Who Can You Trust? Part 2.
Friends, Reuters is now carrying the news that Ehud Barak, the Israeli Defense Minister, has told people in the U.S. that Israel is an autonomous country and does not need anyone’s permission to carry out an attack on any country seen as posing a threat to Israel (which country could he possibly mean?).
What this means is that Israel will attack any potential foe using its huge cache of armaments and munitions and nukes supplied by the U.S. without any reference to the U.S. or anyone else.
‘…Barak hinted at Israel’s willingness to go it alone, saying: “We felt very proud that we never asked the Americans to come and fight for us. We basically … to paraphrase Churchill, we said, ‘Give us the tools and we will do the job.’” ‘ What a pretentious little turd Barak is. And his country is full of his clones.
Israelis are possessed of the most dangerous delusions of grandeur the world has ever seen. This tiny tinpot country of deranged religious fanatics, one which is even more hated than the U.S., will probably, in a few months, announce its intention, after it has nuked Iran and taken over the Middle East, to control the world!
But hang on! The U.S. is trying to take over the world and is well advanced in that aim.
Folks, I can see trouble coming. What happens if the U.S. stops giving Israel weapons? Will Israel threaten to nuke America?
But if the U.S. continues to support and arm Israel, and Israel attacks Iran unilaterally, which nation will be to blame for the nuclear holocaust?
The world’s biggest warmonger, of course!
P.S. Have you started building your nuclear bomb shelter yet?
P.P.S. Photo and text thanks to Reuters.
So true. The devils rule. Also, check out, “BIZWOG (stands for British Israel Zionist World Occupied Govenment}” — found at http://www.JohnKaminski.info.
Thanks for trying to wake people up, DG. Paul Craig Roberts is sure trying, and his latest article lets everyone know that he in no way blames the Afghans for 9/11, and expects a nuclear WWIII.
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David G Reply:
February 27th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Ah, Therese, that my humble self has similar ideas and predictions to Paul Craig Roberts is truly uplifting. You didn’t tell us where PCR’s latest article is located so that I and others can check whether my prognostications are luke warm or hot!
You are a good scout, Therese. You are ever busy trying to redeem our world.
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Speaking of who to trust….Paul Craig Roberts worked for Ronald Reagan, for Christ’s Sake. So did Oliver North and John Negroponte and countless other criminals. I may agree with some of what PCR says, but I don’t trust one bit.
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PCR is considered the Father of Reaganomics and worked for the CATO Institute. These are huge Red Flags. He is a misdirector and disinformationist….meaning some of what he says is true, maybe even 80-90%, but his motives are deceitful and impure and he seeks to take you down nefarious, dead-end rabbit holes.
Aside from what I mentioned above, he has affiliated himself with White Nationalist groups and people such as Brenda Walker and VDARE. See the link below for more info. on PCR. Who to trust, indeed.
http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/03/17/counterpunch-gives-platform-to-white-nationalism/
I don’t agree that he should be censored, though. The Libertarian side of me says let him be heard….but he should come clean about his affiliations and intentions….or in the least, people should be informed of it as a context in judging his analysis. So, I don’t hold it against Counterpunch for giving him an audience, but it should be made clear as to who and what he is. I wouldn’t trust Joseph Goebbels to give an accurate and sincere criticism of Nazi Germany, or Netanyahu to give an accurate and sincere criticism of Israel and Zionism.
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Morocco, people seeking power rarely ever advertise where they are coming from. Look at Obama!
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Dr. Golya Pravda, in his article, “
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Dr. Gideon Polya, in his article entitled, “Australia Passports, Zionist Lies, and Israeli State Terrorism”, notes that, “Zionazi (Racist Zionist (RZ) involvement in criminal acts against Australians is horrendous…”. In the 15th paragraph, he names and describes these acts. You can find this at, http://www.just-another-inside-job.blogspot.com.
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David, I’m glad you’re almost finished with treatments and may you come back stronger than ever!
I haven’t posted much lately because of my own information overload but I have kept reading your posts. Thank you!
Information overload is a pattern that I’ve suffered through my entire life. It goes in cycles. (Olive farmer posted something about this a little while ago.)
I go round and round with my own research in my head wondering what I can do to change things in the world for the better….until I get so tired…
Trying to figure out these bastard government officials and others is a no win situation for me. I can’t make logic in my head about why these people want to harm others and have so much power over everyone. When I finally get tired of trying to figure out “them”, I turn to trying to figure out “me”. People would call that “self centered” or selfish I guess but it’s the only way I can finally balance myself.
It’s been easy for me to point fingers at our government officials here in the USA and say to myself and others that they are trying to pass a law that is unconstitutional. (Lets hang them for treason.) But that’s not working for me any longer. What I’ve come to realize is that while we spend time blaming them for treason, (because they took an oath to uphold the constitution of the United States) ….it was up to us citizens to make sure they didn’t go back on their campaign promises. We fell asleep somewhere during my grandparents days. I have a feeling it was from the ‘great depression’ years where people were so starved to make ends meet that they agreed to allow government to make it all ‘okay’ for them. (They made themselves slaves instead of sovereigns to the government back then.)
I’ve read that the USA had a few more depressions or big recessions prior to the “great’ depression of 1929. So the money changers have been a scourge in the USA from the very beginning. Money = Power I guess??? But money is an illusion. It only represents what we the people think it represents.
I just finished watching a google video called “Threads 1984.” It was a documentary scenario of what would happen to the UK after a nuclear war between the USA and the Soviet Union (starting in Iran) in 1984. It was pretty sad! The only “money” left after the attack was “food”. Paper money, gold or silver didn’t mean anything!!!!
I don’t know about the food laws in your respective countries. But the government is trying to control all of that in the USA as well as the water supply. Even vitamins and supplements are at stake here. Can you imagine having to go to a doctor and having to ask for a prescription for vitamin C? Right now I can go into a pharmacy and buy my vitamins and some herbal supplements. I can go to a health food store too. But if the powers that be pass all their new laws….I can’t do that anymore.
We the people have simply got to protest the powers that be. This even goes beyond any so called “Constitution”. This goes right up into birth rights. We are born as free as we can ‘think’ we are. Free to take care of ourselves. Free to grow our own food. Free to not accept any so called ‘law’ against us. Free to not invade other countries, free to not accept government intervention.
In the law of the jungle we are free to kill or be killed. That’s a sight better than our so called leadership trying to instigate who lives or dies, who suffers or thrives. Law of the jungle is about survival. It’s not funny or pretty. It’s just that the lion feeds on the zebra.
Governments are feeding not because of survival, but because of the power trip. How hateful is that?
We have looked at them long enough to know that they don’t have good intentions for us. Now it’s time for us to act accordingly. WE have to just say no. For any American who has misgivings about our Constitution, just go one step back further in history and realize that the Constitution isn’t the starting place. It tried to spell out limits on government and certain rights of the population but the bill of rights were by no means the end all of ‘human’ rights.
Every human right now needs to realize that we don’t have to obey any government that would set out to harm other people for any reason other than self defense. That is my bottom line. If they say there’s a crime….they have to prove to me an injured party. If there is no injured party, there is no crime.
America started out with common law. If you couldn’t prove a crime (someone had been injured by your actions) then the common law said there was no crime. But we have slipped into the laws of commerce along the way and allowed panels of attorneys to write (statute laws) which aren’t the real “common law” but only hold the “color of law”. There are millions of statutes in the USA now. By the time you wake up in the morning and get ready for work and walk to your car you have broken at least a dozen statutes! (Land of the free and home of the brave my ass!!!) We haven’t been free for a long time but that propaganda just keeps getting pumped out to us to make us think we are. WE all have to understand what freedom is.
In the USA…can you grow all of your own food in case the grid goes down? Our grocery stores now a days have a three day supply of stuff that we might need. If you went underground for a one month emergency would you have enough water and food? Toilet paper? Toothpaste? Laundry detergent? How would you cook in case the electricity is off? Would you be able to buy cat or dog food? Would you be able to defend your family in case of an invasion of hungry people wanting to eat and drink at your address? Do you have a loved one taking medication? Think!!!!! What do you need??? (Get it now)
David, we know they aren’t for ‘us’ so we have to prepare for something. That is my logical bottom line. I don’t know what drives them but I know what drives me.
I mean no harm to any other human being unless they are trying to kill me or my loved ones. I will prepare accordingly.
Your post “Who can you trust part 2″ …….NOBODY! (Unless you have made arrangements with close neighbors and family members.)
Keep posting eye opening articles that we need to know about. But I think the time has come for each of us to not only look at the articles, but to implement changes into our lives to protect the ones that we love and stand up to governments that no longer have our consent and that no longer serve us. This is the tough part for me but it is where I’m headed!!
Oh Therese, thanks as always for the links! Morroco, thanks for your previous links too! Morocco, I want to know what difference do you make between libertarian and a constitutionalist? I’m trying to decide what I am….and you seem to be more educated on this topic than me. Thank you!!
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David G Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Kathy, I guess trying to figure out who and what we are takes a lifetime. It’s like trying to put a jigsaw together when most of the pieces are missing. But, as life goes on, you seem to acquire more pieces and, gradually, a pattern begins to fall into place.
Each person’s pattern is different and some of them never make sense. I put the psychopaths in this latter category!
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And thank you, kathy, for sharing your thoughts, and for your very valuable advise. I have stocked up some, and today, bought extra vitamin D and calcium. A doctor friend of mine recommended chelation vitamin treatments. For those with money, there is a place in Toronto that is reputedly great, for $20,000.
Of course, we all feel for David G.
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Thank you David, for the well-founded words from you, as well as your perseverance – also in moments of, where the prospect for this world can seem very dark when e.g. ‘democracies’ engage in illegal wars, slaughter civilians, incl. women and children in the thousands, in the most despicable ways, by cluster bombs, drones, just to name a few cowardice way of killing the ‘enemy’ etc. allthough (just) they, ‘democracies’ use to claim they NEVER wage war – from which one can learn, (if not other) that “NEVER TRUST ‘democracy’ BASTARDS”.
Thank you Kathy for your thoughts as well, hoping that you are still having roof above the heads of yours.
oh – me lazy Dane, I borrow (text).
“David, I’m glad you’re almost finished with treatments and may you come back stronger than ever!
I haven’t posted much lately because of my own information overload but I have kept reading your posts.
Thank you!”
Don’t despair, it’s more than enough that I do, just keep up the good spirit, all
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To all who haven’t Presstv on their telly, I can tell/report that there has been held a “Palestine conference” in the last few days, hosted by Iran Which show a feeble light to/for the Palestinian people, and especially the 1,5 mill. under seizure in Gaza.
READ MORE:
Palestine conference kicks off in Tehran
28 Feb 2010 … The Conference on National and Islamic Solidarity for the Future of Palestine began on Saturday at the Iranian Foreign Ministry in Tehran. …
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=119660§ionid... – 6 hours ago
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David G Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 4:42 pm
John, holding conferences will not change the circumstances of the Palestinians. It requires the withdrawing of Israel’s teeth (all its weapons) and America will ensure this doesn’t happen.
For what happens in the West Bank and Gaza, blame America, that beacon on the hill that claims to stand for freedom and human rights and democracy.
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Grace Reply:
March 6th, 2010 at 5:17 am
John, how are you managing? I have wondered this since your country split -over whether to continue supporting “the war” in Afghanistan.. Sounds like turbulent times. I also thought of you during the Olympics. We had fallen asleep with the Olympics on and I woke in the night to Denmark women’s event where they push a heavy round object and two others sweep the floor before it. Fascinating. Hope all is well. : )
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JohnLJ Reply:
March 7th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
How do I manage?
Thanks so much , Grace for your thoughts and care.
I am very well although my muscles tender, a bit. (unfortunately) I am not the one who are jogging around (voluntarily) – I need a carrot in front of my nose before running anywhere.
I am not sure what you are refering to, Grace when you talk about a ‘split’ in my country. Couldn’t it be Holland you are talking about ?
– as far as I know
I do not know about any split what concerns Denmarks participation [via NATO] in Afghanistan (you know the former Danish prime-minister, and warcriminal, playmate to GWB, Anders Fogh Rasmussen is the current General-secretary of NATO.! – he is, and seems for ever to be, a warmonger who long ago should have been cooped up.
If you have watched/followed the Olympics you will know that Denmark were very low on the score list, to say the least.
In that respect I can tell you, unlike what one should think, that I am not, at all, as a Dane, unhappy with these results (sport isn’t important to me) to the contrary, I rejoice over it.. because Denmark (the official – the rightwing goverment) are so BOASTing and BRAGing, and SWAGGERing (like the little disgusting warcrimial GWB) they really deserve ‘defeat’.
What they really need is a course in how to behave humble, suiting to their current status of (NO) gold- medals, UNlike e.g. the Chinesee, who inherently behave in a humble way, EVEN if they have a good reason to swagger.
(after what I have seen, they (Chinesee) were really good at ice-curly)
Who got the gold (in women’s Ice-curl ?) – I don’t know but, but I am fairly certain that it wasn’t Denemark.
Oh – by the way Grace I am up to buy a 20m2 Swedish summer cottage, (why should I else use all the many money that I earn, in between)
Take a look at:
http://www.hokarr.com
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JohnLJ Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 12:05 am
- I forgot….
The reason why I’m not so much on(line) for the moment, Grace, is that I am working from dawn (5 o’clock) to dust (?) in a garbage collector firm as a relief worker [for the permanent staff]
Non the less I feel very lucky guy that I’m able to make my living working only few weeks on yearly bases driving a lorry around in country sides, beach, seasides, summer cottage areas or whatever the garbage is to be found – although for the time being it isn’t the most pleasant weather of the year with the excessive amount of snow and ice we’ve had and still have in this winter.
Grace Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 4:16 am
From Dusk ’til dawn was an awesome Quentin Tarantino movie. Good for you to have a job where you are in such beautiful places, helping to make them ever more beautiful! What a darling little summer cottage. I could live year round in such a cute thing. It is better to be busy these days. See, you are actively working towards a better world and future. The Dutch Government “fell” and I wondered how you were doing..
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/20-0
“very well although my muscles tender, a bit.”
Consider a hot Epsom Salt bath, John. It draws all the toxins out of the body and optimal for a sound sleep after.
You can’t buy humility! In your assessment, it is good that Denmark did not “take the gold.”
I only watched a little bit of the Olympics. I listen to KPFA.org and was aware of all the struggles of the Native peoples of Canada and the tar sands and other struggles in Canada as well as the state of each Country on the planet, so I watch with all this in mind. Such things as you observed, “UNlike e.g. the Chinesee, who inherently behave in a humble way, EVEN if they have a good reason to swagger.” Individual and National behaviour is a fascinating subject. I admire the perfection of the sport. The athlete’s bodies are perfect for their sports. A rare thing to even witness, such bodily perfection. I like the ice skating. Ok, I ‘m a girly girl, now you all know.
I am glad you are good, John. I have been trying to figure how I could go on a – two week to month long meditation retreat. Pema Chodron, a Tibetan Buddhist, American, speaks to me and offers silent meditation retreats in Nova Scotia. I long for that kind of silence. Otherwise, I listen to more music lately and it is a very pleasant thing to do. Nice to hear from you. I won’t worry when you are silent for a while.
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JohnLJ Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 8:01 am
As allways Grace, a promply reply from you. Like David says, the name of you suits you so well , indeed you are a true friend, thanks so much.
As thought – so done. I have no said YES WE CAN to buy the, as you said ‘the cute thing’ the cottage to be delivered in the spring.
“Consider a hot Epsom Salt bath, ” I really think that I can learn some good things from you Grace.
“The athlete’s bodies are perfect for their sports. A rare thing to even witness, such bodily perfection. I like the ice skating. Ok, I ‘m a girly girl, now you all know.”
Of course, you are right on this, I am not blind for what the world (evolution) has been able to offer of beautiness and athletic bodies / performance, and what especially can be seen in ice skating. It’s indeed fantastic what they are able through practicing, to perform
I really wish for you that peace will overpower your (restless?) soul, Grace on your Nova Scotia journey, retreatment
peace and love be with all of you.
Grace Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 6:29 am
Happy International Women’s Day. The first conference was held in your country, John, Copenhagen, Denmark. What a progressive and influential people you are. We don’t (I didn’t)learn much about many of the countries in the world in American schools. We are taught whatever is useful for the rulers. Alot f the history of western civilization centered in Denmark and I am just learning that!
Hey, congratulations on your new purchase. I hope you are very happy with it.
I am home sick with a sick kid, today. We just ate chicken noodle soup and I should be napping.
You are a friend to mention that I must seem restless and it made me think. I will spare you all (for today, he he) my life history, BUT staying in the present moment there is alot I am balancing right now. I aim for simplicity and sometimes everything complicated comes up so that room can truly be made for such simplicity.
Have a very nice day. I am glad you are fine after – The Collapse of The Dutch Government! It seemed so shocking when I read it.
Nova Scotia is a dream. I am daring to dream again! It may take a while, but thanks.
JohnLJ Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 4:25 am
I am so glad that you commented on the word ‘restless’ so I got the opportunity to tell you how much it irritate me that I let this word escape through my edition, I am sorry ‘Wilma’ [just think of Mr. Flintstone] I regret the ascribtion to you (and especially your beautiful state of mind) please forgive my clumsiness I don’t think I that know you well enough to put such ‘labels’ on you either. It was just that i needed a ‘counter’ word to my ‘overpower’ wish for you to JUST relax.
I don’t know, have you ever tried to be hypnotized Grace.? I think it is alike this state of peace that I wanted for you to get into.
I haven’t tried it my self but i think I could easily do it if I really wanted to. But do I dare to go so far? I don’t think so – to let another person have completely control over you(r mind)?, isn’t it a scaring thought.?
Ok Grace, also I become ‘wiser’. I didn’t know there was land called Nova Scotia (55.000m2), I know now. The size of Denmark is 45000m2).
Yes Grace
I am happy with my purchase of the little ‘darling’ house.- but – Don’t tell it to anybody Grace that I have to a discount price (appr. $5000).
The reason for the discount price is that I have brother who trade trucks/lorries with Sweden and in such a trade he has got those wooden houses in exchange for some trucks. The house that I have bought now lies already on a truck here in Denemark. -so- it’s just a matter of time before I have it here with me. and when and how I got the time to gather the pieces of boards and posts together to a real house when I got the time to do it.
have some fun.
Grace Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 4:10 am
John, funny you should mention it, but now I am running to my therapist appt. His specialty is..Hypnosis! I will let you know how it is going.
Sorry, I ran out of time this morning.
I will try to have fun. You too.
Kathy,
I’m not any more knowledgeable than you when it comes to Libertarian versus Constitutionalist. I don’t consider myself any one particular description….I’m many things. I am Anti Big Brother and Anti-Hierarchy. I despise Tyrannical and/or Totalitarian Oppression of any sort, whether it be Stalinist or Corporatist. No man is better than the next….and ability is purely a subjective and relative measure.
I believe in the sovereignty of the individual so long as that sovereignty doesn’t preclude the sovereignty of other individuals. I believe in community and the commonwealth so long as it doesn’t mandatorily prescribe the relinquishing of individual sovereignty as described above. The relinquishing of sovereignty for the common good should be voluntary and if we evolve enough, it would be a natural progression….there would be no need to pry our sovereignty from our cold, dead hands…because the return on voluntarily relinquishing would be so much greater than the converse.
For this reason, I don’t like the Military, Corporations, Prisons, Traditional Educational Institutions, The Police, or our Judicial System. All of it is set up to serve and protect the life, liberty and happiness of the Tyrannical Global Oligarchy…..it is the insidious menace of Totalitarianism meant to enslave us in perpetuity…..and I loathe it with every fiber of my being.
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Grace Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Morocco, may I ask what country or state you live in? I am very interested in what you are doing for kids. I have a son who dislikes school even though he does fine. It is a real problem we are working with. He is only 7 and has a long academic career ahead of him. It is a suprize to me because he has been reading since he was before two and a keen interest in knowing everything. Building and following instruction manuals. He reads music and plays beautifully. But “hating” school has taken on a new proportion and some days it is like he is already a teenager. Thankfully he is not yet -and us paying close attention and doing some things differenlty is helping him(and us!). He found out about the Native Americans that go to Alcatraz on Columbus Day and have ceremony out in the middle of the Bay. That’s what he wants to do and I think it sounds great (cold, but great).
My point is.. that I am attached to him going to regular school and am bought into the fact that it is a good school (public) and it is part of an educational track I want for him. It is very painful being a parent sometimes. I don’t really know of any viable alternatives right now. I don’t have all that he needs to home-school him. Plus, the greater community is not to be underestimated, imo. Thanks for any thoughts on this subject.
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David G Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Grace, the greatest gift we can give to our children is to make them aware of what is happening in the world and to encourage them to think for themselves, to be individuals, and to care for others. We need to strongly counter the me-first philosophy which is destroying our world.
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Grace Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:23 am
I find myself being very careful about what I tell the kid. This is contrary to my views for adults, but for a kid that is just taking his first steps in learning how to negotiate the world: There is a certain safety in ignorance these days. Now, having said that, I talk about things -as he brings them up. For example: he came to me distressed one day. He said, ‘In the last two movies I saw, the Government was the Bad Guy!’ So I explained to him that it was like Donkey Kong ( he read about the game in a magazine), when DK wears a necktie, he is a good guy, when he takes it off, he is a very bad guy. I then talked about why you never want to sign up for the military.. He got it! Damned straight. But I did not tell him so much that he will go to his school and tell them :that I told him something subversive. That is the kind of world I am negotiating!
Grace Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:55 am
“We need to strongly counter the me-first philosophy which is destroying our world”
David, a part of me is laughing. I have an Only son who was born under the astrological sign of Aries whose motto is “I Am”. As it is, kids are the center of the Universe. But,.. there is a turn in the road: of turning that self-awareness into personal responsibility and a place in the community of humans. I teach him that yes, he is unique, but to look around and notice that everyone is unique.
I had thought he was too young for all the electronic games that all the kids in Sacramento played. He is on restriction from all that, now, and his behaviour improved immensely. Those games and all the smarmy kids shows and the modern targeting in advertising to kids keeps them in the buy, buy, buy, me-first mentality! That is a fact that I personally observed.
Morocco Bama Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:05 am
Hello Grace,
Our five year plan involves owning and running a Montessori School. I don’t know if you are familiar with the Montessori Methodology, but it is designed to do exactly as David advises (to make them aware of what is happening in the world and to encourage them to think for themselves, to be individuals, and to care for others), and more. Actually, I would change the wording a bit. It doesn’t “make” them….they are given the opportunity to make themselves.
Our children have been Montessori Educated since age three. Our son is now seven and our daughter is now eleven. They love school….in fact, just recently, they had a snow day and were upset because they wanted to go to school. Can you believe that? My wife and I just looked at each other and smiled. My daughter has a profound sense of justice and takes a firm and intolerant stance when she witnesses and experiences injustice. She’s an avid reader….in fact, she’s currently reading Great Expectations. She finished books in a day…no more than two.
We currently reside in Georgia, but this is not where we will set up shop. We cannot tolerate Atlanta any longer. It is a disgusting city with little redemptive value. We are currently researching areas in which to settle, keeping in mind our target demographic. We want to reach candidates who will have access to the influencing apparatus in the System. Hollywood, for example. The film industry is very incestuous. If we can allow individuals with the potential for that kind of leverage to embrace the natural values David describes, the influence these individuals can have on countless millions would be substantial.
I don’t want you to think that we would be catering to the wealthy. That’s not our intention. We hope to depose the system by imploding it from within whilst applying direct external pressure. The school would offer financial scholarships to selected individuals who cannot afford the tuition.
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David G Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:05 am
Morocco, an explosion of these kinds of school would certainly help to bring the system down and get rid of the mindless indoctrination which causes people to become willing pawns of greedy corporations and power-crazed governments.
Morocco Bama Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:26 am
I agree, David. That’s why we’re lighting the fuse.
Grace Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:02 am
Morocco Bama, you rock! I am familiar with the teachings of Maria Montessori. Right on, if you can adhere to her phiilosophy, the children will have a wonderful experience. We sent our son to a school that called itself Montessori. He was 2 and a half. I had just had my neck surgery and was bedridden. In the end, his teacher told us that even at Montessori, the bottom line is..Conformity. Our son was not respected for his choices. He used to go out alone to the playhouse in the middle of the yard. Shut the door and say he needed “space.” That teacher was fired and we were begged to return, but we were d.o.n.e. Sorry to have a sorry tale too tell. Catholic pre-school was even worse. Looking back it would have been better to keep him home those early years.
Kids are expected to know their alphabet and numbers before they start Kindergarten. My son was so bored with letters of the alphabet and that damned song, he could vomit.
We are in Northern California now. Your school, and the happiness of your children, show me that yours is the kind of school I would like to send my son to. I think your idea of being in Hollywood is cool. There are worse places. I spent many formative years of my life there.
Sorry to hear about Atlanta. Georgia seemed a conflicted place (when I visited in late 80′s). It sooo wanted to be the place of sweet peaches, but was burdened by alot of abckward thinking. I too have longed to be around like-minded people and it does matter – where – you are these days. Especially when you are in a position of wanting to reach out to the greater population, as you are.
Our kids would probably get along. He is reading Mrs. Frisby and The Rats of Nimh for the probably 10th time. He has a stack of books going at any one time. We have to go to the library because some books are like a snack to him. He’ll read one in 20 minutes. Got to be expensive.
Thanks for telling me about what you do. Thanks, David, too for your thoughtful words. I am still thinkng about Stoicism is a Virtue. For sure, blubbering doesn’t often get the desired result. : )
I am so happy for you nearing your final zapping! yay!
Peace on Earth.
“Australian Jews Under Surveillance” — misleading title of featured article today at aangirfan. A short read, about who not to trust.
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What this means is that Israel will attack any potential foe using its huge cache of armaments and munitions and nukes supplied by the U.S.
Like father…like son.
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David G Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Like father, like son indeed, Katch. I don’t know which is the more crazy!
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Happy Israeli Apartheid Week — for more on this see xymphora.blogspot.com, 3/1/10.
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David G Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:53 am
Yes, the Israelis have taken the meaning of Apartheid to a whole new depth, Therese!
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Grace, yes, tomorrow is the final zapping day. Straight after the treatment I leave for home (in a cloud of dust) and a resumption of my normal life again.
I can’t tell you how happy and relieved I am that the nine week, seemingly endless ordeal is over. But it has taught me a lot about myself and has opened my eyes to a whole world that I only suspected existed. It has angered me that so many folk are suffering terribly from potentially curable diseases while Governments spend money on buying votes and gearing up to kill other humans who think differently to them or who have resources they want!
I have to wait for two months to get the results but I’m very confident that my problem is resolved, even cured. Time will tell. Cancer is a tricky thing.
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“..tomorrow is the final zapping day.”
OMG
Cancer begone!
What a view into the medical world you have had, David. To think of how modern and yet simple, state of the art healing methods are and that this knowledge could and should save lives everywhere! Needless suffering everywhere. It is Shameful. What is wrong with being poor yet dignified. That was all that Haiti with Aristide wanted. The right to be poor and with dignity. It is a colorful, fun world. We don’t have to consume such quantities of the World’s resources in order to live. There is room for all of us if we can spend money on people and land with an emphasis on peace and justice, real justice, blind. I am sick to bits of these people who cry Terrerists and are the biggest criminals around. We need to figger out a way to blast these people and their plastic garbage out into somewhere in outer galacticspace. Hey if the meek will inherit the Earth, count me in!
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Grace, ‘these people’ are garbage. They are forcing almost everyone to live an artificial, greed-driven lifestyle so they can make megabucks and live like Kings used to.
It’s time they were driven out of society and treated as the pariahs they are.
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Don’t trust anybody, not even yourself. That is the quote I was looking for. That was what I was thinking when I said your wife is a wise woman. I wish I would have known that early on. Unfortunately the least trustworthy people were my very own family. My mother got married on Monday and I was the only family member not really invited. She was very sneaky. David, my therapist asked me why I would ever want to have relationship with my biological mother, as she has not been a real mother to me.? Aside from giving birth and feeding me there are no memories of her spending any time with me. Anyway, that was my big share for the “who can you trust,” post.
I am finally going to learn how to let go and move on. Thanks.
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Grace,
We have very similar experiences, apparently. I was raised Catholic….in fact, two of my Uncles on my Mother’s side were priests. I attended a Jesuit College Prep School and received my undergrad from a Jesuit institution. I’ll never forget the Priest’s words in Theology 101 in college….my very first class. He said “for those who take this education seriously, one of two things will result; your faith will be strengthened upon rigorous examination, or for some, albeit a small minority, you will lose your faith.” I was part of the small minority.
From a class perspective, I was like a fish out of water in both High School and College. Both institutions were Country Club settings for the well-heeled well-to-do. Their faith was complex….yet simple. Most believed they were successful because of their faith…..that God rewarded their greed….and if you were poor…well, that’s your fault…but here’s a crumb…maybe even a financial scholarship….but you will have to grovel for it and you will always be our pet.
The Jesuits love the wealthy.
As for family, I am estranged with many members because of my views and ways. In 2001 I challenged their paradigm and was told “go back to your cave, Osama. Quit terrorizing this family and let us heal.” I went back to my cave….but they have not healed. They’re all the perfect Sycophantic Corporate Catamites.
I guess what I’m saying is that we’re (you, me and others like us) not alone…we’re just scattered to the winds….and every now and then, if we listen carefully, we can here another like us, his/her message, arriving on the whispering wind, resonating with us in a way few other things in life can match.
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Grace Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 6:48 am
Catamite. Wow, what a word! You said alot.
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” I went back to my cave….but they have not healed. They’re all the perfect Sycophantic Corporate Catamites.”
Are you the monkey wrench in their otherwise idyllic lives? They Have To keep you away.
And yes, the Catholics do love money and all the power and pretty things it brings. The Jesuits being an Elite order of the Catholics. What a bunch!
I am sorry that anybody, especiallly a sensitive soul should have to witness the wicked heart of this reality, Morocco, I understand the unfairness and isolation. Now, to make lemonade out of lemons, so far I find there is nothing more thoroughly enlightening as what I have learned from my very being, being contrary to certain people in my family and everything they seem to live for. Superficial friendships. Boatloads of them. Obligations are the glue that’s supposed to keep you there, in service to their story.
It was fascinating reading about Sociopaths, and how their biggest fear is that they will be exposed!! I used to think that my brother was the ill one, and Now, I have blown the cover off that my mother is the biggest Vampire at the Heart of it all! She senses this and I must be kept away from everyone at every cost. I am the one who could blow her cover and my brother and step-sister. I am proverbially, kept in the attic. All of the spouses are intelligent and sense and try to sniff out and if they get too close they get confused and doubt the key players ..so they are told a story that works like a repellant. The shame is that, of some of the people that are kept away, we could be best friends.
Finally I have a therapist that is Uber professional and understands this implicity. He is going to help me learn how to not let them hurt me and to live without them. Sorry, this is at the forefront of my consciousness, right now.
What you said is beautiful, “is that we’re (you, me and others like us) not alone…we’re just scattered to the winds….and every now and then, if we listen carefully, we can here another like us, his/her message, arriving on the whispering wind, resonating with us in a way few other things in life can match.”
“When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow” — Old Native American Prophecy
Peace.
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Grace and Morocco, I suspect many people have had similar hurtful experiences to ourselves. Perhaps that’s the reason why we often see ourselves as outsiders when in fact we are the enlightened ones who see through the crap that most people believe in.
What we have to do is to free ourselves from those who mean us harm, whether they are family or not. Even animals have the good sense to do this!
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Morocco Bama Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 11:48 am
I agree, David. I have reached a point where I have accomplished that….at least emotionally and mentally….but physically is still a risk. If they come for you, and we mustn’t say it couldn’t happen here, there’s not much I, or we, could do, because we don’t have the numbers….not yet, at least.
I don’t allow my family to hold sway over me any longer. I actually feel relieved to no longer live the charade that is their world. That world is a lie.
Now, having said that, I see my family as any other people. They don’t hold any more of a special place than any other person (not talking about my wife and children here…rather my mother, father and siblings). Interestingly enough, I am currently my mother’s health care advocate. She’s 81 and in rough shape. If the family had their druthers, she would have been in a nursing home and dead by now. I arranged for her to be in a Personal Care Home and I ferry her to her doctor’s appointments, of which there are many, and advocate on her behalf with the physicians and coordinate scheduling and medication. I don’t do this because she is my mother and she holds a special place in my heart….I do it because I know she would die if I didn’t and I was in a position to prevent her death. I would have done the same for any person in the same situation…..it’s just because she is my mother that I was privy to her situation.
All that being said, I treat her like any one else other than my wife and children. I keep her at arm’s length and keep the relationship professional. I don’t allow her to manipulate me…..and she now accepts that and respects it, believe it, or not. Also, keep in mind, she is not like “us.” She has not the capacity to be like “us,” and I don’t say that arrogantly or smugly. She’s a fascist sympathizer who raised wonderful fascist dolts….with the exception of the black sheep…..ME!!
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Grace Reply:
March 6th, 2010 at 8:51 am
“Also, keep in mind, she is not like “us.” She has not the capacity to be like “us,” and I don’t say that arrogantly or smugly. She’s a fascist sympathizer who raised wonderful fascist dolts….with the exception of the black sheep…..ME!!”
M.O., You speak right to my very crossroads. I used to worship my mother. She was raised Catholic, but raised me [Vedanta] Hindu, baptised shortly after birth at the Hollywood temple by Swami Vandandananda. In that mythology the mother is the Goddess. No matter how bad it was, she had me captured. Now I see that she and my brother grifted from me – a deep understanding of the weaknessness of regular mortals. How we think, how we emote. The only way to ever -get over- is to leave. They never expect that. I admire what you are doing for your mom and that she accepts the help from you and you are able to be detached.
I took care of my father. I was the one that quit my job and cared for him 24/7. He wasn’t evil, just fearful. We bonded tremendously for a window of time. He said, “You will see what everybody is Really like after I die.” I didn’t want to hear that, but once again he was right.
I always told my mother I will be there for her, and she sneers and scoffs as though she is certain she won’t need my help. SO I wish her well. She is always shocked at how gracious I am to her. She acts like a kid who never got caught and expects to get in trouble.
I admire your detachment. I look forward to being more like that. I am anticipating her visit. It is the consolation prize for me not really being invited to the wedding. I dread.
Thanks for all the recent links.
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Being a black sheep is an honour, Morocco. It shows you escaped the heavy indoctrination. My relationship with my family is non-existent. I tried for many years to encourage close family ties but, as they say, you can’t clap with one hand!
And my children from a first marriage have vacated my scene in order to prove their fealty to their domineering mother. I spent years trying to get to first base with them and they took all I had to give and gave me nothing but disloyalty.
Eventually you reach a stage where you have to give up otherwise you spend your life grieving and being hurt! Fortunately, I met my current wife when her son was five. I gave him the father he’d never had and he gave me the child that I could be a real father too.
I’ve been lucky!
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Yes, Grace. All the best to all women on their day! Hopefully, sooner rather than later, they will eventually receive equality from their penis-toting, hormone-driven menfolk.
We can but hope.
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Grace Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 4:07 am
Thanks, David, that was funny.
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David, LOL! penis-toting, hormone driven menfolk!!! I had to laugh when I read that.
I have read and heard so much about inequality. Especially in the work place with wages not being equal. But sometimes I really wonder if women have forgotten who they are. Perhaps it’s been the propaganda? But I wonder if women could stop wars?
I don’t want to present my idea as if women are more powerful than men but since both genders possess different strengths and weaknesses, do you suppose that women with their motherly instincts might all stand together and put an end to war more easily than men would ever end war if it were left up to them? WOMEN, END YOUR KITCHEN AND BEDROOM CONNECTIONS RIGHT NOW! DON’T EVEN TALK TO THE MEN THAT YOU KNOW UNTIL THEY MEET OUR DEMANDS TO END ALL WARS!! Could that work?
Sounds harsh doesn’t it?
In the early 90′s I wanted to take dance lessons. It was a life long dream. Here in my area line dancing was popular so I learned about 35 different dances alone and several couple dances. (I love the waltz because it can be so beautiful) I think ice skating is similar to couples dance. The man has to have a strong lead to present his lady partner. If he doesn’t lead correctly, she is left floundering around looking off beat. If he leads strongly with correct timing to the music he presents her to the world as a glorious creature on the dance floor. (And they both look good, moving in harmony) I danced myself right into a foot surgery! My balance after that was never the same so I had to give up dancing! It was the only exercise that I ever loved, that didn’t seem like exercise. I’ve been sad over that ever since! But the concept of partners dancing taught me that both men and women hold a special place for each other and for those looking on..
I know that when you said you hope that women will ‘receive equality’ from menfolk, you meant that in high respect for women. But the truth is David, we can’t ‘receive’ it from men as if men have to bestow it on us. We have to know it within ourselves before men can accept it and agree with it. We have to respect ourselves first and receive it for ourselves. We women have a job to do and right now would be a good time!!!
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David G Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
If what’s happening in the States is true, Kathy, it’ll soon be penis-toting, hormone-driven, pistol-wearing menfolk.
Yeeeehaaaaaaa!!!!!!
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Grace, your little Aries son ‘I Am’……… Well me too!!!! March 28th! Happy birthday to your son very soon!
I studied the zodiac stuff when I was younger. Not so much now. But I posted earlier in this thread a long and drawn out post (beer drinking night at my house makes me talkative). But one point I was trying to make in that post was that I go round and round with ‘other people’ trying to figure out their logic. And when I can’t…I have to revert back to ‘ME’ “I don’t know what makes them the way they are but….’I Am’ this or that….Self centered is the only way I can try to center myself if I can’t make sense of the rest of the world!!
Aries= Mars= mythological God of war. Sign of the Ram. Fire sign. Blood/passion. Ram keeps butting head against the wall. Toddler or first born of the zodiac. Baby just discovering it’s fingers and toes and thinking ‘how awesome!!’ Makes us pioneers of a brave new world because we don’t yet know that there’s something to fear out there!! I love life and discovery and therefore you have to love me too don’t you???? How could you not love me? I have fingers and toes!!! LOL
Pisces ….the last sign of the zodiac is the most mature, intuitive, emotional, receptive. I got it several years ago that I was the toddler butting my Ram head against one brick wall after another. I had to learn to choose my battles. I was BAD! If someone told me I couldn’t do something……that intensified my efforts to go to whatever measures to prove ‘THEM’ wrong. This was about ego and it was harsh.
As I grow older (49 in a few days) ….. I don’t go at any concept with the same intensity as I did when I was younger. I try to understand that concept that says…”do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?” (Hard for an ego maniac like me.) I want to be happy but there’s a lot of letting go of old thought patterns.
So Grace, if you look at Aries….just know that some of the ‘I Am’ will be outgrown with time. But don’t make him think that you are holding him back lest he turn on you to prove you wrong!!!
I have one Scorpio child and two Aquarius children. Draw a circle on a piece of paper Grace. This circle represents YOU and all you believe in. Now, draw a circle that represents your son and all he seems to believe in. Does his circle overlap yours? His circle might overlap yours by half or by 1/4 or 3/4. Or something in between. ( I took this test).
Grace, my scorpio younger son overlaps my circle at the 3/4 mark. He is the one in trouble with ‘the law’ for smoking pot. He hates authority figures. My two aquarius kids (youngest daughter and oldest son) only come into my circle of understanding about 1/4. I don’t get ‘them’. They are the ones who reach out to everything and everyone without much questioning. They bring home stray cats wanting me to feed them when me and my youngest son think ‘ survival of the fittest and don’t be dragging them here unless you Aquarius’ plan to take care of them!!’ Aquarius’ just want to be humanitarians….to people, animals, trees, outer space, etc etc. They bring home stray people too!!
My oldest son in high school joined the wrestling team. We lived within walking distance of the school so no bus service was available for my kids to ‘catch the bus’ I dropped them off at school each morning to make sure they got there and they walked home every evening before I got home from work.
My oldest son had a friend named David. He wanted to wrestle too. When I got home from work, David was at my house and needing a ride home to his mom’s house. I took it upon myself to provide David with a ride home each night because his mom was somehow disabled and couldn’t make ‘sports’ happen for her son. I thought David was a good guy. I wanted him to have a fair chance at his goals.
But what do I know? I’m just the glorious ‘fingers and toes woman’. I’m still thinking I’m doing something good to help David.
When my oldest son got his first ‘old truck’ from his grandpa he had to do a few things to fix it up. I made rules for him that he could drive the truck to school and back but that he could have no passengers the first year. (No distractions for your first year of driving).
Well, he disobeyed me. One morning he went to pick up his friend David because David had missed the bus. He also agreed to take David’s younger siblings and drop them off at middle school because they had ‘ALL’ missed the bus that morning. (Their disabled mother was unable to get them up on time to catch their bus).
My son, driving them to school, turned left without an arrow. They were hit almost head on. When the highway patrol called me and told me “ma am, your son is okay but there’s been an accident….my knees buckled! The highway patrol proceeded to tell me that all the people in my son’s truck were okay but they wanted me to say whether or not to take them to the emergency room to make sure. I questioned ‘who’ are all the so called people in my son’s truck?’ I had believed that my son was going straight to school and back. So who were these people? I told the highway patrol man to take them all to be examined even tho they seemed okay.
I arrived at the emergency room shortly because we lived very close to the hospital where the wreck had happened.
David’s mother ‘the disabled one’ had arrived about the same time with her boyfriend. They had both ‘slept in’ that morning and didn’t get their kids up to catch the school bus on time. So my son violated my set rules and decided to take them all to school.
In the emergency room, David’s mom told me to tell my son to “cop a plea”. I told her I didn’t understand what that meant. She said to tell them that it was the other driver’s fault. She said they would go to court to back my son so they could sue the other driver.
I had already talked to the highway patrol and local police. My son had two violations for failing to yeild the right of way and for having someone under the age of 16 in the back of his truck. So I told David’s mother that we couldn’t go to court and ‘cop a plea’ because my son was in the wrong.
She waited until almost the time limit to file charges against my son. She didn’t sue him directly. She sued his insurance company. She won $18,000 for psycological damage suffering for her children. They all walked away from the accident without physical harm (I know this because I had them all taken to the ER and checked out when the highway patrol called me.)
Grace, this is just zodiac posting. For whatever it’s worth. Aquarius will bring home everything to your door. Aries will butt heads over everything they deem important. Scorpio will cross their arms and stand there looking at you like they’ve been here a thousand years before and have ancient wisdom in their corner. Scorps don’t want to forgive. Aries will blow up and then get over it and forgive pretty quickly. Aquarius will stand there wondering what there is to forgive anyone for…. this is another beer night….. sorry for the long post….
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David G Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Kathy, I’m a Taurus. Is there any hope for me?
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Grace Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 4:28 am
Kathy, thank you for sharing your insights. There is strong science behind astrology. I think it is a tool to help us, not all the answers themselves, but it does tie alot together! There are things in the chart my mother had made for me at the time of my birth that are remarkably accurate. I am libra, the peace maker, the, “can’t we all just get along?,” always striving to attain balance. An innate sense of justice. That was also my job in my family. I suppose that would make me naturally passive. There were times I should have had a disabled placard for being a bleeding heart. Buddhism taught me there is great strength in observing life and all of its pain with eyes wide open. It takes a great heart to be with, what is. That helped balance things for me. My son is naturally dominant. I have to stay a step ahead and be the one in control. He pushes the bounds the way a teenager would. It is extremely challenging at times, for me. Nothing has been more maturing than parenting. I went through life as the baby, being the youngest of seven.
Omg! what a story, kathy, about that disabled lady. I admire how you kept your cool! Boy, things like that make a person want to blow steam through the roof. You did the right thing. I am sure she did not share a penny of that $$$ for all the stress you endured. Well, it is a reflection on her. You were magnificent in holding your own. Yay Aries! yay little ram digging its hooves in the side of the steep mountain. That was a hard lesson for your son.
My mother and her husband, the man who raised me were both Scorpios. They formed an impenetrable wall between them, no-one else could get in. It was me and the two of them. It wasn’t easy being on the outside.
“receive equality from their penis-toting, hormone-driven menfolk.”
Haha, I had to laugh. Kathy, once again, you nailed it,
“WOMEN, END YOUR KITCHEN AND BEDROOM CONNECTIONS RIGHT NOW! DON’T EVEN TALK TO THE MEN THAT YOU KNOW UNTIL THEY MEET OUR DEMANDS TO END ALL WARS!! Could that work? ” It just might work. If I were married to someone like that, I would certainly try it. The trick is to organize the wives of MIC men. Gee, we have our work cut out, eh.
What I know about Taurus is they are earth lovers and they always have an eye towards money and stability. Both qualities I admire as I lack in both of those areas, not in the earth lover area though. Good people, just under-appreciated. : (
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Thanks, everybody. Together we can and must.
Right now, sea lions are being killed in California because they “eat too many of the diminishing population of wild salmon” SO the people in charge are solving this problem by shooting sea lions! Maynard, we have a problem. Oh, and Schwatzaneffer wants to let a Texas oil company drill for oil off the California coast. There is going to be a battle ahead.
Oh and one last bit of info for the people still reading, my husband and son are related to Sir Henry Morgan, aka Blackbeard. They are Welch, Dutch, and Native American. Karma, or whatever you want to call it, is interesting.
Have a nice day everybody.
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Grace Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 4:06 am
“Aries will butt heads over everything they deem important.”
That is what I deal with alot. It is hard on me, but i am learning.
“But don’t make him think that you are holding him back lest he turn on you to prove you wrong!!! ”
Thanks, I will heed that advice.
lately, I think that the fact I was somewhat of a juvenile delinquent is reminding me of what I remember from being a teenager. I remember the cool parents were the ones that no matter how much trouble we got into, the cool parent would listen to the kid and hug the kid and help them. It seems valuable knowledge now. I always swore that if I were a parent, I would listen to my kid, no matter how bad it is and love and accept and help him. I’ve got my work cut out with my boy. In my heart I know he will be an awesome man, at the end of all this.
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kathy Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Grace, I think I posted on Aries because of myself….(Me first impression) and may not have all that much to do with your son. I do think he will try to be dominant but I can’t state truth for him or you. I’m stating what kind of kid and young adult I think I was. I’m also stating my experience based on a Sagittarius mother and Taurus father! (Fire sign and Earth sign) together trying to rule ME! I know that I was not an easy kid to rule!! And I left home when I was 16 to get married and prove it!!! Big mistake now in my hind-site…but then it was just a wall to butt down with my Ram head.
Your son has a mother that is peaceful and not fire sign!! Don’t know about your husband yet.
Someone did my chart long ago too. I not only have a fire sun sign in Aries, but fire in several other houses too. Moon sign Leo. I don’t even remember all the houses but there was so much fire leading the way in me that I don’t know how anyone could get along with me!!!
I am not well balanced!! (My poor children!!!) Grace? Did you do your son’s chart?
He WILL be an awesome man! Because you are an awesome mother!!
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Grace Reply:
March 12th, 2010 at 5:36 am
Kathy, I was going to write one more thing from the other post, but this one too.
First, refgarding verbuilding on previously natural lands. I think it is unconscionable in this day and age to build on natural land. There are very few exceptions to that. There are plenty of places that could be torn down and re-built. There is a whole lazy, entitled class of people these days. For example, when I pick up my son after school, I do drive because of pain issues, but I park my car nearby and take a short walk in to get him. When I emerge from the school and walk to our car, there is a line of monster SUV’s with one parent in them, sitting with their engines on, just sitting for much longer than it took me to park, walk in and out. Like it would be beneath their class to get out of their comfort zone. These are the kinds of things I see in California. There is alot of this kind of thing.
My Aries boy’s father is Cancer, the crab. Loves mother and home. Tough on the outside, soft underbelly that goes delicious with butter – just kidding! Runs sideways down the beach. Cancer a major water sign, can also be a wet blanket for my fire son. But he is a good influence in guiding and directing him in the right direction. Yeah, we get along. My son loves his mother. We emphasize routine and order – having places for things and he has certain responsibilities. We deal in consequences. First things first. The “have to’s” and the “want to’s.” The idea is that he will live the kind of life that he always wanted for himself.
I can relate, I am always striving for balance and only occasionally relaxing in that balance.
Thanks for such nice things you said. Have a very nice day.
There used to be a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles. He always greeted everone on the street, year after year, saying, “Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night.”
Author: David G. wrote
Kathy, I’m a Taurus . Is there any hope for me?
me too, a Taurus. can there be any hope ?
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David, you are very special my friend. Taurus is said to be very stubborn and deliberate. The Bull. Down to earth, can’t be forced to do anything against your will, and can’t be rushed. My dad was a Taurus. (May 9th birthday) He told my mom that when he died he wanted a certain song played at his funeral. The song was called ‘Stop and smell the roses’ and it was the final message he wanted to leave us kids. He lived his life that way. His passion was to be outdoors gardening/farming in the fresh air. He never cared about earning money…(only enough to get by) He was born poor, died poor but considered himself most fortunate to have lived his life more or less free to do what mattered to him. He never became a slave to ‘THE MAN’.
He’s been gone 6 years and I find that as time goes by I admire his stubbornness and his belief system more with each passing year.
Are you that kind of stubborn too David?
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Grace Reply:
March 10th, 2010 at 4:59 am
Ferdinand The Bull, was my Favorite story for many, many years. It is all about a bull (the animal associated with taurus) who loves to “smell the roses.” A beautiful story about your father, kathy, rest his soul. My mother in law, rest her soul, also a taurus, passed this year in November. She lived her adult life on a small disability stipend and never rose above that, but she always managed what she needed. There was a stability and though it was not above subsistence it was steady and reliable, qualities i associate with her as well. She spent her childhood on a farm and while she was bedridden for many years, she painted Beautiful renditions of her childhood gardens and forests and river.
Yes, you Taurus people may just be the ones to save the World!
Don’t worry, we will be right there with you.
Peace on Earth,
-Grace Morgan
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Hi John, I was typing my message when yours came in so I didn’t see it in time. See above message. I think Taurus people are wonderful. You guys will probably be the ones who save the world!!
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Grace, you sound like a peace maker libra. My youngest brother is libra and he is wonderful. Takes a lot to get him angry over anything.
I’ve never researched my family tree. Has your husband? You mentioned that he is related to Sir Henry Morgan aka Blackbeard. Makes me think that you have worked through and found the ancestors of your husband. I had an uncle Henry Morgan, (dad’s brother). Would be funny to find out that your husband’s family might be of the same Morgan lineage as mine here in Tennessee.
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Kathy, you ask whether I am that kind of stubborn too? Opinions vary is all I will say.
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kathy Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
David….thats funny! You are covering your ARSE. Late revolution came along and called it integrity. I strongly suspect that integrity is the correct word to relate to you AND my father.
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Good for your father, Kathy. Integrity has always been something to be admired, but especially in this crazy time in history when it is usually a detriment to one’s survival. Having integrity has become a very courageous thing.
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kathy Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Late revolution you are correct in stating that it was integrity. (What I call stubborn) My mother argued with him all the time because she wanted him to get “a real job” so that we could have money to buy stuff!! As a result, we kids sided with mom because we wanted more stuff! He wouldn’t budge! His word was his bond and a hand shake wasn’t even necessary. Although he taught us that word and hand shake were so important!! It was good to be his neighbor because you could count on him to be as good as his word which was excellent. But growing up in the house with him was difficult because he and my mother always fought over money matters! He looked very much like Andy Taylor on the Andy Griffith show!! The same southern accent and the same spirit of discernment. Uncanny now when I catch an old episode of that show.
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That’s sweet, kathy. My mother-in-law was the one who knew everything about the Morgans. As far as we know, the family that are not in California are in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri (aka Misery). It’s not a far stretch to Tennessee. Wouldn’t that be neat if we were related?! Btw, I think Tennesse is a very beautiful state.
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kathy Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Grace, it would be neat if we found ourselves related here, by way of this blog! Two of my dad’s sisters moved to Missouri way back in the day. One died a few years ago but the oldest of his siblings moved back to TN about 8 years ago to an assisted living home. She is now 87 years old with dementia getting worse as time goes by. One of his brothers moved to California at a young age and married a lady there and stayed. Uncle died about a decade ago and his wife died a few years later. They had three children Glen, Jerry and Jennine. I met them once when they came to visit here in TN. but I was young. They lived in Sacramento. I don’t know where they have gotten off to by now. We just didn’t retain close ties to them.
Thank you for the compliment of the beauty of Tennessee. (as if I had something to do with it.) I wish I had been to California so that I could genuinely return the compliment. But of the pictures I’ve seen,,,,it’s most lovely!
My second husband was from Fresno. I thought I might get to visit the state to meet his parents and siblings but the marriage was so short lived that I never made it out there! Maybe some day huh?
Tennessee has very many beautiful sites to see. West is more flat and has the new madrid fault line running through. YIKES!! They say that when that big earthquake hits it will flatten Memphis! (I’m afraid of earthquakes so I never set out for California out of FEAR of earthquakes as depicted on tv.) I know that’s probably sad!
East Tennessee has the Great Smokey Mountain chain. I’m in the middle more toward the west with rolling hills and hollows. I grew up in a hollow and here with our southern accents we call them hollers!! LOL
We aren’t like the people in the old “Deliverance’ movie as TV might depict all southernors. But….a movie I saw recently….(and I know you rent movies) …. was “Inglorious Bastards” Brad Pitt (from east Tennessee in this movie) with his accent and mannerisms and belief system is very much the Tennessee that I know!! Not very cultured or diplomatic!!! Many of us have grown out of or away from his character but I have soooo many memories of his character in my earlier days!! I know people here still today that could match his character in that movie!
Grace, you know what’s sad here to me? I live in a suburb inside the city limits. This past year, I’ve seen deer traveling through. That didn’t happen before. Deer had enough room to roam. They didn’t have to come here. But my city has become so overbuilt that it interferes with wildlife.
I saw a very tiny baby newborn on my own street inside the subdivision a few months back. And as I took my car out to the main highway, I encounted another along the side of the road that couldn’t have been over a week old. In my whole life I have never seen babies left on the roads alone like that. Maybe mother deer was near by and I didnt’ spot her? But that doesn’t matter. Mother would not have normally allowed her baby that close to the road.
We always knew out in the country that we had to share the roads with the deer. They posted “deer crossing” signs. But here within the city……that’s a new thing! I’m saddened by this. I think deer are beautiful creatures but I don’t want to see them in my own sub-division because that’s a bad sign for them. We are overbuilding!
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David G Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
We are a human plague, Kathy. We have escaped many of nature’s normal limits. We are procreating like crazy and, via medicine, keeping people alive far beyond the norm.
We will pay a price for this eventually! Cheers.
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An agricultural lifestyle is the greatest harmful thing happening on our planet. I listened to a show about it on KPFA – yesterday. WIth large scale agriculture and the billions of pounds of chemicals. The damage to our planet as well as Created surplus which requires a soldier class to protect and also to eliminate obstacles to ones acquisition of resources. Agriculture is also a sun up to sun down kind of job, so in order to have any leisure, a slave class was promoted. Land owners and serfs go way back, 10,000 years, apparently.
It is very sad to hear about the deer. I know. There was a atime in my youth when there was an incredible amount of Roadkill of wild animals. Now you don’t see so much – around here. It is an animal equivalent to a “silent spring.” We don’t even know what the world is supposed to look like because it has been manipulated for so long. Being where you are in the ‘hollers, you know the potential of wilderness and all of its beauty. It is strange to think how many people have only ever known a cemented environment. Humans need a certain amount of nature, trees around them to be healthy, imo.
Omg, it sounds like the potential for being related is great. I cannot tell you, but there were parts of your family story that ring bells for me. I wish i knew more. Well that is great, Kathy. We are in a small apartment right now, but like many, we imagine ourselves in a house, soon. If I have a nice place for guests, you will certainly be welcome. We live right outside of San Francisco.
Andy griffith is one of my all time favorite shows, especially episodes with Barney.
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