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Freedom without fear is a hard concept for Iraqi children
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+Recommend this blog Both these links explains why our troops deserve so much more credit!
First this war is for these children and more credit should go to our troops, because by loving these children, they are teaching them that life with freedom is a life without constant fear. Freedom without fear is a hard concept for many of their youth. Teaching these kids how to trust is not an easy task, but one that is needed to end this war. I love the irony of this short but great video clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbj1hA-Vczg Iraq Is Not Lost Because The US Military Is Still There By Keith Quackenbush Read more | 0 comments
ATTACKS BY US FORCES ON SADR CITY SEND RESIDENTS FLEEING
My Friendship, With A Great Role Model, A Military Veteran, by Hazel Davis
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+Recommend this blog As I share this story, with you, I do want to say, that "If You Had Known This Man, He Would Have Been a Great Role Model, for You, Too". He is one of the Many Individuals, who has "Walked Beside Me, in True Friendship". The Man, to Whom I refer, is ENOCH ALEXANDER, who is from the Native American Indian Tribe...The Choctaw Indian Tribe, originally from the State of Mississippi, & whose ancestors, were "forced to travel" to the State of Oklahoma, after 1820, to a Reservation Land, bringing with them, many individuals who served as Christian Missionaries, & also, accompanying these Native American Indian Tribes, was More Than a Million Slaves...from the Eastern States. Enoch Alexander grew up in a Rural Area of Southeastern Oklahoma, near a Town called Talihini, & even today, he has many relatives still residing there. When I began to know Enoch Alexander, he was living in the Projects, the Apartments for the Elderly / Disabled. My Apartment, was a couple buildings from Enoch, and sometimes I would sit on my porch & Observe the Happenings with Mr. Enoch Alexander...in the Special Way, that he was Living His Life. As I got acquainted with Mr. Enoch Alexander, I discovered HIM TO BE A GREAT WISE MAN, One with Much Experience in Life, too. He had achieved Much Education, & been Employed at Prestigious Jobs. HE TRULY WAS A MAN, TO "STAND OUT, AMONG MEN". (Perhaps I am Partial Though, because I Learned Much from Him, during the time I knew him. The Project Apartments, were situated in a Cul-de-Sac, & from the Sidewalk, in front of Our Residence, We Could View the Traffic & Any Events, happening, for several blocks away. Thus, visiting among the Residents there, often took place, when we would gather on the sidewalk, near the middle of the Cul-de-sac. Enoch sometimes referred to this as the "Funny Farm", just in jest though, for "we had many good conversations & Many Laughs, as We Shared the Stories of Each of Our Lives, telling details, about how we raised our families, and talked about the Various Types of Employment, we'd done, throughout Our Lives. Enoch often mentioned to me, "Hazel, why do you live here, when you have such intelligence, as you do??". I haven't forgotten that statement, made by Enoch, to me. During the many conversations that Enoch & I shared, he would tell me about the work he'd done for McDonald / Douglas, and about the education he'd gotten, and also, how he had a Natural Talent, as a Specialist in the knowing the Contents of the Many Metals, which are in the Dirt of the Earth, in the Machinery...manufactured around the World, and also, in our own bodies. Toward the end of Enoch's life, just before he came to live in the Projects Apartments, Enoch had lived in a very large city in Texas, & for several years, his job, was to Appear in Court as a Specialist, to Verify, the Amount of Metals, described in the Lawsuits that had been filed in court actions there. He said that he really had enjoyed that talent / that opportunity, to BE SOMEONE SPECIAL, Someone Who Had Such a Natural Talent, as he did. Mr. Enoch Alexander, had also been a Law Enforcement Officer, and after that He Studied Greek & Latin & became Very Fluent in these Two Languages & could Read / Write / Speak it, quite well. Mr. Alexander, Became One of the Most Outstanding Ministers of the World, maybe not so well-known as some others tho...but He Knew the Bible from Front Cover to the Back Cover...& could relate all the events & the Histories, therein. Mr. Enoch Alexander, must have Wanted to "Stay in Practice of Praying", for he would often say to me, "Hazel, Let Me Pray For You". Hey, I am a Believer..."Prayer Heals / Prayer Seals / Prayer is Good For the Soul". (Of course, I Never Turned Down a Prayer, not by such a Wise-Man, as Mr. Enoch Alexander). I knew the Power, He Held, Within, & I surely couldn't befall, his request, so "I received much prayer...from time to time". Before I end this Note, I want to say this: " MR. ENOCH ALEXANDER, WAS A MILITARY SOLDIER / VETERAN OF WWII, AND HAVING BEEN A PREACHER / MINISTER, OF THE WORD, HE ALSO KNEW / REALIZED.....WHAT IT IS TO HAVE BECOME......A ...RECOVERING ...ALCOHOLIC". Has This Not Impressed You Yet ??? IF NOT, LET ME TELL YOU THIS MUCH MORE: MR. ENOCH ALEXANDER ....HAD ...NO LEGS !!! During his years, of being an Alcoholic, He had become a Diabetic. After one leg had been removed, below the knew, Enoch's wife had passed away. This is what he said to me, "Hazel, I could hardly accept it, when My Wife passed away, & I went out & became very drunk, returned to My Office, in the City, & fell asleep, with my leg, being close to an infrared heater, & "my leg was like jelly, when I awoke", but no one was around, so I used my crutches, & then, "drove myself to the hospital, where I was admitted, & this leg was also removed, below the knee". How Foolish, I had been, to allow Alcohol to "take over my life"...for me to allow this to happen. And, here I sit, with No Legs !! Many is the time, I would see Enoch, being in his wheelchair, going to his vehicle. After he would get the right door open, he would slide, from his wheelchair, into the vehicle, & slide over, so he could fold the wheelchair & put it in the floor by the front seat of the vehicle. Enoch, would say to me, "Hazel, get in the back seat, & we'll go to the Drive-Thru & get some food & take some lunch to your mother"...which we did, for she no longer drove a vehicle, & had to spend much time at home. So, there I was, BEING CHAFFEURED AROUND, BY A MAN, WITH "NO LEGS". Believe me, I Truly "felt honored", that This Man, Would Be So Humble to Me...(wouldn't you, if you had been in that position ??). I had known Mr. Enoch Alexander for about Three Years, altogether...& he'd Chaffeured Me, on Many Occasions, for he often, dined out...since he didn't cook much at his home. Mr. Enoch Alexander, was the Very First Military Veteran, who I learned to Assist, with helping him, obtain the VA Benefits, to which he was eligible. He certainly appreciated anything I did, on His Behalf. Some of the Advice which was given to me, by Enoch, was this: "Hazel, Never Waste Your Time, in Worrying About What Happened in Years Past, But...enjoy the time of Today, & Learn to Make Changes, so that You Grow, for the Years, which are Your Future.". From the Bible, Mr. Enoch Alexander, would often quote from Romans...Chapter 8 / Verses: 1 thru 10. "There is No Condemnation to Them...Who Serve...from the Holy Spirit, within". "The Law of the Spirit, Maketh Me Free, from the Law of Sin". "To be Spiritually-Minded, is Life & Peace". "If the Spirit, from the Creator of Life, is In-You, ONLY THEN DO YOU HAVE...TRUE LIFE". "For as Many of You, Men of the Spirit, Ye Shall Have Life, & have it, Abundantly...." Enoch, would often quote also, from the Psalms, Chapter 121: "My Help Cometh, From the Creator of Life & Life is Freely Given...It should be Freely Accepted......The Creator of Life, is the ...Keeper of Life & Ye Shall Be Kept, within That Spirit of Life...forever, "as long as You Accept, for it to be, within". Yeah, I Treasured This Friendship...& the Fact, that "THIS MAN, WITH NO LEGS, WAS ...HUMBLE ENOUGH...TO USHER ME FROM PLACE TO PLACE, as if I was a queenly person". A few months before Enoch passed away, he had prayed for me, that day, & that same night, I envisioned some Angels, and two of them, would "smile at me" & then Walk Away... This dream appeared to me, just one time, but a few months later, during the nighttime, after midnight, Enoch passed away. A Year Later, on the same day, at the same hour, My Mother, passed Away. There was Memories & Great Influence in my life, from those two people. My mother, had also, had a Natural Talent, for Helping the Military Veterans. Her dad had served in WWII, and she had been from a Direct / Long-Lineage of Military Soldiers / Veterans, too. When Enoch was alive, I happened to ask him, this question, "When You Were a Child, What Did You Want to Be When You Grew Up ??" His Reply was this, "ALL IF EVER WANTED TO BE, WAS A ...CATTLE RUSTLER, & LIVE THE LIFE OF BEING A ...COWBOY, INDIAN". To Enoch, those were the Good Ole Days, of Yester-Year. He had been Every Thing, but a Cattle Rustler. MR. ENOCH ALEXANDER, SERVED HIS COUNTRY (THE U.S.A.) WELL, AS A CIVILIAN / A MILITARY SOLDIER / A MILITARY VETERAN / A MINISTER...OF CHRISTIANITY...& he departed, to be among the Angels. (At Least This is What I wish to Believe). As With the Life of "Standing Bear" another True American Hero / Excellent Role Model, who Stood Brave, to say:"I can Feel the Same Kind of Pain You Feel, & My Blood, is the Same Color, as Yours"....WE ARE MEN...THE WAY, WE ARE MEANT TO BE.....WE STAND BRAVE...IN AMERICA..."THE HOME OF THE FREE, LAND OF THE BRAVE". "WE ARE MAN ENOUGH TO ...STAND / FIGHT FOR THESE FREEDOMS, TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY...THE U.S.A." QUOTE, FROM: Hazel Davis. said on Behalf of Each & Every Military Soldier / Veteran, who Served, & is Still Serving, to Protect those Freedoms, for the People of America !! LET US BE...AS BRAVE...AS THESE...TWO ...MEN...HAVE BEEN...TO...STAND TALL & FREE & BRAVE, ENOUGH, TO STAND FOR THE "RIGHTS OF OTHERS & THE RIGHTS OF OURSELVES !!" (Hazel Davis, bojacks1@yahoo.com) Read more | 0 comments
You missed the point.
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+Recommend this blog By some of the comments it’s clear to me that some missed the point of “I rage at all the Barbara Cornetts of the earth” submission. From 1958’s Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, “You’ve got to be carefully taught . . . to hate.” Overheard, a mother to her little boy: “We don’t believe that.” When and where the above may have been overheard is irrelevant. Suffice it that I have personally, on more than one occasion, heard a parent (or parents) chiding their charges with those or similar words. And each time, it was like a dentist locating just that nerve that sent a shock of pain through my entire being. It is a tautology that words have meanings, and words spoken or written have consequences. Therefore, chose your words carefully, especially to a child who has no capacity to challenge you. From the moment of birth, that emerging person is and will forever be a wholly unique individual, and I submit that, from the moment of birth, every child has an inalienable right to the dignity that derives from being respected as such. Furthermore, I would deny that any person, parent or other, has a moral right to suggest what any other person, child or other, should or must believe. They can hope. But to insist upon the adoption of a belief system seems the most despicable tyranny. Perhaps the most precious and beautiful conveyance of the preceding is in Kahlil Gibran’s 1923, The Prophet, in his chapter “On Children.” “And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but are not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have heir own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.” That 17-line chapter has composed the entirety of my parenting philosophy. Everything has been to respect the inalienable entitlement of both of my sons to dignity. They are who they are, and most assuredly they are not me. Above all else, they know as a mantra from me that no one more important than either has ever breathed earth’s air, and, likewise, they are no more important than anyone else on the planet.
Chris and Andy are now in their 20s. Neither has been baptized, and to the best of my knowledge, neither has ever been in a church. It isn’t that I was or am in opposition to such visits, only that, if they elect to visit one, that they provide themselves equal opportunity to be introduced to every religion, that they study each religion’s premises and tenets critically for flaws as well as truths before they conclude a decision one way or another. I never cared what that decision was, so long as it was one drawn from as objective analyses as might be possible. Regardless I readily admit my prejudices, I doubt two more honorable, more ethical, more moral, more “Christ-like” young men ever traipsed the earth. Ever! Neither loathes much, but what they loathe deeply is any form of bigotry; racial, ethnic, gender-based, sexual orientation based; whatever. But why this memo now? Because now, as ever before, I am confronted daily with a surfeit of evidence of both little restrained and completely unrestrained racial and ethnic hatred running through the veins of this country; as if by some measurement one group was superior to another. And the least spot of retention of that odious and entirely false proposition is an extraordinarily perilous spot for a state to be in. Two truths. The first and foremost prerequisite to hatred is fear. Psychologically, it is utterly impossible to hate what one does not first fear. Thus, the first task, it seems to me, for the one who finds the merest mote of hatred infesting his or her heart is to take a good, long look in the mirror, and ask what it is about the object of their hate that frightens them so. The other truth is to religion. By definition, religion requires that the advocate eschew a scrupulous, open-ended let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may, search for evidence on behalf of certain tenets that are to be believed above all else. Again psychologically, it just is not possible for a person to compartmentalize his or her most ingrained tendencies; I’ll look here, but that other room is one the door of which I will never permit myself to open. Why not push that door open? What are you so afraid of? And let’s be 100% blunt: a god that is responsible for the creation of the universe isn’t much of a god if he/she/it cannot handle one of its most puny of creations asking the most profound of questions. “If you didn’t want me to look, you shouldn’t have created me with a brain and a limitless sense of curiosity. So, even if my inquiry leads me to conclude you do not likely exist, if you do exist, my conclusions cannot make you not exist. So why are you so terrified, what I might come to believe? You that unworthy or insignificant that your sense of self depends on me?” Three highly dangerous falsehoods I’d crush if I could. One falsehood is that there is some abiding, necessary relationship between religion and morality. There is not. No people needed a commandment not to steal to know that theft of someone else’s property was bad behavior. All anyone ever needed was possession of an item to realize the pain of loss they would feel were that item to be stolen. Another falsehood is that a god gave us, or gives us or anyone freedom. That’s not true at all. The freedoms Americans enjoy were, for all practical purposes, enumerated and elucidated during the European Enlightenment by intellectuals on all sides of the theistic continuum; Christians, Jews, spiritualists, agnostics and atheists. And what secured those freedoms was the blood of Christians, Jews, spiritualists, agnostics, and atheists. Some belief in a god sustained some. Others simply had an overriding hunger to believe and conduct their lives however they were wont. It wasn’t a god. It was lead bullets fired from muskets, perseverance through the most trying times, and considerable assistance from France. The third falsehood I would crush is that there exists a factual relationship between what a person or group believes, and a logically driven condition that that belief must therefore necessarily be correct and true. The history of discovery is replete with examples that manifest the absolute absurdity of presuming there might be some element of the least correlative necessity between beliefs and facts, yet survey after survey demonstrate the majority of Americans cling to the absurd. Finally, I ask these questions. Aren’t you sick and tired and just totally fed up with being afraid? Whether it’s five minutes from now or 80 years or so hence, you’re going to die, and when you do your time here will have been like a match-strike against the trillions of stars that compose the heavens. Maybe it’s me, but I kind of think that that’s just too short a time to spend a second of it fearing someone else because they’re not completely like me and don’t believe exactly as I do. Let it go, man. Just let it go. My most fevered wish then, is that Americans, to the very last one, develop the courage to push all the doors open, and try to discover why we are scared of another because of that other’s race or ethnicity or culture or religion or language or sexual orientation. — Ed Tubbs Palm Springs, CA Read more | 0 comments
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Time to behead a king
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+Recommend this blog It’s long overdue: behead a king.
Read the article below, then forward it to as many as you know, if you agree that what Burger King has engaged is as much an outrage as I do. Then, just do not visit one of the chain’s restaurants, and urge others to not go as well. Look, no one “needs” anything that Burger King is selling. Not patronizing them thus becomes the easiest way to express opposition to the practices outlined, and it sends a clear message to other corporations as well. And oh yeah . . . If Burger King wants to send one of their dirty little maggots to spy on me, include my email address with the one you forward, and the fact that my name is Ed Tubbs and I live in Palm Springs, California. Unlike our first-to-cut-and-run, yellow-bellied president, when I say “Bring ‘em on,” I’ll be outside, ready to greet ‘em. Thanks May 7, 2008Op-Ed ContributorBurger With a Side of SpiesBy ERIC SCHLOSSERMonterey, Calif. _WHILE the Patriot Act has raised fears about government spying on ordinary citizens, the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying has received much less attention. During the late 1990s, a private security firm spied on Greenpeace and other environmental groups, examining activists’ phone records and even sending undercover agents to infiltrate the groups, according to an article in Mother Jones. In 2006 Hewlett-Packard was caught spying on journalists. Last year Wal-Mart apologized for improperly recording conversations with a New York Times reporter. _And now it turns out that the Burger King Corporation, home of the Whopper, hired a private security firm to spy on the Student/Farmworker Alliance, a group of idealistic college students trying to improve the lives of migrants in Florida. _The Student/Farmworker Alliance and an affiliated nonprofit, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, have for years been urging the fast-food industry to accept some responsibility for the plight of Florida migrants who harvest the tomatoes for its hamburgers and tacos. I am a longtime supporter of their work. The wages of these farm workers, adjusted for inflation, have declined by as much as 70 percent since the late 1970s. And hundreds, perhaps thousands, of migrants have been enslaved by labor contractors and forced to work without pay. The McDonald’s Corporation and Yum Brands (which owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC) have agreed to subsidize a modest pay raise for their tomato pickers and work closely with the coalition to eliminate slavery from the fields. Burger King, however, has pursued a different strategy. _In March, a woman named Cara Schaffer contacted the Student/Farmworker Alliance, saying she was a student at Broward Community College. Her eagerness aroused suspicions, but she was allowed to join two of the group’s planning sessions. Internet searches by the alliance revealed that she was not a college student. _Ms. Schaffer is the 25-year-old owner of a private security firm. Her company, Diplomatic Tactical Services, seems like the kind of security firm you’d find in one of Carl Hiaasen’s crime thrillers. Last year Ms. Schaffer was denied a private investigator’s license; she had failed to supply the Florida licensing division with proof of “lawfully gained, verifiable experience or training.” Even more unsettling, one of her former subcontractors, Guillermo Zarabozo, is now facing murder charges in United States District Court in Miami for his role in allegedly executing four crew members of a charter fishing boat, then dumping their bodies at sea. _In an interview, a Burger King executive told me that the company had worked with Diplomatic Tactical Services for years on “security-related matters” and had used it to obtain information about the Student/Farmworker Alliance’s plans — in order to prevent acts of violence. “It is both the corporation’s right and duty,” a company spokesman later wrote in an e-mail message to me, “to protect its employees and assets from potential harm.” _But the Student/Farmworker Alliance and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers are not dangerous, extremist groups. Both are pacifist, mainstream nonprofits inspired by the work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The coalition is supported by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Pax Christi, the Catholic peace movement. _The Bill of Rights was adopted to protect Americans from the abusive power of their government. I’ve come to believe that we now need a similar set of restrictions to defend against irresponsible corporate power. Today companies like Wal-Mart and ExxonMobil have annual revenues larger than the entire budgets of some states, and they employ former agents from the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the Secret Service to do security work. Unlike government agencies, whose surveillance activities are supposed to be conducted according to strict guidelines and court orders, these private firms operate with a remarkable degree of freedom. At the moment, federal laws against the practice of “pretexting” — using a false identity to obtain personal information — apply only to financial and telephone records. _Congressional hearings on corporate espionage would be a good place to start figuring out how to regulate the practice. A Senate inquiry during the 1930s prompted companies to disband their private armies and stop spying on labor unions. Burger King’s use of an unlicensed private investigator to spy on the Student/Farmworker Alliance may have been illegal under Florida law. John Chidsey, the chief executive of Burger King, knew about the use of Diplomatic Tactical Services. Mr. Chidsey should get a chance to raise his right hand and tell members of Congress why he thinks this sort of behavior is acceptable. _Eric Schlosser is the author of “Fast Food Nation” and “Reefer Madness.” Read more | 1 comments
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