I took this today on a walk at Pogonip. I hope you don’t mind the pictures. I like the idea of taking, and posting, a picture a day a la dooce. I am going to try it. We’ll see how I will fare when I have to work tommorrow.
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For the first time in my life I sleepwalked last night. It was a very strange experience. I remember waking up, standing over the air-purifyer and feeling really confused. Raffa was asking me what I was doing (this is what woke me up) and I stood there, confused, and said, “uh, I don’t know.” Then I hurriedly went back to bed, and, for some reason, I was feeling embarrased. Raffa was kept asking me what I was doing, and I remember being really crabby with him. I have no idea why. It was very strange.
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Thought I’d take a picture of the pretty magnolias blooming in my yard.
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I thought I would post a little something about a little documentary that I watched over the holiday weekend. Bush’s Brain. Based on the book, Bush’s Brain. It’s about Karl Rove. It was a fairly short documentary that presented a biography about Rove, and then talked about how he has helped Bush rise to the White House. Rove has been working for the Bushs for quite a number of years. He began working for Daddy Bush, and then moved on to Shrub. I knitted during most of the film, so I don’t remember the fine details. But I did come away from this film with an even greater belief that Rove is evil. “Win, no matter what the cost” is his mantra. In many cases the cost has been defmation of the character of a few Viet Nam war heroes. In other cases he has ruined lives and careers. Just so he can win. There is no question that the man is brilliant. He knows exactly what he is doing. And this is precisely why he is so evil.
Watching this reminded me of another movie that I watched a couple of weeks ago, a documentary about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (called Bonhoeffer). He was a theologian who, along with other family members, created a conspiracy to asassinate Hilter. In the film, they showed the Third Riech’s “minister of propaganda” giving a speech and a light went on in my head. That is what Rove is. He’s America’s Minister of Propaganda.
Both of these films are really good and I highly recommend them both. Bonhoeffer was really interesting because it raised some interesting ethical questions…For example, is one still a Christian if the go against the Ten Comanments and kill, even if it is Hitler? Food for thought….
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Image via Wikipedia t r u t h o u t – Nationwide Voting Errors Tallied, More than 30,000 Complaints Lodged
The events of the last month in the United States and the Ukraine are a study in electoral duality. In the Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest that nation’s questionable election, and today, the Ukraine Parliament brought down the government in a no-confidence vote over the election. Here in America, over 30,000 reports of electoral irregularities, combined with deeply disturbing reports of the ease with which electronic vote tallies can be tampered with, have led to little more than silence from the mainstream media and the national political establishment. When the greatest democracy in the history of the world is shamed by a former territory of the Soviet Union over the basic issue of the vote, something is indeed out of joint. – wrp
This is very interesting…Why aren’t we taking it to the streets? Why didn’t we in 2000? Because we have become a nation of complacent people. We don’t care, apparently.
