CAUGHT BETWEEN THE ROCKS OF TORAH AND KORAN

"Jesus Loves Me"

Written by Anna B. Warner
Published 1860
Language English
Form Christian hymn

Jesus Loves Me is a Christian hymn written by Anna B. Warner. The lyrics first appeared as a poem in the context of a novel called Say and Seal, written by Susan Warner and published in 1860. The tune was added in 1862 by William Batchelder Bradbury who found the text of "Jesus Loves Me" in a book, in which the words were spoken as a comforting poem to a dying child. Along with his tune, Bradbury added his own chorus "Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus Loves me..." After publication the song became one of the most popular Christian hymns in churches around the world.

Jesus loves me! This I know,
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong;
They are weak, but He is strong.

Chorus:
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.

Jesus loves me! This I know,
As He loved so long ago,
Taking children on His knee,
Saying, “Let them come to Me.”

Chorus

Jesus loves me when I'm good,
When I do the things I should,
Jesus loves me when I'm bad,
Though it makes Him very sad.

Chorus

Jesus loves me still today,
Walking with me on my way,
Wanting as a friend to give
Light and love to all who live.

Chorus

Jesus loves me! He who died
Heaven’s gate to open wide;
He will wash away my sin,
Let His little child come in.

Chorus

Jesus loves me! Loves me still
Tho' I'm very weak and ill;
That I might from sin be free
Bled and died upon the tree.

Chorus

Jesus loves me! He will stay
Close beside me all the way;
Thou hast bled and died for me,
I will henceforth live for Thee.

Chorus


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In one of my earlier posting, "Justice: What's the Right Thing To Do",  quoted Micheal Sandel from the first of 12 lectures given at Harvard;  lectures on philosophy, different models of reasoning, and how they relate to current events.

"Philosophy doesn't teach you something you don't already know.  It takes what you already know and presents it in a way that makes it seen different, almost strange."

Here go my attempt:

I want to first start off  saying that Jesus was Jewish.  Practiced the Jewish faith right up to his crucifixion.  In other words, never stopped being Jewish.

That Mary and Jesus are also in the  Islamic Koran.

In the Shi'a context, imam has a meaning more central to belief, referring to leaders of the community. Twelver and Ismaili Shi'a believe that these Imams are chosen by God to be perfect examples for the faithful and to lead all humanity in all aspects of life. They also believe that all the Imams chosen are free from committing any sin, infallibility which is called ismah. These leaders must be followed since they are appointed by God.

Now!

Imagine....


that Jesus, instead of dying and risen from the dead, he just went into a coma for all these years.  You know....Rip Van Winkle like!  When Jesus awoke, he finds himself on the border between Gaza and Israel as warplanes and gunfire were furiously laying destruction to one side of him, while the other side is relatively quiet with the shy line of a modern city not too far away. 

From a Christian's perspective of Jesus,  in which direction would he most likely start walking?  From a Jewish perspective (Jesus as one of their own)?  A Muslim's perspective (Jesus as Prophet in the shadows of Mohammad)?  How about from an atheist's perspective (Jesus as just a man, a product of years of polishing by the conservative media....both perspectives......the gossiping channel)? 

The Jesus I was raised to know would have immediately started walking in the direction of the destruction without giving any thought as to who they were or why they were being punished.

If you found yourself there alone with a man who claimed to be Jesus, even looked like Jesus, and that man started walking in the direction of all that hell, would you follow him?   Would the Pope or any preacher?  A Catholic bleeding heart liberal? A firebrand Imam?  A global warming skeptic?  A Sheik? A small business owner?  A farmer?   A neoconservative?  A  conservative pundit?  A secular Palestinian? A Red Cross volunteer?  A United Nations employee? A Red Crescent volunteer? An African American Muslim?  A Log Cabin Republican? A nun who advocates condoms uses? An anti-taxation Tea Party member? A christian Blue Dog Democrat?  An atheist volunteer with Meals on Wheels?  A "Muslim" community organizer fresh out of Harvard?


I'm not taking sides here. As a flawed primate, would have walked to the side of least destruction enemy or not; at least until the fighting is over.  Think all of us would have; then,  most of us would have jumped to side of their family, history; anything familiar. But there are a few remarkable people who risk their lives to help the less fortunate regardless of why.  Who understand that neither side can claim to be totally innocent.

Jesus as I've come to believe him now, a middle eastern man of long, long ago,not one of the poor, not one of the elite, who preached a message of hope, of humility, of an inner peace that comes with giving and forgiving unconditionally......a liberal really.....a socialist.

One that got a Messiah award for a bunch of speeches; didn't do anything.  One with a birth certificate that we never saw.  One who's mother gets all the credit;  father stayed out of sight.  One who claimed to be Jewish but believed by everyone to be Christian. One who was baptised by his beaten competitor, John the Baptist, to keep the movement intact. One who lost an election to a Jewish murderer of a Roman soldier, crucified. 



All due to an angry  crowd...... his own people .........too impatient to wait for the reward that comes with sacrifice.


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Rip Van Winkel

The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. Rip Van Winkle, a villager of Dutch descent, lives in a nice village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains. An amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect, he is loved by all but his wife.

One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains. There he encounters strangely dressed men, rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew, who are playing nine-pins. After drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes and returns to his village, where he finds twenty years have passed. He finds out that his wife has died and that his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else. He immediately gets into trouble when he proclaims himself a loyal subject of King George III, not knowing that the American Revolution has taken place.

An old local recognizes him, however, and Rip's now grown daughter takes him in. Rip resumes his habitual idleness, and his tale is solemnly believed by the old Dutch settlers, with certain hen-pecked husbands wishing they shared Rip's good luck.

Someone who has remained oblivious to social and political changes over an extended period can be said to be 'Rip-Van-Winkleish'.

A similar story is told of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, Christian saints who fall asleep in a cave while avoiding Roman persecution and awake more than a century later to find that Christianity has become the official religion of the Empire.

The story is also similar to the ancient Jewish story about Honi M'agel who falls asleep after asking a man why he is planting a carob tree which traditionally takes 70 years to mature, making it virtually impossible to ever benefit from the tree's fruit. After this exchange, he falls asleep on the ground and is miraculously covered by a rock and remains out of sight for 70 years. When he awakens, he finds a fully mature tree and that he has a grandson. When nobody believes that he is Honi, he prays to God and God takes him from this world.

Gulf of Mexico oil spill: Can BP stem the flow of oil and vitriol?

The next few days will be crucial for BP and the wider world, says George Trefgarne.

By George Trefgarne
Published: 5:43PM BST 26 May 2010

"The result is possibly the worst environmental disaster since Chernobyl. The effects grow like the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico daily. BP is the biggest holding in most people's pension funds and its shares have fallen some 25 per cent. The stock market believes its dividend is imperilled by compensation claims and if the company does not plug the leak in the next 48 hours – BP puts the probability at no higher than 70 per cent – then this could develop into a major international incident, with ramifications not only for the reputation of UK Plc, but for the energy security of the world."

"BP says recovery will be 'drawn out' as profits tumbleLike all catastrophes these days, the story gains momentum not only through television and newspapers, but through social media. Log on to US news sites such as the Huffington Post and you will see the coverage is laced with near contempt for BP and for Brits generally. Tony Hayward, the BP chief executive, has been working non-stop for four weeks to contain the spill and has not been home once, and yet is traduced for being plain speaking or optimistic."

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I can't stand it when, when someone calls me a Socialist. 

It's always some DUMBASS who didn't know it wasn't a bad word (a parrot ),

or someone wealthy business man who thought there was nothing wrong with cheap labor ("taking his business elsewhere hurts him more than it hurts you").

Does that make me an "optimist" , "pessimist", or "just need to lightnen up so we can go back to having a good time"?

House Votes to Allow Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Law

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and CARL HULSE


Published: May 27, 2010


WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to let the Defense Department repeal the ban on gay and bisexual people from serving openly in the military, a major step toward dismantling the 1993 law widely known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

TEXAS INVADIDA POR RANAS VORAZ!

Batalla del Álamo :

Bajo el Presidente Antonio López de Santa Ana, el Gobierno mexicano comenzó a desplazar lejos de un modelo federalista. Las políticas cada vez más dictatoriales, incluyendo la revocación de la Constitución de 1824 en 1835 temprana, incitó a muchos federalistas a la rebelión.  La región de la frontera mexicana de Texas en gran medida fue poblada por inmigrantes procedentes de los Estados Unidos. Estos estaban acostumbrados a un Gobierno federalista y a amplios derechos individuales, y estaban bastante vocales en su descontento en cambio de México hacia el centralismo.  América ya recelar de anteriores intentos para comprar Texas,  autoridades mexicanas culpó a gran parte de los disturbios de rebeldes sobre los inmigrantes estadounidenses, la mayoría de los cuales había hecho muy poco esfuerzo para adaptarse a la cultura mexicana.

(clic del ratón para alimentar a la rana algunas moscas)

"En boca cerrada, no entran moscas."
- Mexican Proverb -

Jesus Christ! 

Surely we can allow them to speak their own language.

Least we could do in return for their cheap labor!

prov·erb   
[prov-erb]

–noun
1.a short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought; adage; saw.
2.a wise saying or precept; a didactic sentence.
3.a person or thing that is commonly regarded as an embodiment or representation of some quality; byword
4.Bible. a profound saying, maxim, or oracular utterance requiring interpretation.

You say, "Chelsea." / I see "Chelsea boys"!

Clinton near wedding weight for Chelsea's nuptials

WASHINGTON — Chelsea Clinton gave her father strict orders to drop 15 pounds before her summer wedding — and former President Bill Clinton says he's nearly met that goal.
A noticeably thinner Clinton was at the White House Thursday and said he has just two pounds to go.

Clinton joined President Barack Obama for a meeting with the U.S. World Cup Soccer Team. The former president was recently named honorary chairman of the bid committee that's trying to bring the soccer tournament to the U.S.

Though the Clintons haven't announced the date of their daughter's wedding, the former president did let it slip that he has "more than a month" to achieve his goal.

(would of probably laugh along with them, if only the punchline, as usual, that I heard; but this one jerk.....joke..... heard it all!)

Right in the Middle of Arkansas!

Ever wonder what dinner with Bill and Hilliary might be like? 

I don't!

But can't help loving them anyway;  they be like family!

By the way, not from there no more; just a visting.


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CHELSEA BOY HOPS ON POP! 

"What do you get when you cross a draft dodger with a lesbian?
CHELSEA CLINTON!"
~(Brother-In-Law)~

Yep.  

Right in the middle of Thanksgiving Dinner.  Right in front of  my two little nieces.  Right in front of their mother, my sister.  Right in front of my mother, their Ninnie; his mother, their Nana, my....????....oh who gives a SHIT about that fat bigoted woman! 

Right in front of ME...their uncle! 

Like a scene right out of a movie,
GUESS WHO"S COMING TO DINNER...
"CUT!"

I don't know if they knew or not, although now I know they do, but don't know if they did back then, but if they did, I didn't, so how was I suppose to know whether or not peckerwood knew what he was doing or not, even though I already knew he didn't know much!  That last part did it for me. Whether they liked it or not, nobody was leaving that table without somebody, if not everybody, learning a lesson or not,

 at my expense!

"Did you hear about
 the husband who offered his wife two aspirins?"
~(Uncle Jim)~

All through the house, not a creature was stirring, except them damn dogs under the table!  

Figured that would happen.

"What these for?  Ain't got no headache"
 said his wife.

~(Uncle Jim)~

Sis don't talk nuthin like this but slight stuttering problem.

Betcha ain't gonna  notice  due ah running tad low them noodles. 

Eve'n she ain't none at-tal stil'a luv her to death.

"Good then," 
said the husband. 
"LET'S FUCK, Schuga Boog!"

      
Never heard him say "let's fuck,"  

Nor ever hope I do.

 Tell you this anyhow, 

Who doesn't, even if I didn't.

Of course they got mad, knew they would.  

Cause right in front of what I done, 

something said I shouldn't have done

something said they now wanna know

two little girls..... theirs and mine,

Conservatives can be so silly.  You would think it would be fun telling jokes like the one I told in response to joke told by my brother-in-law;  just watching how ridiculous they react to jokes far better than the one they just told.

BUT IT AIN'T!

Depressing.
Too damn many of the them!

What was improper about the joke?  We had a "HE" and a "SHE".   It was his wife.    No mention of condoms (Catholic approved).  He didn't raped her (wouldn't take no for an answer).   She's obviously a good wife (she going to do what she got to do).  And he offered here 2 aspirins (how sweet).  And you gotta admit, "LET"S FUCK" is the quickest way to hop to it.  Seems we need a verb  that isn't considered profanity.

Not to mention:
We all know our parents did it.  Like it or not, although it took some longer than others to figure out how, we were there when it happened.   Why can't they know they weren't delivered by a stork; why everyone pretends I'm not doing it because I was brought here by an airplane instead of a Stork;  taking poor Uncle Jim  to the airport, sending him back the same way he came, because he had purchased round trip tickets; and everybody knows you can only fly one way to be delivered by a  Storks.

Not to mention:
Just because I don't get bigger, doesn't mean I was never younger. Although we hate how fast they grow, wrong to believe we've done them good by pretending the worlds benign.  There once was a time I could not have served my country,  even if I begged to be drafted.   Today, men and women,  still not wanted that want to help make this a safer world.

Not to mention:
If they didn't stay home and serve tea and cookies,  they were likely to be called lesbians. 
Rather they stayed in the home where women belonged.
Chancing abuse; not able making their own choices.
Chancing abuse:  not able standing on their own whenever need arises.

Not to mention:
   For someone raised by a draft dodger and lesbian, how is is possible she turn out so well.
It only adds up,
that somewhere, somehow, someone is wrong.


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Squirrel Fight: Nut? What Nut?

"researchers who study gray squirrels argue that their subject is far more compelling than most people realize, and that behind the squirrel’s success lies a phenomenal elasticity of body, brain and behavior."

Basics - Nut? What Nut? The Squirrel Outwits to Survive - NYTimes.com

Gray squirrels use their sharp, shaded vision to keep an eye on each other. Michael A. Steele of Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and his colleagues have studied the squirrels’ hoarding behavior, which turns out to be remarkably calculated and rococo. Squirrels may be opportunistic feeders, able to make a meal of a discarded cheeseburger, crickets or a baby sparrow if need be, but in the main they are granivores and seed hoarders. They’ll gather acorns and other nuts, assess which are in danger of germinating and using up stored nutrients, remove the offending tree embryos with a few quick slices of their incisors, and then cache the sterilized treasure for later consumption, one seed per inch-deep hole.

But the squirrels don’t just bury an acorn and come back in winter. They bury the seed, dig it up shortly afterward, rebury it elsewhere, dig it up again. “We’ve seen seeds that were recached as many as five times,” said Dr. Steele. The squirrels recache to deter theft, lest another squirrel spied the burial the first X times. Reporting in the journal Animal Behaviour, the Steele team showed that when squirrels are certain that they are being watched, they will actively seek to deceive the would-be thieves. They’ll dig a hole, pretend to push an acorn in, and then cover it over, all the while keeping the prized seed hidden in their mouth. “Deceptive caching involves some pretty serious decision making,” Dr. Steele said. “It meets the criteria of tactical deception, which previously was thought to only occur in primates.”

FAR LEFT....with EAR PIECE!

PHOTOS: Boy Scouts' 100th anniversary - latimes.com

Check this out.

That's me...far left!

Wearing earpiece!

COOL!

Proud Mama Oral Lee Brown Sends Neighborhood Kids to College

"I'll ask a kid, 'What do you want to be?' and no one has ever told me, 'I want to be a dope dealer'," Brown told NBC. "They want to be somebody; they want to be something."

Proud Mama Oral Lee Brown Sends Neighborhood Kids to College

Nun Excommunicated For Abortion Decision To Save Mother's Life

"H"hypocrisy



Jesus loves me... Why can't you ???

"We always must remember that when a difficult medical situation involves a pregnant woman, there are two patients in need of treatment and care, not merely one," he continued. "The unborn child's life is just as sacred as the mother's life, and neither life can be preferred over the other."

"H"umility

In a letter to the The Arizona Republic on May 18, Dr. John Garvie, chief of gastroenterology at St. Joseph's, called Sister Margaret "the moral conscience of the hospital" and said "there is no finer defender of life at our hospital."

"What she did was something very few are asked to do, namely, to make a life-and-death decision with the full recognition that in order to save one life, another life must be sacrificed," Garvie said. "People not involved in these situations should reflect and not criticize."

For more on this story click here.

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 "Natural" Pesticide
Is it possible, just possible, God  IS trying to kill us ?

The chief ethics official of the Phoenix diocese, Father John Ehrich, agreed that it was a difficult decision. But in a two-page statement on the diocesan website, he argued that "the child is not that which threatens the life of the mother, rather it is the pathology or illness (cancer, premature rupture of membranes, hypertension, preeclampsia, etc.) which threatens the mother's life."

"When we try to control every possible situation in life, we end up playing the role of God."

What an understatement!
At least he's on the right track,
but still,
quite a ways to go!


Reminded me of a poster I once saw in college,

"Everytime someone masturbates,
GOD 
KILLS A KITTEN!"

That's a lot of kittens!

as well as

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT!

Wish I didn't feel this way,

but as a veterinarian,

honestly can say it's possibly the best proof I've seen,

for the existence of a

GOD.

Even more so with the recession; 
shelters filling up with pets people can no longer afford or even a home themselves.

i.e.
Critical Thinking!

i.e.
“The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all his perfection, creating an imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.”

oh!

No kitten! 

America's Poor Give More Than Rich

America's Poor Give More Than Rich

Playground Politics / Red Rover Obama Spot LONG

GLENN BECK THINKING AMERICA SINKS GOES ON A CRUISE

ATTENTION ALL PASSENGERS

DEPARTURE DELAYED DUE TO UNEXPECTED CRISIS
 MAN REPORTED MISSING SHORTLY AFTER BOARDING SHIP
DO NOT CONFRONT
CONSIDERED TO BE HIGHTLY UNSTABLE AND DANGEROUS

Glenn Beck: Lessons Learned From the Titanic - Glenn Beck - FOXNews.com

You see, the name of the boat is the America. But America isn't sinking. Just America as we have run it, is sinking. America, as we have known it, is sinking. But it's not the ship. Who cares about the White Star Line? We'll build another one. We'll build a better one, one that won't sink or one that will sink slower.


We don't care about the ship. We care about the people in it and the idea of the ship.


We need to get people into the lifeboats with the idea of the Constitution, because we can build a fleet off these.

It's the people and Founders' ideas that matter. It is incumbent upon each of us that are awake to lead the way, build life rafts, show other people how to build life rafts.


Then, without any malice in our heart, no matter what they said to us as they were pointing out the windows, you're crazy. When they finally get it, we need to be able to say to each other and say to them — not I told you so, but welcome, brother. Come on, get in the boat.

GLEN BECK FOUND HIDING IN LIFEBOAT

I'm not sure what point this idiot is trying to make using the Titantic as an example.     I don't question that it got pretty chaotic; the ship WAS going down, and building another ship WAS NOT an option. Surely there were people not told the truth, those prone to hysteria or those already there.  Overall, it was my impression, considering the dire situation, they handled it rather bravely, as apposed to being mislead, and remained calm.  Like some would view America or the Constitution as a ship, the Titantic also was thought to be unsinkable.

Not by our Founding Fathers.

The Constitution was nothing more than a gentlemen's agreement between states leading up to the Revolutionary War.  There were disagreements, religion and slavery being just two of them, women's opinion not even an issue , compromised or deferred to be dealt with later.

You know....a business plan.

 No one was completely satisfied, even back then, with the final outcomes;  just content to risk, they had more to gain by independence from England, than lose by signing the Constitution.

  A gamble really. 

The "Thirteen Original Colonies" won their indepedence from England; the South lost theirs from the United States.

The Constitution....so....is it or is it not sacred?

America will always be here, plus or minus global warming.   The Constituion......now that's a different story........ just a memory due to the likes of  Glen Beck who panic and drown thinking it floats......not trying to save it.... before his ship even set sail....... on it's first ever......gay cruise.

Ignorance is not always bliss!

Like Jesus to Christians,  Founding Fathers to Americans, The Constitution to Conservatives; seems they shine brighter and brighter each time the books get dusted off........for them just to admire the cover.

ATTENTION ALL PASSENGERS

CRISIS RESOLVED

UNRULEY PASSENGER REMOVED

LET THE PARTY BEGIN!

HOW COULD GLEN NOT KNOW HE BOARDED WRONG SHIP?

THIS SHIP IS OUR SHIP!

Sometimes it's nice to have time alone on an island in the middle of the ocean.  Shame, those who lived life the hardest, the minorities, can afford it the least.   From the way these people in video celebrated, just imagaine how those even less fortunate would have celebrated.  It may look over the top, but the real truth........you're just unreasonably difficult to live with when it comes to sharing dry land!

Mosquitoes in a Glass House

"My heart finally broke for the Iraqi people. I wanted to just sit down and cry while saying I'm so, so sorry for what we had done. I had the acute sense that we had failed these people. It was at this time, and after an entire year of being deployed and well into the next deployment that I realized something. We burst into homes, frighten the hell out of families, and destroy their homes looking for an elusive enemy. We do this out of fear of the unseen and attempt to compensate for our inability to capture insurgents by swatting mosquitoes with a sledge-hammer in glass houses."

 Iraq through a soldier's death

By Kyle Spector

Posted Monday, May 14, 2007

Four days before his death, Army Staff Sgt. Darrell Ray Griffin Jr., an infantry squad leader in Baghdad, sent an E-mail to his wife, Diana. "Spartan women of Greece used to tell their husbands, before they went into battle, to come back with their shields or laying on them, dying honorably in battle. But if they did not return with their shield, this showed that they ran away from the battle. Cowardice was not a Spartan virtue ... Tell me that you love me the same by me coming back with my shield or on it."

A few days later, Diana replied. "Are you ok??? I haven't heard from you since Sunday and it is now Wednesday ... I know you said you were going on a dangerous mission ... I get so nervous when I don't hear from you ... phone call or e-mail ... I just hope and pray your ok honey ... "

It was an E-mail Griffin would never read.

E-Mails Reveal a Fallen Soldier's Story

By Alex Kingsbury

Posted 5/13/07

Philosophical and theological works sit atop Griffin's footlocker, along with a recent book concerning the politics of the Iraq war.



The Best Show
of
Support for our Soldiers
is
HAVING THEM THERE FOR THE RIGHT REASONS

Showing Respect for Commander in Chief of the Military
The PRESIDENT

Showing Respect for Congress Doing It's Job
DEBATING the ISSUES

Accepting Responsibility for the Consequences of our Governments Actions
GOOD CITIZEN
(past, present, and future}


 Not
Confusing Stubborn Pride
with
PATRIOTISM

WALK SOFTLY/CARRY A BIG STICK: The Power of Persuasion

L.A. Mayor Dismisses Warning That Arizona Could Cut Off Power Over Boycott

I swear! I've heard this story somewhere before??????

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per·sua·sion (pər-swā'zhən)

n.

1.The act of persuading or the state of being persuaded: "The persuasion of a democracy to big changes is at best a slow process" (Harold J. Laski).

2.The ability or power to persuade: "Three foremost aids to persuasion which occur to me are humility, concentration, and gusto" (Marianne Moore).

3.A strongly held opinion; a conviction. See Synonyms at opinion.

4.a.A body of religious beliefs; a religion: worshipers of various persuasions.

b.A party, faction, or group holding to a particular set of ideas or beliefs.

5.Informal Kind; sort: "the place where ... rockers of any gender or persuasion can become megastars" (Christopher John Farley).

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin persuāsiō, persuāsiōn-, from persuāsus, past participle of persuādēre, to persuade; see persuade.]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

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The Story

of

"David" vs. Goliath

"Oh Fiddle!"
 "I GIVE UP!"
"Forget I even brought it up."

"It's like an asteroid is heading toward earth....and nobody wants to talk about it,"
 I remembered reading somewhere.
The effort to "connect- the- dots" is just not going to happen until one cares enough to try.
 
Like my Mother would say, 
"David, It's COMPLICATED!"

But here's a hint,

"I'm not David!"

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Goliath the Toy

Can't help but wonder, if credit was given to the wrong person?
I can see that happening.

JESUS! DON'T THEY BLEED THEM IN THE END!

Common Sense

Conservative

DO WHATEVER PLEASES JESUS

Family Values

COUPON

How it all increases,

all them bits and pieces.
Jesus,

It's amazing how it grows!


Les Misérables The Story

WHY NOT? REPUBLICANS DO IT!

I found this article very interesting.

Is it Smart to Sleep With Your Pets?

From the human perspective, experts have found that pets definitely disrupt their bed mate's sleep patterns. In a widely cited study in 2002, John Shepard, M.D. found that more than half of the 300 patients he surveyed at the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorders Center reported that their sleep was disturbed by their cats or dogs. Not surprising when you consider that dogs hog the mattress, snore, wake you up at 3 a.m. to have their tummies scratched, attack your toes under the sheets, leave your bed full of hair or -- worse yet -- slobber.

 I've never had this problem with my pets. 

I suppose it's because I hog the mattress.  I snore.  I like (for lack of a better way to put it) my tummy scratched.  I contribute to the bed full of hair.  And yes....I slobber...a lot, but only when I'm asleep!

Animals aren't stupid.  No one's worth losing that much sleep over.

My pets do jump in bed with me when I turn in at night. Most (never more than three pets at a time) eventually leave once I stop petting/talking to them, some stay till I fall asleep; but can count on all to them to be there when I awake, patiently waiting for another day, ours, to be started.



The also know, getting me out of bed any sooner than I'm ready is a waste of time. So what's left for them to do....except patiently wait.

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anthropomorphism

the interpretation of nonhuman things or events in terms of human characteristics, as when one senses malice in a computer or hears human voices in the wind. Derived from the Greek anthropos ("human") and morphe ("form"), the term was first used to refer to the attribution of human physical or mental features to deities. By the mid-19th century, however, it had acquired the second, broader meaning of a phenomenon occurring not only in religion but in all areas of human thought and action, including daily life, the arts, and even sciences. Anthropomorphism may occur consciously or unconsciously. Most scholars since the time of the English philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) have agreed that the tendency to anthropomorphize hinders the understanding of the world, but it is deep-seated and persistent

We make the mistake of over interpreting the actions of our pets as a show of affection toward us, when most likely just boredom or just hungry, and neither one gets satisfied, (any desires the pet may have), until the master is ready.

However....I have had my sleep pattern disturbed enormously by sharing my bed with people.  Find it interesting, no matter how much sleep I lost,  my day starts out with a lot more energy, than when I start off a day with a full nights rest, having slept alone. 

The trick seems to be.....don't share your bed with people (or animals) you don't like (or don't like you)! 

What kind of people (or animal) would do that anyway?

Sounds like every ones happy; no ones complaining. 

Makes me wonder about the experts who wrote this article?

Are they REPUBLICANS?

Don't think the right questions, the tough ones, are being asked here......?


It's been my observation, republicans always want to create a problem somewhere, even when times are good.....as long as it's not their problem!

Maybe it's about time they chose something different to share their bed with!  Maybe less sleep for them will do us all some good!!!  

Newt Gingrich slams Elena Kagan!

WHOA!

WHOA!

WHOA!

WHO THE FUCK THIS IDIOT THINKS HE IS?



Newt got it all wrong!

Kagan's
Not Keeping The Military From Recruiting!
She's
Actually Helping!

Pointing Out Where

Uncle Sam

can

"Find"

A FEW GOOD MEN

(and women)! 

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Someone!

Please flip NEWT the finger where the sun don't shine!

That ought to open his eyes,
help him see,
contempt for the military
is not the problelm!

*****

In the mist of two wars,

 two unexpectedly prolonged wars with questionable endings and ever changing objectives............  

declining support from an increasingly detached war weary public..........

 military having trouble meeting it's recruitment quota......

 activation of the stop-loss policy to reduce hemorrhaging of soldiers from an overly stretched military ..........

soldiers needed badly enough,  even sucking dick in front of an officer, unlikely to get a soldier discharged............

&
still we have

Gays,
Democrats,
Activist Judges,
Progressives,
Socialist,
etc.,etc.,etc,

fighting to have removed from the books,
laws barring America's gay citizens from 
volunteering
to serve their country above and beyond the call of duty. 

If  wanting an end to
"DON'T ASK/DON'T Tell"
 doesn't fit the definition, qualify as a fine example,
 of 
patriotism,
then what defines
a

"REAL"
AMERICAN
 As the cameras panned the responce Newt received; the passionate display of patriotism by an 
all white.... REPUBLICAN..... audience,
who believed beyond a reasonable doubt,
they were
America's real citizens.........

Couldn't help but want to get in their face and scream at the top of my lungs........ 

PATRIOTISM... MY ASS!
THAT AIN'T AMERICA, DUMBASS!

JESUS FUCKING CHIRST!
NOW THAT'S OFFENSIVE!

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I  just don't get it!

The military having just recently removed the objections to letting women serve on submarines.....
 so what's the objection to letting gays serve in the military?

Afraid our soldiers can't handle their soap?

Can't take it as well as they gave it?

Can't be all they can be?

CHRISTIAN the LION

THE HYPOCRITICAL BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL

Live and let live

 

It was a lovely day in the woods. The birds sang in the trees, the frogs croaked in the pond, the crickets chirped in the grass and a rattle snake slid along a small path, which led through the middle of the woods, to warm herself in the sun. She rolled up and slept a little. It was peaceful and nice. A man came along the path who saw the sleeping snake and wanted to kill it.

He grabbed a large stone and just as he wanted to throw it onto the sleeping snake she woke up. „Brother, why do you want to kill me, I haven’t done anything to you!" You are poisonous and must die!" called the man. "But brother, I am poisonous but I’m not doing anything, I won’t kill you!" " You, kill me?" laughed the man. "I am a human and am much larger and stronger than you and I have this stone. I am going to kill you with it!" "I am not a snake’s brother anyway!" the man screamed “…and you are going to die now!" He lifted up the stone. In that instant, the snake struck out like lightning and bit the man in the neck. He immediately fell to the ground and as he lay there dying, he heard the snake say: “If you had listened to me, brother, and hadn’t wanted to kill me, this wouldn’t have happened and you might have had a long life." Then the snake rolled back into the sun and slept on this wonderfully peaceful day in the woods.

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Although I live in Decatur, I introduce myself as being from Atlanta. Having moved to the Atlanta area to be closer to Midtown, the heart of Atlanta's large gay community, the gay ghetto of the south; Midtown being where I felt most alive, calling Atlanta home seems most sincere.

Even hard to tell, where Decatur begins and ends, while navigating what is known as Metro Atlanta. Lived here since 1995 and still not sure. Nor could I even describe downtown Decatur. I hear it's a lovely town. Been given no reason to believe otherwise. 

GAY GHETTOS

Any area of a (usually) large metropolis where gay people live, work and hang out. Often the neighborhood contains several gay bars, gay bookstores, and other "gay friendly" business establishments.

Some rather famous Gay Ghettos include the Castro district of San Francisco, Greenwich Village and Chelsea in NYC and Dupont Circle in Washington, DC.

LAURA BUSH: BORN-AGAIN ACTIVIST......(kinda)

My Favorite Republican.......Sissy

Sissy is the wife of the owner of several veterinary clinics who only recently has become involved in the day to day affairs of running his business.  Having worked for Dr. I previously at different clinics, already knew of Sissy, as Dr. I would bring up her name during conversations.  Although nothing said that reflected negatively of her,  our first encounter turned out to be an unexpected  pleasant surprise; one of many to come.....all bubbly, full of energy, fun, and fleeting. 

On this day we met, wasn't until after she left that I realized....I was the only white person working at that hospital......and this was day three.

   

Toward the end of Bush second term, after reading an article about the conflicts in Afganistan and Iraq, I turned to Sissy sitting at the desk behind me, who  happened to  drop in that day for some office work, and remarked,

"I think we ought to bring all the soldiers home from both wars and send everyone who voted for Bush ...TWICE .....to fight these wars instead!"

She replied,

"WELL.....I....LIKE.... the man!  I VOTED for him....TWICE'!"

I was ....floored,

but not because she voted for him twice.

With a name like 'Sissy', and the amount of hair spray needed, that was a given.

It was how effortlessly,  lacking any hint of remorse or doubt,

the words rolled off her tongue.

 

Wouldn't surprise me to find out she belonged to a sorority.

 

***

At the end of another lively debate,

even closer to the end of Bush term with polls showing a likely defeat of McCain by Obama:

 

"Behind every successful man is a woman," remarked Sissy.

 

  Actually agree with her, but knew she wasn't talking about his mother. This was a sore loser taking a swipe at the winning party! 

 

"Yeah! A younger one," I came close to saying.

 

Ended up biting my tongue due to some office gossiping.

Would of been more than just a double edge sword; an overkill.

Even I couldn't be that mean.

 

 

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Throughout Bush's eight years in the white house, will admit to one bright spot....his wife.
Believed she had class that went beyond polite good manners.
A gut feeling.

Although disappointed by Laura's appearing to be a supportive spouse, submissively allowing George's opinions to prevail where they disagreed, as if her opinion was of no value; hard to fault her going with the role of the good wife, a role that often pitting loyalty against moral, for the sake of their marriage.
Since the release of her memoirs,  can't help but smile a little.  Following the same line of reasoning,  Laura's certainly not going to let it be known, for the sake of their marriage....

......she didn't vote for George twice!

Laura Bush, who is promoting her book "Spoken From the Heart," acknowledged that gay marriage was a key social issue in her husband's 2004 reelection campaign. After gay marriage was legalized in Massachusetts, the president endorsed a constitutional amendment that would prohibit it. "I understand his viewpoint," she said. "And he understands mine."

Laura Bush Backs Gay Marriage, Abortion Rights


http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/13/laura-bush-backs-gay-marriage-abortion-rights/ 
 

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Especially given her position as a public figure, I give her a world of credit for talking about all this now; such wounds do not ever heal on their own, and her mea culpa, no matter how belated, reminds us that it's never too late to begin that process:

 

 

The Price Laura Bush Paid for

"Failing to Make Amends"

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/04/30/the-price-laura-bush-paid-for-failing-to-make-amends/?icid=sphere_politicsdaily_inline

The SOUND OF SILENCE

The Pengiun's Waltz

SANTA'S NEXT!

 Behind Gated Communities

&

 Over Picket Fences

(to grandmother's house we go) 

Nothing wrong with the media being "liberal". 

It's how conservative you make use of it , if even at all.