Ku Klux Klan Members Plan to Appear at Presidential Debate Site

This is the wall street journal article that says it all.

And I have heard that people say racism doesn't exist in today's society, and is not a factor in this election.

Regardless of whether or not I think Barack Obama should be our president, I certainly hope that we live in a country that is not still so affected by race. I hope, but do not yet believe.....

Black Monday

from the Huffington post:

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan offered a woeful outlook of America's economic situation on Sunday, saying the crisis with the country's financial institutions was as dire as he had ever seen in his long career, and predicting that one or more of those institutions would likely collapse in the near future.

"Oh, by far," Greenspan said, when asked if the situation was the worst he had seen in his career. "There's no question that this is in the process of outstripping anything I've seen and it still is not resolved and still has a way to go and, indeed, it will continue to be a corrosive force until the price of homes in the United States stabilizes. That will induce a series of events around the globe which will stabilize the system."


This is gonna hurt. bad. I am amazed our country has spent the past 2 weeks debating whether Sarah Palin looks like a pig in lipstick, or whatever. Our economy is now (PREDICTABLY) falling apart around us. Perhaps preemptive war and the Bush doctrine should be looked at ECONOMICALLY as well as militarily. Perhaps we should listen to Tom Friedman.

I think the world's getting flattened this morning. It certainly seems warmer already.....

Cicero - food for thought

The Six Mistakes of Humans, from Cicero (106-43 BC):
1. The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others;
2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
3. Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
4. Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
5. Neglecting development and refinement of the mind, and not acquiring the habit of reading and study;
6. Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

From Mark Nepo's Facing the Lion, Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives:
All these attributes replace a larger view with a smaller one. All make opaque what is clear. All reduce instead of enlarge. All heighten our isolation over our common humanity. The fact is that we can trace each of Cicero's "mistakes" to choices that are made, consciously or not, along the way. All represent habits of thinking by which we forget that we are just a small part of something larger. As we describe these shifts, it's helpful to take a personal inventory to see if and where these choices have interefered with our compassion and vitality, and ultimately, our courage... For there are some of Cicero's mistakes that I trip into all the time, and others (like crushing others and compelling others to live as I do) that I don't want to believe I am capable of. ISBN 978-1-57324-315-5, pp. 54-55.

respectfully taken from friendly circle - a Cincinnati Quaker blog

My Favorite Comedian EVER - TRIUMPH at the RNC

Who is Sarah Palin????

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Abscentia

Skool has begun. Hordes of children, needing to play better. ARRGGHHH!!!!!!!!!

Actually, it has been great to see them all again and I am looking forward to another great year. I have to get back to listening to band music now. Hooray!

Sarah Palin as Peggy Hill????

Someone recently mentioned that Sarah Palin look slike Peggy Hill. Indeed!

I'm overwhelmed by the coverage, and I am normally a politics junkie..... I guess I have too much to do!