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• "Stay together, friends Don’t scatter and sleep. Our friendship is made of being awake." ~ Rumi
• “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” ~ Marianne Williamson from "A Return To Love"

Biofuels made from grains are causing a massive domino effect across the planet, creating shortages and stockpiling of foods as well as taking up land and resources where grains for human foods were once grown.

Biofuels - a good idea? Are there other options? How long will it take to figure this one out?

Future of Food and Drink Industry Conference Keynote Speaker - Amazing videos are here

Today’s paper headline: “Prostitution may be decriminalized” in San Fran. Why? Proposition K forbids local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anyone for selling sex. Not technically “legalizing” prostitution, but the law would eliminate the power of local law enforcement officers to go after the heathens.

Okay, here’s the bottom-line. The police need money. $11 mil will be kept in coffers if they leave the girls alone. I suppose there must be more important heathens running amuck out there.

The up and down and in and out (no pun intended) of finances, politics and force are tipped easily, eh? 

Never say never!

Go girls!

Today’s Government section of the paper has three articles side-by-side titled as follows:

McCain says he’s been tested in crisis

Obama: McCain has ‘outdated ideology’

Palin says Obama will cause crises

I wonder what crisis we’re really talking about here?! Geez.

The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper, on their final day together, not too long before his assassination.

The Seven Blunders are:

1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce without morality
5. Science without humanity
6. Worship without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle 

This list grew from Gandhi’s search for the roots of violence. He called these acts of passive violence. Preventing these is the best way to prevent oneself or one’s society from reaching a point of violence.

    8. To this list, Arun Gandhi added an eighth blunder, rights without responsibilities.

Nothing much to say after that, is there?

Thank you,  Wikipedia for this.

Do we have a second right answer to help kids stay in and not drop out of school?

“Every 26 seconds a school age student drops out of U.S. schools.” I heard this on the national news recently.  Nearly 7,000 American kids drop out of high school every day.

Why?

What year is this? The “WE’RE NUMBER 1″ country in the entire world?! And, these are our current stats on our kids? What happened? What is happening? What will it take to change it?

“Heroes aren’t born,

they are cornered.”

~ According to Jim, TV Show

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;

the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

~ Plato

   Excerpts from a Dog’s Diary

8:00 am - Dog food! My favorite thing!

9:30 am - A car ride! My favorite thing!

9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favorite thing!

10:30am - Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!

12:00pm - Lunch! My favorite thing!

1:00 pm - Played in the yard! My favorite thing!

3:00 pm - Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!

5:00 pm - Milk bones! My favorite thing!

7:00 pm - Got to play ball! My favorite thing!

8:00 pm - Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!

11:00 pm - Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!

Being 100% responsible for our lives is a high order for about 98% of the population.

This woman is on the low end of the percentage of not only self-responsibility, but plain common sense!

A Connecticut judge dropped a suit of a blonde woman’s lawsuit claiming L’Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products.

This woman, Charlotte Feeney of Stratford, says she can never return to her natural blonde hue, a shock that left her so traumatized she needed anti-depressants.

What. A first time hair dyer?

People! a) If you’ve ever dyed your hair, you know it gets darker the longer you leave it in, right? b) Haaaalllloooooo!

Hmmm. I wonder if the doctor that gave her the medication had any conversation with her at all about this? Oh, no. No. Of course not! Then she might not pay him/her for the time and medication! Doh!

Hate loud music coming from a nearby car? Me too, no matter what kind it is. I hope the next offender of noise pollution is in the jurisdiction of Ohio Judge Susan Fornof-Lippencott!

You can read the story here, but cliff notes: “Rap music blaring from car sited for noise pollution. Offender gets choice of a reduced fine and to listen to 20 hours of classical music - the kind he doesn’t want to have to listen to. He made it all of 15 minutes!”

We need more judges like Judge Susan. Way less lame noise pollution!

Go Susan!

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• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." ~ Abraham Lincoln