Friday, November 09, 2007

No queen can be more mother



Humans, without regard to any cultural, societal or genetic difference,
can experience with equal enjoyment much of what is upon this earth
and the width of this experience grows. Equal in this view is that from the
lowest to the highest, no man can be without happiness nor can he
enjoy any less or more than other men...in this he is equal.

The exquisite rapture of sexual climax, is felt so well by a poor man as one wealthy.
A rainbow delights with prismatic brilliance in equal measure to all who watch.
A grandson held adoring, is to the heart of men the same.

Listen to Williams and Bream play Clair de Lune...as have millions, with
what might have been available to a rich few once but now more and more.
Yet, once presented, to old and young it is a sound which sings the same to all.

We may have race, language, science, religion, and sustenance differences
but we are more alike than different. No queen can be more mother than the
poorest nomad who hums a lullaby to her first born.

Thank God.

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Presidential election = an ugly spectator sport

Our democratic process, as currently practiced, has proven unsatisfactory to the great majority of Americans. Even with hopeful new signs of internet enabled participation, our national elections remain essentially poll-driven, mass media campaigns and little more than an ugly spectator sport, though one with enormous stakes.

NPC Caucus
http://www.nationalcaucus.com/about

"Is this true," he asks with the most innocent expression of bewilderment?

I think our democratic process, as currently practiced, has proven unsatisfactory because Americans make their decision based upon matters that have little to do with a candidate's qualifications, and rarely upon informed logical process. So that's what politicians give them.

I really don't care if your logical process incorporates szindu gimmelsmerch so long as you examine the facts methodically with equal perspective. If you like a candidate because she espouses szindu that's fine. But do us all a favor and check it out. That candidate may have made reference to szindu based upon a staff prepared speech and otherwise wouldn't know what kind of broad-leafed weed that might be. Check if other candidates espouse szindu.

For goodness sake, don't choose the dimpled chinned yachtboy turned serious crusader because he's got beautiful blue eyes. Of course you wouldn't. But add up enough of these incidental 'likes and dislikes' and you have a predisposition.

When it comes to the 'warm and fuzzy' approach to selecting a president, I try to imagine the candidate, sitting in a conference room deep beneath some granite mountain before a keyboard and a screen that says

Click Here to start global nuclear apocalypse.
Chasque aquí para comenzar apocalypse nuclear global.

I favor a bill that restricts voting in an election to those who can reasonably answer correctly a quiz on the educational qualifications of each candidate. High School, college, major study.

Which candidate was educated and practiced as a gynecologist?

Sitting between the outspread legs of women all day hardly compares to staring into a computer screen prepared to launch nuclear missiles at the touch of a mouse click...no matter how often you do it in either case. So what are the qualifications? Sparse guidance is given by our forefathers.

What qualifies a person to serve as president to a nation such as ours in these times and conditions?

Ask those questions!

Sunday, November 04, 2007

I Would Lie Down

Walking upon dried leaves their edges ragged to decay
In browns, yellows and red, still they show what once they were
Through the forest limbs they fall in brittle cackle
Sunshine embers glow on those few that hang on.

Shuffling in a wishing walk the leaves shush me to quiet
Look down! something says, and capped acorns wink back.
Leaves everywhere clapping along a ground breeze
That I would lie down among them and dream.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Fred Thompson quoted Burke

18th century Irish political philosopher Edmund Burke: “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”

That's what Fred said when a constituent complained about a vote on a controversial issue in which his vote was contrary to popular opinion.

A consummate actor, Fred knows how to deliver his lines. Nonetheless, the "powers that be (PTB)" supporting Fred are getting some political room in which to work. In this case it may be only to offset the mix of the group. However, each candidate has an agenda, much like a television script, from which to read...delicately prioritized, guided and constructed by a PTB or two. The question becomes, not that an action would be dictated by a PTB or whether their candidate is truly expressing the desired opinion of a PTB that you've become comfortable with (under the guise of whatever candidate you select). The question is, when a matter is significant requiring action which opposes the view of the populace as well as the PTB, will the candidate have the judgement and conviction to do what is best.

If the image portrayed by a PTB is pleasing to your opinions...

is it because you know and agree with them
OR
is it because the PTB knows the right buttons to push and you have not questioned the implications or details?
IF the same viewpoints expressed by the PTB's candidate, were expressed by say a Don Knotts, would you find it equally pleasing?

Maybe we should change our electoral college system, to be selected well before campaigns begin with the agreement enforced that they would not VIEW any candidate in any medium during the process but would thoroughly study,read and listen to the candidates...and strongly consider public opinion as fickle, ignorant, apathetic and easily manipulated.

Hmmmm. As I study the candidates' views on major issues I wonder just what qualifications and experience the candidates truly have to resolve issues that have yet to arrive...even the priorities of PTB's change. The more I study the more I am amazed to discover I seem to agree most with a candidate who also has the best credentials, from another party...who is ugly and hasn't a chance. Based on my current assessment...he would make the best president. And since I have revealed exclusion of one candidate simply because I said HE. So in fairness I will exclude Fred Thompson as well.

But I could be wrong.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Let me begin by denoting this is an "American/English" biased issue that might well apply to other peoples and should be considered in that fashion. Just substitute your own nation/language(s) into the logic.

I stumbled upon the DoNotCall register regarding the FTC's online process and registered my phone with the government's program. While there, I noted a special section for those who required their information En Español.

Although I have no negative feelings about Spanish or those who speak it, I am gobsmacked by the lack of equal opportunity. Here's what I think:

For those of you who do not speak English or Spanish, PLEASE complain to your congressman that you are not receiving equal opportunity as the English/Spanish speaking and want all government communication presented in your language of choice as well. Since there are over 750 languages in daily use, you can imagine the instruction "press 749 for Aragonese." Since Aragonese is spoken in Aragon Spain, not even all Spanish peoples are satisfied with "press 2 for Spanish."

For those of you who think the idea of the U.S. Government trying to speak in tongues...(as if they weren't incomprehensible already) is a silly irony...but see a need for translation at times, let me introduce you to a free online translator of text and even websites:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Try it! Also if you didn't know AltaVista, just know that AltaVista developed the first search able, full-text database on the World Wide Web in 1995 and was THE search engine of its day. (otherwise you'd have no search capability via Yahoo, Google, AskJeeves, AllTheWeb, etc.)
Gemmelsmerch!

And for those of you who are innovative, imagine that instead of spending millions reproducing information in Spanish (and whatever language comes after that ad infinitum) , our government instead funded a project to build a universal translator for the world...much like GPS serves the world.

Oh, one more thing. Spanish speaking people have some of the richest cultures on this planet and their inclusion is essential.


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The rant is finished :
se acaba el rant; rant is beëindigd; le rant est fini; das rant wird beendet; το rant είναι τελειωμένο; il rant è rifinito; o rant é terminado ; rant закончено ; oh the heck with this - where is that universal translator. Just searching the options to find your language is exhausting.

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But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

A Crucial Time

Never before has their been such a need for advanced citizenship in the United States directed towards our political system and the selection of leaders.
Please go here and become knowlegable:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21116732/

Remember to consult the enternet for what 'real people' think versus what the media tells us what we think. The source above is a media center but the video clips are "straight from the horse's mouth."