Gimme some truth!

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Revolution

I STILL want to change the world-but how?
I don't care for Osama, Hillary, and definitely not Bush 3 (Mccain) What's a rebel to do ? I feel that I am letting our side down.

I am still for John

Truth

"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"
- George Orwell

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus

The bell tolls for...all of us

No Man is an Island ...For Whom the Bell Tolls"
This famous passage by John Donne (1573-1631) is not a poem--it is prose. It is a passage from Meditation 17, from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, 1624. Below is the passage with modern spelling.
Meditation 17
uc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to Nme, Thou must die.
...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...
Source: Norton Anthology of English Literature. Fifth edition. W.W.Norton, 1962. Vol.1., 1107.
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What?

I was just watching the video fron "Hardball" with Chris Matthews asking Obama supporter Kirk Watson about any major legislative accomplishments of Obama's that he could name and there was not one. This is the one of the candidates for leadership of our country? I am getting more and more terrified.

Sharon

What goes on?

I am new to this blogging thing, but I have been so upset lately with the political, economical and foreign affairs events that I really need to express it. I was a teenager duringcannot the Vietnam, LBJ, Tricky Dicky, Kent State, the Democratic covention in 1968, Cambodia, you get the picture. What I learned is that you cannot trust one single person in our government to be honest with you unless it suits their purpose. I have not believed that anyone could change things by working within the system, that it would take someone determined to fight for the people, and it would be a long fight.
The past eight years have been hell and I believe that Dubya has made us less safe because of his stupid actions and total ignorance of foreign policy. I think Bin Laden took down the Towers because the actions of the US overseas have been hellish. No, I don't think it was right, and it was a terrible thing, but I doubt it would have happened if the US wasn't so complacent about the suffering WE caused in the mideast!
Then this election year I really listened to John Edwards came to believe that he was the person who would and could stand up for us and fight. And what happened? The corporate media effectively made the Dems primary race a two person contest, because they almost NEVER mentioned Edwards, even when he was tied with Hillary for second in Iowa! Barack and Hillary is all we ever heard. The corporate giants that JRE would have been fighting are the very ones who made sure he was never mentioned. What a surprise! We don't have a democracy, my fellow Americans, because the corporate machine decides who will run for us. I had hope for America again for a few short months but they were quickly dashed. DO YOU NOT ALL SEE THAT WE ARE BEING SCREWED? It's so impossibly hard to get your hopes raised and then have to accept all over again that the status quo shows no signs of changing it's ways. I guess we are all "collateral damage."
Sharon