are you stuck on stupid ... ?

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coup d'etat : a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics; especially
: the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group

Twenty First Century Americans who still believe their government operates the way it is "s'posed to" are comatose.


During a press conference about hurricane Katrina, when things got a little too hot for New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Lieutenant General Russel L. Honore took the microphone.

As reporters continued to ask questions about the previous hurricane, Rita, General Honore interrupted:

"You're asking last storm questions for people who are concerned about the future storm. Don't get stuck on stupid, reporters. We're moving forward."

The very next question came from a male reporter:

"General, a little bit more about why that's happening this time, though it did not happen last time..."

Honore replied:

"You are stuck on stupid. I'm not going to answer that question...
Let's talk about the future. Rita is happening."


Today, in a broader sense, I have come to define "stuck on stupid" as those Americans who continue to live in the past, as if nothing has changed in the way their own government operates.

Nothing is at it used to be.

America is not Camelot, this is not " the city on the shining hill"

Nothing has been the same for The People of the United States of America ...

Since THE Coup d'etat of November 22, 1963

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true meaning of Memorial Day ...

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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO5tPf9LUC4

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Don't stand by my grave

Don't stand by my grave and weep,
For I am not there.
I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond's glint in the snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
In the soft blush of the morning light
I am the swift bird in flight.
Don't stand by my grave and cry,
I am not there,
I did not die.

Unknown Native American Author

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Last Goodbye - Revised Version

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKyfhJx-DU

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does this make sense to you ... ?

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Please watch the videos in the following order:


Soldiers Story

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjmIrwfVOho


Stopping War for Profit: - Greenwald on Olbermann

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEpRlw9pMrw


'Iraq for Sale' bonus scene: Soldiers outsourced to KBR

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg74xX9e1Pg


(if videos are removed, please let me know)
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Happy Mother's Day !

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A challenge we all face today few of us, I think, see - maybe we do not want to see.

We so easily talk of "others" - creating "ists" and "ers" and "ians" and "izers"

We easily attach a label to a group of people, then no longer see *people* themselves.

That division is partly self-induced, partly encouraged by forces outside our "society"


What any person does as personal choice in no way *includes* them in some group.

What any person does as personal choice has consequences that one must live with.

What any person does as a matter of personal choice is *judged* by natural laws ...

... the very same laws which result in consequences for each of us, for how we live.


-- How we love each other, care for each other, sustain each other
- or not --


Perhaps today, this weekend, now and forward, you will stop and think - pause

Before you condemn any other person, before relegating someone so much like you ...

... to a *distant* group apart from you and yours, leaving you and yours apart as well.

I admit sometimes I must pause too - correct my words and actions for my own sake.


I grew up in the United States of America hearing daily admonitions about our enemy.

A primary warning given us then was that our *enemy* would divide us, conquer us.

Today, we all allow forces we neither see nor understand the existence or purpose of ...

... to divide us in so many ways, that we are now divided - vulnerable, conquerable.


Today, stop a minute and draw deeply on your own mother's love.

Ask yourself how Mom would love the one you set apart were that person her own child.

Ask how you will survive where you have allowed yourself to so coldly judge others ...

... those making choices so similar to your own - put yourself in their place each time.


We are caught up in spiritual war - in which we can lose our own souls in wrong action.

At the same time, we are caught in an economic war in this physical world of ours.

Both critical in their separate ways, and both having their "deceivers" at work among us.

Both are tied inseparably, and the Bible is not the only source of that particular truth.


JB

now is forever ...

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The truth of what is happening in our country, to our country, to our world ...

Must be recognized.

Must be confessed ...

Must be admitted, and it must be dealt with straightforward.

Those responsible must be held accountable, now and always.

Every minute of every day, now and for as long as it takes to change, to right ...

To make our country, our world, our lives, whole again.

To find once more the beacon of promise our nation once was to the world.

If ever it can be so again, we must act - not fail in any way

Without delay.

YOU, as a human being KNOW right from wrong.

Stand up for RIGHT, knock down what is wrong whenever it appears.

That is something you can do - something you must do.

Not for yourself - for your children, your granchildren, and for theirs.

For all that is theirs.

Forever

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