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Tuesday, September 12, 2006:

Healing will begin when the wars end.



"Peace is an organic process. You need to actively keep working for it in order to keep it. Do it daily."

// 11:45 PM
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Monday, September 11, 2006:

Today we relive the 9/11 Tragedy. I do not feel that we need to relive it anymore than I personally don’t need to relive the deaths of my parents when I was a teenager. Both events are etched deeply in my soul. I struggle with both issues on a daily basis. On a personal level I have learned to move forward toward healing. On 9/11 we have continued the tragedy with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. More die every week. Sickness infiltrates every aspect of our lives. Our country is not healthy.

Stop.

Heal.





"Peace is an organic process. You need to actively keep working for it in order to keep it. Do it daily."

// 9:55 AM
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Sunday, September 03, 2006:

To create change, to voice your dissent,hit the corporations in their pocket. It is the only language they know.

I am starting a BOYCOTT list. Any corp who choses to put their advertising in Mexican Spanish is betraying the national language of our country. English is what we speak and write and it is the language we all communicate in (even though many of us speak other languages at home) out in society English rules. NO BABEL!

So BOYCOTT:

Bumper-to-Bumper...their mailer has everything described first in English, then in Spanish
Pringles...look at the can...Spanish



"Peace is an organic process. You need to actively keep working for it in order to keep it. Do it daily."

// 1:06 PM
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Thursday, February 02, 2006:

"Peace is an organic process. You need to actively keep working for it in order to keep it. Do it daily."

// 6:03 PM
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006:

"Peace is an organic process. You need to actively keep working for it in order to keep it. Do it daily."
I didn’t watch the president’s rah-rah continue the war speech tonight. I cannot bear his arrogance which is nothing but undeserved superiority. Him and his pompous cronies making history, making money on the blood of the poor and lower middle class sons and daughters.
I tell myself it is ignorance ( not ) that lead a misplaced society to re-elect a savage president. I am ashamed to be an American.
There was never any attempt of a discussion to solve this in the first place. Shock and Awe. Bring out the fireworks.
There has been no attempt to institute a draft. Those of you on your money-tuffets might have be instructed to offer up your sons and daughters. That might have caused some war resistance. Bush didn’t want that. He hides in the shadows while his minion uses the disenfranchised over and over in multiple tours of duty.
And most Americans don’t care.
Then you have people like the bizillionaire Bill Gates setting up plans to use his money-pockets to help the AIDS victims in Africa. On the surface this seems most honorable. The truth is this: Instead of helping the disenfranchised in this country, Bush gave megadollars to the filthy rich. With money comes guilt(and responsibility) so to ease the guilt some of the rich make splashy announcements that they will help the poor. Oddly it is usually always the poor in some exotic nation. (Not that they don’t need help. It’s just that it is more chi-chi.)
Look beyond the great cities of America and you will see a devastated people with less than those of the coddled illegal aliens. Oh, but wait, it is so honorable to help illegals than it is to help your own.
All of this reminds me of a woman that bought some of my paintings. She bought a new car, decided she didn’t like it, so took it back the next week and bought another. She bought other expensive items and wearied of them within a short time. She gave her daughters socks to Goodwill (after all they would only wear them once.) She bought $500 panties. To ease her guilt once a year she would ask her friends for clothing donations and she would hire a van to take the bundles to Appalachia. That dissolved her guilt at being so wasteful, of having too much. She gave the crumbs to the poor.
We are not an honorable society otherwise we would never ever choose war unless there was no other option. To use war as a first line of defense is utterly unimaginable.
Arrogance is always destructive.

// 1:31 AM
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Monday, January 23, 2006:

"Peace is an organic process. You need to actively keep working for it in order to keep it. Do it daily."

As of today, 2232 US troops PEOPLE! have died in Iraq. 98 UK soldiers have died, and 103 other are gone. That is the result of 1040 deadly days of war.

Plus 16,420 US soldiers have been injured.

28,088 to 31, 676 Iraqi civilians have died.

How much blood does it take?

You can track the stats here

Remember these are not just numbers. They are sons and daughters and cousins and uncles and aunts and friends and colleagues. Gone forever.

// 10:35 PM
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005:

The chip is painless and offers peace of mind.

How long does it take for a country to recover from 8 years of Neo-Fascism?

The REAL question is: What is the correlation between TITANIC being the highest-grossing movie of all time and Dubya being re-elected?

Did you know there was a "successful" vote in Vietnam before it fell?

Overheard conversation: "I didn't like my sister-in-law at first, but now I see how she dominates my brother...she's better than I thought." UGH.

Another one: "You mean the government doesn't authorize everything we read in newspapers?"

and lastly..."We read Glamour so we can be conformists."

"Peace is an organic process. You need to actively keep working for it in order to keep it. Do it daily."

// 4:49 AM
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