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.. The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete. Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all, mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak, and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. --from Rev CarlR

Remember slavery was supposed to be abolished, no it was just glorified and called employment!!! By mixing esteem with consumerism our culture does not just buy for function and comfort, it buys for material validation; it buys to impress and gain status. Jealous people covet the jealousy of others. Prestige is often the acquisition of envy from others. It has gone way out of control. Too many people are caught in the game of 'look at me.' People buy books that they don't even read, just for show. People will buy a piano for their house when no one even plays. People buy to impress. They buy for status. They need 'other based' validation. Does a Rolex tell time any better than a Timex? Be careful that what you own does not end up owning you.We're sinking in the honey gathered for the queen!!!

Are you any different? Is anyone? We reject our parents conditioning because we’re independent humans, we’re rebels and iconoclasts. Actually, a more accurate way to put it is this: we reject our parents conditioning because we’re conditioned to. If you’re looking for anything resembling “free will” in the hall of mirrors we call Western Civilization, you are chasing ghosts with butterfly nets. There is no fashion statement, no political belief, no radical stance, no lifestyle choice that wasn’t computer-coded somewhere along Madison Avenue decades ago. No matter what you use to define yourself, it’s been sold to you, and it’s all Part of The Plan

BILL MOYERS~As I watch and listen to our public discourse today, it seems to me we are all “institutionalized” in one form or another, locked away in our separate realities, our parochial loyalties, our fixed ways of seeing ourselves and others. For democracy to prosper it requires us to escape those bonds and join what John Dewey called “a life of free and enriching communion”—to become “We, the People.” The late James W. Carey, one of our noted scholars of communication, wrote that the very concept of “public” could once be defined as “a group of strangers who gather to discuss the news.” In early America the printing press generated a body of popular knowledge. Towns were small, and taverns, inns, coffeehouses, street corners, and the public greens—the commons—were places where people gathered to discuss what they were reading. These places of public communication “provided the underlying social fabric of the town and, when the Revolution began, made it possible to quickly gather militia companies, to form effective committees of correspondence and of inspection, and to organize and to manage mass town meetings.It would be hard to argue that we do so today, except in isolated examples. Our public conversation is mediated by politicians who have mastered “sound bites” sculpted from polling data, by “pundits” whose credibility increases with the frequency of exposure despite being consistently wrong, and “experts” whose authority depends not on reason, evidence or logic but on ideology and affiliation. The public, J.R. Priestly observed, “has been transformed into a vast crowd, a permanent audience, waiting to be amused.” Public airwaves courtesy of huge media conglomerates whose intent is not the informing of citizens but the maximizing of profit through the delivery to advertisers of mass audiences addicted to consumerism. Jesus would not be crucified today. The prophets would not be stoned. Socrates would not drink the hemlock. They would instead be banned from the Sunday talk shows and op-ed pages by the sentries of establishment thinking who guard against dissent with the one weapon of mass destruction most cleverly designed to obliterate democracy—the rubber stamp.A stock broker who makes bad picks doesn’t last too long. A baseball player in an extended slump gets traded. A worker made redundant by cheaper labor abroad or by a new machine—well, she’s done for, too. But four years after the invasion of Iraq—the greatest blunder in foreign policy since Vietnam—the public apologists and advocates of the war flourish in the media, while the costs of their delusions accrue in body counts and lost treasure. A public that detests the war is relegated to the bleachers, fated to watch from afar the playing out by political and media elites of a game that has been rigged. We cannot build a political consensus or a nation across the vast social divides that mark our country today. Consensus arises from bridging that divide and making society whole again, the fruits of freedom and prosperity made available to the least among us. What we have to determine now, as Wilson said in his day, “is whether we are big enough…whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own. We haven’t had free access to it, our minds have not touched it by way of guidance, in half a generation, and now we are engaged in nothing less than the recovery of what was made with our own hands, and acts only by our delegated authority. As we face that challenge even today, a story about Helen Keller is worth remembering. Toward the end of her career, as she was speaking at a Midwestern college, a student asked: “Miss Keller, is there anything that could have been worse than losing your sight?” Helen Keller replied: “Yes, I could have lost my vision.” "In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."Mark Twain Truth Is Not Political! "free press" in the U.S. is complicit in this intellectual rape of the general populace. The collaboration between the delusional political prostitutes that act as the government and the intellectual eunuchs who make up the communications media has left the American public deaf, dumb and blind to the truth.There is almost no kind of outrage-----torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-----which does not change its moral color when it is committed by ‘our’ side. … The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”:::::::::::: ..IRONY O..Reilly ..DEPLETED URANIUM ::::::::::: While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security: John Adams Death to America,is what they scream while you preach freedom and the american dream,troops dying, mothers crying still trying to cope why ur still denying the threat from iraq was a hoax,hes not a man of the people just a product of evil,greed power and god a combiantion thats lethal,so deceitful its criminal but soon the truth will rise, LIES! -reMO Conscious Support our ignorance Support our fear Support our empire Support our tears War is peace! Freedom is slavery! Deliberate manipulation Suppress our empathy Calculated propaganda Who makes these? CIA psyops Homeland security? False patriotism Sneaky fascism Do not think Do not question Fake nobility Enjoying the killing? This is support? Magnets mean nothing Follow the leader? How many must die? "With us or against us" The war is a lie Led by madmen Lambs to the slaughter Troops are betrayed Bush..s cannon fodder Nothing accomplished Pawns of the rich When will we learn? We're better than this War is profit An inside job? Where is Osama? Keep wagging that dog! TV is the enemy We're all being lied to Drunk on arab oil What wouldn't Halliburton do? Real terrorists wear suits The rich never fight "Thou shalt not murder" Might isn't right Are you angry yet? Try using your brain Speak! act! revolt! Don't kill in my name! Will you be called "terrorist?" How much death is enough? Use your free speech! ONE OF THESE DAYS!!! Somewhere along the way we had taken the wrong turn, somewhere through it all America had veered tragically off course, leaving behind our sacred ideals and betraying the very roots of our revolutionary past. "Righteous Murder"I never thought I would call the 60s and 70s "the good old days". I would cry tears of joy today to see just one campus overrun by a modern equivalent of the Students for a Democratic Society. I would cheer to see a general strike paralyze a city. It would be living proof that American character had not been submerged, drugged, weakened, and rendered anemic beyond revival.... Michael C. RuppertI'm Mad As Hell Were quickly turning into an apathetic microwavable, easy grip, easy peel,scratch and sniff the bullshit nation,people that vote are completely unquestioning,devoted drudges..brainwashed by fox news/cnn/msnbc/mainstream bullshit...people are too weak minded to stop eating fast food.. ironically dying from over eating while people all over the world are dying of starvation....fat ass yuppies that are more worried about their fake smiley happy lives, and little Tuckers soccer game on Satarday, and what time American Idol starts or some collage football game! The world is hurting....from every corner...from right here in america..to to a across the globe...Who cares weve got lawns to mow and yards to sprinkle(if u ever notice all the yuppies come out to tend their lawns simultaneously.) our own little designated, nowadays more than likely installed, patches of grass in front of our homes in robot suburbia with the nice little white picket fences...we can call our own! were becoming a zombie nation, were being milked by the owners of this country like cows in our stupid stalls, work all day,all week, weeks turn to months months turn to years,the next thing u kno ur at the ripe age of retirement and now ur entitled to enjoy ur life..~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~