...and how it is trying to avoid paying sexual abuse victims by declaring bankruptcy in dioceses where there is actually an abundance of money and assets. In addition, need anyone be reminded of the vast treasures in the Vatican that are kept unreachable and untouchable to the victims -- while the hierarchy lives in glittering splendor? The lies...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Elena Kagen's humorous answer to senator
Watch this video: http://www.thepoliticalcarnival.net/2010/06/video-elena-kagan-%E2%80%9Cyou-know-like-all-jews-i-was-probably-at-a-chinese-restaurant-%E2%80%9D/ It's nice to know she will be a Supreme Court justice with a sense of humor. She'll need it on that court....
VA Hospital may have infected 1800 veterans with HIV
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/30/va.hospital.hiv/index.html It is totally unacceptable that ANYone should be exposed in this way when they go for treatment at hospitals! But for veterans to have to worry about their care, after all they have given to the service of their country, this is BEYOND forgiving! It seems that the more "advanced"...
Monday, June 28, 2010
Interesting Essay Contains Truth about Earth's "Humanity Virus"
Humans Are An Intentional Design By Clark McClelland 6-27-10 On each of our own days of birth, we are taught that a human appearing God is the creative life source governing each of our lives. We are taken to a church to bestow honor on that God....
Americans are treated--and overtreated--to death
An important article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h26y0ad8mTU-Zs0tkIlBF3Abu_YwD9GKC1DO0...
Avandia--drug for diabetes causes heart problems
Something important to know: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diabetes/studies-find-suggest-avandia-heart-risk/story?id=11014422...
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Chickens coming home to roost for Catholic Church
Amazing/amusing hypocrisy that the Pope is "outraged" over these raids -- just look at the history of this church with all the raids, abuses, murders, etc. under their belt--continuing up to the present day with the sexual abuse of children. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/27/pope-sex-abuse-raids-belgium_n_627060.html...
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Consciousness and the end of the War between Science and Religion
Interesting article from the Washington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/consciousness-and-the-end_b_620133.html...
Friday, June 25, 2010
A SUPERB ESSAY THAT EXPRESSES TRUTH ABOUT POLITICS
EXCERPT: (So very True!) I approach politics and politicians with one simple rule in mind: if I have heard of a politician, count on that politician being deeply and perhaps irredeemably compromised. In order to achieve the kind of notoriety and financing required to be successful in politics, politicians have to sign their names on a number of dotted...
Unemployment benefits end today for 1.2 million Americans
Thanks to Republican politicians, who refused to continue the benefits. I hate to say this, but I think many Americans are not tuned in enough to recognize why they will be out of benefits and possibly out on the street. In November, they will vote against their own interests, blaming Obama because they will be told to by Rush Limbaugh. He didn't...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
America's Greatness is Slipping Away
True words in this article by Bob Herbert. We have no great leaders anymore, just lackeys for the royalty, the corporations who own us and have created the "elites" while the rest of us sink into poverty. This is what Reagan's "trickle-down" economics looks like. How are you liking it so far? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/opinion/22herbert.html?hp...
Monday, June 21, 2010
Some of my favorite songs by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen is a Canadian songwriter/performer born in 1934 -- my own generation. He is a poetic genius who has an incredible ability to reach into his heart and express his own life experiences -- and make his listeners experience them with him. His voice has a resonance that is soothing and almost hypnotic as it pulls you into its mastery...
Snake befriends hamster, instead of eating it vudei
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/snake-plus-hamster-brunch-or-buddies-video.html...
Warnings on frozen yogurt, cell phones, Fosamax
Soon there won't be anything left for us to eat that is good tasting...
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More depravity in the Catholic Church is revealed
TOP PRIEST ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING HIS OWN SONS-- AND MANY OTHER CHILDREN It was all kept secret -- Pope Paul was part of the wholesale cover up, as was Pope John Paul II and the present Pope Benedict. Behind pretended "holiness" lurked great cruelty, perversion, and collusion. For all the sins committed by the hierarchy of this Church...
Ever Wonder Why the "Elites" Don't Want Change?
Cenk Uygur points to the fact that history just keeps repeating itself because the consciousness of the well-contented "haves" stays the same, century after century -- and the condition of the poor therefore stays the same as well: Why Our "Nobles" Betray Us by Cenk Uygur I understand that it's a little goofy to draw lessons from a fictional movie,...
Andy Borowitz (humor): Hawking says aliens 'no longer interested' in invading Earth
This humor comes VERY close to the truth. We earth humans are doing a great job at making our planet uninhabitable for anyone, including ourselves: June 21, 2010 Hawking: Aliens ‘No Longer Interested’ in Invading Earth Planet Already ‘Pre-destroyed,’ Scientist Says ...
Paul Krugman's advice -- I hope Obama takes it
We are heading into territory where the middle class will no longer exist. There will only be the rich (lest we forget: Duhmbya Bush calls them "the haves and the have-mores"*) and the poor (that would be us, you and me). In answer to those who want to cut national spending now, Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has this to say in today's...
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Apology to BP Shows How Republicans Would Govern
...as if we needed a reminder after the 8 looong years of Cheney/Bush! But Joe Barton's defense of BP and tirade against Obama (for guaranteeing BP's setting aside $20 billion to pay damages of the oil spill) has made it perfectly clear what the Republicans believe, and how they would govern, given the chance once again. Halliburton is...
About Time for Obama to tell it like it is!
I felt exactly the same way as the author of this article when Obama, in his Tuesday speech, reached out to the right wing YET AGAIN! (Quote: When Obama said yet again on Tuesday that he would be “happy to look at other ideas and approaches from either party,” you wanted to shout back, Enough already! His energy would be far better spent calling...
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Halliburton to make money on Oil Spill
What else would we have expected? Cheney will be making even more millions -- no wonder he's been keeping his mouth shut about the oil spill.... http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0618/halliburton-making-money-oil-spill/...
BP Oil Spill was inevitable
OBAMA: PLEASE LISTEN AND TAKE ACTION!!! TIME TO TAP T.R. and RENEW PROGRESSIVE TRADITION by Jonathan Alter http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/58-58/2239-obama-bp-and-theodore-roosevelt EXCERPT: If he can frame the message more memorably than he did in his Oval Office address, Obama may yet use the largest environmental disaster...
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Rachel Maddow gives Obama speech that should-have-been
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/17/rachel-maddows-oval-offic_n_615515.html Rachel says she will never run for office -- what a shame, because she is exactly what this country needs: no-nonsense, practical, dynamic, and no-holds-barred when it comes to action rather than rhetoric. This faux-Presidential speech is exactly what Obama should...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Overtreatment a serious problem in our medical system
An Excellent article. http://www.dddmag.com/news-Overtreatment-A-Serious-Problem-in-the-US-6710.aspx...
Saturday, June 12, 2010
EXCELLENT ESSAY -- Obama, the non-doer president
Full of truth about Obama and the corporations who really run our government...and our lives. The Do-Nothing 44th President By David Michael Green http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/david-michael-green/29417/the-do-nothing-44th-president EXCERPT: Obama had all the cards stacked in his favor, ranging from a destroyed opposition party, to a series...
On-the-Mark Assessment of the Afghanistan War
If only Obama would listen to the SAGE ADVICE of this columnist! But the corporations who really rule our country and our world will never let their golden goose of continuous war slip through their greedy fingers. What would Halliburton, Blackwater and the others do without their multi-billion dollar contracts with the military? The Courage...
Friday, June 11, 2010
Prepare yourself for the BP Bailout Proposal
By Brent Budowsky Get ready for the BP bailout debate. As the most hated company in America led by the most despised CEO in business continues its systematic deceptions about the magnitude of the catastrophe, its systematic secrecy and threats of reprisal against employees who speak the truth in public and its systematic blockade against reporters...
Rare photo of slave children from the 1860s
Not a proud time in the history of this so-called "Christian" country... http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10880072...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
In praise of Helen Thomas
http://www.truthout.org/i-come-praise-helen-thomas-not-bury-her60258 If only every journalist could ask the obvious questions as Helen did over her 60-year career!!! She puts the rest of them to shame....
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Interesting essay by a Baptist minister
I've often wondered about this paradox myself... from consortiumnews.com How 'Power' Christians Ignore Jesus By the Rev. Howard Bess June 4, 2010 Editor’s Note: Many American Christians are inclined to boast about the United States and its uni-polar power – a kind of geopolitical chant of “we’re number one” – even as they put bumper stickers...
Good quotes
These all contain wonderful truths. (~.~) "One thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." ~Albert Schweitzer Bill Moyers on the PBS "/The Power of Myth/" asked Joseph Campbell, "Do you ever have the sense of … being helped by hidden hands?" Campbell replied, "All...
Helen is Back!
It's Great to see our real journalist Helen back in the front row at press conferences, embraced by a president who doesn't fear her bold, to-the-point questions (Thank you for asking them, Helen!) -- instead of behind the potted palm in the back row where Cheney/Bush had her...
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Bush: Yeah, I waterboarded him and I'd do it again
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/03/bushs-glib-waterboarding_n_599893.html This is the kind of consciousness we endured for 8 long years in the nation's White House. The Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld years will go down in historical infamy. How these evil men could have come to leadership positions in our country remains a mystery to me (and...
Mark Twain in movie film taken by Thomas Edison 1909
The only known film footage of Mark Twain and his daughters Jean and Clara. http://www.openculture.com/2010/03/mark_twain_captured_on_film_by_thomas_edison_1909.html...
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Our Epic Foolishness by Bob Herbert
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/opinion/01herbert.htmlBob Herbert gives sensible, practical advice in this column! I hope Obama takes it -- and runs with it! Damn the conservative naysayers -- we can't wait for them to catch up to the 21st century. Their "No, No, NO's" are holding us back--and killing us in the process. Look at the damage that...
Scientists studying man who doesn't eat or drink
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/International/man-eat-drink/story?id=10787036 There have been others (Teresa Neumann, a Catholic mystic) who also did not eat or drink for years -- they seemed to live on light or air. (See http://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2009/12/therese-neumann-mystic-victim-soul.html ) I have to laugh at the oh-so-certain dietitian...
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