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Some say. . .
". . . His playing is technically outstanding and highly imaginative; I am always amazed that he manages to get back to resolve each piece without bursting out to infinity and beyond!" Rod Deacey, Board Member of the Frederick Acoustic Musicians Enterprise (FAME), Musician, Performer, Writer, Poet, Organizer, Emcee, Bluesman (11/20/11)
". . . consistently creates aural pictures intelligently, pleasantly,
and whimsically, and that's just within one song" (Ron Goad, SAW, FAME,
BMI)
". . . conjures the spirits of Thelonious Monk and a host of stride pianists" (John Lewis, Baltimore Magazine)
"His sense and choice of rhythm is always appropriate and interesting. . . " (Jim Nash, Music Monthly)
". . . one can hear little snippets of this and that running throughout his work, just enough to put you in the mind of a long forgotten favorite before he turns it inside out or upside down. . . " (Joe Hartlaub, Music-reviewer.com)
(From Anthony Summers and Dan Christensen Special to
msnbc.com)
". . . Former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, who co-chaired
Congress’ Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has seen two
classified FBI documents that he says are at odds with the bureau’s
public statements that there was no connection between the hijackers and
Saudis then living in Sarasota, Fla.
“There are
significant inconsistencies between the public statements of the FBI in
September and what I read in the classified documents,” Graham said. “One
document adds to the evidence that the investigation was not the robust
inquiry claimed by the FBI,” Graham said. “An important investigative
lead was not pursued and unsubstantiated statements were accepted as
truth.”
Whether the 9/11 hijackers acted alone, or whether they had support
within the U.S., remains an unanswered question -- one that began to be
asked as soon as it became known that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi
citizens. It was underlined when Congress’s bipartisan inquiry released
its public report in July 2003. The final 28 pages, regarding possible
foreign support for the terrorists, were censored in their entirety --
on President George W. Bush’s instructions.Graham said the two classified FBI documents
that he saw, dated 2002 and 2003, were prepared by an agent who
participated in the Sarasota investigation. He said the agent suggested
that another federal agency be asked to join the investigation, but that
the idea was “rejected."
Graham attempted in recent weeks to
contact the agent, he said, only to find the man had been instructed by
FBI headquarters not to talk. . . "
There's a lot more here than meets the eye. A golden opportunity
for some enterprising reporter(s), without a doubt.
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by John Shelby Spong from
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9036126688324230916#editor/target=post;postID=6807412664444233283
"The intervening God who answers
our
intercessory prayers is a comfortable
fiction that is no longer
worthy
of our worship. This kind of honesty
scares people who want
security
not truth. I still think intercessory prayer
has a place in the
Christian
life but it would take a book just to unload
the distortions of the
past and
then to chart new definitions for the
future. Suffice it now to
say
that the God who is the Source of Life, the
Source of Love and the
Ground of
Being can only work through the life, the
love and the being of
people
like you and me. So you and I must intervene
wherever we can as God
bearers.
Our lives become our prayers. Prayer is not
quite like saying, "Now I
lay me
down to sleep."
I am
amazed, for example, that Christian prayers seem to assume that God
enjoys being flattered. So
we
call God by a variety of titles: 'Almighty,'
'Most Gracious,' 'All
Loving,'
'Most Merciful,' 'Creator of all things,'
etc. We also tell God in
our
prayers what we hope is true about God! "You
are more ready to hear
than we
to pray," or "You are more eager to forgive
than we deserve." This, we
need
to be reminded, is our human language, it is
not God's language. It is
created out of our needs not out of God's needs.
The questions that we
never ask
are: "What does this language say about us?"
That is where our inquiry
ought
to focus. We are not describing God, even in
our prayers, we are
defining our
needs and giving voice to what we believe
are our
experiences.
Does
prayer do
any good? Once again, that assumes that you want your prayers
to accomplish your will.
Since
that is not the purpose of prayer, I don't
see how one can proceed to
answer such a question. I pray daily. I claim
nothing for it. I believe
it
opens me to God. There is nothing more than I
can say with confidence.
Those
who presume that they have answers are simply
delusional."
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Not many fail to recognize the origin of that line. I was reminded of it again today when the news presented me with the results of a study about the hazards of eating red meat. Fortunately, my source for the story was NPR and they actually presented a balanced approach to the story. That is, they presented a contrary point of view, which actually made good sense. I fear my local television stations probably presented it as simply, "Red meat will kill you." The end.
Regarding the study itself, one article stated, ". . . Sure enough, Pan (the doctor conducting the research) and his colleagues found that the men and women in the
study who ate the most red meat also tended to be heavier, less
physically active, and more likely to smoke and drink alcohol than their
peers. However, the researchers did take those and other factors into
account in their analysis. . . "
So why did they bother me with this in the first place?
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". . . When it comes to influencing legislators; votes, nothing is more powerful than the threat of cutting off whatever resource an industry supplies to voters. Brooksley Born, chair of the Commodity Futures Trade Commission from 1996 to 1999, a small agency charged with regulating futures markets, saw the danger of the "swaps" market long before the financial collapse of 2008 and warned the CTFC to regulate it before problems snowballed. Michael Greenberger, former CFTC director of trading and markets told the 2009 PBS Frontline program "The Warning" that when Born proposed the new rules, which would have increased visibility and price integrity for the investment banks selling CDO monster bonds, then deputy secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers called to tell her to stop. Summers had thirteen bankers in his office at that minute with a lot to lose if her rules were put into effect. As Greenberger recollected, Summers told Born that all the bankers agreed that regulating "swaps" would "cause the worst financial crisis since the end of World War II." Those bankers had the leverage to say: stop what you want to do, or the system will go down and the voters won't forgive your party for decades.
Ten years later, after a series of financial crises like those Born had warned about, banksters were still using the same threats to protect their profits. Sheila Bair, chair of the FDIC from 2006 to 2011, to the New York Times Magazine as her term was ending, "They would say, 'You have to do this or the system will go down.' If I heard that once, I heard it a thousand times. 'Citi is systemic, you have to do this.' No analysis, no meaningful discussion. It was very frustrating. . . "
". . . "If you don't give me what I want, I can meaningfully disrupt the flow of something that your constituents can't live without. . . "
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