* The AMERICAN CONGRESS will work very hard to get very little done.

* Something long-lost by a MAJOR ARTIST will be revealed.

* A scandal will rock the BRITISH GOVERNMENT.  The color purple will be involved.

* The AMERICAN ECONOMY will show significant improvement; Democrats will claim it's because of their fine work, while Republicans will claim it's because of improvements made while George W. Bush was still president.

* BARACK OBAMA will once again be shown to qualify to be U. S. President.  Many people, especially those who watch Fox News, won't believe it.

* The BBC will have a major, career-destroying scandal.

* A male BRITISH ICON of purity and wholesomeness will be caught with his hand somewhere people don't think it belongs; i.e., in someone else's pocket.

* A female AMERICAN ICON of purity and wholesomeness will be caught exposing a portion of her anatomy that the prudish will not think should be exposed.

* Former American President BILL CLINTON will receive an award nobody in their right mind would have expected him to receive when e was president.

* The Law that DEATHS ALWAYS HAPPEN IN FIVES will once again be proven this year.  At least of those deaths will be unexpected, a famous singer, and a famous actor.

* A major figure in the MIDDLE EAST will be violently killed.

* A WORLD-KNOWN FIGURE will admit a Discordian connection.

* A long-awaited for DISCORDIAN TOME will finally be published.  There will be much rejoicing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR,

THE LOVESHADE FAMILY

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Back in the day when pterodactyls ruled the Earth, The Loveshade Family possessed the website loveshade.com. Then when The Agents of Greyface went after some of us in a very serious way, we lost it and someone else got it on 9 September 2002 (Discordians might recognize that as Cat Dancing & Foot Fetish Day).

You might know dot com domain names can usually be registered for between $10 and $30 per year in American money. But at first the domain was not for sale, period. Then as we developed loveshade.org, it was for sale--at $500! We didn't buy it, loveshade.org became one of the one percent most popular websites in the world, and then the minimum opening bid, not buying price, for loveshade.com was $1200! Sometimes popularity is costly. We even more didn't buy it.

But with a little help from some friends (and just a touch of skull drudgery), we got it back! Right now go to loveshade.com and it will take you directly to loveshade.org. We couldn't be happier than if we'd won the National Lottery! Well, all right, that would have made us happier. But still, we're grinning like the self-congratulating cat that swallowed the annoying hamster!

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We don't like those things where you have to type in some illegible scribble or have a verified email address to post on a website.  But we also don't like getting lots and lots and lots of SPAM messages to screen every single day.  So, unfortunately, we're probably soon be using one of those annoying things.  The good part is we sometimes miss legitimate posts in the midst of all the spam, so that should be less likely to happen.  If we don't post your post, and it fits http://loveshade.org/blog/read_before_posting/ (read that before posting), send us an email with the heading Loveshade Family Blog.

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The red heart on a six-pointed sun (or whatever it is) is a Trademark of The Loveshade Family.  So don't you go using it without permission or Auntie Loveshade will come get you.  You don't want that.  Trust me.

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This one is primarily for Americans, but anyone can take this quiz.  World Public Opinion, which is managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland did some checking.  They created a survey and tested to see how viewers of Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, newspapers, network TV news, and public broadcasting compared in their knowledge of issues critical to the U.S.A.

The study found "substantial levels of misinformation were present in the daily consumers of all news sources."  But the winner for most misinformed were regular Fox News viewers.  In fact based on the questions asked, the study seems to show that the more you watch Fox News, the less you know.

Take the quiz for yourself at http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1221/Are-you-smarter-than-a-Fox-News-viewer-How-about-a-CNN-viewer-Take-our-quiz-to-find-out/

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By the way, my score was 10 out of 11.  To be honest, on the one I missed my initial reaction was the correct answer, but I foolishly changed it.  But on a couple of the others I wasn't terribly sure.  So I actually felt quite certain on about 8 out of 11.

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Several schools have Gay Lesbian Transgendered groups. This one has a group to bring them and Straights together.

Called Gay-Straight Alliance, the group at Tahquitz High School joins other similar groups in the San Jacinto Valley of California.  Part of their motivation was concern over the bullying-related deaths of teenagers in California, Texas, and Indiana.

Many years ago, bulllying in school for whatever reason wasn't taken all that seriously, and was put in the "boys will be boys" category.  Hopefully we are moving into an area where the lives of middle school and high school students are considered as important as those of adults.

LINKS

See the GSA network at http://gsanetwork.org/

Read more about the group at Taquitz at http://www.thevalleychronicle.com/articles/2010/11/24/news/schools/doc4ceda5f35e94f417577171.txt

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