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2.19.2009

BUMS: UNPAID RIF RAF AT VALLEY FORGE? COUNTRYMEN THAT DIDN'T PAY THEM? FAMILIES ON THE DOLE? OWNERS AT THE GOLF CLUB?

I work virtually every waking hour of the day - 100% for the good of Humanity.  Frequently the response to me is - bum, get a job.

Am I the bum? 

Is the bum my fellow citizen that in this time of final, Global crisis is in her cave, taking care of "me and mine" while the world comes to an end, leaving those of us that ARE MANNING THE FRONT LINES, to starve?

2.18.2009

PAUL KRUGMAN/NYT/PULITZER: Apocalypse now... this could be America. (Hey, let's ignore him TOO.)


February 17, 2009, 12:36 pm

Apocalypse now

Everyone should be paying attention to the political/fiscal catastrophe now unfolding in California. Years of neglect, followed by economic disaster — and with all reasonable responses blocked by a fanatical, irrational minority.

This could be America next.


BLOOMBERG: Obama Unveils $275 Billion Plan to Shore Up Housing (God Damn any of us that let Obama get politically/effectively "shot," like we did with Jesus, King and Gandhi.)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a7PZO..IJU.s&refer=home
 
Obama Unveils $275 Billion Plan to Shore Up Housing (Update2)

Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President Barack Obama pledged $275 billion to cut mortgage payments for as many as 9 million struggling homeowners and enable Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to keep loan rates down....


My Friends: If the shoe does not fit, PLEASE DON'T WEAR IT!!!! :-) Yes some of my comments are VERY CAUSTIC!!!! SL

Yes some of my comments are VERY CAUSTIC!!!!

If they don't APPLY TO YOU, PLEASE FORGIVE ME!

But, if they do NOT apply to you, YOU WOULD BE THE FIRST TO UNDERSTAND AND FORGIVE ME, because then, you too are living in the horror that all but a minuscule few of our brothers and sisters are dying in morbid apathy and inaction - from which WE ARE ALL DYING.
 


INDEPENDENT UK: Helen Caldicott. "We must act with a sense of dire emergency." ["Why did you ignore her?!?!?!?" your child asks. And you will say ______????)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/credo--helen-caldicott-424003.html

Credo: Helen Caldicott

The Australian paediatrician was named by the Smithsonian Institute as one of the most influential women in the world. She is a fervent anti-nuclear campaigner

Interview by Julia Stuart


Excerpts:

  • I believe that women have the fate of the Earth in the palm of their hands. Some 53 per cent of us are women and we really are pretty wimpish. We don't step up to the plate...
  • I believe that money is the root of all evil. When people start believing that materialism will produce ultimate, lasting happiness, it is a sure sign that they will be intensely unhappy. One third of Americans are on anti-depressants. Instead, what they should be doing is lifting their souls, not their faces.
  • I believe in the sanctity of nature. I believe we can save the planet. We are smart enough to do that, but we must act with a sense of dire emergency.
MUST READ WHOLE ARTICLE. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/credo--helen-caldicott-424003.html

AP: Holder/Obama Admin. SPEAKS TRUTH on Race in America. (Will you protect them from Crucifixion?)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/holder_race

Holder: US a nation of cowards on racial matters



WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing awkward racial issues. In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.

"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," said Holder, nation's first black attorney general.



Should we pray for our leaders?

[regarding email below]

Hey sis!  I pray a lot, as you know.  I pray to bring change.  To what?  Me.  The one, and ONLY thing that Prayer EVER changes is the one praying.  And seeing as THE ONLY FREEDOM WE HAVE IS TO CHANGE/CONTROL OURSELVES - this is pretty important to do.

And yes, when I feel I need to expand my Love and Understanding of our "Leaders" I pray for them; so that I become what I need to become - so that I can better serve us all. 

Oh, I am so far from being what we need me to be.  And I'm running out of time.  We're running out of time.  Must hurry.

NO!  I am neither lecturing here, or spouting God's truth.  I AM NOT GOD, unfortunately, cuz then I WOULD know the absolute truth!   :-)    BUT WHEN I AM CERTAIN, I WILL SHARE WITH CERTAINTY.  It is for the hearer then to decide on whether or not I speak the Truth.  :-)

Love you.
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Subject: Fwd: hmmmmm... sharing..interesting read..hmmmm

Wednesday February 18
This week's promise: God is in charge of the world

Do you pray for local, national and world leaders?

Pray this way for kings and all others who are in authority, so that we can live in peace and quietness, in godliness and dignity.

1 Timothy 2:2 NLT

Prayers for kings and authorities

There is a reason Paul commands us to consistently pray for all of these people. The decisions they make have a direct, sometimes lasting, impact on our life. When the leaders of my country make good decisions, my life goes better. When the laws they pass are sound and just, my family sleeps better at night. When my church leaders make godly, spirit-directed decisions, my soul is in better hands. When my boss makes wise choices, the company grows and my job is secure. When my parents handle their affairs well and stay in God's will, I can depend on the counsel they give to be solid and sound. The strength of their character will affect our family for generations to come, so I fervently pray that God will grant them wisdom and godliness in all they say and do.

We pray for those in authority over us because it helps us live in "peace and quietness." And because it develops within us the traits of "godliness and dignity." In many ways these simple qualities sum up the whole of our Christian witness on earth.

We are called to be peaceful people—to be at peace with God, with our salvation, with our situation on earth, and with those around us. And we are to live holy and dignified lives—to put "aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light" (Romans 13:12). It is through consistent and deliberate prayer—for others, as well as ourselves—that these qualities are obtained.

adapted from Embracing Eternity by Tim LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins and Frank M. Martin,, Tyndale House Publishers (2004), p 37


It's difficult to lead farther than you have gone yourself.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN



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NO LONGER will I be posting complete articles so what you receive each day will not be so LONG!!!!

I EXPECT TO POST JUST HIGHLIGHTS AND A LINK TO THE ARTICLE - SUMMARY.  I am spending HOURS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO!

Friends - you have an opening, you have several months, a brief opening to save the country and the world. Obama and you have created that brief opening.  The opposition, power elites, are back on their heels, and their opposition is moving forward.  THIS IS YOUR TIME.  FOR GOD'S SAKE, LEAVE YOUR PLOWS IN THE FIELD, TAKE UP YOUR "ARMS (AND LEGS)" AND GET INTO THIS FIGHT. 

ETERNITY DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU DO IN FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL AND MAY.


You will not get this chance again. Ever.  THIS IS YOUR CHANCE FOR "LIFE."

 
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2.17.2009

Obama pens 'real' notes to fallen troops' families

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

In his first few weeks in office, sometime between celebratory bill signings and phone calls from foreign leaders, President Obama sat in the Oval Office for the most somber task of his presidency - penning letters to families of troops killed in combat.

"This was real, it was personal, it was so important to us," said Thya Merz, whose son Marine Lance Cpl. Julian Brennan was killed Jan. 24 in Afghanistan.

The letter was signed "Barack," Ms. Merz told The Washington Times.

"Not 'president,' just his first name, and it just felt like, OK, my son has been acknowledged," she said.

Mr. Obama personalizes each letter, asking staffers to gather details about the service member, such as their hometown and where they were stationed, a White House aide said. The letters are sent to parents and spouses, and sometimes children of the fallen troops.

The president writes the notes by hand, then the letters are typed before he adds his signature.

Mr. Obama wrote the first few letters for troops who died in Iraq and Afghanistan while George W. Bush was president, and has written at least a dozen more since taking office.

The president told NBC News that the duty falls to him, though he did not initiate the wars and opposed the invasion of Iraq. In those moments of signing the letters, he said, "you realize every decision you make counts."

The White House declined to release any of the private letters or the names of families who received them, but The Times spoke with some who shared the contents of their letters.

Cpl. Brennan, 25, was supporting combat operations in Afghanistan's Farah province when he was killed last month.

Ms. Merz said the president's letter to her family in honor of her son was "lovely" and added, "It is meaningful to have Julian's death noted personally by him."

Six weeks before Cpl. Brennan was deployed, the Brooklyn resident married his fiancee to make sure she would have benefits if he was killed abroad.

Ms. Merz said she and her son often talked about national service. Like the president, she opposed the war in Iraq. As for Afghanistan, she described herself as ambivalent, but said that she and her son came to an agreement that "if our nation was going to engage in military action, everybody should serve."

As a parent of someone in combat, she realized, "I no longer have the privilege of saying I don't agree and not paying attention to what our nation was doing," she said.

Ms. Merz said she was struck by the personal tone of Mr. Obama's letter, which arrived before the official correspondence from Congress, and she wasn't sure whether they were his words or those of a staffer.

When told by The Times that Mr. Obama writes the letters himself, she said the words became more powerful.

"It says to me that he, too, will be paying attention to more than just the numbers, but the real stories," Ms. Merz said.

"One of the things I felt committed to even though I didn't agree with our military ventures was reading the names of the troops killed as they were listed," she said. "I just need to think about these people as individuals, and I hope that as a nation we are doing that and seeing them as real sons and daughters."

She added that Cpl. Brennan was "just beginning to grasp the real life of the Afghanis around him, feeling very committed to the human side of what was happening in Afghanistan and Iraq."

Their last conversation was on Inauguration Day, four days before Cpl. Brennan was killed by a roadside bomb. Both supported Mr. Obama's election, but they spoke that day about the Afghan people, she said.

Ms. Merz said she had been considering making the trip from New York to Washington for the inaugural festivities, but "I'm glad I didn't. I was home to get my son's call."

"I am so glad the president is trying to do the right thing personally in terms of families and the soldiers," she said. "He has a monumental task in front of him."

As Mr. Obama adjusts to the traditions bestowed upon the president as commander in chief, the duty is far different from saluting the Marine standing next to his Marine One helicopter or getting used to people standing when he walks into the room.

The president said on NBC News that the letters serve as a reminder - "that you've got hundreds of thousands of people - around the world who are putting themselves in harm's way and you are the commander in chief."

The White House said copies of the letters are preserved for historical archives.

The aide described the letters as "very gracious" but would not share the text because of the sensitive and personal nature of their content. The letters mention that the president appreciates the service member's sacrifice.

While serving as a U.S. senator, Mr. Obama would send families of Illinois service members condolence letters and an American flag that had flown over the Capitol.

Some he would call personally.

Mr. Bush also sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, he told The Times in an interview last year. He said he leaned on his wife, Laura, for support in the gut-wrenching task.

Mr. Bush also met privately with more than 500 families of troops killed in action and with more than 950 wounded veterans, said Carlton Carroll, a White House spokesman during the Bush administration.

"Everything you do matters," Mr. Obama told Fox News a few days after the NBC interview. "I'm now signing letters to the families of troops who have fallen in Iraq or Afghanistan.

"Every time you sign that, you are reminded that you have enormous responsibilities and so, that's why all of these debates - when I'm talking to Democrats or Republicans, one of the things I try to remind them and something I remind myself every single day is the only criteria for what I do should be - is it working for the American people?

"Because this job is too big, too important, to just want to occupy space," he said. "And if I've spent the next four years, every day, making decisions based on that single criteria, is this going to help the American people achieve their dreams and keep them safe, then I'll be able to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'You know what, you did a good job.' "


I Quake when I pray now. Involutary. Always. We don't have much time left.

This  is significant.

I have become the proverbial canary in the coal mine.

When I pray, my practice is to imagine that there is a perfectly Loving parent of us all;  where in the world, where  in the "family" is shehe looking?  That directs my attention.  To Gaza, to Darfur, to the Glaciers, to the dying seas, to the rain forests, to sub Sahara Africa, to the Himalayan Glaciers, to the millions of species going extinct...

to our DYING world,

to the END OF CIVILIZATION.

I physically start to twitch now, and it does not stop.

We don't have much time left to save our planet, our only home.

Don't ignore what I am telling you, any longer.

NEW SITE: Obama <<< King <<< FDR <<< Gandhi <<< Lincoln <<< Jesus !!!!!!

I am thinking of doing a new site, but for now I'll use this site to support God's last great gift to us, our last chance.

 The greatest Quarterback the world EVER has been given.


BUT WE ARE THE TEAM, AND SO FAR
WE worse-than-SUCK.



And Civilization IS OVER unless we
 get on the freekin field and play like
the whole world depneds on it,
because it totally does.

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HUGE VIDEOS 2/17/09. HUGE.

JUST FIND THE TIME. JUST MAKE THE TIME!!!! THESE ARE NECESSARY. NOW.
  1. DN!!!!! COAL ACTIVISTS ARRESTED
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mODSFRLY0kc
  2. DN!!!!! 1BILLION NEW POVERTY VICTIMS <<<<<<< DO NOT MISS THIS

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXbkOGWLRK0
  3. PROSECUTING YOO: Michael Isikoff on "The Rachel Maddow Show"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6JArB2p7lo

  4. DN!!!!! GREEN NEW DEAL NOW, OR BYE BYE NATIONAL SECURITY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb-zxB5r7zo
  5. DN!!!!!! TODAY'S ISRAEL/US WAR CRIMES
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKVHkt3WmIA
  6. DN!!! MILITARY CRIME OUT-DOES MADOFF PONZI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7pfIkq7-bE
  7. DN!!!! "WAR CRIMES" FROM ISRAEL
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fchk6yWnMuQ
  8. DN!!!! US DESTROYS HUMAN RIGHTS WORLDWIDE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUj2KiJeRaA
  9. DN!!!!!!! COAL TO DESTROY 90 MTNS. IN ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C36AIshlcnM
  10. DN! AFRICA 1of2
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjTn7rCllL4
  11. !!!!!GAZA ACTIVISTS FIRED UPON!!!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCj_qEBk_Ko
  12. No militant activism? No "America." Naomi Wolf
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FzMNr7C-5w
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Start's Going's On This Week

This week I expect to be covering the signs, studying Civilization-Ending Climate Change, America$ Bleeding War$, updating these blogs with what I find, doing a shift each day at the 28 year Peace Vigil (http://prop1.org), and maintaining http://YouTube.com/StartLovingt1.

Next week?  I don't know.  What I NEED to do is begin another Hunger Strike to CUT WAR FUND PEACE $200B FAST, NOW, AND OCCUPATION.  I'll be praying on whether that is what God/Good needs, wants me to do now, so soon after the last one.
 
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"Piece" of mind DETERMINES "Peace" of mind

More than cute.

Which PIECE of your mind you use determines whether you have PEACE of mind.

PEACE of mind comes ONLY FROM using the PIECE of your mind that is UNIVERSAL LOVE.

Our lives are the ONLY resource that is OURS; THAT IS OUR RESPONSIILITY.

Everything else is God's, Fate's, Cosmic Rock's....

SL here. GOODBYE FRIENDS. I've harressed you long enough.

And now there is an alternative.

I've filled your EMail Boxes or Spam Buckets, as the case may be, with unsolicited email long enough!!!!

My volume of outgoing is likely to continue, BUT NOT TO YOU!!!!

I'll be "posting" to the three blogs noted below INSTEAD.  IF YOU WISH, YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE AT EACH SITE. 

I think how it works, you will get one email each day with that day's posts, if any have been made.

IF you do this, it would be helpful to know from you after a time, if this works, or does not!!!!
 
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REAL "change" happens when COMMITMENT EXCEEDS 99.99999%. Now, everything LESS is KILLING HUMANITY'S TIME.

[NOTE: I share things like this with a select few of you NOT because I assume YOU don't know it, but rather because it strikes me as something I NEED to keep in the front of mind.]

This is not how I WISH it were. THIS IS HOW IT IS. In an excellent, brief video...

No militant activism? No "America." Naomi Wolf


... Naomi makes a key point: AN EFFECTIVE "ACTION" CHANGES PEOPLE - CHANGES THEIR SPIRIT.

Not their minds, although effective "action" WILL do that, but their SPIRIT.
REAL "change" happens when THE ACTIVIST'S COMMITMENT EXCEEDS 99.99999%.
In the face of today's global genocidal prospects
(http://homeearthsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/02/discoverer-of-cfcs-on-warming-number-of.html) Everything less is KILLING HUMANITY'S TIME LEFT.

* MLK's words were brilliant, BUT WE LISTENED BECAUSE OF HIS ABSOLUTE COMMITMENT.
* Civil Rights marchers were effective, BECAUSE OF THEIR COURAGEOUS COMMITMENT.
* Sowetto child marchers were successful, BECAUSE OF THEIR TOTAL COMMITMENT.
* Oscar Romero...
* Teresa of Calcutta...
* Diane Wilson...
* St. Thomas of Peace Park...
* Conception of Peace Park...
* Lincoln, FDR, Obama...
* Col. Ann Wright...
* Nancy...
* Nicholas...
* Rick...
* SC
* Liz Horican (the Hurricane!!!!)...
* And so few others....

"Anyone can be great, ,because anyone can serve."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


IF I know anything, personally, it has to do with this because my entire adult life has been based on the need to achieve exactly this, dramatically change people's spirits, because nothing less could achieve the dramatic situation turn-arounds that I needed to cause. It is what I've studied. It is what I've practiced, if with only periodic success.

Spirit is everything. Changing spirit is everything. Changing spirit COSTS EVERYTHING - TOTAL PERSONAL COMMITMENT.

2.15.2009

DEADLY ASSUMPTION - THAT WHICH IS NOT "SELFISH" IS "SACRIFICE"

Neurophysiologically, the opposite is true.  We have it exactly backwards in our culture.  "SELFISH" is ALWAYS the "sacrifice" of the experience of God - Universal Love - which CAN be our "actual experience" all waking hours.  ALWAYS AND ENTIRELY.  I swear.

Reexamine your assumption:  That which is "selfish" is "sacrifice." 

I am not sharing theory here.  I find, having followed a "Call" for more than 10 years now that we in the West have been "moved" to an "alternate reality," the WRONG alternate reality.

Community, Universal Love, Universal Family is what we are BORN INTO.

A sick and dying (clinically cancerous) Western Culture forcibly abducts us from the Real Reality - UNIVERSAL "FAMILY."

Yes, yes, yes I've said this a million times now, but this Revelation has just hit me now:


OUR DEADLY WESTERN ASSUMPTION -
THAT WHICH IS NOT "SELFISH" IS "SACRIFICE."
Neurophysiologically, the opposite is true.
THAT WHICH IS SELFISH IS SACRIFICE.
I swear.
Start Loving

My proof?  The ONLY proof Jesus EVER provided.  "The Kingdom of God (Reality) is inside you, be like a child and enter in."  The Proof is in yourself.  Ask, and you shall receive.
 
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BELIEFS: What you DO.

2.13.2009

STRIKE TO CUT WAR FUND PEACE $200B FAST ENDED IN PREPARATION FOR NEXT CAMPAIGN

February 13, 2009 Washington DC. Start Loving announced the conclusion of a fast begun December 19th to redirect tax payer funds from war making to peace building (NewsBlaze Jan. 3, 2009). Start Loving, a long time peace and social justice activist, stated, "I'm asked all the time if hunger strikes make a difference? I believe every action makes a difference. Only the direction and degree are in question. Now would Barney Frank be taking as courageous a stand on cutting the military budget had his office not witnessed the Hunger Strike and my Occupation on Capitol Hill these last two months, ("Cut the Military Budget,," Barney Frank, The Nation 2/13/09)? That I'll never know."

Diane Wilson, another activist who joined the hunger strike weeks later from her home in Texas after Start loving began the strike and round the clock occupation of Capital Hill on December 19, said, "Our action is informed by what Gandhi called for, 'Be the change you wish to see.' We cannot expect courageous action from others unless we citizens live it ourselves. This especially applies to Congress"

On day 35 of the Hunger Strike and after many positive moves by the Obama administration came into view, Wilson and Loving went into "hold" mode - half rations. Today, Start said he was concluding the campaign because Congress, the target audience, was going home for a week and also positive moves continue come from the Obama administration, and from many Democrats on the Hill.

Loving stated, "With the Congress away we will use the time to regain strength for the next leg of the battle. I expect, however, to spend many more months on the Hill lobbying for sanity. With the economy in shambles, it is insane for the US to spend $1 trillion on war-making. Just yesterday, Russia announced they are cutting their $45 billion budget by 15% due to their financial crisis. We should be doing the same. Now."

2.04.2009

THOMAS GOES OVER THEIR HEADS: DN! 80% NUC REDUCTION OBAMA TO PROPOSE?

Watch the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_EFyS2p78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4R2tRPggRA

Russia welcomes US nuclear pledge
ABC Online, Australia - 6 hours ago
Russia says they are all for a new treaty with the US on a limitation of offensive strategic weapons. (Reuters: Sergei Karpukhin ) Russia has welcomed a new ...Times: Obama Wants New Russia Nuke Pact
CBS News, NY - 7 hours ago
The Times of London reports today that President Barack Obama is working toward a new nuclear non-proliferation agreement with Russia that could see both ...Russia welcomes Barack Obama call to cut nuclear weapons
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 7 hours ago
Russia has welcomed US President Barack Obama's call for a new round of international talks to cut stockpiles of nuclear weapons. ... THE MI COMPLEX WILL FIGHT THIS TO DO THE DEATH. And you? Me? We?

2.02.2009

Day #35 & Holding: Off the Hill until...

Diane Wilson and Start Loving are Holding on our Hunger Strike (Half Rations) in an effort to maintain pressure, position for escalation if called for, and to draw out the amount of time they can keep pressure on. Start's estimate is that they will call an end to this particular campaign the end of next week when Congress goes home for a week. They'll see.

Diane Wilson (U.S. Gandhi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4jomRkyhkw ) remains in Texas so she can take care of those who need her personal attention there, including her mom and son; and her myriad of other causes including her Justice for Woman in Prison; Bophol chemical injustice; Texas pollution.... "Her courage, clarity, otherishness and dedication makes me ashamed of my inadequacies," admits Start. "More importantly, she is my greatest living inspiration, and friend, for which I am eternally grateful."

Start is off the Hill since the middle of last week for a variety of reasons: fatigue he has been unable to fully shake; pacing - being on the Hill takes too much out of him now for extended foray's to be possible; need for him to support other ministries - 28 Year Peace Vigil, Thomas' proper representation and memorial on the Internet (http://prop1.org) / YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=StartLoving1&view=videos&query=thomas+prop1 ), and the food distribution ministry of the Peace House where he is provided refuge - Start is one of the only drivers; study of the Climate Change issue so Start can better understand the opportunities and needs. Start estimates he will return to the Hill next week for the 4 days Congress is in session, if not before.

The mission of CUT WAR FUND PEACE $200B FAST remains unchanged, entirely essential to the future of Civilization, and fraught with hope and despair ( http://newsblaze.com/story/20090124140013zzzz.nb/topstory.html ). The conditions that require it to continue are in constant flux, and unclear - particularly on the issue of sufficient action vs too little - too late. Start is focusing on this in particular with an emphasis on Carbon Tax vs Cap and Trade. The visionaries Lester Brown and Al Gore have championed Carbon Tax as ESSENTIAL for real action. But Gore softened or backed off this when last week he addressed Congress. Was this prudence, correct adjustment or cowardly acquiescence? Start is attempting to understand.

What is NOT in question is that NEVER in the history of human kind has substantive change come about without heroic action on the part of ordinary people, and this, with the exception of Diane, a few in GreenPeace (http://YouTube.com/GreenPeace mostly in Europe), and a few others is genocidally absent. What is NOT in question is that NEVER in the history of human kind has substantive change come about without heroic action on the part of ordinary people, and this, with the exception of Diane (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4jomRkyhkw), a few in GreenPeace (http://YouTube.com/GreenPeace) mostly in Europe, and a few others (video below) is genocidally absent. “Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.” D.D. Eisenhower.

1.31.2009

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1.25.2009

"My yoke is light," Jesus

A week or so ago, weeks into the Hunger Strike, I had an experience I've never had before.

I was lugging my 50 lbs of stuff the 3o blocks to the White House, and my body was pretty unhappy.

The poster that was facing out was of Jesus carrying the cross and wearing the crown of thorns. What came into my mind, my imagination was Jesus, I saw Him covered in blood, carrying the Cross, smiling encouragement at me: "Our yoke is light, Start." His smile, with all He was carrying did it. My pain and fatigue was cut by 2/3rds. Now, I'm not Jesus, yet, but I'm trying, so in another 8 minutes that yoke was HHHHEEEAAAVVVYYYY again. But then Jesus came back to help, again. And He has come back since, too, with a bit of summoning from me.



"Do "this" in memory of me." I always, until recently thought that "this" was the bread and wine ceremony. NO! Giving our body and blood for all men, is what we are to do in memory of Jesus. The bread and wine stuff is just Jesus' reminder to us.

Our sister Nancy shared this photo that kinda captures what I felt.

Makes me cry to recall it all.

Thanks Nancy.

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief: Thomas Fuller

PEACE IS THE PRESENCE OF UNIVERSAL LOVE. THERE IS NO OTHER.

Peace is not the absence of Tension,
but the Presence of Universal Love.

Universal Love
is
Waged Love.
Think
Stem Cell.

Hostility is the Presence of Conditional Love.


That's it.
There ain't any more to the story than that.
Get on with it.


StartL
Wage Love