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This is the Sanskrit symbol for OM
Om is the Sanskrit word that is the sound of the vibration of the universe. According to ancient sacred texts, in the beginning was the Word, or Vibration. We all emanate from that vibration and live in that vibration. Chanting OM will assist you in aligning with the Source.
Below is a beautiful OM video. Enjoy!
Om shanti shanti shanti. May peace and peace and peace be everywhere.
Jeez, it seems it’s been about a week since Bobby Jindal (whose real first name is Piyush..I am not kidding, yes, another rising star using multiple names) last saw Louisiana, you know the state he’s supposed to be governing.
First, it was the Governors Conference, then giving the rebuttal to Oblahblah’s pretend state of the union speech, and finally it’s CPAC, the conservative convention. Who is paying for Jindal’s room and board this past week? Who bought his clothes? Who’s running Louisiana while he’s trying out for the presidency? What are his qualifications since he’s only been governor for a year and has no foreign policy experience? Doesn’t he have a big ego to think he could be president since he is so young and lacking in experience? Isn’t he only thinking of himself and ignoring the people of Louisiana?
Just wondering, because if that was Sarah Palin it would be all over the networks in the lower 48 and in Alaska that Palin is out campaigning at the state taxpayers expense (even if she was paying her own way; the truth might be whispered a month or so from now in the back pages of the local newspaper next to the obituaries); that Palin is only interested in herself, not the people of Alaska; that Palin sure has a big ego thinking she could actually be president since she has no foreign policy experience and comes from a remote state like Alaska.
Don’t seem to be any questions about Jindal’s ego or any comments on the fact that Louisiana is as corrupt, or more so, than Illinois. I think it has something to do with SEXISM. I mean, it’s to be expected that a young, male aspiring to higher office would go to conventions where he could look important and meet important people and the people of his state should be proud of him and proud of themselves for electing such a bright rising star. I mean, isn’t that normal?
It’s normal only if you are a man; if you are a woman, you are back in your state fending off malicious allegations intended to smear your reputation so that you will figure out that you are never going to run for office again, with a massive smear campaign already in high gear intended to make sure you never leave Alaska again let alone run for POTUS.
You are to be criticized for collecting $8,500 in per diems even though you saved $900,000 compared to the previous governor. You are to be questioned about your children traveling with you and at whose expense and even though the conclusion is that nothing wrong was done, you will voluntarily seek a higher standard and make sure no one can question your actions regarding your family again.
I really wonder about the people of Alaska. Why are they not proud of their governor? I think that is very weird and if anyone from Alaskawould like to explain I would love to hear it.
In the meantime, the GOP men will keep pushing forward any man as a future candidate and no one will ever question their ethics, their expense account, their ego, or their loyalty to their state. No one, that is, except me.
You go Sarah! See you in 2012.
"Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it." - E. F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
our small earth
Back in 1973 a man by the name of E.F. Schumacher wrote a book called “Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered.” The book was a big hit with me and my friends; we were all back-to-the-land hippie types who voluntarily decided to drop out of the rat race and live a simple, ecologically sound lifestyle. (By the way, this lifestyle is now labeled ‘voluntary simplicity’).
E.F. Schumacher
I mean, I was chopping wood and carrying water back before anyone thought to write a book with that title. We were anti-consumerists; we never threw anything away, we fixed it; we furnished our houses from the dump and yard sales; bought our clothes at the thrifts shops; grew our own food and preserved it; heated with a wood stove; well, basically lived a small is beautiful life.
I’ve never understood this thing about how bigger is better. Why is that? What does big have to do with anything? The sign of success back then, and today, is making more money this year than last; having a bigger house than the first one you owned; and expanding your business. Even churches want to grow. The sign of a successful minister is a growing congregation and the need to build a bigger church (which many times ends up bankrupting the church, because no one can really count on people sticking with a church from year to year).
This bigger is better attitude is, according to Russell Means, spokesperson for the Republic of Lakota, an attitude that goes against the natural order of things. I think he is right. If you look at how nature evolves you will see a natural progression: one does not go from kindergarten to college overnight is one way to look at it. A might oak might come form an acorn, but it takes a hundred years to reach full-size.
But for some reason, man likes to think he can do things better than nature, so he builds big buildings and businesses and organizations and expands markets and does all of this with no regard to the human, or animal, life his egotistical desires destroy or damage. It’s the ‘use a nuclear bomb to kill an ant’ perspective that often creates more problems than it solves.
One chapter in “Small is Beautiful” is called Buddhist Economics. In this chapter Schumacher talks about the appropriate scale of an activity and blasts notions that "growth is good," and that "bigger is better."
Schumacher writes, “It is clear, therefore, that Buddhist economics must be very different from the economics of modern materialism, since the Buddhist sees the essence of civilization not in a multiplication of wants but in the purification of human character."
The reason I am talking about all of this is because from where I sit it looks to me like we are moving back to the future. Rather than change, what I see coming out of Washington is a return to the policies of the ‘70’s, you know, the ones that failed so we tried something new. For example, the welfare system that Bill Clinton re-vamped so that there was a work requirement, with childcare provided, has been re-revamped so that now, from what I have read on the stimulus bill, is going back to the old style welfare where states are going to be rewarded for increasing the welfare rolls, not decreasing them. Back to the future, Jimmy Carter and the 1970’s, here we come.
With the collapse of the global economy, it looks to me that we need to sharpen up those skills we learned in the ‘70’s and get busy “going back to the land” in whatever form we can.
Below is a recent two part video of Russell Means talking about all of this small is beautiful stuff. I thought it was a very good talk. Enjoy!
I just love John Zeigler. He’s the film maker who took on the mainstream media to prove that they consciously targeted Sarah Palin for destruction while, at the same time, selected Obama as our next president and made sure he got elected.
Sarah and John
Zeigler released his film “Media Malpractice, How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted” this week and he has been on the go giving interviews many of which are on msnbc, aka, the Obama News Network. There is Matt Lauer on the Today show, Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe, and Nora O’Donnell.
I have to admit the Nora O’Donnell interview is my favorite. Apparently, O’Donnell had previously stated that Palin called Obama a terrorist, which is false. As Ziegler points out, normally this would lead to the newscaster getting fired; instead, O’Donnell is given the opportunity on the Today Show to give the lead-in to the Zeigler interview. Huh? This would be like having Rush Limbaugh do the intro to a Bill Ayres interview on his friendship with Obama.
Zeigler’s facial expressions during the interviews are worth a thousand words; they vary from incredulous to surprised to stunned. It’s hysterical.
I love the way these so-called newscasters first try to play innocent, then actually do the typical abuser/victim act where they blame it all on the victim. It’s Palin’s fault they spread false stories and slander about her children because her children campaigned with her. Huh? Don’t most politicians take their kids along with them and, since Palin was still nursing Trig, what was she supposed to do, fly the milk up to Alaska every day. In any case, why does that make it ok to smear them? Where’s the logic here?
Let’s see, it’s Palin’s fault they chose to play over and over again the heavily edited Katie Couric interview which, according to the way they promoted it, Palin doesn’t know how to read. Hey, guys, how about playing over and over again Obama saying there were 57 states…uh uh uh.
Below is the Nora O’Donnell interview. You can watch the other interviews, the movie trailer, and more on Zeigler’s website howobamagotelected.com
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Officer Scott R. Easterling, a first lieutenant in the United States Army has agreed to be a plaintiff in one of Orly Taitz’s eligibility lawsuits, contesting whether Barack Obama is constitutionally eligible to be POTUS.
Easterling writes, “Until Mr. Obama releases a "vault copy" of his original birth certificate for public review, I will consider him neither my Commander in Chief nor my President, but rather, a usurper to the Office - an impostor. My conviction is such that I am compelled to join Dr. Orly Taitz's lawsuit, as a plaintiff, against Mr. Obama. As a citizen, it pains me to do this, but as an Officer, my sworn oath to support and defend our Constitution requires this action.”
In an article on World Net Daily Taitz says that she advised Easterling to obtain legal counsel before making any statements regarding the commander-in-chief, but he insisted on moving forward. His contention is that as an active member of the U.S. military, he is required to follow orders from a sitting president, and he needs – on pain of court-martial – to know that Obama is eligible.
Hey folks, I would say this is a big event. If the active military begins to question Oblahblah’s eligibility, we, or should I say he, has a very serious problem. This definitely could lead to a major constitutional crisis, which could have been avoided if he would just produce his birth certificate.
That Mahatma Gandhi quote at the top of this article is starting to move. I say this because of a couple of things.
It starts with Alan Keyes, a former presidential candidate and also someone who ran against Oblahblah for his senate seat. Most people say Keyes is a fringe element person. I don’t know about that, but in reality someone who is integrated into mainstream government or politics is not too likely to file a lawsuit against the selected, not elected, POTUS and speak up as forcefully as Keyes did recently. (Although, we do now have a military officer speaking up, and to me that’s pretty solid American, mainstream).
In an interview given after speaking at a pro-life rally, Keyes says Oblahblah is a radical communist and he must be stopped or the U.S. will cease to exist. He also mentions that there are some in the military starting to question Oblahblah’s credentials and whether they can obey his commands. He further states we are heading towards a constitutional crisis. Whoa..baby! That’s strong stuff.
What is making me think the situation is rapidly moving from the laughing stage to the fighting stage is somehow, somewhere, on the web I came across a video of Keith Olbermann’s show “This Week with Barack Obama” (I can not believe there is really a show named this and that anyone would take anything said on this show seriously, but I think it is considered news).
Anyway, Olbermann was talking about Keyes and his speech and how crazy he and everyone else is who thinks there might be an eligibility issue regarding Oblahoblah. He then calls in someone named Jonathan Alter, who is supposedly some type of respectable political editor for Newsweek.
During the course of talking about the crazies (Olbermann’s word) and the ridiculous (Alter’s words) they finally come down to talking about Keyes remarks regarding the military. And this is where they get serious. Alter is saying how, yes, that is very dangerous if some crazy “folks” in the military decide not to obey Oblahblah (he thinks our military is full of crazy people?) and then he implies that this could be considered incitement (by Keyes and others) at some point and maybe the Secret Service would have to do something to protect him (Oblahblah) from the “loonier” extremes (I assume the Secret Service is doing that right now, don’t you?).
Now we see that things are sounding a bit less funny, don’t we? I really hope Taitz, Keyes, the seven state reps who have signed on as plaintiffs, and especially Easterling stay alert and strong in their beliefs that they must take this action to protect our Constitution. God Bless to each of them.
Below is a video of the Keyes interview. If you want to hear what Olbermann and Alter, the pretend news reporters, have to say, just click here.
Our Fearless Leader: Oblahblah for Himself in His big boy pants
ASK NOT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOURSELF, BUT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU!
Please stare into the spiral:
Now march forward as our leader has ordered:
Another one bites the dust, meaning another small country follows Iceland into economic turmoil and the resignation of their government. Aljazeera reports that Prime Minister Ivan Godmanis resigned on Friday; President Valdis Zatlers called for meetings to form a new government.
Latvia is a tiny Baltic state that has been a European success story until recently. After achieving the fastest economic growth in the EU in 2006, it was badly hit by the global recession starting in 2008. In December of 2009, it had to take out a 9.43 billion dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Part of the deal with the loan was cutting public spending and imposing austerity measures on the very unhappy citizens. So, while Iceland was holding protests outside of the Parliament building with pots and pans and rock bands, in Latvia we saw a different type of protest.
We had little old ladies with umbrellas:
Then we had something a wee bit, uh, unusual. Foreign Policy reports that Latvian farmers, protesting falling incomes, forced the resignation of the Agriculture Secretary by delivering a coffin of cow heads to the ministry. Yep, I bet this bloody-well got his attention!
PIcture of cow heads here
Now that the government has fallen, I hope there will be fewer sacrificial cows in Latvia. Otherwise, we might have to take up a collection to send all Latvian cows to India, where they are considered sacred.
Meanwhile, back in Iceland, blogger Dori Sig reports that protests continue.
The Central Bank CEO, David Oddson, refuses to resign. Apparently the CEO’s have transferred huge sums of money to banks in the Caymen Islands and other Caribbean tax havens. Another bank sold some of the large, luxury automobiles that it owned to “friends” at a 70% discount.
Below is a video of the most recent Iceland protest. Mmmm, I see a lot of Puma orange in that crowd. Go Pumas!! We’ve gone international.
Governor Sarah Palin joined with Franklin Graham, President and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse, to deliver food to villages in Western Alaska. Graham’s international Christian relief group planned on delivering 10,000 lbs. of food goods to over 200 Alaska families.
Governor Palin and Franklin Graham help distribute food boxes
Palin decided not to attend the National Governors Association winter meeting in Washington DC this weekend due to pressing issues in Alaska. Instead, she hopped on Graham’s private plane and helped hand out 44 lb. boxes of food to each family in Russian Mission, Marshall, and other Yukon River communities.
The communities in this region were devastated economically because of a bad salmon fishing season and the high price of gasoline. The unemployment in the region is at 19% compared to 8% in the rest of Alaska.
Palin also spoke to the residents about job opportunities in other areas of Alaska. She commented on her husband Todd’s past decision to leave his home to find employment. She particularly wanted to encourage the young people to consider temporarily leaving their villages to seek work.
Below is an interview with Sarah before leaving Wasilla airport. Go Sarah! Keep up the good work.
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