“Occupy Oakland”: General Strike TODAY
Posted by Michelle Moquin on November 2nd, 2011
Good morning!
“Occupy Your Town” is country wide. No surprise that “Occupy Oakland” is a huge player. Love that the passion for change is in my own backyard. So…today is the day. ”Occupy Oakland” wants to shut down the city of Oakland with a citywide general strike. The proposed strike intends to close all banks and corporations for the day, while calling on laborers, teachers and students to join in en masse.
Oaklanders: Are you going to be there? If you plan on participating, there are some things you should know:
How YOU can Participate in the General Strike!
WAYS TO PARTICIPATE ON NOVEMBER 2 GENERAL STRIKE & DAY OF ACTION
called for by Occupy Oakland
Occupy Oakland is calling for no work and no school on November 2 as part of the general strike. We are asking that all workers go on strike, call in sick, take a vacation day or simply walk off the job with their co-workers. We are also asking that all students walk out of school and join workers and community members in downtown Oakland. All banks and large corporations must close down for the day or demonstrators will march on them.
The Occupy Oakland Strike Assembly has vowed to picket and or occupy any business or school which disciplines employees or students in any way for participating in the Nov 2 General Strike. Please email OccupyOaklandLaborSolidarity@gmail.com if you are the subject of any disciplinary action.
Occupy Oakland recognizes that not all workers, students and community members will feel able to strike all day long on November 2, and we welcome any form of participation which they feel is appropriate. We urge them to join us before or after work or during their lunch hours.
Below are some action ideas for strike participants to consider:
Gather in Downtown Oakland to help Shut Down the City
- Join the Mass Gatherings at 14th & Broadway 9:00am, 12:00pm, 5:00pm. Strike Rallies will be held at these times with political speakers as well as time for open mic so that everyone can make their voices heard. There will also be action announcements made from the stage on this intersection for those who are interested in participating in pickets and shut downs of banks and large corporations.
- Lead a march from your neighborhood, workplace, school, community center, place of worship etc into downtown Oakland to join one of these three mass gatherings. Have fun and be loud along the way to let people know why you are marching downtown!
- Form a mobile blockade or flying picket that can take over important intersections in downtown with street parties and other creative ways to make our voices heard and shut the city down.
- There will be numerous pickets and actions at banks and corporations across downtown but we need more! Get a group of friends, family members, co-workers or fellow students together to form an affinity group and make your voice heard and your presence felt at any of these locations in downtown. Let the stage on 14th & Broadway know about your action so they can announce it to the crowd.
- There are many other autonomous actions planned for the day that will be occurring throughout downtown. One of them is the anti-capitalist march at 2pm meeting at the intersection of Telegraph & Broadway and another is the Feminist & Queer bloc against capitalism that will meet at 4:30 at 14th & Broadway.
- Join the marches from downtown to shut down the Port of Oakland. These marches will be leaving at 4pm and another will be leaving at 5pm for the 2 mile march out to the port to stand in solidarity with the longshore workers and shut down the evening shift of the port.
- Join the 4pm Critical Mass ride from 14th & Broadway out to the Port to join the shut down
- Best not to drive into downtown: It is likely that many streets will be blocked to traffic so please bike or take public transportation if possible. It will also be useful to have a bicycle to move between actions or to march to the port.
Take Action in Your Own Neighborhoods and Communities
- Gather neighbors, co-workers, or fellow students together and organize group walks and small marches around the neighborhood to have fun, raise awareness and encourage others to join you in the streets! Bring noise makers, signs, banners and let your community know why your are participating in the strike.
- Stop at banks, large businesses, chain stores, gas stations, corporate headquarters, large commercial media outlets, etc. to protest and picket
- Gather in neighborhood centers and on the corners of main intersections to hold speak outs, BBQs and street parties – make your voice heard and raise awareness by reclaiming space where fellow community members can join you and talk about the issues that affect them most and how we can organize together to build a powerful movement
- If you must shop, only spend money at locally owned stores and as much as possible purchase locally-produced goods
Nonprofit and Community Organizations
- Use your personal and organizational social media accounts (websites, facebook, linked-in, electronic newsletters, etc) to support the actions and keep your constituencies updated about what is going on in the streets of Oakland.
- In the event of police violence, use your organization to denounce police repression and call for the release of all arrested strikers.
- Provide resources for your staff to participate: allow time away to participate in direct actions; encourage work on projects aligned with general strike and occupy goals, host sign and banner making parties!
Be Prepared
- Bring materials to make signs: Banner material. cardboard, poster paper, markers, paint, spray paint tape, dowels, etc
- Bring food and water to share!
- Bring noise makers, instruments, sound systems and other ways that we can transform downtown into a celebration of our collective power
- Write this legal number down on your body in case of arrest: 415.285.1011 The number will be staffed al day long and will coordinate legal support for those arrested in the strike.
- Remember these four common points that the General Strike Assembly has agreed upon:
- Solidarity with the world-wide Occupy movement!
- End police attacks on our communities!
- Defend Oakland schools and libraries!
- Against an economic system built on colonialism, inequality and corporate power that perpetuates all forms of oppression and the destruction of the environment!
A Few Chants For the Strike
- “Strike, Occupy, Shut it Down! Oakland is the People’s Town”
- “Every Hour, Every Day! The occupation is here to stay!”
- “Occupy Everything! Liberate Oakland”
- “Politicians & Bankers, Liars & Thieves, We’re taking it back! We’re not saying please!”
- “No more cops, we don’t need ‘em! All we want is total freedom”
- “Shut Down OPD! Not the Public Library!”
- “Let’s Go Oakland! Let’s Go!” [clap] [clap]
SEE YOU IN THE STREETS! MAKE OAKLAND PROUD!
Let’s make it safe and peaceful for all – Okay?
AH: As someone once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, people do”.
Play it peaceful wherever you are. xoxo
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November 2nd, 2011 at 11:28 am
Hi Mischa, wow, look forward to hearing how this goes…have more to say but I’m in the middle of a busy few days.
Lost/found, you’ve heard it already, just enjoy the ride, it really doesn’t matter whether it’s lust or love, both are very special in their own unique way and love without lust sucks in my opinion, whereas lust without love isn’t too shabby : )
…love doesn’t always have to be the end game. Though we all like to believe that we are special to the person we’re lusting with and you are; all popular definitions of ‘love’ aside (most people haven’t got ‘love’ defined very well anyway, just some indoctrinated version of it)…
Luv, Zen Lill
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:30 am
WHY MRI MACHINES CAUSE VERTIGO
If you’ve ever had a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, then you know that it’s no fun to lie motionless in a long, cold tube while loud knocking and clanking noises pound away —
and that’s what it’s like when it goes well! For some of us, the experience can be much worse. Some people feel anxious and claustrophobic to the point of having panic attacks, while others feel nauseated and dizzy.
These latter symptoms make up a condition called MRI-related vertigo. Though MRI-related vertigo is temporary (it typically lasts only while the scan is going on) and it isn’t a common problem, it’s one that has confounded the medical world — until now.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have solved the mystery of why MRI makes some folks experience vertigo.
THIS WILL MAKE YOU DIZZY!
First, though, let’s look at why we get dizzy in the first place. I spoke with two of the researchers, Dale Roberts, MS, a computer scientist, and David Zee, MD, professor of neurology, ophthalmology, neuroscience and otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at the university.
They explained that the inner ear has a tubelike structure called the labyrinth that is filled with a fluid (endolymph) that is rich in potassium ions. The labyrinth is vital to coordinating our sense of balance.
What this new research, published in the September 22, 2011 issue of Current Biology, revealed is that the force exerted by the magnets in an MRI scanner is so powerful that it pushes on the potassium-rich endolymph in the labyrinth, which sends a red alert to the brain that you seem to be losing your balance.
This triggers a natural reflex, nystagmus — a fancy name for a succession of alternating slow and rapid eye movement — that allows the eyes to maintain focus on an object despite the sensation of motion.
For example, when your head turns in one direction, your eyes maintain focus by rotating in the other direction.
This is the brain’s way of trying to maintain your equilibrium when it senses that you are responding to a sensation of motion.
While you’re experiencing this nystagmus, it’s common to feel vertigo.
FASCINATING FINDINGS
The researchers used 12 volunteers (10 healthy, two with inner-ear problems that affected their labyrinths) who were willing to lie in complete darkness inside an MRI tunnel (called the bore).
The MRI’s magnet was “on” but the scanner was not otherwise operating, so no images were being produced.
To eliminate any visual clues of motion, the researchers conducted the experiment in darkness and used a night-vision camera focused on the eyes of the volunteers to look for evidence of nystagmus.
They found that all of the volunteers with healthy labyrinths exhibited nystagmus — and also experienced MRI-induced vertigo — but the volunteers with inner-ear problems didn’t.
So the researchers concluded that it’s the way the magnet affects the labyrinth in the inner ear that causes MRI-induced vertigo.
WHAT THE RESULTS REVEAL
The researchers used an unusually powerful MRI machine, a kind that is right now used primarily for research but could soon become standard in exam rooms.
That may explain why all 10 patients with healthy inner ears experienced MRI-induced vertigo. In real-life settings today, when doctors use regular-strength MRI machines, MRI-induced vertigo is less common.
By adjusting the strength of the magnetic field, the researchers were able to establish that stronger magnetic fields caused faster nystagmus (faster eye movements) — and therefore more intense vertigo.
So as a growing number of doctors start using these stronger MRI machines, more nystagmus and vertigo can be expected.
As Dr. Zee said, the vertigo some patients experience is not dangerous or an indication of any other sort of health problem.
While the dizziness may not cause you to fall and hurt yourself, he did add that it’s a good idea for patients to come out of an MRI machine slowly and sit or stand still for a minute or so before starting to walk around — just to be on the safe side.
The researchers also found that even small changes in how far up the patient’s chin was pointed in the machine affected the speed and direction of nystagmus.
This information could help doctors better position patients who are bothered by the vertigo so they can experience less during future MRI scans.
In the meantime, the next time you experience vertigo during an MRI, you’ll know why!
Source (s):
Dale Roberts, MS, a computer scientist, department of otolaryngology head and neck surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
David S. Zee, MD, professor of neurology, ophthalmology, neuroscience and otolaryngology — head and neck surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
November 2nd, 2011 at 11:44 am
The House last night reaffirmed “In God We Trust” as the national motto of the U.S., in an effort to encourage its display in public buildings and send a message to those who seek to remove God from the public domain.
Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R.-Va.) sponsored the resolution and said it also serves to clear up confusion over a speech President Obama gave last year in Jakarta, Indonesia, in which he stated that the motto was instead “E Pluribus Unum,” Latin for “Out of many, one.”
“For the President of the United States to incorrectly state something as foundational as our national motto in another country is unacceptable,” Forbes said. “The President is the primary representative of our nation to the world, and whether mistake or intention, his actions cast aside an integral part of American society.”
“We need to make clear to the people in this country that our motto is ‘In God We Trust,’ and encourage them to proudly display that motto,” Forbes said.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D.-N.Y.) was the only Democrat to engage in debate against the measure on the floor, and said the suggestion that the President is “less Godly, less patriotic,” is a “kind of divisiveness that undermines national unity.”
“It’s an exercise to tell people who may not believe in God, ‘You don’t really count, you’re not really an American,’” Nadler said.
The resolution required a two-thirds vote to pass, and did so easily, 396 to 9. To learn who the sole Republican was to vote against the measure, check out today’s story.
—Audrey Hudson
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Has anyone noticed that the people who practice God’s love the least are always the ones advocating the presence of God in to the lives of others?
Checking the Bible aren’t we warned against the Anti-Christs among us. Weren’t we warned that they would be the ones screaming God this and God that the most.
Well! Need I say more?
Robert
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Michelle,
I’m heading there right now. Hope to see you there.
Chuck
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Ann Coulter said on Sean Hannity’s show, “our blacks are so much better than their blacks.”
Someone needs to tell that attention seeking bigot that we blacks stop being your blacks or their blacks when Lincoln freed the slaves and the 13th Amendment’s total abolition of slavery took effect in December 1865.
Alycedale
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Alycedale, she’s a moron of the highest order, and an offensive one at that…and unfortunately, she’s a media whore to boot. – ZL
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:37 pm
“Zen” Lill,
I am of the believe that love IS the end game and it DOES matter if the interaction is love or lust. As Buddha teaches, lust is seen as an expression of bondage and limitation. I am thinking that perhaps your “Zen”-ness could use enlightenment on Buddha’s teachings on love. I proffer to you and others who make light of love:
Just as blood nourishes the heart which keeps it flowing, so love nourishes spiritual freedom and is, in turn, kept flowing by it. The connection is so strong that Buddhism, often known as a Path of Freedom, could equally be called a religion of love. Perhaps this is what he had in mind when the Dalai Lama said his religion is kindness. For the Buddha, love is one of the paths to full spiritual liberation.
If we call Buddhism a religion of love we need to be clear what we mean by love, or more precisely, what forms of love we are including. Because freedom is the guide, the measure, and the ultimate goal of all things Buddhist, Buddhist love includes those forms of love that are characterized by freedom. Love that involves clinging, lust, confusion, neediness, fear, or grasping to self would, in Buddhist terms, be seen as expressions of bondage and limitation.
Lovingkindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and a particular form of equanimity are the four kinds of love taught and encouraged in classic Buddhist teachings. None of these are uniquely Buddhist; they are four qualities of heart that reside within everyone, at least as potentials. Teachings about the four forms of love existed in India prior to the Buddha, they were elements common to the Indian spiritual world which he included within his system of practice. While Buddhism cannot exist without love, it may be helpful to realize that love can exist happily apart from Buddhism. Learning the ways of these four loves does not require one to become a Buddhist. It only requires a willingness to develop innate capacities.
Love does not need to be left to chance. It mustn’t be a matter of “falling in love,” nor must it be accepted in whatever degree or frequency it happens to appear. The Buddhist tradition has developed a range of practices and reflections designed to develop our capacity to love. As with a treasure behind a locked door, we can find the key that allows us to open the door of love; like a muscle, love can be strengthened through practice.
In their most developed forms, the four types of love can each become a boundless radiance glowing from us. As such, love may flow from us equally toward all beings or it can glow freely without needing to be directed to anyone. When boundless, love without any particular object is recognized in Buddhism as a form of liberation.
To be “free” only when things are pleasant is not real liberation. Similarly, to love only in optimal conditions is not real love. Not a few Buddhist meditators have experienced great love while in meditation, only to have it disappear quickly outside of meditation. It can be easy to love all beings in the abstract, but it can be a great challenge to do so when we have to live with them. It is one thing to love and another to express that love in daily life.
One of the most rewarding spiritual practices is to cultivate the ability to bring love into all aspects of our life and to all people we encounter. This entails learning how to include love’s presence while we speak to others, are in conflict with others, and are living with others. While this can be a daunting task, it begins with having the intention to do so. And it is supported by appreciating each manifestation of love that we encounter. Even practicing loving-kindness for the time it takes to snap the fingers is beneficial. Each drop of practice is significant and, as the Buddha said, “with dripping drops of water, the water jug is filled.”
November 2nd, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Kwan Yin:
You may be right, and you are certainly entitled to your opinion. But on a subject matter such as this that naturally lends itself to much subjectivity why be so hard on Zen Lill?
One would think that all that enlightenment you have gotten from Buddha’s teachings may need a follow up if it has taught you to be so rude to your fellow mates in this world.
Zen Lill saw it from her perspective, you are seeing it from yours. Who’s to say who is really correct?
Ruth
November 2nd, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Ruth:
In every culture, it is possible to act rudely, although what constitutes rude behavior varies.
November 2nd, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Perhaps my message was construed as an insult by you but it was unintentional.
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:25 pm
November 2, 2011
Why Our Blacks Are Better
Than Their Blacks
by Ann Coulter
In the last year alone, a short list of the things liberals have labeled “racist” include:
– Being a Republican;
– Joining the tea party;
– The word “the” (Donald Trump’s statement that he has a “great relationship with the blacks”);
– References to Barack Obama’s playing basketball (Trump again);
– Using Obama’s middle name;
– Scott Brown?’s pickup truck;
– Opposing Obamacare;
– Opposing Obama’s stimulus bill;
– Opposing Obama’s jobs bill.
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November 2nd, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Just watch the hypocrites that make up the republican christians flip flop when mormon Romney get’s the nomination.
Suddenly the religion of the candidate shouldn’t matter. That’s because it only matters if the political differences or the race of the candidate matters to these hypocrites.
While they felt free and obliged to bring up Obama’s religion, they will be out actively trying to intimidate the press and everyone else into leaving that cult religion alone.
Naomi
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:44 pm
“… every tactic imaginable will be used by the Obama campaign, including attacking the religion of his opponent,” said Gary Bauer, president of American Values and a long time leader in the social conservative movement.
LOL!
Where was this nit when the GOP (Greedy One Percent) were attacking Obama’s religion and bearing false witness that Obama is Muslim?
I guess attacks on religion that HAVE NOT BEEN MADE BY DEMOCRATS are worthy of criticism while attacks on religion that HAVE BEEN MADE BY REPUBLICANS should not be criticized.
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:52 pm
“As for race, the Mormon Church did not allow black men to be ordained as priests in the church until 1978.”
“unknown Mormons performed a posthumous proxy baptism for President Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, in June 2008, and that others in the church have done the same for deceased Holocaust victims. “It’s pretty aggressively nasty duplicitous stuff,” Aravosis wrote on Oct. 17.”
Here it is in your own religion’s website.
http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/mormon/baptism/
So, racist and proxy baptism, PROVED!
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:55 pm
You have Catholics and fundies marching arm-in-arm on the abortion and gay issues. Glenn Beck, a really wacky Mormon, received an honorary doctorate from Fallwell’s college.
But fundamentalist teachers have long held that Mormonism is “demonic.” All someone would have to do is start the rumor that Romney is the Antichrist.
Or just trot out actual Mormon doctrine — anyone believing that fairy tale is, well, not very discerning about church history or what the New Testament actually says.
November 2nd, 2011 at 6:57 pm
And here is that fairy tale:
An angel, that no one ever saw, approached Joseph Smith and had him dig up two gold plates, that no one ever saw, and Smith used those plates to print up the book of Mormon.
November 2nd, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Please someone explain to me why the hypocrites who claim to be so pious always make their god do shit with gold?
So the mormons say god used GOLD tablets. I guess since the shit he wrote on them wasn’t worth much, might as well make the tablets valuable by making the GOLD.
Wood or stone wouldn’t do because we, morons are about the GOLD. Let’s not leave out all that underage pussy, now there’s the real gold for mormons. They get to mine fuck the young girls into believing they should be sexual slaves to the men.
Blake
November 2nd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Say what you will but I’ll be in my lifetime Perry gets exposed for having gay tendencies. Look at that guy. He is as sweet as they come.
November 2nd, 2011 at 7:33 pm
The financial crooks have set their sights on Guam. The intend to hike up Guam’s financial rating so that they can profit from the loss once the island has attained a heavy investment in their bonds.
Standards & Poors is right in the thick of the scam. They started off by giving Guam an A rating way higher than any rating Guam has gotten in is history.
Anonz
November 2nd, 2011 at 7:36 pm
No. 306 of 365
List just a few of the things environmental and health advocacy groups would have banned on the “precautionary principle,” if only they’d had the chance:
Fire: too hot, hazardous, and burn-y
The wheel: dramatically increased risk of vehicle accidents
Electricity: can cause electrocution; creates obesity in people who sit too long in front of TV sets
The internal combustion engine: burns potentially planet-destroying fossil fuels.
The internet: might be used to disseminate dangerous information casting doubts on Man-Made Global Warming and/or pouring scorn/mockery on well-intentioned environmental and health advocacy groups thus impeding their noble battle to make the world entirely safe for everyone.
November 2nd, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Before Having Surgery at the Doctor’s Office…
Charles B. Inlander
Just 30 years ago, more than 90% of all surgical procedures were performed in hospitals, requiring at least one night’s stay.
But because of advanced surgical techniques and safer, easier to administer anesthesia, one-third (about 15 million surgeries) are now performed on an outpatient basis at hospital-owned or independent surgery centers.
And still another 15 million operations — everything from the removal of a skin cancer to cataract surgery and knee arthroscopy — are performed in physicians’ offices.
In-hospital surgery, hospital-run outpatient centers and independently owned surgicenters are highly regulated by both federal and state governments, and most must be certified by well-respected accrediting organizations to be eligible to bill Medicare or private insurance companies.
But surgical procedures performed in physicians’ offices are not tightly regulated. In fact, only 25 states regulate them at all — by monitoring infection control standards, for example.
Before saying “yes” to any surgical procedure that is performed in a doctor’s office, ask these questions…
Does the doctor have the right credentials? Your doctor should have privileges at a local hospital. This helps ensure that he/she is well-trained because hospitals strictly control who gets privileges.
Insider tip: Ask your doctor where he has privileges and in what specialties. Then call the hospital to double-check what you’ve been told.
Doctors who have lost hospital privileges for safety or quality reasons have been known to continue doing surgical procedures in their offices.
Also: Check with the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) (www.abms.org) to ensure that your doctor is board-certified in the specialty covering the procedure he is to perform.
Nowadays, more doctors are attempting to bring in extra income by doing office procedures in areas in which they don’t have extensive training.
What happens if there’s an emergency?
For older adults and those of any age with a chronic medical condition, such as high blood pressure, heart disease or diabetes, an in-hospital or a hospital-operated outpatient facility may be the best choice.
These facilities are equipped to handle serious problems, such as surgical errors, that can occur during surgery.
Insider tip: If you’re considering an office-based surgery, ask, “Do you have an arrangement with a local hospital and ambulance service in case of emergency?”
This ensures a prompter response time than simply calling 911 — the approach taken by most doctors’ offices.
How is follow-up handled?
Hospitals and outpatient surgical centers generally have doctors or nurses available to help you 24 hours a day if a problem occurs after you have gone home.
Most physicians’ offices do not offer that service and simply tell you to go to an emergency room.
Insider tip: Before you agree to an office procedure, ask if there are doctors or nurses on call 24 hours a day if there’s a problem. If not, book your procedure at a hospital or hospital-operated facility.
Charles B. Inlander is a consumer advocate and health-care consultant based in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania.
He was the founding president of the nonprofit People’s Medical Society, a consumer advocacy organization credited with key improvements in the quality of US health care in the 1980s and 1990s, and is the author of 20 books, including Take This Book to the Hospital with You: A Consumer Guide to Surviving Your Hospital Stay (St. Martin’s).
November 2nd, 2011 at 8:48 pm
this song was playing on the radio in my car when i was on the way to the hospital to give birth to my son and i dedicated it to him because he is now up in heaven and has been for 7 years almost 8 years,
i was 8 1/2 months when i gave birth to him and he died of a brain hemmorage thanks to his dad pushing me down 3 flights of stairs and me landing on my belly.
I miss my little man so much Take care of great grandma Judas, she died of cancer in 2001
November 2nd, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Kwan Yin, yes you more or less gave away your buddhist ‘love’ when you “Zen” Lill’d me : ) (thank you, Ruth, for the back up of ZL’s point) but I decided to overlook that slight and reread your read, all points well taken though I stand by my specialness of the lust factor bc in reality (or the pyschic non-reality) of lust a ‘love’ of some sort(s) has to exist to the point of said attraction, where the two parties choose to act on the ‘love’ as exhibited after the sex act is their personal biz and there may be many reasons why they’d choose not to, who am I to judge that action/non-action? I believe there’s room for one night of love in every life should a person choose to take themselves up on it, that’s pure choice and it’s not for everyone.
Some of the ‘love’ as defined by Buddha is just sheer love of life/people and has little to do with love of the flesh/sex/lust but has everything to do with the unconditional love – and unconditional love has no boundaries, no expectation, no restrictions and in that way so does loving lust : ) and if someone wants to have just the lust and not let/allow/want their heart to follow or be reciprocated to – well, that is the choice of the people involved. Thus, no end game…
I agree with many of the Buddist beliefs as stated above, though in practice, Kwan Yin, you wouldn’t have felt the need to zing the “zen” if YOU were feeling unconditional love and simply had no expectation of me or need to correct me or negate the opinion, to all of that I say well then who’s Zen now, babe? Ah, but that’s just my ego talking. so, hmmm, I’ll just thank you for your input and move along happily and lovingly…
Luv, Zen Lill
November 2nd, 2011 at 10:22 pm
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Michael Bolton ~ Now That I Found You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiZd1x_ar3k&feature=related
November 3rd, 2011 at 1:05 am
Hafa adai:
How telling is it that the republicans want to expose Guam to the attack of America’s foreign enemies but not wish to compensate Guamanians on an equal basis with the mainland when exposed to nuclear radiation.
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A trio of democrat senators are calling on Congress to pass a bill that would allow Guam residents equal compensation for exposure to nuclear fallout.
H.R. 149 and S. 791 amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990 to expand the list of eligible downwind areas to include Guam for the nuclear weapons testing conducted by the United States government that occurred in the Marshall Islands from 1945 through 1962, and to allow equal compensation for all claimants of $150,000 each regardless of exposure.
Sens. Ben Pangelinan, D-Barrigada, and Tina-Rose Muña Barnes, D-Mangilao, and Speaker Judith Won Pat, D-Inarajan, sponsored Resolution 171-31. The resolution petitions the United States Congress to pass H.R. 149, introduced by Congressman Ben Lujan, D-New Mexico, and S. 791, introduced by Sen. Tom Udall, D-New Mexico.
“As a long time advocate to recognize and include Guam as a down winder, I applaud the New Mexico representatives in their effort to support our cause,” Pangelinan stated.
“The passage of this amendment will greatly benefit the people of Guam that have suffered from leukemia and other forms of cancers attributed to nuclear fallout. We are finally making progress on our efforts for justice.”
This morning, during session, Pangelinan urged his colleagues to support Resolution 171-31. The resolution is now in the voting file.
There will also be a candle light vigil scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Plaza De España. Pangelinan is inviting the community, on behalf of the Pacific Association of Radiation Survivors and Robert Celestial, to attend.
“The vigil is to remember and honor all those that have suffered from leukemia or cancers attributed to nuclear fallout,” Pangelinan stated.
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What are they saying? Guamanians aren’t as American as those on the mainland?
Peter
November 3rd, 2011 at 1:13 am
Michelle:
You are so right this election is so important because it is about; selecting the next two Supreme Court justices, protecting Social Security and Medicare and Medicade,
being responsible citizens and taking care of those in our society who are ill, elderly and handicapped,
being fair to immigrants, honoring women and their rights and insuring all citizens, gay or straight receive equal protection and share in equal
November 3rd, 2011 at 6:47 am
Anonymous, love your acronym GOP – greedy one percent, too true…
That whole supreme court ‘in for life’ term really needs to change, the positions are too important to and giving any one person that much power foe life is almost a guarantee that greed will seep into their bones.
Anonz, always good to see your name here : ) though the info you wrote in about is detrimental to Guam this time, I hope Peter and Anna can get the word out to all the Chamarros (hafa adai).
Luv, Zen Lill
November 3rd, 2011 at 9:05 am
Apparently my attempt at using a pun was not understood. Does the sensitivity factor runs high here? Mayhaps I was led astray when told I would find some intelligent female beings here.
November 3rd, 2011 at 9:57 am
Slow your ride Kwan Yin. There are plenty of intelligent female beings here. You don’t have to confuse a difference of opinion with I.Q.
I like your rant but you have to loosen up a bit. There is some hot sweet meat here if you are willing to endure the tendering process.
Sabrina
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