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Liane Benson


Last Updated: 3/26/2009

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Gender: Female
Status: Divorced
Age: 101
Sign: Leo

City: OCEAN SHORES
State: Washington
Country: US
Signup Date: 5/5/2007

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Friday, April 25, 2008 

Current mood:  amused
Category: Pets and Animals


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoIwegzzFsA

I love these little furballs!

4:28 PM 
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 

Current mood:  touched
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgyuYHXqlO4

My beloved mother died of pancreatic cancer Christmas 1998. She would have loved this. If you haven't already seen this, please watch all the way through, it is well worth your time.

6:13 PM 
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 

Current mood:  contemplative

I am remembering how I was so impressed by the people in met in Nunavut. They had so little in the way of material possessions, yet they were happy. I came home and looked around at all my precious crap and decided I wanted to be like that. I vowed to gete rid of all the stuff weighing me down and quit all my impulse shopping.

It was a great plan. It lasted about 2 months. Los Angeles is a very difficult place to be an ascetic.

So here I am, trying to find that mindset again. I was watching a pair of ospreys hunting, and my first thought was, "I am moving away from this house and will no longer see things like this in my back yard." You see the problem - I can't let go of anything. People, possessions, experiences... I can't seem to live in the moment. I TELL myself that I should, all the damn time. Myself is not too swift on the uptake.

I want to see beauty and make its memory a part of me that I can take anywhere I go. I want to NOT WANT THINGS. A home people will ooh and ahh over... so what? I hardly have anyone over anyway, it's just ridiculous. If I hadn't craved possessing people and things, I would not be going through all this misery today. I had every advantage, and I squandered it on unworthy people and things.

I sure hope I've really learned my lesson this time. If not, it's time for another trip to the Arctic.

9:25 PM 
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Sunday, October 14, 2007 

Current mood:  sad

An incredibly beautiful day today after weeks of rain. From the bubbles I saw the usual suspects, plus a beautiful Northern Flicker.

I'm gonna miss my buddies. Whoever buys this place will spray pesticide everywhere and kill all the bees and garden spiders. Makes me sad.

Maybe this is the lesson I am supposed to learn: that I must reject materialism (man, but I'm from EL-LAY!!!) and start over with nothing. This is very, very difficult for me. I'm still mad at my late mother for selling my piano 35 years ago. I don't let go of anything, except grudges or money. Can't seem to hang on to those for anything.

I'm trying to pretend that the house is burning down, so what would I save? My critters, of course. But then what? Clothes? Crystal? My Russian polar bears? My Aleut polar bear fur mittens? My books? Photos, boxes and boxes of photos? My handmade Christmas ornaments that belonged to my mother? The painting I commissioned of my father flying his F4-U4 over Mt. Fuji? Or maybe my TV... or the earrings my parents bought for me in Greece 30 years ago.... or the original artwork I have collected and treasured over the years...

Anyway you slice it, this sucks.

I'm going to have a huge, rowdy "Liane Has Lost Everything" party before I leave. Bring your swimming cossies, there's plenty of room in the hot tub.

1:01 AM 
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 

Category: Pets and Animals

Today, from my bubbly perch I saw pelicans, a red-tailed hawk, the usual suspects (honkers, corvinae, herons, gulls, barn swallows, et al), and a Huey. Yes, you read that right, an Army Huey helicopter visited our tiny landing strip, lingered noisily for about 5 minutes, then lumbered off back toward Hoquiam without a by-your-leave. How rude, I was going to invite them in for coffee. Not really.

The honkers were even out and about last night, courtesy of a full moon and clear sky, an uncommon synchronicity in Ocean Shores.

No sight of the caterpillar.

11:51 PM 
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Monday, September 24, 2007 

Category: News and Politics

Man, 72, Hit By Retirement Center Bus

Shopper Treated For Serious Injuries

POSTED: 6:06 am EDT September 24, 2007

CONCORD, N.H. -- A 72-year-old man is recovering after a retirement center's bus ran him over in a Concord grocery store parking lot.

Francis Maffucci dropped some of his groceries on Thursday afternoon in Hannaford's parking lot and he bent over to pick them up.

Gary Brunt, 60, was driving a private bus owned by Havenwood-Heritgage Heights retirement center and didn't see Maffucci stooped over. Brunt's bus hit Maffucci, knocked him over and then ran over him.

Maffucci was taken to Concord Hospital for what police said are serious injuries.
7:09 AM 
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Sunday, September 23, 2007 

Current mood:  lazy
Category: Life

Today from my hot tub I observed a gazillion herons (yes, that is too a number, and yes I counted), an osprey, a bald eagle, too many to count noisy honkers, and of course the usual crows, barn swallows, gulls, finches and sparrows. Watched the golden garden spiders decorate my eaves. Did mighty battle with a stubborn furry caterpillar who was determined to share my hot tub, but he didn't have a ticket. No ticky, no tubby. I would move him, and he would beeline right back to me. This went on for at least half an hour (yes, I know I am easily amused) until he discovered my coir doormat and stopped there, stunned, for 10 minutes. He must have thought he had discovered the Queen Mother of caterpillars and was paying homage. Not wanting his fuzziness to get squished, I finally got out of the hot tub, at great inconvenience to myself (not to mention the wind chill factor) and put him in the bushes.

The water was a toasty 103 degrees and clear. So was the sky. Not 103 degrees, that is, but clear. But you knew that. Right? You knew that?

I am well and truly pink and pruney.

11:44 PM 
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 

Category: Pets and Animals

Mansion Owner Must Build Birds $100K Home

Mud Cliff Will Recreate Swallows Habitat

POSTED: 8:26 am EDT September 18, 2007

DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- An investment banker who spent $20 million on a seaside mansion, but forgot about the birds who lived there first, will pay $100,000 on a home for the birds he booted out.

The $100,000 mud cliff in Dartmouth recreates a bank swallows habitat that investment banker Gerald Jordan destroyed without a permit.

Jordan told The Standard Times of New Bedford that he felt kind of "dopey" about the mistake. He said the cliff had started to collapse when workers were building a dock, and he thought they were free to alter the cliff face to stop it.

The restoration plan calls for the cliff face to be recreated on another section of Jordan's property. It's expected to be finished in time for the next nesting season.
4:07 PM 
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 

Current mood:  cranky
Category: News and Politics

Okay, most of you are probably too young to remember Ellen Cleghorn on Saturday Night Live spoofing Natalie Cole's duet with her late father, Nat King Cole, called "Natalie Cole Sings Songs With Dead People." It was so funny, and one of the songs she spoofed Natalie singing was "In The Ghetto" with Elvis. So, is Lisa Marie paying tribute or cashing in, like Natalie? (I haven't noticed her career being too stellar.) I just found this too funny. Here is the complete article:

Lisa Marie Presley To Release Duet With Dad

Release Marks 30th Anniversary Of Elvis Death

POSTED: 8:24 am EDT August 15, 2007
UPDATED: 8:57 am EDT August 15, 2007

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..startindex-->MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A new video of Lisa Marie Presley singing "In the Ghetto," accompanied by her late father, Elvis Presley, will be posted Friday on the Web site Spinner.com.

To mark the 30th anniversary of her father's death, Lisa Marie Presley's voice was added to the original version of her father's hit song from 1969. The video duet also features images of her late father.

Spinner.com will post the video along with the transcript of an interview with Lisa Marie . In the interview, Presley said the project was emotionally stirring. "We had two hours to lay down my vocals," she said . "So the next morning, I heard the rough ... and ... I've never cried when I've done anything ... ever ... but I just lost it when I heard it.

Presley also talked in the interview about how she was offended to see her father's song "Viva Las Vegas" used in a Viagra commercial. "I find that revolting," she said. "Some songs we have no control over. I know we didn't license that one." Proceeds from the new song and video will be used to help build temporary housing for the homeless in New Orleans, she said. The project is to be similar to Presley Place, a 12-unit apartment building for the homeless built in Memphis by Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. in 2001.

At the time, Elvis Presley Enterprises was owned by Lisa Marie Presley. She sold 85 percent of the company two years ago to CKX Inc., which now controls the worldwide business in marketing Elvis' name and image.

Elvis Presley died at his Memphis home, Graceland, on Aug. 16, 1977, and thousands of fans are in town this week for the 30th anniversary of his death.

Lisa Marie, 39, is scheduled to attend a concert Thursday in Memphis that will feature her father performing on video, with live support from his former backup singers and band members.

Her most recent album of her own music was "Now What" in 2005, but she said in the interview that she hopes to put out a new album soon.
6:39 PM 
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 

Current mood:  angry

Bush Sees 'Cause For Optimism' In New Report

Some Progress Made On Benchmarks

POSTED: 9:40 am EDT July 12, 2007
UPDATED: 12:04 pm EDT July 12, 2007

WASHINGTON -- His opponents may disagree, but President George W. Bush said Thursday that he sees cause for optimism in a new progress report from Iraq.

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The report, ordered by Congress as a mid-term assessment before a full progress report in September, was issued in the fifth year of a war that has taken the lives of more than 3,000 U.S. troops, and is costing the United States an estimated $10 billion a month.

It the Iraqi government with satisfactory progress on eight benchmarks, unsatisfactory progress on another eight and mixed results on the other two. And it said that despite progress on some fronts by the government of Nouri al-Maliki, "the security situation in Iraq remains complex and extremely challenging," the "economic picture is uneven."

Bush said he saw "cause for optimism" in the news.

The Iraqi government has supplied three combat brigades for Baghdad security and $7.3 billion in security funds, as it promised, Bush said. On the other hand, "political progress is lagging behind."

The political results are not surprising because not all of the security benchmarks are in place, he said.

Bush said he wants a more limited role for the U.S. in Iraq, but his theater commanders have told him that conditions on the ground are not secure and to pull troops out in the near future would result in more bloodshed and chaos, Bush said.

"We can succeed in Iraq, and we must," Bush said, adding that he placed more faith in his commanders in Iraq than in Congress to run the war. And those commanders have told him it's too soon to judge the success of the troop surge started in January.

For that reason, he said he continued to respect the right of Congress to debate and fund the war, but he said allowing Congress to run the war on the ground was a "recipe for disaster."

The American people are also tired of the war, Bush said, but he insisted repeatedly that he would wait for a final report in September from the Pentagon, as ordered by Congress, before changing his strategy.

Bush referred to some Senators of his own party who have openly broken with him on his strategy as "friends of mine" who are "good, honorable people."

"Consulting with Congress is important. I value their advice. I appreciate their concerns," he said.

But, Bush said, "I tell them that as commander-in-chief of the greatest military ever, I have a sincere obligation to hear out my commanders on the ground."

The report comes as both houses of Congress debated legislation to order the withdrawal of U.S. troops by next spring. The House appeared on track to approve its version of the bill later in the day, but opponents in the Senate appear to have the strength to prevent a final vote next week in the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid., of Nevada, wasted no time in responding to the president.

"It is time for the president to listen to the American people and do what is necessary to protect this nation. That means admitting his Iraq policy has failed, working with the Democrats and Republicans in Congress on crafting a new way forward in Iraq, and refocusing our collective efforts on defeating al Qaida," he said in a statement.
 
What color is the sky in Bush's world?
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