The radiance of your loveliness Is such that if I Like a god of old Could take a primeval sun Rend it into a billion pieces And fling them across the evening sky
Still your beauty would dim all the rest Of the jewels in Night’s dark tresses And I would know you and love you Until the dawn hinted of your leaving And another star, brighter still, Ruled the daylit sky
Video 1. What is love?
What is love?
Why does it scare some But is needed by others? And why is the love from a partner Different than the love from a mother? Can we just change our minds? Start to love another.
What is love? How does it start? Does it come through our toes? Or go straight to our heart? And why does it feel stronger When we are apart?
Why does love make us happy? But without it we feel free. And when we have it inside It changes how we see. Is it better to go and get it, Or wait for it to come to me?
Why does love hurt When it is not loved back? When your heart breaks Love stays intact. I wonder if scientists can make it? Get two chemicals that react.
What is love? We all know the feeling. It seems to go to everyone Sometimes staying, sometimes leaving. I find it hard to describe But Wikipedia gives the meaning!
Video 2. I Choose Love . A Choice for Humanity, Love or Fear. What Do you Choose?
The radiance and range Of your loveliness Is such that if I Like a god of old Could take a primeval sun Rend it into a billion pieces And fling them across the evening sky
Still your beauty would dim all the rest Of the jewels in Night’s dark tresses And I would know you and love you Until the dawn hinted of your leaving And another star, brighter still Ruled the daylit sky
Video 1. What is love?
What is love?
Why does it scare some But is needed by others? And why is the love from a partner Different than the love from a mother? Can we just change our minds? Start to love another.
What is love? How does it start? Does it come through our toes? Or go straight to our heart? And why does it feel stronger When we are apart?
Why does love make us happy? But without it we feel free. And when we have it inside It changes how we see. Is it better to go and get it, Or wait for it to come to me?
Why does love hurt When it is not loved back? When your heart breaks Love stays intact. I wonder if scientists can make it? Get two chemicals that react.
What is love? We all know the feeling. It seems to go to everyone Sometimes staying, sometimes leaving. I find it hard to describe But Wikipedia gives the meaning!
Video 2. I Choose Love . A Choice for Humanity, Love or Fear. What Do you Choose?
I sat at my desk Handwriting a poem. When I looked down at the paper On which I was writing, I saw a punctuation mark, A period, That appeared to be out of place. As I poised to erase it, It moved ever so slightly As it crept across the page.
I then realized that this Was a tiny creature, perhaps a beetle, The size of a period.
I suddenly understood That I was observing a tiny, Almost microscopic, Form of life That like myself, Was a sentient being. That, within its body, The miracle of life Was functioning. It, too, attracted the natural resources For the continued functioning Of its life processes.
As I continued my observation, Fascinated, for several minutes I observed this minute form of life Slowly moving away from the outer darkness And the shadows of the ring of light, Produced by the desk lamp, Into the brighter part of the ring.
And then I thought how our lives were alike: We were both moving from the shadows And the darkness Into the brilliance of the brighter light, Trying to avoid the darkness
Of the ever approaching night.
And then I placed my pen at rest, And left the tiny creature The light it so desired. Realizing that all the metaphors I might devise Would not equal the magnificence And majesty of that moment.
For I had just witnessed a living poem, And my feeble efforts would have to wait For another night.
Video 1. A Poem by e.e.cummings: I Carry Your Heart
Video 2. A Scene from the Film: Dead Poet's Society - Carpe Diem
This morning the San Diego Union-Tribune published an article about a local case of homicide. What attracted my interest was not so much the kidnapping, torture, and homicide as the details about the woman who hired a man to lure her ex-lover to Tijuana, Mexico and murder him there.
The woman involved in this case called herself a homeopathic doctor. She had developed a mail-order business called Astro Pulse that marketed a device using radio waves that were said to cure cancer. Manufacturing the devices for $200 each and selling them for $1500, she advertised their sale in alternative health magazines. Before long, she was clearing about $100,000 a month.
Reading about this case brought to mind a period in our nation's past when medical quackery had reached the zenith of its popularity. After the passage of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938, which brought medical devices under Federal control, one would have thought that a business such as Astro Pulse would have been closed down quickly.
One of the best known instances of medical quackery in America occurred before the passage of the Act mentioned above. In the 1920s, Dinshah Ghadiali claimed that his Spectro-Chrome device could cure disease by adjusting the four elements in the human body of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon which responded to the four “color wave potencies” of blue, red, green and yellow. When the four elements were properly balanced in the body, the individual was well; when they got out of adjustment, the individual was diseased. The disease could be cured by increasing the intensity of the colors in some cases and reducing the intensity of colors that were too brilliant.
The Spectro-Chrome device worked by having the patient during certain moon phases sit nude inside a dark, north-facing box which contained a spotlight and a 300-watt bulb that shined behind different-colored glass cells. If a person had stomach ailments, the color green would be focused on them. The color red was used for heart and blood problems.
There is an old saying that no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. In the 1920s, Dinshah Ghadiali sold over 10,000 of these devices; by 1940, he had made over a million dollars selling the Spectro-Chrome device. In 2008, the woman involved in the homicide case was clearing about $100,000 a month selling her device for $1500 each.
Video 1. Bob McCoy on "Newton's Apple" **WWW.MUSEUMOFQUACKERY.COM. Bob McCoy, curator of the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, demonstrates some of the unusual quack medical devices from his collection on the PBS science program "Newton's Apple". Like the Wilshire Electric Belt, The Orgone Energy Machine, The Blud Rub, and the famous Phrenology Machine: The Psycograph!
Video 2. Bob McCoy on The Martin Short Show *WWW.MUSEUMOFQUACKERY.COM. Bob McCoy, curator of the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, demonstrates some of the items from his unusual collection. Including: The Psycograph, Nose Straightener, Blud Rub scalp massager, foot-operated breast enlarger, and more. December 1996.
Getting 527’ed, Flip-Flopped, and Making Wright Wrong
Getting 527’ed, Flip-Flopped, and Making Wright Wrong
The Jeremiah Wright controversy seemingly will not go away. The Hillary Slime Machine is making sure of that. Are we talking about the Wright stuff at the wrong time for Obama, or is it the Wright stuff at the right time for Hillary?
The other day I said to my wife, “When you hear the name of John Kerry, what comes to mind?" Without hesitation, she replied with one word: "Flip-flopper!” Exactly! Almost four years after Kerry was 527’ed by the Bush Slime Machine, most Americans will still remember that association. That is how effective that political strategy is. Now the Hillary Slime Machine is using those same tactics.
John Kerry is a man who volunteered for active duty in Vietnam in 1966, and in 1968 he served a four-month deployment aboard the guided missile frigate USS Gridley, standing by to pick up downed aviators in the Gulf of Tonkin. While aboard the USS Gridley, Kerry listed as his first preference a position as the commander of a Fast Patrol Craft (FPC) known as a "Swift Boat." While aboard the FPC, Kerry was wounded twice, for which he received two Purple Hearts, and later for another action, a Silver Star. He was credited with saving his crew. This man was a hero.
At the time Kerry volunteered for military service in Vietnam, George W. Bush was hiding out in the Texas Air National Guard and Cheney said that he had better things to do than to go fight in Vietnam. Yet the Slime Machine turned a decorated war hero into a traitor and two men who avoided combat in Vietnam into the President and Vice-President of the United States.
After doing a 527 on Kerry for his hero status in Vietnam, the Slime Machine then accused him of being a flip-flopper because he voted to support the Iraq War Resolution before he changed his mind and later voted against it. What the Slime Machine didn't tell the voters is that when Kerry voted for the resolution, it was his understanding that the tax cut for the wealthiest Americans would be rescinded to help pay for the war. When that did not happen, he changed his mind. Then he was called a flip-flopper who couldn't be trusted with the presidency.
The first time that I became aware of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart was when I found a YouTube video in which Stewart had a "debate" based on news clips between presidential candidate George W. Bush, the then Governor of Texas and George W. Bush, the President of the United States. Now here is some real flip-flopping.
In a more recent show, Jon Stewart dealt with the Wright controversy in his usual entertaining, but enlightening, manner. Jeremiah Wright has been turned into a caricature by the corporate media, and they are doing everything they can to protect the image that they have so carefully constructed. As for those individuals who accept this caricature as the real man, they should be reminded that Obama has never said or done anything in his own life to indicate that he agrees with his pastor.
Writing a letter to the San Diego Union-Tribune, a local reader said that as a person with conservative views, he was at first somewhat concerned about the 20-year relationship between Obama and Rev. Wright, but now he believes it is possible for a man to have a pastor whose social views and fiery sermons he disagrees with. He said that although he disagrees with his own pastor on issues such as abortion, stem cell research, homosexuality, and evolution, he has not left the church because he and the pastor agree on almost everything else. He said he is willing to concentrate on the hope that the gospels provide while disregarding his pastor’s views on other subjects with which he disagrees.
By the way, guess who invited Jeremiah Wright to speak at the televised National Press Club news conference last week? It was none other than National Press Club member Barbara Reynolds, a Hillary Clinton supporter, who organized the breakfast talk with the controversial pastor. Could one call that stirring the pot?
Here is the latest Jon Stewart treatment of the Jeremiah Wright controversy.
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