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It has been some time since I have made a post that is of the nature that this one will be but it needs to be done and why not me. So here goes…
In the time that I have been part of the group known to the public as #Anonymous I have seen many things and have tried my best to help just the same. Up until recently I held my involvement with #Anonymous a closely guarded part of my life to protect (so I thought) those that I loved and those that I helped that I may not love but neediness does not know the boundaries of man within the scope of what we have come to see as boundaries. Mankind has drilled so hard at the need to categorize things in order to understand that we forgot the most basic of things that drove us as a species in the beginning. Before you get excited about the "it" that I am referring to, "it" would not be sexual of nature so sorry folks but this is not that kind of post but stay tuned because what comes from my lips no one knows not even #thehappyhypocrite knows in any degree nor does he really care for diplomacy. These posts will piss you off but rest assured I am pissing in everybody else's Cheerios as well, therefore I must say that your are most welcome.
I took off the mask and stayed in the fight because why in the hell not. I put a large amount of time and self into my #Anonymous and there was not anyway I would leave my brothers and sisters to fend for themselves in this mission of OURS. And I do mean OURS, as in the whole damn planet because we are not just for #"Murica nor #blacklivesmatter nor or any other group. We are simply doing our part in trying to bring back our community and ultimately our humanity. That is what led to this post as you will see now….
Shortly after "coming out" as it were on Facebook with my three accounts and two pages of which I will not link to in this post because this is for a brother and I will not jump in with links on that. Anyway I met a fellow anon (short for Anonymous Member) that goes by the name Sage Wolf (cool name right), and seeing that he is anon and that I am anon and that his history of posts were not this mass of hatred and what I like to call fuckery and stoopidness, I see that man a friend request. He accepted (cause I am the shiznitz) and anon family has begun. Then I see a post about him needing some help so I go to read what this "help" was and what I may be able to do about it or for him. I go over the post and watch the video and I have to help. His family is in need of home repairs to properly insulate and heat their home in an area that does get quite cold. I live in Las Vegas so anything is cold as ice to me, but I grew up in the Midwest so I know what winters can get like and I knew that I would not have money so I offered what I could. This happens to be talking and posting things online until the point of madness for people. So I share his video and post everywhere I can think of and send it everywhere I can think to get exposure and hopefully help. But you know what happens. What "humanity" does to this giving fellow human being. They report him and his post. He was simply asking for help with the costs to fix all the issues with the home so that the children could have ample heat and maybe a warm Chriistmas this year and some grinches out there decided it fell onto their shoulders to report him and get the post removed. With what I have seen posted on numerous webpages including good old Facebook, there is not a reason that comes to mind to report this post unless of course your desire is to watch children suffer through Christmas. All I have to say any further on that subject is that you sir/madam are no longer desired to be in the human species and are therefore caste out from this species along with rights, privaleges and status. Be gone with you.
Back to Sage and his quest to help his family with a warmer Christmas. As I do not want to cloud what is needed I have included the videos in this post along with the message from Sage. I have linked to where money can be donated and Sage's Facebook account so that readers can reach out to him directly. Please show me that "Humanity" is not done for. Please donate cash if you can, or share this post across your network if you cannot. I do not want to think or know that I brought children into a world that is an attitude of "MEH" to all things.
SAVE HUMANITYSAGE's STORY - I felt it best to start this with a post of his I saw that really spoke to me about who he is.
Language is not just script or vocalizing. Its an entity within itself, and to be blind to its magnitude; that it speaks from in the many dimensions it reaches into. Is the very understanding we lack in. It is the I in me, and the me in I.
Sage can be found on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/sage.wolf.35For Donations please send donate to the following places if you can….
Paypal -
https://www.paypal.me/sagewolfGoogle Wallet - Please Contact through
Facebook as I will not give out email addresses
I have also started a GoFundMe account for this activity. I am trying to get $2000 in total so if you can donate please do so as every $1 counts towards the goal. Once the campaign is over I will send all donated funds to Sage through his paypal account listed above and I thank each and every donator right here and right now because I know humanity has the heart. The person, persons or company that donates the largest amount can have an advertisement of their choice placed as the header image on each of my social sites. All other donators will receive a shout out across all of my social networks. So please be sure to shoot me a note about on what and how much and the name that you would like props to go to. You can find the GoFundMe here:
https://www.gofundme.com/bgedae6cVideos Are Located here:
https://youtu.be/WEZw-XUGXUMhttps://youtu.be/w3CSEtzF9Sghttps://youtu.be/r9yTMH3CzhY
About your Book Roll Call, A True Crime Prison Story of Corruption and Redemption ( Roll Call Volume 1 )
Roll Call shines a light at the dark, hidden underbelly of the U.S War on Drugs. The author...
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About your Book: Shadow Run
Someone is trying to kill Susan Tanner!
A Federation Fleet captain, she had not commended a ship since losing Defiant ten years ago during a colony’s bloody rebellion....
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About your Book Dantalion of the Goetia: Taste The Obsession Of A Demon
Dantalion, an immortal angel of God, has fallen from grace and is condemned as one of 72 demons of an ancient 17th century...
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Homicide Detective John Cooper has always followed the evidence to solve any case; that is until a mysterious caller begins to make him question that evidence. With the murder...
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Joe B. enjoys the sweet life as a vice president at a huge conglomerate, Universal Whirligig. But along with the Big Boss' favor, he has also gained the notice of a bitter...
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How can a boy succeed where an army has failed?
Tjaden, a young man who aspires to be an Elite soldier, blames himself when Elora’s beautiful face is disfigured by a...
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About Your Book: BreakupAid
BREAKUP is a brutally honest and surprising divorce memoir, written as a journal in real time. The narrative interweaves the story of Averbach's painful divorce with his...
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About your Book: Sofia's Legacy
In Sofia’s Legacy, the second novel in author Marilyn L Rice’s fascinating trilogy, Sofia has died, but has come back from “upstairs” to watch her own funeral. She...
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About your Book: Sofia's Legacy
In Sofia’s Legacy, the second novel in author Marilyn L Rice’s fascinating trilogy, Sofia has died, but has come back from “upstairs” to watch her own funeral. She...
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About Your Book: BreakupAid
BREAKUP is a brutally honest and surprising divorce memoir, written as a journal in real time. The narrative interweaves the story of Averbach's painful divorce with his...
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It’s been twenty years since that fateful winter night in the Colorado asylum and the Donnelly twins are all grown up. Elizabeth is a bit of a bounder with a taste for adventure and Renee… Well, Renee just wants to be normal.
Like that’s ever going to happen.
When tragedy strikes the Donnelly family and everything goes haywire, Renee finds herself scrambling alone in a race against time to solve the riddle of a lifetime, fix what’s broken and figure out how it all went so horribly wrong to begin with.
Review:
First let me place my disclaimer and state that this is my wife's book and I agreed to review it on my own. I remove one star as she is my wife. This seems to be fair.
Point of View: In this installment you are taken into the mind of Raine's daughter Renee. You know, one of the twins from the first book (Birthright). Be ready for an impressive ride inside the mind of a person who has more power than she can fathom.
Voice: I have always found RJ Palmer's work to have a bit of introspection in them and see her as trying to convey to look in oneself before casting your judgments. She follows this same voice into her third published novel.
Character Development: You can tell that Birthright was written by a young woman trying to find herself in a big wide world. Sins of the Father showed massive growth both personally and professionally. Inheritance steps that learning up a notch and the writer is coalescing with the author and the woman. In other words, outright beautiful character development. I hurt for each of them, cried for their pain and felt the ache of despair. I wanted to jump into the novel and save all of them, even those that may have deserved worse fates.
Plot: Most people are afraid to jump so far into the future (20 years) to start the second novel but this author does it so well you do not miss a beat.
Dialogue: All "good" novels have the "unwritten character". I mean any book worth reading makes the dialogue wrap the reader into the story and causes them to be a part of the story. RJ Palmer does this with expert precision. Be ready to cry, yell and scream for the entirety of this book.
Pacing: Be ready to be exhausted by the end but aching for more.
Setting: RJ Palmer has found the sweat spot when it comes to detailing a setting. Enough to show us her mind, but leaving enough room for our imaginations to take flight.
Continuity: Again, 20 years seems like a long time but the author does well to keep it in line with the first book and does well throughout the story spinning her web.
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It’s been twenty years since that fateful winter night in the Colorado asylum and the Donnelly twins are all grown up. Elizabeth is a bit of a bounder with a taste for...
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Pawns are Expendable . . .
Twelve execution-style murders have occurred in Newark, New Jersey, in less than a week. Each murder has a calling card - a red pawn on each...
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They were midflight when the trouble started. Raine had tried not to think about the deep disquiet that had settled in the pit of his gut when he and Sierra had boarded the plane. He had tried to...
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They were midflight when the trouble started. Raine had tried not to think about the deep disquiet that had settled in the pit of his gut when he and Sierra had boarded the plane. He had tried to concentrate instead on them simply taking their seats and had pushed the horrifying notion that something was going to go terribly wrong to the side of his consciousness. Clairvoyance was not among his many talents. For all that it was he was capable of, he could not see the future.
Sierra was all too happy to chatter somewhat aimlessly about cakes, food and decorations. She didn’t even care that Raine was only really listening with half an ear. She was completely involved in planning a graduation party for Renee and had successfully blocked out most everything else.
Elizabeth was supposed to be there, too. She had planned on taking time off of work to come and see her sister graduate from college. Elizabeth had chosen differently than her sister in life. While Renee had furthered her education, seeking a degree in neuroscience of all things, Elizabeth had thrown herself full tilt into the adult world immediately upon graduating high school. Sierra could not be any more proud of either of her daughters and she wasted no time bragging about them both to anyone who would listen.
Raine had seen the various consequences of his choice to keep moving the kids around after that fateful night at the mental institution all those years ago. After about six years of them moving around all the time and never staying in one place for more than a year, he and a “Higher Authority” as he liked to call them had reached a tentative agreement. He would not wreak havoc where ever he went, and they would leave his family alone to live and grow as was their right. They really had no other choice, he reflected bitterly. The girls and Sierra had grown tired of moving around from state to state to try to “keep under the radar” and he was ready to settle and live in the same place for awhile, as well. They needed stability in their lives and he knew the “Higher Authority” could keep them running forever. The “Higher Authority” knew that all Raine had to do was think it and they would be cleaning up frightful, massive messes that would have been all that would be left of a few good men. Tentative truce, indeed.
The years of moving around had taken their toll on the girls anyway. Elizabeth never stayed in one place for very long and Renee placed too much importance on staying in one place. Both girls had taken it too far to extremes. Elizabeth refused to even sign a lease on a place of her own, preferring instead to rent rooms where she could simply move in and out at will. She never dated any one man for very long and always spent most of her extra money running from party to party. She called it “the fun life” while Raine thought of it more as wandering aimlessly.
Renee had worked tirelessly during her college years and now had most of the money she needed to buy a home of her own. She had even gone so far as to state that she would never move again once she had the house she liked. Raine had asked her about it once being a worried father and she had said that she just wanted to wake in the same bedroom every morning for the rest of her life. It wasn’t that he could blame her, for he understood all too well. It was simply that he saw in her an uncompromising nature that could well make her life lonely and solitary and even though she had always been the introverted type, she would regret it later in life.
Raine thought about all this while he listened to Sierra talk about different foods for a graduation party and whether or not she might have it catered. He also began to see the flight attendants begin to urge passengers back to their seats. Their outward calm was unshakable, but the tension around their eyes was unmistakable. Their voices as they talked to one another were low and tense and here and there, some of them had darting gazes. Raine knew something was going on, but he couldn’t put his finger on it.
Then a voice came over the intercom, filled with forced calm and cheer and Raine felt the bottom drop out of his stomach. The voice stated that they were flying through some turbulence and the next few minutes would be a bit of a bumpy ride but that everyone could rest assured that they would be free of it very quickly and the rest of the flight would be smooth as silk. Flight attendants worked to secure passengers and then themselves. No one seemed to notice the slight temperature change in the air or the fact that the lights burned brighter for a moment.
Raine worked to try to control himself. He knew better than anyone else just how disastrous a loss of his self-control could be. More than once, he’d left people nearly dead when he lost his ever tenuous hold on his instinctive power. Sometimes, he simply couldn’t control it and the effects were devastating. Houses leveled, buildings crumbled and people driven utterly insane by the intruding presence in their heads. He’d rather just try to hold onto his errant talents and leave others safe.
He took deep breaths while the plane began to shimmy. Sierra stopped talking and looked at him with a vaguely alarmed expression and said, “It’s getting warmer in here, Raine.”
He tried to manage a small smile for her sake which probably looked more like a pained grimace and continued to breathe deeply. The plane dropped by several feet and then leveled again and some of the passengers stifled cries of alarm.
The lights flickered and temperature in the air rose by several degrees. No one but Sierra and Raine paid any attention to the flickering lights. No one thought anything of it. They were the only ones who knew what was going on and Raine fought with everything he was to try to stem the tide of power. Sierra began to kick him in the shin to try to shock him out of it. Sometimes it helped and others it didn’t. Sometimes it stopped him cold and sometimes, Sierra just earned an angry husband and a bruised foot for her trouble. There really was no telling what would happen.
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I knew you would be the girl I would marry
Ever since the day I gave you my first look
On the day we officially tied the knot
I felt proud to change my relationship status on Facebook
Not a single day passes by in my life
When your sweet antics don’t give my heart a flutter
You would realize how much I miss you
When I am at work, if you saw my Twitter
I don’t worry about how what others think
I don’t care if they fun of me
I just want continue shouting out to the world
So that my love for you, everyone can see
Happy bornday
I knew you would be the girl I would marry
Ever since the day I gave you my first look
On the day we officially tied the knot
I felt proud to change my relationship status on Facebook
Not a...
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There is no love, like a mother's love,
no stronger bond on earth...
like the precious bond that comes from God,
to a mother, when she gives birth.
A mother's love is forever strong,
never changing for all time...
and when her children need her most,
a mother's love will shine.
God bless these special mothers,
God bless them every one...
for all the tears and heartache,
and for the special work they've done.
When her days on Earth are over,
a mother's love lives on...
through many generations,
with God's blessings on each one.
Be thankful for our mothers,
for they love with a higher love...
from the power of God has given,
and the strength from up above.
There is no love, like a mother's love,
no stronger bond on earth...
like the precious bond that comes from God,
to a mother, when she gives birth.
A mother's love is forever strong,
never...
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Microsoft is discontinuing support & security updates for both the XP operating system and XP applications (Internet Explorer, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc) ... effective April 8th.
In the event that you are unable or unwilling to upgrade to Win7 or Win8 there are a few steps that can significantly reduce your vulnerability:
- Do NOT routinely login using an account that has Administrator rights.
Avecto's Analysis of "Microsoft Security Bulletins from
2013" highlights that
- 92% of critical XP vulnerabilities would be mitigated if users are NOT logged-in with Administrator
rights.
- 100% of Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerabilities would be mitigated if users are NOT logged-in with
Administrator rights.
- Do NOT use Internet Explorer.
Microsoft is not updating/securing it.
Use Chrome or Firefox. Enable auto-update.
- If using Chrome; consider the ScriptNo plug-in.
- If using Firefox; consider the NoScript and Ghostery
plug-ins.
- Do NOT use Microsoft applications for XP.
Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Visio, etc. for XP
are NOT being updated/secured. Rather ...
Use XP applications that are continuing to be updated.
Consider Libre Office (a fork of OpenOffice). Enable
auto-update.
If you must keep Microsoft applications for XP installed,
default the file associations (defaults) to their respective
viewers, not the full applications.
- Uninstall Java.
- Uninstall Flash.
- If you must use Adobe Reader; keep it VERY up to date and do NOT use it when logged-in with Administrator rights. Enable auto-update.
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