re: hooponopo - from http://www.hooponopono.org/i-am-the-i.htm

"I" draw my bow of rainbows across the waters,

Rainbows on the water - isn't that generally the result of OIL in the water?

@radlof - always liked Franken - he provided my intro to progressive radio. He's progressive, brilliant, witty, AND he's a Deadhead! What more could one want from a Senator?

http://www.hooponopono.org/ -- Emoto advises we use this updated Hawaiian problem solving process to collectively cleanse our gulf waters

Good Stuff:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/18/al-franken-slams-supreme_n_617448.html?view=print

Gerald: I was able to grow my eyebrows long and comb them back to cover the top of my head, and I grew my nose hairs for a moustache, but I can't get my ear hairs to grow more than an inch or so. What am I doing wrong?

Lieberman is a [expletive deleted] Hobbesian. I would have expected Collins to know better. I don't know who Carper is; but sounds like a disgrace to his party.

I've always suspected that the Internet itself is some kind of Trojan horse upon society. While it has by far the lowest entry costs of any outbound method of communication, and even non-commercial activity is possible, as well as consumption of content intended for foreign audiences, the fact remains that it was 'invented' at DARPA, deep in the bowels of the military industrial complex, back when infentor Al Gore wore an Air Force uniform. It was invented to be invulnerable to nuclear attack. Let's hope the same is true of political attack, implying Empire has unleashed something it cannot control. Some success in leveraging the Internet in authoritarian countries has been reported using the Onion Router.

How to enlist in the Savory Navy?

I would like to share with you another experience. It is a recent experience. My wife shared this experience with me. She meets with women who have graduated from a girl’s Catholic high school. My wife and her friends met in Livonia, Michigan at Newburgh Road and Six Mille Road. There is a Big Boy Restaurant. Fourteen women were at the restaurant. One of the women shared with my wife her experience. Two months before her husband died, her son and two grandchildren moved in to live with her. Her son had to move in because he lost his job. His wife died of cancer. The reason for him losing his job had to do that he took too much time off to care for his dying wife. In addition to losing his job he lost his health insurance and his home on foreclosure. This experience is occurring in a country that has wanted an amendment to make Christianity the nation’s religion. Passage of this amendment would have been blasphemy.

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness and a person is guilty of an eternal sin. Blasphemy is showing contempt or lack of reverence for God. Since Jesus is the Son of God, a person who is showing contempt and lack of reverence for Jesus, commits an eternal sin and never has forgiveness. Irreverence to God damns a person’s soul.

I, personally, want to share with you another experience. Our youngest son had a classmate at the University of Michigan who went on to graduate school at the University of Minnesota. In a few years after the completion of graduate work his friend lost all his hair. Losing hair can be from genes and possibly from pressure, stress, and worry. His friend was so concerned with the loss of his hair that for several years he let the hairs from just inside his ears grow to a length where he could cover his bald head. Since I am balding, I am considering letting my ear hairs grow to a length where I can also cover my balding head.

@mstaggerlee, I'm also betting willing to bet that that xenophobic mental troglodyte also has anti-abortion bumpersticker pasted all over his 2 miles to the gallon V-16 Jeep. Just strikes me as the type of guy who doesn't want his choices limited but is more than willing to limit others.

@gene, please double maybe even quadruple that Soma order, or maybe I should just give up turn on TV and watch People At Walmart reality show. peopleofwalmart.com (don't look harry, just go back to looking at the Republican't fatheads I sent out to you). Go to that site, and you too will see how the rest of the world sees us, I'm telling you that site is just filled with stanch unemployed Republican voters. If you're not laughing; your crying for your country.

Amazing how willfully ignorant we have become. :-(

(yeah, definitely quadruple that Soma order)

N

@Maxrot: Calm down. Your Soma is on the way. :)

It's likely that the earth would survive humans, but metastasis is a good analogy for our global situation in general.

Our model is the model of cancer: uncontrolled growth. And like a cancer, that growth takes enough resources that the organism cannot survive.

Regarding Unemployment Benefits:

http://worldnewsvine.com/2010/06/h-r-4213-gop-burns-unemployment-extensions-medicare-and-more/

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/dcblog/2010/06/unemployment_benefits_in_jeopa.html

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5497362/senate_makes_changes_to_bill_that_would.html

yeah, I think water is the life blood of Earth. and the 21st century, (if we're still here and capable of writing) will be known as the century of the water wars.

I kinda' have to disagree with Thom's Ice Pick analogy. Oil isn't the life blood of the earth, its the toxic remains of past life. To me its more like a cancer that is metastasizing, or an infection that is spreading. Anyway, it won't harm Earth, it'll just damage the thin web of life that covers its surface (which we're part of).

Either way, doom and gloom, just hard for me to equate Oil to Blood.

N