From this valley they say you are going.
I will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile.
For they say you are taking the sunshine.
That has brightened our pathway awhile.
Friendship is so much more than a word, a handshake,and a smile. It's the ability to see the inner beauty in someone.
God offers us peace in the midst of life's storms.
“Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things” (Phil 4:8).
1. All qualified candidates have equal access to the public through the media and they don't have to pay for it.
Ability to run for office should not depend on how much money you can collect.
2. Central election commission that is recognized as being non-partisan.
He mentioned Florida's secretary of state Katherine Harris's actions in the 2000 election and how they subsequently led (or at least didn't prevent) her to win a seat in Congress. One of the things that she and Jeb Bush were up to in that election was circulating a list of thousands of purported "convicted felons" to local polling officials. It turned out many of these people were not convicted felons, but most were black people who more than likely would have voted for the Democratic nominee. Her and Jeb had to backtrack on that little imbroglio....but in our short attention span culture not many people paid much attention. We're more interested in the political impact of Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter. Hello.
Katherine is gone on to bigger and better things but the Florida Department of State - Office of the Secretary is a Jeb Bush partisan appointee this time around.
3. All the people should vote in exactly the same way. Punch card, touch screen etc. The assertion being that by allowing various ways of counting votes it's more likely that rich people votes count since the more affluent areas can afford the best vote tallying devices.
4. Technological advanced way to vote must include a way for voter to verify his or her vote and allow for a recount. One example is a system where a paper ballot comes out from touch screen which is put in a ballot box. This allows voter to ensure his vote is accurately recorded and provides a method for recounts.
Photo From Everett Herald - You Go Becca!
And so we learn, finally, the heavy price he paid to be able to write those most famous lines in "On the Road": "... the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn. ... "
"Life really is beautiful--at least for those fortunate enough to survive."
"In 1950, for example, George Smathers, running against Senator Claude Pepper, Democrat of Florida, was reported to have tried to smear his opponent by announcing to voters that Pepper's sister was a 'thespian' and his brother a 'homo sapien.' Pepper lost."
GOP: KERRY WENT TO VIETNAM TO AVOID SERVING IN ALABAMA NATIONAL GUARD
Get the scoop at The Borowitz Report .com
CHENEY ADMITS GOING ON CAMPING TRIP WITH EDWARDS
Check it out at The Borowitz Report .com
Get people jobs that pay a livable wage. Not just jobs...liveable wage jobs.
Educate people, young and old.
Reduce prison over population by getting non-violent drug offenders (50% of our prison population) out of prisons so we can keep violent criminals or sexual predators locked up.
Provide health care for all people regardless of their ability to pay.
Stop our dependence on middle eastern oil.
Figure out a way to work with corporate America to keep jobs in our country that we want our children to aspire to (we don't care if McD's or Walmart is hiring).
"It has been a tough few days for the Kerry campaign, which has been shadowed since Monday by a Predator drone dispatched by the Department of Homeland Security."
Don McLean Song "Vincent"
Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and gray,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land.
Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.
Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.
For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.
Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.
Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will.
Luke 10:25-37 (NRSV)
Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." And he said to him, "You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live."
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.' Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?" He said, "The one who showed him mercy." Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."
