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March 30, 2016

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June 19, 2015

Does Right To Own Guns Trump Right To Live?

This is the core belief of avid gun owners, of which they may not be consciously aware. Guns were created to kill. That is their use, their intent, the reason for their creation, to take or maim a living being. Inanimate target shooting is a higher evolution of their existence, but make no mistake killing is their intended purpose of existence.

Gun right defenders are telling those who choose not to participate in the ownership of guns that their right to own a device created specifically to kill trumps our right to live our lives. That is crazy-making thinking. Intentionally killing or harming a living breathing being is not a Right. Rights are based on life-affirming actions, not life-denying actions. Attack, in any form, is a life-denying action.

This current Gun-Frenzy is a hoarding illness, but with deadly consequences. It is an addiction, an addiction that is tightly bound with violence and fear. It is a false belief, a false belief that one has the "Right" to kill for any reason, a false belief that a gun will inevitably keep you safe.

The Right to Live trumps the "Right" to kill. The Right To Live trumps the "Right" to own guns.

In Peace there is no need for guns. Peace is the only true safety. It is going to take a lot of individual work casting off false beliefs, but We Can Live Together In Peace.

April 2, 2015

Imagine: Politics Like This

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We got the message
I heard it on the airwaves
The politicians
Are now dj's
The broadcast was spreading
Station to station
Like an infection
Across the nation
Though you know you can't stop it
When they start to play
You're gonna get out the way

The politics of dancing
The politics of ooh feeling good
The politics of moving, aha
If this message's understood

The politics of dancing
The politics of ooh feeling good
The politics of moving, aha
If this message's understood

We're under pressure
Yes we're counting on you
Like what you say
Is what you do
It's in the papers
It's on your tv news
Oh, the application
Is just a point of view
Well you know you can't stop it
When they start to play
You're gonna get out the way

The politics of dancing
The politics of ooh feeling good
The politics of moving, aha
If this message's understood

Yeah

The politics of dancing
The politics of ooh feeling good
The politics of moving, aha
If this message's understood

The politics of dancing
The politics of ooh feeling good
The politics of moving, aha
If this message's understood

March 30, 2015

A Must-Listen for Conservative Christians...

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"In The Name Of God" Ziggy Marley

In the name of god you kill in the name of your god
In the name of god you conquered in the name of your god

All religion should be wiped out
So that people may just live
What divides us is an illusion
Made up by men in their confusion

In the name of god you kill in the name of your god
In the name of god you conquered in the name of your god
In the name of god you hate in the name of your god
In the name of god you boast in the name of your god

Spoke of love no one would listen
Seems everyone's trying to prove something
Starting over may be the best thing
So stop the bombs and let's begin

Cause this war no one can win and it seems I'll never learn
Oh this war no one can win well it seems I'll never learn

In the name of god you kill in the name of your god
In the name of god in the name of your god you conquered
In the name of god in the name of your god

All religion should be wiped out
Save the people stand and live
What divides us is an illusion
Made up by men in their confusion

In the name of god you kill in the name of your god
In the name of god you conquered in the name of your god
In the name of god you boast in the name of your god
In the name of god you hate in the name of your god

In the name of your god, why do you kill?, why do you hate?, in the name of god, in the name of god

March 26, 2015

This is who "they" are...

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"It's like a normal times square day on 42nd street
I feel like trashing some windows and crunching some feet
I watch society crumble and I just laugh (hee hee)
They soon will see what it's like to be the other half

But I'm trying
Said I'm trying to forget
And it ain't happened yet

I musta woke up this morning with a bug up my ass
I think I'll just haul off and belt the next jerk that I pass
My old man says I'm just a stoned little punk
But he keeps himself a pistol and he's always drunk

I know
Something's gonna give

Pretty soon
I know it
Something's gonna give
I wanna live
I wanna mess thing whole world around
Go on and poison all the water, use up all the air
Blow your stupid heads off, see if I could care
Put me down but don't blame me for what you did
'cause inside everyone is a heavy metal kid

I was a sweet little kid once
Now I'm a full grown crank
And when I die I'll probably come back as a sherman tank
I know that I could make this world so peaceful and calm
If I could only get my hands on a hydrogen bomb"

The inner mind of a violence addict. Todd nails it!
March 20, 2015

It's The Era Of The Slumlord

Many of us did not grow up in slums. Now the entire country is getting a real life lesson of real time life in the slums. We are learning what a slumlord is and how they operate. They neglect infrastructure until it's time for them to sell the neglected property at a huge profit. While they are holding the property, they are extracting the highest amount of rent bearable, like payday loan sharks. They don't care if a tenant gets hurt or killed due to the dilapidated conditions the slumlords themselves caused. It's all about extracting profit without reinvesting in infrastructure. Then when it's the time they chose to gentrify the neighborhood, they sell the run-down property at an enormous profit. Making big profits on the way up and on the way down. That's how slumlords work.

GOP = SLUMLORDS


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6389789

Thanks AwakeAtLast.

March 20, 2015

Happy Spring! Makes me feel so brand new...

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I'm... I'm so in love with you
Whatever you want to do
Is all right with me...
'Cause you... make me feel so brand new...
And I... want to spend my life with you...

Let me say that since, baby
Since we've been together
Ooo...
Loving you forever
Is what I... need...
Let me... be the one you come running to...
I'll... never be untrue...

Ooo baby...
Let's, let's stay together...
Loving you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad
Ooooo... Oooo... Yeah...
Whether times are good or bad, happy or sad

Why, somebody, why people break-up
Ohhh, turn around and make-up
I just can't deceive
You'd... never do that to me... (would you, baby?)
Stayin' around you is all I see

(Here's what I want us to do)

Let's, we oughta stay together
Loving you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad... Come on

Let's, let's stay together
Loving you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad
And if you mess with me, you can't set me free

Woman let's, let's stay together
Loving you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad
And if you mess with me, you can't set me free

Woman let's, let's stay together
Loving you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad
And if you mess with me, oh woman, don't go away

Let's, let's stay together
Loving you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad
And if you do me wrong, I just might leave you alone

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