TWO Lessons Learned from the Donkey
Here’s a web site with a cute video involving a donkey, a well, and human attempts to annihilate him. The donkey wins, of course, and the lesson is learned. Except there’s an epilogue to the story that will cause a snort.
The Donkey in the Well
ChuckThompson-Beloved Broadcaster
Two comments in response to my ersatz eulogy for Chuck Thompson, beloved Baltimore Oriole Sports Announcer who died two weeks ago.
ORIGINAL POST
From Gumption of FreeRepublic.com
How many nights did I fall asleep with that nice mans voice filling my ears with dreams. We're so lucky we had him. I don't know how the world can just go on as if nothing happened ...
Radio under the pillow ping.
From zygoat of FreeRepublic.com
remember many a great game called by Chuck Thompson.
R.I.P., Chuck. And yes, the beer is cold.
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Regarding the Terry Schiavo Drama, STILL Ongoing
ORIGINAL SCHIAVO POST
Judge Greer cited "news sources" that Sara Scantlin could BLINK her eyes on command "so she was not in PVS."
Father Pavone witnessed Terri's condition just one month ago [jump ahead to the 17 min mark] and he said:
She was very responsive.
She prayed with him, closed her eyes during the prayer, and opened them back up when done.
Mister Schindler kissed her and she kissed him back!
Documented Terri-vocabulary references Words Witness
"mommy"
"momma"
"help me" nurse - Heidi Law, certified nurse assistant
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"pai[n]" (meaning 'pain' when she was in discomfort)
'Haaaiiiii' (meaning Hi, in response to 'Hi Terri')
'mommy'
'help me' Nurse - Carla Sauer Iyer, R.N.
"'Help me' was, in fact, one of her most frequent
utterances. I heard her say it hundreds of times."
"stop" (in response to one medical procedure being done on her) Terri's MediPlex records
"ugh-hugh" (meaning yes)
"ugh-ugh" (meaning no)
"yea"
"No" family members, and paralegal Tom Brodersen*
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*After Judge Greer heard of Tom Brodersen secretly helping Terri learn to speak again, Greer removed Brodersen from the "approved visitor's list" permanently!
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Finally, Some UN Email
The sender provided his name and address in the email but I left it off for reasons of privacy. It’s a response to some UN rant of mine and there’s a wealth of info provided.
The United Nation needs to be defunded, dissolved, dismantled and defumigated. H.R. 1146 will withdraw the USA from the United Nations’ madhouse/cesspool.
Go to: GETUSOUT.org
Conservativeusa.org
Then go lobby at. Email President Bush at president@whitehouse.gov . White House comment line is 202-456-1111.
Other good links are USASURVIVAL.ORG
and. UN-FREEZONE.ORG
The United Nations is a corrupt disgrace and it is time for the USA to WITHDRAW from and defund the United Nations. Please tell your senators, congressmen and everyone you know to support H.R. 1146 which would WITHDRAW the USA from the United Nations, prohibit US funds going to the UN and prohibit US troops serving under UN command. H.R. 1146 is the American Sovereignty Restoration Act.
Also, it is critical that the US Senate to vote NO on the Law of the Seas Treaty (LOST), a UN sponsored scam to get control of the world’s “global commons” and a backdoor way for the UN to tax the world. Focus on Senator Bill Frist, who has presidential ambitions, and the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Vote NO on LOST!
The whole mission of the UN is to take power, money and national sovereignty from the USA. Thus the United States must withdraw from and defund the UN, a worthless organization, and if we go, if we are lucky, the whole thing will implode. Here is why:
1) The UN actually wants a WORLDWIDE TAX, including taxing the USA, perhaps through a Tobin tax on all currency exchanges (Jacques Chirac), a world tax on guns or even a worldwide tax of crude oil (“carbon tax”). These taxes would fund an unelected bureaucracy leeching off not only Americans, but people worldwide. These are the same people who don’t pay their parking tickets (millions of dollars worth) in New York City.
2) The UN, laughable as it is, wants to get control of the United States’ MILITARY! Power mad UN quacks do not recognize the right of the USA to defend itself. They want the USA to submit to a “global test” before we defend ourselves.
3) The UN is filled to the brim with crackpot dictatorships, who hate democracy and who hate America. Many of the rest are socialist countries like France, Germany and the Netherlands. Most of the 191 UN members are not democracies: 48 are dictatorships, 54 are partly free and 89 have genuinely elected governments (Freedom House).
4) Syria, an archenemy of the USA and supporter of Jihad terror groups, was actually the head state of the UN Security Council in June, 2002 and again in August, 2003! Syria is a member of Bush’s “axis of evil,” the 7 state sponsors of terrorism.
5) The UN’s so-called Human Rights Commission is a sick joke. In May of 2001 the USA was voted off the committee, but its members now include the worst human rights regimes in the world such as Congo, Cuba, China, Russia, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Togo, Eritrea, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. Half of Parade Magazine’s 10 World’s Worst Dictators (2005) are on the UN’s so-called “Human Rights” Commission. Even Sudan, the king of human rights abuse with widespread ethnic and religious persecution, is on this fraudulent committee!! Libya was the chair of the UNHRC in 2003; like I said, the UN is a sick joke. The USA is now allowed back on the commission next to these thugs (so what).
6) The UN in July, 2001 sponsored a conference with the ultimate goal of a worldwide seizure of civilian guns. Note: in 1994 in Rwanda the Hutu tribe hacked to death with machetes 500,000+ Tutsis in about 100 days. The population of Rwanda had all of their guns confiscated by the government in 1979.
In 1995 a UN-funded Commission on Global Governance (they think they “govern” the world) said “We strongly endorse community initiatives … to encourage the disarming of civilians …” Before gun ownership can be banned, in the meanwhile, French President Jacques Chirac and the President of Brazil proposed in 2003 a Worldwide Tax on purchases of guns by individuals with the money going to the UN!
7) In the 1980’s and 1990’s the United Nations was a key supporter of China’s evil and deranged “one-child” policy by which the Chinese government mad it ILLEGAL for families to have more than one child. This program included FORCED abortions and FORCED sterilizations of Chinese women. In response Chinese families on a massive scale used ultrasound technology to identify and abort female babies as well as female infanticide. Today there are millions more boys than girls in China. The end result is a DEMOGRAPHIC NIGHTMARE because over the next 20 years as many as 40 million Chinese men have ZERO chance of finding a wife because they literally will not be there (USA Today 6/19/02). You can thank the power-mad, Big Brother government quacks at the United Nations and the Chinese government for this massive human rights tragedy that they created in the name of the “public good.”
In sum, the United Nation’s delusional game plan is to tax people worldwide (especially Americans!), gain control of the US military, and fund an unelected bureaucracy of blood sucking leeches just like the one that benefited from Saddam Hussein’s secret oil-for-food billion dollar slush fund. Saddam used oil vouchers to bribe the French, the Russians and the UN bureaucrat who administered the program.
After the Asian tsunami disaster, UN employee Jan Egeland indirectly called the USA “stingy,” a perfect insight into UN thinking. The United Nations’ cannot be reformed, redeemed, repaired or made “relevant” due to its nature: dictatorships and human rights abusers.
It is high time for the USA to withdraw from and defund this unelected, undemocratic mix of crackpots, quackpots and Pol Pots that are one part dictators, one part human rights abusers, and one part socialist America-haters, all of who want to tax the world and get control of the US military.
Jenna Glatzer on Ten Very Important Minutes
Jenna Glatzer, who we hear is working on a book on Celine Dion, allows anyone to use some of her writing with appropriate links. Thus I came upon this missive and liked the whole idea.
Link to Missive Below
The Ten-Minute Attitude Adjuster
By Jenna Glatzer
You make breakfast. You get the kids ready. You hop in a shower. You take them to school. You go grocery shopping. You run sixteen errands before they come home, at which time you take them to soccer practice, dance class, and a friend’s birthday party. You make dinner, then clean the house. You check their homework and tuck them in bed. And by the time you’re done with all this, pretty much all you want to do is to crawl into bed and sleep for the next twelve hours, but you can’t, because tomorrow morning you have to do it all again. Sound about right?
YOU’RE ON HYPERDRIVE
The problem with being a person-who-does-it-all is that there’s such little time to stop and assess whether you’re actually doing anything enjoyable for yourself. Yes, just for yourself. Not for your spouse, your kids, your in-laws, or the neighbors. You probably spend the little down-time you have just vegging out with the TV, a book, or in a bath, but none of those things are creatively fulfilling.
You probably have half a dozen goals that you’ve put off for “someday,” like writing that novel you just know you could write, or getting back to painting again. But when you look at them as a whole, they just sound like big, monstrous undertakings that you couldn’t possibly have time to complete. And that leaves you feeling stretched out, unsatisfied, and maybe even a little resentful of your family.
TEN MINUTES A DAY
That’s why, instead of deciding, “I’m going to write a novel today,” you have to instead decide, “I’m going to spend ten minutes today creating something and enjoying myself.” That’s all. No pressure, and no guilt needed, because it’s only ten minutes.
During those ten minutes, you get to be the captain of your ship and do whatever it is that will please you most at that very moment. You do not have to work toward any specific goal, nor do you need to write down a plan or a schedule. You might use those ten minutes toward any creative or business endeavor of your choosing, but it must be something you’re doing strictly for your own satisfaction. No baking brownies for the kids’ bake sale or straightening up your office. This is time to reflect on and create your own joy.
NO INTERRUPTIONS
It’s important that your family respect your ten-minute oasis. You may develop a special sign that it’s “creativity time” and there are to be no interruptions. Some people put a little sign on the doorknob, others set a timer to beep at the end, so their children will know when it’s okay to talk to them again. Writer Katy Terrega puts on headsets when she wants her children to know it’s mom’s special writing time. There’s nothing actually playing in the headsets, mind you, but that’s her little secret. The kids assume she can’t hear them, so they don’t talk to her while she’s wearing them.
MORE THAN JUST RELAXATION
Sure, writing a novel might be great, but maybe what you really need today is just to close yourself into the bathroom, slather moisturizer all over your body, give yourself a face mask, and just sit back and listen to that old CD you love. That’s fine, as long as it’s not every day.
If that’s how you’re using your ten minutes every day, then all you’re doing is relaxing, not creating your own satisfaction. Relaxing is important, too, of course, so do both! Ten minutes for relaxing, and ten minutes for creating. Come on, you’re worth at least 20 minutes a day.
HOW TO DECIDE
The concept of taking time for yourself may be so foreign that you’ve forgotten what kinds of things you enjoy. Your own happiness is so entwined with the happiness of your family that you start to think the things that they enjoy must be the things you enjoy, too.
But think back to your own childhood and early adult years. What was it that you loved to do best?
How about fingerpainting? No, I’m not kidding. Have yourself a little time warp and play with play-dough, make paper mache, or draw something with markers.
Reading is nice, but it’s a passive activity, which is not the same as actually creating something yourself. Why not write a poem, or a song, or an essay to submit to your local newspaper? Why not write your own greeting card?
You might also: record yourself singing, learn how to sew, design your own web page, make yourself some jewelry with beads you bought at a craft store...
CREATING IS ADDICTIVE
As you start enjoying this creative time more and more, you may find that you’re ready to take another step. Instead of cleaning out the refrigerator today, go out and take a ceramics class, or visit the scrapbooking store and look through examples and find out how to get started.
As you become less harried and more satisfied with your own life, you may find that you’re an even better spouse and parent than you ever were before you started these “selfish” ten-minute breaks. Those who are creatively fulfilled have more to give to their families. You might even find that your self-esteem soars when you have “projects” of your very own to show off.
Take the time to embrace the creator within you, and see what a brighter outlook awaits you.
Jenna Glatzer is the editor-in-chief of Absolutewrite.com a popular and free online magazine for writers. She is also the best-selling author of OUTWITTING WRITER'S BLOCK AND OTHER PROBLEMS OF THE PEN, which is recommended by The Writer magazine and Writer's Digest Book Club, and has received terrific reviews from writers. Check it out, along with Jenna's other books, at Absolutewrite.com Books
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