For over half a century, America has been Israel’s bartender and enabler: each year dumping billions of dollars in military aid that is used to oppress Palestinians

"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire."

Teilhard de Chardin

get drunk on love , for love is all that exists
unless you make love your business
you will not be admitted to the beloved

[divan-i- shas-i- tabriz]

“I worked on the industrial and consumer products side of things in the past, and if you take a new chemical and put it into, say, a tennis racket, you have to notify the E.P.A. before you put it in,” Mr. Neltner said, referring to the Environmental Protection Agency. “But if you put it into food and can document it as recognized as safe by someone expert, you don’t have to tell the F.D.A.”

| Irony of FDA/EPA in little girls petition to ban BVO in soft-drinks (as Europe has done, and Japan moves to do so)

At times, I feel as if each time a little piece of me is dying when I see you.
There were a flurry of girls in MI.

It was quite the experience this time, I would not have made it unless for the encouragement of my mother (birth).

She danced, had a few conversations, and my little sister had some profound conversation emitting from the One.

Dheepu left early for a wedding.
He missed a considerable amount.
Devi Bhava went to oh about 9:30-10:00am
maybe around 1300~ folks.
I rushed at the end to speak to her again.
And said I will see your ponmukham( darling face) next year.
She asked if I would see chettan
( i had mentioned some things).

They are embroidered across my heart in blood.
Those moments that is.
The only wealth I possess.

18-Year-Old Sylvia Plath on Loving Everybody and Living with Curiosity

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person.* But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time…

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/06/18/sylvia-plath-journal/

In addition to being a social lubricant, humor relieves stress and increases mental flexibility and creativity, says Morreall.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/01/hitchens200701

Why Women Aren't Funny

I love a God so intensely, which you cannot see, how can you possibly understand

[Excerpted from Jiro dreams of sushi]

   Once you decide on your occupation
you must immerse yourself in your work
You have to fall in love with your work
Never complain about your job.
You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill.
That's the secrete of success
and is the key to being regarded honorably.
 | Jiro-San

Both Barrack Obama & Someone else I cant remember , while I eat this last square of Ghiradelli 60% Cacao Dark Chocolate with Caramel Filing, (each square has about 5g of sugar, which is about half a bar of 88% dark chocolate--- this has about 45g total bar-- thats a lot of green juicing to make up for that guilty habit) oh yeah, back to my point...
Were noted with having influential family support characters in their life, instrumental to their sense of well being which later contributed or was attributed to their far strides of success.




Taking this into a spiritual point... (to be continued)...



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Highly dense cacao chocolate ( 88% purity) is about the darkest I've seen without losing flavor except for the raw bar- which is ridiculousness when you have to exchange out the hard pressed bills for this expensive stop at the dessert bar, but its made with cacao butter being primarily  tending to the chocolate in your mouth a soft warm velvety envelope around your choco buds.

Obama won.
Though, by a closer margin than Bloomberg Terminal predicted it.
That damn machine huh. You bet.
Its worth all the gems inside I suppose. Of financial lore, oh so sexy.

Anyways, but if you look at it, he won by a narrow margin. Florida by 0.5 % , what percentile fraction of folks made it out.
And in other states, even the 'blue states' it was like a 50-40 range, and then you get to Idaho, its like 30-60.
What an interesting picture, it is.

To be kind to the people and not to harass them is the means of salvation

Muslim Faith

Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
| JMK

 I searched, and searched, in the cavity of the my heart, till at last...

Don’t go outside your house to see flowers.
My friend, don’t bother with that excursion.
Inside your body there are flowers.
One flower has a thousand petals.
That will do for a place to sit.
Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty
inside the body and out of it,
before gardens and after gardens.

KBR

Got a karagishi done
(shi-shi ) in Chinese is stone dog.

Horimasa, probably tomorrow will be 3rd session.
His color choice was dramatic. Sea foam- like an off green or teal.
Had a momotoro or Rouge Soba Beer with Kevin, and Dr. Claw (Mike, I think).

Anyways, he might be moving to Amsterdam it seems.

I am getting old, the sessions lasting three hours tire out my hips and brain.
Feel dizzy and head-achy.
Lately, any chemical (induction) /substance has bothered me - i.e. cigarettes in my vicinity.
The other day at madhu's I felt like spaced out after breathing in 2nd hand smoke.
I swear, that is the most awful, bane habit to pick up.
If you cannot remove that simplest of streams, you have no hope of ever starting
this journey to cross the ocean, reaching the other shore free of darkness! And oh how, dark is that darkness!

There is not enough time,
enough space to fill with all this knowledge,
it makes me sad, and think of you, my Eternal Mother!

If not for you grace, and filling presence
I would have wandered this earth, for a speck of that Motherly love.

At least, in this burning distance
I will look forward together when we are just one.

[sic]
India only reveals herself to those who are prepared to be still and over a long period to listen humbly at close quarters to the beating of her heart; only to those who have already entered sufficiently far into themselves, into their own depths, to be able to hear in the inner chamber of the heart that which India is ceaselessly whispering to them by means of a silence that transcends words. For silence is above all the language through which India reveals herself...and imparts her essential message, the message of interiority, of that which is Within.
First Verse of Introduction of book on Sri Gnanananda -- Fr Le Saux

my heart sank into a reveries

cause it missed you

thee was  no rush no words


i couldn't hear a  thing


just silence on thee freeways

I woke through the dashboard.


See, I've been gone.

It is navaratri.
A most holy 9- day festival, worship of the Divine Mother in many manifestations.

Truly meaning, the soul's awakening beyond the three gunas, into the state of nirakara.

Without a great Master, how would I know that which is ?

I used to think my life would be so significant.

As if I, represent the microcosm within my world, of this universe.
In part it is true.
But now , I now. All these days, are lonely ones.
The divine mother listens but none else.

We are always walking, mother.
I neither see your face ,
but for the wet remembrance coursing my veins.

Each day gets closer,
my knee is got a cramp from sitting too long.
I stare at the screen waiting for the next day.
Forgetting the simple sequence,
my meals sit cold and lonely.
The computer fan whizzes away the hot steamy in puffs and billows

suddenly, a stolen glance

and I remember what it was like.
To be by your chair, as you petaled away in laughter
.
Every night
Every moment

Death is parting kiss.
Until, we meet again dear mother.

When I searched for you,
I found only despair cased in empty sounds
Searching for myself,
your beaming smile

I feel an endless emptiness
in each day

My thoughts come running down like water,

by the time everything 'loads'; the intensity of the moments sputters out like a dying firecracker. 

The glory of spontaneity is lost in our pre-ordained society.

You call yourself a free spirit 

but what about you is free ? 

like O.E. said, you don't know where your going so your quest/goal remains elusive.


we chase the same rabbits in different costumes and bemoan our serendipitous moments, or lack thereof. 


I am a stranger here,
sometimes I long to go back, go back where, I do not know.
Somewhere, to a culture, any, the East , or any consort of 
peace.

Will my grave be marked amongst the shallow ditches
of men who lived only through their senses?
Whose ideas of constraint tossed in reckless abandon
in aimless pursuits?

I would rather, scatter my ashes to the wind.
I belonged to no one.
I was nothing
I was the eternal sky in space.

Waiting for you all my life,


fills the empty spaces.
But I never see faces, only shadows. 

The Riddle of Epicurus, or Problem of evil, is a famous argument against the existence of an all-powerful and providential God or gods. As recorded by Lactantius:
God either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, or can but does not want to, or neither wishes to nor can, or both wants to and can. If he wants to and cannot, then he is weak - and this does not apply to god. If he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful - which is equally foreign to god's nature. If he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful, and so not a god. If he wants to and can, which is the only thing fitting for a god, where then do bad things come from? Or why does he not eliminate them?
—[1]

Came Home and it smells like fucking incense.

Picked up my dad yesterday from the airport. At 72 or whatever his exact age , is he looks decent. Just now, getting some receding spots on the scalp from which hair gets thinner and eventually all falls out. A part of life, for everyone, just a rate of speed in travel , or en route. I was never too terribly fond of my father. He was in our youth not particularly, a kind of person you wanted to become like. But as you age, hey, your family kept you together, and your fate was outline in the stars by your previous actions across many births, which we remember not.

To deny the divine substratum,is not say one has no tongue.

My skin looks like its patchy, all that oily food. Looks like I'll have to start cooking, rather than my Mum's. If my hair is falling out, then its a new need. Imagine that. All my long long locks, all thick like a wild beast; hell, at a time, that upon there was, I could not even attempt to curb the swell with a hair band. It always popped off. Shit, now there isn't any, almost, yet. .. close.. ah, at this point its unclear. A diet of alfalfa seed sprouts might work, have started on that. But more than 70% is gone. Its just a shadow. People don't notice, well they themselves had very light hair. I had monstrous hair. I think many women appreciated it. Yes, they did sir indeed. Ah, alas. To the highest heights we go, before we or this body breathes its final hour.

Decadent, I dare say I have not been. Who remembers death, like a mouth full of pearls,

Due to the hair loss, I've recently stopped working out, especially my crazy routine of ~50 miles per week or so, after I got a slight hemorrhoid (that silent O).  

It is a complex and myriad of vegetables, spices, and herbs that promote and sustain a healthy lifestyle (hence why my father didnt experience hairloss until 71). However, in our modern problems of the first order, we lack serious commitment to spending time consuming food in a leisurely fashion. All passion rests in getting to where we want. What is left to enjoy, but the rush. I've never hard an absolutely stunning meal in SF despite, the dozens of eateries I have frequented (desserts are another matter, as European style- desserts are simply the most well prepared and thought out), that said, hence the cuisine of the east blows in comparison the untimely, ill-sought, ever-seeking American diets and their contributed share of diseases, propagated by a disease of capitalism in its un-benign form , crony, sanguine waters spreading far as shops,malls, stores , designs and patterns of thoughts- --- The Indian subcontinent has ....(for another day)..

Only, now at the age of 29 ; do I look back and see all the misguided anger, the hurried rush  ; the hedge against the emptiness. The follies , which bloomed with the rage of summers. My hair, slowly pushing out, age filling the cracks of all my mishaps , my miscaulcations, my dreams, my castles in the sky, so to speak, the musguided steps , the overlooked. Ah, indeed the overlooked. If failure was a noun, it would (come before, eh..pre-something) my name. But, what the fire doesnt burn, it hardens. (props to O.W: some whitey  authors are okay; a brown boy growing up in America and pretty much being North American still is opposed to the brain-washing numbing quality of American literature and how they teach all things religious, historic, spiritual, and literary; being drowned out in the loudest of voices. But, I was an angry boy. Its a good thing I never really let it express out in terms of words or language directed at another. No like a chemistry set, I kept the beaker boiling high, my hands trembling to hold even a pair of tongs momentarily still. But, I am sure I passed up many pretty dames, much of which would never see me now, alas, with all the wild forests of my hair being mowed down, near extinct, the last of the locks stand. As I prepare one more battle, with general alfalfa and lieutenants mustard & turmeric, as well sublieutenants  spinach, pineapple, oats, and pepper. We may never see the end of this tunnel. This is a losing battle. Fighting for the sake of the body or these senses is a inevitable slippery slope down. You cannot fight this pull ; the gravity of this situation, is most difficult to humor ourselves out of.

Reading Dorian Gray ..
Oscar Wilde's only novel.
There are some good sentences in there (well phrases).
Part of the context, You Know.

My english was par, but my ideas flowing through were par-par-above-par.
What we cannot express, never dies, it takes rebirth.

Frederick Brooks received electric shocks to his penis and testicles, and had a sparkler inserted into his urethra and then lit after which this torture was repeated a second time; after his toes were crushed and his nose and ears burned with cigarettes, he was allowed to choke to death on his gag.
 | Snowtown Murders (John Bunting)- Australia 

I do not have words of my own,
to bury my anguish, I borrow another's.

This heart is too small, too timid, and frail
to journey across these plains.

Carry me home, on your hips.

Where are you my God?
I have been calling you all my life.

But me I'm not stopping there,
Got my own row left to hoe
Just another line in the field of time
When the thrashers comes, I'll be stuck in the sun
Like the dinosaurs in shrines
But I'll know the time has come
To give what's mine.
             | Neil Young

Has any one, any persona in the Mahabharata, the epic, any one- who has sought refuge at the feet of Sri Krishna, did they perish not ?  O son of Partha....

Our prisons are profit motivated. Therefore there is no incentive to correct behavior. The only incentive is to increase head count, as that will increase shareholder value. This is why the U.S. holds one quarter of the global prison population right here in the 'land of the free'.

| Benny Acosta
 Wichita, Kansas
Re: (Op-Ed)
The-living-death-of-solitary-confinement (NYT)

At least the bear didn't have a gun and a badge, like the N.Y. cops. I'll take my chances with the bear.
| In response to a bear killing a man while being watched and photo-shooted @ Denali Park in Alaska

August 27th, 2012

(On Sunday afternoon) My Specialized 49cm Fixie was stolen from in front of Diamond Club Tattoo Shop on Van-Ness and near Pacific. I used a rope lock which was not properly situated or locked to the rear post.

The Neighbor may have a camera that caught the perpetrator.

Chia seeds originated with the Aztecs. 

Chia has a good source of omega 3, antioxidants, fiber, calcium, zinc, vitamins A, B12, Vitamin C, magnesium, iron, potassium and 18 amino acids.  It actually has 7xs more Vitamin C than oranges, 5xs more calcium than milk, 3xs more iron than spinach, and packed up to 23% protein.  

Protein helps the body create Keratin which makes your hair stronger.

(Contains) Boron, which speeds the rate at which calcium is absorped and utlized by the body.

Iron plays a key role in manufacturing hemoglobin, the part of the blood that carries oxygen to your body’s organs and tissues

When your hemoglobin is at a healthy level, oxygen is properly dispersed. This means your scalp is getting a good flow of blood, which will stimulate and promote hair growth.

Eggs; dates; raisins; dark green, leafy vegetables such as kale; and whole-grain cereals are all high in iron. Vitamin C improves the absorption of iron ( Citrus: Lemon , Strawberries)

Chance is always powerful; let your hook be always cast in the pool; where you least expect it, there will be fish


Nothing in creation is so like God as stillness


The fool sleeps as if he were dead but the master is awake and lives forever. He watches. He is clear.


The thoughts that come to us are worth more than the ones we seek

Others are my main concern. When I notice something of mine, I steal it and give it to others.


 | Shantideva

Big Tom
| When I was dating my wife, she had the cool looking black stove. Little did I know, after I married her, the stove was actually white. She just burns everything.

I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five.
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer?
We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!
--Henri Desgrange, L'Équipe article of 1902

A co-worker tired of having someone take her half-and-half she used for her vending machine coffee, so she wrote a note on it: "I spit into this"


Someone added, "So did I."

It’s the office version of the tragedy of the commons, a theory developed in 1968 by ecologist Garrett Hardin as a way to explain why shared resources are often ruined. 

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
Jack Kerouac

The paradox of the brain is it thinks best when it's not really thinking

Manufacturing’s shrinking presence undoubtedly helps explain the decline in craftsmanship, if only because many of the nation’s assembly line workers were skilled in craft work, if not on the job then in their spare time. In a late 1990s study of blue-collar employees at a General Motors plant (now closed) in Linden, N.J., the sociologist Ruth Milkman of City University of New York found that many line workers, in their off-hours, did home renovation and other skilled work.

“I have often thought,” Ms. Milkman says, “that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory.”

|NYT Excerpt
(Though the dignity not lost on him, but Ms.Milkman who herself probably never grew up or had to do any of these labours)

If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you
                              |Sermon heard by Jimmy Carter
(He professed that Jesus was a driving force in his life.)

Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
| Plato

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you...
| Jack Kerouac


Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is (t0) the one who endures that the final victory comes.
| Maha Muni Sri Sri Guatama Siddharta (Sri Buddha)

Increased circulation through exercise delivers oxygen and nutrients to skin cells more effectively, while flushing harmful toxins out. Exercise also creates an ideal environment within the body to optimise collagen production, helping reduce the appearance of wrinkles and speed up the healing process.
                                                         | Dermatologist Dr Christopher Rowland Payne 




Physical activity helps decrease the time it takes food to move through the large intestine, limiting the amount of water absorbed back into your body and leaving you with softer stools, which are easier to pass
                        | Harley Street Gastroenterologist Dr Ana Raimundo



Cycling helps build new brain cells in the hippocampus – the region responsible for memory, which deteriorates from the age of 30.


Moderate exercise makes immune cells more active, so they’re ready to fight off infection


           | Cath Collins:: chief dietician at St George’s Hospital in London.


In fact, according to research from the University of North Carolina, people who cycle for 30 minutes, five days a week take about half as many sick days as couch potatoes.

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used. By cutting off unused pathways, the brain eventually settles into a structure that’s most efficient for the owner of that brain, creating well-worn grooves for the pathways that person uses most. Synaptic pruning intensifies after rapid brain-cell proliferation during childhood and again in the period that encompasses adolescence and the 20s. It is the mechanism of “use it or lose it”: the brains we have are shaped largely in response to the demands made of them.


|http://nyti.ms/bQzj8l

Blogs/Websites

The Modern Word

Beautiful on Raw

That librarian's article on how ebook readers are the Devil

The heart has opened, in previously unimaginable places.

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
― Paulo Coelho

He found it deeply ironic that the Ansar Dine tomb destroyers, who said they were upholding the name of Islam, were ignoring and denying through their acts the rich layered history and geographical spread of this great global religion.

Noting the role Sufi believers played in spreading Islam beyond its Arabian heartland, Diagne said: "If it had not been for the Sufi orders, Islam would have been a local religion."

| islam nut-heads blowing up 

Timbuktu

http://bit.ly/MHvDtm

I spent some time with George Burns when he was in his 90s. As he lit a big cigar he told me that his doctor said he should stop smoking them, as they were bad for his health. He took a big puff and then said that he had burried three doctors.
--Commentator on NYT article on Pro-Veg Diet

I would far rather have been apprenticed as a bricklayer’s mate, or run errands 
as a messenger boy, or helped my father to dress the front windows of a grocer’s 
shop. It would have been real; it would have been natural; it would have taught 
me more; and I should have done it much better. Also I should have got to know 
my father, which would have been a joy to me… . Certainly the prolonged 
education indispensable to the progress of Society is not natural to mankind. It 
cuts against the grain. A boy would like to follow his father in pursuit of food or 
prey. He would like to be doing serviceable things so far as his utmost strength 
allowed. He would like to be earning wages however small to help to keep up the 
home. He would like to have some leisure of his own to use or misuse as he 
pleased… . And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come 
to those who were worthy—and why try to stuff it into those who are not?—and 
knowledge and thought would open the “magic casements” of the mind.
(Churchill, in West, 1991, p. 154) 

“ When I was single I would travel across the country by myself with the radio turned up enjoying the view and the sounds. I started to think there was more to life and I should share these sights and music with someone. So I got married and now when I travel I have my wife beside me. She reads a book or works on her crossword puzzles. (Does not like any of the scenery no matter where we go.) Oh. Also she doesn't want the radio on because the noise bothers her. I don't travel much anymore.”

— William
What Would Your Fantasy Road Trip Be Like?
-- From NYT
That about sums up marriage life, not my venue, not my road, not my take or place...Take me home Divine Mother...and tarry not to gather your flowers on this dwelling place called My Heart.

“If you come only to help me, you can go back home. But if you consider my struggle as part of your struggle for survival, then maybe we can work together.”
— An Aboriginal Woman

The inuit of Canada have historically lived on whale and seal blubber, a 95% fat diet. At the other end, Okinawans in Japan eat a 90% carbohydrate rice based diet and live longer than anyone else.

The main problem today in health is increased intake of sugar and fast carbs. These are the biggest reasons for the obesity epidemic in the west.

Whatever you do on this earth,
whatever you accomplish
if you do not light smiles on faces,
or provide courage in the darkness of lost faith

All wealth earned is lost.

The happiness embodied in the Self,
expresses through intense deliberation and actions
befitting loving-kindness.

Though intense sorrow & grief befalls you,
You never question
nor ask the rising sun,

for a piece of its splendor,
you never ask the moon
to ask your Creator

for a small token of awareness

In this you fail,
because you love to be loved,
and not love for love's sake.

Her filial piety, awakens
in the Heart whose fountain bursts
from parched thirst.

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if
there is a light from within.
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross.

"Yatho abhyudaya nissreyas siddhih saa Dharmah" (that which is conducive to one's
well-being here and the hereafter is Dharma)

It is clear from these examples that all objects in the world, unless they go through various
processes of transformation, cannot acquire much value. If that is the case with regard to
ordinary objects, how much more is it necessary for man, who is more important than all of
them, to go through this transformation?

The seattle programs came to a quiet end around 9:00AM on Monday June 4, 2012 at the Hyatt in Bellevue. It was a good 4 day program, culminating in Amma in a green and gold bordered sari. I did not get a whole lot of chances like last year to speak to Amma, but it was good. On Devi Bhava, I asked Amma, let me always remain a servant of your padam, to which she- her eyes lit up, large and smile across her face, said 'Sheri !' , and asked me to sit. I had wanted to ask other questions, but I had felt so content with that answer. As my mind expands on the plane of spirtuality, I can see those I leave behind, and those like my sister and kartik, whose hearts have a glow within and are desiring to move up the spiritual ladder.

I could spend all time, in the sun, with Her.
Today is a 11-5 program at San Ramon, it may go until 8. But I have to pick up mommy at 9 so I do not think I will go, as I will be too fatigued. I saw nandini at the airport and Shalini auntie. Nandini, had some interesting points, which I would not dismiss.

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Updates

Amritatmanda swamis satsang was amazing.

He spoke of a story when the kites go into the sky, and the bird. And how Amma used this to explain the relationship between the Guru and disciple. IT is a story I will never forget.

As you increase your awareness, the slightest tinge of spirituality splurges out of your heart. It is difficult for Children (i.e. devotees) to digest this without awakening love, which is done through transmution of sadhana.

The master gave me clear instructions. I do not always pass on the first try. But I must evolve, and leave those behind.

Someone blasted up my front bumper so thats in the shop. Kind of funny, how these things happen. Must be fate.

God grant me the strength to follow my Master's teachings.
The word Satguru is infinitely more sweeter than Mother .
For the Guru is the source of it , Mother is simply an allegory, or example to it.

How could I forgot the source of all my strength.

I always lose some weight in Seattle, and I find toxins remove themselves, and I have a few days glow. But I get back into my worldly habits, and poof- its gone. I must sustain it. Otherwise I will become like everyone else, including those devotees who fail to follow through despite having surrender and innocence or purity.

What war on women?, the GOP keeps asking? Bueller? Bueller?
Here! This war:

- redefinition of rape (attempted in Georgia)
- repeal of child labor laws (passed in Maine)
- repeal of minimum wage
- the effort to make contraception unaffordable
- the redefinition of life itself (beginning now before conception)
- cutting of aid for pregnant women
- the relentless cutting of funds for education
- reduce Medicaid and health care for women
- cut Head Start, by $1 billion.
- cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood
- 31 Senators,. All Republican, All Men, voted against renewing the Violence Against Women Act.
- in Congress, Republicans have introduced a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life (this is no joke!)
- passed law that allows a Doctor to refuse to provide chemotherapy to a pregnant cancer patient cause it might end pregnancy.(Kansas, May 2012)
- proposing single mothers should not get welfare unless they work (Romney).

So, how does Mr. Romney suggest a single mother should go to work every day, when Head Start and daycare programs are not available, because Republicans axed them? What is she supposed to do with that three-year old? Lock it into a doggy crate, like Seamus?

51% of voters are women.

| Commentator on Republican Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers

"The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."

As Justice Douglas preciently wrote in dissent in Terry v. Ohio (392 U.S. 1, 38-39 (1968): "To give the police greater power than a magistrate [by allowing them to "stop and frisk" on "reasonable susupicion" rather than "probable cause"] is to take a long step down the totalitarian path. 

ON the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death last week,Pakistan was the only Muslim country in which hundreds of demonstrators gathered to show solidarity with the dead terrorist figurehead.

The cardiovascular benefits of rooibos tea

Due to their effects on vasodilation and vasoconstriction, angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and nitric oxide (NO) are used to treat conditions such as high blood pressure and heart failure. In one study, the effect of green tea, black tea and rooibos tea on ACE and NO was compared in healthy human volunteers (link). None of the three had a marked effect on NO concentration, but both green tea and rooibos tea inhibited ACE activity, suggesting that they have cardiovascular benefits. This is in contrast to an earlier in vitro study which found that only green tea and black tea inhibited ACE (link).

Closely related to cardiovascular disease is diabetes. The good news is that that rooibos tea may help with this as well. In a mouse model of type 2 diabetes, aslapathin suppresses the increase in fasting blood glucose levels. It also improves glucose tolerance, apparently through stimulating glucose uptake in muscle tissues and insulin secretion from the pancreas (link). Drinking rooibos tea during a meal may not be a bad idea.

Biking is split-second fast and rock-climbing painstakingly slow, but both practices silence the noise of the mind and render self-consciousness blissfully impossible. | Tim Kreider

And you told me that you also stand more?

A.

I really do stand up at least every 20 minutes now, because I was spending five or six hours unmoving in my chair. The science is really clear that that is very unhealthy, and that it promotes all sorts of disease. All you have to do to ameliorate that is to stand up. You don’t even have to move. I’m standing up right now as I talk on the phone. I stand during most of my interviews now.

Gretchen Reynolds 

Though you remain
Convinced
To be alive
You must have somewhere
To go
Your destination remains
Elusive.


Keorapetse Kgositsile

“Law firms aren’t very joyful places even when things are going well,” said the Dewey employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “How would I describe the atmosphere now? The first word that comes to mind is funereal.” || On the demise of Dewey & LeBoeuf.- Excerpt from NYT

Barclays faced allegations of mis-using tax shelters, profiteering on food prices and crippling small businesses with potentially-lethal derivative trades Friday.

The Black Pathology Biz -Ishmael Reed

Black pathology is big business. Two-thirds of teenage mothers are white, two-thirds of welfare recipients are white and white youth commit most of the crime in this country. According to a recent survey, reported by the Oakland Tribune, the typical crack addict is a middle-class white male in his 40s. Michele Norris of ahas cited a study that dis- covered "no significant difference in the rate of drug use during pregnancy among women in the public clinics that serve a largely indigent population and those visiting private doctors who cater to upper-income patients." Yet in the popular imagination blacks are blamed for all these activities, in the manner that the Jews took the rap for the Black Plague, even in countries with little or no Jewish population.

Now that network news shows have become "profit centers," news producers have found a lucrative market in exhibiting black pathology, while coverage of pathologies such as drug addiction, child abuse, spousal battering and crime among whites and their "model minorities" is negligible. According to the news shows, you'd think that two black gangs, the Crips and the Bloods, are both the cause and the result of the nation's drug problem, even though this country was high long before these children were born.

When it comes to singling out blacks as the cause of America's social problems, NBC and CNN are the worst offenders. (The owner of CNN, Ted Turner, once proposed that unemployed black males be hired to carry nuclear warheads on their backs; when pressed he said that he was only kidding.)

Let's look at just one month: October of last year. General Electric's NBC Nightly News ran stones on child abuse, drug trafficking and cocaine pregnancy. Blacks were the actors in all these news shows, yet the August 30, 1988, front page of The New York Times reported that there is as much cocaine pregnancy in the suburbs as in the inner city. That same October, it was revealed on CNN's business program, Moneyline, that U.S. bankers have laundered $100 billion in drug money, $90 billion of which ends up overseas, contributing to the trillion dollars in debt owed by the United States, mugging millions of Americans of jobs and endangering the economic stability of the country.

Also in October, CNN did a series called "Crime in America." According to this series, whites don't commit crimes. They're either victims or on the side of the law--the line promoted by The New York Times, a black pathology supermarket that regularly blames crack use, crime, welfare and illegitimacy on black people and whose journalists and columnists still use the term "black underclass" even though studies, including Blacks and American Society, by the National Research Council, and The Persistence of Urban Poverty and its Demographic and Behavioral Correlates, by Terry K. Adams and Greg J. Duncan, have been unable to locate this underclass. Its neoconservative house organ, The New York Times Magazine, printed in its February 26 issue a puff piece about the ex-editors of the anti-Semitic, anti-black Dartmouth Review.

Earlier last year, on August 20, CNN aired a special about drug-crazed Los Angeles street gangs. It proposed that gang activities were inspired by rap music. If rap music is forcing people to sell drugs, then how does one explain the participation in this industry of a Gregorian chant-loving ex-Vatican diplomat, the Rev. Lorenzo Zorza?

How convenient it is to blame everything on a scapegoat, in this case black youth, who, according to public superstitions, are responsible for all the crime in this country. Yet Gerry Spence, citing a Bureau of National Affairs estimate, writes in his book With Justice for None: Destroying an American Myth, that "the cost of corporate crime in America is over ten times greater than the combined larcenies, robberies, burglaries and auto-thefts committed by individuals. One in five of America's large corporations has been convicted of at least one major crime or has paid civil penalties for serious misbehavior. One way the Crips and the Bloods can improve their image is to do what the big crooks do, buy advertising on TV news shows so that their crimes will rarely be reported." The only difference between white pathology and black pathology is that white pathology is underreported.

By putting out the lie that U.S. crime is black, the networks contributed millions of dollars in free advertising to Lee Atwater's most recent racist political campaign.

Presenting the fact that pathologies are widespread in American society and that American society itself might be pathological would be like showing films about lung cancer to the millions addicted to cigarette smoking. To portray America as a pathological society would interrupt the country's cozy fetal sleep, which requires that the shrill half-wits it elects to office run the sort of campaign that former Confederate officers ran in the 1880s: They threatened whites with a black rapist in every bedroom, an image that's been commercialized by some millionaire feminists in novels and movies for the last decade, proving that the black pathology industry is an equal opportunity gold mine.

| The Nation|

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

'Well, I'm a panda,' he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'

| Eats , shoot & leaves is title of Lynee Truss' book |

You may talk of the grandeur of the west, the opulence of its institutions; but only one flag hangs high - where, your deepen entrehencment of globalism has yet to catch on, and it ain't China...where else does the dalai lama live, reside, and protected, but the only place, on the green space, where peace is the fabric of a subcontinents history !

Re: South Africa denied Dalai Lama a visa- (Its biggest trading partner : Beijing)

The Withered Tree

Leaf and twig are gone from the old tree,
Winds and frosts can harm it no more.
Its hollow belly has room for a man,
Circling ants quest under its peeling bark.
Its single lodger, the toadstool which lives for a morning;
The birds no longer visit in the evening.
But its wood can still spark tinder.
It does not care yet to be only the void at its heart.

poem by the Tang's Han Yu (韓愈), translated by A.C. Graham

Better than a thousand useless verses is one useful verse, hearing which one attains peace

' Sir James Frazer was able to keep his beautiful rooms at Trinity College, Cambridge, until his death by carefully and methodically sailing all around his dangerous subject, as if charting the coastline of a forbidden island without actually committing himself to a declaration that it existed. What he was saying-not-saying was that Christian legend, dogma andritual are the refinement of a great body of primitive and even barbarous beliefs, and that almost the only original element in Christianity is the personality of Jesus. '

-The White Goddess by Robert Graves

Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path

The Valley of Mexico is a bowl surrounded by mountains and volcanoes. The Aztecs built their empire in the middle of a series of interconnected lakes. Their capital of palaces and pyramids, Tenochtitlan, reached by causeways, was an amazing sight to the conquistadors, who said it was more impressive than any city in Europe.

like luminous clouds obstructing the sunlight, the millions of sorrowful faces around the world and their hidden sorrows, reflect only on the masters countenance.

Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love,
time is eternity"

The Central Banks endgame is simple, reinflate the assets of our largest financial institutions, no matter how toxic. This is accomplished by the unprecedented printing of currency, monetization of debt and backstopping all forms of insanity. This strategy has a number of critical flaws, including the misguided assumption that somehow this hot money will flow into areas of need like the proverbial tide that lifts all boats. Nope, much of this liquidity will find a home in the hands of speculators employing trades such as shorting currencies and going long dollar denominated commodities such as oil, grains, et cetera. The point of diminishing returns has quickly arrived as energy and food costs move parabolic, crushing an already struggling consumer, especially in the emerging markets where the procurement of essentials require a much larger percent of their income. The Central Banks have essentially murdered the free market by severely overstepping their mandates, money no longer has a reliable compass to determine risk, we reside in a world economy without a rudder. Attempting to resolve a debt problem with more debt will eventually end badly. We have sadly seen this movie before. The clock is ticking. ---Joe -RE: Bloomberg:: JPMorgan betting on homeowners

In his Funeral Oration, the Athenian statesmen Pericles made this abundantly clear: it is to the city (society) that we owe our freedom and our opportunity to live decent, productive lives. It is in society that we find our happiness, not contemplating ourselves in a narcissistic mirror.

This more or less explains Hollywood. Yes, the Oscars may be an absurd spectacle of remarkably successful people congratulating themselves for work that barely nudges at the borders of meaningful human achievement. But it’s also a celebration of a form of meritocratic capitalism. I’m not talking about the fortunes lavished on extremely good looking people; no, I mean the economic system that compels lots of young people to work extremely hard for little pay so that it’s possible to lavish fortune on the good-looking people. That’s the spirit of meritocratic capitalism! -- || Adam Davidson- NYT

Spain’s jobless rate for people ages 16 to 24 is approaching 50 percent. Greece’s is 48 percent, and Portugal’s and Italy’s, 30 percent. Here in Britain, the rate is 22.3 percent,

But ethnicity is no longer defined in opposition to the mainstream.

** When did that happen

Dont cry because its over, smile because its happened.

Had a dream . Family was up on some big shore rock, like Santa Cruz, and the beach, looking down at it , and it was night, dark, thick forest was on the sand, shore . I was looking up at them from below, at the distance in the night, I had some power by which I could spark some fire or something. And I was sad, as I peered away into the dense windy thick green dark forest, I yelled out Govinda. And then paused, and Govinda again I yelled. I believe I may have had tears in my eyes.

As you age, or advance spiritually, like a snake sheds its old skin, you remove the old self, the old ways for the new ones.

With five decades’ distance it’s clear that books as seemingly different as “The Organization Man,” “The Lonely Crowd,” “The Feminine Mystique” and “Atlas Shrugged” were really all about the same thing: the alienation and discomfort of gifted, independent-minded individuals in a society in which the “normal” ruled. The “cognitive elite” felt left out of or oppressed by the country’s culture and, as a result, scorned it.

73 yr old vegan Mimi Kirk

What are your common protein sources?

I get a lot of protein from greens, hemp seeds, chia seeds, and sprouting. These all seem to work for me, I’m not protein deficient in any way.

What are your typical iron sources?

I adore parsley, kale, dandelion greens, dried apricots, avocado, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, tahini, flax seeds and hemp seeds just to name a few.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/sexy-73-and-vegetarian-mimi-kirk-interview.html#ixzz1lokbE9S4

We should not delay in doing good actions. Our mind is constantly changing. We need constant awareness and conscious effort to speak good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion. Such actions slowly turn into habits, which eventually become spontaneous. Such habits bring success in life.

He also said that marijuana is only kept illegal because "Corporate America, which owns Congress, would rather sell you Paxil, Zoloft, Xanax, and other addictive drugs, than allow you to grow a plant in your home without some of the profits going into their coffers."^[5][6]

Andrew Lahde (Posted a 1000% return in his hedge fund in 2007)

Once, a young monk was sent forth from the monastery to carry a message to another monastery far away. As he walked through the dense forest, he caught glimpses of orange fur in the dappled shade and heard low growls. Surmising that he was being stalked by a tiger, he quickened his steps, but the large cat easily kept pace with him. Fear gnawed at the young monk, and he began to run blindly through the trees, leaving the path he knew in an attempt to outdistance the hungry cat whose panting breath he could feel upon his neck.

The monk lost his way, and to his terror, found himself at the edge of a great precipice. Behind him, he heard the tiger stop, and begin pacing back and forth among the trees, its golden eyes glinting among the leaves. Shaking, the monk looked down and saw that there were vines clambering over the jagged rocks and he determined to try and climb down them. Just as he swung himself over the cliff, and began clambering down the vines which creaked under his weight, he heard the tiger roar, and saw it stare balefully down at him from above.

From below cane an answering roar, and the monk startled and looked down to see a second tiger, pacing along the stones that lined the bottom of the cliff face, waiting for him to descend.

Shuddering, the young monk closed his eyes and clung to the vine, his only means of support. The sound of nibbling teeth caught his attention and he opened his eyes to see a mouse chewing at the vine that held him suspended between the hungry cats.

Next to the mouse, he saw a flash of red.

A wild strawberry grew in a crevice of the stone, and a lone fruit shone invitingly.

The monk reached out, and plucking the crimson fruit, held it to his nose. The sweet fragrance rushed into his nostrils as the last bit of the vine gave way and the monk began to fall. As he plummeted toward the tiger, the monk popped the strawberry in his mouth, and the flavor was the sweetest thing he had ever experienced.

From Chowhound

Amazing IPA's....in no particular order.....hope I listed a few that haven't been mentioned....

1) Three Floyds Dreadnaught (bready yeasty peach mango grapefruit)
2) Flossmoor Station Brewer's Whim Series IPA's (uniquely creamy in aroma/flavor--lactose sugar?)
3) Three Floyds Apocalypse Cow (definitely lactose sugar--creamy & citrusy)
3) Bells Hopslam (similar to dreadnaught.....awesome balance of huge malt and hops--citrus and tropical fruit)
4) Bells Two Hearted Ale (perhaps a more acquired taste--soapy lemon pledge flowery extremely refreshing)
5) Three Floyds Alpha King (king of pale ales--more like an IPA w/ the 66 IBU's, maltier now than it used to be? prefer the grassier/citrus-dominated version of old)
6) Stone IPA (classic)
7) Alesmith IPA (very dry grapefruit and belgiany tasting yeast presence--amazing rocky bone-white head)
8) O'Dells IPA (remember this one being incredible--similar to Alesmith IPA--on the drier side)
9) Goose Island XXX IPA (italian dessert wine--white grape, pear, orange?)
10) New Holland Existential Ale (barley wine-ish)
11) Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree (huge, but smooth and balanced 'triple ipa' = barley wine essentially...13% abv)
12) Avery Maharaja IPA (along the lines of Goose XXX IPA)
13) Founders Devil Dancer Triple IPA (perhaps the hoppiest beer on the market--but also contains a huge malt structure--caramelly, bourbony, bitter, super complex, needs age)
14) Three Floyds Broodoo (best fresh hop harvest ale on the market)
15) Three Floyds Blackheart (oak chips somehow give it a floral/fruity/herbal pinot noir wineyness....amazing)

BEER

Dogfish 90 minute
Bells Hopslam
Stone Arrogant Bastard
Goose Island IPA
Victory Hop Devil
Troegs Nugget Nectar
Alesmith IPA
Founders Harvest
Bells Two Hearted
Surly Furious
Weyerbacher Double Simcoe
Urthel Hop-It

According to Assange, "It’s not correct to put me in any one philosophical or economic camp, because I’ve learned from many. But one is American libertarianism, market libertarianism. So as far as markets are concerned I’m a libertarian, but I have enough expertise in politics and history to understand that a free market ends up as monopoly unless you force them to be free."

In my opinion this whole world's going to shit, and shit rolls downhill, so I might as well just jump in, hold my breath, and pray to G-d that there's a nice big soft puddle of diarrhea for me to land in once everything hits the fan." (Kevin Campbell, the tattoo artist at the L.A. shop Will Rise who is responsible for this young lady’s new look.- DRAKE- on her forehead)

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Unda (Osetra caviar, sweet and sour vinaigrette with extra virgin olive oil, chives, carrots, ginger and house made cinnamon rose vinegar over smoked potato purée with rosemary butter, giant clam, oysters and wakame seaweed.)

To illustrate how crystallized intelligence can operate, Gene D. Cohen, a founder of the field of geriatric psychiatry, related a story about his in-laws from his book “The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain.” The couple, in their 70s, arrived in Washington for a visit during a snowstorm and found themselves stranded by the train station. When they saw a pizzeria across the street, his father-in-law had an idea. The couple went inside, ordered a pizza to be delivered to their daughter’s house, and then asked if they could ride along.

Those that go searching for love only makemanifest their own lovelessness. And theloveless never find love, only the loving findlove, and they never have to seek for it ...~ D H Lawrence

["I'm pushing 80, living in the boondocks a long way from a market, subsisting on Lean Cuisine and cornbread mixed in a glass of milk. So....reading the Sturm und Drang in these comments is high entertainment. Will anyone allow me to show up at the back door with my paper plate in hand?"]
--- oj

- In response to an article posted in NYT (about the-bo-ssam-miracle)

Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there; I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow,

I am the diamond glints on snow,

I am the sun on ripened grain,

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning’s hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circling flight.

I am the soft star-shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there; I did not die.

A poem by Mary. Not our 'Mary' - Mary F.

Butternut squash is halved and roasted with spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, pepper and star anise) and butter, then puréed. Of course there will be more butter in the cake itself, but it is browned first. From that point on, Mr. Allegretti conceded, “it’s pretty much a classic pound cake.” The plate is filled out with a squash and pumpkin ice cream and a pine-nut brittle.

The findings clearly indicate the strong impact that coconut oil application has to hair as compared to application of both sunflower and mineral oils. Among three oils, coconut oil was the only oil found to reduce the protein loss remarkably for both undamaged and damaged hair when used as a pre-wash and post-wash grooming product. Both sunflower and mineral oils do not help at all in reducing the protein loss from hair. This difference in results could arise from the composition of each of these oils. Coconut oil, being a triglyceride of lauric acid (principal fatty acid), has a high affinity for hair proteins and, because of its low molecular weight and straight linear chain, is able to penetrate inside the hair shaft. Mineral oil, being a hydrocarbon, has no affinity for proteins and therefore is not able to penetrate and yield better results. In the case of sunflower oil, although it is a triglyceride of linoleic acid, because of its bulky structure due to the presence of double bonds, it does not penetrate the fiber, consequently resulting in no favorable impact on protein loss.1

“And should properly-informed citizens, not in distress, be allowed to receive psilocybin for its possible spiritual benefits, as we now allow them to pursue other possibly risky activities such as cosmetic surgery and mountain-climbing?”
Dr.Jaffe, in a rare open to earth statement regarding magical mushrooms- aka the US Drug Czar