[FairfieldLife] Re: FCOL, Sarah, read the Constitution!!!

2008-11-01 Thread feste37
That is not being "in charge" of the Senate! VP merely "presides," has no influence other than casting tie-breaking vote. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Vice President was "in charge" of the US Senate. > > > As designated by the Constitutio

[FairfieldLife] Re: FCOL, Sarah, read the Constitution!!!

2008-11-01 Thread feste37
You are missing the point entirely, and no dictionary or thesaurus can save you. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > That is not being &q

[FairfieldLife] Re: FCOL, Sarah, read the Constitution!!!

2008-11-01 Thread feste37
much easier if you tried to educate yourself for a change. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > You are missing the point entirely, and no dic

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin was 100% right when she said the VP is in charge of the Senate

2008-11-01 Thread feste37
My doubts about whether it is possible to educate you have been confirmed. I will waste no more time trying. It's a hopeless cause. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37&

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin was 100% right when she said the VP is in charge of the Senate

2008-11-01 Thread feste37
I explained it to you quite carefully but you are too stupid and too ignorant to understand. So be it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Streaks of Sky

2008-11-02 Thread feste37
Someone should tell raunchy that she could improve her "poetry" by losing her obsession with rhyme. Ever heard of free verse, raunchy? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" > wrote: > > > > I li

[FairfieldLife] Re: Streaks of Sky

2008-11-02 Thread feste37
The poem is by Dylan Thomas. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What "grade poetry is this. One of my favorites. > > THE FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER > > > The force that through the green fuse drives the flowe

[FairfieldLife] Amazing: Obama Helped Stranded Stranger 20 Years Ago

2008-11-02 Thread feste37
great story about how Barack helped a Norwegian woman at an airport. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/5/183340/309/352/621029

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amazing: Obama Helped Stranded Stranger 20 Years Ago

2008-11-02 Thread feste37
een a series of outstanding accomplishments -- and he's only just started. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > great story about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Amazing: Obama Helped Stranded Stranger 20 Years Ago

2008-11-02 Thread feste37
I won't argue with you because you are a right-wing troll. Barack's resume speaks for itself. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Most popular on Digg -- someone who "gets" this election

2008-11-03 Thread feste37
I know Barack is going to win because a few days ago my redneck neighbors put out an Obama yard sign. I couldn't believe it. Last time they were for Bush. The times, they are a'changin'! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My wife made me canvas for Obam

[FairfieldLife] Re: "Obama, Shaman"

2008-11-03 Thread feste37
The real example of hubris in politics is not Barack, who seems to me to have a lot of common sense and "groundedness," but the current occupant of the White House and the neocons who surround him. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Excerpts from a

[FairfieldLife] Re: New Kind of Politics: Obama Flips McCain Bird like the one he did to Hillary

2008-11-04 Thread feste37
This of course says nothing about Obama but a great deal about raunchydog. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At a campaign rally in Jacksonville, FL on Monday November 3, 2008, > Senator Barack Obama took a moment to congratulate Senator John McCain

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting post-election revelations about Sarah Palin

2008-11-06 Thread feste37
If she campaigned wearing only a towel, she might have some success. Actually, I think she is deluded. Who would want this woman? Perhaps she could emerge as the leader of a rump GOP Christian fascist party, but that's about all. I think she will be like Dan Quayle, who tried to run as a conservati

[FairfieldLife] Re: Election day hangover

2008-11-06 Thread feste37
Good morning, raunchy! Cynical as ever, I see. I think you need a stiff drink. I do wonder why your perception of Obama is so at odds with how the nation sees him. A wave of hope and optimism is sweeping this country, and yet you choose to wallow in the lowest possible view. I wonder what your prob

[FairfieldLife] Re: Election day hangover

2008-11-06 Thread feste37
biting birdie is either raunchy herself under another alias or her twin sister. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > Good morning, raunchy! &g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kneecapping Sarah Palin

2008-11-06 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here Comes the Bus! Beep Beep! by dcmediagirl 11/6/08 > > To return to the original topic of this blog…men fuck up most > egregiously. A female sacrficial lamb is trotted out to take it in the > neck. Enough already.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Election day hangover

2008-11-06 Thread feste37
raunchy, this is called nonsense verse. Now your poems match your political views! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > biting birdie is eithe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kneecapping Sarah Palin

2008-11-07 Thread feste37
I'm with Vaj on this one. Generally speaking, giving a woman, any woman, access to one's credit card is a very, very bad idea. The ladies just love their shopping too much. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj

[FairfieldLife] Re: Kneecapping Sarah Palin

2008-11-07 Thread feste37
The main thing here is to find out whether it was a bathrobe or a towel she came to the door in. First reports said it was a towel, but now we hear it was a bathrobe. Sounds like spin to me. It's an important distinction. After, you reveal more in a towel than a bathrobe, and one is definitely less

[FairfieldLife] Sarah the whining hypocrite

2008-11-07 Thread feste37
This is what she says about the people who spilled the beans about her thinking that Africa was a country: "That's cruel, It's mean-spirited. It's immature. It's unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away with it, taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on na

[FairfieldLife] Re: I gotta admit, my twisted little mind is enjoying every last minute of this.

2008-11-08 Thread feste37
So is mine. I think they are getting what they deserve. It's been a long time coming. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Palin in spotlight as Republicans turn on each other > Right tears itself apart in pinning blame for McCain's defeat > Oli

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin for president

2008-11-09 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd really be shocked if the conservative base supported her. Shocked and disappointed. What's happening to her now is really awful with the anonymous attacks. I hope she doesn't do a tit-for-tat with Van Sustern on Monday

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin for president

2008-11-09 Thread feste37
e role for you that the Clintons have played for Rush > Limbaugh. Whatever Barack does, you'll be complaining about Palin. > > > -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > wrote: >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin for president

2008-11-09 Thread feste37
lin for losing the election, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama's patriotism, before the line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lurk, I think you're right . .

[FairfieldLife] Re: Tuesday: The father of Repugnican dirty tricks on IPTV

2008-11-10 Thread feste37
I'm looking forward to this program. Atwater was a guy I loved to hate. Couldn't stand him. Poisoned the atmosphere of political life, and all that. I remember that after he was stricken with brain cancer, he made a point of calling people he had attacked and vilified, and apologizing for what he d

[FairfieldLife] Re: Palin Again

2008-11-11 Thread feste37
John Updike described Sarah as a "bird-brain," which seems about right, although perhaps a little unfair to some birds. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > wrote: > > > > Judy, > > > > > I'

[FairfieldLife] stupid Sarah yet again

2008-11-12 Thread feste37
>From the New York Times today: One of the more disconcerting leaks about Gov. Sarah Palin turned out to be true. Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, arrived in Phoenix, Ariz., on election night hoping to deliver her own concession speech. "It was a great speech," Ms. Palin told

[FairfieldLife] Re: Another U of Iowa prof suicide

2008-11-14 Thread feste37
The first prof to kill himself got into trouble for offering higher grades to certain students if they would allow him to touch their breasts, or in one case, apparently, just to look. Some of these young ladies, it seems, were happy to do this and enjoyed the resulting "A" grades. I was of course

[FairfieldLife] Re: Post Count - and new idea

2008-11-15 Thread feste37
Too complicated! Fifty a week seems about right. It's easy to remember, easy to calculate. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You haven't been paying attention. We raised the post limit to 75 for two > weeks because of the election, but now it's bac

[FairfieldLife] Re: I AM not for sale

2008-11-15 Thread feste37
Sounds like you've been drinking too much of that Somerset cider, Dick. Do you remember Bill Alley? He used to play for Somerset. All-rounder. Years ago. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Dick Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For your information I did not run away. I never run

[FairfieldLife] Re: National Obama Day

2008-11-15 Thread feste37
I wonder why authfriend is posting this very minor news item. I guess it's just an attempt to make Obama look bad, but I fail to see how it does that. On another matter, I'm intrigued at the speculation linking Hillary with the Secretary of State job and wondering how the bitter Hillaryites on thi

[FairfieldLife] Re: Puppy Cam

2008-11-16 Thread feste37
Interesting how we often live in parallel universes. Can anyone on this forum recognize Barack from raunchy's characterization of him here? I certainly can't. These criticisms are idiotic, and she even manages to make hope sound like a foolish thing. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchy

[FairfieldLife] Re: More silliness from Dome Announcements

2008-11-16 Thread feste37
Sal, be nicer --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Members of the University, Maharishi School, Fairfield and > > Maharishi > > Vedic City communities, > > > > After 96 trips around the sun, dear Founder of the U.S. Movement and > > Trustee >

[FairfieldLife] Vedic City went for McCain

2008-11-16 Thread feste37
This is what I hear, anway, that Vedic City, by a narrow margin, voted for McCain and the Idiot. Which makes Vedic City a small red dot in an ocean of blue, since Jefferson County as a whole, and Fairfield, went for Obama by big margins. The moral is that just because you think a lot about enlighte

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic City went for McCain

2008-11-17 Thread feste37
Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of feste37 > Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 6:12 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Vedic City went for McCain > > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vedic City went for McCain

2008-11-17 Thread feste37
, they all went for Obama, which rather confirms my picture of Vedic City as a red dot in a sea of blue, except I'll alter that to a red dot just outside a sea of blue. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > feste37, Had you rea

[FairfieldLife] Re: Take the The Civic Literacy Quiz

2008-11-22 Thread feste37
I got only 3 wrong, so my score was 90.91%. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" wrote: > > > > How well do you know your [U.S.] civics? I > > scored 81.82%. How about you? > > 87.88% (4 wrong out of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sorry Judy

2009-05-25 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard M" wrote: > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > Lawson, Politicians define themselves ideologically by their > > > > > words and deeds on a political spectrum ranging from left to > > > > > right. Left is the big Mommy government, "I'l

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Un-sustainable TM organization

2011-05-30 Thread feste37
they choose. Out of those salaries, or other monies, they choose to make substantial donations. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of feste37 > Sent: M

[FairfieldLife] Speculating about CC instead of doing the work[was Re:Two...questions from Turq]

2011-06-12 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: >I probably did but I tend to gloss over anything Judy related in his posts or >Barry related in yours. You guys just don't seem to get each other and don't >bring out the best in each other. I find this a good comment on th

[FairfieldLife] Question Re: Universal Health Care (aka ObamaCare)

2011-06-12 Thread feste37
I just hope Weiner does not resign. I see he is now undergoing "treatment." For what, I wonder? What is he supposed to have done wrong? I think this should be between Weiner and his wife. I can't see what it's got to do with anyone else. The problem as I see it is with monogamy, which is an un

[FairfieldLife] Re: Spiritual Maturity - the absence of spiritual groupie-ism

2011-06-20 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > If I had to come up with some notion of what the "inner" > > > aspect of spiritual m

[FairfieldLife] Re: Help a Saint - Lose Your Badge

2011-06-21 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Jun 21, 2011, at 7:47 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > [...] > >>> Of course it could be both. ANd I don't see much distinction, if any, > >>> since MMY also said that CC was required to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Transcendental Meditation:Topping The Bestseller List Since 1975 by Philip Gold

2011-06-22 Thread feste37
Whether it's on the best-seller list is not really the point. It's a formidable book by someone whose credentials are beyond dispute. How embarrassing for the anti-TM faction on this board, who insist ad nauseam that the TM movement is almost dead, the research is worthless, etc, etc, etc. Tim

[FairfieldLife] Re: Says who?-Lurker alert

2011-06-24 Thread feste37
Thanks for the link. Ch. 13 of that book, by Cynthia Ann Hume, is very interesting. It gives an account of RC and his impact on MIU in the early 1980s. I didn't know all that. I was on faculty at the time. I do remember that Greg Wilson was clearly discomfited by his encounters with RC, judgin

[FairfieldLife] Re: The Circus begins

2011-06-27 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > > > I was completed shocked when I saw Michelle Bachmann on Fox last night (and > > I *never* watch Fox). Extremely poised, present, and articulate. I have > > r

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-06-30 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" wrote: > > > Hey Raunchy - as our resident poet, I came across > this the other day. Do you like it? (It comforts me as I > wait in fear for some LARGE zebra to get all medieval on > my arse as he did with Ravi (peace be upon his beloved)):

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-07-01 Thread feste37
Don't go, Masked Zebra. We love you. You make us think. Usually we just hurl insults. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:49 PM, maskedzebra wrote: > > > Dear Tom, > > > > Just to clear one thing up. I never paid any attention to post counts, >

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-07-02 Thread feste37
Once again, I have enjoyed your posts, MZ, which are written with such grace and conviction and ruthless honesty. I think you are on an amazing journey. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > > > > > Don'

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-07-03 Thread feste37
his? > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > , but I have all my adult life (I started TM when I was 17) imbibed the > > Indian philosophy of "unity is all there is." And thanks to

[FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William of Occam

2011-07-04 Thread feste37
n hearing more about how you currently experience the world, and why. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > I've been enjoying your posts because of the intense intellectual, spiritual, > and emotional drama they reveal going on

[FairfieldLife] Re: hearing voices

2011-07-08 Thread feste37
I think the best fictional voice on FFL is that of "the wife," as Bob refers to her, who reminds me of "She Who Must Be Obeyed" in John Mortimer's Rumpole series. Definitely a formidable off-stage character. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price wrote: > > I'm pleased a couple of pos

[FairfieldLife] Re: Notice of Infringement

2011-07-13 Thread feste37
You're wrong on that, actually. Dan began posting here before that, only to be attacked by you for no reason at all after just one or two inoffensive posts. You mocked and ridiculed him. You tend to do this when any new person appears here. Are you aware of this rather unpleasant behavior on y

[FairfieldLife] Re: GENOCIDAL EVIL

2011-07-15 Thread feste37
It's a satirical essay. The clue is in the subtitle, "A modest proposal on debt: Let the government close." It's an allusion to a famous 18th century satirical essay by Jonathan Swift in which he suggests that the Irish could ease their poverty by selling their children to rich people, who wou

[FairfieldLife] Geoffrey Baker

2011-04-16 Thread feste37
I heard that Geoffrey Baker died a day or so ago. He must have been nearly 90. He came to the States in about 1979, I think, from England, and was at MUM ever since. In the 1980s and 90s he was very well known for his Sunday morning art history lectures on campus, and the lecture hall was always

[FairfieldLife] Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-20 Thread feste37
Adyashanti was excellent in the Sondheim last night. He had a good crowd, about 300, I would guess. He is very smart, very articulate, well worth hearing, for those who like that kind of thing (the "waking up" thing, that is). I much prefer him to the imperious drama queen, Gangaji. He handled q

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-20 Thread feste37
This is a forum on which people express their opinions. I was expressing mine. Nothing "unnecessary" or "inappropriate" about it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > Comment from a non-FFL member friend on this thread: > > > > I think putting down gangji was in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Adyashanti in Fairfield

2011-04-21 Thread feste37
Adyashanti was brilliant last night, even better than the first night. An amazing performance: absolutely clarity, beautifully expressed, all the time--and very entertaining, too. All the talk about "living in the nothing" and going within and finding no one there reminded me of Emily Dickins

[FairfieldLife] Re: Changing the Osama Narrative

2011-05-04 Thread feste37
Raunchy, you're making a fool of yourself. He wasn't dead, but he sure is now. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" wrote: > > > > > > --- In F

[FairfieldLife] the IMF guy . . .

2011-05-16 Thread feste37
Why couldn't he just have ordered up a tart from an escort service, told them she had to be dressed as a maid and pretend to resist, and then charge it to his IMF expense account? Much safer. Now he has ruined his life. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Scott Werner will be at the library tonight - Monday

2011-05-17 Thread feste37
Sometimes what people say about "healers" isn't quite what those healers say about themselves. This answers some of your questions, but note that Scott Werner does not say he cured his own cancer through some mystical experience, unless that experience was the "miracle" of finding this woman.

[FairfieldLife] Re: MUM 's Mission Statement redux

2011-05-19 Thread feste37
I don't know where Doug gets these different versions from but the one that actually appears is not bad at all: About the University Mission Statement of the University Maharishi University of Management was founded in 1971 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to fulfill the highest ideals of education.

[FairfieldLife] Re: To Vaj- The Magical Puja Placebo

2011-05-19 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardnelson108" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > > On May 19, 2011, at 6:38 PM, richardnelson108 wrote: > > > > > Hello Vaj- I could not help but respond to your post #277247. > > > > > > Why do you conti

[FairfieldLife] Re: Bill Bauman & What's the difference between advertising and religion?

2011-05-24 Thread feste37
I would steer clear of anyone who writes his own biography in the third-person like this guy does. He sounds appallingly conceited. Someone should tell him. What kind of a person describes HIMSELF as a "self-realized giant"? And what the hell is "personal ultimacy" supposed to mean? Remember,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Afterlife

2011-05-24 Thread feste37
feste37: Happy to be absent entirely from this Afterlife since he believes that utter nonexistence is the most desirable state of all. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Inspired by David Eagleman's "Sum," I thought I'd spend some time >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-25 Thread feste37
Vaj reminds me of the wacko political right who will say anything to put their Democratic enemies in a bad light. For example, the claims in the 1990s that Bill Clinton was involved in drug-running and that Vince Foster, the Clinton aide, was murdered. Same thing against Obama. They will say any

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-25 Thread feste37
Glad you're reading me, Sunshine! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > A pile-on just wouldn't be the same without > a drive-by from feste. > > Sal > > On May 25, 2011, at 2:42 PM, feste37 wrote: > > Vaj reminds me of the wacko

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-25 Thread feste37
Glad you're reading me, Sunshine! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > A pile-on just wouldn't be the same without > a drive-by from feste. > > Sal > > On May 25, 2011, at 2:42 PM, feste37 wrote: > > Vaj reminds me of the wacko

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-26 Thread feste37
Have you even read the posts by Richard you quote here? He presents a very strong case against all the accusations made by Vaj. Read it. All you do is try to smear him as "unstable," which is plainly not the case. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > Here are Richar

[FairfieldLife] Re: Interesting little story about Balraj Maharishi

2011-05-26 Thread feste37
Same advice to you: read the posts rather than attempting another pitiful smear. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On May 26, 2011, at 8:50 AM, feste37 wrote: > > > Have you even read the posts by Richard you quote here? He presents a very > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread feste37
I learned TM in the old old days and never knew the name of my initiator. I only saw her once and then was checked by someone else the next day. When I got on TTC I was asked, "How do we know that you ever learned TM?" I said I wouldn't be there if I hadn't. They took my word for it. I was on

[FairfieldLife] the poisoning

2011-05-27 Thread feste37
So, you poison your spiritual teacher, then for the rest of your life you choose to sit directly under his portrait, give him credit for everything you have done and are doing, and thank him by name after every speech or lecture you make. Does this scenario make any sense?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Vaj never learned, practiced, or taught TM

2011-05-27 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > I really doubt any records back any length of time > are kept or accessible in any way~~which is > undoubtedly why they ask you your TTC and > initiator over and over. Or at least they ddid. > A fun way to check would be to regist

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fox News vs. reality - Amsterdam

2011-01-30 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "wayback71" wrote: > > > > > > O-Reilly and Fox News have hurt America's reputation in > > > the world. They make us look

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judith Bourque coming to Los Angeles

2011-02-06 Thread feste37
I feel compelled to comment that Judith's book is a very amateurish effort and is littered with errors of all kinds on every page. Some people may not notice or care, but I would have hoped that someone marketing a book in this way would have taken the trouble to create a professional product.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Judith Bourque coming to Los Angeles

2011-02-06 Thread feste37
06, 2011 5:09 PM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Judith Bourque coming to Los Angeles > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > I feel compelled to comment that Judith's book

[FairfieldLife] Re: Absolute Silence

2011-02-13 Thread feste37
I wouldn't hold your breath about any announcement about Egypt from the TMO. If it should be tempted to claim any credit for rousing the Egyptian masses, it might find itself embarrassed a little closer to home, since according to a report published last week in the Ottumwa Courier, the crime

[FairfieldLife] Re: The *real* TM introductory lecture

2011-02-21 Thread feste37
Has it ever occurred to you that you in fact know nothing at all about the "typical TM practitioner living in Fairfield"? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Walking my dogs this morning, I found myself wondering > how many here would have "signed up" to learn TM if the

[FairfieldLife] Re: The *real* TM introductory lecture

2011-02-21 Thread feste37
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > Has it ever occurred to you that you in fact know nothing > > at all about the "typical TM practitioner living in Fairfield"? > > Has it ever occurred to you that you could "correct"

[FairfieldLife] Re: Questions for Vaj

2011-02-25 Thread feste37
Actually, you seem to care a lot about it. If you didn't, why would you make so many posts, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, attacking MMY and the TMO? If you are so bored with it, why do you keep writing about it? Why are you still so angry about MMY and the

[FairfieldLife] Re: A checklist of Turq's psychological traits, cry for help

2011-03-02 Thread feste37
I have no idea whether Turquoise B has a personality disorder, but he certainly expresses a lot of anger and aggression toward others. He loves to mock and goad and bully and ridicule other people. In my experience this kind of behavior is an attempt, whether conscious or not, to compensate fo

[FairfieldLife] Re: Mini-Film Review: Never Let Me Go

2011-03-03 Thread feste37
I found the book to be one long bore. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > Just saw this the other day. What a poignant movie. Deeply moving. I went out > a bought the book. > > --- On Thu, 3/3/11, turquoiseb wrote: > > > From: turquoiseb > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Radha Ma RIP

2011-03-07 Thread feste37
Does anyone know why she would do such a thing? I had never heard of her, but I just looked at her Facebook page. Self-immolation -- wtf? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, blusc0ut wrote: > > > > A friend who is usually in the k

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fairfield Filmmaker Claims He's Victim of Hate Crime

2011-03-08 Thread feste37
If someone enters your house after midnight, drunk and uninvited, I would have thought you were allowed to beat them up and throw them out. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jpgillam" wrote: > > "Alshaibi said he used bad judgment entering the > residence but he'd grown up in a college

[FairfieldLife] Re: Iraqi American Filmmaker Beaten in Fairfield

2011-03-09 Thread feste37
That's a bit like saying a snowstorm in March disproves global warming. The ME effect was never predicted to eliminate crime, only to reduce it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > Well, this is a great example of what's called "prima facie" evidence that > completely contr

[FairfieldLife] Re: Iraqi American Filmmaker Beaten in Fairfield

2011-03-09 Thread feste37
Not for the first time, you seem to have a reading comprehension problem. Try reading my post again and see what it actually says and doesn't say. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2011, at 10:32 AM, feste37 wrote: > > > That&#

[FairfieldLife] Re: Usama Story Redux

2011-03-11 Thread feste37
So you think they should be castrated? ("Removed from the breeding gene pool".) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter wrote: > > > > I was communicating with a person on Facebook who claims to know what > > happened that night

[FairfieldLife] Re: What I find fascinating about FFL, in two words

2011-03-11 Thread feste37
Turquoise consistently constructs "straw man" arguments, positing something that no one believes and then taking delight in tearing it down. It's easy to see through once you understand the method. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" wrote: > > Hey Sal, listed below are the ly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Let's cut foreign aid from 1% to 10% of the budget!

2011-03-12 Thread feste37
I think we should have some kind of civics test before allowing people to vote. Immigrants have to pass a civics test to become U.S. citizens, so why not apply it to all citizens? If you want to vote, get yourself a civics education. If not, your opinions are worthless, as this article shows,

[FairfieldLife] Re: An Enjoyable Evening In Holland

2011-03-12 Thread feste37
What a completely idiotic post. A dinner party with neighbors compared to an Internet forum? Ever heard of the need to compare like with like? And by the way, given your derogatory comments about Fairfield, it might surprise you to know that when I bought a house here, the neighbors also c

[FairfieldLife] Re: An Enjoyable Evening In Holland

2011-03-12 Thread feste37
SO much better than FFL. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > What a completely idiotic post. A dinner party with neighbors > > compared to an Internet forum? Ever heard of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread feste37
I would blame God for creating life in the first place. I think we would all have been better off without it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > So, not only can we blame the Jews, but we now can also blame their god. I'd > rather blame all the rajas, especially King

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread feste37
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > I would blame God for creating life in the first place. I > > think we would all have been better off without it. > > "In the beginning

[FairfieldLife] Re: Japan and God of Israel?

2011-03-15 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > I would blame God for creating life in the first place. I > > think we would all have been better off without it. >

[FairfieldLife] Is this video that different than 'ME fanatics'? (was Re: Japan and God)

2011-03-16 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > > > > Now ask yourself, is this woman all that different > > > from the people you've heard talking about the > > > supposed Maharishi Effect, > > > > Dear Turq, > > > > Ye

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Social Progressives vs.TM Conservatives, Light at the End of the Tunnel

2011-03-17 Thread feste37
Imagine my alarm when I woke up this morning to find myself described as a True Believer. Actually, I have too rich a sense of irony to be a true believer in anything, and also too much of a sense of humor. I would like to see the numbers in the Dome go up largely because I like to see local e

[FairfieldLife] Re: TM Social Progressives vs.TM Conservatives, Light at the End of the Tunnel

2011-03-17 Thread feste37
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Tom Pall wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Buck wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > > > Color me not convinced that many of these people > > > making these urgent pleas for more BBs For Peace >

[FairfieldLife] Libya

2011-03-19 Thread feste37
Hard to believe we're now at war with yet another Muslim country. Our third in a mere 8 years. When will we learn? We should leave Libya alone. They have a civil war out there. Well, most regrettable, but someone will win and someone will lose, and it's no business of ours.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Libya

2011-03-19 Thread feste37
ll. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" wrote: > > > > Hard to believe we're now at war with yet another Muslim country. Our > third in a mere 8 years. When will we learn? We should leave Libya > alone. They have a civil war out there. Wel

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