February 11, 2009 - Dogma (DOG-mah) and Shiney People

OK..so I disagreed with someone who frequently opines on my page and now I am supposedly one of the shiney happy people(?) WTF!
"...but if you disagree with the"shiney happy people suddenly what you have to say is "dogma" and censored."

1. I never censored anyone on my page. I delete comments that start going somewhere negative for no point, like calling people names. Its my page, and like the Congressional Democrats are now fond of saying, "if you don't like it, tough."
2. I never said anyone's comments were dogma...I said when people can get beyond religious dogma, understanding can happen, or at least that's what I meant.
   

Dogma: the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization: it is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from.

What I believe:

• People tend to get to involved in my book is right and yours isn't, be it the Bible, Quran, or whatever.
  
• A loving belief system honors all persons ( really all creatures), and doesn't devalue one over the other because they see the world different.
• Agree to disagree, and don't take it so personal.

Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing

Everyone around love them, love them
Put it in your hands
Take it take it
There's no time to cry
Happy happy
Put it in your heart
Where tomorrow shines
Gold and silver shine

Sounds OK to me...shiny happy people...
Now can we all just learn to get along, and maybe sing Kumbaya?

Kumbaya - The Seekers

Entry for February 09, 2009

This just in to the Squirrel Valley newsroom:

Memo To: Secretary of State Clinton

Just a quick note regarding the vacant position in your advisory team. I gather that you have been beleaguered by “a coterie of emissaries who have made the Arab-Israeli conflict their specialty” for decades. But apparently you’re “eager to recruit a fresh face to handle the Arab-Israeli issue, perhaps reaching beyond the circle of Middle East stalwarts.” With that in mind, I wanted to offer a friendly suggestion for what you should consider in selecting an advisor–and, later, framing U.S. policy.

Obviously no one wants yes-men, but you also should reject candidates who trot out the shop-worn view of the conflict: the idea that it can be settled by placating Palestinian grievances and pressuring both sides to make concessions. No, the problem is not that this approach was tried, and that it failed. Quite the reverse. It was tried–in the so-called peace process and later in different form under G.W. Bush–and it worked . . . . to embolden Palestinian aggression, particularly by Islamic totalitarian groups like Hamas.

The problem was not a lack of imagination or creative tinkering with the basic land-for-peace formula. The problem was a failure to understand the conflict and particularly the character and motivation of the Palestinian cause. George W. Bush went further than previous administrations in promising to fulfill the supposed Palestinian aspiration for statehood–and the results have been fiercer Palestinian aggression (see also the ongoing rocket fire from Gaza).

Madam Secretary, what you need is not merely fresh faces, but a top-to-bottom re-thinking of the conflict–and a radical break with past U.S. policy.

–Elan Journo

http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/

Social Democracy

Social democrats aim to reform capitalism democratically through state regulation and the creation of programs that work to counteract or remove the social injustice and inefficiencies they see as inherent in capitalism.

Starting Price : $3,000,000,000,000.00

Provided by Obama, Pelosi and Ried, leaders in change we can believe in.

If we don't act, another 500 million Amercians will lose their jobs...

Uh, problem there's like only 300 million people in USA...and some of us are still working...

Furlough Friday

My client is taking the day off today and every other Friday to save money...and since i am not working, I am not getting paid...I guess this is trickle down economics at its best?

So wasting time online, i found these really bizzare items for sale ...a tin of uranium, a tank, the usual expensive sports cars, a 103" plasma TV and...this is the best...a Gucci shoulder bag for ONLY $5,900...WOW

 

Putin to West (Obama, are you listening)

On his first visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Putin called the global economic crisis a “perfect storm” that had arisen from a world dominated by the US. He said that only a rebalancing of global power could cure the problem and that financial stimulus packages of the kind agreed by Washington and London could lead them down a path well-worn by Moscow while doing little to aid recovery.

“Interference of the State, the belief in the omnipotence of the State: that is a reaction to market failures,” Mr Putin said in his keynote address at the opening of the four-day meeting. “There is a temptation to expand direct interference of state in economy. In the Soviet Union that became an absolute. We paid a very dear price for that.”

A government controlled economy, where the state is the major investor as the old Soviet economic models shows, will eventually fail. Obama and the Congress should well heed the call to be very cautious in the current situation. Estimated are that should the current 1.2 trillion package fail, another 1-2 trillion might be necessary. The US Dept of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis puts US Gross Domestic Products (GDP) at 14.2 trillion. That was based on the numbers thru December 2008, which showed a trend of decreases in personal income spending power, tax income to the government, etc, etc. Adding 3 trillion to the national debt which is currently 10.7 trillion means the average share of national debt for each man woman and child in the USA would increase from $35,104 to $46,313 in the next year. And would mean for the first time in history, the American economic would be in net minus...as GDP would be less than debt. This could cause a collapse in the dollar asan international currency, that many predict would leave the Chinese in a position to become the greatest economic power, with all countries posting the values against the Yuan.

Wow, I dont want to go there...

Change is coming...

This is a partisan video, but its still funny to me...if not to you, then don't watch it...

The Institute for Human Continuity

WARNING! The following is a real website! The problem is, its a ad for a movie...I thought so, since it has the look and feel of the web page for the http://www.thehansofoundation.org/, made famous via tv show LOST...so here is a sample of the IHC.

By now you've seen the teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich's 2012 and got a glimpse of what it's all about. If you don't know what it's actually about, the Mayan calendar predicts that the end of the world will arrive sometime in 2012 - and the movie is about that arrival and what will happen. That of course means there is a lot of potential for some crazy viral marketing - which has actually already kicked off.