The presidential candidate debates have been pretty dry with a few exceptions like Dennis Kucinich, Senator Gravel and Rep. Ron Paul. All three have been cast as outside the mainstream. Continue reading “A breath of fresh air”
Soldiers
Today I picked up the wrong lunch on my way out the door. I was on the road for my day job and I picked up a brown sack with what I thought contained two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Continue reading “Soldiers”
Accu-wrath
Bill Maher strikes the funny bone again with the Accu-Wrath weather forecast. Continue reading “Accu-wrath”
Nonviolence invites us to…
I first read this a year ago and it is true or truer now than then.
Nonviolence invites us:
* To learn to recognize and respect the sacred in every person, including in ourselves, and in every part of creation. The acts of the nonviolent person help to free this sacredness in the opponent from obscurity or captivity.
* To accept oneself deeply, “who I am” with all my gifts and richness, with all my limitations, errors, failings and weaknesses. To live in the truth of ourselves, without excessive pride, with fewer delusions and false expectations.
* To recognize that what I resent, and perhaps even detest, in another, comes from my difficulty in admitting that this same reality lives also in me. To recognize and renounce my own violence, which becomes evident when I begin to monitor my words, gestures, reactions.
Good government
I just finished reading Scott Adams post on “Best Government Ever.” It’s quite a contrast from the pablum we are served up everyday here in the United States. Click here to read what Scott has written.
Leaders? What Leaders?
Last week in a phone conversation with my Mother I learned of a new book by an old favorite. Lee Iacocca who along with Jimmy Carter and the U.S. Congress rescued Chrysler from bankruptcy has authored a new book. Iacocca was a breath of fresh air twenty years ago and at eighty-two years young he’s still full of vitality. Continue reading “Leaders? What Leaders?”
456 Billion dollars and counting
The Iraq supplemental that Congress (the American people) and the Bush Allies are haggling over will add 124 billion dollars to the cost of the Iraq War. Continue reading “456 Billion dollars and counting”
Redemptive
It’s hard to know what to say now that President Bush has vetoed the Iraq spending bill. Continue reading “Redemptive”
What do we believe in?
I watched a brief excerpt of George Tenet grandstanding about how we knew about Osama bin Laden before 9/11 blah, blah, blah. Continue reading “What do we believe in?”
Hopeful
Today is one those days that makes me hopeful for the future of our country. Continue reading “Hopeful”