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Created by terris on Thu 10 of Jul, 2003 [01:20 UTC] Last modified Sat 06 of Sep, 2008 [08:18 UTC] (434 posts | 77580 visits | Activity=2.25) Simple question for creationists
If you don't believe in certain science like evolution, please explain one thing.
Why do you have parents?
The opposite of patriotism in full view at RNC08
It is humanly impossible to love a country, an abstraction. I love myself. I love my family. I love my home. I love all of God's creation.
http://identi.ca/terrisca
filled
I am filled with love. I can't
seem to stop it. I know it's wrong, but there you are again. I can't stop it. Here's two dollars. Here's a dollar and 65 cents. I can't stop it. They think I'm doing something wrong but I know, they are me. I am they. Where are you, when you are in me? I admit it, my life just has not been the same. I lived it so long ago and I can't seem to get out of the house any more.
There's a place in the sun for those who have the will to chase one
I hope The People (Stewart/Colbert/etc.) have the will to bash the Democrats when they have the White House next year and continue to accomplish little to nothing, as they have done in the last 2 years.
16 months to undo the mistake in Iraq and shut down Gitmo is nothing short of murder.
At some point
No matter who we vote for, NOTHING'S going to change.
For example, Obama doesn't have the guts to support HR676 (single payer - not socialized - medicine) — before or after he becomes President. Obama won't stand up to the insurance cartel. I don't blame him. I don't hope he will, either. There's no time to waste hoping for things that will never come. I hope instead for the demise of the Union as we know it. The Repuglicons will get us there faster. The Democongrats are headed to the same place in low gear. A California nation. That's change worth hoping for.
I've had it
Here's my reply to the second email solicitation from the Obama camp to hustle $1,000 for the Starving Senator.
Dear whoever you are, I am apalled by the MILLIONS of stomachs that could be fed with the money that Senators Obama, Clinton, and McCain have wasted to become the world's biggest bully. I'm not participating in this. Fuck off.
On the Way to work
Reading the Buddha's teachings, if there was ever such a man and these were actually his teachings. But no matter, they are still theorems to be proven - or not.
The joy of fresh ideas. Soon they will be absorbed and either accepted - or forgotten. My path a little brighter, for now. I peer out of the train window to overlook my favorite reliable lagoon friend near Candlestick Park. It is drying out but still beautiful. I focus on the window. On it is etched the word SELF. In capital letters, just like it is in the Buddhist Way that I am reading. I do not leave the confines of my body today. Perhaps another time. I can not force it. It is a gift. I suppose if I could command it to happen it wouldn't mean to me what it does. But when I was in the presence of Uncle Chuck's body, perhaps his spirit, I could feel, what, electricity, of the body that until recently enveloped a commanding spirit. I was the last to feel this electrity before returning the body to the ground. There is work to do. The immediate need is to walk my body across the city of San Fancisco. I pass at least 100 souls on my way, probably more. Homeless men discussing pneumonia perhaps referring to Bernie Mac. Or perhaps Jim Henson. Or. The silent effective neglected killer. I tell them in my mind, your suffering is mine. I am not separate from you. Hello. I am smiling for you, not me. I reflect upon John Edward's choices, the desire, the folly, the bravery to be loved at any cost. And the blinding, consuming judgement of those who have given up on love.
Can you stop this pain?
Olympic Athletes:
Donate your medals to Tibetan monestaries, so they can melt your weapons into plowshares.
Driving McCain over the Repugs' Bluff
Dems: Vote for McCain and put progressives in Congress thus overriding his veto pen. Here's why.
Dear Mike Malloy, I agree. The economy is collapsing. Corporate America is not afraid of Obama and has no respect for our laws. Obama can not fix the coming financial, geopolitical, and energy crises within a few months of taking office. When the chickens come to roost six months from now, McCain should be in the barn, NOT Obama. It's sad. The DNC is happy to sacrifice either a woman or a black man: literally the last hope of democratic party in the 21st century. The DNC knows exactly what it's doing. It makes you wonder if the DNC is actually run by Republicans. I can see it 12 years from now: "Last time we tried a minority, look what happened." It's clear. Very clear. Thank you for opening my eyes.
love is red
as a child, I feared
the warmth in my face ashamed ridiculed by children whose parents' love never came. the difference between my corpse and my body is my warm red face
Who's to blame for the the end of opportunity in America?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/31/BALJ12259Q.DTL
America has always been ahead of the times. The Constitution, movies, advertising, the microchip, genocide, etc. And so it goes with the employment prospects of every "middle class" earth citizen. There was a day, not so long ago, when a little education went a long way, without so much as a high school diploma. Get a union job in a GM plant and the living might not be easy, but decidedly middle class, with a house, a yard, and Sunday NFL tickets. But times have changed. And it's not Mexico's fault. I'm sitting in what was once Mexico. It's called Northern California but that's a lie because I'm WAY south of Fort Bragg, and even that isn't anywhere near the north-end of the state. California is mind-blowing huge. If I was a Mexican living after that stupid war in 1849, I would hate Americans and especially Californians. We are to believe that all that glorious gold was just a coincidence. Our current mess in Iraq is not the first time America has waged war over buried treasure. Mexicans have plenty of reasons to hate me. But they don't hate me or white people in general. Maybe it's their Catholic upbringing. Perhaps it's because they are the descendants of the real Americans. I don't know why they are so happy and loving, but I can't help but love them back. I will take Spanish classes again, some day. It's clear that I'm in the minority. A few crazies in America who tend to watch Fox News have come to the wrong conclusion: that the American middle class has a sorry future ahead because of Mexicans. While it's true that they use the word 'immigrant,' what they really mean is 'Mexican' which to them is a slur. They don't have issues with, for example, Irish immigrants (I love the Irish too; I love everyone). It's one thing to love someone. It's something else entirely to ignore their bad habits. I love the heart and soul of, say, Dick Cheney, but I despise his actions. I despise his greed. I despise the fact that at some point he decided to stop loving himself and everyone else. If the Minutemen want to fight their oppressors, they don't need to bother San Franciscans. They don't need to stake out the border either. They should instead travel to DC and put the fattest, oldest, most pasty white men wearing Armani suits in their rifle sights. Just like Dick Cheney did.
Why I'm not attending Clovis West's Class of 1988 20th Reunion
There are a few superficial excuses.
Please contact me. Don't wait for another decade to go by. I will jump at the chance to talk to you on the phone. This applies to non-classmates too. Don't make any assumptions. In some ways, I am the same. In others, well, I evolved. terry@linenbach.com If you are going to the reunion, have a great time.
Cause and Effect
I see a once proud neighborhood in
Fresno, California, ravaged by gangs and despair, and I think, "This is what Reaganomics brought us." Instead of Warren Buffet's tax dollars supporting after school programs, now it's up to the middle class to open their hearts. Which is easy compared to what is really needed: opening their wallets. I see record profits for Exxon-Mobil (again!), and I think, "This is what 12 years of the Bush crime family brought us." I connect the dots. The expensive food; the unaffodable heating oil; the summers that haven't arrived in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska for the past two years; the continents of ice falling into the Arctic. This is what the board members of Exxon, Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Bill Clinton, and the rest of the greedy, immoral, million-billionaire scumbags brought us.
Send more troops to Afghanistan? For whom?
Seven years later, Afghanistan is still an unfixable mess. Our troops' presence - no matter how well-intentioned - isn't turning the place into paradise.
The problem is that "we" are fighting a war for us (the US), not the Afghan people. Not for the women who suffer there, have suffered there, will suffer there. Not for Afghanistan's starving children. Our military presence in the Middle East is about money. It's about rich white men, their toys, their penises, their power. It's not about Afghanistan's violent downward spiral the Soviets started and the neocons accelerated decades before 9/11. Perhaps Obama can shame the Pentagon into acting differently. As for the morally bankrupt billionaires in this country: there is no hope. Get an education Americans. It's our only hope. The media is not going to educate you.
Purpose
http://www.kaplak.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_growth_mindset
Our purpose is to play, love, and help. We help everyone everywhere by loving someone, especially oneself, at any moment. The world outside is actually the world inside a few pounds of meat. There is no matter or existence outside of thought. The only true "reality" is the world that is created by the accumulation of our thoughts. Make them what you want them to be. When we die, our thought about the current world ends. Perhaps we are then on to something else, without any awareness of the previous world or self, because in the next world, the previous world - indeed the previous self - never existed. We are recycled. If there's a point to this merry go round we're on, it's to learn that our purpose is to play, love, and help.
I buy their boots. Nobody knows they are vegan.
A newsletter from beautiful people. Support them.
http://ethicalwares.com As the Summer actually threatens to put in an appearance this week, we thought it time for a quick Summer update! It’s been a busy time here both with ethical WARES and the rescued animals that live with us. Some of you will know about these already, we currently have about 50 assorted pigs, sheep, goats, horses, cats, dogs and rabbits. The numbers have been swelled recently by the arrival of some more sheep and goats from Carla Lane’s Animaline sanctuary that is having to move due to financial pressures. Also by re-named 'Aunt Dotty', a very large cow - Welsh Black crossed with a Jersey - considered of no further use by her previous owners as she couldn’t produce any further calves and was due to be slaughtered. She now has a lovely time here standing outside the house at 5 o’clock in the morning and mooing loudly. Bless. We don’t call ourselves an animal sanctuary and the income from ethical WARES pays for their upkeep. But we do get some very kind and welcome donations from some of our friends and customers, any help is appreciated in this respect and if interested please contact us. Back to work then: This is a time of raising costs and unfortunately we have had to put the prices of some of our goods up. Both the Eco Fair-trade Sandals - Blue - Ladies sizes, and the Amazon Sandals - Tupi, Amazon Sandals - Cipo will have to go up but we will leave this until the end of the month. So if you order before then you can still have them at the current price. Having said that, we have reduced the price of the Splaff Flops, although we don’t have a full size range left now. We have been please with the response to our increased range of Vegan Birkenstock & Birkis. Apologies for those people who have been waiting for our Tibet Walking Boots to come back into stock. These have now left Italy and are due in any day now. (We have just a few pairs of the Lhasa Walking Boots left in size 36 only at the reduced clearance price. Not the most popular size, so feel free to make us an offer on these) In our last newsletter we mentioned some new items due in to our The Tibet Shop, and the first part of these have now arrived. We have added some Tibetan T-shirt - black with Free Tibet in white lettering and Tibetan T-shirt - white with Tibetan Flag and a really nice Tibetan Monk Bag to the site already, and have some door curtains and Prayer Flags to follow. Now on its way from the Tibetan Community in India is a really lovely range of re-cycled paper products and photo frames which we are very excited about. All the items in The Tibet Shop have been brought directly from the refugee Tibetan Community so supports a valuable cause. We have finally got around to re-instating the Music For A Better World section in the re-vamped ethical WARES website. This is made up by CDs only from Veggie or Vegan musicians and so are well worth looking at. This section will be growing weekly so please keep an eye out for new additions. Just in are new CDs by TV Smith (In The Arms Of My Enemy) and Robb Johnson (The Basement Version, a limited edition official ‘bootleg’) and shortly will be a range of CDs from Ani Choying Drolma a Tibetan Buddhist Nun living in exile in Nepal. And to finish, a quick mention of those good people at Kerry Greyhound Connection, finding homes for unwanted Irish racing Greyhounds. Find our more about their marvellous work at http://www.kerrygreyhounds.co.uk Peace, Justice and no more Wars Denise & Mike ethical WARES
Are you ready to be heartbroken?
Back in 2000 when nobody could figure out who was the president, I lost three-quarters of my savings on paper. One day it was there and about 14 days later it was gone. Each day I lost a nice new German sedan.
Over the past 6 months the same thing has happened to substantially less skilled "investors" who thought buying a big house was equivalent to buying Berkshire Hathaway. These poor sacks are learning the same thing now that I did in 2000. There are a small number of people in the world who control everything because they own most of everything. They decide when mighty Tech will fall. They decide where the next war will be waged - and why. They decide when the next books that expose their scams will be published. They decide when the next scam will begin (hint: it already has). I'm sorry Ma and Pa. You lost. You didn't buy gold. You didn't convert your savings to Euros. Will you learn? It's too late to do it now. Will you vote for a Republican again? Will you think the Democrats are any better? Look at it this way. You have been liberated from the stuff that separates you from the people you love. Retreat to an affordable lifestyle without running your own pyramid scam. Reintroduce yourself to the family. Stop pushing overpriced crap. Stop buying it. Welcome home.
Cyberspace is more real than reality
http://m.mercurynews.com/articles/134664699
Politicans in California were distracted by issues other than the inferno in Big Sur until homeowners started posting photos of their homes/front yards on fire. Get with the program people: Tweet and blog. Tweet and blog. Tweet and blog. If you are not active inside cyberspace, you don't exist outside it.
The Obvious
There are two Big Things currently happening in the world. The biggest things in all of human history (is there any other type of history? where are the aliens when we need them?).
In one corner we have the crazy Christian fundamentalists who have zero education, are anti-science, and would rather be dead than alive. Which is fine except for the fact that one of them is the President of the country that wastes the most money on weaponry. In the other corner there are the slightly less crazy technologists who are combining cyberspace neverland with nanobots. The combination of these two technologies will change (indeed, have already changed) everything, creating a technological singularity. Which group will destroy humanity first? People will survive because they are clever, but 99% of the population will be wiped out. Is that a bad thing? I don't think so. Most folks don't notice the obvious. Focus on Iraq, focus on the price of gas which is still cheap by comparison to the rest of the world (except for Venezuela and Kuwait). Focus on Obama's skin half-color. Just don't look at the obvious: the obvious theft of our future.
Bush's Legacy: Good for America
Although Bush will be villified for his misadventures, the recklessness of Cheney/Bush accelerated the progressive agenda in the first decade of the 21st century to a degree that is unthinkable under mainstream Democratic leadership. Tangible long-term accomplishments of the Bush administration include:
Under Bush, it was the Republicans' turn to subject the nation to neoconservatism, this time more brash, more extreme, and - most importantly - without the "liberal" label. After 9/11, the neocons unwittingly set a trap for hawkish Republicans and moderate Democrats. 2008 marks the conclusion of the conservative revolution started by the bankrollers of Richard Nixon for whom Hillary campaigned - see http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11142007.html . Today, the Republican party looks like it was hit by a roadside bomb. With neoconservatives scrambling for the shadows, the Clintons reluctantly relinquished their death grip on the Democratic party. Although I pity those who continue to suffer and even die under Cheney's presidency, I can not ignore the fact that the majority approved of Bush's performance for quite a long time (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6038436.stm ). But a few of us never did - even when derided as Michael Moore's band of traitors. Happily, Americans don't stay fooled for ever. As for the unstoppable neoprogressive movement in America, we are compelled to join Exxon-Mobile and Blackwater executives in thanking Mr. Cheney and his pet chimp. Go fuck yourselves - you're good at it!
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