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My Interests

Ending poverty, institutional discrimination and war.

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Dalai Lama

"All of Buddha's teachings can be expressed in two sentences. You must help others," and "If you can't help, you should not harm others."

"Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom."

"Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are completely dependent on the kindness of others, how can it be that in the middle we would neglect kindness towards others?"

Music:

monty python - politics
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Movies:

Monty Python - International Philosophy Football
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Television:

Philosophy of Liberty
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Books:

Its A Wonderful Life Ending Part 1
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Heroes:


"In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood."
~Martin Luther King, Jr~
“I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.”
“You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.”
“If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.”
~Eldridge Cleaver~

My Blog

"Joothan: a Dalits Life"

     For the Dalits a transformative experience through religion seems beyond the realm of normalcy. Religion may meet the functional criteria as defined by Milton Y...
Posted by Hornet on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:03:00 PST

When will Congress

          Has not the clock struck the doomsday hour of midnight for poverty in America? How many times must we see children that look like survivors of a...
Posted by Hornet on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:57:00 PST

Part 1 of Project Censored 2006

                        Corporate Media ControlWould you care for an order of fries with that CBS...
Posted by Hornet on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:32:00 PST

Autumn

Sometimes I dream I never hear younor see youyet always I feelyouWalking alone in a deep golden forestI wonder whythere are no birdsI see and hearno movement at allexcept the creakingof...
Posted by Hornet on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:23:00 PST

Ode to nature inspired contentment

Don't sweat the small stuff; stop and smell the flowers you pass by, and I mean literally. Breathe in the fragrance of a fresh rain; look at the laughter of a child at play, unencumbered by the worrie...
Posted by Hornet on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:45:00 PST

Agnes? Who did the news say was our latest enemy again?

.....When are people going to face the factthat current US foreign policy is just a re-wordingof of the tunnel vision insight of the Truman policy.With the fall of the USSR, the lone communistSuper-Po...
Posted by Hornet on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:36:00 PST

The Quagmire Thickens

     Larry Heinemann said, The Vietnam War was a dirty,sloppy, ball-breaking, ugly, grueling, mean-spirited, and hateful business. He vividly created chilling images in mymind, whe...
Posted by Hornet on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:21:00 PST

Nagin: Mayor of the Big Easy, or the City Down Under?

     I must say, that while I was not taken by surprise, I am constantlyreminded of the apparent lack of expectation for performance by thegeneral population of our political ...
Posted by Hornet on Wed, 24 May 2006 07:03:00 PST

" Boy Crisis "

          It seems that there is a looming "boy crisis" plaguing the US. Browse through any national bestseller list and youcannot fail to see several...
Posted by Hornet on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:45:00 PST