My Thanks for Today

I’m thankful I’m not John Edwards, or for that matter his former mistress or little Frances.   I’m thankful I’m not the young man who tried to rob a bar full of cops.   I’m thankful I don’t weigh 500 lbs. and hid a gun in my bellyfat.
I’m thankful for AOL news because every day when I sign [...]

Amanda’s Thought for the Day

We’ve all heard that the world is divided into two types of people, the givers and the takers. However, there’s also a third type: the ones who are happy to give yet refuse to be taken.  They are the foundation of democracy.

From the Raped Mountains of Appalachia:Perspective on the Bailout

Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes, I’ll say this, I don’t give a damn about your dreams      Bob Dylan, Thunder on the Mountain

Feel like my soul is beginning to expand, look into my heart and you will understand.
You brought me here, now you’re trying to run me away, [...]

Financial Crisis and Cashmere Hats

“I don’t like to be in this position, asking for things and, you know, answering to the American taxpayer,” Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson informed the Senate banking committee yesterday.”  I Come to You, Cashmere Hat in Hand  Dana Milbank
Some of the blame for the financial crisis obviously lies with the cult of ”positive thinking”  which encouraged people to buy [...]

Astrology of Sarah Palin: A Gift From the Past

Millions of Americans, not all of them conservatives, instinctively identify with Palin. That is why the left’s scorching assault, so ugly and unhinged, is backfiring. The longer it goes on, the more it undermines the Democratic ticket- – and the more support it builds for McCain, and his refreshingly normal mate.  Jeff Jacoby Enough of [...]

For All the Women Who Feel Trodden On

If a woman makes herself a worm she must not complain when she is trodden on. — Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher 
Of course I changed the gender. Kant may have been one of the foremost thinkers of the Enlightenment but since he spoke during the Eighteenth Century I’m not sure he meant to include women.
As for myself, [...]

Obama and Clinton: Dancing Around the Mulberry Bush

Does America owe Barack Obama the presidency because he’s black? This was the question that seemed to speak from the television screen as I watched the heartrending story on CNN of the murder, forty years ago, of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, a man who spoke to all oppressed people everywhere.
Will electing a black president [...]

OBama: You Never Even Called Me by My Name

 
Well, it was all that I could do to keep from crying.
Sometimes it seemed so useless to remain.
You turned against my preacher
Just because he stomped and hollered
“G-D America is to blame!”
 
I ain’t to blame for my preacher
For the evil he planted in our hearts.
He was only preaching
To the choir of Satan’s angels
Who hide behind the [...]

Sermons on Hate: Wright and Obama

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. – Robert Collier
Who is this man running for president of our country? Even the thought of Obama getting elected is so appalling I cannot believe he [...]

Astrology Musings for Election Day

Part Three out of Three:
I feel like a little mouse nibbling at a humongous cheese, one about the size of Earth. But I can’t help myself. I am a driven soul. I wake up in the morning determined to try to explain a subject perhaps beyond my ken but I will not give up.
For some [...]