Very well done!

Get between them and have fun? I mean, hello?!?! What other option is there??

Exactly

TOP 9 THINGS WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF SANTA WERE INDIAN

9. At bedtime, kids would leave Indian Fry Bread for the big guy.

8. Santa would be wearing a red turtleneck to hide his hickeys.

7. Santa's new moccasins would be made out of Dasher.

6. He'd run around saying "Ayyyy!!!" Instead of "Ho-Ho-Ho!"

5. A five pound block of cheese and fry bread would be under every tree.

4. His elves would most likely not show up for work on Mondays and sometimes on Fridays too.

3. The sleigh would need a jump start every other state and would have on donut tire on it.

2. Santa would navigate his sleigh by pointing with his lips.

1. According to "Indian Time", our gifts would arrive in February.

I have 24 tattoos and 16 piercings. Each of my tattoos has meaning. Most are for my Mama and PaPaw who have both passed on. Some are for my children and sister, some are for my tribal nation.

It's an individual decision, just as each piece of work is individual.

I've dated men without tattoos and I've dated men totally covered. Doesn't matter to me.

Like the old saying... "don't judge a book by it's cover."

I work all shifts, depending on what our unit needs. We have 7 AM - 7 PM, 7 AM - 3 PM, 11 AM - 7 PM, 3 PM - 11 PM, 7 PM - 7 AM, 11 PM - 7 AM, and then there's the double shifts and double-backs.

In nursing, there's no such thing as a "set schedule" but we learn to adjust and sleep when we can.

Just remember on your days off, to take time for YOU and not just rest, but have some fun.

(And for the record, I've worked nights since I was 16 years old. I prefer nights but seem to end up on all shift. I tell folks I was born at 1203 AM and have been on the night shift ever since, lol!)

Anyone bring tea and crumpets? Us injuns ain't allowed no fire water ya know... after all, we's been civilized now cuz we losts the war an' our time's all wasted...

OMG, I'm not American????

And speaking of the New Year...

It's a Babylonian tradition that goes back 4,000 years as well.

The "tradition" of New Year's being on January 1st, is from the Gregorian calendar, which we all pretty much now use.

New Year's Day, btw... is still celebrated as the Feast of Christ's Circumcision in many Christian denominations (thought you're like to know that little "snippet..." pun intended).

The Greeks first started with the baby theme in around 600 BC... but it was the Romans who brought the "New Year" celebrations to the Christians by means of pagan traditions. The church was pretty pizzed, but realized it was just another way for the pagans to identify with the "church" (just like Christmas).

Regardless, American "tradition" incorporates many different cultures and beliefs and there is no ONE right way to celebrate it.

American "tradition" is about diversity and acceptance.

So... Happy WhateveryouwanttocallDecember25thinwhateverreligionyouare.

Christmas itself is a Mesopotamian tradition dating back over 4,000 years. It wasn't until the 300's that Christianity became the "official" religion of the Roman Empire in Europe and it wasn't until 1100 that Christmas even became a "tradition" in Europe. Christ's birth wasn't even celebrated until 98 AD and it wasn't until 350 AD that December 25th was even chosen as the day of celebration.

What's American about that?

My culture, religion, traditions, and practices have been here thousands of years longer. Perhaps if Christmas it to be celebrated as a tradition, one should return to Rome.

I say Happy Holidays because I don't celebrate Christmas. This time of year is a celebration of the Winter Solstice for many different cultures, and it's been around a helluva lot longer than Christmas.

I don't blanch if someone says Merry Christmas to me and if someone I know is a Christian, I'll say Merry Christmas to them. If they're Jewish, Happy Hannuka.

It's called respect and tolerance and that is one of the things this country was allegedly founded on. My people have had no choice but to tolerate the traditions brought to this country over the last few centuries and people here should remember that our land is a melting pot of cultures, religions, traditions, and races.

Even though I have every reason to despise Christianity and it's "holidays" I try to respect it as well as other religions, and be tolerant and accepting of their beliefs, rituals, celebrations, and holidays.

I expect the same from them and even if they can't be respecful and tolerant of my beliefs, traditions, religion, culture, and race... that doesn't mean that I can't respect and tolerate theirs.

Not ALL are taken, some just aren't interested in dating anyone and are just here for friends and the forums.

Regardless, welcome!

If I have to "put up" with a friend, then is he or she truly a friend or someone I simply tolerate? When it reaches the point of having to put up with someone, something is seriously wrong with the friendship. My "loyalty" in that aspect, belongs in telling them they're being an azz and to be honest, I don't see it as loyalty but rather, as I mentioned earlier, toleration.

My friends and family though, know that if they need me, regardless of the reason (even if they're being stupid and in a situation they should have avoided), I will be there for them if possible.

The only time I refuse to "help" a friend, is when two friends of mine who don't get along, try to put me in the middle of their issues. They're on their own then, and they know it.

The photo Keith posted of her was taken on her 80th birthday at the Playboy mansion. Hugh Hefner threw a huge party for her and as far as I'm aware, that was the last public photo taken of her since her mug shots.

Regardless, at 80 she was just as beautiful as she was at 34 when she quit modeling. Beautiful because it shone from her heart, not just her skin.

Thank you. I do get told often that I remind people of Bettie Page and I usually shrug or laugh it off. It makes me uneasy I suppose (I suck when given compliments) but like I said before, it's a great honor to be compared to Bettie Page and I need to learn to say thank you. It's very humbling when you get compared to someone like her.

It worked!! Thanks horns!!!! These are two of my favorite photos of her (the first she's nude with just fishnet stockings so I had to edit it). My ultimate favorite, I can't post here, it's one of her sitting with her back to the camera, leaning on a chair, holding her hair up with one hand and her eyes are closed. She's absolutey stunning.

Bettie Page was the epitomy of a strong, vibrant woman who didn't take any sh!t from anyone. She not only set the stage for the sexual revolution of women, she made it very apparent that SHE was in charge of her life and therefore, every other woman could be as well.

During at time when women rarely sought higher education, she earned a Bachelor's Degree and became a school teacher. She was also married and divorced three times in an era when women were still looked down upon for a failed marriage. She supported herself, and fought silently (but publicly) for women's rights. She rose above a horrendous childhood, prejudice, mental illness, abuse, and the ignorance of those who were too insecure in themselves see their own beauty, to become the object of admiration and obsession for millions.

Like I said to someone in email, Bettie Page shone where others even failed to spark. She possesssed not only outer beauty, she was a beautiful soul that no one could ignore.

She will be greatly and sorely missed, but perhaps she is finally at peace.

I wish I knew how to post photos in here and I'd post my favorite one of her (edited of course, it could be deemed inappropriate).

The world has lost a great and beautiful woman, but her legacy will live on forever.

Just got up an hour ago to get the boys off to school... gonna go back to bed since I have the day off from work!

Thing is, you can write all you want on your profile, and it's typically VERY obvious that they don't bother to read it. And generally, those who don't bother to read them... don't bother to fill out their own.

If they don't have time to read my profile, I sure as h3ll don't have time to talk to them.

Players...

1950s pinup model Bettie Page dies in LA at 85

A guitar with Bettie Page painted on the body is held by owner Waylon Ford at the Halo Custom Guitars, … LOS ANGELES – Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controverisal photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.

Page suffered a heart attack last week in Los Angeles and never regained consciousness, her agent Mark Roesler said. Before the heart attack, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia.

"She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality," Roesler said. "She is the embodiment of beauty."

Page, who was also known as Betty, attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure in bikinis and see-through lingerie that were quickly tacked up on walls in military barracks, garages and elsewhere, where they remained for years.

Her photos included a centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine, as well as controversial sadomasochistic poses.

The latter helped contribute to her mysterious disappearance from the public eye, which lasted decades and included years during which she battled mental illness and became a born-again Christian.

After resurfacing in the 1990s, she occasionally granted interviews but refused to allow her picture to be taken.

"I don't want to be photographed in my old age," she told an interviewer in 1998. "I feel the same way with old movie stars. ... It makes me sad. We want to remember them when they were young."

The 21st century indeed had people remembering her just as she was. She became the subject of songs, biographies, Web sites, comic books, movies and documentaries. A new generation of fans bought thousands of copies of her photos, and some feminists hailed her as a pioneer of women's liberation.

Gretchen Mol portrayed her in 2005's "The Notorious Bettie Page" and Paige Richards had the role in 2004's "Bettie Page: Dark Angel." Page herself took part in the 1998 documentary "Betty Page: Pinup Queen."

Her career began one day in October 1950 when she took a respite from her job as a secretary in a New York office for a walk along the beach at Coney Island. An amateur photographer named Jerry Tibbs admired the 27-year-old's firm, curvy body and asked her to pose.

Looking back on the career that followed, she told Playboy in 1998, "I never thought it was shameful. I felt normal. It's just that it was much better than pounding a typewriter eight hours a day, which gets monotonous."

Nudity didn't bother her, she said, explaining: "God approves of nudity. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they were naked as jaybirds."

In 1951, Page fell under the influence of a photographer and his sister who specialized in S&M. They cut her hair into the dark bangs that became her signature and posed her in spiked heels and little else. She was photographed with a whip in her hand, and in one session she was spread-eagled between two trees, her feet dangling.

"I thought my arms and legs would come out of their sockets," she said later.

Moralists denounced the photos as perversion, and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Page's home state, launched a congressional investigation.

Page quickly retreated from public view, later saying she was hounded by federal agents who waved her nude photos in her face. She also said she believed that, at age 34, her days as "the girl with the perfect figure" were nearly over.

She moved to Florida in 1957 and married a much younger man, as an early marriage to her high school sweetheart had ended in divorce.

Her second marriage also failed, as did a third, and she suffered a nervous breakdown.

In 1959, she was lying on a sea wall in Key West when she saw a church with a white neon cross on top. She walked inside and became a born-again Christian.

After attending Bible school, she wanted to serve as a missionary but was turned down because she had been divorced. Instead, she worked full-time for evangelist Billy Graham's ministry.

A move to Southern California in 1979 brought more troubles.

She was arrested after an altercation with her landlady, and doctors who examined her determined she had acute schizophrenia. She spent 20 months in a state mental hospital in San Bernardino.

A fight with another landlord resulted in her arrest, but she was found not guilty because of insanity. She was placed under state supervision for eight years.

"She had a very turbulent life," Todd Mueller, a family friend and autograph seller, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "She had a temper to her."

Mueller said he first met Page after tracking her down in the 1990s and persuaded her to do an autograph signing event.

He said she was a hit and sold about 3,000 autographs, usually for $200 to $300 each.

"Eleanor Roosevelt, we got $40 to $50. ... Bettie Page outsells them all," he told The AP last week.

Born April 22, 1923, in Nashville, Tenn., Page said she grew up in a family so poor "we were lucky to get an orange in our Christmas stockings."

The family included three boys and three girls, and Page said her father molested all of the girls.

After the Pages moved to Houston, her father decided to return to Tennessee and stole a police car for the trip. He was sent to prison, and for a time Betty lived in an orphanage.

In her teens she acted in high school plays, going on to study drama in New York and win a screen test from 20th Century Fox before her modeling career took off.

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Associated Press writer Raquel Maria Dillon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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