Alasandra's Reading List ~ September

1. Hell is Always Today by Jack Higgins - The Rainlover is killing women and Gunny (a cat buglar) has escaped from prison so the police have their hands full. When Grace Packard turns up dead everyone assumes she is just another victim of the Rainlover, but is she? and will the arrest of her killer put another woman in great danger? But most of all can the love of a good woman reform Gunny?
2. Night Judgement at Sinos by Jack Higgins - Jack Savage is blackmailed into rescuing a political prisoner but when he discovers the "rescuers" aren't who they seem to be he risk everything to protect the rebels.
3. Sam's Letters to Jennifer - very touching and sweet two incredibly romantic love stories.
4. King Tut by James Patterson - A vulnerable teenage Pharaoh is murdered by those closest too him. A royal tomb is found and a author writes a book.
5. Against Medical Advice  by James Patterson and Hal Friedman - The heartwarming story of Cory Friedman's battle with Tourette's Syndrome and OCD.  It really makes you think how blessed you are if you have your health and healthy children. And hopefully it will remind all of us to be kinder to those less fortunate then ourselves. 
6. Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon - Ren has to keep Kateri alive long enough for her to reset the calendar and choose new gatekeepers or the world will end. But can he overcome the past and defeat his brother Coyote once and for all with the help of his friends. 
7. Born of Silence by Sherrilyn Kenyon - only one person knows the "real" Darling Cruel, his best friend Maris. Everyone else thinks he is gay, even his closest friends. Zarya deeply in love with Kere, is shocked when her Resistance Fighters kidnap Prince Cruel but worried sick about the missing Kere she dismisses him from her thoughts. Believing Prince Cruel has done something to Kere she rushes to confront him only to discover that he has been tortured for months at the hands of the Resistance. As they are stormed by the Sentella she relizes the shocking truth that Kere is Darling Cruel. Driven mad by the torture Darling has set out on a path of destruction. Realizing that Zarya may be the only one who can bring him back Maris tracks her down and gives her to Darling. Convinced she betrayed him Darling still finds it impossible to turn his back on her and with the love of Zarya & Maris and the help of his friends Darling will start to put his Empire back together. And while Maris will never have more then Darling's friendship he is willing to follow Darling into danger to rescue Zarya and finds his own love in the process (So hope Maris and Ture will get their own book or at least play a large role in future books). 
8. Artemis Fowl The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer - Artemis is suffering from Atlantis Complex a mental disorder induced by guilt. Unfortunately the symptoms are paranoia, split personality, and strange compulsions. Artemis is now terrified of the number 4. Artemis' illness makes it easy for Turnbull Root to put his plan to escape from Atlantis into action. First he takes advantage of the fact that Artemis sent Butler away convinced the bodyguard was out to get him to arrange an attack on Butler & Juliet. Then he arranges to turn Foaly's own probe against Holly, Foaly and Commander Vinyaya when Artemis arranges to meet them in Vatnajokull, Iceland in order to pitch "The Project" to them. With a little help from an unlikely hero (Mulch Diggiums) everyone is rescued and Artemis' alter ego Orion even manages to help bring Turnbull down. 
9. The One You Love by Paul Pilkington - (free ebook) It took me months to read it. Really never cared about any of the characters in fact I would have been happy to kill a few of them off to end the torture or reading it. Emma is at her hen party when she finds out that her fiance never made it to his bachelor party. Everyone rushes to Emma & Dan's apartment where they find an unconscious Richard (Best-man & Brother of the Groom). The police believe that Dan & Richard fought about something and that Dan fled the crime scene and have little patience for Emma's insistence that he was kidnapped. Emma runs around trying to find clues about Dan's whereabouts with her friend Lizzie and brother Will (who hints that a secret in his past may be responsible for Dan's disappearance). First she tracks down a former stalker to see if he had anything to do with it only to discover he committed suicide years ago.  Then her ex-fiance (she seems to go through them like Kleenex) shows up and lets her know he wants her back. After she rejects him he commits suicide and the police find evidence he kidnapped Dan, but the real kidnapper has now taken Lizzie and if Emma doesn't unravel the clues soon it may be to late for them all. 
10. Artemis Fowl The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer -  The Fowl Estate is Ground Zero in Opal Koboi's diabolical plot to destroy the human race and rule the fairies. Using ancient black magic Opal is able to bring the Berserkers back to life and they take over any available bodies on the estate; including the bodies of Juliet, and Artemis' twin brothers, Beckett and Myles. Loath to harm their friends and family Butler, Holly and Artemis must find a way to prevent Juliet, Beckett and Myles from killing them without doing them physical harm. But even more importantly they must stop Opal from opening the second gate and bringing Danu forth to destroy humans. With time running out and his options limited Artemis comes up with a brilliant plan to stop Opal, but it means sacrificing his own life. Can even Artemis Fowl cheat death?
11.  Guilty Wives by James Patterson - I think it would have been better IF the readers hadn't know who set the wives up from the beginning of the book. But all in all it was a good read. Four wealthy women who are living in Bern Switzerland with their husbands plan a "girls only" get away to Monte Carlo. Unbeknownst to them the husbands are in Monte Carlo spying on them and they don't like what they see. After spending the night on a yacht with some rich playboys the wives are accused of murdering Devo and Luc. But unbeknownst to anyone but Winnie, Devo is the President of France who she has been having an affair with. He came incognito and with just one bodyguard, Luc, in order to spend time with her. Serena, Winnie, and Bryah break and are willing to admit to a crime they didn't commit but Abbie is determined to uncover the truth. After they are found guilty and sent to prison Abbie is tortured in order to get her to confess. When that doesn't work her cell mate Linette is killed and then Winnie. Realizing she will be killed next Abbie comes up with a daring escape plan using the jailers plans to kill her against them. On the run she is discovered by Christian (Winnie's husband) who gives her money, a fake passport and a plane ticket to Brazil but at the last minute she decides to say in France and fight to prove her innocence. Her conviction was in part caused by the actor Damon Kodiak (who she had a one night stand with on the yacht) lying about being there. As luck would have it his newest moving is premiering at a French Theater and she knows his secret. Using the secret to confront him alone she gets him to confess that Simon and Carlton were the masterminds behind the plot. But before she can use the confession to her advantage Simon and Carlton show up with plans to silence Abbie and Damon once and for all. Thankfully Christian shows up to right the injustice.   
12. The Last Place God Made by Jack Higgins - Neil Mallory is setup by Sam Hannah who desperately needs a pilot. When Mallory finds out her refuses to stay in Hannah's employment. To get even Hannah frames him for diamond stealing. Sent to a "work camp" Mallory escapes on the way there and goes to confront Hannah. Hannah confesses all to the authorities but redeems himself when Mallory is stranded and attacked by Indians.
13. Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper - very touching book, I highly recommend it to anyone who loves cats.

Bad Movies & Gina Miller

We have yet another rant by Gina Miller Because of a cheesy, anti-Islam video? Give us a break!  So when Christians throw a hissy fit because somebody insults their god it's OK, but everybody else is suppose to be cool with it, yeah right. Gina gets busy insulting Mohammad right off the bat I wonder how OK she would be if someone posted a You Tube video that "claims Mary was a prostitute and JESUS is a GAY Megalomaniac and they claim it's the truth about him? And YES, it's been done and No American Christians didn't start rioting but I am sure they were displeased by it. No one likes to have their religious beliefs mocked. Politics in the Middle East are complicated and throwing fuel on the fire of an already volatile  situation is STUPID.

Then she rushes off to insult THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Gina dear we all know how bitter you are that the Republicans LOST 4 years ago, but your childish insults and vitriolic comments show just how immature you and the other Republicans are. Instead of supporting our President and working with him to better America your party has bent over backwards to destroy America. In November what we are going to remember is that President Obama had a good plan to put Americans back to work but that Republicans stood in the way. 

Then because this is the party of nutcases and conspiracy theories she starts in with the paranoia.

Then, the news came out that Ambassador Stevens was a homosexual. This is stunning. Not that he was a homosexual, because the Obama administration is loaded with homosexuals, possibly including Obama himself, but that the brainiacs in this administration saw fit to appoint a homosexual as a United States representative to an Islamic country

Ambassador Stevens' sexual orientation shouldn't even be an issue. A man is dead but Gina and her ilk use the opportunity to attack homosexuals and the President of the United States, and they wonder why so many people are fleeing the Republican Party. Maybe they should try looking in a mirror sometime.

By all accounts Ambassador Stevens was well liked and preformed his job well

Every decent Libyan here in Tripoli is appalled. What has transpired in the American Consulate in Benghazi recently “will live in infamy.”

 A benighted and misguided group espousing twisted ideologies did not like the new face of Libya. They wanted to quell democracy in Libya in its inception.

The late American ambassador was the epitome of decency. Christopher Stevens was a modest man who attended local weddings and ate traditional food with Libyan friends. His rare diplomacy and sharp perspicacity helped Libya in its darkest hour. He was not allowed to finish his magnanimous mission. Alas, the Fates decreed otherwise.

Our condolences to his family and all Americans.
Onallah M. Mustafa 
Tripoli, Libya

But Mr. Mustafa's sentiments don't support Gina Miller's world view so it's not surprising she choose not to share them.

Then Miller starts going off on President Obama's treatment of our dear ally Israel.

He even went so far as to yank Jerusalem — the God-ordained capital of Israel forever — from the hellish Democrat platform, before it was grudgingly restored over the screaming protests of godless Democrats at the convention.

It is thinking like this that has gotten us into the mess in the Middle East. Israel is not deserving of our unilateral support. Israel's history of human rights violations is appalling and it is time we stop basing our Middle Eastern Policy on "Christian Bibical Beliefs" and start basing them on reality. The Palestinians have every right to be angry we stole their homeland to create Israel, can you blame them for wanting at least a part of it back.

The Real Story of How Israel was Created
In 1947 the UN took up the question of Palestine, a territory that was then administered by the British.

Approximately 50 years before, a movement called political Zionism had begun in Europe. Its intention was to create a Jewish state in Palestine through pushing out the Christian and Muslim inhabitants who made up over 95 percent of its population and replacing them with Jewish immigrants.

As this colonial project grew through subsequent years, the indigenous Palestinians reacted with occasional bouts of violence; Zionists had anticipated this since people usually resist being expelled from their land. In various written documents cited by numerous Palestinian and Israeli historians, they discussed their strategy: they would buy up the land until all the previous inhabitants had emigrated, or, failing this, use violence to force them out.

Finally, in 1947 the British announced that they would be ending their control of Palestine, which had been created through the League of Nations following World War One, and turned the question of Palestine over to the United Nations.

Zionists pushed for a General Assembly resolution in which they would be given a disproportionate 55 percent of Palestine. (While they rarely announced this publicly, their stated plan was to later take the rest of Palestine.)

The U.S. State Department opposed this partition plan strenuously, considering Zionism contrary to both fundamental American principles and US interests.

Somehow I tend to think European Americans would get a tad upset if the United Nations tried to force us out of America in order to return it to Native Americans. But Gina Miller and the rest of the Pro-Israel fanatics never want to admit the Palestinians have a legitimate grievance.

And Gina Miller has no problem defending criminals when it suits her purpose.

The maker of the video was hauled in for questioning in the middle of the night in Los Angeles. Why? How dare they detain him? On what grounds? This whole thing is outrageous. We are not Nazi Germany — yet!

What she fails to mention is he was detained because of possible PAROLE VIOLATIONS.

A California man (Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55) convicted of bank fraud was taken in for questioning on Saturday by officers investigating possible probation violations stemming from the making of an anti-Islam film that triggered violent protests in the Muslim world.  

U.S. officials have said authorities were not investigating the film project itself, and that even if it was inflammatory or led to violence, simply producing it cannot be considered a crime in the United States, which has strong free speech laws.

BANK FRAUD CONVICTION
Nakoula, whose name has been widely linked to the film in media reports, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 2010 and was sentenced to 21 months in prison, to be followed by five years on supervised probation, court documents showed.

He was accused of fraudulently opening bank and credit card accounts using Social Security numbers that did not match the names on the applications, a criminal complaint showed. He was released in June 2011, and at least some production on the video was done later that summer.

But the terms of Nakoula's prison release contain behavior stipulations that bar him from accessing the Internet or assuming aliases without the approval of his probation officer.

As well as the fraud conviction, Nakoula also pleaded guilty in 1997 to possession with intent to manufacture methamphetamine and was sentenced to a year in jail, said Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office.

So basically Gina Miller is defending a drug dealer and thief.  But what else would you expect from a Rush wannabe. 

Alasandra's Reading List ~ August

1. Sure Fire by Jack Higgins - Jade and Rich meet their Father and get drawn into his "job", but it seems that the kids take after their Dad and have a knack for getting out of tough situations.
2. Ask your Animal by Marta Williams (highly recommend)
3. Beyond Words by Marta Williams (highly recommend)
4.  Touch the Devil by Jack Higgins - Liam Devlin breaks Martin Brosnan and Jack Savary out of Belle Isle. Beliving Frank Barry is responsible for his cousin Norah's death Brosnan goes after him but we he discovers Ferguson lied Barry isn't the only one to fear Brosnan's wrath 
5. Tarot for the Healing Heart Using Inner Wisdom to Heal Body and Mind by Christine Jette
6. Birth Times A Scientific Investigation of the Secrets of Astrology by Michel Gauquelin 
7. Secrets of Tarot by Annie Lionnet 
8. Without Mercy by Jack Higgins - The Russians have plans to kill off the Prime Ministers Private Army and a recuperating Hannah Bernstein is their first target. But her death spurs Dillon to seek revenge. 
9. The Wolf At The Door by Jack Higgins - imprisoned in Lubyanka Daniel Holley is willing to do anything to gain his freedom, but when his plan goes South he decides to help the other side.   
10. Astrology for Dummies by Rae Orion
11. Wrath of The Lion by Jack Higgins - Raoul Guyon and Neil Mallory find love in the Channel Islands but the OAS may put an end to any happy ending they had hoped for.
12.  Solo by Jack Higgins - When the "Cretan Lover" runs down colonel Asa Morgan's daughter Morgan sets out to uncover his identity and end his life.
13. Thunder Point by Jack Higgins - Ferguson finally finds a way to put Dillon behind bars only to discover that he needs him for a job.  
14. The White House Connection by Jack Higgins - When a highly placed spy in the White House gets Lady Helen's son killed she sets out to kill all those responsible for her son's death. 
15. The Keys of Hell by Jack Higgins - Paul Chavasse is set up by a lovely lady, can he see through her in time. 
16. The Killing Ground by Jack Higgins - When Sarah Rashid is kidnapped by her Grandfather and promised to the "Hammer of God" in marriage Caspar Rashid ask Dillon and Salter for help retrieving her. 
17. Storm Warning by Jack Higgins -  A group of Germans (9 sailors, 5 nuns and an elderly couple) trapped in South America set out for Germany before the war ends in an old schooner. When an hurricane strikes off the coast of Fhada they are forced to call for help.  Necker (a German pilot ditches his mission and circles overhead for as long as possible to relay their messages to Fhada and to provide the lifeboat with a marker. Murdoch with a crew of old men sets out in the lifeboat to save them but is forced onto a reef and is forced to return to port. While Murdoch is unconscious Jago and his crew along with Admiral Carey Reeve  take the gunboat from the other side of the island and attempt a rescue. But disaster strikes and the gunboat is sunk, Jago and the survivors of his crew manage to scramble onto the schooner. There only chance of rescue comes from Gericke (German Prisoner of War) and Murdoch working with the islanders to drag the lifeboat across the island in order to put out. But when the lifeboat gets to the schooner Helmut Richter will choose to stay behind with the trapped Lottie. 
18. Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas and Annamaria are guest at Roseland a lavish estate that holds dark secrets. Odd must save a boy and destroy Roseland, before the "freaks/porkers" kill him. But they do not pose the only danger. No one is who they seem to be and Odd must trust no one in order to survive. 
19. Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson -  Scientist summon Archos but are terrified of "it's" intelligence.  They try to pull the plug to late and robots start turning on humans,  but humanity will band together in order to survive  The War. 
20. The Khufra Run by Jack Higgins - Nelson and Turk survive Vietnam but can they survive helping Sister Clair recover a lost fortune from the Khufra Swamps.

Romney Ryan Ticket Espouse Ayn Rand Philosophy

Horseback riding is great exercise and beneficial to everyone including people suffering from MS, to bad more MS suffers do not have the funds to own a horse and enjoy riding.   

Most horse owners aren’t able to take a Tax Deduction for their horse. But Ann Romney’s charming dressage “hobby” nets the Romney’s a tax deduction as it’s considered a “passive business investment”. The savings might not be that much to date, but will be substantial when they sale the horse or win big prize money. 

Ironically conservatives are perplexed that many taxpaying American’s want to see Mitt Romney’s tax returns especially in light of allegations that he has paid ZERO in Taxes for ten years.  What other deductions has Romney taken?  Deductions could very well enable Romney to legally pay ZERO TAXES. Do you really want to vote for someone who is extremely wealthy but hasn’t been paying his fair share of taxes while you struggle under the tax burden they have place on the middle class?

Do you want to vote for someone who wants to get rid of the safety net of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid that Americans depend on?

The Tea Party had been espousing the immoral Ayn Rand philosophy which considering her views on the sanctity of marriage and family values is ironic.  For those of you unaware of her works she advocated adultery and turning your back on your family if they were not “producers”. Do you really want to vote for the Romney/Ryan ticket that espouses these views?

An inconvenient TRUTH

Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are up in arms because ..............................

Andrea Saul attacked a pro-Obama Super PAC ad which linked Romney to the cancer death of a wife of a steelworker, who lost his job and spousal health insurance because of Bain Capital's downsizing. Saul went off message and said the fired steel worker would have had access to health care if he had lived in Massachusetts, under Romney’s plan, state health care coverage covers the uninsured.

As both Coulter and Limbaugh pointed out Romney Care is very much like THE AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE ACT, that these nutcases pundits refer to as Obamacare

And no one is saying that Romney went out and murdered anyone. What they are saying is that his management practices caused workers to lose their jobs and their insurance. An inconvenient TRUTH now that Romney is running for President.

Talk about Tools...............

Gina Miller has to be the biggest tool around It's not Romney's 'hidden' tax returns; it's Obama's hidden past.  It is laughable that the Right doesn't have anything "new" against Obama after all these years they are still harping about birth certificates.

Since before the 2008 presidential election, many of us have been trying to find out who Obama is. We have been asking for proof of his eligibility to hold the office of President. By Obama's own admission, his purported father was a foreign national, which would make Obama ineligible, because he is not a natural born citizen as required by the United States Constitution.

For that matter, we have no proof of who Obama's father really is, where Obama was really born, what Obama's real name is or even if he ever gained or regained US citizenship after having been raised in Indonesia for several years as a child

Apparently the Gina Millers' of this world are extremely dense.

President Barack Obama released his long form birth certificate in April 2011 which was certified by the State of Hawaii as being authentic.  So just to recap President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, which is part of the United States. His Mother was an American Citizen. President Barack Obama is a natural born citizen and eligible to be President of the United States.

As for Gina's claim that since President Obama's father was born in Kenya he is ineligible to be President (citizenship doesn't work that way and I expect she knows it), Mitt Romney would have the same problem as George Romney was born in MEXICO.

Also when George Romney ran for President this was decided.

At one point, the Congressional Research Service - an arm of the Library of Congress that is supposed to provide authoritative but impartial research for elected members - advised that its analysts agreed with George Romney, according to a congressional source.

In a paper in November (1967) aimed at clarifying presidential eligibility, the Congressional Research Service declared that the practical, legal meaning of "natural born citizen" would "most likely include" not only anyone born on U.S. soil but anyone born overseas of at least one parent who was a U.S. citizen.

Of course realizing their ranting about birth certificates is beginning to look FOOLISH to everyone but idiots they have moved along to Obama's college records. Of course most of the allegations they make are easily disproved - 5 Facts We Know About Obama’s College Years.

Amazingly after all these demands for transparency by President Obama, they could care less about seeing Mitt Romney's tax returns. My guess is they know if Romney releases his tax returns he'll lose votes. 

ONE Chick-fil-A promotes tolerance

Apparently the only thing Gina Miller could find to crow about is old news Early entry for WND's 'Operation Spike' of 2012: Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. And honestly since they don't have any idea how many people were there for the "WATER" they can hardly claim Victory. Notice that Gina Miller and Mike Huckabee aren't the least bit upset that Adam Smith's exercising FREEDOM OF SPEECH cost him his job, but then he is a LIBERAL. .(And for the record I think Adam Smith was acting like a jerk and deserved to lose his job for verbally lashing out at a helpless employee, who behaved very professionally).

Chick-fil-A was the scene of another protest Friday, which wasn't nearly as unsuccessful as Gina Miller would like you to believe.

Gina also failed to mention Going Rogue: New Hampshire Chick-fil-A Will Sponsor Gay Pride Fest. Seems like one person in this whole mess decided to do the decent thing.

This Chick-fil-A manager is taking a stand of his own. In a statement, Piccola said he was excited to take part in the New Hampshire Pride Fest on August 11.

“In both my personal and professional life, I have had and continue to have positive relationships with family, friends, customers and employees in the LGBT community. It would make me sad if someone felt they were not openly welcomed into my life or restaurant based on their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.”

I wish Piccola well and hope more people will listen to his message of tolerance.