross over. E. AZ

Beautiful cat inside and out! N

Do you really believe you will reunite? I don't. Kalem in OH

We totally relate to your wise Bengal RubyGlow. How you must miss her physical presence.

We still have visits from our fur babies who have crossed over to Rainbow. Thanks for sharing. Noni in HI

401-Ka'at Plan

2011-08-06T10:39:00.001-07:00

I periodically enjoy writing in the voice of an animal. Today it is a cat. aka Ka'at. Love RubyNorma *o*

We puddies woke up this a.m. to see that our 401 Ka'at Plans we have been diligently saving for retirement with, are????????????

Looked at our Beloved Human, MOMMY RubyNorma, and began running up and down the stairs like the busy and athletic felines we really are. MOM thought we went nuts again like we sometimes do if a volcano/earthquake/tsunami/hurricane, etc occurs. Yes, we are that unbelievably sensitive. Then MOM heard that another 32 Americans were massacred in Afghanistan. She cried for them and their families. When MOM cries, sneezes, coughs, or groans, we like to run to her and give kisses. Before RubyGlow and Sir Magick moved to Rainbow, they both taught us these loving behaviors. They were and still are, the sweetest felines we ever purrrrrsonally knew. MOM, in her human wisdoms, decided to pull the plug on the TV once again, so no one would have to see and hear the horrible news of bloody wars, stock market plunges, joblessness, or anything else that might make her unhappy. Yes, she also is that unbelievably sensitive! Until next time..... You all be safe. Love and Meows.

Cicero Quote ~ History Repeats

2011-08-01T11:00:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately very few rulers seem to regard the proven, time-tested, historical truths as something they have to respect or adhere to. Is it their inflated egos? God bless Cicero's wisdoms. ~ Ruby *o*

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome becomes bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."- Cicero - 55 BC

IN GOD WE TRUST

2011-07-31T09:58:00.000-07:00

Hi MY Dear Beloved GOD,
It’s me again, RubyNorma. We are becoming older and things are getting more and more challenging here. Gas prices are too high, almost no jobs to speak of, and food and heating/cooling costs are way too high. I know some brainwashed and spiritually devoid, utter fools have taken you out of our schools, government and even Christmas and Chanukah etc..., but Dear God......... I'm asking you to
re-bless America. Re-bless all the innocents in harm's way and that includes animals, sea life, the water-ways of our globe, and our ecology.... We really need You! There are far more of us who want You, than those who don't! And please please please.... STOP all Terrorists, no matter where and who they are. YOU know who they are. Thank YOU for helping us. amen
IN GOD WE TRUST

Comments: = This is beyond Great!!!!!! Anon in CA

We just love this one RubyNorma. Anon in NYC

You have outdone yourself Dr. Yanez. Anon in Florida

We want more like this one. Thank you so much. anon in LA

You go Ruby. This is some of your best stuff! Anon in San Diego

Let's have more God. Anon in Utah

We are praying for God to help America and the rest of our troubled globe. Anon in India

Sweet prayers you just wrote. May they come true. amen Anon in Norway

This prayer says plenty of wisdoms. More people around the world should be praying now. Anon in Lake Tahoe

Having read this prayer I want to repeat it to my family. Anon in Mexico City

You wrote what we feel. Thank you. Anon in Canada

Can you write more prayers? We surely need them! Anon in Israel

Barack H. Obama ~ Quote of March 2006

2011-07-28T11:51:00.000-07:00

Harry and Bess Truman. He originally said,
"THE BUCK STOPS HERE!"

What does this March of 2006 quote below, from Barack Obama, personally mean to you? Thanks in advance for your interesting replies. ~ RubyNorma *o*

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better." -- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

REPRINTING ADDICTED TO SPENDING, Let Them Eat Cake

2011-07-27T14:00:00.000-07:00

Apparently, since the original date this blog was posted by me, things have actually gotten worse with your failing government's politicians.

I feel sad to have to reprint this for my readers. ~ RubyNorma *o*

Saturday, October 03, 2009 www.normasark.blogspot.com/

ADDICTED TO SPENDING, Let Them Eat Cake

If you do not understand the "LET THEM EAT CAKE" portion of my title, then please look up Marie Antoinette and The French Revolution. As with all known societies, uncontrolled power eventually corrupts those who misuse their power. This is precisely what has come to pass in America with the out of control spending by its citizens. Not only has the public gone out of control with spending, but it government has become addicted to spending. This is the manner in which addiction proceeds in its history. Once addicted it is most rare for addicts to stop on their own.
An inevitable crash is what can and will stop the addict, at least temporarily. Whether the addiction is to spending, gluttonous eating, narcotics/booze....or to gambling, ADDICTS will not stop on their own.
What kind of crash will stop your government from the gluttonous spending on warfare, welfare handouts, bailouts, career politician corruptions, and let us not forget those underpaid CEO's? I am no genius. But, I am old enough to recall when made in America and quality still had a long lost meaning. I am also old enough to recall that our educational system was once admired instead of reviled. Once a government can control minds and pockets, it controls YOU! Once a government can control YOU, it runs rampant over your rights. Once a government controls your rights, it is an ADDICT to power, spending, corruptions, and greed. Please help your government control its addictions? If not, then you fill in the blanks - - - - - -
Comments: = Anonymous said...I once had a job. My multiple college education(s) have no meaning these days in the destroyed job market, since in my field of endeavors America sent our jobs overseas. We pulled our kids from college and lost our home. This article fully explains the depravity going on today in our nation. Our politicians are insane with spending and greed. And yes, they do remind me of Marie Antoinette! Anon and Family in America

Anonymous said...
Vote the politicians out who have destroyed our economy! In private business when people do not do their jobs correctly, they get fired. American career politicans should not be paid or given lifetime bennies for ruining America. Angry and Disgusted in DC

MOM ~ I LOVE YOU o

2011-07-13T13:14:00.000-07:00

Each year on my birthday, I love to remember my MOM. Even when grown, I called her "MOMMY Irene." Her life was horrible, filled with the violence and abuse we both longed to forget. She was my best friend, and loved me unconditionally. For this, I remain eternally grateful.

In spite of the harsh home environment, we managed to survive, and today I am an ancient one. In fact, your daughter is one of the oldest persons in our earthly world.

The eons of time have past since my final visit with Mommy Irene. She was in Long Island Jewish Hospital when we last held hands, spoke of the future, and neither one wanted to let go. My baby and I had recently lost my husband. We were too young to lose my precious mother and she was too young to die.

For all the love and attention you gave me in the midst of my father's and both grandmothers' severe abuse, I give my undying respect and love back to you. At the end, you were so brave, My Mommy. God Bless You. Your Loving Daughter, InaNormaRuby. Happy Birthday to Us. Happy Birthday to Us.

Comments: = Beautiful tribute to your MOM. anon

How pretty she was. You must miss her terribly. anon

Nothing can replace a wonderful mother. anon

Loving your old photos. My MOM is also my best friend. anon

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. anon

Reprinting Albert Einstein Once Said

2011-07-11T11:05:00.000-07:00

Sunday, August 22, 2010 www.normasark.blogspot.com/
I have a very special paranormal/spiritual relationship with Albert Einstein. It is time to reprint his truthful quote. In your opinions, why does MAN keep on repeating the same awful mistakes? RubyNorma *o*

Albert Einstein once said,
'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'
Does this mean that politicians, governments, rulers, and so many others who keep repeating the same failures/patterns over and over and over again, are = ;) INSANE????
Hmmmmmmmm ~ Ruby *o* ~ p.s. Surely something to ponder.

Comments: = To answer your question, it is mortal egos that prevent us from learning from the historical records. Most professional politicians really know the histories of many errors they choose to repeat. On occasion it is from pure ignorance and stubborness. But mostly, it is the insufferable EGOS!

Professor of Anthropology At a Major University

Indeed this is the truth. anon in MD

Einstein was right. anon in MA

Just look at the horrible things our global governments do over and over again that are repeats of past governments' mistakes. And still, they just do not care. anon in CA

US lawmakers to rally behind Dalai Lama

2011-07-07T13:53:00.000-07:00

How do you all feel about HH The Dalai Lama? For a number of years now, I have studied with a close disciple of HH. It has been one of the best and most spiritual adventures of this incarnation. Our current president has so much to learn about spirituality, as we all do. God bless the peace makers. How do you feel about the genocide perpetrated by Communist China on Tibet? Please compare both Nobel Peace Prizes of Obama and HH. Then comment on the blog if you wish.....

Dr. RubyNorma Yanez, Ch.t

US lawmakers to rally behind Dalai Lama
On Friday 8 July 2011, 0:02 SGT
Top US lawmakers plan Thursday to welcome the Dalai Lama in a show of support as China stepped up pressure on President Barack Obama not to hold his own meeting with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader.
Members of the House of Representatives plan to put aside briefly a bitter debate on taming the US debt for talks with the Dalai Lama, a rare figure embraced by both sides of the political spectrum in the United States.
House Speaker John Boehner, the third highest-ranking US official under the Constitution, invited the Dalai Lama to the Capitol. Former speaker Nancy Pelosi, the House leader of Obama's Democratic Party and longtime supporter of the Dalai Lama, will join the talks along with other senior lawmakers.
The White House has tried to keep the question of a meeting with Obama on the back-burner after treatment of the Dalai Lama during his two previous visits to Washington raised hackles both in Congress and China.
The White House has said only that it has no announcement to make on a potential meeting with the Dalai Lama, who is in Washington until the end of next week to lead a Buddhist ritual before thousands of devotees.
China warned the United States against a meeting. Foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said: "We are firmly against the Dalai Lama engaging in activities aimed at splitting the motherland through overseas visits."
"We are firmly opposed to foreign governments or any political figures supporting and encouraging such activities," Hong told reporters in Beijing.
Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama, who fled China's rule of his homeland in 1959, of pursuing separatism.
The Dalai Lama, a follower of India's apostle of non-violence Mahatma Gandhi, says he accepts Chinese rule and is seeking greater rights for Tibetans. He recently said he was retiring from his political role, even though the Nobel Peace laureate remains the clear face of Tibet.
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican who heads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has urged Obama to see the Dalai Lama. She criticized the White House for obliging the Dalai Lama to use a back entrance during his last visit in 2010, walking past garbage bags and snow.
"I would strongly encourage the president to pay the proper respect that this leader deserves, and that sad escort out the back door was shameful. He deserves better treatment than that," she said at a hearing last month.
During the visit last year, Obama met with the Dalai Lama away from the cameras in the private residence. In 2009, Obama came under fire from Congress for not meeting at all with the Dalai Lama when the monk visited Washington, with the president hoping not to sour the mood before his first trip to China.
Maria Otero, the US under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs who serves as the coordinator on Tibet policy, met with the Dalai Lama after his arrival in Washington on Tuesday.
The State Department said Otero told the Dalai Lama of the "strong US support for the preservation of Tibet's unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity and the protection of human rights in the People's Republic of China."
Otero also "commended the Dalai Lama for his commitment to peace and non-violence and the pursuit of dialogue with the Chinese government," a State Department statement said.
The State Department in its latest annual report described "severe cultural and religious repression" in Tibet along with China's predominantly Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Rights groups this year reported a major crackdown on Kirti monastery in Sichuan province after an anti-government protest. The International Campaign for Tibet said police rounded up hundreds of monks and that two elderly Tibetan lay people who tried to protest the monastery died after police beatings.

IN HEAVEN, OR IN HELL?

2011-07-07T07:43:00.001-07:00

Photo credits = John Squires
Content excerpted from my book, "Angels In My Chicken Soup."

The human concepts of heaven and hell = good and evil, go back many thousands of years. Some attribute these ideas to religions.

I do not. Instead, I attribute these ideas way further back in time to when we, as a species, began more logical thinking about things like death, accidents, illnesses, giving birth to a live or dead baby, and the elements of nature. Life, at its best, was so hard that if we were to time-travel back to hunting and gathering cave life, we would not get through one full day..

Infant mortality must have been excruciatingly high. When a baby lived, it was glorious for the tribe because it meant the survival of life for the tribe. When food was scarce or non-existent, it was like hell because of the suffering/starvation. When safe shelter, food and water were plentiful, it was like heaven for the moment. The predators ate man, woman, child, babies like sushi.

MAN really does not know exactly what happens to us when we cease to exist in our physical, mortal bodies. The Ancient Egyptians believed we were judged by our behaviors and hearts against the feather, for all eternity. But is it that simple?

Why not ponder this? Perhaps we are judged BOTH for heaven and hell depending upon how spiritually good or no good we have behaved? Perhaps we can be in both heaven and hell part time? No one is 100% in all things good or evil. Even Repulsive Hitler seemed to love his dogs and.... the most callous and evil of humans on occasion cares for something?

Given these thoughts, I am certain we are going to receive many replies. Please remember that this is a very well-loved, global blog. Keep your answers clean enough to be respectfully printed.

Yes, the Casey Anthony trial has caused me and many others to ponder much about heaven and hell. Has it done the same for you?

WHO SPEAKS FOR BABY CAYLEE ANTHONY?

2011-07-06T11:22:00.000-07:00

Are you shocked, surprised, happy, disgusted with our American judicial system? The trial of Casey Anthony, accused as having killed her two year old baby Caylee, is one more example of the decline and fall of American justice. And yet.......
O. J. Simpson, who I call "O. J. SYMPTOM" and Joran Vander Sloot, are now experiencing
LIFE'S JUDICIAL SYSTEMS.
Perhaps , Michael Jackson did as well?

Who speaks the truth for the victims? I look at adorable Caylee, and would gladly have raised her to save a precious young life. It is not about justice. It's only about winning any way you can in America. The grandparents are ruined. The biological mother, Casey Anthony is - - - - - - - - - - - - - ?????????????????? We shall be watching you

Casey Anthony.
Rest In Peace Sweet Caylee. Know that I love you with all my heart.

MY AMERICA~A PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE~ Part One

2011-07-05T08:45:00.000-07:00

Do I remember America with happiness? A longing in me to recall the better, simpler, easier, safer times in this land, is growing by leaps and bounds. With joy and belonging , I still had living parents and a very large extended family. We always lived near enough to visit often and party for all celebrations together. It's the together part that still mystifies me with a smile. I could ride my Schwinn bright red bicycle in total safety from morning to night and come home, without being attacked or kidnapped by some kind of predator, to an unlocked door. YES, I said an unlocked door. No one locked their door. That came a bit later. I will close PART ONE one on a happy note.

Comment: = OH MY GOD RUBY, yes we remember.Your pals in Brooklyn, NY

Reprinting = IN WAR AND PEACE I NEVER CEASE, LONGING FOR YOU!

2011-07-03T11:13:00.000-07:00

IN WAR AND PEACE, I NEVER CEASE, LONGING FOR YOU
By Dr. RubyNorma Yanez

Recalling so many lives past, I never ceased longing for YOU.
At times I was devilish, or perhaps as meek and fragile as a kitten,
But always in my soul is the knowledge that if not for YOU, I would not exist.

With knifing fears and terrors of the material journey, and the joys of bliss
YOU carry me forward. YOUR names are different to others. GOD, Almighty MIND, Goddess, Christ, Krishna, Buddha, etc…. All intone a sacred energy.

We fight wars in YOUR name(s), destroying the precious innocents.
We conquer, maim, level into crushed black ashes what YOU created. And then beat our breasts in glee for we have won! What have we won? In the eons of our past, we fought wars as well. Did we learn? Did we lose? Did we win?
In war and peace, I never cease, longing for YOU.

Comments: = This poem is absolutely wonderful. It states everything I have felt for much of my own life in the military. Thank you Dr. Yanez. You touched my soul. anon in the military

Comments: = Thank you and God Bless You for saying what I believe. Why do we still have wars? anon in The Vatican

Hundreds of thousands strike in UK pensions row

2011-06-30T11:30:00.000-07:00

Can you see this escalating in the USA? Ruby *o*
Comment: = Of course this will happen here eventually. The Nanny State breeds this behavior when the money runs out for entitlements.
A highly paid government worker in Washington, DC

Hundreds of thousands strike in UK pensions row
By Alice Ritchie AFP – 2 hrs 19 mins ago
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Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers went on strike in Britain on Thursday …
Hundreds of thousands of British public sector workers went on strike Thursday to defend their pensions, causing widespread disruption to schools and state-run services.
A third of English schools were closed and another third were affected, officials said, as up to 350,000 teachers, lecturers and education staff took action against plans to make them work longer and pay more into their pensions.
Tax offices, museums and job centres were also brought to a standstill as a further 100,000 civil servants walked out on the first nationwide day of strike action since the coalition government took office last year.
However, airport operator BAA said feared delays at London Heathrow because of a walkout by immigration and customs staff failed to materialise, and ministers said only half the civil servants who could have downed tools actually did so.
Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted the labour changes are fair but inevitable, warning this week that the pension system is "in danger of going broke" faced with an ageing population.
Francis Maude, the minister who oversees the civil service, told BBC radio on Thursday: "You cannot continue to have more and more people in retirement being supported by fewer and fewer people in work. Long-term reform is needed."
But the unions say they have already accepted pension reforms over the past decade and accuse ministers of pushing through new changes without negotiation.
Thousands of strikers marched through central London on Thursday, brandishing banners calling for "Fair Pensions for All" and "Education Cuts Never Heal", and similar protests were held across the country.
"I will lose £60,000, I'll pay an extra £60 a month and I'll have to work seven or eight years longer," said Richard Jones, a 39-year-old civil servant marching in London.
Cameron's Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has been the focal point of public sector anger ever since it announced a two-year pay freeze and 330,000 job losses by 2015 in an attempt to rein in a record budget deficit.
The strike was the largest public sector strike since a million local government workers walked out in March 2006, and some union leaders have warned it may only be the beginning of months of industrial unrest over pensions.
"This is the best-supported strike we've ever had," insisted Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services civil service union.
He said members had sent "a clear message to the government that they will not tolerate these attacks on their hard-earned pensions rights".
Unison, the largest public sector union with 1.3 million members, has opted to keep talking to ministers rather than join the strike but warned it could take action later in the year, which could be highly disruptive.
In a sign of more unrest to come, doctors' trade union the British Medical Association also voted Thursday in favour of considering strike action over pensions.
Ed Miliband, the leader of the main opposition Labour party which has historically close ties to the unions, urged both sides to resume talks.
"These strikes are wrong at a time when negotiations are still going on but parents and the public have been let down by both sides because the government has acted in a reckless and provocative manner," he said.
A ComRes poll this week found 49 percent of the public believed the workers had a legitimate reason to strike.
Large-scale industrial action is rare in Britain, partly because of tough strike laws dating back to the premiership of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
And strikes rarely have the same energy -- and violence -- as in other European countries, although 24 people were arrested on the London march.
Tirza Waisel, a 51-year-old social worker remarked; "We're all suffering already and we're going to suffer more, like in Greece. We're more polite here but it's the same cause."

My Wonderful Catskills

2011-06-15T11:13:00.000-07:00

Please forgive the nasty condition this ancient but joyful photo represents. It is all I can find from a time, around age eleven, when I was ecstatically spending summers up in The NYS Catskill Mountains.
I was such a free spirit, happily not in school (Lord, I did not enjoy school)..... and finally, had lost enough weight to fit into a revealing white bathing suit.

The background is a bungalow cottage we rented in a bungalow colony where in Yiddish it was referred to as "A Koch alein" = roughly meaning to cook for yourself.

Every summer we would schlepp a ton of pots, clothes, our pets... and etc....., to move into a country-like setting that had a pool and woods, surrounded by the once grandiose hotels The NYS Catskills became so famous for. It was also known as THE BORSHT BELT. You remember some of the hotel names like = The Concord, Grossingers, The Pines, The Nevele, Browns, Kutchers, and so very many more.....

I would explore and pick berries with friends and my Grandma Minnie. Especially great was the fact that I would win ping pong tournaments and dance contests. For me it was like a coming out party.
Being there always represented the highlight reward of my entire year.

It would be wonderful to publish some of your own happy recollections to add onto Norma's Ark Blog. That big smile on my face shows you just how much being there meant to me.
RubyNorma *o*

2011-06-11T09:54:00.000-07:00

For all the loving fathers I know, who have nurtured people and animals....

For all the women I know, including me..... who were both a "father and mother to so many people and animals.... "

I wish you love and happiness.

Keep up the good work. God Bless you for the love and nurture you generously give.... and for those animals you have saved.
HUGS IN APPRECIATION ~ RubyNorma *o*

REPRINTING America's Free Lunch May Be Over

2011-06-02T12:23:00.001-07:00

This blog from my past writings appears to be very timely for a reprinting right now! Who would have believed the changes that have taken place in America in a few short decades of out of control spending habits????

Blessings for us all who can still remember a far more prosperous and easier to live in America! ~ RubyNorma *o*

Saturday, November 08, 2008 www.normasark.blogspot.com/

America's Free Lunch May Be Over

The last time I had a free lunch was in my beloved mom's tummy. ;) The years of entitlements we see in America can be a double-edged sword making able-bodied people lazy.

I have joined globally with many tens of thousands who are praying for this beleaguered land to once again prosper and create home-grown jobs and far better education. I make my own free lunches these days.... as should everyone who has the ability to work to support themselves. Nor do I expect to see any retirement in this incarnation. It is unhealthy spiritually to waste a life on the dole...

Blessed Be. Dr. RubyNorma Yanez, Ch.t *o*

SEGULOT

2011-05-26T12:02:00.000-07:00

"SEGULOT"

For those who believe in Segulot (A mystical Jewish formula for good mazel).... and who among us can't use that!? "GOD our Father/Mother, walk through my house & take away all
worries & illness & please watch over & heal my family ... Amen."
I am also adding in those who are loyal friends. Ruby *o*

Comments: = Oh Boy does this world need prayers, Dr. Yanez. I am an old man. Have lived through many wars and losses of loved ones. But I cannot recall ever feeling that the world is sinking into utter chaos more than right now. At least during WW 2, America had real allies. What choices did they have if they wished to survive the Nazi monsters and their tentative allies. And it really does feel like global climate is changing. During our long history, climate always changes. Just keep on praying. I like that. And let us remember to find things to laugh about! A Sage in The Bronx

MY FRIEND PASSED LAST NIGHT

2011-05-17T09:45:00.000-07:00

After a long battle with Cancer, my friend passed last night. Many of you know that her daughter also recently died from Cancer.
Thank you all for your prayers. Sandie is finally able to rest. God bless you Sandie and Leslie. I love you. Your energy, pizzazz, zest for living and joy for making a wonderful party, will remain in my heart's memories of you and your husband Bernie.
When Sandie was initially diagnosed, she told me a heartwarming story about our sensitive therapy cat, Sir Magick. He had just been put to sleep from untreatable Lymphoma. Sandie said he materialized to her while she was in a great deal of pain. As in physical life, Angel Magick comforted her and gave Sandie solace. She had only met him once many years ago for five minutes. This was such a clear act of compassion. Thank you Wonderful Magick. You always know how to treat a girl. ;-) May you all "Rest Happily In Peace" and be nurtured by Almighty's Heavenly Love. amen

With All My Heart.... RubyNorma *o*

4 U All Who Have Nurtured

2011-05-08T20:42:00.000-07:00

4 U all who have nurtured people and animals, who have shown me love and compassion over the many years.....................
I love you, and wish you the best mommy day. Mothers aren't always those who give birth. They are those who have the strength,
awareness, and the spiritual depth to love and save others in the good times and in the not so good times. Thank you for being there for me. Thank you for the help you have shown to others. IMHO...... you are nurturers and in a way, my surrogate mother. I love you MOMMY Irene. RIP......
Love RubyNorma *o*

Comments: = One of the most beautiful blogs I ever seen. Thank you Ruby. These are such tumultuous times. Anything sweet and noble is a blessing to read. Joe K. NYC

Your blog really moved me. I love those colored photos. Wayne J. Montana

I wish you were our president. We need more love and less in the way of the ugly conflicts. Jennie V. Colorado

Dr. Yanez,

You hit the nail on the head with this blog. Truly, it's one of your best. I and my family thank you for being such a caring person. Val in New England

GENERATIONS ~ I Am A Mother o

2011-05-05T10:23:00.001-07:00

For me, the highest essence of familial ties is to visit it with the understanding of generations. In today's world, families are not keeping with the traditions of caring for the older set. My training was very different from that of our current youth. Old age homes were not in my scope of understanding since I was my grandmother's, father's and mother's caretaker when they took ill, as well as my husband's caretaker when he was dying from Cancer. It was beyond challenging, very harsh, and took away my own personal health to be this loyal being. Looking back now at the entire scope of the experience, I see that if I had to do this all over again, I would. Not because I am a great woman, but because it was and is, who I am.

One day, we all will age. If we don't then it means we died young. Will the new MEEEEEEE generations have anyone to personally care for them when they are no longer able to walk fast enough to keep up with the young ones, and have aged into not being of use to the younger people? Will anyone ever realize how much has been sacrificed in the name of not being bothered? OR......... I am too busy. OR........ I have to work. Or........ I just don't care? Who will remember loyalty to family when my generation is gone? Who will even bother to think that an older, infirm person is dying from loneliness? Somehow, after all is said and done, I am smiling to know, I really did care. RubyNorma *o*

PLEASE BE AN ANGEL, ADOPT A SHELTER ANIMAL

2011-04-18T08:43:00.001-07:00

Please be an angel and adopt a shelter pet when the time comes for you to consider adoption? They will fill your life with unconditional love. You will save a life. It's a win/win/deal!

So many are being euthanized these days that it is a heartbreak.

Over the years, I graduated from being a professional cat breeder to helping animals longing for a safe, permanent, loving home. It is so gratifying to save these animals. Living in a cage is no fun. Many have been abused.

A very special thank you to PAW PLACEMENT AND NOAH'S ARK for trusting me with your furries. They are so happy and loved.

Dr. RubyNorma Yanez, Ch.t *o*

COMMENTS: = We have both pedigreed and shelter pets. It is a blessing to save a life. Thank you so much for this posting to remind us all that these animals have no voice.

Anon and Family in Texas

Darlene Arden, Author, Certified Animal Behaviorist

2011-04-15T07:46:00.000-07:00

Darlene Arden is a fabulously gifted friend and writer. Her most recent book is helping people and animals have better lives. I am indebted to her for the expertise and simple language it is written. There are wonderful photos to enjoy as well as well-researched ideas for helping your animals. Thank you, Darlene.
Sincerely,
Dr. RubyNorma Yanez, Ch.t

Here's the link to her book on Amazon:

http://tinyurl.com/3dkgvm9

Here's her website:

www.darlenearden.com

Her Red Room blog:

http://www.redroom.com/author/darlene-arden

Her Pets Blog:

http://perpetuallyspeaking.blogspot.com/
COMMENTS:

Anonymous said...
We have been reading Darlene Arden's great blogs and books. They help us raise our dogs and cats with a more refined attidude. Thanks Dr. Yanez..
anon in CT

9:18 AM

Animal Planet Showing-Jackson Galaxy

2011-04-13T12:09:00.000-07:00

Dear Readers and Animal Lovers,
I received this post today about a showing of Animal Planet.
We saw this video and it really moved me b/c the animals were truly vicious before this gentle man came to the rescue. RubyNorma *o*
http://animal.discovery.com/videos/my-cat-from-hell-supertease.html

ANIMAL PLANET RESCUES RELATIONSHIPS AND FIXES UNRULY FELINES IN NEW SERIES MY CAT FROM HELL

- Cat Behaviorist Jackson Galaxy Stars in Three-Part Series Debuting May 7-

April 12, 2011 - Silver Spring, MD — For the first time on Animal Planet, the network will utilize a man who “speaks the language of cats” to tackle feisty felines and the human bonds they have threatened to break in the new series MY CAT FROM HELL. In this three-part mini-series premiering on Saturday, May 7 at 9 PM. (ET/PT), cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy brings his unique understanding of kitty nature to relationships on the verge of collapse due to aggressive and sometimes violent felines.

At first glance, Galaxy appears tough – with a shaved head, stylish goatee and multiple cat-themed tattoos – but his looks can be deceiving. When he forms a personal connection with problem cats and mentors couples in crisis and desperate to hold onto their furry companions, his softer side emerges. Armed with his trademark guitar case filled with cat toys and training aides, he investigates the reasons why these cats have evolved from cute kittens into unruly felines. Then, utilizing his 15 years of experience and proven training techniques perfected at countless animal shelters and in private consultations, Jackson works with both the cats and their owners in hopes of curbing their habits and rescuing them from these nightmare situations.

In each episode, viewers witness first-hand, in-home accounts of cat guardians struggling to reign in their feisty felines and once again find domestic harmony, including one woman’s emotional dilemma after moving cross country to live with her boyfriend only to discover that his cat does not want her there. In another story, Jackson attempts to save a fiancé who realizes he hates his bride-to-be’s cat and its dangerous habit of going from calm to vicious at a moment’s notice. With limited time and tons of work to do, it’s a race against the clock to save these relationships and the cats before it’s too late.

“I truly believe that I can walk into anyone’s home and use my special skills to resolve their cat issues, whether caused by the owner, the feline or both,” says Jackson. “If it keeps one cat out of a shelter or off the street, I know I have done my job.”

The video tease for the show is at http://animal.discovery.com/videos/my-cat-from-hell-supertease.html

and the press kit is at http://press.discovery.com/us/apl/programs/my-cat-hell/

There is also tons of info on Jackson at his site www.jacksongalaxy.com

Jackson Galaxy is available for media in New York City from April 18 – 22. He is available for media in Southern California this week and from April 25 to May 6. He is generally available via phone or email.

MY CAT FROM HELL is produced for Animal Planet by 3 Ball Productions. Melinda Toporoff is the executive producer for Animal Planet. JD Roth, Todd Nelson and Adam Greener are executive producers, and Mark Herwick is coexecutive producer for 3 Ball.

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Possible Gay Caveman in Czech Republic?

2011-04-10T12:51:00.000-07:00

Archaeologists discover first-ever 'gay caveman' in Czech Republic; man buried with pots, not tools

BY Philip Caulfield

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, April 7th 2011, 9:14 AM Daily News Illustration Archaeologists in the Czech Republic believe they have found the world's first known gay cave man. Take our PollQueer eye for the cave guy? Do you think there could have been a gay caveman? Yes. The archaeologists' arguments sound legitimate. No. Gay caveman? That sounds ridiculous. I'm not sure. Related NewsFor Russia, some love? America reaches arms deal with Russia: Kremlin sourceDoctors find foot-long surgical tool inside woman's abdomen five months after her surgeryPope Benedict taunted by elusive spiderObama scrapping missile shield for Czech Republic, PolandPresident Bush watches U.S. rout Czech RepublicU.S., Czech Republic sign defense agreementArchaeologists in the Czech Republic have dug up the 5,000-year-old skeleton of what they think may be the world's first known gay caveman. Scientists who found the body, which dates back to between 2900 and 2500 BC, said they suspect the caveman may have been a homosexual because he was buried in a way normally reserved for women of the era. The cave-dweller was placed in his grave with his head pointing eastward, along with several domestic pots and jugs, scientists said. Men of this era were typically buried pointing westward, surrounded by weapons such as battle axes and knives, and other tools. The suspected gay caveman did not have any weapons or tools in his grave. "From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake," archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova told The Telegraph newspaper. The man lived during the Copper Age in what is known as the Corded Ware culture, which flourished throughout most of Europe during the Stone, Copper and Bronze Ages. The culture received its name because its craftsmen often adorned pottery with chorded decorations. Archeologists Katerina Semradova said in a press conference Tuesday that scientists had discovered similar cases before, including one in which a female warrior was buried as a man and others where prehistoric witch doctors were buried in a style typically reserved for women. "But this later discovery was neither of those, leading us to believe the man was probably homosexual or transsexual," Semradova said.

COMMENTS: = similar burial rites for the Anazasi/Hohokam
anon in Arizona

The Donald ~ aka Donald Trump

2011-04-07T10:36:00.001-07:00

TRENDING: Trump sends investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama
By: CNN Political Producer Alexander Mooney

Washington (CNN) – Self-proclaimed birther Donald Trump is now so doubtful of President Obama's birthplace that he's sent a team of his own investigators to Hawaii in hopes of getting to the bottom of the issue.

That's according to Trump himself, who, in an interview with NBC, warned his investigators just might uncover "one of the greatest cons in the history of politics and beyond."

"I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding," Trump said an interview that aired Thursday Morning.

Asked if he has assigned people specifically to search in Hawaii, Trump said, "Absolutely."

The business mogul, who in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll is tied for second place among potential presidential candidates, also suggested the president is involved in an ongoing cover-up over the matter.

"He spent $2 million in legal fees trying on to get away from this issue, and if it weren't an issue, why wouldn't he just solve it?" he said. "I wish he would because if he doesn't, it's one of the greatest scams in the history of politics and in the history, period. You are not allowed to be a president if you're not born in this country. Right now, I have real doubts."

According to a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll, 72 percent of Americans say that the president was definitely or probably born in the U.S., with one four saying that he was definitely or probably born outside the country. But the survey indicates a partisan divide, with 43 percent of Republicans but only 11 percent of Democrats saying that Obama was definitely or probably born outside the U.S.

In 2008, the Obama campaign produced a certification of live birth that reports his birthplace as Honolulu, Hawaii – a document the Hawaii government says is official evidence of his birth in the state. Among other evidence of Obama's birth there is the fact the hospital where he was born took out ads in two Hawaiian newspapers in 1961 announcing the birth, while current Gov. Neil Abercrombie says he knew Obama's family and remembers his birth.

In the broad interview, Trump also insisted he's more serious than ever about mounting a presidential bid, but said he can't make a final decision until this season of "Celebrity Apprentice" wraps up.

"I hate to say it. I have the No. 1 show on NBC. Is that the correct statement? The "Celebrity Apprentice" is doing great," said Trump. "You're not allowed to have a show on and be a candidate. It's a great show and it's got phenomenal ratings, and until that show is over I can't declare, otherwise NBC would have to take the show off the air and that would be very unfair."

The show is set to wrap up in mid-May.

Cinderella Snow ~ Feline Health Intuitive

2011-04-05T13:13:00.001-07:00

This article and all photos are the property of Dr. Yanez. It was published in OUR CATS OUR DOGS MAGAZINE IN ENGLAND.

Feline Health Intuitive ~ Cinderella Snow
By Dr. InaNorma Yanez, Ch.t

Entering the world of professional breeding was a very exciting time in our indoor home cattery. We chose to work with exquisite Bengal Leopard Cats and haven’t ever regretted the decision. In one of our last articles we wrote how our feline genius, Sir Magick, trains the furrrr~babies to do therapy work. But, Cinderella Snow was unique from birth. She was the very first kitten born to us, and.... our first snow leopard.... all in one precious bundle. From the beginning, Cindy was super friendly, gregarious and mischievous to the point of having a fulltime personal comedy show going on in our own home. This cat literally has a sense of humor, an enormous ego, and is blessed with enough love for an army of felines. Once she was observing me cleaning the blades of a ceiling fan. I left the ladder in place to do something and when I returned, there was Cinderella Snowball on top of the ladder, using her paws to clean the fan blades. I had to give her a good washing after that and remove the ladder for her to re-access. hahaha ;) There are people who aren't as intelligent as some of my cats.

Cinderella was the first to leave the birthing box of her litter of five big fat healthy siblings. She was also the first to bravely go exploring. She’d push the others away from her mom’s teats whenever a meal was on her sweet mind. Nothing was sacred with this little precious one. She ate like a gorilla, jumped higher than all her siblings, (Bengals are phenomenal athletes) and got into tons of trouble by opening every door, drawer, closet, and cabinet she could find. With this amount of enthusiasm for life, we did not dream that Cindy would be inclined towards doing therapy work, let alone that she would be sensitive enough to sniff out illnesses and diseases. But that talent was soon to manifest itself in an unusual manner.

One day I went to the local gym and did my usual workout. By the time I came home my left shoulder felt like a heated, razor-sharp knife had been slicing through it. I lay down in bed to rest when Cindy pranced over and began her biscuit dough kneading on me. This snow leopard always purrrrrrs loudly when she massages while looking deeply and directly into my eyes. Normally Cinderella begins by massaging up and down the sternum and then goes directly to the right shoulder. But that day, she sniffed my “left” shoulder, did nothing to the sternum or right shoulder, and pointed with her nose and front paws directly to the area in my "left" shoulder that was in such severe knifing pain. I was absolutely amazed.

Another example of her sensitivity is when a patient came for counseling and Cindy decided to join us. She went directly over to the man’s right ear and sniffed it, just like she did with my shoulder, then pointed with her nose and paws and gently began massaging it. I asked the man if he had any discomfort there and he said, "It was just fine." Well, the next day he called saying that he had to cancel his business trip because he had a raging ear infection in his “right” ear. How did the cat know if he didn’t? Good question, glad you asked. ;)

One explanation is that we are all made up of electro-magnetic energies and impulses which are scientifically measurable by using sensitive medical machinery. Cinderella’s intuitive skills are such that she can somehow feel the imbalance in a patient’s energy-field, which we humans refer to as “dis~ease.” Needless to say, if Cinderella Snow decides to sniff out an area of my body and points, I take immediate notice, even if it feels well at that time.

Cindy was on the competitive show cat circuit for a number of years. Her Royal Highness retired after earning the highest possible title of Platinum Grand Champion. Our precocious girl asked to be retired because it got boring and she needed to move on with her interesting life. Here are Cinderella’s early baby and adult photos to enjoy. Some Seal Lynx Point Bengals’ eyes will turn from ice blue to iridescent shocking cherry red. The red in her adult photo’s eyes is not from the camera flash or red-eye. Sometimes the red covers part of the eyeball. Other times it is the complete eyeball that turns into a fire globe.

Is There Corruption In The FED?

2011-04-01T10:51:00.000-07:00

So many comments have come in that I have put a small sampling atop of the article. Ruby*o*
Anonymous said...
AMERICA IS DYING FROM INTERNAL CORRUPTION! All the futile wars are to cover up how corrupted the ever-growing-government and big businesses really are. They sleep in bed together. The American tax-payers are the biggest fools in the world for allowing it.
How tragic for a once great and independent nation! Just ask yourself the following question???
When was the last time The USA won a war after World War Two?
anon
"I do not care if the president is polka-dotted Chartreuse, just get us back to a balanced budget and out of these moronic wars so people can work and earn a living here in this land. Shipping out all our jobs is only one part of the corrupted thinking. I recall back in the early-to-mid-80's being told by many high ranking bankers that they were already shipping out 35% of all their jobs. The real numbers of lost American paid jobs today, would probably cause us all to have coronaries."
anon
The American public has been in the process of getting "dumbed down" since the thirties. History is no longer taught and we are doomed to become (or are we already) mediocre. Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. Just look at the local politics. After the last election, someone wrote that Sarah Palin was just one of us and that was not what we needed and that she should go on home. We needed the brilliance that we have now in the current administration. Well that brilliance has continued the trend toward bankruptcy. I do not care which party a person claims, the corruption runs so deep now that we may never be able to cleanse our country. We are supposed to be a government "of the people, by the people, for the people". Perhaps we should be looking at the "Of the people" part carefully in the future. I am not necessarily advocating Ms Palin, but I would shy clear of anyone who has a silver tongue.
A currently unemployed US citizen who has had enough!! anon

Islamic Sharia Law Muslims in America. Our Muslim President. Ignorant Liberals. Dumbed Down Americans. Mexican and other Illegals. The Federal Reserve Bank. The One world Government Organizations. General Electric. Free Trade Laws.
Uninvolved Americans (those who do not care) Greed and All Other Sins, The Godless Masses and Iran. anon

Libya-Owned Arab Banking Corp. Drew at Least $5 Billion From Fed in Crisis
By Donal Griffin and Bob Ivry - Apr 1, 2011 9:46 AM MT
Could it possibly be that American governmental, and big business rulers, are some of America's own worst enemies? What is your take, given this vital info about The FED? Is internal corruption at least as dangerous as Radical Terrorism for our very survival as a nation?
Please comment knowing that anger is permitted but no foul language is accepted? Thank you. Ruby *o*

Arab Banking Corp ., then part-owned by the Libyan state, used a New York branch to borrow at least $5 billion from the U.S. Federal Reserve in 2008 and 2009. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg News

Chart: Federal Reserve's Discount Window
Arab Banking Corp., the lender part- owned by the Central Bank of Libya, used a New York branch to get 73 loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve in the 18 months after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed.

The bank, then 29 percent-owned by the Libyan state, had aggregate borrowings in that period of $35 billion -- while the largest single loan amount outstanding was $1.2 billion in July 2009, according to Fed data released yesterday. In October 2008, when lending to financial institutions by the central bank’s so- called discount window peaked at $111 billion, Arab Banking took repeated loans totaling more than $2 billion.

Fed officials say all the discount window loans made during the worst financial crisis since the 1930s have been repaid with interest.

The U.S. government has frozen assets linked to the regime of Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi and engaged in air strikes against his military forces, which are battling a rebel uprising in the North African country. Arab Banking got an exemption that allows the firm to continue operating while barring it from engaging in any transactions with the Libyan government, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

Sanders Reacts
“It is incomprehensible to me that while creditworthy small businesses in Vermont and throughout the country could not receive affordable loans, the Federal Reserve was providing tens of billions of dollars in credit to a bank that is substantially owned by the Central Bank of Libya,” Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, wrote in a letter to Fed and U.S. officials.

The letter was addressed to Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and John Walsh, acting comptroller of the currency. The figure refers to the aggregate amount of loans the bank received under U.S. lending programs. Arab Banking, known as ABC, owed about $4 billion to the Fed under other bailout programs in the fall of 2009, data released in December show.

“ABC has a robust balance sheet, is amply capitalized and currently maintains a comfortable liquidity position,” the company said in an e-mailed statement. “ABC currently has no outstanding loans under any Federal Reserve, or other, emergency lending program.”

Libya’s Stake
Jack Gutt, a spokesman for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, declined to comment. Arab Banking said Dec. 2 that Libya’s stake in the Manama, Bahrain-based lender had increased to 59 percent.

“There was an uneasy detente between the United States and Libya” when the loans were made, said William Poole, senior economic adviser to Merk Investments LLC and a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. “It would not happen in the morning.”

The New York branch, on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan, deals mainly in trade finance, according to its website. David Siegel is the branch’s treasurer. The bank’s chairman is Mohammed Husain Layas, chief executive officer of the Libyan Investment Authority. The CEO is Bahrain-based Hassan Ali Juma.

“ABC’s New York branch conducts wholesale business and plays an important role in helping U.S. companies conduct business in the Middle East,” the company said in the statement. “The New York branch of ABC also participates in enhancing the liquidity of U.S. markets and virtually all of its employees are U.S. citizens.”

Company’s Loss
Arab Banking reported a loss of $880 million in 2008 as it took a $1.1 billion charge tied to structured investment vehicles and derivative products known as collateralized debt obligations. Arab Banking recovered during the next two years, posting profits totaling $265 million.

Libya previously shared the bank with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and the Kuwait Investment Authority, both sovereign investment funds. The Libyan Central Bank bought out the Abu Dhabi stake in 2010 and took majority control, which prompted Fitch Ratings in December to downgrade Arab Banking’s credit rating.

In March, after the U.S. froze Libya’s assets, Fitch downgraded the bank’s credit rating again, this time to “junk” status. Contracts to protect Arab Banking’s debt, which typically rise as investor confidence deteriorates, increased by 186 basis points to 500 during March. A basis point equals $1,000 annually on a contract protecting $10 million of debt.

Uncertain Outcome
“Nobody knows how the situation in Libya is going to work out finally and who will ultimately be in charge and obviously who will be running institutions like the central bank,” Philip Smith, a London-based Fitch analyst, said in a phone interview.

Under the asset freeze, the bank has been prevented from conducting transactions with the Qaddafi regime and can thus continue trading with other customers as usual, Smith said.

Arab Banking “has a policy of complying with all applicable sanctions regimes and has conducted, and will continue to conduct, its dealings in strict and total compliance with all relevant laws and regulations,” the company said in the statement.

The bank listed deposits of $17.5 billion at the end of 2010. According to a report from the Fitch Ratings firm, the Libyan Central Bank places “sizeable deposits” with the lender. Marti Adams, a spokeswoman for the Department of Treasury, declined to comment on whether Arab Banking is holding any frozen Libyan assets.

“It is today escaping the economic sanctions imposed to hobble Muammar Qaddafi’s brutal regime,” Sanders said in his letter. “Why would the U.S. government exempt the Arab Banking Corporation from economic sanctions when it is primarily owned by the Central Bank of Libya?”

Bloomberg News has posted the Fed documents for Bloomberg Professional Service subscribers, as well as online at www.bloomberg.com.

To contact the reporters on this story: Donal Griffin in New York at Dgriffin10@bloomberg.net; Bob Ivry in New York at bivry@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: David Scheer at dscheer@bloomberg.net

The Tokens and Jay Siegel

2011-03-29T18:22:00.000-07:00

Dear Jay and All Those I Used To Sing With When We were in HS,
Thank you for e-mailing this article, and RE-reminding my memory banks that we were once so young, and innocent in Brooklyn, New York. I am sincerely grateful to remember having once been a part your exquisite friendship, and singing harmony. This will be posted to Norma's Ark Blog. Congratulations on a life well-lived! ;-) With All My Love And Respect,
Norma Schwartz aka Dr. RubyNorma Yanez, Ch.t
March 29, 2011 Michael Sigman Writer/editor, music publisher 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' at 50: A Song for the Ages Posted: 03/28/11 03:28 PM ET Read More: Capitol Records , Dick Smith , Disney , George Harrison , Hank Medress , He's So Fine , Jay And The Americans , Jay Siegel , Jay Traynor , Mbube , Mitch Margo , My Sweet Lord , Pete Seeger , Phil Margo , RCA Records , Rome , She Cried , Solomon Linda , The Angels , The Chiffons , The Lion Sleeps Tonight , The Tokens , The Weavers , Wimoweh , Worc , Entertainment News Seventh grade metal shop had nothing to do with shopping and, for this suburbanite of Jewish descent, everything to do with avoiding death by power tool. But crucial as it was to focus single-mindedly on the grim task at hand -- keeping my fingers intact amid the drilling, hammering and sawing (or was the sawing in wood shop?) -- no one can survive on fear alone. Like many a twelve-year-old through the ages, I found salvation in the glorious sounds of pop music -- in this case, if memory serves, emanating from a portable radio that somehow made its way into the classroom. Perhaps the strangest and most evocative record of that season was "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens. Lead singer Jay Siegel's spectacular falsetto vocal turn, surrounded by African rhythms and otherworldly harmonies, transported me to a frighteningly beautiful world in which majestic creatures slumbered peacefully in fierce jungle terrain. It also provided my just-beginning-to-crack voice with a last gasp of natural soprano-hood. "Lion," which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, was originally written and recorded as "Mbube" by South African migrant worker Solomon Linda in the late 1930s. By the '50s, it had become a repertoire staple under the title "Wimoweh" for Pete Seeger and his hugely successful folk group The Weavers. Siegel grew up in Brooklyn listening to a ton of folk and country music and, fortuitously, learning to yodel. He loved the Weavers' "Wimoweh" and persuaded his groupmates -- Mitch Margo, Mitch's younger brother Phil and Hank Medress -- to record it for RCA, with lyrics added by George "Can't Help Falling in Love" Weiss. Despite what seems in retrospect to be the record's obvious greatness, no one -- least of all the Tokens themselves -- recognized the commercial potential of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." It was released as the b-side of the hookless Portuguese folk song "Tina." That would have been the end of that had not Dick Smith, an enteprising DJ at WORC in Worcester, Massachusetts, flipped "Tina" over and flipped over "Lion." Four weeks later the record was Number 1, a spot it would also achieve in 35 other countries. The young Tokens were not quite ready for prime time -- when an RCA honcho told the guys he was sending them to Rome, they packed their bags for the Rome in upstate New York. All these decades later, Siegel -- having settled a dispute with the Margo brothers, who still tour under the name The Tokens -- plays 60-80 shows a year fronting Jay Siegel's Tokens. A key member of Jay's ensemble, it turns out, is another Jay -- Jay Traynor -- who during each gig reprises his monumental 1961 hit "She Cried," which, just a few months after the release of "Lion," seemed similarly doomed to b-side obscurity. A song of pure heartbreak told from the heartbreaker's point of view, "She Cried" -- which, like "Lion," sports an African beat underpinning a haunting vocal -- was released on the flip-side of a track called "Dawning," and, also like "Lion," broke wide open thanks to an intrepid DJ. In this case it was a San Francisco spinner who, months after the sun had set on "Dawning," locked himself into his broadcasting booth and played "She Cried" continuously for four hours. The rest was chart history. The Tokens had several more '60s successes before shifting into producing hits for others. Siegel recalls that "He's So Fine," their first effort with the sublime girl group The Chiffons, was thought "too trite" for even b-side status by their label Capitol. It might have been lost forever had it not been picked up by tiny indie label Laurie, where an impossibly young promo guy/songwriter named Doug Morris believed in it and took it all the way to the top. The song has clearly stood the test of time -- the lyric is beloved for its immortal "Doo-langs" and the tune was unconsciously copied by George Harrison for his smash hit "My Sweet Lord." Three years later Morris wrote and The Tokens produced another Chiffons smash, "Sweet Talkin' Guy," which the group sang at my high school prom. (Doug Morris has had a fairly decent career too. A few weeks ago he left his long-time post as Universal Music Group chairman to join Sony Music as its CEO.) "Lion" has proven throughout its 50-year history to be a cat with considerably more than nine lives, having been recorded and performed by hundreds of artists and introducing itself to new generations of fans via its inclusion in the The Lion King, Disney's mega popular movie and Broadway show. The mobius strip of Golden Anniversary interconnectedness looped once more when Jay -- who will celebrate 50 years of marriage to his wife Judy later this year -- noticed that his wedding album features a picture of the happy couple superimposed on the sheet music of their wedding song, "Till," which was the first hit for the great girl group The Angels. As it happens, The Angels' "Till" will celebrate its own 50th at almost exactly the same time as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." And though I don't remember "Till" helping me through 7th grade the way "Lion" did, I do feel comfortable claiming a connection to the song. It was written by my dad. Follow Michael Sigman on Twitter: www.twitter.com/majorsongs

Mortal vs. Spiritual

2011-03-29T08:23:00.000-07:00

Mortal love is at times, a silly experiment. It has not always been successful at my end in far too many ways. Spiritual love is an eternal experiment. We have a spiritual love. Thank you for being in my life's journey. *o*

Hmmmmmm... This is so pretty I will post it on my blog and dedicate it to all I have ever loved.. Dr. RubyNorma Yanez *o*

Political IN-Correctness

2011-03-27T11:47:00.000-07:00

Political IN-Correctness ~ By Dr. RubyNorma Yanez *o*

"I believe in free speech, even if it occasionally offends people, b/c I was raised knowing the historical outcome of the Nazi's Crystal~Nacht Book Burnings. My entire childhood was spent with Nazi Death Camp Survivors. They held nothing back.

When we dumbed down Americans must politically and correctly pretend that the truth is a lie..... for those who who call us hideous names for simply telling the truth, we have already been subjugated!" Dr. RubyNorma Yanez *o*

Jalapeno Video Here is a short video I thought you might like.... Bellamy Brothers - Jalapeno Video ....... This song/video is causing a major upset in the US. People (politicians) are wanting it banned. The Bellamy's are on a bus tour right now in the states and are singing this on every stop & are getting ready to go overseas.This has caused quite the uprising. It's even been said that it should be banned in the US and that if the Bellamy's leave the US , they should not be allowed back. Plus people (politicians) are saying it offends them - guess the truth hurts! Radio stations all over are playing this song & telling people to go to You Tube for the video. Turn the sound Up: Jalapeno

Your America

2011-03-26T11:10:00.000-07:00

Is America sweating yet? Are we getting the government and governing we deserve? Are we courting our own disaster at nearly every level of our government, politics, healthcare, spending for entitlements, and corrupted leadership? Why has our growing, massive government become so over-paid for betraying us, while the private sector earns less than government workers for the same jobs? Is our government out of control?

All the photos above do represent a bit of your America.

I'm sorry I could not put more politicians of past presidencies on, but the blog could/would not handle it. Otherwise you'd also have seen Bush, Clinton, and Nixon, to name only a mere few.

I spent most of my life on the stage and never let them see me sweat. America is drowning in self-created quicksand, exponential debt, chronic warfare...... How sad for us now and for the future. We barely had our 15 seconds of stardom in the historical records. Please send in your comments and personal opinions on the state of your personal America? Remember, no dirty words or slanderings. Thanks. This blog should become very interesting in the next week or so with your important comments.

~ Blessings from and to Ruby *o*

ELIZABETH TAYLOR LAID TO REST

2011-03-25T14:02:00.000-07:00

GOD REST YOUR SOUL LIZ.
Ruby *o*

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Elizabeth Taylor:1932-2011
Dame Elizabeth Taylor has been laid to rest.
The Oscar winner, Hollywood legend and AIDS activist's funeral took place on Thursday afternoon at Forest Lawn Memorial Parks & Mortuaries in Glendale, Calif.
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Elizabeth Taylor was laid to rest this afternoon at a small private funeral service attended by family and close friends in The Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn-Glendale. The service was scheduled to begin at 2 PM but at Miss Taylor's request started late. Miss Taylor had left instructions that it was to begin at least 15 minutes later than publicly scheduled, with the announcement, 'She even wanted to be late for her own funeral,'a statement from the late actress' rep to Access Hollywood read.
Rabbi Jerry Cutler officiated the service and Colin Farrell, described by the rep as a "close friend" of the actress, recited Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Dame Elizabeth Taylor & Her Many Loves!
Afterward, Elizabeth's son Michael Wilding, her grandson Tarquin Wilding, and her daughter Liza Burton Tivey, read other selections.
Her grandson Rhys Tivey performed a moving trumpet solo of "Amazing Grace," according to the rep.
Elizabeth had a closed casket service and it was draped with gardenias, violets and lily of the valley.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: Elizabeth Taylor & Her Hollywood Pals
She was interred at the Great Mausoleum, "sheltered beneath a soaring marble Michelangelo angel," the statement concluded.
Forest Lawn in Glendale is also where Elizabeth's longtime close friend, Michael Jackson, is entombed. It was not immediately clear if Elizabeth chose to be buried near her friend or if it was merely a coincidence.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: What A Dame! A Look Back At The Life & Times Of Elizabeth Taylor
The Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn in Glendale is also where Michael was laid to rest in 2009. Clark Gable and Jean Harlow are also interred in the majestic burial site, according to Radar Online.
Five limousines carrying family members arrived shortly before the service, which lasted about an hour. White flowers were also spotted being delivered to the mortuary.
Prior to the service, Tom Lorez, a spokesperson for Glendale Police Department, told reporters that authorities expected a "peaceful event." He added that approximately "three dozen" guests would be attending the service.
Following the screen legend's death on Thursday, the Taylor family asked fans, in lieu of flowers, to contribute towards the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
The actress died peacefully at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in LA on Wednesday surrounded by her children, Michael Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd, and Maria Burton. She had been hospitalized six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, a condition with which she had struggled for some years.
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RubyNorma's Holocaust Remembrance Day o

2011-03-24T12:43:00.000-07:00

And to this I add = All those who went before us, who have been, and are currently slaves, slaughtered, tortured in the name of false and evil ideologies, and in memory of all who I have loved who are consciously residing in another dimension of life.

amen ~ RubyNorma *o*

Yom HaShoah -
Holocaust Remembrance Day
April 20, 2011
Remember the six million (6,000,000) Jewish lives that were lost during the Holocaust. ~Thank you *o*

KNUT THE POLAR BEAR

2011-03-21T10:20:00.000-07:00

Dearest Knut,
May you rest in peace in God's wonderful Heavenly Rainbow. We have loved you very much and still do. Your sweetness has touched my soul. ~ Ruby *o*

Mar 21, 10:34 AM EDT
Necropsy being performed on celebrity polar bear
AP Photo/Markus Schreiber

BERLIN (AP) -- Veterinary experts performed a necropsy Monday on Berlin zoo's celebrity polar bear Knut to try to determine why he died suddenly over the weekend.
The four-year-old polar bear died Saturday afternoon in front of visitors, turning around several times and then dropping to the ground, and falling into the water in his enclosure.
Polar bears usually live 15 to 20 years in the wild, and even longer in captivity, and the zoo is hoping the investigation may help clarify what happened.
Results were expected later Monday or on Tuesday, the zoo said.
In the meantime, people continued to flock to the zoo to sign their name in a condolence book in tribute to Knut.
"Every visit to the Zoo brought happiness, because he was such a warmhearted animal and he brought us all so much fun," visitor Eveline Plat told AP Television News.
Knut was rejected by his mother at birth, along with his twin brother, who only survived a couple of days. He attracted attention when his main caregiver, Thomas Doerflein, camped out at the zoo to give the button-eyed cub his bottle every two hours. The bear went on to appear on magazine covers, in a film and on mountains of merchandise.
Doerflein, the zookeeper who raised him, died in 2008 of a heart attack.
Soon after Knut and Doerflein's first public appearance in early 2007, fan clubs sprang up across the globe. "Knutmania" led to a 2007 Vanity Fair cover with actor Leonardo DiCaprio shot by photographer Annie Leibovitz, a film and plush Knut toys.
Zoo spokeswoman Claudia Beinek said that they had to set up another condolence book online to accommodate the outpouring of sympathy from around the world for the polar bear.
In addition, the zoo said it was starting a special account to accept donations on Knut's behalf, which will be used for polar bear research and the preservation of their habitat.
"He has brought joy to us, the Berliners and many others around the world," the zoo said in a statement. "Knut also was an icon for the endangerment of his species and natural habitats of all wild animals."

Member of original 29 Code Talkers dies in Arizona

2011-03-18T15:45:00.001-07:00

YAHOO AP – FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2009 file photo, Navajo Code Talker Lloyd Oliver displays a photo of himslef …
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CAMP VERDE, Ariz. – Lloyd Oliver wasn't much of a talker, but it was clear that he was proud to have his native language serve as a key weapon during World War II. As part of an elite group of Marines, he helped develop and implement a code based on the Navajo language that helped win the war.
Years later, his hearing remained impaired because of gun blasts and other explosives during the war. He rarely brought up his time as a Code Talker, but his eyes gleamed when holding a picture of himself in his uniform. He kept a Marine cap and a U.S. flag displayed on his bedroom walls in the home he shared with his wife on the Yavapai Apache Reservation.
Oliver's death Wednesday means that only one of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers survives — Chester Nez of Albuquerque, N.M. The 88-year-old Oliver died at a hospice center in the Phoenix suburb of Avondale where he had been staying for about three weeks, his nephew, Lawrence, said Friday.
"It's very heartbreaking to know that we are losing our Navajo Code Talkers, and especially one of the original 29 whose stories would be tremendously valuable," said Yvonne Murphy, secretary of the Navajo Code Talkers Foundation.
Hundreds of Navajos followed in the original code talkers' footsteps, sending thousands of messages without error on Japanese troop movements, battlefield tactics and other communications critical to the war's ultimate outcome.
The Code Talkers took part in every assault the Marines conducted in the Pacific.
Navajo President Ben Shelly called Oliver a "national treasure" and ordered flags lowered across the reservation in his honor.
Oliver, who preferred not to have a hearing aid, spoke audibly but his words could be difficult to understand.
The Code Talkers were instructed not to discuss their roles and felt compelled to honor those orders even after the code was declassified in 1968. His military records make a single mention of "code talker." He otherwise was listed as "communication duty," or "communication personnel."
Oliver was attending school in Shiprock, N.M., when he signed up for the Marine Corps in 1942 and was discharged as a corporal three years later. Much of his military record focuses on the financial support he provided for his siblings.
Oliver wrote in a 1943 document that his father died recently and his mother didn't make enough to take care of them. He would send $15 or $20 a month to his mother, Ollie, who worked at the U.S. Army's Navajo Ordnance Depot in Bellemont at the time.
"I am now the chief support," he declared in the document.
Oliver's brother, Willard, also served as a Code Talker and died in October 2009. Lawrence Oliver, who is Willard's son, said the two men never spent much time together because his father lived on the reservation and his uncle worked as a silversmith in the Phoenix area.
He recalled one day in the early 1970s when Willard Oliver looked toward a mountain on to a dirt road in the reservation town of Lukachukai and saw a man driving up.
"I'm looking for Willard Oliver," Lawrence Oliver recalled the man saying.
Turns out, the driver — Lloyd Oliver — was in the right place.
When he married his second wife, Lucille, in 2006 after they had been together for years, he was able to mutter "I do." But "those were the only two words," she said.
The couple moved to the Phoenix area last year as his health was failing. His family remembered him as a quiet, giving man.
"We will miss his wonderful smile most of all. He loved his family and was very proud to be a Navajo Code Talker," his stepdaughter, Louanna Hall said in a statement.
Oliver's attention to cleanliness was meticulous. He smoothed out wrinkles in a table cloth, picked up crumbs from the floor, and brushed the dirt off the stucco wall and rose petals off the driveway during a visit with The Associated Press in September 2009.
Oliver communicated with most people through body language or notes, though he could understand what was being said and particularly liked being spoken to in Navajo.
During the visit with the AP, he muttered his recollection of his service as "overseas in the war," and laughed off assertions that he was famous for it.
Oliver's life was peppered with honors and awards after the Code Talkers became well-known. He received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2000 and served as a guest of honor in the nation's largest Veterans Day parade.
Oliver traveled with his grandson and a dozen other Code Talkers to New York in November 2009. He smiled as he looked up at the tall buildings and visited HBO studios and Ellis Island, said Murphy, of the Navajo Code Talkers Association, who went along on the trip.
"He was such a sweet man," said Murphy, the daughter of a Code Talker. "His disposition and character spoke widely of him even though he wasn't verbal."

THE SCOOP ON ST. PATRICK

2011-03-17T14:36:00.000-07:00

By Mike Krumboltz, on Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:23pm PDT

Born
387
Died
17 March 493 or c 460
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodoxy Anglican Communion Lutheran Church
Major shrine
Glastonbury Abbey; Armagh Feast
17 March (Saint Patrick's Day)
Patronage
Ireland, Nigeria, Montserrat, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Boston, Loíza, Murcia (Spain), engineers, paralegals, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, invoked against snakes, sins, witchcraft [1]

Everybody is Irish on Saint Patrick's Day. So it's no surprise that just about everyone (and their Irish uncle) is looking up the history of the patron saint of the Emerald Isle.
Over the past 24 hours, Web searches for "st. patrick" and "who was st. patrick" have both tripled. Add to that the related searches on "was st. patrick really irish" and "did st. patrick get rid of all the snakes in ireland." Here now are some quick answers to those questions and more.
Was St. Patrick Irish? According to History.com
St. Patrick was actually born in Britain. At the age of 16, he was captured by Irish raiders and transported across the sea to Ireland. After spending six years in captivity, Patrick escaped, traveled back to Britain, and trained to become a priest. Once his training was complete, he returned to Ireland "to minister to Christians already living in Ireland and to begin to convert the Irish."
Did St. Patrick rid Ireland of snakes? Sorry, but no. It is true that there are no snakes in Ireland these days, but there never were any.

National Geographic explains that because Ireland is surrounded by chilly waters, there is no way snakes could migrate there in the first place. National Geographic speculates that the snakes could be symbolic of the "pagan ways" that St. Patrick drove out of Ireland.
Did Patrick use clovers while preaching? Legend says that he did. Catholic.org writes that Patrick used a three-leafed shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to the locals. However, other sites call this story just a myth. And, by the way, a bit of trivia regarding four leaf clovers. They are indeed rare, but they aren't exactly one in a million. It is estimated that there is one four leaf clover for every 10,000 three-leaf ones.
Patrick's lasting legacyAccording to author Thomas Cahill, Patrick may have been the first person in recorded history to speak out against slavery. In an interview with American Catholic, Cahill remarks: "The papacy did not condemn slavery as immoral until the end of the 19th century, but here is Patrick in the fifth century seeing it for what it is. I think that shows enormous insight and courage and a tremendous 'fellow feeling'—the ability to suffer with other people, and to understand what other people's suffering is like."
by Mike Krumboltz, Yahoo! Buzz Log
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Comments: = Anonymous said...
As a researcher on the subject of slavery, I find it very interesting that St. Patrick is believed to have spoken out against slavery so very very long ago. ;-D

Sincerely, Reverend Seann

JAPAN'S CATASTROPHIC DISASTERS

2011-03-12T09:01:00.000-08:00

Let Us Pray! How sobering and tragic!

Dr. RubyNorma Yanez *o*

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But for the Grace Of God Almighty, go we in America and other lands.

Your Prayer Partners

It's horrible. And it is still going on with the nuclear reactors not being under control.

Be sure to tell your friends and someday your children this horror that happened. The photos speak volumes.

God bless all that are impacted by this disaster!

Thank you for publicly joining people in prayer at this time of catastrophes.
My heart goes out to all who are dead, dying, and hurt by Japan's earthquake and then tsunami.
We live in Asia and are closely watching the nuclear tragedies unfold. Our government already
told us to stock up on iodine for our thyroids. and give it to animals if there is more tragedy coming.

Nerve Gas Used on Yemeni Protesters????

2011-03-11T08:30:00.000-08:00

Please correct me if I am mistaken, but... isn't it forbidden by international law to use NERVE GAS? If so, then who sold the NERVE GAS to Yemen? And, is it also being sold to other countries???? Dr. RubyNorma Yanez *o*

Yemen government forces have used nerve gas against anti-government protesters as President Ali Abdullah Saleh come under mounting pressure to step down, reports say. Witnesses present at the scene of Tuesday's anti-government protests in the capital Sana'a said that what was originally thought to be tear gas may have been some form of nerve gas, reports said on Wednesday. Military personnel used live bullets and some form of gas on Tuesday night to disperse a group of demonstrators who were trying to bring more tents into the protest area outside Sana'a University. One protester was killed and around 100 others were injured in the attack. The victims of the violence complained of symptoms similar to those caused by nerve gas, including temporary paralysis. "We are seeing symptoms in the patient's nerves, not in their respiratory systems. I'm 90 percent sure its nerve gas and not tear gas that was used," confirmed Dr. Sami Zaid at the Science and Technology Hospital in Sana'a. The use of nerve gas is forbidden under international law. Meanwhile, protesters thronged the streets of the Yemeni capital on Wednesday, calling on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign. Also on Wednesday, two more protesters were killed in clashes with regime forces in the province of Hadramout. Saleh has already been in office for over 32 years, with opposition members arguing that his long-promised reforms have not materialized. The country's opposition and religious figures have envisioned a roadmap for the ruler's departure before the end of this year. The head of state, however, has vowed to stay in power until the end of his term in 2013. Dozens of people have so far been killed and hundreds more injured in Sana'a crackdown on anti-regime protests.

Dead Soldier and His Army Dog

2011-03-10T10:26:00.000-08:00

I am so moved by this drama that it had to be posted for you all to read. If ever there was true love, this is it! Rest in peace Liam and Theo.
~ RubyNorma *o*

Dead soldier Liam Tasker and Army dog return home
L/Cpl Tasker's body returned to the UK, with the ashes of his dog Theo

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The body of a soldier who died along with his record breaking sniffer dog in Afghanistan last week has returned home to the UK.
Lance Corporal Liam Tasker, from Kirkcaldy in Fife, was shot dead while on patrol in Helmand province.
The ashes of the 26-year-old's dog Theo were flown home on the same plane.
L/Cpl Tasker, who was called a "rising star" by Army chiefs, was shot by Taliban snipers and Theo died of a seizure shortly after his master.
The soldier and his 22-month-old dog had made 14 finds in five months while on the frontline.
The pair's successes at uncovering so many explosions and weapons had resulted in their tour of Afghanistan being extended by a month.
Just three weeks ago, springer spaniel Theo was praised as a record breaking Army sniffer dog.
The body of L/Cpl Tasker and the ashes of Theo were flown to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire at lunchtime, before a cortege passed through Wootton Bassett, the Wiltshire town which has built up a tradition of welcoming back fallen heroes.

Creating Miracles In Our Lives

2011-03-09T14:05:00.000-08:00

There are never enough miracles to applaud in our lives, which is why I am resurrecting this blog from November 13, 2007. Please enjoy!

Love and Blessings from Ruby *o*

Norma’s Ark Blog = www.normasark.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

CREATING MIRACLES IN OUR LIVES
Can you remember the old phrase = "Who's the matter with me?" On occasion, the "WHO" is ourselves. Are you in a dead end rut with no place to go? Does it all seem so bleak you feel lost? Take heart. There is always hope and a way to create miracles in your life. An excellent way to gauge a positive turn in your world and move out of the corner of oblivion is to write down the things that are sapping your happiness. Please add that which pleases you, as well as all that should stay or go that is or is not bothersome. A neat way to create these lists is with columns written one right next to another on a wide enough lined piece of paper to do a compare and contrast.For example: you could allow three columns of this nature... TERRIBLE, NOT BAD, GOOD OR WONDERFUL. Once your private and personal list is written you will have a much clearer way of seeing your life. It allows you to put one aspect up against another for your meticulous scrutiny. Now comes the fun. What shall you vaporize out of existence? How do you get to keep some of the costly habits that are no longer affordable?Are you having a problem with the "this stays, this goes decision?" Work on what you feel certain of first. Then tackle the harder ones when you have thought out everything else with honesty. You'll be amazed at how quickly this process clarifies your thoughts and put them into perspective for you to understand what your habits, lifestyle, personality, family, friends and even co-workers are about. When you work on this list and complete it sincerely, cutting out the scraggly weeds and keeping what is beneficial, you will discover that you have more time, money, good health and happiness. The process is actually creating miracles in your own life that no outsider, therapist or spouse could provide for you. You personally did this cleansing for yourself. What a lovely gift from you to you.

NASA SCIENTIST FINDS EVIDENCE OF ALIEN LIFE

2011-03-07T11:03:00.000-08:00

NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life
Andrew Couts Andrew Couts – Sat Mar 5, 5:28 pm ET

Aliens exist, and we have proof.
That astonishingly awesome claim comes from Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, who says he has found conclusive evidence of alien life — fossils of bacteria found in an extremely rare class of meteorite called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites. (There are only nine such meteorites on planet Earth.) Hoover’s findings were published late Friday night in the Journal of Cosmology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
“I interpret it as indicating that life is more broadly distributed than restricted strictly to the planet earth,” Hoover, who has spent more than 10 years studying meteorites around the world, told FoxNews.com in an interview. “This field of study has just barely been touched — because quite frankly, a great many scientist [sic] would say that this is impossible.”
Hoover discovered the fossils by breaking apart the CI1 meteorite, and analyzing the exposed rock with a scanning-electron microscope and a field emission electron-scanning microscope, which allowed him to detect any fossil remains. What he found were fossils of micro-organisms (pictured below), many of which he says are strikingly similar to those found on our own planet (pictured above).
“The exciting thing is that they are in many cases recognizable and can be associated very closely with the generic species here on earth,” said Hoover. Some of the fossils, however, are quite odd. “There are some that are just very strange and don’t look like anything that I’ve been able to identify, and I’ve shown them to many other experts that have also come up stump.”
In order to satisfy the inevitable hoard of buzz-killing skeptics, Hoover’s study and evidence were made available to his peers in the scientific community in advance of the study’s publications, giving them a chance to thoroughly dissect his findings. Comments from those who decided to sift through the evidence will be published online, alongside the study.
“Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis,” writes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Dr. Rudy Schild, who serves as the Journal of Cosmology’s editor-in-chief. “No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to critically analyze an important research paper before it is published.”
Needless to say, if Hooverâ€™s conclusions are found to be accurate, the implications for human life will be staggering. Hereâ€™s hoping that heâ€™s right.
Update: While the Journal of Cosmology says that “no other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting,” some highly respected names in the scientific community are challenging the validity of Cosmology, and the findings of Dr. Hoover.
“[The Journal of Cosmology] isn’t a real science journal at all,” says PZ Meyers in Science Blogs, “but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth.”
So there you have it — this is either reality-altering news, or the work of kooks. Our hearts believe, but our brains are kind of bummed.
Edit: This article has been updated with an additional photograph and altered for clarity.

Comments: = Anonymous said...
Well now, it is long overdue to find this evidence. I personally have been abducted by alien life forms. It was a terrible experience. I am a pilot, and have higher education. To tell people means they usually think I am a nut job.

Comments: = Old news!!!! If looking for alien life, try Washington DC. I know those people are not human. anon in GA

Gadaffi On The Run

2011-02-21T12:44:00.001-08:00

Gadaffi on the run: Dictator may already have fled and be on his way to Venezuela after Libyan air force attacks civilians
By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 8:39 PM on 21st February 2011
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Libyan jets 'fire on protesters in Tripoli'
Bloody battle leaves second city Benghazi 'totally out of control'
Two Libyan fighter pilots defect to Malta after being told to attack civilians
Gaddafi's own diplomats at the UN turn on dictator and say he should go
Up to 400 feared dead after dozens killed in clashes
Justice minister resigns over 'excessive use of violence'
David Cameron declares regime response is 'appalling and unacceptable'
Gaddafi's son says: 'We will fight to the last minute, until the last bullet'Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358972/Libya-protests-Gaddafi-flees-Tripoli-parliament-building-set-alight.html#ixzz1Ed0w2dyL

Poem by Peggy Bouse-Ruby's Soul-Mates Remembered

2011-02-21T10:58:00.000-08:00

These photos represent some of the soul-mates I have cherished. Until we meet again.... I love you. Rest gently in God's nurturing essence. amen ~ Ruby *o*

Peggy Bouse said everything in her evocative poem, that I feel.

We go through life so often,
Not stopping to enjoy the day.
And we take each one for granted,
As we travel on our way.
For in your pain and sorrow,
An Angel's Kiss will help you through,
This kiss is very private,
For it is meant for only you.
We never stop to measure,
Anything we just might miss.
But if the wind should blow by softly,
You'll feel an Angel's Kiss.
A kiss that is sent from heaven,
A kiss from up above
A kiss that is very special,
From someone that you love.
So when, your hearts are heavy,
And filled with tears and pain.
And no one can console you,
Remember once again.
About the ones you grieve for,
Because you sadly miss.
And the gentle breeze you took for granted,
Was just an Angel's Kiss.
Author: Peggy Bouse

MY FRIEND ASKED ME HOW I AM DOING?

2011-02-18T10:58:00.000-08:00

My friend asked me how I am doing?
So I replied back........ Well, here goes - - - - - - - I smile often. Laugh often. Make believe often. There are enough medical issues to choke on. Rather not discuss them or give energy to them.

The world is !@#$%$ insane so I cannot listen to news. This land is in turmoil and broke so I have stopped listening when my pals, who collect or are praying to collect retirement pensions, bitch that they are scared sh-tless they will lose their pensions b/c America is exponentially bankrupted. Nothing lasts forever. Not even a great country or an Empire, not insolvent Federal/State/City governments, nor a brainwashed population chronically addicted to borrowing and spending what they themselves refuse to save for.

And last but certainly not least, I thank and love you for even bothering to ask! Grins ;-) Are you sorry you asked???????????? Many hugs and prayers go your way. Surely you are a living and adorable doll for caring enough about me to ask how I am. Thank God for my sense of humor.

Love *o* and a few kisses oxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Your Grateful Pal Ruby *o*

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "MY FRIEND ASKED ME HOW I AM DOING?":

At least you still have a sense of humor. Being unemployed for a year, unwillingly pulling my two kids out of college, job hunting until I am blue in the face, and then watching how the assorted spendaholics in government are wasting taxpayer money non-stop, I might have to say that my sense of humor is asleep.Thank you for saying what I feel and do not know how to say.

Anon in NYC and Family

Yes, That's exactly what I was trying to say.
SB AZ

You must be joking on me Dr. Yanez. Why so pessimistic? Can't you see how wonderfully the world, and our government are managing all our borrowed trillions of unending debt? We borrow like addicts. We spend like raving maniacs, giving money to dictators who pocket it and have Swiss bank accounts..... We fight wars in foreign lands to destroy them and rebuild them. We cannot protect our own borders because your government keeps lying and says they are safe. We owe our future children's vital organs. There's nothing to complain about. Just take our mind-controlling pills and shut our mouths while the government destroys our once upon a time great nation!
ANON in America

Native American Wolf Wisdom-Author Unknown To Me

2011-02-16T12:34:00.000-08:00

This Native American Wolf Wisdom is a big favorite of mine.

Author Unknown To Me

http://normasark.blogspot.com/

Probably the simplest way I have heard life explained...

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil - It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good - It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:

"Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

All content of Norma's Ark Blog is copyrighted

2011-02-16T12:28:00.000-08:00

All content of Norma's Ark Blog is copyrighted.

Periodically, I will post this. Thank you.

Ruby *o*

Army admits Gulf War medical records destroyed

2011-02-15T07:59:00.000-08:00

I once had a vet patient who was gravely ill from The Gulf War and the government told him he was crazy.
Believe me, this poor soul was NOT crazy! ~ RubyNorma *o*

Army admits Gulf War medical records destroyed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feb. 11, 2011 08:11 AMWTSP-TV, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A letter from the Department of the Army telling units to destroy their records after the end of Operation Desert Storm has made it more difficult for injured veterans to get the medical benefits they need.
The letter, never made public before now, says units were told to destroy their records because officials had no room to ship the paperwork back to the United States. The letter goes on to say it was in direct contradiction to existing Army regulations.
"This could have been one, five, six, a couple of hundred or this could be thousands (of soldiers)," says Andrew Marshall, a Florida regional officer with the nonprofit Disabled American Veterans group. "You don't know."
One solider trying to get help from the Veterans Administration for combat-related injuries says he has been turned down because his records are missing. He did not want to be identified.
He says he has all the medical records for the time he was in the states, but the records for everything that happened outside of the country are gone.
Marshall says the Army should have backups to the records destroyed in the Persian Gulf.
But the Army's letter says several years after soldiers began putting in medical claims, it was discovered all records below the brigade level no longer existed.
Operation Desert Storm pushed Iraqi troops out of Kuwait but kept Saddam Hussein in power and lasted from Aug. 2, 1990, to the cease-fire April 11, 1991. In the conflict, 383 service members died; as of last year, 467 were reported injured. About 2.225 million troops served in the war, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Not just the after-action reports have been destroyed or are missing. According to some files, when some veterans come to the Veterans Administration to get help for service-related disabilities, records show they served, but medical records are missing.
That means when the vets make claims, they are turned down.
Another Gulf War vet who also didn't want to be identified said what disturbs him most is the lack of recourse.
This veteran served 20 years in the Army. The Veterans Administration has documentation that he served in the 82nd Airborne division as an Army ranger and made 125 parachute jumps. All of his claims, including hearing loss, ankle and back injury, have been denied because efforts to obtain his service medical records were unsuccessful.
The Department of Defense did send a letter telling the same soldier that he and others in his unit were in an area where exposure to nerve agents sarin and cycolosarin was possible, but they should not worry about any side effects.
"So we all got exposed to nerve agent as well, and according to the military, that is never going to affect us," he said. "They just wanted to advise us that we've been exposed."
Rep. C.W. "Bill" Young, R-Fla., says he did not know of the Army's letter until now. His office asking the Defense Department to look into the matter.Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/02/11/20110211gulf-war-medical-records-destroyed.html#ixzz1E2i76d79

2011-02-05T07:49:00.000-08:00

This post is being prompted by a few articulate patients of mine who have had the same experiences and required help in dealing with the traumatic reality of medical mal-practice. ~ Ruby *o*

Blessings for everything! Be happy. Do you realize?????????? Our mortal life is so short down here. Been gazing at an ancient photo of my mother (the best and most loyal friend in this life) near the very end of her relatively brief stay here.... and decided to make it my screen saver. It helps me when I am missing her and my deceased loved ones.
Have any of you lost your cherished ones.... both people and pets, to medical mal-practice? If so, and if you wish to discuss this with me, then know that that's how my mother Irene, first husband Felipe, and maternal grandmother Minnie all met their ends.
There are pensive times when I almost cannot believe it. Then I realize how common medical mal-practice really is, and how adept some unscrupulous people are at erasing and fudging up damning medical records in a frantic hurry to evade punishment! On the other side of this equation, are those needless and unwarranted lawsuits against innocents, who then have to defend themselves. Isn't life a strange and wondrous spiritual and emotional challenge? ~ Love Ruby *o*

The Mirror Edmund Burke, 1729 - 1797, Irish Philosopher

2011-02-04T16:58:00.000-08:00

I look in the mirror
And what do I see?
A strange looking person
That cannot be me.

For I am much younger
And not nearly so fat
As that face in the mirror
I am looking at.

Oh, where are the mirrors
That I used to know
Like the ones which were
Made thirty years ago?

Now all things have changed
And I`m sure you`ll agree
Mirrors are not as good
As they used to be.

So never be concerned,
If wrinkles appear
For one thing I`ve learned
Which is very clear,

Should your complexion
Be less than perfection,
It is really the mirror
That needs correction!!

PLEASURES

2011-01-27T12:44:00.000-08:00

What is more beautiful than to see someone at any age smiling with happiness? The little girl is not only adorable to look at, but her pleasure in holding the doll and wearing grandma's shower cap shows on her face.

The graduating girl is so glad she is rid of High School she beams with delight that this part of her education is finally over.

The mature woman is celebrating her 80-something birthday. She has survived most of her siblings, her husband, and many of her aged friends. She is with family and enjoying the party they are giving her. Look at her face. She is happy.

Happiness and pleasures come in many formats. I keep looking for them and enjoying them more now. The reason is that life, at best, is brief. We come here for the smallest amount of time to do whatever it is we are supposed to do, and then we return to the fold. Why not make it as pleasurable as we possibly can, even if life throws us curves? It is too easy to fall into the victim category. I have done it and it is unhealthy. You have done it and it is still unhealthy. Choice to view life negatively is ours. Choice to view life positively is also ours. Which one do you prefer? Which one is your most frequent companion?

I have seen so many of my family, friends, co-workers, and pets depart this earthly existence. Most weren't ready to go. Most would have stayed on here if only they could have. Did they all make the best of their lots? Did they enjoy their brief stay?

I grew up with many who miraculously survived the Nazi Death Camps. These people visited my father constantly and I had to hear all of their stories as a child. It was awful. I would have nightmares remembering what they suffered and how they lost their families. Yet, those who survived, made amazing lives for themselves, in spite of what they endured. They must have known the true value of life and realized that unless they made each second count and be important, that life simply did not have value.

I applaud the courage to face each day and make it the best day you can.

Think about this and let me hear what gives you the most pleasure in your lives? Smiles from and to RubyNorma *o*

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The most pleasure in my life? .... easy! My Saviour and my cats! ~ Fiona

I really appreciated these photos and your thoughts and perspective!!! ~ Debbie

Well said.....life doesn't cause us suffering, it's what we think of life that does. ~ Sharon

I just loved this my dear girl, you are so special..
Hugzzzzzzzzz to ya. ~ Sherry

Para-NORMA-lly Yours ~ Smokey

2011-01-25T11:28:00.000-08:00

Many decades ago when I was probably nine-ish, Gorgeous Tuxedo Smokey entered my life. These are my only surviving photos that include him, his mother Biggie, and a sibling named Fluffy. For the precious few months we had together before he disappeared permanently, Smokey became my soul-kittie. He learned everything on one try. He kissed me all the time with affection. He knew what I was thinking telepathically. In the days of Smokey and me, back in The Stone Age...... most cats lived outdoors, only came in during bad weather, and did not get altered or use litterboxes.

Smokey did not return for food one day, and it caused me a trauma so severe, that I literally chose to forget it until my dear friend's dog was put to sleep a few years ago. This particular night I simply couldn't sleep and felt very anxious, but did not consciously know yet that they had to put their failing dog to sleep. I fitfully slept and then saw Smokey as vividly as my keyboard which is right in front of my eyes as I type these words for you to read.

Smokey showed me what had transpired with my friend's dog, and then led/pranced her across The Rainbow Bridge with me following gingerly behind them. I saw so many of my deceased loved ones waving to me on the "OTHER SIDE!" As I followed Smokey and my friend's dog to Rainbow, I tried to cross over with them. But alas, I was told, "It wasn't my time yet." Then I awoke to see it was only five a.m. and the phone was ringing. My girlfriend was sobbing on the other end and told me they had just put her dog to sleep. Everything I saw in the dream and Smokey showed me was precisely what my bereaved friend said on the phone at that ungodly hour.

I pray with every fiber of my being that God Almighty allows me to sweetly enjoy all those who I so cherish when it is my turn to leave here for Rainbow. In the meantime, please direct your "Para-Norma-lly Yours" comments to the blog and it will surely be printed for all the readers to ponder and enjoy! ~ Blest Be. RubyNorma *o*

Comments: =

1-RubyNorma,
We once lived on your block. What a surprise to see your long ago kitties.
Your Brooklyn, NY Neighbors from many eons ago. Marilyn

2-Over the years we have had many unusual encounters with our deceased loved ones. I used to think it was odd. Now I think it is normal. Roger in Tucson

3-Do you actually want me to believe this? I find it hard to accept. anon

4-We come from India, where the belief in paranormal events is daily life.
What a stunning visit you had with your precious Smokey. Of course he
was guiding your friend's dog to the other side. Thanks for sharing this.
Dahinha

5-I lost my sight many years ago and have had to overcome this by enhancing the other senses.
Amazingly, my ESP kicked in bigtime to help out. Thank you for telling us this story that
obviously means so much to you. When my seeing eye dog crossed over to Rainbow, after
I grieved beyond words, he came back to visit regularly. True love does not recognize different
dimensions of consciousness. Ama Rose in Wyoming.

Aunt Kay Simmons Blumberg

2011-01-23T11:31:00.000-08:00

This is the first of more blogs to come on....

MY AUNT KAY SIMMONS BLUMBERG. The photo is one of her now famous pictures to grace the NYC art galleries. I can say, in all honesty, that Aunt Kay taught me more about many things than did my own family. She came into my life via marriage. Our beginnings were tumultuous at best. After a number of years and Aunt Kay becoming almost deaf, we began a very long and remarkably deep letter-writing relationship that brought us both to the point of truly loving and respecting each other. I miss you terribly, even now Aunt Kay. RIP... Thank God we became such close friends.

To be continued - - - - - -

Keith Olbermann gives abrupt goodbye to MSNBC show

2011-01-22T08:03:00.000-08:00

I consider this article important enough to print on Norma's Ark. www.normasark.blogspot.com/

Please comment? Thank you in advance. Ruby *o*

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer David Bauder, Ap Television Writer – Sat Jan 22, 3:49 am ET
NEW YORK – Keith Olbermann was MSNBC's most popular personality and single-handedly led its transformation to an outspoken, left-leaning cable news network in prime time. Despite that, he often seemed to be walking on a tightrope with his job. Friday night, it snapped.
Olbermann returned from one last commercial break on "Countdown" to tell viewers it was his last broadcast, and read a James Thurber short story in a three-minute exit statement. Simultaneously, MSNBC e-mailed a statement that "MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract." The network thanked him and said, "we wish him well in his future endeavors."
Neither MSNBC President Phil Griffin, Olbermann nor his manager responded to requests to explain an exit so abrupt that Olbermann's face was still being featured on an MSNBC promotional ad 30 minutes after he had said goodbye.
Olbermann was nearly fired in November, but instead was suspended two days without pay for violating an NBC News policy by donating to three political campaigns, including the congressional campaign of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. He returned and apologized to his fans, but not the network.
MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines insisted Olbermann's exit had nothing to do with the acquisition of parent company NBC Universal by Comcast, which received regulatory approval last week. That deal marked the exit of NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker, who saw Olbermann's value in turning around a once-unprofitable network, despite headaches the mercurial personality could sometimes cause his bosses.
"There were many occasions, particularly in the last 2 1/2 years, where all that surrounded the show — but never the show itself — was just too much for me," Olbermann said in his exit statement. "But your support and loyalty and, if I may use the word, insistence, ultimately required that I keep going. My gratitude to you is boundless."
Olbermann's father, Theodore, who was often cited when his son discussed problems in the health care system, died last March. His mother died the year before.
"A lot of people are trying to figure out if this was truly voluntary or not," said Adam Green, co-founder of BoldProgressives.org, which collected thousands of petition signatures urging Olbermann's reinstatement following last fall's suspension.
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After Giffords was shot in the head on Jan. 8, Olbermann took to the air with an emotional editorial that night saying politicians and talk show personalities — including himself — need to swear off any kind of violent imagery so as not to incite anybody into acts like the Giffords shooting.
Olbermann's peripatetic career landed him at MSNBC eight years ago — his second prime-time stint on the network — with a humorous show counting down the day's top stories. That changed on Aug. 30, 2006, when Olbermann aired the first of a series of densely-worded and blistering "special comments," this time expressing anger at then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's criticism of opponents to the war in Iraq.
More anti-Bush administration commentary followed. Olbermann dropped any pretense of journalistic objectivity, and he became a hero to liberals battered by the popularity of Fox News Channel and its conservative commentators. Olbermann openly feuded with Fox, often naming personalities like Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck one of his "worst persons in the world" for some of their statements.
"Countdown" became MSNBC's most popular show. Instantly, a network that had often floundered in seeking a direction molded itself after Olbermann. Opinion was in, and MSNBC's prime-time lineup was filled out with Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell, who both had been subs for Olbermann when he was away.
Olbermann, before leaving the show with a final signature toss of his script toward the camera on Friday, thanked his audience for sticking with him. As was often his habit on Friday nights, he read a Thurber short story, this one titled "Scottie Who Knew Too Much" and published in 1940.
The story's final line: "It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all of the answers."
He thanked several people, including the late Tim Russert, but pointedly not Griffin or NBC News President Steve Capus.
He said he was grateful to the network that he was given time to sign off, noting that when he left ESPN in the 1990s, he was given 30 seconds — cut in half at the last minute to get in tennis results.
David Brock, founder and CEO of the liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America, said Olbermann "led the charge" against "conservative misinformation in prime time."
"Keith is an innovator and extremely talented broadcaster who showed there was a market for progressive views on cable news," Brock said. "I'm sure we'll be hearing more of him soon, and I eagerly await hearing of his next move."
The mood was different at Newsbusters, a website operated by the conservative Media Research Center: "You guys at Newsbusters should really break out the champagne and party," wrote one reader about Olbermann.
The Cornell graduate first became known for his work on ESPN's "Sportscenter," where he also cultivated a reputation for being talented but difficult to work with. His first MSNBC stint ended in the late 1990s when he quit, complaining his bosses were telling him to talk too much about President Bill Clinton's impeachment scandal.
MSNBC announced that O'Donnell, who had frequently filled in for Olbermann before starting his own 10 p.m. show, will take over Olbermann's time slot starting Monday. "The Ed Show," with Ed Schultz, will move to 10 p.m. Cenk Uygur of the Web show "The Young Turks" will fill Schultz's vacated 6 p.m. time slot.
Olbermann's plans are unclear. He signed a four-year contract with MSNBC two years ago; contract buyouts typically include noncompete clauses that keep a personality off TV for a period of time.
CNN has continued to struggle in prime time, most recently with a program in Olbermann's time slot hosted by Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker. Bringing Olbermann on, however, would mean a dramatic shift in the network's determined nonpartisan stance, and there was no indication such a change was imminent.

Suicide bombing in Iraq kills 52 police recruits

2011-01-18T09:29:00.000-08:00

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By LARA JAKES and SAAD ABDUL-KADIR, Associated Press Lara Jakes And Saad Abdul-kadir, Associated Press – 53 mins ago
BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of police recruits on Tuesday, killing at least 52 people and undercutting Iraqi security efforts as the nation struggles to show it can protect itself without foreign help.
The death toll was still rising hours after police said the bomber joined hundreds of waiting recruits and detonated his explosives-packed vest outside the police station in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, some 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad.
The attack starkly displayed the Iraqi forces' failure to plug even the most obvious holes in their security as the U.S. military prepares to withdraw from Iraq at the year's end. One recruit who survived the blast said the jobseekers were frisked before they entered the station's yard.
"We were waiting in the line to enter the police station yard after being searched when a powerful explosion threw me to the ground," said recruit Quteiba Muhsin, whose legs were fractured in the blast. "I saw the dead bodies of two friends who were in the line. I am still in shock because of the explosion and the scene of my two dead friends."
Loudspeakers from the city's mosques were calling on people to donate blood for the wounded. An Iraqi television station broadcast footage from the scene that showed pools of blood, bits of clothing and shoes of the victims scattered near a concrete blast wall.
Tikrit police put the death toll at 52, with at least 150 wounded. Dr. Anas Abdul-Khaliq of Tikrit hospital confirmed the casualty figures.
Tikrit is the capital of Sunni-dominated Salahuddin province, and the city sheltered some of al-Qaida's most fervent support after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion ousted Saddam.
Salahuddin provincial councilman Abdullah Jabara accused al-Qaida of being behind the attack.
"The aim of this terrorist attack carried out by al-Qaida operatives is to shake the security in the province and to bring back instability to Tikrit," Jabara said. "The security forces shoulder responsibility for this tragic incident."
Jabara said insurgents successfully exploited what he called "inefficiencies" and "breaches" in security measures, calling it "an indication that the terrorists are still on the job and all security forces should be on high alert all the time."
One Tikrit policeman said at least two of the dead were police officers. A second police official said a grenade that had not exploded was found near the scene.
The group of recruits was the first to vie for 2,000 new police jobs that Iraq's Interior Ministry recently approved for Salahuddin. They were waiting for interviews and medical checks as part of the application process, police said.
Both policemen spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
Insurgents have long found recruitment centers a favorite target, taking advantage of lax security measures just outside protective barriers at police stations and the confusion caused by desperate jobseekers scrambling for work in a country with an unemployment rate as high as 30 percent.
A similar strike on an Iraqi recruitment center and army headquarters in central Baghdad last August left 61 dead and 125 wounded in what was one of the deadliest attacks of the summer. Two weeks later, militants attacked the same building again, detonating a car bomb and trying to shoot their way in, killing eight and wounding 29.
Tuesday's attack was Iraq's deadliest since early November, when a series of bombings on mostly Shiite neighborhoods killed 76 across Baghdad, and followed a weekslong lull that saw mostly small-scale bombings and shootings instead of spectacular violence. It served as a reminder of how unpredictable Iraq's security remains, and that progress can be measured only in small steps.
Taxi driver Abdul-Hamid Mikhlaf described the scene in Tikrit as "horrific."
"I saw wounded people running in my direction calling for help and asking me to take them to the hospital immediately," he said. "I saw several bodies on the ground as the policemen started to shoot in the air."
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Associated Press writer Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report from Amman, Jordan.

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