Irked Skirt's Rifts: November 2011

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

GOP Willing To Raise Payroll Taxes On 113 Million Households To Spare 345,000 Millionaires From Tiny Surtax

I simply do not understand the train of thought of most of the GOP when it comes to not taxes those who make over 1 million and instead tax the middle and lower class families more. I just don't get it.

GOP Willing To Raise Payroll Taxes On 113 Million Households To Spare 345,000 Millionaires From Tiny Surtax: pSenate Democrats yesterday introduced legislation — as they’ve been promising to — that would extend a soon-to-expire payroll tax cut, and pay for it by implementing a surtax on income above $1 million. Republicans, of course, are opposing the plan, reviving their false claims that taxing the very wealthiest Americans will hit small businesses and [...]/p

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Just Don't

Monday, November 28, 2011

Body Paints

Another amazing artist, not just in photography but in his art work done of the human body. I've seen some really great body paint work at some of the clubs/parties/festivals here in Miami but this gentleman's work is amazing.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/107771181372242547518/about

Check out some of his other work to fully understand what I mean.

http://www.roustanbodypaint.com/

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

The Dancer's Despair

I love pictures of dancers. Maybe it's because I can almost hear the music going in my head as I see the stills of them in mid leap, bodies pushing themselves into spins or the graceful arc of their arms over their heads. This picture feels like a dancer's worst nightmare. To be bound to tight to move to the calling of the song. I know I always said I'd be ready to die when I couldn't dance anymore. That's this picture to me.

http://www.juliedewaroquier.com/

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Such Beauty

I follow a lot of different artists and photographers on Google+ that I normally would not have had the opportunity to had it not been for that site. Some of the work I come across is simply breath-taking to me and I love the moments these people capture. Some are gritty reality while other get lost in imagination. There is one photographer who tends to lean towards dark Gothic looking pictures (at least I think he does) and, of course, this appeals to my dark side. This picture is one he posted today and I had to share it every where -

www.cortis.info
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102377882249382281108/about

Just the simplicity of the woman in the dress reaching for the rose. I feel like it's something out of a dream. As if she's reaching for the unattainable. I love it.

Monday, November 21, 2011

The Serpent (or What I Am Considered To Be By The Mayan Horoscopes)

You are the kind of person who is always noticed, yet others rarely understand you. Few ever get to know you really well. You are hard to pin down -- you either project an aura of mystery, or you are just simply charismatic in some way and manage to attract a number of followers. You are often found prancing around one stage or another -- or attracting attention by lurking in the shadows. Leadership comes naturally to you, in part due to your ability to "psych-out" others.

Your emotional power is remarkable. Others do not want to be in your way when you are angry or upset. You are very affected by your feelings and are occasionally overcome by them -- in a sense, you "wrestle with the serpent." For some Serpent personalities, a needed emotional release comes when under the effects of alcohol. One of the effects of this character trait is in the periodic upheavals in relationships and family matters that you tend to experience. When your powerful emotional energies are harnessed, you can be very constructive and creative, working hard and rapidly to realize your visions.

It is possible that you have a noticeable sex-appeal, or you are sexually frustrated. The key factor here has to do with personal centering. When your life is in balance, your deep reservoir of primal emotional energies are enticing to others -- who then respond to you sexually. Actually, you are a natural performer with a sense of the dramatic. You also have a tendency to keep the act going well after the curtain has come down.

You are probably regarded by others as being of high intelligence and very well-informed. You tend to be interested in subjects that involve strategy and transformation, like psychology. You may have some experience with therapy, or are something of a therapist yourself. It is because you are so deeply in touch with the process of change and transformation, possibly due to close experiences with things like birth, divorce and death, that you try to learn as much about it as you are able. Over the years, this learning becomes wisdom.

I wonder...

Friday, November 18, 2011

My daughter has chosen the Dark Side.

First the car...

Next, THE WORLD!

The Vow

Besides the fact that Channing Tatum is hot as all hell, this trailer just made me get all teary eyed. I'm going to need a box of tissue to get through this movie and then be depressed for days after that my love life isn't even close to this. Damn romantic movies....