The moon this evening
is so bright
I stood for a long time
basking in its glow
~ tis heavenly

Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky

And you lift me up out of the two worlds.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops,

So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

(Rumi)

In the previous OT

ruth wrote "skinny asks, "couldn't help but wonder, what are the troops gonna be thinking about the new 'panderer in chief'?

hmmmm, this is too easy....they will probably be thinking he will, in the least, let the troops come home when their tour of duty is up instead of holding them over and working them to death, on the cheap....like Bush does.....

just a thought....ruth"

#68

More military families supported Obama than did McCain.

An overwhelming number of combat troops those deployed overseas supported Obama.

Young military families overwhelmingly supported Obama (which was one of the features of his strong showing in Virginia.)

His overall favorablity before the election was abouit 60-35 which now stands at about 75-22 -- one of the highest for a pres. candidate and the highest of any president-elect since the 1st World War respectively.

From the previous OT

Skinny wrote:

"OK....here's the deal....

The stuff above is what I fear will happen under an Obama administration....But I write what I write mostly to get a rise out of you guys...it kinda works! Chris gets downright snarky! I love it..."

There's the Norm I know and love!

How about I just gut you like a fish and treat you like the insignificant maggot you are?

I've run roughshod over fools like you all my life. Don't even break a sweat now doing it.

"However....My new President is going to be Barack Obama. I don't like that, but I respect that choice.

As a conservative American it worries me..."

WHat you need to be really worried about (as a conservative) is about your own party and its leadership.

But then idiot republicans like you want Palin 2012. Wow. There's going to be a GOP civil war(right now for RNC chair) and it's all going to be fun to watch from the sidelines!

You should be happy if GOP doesn't essentially become a regional party(of the South) by the 2010 by-elections and redistricting.

"I hope he is a blazing success. I hope that in 4 years I'm looking for Heather to congratulate her. I hope that he can turn the economy around. I hope he can de-nuke the world. I hope he can do these things without totally breaking the economy...

I hope...."

Don't worry he will be way waaaaay better than the blazing success of your current president, of you and the 20% of deadenders who loved and still love him so much.

"See guys....way before I'm a Republican, I'm an American. I don't consider it 'measles' as our brilliant Gotham pointed out a couple years ago, to have a nationalistic fervor."

That's right. These days being a republican and being a supporter of Bush is ironically anti-American even by the mainstream conservative/GOP standards.

"So....yeah, I'll continue poking and prodding. I'll probably even make up another song. Yep , for now I still think he's an empty suit...I think some of his past associations are disgraceful. For the most part....I think we're in trouble........

I hope I'm wrong....I'll gladly concede that I am..."

No, his associations are NOT disgraceful. But the gulit by asscoiation campaign and smear tactics ARE disgraceful.

"PS....if he turns water to Wild Turkey...I'm on board!!!"

71. Posted by skinny on November 11, 2008 03:08 PM

Where do you live, Skinny? In that wingnut shit hole Kentucky just like your pigs on farm?

I oughtta come up there and beat your ass to a bloody mess.

You don't want to mess with me. I own you, bitch. I'll stuff your face in the toilet after I've laid a big, juicy turd and let you sit and think about that for a bit.

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Jack Cafferty: Who cares about Sarah Palin?

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/11/why-is-there-still-so-much-interest-in-gov-palin/

Some of the best of the comments:

Elizabeth writes:
"National "rubbernecking." It is like driving by an accident. You don’t want to look, but somehow you just can’t help it."

Diane from Barneveld, New York writes:
"She’s Bush in skirts."

Andrew writes:
"There are two reasons: 1) She’s attractive. For better or for worse, people listen when pretty girls talk, no matter what nonsense may come out of their mouths. 2) Incompetence, by itself, is not entertaining. However, when the incompetent are supremely self-confident, full of certitude, and absent of insight, it’s absolutely compelling."

Tom from Fort Lauderdale, Florida writes:
"Jack, they should leave this woman alone. Nobody cares how many countries there are in Ohio."

Maureen Dowd:

"The Alaska governor, who now thinks she is even bigger than her vast state, has certainly not missed an opportunity to throw open the door to the national press this week, letting them hang in her Wasilla kitchen as she makes moose chili and cake and baby formula and hefty servings of spin.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/opinion/12dowd.html

Here's something that might give you chills, or thrills, depending on where you belong on the intellectual-idiot wing scale of the GOP. Either way, it is sure to amuse you if you are not a republican:

The Wilderness Years
by Adam B
dkos

Fri Nov 07, 2008

"I leave you gentleman now and you will write it. You will interpret it. That's your right. But as I leave you I want you to know — just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference and it will be one in which I have welcomed the opportunity to test wits with you."

-- Richard Nixon, November 7, 1962

There he stood, humbled and jobless, having unexpectedly lost his bid for Governor of California. Just two years earlier as vice president, Nixon had lost in one of the closest presidential elections in history. He was humiliated that August when President Eisenhower, in a televised press conference, couldn't give an example of a major idea of Nixon's that he had heeded. "If you give me a week, I might think of one," Eisenhower said. "I don't remember."

There was no reason to think Nixon's public life was anything but over. He moved to New York City and became a partner in the law firm of Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, and Alexander, where he argued a major libel case before the Supreme Court.

But he also wrote a bestselling memoir, "Six Crises", which reviewed the major events in his public life from the Alger Hiss scandal through Khrushchev and Caracas to the 1960 campaign. He penned articles on foreign policy for magazines and journals. And he fundraised and campaigned relentlessly for Republican candidates across the country.

And by 1968, the laughing-stock of 1960 and 1962 was seen as the leader of his party-in-exile, a Serious Thinker for serious times. As he wrote in his memoir, "I have never regretted what I said in 'the last press conference.' I believe that it gave the media a warning that I would not sit back and take whatever biased coverage was dished out to me. I think the episode was partially responsible for the much fairer treatment I received from the press during the next few years. From that point of view alone, it was worth it."

I think you see where this is going.

There are many in our party, and in the DailyKos community, who believe that Gov. Sarah Palin is finished in public life, that she has been humiliated, disgraced and permanently retired to an ice floe off the Pribilof Islands for a long, quiet life of snowmobile races and muktuk dinners. I am not among them.

The media loves a comeback story, as will her die-hard band of loyalists. So after some time outside the public eye, expect Palin's memoir to come out in the next year or two, with appearances on all the major news magazine shows and daytime chat shows. She'll call up Hannity and Limbaugh when she gets bored, and even Hugh Hewitt when she's really bored.

Palin will be the most in-demand GOP fundraiser in the country, and will begin to build her own network of contacts and supporters in all the key states.

And she will gain over time the one thing she was missing this cycle, and it isn't "experience" but what experience is often a proxy for -- 'mastery'. What Gov. Palin needs to do if she is to return to national politics is to find ways to convince people that she knows what she's talking about, and this can be done. She can develop her own views on the role of government and America's role in the world. She should become a voracious reader -- I'd start her out with The Economist -- every week, cover to cover, including the special reports on corporate social responsibility and the new nomadism -- as well as my smart friends over at The Next Right.

And in 2015 (if not sooner), I'd predict, we'll see a new Sarah Palin criss-crossing the early primary states, with a few more lines in her face and perhaps a Bonnie Raitt streak of grey in her hair at the age of 51 -- a reformer with results from the Last Frontier -- and we will need to take her very, very seriously.

Or to take another example: the losing candidate for Vice President in 1920 lacked experience, but gained much respect as an energetic campaigner for his party's ticket, especially in the West, where he railed against the large sums of money being spent by the other party in the election. Still, his party failed to win outside the South, and the Electoral College was a rout. After the election he returned to his home state, built up quite a record as Governor, gave rousing speeches at his party's conventions, and in 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to his first of four terms as President of the United States.

Yes, my friends, we will have Sarah Palin to kick around once more, and she will be formidable. Mark my words.

if you've seen any of Palin's post-campaign interviews, you'll see a viper set to her jaw and lies issuing from her eyes. I wouldn't trust her with a clod of earth.

she's veddy disappointed to be up in Alaska again and will do anything to escape. maybe she'll try to pack herself out by hiding in the clothing that "came up in the belly of the plane" and is now on its way back down to the RNC. (wonder what the RNC will do with it. were all the pacifiers returned?)

she has taken to using the following rule from the Rovian-Bushian-Cheneyian Playbook: to fight a fact that's true but harmful to yourself, just make up any old lie that denies the harmful truth, and repeat it over and over, and sooner or later, a few people will believe you, or everyone will get tired of hearing about it, or both, and you can move on. she's taken so well to using it that maybe she had a hand in writing it. or maybe she's had lots of previous experience.

this is a woman with no ethics and no conscience that I can see. wonder if this comment makes me one of the proverbial notrious bloggers hiding out in my parent's basement. it's certainly part of a self-torture effort that I intend to end more or less immediately, since watching her in interviews is one of the most disagreeable things I've ever tried.

hey, a few days ago, didn't I write I wouldn't write her name again unless she considered running for national office? well yup. now you know why this comment.

Your Guide to the Coming Republican Civil War
by: JulieWolf

Many of you have heard reports about the coming Republican Civil War, which I will henceforth be referred to as THE WAR TO END ALL REPUBLICANS ("WEAR," for short)

But most of this has been discussed merely as a split between the camps of John Sidney McCain and Sarah Louise Heath Palin, specifically focusing on matters of the approach to the campaign.

But, in reality, there are several factions competing for the "soul" of the Republican Party, or at least the closest thing to a soul the party could dig out of a deep, dark, recess that's best not described in polite company.

So I've written up this handy little guide to help us all better understand who the various factions in the Republican party are, and what sides we can expect them to be taking in the upcoming WEAR.

First, let's start with the obvious broad categories:

BIG BUSINESS:
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Their likes are deregulation, tax breaks for the wealthy, making a lot of money no matter who or what it hurts, complete lack of accountability and offshore accounts to hide certain kinds of profits from the IRS.

Their dislikes are corporate responsibility, people who write them letters and anyone who attempts to regulate any aspect of their business.

They favor Republicans because Republicans are eager and willing to take large donations and, in turn, just sort of look the other way when they, I dunno, don't bother paying taxes on public property for forty years.
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RELIGIOUS/"FAMILY VALUES" NUTCASES:
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Their likes are smug superiority, people like them, amendments banning same-sex marriage, the death penalty, gays who attack other gays and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Their dislikes are gays, Muslims, people who look like Muslims, people who aren't like them, people who dare to criticize them, elitists, vegetarians, Wiccans, abortion, people who are sane Christians, people who act too Jewish, gay or catholic.

They favor Republicans because they think Republicans will eventually overturn Roe v Wade and because Republicans pretend to like them in exchange for their support.
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WARMONGERS/NEOCONS:
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Their likes are war, violence, and anything which makes them think America is superior.
Their dislikes are France, Europe, France, any country that's not the United States, France, Canada, and peacenicks.

Their likes are anyone who likes war as much as they do, especially if they're dark-skinned enough and crazy-sounding enough to justify us going to war with them. This means you, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

They like Republicans because Republicans are consistently thrilled to talk up war and violence, even when it's not in their best interest to do so.
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LIBERTARIANS/ANTI-TAX NUTCASES:
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Libertarians like very small government and freedom. They hate excessive spending, big government and waste.

It is often unclear as to why they like Republicans.
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RACISTS:
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Their likes are people who look like them and anyone who helps them justify their bigotry. Their dislikes are everyone else.

They like republicans because Republicans make them think they're not really racist.
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USEFUL IDIOTS:
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Their likes are people who say the right kind of thing, regardless of their actions. Their dislikes are anyone who tries to correct their understanding of the world.

They like Republicans because they use catchy buzzwords and because they are idiots.
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There are, of course, other categories we could discuss, but these will serve as basic categories for the discussion. There are plenty of people who overlap in this group. John McCain, for example, would fall into the Warmonger category, but he'd also fit directly in with Big Business. Many of his supporters fall into those categories as well as the Useful Idiot category because he can talk a good game about veterans issues, but actually does very poorly with them.

Sarah Palin, on the other hand, fits in easily with Religious Nutcases, Racists and Useful Idiots. In fact, assume that everyone I mention here includes that last group in some capacity from this point on. I'll focus instead on the other two: she's loved by religious nutcases because she is one and she's loved by racists because she gave them so much great rhetoric during the campaign so as to make them think that their racism and xenophobia was, on some level, acceptable.

Mitt Romney, on the other hand, is all Big Business and Family Values. My suspicion about Romney is that he is less someone with convictions then someone who was so sure that he needed to say certain things to get elected that he's actually convinced himself that he believes them. But he's got a strong base of support, just not strong enough that he didn't need to fund his own campaign with a whole lot of his own money.

But how about Mike Huckabee? He's clearly loved by the Religious Nutcases but seems to be anti-racism, at least in his rhetoric. He's hated by big business but somewhat in the libertarian category, except he believes in universal education. In other words, one of the popular Republican candidates has some campaign issues more in favor with Democrats than Republicans.

Which brings us to Ron Paul, who represents an entirely different aspect of the Republican party, with the vast majority of his support coming from Libertarians and Racists, and definitely not the religious nutcases nor the warmongers.

With the exception of John McCain, there is a good possibility that all these individuals will be running for President in 2012 and this is where the WEAR comes in.

There are lots of rumors spreading about what happened behind the scenes in the McCain/Palin campaign, which helps set the stage for the upcoming battle. I.e., Romney camp spreading Palin stories?, Palin aide strikes back at McCain camp, etc. Most of you have seen much of this, so I won't bother reiterating.

But this is the basic dynamic: people from the Romney, McCain and Palin factions seem to really have it in for one another. Romney's appeal to the Family Values nutcases is damaged by the fact that he's a Mormon and most Family Values nutcases don't like anyone who's not a Christian (or, at the very least, an acceptably conservative Jew) and most assuredly do not think of Mormonism as "Christian." McCain's people pretty much hate Romney and now they seem to really hate Palin. They blame her for having hurt McCain's chances and being an all around crappy candidate and for "going rogue" from time to time. And then there's the whole Palin/underwear thing (which has nothing to do with Romney).

But the real gold here is that this scatters those categories I listed above. Libertarians are already finding problems with the Republican party, which has largely increased spending during their tenure and made government a lot bigger (and a lot more anti-freedom). Big Business will support anyone who helps them out, and turning the economy into a great big sinkhole really doesn't help big business all that much.

The religious nutcases are now split, with some going to Obama and most still preferring Republicans but willing to sit the election out if someone who's not sufficiently evangelical gets nominated. Granted, there are still plenty of racists, and they probably (if possible) like the Republicans a little more than they used to, but probably think of them as weak little sissies if they cooperate on Obama with anything.

So most of what's left for Republicans are useful idiots. And the great thing about useful idiots is that they're stupid enough to start chasing each other around with baseball bats rather than us. So when big business starts blaming religious nutcases and religious nutcases start blaming warmongers and warmongers start blaming libertarians who, in turn, blame everybody, well, hijinx ensue.

To me, this is going to be sort of like "Glengarry Glen Ross" crossed with a Keystone Cops movie.

Grab your popcorn, folks. This is going to be fun.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/11/85651/707/213/658805

Dear Ed,
I find I write in response to something and that response could be quite different according to the something being addressed; the something that caught my eye.

It's like what Gandhi said to reporters, (I think): If you want to know the truth of what I think then read the last thing I have written.

Miss your capricious and pithy epithets these past few days. :)

Dear Sherry,
so much paperwork! heartbreaking.

Loved your kindalooni :)

X

morning everyone,

re #4.....I bet Skinny is so afraid...what is the matter, Chris?....lose your pacifier?

ruth

Well, it appears that I have been blocked on the new intent.com site from posting on any of Deepak's Jesus threads. I have brought this to the attention of those in charge, so I assume that since I've received no response, I must be correct.

This is a sign of weakness and fear, if I am correct and certainly un-American, as 'freedom of speech' has been blocked, while the shadow tries to hide.

I'm a little hurt and now somewhat angry, as I've been hit (so-to-speak), but it's clearly not my direct problem. However, I am passionate about Jesus and that's apparently too much to handle for someone?

The VOW? Lack of communication is the same as violence, so it seems that some folks have decided to break their VOW of peace. But I guess we all can only do our best. Or maybe the person(s) responsible have not taken the VOW? Will I be banned here as well because I speak what I believe to be the truth?

Cheers,
Char

And maybe I am wrong, but a 100% block on just Deepak's Jesus threads is pretty amazing not to be a fact. Could consiousness be so playful?

Regardless, I work on my on VOW of peace to resolve the hurt and anger that I now feel .....

OM

Love, Char

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Mein Gott, Keef, me'at, (Geordie for mate)

You sound a bit spaced out
Nuff in between2
Ah, but what a joy
To see you up there
With the lights
Fullin on...
Heavey sigh of rekeif.

Loll, what a mesh I make!

Bless.

I used to have a good imagination. But now I can't tell the difference between my envisioning and visions. So now it's not a good thing.

My solace is that if I didn't have anything to evolve from, there would be no evolving. Uhhg!

Spaced out in NY.

Yo Keith
Yo

Ed you are truly a master. The giggles run deep.

Yo Keith

derek

Hi Kate

did you feel
the weight
of the light
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it catches a bit
as it passes by
otherwise lost
to some other
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Hi Char,

How are you doing?

I would advise you to take those blocks not too seriously. I am not a member anymore of Intent.com but I regularly read some columns there and sometimes when I click on a link they send me totally into the 'bushes' lol.

Since everything there is still in the 'beta' development, one can expect many (programming) mistakes. I have experienced one or two too when I had an account there.

They probably did not think the response to their site would be that heavy.

I have seen other sites going 'down' on the heavy information load in the past.

I have developed one good mantra for this:

Nothing on the Internet can be interpreted personally. Just go with the flow of information and pick your choice from what you think and believe is satisfying for you.

Enjoy the full moon; I just had a peek outside here and it is such a beautiful and brilliant one!

Love and blessings to you!

And, hello there Keith, same to you!

Mieke

Dear Jane #5,
You probably got a bad translation; unless of course he means "I am my Self."

Thanks for the thought for the day.

Nah, Derek,

we all be Moon-children with Sunny disposition.

Heavenly body, indeed!! ;)

You Jane, me Tarzan...

"We'll hunt for a third tiger now, but like
The others this one too will be a form
Of what I dream, a structure of words, and not
The flesh and one tiger that beyond all myths
Paces the earth. I know these things quite well,
Yet nonetheless some force keeps driving me
In this vague, unreasonable, and ancient quest,
And I go on pursuing through the hours
Another tiger, the beast not found in verse."

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/jorge_luis_borges/quotes

Hi Ed,

I found another one on that site, very profound:

"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."

Well, that one for me says it all and it is great to be able to share: every point in space is an expression of it All :)

And the moon reflects the sun and I now saw a beautiful aurora, just discovered around Saturn:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20081112.html

Our Universe: what a spectacle!

Mieke

Thanks Mieke.

I realized that I created all the stress via my imagination yesterday, which included many things that I was worrying about. So I started working on some mantras, “God is good. God is great. God is love and so am I.” These kind of helped, but I was still dealing with my internal storm. After about the 2nd hour at the spa last night, while in the hot tub, I attempted to get rid of the neck/shoulder pain that I created, as I resolved to repeating the mantra, “God loves me and I love God,” which seemed to eventually help, as I was able to open my heart to feelings of love again. Then I heard from my higher Self, “Deepak has helped you a lot,” as I pondered upon it. And from there, my hurt and anger dissipated, as a cloud surrounding a mountain burns off when the sun warms the ground. I need to remember that I am the one who is responsible for the peace within, as well as the storms and that I can do something about my own person weather.

Today is very beautiful and my world is warm and sunny, as it’s about 80 degrees without a cloud in sight. I spent some time with one of the volunteer rangers who showed me some nice/short hiking trails, which I am now looking forward to trying tomorrow. And if hiking agrees with me, I will try some of the longer trails, as I am finding that I still have a lot of time on my hands during my camping vacation.
This morning was a new beginning, which reminds me that we wake up a new and fresh each and every day, as the past is only a shadow of this moment right now, while the future does not exist except for right now too. The Bible also affirms this simple and wonderful concept too in several of its verses.

Love, Char

Hiking's a meditation to me, Char. Go on with you!

Hey Mieke
Wow
That is the pole of Saturn that has the mysterious hexagon. At the other pole is a shaft like hole on the clouds. Maybe Saturn is a lens or telescope or maybe even a star gate. The aurora is a build up of energy proceeding some kind of event.

Yo, enough sci-fi.............right?

as we learn new things new things are possible

derek

Mieke
The galaxy you sent me is my desktop picture on my computer.
Funny how I can look at that galaxy and know that there are beings living there that will never be able to see this view, well, maybe not never. Wait a minute, could I originally be from that galaxy?
Anyway it is mesmerizing.

I think heaven would be the ability to explore our universe without the need of a space ship. To move beyond the speed of light in my own little bubble. I know I do this when I'm dreaming. I want to do it when I'm awake. I have a feeling some day we will.

Having such an archive of pictures like the one of this galaxy is a good start. When I look at these pictures they tug on my soul as if I were the only thing holding me back.

Yo, maybe in a million years.

derek

I'm still giggling Brother Ed

as i lay here
face to the earth
moon to moon
bare ass
to heavenly glow
i can't help but giggle
it tickles me
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Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion C5-6, C6-7 with anterior instrumentation C5-C7

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God (all yawl) help me2 see trhu this One stuff!

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High wires breakaway

Trees too close leaves half a tree

Crosscuts dreaming on

What do you think you'll find here?
At the end of all things
At the end of this road

Will we be on you-turned, upside-down
Toward a new beginning?
What do you think?

No, better, no more thinking
Are you willing to dress yourself from this river-shadows?
Are you fearless enough to find your way-in, on the other shore?

I think, your are just a little liar
A very talkative-being

Really?, really?
Well, listen to this, Yogi-fear
Turn your eyes out of this desert
Now see, this forgotten river...

#37 Awww, Keith..... thought you were joking...,., 'stem'..... well er.........not in the dickshone'airy.

Christmas! Jeez! A tree to remember and a sincere prayer.

Gentle hug, my friend.

#33 lol Derek, you've giggled my goggle-box, too!

I've come to realeyes how very mystickle UB and right-brained :))

Dear Keith,
I hope your operation goes well. Normally I can't stake my truth on what you voodoo guys say here at IB. It's just that last night I had a vision, vague, of you in a wheel chair. (Well what we did in the wheel chair is private, but...). Hey, I figure a mingling up of notions, you talking about an operation and me seeing stuff I see.
Please be well.

Dear Keith,

Will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Hugs and love to you.

Char, hiking.., hope you will enjoy it. Me am practising at the moment, to walk more miles (in my case kilometres) every time, so I may be able to walk a very special path from the North to the South of our country (in the eastern part) called "the Pieterpad" next year, albeit in parts of say 20 kilometres a day. I love hiking :).

Derek: "as we learn new things, new things are possible". Yes, always open for new things. My fascination for the Universe was born already at a very early age. When I was a child of about 8 years we already had a sci fi series on our Dutch television: Prof. Plato and the journey to the Moon :).

Due to my father's fascination with the magic lantern after WWII (which he probably received from one of the English soldiers at that time), we were one of the first to own a television and all the kids in our street came to watch this series in our home together. The fantasies that arose from that..... :)

I did a special in school about the landing on the Moon in the sixties. Never lost my fascination, guess I will always be drawn to it.

Everyone, have a nice weekend!

Mieke

Well I did not make the hiking trip today, but I did sit outside and enjoy the animals, as today is beautiful and sunny, as well as warm. Good luck on the hiking tour Mieke. Anyway, I had to get my marine battery re-charged today, and they do it for free at Krugens, which was good to find out, so I'm waiting, as I want to watch some movies tonight on the laptop. I guess, I am more the gym type of person, as I enjoy weight training and after a week, I can already see a difference and I feel much stronger, even tho I am not loosing any weight, but they say muscle weighs more than fat. And I might try hiking later, as I ponder up it and I can see that it is a form of meditation as Ed said. Life is beautiful right now, and I have two more weeks of camping, which is great.

Love, Char

.

Hi Sherry!

It's almost nice to know

Some thoughts aren't worth repeating

Chairs on wheels may be One

Thank you!

.

Dear Ed,

I see you as a dear and enduring friend.

Please don't mess That, up there, nor jewels, found you-know-where.

My stem is fine. Thank you!

Leafless

Tumbleweeds fly north of yonder
Bumble bee stings let you ponder
Twigs bone dry so let's go wander

If you are out there, Heath...............................Hello!

hi there dear Keith,
UT you have been missed!
I am really glad to see you,
leafless
and still so adorable ;-)
love

The space shuttle Endeavour was just launched and it was amazing to see the orange yellow glow light up the sky, just underneath the moon!

Wow!

Keith
leaves or leafless I will join Ed in a little tree hugging, best wishes and prayers in December.

Hey Ed
Miss Tickle put a spell on my left brain leaving it completely useless. She's cute though and I follow her around like a love sick puppy. She knows just where to touch me to make me laugh uncontrollably.

Mieke
How can we be so lucky as to be conscious of our universe?

derek

Hi Kate

derek

Hi Derek #50,

The answer to your question from my perception is because our body IS the universe. By nurturing the body and closely listen to its internal signals one can watch the outer signals as a mirror.

I cannot explain it clearer, loving oneself as a whole and listening to oneself as that whole, creates both the inside and outside experience of oneself.

"My home is my castle, read the last poem again from the little poetry book of North and me:"

"My Home is my castle
Filled with bliss
Filled with gratitude
Filled with All that Is"

And if one talks about compassion then it starts by nurturing Oneself. And the rest follows by itself.

#50 Ah yes, Ms*tickle , Derek....had me chewing on the leash!
Like you, I wasn't entirely myself, but now I'm all right. All that was left is right and all that was right is left.

Good Lord, Derek, we have psydekick gifts as well :))

flabs has settled in dude's swollen nog...he urgently needs to see brain surgeon quick before condition induces coma...

hey emperor!

kate!

lady flower! damn!

the tree is naked but still attractive, says kate! eeeuuuhhhhh......

that lame duck is bery bery retarded and so are his loyal supporters...tttttsssssskkkkk..................

Awl wees D

Power is here!
A strong breath
Irregular in your case

STAND UP!
POWER, I said
WAKE UP, Yogi-sleepy

Are you going somewhere in this condition?
You are black-behaviors, yes
Yes! I can clearly see it

Now, go on your knees
Throw up everything
You are not ready, you don't understand yet...

You see clarity in black
You see clarity in white
How can you not see the differences?

Show this hidden-hand
One step back, I am acting
Show this hand

Open wide, don't be shame of it
The central is yet well fired
You see

You are inconfortable, ok
Focus on this pure-power
Evacuate heat by your feet
(repeat 3 times)

Close your eyes
Take all the place you want
Don't move

The high ways of your world
You are in
Focus on this pure-power

There is no speed, no limit
Focus
Destroy these deep highways-moses

Once on your shaking-state
Show me, open the other hand
Please, let this complement get in
Focus on this pure-power

My son never forget
Power is responsability
Responsability never will...

In the meantime.....

India managed to put its first Lunar lander on the moon that will investigate the soil there:

http://newsok.com/indias-first-lunar-landing-is-success/article/3322279

and I watched a video and listened to Kishore Mahbubani giving a globalization lecture in our country about the New Asian Hemisphere followed by a discussion with our Minister of European affairs Frans Timmermans and people from the public:

http://www.vpro.nl/programma/globaliseringslezing/artikelen/39970758/media/40323046/?bw=bb&player=wmp&media=40323046&refernr=&hostname=www&portalid=programmasites&x=30&y=10

where opposites can be attractive to one another, will be able to start working closely together and in the Universe interacting galaxies are now understood to be common:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081115.html

And so I wouldn’t be surprised if the new aurora around Saturn’s pole will slowly but surely transform itself into a beautiful heart (labyrinth) and if you make two of them as a mirror they so beautifully form a heart butterfly ready to fly compassionately and creatively around our total hemisphere :):

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20081112.html

http://www.heartphone.org/labyrinths_in_nature.htm

Scroll down to the bottom of the page of the last link to have a look at this beautiful butterfly……

Everywhere I look, human emotions are brewing a storm. Be ready for extremes and hold your Peace, yay.

Morning Everyone,

Do not have much to offer this am, but Hi there, Keith...long time no hear....hope all is well with you...Derek good to see you back and I hope Alicia is doing well......

I came across this piece and thought that Ambasteve and Skinny would be interested in reading it...it is just a part of the article..and I am tempted to post it because of Greta Van Sustern and her obsession with Sarah Palin...Greta, it seems is all about Sarah and Sarah's so-called press and media bias...

from nytimes today...Frank Rich....

The trouble is far more fundamental than that. The G.O.P. ran out of steam and ideas well before George W. Bush took office and Tom DeLay ran amok, and it is now more representative of 20th-century South Africa during apartheid than 21st-century America. The proof is in the vanilla pudding. When David Letterman said that the 10 G.O.P. presidential candidates at an early debate looked like “guys waiting to tee off at a restricted country club,” he was the first to correctly call the election.

On Nov. 4, that’s roughly the sole constituency that remained loyal to the party — minus its wealthiest slice, a previously solid G.O.P. stronghold that turned blue this year (in a whopping swing of 34 percentage points). The Republicans lost every region of the country by double digits except the South, which they won by less than double digits (9 points). They took the South only because McCain, who ran roughly even with Obama among whites in every other region, won Southern whites by 38 percentage points.

Those occasional counties that tilted more Republican in 2008 tended to be not only the least diverse, but also the most rural, least educated and slowest-growing in population. McCain-Palin did score a landslide among white evangelical Christians, though even in that demographic Obama shaved the G.O.P. margin by seven percentage points from 2004.

The Republicans did this to themselves, yet a convenient amnesia can be found in conservatives’ post-Election Day soul searching. There’s endless hand-wringing about Bush and McCain blunders and Abramoff-Stevens corruption, but there’s barely any mention of the nasty cultural brawls that defined the G.O.P. campaign narrative this year as the party clung bitterly once more to its 40-year-old “Southern strategy.”

There were as many Republican prejudices as candidates. In primary season, the whispered antipathy among some conservative evangelicals toward Mormons grew so loud that Mitt Romney felt compelled to give a speech defending his faith (but was so fearful of inciting further wrath that he said the word Mormon only once). The conservative gatekeeper Michael Medved spotlighted another whisper campaign in May, writing that the popular moderate Florida G.O.P. governor Charlie Crist had been “single since his divorce in 1980 (after a marriage that lasted only a year)” and was the subject of “nasty rumors of possible gay activity.” Crist announced his engagement to a woman weeks later, but by then he was no longer a serious contender for the ticket.

John McCain also might have held Florida had he prevailed with his first choice of a running mate, the pro-abortion-rights Joe Lieberman, but G.O.P. ayatollahs scuttled both him and the abortion moderate Tom Ridge, who might have helped win Pennsylvania. Not that McCain was innocent in these exclusionary escapades. He strenuously sought the endorsement of the Rev. John Hagee, even though Hagee had blamed gays for Hurricane Katrina, referred to the Roman Catholic Church as “the great whore,” and theorized that Hitler came about because God’s “top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.”

The icing on this rancid cake was the race-baiting of Obama and the immigrant bashing by G.O.P. hopefuls who tried to outdo the nativist fringe candidate Tom Tancredo. Yet Republican denial is unabated. In an interview with Palin the weekend before the election, a conservative Wall Street Journal editorialist asked whether “the G.O.P. doesn’t in fact have a perception problem, that it is no longer viewed as a big tent.” A perception problem? Hello — how about a reality problem?

Yet the G.O.P. really does believe that it’s all about perception. That’s why its 2000 convention offered a stage full of break dancers and gospel singers, wildly outnumbering the black delegates in the audience. Bush and Karl Rove regarded diversity as a public-relations issue to be finessed with marketing. Round up some black extras! Sell “compassionate conservatism” by posing Bush incessantly with black schoolchildren! Problem solved!

The 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign Web site even boasted a “Compassion” archive of photos of Bush with black folk, including Colin Powell. McCain used the same playbook this year, when he headed south to emote over Katrina victims and stock his own Web site with pictures depicting his adventures in black America. He had been a no-show in New Orleans during the six months after the hurricane hit, when his presence might have made a difference.

In defeat, the party’s thinking remains unchanged. Its leaders once again believe they can bamboozle the public into thinking they’re the “party of Lincoln” by pushing forward a few minority front men or women. The reason why they are promoting Palin and the recently elected Indian-American governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, as the party’s “future” is not just that they are hard-line social conservatives; they are also the only prominent Republican officeholders under 50 who are not white men. The G.O.P. will have to dip down to a former one-term lieutenant governor of Maryland, Michael Steele, to put a black public face on its national committee.

Such window dressing aside, there remains only one Republican idea for reaching out to minority voters: Richard Land, of the Southern Baptist Convention, recommends pandering to socially conservative blacks and Hispanics with yet more hyperventilation about same-sex marriage. Weird though it may be, gays were the sole minority group that actually voted slightly more Republican this year (though still going Democratic by 70 to 27 percent). Pitting blacks and Latinos against them could open up a whole new bloody front in the G.O.P. civil war.

The only other widespread post-election conservative ideas are Bush 2000 retreads (market-based health care and education reform). Jindal offers generic gab about how the party must offer Americans “real solutions” and “substance,” but he has yet to offer a real solution to his own state’s gaping $1 billion budget shortfall. Indeed, the only two “new” ideas that the G.O.P. is pushing in defeat are those they condemn when practiced by Democrats: celebrity and identity politics. Palin’s manic post-election publicity tour, which may yet propel her and “the first dude” to “Dancing With the Stars,” is almost a parody of the McCain ad likening Obama to Paris and Britney. Anyone who says so is promptly called out for sexism by the P.C. police of the newly “feminist” G.O.P.

At the risk of being so reviled, let me point out that in the marathon of Palin interviews last week, the single most revealing exchange had nothing to do with her wardrobe or the “jerks” (as she called them) around McCain. It came instead when Wolf Blitzer of CNN asked for some substance by inviting her to suggest “one or two ideas” that Republicans might have to offer. “Well, a lot of Republican governors have really good ideas for our nation,” she responded, without specifying anything except that “it’s all about free enterprise and respecting equality.” Well, yes, but surely there’s some actual new initiative worth mentioning, Blitzer followed up. “Gah!” replied the G.O.P.’s future. “Nothing specific right now!”

The good news for Democrats is a post-election Gallup poll finding that while only 45 percent of Americans want to see Palin have a national political future (and 52 percent of Americans do not), 76 percent of Republicans say bring her on. The bad news for Democrats is that these are the exact circumstances that can make Obama cocky and Democrats sloppy. The worse news for the country is that at a time of genuine national peril we actually do need an opposition party that is not brain-dead.

oh, well, enjoy...later....ruth

Keith, good wishes for your big surgery.

___

Slumdog Millionaire is getting a lot of great reviews, the audience choice at the Toronto Film festival and is now showing in a limited release in the US. The film is based on a book "Q and A" by Vikas Swarup, the story is set in Mumbai(Bombay,) directed by the British filmmaker Danny Boyle of "Trainspotting" fame, and excellent score by A. R. Rehman.

Synopsis:

"SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions. Intrigued by Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out… "--© Fox Searchlight

What the Top movie critics are saying:

"There's never been anything like this densely detailed phantasmagoria -- groundbreaking in substance, damned near earth-shaking in style."

--Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal

"Slumdog Millionaire is a ruthlessly effective paean to destiny, leaving nothing to chance. It also has a good shot at winning this year's Academy Award for best picture, if the pundits, Allah, Shiva and Fox Searchlight Pictures have anything to say"

--Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune

"Four stars simply aren't enough for Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, which just may be the most entertaining movie I've ever labeled a masterpiece in these pages."

--Lou Lumenick
New York Post

"Slumdog Millionaire is skillful entertainment, with the simple message that the most intense life experiences yield the greatest education."

--Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail

"The real star of the film is not a person but a city, the vertiginous, exciting, massively overcrowded 'maximum city' of Mumbai."

--Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com

" Much of the film is so overwhelming as sheer mass spectacle that it serves as a sobering view of an overpopulated part of the world that defies any judgmental analysis."

--Andrew Sarris
New York Observer

"Like all good fairy tales, this outsize celebration of perseverance and moral triumph contains within it a deeper idea -- in this case, the relative nature of what we think we know, and what's worth knowing at all."

--Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

"[E]ven at its most harrowing and heartbreaking, Slumdog Millionaire is never less than deliriously entertaining. "

--Christopher Orr
New Republic

"The beautifully rendered and energetic tale celebrates resilience, the power of knowledge and the vitality of the human experience. Horrifying, humorous and life-affirming, it is, above all, unforgettable."

--Claudia Puig
USA Today

"Slumdog Millionaire is [Boyle's] liveliest fusion of style and content since Trainspotting."

--David Edelstein
New York Magazine

"When Boyle pulls back to show us his grand vision, it's a stunner. And everything suddenly falls into place, as if this uncommonly daring film was fated to work from the very start."

--Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

"The movie brushes against some of India's worst social ills, but it's essentially a fairy tale."

--J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

"Boyle's feature draws the viewer in, immersing him in a fast-moving, engaging narrative featuring a protagonist who is so likeable it's almost unfair."

--James Berardinelli
ReelViews

"The best old-fashioned audience picture of the year, a Hollywood-style romantic melodrama that delivers major studio satisfactions in an ultra-modern way."

--Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

"A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, Slumdog Millionaire doesn’t travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next."

--Manohla Dargis
New York Times

"Slumdog Millionaire is nothing if not an enjoyably far-fetched piece of rags-to-riches wish fulfillment. It's like the Bollywood version of a Capra fable sprayed with colorful drops of dark-side-of-the-Third-World squalor."

--Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

"A solidly entertaining and energizing film."

--Peter Brunette
Hollywood Reporter

"Slumdog Millionaire has the goods to bust out as a scrappy contender in the Oscar race. It's modern India standing in for a world in full economic spin. "

--Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

"An entertaining, ingenious yarn, despite a few loose ends. "

--Rafer Guzman
Newsday

"Despite its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate."

--Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine

"This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time."

--Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

"Both tragic and joyful, it's like a musically accented Oliver Twist, a lightly curried Frank Capra."

--Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger

"Boyle and Beaufoy, working from a novel by Vikas Swarup, uninsistently make the case that the most useful intelligence, in all its forms, comes from life experience."

--Todd McCarthy
Variety

I thought the review by Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com is a lot informative than others. The full review is worth reading:

Thrill ride through a "maximum city"

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/11/12/slumdog/index.html

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['Boyle does a wonderful job of capturing the "insidious nature," and the not-so-veiled cruelty, of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" an enormous phenomenon on Indian television. (Indian star Anil Kapoor is deliciously malicious as the show's on-air host.) "They don’t just have TV presenters or personalities doing it there," as in the U.S. or U.K., Boyle observed. "Two men have done it so far. The first guy was Amitabh Bachchan, who is the biggest star in India; it is almost impossible to describe his fame, his level of importance. He presented it originally, and it has since been taken over by a guy called Shahrukh Khan, who is the biggest star in Bollywood at the moment...']

["Slumdog Millionaire" is now playing in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington. It opens Nov. 21 in Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle and Vancouver; Dec. 5 in Atlanta, Detroit and Indianapolis; and Dec. 12 in Ann Arbor, Mich., Austin, Texas, Hartford, Conn., Madison, Wis., Milwaukee, Sacramento, Calif., and St. Louis, with wider release to follow.]

About the music:

Soundtrack

Composer A. R. Rahman planned the score over two months and completed it in two weeks.[5] He has stated he was aiming for "mixing modern India and the old India" with the music, but that the film and soundtrack "isn’t about India or Indian culture. The story could happen anywhere." Boyle, who "hated sentiment" and told Rahman "Never put a cello in my film", wanted a "pulsey" score. Rahman appreciated that Boyle liked how Indian films mix music, saying the director wanted "edgy, upfront" music that did not sound suppressed. Composing pieces to fit the images, he noted "there’s not many cues in the film. Usually a big film has 130 cues. This had just seventeen or eighteen: the end credits, beginning credits."[5] Describing the music as one of the parts he liked most in the film,[6] Boyle wanted to include M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" from early on in production on the score, which appears along with an original track Rahman composed, "O...Saya," featuring Arulpragasam. M.I.A., who Rahman described as a "powerhouse" and Boyle hailed as "a gift" to the soundtrack gave brief film notes on some scenes to Boyle upon request during editing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire

You play your guitar
on the site IB
money for nothin'
and your chicks for free
that's the way you do it
so cavalier
money for nothin'
now there's no one here

Dire Straight's Money for Nothin' had an exciting (at the time) video style that mixed live video with loose rotography and angular early CGI. Musically, lyrically and visually, the song and its video spoke to the disconnect between blue collar workers and the rest of the USA, which so informed the American political balance of power from Reagan's time until just this year. As the cherry on top, the dude singing the song's "I want my MTV" chorus was my lovely Sting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNaKWXqXkhw

(or click my name)

Rhyme-breakin's punishable by counter-comment, like this one. Sentence imposed, and, if this comment is read, served. In any case, maybe the chicks are there, but there ain't no money, honey.

* * *

Keith, I hope your operation goes well. And the PT thereafter even better.

Hey, Irish, merde! :D

J-F, here is the sunshine of love, which illuminates the spectacular multicolored gradients of all of life.

Ed, how does your garden grow?

Kate! Ever the poetess!

Derek the dancer-maker!

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Slumdog is a certain must-see film. So glad it's being touted here.

love to all, and cheers till a long time from now, h

OMG, I meant Dire Straits...

...and I almost typed "Straights" again even now, my intent subverted by the fingers that were wanting to show the eyes that they can type the hardest of all the three homonyms correctly.

Hi Ruth
Thanks for asking about Alicia. She is gaining a little ground. She sat up the other day. Last week an artery to her liver ruptured and she was back in surgery. It is still touch and go but I think she is starting to get the better of this thing. The doctors are trying to get her stabilized enough to come home to Colorado. She has to go awhile without complications before she can travel.

It amazes me how after such a traumatic experience we learn to adjust and even resume some sense of normalcy. We humans are a very resilient bunch.

derek

Hi Heath

derek

Nuttin' for hoardings
Affluent ghostly squirrels
Nuttin' this Fall

Fall

There where I lived, wind-touched
and fed on sun and rain,
tickled by insect feet,
sung to by birds at every hour,
and cicadas on sultry afternoons,
was where I fell in love.
This is my new fall:
my love,
when he was orange-red,
was taken by a squirrel's hands
to make a bed,
and I'm undone,
floating in a lazy spiral,
the grace of which
belies my death.

Suddenly the sky changed orange and blue
Take this exit, the last one
Jump out, dont stop, JUMP
You'll see

Close your eyes and see
From North-blue Canada-USA Rocky Mountains
To south-red Argentina-Chile Cordillera de los Andes

Please remember-high, reframe your self
Open your mouth and eat this cold-spicy plate
Refresh in spirit, this spectacular landscape and people

Lost on this land
Please, now, remember...

Good question, Heather........weather permitting?

You hint at travels? How wonderful!

Love.

OMG the sync has sunk!

Did you pen that now or later :))

Whatever, I love it, dearest Heath.

about 90 minutes ago, Ed -- posted it on warriorpoets, thought maybe you'd seen it, then I thought... unlikely... so shared it here. :D

definitely a synched-up day.

loving George Michaels' musicality.

(oh, the guy I love is so musical!)

tomes un bocatito de sambal.

that fat man is bery bery delusional...too bad, at first... he came across as a smart dude...but his ridculous ways prove other wise...eeeuuuhhhh.

maybe that chris dude should really smear his piehole with stinky dog poo....hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.................................................

hi Derek,
brrrr... it's chilly tonight,
I love it
- just don't have a fireplace, and it would
be nice.
I have the cracklin' rose,
but missing
the burning
embers!)

Heather,
I happen to fall often
It is a feeling
unlike any
other ;-)

i love your poem,
and you too!

~ Kate

I thank you for the warm thoughts, Heather!

.

Luv you, too, Kate!

.

A strange tree was talking overnight
Rooted to the sky, without a leaf
In front many clear-stars, firmament-backgrounded

The lawnmower man has been elected
The sickness of his mind selected
This man will be the example to not follow

The laws for his own protection will be pointed and destroyed
These followers-payers will have to make a choice
The water is rising while these people still try to fly

The lawnmower man has been elected
It's the start of a new war
A war, yes and nobody will see it

Right now see the first act:

The tree is holding a man with its branches
While forcing the man to open the mouth
A branch enter into him to snap inside the upper part of his columns vertebral
Other branches are removing the clothes with force, without any kindness
A series of little branches are grabbing the feet of the man
Forcing the man to open the legs
His bottom-hole is the door for the next branch entering inside him
Snapping on the bottom part of his columns vertebral

Finally, the man is elevating in the air, upside-down, from the bottom branch
Like a ugly-trophy of knowledge and mental-activity

The war is started and you, you disappear!

You surpass yourself, Jean...... I'd better go watch your link :-))

does anyone have any thoughts on the dudes' respective body language in this pic?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/11/17/us/17transition-600.jpg

(or click my name)

mac... you know I have a history for reaching acorss the aisle..should u need me!

barack... yes, i do.

#85 Quite subtle isn't it, Heath, but you could put the whole damn shoot in a nutshell.
Who needs astrology?

#86 I read subtle from you, too, Diab ;-)

Flesh is a commodity that nobody can afford
OO

#87 Afterhought of The Day for Barack
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

That my be true, Ed. (#90)

Now what should I-
with forked tongue
and third eye blind-
wicked to the roots-
think of this very wood
which undermines the worms?

Wrought away the thoughts of stone. UT

Do you think, Keith, I mean do you dare think, that if Barack opened his mouth, it would be two-times?
OMG, I'm overwrought!

Happy Thanksgiving...all you audacious hopers!!

Hehehehe.....are you ever in for a letdown....

I promise...he can't walk on water!

I wanted to give you another song...but the creative juices just aren't flowing today...

I'll be gone for several weeks...sooo...a big Happy Thanksgiving to all...possibly Merry Christmas too....

Y'all have fun......

As you revel in your orgiastic glee...remember...you'd better watch out, you'd better not pout...you'd better not cry I'm telling you why....Sarah Palin's coming to town.... 2012...she'll clean up the Obombus mess!!

:)

there ain't enuff wingnuts to elect a whack job...another example of how delusional the fat man has become! that is the same dude who bleated not so long ago he would vote for the nutso W in a heart beat if he 'was' still on the ballot. eeeeuuuuuhhhhh.....

Skinny... I mean, seriously, you're trolling a site where you're a well-known laughing stock.

I mean, I guess being well-done known is better than nothing.

Is that your problem? Did mommy not hug you enough? Because there's gotta be better sources of attention than saying stupid things to people that don't care about you on the internet.

Let me recommend a puppy.

Or the highest flying, but lamest of ducks.

After all my talk of drifting in the ocean, I was just commissioned to etch a Tall Ship at sea in someone's entry. Cooool

duck
duck
duck
duck
goose

derek

i let go the rutter
of my ship
i let go my destiny
i let go my life
to a boat
the sails are filled
at times
and at times
not
the current
plays as well
when i do land ashore
a toothpick guides me
to brothers in silence
who know the true beauty
of words
stone stacked on stone
by hands and souls
and stories of destinies
the cathedrals rise
and crumble
just like the mountains
built by the hands of gods
but a silent gardener
does not notice
for he eats
of bread
made by hands and souls
who know the true beauty
of silence

derek

yo
rutter

how bout rudder

Rutles . . .

The Rutles?

Yes The Rutles

1963...........my birth year to boot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qf8y7v0WIE

Yo Craig
Thanks for the trip down trippy lane. Time to sit back and enjoy some Rutles and a fresh bowl.

Yo

derek