Little BabyDoll Christine

Bad idea: Ruputation ups and downs are anonymous, therefore unsourced therefore unattributed which means two things 1 They are simple gossip 2 Anyone who takes it seriously is a few stones short of a tiara

Suggesting we should do something the outcome of which "heaven knows" is not minding the store. I have found that when you open the door to what "heaven knows", there is hell to pay. Better the devil you know than the devil you do not know. Both are devils so that is settled, but with one you have a modus vivendi. Why put yourself back to square one and with deuces and one-eyed jacks wild? The Reagan Administration could have knocked him off. So could have Bush I, Clinton and Bush II. Do you suppose they knew something? I have known about the "Islamic Republic" movement since 1978. the way this upheaval is going throughout the Arab world suggests that it is orchestrated. It is certainly co-ordinated. Now, who could and would do that? I am suspicious of this thing. When even Limbaugh does not want to go charging in, I see a cautionary tale. Also, can we afford it being 14 tril in the drink and circling the drain? I hate to say it, because I was long in favor of ousting Qaddaffi. But have since learned that in Afghanistan there were worse things than the Soviets There were two books I read in the early '80's: MURPHY'S LAW and MORE MURPHY'S LAW From the first I got, "when you open a can of worms, you need a larger can to re-can them" and "Nature sides with the hidden flaw"

Why people keep up with the one-dimensional anayses of things I do not know. These have been overwhelmingly proved wrong by virtue of being shallow, yet the practice persists. Same here There are other, equally facile excusesrs that do not clash with the offered one and I would wager that all are true. In fact of them all the least significant is oil since it would be easier for us to deal with a single mostly secularentity than what may fall out of this, such a a partitioned Libya or, if Qaddaffi is ousted an Islamic Republic. 1. the idea that people are alike all over. This is based on simple projection and transferrence. "They're people, like us". This is true, but just enough to be decieving. from a mindset and worldview. they are quite alien. They take their religion far more seriously than we do and they think in exceedingly parochial terms. clan, trib and immediate region. 2 Grandstanding. "standing up" to Qaddaffi, who has been a thorn in our side since the late 70's. "Defending democracy": "looking good" has some value to be milked and maybe some even believe it. 3 Isreal. There is some notion that we have to jump in to protect Isreal. That country is perfectly able and willing to take care of itself and ought to and should be let to do so. I have no quarrel with them taking care of business. But this all looks good from all kinds of angles, especially religious.. How many Near East countries have nukes and what are they? So this whole business resonates all kinds of ways

We have always done badly in the Near East. The 1980's incursion into Lebanon was a disaster. The Iraq War is a disaster the second stage of which is waiting to happen and we still do not have Bin Laden after 9 years. so what does that say? Half the military leadership was against the invasion of Iraq The biggest reason for this is that we think of these areas as nations. As a resutl, we are unable to see the actaul dynamic there. In fact, there is no Iraq or Afghanistan. except in the geographic sense. Hussein said "With me dies Iraq". He understood that the place was not nation-state oriented. The two biggest factors in most Arab life are religion and clan/tribe. In religion, Iraq is like Nothern Ireland. In most of the West, we put that behind us after the Wars of the Reformation. We saw the destabilizing effects of religious strife and decided we better find a way to put an end to that or we would fly apart. But even in the US population, there is still a residue of religious animosity that is papered over by the church authorities. \The next big problem is that Arab society organizez by clan, tribe and locale. Qaddaffi is from one part of Libya and that is where his base of support is.That is the part he favors and sticks it to the other half. If hi is ousted, as with Iraq the "outs" will seek revenge and a bloodbath is in the offing. This will be a tripartite system with the geographic factions warring. The third element will be the religious, particularly fanatical elements. They will move in and offer stability in exchange for being made the rulers of the place. Sonce this area is mostly Muslim and they have not learned to separate mosque from state, they will be a credible force and get their way. Two workds. "Sheri'a Law" in exchange for peace in the area. That is how the Taliban got control of Afghanistan. The population, being very homogeneious will go for it by about 85%. Who can blame them given the demographics and operational factors. This is not new nor should it be surprising. Look at the US from 1861-65.We fought a nbrutal war of that kind too, from which we still have not recovered. That war set the stage fro the massive increase in Federal expansion to a level that would case the Founders to prefer Bristish rule if they saw it coming. Constitutionally, the Southern states were within their rights to secede and followed the specified procedures. Through a series of events in keeping with that view of the Federal Government over the past 140+ years it has acquired the framework for a totalitarian state and the only reason it has not become such is that the apparatus for this tyranny is distributed and not under the control of one entity. Hwever, nature sides with the hidden flaw and that is just a matter of when and not if unless this is reversed. If you doubt this, look up the meaning of the workd "totalitarian" and see how many areas of your life the government makes its presence felt: Make it easer and see how many parts of your life the government has NOT put itself. We are less fracious than the Arabs and looking at them from a long way off through the prism of being a nation-state in the European model. Tu us, the kind of internacine fighting that they do is insane. But they, like the Balkans, do not see that kind of thing as internacine. to the Sunni, the Shia might as well be Martians. To the Iraquis the Kurds might as well be from Venus. to the people of Takrit those from Najaf might as well be from Pluto. Even Italy has strong sectional division. Look up and understand the meaning of the word "Pisano". It does not mean "Italian", ti means Venezian, Roman Napolian, Genovese, Milano, etc. Italy is barely united and only for about 140 years. That is a short time in history. Frnace has been united for about 450 years (the Burgundians were the last to be brought in; forcibly). Britain has fared better; about 700 years and Portugal about 800 years, with the Azores being added some 550 years ago. So division has been the state of affairs in ths world for most of the last 1500 year and we do not understand that or its meanings and dynamics

You mean you are not a programmer? and you have put together a site of this quality? Tell me I am hallucinationg! I just can NOT wait until my eye is back in proper order and I can read again. I have a Javacript textbook that I am dying to get into and them will take on the other programming languages. I love to program and have for the last 30 years in BASIC with an old TRS 80 model I Level II BASIC. I have a Visual C++ Microsoft Studio. Does that mean I have the ability to program?

I would be very careful about this Libya thing. A couple of years ago, I heard that the Islamic theocrats, including the Muslim Brotherhood, were leading the Arabic decocracy movements knowing that if majority rule were installed, the Arabic people would vote fore Islamic theocracy and Sheri'a Law. Even Rush Limbaugh is having second thoughts about this after seeing how entrenched the Muslim Brotherhood is in Egypt I was opposed to the Iraq war since part of the support for it was to "aid the Shi-ites" which are 60% of the Israqui people, Now, when I hear "Shi-ite" two things that come to mind are "Iran" and "52 captive Americans".. Now what do we do in Iraq when the Ayatollahs say to the Iraquis "Who do you love more Allah or the Crusader? [these people are living the Crusades like they happened yesterday, not 600+ years ago and 'Crusader' is a swear word'" In 1981, one of my friends and I were discussing US intervention in Afghanistan and he mentioned the "Freedom Fighters" and I asked "Do you mean the Mujahaddim? [i could see 'jihad' in there]" and he said "yes". I said "'mujahaddim' means 'holy warrior'. Can you, as an atheist, equate 'holy warrior' with freedom?" to which he said. "But they're fighting the Soviets". I said "you will find that there are worse things in the world than the Sovs". He said "Well, it's only Afghanistan, the land is lousey, let them have it". I replied "It's land and any loand is good for staging. They are the natives so they know how to live there. They hate us more than the Soviets and will take a cut at us the first chance they get". I had been aware of the Islamic theocratic movement since 1978 so I was not out on a limb on this. It was like going from 1+1=2 to 2+1=3 and 2+2=4. Not hard at all There may be worse things than Qaddaffi out there. Like Saddam Hussein he runs a secular tyranny and we had him under control. There is an Arabic proverb: "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it". It would not surprise me if this whole "democracy" thing leads to several new "Islamic Republic"s. Is that what you want?

Do I have to eat broken glass to know that it will kill me? Do you think I would say anything with certainty if I did not hear it reported as a meidcal study? As of 2010 The link to Epstein-Barre had fallen through As I stated and have heard several reports on CFS responds to the Placebo Effect and in 60% of the cases Cognitive therapy. The only time I even pay attention to any reports is when they cited a source that was crdibile, especially from Edell whose politics are 180 degress out of phase wwtih mine so he has to show something to get me to believe him And please learn how to write readable English if you wish to be taken seriously in this language. The shift key and punctuation keys are not on Mars, and I do not need the eyestrain. But then again: is as does.

I have been suspiciious of the validity of Irritable Bowel Syndrome ever sicne I first heard of it some 15 years ago. It showed up mostly with Chronic Fatigbue Syndrome and Sick Building Syndrome. in the Early 2000's Dr Edell reported on these as Mass Sociogenic Disorders, meaning that they're all in your head because they did not stand up to double-blind studies, were very subject to teh Placebo Effect or best responsive to psychotherapy. In the case of Sick Building Syndrom or Sick House Syndrome. Persons who claimed to be afflicted with this were put in a place that they were told had all the "bad stuff" but which actually had none and came down with symptoms or were put in a place with all the "bad stuff" and were told that there were non and were perfectly all right. Attempts were made to link Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Epstein-Barre virus but they fell through. It proved out to be imaginary or what is called a "wastebasket diagnoses" a lebel put on a set of symptoms in the absense of thorough testing Fibromyalgia proved out to be not a disorger but an unusually strong sensitivity to pain. The tactile function is not fixed but varies from person to person in different areas. a good percentage of persons feel some materials more strongly than others and cannot wear certain materials. Some persons are exceedingly ticlish so this comes as no surprise I went to Quackwatch and looked up IBS and this is what I got Quackwatch: IBS What I get out of this is that we have another "wastebasket diagnosis" and this is sloppy medicine. 1. From my experience, bloating, gas and indigestion are normal to a certain extent 2. Lactose intolerence and food allergies have been around since the birds and the bees 3. Stress has been known for ages. In Graduate School Bhavior Modification I did a study on it and developed a therapy that I labelled "Covert Desensitization" because it used elements of Systematic Desensitization and Covert Sensitization. This is deal with a specific kind of disorfer known as "psychosomatic". A psychosomatic disorder is one that has its roots in psychology, such as stress but has real physical results. such as gastro-enteritis (for which I was diagnosed in 1976 and for which I was todl by the physician to "learn to cope". The thing was that I was not feeling "stressed" in fact, I had been on an emotional high for 8 years) What I found was that being on a high like that was affecting the same physical parts of the body as being on a bummer would. I then looked into the workd of Sheldon Lachmann on psychosomatic disorders. The symptoms of gastro-enteritis mimic the symptoms of more serious things, including heart attack, which creats real stress (it is not called "the big one" for no reason). this esacerbates the situation and is called a feedback loop called Vidious Circle Syndrome. Borrowing from Covert Sensitization the use of imaginary experiences to, borrowing from Systematic Desensitization (used to treat phobias), interpose between the gastro-enteritis symptom and the big scare, I broke the feedback loop over time and thw whole thing just went away. There was no magic or medical insight on my part, I knwo the territory and the tools available. I wrote it up and submitted it as a B-Mod project in class and got a A. So that aspect of IBS is understood In fact there appears to be little or nothing in IBS that is not understood under other terms. I fear that this is sloppy medicien and superstition invading medicine successfully and is bad science However what puzzles me is this "stress" thing. If you look at history and even the world today. Americans and Western Europeans life in Paradise. If you doubt this. go live in Lybia, Iran, Suudi Aarabia or Africa, or Mixico, Peru or any third world country. As your grandparents aobut the Depression. It seems that Western Europeans and Americans are becoming a race of soft wimps who just can not handle what life has to dish out. Before you give me any lip, I lived through 3 years of 70 hour 7 day work weeks for noext to no money, nearly been killed a few times and from the time I ws 11 until 13-1/2, if I was not in at least 1 big fight a week in school, something was wrong. All of this made my battles with lymphoma mostly an incovenience. I am scheduled for suggery in 2-1/2 weeks on my eye with a local anesthetic and I am saying "Bring it on" I have 20/300 distance vison and 1/14th close vision in one eye and noting in the other and have made myself competitive with normally sighted people because there were things I wanted in the normal-print reading material and I was very playful. My opthamologist has said "on a scale of 1 to 10 in complesity, you're a 36" and just the other day my Primary Care doc said I am "unique". On the other hand, trying to arrange for this suery and putting up with human stupidity and evil while slowly going blind is strssful, but that is becuase this is something that is over the top in bullshit in a situation with a seriously detrimental outcome that has lasted over a year. Also the crap that is not dealt with like loud car radios and run-amok governemt ARE things that cause person a good deal of justified rage and are stressful, but those too are just human evil, not essential to our way of life. What causes the aggrevation is that this should be dealt with as a matter of course but is not. So what is all this "stresse-out" business?.

Actually, you could probably usie the down time to think about remedelling Daily Diaper. It is becoming a victim of its success 1. The product review section could be subdivided and tightened up. It is large to the point of being unwieldy like bringing a couch in trhough a doorway. You could certainly start by dividing between paper and cloth diapers, and pants. You could probably subdivide among the paper diapers. The generally reconginzed page size limit is 5 screens. The product review is many times that. Also, the categories are a bit confusing. I was thinking of doing a review of the Comco snap on panties but could not find a way.. I have done that several times with RUFFLES & RIBBONS GRISL' HOME as it grew and became more interactive. I do not even want to think about what DD must cost so you need to make it more efficient to get the most grab for the groat 2. AB owned. I still have the template I set up. You mentioned that the forum host had provisions for that, but I have not seen anything.. I could zip the template and ship it to you. and you could put it in the main site with the links. I organized it by categories in the same manner as the old DPF and Bytemine links sections. DPF also had for each site a rating system. (RUFFLES & RIBBONS GIRLS' HOME was in the top 40% at DPF and a girls' "reference nursery" at Bytemine/Wetville). This might be especially intersting since DD does some webhosting These would make the site easier to use and expand the range

For the age I would be, I put my actual age. I did it for two reasons 1. I really could not decide which period in my life I enjoyed most 2. That being true, my corrnet age subsumes all of them Yesterday, I was in for a pre-op (eye surgery) physical at my prinary physician's office. All my blood tests were normal and he asked how old I was. When I told him he said "you look damn good for 65" and I was not even wearing my tiara. A couple of years ago, I had a brain MRI to check my optical area. They called my and said that my brain was normal. To which I said "You found it. I did not know that the MRI had an electron microscope."

From what I understand Bud is a pilsner. Had my first one at age 7, liked it My favoritie wine was not listed: Concord grape There is nothing like blackberry brandy. Coffee brandy is pretty good too.

My rubber panties match my dress. since they are part of my babydoll then that is a matched set. If I am wearing a skirt/blouse or jumper/blouse, they match the blouse. This is so that they are parto of what I am wearing. Most of what I wear is pink. Since I am put in more thano one pair, the inner ones are white snap-on panties and changed with the diaper

It is a people name. "Christine" has always been my girl name and Daryleanne is Fench-Canadian, which was the little girl culture that is mine and my last name is Paradise (also French). My Fairy name is Kirstra, When I turn 8 they will add Darylise and when I turn 12, my full Fairy name will be Kirstra Darylise Tiarelle

Does this mean I have to wear green rubber panties and a green dress?

I am not even going to try to cover all of this. but just a few things When did the subject switch from war to crime? KISS We agree on outsourcing as economic warfare but I must say that "government programs that help the little guy" is the biggest laugh since "Who's on First" The left dominated the intellectual scene for a century and set the terms by which the discussion occurred, just as today the conservative talk show hosts use "African-American" a 7-syllable term created by Jesse Jackson in '88 to replace the 1-syllable "Black" and, with the active aid of the lamescram media, enshrine the hyphenated American into the language,. and as the same conservatives so worshipfully use the term "democracy"; se what the Founders had to say about that. Ceding the languages cedes the terms of the discussion which cedes the victory in the debate Queen Elizabeth I said "If the speech be Gaelic then the heart be Irish" Occams Razor applies in that modern historians add things that weren't in the original texts to fit the economic deterministic model. The battle of Lepanto was instigated by the Geonovisi for economic reasons. That's what Genoa and Venice and many other Italalian city-states were up to. This was of no interest th the other nations or even the Hapsburgs' interest, they were after power, money seemed secondary. Hwever, theis could be turned into a religious issue and a chance to hit back at the Turks. They probably should have told the Genovisi to jump off a cliff, because the Genovisi were only after revenge because the Turks snubbed them or reneged on the deal I do not know what planet you are on, Aristotle did not live in a clan-based society; his was the world of the city-state and the Macedonian Empire then the Alexandrian Empire. You do not need a technology base for one group to exploit another. Nobody every twisted your arm 'til you said "uncle"? If that is true then you did lead a sheltered life. In fact, a technological society runs counter to slavery and in an American capitalist society poverty is a drag since poor people cannot afford to participate in the economy at a good level: The more people who have more money, the greater the level of participation which is better for everyone "Big Business" is the least capitalistic part of the economy and the smaller of the two business components Big Business could not use the government if the government was not willing and able to be used, Strip the government of economic power and watch how little money goes into politics. Do you think that money flows to where it buys nothing? It is eaiser to game a Command or Mixed economy than a Market economy. All you have to do is shmooze the regulators, who are out to be shmoozed. You can't shmooze a Market since it is millions of persons making market transactions which works on Bernoulli's Theorme. I had a brother, no dead, whose job was to shmooze tac auditors so I know what I am talking about

This coming Saturday is the third Saturday of March. You know what that means, right girls?

You have been reading too many moedern commentators of the leftist perscuasion who follow the model of economic determinism Read Keegan's HISTORY OF WARFARE, which takes issue with Clauswitz, and Fuller's MILITARY HISTORY OR THE WEST Though founded by Aristotle. Economics did not blossom until the Modern Age (1500 to now) Most establishment commentators distort the ideas of previous ages to fit the modern template. This is called the Presentist Fallacy. It geves a stereoyped, monolithic view of history according to the "mode du jour". This complicates things. and runs contrary to Occam's Razor aka The Law of Parsimony, which is a codification of "Keep It Simple; Stupid". That means you take the person who did these things in the time they did them at their word. Take the Battle of Lepanto, It was instegated by, I believe, the Genovisi for economic reasons. However it would have not gotten of the ground if the Hapsburg lead Holy Alliance was not itching to square off with the Turks, who had been on a roll for 200 years. That was a religious conflict as well as an iperial one. Thoughout history. economics has played no greater a role in war than other factors. It appears to have had some influence int the first battle of the Megiddoo plain (Armegeddon) in the second millenium BCE. Many wars were fought to take and hold militarily valuable territory

When I was diapered, there were no doublers, more bulk was gottne by double-diapering. In fact inserts tend to keep wetness close to the body longer whicle it seeps through the multiple layers of very absorbant material. Double and triple diapering put more material in the mix but speads it out and that spreads the wetness out and away from the body faster. When I wet it goes right through to the rubber panties where it is then spread along the outside of my outer diaper so that my diapers wet from the outsdie in except for the part where I actually wet. I tried inserts but they did not really help that much. They would be pretty wet bu the outside of the diaper would not be very wet at all. I think it is far better to have 3 plies of material than 2 and 2 layers in the center. (2x4) Also I use a different kind of dipaer. When I was little, I did not have baby diapers, the once I wore mostly were homemade and designed by the lady who put them on me and were made like a T so that is what I feel more girlish in. I was 6 almost 7 and too bigh for baby diapers and she wanted something that would last her youngest daughter and me a good long time so they had growing room and I wore them if i stayed over at her house at night until I was almost 10 and often doubled up. The thickness between my legs made me feel more girlish and little

Can you say "everything"? I have written about my background so much that I am almost tired of it. It is in my blotg and other posts

Ix-ney! Most wars were about racial/ethnc, or religious/philosophical matters.. The Imperial wars of the middle East, c1200-500 BCE were all about whose city goes were top dog. Ditto the wars of Greece in the same timeframe. Ceasar was interested in conquest. The Crusades were holy wars. The Humdred Years war was mostly about dynastic issues, The Thirty Years War was in four phases going between religious and political.. The Punic Wars appear to have had their roots in economics but that was just one of several issues. WWI was over an assassination. the Napoleopnic wars were for Le Gloire. WWII in Europe was about Nazi ideology and racism. The Japanise-US phase did have strong economic underpinnings but it too had a strong tinge of ideology, in the form of a twisted image of the Samurai code and racism. The wars of the Dark Ages, from Clovis to Charlemagne were imperial-relgious as were the Muslim conquests of that same period The Soviet march across Eastern Europe seems to have been a mix of ideological fervor, Stalin's madness, revanchism and some hope of economic gain; just how they hoped to benefit economically by conquering devasted lands is beyond me War is a costly, risky business and anyone who knows economics will know that it costs more to wage war than you can hope to get back in economic gain. The whole "military-industrial complex" does not comprise more than 5% or the US economy/ Economic gain is mostly a sop thrown to the populace to give the impression that there is some practical benefits to be ganed to get them to bear the burden in lives and treasure.

You are probably right, although it is not explicit or even consciously known. First, I am not a sissy, read my blog for the long and full explanation Some 16 years ago, I wrote in the DPF/NL concerning AB, that all the lace and softness and cuteness of the nursery was feminine and that the nursery is a feminine place. "...What kind of little macho hero could survive in that environment?" It is feminine in two ways. Even today, early child care is an overwhelmingly female activity and the desire to be taken care of is mostly understood to be feminine except in niche cultural enclaves that are viewed in most Western areas as bizarre. Second "sissy" is so vaugue and undfined that it could mean anything. If you lok at the various threads that try to define "sissy" you will see what I mena. If you go to sissy sites you will also see what I mena In fact, the most concise and unambiguous statement was "we just lump ourselves together. Next. a baby or toddler has no gender or sense of itself as a boy or girl, onl what is attributed from outside itself Now, I do not mean to say that the nursery is gender specific, only gneder weighted. Now, I am an unabashed Little Girl

I know all about sinuses, try Excedrin Estra-Strength. I used to get the kinds of headaches that felt like a vice and that was the only thing that would take them down; and sometimes I would need three of them. Nothing else works any good for me Now, as for the jackhammer. I cannot help you there. One of the nicest things about magic wands is that they are quiet (No, Fairies do not call them "magic wands" the best translation from our language would be "doing [or making] stick")

I am a Very Little Girl. My age is almost 5 This created problems for me at GirlTalk To, since I am in diapers which came under "baby" but I have a strong sense of myself as a girl. The GT girls had an antipathy to diapers and what they would do is split their age. Krystina would go bet ween 12 and 2. Vockie would go between aobout 7 and "baby". I did not think that splitting was a good idea and Taffy Cheerful's admonition for a satisfactory girlhood was to find an age and stick to it. In my experience, in a number of ways, diapers and rubber panties were part of just about every little girl's life, either with dolls, by wearing or both. When I stayed overnight at one of the places where I was treated as one of the girls. The bathroom was not easily accessible at night so the youngest of the Genetic Girls and I were both diapered, since she wet the bed and it was understood that, even at 9 years of age, I could not use the bathroom readily enough and could not hold my wet for the entire night. The house was kind of old an the "upstairs" was actually gotten at by a ladder which was pulled up for the night so you had to be able to put it back down in the dark. then you had to go out the door and around to the cellar door which had a sink and the toilet. The mother and older girls could do that easily if need by, I could not. so I was in diapers and being a girl to me meant being in diapers at times

No; to most of this board it might as well be the early Carboniferous age

How many of you remember this when it was new ?