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Today, April 25, 2009, my dear friend would have been 28 years old. He is greatly missed by hundreds of people who knew his kind nature and awesome personality. I have the overwhelming feel that something so wrong happened to allow him to die for lack of care in a rich society that allows "healthcare" to exclude life-sustaining medication for it's citizens and voters on the pretext that the need "pre-existed" some event. The magnitude of this is simply inexpressible. Eventually, the feelings of sadness, anger and guilt may pass, but we will never forget you, Michael my friend, or hopefully your story. Thank you for the moments you shared with us all.
- Those who remain.
Yesterday was Easter marking 46 days since Ash Wednesday, 2009 when my best friend, Michael Troy Wieser died from massive incompetence, greed and inefficiency of a system that allows companies to insure themselves at massive cost instead of the people whose charter allows them to exist. This country can no longer afford such a system. Of that, Michael is the proof.
"There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to Jesus' tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. The angel said, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead'." - Matthew 28
"Christ died for our sins and was buried. On the third day he was raised from the dead and appeared to Peter, and then to all of his apostles. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of his brothers." - 1 Corinthians 15
Rev. Martin Luther King
The leader of a great movement that taught so many of us truths about God and God's people.
How could you have taken this modern Moses from us before he was finished, we wondered?
Is this because Martin seemed to know that the promised land was coming,
But that the journey is the constant state of humanity?
As ends Deuteronomy with God's chosen ones still in the desert.
Huckelberry Finn - Ch XXXI
...So I was full of trouble, full as I
could be; and didn't know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says,
I'll go and write the letter--and then see if I can pray. Why, it was
astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off,
and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all
glad and excited, and set down and wrote:
Miss Watson, your
runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr.
Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.
-- HUCK FINN
I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever
felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it
straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking--thinking
how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost
and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our
trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day
and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we
a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I
couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the
other kind. I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n, 'stead of
calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when
I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp,
up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call
me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how
good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling
the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was
the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one he's got
now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was
a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and
I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then
says to myself:
"All right, then, I'll GO to hell"--and tore it up.
"I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK,
I sleep all night and I work all day.
...
I cut down trees, I skip and jump,
I like to press wild flowers,
I put on women's clothing,
And hang around in bars."
...
-- Monte Python
Planned Chaos in Iraq Pig-boy Karl Rove and the blue-nosed bigots' gay marriage and gay adoption "referendums" to sucker rednecks to the polls on election day. You used to all just bitch we weren't tied down enough for your f-n taste, hypocrites!
Sponsor a young child in Latin America with Children International for $18/mo. I have seven boys. I finally figured out, like some politicians who come to mind, that the black kids' families often have only about half the income of the mixed ones. Juan, age 16Inngemar, age 13 Jesus, age 8Waldis, age 9 Eliecer, age 9Eles, age 8 Wilson Michael, age 4 My Blogz:
He's old school; he'll give ya a ride in the desert and get medieval. Game over... just kidding!!
"HONORABLE JUDGES:
Never has a lawyer had to practice his profession under such difficult conditions; never has such a number of overwhelming irregularities been committed against an accused man. In this case, counsel and defendant are one and the same. As attorney he has not even been able to take a look at the indictment. As accused, for the past seventy-six days he has been locked away in solitary confinement, held totally and absolutely incommunicado, in violation of every human and legal right.
He who speaks to you hates vanity with all his being, nor are his temperament or frame of mind inclined towards courtroom poses or sensationalism of any kind. If I have had to assume my own defense before this Court it is for two reasons. First: because I have been denied legal aid almost entirely, and second: only one who has been so deeply wounded, who has seen his country so forsaken and its justice trampled so, can speak at a moment like this with words that spring from the blood of his heart and the truth of his very gut. "
Rev. Martin Luther King
The leader of a great movement that taught so many of us truths about God and God's people. How could you have taken this modern Moses from us before he was finished, we wondered? Is this because Martin seemed to know that the promised land was coming,
But that the journey is the constant state of humanity?
As ends Deuteronomy with God's chosen ones still in the desert...
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Make sure to tune in to Blazin' 98.9 FM this Sunday from 12-1pm for the Westcoast Workout for the premiere of the kid outta Oside JOHN DOE's lead single "OH NO" Hit me back for more info!!!
Thanks for the add. ¶ The electoral sprint is over, and we've had a couple of weeks to catch our breath, but we still have a long trek ahead. We need to find a sustainable pace again. ¶ And it will be a new pace, because the terrain has changed. We've reached a higher elevation. I don't know how much more Obama will accomplish, but already he has led us to reject fearmongering, racism, and lies as electoral tactics. Over half our society has now affirmed that understanding is more important than "toughness." And some of the remaining people will now become easier to reach, because they are driven to conform to whatever they perceive as the majority, and that's now us. They may linger in denial for a time, but that will pass. ¶ Our struggle will be less obvious now; our adversaries will be more diffuse. I doubt that we'll be calling for impeachment. I expect that we'll rally in support of Obama on some issues and against him on others, but really it will be about the issues, not about him. ¶ We are still possessed by institutional and cultural demons: the military-industrial complex, consumerism, materialism, alienation, apathy, and other side effects of laissez faire. Those will all be exorcised only when our society understands our present situation and our alternatives. That understanding is spreading, but slowly; the corporate news media isn't helping. ¶ To change the world, we must change our culture; to do that, we must see more clearly; to do that, we must change ourselves. For a start, just talk with people -- that may not sound like much, but really it's huge. Share whatever you've understood about who we are and what we can become. Each of us knows only part of the song. Keep singing, hoping, resisting, questioning, loving. Hand in hand, we may heal this world. We're all in this together. -- Eric
LAND OF THE FREE HOME OF THE BRAVE OUR COUNTRY “WE” MUST SAVE IRAQ…..A WAR OF CHOICE WHERE IS OUR VOICE SHOCK & AWE A WORLD EVENT REMEMBER “WE” WENT ON LENT INNOCENT BLOOD SPENT HAVE “WE” SEEN THE FEMA WRATH LET US TOGETHER DO THE MATH OUR REPUTATION & WEALTH DESTROYED IMPEACHMENT………….VOID OUR DOLLAR IS DOWN OUR INTELECTUAL PROPERTIES SOLD AROUND OUR JOBS FREE TRADED AWAY OUR PENSIONS STOLEN ONE DAY NOW FREE MARKETS TAKE OUR HOMES TODAY HEALTH CARE & EDUCATION STANDARDS A DISGRACE OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM BY CLASS & RACE OUR PORTS & BORDERS NOT SECURED TODAY ALL THOSE TRILLIONS BUSH JR. THREW AWAY “TERROR” HE DOES SAY NOW WE THE PEOPLE STILL HAVE A SAY NETWORK THIS TRUE IMAGE…THAT’S THE WAY IF “WE” WANT TO STAY FREE BE PATRIOTIC ONLY TO “WE”
POWER TO THE PEACEFUL
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Pig-boy Karl Rove and the blue-nosed bigots' gay marriage and gay adoption "referendums" to sucker rednecks to the polls on election day. You used to all just bitch we weren't tied down enough for your f-n taste, hypocrites!
Inngemar, age 13
Jesus, age 8
Eliecer, age 9
Eles, age 8
"HONORABLE JUDGES:
NPR's Terry Gross interviews Al Kooper on her great ''Fresh Air'' radio program. He's released Black Coffee, his 7th solo album & his first in 30 years
