White dove; olive branch
symbols of ideals unknown-
when will peace be real?
i guess i wonder why there are so many people on this planet willing to kill each other. it doesn’t make sense to me. isn’t it time we put aside the symbols and embraced the ideal?
tags: peace, haiku
This surely put a smile on MY face don’t ya know? From the NYT:
The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $1 million to about 120 protesters who were improperly rounded up by police during demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
The settlement Wednesday is the largest payout [...]
This particular post gets tougher and tougher for me to write each week because I can’t wrap my mind around why the concept is so difficult. I can’t understand greed. With all of the major religions tied up in this little hate fest- and all professing to love god and want to keep [...]
with all of the recent information coming out in (gasp) the msm- about corruption and executive orders- and faked al quaeda operatives, one would think that holding someone accountable and starting the pullout from iraq would be a no brainer. but no. sadly no. here we are, with the dems doing nothing. [...]
democratically elected prime minister al-maliki told reporters recently that america can leave iraq anytime now. poll after poll of the iraqi people tells the same story- they want us to leave their country. americans want america to leave iraq. greed is not a good reason to stay at war, but i have a [...]
* Reworked from Thorne’s World 5-19-07
Wow!!! Who knew!!!
According to Betty Dodson,
May was International Masturbation Month!!!
I know, I know… it’s July. Still, masturbation is a good thing, right? I mean, that’s probably one more thing that separates we “Lefties” from the neocons and dominionists, right?? They are sexually repressed haters, and [...]
why have we been so afraid? why are some of us still so afraid? afraid of the world around us; afraid of each other; afraid to speak up and speak out? is life so much scarier than when america was bombed by the japanese or had german uboats off of our eastern seaboard? is life [...]
Title: I’ll Give You My Skin (I can’t get the song to embed here, you’ll have to go listen at my place)
Performers: Indigo Girls with Michael Stipe
Album: Rarities
Peace. So hard to even imagine, sometimes. So much pain, so much anger, loss, fear. We citizens of america have undoubtedly had it pretty damned [...]
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the [...]
