Desire, Distraction, Denial

Incalculable moments of wanton desire
The seconds that tick by as you feel flames rise higher
What does it all mean, why won't anything stick?
Is the distraction enough as the seconds still tick?

To capture the mind, there's a connection somewhere
To dimini/… Read full post »

 Derivatives: The Unregulated Global Casino for Banks

from: demonocracy.info

Herein lies the truth of the matter: Truth is irrelevant, if you can't understand the concept… Read full post »

One decade ago, for the thirty one day period preceding this date in 2002, the Federal Deficit was $ 64.2 Billion Dollars.
Federal Deficit for the last 31 days: $ 198.2 Billion Dollars*

One decade ago, for the thirty one day period preceding this date in 2002, the Medicare Outlays in the Federal/… Read full post »

Well worth the read.  An interview with Morris Berman, author of "Why America Failed" on the culture I've referred to as "Amway America".  His observations and conclusions add subtance to the idea that "fixing" what we've always had in America is not going to happen and it's not goin… Read full post »

  
A good friend sent me an email about cops in riot gear showing up to confront abortion rights protesters on the steps of the Virginia Capitol. She said, “I’m amazed that women’s rights activists are seen as such threats…..this militarization is pretty… Read full post »

There's little more to say, Naked Capitalism tells it all too well.  They want you to smell the roses but all you're going to get is a nose full of fertilizer...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/02/quelle-surprise-administration-and-state-attorneys-general-lied-mortgage-settlement-release-desc… Read full post »

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/173604/under-the-radar-rep-lamar-smith-seeks-mandate-to-store-mass-internet-user-data/

It would be foolish to believe that there’s anything which is accessible which isn’t being monitored and in one form or another, or that it hasn’t been going on for… Read full post »

I became aware of this video through David Brin's blog and felt it is so important, that having shared it through FB and my mailing list, I should just add to the potential for others to see it here:

It isn't temporary, or fleeting, or short (John Williams of the Fed "Unemployment… Read full post »

There should be a blessing for the pathological liar
Who’s talents are engaged to tempt your desire
Whatever the need, they can invent the quick lie
Which if they can’t remember another’s always nearby
They make up strange stories and embellish their lives
Screw up their families and che… Read full post »

Enlighten your dreams, enliven your day
This world which is yours has but one thing to say
Either get with the program, admit the real truths
About who you are,and what you fear to lose
Or losing will live on, while you slowly die
It’s only you who can reach for… Read full post »

Epiphanies if truth be known (and often it is not)
Really are quite lightly armed against a delusion which is hot
They try to point out the past and the present it's begot
But delusions promise everything to all the buttons that we've got

It's hard to drop the childish dream of Prince and… Read full post »

Moments ago http://www.usdebtclock.org/ the national debt passed fifteen trillion dollars.  Here, count the zeros: $ 15,000,000,000,000.  That's about forty eight thousand dollars ($ 48,000.00) for each individual currently alive in the United States. 

I won't delve into the morass of… Read full post »

The memories we have of those we have loved and lost can have the added burden of guilt, about the tragic element of things we wish those people might not have done, or stopped doing, the "what ifs". In my own way, I've come to a better way of processing that.

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A dear friend once said to me “There are no “normal” people; there are just people you don’t know well enough”.  

In the effort to know people well enough, we are compelled by evolution to determine, as characterized in the opening scenes of Arthur C. Clarke&… Read full post »

An absolutely gorgeous morning, suffused with sunlight that looks and feels like fall, temperatures that will go up to the low 80's.

Thunderstorms roll north through the mountains to the east, gracing us with the drama of dark clouds and nearer by, the beauty of fragile ones. Occasional claps of thun… Read full post »

I'm now entering the third year of being responsible for the sale of a twenty acre farm in rural Washington State, that's part of an Irrevocable Trust. I find that there's less likelihood than ever that it will sell soon, despite having lowered the price to half of what it might… Read full post »

Right to Lifer? To someone else, you are bigoted, ignorant, a fanatic religious fundamentalist, a red-neck Neanderthal who is capable of violence.

Abortion rights advocate? To someone else, you are a baby-killer, a promoter of promiscuity, the worst result of Secular Humanism and evidence of the comp… Read full post »

Being responsible in the context of an equitable and reasonable situation is obviously a desired and necessary behavior, if one hopes to foster a decent society. But is that different from continuing to be a dupe in a system which is clearly benefiting sociopaths behavior, with few consequences at th… Read full post »

All the high-minded and moral perspectives of millennium of sages can’t hope to compete with the divide-and-conquer techniques of modern marketing and it’s media brainwash of multiple generations. Jonathan Wolfman’s excellent post led me to consider our situation. Greed, envy and in… Read full post »

One very telling point in the whole budget debate is this: The right proffered the idea that tax increases would inhibit so-called "job creators" (they put an awful lot of people who IMHO should be in jail for their banking exploits in that camp). There IS a group though, who DO… Read full post »

An answer to my friend Gordon Bressack’s question:

“Recent politics in this country has caused me to believe that the two sides just see the world completely differently. Unlike Lilliput and Blefescu in “Gulliver’s Travels” who fought wars over which end of the egg to cr… Read full post »

1. I wanted to be able to call people in later time zones to tell them how horrible it was going to be when it got there.

2. I wanted to take pictures – I figured I could sell them for a lot.

3. I was relieved that I’d never, ever… Read full post »