Back drop . . .

 

Watching and listening to the Lou Dobbs show on Thursday, Christine gave the White

House report from Texas. Behind her was an enlarged photo of a very broken down shack.

Cute shananigans, but why would CNN be doing those kind of impressions?

 

By the way, there's an article on Lou Dobbs in the New Yorker this month. I found it interesting.

Autism Alert

Autism is increasing rapidly and increasingly.(now 1 in 166  births). An anti-social disease, yet humans have been high social animals.   Exploring the causes, we find the-mother-who-can't-relate was

considered the primes cause 40-50 years ago. Other ideas....   because of autism heavy metals

cannot be eliminated as easily...bowel problems high in autism....that's where things are absorbed and eliminated.

 

Information superhighway, tv,  radio waves, computers, microwave ovens,  electromagnetic waves & spectrum have effects

some think are  causal for autism. What of MRI?  Industry & Technology.as cause....we don't see autism on farms.

 

My hunch still relates to relating. The more technological we become, the more distant and unconnected we are to

each other. High tech parents are more likely to produce autism....more autism in Silicone Valley.

Bogeymen

Folks use the term for general scary things and when I was growing up, it was even used to redicule

little ones who are afraid of the unknown. A tape at the library about old sailing ships around the

world said the bogeymen were a group of pirates in a particular place in the area of  Indonesia who

would board a ship in the still of nite and cut the throats of all the crew, without warning.They were

so quiet and seemed to come out of the nowhere that special care had to be taken in certain waters

to survive. Based in history....not fiction. 

Keeping your head in the light

Seems the challenge of life is to keep your own head in the light and
still look at the darkness (don't turn away and only look at the cheery side
of things). If you are really in the light, you will pierce the darkness with
your light and bring light to the dark.

Many religious groups teach people to only hang out with positive people.
I suppose they can only keep their positive attitude by being around others
who have a positive attitude. Perhaps their light is too dim or they don't
know how to restore it. It's sad, n'est ce pas? So unlike our great avatars.

We are all connected.

Stuart Wilde writes , The Safety of Tenderness . It's a good time to
think about what he wrote.

UCLA data security breach

Seems data on some 800,000  students has been taken. It includes vital statistics , social security,

etc, etc.  They notified everybody, but think about it. With all the identity theft going on which

practically destroys peoples lives, there is no safety , no security. Credit card companies and

universities give it away.  Then everybody moves on to the next news while lives are destroyed.

 

My bank of 20 years asked me all kinds of personal information the other day because of new

policies even tho the teller knew me for years, as if the customer is the security problem when

they are the problem.

 

When I moved and notified the credit card company 2 months in advance, they continued to

send blank checks to my old address 3 months later. When I complained, they had no shame

and no apology. Their attitude was it was perfectly justified because that's how long it takes

for them to change an address. BE FORWARNED.

A Culture of Sex Offenders?

According to the TV fiction program, Numbers, there are 491,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S.
Those would be just the ones who have been caught, punished, and released.
They are so sneeky that I would say it probably represents about 50% or less of the total sex offenders.

Why bother to report such information? We should know what's going on around us. How
do we create so many sick people? Are we a doomed society that is morally bankrupt like
our Congress and Administration? Is it too much blind religion or too little religion?.

Scoop

You can press escape all you like, but it won't

do anything if the keyboards not plugged in.

  

 

Pixy Misa @ Ambient Irony

 

Let Them Be Sick

I am remembering Marie Antoinette's attitude of "Let them eat cake". She was so out of touch with reality,that her
only frame of reference for someone who had no bread, was to eat something else....eat cake instead.

George W. Bush will be remembered for his attitude reflected in "Let them be sick". I began wondering,
Who cares about clean air? You can't see it or feel it, so it doesn't exist. I think that would be the response of most people, because most people are that insensitive as adults. Especially if they are hungry.

I can imagine Bush saying," Who cares about clean air or clean water? Let them be sick! We've got that covered
with drugs and health insurance companies, ha, ha, ha!"

From the current New Yorker, I learn the Clean Air Act initiated under Nixon, was indeed a bright spot.
Those who care about such things are now having to go before the U.S.Supreme Court to get our nation
turned around from deliberately destroying its own people with pollution leading now to global warming.

How is Bush any different from Marie Antoinette?

War ON Terror

What crazy doubletalk....War ON Terror ! War IS terror. It's like saying, War on War .

Noam Chomsky

He now has a web-site, chomsky.info, this year. 

He also has all kinds of new books and DVD out.  I just viewed Power and Terror

and found incredible intellectual harmony listening to his reasoning. I think he believes

in the equality of nations.....that one standard for us and another for others just ain't the

way its supposed to be.    

Confucious Says . . .

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Have no friends not equal to yourself. When you

have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Complicated Voting Machines

Ken on Conscious Junkyard  here has a post describing in detail (very well written) on his experience

voting on a Diebold machine. If you have time, its worth reading. I learned about the use of

thermal paper for receipt and realized Sears is doing that. When you have a receipt that you

can't read anymore (which I keep for household items) think of thermal paper.

 

Ken knows what he's doing. Imagine someone voting on Diebold who is not familiar with computers.

From Net of Fireflies

The noble lord gets off his horse.

And who makes him dismount?

The cherry blossoms do.

           Issa

Death Poems

Ah, nightingale, with half your song expressed,

I leave for the next world---to hear the rest!

          Anonymous

 

Not even for a moment

Do things stand still--

Witness color in the trees.

          Seiju

Moving Forward

THE pain is gone, so now the task is to rebuild muscles that have
atrophied in the last year. Getting the gradations right so as not to
overdo but also to max the effort is now the challenge.

My happiness is complete. The weather is perfect today with a
delightful coolness while the sun shines warmly. Hope you are
all enjoying the day where you are.