tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83481042011-12-14T20:49:36.599-06:00Freely thinking about politics, society, and the general state of affairs in America.NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.comBlogger2371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-34228476596669630052010-11-16T20:58:00.001-06:002010-11-16T21:00:13.251-06:00

Lets101 Quizzes - Online Quizzes

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-60012722443025210562010-02-21T02:45:00.006-06:002010-02-22T16:15:49.020-06:00

A recent event leads me to post this. I first read this about 30 years. I find this as true today as the day it was written. The recent event is the revelation that my daughter has been using razor blades to cut herself. She has shown me the cuts. It will be a long exploration of why she does it, but the core of it is in this poem. How it happens for each of us is different.Ultimately it's about

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-63713753616250747652010-02-08T01:48:00.002-06:002010-02-08T03:48:51.944-06:00

I just checked and was shocked to discover that my next to last entry was dated back in July of last year. The shock factor is because that was when my time with facebook became extremely active in Yoville and I began meeting people. I had begun play Yoville in early June but it was July when I began to have a real social life within the global village of Yoville. In itself, Yoville is a

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-86560506726503056812010-02-04T23:44:00.002-06:002010-02-04T23:47:08.924-06:00

"A truly wise man will not be carried away by any of the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering and pleasure. He is neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who does not bend before the eight winds."

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-34365585132401357522009-07-13T05:14:00.000-05:002009-07-13T05:15:18.184-05:00

Just checking the fb feed on this.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-57615928112088112992009-07-09T00:43:00.002-05:002009-07-09T00:47:17.933-05:00

I was watching Sex and the City tonight. Jason Lewis is definitely....mm mm mm. But the reason for my post is because I think he'd make a much better Batman than Christian Bale or any of the others they've used for the role. Michael did it best of them all hinting at the dark side of his nature, but he doesn't have the debonair good looks one would expect of the ultra rich Bruce Wayne. I think

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-8035319165827184012009-05-26T01:56:00.003-05:002009-05-26T02:37:12.352-05:00

There are many different kinds of love. Love for family, children, friends.For ideas, ideals, good work, and even doves. Then there is the kind when the other becomes part of your soul, and to be apart is to no longer be whole.Real love is when the other person can touch your heart and it is soft and gentle. They fill the missing part and make it whole. And both your souls open to let the other

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-41612393020702715782009-05-10T13:35:00.004-05:002009-05-10T17:01:51.776-05:00

After dreaming of grasshoppers being parasitized by pink ticks I woke up pondering why it is once we buy something we never actually stop paying for it. I refer specifically to all the fees and costs of owning a car but this can also be applied to homes, computers, and the myriad things we buy and throw away. At least clothes don't require on-going payment of insurance and/or taxation outside the

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-63644260297931450232009-05-01T11:12:00.002-05:002009-05-01T11:15:05.237-05:00

Very cool!

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-84191780833193735182009-04-08T09:09:00.001-05:002009-04-08T09:11:45.671-05:00

In front of the person you like, your heart beats faster.But in front of the person you love, you get happy.In front of the person you love, winter seems like spring.But in front of the person you like, winter is just beautiful winter.If you look into the eyes of the one you like, you blush.But if you look into the eyes of the one you love, you smile.In front of the person you like, you can't say

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-17240525642400981322009-03-20T10:30:00.002-05:002009-03-20T11:37:29.583-05:00

In the beginning, Roddenberry's vision was "To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before." Battlestar Galactica completes the arc by actually doing it. They pushed the envelope like no one has before, not even J. Michael Straczynski. For me, no movie or tv show and very few books/works of literature have ever sustained this level of inquiry into the nature of our existence as Battlestar Galactica

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-77968245662497170862009-03-19T13:49:00.003-05:002009-03-19T14:45:56.429-05:00

This entry from Sharon Astyk at her blog Casaubon's Book highlights the difference between my approach to dealing with people and our collective relations versus someone who wants to impose their own version of the way things ought to be.While I understand the desire to have things be a certain way and for people to act/behave a certain way, when you need to get things done this approach is not

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-2697640231829808032009-03-04T09:13:00.007-06:002009-03-04T09:47:47.604-06:00

I think it's time to start to focusing on the genuinely important facts of life in these latter days of empire. Anyone who is paying attention already knows the criminality of what is and has happened in our country and on our planet. Providing innumerable examples of more of the same does nothing to get people to prepare for what lies ahead as the whole Western Imperial Project unwinds in the

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-89963823218355939602009-03-04T08:59:00.004-06:002009-03-04T09:06:06.187-06:00

by James KunstlerA striking poverty of imagination may lead to change that will tear this nation to pieces.Venturing out each day into this land of strip malls, freeways, office parks, and McHousing iPods, one can't help but be impressed at how America looks the same as it did a few years ago, while seemingly overnight we have become another country. All the old mechanisms that enabled our way of

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-6319685845282625842009-02-06T02:12:00.003-06:002009-02-06T06:30:13.730-06:00

I have a question for you all.Is it better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all?I suppose it depends on what we call "love." There are many kinds, such as, the love of a parent for a child, or a child for their parent(s). There is also the love between friends. But I suppose the saying is in reference to "falling in love" with someone. Unfortunately, there is a huge difference

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-35211177462242350662008-12-25T15:26:00.001-06:002008-12-25T15:26:55.837-06:00

Christmas WishI have a little visionof the world.It isn't much.But in it, beauty shineswhenever earthand people touch.There's laughter,and there's music,and the treesare standing tall,and the creatureswhisper storiesof the Onewho made us all.And no one's lostor hungry,every life'sof equal worth,and the angelsscatter snowflakeslike a dream ofpeace on earth.-J. Howard

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-24555249260535707722008-11-29T16:08:00.002-06:002008-11-29T16:39:54.336-06:00

It's been about 20 years since the last time I ever saw Allen. He had had some disorder or illness and wanted to talk to me about it. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to set aside my own self-absorption long enough to actually hear his heart and just be with him. I have no words for how truly sorry I am. The thing is, his father hasn't heard anything from him for about as long. It's like Allen just

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-28956940159335294812008-10-20T12:42:00.005-05:002008-10-20T14:26:35.752-05:00

With God and King dead, devotion to money is all that is left.It used to be that spiritual and civic power vied with each other for primacy of the city skyline (Spiro Kostof, The City Shaped, 1991). With the advent of industrialization and the implementing of Adam Smith's argument to let wealth cross borders freely, commercial power has gained not only the upper hand in human affairs, it now

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-49310648708122984412008-10-12T15:10:00.000-05:002008-10-12T15:11:01.474-05:00

A classic way before its time:

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-61232784188899516282008-10-09T14:21:00.001-05:002008-10-09T14:25:01.691-05:00

"These mortgage companies ... don't care who's in the building," Dart said Wednesday. "They simply want their money and don't care who gets hurt along the way."On top of it all, they want taxpayers to fund their investigative work for them. We're not going to do their jobs for them anymore. We're just not going to evict innocent tenants. It stops today."Dart said he wants the courts or the state

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-18116096517766378472008-09-16T14:03:00.003-05:002008-09-16T14:19:47.337-05:00

It is on the days I pay household bills that the reality of living between a rock and hard place is impossible to ignore. The illusion of things being "normal" is ripped away. The trickle of funds coming in is instantly soaked away leaving me to wonder how much longer the system can tread water before it completely succumbs to exhaustion. It would seem the whole rotten mess of serfdom and debt

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-9491846030214420822008-08-28T13:40:00.002-05:002008-08-28T14:49:03.596-05:00

While it may seem a wild juxtaposition going from the 29th Olympics just concluded in Beijing to watching Pink Floyd: The Wall, there is in fact a thread that joins these two beyond their mere position in the timeline.Chris Collingsworth in the final broadcast with Bob Kostas makes the point about the mingling of people from all over the globe and the feeling of hope it gives him for our future.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-63365431919140726492008-07-22T01:42:00.003-05:002008-11-10T21:23:10.834-06:00

A comment in a history book about how American empire is pretty much a carbon copy of British colonialism brought to the forefront something that had already been in the back of my mind. Much of America is patterned on the British which is a natural outgrowth since it was the British who initially settled here. The same with Australia and to some extent Canada. But what America has become has

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-997452199616195212008-07-19T22:27:00.008-05:002008-07-22T01:41:20.075-05:00

I have been going through a transformation of late. It began with a conversation back in March and has culminated in a deep interest in Pink Floyd and David Gilmour.I once asked what it means to be truly alive. Something Roger said during a documentary about the making of Dark Side I watched on YouTube recently was that I had asked the wrong question. What I needed to ask is what it means to

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-60340768841433033842008-07-06T23:10:00.003-05:002008-07-06T23:12:01.477-05:00

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-40924659785649529262008-05-03T09:26:00.002-05:002008-05-03T10:00:32.986-05:00

Last month my daughter and I went for a two week visit to Japan. My mom wanted Jasmine to go before she turned twelve to get the cheaper airfare. Riding the trains in Japan was also cheaper for her even if it did complicate things at times. We spent nearly the entire time visiting relatives except for the trip to Tokyo Disneyland. Wish the trip to Disneyland had come at the end of the trip

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1642726497520841262008-02-25T14:08:00.003-06:002008-02-25T14:56:16.700-06:00

Ever since 2004 there has been a definite down-ticking on the quality of life. It is getting harder to muster the energy needed to face all that is going on in our own lives and in the world at large. The way I can tell this is happening, at least for me, is in my ability to plan and make meals. I used to be able to plan a few days in advance and have supper ready for the family at supper time.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-48695989906346548252008-02-04T10:47:00.000-06:002008-02-04T10:52:37.681-06:00

Just to illustrate my point about the pathology in America:at WTOPNews.com is this story: Mortgage Company Exec Jumps to DeathWhether his jumping is directly related to what happened at the company or as a result of having killed his wife because of what happened at the company remains to be discovered. What I can surmise is that the stress of the situation is the proximate cause.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-58380427640110541142008-02-04T09:41:00.000-06:002008-02-04T10:36:29.984-06:00

I recommend clicking on the title of this blog entry to go to the Smirking Chimp post or going to Tom's blog which can be reached from the Smirking Chimp.I've posted it here in full to have a copy of it for future reference as an example of what wisdom looks like.The insight provided by Col. (ret.) Astore is excellent. I would only add that what the military also provides beyond the opportunity

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-12973786516322358402008-01-25T15:59:00.000-06:002008-01-25T16:04:07.398-06:00

As if we need another reason to get this country un-Scroogified.Dental Decay: The Hidden Health Crisis at Alternet.org.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-20707056627877527392008-01-23T15:10:00.000-06:002008-01-23T16:30:57.612-06:00

Robert Reich's Salon article "The politics of an economic nightmare" and tons of articles on the same topic are doing a very nice sleight of hand using the age old tactic of misdirection. The real heart of the problem we are facing is that greed has been allowed to run amok causing a stampede of brainwashed "individualists" to believe they too can have a lifestyle of the "Rich and Famous" while

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-28656705582604067902008-01-22T21:45:00.000-06:002008-01-23T14:48:16.431-06:00

I like good talent when I see it. Heath Ledger is a real loss. A really good match up would have been Heath and Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh, and I don't buy it for a second it's a drug overdose.[Update] NY Times article that gets at what I feel about the loss of Heath Ledger and the enormous talent he possessed.When I first saw him in "10 Things I Hate About You" (on HBO) I kept having the impression

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-8323758729995483982008-01-17T13:19:00.000-06:002008-01-17T13:50:49.746-06:00

Is this article posted at GlobalResearch.ca:The Financial Tsunami: The Financial Foundation of the American Century. Toward the end of the article is this:In his book, Rockefeller declared the establishment’s determination to roll back concessions grudgingly granted by the wealthy and powerful during the Great Depression. Rockefeller issued the call in 1973, long before Jimmy Carter or Margaret

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-48690418633816603512008-01-17T00:54:00.000-06:002008-01-17T01:03:28.790-06:00

Only when used properly and for the right reason. The following article by David Swanson at smirkingchimp.com is what Martin Luther King Jr. had to say about what ails us even to this day.These are some of the words of Martin Luther King Jr.: "The nonviolent strategy has been to dramatize the evils of our society in such a way that pressure is brought to bear against those evils by the forces

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-52212421294057050222008-01-16T22:37:00.000-06:002008-01-16T22:41:37.370-06:00

Published on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 by The NationMichigan’s Ominous Message for Hillary Clintonby John NicholsThe question in Tuesday’s Michigan Democratic primary was not whether Hillary Clinton could beat anybody.The question was whether Clinton could beat nobody.As the only leading Democratic contender to keep her name on the ballot after Michigan officials moved their primary ahead of

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-66907451730764659292008-01-15T15:53:00.000-06:002008-01-15T16:43:54.335-06:00

From the article "Most Likely to Secede" passed on by Carolyn Baker from the Atlantic Free Press (currently offline) is this excerpt:"The deepest questions of human liberty and government facing our time go beyond right and left, and in fact have made the old left-right split meaningless and dead," said the declaration. "The privileges, monopolies, and powers that private corporations have won

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-74600475695518210422008-01-12T16:54:00.000-06:002008-01-12T17:00:20.778-06:00

This is a really cute and really good 20 min. video about the true life-cycle of the consumer goods people buy and throw away every day.It also goes along very well with the BBC report The Century of the Self. These two dovetail very nicely.The question you gotta ask yourself: is this really all there is? Is there nothing more to our existence than going to work and buying stuff and then

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-39203525003822264822008-01-12T16:43:00.000-06:002008-01-12T16:53:38.012-06:00

This a four part BBC report. It is extremely informative and well worth watching all 4 hours of it. For those who think they are not being manipulated and are "in control" of their lives, I'd suggest moving on so as not to ruffle that finely manicured "inner-child" self importance.The Century of the SelfThis link is the 4th part of the series about how politics fans the flames of childishness and

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-10719298846728814212008-01-12T16:34:00.000-06:002008-01-12T16:42:14.310-06:00

In no particular order is a crop of articles about the presidential candidates and the Chinese Fire Drill we go through in electing the pre-selected. For some reason many several of these are from Online Journal, but I got there from Information Clearing House and then found a trove of other articles. When I find others I'll add them onto the list.2008 presidential charade promises deepening of

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-2007381061186288682008-01-03T13:07:00.000-06:002008-01-03T13:12:31.344-06:00

It has often been said that ballots need a "None of the above" box. Perhaps doing a write-in for "None of the above" is one way to get that point across.If a whole lot of people do it, it won't just be a throwaway vote, it will become a real story and has the advantage of not being seen as "voter apathy." Then, when the votes are counted and the candidates' percentages are tallied, an anomaly

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-21284898203303171192008-01-02T14:42:00.001-06:002008-01-02T14:42:53.193-06:00

The origin of humane government begins with the human heart. It is the human heart that determines the nature of our experiences in life. It is these experiences which determine everything else.According to Mencius, without the feeling of commiseration one is not a human.Therefore:The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity or benevolence.The feeling of right and wrong is the

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-61657305398985863732008-01-01T00:56:00.000-06:002008-01-01T01:41:39.274-06:00

I'm not putting the "Happy" in front of "New Year" this year. I've haven't been paying much attention to the ticking over of the new year for a few years now, but still, this one seems the most anti-climatic I've ever experienced. This is probably because I was paying attention to it this time and wondered where all the year-end summaries and celebrations were that used to be everywhere on tv

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-25757559931716521772007-12-28T10:53:00.000-06:002007-12-28T10:54:24.770-06:00

We need a whole new government and no parties. Either people do what's right or they do not. Both Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt understood the purpose of the government and the role of the aristocracy in America.That's all gone now. America is completely without a moral compass. But, in the deepest reaches of most people's hearts is the idea that they matter and should be treated with dignity and

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-66530957164601915392007-12-25T10:41:00.000-06:002007-12-25T10:55:53.248-06:00

It's been three years since I first posted this from a Christmas card I'd found in a previous year. It has ever and always been my wish. It is not just an idle hope to be wished for however, but a goal to be achieved. Now, more than ever, our times require a conscious effort to re-connect to each other and to the living world all around us. Then we will know the true magic of being

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-23605026027448705962007-12-11T09:23:00.000-06:002007-12-11T10:26:02.634-06:00

In UK's Telegraph article Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert is this:In a report "Recession Coming" released today, the bank's US team said the credit crunch had started to inflict serious damage on US companies.I saw this coming 20 years ago. The credit card companies began handing out credit cards left and right and the advertising became downright aggressive. Impulse buying wasn't

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-70737873579919613292007-12-05T11:40:00.000-06:002007-12-05T11:58:20.067-06:00

By Stan GoffClick the link for a very good example of what the Buddha meant by "skillful means." While I consider Christianity a kindergarten religion for teaching ethics because of its reliance on an external authority and can easily be co-opted by the unscrupulous, it does have embedded within it higher order teachings that can lead to greater spiritual awareness as evidenced in the article

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-66060062280618551812007-12-02T10:11:00.000-06:002007-12-02T11:35:49.610-06:00

Carolyn Baker has this article from the New York Times (free registration) about the disorganization and lack of funding for the Food and Drug Administration whose task is to ensure that our food won't make people sick and our medicinal drugs will help and not kill people.The end of the article states:Garret A. FitzGerald, a pharmacologist from the University of Pennsylvania and adviser to the

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-42714815976991044742007-11-30T12:09:00.000-06:002007-11-30T12:37:11.539-06:00

There is something profoundly wrong with a system that inherently bases the offering of goods and services solely on the basis of ability to pay. This sets up a stratification of society that has nothing to do with fairness or promoting the general welfare of the people or serving the common good of all.What it does is base one's self-worth on a system that has nothing to do with real value let

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-45974013387737361742007-10-26T15:59:00.000-05:002007-10-26T19:43:48.685-05:00

I have collected a lot of rss feeds but like news it's all become a drone of the evils of empire. I need to find some other feeds but when I look around none of them are where I've gone in needing something more spiritual.See, the ordinary world I use to live in went up in smoke sometime in late May/early June. Unable to cope with this along with the growing inability to cope with caring for my

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-53266093201933363922007-10-23T10:20:00.000-05:002007-10-23T11:49:52.243-05:00

Human beings are heading for a great reckoning. See this article at Information Clearing House. Life is not based on money--that is a purely human construct, thoroughly arbitrary, and completely deluded. Unfortunately, the pursuit of it--money, profit, and the power it erroneously represents--has endangered us all. As MLK Jr. once said about an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-26567703527537486022007-08-04T14:06:00.000-05:002007-08-04T19:03:26.184-05:00

For any Harry Potter fans who read here, I've got a couple entries over at "The Moral Compass."

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-31574602200145664812007-07-30T22:02:00.000-05:002007-07-30T22:38:04.371-05:00

There comes a time when the space between the rock and the hard place final just squishes together. There is no way out and nowhere to turn to relieve the pressure. There is no help to be found. Anywhere. When that happens, one of two things occurs. Either one gives up entirely or they explode. The giving up is when the energy expended keeping that space open is finally exhausted and the last

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-53567385471696652372007-07-30T12:24:00.000-05:002007-07-30T12:28:14.817-05:00

At the top of one of last week's Information Clearing House newsletter is this quote from Thomas Paine's "Common Sense." http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/sense1.htmPerhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-47707648109787974392007-07-25T10:02:00.000-05:002007-07-25T10:41:00.725-05:00

In my previous post I said I didn't know what specifically bugged me about the judgement to take my daughter off the state's low income health care program and put her on her dad's medical "insurance" plan. I finally figured out what bugs me about it. According to the magistrate's own statement, it is NOT ok to have people pay taxes that will benefit the general population, but it IS ok to

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-15783276224276331222007-07-19T10:19:00.000-05:002007-07-25T10:02:45.018-05:00

I woke up this morning with a profound feeling of something being wrong in America. I've woken up with this feeling before, but it was most powerful this morning. The likely reason is that last Monday my child is to be placed on her dad's medical insurance plan at work which means she will no longer have dental or vision as she had with the state's medical assistance HMO program UCare. [Update:

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-30279971951938879652007-06-25T19:56:00.000-05:002007-07-19T11:24:26.589-05:00

I just finished watching this program on PBS in MN: Extreme Oil13 KTCI: Monday, June 25 7:00 PMPublic affairsThe WildernessLobbyists debate the extraction of oil in Alaska; extraction site in Canada.We have lived on this planet for thousands of years before oil. We CAN live without it. Won't get RICH, but you can LIVE if there is food. Thinking about the Inuit, what is rich to them? A good hunt

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-37766658156666187592007-06-21T21:23:00.000-05:002007-06-21T21:38:58.360-05:00

There's a lull going right now and yet there is movement far out at sea, so to speak. The news and blogs are pretty much in a holding pattern continuing to regurgitate each instance of the evils of empire waiting for something new to blare about.Myself, I'm in a holding pattern too, but for a different reason. I am concentrating on my garden and trying to collect the energies of my life into

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-23682793701698372252007-06-16T13:41:00.000-05:002007-06-16T13:42:17.615-05:00

June 14, 2007Progressive PonderingsEarnings - Wages, Salaries, PerksBy J. Mayer"You ought to be able to keep what you 'earn,'" is a frequent clichéof right-wing tax protestors including the current "decider." It'sappealing. It's persuasive. It's deceiving!It's deceiving in its false assumptions. It assumes that all wagesand salaries are actually "earned." It assumes that our "valuesystem" is

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-54836800758500121162007-06-04T23:07:00.000-05:002007-06-05T00:47:38.484-05:00

While I was watching "My Music: The British Beat" on PBS here in MN tonight, I wasn't really paying much attention until the camera was on a guy playing violin who looked rather bored. The song was Gerry Marsden's "Ferry Cross the Mersey." He's a younger guy and didn't experience anything of the 1960s music explosion. While the song itself doesn't do much for me, as the camera panned the audience

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-51386051164008164342007-05-29T16:19:00.000-05:002007-05-29T16:34:17.702-05:00

Comment from ssegalmd on the article "Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis": As with almost all American problems, the problem is not that we don't know what to do or that we need answers. The problem is that all solutions cuts into corporate profits, and that is sacrilege in America. It's just not going to happen with Democrats and Republicans in power.As long as people continue to view

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-10286622857757232602007-05-29T01:54:00.000-05:002007-05-29T02:17:03.974-05:00

Keith Olbermann: Our generation's Edward R. Murrow.The Entire Government Has Failed Us On IraqDennis Kucinich on how and why it failed us on Iraq.Bill Moyers, the true conscience of democracy, on how we have gotten to be so rotten.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-91971572841059697862007-05-22T02:21:00.000-05:002007-05-22T02:40:30.274-05:00

It sure didn't take long for my feelings/suspicions to be confirmed from my post below on The manufacturing of terror.Bush Anoints Himself as Ensurer of Constitutional Government in Emergencyhttp://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052107T.shtmlWith scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for responding to a catastrophic attack. Under that plan, he entrusts

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-10036291658663784812007-05-19T16:15:00.000-05:002007-05-19T16:25:42.847-05:00

Social critic and professor Theodore Roszak wrote The Making of a Counter Culture in 1968. I don't think the Summer of Love left any blueprints behind on how to build a better world. It was much more a showcase for enjoyment, for happiness, for freedom, as people understood it then. But if you probe to the underlying values of displays like that, protests like that, you can perhaps see the

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-42820677166008159492007-05-18T13:04:00.000-05:002007-05-18T13:23:33.114-05:00

Charles Perrow at the HuffPost puts to rest the likelihood of an external nuclear terrorist attack. Without a massive amount of logistics and state sponsorship the threat has a snowball's chance of being carried out.However, in a post below is a link to what the U.S. Government is doing to prepare for just such an event. The question I have is why are they so keen about it? The only reason I can

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-14053288123179631802007-05-18T00:54:00.000-05:002007-05-18T02:55:37.862-05:00

Chris Hansen with Dateline on MSNBC does these stings on alleged sexual predators. I say alleged because from what I can tell these guys are more like opportunists instead of true predators. The online world is full of everyone. Most of them are lonely and bored out of their skulls. The "predators" on the show are all men. Rather sexist that, although it has been my experience as a female that

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-40105647774316849772007-05-17T23:34:00.000-05:002007-05-17T23:58:40.997-05:00

Norwegian company to pump Iraqi oilAt least one company is getting the oil.Can you spare a drop of water?Global climate changes leave some places dry.Did we learning nothing from the Cuban missile crisis?Contingencies for nuclear terrorist attack: Government and military officials has been quietly preparing an emergency survival program that would include the building of bomb shelters, steps

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-50033334446555645272007-05-17T23:32:00.000-05:002007-05-18T00:19:31.243-05:00

From Information Clearing House:Ron Paul on Blowback By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 05/17/07 "Ludwig von Mises Institute" -- - Plenty of reasonable people can disagree about foreign policy. What's really strange is when one reasonable position is completely and forcibly excluded from the public debate. Such was the case after 9-11. Every close

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-40120604093377460892007-05-17T11:58:00.000-05:002007-05-18T13:55:15.440-05:00

Matt Taibbi gets into the very thing that I griped about regarding benchmarks in the now defunct HR 1591. Tension Mounts as Antiwar Movement Challenges Dems' Commitment to Stop the War by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone via Alternet.Matt writes on webpages 2 and 3:The law, endorsed here by the Democrats, is an unusually vicious piece of legislation, an open blueprint for colonial robbery of the

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-39572688165919928912007-05-10T22:42:00.000-05:002007-05-18T13:58:11.248-05:00

I received an email for People For the American Way. I don't have anything to say about them one way or another, but I noticed an ad for Blue State Coffee on the webmail and clicked the link landing on their Causes page. One of their causes is Even Start. The blurb for Even Start goes like this: Even Start Family Literacy Programs are school-community partnerships that help break the cycle

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-51258066377976293882007-05-08T01:26:00.000-05:002007-05-08T02:19:15.658-05:00

I am savoring this moment. I've managed to release some tension. The feeling that came with it was a sense of wholeness and well-being. I'd had a dream the other night and in trying to understand its meaning in this moment was actually spiritual. Like coming home and actually being home, truly home, at ease and comfortable. Wu wei, non-ado, no struggle. Completely at home inside one's own skin.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-78824140905706941222007-04-30T13:14:00.000-05:002007-04-30T13:33:03.792-05:00

Ran into these two articles this morning.SUPER-IMPERIALISM: The shameful legacy of liberal DemocratsandCONSPIRACY: IF YOU'RE NOT IN ONE YOU NEED TO START ONEI run into these kinds of articles from time to time as if to ensure I don't get fooled into thinking that what's wrong with America and the illusion it constructs is somehow correctable. It isn't.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-38019478433487277642007-04-25T09:39:00.000-05:002007-04-25T09:41:40.370-05:00

Support Rep. Dennis Kucinich in bringing articles of impeachment against VP Dick Cheney.Do It Yourself Impeachment.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-38269018634799081982007-04-25T09:34:00.000-05:002007-04-25T09:38:01.424-05:00

Read what's happening to control of our water in this Alternet article, "Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water."Water, the most fundmental substance to life on the planet besides air. I think the ecosystems of earth are going to experience a major crash and with it, human depopulation. In some ways, I say good riddance. Humans are a failed experiment in evolution: too much madness for all

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-91048790619352666332007-04-02T21:10:00.000-05:002007-04-02T21:15:37.802-05:00

[This is page 4 of the Smithsonian article titled above. I put it here because unless you click the stop loading button, the page will blank out and you can't read the last page. The other pages can be read from the beginning by clicking on the title which will take you to the article.]For years scholars have evaluated Elliott’s exercise, seeking to determine if it reduces racial prejudice in

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-30416894193958641922007-04-02T11:43:00.000-05:002007-04-02T11:56:33.724-05:00

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh Through work to bring materials from Women's Studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are over-privileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged. They may say they will work to improve women's status, in the society, the university, or the

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-88954275805771097622007-03-30T10:51:00.000-05:002007-03-30T12:08:58.593-05:00

ABCNews Nightline had a report last night (3-29-07) about the Chicago ban on selling foie gras. One of the "reactions" they had in the piece was a guy complaining about "nanny government." I wish a had vid-clip for it because it was the most important part of the entire report. However, on the Nightline message board at abcnews.com was this post:When we are children it is our family and our

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-61933510853922794782007-03-29T12:03:00.000-05:002007-03-31T10:22:05.980-05:00

Pick an issue, any issue, and I can trace it back to some cultural or social attitude that pervades policy.My biggest issue at the moment is my dad. He had a stroke a little over a year ago in Nov. 2005. He went to the nursing home for rehab and could be there for 100 days on Medicare, but after that he would have to go to private pay--hardly affordable by anyone with only $20k in annual

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-44468512584103339522007-03-13T12:11:00.000-05:002007-03-13T14:02:50.738-05:00

Information Clearing House has this article by Mike Whitney talking about Bush's visit to Latin America.In the article is this quote by Chavez as he shadows Bush's tour: “Those who want to go directly to hell can follow capitalism,” Chavez boomed to a standing-only crowd in Argentina’s soccer stadium.As an economic system American-style robber-baron capitalism is meeting its end. It is the most

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-58401965875784598352007-03-07T16:37:00.000-06:002007-03-07T16:49:27.752-06:00

Images of IranIran: Another Perspective, a Photo TourTo go StopIranWar.com and sign the petition.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-62289553603849403052007-02-09T10:33:00.000-06:002007-02-06T02:18:40.836-06:00

Just in case anyone missed this:Iran to target U.S. interests if attacked. Read more here.This is quite the double-edged sword. It is quite within the realm of possibility that in fomenting a confrontation with Iran and getting exactly this response from them, that should anything happen on U.S. soil, it will be precisely the kind of event needed to spring the trap Chris Hedges wrote about in "

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-22327706485640517372007-02-06T02:05:00.000-06:002007-02-26T12:58:00.318-06:00

The Book TV appearance of Chris Hedges talking his new book "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" can be seen at ICH. The subject of his book keeps me up at night. Not because of having read his book, which I have not finished, but because I could already feel how the world has been tortuously twisted and turned upside down from a few years ago. The process began longer

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-70340489852554912522007-02-03T09:49:00.000-06:002007-02-03T10:22:16.174-06:00

Someone wrote recently:If the understanding was that R & H would raise their own funds from the benefactors of their efforts but did not, doesn't that mean that the market, if you will, did not receive or place much value on those efforts? If so, why should the SCC then be asked to subsidize that failure of R & H to raise their own funds? The thought occurred to me that if people have no money

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-13795618653212438032007-02-01T12:34:00.000-06:002007-02-01T12:43:47.733-06:00

From Marty Kaplan saying it like it is and very well at that at the HuffPost:"The system worked" is what so many of us breathed with relief when Nixon fled Washington in disgrace. No matter that it was Nixon's own paranoia -- in the form of secret White House tape recordings -- that did him in, not just the majesty of a Senate investigation; no matter that it took the luck of Barry Goldwater's

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-59259492493567143192007-01-31T09:18:00.000-06:002007-02-01T00:34:07.251-06:00

First thing my dad does in the morning is turn on CNN. He's mostly deaf now so the TV is turned up pretty loud even with his hearing aids in and so I hear whatever they are blabbing about that morning.The unreality that comes out of the TV some mornings just boggles my mind. As I awaken with the TV blaring I do a mental review of what year it is. This IS the year 2007, right? RIGHT? We ARE

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-7658188482788465152007-01-18T12:31:00.000-06:002007-01-31T10:19:56.434-06:00

I know I once wrote about my observations of Bush Jr. and changes I saw him undergo during that first year of his residency at the White House. Where it is now I haven't a clue. It doesn't seem to have ever made it to the blogosphere but if anyone ever gets a whiff of it anywhere besides this post, please drop me a link.What brings this up is an article, Bush and the Psychology of Incompetent

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-9450268105467098252007-01-16T23:12:00.000-06:002007-01-17T00:49:28.207-06:00

I'd never seen the extended version of Fellowship of the Ring so I rented it. I watched it last night. Having my own copy of the extended version of The Two Towers, I am watching it tonight. There are two scenes that are quite subtle and very important. One is when Theoden is restored to his right self and all the people, including Aragorn, kneel in deference to Theoden King.The other scene is

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-52774521848360867522006-12-28T10:58:00.000-06:002006-12-28T12:37:47.488-06:00

Bill O'Really and his puppet masters have successfully killed Christmas. So too have the owners and programmers of TV and cable.Although I have felt the Christmas spirit to greater and lesser degrees over the years, this is the first year I could not feel it at all. Instead of playing "A Christmas Carol" or "It's a Wonderful Life" or anything else that connects a person to the greater spiritual

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-68668238888604429602006-12-09T03:03:00.000-06:002006-12-09T03:13:05.677-06:00

In the wake of reading this post at Centrisity I finally came to understand what the difference between the left and right really is. I've read all the definitions but none of them stick in my mind as being meaningful. However, when considered from the perspective of people-centered or power-centered I am finally able to wrap my head around what the difference really is between the two parties.As

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-35434030848989353512006-12-08T01:03:00.000-06:002007-01-31T10:23:23.879-06:00

Anyone who shies away from impeaching Bush for any reason whatsoever is guilty of committing treason.The impeaching of Bush has NOTHING to do with Clinton or politics. It has EVERYTHING to do with defending the Constitution against domestic enemies. The elites and those who go along with their line of crap are not worth the air they breathe. I truly wish there was a way for the elites and their

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1165173549201318922006-12-03T07:39:00.000-06:002006-12-03T13:19:09.203-06:00

Mencius: 1A:11. Mencius went to see king Hûi of Liang.2. The king said, 'Venerable sir, since you have not thought it far to come from such a long distance, you must have some good advice to profit my kingdom.'3. Mencius replied, 'Why must your Majesty use that word "profit?" My advice has only to do with benevolence and righteousness.'4. 'If your Majesty say, "What will profit my kingdom?"the

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1165043116792996582006-12-02T00:57:00.000-06:002006-12-02T01:05:16.810-06:00

I don't have a transcript or video but I happened to catch the Nov. 30 recording of Ken Mehlman on C-SPAN tonight.My response: We don't need an "ownership" society, we need a "give a shit" society.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1165173413569937152006-11-30T22:12:00.000-06:002006-12-03T13:16:53.570-06:00

This past election has shifted the gears of our country. A whole lot of people woke up and got active this last cycle. Along with this shift in the electorate is another that needs to take place in the American consciousness, and with it, a change in its culture and objects of worship. The purpose of this blog is shifting gears to begin highlighting what those changes are. These changes are

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1164936127656911162006-11-30T19:11:00.000-06:002006-11-30T19:22:07.666-06:00

In an article that piqued my interest was this:The bill, by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., defines a 20-week-old fetus as a "pain-capable unborn child" - a highly controversial threshold among scientists. It also directs the Health and Human Service Department to develop a brochure stating "that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1164915386575941912006-11-30T13:33:00.000-06:002006-11-30T13:54:35.876-06:00

Not sure how trackback works so I'm just posting the link and hope that will work good enough.Click the link and follow the instructions there to participate in seeing just how fast things can travel in the blogosphere. Happy linking![Update] BTW, I got the link from Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly here.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1164776079500873652006-11-28T22:54:00.000-06:002006-11-28T23:06:02.723-06:00

I finally got up the energy to get my desk cleaned up and get all the bills in order. Again. It's a never ending battle against all the paper that comes thru the front door of my house and ends up on my desk.Anyway, while I'm going through the rest of what needs to be paid this month I discover that Frontline on PBS is doing "The Secret History of the Credit Card."I already know the credit card "

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1164439712088680982006-11-25T01:12:00.000-06:002006-11-25T01:28:32.100-06:00

A Timeless Way of LivingThere is a Way of living that is most natural and humanizing. It is a humane way of living that covers the entire life span and seeks to maximize what is best about and within each stage of life. Childhood, adolescence, adulthood, peak maturity, decline, and old age. However, we are now facing a serious problem of extensive infirmity in the elderly because medical advances

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1164309757665499982006-11-23T13:21:00.000-06:002006-11-23T13:22:37.683-06:00

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1164310059170510092006-11-22T20:32:00.000-06:002006-11-23T13:28:49.586-06:00

Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to Ne-o,happy birthday to me.

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1164007317510225982006-11-20T01:09:00.000-06:002006-11-20T01:41:47.853-06:00

I do Zogby polls. The latest (11-19-06) is the hardest ping yet for Hillary Clinton running for prez. While I do meet people who like her and think she's just the greatest, I meet others who despise her and will defect from the Democratic Party if she so much as breathes in the direction of the White House.Hillary, the DLC, and hubby Bill have done enough to this country along with the sociopaths

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8348104.post-1163911546005632192006-11-18T16:07:00.000-06:002006-11-19T12:38:54.276-06:00

For all the reading of tea leaves many are still unsure about what the Democratic victory means.According to exit polls, the main issue with voters was corruption. Other issues were terrorism, the economy, and Iraq. The basic temperament was anti-incumbentism regardless of party though most who got thrown out were Republicans.One of the biggest turn-offs during the campaign season were the

NeoLotushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02124288012388560456noreply@blogger.com0