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and insight within his or her heart.
Let us help each other touch these seeds in ourselves
so that everyone can have the courage to speak out.
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August 25, 2008 archive
Aug 25 2008
Muse in the Morning
and insight within his or her heart.
Let us help each other touch these seeds in ourselves
so that everyone can have the courage to speak out.
Aug 25 2008
Through the Darkest of Nights: Testament XXXV
Every few days over the next several months I will be posting installments of a novel about life, death, war and politics in America since 9/11. Through the Darkest of Nights is a story of hope, reflection, determination, and redemption. It is a testament to the progressive values we all believe in, have always defended, and always will defend no matter how long this darkness lasts. But most of all, it is a search for identity and meaning in an empty world.
Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb, we did not know our mother’s face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father’s heart? Which of us has not remained prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? ~Thomas Wolfe
All installments are available for reading here on Docudharma’s Series page, and also here on Docudharma’s Fiction Page, where refuge from politicians, blogging overload, and one BushCo outrage after another can always be found.
Aug 25 2008
The Stars Hollow Gazette
Aug 25 2008
LEADER OF THE BAND
For those of you who saw my test shots for this same vantage point, here are ones I shot tonight.
The usual links are unchanged, as I`ve been quite occupied of late.
Please bear with me, though.
I`ll be back to full capacity soon, I hope.
Meanwhile, stay balanced poised & smiling,.. please.
http://frenchpirate.blogspot.com/
Aug 25 2008
The Big Green Tent
In the coming days, for those not actively on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) floor, The Big Tent will be one of (if not the) places to be. And, much of the Tent will be colored Green. Much of The Big Tent’s agenda will focus on Green initiatives, energy efficiency, and Global Warming.
Looking at this schedule makes this blogger envious of those able to attend.
And, a few tinges of off-green makes this same blogger concerned.
Aug 25 2008
Energizing America: Setting a Freshmen Agenda for Progress
At 
Netroots Nation, six dedicated people joined to discuss Energizing America: Setting an Agenda for Progress. On this panel were three core members of the Energize America team and three Energy Smart candidates who are part of the effort to change the composition of Congress toward one more knowledgeable and concerned about creating a sensible energy future.
Part of the discussion was how to provide a rallying point for the freshmen (and women) class of 2009, to join together for passage a set of legislative initiatives to help spark an Energy Smart renaissance across the United States.
This effort is developing.
But, this development is missing something.
YOU!
Join me, after the fold, for a discussion of concepts and ideas as to moving forward together.
Aug 25 2008
Laughing Ponies: Che Guevara!
Aug 25 2008
Transformational Retrofitting
I got this fool idea in my head a few months ago, and it still hasn’t gone away, so I thought maybe I could just write it out and then I’ll be able to forget it.
It came from a comment I made in an essay by Turkana on torture, back in April, which said, in part:
… just finished telling a market researcher who called why I don’t do market surveys.
After I hung up I thought … and not even angrily, or anything, just thought, maybe that survey company should start surveying how people feel about torturing … about a whole lot of other things than what car folks drive and their favorite breakfast cereal.
And I think of the state of the world and wonder how much of our already present industries and companies and various annoying capitalistic systems could be transformed, retrofitted somehow, to be of help rather than the insult to injury they are now.
Aug 25 2008
North Pole Stand-off
Canada, Russia, Denmark, Norway and the United States are squaring off over 1.2 million square kilometers (460,000 square miles) of Arctic seabed, thought to hold 25 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas.
Experts estimate the ridge has ten billion tons of gas and oil deposits and significant sources of diamonds, gold, tin, manganese, nickel, lead and platinum.
A UN convention says none can claim jurisdiction over the Arctic seabed because the geological structure does not match the surrounding continental shelves.
Putin disagrees. Russian scientists have returned from a six-week mission on a nuclear ice-breaker to claim that the 1,220-mile long underwater Lomonosov Ridge is geologically linked to the Siberian continental platform – and similar in structure.
Aug 25 2008
Poisoning the Asylum Well
Charlie Savage has an article in today’s New York Times focusing on the politicization of the civil service process that selects the nation’s immigration judges. The use of a political litmus test for the conservatism of Department of Justice applicants surfaced last summer in
… two scathing reports confirming that for several years administration officials illegally took political affiliation into account when hiring recent law school graduates, summer associates, some assistant prosecutors and immigration judges.
The culprits in this twisted, and illegal, vetting process were the assistant to the Attorney General, Kyle Sampson, and two former White House flunkies, Monica Goodling and Jan Williams. The story about the disparities in adjudication of asylum cases surfaced in a Stanford Law Review report last Spring (which I covered at the time.)
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