During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell
Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad. Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. John Adams
Corruption is Legal in America via Doku Mentor ~ https://vimeo.com/135398031
NONE of the ABOVE should be a valid choice on voter ballots!
Reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. ~ 1984, George Orwell
Does Rep. George Santos' Liar/Crook Behavior; similar to
Richard Nixon's "I Am Not A Crook" lie, represent the trend
of current Politicians? If true, why not have Kevin McCarthy
dig up Tricky Dick & find out ?
It makes as much sense as Republicans wanting to eliminate social security & medicare?
NONE of the ABOVE should be a valid choice on voter ballots!
ASIFA-SF, Karl Cohen ~ Association International du Film d'Animation, SF Newsletter
ASIFA-SF March 2023 Newsletter [PDF]
This is a big issue including an advancement in animating
dinosaurs, festival news, and a lot more, size/2MB ... K.C.
Boptime ~ Saturday Mornings ~ w/Even Steven Leech
On Boptime we begin at 6am (EST) on Saturday morning with oldies back to back to back. At 7am (EST) on the Heart and Soul of Delaware Rock n’ Roll we’ll play some early Bob Marley and comment on the effect living in Delaware in the 60’s and 70s had on him. We’ll also hear selections from Snakegrinder and punk rock band Television, fronted by the late Tom Verlaine with Richard Hell, as well as a selection from their earlier band The Neon Boys. At 8am (EST) it’ll be time to break out the tissues and handkerchiefs because there’s gonna be a lot of crying on Rockabilly Ridge with Michael Ace. At 9am (EST) on Beatlemania we bop back to this time in 1966 when John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus,” and China was in the midst of its Cultural Revolution. ~ Steve
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Boptime ~ Saturday Mornings ~ w/Even Steven Leech
On Boptime we begin at 6am (EST) on Saturday morning with oldies back to back to back. At 7am (EST) in The Early Hour we present the 2nd part of the concert at Aeolian Hall in New York City in 1924 which was produced by Paul Whiteman and which introduced George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” At 8am (EST), Larry Williams joins us to present listeners with some great jazz beginning with a visit to the Club Baby Grand to hear some sides by Clifford Brown, and others before proceeding to Clifford’s Corner for some choice, rare R&B. ~ Steve
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Nobody for President ~ Continuing Corona Quotes...
3 Years Ago !!!
February 27, 2020:
“One day it’s like a miracle,
it will disappear.”Coronavirus will ‘disappear’ eventually
By Maegan Vazquez and Caroline Kelly, CNN Source
Updated at 10:12 PM EST, Thu. February 27, 2020
Kaitlan Collins & Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.CNN — President Donald Trump expressed optimism Thursday that the novel coronavirus would eventually be contained and eliminated in the United States, even as he acknowledged it could get worse first.
“It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear,” Trump told attendees at an African American History Month reception in the White House Cabinet Room. The World Health Organization says the virus has “pandemic potential” and medical experts have warned it will spread in the US.
The President added that “from our shores, you know, it could get worse before it gets better. Could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.”
Trump’s comments come as the administration battles both the virus and accusations of mismanagement among officials responding to the outbreak.
Earlier on Thursday, CNN reported that Vice President Mike Pence’s office would be in charge of all coronavirus messaging after several aides blamed negative coverage of the response on too many mixed messages from senior members of the administration. Later in the day, reports surfaced that a whistleblower at the Department of Health and Human Services is seeking federal protection after complaining that more than a dozen workers who had received the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, lacked proper training or protective gear for infection control.
Trump spoke effusively of the administration’s efforts during his remarks Thursday.
“We have done an incredible job. We’re going to continue,” the President said, claiming that the media won’t give the administration “credit” for a successful response to the virus.
Speaking about the 15 individuals diagnosed with the coronavirus on US soil, Trump said that “the 15 will soon be down to three, four.”
Trump called his Wednesday appearance before the White House press corps to address the administration’s response to the virus “really good” and “a calming press conference.”
Trump announced during Wednesday’s news conference that he was putting Pence “in charge” of the administration’s coronavirus response, adding that the vice president will report directly to him. Minutes later, HHS Secretary Alexander Azar said he was “still chairman of the task force” – muddling the message and perhaps the point of the news conference regarding who is in charge of the administration’s response to the crisis.
NONE of the ABOVE should be a valid choice on voter ballots!
Dahbud Mensch ~ The Patriot Act Is A Crime Against U.S. Citizens
THE PATRIOT ACT
Brought to you by Republicans, Supported by Democrats,
and Read by Nobody !
The Patriot Act is not about Terrorism, it is
about Control of United States Citizens,
and excretes on the Fourth Amendment.
Simply, anyone doing anything "criminal"
can be
treated as a "terrorist."
Sounds innocuous until you realize that
speeding on the highway, on your way
to work, is considered to be "criminal".
Ashcroft holds sign saying The Bush Jihad Against The Bill of Rights & says, Freedom is Slavery!
Target: 'Narco-Terror'
[Broken Link: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WorldNewsTonight/victory_act030820.html]
ABCNEWS.com has obtained a draft of the Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003, or VICTORY Act, which could be introduced to Congress this fall, and which appears to have been prepared by the office of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Ashcroft says, Uh, yah ... I still need more emergency powers. Our Republic remains endangered.
Provisions in the draft would:
Raise the threshold for rejecting illegal wiretaps. The draft reads: "A court may not grant a motion to suppress the contents of a wire or oral communication, or evidence derived therefrom, unless the court finds that the violation of this chapter involved bad faith by law enforcement."
Melba says, Edith, I hear the Government can tap our phones whenever they damn well want to!!!
Ashcroft who is illegally listening to the conversation says, That's not true, Edith-It's only to catch
terrorists! ...
Edith questions by asking, Melba is a terrorist?
Extend subpoena powers by giving giving law enforcement the authority to issue non-judicial subpoenas which require a person suspected of involvement in money laundering to turn over financial records and appear in a prosecutor's office to answer questions.
Ashcroft, while devouring United States Citizens' CIVIL LIBERTIES, demands MORE.
Extend the power of the attorney general to issue so-called administrative "sneak-and-peak" subpoenas to drug cases. These subpoenas allow law enforcement to gather evidence from wire communication, financial records or other sources before the subject of the search is notified.
Mr. Ashcroft wants people who go into American homes to snoop while they're there.
~ USPS, FEDEX, UNITED PARCEL, ACME EXTERMINATORS, & ED'S PLUMBING are depicted
~
At the door a woman says, I'm sorry Alice, I'll come back later I didn't know you had snoops.
Allow law enforcement to seek a court order to require the "provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service" or a financial institution to delay notifying a customer that their records had been subpoenaed.
Ashcroft says, IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED.... and is about to blow-up American CIVIL LIBERTIES
"This bill would treat drug possession as a 'terrorist offense' and drug dealers as 'narco-terrorist kingpins,' " the aide argued. "To say that terrorist groups use a small percentage of the drug trafficking in the United States to finance terrorism may be a fair point, but this bill would allow the government to prosecute most drug cases as terrorism cases."
John Ashcroft's War on Terrorists ~ A large eye watches a couple in bed, who are trying to sleep.
Concluded the aide: "It really seems to be more about a political agenda to jail drug users than a serious attempt to stop terrorists."
WAR ON TERROR thugs destroy a home, hold a gun on a dog, and look at women's
underwear during a raid.
Not finding anything terror related, one thug says,
So...As long as we're here... Does your evil kid smoke dope?
NONE of the ABOVE should be a valid choice on voter ballots!
Disclaimer ~ Number 3
3. The most powerful tool on the planet today is Tell-A-Vision. That is where I tell a vision to you, and you tell a vision to me. That way, if we don't like the programming we're getting, we can simply change the channel.
Distant Relatives [Patience] via nabil elderkin
Notes from ~@~
Happy Valentine's Day ~ 202302.14, Tuesday
Why Not Try Love Again? by Jumpin' Jupiter
Boptime ~ Saturday Mornings ~ w/Even Steven Leech
On Boptime we begin at 6am (EST) on Saturday morning with oldies back to back to back. At 7am (EST) in The Early Hour we present a reconstruction of a musical event that helped to launch the early jazz age, and along with Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle’s “Shuffle Along” in 1921, brought jazz into the mainstream of American culture in the mid 1920s.That event was the concert at Aeolian Hall in New York City in 1926 and produced by Paul Whiteman. While the event was not recorded, due largely to the limitations of recording technology at the time, we’ll hear recordings of the original musical selections, performed by the original artists from original separate recordings. This presentation of the Aeolian Hall Concert will be in two parts, the second part will be heard in next Saturday’s Boptime. At 8am (EST), Larry Williams comes on board to continue the program with what we do best, present you with some great jazz sides, some choice, rare R&B, and our own brand of informed chatter. ~ Steve
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Balzac's Blog ~ Number 5: Don't Get Even, Get Odd
This Isn't The Real America
by President Jimmy Carter
© 2005 Los Angeles TimesIn recent years, I have become increasingly concerned by a host of radical government policies that now threaten many basic principles espoused by all previous administrations, Democratic and Republican.
These include the rudimentary American commitment to peace, economic and social justice, civil liberties, our environment and human rights.
Also endangered are our historic commitments to providing citizens with truthful information, treating dissenting voices and beliefs with respect, state and local autonomy and fiscal responsibility.
At the same time, our political leaders have declared independence from the restraints of international organizations and have disavowed long-standing global agreements - including agreements on nuclear arms, control of biological weapons and the international system of justice.
Instead of our tradition of espousing peace as a national priority unless our security is directly threatened, we have proclaimed a policy of "preemptive war," an unabridged right to attack other nations unilaterally to change an unsavory regime or for other purposes. When there are serious differences with other nations, we brand them as international pariahs and refuse to permit direct discussions to resolve disputes.
Regardless of the costs, there are determined efforts by top U.S. leaders to exert American imperial dominance throughout the world.
These revolutionary policies have been orchestrated by those who believe that our nation's tremendous power and influence should not be internationally constrained. Even with our troops involved in combat and America facing the threat of additional terrorist attacks, our declaration of "You are either with us or against us!" has replaced the forming of alliances based on a clear comprehension of mutual interests, including the threat of terrorism.
Another disturbing realization is that, unlike during other times of national crisis, the burden of conflict is now concentrated exclusively on the few heroic men and women sent back repeatedly to fight in the quagmire of Iraq. The rest of our nation has not been asked to make any sacrifice, and every effort has been made to conceal or minimize public awareness of casualties.
Instead of cherishing our role as the great champion of human rights, we now find civil liberties and personal privacy grossly violated under some extreme provisions of the Patriot Act.
Of even greater concern is that the U.S. has repudiated the Geneva accords and espoused the use of torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, and secretly through proxy regimes elsewhere with the so-called extraordinary rendition program. It is embarrassing to see the president and vice president insisting that the CIA should be free to perpetrate "cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment" on people in U.S. custody.
Instead of reducing America's reliance on nuclear weapons and their further proliferation, we have insisted on our right (and that of others) to retain our arsenals, expand them, and therefore abrogate or derogate almost all nuclear arms control agreements negotiated during the last 50 years. We have now become a prime culprit in global nuclear proliferation. America also has abandoned the prohibition of "first use" of nuclear weapons against nonnuclear nations, and is contemplating the previously condemned deployment of weapons in space.
Protection of the environment has fallen by the wayside because of government subservience to political pressure from the oil industry and other powerful lobbying groups. The last five years have brought continued lowering of pollution standards at home and almost universal condemnation of our nation's global environmental policies.
Our government has abandoned fiscal responsibility by unprecedented favors to the rich, while neglecting America's working families. Members of Congress have increased their own pay by $30,000 per year since freezing the minimum wage at $5.15 per hour (the lowest among industrialized nations).
I am extremely concerned by a fundamentalist shift in many houses of worship and in government, as church and state have become increasingly intertwined in ways previously thought unimaginable.
As the world's only superpower, America should be seen as the unswerving champion of peace, freedom and human rights. Our country should be the focal point around which other nations can gather to combat threats to international security and to enhance the quality of our common environment. We should be in the forefront of providing human assistance to people in need. It is time for the deep and disturbing political divisions within our country to be substantially healed, with Americans united in a common commitment to revive and nourish the historic political and moral values that we have espoused during the last 230 years.
Published on Monday, November 14, 2005 by the Los Angeles Times
Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States. His newest book is "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis," published this month by Simon & Schuster.
Boptime ~ Saturday Mornings ~ w/Even Steven Leech
On Boptime we begin at 6am (EST) on Saturday morning with oldies back to back to back. At 7am (EST) on the Best of Broadway we visit Camelot from 1961. At 8am (EST) Michael Ace does some rockin' on Rockabilly Ridge before we head back to Camelot at 9am (EST), or at least the way some characterized it with a new young President and his younger children scurrying around the White House, while FCC Chairman Newton Minow was decrying the television programming was a “vast wasteland.” ~ Steve
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Ira Cohen ~ Poet, Artist, Film Maker ~ Alerts
Remembering Our
dEAR
Friend Ira Cohen
February 3, 1935 ~ April 25, 2011
Curtis Spangler & Ira Cohen, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Ca ~ Photo: Robert Pruzan
Thinking About Petra Vogt
Hippinis
Lucia de Vries, October 12, 2018
https://www.nepalitimes.com/here-now/hippinis/
How two female flower children joined East and West in the streets of Kathmandu 50 years ago.
In the early 1970s, two women from very different backgrounds met in Kathmandu and became intimate friends. Both were ‘hippinis’ whose unique stories will be part of the Photo Kathmandu festival next four weeks.
Petra Vogt was a German actress, model and muse, a member of the experimental Living Theater and partner of American beatnik poet and photographer Ira Cohen. Petra and Ira traveled overland to Nepal during the hippie era and settled in Kathmandu. Together with former Velvet Underground drummer Angus MacLise they published books and magazines on rice paper under the name Bardo Matrix Starstreams.
Petra acted as a model for Ira’s hallucination photography, using Kathmandu of 50 years ago as the backdrop. She experimented with different art forms and created notebooks filled with visionary drawings and writings, inspiring Nepali hippies like Jimmy Thapa and Trilochan Shrestha and had a special interest in the aghori baba cult, skulls and cremation grounds.
Ira and Petra’s home in Yatkha became the hangout for itinerant bohemians to share their passions. Petra, nicknamed Cleopetra, used to organise the occasional ‘Be-In’ — gatherings of hippies for ‘goat head soup parties’ which she did not attend herself.
Petra’s friends William Forbes and Susan Burns, who still lives in Nepal, remembers her as dressed mostly in black and purple, never leaving the home without her dramatic outfits and make up.
She was a foreboding person who lived in a small world of which she was the queen,” Burns remembers.
But Petra had a softer side too, which is evident from her correspondence with friends. Among her close acquaintances was Vidhea Shrestha, a rare Nepali hippini. At various times Vidhea lived with Ira and Petra, and modelled for Ira.
Vidhea was born into a well-to-do family in eastern Nepal and was educated in Darjeeling. With her sister, she ran a boutique in New Road catering to foreigners.
Through Petra and Ira, Vidhea met countless other artists, participating in wide-ranging discussions on every imaginable subject. ‘They opened up this whole world for me,’ she said in an interview with Mark Liechty, author of Far Out, Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal. Vidhea credits Petra and Ira with showing her a world of possibilities ‘that I could have never gotten from my own family or society.’
Wearing short skirts, drinking, smoking and spending time with hippies, Vidhea broke every norm, and paid a price.
In the late 1970s, Petra moved to India to spend time with aghori babas, and is now believed to be a nun with the Brahmakumari in Europe. Vidhea became a semi-professional jazz singer and died of cancer in 2010. Her son Yanik is a well known RJ in Kathmandu.
Petra Vogt, IMDb
Travels in the 1970s (Ira Cohen)
In company with former Living Theatre member Petra Vogt, [3] Cohen went to the Himalayas in the 1970s where he started the Starstream poetry series under the Bardo Matrix imprint in Kathmandu, publishing the work of Charles Henri Ford, Gregory Corso, Paul Bowles and Angus Maclise. Here he developed bookmaking art, working with native craftsmen. In 1972 he spent a year in San Francisco reading and performing, and then returned to New York to mount photographic shows.
Petra Vogt (Living Theater) & Ira Cohen (Wikipedia) ~ Photo: Ira Cohen
ASIFA-SF, Karl Cohen ~ Association International du Film d'Animation, SF Newsletter
ASIFA-SF February 2023 Newsletter [PDF]
Feetlines ~ Reject the Evidence of Your Eyes & Ears
Tainted News:
Tomi Lahren should fight addiction and not have to step on "used heroin needles" to get high?
Saluting the Heroes of the Coronavirus Pandumbic The Daily Show w/Trevor Noah via Joey deVilla
1,000,000
March 23, 2022 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Stats & Numbers showed:
One Million (U.S.A.) HUMANS DEAD
Nobody really knows that ... on February 18, 2023 there have been
1,110,856
provisional COVID-19 deaths in the United States, begging the question:
Was Tainted News Accessory to Murder?
The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State. Joseph Goebbels
I want to thank all the BIG people who helped make this happen; the secretive governments,
the blame-shifting politicians, the 'leaders' who only cared how I might affect THEM...
Cartoon by Steve Sack @ Star Tribune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Tribune...
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Declaration of Independence
Positively 4th Street, Bob Dylan, HQ via Franciescoli Polanni
Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They own you! They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. George Carlin
Statue of Liberty last seen walking back to France
Feetlines ~ Is There A CURE Yet? ~ 202209.06: How about antibody SP1-77 ?
Is There A CURE Yet? ...asking for a friend.
Scientists Discover an Antibody
That Can Take Out All COVID-19 Variants
https://www.prevention.com/health/a41092334/antibody-neutralize-covid-variants/
And they hope to create a new vaccine with it.
by Korin Miller, @ Prevention, September 6, 2022
COVID-19 vaccines have been effective at keeping people from getting severely ill and dying from the virus, but they’ve required different boosters to try to keep on top of all of the coronavirus variants that have popped up. Now, researchers have discovered an antibody that neutralizes all known COVID-19 variants.
The antibody, called SP1-77, is the result of a collaborative effort from researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and Duke University. Results from mouse studies they’ve conducted were recently published in the journal Science Immunology, and they look promising.
But what does it mean, exactly, to have an antibody that can neutralize all variants of COVID-19, and what kind of impact will this have on vaccines in the future? Here’s what you need to know.
What is SP1-77
[Click for Updated: Current Articles & Source @ freespoke.com]
SP1-77 is an antibody developed by researchers that so far can neutralize all forms of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It was created after researchers modified a mouse model that was originally made to search for broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV, which also mutates. [continue reading @ Prevention]
Heads up folks:
Bacteria from respiratory droplets spread by one sneeze,
singing one minute, talking one minute, & two coughs
via Dr. Richard Davis @ Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center
Boptime ~ Saturday Mornings ~ w/Even Steven Leech
On Boptime we begin at 6am (EST) on Saturday morning with oldies back to back to back. At 7am (EST) on the Heart & Soul of Delaware Rock ’n Roll we’ll spin some tunes from early Newark bands including an early rare recording from Snakegrinder with local blues artist Jim McCarthy doing the vocal, followed by some early 70s bands including a recording by Reggae star Bob Marley inspired by his job at Newark’s Chrysler auto plant. At 8am (EST) on Rockabilly Ridge Michael Ace explores the bluegrass roots of early rockabilly music. At 9am (EST) on Beatlemania!!! we bop back to this time in 1964 when the Beatles were just beginning to dominate the list of hits, in the wake of the Kennedy assassination, while Dr. Strangelove was making fun of World War III. ~ Steve
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Notes from ~@~
Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard...It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. And there's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action. So I dedicated this Emmy to all the people who feel compelled to speak out and not afraid to speak to power and won't shut up and refuse to be silenced. Tom Smothers
Carlin Step, DJ Steve Porter & Eli Wilkie via Roland Kardeby
The Great Bell Chant (The End of Suffering) via R Smittenaar
One Day, Matisyahu
Unsung Hero via Rattakarn Srithavatchai "Garn"
The Sacred Clowns ~ Heyókȟa
The Heyókȟa symbolize and portray many aspects of the sacred, the Wakȟáŋ. Their satire presents important questions by fooling around. They ask difficult questions, and say things others are too afraid to say. By reading between the lines, the audience is able to think about things not usually thought about, or to look at things in a different way.
Principally, the Heyókȟa functions both as a mirror and a teacher, using extreme behaviors to mirror others, thereby forcing them to examine their own doubts, fears, hatreds, and weaknesses. Heyókȟas also have the power to heal emotional pain; such power comes from the experience of shame--they sing of shameful events in their lives, beg for food, and live as clowns. They provoke laughter in distressing situations of despair and provoke fear and chaos when people feel complacent and overly secure, to keep them from taking themselves too seriously or believing they are more powerful than they are.
In addition, sacred clowns serve an important role in shaping tribal codes. Heyókȟa's don't seem to care about taboos, rules, regulations, social norms, or boundaries. Paradoxically, however, it is by violating these norms and taboos that they help to define the accepted boundaries, rules, and societal guidelines for ethical and moral behavior. This is because they are the only ones who can ask "Why?" about sensitive topics and employ satire to question the specialists and carriers of sacred knowledge or those in positions of power and authority. In doing so, they demonstrate concretely the theories of balance and imbalance. Their role is to penetrate deception, turn over rocks, and create a deeper awareness.
Develop Your Mind, Not Sacred Sites
Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find money cannot be eaten. ~ Cree Prophecy
Nobody for President ~ NONE of the ABOVE should be a choice on voter ballots!
Curtis Spangler & Wavy Gravy, Nobody for President, 197610.12 ~ Photo: James Stark
Nobody bakes apple pie better than Mom, is eternal, perfect, has all the answers, ended war, will love you forever, brought peace to our time, fixed global warming, fed the hungry & destitute, knows, cares, shives a git about you, loves you when you're down & out, and if elected will not lie to, or steal from, 'the people'; ...begging a question, What's NOTA's entry fee ...more lies that lead to mass murder or human sacrifice, when Nobody says why not try love again?
American Dream, George Carlin via Ishtar [Not Work Safe] Alternative source with text
NOBODY should have that much power!
NONE of the ABOVE should be a valid choice on voter ballots!
Message via Mike Pinder
Oh, I hope that I see you again I never even caught your name As you looked through my window pane ~ So I'm writing this message today I'm thinking that you'll have a way Of hearing the notes in my tune ~ Where are you going? Where have you been? I can imagine other worlds you have seen ~ Beautiful faces and music so serene ~ So I do hope I see you again My universal citizen You went as quickly as you came ~ You know the power Your love is right You have good reason To stay out of sight ~~ But break our illusions and help us Be the light. Mike Pinder
Why I Think This World Should End, Prince EA via Prince EA
Without love in the dream, it will never come true. ~ Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. ~ John Lennon
The man whispered, "God, speak to me" and a meadowlark sang. But the man did not hear. So the man yelled "God, speak to me" and the thunder rolled across the sky. But the man did not listen. The man looked around and said, "God let me see you" and a star shined brightly. But the man did not notice. And the man shouted, "God show me a miracle" and a life was born. But the man did not know. So the man cried out in despair, "Touch me God, and let me know you are there" Whereupon God reached down and touched the man, But the man brushed the butterfly away and walked on.
Don't miss out on a blessing because
it isn't packaged the way you expect!
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