Walls walls everywhere, but not a drop of audaCiTY in capaCiTY to bring them down.  The international CiTY of Berlin (2008 July 24th) ONCE again brings in crowds and ONCE again rings in chime of ONENESS.  Perhaps (incidentally a most used word of his) Barack Hussein Obama is the ONCE and again improbable hope of planet earth's future.

For all those walls he urges the world to tear down in Reaganesce aka Kennedyesce style, division and derision will stand firm between race, creed, and nation unless invested chance meets ventured trust.  "IMAGINE" that "ONE WORLD is enough for all of us."

Police  http://www.actionext.com/names_s/sting_police_lyrics/one_world.html
Unitus  http://www.unitus.com/get-involved/the-police-concert-tour/the-police-concert-tour
Lennon  http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/john+lennon/imagine_20254371.html    

Here, right now, on that long lonesome highway, traveled by many, remembered by few, looking for something I can believe in - something I'd like to do with my life ... when there's nothing to tie me to something that might have been true yesterday, tomorrow is open.  Right now that seems more than enough, just to be here today.  I don't know what the future is holding in store. I don't know where I'm going.  I'm not sure where I've been, but right now I'll make my life worth living.  I don't need to see the end.  So live without care ... like a fish in the water; like a bird in the air.  With a spirit that guides me and a light that shines before me, I must care enough to surrender.

Reflected upon 1st day of retirement.
Source: "Sweet Surrender",  John Deutschendorf, Henry Deutschendorf, JD
http://www.johndenver.com/philanthropy/phil.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denver

"The best part is that for the millions of dollars we spend on toys only to have them full of lead or come apart and choke a kid, the best toys [wanted most by kidz on the ground floor] are the homemade or everyday things around the house.

"No, [that's] not really Scrooge ... It's buy nothing [i.e. Stuff] ... not give nothing.  There was this ritual where [one] would give each other gifts whenever [they] saw something the other would like... but specifically NOT on [the holidays] or birthdays.  It was sort of a because-I-want-to-not-because-I-have-to thing."

That's a treasure of a thought this time of year.  That thought certainly is NOT 'Scrooge', NOR 'Hallmarkie' - possibly the 2nd worse the first!?  The Stuff of that thought is all together and all right, both well-wrapped and a gift, to those lucky enough to be around such a person - a special peace.

Very possibly there's a direct ratio between buying less to celebrating more ... http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/ ... !sreehC [in reverse].

Victoria California Clafin Woodhull http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull was nominated in 1872 for President of the United States Of American while running with a former slave (Frederick Douglass) as her Vice President http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Thatcher_Ulrich, former Pulitzer Prize winner, released the 2007 hardcover, "Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History." http://media.www.californiaaggie.com/media/storage/paper981/news/2007/11/02/CampusNews/Laurel.Thatcher.Ulrich.Speaks.At.The.Arc-3074727.shtml

Just perhaps consternation over current party choices for Presidency is more about a traditionally & comfortably inbred culture of voters than it is candidates?  Are voters minding what matters?

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” (Dr. Seuss - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seuss).  It's critically important, when voting, to Mind What Matters!

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” (Maya Angelou - http://www.mayaangelou.com/).  It's critically important, when voting, to Mind Emotions, but Feel What Matters! 

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.” (Helen Rowland - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Rowland).  It's critically important, when voting, to Mind Understanding, but Love What Matters!

If I believe the hue of Oranges & Yellows are the most redeeming colors, perhaps I'm looking for brighter days.  If I believe the hue of  Reds & Blacks are the strongest colors, perhaps I'm looking for courage.  If i believe the hue of Blues & Greens are the most relaxing, perhaps I'm looking for soulfullness.

 Perhaps What You Believe is a Product of Your Needs ... not Your Knowledge?

Take the COURAGE to examine your SOUL and "amend & alter" for BRIGHTER days.

• Ehren Watada - Socrates Smiles
http://clearblogs.com/DiFferRentsPace/31772/Ehren+Watada+-+Socrates+Smiles.html

• White Crosses East to West
http://clearblogs.com/DiFferRentsPace/28908/White+Crosses+East+to+West.html

..... No religion's got the corner on divine truth nor the path for all nations.  No religious texts have original scripts from a divine source.  At most they claim 2nd hand inspiration and or reconstituted, flawed copy work.

..... Nor can so-called, inspired words speak for themselves - as consequent, on-going, interpretation self-evidently proves.  Resorting to a final defense of mythical faith or a 1st cause is acceptable, but should not substitute itself for dogma and indoctrination.

..... So can it be safely concluded We [all mankind] need to pledge allegiance to the United Resources of the Universe and only to Peaceful Endeavors for which it stands, one assembly united under universality of religion and not of religion, with liberty and justice for all of One shared and Equal Space?

That statistically pre-emptive, ImmigrationCounters.com database with flat-tables does not account for significant numbers & dates:  ImmigrationCounters.com might also supplement their website with a real world map.  Check the % of population presence at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Map-Hispanophone_World.png#Sources_for_the_legend
Here's a fact.  The World ain't FLAT & Hispania's already aROUND it!

"The projected Hispanic population of the United States for July 1, 2050, is 105.6 million people. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 25% of the nation’s total population on that date".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic

ImmigrationCounters.com missed 1492, the year, along with not remembering the Original "illegal" Alien discovering "our" America. The names of those 3 ships give a hint to ethnic country of origin.  Spaniards probed half of today's lower 48 states [including the absolute center, Kansas] before the first English colonization attempt at 1585's Roanoke Island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic

Controversy over immigration is mute when invasion aka presence is already here.  It was over before the rest of us even got here - 1492!  Play & Display the numbers & dollars, but come bottom line, the  totality of it all must be accepted.  Embrace it, work it through & choose to better all in the real world we've always been part of.

Set Scene: cartoon of sinking, wooden, ARK; animals looking overboard at multiple hull holes; Noah frantically shooing away two woodpeckers.

Ranked by adherent size, 8 religion groupings break out to 33%, 21%, 14%, 6%, 6%, 0.4%, & 0.2% ... and to complete the 8 grouping, there's the remaining %s of primal-indigenous or other categories.  In addition to the prior 8 group percentages, another 8% is nonreligious (meaning no preference, humanist, agnostic or atheist) & another 8% is theistic-nonreligious.

Although they're not ranked by who's more right or more wrong, what they do have in common are claims to "Revelation" i.e. a god spoke to and/or sent the religion's leader.  The followers thereafter are endowed with belief or, more rarely, choose it.  Followers, when convinced by leaders to enact their gods' wishes, will do anything - wherein lie the holes!

site: http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html Percentage Graph

site: the 100 Most Influential People in History Afilliation & Influence

Negativity nostrils sense up on this BOOK [link site below].  Rebuilding a country does not ride along side the rebuilding of an auto company to which some say Mustang & Pinto were no more than decorative hides [innuendo intended?] with a modicum of Ford quality & safety hazard beneath the saddle.  And where is Ford itself NOT within its current stagecoach industry?

Appears Iacocca did not even build the book by himself - what with a co-author Catherine Whitney?  Why do Iacocca & Others not mount the nightmare itself rather than just herd out another single, inept, administration?  To use Iacocca's own words [exerpt @ Amazon link] "So let's shake off the horseshit [Mustang & Pinto reference again?] and go to work."  Guess he does not even heed his own steed's "exerpt"!
 
site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Iacocca
site http://www.amazon.com/Where-Have-All-Leaders-Gone/dp/1416532471

Perhaps it's another difficult North West Passage to find distant shores of PEACE.  Washington & Utah ring early voice in the truth-be-told to assure no one, any longer, dies for lies:  site http://www.washblog.com/story/2007/3/2/16219/46316

State of Washington Senator Eric Oemig
site http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/307394_localbriefs14.html

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson
site http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/1/19949/44077

What's Running Up The Clock?  Perhaps a SELF-FULFILLING APOCALYPSE?

As to the old saw "Be careful what you wish for; you may get it."  If you hold the instruments of war while at the same time you're holding apocalyptic beliefs, can your wishful will easily slip inside your humanistic warring nature, in wrongful resignation, to hasten [fullfill your belief] toward an unneccesary consequence of fatalistic end-times?  Think what just such a leader of nation(s) could thus engender!  That translates into "All We Have To Fear Is Fear [and fear-mongering] Itself."

site http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-fukuyama4feb04,0,6314596.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail Fukuyama of Johns Hopkins Advanced International Studies
site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy "Fear & Logical Confusion"
site http://www.historicist.com/
site http://www.historicist.com/articles2/globalelite.htm
site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Scofield
site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy
site http://blog.apocalypticmediations.com/apocalypse_myth/index.html
site http://marcusodonnell.com/
site http://www.apocalypticmediations.com/

What iT Takes to Make an Ehren Watada:
" ... stuck to his principles, even under enormous pressure ..."  "... armed only with unshakable conviction and a simple truth ..."  "All it takes ... is persistence ..."
site: http://eatthestate.org/11-12/ArmyBlinked.htm  EaT The STaTe !

Upon returning from IRAQ: Nancy Pelosi 2/1/2007 states "our commitment is to insuring that the policies they [OUR TROOPS] are given to implement match the exceptional quality of their service and their sacrifice."  On  6/22/2006 U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Ehren K. Watada is the first commissioned officer to IRAQ to publicly refuse deployment.

Cape Cod CROSSES
site: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2398584

Santa Barbara CROSSES
site: http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/United_States/photo354104.htm 
site: http://www.peaceheroes.com/PeaceHeroes/arlingtonwest.htm

Ohio CROSSES site: http://nwopc.org/

Lt. Ehren Watada's NO! site: http://www.ltwatada.org/ 
JAIL? site: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/301877_amy01.html 

Casualty Count Ticker
site: http://icasualties.org/oif/ 

Taken at face value as cuckoo concerns, coups & controls (military overtaking civilian control) within the United States government may not be a crazy consideration given recent timings of appointments within US Intelligence Agencies.  Even the talk of coups have their inherent confusion i.e. would a military coup be led by Cheney to control the country or would the military itself assert a coup to save the country against Cheney Imperialism in general and/or specific oil-inspired expansion into Iran?  Telling Times That Time Will Tell.
site http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070105/UPDATE/701050460
site http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/04/americas-finance-driven-military-coup.html
site http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/seven-days-in-may_b_36784.html
site http://sumomerriment.blogspot.com/2006/11/cheneys-revengeor-how-dark-one-will.html
site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside

The most we can probably ever do is 1st raise it & then keep on repairing ... as better spoken by George Washington [1st President USA] at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the inscription at the top of The Arch in Washington Square of Greenwich Village, NY reads "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair …"   Any questions?
site http://www.nypost.com/seven/11192006/news/regionalnews/bucks_drop_here_regionalnews_patrick_white.htm
Wa$hington $quare Ru$e
site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_Park about it
site http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GV/GV046WashingtonSquareArch.htm pics

Maybe ESPN’s all JACKed UP showing their weekly most violent hits of NFL play?  Maybe XIAN’s are all CROSSed UP wearing in silver or gold, their Roman symbol of violence i.e. the crucifixion timbers?  Jack did not hang his ghastly death upon a “t” or an “x” to sponsor fear & violence for a cross held high in war.  This ‘myth of redemptive violence’, no matter how it’s drawn up, is = to “o”.

site http://www.jonahhouse.org/McAlisterSt.JohnParish04.htm violence

site http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/fraser/article_061124crosses.shtml
site http://www.cathnews.com/news/611/35.php kill hill

In Wyoming’s Sweetwater County, the city of Green River was the first in 1931 to enact an ordinance banning door-to-door solicitation.  Marketing has since blown doors off common sense, public effort to shield mass harassment, by ill-intended motivations of economic or political gain, to manipulate both the moral & social conscience of citizens.  Neither the Green River Ordinance nor effort since bans FEAR as agency of the war-minded.

site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_Ordinance

site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mania

site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic

site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_fear

Before Colonial America, it was the French who put the “rev” in Revolution to the point of joining east coast Colonialists in ground battle against British military.  Later America was gifted with the Statue of Liberty from France’s Alexandre Gustave Eiffel – of Eiffel Tower fame.

Throughout world history, Lady Goddesses of Liberty led nations forward & were depicted & honored in various world cultures.  Perhaps once again, come 2007, France will lead the way with Segolene Royal, currently in lead of prominent polls for France’s next President … yes, a Lady.

site http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/18/stories/2006011805131300.htm Segolene Royal

site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Eiffel

site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Liberty

The idea was to prevent tyranny.  The way was to split power 3 ways.  Although inefficient, it does check & balance Presidents & Political parties.  The executive branch is held in check by the judiciary branch while the legislative branch implements or corrects judicial laws &/or has power to investigate even Presidents, their policies & process.  The executive branch acts within (or not) this scheme.

The 2006 mid-term elections swung balance to the opposite party which now holds one triad of power to investigate.  How far investigations go, including Corporations, Intelligence, or Military, may play out.  Correction may be needed prior new course on national & international concerns.

site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers

site http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12675876/

Hello Political Junkies … step aside Sports Fantasy Freaks.  Pick your 16 congressional team & then pass or run Reps & Senators thru legislature openings.  Play out your 1^st down chamber votes by carrying your bills into an end zone of signed laws for points.

site http://www.fantasycongress.com/fc/public/how/team.jsp

YOU may be well convinced YOUR religion is the right one, but it may not be the right one for YOU.  20 quick questions [quiz link site below] will filter your beliefs & thinking & will then match YOU to the 27 established religions.  Curious?

site http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html 20 Question Quiz

site http://www.beliefnet.com/about/index.asp About Beliefnet

site http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/faith_communities.asp 139 Religions & Counting

Wars rage havoc ever since WWI was meant the war to end all wars.  In moment of silence, truce is now forgotten as veterans unfurl flag & pomp.  The 1938 bill for an 11/11 Armistice Day holiday “dedicated to the cause of world peace” officially was changed 1954 to Veterans Day.  What was changed?  What was won?

                                                                   What was lost ?

Although “Where The Boys Are” 1960 song/movie hit of Connie Francis maps out Fort Lauderdale FL as the place, Linda McQuaig’s hit in 2004 “It's The Crude, Dude …” although not double-sided, but a Doubleday publication, tells Where The Oils Are.

It’s about a nifty Iraq treasure map peered over 2001 by senior officials of the Bush administration with top oil execs present.  The map’s not your typical topographical  roads, rivers, & rails.  No, it was regions.  Yes, oil regions! ... and now that's "Where The Boys Are"!

site http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=6314 McQuaig Article

site http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtKkps53qjs Song & Video

site http://books.google.com/books?id=C-99FmiiIz4C&dq=Connie+Francis+Where+the+Boys+Are&pg=PA114&ots=sBOpJhkRNc&sig=ij1Hvw4zwM6_oxC4ZJPkhIwDgbw&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fas_q%3DConnie%2BFrancis%2BWhere%2Bthe%2BBoys%2BAre%26num%3D10%26hl%3Den%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch%26as_epq%3D%26as_oq%3D%26as_eq%3D%26lr%3D%26as_ft%3Di%26as_filetype%3D%26as_qdr%3Dall%26as_nlo%3D%26as_nhi%3D%26as_occt%3Dany%26as_dt%3Di%26as_sitesearch%3D%26as_rights%3D%26safe%3Dimages&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=3 Birth of Spring Break 1953 Fort Lauderdale FL chapter 9 page 114

Finding an unBIASed news site is one challenge.  Finding an unBIASed spiritual site is ‘forgedaboudit!’  Hey!  Apparently anything’s still possible.  Want to go the other world route, unharrased, uninfluenced, & with comedy t’boot?  Take a LQQK @ … 

site http://www.beliefnet.com/about/index.asp

The Enemy is the Answer according to an Iraq Exit Strategy via the potential interests of both Syria’s & Iran’s assistance.  Who’da thunk that?  Perhaps that type of solution comes from minds of international political interest that deals 1^st from the top of the deck with negotiation cards of common interests at heart:

site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_N._Haass

site http://www.cfr.org/bios/3350/richard_haass.html

site http://www.cfr.org/publication/11870/withdrawal_syndrome_part_i.html?breadcrumb=%2Fbios%2F3350%2Frichard_haass

That feel which I have with me all the time & maybe shared with others in my time [generation] which only I & they can feel, not felt by others born before & after; what is that & what makes it feel that way?  It will probably cause us to become & act differently from others’ times.  Destiny calls, perhaps, in this way & choice can act upon it or counter act.  Look & learn backward at others’ times, several yet with us & still blazing their callings.  Where shall you take us?

site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y

site http://www.easternecho.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?31429

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