I bid you to a one-man revolution-
The only revolution that is coming.We”re too unseparate. And going home
From company means coming to our senses.
-Robert Frost, Build SoilEpigram to Part II, p. 35
Found in my electronic chapbook.
From Farming: A Hand Book by Wendell Berry.
The idea that disparate ethnic groups in Myanmar might combine and coordinate their separate military forces probably falls under the heading of: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Such a combined force would be more than a headache for Myanmar’s generals in the run-up to elections, it would be a marvelous disaster.
From The Democratic Voice Of Burma:
Five Burmese ethnic armed groups have said they will work together to achieve a ‘real Union” in Burma where equal rights and self-determination exist for all ethnicities.
The alliance spans Burma”s ethnic border regions, taking in the Chin National Front in northernmost Burma to the Karen National Union in the east, close to Thailand. It also includes the New Mon State Party, the Kachin Independence Organisation and the Karenni National Progressive Party.
James Landau, foreign affairs coordinator of the KIO, told DVB that the agreement “was just the beginning”, and the alliance would look to draw in other ethnic armies. He added that the aim “was not to attack the military junta; in fact we aim to draw the government to our side.”
It took an allied force to defeat Nazi Germany.
The speech George W. Bush might give:
Normally, I start these things out by saying ‘My Fellow Americans.’ Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don’t know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you’re really not fellow Americans any longer.
I’ll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: There’s been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.
The reason I’m quitting is simple. I’m fed up with you people. I’m fed up because you have no understanding of what’s really going on in the world. Or of what’s going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.
Let’s start local. You’ve been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that’s despite record numbers of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY Continue Reading »
Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
So in the woods I stand
free, knowing my land. My country, tis of the
drying pools along Camp Branch I sing
where water striders walk like Christ,
all sons of God, and of the woods grown old
on the stony hill where the thrush”s song rises
in the light like a curling vine and the bobwhite”s
whistle opens in the air, broad and pointed like a leaf.-from Independence Day, p. 34
Found in my electronic chapbook.
From Farming: A Hand Book by Wendell Berry.
The buzz word in today’s business world is MARKETING. However, people often ask for a simple explanation of Marketing. Well, here it is:
You are a woman and you see a handsome guy at a party. You go up to him and say, I’m fantastic in bed. That’s Direct Marketing.
You’re at a party with a bunch of friends and see a handsome guy. One of your friends goes up to him and, pointing at you, says, She’s fantastic in bed. That’s Advertising.
You see a handsome guy at a party. You go up to him and get his telephone number. The next day you call and say, Hi, I’m fantastic in bed. That’s Telemarketing.
You see a guy at a party; you straighten your dress. Continue Reading »
Only in America do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.*
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
*There is actually a very good, economic reason for this. It makes much more sense to make all ATM’s with Braille lettering to meet the requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act (and good business sense) than it does to manufacture a special subset of machines designed solely for walk-up use. JH
so I may bow
to mystery, and take my stand on the earth
like a tree in a field, passing without haste
or regret toward what will be, my life
a patient willing descent into the grass.-from The Wish To Be Generous, p. 31
Found in my electronic chapbook.
From Farming: A Hand Book by Wendell Berry.
Recently I was talking to a friend about the upcoming election and the candidates. As we ended our discussion he said, The only decision you have to make is who you want sitting in that seat in the White House when – not if – we get hit again and millions of American lives are put at risk! You ain’t gonna like losing. Author unknown.
President Bush did make a bad mistake in the war on terrorism. But the mistake was not his decision to go to war in Iraq, Bush’s mistake came in his belief that this country is the same one his father fought for in WWII. It is not.
Back then they had just come out of a vicious depression. The country was steeled by the hardship of that depression but they still believed fervently in this country. They knew that the people had elected their leaders so it was the people’s duty to back those leaders. Therefore when the war broke out the people came together, rallied behind and stuck with their leaders whether they had voted for them or not or whether the war was going badly or not.
[The unknown author has conveniently forgotten the universal draft begun months before 7 December 1941. JH.] Continue Reading »
EXTRA! EXTRA! We actually have a leader in City Council. Who”d thought it?
Second-term Councilman Brian Cummins takes his job seriously. That”s refreshing. He works the job.
It was Cummins who came out strongly – and did research – on the rotten no-bid China deal Mayor Frank Jackson tried to slide through City Council. And almost did with a 10 to 9 vote.
By stepping out Cummins deserves thanks and recognition.
Cummins is serious, not just a sound-bite guy.
But in the Cleveland news media people as Cummins are easily Continue Reading »
I know [Nick] Carr is a broken record on this, but I don’t doubt he’s onto something. Since blogging – and the demands of blogging – has taken over much of my writing and reading life, I find long-form books, which were once a staple of my education, harder to read. And although I seem able to process and retain large amounts of information and facts on this blog on a daily, hourly, basis, soon they have to make way for more. My ability to forget has grown as my consumption of data has increased.
I don’t think this is really best described as reading. Reading takes time, especially if you read slowly, as I do. A real book takes longer to absorb. You need to let a great book wander around your mind as you go along. Online, there is no wandering. The journey is so packed, the distances so great, it is more like watching the landscape from a train.
Only in America, do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.*
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
*I’m sure that this was true at one time, but I can’t ever recall actually seeing a ten-pack of hotdogs in a grocery store during my lifetime. JH
But the sower
going forth to sow sets foot
into time to come, the seeds falling
on his own place.-from The Seeds, p. 30
Found in my electronic chapbook.
From Farming: A Hand Book by Wendell Berry.
From the Fair & Balanced Department at least (most) Catholics aren’t strapping bombs on themselves (except maybe in Ireland!) and blowing innocent people up.
HERE ARE SOME FACTS FOR THE NAY SAYERS IN THE PRESS! written by a Jewish business person.
Be Proud of Being Catholic
(Excerpts of an
article(actually a speech, but Teabaggers aren’t picky about pesky facts. JH) written by Sam Miller, prominent Cleveland Jewish businessman – NOT Catholic)Why would newspapers carry on a vendetta on one of the most important institutions that we have today in the United States, namely the Catholic Church?
Do you know – the Catholic Church educates 2.6 million students everyday at the cost to your Church of 10 billion dollars, and a savings on the other hand to the American taxpayer of 18 billion dollars. Your graduates go on to graduate studies at the rate of 92%, all at a cost to you. To the rest of the Americans it’s free.
The Church has 230 colleges and universities in the U.S. with an enrollment of 700,000 students. The Catholic Church has a non-profit hospital system of 637 hospitals, which account for hospital treatment of
1 out of every 5 people – not just Catholics – in the United States today.But the press is vindictive and trying to totally denigrate in every way the Catholic Church in this country. They have blames the disease of pedophilia on the Catholic Church, Continue Reading »
Last fall I encouraged people to vote no on Issue 2, Ohio’s Ohio Livestock Care Initiative Constitutional Amendment because I knew it was bad law. I also knew that my vote was a protest vote and, as I knew would be the case, Issue 2 passed easily.
Now we have Billy Joe Gregg.
As I’ve commented over at Plunderbund, however, Billy Joe Gregg is not the problem, he’s just a brief media visual of the problem.
The problem is factory farming. The problem is Gary Conklin and his corporate cronies.
The food corporations played Ohioans in 2009. In 2010 we have an opportunity to take back our state from greedy factory farmers and return control of our food supply to a safe and sane world.
When asked to do so, please sign the petitions to get a measure on the November ballot to stop Gary Conklin and those like him from their sadistic behavior.
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