I never have understood Republicans.

"Republicans were indifferent to the poor". ~ David Kuo, White House deputy director for faith-based initiatives

For many years, growing up it puzzled me why my mother's brothers and my father's brothers always voted republican, it took an epiphany and George W. Bush to clear it up. They love liars and love to believe them. They emulate them and support them and believe every word that spews from their mouths.

While complaining about taxes, they were always the first to sign up for government benefits. All veterans, they utilized the benefits that democrats fought for to gain them, while complaining about paying for them. None of them could afford private schooling, yet would vociferously complain about public schooling, while never participating in helping their childrens school. One uncle damned federal assistance projects while taking thousands from Uncle Sam for crop rotation and fallow ground projects, also for crop insurance provided by the federal government.

His son still does not discern where the programs come from and the fact that most of the votes against it are from the people he votes for when he votes. They want good schools and roads, but do not understand it takes taxes to build schools and roads among other things.

The only thing this current generation understands in monetary gain. The mega business trends, mega churches, mega bytes; all for what? Growth is not the end. The process is only a part of the path, we must remain humble and revere the person.

"Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery." ~ Moses Maimonides (born Moses Ben Maimon)

I hear a lot of buzz about moral compass.....

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues." ~ Rene Descartes

Especially loudest from the people who have no idea what either a compass or morality is, the buzz is almost intolerable. The US of A is trying to base its moral compass on a bunch of self-righteous, clueless politicians and evangelical ministers. Neither of which know what to base true morality on. They speak a slightly good game, but totally miss the whole point when it comes to serving the needy and meeting the scriptural basis of their claims.

As Jim Wallis so eloquently points out, since when did Christianity become a belief of the "rich, greedy, war hungry, people hating"?

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." ~ Eugene Ionesco

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Unfortunately for the neo-cons and most of the current pro-business, pro-libertarian evangelicals they have torn several pages out of the only instruction book, that requires NO ALTERATION.

GODSPEED for now!!

Card out, Bolten In...SO?

Bush made a big deal today, finally accepting the three week old resignation of COS Card, just as the news hit about collusion between the stooges in office and Britian's government were hiting the media.

It is increasingly disturbing that the media is owned by fewer and fewer companies. That is really a liberal happening, yeah. Consolidation, elimination, fewer jobs, controlled output, boy that sounds really democratic doesn't it?

We must remain vigilant in the struggle to retain our freedoms.

"With foxes we must play the fox." ~ Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers." ~ Carl Jung