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Sunday, April 25, 2010
A Culture of Corruption: US Catholic Priests Accused of Sexual Abuse from A to Z
What is astounding about this database is the volume of Priests accused of sexual abuse here in the US.

Friday, April 23, 2010
Ousted Governor Blagojevich Says He Wants to Expose the Truth--Asks Obama to Testify
(4 comments) As a few may recall, the former governor had suspended Illinois business with the Bank of America for it's brutal and unethical handling of a factory closing in the state. Soon after Blagojevich was embroiled in scandal

Thursday, April 22, 2010
Troubled Soldier Speaks Out about the 2007 Apache Attack Slaughter of Iraqi Innocents
(1 comments) Like every other war, soldiers, like McCord, pay for the wars with their lives and limbs, and their psyches. While they suffer for the atrocities that they had to commit, the psychopaths that profit from it will not lose an ounce of sleep. In fact, they will continue to amass ungodly wealth for their ungodly actions.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Amazing CIA Mind Control Potential Proven in Documents
(3 comments) Documents reveal separate personalities could be created using deep hypnosis and activated by a simple phone call.

Monday, April 19, 2010
Tea Party Rally: "So this is the Sarah Palin Movement then?"
(6 comments) A young Conservative, or so he says, running for Mayor and a local radio personality gets booed off a stage at a Tea Party rally. Watch the confrontation.

Monday, April 12, 2010
Things are So Good But I Feel So Bad
I am a little down on the economy and I know I shouldn't be.

Monday, April 12, 2010
Mind Blowing American Wealth Disparity: The Bottom 50% Have Comparatively Nothing
(2 comments) This is America - Land of the Unequal

Friday, April 9, 2010
CEO Creep: 1300 Violations a Part of Running a Mine that Killed 25 Workers
(2 comments) CEO Blankenship is a true believer in God. That gives him the right to endanger his workers, endanger coal communities, and endanger the planet to amass his ungodly wealth. He will praise Jesus and live lavishly and comfortably, knowing that the most that is likely to happen to him is that Massey Energy will pay another fine for the deaths of the miners. Just like he had to do in the past.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Breaking Through the Monkey Mind by Cultivating our Infinite Buddha Mind
(22 comments) There is a greater mind out there that we all share in. It has been called the Infinite Buddha Mind. Some might call it God, but that term has certain connotations that may limit an understanding of it. It is a mind not outside ourselves, but it is the foundation of our very selves.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010
The Passion of the Pope: Propaganda and Blame Games
According to the Pope's personal preacher Father Raniero Cantalamessa, in a Good Friday Sermon, the Pope is suffering like that of Jews enslaved and gassed in Nazi work camps or tortured during the inquisitions.

Sunday, April 4, 2010
Idiot Republican Senator: Unemployment Benefit Bums Turn Down Work
(3 comments) Seanator Kyl is the second ranking Republican in the Senate, which shows that the Republican Party is being led by morons.

Saturday, April 3, 2010
The Oily Obama Scam: New Drilling will Do Nothing for America's Energy Independence
(23 comments) US Coastal and Alaska oil is going to be sold globally, so the drilling won't have anything to do with limiting American energy dependence on foreign oil.

Sunday, March 28, 2010
US Marine: I will Fight American Civilians
(7 comments) For well over a decade the American military has been engaging in training exercises in US cities. The Military claims it is preparing for wars in cities because that is where the wars will be fought. They are almost certainly correct. But there is likely something more going on with these war simulations.

Saturday, March 27, 2010
Dog Food for the Oldsters and Trillions to the Banksters
(5 comments) Trillions were given to the banksters that brought on the depression. Yet when money falls short for the oldsters because of the bankster deppression, the solution is to gut social security.

Thursday, March 25, 2010
Hannity's Hoaxes: The Uncharitable Scamming of the Gullible
It is certainly shameful that a great deal of the money generated for Hannity's charity actually goes for consultants and expenses. But what is even more shameful is that the very policies that Hannity and the other clownish right wing radio talkers advocate have contributed so much suffering of the Veterans and their families.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Was the Iraq War 'a Horrible Mistake'?
(2 comments) The Iraqi war is now being made to appear as a bumbling bloody mistake when in fact there was no bumbling involved. It was no mistake from the perspective of the financial and corporate elite and their 'war criminal' political puppets.

Thursday, March 18, 2010
A People's History of the Great Irish Famine and What it Means for us Today
History keeps repeating itself

Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The 'Invisible' Black Atheist
(5 comments) Wright and others argue that embracing the religion of the oppressors has led to a mindset of oppression. Thus, accepting the slave master's paradigm of reality has led to invisible chains of social, political, and economic injustice. Christianity is merely a tool to continue the oppression.

Friday, March 12, 2010
Capitalism: A Success Story -- The World's Richest Man in an Impoverished Country
Carlos Slim is truly a success story of capitalism. But for the people of Mexico and now the United States, capitalism has turned into a nightmare.

Friday, March 12, 2010
True Believers
(1 comments) When we forsake Reason we suffer for good reason.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Phoenix Lights 13 Years Later
Thousands saw those enormous,inexplicable lights in Phoenix, Arizona and some thought that perhaps it was an alien invasion.

Sunday, March 7, 2010
Greece is America's Future
The massive banker fraud that is crippling the economies of the world was an economic hit to finalize a total fascist takeover of the world.

Sunday, March 7, 2010
"Today is a Big Day in America" Real Unemployment Rate Over 21%
Harry Reid is not really happy with the loss of 36,000 jobs. He is just happy if the American people are silly enough to accept this as really good news.

Friday, March 5, 2010
Feeling Depressed is an American's Patriotic Duty
(2 comments) Anger is a very dangerous emotion. It makes people want to do something to deal with it. In the US we have learned that depression is much safer and more patriotic than anger.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Was the Buddha Murdered for His Progressive Teachings?
(4 comments) It is often the fate of those that have the wisdom and the ability to make a real change in society to water the seeds of their Progressive work with their own blood.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Why I Learned to Love Socialism
(7 comments) There are numerous reasons for loving European Socialism, and it all has to do with it raising the quality of life of the citizens. European Socialism is one highly workable and humane example of Socialism.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
In Memory of Malcolm X
(2 comments) The life and legacy of Malcolm X is one of integrity and courage. The courage to stand up to oppression and to live a life of integrity.

Monday, February 22, 2010
Amid Record Bank Failures, Citigroup Warns of Right to Prevent Withdrawls
The Banking System is in trouble, in case you haven't noticed.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Pink Ouija Board Targets Young Girls
I think creating the pink Ouija board is kind of like marketing a pink hand gun designed for young girls. It is dangerous!

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Christians Helped Bring Down Rome, Fundamentalists Helping to Bring Down America
(8 comments) God will not be the one to bring down the hell and damnation on America. Unfortunately Americans are going to do that to themselves by closing their minds to the reality of what is and by not taking rational steps to what should be.

Saturday, February 13, 2010
Forget 2012: The Real Bomb Hits 2011 Warns TARP Watchdog
(1 comments) The final result from the final economic hit in 2011 is that there will be little or no public institutions and the mass slavery to the Big Banks and their enforcement arm, the Federal Reserve, will be complete.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Time to Stop US Welfare to the Israelis: God Broke his Promise, Michele!
(4 comments) Rep.Bachmann believes that we must keep giving Israel untold billions so that God will be happy. She also believes we should allow Israel to dictate America's foreign policy in the Middle East and around the world. If we don't do all of this, God will destroy the US.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
How to Have Peace
A mind centered in the reality and awareness of existence, transformed from mindfulness and meditation, will realize that peace is something that can arise in ourselves so that we can work to help manifest it in the world.

Sunday, February 7, 2010
The Most Important Development of the 20th Century: "The Coming of Buddhism to the West"
(14 comments) The radical transformation of humanity will fundamentally alter how we view spirituality. The fundamentalists of every religion will not be able to fit their fixed views based on centuries old paradigms into that brave new world.

Monday, February 1, 2010
The New Progressive, Eco-Friendly Bin Laden
(5 comments) In some surreal Madison Avenue Edward Bernays style of advertising campaign, Bin Laden has become a spokesman for Progressive and Environmental ideas and causes. He is being used by the Military Industrial Complex to negatively brand Progressive-ism and Environmentalism with Terrorism.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer Speaking the Truth about the Right without the 'Right' Words
Bauer doesn't believe he has said anything wrong. Rather he thinks he just has a problem with the right words. You see Bauer, like the rest of the American Right, believe they can hide inhumane policies designed to work for the rich with the right phrases.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Haiti Relief Supplies Sit at Airport--Why?
This lack of an effective aid response seems eerily reminiscent of Hurricane Katrina here in the US when supplies and manpower were not mobilized to save lives in New Orleans. What is even more amazing is that President Obama has tapped former President George W. Bush to help with the Haiti relief effort.

Friday, January 22, 2010
Hope and Change Died When Obama Took Office
President Obama, or any American President under our present system, can only kill Hope with the illusion of Change. Sadly, that is the best that we can hope for.

Thursday, January 21, 2010
A Sure Shot for Jesus--Removing Blind Spots
(2 comments) I am not sure what the meaning behind the bible codes on the high powered rifle sights. But I guess that the company putting them there must think it will help make the shooter a better shot. Or perhaps the company thinks that it will give the shooters more comfort in their holy work.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
'Beyond Vietnam'-- Martin Luther King's Message of Compassion for Today
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."

Sunday, January 17, 2010
President Obama Slams the Banks, Wants Americans' Money Back
(7 comments) If Obama doesn't initiate real change somewhere and soon, he will not be given a second term to continue to fool the American people.

Saturday, January 16, 2010
So If Haiti was Destroyed for Devil Worship, Was New Orleans Destroyed for Christian Worship?
Fortunately, there is the Rev. Pat Robertson. He has a broad understanding of history as well as a broad understanding of God. Therefore he was able to determine that the terrible suffering of Haiti was brought on by God's wrath and not by geologic forces.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Do the Fake Bin Laden Videos Prove he is Dead?
(12 comments) If Bin Laden is alive, why doesn't he make a real video of himself?

Sunday, January 10, 2010
American Kids Less Educated than Parents--Why?
(43 comments) According to a recent report, Americans aged 25-"34 have attained less education than their parents' generation.....

Saturday, January 9, 2010
The Economy is a Disaster
(6 comments) Someday things will likely get bad enough that people will no longer be able to take the lies of the government and their lap dog accomplices in the managed media.

Saturday, January 9, 2010
Fighting for the Soul of Tiger Woods
(10 comments) Mr. Hume would have us believe that the over 2 billion Christians in the world are somehow special when it comes to the sins of the flesh.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010
The Promise of a Trickle Down Recovery Must be Nurtured with Hope and Patience
(10 comments) We can't lose faith in trickle down economics or recoveries no matter how many people are out of work or hungry.

Sunday, January 3, 2010
Forget Full Body Scans, We Need Body Cavity Searches
(4 comments) Think about it. If we had implemented a body cavity search on the Nigerian with links to Yemen terror bomb suspect then he would not have been able to try to blow up that plane.

Saturday, January 2, 2010
Government "Lying" about Detroit Airliner Terror Incident Says Attorney, Eyewitness Passenger
(17 comments) Attorney Haskell has been through hell. He almost lost his life on Flight 253, but just as emotionally devastating to him, is the discovery that his government is lying.

Saturday, January 2, 2010
Ireland's Blasphemy Law a Blasphemous Mislead
(2 comments) A blasphemy law is blasphemous to the wonderful ideas and ideals that arose during the Enlightenment and blasphemous to the democratic tradition and principles proclaimed (but not often practiced) here in the West.

Thursday, December 31, 2009
Rush Limbaugh's Lack of a Heart for Those that Don't Get to 'Rest Comfortably'
Rush is suffering from more than a heart attack at this point. He is suffering from a lack of a heart.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Congressman Ron Paul "Anti Semitic" for Questioning
(7 comments) What is wrong with Ron Paul? First, he tells us that the Federal Reserve is a private institution that should be audited and now he tells us this way out 'Jew hating' theory that people that are occupied and bombed will strike back.

Sunday, December 27, 2009
Detroit Airliner Terror Incident: A Convenience Theory
(11 comments) I am not one that sees conspiracies everywhere, but I do like a good Convenience Theory.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009
A Priest's Message of Love this Christmas: Shoplifting May be the Best Option for Some
"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath". Or, morality should be used as a guide but it doesn't mean that humanity is to be enslaved or brutalized by it.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Say Goodbye to TV Land
We have bought TV reality and in the process, we have degraded our consciousness. In a sense, we have destroyed our minds for a Big Mac.

Thursday, December 17, 2009
The Rise of Robots, What Would the Buddha Think?
As humanity takes control of its own evolution man and machine will likely evolve into a cybernetic organism. But no matter how we evolve in the future, there will still be as much need for ethics and compassion.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009
God is Running Short of Cash, I Got an Idea
(4 comments) It looks as if the churches are cash strapped. Evidently they need to practice what they preach in a great big statement of faith.

Monday, December 14, 2009
Obama's Nobel War Speech in Less than 10 Words
(4 comments) Hopefully you didn't waste your time, like I did, actually listening to President Obama's Nobel War Speech.

Friday, December 11, 2009
Whatever Happened to Nazi Synthetic Gas and Oil Technology? Scarcity Scams Examined
(4 comments) Scarcity, lack, and fear make for big profits. That is why we need to understand that we really know little of what we have in technology to meet our energy needs because we can't trust the power structure that controls that information and that technology.

Thursday, December 10, 2009
Google's CEO Offers 'Blame the Victim Argument' for Technological Police State
(4 comments) "If you have something that you don't want people to know, then maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place"

Monday, December 7, 2009
Fed up with the 'Fed'?
(2 comments) Today, it is clear that we have few politicians that care enough for America or the American people to strike at the Federal Reserve. So the American people have to demand that the Federal Reserve is abolished. Just getting rid of Bernanke will not do anything.

Thursday, December 3, 2009
Why I Appreciate Atheists
(31 comments) I not only appreciate Atheists, but I also admire them for their character and bravery. I admire them for their thinking skills and their sense of honesty.

Saturday, November 28, 2009
Past Life Recall and other Mystical Psychic Events: What Good are They?
(16 comments) Whatever the truth of these events, the evidence seems clear that generally these experiences are transformative.

Saturday, November 28, 2009
War Crimes, Exploitation, Abuse, and Suffering Brought to You by the 'Big Lies'
(8 comments) In TV reality, the suffering and the exploitation offered by the Military Industrial Complex to the world is ignored or sometimes even applauded by Americans. Unfortunately, Americans can no longer hide behind the entertainment, the booze, and the pills.

Saturday, November 21, 2009
Would Americans be Pro-Wars if They Had to Pay for Them with Higher Taxes?
(11 comments) I wonder if Americans would opt for blood or revert to the greed if they knew their occupations would hit them right in their own wallet right now.

Thursday, November 19, 2009
President Obama: The Agonizer-in-Chief
(7 comments) Will President Obama send more troops to die for the occupation in Afghanistan?

Monday, November 16, 2009
Massive Die Offs, Eco System Collapse, Don't Worry About It
(19 comments) I hate negative people always complaining.

Sunday, November 15, 2009
Silly Texas Gov. Rick Perry Pretends to Think Fascism is Socialism
(8 comments) Texans as well as Americans are in deep trouble. Not because of the Socialism that is coming but because of the Fascism that is here.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Nearly Half of Congress Millionaires While Only Earning 6 Figures
(6 comments) Congress members find service to corporate friends has big payoff.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Bodhi Bits: Where do You Live In Your Mind?
(5 comments) No matter how we have lived our lives we can "open the gates of heaven" in this very moment by changing the focus in our minds.We can begin to form a Heavenly mental habit.

Sunday, November 1, 2009
Solution to Poverty: Allow Rich Men More Wives
(12 comments) This proposal would make the Republicans happy because it is a private plan to help end poverty.

Saturday, October 31, 2009
Deadly Public Option is Safe for the Elderly and Congress but it Will Kill the Rest of Us
(3 comments) These stooges in congress are being bought off by the insurance companies and pharmaceutical industry and quite honestly they don't give a damn if you or I live or die.

Sunday, October 25, 2009
Not Making This Up: GW Bush to be Motivational Speaker on Leadership
(6 comments) This Bush speaking engagement promises to be a momentous event in 'leadershiping.'

Sunday, October 25, 2009
Animals Think--But Monty Wishes More People Would
I have been counseling my progressive pug, Monty, but he displays resistance.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
"Sick Puppies"-- The Bush Family and the American Malady
(13 comments) As in the case with so many of history's sicko leaders, like Hitler, Stalin, etc., the question is not that a person and family sometimes are quite twisted. But the question is how these 'sickos' are able to capture the public's imagination and rise to great power in their countries.

Friday, October 16, 2009
The Dow is Up but Your House is Gone
(10 comments) But the good news is the Dow is up.

Saturday, October 10, 2009
A List of Greats that Never Won a Nobel Peace Prize
I guess it isn't so bad that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. One year they gave it to Henry Kissinger

Saturday, October 10, 2009
The Death of the Pistol Packing Soccer Mom: The Moral of the Story
(7 comments) Put Away Your Guns and Pick Up the Holy Spirit of Love

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Bill Clinton's 'Vast Right Wing Conspiracy'
(2 comments) Americans are caught up in a type of profound mass hypnosis, in which the 'Controllers of their Minds' present their reality.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The Bodhisattva's Vow: Moving Past the Prison of the 'Self'
(2 comments) To the Occidental mind, this present life is really all there is. There may be a judgment and then an eternal heaven or damnation or there may be nothing after death, depending on whether that mind has a scientific or religious bent. But from an oriental perspective, this is only one of many lives.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Bodhi Bit--Karma is Not a Cosmic Retribution System
(5 comments) The concept of Karma is a way to help us understand that our past thoughts, words, and deeds will have an effect but it is not the sole determinant of our Lives. Instead, we are in deep communion with all of life. We are in fact a community of being under an illusion of an individual identity.

Monday, September 21, 2009
America's Consumerist Psyche: A Sickness Killing the Country
The American psyche is often very perplexing to those that still want to assign some human decency to it. I am not one of those.

Thursday, September 10, 2009
The Book of Revelation: Bad News for Those Waiting on 'End Times'
(58 comments) The bottom line here is for all of you waiting for Armageddon and End Times, you might want to think long and hard about that. Let's face it, the odds stink and you woman are out of luck.

Friday, September 4, 2009
Americans: A Silly People Concerned by the Inane While the World Burns
(28 comments) I am completely serious when I write that I sometimes feel as if I am trapped amongst a type of zombie race of people that have lost common sense and reasoning by a mass disease that attacks and destroys the frontal lobe.

Monday, August 31, 2009
Bodhi Bit--Contemplating Death
If we take a few moments to contemplate our own deaths, it can have a way to bring us quickly back into reality. A few moments thinking about how, like a firefly flashing about on a warm summer's night, our lives are very short in time will appropriately rock our world.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Senator Joe Lieberman: Recession Not a Good Time for Health Care Reform
(2 comments) What if we took away health care coverage for Congressman and Senators and the rest of Federal government employees?

Sunday, August 23, 2009
Bodhi Bit--Healing Attitudes to Soul Force
(25 comments) In my work as a counselor to children and teens, I have found certain attitudes to be helpful for healing.

Monday, August 17, 2009
Stupid Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking Supports Socialized Medicine
(15 comments) I get a little upset when I see the people over in Great Britain and other countries claiming how great their health care system is, just because it is free and effective.

Monday, August 10, 2009
Death Panels Already Exist, They are Called Corporate Health Insurance Bureaucrats
(8 comments) The most intrusive system to life saving medical care is already occurring.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Bernanke's Economic Hit on America: Bankrupted and Destroyed by Design
(8 comments) Still, despite the supposed angst and anger of Ben Bernanke over the trillions of dollars he had to give to the banksters, things are going just as planned for the Federal Reserve and the Economic Hit Men that control much of the world's economy.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Bodhi Bit--The Shadow
(19 comments) Being human is Being a Hypocrite. Morality is a capricious fiance, we want to marry her but we can never live with her. Moralists must live in the hell of their own condemnations.

Friday, July 17, 2009
Bodhi Bit--Instant Karma?
(14 comments) When we develop a certain level of consciousness we become more aware of the fruit of our consciousness acting in our lives and some call that instant Karma.

Sunday, July 12, 2009
Bodhi Bit--Christ Consciousness
(54 comments) Many think that adopting a heart and mind similar to Jesus or the Buddha is unattainable. For sure it is rare when people attain such levels of compassion and understanding. But the message of Jesus and the Buddha was to have people rise to that level of being that brings great joy and wholeness (holiness) into their lives and into the world.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Jesus Would Take His Gun to Church [Satire]
(11 comments) Wait, you don't believe Jesus would take his gun to church? You don't even think Jesus would carry a gun?

Sunday, July 5, 2009
Alaska's Greatest Gift to America, Sarah Palin, Gave Alaska a Great Gift
But I am really not sure how Palin matches up with Joe Reddington, the sled dog musher or Joe Juneau, the prospector. I will say that I am partial to Jack London the great author of books like "The Call of the Wild" as being a greater gift to the United States than Sarah Palin.

Saturday, July 4, 2009
Tennessee's Law Allowing Guns in Bars Doesn't Go Far Enough
(22 comments) Tennessee must know that a lot of shootings occur at home and maybe this is the government's way of trying to slow the rate of domestic shootings and violence.

Saturday, July 4, 2009
More on Akwesasne Mohawk Peace Caravan Protest
(3 comments) The Mohawk people and their numerous supporters should be applauded for standing up for peace, in the spirit of the Great Peacemaker and according to their constitution, the Kaianereh'ko:wa/Great Law.

Thursday, July 2, 2009
Happy Birthday Canada! America Could Learn A Lot from You
(11 comments) Now I know you Canadians don't like to brag or appear too egotistical. But you are a great country and we Americans have a lot we could learn a lot from you.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
American Southwest Geoglyphs--a Message to Ancient UFO Visitors?
(16 comments) Certainly the native peoples of the southwest didn't have craft to see the Intaglios. But, maybe they were signaling those that could see their art. Many Native tribes have stories of their star origins. Possibly these supposed "myths" have some connection to the truth of ancient interactions from star visitors.

Friday, June 26, 2009
Pissed Off Monkey Pisses On a Politician
There is this monkey that did the world a favor.

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