My Alexa score keeps going down!

August 28th, 2008 | 114 wordcount

My Alexa score is currently 461,740, which is really not bad for a blog that only started about two months ago. It may not be in the top 100 yet, but I have a feeling that it really will be soon. I give it at most by the end of the winter!

I’m so proud of my blog and love it so much! I want to give a thank you to everyone who comes here and reads regularly. But I ESPECIALLY love the fact that my blog is found through Google and other web searches. It means that my site is out there and random people are finding it. Makes me want to keep going. :)

By Cetta | 4 Comments »

This is hilarious. I’m so dead right now from laughing.

August 27th, 2008 | 148 wordcount

Okay, do you guys remember that Chris Crocker video? “Leave Britney Alone!” You can see it here if you haven’t ever seen it. It’s… something else, I’ll say that much.

And no. He isn’t acting. But I’m sure everyone knows that by now.

And then of course came the spin offs of that video. THIS ONE is my absolute favorite. It’s HILARIOUS. This guy IS acting (I hope…), and even if he isn’t I still die everytime I see it (WATCH IT WATCH IT WATCH IT).

…But now…I have just found out that someone has made a “Leave Ron Paul Alone” video…

When he says “Giuliani just go read a book” I hit the floor. I. Hit. The. Floor. (Because, you know, Ron Paul and Giuliani were eternal rivals in debates and all that).

LOLOLOLOLOL. That’s all I really have to say right now to that. L. O. L. O. L. O. L.

By Cetta | 1 Comment »

And now…

August 27th, 2008 | 666 wordcount, 5 images

…For something completely unrelated.

Listen, I know this blog lately has almost been all politics and things like that. It’s sort of becoming a theme, but to be honest this is a blog supposed to be about anything interesting. Anything that I think is interesting anyway… and it just so happens that I find politics and the like interesting.

But now I want to break it up.

And there’s only one way I know how to do that.

LOL THAT’S RIGHT, GUYS. NARUTO. DATTEBAYO!!!!

For those who don’t know what Naruto is, it’s both an anime and manga series in Japan that is written, illustrated and thought up by Masashi Kishimoto. It centers, at first, around a young noisy ninja named Naruto that’s “number one in surprising people”.

The history of Naruto goes that twelve years before the series started, a Nine-Tailed Demon Fox attacked Konohagakure, a ninja village, causing a lot of damage, to say the least. The then leader and strongest ninja in the village, The Fourth Hokage, sacrificed his own life to save the terrorized village by sealing the demon fox inside Naruto when he was an infant.

Seems like a really simple, even retarded, plot, doesn’t it?

It’s not. It gets deep. History between different characters arise, other characters with their own plots show up, organizations such as the Akatsuki appear (a criminal organization composed of ten high-level ninja that have betrayed or left their villages). Complications are abound, but they’re good, they drive the plot. They make things interesting.

Betrayals, plot twists, and cliffhangers. It really is a good anime.

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I don’t really care what anyone has to say about this, but I really like this anime. About five or six years ago I used to actually read the Naruto manga.

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BUT, and I’m ashamed to admit this, I couldn’t follow along with the fights in the manga. And isn’t that what Narutos all about? The fights? Of course there’s good stories and history and back drop leading up to the fights, but usually it’s the fights that keep people turning the page or tuning in for the next episode.

I’m actually thinking about starting the manga again, since everyone I know reads it, and I think the Naruto manga differs from the story in the anime. Some minor differences, at least.

Anyway, in the anime I’m really not that far into it yet because I had to stop watching for now. I’m really only a little past the Chuunin exams still. :(

My computer needs to be reformatted, and since I get these off of my friend Aimey and watch them on my computer, I figured it’s better to wait before finishing up the rest of the episodes I downloaded without having to download more because I don’t have what I need yet to reformat and safe things on my computer (oh, 1 TB external hard drive, how I need you).

But because this anime has been out for years, and because I’m so far behind on it now, I pretty much know a LOT of what’s going to happen.

Like Naruto vs. Sasuke. Although you could see that building up anyway, far before it happens.

But I’ve actually seen the fight. Thank you youtube.com!

Sasuke vs Naruto Full Fight No Filters

By the way, is it just me or does when Sasuke fully transform into that cursed seal he looks like Sonic the Hedgehog for a split second? LOL.

Anyway, even though I’m not really that far into it, and Naruto seems to change their beginning and ending themes often, I’m still going to show my favorite ending and beginning themes so far:

Naruto 2nd Opening Theme

Naruto 3rd Ending Theme

Anyway, can’t wait until I get up to the second series of Naruto — Naruto Shippuden, after the time jump.

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Going to be so great to watch!!!! And LOL I can’t believe I’m this far behind from everyone. Wow.

By Cetta | 1 Comment »

I received an interesting and strange piece of mail yesterday.

August 27th, 2008 | 429 wordcount, 9 images

First, allow me to say before going on with the rest of the post that these people, in their own way, all most seem right up there with that psycho from www.crystalinks.com.

Also, note: there are pictures of the of mail below.

Original post starts here:

I’m a little in shock. I don’t know how my name got on this mailing list, and I have never even heard of this organization or magazine before, but apparently I’m on their radar now.

The people who mailed me are apparently from this website where the motto seems to be “Making clear today’s news in the light of Bible Prophecy.”

Number 1, Shouldn’t that say “Biblical prophecy” … And number 2, more importantly, WHY did they mail me?? And HOW did they get my name and address?

If you look at their website (http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/) there’s a video of a preacher, David J. Smith, who is also Newswatch Magazines editor, talking about the last days (how profitable Revelations can be, right?), and I want to KNOW why he thinks that in Revelation 13 the sea is humanity and the beast is a government? Did he take a class in Biblical symbolism? Or maybe he understands the Greek it was written in? (I also think David J. Smith is a fake name, but okay I won’t get into that).

What a way to try to make a One World Government conspiracy fit your religious convictions. Doesn’t this preacher, David J. Smith, know that for every one theory he has about each verse of the Bible, there are about 500 people disputing it with their own theories?

And here’s something even MORE BIZARRE. The envelope was OPENED and then resealed with scotch tape before it got to me!!!!!!

I really, really don’t know what to make of any of this. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s fascinating none the less. I think it’s exciting I just got a piece of mail from what I think might be connected to some Militia groups (oh how I love thee, Militia), but I’m still confused.

And I’m also a little agitated. I don’t know why religious convictions must come into play for ANY of this. It’s going to turn a lot of people off. Like myself. Not to mention the website seems kind of not all there… Promoting books called “Aliens and Fallen Angels” and “The Truth About Hell”.

Either way, here are the pictures of the mail (click on each photo to see the full size — they will open in a new window):

Lol, only me, right?

By Cetta | 2 Comments »

Live Western Wall Webcam!

August 26th, 2008 | 361 wordcount

I was shown this about seven years ago before it had sound. It was awesome then, and now that it has sound it is even better.

The Kotel is obviously a pro Israel website (something I don’t hold against them), and while I am anti Zionist I find it amazing to watch to watch their three live webcams at the Western Wall. They could put a webcam in the busiest and oldest market place in Asian and I’d watch it for the culture and my own sheer fascination.

It’s also really interesting to see how on certain Jewish holidays they will all flock to the Western Wall and sing and praise in unison. You can actually HEAR it now as you watch it in real time. It’s something to take the breath away.

I wish I was there. Anything to get away from America and the general lack of culture we have here. I would love to just go to the Middle East or Egypt and just stay there to live.

Which I might actually have the opportunity to do, believe it or not. My aunt and I have been talking for MONTHS about going to Israel, a place she’s already been many times. We were talking about going to Jerusalem more specifically. I think she wanted to take me to Tel Aviv at first, but what’s there other then night clubs and shopping and a regular city?

I want the real culture, and the history (even though the Israel of today only has 50 years of history as it is not the Israel of the Bible — there is always Palestine and Ancient Israel). I want the sheep herders and the Dead Sea. I want the secluded tribes out in the desert. I want the real Twelve Tribes of Israel AKA the Ethiopian Jews.

I want the politics and to see the strife before my very eyes.

I once heard someone say that if you sneeze in Israel it is political. That sounds like my type of place.

But for now I’ll have to settle for The Kotels live Western Wall Webcam. It really is so interesting!!! That’s why I wanted to share it with you all. :)

By Cetta | 3 Comments »

Every blogger should read this.

August 26th, 2008 | 59 wordcount

If you’re a blogger, you really should read this list on blogging etiquette that Angela wrote.

I think every blogger should practice good etiquette with one another and I agree with this list. Angela is an excellent blogger and knows what she’s talking about when it comes to blogging, that’s why this list should get around in the blogging community. :)

By Cetta | 2 Comments »

Astrology is more then just your sun sign.

August 25th, 2008 | 1,485 wordcount

I’m sure when you’re asked “what’s your sign” you go by the month you’re born in. December 22nd to January 20th would be Capricorn, January 21st to February 19th would be Aquarius, February 20th to March 20th would be Pisces and so on and so forth.

We call these signs “sun signs” (originally called the “star sign”) because that’s where the sun was positioned in the time of our birth. That is what we go by when we look up our horoscope in local news papers and magazines, or when we try to find out what the stars say about our personality traits in general.

But did you know that you’re so much more then just your sun sign? Many people actually don’t know this, and this is why when they look up traits about themselves according to their sign they’ll sometimes be left saying half the time that isn’t me or that’s just general, it could fit anyone if you force it. That’s because there are missing pieces of the puzzle. The sun is the brightest thing in the sky, but there are other planets and factors that effect you just as much, sometimes even more.

An Astrology chart is comprised up of many things. The three most important signs, so I’ve heard, are your sun sign, your moon sign and your ascendant sign also known as your rising sign.

Sun sign - They say this is your base personality, and, among many other things, it has to do with your integrity and honesty. Sometimes it has to do with your responses and reactions to things, and how you deal with people and the things around you.

However a weak sun sign with stronger signs in other areas can override ALL of this. If it didn’t, then we’d just be dividing up the worlds population into twelve different neatly stacked categories (there are twelve zodiac signs). How boring, and how untrue!

This explains why people can have vast differences but have the same astrology sign.

Next up would be your Moon sign - This is a very important sign in your chart. I actually think it’s the most important sign you have. It’s the inner you. It’s your emotions and how you deal with them. If you are even CAPABLE of mastering your emotions or not. This is how you deal with those close to you, and relationships. What you need in life and what you don’t want. What you are content with in life and emotions and what you’re not. What happens regardless of what you’re content with. The presence and force you have with people who know you, as well as your strength, how you see things, and just how far that inner vision of people and the world goes.

Then theres your rising or ascendant sign - How you are seen by the world at large, how your friends and acquaintances see you, and how you are effected by the world and culture around you. What you like in your home, even in certain terms of a relationship and of life in general, and the face you show to the world. It is the costume and mask we wear, as well as what we support in terms of humanity and life, and how we deal with other people on a daily basis.

The other signs can be equally as important. Here are some small descriptions of what these signs may mean for you in your chart.

Before I talk about them, please note: You will never have the whole puzzle put together unless you get a personalized astrology report by a professional that can tell you how these signs **effect one another** in your chart and how that **may** effect your personality as a whole.** ALSO, more importantly, please be aware that these are SMALL descriptions and DO NOT touch upon **everything** that each sign may or may not effect or rule over in your chart.

And now for the other astronomical signs:

There is your Mercury sign, which controls, among other things, your communication, and the types of conversations you like and enjoy. Also effects how you word and say things. Also how you express yourself. Are you vague, or direct and blunt? Do you use metaphors? How do you think? In symbolism? Are you witty or not?

Your Venus sign, which is not only how you are in love and relationships and who you can be attracted to, but how popular you can be with the opposite (or same) sex. How shallow and vain you can sometimes be with yourself too — either in public or in private, with your own thoughts.

Your Mars sign - this isn’t just for war, but also for passion. Are you passionate in what you believe in? How are you in debates? Are you calm, cool and collective, or can you get emotional — either yelling or get hurt feelings? How do you feel if someone doesn’t agree with you? And how are you in sex? What do you like? Are you playful or serious or a little of both?

It’s a common belief that who you are in sex is who you might also be in life. Mars is a very important sign.

There’s your Jupiter sign, which tells how lucky you are (in terms of karma — if you believe in that) and areas that you enjoy.

Your Saturn sign, which are areas that are a challenge for you, or are difficult — whether in life or in a relationships or in general. Also how disciplined you are, if at all. How disciplined you expect others to be sometimes, if it at all.

Then there’s your Pluto sign, which goes by 12 year age groups. This means that once Pluto goes into a sign, it remains there for twelve years and everyone born within that twelve year period has that same sign, and that effects that specific 12 year generation as a whole.

It effects what our fascinations are, and what we will explore as a race. The advances we will make, and our pitfalls. It effects us personally and it effects us on a wide scale. Even those not born within that twelve year time period are effected by what those born into it will do when they are the ones in power and control. Will those born into those specific twelve year time periods rip down the curtain to show the main behind it or will they play it up with power trips? Or will they just be oblivious to it all? Yielding to others? How do they view death, the underworld, the dark side of life? Or do they shun it? And are afraid of it? Or do they not see it at all?

And the same goes for our Neptune sign and Uranus sign. Only the Neptune sign is a fourteen year group. That controls how traditional we are or aren’t. Also, in general, is this fourteen year group dreamers, or realists? Etc. Again, it can also effect you personally as WELL as wholly with the rest of the world or those born into that fourteen year period.

And your Uranus sign is a seven year group. Are we, in this seven year group, or even personally, stable or unstable? Unique or compulsive? Do you have a touch of restlessness about you? How do others see your views on the world or life? Do you often change them? Or do you have a grounding personality? What is your career likely to be? Or will you change careers as often as you change underwear? What would you LIKE your career to be? Do you challenge the every day norm, or do you go with the flow? Are you idealistic or not?

And as a seven year group, how do they handle the world? Politics? What are generally the careers of these people? Do we challenge what came before us or do we settle into it and not want to change anything?

You get the idea.

I hope this article was helpful in learning about Astrology! And as I’ve mentioned before, these are just pieces of the puzzle. In order for them to be put together and make sense fully, you’ll need to get a personalized Astrology report! They’re actually really cheap at astrology.com. You CAN find out some of this information for free, but in order to learn how each sign effects each other and balances each other out in your own personal chart, it just makes sense to get your own full chart. It strings everything together. As said in comments, your Mercury sign, regardless of what it is, can effect your Venus sign. And that goes for your whole entire chart. Everything effects everything else.

As mentioned above, Astrology is LOT deeper then just your sun sign. :) I may make this into a series and talk about Astrology in increments, as there is a lot to take in. History, symbolism, and many other things. Fascinating stuff.

By Cetta | 2 Comments »

FEMA Says Founding Fathers Are Terrorists.

August 24th, 2008 | 471 wordcount

The video below is a few years ago, but it’s still shocking. A FEMA agent in Oklahoma tells local police that our Founding Fathers were the first terrorists. He also goes onto imply that Christians are terrorists and that when people are “passionate about something, they are hard to defeat.”

First of all, does anyone else find it SAD and IRONIC that cops, in our ONCE great nation, which they are supposed to love and be patriotic about, are agreeing with this FEMA agent that our Founding Fathers were terrorists? Where would America be without them? This is a slap to the face of the Red, White and Blue stripes that we could once be proud of.

Is this FEMA agent really insinuating that America was born out of something that we now equate with the attacks of 9/11?

Our Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves.

Second of all, Christians are terrorists? How did we go from the popular belief that Muslim extremists are terrorists (something I don’t believe, by the way) to CHRISTIANS being the terrorists? Christians that make up MOST of this country. I said it before, and I’ll say it again: We The People are now the terrorists.

I’m not Christian but I recognize their rights, their sentiment and their passion. And I also know that many Christians await the day where the government will prosecute them and they won’t even be allowed to worship in public, or even behind closed doors the way they want to. Kids are already getting in trouble for praying over their lunch at schools. Tell me by what’s being said in this video that they don’t have the RIGHT and the REASON to be paranoid now.

And also since I mentioned passion — he says that a passionate person is hard to defeat. Okay then, allow me to take my prescription drugs that make me a drone and not feel anything. Or be too mellowed out to do anything. The same drugs the government funded schools have been giving kids at young ages for YEARS to “settle them down in class” and whatnot, where these children later on chop it up, snort it and become addicted.

My point? I believe that the government has been stomping out passion for years. Because that FEMA agent in the video is right, passionate people are hard to defeat — not just passionate Christians. But being passionate doesn’t mean that you’re a lethal person, it just means you feel strong in what you believe in. Someone thats so passionate that they are willing to DIE for their cause gets things done — even if they are being dragged to the chopping block and stand strong in their unwaivering beliefs, whatever they may be. That is passion, and that changes things.

Anyway, I won’t say anything else. I’ll let the video speak for itself.

By Cetta | 10 Comments »

Why Google PageRank is unfair.

August 24th, 2008 | 489 wordcount

I am convinced that Google PR punishes those small time bloggers like you and I and so many others if we sell links. A multi million — probably billion — dollar business wants to stop me, you and the rest of the blogging world from making our small bit of money a day with paid blogging. How greedy can a corporation get? Bloggers aren’t even competition for a giant mogul like Google, and yet they squash us anyway.

As my friend Aimey said, Google is the WalMart of the internet. What a title for it to have.

It isn’t even the fact that your site is black listed from Google — because it ISN’T — but the mere fact that they give the illusion that their bogus PageRank is important. That’s the kicker here. You can have a PR of 0, like I do and so many others, and still get a LOT of hits from google.com.

But what crushes us is their capitalization on the ignorance of advertising companies. You see so many companies wanting a requirement of at LEAST Google PageRank 2, 3, 4, etc — those being the opportunities that give the most money. They don’t understand that Google most likely has two PageRanks. One that is external that we all see, that’s the one that penalizes us, and one that is internal that actually effects how many times our website appears on their search engine and that the two PRs have nothing to do with one another.

I wish companies like Izea and others would do more on educating companies advertising with them about Googles corrupt PageRank system — that they got us bloggers by the balls with something that holds no true weight whatsoever in the actual internet world, except the power that these companies are willingly handing over.

Other than that it’s not going to stop their links or specific key phrases from appearing any more then they already do, regardless of what PageRank the website is.

What others have to say…

Tori AKA Swampbrat mentions in this post how she had a Google PR of 4 that went down to 0 literally overnight. Click the link to hear more of what she has to say.

And another good post by J. Scott AKA Supernova Splash really gives it to Google. I’m so glad people are speaking out about this. He talks about how Google pulls their PageRank numbers out of their ass and I really have to say I agree with him. LOLOL. He also brings up a lot of good points. I advise reading his post. :)

And here, Cody Sortore from Cody Sortore Ramblings goes even further to explain to everyone in the blogosphere just why Google is unfair. He has personal experience with Google’s PageRank system and he seems to be very knowledgeable on it. I really am glad he chose to wrote about this. I would not miss this post if I were you. Very informative.

By Cetta | 8 Comments »

Interpreting Media VIA Neuro-Linguistic Programming

August 23rd, 2008 | 863 wordcount

I found the following video I posted below on a forum, and it brought out a lot of good points about how the media loves to disprove and disrupt the truth or anything that they are told the public must not believe in.

I don’t believe everything that is said on the following video, for instance when the narrator says in the beginning of the first video that the news personality, Alan Colmes, is trying to use certain hand gestures to tell things to the subconscious minds of the audience while trying to scatter the person he is interviewing, that is something I don’t believe was done on purpose like the narrator seems to insinuate. However I do think it is something that we all do when trying to dismiss someone with hand gestures or glances. Natural body language in a way — all though I do believe that Alan Colmes was doing this subconsciously because he DOES have a mission to make the public dismiss the poor man who willingly came on this show — unknowingly into the lions den — who probably only wanted nothing but a “Fair and Balanced” interview.

Also when the narrator says at the end of the video that the second news personality, Sean Hannity, is using “sorcery” at the end I just sat there plain faced… Sorcery? Really? What is the narrator psycho? But I think that narrator is using the wrong word (at least, God I hope so) — a word that makes him sound nuts, to be honest — but I THINK I know what he means. When I was in one of my massage schools, we learned about a martial arts technique where you put your hand shaped as a loose or tight fist on a certain part of a persons chest and bring it down to their stomach. It’s actually a technique some cops learn as well when trying to bring someone down. Depending on how hard you go it can have varying effects - it could drop your energy or it could make you violently sick. It was done to me because I was curious if it worked and how, so that’s how I know. It has to do with chi, or your energy, or whatever the hell you want to call it. Either way, it works.

I believe that this could probably be done from a distance. There’s many ways to control a persons reactions or thoughts with certain body motions or tones of voice, without ever touching them. Even certain words can control an unsuspecting individual. I won’t say most people are too dumb to realize it, but they’re not aware enough. I’ve actually seen that happen before.

One powerful example: It was in a GED night class once with all people ranging from all ages, both genders, all races, etc. All of them were talking with one another — some came there after a hard days work, some after watching their kids all day, and some after who knows what else. They were just not focused for class, they were not ready, and they were chattering away. The teacher, who was smart in many ways and I’ll never forget as long as I live, made a very low persistent noise that not everyone picked up on consciously, but slowly the class just quieted down and sat there docile as can be. In mid sentence everything just died down slowly following that same rhythm of that quiet noise the teacher made, and it was a very subconscious thing as far as I could tell from everyone else’s slow unwinding reaction to it. But he had controlled the class subtly and unsuspectingly.

And I bet some of those people in that class (or in general) would never think that the news media would ever be biased and use this psychological warfare on them — but oh how wrong they are. That’s all the media is, is a psychological tool to control what you think and to give you nothing but a scattered, docile mind.

Watch the video below to get just a small glimpse of what I mean, and perhaps you’ll start paying more attention when not only watching the news, but also with dealing with people on a daily basis as well. It talks about people taking cheap shots in attempt to control you in an argument and being very petty when talking, trying to manipulate you and your reactions — probably to trip you up and frustrate you, I would think. This video shows Hannity and Colmes tones of voices and body language when dealing with this man, and the narrator dissects it for us. A lot of what he says is common sense, and you can see it a mile away.

Now there are three videos in this program, but I’m only posting the first one because I really don’t agree with a LOT of what he says in the second and third one. The narrator sounds kind of nuts in some of what he says, but in this first one he makes a LOT of good points. Or at least I agree with some of what he says enough to post this.

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