REPUBLICANS AND ZOMBIES

The dog and pony show has begun.

THE BATS IN THE BELFRY HAVE ESCAPED.

The chickens are coming home to roost

(or roast).

The cows are coming home...

To graze?

To get milked?

To jump over the moon?

To get butchered?

Plus, Hell is freezing over.

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Not zombies, but a dirty dozen of Republican presidential candidates HAS CRAWLED OUT OF THE WOODWORK, licking their carnivorous chops.

And they ARE again singing their FAVORITE old-time hymns of hubris called:

   Take Our Country Back...

MAKE OUR COUNTRY GREAT AGAIN...

AND

Let's Go To War.

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But it was them...

the untruthful NEOCONS...

Who took AWAY OUR country...

And Iraq's...

And Afghanistan's.

And if the NEOCONS succeed in winning...

I mean buying...

the White House...

Then Iran will be next to get a noose of Shock & Awe twisted around its neck.

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It is the Republicans who need to leave our country...

and Be banished!

So that no further terror and damage can be done by them to america and the world.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES rePUBLICANS AND ZOMBIES!

JUNE 12, 1982

The biggest demonstration on earth (until the global anti-Iraq war march of Feb 15, 2003) took place in New York on June 12, 1982, when one million people gathered in support of the second UN Special Session on Disarmament and to protest nuclear weapons.

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New York City.

June 12, 1982:

The Great Peace March.

And Now.

Sitting here. Typing.

 Listening to the Grateful Dead sing Visions of Johanna.

 Thinking about another vision that has been blinded.

 Has gotten covered with blinders of shared complacency.

Helpless renunciation.

Forlorn acceptance that we cannot change things as they are.

I went.

  I saw.

 I concurred…

With one million other souls.

June 12, 1982.

To stop the Nuclear Arms Race.

TO STOP THE MADNESS!

IT’S NOT TOO LATE.

Peace in…

War out!

Redemption Song!

June 12.

This date is forever etched on my memory.

It was June 12, 1982 when I was in New York for the Great Peace March, a giant anti-nuclear weapons rally.

I walked backwards on Fifth Avenue to take pictures of the oncoming “parade”.

I then walked to Central Park and sat among an estimated 1,000,000 persons.

According to New York's Parks and Recreation, it was one of the cleanest days in New York history.

It was also reported that there had not been ONE reported incident of violence!

I had taken a walk the night before. 

At one point (I think it was right after I walked past a man who was sleeping on the sidewalk) I looked up and saw a full moon.

And the figure of a cross was across it.

I thought to myself, "This is a good omen."

The nuclear arms race didn't end

I suppose it will never end.

But we tried on June 12.

IT’S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

THE BIG BANG AND 2016

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Michael Good works with the Hubble Space Telescope in the cargo bay of the earth-orbiting space shuttle Atlantis, Friday, May 15, 2009. Astronauts Good and Mike Massimino, not shown, participated in the second session of STS-125 extravehicular activity, as part of a five-day beehive-like agenda of space walking and work on the giant orbital observatory (AP Photo/NASA)


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Our earthly eyes may soon get to see what the beginning of “our” Universe looked like.
But not its very, very beginning.
Only 600,000,000 years before The Beginning.
But what if the Universe (as we think we know it) is much older than the oft’-quoted age of between 13.5 and 14 billion years?
What if (like other misconceptions we’ve held about the earth and sun) OUR universe is a tangential part of a much larger UNIVERSE?)
I know: I’m being heretical and ridiculous.

I suppose that our terrestrial peering into the heavens will help in some areas of our terrestrial existence.
Can this kind of information help us to pay our bills?
Win wars?
Cure cancer?
Stop Global Warming?
Paint pictures or write poetry?
What is it really worth for us to be able to get to and discover the “starting gate” of Space and Time?
What’s the point of all this cosmic seeing?
Will it help us to know ourselves better or to solve our problems?If the universe didn’t exist would it be necessary to create one?
I find this sort of research interesting, but I don’t always see any abundant intrinsic or extrinsic value.
The mountain is there. It will not come to us. So we must go to the mountain.

Maybe on the way we’ll bump into some of our extraterrestrial cousins.
“Hello. Are you old enough to remember the BIG BANG? "
"Of course."
“Good. Larry King wants you to be on his show tomorrow night.”

In the meantime, I look forward to seeing more beautiful pictures between all of those infinite spaces.
But I have a suggestion for NASA:
Please point Hubble’s eye to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and keep it pointed there until we find out what is going to happen in 2016.


IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES THE BIG BANG AND 2016

OVER UNDER AND OUT

http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/yes-there-is-a-correct-way-to-hang-toilet-paper

Crack an egg at its top or bottom?

The Big-Endians of Blefuscu believed it should be the egg's bottom, but the Lilliputians disagreed, and there was a war.

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Should a roll of toilet paper be unwound from its top or bottom?

This is a contentious question but not a causus belli.

I have uttered vociferous interjections more often because there is no roll than because the direction of the unrolling is “wrong”.

It's even worse when there's an egg instead of a roll.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND TOILET PAPER!