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

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!

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

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

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

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