The Anti-Gay GOP

Andrew Sullivan sees why they might think it's the way of the future:

"New polling on Prop 8 reveals the kind of political coalition that focusing on same-sex marriage has created for the GOP:

• Evangelical or born-again Christians (85%) were far more likely than others (42%) to vote yes.
• Three in four Republicans (77%) voted yes, two in three Democrats (65%) voted no, and independents were more closely divided (52% yes, 48% no).
• Supporters of Republican presidential candidate John McCain were far more likely than those who backed President-elect Barack Obama to vote yes (85% vs. 30%).
• Latinos (61%) were more likely than whites (50%) to vote yes; and 57 percent of Latinos, Asians, and blacks combined voted yes. (Samples sizes for Asians and blacks are too small to report separately.)
• Voters without a college degree (62%) were far more likely than college graduates (43%) to vote yes.

The trouble for the GOP is that this is one of very few issues on which Asians, Latinos and blacks vote for them. But it reinforces the identity of the party as primarily that of white, less educated fundamentalist voters. I've no doubt there's a place for such a party in American politics. I also have little doubt it will never be a majority."

There is no way the GOP survives as a national party if it goes down this road. Too much of history is against it. And while the Latinos might seem to be a part of this coalition, they run for the hills once the rest of the coalition has a say on immigration.

However it's the easiest route, and it's the route that's cost them this year.

The real touchstone will be the 2010 nominees.

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UnEdit Life

Watching MTV's latest documentary on Britney Spears, I started thinking about the latest trend in reality TV and the vicious editing that accompanies it.

What would real life be like without the cautious and dramatic editing of people trying to get a point across? What if we really could see a person unfiltered? I'm forced to wonder who in our celebrity culture would survive such a treatment.

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That warm feeling

Give......and get that warm feeling.

I thought of something that might be a good idea.

I was thinking about giving......chickens......don't laugh.

You can mail day old baby chicks to anywhere in the world.

Imagine a box of 100 baby chicks arriving at a poor village somewhere.

Chickens are a sustainable source of eggs and meat and need little to thrive and grow.

Maybe we can link the "Mystery Game" idea to being able to send chickens to the less fortunate.

Everybody should have a few chickens.......they're a great source of eggs, meat, natural fertilizer and insect control, and a unique pet for hours of family fun.

f u cn raed tihs

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh?

yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Of Hope

'ho.ho.ho.pe"

I have hope that we finally can rise out of the Cold War and out of the quick Buick buck mentality and begin to find that it is one earth and that we all have one future.

We shall see, but I think despite the economy we have our heads out of the sand and can find something less material and more liberating and collaborative.

I had a bad cough all of November, got it the night Obama was elected. It was an O'Henry moment for O'Moi at the moment America shifted.

In all the despair I do see hope. I so want to see a change for the better. I cannot wait for January 20th and then for all of spring's flowers.

Echoes

Open your eyes

Don't
drink
the
Kool-Aid.

Sideshow Bob

You can't handle the truth!

No truth handler are you!

I deride your truth handling abilities!

A good day

Today is a good day to die.....Klingon proverb.





worf by darrel bevan

First of all I'd like to say I'm honored to be an author of the GlobaLove Think Tank.

Not many can say that, hahaha...

Secondly, the title, I guess is a link to my blog 'For The Sake of Humanity' and you should read it.

Global love is what we should all be advocating...Humanity will destroy itself at war, at conflict.

Humanity has to stop fighting against itself and this will only be brought together by all of us, since we all collectively are humanity.

Why don't we do these things...

For The Sake of Humanity

Catch My Fall

What can we do?
What should we do?
What will we do?

Our primary goal to alleviate Starvation, we must look and learn why starvation? Why do we live in a world where mothers loose child after child to starvation? Yet at the other end of the scale other children’s lives are being fore shortened by obesity that means they will die before their parents.

What is it that in a beautiful, bountiful and lush world makes food an item that some simply cannot afford?

That would be capitalism then, a system that encourages populations to grow cash crops for export that have nothing to do with the needs of the local populace.

We are seeing all too clearly in this global recession where profits have been privatised for years and now we find losses and mismanagement are to be and have been socialized.

Capitalism is not working it is a harsh system that will always have many many losers while the fat cats get richer and think up more stupid rules for us to follow.

We must look at this, here in the UK we managed a mixed economy until Thatcher’s games made money the be all and end all, we still have our national health service, our social security that is a safety net for us all, but the true sharing and looking out for our neighbours has long gone.

One thing I believe we must do is stop making money the only value, kindness, truth and dare I say it? Love! Have more lasting and intrinsic value but are debased by a system that will only recognise money as having any worth at all.

There are many prophecies to help us, not least the prophecy of the Aquarian Age,

“It is prophesied that when one-third of the people of earth can each lay one brick in the temple at Avalon with perfect love and perfect trust, then the Lord of this World will come to dwell within. It is prophesied that God, who has thus far never been seen by humankind, shall at last become visible to the pure in heart, and the world shall increase in vibration until it glows like a new star in the heavens. Let us remember that in this month, and in this age, it is our task to KNOW that we may pour it forth in love and therefore achieve the goal of wisdom - Perfection."~Father Eli, Grand Master, Druidic Craft of the Wise ~ The American Rite (1913-1983)

http://motherdamnable.blogspot.com/search?q=brick+of+clay

One brick, our bodies, all that we truly own, one brick, with perfect love and perfect trust, and only a third of us!

The vibrational levels are being raised all the time, people like me are working hard to open the gateways, to keep them open and to raise psychic awareness and consciousness awareness any way we can, we pass on all our gifts with love, we do not judge, we share!

The Internet is a wonderful tool for this, we can gain knowledge, learn our skills, Remote Viewing makes an excellent gateway for astral travel, and as with any exercise, we improve strength in our other psychic muscles while working out.

I hardly ever speak to children or babies now, I think, and they invariably hear me, Indigo and Crystal people are all around us, we old souls have failed, we tried to keep the sweeter gentler souls back as we struggled to make the world more acceptable for their charms and beauty, Capitalism and so called Democracy have made the world harsher and unkinder than ever.

However our sweet gentle kindred will wait no longer that have a right to be here as much as we, they are blazing through and as they have been kept so long in other realms they are blessed with psychic and magical abilities that will help us all.

However they are increasingly being targeted by the system, fed with Ritalin and other drugs that will incapacitate their psychic gifts, diagnosed with ADHD and other disorders, because they don’t fit in, won’t fit in and can see through all the lies.

We must protect all the children.

We must become truly independent, thinking, magical creatures, operating on the mundane, spiritual, ethical and magical levels at all times, become well-rounded individuals. Then when we are we must share and bestow out gifts, whether money, magic, kindness or some times by sharing a smile we can save someone’s dreams.

Help me to open the doors, guide others to awareness and their own magical power, we do not need to judge, debate or find some one worthy or not, the pure in heart will know, understand then progress. Those who are not pure in heart will simply not understand until they too are pure in heart and will thus limit themselves.

Meditation, Crystal healing, remote viewing, astral travel, study, occult, writing, poetry, painting, art are all aids to healing, finding and learning our powers…

That, my dearest Oberon is how we Damnables are moving the line forward, and we have been very grateful for your arms to hold and help us through.

X~X

George Carlin

It seems only comedians.................tell the truth.

The Great White Hope

Johnson flouted conventions regarding the social and economic "place" of African Americans in American society. As a black man, he broke a powerful taboo in consorting with white women, and would verbally taunt men (both white and black) inside and outside the ring. Johnson was not shy about his affection for white women, nor modest about his physical prowess, both in and out of the ring. Asked the secret of his staying power by a reporter who had watched a succession of women parade into, and out of, the champion's hotel room, Johnson supposedly said, "Eat jellied eels and think distant thoughts."

One minute to midnight

Something's going to happen.........don't be afraid.

. coming to town . .

SATAN . . all dressed in red . . out of "The Fire Place". . deceiving the children . . extorting the parents . . "believe what I say, not what I do". . honesty/trust is undermined at earliest possible age . . Santa

Happy Thanksgiving! Love, Anne and Doodle

Give it a chance, yo.

EV1

I'll bet GM wishes they'd been honest with us about the EV1.

Los Angeles – November 18, 2008 -- Former California State Senator and Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden is holding a news conference, speaking out against American auto manufacturers and in support of mass-production of the electric car. The Honorable Nate Holden believes that the taxpayers should not bailout the auto manufacturers without The Big Three agreeing to mass-produce the electric car as an incentive.

Nate Holden states the following points:

In 1990, the State of California enacted a zero-emissions mandate, forcing auto manufacturers who sold their cars in the State of California to require that at least 10% of the automobiles that are sold here have zero-emissions.

In 2002 the Bush administration sided with the automakers to fight the zero-emissions mandate. The Bush administration, General Motors, other U.S. automakers and the oil companies committed sabotage against the American people and the environment. Because of the lawsuit, California will not make any strides in improving our air quality. To continue to build internal combustion engines will result in more photochemical smog and will cause more lung cancer and respiratory disease.

At about that time, General Motors embarked on a program to deceive the public and the lawmakers. They introduced the EV1 as a revolutionary concept car. The EV1 had all the whistles and bells and if mass-produced, could have saved the automobile industry from its financial woes. At the beginning, General Motors and the other auto manufacturers never intended for the electric vehicle to be a successful program, specifically the EV1.

It turned out to be nothing but a hoax when General Motors built 1,100 EV1s and allowed the public to lease and road test them. Without a doubt, the EV1, as a prototype vehicle, met the test acceptance program. In fact, in many circles there are those who are of the opinion that it exceeded the testing program. The consumers who leased the EV1 offered to purchase the EV1 vehicle from General Motors. They knew the EV1 was a zero-emission, cost effective automobile. General Motors said "no" and evoked the terms and conditions of the lease requiring that those vehicles be returned to General Motors and they were subsequently destroyed.

General Motors has had at least ten years notice to develop and mass-produce an electric vehicle and they have failed to do so. They have continuously brainwashed the public and the elected officials, claiming that they were on our side and they are not! Here they are again, demanding that the hard-working taxpayers bail them out. (Them being the automobile manufacturers) They are demanding the bailout funding without any pre-conditions. Shame on them!

Congress should not give auto manufacturers another dime until the commitment is made that they will build the electric vehicle as a top priority. We must stop importing our oil from the Middle East. The mass production of the electric vehicle can be our way of achieving that goal.

não tem medo de ser feliz

esteja bem, may you be well.

V

People should not be afraid of their governments......

....governments should be afraid of their people.......V

Thich Quang Duc

All that is required for the triumph of evil.......is for good men to do nothing.

TRI-2

DE-
FLATE
Surrender!
Your money is
guilt by association as
evidence of indentured behavior.
Offering victim to be the victimizer
introduces standing on top of others,
con-founding paradox amid recycle,
we try angles to take advantage.
Crime trickles down cash.
Support starts on bottom,
so many tests of kind fail
re-education for self-knowing
not represented as promised.
Commonunity organizing is credit to
accept those who participate in the inflate.

1984

War is peace

Freedom is slavery

Ignorance is strength

We have borders.
Why?
We have Nations.
Why?
We have empires.
Why?
We have governments.
Why?
We have religion.
Why?
We have commerce.
Why?
We have industry.
Why?

The answer my friend, is STILL blowing in that inexplicable wind....

Control.

immoral

What is more immoral.........than war?

.......Marquis de Sade.......

Nigger of the World

Woman is the nigger of the world, we

make her paint her face and dance.

........John Lennon and Yoko Ono........

Call to arms

Call to arms........arms to hold you........arms to help you.

I am very happy with the results that we have achieved.......magnificent collection of ideas and thought-lines...........truly moving.

I'd like to remind you that........this think tank will focus on creative actions designed to initiate a global paradigm shift towards a world where racism, poverty and war will be a thing of the past.

As per the Mission Statement, we need to identify....ACTIONS....that will forward our goals....virtually every one of our posts suggests actions.....but I would like to get specific and DO something great.

I would like to suggest........that all of us could fomulate an action.......that would advance a particular cause.......we are attempting to move the line forward.

Let us focus on our primary goal.................starvation.

Our secondary focus is........................Pro-life barriers.

We need to put a stop to.................war.
We need to put a stop to...............executions.
We need to distribute more...............birth control.
We need to put an end to all.............global arms trade.

And our tertiary focus.....................................education.

Send me your ideas...................Oberon.

Mystery Game........"15".........money for food for the poor........prizes.......I need someone who knows computer programs to show me how to convert "15" into a computer game to put on this website........something like freerice.com.

Group hug.............aaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhmmmmm.

Holding

Sleeping In The Forest

I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.

by

Mary Oliver

Later

Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky (1988)

The Floyd is, hands down, the best concert that I have been fortunate enough to have ever attended... music, the sound of the soul.
After having attended The Division Bell tour, all I can say is that it was indescribable. Whenever I ran into other people who had also seen the concert, the response was always, invariably, the same, "it was awesome" ... then, silence, while staring into one another's eyes, trying to find more words, when there simply were no others to describe the experience. Just... awesome.
I was touched by the fact that there was no generational barrier... music, to stir the heartbeat... lyrics, to stir the mind. There was my generation, my father's generation, as well as my son's generation... all come together.
While watching a bit, recently, on the making of The Dark Side of The Moon, it was shared how Clare Torry (the first one up) came to be on, here. She was told, simply, to think of pain, desperation, loneliness (can't remember all the descriptive words, you get the point)... and this was the result. The best part, when she came out of the recording room, she apologized for what she thought had been a big fuck up... while everyone else had been in awe and dumbfounded.
Perhaps this is the sound of our universal consciousness, in response to the sad state of this world.
This past September, Richard Wright, who was one of the co-founders, as well as keyboardist, lyricists, and vocalist, passed on to that great gig in the sky. I think that things will never be the same.
I truly believe that music is one of those universal connectors, that ties to the heart strings of humanity... further, to the universe... and that music can change things, for all time.
Pink Floyd has certainly been that, for me. Music, for all time.