[FairfieldLife] The 11 Dimensions
To All: Physicists are speculating that there are now 11 dimensions based on their calculations using quantum mechanics. However, we can only see four of them as space/time (length, width, height and time). According to these scientists, the rest are curled up or hidden in the continuum. It appears to me that the remaining dimensions refer to consciousness, the seven states of consciousness as MMY stated in the past. So, with this perspective, it is possible for human beings to be multidimensional, reaching the highest status in the universe by attaining Unity Consciousness.
[FairfieldLife] Re: MMY on prayer
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_re...@... wrote: Maharishi: Prayer is always a path to realization, but prayer is on different levels. A man on a bicycle, a man in a car, a man in a high-speed trainall are on the same road, but one goes slower or one goes faster depending upon what one drives. Prayer on the verbal level has its effectiveness; prayer on the mental level is more effective; prayer from the Transcendental area of life has maximum effectiveness, because on that level thought has a frictionless flowit travels instantly throughout Nature. Transcendental Meditation can be considered prayer from that finest level of consciousness, the Unified Field of Natural Law, where Total Natural Law is fully awake. Prayer from there is a direct entrance into an open door; at a grosser level, you knock and the door will open. Prayer can never be glorified enough. It is a supreme value of human consciousness. http://snipurl.com/qhbup [blissanonymous_blogspot_com] Very nice. Thanks for posting this.
[FairfieldLife] Re: No prayer will go in vain - Maharishi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZAsD9KnWhM Please, please Maharishi and all the other Maharishis, I pray to you and to all you know that N. will stop posting materials we already are very familiar with. Thank you very much - I know that no prayer will go in vain. Nay Science. I respect that way that both Maharishi and Nablusoss seem always on message. I appreciate that Nablusoss brings these over to FFL. He is one of the tru-believers willing to publicly contend here on those terms. quite often a good editing eye and an important voice of comment here for context. Often a good reminder of many things more relevant. I think he makes pretty good use of his 50 posts per week for his point of view. I would miss him. I'd vote your prayer would get lost. Thanks :-)
[FairfieldLife] I think it's time to repost these pix [2 Attachments]
They seem a lot more appropriate now. -- Ignorance is thinking you know everything. Wisdom is knowing you don't... but I may be wrong.
[FairfieldLife] Repost: anaadimatparaM brahma
The second hemistich of BG 13, 13 goes like this: anaadimatparaM [sic!] brahma na sat tan naasad ucyate [na sat tat; na + asat; ucyate] Now, 'anaadimatparam' is an exact transliteration of the devanaagarii for instance in A.C's 'BG As It Is'. Well, the word 'aadi' is a *substantive* which means e.g. 'beginning, commencement'. The same word with the suffix '-mat' (aadimat) is an *adjective*, 'having a beginning, beginningy'. So, what happens if we add the negative prefix 'a,(before vowels) an' to 'aadi', which results to 'anaadi'? Oddly enough, instead of staying a *substantive*, it becomes a bahuvriihi compound, and thus, an *adjective*, 'having no beginning, existing from eternity, beginningless'! So, from a morphotactic point of view, 'anaadimatparam' should perhaps be thought of consisting of 'anaadi' and 'matparam', because 'anaadimat' would be redundant, 'anaadi' as such being the opposite of 'aadimat'. That might make this line one of the trickiest in da Giitaa. If we read it like this: anaadi-matparam brahma it means that Krishna actually sez Brahma(n) is below Him, because the only possible alternative seems to be to read 'matparam' as a bahuvriihi 'having Me (mat*: Krishna) as the highest, subordinate to Me', or somesuch. From e.g. advaita POV that would be impossible, because in our understanding they think nothing/no-one can be above Brahma(n). OTOH (although we are not sure, if it's possible), if 'matparam' was perceived as a tatpuruSa compound, it would prolly mean something like 'above Me'. I guess it's anybody's guess whether Krishna could say something like that. Shankara's resolution to that dilemma seems a bit Procrustean, so to speak, because He explains that the (from His POV) reundant suffix '-mat' is there only for metrical reasons, to make that line have those 8 syllables of the anuSTubh metre (4 times 8 syllables). For Shankara the reading anaadi-matparaM... would prolly be impossible. For Him the only alternative seems to be (the redundant) 'anaadimat paraM brahma' We rest our case... * 'mat' is an indeclinable form used in compound words, from the first person pronoun 'aham'; a homonymic suffix changes substantives to adjectives, as in the above example.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Repost: anaadimatparaM brahma
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_re...@... wrote: The second hemistich of BG 13, 13 goes like this: anaadimatparaM [sic!] brahma na sat tan naasad ucyate [na sat tat; na + asat; ucyate] It's interesting that a Hare Krishna website has 'anadi mat-param...' http://www.asitis.com/13/13.html ...but the Finnish edition of As It Is has 'anaadimat paraM brahma' (vowel length indicated by a straight line above vowels) http://www.gypsii.com/place.cgi?op=viewid=1313611
[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Campaign For Liberty Daily Update
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[FairfieldLife] Re: As Usual, Kucinich Tells It Like It Is
Dennis is a true American hero. Thanks to activist Jane Hamsher, we have enough House Reps like Dennis who have taken her pledge to vote against any bill without a public option. Dennis saw this coming down before the recess but the timing wasn't right for him to say anything about it until Kathleen Sebelius let the cat out of the bag on Sunday saying, [the public option] is not the essential element of comprehensive health care reform. Yikes! It is THE MOST essential element. Don't you love it when a politician accidentally tells the truth? Now she's out there backpedaling like mad and White House is still trying to walk it back. It ain't working. Responsible liberals are not buying Obama's pig. Now the time is right for people like Dennis to step up and tell the truth. I got this email from Howard Dean last night: Here's what I know: When we work together, we're unstoppable. As my brother Jim said yesterday, the media has it wrong. The campaign for the choice of a public health insurance option will be over only if we quit or we've won. That decision is ours to make. Not the media's decision - Not the insurance industry's decision - It's our decision. We have the power and we're going to win. Make no mistake, victory won't happen overnight. Just like President Obama's campaign for President, this campaign is a long haul. Congress returns in September for the final stretch to pass reform by the end of the year. We must have the resources to fuel this fight. If we raise $200,000 by Monday, we can hit back immediately. Congress will know we're not backing down in the face of pressure. We're standing up to get the job done. CONTRIBUTE RIGHT NOW AND DELIVER THE RESOURCES TO WIN http://dfa2.convio.net/site/R?i=SIo2PDvWmPfV0CvbAJzRcw.. Victory takes courage, conviction, and commitment. It takes you. The power to change America is in your hands. It always has been. Thank you, for everything you do to win. -Howard Governor Howard Dean, M.D. Founder, Democracy for America [Dean is walking a fine line. He's saying the media has it wrong when he should be saying they're in the tank with the insurance companies along with Congress and the White House. I'm beginning to think this is why Obama got rid of him as the DNC chair. Howard wasn't going to play ball. RD] Raunchydog wrote: Here's the kicker, Congress wants to reduce the Medicare budget and guess where that money is going? It's going to prop up mandated insurance, probably co-ops, for low income folks. That's fine but why short change an efficient system like Medicare and reward an inefficient system like co-ops when low income folks could have had Medicare from the git go. Eventually, the co-ops will collapse, Medicare will be belly up and the rapacious insurance/big pharma bastards who set this whole plan in motion will have destroyed their only competitor, Medicare.
[FairfieldLife] Gotta love that ol' compassionate conservatism...
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/18/hitler-israel/ Also on gawker.com: http://is.gd/2omh2
[FairfieldLife] Re: As Usual, Kucinich Tells It Like It Is
'I don't understand why the left of the left has decided that this is their Waterloo, said a senior White House adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. We've gotten to this point where health care on the left is determined by the breadth of the public option. I don't understand how that has become the measure of whether what we achieve is health-care reform.' 'Mystifying thing' It's a mystifying thing, he added. We're forgetting why we are in this. Another top aide expressed chagrin that a single element in the president's sprawling health-care initiative has become a litmus test for whether the administration is serious about the issue. It took on a life of its own, he said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32469863/ns/politics-washington_post/ [Clueless. Fucking clueless. Fucking clueless on purpose. The White House spin-misters are out in full force. RD]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gotta love that ol' compassionate conservatism...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/18/hitler-israel/ http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/18/hitler-israel/ Also on gawker.com: http://is.gd/2omh2 http://is.gd/2omh2 I think the shouters are all being paid to do it by insurance people big pharma and others. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Jane Hamsher Tells It Like It Is
I guess they finally figured it out -- the Republicans just aren't into them: The Republican leadership, Mr. Emanuel said, has made a strategic decision that defeating President Obama's health care proposal is more important for their political goals than solving the health insurance problems that Americans face every day. Really? Ya think? Somewhere there is a war breaking out. There are too many people with too much money at stake to just sit back and accept this passively. Bipartisan was always code for no public plan, something to keep the thieves stakeholders (AMA, PhRMA, hospitals, device makers, etc.) at the table and their money out of GOP coffers for 2010. It's not the end of the fight. Not by a long shot. But hey, good job Rahm, enjoy it while your deals all turn to shit and Billy Tauzin feeds you to the dogs. Dems Go it Alone Jane Hamsher http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/18/dems-to-go-it-alone-on-health-care/ [Billy Tauzin is a Big Pharm lobbyist making deals with Obama. Jane is saying, if the Dems go it alone, Billy will screw Rahm and support Republicans. As some wag once said, If you're not at the table you're on the menu. RD]
[FairfieldLife] Are you going to remove this post?
Here is a link to characatures of the prophet Muhammed. These are the same ones that outraged Muslims across the world because, apparently, the Koran forbids making an image of the prophet. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=12146offer=hidebodyad=true I found the link in an article on the subject by Christopher Hitchens who argues against a decision by Yale not to publish the cartoons: http://www.slate.com/id/2225504/ A link I posted to porn was removed from this forum a while back (I was trying to make a point about the person who appeared in the photos). After all, it was JUST a link...the photos did NOT appear here. Why should that link be removed and this one not? Or perhaps it will be?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Do you right-wingers want to abolish Government-run system ?
Never vote for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. Off wrote: People who don't want a police force and a public schools system are nuts. Yeah, I'm sick and tired of paying for your kids to go to school. Maybe you should get a job and start paying your own way. If you want to pay high property taxes that's your choice, but I don't have any school age kids anymore and I don't want to pay for yours to go to some government school where half the kids are left behind and if they graduate, they can't read or do numbers. Ron Paul was the best candidate the Republicans had, but rednecks like you shouted him down... So, you don't have all the answers. You don't know how to pay for universal health care; you don't know how to win the war; and you don't know how to bring back the economy, but I'm nuts. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.S.-Swiss Tax Deal Throws Scare into Rich
Om, The Transcendental Meditation movement too? Who are the Boards of Directors now of TM? Just wondering how it is really guided now and by who. -D in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: U.S.-Swiss Tax Deal Throws Scare into Rich Wealthy Americans with Offshore Accounts on Notice as Way Cleared for U.S. to Find Tax Evaders [It would, however, be risky for a wealthy tax dodger to wait to see if the government's stepped up efforts continue, said Boggs, the tax adviser. He said his firm usually recommends a strategic surrender to the IRS.] How is the TMorg sitting with this? Any indication? * [244] (AP) A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from a Swiss bank has a lot of wealthy Americans with offshore accounts nervously running to their tax advisers - and the Internal Revenue Service. They are very frightened, said Richard Boggs, chief executive of Nationwide Tax Relief, a Los-Angeles-based tax firm that specializes in clients with tax debts exceeding $100,000. You have the super rich who are not used to being pushed around and they are finding themselves in unfamiliar territory. The U.S. and Swiss governments announced a court settlement last week http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/12/business/main5236509.shtml in efforts by the IRS http://www.irs.gov/ to force Zurich-based UBS AG to turn over the names of some 52,000 Americans believed to be hiding nearly $15 billion in assets in secret accounts. Justice Department and UBS lawyers told a federal judge in Miami in a brief conference call Wednesday they had initialed a final deal. But they did not disclose any details, such as how many of the 52,000 names sought by the IRS will be revealed. Even before the settlement, the high-profile case - coupled with other U.S. efforts to go after Americans hiding undeclared assets - has scared hundreds of tax dodgers to turn themselves in. Boggs said his firm has been taking on 100 new cases a month, a big increase over previous years. Peter Zeidenberg, a litigation partner at the law firm DLA Piper in Washington, said he, too, is he seeing more people with undeclared assets seeking information about their legal options. His advice: I don't think you have much of a choice but to come forward. ... I think the landscape is permanently changed. The IRS - the federal tax collection agency - long has had a policy that certain tax evaders who come forward before they are contacted by the agency usually can avoid jail time as long as they agree to pay back taxes, interest and hefty penalties. Drug dealers and money launderers need not apply. But if the money was earned legally, tax evaders can usually avoid criminal prosecution. In March, the IRS began a six-month amnesty program that sweetened the offer with reduced penalties for people with undeclared assets. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said the response has been unprecedented. Shulman would not say how many people have applied so far. But the IRS said 400 people applied to voluntarily disclose undeclared assets in a single week in July, compared with fewer than 100 applications all last year. The amnesty program, which ends Sept. 23, is part of a larger effort by federal authorities to crack down on international tax evaders. Each time someone walks through the door with a disclosure, we get more information. We get more information about other people. We get more information about other financial institutions, Shulman said. If people have been hiding assets in the past, they should be nervous, and they should be a lot more suspect about doing it in the future. The U.S. recently reached agreements with several countries, including Luxembourg and Switzerland, to share more tax information in the future, just as the IRS is strengthening its enforcement ranks. President Barack Obama, in his proposed 2010 budget, asked Congress to pay for 800 additional agents, examiners and lawyers to go after people who hide money overseas. Mr. Obama also wants Congress to require overseas financial institutions doing business in the U.S. to share more information with the IRS. Earlier this year, UBS admitted assisting U.S. citizens in evading taxes as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department. UBS agreed to disclose the names of about 300 American clients and pay a $780 million penalty. The IRS subsequently filed its case seeking the names of 52,000 additional U.S. taxpayers believed to be hiding assets in UBS accounts. So far, four UBS customers whose names were given to U.S. authorities under the prior agreement have made deals to plead guilty to tax charges in federal
[FairfieldLife] Re: Denied, to Invincible America
If David Hawthorne is still hosting a private alternate group? it could be good for the rejects to do group program there, hope they are aware of that if it still exists. Of course when it comes to funding that doesn't solve the problem. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:12:39 -0500 Subject: Message to Invincible America from Raja John Hagelin From: Invincible America communication@ The July 2009 Invincible America Assembly was perfect in every way. - IA Course Participant Now it's August. Many visitors have left. Our Super Radiance numbers are in a lull until the MUM students return and the next group of Maharishi Vedic Pandits arrive. We urgently need all local Sidhas to attend morning and evening programs. Let's give our President a burst of support from the heartland - coherence in collective consciousness so that the country continues moving forward harmoniously. Our group has accomplished wonders. Let's keep the momentum of positivity growing in America. Thank you for being here in wonderful Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City. JAI GURU DEV Copyright 2009, Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation. Publication or reproduction of this communication in any form is prohibited without permission. Trouble in FF. Well, evidently meditator FF folk recently re-registering are being asked at registration if they have 'seen' other saints. Responding 'yes', these TM meditators are denied re-registration on the spot. Raja John Hagelin is aware of this? Its consequent in the meditating community just by word of mouth on the numbers of people who could be doing program in the domes?
[FairfieldLife] Re: As Usual, Kucinich Tells It Like It Is
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Dennis Kucinich - www.Kucinich.us http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs086/1102055395994/img/3.jpg HEALTH CARE WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE The masquerade is over! The public option is ... dead. Health care reform is now a private option: WHICH FOR PROFIT INSURANCE COMPANY DO YOU WANT? You have to choose. And you have to pay. If you have a low income, under HR3200 government will subsidize the private insurance companies and you will still have to pay premiums, co-pays and deductibles. The Administration plan requires that everyone must have health insurance, so it is delivering tens of millions of new customers to the insurance companies. Health care? Not really. Insurance care! Absolutely. Cost controls? No chance. You will next hear talk about co-ops. The truth is that insurance company campaign contributions have co-opted the public interest. I need your help http://kucinich.us/contribute to spread the word and rally the nation around true health care reform which covers everyone and maintains fiscal integrity without breaking our nation's bank! Your contribution will empower our efforts to continue to fight for the single-payer, not-for-profit health care bill, HR676 Medicare for All, which I co-authored with Rep. John Conyers. The bill now has 85 sponsors in the House. The hotly-debated HR3200, the so-called health care reform bill, is nothing less than corporate welfare in the guise of social welfare and reform. It is a convoluted mess. The real debate which we should be having is not occurring. Removing the public option from a public bill paid for by public money is not in the public interest. What is left is a private option paid for with public money. Why should public money be spent on a private option which does not guarantee 100% coverage nor have any cost controls? A true public option would provide 30% savings immediately which would then cover the 1/3rd of the population who presently have no health care. Unfortunately, under HR3200, the Government is choosing winners and losers in the private sector; proposing to spend public funds on subsidizing insurance companies who make money not providing health care. This process will insure only the expansion of profits. Gone is the debate over cost. As a result of current negotiations, the Medicare Part D rip-off will continue for another decade, further fleecing senior citizens. Drug importation has been dropped, so no inexpensive drugs can be accessed from other nations. Instead we are told the pharmaceutical companies will accept a 2% cut in the growth rate of their profits - they call this cost control! If the matter were not so serious, it would be farcical: The executive branch pretends that the proposed health care reforms are something they are not. The legislation is being attacked for something it is not. Congressional leadership and the White House defend the legislation, pretending it actually is the very proposal that is being attacked. But it is not. A commonsense government health care reform policy would insure that every single American has full access to health care by expanding Medicare to cover everyone under a Single Payer System. We are already paying for a universal standard of care, it is just we are not getting it. I need your help to spread the word and rally the nation around true health care reform which covers everyone and maintains fiscal integrity without subsidizing insurance and pharmaceutical companies and breaking our nation's bank! My voice in Congress will continue to challenge the special interests who do not want single-payer to succeed. I need you to join me in combating the special and corporate interests who spend millions to try to win this Congressional seat. With your help WE will win again. With your help I will continue to represent your concerns, be YOUR VOICE in the United States Congress, and be the voice for health care for all Americans! Please http://kucinich.us/contribute contribute $25, $50, $100 in support of my campaign. Please contribute now. With your help, we can accomplish ANYTHING in America. Persistence, dedication, truth and courage will lead the way and win out in the end. Thank you. Dennis http://dialfordennis.com/images_for_emails/Dennis.gif _ http://dialfordennis.com/images_for_emails/spacer.gif http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://kucinich.us/hr3200 http://twitter.com/home/?status=http://kucinich.us/hr3200 http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?c=http%3A//kucinich.us/hr3200 http://digg.com/submit?url=kucinich.us/hr3200title=HEALTH%20CARE%20WANTED:%20DEAD%20OR%20ALIVEbodytext=HEALTH%20CARE%20WANTED:%20DEAD%20OR%20ALIVE http://dialfordennis.com/images_for_emails/spacer.gif
[FairfieldLife] Southern Conservatives' Dream for America
They hate pluralistic diversified Democracy. Sen. Voinovich (R-OH) : Southern Republicans are sinking GOP ~~~ Republicans have become more rural and less educated ~~~ In an interview on Hardball, former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) followed up on recent comments made by Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) about how the Republican party is losing its appeal. Said Davis: Politics has been defined by culture over the last few cycles, and we've become a rural party and a Southern party. We've been losing inner suburbs and the like. A lot of this was the policies of the Bush administration. Furthermore, as the GOP increased its focus on cultural issues, it also caused a widening education gap. Davis added: The high education areas Obama carried -- 78 of the 100 counties with the highest education. McCain carried 88 of the 100 counties with the lowest education. As we move to cultural politics, that's been the shift. Here's the clip: http://www.gawkk.com/voinovich-southern-republicans-sinking-the-gop/disc\ uss
[FairfieldLife] Re: As Usual, Kucinich Tells It Like It Is
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 waybac...@... wrote: Thank you Dennis! For thinking and speaking so clearly and intelligently and with common sense. The House needs to stand strong. Dennis is not alone, but he would be alone if activists like Jane Hamsher had not forced the Reps to take a pledge against any bill without a public option. She knew and I knew the minute Max Baucus took the public option off the table, before Senate Finance even went into committee, it signaled that the House would also eventually cave on the public option as well. Jane and others headed off this disaster because of their diligent citizen activism. Jane supported Obama in the primary, but she's not stupid. She responsibly holds politicians accountable. Help her get more progressive Reps like Dennis to take the pledge. Now that the tide is turning against a bill without a public option, Jane needs your support to help Dennis and others so that they can finally tell the truth and fight for a public option. Call your Congressperson today. http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/publicoption Donate to Health Care Heroes: http://www.actblue.com/page/healthcareheroes
[FairfieldLife] What is this om business?
Doug, Why do you often begin your correspondence with om? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: Om, The Transcendental Meditation movement too? Who are the Boards of Directors now of TM? Just wondering how it is really guided now and by who. -D in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: U.S.-Swiss Tax Deal Throws Scare into Rich Wealthy Americans with Offshore Accounts on Notice as Way Cleared for U.S. to Find Tax Evaders [It would, however, be risky for a wealthy tax dodger to wait to see if the government's stepped up efforts continue, said Boggs, the tax adviser. He said his firm usually recommends a strategic surrender to the IRS.] How is the TMorg sitting with this? Any indication? * [244] (AP) A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from a Swiss bank has a lot of wealthy Americans with offshore accounts nervously running to their tax advisers - and the Internal Revenue Service. They are very frightened, said Richard Boggs, chief executive of Nationwide Tax Relief, a Los-Angeles-based tax firm that specializes in clients with tax debts exceeding $100,000. You have the super rich who are not used to being pushed around and they are finding themselves in unfamiliar territory. The U.S. and Swiss governments announced a court settlement last week http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/12/business/main5236509.shtml in efforts by the IRS http://www.irs.gov/ to force Zurich-based UBS AG to turn over the names of some 52,000 Americans believed to be hiding nearly $15 billion in assets in secret accounts. Justice Department and UBS lawyers told a federal judge in Miami in a brief conference call Wednesday they had initialed a final deal. But they did not disclose any details, such as how many of the 52,000 names sought by the IRS will be revealed. Even before the settlement, the high-profile case - coupled with other U.S. efforts to go after Americans hiding undeclared assets - has scared hundreds of tax dodgers to turn themselves in. Boggs said his firm has been taking on 100 new cases a month, a big increase over previous years. Peter Zeidenberg, a litigation partner at the law firm DLA Piper in Washington, said he, too, is he seeing more people with undeclared assets seeking information about their legal options. His advice: I don't think you have much of a choice but to come forward. ... I think the landscape is permanently changed. The IRS - the federal tax collection agency - long has had a policy that certain tax evaders who come forward before they are contacted by the agency usually can avoid jail time as long as they agree to pay back taxes, interest and hefty penalties. Drug dealers and money launderers need not apply. But if the money was earned legally, tax evaders can usually avoid criminal prosecution. In March, the IRS began a six-month amnesty program that sweetened the offer with reduced penalties for people with undeclared assets. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said the response has been unprecedented. Shulman would not say how many people have applied so far. But the IRS said 400 people applied to voluntarily disclose undeclared assets in a single week in July, compared with fewer than 100 applications all last year. The amnesty program, which ends Sept. 23, is part of a larger effort by federal authorities to crack down on international tax evaders. Each time someone walks through the door with a disclosure, we get more information. We get more information about other people. We get more information about other financial institutions, Shulman said. If people have been hiding assets in the past, they should be nervous, and they should be a lot more suspect about doing it in the future. The U.S. recently reached agreements with several countries, including Luxembourg and Switzerland, to share more tax information in the future, just as the IRS is strengthening its enforcement ranks. President Barack Obama, in his proposed 2010 budget, asked Congress to pay for 800 additional agents, examiners and lawyers to go after people who hide money overseas. Mr. Obama also wants Congress to require overseas financial institutions doing business in the U.S. to share more information with the IRS. Earlier this year, UBS admitted assisting U.S. citizens in evading taxes as part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department. UBS agreed to disclose the names of about 300 American clients and pay a $780 million penalty. The IRS subsequently filed its case seeking the names of
[FairfieldLife] The - PUBLIC OPTION -Jane Hamsher on Rachel Maddow's Show
Jane Hamsher really DOES reveal some formidable, impossible-to-ignore firepower here involving the progressives' genuine grass roots influence and its powerful and effective congressional activism. You can't argue with those results. I believe even Rachel was impressed with what has been accomplished to take a stand for the Public Option. It remains to be seen how it will all play out. You can't help but admire the guts and commitment of Jane, a cancer surviver who had some nightmare experiences of her own in getting Big Insurance to pay for her life-saving treatments. -- Jane Hamsher on The Rachel Maddow Show - Progressives throw down for Public Option -- Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Z5XO-I0ooeurl=
Re: [FairfieldLife] Obama Folds
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:58 AM, raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com wrote: After his brilliant beginning, the president suddenly looks weak and unreliable. That will be the common interpretation around Washington of the president's abrupt retreat on substantive heathcare reform. Give Barack Obama a hard shove, they will say, rough him up a bit and he folds. A few weeks back, the president was touting a public option health plan as an essential element in reform. Now he says, take it or leave it. Whatever Congress does, he's okay with that. After all that wondering about whether or not Obama really was a constitutional lawyer/professor we no have proof. He appears to believe that the president keeps his hands off Congress.
[FairfieldLife] Gmail ever says Alex is an imposter
Alex Stanley, your posts show up in my Gmail with a big red banner around Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beward of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. I can't copy and post the banner because its some sort of java composite structure. I get this with an occasional other group or poster but most consistently with Alex. Alex's posts go into my spam folder when they show the big red banner.
[FairfieldLife] Re: U.S.-Swiss Tax Deal Throws Scare into Rich
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: Om, The Transcendental Meditation movement too? Who are the Boards of Directors now of TM? Just wondering how it is really guided now and by who. -D in FF The Transcendental Meditation movement. Evidently as Mark Meredith used to follow it, the TMorg had switched over to other haven islands like the Channel Islands to disappear the money. With Maharishi gone now, who actually is making decisions now and in charge? Administration. Just wondering. Are the people making decisions also holding the purse strings now? Executing policy? There was the old TM movement and now the new one since Maharishi's death. Is the new one really any different? Just wondering. From the BBC: The Swiss banking giant will now give the US tax authorities the details of 4,450 accounts, US officials said. The IRS said that the names being handed over were the ones most suspected of hiding undeclared assets in Switzerland. I believe this agreement gives us what we wanted - access to information about those UBS accountholders most likely to have been involved in offshore tax evasion, the accounts held $18bn in assets at one time, and many have since been closed. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: U.S.-Swiss Tax Deal Throws Scare into Rich Wealthy Americans with Offshore Accounts on Notice as Way Cleared for U.S. to Find Tax Evaders [It would, however, be risky for a wealthy tax dodger to wait to see if the government's stepped up efforts continue, said Boggs, the tax adviser. He said his firm usually recommends a strategic surrender to the IRS.] How is the TMorg sitting with this? Any indication? * [244] (AP) A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from a Swiss bank has a lot of wealthy Americans with offshore accounts nervously running to their tax advisers - and the Internal Revenue Service. They are very frightened, said Richard Boggs, chief executive of Nationwide Tax Relief, a Los-Angeles-based tax firm that specializes in clients with tax debts exceeding $100,000. You have the super rich who are not used to being pushed around and they are finding themselves in unfamiliar territory. The U.S. and Swiss governments announced a court settlement last week http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/12/business/main5236509.shtml in efforts by the IRS http://www.irs.gov/ to force Zurich-based UBS AG to turn over the names of some 52,000 Americans believed to be hiding nearly $15 billion in assets in secret accounts. Justice Department and UBS lawyers told a federal judge in Miami in a brief conference call Wednesday they had initialed a final deal. But they did not disclose any details, such as how many of the 52,000 names sought by the IRS will be revealed. Even before the settlement, the high-profile case - coupled with other U.S. efforts to go after Americans hiding undeclared assets - has scared hundreds of tax dodgers to turn themselves in. Boggs said his firm has been taking on 100 new cases a month, a big increase over previous years. Peter Zeidenberg, a litigation partner at the law firm DLA Piper in Washington, said he, too, is he seeing more people with undeclared assets seeking information about their legal options. His advice: I don't think you have much of a choice but to come forward. ... I think the landscape is permanently changed. The IRS - the federal tax collection agency - long has had a policy that certain tax evaders who come forward before they are contacted by the agency usually can avoid jail time as long as they agree to pay back taxes, interest and hefty penalties. Drug dealers and money launderers need not apply. But if the money was earned legally, tax evaders can usually avoid criminal prosecution. In March, the IRS began a six-month amnesty program that sweetened the offer with reduced penalties for people with undeclared assets. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said the response has been unprecedented. Shulman would not say how many people have applied so far. But the IRS said 400 people applied to voluntarily disclose undeclared assets in a single week in July, compared with fewer than 100 applications all last year. The amnesty program, which ends Sept. 23, is part of a larger effort by federal authorities to crack down on international tax evaders. Each time someone walks through the door with a disclosure, we get more information. We get more information about other people. We get more information about other financial institutions, Shulman said. If people have been hiding assets
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: As Usual, Kucinich Tells It Like It Is
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of raunchydog Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:50 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: As Usual, Kucinich Tells It Like It Is --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , wayback71 waybac...@... wrote: Thank you Dennis! For thinking and speaking so clearly and intelligently and with common sense. The House needs to stand strong. Dennis is not alone, but he would be alone if activists like Jane Hamsher had not forced the Reps to take a pledge against any bill without a public option. She knew and I knew the minute Max Baucus took the public option off the table, before Senate Finance even went into committee, it signaled that the House would also eventually cave on the public option as well. Jane and others headed off this disaster because of their diligent citizen activism. Jane supported Obama in the primary, but she's not stupid. She responsibly holds politicians accountable. Help her get more progressive Reps like Dennis to take the pledge. Now that the tide is turning against a bill without a public option, Jane needs your support to help Dennis and others so that they can finally tell the truth and fight for a public option. Call your Congressperson today. http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/publicoption I called Loebsack's office and he's going to be in Fairfield on the 29th. I'll be there.
[FairfieldLife] Re: As Usual, Kucinich Tells It Like It Is
Rick Archer wrote: Instead we are told the pharmaceutical companies will accept a 2% cut in the growth rate of their profits - they call this cost control! So, how does Dennis propose to reduce the high cost of health care? Apparently he voted against McCain's medication reduction amendment. What's up with that? You're not going to have real health care 'reform' without a reduction in costs. When every American can afford health care, that's when reform has been a success. Until then, you're just giving billions to the health care industry, just like before. Democrats helped defeat it by a 10-12 vote, arguing that allowing access to the cheaper drugs from abroad was potentially dangerous in light of all the hazards Americans have faced in recent months from risky imported products... Read more: 'Some Obama Promises Must Wait' By Adriel Bettelheim CQ Politics, august 17, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/qmy3rk
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gibbs insists Obama not backing off public option
John wrote: Robert Gibbs insists the Obama administration has not shifted its goals on health care reform or distanced itself from a government-run public insurance option... This is a false statement - Gibbs is lying. Poor John, now he's a liar of record as well. I always thought so - he posted so many lies about the Marshy on Usenet that I lost count. So, I'd say that almost anything he posts these days is subject to close scrutiny, or safely ignored. MMY has turned into a tyrant crackpot who weilds his remaining power in absurd propositions with no results other than taking more money - as if more money in his bank account is the solution. N O N E of his schemes have come to fruition. By their fruits ye shall know them. - It applies to MMY. I have seen AND experienced many things in my life. I am 52 yrs old. I have NEVER seen such hypocrisy and betrayal of just human values in the name of goodness, as I have seen with this evil man... From: John Manning Subject: Brahmachari Devendra Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: October 15, 2001
[FairfieldLife] Re: Are you going to remove this post?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Here is a link to characatures of the prophet Muhammed. These are the same ones that outraged Muslims across the world because, apparently, the Koran forbids making an image of the prophet. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=12146offer=hidebodyad=true I found the link in an article on the subject by Christopher Hitchens who argues against a decision by Yale not to publish the cartoons: http://www.slate.com/id/2225504/ A link I posted to porn was removed from this forum a while back (I was trying to make a point about the person who appeared in the photos). After all, it was JUST a link...the photos did NOT appear here. Why should that link be removed and this one not? The policy on FFL is no links to pornographic images, for reasons that have already been explained. The links above don't need to be removed because they contain no pornographic images. It's really just that simple.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gmail ever says Alex is an imposter
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: Alex Stanley, your posts show up in my Gmail with a big red banner around Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beward of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. I can't copy and post the banner because its some sort of java composite structure. I get this with an occasional other group or poster but most consistently with Alex. Alex's posts go into my spam folder when they show the big red banner. The FFL PostCount script receives FFL traffic with Gmail, and to ensure that no posts get filtered out (and therefore not counted) I set up the following filter in Gmail: Matches: to:(FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com) Do this: Never send it to Spam I also do this with my personal FFL Gmail feed, which I pick up via POP with Thunderbird. I can then do any desired filtering in Thunderbird. I have no idea why Gmail is flagging my posts, but it's beyond my control, and I'm certainly not going to lose any sleep over it. If this issue bothers you, I suggest you set up similar Gmail filters.
[FairfieldLife] Barney Frank confronts -patriotic- American at health care event
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlZiWK2Iy8eurl
[FairfieldLife] Re: Are you going to remove this post?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Here is a link to characatures of the prophet Muhammed. These are the same ones that outraged Muslims across the world because, apparently, the Koran forbids making an image of the prophet. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=12146offer=hidebodyad=true I found the link in an article on the subject by Christopher Hitchens who argues against a decision by Yale not to publish the cartoons: [Beavis - The Church Of Our Lord Beavis Christ by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL).] OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] World population projected to reach 7 billion in 2011
World population projected to reach 7 billion in 2011 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The world's population is forecast to hit 7 billion in 2011, the vast majority of its growth coming in developing and, in many cases, the poorest nations, a report released Wednesday said. [Riders cram into a train last month in New Delhi, India. India's population is expected to be 1.7 billion by 2050.] Riders cram into a train last month in New Delhi, India. India's population is expected to be 1.7 billion by 2050. [4] A staggering 97 percent of global growth over the next 40 years will happen in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the Population Reference Bureau's 2009 World Population Data Sheet. The great bulk of today's 1.2 billion youth -- nearly 90 percent -- are in developing countries, said Carl Haub, a co-author of the report. Eight in 10 of those youth live in Africa and Asia. During the next few decades, these young people will most likely continue the current trend of moving from rural areas to cities in search of education and training opportunities, gainful employment, and adequate health care, Haub continued, calling it one of the major social questions of the next few decades. In the developed world, the United States and Canada will account for most of the growth -- half from immigration and half from a natural increase in the population -- births minus deaths, according to the report. High fertility rates and a young population base in the developing world will fuel most of the growth, especially in Africa, where women often give birth to six or seven children over a lifetime, the report says. The number is about two in the United States and 1.5 in Canada. A stark contrast can be drawn between Uganda http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/Uganda and Canada, which currently have about 34 million and 31 million residents, respectively. By 2050, Canada's population is projected to be 42 million, while Uganda's is expected to soar to 96 million, more than tripling. Even with declining fertility rates in many countries, world population is still growing at a rapid rate, said Bill Butz, president of the bureau http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/Population_Reference_Bureau . The increase from 6 billion to 7 billion is likely to take 12 years, as did the increase from 5 billion to 6 billion. Both events are unprecedented in world history. By 2050, India http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/India is projected to be the world's most populous nation at 1.7 billion, overtaking current leader China, which is forecast to hit 1.4 billion. The United States is expected to reach 439 million for No. 3 on the list. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/12/world.population/index.ht\ ml
[FairfieldLife] The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult
The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-republican-party-is-t_b_2\ 62594.html Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarized by the comedian Bill Maher: The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital. The election of Obama -- a center-left black man -- as a successor to George W. Bush has scrambled the core American right's view of their country. In their gut, they saw the US as a white-skinned, right-wing nation forever shaped like Sarah Palin. When this image was repudiated by a majority of Americans in a massive landslide, it simply didn't compute. How could this have happened? How could the cry of Drill, baby, drill have been beaten by a supposedly big government black guy? So a streak that has always been there in the American right's world-view -- to deny reality, and argue against a demonic phantasm of their own creation -- has swollen. Now it is all they can see. Since Obama's rise, the US right has been skipping frantically from one fantasy to another, like a person in the throes of a mental breakdown. It started when they claimed he was a secret Muslim, and -- at the same time -- that he was a member of a black nationalist church that hated white people. Then, once these arguments were rejected and Obama won, they began to argue he was born in Kenya and secretly smuggled into the United States as a baby, and the Hawaiian authorities conspired to fake his US birth certificate. So he is ineligible to rule and the office of President should pass to... the Republican runner-up, John McCain. These aren't fringe phenomena: a Research 2000 poll http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/31/new-poll-less-than-half-o_n_24\ 8470.html found that a majority of Republicans and Southerners say Obama wasn't born in the US, or aren't sure. A steady steam of Republican congressmen have been jabbering that Obama has questions to answer. No amount of hard evidence -- here's his birth certificate, here's a picture of his mother heavily pregnant in Hawaii, here's the announcement of his birth in the local Hawaiian paper -- can pierce this conviction. This trend has reached its apotheosis this summer with the Republican Party claiming en masse that Obama wants to set up death panels to euthanize the old and disabled. Yes: Sarah Palin really has claimed -- with a straight face -- that Barack Obama wants to kill her baby. You have to admire the audacity of the right. Here's what's actually happening. The US is the only major industrialized country that does not provide regular healthcare to all its citizens. Instead, they are required to provide for themselves -- and just under 50 million people can't afford the insurance. As a result, 18,000 US citizens die every year needlessly, because they can't access the care they require. That's equivalent to six 9/11s, every year, year on year. Yet the Republicans have accused the Democrats who are trying to stop all this death by extending healthcare of being killers -- and they have successfully managed to put them on the defensive. The Republicans want to defend the existing system, not least because they are given massive sums of money by the private medical firms who benefit from the deadly status quo. But they can't do so honestly: some 70 percent of Americans say it is immoral to retain a medical system that doesn't cover all citizens. So they have to invent lies to make any life-saving extension of healthcare sound depraved. A few months ago, a recent board member for several private health corporations called Betsy McCaughey noticed a clause in the proposed healthcare legislation that would pay for old people to see a doctor and write a living will. They could stipulate when (if at all) they would like to be withdrawn. It's totally voluntary. Many people want it: I know I wouldn't want to be kept alive for a few extra months if I was only going to be in agony and unable to speak. But McCaughey started the rumor that this was a form of euthanasia, where old people would be forced to agree to death. This was then stretched somehow to include the disabled. It was flatly untrue -- but the right had their talking point, Palin declared the system downright evil, and they were off. It's been amazingly successful. Now, every conversation about healthcare has to begin with a Democrat explaining at great length that, no, they are not in favor of killing the elderly -- while Republicans get away with defending a status quo that kills 18,000 people a year. The hypocrisy was startling: when Sarah Palin was Governor of Alaska, she encouraged citizens there to take out living wills. Almost all the Republicans leading the charge against death panels have voted for living wills in the past. But the lie has done its work: a confetti of distractions has been thrown up, and support is leaking away from the plan
[FairfieldLife] Saving the World's Women
In the first paragraphs I don't see reference to population control, but I would hope that topic shows up later in the story. If girls were not having children at 14, we could maybe get a handle on food and environmental problems. SAVING THE WORLD'S WOMEN http://bit.ly/17KEZb How changing the lives of women and girls in the developing world can change everything The New York Times Sunday Magazine By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF and SHERYL WuDUNN Published: August 17, 2009 IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape. Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount importance, in an economic and geopolitical sense the opportunity they represent is even greater. Women hold up half the sky, in the words of a Chinese saying, yet that's mostly an aspiration: in a large slice of the world, girls are uneducated and women marginalized, and it's not an accident that those same countries are disproportionately mired in poverty and riven by fundamentalism and chaos. There's a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism. That's why foreign aid is increasingly directed to women. The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html?hp
Re: [FairfieldLife] World population projected to reach 7 billion in 2011
I recall during my SCI course in the 1973 that we discussed the Club of Rome reports (this was not on the SCI talking points but just talk during discussion). The import of those reports was the danger of expanding population. Never in those reports do I recall any mention of eugenics however many wingnuts seem to want to point to the Club of Rome as advocating it. The effort was to raise the consciousness (there the SCI tie-in) of emerging nations to reduce family size. So many of these nations still have women giving birth to up to 9 children. Much of this is the belief that some will survive to take care of them in old age. They never think of the consequences and expense of such large families and the poor quality of life that the children will experience. The same stupidity exists in the US with fundie Christians who want to have children like puppies. The more the merrier. While most of the brighter and sometimes wealthier population either have small families or no children at all. With proper government programs (I would certainly never expect the private sector to solve the population problem) people should be encouraged to have smaller families and start a population decline. There are of course problems that need to be ironed out. China is experiencing an aging population while the younger population is in decline. Hence they are experiencing problems funding retirement for an aging population. We will have the same problem here. I only point this out because our resident wingnuts will bring it up as they have before. I think the problem can be solved however and that there are many solutions. One of the problems is that we have an economic meme that more is better. Obviously that benefits the the corporatists as it keeps a steady flow of rice in to their rice bowl or should I say rice truck. But there is much true in the old slogan live simply so others may simply live. Sure we have folks who may have never had prosperity still in this economic day in age with reducing odds that they'll ever experience it. But look around you and see how much crap you can do without. How many of us have homes cluttered with junk that we haven't disposed of and when we do we what was I thinking that I bought this? One of my favorite prognosticators is Gerald Celente who recently said the economy will crash and what will result is simpler societies. Your food will be locally grown and in season (which is healthier). Because there will be no huge multinational behemoth corporations which actually reduce employment there will be jobs for those that want them. And I would add that we probably will come to a point where either we will pay people not to work or if people work it'll be like India at least as it was when I visited 10 years ago where most people only wanted to work 10 hour weeks because it was enough to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. Somehow the populace in the west has been brainwashed into believing that work is holy. Just think how much more time you could have on FFL if you didn't have to work (though maybe most here are most here unemployed). Or maybe instead and more mentally healthy a local coffee klatch of similarly minded people. The current economic problems have been brought on by the expansion of population and the inability for our institutions to adapt to it. Buckminster Fuller pointed this out long ago. The establishment could solve this problem but they would have to give up control in doing so. do.rflex wrote: World population projected to reach 7 billion in 2011 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The world's population is forecast to hit 7 billion in 2011, the vast majority of its growth coming in developing and, in many cases, the poorest nations, a report released Wednesday said. [Riders cram into a train last month in New Delhi, India. India's population is expected to be 1.7 billion by 2050.] Riders cram into a train last month in New Delhi, India. India's population is expected to be 1.7 billion by 2050. [4] A staggering 97 percent of global growth over the next 40 years will happen in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the Population Reference Bureau's 2009 World Population Data Sheet. The great bulk of today's 1.2 billion youth -- nearly 90 percent -- are in developing countries, said Carl Haub, a co-author of the report. Eight in 10 of those youth live in Africa and Asia. During the next few decades, these young people will most likely continue the current trend of moving from rural areas to cities in search of education and training opportunities, gainful employment, and adequate health care, Haub continued, calling it one of the major social questions of the next few decades. In the developed world, the United States and Canada will account for most of the growth -- half from immigration and half from a natural increase in the
[FairfieldLife] Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill
Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill WASHINGTON Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority's cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks. Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being shaped by what they saw as Republicans' purposely strident tone against health care legislation during this month's Congressional recess, as well as remarks by leading Republicans that current proposals were flawed beyond repair. Rahm Emanuel http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/rahm_emanu\ el/index.html?inline=nyt-per , the White House chief of staff, said the heated opposition was evidence that Republicans had made a political calculation to draw a line against any health care changes, the latest in a string of major administration proposals that Republicans have opposed. The Republican leadership, Mr. Emanuel said, has made a strategic decision that defeating President Obama http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_oba\ ma/index.html?inline=nyt-per 's health care proposal is more important for their political goals than solving the health insurance http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthto\ pics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier problems that Americans face every day. The Democratic shift may not make producing a final bill much easier. The party must still reconcile the views of moderate and conservative Democrats worried about the cost and scope of the legislation with those of more liberal lawmakers determined to win a government-run insurance option to compete with private insurers. On the other hand, such a change could alter the dynamic of talks surrounding health care legislation, and even change the substance of a final bill. With no need to negotiate with Republicans, Democrats might be better able to move more quickly, relying on their large majorities in both houses. Democratic senators might feel more empowered, for example, to define the authority of the nonprofit insurance cooperatives that are emerging as an alternative to a public insurance plan. Republicans have used the Congressional break to dig in hard against the overhaul outline drawn by Democrats. The Senate's No. 2 Republican, Jon Kyl http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/jon_kyl/in\ dex.html?inline=nyt-per of Arizona, is the latest to weigh in strongly, saying Tuesday that the public response lawmakers were seeing over the summer break should persuade Democrats to scrap their approach and start over. I think it is safe to say there are a huge number of big issues that people have, Mr. Kyl told reporters in a conference call from Arizona. There is no way that Republicans are going to support a trillion-dollar-plus bill. The White House has also interpreted critical comments by Senator Charles E. Grassley http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/charles_e_\ grassley/index.html?inline=nyt-per of Iowa, the top Republican negotiator in a crucial Finance Committee effort to reach a bipartisan compromise, as a sign that there is little hope of reaching a deal politically acceptable to both parties. Mr. Grassley, who is facing the possibility of a Republican primary challenge next year, has gotten an earful in traveling around his home state. At one gathering last week, in a city park in the central Iowa town of Adel, a man rose from the crowd and urged him to stand up and fight the Democratic plans. If he does not, the man yelled, we will vote you out! The White House, carefully following Mr. Grassley's activities, presumed he was no longer interested in negotiating with Democrats after he initially made no effort to debunk misinformation that the legislation could lead to death panels empowered to judge who would receive care. Citing a packed schedule, Mr. Grassley has also put off plans for the bipartisan group of Finance Committee negotiators to meet in either Iowa or Maine, the home of another Republican member of the group, Senator Olympia J. Snowe http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/olympia_j_\ snowe/index.html?inline=nyt-per , before Congress resumes. Further, Mr. Grassley said this week that he would vote against a bill unless it had wide support from Republicans, even if it included all the provisions he wanted. I am negotiating for Republicans, he told MSNBC. In an interview on Tuesday, Mr. Grassley said he had simply been repeating earlier comments that he would not support a measure that did not have significant Republican support. He said that raucous town-hall-style meetings might have made the job of reaching a compromise harder, but that he had not given up. It may be more difficult than it was before, he said. I am intent on
[FairfieldLife] Re: Are you going to remove this post?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_re...@... wrote: [Beavis - The Church Of Our Lord Beavis Christ by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL).] http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/200559915_76ad470f65.jpg Lord Beavis is especially powerful as the Avatar Cornholio in his heroic quest to find TP for his bunghole: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yW_sIKBfIk
[FairfieldLife] Fragments
This is a movie that played a few theaters a couple weeks back but was also released at the same time. If you look at the cast you have to wonder why: Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Jean Tripplehorn, Robin Weigert, Jennifer Hudson etc. The director in the commentary explains this was a script that have been making the rounds in Hollywood for years. No studio seemed to want to touch it. The movie is about a group of people who lives are changed and intertwined by a shooting in a cafe. Dakota Fanning plays a teenage girl who becomes religious after the incident puzzling friends and family since she never had a interest before. Whittaker plays a terminal cancer patient who survives the shooting and believes his luck has changed so goes gambling. Guy Pearce plays a doctor who leaves the cafe just before the shooting but winds up treating its victims. There are many issues here that FFL'ers would find interesting. Especially the religious issue which probably made the studio decide it would not have wide theater distribution since it is actually critical of religious beliefs. It deals heavily with the illusions people have a as result of the event. Well worth a watch. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948547/ Winged Creatures is the non-US title of the film.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill WASHINGTON Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority's cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks. Thank God. It was inevitable in the end though, and I think Obama knew that, but at least he tried to have bi-partisan co-operation. What a bunch of losers the Republicans are. Their time is over. It will take them 15 years to recover from this, because a new Republican party will look nothing like this one, and more lke a Libertarian party, whihc won't fly with their current base, who are dying out. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: Are you going to remove this post?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Here is a link to characatures of the prophet Muhammed. These are the same ones that outraged Muslims across the world because, apparently, the Koran forbids making an image of the prophet. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=12146offer=hidebodyad=true I found the link in an article on the subject by Christopher Hitchens who argues against a decision by Yale not to publish the cartoons: [Beavis - The Church Of Our Lord Beavis Christ by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL).] OffWorld Do you hesitate to reproduce here any of the offending Muslim cartoons?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill
Interesting that Dennis Kucinich is against the most popular bill. Here's Kucinich: The hotly-debated HR3200, the so-called health care reform bill, is nothing less than corporate welfare in the guise of social welfare and reform. It is a convoluted mess. The real debate which we should be having is not occurring. Removing the public option from a public bill paid for by public money is not in the public interest. What is left is a private option paid for with public money. Why should public money be spent on a private option which does not guarantee 100% coverage nor have any cost controls? A true public option would provide 30% savings immediately which would then cover the 1/3rd of the population who presently have no healthcare. http://bit.ly/42dkF Patrick again: Could it be the Republicans dislike HR3200 for the same reasons Kucinich condemns it? I'm not following the players closely enough to tell. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill WASHINGTON Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority's cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks. Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being shaped by what they saw as Republicans' purposely strident tone against health care legislation during this month's Congressional recess, as well as remarks by leading Republicans that current proposals were flawed beyond repair. Rahm Emanuel http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/rahm_emanu\ el/index.html?inline=nyt-per , the White House chief of staff, said the heated opposition was evidence that Republicans had made a political calculation to draw a line against any health care changes, the latest in a string of major administration proposals that Republicans have opposed. The Republican leadership, Mr. Emanuel said, has made a strategic decision that defeating President Obama http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_oba\ ma/index.html?inline=nyt-per 's health care proposal is more important for their political goals than solving the health insurance http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthto\ pics/health_insurance_and_managed_care/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier problems that Americans face every day. The Democratic shift may not make producing a final bill much easier. The party must still reconcile the views of moderate and conservative Democrats worried about the cost and scope of the legislation with those of more liberal lawmakers determined to win a government-run insurance option to compete with private insurers. On the other hand, such a change could alter the dynamic of talks surrounding health care legislation, and even change the substance of a final bill. With no need to negotiate with Republicans, Democrats might be better able to move more quickly, relying on their large majorities in both houses. Democratic senators might feel more empowered, for example, to define the authority of the nonprofit insurance cooperatives that are emerging as an alternative to a public insurance plan. Republicans have used the Congressional break to dig in hard against the overhaul outline drawn by Democrats. The Senate's No. 2 Republican, Jon Kyl http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/jon_kyl/in\ dex.html?inline=nyt-per of Arizona, is the latest to weigh in strongly, saying Tuesday that the public response lawmakers were seeing over the summer break should persuade Democrats to scrap their approach and start over. I think it is safe to say there are a huge number of big issues that people have, Mr. Kyl told reporters in a conference call from Arizona. There is no way that Republicans are going to support a trillion-dollar-plus bill. The White House has also interpreted critical comments by Senator Charles E. Grassley http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/charles_e_\ grassley/index.html?inline=nyt-per of Iowa, the top Republican negotiator in a crucial Finance Committee effort to reach a bipartisan compromise, as a sign that there is little hope of reaching a deal politically acceptable to both parties. Mr. Grassley, who is facing the possibility of a Republican primary challenge next year, has gotten an earful in traveling around his home state. At one gathering last week, in a city park in the central Iowa town of Adel, a man rose from the crowd and urged him to stand up and fight the Democratic plans. If he does not, the man yelled, we will vote you out! The White House, carefully following Mr. Grassley's activities, presumed he was no longer interested in negotiating with Democrats after he initially made no
[FairfieldLife] Re: Gmail ever says Alex is an imposter
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ wrote: Alex Stanley, your posts show up in my Gmail with a big red banner around Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beward of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. I can't copy and post the banner because its some sort of java composite structure. I get this with an occasional other group or poster but most consistently with Alex. Alex's posts go into my spam folder when they show the big red banner. The FFL PostCount script receives FFL traffic with Gmail, and to ensure that no posts get filtered out (and therefore not counted) I set up the following filter in Gmail: Matches: to:(FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com) Do this: Never send it to Spam I also do this with my personal FFL Gmail feed, which I pick up via POP with Thunderbird. I can then do any desired filtering in Thunderbird. I have no idea why Gmail is flagging my posts, but it's beyond my control, and I'm certainly not going to lose any sleep over it. If this issue bothers you, I suggest you set up similar Gmail filters. Yeah, i find a spam filter set to delete non-meditator writers who would post to FFL works really good this way.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is this om business?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Doug, Why do you often begin your correspondence with om? Om Jai Guru Dev Dear Shemp; `Om' does goes to a very deep place. Is a most powerful utterance or thot in a subtle system. A great sourcing resonance to come out of. Maharishi used to talk a lot about it. You slept through those lectures? Is a really powerful thought to start with and come from. Lot different than saying, `oh the way' or `um' on a psycho-spiritual subtle level. Om Nablusoss, could you come up with a You-Tube link for Shemp of Maharishi lecturing on the subject of `Om'? It might prove a helpful enlightenment for Shemp. He seems might be ready to hear it now in asking this question. Jai Guru Dev, -Doug in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Om, The Transcendental Meditation movement too? Who are the Boards of Directors now of TM? Just wondering how it is really guided now and by who. -D in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: U.S.-Swiss Tax Deal Throws Scare into Rich Wealthy Americans with Offshore Accounts on Notice as Way Cleared for U.S. to Find Tax Evaders [It would, however, be risky for a wealthy tax dodger to wait to see if the government's stepped up efforts continue, said Boggs, the tax adviser. He said his firm usually recommends a strategic surrender to the IRS.] How is the TMorg sitting with this? Any indication? * [244] (AP) A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from a Swiss bank has a lot of wealthy Americans with offshore accounts nervously running to their tax advisers - and the Internal Revenue Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Gmail ever says Alex is an imposter
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: Alex Stanley, your posts show up in my Gmail with a big red banner around Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beward of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information. I can't copy and post the banner because its some sort of java composite structure. I get this with an occasional other group or poster but most consistently with Alex. Alex's posts go into my spam folder when they show the big red banner. The FFL PostCount script receives FFL traffic with Gmail, and to ensure that no posts get filtered out (and therefore not counted) I set up the following filter in Gmail: Matches: to:(FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com) Do this: Never send it to Spam I go through my SPAM folder in Gmail because though Gmail's spam detection is some of the best, it's not perfect so it needs to be constantly trained. Gmail has no problem detecting spam everybody's getting, but if you get something from just a few sources, Gmail has less to go on. So I have this rule set up in other Gmail accounts (yes, that's now not only legal but totally encouraged). I know it's some missfire, but I can't figure out what's ticking it off. I compare headers and they look the same. It seems to be more a function of time, as if it's Thursday 3-4 different senders will get big red bannered as fraud. Google might be trying something that isn't quite working. Now as far as dhamilton2k5 filtering, well, I have him and about 18 other people and topics filtered in FFL. It makes for a very pleasant experience, not having do read the posts of the many very sick individuals who populate FFL. Things became really nice when I got rid of Judy, one of the OCD people who keep the crap flowing on FFL.
[FairfieldLife] DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Advanced lecture Sunday
Subject: DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Advanced lecture Sunday From: Dome Announcements owner-dom...@mum.edu Dear Meditators, Sidhas and Governors, You are cordially invited to attend the New Advanced Lecture series at the Maharishi Peace Palaces every Sunday @ 7:30PM. The Next Talk Sunday Aug 23rd will be: Eternal Bliss Consciousness: The Experience of the Attibuteless Absolute by Maharishi Aug. 27th, 1970 22 min. All meetings will begin with a group checking of the Transcendental Meditation Technique. We will be offering Advance Lectures every Sunday Evening @ 7:30 PM. We will be playing the entire series of Volume One of the New Advanced Lecture Series. (15 talks total) The Lecture Series will be offered in both the Men's Ladies Peace Palace. Everyone is Welcome in the Men's Peace Palace. ( Men, Ladies Couples) Only Ladies at the Ladies Peace Palace, please. We look forward to seeing you. Jai Guru Dev Wally DeVasier Director Maharishi Peace Palaces *** DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS is a moderated list that distributes announcements to the Maharishi University of Management community. Send your announcements to owner-dom...@mum.edu.
[FairfieldLife] Guitarists, take note
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/itmightgetloud/?sr=hotnewsLINKLooks like a great guitar players flick!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill
off_world_beings wrote: It was inevitable in the end though, and I think Obama knew that... So, right in the middle of a recession, you want to destroy the private sector insurance market, which accounts for 15% of the American economy, in order to have government control of health-care decisions with a panel, but it is being blocked by some Democrats. Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] The Brotherhood of the Gun
The Brotherhood of the Gun http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2009/08/brotherhood-of-gun.html Ernest Hancock Publisher, Freedom's Phoenix http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Writer-Bio-Page.htm?EdNo=001EditNo=001 Dear Mr. Hancock mailto:ernesthanc...@cox.net;upd...@ernesthancock.com;ern...@ernesthanc\ ock.com , The sight of you standing there armed as you interviewed http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/2009/08/assault-rifle-intervi\ ew-outside-obama-event-in-phoenix-was-planned.php the young man with an assault rifle at the Obama appearance a few days ago prompted strange but familiar feelings deep within me. Familiar, because I've felt these feelings many times in my life, but strange, because I haven't had them since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. What I felt as I saw you and the eleven other gun-toting patriots intimidating the Obamunists was something I call the Brotherhood of the Gun. It's hard for me to describe what that feeling is exactly--only that it is a feeling of power which overcomes my usual feelings of inadequacy and impotence. Where once I felt beleaguered by the capable and intelligent, I now feel like a God who has power over life and death. It feels good. I feel invincible. After doing a little reading about you, I've learned that you've turned this feeling into something real, an actual brotherhood of flesh and blood human beings rather than the rag tag collection of inflatable men and action figures to which I've grown accustomed. Your real life Brotherhood of the Gun is vast. It includes patriots, Teabagger-Americans, and even a few ex-convicts. [BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371470384257983266] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Mh1TZAM-AWU/SotL2u86YyI/CcE/JJ1b8xNfC\ v8/s1600-h/viper.png One of the latter http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/ernest_hancock_viper_\ militia_gun_obama_event.php , Dean Pleasant, is the former leader of the Viper Militia http://books.google.com/books?id=gxAD55KD5L0Cpg=PA71lpg=PA71dq= . He was sent to prison in 1996 for stockpiling arms and explosives and conspiring to bomb federal buildings--a key piece of evidence was a video tape in which Dean pointed out where to place the bombs http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/05/us/volatile-mix-in-viper-militia-hatr\ ed-plus-a-love-for-guns.html?pagewanted=1 to bring down those buildings. I can see why you are so close to Dean. He truly embodies the spirit of the Brotherhood of the Gun. As a bachelor, he remained faithful to his one true love, his rifle named Shirley, caressing her http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/05/us/volatile-mix-in-viper-militia-hatr\ ed-plus-a-love-for-guns.html?pagewanted=2 every night in his bed as he drifted off to sleep. And there is certainly no doubt about his commitment to ways of the brotherhood. He was once ejected from a Soldier of Fortune event for being too gung ho. You just got to love a guy who's too gung ho for Soldier of Fortune http://www.sofmag.com/wp/ , and it looks like you do (in a purely heterosexual kind of way, no doubt). You can see it in the happiness you expressed when you shared the joy of urinal targets http://dagny.betterthanyours.com/pipermail/update_ernesthancock.com/200\ 6-February/002223.html with him. I'd like to become a part of your brotherhood. Please let me know when you next plan to intimidate lesser Americans with a display of your weapons. I'd also like to return the favor by inviting you to the compound for a weekend of Spartan-style wrestling. It's the highest honor a warrior may bestow upon another--to face each other as our ancient Spartan Warrior forbears did, naked and oiled in the circle of manly combat, a valiant struggle for domination until the victor finally drives home his Rigid Spear of Manly Domination. I'd like that. Please bring Dean along too. His review http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?Info=0015626 of the movie, 300, makes me think he'd enjoy it. Heterosexually yours, Gen. JC Christian, patriot http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , WillyTex no_re...@... wrote: off_world_beings wrote: It was inevitable in the end though, and I think Obama knew that... So, right in the middle of a recession, you want to destroy the private sector insurance market, which accounts for 15% of the American economy Yes I would shut it down, but unfortunately that is not in the Democrats' plan. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] More interesting than the usual video posted here
http://www2.wataugademocrat.com/story/113 Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma
[FairfieldLife] Message from Raja Hagelin
Message from Raja Hagelin “The July 2009 Invincible America Assembly was perfect in every way.” — IA Course Participant It’s hard to argue with perfection. Our Super Radiance numbers averaged more than 2,000 every day. What happened nationwide? * No hurricanes — No hurricanes or tropical storms penetrated U.S. borders. * Crime Rate Plummets—On July 20, theWashington Post reported, “Violent crime has plummeted in the Washington area and in major cities across the country, a trend criminologists describe as baffling and unexpected.” And what happened here? * Great experiences — #1 experiences in the Golden Domes have been deeper and richer than ever. * Maharishi Vedic Pandit performance — 2,000 of us attended a live performance of Maha Rudra Abhishek in the Golden Dome on Guru Purnima. * More new Sidhas — More than 60 new Yogic Flyers graduated from CIC. * Advanced training — More than 200 Governors attended Governor Refresher Course and Workshop. * Great weather! — July weather mildest on record ever for Iowa. Now it’s August. Many visitors have left. Our Super Radiance numbers are in a lull until the MUM students return and the next group of Maharishi Vedic Pandits arrive. We urgently need all local Sidhas to attend morning and evening programs. Let’s give our President a burst of support from the heartland — coherence in collective consciousness so that the country continues moving forward harmoniously. Our group has accomplished wonders. Let’s keep the momentum of positivity growing in America. Thank you for being here in wonderful Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City. JAI GURU DEV
[FairfieldLife] Re: More interesting than the usual video posted here
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool ffl...@... wrote: http://www2.wataugademocrat.com/story/113 Cool... they're turning Heavenly Mountain into an eco-hippy development.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is this om business?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Doug, Why do you often begin your correspondence with om? Om Jai Guru Dev Dear Shemp; `Om' does goes to a very deep place. Is a most powerful utterance or thot in a subtle system. A great sourcing resonance to come out of. Maharishi used to talk a lot about it. You slept through those lectures? Is a really powerful thought to start with and come from. Lot different than saying, `oh the way' or `um' on a psycho-spiritual subtle level. Om Nablusoss, could you come up with a You-Tube link for Shemp of Maharishi lecturing on the subject of `Om'? It might prove a helpful enlightenment for Shemp. He seems might be ready to hear it now in asking this question. Jai Guru Dev, -Doug in FF Maharishis's lectures on OM is not yet available on you-tube. Please remeber that His strongest points against using OM was directed towards women. My Initiator was on one of the first TTC's in Rishikesh, and in reciting OM here there and everywhere from the Vedas in front of everybody Maharishi stopped Her saying; Why do you say OM, don't you want the get married ? She stopped the recitation of OM, and later got happily married to a Shaman Maharishi loved until his death in 1995, and probably much longer. Shemp could OM about as much as he pleases, as long as he is willing to pay the consequenses.
[FairfieldLife] Re: DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Advanced lecture Sunday
Back to basics in the Transcendental Meditation slump. Sort of like Proctor and Gamble strategy change in a down market. Requires a change of corporate culture of thought. see: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124946926161107433.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays dickm...@... wrote: Subject: DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Advanced lecture Sunday From: Dome Announcements owner-dom...@... Dear Meditators, Sidhas and Governors, You are cordially invited to attend the New Advanced Lecture series at the Maharishi Peace Palaces every Sunday @ 7:30PM. The Next Talk Sunday Aug 23rd will be: Eternal Bliss Consciousness: The Experience of the Attibuteless Absolute by Maharishi Aug. 27th, 1970 22 min. All meetings will begin with a group checking of the Transcendental Meditation Technique. We will be offering Advance Lectures every Sunday Evening @ 7:30 PM. We will be playing the entire series of Volume One of the New Advanced Lecture Series. (15 talks total) The Lecture Series will be offered in both the Men's Ladies Peace Palace. Everyone is Welcome in the Men's Peace Palace. ( Men, Ladies Couples) Only Ladies at the Ladies Peace Palace, please. We look forward to seeing you. Jai Guru Dev Wally DeVasier Director Maharishi Peace Palaces *** DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS is a moderated list that distributes announcements to the Maharishi University of Management community. Send your announcements to owner-dom...@...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: More interesting than the usual video posted here
j_alexander_stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool ffl...@... wrote: http://www2.wataugademocrat.com/story/113 Cool... they're turning Heavenly Mountain into an eco-hippy development. Definitely some good ideas there though I wonder how out-of-breathe they got walking up those stairs? ;-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: As Usual, Kucinich Tells It Like It Is
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: Dennis Kucinich - www.Kucinich.us With your help, we can accomplish ANYTHING in America. Persistence, dedication, truth and courage will lead the way and win out in the end. Thank you. Dennis Yeah in virtue. With truth, win in the end. Could the President of MUM or many any the leaders of the Transcendental Meditation movement otherwise honestly be able to sign a a letter ending this way without renouncing their own past ways? The contrast seems great and the irony would be great if they tried.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult
Shrill Baby Shrill? He must think Pelosi and Frank are the epitome of silence in action --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-republican-party-is-t_b_2\ 62594.html Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarized by the comedian Bill Maher: The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital. The election of Obama -- a center-left black man -- as a successor to George W. Bush has scrambled the core American right's view of their country. In their gut, they saw the US as a white-skinned, right-wing nation forever shaped like Sarah Palin. When this image was repudiated by a majority of Americans in a massive landslide, it simply didn't compute. How could this have happened? How could the cry of Drill, baby, drill have been beaten by a supposedly big government black guy? So a streak that has always been there in the American right's world-view -- to deny reality, and argue against a demonic phantasm of their own creation -- has swollen. Now it is all they can see. Since Obama's rise, the US right has been skipping frantically from one fantasy to another, like a person in the throes of a mental breakdown. It started when they claimed he was a secret Muslim, and -- at the same time -- that he was a member of a black nationalist church that hated white people. Then, once these arguments were rejected and Obama won, they began to argue he was born in Kenya and secretly smuggled into the United States as a baby, and the Hawaiian authorities conspired to fake his US birth certificate. So he is ineligible to rule and the office of President should pass to... the Republican runner-up, John McCain. These aren't fringe phenomena: a Research 2000 poll http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/31/new-poll-less-than-half-o_n_24\ 8470.html found that a majority of Republicans and Southerners say Obama wasn't born in the US, or aren't sure. A steady steam of Republican congressmen have been jabbering that Obama has questions to answer. No amount of hard evidence -- here's his birth certificate, here's a picture of his mother heavily pregnant in Hawaii, here's the announcement of his birth in the local Hawaiian paper -- can pierce this conviction. This trend has reached its apotheosis this summer with the Republican Party claiming en masse that Obama wants to set up death panels to euthanize the old and disabled. Yes: Sarah Palin really has claimed -- with a straight face -- that Barack Obama wants to kill her baby. You have to admire the audacity of the right. Here's what's actually happening. The US is the only major industrialized country that does not provide regular healthcare to all its citizens. Instead, they are required to provide for themselves -- and just under 50 million people can't afford the insurance. As a result, 18,000 US citizens die every year needlessly, because they can't access the care they require. That's equivalent to six 9/11s, every year, year on year. Yet the Republicans have accused the Democrats who are trying to stop all this death by extending healthcare of being killers -- and they have successfully managed to put them on the defensive. The Republicans want to defend the existing system, not least because they are given massive sums of money by the private medical firms who benefit from the deadly status quo. But they can't do so honestly: some 70 percent of Americans say it is immoral to retain a medical system that doesn't cover all citizens. So they have to invent lies to make any life-saving extension of healthcare sound depraved. A few months ago, a recent board member for several private health corporations called Betsy McCaughey noticed a clause in the proposed healthcare legislation that would pay for old people to see a doctor and write a living will. They could stipulate when (if at all) they would like to be withdrawn. It's totally voluntary. Many people want it: I know I wouldn't want to be kept alive for a few extra months if I was only going to be in agony and unable to speak. But McCaughey started the rumor that this was a form of euthanasia, where old people would be forced to agree to death. This was then stretched somehow to include the disabled. It was flatly untrue -- but the right had their talking point, Palin declared the system downright evil, and they were off. It's been amazingly successful. Now, every conversation about healthcare has to begin with a Democrat explaining at great length that, no, they are not in favor of killing the elderly -- while Republicans get away with defending a status quo that kills 18,000 people a year. The hypocrisy was startling: when Sarah Palin was Governor of Alaska, she encouraged citizens there to take out
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Advanced lecture Sunday
On Aug 19, 2009, at 7:10 PM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: Back to basics in the Transcendental Meditation slump. Sort of like Proctor and Gamble strategy change in a down market. Requires a change of corporate culture of thought. It doesn't sound to me like a slump at all: Either you've not heard this video tape and you're just jealous... OR you don't appreciate the infinite menu of Maharishi's teaching being offered to those who have not been able to hear the Absolute profundity in this particular teaching? OR you're envious of other folks hearing a lecture you thought you were privileged to witness (or of course you missed the aforesaid and RESENT it's being pushed as a commercial event)? Which is it D.?
[FairfieldLife] Re: More interesting than the usual video posted here
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , gullible fool ffl...@... wrote: http://www2.wataugademocrat.com/story/113 http://www2.wataugademocrat.com/story/113 Good idea. The best idea Kaplan has ever had (has he sold his massive carbon footprint private jet yet? .. or is this sustainability thing just business to him? ) OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is this om business?
I understand the significance of om, as you state below. But that still doesn't explain why you would start correspondence with it. You say it's a really powerful thought to start with and come from. Well, your mantra is probably even more powerful, so using your logic, why not start every sentence you utter or write with your mantra? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Doug, Why do you often begin your correspondence with om? Om Jai Guru Dev Dear Shemp; `Om' does goes to a very deep place. Is a most powerful utterance or thot in a subtle system. A great sourcing resonance to come out of. Maharishi used to talk a lot about it. You slept through those lectures? Is a really powerful thought to start with and come from. Lot different than saying, `oh the way' or `um' on a psycho-spiritual subtle level. Om Nablusoss, could you come up with a You-Tube link for Shemp of Maharishi lecturing on the subject of `Om'? It might prove a helpful enlightenment for Shemp. He seems might be ready to hear it now in asking this question. Jai Guru Dev, -Doug in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Om, The Transcendental Meditation movement too? Who are the Boards of Directors now of TM? Just wondering how it is really guided now and by who. -D in FF --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: U.S.-Swiss Tax Deal Throws Scare into Rich Wealthy Americans with Offshore Accounts on Notice as Way Cleared for U.S. to Find Tax Evaders [It would, however, be risky for a wealthy tax dodger to wait to see if the government's stepped up efforts continue, said Boggs, the tax adviser. He said his firm usually recommends a strategic surrender to the IRS.] How is the TMorg sitting with this? Any indication? * [244] (AP) A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from a Swiss bank has a lot of wealthy Americans with offshore accounts nervously running to their tax advisers - and the Internal Revenue Service.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is this om business?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: [snip] Om Nablusoss, could you come up with a You-Tube link for Shemp of Maharishi lecturing on the subject of `Om'? It might prove a helpful enlightenment for Shemp. [snip] What is this, a cult tag-team?
Re: [FairfieldLife] DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Advanced lecture Sunday
Thanks for posting this. I actually look forward to the latest knowledge posts from this group of TM-folk in the domes. Even the announcements themselves are like sutras, or threads, of a deeper knowledge. Are you posting ALL of the announcements? If you aren't I really wish someone would. They're very informative on a deep level. I realize this is a more major announcement, but I'd love to hear them all. This is great stuff for appreciating the continuing wave that is TM and the TM-Sidhi technologies of the Unified Field. Please post'em! Thanks Dick. -V. On Aug 19, 2009, at 4:59 PM, Dick Mays wrote: Subject: DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS--Advanced lecture Sunday From: Dome Announcements owner-dom...@mum.edu Dear Meditators, Sidhas and Governors, You are cordially invited to attend the New Advanced Lecture series at the Maharishi Peace Palaces every Sunday @ 7:30PM. The Next Talk Sunday Aug 23rd will be: Eternal Bliss Consciousness: The Experience of the Attibuteless Absolute by Maharishi Aug. 27th, 1970 22 min. All meetings will begin with a group checking of the Transcendental Meditation Technique. We will be offering Advance Lectures every Sunday Evening @ 7:30 PM. We will be playing the entire series of Volume One of the New Advanced Lecture Series. (15 talks total) The Lecture Series will be offered in both the Men's Ladies Peace Palace. Everyone is Welcome in the Men's Peace Palace. ( Men, Ladies Couples) Only Ladies at the Ladies Peace Palace, please. We look forward to seeing you. Jai Guru Dev Wally DeVasier Director Maharishi Peace Palaces *** DOME ANNOUNCEMENTS is a moderated list that distributes announcements to the Maharishi University of Management community. Send your announcements to owner-dom...@mum.edu.
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Poll: Whites, Southerners, Republicans, Few Others, Trust Fox News
On Aug 18, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Mike Dixon wrote: The latest Gallop poll shows conservatives are a majority in all 50 states. Right, which is why they did so well in the last election. Keep denying reality, it's all your party has left. Nation wide, 40% say they are conservative or extremely conservative, while 21% say they are liberal or extremely liberal. Only 5% consider themselves extremely liberal. About 35% consider themselves moderates. Obama has lost his independants or moderates by a margin of two to one since the current healthcare debate got started.. Tuff times are ahead for the *Annointed One*.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult
On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:12 PM, do.rflex wrote: Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarized by the comedian Bill Maher: The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital. LOL...gotta love it! Bill hits the spot every time. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is this om business?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: Om Nablusoss, could you come up with a You-Tube link for Shemp of Maharishi lecturing on the subject of `Om'? It might prove a helpful enlightenment for Shemp. [snip] What is this, a cult tag-team? MMY on OM, 1964. From that eternal silence a hum starts and this hum is called OM. You man have heard of the glory of OM and the greatness of OM, that OM is everything and that from OM the creation comes and into OM the creation dissolves, that OM is the sustainer of life, that OM is the beginning and end of all creation. All this is OM, that hum, which is the first silent sound, first silent wave that starts from that silent ocean of unmanifested life. MMY The Vedas (excerpt) I would even go a step further and say that all mantras eventually merge into the one OM as well, on their way to absolute pure consciousnessthe mantras are the sound vibrations of the Devatas.
[FairfieldLife] Obama uses faith based groups to spread the word on health care
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/19/obama.health.care/index.html Notice the tiny URL: * *http://tinyurl.com/*RaunchyDog* I need you to knock on doors, talk to neighbors, spread the facts and speak the truth, he told religious leaders and reporters on a conference call that was streamed over the Web at faithforhealth.org. This debate over health care goes to the heart of who we are as a people, he said. I believe that nobody in America should be denied basic health care because he or she lacks health insurance. Some 140,000 people participated in the call, the coalition of more than 30 faith-based groups that organized the event said in a written statement. Obama urged the listeners to reject misinformation about his plans, noting, There are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness. -- Ignorance is thinking you know everything. Wisdom is knowing you don't... but I may be wrong.
[FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds
This is some good stuff! http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Media/Videos/LG_Originals/Top_10_Lists/100_Best_Movie_Lines_in_200_Seconds/?loc=interstitialskip http://snipurl.com/qjzv4 [www_liquidgeneration_com]
[FairfieldLife] Glenn Greenwald finally gets it
That's obviously true. In fact, it's so obviously true that no matter how dumb one might think Democrats are, they're certainly not so dumb that they failed to realize that the GOP was highly unlikely to help Obama pass health care reform no matter what the bill contained. From the start, it's been obvious to everyone the Obama White House and Senate Democrats included that the GOP would not help Obama pass health care reform. Why would the GOP want to help Obama achieve one of his most important and politically profitable goals? Of course they were going to try to sabotage the entire project and would oppose health care reform no matter what form it took. Everyone knew that from the start for exactly the reason that it was so obvious to Benen. The attempt to attract GOP support was the pretext which Democrats used to compromise continuously and water down the bill. But -- given the impossibility of achieving that goal -- isn't it fairly obvious that a desire for GOP support wasn't really the reason the Democrats were constantly watering down their own bill? Given the White House's central role in negotiating a secret deal with the pharmaceutical industry, its betrayal of Obama's clear promise to conduct negotiations out in the open (on C-SPAN no less), Rahm's protection of Blue Dogs and accompanying attacks on progressives, and the complete lack of any pressure exerted on allegedly obstructionists centrists, it seems rather clear that the bill has been watered down, and the public option jettisoned, because that's the bill they want -- this was the plan all along. [Well no shit, Sherlock! Gee, someone smarter than me has finally figured it out. One more time: Because that's the bill they want this was the plan all along. RD] Read More: Glenn Greenwald Wednesday Aug. 19, 2009 Why the health care debate is so important regardless of one's view of the public option http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/19/obama/index.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama uses faith based groups to spread the word on health care
bill hicks wrote: There are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness. So, Bill, you're in favor of the government taking over health insurance, charging outrageous prices for medications, paying for abortions, cuting off or rationing treatment to the elderly, and giving full coverage to illegal immigrants, with taxpayer money that's automatically deducted from your paycheck. Is that right?
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult
That's two cults I've left behind. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Wed, 8/19/09, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@lisco.com wrote: From: Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@lisco.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Republican Party Is Turning Into A Cult To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 8:38 PM On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:12 PM, do.rflex wrote: Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was elected. It has best been summarized by the comedian Bill Maher: The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital. LOL...gotta love it! Bill hits the spot every time. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: No prayer will go in vain - Maharishi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, scienceofabundance no_reply@ wrote: Maharishi on message - I like that - never heard it put like that before. Yeah right, you guess. Jesus Science, where you been spending your time? Maharishi was giving the same lecture from the 1950's up to very near his death time in the end. This was a guy on message the whole way beating the same drum. That was my point - I cannot imagine anyone more on message than MMY. I had never heard anyone referring to MMY as being on message - because it would have been so unnecessary - stating the ultra-obvious, sort of like saying the Pope is on message. I say humor in the statement for that reason - I wasn't making fun of you or MMY. You missed that? Like, you did meditate? Still? You did quit along the way? You were saying before you have an alternative lifestyle. You've been a meditator? A meditator now taken interest and come back? I have no idea what above is about. If you feel like doing so, search for the message where I wrote that I have an alternative lifestyle. I don't use the expression alternative lifestyle about myself or others, but I am open to correction if you can find the message # and repost it. We pray for you. Jai Guru Dev, Your Friend, -D
Re: [FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds [1 Attachment]
This post went into my SPAM folder in Gmail with the red banner. Scary. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:18 PM, do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com wrote: This is some good stuff! http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Media/Videos/LG_Originals/Top_10_Lists/100_Best_Movie_Lines_in_200_Seconds/?loc=interstitialskip http://snipurl.com/qjzv4 [www_liquidgeneration_com] To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links -- Ignorance is thinking you know everything. Wisdom is knowing you don't... but I may be wrong.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds
Some of the emails that have come to my yahoo email address tagged as spam have been official yahoo group emails, moderator stuff. Now that's scary. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Wed, 8/19/09, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com wrote: From: It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds [1 Attachment] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 11:04 PM [Attachment(s) from It's just a ride included below] This post went into my SPAM folder in Gmail with the red banner. Scary. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:18 PM, do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.com wrote: This is some good stuff! http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Media/Videos/LG_Originals/Top_10_Lists/100_Best_Movie_Lines_in_200_Seconds/?loc=interstitialskip http://snipurl.com/qjzv4 [www_liquidgeneration_com] To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links -- Ignorance is thinking you know everything. Wisdom is knowing you don't... but I may be wrong. Attachment(s) from It's just a ride 1 of 1 Photo(s) warning.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Denied, to Invincible America
Does Hagelin know? Would seem like Hagelin is getting stabbed in the back by his dogmatic doctrinal types within TMmovement administration. Must be mighty frustrating in there for Hagelin while his dome numbers sag the meditating community gets distanced from the the movement again like this. Sad to watch tragedy like his. Trouble in FF. Well, evidently meditator FF folk recently re-registering are being asked at registration if they have 'seen' other saints. Responding 'yes', these TM meditators are denied re-registration on the spot. Raja John Hagelin is aware of this? Its consequent in the meditating community just by word of mouth on the numbers of people who could be doing program in the domes? Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:12:39 -0500 Subject: Message to Invincible America from Raja John Hagelin From: Invincible America communication@ The July 2009 Invincible America Assembly was perfect in every way. - IA Course Participant Now it's August. Many visitors have left. Our Super Radiance numbers are in a lull until the MUM students return and the next group of Maharishi Vedic Pandits arrive. We urgently need all local Sidhas to attend morning and evening programs. Thank you for being here in wonderful Fairfield and Maharishi Vedic City. JAI GURU DEV
[FairfieldLife] FFL as an HBO series
Thumbing through some recent issues of The Hollywood Reporter I came upon this story: HBO develops 'Enlightened' comedy To be written by Mike White and star Laura Dern By Nellie Andreeva Aug 5, 2009, 11:00 PM ET HBO is being Enlightened by Laura Dern and Mike White. The pay cable network is developing a single-camera comedy to be written by the School of Rock scribe and star Dern as a formerly self-destructive woman who, after having a spiritual awakening, becomes determined to live an enlightened life, creating havoc at home and work. There are so many dysfunctional types of characters populating cable television, and she is equally as dysfunctional as any of them, White said, but her impulse is to get healthy, to make the world a better place even though it creates havoc. More here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3idb676dc68387c3ada17159715aa7e1f7
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama uses faith based groups to spread the word on health care
What the heck is Obama doing talking to the faith based groups? They didn't bring him the vote. The the college kids and progressive liberals did the door knocking, phone calling and brought him the vote. Now they're turning on him. Fundies? Puleeez. Can you spell wasted effort, and corporate bushiii? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/19/obama.health.care/index.html Notice the tiny URL: * *http://tinyurl.com/*RaunchyDog* I need you to knock on doors, talk to neighbors, spread the facts and speak the truth, he told religious leaders and reporters on a conference call that was streamed over the Web at faithforhealth.org. This debate over health care goes to the heart of who we are as a people, he said. I believe that nobody in America should be denied basic health care because he or she lacks health insurance. Some 140,000 people participated in the call, the coalition of more than 30 faith-based groups that organized the event said in a written statement. Obama urged the listeners to reject misinformation about his plans, noting, There are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness. -- Ignorance is thinking you know everything. Wisdom is knowing you don't... but I may be wrong.
[FairfieldLife] Rep. Bernie Sanders on the Public Option
Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Conn., talks about why liberal Democrats are furious with President Barack Obama for saying the public option is no longer a critical element in overhauling health care. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/32478175#32478175
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Obama uses faith based groups to spread the word on health care
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:32 PM, raunchydog raunchy...@yahoo.com wrote: What the heck is Obama doing talking to the faith based groups? They didn't bring him the vote. The the college kids and progressive liberals did the door knocking, phone calling and brought him the vote. Now they're turning on him. Fundies? Puleeez. Can you spell wasted effort, and corporate bushiii? Actually, I think it's a brilliant first move. The fundies can mobilize like nothing else. And they can spread the word. They have the power to get their MC to vote their way and the have the power to talk an issue up. Amazing. Turning health care into a moral issue, turning the fundies against the town hall meeting disruptors, charging the fundies with getting the facts right. Shame. A way to influence Congressional hold outs. IMO Obama has pulled one of many rabbits out of the hat to get health care his way.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds
You want scary? Your email also got a big red fraud banner and was placed in my SPAM folder. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM, gullible fool ffl...@yahoo.com wrote: Some of the emails that have come to my yahoo email address tagged as spam have been official yahoo group emails, moderator stuff. Now that's scary. * Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma * --- On *Wed, 8/19/09, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com*wrote: From: It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds [1 Attachment] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 11:04 PM [Attachment(s)http://us.mc327.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=1.tm=1250737764.rand=4ch0l2dl5ic7j#TopTextfrom It's just a ride included below] This post went into my SPAM folder in Gmail with the red banner. Scary. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:18 PM, do.rflex do.rf...@yahoo.comhttp://us.mc327.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=do.rf...@yahoo.com wrote: This is some good stuff! http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Media/Videos/LG_Originals/Top_10_Lists/100_Best_Movie_Lines_in_200_Seconds/?loc=interstitialskip http://snipurl.com/qjzv4 [www_liquidgeneration_com] To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.comhttp://us.mc327.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links -- Ignorance is thinking you know everything. Wisdom is knowing you don't... but I may be wrong. Attachment(s) from It's just a ride 1 of 1 Photo(s) [image: warning.jpg]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/attachments/folder/1434179774/item/1188135259/view warning.jpghttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/attachments/folder/1434179774/item/1188135259/view -- Ignorance is thinking you know everything. Wisdom is knowing you don't... but I may be wrong.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds
Good news and gooder news. Your reply didn't throw the big red FRAUD banner and wind up in my SPAM folder. RaunchyDog's response to me did throw up the big red FRAUD banner and wound up in my SPAM folder. Now that's righteous because though I haven't read RD's response yet, it's probably some anti-Obama femiNazi rant again. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:22 PM, gullible fool ffl...@yahoo.com wrote: * * *You want scary? Your email also got a big red fraud banner and was placed in my SPAM folder.* ** Probably because the original post that triggered your spam filter was at the bottom of my previous post. I will delete that out of this post and you might find this post will not be flagged. * * *Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. * ** *- Amma* --- On *Thu, 8/20/09, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com*wrote: From: It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 12:16 AM You want scary? Your email also got a big red fraud banner and was placed in my SPAM folder. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM, gullible fool ffl...@yahoo.comhttp://us.mc327.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ffl...@yahoo.com wrote: Some of the emails that have come to my yahoo email address tagged as spam have been official yahoo group emails, moderator stuff. Now that's scary. * Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma * --- On *Wed, 8/19/09, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.comhttp://us.mc327.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com * wrote: From: It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.comhttp://us.mc327.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds [1 Attachment] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.comhttp://us.mc327.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 11:04 PM [Attachment(s)http://us.mc327.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=1.tm=1250737764.rand=4ch0l2dl5ic7j#TopTextfrom It's just a ride included below] This post went into my SPAM folder in Gmail with the red banner. Scary. -- Ignorance is thinking you know everything. Wisdom is knowing you don't... but I may be wrong.
[FairfieldLife] Fairfield house listed in NYT
2585 Glasgow Rd -- seems kind of pricey for a 1350 sq fit house in a low price place like Fairfield, tho it is 9.5 acres lot... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/greathomesanddestinations/19gh-what.ht\ ml http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/greathomesanddestinations/19gh-what.h\ tml http://www.fairfieldiowarealestate.com/Fairfield_IA_listings/7FEF86B9-A7\ 22-AC67-F24F8CFDDE9CACAA.shtml http://www.fairfieldiowarealestate.com/Fairfield_IA_listings/7FEF86B9-A\ 722-AC67-F24F8CFDDE9CACAA.shtml http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/18/greathomesanddestinations/08\ 19-wyg-slideshow_13.html http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/18/greathomesanddestinations/0\ 819-wyg-slideshow_13.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama uses faith based groups to spread the word on health care
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:32 PM, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: What the heck is Obama doing talking to the faith based groups? They didn't bring him the vote. The the college kids and progressive liberals did the door knocking, phone calling and brought him the vote. Now they're turning on him. Fundies? Puleeez. Can you spell wasted effort, and corporate bushiii? Actually, I think it's a brilliant first move. The fundies can mobilize like nothing else. And they can spread the word. They have the power to get their MC to vote their way and the have the power to talk an issue up. Amazing. Turning health care into a moral issue, turning the fundies against the town hall meeting disruptors, charging the fundies with getting the facts right. Shame. A way to influence Congressional hold outs. IMO Obama has pulled one of many rabbits out of the hat to get health care his way. You might have a point Bill, believers will believe anything. I can't wait to see the look on their faces when the rabbit coming out of Obama's magical hat complains he couldn't get treatment for syphilis because of Obama's crappy co-ops. Jane Hamsher wrote this today: Ambinder: White House Won't Buckle To Liberal Demands For Public Plan I know people are reluctant to believe that the President has no plans to include a public option in his health care bill, but according to Marc Ambinder, that is indeed the truth: The White House and Senate Democrats won't buckle to demands from liberals that they revise their health care strategy, officials said today. Liberals are demanding the inclusion of a public plan. The White House won't revise their strategy to accommodate them. Glenzilla: The attempt to attract GOP support was the pretext which Democrats used to compromise continuously and water down the bill. But -- given the impossibility of achieving that goal -- isn't it fairly obvious that a desire for GOP support wasn't really the reason the Democrats were constantly watering down their own bill? Given the White House's central role in negotiating a secret deal with the pharmaceutical industry, its betrayal of Obama's clear promise to conduct negotiations out in the open (on C-SPAN no less), Rahm's protection of Blue Dogs and accompanying attacks on progressives, and the complete lack of any pressure exerted on allegedly obstructionists centrists, it seems rather clear that the bill has been watered down, and the public option jettisoned, because that's the bill they want -- this was the plan all along. Max Baucus (who is negotiating the White House's bill) today reaffirmed his commitment to have a bipartisan bill. Since Republicans will never sign off on a public plan, that's not-so-subtle code for no public plan. And any time anyone says that, including President Obama, that is in fact what they're saying. Support members of Congress who say no public plan, no bill. http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/19/ambinder-white-house-wont-buckle-to-liberal-demands-for-public-plan/ http://snipurl.com/qk73b
Re: [FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds
You want scary? Your email also got a big red fraud banner and was placed in my SPAM folder. Probably because the original post that triggered your spam filter was at the bottom of my previous post. I will delete that out of this post and you might find this post will not be flagged. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Thu, 8/20/09, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com wrote: From: It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 12:16 AM You want scary? Your email also got a big red fraud banner and was placed in my SPAM folder. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM, gullible fool ffl...@yahoo.com wrote: Some of the emails that have come to my yahoo email address tagged as spam have been official yahoo group emails, moderator stuff. Now that's scary. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Wed, 8/19/09, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com wrote: From: It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds [1 Attachment] To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 11:04 PM [Attachment(s) from It's just a ride included below] This post went into my SPAM folder in Gmail with the red banner. Scary.
[FairfieldLife] TM News
Tue, Aug 18, 2009 11:05 am Subject: Some news to enjoy In April Paul McCartney performed at a concert in New York to support the David Lynch foundation, David's foundation has the goal of bringing the TM technique to as many students as possible in the US and around the world. Since April, there has been an increase in TM initiations nationwide. As a surprise guest, Jerry Seinfeld opened the show, mentioning that he has been meditating for 37 years. Howard Stern gave a moving talk about how TM saved his mothers life. (She had serious health prob lems) The high visibility of the concert has opened up relationships with other charitable foundations. The DOE foundation is a New York based charity that has rehab programs for the homeless. So far, two hundred homeless men have learned TM as a part of their rehabilitation program. The David Lynch foundation has also reached out to Native Americans. TM has been taught to a number of members of the Ho Chunk tribe. Eighty percent of Native Americans suffer=2 0from diabetes (along with other problems) Meditation is the only thing that has helped. A member of the Ho Chunk tribe was asked if they were concerned that this knowledge came from India . The response was: This is the wisdom of the Creator, it does not matter if it comes from ten miles or ten thousand miles away. David will be hosting a conference for Native American leaders at MUM in Fairfield in September. At this time there is a real Buzz among the leaders of the 600 Native American tribes in the U.S. about TM and the upcoming conference. Ashley Deans, head of the Maharishi School in Fairfield has been traveling the globe promoting TM in education. He showed us slides of TM being used in schools in Japan , Europe, and Palestine . Yes, Palestinians have been learning TM in an educational setting. He also mentioned that 2000 monks have learned TM in Thailand , and 1000 monks in Cambodia are soon to learn. One hundred members of the Research department for education in san Francisco heard a presentation on the students that are now pracitcing the TM technique in Bay Area schools. Their comment was, We should be doing this each day... So thirty administrators are now meditating, with others planning to start. At this point in time there are 140 Maharishi schools in India . when Ashley Deans gave an introductory lecture on TM in Turkey , the whole village came to the lecture. He spoke to educators in Lebanon , and after hearing of the interest of the school officials, he spoke to the education minister of the nation mentioning that she would soon hear from educators about the program. Her response was: I have already heard from the schools, and I have already approved it. In Trinidad TM has been introduced into a few schools and now there are enough sidhas to provide coherence for the nation. In Brazil the mayor of Rio de Janeiro is strong on promoting the TM program, and has expressed the desire that 1 million students learn meditation. School officials in South Korea have expressed interest in the TM program, hoping that this can reduce the tension and protect the nation. In 19 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean , 100,000 students learned TM in the past four years. In the US 3000 have learned along with 800 school administrators. Some of the latest news is that Sting, Stevie Wonder and Tom Petty will perform in a benefit concert for the David Lynch foundation20on the West Coast this fall. The Beach boys will perform a benefit concert for the David Lynch foundation in Fairfield on Labor Day. David spoke via teleconference to a large group in the dome, saying that the large group mediation in Fairfield is what is creating a fertile ground for these achievements. There is some positive news nationwide: The US now has the Lowest crime rate in forty years, the stock index at its highest level since the Nove mber election and the well known Dr. Oz has learned TM and enjoys it very much. We now have 410 acres of land in West Virginia and roads are under construction along with sewage facilities and energy saving and storing devices. We have funds to build 5 buildings to house about 32 Purusha and a Raja and Guest residence. Our immediate goal is to build in addition a dining facility and at least one more residential building to house 8 more Purusha. In Nepal 11 Maharishi Vedic Pandits performed in front of the Prime Minister and other Cabinet members. 15 buildings in Vedic City are being moved from the original pandit site where some remaining Mother Divine and at opposite end 18 Purusha live – to the present pandit site to ease the housing crunch. Since the pandits left the MUM campus they hav e been in sardineville. Their numbers are now over over 900 with an additional 200 scheduled to arrive later this year.
