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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
I've known this woman for years, we've been friends for more than 10 years actually. We get along fine although we come from completely different sides of the political spectrum. She operates a mail list group that is composed mostly of frothing, as you will see, conservatives, many ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Yes, a teddy bear. The story below was written about Muslim fundamentalists, please read it. I'll be back immediately following.
Teddy Bear
By LEONARD PITTS JR.Just to make sure I've got this straight: Their God is threatened by a teddy bear?As in a plush, cuddly doll in the shape of ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Again I quote from this "amazing" film:
"When people speak of great men, they think of men like Napoleon, men of violence. They rarely think of peaceful men. But contrast the reception they will receive when they return home from their battles.
Napoleon will arrive in pomp and in power, ...
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
A couple quotes from the early part of this amazing film:
"You found God, sir?"
"I think He found me. Do you have any idea how inconvenient that is?"
"It is a sad fate to be well known to everybody else and still unknown to himself." Sir Francis Bacon
gene suggests a ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
This article actually comes from another blog, written by a law professor named Paul Balkin, the url below takes you to the original in case you would like to see more of what he has to say. He quite adeptly points out that it is cheaper to insure ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
From Steve Goodier. I swear I should rename this site, the Steve Goodier library, giggle. His isn't the longest term newsletter I get but it must be very close. There are some techie things I've been getting longer, but I believe I was introduced to Steve by ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
This is from Steve Goodier, who though I have never met him, I consider to be quite a good friend. This is both an amusing and truthful look at this issue. And I have an idea about this that he did not mention. So I will once you've since his ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Is that you get to say whatever you want, whenever you want. I sort of like that - which those of you who have read my main site and understood, or at least know, what my Ansir profile is, understand. I love Bones, the show. As ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
In a different mood tonight, life sometimes weighs on us all, I guess that is sort of the point of the journey. What I dislike most though isn't when I don't feel right, it is when someone I love doesn't. And that's my spot tonight. It isn't ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Which I am pretty sure is not an actual word. :^). But it is in my lexicon, nonetheless. As I do not believe in coincidence, yet things seems to come together in unusual ways for me, I use synchronicity as my name for events that relate to ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Maybe they are the same thing. Maybe not. What I'm going to do here tonight though is jump back in time, giggle, those of you who have read Book 2, will know I am simply stepping back onto a sheaf of paper on the spindle upon which I ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
How do you suppose he managed that? Well, I, or rather God, through Neale Donald Walsch, am going to tell you. Trust me this leads to the path I choose to walk, it is a bit of a digression, at least from the treatment this question gets in ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
I've had a request - to not exactly change anything but to shift gears for a bit, a request I am going to honor. Jen's asked me to go through book 2 with her this week, re-read it, re-member it, before I say much about social change, let alone ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Sometimes music, okay, most times, makes more sense than we do. I heard this song this afternoon, for the first time in a long time, and it just moved my soul. So for tonight... listen. :^) gene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qavTrVpYlfU
Day after day I'm more confused
But I look for the light through the pouring ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Well, the elections have come and gone, and, it seems for the most part, the people have decided to make up for what the penuriousness of legislatures past has caused - the dire cuts in programs and services that children need to become well-rounded citizens. Here in my district, ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
Which is not an unusual state for me. Those who are bothering to read this will remember that the reason it exists, not this blog, but the main website, is that although my inner voice, jenna, tried to push me out here in this way, i did nothing ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
Okay I am not even going to try to guess at the synchronicity of this. After I wrote the first post, I moved on to check my mail and found this. Draw your own conclusions. But I will say - the after does not have to have ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
I mean if you have faith, exactly what is it that means? Have had occasion to be thinking about this of late. I've mentioned some of the difficulties my eldest son, has been having, and as a parent, my heart goes out to him, along with my love ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Not the Mary you are thinking of, if you are a reader here. This is Sarah's Mary. What brought me to Sarah was "Angel", through the movie. But it was never that. It was Mary. :^). Always Mary. I think every song Sarah ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Today, well, I'm not quite in the mood for writing. Life has its way of catching up with us once in a while, for some reason I do not understand, Halloween this year brought with it a sadness I haven't felt in some time, surrounding my son, Brandon. ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
I got not one, but two, mailings this past week from my local school district, which faces severe funding shortfalls and has four funding requests up for approval on November 6th. If all four pass, property taxes will rise on my own relatively modestly priced home roughly $500 per ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
It still isn't ennui, but hey, that's where this started so I may as well continue with the, ummm, continuation under the same title. Then again, nothing I've ever read, or seen, that had part deux in its title was worth reading, or seeing, so caveat emptor, even if ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
I'm not sure ennui can be properly called writer's block, for one thing, first one would have to be a writer, and I am not. Of late, I've been more of a reader, but it isn't what I've been reading that I want to talk about tonight. Recently reading, I ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
I'm not going to be writing tonight other than this little piece. My remaining son is in process of divorce with his wife, they've been separated over a year, sharing custody of my grandchildren, who are 7 1/2 and a bit over 5. They've all experienced a loss ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
We've talked, okay I have, a lot about the "illusion" we call life here in the relative universe. I've talked about my certainty that life does not end when we end/die here. I've also addressed what that can mean for us as we exercise the greatest gift given ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
The first is by far the most important. I used a horrible metaphor in my response to Jennifer's comment the other night, when I said, "now the gloves come off", which she took to mean, my fists were up and ready for a fight. That was NOT my ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Not a trick question. But the short answer is no. Not in the way we, here, on planet earth think. CWG has an explanation for this, one that makes sense, but which is, in another sense, quite convenient. Actually there is a lot about both spirituality ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Maybe that should be horrorscopes, depending on the perspective. The Internet is full of psychics, and it has always been an interest of mine, seeing into the future. But I wouldn't take the word of someone who alleged psychic abilities, yet couldn't identify me by name to start ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Yesterday, I mentioned in passing, that one of the places, jenna leaves messages for me is where she knows I'll see them. Well, one of the things I've read every day for, oh I suppose it is going on 42 years, less the three I spent in the Army, ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
"I thought that dreams belonged to other men
Cause each time I got close, they fall apart again!"
Two lines from a song called Almost Paradise. I've told you, here, and on my main site, that jenna often sings to me during the day, in fact, often she begins something as ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
This news release from yesterday speaks for itself. Nonetheless I have a couple words following it. :^)
The Honorable Charles B. Rangel, Chairman
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Contact: J. Jioni Palmer or Matthew Beck (202) 225-8933
Rangel Responds to President’s Veto of SCHIP
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Ways and Means Committee ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
I mean whose fault is this all anyway? Book 1 has a few thoughts about this that I want to share with you tonight. :^) And I might have a comment or two of my own after this excerpt. This is actually a little premature and ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
From Steve Goodier's, Life Support Newsletter, another treasure worth sharing. :^)
THE SYMPTOMS OF INNER PEACE (TM)
by Saskia Davis, reprinted with permission of the author
(A note from the author follows today's reading.)
Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great
many have already been expose to ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
In accordance with Steve Goodier's injunction to use his Life Support articles freely, tonight, I am using one of his, that I got in today's mail. The reason is that I believe there is no such thing as coincidence in this world. And I have just finished a ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Yesterday, I posted about abuse, in conjunction with thousands of other bloggers around the world. I asked people to tell me if they had any cause they wished to have some publicity. And I got a letter from a dear friend and did not publish it. I ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
I got this invitation from the BlogCatalog to join them today in a project:
"Thousands of bloggers from around the world are joining together this Thursday, September 27th with a single message: Stop Abuse!
BlogCatalog would love for you to be one of them!
On Thursday, September 27th, post about any abuse topic ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Last night was pot pouri and you can't have the same thing for supper every night, well, unless you are me, I am on my third night in a row of peaches for supper. I think I could live on those alone. I might be trying to, giggle.
So ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Tonight is going to be sort of free form. I sometimes do this on email, usually with a subject of pot pouri since I tend to cover a lot of unrelated ground, varied turf you might say as I wander the twists and turns within. I've got a ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
About the two greatest threats to planet earth. There is one greater. Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously named it: Fear. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. I'm reading a book, of late, about transcendence, I'm going to talk it about later this week, ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Tonight I'm going to start with a story. A real story. A real sad story. Then, I'm going to talk about that a bit. What it really means. And more.
Federal Investment in Children Expected to Weaken by 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. September 10, 2007—Federal investment in children ...
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Would you take bets on what I might think those are? :^). I won't make you wait. Religion and Global Warming. Come to think of it, they aren't all that much different. Both create huge division between people and both really heat up any discussion.
Let's ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
How are these two words linked? And why would I use them in the title of this post? Good questions. Really good, considering they are my own, giggle. Let me explain.
I need to start by quoting a few lines from Sarah McLachlan's wonderful song, Possession, at ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
While reading last night, I came across a question, which I've seen stated many times, in many ways. Usually by people who are not necessarily believer's in a Universal Creator of any kind, this book, is Robert Heinlein's, Stranger in a Strange Land, one my all-time favorites. What ...
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
I've been thinking about this part for a couple days. On September 3, I talked a lot about truth. I specifically talked about how we know what messages we get from, well, anywhere, can be determined to be "truth, or messages from "God", because, of course, any message ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Seems like an easy enough question, doesn't it? Then why, I wonder, do so we often choose fear? What? You don't? I'm going to have suggest that you think again. And, I'm going to tell you why. First, we'll need an excerpt from CWG, ...
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
And maybe just a little bit more, at the end I will have a titillating little treat for you, :^). On my main site, I said that for most of my life, I've been more a Carl Sagan sort of guy than any sort of religionist. This is ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
The year my son died, 1997 brought with it a lot of changes. One of them was that I lost my ability, if such a thing can be called an ability, to enjoy movies I had once done. After the light globe at 15, my life went ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Tonight I want to talk about what I think is a national disgrace. 47 million Americans have no health insurance. A letter in todays paper quoted Minnesota's last true progressive politician, Hubert Humphrey as saying:
"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in ...
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
How we know what is and isn't truth, I mean. People claim God speaks to no one, well, except for a handful of ministers, priests, heads of state and, apparently, the odd terrorist or two. Those people, who say they hear God, tell us what he says. ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
I'm going to start this with an essay from a wonderful man named Steve Goodier. I have gotten his several times a week newsletter for many years. He allows anyone who blogs to use our favorite articles of his freely. So I am, giggle. I actually ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
This is from another place, where a friend of mine was castigating republicans (NO, I will never capitalize a political party's name, I have little respect for those who think in two year election cycles, for those who will not support a thing, an idea, or a need because it ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Today I want to talk about the idea, which is sort of New Agey, that hell does not exist, That when we are done with this life, we all go back where we came from, home, or as religions put it, heaven, nirvana, etc. Some folks of conservative ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Faith is tough for us human types. It is hard to believe in something we can't touch, taste or take for a walk. We SAY we believe, but it seems that for most of us we only think we do, until a crisis of one sort or another ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
As I've mentioned, often, as I wake, or during the day, I have a song sung gently to me. They always have some meaning for me, and if I'm not quick enough to get the point, I have it handed to me, giggle. So today, as I had ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
I don't rent many movies, most genre's that at one time appealed to me, do no longer. What I mean by that, is over the years I have lost interest in many things that at one time I had a lot of interest in. I think of that as growth, ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
This will be a lot shorter than I thought. :^). Actually, I wrote it, all of it, to its conclusion. And then did something and lost it. It alleged that it saved itself at 7:39. But if it did, I can't find where that might ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
That this first post was going to start with a quotation from Book 1. But I have been trying to start it for two weeks now and "she" just wouldn't let me. If you are here, you know "she" is Jenna. I KNEW this was supposed to ...
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