April 18, 2010 archive
Apr 18 2010
Docudharma Times Sunday April 18
Apr 18 2010
The New Dr. Who is FABULOUS! 20200417 With Poll!
I have been watching the season premier of Dr. Who, and Smith is brilliant in the role. He has the energy of Tom Baker, and the passion for the role. Not as snappy of a dresser, but that is OK.
I have fallen in love with Amy, his new companion. She is just dishonest enough to be extremely resourceful. She is played by the hauntingly beautiful Karen Sheila Gillam, just 22 years of age.
Apr 18 2010
How To Start A Movement In 3 Minutes And Be The Next Messiah
Tormented by corruption? Feeling Overwhelmed? Depressed? Frustrated? Fed up to f’ing here with the state of the world? Bedeviled with angst?
Have a great idea? The best idea ever hatched in a human mind in all of recorded history? You’ve been to the mountaintop and he spoke to you and only you, man?
Are you the one the world has been waiting for all these millenia?
Are you Morpheus, man? Have you got THE ANSWER? The WAY?
The ONE TRUE PATH to world peace and justice for all but you’ve also had it up to f’ing here with all the morans in the world who are simply far too thick and obtuse to know what’s good for them and to comprehend your unique brand of genius and won’t get off their fat lazy asses and follow you?
Do you have a movement you’d like to start that you know in your heart will sweep the world like a planet scouring tsunami brushing all in it’s path aside if only you could find your first follower?
Here’s your one chance for a free lesson in becoming the next messiah. Grab this incredible opportunity while it’s hot. It may never present itself to you again.
Apr 18 2010
Boots outside the box
There are moments I keep going back to. One is the run-up to Bush’s invasion of Iraq. The demonstrations were incredible, propelled at electronic velocity through the internet and into the streets around the world. Per Wikipedia:
“According to the French academic Dominique ReyniĆ©, between January 3 and April 12, 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against the Iraq war.”
And where are the snows of yesteryear? Same place as the demonstrations.
From time to time, I’ve talked about the “we,” and the question of how the blogosphere can be transformed — or not transformed — into so-called boots on the ground. I’ve answered the question, how do WE stop fascism, with, first we have to develop the we. When bold proclamators expound that WE must do this, WE must do that, WE must bend the politicians and their running dog lackeys to our progressive will, I’ve responded with, “Who is the WE?”
But I suspect that there’s some smart-ass out there saying, hey, you keep asking the same damn question, how about YOU giving us an answer? No, I’m not now announcing that I’ve come up with the answer to who is WE. Would that I were. But I do want to give it a bit of a rassle. See where it goes.
Apr 18 2010
Thrangu Monastery Lament
Water floods in tears
Air rises, too high
Fire bows down in blue sorrow
Space holds all in grace
Thrangu Monastery!
In famous province
of Tibet, in Kham
In Kahm of great fame
Where minds were made
to fly like gorgeous birds
without boundaries,
in stainless space!
I have never seen you
or walked your halls
where the students and teachers
look simple and not
civilized in the Western view,
just wearing funny robes
and calling themselves
monks and lamas
sounds like a farm.
Thrangu Monastery!
How many have sat
and taken in the blessings
of the treasures,
endless phenomena of
offerings with
artistic expression
the least of their beauty!
Thrangu Monastery!
I bow in grief and reverence
To your sorrow, may all
who are wounded be completely healed,
May all who have died be liberated,
May all who are bereft receive
Unlimited compassion.
I wrote this poem
At the request
of my
flowing tears.
Apr 18 2010
Weekend News Digest
Weekend News Digest is an Open Thread
From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 Burqa bombers kill 41 at Pakistan camp
by Lehaz Ali, AFP
Sat Apr 17, 10:24 am ET
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – Two suicide bombers dressed in burqas struck a crowd of displaced people collecting aid handouts, killing at least 41 and wounding more than 60 on Saturday at a camp in northwest Pakistan.
The bombers struck minutes apart in the Kacha Pukha camp on the outskirts of the garrison city of Kohat, a registration centre for people fleeing Taliban violence and Pakistani army operations close to the Afghan border. The attacks underscored the grave threat posed by extremists despite stepped-up Pakistani offensives and a significant increase in US drone attacks targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked commanders in the nearby tribal belt. |
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