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The Herban Goddess

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A Little Wisdom from a Very Old Liberal

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Feb 9, 2012, 12:26 pm
President Obama has reversed his stance on accepting PAC money. To those on the Left who are annoyed with him I say, wake up and smell the roses. This ain't your daddy's election season. If he doesn't raise money the way the Republicans are raising it, he'll lose. I hate Citizens United and all it b...
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Is It Me or Them

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Feb 4, 2012, 4:08 pm
There has been a kind of creeping insanity in the Democratic Party for years. It started when they became afraid of the word Liberal. Carl Jung said, and I am paraphrasing now, "When you separate yourself from some part of your humanity that from which you are separated returns as disease." Welcome ...
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Reframing

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Feb 2, 2012, 3:42 pm
It is time that we begin to reframe the argument around abortion. Heretofore, the dispute has been laid out as a struggle between two cultural and diametrically opposed camps. The veneer is gradually slipping away as the nation considers the rise of Karen Handle – failed gubernatorial candidate fr...
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Greed

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jan 27, 2012, 3:34 pm
I was listening to a talk show the other night – Real Time, I believe – when some anemic little shit from the Right informed Bernie Sanders that Social Security must be reformed because he doesn’t want to pay Bernie’s bills. No one bothered to ask him if he knew who had paid his grandfather�...
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In Remembrance of Dr. King

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jan 16, 2012, 4:02 pm
Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream of equality, justice, freedom and humanity is systematically being superseded by the Machiavellian principle that the ends justify the means with all the greed, cruelty and tyranny that implies. It seems to me that the upshot of the current drive toward voter suppres...
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Memories of Mozart

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Dec 29, 2011, 3:29 pm
I often think of Mozart. He wrote some of the greatest operas ever heard, even though he was not Puccini. My father said that he was really Italian and writing under a penname – why was never explained. My father also said that one pound of pasta broken in half yields two pounds of pasta – go f...
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November

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Dec 27, 2011, 11:49 am
It will be interesting to see who the Republicans select from their produce section to run against Obama in November. I am certain that no one proffered on the right can beat him. It is one thing to pander to the base in the great city of Ass Wipe somewhere in the Mid-West with talk of overturning c...
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A Yule Blessing

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Dec 22, 2011, 2:39 pm
Far above the city in a canyon of stone, Among Pine, Fur and Spruce I stand alone, Snow covered peaks soar high above, Dazzling moonlight covers them with the Goddess’ love. In a sacred place I clear snow from stone, Preparing my Yule log to welcome the Crone, In red and gold, fire radiates the Go...
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Who Are We?

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Dec 7, 2011, 5:30 pm
There are two ways to view the world, with respect or with avarice. The respectful perceive Mother Earth as an indispensible and nurturing source of all life and their fellow creatures as beloved siblings. The avaricious see our sacred planet as merely useful and their fellow humans and all other sp...
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Words

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Dec 6, 2011, 1:42 pm
There is a distinct difference between the noun and the adjective form of a word in the English language. A noun is a person place or thing. An adjective modifies, describes or clarifies a noun. Take the word Democrat for instance. A Democrat is a person who subscribes to a particular political phi...
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Double Speak

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Nov 22, 2011, 1:44 pm
The clamor for ever smaller and smaller government gets louder every day. The hullabaloo over a freer and freer free market, without regulations or constraints, storms across the land with all the subtlety of a tornado on the High Plains. The presumption here is that the money-hungry little shits wh...
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Untying the Knot

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Nov 15, 2011, 12:44 pm
I track Obama’s dismal approval ratings – why I don’t know. Regardless of the poll, Rasmussen, Gallup, MSNBC, etc, it seems to me that they are all contacting the same 1,500 people over and over again. I have been a registered voter in Colorado for forty-plus years. I have never been called by...
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Long Ago

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Nov 13, 2011, 2:54 pm
I am sixty-two years old. I was part of the counter-culture generation. I was a hippie. People bantering that word about now as if it were a foul insult, never met or don’t remember the hippies. We lived in converted Victorian houses chopped up into apartments with archways, huge windows full of ...
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Spare Me

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Nov 12, 2011, 1:58 pm
I hear a good deal about the persecution of Christians in this country. Since fundamentalist Christianity is attempting to insinuate itself as a state religion, in as much as men and women who may not follow the Christian doctrine are being expected to live by the tenets of that faith via laws, one ...
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The Boys in the Band and the President

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Oct 25, 2011, 6:31 pm
... Middle Class “trickling down,” Mr. Obama was in his twenties. When Clinton shoved NAFTA up the Working Class’ ass, Mr. Obama wasn’t in government. When Wyatt Earp and Darth Vader stormed the White House under the banner of the Neo-Conservatives and other assorted nut jobs, then bent the...
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Bring It

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Sep 24, 2011, 11:53 am
“Christie for President,” only the Republican Right could think of such a thing. Gov. Christie’s approval rating has been falling steadily, particularly with women voters who he doesn’t seem to understand have the franchise, since he began to gut education. His disapproval rating is neck and...
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Hello Alice

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Sep 15, 2011, 1:02 pm
I hate politics and most politicians. I follow them out of a sense of self preservation. Yet, I hate them because they ruin people’s lives, twist and distort reality to promote a world view that serves the few over the many. Millions are out of work in this country through no fault of their own. T...
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Memories of 9/11

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Sep 11, 2011, 4:02 pm
Brad and I were in Washington D.C. ten years ago on this day. He had a training in Falls Church, and I decided to go sightseeing in the District. I had an appointment to tour the Capitol and was hoping to see Tom DeLay. They hadn’t arrested him yet, and I wanted to thumb my nose at him. Half way d...
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Out of the Bowels of History

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Sep 7, 2011, 5:09 pm
It has long been customary in American politics to impersonate not Jefferson, or Lincoln, or Roosevelt, but rather the itinerant peddlers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These people roamed the country in wagons selling “patented medicines” that were collectively known as Snake Oil. A grow...
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Good Luck With All That

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Aug 15, 2011, 12:46 pm
This weekend I was reintroduced to the Rahm Emanuel School of Chicago Style Party Politics. That is to say, anyone who doesn’t follow the leader blindly, mouth the party line unthinkingly will be stood up against the proverbial wall and figuratively shot. I don’t know when the Democratic P...
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Earth to Working-Class-Republican Voters in Wisconsin. Come in Wisconsin.

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Aug 10, 2011, 4:51 pm
What bloody percentage can Middle Class people see in voting for Republicans? Why would those people consider it in their best interests to return a codependent enabler like Alberta Darling - whose only talent appears to be in knowing what to kiss and when - to the state Senate? Can these work...
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Children, Crazies and Cowards

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Aug 1, 2011, 3:06 pm
Today while various members of Congress go scurrying about like rabid squirrels trying to whip up votes for the debt ceiling compromise, I am more than a little apprehensive about what these weird brothers and sisters are about to do to this country. A trillion or more dollars in cuts, w...
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Thoughts on the Eve of the Fourth of July

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jul 3, 2011, 6:18 pm
My grandmother believed as I do that St. Francis of Assisi – featured above – was an incarnation of the Horned God Cernunnos – the Celtic Lord of the Wild Places. The early Christians reviled Him as a symbol of the devil, but to us He is a symbol of fertility and love of the Earth and Her chil...
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Give Me a Damn Break

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jun 28, 2011, 4:17 pm
I don’t vote for Popes. I don’t vote for Saints. I don’t vote for ethereal, mindless demigods with a pronounced inability to mind their own business. I vote for Democrats when they stand four-square on the Democratic platform. That platform used to be firmly grounded in the idea of a social co...
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A Day in Stupidville

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jun 10, 2011, 6:31 pm
We no longer have a body politic in this country. We have a bloody circus. There are lions and lion tamers, clowns and hawkers, freaks and trapeze artists flying high above reality with nothing but a thin net of lies below. Dogs dance, horses prance and monkeys chatter throwing peanuts at the crow...
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Plain English

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - May 15, 2011, 3:26 pm
This country suffers from a chronic, degenerative spiritual disease. Like cancer it has a first cause and then a series of symptoms. In particular the symptoms are hate, narcissism, cruelty, bigotry, deceit, fraud, misrepresentation and elitism. The first cause is greed. I believe without exception...
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Climate Change

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - May 2, 2011, 6:52 pm
I give you Virginia Foxx, North Carolina, 5th District, I.Q. two points above plant life. This creature vehemently denies the phenomenon of climate change, but then again she hates science like so many members of her cabal. I have come to suspect that their distrust of all things scientific stems f...
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I Dissent

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - May 1, 2011, 4:55 pm
During the Bush Administration, just following 9/11 and beyond, it was proffered and understood by the Republicans that anyone who questioned the president was engaged in treason. Anyone who doubted the wisdom of one of his policies was aiding and abetting the terrorists. The Left gave them hell for...
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How the Randites Run

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Apr 15, 2011, 5:05 pm
Paul Ryan is a Randite. Alan Greenspan was a Randite. Many members of the rightwing Conservative and Tea Party Caucus are Randites. That is to say that they subscribe to the ideas of an American novelist, Ayn Rand. Her philosophy known as Objectivism is based largely on selfishness, greed, egotism ...
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The People's Budget

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Apr 14, 2011, 12:16 pm
This is a very important link. I love this guy. This is the most intelligent thing that I have heard since this whole budget sham heated up. Please call your congressman or woman and endorse this. Call the Republicans in your area too, they can't read so don't bother to write. http://grijalva.ho...
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So Long

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Mar 23, 2011, 10:37 pm
Elizabeth Taylor died today. Many women of my generation considered her to be the most beautiful woman who ever lived. With her violet eyes, double thick lashes, jet black hair, perfect skin and at one time perfect figure, she held the Twentieth Century mesmerized as she lived a creative life of ind...
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The Bad Old Days

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Mar 15, 2011, 6:21 pm
John Boehner is a pig. Eric Cantor is a pig. In fact all of the Republican House members are pigs. They go oinking through the Halls of Congress trying to turn back the clock on Women’s Rights. However, the real criminals are the women who enable them – like Michele Bachman and Virginia Foxx. Th...
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The Whoring of America

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Mar 9, 2011, 4:24 pm
Henry James wrote: “We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have, our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task …” James was speaking of art, but he could have been speaking of anything today. We are all living in the New Dark Ages, doing what we can, giving what we hav...
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A Glimpse into the Shadows

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Mar 7, 2011, 2:16 pm
When did our public servants, our elected officials, become our superiors? When did our legislators, supposedly accountable to the electorate, become ruling nobility with the same contempt for the working men and women who put them in office as Louie XVI’s court had for the French peasantry of his...
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What the Bloody Hell is Going on in This Country

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Feb 17, 2011, 5:08 pm
The toads in Washington talk about entitlement reform as if it will solve our fiscal problems. It will not, not even close. Thugs like Walker in Wisconsin or Christie in New Jersey insist that crippling the public employees’ unions will solve their state budget shortfalls. It will not, not even cl...
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The Quest

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jan 28, 2011, 3:42 pm
Chris Carter the creator of The X-files is a modern day Shakespeare – poet and prophet. I first watched his program many years after it had gone into syndication. I was up late one night, as I often am, and I turned on the TV, as I usually do. This lunatic was chasing a human size fluke worm throu...
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Only the Rich Need Apply

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jan 27, 2011, 4:03 pm
I have just called my Senator Bennett, my Congressman Polis, and the White House. I have insisted upon the following: 1) Social Security is a return on an investment, it is not a hand out. Please treat it accordingly. The rich have no monopoly on investments. 2) Many of the people in the House and S...
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The Problem with Lies is the Truth Wants to be Told

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jan 26, 2011, 12:36 pm
Read the corrections to the Gospel According to Bachmann, then ask yourself how in the hell does someone like this get elected dog catcher much less Congresswoman? http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/201101250021
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The Senselessness of It All

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jan 14, 2011, 6:14 pm
I was a young woman when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. I wasn’t yet old enough to vote - you had to be twenty-one back then. I was volunteering in Denver in one of his campaign offices with three other women that night when we got the news on the radio that he had been shot in the head like his...
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Welcome to Your Gestalt

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jan 12, 2011, 4:15 pm
The word Gestalt is German in origin. It refers to a concept of wholeness. The wholeness of a life or the wholeness of a family. In examining the wholeness of our society including its discourse and extremes one has to take into consideration the fact that as the monstrous events in Tucson are part...
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A Message of Peace

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jan 10, 2011, 5:18 pm
In the wake of the monstrous events in Arizona Dr. Deepak Chopra has just been on Dylan Ratigan's program. He asks that each of us get on our social network(s) and leave a message of peace. There is a meadow in my heart where the hills roll away in greens, terra cottas and majestic blues. Wildflower...
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Power of the Witch

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Jan 4, 2011, 4:00 pm
The first Dark of the Moon is upon us. The Great Crone walks among us. As the old expression says, Goddess is alive, magic is afoot. This is the time for dark magic - what the uninitiated call black magic. There is really only one magic, the lightness or darkness rests with the intent of the practit...
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Frauds, Fops and Four Letter Words

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Dec 30, 2010, 5:06 pm
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary entitlement is defined as: the state or condition of being entitled: Right. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entitlement) Entitlement is not a four letter word, except in the gaping maws of slick and oily politicians who have managed to slither i...
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My Very Best

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Dec 19, 2010, 1:21 pm
“For the good of all, according to the free will of all,” my grandmother and her many sisters in the Craft taught me. To honor the free will and free mind of another person is to honor the highest good of all people. Pagans carry their freedom like a sacred fire. We follow only our path, the God...
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Murder, Myth and Money

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Dec 14, 2010, 10:21 am
I have always been fascinated by the case of Jack the Ripper. After seeing all the movies (including the silents) and reading everything I can get my hands on the desperate search for information has never abated. Certainly I am not alone in this obsession. From the FBI and some of the finest workin...
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Darkness

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Dec 11, 2010, 12:29 pm
Winter Solstice is upon us. Little by little the light will linger longer. In good time those of us who truly understand the earth will feel the Quickening as the Goddess’ little roots, tiny seeds and perennials begin to stir. Presently they will immerge, growing steadily to dance on our heart str...
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Heartache

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Dec 4, 2010, 4:54 pm
I went traveling about in my world today. Two Salvation Army Stores around my area are closing. Apparently, the landlords have increased the rent to the point where it is unaffordable. These property-owners gave no warning, but just waited until the little stores’ leases were up. Salvation Army c...
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Seven Will Get You Twelve

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Nov 16, 2010, 3:45 pm
Some in this country believe that our leaders lead. They do not. Some in this country would have us believe that our elected representatives represent. They do not. Our government and political system are much more akin to a high stakes game of chance then to any management or service organization. ...
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An Old Play on a New Stage

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Nov 8, 2010, 2:03 pm
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. . . Oscar Wilde If the great Irish playwright was living today, I believe that he would not be speaking of men and women who really love their country; men and women who understand that what is right for the human community that is their nation will be right...
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The Lost Vote

The Herban Goddess posted an article on Voice of the Crone - Oct 27, 2010, 4:30 pm
My father’s family came to this country in 1911 from Southern Italy. By the early 1920’s my grandfather, by all accounts a gentle man who wielded an iron sledgehammer of control over the lives of his wife and children, insisted that everyone be naturalized. He also insisted that voting was not ...
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I am a 60 year old, hereditary Celtic Witch. I live in Colorado at the foot of the Rockies with my wonderful husband, two cats, forty roses and several hundred wildflowers and perennials. I am a master gardener, amateur rosarian, novelist and poet. Since my Croning I have experienced the great freedom of knowing myself and exactly what I think.

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