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I want REAL hope: That when gas costs $46 a gallon, America will still shine...

By Jane Stillwater http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com

 

The future scares me. I want reassurance.

 

" Yes, you will always have a charge card and, yes, there will always be a

mall. " I get that reassurance all the time but that's not the reassurance that

I need. I'm not a fool. I know that we can't go on spending the earth's

resources and living on peak oil forever. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER

THAT.

 

This is the reassurance that I crave: " No matter what happens with regard

to your material circumstances, your life will have purpose and meaning. "

That's what I want to hear! " When peak oil runs out and our 100 years of

mindless consuming catches up with us and we are living by candlelight and

cooking venison over a wood fire, life will still be IMPORTANT and HOPEFUL

and.... " That's it! That's what I need!

 

And there is no one who is telling me that -- except possibly my priest.

 

There are big changes coming up in our world -- even as soon as in the next

five years -- no matter who gets elected or who gets bombed, blown up or shot.

And we must start preparing for them NOW. What will life be like when the

inevitable happens and we have to live more realistically?

 

I want to know what kind of person I will be when I am stripped of all my

" things " . Will I still be kind and loving and good -- and free?

 

The Indians of the high plains had nothing but what they could carry from

site to site yet they were men and women of courage and meaning.

 

Before they were overrun by the Communist Chinese, Tibetans lived simply --

even without ELECTRICITY -- yet they are legendary as being one of highest

civilizations ever made. Why were they so great? Because they governed their

lives by one simple question which they asked themselves constantly -- " If I do

thus and so, will it be of the highest benefit to the most sentient beings?

What can I do to help those around me? " As a result of their concern and care

for others and, despite Communist propaganda to the contrary, pre-invasion

Tibet, not Disneyland, was the happiest place on earth.

 

Pictures of a future world: Us, like mice, scurrying from war to war;

vultures searching for prey.

 

Us, like heroes, building the most important civilization the world has

ever known -- constructing it on the building blocks of the glorification of all

that is good within the human spirit and soul.

 

Pictures of a future world: What is REALLY important? In the future, will

America shine? We must, like a child who finally outgrows the Terrible Twos,

turn to better things. It is time for Americans to stop squabbling with the

world, stop childishly playing " cowboys " and finally become adults.

 

" Bring it on " is no longer an option. We can no longer solve our

environmental problems by killing " redskins " .

 

Give me a future that is real. Please.

 

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From Nigel: On Bush's watch, a staggering amount of American jobs were lost.

http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/politics/fourmoreyears_flash.cfm

 

From Me: I wrote a book many years ago, entitled " Pictures of a Future World " .

It was about an Indian tribe who accidentally became immortal and witnessed

millennia of man's inhumanity to man -- until Homo Sapiens managed to kill all

of themselves off. When I wrote it, I had assumed that it was a novel.

 

Just in time for Hallowe'en: Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue!

http://www.hrc.org/millionformarriage/hween04/

 

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It's time for our military to stop acting like bandits holding up the

convenience stores of the world for oil.

 

Press Release: I'm still trying to rescue my daughter's friend " Jordan " from

one of those " Behavior Modification " programs out in the Utah desert. Someone

else in my same postition has filed a Habeas Corpus writ to try to get another

child released from one of these programs on the basis that the child is behing

held in involuntary servitude in violation of the 14th Amendment. The hearing

is in federal court next week. If the writ is granted, it will mean that

non-guardians can have input into whether or not chidren can be carted away to

boot camps by their parents with no repercussions from the community. (See

Feldman v. Youth Care of Utah et al, Case No.: 2:04-CV-00933PGC)

 

 

Good Morning America is doing a segment on the Feldman case. Somebody

want to do a segment on Jordan too? 100 years after adult involuntary servitude

was elimintated, it's time we eliminate child involuntary servitude as well!

Oprah! 60 Mintues! Jerry! Do you hear me! Give me a call. E-mail me.

 

From Patrick: Fossil fuel may not require fossils, as the pressure of deep

Earth has been found capable of creating hydrocarbons from inorganic matter.

http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-09-13-3

 

From Studio Ron re the price of gas:

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/BOR410A.html Iraq war:.. dollar vs euro? ...

we have seen the price of gas rise to all time highs.

 

Don Knotts is Dubya....so Dubya-like...funny how Knotts' whacky character fits

Dubya to a tee. http://www.dubyamovie.com/large.html

How low can Republicans stoop in this election: I just heard that Repubs are

e-mailing the following ABSOLUTE LIE to their lists: " Living in a heavily

populated military area, we just received word that Kerry's group with Kerry's

approval has been calling families of military members serving in Iraq and

telling them that their loved one there is dead. They wait a while and then tell

them that's what will happen if they vote for Bush. " Kerry is NOT doing

this!!!! How low can Republicans stoop? Pretty damn low apparently. (Repubs

must be really desperate.)

 

 

From Vee Brown: We've probably already read " A day in the life of Joe

Republican " but it is STILL the issue:

 

Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market

federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the

government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his

lifetime.

 

After work this evening, Joe plans to visit his father at his farm home in

the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in

the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards.

 

He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in

the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want

to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some

big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural

electrification.

 

Joe is happy to see his father, who is now retired and lives on Social

Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal

made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

 

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show.

The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good.

He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every

protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day.

 

College tuition: I am about to go into debt for the rest of my life -- and my

daughter is about to go into debt Bigtime too -- so that she might possibly go

to college next year. That's not right! Let's give our children free college

tuition. It is the BEST way to keep America safe.

 

Visualize a healthy future for our children and for America too:

http://www.clowntech.com/win04/vote.htm

 

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The " How to Serve Iraq " cookbook: What is happening in Iraq is not a war. It

is a massacre. Thanks to the Bush cartel, every man, woman and child in Iraq

has become a member of the underground resistance. And when our children come

back from murdering civilians in Iraq as part of their " wilderness therapy, "

they will need years of counseling to get over their nightmares.

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" Imagine a world where EVERY child is wanted, nurtured, protected and

loved: World Peace in one generation! "

 

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Gee, won't it be great for American citizens to be able to tour the White

House again. It could happen. And let's all visualize Oprah and Theresa having

lunch with us in the Rose Garden!

 

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Let's jail George Bush today!!!! Call your Congressional representative!

 

Call your Congressperson this very morning -- even before you go to

Starbucks for your _mocha latte or go out to milk the cow -- and BEG him or her

to introduce articles of impeachment NOW!

 

Find your Rep's number or e-mail address at

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/Rep. Or call MY rep: Barbara Lee:

202-225-2661. Even if your rep is a raving neo-con like Tom Delay, give him or

her a call! If our reps get enough calls saying, " Impeach Bush, " they may get

the hint that Bush needs to go! Rep. John Conyers: 202-225-5126; Rep Henry

Waxman: 202-225-3976

 

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Solution to the Darfur crisis: Let's ask the UN to divide Sudan into two

countries: The north would be called Sudan and it would be governed by the

George Bush/Saudi/oil company/Janjaweed alliance in Khartoum (the same idiots

who brought us Nigeria, Afghanistan and Iraq!). The south would be called

Darfur and its new oil discoveries would be controlled by the people who have

lived there before oil was discovered. End of problem!

 

Oil is, however, still a BIG problem for the world. We need to come up

with a more long-range, less mean-spirited solution to the energy crunch than

wars-for-oil. We're smart people. We can do it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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" The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. " --

Plato

" Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing

health care to all Americans is socialism. " -- anon