How vain are you?

ooh I love periwinkle toes! I also like slate gray but it doesn't agree with my skin tone. 

Can I join this thread?  I love purses, makeup, periwinkle (toes and anything else) and I can't seem to stop trying to "educate" someone on the same thread that's frustrating Caryn.  Is there room for one more?

Always room for one more! I was just admiring my fresh new candy apple red pedicure, and trying to decide what purse to take to a luncheon I'm attending tomorrow. Make yourself at home and don't worry you, won't have to bang your head against a wall over here.

Caryn

Hello girls, so sorry to see what's been happening on the other thread, especially when a respected member feels she needs to step away because of it. I would hate to see this thread losing Selena.

Welcome to Lekker! I am in dire need of a Pedicure, but since I am just coming into Winter and will be in boots for a while, it can wait!

I love the sound of Candy Apple Red, Caryn!

Momine - I found someone to do my brows by asking a friend with great brows where she gets them done.  If you do eventually find someone you think you can trust, ask for a tint along with the shaping - sometimes darkening the hairs ever so slightly can really make them pop.  I was terrified the first time I tinted mine, but I have thin, light brow hairs and it made a world of difference for me.  Just be absolutely explicit about what you want and ask to be walked through exactly what is planned.  I see where your fear comes from though - an overplucked brow can decide not to grow back!

Sunflowers, there are many good options to complement conventional training that utilize "alternative" approaches, but they must be cleared by your cancer team. For example massage! It's wonderful for your mental and physical health - gets the lymph flowing and breaks up pools of lactic acid. I got a massage every single week for 5 1/2 years and miss it desperately!!

OMG, Beesie was one of the ones who used to rip me apart!!!! She would PM me and blast me for saying something personal in a post. She said this forum was for technical information only!! I said, no, it's for women (and men) to share their experiences with their journey through this crap. All Beesie used to do is copy and paste medical stuff and sit back and take all the glory for being so smart!! It was about 4 years ago that the penny dropped in her brain and she began to talk on a more personal level. I also stopped posting my diagnosis because of her questioning me on every thread I was on! I had Papillary Carcinoma (less that 2% of all breast cancer) and she said it wasn't cancer but just a cyst. I told her she was thinking about a papilloma but still got grief from her!!

Gorgeous!

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/17/video-heritage-foundations-benghazi-panelists-m/199750

don't watch on a full stomach

THIS IS GOING VIRAL, thank goodness...she is SO SO BRAVE

whoaa, Sunny, that was powerful!

I don't get the hatred of Obama.  He seems pretty likable, actually.

do you know the woman's name on the viral vid? that link is not working for me, just freezes my puter.

I think the website is deliberately jammed - as it's gone viral by now

this is the essence of it in an email I sent to many:

MUST READ THE COURAGE OF THIS WOMAN, Saba Ahmed. Listen to the words we can hear.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

Begin forwarded message:
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Fwd: ONE BRAVE WOMAN! on W.Post,Heritage’s ugly Benghazi panel, Dana Milbank


Some the Heritage folks seem to be creating their own branch of an intolerant American Taliban. McCain's Wackobirds label seems appropriate here. Most Milbank article readers were appalled at what went on. A few tried to justify the unjustifiable.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: ONE BRAVE WOMAN!
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:58:17 -0400
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-heritages-ugly-benghazi-panel/2014/06/16/b8bd423c-f5a3-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop
W.Post
Heritage’s ugly Benghazi panel

Dana Milbank
June 16 at 7:07 PM
1477 Reader Comments
Representatives of prominent conservative groups converged on the Heritage Foundation on Monday afternoon for the umpteenth in a series of gatherings to draw attention to the Benghazi controversy.
But this one took an unexpected turn.

What began as a session purportedly about “unanswered questions” surrounding the September 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Libya deteriorated into the ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering.

The session, as usual, quickly moved beyond the specifics of the assaults that left four Americans dead to accusations about the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the Obama administration, President Obama funding jihadists in their quest to destroy the United States, Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton attempting to impose Sharia blasphemy laws on Americans and Al Jazeera America being an organ of “enemy propaganda.”

Then Saba Ahmed, an American University law student, stood in the back of the room and asked a question in a soft voice. “We portray Islam and all Muslims as bad, but there’s 1.8 billion followers of Islam,” she told them. “We have 8 million-plus Muslim Americans in this country and I don’t see them represented here.”

Panelist Brigitte Gabriel of a group called ACT! for America pounced. She said “180 million to 300 million” Muslims are “dedicated to the destruction of Western civilization.” She told Ahmed that the “peaceful majority were irrelevant” in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and she drew a Hitler comparison: “Most Germans were peaceful, yet the Nazis drove the agenda and as a result, 60 million died.”

“Are you an American?” Gabriel demanded of Ahmed, after accusing her of taking “the limelight” and before informing her that her “political correctness” belongs “in the garbage.”

“Where are the others speaking out?” Ahmed was asked. This drew an extended standing ovation from the nearly 150 people in the room, complete with cheers.

The panel’s moderator, conservative radio host Chris Plante, grinned and joined in the assault. “Can you tell me who the head of the Muslim peace movement is?” he demanded of Ahmed.

“Yeah,” audience members taunted, “yeah.”

Ahmed answered quietly, as before. “I guess it’s me right now,” she said.

Plante had kicked off the forum by lamenting a “news media that is spectacularly uncurious when it comes to even the basic bare-bones facts of what happened in Benghazi that night.” But the hour that followed showed exactly why Americans (or at least the non-Fox-News-viewing subset of Americans) are rightly skeptical: The accusers’ allegations grow wilder by the day.

Plante cast doubt on whether Ambassador Chris Stevens really died of smoke inhalation, demanding to see an autopsy report.

Gabriel floated the notion that Stevens had been working on a weapons-swap program between Libya and Syria just before he was killed.

Panelist Clare Lopez of the Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi said the perpetrators of the attack are “sipping frappes with journalists in juice bars.”

One questioner said he had heard that Gen. Carter Ham, then-commander of U.S. Africa Command, had been “placed under house arrest” at the time of the Benghazi attack. “I’ve heard the same story,” Plante seconded.

Another questioner, claiming to be from a Web site called GodSaveUSA.com, asked about an assertion that Obama “watched our people die” in real-time drone footage from Benghazi.

Heritage hosted Monday’s gathering in conjunction with the Benghazi Accountability Coalition, a federation coordinated by Andrew McCarthy (prosecutor of the Blind Sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman) and including 15 groups such as Heritage, Judicial Watch and the Traditional Values Coalition. McCarthy’s talk to the gathering was titled “Just the Facts” — but the facts never had a chance against all the groups’ self-promotion (“Go to BenghaziCoalition.org” and “You need to be on our mailing list”) and anti-Islamist rhetoric that too often sounded just anti-Islam.

Panelist Frank Gaffney revived allegations that former Clinton aide Huma Abedin has “deep personal” ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and said she may have advocated for laws against “Sharia blasphemy.” Gaffney also said the president’s view that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam” is “a statement you could have found on al-Qaeda’s Web site.”

But it was Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian by birth, who was most vitriolic when Ahmed asked her question. Gabriel dismissed as “irrelevant” the “2.3 million Arab Muslims living in the United States [when] it took 19 hijackers — 19 radicals — to bring America down.” She mocked Ahmed’s “point about peaceful, moderate Muslims” by making quotation marks with her fingers when she said the word peaceful.

The young woman responded calmly to the taunts of the panelists and the crowd. “As a peaceful American Muslim,” she told them, “I would like to think I’m not that irrelevant.”

The Holy Koran is available in a number of reputable English translations and not a difficult read. What will surprise many is how different societies, imams and scholars have interpreted any given surah in a multitude of ways, often to suit their own my way purposes.