BIBLES IN 'BIN LADEN' COMPOUND.

Two Bibles were found at the compound where the CIA claimed that Osama bin Laden was killed.

Pakistan officials found the Bibles at the 'Osama bin Laden' house when they came to demolish the building in Abbottabad.

Certain lines in the English language Bibles were highlighted and they contained pages that were folded over.

A commanding officer from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence reportedly said: "The Bibles were in English and we cannot be sure why they were there. These copies were found as we checked the rooms for the final time before demolishing the building."

Bible copies found at Osama bin Laden's hideout – The Express.

It would appear that the people who had been living in the compound were not Moslems.

IT WAS PAK FORCES WHO ATTACKED THE COMPOUND.

THE COMPOUND WAS A CIA SAFE HOUSE IN ABBOTTABAD

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Pakistan rattled by news of CIA safe house in Abbottabad.

CIA Occupied Safe House in Abbottabad South Asia English

LONDON AND BIN LADEN

DAVY JONES AND THE CIA

Davy Jones was born in Manchester in the UK in 1945.

At the age of 11, he appeared in the UK soap opera Coronation Street.


In London, and then on Broadway, he played the part of the Artful Dodger in the musical Oliver!

He was 'lead singer' in the Monkees from 1966 to 1968.


In their 1968 movie the group sang:

Hey, hey, we are the Monkees
You know we love to please
A manufactured image
With no philosophies.

The movie reportedly had deep roots in California's Laurel Canyon, and CIA brainwashing.

(Laurel Canyon Part I)

The Monkees Michael Nesmith set up Pop Clips which developed into MTV, which is rumoured to be linked to the CIA.


According to Alex Constantine:

There have been Congressional testimonies from CIA operatives who admitted... that they have "driven some of these musicians to their deaths"...

It's known that Joan Baez was used in CIA mind control experimentation at a very early age...

Operation Chaos ... entailed assassinating political leaders and musicians who spoke openly against the Nixon regime.

The clearest example... is Brian Jones...

SYRIA, GREECE, 9 11, CIA, MURDOCH...

Lepers, Indonesia.

Hamas breaks publicly with the Assad Regime in Syria; Agrees Unity Government with Arch-Rival Fatah

Strategy of Tension Launched in Greece


Papua glue sniffing - by dapiiiiit

Lockerbie reward claim

Important New Book on Lockerbie Bombing: 8 Key Pieces Of Evidence Re-Examined

Indonesia extends diplomatic support to Palestine

Girl, Indonesia

BILL MOYERS: THE SECRET GOVERNMENT.

9/11 FOREKNOWLEDGE CAUGHT ON COMPUTERS.

Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham becoming 'no-go areas' .

GANGSTERS' LINKS TO POLITICIANS



CIA assassinations - Poisoned with Cancer

South American Leaders Suffer CIA Cancer Epidemic

SWITZERLAND DECIDES HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT IS EFFECTIVE.

CANCER KILLER - ONE CURE THE AMA ISN'T TELLING YOU ABOUT.



Selective Censorship

Is Nigel Farage In The Pocket Of The Israeli Lobbies?

#Leveson Inquiry :DAMNING Daniel Morgan Testimony : Claims the News of the World was trying to disrupt the investigation into the death of Daniel Morgan

Girls, Indonesia

#Murdoch's Scottish Sun Hunt's Down Paedophile Sex Slave Ring In Scotland

Rupert Murdoch Runs Organized Crime From Deep Within Scotland Yard !



CIA SAFE HOUSE IN ABBOTTABAD

LUNCH WITH THE FT - AYMAN AL ZAWAHIRI

DOG NAMED BLUE

http://dognamedblue-amd.blogspot.com/ has written Big Hallucination



"When I was a child, '79 '80 '81, it was safer to wander the streets of a suburb of Bolton than it was to be at home.



I would hide out anywhere that was dry out of the rain and snow - old buildings powerunits half built houses - because I feared that he would kill me if I was at home.



There were no friends to hide out with until it was time to go home ... leaving it until the last seconds to run inside & upstairs to bed.



I'd spent the last four years praying to god fanatically but had given up believing in a god that would let this happen to me.



I ran away to kill myself at sixteen but I made my grandmother cry.



I'd never seen her cry and felt so ashamed that I had done so.



Instead I hid in her airing cupboard for six months only coming out at night when it was safe."







And, one of my turns...



"When your husband used to be beating me to death, he used to say things to me.



"He told me how none of my family cared about me.



"How they wouldn’t help me...



"This woman who gave birth to me agreed with everything her husband was doing to me

supporting him in everything.



"It was all I've ever known for all my life.



"How could I have known what he was doing to you too?...



"From the age of 9 I believed he was going to murder me...



"You then abandoned me and made me homeless...



"I had to break in to the shed in the graveyard to have somewhere dry to sleep.



"I never saw you for 4 years I never saw my sister for 6 years..."

THE 'FAT PIG' - IGNOMINIOUS DEPARTURE FROM MAURITANIA

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar (L) and Israel Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Israel.

On 18 January 2012, at Mathaba, we read of the ignominious departure from Mauritania of the "fat pig of Arabia", Qatar Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

According to Mathaba:

The dictator-Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, recently visited Mauritania.

The visit "ended ignominiously" with some calling his departure an "expulsion from the country."

The Mauritanian Siraj newspaper reported that the official visit ended without a formal farewell by the Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.

The 'fat pig' and the President of Mauritania.

The Mauritanian leader spoke of the Arab Spring.

He told the Qatari sheikh: "These are not revolts, these are conspiracies".

The Qatari dictator, "a known stooge of zionism and western global elites" had been sent to Mauritania to seek an opening for Al-Qaeda type Islamist terrorists (termed "reformists" by liberal apologetics) to create an arc of chaos across North Africa and the Middle East.


This "creative chaos" policy is designed to make the resource-rich part of the world unstable and ungovernable, in order that military forces of the western elite can take advantage and plunder, with a compliant news media, as has occurred in Libya.

Mauritania's president is democratically elected, unlike the Qatari dictator.

The 'fat pig', one of the people behind the arab Spring. Another of the people behind the Arab Spring is George Soros, who helped bring Obama to power, and who funded Wikileaks.

The sources said that the Mauritanian President was unhappy when his guest urged him to launch democratic reforms, adopt “effective” economic policy and cooperate with the Islamist reformist movement.

The Qatari leader also urged the President of Mauritania to help put pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Syria is the next target of the so-called "New World Order" in which Qatar plays an important regional role as servant and bridgehead of western capitalism.

Qatar's main roles are military assistance to islamist terrorists, providing a safe regional base to the U.S. military, and being the propaganda media headquarters via Al-Jazeera which has been co-opted by the western intelligence agencies.

BBC: LOCKERBIE EVIDENCE DEMOLISHED

Gauci

"A police officer ... testified that the fragment of timer which was used to convict Al Megrahi was planted by CIA operatives with the collusion of Scottish police officers ..." Former police chief says Lockerbie evidence faked.

A new Lockerbie documentary demolishes government witnesses' testimony

BBC Scotland has screened a documentary which suggests that Megrahi is innocent and that the evidence in the Lockerbie trial is fake.

The documentary coincides with the publication of John Ashton's Megrahi: You Are My Jury, published on 27 February 2012.

The Ashton book suggests that the Scottish Crown Office, the Scottish police and UK defence ministry scientists failed to disclose numerous pieces of evidence.

Tony Gauci, with some hesitation, identified Megrahi as the man who allegedly bought clothes allegedly wrapped around bomb fragments allegedly found near Lockerbie.

Gauci described the man who allegedly bought the clothes in his shop in Malta.

Gauci described him as being six-foot tall, with a big chest, large head, and very black hair.

This description does not fit Megrahi.


Gauci told police that 'Megrahi' came to his shop on the 29 November.

Then he changed this and claimed that Megrahi came to the shop on 7 December, pointing out that as 'Megrahi' left he opened a black umbrella he had just purchased (later planted among the Lockerbie debris) because it started to rain.

The documentary consulted former chief meteorologist Major Joseph Mifsud, who said there was no rain on 7 December, 1988 between 5pm and 7pm.

Gauci said that when 'Megrahi' came to his shop the Christmas lights had not yet been switched on.

Former minister for tourism Michael Refalo switched on the Christmas lights on 6 December, 1988 at 6pm.

Gauci repeatedly changed his account, including identifying people other than Megrahi, people who did not look at all like Megrahi.

Gauci and his brother Paul were reportedly paid up to USD 3 million by the US Department of Justice.

UK government scientists found significant differences between the bomb timer fragment allegedly found after the attack and the type supplied to Gaddafi's Libya.

LOCKERBIE IS ABOUT HEROIN

CIA FELL OUT WITH SYRIA OVER HEROIN?

CIA DRUG RUNNING; LOCKERBIE

'POLICE LIES' AND 'GOVERNMENT COVER-UP' ON LOCKERBIE.

LOCKERBIE; BELL'S DIARY; 'BRIBERY'; ALEX SALMOND

CHARLIZE THERON; ONE DIRECTION; TENNESSEE...

Charlize.

Charlize Theron recalls 'obsessive' school days

Charlize Theron remembers bursting into tears at school because she couldn’t sit next to the “really popular girl” she was “obsessed” with.

Charlize

“I remember there was a really popular girl in my school, and I was obsessed with her, I mean, like you’d go to jail for that stuff today!” she laughed in an interview with OK! magazine.

“I was actually in tears one day because I couldn’t sit next to her. Yeah, I have issues!”

Boy band One Direction were booked to appear at the gay club Heaven by Jeremy Joseph, the promoter of Britain's biggest gay nightlife brand G-A-Y.

One Direction for G-A-Y? guardian.co.uk


Harry Edward Styles (right) is one of the more famous members of British-Irish boyband One Direction.

According to: Gay News from London: (Which Member of One Direction is Gay?)

Irish boy band Westlife star Mark Feehily was gay and in a relationship with Kevin McDaid, who used to be in boyband V.

The late Stephen Gately of Irish boy band Boyzone was gay.

Lance Bass from US boy band N-Sync is gay.

Jonathan Knight from US Boy Band New Kids on the Block is reported by Perez Hilton as gay.

Robbie Williams has joked many times about being gay...

Roger Crouch and his son Dominic.

On 18 May 2010, Dominic wrote: "Dear Family, I'm so so sorry for what I'm about to do. I have been bullied a lot recently and had a lot of shit made up about me that ain't true."

On 22 February 2012, we read how 'a heartbroken father hanged himself 18 months after his bullied son committed suicide by jumping off a six-storey building'.

Roger Crouch, the former director of children's services for Gloucestershire County Council, had organised an award-winning campaign to highlight the problems of homophobic bullying of children.

Dominic "jumped from a six-storey building near his school amid rumours he was gay after he apparently kissed a boy for a dare."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104678/Roger-Crouch-father-bullied-boy-Dominic-committed-suicide-hanged-himself.html#ixzz1n6HTC7Jw

The Crouch Family

According to The Guardian (Website):

'Eight in 10 secondary-school teachers and two in five primary-school teachers reported hearing homophobic insults such as "poof", "dyke", "queer" and "faggot".

'Ninety per cent of secondary-school teachers had witnessed children being subjected to homophobic bullying...

'In the United States, there has been a worrying spate of young suicides linked to homophobic bullying.

'Over a single week in September 2010, there were five deaths: 13-year-old Seth Walsh hanged himself in his California back yard; Tyler Clementi, 18, jumped off the George Washington Bridge; Asher Brown, 13, from Houston, shot himself in the head and Raymond Chase, 19, from New York, hanged himself in his university dorm room.'

Tennessee people (Scopes Trial - Wikipedia)

In Tennessee, in the USA, there is a bill to ban any discussion of homosexuality in Tennessee schools.

There is a fear this will encourage similar laws across the US.

The 'don't say gay' bill has passed the state's senate.

Opponents are concerned about the implications across the US as well as in Tennessee, where two teens, Jacob Rogers and Phillip Parker, have recently killed themselves after being bullied over their sexuality.

Gay rights activists urge Tennessee to halt passage of 'don't say gay' bill.

Photo by Evan Animals

Bonobo chimps are our nearest relation in terms of DNA.

Dr Batsi Chikura, a member of London's Royal College of Physicians, has written: "Homosexuality: nature or choice?"

From this we learn:

1. Bonobo chimps have sex for breakfast, lunch and supper – any time is sex time.

They are also pansexual, which is to say they have sexual attraction and sexual desire towards all gender identities and biological sexes.

They have both heterosexual and homosexual sexual contacts and even group sex.

2. Sex serves an important function in the Bonobos’ community in keeping the society together, maintaining peaceful and cooperative relations.

When Bonobo groups meet in the forest, sex is part of the greeting ritual.

Fights and tensions in the group are quickly resolved by an outburst of sexual activity.

If humans could adopt the Bonobos’ concept, wars will be a thing of the past.

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Brad Renfro and gay child stars

MAISIE BAXTER

MOSSAD PLOT TO KILL PUTIN?

On 27 February 2012, we learn of the Putin Assassination Plot.

Ukrainian and Russian security services have gathered information about a plot to assassinate Putin, who is due to be elected president on 4 March 2012.

The assassins were detained in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa in early January 2012, after they survived an explosion in a rented apartment.

The gang have confessed they were planning to assassinate Putin in Moscow, soon after the March 4 presidential elections.



One of the assassins, Ilya Pyanzin, said that the Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov hired him to kill Putin.

The Chechen militants are said to be linked to the CIA, Mossad and NATO.

Pyanzin came from the United Arab Emirates via Turkey to Ukraine.

The United Arab Emirates and Turkey are said to have close links to Mossad and the CIA.

The alternative to Putin is the Communist Party, which has in the past had firm links to Israel.

Peter Hitchens

According to the Daily Mail's Peter Hitchens:

"Putin stands – as no other major leader does in the world today – for the rights of nations to decide their own business inside their own borders.

"He has underlined that by refusing to join in the rash American-backed effort to destabilise the Assad regime in Syria.

"He has dared to wield a real veto (unlike David Cameron’s disposable cardboard one) and face the consequences.

"He has used his country’s huge oil and gas reserves to maintain an independent state.

"And he has rejected the current mania for privatisation and market forces as the cure for all ills.

"Russia, he believes, has had quite enough privatisation."

PETER HITCHENS: If not Putin, who? I can see the point of this man who stands up for Russia.

The alternative to Assad is the CIA's al Qaeda.

CIA SAFE HOUSE IN ABBOTTABAD

Abbottabad



Pakistan has begun to demolish the house where the CIA claimed that Osama bin Laden once lived.



CIA compound being demolished in Pakistan



The CIA reportedly kept a number of its assets and agents in the Abbottabad area



(PAKISTAN ARRESTS 'CIA ASSETS' NEAR ABBOTTABAD)



The 'Osama bin Laden compound' in the Pakistan town of Abbottabad has a special design.



Reportedly, it is a design used by the US military.



Reportedly, the US military use this design for constructing secret and safe homes for top officers in dangerous zones.



(Did Dawood's construction firm build 'Osama's' Abbottabad home? / Did Dawood's construction firm build 'Osama's' Abbottabad home ...)



The Abbottabad compound



"Highly placed sources in Indian intelligence" reveal that the contract to build such homes in Pakistan has been given to Safari Construction.



Safari Construction is reportedly owned by Dawood Ibrahim.



(Did Dawood's construction firm build Osama's Abbottabad home?)



Reportedly, Dawood Ibrahim is an asset of the CIA.



The 'Osama House' was well known to the CIA.



The 'OSAMA HOUSE' was raided in 2009



The copy in Bagram, Afghanistan.



In April 2011, the US military reportedly made a full scale replica of the 'Obama compound'. (Full-Scale Replica.)



"They replicated the one-acre compound at Camp Alpha, a segregated section of Bagram Air Base." (the Atlantic)



Two TV sets, digital satellite decoder, computer, calculator with printer.



"Electricity bills seen by The Sunday Times show that the compound used hardly any power, just enough for lights and a small television "



Talk of who betrayed Osama bin Laden sparks a harem scuffle



CIA asset arrested in Karachi?



It looks as if the Pakistan military is cracking down on the CIA.



1. On 17 May 2011 we learn that, in Karachi, Pakistani security forces have arrested Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub.



Muhammad Yaqub, alias Abu Sohaib al Makki, is a senior al Qaeda (CIA) operative from Yemen.



Pakistani army: senior al Qaeda (CIA) operative arrested



According to the Pakistan military, Yaqub (al Makki) had been "working directly under al Qaeda (CIA) leaders along (the) Pakistan-Afghan border."



The US Embassy in Pakistan claims not to know Yaqub (al Makki) and say his name does not appear on any lists under the US Rewards for Justice program.



"The arrest of al Makki is a major development in unraveling the al Qaeda (CIA) network operating in the region," according to the Pakistan military.



Yaqub (al Makki) was arrested some time after 2 May 2011.





Patek



2. In January 2011, Umar Patek was arrested by Pakistani forces in Abbottabad.



Umar Patek, an Indonesian, was reportedly an asset of the CIA.



"He was captured with his Indonesian wife during a gun battle with local Pakistani security," according to Indonesia's General Sutanto.



PATEK, DAVIS, HIZBUL, KHALID, HAMZA



Davis



3. On 27 January 2011, the CIA's Raymond Davis was arrested by the Pakistan authorities after he had killed two agents of the Pakistan spy service ISI in Lahore, Pakistan.



PATEK, DAVIS, HIZBUL, KHALID, HAMZA



Baitullah Mehsud, whose nephew was allegedly staying in the 'Osama' compound in Abbottabad.

4. On 17 May 2011, we read that the Pakistan security forces "have arrested ... three family members of the ... militant leader Qari Zainuddin Mehsud from a mountain (two miles from Abbottabad) which is believed to be the hub of (Pakistan) Taliban militants, while three hotels were raided to hunt down foreign journalists..."



PAKISTAN ARRESTS 'CIA ASSETS' NEAR ABBOTTABAD



Fake photo?



5. There is evidence that it was Pakistan forces who carried out the raid on the so called 'Osama' compound.



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PAK FORCES DID 'OSAMA' RAID?

PAKISTAN CRACKS DOWN ON CIA

PAKISTAN ARRESTS 'CIA ASSETS' NEAR ABBOTTABAD



FAKE 'OSAMA' HOUSE?

PAK FORCES MUCKED UP 'BIN LADEN' RAID?

OSAMA'S DIARY



SATELLITE DISH ADDED TO 'OSAMA' COMPOUND?

PAK FORCES HIT 'OSAMA' COMPOUND

BIN LADEN ESCAPED?



PAK ARMY VISITED RESIDENTS BEFORE ABBOTTABAD ATTAC...

PAK PM, HEADLEY AND THE CIA

THE THREE OSAMAS



'FAKE' PICTURES OF 'OSAMA' IN ABBOTTABAD

ABOUT ABBOTTABAD

OSAMA AND DAWOOD IBRAHIM



PATEK, DAVIS, HIZBUL, KHALID, HAMZA

IT WAS PAK FORCES WHO ATTACKED THE COMPOUND IN ABB...



CIA SAFE HOUSE IN ABBOTTABAD?

OSAMA DEATH FAKE

THE BIN LADEN FAMILY



OSAMA BIN LADEN

OSAMA 'WAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'

I'd like to thank the Academy

To wrap up the awards season, I asked Danielle, Natalie, and Tracie from the previous post to come back and do a little wrap up with me on the Academy Awards.

First off, congratulations to Tracie! She called all the big winners! And as she said in email:

Michelle,

So, what's my prize for getting all four of my Oscar predictions correct? :)

Hmm! Have to think of something good, right? I already showed you Tom Hardy and his pooch...shared some Alexander Skarsgard...what else?

Best dressed female/male?

Natalie: Best Dressed Female - Slightly torn between Michelle Williams and… (reluctant sigh) Gwyneth Paltrow. Michelle Williams’ Louis Vuitton gown was stunning (I loved the bodice, the brooch, and I thought the color was perfect for her.) Then you have Gwyneth Paltrow's gorgeous Tom Ford gown (she got to wear a cape!) It’s a tough choice but since I was less than pleased with Gwyneth’s low ponytail – Michelle takes the win!



Best dressed male? Colin Firth. What? He looks good in a tux.



Tracie: I get to pretend to be Joan Rivers. Fun! This will probably be controversial, but Best Dressed Female for me was Emma Stone. Her gown had the "WOW!" factor for me. The color (raspberry) was gorgeous and complemented her pale skin and fiery hair very well, the design was interesting (not usually a fan of bows, but the one on that dress was architectural, not cutesy), and the silhouette (yes, I watch Project Runway) was really flattering and lovely. I, also, thought that her hair and make-up were perfect.



Best Dressed Male? That's tough, but I'm going to go with Jean Dujardin. He looked like a winner before he even got his trophy! Very suave and debonair in his classic black tux.




Danielle: Mila Jovovich and Brad Pitt (still hot)






Michelle: Best Dressed Female. Ya know, this year there wasn't that dress that stood out and just screamed "THAT is the dress of the evening!" It took me a while of looking at the dresses to decide on the best dressed and I'm going with Cameron Diaz. The color flattered her, I liked the cut of the dress, and she didn't over accessorize.



Best Dressed Male? Robert Downey Jr. And at that, I think RDJ would be a GREAT host for the Oscars next year.

Worst dressed female/male?

Tracie: Hee hee Worst Dressed Female was without a doubt Shailene Woodley. That cream-colored Valentino Couture gown was so horribly wrong for a girl her age. It looked like she'd pulled her grandmother's old dress from the 1970s out of mothballs. Every inch of skin was covered, the design was bizarre (weird cut-outs on the chest - why?), and the color, or lack thereof, completely washed her out. So dowdy and boring! Act your age, Shailene!




Worst Dressed Male goes to Jonah Hill. He lost all of that weight, then he wears this fugly, ill-fighting tux that makes him look more chubby than ever! And was that a navy blue shirt with a black coat and shiny bow tie? SHUDDER The slicked back hair made Jonah look like a little boy going to his bar mitzvah. Major faux pas all the way around.


Danielle: Viola Davis (I just didn't like this dress) and George Clooney (his tux was boring)





Michelle: Worst Dressed Female is a toss up between Rooney Mara and Shailene Woodley. I think that Rooney just looked odd with the haircut and the lines of the dress. And Shailene's dress was just unflattering.



Worst Dressed Male is Sacha Baron Cohen and this ridiculous persona of The Dictator.



Natalie: Worst dressed female – It seems like a cop out to name Stacy Keibler since I never knew her name before the Oscars, so I’ll go with Sandra Bullock. I thought her gown was an ill-fitting, off-putting, confusing mess. And she looked oddly botox-alicious.



Worst dressed male? Jonah Hill. Black on black - who thought that was a good idea? And was the shirt shiny? And somehow the blacks didn’t match. Basically, he looked like a cheap prom date.

Biggest shock or surprising moment?

Danielle: Sasha Baron Cohen dumping Bisquick on Ryan Seacrest

Tracie: That happened out on the red carpet when Borat, I mean, the Dictator, dumped an urn full of "ashes" all over Ryan Seacrest. I will never forget the astonished/horrified/pissed off expression on Seacrest's face. I'm not normally a fan of juvenile pranks, but seeing someone discompose the robotic Ryan Seacrest made my night!



Michelle: And I agree one hundred percent. Seacrest stammered and blustered, then made sure to milk it for attention. "I got bisquick dumped on me." THAT should have been the drinking game for the red carpet.

Natalie: Eh, for lack of a better surprise I suppose it was “The Dictator” but it left me a little cold. It’s not like it happened during the red carpet coverage on ABC - he did it on E! with Ryan Seacrest. Had he braved the network (and therefore the Academy) I would have been truly shocked but to pull a stunt like that on E! seemed slightly anticlimactic. (Although I agree with the gang here, I did enjoy seeing Seacrest sweat a little.)

Who got robbed?

Michelle: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows pt 2. I can't believe it didn't win a single award it was nominated for.

Tracie: Nobody, as far as I'm concerned. I was very pleased with all of the winners, although I did get a bit tired of hearing the name "Hugo" called.

Natalie: I think I have to agree with Michelle and say Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows pt. 2. Admittedly, I didn’t see Hugo… but really?

Danielle: I haven't seen any of the movies but I'm guessing people think Viola Davis was robbed

How did Billy Crystal do as host?

Michelle: Ya know, I didn't go in with high expectations for him and he actually did a pretty good job. A little too much wasted time with silly skits, but overall enjoyable.


Natalie: The ladies here know I wasn’t thrilled with the idea of The Crystal – however there were a couple of chuckles and nothing offensive (I can’t really call the dreaded musical number offensive.) But overall, I felt the Oscars were slow - I didn’t love the talky clip packages, and it wasn’t exactly a banner year for the movies. So if you add it all up, I suppose Billy Crystal did just fine.

Tracie: So much love for Billy. I haven't enjoyed an Oscars ceremony that much in years! He's funny (I love his ad-libs!), not offensive, and keeps things moving at a fast pace. No one can beat him as Oscar host.

Danielle: Billy was surprisingly funny (sorry Natalie)

Best acceptance speech?

Michelle: Octavia Spencer. She was so genuinely overwhelmed and gracious. I got choked up before she even started to speak, just by the joy she was showing.



Danielle: Octavia Spencer's speech was so sweet and humble.

Natalie: While I loved Meryl Streep’s humor and candor, I have to go with Octavia Spencer because her emotional speech proved once and for all that I’m not completely dead inside (I nearly felt a tear coming on – shhh don’t tell.)

Tracie: Meryl Streep! I love how self-deprecating and down-to-earth she is. She honestly seemed shocked about winning. It was nice that she started out her speech by thanking her husband and I got a little choked up when she acknowledged her "departed" friends, as well as her friends in the audience. Such a classy, talented lady!

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There you have it, folks! Our thoughts for the 2012 Academy Awards. Care to share yours?

And a huge thank you to the lovely ladies who joined me - Tracie, Danielle, and Natalie. You three are the best! Looking forward to next year!