[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry that your body is so out of balance that it can't handle a glass of wine without becoming dull. But to believe that this disability makes you better than those who do not have such a limitation? Turq, I'm thinking it may be because our brains are not made of a spunge like material so it doesn't absorb the alcohol in our brains causing the anesthesia effect that plagues him. In our non spunge like brains, the unabsorbed alcohol can get to the brain's charming repartee centers where it does the most good! Last I checked, 'spunge' was a colloquialism for ejaculate. I suspect that if one's brain IS made of spunge, alcohol might make it dull. Those of us with regular brains can probably skate by with just a light buzz and an apprec- iation of the smells and flavors of a good Cabernet. :-) The thing is, people on these forums sometimes forget how WEIRD they are compared to the world they live in. They believe that a glass of wine makes them dull and poisons them. Some of them believe that *ice cream* is bad for them. If that's how they choose to live their lives, cool. I have no problem with what they choose to believe. But when they try to present the weird things they've chosen to believe as if believing them makes them BETTER than other people in the world? Sorry...I'm not buyin' that. All 'me' and no glass 'o wine with a good meal makes Jack a dull egofuckin'maniac.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2008, at 6:01 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: No, Judy, after 5 years of this bullshit on your part, I won't play your reread what I said or your first get it straight redirect. Answer the fucking question or shut the fuck up. Anyone want to bet on how many posts these two are going to waste on this silliness before they stop beating each *other* up? Sal, it's the result of the devastating effects of spunge-brain syndrome. Those who suffer from this horrible disease can go on like this for YEARS and still not realize that they're making absolute asses of themselves.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2008, at 6:01 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: No, Judy, after 5 years of this bullshit on your part, I won't play your reread what I said or your first get it straight redirect. Answer the fucking question or shut the fuck up. Get a checking !
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
On Jan 29, 2008, at 2:14 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: On Jan 28, 2008, at 6:01 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: No, Judy, after 5 years of this bullshit on your part, I won't play your reread what I said or your first get it straight redirect. Answer the fucking question or shut the fuck up. Anyone want to bet on how many posts these two are going to waste on this silliness before they stop beating each *other* up? Sal, it's the result of the devastating effects of spunge-brain syndrome. Those who suffer from this horrible disease can go on like this for YEARS and still not realize that they're making absolute asses of themselves. A good glass of wine would do wonders. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Hearts of High Eenas??
Rgveda X 95, 15
puruuravo maa mRthaa maa pra papto
maa tvaa vRkaaso ashivaasa u kShan |
na vai straiNaani sakhyaani santi
saalaavRkaaNaaM hRdayaany etaa ||
15 Nay, do not die, Purûravas, nor vanish: let not the evil-omened
wolves devour thee.
With women there can be no lasting friendship: hearts of hyenas are
the hearts of women.
Attempt at pada-paaTha:
puruuravaH maa mRthaa(?) maa pra paptaH
maa tvaa vRkaasaH ashiva+aasaH(??) u kSan |
na vai straiNaani sakhyaani santi
saalaa-vRkaaNaaM hRdayaani etaa ||
puruuravo (Puruuravas) maa (do not) mRthaa (die)
maa (do not) pra papto (vanish)
maa (let not) tvaa (thee) vRkaaso (wolves)
ashivaasa (evil-omened) u kSan (devour) |
na (not) vai(indeed) straiNaani (female)
sakhyaani (friends) santi ([there] are)
saalaavRkaaNaaM[1] (of hyenas) hRdayaany (hearts)
etaa ([are] those) ||
[1] sAlAvRtika m. (in later language mostly %{shAlA-vRka}) ` house-
wolf (?) ' , a kind of wolf or hyena or jackal or similar animal
RV. c. c.
[FairfieldLife] 'Turning Over Tables in the Temple'
Yesterday, it felt like the Status Quo moved a bit... No longer is Bill Clinton the leader he once was... The Clintons seem stale and plastic now. It's as if Teddy Kennedy Baptized a new leader yesterday: Someone who speaks to the soul, like Bobby or John. Someone ready to take the reins and move us forward. The days of poll tested, plastic fantastic performances: Ended. - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Anyone want to bet on how many posts these two are going to waste on this silliness before they stop beating each *other* up? Sal, it's the result of the devastating effects of spunge-brain syndrome. Those who suffer from this horrible disease can go on like this for YEARS and still not realize that they're making absolute asses of themselves. A good glass of wine would do wonders. I suspect it would take a whole bottle before either of them ever even *approached* being human. :-) Shut up, Barry. You're irrelevant. Make that two bottles for Judy. :-) :-) :-) Just for fun, replacing the part of my post she so carefully snipped (the part she was pissed about): The gist of this act seems to be, Ok everyone on FFL, watch as I demonstrate how incredibly dumb/ignorant of the facts/lazy/duplicitous my opponent is. Shemp's trying to do this to Judy. Judy's trying to do this to Shemp. Both of them think we in the audience are interested in the results. Hasn't it ever occurred to *either* of them what happens if they win and prove that the other person IS as dumb as they think he/she is? The winner will have proved that the loser is a bit of a retard. And by doing so, the winner will have proved that he or she GETS OFF ON DEBATING WITH RETARDS. Now THAT's a real challenge, right? :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
Buh...buh...buh...but Curtis, you just don't understand! All these things you describe below are RELATIVE phen- omena. They have to do with the fallen aspect of life on Earth. You know, the planet that Maharishi refers to as this horrible place. How could you possibly find ANYTHING charming or fasc- inating about anything that happens in Maya. The alcohol must have REALLY dulled your brain if you are finding such things satisfying in any way. Everyone who is evolved knows that the only thing that can ever *really* satisfy is sitting with eyes closed lost in the bliss of the Absolute. End of story. Eating? That's just something we have to do from time to time so that we can continue to meditate. It's a horrible distraction from the bliss of the Absolute, but it's one of those drawbacks of having a body. Someday (soon, we hope) we won't have them any more, and then we can stay in the bliss ALL the time and NEVER have to stop meditating. Same with talking to all those horrible people. Some of the ones you mentioned don't even MEDITATE, for Krishnassake! How can you lower yourself to be in the same *room* with them, much less speak to them and share horrible, dulling alcohol with them. Friends? What are those. Isn't that another word for something that distracts you from the Absolute? As for sharing a drink with your father, I guess that's OK if he meditates and if you have to spend some time out of meditation hitting him up for money so that you can spend more time in meditation, the way we really evolved souls do. Get with the program, Curtis. This alcohol stuff has so dulled your mind that you have started to believe that life is something to be enjoyed and not something to run away from. That's Off The Program. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an anesthetic it creates dullness. I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years. If that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the last attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too much, and drink with the right people. Removing the drink from the set and setting that it can enhance, misses the point IMO. It can be a part of social customs and cuisines that I enjoy. A chilled martini at a jazz club with an acoustic jazz trio in the background. Some top shelf bourbon bought for you by a young couple after your last set, who had never listened to acoustic blues before, and have many questions about what blues artists they should download. A bottle of local Virginia wine over dinner with a friend who just came back from visiting Africa and has many stories to share. A chilled Czech Pilsner Urquell beer at boating picnic while eating Chesapeake Bay crabs. Greek brandy with your Greek friends as they tell you about how they survived during WWII in Greece on an olive farm, while eating sheep feta cheese and dipping crusty bread into oil from this year's olive harvest. Toasts with Hennessey cognac with the bridal party at your Vietnamese friend's wedding after all the other guests have left. A friend's homemade wine at their farm after riding their horses. Joining a Thai friend as he closes up his restaurant and eating home style fiery hot Thai food with the staff with Thai Singha beer. Drinking chilled vodka shots with your Russian girlfriend over the traditional meal she cooked for you. Sharing the Brazilian national drink, the Chaiparinya. (limes,sugar and Cachasa) with a raven haired Brazilian girl while watching World Cup soccer. A smoky Lagavulin scotch with my father over stories of his experiences in the South Pacific theater of WWII and the occupation of Japan. Making handmade pasta, covering them with fresh steamed clams, with a glass of Sauvignon Blanc and your best friends. A glass of sweet port with a plate of Stilton with your girlfriend while the snow falls outside. Some of these experiences would be plenty cool without the shared beverage. But sometime it is the ritual of sharing the drink that connects people. Alcohol is just sugar molecules with an attitude. It is a type of food, and each culture has it's special version. You may associate it with dullness if you prefer. I prefer to associate it with the way peoples eyes crinkle up at the edges during conversation. Ethanol is a two-carbon alcohol and can be considered an active brain- drug and an all-purpose cellular toxin. Even moderate alcohol abuse distorts the personality, emotions, and intellect of the `social drinker', which is a direct consequence of brain dysfunction caused by ethanol and other chemical pathogens in alcoholic beverages. Even low doses of alcohol interfere with memory and make it difficult for the hippocampus to process new information. As a brain drug, ethanol acts to depress the brain function
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
In a message dated 1/29/08 10:05:30 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some of us aren't at all sure, Robert, that he has the ability to do anything *else*. Exactly. Obama singing Kumbaya with Oprah in the Whitehouse may generate lots of warm fuzzies, but warm fuzzies don't get the job done. Obama is a fantastic orator, but I get no sense of Obama, the effective, well-informed policy wonk. Bingo! And Hillary won't be able to much better either. They will have to have a very liberal Congress to get pushed thru anything they want. Conservatives will tie up most bills just like Newt Gingrich did the first two years of the Clinton administration. **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp0030002489
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an anesthetic
it creates dullness.
I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years. If
that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the last
attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too much,
and drink with the right people. Removing the drink from the set and
setting that it can enhance, misses the point IMO. It can be a part
of social customs and cuisines that I enjoy.
A chilled martini at a jazz club with an acoustic jazz trio in the
background.
Some top shelf bourbon bought for you by a young couple after your
last set, who had never listened to acoustic blues before, and have
many questions about what blues artists they should download.
A bottle of local Virginia wine over dinner with a friend who just
came back from visiting Africa and has many stories to share.
A chilled Czech Pilsner Urquell beer at boating picnic while eating
Chesapeake Bay crabs.
Greek brandy with your Greek friends as they tell you about how they
survived during WWII in Greece on an olive farm, while eating sheep
feta cheese and dipping crusty bread into oil from this year's olive
harvest.
Toasts with Hennessey cognac with the bridal party at your Vietnamese
friend's wedding after all the other guests have left.
A friend's homemade wine at their farm after riding their horses.
Joining a Thai friend as he closes up his restaurant and eating home
style fiery hot Thai food with the staff with Thai Singha beer.
Drinking chilled vodka shots with your Russian girlfriend over the
traditional meal she cooked for you.
Sharing the Brazilian national drink, the Chaiparinya. (limes,sugar
and Cachasa) with a raven haired Brazilian girl while watching World
Cup soccer.
A smoky Lagavulin scotch with my father over stories of his
experiences in the South Pacific theater of WWII and the occupation of
Japan.
Making handmade pasta, covering them with fresh steamed clams, with a
glass of Sauvignon Blanc and your best friends.
A glass of sweet port with a plate of Stilton with your girlfriend
while the snow falls outside.
Some of these experiences would be plenty cool without the shared
beverage. But sometime it is the ritual of sharing the drink that
connects people. Alcohol is just sugar molecules with an attitude.
It is a type of food, and each culture has it's special version. You
may associate it with dullness if you prefer. I prefer to associate
it with the way peoples eyes crinkle up at the edges during conversation.
Ethanol is a two-carbon alcohol and can be considered an active brain-
drug and an all-purpose cellular toxin. Even moderate alcohol abuse
distorts the personality, emotions, and intellect of the `social
drinker', which is a direct consequence of brain dysfunction caused
by ethanol and other chemical pathogens in alcoholic beverages. Even
low doses of alcohol interfere with memory and make it difficult for
the hippocampus to process new information. As a brain drug, ethanol
acts to depress the brain function from the top down, very much in
the style of an anesthetic. Acetaldehyde is particularly toxic.
{nutramed.com, Apr. 2003}
http://www.jrussellshealth.org/alcbfm.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Request to change RIP Scott Girard thread title
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Mr. Archer et al, I tried to post to this thread last night but cannot find it. I may have done something wrong. Rather than attempt to re-write my memories of my friend Scott Girard from high school and college, I would like to simply repeat my request that, as there appears to be no adult supervision on this discussion group, perhaps all of you might take your little arguments about exercise and your vicious threats against each other to a different subject line in order to stop the disrespect you are bringing to the name of a good and gentle man. This is precisely the kind of childishness that would have upset Scott the most. Were he to have learned that so many people have time to criticize each other behind anonymous pen-names, he would have been saddened indeed. I am certain he would ask all of you to rise above it, to seek to spend your limited time here on more significant matters. And, above all, he would ask you to stop with the childish name-calling and meaningless physical threats. So, please, start a thread called To exercise or not or something like that and let poor Scott and his memory actually begin to rest in peace. Tim Rowan Colorado Springs Dear Mr. Rowan, By suggesting that our silly yet insignificant bickering on this forum is preventing Mr. Girard's soul from finding peace, you imply that he spent the better part of 30 years on a program -- called The Thousand-Headed Purusha Progarm -- that wasn't very effective. After all, if all that rounding and deep meditation and countless hours spent at the feet of his Master, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, wasn't enough to create a barrier of invincibility to overcome our admittedly childish infighting then what exactly are YOU saying about the most important choice that Mr. Girard made during his lifetime? I would therefore humbly suggest, Mr. Rowan, that it YOU who is showing disrespect for the dearly departed by implying that he was both wasting his time and had bad judgement by choosing a spiritual path that didn't achieve the most basic results one would, at the very least, expect from more than three decades of devotion. Sincerely, The Reverend, Most Perfect Shemp McGurk Jesus, man. Cut Tim some slack. He's bothered that a thread about a great guy passing away devolved into a ridiculous series of posts about exercise without a thread name change. He's right. Obviously Tim knew Scott quite well and is simply asking for some respect for Scott. Why can't we take Tim's request to heart without the sarcastic nonsense and name calling? Please, nobody answer that question! It really irked me that he referred to Scott (someone I never heard of nor knew) as poor Scott. That really probably more insulting to his memory than anyone else. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ __ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone want to bet on how many posts these two are going to waste on this silliness before they stop beating each *other* up? Sal, it's the result of the devastating effects of spunge-brain syndrome. Those who suffer from this horrible disease can go on like this for YEARS and still not realize that they're making absolute asses of themselves. A good glass of wine would do wonders. I suspect it would take a whole bottle before either of them ever even *approached* being human. :-) The gist of this act seems to be, Ok everyone on FFL, watch as I demonstrate how incredibly dumb/ignorant of the facts/lazy/duplicitous my opponent is. Shemp's trying to do this to Judy. Judy's trying to do this to Shemp. Both of them think we in the audience are interested in the results. Hasn't it ever occurred to *either* of them what happens if they win and prove that the other person IS as dumb as they think he/she is? The winner will have proved that the loser is a bit of a retard. And by doing so, the winner will have proved that he or she GETS OFF ON DEBATING WITH RETARDS. Now THAT's a real challenge, right? :-) However, the difference between you and me, Turquoise, is that whereas you will continue to goad and exchange with Judy for days and days and days and post after post after post, I actually retire after about 4 or 5 exchanges. I even ignore her running dog lacky, Bongo Brazil, when, as usual, he comes nipping at my heels and shitting on my carpet.
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm guessing I'm gunna get even less approval with a story of sharing a spliff with a dreadlocked Rastafarian while eating Ital food and listening to live reggae... Thought you would enjoy that list, and I know you have one of your own.I'm just racking up the stories for when we're parked next to each other in our wheelchairs in the home for wayward yogis Turq. My chair will be rigged up with a flask of something that will enhance our meds! Jah, mon. I be lookin' forward to 't. If you pick a home for wayward yogis here in Spain, you can even grow your own herb for the spliff during gardening hour. It's legal here. I be listenin' right now to Brother Marley's re-release of No Woman, No Cry from beyond the grave. He must miss a few of these delights as well, because he's changed the lyrics of the chorus to say, No Maya, no fun. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Buh...buh...buh...but Curtis, you just don't understand! All these things you describe below are RELATIVE phen- omena. They have to do with the fallen aspect of life on Earth. You know, the planet that Maharishi refers to as this horrible place. How could you possibly find ANYTHING charming or fasc- inating about anything that happens in Maya. The alcohol must have REALLY dulled your brain if you are finding such things satisfying in any way. Everyone who is evolved knows that the only thing that can ever *really* satisfy is sitting with eyes closed lost in the bliss of the Absolute. End of story. Eating? That's just something we have to do from time to time so that we can continue to meditate. It's a horrible distraction from the bliss of the Absolute, but it's one of those drawbacks of having a body. Someday (soon, we hope) we won't have them any more, and then we can stay in the bliss ALL the time and NEVER have to stop meditating. Same with talking to all those horrible people. Some of the ones you mentioned don't even MEDITATE, for Krishnassake! How can you lower yourself to be in the same *room* with them, much less speak to them and share horrible, dulling alcohol with them. Friends? What are those. Isn't that another word for something that distracts you from the Absolute? As for sharing a drink with your father, I guess that's OK if he meditates and if you have to spend some time out of meditation hitting him up for money so that you can spend more time in meditation, the way we really evolved souls do. Get with the program, Curtis. This alcohol stuff has so dulled your mind that you have started to believe that life is something to be enjoyed and not something to run away from. That's Off The Program. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an anesthetic it creates dullness. I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years. If that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the last attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too much, and drink with the right people. Removing the drink from the set and setting that it can enhance, misses the point IMO. It can be a part of social customs and cuisines that I enjoy. A chilled martini at a jazz club with an acoustic jazz trio in the background. Some top shelf bourbon bought for you by a young couple after your last set, who had never listened to acoustic blues before, and have many questions about what blues artists they should download. A bottle of local Virginia wine over dinner with a friend who just came back from visiting Africa and has many stories to share. A chilled Czech Pilsner Urquell beer at boating picnic while eating Chesapeake Bay crabs. Greek brandy with your Greek friends as they tell you about how they survived during WWII in Greece on an olive farm, while eating sheep feta cheese and dipping crusty bread into oil from this year's olive harvest. Toasts with Hennessey cognac with the bridal party at your Vietnamese friend's wedding after all the other guests have left. A friend's homemade wine at their farm after riding their horses. Joining a Thai friend as he closes up his restaurant and eating home style fiery hot Thai food with the staff with Thai Singha beer. Drinking chilled vodka shots with your Russian girlfriend over the traditional meal she cooked for you. Sharing the Brazilian national drink, the Chaiparinya. (limes,sugar and Cachasa) with a raven haired Brazilian girl while watching World Cup soccer. A smoky Lagavulin scotch with my father over stories of his experiences in the South Pacific theater of WWII and the
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: In a message dated 1/29/08 10:05:30 A.M. Central Standard Time, j_alexander_stanley@ writes: Some of us aren't at all sure, Robert, that he has the ability to do anything *else*. Exactly. Obama singing Kumbaya with Oprah in the Whitehouse may generate lots of warm fuzzies, but warm fuzzies don't get the job done. Obama is a fantastic orator, but I get no sense of Obama, the effective, well-informed policy wonk. Bingo! And Hillary won't be able to much better either. They will have to have a very liberal Congress to get pushed thru anything they want. Conservatives will tie up most bills just like Newt Gingrich did the first two years of the Clinton administration. Thing is, Obama has *no* idea of what he'll be facing if he gets elected. Hillary has a much clearer idea of what the score will be and what she'll have to do to get things done. The opposition will be overwhelming, but forewarned is forearmed. She'll at least have more of a chance. The conservatives will eat Obama and his warm fuzzies for breakfast; Hillary will give them enough indigestion to slow them down a bit. ...you mean the way her husband slowed down the Conservatives during his 8 years in office? You mean the way he signed NAFTA, the Welfare Reform Act, balanced the budget, supported the death penalty, the Defense of Marriage Act, etc.? Yup, bring on Hillary and Bill, the most conservative president of the last 50 years. It's wonderful, isn't it, when your political opposities do all your work for you! Oh, it just warms my heart that Judy supports the Clintons...
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Thing is, Obama has *no* idea of what he'll be facing if he gets elected. Hillary has a much clearer idea of what the score will be and what she'll have to do to get things done. The opposition will be overwhelming, but forewarned is forearmed. She'll at least have more of a chance. The conservatives will eat Obama and his warm fuzzies for breakfast; Hillary will give them enough indigestion to slow them down a bit. ...you mean the way her husband slowed down the Conservatives during his 8 years in office? I think she'd be a lot tougher for them to steamroll than Bill was. She's tougher all the way around than Bill and more committed to change.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Roberto babajii_99@ wrote: snip Hillary had most of the Black vote, only a few months ago... This whole thing happened recently. Actually I believe it started when Barack spoke at the Des Moines event, back in December... For me, that's when I felt the electricity that he seemed to tap into. Since that time, this has only increased. He clearly has the ability to inspire, and to bring people together. Some of us aren't at all sure, Robert, that he has the ability to do anything *else*. Exactly. Obama singing Kumbaya with Oprah in the Whitehouse may generate lots of warm fuzzies, but warm fuzzies don't get the job done. Obama is a fantastic orator, but I get no sense of Obama, the effective, well-informed policy wonk.
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
So I'm guessing I'm gunna get even less approval with a story of sharing a spliff with a dreadlocked Rastafarian while eating Ital food and listening to live reggae... Thought you would enjoy that list, and I know you have one of your own.I'm just racking up the stories for when we're parked next to each other in our wheelchairs in the home for wayward yogis Turq . My chair will be rigged up with a flask of something that will enhance our meds! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buh...buh...buh...but Curtis, you just don't understand! All these things you describe below are RELATIVE phen- omena. They have to do with the fallen aspect of life on Earth. You know, the planet that Maharishi refers to as this horrible place. How could you possibly find ANYTHING charming or fasc- inating about anything that happens in Maya. The alcohol must have REALLY dulled your brain if you are finding such things satisfying in any way. Everyone who is evolved knows that the only thing that can ever *really* satisfy is sitting with eyes closed lost in the bliss of the Absolute. End of story. Eating? That's just something we have to do from time to time so that we can continue to meditate. It's a horrible distraction from the bliss of the Absolute, but it's one of those drawbacks of having a body. Someday (soon, we hope) we won't have them any more, and then we can stay in the bliss ALL the time and NEVER have to stop meditating. Same with talking to all those horrible people. Some of the ones you mentioned don't even MEDITATE, for Krishnassake! How can you lower yourself to be in the same *room* with them, much less speak to them and share horrible, dulling alcohol with them. Friends? What are those. Isn't that another word for something that distracts you from the Absolute? As for sharing a drink with your father, I guess that's OK if he meditates and if you have to spend some time out of meditation hitting him up for money so that you can spend more time in meditation, the way we really evolved souls do. Get with the program, Curtis. This alcohol stuff has so dulled your mind that you have started to believe that life is something to be enjoyed and not something to run away from. That's Off The Program. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an anesthetic it creates dullness. I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years. If that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the last attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too much, and drink with the right people. Removing the drink from the set and setting that it can enhance, misses the point IMO. It can be a part of social customs and cuisines that I enjoy. A chilled martini at a jazz club with an acoustic jazz trio in the background. Some top shelf bourbon bought for you by a young couple after your last set, who had never listened to acoustic blues before, and have many questions about what blues artists they should download. A bottle of local Virginia wine over dinner with a friend who just came back from visiting Africa and has many stories to share. A chilled Czech Pilsner Urquell beer at boating picnic while eating Chesapeake Bay crabs. Greek brandy with your Greek friends as they tell you about how they survived during WWII in Greece on an olive farm, while eating sheep feta cheese and dipping crusty bread into oil from this year's olive harvest. Toasts with Hennessey cognac with the bridal party at your Vietnamese friend's wedding after all the other guests have left. A friend's homemade wine at their farm after riding their horses. Joining a Thai friend as he closes up his restaurant and eating home style fiery hot Thai food with the staff with Thai Singha beer. Drinking chilled vodka shots with your Russian girlfriend over the traditional meal she cooked for you. Sharing the Brazilian national drink, the Chaiparinya. (limes,sugar and Cachasa) with a raven haired Brazilian girl while watching World Cup soccer. A smoky Lagavulin scotch with my father over stories of his experiences in the South Pacific theater of WWII and the occupation of Japan. Making handmade pasta, covering them with fresh steamed clams, with a glass of Sauvignon Blanc and your best friends. A glass of sweet port with a plate of Stilton with your girlfriend while the snow falls outside. Some of these experiences would be plenty cool without the shared beverage. But sometime it is the ritual of sharing the drink that connects people. Alcohol is just sugar molecules with an attitude. It is a type of food, and each culture has it's special version. You may associate it with dullness if you prefer. I
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/29/08 10:05:30 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some of us aren't at all sure, Robert, that he has the ability to do anything *else*. Exactly. Obama singing Kumbaya with Oprah in the Whitehouse may generate lots of warm fuzzies, but warm fuzzies don't get the job done. Obama is a fantastic orator, but I get no sense of Obama, the effective, well-informed policy wonk. Bingo! And Hillary won't be able to much better either. They will have to have a very liberal Congress to get pushed thru anything they want. Conservatives will tie up most bills just like Newt Gingrich did the first two years of the Clinton administration. Thing is, Obama has *no* idea of what he'll be facing if he gets elected. Hillary has a much clearer idea of what the score will be and what she'll have to do to get things done. The opposition will be overwhelming, but forewarned is forearmed. She'll at least have more of a chance. The conservatives will eat Obama and his warm fuzzies for breakfast; Hillary will give them enough indigestion to slow them down a bit.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/29/08 10:05:30 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some of us aren't at all sure, Robert, that he has the ability to do anything *else*. Exactly. Obama singing Kumbaya with Oprah in the Whitehouse may generate lots of warm fuzzies, but warm fuzzies don't get the job done. Obama is a fantastic orator, but I get no sense of Obama, the effective, well-informed policy wonk. Bingo! And Hillary won't be able to much better either. They will have to have a very liberal Congress to get pushed thru anything they want. Conservatives will tie up most bills just like Newt Gingrich did the first two years of the Clinton administration. I think Obama's recent ad about Hilary says it all: She'll say anything...and change nothing. She sold her soul and her votes to the highest bidder decades ago, and would do the same as President. In the world of politics, not having as much experience as Hilary does is a GOOD thing. It means he hasn't sold his soul as often yet, or as completely.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Turning Over Tables in the Temple'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, it felt like the Status Quo moved a bit... No longer is Bill Clinton the leader he once was... The Clintons seem stale and plastic now. It's as if Teddy Kennedy Baptized a new leader yesterday: Perhaps he baptized him in the waters surrounding Chappaquiddik... Someone who speaks to the soul, like Bobby or John. Oh, yes, John would have LOVED Obama, seeing as he had such a great record on African-Americans. Didn't John have to cozy up with the racist, segregationist Dixiecrats in order to secure his nomination? Bobby was the one who did what he could for the Blacks (well, some Blacks, at least. Remember that Bobby, as Attorney-General, was the one who signed the warrants to wire-tap Martin Luther King). In fact, John used to deride Bobby in this area by referring to him as Bobby and his Negroes. Someone ready to take the reins and move us forward. The days of poll tested, plastic fantastic performances: Ended. - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Hillary had most of the Black vote, only a few months ago... This whole thing happened recently. Actually I believe it started when Barack spoke at the Des Moines event, back in December... For me, that's when I felt the electricity that he seemed to tap into. Since that time, this has only increased. He clearly has the ability to inspire, and to bring people together. Some of us aren't at all sure, Robert, that he has the ability to do anything *else*.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 29, 2008, at 2:14 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: On Jan 28, 2008, at 6:01 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: No, Judy, after 5 years of this bullshit on your part, I won't play your reread what I said or your first get it straight redirect. Answer the fucking question or shut the fuck up. Anyone want to bet on how many posts these two are going to waste on this silliness before they stop beating each *other* up? Sal, it's the result of the devastating effects of spunge-brain syndrome. Those who suffer from this horrible disease can go on like this for YEARS and still not realize that they're making absolute asses of themselves. A good glass of wine would do wonders. Sal And getting laid, of course in the correct vastu with the appropriate ayurvedic unguents. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/28/08 6:20:20 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And nothing gives me more pleasure than to see an extreme liberal like Judy continually endorse the Clintons and defend Bill Clinton, a man who headed the most conservative administration of the past 50 years Yes, Clinton's eight years saw even MORE conservative legislation passed into law than under Ronald Reagan: - Defense of Marriage Act - NAFTA - Balanced the budget - Welfare Reform - Support for the death penalty (indeed, Clinton went out of his way to return to Arkansas during his presidential campaign to make sure a retarded Black Man was put to death). So, I laugh and snicker with glee to see Judy defend Bill Clinton! Go for it, Judy! Thank God Clinton had to deal with a conservative congress that wouldn't send him the kind of legislation he really would like to have signed. Too bad G.W. Bush's Congress wasn't anything like that for the first six years.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
(snip) You're a terrible mind-reader. No, that wasn't innocent. On the other hand, Obama's no innocent either. The notion that he's not running as an African American, and that therefore any acknowledgment of his race is playing the race card, is ludicrous. He wants to have it both ways. (snip) Hillary had most of the Black vote, only a few months ago... This whole thing happened recently. Actually I believe it started when Barack spoke at the Des Moines event, back in December... For me, that's when I felt the electricity that he seemed to tap into. Since that time, this has only increased. He clearly has the ability to inspire, and to bring people together. Hillary and Bill have been polarizing figures, now and in the past. I don't see why they would deserve another stint in the WH. Why not give a new generation a chance to experience an inspirational leader who very much reminds people of the idealism and the inspiration political/spiritual leaders of the sixties. The Clintons, like the Bush's are political leaders. Obama, like the Kennedy's transcend politics somewhat and become spiritual inspirational leaders- which are certainly more rare. It's a tough world for sure, and a cynical world at that. So, it's hard to except that things could really change. The choice isn't between black or white or man or woman. It's deeper than that.
[FairfieldLife] Re: An Outside View in to Fairfield
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An outside view of Communal Meditating Fairfield A critical analysis I like this 1844 essay for some good parallels to the present in the analysis. The delineation of the 3 ways people look to participate is a good way of seeing some of the why and the character of who has come to the modern FF version of American utopian experiment. Also, the observation about the corrupting influence of money on their group, segmenting of the group by the handling of money. Can see this even now. Critically also, the 'inside' views. For instance from within Fairfield Meditators ranged in this thread: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/162397 Traveling around the state of Iowa now I often find people who look from the outside wondering what is going on in Fairfield. Most often they have only a general monolithic sense of Fairfield with its `meditators'. Picture they may get from the Des Moines Register about MUM or other media notes and TMmovement promotions. Mostly they see something that is `different' going on here without much of a discerning handle on it. So there is a frequent question about what is going on in Fairfield, wanting an inside view. In truth of course it is not monolithic at all here. That the utopian spiritual practice community which is in Fairfield now is mature and way more diverse than the TMmovement now. That it is utopian, experiment, is very American actually and is much more than the TMmovement, in Fairfield. The fun in running in to people and being introduced as being from Fairfield is to see that interest in folks where they recognize Fairfield for what is has become. Where they can tell that it is much more than the TMmovement and that the meditator community is in fact way more diverse. Even made up of folks like everyone else except that meditators pursue active spiritual practice here. That it is way more than TM, is very utopian, large in thinking but that it is in fact also very American. Fairfield. Meditators. The meditating churches, the meditating satsangs, some meditators remaining on campus,the meditators up in VC, the meditating community off-campus out in FF meditators out in the greater Jefferson County area. This `outside view' essay was part of a larger book chronicling the life of Brook Farm, an early-American transcendentalist utopian communal experiment of the 1840's, similar in ways to Fairfield. This is a good read: http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/etext05/brkfm10.htm -Doug in FF AN OUTSIDE VIEW OF Communal (Meditating Fairfield). Critical Analysis: _From the Dial of January, 1844._ Though familiarly designated a Community, it is only so in the process of eating in commons; a practice at least as antiquated as the collegiate halls of old England, where it still continues without producing, as far as we can learn, any of the Spartan virtues. A residence at (meditating Fairfield) does not involve either a community of money, of opinions or of sympathy. The motives which bring individuals there, may be as various as their numbers. In fact, the present residents are divisible into three distinct classes; and if the majority in numbers were considered, it is possible that a vote in favor of self- sacrifice for the common good would not be very strongly carried. The leading portion of the adult inmates, they whose presence imparts the greatest peculiarity and the fraternal tone to the household, believe that an improved state of existence would be developed in Association, and are therefore anxious to promote it. Another class consists of those who join with the view of bettering their condition, by being exempt from some portion of worldly strife. The third portion comprises those who have their own development or education for their principal object. Practically, too, the institution manifests a threefold improvement over the world at large, corresponding to these three motives. In consequence of the first, the companionship, the personal intercourse, the social bearing, are of a marked and very superior character. There may possibly to some minds, long accustomed to other modes, appear a want of homeness and of the private fireside; but all observers must acknowledge a brotherly and softening condition, highly conducive to the permanent and pleasant growth of all the better human qualities. If the life is not of a deeply religious cast, it is at least not inferior to that which is exemplified elsewhere, and there is the advantage of an entire absence of assumption and pretence. The moral atmosphere, so far, is pure; and there is found a strong desire to walk ever on the mountain tops of life; though taste, rather than piety, is the aspect presented to the eye.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Roberto babajii_99@ wrote: snip He clearly has the ability to inspire, and to bring people together. Some of us aren't at all sure, Robert, that he has the ability to do anything *else*. Exactly. Obama singing Kumbaya with Oprah in the Whitehouse may generate lots of warm fuzzies, but warm fuzzies don't get the job done. Obama is a fantastic orator, but I get no sense of Obama, the effective, well-informed policy wonk. Even the Kumbaya bit may be something of a sham, given his pointed snub of Hillary Clinton last night at the SOTU when she came over to shake Teddy Kennedy's hand.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maybe it's me...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Very funny. I just watched the original TC video all over again and it really is so disturbing in its narcissism. Kind of reminds me of myself talking about the perfection of TM 30 years ago! You put your finger on what repulses me about it...I recognize my own past! That absolute certitude that you are right...no, not right, but RIGHT!!! Confounding the conviction of your belief with certitude. So profoundly immature. Like suggesting that some young fellow ought to remove a mole in his face because it is distracting ? ;-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone want to bet on how many posts these two are going to waste on this silliness before they stop beating each *other* up? Sal, it's the result of the devastating effects of spunge-brain syndrome. Those who suffer from this horrible disease can go on like this for YEARS and still not realize that they're making absolute asses of themselves. A good glass of wine would do wonders. I suspect it would take a whole bottle before either of them ever even *approached* being human. :-) Shut up, Barry. You're irrelevant.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
On Jan 29, 2008, at 11:30 AM, authfriend wrote: I think she'd be a lot tougher for them to steamroll than Bill was. She's tougher all the way around than Bill and more committed to change. Then why hasn't any of that been obvious during her 7 years in office so far? She's gone along with the worst excesses of the Bush/Cheney cabal, as far as I can tell. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
Anyone want to bet on how many posts these two are going to waste on this silliness before they stop beating each *other* up? Sal, it's the result of the devastating effects of spunge-brain syndrome. Those who suffer from this horrible disease can go on like this for YEARS and still not realize that they're making absolute asses of themselves. A good glass of wine would do wonders. I suspect it would take a whole bottle before either of them ever even *approached* being human. :-) The gist of this act seems to be, Ok everyone on FFL, watch as I demonstrate how incredibly dumb/ignorant of the facts/lazy/duplicitous my opponent is. Shemp's trying to do this to Judy. Judy's trying to do this to Shemp. Both of them think we in the audience are interested in the results. Hasn't it ever occurred to *either* of them what happens if they win and prove that the other person IS as dumb as they think he/she is? The winner will have proved that the loser is a bit of a retard. And by doing so, the winner will have proved that he or she GETS OFF ON DEBATING WITH RETARDS. Now THAT's a real challenge, right? :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip If you're not willing to go to the trouble to find out what each of them really said, why should anybody take your opinion seriously? This is why Judy has never, ever been wrong in a debate. Actually, it's why you've never, ever been right in a debate with me--because you simply refuse to do your homework, and then you crap out. It's just sheer intellectual sloth. Why should I--why should anybody--waste time debating somebody who doesn't know what the hell they're talking about? And I'm hardly the first person to point this out to you, Shemp. Amen!
[FairfieldLife] Keeping track of the *national* primary delegate count
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Hell hath frozen over
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Thing is, Obama has *no* idea of what he'll be facing if he gets elected. Hillary has a much clearer idea of what the score will be and what she'll have to do to get things done. The opposition will be overwhelming, but forewarned is forearmed. She'll at least have more of a chance. The conservatives will eat Obama and his warm fuzzies for breakfast; Hillary will give them enough indigestion to slow them down a bit. ...you mean the way her husband slowed down the Conservatives during his 8 years in office? I think she'd be a lot tougher for them to steamroll than Bill was. She's tougher all the way around than Bill and more committed to change. Thank you for that, Judy. I don't know if you realize it or not, but, above, you have, for the first time since we've been having this same conversation for 5+ years, finally acknowledged -- at least implicitly -- that Bill was conservative. Um, no. Bill was and is a centrist Democrat, as is Hillary. And we haven't been having this same conversation for 5+ years. I can't recall ever commenting on your Bill Clinton was a conservative trolls; the idea was too bonkers to waste time on. I'm responding now only to correct your false attribution of that view to me. Whether he was steamrolled and not tough enough...or...he assented to the legislation in question because he thought it best for the country is another issue That's a pretty strange definition, but if it helps you keep things nice and simple so you don't actually have to *think* about what happened during his presidency, you're welcome to it.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And getting laid, of course in the correct vastu with the appropriate ayurvedic unguents. May I ask, what is the correct vastu for getting laid? Close your eyes and think of the Maharishi?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Request to change RIP Scott Girard thread title
--- shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Archer et al, I tried to post to this thread last night but cannot find it. I may have done something wrong. Rather than attempt to re-write my memories of my friend Scott Girard from high school and college, I would like to simply repeat my request that, as there appears to be no adult supervision on this discussion group, perhaps all of you might take your little arguments about exercise and your vicious threats against each other to a different subject line in order to stop the disrespect you are bringing to the name of a good and gentle man. This is precisely the kind of childishness that would have upset Scott the most. Were he to have learned that so many people have time to criticize each other behind anonymous pen-names, he would have been saddened indeed. I am certain he would ask all of you to rise above it, to seek to spend your limited time here on more significant matters. And, above all, he would ask you to stop with the childish name-calling and meaningless physical threats. So, please, start a thread called To exercise or not or something like that and let poor Scott and his memory actually begin to rest in peace. Tim Rowan Colorado Springs Dear Mr. Rowan, By suggesting that our silly yet insignificant bickering on this forum is preventing Mr. Girard's soul from finding peace, you imply that he spent the better part of 30 years on a program -- called The Thousand-Headed Purusha Progarm -- that wasn't very effective. After all, if all that rounding and deep meditation and countless hours spent at the feet of his Master, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, wasn't enough to create a barrier of invincibility to overcome our admittedly childish infighting then what exactly are YOU saying about the most important choice that Mr. Girard made during his lifetime? I would therefore humbly suggest, Mr. Rowan, that it YOU who is showing disrespect for the dearly departed by implying that he was both wasting his time and had bad judgement by choosing a spiritual path that didn't achieve the most basic results one would, at the very least, expect from more than three decades of devotion. Sincerely, The Reverend, Most Perfect Shemp McGurk Jesus, man. Cut Tim some slack. He's bothered that a thread about a great guy passing away devolved into a ridiculous series of posts about exercise without a thread name change. He's right. Obviously Tim knew Scott quite well and is simply asking for some respect for Scott. Why can't we take Tim's request to heart without the sarcastic nonsense and name calling? Please, nobody answer that question! To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
[FairfieldLife] Hell hath frozen over
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip Thing is, Obama has *no* idea of what he'll be facing if he gets elected. Hillary has a much clearer idea of what the score will be and what she'll have to do to get things done. The opposition will be overwhelming, but forewarned is forearmed. She'll at least have more of a chance. The conservatives will eat Obama and his warm fuzzies for breakfast; Hillary will give them enough indigestion to slow them down a bit. ...you mean the way her husband slowed down the Conservatives during his 8 years in office? I think she'd be a lot tougher for them to steamroll than Bill was. She's tougher all the way around than Bill and more committed to change. Thank you for that, Judy. I don't know if you realize it or not, but, above, you have, for the first time since we've been having this same conversation for 5+ years, finally acknowledged -- at least implicitly -- that Bill was conservative. Whether he was steamrolled and not tough enough...or...he assented to the legislation in question because he thought it best for the country is another issue; your acknowledgement is well appreciated.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
On Jan 29, 2008, at 11:44 AM, ruthsimplicity wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And getting laid, of course in the correct vastu with the appropriate ayurvedic unguents. May I ask, what is the correct vastu for getting laid? Close your eyes and think of the Maharishi? While facing east. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'What Kind of People are the Clintons?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...you mean the way her husband slowed down the Conservatives during his 8 years in office? You mean the way he signed NAFTA, the Welfare Reform Act, balanced the budget, supported the death penalty, the Defense of Marriage Act, etc.? Yup, bring on Hillary and Bill, the most conservative president of the last 50 years. Welfare reform was vetoed at least twice before he finally signed it. Family Medical Leave Act passed under his watch. Expansion of the earned income credit was a significant piece of legislation. The Brady bill passed. Even though health care reform did not pass, very significant protections were obtained for consumers through health insurance portability legislation. I can't recall what the trades were for the defense of marriage act. He and Hillary worked hard on health care reform. Those against the reform were well financed and aggressive. The final plan ended up with too many compromises, which made it difficult to sell in a sound bite. Interestingly, much has changed since that time and many of those who lobbied against the efforts are now supportive of some version of guaranteed health care. As a lobbyist on this issue, the whole exercise was probably a necessary step. Hillary is much more in tune with this issue, my issue, than is Obama. However, at least Obama and the other democrats see that there are significant problems in the health care and health insurance industries that need work. Unlike the republicans who think that the market and health savings accounts will take care of the issue.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hell hath frozen over
Shemp, Your title: Hell hath frozen over er, is that your way of jabbing another elbow into Al Gore's side? I mean, it's one thing to think the world is not getting hotter, but to think that Hell is not only getting cold but freezing cold seems to me to be typical of your exaggerationist posting style. Sorry, this is a concept you may not be able to face yet and be, yep, there it is: an inconvenient truth. You need a trikking. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ [snip] . Um, no. Bill was and is a centrist Democrat, as is Hillary. And we haven't been having this same conversation for 5+ years. I can't recall ever commenting on your Bill Clinton was a conservative trolls; the idea was too bonkers to waste time on. I'm responding now only to correct your false attribution of that view to me. [snip] All I can do is offer evidence of why Bill Clinton is and was conservative, which I have done. All you can do to offer evidence that he was and is a centrist Democrat is...to say it and NOT offer evidence. Of course, I consider it a victory for someone, like yourself, who is extreme left-wing to even acknowledge, as you do above, that both Bill and Hillary are centrist Democrats. Again, thanks for that. Oh, and please: keep voting for her!
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
Yeah, Curtis, my folks; the back stories are equally interesting.
And as you can see, the red wine (and the vodka) apparently haven't
diminished their capacities too much. It's just a life and every
life is a story that each one of us has the opportunity to enrich
every day. I always appreciate the stories shared on this forum with
a community I feel so lucky to be a member of.
Marek
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@
wrote:
Curtis, here's another story I think you might enjoy told last
year
to a local Saint Louis PBS station in Saint Louis, accompanied
with
some inexpensive red wine.
Totally blown away! Thanks for sending this Marek. Your folks?
What
a fascinating couple. What a life! I live for stories like this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HVg1kCpxU
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an
anesthetic
it creates dullness.
I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years.
If
that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the
last
attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too
much,
and drink with the right people. Removing the drink from the
set
and
setting that it can enhance, misses the point IMO. It can be a
part
of social customs and cuisines that I enjoy.
A chilled martini at a jazz club with an acoustic jazz trio in
the
background.
Some top shelf bourbon bought for you by a young couple after
your
last set, who had never listened to acoustic blues before, and
have
many questions about what blues artists they should download.
A bottle of local Virginia wine over dinner with a friend who
just
came back from visiting Africa and has many stories to share.
A chilled Czech Pilsner Urquell beer at boating picnic while
eating
Chesapeake Bay crabs.
Greek brandy with your Greek friends as they tell you about how
they
survived during WWII in Greece on an olive farm, while eating
sheep
feta cheese and dipping crusty bread into oil from this year's
olive
harvest.
Toasts with Hennessey cognac with the bridal party at your
Vietnamese
friend's wedding after all the other guests have left.
A friend's homemade wine at their farm after riding their
horses.
Joining a Thai friend as he closes up his restaurant and eating
home
style fiery hot Thai food with the staff with Thai Singha beer.
Drinking chilled vodka shots with your Russian girlfriend over
the
traditional meal she cooked for you.
Sharing the Brazilian national drink, the Chaiparinya.
(limes,sugar
and Cachasa) with a raven haired Brazilian girl while watching
World
Cup soccer.
A smoky Lagavulin scotch with my father over stories of his
experiences in the South Pacific theater of WWII and the
occupation
of
Japan.
Making handmade pasta, covering them with fresh steamed clams,
with
a
glass of Sauvignon Blanc and your best friends.
A glass of sweet port with a plate of Stilton with your
girlfriend
while the snow falls outside.
Some of these experiences would be plenty cool without the
shared
beverage. But sometime it is the ritual of sharing the drink
that
connects people. Alcohol is just sugar molecules with an
attitude.
It is a type of food, and each culture has it's special
version.
You
may associate it with dullness if you prefer. I prefer to
associate
it with the way peoples eyes crinkle up at the edges during
conversation.
Ethanol is a two-carbon alcohol and can be considered an
active
brain-
drug and an all-purpose cellular toxin. Even moderate alcohol
abuse
distorts the personality, emotions, and intellect of the
`social
drinker', which is a direct consequence of brain dysfunction
caused
by ethanol and other chemical pathogens in alcoholic
beverages.
Even
low doses of alcohol interfere with memory and make it
difficult
for
the hippocampus to process new information. As a brain drug,
ethanol
acts to depress the brain function from the top down, very
much
in
the style of an anesthetic. Acetaldehyde is particularly
toxic.
{nutramed.com, Apr. 2003}
http://www.jrussellshealth.org/alcbfm.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: For Judy the Clintonista
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Here are three articles that document Bill and Hillary's conservative records: The first from the left-wing New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/17/070917fa_fact_lizza The second from a right-winger: http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBartlett/2007/05/01/conservatives_ for_hillary The third from an article that I believe either Barfitu or Robert the Rhymer posted here and is from an EXTREME left-wing source: http://www.isreview.org/issues/13/clinton-gore.shtml But you go ahead, Judy, you sweet dear thing, and continue on with the illusion that the Clintons are centrist Democrats. Why, to take an alternative position would mean that you would actually have to think for yourself and, hey, we can't have that! Funny, because triangulating from these three pieces shows as clearly as can be that Clinton is a centrist Democrat. Good choices, Shemp. Funny, because unless you speed read at three times the fastest known rate, there's no way you could have read them all by the time you posted. Nice try. Also, nice try in hoodwinking people to believe that the articles show anything but what I suggested.
[FairfieldLife] CBS News report on Maharish's retirement
CBS News report on Maharish's retirement http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/29/ap/world/main3766030.shtml Maharishi Retreats Into Silence Indian Guru To The Beatles Retreats Into Silence, Gives Up Control Of Meditation Movement THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 29, 2008 [3 Photos] (AP) It was 1967 and the Indian meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, dressed in white with long flowing black hair and a gray beard, beamed as he stood surrounded by four smiling young Beatles at the peak of their popularity. George Harrison, clutching a sitar, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were on their way to a retreat in Wales led by the Maharishi, and the Hindu holy man was on his way to worldwide fame. It has been more than 50 years since the Maharishi began teaching a technique known as Transcendental Meditation. He is now believed to be 91 and on Tuesday, a close adviser said he has retreated into near silence and turned over the day-to-day running of his global network to aides. He is not as young as he once was, adviser John Hagelin, an American physicist, said by telephone from the Dutch village of Vlodrop where the TM movement is now headquartered. I think he probably has a more limited reserve of physical energy to draw upon. He was working ... 20 hours a day for years. Transcendental Meditation, or TM, is a 20-minute twice daily routine in which the meditator silently focuses on a sound, or mantra, to induce relaxation and dive into a state of pure consciousness. Most scientists agree TM can ease stress, high blood pressure, pain and insomnia. But some argue it is no more effective than many other mind-body relaxation techniques. Movie director David Lynch once extolled the virtues of TM in a speech. Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear -- these things start to retreat, said Lynch, a longtime practitioner. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create. The Maharishi's movement claims some 6 million people have become practitioners. But it was not until the Beatles visited his ashram in India in 1968 that the guru became an icon of the counterculture movement. John, Paul, George and Ringo came for spiritual instruction as they struggled to come to terms with the death of their manager Brian Epstein. Other celebrities who followed the Maharishi's teachings included singer Donovan, actress Mia Farrow and the Beach Boys. The attention his famous followers focused on the Maharishi's movement turned it into a global phenomenon with outposts in some 130 countries. For the last 17 years, he has run it from a former Franciscan monastery in a secluded forest near Vlodrop, an eastern Dutch village near the German border. He often spent hours on end speaking by video links to followers around the globe. The Maharishi told senior aides at a Jan. 8 meeting in the Netherlands of his plan to withdraw from administrative duties and spend his time absorbed in the ancient Indian texts that underpin his movement. The announcement caught many followers off guard. He had been involved very dynamically administratively in his worldwide movement for over 50 years, so it's quite a significant change to see him dive back purely into knowledge and let other people take care of the administration, Hagelin said. There is no one designated successor but many people have been trained for years to carry on the Maharishi's various tasks, Hagelin said. The Maharishi -- a Hindi-language title for Great Seer -- now spends his days in silence contemplating and preparing a commentary on the Vedas, a vast Sanskrit canon compiled some 3,500 years ago, from which he evolves solutions for today's troubled world. I think everybody's quietly feeling some sense of celebration that he's finally going to complete his commentary on the Vedas, which probably will have a longer-term impact, Hagelin said. It's a vitally important body of literature. The Maharishi is believed to have been born Jan. 12, 1917, in central India. He earned a physics degree from Allahabad University, was the longtime secretary to a leading Hindu sage, then wen into silent retreat for two years in the northern Indian hills. In 1955, he began teaching Transcendental Meditation and took his technique to the United States in 1959. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
On Jan 29, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: here's another story I think you might enjoy told last year to a local Saint Louis PBS station in Saint Louis, accompanied with some inexpensive red wine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HVg1kCpxU I always knew there was something special about you! What a wonderful story and historythanks so much for sharing this with all of us!
[FairfieldLife] Re: For Judy the Clintonista
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Here are three articles that document Bill and Hillary's conservative records: The first from the left-wing New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/17/070917fa_fact_lizza The second from a right-winger: http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBartlett/2007/05/01/conservatives_ for_hillary The third from an article that I believe either Barfitu or Robert the Rhymer posted here and is from an EXTREME left-wing source: http://www.isreview.org/issues/13/clinton-gore.shtml But you go ahead, Judy, you sweet dear thing, and continue on with the illusion that the Clintons are centrist Democrats. Why, to take an alternative position would mean that you would actually have to think for yourself and, hey, we can't have that! Funny, because triangulating from these three pieces shows as clearly as can be that Clinton is a centrist Democrat. Good choices, Shemp. Funny, because unless you speed read at three times the fastest known rate, there's no way you could have read them all by the time you posted. Don't be silly. I read fast, and they aren't *that* long. Took me about a half an hour. I did just skim the last half of the third one, though. Nice try. Also, nice try in hoodwinking people to believe that the articles show anything but what I suggested. Read them again, Shemp. They don't say what you wish they said.
[FairfieldLife] Re: ATT plans to filter the Internet - [video included]
an interesting thing has happened when, on several occasions, corporations have attempted to monitor copyrighted material: there has been an enormous backlash that then threatens the economic viability of the corporation itself. It has happened to Google, Yahoo!, and DIGG...all of whom quickly backed off once it got out onto the internet that they were attempting to monitor. I suspect the same thing will happen with ATT. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would really mess them up. :) eqjkjOJIENONDldjishjengypaioneonfdiLX898DLknd asjie89d,enogyryuilkdne40d89vnflahdlls-dkjelagyu si89dyutntleygnirnxxxeelxi - dsse998nnbe x978f8-4l289cnfdsxx9ff do.rflex wrote: ATT is planning to open all packets on the Internet, and examine them for intellectual property violations. Email, IM, everything. So, when Boing-Boing writer Joel Johnson was invited onto ATT's Hugh Johnson Show to talk about gadgets, he decided to talk about that instead. Naturally, the show's crew calls a halt to the show almost as soon as Joel lets the cat out of the bag, but not before the audience has called out No! to Joel's question: Do you want ATT reading your mail? VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY6cCGENlj8 Here's what happened afterwards: As you can see from the video, the crew ended up scrubbing the interview about half-way through. Figuring that might happen, I asked my steely-nerved friend Richard Blakeley to tape the first take. I wanted to make sure that we had a record of the event, primarily to ensure that ATT would have no reason to try to bury the interview entirely—the same reason I am running this clip now, while discussion about what to do with my segment in post-production is surely underway. After the crew got their wits about them—they were not very happy with me, understandably—we went on to shoot a second take, which to Hugh's credit also included not only talk of gadgets, but of network neutrality and ATT's collusion with the NSA. I look forward to seeing that segment air on the The Hugh Thompson Show. The crew was upset with me not only because I was making their job more difficult, but because they feared that my stunt would cost them their jobs. Everyone looked at the staff member who booked me on the show with sad eyes, assuring me that he would certainly be fired. After their initial panic at an interview gone off the rails the crew acted professionally and efficiently to continue shooting the show. If ATT ends up letting a single person go from that crew, shame on them. What I chose to do has nothing to do with the crew or Mr. Thompson himself, who despite being visibly perturbed handled the whole mess like troupers. = There's some discussion over at 'Slate' about whether it's even technically possible for ATT to do this. Wouldn't it be interesting if ATT was simply leveraging and privatizing technology it had already been paid to develop under Bush's warrantless surveillance program? Why does ATT want to know what you're downloading? SEE Slate article: http://www.slate.com/id/2182152/fr/rss/ Via: http://www.correntewire.com/at_ts_plans_to_filter_the_internet
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maybe it's me...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: --- curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Very funny. I just watched the original TC video all over again and it really is so disturbing in its narcissism. Kind of reminds me of myself talking about the perfection of TM 30 years ago! You put your finger on what repulses me about it...I recognize my own past! That absolute certitude that you are right...no, not right, but RIGHT!!! Confounding the conviction of your belief with certitude. So profoundly immature. Like suggesting that some young fellow ought to remove a mole in his face because it is distracting ? ;-) It was me, not Dr. Pete, who suggested the young fellow have the humongous mole removed from his face. However, I now know the error of my ways and have been reeducated and rehabilitated. I understand now that facial moles are the key to financial success. After all, look at Cindy Crawford or Marilyn Monroe or even me... scientific proof that moles on the face are money magnets.
[FairfieldLife] For Judy the Clintonista
Here are three articles that document Bill and Hillary's conservative records: The first from the left-wing New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/17/070917fa_fact_lizza The second from a right-winger: http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBartlett/2007/05/01/conservatives_ for_hillary The third from an article that I believe either Barfitu or Robert the Rhymer posted here and is from an EXTREME left-wing source: http://www.isreview.org/issues/13/clinton-gore.shtml But you go ahead, Judy, you sweet dear thing, and continue on with the illusion that the Clintons are centrist Democrats. Why, to take an alternative position would mean that you would actually have to think for yourself and, hey, we can't have that!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Request to change RIP Scott Girard thread title
--All true, shemp! For beginners, in the Sant Mat Tradition, there's a statement to the effect that their goal (what MMY calls GC) takes 3 lifetimes; not 5-7 years, or whatever. - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: --- shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Mr. Archer et al, I tried to post to this thread last night but cannot find it. I may have done something wrong. Rather than attempt to re-write my memories of my friend Scott Girard from high school and college, I would like to simply repeat my request that, as there appears to be no adult supervision on this discussion group, perhaps all of you might take your little arguments about exercise and your vicious threats against each other to a different subject line in order to stop the disrespect you are bringing to the name of a good and gentle man. This is precisely the kind of childishness that would have upset Scott the most. Were he to have learned that so many people have time to criticize each other behind anonymous pen-names, he would have been saddened indeed. I am certain he would ask all of you to rise above it, to seek to spend your limited time here on more significant matters. And, above all, he would ask you to stop with the childish name-calling and meaningless physical threats. So, please, start a thread called To exercise or not or something like that and let poor Scott and his memory actually begin to rest in peace. Tim Rowan Colorado Springs Dear Mr. Rowan, By suggesting that our silly yet insignificant bickering on this forum is preventing Mr. Girard's soul from finding peace, you imply that he spent the better part of 30 years on a program -- called The Thousand-Headed Purusha Progarm -- that wasn't very effective. After all, if all that rounding and deep meditation and countless hours spent at the feet of his Master, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, wasn't enough to create a barrier of invincibility to overcome our admittedly childish infighting then what exactly are YOU saying about the most important choice that Mr. Girard made during his lifetime? I would therefore humbly suggest, Mr. Rowan, that it YOU who is showing disrespect for the dearly departed by implying that he was both wasting his time and had bad judgement by choosing a spiritual path that didn't achieve the most basic results one would, at the very least, expect from more than three decades of devotion. Sincerely, The Reverend, Most Perfect Shemp McGurk Jesus, man. Cut Tim some slack. He's bothered that a thread about a great guy passing away devolved into a ridiculous series of posts about exercise without a thread name change. He's right. Obviously Tim knew Scott quite well and is simply asking for some respect for Scott. Why can't we take Tim's request to heart without the sarcastic nonsense and name calling? Please, nobody answer that question! It really irked me that he referred to Scott (someone I never heard of nor knew) as poor Scott. That really probably more insulting to his memory than anyone else. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ __ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php? category=shopping
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hell hath frozen over
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ [snip] . Um, no. Bill was and is a centrist Democrat, as is Hillary. And we haven't been having this same conversation for 5+ years. I can't recall ever commenting on your Bill Clinton was a conservative trolls; the idea was too bonkers to waste time on. I'm responding now only to correct your false attribution of that view to me. [snip] All I can do is offer evidence of why Bill Clinton is and was conservative, which I have done. All you can do to offer evidence that he was and is a centrist Democrat is...to say it and NOT offer evidence. Of course, I consider it a victory for someone, like yourself, who is extreme left-wing to even acknowledge, as you do above, that both Bill and Hillary are centrist Democrats. Again, thanks for that. Oh, and please: keep voting for her!
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
Curtis, here's another story I think you might enjoy told last year
to a local Saint Louis PBS station in Saint Louis, accompanied with
some inexpensive red wine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HVg1kCpxU
**
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an
anesthetic
it creates dullness.
I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years. If
that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the last
attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too much,
and drink with the right people. Removing the drink from the set
and
setting that it can enhance, misses the point IMO. It can be a part
of social customs and cuisines that I enjoy.
A chilled martini at a jazz club with an acoustic jazz trio in the
background.
Some top shelf bourbon bought for you by a young couple after your
last set, who had never listened to acoustic blues before, and have
many questions about what blues artists they should download.
A bottle of local Virginia wine over dinner with a friend who just
came back from visiting Africa and has many stories to share.
A chilled Czech Pilsner Urquell beer at boating picnic while eating
Chesapeake Bay crabs.
Greek brandy with your Greek friends as they tell you about how they
survived during WWII in Greece on an olive farm, while eating sheep
feta cheese and dipping crusty bread into oil from this year's olive
harvest.
Toasts with Hennessey cognac with the bridal party at your
Vietnamese
friend's wedding after all the other guests have left.
A friend's homemade wine at their farm after riding their horses.
Joining a Thai friend as he closes up his restaurant and eating home
style fiery hot Thai food with the staff with Thai Singha beer.
Drinking chilled vodka shots with your Russian girlfriend over the
traditional meal she cooked for you.
Sharing the Brazilian national drink, the Chaiparinya. (limes,sugar
and Cachasa) with a raven haired Brazilian girl while watching World
Cup soccer.
A smoky Lagavulin scotch with my father over stories of his
experiences in the South Pacific theater of WWII and the occupation
of
Japan.
Making handmade pasta, covering them with fresh steamed clams, with
a
glass of Sauvignon Blanc and your best friends.
A glass of sweet port with a plate of Stilton with your girlfriend
while the snow falls outside.
Some of these experiences would be plenty cool without the shared
beverage. But sometime it is the ritual of sharing the drink that
connects people. Alcohol is just sugar molecules with an attitude.
It is a type of food, and each culture has it's special version.
You
may associate it with dullness if you prefer. I prefer to associate
it with the way peoples eyes crinkle up at the edges during
conversation.
Ethanol is a two-carbon alcohol and can be considered an active
brain-
drug and an all-purpose cellular toxin. Even moderate alcohol
abuse
distorts the personality, emotions, and intellect of the `social
drinker', which is a direct consequence of brain dysfunction
caused
by ethanol and other chemical pathogens in alcoholic beverages.
Even
low doses of alcohol interfere with memory and make it difficult
for
the hippocampus to process new information. As a brain drug,
ethanol
acts to depress the brain function from the top down, very much
in
the style of an anesthetic. Acetaldehyde is particularly toxic.
{nutramed.com, Apr. 2003}
http://www.jrussellshealth.org/alcbfm.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Request to change RIP Scott Girard thread title
There is wisdom in showing grace when given an opportunity, and wisdom in not filing a grievance with every real or alleged fault of another. The wisdom being that, in giving grace, you will be more 'eligible' when grace comes your way . . . anyways, this seems like good advice my grandma told me. Does anyone have any photos of Scott, or any tales? I wonder if I ever met him? L --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: --- shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Mr. Archer et al, I tried to post to this thread last night but cannot find it. I may have done something wrong. Rather than attempt to re-write my memories of my friend Scott Girard from high school and college, I would like to simply repeat my request that, as there appears to be no adult supervision on this discussion group, perhaps all of you might take your little arguments about exercise and your vicious threats against each other to a different subject line in order to stop the disrespect you are bringing to the name of a good and gentle man. This is precisely the kind of childishness that would have upset Scott the most. Were he to have learned that so many people have time to criticize each other behind anonymous pen-names, he would have been saddened indeed. I am certain he would ask all of you to rise above it, to seek to spend your limited time here on more significant matters. And, above all, he would ask you to stop with the childish name-calling and meaningless physical threats. So, please, start a thread called To exercise or not or something like that and let poor Scott and his memory actually begin to rest in peace. Tim Rowan Colorado Springs Dear Mr. Rowan, By suggesting that our silly yet insignificant bickering on this forum is preventing Mr. Girard's soul from finding peace, you imply that he spent the better part of 30 years on a program -- called The Thousand-Headed Purusha Progarm -- that wasn't very effective. After all, if all that rounding and deep meditation and countless hours spent at the feet of his Master, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, wasn't enough to create a barrier of invincibility to overcome our admittedly childish infighting then what exactly are YOU saying about the most important choice that Mr. Girard made during his lifetime? I would therefore humbly suggest, Mr. Rowan, that it YOU who is showing disrespect for the dearly departed by implying that he was both wasting his time and had bad judgement by choosing a spiritual path that didn't achieve the most basic results one would, at the very least, expect from more than three decades of devotion. Sincerely, The Reverend, Most Perfect Shemp McGurk Jesus, man. Cut Tim some slack. He's bothered that a thread about a great guy passing away devolved into a ridiculous series of posts about exercise without a thread name change. He's right. Obviously Tim knew Scott quite well and is simply asking for some respect for Scott. Why can't we take Tim's request to heart without the sarcastic nonsense and name calling? Please, nobody answer that question! It really irked me that he referred to Scott (someone I never heard of nor knew) as poor Scott. That really probably more insulting to his memory than anyone else. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ __ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
[FairfieldLife] Re: Hell hath frozen over
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shemp, Your title: Hell hath frozen over er, is that your way of jabbing another elbow into Al Gore's side? I mean, it's one thing to think the world is not getting hotter, but to think that Hell is not only getting cold but freezing cold seems to me to be typical of your exaggerationist posting style. Sorry, this is a concept you may not be able to face yet and be, yep, there it is: an inconvenient truth. You need a trikking. Edg Like the news that the polar ice caps on Mars is also melting, I'm sure that if hell was, indeed, frozen over, the Global-Warming alarmists would find some way of blaming it on CO2 and George Bush. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ [snip] . Um, no. Bill was and is a centrist Democrat, as is Hillary. And we haven't been having this same conversation for 5+ years. I can't recall ever commenting on your Bill Clinton was a conservative trolls; the idea was too bonkers to waste time on. I'm responding now only to correct your false attribution of that view to me. [snip] All I can do is offer evidence of why Bill Clinton is and was conservative, which I have done. All you can do to offer evidence that he was and is a centrist Democrat is...to say it and NOT offer evidence. Of course, I consider it a victory for someone, like yourself, who is extreme left-wing to even acknowledge, as you do above, that both Bill and Hillary are centrist Democrats. Again, thanks for that. Oh, and please: keep voting for her!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Request to change RIP Scott Girard thread title
shempmcgurk wrote: It really irked me that he referred to Scott (someone I never heard of nor knew) as poor Scott. That really probably more insulting to his memory than anyone else. I kinda don't understand why anyone would get upset about the exercise thread. It was meant in concern of the guy having cardiovascular disease and not intended in any disrespect. And too be fair people do hijack threads here because they're too lazy (or ignorant) to start a new topic. But the guy going off on the group also made him look like a TMco droid.
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Curtis, here's another story I think you might enjoy told last year
to a local Saint Louis PBS station in Saint Louis, accompanied with
some inexpensive red wine.
Totally blown away! Thanks for sending this Marek. Your folks? What
a fascinating couple. What a life! I live for stories like this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HVg1kCpxU
**
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an
anesthetic
it creates dullness.
I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years. If
that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the last
attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too much,
and drink with the right people. Removing the drink from the set
and
setting that it can enhance, misses the point IMO. It can be a part
of social customs and cuisines that I enjoy.
A chilled martini at a jazz club with an acoustic jazz trio in the
background.
Some top shelf bourbon bought for you by a young couple after your
last set, who had never listened to acoustic blues before, and have
many questions about what blues artists they should download.
A bottle of local Virginia wine over dinner with a friend who just
came back from visiting Africa and has many stories to share.
A chilled Czech Pilsner Urquell beer at boating picnic while eating
Chesapeake Bay crabs.
Greek brandy with your Greek friends as they tell you about how they
survived during WWII in Greece on an olive farm, while eating sheep
feta cheese and dipping crusty bread into oil from this year's olive
harvest.
Toasts with Hennessey cognac with the bridal party at your
Vietnamese
friend's wedding after all the other guests have left.
A friend's homemade wine at their farm after riding their horses.
Joining a Thai friend as he closes up his restaurant and eating home
style fiery hot Thai food with the staff with Thai Singha beer.
Drinking chilled vodka shots with your Russian girlfriend over the
traditional meal she cooked for you.
Sharing the Brazilian national drink, the Chaiparinya. (limes,sugar
and Cachasa) with a raven haired Brazilian girl while watching World
Cup soccer.
A smoky Lagavulin scotch with my father over stories of his
experiences in the South Pacific theater of WWII and the occupation
of
Japan.
Making handmade pasta, covering them with fresh steamed clams, with
a
glass of Sauvignon Blanc and your best friends.
A glass of sweet port with a plate of Stilton with your girlfriend
while the snow falls outside.
Some of these experiences would be plenty cool without the shared
beverage. But sometime it is the ritual of sharing the drink that
connects people. Alcohol is just sugar molecules with an attitude.
It is a type of food, and each culture has it's special version.
You
may associate it with dullness if you prefer. I prefer to associate
it with the way peoples eyes crinkle up at the edges during
conversation.
Ethanol is a two-carbon alcohol and can be considered an active
brain-
drug and an all-purpose cellular toxin. Even moderate alcohol
abuse
distorts the personality, emotions, and intellect of the `social
drinker', which is a direct consequence of brain dysfunction
caused
by ethanol and other chemical pathogens in alcoholic beverages.
Even
low doses of alcohol interfere with memory and make it difficult
for
the hippocampus to process new information. As a brain drug,
ethanol
acts to depress the brain function from the top down, very much
in
the style of an anesthetic. Acetaldehyde is particularly toxic.
{nutramed.com, Apr. 2003}
http://www.jrussellshealth.org/alcbfm.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: For Judy the Clintonista
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are three articles that document Bill and Hillary's conservative records: The first from the left-wing New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/17/070917fa_fact_lizza The second from a right-winger: http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBartlett/2007/05/01/conservatives_ for_hillary The third from an article that I believe either Barfitu or Robert the Rhymer posted here and is from an EXTREME left-wing source: http://www.isreview.org/issues/13/clinton-gore.shtml But you go ahead, Judy, you sweet dear thing, and continue on with the illusion that the Clintons are centrist Democrats. Why, to take an alternative position would mean that you would actually have to think for yourself and, hey, we can't have that! Funny, because triangulating from these three pieces shows as clearly as can be that Clinton is a centrist Democrat. Good choices, Shemp.
[FairfieldLife] ATT plans to filter the Internet - [video included]
ATT is planning to open all packets on the Internet, and examine them for intellectual property violations. Email, IM, everything. So, when Boing-Boing writer Joel Johnson was invited onto ATT's Hugh Johnson Show to talk about gadgets, he decided to talk about that instead. Naturally, the show's crew calls a halt to the show almost as soon as Joel lets the cat out of the bag, but not before the audience has called out No! to Joel's question: Do you want ATT reading your mail? VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY6cCGENlj8 Here's what happened afterwards: As you can see from the video, the crew ended up scrubbing the interview about half-way through. Figuring that might happen, I asked my steely-nerved friend Richard Blakeley to tape the first take. I wanted to make sure that we had a record of the event, primarily to ensure that ATT would have no reason to try to bury the interview entirely—the same reason I am running this clip now, while discussion about what to do with my segment in post-production is surely underway. After the crew got their wits about them—they were not very happy with me, understandably—we went on to shoot a second take, which to Hugh's credit also included not only talk of gadgets, but of network neutrality and ATT's collusion with the NSA. I look forward to seeing that segment air on the The Hugh Thompson Show. The crew was upset with me not only because I was making their job more difficult, but because they feared that my stunt would cost them their jobs. Everyone looked at the staff member who booked me on the show with sad eyes, assuring me that he would certainly be fired. After their initial panic at an interview gone off the rails the crew acted professionally and efficiently to continue shooting the show. If ATT ends up letting a single person go from that crew, shame on them. What I chose to do has nothing to do with the crew or Mr. Thompson himself, who despite being visibly perturbed handled the whole mess like troupers. = There's some discussion over at 'Slate' about whether it's even technically possible for ATT to do this. Wouldn't it be interesting if ATT was simply leveraging and privatizing technology it had already been paid to develop under Bush's warrantless surveillance program? Why does ATT want to know what you're downloading? SEE Slate article: http://www.slate.com/id/2182152/fr/rss/ Via: http://www.correntewire.com/at_ts_plans_to_filter_the_internet
[FairfieldLife] Re: CBS News report on Maharish's retirement
No mention of Nader Ram as successor..hhh. I'm not surprised. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, george_deforest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CBS News report on Maharish's retirement http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/29/ap/world/main3766030.shtml Maharishi Retreats Into Silence Indian Guru To The Beatles Retreats Into Silence, Gives Up Control Of Meditation Movement THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan. 29, 2008 [3 Photos] (AP) It was 1967 and the Indian meditation guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, dressed in white with long flowing black hair and a gray beard, beamed as he stood surrounded by four smiling young Beatles at the peak of their popularity. George Harrison, clutching a sitar, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were on their way to a retreat in Wales led by the Maharishi, and the Hindu holy man was on his way to worldwide fame. It has been more than 50 years since the Maharishi began teaching a technique known as Transcendental Meditation. He is now believed to be 91 and on Tuesday, a close adviser said he has retreated into near silence and turned over the day-to-day running of his global network to aides. He is not as young as he once was, adviser John Hagelin, an American physicist, said by telephone from the Dutch village of Vlodrop where the TM movement is now headquartered. I think he probably has a more limited reserve of physical energy to draw upon. He was working ... 20 hours a day for years. Transcendental Meditation, or TM, is a 20-minute twice daily routine in which the meditator silently focuses on a sound, or mantra, to induce relaxation and dive into a state of pure consciousness. Most scientists agree TM can ease stress, high blood pressure, pain and insomnia. But some argue it is no more effective than many other mind-body relaxation techniques. Movie director David Lynch once extolled the virtues of TM in a speech. Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear -- these things start to retreat, said Lynch, a longtime practitioner. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create. The Maharishi's movement claims some 6 million people have become practitioners. But it was not until the Beatles visited his ashram in India in 1968 that the guru became an icon of the counterculture movement. John, Paul, George and Ringo came for spiritual instruction as they struggled to come to terms with the death of their manager Brian Epstein. Other celebrities who followed the Maharishi's teachings included singer Donovan, actress Mia Farrow and the Beach Boys. The attention his famous followers focused on the Maharishi's movement turned it into a global phenomenon with outposts in some 130 countries. For the last 17 years, he has run it from a former Franciscan monastery in a secluded forest near Vlodrop, an eastern Dutch village near the German border. He often spent hours on end speaking by video links to followers around the globe. The Maharishi told senior aides at a Jan. 8 meeting in the Netherlands of his plan to withdraw from administrative duties and spend his time absorbed in the ancient Indian texts that underpin his movement. The announcement caught many followers off guard. He had been involved very dynamically administratively in his worldwide movement for over 50 years, so it's quite a significant change to see him dive back purely into knowledge and let other people take care of the administration, Hagelin said. There is no one designated successor but many people have been trained for years to carry on the Maharishi's various tasks, Hagelin said. The Maharishi -- a Hindi-language title for Great Seer -- now spends his days in silence contemplating and preparing a commentary on the Vedas, a vast Sanskrit canon compiled some 3,500 years ago, from which he evolves solutions for today's troubled world. I think everybody's quietly feeling some sense of celebration that he's finally going to complete his commentary on the Vedas, which probably will have a longer-term impact, Hagelin said. It's a vitally important body of literature. The Maharishi is believed to have been born Jan. 12, 1917, in central India. He earned a physics degree from Allahabad University, was the longtime secretary to a leading Hindu sage, then wen into silent retreat for two years in the northern Indian hills. In 1955, he began teaching Transcendental Meditation and took his technique to the United States in 1959. Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
[FairfieldLife] Re: From a friend on Purusha in India
As you may have heard, this is all happening now because it seems Maharishi's health has taken a bad turn. Maharishi seems to have been in the hospital for some days during silence. People in Vlodrop got wind of it and even thought Maharishi had left the body. When they heard on Jan 12th that Maharishi was back in Vlodrop and listening to the celebration, it was a very emotional time for everyone. The Jan 19th message that Maharishi was continuing in Silence was, I suppose, designed to reassure people in the field. And Raja John's latest message that Maharishi is retiring out of necessity was very telling. Hospital? Yes, word around here was that Maharishi was taken to hospital and spent some time in an oxygen tent during the first half of January while he was in silence. Om, it goes to show only, you know, those oxygen levels they do decrease to a point twice as deep as in deepest sleep during meditation, according to some research. He is back retired working in his home and everything is fine, according to some. Much needed fundraising for the TMmovement world peace projects continues everywhere on behalf of Maharishi. Business is as usual mind your own business. Meditate faithfully and dive into activity. Jai Guru Dev, -Doug in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear +++ Thanks for forwarding the message from Bevan. If you have been following the events around Jan 12th, you'll know a lot of changes are taking place now. We finally got our new satellite dish up to watch the Jan. 12th broadcasts. Everyone listened very intently as Maharishi announced that he is retiring, and seemingly has put everything in place for Maha Raja Nader Ram, his Rajas, and the 12 Ministers to take over all aspects of the Movement's guidance and administration. Maharishi has hinted at this several times of over the past years, but there was a real sense of finality about it this time. The underlying point of it all is that he has been telling us all to be Self-Sufficient and not rely on him so much anymore. We have the knowledge, we know what to do, and we have our programme. So now only we have to hold fast to it. As you may have heard, this is all happening now because it seems Maharishi's health has taken a bad turn. Maharishi seems to have been in the hospital for some days during silence. People in Vlodrop got wind of it and even thought Maharishi had left the body. When they heard on Jan 12th that Maharishi was back in Vlodrop and listening to the celebration, it was a very emotional time for everyone. The Jan 19th message that Maharishi was continuing in Silence was, I suppose, designed to reassure people in the field. And Raja John's latest message that Maharishi is retiring out of necessity was very telling. So we shall see what the year ahead brings us. It seems like much of the day to day running of the Movement will be done by others now. Maharishi just said a few days ago that he would withdraw into silence to work on final commentaries of the Vedas. It will probably be a very significant year for the TM Movement and all of us. Jai Guru Dev No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.10/1240 - Release Date: 1/23/2008 5:47 PM
Re: [FairfieldLife] ATT plans to filter the Internet - [video included]
This would really mess them up. :) eqjkjOJIENONDldjishjengypaioneonfdiLX898DLknd asjie89d,enogyryuilkdne40d89vnflahdlls-dkjelagyu si89dyutntleygnirnxxxeelxi - dsse998nnbe x978f8-4l289cnfdsxx9ff do.rflex wrote: ATT is planning to open all packets on the Internet, and examine them for intellectual property violations. Email, IM, everything. So, when Boing-Boing writer Joel Johnson was invited onto ATT's Hugh Johnson Show to talk about gadgets, he decided to talk about that instead. Naturally, the show's crew calls a halt to the show almost as soon as Joel lets the cat out of the bag, but not before the audience has called out No! to Joel's question: Do you want ATT reading your mail? VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY6cCGENlj8 Here's what happened afterwards: As you can see from the video, the crew ended up scrubbing the interview about half-way through. Figuring that might happen, I asked my steely-nerved friend Richard Blakeley to tape the first take. I wanted to make sure that we had a record of the event, primarily to ensure that ATT would have no reason to try to bury the interview entirely—the same reason I am running this clip now, while discussion about what to do with my segment in post-production is surely underway. After the crew got their wits about them—they were not very happy with me, understandably—we went on to shoot a second take, which to Hugh's credit also included not only talk of gadgets, but of network neutrality and ATT's collusion with the NSA. I look forward to seeing that segment air on the The Hugh Thompson Show. The crew was upset with me not only because I was making their job more difficult, but because they feared that my stunt would cost them their jobs. Everyone looked at the staff member who booked me on the show with sad eyes, assuring me that he would certainly be fired. After their initial panic at an interview gone off the rails the crew acted professionally and efficiently to continue shooting the show. If ATT ends up letting a single person go from that crew, shame on them. What I chose to do has nothing to do with the crew or Mr. Thompson himself, who despite being visibly perturbed handled the whole mess like troupers. = There's some discussion over at 'Slate' about whether it's even technically possible for ATT to do this. Wouldn't it be interesting if ATT was simply leveraging and privatizing technology it had already been paid to develop under Bush's warrantless surveillance program? Why does ATT want to know what you're downloading? SEE Slate article: http://www.slate.com/id/2182152/fr/rss/ Via: http://www.correntewire.com/at_ts_plans_to_filter_the_internet To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Kennedys for Clinton
That's a surprise -- I wudda thunk diff. Maybe the Kennedys are just priming us all for the next presidential race when Patrick or some other Kennedy runs for the office. And so they've decided to come out BIG and re-enliven the aura of Camelot -- then cash in on the renewal of the Kennedy mystic eight years from now. I'm just sayin! I mean, if YOU had a billion dollars and how much it grew or shrank depended on having a lacky in office, what do you think it would be worth to insure YOUR MONEY?maybe a show of family umbrella-ness -- demonstrating who the core Democrat producing family is, and stay tuned for our next better-than-any-other candidate but meanwhile we suggest this babe and dude. I cried at Ted's speech, but it wasn't at all about the loss that the assassinations cost America. It was this dream we all had that we hoped the Kennedys would fulfill. Obama is right smack up there in the inspirational department -- Bobby would love his energy and intent. 'Course, Bobby and Jack were doodling a drugged Marilyn and sending Cubans to certain defeat and largely being not merely camelotish but also cameloutish, and, hey, gotta say it, starting the Viet Nam war too. If Obama gets the nom, man is the exudation going to hit the twirly thingie. It won't be your father's swift-boating, it's going to be out right ugly bone deep racism. I got my first piece of junk mail just today saying Obama is a Muslim and that only Christians are true Americans. PUKE! Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe- kennedy29jan29,0,1618955.story From the Los Angeles Times Kennedys for Clinton She stands for Democrats and for the nation, these family members say. By Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kerry Kennedy January 29, 2008 This is a wonderful year for Democrats. Our party is blessed with the most impressive array of primary candidates in modern history. All would make superb presidents. By now you may have read or heard that our cousin, Caroline Kennedy, and our uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, have come out in favor of Sen. Barack Obama. We, however, are supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton because we believe that she is the strongest candidate for our party and our country. While talk of unity and compromise are inspiring to a nation wary of divisiveness, America stands at a historic crossroads where real issues divide our political landscapes. Democrats believe that America should not be torturing people, eavesdropping on our citizens or imprisoning them without habeas corpus or other constitutional rights. We should not be an imperial power. We need healthcare for all and a clean, safe environment. The loftiest poetry will not solve these issues. We need a president willing to engage in a fistfight to safeguard and restore our national virtues. We have worked with Hillary Clinton for 15 years (and in Kathleen's case, 25 years) and witnessed the power and depth of her convictions firsthand. We've seen her formidable work ethic, courage in the face of adversity and her dignity and clear head in crisis. We've also seen her two-fisted willingness to enter the brawl when America's principles are challenged. Her measured rhetoric, political savvy and pragmatism shield the heart of our nation's most determined and most democratic warrior. She has been an uncompromising and loyal ally for each of us in our battles to protect the environment and to promote human rights around the world and juvenile justice in America. Hillary is a problem- solver, listening to people and then achieving solutions by changing attitudes. Her transformational leadership was on display when she ran for the Senate seat in New York that had been held by our father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. She faced rabid, heavily funded attacks from the far right and the challenge of prevailing in traditionally Republican upstate New York. Traveling with her, we watched admiringly as she persuasively articulated an inspiring and unifying vision rooted in American values and history. Then, through patience, hard work, leadership and political acumen, she transformed many of those rock- solid conservative counties into solid Democratic strongholds. We look forward to working beside her in the general election as she uses those same talents to change once rigid opinions and political affiliations across the nation. Like our father, Hillary has devoted her life to embracing and including those on the bottom rung of society's ladder -- giving voice to the alienated and disenfranchised and working to alleviate poverty and injustice, while urging that we cannot advance ourselves as a nation by leaving our poorer brothers and sisters behind. She's been an equally effective champion for human rights and for women's rights, a
[FairfieldLife] The Other Kennedys for Clinton
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe- kennedy29jan29,0,1618955.story From the Los Angeles Times Kennedys for Clinton She stands for Democrats and for the nation, these family members say. By Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kerry Kennedy January 29, 2008 This is a wonderful year for Democrats. Our party is blessed with the most impressive array of primary candidates in modern history. All would make superb presidents. By now you may have read or heard that our cousin, Caroline Kennedy, and our uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, have come out in favor of Sen. Barack Obama. We, however, are supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton because we believe that she is the strongest candidate for our party and our country. While talk of unity and compromise are inspiring to a nation wary of divisiveness, America stands at a historic crossroads where real issues divide our political landscapes. Democrats believe that America should not be torturing people, eavesdropping on our citizens or imprisoning them without habeas corpus or other constitutional rights. We should not be an imperial power. We need healthcare for all and a clean, safe environment. The loftiest poetry will not solve these issues. We need a president willing to engage in a fistfight to safeguard and restore our national virtues. We have worked with Hillary Clinton for 15 years (and in Kathleen's case, 25 years) and witnessed the power and depth of her convictions firsthand. We've seen her formidable work ethic, courage in the face of adversity and her dignity and clear head in crisis. We've also seen her two-fisted willingness to enter the brawl when America's principles are challenged. Her measured rhetoric, political savvy and pragmatism shield the heart of our nation's most determined and most democratic warrior. She has been an uncompromising and loyal ally for each of us in our battles to protect the environment and to promote human rights around the world and juvenile justice in America. Hillary is a problem- solver, listening to people and then achieving solutions by changing attitudes. Her transformational leadership was on display when she ran for the Senate seat in New York that had been held by our father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. She faced rabid, heavily funded attacks from the far right and the challenge of prevailing in traditionally Republican upstate New York. Traveling with her, we watched admiringly as she persuasively articulated an inspiring and unifying vision rooted in American values and history. Then, through patience, hard work, leadership and political acumen, she transformed many of those rock- solid conservative counties into solid Democratic strongholds. We look forward to working beside her in the general election as she uses those same talents to change once rigid opinions and political affiliations across the nation. Like our father, Hillary has devoted her life to embracing and including those on the bottom rung of society's ladder -- giving voice to the alienated and disenfranchised and working to alleviate poverty and injustice, while urging that we cannot advance ourselves as a nation by leaving our poorer brothers and sisters behind. She's been an equally effective champion for human rights and for women's rights, a worldwide cause that will profit enormously by her elevation to the presidency. She has worked for peace in Northern Ireland and fought to bridge religious, racial and ethnic divides from Bosnia to the Middle East to South Africa. She has shown a rare understanding that American values can only be exported by moral leadership, by a strong home economy and by a detailed understanding of the history and cultural backdrops of the nations we engage. She understands, as our current administration does not, the uses of power. The world, she says, is hungry for U.S. leadership but will not accept our bullying. She knows the difference and will reestablish America's lost prestige and moral authority. Hillary Clinton's political career has been centered in comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable and reminding Americans what it means to be American. As a young lawyer, she focused on children's issues and legal aid. As first lady of Arkansas, she brought healthcare to rural areas and helped reform the state's lagging education system. As first lady, she courageously took on healthcare reform. When a massive propaganda campaign by Big Pharma and the radical right derailed her efforts, she didn't give up. She helped create the nationally acclaimed Children's Health Insurance Program. That kind of persistence in pursuit of our highest ideals is the brand of leadership America now requires. Inspirational leadership comes in many forms. Seldom has history confronted America with such daunting challenges: a catastrophic foreign policy that has cost us our international leadership and aggravated the threat of
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
Thanks, Vaj, but we're all just members of the lucky sperm egg club, born more or less into affluence and engendered with the desire, for some reason or another, to explore consciousness. My parents' history was so unique (and improbable) that for years I never shared it because I wanted to 'write' a story for myself that, at the very least, didn't diminish their own by association. Within a week after that taping (February '07) my mother fell and broke her hip while out walking her two greyhounds. By April she was back out, on a cane, and by June was out walking them again everyday for a couple of miles. My father does about a half-an-hour every other day on the stationary bike in the basement. I can't say the alcohol helped, but it certainly doesn't seem to have hurt them too much. For me, alcohol has never been a draw, though I can appreciate a good wine or beer in the proper context. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 29, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: here's another story I think you might enjoy told last year to a local Saint Louis PBS station in Saint Louis, accompanied with some inexpensive red wine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HVg1kCpxU I always knew there was something special about you! What a wonderful story and historythanks so much for sharing this with all of us!
[FairfieldLife] Dzogchen primer.
Note: forwarded message attached. - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.---BeginMessage--- Title: Snow Lion Publications Newsletter Dharma Quote of the Week In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the most profound and commonly practiced teachings are those of the Vajrayana. Within this powerful system of skillful means, the supreme view and most potent methods are found in the teachings and practices of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection. These instructions are regarded as the pinnacle of the teachings and as the most direct path to realizing the nature of mind and the reality of the world. The instructions of the Dzogchen lineage are used to directly point out the nature of mind and bring the experience of enlightenment into our ordinary life. These teachings are known as "pith instructions," the pure, quintessential knowledge that cuts through all confusion and gets straight to the point. There is a saying, "Don't beat around the bush," meaning, "Get to the point." That is Dzogchen. In many ways, these teachings go beyond scripture and the formality of spiritual techniques. These two do have their place, since it is important to study scripture and meditate in a step-by-step manner. Yet, at some point we also must connect directly with the nature of mind. We have to strike the crucial point, the enlightened state, and leap directly into experiencing and realizing the true nature of our mind. --from Great Perfection: Outer and Inner Preliminaries by the Third Dzogchen Rinpoche, trans. by Cortland Dahl, intro. by Dzogchen Ponlop, published by Snow Lion Publications SNOW LION PUBLICATIONS is dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan Buddhism and culture by publishing books about this great tradition. Tibetan culture is seriously endangered in its homeland and is striving to continue outside of Tibet. To support this effort, in addition to publishing and distributing books, Snow Lion offers a wide range of dharma items, purchased primarily from Tibetans in exile. These include visual art and ritual objects, statues and thangkas, videos, traditional music, and many gift items offered through our webstore and newsletter--over 2000 items--the largest selection anywhere. To browse the complete list go towww.snowlionpub.comand select any of the categories in left-hand margin. When you choose to purchase from Snow Lion you are directly supporting the large effort to publish more Buddhist texts and help the Tibetan people.THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. You are receiving this announcement from Snow Lion Publications because you have previously subscribed on our website. To continue receiving messages, we recommend that you add [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to your address book. If you'd like to change or cancel your subscription, please visit our subscription pages at www.snowlionpub.com/pages/lists.php, www.snowlionpub.com/pages/unsubscribe.php,or email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Please note that these announcements are also available in plain text, if you are having trouble receiving them. GREAT PERFECTION:Outer and Inner Preliminariesby the Third Dzogchen Rinpochetranslated by Cortland Dahlintroduced by Dzogchen Ponlopmore... Contact Us: N. America:(800) 950-0313 Worldwide:(607) 273-8519 By Mail: PO Box 6483, Ithaca, NY 14851 USA By Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the Web: www.snowlionpub.com The New Rigpa Calendar Is In! New Items Available Online: New Books New Dharma Items On Sale! Gifts Calendars General Catalog: www.snowlionpub.com Sign Up: Receive Snow Lion's Weekly Quotes, Announcements, or Quarterly "Snow Lion Buddhist News Catalog" at the List Management Center. Snow Lion Publications is happy to send you a weekly quote from various Tibetan Buddhist teachers. Visit our website for these related items: 20% OFF all Snow Lion Titles in our
[FairfieldLife] New MUM Student Union , opens Feb 1
Maharishi University of Management executives and trustees expect the new Argiro Student Center to quickly become the physical and emotional center of campus after its Feb. 1 grand opening. The 50,000-square-foot, three-level building includes a student lounge and cafe, bookstore, conference room, kitchen, dance floor, mailroom and 300-seat auditorium, as well as dining halls, classroom space, exercise space and student government offices. The idea for the new student center evolved out of the need to build a new kitchen. The idea developed into a $7.5 million grand building to accommodate a range of students' needs. About half the cost of the center has been covered by donations and pledges, and fund-raising efforts to cover the rest are ongoing. -From page of Fairfield Ledger http://tinyurl.com/3xzvbc 1.28.2008
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Other Kennedys for Clinton
I hear Rosemary Kennedy is supporting Dennis Kucinich. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe- kennedy29jan29,0,1618955.story From the Los Angeles Times Kennedys for Clinton She stands for Democrats and for the nation, these family members say. By Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kerry Kennedy January 29, 2008 This is a wonderful year for Democrats. Our party is blessed with the most impressive array of primary candidates in modern history. All would make superb presidents. By now you may have read or heard that our cousin, Caroline Kennedy, and our uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, have come out in favor of Sen. Barack Obama. We, however, are supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton because we believe that she is the strongest candidate for our party and our country. While talk of unity and compromise are inspiring to a nation wary of divisiveness, America stands at a historic crossroads where real issues divide our political landscapes. Democrats believe that America should not be torturing people, eavesdropping on our citizens or imprisoning them without habeas corpus or other constitutional rights. We should not be an imperial power. We need healthcare for all and a clean, safe environment. The loftiest poetry will not solve these issues. We need a president willing to engage in a fistfight to safeguard and restore our national virtues. We have worked with Hillary Clinton for 15 years (and in Kathleen's case, 25 years) and witnessed the power and depth of her convictions firsthand. We've seen her formidable work ethic, courage in the face of adversity and her dignity and clear head in crisis. We've also seen her two-fisted willingness to enter the brawl when America's principles are challenged. Her measured rhetoric, political savvy and pragmatism shield the heart of our nation's most determined and most democratic warrior. She has been an uncompromising and loyal ally for each of us in our battles to protect the environment and to promote human rights around the world and juvenile justice in America. Hillary is a problem- solver, listening to people and then achieving solutions by changing attitudes. Her transformational leadership was on display when she ran for the Senate seat in New York that had been held by our father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. She faced rabid, heavily funded attacks from the far right and the challenge of prevailing in traditionally Republican upstate New York. Traveling with her, we watched admiringly as she persuasively articulated an inspiring and unifying vision rooted in American values and history. Then, through patience, hard work, leadership and political acumen, she transformed many of those rock- solid conservative counties into solid Democratic strongholds. We look forward to working beside her in the general election as she uses those same talents to change once rigid opinions and political affiliations across the nation. Like our father, Hillary has devoted her life to embracing and including those on the bottom rung of society's ladder -- giving voice to the alienated and disenfranchised and working to alleviate poverty and injustice, while urging that we cannot advance ourselves as a nation by leaving our poorer brothers and sisters behind. She's been an equally effective champion for human rights and for women's rights, a worldwide cause that will profit enormously by her elevation to the presidency. She has worked for peace in Northern Ireland and fought to bridge religious, racial and ethnic divides from Bosnia to the Middle East to South Africa. She has shown a rare understanding that American values can only be exported by moral leadership, by a strong home economy and by a detailed understanding of the history and cultural backdrops of the nations we engage. She understands, as our current administration does not, the uses of power. The world, she says, is hungry for U.S. leadership but will not accept our bullying. She knows the difference and will reestablish America's lost prestige and moral authority. Hillary Clinton's political career has been centered in comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable and reminding Americans what it means to be American. As a young lawyer, she focused on children's issues and legal aid. As first lady of Arkansas, she brought healthcare to rural areas and helped reform the state's lagging education system. As first lady, she courageously took on healthcare reform. When a massive propaganda campaign by Big Pharma and the radical right derailed her efforts, she didn't give up. She helped create the nationally acclaimed Children's Health Insurance Program. That kind of persistence in pursuit of our highest ideals is the brand of
Re: [FairfieldLife] Let the fun Begin!
In a message dated 1/29/08 6:29:39 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Hagelin There is no one successor for the Maharishi, but many people have trained to carry on his various tasks, Hagelin said. OFF WITH HIS HEAD! **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp0030002489
[FairfieldLife] Re: For Judy the Clintonista
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Here are three articles that document Bill and Hillary's conservative records: The first from the left-wing New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/17/070917fa_fact_lizza The second from a right-winger: http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBartlett/2007/05/01/conservatives_ for_hillary The third from an article that I believe either Barfitu or Robert the Rhymer posted here and is from an EXTREME left-wing source: http://www.isreview.org/issues/13/clinton-gore.shtml But you go ahead, Judy, you sweet dear thing, and continue on with the illusion that the Clintons are centrist Democrats. Why, to take an alternative position would mean that you would actually have to think for yourself and, hey, we can't have that! Funny, because triangulating from these three pieces shows as clearly as can be that Clinton is a centrist Democrat. Good choices, Shemp. Funny, because unless you speed read at three times the fastest known rate, there's no way you could have read them all by the time you posted. Don't be silly. I read fast, and they aren't *that* long. Took me about a half an hour. I did just skim the last half of the third one, though. Nice try. Also, nice try in hoodwinking people to believe that the articles show anything but what I suggested. Read them again, Shemp. They don't say what you wish they said. Well, then, since they don't say what I claim they say and, apparently, they say what YOU claim, it shouldn't be too difficult for you to list the reasons why the Clintons are centrist Democrats. I've listed my evidence. Now see if you can put all that triangulating to good use and list your evidence, too. Put up or shut up.
[FairfieldLife] FIRST VEDIC-GREEN STUDENT CENTER TO OPEN
MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT Fairfield, Iowa 52556 • 641-472-7000 Media Advisory Contact: Ken Chawkin 641-470-1314 [EMAIL PROTECTED] America’s First “Vedic-Green” Student Center to Open at Maharishi University of Management on Feb. 1 $7.5 Million, 50,000 Sq. Ft. Building Incorporates Ancient Design Principles with Modern Sustainable Technologies Inaugural Ceremony • 12:30 PM • Press Invited Argiro Student Center • MUM • Fairfield, Iowa America’s first university student center built according to the ancient design principles of Maharishi Vedic Architecture along with the most advanced green technologies will officially open its doors during grand inaugural ceremonies at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, on Friday, February 1, at 12:30 p.m. The Argiro Student Center, a spacious, light-filled $7.5 million, 50,000-square-foot building, which faces east to “capture the nourishing rays of the rising sun for greatest benefit to the occupants,” features two dining halls, a banquet room, café, lounge, 300-seat auditorium, bookstore, mailroom, and offices for student-related activities. The building also includes a chandeliered entry lobby with vaulted ceilings almost three stories high, as well as a large, stained glass window. In addition to being constructed according to principles of Maharishi Vedic Architecture—architecture in harmony with Natural Law—the Argiro Student Center also incorporates a range of environmentally friendly features that will qualify it for LEED certification. “This building is an important part of the University’s commitment to be more environmentally friendly, and to bring our buildings in accord with Natural Law on all levels,” said Dr. Streid, the University’s Chief Administrative Officer. The Student Center is named for Dr. Vincent and Dr. Maggie Argiro, University trustees and principal donors to the building. “We are delighted to contribute to this great accomplishment of the University community,” Dr. Maggie Argiro said. “The building is the stuff of dreams—dreams fulfilled, dreams in progress, dreams yet to be born within its life-giving walls.” Featured speakers at the inauguration include Dr. Bevan Morris, President of Maharishi University of Management (videoconference); Dr. John Hagelin, Raja of Invincible America and Director of the MUM Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy (videoconference); the Hon. Ed Malloy, Mayor of Fairfield; Dr. Vincent and Dr. Maggie Argiro; Dr. Craig Pearson, University Vice President; and Mariam Doudi, President of Global Student Council. ARGIRO STUDENT CENTER Unique Vedic Architectural Design Elements to Promote Life in Harmony with Natural Law Right Orientation: According to Maharishi Vedic Architecture, orientation of a building has a dramatic and easily measured impact upon the quality of life of its occupants. The sun’s energy is most nourishing when it is rising. The Argiro Student Center is oriented to the east to bring the greatest benefits to the health and the vitality of its occupants. Right Placement of Rooms: Because the sun has different qualities of energy as it moves across the sky, the Argiro Student Center is designed so that these energies correspond to the specific activities performed within the different rooms of the building, e.g., dining, studying, socializing etc. Right Proportion: Proportion is a key to successful design in nature. Right proportion in the Argiro Student Center connects the individual intelligence of the occupants to cosmic intelligence. Natural, Non-Toxic Materials and Solar Energy: Vedic architecture promotes natural and non-toxic construction materials. It also emphasizes filling rooms with sunlight and fresh air. Green Design Elements to Qualify for LEED Certification * Energy Efficiency: Energy savings in the Argiro Student Center come from heat exchangers, which capture 80% of the heat from the air that is being exhausted from the building and use it to help heat the incoming fresh air. * Daylighting: Large, triangular windows cast light deep into the Argiro Student Center on the two upper floors. Daylighting sensors automatically turn off the lights when enough daylight is present. The building’s cupola also helps reflect light into the atrium area. * Insulation: The Argiro Student Center is insulated 50% better than average. The heating and cooling systems also have a higher-than-normal efficiency. * Nontoxic Materials: The Argiro Student Center is constructed with nontoxic materials, including over 13, 000 square feet of bamboo flooring. Carpeting is green certified, and the flooring in the serving areas is Marmoleum, which is a natural linoleum made with 100% natural ingredients: linseed oil, cork, limestone, tree rosin, and natural minerals. ABOUT THE ARGIROS Dr. Vincent Argiro received his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. in neural sciences from Washington University. He joined Maharishi University of
[FairfieldLife] Let the fun Begin!
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/entertainmentid=5921221 John Hagelin There is no one successor for the Maharishi, but many people have trained to carry on his various tasks, Hagelin said. he, he, he , he, he! ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha - E [:))] [:O] [;)]
[FairfieldLife] Re: New MUM Student Union , opens Feb 1
It looks like a wonderful building. A good answer to those who think the movement/University is dying. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maharishi University of Management executives and trustees expect the new Argiro Student Center to quickly become the physical and emotional center of campus after its Feb. 1 grand opening. The 50,000-square-foot, three-level building includes a student lounge and cafe, bookstore, conference room, kitchen, dance floor, mailroom and 300-seat auditorium, as well as dining halls, classroom space, exercise space and student government offices. The idea for the new student center evolved out of the need to build a new kitchen. The idea developed into a $7.5 million grand building to accommodate a range of students' needs. About half the cost of the center has been covered by donations and pledges, and fund-raising efforts to cover the rest are ongoing. -From page of Fairfield Ledger http://tinyurl.com/3xzvbc 1.28.2008
[FairfieldLife] Veterans of Life
Yes, that's told very special. Thanks, is a great story. I showed it around my household and everyone was blown away in turn. What life does bring. What a great story of courage. That was only 60 years ago all that happened. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HVg1kCpxU I remember an obituary last year published in the FF Ledger for Harriet Berman's mother here. It was written in a common way, that she was fun and a great game player and active in her later life and such. The un-expanded part of the obituary was that she grew up Jewish, in 1930's occupied Poland. I wondered then if the family had her story as she saw it. Her MSAE grandson from FF then has now become a professional journalist elsewhere, I wondered then if he had collected it or if it had come to be too late. There seemed to be an untold character story in the obituary. Certainly some veterans of those times only wish to go on in life putting it behind them in their privacy. That generation is passing fast now. My wife's dad was with the first army medical unit to arrive at Dachau as US troops arrived and found it. He has a scrap book with photos and articles about it from then. But now his own memory is rickety and about all gone. At Revelations used bookstore here a while back I bought a used book about all the concentration and work camps of Nazi Germany, in real nice shape that had clippings from the war carefully folded in to the book. Evidently from someone's (from around here?) estate or collection who seems to have been there. In town here we have a kind old guy who as a skilled handy-man takes care of appliances. As a boy he was displaced with his mother and brother from East Prussian farming districts that were emptied of all civilians as the Russian army came in that way against the Germans during the war. They traveled about as displaced civilians trying to connect with their family's father who had been conscripted in to the German army and sent down to Austria. As the war narrowed down, like with this other story they were separated by the lines of occupation and it was quick heads-up thinking in hand-changing destinations on travel documents that got them from the Russian occupied side over to the American occupied side where the dad was later in the war. I am telling his story to you in writing this but even in doing that I have left out a lot of viseral texture to the way he told it to me directly. My dad had his stories from then too. He is gone now and the liveliness of those stories with him. I remember some of them but not the way he told them. -Doug in FF Marek Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, Curtis, my folks; the back stories are equally interesting. And as you can see, the red wine (and the vodka) apparently haven't diminished their capacities too much. It's just a life and every life is a story that each one of us has the opportunity to enrich every day. I always appreciate the stories shared on this forum with a community I feel so lucky to be a member of. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Curtis, here's another story I think you might enjoy told last year to a local Saint Louis PBS station in Saint Louis, accompanied with some inexpensive red wine. Totally blown away! Thanks for sending this Marek. Your folks? What a fascinating couple. What a life! I live for stories like this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HVg1kCpxU **
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is just too good Curtis. This piece needs wider distribution. It
is along the lines of that great commericial, Beef, It's Whats For
Dinner, with the Irving Berlin musical accompaniment
Yeah, you busted me trying to suck up to booze companies to sponsor my
show! I'm working on a piece about how good it is for children next.
(hint, it makes them less hyper, like when they pass out)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an anesthetic
it creates dullness.
I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years. If
that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the last
attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too much,
and drink with the right people. Removing the drink from the set and
setting that it can enhance, misses the point IMO. It can be a part
of social customs and cuisines that I enjoy.
A chilled martini at a jazz club with an acoustic jazz trio in the
background.
Some top shelf bourbon bought for you by a young couple after your
last set, who had never listened to acoustic blues before, and have
many questions about what blues artists they should download.
A bottle of local Virginia wine over dinner with a friend who just
came back from visiting Africa and has many stories to share.
A chilled Czech Pilsner Urquell beer at boating picnic while eating
Chesapeake Bay crabs.
Greek brandy with your Greek friends as they tell you about how they
survived during WWII in Greece on an olive farm, while eating sheep
feta cheese and dipping crusty bread into oil from this year's olive
harvest.
Toasts with Hennessey cognac with the bridal party at your Vietnamese
friend's wedding after all the other guests have left.
A friend's homemade wine at their farm after riding their horses.
Joining a Thai friend as he closes up his restaurant and eating home
style fiery hot Thai food with the staff with Thai Singha beer.
Drinking chilled vodka shots with your Russian girlfriend over the
traditional meal she cooked for you.
Sharing the Brazilian national drink, the Chaiparinya. (limes,sugar
and Cachasa) with a raven haired Brazilian girl while watching World
Cup soccer.
A smoky Lagavulin scotch with my father over stories of his
experiences in the South Pacific theater of WWII and the occupation of
Japan.
Making handmade pasta, covering them with fresh steamed clams, with a
glass of Sauvignon Blanc and your best friends.
A glass of sweet port with a plate of Stilton with your girlfriend
while the snow falls outside.
Some of these experiences would be plenty cool without the shared
beverage. But sometime it is the ritual of sharing the drink that
connects people. Alcohol is just sugar molecules with an attitude.
It is a type of food, and each culture has it's special version. You
may associate it with dullness if you prefer. I prefer to associate
it with the way peoples eyes crinkle up at the edges during
conversation.
Ethanol is a two-carbon alcohol and can be considered an active
brain-
drug and an all-purpose cellular toxin. Even moderate alcohol abuse
distorts the personality, emotions, and intellect of the `social
drinker', which is a direct consequence of brain dysfunction caused
by ethanol and other chemical pathogens in alcoholic beverages. Even
low doses of alcohol interfere with memory and make it difficult for
the hippocampus to process new information. As a brain drug, ethanol
acts to depress the brain function from the top down, very much in
the style of an anesthetic. Acetaldehyde is particularly toxic.
{nutramed.com, Apr. 2003}
http://www.jrussellshealth.org/alcbfm.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread started with an article that a few glasses of wine each day with regular exercise is good for your heart. Unfortunately, it became an argument over who is better, drinkers or none drinkers, those who can enjoy life or don't enjoy life, if alcohol has a role in the 'glamour' of living or is alcohol a poison that dulls the mind. I guess my point is, if someone chooses to meditate twice a day and has good experiences, is it possible and recommended for TMers according to the instruction, that it makes no difference to have two 6oz. glasses of wine each day? Will they continue to have good experiences or not? Does the TMO not have any thing to say on this? For me personally, if I drank two 6oz. glasses of wine every day, my experience would be dramatically effected but that's me. I would be really curious to know how many people on this list drink two 6oz. glasses of wine each day and can claim that they feel no difference in the experience of deep meditation. I'm talking mainly about people who never drank for sometime and then began to drink later on.
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
This is just too good Curtis. This piece needs wider distribution. It
is along the lines of that great commericial, Beef, It's Whats For
Dinner, with the Irving Berlin musical accompaniment
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an anesthetic
it creates dullness.
I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years. If
that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the last
attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too much,
and drink with the right people. Removing the drink from the set and
setting that it can enhance, misses the point IMO. It can be a part
of social customs and cuisines that I enjoy.
A chilled martini at a jazz club with an acoustic jazz trio in the
background.
Some top shelf bourbon bought for you by a young couple after your
last set, who had never listened to acoustic blues before, and have
many questions about what blues artists they should download.
A bottle of local Virginia wine over dinner with a friend who just
came back from visiting Africa and has many stories to share.
A chilled Czech Pilsner Urquell beer at boating picnic while eating
Chesapeake Bay crabs.
Greek brandy with your Greek friends as they tell you about how they
survived during WWII in Greece on an olive farm, while eating sheep
feta cheese and dipping crusty bread into oil from this year's olive
harvest.
Toasts with Hennessey cognac with the bridal party at your Vietnamese
friend's wedding after all the other guests have left.
A friend's homemade wine at their farm after riding their horses.
Joining a Thai friend as he closes up his restaurant and eating home
style fiery hot Thai food with the staff with Thai Singha beer.
Drinking chilled vodka shots with your Russian girlfriend over the
traditional meal she cooked for you.
Sharing the Brazilian national drink, the Chaiparinya. (limes,sugar
and Cachasa) with a raven haired Brazilian girl while watching World
Cup soccer.
A smoky Lagavulin scotch with my father over stories of his
experiences in the South Pacific theater of WWII and the occupation of
Japan.
Making handmade pasta, covering them with fresh steamed clams, with a
glass of Sauvignon Blanc and your best friends.
A glass of sweet port with a plate of Stilton with your girlfriend
while the snow falls outside.
Some of these experiences would be plenty cool without the shared
beverage. But sometime it is the ritual of sharing the drink that
connects people. Alcohol is just sugar molecules with an attitude.
It is a type of food, and each culture has it's special version. You
may associate it with dullness if you prefer. I prefer to associate
it with the way peoples eyes crinkle up at the edges during
conversation.
Ethanol is a two-carbon alcohol and can be considered an active
brain-
drug and an all-purpose cellular toxin. Even moderate alcohol abuse
distorts the personality, emotions, and intellect of the `social
drinker', which is a direct consequence of brain dysfunction caused
by ethanol and other chemical pathogens in alcoholic beverages. Even
low doses of alcohol interfere with memory and make it difficult for
the hippocampus to process new information. As a brain drug, ethanol
acts to depress the brain function from the top down, very much in
the style of an anesthetic. Acetaldehyde is particularly toxic.
{nutramed.com, Apr. 2003}
http://www.jrussellshealth.org/alcbfm.html
Re: [FairfieldLife] Veterans of Life
Here's a Buchenwald story for you. When the Allies liberated Buchenwald, it became part of the Russian gulag, and the Russian occupation army filled it back up with prisoners under pretty much the same horrible conditions that had tortured and killed so many Jews there. But this time the prisoners were not Jews, they were Germans, and my aunt Maria did time there for nine years. The name, Buchenwald means beech forest, and it had indeed been a beech forest once upon a time when the great 19th century German poet, Goethe, liked to take walks there. The forest is mostly gone now, but one centuries-old beech tree had survived, standing in the middle of the courtyard at Buchenwald the prison, and it had a plaque with one of Goethe's most famous poems engraved on it: Wanderer's Nachtlied Ueber allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh, In allen Wipfeln Spuerest du Kaum einen Hauch; Die Voegelein schweigen im Walde. Warte nur! Balde Ruhest du auch. The Wanderer's Night Song Above all mountain tops is peace, In all the tree tops you feel hardly a breath; birds are silent in their nests, But wait! Soon you, too, shall rest. My aunt told me that this tree and its poem were of immeasurable comfort to her and to the other prisoners at Buchenwald, but when the prison guards learned of this, they cut it down. - Original Message From: dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:34:52 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Veterans of Life Yes, that's told very special. Thanks, is a great story. I showed it around my household and everyone was blown away in turn. What life does bring. What a great story of courage. That was only 60 years ago all that happened. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=w0HVg1kCpxU I remember an obituary last year published in the FF Ledger for Harriet Berman's mother here. It was written in a common way, that she was fun and a great game player and active in her later life and such. The un-expanded part of the obituary was that she grew up Jewish, in 1930's occupied Poland. I wondered then if the family had her story as she saw it. Her MSAE grandson from FF then has now become a professional journalist elsewhere, I wondered then if he had collected it or if it had come to be too late. There seemed to be an untold character story in the obituary. Certainly some veterans of those times only wish to go on in life putting it behind them in their privacy. That generation is passing fast now. My wife's dad was with the first army medical unit to arrive at Dachau as US troops arrived and found it. He has a scrap book with photos and articles about it from then. But now his own memory is rickety and about all gone. At Revelations used bookstore here a while back I bought a used book about all the concentration and work camps of Nazi Germany, in real nice shape that had clippings from the war carefully folded in to the book. Evidently from someone's (from around here?) estate or collection who seems to have been there. In town here we have a kind old guy who as a skilled handy-man takes care of appliances. As a boy he was displaced with his mother and brother from East Prussian farming districts that were emptied of all civilians as the Russian army came in that way against the Germans during the war. They traveled about as displaced civilians trying to connect with their family's father who had been conscripted in to the German army and sent down to Austria. As the war narrowed down, like with this other story they were separated by the lines of occupation and it was quick heads-up thinking in hand-changing destinations on travel documents that got them from the Russian occupied side over to the American occupied side where the dad was later in the war. I am telling his story to you in writing this but even in doing that I have left out a lot of viseral texture to the way he told it to me directly. My dad had his stories from then too. He is gone now and the liveliness of those stories with him. I remember some of them but not the way he told them. -Doug in FF Marek Reavis reavismarek@ ... wrote: Yeah, Curtis, my folks; the back stories are equally interesting. And as you can see, the red wine (and the vodka) apparently haven't diminished their capacities too much. It's just a life and every life is a story that each one of us has the opportunity to enrich every day. I always appreciate the stories shared on this forum with a community I feel so lucky to be a member of. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Curtis, here's another story I think you might enjoy told last year to a local Saint Louis PBS station in Saint Louis, accompanied with some inexpensive red wine. Totally blown away! Thanks for sending this Marek.
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, lurkernomore20002000
steve.sundur@ wrote:
This is just too good Curtis. This piece needs wider
distribution. It
is along the lines of that great commericial, Beef, It's Whats
For
Dinner, with the Irving Berlin musical accompaniment
Yeah, you busted me trying to suck up to booze companies to sponsor
my
show! I'm working on a piece about how good it is for children
next.
(hint, it makes them less hyper, like when they pass out)
I went through a phase when I was about 7 years old when I wouldn't
eat anything and my doctor told my mother to give me a shot of brandy
(perhaps cut with something, I can't remember) about an hour before
supper.
Well, I sat down for dinner at the alloted time and promptly fell
asleep in the mashed potatoes.
If There will be blood reflects the times, the Daniel Day-Lewis
character gives his son alcohol along with his goat's milk...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an
anesthetic
it creates dullness.
I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years.
If
that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the
last
attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too
much,
and drink with the right people. Removing the drink from the
set and
setting that it can enhance, misses the point IMO. It can be a
part
of social customs and cuisines that I enjoy.
A chilled martini at a jazz club with an acoustic jazz trio in
the
background.
Some top shelf bourbon bought for you by a young couple after
your
last set, who had never listened to acoustic blues before, and
have
many questions about what blues artists they should download.
A bottle of local Virginia wine over dinner with a friend who
just
came back from visiting Africa and has many stories to share.
A chilled Czech Pilsner Urquell beer at boating picnic while
eating
Chesapeake Bay crabs.
Greek brandy with your Greek friends as they tell you about how
they
survived during WWII in Greece on an olive farm, while eating
sheep
feta cheese and dipping crusty bread into oil from this year's
olive
harvest.
Toasts with Hennessey cognac with the bridal party at your
Vietnamese
friend's wedding after all the other guests have left.
A friend's homemade wine at their farm after riding their
horses.
Joining a Thai friend as he closes up his restaurant and eating
home
style fiery hot Thai food with the staff with Thai Singha beer.
Drinking chilled vodka shots with your Russian girlfriend over
the
traditional meal she cooked for you.
Sharing the Brazilian national drink, the Chaiparinya.
(limes,sugar
and Cachasa) with a raven haired Brazilian girl while watching
World
Cup soccer.
A smoky Lagavulin scotch with my father over stories of his
experiences in the South Pacific theater of WWII and the
occupation of
Japan.
Making handmade pasta, covering them with fresh steamed clams,
with a
glass of Sauvignon Blanc and your best friends.
A glass of sweet port with a plate of Stilton with your
girlfriend
while the snow falls outside.
Some of these experiences would be plenty cool without the
shared
beverage. But sometime it is the ritual of sharing the drink
that
connects people. Alcohol is just sugar molecules with an
attitude.
It is a type of food, and each culture has it's special
version. You
may associate it with dullness if you prefer. I prefer to
associate
it with the way peoples eyes crinkle up at the edges during
conversation.
Ethanol is a two-carbon alcohol and can be considered an
active
brain-
drug and an all-purpose cellular toxin. Even moderate alcohol
abuse
distorts the personality, emotions, and intellect of the
`social
drinker', which is a direct consequence of brain dysfunction
caused
by ethanol and other chemical pathogens in alcoholic
beverages. Even
low doses of alcohol interfere with memory and make it
difficult for
the hippocampus to process new information. As a brain drug,
ethanol
acts to depress the brain function from the top down, very
much in
the style of an anesthetic. Acetaldehyde is particularly
toxic.
{nutramed.com, Apr. 2003}
http://www.jrussellshealth.org/alcbfm.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Veterans of Life
The Goethe poem is a favorite of mine; Schubert set it to music and made it even more moving. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a Buchenwald story for you. When the Allies liberated Buchenwald, it became part of the Russian gulag, and the Russian occupation army filled it back up with prisoners under pretty much the same horrible conditions that had tortured and killed so many Jews there. But this time the prisoners were not Jews, they were Germans, and my aunt Maria did time there for nine years. The name, Buchenwald means beech forest, and it had indeed been a beech forest once upon a time when the great 19th century German poet, Goethe, liked to take walks there. The forest is mostly gone now, but one centuries-old beech tree had survived, standing in the middle of the courtyard at Buchenwald the prison, and it had a plaque with one of Goethe's most famous poems engraved on it: Wanderer's Nachtlied Ueber allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh, In allen Wipfeln Spuerest du Kaum einen Hauch; Die Voegelein schweigen im Walde. Warte nur! Balde Ruhest du auch. The Wanderer's Night Song Above all mountain tops is peace, In all the tree tops you feel hardly a breath; birds are silent in their nests, But wait! Soon you, too, shall rest. My aunt told me that this tree and its poem were of immeasurable comfort to her and to the other prisoners at Buchenwald, but when the prison guards learned of this, they cut it down. - Original Message From: dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:34:52 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Veterans of Life Yes, that's told very special. Thanks, is a great story. I showed it around my household and everyone was blown away in turn. What life does bring. What a great story of courage. That was only 60 years ago all that happened. http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=w0HVg1kCpxU I remember an obituary last year published in the FF Ledger for Harriet Berman's mother here. It was written in a common way, that she was fun and a great game player and active in her later life and such. The un-expanded part of the obituary was that she grew up Jewish, in 1930's occupied Poland. I wondered then if the family had her story as she saw it. Her MSAE grandson from FF then has now become a professional journalist elsewhere, I wondered then if he had collected it or if it had come to be too late. There seemed to be an untold character story in the obituary. Certainly some veterans of those times only wish to go on in life putting it behind them in their privacy. That generation is passing fast now. My wife's dad was with the first army medical unit to arrive at Dachau as US troops arrived and found it. He has a scrap book with photos and articles about it from then. But now his own memory is rickety and about all gone. At Revelations used bookstore here a while back I bought a used book about all the concentration and work camps of Nazi Germany, in real nice shape that had clippings from the war carefully folded in to the book. Evidently from someone's (from around here?) estate or collection who seems to have been there. In town here we have a kind old guy who as a skilled handy-man takes care of appliances. As a boy he was displaced with his mother and brother from East Prussian farming districts that were emptied of all civilians as the Russian army came in that way against the Germans during the war. They traveled about as displaced civilians trying to connect with their family's father who had been conscripted in to the German army and sent down to Austria. As the war narrowed down, like with this other story they were separated by the lines of occupation and it was quick heads-up thinking in hand-changing destinations on travel documents that got them from the Russian occupied side over to the American occupied side where the dad was later in the war. I am telling his story to you in writing this but even in doing that I have left out a lot of viseral texture to the way he told it to me directly. My dad had his stories from then too. He is gone now and the liveliness of those stories with him. I remember some of them but not the way he told them. -Doug in FF Marek Reavis reavismarek@ ... wrote: Yeah, Curtis, my folks; the back stories are equally interesting. And as you can see, the red wine (and the vodka) apparently haven't diminished their capacities too much. It's just a life and every life is a story that each one of us has the opportunity to enrich every day. I always appreciate the stories shared on this forum with a community I feel so lucky to be a member of. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com,
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
On Jan 29, 2008, at 9:28 PM, suziezuzie wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread started with an article that a few glasses of wine each day with regular exercise is good for your heart. Unfortunately, it became an argument over who is better, drinkers or none drinkers, those who can enjoy life or don't enjoy life, if alcohol has a role in the 'glamour' of living or is alcohol a poison that dulls the mind. I guess my point is, if someone chooses to meditate twice a day and has good experiences, is it possible and recommended for TMers according to the instruction, that it makes no difference to have two 6oz. glasses of wine each day? Will they continue to have good experiences or not? Does the TMO not have any thing to say on this? For me personally, if I drank two 6oz. glasses of wine every day, my experience would be dramatically effected but that's me. I would be really curious to know how many people on this list drink two 6oz. glasses of wine each day and can claim that they feel no difference in the experience of deep meditation. I'm talking mainly about people who never drank for sometime and then began to drink later on. Author Ken Wilber claims to have been in continuous witnessing for years, but in one of his books (a spiritual diary of a years time) he claimed the witness was not experienced after drinking fair amounts of wine with his new girlfriend. On vacation--South Beach. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
Could be the beef commerical, or maybe the VISA commerical.
One bottle very dry Virginia wine $14.00. One bottle Czech Pilslner
$8.00.
Chatting with your old man about South Pacific Theatre--Priceless
This is just too good Curtis. This piece needs wider distribution.
It
is along the lines of that great commericial, Beef, It's Whats For
Dinner, with the Irving Berlin musical accompaniment
Yeah, you busted me trying to suck up to booze companies to sponsor my
show! I'm working on a piece about how good it is for children next.
(hint, it makes them less hyper, like when they pass out)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
Maybe the spounge analagy was misplaced, but acting as an
anesthetic
it creates dullness.
I understand the alcohol bad position and lived it for years. If
that is how you enjoy to live, good for you. Dullness is the last
attribute I would give alcohol's effect if you don't drink too
much,
and drink with the right people. Removing the drink from the set
and
setting that it can enhance, misses the point IMO. It can be a
part
of social customs and cuisines that I enjoy.
A chilled martini at a jazz club with an acoustic jazz trio in the
background.
Some top shelf bourbon bought for you by a young couple after your
last set, who had never listened to acoustic blues before, and
have
many questions about what blues artists they should download.
A bottle of local Virginia wine over dinner with a friend who just
came back from visiting Africa and has many stories to share.
A chilled Czech Pilsner Urquell beer at boating picnic while
eating
Chesapeake Bay crabs.
Greek brandy with your Greek friends as they tell you about how
they
survived during WWII in Greece on an olive farm, while eating
sheep
feta cheese and dipping crusty bread into oil from this year's
olive
harvest.
Toasts with Hennessey cognac with the bridal party at your
Vietnamese
friend's wedding after all the other guests have left.
A friend's homemade wine at their farm after riding their horses.
Joining a Thai friend as he closes up his restaurant and eating
home
style fiery hot Thai food with the staff with Thai Singha beer.
Drinking chilled vodka shots with your Russian girlfriend over the
traditional meal she cooked for you.
Sharing the Brazilian national drink, the Chaiparinya.
(limes,sugar
and Cachasa) with a raven haired Brazilian girl while watching
World
Cup soccer.
A smoky Lagavulin scotch with my father over stories of his
experiences in the South Pacific theater of WWII and the
occupation of
Japan.
Making handmade pasta, covering them with fresh steamed clams,
with a
glass of Sauvignon Blanc and your best friends.
A glass of sweet port with a plate of Stilton with your girlfriend
while the snow falls outside.
Some of these experiences would be plenty cool without the shared
beverage. But sometime it is the ritual of sharing the drink that
connects people. Alcohol is just sugar molecules with an attitude.
It is a type of food, and each culture has it's special version.
You
may associate it with dullness if you prefer. I prefer to
associate
it with the way peoples eyes crinkle up at the edges during
conversation.
Ethanol is a two-carbon alcohol and can be considered an active
brain-
drug and an all-purpose cellular toxin. Even moderate alcohol
abuse
distorts the personality, emotions, and intellect of the `social
drinker', which is a direct consequence of brain dysfunction
caused
by ethanol and other chemical pathogens in alcoholic beverages.
Even
low doses of alcohol interfere with memory and make it difficult
for
the hippocampus to process new information. As a brain drug,
ethanol
acts to depress the brain function from the top down, very much
in
the style of an anesthetic. Acetaldehyde is particularly toxic.
{nutramed.com, Apr. 2003}
http://www.jrussellshealth.org/alcbfm.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: For Judy the Clintonista
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Here are three articles that document Bill and Hillary's conservative records: The first from the left-wing New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/17/070917fa_fact_lizza The second from a right-winger: http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBartlett/2007/05/01/conservatives_ for_hillary The third from an article that I believe either Barfitu or Robert the Rhymer posted here and is from an EXTREME left-wing source: http://www.isreview.org/issues/13/clinton-gore.shtml But you go ahead, Judy, you sweet dear thing, and continue on with the illusion that the Clintons are centrist Democrats. Why, to take an alternative position would mean that you would actually have to think for yourself and, hey, we can't have that! Funny, because triangulating from these three pieces shows as clearly as can be that Clinton is a centrist Democrat. Good choices, Shemp. Funny, because unless you speed read at three times the fastest known rate, there's no way you could have read them all by the time you posted. Don't be silly. I read fast, and they aren't *that* long. Took me about a half an hour. I did just skim the last half of the third one, though. Nice try. Also, nice try in hoodwinking people to believe that the articles show anything but what I suggested. Read them again, Shemp. They don't say what you wish they said. Well, then, since they don't say what I claim they say and, apparently, they say what YOU claim, it shouldn't be too difficult for you to list the reasons why the Clintons are centrist Democrats. I've listed my evidence. Now see if you can put all that triangulating to good use and list your evidence, too. Jesus, Shemp. It's the *same evidence*. Any recital of Clinton's policies is going to list the same ones. What they add up to is *centrism*-- neither all conservative nor all liberal, but a mixture, so they're in the, you know, center. Nobody's saying he didn't take some relatively conservative positions, but he also took some relatively liberal positions. Have you never heard of the DLC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council Notice who was the first chair of the DLC.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Melbourne Maharishi School
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://tinyurl.com/28fc77 This is nice. So earnest. Do they have to send half of their tuitions to accounts overseas too? Just wondering, or is that the TMmovement policy just for, rich Americans? Jai Guru Dev, -Doug in FF
[FairfieldLife] Re: New MUM Student Union , opens Feb 1
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like a wonderful building. A good answer to those who think the movement/University is dying. Yes, it is a lovely facade like so many TMmovement buildings. Jai Guru Dev, -Doug --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Maharishi University of Management executives and trustees expect the new Argiro Student Center to quickly become the physical and emotional center of campus after its Feb. 1 grand opening. The 50,000-square-foot, three-level building includes a student lounge and cafe, bookstore, conference room, kitchen, dance floor, mailroom and 300-seat auditorium, as well as dining halls, classroom space, exercise space and student government offices. The idea for the new student center evolved out of the need to build a new kitchen. The idea developed into a $7.5 million grand building to accommodate a range of students' needs. About half the cost of the center has been covered by donations and pledges, and fund- raising efforts to cover the rest are ongoing. -From page of Fairfield Ledger http://tinyurl.com/3xzvbc 1.28.2008
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
On Jan 29, 2008, at 9:38 PM, Vaj wrote: Author Ken Wilber claims to have been in continuous witnessing for years, but in one of his books (a spiritual diary of a years time) he claimed the witness was not experienced after drinking fair amounts of wine with his new girlfriend. On vacation--South Beach. :-) Actually he's able to even dissolve Witness after vino sessions: Each day we hit the beach around eleven A.M. and stay until around four P.M. This is truly one of the nicest beaches I've ever seen. Besides being pure sand--you can wade out forever and never hit a rock or shell--the water temperature is perfect, somewhere around eighty degrees so you never get chilled, no matter how long you stay in. And, as a matter of fact, I spend about three hours in the water each day, exactly up to my neck, gently bobbing up and down, tiptoes barely touching the bottom to hold me up. Marci, a champion swimmer, swims circles around me, literally. Where does that woman hide all her muscles? She's too curvaceous to be this athletic. Don't triathlon women have, like, 0% body fat? Actually, aren't they in negative fat space? Don't they like owe the world some fat? I had fully expected to lose all access to the Witness, given our vino schcdule. And for the first night and day this happened. But floating in the water has not only brought back the Witness, it seems to have facilitated the disappearance of the Witness into nondual One Taste, at least on occasion. (The Witness, or pure witnessing awareness, tends to be of the causal, since there is usually a primitive trace of subject/object duality you equanimously Witness the world as transparent and shimmering object But with further development, the Witness itself disappears into everything that is witnessed, subject and object become One Taste, or simple Suchness, and this is the nondual estate. In short: ego to soul to pure Witness to One Taste.) So I am utterly, pleasantly surprised, floating here in nature's blood, to be dipped Into One Taste which in Case, is nicely salty. There is no time in this estate, though time passes through it. thoughts float by in the sky, thoughts float by in the mind, waves float by in the ocean, and I am all of that. I am looking at none of it, for there is no center around which perception is organized. It is simply that everything is arising, moment to moment, and I am all of that. I do not see the sky, I am the sky, which sees itself. I do not feel the ocean, I am the ocean, which feels itself. I do not hear the birds, I am the birds, which hear themselves. There is nothing outside of me, there is nothing inside of me, because there is no me--there is simply all of this, and it has always been so. Nothing pushes me, nothing pulls me, because there is no me there is simply all of this, and it has always been so. Ken Wilber, One Taste: Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality; Shambhala [Sunday, May 18th, South Beach]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Veterans of Life
Thanks, Doug, it's been lucky for me and my brother and sister that our folks have shared their memories as thoroughly as they have, and that they're still available to resource despite their age. It's impossible to imagine the hardships and violence that so many people in the 20th C. endured; I can't, at least. The folks you mention below, and my folks, are incredibly resistant individuals, people of true character. We've been lucky to know them. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's told very special. Thanks, is a great story. I showed it around my household and everyone was blown away in turn. What life does bring. What a great story of courage. That was only 60 years ago all that happened. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HVg1kCpxU I remember an obituary last year published in the FF Ledger for Harriet Berman's mother here. It was written in a common way, that she was fun and a great game player and active in her later life and such. The un-expanded part of the obituary was that she grew up Jewish, in 1930's occupied Poland. I wondered then if the family had her story as she saw it. Her MSAE grandson from FF then has now become a professional journalist elsewhere, I wondered then if he had collected it or if it had come to be too late. There seemed to be an untold character story in the obituary. Certainly some veterans of those times only wish to go on in life putting it behind them in their privacy. That generation is passing fast now. My wife's dad was with the first army medical unit to arrive at Dachau as US troops arrived and found it. He has a scrap book with photos and articles about it from then. But now his own memory is rickety and about all gone. At Revelations used bookstore here a while back I bought a used book about all the concentration and work camps of Nazi Germany, in real nice shape that had clippings from the war carefully folded in to the book. Evidently from someone's (from around here?) estate or collection who seems to have been there. In town here we have a kind old guy who as a skilled handy-man takes care of appliances. As a boy he was displaced with his mother and brother from East Prussian farming districts that were emptied of all civilians as the Russian army came in that way against the Germans during the war. They traveled about as displaced civilians trying to connect with their family's father who had been conscripted in to the German army and sent down to Austria. As the war narrowed down, like with this other story they were separated by the lines of occupation and it was quick heads-up thinking in hand-changing destinations on travel documents that got them from the Russian occupied side over to the American occupied side where the dad was later in the war. I am telling his story to you in writing this but even in doing that I have left out a lot of viseral texture to the way he told it to me directly. My dad had his stories from then too. He is gone now and the liveliness of those stories with him. I remember some of them but not the way he told them. -Doug in FF Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Yeah, Curtis, my folks; the back stories are equally interesting. And as you can see, the red wine (and the vodka) apparently haven't diminished their capacities too much. It's just a life and every life is a story that each one of us has the opportunity to enrich every day. I always appreciate the stories shared on this forum with a community I feel so lucky to be a member of. Marek ** --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Marek Reavis reavismarek@ wrote: Curtis, here's another story I think you might enjoy told last year to a local Saint Louis PBS station in Saint Louis, accompanied with some inexpensive red wine. Totally blown away! Thanks for sending this Marek. Your folks? What a fascinating couple. What a life! I live for stories like this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0HVg1kCpxU **
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I would be really curious to know how many people on this list drink two 6oz. glasses of wine each day and can claim that they feel no difference in the experience of deep meditation. If you drink right before you meditate, of course you're going to feel a difference. But alcohol gets metabolized by the system fairly quickly, so if you have a shot or two of something before you go to bed, say, at least in my experience, it doesn't affect meditation the next morning. Sometimes I have a drink before bed, sometimes I don't, and I've never noticed any difference. FWIW, a former boyfriend of mine who was a TMer would have profound witnessing experiences if he so much as drank a glass of beer. That's never happened to me! Very different with pot, again in my experience (many years ago).
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: From a friend on Purusha in India
Saturday, February 2nd. --- dhamiltony2k5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you may have heard, this is all happening now because it seems Maharishi's health has taken a bad turn. Maharishi seems to have been in the hospital for some days during silence. People in Vlodrop got wind of it and even thought Maharishi had left the body. When they heard on Jan 12th that Maharishi was back in Vlodrop and listening to the celebration, it was a very emotional time for everyone. The Jan 19th message that Maharishi was continuing in Silence was, I suppose, designed to reassure people in the field. And Raja John's latest message that Maharishi is retiring out of necessity was very telling. Hospital? Yes, word around here was that Maharishi was taken to hospital and spent some time in an oxygen tent during the first half of January while he was in silence. Om, it goes to show only, you know, those oxygen levels they do decrease to a point twice as deep as in deepest sleep during meditation, according to some research. He is back retired working in his home and everything is fine, according to some. Much needed fundraising for the TMmovement world peace projects continues everywhere on behalf of Maharishi. Business is as usual mind your own business. Meditate faithfully and dive into activity. Jai Guru Dev, -Doug in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear +++ Thanks for forwarding the message from Bevan. If you have been following the events around Jan 12th, you'll know a lot of changes are taking place now. We finally got our new satellite dish up to watch the Jan. 12th broadcasts. Everyone listened very intently as Maharishi announced that he is retiring, and seemingly has put everything in place for Maha Raja Nader Ram, his Rajas, and the 12 Ministers to take over all aspects of the Movement's guidance and administration. Maharishi has hinted at this several times of over the past years, but there was a real sense of finality about it this time. The underlying point of it all is that he has been telling us all to be Self-Sufficient and not rely on him so much anymore. We have the knowledge, we know what to do, and we have our programme. So now only we have to hold fast to it. As you may have heard, this is all happening now because it seems Maharishi's health has taken a bad turn. Maharishi seems to have been in the hospital for some days during silence. People in Vlodrop got wind of it and even thought Maharishi had left the body. When they heard on Jan 12th that Maharishi was back in Vlodrop and listening to the celebration, it was a very emotional time for everyone. The Jan 19th message that Maharishi was continuing in Silence was, I suppose, designed to reassure people in the field. And Raja John's latest message that Maharishi is retiring out of necessity was very telling. So we shall see what the year ahead brings us. It seems like much of the day to day running of the Movement will be done by others now. Maharishi just said a few days ago that he would withdraw into silence to work on final commentaries of the Vedas. It will probably be a very significant year for the TM Movement and all of us. Jai Guru Dev No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.10/1240 - Release Date: 1/23/2008 5:47 PM To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
[FairfieldLife] Re: For Judy the Clintonista
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Here are three articles that document Bill and Hillary's conservative records: The first from the left-wing New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/17/070917fa_fact_lizza The second from a right-winger: http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBartlett/2007/05/01/conservatives_ for_hillary The third from an article that I believe either Barfitu or Robert the Rhymer posted here and is from an EXTREME left-wing source: http://www.isreview.org/issues/13/clinton-gore.shtml But you go ahead, Judy, you sweet dear thing, and continue on with the illusion that the Clintons are centrist Democrats. Why, to take an alternative position would mean that you would actually have to think for yourself and, hey, we can't have that! Funny, because triangulating from these three pieces shows as clearly as can be that Clinton is a centrist Democrat. Good choices, Shemp. Funny, because unless you speed read at three times the fastest known rate, there's no way you could have read them all by the time you posted. Don't be silly. I read fast, and they aren't *that* long. Took me about a half an hour. I did just skim the last half of the third one, though. Nice try. Also, nice try in hoodwinking people to believe that the articles show anything but what I suggested. Read them again, Shemp. They don't say what you wish they said. Well, then, since they don't say what I claim they say and, apparently, they say what YOU claim, it shouldn't be too difficult for you to list the reasons why the Clintons are centrist Democrats. I've listed my evidence. Now see if you can put all that triangulating to good use and list your evidence, too. Jesus, Shemp. It's the *same evidence*. Any recital of Clinton's policies is going to list the same ones. What they add up to is *centrism*-- neither all conservative nor all liberal, but a mixture, so they're in the, you know, center. Nobody's saying he didn't take some relatively conservative positions, but he also took some relatively liberal positions. Have you never heard of the DLC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council Notice who was the first chair of the DLC. Just as I thought. She couldn't come up with anything.
[FairfieldLife] Re: recipe for good health
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, suziezuzie msilver1951@ wrote: snip I would be really curious to know how many people on this list drink two 6oz. glasses of wine each day and can claim that they feel no difference in the experience of deep meditation. If you drink right before you meditate, of course you're going to feel a difference. But alcohol gets metabolized by the system fairly quickly, so if you have a shot or two of something before you go to bed, say, at least in my experience, it doesn't affect meditation the next morning. Sometimes I have a drink before bed, sometimes I don't, and I've never noticed any difference. FWIW, a former boyfriend of mine who was a TMer would have profound witnessing experiences if he so much as drank a glass of beer. That's never happened to me! Very different with pot, again in my experience (many years ago). My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
[FairfieldLife] Machida - Heart of Shotokan
Lyota Machida...unlike any of the other UFC arrogant goons. Heart of Shotokan...humble and pureand excellent. - Heart of Shotokan: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wef55taUSyU http://youtube.com/watch?v=-EQozpH4Jyg OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: For Judy the Clintonista
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Here are three articles that document Bill and Hillary's conservative records: The first from the left-wing New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/17/070917fa_fact_lizza The second from a right-winger: http://townhall.com/columnists/BruceBartlett/2007/05/01/conservatives_ for_hillary The third from an article that I believe either Barfitu or Robert the Rhymer posted here and is from an EXTREME left-wing source: http://www.isreview.org/issues/13/clinton-gore.shtml But you go ahead, Judy, you sweet dear thing, and continue on with the illusion that the Clintons are centrist Democrats. Why, to take an alternative position would mean that you would actually have to think for yourself and, hey, we can't have that! Funny, because triangulating from these three pieces shows as clearly as can be that Clinton is a centrist Democrat. Good choices, Shemp. Funny, because unless you speed read at three times the fastest known rate, there's no way you could have read them all by the time you posted. Don't be silly. I read fast, and they aren't *that* long. Took me about a half an hour. I did just skim the last half of the third one, though. Nice try. Also, nice try in hoodwinking people to believe that the articles show anything but what I suggested. Read them again, Shemp. They don't say what you wish they said. Well, then, since they don't say what I claim they say and, apparently, they say what YOU claim, it shouldn't be too difficult for you to list the reasons why the Clintons are centrist Democrats. I've listed my evidence. Now see if you can put all that triangulating to good use and list your evidence, too. Jesus, Shemp. It's the *same evidence*. Any recital of Clinton's policies is going to list the same ones. What they add up to is *centrism*-- neither all conservative nor all liberal, but a mixture, so they're in the, you know, center. Yep...and his basic liberal positions he took in the Oval office with Monica are what most of us Celts consider everyday divine behaviour.and as God/Goddess willed it. http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/erotica/khaju.htm OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Off_World - scary prediction, or, in the right place, right time?
PREDICTION Nov. 26th 2007 POST # 156092 on FFL Whatever, you want to believe about this is up to you, but on November 26th 2007, I stuck my neck out here on FFL, and made a prediction. I literally had never heard of Lyoto Machida or anything like him at that time, but if you read this prediction below that was posted in post number 156092 on FFL, on Nov. 27, 2007, you will see that I predicted it. NOTE: On that day, after a fair amount of argument with you guys, I still knew I was right on this, but I had no proof. Now, I fukin' hate God, and all religion, but I literally prayed to God that night to show a sign that this was true...and LITERALLY...that same night...I searched the MMA on YouTube and (to me, almost miraculously, and very quickly ) found 'Lyoto Machida'. I had never heard of him until that moment. You can believe what you want, but the above is true, and it was before I ever heard of any Shotokan person in UFC (I had only just a few days before learned what the UFC actually was ! ), and I had not heard of any Shotokan person associated with it. (All respect to Jyu Jitsu by the way, as I am not putting it down anymore) Here below is the quote from the post, when I had only just found out what the UFC actually was, and predicted then, that one day, a Shotokan trained fighter would come and teach them all. I prayed that night to a God I almost hate, and then Lyota shows up immediatley, in a random search for shotokan UFC Far quicker than I predicted ( I was thinking in the next 5-10 years or so a shotokan figher would turn up to teach the world in this sport) Wow...here is the quote below from the Nov. 26 2007 post here on FFL: Shotokan dominates Martial Arts, and almost all Shotokan experts are totally humble. -snip- The only thing more powerful than thatpure transcendental consiousness. - snip- ...I therefore predict that one day you will see a true Shotokan master enter your babies Octagon. Silence will enfold the world at that point and the monstor on steroids that you hold so highlywill be annihilated. This day will come, and you will see it. That is my prediction, and you will be awestruck. --OffWorld http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/156092 OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: Off_World - scary prediction, or, in the right place, right time?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PREDICTION Nov. 26th 2007 POST # 156092 on FFL Whatever, you want to believe about this is up to you, but on November 26th 2007, I stuck my neck out here on FFL, and made a prediction. I literally had never heard of Lyoto Machida or anything like him at that time, but if you read this prediction below that was posted in post number 156092 on FFL, on Nov. 27, 2007, you will see that I predicted it. NOTE: On that day, after a fair amount of argument with you guys, I still knew I was right on this, but I had no proof. Now, I fukin' hate God, and all religion, but I literally prayed to God that night to show a sign that this was true...and LITERALLY...that same night...I searched the MMA on YouTube and (to me, almost miraculously, and very quickly ) found 'Lyoto Machida'. I had never heard of him until that moment. You can believe what you want, but the above is true, and it was before I ever heard of any Shotokan person in UFC (I had only just a few days before learned what the UFC actually was ! ), and I had not heard of any Shotokan person associated with it. (All respect to Jyu Jitsu by the way, as I am not putting it down anymore) Here below is the quote from the post, when I had only just found out what the UFC actually was, and predicted then, that one day, a Shotokan trained fighter would come and teach them all. I prayed that night to a God I almost hate, and then Lyota shows up immediatley, in a random search for shotokan UFC Far quicker than I predicted ( I was thinking in the next 5-10 years or so a shotokan figher would turn up to teach the world in this sport) Wow...here is the quote below from the Nov. 26 2007 post here on FFL: Shotokan dominates Martial Arts, and almost all Shotokan experts are totally humble. -snip- The only thing more powerful than thatpure transcendental consiousness. - snip- ...I therefore predict that one day you will see a true Shotokan master enter your babies Octagon. Silence will enfold the world at that point and the monstor on steroids that you hold so highlywill be annihilated. This day will come, and you will see it. That is my prediction, and you will be awestruck. --OffWorld http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/156092 OffWorld ...and here he is: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wef55taUSyU OffWorld
