Is FACE to FACE communication dead? like the newspaper/print industry? FACEBOOK is the new alcohol HI MY NAME IS BETTINA AND I'M A FACEBOOKOLIC People flirt as if they were drinking (that is without inhibition) on the social network. Is it the freedom that anonymity and fantasy create? Hey, Do I know you? : ) Jeffrey Toobin's need to post his marital state (why did he exclude it in the beginning one may ask?) after rumors that he fathered someone (other than his wife of many years') child is a testament to the somewhat perverse voyeurism that Facebook can elicit. Have we lost all privacy? I twitter therefore I am Sexting is hazardous for your health

October 27, 2008

THE ROGUE DIVA

Talks about returning her $150,000 new wardrobe funded by the RNC and returning to shopping at her "favorite consignment shop" in Anchorage, Alaska along with her $30 wedding ring that she bought herself so she can repair her reputation and think about her OWN future during the final dying days of the election campaign.

"Spreading the wealth" is being miscontrued as "socialism," by Miss Rogue.

What was John McCain thinking? He wasn't. He has NO judgment and can't speak with realism about the future because he may very well not be here.

Sarah Palin is the NOT the woman in the White House who represents qualified, intelligent women in politics or in America and does more harm than good for women with brains and ambition who want and have worked for equality.

The future of America cannot be placed into the hands of the ROGUE DIVA whose foreign policy will be executed with a wink and who will vote to overturn ROE vs. WADE.

VOTE FOR OBAMA 2008

final countdown

Sarah Palin is a bloody moron.

"Now is not the time to experiment with socialism?" Absolute nonsense -- with regard to Obama's tax plan.

The McCainPalin campaign is distorting the facts.

The extreme danger is that uneducated rednecks believe her.

2008 ELECTION

September 26, 2008

I just emailed this to Katie Couric and Campbell Brown:

Palin is like a mail order bride, and a power hungry one, plucked from an online or print ad (McCain met her once) to accomodate the old man's needs.

She's been briefed, coveted and protected, adorned and used for her charm, much like any powerful man would do with an attractive woman.

Keeping her a mystery intensifies the allure. Men love to unravel the best kept secrets of a woman.

How hot young democratic men can fall for this game and respond to her "sexiness" is frightening.


Sex and politics. And now SEXUAL POLITICS is getting in the way of the country's survival.


Whew!

What's a girl to do?



Bettina Marks

NEWSDAY CONTRIBUTOR

Monday

Will my quixotic antics of the day be rewarded?

It is hustle Monday and I forge ahead with my blonde ambition (brainy blondeness) (still working at 6:38 p.m) while the pressures of the bills mount.

Delays - and postponements - juggling events - appointments - constantly re-adjusting - strength and flexibility - a mantra taken off the mat (Yoga) and into my day - and somehow - it works - to keep the balance -

Off to dance class - despite my sciatica injury - it is time to reconnect to the movement and the music (I'll just HAVE to be careful)

Thank you to my friends who are being supportive.

love,

bettina

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HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

Not being one, I can only have respect for those women who bring life into this world and hope that they do it responsibly and self- lessly. Mothers wish that their offspring will not perish in war - but- will survive and thrive in a world where they can breathe fresh air - eat untainted food - drink clean water - and live without the fear of terrorism.

CREATION - MAN - WOMAN - PRO-CREATION - BIRTH - LIFE - DEATH



into the light


on a beautiful sunny day in New York

love,

bettina