tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39108854201903833212024-03-04T22:08:32.883-06:00The Rosemary TreeLife,spirit & musings from the heartland.Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.comBlogger856125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-41058616023256629172011-01-30T12:13:00.000-06:002011-01-30T12:14:59.996-06:00Let Him Off the Hook?Brilliant!!<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ttiZIaU5_Fo" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-19090824758977758862011-01-28T07:14:00.003-06:002011-01-28T07:22:49.370-06:00Solidarity With All ProDemocracy Protesters<a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027368_7d97b74c0b_b.jpg"></a> Please take a moment today and say a prayer for the Pro-Democrcay protesters in Egypt who have <a href="http://i.imgur.com/JLAGz.jpg">had their internet access cut </a>by a government who wishes to hide what it is doing from the world.<br /><div><p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/faog1/update_on_egypt_revolution/">http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/faog1/update_on_egypt_revolution/</a></p><p><a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027368_7d97b74c0b_b.jpg">Graph showing internet traffic to and from Egypt</a> with abrupt drop.</p><p> </p></div>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-49247525703763494002011-01-26T10:26:00.003-06:002011-01-26T10:39:07.397-06:00All We Are Saying Is Give Peace A ChancePeople. Like. Freedom.<br />Way to go, Egyptian protesters. Solidarity forever.<br /><br /><iframe class="youtube-player" title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kWr6MypZ-JU" frameborder="0" width="480" height="390" type="text/html"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://i.imgur.com/rcPGl.jpg">http://i.imgur.com/rcPGl.jpg</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/egyptian-riot-photos-2011-1#">Tunisia-Like Riots Are Breaking Out In Egypt - Business Insider 25 January 2011</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#003300;">QUOTE Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets across Egypt, facing down a massive police presence to demand:<br />Jobs;<br />Cheaper food; and<br />Ouster of President Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt for 30 years since Sadat's assassination in 1981.<br />Three Dead<br />As of the time of release of this briefing, three people are dead. Two protestors died in the port city of Suez and a security officer died in central Cairo. Protests also took place in Alexandria and industrial Nile </span><a class="iAs" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal! important; FONT-SIZE: 100%! important; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1px! important; COLOR: darkgreen! important; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgreen 0.07em solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent! important; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/egypt-revolt-post-tunisia-is-a-dam-breaking-what-happens-next-2011-1#" target="_blank" itxtdid="28583177"><span style="color:#003300;">Delta</span></a><span style="color:#003300;"> towns.<br />Hundred Injured<br />At least 100 protestors were injured in Cairo, where police used tear gas, rubber bullets, batons and dogs to try to disperse the crowds, and Twitter has been blocked. UNQUOTE</span> Read more: <a style="COLOR: #003399" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/egypt-revolt-post-tunisia-is-a-dam-breaking-what-happens-next-2011-1#ixzz1C9zc8ZQ8">http://www.businessinsider.com/egypt-revolt-post-tunisia-is-a-dam-breaking-what-happens-next-2011-1#ixzz1C9zc8ZQ8</a><br /><br />Incredible Video Of Protesters Chasing Egyptian Riot Police <a style="COLOR: #003399" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/video-egypt-protester-vehicle-2011-1#ixzz1C9yRcLgn">http://www.businessinsider.com/video-egypt-protester-vehicle-2011-1#ixzz1C9yRcLgn</a>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-22635423056890229792011-01-25T08:48:00.003-06:002011-01-25T09:00:49.754-06:00Johnny Cash & The Four HorsemenI've posted on this before and was pleased to run across<a href="http://donhenryfordjf.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-own-personal-jesus.html"> the Unrepentant Cowboy's take on Mr. Cash and the 4 Horsemen. </a><br /><br />Be sure and watch both videos. Even if you are already a Christian ~ <strong>especially</strong> if you are one.<br /><br /><span style="color:#003333;">QUOTE Jesus came first as a lamb. The Jews, expecting a savior, couldn't or wouldn't recognize him. He will return as a lion. And Christians can't or won't recognize him when he does. I tire of a bunch of whiney ass wimps and cowards using my savior's name. I tire of worthless praise songs emanating from lying lips. For some, he will come like a thief in the night. UNQUOTE</span><br /><span style="color:#003333;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span>Here's one for you, Unrepentant Cowboy, enjoy:<br /><span style="color:#003333;"></span><br /><span style="color:#003333;"></span><br /><iframe class="youtube-player" title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SmxB2BwVufA" frameborder="0" width="480" height="390" type="text/html"></iframe>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-18642053899134634322011-01-25T08:41:00.004-06:002011-01-25T08:47:24.259-06:00The Tin-Eared Entitled: Let The Eat Cake: We Profit!From <a href="http://dailyeconomicupdate.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/are-the-people-at-cnbc-even-human/#comment-739">The Daily Economic Update </a>(Robert Denner) comes a cry of outrage over the mindless and heartless natterings of in infobabe on a popular TV network.<br /><br /><span style="color:#003333;">QUOTE This is the part of CHANGE that must be embraced. The current system is broken if it must see fit to starve fellow humans at the sake of turning a freaking profit for your retirement. This is a case where YOU can make all the difference. Stop feeding the monster and at least consider how your money is being used to destroy millions of lives. At the very least make sure that the funds you are investing in are DEVOID OF FOOD SPECULATION. And make sure you voice your outrage at Wall Street’s seeming INDIFFERNCE at the suffering of hundreds of millions of people.<br />You want to understand the anger that the 3rd world feels against the United States? This is one HUGE reason.<br />The absolute AMORAL delivery of that woman on CNBC still rings in my ears, even after 10 hours. <em>How to profit from human misery</em>, should have been the teaser they used as they went to a commercial break. UNQUOTE</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">~~~</span>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-73450697776874552262011-01-17T14:24:00.000-06:002011-01-17T14:26:09.206-06:00MLK Day 2011<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8cDRWvDx8h4?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8cDRWvDx8h4?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-16859154210366469232011-01-17T14:07:00.003-06:002011-01-17T14:19:31.539-06:00Rules Vs. ResultsOur friend from financial services days-gone-by (and sometimes mentor) <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/01575664824389849287">David L. Smith</a> has a good post up over at his blog, <a href="http://cassandra-chronicles.blogspot.com/2011/01/tale-of-two-moralities.html">Cassandra Chronicles</a>, in which he spins off a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/opinion/14krugman.html?_r=1&hp">Paul Krugman train of thought </a>to pinpoint the difference between the liberal and conservative (American) views.<br /><br /> QUOTE <span style="color:#660000;">Conservatives are wedded to the rules — an ideological Master Narrative propounding (at least in theory) unfettered capitalism; free markets; low taxes; minimum government; strong military; willingness to use military force, if perceived to be necessary; and representative democracy — and approve of whatever outcome the rules produce. In the conservative mind, the rules are morally justified, paramount and, therefore, unchangeable and unassailable. Accordingly, with simple, if flawed logic, conservatives claim the results their moral rules produce must necessarily be moral.......Liberals, on the other hand, focus on the results produced by the rules, and if the results are morally or practically objectionable, liberals believe in changing the rules to produce a more morally and practically desirable result (the political equivalent of ‘managing by results’). Therefore, liberals tend to be unmoved by conservative arguments based primarily on the morality of the rules.Unlike the conservatives, united by a common, unchanging creed, liberals tend to squabble a lot about just how the rules ought to be changed, simply because of the myriad combinations and permutations of possible results and developing socio-economic conditions their rule changes must address. </span>UNQUOTE<br /><br />It is as though the conservatives are the Old Testament and the liberals the New. Not a bad conceptualizing of the two.<br />~~~<br />Happy Martin Luther King Day!<br />~~~Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-16982572417338914732011-01-09T15:22:00.005-06:002011-01-09T16:03:10.270-06:00The Caring Community and the Dialectic of ViolenceThe United States has had so many catastrophes in so very short a time that we have begun to think constantly in catastrophic terms. Most recent disaster is the shooting of an unarmed US Congresswoman, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/09/arizona-shooting-news_n_806397.html">Gabrielle Giffords </a>(D. AZ) <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/08/judge-john-roll-dead-killed_n_806239.html">a Federal Judge</a>, and <a href="http://globalgrind.com/channel/news/content/1899875/she-has-a-name-christina-taylor-greene-9-yr-old-killed-in-tucson-massacre-born-on-91101-photos/">a little girl </a>and other bystanders at a public appearance in Tucson AZ yesterday.<br /><br />Ms. Giffords’s father Spencer, 75, wept when asked by the New York Post if his daughter had any enemies. ‘Yeah,’ he said. ‘The whole Tea Party’ – the Right wing of the Republican Party."<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-warmowski/following-giffords-shooti_b_806248.html">Palin put rifle cross hairs </a>over Gifford's district together with words encouraging supporters to "reload" and "take aim" at Democrats. That's incendiary language that should be condemned. McCain has used very similar incendiary language but did not reference it to specific Democrats (to my knowledge) as did Palin. Come out and condemn her for it and do it loudly. She deserves that and more. </em>- Reddit user jray7</div><br />The local sheriff had some words of potent wisdom that the wise would do well to heed in no uncertain terms:<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><em>Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, speaking about Arizona<strong>:"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And, unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry. It's not unusual for all public officials to get threats constantly, myself included. And that's the sad thing of what's going on in America. Pretty soon, we're not going to be able to find reasonable, decent people who are willing to subject themselves to serve in public office." He later added: "<span style="color:#660000;">Let me just say one thing, because people tend to poo-poo this business about all the vitriol that we hear inflaming the American public by people who make a living off of doing that. That may be free speech. But it's not without consequences."</span></strong></em></div><div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#660000;"></span></em></strong></div><span style="color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Yes, we have the right to free speech. But the right to free speech has <strong>never</strong> included the right to shout <em>fire</em> in a crowded theater, and yet many of these so-called constitutionalists claim it has. </span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#000000;">Here's <a href="http://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/24015641061101568#">a tweet from filmmaker Michael Moore </a>from yesterday that asks a succinct question: </span><br /><br /><em>If a Detroit Muslim put a map on the web w/crosshairs on 20 pols, then 1 of them got shot, where would he b sitting right now? Just asking.</em></div><div align="center"><em></em></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">What does a caring community do when a psychotic responds to the verbally violent urgings of a powerful leader? Does it do anything beyond the obvious isolation and imprisonment of the violent psychotic? Or does it seek to remake and retool the larger community into a place where</div><div align="left">public meetings can take place unmolested, where vigorous debate never means malice of harm intended and where verbal threats of violence are taken seriously and those who speak them reined in? Or does the community cease to care and let itself be overwhelmed by those whose dark intent is to suggest mayhem until an unhinged and unstable follower commits it?</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">What are Some Examples of Actionable Abusive or Insulting Language? </div><div align="left">1. Verbal threats; 2. Humiliating statements; 3. Racial or sexual slurs; and 4. Scandalous statements. We have seen all of these in public political life in the recent past.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">It is high time our politicians cooled the rhetoric to a civil and polite level.</div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">Deborah J. Yost </div><div align="left">9 January 2011</div><div align="left">Lincoln, NE</div><strong><em><span style="color:#660000;"></span></em></strong>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-7689511497558111852011-01-07T07:10:00.003-06:002011-01-07T07:16:16.423-06:00Grope-N-Ogle-R-Us<p>The purpose is not security, but to humiliate and constantly remind who is "in charge". Year-to-date statistics for 2010 on airport screening at Dulles and Reagan Airports from the Department of Homeland Security:</p><p>Terrorist Plots Discovered 0</p><p>Transvestites 1,333</p><p>Hernias 3,485</p><p>Hemorrhoid Cases 3,172</p><p>Enlarged Prostates 8,249</p><p>Breast Implants 59,350</p><p><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/5670-tsa-airports-are-only-the-beginning">Link to The New American article</a> and hat tip to slow_dazzle at Hubbert's Arms.</p>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-27213330662410622462011-01-07T07:05:00.001-06:002011-01-07T07:07:38.976-06:00South Park Bank Bailout EpisodeSumming it up nicely. "It's gone!"<br /><br /><br /><object width="580" height="392"><param name="movie" value="http://www.therundown.tv/v/6020/south-park-and-its-gone-scene/"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.therundown.tv/v/6020/south-park-and-its-gone-scene/" width="580" height="392" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="title=South Park “And It’s Gone” Scene&count=6020&countON=true"></embed></object>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-30937653847198878742011-01-03T11:39:00.002-06:002011-01-03T11:50:33.909-06:00Let's Let the Empire Dry Up and Blow AwayThe first rule of holes is to stop digging. With 700 military installations around the globe, and more armament than sense, how can we not see that hauling our men and women and equipment home, one by one, and putting them to work at a new green energy job, or a new local/organic agriculture job, would increase our quality of life and our respect around the world a thousand-fold? When will people stop believing the lies that are told by those in power ~ when it is obvious that those in power only care about enriching themselves at the expense of other's labor, blood and sorrow? From <a href="http://guymcpherson.com/2010/12/praying-for-peace-promoting-war/">Nature Bats Last</a>, please click on over and read it all.<br /><br />QUOTE <em>In a Tucson coffee shop last week I saw a woman, apparently in her early twenties, dressed in a short skirt, an apron, and high heels. Had she been behind the counter, she would have been the perfect symbol of the 1950s, a refugee from two generations gone by. We’ve moved from the unquestioning automatons of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell to the firebrands of a radical counter-cultural worldview and back again. A generational sea change swept us from post-war “liberators” drunk on early 1950s propaganda to revolutionaries willing to take risks in defense of late 1960s ideals. The revolution gained steam through the 1970s, but lost its way when the U.S. industrial economy hit the speed bump of domestic peak oil. The Carter Doctrine — the world’s oil belongs to us — coupled with Ronald Reagan’s soothing pack of lies, was the perfect match to our middle-aged comfort, so we abandoned the noble ideals of earlier days for another dose of palliative propaganda. Three decades later, we’ve swallowed so much Soma we wouldn’t couldn’t find a hint of revolution in Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto.</em> UNQUOTEDeborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-35408623375220074512010-12-31T18:46:00.003-06:002010-12-31T18:58:19.359-06:00Happy New Year!!<p><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LPCzRH59aA8?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LPCzRH59aA8?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></p><p>May those who love us, love us.</p><p>And those who don't love us,</p><p>May God turn their hearts;</p><p>And if He doesn't turn their hearts,</p><p>May He turn their ankles,</p><p>So we will know them by their limping. </p><p>~~~</p><p>Haste ye back, we loue you dearly,<br />Call again you're welcome here.<br />May your days be free from sorrow,<br />And your friends be ever near.<br />May the paths o'er which you wander,<br />Be to you a joy each day.<br />Haste ye back we loue you dearly,<br />Haste ye back on friendship's way. </p><p>~ Scottish blessing</p><p>~~~</p><p>As we start the New Year, </p><p>Let's get down on our knees to thank God we're on our feet. </p><p>-Irish wisdom</p><p><br />May the Lord keep you in his hand and never close his fist too tight on you. And may the face of every good news and the back of every bad news be toward us in the New Year. -Irish toast</p><p> </p><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com/images/happy%20new%20year" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb121/hilbrink9/dkayw2upvr9d33si6t3f1.gif" border="0" alt="Happy New Year Pictures, Images and Photos"/></a>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-71625831494518910362010-12-26T20:09:00.003-06:002010-12-27T07:05:36.579-06:00Quarks and Bees and Cosmic DancesI don't pretend to understand this fully, but how <em>wonderful</em>! <a href="http://www.neuroquantology.com/repository/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65:honeybees-are-found-to-interact-with-quantum-fields&catid=59:quantum-field-theory-in-brain&Itemid=70">The well-known honey dance of the honeybee is found to interact with quantum fields.</a> What if the common little brown honeybee held the earth together?<br />From <a href="http://www.neuroquantology.com/repository/">neuroquantology.com</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#003300;">QUOTE Shipman is not, however, content to play Kepler. "You can look at this idea and say, `That's a nice geometric description of the dance, very pretty,' and leave it like that," she says. "But there is more to it. When you have a physical phenomenon like the honeybee dance, and it follows a mathematical structure, you have to ask what are the physical laws that are causing it to happen."At this point Shipman departs from safely grounded scholarship and enters instead the airy realm of speculation. The flag manifold, she notes, in addition to providing mathematicians with pure joy, also happens to be useful to physicists in solving some of the mathematical problems that arise in dealing with quarks, tiny particles that are the building blocks of protons and neutrons. And she does not believe the manifold's presence both in the mathematics of quarks and in the dance of honeybees is a coincidence. Rather she suspects that the bees are somehow sensitive to what's going on in the quantum world of quarks, that quantum mechanics is as important to their perception of the world as sight, sound, and smell. UNQUOTE</span><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4NtegAOQpSs?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4NtegAOQpSs?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-52963259369238559582010-12-24T07:34:00.003-06:002010-12-24T07:36:47.252-06:00Yuletide!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS20Sll8l9Dq-FvIxEFf9BhJBlfQFeh_CL76WQZ6rjNAlo928woUwgZsrw1N_H5uiV3N4gCZrAxIDGpM79Eop56504LXmoxwPiomvJ6wIShpLNpaTUjyEebuUYOq-uAOfDBOaChhg5gd0/s1600/a+holly+king+and+ivy+queen+wendy+andrews.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 698px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 700px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS20Sll8l9Dq-FvIxEFf9BhJBlfQFeh_CL76WQZ6rjNAlo928woUwgZsrw1N_H5uiV3N4gCZrAxIDGpM79Eop56504LXmoxwPiomvJ6wIShpLNpaTUjyEebuUYOq-uAOfDBOaChhg5gd0/s1600/a+holly+king+and+ivy+queen+wendy+andrews.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>"WINTER GIFT" by Julia Helen Jeffrey<br />*********<br />I am the Christmas Spirit<br />That comes with the end of December:<br />A winter solstice spell, perhaps,<br />When people forget to remember –<br />The drab realities of fact,<br />The cherished hurt of ancient wrongs,<br />The lonely comfort of being deaf<br />To human sighs and angel’s songs.<br />Suddenly, they lose their minds<br />To heart’s demands and beauty’s grace;<br />And deeds extravagant with love<br />Give glory to the common place.</div><div><br />--Anthony F. Perrino</div>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-45752839018712887232010-12-24T07:20:00.003-06:002010-12-24T07:29:13.126-06:00A Light Will ShineSo here's the story of the day ~ at bottom, the true meaning of the holiday season and of the rebirth of light in a darkened world. Merry Christmas to all, and may God bless us, every single one.<br /><br />From Boston.com<br /><a class="title click" href="http://mobile.boston.com/art/21/community/stories_to_inspire/articles/2010/12/23/a_teenagers_simple_act_elevates_all/?p=3" jquery1293197214968="34">17 year old boy drives to a stranger's house every night to carry their son with cerebral palsy up the stairs to his bedroom because the parents can't.</a>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-2284685267990885022010-12-19T08:16:00.005-06:002010-12-19T08:29:10.324-06:00Cute Overload Day<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeOhJ5v-F6G6Ds6zYkgXFu8LeRaOAcNecw4Ey7vXfFkzWJVXOVizdIVoEr5sJzSK6nFx-GnyudUY8pYpbACpNkjtgp0PI77rNfEWrRAuyTNjs6SrivpGrWIIvYXrmZ2uWuWk7Euv_Y2VA/s1600/papi8.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552399558625593138" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 137px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeOhJ5v-F6G6Ds6zYkgXFu8LeRaOAcNecw4Ey7vXfFkzWJVXOVizdIVoEr5sJzSK6nFx-GnyudUY8pYpbACpNkjtgp0PI77rNfEWrRAuyTNjs6SrivpGrWIIvYXrmZ2uWuWk7Euv_Y2VA/s200/papi8.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUxFk26PDJioxrfZdHTmU89_VPXu3kAGuftnO0qSS1FD4Otyn-ECiyI0OBHHNBeScaVzSdSuOWGcsPxTLIEOO5-sag8nOZf82960QqqmDhM5ShQrHEa6YQ_6q0wegbzyHRob9l45F2O0/s1600/papi6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552399557250142450" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 142px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUxFk26PDJioxrfZdHTmU89_VPXu3kAGuftnO0qSS1FD4Otyn-ECiyI0OBHHNBeScaVzSdSuOWGcsPxTLIEOO5-sag8nOZf82960QqqmDhM5ShQrHEa6YQ_6q0wegbzyHRob9l45F2O0/s200/papi6.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeg-_c4D0ZTRVnceleE_M2t8PX1DOieST-EpzjbskKzE76YMbgra3Trhwb5r73BVoYYt9yl5VGwkMAm6pDe8RjcjMvab2atq52AxZ7FlekSuretigtMzpouZxGlW4e3jSEM0LsY7mDAis/s1600/papi5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552399204451287074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 134px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeg-_c4D0ZTRVnceleE_M2t8PX1DOieST-EpzjbskKzE76YMbgra3Trhwb5r73BVoYYt9yl5VGwkMAm6pDe8RjcjMvab2atq52AxZ7FlekSuretigtMzpouZxGlW4e3jSEM0LsY7mDAis/s200/papi5.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmEVXFAj_xnmAFfBxS8cBSN_vhHmYfl8lKbUZEx2eTF1k_YqQdOjq4v_aAQheWRRK-ciHwS7yoMyISZZWusXKPeErY5Bh8Jeg_nls1FhZOzgAnMIDBM3JWo-1s44NHE2qaiJXl98F0PLE/s1600/papi4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552399200199083362" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 147px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmEVXFAj_xnmAFfBxS8cBSN_vhHmYfl8lKbUZEx2eTF1k_YqQdOjq4v_aAQheWRRK-ciHwS7yoMyISZZWusXKPeErY5Bh8Jeg_nls1FhZOzgAnMIDBM3JWo-1s44NHE2qaiJXl98F0PLE/s200/papi4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKpCfxEdpulhXCF_cYdvCz7AkGj5iJOkLAs-6wJa-res1h9l08HHexlYo7cVqq2fWm3D6n9rPE8Og5LI6PB7Nj4RF01uohqZP1WXywVU0fEycNyfMPHyv3bWQh7cLLPb24ZsAo6JHRQ9U/s1600/papi3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552399199886208306" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 134px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKpCfxEdpulhXCF_cYdvCz7AkGj5iJOkLAs-6wJa-res1h9l08HHexlYo7cVqq2fWm3D6n9rPE8Og5LI6PB7Nj4RF01uohqZP1WXywVU0fEycNyfMPHyv3bWQh7cLLPb24ZsAo6JHRQ9U/s200/papi3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHRmE3Iw45hBXbfikobAKKHAO_DL2dpUYay8j39yGKLFBH9MeNzN_byKFKSVAGgr_mhE2P3JUH7n9K9r0e6jj0aMcqRfRCcPDFcRiFWUrUjNO5zJ9ifSSAq0Y5RA-1NA2z6qrWU36dYM/s1600/papi2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552399193736699746" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 149px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijHRmE3Iw45hBXbfikobAKKHAO_DL2dpUYay8j39yGKLFBH9MeNzN_byKFKSVAGgr_mhE2P3JUH7n9K9r0e6jj0aMcqRfRCcPDFcRiFWUrUjNO5zJ9ifSSAq0Y5RA-1NA2z6qrWU36dYM/s200/papi2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2fK41zPgITZbUDKOPi6a8s9w2jByLopeGatm7OVnRHarEDcVB3ISBOdOnnBX2qycrBqed7KASvXja30B3PVSPRpm9JNOxeipGjIb05nUvRQ6P4sfcObguZlxcf3LbUL96-JlpfnagCDc/s1600/papillion1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552399195424508930" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 136px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2fK41zPgITZbUDKOPi6a8s9w2jByLopeGatm7OVnRHarEDcVB3ISBOdOnnBX2qycrBqed7KASvXja30B3PVSPRpm9JNOxeipGjIb05nUvRQ6P4sfcObguZlxcf3LbUL96-JlpfnagCDc/s200/papillion1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>It's <strong>cute overload</strong> day at TRT! Hat tip to Rachael Garver for this one.</div><div> </div><div>Debby Cantlon, who plans to release Finnegan, the young squirrel, back into the wild, bottle-fed the infant squirrel after it was brought to her house<br />When Cantlon took in the tiny creature and began caring for him, she found herself with an unlikely nurse's aide: her pregnant Papillion, Mademoiselle Giselle.</div><br /><div>Finnegan was resting in a nest in a cage just days before Giselle was due to deliver her puppies. Cantlon and her husband watched as the dog dragged the squirrel's cage twice to herOwn bedside before she gave birth.<br /><br />Cantlon was concerned, yet ultimately decided to allow the squirrel out and the inter-species bonding began.</div><br /><div>Finnegan rides a puppy mosh pit of sorts, burrowing in for warmth after feeding,Eventually working his way beneath his new litter mates.</div><br /><div>Two days after giving birth, mama dog Giselle allowed Finnegan to nurse; family photos and a videotape show her encouraging him to suckle alongside her litter of five pups.<br />Now, Finnegan mostly uses a bottle, but still snuggles with his 'siblings' in a moshpit of puppies,Rolling atop their bodies, and sinking in deeply for a nap.</div><br /><div>Finnegan and his new litter mates, five Papillion puppies, get along together as if they were meant to.</div><br /><br /><div>MORAL OF THE STORY: Keep loving everyone, even the squirrelly ones. </div><div>~~~<br /></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-24202156592875894382010-12-16T06:32:00.003-06:002010-12-16T07:00:54.743-06:00What About Bradley Manning?<a href="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/06/Brad-Manning-in-uniform.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 311px" alt="" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/06/Brad-Manning-in-uniform.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>What with all the attention on Julian Assange the past few weeks, people generally just forget that young Bradley Manning (traitor or hero depending on how you look at the world) is cooling his heels in a federal jail cell. Which is fine unless the hero faction is correct, as I contend, then it becomes problematic.</div><br /><div></div><div>If Tom Paine was alive today he'd be a Julian Assange. If John Adams was alive today, he'd be a Bradley Manning.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning">Glenn Greenwald in Salon.com writes</a>: </div><br /><div><br /><blockquote>Since his arrest in May, Manning has been a model detainee, without any episodes of violence or disciplinary problems. He nonetheless was declared from the start to be a "Maximum Custody Detainee," the highest and most repressive level of military detention, which then became the basis for the series of inhumane measures imposed on him.<br />From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement. For 23 out of 24 hours every<br />day -- for seven straight months and counting -- he sits completely alone in his cell. Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he's barred even from exercising and is under constant surveillance to enforce those restrictions. For reasons that appear completely punitive, he's being denied many of the most basic attributes of civilized imprisonment, including<br />even a pillow or sheets for his bed (he is not and never has been on<br />suicide watch). </blockquote>This is especially distressing since the consensus in the psychological world is that long-term solitary confinement is indeed a potent form of torture.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><br /><blockquote><br /><p>It's one thing to impose such punitive, barbaric measures on convicts who have proven to be violent when around other prisoners; at the Supermax in Florence, inmates convicted of the most heinous crimes and who pose a threat to prison order and the safety of others are subjected to worse treatment than what Manning experiences. But it's another thing entirely to impose such<br />conditions on individuals, like Manning, who have been convicted of nothing and have never demonstrated an iota of physical threat or disorder. </p><em><br /><blockquote><em></em></blockquote><br /><p>ibid.</em></p><br /><blockquote></blockquote><br /><p>Daniel Ellsberg, in an interview with Amy Goodman of<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/"> Democracy Now</a> last week, said:</p><br /><p>The fact is that what Lamo reports Manning is saying has a very familiar and persuasive ring to me. He reports Manning as having said that what he had read and what he was passing on were horrible -- evidence of horrible machinations by the US backdoor dealings throughout the Middle East and, in many cases, as he put it, almost crimes. And let me guess that -- he’s not a lawyer, but I'll guess that what looked to him like crimes are crimes, that he was<br />putting out. We know that he put out, or at least it's very plausible that he put out, the videos that he claimed to Lamo. And that's enough to go on to get them interested in pursuing both him and the other.And so, what it comes<br />down, to me, is -- and I say throwing caution to the winds here -- is that what I've heard so far of Assange and Manning -- and I haven't met either of them --<br />is that they are two new heroes of mine.</p><br /><p>-Daniel Ellsberg</p><br /><blockquote></blockquote><br /><p><a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/content/view/858/1/">Bradley Manning Defense Fund</a></p><br /><p><a href="http://standwithbrad.org/">Stand With Brad.org</a></p><br /><p><a href="http://www.ivaw.org/blog/good-leak-bad-leak-why-wikileaks-matters">Seth Martin of Iraq Veterans Against the War</a>, writes:</p><br /><p>In the film "District 9," a scandal erupts over South Africa's mistreatment of a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/fullcredits#cast" jquery1292503913546="9">community of oppressed extraterrestrials</a>. The man who first discovers the truth is made the target of a nationwide manhunt, accused of having sex with aliens and said to be contagious. Later, a young contractor who exposes said truths to the public is arrested and thrown into prison. While that film is known for its sci-fi backdrop, the portrayal of justice and power it provides is eerily contemporary. Julian Assange is accused of sex without a condom, and <a href="http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy/2010/12/04/assanges-chief-accuser-has-her-own-history-with-us-funded-anti-castro-groups-one-of-which-has-cia-ties/" jquery1292503913546="10">at least one of his accusers suspected to have CIA ties</a>. </p><br /><p>Bradley Manning, on the other hand, is awaiting court-martial and <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/06/us-army-manning-wont.html" jquery1292503913546="11">faces up to 52 years in prison</a>. As an enlisted soldier, he will be tried not by a jury of his peers, but by a jury of officers, thereby giving him a far slimmer chance of receiving a fair trial.<br /><br />It is chilling to consider that, if we in America had reacted to pro-accountability leaks in the past the way we do today, Daniel Ellsberg would likely be in prison. So might those who reported the scandal at Abu Ghraib. Do we want to be the country that promises free-speech, except for those who speak uncomfortable truths? Do we truly want to be the Land of the Free (with Caveats)? Do we want to send the message that those who reveal high-level malfeasance are not heroes to be lauded, but criminals to be hunted down and punished?<br /><br />For my country's sake, and the sake of all who would speak truth to power, I hope not. </p></blockquote><blockquote><em><p> </p></em></blockquote></div>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-26074006882545847762010-12-09T12:13:00.002-06:002010-12-09T12:20:02.570-06:00US and China Conspired to Abort Copenhagen Climate SummitThank you WikiLeaks. <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,733630,00.html">From Speigel Online</a>:<br /><br />QUOTE <em>Although the US signed the protocol, it never ratified it. As such, the Chinese and the Americans can continue polluting at will. Meanwhile European nations will have to cut their energy consumption. They, therefore, fought for a new agreement in Copenhagen, one that would tie the United States, China and newly-industrialized nations India and Brazil to specific emission-reduction targets. </em>UNQUOTE<br /><br />Ticktock, ticktock, Karma's a bitch. She's riding Binky into town and carrying a satchel full of toxic emissions with little American and Chinese flags stuck to them.<br /><strong>Jaysus.</strong>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-52955892432233579442010-12-09T11:48:00.005-06:002010-12-09T12:09:17.591-06:00There Oughta Be A Law<a href="http://www.anunews.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/aa-bankster-great-illus-of-current-depression.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 407px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 600px" alt="" src="http://www.anunews.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/aa-bankster-great-illus-of-current-depression.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Oh wait. There is, it just is being selectively enforced. From The Huffington Post comes<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/homeowners-wrongfully-foreclosed-upon_n_794194.html"> a tale of robosigners, wrongful foreclosures </a>and how very hard they are to get resolved properly. Big banks run amok. Yes there is legal recourse but at huge cost and for those who have done NOTHING wrong, a huge unjust burden that is neither democratic nor American in the classic sense of the word.</div><br /><div>It is oppressive, autocratic abuse of the citizenry. It is subversive of true law and order. Be sure and click on over to read it all, comments too.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Must-read comment by Reader Mrbadexample:</div><br /><div>QUOTE <span style="color:#330033;">Everyone needs to keep this meme in mind when reading these stories--<em>These are the stories we're hearing about.</em> These are the stories where a wronged homeowner was able to scrape together a retainer for an attorney and fight the bank. In most cases, the bank is able to bully the homeowner into some sort of settlement­. This is regardless of whether the bank is at fault in the first place. Friends involved in litigation with the bank that issued their mortgage found the bank had forged documents in their applicatio­n file. Their attorney acknowledg­ed that this should be a slam-dunk of a case for a court, but the bank would try to run them out of money--it would take upwards of $20,000 up front to pursue it and it would be two or three years out of their lives. They settled. This sort of behavior is Exhibit A of why Elizabeth Warren's Banking Consumer group was set up. And it's Exhibit A of why the new Congress will do everything they can to defund her.</span> UNQUOTE</div>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-56072589051713706462010-12-08T18:34:00.003-06:002010-12-08T18:49:09.838-06:00Happy "World Press FreedomDay"<a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/296737625_82bf10cd92.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 180px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 257px" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/296737625_82bf10cd92.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>From our sister blog, Wonkette (I am a proud 'wonkette' myself)comes <a href="http://wonkette.com/431902/u-s-state-department-hilariously-announces-world-press-freedom-day">this story of Orwellian nuance and impact</a>: QUOTE <em>The United States, which is currently engaged in a complete war against some weird guy with a website, is going to host “World Press Freedom Day,” the Department of State announced today. They’re all especially excited about protecting the flow of digital news, which is why Washington is “concerned about the determination of some governments to censor and silence individuals, and to restrict the free flow of information.” LOL. This is the same Department of State (and Justice Department and Pentagon and CIA and NATO and PayPal) trying everything to cut off WikiLeaks’ access to the Internet and its own money. </em>UNQUOTE</div><div>Hey, how odd is that, '<em>National Corporatocracy Festival'</em> and '<em>I Love Big Brother Long Time' Week</em> are coming up too! </div><br /><div>I HAZ TRAFFIC CAMS!</div><div></div><div></div><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com/images/surveillance" target="_blank"><img src="http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd130/dlarue69/DSCN4420.jpg" border="0" alt="maybe under surveillance Pictures, Images and Photos"/></a>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-62394908839349822492010-12-01T10:22:00.003-06:002010-12-01T10:29:04.213-06:00A WTF?- Inducing Glimpse of the Recent PastGreat Goddess Almighty, this is from when I was two years old. My mom was an avid magazine reader ~ it's highly likely she read this and tried to comply.<br />We have soooo much deprogramming to do.<br /><br /><a href="http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2010/11/30/funny-pictures-history-good-wife-guide/"><img title="The Good Wife's Guide" height="410" alt="The Good Wife's Guide" src="http://chzhistoriclols.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/ca5f45a6-232f-4466-867c-7720eeb6723b.jpg" width="450" /></a><br />see more <a href="http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/">Historic LOL </a>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-56847745065489581222010-12-01T06:56:00.004-06:002010-12-01T07:17:49.138-06:00Greenwald's AnalysisFrom Salon's Glenn Greenwald comes <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/11/30/wikileaks/index.html">the most light yet on this <em>sturm und drang</em> Wikileaks drama.</a> It is a given that corruption, vice and abuses flourish in dark, musty corners; at least, that is the rationale given for putting a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pollution">high wattage street light</a> every 25 feet on our city streets - so when a light is shined on the backstage of the power brokers, no one should be surprised to see a few rats scuttle off. What is truly startling is <a href="http://www.necn.com/12/01/10/International-manhunt-on-for-WikiLeaks-f/landing_nation.html?blockID=363885&feedID=4207">the vehemence </a>being poured on the man holding the flashlight. To me this further illustrates the need for the (male dominant) authoritarian paradigm to be replaced with a much more humane and feminine one.<br /><br /><br />QUOTE<em> Simply put, there are few countries in the world with citizenries and especially media outlets more devoted to serving, protecting and venerating government authorities than the U.S. Indeed, I don't quite recall any entity producing as much bipartisan contempt across the American political spectrum as WikiLeaks has: as usual, for authoritarian minds, </em><a href="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/08/hbc-90007562" target="_blank"><em>those who expose secrets are far more hated than those in power who commit heinous acts using secrecy as their principal weapon</em></a><em>. </em>UNQUOTEDeborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-78364205777367223702010-11-30T08:00:00.004-06:002010-11-30T08:21:36.827-06:00Libertarian<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhshNapDMfMVfIFHA-Oe1Xo1Kg_XDMWo375Ep4ivWEQlR-biD_TZKtbeug_2V96tTjFYR5UeOZ09rDGayztFi23arzfoxcFxpB0Zm7pe-E0za2KnOBMy02aMPiT9QxicYxQeF6xjBsXGJw/s1600/libertarians.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545347729045448386" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 311px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhshNapDMfMVfIFHA-Oe1Xo1Kg_XDMWo375Ep4ivWEQlR-biD_TZKtbeug_2V96tTjFYR5UeOZ09rDGayztFi23arzfoxcFxpB0Zm7pe-E0za2KnOBMy02aMPiT9QxicYxQeF6xjBsXGJw/s400/libertarians.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCmsUVx79KXeRLj3AC0r3qcEAm5s0kNrDv7nJYlUtpxMYloP39EIguGAye6RnXtVEmtbUXV1DaVwzHCRztLwz8Biqlk12VK1bAfeVd6ZiDG9tnLTcbzsMLpIR_4b7sNmZefHV-GJO6Sw/s1600/libertarian+2.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl4oaF516M6B_6TS_Eert9HUhhLvJfO4LM4UJC0SGnSj3T4oYDLYx99rvDRo30UAGl7LN3t_kf-UrAhNm_4KXAPCxjmFkG-ZN3kioJyfD1hH8UUm6MlCnoHc8gFVSiDS_MAi4AoOmazCg/s1600/libertarians.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br /><div>It just makes sense.</div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-20447368686150760292010-11-30T07:50:00.003-06:002010-11-30T07:59:51.899-06:00In The Netherlands, Books For the Traveler<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZW-V2NGzTLGX2mlTgAdXNcQGd3w41L_i7tYpeRpsw1RTCRdM3A77k-17h9-v8L5d8VfU5Gugv83Ugfuab2eLWfHoHeHKqao37O1BGbwq_sKoaVXQZuox9y_lJRplsm4GfqVGKLsqBQhA/s1600/books_3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545341773488130002" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 294px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZW-V2NGzTLGX2mlTgAdXNcQGd3w41L_i7tYpeRpsw1RTCRdM3A77k-17h9-v8L5d8VfU5Gugv83Ugfuab2eLWfHoHeHKqao37O1BGbwq_sKoaVXQZuox9y_lJRplsm4GfqVGKLsqBQhA/s320/books_3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><em>Of course</em>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/arts/16iht-library.html?_r=1">a library in an airport</a>. How wonderful! The creative Dutch have done it again, and their practical approach to comforting travel-weary passengers stuck at the Amsterdam airport for hours and hours is alight in an otherwise dreary news day.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Most refreshing is the following: QUOTE <strong><em>Mr. van Tol shrugged that such hiccups were inevitable for a library that employs no permanent staff and whose only effort to discourage theft is a sticker on the cover of each book identifying it as part of the Airport Library collection.<br />“Trust is the basis of this project,” he said. “We are willing to take the risk of vandalism or that some books will disappear. But we think having security is much more expensive.” Since the airport opened in mid-July, he said, only about a dozen books have been lost. Many more have vanished temporarily, reappearing when travelers passed through the airport on their return journeys.</em></strong> UNQUOTE From <strong>The New York Times</strong>. </div><br /><div>Be sure to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/arts/16iht-library.html?_r=1">click on over </a>and read it all.</div>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3910885420190383321.post-10806273131400206662010-11-29T06:36:00.003-06:002010-11-29T06:48:06.482-06:00Tough Diagnosis<a href="http://projectworldawareness.com/2010/09/american-psychosis-what-happens-to-a-society-that-cannot-distinguish-between-reality-and-illusion/">What happens to a society that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion? </a>This is the question asked by author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges">Chris Hedges</a>, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, is the author of several books including the best sellers <a href="http://www.amazon.com/War-Force-that-Gives-Meaning/dp/1400034639/ref=pd_sim_b_3"><em>War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning</em> </a>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1291034759&sr=1-1-spell"><em>Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle</em>. </a><br /><br />QUOTE <span style="color:#000099;">And yet, even in the face of catastrophe, mass culture continues to assure us that if we close our eyes, if we visualize what we want, if we have faith in ourselves, if we tell God that we believe in miracles, if we tap into our inner strength, if we grasp that we are truly exceptional, if we focus on happiness, our lives will be harmonious and complete. This cultural retreat into illusion, whether peddled by positive psychologists, by Hollywood or by Christian preachers, is magical thinking. It turns worthless mortgages and debt into wealth. It turns the destruction of our manufacturing base into an opportunity for growth. It turns alienation and anxiety into a cheerful conformity. It turns a nation that wages illegal wars and administers offshore penal colonies where it openly practices torture into the greatest democracy on earth. And it keeps us from fighting back.</span> UNQUOTE<br /><br />Here's an interview from 2007 that can serve as a good introduction to the man and his work.<br /><br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p-fbcy1tRoA?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p-fbcy1tRoA?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Deborah Yosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291682314781282053noreply@blogger.com0