[FairfieldLife] Re: Did the earth move for you, too?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Well, the Hindu belief system does. And I guess as a pseudo-outcaste Hindu you might share the belief that all is well and wisely put, that no child dying in pain didn't earn it in a past life. And as much as I find that view repugnant, it doesn't rise to the level of deceptive communication as asserting that any of this nonsense is scientifically based. Curtis, you can do better than that. The Hindu belief system isn't meant to be judgmental, the Hindu belief system doesn't say anything about not helping the child. Science and philosophy has no answers as to why that child is dying in pain nor does religion. Both science and religion would try to compassionately help the child in pain. The theory of Karma isn't to explain any answers, it is to learn surrender, that there are complex mysterious forces at play - as to why certain people suffer while others thrive. It empowers us to avoid the suffering that comes from pain, by holding you responsible for your suffering and providing you tools to overcome this suffering. Your perspective is well stated and reasonable. It probably represents what many educated and thoughtful Hindus believe. And like Christians who have proposed more reasonable perspectives on their religion, it ignores what the scriptures of that religion actually say. Many Hindu scriptures actually give the specific next life punishment for actions. And the reprehensible treatment of lower caste members is a direct result in their birth as a reflection of their past life's advancement. So you are better than Hinduism's teachings. That is a good thing. Curtis - for someone as intelligent and creative as you, you can again do better. You agree that religion is different than Science but you use the same yardstick to judge both which is what I have a problem with. Unlike science reason, logic cannot be used to understand religion. I do agree with your statement that religion should not use scientific terms, I think both believers like Buck and skeptics like you make a mistake by trying to integrate or invalidate the other, that they somehow have to be mutually exclusive or make sense using a similar criteria. I don't really see a need to. Even though I berate intellect I don't discard it myself. I'm a software engineer, a darn good one at work but I realize the limitations and proper use of it. I discard as soon as I am away from my computer. However when approaching religion I don't try to interpret it literally or using reason and logic. We do not use the same approach when dealing with different people, children, adults, mean, women. Hinduism is not just about caste system and retribution for actions, its not even a religion. I don't consider myself as a Hindu, I use the terms from Hinduism because I was born there I would have done different if I was a Christian. There are lot of Hindu scriptures like Tripura Rahasya and Vasishtha Yogathat don''t even address this, these are the scriptures that I have read, never came across the ones you mention. I would believe you, like the modern Hindus that you talk about, would be attracted to these rather than being fascinated with and pillorying the caste system and the like which had a specific purpose for a different mindset of people. What is it that attracts or pains you about these concepts that you quite clearly say is not in line with the modern educated Hindu thought? Why do you bother to give so much attention and try to paint it as what Hinduism is? I wonder what you are intentions are? Surely you are not living or battling in some feudal village in Northern India under the oppressive grip of upper castes?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@... wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Yeah Buddhism is easy, consistent, the Dalai Lama is always smiling, charming, diplomatic. Talks about love, compassion, helping suffering people. People want peace, instant good karma and feel goodness, Tibet needs money. It's like going to a whore, you want sex, relief and she needs money, a win-win situation. But Hinduism gets too complicated, too many paradoxes, ups and downs, too many inconsistencies, like the beloved. It takes love, faith, trust and commitment. Only with love can you accept a person in totality. No wonder the majority of Americans including Vaj, Barry and Curtis choose Buddhism.
[FairfieldLife] Our Great Leader Is Not Dead!
http://gizmodo.com/5834192/steve-jobs-is-not-dead
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: .. the Dalai Lama is always smiling, charming, diplomatic. Talks about love, compassion, helping suffering people. Wait just a minute. Who are you talking about? This sounds just like Amma.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Just learned...
On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Did the earth move for you, too?
It is a seismically active area, with over 90 quakes this last week just in the SF Bay Area, and nearly 350 in California (www.earthquake.usgs.gov). Using this last week as an average, California will have at least 180,000 earthquakes in the next ten years. Its an easy thing to extrapolate from this and say, The Big One is coming..., but it really is a meaningless extrapolation, only suited for those who cling to their belief in an orderly Universe, using science as religion. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: snip When contemplating what the term The Big One could potentially mean for California, bear in mind that they are predictable. They occur in 150 to 200 year cycles. **Predictability is the holy grail that the earthquake scientists strive for. So far predicting earthquakes hasn't happened. Not for specific earthquakes, no, but statistically it can be said that California is due for a Big One within a decade or two. May or may not pan out, but that's a reasonable prediction.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh... Plus a little help from having stolen the entire concept from Xerox Parc labs. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Secret of Levitation BBC for summer time lurkers
Yes, the Rajas soar through the air for hours at a time, effortlessly of course. Everyone knows that! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill Coop williamgcoop@... wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:07 AM, merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: The all-knowing BBC believed that nobody dared to ask Maharishi Mahesh Yogi if he can and will/have use(d) his levitation skills? lol (actually a question from the 60s asked already during his India tours) check part 2-4 with MMY, and of course Hagelin, and ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5sxax2CvE0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly4z2Hm8jSofeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtnTmfqUKhMfeature=related YouTube Direktlink Paul McCartney asked Maharishi about levitation in 1968 and Maharishi didn't know anyone who could do it. We may never know about him but what about the current leadership? Can the Rajas fly higher or longer than others?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh... Plus a little help from having stolen the entire concept from Xerox Parc labs. :-) Certainly if the GUI and mouse had stayed in the Parc labs, nothing would have happened. The copier boys running Xerox in NY state didn't have a clue what to do with them.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Libertarian Hypocrites and Liars
raunchydog: When we bailed out the banks in 2008... So, how much money did you lose when you helped bailed out the banks? If you had a 401K you may have lost a lot, but if the banks had failed you might have been really screwed. If you didn't have any money in the bank, you were already very broke. LoL!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
On Aug 26, 2011, at 8:44 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh... Plus a little help from having stolen the entire concept from Xerox Parc labs. :-) Sri Jobs had cognized the graphical GUI while in India; Xerox, taking advantage of the hundredth monkey effect, stole Jobs cognition. Job- ji, due to support of nature and the frictionless flow of his state of consciousness effortlessly regained what was rightfully his. Geeks in lower states of consciousness tried to replicate it, but only succeeded in mimicking Job's reality distorting cognitions of ultimate User Interface realities.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Did the earth move for you, too?
You were a philosophy major? curtisdeltablues: We spent a month on the philosophy of science... Well, I just don't get it - why on earth would anyone want to major in Philosophy at MUM? They don't even teach any Eastern Philosophy! You probably meant Western Philosophy. In order to study Eastern Philosophy, you'd have to know how to read, write, and translate at least six different languages. Most people who attend MUM can't even read and write a common prakrit. Go figure. To learn Western Philosphy, you'd need to know at least German, so you could read Hegel and Marx. LoL! 'The Open Society and its Enemies' The Spell of Plato (Vol 1) Hegel and Marx (Vol 2) By Karl Popper Routledge, 1949, 1963
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 26, 2011, at 8:44 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh... Plus a little help from having stolen the entire concept from Xerox Parc labs. :-) Sri Jobs had cognized the graphical GUI while in India; Xerox, taking advantage of the hundredth monkey effect, stole Jobs cognition. Job-ji, due to support of nature and the frictionless flow of his state of consciousness effortlessly regained what was rightfully his. Yeah, right. And Maharishi was really a Rishi. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 26, 2011, at 8:44 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh... Plus a little help from having stolen the entire concept from Xerox Parc labs. :-) Sri Jobs had cognized the graphical GUI while in India; Xerox, taking advantage of the hundredth monkey effect, stole Jobs cognition. Job-ji, due to support of nature and the frictionless flow of his state of consciousness effortlessly regained what was rightfully his. Yeah, right. And Maharishi was really a Rishi. :-) Not just a Rishi, a MAHA Rishi, the greatest teacher of ALL time!:-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
On 08/26/2011 05:44 AM, turquoiseb wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vajvajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh... Plus a little help from having stolen the entire concept from Xerox Parc labs. :-) And how Xerox Fumbled the Future in the book Fumbling the Future: http://www.amazon.com/Fumbling-Future-Invented-Personal-Computer/dp/1583482660 Of course much of today's GUI concept came from the work of Doug Engelbart at SRI circa 1968: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
[FairfieldLife] Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article?
Obamanonics vs. Reaganomics One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't. * By http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=STEPHEN+MOOREbylinesearch=true STEPHEN MOORE If you really want to light the fuse of a liberal Democrat, compare Barack Obama's economic performance after 30 months in office with that of Ronald Reagan. It's not at all flattering for Mr. Obama. The two presidents have a lot in common. Both inherited an American economy in collapse. And both applied daring, expensive remedies. Mr. Reagan passed the biggest tax cut ever, combined with an agenda of deregulation, monetary restraint and spending controls. Mr. Obama, of course, has given us a $1 trillion spending stimulus. By the end of the summer of Reagan's third year in office, the economy was soaring. The GDP growth rate was 5% and racing toward 7%, even 8% growth. In 1983 and '84 output was growing so fast the biggest worry was that the economy would overheat. In the summer of 2011 we have an economy limping along at barely 1% growth and by some indications headed toward a double-dip recession. By the end of Reagan's first term, it was Morning in America. Today there is gloomy talk of America in its twilight. My purpose here is not more Reagan idolatry, but to point out an incontrovertible truth: One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't. The Reagan philosophy was to incentivize production—i.e., the supply side of the economy—by lowering restraints on business expansion and investment. This was done by slashing marginal income tax rates, eliminating regulatory high hurdles, and reining in inflation with a tighter monetary policy. View Full Image stevemoore http://si.wsj.net/img/BTN_insetClose.gif stevemoore http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ED-AO139_stevem_G_20110825162903.jpg The Keynesians in the early 1980s assured us that the Reagan expansion would not and could not happen. Rapid growth with new jobs and falling rates of inflation (to 4% in 1983 from 13% in 1980) is an impossibility in Keynesian textbooks. If you increase demand, prices go up. If you increase supply—as Reagan did—prices go down. The Godfather of the neo-Keynesians, Paul Samuelson, was the lead critic of the supposed follies of Reaganomics. He wrote in a 1980 Newsweek column that to slay the inflation monster would take five to ten years of austerity, with unemployment of 8% or 9% and real output of barely 1 or 2 percent. Reaganomics was routinely ridiculed in the media, especially in the 1982 recession. That was the year MIT economist Lester Thurow famously said, The engines of economic growth have shut down here and across the globe, and they are likely to stay that way for years to come. The economy would soon take flight for more than 80 consecutive months. Then the Reagan critics declared what they once thought couldn't work was actually a textbook Keynesian expansion fueled by budget deficits of $200 billion a year, or about 4%-5% of GDP. Robert Reich, now at the University of California, Berkeley, explained that The recession of 1981-82 was so severe that the bounce back has been vigorous. Paul Krugman wrote in 2004 that the Reagan boom was really nothing special because: You see, rapid growth is normal when an economy is bouncing back from a deep slump. Mr. Krugman was, for once, at least partly right. How could Reagan not look good after four years of Jimmy Carter's economic malpractice? Fast-forward to today. Mr. Obama is running deficits of $1.3 trillion, or 8%-9% of GDP. If the Reagan deficits powered the '80s expansion, the Obama deficits—twice as large—should have the U.S. sprinting at Olympic speed. The left has now embraced a new theory to explain why the Obama spending hasn't worked. The answer is contained in the book This Time Is Different, by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Published in 2009, the book examines centuries of recessions and depressions world-wide. The authors conclude that it takes nations much longer—six years or more—to recover from financial crises and the popping of asset bubbles than from typical recessions. In any case, what Reagan inherited was arguably a more severe financial crisis than what was dropped in Mr. Obama's lap. You don't believe it? From 1967 to 1982 stocks lost two-thirds of their value relative to inflation, according to a new report from Laffer Associates. That mass liquidation of wealth was a first-rate financial calamity. And tell me that 20% mortgage interest rates, as we saw in the 1970s, aren't indicative of a monetary-policy meltdown. There is something that is genuinely different this time. It isn't the nature of the crisis Mr. Obama inherited, but the nature of his policy prescriptions. Reagan applied tax cuts and other policies that, yes, took the deficit to unchartered peacetime highs. But that borrowing financed a remarkable and prolonged economic
[FairfieldLife] Re: Libertarian Hypocrites and Liars
Oh darn. I posted the wrong cut and paste. To err is human. I meant to post this one. : ) http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/tea-party-founder-surging-ahead-in-polls-128450603.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1rN7qSN3c : ) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:00 PM, obbajeeba no_re...@yahoogroups.comwrote: KIndly warn someone when one is going to go to a link and view a woman of color trying to sing. What does this have to do with anything except showing you're one of them?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh... Plus a little help from having stolen the entire concept from Xerox Parc labs. :-) Apple paid for the visit and subsequent use of the ideas by allowing Xerox to purchase $1 million in stock options at a minimalist price which is now probably worth many billions of dollars, had they held on to it. Xerox was so dismal in how they utilized the technology that the entire team that developed the GUI, object oriented programming, etc., eventually ended up working for APple a few years later because they were annoyed at how unproductive working for Xerox proved to be. Apple didn't steal anything. L
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
Bhairitu: Of course much of today's GUI concept came from the work of Doug Engelbart... The Apple Macintosh was the first commercially successful personal computer with a graphical user interface. Steve Wozniak is listed as the sole inventor on the following patents: US Patent No. 4,136,359 - Microcomputer for use with video display US Patent No. 4,210,959 - Controller for magnetic disc, recorder US Patent No. 4,217,604 - Apparatus for digitally controlling PAL color display US Patent No. 4,278,972 - Digitally-controlled color signal generation means for use with display
[FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article?
Google: reagan tax cut myth e.g. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20030729-503544.html And while Reagan somewhat slowed the marginal rate of growth in the budget, it continued to increase during his time in office. So did the debt, skyrocketing from $700 billion to $3 trillion. that's an increase of 400 percent over 8 years. People are bitching about Obama's increases to the debt, which are a tiny fraction of Reagan's. Lawson --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: Obamanonics vs. Reaganomics One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't. * By http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=STEPHEN+MOOREbylinesearch=true STEPHEN MOORE If you really want to light the fuse of a liberal Democrat, compare Barack Obama's economic performance after 30 months in office with that of Ronald Reagan. It's not at all flattering for Mr. Obama. The two presidents have a lot in common. Both inherited an American economy in collapse. And both applied daring, expensive remedies. Mr. Reagan passed the biggest tax cut ever, combined with an agenda of deregulation, monetary restraint and spending controls. Mr. Obama, of course, has given us a $1 trillion spending stimulus. By the end of the summer of Reagan's third year in office, the economy was soaring. The GDP growth rate was 5% and racing toward 7%, even 8% growth. In 1983 and '84 output was growing so fast the biggest worry was that the economy would overheat. In the summer of 2011 we have an economy limping along at barely 1% growth and by some indications headed toward a double-dip recession. By the end of Reagan's first term, it was Morning in America. Today there is gloomy talk of America in its twilight. My purpose here is not more Reagan idolatry, but to point out an incontrovertible truth: One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't. The Reagan philosophy was to incentivize productionâi.e., the supply side of the economyâby lowering restraints on business expansion and investment. This was done by slashing marginal income tax rates, eliminating regulatory high hurdles, and reining in inflation with a tighter monetary policy. View Full Image stevemoore http://si.wsj.net/img/BTN_insetClose.gif stevemoore http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ED-AO139_stevem_G_20110825162903.jpg The Keynesians in the early 1980s assured us that the Reagan expansion would not and could not happen. Rapid growth with new jobs and falling rates of inflation (to 4% in 1983 from 13% in 1980) is an impossibility in Keynesian textbooks. If you increase demand, prices go up. If you increase supplyâas Reagan didâprices go down. The Godfather of the neo-Keynesians, Paul Samuelson, was the lead critic of the supposed follies of Reaganomics. He wrote in a 1980 Newsweek column that to slay the inflation monster would take five to ten years of austerity, with unemployment of 8% or 9% and real output of barely 1 or 2 percent. Reaganomics was routinely ridiculed in the media, especially in the 1982 recession. That was the year MIT economist Lester Thurow famously said, The engines of economic growth have shut down here and across the globe, and they are likely to stay that way for years to come. The economy would soon take flight for more than 80 consecutive months. Then the Reagan critics declared what they once thought couldn't work was actually a textbook Keynesian expansion fueled by budget deficits of $200 billion a year, or about 4%-5% of GDP. Robert Reich, now at the University of California, Berkeley, explained that The recession of 1981-82 was so severe that the bounce back has been vigorous. Paul Krugman wrote in 2004 that the Reagan boom was really nothing special because: You see, rapid growth is normal when an economy is bouncing back from a deep slump. Mr. Krugman was, for once, at least partly right. How could Reagan not look good after four years of Jimmy Carter's economic malpractice? Fast-forward to today. Mr. Obama is running deficits of $1.3 trillion, or 8%-9% of GDP. If the Reagan deficits powered the '80s expansion, the Obama deficitsâtwice as largeâshould have the U.S. sprinting at Olympic speed. The left has now embraced a new theory to explain why the Obama spending hasn't worked. The answer is contained in the book This Time Is Different, by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. Published in 2009, the book examines centuries of recessions and depressions world-wide. The authors conclude that it takes nations much longerâsix years or moreâto recover from financial crises and the popping of asset bubbles than from typical recessions. In any case, what Reagan inherited was arguably a more severe financial crisis than what was dropped in Mr. Obama's lap. You don't believe it? From 1967 to 1982 stocks lost two-thirds
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardwillytexwilliams willytex@... wrote: Bhairitu: Of course much of today's GUI concept came from the work of Doug Engelbart... The Apple Macintosh was the first commercially successful personal computer with a graphical user interface. Missed the reference to Douglas Engelbart. Alan Kay (lead/participant for most of the GUI and much of the other advanced technology work at Xerox) says that almost every major computer invention in the past 45 years was inspired by Douglas Engelbart's Mother of all Demos... google Mother of all Demos for more info. L.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: Snip But Hinduism gets too complicated, too many paradoxes, ups and downs, too many inconsistencies, like the beloved. It takes love, faith, trust and commitment. Only with love can you accept a person in totality. No wonder the majority of Americans including Vaj, Barry and Curtis choose Buddhism. Little Hindu triumphalism huh Ravi? Ethno-centric bias is so predictable. So you were born in that part of the world and amazingly enough conclude that the stories they tell are the rightest ones. How convenient! I don't know how you got the idea that this totally non-religious person is connected in any way to Buddhism, but it is erroneous. Other than studying a bit of the Theravada version to understand my Thai friends better, I am at the I read Siddhartha isn't that about Buddha level of ignorance about this religion. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Yeah Buddhism is easy, consistent, the Dalai Lama is always smiling, charming, diplomatic. Talks about love, compassion, helping suffering people. People want peace, instant good karma and feel goodness, Tibet needs money. It's like going to a whore, you want sex, relief and she needs money, a win-win situation. But Hinduism gets too complicated, too many paradoxes, ups and downs, too many inconsistencies, like the beloved. It takes love, faith, trust and commitment. Only with love can you accept a person in totality. No wonder the majority of Americans including Vaj, Barry and Curtis choose Buddhism.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh... Plus a little help from having stolen the entire concept from Xerox Parc labs. :-) Apple paid for the visit and subsequent use of the ideas by allowing Xerox to purchase $1 million in stock options at a minimalist price which is now probably worth many billions of dollars, had they held on to it. Xerox was so dismal in how they utilized the technology that the entire team that developed the GUI, object oriented programming, etc., eventually ended up working for APple a few years later because they were annoyed at how unproductive working for Xerox proved to be. Apple didn't steal anything. One thing you can say about being an apologist for one cult leader is that it's good practice for being an apologist for another one.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
On 08/26/2011 09:35 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, richardwillytexwilliamswillytex@... wrote: Bhairitu: Of course much of today's GUI concept came from the work of Doug Engelbart... The Apple Macintosh was the first commercially successful personal computer with a graphical user interface. Missed the reference to Douglas Engelbart. Alan Kay (lead/participant for most of the GUI and much of the other advanced technology work at Xerox) says that almost every major computer invention in the past 45 years was inspired by Douglas Engelbart's Mother of all Demos... google Mother of all Demos for more info. L. The YouTube link I provided IS part 1 of 9 of The Mother of All Demos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
Hee hee hee. This is getting interesting. hahaha. The duel is on! Please continue! LOL --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Snip But Hinduism gets too complicated, too many paradoxes, ups and downs, too many inconsistencies, like the beloved. It takes love, faith, trust and commitment. Only with love can you accept a person in totality. No wonder the majority of Americans including Vaj, Barry and Curtis choose Buddhism. Little Hindu triumphalism huh Ravi? Ethno-centric bias is so predictable. So you were born in that part of the world and amazingly enough conclude that the stories they tell are the rightest ones. How convenient! I don't know how you got the idea that this totally non-religious person is connected in any way to Buddhism, but it is erroneous. Other than studying a bit of the Theravada version to understand my Thai friends better, I am at the I read Siddhartha isn't that about Buddha level of ignorance about this religion. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister no_reply@ wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Yeah Buddhism is easy, consistent, the Dalai Lama is always smiling, charming, diplomatic. Talks about love, compassion, helping suffering people. People want peace, instant good karma and feel goodness, Tibet needs money. It's like going to a whore, you want sex, relief and she needs money, a win-win situation. But Hinduism gets too complicated, too many paradoxes, ups and downs, too many inconsistencies, like the beloved. It takes love, faith, trust and commitment. Only with love can you accept a person in totality. No wonder the majority of Americans including Vaj, Barry and Curtis choose Buddhism.
[FairfieldLife] Buy (or own) a Gibson guitar -- go to jail?
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier, he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle. Article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576530520471223268.html Interesting situation to put many musicians in.
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Did the earth move for you, too?
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: snip Your perspective is well stated and reasonable. It probably represents what many educated and thoughtful Hindus believe. And like Christians who have proposed more reasonable perspectives on their religion, it ignores what the scriptures of that religion actually say. Many Hindu scriptures actually give the specific next life punishment for actions. And the reprehensible treatment of lower caste members is a direct result in their birth as a reflection of their past life's advancement. So you are better than Hinduism's teachings. That is a good thing. Ravi: Curtis - for someone as intelligent and creative as you, you can again do better. You agree that religion is different than Science but you use the same yardstick to judge both which is what I have a problem with. Then I have not made myself clear. I evaluate the claims of religion by the standards of epistemology in a broader sense than the specific scientific method represents. For most religious claims that narrow method is not appropriate or productive. But people still need to have good reasons for beliefs and I find them lacking in religious claims. Ravi Unlike science reason, logic cannot be used to understand religion. Me: Here I disagree. Religious systems make claims about how the world actually is, and there is a lot of intersection with very practical concerns such as the beginning of life for the purposes of assessing whether or not contraception is a good or bad thing. It is not strictly the field of logic which applies, but the evaluation of the support for beliefs that is relevant and worthy of challenge. Ravi: I do agree with your statement that religion should not use scientific terms, Me: That was my most important point so we seem to have agreement on what had gotten me to write in the first place. Ravi I think both believers like Buck and skeptics like you make a mistake by trying to integrate or invalidate the other, that they somehow have to be mutually exclusive or make sense using a similar criteria. I don't really see a need to. Me: I know I make this point a lot but I need to say it again. Doug and I are both believers and skeptics both. These are context dependent functions of a normal human mind. No one believes everything and no one rejects everything. We are just applying different criteria as our threshold for good reasons to believe specific claims of the movement. Doug has joined me in skepticism about Rev. Moon being an incarnation of God on earth whose every utterance should be followed as scripture. He is just as skeptical as I am in that context or else he is just a really shitty moonie. Ravi Even though I berate intellect I don't discard it myself. I'm a software engineer, a darn good one at work but I realize the limitations and proper use of it. Me: As do I. As a musician and educator I am aware of a more holistic approach to intelligence. Ravi: I discard as soon as I am away from my computer. Me: I'm not sure this claim holds up. It may be just a balance a proportion. I am assuming that you aren't stopping to invest a lot of cash in 3 card Monte games on the street on your way home. Ravi: However when approaching religion I don't try to interpret it literally or using reason and logic. Me: Again it may be a function of emphasis but you certainly did use your intellect and skeptical mind in your analysis of Buddhism. Ravi: We do not use the same approach when dealing with different people, children, adults, mean, women. Hinduism is not just about caste system and retribution for actions, its not even a religion. ME: It servers as the source of religious beliefs for millions of people. And although it shouldn't be reduced to only being about the caste system, in terms of how millions of people are affected, that is an area of a massive ethical lapse from my POV. And modern India is coming to reject it as they modernize. My Indian friends face its implications when they visit their village homes of origin. Ravi: I don't consider myself as a Hindu, I use the terms from Hinduism because I was born there I would have done different if I was a Christian. There are lot of Hindu scriptures like Tripura Rahasya and Vasishtha Yogathat don''t even address this, these are the scriptures that I have read, never came across the ones you mention. I would believe you, like the modern Hindus that you talk about, would be attracted to these rather than being fascinated with and pillorying the caste system and the like which had a specific purpose for a different mindset of people. Me: People make the same argument about Southern slavery. I am not a cultural moral relativist. Cruelty doesn't have an acceptable context for me. Now that doesn't mean I
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article?
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sparaig Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 11:31 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article? Google: reagan tax cut myth e.g. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20030729-503544.html And while Reagan somewhat slowed the marginal rate of growth in the budget, it continued to increase during his time in office. So did the debt, skyrocketing from $700 billion to $3 trillion. that's an increase of 400 percent over 8 years. People are bitching about Obama's increases to the debt, which are a tiny fraction of Reagan's. Lawson My conservative friend responded: Exactly, you are stuck in your liberal bias. Too bad. Living a lie isn’t good your health. The debt increased under Reagan because the congress was controlled totally by democrats. Every budget Reagan sent up there was thrown out. Let’s see, Reagan under the Dems had an increase of less than $300 billion a year. Obama, again under most Dems has had a $1.5 trillion increase in debt per year. If $300 billion a year is bad, isn’t $1.5 trillion 5 times worse? Also, you want more revenue and have the “rich” may more, right? Under Reagan tax revenues increased by a very large amount and upper income people paid a lot more: http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm But again, I guess facts simply don’t matter. What seems to matter is to punish success and reward failure. What a crazy world you live in. Rewarding success leads to more success. Rewarding failure leads to more failure. This simply economic logic seems to baffle liberals. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@... wrote: Obamanonics vs. Reaganomics One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't. * By http://online.wsj.com/search/term..html?KEYWORDS=STEPHEN+MOORE http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=STEPHEN+MOOREbylinesearch=true bylinesearch=true STEPHEN MOORE If you really want to light the fuse of a liberal Democrat, compare Barack Obama's economic performance after 30 months in office with that of Ronald Reagan. It's not at all flattering for Mr. Obama. The two presidents have a lot in common. Both inherited an American economy in collapse. And both applied daring, expensive remedies. Mr. Reagan passed the biggest tax cut ever, combined with an agenda of deregulation, monetary restraint and spending controls. Mr. Obama, of course, has given us a $1 trillion spending stimulus. By the end of the summer of Reagan's third year in office, the economy was soaring. The GDP growth rate was 5% and racing toward 7%, even 8% growth. In 1983 and '84 output was growing so fast the biggest worry was that the economy would overheat. In the summer of 2011 we have an economy limping along at barely 1% growth and by some indications headed toward a double-dip recession. By the end of Reagan's first term, it was Morning in America. Today there is gloomy talk of America in its twilight. My purpose here is not more Reagan idolatry, but to point out an incontrovertible truth: One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't. The Reagan philosophy was to incentivize productionâ€i.e., the supply side of the economyâ€by lowering restraints on business expansion and investment. This was done by slashing marginal income tax rates, eliminating regulatory high hurdles, and reining in inflation with a tighter monetary policy. View Full Image stevemoore http://si.wsj.net/img/BTN_insetClose.gif stevemoore http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ED-AO139_stevem_G_20110825162903.jpg The Keynesians in the early 1980s assured us that the Reagan expansion would not and could not happen. Rapid growth with new jobs and falling rates of inflation (to 4% in 1983 from 13% in 1980) is an impossibility in Keynesian textbooks. If you increase demand, prices go up. If you increase supplyâ€as Reagan didâ€prices go down. The Godfather of the neo-Keynesians, Paul Samuelson, was the lead critic of the supposed follies of Reaganomics. He wrote in a 1980 Newsweek column that to slay the inflation monster would take five to ten years of austerity, with unemployment of 8% or 9% and real output of barely 1 or 2 percent. Reaganomics was routinely ridiculed in the media, especially in the 1982 recession. That was the year MIT economist Lester Thurow famously said, The engines of economic growth have shut down here and across the globe, and they are likely to stay that way for years to come. The economy would soon take flight for more than 80 consecutive months.. Then the Reagan critics declared what they once thought couldn't work was actually a textbook Keynesian expansion fueled by budget deficits of $200 billion a year,
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buy (or own) a Gibson guitar -- go to jail?
Thanks for posting this,what a find! I can't imagine traveling overseas with any vintage wood guitar myself. Gibson bought Dobro and then forced dealers to keep about a half million dollars in Gibson products in stock to be a Gibson rep. This bullying on their part makes it very difficult to find any small dealers with Dobros. Although it is a completely different topic, it comes under the umbrella of at politics. Monkeys being monkeys! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier, he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle. Article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576530520471223268.html Interesting situation to put many musicians in.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
Plus a little help from having stolen the entire concept from Xerox Parc labs... sparaig: Apple didn't steal anything. Looks like Turq was fibbing again, just like he was fibbing about the Rama levitation incident? Go figure.
[FairfieldLife] WTF?
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
No wonder the majority of Americans including Vaj, Barry and Curtis choose Buddhism... curtisdeltablues: Little Hindu triumphalism huh Ravi? The historical Buddha was a Hindu - there was no 'Buddhism' back then (563 BC).
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
Well the entire team didn't go to Apple, but they all left Xerox and started companies like Adobe, Ashton-Tate (MS Word), and GRiD Systems. My wife worked at Parc for five years during that amazing run of creativity. Too bad some on here think that spreading Parc's technology is a BAD THING, or pretend to, just for a little attention (you know who you are)...:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh... Plus a little help from having stolen the entire concept from Xerox Parc labs. :-) Apple paid for the visit and subsequent use of the ideas by allowing Xerox to purchase $1 million in stock options at a minimalist price which is now probably worth many billions of dollars, had they held on to it. Xerox was so dismal in how they utilized the technology that the entire team that developed the GUI, object oriented programming, etc., eventually ended up working for APple a few years later because they were annoyed at how unproductive working for Xerox proved to be. Apple didn't steal anything. L
Re: [FairfieldLife] Buy (or own) a Gibson guitar -- go to jail?
On Aug 26, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier, he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle. I routinely take a handmade six- or 12-string when I go across the border to Canada, which I do often - both with rosewood and ebony. Looks like it's time to buy the RainSong 12-string I've been wanting!
[FairfieldLife] Re: WTF?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Chris Menkemeyer menkemeyer@ wrote: [spam deleted] From the site: Offer Promotion Ends Tomorrow: Saturday, August 27, 2011 Chris is this the product of some spyware spam bot on your computer or are you sincerely spamming us with get rich quick crap? I've been seeing this happen quite a lot lately on Yahoo Groups. His account has been compromised, and spammers are sending out spam to everyone in his address book. I have erased the spam from the FFL website, and I've put him on moderated status so that no more spams can go through.
[FairfieldLife] Re: WTF?
On top of it as usual, thanks Alex! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Chris Menkemeyer menkemeyer@ wrote: [spam deleted] From the site: Offer Promotion Ends Tomorrow: Saturday, August 27, 2011 Chris is this the product of some spyware spam bot on your computer or are you sincerely spamming us with get rich quick crap? I've been seeing this happen quite a lot lately on Yahoo Groups. His account has been compromised, and spammers are sending out spam to everyone in his address book. I have erased the spam from the FFL website, and I've put him on moderated status so that no more spams can go through.
[FairfieldLife] World Peace Assembly in Dubrovnik 15-29 October [1 Attachment]
Dear Friends, Could you please forward this WPA announcement to anyone who you think might be interested. This is the biggest course we are organizing in Croatia since our legendary Dubrovnik Peace Project. We also have a parallel program for TM families called Holiday in Paradise. Thank you! Jai Guru Dev Lucija International Course for Governors, Sidhas, and Meditators Living in Abundance Engaging the Infinite Power of Natural Law for Maximum Abundance in Personal and Collective Life October 15 – 29, 2011 Hotel Valamar Club, Dubrovnik, Croatia We joyfully invite you to join us in beautiful Dubrovnik this October, during the auspicious season of Mahalakshmi festivities. Let’s enjoy deep group meditations and enliven in our awareness the laws of nature that eternally support prosperity, success, beauty, and abundance on every level of life. Option 1: World Peace Assembly (7 or 14 days)– you will enjoy: extended group practice of the TM sidhi program deep rest and revitalization of your mind and body enlightening video lectures of Maharishi inspiring news by the Raja of Invincible Croatia Yoga Asana and Pranayama refresher meeting grand celebration of Mahalakshmi Day live from the Brahmastan of India delicious meals and walks in a sublime Mediterranean setting Option 2: Holiday In Paradise Program (7 or 14 days) This is our new vacation program for sidhas and meditators, with or without families, offering a “taste of life in a meditating community”. You will enjoy: blissful group practice of the TM-Sidhi program or group meditation childcare service during group meditation times evening knowledge program with video lectures of Maharishi, inspiring news and seminars Yoga Asana and Pranayama refresher meeting grand celebration of Mahalakshmi Day live from the Brahmastan of India delicious meals and day trips to explore beautiful nature and ancient locations fun recreational activities for you and your family, including tennis, biking, walking, and affordable day passes for the luxurious Valamar Lacroma Wellness Center (with large indoor swimming pool area and much more) Course Prices These prices are per person per day. They include: room, all meals, course fee, and all taxes. World Peace Assembly (WPA): 42 Euros per day in double room 58 Euros per day in single room Holiday in Paradise program: 42 Euros per day in double room 58 Euros per day in single room Optional activities such as the use of the wellness center, tennis courts, bike rentals, car rentals, and day trips will be charged separately. Come and join us in the fabulous Dubrovnik for a taste of life in bliss and abundance! To apply please go to: www.DubrovnikCourses.org and click on “Apply now!” button. In order to secure your hotel reservation, we must receive your application as early as possible. For any questions please send an e-mail to: i...@dubrovnikcourses.org Jai Guru Dev Mladen Juričev National Leader Croatian Association for Transcendental Meditation
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buy (or own) a Gibson guitar -- go to jail?
Those RainSong guitars look great, I have never played one. My guitar student showed up with a composite, very light, resonator from Beltona and it sounded fantastic head to head with my National Steel and Dobro. It would be fantastic to travel with. These wood guitars sound really good and are really packable. The neck folds! http://www.voyageairguitar.com/site/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@... wrote: On Aug 26, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier, he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle. I routinely take a handmade six- or 12-string when I go across the border to Canada, which I do often - both with rosewood and ebony. Looks like it's time to buy the RainSong 12-string I've been wanting!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Buy (or own) a Gibson guitar -- go to jail?
On Aug 26, 2011, at 2:10 PM, curtisdeltablues wrote: Those RainSong guitars look great, I have never played one. My guitar student showed up with a composite, very light, resonator from Beltona and it sounded fantastic head to head with my National Steel and Dobro. It would be fantastic to travel with. These wood guitars sound really good and are really packable. The neck folds! http://www.voyageairguitar.com/site/ They're super light, so they're well suited for adding various electronics. What really impressed me was when I saw this video of David Wilcox's setup. He has saddle pickups and mikes inside, along with aMIDI-out, so he can trigger notes an octave lower for a real satisfying low tone. The Rainsong, unlike wooden guitars, can tilt the saddle pins at an angle to more easily allow low bass string setting like low B or A. Of course RainSongs don't need a truss rod, so necks stay as they were made. The sound board doesn't pull up either.
[FairfieldLife] Gadaffi running for GOP in New Hampshire
http://www.borowitzreport.com/2011/08/22/gaddafi-found-running-for-republican-nomination-2/ In announcing his candidacy, the Libyan madman joins a Republican field which is believed to number in excess of seven hundred candidates. “In those final days in Tripoli he was becoming increasingly disconnected from reality,” said the aide. “So I think he’ll fit right in.” Additionally, some felt that his rhetoric needed to be toned down, especially his closing line about fighting for the Republican nomination 'until the last drop of blood.' But others gave him high marks for his grasp of history and geography, which most agreed was stronger than Michele Bachmann’s. “Unfortunately for Muammar Gaddafi, he might be out of step with the current crop of Republican candidates,” one pollster said. “There’s a perception that he’s too moderate.”
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: Cripple Creek, CO; 1890, Departure of Stagecoach: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/47453.jpg One of my very favorite places on Earth. Great saloon, great ice cream parlor. Regrettably, the place is contaminated with all sorts of sulfates and nasty metals like arsenic. Great times in the Summer. Now Rory, RC and Ravi should be one the stage. The one leaving for Cheyenne in an hour. * * I knew you'd take a Cheyenne to us once you got to know us, Tom. And you're quite right, when we're Home, be it ever so humble, there is no where but now here, ever only the one stage. ISness is our business. But you know Why Homing requires eight stages, wheels a-spinning, steeds a-grinning from Here to Here, right? (Idaho, but Kali Fornia does; Alaska.) We are... climbing... Jacob's ... ladder; ... ev'ry ... round goes ... higher, ... higher! Yama to Niyama, Shakti to Shiva, Doing to Nondoing. Feet and ... Base and ... Sex and ... Navel, ... Heart and ... Throat and ... Brow and ... Crow-hown! And mounting laboriously from Yama to Asana to Pranayam to Pratyahara, to Dharana to Dhyana to Samdhi to Niyama, we come Home where we have always and all ways been, here and now, in the radiantly Cheyenning secret Sacred Heart amidst the nine. The one stage IS Now, ever has been, and always shall be, whirled without end, Amen.
Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Listen to Mike Malloy here...'
On 08/25/2011 08:24 PM, Robert wrote: Revolutionary Radio Guy... http://www.mikemalloy.com/stations/ You can get archives here: http://whiterosesociety.org/ Unfortunately the latest is June 27th. A week ago at the end of his first hour Mike Malloy was talking about Transcendental Meditation and the Maharishi Effect. He was referring to it comparing crazy Christians with people who practice meditation. Malloy's characterization of conservatives is always hilarious!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buy (or own) a Gibson guitar -- go to jail?
Arrest all the musicians, using arsenal, tasers, bombs, kevlar bullet proof vests, Humvees, jet fighters, helicopters, agent orange, etc., before the musicians use up all the wood in the forests to play music for themselves, family and neighbors and fans! Yeah, yeah, and they don't cut their hair, un-stabilizing the cosmetic markets! The Terrorists that they are! Damn, they invest their money in saving whales and baby seals and other non profit foundation write offs too! Whoa! Arrest the musicians who take their guitars and smash them all over the stage at every show! How does one get any peace in this world if they are always makin noise You want peace, bring on the war, cuz war is peace! Ranting gone wild, sorry. Well, at least this whole thing will bump up the cost of a good guitar now. : ) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@... wrote: Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier, he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle. Article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576530520471223268.html Interesting situation to put many musicians in.
[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Friends don't let Friends pay for Obamacare
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[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Third attack in a week
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
Perhaps you are feeling the influence of Hurricane Irene (Irene = peace), Rory!:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: Cripple Creek, CO; 1890, Departure of Stagecoach: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/47453.jpg One of my very favorite places on Earth. Great saloon, great ice cream parlor. Regrettably, the place is contaminated with all sorts of sulfates and nasty metals like arsenic. Great times in the Summer. Now Rory, RC and Ravi should be one the stage. The one leaving for Cheyenne in an hour. * * I knew you'd take a Cheyenne to us once you got to know us, Tom. And you're quite right, when we're Home, be it ever so humble, there is no where but now here, ever only the one stage. ISness is our business. But you know Why Homing requires eight stages, wheels a-spinning, steeds a-grinning from Here to Here, right? (Idaho, but Kali Fornia does; Alaska.) We are... climbing... Jacob's ... ladder; ... ev'ry ... round goes ... higher, ... higher! Yama to Niyama, Shakti to Shiva, Doing to Nondoing. Feet and ... Base and ... Sex and ... Navel, ... Heart and ... Throat and ... Brow and ... Crow-hown! And mounting laboriously from Yama to Asana to Pranayam to Pratyahara, to Dharana to Dhyana to Samdhi to Niyama, we come Home where we have always and all ways been, here and now, in the radiantly Cheyenning secret Sacred Heart amidst the nine. The one stage IS Now, ever has been, and always shall be, whirled without end, Amen.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article?
The two presidential administrations faced or are facing two different economic problems. Reagan was president when the Federal Reserve squeezed inflation away. The economy suffered for a bit, then bounded back - probably spurred by the spending derided below. Obama became president when the West entered a period of massive deleveraging. Everyone is paying down debt. Our houses are worth less than we're paying on them. Escalating healthcare costs are consuming increases in productivity. The only way out may be fiscal stimulus, but it goes against the culture of paying down debt. Today's problem is entirely different from that of 1980, and will take longer to correct. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sparaig Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 11:31 AM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article? Google: reagan tax cut myth e.g. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20030729-503544.html And while Reagan somewhat slowed the marginal rate of growth in the budget, it continued to increase during his time in office. So did the debt, skyrocketing from $700 billion to $3 trillion. that's an increase of 400 percent over 8 years. People are bitching about Obama's increases to the debt, which are a tiny fraction of Reagan's. Lawson My conservative friend responded: Exactly, you are stuck in your liberal bias. Too bad. Living a lie isnât good your health. The debt increased under Reagan because the congress was controlled totally by democrats. Every budget Reagan sent up there was thrown out. Letâs see, Reagan under the Dems had an increase of less than $300 billion a year. Obama, again under most Dems has had a $1.5 trillion increase in debt per year. If $300 billion a year is bad, isnât $1.5 trillion 5 times worse? Also, you want more revenue and have the ârichâ may more, right? Under Reagan tax revenues increased by a very large amount and upper income people paid a lot more: http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm But again, I guess facts simply donât matter. What seems to matter is to punish success and reward failure. What a crazy world you live in. Rewarding success leads to more success. Rewarding failure leads to more failure. This simply economic logic seems to baffle liberals. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com , Rick Archer rick@ wrote: Obamanonics vs. Reaganomics One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't. * By http://online.wsj.com/search/term..html?KEYWORDS=STEPHEN+MOORE http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=STEPHEN+MOOREbylinesearch=true bylinesearch=true STEPHEN MOORE If you really want to light the fuse of a liberal Democrat, compare Barack Obama's economic performance after 30 months in office with that of Ronald Reagan. It's not at all flattering for Mr. Obama. The two presidents have a lot in common. Both inherited an American economy in collapse. And both applied daring, expensive remedies. Mr. Reagan passed the biggest tax cut ever, combined with an agenda of deregulation, monetary restraint and spending controls. Mr. Obama, of course, has given us a $1 trillion spending stimulus. By the end of the summer of Reagan's third year in office, the economy was soaring. The GDP growth rate was 5% and racing toward 7%, even 8% growth. In 1983 and '84 output was growing so fast the biggest worry was that the economy would overheat. In the summer of 2011 we have an economy limping along at barely 1% growth and by some indications headed toward a double-dip recession. By the end of Reagan's first term, it was Morning in America. Today there is gloomy talk of America in its twilight. My purpose here is not more Reagan idolatry, but to point out an incontrovertible truth: One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn't. The Reagan philosophy was to incentivize productionââ¬i.e., the supply side of the economyââ¬by lowering restraints on business expansion and investment. This was done by slashing marginal income tax rates, eliminating regulatory high hurdles, and reining in inflation with a tighter monetary policy. View Full Image stevemoore http://si.wsj.net/img/BTN_insetClose.gif stevemoore http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ED-AO139_stevem_G_20110825162903.jpg The Keynesians in the early 1980s assured us that the Reagan expansion would not and could not happen. Rapid growth with new jobs and falling rates of inflation (to 4% in 1983 from 13% in 1980) is an impossibility in Keynesian textbooks. If you increase demand, prices go up. If you
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buy (or own) a Gibson guitar -- go to jail?
for traveling ;-) http://tinyurl.com/23n626 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Those RainSong guitars look great, I have never played one. My guitar student showed up with a composite, very light, resonator from Beltona and it sounded fantastic head to head with my National Steel and Dobro. It would be fantastic to travel with. These wood guitars sound really good and are really packable. The neck folds! http://www.voyageairguitar.com/site/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 26, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier, he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle. I routinely take a handmade six- or 12-string when I go across the border to Canada, which I do often - both with rosewood and ebony. Looks like it's time to buy the RainSong 12-string I've been wanting!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buy (or own) a Gibson guitar -- go to jail?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba no_reply@... wrote: Arrest all the musicians, using arsenal, tasers, bombs, kevlar bullet proof vests, Humvees, jet fighters, helicopters, agent orange, etc., before the musicians use up all the wood in the forests to play music for themselves, family and neighbors and fans! Yeah, yeah, and they don't cut their hair, un-stabilizing the cosmetic markets! The Terrorists that they are! Damn, they invest their money in saving whales and baby seals and other non profit foundation write offs too! Whoa! Arrest the musicians who take their guitars and smash them all over the stage at every show! How does one get any peace in this world if they are always makin noise You want peace, bring on the war, cuz war is peace! Ranting gone wild, sorry. Well, at least this whole thing will bump up the cost of a good guitar now. : ) If you want a really good guitar, you might have to trade up to one made by Linda Manzer. From what I've heard, hers are even ecologically sound because she makes them from ancient logs she finds by wandering Canadian beaches. http://www.manzer.com/guitars/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier, he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle. Article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576530520471223268.html Interesting situation to put many musicians in.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article?
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jpgillam Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 2:23 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article? The two presidential administrations faced or are facing two different economic problems. Reagan was president when the Federal Reserve squeezed inflation away. The economy suffered for a bit, then bounded back - probably spurred by the spending derided below. Obama became president when the West entered a period of massive deleveraging. Everyone is paying down debt. Our houses are worth less than we're paying on them. Escalating healthcare costs are consuming increases in productivity. The only way out may be fiscal stimulus, but it goes against the culture of paying down debt. Today's problem is entirely different from that of 1980, and will take longer to correct. Thanks Patrick. I'll send that off to my friend, and pretend I wrote it, so I seem smarter than I am. Stick around; he'll probably reply.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Buy (or own) a Gibson guitar -- go to jail?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: for traveling ;-) http://tinyurl.com/23n626 My favorite travel guitar. I do not own one, and am not the guitarist to do justice to one if I did, but I admit to wanting one ever since I saw it in the window of a music store in my town. Visually, it's a work of art. http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/guitar/silent_guitar/# --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Those RainSong guitars look great, I have never played one. My guitar student showed up with a composite, very light, resonator from Beltona and it sounded fantastic head to head with my National Steel and Dobro. It would be fantastic to travel with. These wood guitars sound really good and are really packable. The neck folds! http://www.voyageairguitar.com/site/ --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 26, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Bhairitu wrote: Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier, he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle. I routinely take a handmade six- or 12-string when I go across the border to Canada, which I do often - both with rosewood and ebony. Looks like it's time to buy the RainSong 12-string I've been wanting!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article?
I could be way off track here, but i'll give it a shot. Since the 1950's, our society seems to have become progressively worse when it comes to Ponzi schemes and many other methods of making money without providing a legitimate good or service to others. If a person is not providing a 'real' good or service, then all they are doing is transferring 'buying power' to themselves while taking away from others. Since the 1950's, each generation (IMO) becomes less and less concerned with providing something of value, and more concerned with their wealth. Sooner or later you have a vast majority of society trying to scheme their way into more money regardless of what they do for others. So in terms of the original question, after Regean left office, the situation only got worse in terms of our country as a whole. The whole mortgage crisis was started in the 1990's, and many economists predicted this way ahead of time. High dollar homes were offered to lower income families who did not have a stable enough income to sustain the mortgage. This concept of taking advantage of people who are not educated or intelligent enough to analyze financial offers has become much worse since Reagan's era. I'm not saying that the generation of the 70's 80's didn't have its faults, but since then from what i've seen our ponzi schemes, greed, and personal irresponsibility on an individual level has only gotten worse. Our government is incompetent, businesses can be greedy, and the percentage of individuals who are capable of taking care of themselves seems to be decreasing, from my observation. All this is a recipe for economic downfall. seekliberation --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of jpgillam Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 2:23 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article? The two presidential administrations faced or are facing two different economic problems. Reagan was president when the Federal Reserve squeezed inflation away. The economy suffered for a bit, then bounded back - probably spurred by the spending derided below. Obama became president when the West entered a period of massive deleveraging. Everyone is paying down debt. Our houses are worth less than we're paying on them. Escalating healthcare costs are consuming increases in productivity. The only way out may be fiscal stimulus, but it goes against the culture of paying down debt. Today's problem is entirely different from that of 1980, and will take longer to correct. Thanks Patrick. I'll send that off to my friend, and pretend I wrote it, so I seem smarter than I am. Stick around; he'll probably reply.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article?
Reagan's time was a time of engineers, of RD. Of defense spending which provided very good pay and lots of innovation (NASA, DARPA and DOD took over from Bell Labs). After that, it was the time of the MBAs. I watch all the young studly (and a couple dog like female) young DBAs. So very clueless. One called me over and asked me how to graph a stock in Excel. But they all are such pretty boy former college jocks, with their expensive suits, their weekly haircuts. So young, so sweet, so earnest, so hopeless. A couple will climb to the top of the heap and affect a merger between the two Carolinas with some ghastly high merger fee. Thus is our time.From high frequency radio transmission to high frequency trading. We have met the enemies and them's the MBAs. Hopeless MBAs are everywhere. Including at Ching Dow's in FF. Endless talk about monetizing but they'll sit there all day long until finally the owner gets someone to accept the check.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Secret of Levitation BBC for summer time lurkers
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: Yes, the Rajas soar through the air for hours at a time, effortlessly of course. Everyone knows that! :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bill Coop williamgcoop@ wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:07 AM, merudanda no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: The all-knowing BBC believed that nobody dared to ask Maharishi Mahesh Yogi if he can and will/have use(d) his levitation skills? lol (actually a question from the 60s asked already during his India tours) check part 2-4 with MMY, and of course Hagelin, and ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5sxax2CvE0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly4z2Hm8jSofeature=related In part 3 - 6, Dr. John sez: You're changing the curvature of space and time, if you wish, so that the gravitational force isn't pulling us down, but it's pushing us up. (From the linguistic point of view, that might have something to do with the prefix 'aa' of 'aa-kaasha', pronounced almost like 'are' in Queen's English...?) Compare that to what Lobsang Rampa sez in Wisdom of the Ancients (1965?): Levitation is accomplished by a very special form of breathing which actually rises the frequency of the body's molecular oscillations, so that it is able to induce a form of contra-gravity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtnTmfqUKhMfeature=related YouTube Direktlink
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
* * Feel it? Hell, doubtless I caused it when I asked my wife Rena to -- well, let's just say it was not unlike Curtis's rock me! earthquake siddhi-experience, but delicacy forbids me to go into the details :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: Perhaps you are feeling the influence of Hurricane Irene (Irene = peace), Rory!:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: Cripple Creek, CO; 1890, Departure of Stagecoach: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/47453.jpg One of my very favorite places on Earth. Great saloon, great ice cream parlor. Regrettably, the place is contaminated with all sorts of sulfates and nasty metals like arsenic. Great times in the Summer. Now Rory, RC and Ravi should be one the stage. The one leaving for Cheyenne in an hour. * * I knew you'd take a Cheyenne to us once you got to know us, Tom. And you're quite right, when we're Home, be it ever so humble, there is no where but now here, ever only the one stage. ISness is our business. But you know Why Homing requires eight stages, wheels a-spinning, steeds a-grinning from Here to Here, right? (Idaho, but Kali Fornia does; Alaska.) We are... climbing... Jacob's ... ladder; ... ev'ry ... round goes ... higher, ... higher! Yama to Niyama, Shakti to Shiva, Doing to Nondoing. Feet and ... Base and ... Sex and ... Navel, ... Heart and ... Throat and ... Brow and ... Crow-hown! And mounting laboriously from Yama to Asana to Pranayam to Pratyahara, to Dharana to Dhyana to Samdhi to Niyama, we come Home where we have always and all ways been, here and now, in the radiantly Cheyenning secret Sacred Heart amidst the nine. The one stage IS Now, ever has been, and always shall be, whirled without end, Amen.
[FairfieldLife] Can you do this with an iPhone?
http://mobilegeekinc.com/2010/09/26/nokia-n8-usb-otg-hidden-features/ I bet you can...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@... wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Yifu yifuxero@... wrote: Cripple Creek, CO; 1890, Departure of Stagecoach: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/47453.jpg One of my very favorite places on Earth. Great saloon, great ice cream parlor. Regrettably, the place is contaminated with all sorts of sulfates and nasty metals like arsenic. Great times in the Summer. Now Rory, RC and Ravi should be one the stage. The one leaving for Cheyenne in an hour. I had one of my best experiences with cops while driving through Wyoming with my kid. I pulled over on a freeway to change the kid's diaper. A cop stop by, steps out and asks me if I need any help. As soon as I said I was OK he just turned back and left ! Imagine a similar situation in Cali. I also loved the fact I could consistently speed at 85-95 miles per hour without worrying about getting a ticket.
[FairfieldLife] Fwd: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING
---BeginMessage--- Begin forwarded message: From: j...@ptd.net Date: August 26, 2011 5:27:06 PM EDT To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@proxyz13.mailnet.ptd.net Subject: Fw: Fwd: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING -- From: dugmack dugm...@ptd.net Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 4:32 PM To: Ihike ih...@dejazzd.com; ted t...@unruhinsurance.com; Tedrathman tedrath...@yahoo.com; Kirbys kir...@rsensenig.com; gary andersen ganders...@verizon.net; cliff martin j...@ptd.net; rick rkerch...@comcast.net; barry michael liftm...@ptd.net; george masters mastergeorg...@yahoo.com; ob brianw...@herrindustrial.com; romie randyr...@herrindustrial.com; baxter brianbax...@herrindustrial.com; Mac McCampbell macmccampb...@herrindustrial.com Subject: Fwd: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING - Forwarded Message - From: nckoh...@comcast.net Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:08:41 PM Subject: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING!! Sent by Retired Vice Admiral Bob Scarborough, of Arlington , Va. I wanted to give you all some disturbing information on our wonderful president. I work with the Catch-A-Dream Foundation, which provides hunting and fishing trips to children with life-threatening illnesses. This past weekend we had our annual banquet/fundraiser event in Starkville . As a part of our program, we had scheduled Sgt. 1st Class Greg Stube to come; he's a highly decorated U.S. Army Green Beret and inspirational speaker who was severely injured while deployed overseas and didn't have much of a chance for survival. Greg is stationed at Ft. Bragg , NC and received permission from his commanding officer to come speak at our function. Everything was on go until Obama made a policy that NO U.S. SERVICEMAN CAN SPEAK AT ANY FAITH-BASED PUBLIC EVENTS ANYMORE. Needless to say, Greg had to cancel his speaking event with us. Didn't know if anyone else was aware of this new policy. You're just starting to see the Obamanation. This is just how the Nazis did it in the 1930s -- slowly, one step at a time. This should be forwarded to everyone regardless of party affiliation! Semper Fi Paymaster Louis Wayne Qualls Det. 1249 Charles M. Campbell 254/774-6980 ---End Message---
[FairfieldLife] Fwd: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING
---BeginMessage--- Begin forwarded message: From: j...@ptd.net Date: August 26, 2011 5:27:06 PM EDT To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@proxyz13.mailnet.ptd.net Subject: Fw: Fwd: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING -- From: dugmack dugm...@ptd.net Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 4:32 PM To: Ihike ih...@dejazzd.com; ted t...@unruhinsurance.com; Tedrathman tedrath...@yahoo.com; Kirbys kir...@rsensenig.com; gary andersen ganders...@verizon.net; cliff martin j...@ptd.net; rick rkerch...@comcast.net; barry michael liftm...@ptd.net; george masters mastergeorg...@yahoo.com; ob brianw...@herrindustrial.com; romie randyr...@herrindustrial.com; baxter brianbax...@herrindustrial.com; Mac McCampbell macmccampb...@herrindustrial.com Subject: Fwd: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING - Forwarded Message - From: nckoh...@comcast.net Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:08:41 PM Subject: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING!! Sent by Retired Vice Admiral Bob Scarborough, of Arlington , Va. I wanted to give you all some disturbing information on our wonderful president. I work with the Catch-A-Dream Foundation, which provides hunting and fishing trips to children with life-threatening illnesses. This past weekend we had our annual banquet/fundraiser event in Starkville . As a part of our program, we had scheduled Sgt. 1st Class Greg Stube to come; he's a highly decorated U.S. Army Green Beret and inspirational speaker who was severely injured while deployed overseas and didn't have much of a chance for survival. Greg is stationed at Ft. Bragg , NC and received permission from his commanding officer to come speak at our function. Everything was on go until Obama made a policy that NO U.S. SERVICEMAN CAN SPEAK AT ANY FAITH-BASED PUBLIC EVENTS ANYMORE. Needless to say, Greg had to cancel his speaking event with us. Didn't know if anyone else was aware of this new policy. You're just starting to see the Obamanation. This is just how the Nazis did it in the 1930s -- slowly, one step at a time. This should be forwarded to everyone regardless of party affiliation! Semper Fi Paymaster Louis Wayne Qualls Det. 1249 Charles M. Campbell 254/774-6980 ---End Message---
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:53 PM, wleed3 wle...@aol.com wrote: Chaplains can't mention God or Our Lord. Yet if you want to progress through the ranks/ratings in most outfits/ships/bases/camps you have to attend the same church as the whatever commander, praise the Lord, sprinkle your language and your upgradings with the proper Christian cues and of course if you're gay bring your best friend's wife or g/f to the ball. Does anyone remember the indoctrination the Marines at Camp Pendlleton were receiving from their CO about gays in the military?The big objections where that being gay was against the religion of the recruits and lower level officers. But, killing isn't against their religion. Maiming, killing wives, children, kill them all and let God sort them out is a religious duty, respected by the entire US military hierarchy, despite Obama's show and bravado. So, a soldier can't address a faith based address by a US soldier but the prez can pursue DOMA with a passion because it's his duty as president. So of course his implementing his DREAM act by having Homeland Security prioritize INS hearing for those who might in the future qualify for Obama's DREAM is his duty as well? Heck, I even was expected to go to the same church as the astronauts during the Apollo program and I was a civilian. What's next? Is he going to pardon the Indianapolis 500?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: New Poster
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:55 PM, wleed3 wle...@aol.com wrote: I didn't even know the US ran on batteries. Now France, they deserve a AAA rating. As does Switzerland and Germany. If you /ARE/Nato you lose your rating. If you don't need a standing army/navy/marine coups you get a AAA rating. So if you do heavy lifting, if the Euro is about to disintegrate, well, OK. But don't be the most powerful nation in the world. Try it and you have to go searching at Wal-Mart for a different set of batteries.
RE: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING
From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of wleed3 Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 4:54 PM To: David Grodjesk; fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING Bullshit: http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/faithbased.asp
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote: On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh... Plus a little help from having stolen the entire concept from Xerox Parc labs. :-) Apple paid for the visit and subsequent use of the ideas by allowing Xerox to purchase $1 million in stock options at a minimalist price which is now probably worth many billions of dollars, had they held on to it. Xerox was so dismal in how they utilized the technology that the entire team that developed the GUI, object oriented programming, etc., eventually ended up working for APple a few years later because they were annoyed at how unproductive working for Xerox proved to be. Apple didn't steal anything. One thing you can say about being an apologist for one cult leader is that it's good practice for being an apologist for another one. Great comeback... Except, where is your explanation of why you disagree with my conclusion? L.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
...subtlety is always a virtue :-0) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@... wrote: * * Feel it? Hell, doubtless I caused it when I asked my wife Rena to -- well, let's just say it was not unlike Curtis's rock me! earthquake siddhi-experience, but delicacy forbids me to go into the details :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: Perhaps you are feeling the influence of Hurricane Irene (Irene = peace), Rory!:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: Cripple Creek, CO; 1890, Departure of Stagecoach: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/47453.jpg One of my very favorite places on Earth. Great saloon, great ice cream parlor. Regrettably, the place is contaminated with all sorts of sulfates and nasty metals like arsenic. Great times in the Summer. Now Rory, RC and Ravi should be one the stage. The one leaving for Cheyenne in an hour. * * I knew you'd take a Cheyenne to us once you got to know us, Tom. And you're quite right, when we're Home, be it ever so humble, there is no where but now here, ever only the one stage. ISness is our business. But you know Why Homing requires eight stages, wheels a-spinning, steeds a-grinning from Here to Here, right? (Idaho, but Kali Fornia does; Alaska.) We are... climbing... Jacob's ... ladder; ... ev'ry ... round goes ... higher, ... higher! Yama to Niyama, Shakti to Shiva, Doing to Nondoing. Feet and ... Base and ... Sex and ... Navel, ... Heart and ... Throat and ... Brow and ... Crow-hown! And mounting laboriously from Yama to Asana to Pranayam to Pratyahara, to Dharana to Dhyana to Samdhi to Niyama, we come Home where we have always and all ways been, here and now, in the radiantly Cheyenning secret Sacred Heart amidst the nine. The one stage IS Now, ever has been, and always shall be, whirled without end, Amen.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Rick Archer r...@searchsummit.com wrote: *From:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *wleed3 *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2011 4:54 PM *To:* David Grodjesk; fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Fwd: OBAMA STOPS WOUNDED SOLDIER FROM SPEAKING* *** ** ** Bullshit: http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/faithbased.asp Yes, you are nothing but Bullshit, Oh great owner of FFL. Prove that the other statements are false. Just coincidence that the briefing at Camp Pendleton, CA had disappeared from Youtube? Kill, but don't allow a gay near you because it's against your religion. It can be found in the archives, perhaps.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Fwd: Third attack in a week
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:15 PM, wleed3 wle...@aol.com wrote: Give it up. One Martin Luther KIng JR. Is worth one president of the United States. We have up the tradition of Lincoln and Washington's birthday so we could have MLK day. Perhaps we'll give up President's day so we can have Stonewall Day. And we can give up the 4th of July so we can have Che Guevara's Day.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Cripple Creek
* * Yeah, especially when it comes to the siddhis. But in all honesty, I probably just made this story up, because my mind does love creating patterns out of chaos. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@... wrote: ...subtlety is always a virtue :-0) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: * * Feel it? Hell, doubtless I caused it when I asked my wife Rena to -- well, let's just say it was not unlike Curtis's rock me! earthquake siddhi-experience, but delicacy forbids me to go into the details :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, whynotnow7 whynotnow7@ wrote: Perhaps you are feeling the influence of Hurricane Irene (Irene = peace), Rory!:-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, RoryGoff rorygoff@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall thomas.pall@ wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Yifu yifuxero@ wrote: Cripple Creek, CO; 1890, Departure of Stagecoach: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/47453.jpg One of my very favorite places on Earth. Great saloon, great ice cream parlor. Regrettably, the place is contaminated with all sorts of sulfates and nasty metals like arsenic. Great times in the Summer. Now Rory, RC and Ravi should be one the stage. The one leaving for Cheyenne in an hour. * * I knew you'd take a Cheyenne to us once you got to know us, Tom. And you're quite right, when we're Home, be it ever so humble, there is no where but now here, ever only the one stage. ISness is our business. But you know Why Homing requires eight stages, wheels a-spinning, steeds a-grinning from Here to Here, right? (Idaho, but Kali Fornia does; Alaska.) We are... climbing... Jacob's ... ladder; ... ev'ry ... round goes ... higher, ... higher! Yama to Niyama, Shakti to Shiva, Doing to Nondoing. Feet and ... Base and ... Sex and ... Navel, ... Heart and ... Throat and ... Brow and ... Crow-hown! And mounting laboriously from Yama to Asana to Pranayam to Pratyahara, to Dharana to Dhyana to Samdhi to Niyama, we come Home where we have always and all ways been, here and now, in the radiantly Cheyenning secret Sacred Heart amidst the nine. The one stage IS Now, ever has been, and always shall be, whirled without end, Amen.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone have a good rebuttal to this article?
Dont' forget, Richter, that for religious reasons we are required to send $billions to Israel. And invite them to spy on us at the highest level. It's a religious commitment, isn't it, Richter? Israel ueber Alles. Fess up. Come on, a little truth and reconciliation would be appreciated from He Who's Too Busy to Post to FFL Unless His Name is mentioned or He wants to make his unbiased Point By Posting an Anonymous Writer's Words. Coward.
[FairfieldLife] Post Count
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[FairfieldLife] One Flew Over the Rainbow
by Dave MacDowell http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/33578.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Lucid Dreamer
MacDowell http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/33569.jpg
[FairfieldLife] featuring Sahib Bangdi
In the Kabir Tradition, a variant of Sant Mat http://www.spiritualtube.com/spiritualvideos?title=sahib_bandgivideo=87u7RJokSYo=
[FairfieldLife] Breakfast Hawks
http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/33547.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Way of Mystics
http://wayofmystics.webs.com/thepath.htm
[FairfieldLife] Escape from the Jersey Shore
I live right on the coast, a block from the beach. I'm hightailing it out of here tomorrow morning, going inland to wait out Irene. Not sure when I'm coming back; depends on local conditions. I won't have access to a computer, so you won't hear from me for at least several days. Good luck to any other FFLers in the storm's path. Stay safe, please!
[FairfieldLife] Art of Punjab
http://artofpunjab.com/gallery.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Escape from the Jersey Shore
* * You too, Judy! Love you! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: I live right on the coast, a block from the beach. I'm hightailing it out of here tomorrow morning, going inland to wait out Irene. Not sure when I'm coming back; depends on local conditions. I won't have access to a computer, so you won't hear from me for at least several days. Good luck to any other FFLers in the storm's path. Stay safe, please!
Re: [FairfieldLife] Escape from the Jersey Shore
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, authfriend jst...@panix.com wrote: I live right on the coast, a block from the beach. I'm hightailing it out of here tomorrow morning, going inland to wait out Irene. Not sure when I'm coming back; depends on local conditions. I won't have access to a computer, so you won't hear from me for at least several days. Good luck to any other FFLers in the storm's path. Stay safe, please! May God bless and KEEP you, Judy. I am right now in central NC. NC more than deserve the wrath of God but it's only going to hit the eastern part of the state. With any luck at all, NYC will be knocked out of business. You can always tell a New Yorker but you can't tell him much.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Escape from the Jersey Shore
Judy, Take care of yourself. We'll be waiting for your safe return. JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: I live right on the coast, a block from the beach. I'm hightailing it out of here tomorrow morning, going inland to wait out Irene. Not sure when I'm coming back; depends on local conditions. I won't have access to a computer, so you won't hear from me for at least several days. Good luck to any other FFLers in the storm's path. Stay safe, please!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Escape from the Jersey Shore
Well good luck Judy and stay safe as well !! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: I live right on the coast, a block from the beach. I'm hightailing it out of here tomorrow morning, going inland to wait out Irene. Not sure when I'm coming back; depends on local conditions. I won't have access to a computer, so you won't hear from me for at least several days. Good luck to any other FFLers in the storm's path. Stay safe, please!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: .. the Dalai Lama is always smiling, charming, diplomatic. Talks about love, compassion, helping suffering people. Wait just a minute. Who are you talking about? This sounds just like Amma. Sounds like Amma but not quite. Sure the PR people may spin her as a humanitarian in the likes of Teresa to attract the pain projecting liberals, but she's much beyond it. There is a lot of difference between the practice of love vs radiating true love and compassion from an inner fullness. A practice of love, fake smile is always attractive than the paradox of a real Satguru.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Snip But Hinduism gets too complicated, too many paradoxes, ups and downs, too many inconsistencies, like the beloved. It takes love, faith, trust and commitment. Only with love can you accept a person in totality. No wonder the majority of Americans including Vaj, Barry and Curtis choose Buddhism. Little Hindu triumphalism huh Ravi? Ethno-centric bias is so predictable. So you were born in that part of the world and amazingly enough conclude that the stories they tell are the rightest ones. How convenient! Hmm, no, not right stories, the wrong ones too, the good , bad and the ugly, stories of love and hatred, war and peace, life in its all fullness. Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Escape from the Jersey Shore
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: I live right on the coast, a block from the beach. I'm hightailing it out of here tomorrow morning, going inland to wait out Irene. Not sure when I'm coming back; depends on local conditions. I won't have access to a computer, so you won't hear from me for at least several days. Good luck to any other FFLers in the storm's path. Stay safe, please! The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are shutting down trains noon Saturday. Travel by car will be a mess. Hope you don't get in any crawl along by the inch traffic jams. Stay out of harms way and travel safely. I'll miss you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Escape from the Jersey Shore
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I live right on the coast, a block from the beach. I'm hightailing it out of here tomorrow morning, going inland to wait out Irene. Not sure when I'm coming back; depends on local conditions. I won't have access to a computer, so you won't hear from me for at least several days. Good luck to any other FFLers in the storm's path. Stay safe, please! The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are shutting down trains noon Saturday. Travel by car will be a mess. Hope you don't get in any crawl along by the inch traffic jams. Stay out of harms way and travel safely. I'll miss you. I'm taking an early train. I'll be where I'm going well before they shut down NJ Transit. I'm not going that far inland, but I'll be west of I-95 and out of the very worst of it. Thanks, raunchy and everyone, for the good wishes. It's going to be one hell of a mess along the whole East Coast.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@... wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Why would you use the term projection while doing just that? I am not a Buddhist. I not a pain projecting liberal, whatever that means. Weird game Ravi. Weird game. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Snip But Hinduism gets too complicated, too many paradoxes, ups and downs, too many inconsistencies, like the beloved. It takes love, faith, trust and commitment. Only with love can you accept a person in totality. No wonder the majority of Americans including Vaj, Barry and Curtis choose Buddhism. Little Hindu triumphalism huh Ravi? Ethno-centric bias is so predictable. So you were born in that part of the world and amazingly enough conclude that the stories they tell are the rightest ones. How convenient! Hmm, no, not right stories, the wrong ones too, the good , bad and the ugly, stories of love and hatred, war and peace, life in its all fullness. Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Just learned...
I'm not sure what the implications of being a child of something are. Our universe could be the offspring of anther. What became (eventually) Christianity can be said to be born of Judaism - although I can't find any mention of the early so-called Christians thinking of themselves other than Jews. It appears that everything is a child of something else; and yet a parent too. ... Stained glass window, Sulkowski Castle, Poland: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/5/49277.jpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you. Why would you use the term projection while doing just that? I am not a Buddhist. I not a pain projecting liberal, whatever that means. Weird game Ravi. Weird game. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Ravi Yogi raviyogi@ wrote: Snip But Hinduism gets too complicated, too many paradoxes, ups and downs, too many inconsistencies, like the beloved. It takes love, faith, trust and commitment. Only with love can you accept a person in totality. No wonder the majority of Americans including Vaj, Barry and Curtis choose Buddhism. Little Hindu triumphalism huh Ravi? Ethno-centric bias is so predictable. So you were born in that part of the world and amazingly enough conclude that the stories they tell are the rightest ones. How convenient! Hmm, no, not right stories, the wrong ones too, the good , bad and the ugly, stories of love and hatred, war and peace, life in its all fullness. Buddhism is just Hindu's bastard child, more of a child born out of a fling with the whore (intellect). The pain, suffering, consistent message of this bastard child is always attractive to the likes of pain projecting liberals like you.
[FairfieldLife] When Yoko ate Ringo
Dave MacDowell http://www.museumsyndicate.com/images/4/33604.jpg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Escape from the Jersey Shore
I feel like my buttons are being pushed. I wonder if it will even be half as big as predicted. It can't be any bigger. I guess no one wants to take the risk of underplaying it and then being accused of being non caring with the big election cycle coming up. I can just see the ads now. But I'm saying this thing will underwhelm. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I live right on the coast, a block from the beach. I'm hightailing it out of here tomorrow morning, going inland to wait out Irene. Not sure when I'm coming back; depends on local conditions. I won't have access to a computer, so you won't hear from me for at least several days. Good luck to any other FFLers in the storm's path. Stay safe, please! The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are shutting down trains noon Saturday. Travel by car will be a mess. Hope you don't get in any crawl along by the inch traffic jams. Stay out of harms way and travel safely. I'll miss you.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Escape from the Jersey Shore
The trains are going to be crowded, use sharp elbows. I have a brother living in Ewing NJ west of 95. On a map it appears inland enough to escape flooding, but hang on to your hat it's going to be windy. I'll keep my fingers crossed where you live escapes damage. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: I live right on the coast, a block from the beach. I'm hightailing it out of here tomorrow morning, going inland to wait out Irene. Not sure when I'm coming back; depends on local conditions. I won't have access to a computer, so you won't hear from me for at least several days. Good luck to any other FFLers in the storm's path. Stay safe, please! The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are shutting down trains noon Saturday. Travel by car will be a mess. Hope you don't get in any crawl along by the inch traffic jams. Stay out of harms way and travel safely. I'll miss you. I'm taking an early train. I'll be where I'm going well before they shut down NJ Transit. I'm not going that far inland, but I'll be west of I-95 and out of the very worst of it. Thanks, raunchy and everyone, for the good wishes. It's going to be one hell of a mess along the whole East Coast.
