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The BUKU Music & Art Project

On March 21, 2014 I traveled from Houston, Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana for the BUKU Music & Art Project.I purchased my tickets at least four months in advance so all the buildup had me extremely excited for this event.
How BUKU and I found one another:
While I was attending Lights All-Night in Dallas, Texas during the month of December, I was handed a flyer for this music festival that Kaskade was going to be performing at in New Orleans. I was immediately intrigued and decided to enter into their Instagram contest which entailed taking a photo of the flyer and sharing it across all social media boards. After that I decided to look up the event online and see what the reviews were like from the previous year. BUKU had a great lineup the previous year, a lot of good things were said and the video clips from BUKU 2013 made it feel like I needed to be there, or I would be missing out. Needless to say I didn't wait to see if I had won the contest on Instagram. I went straight to the website and purchased TOOBUKU VIP tickets for my husband and I.

The T00BUKU experience was an offer that you could not pass up when it comes to more bang for your buck. It included your own personal butler for the whole weekend, a three level VIP riverboat docked in the Mississippi River, which was dubbed SS BLU-KU, access to the grand mansion, which was useless, unless you held a press pass to do interviews with the artist, and both nights you were provided bottle service.

I was extremely happy with the separate VIP viewing areas that were provided, unlike Lights All-Night where if you were VIP, you were stuffed off to the left side of the stage and there was no front stage access for you, only general admission. So I am thankful to BUKU and their thoughtful consideration of the people that paid a considerably higher amount for the best view possible of the artists. On the SS BLU-KU boat, which was sponsored by BLU-cigarettes, they were giving out free BLU e-cigarette's downstairs. I thoroughly enjoyed this perk, considering I cannot stand the smell of a real cigarette anymore since it gives me a headache.

There was one huge problem that I had experienced with the BUKU Project. I had been provided one big letdown and It just so happened to be on the very first night of BUKU. Basically what it all boils down to is the whole reason I decided to go to BUKU was to see Kaskade. I am a huge Kaskade fan, I love his music. Anyone that knows me can tell you that Kaskade has been my favorite DJ since 2007. Okay before I begin, let me say that I don't know if this was a personal preference but I very seriously doubt it was. There were several different stages set up at BUKU-the main stage which was labeled-the power plant stage, the next largest stage was an indoor arena and it was called the float den. The float den is actually a Mardi Gras float manufacturing warehouse. There were several other different stages, but are irrelevant to my story so let's just stick with the two main ones. The main stage-the power plant stage was outdoors and the weather that weekend was so beautiful. It felt really good to be outside and not be immersed in humidity like I would be if I was in Houston. Now the second stage-the float den, was not so lovely. Upon walking into the room you felt like you had just stepped into a steam sauna. So the person that I drove five hours to come see was put in a miserable spot to play, and that happen to be the float den. There were no VIP section viewing in the front of the stage like there should have been but rather in the middle of the room. To say the least I was pretty pissed.

What I really enjoyed about BUKU was the art section of the festival. They had live artist drawing and painting on large stretches of canvas throughout the whole festival, which could be purchased when completed. I always enjoy watching an artist at work and the whole creative process that goes into their masterpiece.

Another great thing about the BUKU Project was that I met a very diverse array of people that were all so genuinely nice and were all about having a great time. Hopefully I will have made new friends that will last a lifetime.I do not see myself making a mad dash to BUKU next year but hopefully I will make it back another year so that I may be with my friends nestled in between an active railroad, a dilapidated power plant and the Mississippi River with barges rolling by throughout the night.
So I leave you with the New Orleans skyline and Crescent city connection bridge looming in my future distance.

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New Texas Abortion Law

As of November 14 your rights as a woman have now changed. The debate over the State Bill 5 and House Bill 2 , have now come to a final decision on women's reproductive choices. This debate started last summer, over nearly a months span, thousand of women went to the capital to protest. While this was being debated, the first special session called by Gov. Rick Perry had hundreds of people traveling to Austin to testify against the bill. What was finally the deciding factor in SB 5 from being passed was the people's filibuster. The bill was literally shouted down by protesters who yelled so loudly that a vote couldn't be taken place for the legislation to pass before the midnight deadline.

Immediately Gov. Rick Perry called for a second special session making it clear that, "Texans value life and want to protect women and the unborn" which makes total sense, (as I say in a sarcastic tone) from his leading examples of overseeing the execution of hundreds and denying funds from the national Medicaid women's health program to low income women throughout the state of Texas. As protesters were bused in from across the nation security became more tightly controlled and many people reported having their tampons and pads confiscated.

On October 31, a three-judge appeals court panel overturned an injunction that blocked implementation of a provision of the state's new anti-abortion law that requires abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of their clinic. The restriction is among several in the sweeping legislative assault on access to safe legal abortions in the state of Texas. Other provisions include a 20 week ban on abortion hiding restrictions on medication abortions, and requiring abortion clinics to be certified as ambulatory surgical centers.

Estimates show that this will leave only five clinics in the entire state open if the surgical ambulatory requirement provision of the legislation goes into effect on schedule in September 2014. The state of Texas has 26.1 million residents and spans over 268,820 mi.² Since the provision went into effect, there are now only six counties out of the 254 to have abortion clinics. When the legislation's arguments are broken down, it becomes apparent that nothing in the anti abortion's laws provisions actually improve health care for pregnant women.

In 2011 the women's healthcare budget was cut from $111 million down to $37.9 million, This also barred any state dollars from reaching Planned Parenthood, who served half of all women who received care through the state women's health program in 2010. Before 2011 clinics offered annual exam to uninsured women for a subsidized rate of $10-$25 today those rates are between $60 and $200. The same goes for birth control prices, with this help of state dollars clinics used to prescribe a month of birth control pills at $12 a pack now the price tag is at an unsubsidized $50.

The stereotype on Texas has now established laws that violate women's fundamental reproductive rights including the right to life and health, nondiscrimination and equality.

If he likes it, then he will BUY a ring for it...

So, tonight as I was sitting down to eat my "Dreams Dinner" which was more of a nightmare to prepare than a dream, yet i digress- an interesting topic came on the news. So our modern day brides are now paying for their engagement rings. How Ludacris! Honey, if your fiancee doesn't have enough money saved up over 2-4 months worth of his paycheck, then either: A) this man is not financially stable enough to be able to support you or your possibly future children or B) you either don't deserve it or don't need it. I mean, if love is all you need, then why put so much financial stress on a relationship so early? It is going to be hard enough as it is, so quit being so materialistic and trying to show out with your engagement ring. The way I look at it, if you had to pay for it yourself, then he doesn't really care too much about you or your marriage. Engagement bands began in Ancient Egypt and were used to symbolize a never ending cycle. Roman men even gave rings that included a small key, which they claimed were a symbol that the woman holds the key to a mans heart. Some Romans also believed that rings were a symbol of ownership rather than love. The history of the engagement ring originated in 1215, and were used to establish a waiting period between the promise of marriage and the actual marriage ceremony. In the 1920's there was a law called the "Breach of Promise to Marry". This allowed the woman to sue her husband for breaking off an engagement if the woman was still a virgin. So the Breach of Promise to Marry was pretty much virginity insurance. If a woman had already lost her virginity before marriage, then she had also lost her market value. So by law, if the man didn't carry on with his promise to marry then the unwed bride would be granted something similar to bankruptcy protection. When this law changed in 1945, the women now needed something else as upfront financial security, because if she was to be left at the alter, then she would be left with something of value.

The Statue of Lady Unliberated

The Statue of Liberty's original name was Liberty Enlightening the World, how about I enlighten you on our so called symbol of American Liberty ...

The American unveiling of the Statue of Liberty in 1886 was one of the most excited news events of the century. Although, while visiting the statue in New York, I was pissed to learn the presence of women on Liberty island at the dedication ceremony was strictly forbidden. No women were allowed on the island for the unveiling, except for creator, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s wife and the Chairman of the French committee’s daughter. I found this to be a little ironic since the Statue of Liberty is a woman. But our American women did not have any intention on missing the show. So they chartered their own boats, circling in protest and got as close to the island as they could get. While Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and his work crew were busy building the statue into a symbol of liberty, none of the women in France or the United States enjoyed equal rights or fair social and political liberties. France was one of the last European nations to give women the right to vote.
For Immigrants and African Americans, the Statue Of Liberty is supposed to be a symbol of freedom, yet none of the speeches by U.S. President Grover Cleveland or other officials at the dedication mentioned a single word about immigrants.
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a member to the brotherhood of Freemasonry. The Freemason's were a “no women allowed” organization. The Statue of Liberty was conceived, financed, built, and installed by Freemasons in a Freemasonic ceremony.

There are many theories about who our Lady Liberty really is, but unfortunatly Bartholdi took this information to the grave with him . I have now, two of the most interesting points on the identity of the statue that I was able to dig up.

MARY MAGDALENE
Mary Magdalene is a woman without a past. The gospels are strangely silent about where she came from, what she looked like, who her family was, how she was educated or what she did to support Jesus and the disciples ‘out of her own means’. The information blackout has provoked speculation that the Bible’s leading lady had something sinister to hide. Did the early church suppress the truth about Mary Magdelene as Dan Brown suggests in The Da Vinci Code?
Many speculators wonder why the public has failed to notice or even question the odd shape of Liberty’s body. Draped in a classical Greek robe, her body pokes out at the midsection like a woman during early stages of pregnancy. They say that her bloated belly cannot be explained away as the bulky folds of her robe. Since Lady's face, neck and arm region are trim and fit, so we can rule out her being a plus size model. With this being said, her robe should hang down in a straight line, not arc out at the midriff. Some ask, did Bartholdi intentionally build his statue to appear pregnant beneath her robe? Some say that Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was trying to enshrine the pregnant Mary Magdelene in his Statue of Liberty. Many wonder if he was delivering the same subliminal message that Da Vinci and other artists passed down through their own masterpieces, the message that Mary Magdelene conceived a child fathered by Jesus...

THE WHORE OF BABYLON?
To solve the mystery of Lady Liberty’s identity, researchers puzzled together key quotes from the Bible and concluded that Lady Liberty must be the ‘Whore of Babylon’ as described in the Book of Revelation and Isaiah. Biblical quotes from Revelation and Isaiah describe this mystery woman as a Queen, a harlot, a virgin and a lady who holds a golden cup in her hand. She is referred to as “the Lady” and “Lady Liberty”. Like the ‘Whore of Babylon’, the Statue Of Liberty is wearing the crown of a Queen. Some say that Lady Liberty's seven spiked crown symbolizes the seven continents and the seven seas of the Earth just as the mystery woman described in the Book of Revelation rules over seven mountains (continents) and over the waters (seven seas). Originally, she held a golden cup globe flame in her outstretched hand until New York City authorities replaced it with a natural gas "torch light".
Similar to the mystery woman of Revelation, the Roman goddess Libertas was called a whore and the mother of harlots, yet she was also called the virgin daughter of Babylon. The Romans worshipped Isis between 600 and 400 B.C and renamed her Libertas, meaning liberty. The concepts of virgin and whore appear to be contradictory during this time. But in ancient times, Isis or Ishtar introduced the practice of holy prostitution and holy sex. Sex became a holy ritual for removing sin. In return for holy sex performed by her 'priestesses' which translates to prostitutes, Isis received a coin-offering which we call money. Those who disapproved of Isis and her holy sex-for-money rituals called her the “Whore of Babylon” and the “Mother of Harlots”.
Like the mystery woman of Babylon, the Statue of Liberty symbolizes both a woman and a city. It is only fitting that an alluring statue of the ‘Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth’ should stand astride a world-renowned port beckoning the world to enter her. Since she was first erected in 1886, Lady Liberty has been entered by millions of strangers for the price of a cheap harlot.