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It's No Fun To Be A Republican

Just one more reason why it's no fun to be a Republican.

Naked Shopping in London

Oh Billy, dearest, are you reading? Why didn't you tell me about this? I would have come. I would have shopped. I would have been HappyNakedJenShoppingInLondon!

They do say they might do it again. I hope I'll be able to be there next time around.

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Forgive me father, for I have sinned. I spent Friday night naked at the video store. But I saw Christ there and knelt before him and begged for his forgiveness. Since Jesus never says no to anybody, he told me it was all good dude (he was a Santa Cruz Jesus, I'm guessing) and sent me on my way. My fave photographer Gail was kind enough to snap a picture of the entire thing. Wasn't it lucky that she just happened to be along?

Actually, father, I was really just practicing my own religion. It is Friday. Naked Friday. The day we celebrate our lovely and amazingly unique bodies that I consider blessings from the Universe. A day when we remember that peace is possible if you are willing to walk through the world with an open heart and a naked body. A day when you remember that it's good to breathe and it's very good to be alive.

Barry Neal, RIP

Those Nigerians are sure getting sly in their attempts to get your bank account information these days. NakedMom sent me the following email and asked if it was her pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I told her to please hit the delete key. But figured I'd share it here with all of you. For giggles.

Dear Neal,
I am Mr Richard Okon, a manager in the account's department of the Union Bank
Plc, Lagos Branch. I have an urgent and very confidential business proposal for
you. I got your contact from the world email center (W.E.C.) regional office in
Lagos, Nigeria although the detail of my intention was not made known to them.
On June 6 1999, An American oil consultant/contractor with the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Barry Neal made a numbered time (fixed)
deposited for twelve calendar valued at US$15,000,000.00 (fifteen Million Dollars)
in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address
but got no reply.

After a month, I sent a reminder and finally I discovered from his contact
employers Nigerian National Petroleum corporation that Mr. Barry Neal died from
an automobile accident. On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a
WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made
further investigation and discovered that he did not declare any next of kin in all his
official documents, including his Bank Deposit paper work. This sum of
US$15,000,000.00 is still sitting in the Bank and the interest is being rolled over
with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will come forward to claim
it. According to the Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 6(six) years, the money will
revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the
funds.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the
next of kin to Mr. Barry Neal as you both bear the same surname and also from the
same country so that the fruits of this old man labor will not get into the hands of
some corrupt government officials. The money will be paid into your account for us
to share in the ratio of 45% for me and 45% for you and 10% for the evisage
expencies/demurrages incurred over the period of time. This transaction is 100%
risk free as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by an attorney and
my position as the Branch account's manager guarantees the
successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply
immediately. Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details and
relevant documents that will help you understand on how we are to achieve this
mutual benefit. Please observe utmost confidentiality and rest assured that this
transaction would be most profitable for both of us because I shall require your
assistance to invest my share in your country.

THIS IS SIMPLE, (1)I will like you to provide immediately yourfull names and
address. (2)Your bank account information anywhere in the world except Africa.
We shall employ the services of an attorney (A Senior Advocate of Nigeria.SAN) for
drafting and notarization of a WILL and obtain the necessary documents and letter
of probate /administration in your favour for the trasfer to the account you provide.
Please you have to observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that this
tranaction will be most profitable for both of us. I shall require your assistance to
invest my own share in your country. All you have to do is to stand as the
deceased NEXT OF KIN. Awaiting your urgent response. Please, you can call me
for further conversation.

Thanks and Best Regards.
Mr Richard Okon.
Tel: +234-8023074167

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Stepping away from the toilet for a moment (and also away from the political heat that seems to be the current fashion in this blog), I give you this article from today's New York Times Magazine. Along with that article I give each and every one of you an open invitation to come to Santa Cruz where I will personally take you to our lovely farmer's market and treat you to the wonders of Northern California's organic produce.

Also, if the lovely Bakerina is reading, she might just want to take me up on this offer since those Australian Finger Limes she so covets happen to be growing in my own backyard in Bonny Doon. Who knew?

I am now returning to my place on the bathroom floor. Carry on, everyone. I'll hopefully be back to vertical soon.

OCF naked fairy

OCF naked fairy
Originally uploaded by nakedjen.

Happy Naked Friday. Testing out flickr.com.

Meanwhile, I'm also suffering the effects of a serious case of food poisoning.

Vomit is not my best color.

I am a Patriot

My brother, Jackson Browne, said it much better than I ever could. In response to Mr. Anonymous, I offer these lyrics.

I was walking with my brother
And he wondered what's on my mind
I said what I believe in my soul
Ain't what I see with my eyes
And we can't turn our backs this time

I am a patriot
And I love my county
Because my country is all I know
I want to be with my family
The people who understand me
I've got nowhere else to go

And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
Someday

And I was talking with my sister
She looked so fine
I said, "Baby, what's on your mind?"
She said, "I want to run like the lion
Released from the cages
Released from the rages
Burning in my heart tonight"

And I ain't no communist
And I ain't no capitalist
And I ain't no socialist
And I ain't no imperialist
And I ain't no democrat
And I ain't no republican
I only know one party
And it is freedom

I am, I am, I am
I am a patriot
And I love my country
Because my county is all I know

And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
And the river opens for the righteous
Someday

I am a patriot. I love my country. I believe in all the freedoms accorded us by our constitution. Especially the freedom of speech. I hold all those freedoms dear. If I choose to fight for them with words and actions that do involve guns and bombs and missiles, that is also my choice. I am grateful to live in a country where it is still possible to use my voice as a means of dissent. America is still a democracy last time I checked.

I encourage you to vote your conscience. If nuclear bombs dropping on innocent citizens makes you giddy with excitement, by all means invest in Lockheed-Martin. The fact that we, the United States, have amassed enough weapons of mass destruction to blow the entire planet to smithereens quite frankly gives me seizures. I am a responsible American citizen, I will raise my voice and say, "No More!" That is my right. I live in this country and I love it enough to speak out and act when I see something that I believe is wrong.

No More Nukes!

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb, code named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. Almost 140,000 people died instantly or in the months following the attack. Since 1945 the numbers dead from the residual effect of that one nuclear bomb is 237,062 people. The Hiroshima bombing was followed by dropping a second nuclear bomb on the city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. This bomb left tens of thousands more dead.

The mayor of Hiroshima has declared the year from August 6, 2004 to August 9, 2005 to be a "Year of Remeberance and Action for a Nuclear-Free World." He has asked Americans to act as "people of conscience."

Meanwhile, our dear United States military continues to rely on violence-amplifying terror and continues to promote a policy of nuclear insurance. The only real insurance that our nuclear bombs offer is the insurance that we're now truly capable of ending the world as we know it. We have enough bombs to obliterate humankind from the planet. Completely. End of story.

Lockheed-Martin has a 4,000 acre facility located in the Santa Cruz mountains in an area known as Bonny Doon. Lockheed-Martin is the world's largest weapons contractor. It invents and develops high-tech war-fighting weapons, markets them to the Pentagon and to Congress, and sells them around the world on the open market. It pollutes the earth, both in the production of weapons and in their use in war. It has been convicted and fined for criminal violations of US law. And yet it has much more say about our government's policies than do ordinary citizens. Lockheed Martin buys access to our government representatives, largely with money it has made from selling weapons to our government, weapons that are both subsidized and paid for with our tax dollars.

Just two months after September 11, the Pentagon contracted with Lockheed Martin for 3000 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Planes, at the cost of 200 billion dollars. This contract has been touted as "the largest defense contract in history." In 2002, L-M received $19 billion in government contracts, including $2 billion for nuclear weapons. During the build-up before the war with Iraq, L-M boasted a 36% jump in profits, with a 15% increase in military aircraft sales alone. L-M is profiting from the war in Iraq, replenishing weapons for the Defense Department. For instance, L-M recently won contracts worth $109 million for kits that make dumb bombs "smart." L-M is the world's largest arms exporting company. It has sold more than 3000 F-16 combat aircraft around the world. The company also makes the Hellfire missile, "bunker buster" munitions and the massive C-130 transport plane. Developing Weapons of Mass Destruction L-M produces land mines, which kill indiscriminately. It produces weapons made with depleted uranium (DU), which contaminates the soil and the entire food chain. DU is linked to the "Persian Gulf Syndrome" which killed thousands of U.S. veterans, and thousands more Iraqis, after the first Gulf war.

This corporation has an integral role in the US Space Command's plans to wage war in space. L-M produces laser weapons, satellite surveillance equipment, and many components of the Missile Defense ("Star Wars") system. Lockheed Martin is involved in creating a whole new generation of nuclear weapons, which will likely stimulate a renewed nuclear arms race. It is working on nuclear "bunker busters," which are being built not for nuclear deterrence, but as an option for actual use in the War on Terror.

In spite of the fall of the Soviet Union, Lockheed Martin carries on with the nation's only Intercontinental Ballistic Missile program. It builds Trident II nuclear missiles, for use on Trident II Submarines. Components of Trident missiles are being built in Bonny Doon.

There is a Trident II facility on Lockheed Martin in Bonny Doon. When Santa Cruz citizens campaigned against the Trident II program in the early 1980s, the government established a naval base on the grounds of Lockheed Martin in Bonny Doon, and moved the Trident II program onto the naval base. The Bonny Doon Trident II program has been shrouded in secrecy that continues to this day.

Why did Santa Cruzans oppose the program? The Trident II (D5) is a 3-stage missile with a range of 4000 miles. Each Trident II missile carries eight independently-targeted 475 kiloton thermonuclear warheads. Each Trident sub carries 24 of these missiles (192 warheads). Eighteen Trident submarines roam the world's oceans, each with the firepower to destroy an entire continent with nuclear weapons.

The Trident II program threatens all life on earth. It must be shut down.

On Friday, in rememberance of the bombing at Hiroshima and in an effort to find out more information about exactly what Lockheed Martin is doing in the hills above my home, I joined with about 70 others to march to their gates and ask that they disclose what exactly they were doing in there. The day started with a press conference at the Santa Cruz County Courthouse. My good friend, Lynda Marin, was one of the speakers. She was joined on the podium by a local activist and member of the Santa Cruz Resource Center for Nonviolence and a man who was part of a civilian team that had just returned from Iraq. Together they all spoke for about an hour about both the history of Lockheed Martin in Santa Cruz and the real necessity for all of us to speak out and risk actual physical harm if we want to see a change and a disarmament of nuclear weapons.

From the press conference, we all caravaned to Bonny Doon. We were stopped about a quarter mile from the gates by the county sheriff. We marched from there to the gates where we were met by a PR person from the Sunnyvale office. He was prepared to answer our questions, but not completely. The surprise of the day was that he was joined by another employee who really did want to answer our questions and to give us access to the facility. He felt that this particular Lockheed facility could be a "good neighbor" and at least give access to our civilian weapons inspectors and properly answer their questions. He said that he would be working with them in the next few weeks to provide them with access and a tour.

Another surprise was that they opened the gate and let more than a few of us use the bathroom located in the security office. Honestly, they were going out of their way to be as nice as they could to us. They even got bottled water for one of the protesters when she asked. I know it was in their interest to be accomodating, but I was still surprised since I knew that previous actions at this location had not resulted in any real dialogue at all.

We ended the day in Bonny Doon by hanging a clothes line on the locked gate at Lockheed that held symbols of life, a better world and what we all hold dear. No one was arrested. I chatted briefly with the various sheriffs who had been assigned to our protest and they really just wanted to make sure that none of us got hit by a car or tried to trespass on the Lockheed property.

All told, it was really a peaceful demonstration. I'm very glad I participated. It does a body good to stand up for those things in which one believes.

My friend John in his Weapons Inspector garb.

Lynda speaking during the press conference.

Kids for Peace. The Jane Adams Peace Camp campers offer their solidarity.

Caravan

Ready to storm the gates.

At the gate, met by L-M's PR folks.

Chuck with peace flag holding one end of the Life Line.

The Life Line

And it was NakedFriday, after all...so...

100% Normal. How Boring!

For those of you keeping score.

Weight lost: 11 pounds. Although I do believe at least three of them keep coming back and leaving again.
Blood Pressure: 100/60
Pulse: Yes, I have one.

My blood panel came back and it's 100% normal. Absolutely normal. No troubles with my thyroid, no troubles with my cholesterol, no troubles with my FSH. I'm 100% normal.

Ultrasound was 100% normal, as well. No fibroids. Nothing unusual to report. All normal.

So what does this all mean?

It means that I will just live with that curious period problem. In fact, because I share everything, my period last week was totally normal. Three days. No heavy bleeding. All normal.

Now, if there's one thing in this universe that I do know, it's that I am not 100% normal. So since my body seems to want to be the picture of health and normalcy, I'll just make sure that my attitude is anything but!

This has been a public service announcement courtesy of NakedJen's body. You all may carry on now.

Jailhouse Rock

nakedjen: so the demonstration is tomorrow.
nakeddave: what demonstration.
nakedjen: the demonstration at lockheed. for making weapons of mass destruction.
nakeddave: oh right. are you going to that?
nakedjen: yes, nakeddave. it's been on the calendar for weeks.
nakeddave: oh. i thought we were doing something else tomorrow.
nakedjen: we're supposed to go to tauna's art show if i don't get arrested.
nakeddave: you're getting arrested?
nakedjen: there's a good likelihood.
(pause)
nakedjen: if i get arrested, will you come bail me out?
nakeddave: well i don't know. what if the bail is like $200,000 or something?
nakedjen: it won't be that much.
nakeddave: i think i'll just let you sit there and think about what you've done.
nakedjen: really?
nakeddave: yes. plus i really like the idea of a jailhouse romance. that will be fun. i can come and visit you and we can have sex in the visitor's room.
nakedjen: oh lovely. i wonder if they'll arrest me all over again for getting naked?
nakeddave: no, this is santa cruz. you can be naked anywhere, remember?
(pause)
nakedjen: so you're not going to bail me out?
nakeddave: nope. you're going to be my jailhouse lover. this is so exciting!