Robert Reich- Obama Economics 101

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Currency. . .

"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses."  --  Ralph Waldo Emerson  (1803-1882)

- such is the preoccupation of America for centuries!  Can we not move on to a more sublime obsession?


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Spiritual Humanism:

Reason Based Religion

We cannot abandon ancient traditions and practices, but we can adapt them to our new understanding of the universe. Religion must be able to adapt to new scientific inquiry without rejecting humanity's deep spiritual connection to history and the natural world.

All humans have an inalienable right and duty to practice their own religious traditions.

Spiritual Humanism allows everyone to fuse their individual religious practices onto the foundation of scientific humanist thought. This new tradition accepts people from all religious backgrounds.  It recognizes the validity of all peaceful religious practices and behaviors as being helpful and necessary in developing the spiritual nature of humanity.

Love is here. . .

The GIFT of Spiritual Humanism:

REASON

We cannot abandon ancient traditions and practices, but we can adapt them to our new understanding of the universe. Religion must be able to adapt to new knowledge about the universe without rejecting the deep spiritual connections to human history, and the natural world of which we are apart.

All humans have an inalienable right and duty to practice their own religious traditions.

Spiritual Humanism allows everyone to fuse their individual religious practices onto the foundation of scientific humanist inquiry. We accept people from any religious background and recognize the validity of all peaceful religious practices and behaviors as being helpful and necessary in developing the spiritual nature of humanity.


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Mavis Staples- Never Forget!

Keep Your Eye on the Prize

Thanks Betty Grady!
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Mavis Staples- Never Forget!

Let's keep our 'Eyes on the Prize':



Take the Poll- How Do Your Politics Rate?

Click on the link- the results are scientific and fascinating. . .


http://people-press.org/typology/quiz/

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Birthers Won't Go Away. . .

NO JOKE:

Some obscure author, Jerome Corsi, released this week a new book that the publisher says will be a bestseller "of historic proportions."

The title is "Where's the Birth Certificate?" -- indeed.

Corsi's work is a greatest-hits reel of delusions, ranging from 9/11 conspiracies to claiming that there is an infinite supply of oil in the Earth's core. In 2008, he published a book about Barack Obama claiming, among other things, that he is a secret Muslim;  is secretly anti-military;  has secretly dealt drugs and get this- secretly mind you, supported terrorist actions when he was eight years old. So many secrets!

FactCheck.org called Corsi's work "a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods."

There's really no way to make this stuff completely go away. The only thing we can do is laugh at it -- and make sure as many other people as possible are in on the joke.




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Spring Has Sprung. . .

Each season has its own flavor, and atmosphere. The essential nature of SPRING is hope. Even though the whole of Winter's bluster has not entirely faded, there is a change in the air. The days have slowly been growing longer to noticeable degree. . . growth is in the air!

A Spiritual Humanist thought. . .

THE 'religion' for a New Age



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For Wisconsin Republican Legislators. . .

‎"While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."  

 -- Eugene Debs ‎(1855- 1926, American union activist)

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The Reality of Afghanistan for Our Soldiers. . .

This is the reality for American soldiers day after day in exotic Afghanistan:

It is a place most of them have not seen before, nor like any other desert or mountains, including those in the American Southwest and Mexico of which many of them come and are familiar. -It is the place of a language most of them do not speak, nor have even before heard. The fear of  gangland type killing is not like anything Detroit or any other American city offers.  It is the place of a social order most of them do not understand. The politics of revenge there are palpable daily.

 

American soldiers here are on a mission from a continuous hell.  Muslim fanatics have already won, just as surely as Christian fanatics that brought us here have lost.  Hopefully, it won't take a long time before the deluded conservatives in American government figure this out.

So, be damned the attempt to impose some 'notion of democracy' on the Afghans- they are not even sure that's who they are. They work against America at every turn. They hate us. They kill our soldiers because our soldiers kill them. They just plain don't want us there! So why are we there? It is because of the arrogance of greedy, warmongering American psuedo-intellectual advocates of hegemony, and the hubris and stupidity of those who have enthusiastically waged this faraway war for them. Sadly, those too have been persuaded to insidiously and calculatingly wage war as well on their own people's 'notion of democracy'.

The ancient Greeks, the British and Russia have learned the folly of trying to subjugate Afghanistan.  This is a lesson of history.  Why can't we learn this?

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