Love of the Land

You can't stamp that out. Even as it is sold off, carted off, paved off, developed off. The Land - prime economic commodity.
Let's just sell it all to the highest bidder... Ten cents on the dollar? That's what's going on. Not yet actually but that's the path.

Unbelievable.
Maddening.
2019 can we make it through?

Obama The Titanic....

Get the vision and hold on tight. The USA will survive. Independent, corporate free (just about) let the dinosaurs fall,
we'll all have to find ways of survival. We will find a way. We must. A return to a manufacturing base, a return to an independent
and wholesome agriculture. A return to accountability and respectful ethics. Slender threads. God help us.

Afghanistan and the USA (A False Alliance)

The President, our President Obama I have heard it said is going to announce his decision on further troop committments on his return from his FarEast mission. That I believe should be probably next week. If I was him I would put it off another couple of months.. why rush when making a bad decision? Take your time. (That's why I am a cabdriver.)

Well we must do something, so bad decisions or not, at least we're doing something. Reminds me of a good conversation at the Mayflower Pub last week I had with some young engineer on various worldly topics. We agreed upon quite a bit, which is a good and rare thing.. particularly for me. One thing we agreed on is that 'Nothing' has gotten a bad rap lately. As in we cannot sit here and do Nothing. That being the world will collapse unless we immediately authorize spending another (xxx) billion on ______ ______ , whatever.. you fill in the blanks, is next? The problem being is that I think we will soon encounter something really important where we have to come up with some real money and we are dangerously close to the magic point, where we have spent so much money that we don't have now, that people don't or won't trust the money that you don't have... and what will we do when we really need some money.

I was reading about Afghanistan.
It was interesting to read the NYTimes front page article on Secretary State Clinton's relationship with Karzai's.
Interesting article on so many levels as I once again decide to read and maybe refresh my knowledge of why this Afghanistan stuff smells like disaster. First off as I read I am taken that, by the way, fifth paragraph down where Karzai was sworn in earlier today, for another term as President of Afghanistan and I was thinking that's kind of interesting that the NYT editors didn't feel they needed an article on the actual inauguration of the President. Maybe there article is still being written and will be online by tomorrow AM. It is an intriguing article and has merit, brings forth some interesting tidbits, such as Obama's lack of
strong contact with Karzai delegating it as seems to HRC, which maybe is just fine. Strange little ......

Cool Water Flow

Pass the Peace. I need some right now. Pour the Peace over my brow...
In my heart, may it cool my soul. Let the Peace, let it Roll...
Roll through my bones..
Pass the Peace, breathe with me now
.......to find my Life, release my strife, cool water flow
Cool within to ease my soul, to ease my soul.
Night and day, Breathe out breathe in...
The waters flow...
In Peace, in Life, Holy Love to make me Whole.
Holy Love to make me Whole.
Cool water flow.

Take me back down where cool waters flow, yeah...