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Imagine that one day in the not to distant future you answer a knock on your door and find that the Police are there to arrest you for a crime that you haven’t committed, but someone has identified you as having the potential to commit that crime some time in the future. Sounds like 1984 Science fiction doesn’t it. But what if it was actually happening right then and there? What would you do? More appropriately, would there be anything you could do? Or are you one of those who loudly state “That could never happen here?” Continue reading →

From time to time, events unfold that are so large in scope, so all-encompassing in their implications that one’s initial response is muted by an inability to categorize it all within the realm of experience. Previous reference points prove of little service. One’s image of oneself and one’s place in the world is under seize, perhaps even in danger of being torn away. One stare’s into the abyss, until the abyss removes its dark shades and makes direct eye contact. The mind buzzes; one’s thoughts scuttle in circles like stunned insects. Continue reading →

Featured Post for 05-/22-05/28:

“It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it”

I recalled this statement while I was reading a very powerful look at the My Lai massacre that took place during the Vietnam War. The depravity of humanity gone mad is revealed in this account and one would think that we would never again commit such atrocities. But the powers that be convinced us that we should put it behind us and move on. And now it seems we have repeated the depravity again in Iraq.

Is it true that our future is shaped by what and how we react to events and realities of the present? Have we gone even deeper into depravity since My Lai? And if that is true, what did we not do that would have kept us from drifting into an open acceptance of torture and unjustified bloodletting today? If the future we get IS up to us, what failures of our past determine what we leave for our children today? Continue reading →

My mind turns to thoughts of possible retribution when I see the sick policies of the last administration dragging on. Differences mingle between the two parties as the distinctions betwixt the two once held sway, now fade into the quest for power, greed and pay offs, bail outs and ravenous spending. FULL ARTICLE

The original American Political Party, the Bourbon Democrats, formed around the idea of freedom of the individual to pursue happiness chasing his or her own dreams, visions, interests and aspirations, unimpaired by any government imposed bubble around thought or box limiting action. They were the only party of their kind, standing against a myriad of parties and control freaks. FULL ARTICLE

Lisa Schneider writes at Newsvine.com:

It is time to call a spade a spade. There can be no other justification for the actions of the G.O.P. other than to say they are deliberately setting out to obstruct and incite anger en masse with what should otherwise be, at the very least, a representative voice of the people.

Lisa says it like it is. The GOP has abandoned all pretense of being American first, instead they are Party first. A cheering crowd gathered a few days ago to praise the GOP hero, Rush Limbaugh, after he admitted that his fervent hope was that Obama would fail. Continue reading →

What I want to see is the Republican Party shunned into the dustbin of history. And why shouldn’t they be? The have taken a very public stand that anything not Republican, i. e. anything Obama is bad. This is the height of stupidity. And it is troubling for the future of the United States.

The GOP says they are against the Stimulus plan because it has too much pork in it. Remember those Stimulus plans approved by the Republicans when Bush was still in? Up around $2 Trillion and nobody knows where it went? And Paulsen, who was appointed by Bush, says he ain’t telling.

It would appear that the Republicans are hoping the public forgets the Bush record over the last eight years. But I’m going to remind you of it right now. Continue reading →

That was the question of the day (Friday) on C-Span’s Washington Journal. Almost everyone who called in said, “Yes they are still relevant”. But before you Republicans start celebrating, you need to know why nearly everyone thinks they are relevant.

Seems that just as a coin has two sides, so does the answer to this question. I hadn’t really thought about that fact until it began to unfold this morning. You see the people calling in realized that something doesn’t have to be necessarily good or necessarily bad to be relevant. Continue reading →

There are those who call the financial leaders who got us into this Bailout mess “Idiots”. I disagree with that. I don’t think they were idiots at all. The “idiots” who built that house of cards didn’t care if the house collapsed, they knew it would. They planned to profit from the collapse just as they planned to profit from the building. Can anyone deny that they have profited both ways? I call it fraud. By the way, fraud is a criminal activity, no matter who does it, even if our Government that does it.

But see, I know who are those that help “Idiots” defraud us. It is those Party loyalists who put Party first. These are also bad guys. See they’ll vote for their crook “because he’s their crook”. They think that when he stops robbing them, and them includes us, it’s because he has found compassion. The real truth is that the “Party” will quit stealing when there is nothing of value left to steal. Continue reading →

I just happened to catch Obama on television the other day. It was a re-run of his news conference on “Looking Forward”. I believe that this news conference was held late last week and it wouldn’t be anything that is unusual except for a couple of things he said.

The first comment that caught my attention was a response to a reporter who had just asked Obama if he was going to form a committee to investigate the crimes of the Bush Administration. Obama answered to say that the Bush Administration hadn’t committed any crimes. My immediate reaction was “Say What?”. “What we need to do”, said President elect Obama, “is look forward”. “We don’t need to be distracted by the past”.

And coming into my mind was “ This is change”? “Sounds like same ole, same ole, to me.” Continue reading →