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 Aug 15 2005, 03:07 AM
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Aug 19 2005, 10:45 PM
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Demolishes all of the platitudes...powerfully. Please post widely.
-------------------- "Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a coalmouse asked a wild dove.
"Nothing more than nothing," the dove answered. "In that case I must tell you a marvelous story," the coalmouse said. "I sat on a fir branch close to the trunk when it began to snow. Not heavily, not in a raging blizzard. No, just like in a dream, without any violence at all. Since I didn't have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly 3,471,952. When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch--nothing more than nothing -- as you say -- the branch broke off." Having said that, the coalmouse ran away. The dove, since Noah's time an authority on peace, thought about the story for a while. Finally, she said to herself, "Perhaps there is only one person's voice lacking for peace to come to the world." - Source unknown (from post at DU) Post by IdesOfOctober at DU: Even read strictly as poetry, it always reminds me that help comes unbidden, from unseen or unsuspecting quarters, at just the right time, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh help." -- Psalms 121:1 "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. You must be the change you want to see in the world. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indominatable will. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always." -MAHATMA GANDHI |
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Aug 20 2005, 12:49 AM
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You brought back nasty deja vu's Wunder. But thanks for posting.
My ex-Marine is out celebrating his birthday tonite - truthfully, a birthday I didn't know if he would have or not. He still won't talk about it. -------------------- Abramoff's campaign manager was a radical right-winger named Grover Norquist, and the two of them recruited a zealous younger activist to carry out their orders, Ralph Reed. Reed required College Republicans to recite a speech from the movie "Patton," replacing the word "Nazis" with "Democrats": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
.....Norquist was the first to point out the political potential of evangelical churches to Reed, imagining that they could be turned into Republican clubhouses. During the week of George H.W. Bush's inauguration, Reed encountered Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist, who recruited him on the spot to run the Christian Coalition. "I want to be invisible," Reed explained. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." ~Sidney Blumenthal That’s probably the most pressing race problem in the United States today -- a de facto affirmative-action program for mediocre middle- and upper-class white men that places a lot of undeserving people in positions of power, where their delusions of grandeur can have profound implications for others.~ROBERT JENSEN We may stand witness to a definitive American moment of democracy. The son of a New York doorman probably has in his hands, in many ways, the fate of the republic. Because far too many of us know and are aware of the crimes committed by our government in our name, we are unlikely to settle for a handful of minor indictments of bureaucrats. The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much alive and we choose to believe that destiny has placed Patrick Fitzgerald at this time and this place in our history to save us from the people we elected. If the law cannot get to the truth of what has happened to the American people under the Bush administration, then we all may begin to hear the early death rattles of history’s greatest democracy.~James Moore "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot," Broussard said. "Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."~Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in them...."~Aaron Brown "What's called for now I believe, is a sort of Thomas Paine Revolutionary movement converged with the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movements. It's certainly possible, and it is desperately needed..."~SH "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~ G. K. Chesterton "It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."~Maureen Dowd " ...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~John F. Kennedyc “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”~R. Buckminster Fuller1895-1983"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson "TurdBlossom": The affectionate nickname given by the POTUS to the most powerful political hack in the world today-KARL ROVE. |
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Aug 20 2005, 01:23 AM
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It should be the final option, the very last option... to loose the dogs of war... not to be left to the whims or expediencies of fools...
God bless your ex-marine... no greater or more noble a deed than to selflessly put his life on the line for the higher ideals of liberty and freedom. Every life is precious, a universe, an arrow sent into the future from the bows of all previous generations... with all their hopes and dreams at it's tip. |
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Aug 20 2005, 09:07 AM
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QUOTE(wundermaus @ Aug 15 2005, 02:07 AM) well done... http://www.peacetakescourage.com/Someone's.html http://www.peacetakescourage.com/DontGiveUp.html  Do we know wht protest the Don't Give Up photos are from? I had not seen them before.... -------------------- “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men [and women] do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." (Mother Theresa) |
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Sep 3 2005, 06:23 PM
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QUOTE(wundermaus @ Aug 20 2005, 01:23 AM) It should be the final option, the very last option... to loose the dogs of war... not to be left to the whims or expediencies of fools... God bless your ex-marine... no greater or more noble a deed than to selflessly put his life on the line for the higher ideals of liberty and freedom. Every life is precious, a universe, an arrow sent into the future from the bows of all previous generations... with all their hopes and dreams at it's tip. May I borrow your third paragraph for my family genealogy booklet? I think it would make a huge statement as to the seriousness I take one of my "hobbies", as my kids call it. This post has been edited by grammydidi: Sep 3 2005, 06:26 PM -------------------- George Orwell:
QUOTE In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. |
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Sep 3 2005, 06:51 PM
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grammydidi,
You honor my moment of clarity, thank you. It is inspired by my favorite Poet, Kahlil Gibran ( http://leb.net/gibran/ )from a passage in one of his books, The Prophet... in the chapter on children. He said it much better... I was only paraphrasing. I am deeply touched... Please, with my blessings, -vmaus |
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Mar 10 2006, 09:39 PM
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Mar 20 2006, 05:37 AM
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All three videos were brilliant Wundermaus. How can anyone fail to be moved by them?
-------------------- Much religion today concentrates on minor problems of the religious-minded minority and ignores the great issues which compromise the very survival of humanity. Thomas Merton
They (women) have undertaken a deconstruction of male reality and a reconstruction of reality in more human terms ... a change in the direction of salvation for the race and for the planet. Sandra Schneiders HELL: where everyone is only concerned about his own dignity and advancement..is aggrieved...envies...feels important...resents others. C.S. Lewis |
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