Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Slow Dance

This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital

It was sent by a medical doctor - Make sure to read what is in the closing statement AFTER THE POEM.


SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids

On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain

Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

Do you run through each day

On the fly?


When you ask How are you?

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

Running through your head?

You'd better slow down

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

Ever told your child,

We'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time

To call and say,"Hi"

You'd better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift....

Thrown away.

Life is not a race


Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Friday, October 26, 2007

Mental Illness in the White House

Straitjacket Bush

The president's warmongering remarks on the Iranian threat suggest he is psychotic. Really.

October 25, 2007

http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-brooks24oct25,1,204896.column?coll=la-news-columns&ctrack=1&cset=true

Rosa Brooks: rbrooks@latimescolumnists.com

Forget impeachment.

Liberals, put it behind you. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney shouldn't be treated like criminals who deserve punishment. They should be treated like psychotics who need treatment.

Because they've clearly gone mad. Exhibit A: We're in the middle of a disastrous war in Iraq, the military and political situation in Afghanistan is steadily worsening, and the administration's interrogation and detention tactics have inflamed anti-Americanism and fueled extremist movements around the globe. Sane people, confronting such a situation, do their best to tamp down tensions, rebuild shattered alliances, find common ground with hostile parties and give our military a little breathing space. But crazy people? They look around and decide it's a great time to start another war.

That would be with Iran, and you'd have to be deaf not to hear the war drums. Last week, Bush remarked that "if you're interested in avoiding World War III . . . you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon." On Sunday, Cheney warned of "the Iranian regime's efforts to destabilize the Middle East and to gain hegemonic power . . . [we] cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its most aggressive ambitions." On Tuesday, Bush insisted on the need "to defend Europe against the emerging Iranian threat."

Huh? Iran is now a major threat to Europe? The Iranians are going to launch a nuclear missile (that they don't yet possess) against Europe (for reasons unknown because, as far as we know, they're not mad at anyone in Europe)? This is lunacy in action.

Writing in Newsweek on Oct. 20, Fareed Zakaria, a solid centrist and former editor of Foreign Affairs, put it best. Citing Bush's invocation of "the specter of World War III if Iran gained even the knowledge needed to make a nuclear weapon," Zakaria concluded that "the American discussion about Iran has lost all connection to reality. . . . Iran has an economy the size of Finland's. . . . It has not invaded a country since the late 18th century. The United States has a GDP that is 68 times larger and defense expenditures that are 110 times greater. Israel and every Arab country (except Syria and Iraq) are . . . allied against Iran. And yet we are to believe that Tehran is about to overturn the international system and replace it with an Islamo-fascist order? What planet are we on?"

Planet Cheney.

Zakaria may be misinterpreting the president's remark about World War III though. He saw it as a dangerously loopy Bush prediction about the future behavior of a nuclear Iran -- the idea being, presumably, that possessing "the knowledge" to make a nuclear weapon would so empower Iran's repressive leaders that they'll giddily rush out and start World War III.

But you could read Bush's remark as a madman's threat rather than a madman's prediction -- as a warning to recalcitrant states, from Germany to Russia, that don't seem to share his crazed obsession with Iran. The message: Fall into line with administration policy toward Iran or you can count on the U.S.A. to try to start World War III on its own. And when it comes to sparking global conflagration, a U.S. attack on Iran might be just the thing. Yee haw!

You'd better believe these guys would do it too. Why not? They have nothing to lose -- they're out of office in 15 months anyway. Après Bush-Cheney, le déluge! (Have fun, Hillary.)

But all this creates a conundrum. What's a constitutional democracy to do when the president and vice president lose their marbles?

The U.S. is full of ordinary people with serious forms of mental illness -- delusional people with violent fantasies who think they're the president, or who think they get instructions from the CIA through their dental fillings.

The problem with Bush is that he is the president -- and he gives instructions to the CIA and military, without having to go through his dental fillings.

Impeachment's not the solution to psychosis, no matter how flagrant. But despite their impressive foresight in other areas, the framers unaccountably neglected to include an involuntary civil commitment procedure in the Constitution.

Still, don't lose hope. By enlisting the aid of mental health professionals and the court system, Congress can act to remedy that constitutional oversight. The goal: Get Bush and Cheney committed to an appropriate inpatient facility, where they can get the treatment they so desperately need. In Washington, the appropriate statutory law is already in place: If a "court or jury finds that [a] person is mentally ill and . . . is likely to injure himself or other persons if allowed to remain at liberty, the court may order his hospitalization."

I'll even serve on the jury. When it comes to averting World War III, it's really the least I can do.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Bush League

Can the English language survive?

"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
- George W. Bush


"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
- George W. Bush


"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
- George W. Bush


"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
- George W. Bush


"The future will be better tomorrow."
- George W. Bush


"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."
- George W. Bush


"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
- George W. Bush


"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe We are a part of Europe."
- George W. Bush

?

"Public speaking is very easy."
- George W. Bush


"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
- George W. Bush

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
- George W. Bush


"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
- George W. Bush


"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
- George W. Bush


"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
- George W. Bush


"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
- George W. Bush

?

And something to be REALLY worried about:
(look at the book in Bush's hands)



God help
America

American dollar meltdown

This segment from CBS's /60 Minutes /is a sober wake-up call to anybody
who has investments in the U.S. or in U.S. dollars. The massive fiscal
irresponsibility of the Bush regime is about to implode the global
economy. Whilst the politicos in Washington, D.C. and their economic
stooges seem to be in denial mode, David Walker and his associates are
dead serious about their mission to warn Americans about what's been
going on so they can do something NOW to rescue their own future from
total ruin.

Download the wmv file here:
http://www.grandich.com/video/60min.162mb.wmv

Monday, October 22, 2007

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Muslim call for Peace

Unprecedented Muslim call for peace with Christians

By Peter GraffThu Oct 11, 10:37 AM ET

More than 130 Muslim scholars from around the globe called on Thursday for peace and understanding between Islam and Christianity, saying "the very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake."

In an unprecedented letter to Pope Benedict and other Christian leaders, 138 Muslim scholars said finding common ground between the world's biggest faiths was not simply a matter for polite dialogue between religious leaders.

"If Muslims and Christians are not at peace, the world cannot be at peace. With the terrible weaponry of the modern world; with Muslims and Christians intertwined everywhere as never before, no side can unilaterally win a conflict between more than half of the world's inhabitants," the scholars wrote.

"Our common future is at stake. The very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake," they wrote, adding that Islam and Christianity already agreed that love of God and neighbor were the two most important commandments of their faiths.

Relations between Muslims and Christians have been strained as al Qaeda has struck around the world and as the United States and other Western countries intervened in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Such a joint letter is unprecedented in Islam, which has no central authority that speaks on behalf of all worshippers.

The list of signatories includes senior figures throughout the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. They represent Sunni, Shi'ite and Sufi schools of Islam.

Among them were the grand muftis of Egypt, Palestine, Oman, Jordan, Syria, Bosnia and Russia and many imams and scholars. War-torn Iraq was represented by both Shi'ites and Sunnis.

Mustafa Cagrici, the mufti who prayed with Benedict in Istanbul's Blue Mosque last year, was also on the list, as was the popular Egyptian television preacher Amr Khaled.

"MAINSTREAM VOICES DROWNED OUT"

The letter was addressed to the Pope, leaders of Orthodox Christian churches, Anglican leader Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the heads of the world alliances of the Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist and Reformed churches.

Williams said he welcomed it as "indicative of the kind of relationship for which we yearn in all parts of the world."

"The call to respect, peace and goodwill should now be taken up by Christians and Muslims at all levels and in all countries," he said.

A Vatican official in Rome said the Roman Catholic Church would not comment until it had time to read the letter.

Aref Ali Nayed, one of the signatories and a senior adviser to the Cambridge Interfaith Program at Cambridge University in Britain, said the signatories represented the "99.9 percent of Muslims" who follow mainstream schools and oppose extremism.

"In Islam we have had a problem for some time now where the mainstream voices are drowned out by a minority that choose violence," he said.

Nayed said organizers of the letter had set up an ad hoc network among Muslim leaders that could lead to more cooperation in future.

"These people don't take their signatures lightly," he said. "We are trying to institutionalize this so we don't lose it."

The overture to Christians could be followed by similar letters addressed to Jews or secularists, he added.

Pope Benedict sparked Muslim protests last year with a speech hinting Islam was violent and irrational. It prompted 38 Muslim scholars to write a letter challenging his view of Islam and accepting his call for serious Christian-Muslim dialogue.

Benedict repeatedly expressed regret for the reaction to the speech, but stopped short of a clear apology sought by Muslims.

The new letter argues in theological terms, giving quotes from the Koran and the Bible that show both Christianity and Islam considered love of God as their greatest commandment and love of neighbor as the second greatest.

"The basis for this peace and understanding already exists," it said. "It is part of the very foundational principles of both faiths: love of the one God and love of the neighbor."

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Cracked Pots

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots; each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house."

The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?"

"That's because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them."

"For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.

Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.

You've just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

SO, to all of my crackpot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!

And send this to any or all of your Crackpot friends within 5 minutes and see what happens! Don't forget the Crackpot that sent it to you!

Thursday, October 11, 2007

UFO DIRECTORY

UFO DIRECTORY:::

ALIENS WERE EXAMINED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxF3cn...

SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMh3Cg...

300 GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY WITNESSESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5uZ15...

FIRST ALIEN ENCOUNTER US GOVT COVERUP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zSc8M...

Real UFO ON VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FeAK-...

HISTORY OF UFOS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai8KeN...

UFO DOCUMENTARIES
Out OF THE BLUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5JOP_...

UFOS THE HIDDEN TRUTH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gCtj7...

FASTWALKERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOVonI...

UFOS THE GREATEST STORY EVER DENIED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXPxlL...

Riddle In The Skies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LpQB8...

SECRET SPACE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVbR6B...

ABDUCTEE TESTIMONY
BETTY BARNEY HILL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7UEQQ...

TRAVIS WALTON FIRE IN THE SKY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejyr0q...

AUSTRALIAN HIGHWAY ENCOUNTER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On5xIH...

PRESIDENT TRUMAN ADMITS UFOS ARE HERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjQvMi...

ASTRONUAT SEES UFO LAND AND TAKE OFF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_usx9...

FINAL PROOF CROP CIRCLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHzlfp...

FIRST REAL UFO BATTLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjPow1...

UFO PILOT AIRTRAFFIC CONTROL UFO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c_1mY...

QUANTUM PHYSICS OF UFO TRAVEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wnk6F...

HANDHELD SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMdEMd...

The TRUTH ABOUT ROSWELL FINALLY REVEALED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5ybfg...

62 KIDS ENCOUNTER UFOS AND ALIENS BEINGS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctimRp...

The Days Of The Lives Of The Abducted
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUIoFM...

Visit A True Alien Graveyard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuP60G...

UFO MUSEUM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4uTcv...

1952 UFO WAVE Largest Wave of all Time FACTUAL OBSERVATION DATA:
http://www.nicap.org/waves/1952fullre...
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