Category Archives: Radical

May 21

“ARE YE TRYING OR DYING?”

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 STARTING YOUR DAY RIGHT?  Here are 5 passionate Tips for your own Self Care: 1-Fuel Your Body, 2-Take a Nap, 3-Turn Off Alarm, 4-Do Nothing, or 5-Have a little Fun.  TAKING CARE OF YOUR SELF 1st helps you take care of others later.  U can do at least 1 a day, OK…..”YE HAVE NOT CAUSE YE TRY NOT”.-mackie
Fuel your body Rather than sliding your meals between meetings, eat when your body signals hunger. You’ll need to be prepared for this. You can pack some snacks like fruit, nuts, or those nifty Kind bars.
Take a nap No, not at your desk:-) Try taking a nap on Saturday and Sunday, or after work. You can set a timer or just allow yourself to sleep until you wake up.
Turn off your alarm Do you wake up to buzzing or the sound of news on the radio? Do you slap it several times to snooze? Are you annoyed with your alarm? Try un-setting your alarm this week. I know it’s scary. I’m going to try it myself. If not un-setting the alarm, try changing the wake up sound to something pleasant like a chime or a “good morning” ringtone from your kids.
Do nothing I got this idea from Christine Kane. I’ve always thrived on meditation. Doing nothing takes it a step further. I don’t even have to concentrate on my breath. For 15 minutes, I just sit, and do absolutely nothing. I can let my mind drift if it wants to. It churns and churns. I don’t coax it to come back to center. I just sit. In silence. Doing nothing.
Read something for fun As consultants, we’re always reading industry publications, journals, or news. When was the last time you read something for fun – chick lit, erotica, spy novels, comic books? Try reading something that you would have read as a teenager. Laugh a little. Become engrossed in a story that’s pure reverie!
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       Want to change your city, state, country and world? Following is your best way:   CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSONS: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ Even if you get a voice mail, leave a message for they count the “For/Against.” Vote for the candidate who WILL BE FAIR TO ALL, OK?
HELPING OTHERS HELP THEMSELVES HELPS YOU!
May 20

Southern Baptist Convention to vote on 1st Black President…

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The Rev. Fred Luter II of the Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, La., is set to become the first ever African-American president of the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention, as he is so far the only candidate for the election in June.

The Southern Baptist Convention, which has long dealt with issues of race since splitting in 1845 with Northern Baptists over the right to hold slaves, has grown to accept a diverse array of cultures within its congregation. Once an all-white membership, nearly 20 percent of its current congregation nationwide now is composed of minorities. Until now, however, it has never had an African-American president – Luter himself was the first ever African-American first vice-president of the denomination, appointed in June 2011.

Luter has had a long and turbulent road to rise in the ranks, The Tennessean reported, revealing that when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, his church was destroyed and lost its entire 7,000-member congregation, most of whom fled the city. Three years later, however, the Franklin Avenue Baptist church reopened its doors after help from the entire neighborhood, and now draws 5,000 people for church services. The report goes into detail about Luter’s background and upbringing, sharing how a near-fatal motorcycle accident when he was 21 guided him in the right direction toward God.

For more click on: http://www.christianpost.com/news/southern-baptist-convention-set-to-elect-first-black-president-70673/

May 07

CONGRESS HOLDING CANCER DRUG FOR BABIES 14 MNTHS?

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CANCER DRUG FOR BABIES HELD UP FOR 14 MONTHS AND WAITING. WHY? It hasn’t reached the floor. Asked leader of house and senate: We have our own way of doing things & it’s so complicated I don’t have time to tell you. GOD HELP US!!! They are your employees.

CALL THEM! If we don’t they’ll just keep on talking to lobbyists $$$, etc. If the GOP STALLS LONG ENOUGH THEY MIGHT REACH THEIR GOAL: GETTING THAT BLACK PRESIDENT OUT! MANY  FUNDAMENTALIST STATES BLOCKING VOTES OF YOUNG & OLD NON-WHITES AND POOR WHITES (unless they have an ID).  TO HELL WITH THAT.  WHAT HAPPENED TO ONE PERSON ONE VOTE?  They are also closing voting booths in poor  WHITE AND NON-WHITE AREAS. 

TO HELL WITH  THAT!  HOPEFULLY ENOUGH FAIR MINDED CITIZENS WILL MAKE SURE EVERYONE  VOTES (even if they have to pick them up and make sure that they vote without hinderance).

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       Want to change your city, state, country and world? Following is your best way:   CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSONS: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ Even if you get a voice mail, leave a message for they count the “For/Against.” Vote for the candidate who WILL BE FAIR TO ALL, OK?
HELPING OTHERS HELP THEMSELVES HELPS YOU!
May 07

BAD RELIGION: BECAME NATION OF HERETICS?

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Ross Douthat, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, contends that Christianity in America has devolved from a once traditional practice to a shadow of its former self, which, according to the author, praises its followers’ self-interests and greed.
Mr. Douthat argues that this concept of “bad religion,” has hurt America’s political and social landscape and posits that heresy has usurped long-held religious beliefs.
Ross Douthat speaks with Barbara Bradley Hagerty, religion correspondent for National Public Radio and Michael Gerson, op-ed columnist for the Washington Post at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
HEAR AND SEE MUCH MORE: http://c-spanvideo.org/program/BadR
May 03

HONORING MY 2 MOMS…….

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Wahls, pictured left testifying before the Iowa State Legislature, is an engineering student at the University of Iowa.  He celebrated the marriage of his two moms in 2009.

The message below went out to Standing on the Side of Love supporters on Thursday, February 10, 2011. You can sign-up for these emails here.

Two weeks ago, I took a stand for equality, and for my family.  Taking time away from classes at the University of Iowa, where I am an engineering student, I testified before the Iowa House of Representatives in opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.  “I was raised by a gay couple,” I told lawmakers, “and I’m doing pretty well.”

A young Zach Wahls and his family at his moms’ 1996 commitment ceremony.A young Zach Wahls and his family at his moms’ 1996 commitment ceremony.

More than one and a half million people have now viewed my testimony on YouTube, and a lot of people have heaped an inordinately large amount of undeserved praise on me.  As a Unitarian Universalist, my testimony was simply what I was raised to believe – that we all should stand on the side of love.

A few days ago, I found out that the Standing on the Side of Love campaign was launching a new, online map of “courageous love” to mark National Standing on the Side of Love Day and had posted my testimony before the legislature to the map.  I am humbled that someone thought my family’s story might be an inspiration to others across the country and have been truly touched by the outpouring of support not just for my family, but for families like mine all across the world.

So, let me ask you — who in your life and your community would you like to honor for the tremendous ways in which they stand on the side of love?

 

Click on: http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/blog/honoring-my-two-moms/

Apr 26

PUTTING OLD FORMS BEHIND TO BECOME AWARE OF THE NOW…..

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UNIVERSE:  YOU WERE FORMED by your parents, sounds, sights, feelings, words, thoughts, peers, etc.,
THEY EVEN GAVE YOU YOUR NAME.  A wise one stated:
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.”
Will we continue to live in that old form that labelled us?  Or WILL WE BECOME AWARE OF THE ETERNAL UNIVERSAL SPIRIT and begin to become the unique person we were meant to be?
Apr 19

TEN TOP TWEETS FOR U…..

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http://www.mrm.org/ten-lies DOES ROMNEY TELL LIES? (source cited)
Mitt Romney visits Ohio plant that closed under Bush, blames President Obama for its failure to reopen: http://apne.ws/I20JGQ -RAS
Toto the cat survives huge tornado, inspires children’s book http://huff.to/JPBfec
Pakistani women’s lives destroyed by acid attacks http://bbc.in/HWuBsG
Obama Looking Good In Florida http://thebea.st/JhgFGX #cheatsheet
#Ahmadinejad‘s visit to Abu Musa Island sparks war of words, @AJInsideStory looks at the implications | http://aje.me/Jha6RV
As Pat Summitt steps down as head hoops coach at the University of Tennessee, the void she leaves is immeasurable. http://ow.ly/aouty
Mary Norris writes about her life as a pencil snob: I tried “a mechanical pencil, but I found it soulless” http://nyr.kr/IBG3p0
Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government’s Stranglehold on America http://bit.ly/HeAY43 Pick up your copy today! #teaparty
WIsh I had hours and hours right now to explore this interactive map of all the protected areas in the world: http://mojo.ly/HVUqp6
Retweeted by Mother Jones
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       Want to change your city, state, country and world?  Following is your best way: 
CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSONS: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Even if you get a voice mail, leave a message for they count the “For/Against.
” Vote for the candidate who WILL BE FAIR TO ALL, OK?
HELPING OTHERS HELP THEMSELVES HELPS YOU!
Apr 10

WHAT’S GOING ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IN YOUR STATE?

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“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.” ― Albert Einstein

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Coke, Pepsi and Kraft have dropped their membership with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). FOLLOWING IS WHAT’S GOING ON IN SC. Click here to tell YOUR STATE and other firms bankrolling ALEC to do the same.
ALEC Politicians:
ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) They fund almost all of ALEC’s operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. It might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at ALECexposed.org.
This is a partial list of politicians that are known to be involved in, or previously involved in, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). It is a partial list. It also includes politicians who have been featured speakers or who have accepted awards at ALEC meetings. (If you have additional names, please add them with a citation. The names in this original list were verified as of posting.)
FOR SC AND OTHER STATES CLICK ON:
“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.” ― Charles Dickens

“A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.” ― George Bernard Shaw
Apr 09

POLITICIANS-CORPRTNS REWRITING YOUR RIGHTS…..

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Through the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council: global corporations and state politicians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that govern your rights. These so called “model bills…” reach into almost every area of American life and directly benefit huge corporations.

Through ALEC, Global Corporations Are Scheming to Rewrite YOUR Rights and Boost THEIR Revenue. In ALEC’s own words,

corporations have “a VOICE and a VOTE” on specific changes to the law that are then proposed in your state.

 “BREAKING: Intuit Out of ALEC; Coke, Kraft, Pepsi, too, while Koch Stands Ground (Rebekah Wilce, PRWatch)

TAKE ACTION NOW!  Click on: http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

Apr 09

SEARCHING FOR TRUTH RESOLVES CONFLICTS……

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The Big Bang itself is a scientific theory, and as such stands or falls by its agreement with observations.[2] But as a theory which addresses the origins of reality it carries theological implications regarding the concept of creation ex nihilo (a Latin phrase meaning “out of nothing”).[3][4][5] In addition, many theologians and physicists have viewed the Big Bang as implicating theism;[6][7] a popular philosophical argument for the existence of God known as the Kalām cosmological argument rests in the concepts of the Big Bang.[8][9] In the 1920s and 1930s almost every major cosmologist preferred an eternal steady state Universe, and several complained that the beginning of time implied by the Big Bang imported religious concepts into physics; this objection was later repeated by supporters of the steady state theory,[10] who rejected the implication that the universe had a beginning.[11][12]

Pope Pius XIIdeclared, at the November 22, 1951, opening meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, that the Big Bang theory does not conflict with the Catholic concept of creation.[13][14] Conservative ProtestantChristian denominationshave also welcomed the Big Bang theory as supporting a historical interpretation of the doctrine of creation.[15]
For much more on religious and scientific beliefs click on: