Hope
It has been said:
"All Ye Who Enter Here
Abandon All Hope".
I'm here to tell Ya
I ain't buyin' that dope.
If You are soo transfixed by the truth
that it demands bloodshed to be proved,
than perhaps the truth has lost it's luster.
instead proving itself worthless and unimportant;
hence the belligerence.
I review the common denominators.
I may have missed the nick…
Continue
Added by Michael J Masiko on July 18, 2009 at 12:01pm —
4 Comments
I got a message from George V. Richards yesterday about wanting to keep his group "All Drift All The Time" light. He doesn't want toothpaste comments on his site. He thinks it's inappropriate to talk about toothpaste there. And we all know about the sites where they talk about toothpaste and related issues all the time.
But I'm a nonconformist and a free-speech advocate. So, what the heck, if I want to talk about toothpaste, I'll talk about toothpaste! Here goes.
I do it…
Continue
Added by Gary Freedman on July 18, 2009 at 11:00am —
6 Comments
The great swordsman Yagyu Tajima-no-kami became a teacher at the shogun's court. One day, one of the shogun's personal guards came to him and asked him to give him training in fencing. The master looked at the man and said, "As I observe, you seem to be a master of fencing yourself. Tell me to what school you belong before we enter into the relationship of teacher and pupil."
The guardsman said, "It shames me to confess it, but I have never learned the art."
"Are you…
Continue
Added by Bill on July 18, 2009 at 12:01am —
3 Comments
It's 4:30 on a Friday afternoon at the Cleveland Park Public Library in DC, and Joan Nathan, the world renowned authority on Jewish cuisine is talking to Barbara Gaunt, one of the librarians, about research on her latest book. Wow, a celebrity in my midst! I can't believe it. At this very moment I'm looking at the face of a woman I've seen on Martha Stewart. My heart is racing. I'm in the presence of a real-life personage. I wonder if she's ever read my story, The Dinner Party?
Wow,…
Continue
Added by Gary Freedman on July 17, 2009 at 2:00pm —
2 Comments
Jeffrey Seinfeld, Professor of Social Work
BA City College of NY; MSW Hunter College; PhD New York University
jeffrey.seinfeld@nyu.edu | (212) 998-5978
Dr. Jeffrey Seinfeld, professor of social work, joined the faculty at NYU in 1987. He served as chairperson of the Human Behavior and Social Environment area from 1998 to 2001. Dr. Seinfeld’s professional areas of interest include Object Relations Theory, Social Philosophy, and Existential Philosophy. He has received…
Continue
Added by Gary Freedman on July 17, 2009 at 1:30pm —
2 Comments
If you want to know why U.S. businesses increasingly outsource jobs to other countries, just add up the cost of doing business in America: As an employer, you have to pay not only higher wages than most other countries, but you also have to pay for the lost productivity and missed days due to the astonishingly poor health of the U.S. workforce.
Now, under the new Obama health care reform bill, you'll have to pay an additional eight percent of your payroll as a new tax to cover the…
Continue
Added by OCNaturalDoc on July 17, 2009 at 11:00am —
20 Comments
I swim in a sea of reality, but that makes me no more a fish than Moby Dick was. Mine is an unreal universe in which the exceptional is commonplace, in which the transient states of frustration or depression or meaninglessness are the norm. I am not a character whose life conforms more or less to the life of the ordinary man. I am an anticharacter in my experiences and in my sense of the world of reality. I require the fabulous and the bizarre. That is my metier. My purpose and philosophy of…
Continue
Added by Gary Freedman on July 17, 2009 at 10:59am —
No Comments
Hi! Welcome to the first meeting of a Brand New Political Party - United! Democrat or Republican Conclave! I’m Queen of the Tundra, your hostess and obvious choice for Presidential Candidate. Your fellow U-DORCs await inside. There are just a few rules you need to know before you enter.
1) You must be able to see a foreign country from where you stand at home. Sorry, I know this is harsh, but only those with such intensive international exposure can possibly… Continue
Added by Madhatterat60 on July 17, 2009 at 10:19am —
No Comments
Back in the late 1980s I worked with a fine young man named Jesse Raben at a local law firm. This is his story:
Twenty years later, I still remember one incident vividly. I was in 8th grade at Aycock Junior High School. A boy named Darryl Massey had been bothering me everyday in class, calling me names, sometimes making reference to the fact that I was Jewish. I asked him to stop, but he continued.
I didn’t know what to do about it. I brought the issue up around the dinner…
Continue
Added by Gary Freedman on July 17, 2009 at 10:17am —
3 Comments
My job takes me from one coast to the other and because of this I see all kinds of things. What hurts me though is the ever growing homlessness. It used to be one or two here and there but now it is groups huddled together under bridges. One such group of six or more where sitting in a circle and singing as a friend was playing the guitar. In another place I saw a small tent city and one person used scrap wood and metal to make a fence around his/her tent with a potted plant.
So today as…
Continue
Added by cynthia Hunter on July 17, 2009 at 6:39am —
2 Comments
Hi Gang! Hope all is well with you!
Has anyone in these groups ever found legitimate work from home jobs? I am in need of a second income now that I have been downsized and need to find something that I can do from home to bring in extra cash.
I have been Googled to death and all I have received are CD's that are virused to the hilt, so PLEASE none of those.
If anyone can help, let me know and let me know if I can help you with anything you…
Continue
Added by Donna on July 16, 2009 at 7:20pm —
1 Comment
Listen, didyou hear the song that the day has brought? It is in the sounds of the city* people walking the shoes clicking* the hum of the streetlights* It is the sound of the country* the birds singing* the cattle waiting to be milked*the hum of the tracor starting.Listen to the sounds around you they are the songs that we hear everyday.
Added by cynthia Hunter on July 16, 2009 at 5:30pm —
1 Comment
Examine if you will, the odd case of Major Dufus Cryght. Major Cryght is an officer in the Army Reserve. Feeling some sudden rush of patriotic zeal, Major Cryght goes forth and VOLUNTEERS to SERVE with his fellow Ground Pounders in far off wars. That’s correct….Major Cryght’s unit was not activated nor were they scheduled for deployment…so just this past May, overcome with honor and an incredible sense of civic – national pride, Maj. Cryght petitioned to serve his country by picking up arms… Continue
Added by Madhatterat60 on July 16, 2009 at 4:34pm —
No Comments
Today I visited my psychiatrist, Didi Bailey, MD. She practices at the McClendon Center in DC. She prescribes my medications. I see another psychiatrist, Abbas Jama, MD, who does psychotherapy. Two psychiatrists and I'm still looney!
Added by Gary Freedman on July 16, 2009 at 1:44pm —
4 Comments
OK, sports fans -- It's a Red Sox Nation! I realize we're only half through the season -- and as (an almost) lifelong Red Sox fan, I've seen our Sawx get close and then.....well, we've all heard the stories. I've learned not to count chickens (ever) and I wait til I see my fellow loyal fans genuflecting and crying in the rain in the stands at Fenway.
BUT
what the heck? Here's an uplifting news story (unless you're a Wankees fan) -
DeMarco: Expect a…
Continue
Added by OCNaturalDoc on July 16, 2009 at 12:00pm —
22 Comments
There's still much confusion regarding foods that are "natural" versus foods that are "organic".
Certified organic food products are regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and are produced by farmers and manufacturers under a strict set of rules. But the agency defines the term "natural" only for meat and poultry. In the rest of the food industry, the meaning is largely up to the producer.
Here's the story, including information from some of the top food producers…
Continue
Added by OCNaturalDoc on July 16, 2009 at 11:30am —
No Comments
A Barking Dog
two people with a dog
a dog's toy
and a stick
"jump, boy, jump"
the dog jumps
the other kicks it
they switch
jump, boy, jump
the dog jumps
the other kicks it
this goes on
and on
the dog of course
gets confused
and howls
the dog growls
and jumps
and howls
the dog howls at nite
does he wake the neighbors?
do they…
Continue
Added by ZenDog on July 16, 2009 at 8:53am —
No Comments
So I have this app on my My Page [my My Page - my my oMy] - anywayz, where was I?
Oyeah, it's a beta version of World News or something. I was looking for information on the DC shooting of yesterday, July 15, 2009, since I missed the news last night. Why did I miss the news last night? Well, it seems someone seemed to labor under the misconception that I must be some sort of TOY or something, but never mind.
Like I keep sayin',
I ain't playin' . . .
Anywayz…
Continue
Added by ZenDog on July 16, 2009 at 8:30am —
No Comments
SINNER'S POEM
Father please forgive me
For all my sins incurred,
For the countless times of negligence,
And failed practice of Your word.
Lord accept my somber apologies,
For I have brought You shame.
Forgive me for all that I have done,
And failed glory to Your name.
Oh, please wash and cleanse me,
Remove this soiled stain.
Through this sin filled life I have toiled
Self-inflicting needless pain.
I'm not…
Continue
Added by Blue on July 16, 2009 at 6:27am —
1 Comment
MOST of us hate religion and wants to see it nailed to the cross once and for all! Relgion is the REAL DIVISION of the SAINTs! How can we all be ONE IN HIM if we are DIVIDED at the DOOR of our OWN temple?
Continue
Added by Blue on July 16, 2009 at 6:15am —
1 Comment