The Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant. They, too, have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your dreams. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive it to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful. Strive to be happy.
April 19, 2007
April 16, 2007
The Way the World is Going--Someday
I left a comment on the blog, Goodness Graciousness in response to Jennifer's April 5th post.
Then, I decided to post it here, as well--
***
The Michael Teachings [a good starter book to check out is: The World According to Michael by Joya Pope] say that the world tipped from a majority of Young Souls to a majority of Mature Souls in 1986.
Right now, the majority is very slim-- only a portion of 1% more Matures as compared to Youngs with the rest of the population spread among Infants, Babies and Olds.
Youngs perceive the world as a place to plunder for personal gain while Matures begin to realize that that method of existence doesn't really work-- either for the individual or for the species or, ultimately for the earth or for the universe.
Based on this view, I believe we have a l-o-n-g way to go before most people will truly embrace the vision that it's not all about garnering personal wealth and power over others and begin moving the planet in another direction-- namely that of sharing and equality-- especially since those people who share the Young viewpoint will, for some time to come, be those who will want the 'power' that comes with holding government positions. So Youngs will be disproportionately respresented in the Parliaments, Congresses, the White House, etc.
Still, the Mature values are starting to make themselves heard and felt around the world-- it's a beginning. . . .
***
If we apply this info to current events, we can garner some hope for the human race--and the rest of the world.
The ground swells regarding global warming, for instance, and Imus for another, suggest Mature viewpoints coming forward.
The down-side to Mature thinking, though, is that Mature souls share one trait with Baby souls: they like to tell others how they should live. As witness the ban on smoking-- in some cases, even in one's own home.
Then, I decided to post it here, as well--
***
The Michael Teachings [a good starter book to check out is: The World According to Michael by Joya Pope] say that the world tipped from a majority of Young Souls to a majority of Mature Souls in 1986.
Right now, the majority is very slim-- only a portion of 1% more Matures as compared to Youngs with the rest of the population spread among Infants, Babies and Olds.
Youngs perceive the world as a place to plunder for personal gain while Matures begin to realize that that method of existence doesn't really work-- either for the individual or for the species or, ultimately for the earth or for the universe.
Based on this view, I believe we have a l-o-n-g way to go before most people will truly embrace the vision that it's not all about garnering personal wealth and power over others and begin moving the planet in another direction-- namely that of sharing and equality-- especially since those people who share the Young viewpoint will, for some time to come, be those who will want the 'power' that comes with holding government positions. So Youngs will be disproportionately respresented in the Parliaments, Congresses, the White House, etc.
Still, the Mature values are starting to make themselves heard and felt around the world-- it's a beginning. . . .
***
If we apply this info to current events, we can garner some hope for the human race--and the rest of the world.
The ground swells regarding global warming, for instance, and Imus for another, suggest Mature viewpoints coming forward.
The down-side to Mature thinking, though, is that Mature souls share one trait with Baby souls: they like to tell others how they should live. As witness the ban on smoking-- in some cases, even in one's own home.
April 14, 2007
Only in America!
Heard this morning on Wait, Wait! Don't Tell Me! on NPR:
'Since, if McCain secures the nomination he'll be the oldest Presidential candidate ever, a hair salon in the DC area [I think] has suggested he cultivate a goatee or Van Dyke in order to appeal to the younger voter. It would, supposedly, make him resemble people they admire--like ummmm--Satan, f'rinstance.'
***
Yep, that about sums him up. . . .
'Since, if McCain secures the nomination he'll be the oldest Presidential candidate ever, a hair salon in the DC area [I think] has suggested he cultivate a goatee or Van Dyke in order to appeal to the younger voter. It would, supposedly, make him resemble people they admire--like ummmm--Satan, f'rinstance.'
***
Yep, that about sums him up. . . .
April 12, 2007
Remember Daddy's Woes
This from the Washington Post:
Democrats To Widen Conflict With Bush
Some on Both Sides See Plans as Risky
By Jonathan Weisman -- Washington Post Staff Writer
Even as their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq escalates, emboldened congressional Democrats are challenging the White House on a range of issues -- such as unionization of airport security workers and the loosening of presidential secrecy orders -- with even more dramatic showdowns coming soon.
For his part, Bush, who also finds himself under assault for the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the conduct of the Iraq war and alleged abuses in government surveillance by the FBI, is holding firm. Though he has vetoed only one piece of legislation since taking office, he has vowed to veto 16 bills that have passed either the House or the Senate in the three months since Democrats took control of Congress.
see here for the entire text.
***
While it MAY be risky, I remember who was blamed for the 'gridlock government' when Bush Senior was vetoing every bill that came his way when HE was president. Congress emerged from that brawl smelling like a rose while Bush-daddy just came out smelling. And then, he lost the election.
While it's too late to hope for THAT rosy outcome, those who back Bush just might find themselves at the wrong end of the argument. And wouldn't THAT be lovely?
W, of course, doesn't learn from his OWN mistakes--let alone those of someone else--but some folks in Congress just might.
Democrats To Widen Conflict With Bush
Some on Both Sides See Plans as Risky
By Jonathan Weisman -- Washington Post Staff Writer
Even as their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq escalates, emboldened congressional Democrats are challenging the White House on a range of issues -- such as unionization of airport security workers and the loosening of presidential secrecy orders -- with even more dramatic showdowns coming soon.
For his part, Bush, who also finds himself under assault for the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the conduct of the Iraq war and alleged abuses in government surveillance by the FBI, is holding firm. Though he has vetoed only one piece of legislation since taking office, he has vowed to veto 16 bills that have passed either the House or the Senate in the three months since Democrats took control of Congress.
see here for the entire text.
***
While it MAY be risky, I remember who was blamed for the 'gridlock government' when Bush Senior was vetoing every bill that came his way when HE was president. Congress emerged from that brawl smelling like a rose while Bush-daddy just came out smelling. And then, he lost the election.
While it's too late to hope for THAT rosy outcome, those who back Bush just might find themselves at the wrong end of the argument. And wouldn't THAT be lovely?
W, of course, doesn't learn from his OWN mistakes--let alone those of someone else--but some folks in Congress just might.
April 10, 2007
Blog Against Theocracy Swarm
Marching Resolutely Backward
This morning I was watching a documentary on the History International Channel about Tudor/Stewart England [video of What the Tudors Did For Us the second third here and the end is here].
Adam Hart-Davis, the host, talked about educational, medical, scientific and industrial strides made in 16th century England as a direct result of the theocracy that was going on in Europe at the time.
In mainland Europe, accepted astronomy said that the Earth was stationary and the universe revolved around it. The Church had finally, reluctantly, accepted the idea that world was round, at least—but it still maintained that we were the center of everything. Anyone who said otherwise was silenced and imprisoned and, possibly, burned.
Dissection of human bodies was forbidden—so what medical practices were not founded in superstition were based on the anatomy of a pig.
Galen had been of Greek origin though he practiced in Rome. He had developed the theory of the 4 humours and dissected pigs and apes. In the 1500’s the Church still adhered to the theories put forth over 1300 years earlier.
If you got sick in the 15th century you were likely to be purged, bled and fed a potion made of the ground up carcasses of dried mice.
Dried snakeskin was another favored medication. One method of use was to cover the affected area with the snakeskin, sprinkle it with holy water and intone the words: 'In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, Amen.'
Across the Channel, Henry VIII wasn’t just a blood-thirsty tyrant who was wont to kill his wives. He established state education which rewarded merit. So sons [no daughters yet, of course] of tradesmen and miners could hope to better their positions for the first time in European history.
Any forward thinkers were fleeing Italy, Holland, France, Belgium, Spain and Germany. They took their new ways of looking at the world to Britain where their observations would be tolerated, even welcomed.
In 1572, the Elizabethan astronomer Thomas Diggs saw a bright new star in the sky. He was shocked. This could not be. Heaven, where God resided, was eternal and unchanging, wasn’t it? But, there it was—a new star—undermining everything Tudor England believed in.
And, there was a printing press—brought to England by William Caxton, a Brit who had traveled in Europe and brought it back with him. So it didn’t remain something that was kept bottled up for only the powerful to know about.
Today, we know that that ‘new star’ was a super nova. But in 16th century England it was a bombshell. That one sighting of "something that shouldn’t be there" ushered in observational science: the practice of seeing reality rather than relying on what one believes to be true because “that’s how things have always been.”
What do you want to bet that France, Germany and Italy saw that star as well? But only England published the fact.
The understanding of human anatomy was revolutionized by Andreas Vesalius following the legalization of human dissection.
William Harvey, the son of a cobbler, discovered the arteries and veins that circulate blood.
Modern medicine began from the alchemist, Paracelsus, who had fled Switzerland and sought sanctuary in England. He believed that minerals and chemicals could be used to treat diseases and ushered in modern medicine.
Today, Europe is striding forward looking at the world as it is rather than as the Church would have it be. It is in America that people are harking back to a time of intolerance toward science.
It has been a long, long time since Victorian newspapers published editorial cartoons that declared that Darwin’s ancestor may have been an ape but the rest of us were created by the hand of God. In Kansas, however, people want to return to that view and drag the rest of the world with them.
In the Southern and Midwestern United States people would stop science in its tracks—bequeathing Alzheimer’s to their parents and spina bifida to their children rather than allowing research that could bring us cures for those conditions.
It is well said that the only life in this country that is worth protecting is life within the womb. Well, I take that back. If you are a vegetable lying in a hospital bed being fed with tubes and being breathed for by a machine -- THEN your life is sacred -- assuming your family can pay for your care.
Well, we can clearly see what happened in mainland Europe when it held to those viewpoints. Those who perceived the world AS IT IS moved to England and created the most powerful nation the world has ever seen.
Our brief time in the sun seems to be over—not because Europe is leaping ahead so much as because the US is willfully falling behind.
I’m watching as Europe sails toward the future and the US sits in it’s stagnant swamp. Good luck to you, Europe, and more power to you. We have abdicated—you may now take the crown.
This morning I was watching a documentary on the History International Channel about Tudor/Stewart England [video of What the Tudors Did For Us the second third here and the end is here].
Adam Hart-Davis, the host, talked about educational, medical, scientific and industrial strides made in 16th century England as a direct result of the theocracy that was going on in Europe at the time.
In mainland Europe, accepted astronomy said that the Earth was stationary and the universe revolved around it. The Church had finally, reluctantly, accepted the idea that world was round, at least—but it still maintained that we were the center of everything. Anyone who said otherwise was silenced and imprisoned and, possibly, burned.
Dissection of human bodies was forbidden—so what medical practices were not founded in superstition were based on the anatomy of a pig.
Galen had been of Greek origin though he practiced in Rome. He had developed the theory of the 4 humours and dissected pigs and apes. In the 1500’s the Church still adhered to the theories put forth over 1300 years earlier.
If you got sick in the 15th century you were likely to be purged, bled and fed a potion made of the ground up carcasses of dried mice.
Dried snakeskin was another favored medication. One method of use was to cover the affected area with the snakeskin, sprinkle it with holy water and intone the words: 'In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, Amen.'
Across the Channel, Henry VIII wasn’t just a blood-thirsty tyrant who was wont to kill his wives. He established state education which rewarded merit. So sons [no daughters yet, of course] of tradesmen and miners could hope to better their positions for the first time in European history.
Any forward thinkers were fleeing Italy, Holland, France, Belgium, Spain and Germany. They took their new ways of looking at the world to Britain where their observations would be tolerated, even welcomed.
In 1572, the Elizabethan astronomer Thomas Diggs saw a bright new star in the sky. He was shocked. This could not be. Heaven, where God resided, was eternal and unchanging, wasn’t it? But, there it was—a new star—undermining everything Tudor England believed in.
And, there was a printing press—brought to England by William Caxton, a Brit who had traveled in Europe and brought it back with him. So it didn’t remain something that was kept bottled up for only the powerful to know about.
Today, we know that that ‘new star’ was a super nova. But in 16th century England it was a bombshell. That one sighting of "something that shouldn’t be there" ushered in observational science: the practice of seeing reality rather than relying on what one believes to be true because “that’s how things have always been.”
What do you want to bet that France, Germany and Italy saw that star as well? But only England published the fact.
The understanding of human anatomy was revolutionized by Andreas Vesalius following the legalization of human dissection.
William Harvey, the son of a cobbler, discovered the arteries and veins that circulate blood.
Modern medicine began from the alchemist, Paracelsus, who had fled Switzerland and sought sanctuary in England. He believed that minerals and chemicals could be used to treat diseases and ushered in modern medicine.
Today, Europe is striding forward looking at the world as it is rather than as the Church would have it be. It is in America that people are harking back to a time of intolerance toward science.
It has been a long, long time since Victorian newspapers published editorial cartoons that declared that Darwin’s ancestor may have been an ape but the rest of us were created by the hand of God. In Kansas, however, people want to return to that view and drag the rest of the world with them.
In the Southern and Midwestern United States people would stop science in its tracks—bequeathing Alzheimer’s to their parents and spina bifida to their children rather than allowing research that could bring us cures for those conditions.
It is well said that the only life in this country that is worth protecting is life within the womb. Well, I take that back. If you are a vegetable lying in a hospital bed being fed with tubes and being breathed for by a machine -- THEN your life is sacred -- assuming your family can pay for your care.
Well, we can clearly see what happened in mainland Europe when it held to those viewpoints. Those who perceived the world AS IT IS moved to England and created the most powerful nation the world has ever seen.
Our brief time in the sun seems to be over—not because Europe is leaping ahead so much as because the US is willfully falling behind.
I’m watching as Europe sails toward the future and the US sits in it’s stagnant swamp. Good luck to you, Europe, and more power to you. We have abdicated—you may now take the crown.
April 9, 2007
More on the Recycling Front
I received a comment on my article about freecycling from Polishifter. He said he participates in recycling computer components. That got me thinking: I had patronized a store in KC that had such a program but hadn't yet looked into what's available in Clearwater. So, I looked.
I found two.
One, Cartridge World at http://www.cartridgeworldtampa.com/ specializes in cartridge refilling and included this info on its website:
• It takes about a gallon of oil to make a new laser cartridge.
• Almost 8 cartridges are thrown away per second in the United States alone!
• In North America alone, over 350 million cartridges per year are discarded in our landfills, and that number increases by 12 percent annually!'
The other breaks down computers and their components for the salvageable parts and sells them for reuse. With the ever-accelerating pace of technology, we can't afford to just junk our IT.
Besides being better for the environment, patronizing stores that specialize in recycled equipment may even save us some money when buying/replacing components. Always a nice incentive----
I found two.
One, Cartridge World at http://www.cartridgeworldtampa.com/ specializes in cartridge refilling and included this info on its website:
• It takes about a gallon of oil to make a new laser cartridge.
• Almost 8 cartridges are thrown away per second in the United States alone!
• In North America alone, over 350 million cartridges per year are discarded in our landfills, and that number increases by 12 percent annually!'
The other breaks down computers and their components for the salvageable parts and sells them for reuse. With the ever-accelerating pace of technology, we can't afford to just junk our IT.
Besides being better for the environment, patronizing stores that specialize in recycled equipment may even save us some money when buying/replacing components. Always a nice incentive----
April 6, 2007
Please Write Your Senators!
Hey, folks--
I'm trying to get my very own ground-swell going here:
it seems there's a pharmaceutical company that has developed a vaccine for radiation poisoning. It would protect the population if a dirty bomb were to be set off in the vicinity. It is safe to store in your home and self-administer in case of an emergency. [A dirty bomb would leave most of the population alive--until they died of radiation exposure OR lived long enough to have children who were prone to leukemia and other immunodeficiency diseases].
And the government, in its wisdom, has ordered that 100,000 doses of the vaccine be developed. That ought to be enough to cover them and their immediate families, right?
It is probable that at least one dirty bomb WILL be set off in the US in the foreseeable future--and there's no telling where. And, given Al Quida's penchant for multiple strikes, several cities could be wiped out simultaneously.
I sent an email to each of my senators recently to tell them to get on the ball with this vaccine--to make enough for the general population and get it out to us.
PLEASE act on this and ask others to join in. Let the government know we won't just sit here and let this preventable catastrophe happen.
For your convenience, I'm enclosing a copy of the email I sent them. You can simply copy and paste it or you can write your own.
You can google the names of your senators to get to their websites, then send a ms through their 'contact me' page.
Thanx, Anne
***
Dear Senator _____________:
During the Cold War, the Mutually Assured Destruction nature of the situation kept the most horrible weapons ever developed from being used.
MAD no longer exists in today's political climate. Someone could place a dirty bomb in Downtown Anywhere and be on a plane hours before it detonated.
Now, we're told, a vaccine that could protect the populace from radiation poisoning is available. This medication could be safely self-administered in an emergency. If it were made available to the general public BEFORE such an occurrence, hospitals could concentrate on the people who were affected by the blast of the bomb--not have to deal with the people [probably numbering in the millions] who were affected by the dispersed fallout.
Strangely, the government has ordered that 100,000 doses of this vaccine be manufactured. That number of doses might cover the people in the top levels of government and their families. Yet, what use is a government without a population to govern?
Please bring this issue to the Senate for discussion and immediate action.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
I'm trying to get my very own ground-swell going here:
it seems there's a pharmaceutical company that has developed a vaccine for radiation poisoning. It would protect the population if a dirty bomb were to be set off in the vicinity. It is safe to store in your home and self-administer in case of an emergency. [A dirty bomb would leave most of the population alive--until they died of radiation exposure OR lived long enough to have children who were prone to leukemia and other immunodeficiency diseases].
And the government, in its wisdom, has ordered that 100,000 doses of the vaccine be developed. That ought to be enough to cover them and their immediate families, right?
It is probable that at least one dirty bomb WILL be set off in the US in the foreseeable future--and there's no telling where. And, given Al Quida's penchant for multiple strikes, several cities could be wiped out simultaneously.
I sent an email to each of my senators recently to tell them to get on the ball with this vaccine--to make enough for the general population and get it out to us.
PLEASE act on this and ask others to join in. Let the government know we won't just sit here and let this preventable catastrophe happen.
For your convenience, I'm enclosing a copy of the email I sent them. You can simply copy and paste it or you can write your own.
You can google the names of your senators to get to their websites, then send a ms through their 'contact me' page.
Thanx, Anne
***
Dear Senator _____________:
During the Cold War, the Mutually Assured Destruction nature of the situation kept the most horrible weapons ever developed from being used.
MAD no longer exists in today's political climate. Someone could place a dirty bomb in Downtown Anywhere and be on a plane hours before it detonated.
Now, we're told, a vaccine that could protect the populace from radiation poisoning is available. This medication could be safely self-administered in an emergency. If it were made available to the general public BEFORE such an occurrence, hospitals could concentrate on the people who were affected by the blast of the bomb--not have to deal with the people [probably numbering in the millions] who were affected by the dispersed fallout.
Strangely, the government has ordered that 100,000 doses of this vaccine be manufactured. That number of doses might cover the people in the top levels of government and their families. Yet, what use is a government without a population to govern?
Please bring this issue to the Senate for discussion and immediate action.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
April 4, 2007
Today’s Riddle: What’s Better Than Recycling?
Before I moved I became aware of Freecycling. I had already packed and stored a bunch of stuff though, so I contented myself with making sure such a program was available in the Tampa area. It was.
In case you’re not familiar with it, here’s how it works:
Have you got a purple widget you don’t use anymore? What do you do with it? If you’re like most of us, you squirrel it away in a closet or spare room in case you might [check all that apply]: lose weight, need it someday, find another use for it, break the new one that replaced it—or simply because you don’t know how to get rid of it [as in the case of some toxic substances like furniture stripper, wood sealer, video tapes, computer components, etc.]
One reason many of us hesitate to part with such items is that we hate to throw away something that still has useful life left in it.
Here is how Freecycling comes to the rescue: this loose network can put you in touch with someone who needs that thang that’s gathering dust in your closet—and will put it to immediate use. Problem solved.
Oh, and btw--all items must be free of charge. The receiver makes arrangements to pick up the item from the giver's home, place of business or whatever. That's all there is to it.
Anyhow—
I’ve finally reached the stage in the unpacking process where I’m looking around and taking stock—what do I want to keep and what am I ready to get rid of? If ‘get rid of’ simply meant ‘throw away’, I might opt to store a lot of things against the day they ‘might come in handy.’ BUT, since Tampa has a freecycle program, I’m offering those things to people who will use them now.
And here’s the REAL kicker: most of the boxes I carted my stuff down here in have been used one time. Obviously, they can make at least one more move—probably more than one. Reusing them even beats recycling them. Before they collapse they could, conceivably, travel across the country 3, 4, 5 times and THEN be recycled. What a way to save a few trees!
This is all a long-winded way to suggest that you check into freecycling— see if there’s a program in your community and, if so, look in your closets for those things you know in your heart of hearts you won’t REALLY use again, and pass them on to someone who might.
You can get rid of that clutter—and, while you’re at it, make room for that new thing you’ve been itching to get if you only 1] could afford it and 2] had room for it. So, after you’ve given away enough stuff to make room for it, ask the network for what YOU need.
After all, you never know what may be gathering dust in someone else’s closet [I saw a big-screen TV given away yesterday. . . .]
In case you’re not familiar with it, here’s how it works:
Have you got a purple widget you don’t use anymore? What do you do with it? If you’re like most of us, you squirrel it away in a closet or spare room in case you might [check all that apply]: lose weight, need it someday, find another use for it, break the new one that replaced it—or simply because you don’t know how to get rid of it [as in the case of some toxic substances like furniture stripper, wood sealer, video tapes, computer components, etc.]
One reason many of us hesitate to part with such items is that we hate to throw away something that still has useful life left in it.
Here is how Freecycling comes to the rescue: this loose network can put you in touch with someone who needs that thang that’s gathering dust in your closet—and will put it to immediate use. Problem solved.
Oh, and btw--all items must be free of charge. The receiver makes arrangements to pick up the item from the giver's home, place of business or whatever. That's all there is to it.
Anyhow—
I’ve finally reached the stage in the unpacking process where I’m looking around and taking stock—what do I want to keep and what am I ready to get rid of? If ‘get rid of’ simply meant ‘throw away’, I might opt to store a lot of things against the day they ‘might come in handy.’ BUT, since Tampa has a freecycle program, I’m offering those things to people who will use them now.
And here’s the REAL kicker: most of the boxes I carted my stuff down here in have been used one time. Obviously, they can make at least one more move—probably more than one. Reusing them even beats recycling them. Before they collapse they could, conceivably, travel across the country 3, 4, 5 times and THEN be recycled. What a way to save a few trees!
This is all a long-winded way to suggest that you check into freecycling— see if there’s a program in your community and, if so, look in your closets for those things you know in your heart of hearts you won’t REALLY use again, and pass them on to someone who might.
You can get rid of that clutter—and, while you’re at it, make room for that new thing you’ve been itching to get if you only 1] could afford it and 2] had room for it. So, after you’ve given away enough stuff to make room for it, ask the network for what YOU need.
After all, you never know what may be gathering dust in someone else’s closet [I saw a big-screen TV given away yesterday. . . .]
April 2, 2007
The Boy in the Bubble
He believes it.
He really does.
Bush believes if he wishes hard enough, what he wishes for will come true.
He believes that the next two years will be a coast with Congress as his personal lap dog--even though it's currently in the hands of the opposition party.
He believes that he’ll be able to just keep doing what he’s been doing in Iraq.
He believes that, if he just keeps saying, ‘I never said, ‘Stay the course,’ we’ll believe him. Probably, by now, he actually believes he never said it.
He believes the economy across the board is in great shape. That his tax cuts helped raise the standards of living for everyone.
He believes his poll numbers are just fine, thankyouverymuch.
He believes he has a mandate to govern this country the way he chooses and no one will ever stand up and say enough.
He believes he doesn’t torture.
He believes everyone agrees that it’s in the best interests of this country to eavesdrop on it’s citizens.
He believes such a move IS in the best interests of the country.
He believes that denying justice in the name of justice is logical.
He believes it is more dignified and humane to dump blastocysts into biohazard bags and throw them in the trash than to use them to alleviate suffering.
He believes people should get married. That is, they should marry if they conform to his idea of people who deserve to do so.
He believes if he just keeps saying the same thing over and over and over, we’ll believe him.
He believes that what this country needs is a dictator.
He believes that the rest of us should just sit back and let him and his other 3 horsemen do what they will to this country.
He believes he is the best thing that ever happened to this country.
He believes God wants him to be president.
And who can contradict him?
After all, he coasted through school, binge drank, used cocain and---graduated [I think].
He managed to stay out of Viet Nam and have a comfortable post right here in the States. Daddy took care of it.
He ran [how many? Three?] businesses into the ground and his daddy bailed him out each time. Daddy will take care of him and bail him out when he runs the country into the ground, too. Right?
All those yes-men he has surrounded himself with tell him to go back to sleep—everything will be fine in the morning.
He believes them. After all, when he looks around HIS world is doing just fine. Right?
Sure, everythings fine for him—so, by definition, everything is fine for everyone. Right? Right?
He really does.
Bush believes if he wishes hard enough, what he wishes for will come true.
He believes that the next two years will be a coast with Congress as his personal lap dog--even though it's currently in the hands of the opposition party.
He believes that he’ll be able to just keep doing what he’s been doing in Iraq.
He believes that, if he just keeps saying, ‘I never said, ‘Stay the course,’ we’ll believe him. Probably, by now, he actually believes he never said it.
He believes the economy across the board is in great shape. That his tax cuts helped raise the standards of living for everyone.
He believes his poll numbers are just fine, thankyouverymuch.
He believes he has a mandate to govern this country the way he chooses and no one will ever stand up and say enough.
He believes he doesn’t torture.
He believes everyone agrees that it’s in the best interests of this country to eavesdrop on it’s citizens.
He believes such a move IS in the best interests of the country.
He believes that denying justice in the name of justice is logical.
He believes it is more dignified and humane to dump blastocysts into biohazard bags and throw them in the trash than to use them to alleviate suffering.
He believes people should get married. That is, they should marry if they conform to his idea of people who deserve to do so.
He believes if he just keeps saying the same thing over and over and over, we’ll believe him.
He believes that what this country needs is a dictator.
He believes that the rest of us should just sit back and let him and his other 3 horsemen do what they will to this country.
He believes he is the best thing that ever happened to this country.
He believes God wants him to be president.
And who can contradict him?
After all, he coasted through school, binge drank, used cocain and---graduated [I think].
He managed to stay out of Viet Nam and have a comfortable post right here in the States. Daddy took care of it.
He ran [how many? Three?] businesses into the ground and his daddy bailed him out each time. Daddy will take care of him and bail him out when he runs the country into the ground, too. Right?
All those yes-men he has surrounded himself with tell him to go back to sleep—everything will be fine in the morning.
He believes them. After all, when he looks around HIS world is doing just fine. Right?
Sure, everythings fine for him—so, by definition, everything is fine for everyone. Right? Right?
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