Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Last and First
What can we say 'bout 2008?
Time did not wait!
What can we say 'bout 2009?
Let's make it Fine!
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Yuletide Cheer Edition [Embed]
Hindsight
Reflection
Staying Current
Power Disconnect
Press Play
Alley Patron
Rick Warren and Obama’s base-dissing tendencies (05:25)
Can Rahm and Obama escape Blago’s taint? (07:56)
Detroit bailout pits libertarian Jim against populist Jim (08:13)
Madoff and Blago as sympathetic characters (07:30)
Somali pirates, Chinese imperialists: Get the connection? (10:25)
Friday, December 26, 2008
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Happy Holidays, I mean it!!
The irony is that beginning with Thanksgiving followed by Ramadan, Hanukkah, Christmas then Gregorian New Years the Holidays will result in Suicides. And after the emotional Roller Coaster Humanity has been thru from 2000 till Now, I anticipate a Spike in the 2008 numbers sooo, as my gift against the odds here are 3 pieces, beginning with my own from a year ago before I was diagnosed with 3 Grade III Anaplastic Astrocytomas, I'm still here and am planning to ride my bike again but with a different head of hair. What Kind? Don't know! Nature, Radiation & Chemo will work it out.
I'll Live with their result.
In the meantime:
3 thoughts:
- Listen
- Awareness
- Hope
Happy Holidays, I Mean it!!!
Thanx For Listenin'
Suicide Awareness, Give Hope
Suicide Prevention, Alone in the Labyrinth
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Word From Rome
Says It Has Been Given in Abundance
VATICAN CITY, DEC. 24, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI says that joy is a gift, a fruit of the Holy Spirit, and that in this gift, all others are summed up.
This was one of the Pope's reflections Monday when he met with the Roman Curia and other officials for the traditional exchange of Christmas greetings.
"A party is an integral part of joy," the Holy Father acknowledged. "And a party can be organized, but joy cannot.
"It can only be offered as a gift; and, in fact, it has been given us in abundance. That's why we feel grateful."
The Pontiff recalled how St. Paul lists joy among the fruits of the Holy Spirit and in the same way, St. John unites the Spirit and joy.
"Joy is the gift in which all other gifts are summed up," the Bishop of Rome affirmed, just a few days before Christmas. "It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with oneself, something that can only be derived from being in harmony with God and his creation."
And, he continued, "part of the nature of joy is spreading itself, having to be communicated."
The mission of the Church, the Pope explained, "is nothing more than the impulse to communicate the joy that has been given us. May it always be alive in us, and then, may it irradiate to the world in its tribulations: This is my wish for the end of this year."
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Which way is UP?
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
a...
Larvae
Eighty to One
Odds
to live
a
Hundred years
to create
a
safer place for kids
safer for children now
than when we were kids
That's OUR Job
The pain that was OUR's
is not
a
Hand-Me-Down
It Is
a
Stops-with-us-NOW
a
scream
with pride,
Tolerance,
Shame.
Really means
Dominance
Blame
a...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Esteem
My intelligence returns when I read something inspirational, speak with a stranger or talk with a friend.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Shoe thrown 'round the World
Ya' Gotta Love these Times!
The Shoe thrown 'round the World, speaks freely so that we hear what someone else is saying, beyond the filters, despite language differences, in front of cameras before editing. Free from a talking head interpretation. Free for us to see the moment and question it privately, normally.
Compliments to President Bush for observing a few moments after two brush down throws, that Muntazer al Zaidi, a news reporter for independent al-Bagdadiya Television, is living in a Free Society and the act of throwing a shoe was a form of democratic expression. "It's like going to a political rally and having people yell at you. It's like driving down the street and have people not gesturing with all five fingers..." correlating experiences he is familiar with.
His point can be readily understood during the 2006 White House Correspondents Association Dinner featuring Steven Colbert skewering without interruption both the Bush-Cheney Administration and OUR Free Press.
Yep, the Global Common Good is now Real Time phenomenon for non-engaged observers.
Montazer al Zaidi has one heck of a right arm! He might have missed the President, but he did hit a nerve. Does he pitch for anyone?
Monday, December 15, 2008
I Love Life
Life
I Understand
Footprints in the Sand
The One Pair Always There
has been
The Breeze through the trees
The Distant dogs bark
The Moons' Shadow
The Suns' Warmth
A Kind Word
They carry me
Through
Incipient Racism
Covert Sexism
Invincible Selfishness
Pretentious Arrogance
Pricetag Generosity
Plastic Compassion
Places in Hell
But
Years of that
help
To Know the Difference of this
Which
Is Better Than
Nothing
Because Right Now
I have always been a part
Of something which I Love,
Life
Sunday, December 14, 2008
The Difference of "IT"
A Student responded "One who gets caught"
The class laughed.
The Professor winced then elaborated about socially acceptable behavior as is collectively determined to be beneficial to all.
While of course there are nuances and exceptions which require time and change of culture to learn how a society succeeds. What was right at one time can be wrong later and the vice-a-versa applies to this growth as well.
Take for example America's own Salem Witch Trials. How many Wiccae exist today freely without fear of prosecution? What was a crime then, is now an activity, a faith , a belief system shared and practiced as part of the Common Good.
Despite Laws created for the Common Good there are those like Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld who believe that Justice is for others. George Bush has even joked that "it would be nice to be a dictator."
Well on May 9, 2007 it became real
per NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html
And in true Bacchalian Spirit the Governor of Illinois is the proffered time saving de-vice.
As WE approach January 20th, 2009, rats are jumping ship, destroying evidence, hiding tracks getting as close to immunity from prosecution for their Crimes against Humanity through the thought of Tacit Approval afforded International Diplomacy and National Security to protect their own Private Interests.
Please read today's New York Times column by Frank Rich titled 2 Cheers for Blagojevich, for concise elaboration.
Here is the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/opinion/14rich.html
Also today or sometime before January 20th, watch Robo-Cop and learn about Directive 4.
Here is a short clip,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obEH5p7r_pA&feature=related
which is the metaphor of a 2400 year old argument about Justice, being determined by those in power.
It will help you feel the difference between what is right and what is wrong, reminding you of what a Criminal is. Currently they are banking on that WE don't have the time or the money or the Law to "prove beyond a shadow of a doubt" that they have committed any crime. They've utilized these past 8 years to implement a Machiavellian Maze that only a few can be proud of.
The Common Good will prevail, and will surface the slime with calm, recalcitrant prodigiousness, because WE do know the difference of "IT".
And Our Governor is being sacrificed so that others of greater malfeasance can live as they choose, free and unencumbered by their social irresponsibility.
"IT" don't sound right.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Question Everything
Question Everything You Read,
Even These Words.
Causality?
Camouflage?
Casualty?
Truth must Surface,
Above the Slime.
Calm,
Recalcitrant,
Prodigious
Friday, December 12, 2008
Fixed problem
Thanx for the Input.
PLH
The Links
PLH
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Virus Alert
But today somehow someway they were changed to include Blue & Purple
Have contacted Google Blogger Help to fix this glitch, which seems to bounce like Bi-Polarity between posts
Pass it on,
Minor Leaguer
Yesterday Chicago Tribune alerts became very active around 8am; there was an early morning arrest in Ravenswood Manor. The news grew with rapid proliferation to the BBC then to CNN, the direction, attention, with deliberate intention zeroing in on President Elect Barack Obama.
The energetic effort forward of so many who helped elect this Senator from
"The Business of America is Business", stated President Coolidge.
The Bush-Cheney Administration is a network of Oil, Armament and Capital.
Politics has mutated from "as usual" to beyond the Common Good. The Machiavellians returned under the steerage of Rove, Cheney & Rumsfeld. President Bush was their figurehead/tutelage.
The next 4 years preferably 8 years or more determinedly, as whatever the job takes, are going to require political activism of the scale that defines democracy; which more aptly attests to the reality of our interdependency, despite the concentrated efforts of autocrats in their myriad forms, WE the People are incumbent to press on.
It is easy to portend more "slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune" being hurled at the Obama-Biden Administration in the form of Guerilla Marketing with affable assistance from the Log Cabin Republicans, under the disguise of open debate. Despite 2 stolen Elections in a row, our recent Campaign experience has demonstrated the degree of beguiling innuendo created to misinform, distract, in order to surreptitiously succeed in undermining the health and well being of the many for the privy of a few.
Refer to:
DOJ Press Press Release
Criminal Complaint
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2008/pr1209_01a.pdf?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUs
Network Map
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/09/us/20081209_corruption.html( Print & Play fill in the Blanks, then Pretend you're in the Network)
Monday, December 8, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
In case you missed the good news
Click on the link for President-Elect Obama's Weekly address
from yesterday,
December 6th, 2008
FOCUS | Obama Pledges Public Works on a Vast Scale
http://www.truthout.org/120708Z
Peter Baker and John M. Broder, The New York Times: "President-elect Barack Obama promised Saturday to create the largest public works construction program since the inception of the interstate highway system a half century ago as he seeks to put together a plan to resuscitate the reeling economy. With jobs evaporating and the recession deepening, Mr. Obama began highlighting elements of the economic recovery program he is trying to fashion with Congressional leaders in hopes of being able to enact it shortly after being sworn in on January 20."
Saturday, December 6, 2008
www.hazelden.org
December 6th, 2008
Thought for the day
Today's Gift
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
--William James
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Take a Trip through Of
Scientists are Artistically Sensitive.
Trust is the Entropy of Social Cohesion.
Deception is the Tool of Malcontents whose only achievement will be the injury of others,
For the purposes of Self
Honesty is the Healthier path of Life, has been and will always be...
Here is a ♫♪Musical Moment♫♪ in a place,
Committed to the Well Being of Humanity.
Enjoy your part of it...