The Meandering Thoughts of a Lycian Wiccan Priest

My Dad

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:52:55 GMT

My dad was a sailor. He joined the Navy when he was eighteen years old, that was in 1940. After the war, he went into the Merchant Marines. In total, he was a sailor for 48 years. He loved the ocean. After retiring, he tried to go back to sea, but he was too old and they wouldn't take him.

He tried various business ventures on shore but never succeeded at any of them. The one thing my dad did, and did well, was be a sailor. This, however, put a lot of distance between us, his family, and him. This distance was not only physical, but emotional as well. I'm sure he tried to be there for us, but he just didn't know how to do that. He supported us financially and, although we always had to watch our expenditures, we never went hungry. We always had a roof over ours heads, clothes on our backs, and food in our stomachs. He was a hard man, and he made it hard to like him. I believe he was like this, because he had a very hard life, even from childhood. I wish it could have been different for him, but it wasn't. My dad was, who he was.

Last night, my father passed away. I loved my father. I am thinking of him, as in the past, as being away from us, because he has gone back to sea. He is standing on the deck of a ship, looking across the ocean at a beautiful sunrise and he is where he's always wanted to be, he is a sailor on board his ship.

Haiku Error Messages

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:42:07 GMT

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In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strick construction rules, each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity (and are much better than "Your computer
has performed an illegal operation.") Here they are:

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.

The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao - until
You bring fresh toner.

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

The News

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:04:05 GMT

On the news today and probably for the next month: "Michael Jackson is still dead."

16 year old homeschooler hauled away under Pariot Act

Wed, 06 May 2009 16:39:16 GMT

John Gotti was right - the biggest organized crime family in the USA is government

Our freedoms are being taken from us by a bunch of elected sociopaths who care about nothing except power.

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Drew Carey Responds to Obama About Marijuana

Wed, 06 May 2009 02:42:30 GMT

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Drew Carey Responds to Obama About Marijuana

March 29th 2009 in activism, health and welln

Recently, President Obama was asked by an audience member about legalizing marijuana, so that it could be regulated and taxed. The President’s response was unsupportive of marijuana legalization, although the Obama administration’s Attorney General Holder has signaled an end to DEA raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in states with medical marijuana laws. Drew Carey, the famous American standup comedian and humorist, responded at Reality TV with the story of Owen Beck, a young man from San Luis Obispo, California, who effectively uses marijuana as medicine after having his right lower leg amputated because of bone cancer.

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Bush Booed At Inauguration

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:50:08 GMT

Bad form! So what! Thousands dead, countries devastated, our economy in shambles; a few boo's is nothing compared to what he's done. Try him for his crimes, that would be better than boo's.

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Outgoing President George W. Bush was booed as he arrived at Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony today.

Coundown: The Bush Legacy-Eight Years in Eight Minutes

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:12:22 GMT

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From Countdown. Keith sums up the last eight years of what the Bush administration has brought us.

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Obama

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:35:16 GMT

I have not used the words "my president" since Carter was in office. Tonight, I saw MY PRESIDENT make his acceptance speech. Tonight, I am proud again to be a citizen of the United States of America!

America's best Christian

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:02:52 GMT

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McCain's Rally

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:38:22 GMT

McCain actually said this:

Madame Palin Meet Mr. Mirror

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:39:50 GMT

Not for the factually or logically adverse, nor those who believe that reality is an alien (and commie) concept.

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Bet you didn't hear this on Fox News!

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:24:13 GMT

No wonder they did it...

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Congressman Brad Sherman of California's 27th congressional district told the House in a speech on Thurs evening that several fellow Congressional representatives have said they were threatened with the prospect 'Martial Law' should they vote in opposition to the $700 billion bailout.

According to numerous Congressional testimonies, the stark panic atmosphere which has gripped both Congress and the US media was intentionally created in order to 'fast-track' a financial bailout bill. Several members of Congress were told before Monday's vote that martial law might be instigated in America if the legislation failed.

Viewers can watch his actual testimony from the House floor here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnbNm6hoBXc

Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:
Congress Threatened with Martial Law Over Bail Out Bill

Mishaps mark John McCain's record as naval aviator

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:46:27 GMT

McCain says he knows how to "win a war." Where did he learn this? He was the very bottom of his class (so he didn't learn it there), he crash three jets during peace-time (so he didn't learn it there), the explosion on the carrier was actually his panicking and dropping his bombs into a fire on the deck (so he didn't learn it there), he was downed and became a POW (so he didn't learn it there), the war he was in was Vietnam, the only war the U.S. ever lost (so he didn't learn it there). So where exactly did McCain acquire this great ability to "win a war?" I don't see it!

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Three crashes early in his career led Navy officials to question or fault his judgment.

John McCain was training in his AD-6 Skyraider on an overcast Texas morning in 1960 when he slammed into Corpus Christi Bay and sheared the skin off his plane's wings.

McCain recounted the accident decades later in his autobiography. "The engine quit while I was practicing landings," he wrote. But an investigation board at the Naval Aviation Safety Center found no evidence of engine failure.

The crash was one of three early in McCain's aviation career in which his flying skills and judgment were faulted or questioned by Navy officials.

In his most serious lapse, McCain was "clowning" around in a Skyraider over southern Spain about December 1961 and flew into electrical wires

After McCain was sent to Vietnam, his plane was destroyed in an explosion on the deck of an aircraft carrier in 1967.

Martial Law Would Be Declared If Bailout Not Passed In House

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:05:29 GMT

As former California congressman Dan Hamburg said earlier this year, the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act gives the executive the power to invoke martial law in case of “major public emergencies,” not limited to “a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack,” but also “any other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order.” Obviously, a financial crash and ensuing social chaos of the sort now being implemented by the ruling elite would be characterized as a dire emergency and a near perfect excuse to impose martial law, a long standing goal of the elite. As the Army Times reported last month, a battle-hardened “homeland” brigade is now “going domestic” after spending time in Iraq. It appears this illegal deployment (under Posse Comitatus) is designed to respond to “public disorder” as the economy is deliberately and cynically dismantled at the behest of our rulers.

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In House debate on the banker “rescue” bill, Rep. Brad Sherman told his fellow Congress critters the government will declare martial law and the stock market will drop 3,000 points if the bill is not passed. “The panic-mongers were to the point of telling people the market would drop 3,000 points and there would be martial law,” said Sherman.

Sherman’s comment was not in the same context as a comment issued by Rep. Michael Burgess earlier in the week. Burgess, who appeared on the Alex Jones Show, said Pelosi threatened to invoke House rule XIII(6)(a), described as “martial law,” intended to suspend normal procedures and safeguards and thus allowing the House leadership to operate in a more authoritarian fashion.

The bailout plan is not only “economic fascism,” as Richard Viguerie has correctly noted, designed to loot the U.S. Treasury and reorganize and further consolidate elite control over the economy, but it is also a brazen effort to impose a martial law and dictatorship

"Stonehenge: Is This How They Did It?"

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:24:59 GMT

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Stonehenge: Is This How They Did It?

Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity.

Old Man Yells at Clouds - Again

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:27:05 GMT

In a performance reminiscent of Ronald Reagan in his later years as Alzheimer's was taking hold, McCain appears to confuse Spain and Mexico. Or maybe it's just the case of his talking points getting garbled.

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John McCain makes Spanish gaffs during interview

In an interview with a Florida affiliate of Spain's Union Radio, McCain was asked, if elected president, would he invite Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to the White House.

"I would be willing to meet with those leaders who are friends and want to work with us in a cooperative fashion," McCain said. He then mentioned Mexican President Calderon, who he said "is fighting a very tough fight against the drug cartels."

When the reporter repeated that he was talking about Spain, McCain responded: "I know the issues, I know the leaders."
Asked again if he would invite Zapatero, McCain shot back:

"All I can tell you is that I have a clear record of working with leaders in the Hemisphere that are friends with us and standing up to those who are not and that's judged on the basis of the importance of our relationship with Latin America and the entire region."

The Truth About Aerial Wolf Hunting

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:16:27 GMT

Supported by Sarah Palin. Despicable. Outrageous, disgusting fools and cowards.

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not sure if this has been posted before, but everyone should see it.

John McCain's dishonor

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:42:15 GMT

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What would the McCain campaign say if the following charges ... all true, but also deeply personal, and potentially embarrassing ... were leveled against him in a television ad?

Would it be fair? Out of bounds? Inquiring minds want to know...

John McCain: A Veteran against Veterans

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:08:09 GMT

He takes on the mantle of veteran for political reasons. He's got some nerve accusing Barack Obama of playing politics. That's McCain's M.O. as betrayer MA/POWs and their families so that his father-in-law could sell more beer. I wonder how many houses McCain's back-stabbing bought.

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Older veterans remember well how John McCain and John Kerry shut down all further investigation into remaining MIA/POW in order to open up trade with Vietnam over the protests of family members. They remember full well how these families were treated and talked to by McCain. They also remember how John McCain's father-in-law immediately opened up a beer industry in Vietnam as soon as trade resumed

Union Veterans, has this to say about John McCain

Not only has McCain voted the wrong way on veterans' issues - such as opposing increased funding for veterans' health care the last four years in a row - but he also doesn't support middle class people's issues

He wants to tax people's health care benefits, and supports unfair trade deals, including NAFTA." www.unionveterans.org

John McCain runs on a platform of being a vet yet he obviously does not support the needs of veterans. Why support a politician who does not support our troops? Surely, our veterans deserve more than just buffalo chips.

Sarah Palin Bikini Warrior Princess shot.. Our next VP?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:03:54 GMT

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McCain/Palin are cartoons

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:58:54 GMT

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kinda says it all really

Short Retrospective of John McCain

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:31:24 GMT

Currently votes with the worst president in modern history 100% of the time.

John McSame or McBush...... take your pick.

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Another great video ad from Plisko at Mediacrashers

McCain on Social Security

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:34:52 GMT

I'm old enough to remember when "Social Security" was called "Social Security Insurance." The intent of the insurance was the same as other insurance, to protect against the unforeseen event of no income. It was to insure that no one went hungry or homeless because of age or retirement. It was NOT suppose to be to give money to people like McCain who are perfectly healthy financially speaking. This is one reason Social Security is going bankrupt; it was not meant as a retirement fund, it was an insurance policy!

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Although Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called Social Security "a disgrace," he still cashes his own retirement check every month.

"I'm receiving the benefits, the system is broken and, unfortunately, my children and grandchildren, according to the trustees of the Social Security system, will not have the same benefits the present retirees have," McCain told reporters Thursday on his campaign bus

McCain's 2007 tax return shows Social Security benefits of $23,157 for the year, an average of $1,929.75 a month. He said he started receiving the payments "whenever I was eligible."

McCain reported a total income of $405,409 in 2007

McCain's wife, Cindy, reported a total income of more than $6 million in 2006, according to the campaign. She files her tax return separately from her husband and has received an extension for 2007

People are not required to take Social Security payments, according to B.J. Jarrett, a spokesman with the Social Security Administration.

Abe Lincoln Quote

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:24:46 GMT

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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching
that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my
country... Corporations have been enthroned, an
era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power
of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon
the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in
a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

-ABRAHAM LINCOLN, November 12, 1864

Sir Winston Churchill, Quote about Nazis

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:23:51 GMT

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The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.