OK. Here's my Best Foot Forward. Enjoy and eat your hearts out, you connisuers of fine art.

For the best effects possible, I've provided some very complex extra-sensory enhancements for your viewing pleasure.  However!  Please keep this under wraps as I'm in the middle… Read full post »

In 1988, my first and only child was born and with her birth came the almost indescribable and unimaginable mixture of emotions that I’m certain most new parents experience. The minute she appeared, I knew without hesitation that someone with a severely twisted sense of humor was standing over… Read full post »

Obama’s Elitist Corporate Food Machine Heading To Africa

Published on Friday, May 18, 2012 by Common Dreams

Obama's 'Poverty-Relieving' Plan for Africa a Profit Boon for Giant Agribusiness

$3 billion investment from BigAg leaves sustainable agriculture, small-scale farmers' voices behind

- Comm… Read full post »

The world is literally packed with news of political, or more appropriately social dissention today. Revolution is so ripe in the air one can almost taste it with our eyes; we need not even look beyond the first page of Google News to see it, in black and white and frequently… Read full post »

Sometimes, we gotta take the time to listen to the young and just chill!

Best in full screen mode

Harvard's Baseball Team in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Half way accross the country, SMU Women's Rowing Team in Dallas, Texas responds

Maybe it’s just me or hell, maybe it’s all you; either way, my preference that most things be outside the conventional is a way of life for me; non-conventional is conventional, at least for me!  Non-mainstream, if that’s a word, is one person’s oddity and another’s/… Read full post »

Remember the Alamo?  NO!  Remember the BAIL-OUTS!

This election season, please remember what our politicians did to us in favor of the world's elite.  They don't deserve reelection; NONE OF THEM!

They, the Republicans and Democrats alike sat in their DC offices and in… Read full post »

GAWD!!! It’s upon us! 

Election season, or more appropriately; open season on you and I, the tax payer is once again here. 

With their hunting licenses in order, the hunters are wearing their seasonal camouflage smiles, they've oiled, test-fired, and locked and loaded their weapon… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the election of 2008, we sought to elect a candidate, not based upon merits (for he had virtually none… Read full post »

In response to Old New Lefty’s Open Call, I thought I would provide some of my own perception of America and the world.

DISCLAIMER: Keep in mind; I am a seasoned world traveler who, before leaving the farmlands of Oklahoma at 19, had never seen a body of water larger/… Read full post »

As it always does after a particularly bothersome incident, "the gun issue" is once again being hotly debated, argued with fevered pitch in the U.S.  as though life itself is somehow precariously out of balance and I can assure you that it indeed is, for anyone who finds them… Read full post »

VENGIANCE IS MINE SAYETH HILARY

Why I should be surprised ABOUT THIS, I don’t know after the direction in which we’ve been heading since the advent of the Patriot Act, but this is alarming.

 

I have to say here, that I've never been arrested before so I may be completely naïve.  Am I?/… Read full post »

To all the individuals who make up the audiences. To all the corporate sponsors, the radio and television stations who air people like Limbaugh; To ALL Americans! It’s time that we all examine the need for the publicity seeking trash of this nation who proclaim “free speech” while/… Read full post »

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 »