. . . recently contained such things as tubas . . .
. . . being stolen from southern California high schools for the black market providing the instruments to the latest craze in Latino music, space junk left over from satellites and space missions orbiting the earth and not being cleaned up and federal immigration agents are shooting each other. . .
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He just ain’t no youngster anymore. There are certain things in his life that were begun years ago in his youth which he must follow through to completion. In the following-through process, he must interact with a number of persons. Many of these persons are good, upstanding, honest, forthright, scrupulous, hard-working, salt-of-the-earth individuals.
But then, there are the others. "Believe me," he said, "I am not being petty, catty or gossipy." He had lived long enough and experienced a sufficient amount of humanity to recognize, and not necessarily at first sight- but after years of interacting with such individuals, personalities whose dedication to the preservation of self is so great that it consumes and underlies all their actions (and interactions) during the course of each day every day up to and surpassing good, correct and honest human behavior. And consequently, in consciously acting in the above described manner, one must apply another ‘veneer’ to ensure (they think) that the general perception of their actions is that of good, correct and honest human behavior.
He called this hypocrisy because the inherent behavior of such individuals is of such a contrary extreme from that which they attempt to display (or ‘betray’), that he could summon no better descriptor of the phenomena. But then, to them the combination of the dishonesty of their underlying actions and the dishonesty of their public personalities is probably united in their minds as normal behavior; or ‘just the way they are’.
So in reaction to the conduct of such individuals and in his pursuit of his ultimate goal, that being a ‘retirement’ of sorts from the daily routine of earning a living to the pursuit of his passion, he must undertake a similar ‘dance’. As a result of his recognition of such undesirable and undermining conduct, he finds himself absolutely loathing such personalities. Make clear that he must encounter them and interact with them on a daily basis, but he finds the experience to be an unappealing drudgery. And then, in addition to this disgusting combination of circumstances, he must ‘be nice’ in order to remain active in this professional situation and follow through on his long-terms plans.
Is he just as hypocritical?
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She: So now we can get the day started. You go girl!
He: Did that look like a girl getting dressed with you for work this morning?
She: No, it did not. But if we can use term 'guy' in a generic sense to encompass all genders, I believe that it is not a stretch to likewise utilize the word 'girl' to capture the spirit of oneness of all humanity. See where I'm going here?
He: That's the longest text I've ever seen.
She: Respond to the merits and not the size although, size does matter.
He: I see your point but 'guys' is infused with culturally acceptable unisexuality while 'girls' is used unisexually by only drill sergeants and drag queens.
She: And Oprah. Good retort.
He: She doesn't use it unisexually 'cause no men are watching.
She: Don't you mean she does use it unisexually?
He: No. She's only talking to real girls.
She: This is getting a little too deep for me now. I was only being cute and you're being too technical. My girly brain can't take all this.
He: I probably should have said omni, not uni- sexually.
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'. . .All we have, as Vaclav Havel writes, is our own powerlessness. And
that powerlessness is our strength. The survival of the movement depends
on embracing this powerlessness. It depends on two of our most
important assets—utter and complete transparency and a rigid adherence
to nonviolence, including respect for private property. This permits us,
as Havel puts it in his 1978 essay “The Power of the Powerless,” to live in truth. And
by living in truth we expose a corrupt corporate state that perpetrates
lies and lives in deceit. Havel, who would later become the first president of the Czech
Republic, in the essay writes a reflection on the mind of a
greengrocer who, as instructed, puts up a poster “among the onions and
carrots” that reads: “Workers of the World Unite!” The poster is
displayed partly out of habit, partly because everyone else does it, and
partly out of fear of the consequences for not following the rules. The
greengrocer would not, Havel writes, display a poster saying: “I am
afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient.” And here is the
difference between the terror of a Josef Stalin or an Adolf Hitler and
the collective charade between the rulers and the ruled that by the
1970s had gripped Czechoslovakia.
Those who do not carve out spaces separate from the state and its
systems of power, those who cannot find room to become autonomous, or
who do not “live in truth,” inevitably become compromised. In Havel’s
words, they “are the system.” The Occupy movement, by naming corporate
power and refusing to compromise with it, by forming alternative systems
of community and society, embodies Havel’s call to “live in truth.” It
does not appeal to the systems of control, and for this reason it is a
genuine threat to the corporate state.
Occupy’s most powerful asset is that it articulates this truth. And this
truth is understood by the mainstream, the 99 percent. . . "
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. . . that the price of gasoline in Maryland could reach four dollars per gallon by Memorial Day.
Seems to me that whenever 'analysts' (as reported by our dear, respected media) SAY something about an increase in the price of gasoline, it comes true.
Is that particularly good ANALYSIS? Or are the 'analysts' really oil industry payees simply 'preparing' us for the inevitable?
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It's that time of year to get all caught up in one of pop culture's most self-indulgent events, the Grannys . . . I mean the Grammys.
I always chuckle to myself remembering when a friend asked me why, since I am so involved in music, do I not watch American Idle. . . I mean American Idol. Groping for words, it was difficult to explain that my love of music is a love of music and not a love of pop culture. And these days, with an exponentially larger number of avenues from which to obtain music than when I was a kid, I no longer have to settle for what the corporate music monopolies offer me. . . and I don't.
Not that I'm criticizing. There's room in this big ole world for all of us with our many and varied tastes. Just understand that it is a big ole world and there's lots more from which to choose. But you have to open your eyes (or your ears) and find it.
So, Rock on Granny! (I mean Grammy)
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