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Finally an updated user avatar handling that works for authors and commenters, easy set default blog avatar and still avabililty to integrate grvatars etc etc.
The wishlist for a extra star:
Crop after upload
Option to disable Gravar calls completly
The latter, the seach for users gravatars sometimes slows down the site extreamly and sometimes the setup or purpose of the install are internal and users don wanna mixup with private media flows.
Nice work and thanks for sharing this to the WP World of open source.


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I am just going to leave that dog alone. It is just too damn easy to make a commentary on this one.
I'm a Barack Obama supporter and an ECB critic, but I'll be the first to say that both of the things Erica has pointed out are just plain sick and wrong. This type of sexism has no place in our politics.
Makes me want to give $$ to Hillary now...
"He figures the whole thing will end up taking on a viral nature...."
It's probably a bad idea that you're even telling people about this. At least he's not making any specific claims - it's the complex lies that are much more dangerous.
Head = Asploded
Tell me you're joking about Citizens United Not Timid!"
And we get our daily ECB report on Hillary....
I gotta wonder ECB are you working for the Stranger or Hillary's Washington Campaign Office?
Is it your goal to be biased towards anyone opposing her? Do you ever plan on a political post that doesn't support or defend her in some fashion? Have you heard of any other candidates running?
At least the other Stranger contributors try for a little variety....Geessshhhh
Something to chew on...
This is the kind of bullshit the Clinton campaign needs to jump all over. Further, Roger Stone is a worthless scrotum who needs a good kicking.
@8: Go ahead. Tell us you don't think it's a big deal that some jackass started a PAC for the purpose of calling Hillary a cunt.
classy stuff! if this doesn't get the ladies out to the polls, i don't know what will.
I'm donating right now. This rampant sexism makes me sick!
Pathetic. The misogynists didn't learn from New Hampshire, obviously.
@10: Yeah he's the one who was going on and on the other day about how all women are money grubbing whores and any man in a relationship with a woman with a higher income must be de-balled. So yeah, he prob will go on and tell you about it.
Just sent a contribution to HRC for $100 'In honor of Roger Stone'.
Y'all don't get it. HRC is hoping for this.
16: I was just about to say that. Looks like it's working.
Besides, are y'all really that surprised that some people don't like Hillary? Or that politicians and their fundraisers love to aim low? This isn't news -- it's just another election year.
What worries me about all of this is that if Hillary wins--and she might damn well win--we will have to deal with this kind of misogynist crap all the time. It's not going to end when she wins. It will only intensify as the Republicans froth to get her out of office. Everything she does will be analyzed. There will be so much subtle and not-so-subtle sexism. It will be agonizing. And exhausting.
I love how people like tsm@16 assume every single thing that happens on earth is because Hillary willed it to. Ah, the perils of competency.
Some women like the word "Cunt", although it is apparent you don't ECB. Oh Well...
As a size queen, you should at least recognoze the need for openness when it comes to the "Cunt issue".
Just sayin'
What worries me about all of this is that if Barack wins--and he might damn well win--we will have to deal with this kind of racist crap all the time. It's not going to end when he wins. It will only intensify as the Republicans froth to get him out of office. Everything he does will be analyzed. There will be so much subtle and not-so-subtle racism. It will be agonizing. And exhausting.
@19 - Uh, no. I didn't say Hillary "willed" it. I'm saying she's counting on the response embodied well by @15. It's worked for her before.
Ah yes, TSM is the guy who thinks women shouldn't react to sexism.
This kind of stuff reminds us of why it's important a women be in the white house. I am still undecided, but you better believe this sort of stuff makes me want to support Hillary.
this crap is disgusting. its crudity is not much different from the lies people tell about obama. and it will drive more people to support clinton -- and rightly so. it drives me to think roger stone and his group are despicable.
She's hoping people call her a cunt? And that they picture her in sexist stereotypes? She's hoping for that?
She's the first viable female Presidential candidate. Obama is the first viable black Presidential candidate (sorry, Shirley Chisholm.) Both of them will get mileage and support from folks of good character when dingleberries attack them for the color of their skin or what's between their legs. But if you think Clinton *wants* to be called a cunt any more than Obama *wants* to be called a nigger, than you ascribe a level of deviousness and resolve to HRC that's just not present in real human beings.
@23 -- well put, i wouldn't have posted if yours was visible when i wrote mine.
i really thought there weren't so many sexist idiots left trolling about. how wrong i was. we are long overdue a female president if for no other reason than to bring this injustice closer to an end.
thank you erica. i depend on you for this. imagine the hell that would be breaking loose if some republican sniper asshole founded an anti-obama PAW called "National Inner-city Group for Greater Ethic Responsibility" or something like that.
Good Lord. I'm not endorsing the fucking 527. I'm not saying it's not sexist. I'm saying that Hillary knows full well that this kind of thing is well poised to backfire and help her. She's not an idiot. Overly aggressive attacks helped her in her 2000 campaign, and it could well help her here too.
But please, do go on ranting about the points you clearly wanted to see me make instead.
Welcome back, ecce - glad to see your PD got you out of lock-up early.
Oh, and while we're at it: name three women who LIKE the word "cunt".
Besides your mama, that is.
So, what does this have to with the issues?
Well at least their not sending out their operatives to continually drag Barack Hussein Obamas drug pushing days in the hood back into the spotlight over and over and over again. Oh and did you hear?... hes nothing but a dirty Muslim
Will is Seattle-
Oh, *now* you Obama guys care about the issues.
@28 -- yeah, i'm guessing erica probably wouldn't have posted this if she thought it would hurt clinton's campaign.
@30 -- well, sexism is an issue.
roger is an idiot for being sexist. he is also an idiot for not realizing that this behavior will probably motivate more people to vote for clinton than influence people to not vote for her. but he really demonstrates his idiocy by identifying himself as a c*nt.
seriously, if it wasn't so inappropriate, i'd almost want someone to ask him, "so, you're a C*NT then?"
1. Shannon Kringen
2. Jenna Jameson
3. Dita Von Teese
Plus a couple of lesbian friends of mine.
I said, WOMEN ecce, not skanky publicity-whores (you DO however get one credit for Ms. Von Teese).
And I'm taking Annie Sprinkle out of the running, just because you didn't think of HER first!
Could you be MORE sexist COMTE?
They aren't "Women" because they like the word cunt? I didn't realize you were the gender police.
I think that ECB secretly likes the word, but doesn't like to admit it because it would indicate a sexuality that she has long since burried.
"because it would indicate a sexuality that she has long since burried."
burried?? maybe you mean burrito-ed or taco-ed. it seems you care about ecb's sexuality a bit too much. what with this and all:
"As a size queen, you should at least recognoze the need for openness when it comes to the "Cunt issue"."
ecce you are kind of obsessed with her sexuality, a little too much for the gay trooper of morality you profess to be.
it's gross and stupid at any rate
Thanks Pissy,
I could care less about her sexuality, but her smug moralistic bullshit annoys the hell out of me. Her suppressed sexuality is nothing more than a street sign that one can observe that directs you to the core problem. The problem is that she is consumed with her own moral superiority.
She needs some strait male attention, something I can never give.
Now can't we get back to discussing why bicyclists are retards playing with childish toys who pitch temper tantrums when they don't get their way? Something ECB is quite adept at demonstrating.
The problem is that she is consumed with her own moral superiority."
are you sure that it's her problem you are talking about here?
and not yours?
@40 - Why, both, actually.
"She needs some strait male attention"
yeah that'll fix her up...perhaps she just needs some phallic therapy. whats wrong wit' them bitches is they don't have a dick to call their own and to cuddle and make her feel all adequate and smart like the guys. cause men rule, and don't have any issues about what to do with their dicks at all... not like it controls them or anything.
Aint my fault you have a gaping open wound that needs to be treated.
Seriously, if it isn't true, then how come so many women discuss how more relaxed they are post coitus and post orgasm. Seems pretty reasonable. I know I always feel better after I cum. I am sure that ECB would feel the same way, and then we may be spared the dumb smug posts that only serve the purpose of pushing more interesting stuff further down the page.
On this one, Barnett, you're quite right.
"gaping open wound that needs to be treated."
nice. you certainly have a way with words and metaphor. unrivaled but for 5th grade boys everywhere. we love and welcome your deep perspective here on slog. thanks for that deep insight, ass.
Why yes, as a matter of fact, ecce I AM the gender police, I've got a nifty badge, and handcuffs, and the riot-stick, and everything!
And of course, I could get MORE sexist. I could, for example call a woman's vagina a "gaping open wound that needs to be trea - " Hey! Wait a minute! You beat me to it! I had no IDEA you were a "gencop" too! How come I never see you at the shift briefings?
Face it, ecce, when someone with a handle like "pissy mcslogbot" is able to effortlessly rip you a new one (which, apparently is just what you need, since all your other orifi appear to be clogged with crap already), even someone of your cro-magnon IQ should recognize when it's time to cut your losses and go back to the half-way house.
I know a woman who likes the word cunt, though maybe it's the way I say it. Or maybe she just likes my warm breath on her clit.
Pissy and COMTE: Why are we feeding the troll? Last time we stopped, he went away for a couple of months!
"The group will not be running ads in any form and will not be making any robocalls. They'll be making T-shirts. That's it. You can buy them for $25 on their website:" (BTW, Charles may want to check out who's wearing the tee)So they formed a tax exempt organization that sell T-shirts (or do they? note that the model on the website is not wearing a printed shirt, the logo is "photoshoped") but they won't be spending money on attack ads? (and why would they when places like the Slog will run them for free) sounds like tax fraud and/or phishing to me, note that all you can do on their web site is give them your name, address and e-mail, you can't say what size or style of shirt you want.
If one follows Erica's link to TPM, then their link to The Weekly Standard, the article there is kind of funny. e.g. "As a committed phony (the reason Stone so dislikes her), Clinton is all about winning." Um, Stone, what are you "all about"? Bureau of Inteligent Tartars Crushing Hypocrisy
But seriously, for scum he is not such a bad guy, "he says he'd be open to voting and even working for Barack Obama.". ??? Is he trying to imply that he is someone Obama might want, or does he hate the guys running against McCain so much that he would vote for a Democrat before one of them (it seems to me I've head something like that before)
Because, like snakes, ecce doesn't go dormant until his lil' troll-belly is full!
comte: hey, I like my handle....it reflected how i thought most slog posters were/are....and is homage to our beloved Poe. Love Poe, Poe is good, one day be like Poe.
but abooot feeding the the troll, dear Sven of the large.... it really doesn't matter w/ ecce, for ecce is like herpes, or the red tide or reruns of infomercials... we can't get rid of him... he is our donny osmond, but dumber and more pointless. if ya know what I mean.
i think ecce is great - funny as hell
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My wife and I stayed at for the first time at this Marriott from January 23-25, 2014. Shorly after returning home to Utah, we began noticing red blotches and bumps on our arms and legs that itched. We didnt know what it was and was hoping it was some kind of rash and it would just go away. Then our duaghter started to report simjlar sysmtoms on her arms, legs and back after sleeping. This Saturday we found numerous bugs, later to be determined to be bed bugs based upon photo comparisons with
internet photos of bed bugs, in our mattress and a couch. We have not stayed at any other hotels or any other 3rd party accomodations since our visit to this Marriott. While i recognize that causation might be an issue (it will always be an issue w bed bugs) in proving we got our bed bugs from this Marriott, we have never had a problem we bed bugs before our stay at this Marriott. I'm hoping the Marriott will be a good corporate citizen and help me financially deal w this prolbme at my home. As a result of our findings this weekend, my 4500 square foot home has been reduced to 500 square feet of living space. I just got a call from my wife reporting that we might have burned out our dryer we've been running all weekend as we have tried to santize our clothes with heat to kill the bugs. It's amzing the emotional toll it has taken on my family. I wouldn't have beleived it except by living through this experience. Little did i know what my mother was saying to me when she frequently said to me when i was going to bed, "Sleep tight, dont let the bed bugs bite."
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It's with great irony indeed that the banning and burning of your works by
The Nazis was parodied further by them as they ignobly quoted and used
Your famous line from "Almansor,"* when you likened that "where books
Are burned, in the end people will be burned too." We know what they did!
And so, with both honor and sadness I do understand the very cry of lament
From the confines of your mattress-grave about your final exquisite poetry,
Written through writhing pain and tears as you faced the end of your life.
It took great courage to face your end like this while staying true to your Muse!
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved (December 15, 2014)
(Narrative Quatrain poetic format)
*Der Matratzengruft from the German means "The Mattress-Grave."
(Heinrich Heine was confined to his bed, his "mattress-grave," in 1848
with various illnesses until his eventual death eight years later in 1856.)
*Heine poetically referred to his pain predicament in the poem "Morphine,"
written near the end of his life, when he noted in two famous verses:
"Gut is der Schlaf, der Tod ist besser—freilich / Das beste waere, nie
Geboren sein." (In English: "Sleep is good, Death is better—of course, /
Best of all would be never to have been born.")
*Almansor was a play written by Heine in 1821 that had a most famous
line in German: "Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Buecher verbrennt,
verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." (Rendered in English: "That was
but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as
well.") The significance here is that as the Nazis burned the books of Heine
and other German artists on the Opernplatz in Berlin in 1933, they actually
celebrated this event by "engraving" Heine's famous words from "Almansor"
in the ground at the Opernplatz site. The obvious depravity of this terrible
event reflects the innate cruelty, stupidity and evil of the Nazis as they
burned the books and defiled the names and reputations of Heine and other
famous German writers. Their actions were monstrous and shameful, and
were indicative of mankind's base instincts at their very worst. Moreover,
despite converting to Protestantism from Judaism in 1825, Heine's Jewish
origins played a continuing presence in his life and were one of the major
factors for his being scapegoated by the Nazis later in 1933. And besides,
the Nazis were always more interested in burning books, rather than
reading them!
Copyright © Gary Bateman | Year Posted 2014
And the music began,
And with power so strong, I nearly fell back from the force
Snarling, smiling, demons held me upright,
As the Precarious Prince began,
"Dare you in silence come to me, Daughter of Eve,
To challenge my wisdom with your lust to sing,
A child of God—you provoke His flea,
A monster in the dark—a sight to see!
In meditative silence, I was ever blooming,
The passion for power in my mind consuming,
In silence, my brilliance berated all other
My beauty, shocking, my wings of color
Etched in golden array,
Silence was my everything,
A bud so tight, so light, so moist,
In heaven bright—its beam rejoiced!
And now, as knowledge, as power do burst,
I sit in silence, though in the worst
A quiet so perturbed your stomach curbs,
I long in luster for demons to disturb
Silence, once a subordinate to my wit,
Had found its way into this grimy pit,
Where now your God has given me,
A work of sloppy treachery…
Had I been He, and He been me,
I would throw His heart into the sea,
And watch the eels suck each artery
And listen to his lullabies for a century,
To feel his spirit sweat in the flames of my power,
I would shred his head on the highest tower,
Give him something to really Bab-bel,
Make him wish Eve had crushed that apple"
He smiled at me with teeth protruding,
Head craning,
Keenly waiting for my reply
My throat was insanely dry, and my heart racing
I had expected more, yet expected less…
And now all my wits were a wretched mess
Yet still Death severed those deep bass chords..
I began as a child would, with a doubtful sigh,
I wondered yet again what kind of trouble I was coming by
And inspired by The Reaper's little push, I began
"In my days in your presence, dear one
Silence shall not roam too close,
I do not sing to disdain you,
Rather to know you,
I do not grow quiet,
To decompose you…"
I stopped for a moment,
To see him staring rather attentively,
As if he were expecting a miracle
His almost angelic expression changed as quick as it came…
"Go on…" He demanded. "Sing me what your God would have sang…"
"You speak of silence, in the fogs of doom,
In your pit you dwell, and with a child you make room,
I have ached long in the vision of your cries,
Watching the happy children, and the relieving sighs,
I imagined you just as I see you today,
A beautiful sufferer, with wit, bite, and sway
Crushing courage in your wake,
I implore you—you quake
Moments like these I will never forget,
To win, to lose, to KNOW I wait yet!
What is it with man and his thirst for the truth,
Leading him to fall, to intercede his youth,
And as I do now, wrong or right,
By God and his angels has found delight!
Allowed me with confidence to face you Prince,
A sauntering being of ire and impertinence
I see where your attention bleeds,
I see your mind and I see your needs
Such darkness must now allow some light,
By accepting my challenge—a bravery so bright
Do I mean to admire you, accept you, despise you
Am I hear to judge you, taunt you, transpire you
You and you alone I come for, oh Prince
To show you I care, to break the silence
To share with you the precious gifts of song,
To love, to sing, and in turn…belong…"
The demons chimed with laughter dark
As the Prince sat close beside me
He stood very slow, towering over me,
And took me by the arm
"Charming voice, darling,
You sing quite well,
Shall we sing for as long as you say?
Will you not be missed?"
He pointed above me, and stared at me deeply
There was warning written all over him
A threatening, distant eye,
The other full of desire
"I am missed by you, though I stand before you,
This I say, Prince
I shall stay with you 40 days and 40 nights,
And then I shall leave you, in the breaking dawn of day…"
His grip tightened upon me,
"I have you, child, woman…light…
For 40 Days and 40 nights…
Before then, let us make history of song
Yes, my dear... let us both belong…"
The demons gasped,
And Death stood still…steadily strumming a pulse of daring life
----Thank you once again, Justin Bordner, for the title to this work.
This may be confusing if you have not yet read the other parts to the poem. If you are interested, they are called Light On the Devil's Chord – Part 1, Part 2 Part 3 as well as The ChallengeThanks for reading friends! ~Laura
Copyright © Laura Breidenthal | Year Posted 2015
Life is but a winding road
Filled with faces along the way
Coming in and out of your life
Coloring your every day
Yet most spend just a moment
A fleeting glimpse before your eyes
They giveth not and taketh not
And cause you barely a rise
And some stay just a moment
Earning a thought upon your mind
Triggers for countless memories
These are the most common kind
And fewer still stay even longer
And commune with you a while
Leaving behind dearest memoirs
Of sweet tears or a special smile
And rarer still those faces grand
Building mansions in your soul
These are the faces of a lifetime
Whose virtue you do extol
And know that you simply are
A feature filled soiree
A portrait in collage
Of the faces along the way
Copyright © James Burns | Year Posted 2010
Every once in a while I lose myself
But I'm glad the dreams are coming back
I feel the thrill filling me
I feel my heartbeat rising
I see redemption rising in the days ahead
I still realise once again that I've earned another chance to begin anew
Still glad that it's early in life
...and I can apply the lessons I've learnt before I'm twenty five
Phew! Boy, my heart's beating fast
I shall no longer look at my past
For the past is just that
...opportunities gone with the wind, never to come back
I look towards the days ahead
I spend today to dream of the future I intend
For I know now tomorrow is bound to come
Today was but a dream ten years back
Had I realised then how soon today would come
I'd already be rich riding on the wings of independence
I pledge never to make that mistake again
Today I shall live like I plan
...and not like my neighbour Mr. Wright
For I know not how much he earns to spend the way he does
Today I shall not live like the society around me
For I don't know whether they think ahead
...of the days that are bound to be raining with storms of emergency
I pledge to live as befits me
I plan to live today in a way that enables me to save
For now I know I was right ten years ago
But I hadn't the courage to follow a route of my own
Now I'm determined ten years to come...
I'll be riding on the unicorn of delight
I pay no care for what those here and there may air
I wanna be happy today in my moderate ways
Knowing all too well I'm headed where
There, in the future where my heavy dreams will float in the air
I'm no hater so for the rest of the players here
I wish all the goodwill and good wishes my subconscious can air
Copyright © Wiseton Prins | Year Posted 2011
What do you do when life throws you a misguided curve?
You just keep on chugging, never losing nerve.
It's easy to quit, give up, holler I've had enough.
But just shake it off, get tough, show em you got the stuff.
Pity parties are for losers that will only sire defeat.
Never stop trying even when better judgement says you're beat.
If you're not fully charged with a positive electrode,
Then it won't take much of a negative to drain your load.
Keep yourself charged with a positive upbeat,
Then you'll know why I say victory can taste so sweet.
No matter who you are there is always somebody that looks up to you.
So be a role model, set good examples in all things that you do.
Your one fleeting moment of good may set the tone,
To that someone that was watching, that you may have never known.
Take it from someone who has been on both sides of the fence.
A positive and good attitude is always your better defense.
Just have faith in knowing that tomorrow the sun will shine.
Just in believing will give you a much greater peace of mind.
Copyright © Ronald Bingham | Year Posted 2007
I remember summers past in the south
and the sultry heat.
Iced tea and back porch confessions.
Making time with that first love.
The swing underneath that old tree.
The radio playing softley in the background.
Thoose ways have long since died.
Replaced by a breakneck pace.
As were all to willing to forsake a conversation between
two human beings.
It's all about one night stands and bragging rights.
It's like comparing velvet to burlap.
All harsh no mystery.
Where people would rather surf the internet
than ocean.
The passion of the kiss.
Is but a dinosaur that people
view as some old silent film.
A blanket underneath the stars
Has been replaced by a encounter in a
bathroom stall.
Upward we advance as deeper we sink within the
As the poet reflects ink drying
in he pen.
I recall thoose times so very slow.
To this sudden stand still.
Like a pile up on the interstate.
I no longer live I wait.
But the sunset still haunts me.
Along with the scent of the salt filled air.
that tree's swing does no longer stand.
As in dust and memories it's been taken with
the wind.
The road echos of another time.
For all that was free and wild.
Is slowley vanishing.
As we blindly advance.
I'll sit and watch the tide.
And be happy to be left behind.
Copyright © John Patrick Robbins AKA Gonzo | Year Posted 2009
Don' wanna bee roun ewe noh moh.
Don' wanna see da trajuhdee dats heded,
At yah doh.
Ewe wuz vary ahful tah mi,
God's chile. Eye didden doyah nuttin.
Yah 'sposed, tah bee ah liter rite?
Butt ya playin' roun wit da won,
Whooz comin' bak leyek ah,
Theef en dah nite.
Win yah ain't treet mi rite,
Yah naglect'd dah powah uv God.
Cuz onlee wit Him ah wuz,
Ovalookin' wat ewe wuz doin',
Ta mi fah da harvest ,
Of God's chirren bein' edumacated,
Mi yah outrite hated.
Butt dats awrite God-n-eye,
Gon' win dis feyght.
Ah wheel hav' victuree cuz ah,
Choze ta spread luv butt ewe,
Choze ta spread mizuhree.
Don' wanna bee roun ewe noh moh.
Don' wanna see da trajuhdee dats heded,
At yah doh.
Ewe ramyned mi uv ol'Pharoah,
Hoo woodn't lett God's pipahs goh.
Ah didden wanna fase yah awl dose
Otha daze.
Butt God help'd mi leyek God help'd,
Moses speek up tah ol'Pharoah.
God tole Moses tah lett mah pipahs goh.
God telling mi ta tale yah phake Pharoah
Tah lett mi chirren's goh.
Ah noh ah hatta bee roun ewe sum moh.
Butt itell bee worfwile,
Cuz God wantz freedom,
Fah ebbery chile.
Yah hut mi fah alil wile,
Butt we'll bee at da prahmased lan',
An out uv yah Egypt.
Cuz fah awl uv uz ta prospa,
Iz God's plan.
Ansoon we won' be roun ewe no moh.
Wheel nat laugh leyek yah didaht mi.
Win trajudee nocks aht yah doh.
Wheel helpyah cuz God,
Wantz uz awl tah bee free.
Frum dah phake phone' powah,
Uv da enumee.
wrote 6-27-10
Copyright © Nicole Sharon Brown | Year Posted 2010
People Say poetry is for the broken,
As if nobody or nothing but words on paper can mend their broken pieces,
As if their soul existence is put into paragraph form,
each line representing some critical moment in their life.
Let us not acknowledge the fact that poets possess an amazing skill,
a skill where they articulate words, painting a picture as the words roll off the tongue.
A stranger whom can make you relive every beautiful moment,
re experience every sad emotion, and allow you to feel!
Now that I think about it...maybe they're the broken ones..
Copyright © Dillon Allen | Year Posted 2014
loneliness is a good thing...
to share with someone
Copyright © Warner Baxter | Year Posted 2014
My mother, my grandmother before has always held a place in my heart.
My father, and my grandfather before has the same part.
I was young and very active with unwillingness to listen fully to what they had to say.
I had a problem, never could be solved without my parents and grandparents till today.
With patience they all come to my aid when I fall on my face.
With little dishonor I listen to them and what they had to say, I embrace.
Over the years I go to them with no doubt a feeling of no dismay.
Over the years I go to them and they help me solve problems that to me is O.K.
Now I am getting a bit more aware of what had happen to me when I was growing.
Now I remember how the ride was in my beginning: it was a trial of not knowing.
With the guided words of my parents and grandparents I survive through them all.
With it some being a problem that I remember I recall.
My mother and my grandmother always said to be patient and it will be easy to solve.
My father and my grandfather always knew that I would grow and evolve.
I could wonder everyday what if my parents and grandparents was not in my life.
I could just think that would be fatal like a stab with a knife.
With knowledge that they had past on to me of what they had experience.
With their proof of teachings they had past on to me is their self existence.
Over the years I grew with life so full of happiness that was because of my families love.
Over the years it showed me the path that led me to all the above.
Now cherish those words that help me through my troubles in my new family.
Now I listen to my parents healing words of wisdom and except them gladly.
Copyright © Reynaldo Mast | Year Posted 2013
Today we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic
of Synergetic Steerage.
"We have a[n intuited, autonomic systemic] need to stay in contact with people with whom we share emotional and economic ties. In past times, these people were usually close by. A hunter-gatherer or fourteenth-century Russian peasant would have had little use for a telephone. Telephones [and www] began to meet a need only when other developments in technology and culture spread human beings [even] farther apart and splintered extended families [and neighborhoods] and [national through] local communities [as sustainable ecosystems]. So the basic need they meet is not something new under the sun." [Basic cooperative communication need has evolved to global cooperative scale because technology's deductive path has evolved a co-arising economic/ecological imperative.]
What Plan B Fuller eco-comprehended
as an implied Universal First Principle of Positive Synergetic Balance:
all Primal Principles
must be universally co-informed,
"cooperative" defined as ergodically and ionically regenerating full-fractal,
RNA-dynamically syntaxed,
to achieve integrative,
Spaceship Earth cooperative wealth optimization,
as sustainability of positive life-trend energy,
and revolutionary ecocultural dialectical design
and development,
and ectosymbiotic/endosymbiotic correlational landscape evolution
toward health and safety
away from pathology
and high risk economically illogical dissonance ,
suboptimizing polycultural outcome planning
and therefore delivery of co-empathic mindbody dis-ease,
chronic stress with climatic peaks trending upward.
Economists and eco-nomists bilaterally recognize
production of newly commodifying need-systems
with creation of consumptive/absorptive/nutritional evolution
of need v. want constellations and priorities.
The difference between a Plan A Competitive
Win-Lose need-based economist,
policy analyst,
weather forecaster,
and a Cooperative
Win-Win gift-rooted eco-nomist,
strategist and logician and linguist,
policy and planning analyst,
permacultural designer,
feminist economist,
sacred ecologist,
weather forecaster,
is Left-Right dipolar balance as negatively correlated with cognitive dissonance;
of Win-Lose as suboptimizing health and wealth
compared to a double-negatively reiterating thermostat,
decompositional analysis trending,
reverse hierarchical tree
of unfolding regenerative strings,
including binary trend QBit 0=squared/fractal-centric time as function
of mutual subsidiarity positive-default comprehension
as Win-Win bicameral informational system's
balancing ecological,
and permacultural uracil-yang/cytosine-yinyin
b-ionically deductive/inductive zeroistic design.
We can approach the further
question of optimizing Polynomial syntax and form and function
as equivalently and dipolar self-defined by -(-P),
binary RNA syntax
of analogical economic polynomial trend QByte-octave
double/elliptical fractal rhythm and patterned balance.
We might approach this question
with fractally 0-squared digital information
as ecological trend analysis
with a dual hypothesis,
to see which is more productive
of a healthy and wealthy past,
and future.
We could observe
rather summarily
that the proposition
"Polynomial Information
is non-equivalent to Not-Polynomial Information"
has been our scientific deductive and metric
analytically encultured eisegetical assumption,
leading to competitive irresolution
through our own default Win-Lose economics of evolutionary demise.
in this irrationally eternal place,
we cannot deductively explain
why some issues,
have resonantly resolvable solutions
and scientific revolutions
while others calculate their way through infinite time.
Which is which is rather like trying to separate Kuhnian primal revolutions
from more normatively diversifying-further-individuating-articulating
freedom-binding evolutions.
If, however,
we start with the heuristic assumption
that Polynomial spacetime universe =
nondually-transparenting N(NP),
where might this take us toward explaining
outstanding teleological,
ecological, and perhaps even cosmological
Cooperative Game Theory:
P-positive Win = (-,-) equivalent Win NP,
a positive draw,
anticipating an equally positive draw choice from nondual Other
is RNA-rooted naturally systemic,
with outcome to co-redeem transaction faith
both positively and cooperatively
as long as everyone chooses to play nice.
Group Binomial (0)-Soul Theory:
Explicate Convex Boundary +P = +(0)
Implicate (Bohm) Concave Double-Bound NP = -(-0).
And, so, to our deductively metric and commodifying friends
at Clay Math Institute,
at least the field of permacultural design
and all the cells of RNA heritage,
appear premised on a Zero-Binomial Assumption
that P-yangspace = N(NP)-yinyintime = +/-C ecosquared
as c-squared Universe equals e-squared Synergetic Balanced Integrity (Unitarian),
the balance of deductively formal Yang light
with inductively flowing YinYin double-bound octave frequency harmonics,
co-arising form with intuitive-empathic eco-consciousness function.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2015
Today, our first "All About Me" History class begins
when we comprehend every day and night
co-arises with "All About We"
bicamerally encultured
and regenetically reiterated
in and through,
by and for,
before and after,
each moment of Earth Tribe's timeless surfing times.
If your story
and history
or herstory,
is wrong,
If wrong is negative,
If right is positive,
When do two historic
two cultural
two personal
two political
two familial
two species'
wrongs make it right,
just as a double negative polynomial equals a polynomial positive?
Perhaps when this double-negative shy yinyin,
playing the role of wu wei,
issue develops linear appositional polarity
as negative correlational and co-arising
Tipping Point
of co-gravitationally balancing outcome indicators
of optimizing Continuous Quality Improvement
embracing permacultural health
and defensive eco/egojustice with contenting peace
and positive economic
and environmental outcome indicators.
When the Industrial Age WRONG trend
toward oppressing yin feminist intuitive,
inductive information processing
and Wisdom Languaged systems
the coincidentally nondual co-arising Information Systemic TransMillennial Stage
of Left-brain dominant language
competitionOVERcooperation reverse-equity WRONG (about evolution, anyway)
deductive-reductive STEM monocultural norms for rational information v. analogical/ecological-temporal-spaciated-sequential-revolving-seasonal-reasonal-health-wealth information,
ecological enculturation,
digital-quantified, commodified, domesticated,
wrongly over-weighted
as of more evolutionary scientific nutritional value
than analogical/ecosystemic
lexical dialectic,
racialcultural dialect diversity,
gender balance in political and economic systems
as Yang/Yin bicameral Left/Right balance comprehended
When hubris WRONG
of overly competitive commodified domesticated information
political wealth
WRONG undervalue
for cooperative gift-it-forward
Zero-EgoBalanced Interest
Organic EcoSystem Interior and Exterior Consciousness Landscapes,
deep nurturing ecology of health optimization
for all binomially normative Earthcentric biosystemic,
all co-arising with co-falling economies
all infolding with outfolding fractal-holonic functional forms,
all inhaling with exhaling RIGHT Earth Tribes.
When the WRONG
most over-heated, wilting,
political-economic competitive Win-Lose Game
early health and wealth losers
begin to notice,
then listen,
to comprehend ecoconsciousness,
why life's, nature's, Earth's
cooperatively co-gravitational
and thermodynamically permaculturally balanced
health as wealth standard ecocultures,
eco-normists for political/financial ego-cooperative AND ecosymbiotic
struggling-with (not struggling-against)
wu wei tipping points
shyly lurking in mythos engaging logos,
Wisdom Language,
nondual co-arising ReGenesis
of full-life
polyculturally climaxing
Love-Beloved Community.
Let our polycultural cooperative
emergent composting party
Our egg is fertile,
our Time is PostMillennially
culturally ripe
with bicameral dipolar decomposers, analyzers, programmers, policy discernment facilitators,
of political and familial and personal ecosystemic rights
of freedom toward balanced ecological healthy wealth,
with mutually subsidiary double-binding boundaries
excluding ego/eco imbalanced relationships and transactions.
Positive Polynomial Zero
is informationally equivalent
to double-negative Polynomial Zero.
"Yin" is Lao-tse's "non-being"
as metaphysical as not-now Special Case
except for NOW
as organically-systemically articulating
with full
or near-full trending Yang/Yin
co-arising dialectical diastatic ecobalance
in Special Case physical-natural Universe,
surfing timelessly through Time's 3-dimensional spaciating
co-gravitational linear-implicate TransParently balanced progenitive relationship
with space.
Primal issues
wear two faces:
Yang asks,
How do we cooperatively intend and practice optimizing
our cultural environment
to facilitate-evolve
healthy individuals,
including ourselves,
with co-resonant respect for our most diastatically
inclusively imaginable voices,
While Yin asks,
How do we/I not lose sight of,
how do I/we defend,
my/our ego-self's healthy esteem
by optimizing my/our individual/communal
freedom to fully articulate
our most deeply held sense of "ego/Yang" = "eco/yinyou(+/-)yinother"
bicamerally balanced identity?
How do we hang onto our most polyculturally,
yet intimately,
held Positive-Esteem Cooperative Psychology,
as individuals (Interior Landscape of ego-boundary identity)
and as a species (Exterior Landscape of eco-freedom boundary identity)?
These two Landscapes bicamerally reside within each human mindbody
of co-arising evolutionary RNA/DNA-syntaxed balance,
DNA dialected for thermodynamic balance,
fractal-temporal-neural syntax normed
at (0)-soul point of political and economic equi-optimizing interest intent
toward PolyCultural EcoConscienceness.
All About Me days
All About We life,
relational/transactional integrative integrity of love.
Positive Life is only the cooperative integrity of each bicameral moment's
potential for co-arising revolutions of love,
Beloved Community is our polycultural love revolution.
Spread nutrients around,
we're catching on
when we organically pitch positive compost.
Please send in your questions.
Class dispersed for our further evolution.
It was once a good and honest worker calculation area.
His life was encode the world on your back in the form of numbers and proportions of these.
When he saw the sun, looking for the angle to calculate its axis,
when he saw another human being quantified his features,
gestures and inferred about their possible reactions.
Poor man, he did not see the horizon as a screen display of Monet,
who did not see the other as an extension of divine knowledge.
So is the mason, electrician, psychologist, engineer,
administrator, businessman, politician, ...
men who are good at what they do, but each in view of the world that surrounds it.
Because it is simpler to be one ... than having multiple views of the same mind.
Copyright © Max Diniz Cruzeiro | Year Posted 2013
Shovels,blue overalls and head lamps.
They dug the golds fields to feed our our hungry stomachs,they carried the Dompas to free our future,they took beatings for our emancipation,but did they plant good seeds in our brains?
Did they instill education in our hearts?
We stick gold plates on our teeth to show monetary muscle
We dig our father's pockets to fend for our families and we are labelled gold diggers.
Were the lights at the end of the tunnel chandeliers on the ceiling of the Summit club?
Did our dreams slide downhill like a pole dancer?
Is the corporate leader a way to step on the backs of a kneeling cleaner?
Shining crystals all looked the same,we took the mirror and gave away the diamond,we gave away our herd of cattle but now we are fed a load of wild Bull and a lot of Ass.
We took away the buffalo from our national money,we boasted of millions to bid for the same buffalo and now the same buffalo ends on our plates at dinner time.
We placed Madiba on the Randelas only for the Mandelas to fight for the millions.
27 years fight to freedom,a few years into democracy, but an eternal scar of poverty.
We recalled the smoke pipe that was bringing fire to the cold land and inducted the shower head that only bring storms of conspiracy,strikes and skimpy dancers.
Did we go wrong anywhere or am I just an ignorant youth?
Copyright © Gaopalelwe Nke | Year Posted 2013
When a father of five
came home faced
with one in five children of convalescence
which he will pay more attention?
So organizations should be
when in a department or group,
one member is left out
of the production process.
Discard the individual or rescue?
The day of Pentecost, Church celebrated
Administered Holy Baptism
St. Peter declares
"Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit"
The apostles offer baptism to anyone who believed in Fr. Christ Jesus
You will be saved
You and your household
St. Paul declared to his baptized and with all his family
Baptism is birth into the new life in Fr. Christ Jesus
In accordance with Lord God's will
It is necessary for salvation
As the Church herself, we enter by Baptism
Baptismal grace includes forgiveness of original sin
Birth to a new life by man becomes an adopted son of the Father
A member of Fr. Christ
A temple of the Holy Spirit
Those who die for faith
All those without knowing the Church under the inspiration of grace
Seek God sincerely, strive to fulfill his will
Can be saved even if they have not been baptize
With respect to children who have died without baptism
The Church invites us to trust in God's mercy
The angel of Lord God said
The babies are safe in heaven
Written 09172012
Copyright © Jacqueline R. Mendoza | Year Posted 2012
Words can take you wherever you wish to be.
Words can capture and words can set you free.
Words have strength and words have power.
Words can be descriptive like the beauty of a flower.
Words can be soft like a warm summers rain.
Words can be harsh intended to bring only pain.
Words can be lifting like words filled with love.
Words can be hurtful when anger replaces that love.
Words can be soothing like a young mothers kiss.
Words can hold ecstasy and filled with heavenly bliss.
Words can show feelings and make things okay.
Words can paint pictures if we know what to say.
Words are what separates us from all other things.
Words can hold victory and the joys that it brings.
Words can hold life and a thing known as death.
Words are just sounds made with mutterance of breath.
A beggar had been sitting at the side of a road
For over thirty years on a box which was old.
One beautiful day a stranger walked by.
"Spare some change?" – asked the beggar and sighed.
"I have nothing to give you", - said the stranger to him,-
"What is that you are sitting on?" "Just an old box, I seem.
I've been sitting on it for as long as I live".
"Ever looked what's inside?" "There is nothing in it".
"Have a look in to see - there's something or not".
So he opened the box and it was filled with gold.
I was inspired by a parable from Eckhart Tolle's Book "The Power of Now".
Copyright © Zhalya Abiyeva | Year Posted 2013
A TRAGEDY OF PRIDE ( hubris)
In the Arctic nights the jazz born North Lights sound
with a music of their own. Fair winds ferry fragile birds--
take to the skies in search of sympathetic warmth profound
while white breathless silence magnifies each sound as it is heard
and few venture forth, like bears they dash to find a haven
where they can hide until reluctantly the sun has stirred--
But, there is one jay bird who is not one of nature's craven
creatures-- Waiting for a spring call from his mate, he hops into the hungry snow
to dance a dangerous dance in icy morning with the ravens.
There is a God flung magic that dashes high above the haughty human know
among the ancient secret kingdoms of the mystery sky--
And there it is that Wisdom's Word is spread by wing and wayward winds that blow
their way in worldwide splendor and intricate magnificence that defies
the mind of man. It is a truth that dalliance in vanity is inborn---
Man or bird, into the nature of some spirits-- it low lies
and becomes incited when grand fame or imagined glory has been shorn
by another . And , so-- in Persia when the Prince of Peacocks heard
murmurs of the razzing ravens and the sassy sparrows high sky airborne
a proclamation that the World knew now there lived a peerless bird--
plucky-proud, surpassing the peacock -- Jay magnificent with a spirit daunting, a weight
of valiant blue in shades escaped of double rainbows, color-blurred
who bedazzled all nature's eyes and winds of ear, that judiciously beheld each trait.
The peacock, no longer Highest Prince of Birds, screamed a terrible and cosmic sound
of jealousy. Ignoring all the glory that still made him great--
the vain and foolish peacock fell-- stunned and breathless to the ground.
Victoria Anderson-Throop 2012 ©
Written in Juja, Kenya
Bird is Stellar Jay, common in Valdez, Alaska
Copyright © Victoria Anderson-Throop | Year Posted 2012
Lord God, send us Your Divine and Moral Virtues to assist people
Faith, to deeply understand and produce evidence to the unseen
Impart Hope to be determined and persevere successfully
For persons to consider a little generosity to Charity
To present Prudence by being careful
For untruthfulness to bring into Justice
Give fortitude for lawmakers and government officials to be strong
Bring in Temperance to exercise Patience and Tolerance
We ask these in the name of Father Christ Jesus to send out the Virtues of the Holy Spirit
Feel like singing a happy song
And if you'll allow me to bend your ear
I don't mean literally of course
That could be physically quite painful
At my advanced age, my mind is still clicking along
Had envisioned when I was younger
That when I reached this ripe old age
Things would start to erode and shut down
Not true... how wrong I was, I'm still full of beans
Still wake each morning with a smile on my face
Thought at one time everybody did
But I may be more unique than I imagined
Perhaps it's in our genes, it's not a choice
Though we can still make a conscious effort
I've always had a positive outlook
Sure can count my lucky stars
If I can at all help others to feel like this
Then I've really accomplished something amazing
Wrapping it all up into two simple words...
© Jack Ellison 2014
Copyright © Jack Ellison | Year Posted 2014
Said goodbye so many times,
To its occupants that once were babies.
New cradle to so many grand parents,
Gently rocked to sleep by memories.
Grandpa once told me he felt a kinship,
To this chair that creaked once in a while.
His limbs and its were very much the same;
Only difference was it would always have new customers.
As a little boy it was my rocking horse,
I climbed its high back like spiderman.
Couldn't tip it over no matter how hard I tried;
Just swung on a wooden toy that Grandpa hated to love.
My father sat there in that very same chair,
Swaying away in a chariot he had surely earned.
I sat next to him then and we reminisced,
Knowing that soon I would take his place.
Copyright © 2014 Robert William Gruhn - All Rights Reserved
"A poem to me is the essence of any thought,
Being built from its foundation into tower scraping sky.
It can fly like no other bird to places never seen,
Even spaceships can only dream of taking its place."
© 2014 Robert William Gruhn
Copyright © Robert William Gruhn | Year Posted 2014
Love? But he always hurt you.
Can't leave the punk? But he is abusive.
In too deep? Just leave him!
Alone? Isn't that the best way to be?
Need someone to lean on? But the world is crazy.
Want to share your thoughts? Just pray to the Lord!
Joe you wrong. The color woman was suppressed by the white man for too long. And now you want to fight. I dare you to strike me like that.
Why do I trust? Any man today is a wrongdoer!
Intimacy? But you should want to be free.
Need to be loved? But you just end a relationship with a no good thug.
Want comfort? Why not find you a support group!
Depressed? Isn't by yourself a way to think.
Need someone to talk to? But people are not true.
Desire a best friend? I am always here!
Steven isn't good for moral support. He will seek you for sex and enjoyment. You say you are depressed and stressed from to many bad relationships.
Why do you want to trust without healing?
Not yourself? But that's because of what you been through.
Can't find sense? But that's within reason of the pain you feel, Honey Boo.
Colors? You have suffered now it is time to heal.
Want to go out? That's it! Learn to help yourself. The world can be deep. In depth you become to the life you live. No time to hide what you feel. Maybe a day to cry and then go out and chill!
Want a drink? Not so fast.
Want to drown your sorrows as usual? No time for addiction or developing bad habits. Trust your instincts and know things will get better! It is a sad thing to see a friend become a substance abuser. You know what is wrong but can't do nothing at all but tell her to not drink to solve any issue. If you find that they are strong, you know they have listened.
Want to scream?
Why not do that to let out the steam? This will help you to cope and not make a mistake to trust before you know him.
Want to smile? Just smile! You also seem to desire affection. You say this would be just a simple friend that cannot go against you. But you don't state whether that is me. I am best kept as it seems. Let's sing and sing. Let's enjoy the life we live.
Must you trust your heart with somebody? You don't. Just wait until the time has come. You can be by yourself for a while. If you need a smile, humor your mind. Never letting anyone in and then before you know it you have met the prefect man.
Why trust when you can be free?
Why need anybody? Love is true to those who define true meaning.
Why trust when he is misleading?
User Name: Verlena
Psuedonym: Oblivion Dark Sunshine
Motif: Betrayal
Entry Date: February 26, 2014
Copyright © Verlena S. Walker | Year Posted 2014
The warm light calls me
And all the people who cries for thee
I raise my hand in this abyss
Only to make one wish
To float among the others
With all my sisters and brothers
I call out for forgiveness with passion
I take their pain into myself for this occasion
The moment that I see the sky
I will not look back and cry
My body is laying still
People standing by it with a chill
The air gets dense with sadness
I would not think of it less
Some people look up and down
To see the light hit the ground
Some can vision the uplifting feeling they see
One soul that has been and always be
It is special to notice such aberration
And that might be how souls are awaken
As naturally and effortlessly as birds fly
Unannounced and quietly an Idea came by
Faster than the weightless wind it flew
Where it came from no one asked, no one knew
Longing for a cloak in which to be wrapped
It knocked on many doors asking to be dressed
It wished to be given a shape and form for all to see
It wanted an existence, and in this world a chance to be
The farmer was farming, the worker busy working
The judge was judging, the thief in the shadows lurking
The preacher was of the invisible kingdom preaching
The poet alone with his heart and soul for the Idea reaching
It seized him and became the fire in his veins
The beating in his heart, the throbbing in his brain
It became the movement of his arms and legs
He asked for the right words like a beggar for food begs
The Idea through the flesh was about to be born
The invisible by the visible longed to be worn
Like newlyweds neither knew too well the other
They had to unite: each'd be both father and mother
Now the idea took control and led the poet's pen
Then It was overpowered by the brutish man
Now he'd try to bend It, to suit his words, to shape It
Then It bent him so that into each other they'd fit
He wished to be a channel for the Idea he sensed
It had a burning desire, a purpose to be expressed
When possessing parts of both the work was done
An idea of the Idea was born - a battle both lost and won
Copyright © laszlo kecsedi | Year Posted 2013
Duke Luke by his bateau
Arrived at his chateau,
Had he travelled through large eau!
His mysterious rendez-vous
with Henry Thoreau
Yielded him a scarlet portmanteau.
Entering his bureau,
he took off his manteau
and opened the portmanteau:
The Snow Man was inside
And though not well could he sing,
Sang he a song of himself:
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
He met Annabel Lee on a large shelf,
Frightened he was by the raven
And took the road not taken:
Crossed he the mending wall
And hearing the anecdote of the jar
To noble savage Billy Budd an honest fare he paid
Large and far
Travelled he
From spring to fall
Self-reliance: the idea he hath
The American Scholar guided his path;
He slept a long time
In a clean well-lighted place;
One winter he woke up
In a station of the metro:
He fastened his tender buttons
and found a red wheelbarrow;
'No ideas but in things' -
A lovely image this brings!
To his disappointment and sorrow,
He never saw the snows of Kilimanjaro.
Duke Luke in disbelief
Wiped his eyes
And pinched his ears;
The Snow Man disappeared.
Duke Luke
Took a look
At his portmanteau
In hopes of seeing something
He found
Copyright © Lukasz Walterowicz | Year Posted 2011
Blinded, By The Light
If you can truly find yourself you can be truly happy
if not, well the world will eat you and beat you until you cry no more...
I see most people crying. Me, I ran out of tears and found myself the hard way.
I survived long enough to hear the Nightbird sing, a drunk rooster crow and
the coyote catch that damn roadrunner-in my dreams..
After that a light blinded me and within that blindness came a realization,
that three things are important - God, love and family.
All the rest is window dressing and leftover refried beans with no damn chili's...
Every morn that rising sun tells me , get up and be worthy of the air you breathe
Stand as tall as you can and never look down on a man unless extending a helping hand to him.
To do less is not only lazy but selfish and rude. Find a gift to give somebody, anybody at least every week if not every day. Does not have to be great , could be as easy as giving kind words when they are needed.
This was pretty much all told to me as a 10 year old by my grandfather. Some of it I picked up on my own after living a damn wild young life! With too many shallow relationships, broken hearts(including mine often) and more than a few real scars, all of which I came by honestly.
Now looking at the sunset I see rainbows just beyond the horizon. Each one has a pot of gold..
Methinks I will give that gold away and plant flowers in the pots to give to my wife.
And that folks is the wisdom sent in each ray of that blinding light I was blessed to have found!
Robert. J. Lindley , 04-19-2015
Stay tuned in folks. I plan on another shameful confession coming soon..
Starting with my first bout of stealing a kiss from a pretty gal that I loved..
"Ain't life great"? If ya answered no then you had best get to really living!
You are either sleeping too much or not trying hard enough!
Drink your coffee hot , black and with gusto. If you just can not manage the gusto, a strong shot of good whiskey will do!
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2015
Tears from heaven, as angels cry,
Fall in buckets from the sky.
Falling to wash away pain and sorrow,
Awaken hopes for a better tomorrow.
I often get lost within the dark,
It's the time when pieces fall apart.
Still, the tears carry me away,
Infecting words, the things that I say.
I don't always seem to get things right,
Some of the answers live in the shadows of night.
I wonder if my mind ever does sleep,
The still water is getting way too deep.
Rainbows appear as light greets the rain,
Nothing or no one is left the same.
I see so much locked inside change,
Within my grasp, yet still out of range.
I think of the end rewarding pots of gold,
Locked inside the words of stories told.
The reward outweighs all of the risk,
The wind blows sharply, feeling so brisk.
I reflect upon summer, that is now gone,
The snow shall fly before too long.
I feel this warmth inside the cold air,
Warmth in the words, that you care.
With today fading, tomorrow's in sight.
Sunrise returns right after the night.
With it comes the presence of this day,
No one or nothing shall take this away.
Copyright © Mark Russell | Year Posted 2012
Faith, is the antithesis of proof...
A little girl cry's and starts to hate,
her father dead, injured by an Isreali tank,
She grows up and teaches her famliy, how to hate,
A little girls cry's, and starts to hate,
her father dead, killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber,
she grow's up and teaches her family, how to hate,
A little girl cry's and starts to hate,
her father died, in the distruction, of the twin towers,
she grows up and teaches her family, how to hate,
Children become men and women,
ideas filter into the Church,
ideas filter into the Mosque,
ideas filter into Government,
Men take action justified by revenge,
You killed my father, you killed my son,
you are evil, I have a right,
a little girl cry's and starts to hate,
her father dead, killed by an American bomb,
A little girl cry's and starts to hate,
her father dead, killed by a bullet,
a little girl cry's and starts to hate,
her father dead, fighting in the war,
a little girl, came up to the pope and asked,
why does God, allow people to hurt children,
God does not, allow, people to hurt children,
people will suffer for their sins,
but, he does give people, the freedom to make
he does give people, the right to make mistakes,
todays world, is not doing well,
the decisions we make,
are not working,
we need to make,
better decisions, decisions that stop making
little girls cry,
Around and around we go,
dancing in the shadows, flame of death,
they say that money is the route of all evil,
but at times, the lack of it, is just as bad,
a little girl sold for the money,
needed, for a family to survive,
money is not a God,
but it buys the milk,
to feed a baby
creating jobs, feeds the people,
creating war, increases poverty,
the death of father's,
makes little girls cry.
one day,
perhaps we'll learn,
to make company's and jobs,
to build love not war,
to make smiles,
not tears.
Copyright © Bernard Barclay | Year Posted 2015


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By MICHAEL E. WHALEN
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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014
We all try to foresee the future and make decisions today for the betterment of ourselves, our family and our community of tomorrow. Major shifts in the economy, climate, and an aging population affect our city. They occur at a pace and scope which may seem daunting and create challenges. Our children will live in the world we are structuring today. And we, no matter what age, will be occupying that future too.
Whether you are young, middle-age or elder, the Age Wave focus group for the Dunedin Committee on Aging (DCoA) needs your help to Shape Our Future Together.
We are not asking that you go to a meeting. You dont even have to leave your home.
All you have to do is click on a Web link and take a survey. The Committee on Aging has created an opportunity for your voice to be heard and have your opinion count simply by clicking on a link and filling out a future-focused online survey:
In an historic collaboration the City, through DCoA, teamed up with USFs sociology department to launch this citizens online visioning survey.
Dr. Sara Green, an associate professor in the USF Sociology Department, is lending her expertise to design the survey along with input from the DCoA and Dunedins Department of Planning. USF sociology department students will compile the anonymous results and present them to the Planning Department and City Commission.
Yes, you will help assist your community to prepare for the future, but you also will help yourself.
Thinking about what life will be like for you 10 years from now may help you create a better future for yourself. The questions pertain to housing, health and wellbeing, care-giving and care-receiving, economic security, food security, environment, transportation and community life.
Thats why it is called Shaping Our Future Together! Individual and collective choices are how we shape the future. Participants cannot be identified and their answers are strictly anonymous.
Good communities that are healthy, vibrant, safe, intergenerational, active, ecologically sustainable, and elder and youth friendly dont happen by accident. They happen with citizen input, expert planning and the ability to shift with changing times and conditions.
Be a part of this historic collaboration. Access the survey. Go to:
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Survey opens Sept. 22 through Oct. 12. If you dont have a computer paper copies will be available at City Recreation Centers and Public Library.
Assistance is available to help you fill it out online at the Hale Activity Center and the Dunedin Library. Library help is available on Tuesdays and Sundays.
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Reading through the seemingly endless list of resolutions adopted against Israel on March 22 at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the first impression was the same as it always is.
Members of Parliament have cautioned against drawing comparisons between the situation in Israel and that of Northern Ireland before the Good Friday Agreement.
During a debate on Israel in Westminster Hall, called by Labour MP John Woodcock, it was pointed out that the peace process in Northern Ireland went ahead "with the Provisional IRA still on active operations".
The father of the IDF soldier captured by Hamas and released five years later last October has given a controversial interview expressing a level of understanding of the terrorist groups' actions.
Noam Shalit, whose son Gilad was just 19 years old when he was kidnapped during a cross border raid, revealed his ambitions to become a Labour Party Knesset member in January.
The latest round of violence around the Gaza Strip has brought out into the open one of the major results of the last year's strategic shift throughout the region.
While Israel officially continues to hold Hamas responsible for every attack emanating from Gaza, it has been clear over the past week that every strike and counter-strike was centred on the two smaller organisations in the Strip, Is
The controversial Palestinian academic, Azzam Tamimi, this week reiterated his commitment to Hamas in an address at London University's Queen Mary College.
Speaking at an event entitled One State or Two State Solution, under the auspices of QMC's Palestine Solidarity Society, Dr Tamimi told Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper that he had legitimate political views which opponents wished to silence.
Hamas appears to be split over the unity deal it signed with Fatah and the movement's relationship with Iran.
According to the deal signed two weeks ago in Qatar by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the head of Hamas's political bureau Khaled Mashal, the two movements will form a joint government of technocrats with Mr Abbas as prime minister.
The agreement between Fatah and Hamas for a Palestinian unity government, to be headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, almost certainly signals the end of the short-lived attempt to re-launch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Hamas is searching for a new political base following its departure from Damascus. Turkey and Jordan have both denied reports that they may host the Palestinian movement.
On Sunday, the head of Hamas's political bureau, Khaled Mashal, made his first official visit to Jordan since the kingdom closed down the movement's offices in 1999.
Senior Israeli analysts are convinced that some Hamas leaders genuinely want the terror group to become a legitimate political force.
Hamas has been under pressure in recent weeks from Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to renounce violence, and there are clear signs that a new direction is being considered.
One Israeli expert on Hamas said this week: "There is a true change of direc


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I really wanted a good gluten-free lasagne, so after taking note of other comments I decided to add about a cup and a half of some leftover marinara, which had ground beef and black olives in it, along with the tomatoes. I only used about 3 handfuls of baby spinach, I replaced the whole-wheat noodles with the amazing [Heartland] gluten-free fusilli noodles. In a 7x10" pyrex cake pan, I spread half the sauce, the cooked noodles, some shredded Parmesan and mozzarella, then dotted ricotta all over and spread the rest of the sauce over the top of everything. I then topped it with more shredded mozzarella and baked it for 20 minutes at 350. I then popped it under the broiler for a bit to brown the cheese. This was a perfect replacement for gluten-containing (but yummy) lasagne noodles for an amazing dish which satisfied my craving for lasagne. I will definitely make this modified version again.


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Mexico City, May 25 (EFE).- Mexican state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos said it produced an average of nearly 2.54 million barrels per day in the first four months of 2013, nearly half of which was destined for export.
Of the average of 2,538,000 barrels produced per day, 54 percent was heavy crude, 33 percent light oil and remainder super-light crude, Pemex said in a statement.
Pemex exported an average of 1.22 million bpd to its international customers in the year's first four months, generating $14.97 billion in cash flow from those sales.
The bulk of Pemex's exports (917,000 bpd) were shipped to markets in the Americas, while 188,000 bpd went to Europe and the rest to the Far East.
Pemex said it exported an average of 1.28 million bpd in April, up 172,000 from March.
Last year, Pemex produced an average of 2.55 million bpd, less than 2008's total of 2.79 million bpd.
The company said it expected to boost production to 2.6 million bpd by the end of 2013.
Pemex, the world's fifth-leading oil producer, has a monopoly on the production of hydrocarbons (crude and natural gas) and refined products in Mexico.
Though production has recently stabilized and the country said last year it had achieved a reserve-replacement ratio of 100 percent, Mexico's output has suffered from the natural decline of the once-super giant Cantarell offshore field and a lack of sufficient investment.
In addition to exploring deep-water areas in the Gulf of Mexico, Pemex also is looking to boost energy production by assessing its non-conventional reserves.