[FairfieldLife] voting with the president 90% of the time
Perhaps someone can explain this to me. How can one vote with the president on a particular bill? Other than signing a bill or giving it a veto, the president doesn't get to vote on a bill...so how does one determine whether one is voting with the president on a particular bill?
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Debate
here's my take on this: McCain basically kept saying trust me I'm a good guy and will clean up whatever and very dependent on militarism to solve world problems not realizing the problems that militarism creates; and crony sentimentalism and standard Republican policy of welfare for the rich. I don't trust him for a minute and instead of presenting anything substantive he kept being condescending to Obama. Obama kept his cool and clearly presented what he would try to accomplish via a wholistic way using world wide diplomacy to restore America's image, strong energy independence initiative creating jobs at home, tax break for 95% use military judiciously end war in Iraq open gov funding to public via internet/google Personally, I feel Barack should have been stronger in denouncing McCain's distortions; I feel Obama was too gentle/polite with him. I hope in the following debates, Obama calls him on his perverted hypocritical judgement in picking Palin. jai kali ma, anatol --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BillyG. Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:03 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Debate I would say McCain had Obama up against the ropes at least once and Obama was wincing. The difference between Obama and McCain, is the difference between a *wannabe* and an *is*, what a difference! Obama made a good showing though clearly was the more inexperienced man on the stage! He clearly looked dejected at the end of the debate, you could see how deflated he was, he knew he lost the debate though he had a strong start! All but one of the 6 CNN commentators (Bill Bennett) gave the win to Obama, most by a pretty wide margin.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Debate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) Of course, and CNN is fair and balanced...ha, ha! Not sure what 'Fair and Balanced' means, because it is a catch-phrase of Fox news, so it really doesn't mean anything. Here's what Esquire thought it meant: http://www.members.aol.com/tantricone/share/FOX.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: How one lone guy in front of a computer may change the election
Wow. Billy, Shemp, and Raunchydog all posted the same link! Great minds think alike... Wouldn't you need a mind for that? :-) Judy would have posted the link, too, had she not shot her angry wad in two days. It's just the latest incarnation of The Only Thing They've Got To Post. You know the one: This new (Wright/Ayers/ lipstick/whatever...pick one) scandal will be the one that brings Obama down. And then you'll all be hurting and you'll have to come crawling to us and admit that we were RIGHT and you were WRONG. We rule and you are all REEELLY REEELLY STOOOPID. In other words, it's Just More Self-Importance Fantasy on their parts, is *just* as important as they are, and has as much substance as they have. Big zero, in all three columns. Angry people need things to be angry about. They like videos like this because 1) they pander to their fantasies that people on FFL (or anywhere) are actually taking them seriously 2) the links give them something to post, since they can't think up anything on their own, and 3) cutting and pasting Other People's Thoughts is the closest they can come to thought.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How one lone guy in front of a computer may change the election
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH--o I like that Knopfler-riff much more played like that, in...hmmm... Billy Gibbons -style!
[FairfieldLife] Re: How one lone guy in front of a computer may change the election
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wgm4u@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH--o I like that Knopfler-riff much more played like that, in...hmmm... Billy Gibbons -style! Jimi goes tango! :o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8OeKjiDoYE
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Debate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: BillyG. He clearly looked dejected at the end of the debate, you could see how deflated he was, he knew he lost the debate though he had a strong start! All but one of the 6 CNN commentators (Bill Bennett) gave the win to Obama, most by a pretty wide margin. As Ruth pointed out yesterday, political debates merely provide a mechanism whereby those who have already made up their minds and are locked into a particular set of beliefs reinforce those beliefs. Unless one of the debators actually pisses his pants and cries on camera, declaring one of them the winner has as much meaning as Judy Stein declaring herself the winner in all the arguments she starts here on FFL. Have you EVER seen Judy Stein admit to having been bested in one of the arguments she starts? Have you agreed with her every time she declares herself the winner? Well, that's what's happening with this Presidential debate as well. People lost in self importance always think they won. People who have bought into their favorite candidate's or poster's projected glammer about their self-importance think that their guy or gal won, too. But in the end, all that happened was a mass flapping of the gums, with nothing resolved and no minds changed.
[FairfieldLife] How to figure out who won the debate
Ignore The Pundits: How To Figure Out Who Won The Debate by Judd Legum [Hillary Clinton's Research Director] There were 23 debates during the Democratic primary and part of my job on the Hillary campaign was to monitor the post-debate reaction in the media. I watched hundreds of self-described political experts instantly declare who won and who lost. Here's what I learned: the pundits are full of it. They don't know any more than you do and many of them have a vested interest in tilting the scales one way or another. After the debate ends, if you want to know who won, turn off the TV. You can figure it out for yourself. The first thing to understand is that the winner of the debate isn't the person who makes the best arguments. If it was, Al Gore would be finishing up his second term. The winner of the debate is the person who moves votes to their side. You can figure out who that will be by focusing on these three factors: 1. 30 seconds are more important than 90 minutes. Although tens of millions of people will watch the debate, most everyone will forget the bulk of it immediately. The lasting impression of the debate for most voters will be the two or three exchanges -- usually less than 15 seconds long -- that are replayed, discussed, and analyzed over and over again. More often than not, whoever gets the best of these moments wins the debate. For example, in the Des Moines Register debate in mid-December, Obama was asked a pretty tough question: How he could rely on so many former Clinton advisers and still represent a break from the past? Hillary laughed and said, I want to hear that! Obama flashed a smile and shot back: Hillary, I'm looking forward to you advising me as well. It was a pitch-perfect response and catnip for the media, which played the exchange repeatedly for days. Overall, Hillary turned in a very solid performance and demonstrated an impressive command of the issues. But it didn't matter. Obama had won the key 15 seconds and it gave him a critical boost just days before the Iowa caucus. John Edwards was generally regarded as an excellent debater. So why was it that the debates never seemed to help him much in the polls? He never really did anything memorable. (Quick: name one line Edwards said in a primary debate.) His answers were always smooth, coherent and on message. It didn't do him any good. Identify who got the better of two or three most memorable exchanges between Obama and McCain and you'll be a long way toward identifying the winner. 2. Mistakes matter, but only some of them. Probably the worst mistake in the Democratic primary debates was Hillary's famous non-answer to a question about drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants. But it wasn't a big mistake because people care deeply about the issue. (When is the last time you've heard driver's licenses mentioned on the campaign trail?) It was important because it fit into a pre-exisiting narrative about Hillary that had been developed by her opponents for some time. Namely, that Hillary is politically calculating and dishonest. Since it reinforced a pre-exisiting narrative it caused Hillary immense damage and sent the campaign into a tailspin from which it never fully recovered. During the next debate in Nevada, Obama was asked a similar question about drivers licenses for illegal immigrants and gave a similarly meandering answer. Yet, he paid no political price. The reason is simple: no one believed at the time that Obama was dishonest or politically calculating. So a mistake that was debilitating for Hillary was a non-issue for Obama. In this debate, a mistake on an economic issue will be more damaging to McCain because there is a pre-existing narrative that he isn't knowledgeable or engaged on the economy. Similarly, a mistake on foreign policy would be more damaging to Obama because there is a pre-existing narrative that he may not have the experience to be commander-in-chief. 3. It is a popularity contest. At the end of the day these candidates are trying to get voters to like them. As a result, in many instances, what the candidates say is far less important than how they say it. During the spring and summer, Obama struggled to gain traction in debates because the delivery of his answers were perceived as detached and professorial. In other words, the things he was saying were smart but he wasn't making friends. In an August debate, Hillary won a lot of admirers when she said with a smile: For fifteen years, I have stood up against the right-wing machine and I've come out stronger. So if you want a winner who knows how to take them on, I'm your girl! The person who is the most relaxed and getting some laughs is usually the winner. The reason why much of the punditry that follows the debate is inaccurate or irrelevant is that many of the people involved are far more interested in shaping the outcome of the debate than reflecting it. It usually doesn't work, but most give it a shot anyway. You can do
[FairfieldLife] Community Reinvestment Act?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act The CRA was passed into law by the 95th United States Congress in 1977 as a result of national grassroots pressure for affordable housing, and despite considerable opposition from the mainstream banking community.[1] Only one banker, Ron Grzywinski from ShoreBank in Chicago, testified in favor of the act.[2] The CRA mandates that each banking institution be evaluated to determine if it has met the credit needs of its entire community. That record is taken into account when the federal government considers an institution's application for deposit facilities, including mergers and acquisitions. The CRA is enforced by the financial regulators (FDIC, OCC, OTS, and FRB).
[FairfieldLife] MMY's translation vs. A.C's translation!
Bhagavad-giitaa VI 5 uddhared aatmanaatmaanaM naatmaanam avasaadayet aatmaiva hy aatmano bandhur aatmaiva ripur aatmanaH (uddharet; aatmanaa; aatmaanaM na; aatmaanam avasaadayet aatmaa; eva hi; aatmanaH; bandhuH aatmaa; eva ripuH; aatmanaH) MMY: Let a man rise his self by his Self, let him not debase his Self; he alone, indeed, is his own friend, he alone his own enemy. Let a man rise (uddharet) his self (aatmaanam) by his Self (aatmanaa) let him not debase (na...avasaadayet) his Self (aatmaanam); he alone (aatmaa; eva) indeed (hi), [is] his own (aatmanaH) friend (bandhuH), he alone (aatmaa; eva) his own (aatmanaH) enemy (ripuH). A.C: A man must elevate himself by his own mind, not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.
[FairfieldLife] Navaratri and Chandi Path
Navaratri starts next week and the mantra text usually recited during the nine nights is called Chandi Path or Durga Saptashati. It is 700 verse that tell the story of the Divine Mother. I have posted a traditional rendition as chanted by some Varanasi pundits, online at www.puja.net. You can also download it to listen off-line if you wish. Here's the direct link: http://www.puja.net/wordpress/podcast-2/
[FairfieldLife] Meanwhile, back in the real world...
I'm sitting about a kilometer from the ex-pat cafe I was sitting at before. The conversation there about the US Presidential debate died after a mere 15 minutes. It's understandable. It's a sunny but cool day in Sitges. There is a strong wind coming in from North Africa, and there are bare breasts on the beach. Life is good. Why would one want to sit in a cafe and debate a debate taking place in a country where life *isn't* good? It's like what Curtis said recently when the latest Hi, I'm Enlightened guy came through the swinging doors. To paraphrase, Curtis sug- gested that listening to someone talk about their own enlightenment was like listening to someone talk about their latest orgasm. Who really cares? Similarly, on a fine September day such as this, why should the residents of a country where life is good a *lot* waste time talking about American politics? It would be like sitting on the rim of the Grand Canyon gazing out at the wonder and talking about the sani- tation workers' strike back in New York and how garbage is piling up in the streets. It just doesn't make any sense to sit in a place where things make sense and dwell overlong on a place where they don't. What you focus on you become. As true in Sitges, Spain as it is in the high Himalayas or in Fairfield, Iowa. This posting week will start as so many have done lately, with people trying to suck our attention to the garbage strike and debate it endlessly. And we will...sadly, me among them. But hopefully I will wake up from time to time and notice the beauty in front of me, and feel the desert wind on my face, and remember that there are better things to talk about.
[FairfieldLife] Cool Moments
As another birthday approaches, and I get closer and closer to the end of my life, the things I find myself most thankful for are the Cool Moments I have experienced in that life. Sitting in this beachside cafe with the wind in my face, I find myself flip-flopping like Billy Pilgrim to other moments I sat or stood on the edge of eternity with the wind in my face. My body may be sitting here in Sitges, but my mind is in the Haleakala crater, watching a sunset so spectacular that it was signed in the lower right corner by God or someone acting on His behalf. Or on the rim of Grand Canyon, watching another sunset and having a conversation with a scorpion. Or after a fine Indian dinner at Nirvana on Central Park South, standing at the window with Rama and feeling the same wind in our faces as we gazed out at the same eternity. So many Cool Moments. And so *accessible*. Because the nature of these other Cool Moments was eternity, they are eternal. All it takes is the feel of the wind in my face again to bring them back from the past and immerse me again in their magic, here and Now. But the coolest part of being transported back in time to these Cool Moments of the past is that every time it happens, a little of that magic comes forward in time into Now, and transforms Now into another Cool Moment. This is one of them. Someday I will be sitting somewhere else and the feel of the wind on my face will transport me back to this moment sitting in a beachside cafe in Sitges, and I will smile. I'm going to stop writing now and just sit here with the wind in my face. Talk amongst yourselves. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Sanskrit speaking village in MP
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=51aeb44c-438a-44b6-979b-baef18b83359 Sanskrit boulevard Aditya Ghosh, Hindustan Times September 20, 2008 First Published: 23:31 IST(20/9/2008) Last Updated: 01:25 IST(21/9/2008) Prem Narayan Chauhan pats his oxen, pushing them to go a little faster. Ziighrataram, ziighrataram chalanti, he urges them. The animals respond to their master’s call, picking up pace on the muddy path that leads to his 10-acre cornfield. Chauhan, 35, dropped out of school early, after Class II. He does not consider it remarkable that he speaks what is considered a dying language (or that his oxen respond to it). For him, Sanskrit is not a devabhasha, the language of the gods, but one rooted in the commonplace, in the ebb and flow of everyday life in Jhiri, the remote hamlet in Madhya Pradesh, where he lives. Mutterings under banyan trees, chit-chat in verandahs, pleasantries on village paths, disputes in the panchayat — in Jhiri, it's all in Sanskrit. And then, a cellphone rings. The moment of contemporary reality is fleeting. Anachronism and Amar Chitra Katha take over as the conversation begins: “Namo, namah. Tvam kutra asi?” (Greetings. Where are you?) A lost world rediscovered Jhiri is India’s own Jurassic Park. A lost world that has been recreated carefully and painstakingly, but lives a precarious existence, cut off from the compelling realities of the world outside. The 1,000-odd residents of this hamlet, 150 km north of Indore, hardly speak the local dialect, Malwi, any longer. Ten years have been enough for the Sanskritisation of life here. Minus the Brahminical pride historically associated with the language — Jhiri has just one Brahmin family. The much-admired 24-year-old Vimla Panna who teaches Sanskrit in the local school belongs to the Oraon tribe, which is spread over Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. And the village is an eclectic mix of Kshatriyas, Thakurs, Sondhias, Sutars and the tribal Bhils. Panna has been key in popularising Sanskrit with the women of Jhiri. With mothers speaking the language, the children naturally follow. Take 16-year-old unlettered Seema Chauhan. She speaks Sanskrit as fluently as Panna, who studied the language for seven years for her Master’s degree. Chauhan is a livewire, humouring and abusing the village girls in Sanskrit. “I just listened to Vimla didi,” she says. “In fact, I'm often at a loss for words in Malwi.” Just married to a man from a neighbouring village, she says confidently, “My children will speak in Sanskrit because I will talk to them in it.” As eight-year-old Pinky Chauhan joins us, she greets me politely: “Namo namaha. Bhavaan kim karoti?” (What brings you here?) Her father Chander Singh Chauhan laughs and says, “My wife started speaking to me in this language, so I learnt it to figure out what she was saying behind my back.” Let’s get official Mukesh Jain, CEO, Janpad Panchayat, Sarangpur tehsil (which includes Jhiri), recalls, “I could not believe it when I first came here. It can get difficult during official interactions, but we encourage them.” All kinds of logistical problems crop up in Jhiri. This year, 250 students did their school-leaving exams in Sanskrit. “A Sanskrit teacher had to work along with all the examiners of other subjects,” says Jain. But there are some positive offshoots too. Thanks to Sanskrit, Jhiri has re-discovered some lost technologies of irrigation, conservation and agriculture from the old scriptures. A siphon system of water recharging, for instance, resulted in uninterrupted water supply through the year in the fields. Small check-dams, wells and irrigation facilities followed. “It is matter of pride for us to retrieve these old techniques from the scriptures. With no help from the government and without using any artificial systems, we’ve reaped great benefits,” says Uday Singh Chauhan, president of the Vidya Gram Vikash Samity, which runs development programmes in the village. But Jhiri's pride stops at Sanskrit. The first doctor, engineer, economist, scientist or linguist is yet to walk out from it. After finishing school, most village youth join a political party. Electricity is a matter of luxury, so is sanitation. Even the school does not have a toilet, which is the single biggest reason for girls dropping out at the senior secondary level. The average age of marriage for women is 14. Even Panna, who was thinking of doing her PhD, had to give in to the wishes of the wise men of Jhiri who got her married to the other schoolteacher, Balaprasad Tiwari. There is no public transport; an Internet connection is unimaginable. Jhiri desperately needs to connect to the rest of the world, to explore its infinite possibilities, to grow. But Jhiri is still a success story, especially when you consider that a similar experiment, started a
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Debate
On Sep 26, 2008, at 11:10 PM, Bhairitu wrote: What are other's take? Obama came across as more intelligent, being able to rise to the occasion with savvy and insight, whereas McCain's responses were formulaic and relied on story telling rather than substance. Clearly McCains strong suit was anything having to do with war mongering where he was clearly in his own element; however I took that as a bad thing, not a good thing. We don't need a maverick frat-boy front-man for the Military Industrial Complex again (who may be a wife-beater as well). His consciousness seems brimming with negative emotion which he can barely contain. We don't need it spilling over on us and the planet. When McCain brought up Reagan and Betrayus (many times) I wish Obama would have at least pointed out that Reagan is the source of our current economic meltdown. But of course he would have risked alienating the Conservs/Repubs whose level of consciousness is often on par with someone in the throes of early Alzheimer's.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How one lone guy in front of a computer may change the election
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Billy, Shemp, and Raunchydog all posted the same link! Great minds think alike... Wouldn't you need a mind for that? :-) Judy would have posted the link, too, had she not shot her angry wad in two days. Er, no, I wouldn't have. Instead, I would have pointed out (as I am now doing) that the entire premise of the video--that the Community Reinvestment Act is responsible for the current meltdown--is in serious error. It's the latest attempt by Republicans to scramble out from under responsibility for the crisis. Not surprisingly, the facts don't support them. (Note that Barry doesn't have Clue One about *why* the video is nonsense.) First of all, the CRA was instituted in 1977, but subprime mortgages didn't become a fad until 2004, at a point when lending under CRA had slowed substantially (and, albeit probably incidentally, after the Bush administration had weakened CRA). Second, around 80 percent of the risky loans were made either not under CRA or only partially under it; mortgage lenders not under CRA made subprime loans at twice the rate of those that were governed by it. The underlying causes of the crisis were the greed of unscrupulous lenders, the reckless packaging of these risky loans for reselling as high-return investments, and the refusal of Republicans to allow regulation of Wall Street as its well-being became increasingly dependent on making ever more money on garbage. (Actually, subprime loans were only the *trigger* for the meltdown. It wasn't just those loans that were unsound, it was the entire structure within which the investment banks were operating. It was a house of cards, and once the subprime card was pulled out, the rest started to collapse as well.) For details and links: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles? article=did_liberals_cause_the_subprime_crisis http://tinyurl.com/3sjcfj It's just the latest incarnation of The Only Thing They've Got To Post. You know the one: This new (Wright/Ayers/ lipstick/whatever...pick one) scandal will be the one that brings Obama down. And then you'll all be hurting and you'll have to come crawling to us and admit that we were RIGHT and you were WRONG. We rule and you are all REEELLY REEELLY STOOOPID. Actually, the RLY RLY STPID is owned by Barry here. In other words, it's Just More Self-Importance Fantasy on their parts, is *just* as important as they are, and has as much substance as they have. Big zero, in all three columns. Except for Barry, of course, who practically breaks a blood vessel trying to get readers not to take us seriously, and whose brain seizes up so badly from the pressure that he is incapable of saying anything substantive about what we post (or, frequently, mischaracterizes our positions so wildly that it's obvious the red haze through which he reads our posts keeps him from having any idea what we're actually saying). Angry people need things to be angry about. Indeed. For Barry, it's whatever the people he doesn't like happen to post. What's particularly funny is that raunchydog is playing him like a fiddle. Half of what she posts is designed to get him riled up so he spouts off with yet another of his furious rants--the very tactic he claims *he* uses. But he's incapable of recognizing it when it's used against *him*. They like videos like this because 1) they pander to their fantasies that people on FFL (or anywhere) are actually taking them seriously 2) the links give them something to post, since they can't think up anything on their own, and 3) cutting and pasting Other People's Thoughts is the closest they can come to thought. Note again that Barry has no thoughts of his own about the substance of the video.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Meanwhile, back in the real world...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sitting about a kilometer from the ex-pat cafe I was sitting at before. The conversation there about the US Presidential debate died after a mere 15 minutes. It's understandable. It's a sunny but cool day in Sitges. There is a strong wind coming in from North Africa, and there are bare breasts on the beach. Life is good. Why would one want to sit in a cafe and debate a debate taking place in a country where life *isn't* good? Perhaps, if one were paying attention, because what happens in the U.S. will inevitably have an effect on how good one's blissful life in Sitges remains. Similarly, on a fine September day such as this, why should the residents of a country where life is good a *lot* waste time talking about American politics? It would be like sitting on the rim of the Grand Canyon gazing out at the wonder and talking about the sani- tation workers' strike back in New York and how garbage is piling up in the streets. The difference is that in this case, there's enough garbage piling up to fill the Grand Canyon to overflowing; it's already pouring into the bottom of the canyon. It hasn't yet risen high enough to get in the way of the view at the top, but it will soon.
[FairfieldLife] Women say temple gurus made sexual advances
BARSANA DHAM TEMPLE Women say temple gurus made sexual advances Religious group denies accounts of intimate contact with two spiritual leaders. By Eric Dexheimer AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Saturday, September 27, 2008 Because of a history of reader response that overwhelmingly violated our standards for appropriate commentary, we have removed the option to post reactions to this story. — The Editors Sexual advances from the two spiritual gurus of the Barsana Dham temple were a part of life for some women who lived on, or frequently visited, the ashram south of Austin, according to the recollections of five women who spent a collective 60 years living, working and worshipping at the Hindu temple. The intimate contact between the gurus — Prakashanand Saraswati, known as Shree Swamiji, and his spiritual master, Maharajji Kripalu, also called Kripalu — and some women on the ashram was known and accepted among other devotees, added the women, who all said they experienced the advances firsthand. Many of the incidents they recounted occurred years before: The latest with Prakashanand was a decade ago; with Kripalu, in 2003. All of the women have since quit the organization. The organization did not make the gurus available for comment. But temple representatives vigorously denied the accusations, suggesting they were part of an orchestrated plan to disparage the organization by disgruntled ex-devotees. Ashram director Kathleen Williams called the women's recollections preposterous and insisted that the incidents did not happen. The women's claims come five months after Prakashanand was indicted in Hays County on 20 counts of indecency with a child, and a little over a year after Kripalu was charged with rape in the West Indies country of Trinidad and Tobago. The charges against Kripalu were later dropped for lack of evidence. The charges against Prakashanand, filed in April, stem from incidents in 1993 and 1995, according to a Hays County grand jury indictment, in which two women accused the guru of repeatedly groping them when they were teenagers living at the Austin ashram. He has pleaded not guilty. Peter Spiegel, another ashram director, said the allegations by the five women were ignited by the recent headlines and were from a small group of people attempting to disrupt Barsana Dham. I've never seen Swamiji do anything remotely related to these false allegations, he said. Maharajji Kripalu is always surrounded by multiple people. I've never heard anybody make any claim of sexual impropriety. I believe these allegations are complete fabrications. In recent years, Prakashanand, who travels widely, has visited the Austin ashram four or five times a year, staying for two weeks to a month at a time. He was last in Austin a month ago. Kripalu keeps a home in a temple in Mangarh, in central India. He was last at the Austin ashram in spring 2007. The women who spoke to the American-Statesman requested anonymity because they feared reprisal from the Hindu organization. The paper typically does not publish the names of people alleging sexual exploitation. Some of the behavior described by the women would not be considered criminal because it occurred between consenting adults. A few of the incidents might have been considered assaults, although the statute of limitations has since passed in most of the cases. Texas law also includes a provision in which a clergyman can be charged for having sex with someone by exploiting the other person's emotional dependency on the clergyman in the clergyman's professional character as spiritual adviser, although it is unclear if that would apply in these instances. One woman, today a California resident, said she tried to interest lawyers in her story. But because the incident she recalled occurred in India and there was no physical evidence, she said she couldn't find an attorney to represent her. Barsana Dham is part of a larger Hindu organization called Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat, or JKP, that was founded around Kripalu, who is considered God-realized, or a living, saint by his followers. It claims tens of thousands of followers and has a half-dozen large temples, all, except for Barsana Dham, in India. Barsana Dham is one of the largest Hindu worship centers in the United States. Hundreds of worshippers, many drawn from Central Texas' South Asian community, attend weekly services. Major Hindu festivals can attract thousands of people to the site. The women who spoke to the Statesman represent a small subset of that membership. Part of an inner circle that typically lived at the ashram and spent many hours on-site praying and performing volunteer service for the organization, they had regular contact with the gurus when the men were there. At Barsana Dham, the vast majority of people in this group are not Indian. Barsana Dham
[FairfieldLife] 'Elitist McCain Couldn't Look at his Opponent'
Mr. military didn't even have the guts or the humanly respect to even look at Senator Obama, in the debate last night. No wonder he doesn't want to talk to anyone who doesn't agree with him. He has the same dictatorial tendencies of Bush. We definitely don't need another Bush. No more Bush. No more elitist military madness. R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: http://tinyurl.com/4mcyt5 FYI Bots! Have fun ranting about this one! So why aren't Bush and McCain shouting this from the rooftops? Because it's worse nonsense than even they are willing to spout.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The lesson of FFL -- there is no such thing as 'reality'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip What might 'really' be there has nothing whatsoever to do with what people see in the world and in their scriptures and in the figures they overidentify with. The only thing it seems that people are *capable* of seeing is what they want to see. Fer shure, and this post is an excellent example. In recent days we've seen seen some here look at Barack Obama and see only a lying, evil terrorist, while they look at the Abomination From Alaska and see only a poor, victimized woman. snip We've seen John McCain called a hero while acting like an abject coward In fact, nobody except Barry has seen ANY OF THE ABOVE on this forum. The only sense I can make of all this is that 'reality,' as comforting a notion as it might be, doesn't really exist. Everybody sees things the way they bloody well see them. They bring their pre-existing beliefs and prejudices to the table, smear them all over a clean pair of rose-colored glasses like Vaseline, and then peer through the gooey haze at the world and declare what they see 'reality.' Everybody *does* see things differently. But this, of course, doesn't mean reality doesn't really exist; it just means that nobody sees it with perfect clarity. The layers of Vaseline on different people's glasses are of varying thicknesses. For some, it's just a very thin film, so what they see is a lot closer to reality than those with a heavier layer. However, a few people's glasses are smeared so heavily with Vaseline as to be completely opaque. They're incapable of seeing *any* of reality and have to make it all up. This is *supposedly* a forum composed of long-term spiritual seekers, people who -- one way or another -- have been pursuing knowledge or happiness or enlight- enment or *something* for decades. And yet the posters here don't seem to me to display any more clarity in their perceptions of the world or any less bigotry, hatred, and violence in the way they interact with that world than anyone on a non-spiritual forum. Bear in mind that the person for whom this seems to be true is also the one who saw things of which there is no record in the archives. So we need to take that into account when we consider whether what seems to be the case for him has any relationship to reality. It doesn't seem to occur to him that *his* clarity of perception may be far more blurred than that of the rest of us. Or as my grandmother used to say, channeling folks like Barry: Everybody's crazy but me and thee, Samanthy, and sometimes I think even *thee* is a little strange. snip
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Perhaps one day she'll realize that her beloved Hillary was a very poor candidate who didn't deserve to win. Hillary is like a woman who entered a 10K road race, was given a 5K start, and still managed to lose the race. Quite an achievement. Too funny. Anything to try to obscure the fact that Hillary got 18 million votes in the primary, half the Democratic voters. The Obamazoids have to fantasize that she was a very poor candidate or that she failed miserably, as poor Barry keeps claiming. I think it was mainstream who said in another recent post that the Democratic Party did everything it could to help her win!
[FairfieldLife] Using shame vs. offering benefit
From the blog Anglachel's Journal: When Democratic women say The Obama camp has run a sexist, mysogynistic campaign, we are told we're wrong, no such thing, there was not any sexism there, except maybe some from Tweety [Chris Matthews of MSNBC]. When Democratic women say, No, it's not his race, it's his lack of commitment to the programs that matter to us, we are told that, no, we're all just racist bitches, and that it's our fault if he doesn't win. What does it mean to electoral outcomes if what we Democratic women are saying is simply true? That there is too much encouragement of and reliance upon misogyny as a campaign tactic? That our objections to this candidate really are based on rational economic self-interest, and are not due to his race? Using shame (shame of being female, shame of being racist) rather than offering benefit is a tactic that may intimidate some, and perhaps win some over who would rather be part of the pack that attacks than one who is attacked, but mostly it engenders resentment. It is nothing on which political solidarity can be founded. Hasn't the Democratic Party learned that it is not enough to run on I'm not [insert opponent here]? That was a losing argument against Nixon, Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. Shouting The other party is worse! does nothing to address the weaknesses and failings of our own. Put on top of that a very public contempt for the concerns of a large and (until now) unswervingly loyal constituency and this is a recipie [sic] for long term, nearly permanent loss of electoral power. I'll never vote Republican, but for the first time in my life, I feel no desire to vote Democrat, either. I've written reams of analysis of why the current election is shaping up the way it has and I may be wrong about my judgments on those things, but I know my own thoughts. When I say I won't vote for Obama after the revolting campaign he has run and because he doesn't have anything substantive to back him up, I mean exactly those two things, nothing more, nothing less. It's just the truth. http://anglachelg.blogspot.com/2008/09/and-if-its-truth.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: voting with the president 90% of the time
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps someone can explain this to me. How can one vote with the president on a particular bill? Other than signing a bill or giving it a veto, the president doesn't get to vote on a bill...so how does one determine whether one is voting with the president on a particular bill? Seems that the President is the leader of his political party; And the president wants legislation introduced which he will pass, and sign into law. Likewise the opposition party will attempt to introduce legislation, which the president can veto. If the oppostion party wants something passed, and the president vetos it, then they can go back and get 2/3 of the congress to pass it and override the presidents veto. The president sets the tone and the direction of the political party he represents and appropriate legislation follows. Like Reagan said 'Government is the Problem'... So, he proceeded to dismantle the government, and attempted to strip as much influence the government could have on regulating anything and everything. He gave our government over to military and corporate interests. Left up to Reagan or Bush or McCain, they would dismantle social security, or any other social program. They would put all the money into the military, to further the Empire, and transfer as much money as possible into the pockets of people that didn't need it, from the pockets of those that do need it. Instead of a government by and for the people, we have a government by and for the military and corporate America. R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Identity Theft, continued...the new C word
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To continue my musings about the dangers of identifying oneself (or one's self) overmuch with some political or spiritual figure, let's see how those who have been so vocal here in their defense of and support for John McCain and Sarah Palin look this morning. For weeks they have been spewing invective at Barack Obama while defending Palin and McCain and calling those who dare to ask them tough questions like Tell us why you're qualified names. For weeks they have tried to make their support of these two idiots look rational and talking tough, like their hero candidate and his gun-toting partner in lies. Barry would like you to think that his descriptions above include me. But they don't, of course. As usual, Barry's more interested in bashing than in being accurate. It isn't clear whether he knows what he says doesn't apply to me and just doesn't care, or whether he's ignored what I've actually been saying. For the record, although at this point it's absurd for me to even have to say it: I don't support either McCain or Palin. I think they're both perfectly ghastly candidates. But if you're going to go after them, make sure your criticisms are *accurate*. My approach to politics, as with other contentious areas of discussion, is to do my damndest to sort through the various perspectives to try to get to the truth (factual, that is). Most of the time, views at the extremes are simply not accurate, or at least can't be asserted with any certainty. There's frequently an other side. For example: And this morning? Well, it looks as if in McCain they chose to back (Note: The they here does not include me.) a full-blown COWARD. *Just* as he did in Vietnam, where his fellow prisoners called him a whiner and a coward and he himself admits to crying and considering suicide a lot, And yet when offered early release from the POW camp, he refused to take it because others who had been taken prisoner before him had not been released. It's pretty difficult to characterize that as cowardly, *especially* if what he'd had to go through was so bad that it made him consider suicide. when push comes to shove, what does hero McCain do? He bails. He tucks his tail between his legs and makes up an excuse and runs. And what exactly is it that he is running FROM? From having to debate his opponent, during which he's going to be asked to say what he is really for and what he has DONE during the last 26 years that didn't actually *cause* the crisis he's now using as an excuse to avoid a debate. As it turns out, he changed his mind and did the debate after all. In any case, he wasn't running from the debate. As it happens, he's pretty good at debates. Rather, he thought he'd gain some political advantage from appearing statesmanlike and bipartisan, putting aside politics to deal with a national crisis. Earlier in the day, Obama had made a play to gain himself some political advantage by asking McCain to make a joint statement with him about the bailout. Suspending his campaign to go to Washington and confer with the bailer-outers was McCain's attempt to neutralize the advantage Obama had taken with his play. And what of his running mate? Well, they're trying to bail *her* out of the debates as well. I guess her presence is needed in Washington, too. I'm thinking that the real reason is that she is another full-blown COWARD, as are all of the people who run the Republican campaign. They can't avoid having Palin participate in the vice-presidential debate. They'd be happy to have an excuse to postpone it if they can to give them more time to get her up to speed. (to the extent that's even possible), but at this point the debate is to be held as scheduled. Will the people of the United States see through the obfuscation and the excuses and the lies and send these two COWARDS back where they came from? That remains to be seen. One thing is certain, though. No one on this forum is going to have a lick of respect for any- one else on this forum who tries to make excuses for them. If they try, the C word applies to them, too. And Barry, ignoramus that he is, will no doubt attempt to cast what I said above about McCain as making an excuse for him. I'll wait till he does, then embarrass him by pointing out what he's missing.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How to figure out who won the debate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Mistakes matter, but only some of them. Probably the worst mistake in the Democratic primary debates was Hillary's famous non-answer to a question about drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants. But it wasn't a big mistake because people care deeply about the issue. (When is the last time you've heard driver's licenses mentioned on the campaign trail?) It was important because it fit into a pre-exisiting narrative about Hillary that had been developed by her opponents for some time. Namely, that Hillary is politically calculating and dishonest. Since it reinforced a pre-exisiting narrative it caused Hillary immense damage and sent the campaign into a tailspin from which it never fully recovered. During the next debate in Nevada, Obama was asked a similar question about drivers licenses for illegal immigrants and gave a similarly meandering answer. Yet, he paid no political price. The reason is simple: no one believed at the time that Obama was dishonest or politically calculating. So a mistake that was debilitating for Hillary was a non-issue for Obama. IMO, thats the classic struggle between not be swallowed by confirmational bias (automatically seeing what conforms to your POV, not seeing that which does not ) vs. identifying patterns and themes in what one observes -- and using such as a (partial) model of how things work. Both dynamics rely on filtering and 'lenses (of varying shades). The result of each dynamic is that one tends to give to some the benefit of the doubt -- to others you give far less. How to resolve and balance the two forces stay (more so) connected to truthiness? Particularly when the effects of these forces can be multi-layered and multi-dimensional. And each prone to be used as rationalizations for and against a given proposition. For me, its the regular reassessment and reassignment of probabilities as to the truthiness of a particular perception. For example, over the past month or more, McCain has managed to erase any and all memories of his 2000 campaign -- straight talk express an all -- with his series of lying, massively distorting and manipulative ads and ploys. Every time I see a lying, short-sighted, or clueless ad by McCain -- and then him (smirking?) I'm JM and I approve this ad -- I cannot deny the evidence right in my face: JM is a lying, opportunistic weasal (that clearly does not put country first and all such talk is shallow attempts at manipulation and oozing hypocricy.) The evidence is so clear, and so often repeated, its hard not to assess a pattern to such behavior -- and to make an assessment of his core character. And the having identified this pattern, its natural for a degree of confirmational bias to emerge. Or is it simply a filter that cuts through the BS? If I have to assess every JM statement for truthiness, from the gitgo, I will miss the overwhelming pattern. However, having seen the pattern, does the subsequent filtering of what he says cause distortion? The debate illustrated this dilemma. I found evidence that McCain was not as shallow, opportunistic and manipulative as his ads may suggest. Hardly a saint -- or a worthy candidate IMO, but still not as one dimensional as my internal model would predict. Constant reassessing and reassigning probabilities as new data emerges is towards a solution. But perhaps only for anal analyzers such as myself. How do others deal with balancing these two dynamics: confirmational bias and pattern seeking?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Using shame vs. offering benefit
(snip) Using shame (shame of being female, shame of being racist) rather than offering benefit is a tactic that may intimidate some, and perhaps win some over who would rather be part of the pack that attacks than one who is attacked, but mostly it engenders resentment. (snip) The really ironic thing her is that her husband Bill Clinton shamed Hillary more than anyone else could. His sexual addiction problem had him committing adultary with more woman than can be counted. And how could anyone be shamed more than he shamed her. But she went along with it, and even encouraged this kind of behaviour. Now we see McCain pick someone, not because of anything she has done, and not because of her experience; But simply because she is a woman, and he thought women are so stupid, that by just picking someone with the same genitiles would bring all the women on board. If that isn't partronizing than I don't know what is. Talk about wearing blinders. Might as well be deaf, dumb and blind. R.G.
[FairfieldLife] If Jesus Ran For President . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ1L4eeu5KI
[FairfieldLife] RIP Paul Newman
WESTPORT, Conn. - Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as Hud, Cool Hand Luke and The Color of Money and as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario has died. He was 83. Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends. More here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_newman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr0IeZXtMrA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqwYrbwHeM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qCPhah8ojQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730Q-baXOhE
[FairfieldLife] Re: If Jesus Ran For President . . .
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ1L4eeu5KI Thats a great one. Feed anything into the McCain / Rove attack machine and see, predictably, what you get. Evry time. While looking at above link, I saw and played this. Brilliant -- of sorts. OOH, seeing a believer poke holes in their non-christian religion seems so obvious -- for the mature viewer, it forces one to examine inconsistent religiously beliefs of their own family/cultures' faith (if any). The bad news -- for the immature viewer -- red state nation may have a high density quotient here -- such might conclude -- islam -- ha -- see its a total fraud -- unlike our true religion from our lord and savior. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_RaCTBZPtMfeature=related
[FairfieldLife] Re: Using shame vs. offering benefit
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) Using shame (shame of being female, shame of being racist) rather than offering benefit is a tactic that may intimidate some, and perhaps win some over who would rather be part of the pack that attacks than one who is attacked, but mostly it engenders resentment. (snip) The really ironic thing her is that her husband Bill Clinton shamed Hillary more than anyone else could. Uh, Robert, that would be a big fat non sequitur. Sorry you can't come up with a better response.
[FairfieldLife] Re: If Jesus Ran For President . . .
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ1L4eeu5KI Thats a great one. Feed anything into the McCain / Rove attack machine and see, predictably, what you get. Evry time. While looking at above link, I saw and played this. Brilliant -- of sorts. OOH, seeing a believer poke holes in their non-christian religion seems so obvious -- for the mature viewer, it forces one to examine inconsistent religiously beliefs of their own family/cultures' faith (if any). The bad news -- for the immature viewer -- red state nation may have a high density quotient here -- such might conclude -- islam -- ha -- see its a total fraud -- unlike our true religion from our lord and savior. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_RaCTBZPtMfeature=related Another good one (serial linking of videos -- one leads to another -- like kleenex) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTObJ9Iwd2Ufeature=related God Loves Me Best
[FairfieldLife] Obama's Baloney Bar
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/boloneyalert1.gif http://tinyurl.com/4c36qm The following was posted by Lea Lane on huffpo. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lea-lane/eat-crow-hell-yes-to-win_b_12671\ 2.html I Pass it on without comment since it speaks for itself Olivia Taylor-Young. Do Whatever You Must to Trick Former Hillary Supporters into Voting for Barack Eat Crow? Hell Yes, to Win This Election The Obama team is suddenly making a huge effort to gain women's votes, but many die-hard Hillary supporters dozens of my acquaintances remain bruised and confused. The fact that Palin is on the ticket when HRC wasn't even vetted may turn out to have been the major gaffe of Axelrod and Company, and the tipping point of this tight election. If you've been an outspoken Obama supporter from the beginning, it's time to make amends with Hillary supporters you know. Arguing with, or browbeating them to get on board is counterproductive, but showing you've come around to respecting Hillary may ease their hurt enough to do the trick. (Even if you don't mean it. This is politics.) Here's what you can do: Eat crow. To get started, memorize this phrase, take a deep breath and say: Now that I see how unqualified Sarah Palin is, I realize how I misjudged Hillary Clinton. Even Biden said she would have made a great vice president. Saying you wish she were the presidential nominee may go too far, and you may not be able to get it out. But if the Hillaryite brings it up, don't argue, and see below Let the HRC voter vent.You may have to draw on every bit of patience you have. You may have to hear once again how unfair it is that the Repubs chose Palin, and the Dems ignored Hillary, and that the party would assuredly be ahead if she were anywhere on the ticket. You may have to hear old-news complaints about sexism and Jack Cafferty's curmudgeonly comments, David Shuster's pimping Chelsea insult, the Monica mentions, the tougher debate questions for Hillary. Do not look like you want to run and soak your head in vodka, even if you do. Do not talk unless asked. Listening without argument is the major way to keep this potential voter attainable. Act empathic. Nod your head in agreement when the subject of Palin or Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann's Hillary-bashing commentary is mentioned. Learn these phrases and use them every so often: I imagine it must be hard. It must seem unfair. I know, you wanted to see an accomplished woman as president in your lifetime. I can understand your being hurt (sad, mad, furious, despondent, livid, resentful, apoplectic, intransigent, inconsolable, red-faced, nauseous, wretched, shit-faced). Again, do not argue. Just listen. Do not praise Obama.I know, this seems ridiculous, but now is not the time in this chain of events. Also, do not praise Michelle or their daughters. If the HRC supporter praises, agree and move on. This is not so much about Obama as it is the closure about Hillary's run, which remains a wound to some. Take a breath, and move to the next step, which may be the hardest. Praise HRC.Never mention her flaws. Be gracious and do not bring up her vote for the war, or her dirty campaign. Do not allude to Bill. Instead, try to find something you can praise with some conviction some version of By the end of the campaign I could understand why people were so enthusiastic about Senator Clinton (not Hillary). I saw her toughness, her brains, her heart. She is gracious and helpful in defeat. And especially, Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton. You may have to go back to steps one and two. Nobody said this would be easy. Know your anti-female McCain political facts.Here comes the logic. Make a cheat-sheet if necessary. If Palin can get past her ignorance about The Bush Doctrine and the Constitution in prime time, you can learn these few talking points. Remind HRC supporters that several Supreme Court nominees (and Roe v Wade) are in the balance. Discuss McCain/Palin's ultra-conservative record, and stands on right- to- life, guns, creationism, you name it. You'll need to do some homework here. Wikipedia and Google are there for you at all times. Know your anti-female McCain emotional facts. If the above doesn't do it, remain low-key, with a pleasant visage. Remind HRC supporters that McCain left his disfigured first wife who waited loyally for him and raised their children alone, to have an affair with Cindy, the current, rich, much younger wife. But aha, continuing this behavior, he probably cheated on this trophy with blonde lobbyist, Vicky Isenman. (Where is this woman? In a rendition prison in Syria till after the election? Hello, National Enquirer.) Remind the Hillary fan that McCain called his $300k-suited trophy wife the C- word in public, and has a notoriously terrible temper. And worst of all, and leave this for the climax of this entire exercise: McCain publicly laughed at the allusion to HRC as a bitch and lowest of the low made that public
[FairfieldLife] Re: Using shame vs. offering benefit
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: (snip) Using shame (shame of being female, shame of being racist) rather than offering benefit is a tactic that may intimidate some, and perhaps win some over who would rather be part of the pack that attacks than one who is attacked, but mostly it engenders resentment. (snip) The really ironic thing her is that her husband Bill Clinton shamed Hillary more than anyone else could. Uh, Robert, that would be a big fat non sequitur. Sorry you can't come up with a better response. I sur don't know what a non seequweeter is -- sounds like some hi falutin words that some fancy elist might use --- but there is something mighty strange in the logic BillyBob uses here. Out here in the real america, where there are real women -- they don't get shamed by no philandering husband. Everyone knows hes the shithead. Making it all about the wife -- well thats shear hoccum pig shit.
[FairfieldLife] Re: voting with the president 90% of the time
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: Perhaps someone can explain this to me. How can one vote with the president on a particular bill? Other than signing a bill or giving it a veto, the president doesn't get to vote on a bill...so how does one determine whether one is voting with the president on a particular bill? It was very obvious during the bush admin. esp the 6 yrs the republicans controlled everything where bush stood on each bill. in many cases the legislative office within the white house actually wrote the bill for the republican committees in congress and in all cases during the time the congressional leadership did nothing without approval from that office. bush certainly didn't sign into law any bill that he wouldn't have voted for during that time, and since dems came into power bush has been very clear how he feels about he bill he signs.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Using shame vs. offering benefit
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: (snip) Using shame (shame of being female, shame of being racist) rather than offering benefit is a tactic that may intimidate some, and perhaps win some over who would rather be part of the pack that attacks than one who is attacked, but mostly it engenders resentment. (snip) The really ironic thing her is that her husband Bill Clinton shamed Hillary more than anyone else could. Uh, Robert, that would be a big fat non sequitur. Sorry you can't come up with a better response. I sur don't know what a non seequweeter is -- sounds like some hi falutin words that some fancy elitist might use --- but there is something mighty strange in the logic BillyBob uses here. Out here in the real america, where there are real women -- they don't get shamed by no philandering husband. Everyone knows hes the shithead. Making it all about the wife -- well thats shear hoccum pig shit.
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi's talks from 1960's - MP3 Audios
Forwarded from a friend: Maharishi's talks from the 1960's - MP3 Audios These MP3 audio files of Maharishi's Talks from the 1960's are only available for a few days and the number of downloads that can be made is limited. So, if you would like these files, please download and save them to your hard drive as soon as possible. Maharishi and Tat Wale Baba speaking in Rishikesh 1969. https://rcpt.yousendit.com/609326516/97b14be17b3bfe1ec7ab5d1e4a019bcdhttps://rcpt.yousendit.com/609326516/97b14be17b3bfe1ec7ab5d1e4a019bcd Maharishi on the 108 Names of Guru Dev https://rcpt.yousendit.com/608935972/df5ac91ff79de2ebfd8e8a4645bb9e40https://rcpt.yousendit.com/608935972/df5ac91ff79de2ebfd8e8a4645bb9e40 JAYA GURU DEVA
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama's Baloney Bar
Although this piece is tongue-in-cheek, it confirms the worst stereotypes of what women are like. When they get their poor little feelings hurt because their girl lost, you are supposed to stroke them and comfort them until they feel better. If you don't they go on threatening to do something mean and spiteful, even though it is against their own interests and what they declare they believe in. (They're so irrational, the poor dears!) Women are, in short, very odd creatures, but I guess we're just stuck with them. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/boloneyalert1.gif http://tinyurl.com/4c36qm The following was posted by Lea Lane on huffpo. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lea-lane/eat-crow-hell-yes-to-win_b_12671\ 2.html I Pass it on without comment since it speaks for itself Olivia Taylor-Young. Do Whatever You Must to Trick Former Hillary Supporters into Voting for Barack Eat Crow? Hell Yes, to Win This Election The Obama team is suddenly making a huge effort to gain women's votes, but many die-hard Hillary supporters dozens of my acquaintances remain bruised and confused. The fact that Palin is on the ticket when HRC wasn't even vetted may turn out to have been the major gaffe of Axelrod and Company, and the tipping point of this tight election. If you've been an outspoken Obama supporter from the beginning, it's time to make amends with Hillary supporters you know. Arguing with, or browbeating them to get on board is counterproductive, but showing you've come around to respecting Hillary may ease their hurt enough to do the trick. (Even if you don't mean it. This is politics.) Here's what you can do: Eat crow. To get started, memorize this phrase, take a deep breath and say: Now that I see how unqualified Sarah Palin is, I realize how I misjudged Hillary Clinton. Even Biden said she would have made a great vice president. Saying you wish she were the presidential nominee may go too far, and you may not be able to get it out. But if the Hillaryite brings it up, don't argue, and see below Let the HRC voter vent.You may have to draw on every bit of patience you have. You may have to hear once again how unfair it is that the Repubs chose Palin, and the Dems ignored Hillary, and that the party would assuredly be ahead if she were anywhere on the ticket. You may have to hear old-news complaints about sexism and Jack Cafferty's curmudgeonly comments, David Shuster's pimping Chelsea insult, the Monica mentions, the tougher debate questions for Hillary. Do not look like you want to run and soak your head in vodka, even if you do. Do not talk unless asked. Listening without argument is the major way to keep this potential voter attainable. Act empathic. Nod your head in agreement when the subject of Palin or Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann's Hillary-bashing commentary is mentioned. Learn these phrases and use them every so often: I imagine it must be hard. It must seem unfair. I know, you wanted to see an accomplished woman as president in your lifetime. I can understand your being hurt (sad, mad, furious, despondent, livid, resentful, apoplectic, intransigent, inconsolable, red-faced, nauseous, wretched, shit-faced). Again, do not argue. Just listen. Do not praise Obama.I know, this seems ridiculous, but now is not the time in this chain of events. Also, do not praise Michelle or their daughters. If the HRC supporter praises, agree and move on. This is not so much about Obama as it is the closure about Hillary's run, which remains a wound to some. Take a breath, and move to the next step, which may be the hardest. Praise HRC.Never mention her flaws. Be gracious and do not bring up her vote for the war, or her dirty campaign. Do not allude to Bill. Instead, try to find something you can praise with some conviction some version of By the end of the campaign I could understand why people were so enthusiastic about Senator Clinton (not Hillary). I saw her toughness, her brains, her heart. She is gracious and helpful in defeat. And especially, Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton. You may have to go back to steps one and two. Nobody said this would be easy. Know your anti-female McCain political facts.Here comes the logic. Make a cheat-sheet if necessary. If Palin can get past her ignorance about The Bush Doctrine and the Constitution in prime time, you can learn these few talking points. Remind HRC supporters that several Supreme Court nominees (and Roe v Wade) are in the balance. Discuss McCain/Palin's ultra-conservative record, and stands on right- to- life, guns, creationism, you name it. You'll need to do some homework here. Wikipedia and Google are there for you at all times. Know your anti-female McCain emotional facts. If the above doesn't do it, remain low-key, with a pleasant visage. Remind HRC supporters that
[FairfieldLife] Flash Flaws -- Any Insights?
My Flash player gets easily corrupted (I know - its prolly the porn). But almost daily, u-tube and other videos run on Flash stop playing. No sound. And usually the video just freezes. The temp fix is to re-install Flash. Tht takes 10 seconds. But to do that, I have to shut donw Foxfire, And with 30 tabs open -- it does take some time to reload. So, not the biggest problem in the world -- but does anyone have similar experience -- and / or have a more permanent solution?
[FairfieldLife] Re: How to figure out who won the debate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip For me, its the regular reassessment and reassignment of probabilities as to the truthiness of a particular perception. For the record, truthiness (as popularized by Stephen Colbert) doesn't mean the quality of truth; rather, it means something you're sure you know without reference to facts or logic. snip Constant reassessing and reassigning probabilities as new data emerges is towards a solution. But perhaps only for anal analyzers such as myself. How do others deal with balancing these two dynamics: confirmational bias and pattern seeking? I read as wide a range of opinion as I can manage. Typically, each person who voices an opinion will have some set of facts and/or exercise in logic to back it up, so the more different opinions you read, the more facts and logical exercises you accumulate. Then you try to come up with an interpretation of those facts and logical exercises that's consistent with all of it (while ignoring the opinions per se, because they're based on only one portion of the facts and logic).
[FairfieldLife] Re: Racist White Democrats may cost Obama the White House
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip You're falling for the good/evil dualistic dichotomy. I'm talking about an energy signature which is neither good nor evil on either side, because 1) such simplis- tic distinctions don't exist, and because 2) all beings are a complex *mix* of energies of all sorts. snip It's just that Obama's energy mix is more intelli- gent than McCain's, by a long shot. That provides people with an opportunity to see which energy they identify with more -- intelligence or idiocy. horselaugh Nothing dualistic or simplistic about Barry's thinking, nosiree bob! snip In short, Obama represents the culmination of the struggle of the American people for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Anything less is slavery and servitude in more ways than one. I could not agree more. And interestingly, isn't it fascinating to see who on this forum literally hates the man, no matter how much they try to disguise it? Somebody ask Barry when he got the siddhi to discern who literally hates and who does not. Without exception, the posters on this forum who dislike Obama intensely are unhappy people, with a track record of trying their damnedest to make other people as unhappy as they are. Hands, please: Who else believes those of us who dislike Obama are unhappy people? Let's find out who they are by the response that you get. You mean after Barry has done his level best (but failed miserably) to try to make us as unhappy as he is? You mean like a homosexual calling a straight guy a homosexual and thinking that it's an insult? :-) Is that anything like calling straight women homosexuals and thinking it's an insult? THAT is what I'm talking about with regard to the clash of energies. It's not a good vs. evil thang; it's an intelligence vs. stupidity thang. No one who is the least bit intelligent (or sane) is going to go around insulting other people by insinuating that they're *just like them*. I don't think anybody ever suggested you were a straight woman, Barry.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ok...there IS one area in which Indians are smarter than Americans
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: Especially during a financial meltdown: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece Let's do the math, shall we? Because of the mismanagement of scores of CEOs of financial companies, the Bush administration is now proposing a 700-billion-dollar bailout package to essentially *reward* these same CEOs and say, We're going to pretend you didn't fuck up and ruin the economy...here's some free money. But the money isn't free, and it isn't theirs. It's YOURS, you taxpayers in America. And 700 billion dollars translates to approximately 2,333 dollars for each man, woman, and child in the United States. (If I did the math right.) Barry means, If I read the hundreds of Google entries mentioning the $2,333 figure right. The people who *caused* this financial meltdown are not only going to get away Scot-free, they're going to get away rich. While YOU and your children pony up $2,333 each so that they can do it. Isn't about bloody time that a few people dragged these CEO sumbitches into an alley and kicked the crap out of them, before throwing them into prison where they'll be raped daily for the next 20 years, the same way they've been raping 300,000,000 Americans? Americans are *livid*, FYI. You can't have been paying much attention if you aren't aware of that. For example, from the NYT: Americans' anger is in full bloom, jumping off the screen in capital letters and exclamation points, in the e-mail in-boxes of elected representatives in the nation's capital. I am hoping Congress can find the backbone to stand on their feet and not their knees before BIG BUSINESS, one correspondent wrote to Representative Jim McDermott of Washington. I'd rather leave a better world to my children NOT A BANKRUPT NATION. Whew! Pardon my shouting, wrote another. Mr. McDermott is a liberal Democrat, but his e-mail messages look a lot like the ones that Representative Candice S. Miller, a conservative Republican from Michigan, is receiving. NO BAILOUT, I am a registered republican, one constituent wrote. I will vote and campaign hard against you if we have to subsidize the very people that have sold out MY COUNTRY Around the country, Republican and Democratic voters are rising up in outright opposition to the White House plan or, at the very least, to express concern that it is being pushed through Congress in haste Read more: http://tinyurl.com/3j7rtk Unfortunately, most of them seem to be too consumed by their anger (or, in Barry's case, their Schadenfreude) to realize that punitive measures *at this point* will make a bailout plan unworkable--because it depends on cooperation from these very same CEO sumbitches--and the economy's subsequent collapse (not just the U.S. economy but the global economy) will make them *wish* they'd gone for the $2,333, or even CNET's inflated figure of $17+K. IF we can pull the economy back from the edge of the cliff--and that's a BIG IF--then we can start thinking about how to punish those responsible for the meltdown. In the meantime, congressional Democrats are doing pretty well in revising the plan to include provisions that will make it less damaging to the taxpayers. Paulson's original draft of the bill was never intended to be its final form, as far too many hysterical, uninformed people seem to think. And word has leaked from the FBI that it has opened fraud investigations into the practices of the firms that have figured most prominently in the crisis. Plus which, the $700 billion figure was never meant to be an amount that would be disbursed permanently. The whole idea is for the gummint to be able to resell what it purchases once it can be valued. What's been choking up the markets is that nobody knows what these assets are really worth. The bailout should put a value on them and greatly reduce the uncertainty that has put a disastrous hold on credit. If the bailout is successful, the cost to taxpayers is likely to be closer to $100 billion than $700 billion. Nothing to sneeze at, but cheap compared to the systemic deadly global pneumonia that will ensue otherwise. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/business/24leonhardt.html? _r=1hporef=slogin http://tinyurl.com/544nne
[FairfieldLife] Gondoliers for Obama
I can't share their enthusiasm, but gee whiz, they're charming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25jhBVaiQw0
[FairfieldLife] Molly Atkinson - auto accident
Hello all, Molly had an auto accident last evening at about 5:30. She suffered a broken neck, various other bone fractures, lacerations, internal injuries, etc. She was airlifted to the UI Hospitals where a team of doctors has been working on her all night. She was conscious at the scene of the accident and told the police how to reach Frank Pinto. She was conscious when she arrived at the hospital. Frank, Sue I have been at the Surgical Intensive Care Unit waiting all night. The doctors let us see her at 6:30am. She's stable, heavily sedated, and appears to be sleeping deeply. The doctors say she is conscious and responding to their instructions. Because of her broken neck, the doctors have been concerned about spinal cord injury. They have her in traction to realign the cervical vertebrae. I was told that she had lost sensation in her lower body Sue I returned to Fairfield just now. We may return to Iowa City when Evan and Willow arrive at 3pm from California. Please pass this on to people who may know her, and keep Molly in your prayers. Arthur Atkinson 641/472-3666 641-919-3979 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[FairfieldLife] He Used His Fame to Give Away His Fortune
Paul Newman He used his fame to give away his fortune. By Dahlia Lithwick Posted Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008 The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp opened in Connecticut in 1988 to provide a summer camping experiencefishing, tie-dye, ghost stories, s'moresfor seriously ill children. By 1989, when I started working there as a counselor, virtually everyone on staff would tell some version of the same story: Paul Newman, who had founded the camp when it became clear his little salad-dressing lark was accidentally going to earn him millions, stops by for one of his not-infrequent visits. He plops down at a table in the dining hall next to some kid with leukemia, or HIV, or sickle cell anemia, and starts to eat lunch. One version of the story has the kid look from the picture of Newman on the Newman's Own lemonade carton to Newman himself, then back to the carton and back to Newman again before asking, Are you lost? Another version: The kid looks steadily at him and demands, Are you really Paul Human? Newman loved those stories. He loved to talk about the little kids who had no clue who he was, this friendly old guy who kept showing up at camp to take them fishing. While their counselors stammered, star- struck, the campers indulged Newman the way they'd have indulged a particularly friendly hospital blood technician. It took me years to understand why Newman loved being at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. It was for precisely the same reason these kids did. When the campers showed up, they became regular kids, despite the catheters and wheelchairs and prosthetic legs. And when Newman showed up, he was a regular guy with blue eyes, despite the Oscar and the racecars and the burgeoning marinara empire. The most striking thing about Paul Newman was that a man who could have blasted through his life demanding Have you any idea who I am? invariably wanted to hang out with folksoften little oneswho neither knew nor cared. For his part, Newman put it all down to luck. In his 1992 introduction to our book about the camp, he tried to explain what impelled him to create the Hole in the Wall: I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it. Married to Joanne Woodward, his second wife, for 50 years this winter, Newman always looked at her like something he'd pulled out of a Christmas stocking. He looked at his daughters that way, too. It was like, all these years later, he couldn't quite believe he got to keep them. Of course, it wasn't all luck. He lost his son, Scott, to a drug overdose in 1978, so in 1980, he founded the Scott Newman Center, which works to prevent substance abuse. When he first began to donate 100 percent of the proceeds from his food company, Newman's Own, to charity, critics accused him of grandiosity. Grandiose? Tell that to the recipients of the quarter-billion dollars he's given away since the company's creation in 1982. First Paul Newman made fresh, healthy food cool, then he and his daughter Nell made organic food cool. Then he went and made corporate giving cool by establishing the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. And all this was back in the '90s, before Lance Armstrong bracelets and organic juice boxes. But Newman never stopped believing he was a regular guy who'd simply been blessed, and well beyond what was fair. So he just kept on paying it forward. He appreciated great ideas for doing good in the worldhe collected them the way other people collect their own press clippingsand he didn't care where they came from. Whether you were a college kid, a pediatric oncologist, or a Hollywood tycoon, if you had a nutty plan to make life better for someone, he'd write the check himself or hook you up with somebody who would. Today there are 11 camps modeled on the Hole in the Wall all around the world, and seven more in the works, including a camp in Hungary and one opening next year in the Middle East. Each summer of the four I spent at Newman's flagship Connecticut camp was a living lesson in how one man can change everything. Terrified parents would deliver their wan, weary kid at the start of the session with warnings and cautions and lists of things not to be attempted. They'd return 10 days later to find the same kid, tanned and bruisey, halfway up a tree or canon-balling into the deep end of the pool. Their wigs or prosthetic armsprops of years spent trying to fit inwere forgotten in the duffel under the bed. Shame, stigma, fear, worry, all vaporized by a few days of being ordinary. In an era in which nearly everyone feels entitled to celebrity and fortune, Newman was always suspicious of both. He used his fame to give away his fortune, and he did that from some unspoken Zen-like conviction that neither had
[FairfieldLife] Re: Possibly the greatest political ad ever!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, geezerfreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://thegreatschlep.com/site/index.html (i love sarah silverman!) FWIW, Blacks and Jews created the Blues! wink, wink
[FairfieldLife] Letter to NY Times -- Root of Housing Crisis
Regarding: Housing Help by Chris Mayer Published: September 26, 2008 I strongly disagree with Mayer's view that the first step to solve the current financial crisis should be to reduce mortgage interest rates. low interest rates have been the root of the crisis: a massive lowering of interest rates and infusion of excess money into the financial system. The result was not a mystery -- strong inflation in the housing sector, a drastic overpricing of housing relative to fundamentals, an over-investment in housing stock, and worst -- locking millions out of the housing market -- mostly have-nots -- young, first time buyers. Towards a solution is not to repeat the cause of the crisis by lowering rates again. The solution will include letting housing prices re-align with the fundamentals (income, rents and mortgage costs) -- and opening the housing market to millions -- currently shut out by policies that created and are sustaining massively mis-priced housing assets. === Article === Housing Help By CHRIS MAYER Published: September 26, 2008 At the heart of the financial crisis is an unprecedented decline in house prices. Yet the government response so far has been to try to prop up insolvent financial institutions while doing nothing about the underlying housing problem. The proposed Wall Street bailout would not stop the next wave of defaults, which are coming from the rapidly rising delinquencies in near-prime mortgages. The government needs to directly stabilize the housing market. This is equivalent to treating the infection with antibiotics, instead of applying a cold compress for the fever. Both the fever and the infection need treating. The first step should be to reduce mortgage interest rates. In a normal mortgage market, rates are about 1.6 percentage points above the interest rate for 10-year Treasury notes. Recently, the difference has been closer to 2.5 percentage points. The government is in a great position to cut rates by about a point: Through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration, it now controls nearly 90 percent of all mortgage originations. These lower rates would apply to most home buyers who take out a loan under $729,750 for a house that they will live in. Along with lower rates, the government should provide temporary down-payment assistance for buyers. The government could, for example, match the amount of money that buyers use for a down payment, up to $15,000. Because the government now controls the bulk of all mortgage financing, this money could be provided directly at closing. Homeowners who refinance their current mortgages could also receive assistance, allowing them to avoid foreclosure. Programs like these would draw buyers into the housing market and reduce the backlog of unsold and vacant homes. Investors and speculators would be ineligible and would face the full cost of their mistakes. By stabilizing house prices, these programs would benefit the bulk of Americans, who own a home but did not get involved in the subprime mortgage market. Price stability would more directly achieve the goals of the Wall Street bailout: increase the value of mortgage-backed securities (by increasing the value of the underlying houses) while injecting government capital into the financial system. Some in Congress have suggested allowing homeowners to go to bankruptcy court to lower their mortgage payments. But this would only make credit more expensive by reducing the willingness of companies to lend money. It would also worsen the current problems by letting bankruptcy judges reduce mortgage balances imposing even greater losses on the owners of the mortgages, whose problems are at the heart of the financial crisis. Such a program would also be limited to only the most indebted and, in some cases, financially irresponsible homeowners. Some might argue that propping up house prices is what got us into this mess. But with the recent decline in house prices, my calculations suggest that the cost of owning a home today, relative to renting, is about 10 percent lower than its average over the past 20 years. The credit crisis will not be over until house prices stop falling. Direct assistance for home buyers and homeowners is the best, and the fairest, way to make that happen. Chris Mayer is a professor of real estate and the senior vice dean of Columbia Business School.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Flash Flaws -- Any Insights?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Flash player gets easily corrupted (I know - its prolly the porn). But almost daily, u-tube and other videos run on Flash stop playing. No sound. And usually the video just freezes. The temp fix is to re-install Flash. Tht takes 10 seconds. But to do that, I have to shut donw Foxfire, And with 30 tabs open -- it does take some time to reload. So, not the biggest problem in the world -- but does anyone have similar experience -- and / or have a more permanent solution? The issue may not be related to Flash per se but to its sensitivity to available memory. The clue may be in your mention of 30 tabs open. Every time you open a tab, Firefox assigns an area of memory to it; no other application can use that area of memory. And an interesting flaw in Firefox is that it doesn't release the memory when you close the tab; you have to exit from Firefox alto- gether to release all assigned memory. This is one of the things that Google's Chrome browser is supposed to fix. I could be completely off-base about this, but try exiting from Firefox periodically during the day and restarting it, and see if Flash continues to misbehave.
[FairfieldLife] Guru Dev - The Unmanifest
The nature of a thing determines its use. For example, if you bring a mircrophone and place it in front of me, but I sit silently, then it will serve no purpose. The unmanifest is like me sitting silent. If I always sit silent, what benefit can there be for you all? No profit can be derived from the unmanifest Bhagavan until He assumes a form. I am telling you the way it is. I must explain these teachings strictly as they are told in the Vedas and Shastra, and not to expound my own thinking. My duty is to explain the teachings clearly. In this respect, I do not care whether the words are pleasing to one or irritating to another. I neither need to please nor to antagonize anybody. Still, I question those people who propound only the unmanifest. In fact, I also accept the unmanifest, but not the unmanifest alone. I ask those who propound only the formless: Can any profit be derived from the unmanifest fire which is hidden in a piece of wood? Please show me any bread cooked by an unmanifest fire. The formless is only Being. I would like to ask those people who meditate only on the formless, how do you meditate on the unmanifest? The mind can only concentrate on an object of meditation, so how can one make the unmanifest an object of meditation? Concentration on the unmanifest is not possible. If someone says that he concentrates on the formless, it is like saying that he is going to attend the wedding of the son of a barren woman. Well, the son of a barren woman does not exist, so how can he marry? When there is no form or outline to the unmanifest, how can one make it an object of meditation? To collect the mental formations, some foundation is necessary. Whatever is taken as the mind's foundation, that becomes the form. Formlessness is beyond all the trios, namely: meditation, meditator, and object of mediation; and knowledge, knower, and object that is known. Meditation on the formless is mere mockery. Only those who do not understand the principle of formlessness can talk about meditation [dhyana] on the formless. The principle of formlessness is merely for understanding; it is the principle of existence, but the world cannot derive any benefit from this principle. Can anybody derive any benefit from an unmanifest son? Can anybody go to an unmanifest school and study? Can any minister sit on an unmanifest chair? Can anyone cure a disease with an unmanifest medicine? Can anyone be pleased with unmanifest food? The unmanifest is a completely useless thing. It cannot be used for any purpose. That is why the argument about formlessness is thoroughly useless. The unmanifest is like a seed kept locked in a box. What is the use of it? But if you sow it and do all the things required to grow it, then it will give flowers and fruits. Until then, what's the benefit of a seed? The formless Paramatman is all-pervasive. For example, if a room is full of furniture, the unmanifest fire is within the furniture's wood. If the room becomes dark, that all-pervading unmanifest fire cannot remove it. If some of the furniture is ignited, the unmanifest fire can be made manifest, and the darkness of that room will be eliminated immediately. But as long as the fire is not manifest, it will not be useful in the daily affairs of this manifest world. Only when the formless manifests in some form will it be useful to the world.
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi Honey
Help Sell/Popularize Maharishi Honey TODAY Go go Youtube, the #3 most popular website in the World http://www.youtube.com http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ / Then go to this video link below and comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7ffGdfbqs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7ffGdfbqs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7ffGdfbqs Sign up, only takes a few minutes, to comment. This will put world attention on this video and Maharishi Honey. Millions of people go to this website everyday, and the ranking of this video will soar and it will create a huge buzz for selling and making popular our dear honey. Help it show up on Youtube's ranking as the MOST VIEWED and MOST COMMENTED for today, or this month.. Someone has put this video on this most popular site, so let's take advantage of this opportunity to comment and make this a huge international event on the internetif we work together we can do this. Just going to the video and starting to watch will hugely push up its ranking. (The honey website is: maharishihoney.com) Please, let's forward this to our friends.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sarah Silverman Will Blame the Jews If Obama Loses
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sarah Silverman is so convinced Florida's Jewish vote will tip the election in Barack Obama's favor that she's joined http://www.thegreatschlep.com/site/index.html a campaign called The Great Schlep. The campaign pushes young Heebs to visit their grandparents in Florida and educate them about the Democratic candidate, thereby saving the country from another Broward County nightmare, a la 2000. Silverman outlines all the reasons Jews should vote for Obama in the video below, including the fact that Barack means lightning in Hebrew, while John is just another word for toilet That's kinda weird! The Finnish version of 'George', namely 'Yrjö' [sic; pronounce ~ ueryoe], is just another word for 'puke'!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Flash Flaws -- Any Insights?
Thanks. That may be the cause. It does seem more probable than Flash getting corrupted every day. I will try it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: My Flash player gets easily corrupted (I know - its prolly the porn). But almost daily, u-tube and other videos run on Flash stop playing. No sound. And usually the video just freezes. The temp fix is to re-install Flash. Tht takes 10 seconds. But to do that, I have to shut donw Foxfire, And with 30 tabs open -- it does take some time to reload. So, not the biggest problem in the world -- but does anyone have similar experience -- and / or have a more permanent solution? The issue may not be related to Flash per se but to its sensitivity to available memory. The clue may be in your mention of 30 tabs open. Every time you open a tab, Firefox assigns an area of memory to it; no other application can use that area of memory. And an interesting flaw in Firefox is that it doesn't release the memory when you close the tab; you have to exit from Firefox alto- gether to release all assigned memory. This is one of the things that Google's Chrome browser is supposed to fix. I could be completely off-base about this, but try exiting from Firefox periodically during the day and restarting it, and see if Flash continues to misbehave.
[FairfieldLife] Letter to NY Times
Regarding: Housing Help by Chris Mayer Published: September 26, 2008 I strongly disagree with Mayer's view that the first step to solve the current financial crisis should be to reduce mortgage interest rates. low interest rates have been the root of the crisis: a massive lowering of interest rates and infusion of excess money into the financial system. The result was not a mystery -- strong inflation in the housing sector, a drastic overpricing of housing relative to fundamentals, an over-investment in housing stock, and worst -- locking millions out of the housing market -- mostly have-nots -- young, first time buyers. Towards a solution is not to repeat the cause of the crisis by lowering rates again. The solution will include letting housing prices re-align with the fundamentals (income, rents and mortgage costs) -- and opening the housing market to millions -- currentky shut out by policies that created and are sustaing massively mis-priced housing assets. === Article === Housing Help By CHRIS MAYER Published: September 26, 2008 At the heart of the financial crisis is an unprecedented decline in house prices. Yet the government response so far has been to try to prop up insolvent financial institutions while doing nothing about the underlying housing problem. The proposed Wall Street bailout would not stop the next wave of defaults, which are coming from the rapidly rising delinquencies in near-prime mortgages. The government needs to directly stabilize the housing market. This is equivalent to treating the infection with antibiotics, instead of applying a cold compress for the fever. Both the fever and the infection need treating. The first step should be to reduce mortgage interest rates. In a normal mortgage market, rates are about 1.6 percentage points above the interest rate for 10-year Treasury notes. Recently, the difference has been closer to 2.5 percentage points. The government is in a great position to cut rates by about a point: Through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration, it now controls nearly 90 percent of all mortgage originations. These lower rates would apply to most home buyers who take out a loan under $729,750 for a house that they will live in. Along with lower rates, the government should provide temporary down-payment assistance for buyers. The government could, for example, match the amount of money that buyers use for a down payment, up to $15,000. Because the government now controls the bulk of all mortgage financing, this money could be provided directly at closing. Homeowners who refinance their current mortgages could also receive assistance, allowing them to avoid foreclosure. Programs like these would draw buyers into the housing market and reduce the backlog of unsold and vacant homes. Investors and speculators would be ineligible and would face the full cost of their mistakes. By stabilizing house prices, these programs would benefit the bulk of Americans, who own a home but did not get involved in the subprime mortgage market. Price stability would more directly achieve the goals of the Wall Street bailout: increase the value of mortgage-backed securities (by increasing the value of the underlying houses) while injecting government capital into the financial system. Some in Congress have suggested allowing homeowners to go to bankruptcy court to lower their mortgage payments. But this would only make credit more expensive by reducing the willingness of companies to lend money. It would also worsen the current problems by letting bankruptcy judges reduce mortgage balances imposing even greater losses on the owners of the mortgages, whose problems are at the heart of the financial crisis. Such a program would also be limited to only the most indebted and, in some cases, financially irresponsible homeowners. Some might argue that propping up house prices is what got us into this mess. But with the recent decline in house prices, my calculations suggest that the cost of owning a home today, relative to renting, is about 10 percent lower than its average over the past 20 years. The credit crisis will not be over until house prices stop falling. Direct assistance for home buyers and homeowners is the best, and the fairest, way to make that happen. Chris Mayer is a professor of real estate and the senior vice dean of Columbia Business School.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Debate
--- On Sat, 9/27/08, BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: BillyG. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Debate To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 12:51 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, mainstream20016 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: I thought McCain did better than I expected but that isn't saying much. Notice how self-centered he was always bringing it back to himself whereas Obama discussed issue more objectively, more the next president etc. Clearly I see that Obama won the debate but this isn't really a football game and the debate tends to serve the purpose of educating the public (who aren't political junkies like so many of us) as to the candidates take on the issues. McCain is definitely beyond his prime and was a fool for ever accepting (or being forced into) the nomination. I was watching on CNN and they had a meter which monitored the reactions from Republicans, Democrats and Independents. The Independents tended to follow along with the Democrats. The Republicans however often didn't react like you might have expected to McCain though the meter did tend to follow expected partisan reactions. But when McCain failed on his delivery the meter went down even with Republicans. What are other's take? This was the 'Foreign Policy' themed debate, yet it was forty minutes into the debate before foreign policy was discussed, so the McCain advantage related to Foreign Policy was not fully exercised. Obama did much to dispel the conventional wisdom that Dems are weak. Barak established that he is willing to pursue military solutions that go beyond what McCain is willing to pursue - for example, McCain was critical of Obama's earlier-stated willingness to unilaterally enter Pakistan to pursue AlQaeda leaders, and McCain complained that Pakistanis would object to unilateral U.S. military actions in Pakistan, which would further weaken the current U.S-backed (puppet) leader of Pakistan. Obama was clear, concise, and focused in his assertion that he would militarily intervene to eradicate AlQaeda. I think even the most 'war-like' Americans were likely surprised by Obama's tough talk. McCain was good at tugging at the heartstrings of lovers of the military with his anecdotes of his interactions with the troops and their dedication to the cause Good observation, only it was genuine!! McCain is genuine! A real man of experience and character. And yes, I'm a lover of the military!! Some of the greatest men and woman on the planet. What, Obama is a false man? Please. Any inclination to vote for McCain left when he selected Palin. She is an absolute moron. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Honey
Clear evidence that M Honey and/or TMO programs cause (massive) magical thinking. Yea, like this 1950's level sappy ad is going to get to get on most viewed list. Unless its viewed as a cautionary tale Mother's don't let your kids grow up to be siddhas --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help Sell/Popularize Maharishi Honey TODAY Go go Youtube, the #3 most popular website in the World http://www.youtube.com http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.youtube.com/ / Then go to this video link below and comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7ffGdfbqs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7ffGdfbqs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q7ffGdfbqs Sign up, only takes a few minutes, to comment. This will put world attention on this video and Maharishi Honey. Millions of people go to this website everyday, and the ranking of this video will soar and it will create a huge buzz for selling and making popular our dear honey. Help it show up on Youtube's ranking as the MOST VIEWED and MOST COMMENTED for today, or this month.. Someone has put this video on this most popular site, so let's take advantage of this opportunity to comment and make this a huge international event on the internetif we work together we can do this. Just going to the video and starting to watch will hugely push up its ranking. (The honey website is: maharishihoney.com) Please, let's forward this to our friends.
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Debate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any inclination to vote for McCain left when he selected Palin. She is an absolute moron. Does that mean she has obtained an absolute body?
[FairfieldLife] Re: How did Secretary Paulson come to the $700 Billion bailout amount?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Thu, 9/25/08, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not based on any particular data point, a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. We just wanted to choose a really large number. http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/09/23/bailout-paulson-congress- biz-beltway-cx_jz_bw_0923bailout.html or: http://tinyurl.com/3fc92x Good God!!! Those clowns are in charge of the financial interests of the American people??? I just heard the same on the news driving home. What a bunch of clowns. Picked right out of the air. At least they'll only get 1/3 of it before President Obama has a say in what to do with the rest. Good GRIEF, you people are uninformed. Haven't you been reading anything at all about this? OF COURSE it's not based on some data point. How *could* it be? Do you not have *any* idea of what its purpose is? Essentially, they did indeed pick a number out of the air, but that's a feature, not a bug. This isn't a situation in which, if a bunch of experts just sat down and set to figuring, they could come up with a more accurate number. What they picked is a number they thought would make it clear to all concerned that the gummint has the biggest financial dick on the block and *will be able* to do what it says it's going to do. The plan won't work unless the financial folks are confident the gummint is going to be able to follow through. So Paulson and Bernanke picked a number that they thought would be well above the most it could possibly cost--sort of like placing a bid on eBay. If you're absolutely determined to win the auction, you enter your top bid for significantly more than you think anybody else would be willing to shell out--a really large number--knowing you won't be outbid, and that you'll most likely end up paying well below that amount. That's what the spokeswoman meant. Her phrasing, of course, was jocular, possibly even a bit sarcastic, since anybody who thinks the $700 billion was arrived at by some clever formula hasn't been paying attention. The clowns here are the people who would rather bitch and moan and mock than make the effort to inform themselves about the worst financial crisis in a century.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Flash Flaws -- Any Insights?
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Flash player gets easily corrupted (I know - its prolly the porn). But almost daily, u-tube and other videos run on Flash stop playing. No sound. And usually the video just freezes. The temp fix is to re-install Flash. Tht takes 10 seconds. But to do that, I have to shut donw Foxfire, And with 30 tabs open -- it does take some time to reload. So, not the biggest problem in the world -- but does anyone have similar experience -- and / or have a more permanent solution? The issue may not be related to Flash per se but to its sensitivity to available memory. The clue may be in your mention of 30 tabs open. Every time you open a tab, Firefox assigns an area of memory to it; no other application can use that area of memory. And an interesting flaw in Firefox is that it doesn't release the memory when you close the tab; you have to exit from Firefox alto- gether to release all assigned memory. This is one of the things that Google's Chrome browser is supposed to fix. I could be completely off-base about this, but try exiting from Firefox periodically during the day and restarting it, and see if Flash continues to misbehave. This is happening in Windows too? It happens with Ubuntu but most people think it's a problem with Adobe being lazy about the Linux version. I hadn't heard it was happening with Windows. I installed an add-on called Flash Block in Firefox which keeps Flash videos from opening automatically. This helped a lot. It displays an icon where the Flash object, such as a video, is supposed to be and you can click on it if you want see it. This has been saving me a lot of lockups though it can still happen if I watch a video or listen to streaming audio.
[FairfieldLife] Swami in The Hood with the Homies
From Today's LA Times: The homies in The Hood get a hint of holistic hospitality. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-swami27-2008sep27,0,3042153.stor\ y?page=1
[FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Paul Newman
One of my all time faves. Wasn't PN reputed to have learned TM in the 70's and does anyone know if he was still practicing? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WESTPORT, Conn. - Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as Hud, Cool Hand Luke and The Color of Money and as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario has died. He was 83. Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends. More here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_newman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr0IeZXtMrA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqwYrbwHeM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qCPhah8ojQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730Q-baXOhE
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: How one lone guy in front of a computer may change the election
shempmcgurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheesh Shemp, you wouldn't know a good video if it bit you on the ass. I've seen good videos done by the other side but this isn't one of them. It is an amateurish piece of crap. But that's the beauty of it: he is OBVIOUSLY an amateur and yet he put something together that is so powerful. Communications is a skill and that author has none. Here's a better one for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-F89sIDDVI
[FairfieldLife] Polls: Who did better in the debate? Obama by far
CBS Insta Poll shows Barack Obama won 39% to John McCain's 25% with 36% saying the debate was a draw. Insider Advantage reports those polled Obama won 42% to McCain's 41% with Undecided 17% CNN reports voter opinions that Obama did better 51%, McCain did better 38% The CNN poll showed men were evenly split, but women gave Obama higher marks 59% to 41% for McCain. More here: http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2208
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Debate
Rick Archer wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BillyG. Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 11:03 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Debate I would say McCain had Obama up against the ropes at least once and Obama was wincing. The difference between Obama and McCain, is the difference between a *wannabe* and an *is*, what a difference! Obama made a good showing though clearly was the more inexperienced man on the stage! He clearly looked dejected at the end of the debate, you could see how deflated he was, he knew he lost the debate though he had a strong start! All but one of the 6 CNN commentators (Bill Bennett) gave the win to Obama, most by a pretty wide margin. Bill Bennett looks like he's been really chowin' down these days. :-D
[FairfieldLife] The Whores of Congress
Most members of Congress are whores of the housing industry -- and their own investments. Candid interviews have revealed that in private discussions on whether to the maintain housing interest deductibility -- most representatives and senators quickly do a calc in their head to see how much it will hurt them personally. A clear conflict of interest. In the current debate on the financial crises, few if anyone is talking about -- as part of the solution -- letting housing prices fall to levels consistent with its underlying fundamentals -- that is, the ratio of income to mortgage costs (affordability) and monthly total homeowner costs to rents. Its hard to imagine that John McCain does not think about the value of his 13 homes when considering solution paths to the current financial crises. As most in Congress are doing -- thinking about the value of their own inflated homes -- and supporting policies that will support the inflated prices of their homes. A clear conflict of interest. Some have argued that to solve the current financial crisis the gov't should ease credit to reduce mortgage interest rates. This is pandering, self-serving economic policy. Low interest rates have been the root of the crisis: a massive lowering of interest rates and infusion of excess money into the financial system. The result was not a mystery -- strong inflation in the housing sector, a drastic overpricing of housing relative to fundamentals, an over-investment in housing stock, and worst -- locking millions out of the housing market -- mostly have-nots -- young, first time buyers. A path to cultivating health in the housing and financial markets is not to repeat the cause of the crisis by lowering rates again. The solution will include letting housing prices re-align with the fundamentals (income, rents and mortgage costs) -- and opening the housing market to millions -- currently shut out by policies that created and are sustaining massively mis-priced housing assets.
[FairfieldLife] Re: How did Secretary Paulson come to the $700 Billion bailout amount?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: --- On Thu, 9/25/08, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: It's not based on any particular data point, a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. We just wanted to choose a really large number. http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/09/23/bailout-paulson-congress- biz-beltway-cx_jz_bw_0923bailout.html or: http://tinyurl.com/3fc92x Good God!!! Those clowns are in charge of the financial interests of the American people??? I just heard the same on the news driving home. What a bunch of clowns. Picked right out of the air. At least they'll only get 1/3 of it before President Obama has a say in what to do with the rest. Good GRIEF, you people are uninformed. Haven't you been reading anything at all about this? OF COURSE it's not based on some data point. How *could* it be? Do you not have *any* idea of what its purpose is? Essentially, they did indeed pick a number out of the air, but that's a feature, not a bug. This isn't a situation in which, if a bunch of experts just sat down and set to figuring, they could come up with a more accurate number. What they picked is a number they thought would make it clear to all concerned that the gummint has the biggest financial dick on the block and *will be able* to do what it says it's going to do. The plan won't work unless the financial folks are confident the gummint is going to be able to follow through. Which was Paulson's exact strategy in securing the funds bail out Fannie and Freddie to be used ONLY AS a LAST RESORT. His whole theory was that having the big stick ()and not having to blow the wad) would calm the markets. It did the opposite. It accelerated the demise of FF. Paulson I am sure is a bright guy -- but he has clearly been wrong on his prior solutions. He is winging it. He has lost most of his credibility. His 700 mil big stick will accelerate not mitigate the problem. Krugman -- and others -- have a far more sane approach in solving the debt to capital ratios that underly this crisis. Increase the capital portion of the equation by buying 20% + stakes in the ailing companies. At current, or negotiated lower than, (stock) market prices. debt ratios ill decrease, no illiquid MBSs, and a strong equity stake in the recovering financial companies. (Schumer's warrants proposals as tacked onto the current plan has promise -- but will probably be only a pittance. And hard to value or size correctly. So Paulson and Bernanke picked a number that they thought would be well above the most it could possibly cost--sort of like placing a bid on eBay. If you're absolutely determined to win the auction, you enter your top bid for significantly more than you think anybody else would be willing to shell out--a really large number--knowing you won't be outbid, and that you'll most likely end up paying well below that amount. That's what the spokeswoman meant. Her phrasing, of course, was jocular, possibly even a bit sarcastic, since anybody who thinks the $700 billion was arrived at by some clever formula hasn't been paying attention. The clowns here are the people who would rather bitch and moan and mock than make the effort to inform themselves about the worst financial crisis in a century.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Flash Flaws -- Any Insights?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: My Flash player gets easily corrupted (I know - its prolly the porn). But almost daily, u-tube and other videos run on Flash stop playing. No sound. And usually the video just freezes. The temp fix is to re-install Flash. Tht takes 10 seconds. But to do that, I have to shut donw Foxfire, And with 30 tabs open -- it does take some time to reload. So, not the biggest problem in the world -- but does anyone have similar experience -- and / or have a more permanent solution? The issue may not be related to Flash per se but to its sensitivity to available memory. The clue may be in your mention of 30 tabs open. Every time you open a tab, Firefox assigns an area of memory to it; no other application can use that area of memory. And an interesting flaw in Firefox is that it doesn't release the memory when you close the tab; you have to exit from Firefox alto- gether to release all assigned memory. This is one of the things that Google's Chrome browser is supposed to fix. I could be completely off-base about this, but try exiting from Firefox periodically during the day and restarting it, and see if Flash continues to misbehave. This is happening in Windows too? Yes, -- I am using Vista Home Premium. And while I am at it -- another Windows or perhaps Bios problem): I have accumulated a lot of USB hubs -- daisy chained and direct connects to my motherboard 4 ports. The 4 slot Kingston hubs lock up the boot sequence. I have to unplug them, boot up, replug them -- and then wait 5 min while Vista sorts out the new hardware. How lame. Anyone have similar problems and/or solutions. It happens with Ubuntu but most people think it's a problem with Adobe being lazy about the Linux version. I hadn't heard it was happening with Windows. I installed an add-on called Flash Block in Firefox which keeps Flash videos from opening automatically. This helped a lot. It displays an icon where the Flash object, such as a video, is supposed to be and you can click on it if you want see it. This has been saving me a lot of lockups though it can still happen if I watch a video or listen to streaming audio.
[FairfieldLife] Add'l MP3's of Maharishi
Just received from another friend: Additional MP3 files of Maharishi: A file has been sent to you via the http://www.yousendit.comYouSendIt File Delivery Service. Download the file - http://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlEaUNBaFJsamQzZUE9PQA beautiful question 58 minutes..mp3 Download the file - http://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlEaUNPcTI3bUJMWEE9PQLove knows no reason One hour 11 minutes..mp3 Download the file - http://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlEaUNPcTJ6NE9Ga1E9PQ3 MMY Unity and Prayer.mp3 Download the file - http://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlEaUNBaFJsUjhLSkE9PQMMY-Invistigation into nature of God. Part 1.mp3 Download the file - http://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlEaUNKbWdmVGJIRGc9PQMMY-Invistigation into the nature of God. Part 2.mp3 Download the file - http://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlEaUNBaFJBNkVLSkE9PQMother Nature 14 minutes..mp3 Download the file - http://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlEaUNKbWd1Yk1LSkE9PQEducation 34 minutes.mp3 Download the file - http://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlEaUNKQk5CSnFGa1E9PQMMY-Kundalini, Sushumna, Kriya.mp3 Your file will expire after 7 days or 100 downloads.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Paul Newman
Paul Newman lived in the town next to mine. I used to see him from time to time in downtown Westport. It was always so cool to see this bigtime movie star just cruisin' along. His acting got so good in his later movies. RIP Bro' --- On Sat, 9/27/08, pranamoocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: pranamoocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Paul Newman To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 12:52 PM One of my all time faves. Wasn't PN reputed to have learned TM in the 70's and does anyone know if he was still practicing? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WESTPORT, Conn. - Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as Hud, Cool Hand Luke and The Color of Money — and as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario — has died. He was 83. Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends. More here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_newman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr0IeZXtMrA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqwYrbwHeM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qCPhah8ojQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730Q-baXOhE
[FairfieldLife] Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless
Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as disastrous. One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, What are we going to do? The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is clueless. ~~ Ed Schultz http://www.bigeddieradio.com/
[FairfieldLife] Paul Newman's Last Race?
Letterman appearance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRg7UpSxO5g
Re: [FairfieldLife] Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless
I was talking to President Obama on the phone the other day and he said that one of his most favorable people in the campaigne was a guy from Iowa by the name of Dennis. --- On Sat, 9/27/08, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 2:52 PM Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as disastrous. One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, What are we going to do? The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is clueless. ~~ Ed Schultz http://www.bigeddieradio.com/ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] F*cking A Theist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU6vAjoPxbUNR=1
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Honey
I can't think of anything that more clearly symbolizes the utter failure of the TM Movement than Maharishi Organic Vedic Honey. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, svambhu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maharishi Honey Delicious, Nourishing, Vedic Organic Honey The perfect gift at this time of year. We are delighted to introduce our especially nourishing, pure, unheated, untreated blossom honey, produced by the bees of Brazil in virgin, unpolluted forests and lands enhanced by Vedic farming technologies. for more info, go to: http://www.maharishihoney.com
Re: [FairfieldLife] Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless
Palin reminds me of some of my community college students. She's not used to thinking in a logical sequence and linking concepts together. She also isn't used to explaining ideas beyond a mere label or a buzz-word marker. This doesn't mean that she doesn't have ideas, its just that she is not used to articulating them. Add this to performance anxiety plus attempting to integrate talking points and you have the PR disaster that she is. Forgetting about politics, it is pretty sad that any party would elevate such a limited thinker to such a position. She obviously was not vetted. I'd love to be a fly on the wall with some of McCain's top people trying to figure out what to do with her. I actually feel sorry for her. She is so out of her depth. --- On Sat, 9/27/08, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 1:52 PM Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as disastrous. One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, What are we going to do? The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is clueless. ~~ Ed Schultz http://www.bigeddieradio.com/ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Sarah Palin Disney Trailer
http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1831461
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Honey
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't think of anything that more clearly symbolizes the utter failure of the TM Movement than Maharishi Organic Vedic Honey. I Can. OffWorld
[FairfieldLife] Re: Polls: Who did better in the debate? Obama by far
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CBS Insta Poll shows Barack Obama won 39% to John McCain's 25% with 36% saying the debate was a draw. Insider Advantage reports those polled Obama won 42% to McCain's 41% with Undecided 17% CNN reports voter opinions that Obama did better 51%, McCain did better 38% The CNN poll showed men were evenly split, but women gave Obama higher marks 59% to 41% for McCain. More here: http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2208 http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2208 But Fox News reported before the debate occured, that McCain won a mile in the polls taken after the debate. OffWorld
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Flash Flaws -- Any Insights?
new.morning wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning no_reply@ wrote: My Flash player gets easily corrupted (I know - its prolly the porn). But almost daily, u-tube and other videos run on Flash stop playing. No sound. And usually the video just freezes. The temp fix is to re-install Flash. Tht takes 10 seconds. But to do that, I have to shut donw Foxfire, And with 30 tabs open -- it does take some time to reload. So, not the biggest problem in the world -- but does anyone have similar experience -- and / or have a more permanent solution? The issue may not be related to Flash per se but to its sensitivity to available memory. The clue may be in your mention of 30 tabs open. Every time you open a tab, Firefox assigns an area of memory to it; no other application can use that area of memory. And an interesting flaw in Firefox is that it doesn't release the memory when you close the tab; you have to exit from Firefox alto- gether to release all assigned memory. This is one of the things that Google's Chrome browser is supposed to fix. I could be completely off-base about this, but try exiting from Firefox periodically during the day and restarting it, and see if Flash continues to misbehave. This is happening in Windows too? Yes, -- I am using Vista Home Premium. And while I am at it -- another Windows or perhaps Bios problem): I have accumulated a lot of USB hubs -- daisy chained and direct connects to my motherboard 4 ports. The 4 slot Kingston hubs lock up the boot sequence. I have to unplug them, boot up, replug them -- and then wait 5 min while Vista sorts out the new hardware. How lame. Anyone have similar problems and/or solutions. I assume you Google'd this problem? It came up with a lot of articles and discussions. If this is an older hub you might might check the Kingston site for a newer driver. People say some older hubs don't work with Vista. Vista is such a mess. I still need to go through the boot and eliminate as much unnecessary stuff so that it doesn't take 6 minutes to use. I even need to do that with my XP machines too. This machine which uses Ubuntu is ready to go in 1 minute.
[FairfieldLife] Republicans want to screw you out of your home
We know that Republicans like to screw around a lot and apparently they want to screw the homeowners on the bailout. Seems that the showstopper for them in the bailout bill is an item that would allow judges to rewrite mortgages to help homeowners prevent foreclosure: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080926/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown_1146 The Dems would do well to use this against the Republicans as a talking point. Of course I'm for not passing the bill period which would take down much of the wealthy 1%. In other news the senate passed a big bailout for the government so that Bush can keep playing war god until President Obama takes office: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26915459/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless
(snip) I actually feel sorry for her. She is so out of her depth. (snip) I don't think she's deserves any pity. She'll just probably go back to Alaska, and take out her aggression on some poor helpless wolf, who she will shoot with her high-powered rifle from an airplane. This woman is dangerously passive agressive. And I really don't care what she looks like in a swim suit. That my friends is not a qualification for leading the free world. R.G.
[FairfieldLife] Pirates of Somalia
To All: These renegades are clearly out of their league. They're asking for a major retribution from the Russian Navy. Do they really think the Russians will pay $35 million of ransom for the hijacked ship? *** Pirates Seek $35 Million for Ship By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: September 27, 2008 NAIROBI, Kenya Somali pirates in a hijacked ship carrying more than 30 battle tanks were steaming toward a notorious pirate den on Saturday, and they vowed not to release the ship until a $35 million ransom was paid, Somali and Kenyan officials said. Skip to next paragraph Related Somalia Pirates Capture Tanks and Global Notice (September 27, 2008) According to Mohamed Osman Aden, a Somali diplomat in Kenya, the Ukrainian-owned vessel was headed to Xarardheere, on the barren Somali coast. Xarardheere is an isolated fishing village that has thrived on organized crime and has frequently been used as a pirate hide-out. Mr. Mohamed said that while the cargo in this case was extremely unusual 33 Soviet-designed T-72 tanks and a large supply of ammunition and grenade launchers, all intended for the Kenyan military the tactics were pretty typical. These guys just want the money, he said. He predicted that the pirates would reduce their ransom demand to $1 million to $2 million, though Ukrainian officials have not said whether they will pay any ransom at all. The Kenyan government said in a statement on Saturday that it does not and will not negotiate with international criminals, pirates and terrorists and will endeavor to recover the hijacked ship and military cargo. American warships in the Indian Ocean were closely tracking the ship, and a Russian frigate, the Dauntless, was on its way. Diplomats in Kenya said Saturday that military operations involving several countries were being discussed but that the plan was to wait a few days before considering a strike. The hijacked ship's crew is mostly Ukrainian, and already worried family members have contacted the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry asking what they can do. The hijacking occurred on Thursday evening when pirates in three speedboats attacked the Ukrainian cargo ship, the Faina, which was in Somali waters about 200 miles from shore, en route to Kenya. On Friday, Kenyan and Ukrainian officials disclosed that the ship was loaded with 2,320 tons of weapons. Many diplomats in Kenya are concerned that the arms could fall into the hands of insurgents fighting Somalia's transitional government and pitch war-torn Somalia deeper into chaos. The pirates, however, are not expected to be able to do much with the T-72 tanks because each weighs more than 80,000 pounds. Western diplomats have said that the pirates do not have the special equipment or the skill to get the tanks ashore. But the tanks and the jitters they have caused may be used for leverage to increase the ransom. Andrew Mwangura, program coordinator for the Seafarers' Assistance Program in Kenya, which tracks pirate attacks, said that the pirates had demanded $35 million through intermediaries and that they were trying to contact the ship's owners. They even have someone who speaks English, he said. Piracy in lawless Somalia is a highly organized, lucrative, ransom- driven business. This year has been one of the worst on record, with more than 50 ships attacked, 25 hijacked and about a dozen currently being held by pirates. On Saturday, pirates released two ships they had recently seized, one Japanese and the other Malaysian, Mr. Mwangura said. In both cases, ransoms were paid, he said, though it was difficult on Saturday to confirm this. The price, Mr. Mwangura said, was $2 million each.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless
I don't feel sorry for her in the least. She is trying to con the American people into thinking she is capable of representing them. It's arrogant in the extreme. It never occurs to her that her own ignorance disqualifies her. The best thing about the interview with Katie Couric is Katie's face as Palin talks her nonsense. It's as if she can barely believe the stupidity of the woman. Best comment today was from Bob Herbert in the New York Times, who said the interview, especially one portion of it he quoted, was like a Monty Python sketch. Palin is making a fool of herself but she doesn't realize it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Palin reminds me of some of my community college students. She's not used to thinking in a logical sequence and linking concepts together. She also isn't used to explaining ideas beyond a mere label or a buzz-word marker. This doesn't mean that she doesn't have ideas, its just that she is not used to articulating them. Add this to performance anxiety plus attempting to integrate talking points and you have the PR disaster that she is. Forgetting about politics, it is pretty sad that any party would elevate such a limited thinker to such a position. She obviously was not vetted. I'd love to be a fly on the wall with some of McCain's top people trying to figure out what to do with her. I actually feel sorry for her. She is so out of her depth. --- On Sat, 9/27/08, do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: do.rflex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 1:52 PM Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as disastrous. One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, What are we going to do? The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is clueless. ~~ Ed Schultz http://www.bigeddieradio.com/ To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Re: Republicans want to screw you out of your home
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We know that Republicans like to screw around a lot and apparently they want to screw the homeowners on the bailout. Seems that the showstopper for them in the bailout bill is an item that would allow judges to rewrite mortgages to help homeowners prevent foreclosure: This would apply only to homeowners who file for bankruptcy, BTW. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080926/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown_114 6 The Dems would do well to use this against the Republicans as a talking point. Of course I'm for not passing the bill period which would take down much of the wealthy 1%. In other news the senate passed a big bailout for the government so that Bush can keep playing war god until President Obama takes office: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26915459/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Using shame vs. offering benefit
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: (snip) Using shame (shame of being female, shame of being racist) rather than offering benefit is a tactic that may intimidate some, and perhaps win some over who would rather be part of the pack that attacks than one who is attacked, but mostly it engenders resentment. (snip) The really ironic thing her is that her husband Bill Clinton shamed Hillary more than anyone else could. Uh, Robert, that would be a big fat non sequitur. I kind of knew you wouldn't know what to do with that insight. You remember, when Billy Bob got caught with his pants down, that Hillary became a big heroine...how strong this woman is to put up with the sh-t her husband dished out to her. I read that the Secret service had to pull her off when she was throwing vases at him, during this adulterous, lieing incident. She once told Bill, that she needed to get laid more than twice a year. R.G. Sorry you can't come up with a better response.
[FairfieldLife] Re: F*cking A Theist
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU6vAjoPxbUNR=1 The narrator is fairly good looking. I thought she was going to take off her clothes.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless
By the way, all this talk about her shooting is bullshit. I saw a video of her in Kuwait handling a M-16 and it was very obvious that she had never held, let alone shot a rifle before. --- On Sat, 9/27/08, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 3:16 PM (snip) I actually feel sorry for her. She is so out of her depth. (snip) I don't think she's deserves any pity. She'll just probably go back to Alaska, and take out her aggression on some poor helpless wolf, who she will shoot with her high-powered rifle from an airplane. This woman is dangerously passive agressive. And I really don't care what she looks like in a swim suit. That my friends is not a qualification for leading the free world. R.G. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't feel sorry for her in the least. She is trying to con the American people into thinking she is capable of representing them. It's arrogant in the extreme. It never occurs to her that her own ignorance disqualifies her. Actually it's McCain and his people who are trying to con us. They conned *her* into thinking she was qualified, and she believed them. She's no more arrogant than any other politician; she just didn't have enough exposure to national politics to realize what she was getting into. I'm with Peter; I feel sorry for her. She got in way, way over her head, or rather McCain threw her in way over her head for what he thought would be his own political advantage. And it was, to start with. Now it's turning into a disaster. The best thing about the interview with Katie Couric is Katie's face as Palin talks her nonsense. It's as if she can barely believe the stupidity of the woman. Best comment today was from Bob Herbert in the New York Times, who said the interview, especially one portion of it he quoted, was like a Monty Python sketch. Palin is making a fool of herself but she doesn't realize it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Palin reminds me of some of my community college students. She's not used to thinking in a logical sequence and linking concepts together. She also isn't used to explaining ideas beyond a mere label or a buzz-word marker. This doesn't mean that she doesn't have ideas, its just that she is not used to articulating them. Add this to performance anxiety plus attempting to integrate talking points and you have the PR disaster that she is. Forgetting about politics, it is pretty sad that any party would elevate such a limited thinker to such a position. She obviously was not vetted. I'd love to be a fly on the wall with some of McCain's top people trying to figure out what to do with her. I actually feel sorry for her. She is so out of her depth.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Using shame vs. offering benefit
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: (snip) Using shame (shame of being female, shame of being racist) rather than offering benefit is a tactic that may intimidate some, and perhaps win some over who would rather be part of the pack that attacks than one who is attacked, but mostly it engenders resentment. (snip) The really ironic thing her is that her husband Bill Clinton shamed Hillary more than anyone else could. Uh, Robert, that would be a big fat non sequitur. I kind of knew you wouldn't know what to do with that insight. There was no insight there, Robert. It was a random thought that had no connection to the points Anglachel was making. You remember, when Billy Bob got caught with his pants down, that Hillary became a big heroine...how strong this woman is to put up with the sh-t her husband dished out to her. I read that the Secret service had to pull her off when she was throwing vases at him, during this adulterous, lieing incident. She once told Bill, that she needed to get laid more than twice a year. R.G. Sorry you can't come up with a better response.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless
On Sep 27, 2008, at 2:22 PM, feste37 wrote: I don't feel sorry for her in the least. She is trying to con the American people into thinking she is capable of representing them. It's arrogant in the extreme. It never occurs to her that her own ignorance disqualifies her. The best thing about the interview with Katie Couric is Katie's face as Palin talks her nonsense. I noticed that too--the look on Couric's face was priceless. It's as if she can barely believe the stupidity of the woman. Best comment today was from Bob Herbert in the New York Times, who said the interview, especially one portion of it he quoted, was like a Monty Python sketch. Palin is making a fool of herself but she doesn't realize it. Sal
[FairfieldLife] Ukes for Obama!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT5IGt7Wyh4 -- Blacks and Jews created tha Blues!
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Honey
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, svambhu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maharishi Honey Delicious, Nourishing, Vedic Organic Honey The perfect gift at this time of year. We are delighted to introduce our especially nourishing, pure, unheated, untreated blossom honey, produced by the bees of Brazil in virgin, unpolluted forests and lands enhanced by Vedic farming technologies. for more info, go to: http://www.maharishihoney.com My thoughts: 1. No song or even jingle should have the word physiology in it. 2. Interesting that they pronounce Maharishi the old fashioned way, with four syllables. 3. Too pink.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't feel sorry for her in the least. She is trying to con the American people into thinking she is capable of representing them. It's arrogant in the extreme. It never occurs to her that her own ignorance disqualifies her. Actually it's McCain and his people who are trying to con us. They conned *her* into thinking she was qualified, and she believed them. She's no more arrogant than any other politician; she just didn't have enough exposure to national politics to realize what she was getting into. I'm with Peter; I feel sorry for her. She got in way, way over her head, or rather McCain threw her in way over her head for what he thought would be his own political advantage. And it was, to start with. Now it's turning into a disaster. I expect that the McCain folks will have Palin pull out as the VP candidate, giving some excuse about needing to be with her family, newborn, whatever. Then they will find someone else and hope for the best. They cannot possibly think that Palin will work. I think they will cancel the VP debate until they get a replacement for her. I wonder if she gets how much she in over her head? If she finally does, I feel sorry for her. If she does not, then it is even essential that she be replaced. Best thing she could do: say she now realizes she is not qualified, and resign. She made a big mistake. The best thing about the interview with Katie Couric is Katie's face as Palin talks her nonsense. It's as if she can barely believe the stupidity of the woman. Best comment today was from Bob Herbert in the New York Times, who said the interview, especially one portion of it he quoted, was like a Monty Python sketch. Palin is making a fool of herself but she doesn't realize it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Palin reminds me of some of my community college students. She's not used to thinking in a logical sequence and linking concepts together. She also isn't used to explaining ideas beyond a mere label or a buzz-word marker. This doesn't mean that she doesn't have ideas, its just that she is not used to articulating them. Add this to performance anxiety plus attempting to integrate talking points and you have the PR disaster that she is. Forgetting about politics, it is pretty sad that any party would elevate such a limited thinker to such a position. She obviously was not vetted. I'd love to be a fly on the wall with some of McCain's top people trying to figure out what to do with her. I actually feel sorry for her. She is so out of her depth.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi Honey
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My thoughts: 1. No song or even jingle should have the word physiology in it. 2. Interesting that they pronounce Maharishi the old fashioned way, with four syllables. 3. Too pink. My thoughts: 1. There are times when the olde misogynist saw These women really, really, really need to get laid is not only not misogynist, but the God's honest truth.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless
Palin is an awful choice, yet many in the country have yet to realize it. It's a bit early to write her political obit, as unless she blunders terribly, the Republican base will declare her the winner of the upcoming VP debate. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: I don't feel sorry for her in the least. She is trying to con the American people into thinking she is capable of representing them. It's arrogant in the extreme. It never occurs to her that her own ignorance disqualifies her. Actually it's McCain and his people who are trying to con us. They conned *her* into thinking she was qualified, and she believed them. She's no more arrogant than any other politician; she just didn't have enough exposure to national politics to realize what she was getting into. I'm with Peter; I feel sorry for her. She got in way, way over her head, or rather McCain threw her in way over her head for what he thought would be his own political advantage. And it was, to start with. Now it's turning into a disaster. I expect that the McCain folks will have Palin pull out as the VP candidate, giving some excuse about needing to be with her family, newborn, whatever. Then they will find someone else and hope for the best. They cannot possibly think that Palin will work. I think they will cancel the VP debate until they get a replacement for her. I wonder if she gets how much she in over her head? If she finally does, I feel sorry for her. If she does not, then it is even essential that she be replaced. Best thing she could do: say she now realizes she is not qualified, and resign. She made a big mistake. The best thing about the interview with Katie Couric is Katie's face as Palin talks her nonsense. It's as if she can barely believe the stupidity of the woman. Best comment today was from Bob Herbert in the New York Times, who said the interview, especially one portion of it he quoted, was like a Monty Python sketch. Palin is making a fool of herself but she doesn't realize it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: Palin reminds me of some of my community college students. She's not used to thinking in a logical sequence and linking concepts together. She also isn't used to explaining ideas beyond a mere label or a buzz-word marker. This doesn't mean that she doesn't have ideas, its just that she is not used to articulating them. Add this to performance anxiety plus attempting to integrate talking points and you have the PR disaster that she is. Forgetting about politics, it is pretty sad that any party would elevate such a limited thinker to such a position. She obviously was not vetted. I'd love to be a fly on the wall with some of McCain's top people trying to figure out what to do with her. I actually feel sorry for her. She is so out of her depth.
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Elitist McCain Couldn't Look at his Opponent'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. military didn't even have the guts or the humanly respect to even look at Senator Obama, in the debate last night. No wonder he doesn't want to talk to anyone who doesn't agree with him. He has the same dictatorial tendencies of Bush. We definitely don't need another Bush. No more Bush. No more elitist military madness. R.G. *** There are cultural differences between blacks and whites when it comes to eye contact: http://tinyurl.com/3nn996
[FairfieldLife] Re: RIP Paul Newman
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WESTPORT, Conn. - Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as Hud, Cool Hand Luke and The Color of Money and as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario has died. He was 83. Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends. More here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_newman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr0IeZXtMrA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqwYrbwHeM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qCPhah8ojQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=730Q-baXOhE Paul learned TM, but when you downing a case of beer a day, hard to stick with the practice. His kid committed suicide in his 20s, also plagued with alcohol/polydrug abuse.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Obama's Baloney Bar
Obama's supporters thought they could simply wave the Roe v. Wade red flag and hordes of panic stricken women for Hillary would stamped to savior Obama. Well, that didn't work so the blogger boyz turned on insult spigot and berated us for being stupid low information voters, dead-ender, and closet racists. Apparently, they still haven't figured out that bullying makes us dig in our heels even deeper. My vote is my business. So hang your racist noose around your own damn neck. Rev. Wright, speaks for me today, No, no, no, raunchydog ain't never been called a racist! We all know how the DNC screwed Hillary and they ain't never been sorry for it, so God Damn AmeriKKKa's DNC! Their lyin', cheatin' and stealin' chickens are comin' to roost! Barack Obama's support from backers of Hillary Rodham Clinton is stuck smack where it was in June, a poll showed Tuesday, a stunning lack of progress that is weakening him with members of the Democratic Party in the close presidential race. 9/23/08 http://tinyurl.com/4bbx69 Huffington Post's fake attempt to trick Hillary's voters drips with condescension and is just another excuse to insult Hillary's supporters as well as Hillary. Maybe Obama can win without Hillary's voters, but I doubt it. Meanwhile, Hillary's is in Michigan again doing her best to drag Obama's sorry ass to the White House. It is truly a thankless task given the legions of ingrates infecting Obamaland. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although this piece is tongue-in-cheek, it confirms the worst stereotypes of what women are like. When they get their poor little feelings hurt because their girl lost, you are supposed to stroke them and comfort them until they feel better. If you don't they go on threatening to do something mean and spiteful, even though it is against their own interests and what they declare they believe in. (They're so irrational, the poor dears!) Women are, in short, very odd creatures, but I guess we're just stuck with them. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchydog@ wrote: http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/files/2008/09/boloneyalert1.gif http://tinyurl.com/4c36qm The following was posted by Lea Lane on huffpo. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lea-lane/eat-crow-hell-yes-to-win_b_12671\ 2.html I Pass it on without comment since it speaks for itself Olivia Taylor-Young. Do Whatever You Must to Trick Former Hillary Supporters into Voting for Barack Eat Crow? Hell Yes, to Win This Election The Obama team is suddenly making a huge effort to gain women's votes, but many die-hard Hillary supporters dozens of my acquaintances remain bruised and confused. The fact that Palin is on the ticket when HRC wasn't even vetted may turn out to have been the major gaffe of Axelrod and Company, and the tipping point of this tight election. If you've been an outspoken Obama supporter from the beginning, it's time to make amends with Hillary supporters you know. Arguing with, or browbeating them to get on board is counterproductive, but showing you've come around to respecting Hillary may ease their hurt enough to do the trick. (Even if you don't mean it. This is politics.) Here's what you can do: Eat crow. To get started, memorize this phrase, take a deep breath and say: Now that I see how unqualified Sarah Palin is, I realize how I misjudged Hillary Clinton. Even Biden said she would have made a great vice president. Saying you wish she were the presidential nominee may go too far, and you may not be able to get it out. But if the Hillaryite brings it up, don't argue, and see below Let the HRC voter vent.You may have to draw on every bit of patience you have. You may have to hear once again how unfair it is that the Repubs chose Palin, and the Dems ignored Hillary, and that the party would assuredly be ahead if she were anywhere on the ticket. You may have to hear old-news complaints about sexism and Jack Cafferty's curmudgeonly comments, David Shuster's pimping Chelsea insult, the Monica mentions, the tougher debate questions for Hillary. Do not look like you want to run and soak your head in vodka, even if you do. Do not talk unless asked. Listening without argument is the major way to keep this potential voter attainable. Act empathic. Nod your head in agreement when the subject of Palin or Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann's Hillary-bashing commentary is mentioned. Learn these phrases and use them every so often: I imagine it must be hard. It must seem unfair. I know, you wanted to see an accomplished woman as president in your lifetime. I can understand your being hurt (sad, mad, furious, despondent, livid, resentful, apoplectic, intransigent, inconsolable, red-faced, nauseous, wretched, shit-faced). Again, do not argue. Just listen. Do not praise Obama.I know, this seems ridiculous, but now is
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Elitist McCain Couldn't Look at his Opponent'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: Mr. military didn't even have the guts or the humanly respect to even look at Senator Obama, in the debate last night. No wonder he doesn't want to talk to anyone who doesn't agree with him. *** There are cultural differences between blacks and whites when it comes to eye contact: http://tinyurl.com/3nn996 Bullshit. This wasn't about cultural differences; this was about cowardice. All of you guys and gals who have studied martial arts, chime in on this if you feel like it. I used to make money at full-contact karate contests by waiting until the two fighters had walked out onto the mat and faced each other before the fight to place my bets. I never lost, because I could tell in that moment in which they first faced each other who was going to win and who was going to lose. From the outset of last night's debate, McCain was going to lose. And this guy postures as a *warrior*? And since I've ventured back into the political arena, here is a bit more chum to stir the waters. In the irony department, the following statement was adopted as a plank in the Republican platform in August at their convention: We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself, - Republican Party Platform, 2008. And here's today's *real* talk about the economy from economist Michael Hudson: Once in a century rip-off...not a 'bailout' but a 'giveaway' and will create a new kleptocracy of billionaires http://tinyurl.com/4lvyxg
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ed Schultz: McCain Camp insiders say Palin clueless
I expect that the McCain folks will have Palin pull out as the VP candidate, giving some excuse about needing to be with her family, newborn, whatever. Then they will find someone else and hope for the best. They cannot possibly think that Palin will work. I think they will cancel the VP debate until they get a replacement for her. I wonder if she gets how much she in over her head? If she finally does, I feel sorry for her. If she does not, then it is even essential that she be replaced. Best thing she could do: say she now realizes she is not qualified, and resign. She made a big mistake. * Mc can't dump Palin now -- he would lose the Christian right (which is the reason he picked her, antiabortion stance etc) and look weak and indecisive, poor judgment etc, and anyway it's just too damn close to the election, and Palin is still drawing huge crowds in moronland. But I think it's entirely possible Palin will go soon after inauguration if the redneck states prevail in this election -- Mc wouldn't even have to push, since I doubt that Palin really wants the job anyway.
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