Topic: Culture & Society

How To Defeat And Eradicate The Barbaric Mullahs

We must beware and recognize those who have disguised themselves as friends preventing us from realizing self-sufficiency and the enormous power we possess collectively.

Carefully read, watch or listen to their divisive, misleading and conflict-ridden tactics, comments and suggestions posted on many Internet forums, newspaper articles and generally spoken by the talking heads of the mass corporate media. Identify and simply ignore them. These people are professionals, their job is to scare and discourage those in the pursuit of freedom and democracy. Their obvious goal is to divide and conquer. We must identify them and pay no attention to them.

President Bush's posturing on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage is nothing more than a political hustle, a game of three card monte originating in the Oval Office. As if curtailing precious civil liberties and engaging in an immoral war weren't enough, now he's advocating further restrictions of states' rights. By this stage of his administration, almost all dead presidents have turned over in their graves.

Ralph Nader has some wonderful ideas. Many of the things he says are right on target. When he says there's barely any difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, that these two parties are basically two sides of the same coin, he's right. He's also right about corporate greed having too much of an influence on government policy, and he's right when he says that the two party system needs to be traded-in like a used car.

Memory is a funny thing, not just because it plays tricks on you, but because it's so selective. For example, a couple of weeks ago when I heard the news of Bob Keeshan's death at 76, I suddenly remembered that I was there for the very first airing of Captain Kangaroo.

Daniel Boone blazed a trail to Kentucky because, in his words, he wanted "elbow room." North Carolina's Yadkin Valley had grown too crowded for his liking and he yearned for a place where neighbors were few and far between. Considering the fact that the population of the entire United States was only 2.2 million in 1770, which was about the time he made his first trek to Kentucky, he would likely feel pretty crowded in the Old North State now, with its population of over 8 million.

The adaptability and resilience of the human spirit is an ongoing source of amazement to all of us.. For example, with spring here I resolved to start jogging again and discovered that my body had invented a whole new sport. And like all great inventions, necessity was truly its mother.

As the presidential derby gets going in a predictable fashion, with the Democrat hopefuls attacking each other while remaining united against the current administration, I find myself, for the first time in memory, not caring about the outcome. Not only am I not inspired by any of the candidates currently in the running, I no longer have confidence in either of the official political parties to lead our nation. I don't think there's a politician in Washington who really understands the principles on which this country was founded.

The Masks of Halloween

by Christine Hall

I spent last Halloween on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. As usual on this day, the road was closed to traffic and the guys at WCHL, the local radio station, were claiming that there were over 10,000 people crammed onto the street. It seemed that nearly everybody except me was wearing a costume. I’d come as myself, figuring that was scary enough.

Yesterday’s “Alternative” Is Today’s Mainstream

by Christine Hall

Many people still think that those who buck the mainstream by taking alternative paths are kooky. They say that the health food people are all fanatics. Alternative health professionals like acupuncturists, reiki masters and homeopaths are quacks who play into people’s fears, keeping them from getting the medical attention they need. Those who meditate or practice any other “alien” spiritual system need to get a life and quit messing with that dangerous stuff.

Most likely, Rush Limbaugh's sudden deafness was caused by drug abuse.

It appears that the press fell asleep on this one. Admittedly, hindsight is twenty-twenty, but the folks in the news media seem to have let this story completely pass them by, even though the facts were there from the moment the radio host first announced his oncoming deafness.