June Has Something For YOU!!

by Caren Crane

Dearest Banditas, Buddies and friends we've just met, June promises to be all white knights, chocolates, white weddings, love songs and forget-me-nots around the Lair! Okay, maybe not that, but we do have a ton of happenings, contests and surprises to rave about so here goes:




June 2 - Popular Lair visitor Tiffany Clare is back to tell us about her third historical romance, The Secret Desires Of a Governess. Tiff is very generously giving away three copies of her latest book to people who comment. [I am all atwitter at the shades of Jane Eyre!]






June 3 - RITA winner Terri Garey returns to the lair to talk about her new “Devil’s Bargain” series, and the lure of “books that go bump in the night”! (Check out those abs on her cover!)






June 4 - It's going to be hot, HOT, HOT when Christie Kelley throws a release party for her steaming new Regency One Night Scandal! This is a party you won't want to miss. [I hope I can find a virtual designated driver!]







June 6 - Stefanie Sloane will be talking about the Young Corinthians and her second novel The Angel In Her Arms. [There is a book trailer on her website. Oh, my!]








June 7 - Jessica Andersen returns to the lair as Nancy's guest. June is the most popular wedding month, and Jessica will chat about favorite fictional weddings and the newest Nightkeepers novel, Storm Kissed. [Those lovely tattooed arms make me feel all stormy inside! *sigh*]





June 10 - Anna Campbell hosts debut historical romance author and regular lair visitor Karyn Gerrard. Karyn will be talking about her new book Timeless Heart and spreading the lurve with some giveaways. [We love new authors, especially when they are old friends!]





June 16 - Susan Gee Heino will return to the lair to talk about her July release Temptress In Training. [And wait until you find out who she is tempting...]






June 19 - Mega basketball fan Patricia Sargeant will join us as Regina Hart to tell us about her June release Fast Break, love 'n hoops and her fabulous Brooklyn Monarchs. [I can't wait for the hunky basketball heroes!]


BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!


Every week in June, Christie Kelley will be giving away a signed copy of one of her five releases, including One Night Scandal. Just visit her website for more details and your chance to win!


Anna Campbell is holding a Hardback Heaven at Midnight Contest, open until 30th June. She’s giving away three signed copies of the beautiful hardcover Rhapsody Book Club edition of Midnight's Wild Passion. To enter, just email Anna on anna@annacampbell.info and tell her the name of the hero and heroine of Midnight's Wild Passion. For more information on the contest, please visit her website.


Be sure not to miss any of the fun. We promise to be here every day with something Wildly Interesting (or at least Moderately Stimulating, if not Downright Exciting) for you!Source URL: http://extravagancedeplumes.blogspot.com/2011/05/
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When All the Pleasure Causes All the Pain

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Damn! I must be dying.

Wouldn’t it be a fucking scream if I was? What would I do if was actually given three months to live, like my father. Climb Mount Everest? Don’t have the money. Fly to Europe? Don’t have the fucking money. “Drive in the Indy 500? No car. “Do something!” A difficult brain surgery? No education. “Write the great American novel?” I can’t even get the mediocre American novel published.



If I was given three months to live, I’ll keep going and force myself to go on to four months. Then I would nag and tease that doctors that gave me three months. At the end of the fourth month I’d starve myself to death. At least you don’t feel any pain when you starve yourself to death. No, no kidding. You get tired, sleepy and die. If you do not eat for three days straight even the sensation of hunger goes away.



You just expire. That would be a cool way to go. I hate suffering and pain. That shit is the pits. Have you ever wondered how you are going to buy the farm? And have you ever wondered why they call it buy the farm?  Well, you know me, I can’t let sleeping words lie. I found on the Internet: “My Air Force Officer husband told me the origin as generally accepted in USAF. When a pilot mused about retirement he would say, ‘I’m gonna buy a nice little farm and settle down’ so when a fatal crash occurred his surviving buddies would say he had ‘bought the farm’ — he had retired, permanently”.



So I guess in my case, I’ll buy the condo, overlooking Manhattan from a million miles up in the air. Let’s say we get off this morbid subject. I’m down in the dumps lately because my computer is not up to snuff as it should be. Fucking computer hackers. I’m not gay or anything like that but I’d stick my fist right up their shitholes. I mean that. I’m pissed at everyone because I can’t direct my hatred back to those fucking computer geeks that live to destroy because they can.



Today, I worked out and headed outside to take my walk and didn’t take my water bottle with me. Dumb move. When I got four blocks away I was in sheer pain. You can’t work out without water in the body to liquefy the bloodstream and allow smoother circulation of the oxygenated blood to the demanding muscles. When they took my blood at the 9/11 Clinic and at the blood testing lab they commented on how thick it was. They warned me to drink plenty of water. The one thing that I don’t drink enough of. Even at Metropolitan Hospital when I went to have my blood potassium checked, they said that my bloodstream was like ‘sludge’.



So I only made a few blocks before I turned around in misery. The damn water pills that I’m on makes me piss out liquids faster than I can put it in. Even my digestive juices are having the same problem. I burp FIRE often. When I’m sleeping I puke up pure lava from my belly filling my mouth. Good thing I don’t inhale when I sleep and drown myself on my own vomit. And it’s like pure acid. I end up on my hands and knees, hurling into the garbage can.



And my esophagus is always burning. Like I’ve swallowed a red hot coal or drank a straight shot of Jack Daniels. I still, to this date cannot believe that I used to drink that shit like water. Crazy right? Well, that's enough of my computer and health problems. Tomorrow I’m coming after you with another thought provoking topic. I promise.



Or I can talk about my health again. I just burped pure FIRE.

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Matisyahu Minnesota Zoo Amphitheatre Tickets

Matisyahu is an American Hasidic Jewish reggae musician that is known for blending traditional Jewish themes with Reggae, rock and hip-hop beat-boxing sounds together. In 2004, Matisyahu signed with JDUB Records and released his debut album, Shake Off The Dust...Arise. Since then, he has released a total of three studio albums and three live albums. He has received positive reviews from both rock and reggae outlets and was even named the Top Reggae Artist by Billboard in 2006. If you're even the slightest fan of reggae music, I highly suggest you check him out! He will be performing here at the Minnesota Zoo Amphitheatre on Thursday, June 30th at 7:30pm.  If you don't have your Matisyahu tickets yet, don't worry - Ticket King currently has them at just $98 a piece for excellent seats! Check out our inventory and get yours now before they're gone!Source URL: http://extravagancedeplumes.blogspot.com/2011/05/
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President Obama Sets New Food Stamp Record

You find this funny, Barack?
Washington DC, May 31, 2011. Despite the fact that the White House told us that the recession ended in 2009, and we had a "recovery summer" in 2010, there are a record number of Americans using foodstamps in 2011.

During the tenure of President Barack Hussein Obama, D-Kenya, food stamp usage by Americans has risen from almost 32 million when he took office in Jan 2009 to almost 45 million at the end of Mar 2011.

That is roughly a 40% increase in food stamp use in just the past two years.

Moreover, the expense of this program has soared from $3.6 billion per month to almost $6 billion a month, which represents a 65% increase.


The EBT card

President Obama has also given us the highest poverty rate in more than 50 years, currently around 15% of our population. The last time our poverty rate was this high was 1959.

All this while the White House is telling us that the recession is over, and the recovery is in full swing. It is pretty clear that someone is lying about "recovery" and "jobs saved" and "my plan worked!"



SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
(Data as of May 27, 2011)
Fiscal	PARTICIPATION		BENEFIT	AVERAGE MONTHLY BENEFIT
Year	Persons	Households	COSTS	Per Person	Per Household
ANNUAL SUMMARY
FY 2010	40,301,666	18,618,363	64,704,559,245	133.79	289.61
FY 2009	33,489,975	15,232,115	50,359,917,015	125.31	275.51
FY 2008	28,222,630	12,727,450	34,608,397,238	102.19	226.60
MONTHLY DATA
FY 2008
Oct 2007	27,007,059	12,147,478	2,763,946,525	102.34	227.53
Nov 2007	27,153,727	12,208,064	2,766,370,199	101.88	226.60
Dec 2007	27,385,524	12,312,552	2,789,090,515	101.85	226.52
Jan 2008	27,580,481	12,431,141	2,778,842,340	100.75	223.54
Feb 2008	27,547,495	12,435,938	2,779,283,488	100.89	223.49
Mar 2008	27,770,417	12,546,256	2,814,003,256	101.33	224.29
Apr 2008	27,967,760	12,641,595	2,838,248,777	101.48	224.52
May 2008	28,244,913	12,762,569	2,871,358,394	101.66	224.98
Jun 2008	28,509,720	12,886,157	2,900,078,521	101.72	225.05
Jul 2008	28,862,959	13,052,852	2,957,149,326	102.45	226.55
Aug 2008	29,258,947	13,219,213	2,984,537,425	102.00	225.77
Sep 2008	31,382,561	14,085,583	3,365,488,472	107.24	238.93
FY 2009
Oct 2008	30,841,790	13,900,815	3,697,627,592	119.89	266.00
Nov 2008	30,884,729	13,963,078	3,561,221,137	115.31	255.05
Dec 2008	31,567,037	14,284,026	3,648,865,577	115.59	255.45
Jan 2009	31,983,716	14,499,693	3,633,188,682	113.60	250.57
Feb 2009	32,332,622	14,677,736	3,703,673,185	114.55	252.33
Mar 2009	32,928,433	14,982,155	3,776,012,112	114.67	252.03
Apr 2009	33,524,074	15,269,505	4,499,580,155	134.22	294.68
May 2009	34,171,518	15,578,702	4,596,450,757	134.51	295.05
Jun 2009	34,882,031	15,916,305	4,675,320,239	134.03	293.74
Jul 2009	35,602,939	16,259,749	4,779,752,451	134.25	293.96
Aug 2009	36,241,857	16,560,753	4,851,752,501	133.87	292.97
Sep 2009	36,918,948	16,892,857	4,936,472,627	133.71	292.22
FY 2010
Oct 2009	37,672,818	17,253,466	5,070,842,158	134.60	293.90
Nov 2009	38,183,998	17,516,853	5,107,135,932	133.75	291.56
Dec 2009	38,978,986	17,886,338	5,244,898,952	134.56	293.23
Jan 2010	39,430,990	18,117,955	5,253,958,400	133.24	289.99
Feb 2010	39,588,798	18,242,836	5,287,836,749	133.57	289.86
Mar 2010	40,120,061	18,531,999	5,375,721,434	133.99	290.08
Apr 2010	40,430,508	18,696,426	5,390,405,728	133.33	288.31
May 2010	40,801,375	18,894,473	5,450,290,971	133.58	288.46
Jun 2010	41,275,457	19,143,488	5,503,801,482	133.34	287.50
Jul 2010	41,836,240	19,435,378	5,601,253,390	133.89	288.20
Aug 2010	42,389,614	19,721,843	5,677,210,696	133.93	287.86
Sep 2010	42,911,141	19,979,296	5,741,203,353	133.79	287.36
FY 2011
Oct 2010	43,200,837	20,183,107	5,778,377,811	133.76	286.30
Nov 2010	43,595,821	20,404,804	5,811,261,526	133.30	284.80
Dec 2010	44,082,361	20,668,184	5,890,121,141	133.62	284.98
Jan 2011	44,187,874	20,748,799	5,868,434,271	132.81	282.83
Feb 2011	44,199,479	20,791,408	5,889,248,221	133.24	283.25
Mar 2011	44,587,328	21,045,962	5,984,186,682	134.21	284.34
Data for Oct. 2008 include major hurricane disaster assistance.
FY 2010-2011 data are preliminary; all data are subject to revision.
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