The Purpose Of Life Is A Life Of Purpose.

I got an interesting email from someone I never heard of asking that I re post this old entry. I didn't know anyone but me read this. Thanks! Enjoy! In American democracy, speech is free but communicating is gonna cost ya! – especially if you’re trying to run for office. This is the #1 reason we have the “leaders” we have. As the cost of getting elected keeps up with the cost of gas, the candidates we end up with are the wealthy and well-financed and they don’t give voters a choice at all. The typical winner outspends the typical loser by nearly three to one during the campaign. 98.5 percent of all incumbents seeking reelection were successful (i.e.: If you can’t write a big check to your local television station to pay for a nightly salvo of punch-ads, you’ll still have your freedom of speech, you just won’t be heard or elected). Elections are supposed to be about when the “OUT’S” clash with the “IN’S” over bettering society, and letting US decide which is best, if either, allowi...

Oh No George...not ANOTHER one....? By PHILIP SHENON Published: November 12, 2005 – The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/12/politics/12lobby.html WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 - House Democratic leaders called on the White House on Friday to release documents showing whether a powerful Republican lobbyist had a role in arranging an Oval Office meeting last year between President Bush and the president of the West African nation of Gabon, whose government had been asked by the lobbyist to pay $9 million to help arrange such a meeting. The White House and the State Department have said that the meeting with President Omar Bongo of Gabon on May 26, 2004, was routine and that there was no evidence of any involvement by Mr. Abramoff. Wow will the Nixon parallels never end for Georgie Porgie? Isn’t this exactly how Watergate came about? Little pieces of the fabric unraveling here and there and a couple of hungry writers sunk their teeth in to it and RRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIP…is was over for Ti...

Supreme Court to Hear Tribunals Challenge By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 1 minute ago THE NEWS: WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a challenge to the Bush administration's military tribunals for foreign terror suspects, a major test of the government's wartime powers. Justices will decide whether Osama bin Laden's former, driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, can be tried for war crimes before military officers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. THE ISSUE: Just in case you need some talking points for when you are embattled with neo-patriots created by the fear mongering that the Bush Administration has stirred up; THIS is why a balanced court is ESSENTIAL and why Judge Alito can NOT be allowed to sit on the bench. As the article states, the Supreme is going to hear a challenge to the Bush administration's military tribunals for foreign terror suspects, which is not only a major check of the government's wartime powers, but will put Chief Just...

In the immortal words of Ronnie Ray-Gun, “Mr. Bush, there you go again.” I can't believe I saw this Chicago Tribune headline: Bush sets short list for court Sources name 2 conservative appeals judges Published October 30, 2005 - Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0510300283oct30,1,2576545.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true Hoping to use the smoke from the own prairie fire of bad news for his administration lately, Mr Bush holds fast to the ‘holier than thou/superior’ posture of the Republican party and has released a short list of Super Conservatives as potential next picks for the Supreme Court. Mr Bush is expected to announce today or Monday, that he has narrowed the focus to Judges Samuel Alito of New Jersey and J. Michael Luttig of Virginia. But don't rule out Priscilla Owens. Mr Bush hasn;t met a judicila appointment he didn;t like her for, and doesn't know the meaning of the word, DENIED! Let’s examin...

Ladies and Gentlemen – After the scandalous news for the GOP of the past few weeks and Governor Dean’s wishy washy showing on the Sunday shows lately, it has become apparent that “we the people, in order to” re take our imperfect union and continue it on path where the nation and society can be judged by how well the least in our society is realizing their own American Dream, we MUST, quickly and immediately, get and stay on a message that resounds through out the nation. If the Democratic Party and its members are the lesser of two evils compared to the outright 3 ring circus that is currently the Bush administration, we have a “clarity of message” problem my friends. These are days when the Mr. Bush, right before going into his “terrorist boogieman” “evil people” speech has the unmitigated nerve to stand up in front of a crowd of people and actually talk about Rosa Parks as if she had something to do with anything that changed anything in his or his collective family’s life. This ...

This is just TOO amazing...at least read it and ponder.... I wonder how many people on the planet will actually take a moment and go outside and check this out... And if they do, I wonder if it is one of the few things we could say about oursevlves (via history) about 'these days', with all the fear and terror hanging over us....if we all took a moment to look up at the sky wonder gape in awe at the Mighty Red Giant bearing down on us...would it be one of the rare fly specks of moments in history when we forgot ourselves and stared in wonder at something totally out of our control? Should we rent a telelscope and throw a part at Griffith Park or the beach or the desert ?...if any one wants to let me know I'm game... Fw: MARS SPECTACULAR The Red Planet is about to be spectacular! This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history. The next time Mars may come this close i...

I finally took the time to begin bringing my website in to the 21st century…and, if I can, drop it in to the same…hummm, how the hell am I going to do that? I think some of the info is the same but I did update thing as I saw fit and where my tastes changed. What it REALLY is better looking. I stole some code from a cool website and used everything (except colors and content of course). In looking for new content I discovered a website called ‘EscapeArtist.com’ VERY COOL …I may YET leave America behind for a career as an anonymous jazz pianist in Paris or Geneva. You know looking back on this thing, it’s amazing how BIG a geek I really am…I mean really…who knew…