Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Touched By The Sun

time of the year                                                                    
warm not hot
gentle breeze
caressing the face

flower petals
open up
drawing on the
power
of the orb
high in the sky

nourishment
life giving
to man
or beast

a cleansing
chasing away
all that is
not pure

be like
the tree
reach
for the sky
feelings
are good

one with nature
good
to be
alive

First Posted on R Jacob Post Poetics Muses

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2011

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Holiday E Mail Of The Week!

Some holiday advice

I would like to share an experience with you about drinking and driving. As you well know, some of us have been known to have had brushes with the authorities on our way home from the good old social sessions over the years.

A couple of nights ago, I was out for a few drinks with some friends and had a few too many beers and some rather nice Grey Goose vodka. Knowing full well I may have been slightly over the limit, I did something I've never done before - I took a bus home. I arrived home safely and without incident which was a real surprise since I had never driven a bus before and am not sure where I got this one.
 
Happy New Year!

Monday, December 26, 2011

One More Holiday To Go...Sigh

A grumpy alert

I am not a holiday person. The joys of the season has been lost many years ago for me, I am afraid.

Now the big build up for new years eve and happy new year blah blah blah

oh and new years resolutions which will be forgotten about within two weeks.

Why wait for the new year to make a change? Why not start now? Exercising, diets, why wait?

and now it is time for my bowl of gruel

washed down with a pot of coffee!

ray

Friday, December 23, 2011

Merry Christmas with a couple of favorites this year

first of all





and then of course my favorite Christmas song of all time!




merry christmas everyone
from the grinch!

beer time
ray

Thursday, December 22, 2011

This Is Your Life

borrowed from Treehugger-click on title for article







pretty much to the point
isn't it.
don't make life more complicated
then it is


coffee time

ray

Sunday, December 18, 2011

USA=Freedom, It's All Been A Lie

As the government makes indefinite detention into law, 
this is what freedom looks like now







"Give me your tired, your poor, 
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. 
The wretched refuse of you teamming shore. 
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, 
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" 
This poem is called the New Colossus 
and it was written by Emma Lazarus.


and no one notices
the public is stupid, asleep, uncaring
or under the belief it will happen to someone else
the military will be given the authority to take any
citizen off the streets
no lawyer
no judge
no hope

and Obama is going to let it happen
the bill passed the Senate
and the House

we now have drones
patrolling the borders of Mexico
and Canada
to keep people out
soon it will to keep people in

to the people of the world
don't judge us badly
don't hate us
it is like many other countries
in the world
it is the government
run amok

we can all be branded
terrorists now.

makes for a great 
reality TV show
right now
Orwell is crying



a sobering cup
of coffee 

ray

The USA, Formerly The Land Of The Free






"Give me your tired, your poor, 
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. 
The wretched refuse of you teamming shore. 
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, 
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" 
This poem is called the New Colossus 
and it was written by Emma Lazarus.






It has all been a lie hasn't it. 



Somewhat hidden in a defense bill which contained 680 pages of appropriations of money, which by the way is more money than almost all countries combined, are laws affecting our citizens.


Here is a quick summation of what is happening.



The National Defense Authorization Act will make it official. It will confer upon the executive branch and the military (increasingly, the same things) the permanent authority to snatch and grab any person, U.S. citizens included, whom it decrees to be a “terrorist” – as defined or not by the executive or the military -  and imprison them, indefinitely, without formal charge, presentation of evidence or judicial proceeding of any kind. These “detainees” will have neither civilian rights in the civil court system, nor – crucially – even the minimal rights... to due process and decent treatment conferred upon prisoners of war. (And we are allegedly “at war,” are we not?)

The language of the bill specifically includes American citizens “caught” within the borders of the United States – aka, the “battlefield.” It is claimed by sponsors that only those awful them – you know, the enemies of freedom and his successors like to reference as they systematically gut our freedoms – need worry. But read the actual document, and be afraid. The wording is such that any shyster lawyer for the government will be able to draw up a memorandum at some point in the near future equating, say, criticism of the federal government’s policies in the Middle East with “substantially supporting” the enemies of the United States. As defined by the United States.

The funny thing is those who voted to pass this bill assume they will not be affected by this new law. All citizens in this country are affected. More or less anywhere in the world!



The Names Of Those Who Voted For Indefinite Detention


Alphabetical by Senator Name

Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Ayotte (R-NH), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Boozman (R-AR), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Brown (R-MA), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Coats (R-IN), Yea
Coburn (R-OK), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
DeMint (R-SC), Nay
Durbin (D-IL), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Nay 
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Hagan (D-NC), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Heller (R-NV), Yea
Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Lee (R-UT), Nay
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Nay
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea 
Moran (R-KS), Not Voting
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Paul (R-KY), Nay
Portman (R-OH), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Rubio (R-FL), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Nay
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00230

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