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7.31.2011
ARE YOU GUNNA STOP THESE PSYCHOS? Debt ceiling talks have tea party ready for disappointment - and r www.politico.com
ARE YOU GUNNA STOP THESE PSYCHOS? http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60302.html
ARE YOU GUNNA STOP THESE PSYCHOS? Debt ceiling talks have tea party ready for disappointment - and r Activists are bracing for a letdown if the ultimate outcome of the debt ceiling battle is a deal.
ARE YOU GUNNA STOP THESE PSYCHOS? Debt ceiling talks have tea party ready for disappointment - and r
Activists are bracing for a letdown if the ultimate outcome of the debt ceiling battle is a deal.
Steve Milloy, Anti-Science Tobacco Apologist, Now Denies Coal Plant Pollution Kills People thinkprogress.org
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/31/280574/steve-milloy-anti-science-tobacco-apologist-now-denies-coal-plant-pollution-kills-people/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29
By Sam Parry, Director, Online Membership and Activism, EDF In a falsehood-filled Washington Times op-ed, Steve Milloy attacks the EPA and EDF for supporting tough new clean air standards for coal-fired power plants. Asking EPA to “show us the bodies,” Milloy questions public health estimates that t
WOW WOW WOW New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US and Canada www.globalresearch.ca
WOW WOW WOW http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25834
Are We Prepared as World Population is Set to Breach 7 Billion Soon? www.ibtimes.com
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/189799/20110731/world-population-prepared-seven-billion-united-nations-japan-and-germany-2050.htm
Honduras Breaks Tradition, Will Recognize Palestine hondurasweekly.com
http://hondurasweekly.com/honduras-breaks-tradition,-will-recognize-palestine-201107313908/
Education takes a beating nationwide www.latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-education-budget-cuts-20110731,0,609384.story
7.30.2011
URGENT - The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling www.theatlantic.com
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/the-chart-that-should-accompany-all-discussions-of-the-debt-ceiling/242484/
John McCain - 'Conservatives Lying to Americans, Bizarro.' Debt Crisis Ceiling www.youtube.com
http://youtu.be/9CYQSmaKRL4
AP: Republicans are a noisy and effective protest movement, they are unfit for governing," said Rep. www.google.com
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jftZmeymFpuKzQpM2qxMbj-PdVcg?docId=4a319001cea249bc9931389198b9b903
AP: Republicans are a noisy and effective protest movement, they are unfit for governing," said Rep.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans rode the tea party tiger to power last fall. Now it's turning on them, forcing party leaders to endure embarrassing delays and unwanted revisions to crucial debt-ceiling legislation.
GOP HOSTAGE TAKERS - Leader (sic) McConnel thehill.com thehill.com
GOP HOSTAGE TAKERS - http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/174499-days-after-lauding-mcconnell-dem-leaders-rip-him
After publicly praising Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Democratic leaders are now ripping him. Four days after publicly praising Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.
[SOCIAL DARWINISM, JESUS' IDEA, RIGHT?]Libertarian fanaticism and the debt limit - Other Views - Mia www.miamiherald.com
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/29/2337412/libertarian-fanaticism-and-the.html
[SOCIAL DARWINISM, JESUS' IDEA, RIGHT?]Libertarian fanaticism and the debt limit - Other Views - Mia
To their credit, the Republican leadership in Congress wants fiscal discipline. Good point. The national deficit should be financed in sustainable ways. Main Street may be tired of legislative logjams, but it behooves the public to understand the issue.
On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balan thinkprogress.org
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/29/282584/climate-scienists-debunk-latest-bunk-by-denier-roy-spencer/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29
On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balan
Long wrong climate science disinformer Roy Spencer has published another deeply flawed article. That ain’t news. What is news is that the deniers have a couple of new tricks up their sleeves. First, the disinformers have figured out they should focus on journals that don’t seem to have a very deep
D-15 'If you're not massively sacrificing you're not Loving' SL www.youtube.com
http://youtu.be/kl7HQDopf7U
http://www.youtube.com/user/StartLoving4#g/c/B539F17E459802AC
D-15 'If you're not massively sacrificing you're not Loving' SL - YouTube
It's a mystery to me how I can arrive at several months shy of 60 years old and only be just 'getting' something like this, understanding something like this. On the other hand it's what's driven me all my life. I believes there were things to understand that I was not learning elsewhere. and I had some sense I had to find out, for my own joy, and to execute my own responsibility as a human being. If you're not breathing, you're not living. If your heart's not beating, you're not living. If you're not drinking liquids you're not living. If a plant is not inhaling CO2 it's not photosynthesizing. It's not living.
If you're not massively sacrificing, you're not massively loving. Teresa of Calcutta has given the best definition of love that I've ever encountered. And I've studied it academically, love that is, more than anyone you'll ever meet. She said, and this is a slight paraphrase, 'love is that which cannot remain passive in the face of suffering. Love is that which does not remain passive in the face of suffering.' Trillions of dollars, quite possibly, a year are spent that totally obscure and pervert the word love, so it's understandable that neither I nor you still grasp what the word love means. And yes, what I'm saying is entirely disputable; have at it friend if that's what you wish to do. But if you wish to grasp the neurological, psychological truth; if you wish to understand, by infinite measure, the most sacred and promising and awarding of human capacities, that capacity which is distinct from all others, which for me, deserves the word Love, as opposed to all else which is in the category of lust, self-service.
Teresa is correct, love is that which cannot and does not remain passive in the face of suffering, real or potential. This is what explains Gandhi. This is what explains King. This is what explains, Eleanor Roosevelt, Diane Wilson, Col. Ann Wright, Oscar Romero, Phil Berrigan, Liz Hourican; all of those who have retained their full humanity and exercise it. If you are not consuming massive amounts of suffering, and sacrificing your selfish alternatives for the Joy of serving our neediest brothers and sisters, you are not loving. You are lusting. I did not just say one is superior to the other. That's for you to decide. But they are clinically, objectively opposite ways being.
This is a significant clarification for me. Suffering and sacrifice are words that have been troubling to me, and I didn't quite understand why; I'm understanding more now why. Mothers that we would consider healthy, when they talk about their child, do not center on the pain of childbirth. They center on the Joy, although they might not use that word, of sacrificing their lives and they wouldn't use that word, or say it. They do it for the advancement of their child, for the joy of that. That's what we are designed do. So I've been very troubled by the word sacrifice and suffering. When Jesus life is explained, for example, because what has been so clear to me, is what characterized the life of Jesus was not suffering but loving. What I was blind to was the suffering was inseparable in the same way that consumption of CO2 is inseparable from the life-giving of photosynthesis, generating oxygen. They're inseparable. They're inseparable. They are totally inseparable. Now Lust, flees from suffering. Lust calls Love that which is devoid of suffering, and full of pleasure, intoxication. That's Death, literally, Living Death - Death of the Soul - emptiness of the Soul l- which almost 300,000,000 of us in this country are devoted to we, that we in the US see as a virtue, as desirable, that walking Death, that Living Death. In the movie, the brilliant movie, The Matrix, do we really think that ever Neo and the others were able to inspire the, what, hundreds of millions or billions to leave the Matrix? I don't know. They, actually, probably many of them, if not the vast majority, were perfectly happy with their living Death, the same way hardly any alcoholics ever recover; any alcoholics ever recover, because they're unable to see the hellishness of their existence.
If you or I are not massively sacrificing, in those seconds where we are not, we are not Loving, neither are we exercising our capacity for Love; neither are we Loving beings; we are Lusting beings. I didn't just say which one was superior, that's for you to decide. But it's for me to point out the distinction. And for me, I'm too greedy to want to be Lusting. I have too much enlightened greed. Thank God to my biological father, and the man, Jesus, who I experienced truly as a young person. I was gifted with close contact with both my dad, and Jesus as a result, and was gifted with greed for a life that is Loving, the only source of Joy. And that by definition is not a life 'of' suffering, not a life 'of' sacrifice, but a life that sacrifice's'; a life that metabolizes suffering. Yes, we know people to wallow in suffering. No that's just another form of lust, clearly. But Love metabolizes suffering; that is it's food, that is what it ingests, for the Joy of it.
Love metabolizes suffering the joy of it. No, not in some sadistic or masochistic sense. Clearly there are people that are able to metabolize suffering exactly for sadism, or masochism. But the people we admire as the most healthy metabolize suffering, too make it go away, as the is the engine, as the reason for exercising their own Love. Oh, it's so easy to deny what I'm saying. It's so easy to ignore what I'm saying. And I will never try and force it on you. To some of you I will continue to offer it. To most of you, you will continue to demonstrate to me that you want not to understand. Until you through some wonder change, unless and until through some wonder change, and want to know, I'll always be your brother, but I'll not enable your capacity for denial by trying to step into the breach, if you continue to willfully and aggressively indicate you wish not understand. I'll not harm you in that way, out of Love.
D-15 'If you're not massively sacrificing you're not Loving' SL - YouTube
It's a mystery to me how I can arrive at several months shy of 60 years old and only be just 'getting' something like this, understanding something like this. On the other hand it's what's driven me all my life. I believes there were things to understand that I was not learning elsewhere. and I had some sense I had to find out, for my own joy, and to execute my own responsibility as a human being. If you're not breathing, you're not living. If your heart's not beating, you're not living. If you're not drinking liquids you're not living. If a plant is not inhaling CO2 it's not photosynthesizing. It's not living.
If you're not massively sacrificing, you're not massively loving. Teresa of Calcutta has given the best definition of love that I've ever encountered. And I've studied it academically, love that is, more than anyone you'll ever meet. She said, and this is a slight paraphrase, 'love is that which cannot remain passive in the face of suffering. Love is that which does not remain passive in the face of suffering.' Trillions of dollars, quite possibly, a year are spent that totally obscure and pervert the word love, so it's understandable that neither I nor you still grasp what the word love means. And yes, what I'm saying is entirely disputable; have at it friend if that's what you wish to do. But if you wish to grasp the neurological, psychological truth; if you wish to understand, by infinite measure, the most sacred and promising and awarding of human capacities, that capacity which is distinct from all others, which for me, deserves the word Love, as opposed to all else which is in the category of lust, self-service.
Teresa is correct, love is that which cannot and does not remain passive in the face of suffering, real or potential. This is what explains Gandhi. This is what explains King. This is what explains, Eleanor Roosevelt, Diane Wilson, Col. Ann Wright, Oscar Romero, Phil Berrigan, Liz Hourican; all of those who have retained their full humanity and exercise it. If you are not consuming massive amounts of suffering, and sacrificing your selfish alternatives for the Joy of serving our neediest brothers and sisters, you are not loving. You are lusting. I did not just say one is superior to the other. That's for you to decide. But they are clinically, objectively opposite ways being.
This is a significant clarification for me. Suffering and sacrifice are words that have been troubling to me, and I didn't quite understand why; I'm understanding more now why. Mothers that we would consider healthy, when they talk about their child, do not center on the pain of childbirth. They center on the Joy, although they might not use that word, of sacrificing their lives and they wouldn't use that word, or say it. They do it for the advancement of their child, for the joy of that. That's what we are designed do. So I've been very troubled by the word sacrifice and suffering. When Jesus life is explained, for example, because what has been so clear to me, is what characterized the life of Jesus was not suffering but loving. What I was blind to was the suffering was inseparable in the same way that consumption of CO2 is inseparable from the life-giving of photosynthesis, generating oxygen. They're inseparable. They're inseparable. They are totally inseparable. Now Lust, flees from suffering. Lust calls Love that which is devoid of suffering, and full of pleasure, intoxication. That's Death, literally, Living Death - Death of the Soul - emptiness of the Soul l- which almost 300,000,000 of us in this country are devoted to we, that we in the US see as a virtue, as desirable, that walking Death, that Living Death. In the movie, the brilliant movie, The Matrix, do we really think that ever Neo and the others were able to inspire the, what, hundreds of millions or billions to leave the Matrix? I don't know. They, actually, probably many of them, if not the vast majority, were perfectly happy with their living Death, the same way hardly any alcoholics ever recover; any alcoholics ever recover, because they're unable to see the hellishness of their existence.
If you or I are not massively sacrificing, in those seconds where we are not, we are not Loving, neither are we exercising our capacity for Love; neither are we Loving beings; we are Lusting beings. I didn't just say which one was superior, that's for you to decide. But it's for me to point out the distinction. And for me, I'm too greedy to want to be Lusting. I have too much enlightened greed. Thank God to my biological father, and the man, Jesus, who I experienced truly as a young person. I was gifted with close contact with both my dad, and Jesus as a result, and was gifted with greed for a life that is Loving, the only source of Joy. And that by definition is not a life 'of' suffering, not a life 'of' sacrifice, but a life that sacrifice's'; a life that metabolizes suffering. Yes, we know people to wallow in suffering. No that's just another form of lust, clearly. But Love metabolizes suffering; that is it's food, that is what it ingests, for the Joy of it.
Love metabolizes suffering the joy of it. No, not in some sadistic or masochistic sense. Clearly there are people that are able to metabolize suffering exactly for sadism, or masochism. But the people we admire as the most healthy metabolize suffering, too make it go away, as the is the engine, as the reason for exercising their own Love. Oh, it's so easy to deny what I'm saying. It's so easy to ignore what I'm saying. And I will never try and force it on you. To some of you I will continue to offer it. To most of you, you will continue to demonstrate to me that you want not to understand. Until you through some wonder change, unless and until through some wonder change, and want to know, I'll always be your brother, but I'll not enable your capacity for denial by trying to step into the breach, if you continue to willfully and aggressively indicate you wish not understand. I'll not harm you in that way, out of Love.
PLAYLIST: UNVIOLENT WAR WAGED LOOKS LIKE THIS (Nonviolence) - Loving. www.youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/StartLoving4#g/c/B539F17E459802AC
Start_Loving at yahoo dot com SL BLOG http://www.JesusGodGoodEtcnJay.blogspot.com/ WHITE HOUSE PEACE VIGIL http://prop1.org/1601frm.htm http://www.blogger.com/profile/13664297053460093858 http://twitter.com/StartLoving1 http://youtube.com/StartLoving3 "Heaven IS Each Second of Doing Our Father's Wil
7.29.2011
Weather disasters seen costly sign of things to come www.reuters.com
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/29/us-climate-disasters-hearing-idUSTRE76S0UC20110729
Dams to Be Removed in Washington to Replenish Salmon www.nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/us/30dam.html
7.28.2011
The Teen Suicide Epidemic in Michele Bachmann's District motherjones.com
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/michele-bachmann-teen-suicide
Oakland man shot while providing food to former homeless man dies - San Jose Mercury News www.mercurynews.com
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_18568317?source=rss
Paris Powell, 29, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, died late Wednesday at Highland Hospital.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_18568317?source=rss
Paris Powell, 29, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head, died late Wednesday at Highland Hospital.
7.27.2011
Palestinian Women Enjoy Israeli Beach Visit After Being Snuck Into Country www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/27/palestine-women-israel-beach-visit-_n_910801.html
WHAT'LL IT BE, WHITE TRASH, OR U? Conservative, white men more likely to be climate change sceptics. www.guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/27/conservative-white-men-climate-sceptic
WHAT'LL IT BE, WHITE TRASH, OR U? Conservative, white men more likely to be climate change sceptics,
Conservation Magazine: The demographic was more than twice as likely than other adults to say the media exaggerated seriousness of climate change
7.26.2011
MY GOD. SHEER INSANITY. YOU'LL DO WHAT? DeChristopher gets 2 years prison for thwarting auction | www.chron.com
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7670604.html
HISTORY'S BIGGEST MENTAL HEALTH ENEMY - Sigmund Freud's cocaine problem thechart.blogs.cnn.com
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/22/sigmund-freuds-cocaine-problem/
Glenn Beck hits 'new low'; compares Norway victims to Hitler Youth latimesblogs.latimes.com
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/glenn-beck-hits-a-new-low-compares-norway-victims-to-hitler-youth.html
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