water crackles in sunlight
tips of waves are cut like diamonds
gleaming. glinting. pulsing.
ducks and loons bobbing
their babies crying
cheep cheep cheep
i push pedals.
riding alongside the vliet.
i love it.
cross posted at Daily Kos
July 2009 archive
Jul 01 2009
why it sucks
Jul 01 2009
Colors and Time
(Crossposted from The Wild Wild Left
(a natural follow up to my future shock essay)
I remember a line from a book or movie, having no recollection of the source material itself, where someone asked this genius what he thought about most of the day. They were sitting outside, and the genius had this far off look of wonder on his face, staring out into the world. He answered his curious friend, who was sitting there, palpably concentrating, trying to “figure out” the workings of his mind,”Colors, mostly.”
“Colors?”
“Yeah, I like all the greens a lot.”
I really liked that line a lot. I loved the bafflement of the listner, who was so busy trying to figure out the answers to everything, he totally forgot how to live in “time.”
To be fully aware, you have to live in the now, the scents, the colors, the sounds, the tastes, right in your skin, and appreciate the full wonder of the moments that pass before you.
I’m acutely aware of time, I live in time more than space. History is cool and all, but the greatest of philosophies happened because the people living them wrote to their times unheeding of those before them, and only paying minor attention to the future.
Jul 01 2009
NWO News
Before all the electronic cage media in this country I check
http://www.wearechange.org/
at least twice daily. Anything else is programming aimed at dividing people so that they won’t co-operate with each other once shit hits fan big time.
It is also perfectly OK for most of you to discount links you have been told have obvious political biases. I want to hear all sides.
Jul 01 2009
Muse in the Morning
 Muse in the Morning |
driving cows off to the fields,
so old age and death
take away the years from the living.
–Dhammapada, verse 135
Phenomena XXXIII: aging
 Spectacle
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Jul 01 2009
GBCFOX (Updated: Official Sheuer Bullsh!t Faux apology + ACTION!)
Crossposted at dailykos.com
I am fucking stunned as I write this.
At :24 seconds into this video
Scheuer: ” The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States. “
Yes. It has come to this.
Jul 01 2009
Who will the Senate Finance Committee Listen to?
Have you met your Senate Finance Committee?
Give em a call because your Future Health Care, or lack thereof, is in their hands.
Senate Committee on Finance
Members
REPUBLICANS
CHUCK GRASSLEY, IA
ORRIN G. HATCH, UT
OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, ME
JON KYL, AZ
JIM BUNNING, KY
MIKE CRAPO, ID
PAT ROBERTS, KS
JOHN ENSIGN, NV
MIKE ENZI, WY
JOHN CORNYN, TXDEMOCRATS
MAX BAUCUS, MT
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WV
KENT CONRAD, ND
JEFF BINGAMAN, NM
JOHN F. KERRY, MA
BLANCHE L. LINCOLN, AR
RON WYDEN, OR
CHARLES E. SCHUMER, NY
DEBBIE STABENOW, MI
MARIA CANTWELL, WA
BILL NELSON, FL
ROBERT MENENDEZ, NJ
THOMAS CARPER, DE
http://finance.senate.gov/site…
Chances are, these good Senators, while they hear us, have some other Constituents, always on their minds.
Jul 01 2009
The Haters win a Case, and I am Glad 20090630
The Supreme Court found in favor of the nutcase haters from the Westboro Baptist Church and its fundamentalist (and fundamentally unhinged) founder, Fred Phelps. This is a difficult post to write, but we that love the First Amendment must honor this proper decision.
These folks are, in my opinion, fundamentally hatred filled and also love the spotlight. But, as much as it grieves me, they have their right to spew their toxic bile.
Jul 01 2009
Climate War: the United States and China
“Climate change is happening now. It’s not just happening in the Arctic regions, but it’s beginning to show up in our own backyards.”
Americans are now seeing a changing climate across the country, according to Thomas Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a principal author of “The United States Global Change Research Report“.
The question now is not if climate change will happen, but how much of a change do we want to allow and how quickly will those changes come? “Our destiny is really in our hands,” Karl explained. “The size of those impacts is significantly smaller with appropriate controls.”
Jul 01 2009
The Stars Hollow Gazette
| Can’t seem to get my mind off of you Back here at home there’s nothin’ to do Now that I’m away I wish I’d stayed Tomorrow’s a day of mine that you won’t be in When you looked at me I should’ve run A week without you Vacation Vacation A week without you Vacation Vacation Vacation |
What about I’m busy do people have a hard time understanding?
Follow the bouncing ball.
Jul 01 2009
Honduras: A Face Off On Thursday
Honduran police clash with pro-democracy demonstrators
The military coup that deposed Honduran President Manual Zelaya has been denounced by almost everyone except the Honduran military. President Obama said about it, “We stand on the side of democracy, sovereignty and self-determination.” The OAS has condemned the coup. ALBA has condemned the coup. The UN General Assembly has condemned the coup. Central American nations have sealed their borders with Honduras. Most (except El Salvador) have also withdrawn their ambassadors. Roads are blocked in the country.
Police and soldiers clashed with pro-Zelaya protesters in the capital on Monday, and about 5,000 anti-Zelaya demonstrators gathered at a main plaza in Tegucigalpa on Tuesday to celebrate his ouster.
What is to happen next appears to be a confrontation, a face-off between the deposed President and the military coup that arrested and deported him.
Earlier today it was reported that President Zelaya will return to Honduras on Thursday:
Ousted Honduran President Manual Zelaya has announced that he will return to Honduras on Thursday. “I’m going to finish my four-year term, whether or not you coup leaders are in agreement,” he stated.
Zelaya will return to Honduras accompanied by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, and a commission of Latin American presidents. The Argentine government has announced that its President Cristina Fernandez will accompany Zelaya to Honduras as part of the presidential commission. In a press conference following his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Zelaya stated that Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa will also accompany him.
Colinas, Santa Barbara, Mayor Amable de Jesus Hernandez told TeleSUR that citizen caravans were being organized to travel from his region to the capital of Tegucigalpa on Thursday to receive President Zelaya.
Initially, earlier today, the return of the deposed president and other officials wasn’t supposed to be a direct confrontation with the military forces that arrested and forcibly deported him to Costa Rica:
Reports in Honduran and international press that interim President Roberto Micheletti says that “if Zelaya sets foot on Honduran soil he will be arrested” are overblown, thanks in large part to a provocative headline in that regard published by Colombia’s Radio Caracol. Yes, Micheletti has stated that Honduran courts have issued arrest warrants against Zelaya, but thus far he has not definitively stated that his forces will attempt to arrest Zelaya…
The [Radio Caracol] interviewer asked Micheletti how he planned to respond in the event that Zelaya … returned on Thursday. Micheletti responded: “My country’s courts have arrest warrants against him for breaking the law.” He then went on to explain his case for why Zelaya had broken the law when he attempted to carry out a public opinion poll on forming a new constitutional convention to draft a new constitution. Micheletti never told Radio Caracol that his government planned to act on the aforementioned arrest warrants.