Amazon's new policy:
In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude "adult" material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature.

Hence, if you have further questions, kindly write back to us.

Best regards,
Ashlyn D
Member Services
Amazon.com Advantage

Why it sucks and what they are really doing:
We find it hypocritical that Amazon continues to sell adult books but thinks that removing the sales rating to (keep them out of the public eye) will achieve this.

We would like to hear the rationalisation for allowing sales ratings for explicit books with a heterosexual focus such as:

--Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds by Chronicle Books (pictures of over 600 naked women)
--Rosemary Rogers' Sweet Savage Love" (explicit heterosexual romance);
--Kathleen Woodiwiss' The Wolf and the Dove (explicit heterosexual romance);
--Bertrice Smal's Skye o'Malley which are all explicit heterosexual romances
--and Alan Moore's Lost Girls (which is a very explicit sexual graphic novel)

Yet the following books, which have a gay or lesbian focus, have been classed as "adult books" and stripped of their sales ratings:

--Radclyffe Hill's classic novel about lesbians in Victorian times, The Well of Loneliness, and which contains not one sentence of sexual description;
--Mark R Probst's YA novel The Filly about a young man in the wild West discovering that he's gay (gay romance, no sex);
--Charlie Cochrane's Lessons in Love (gay romance with no sex);
--The Dictionary of Homophobia: A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience, edited by Louis-George Tin (non-fiction, history and social issues);
--and Homophobia: A History by Bryan Fone (non-fiction, focus on history and the forms prejudice against homosexuality has taken over the years).

Please tell us, Amazon, why the explicit books with a heterosexual focus are allowed to keep their sales ratings while the non-explicit romances, the histories and the biographies that deal with LGBTQ issues are not.

We would love to hear your reasoning.


Sign the Petition Here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy

A new commercial airring in states where Same Sex Marriage is coming up for debate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AzLrn5JVIo

The HRC Response
http://www.hrc.org/endthelies/

The National Organization for Marriage Website
http://www.nationformarriage.org

Share it with your friends, your family and that person in your address book you'd don't really talk to. Ask them to take a stand and be counted for Same Sex Marriage.

the commercial will be running on: CNN, the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC

Jay and I did the March for Babies last year because it is a foundation we truly care about and believe in. This year we were unable to attend that walk and instead we are participationg in a walk that benefits Organ donation. So many peoples lives can be saved or improved by organ and tissue donation and Gift of Life Donor program is committed to helping make that happen.

The Walk is Saturday, April 19 in Philadelphia, PA
If you are able to donate to this worthy cause, please use the link below. Remember every $1 helps - even if that is all you have to give.

Follow the link below to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support Transplant Foundation, an Affiliate of Gift of Life

Thank you!

Love,
Dawn

https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=303415&lis=1&kntae303415=0269712C303644618400C383184260C4&supId=249741465

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It could be anything. Jewelry, a poem, a set of lj icons that I think suit your personality... Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange or silly.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you *have* to repost and follow through. :) We can all make stuff!!

There are clues to the BSG mystery of the last cylon. The final clue is 22:59:54.

I think this is a time. The new episode starts at 10:00 lets assume that is 24. That would 8:59 and 44 seconds - on the sci fi channel the final clue.

11 minutes - then we'll see if i'm right.


http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/youwillknowthetruth/

My phone broke into pieces this weekend... and now after several Fed Ex misshaps I have a new one.

The old one is so dead I lost all the numbers in it. Please leave a comment with your contact information if you want me to have it.

Thank you!

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I am watching a dumb stupid reality show on MTV, it is a show that has as one of it's main plot lines the demise of a friendship between two best friends.

In the season finale tonight those two friends who have not really spoken in years had the bittersweet meeting. They will never be friends again but they miss each other and they expressed that they will always be there for each other.

It hit me in the heart. And now i am have having one of those heart aching moments of missing, of sadness, of questioning and of tears.

I know that as much as I want to reach out in these moments that it would be a selfish reaction. She does not need nor want to hear from me and I have to respect that.

I am blessed to have the love that I have found, but I mourn the cost.

When i was 16, i was babysitting for three children. Their newborn baby sister was at another sitters. She went down for a nap and she never woke up. Premature birth and sudden infant death don't need to happen. i organized a team to do this walk many years ago, last year J and Molly walked -- this year the three of us are walking together. :) If you can spare anything, even a dollar consider donating to this worthy cause.

You can donate at my page:
http://www.marchforbabies.org/dawniem727

find out more about march of dimes at:
http://www.marchforbabies.org

Please help out! So far i have completely and utterly lacking in the donations department!