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1.31.2010

"NOT the Purpose of Chemo: Making Folks Sick. But it Does, and thereby Saves." SL

"NOT the Purpose of Chemo: Making Folks Sick. 
But it Does, and thereby Saves;
and so it is with Peace Making."
 
SL

"Peace is not the absence of tension,
but the Presence of Justice." 
MLK Jr. (as I recall)

"Food, Safety, Shelter, Life, Funds, Comfort, Support - NEVER Peace Maker esentials." SL

"Food, Safety, Shelter, Life, Funds, Comfort, Support - 
NEVER Peace Maker esentials."  SL

My Friends - Brainstorm is ending, I think.

Yes, I've inundated you with a blizzard of my brainstorms.

I don't control the blizzards.

I CAN control sharing them.

I've chosen to share this blizzard.

I'll always hope you know how to assign me to the SPAM bucket.  Seriously.

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"Holding oneself to the highest standards is the ENTIRETY of Peace Making/Leadership." SL


"Holding oneself to the highest standards
is the ENTIRETY of Peace Making/Leadership; and yes
the manifestations of this are near infinite,
but ALWAYS DICTATED by
the needs of the least of these."
 
SL

"Everyone can be great,
because everyone can serve." 
MLK Jr.

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." 
Gandhi

"The least among you shall be the Greatest."
Jesus

"TOUGH-LOVINGLY, NOT the HORRIBLY TRANSLATED Non-Violently, captures Gandhi." SL

"TOUGH-LOVINGLY,
NOT the HORRIBLY TRANSLATED

'Non-Violently,'
captures Gandhi."
 
SL (I've been working to
solve this for years. Whew!)

HELP, please. Not what I can "spare," but all I own I'm donatating. You? SL

They languish in jail FOR YOU, until you help them.

My "boots" are CVS bags over my socks under my sandals.
Duct tape is keeping my pants belt functional (so far). Point?
I spend nothing on myself.

I'm looking for sympathy?  If you don't deeply envy me my life,
I'm continuing to fail you.  Sorry.  I owe a debt of millions,
literally, to my global poor family - that unknowingly I squandered
on myself till recently.

All that I own I'm donating to these folks (below).  During the warmer
months occasionally school kids throw a buck or change into
a donation pot at the Vigil, and by tradition the vigiller takes that
to support themselves in their work.  I don't by coffee, or ANYTHING with it.
I save it for my work, or, the work of real heroes, in the hopes
they would emerge, in a time of need. 

All that I've accumulated these last few years I'm donating.
FINALLY THE RIGHT "CAUSE," THE RIGHT "HEROES" HAVE COME
ALONG.  (4 min vid below)

CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THEY RISKED, WHAT THEY SUFFERED,
WHAT THEY SACRIFICED FOR US?  WATCH THIS. (4 min vid below)

THEY LANGUISH IN JAIL FOR YOUR KIDS, CUZ WE ARE NOT
DOING OUR PART OF THE WORK.

PLEASE HELP THEM.  NOW would be a good time:

 
Two Heroes Languish in Jail. Crime? Fighting for your
kids, nieces, nephews....

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FOR GOD'S SAKE SHARE THIS with friends, "family," acquaintances,
facebook, twitter, youtube..., PLEASE.






1.30.2010

"Dad Loved mom for herself. She? She Lusted for what he did for her." SL

"Dad Loved mom for herself. (Eros and Agape)
She? She Lusted for what he did for her (Eros, no Agape)."  SL

"Give me an honest Repub/Conserv any day; NO Lip-service Libs." SL

"Give me an honest Republican /Conservative
to stand with any day; don't give me NO Lip-service Liberals." 
SL inspired by Gandhi

MLK Jr. and Christ Jesus warned us of NOTHING so much as the hypocrites.

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SL here. URGENT. If there is anyone you love, I CAN'T OVERSTATE the importance of these

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"Respectability: Living in a way that the poor should weep in Joy, Awe, Gratitude." SL

"Respectability: 

Living in a way that the

poor should [would if they fully knew]
weep in Joy, Awe, Gratitude, Wonder;

That is, Incarnating Universal Love;
BEING Immediate Family TO the least of these.

[Thomas, Jesus, King, Gandhi,
Teresa, Romero, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Pr. Obama, Michelle Obama,
Diane Wilson, Col. Ann Wright.]


Dis-Respectability:

EVERYTHING less than, EVERYTHING else besides
BEING IMMEDIATE FAMILY TO
the least of these our global brothers and sisters;
that is, NOT being Universal Love incarnate /
Immediate Family TO ALL,
ESPECIALLY the poor in
Spirit (enemy, wicked, foreigner)
and materiality."
  SL

4" snow, 4 degree wind ccchhhhiiiiillllll

WISH YOU WERE HERE!!!

http://hannasyalala.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/dreamland-beach-bali.jpg

Uh, I mean here!  :-)

Thomas died a week ago Saturday. A rare and truly Great, truly Divine Spirit.   We desperately
needed that Spirit, a gift from Our Father, and now it is gone, and forgotten.  God forgive
us.  http://prop1.org/thomas.htm IF YOU'VE NEVER READ HIS Biblical Wandering in the Desert,
as God is my witness, you've missed a chapter of the Gospels.  Your brother,  Start

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1.29.2010

"There are but 2 Great Religions: 1. RESPONSIBILITY (Love); 2. UN-RESPONSIBILITY (Violence)" SL

RE: "There are but Two Great Religions: 1. RESPONSIBILITY (Love);
2. UN-RESPONSIBILITY (Violence)" SL

'Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve."  MLK Jr.

Leo Tolstoy was the common cause of both Gandhi (virtually entirely),
and MLK Jr. (very substantially).  The book that shaped MLK Jr., read
when he was in Crozier Seminary in Chester, PA was,
"THE LAW OF LOVE, AND THE LAW OF VIOLENCE."  Love and Violence
are the only means of human existence, physically, practically,
ACTUALLY, REALLY.  We survive, eat, maintain relationships, are
housed and clothed base on EITHER
1. GIVING (POWER FOR), NON-VIOLENCE / PEACE MAKING or
2. TAKING (POWER OVER), VIOLENCE / WAR MAKING.

These are the only two GREAT RELIGIONS, GREAT LAWS BY WHICH
HUMANS CAN EXIST.  This is not a matter of superficial choice, but
rather the fact of, the physics of survival.

1.  RESPONSIBILITY - Survival by CONTRIBUTION TO THE WELLBEING
OF THE WHOLE.  This is what all healthy tissue (non-cancerous) and
all life forms EXCEPT FOR HUMANS do.  Humans have "Fallen" away
from this natural, DNA ordered "religion," way of being.  "Christianity,
[Judaism, Buddhism...] what a wonderful idea.  What a shame no one
has tried it." CS Lewis (?)  Gandhi, King, Jesus, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Gaffar Kahn, Diane Wilson, Col. Ann Wright Thomas....

2.  UN-RESPONSIBILIY - SURVIVAL BY TAKING - Cancer, Parasitism,
VIOLENCE, POWER OVER OTHERS, EXPLOITATION (USUALLY COVERT). 
Christianity, Peace Movement, Capitalism, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam,
American "Freedom"... as practiced these thousands of years.




1.28.2010

My understanding is that living with Gandhi was pretty much unbearable....

My understanding is that living with Gandhi was pretty much unbearable.

I guess it was just as bad living with ML King, Jr, Jesus, Romero....

I guess I knew that but I hadn't thought of it for a long while.

I've NEVER heard any suggestion that they INTENDED to be unbearable to live with;
Quite the contrary. 
It just goes with the territory;
with the Call.

My father was profoundly difficult to live with.
Greatest man
I've ever personally known.
(First time I've ever thought of that.
It TOTALLY was not his intent to be so.)

"War Making = Demanding Respect. Peace Making = Earning Respect." SL

This is a HUGE epiphany for me today.
Thank you Father.



"War Making = Demanding Respect vs 
Peace Making = Earning Respect.

Violence vs Non-Violence;

Non-Love vs Love respectively;

aka
Authoritarian vs Authoritative."
 SL



CHANGE: Where Clinton Turned Right, Obama Plowed Ahead NYT. CLINCAL DENIAL, those that don't see

Where Clinton Turned Right, Obama Plowed Ahead

New York Times

Those that don't see "Change" WANT NOT TO. 

Clinical DENIAL.

1.26.2010

"Example is not the major thing in influencing people; it is the only thing." Dr. Albert Schweitzer

[Friends - I value your time as though my childrens' lives depend upon it -
because they do.  I never send that which I believe is not crucial to their
lives, and yours, but I rely on you to read what strikes you as important,
and flush the rest].

Having been well stimulated by recent dialog with a few of you, and having received
substantial Violence, unintended, from two considered internationally acclaimed
"Non-violent activists" recently, who now I see to be nothing of the sort,
tragically, sadly - once again my nervous system proves to me the old adage - if
it doesn't kill you, you grow.  Some of the fruits to me of this trauma, and
these dialogs, I'll share here:

"Example is not the major thing in influencing people; it is the only thing."
Dr. Albert Schweitzer  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer  Nobel
Peace Prize 1952 (I was 1 year old) 
[Note to two friends:  I know nothing of the lives of Christopher Hitchings
nor Andrew Harvey that is not profound divorce from this Truth.  I do not
question their right to this Divorce, but I find them useless, no, dangerous
as a consequence.
"Nothing has so caused the needless suffering in the world as "Sages" that
Say but do not Do [I give you the Organized Religions, including Atheism, and
"Activism."]  These are the Hypocrites, clinically, that Jesus centrally warned
us of."  SL  (Yes, they piously, sacredly killed him.)

"Technically: Violence = Non-Loving; Non-Violence = Loving." SL 
"What does non-violence mean?
Uh, the love of mother for her child."
Gandhi paraphrase with liberties taken

"The Golden Rule is about Motive (Universal Love) NOT behavior."  SL
"[Love] unto others as you would
have them [Love] unto you."  CJ (as translated by SL)

"Why Jesus remained silent:
He would not aid and abet his sibling's violence on him."  SL
"Non-cooperation with evil is every bit as much a duty as
it is to not do evil."  Gandhi paraphrase

"Violence:  Neglecting our Duty to Love Each as Immediate Family."  SL

"Loving, like Skiing, divorced from Acting, is Nothing."  SL
"Love is that which cannot remain passive in the face of suffering."  Teresa of Calcutta paraphrase.

"Love EQUALS Life."  SL

Your Loving brother forever, no matter what,

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"Technically: Violence = Non-Loving; Non-Violence = Loving." SL

"What does non-violence mean?
Uh, the love of mother for her child."
Gandhi paraphrase with liberties taken

Octogenarian DC school teacher jailed for protecting Humanitarian prisoned in Guantanimo since 2002

Re: Octogenarian DC school teacher jailed for protecting Humanitarian prisoned in Guantanimo since 2002

On January 25, 2010, Judge Lynn Liebovitz sentenced noted anti-war activist Eve Tetaz to 25 days in D.C. Jail (beginning today), another 50 days suspended, one year probation with a stay away order from all of Capitol Hill. More details and Eve's contact information will be forthcoming. Below is the sentencing statement Eve made today in court. An article about Eve by WASHINGTON POST reporter Keith Alexander will appear as a feature story within a few days.


Sentencing Statement, January 25, 2010:

Your honor, I do not question the process by which a jury of my peers found me guilty of unlawful conduct. I assume responsibility for the personal costs of my actions, which I firmly believe promote justice ad peace in the world in which we all live.

My efforts to give voice to the values which I believe are at the core of our country's leadership in world are nonviolent. I believe that nonviolent protest against government policies is, has been and will continue, to be the only authentic form of individual political action. Such action on the part of individuals does change the course of human history.

History speaks of the power of nonviolent protest that has changed the face of our social landscape in ways we now take for granted -- the civil rights movement being only the most recent example in the history of our country. Martin Luther King was right when he paraphrased the words of Theodore Parker spoken more than 150 years ago -- the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

This truth is not readily apparent -- indeed does not exist -- without the actions of individuals who are responsive to the needs of the oppressed, and recognize the trends of history.

I will continue to participate in the movement of our civilization that is committed to building structures of social justice that are rooted in peace among the nations and the citizens of the world. The 19th Century poet, Emma Wilcox said that to sin by silence is to make cowards of us all. This is the cause that is my life. This is why I am present in court today representing the victims of America's wrong doings, people such as Adel Fattough Ali Al Gazzari, an Egyptian, wounded in Afghanistan while serving with the Red Crescent Society, sold for bounty to the Americans, and detained at Guantanamo Bay since December 2002. This is why I cannot remain silent.

Thank you.


1.25.2010

"[Love] unto others as you would have them [Love] unto you." CJ (as translated by SL)

"The Golden Rule is about Motive (Universal Love) NOT behavior."  SL

"[Love] unto others as you would
have them [Love] unto you."  CJ (as translated by SL)

"Why Jesus remained silent: He would not aid and abet his sibling's violence on him." SL

"Why Jesus remained silent:
He would not aid and abet his sibling's violence on him."  SL

"Violence: Neglecting our Duty to Love Each as Immediate Family." SL

"Violence:  Neglecting our Duty to Love Each as Immediate Family."  SL

PR. OBAMA IS OUR CEO - please seriously ponder that thought.

Subj: PR. OBAMA IS OUR CEO - please seriously ponder that thought.

Many of us work or have worked in an employer situation, that is, within
an organization that provided a means of support to us, right? Well, in
such situations, we may or may not like everything the CEO does, but we
remain loyal, because we know that if the CEO fails, we are screwed.
Right? AND WE DON'T GO LOOKING FOR, AND FOLLOWING OTHER CEO'S.
RIGHT?!?!?!!? Yet that is EXACTLY what most of us are doing with regard
to CEO Obama. If he fails, if his agenda (our agenda) fails, we are
PERMANENTLY screwed. But don't we spend 90% of our time, NOT DOING
OUR JOB WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION, but rather playing as, or subscribing
to other pretend CEOs (pundits, writers, HuffPost, BuzzFlash, Olbermann,
Stewart, etc, etc)???????? Yes, we do.

We, our children, our children's children are being warred on by the Rethug
Fascist hoards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you aren't fighting with all
you've got ALONGSIDE PR. OBAMA - WE'RE SCREWED.

Please view and share this vid >>>>>>>>>>>> 
Pr. Obama on Middle Class (2) Task Force Report 12 Month Report

Get to work pls on barackobama.com

Your brother,

Start

1.24.2010

"For ourselves we act.; for others we pray. Reverse that, or we're toast." SL

"For ourselves we act.; for others we pray.
Reverse that, or we're toast." SL


Please pray for him. Hurry.

http://www.youtube.com//RodolfosBrother

He is one of our few great people.

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SL here. I beg your assistance. URGENT. Urgent. Help.

In 5+ years full time activism in DC this is one of only 4
true Heroes I've seen here.  His life is on the line.  Yesterday,
had I not helped him stabilize, he'd have been in the ER.

PLEASE view, *****, COMMENT and SHARE.
http://www.youtube.com/user/RodolfosBrother
http://www.youtube.com/user/RodolfosBrother
http://www.youtube.com/user/RodolfosBrother


Your support in this way may keep this Hero safe,
out of jail, and from deportation.

Thank you.

Your brother,

Start

1.22.2010

"BE WILLING TO FAIL. Be unwilling to not attempt." SL

"BE WILLING TO FAIL. 
Be unwilling to not attempt,
should it cost you your life."  SL

1.19.2010

How Barack Obama is like Martin Luther King, Jr. -by Melissa Harris-Lacewell


The Wise built on Rock, NOT SAND. The LEFT is Sand. The RIGHT's the Devil. Hmmm.

I, Start, remain a fool, but, hmmm, I'm learning, sooooooo slowly.

Einstein was a man.  Jesus was a man.  Einstein was our guru to date of macro physics.
Jesus is our Einstein to date of how to Live, individually, and collectively.  His teaching?
"Love as I have loved... laying down my life for the least of these Our Family."

Jesus said, "Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be
like a wise man who built his house on rock.. the rains fell, the flood came, the
wind blew... But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. And everyone
who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who
built his house on sand."  Matthew

This scripture is RINGING through my head this morning after the agony of last night's
clarity: "SL here. Friends, I am quite shattered"
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2010/01/sl-here-friends-i-am-quite-shattered.html

The Wise built on Rock, NOT SAND.  The Left is Sand. The Right's the Devil.  Hmmm.

ROCK: Pr. Obama is rock.  Much of the Dem. Senate and House Leadership is rock.  Much of
BarackObama.com, the roots associated with that is rock.  Rock is the good, simple folk
that do what is right, no matter what.  THEY ARE DOERS, GIVERS, NOT TALKERS, TAKERS. 

SAND: The Left.  THE LEFT ARE TALKERS, and Takers.

RAIN, FLOOD, WINDS:  The Right.  THE RIGHT ARE TAKERS.

I just don't know what hope there is for the mass of Humanity.  I've been trying to leave
that in Our Father's hands (the Unseen Wisdom we can feel, but not control), but I haven't
helped myself from focusing on Saving EVERYONE, NOW!

It is time to refine my focus.  Screw the Left  - they are worse than worthless - they waste
our time, they KILL our time.  I must respect the DEADLINESS of the Right.  I must Focus A. on being
Good, Incarnating Good, Inspiring Good; B. WORK WITH THE GOOD - COME WHAT MAY.

I stand with Pr. Obama - come what may.  I stand with BarackObama.com as long as they
remain Faithful. I pray that Good people and I find each other and unite as an ever growing
force for Good - come what may.  I will fight on, hopefully, a tiny bit wiser, smarter.

Where will this lead?  How far?  How fast?  God, the great unseen wisdom, knows.

Screw the Left.

Start


1.18.2010

SL here. Friends, I am quite shattered

USA:

U nbelievably
S uicidal
A ddicts

At noon the race in Mass. was tied.  Tonight the Nazi Goon Squad
is ahead 9 points.

So after 30-40 years of Rethug-Nazi-Fascist Rape and Plunder of
the middle class Mass. is handing them MASSIVE power - the power
to FULLY BLOCK EVERYTHING IN THE SENATE - GUARANTEED TOTAL
GRIDLOCK FOR THE NEXT YEAR AND WITH VIRTUAL CERTAINTY, THE
NEXT 3 YEARS.  PR. OBAMA'S TERM IS OVER.

(Not to mention - I didn't in the opening paragraphs mention
exploitation of the poor - yes NOT TO MENTION - Left and Right ROOTS
never do more than throw token crumbs at the poor; excepting FDR.)

This is mind-boggling.

What is the reason:

1.  The right is correct - the Left in this country ARE LOSERS.  Whether
or not their nice, interesting "Ideals" are implemented is immaterial.
Win or lose those "ideals" can be TALKED about, and TALKING is all
the Left cares about.  Period.  They can TALK if they win, they can
TALK if they lose - what's the big deal?  I wish to God I were kidding.

2.  The Right OWNS THEIR MEDIA, the Left has none.  Huh?  What
about FDL.com, BuzzFlash.com, DemocracyNow.org, New York Times...
As I said, the Right OWNS their media - and they pay it to advance
an agenda.  The LEFT Media is part of the Left roots - all they value
is TALKING.  Advance an agenda?  Huh?  TALKING IS THE AGENDA.
Keeping themselves alive is the agenda.  Losing elections fuels that
it doesn't threaten it!  Perfect!

3.  THE LEFT ROOTS ARE INCAPABLE OF GOVERNING - The Right is utterly
correct in this.  There are two modes for the Left: A. sullen acquiescence
and this mode tends to last decades; and B. Brief revolt, and as we've
seen, that lasts about 1 election - NOT ONE TERM, BUT ONE ELECTION.
If the Left roots had risen to the level of discipline, sacrifice, commitment
and courage we've seen of the Left LEADERSHIP in DC - House, Senate, White
House - we'd be easily winning Mass. today.

With Climate Change Legislation, Financial Regulatory Reform,
Education Reform, Healthcare Reform, Saving the US Economy all
on Emergency Life Support already - you / we just signed our children's
death warrant - not to mention that for billions on the planet.

Start

ps:  I don't need anyone to make me feel better. I DON'T WANT TO FEEL BETTER.
I WANT AND NEED TO KEEP FACING THE TRUTH, THAT I MIGHT DO WHAT I CAN
TO CHANGE IT.