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Happy Birthday, Dearest One

Happy birthday, dearest one,
Sweet child of my heart!
We’ve become one family,
Of which you are a part.
And so I sing out equally
To all of those who are
Mine by blood or fortune blessed,
No more, no less my star!

We are one in love and joy,
In fondness and in worth,
And so as one we celebrate
This day, your day of birth!

| Nicholas Gordon

Birthday Love Poems

Birthday Poems For Loved Ones

Birthday
By Christina Georgina Rossetti

MY heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water’s shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,

Because my love is come to me.

Raise me a daïs of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

Happy Birthday To A Special Friend
By J.S. Bach

Happy birthday to a special friend.
All my love to you this precious day!
Part of me knows just what I should say;
Part perhaps some deeper word would send.
You’re the strand on which I silent write
Before my dreams are swept far out to sea.
In you there’s room to canter and run free,
Restoring my lost sense of space and light.
To me you are a place where I can stay,
Hanging out to watch the rush of time,
Drawing in the sand a lazy line
Along which I can go my own sweet way.
You are my sun and shade, my bread and wine

Cute Teenage Love Poems

cute love poems

I ‘ll always love you
By Tasheena J. Sunn

I just want you to know everything I say is true
I know how much you love me as much as I love you

You’re always there for me but life without you, is impossible to see
I just wanna say I’m sorry’. for ever making you cry
and I’m sorry’. for any time I ever lied
your love for me, is shown by my ring
and that proves to me I can tell you any thing
I just want you to know, that I will always love you
and I hope I’ll be with you 4-ever but whatever you do,
I want you to know I will never leave you for some other
for every minute I walk away from you I’m already missing you
and I hope you’ll be missing me too

you’re more to me then just a friend
and I’ll never stop loving you until the very end.

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When Alfa Romeo 1923 with a RL Targa Florio the first time, won the driver Ugo Sivocci had previously painted on the hood of a green four-leaf clover on a white triangle for good luck. From then on the Quadrifoglio verde a trademark for the vehicles used in racing the Alfa Romeo. The former factory Corse racing team and racing department Autodelta took the clover as a good luck symbol. In some models of Alfa Romeo Quadrifoglio the term was also used for sports models. The clover leaf sticker is still a popular jewelry in athletically ambitious Alfa drivers.

From 2000, cars with the Alfa 156 (courious in 169 specs?) in the European Super Touring Cup (STC) started, which won Alfa Romeo 2000 and 2001. In 2002, the prelude to the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) was these high-level touring car series Alfa Romeo 156 GTA with a winning twice in a row – 2002 and 2003. Gabriele Tarquini broke it from its long-time touring car champion Fabrizio Giovanardi. For the 2005 season, the ETCC was in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) is converted, in which Alfa Romeo took the factory with five 156th Fabrizio Giovanardi was third place in the final standings in the best-placed Alfa-pilot. At the end of the season rose from the Milan World Cup, leaving the operations of the now somewhat long in the years Alfa 156 2006 and 2007, the private team N. Technology. From the 2002 season also was employed by Alfa 147 in make cup race (compare with giulia specs). All vehicles had a four-cylinder diesel engine with 1.9 liter engine and common rail direct injection. Engine and transmission were sealed. Under the same conditions could technically young drivers to the delight of the audience to demonstrate their driving skills. 2004 Alfa 147 Cup for the last time was performed.

The other night my roommates and I sat around watching the red carpet coverage of the Emmys, for the dresses of course! That part is almost so much better than the actual show. In years past I’ve just watched all the fashion stuff on the red carpet and then looked up the winners later but this year was different.

My roommates sat down and watched it with me. While we watched people interview on TV, I looked up the looks of the celebrities’ dresses on the runways with hughes net internet so we could compare them to how the celebrtiies looked in them.

One of my favorites was Kelly Osbourne’s black dress. It was just so chic and flattering yet had the rock and roll edge that rock royalty like her just seems to reflect.

My roommate Michelle liked Anna Paquin‘s dress although I thought that the hemline in the front was a little disracting. It just looked like her dress got caught when she went to the bathroom! Oh well, she just married her co-star from the hottest show on TV right now, so I guess a lukewarm dress isn’t a big deal.

On Tuesday, February 27th, the City Council of Santa Cruz, CA put Santa Cruz on record as the first community in the country to officially oppose the use of preemptive military force against the sovereign country of Iran, whether overt or covert!

By a vote of 5 to 2, the Council passed the resolution below, which also included strong language about an immediate withdrawal from Iraq!

Over 75 community members attended, and many spoke on behalf of the resolution – the council also received dozens of emails and phone calls supporting them in taking this action – there were no negative public comments or messages received.

Mayor Emily Reilly and Council Members can be reached at 831-420-5020 or emily reilly <ereilly@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us> mike rotkin <mrotkin@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us>, cynthia mathews <cmathews@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us>, ryan coonerty <rcoonerty@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us>, tony madrigal <tmadrigal@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us>, ed porter <eporter@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us>, lynn robinson <lrobinson@ci.santa-cruz.ca.us

(fyi: Ryan Coonerty and Lynn Robinson were the dissenting votes)

activist contacts include:
Sherry Conable  831-459-7259
Louis Lafortune  831-588-8487
Celia Scott  831-423-0796

this grassroots initiated action was organized and cosponsored by:
Veterans for Peace Chapter 11 of Santa Cruz, CodePink Santa Cruz, the Green Party of SC, the Peace & Freedom Party of SC, the Coalition for Impeachment Now!, Students Against War, Women in Black of SC, the United Nations Association of SC, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship of SC, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom of SC, and the People’s Democratic Club of SC

(passed by Santa Cruz City Council, 5 to 2, Feb 27, 2007)
RESOLUTION OPPOSING U.S. MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ AND IRAN

Whereas, current U.S. foreign policy in the middle-east is clearly counterproductive with respect to the interests of the American people and the peoples of the middle-east; and

Whereas, the initial invasion of Iraq was based on deliberately falsified information about non-existent “weapons of mass destruction” and alleged ties between Sadam Hussein and Al Quaeda in Iraq presented by the Bush Administration to the U.S. Congress, the United Nations, and the American people; and

Whereas, continued presence of the U.S. military in Iraq as an occupying army ­ a situation which has already gone on longer than the U.S. involvement in World War II — cannot possibly lead to peace and/or a stable and sovereign Iraq under the control of the people of Iraq; and

Whereas, the increase or “surge” in American soldiers proposed by the Bush Administration cannot lead to a successful outcome of the war in Iraq; and

Whereas, polls conducted by the most reputable and accurate U.S. polling organizations have shown that the vast majority of Iraqis want the United States military to leave their country and that a significant majority of the Iraqis, whom our soldiers are ostensibly there to protect, also now support killing American troops; and

Whereas, the Bush Administration is now circulating information of dubious authenticity about the involvement of the government of Iran in importing weapons and explosive devises into Iraq ­ a claim about which the U.S. commander on the ground in Iraq has cast serious doubt; and

Whereas, the Administration’s questionable information about Iran follows exactly the same pattern as their lies that led to the ill-considered and ill-fated invasion and occupation of Iraq; and

Whereas, the U.S. release of information about the alleged involvement of Iran in providing weapons in Iraq is clearly intended to justify an attack on Iran

Whereas, such an attack and widening of the U.S. war in the middle-east is almost certain to drive forces in Iran who are friendly to the United States into increased hatred and hostility toward the United States and its citizens, once again making potential friends into virulent enemies ­ as the Bush Administration has done consistently in their misguided approach to foreign policy; and

Whereas, the Bush Administration’s approach to the war in Iraq have cost the lives of over 3,000 American soldiers, the serious maiming of over 26,000 American soldiers, and the death and maiming of countless hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians as well as the waste of over $400,000,000,000 of American tax dollars that might have been put to much better use in serving the education, health care, job training, housing, human services, and other domestic needs of the residents of Santa Cruz and throughout the United States; and

Whereas, the vast majority of the American public, both through the electoral process in November 2006 and as demonstrated in public opinion polls, now have expressed a clear desire for the complete and rapid withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq; and

Whereas, significant numbers of local Santa Cruz citizens have asked the Santa Cruz City Council to represent their opposition to the continued U.S. military occupation of Iraq, the expansion of the war in Iraq, and its spread to neighboring countries; and

Whereas, the California State Legislature is now also considering actions to express its opposition to the current approach of the Bush Administration’s policies in the middle-east; and

Whereas, the Santa Cruz City Council has been asked by our local citizens to play a role in amplifying their support for strong Congressional action to oppose the current policies of the Bush Administration in the middle-east and to support the actions already taken by our Congressmember Sam Farr and others to that end:

Therefore, Be It Resolved, that the Santa Cruz City Council does hereby express its support for the strong leadership being taken by our Congressional Representative Sam Farr and other members of Congress to limit the war authority of the Bush Administration with respect to continuing and/or expanding the war in Iraq or taking, or supporting, or encouraging any military action against Iran, which includes support for Congressmember Sam Farr’s HR 33, Congressmember Barbara Lee’s HR 770 with respect to Iran and HR 413, HR 508, and HR 4232 [check final bill numbers] with respect to expanding U.S. troops in Iraq, and any other Congressional actions calling for the immediate and/or most rapid possible withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq, Iran, and the surrounding countries; and

Be It Further Resolved, that the Santa Cruz City Council does hereby request that our California U.S. Senators Boxer and Feinstein join our Congressmember Sam Farr by providing leadership in the U.S. Senate in support of Congress re-establishing its Constitutional authority over U.S. foreign policy and war policy and funding; and

Be It Further Resolved, that the Santa Cruz City Council does hereby request that our California State Legislators, Assemblymember John Laird and State Senator Joe Simitian, provide leadership in the California legislature in support of State Senator Carole Migden’s Senate Joint Resolution (SJR 1) calling for a rapid withdrawal of the U.S. military occupation of Iraq; and

Be It Further Resolved, that the Santa Cruz City Council directs Mayor Emily Reilly to send copies of this Resolution to the President of the United States, our Congressional representatives, our California legislative representatives, the League of California Cities, and all local media outlets; and to arrange that a copy of this resolution be placed on the Santa Cruz City website.