All change requires, to use a worn out phrase a “paradigm shift.”  In order for America to rise again we need a change in focus at the very foundation and what better place to start than with the educational process in the U.S?

As for me, I think there’s far… Read full post »

A full moon casts its pale blue light upon the surface of the water, painting a perfect self portrait on the near black surface of the water during slack tide in the harbor as I stare in contemplation, well perhaps even deeper thought than mere contemplation, more like deep meditation, so r… Read full post »

The old advertising slogan ‘Guinness is good for you’ is actually true it seems.

While Diageo, the manufacturer, makes no health claims for the product, scientific research shows a pint of Guinness a day is actually good for your health.

Indeed it may work as we… Read full post »

Trojan Horses are not only inserted into bills as they’re developed, the “horses” are very often developed later as a result of those bills too.

To fully understand the health care system in the U.S. today, one must understand, or at least see the history… Read full post »

My wife and I were talking just this morning about all the garbage taking place in the political world lately and I voiced a suspicion I’ve had for some time, we’re both Boomer kids and during the conversation I asked;

What if this economy and all the political maneuvering… Read full post »

Beyond absurd folks.    Psst! Don't ask about it and don't tell anyone about it.
 

I watched the Senate hearing while questioning the top military personnel of the nation.  Everyone of the top brass will support the measure and stated so in the hearing (of course,… Read full post »

Australia Blames US, Not Assange

“Australia's foreign minister has said the US is to blame for the release of thousands of diplomatic cables on Wikileaks, not its Australian founder, Julian Assange.”

Now there’s a novel idea.

“Mr Rudd, the former prime minister who was replace… Read full post »

In the past few days we’ve seen something a bit worrisome, whispered; perhaps rumored with reason?  I don’t know, but given the merger/take-over fever that has enveloped this country for decades, the news and blog postings pertaining to Salon.com’s and its Open Salon companion/… Read full post »

Good News! 

WikiLeaks has a new address for those of you interested -  

http://213.251.145.96/index.html

Bad News!

 "Meanwhile, British media reports Scotland Yard could arrest the site's founder Julian Assange within days" Read full post »

Worried About Unemployment Benefits?  Concerned About Health Care?

Well don’t be.  In being pushed out of your homes with nothing to eat and no health care, you are actually doing your part to preserve democracy, in fact the “only true democracy, the democracy of t/… Read full post »

IN ANSWER TO DAVID PRICE'S "SEX IS THE MOTHER OF DEATH

Sex is death in that it tortures us guys utterly without end from about 12 -13 years old. It is our constant companion 24/7, raging within like the coal fire at Centralia Pennsylvania and continues for decade upon decade, upon… Read full post »

And bring Gerry Adams to the U.S.

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Inspired by Nikki Stern's Anxiety Attack

Eyes tightly closed

jaws aching

teeth breaking 

fists clenched

clawing palms

arms squeezed 

against  heaving chest

FUCK!

Close, so close

I feel it's mass

wishing to crush me

hear it's silence

wishing to deafen me

smell it's presen… Read full post »

Am I the only one who sees this whole picture as incredibly suspicious?

" UPS says cargo from Yemen suspended immediately." 

" WRAPUP 8-Explosives in US-bound parcels from Yemen-Obama"

OK.  UAE and Saudi Arabia, both BIG-time supporters of terrorist activities will, on occassion, nab a pawn t… Read full post »

Canvas

Stark, colorless

Begging fulfillment, significance

Glaring pallid, pointless, empty

Taunting,

Searingly provocative,

Searching for meaning

Forlorn, abiding pointless existence

Brushes

Seized, dipped

Soul, seeking inspiration

Sightless, heartless endeavors failing

&n… Read full post »

I read LC Neal's post this morning.  Her writing reminded me of my incredible daily commute while living in Colorado.

I grew up in Oklahoma, an area so damned flat you could stand on your front porch and watch your dog run away for three days.   Pitching mounds were outlawed in… Read full post »

"One in five Irishmen don't want sex." so says Molly Muldoon IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

 And I have  no reason to doubt her claims, in fact, me being of the Irish too, married to a second generation Scot las, I'm inclined to tek Ms Muldoon's story on the strong probability… Read full post »

I feel bad!  Really, really bad!

The world has turned as black as the Devil’s bedroom, or at least his playground and as Venezuela’s Chavez is intimately familiar with – it reeks of brimstone.  International politics are ugly, international relationships are bleak,/… Read full post »

A WELL TRAINED CAST 

 CBS NEWS

Stephanie Condon

Casting Call for West Virginia GOP Ad Called for "Hicky" Actors

A casting call for a Republican West Virginia campaign ad called for actors with a "'Hicky' Blue Collar look."

The ad "Stop Obama" produced for the National Republica… Read full post »

“I AM YOU??” 

I am you, you are me, you are what you are
And you make it hard
And you make it hard- (And we all know how that happens, don't we Christine!!  Oh the shame I feel, Christine!  Oh the shame.)

Look!  I served with Boomer Bob, I… Read full post »

I am very simply from the memories of my life that flood my head, of which 65% and the most significant and wonderful include my incredible wife, seemingly as though it all started with her just yesterday at sunrise.

Perhaps from the worn out Fruit of the Loom sleeveless t-shirts… Read full post »

I don’t know how many of you have been keeping up with the Erik Scott story in Las Vegas, but I’ve been watching the Coroner’s Inquest, incessantly listening to recount after recount of the witnesses to the death of what by all accounts would be an all-American kid.  Erik… Read full post »

Grilled Salmon and Aparagus

4 medium salmon filets (Sockeye or Pacific Red), skin on one side

¼ cup lime juice

¼ cup soy sauce

½ cup lemon grass chopped very finely

Lowry’s Lemmon Pepper to taste

1 bunch cilantro coarsely chopped

2 tbsp flaked sea salt (… Read full post »

1. Lingerie & pajamas. What do you really sleep in?

Skin!  Cool, dry, just bathed skin

2. What’s the one thing in your refrigerator you’re goddamned angry about if someone touches it?

Watermelon

Go ahead and try

Well, here it is, boring as it may be, but at least you will never question me again about what a trouble-making brat I was. 

 If I do this, will it absolve me of all my childhood sins?

1. My first taste of hard liquor:

I was 4 years old. Toby… Read full post »