but i just couldn't take it anymore after i received this letter from congressman michael burgess, M.D., my (CHOKE) US congressman regarding FISA.

i just couldn't take it anymore so i wrote a letter to the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram.

the MSM is making such a fuss over the Reverend Wright's comments and Mr. Obama being a member of Wright's congregation and giving mccain a pass.  i'm still wondering if this is because mccain is a rich white male or because mr. obama is perceived as dangerous because he's not a rich white male.

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First, thanks to bondad for trying to explain it, but, hell, medical school was TONS easier.  i still don't get it because the course that bushco is steering makes absolutely no sense to me.

METROPOLIS, Fritz Lang's dystopian view of a  potential future.  http://en.wikipedia.org/...

is this where we are?  economically speaking?  the haves playing above and the rest of us slaving to keep it that way?

i'm not at all smart when it comes to the economy.  in fact, most of it i'd rather not deal with, and, since i've been quite lucky, i've not really had to deal with the vagaries of the stock market or any other financial market for that matter.  the money has always been there for me, i have a wonderful investment counselor and she's always been able to keep myself and my husband on a very even keel when it comes to investment.

many of you know that this old dem grew up during the cold war and has been reading various histories about that war, and the smaller hot one that supposedly kept the cold one from turning hot in order to try to understand how we got to this point.

last night my husband and i watched "three days of the Condor".    the exchange between robert redford and cliff robertson was about guess what?  OIL!  There are lots of good political thrillers out there.  i tend to lean more towards "Cold War" political movies because that's what i grew up with.

Higgins (cliff robertson): It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. Maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?

Joe Turner (redford): Ask them?

Higgins: Not now - then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!

and mccain's shameless pandering to the insanity of a conservative base.

anyone who underwent torture and who reports he "broke" under torture, has been against torture for years, and is now voting to accept torture as legitimate is purely and simply pandering to a block of arrogant, ignorant, hateful and inhumane political party base.

if mccain is willing to do that, given his past life, he's willing to do anything and has sold any shred of humanity he may have had to pander to the bloodthirsty minority of crazies in the republican party.

i had a wonderful friend who was tortured and in comparing what i know about my friend's experience and seeing mccain's "turn about" regarding torture makes me wonder if we know the true mccain story.  was he or wasn't he?  

christmas carols have been playing on the radio since what?  september?  it's enough to drive anyone to a war on christmas, but that's not my point.  

do you remember...

the great wall Tiananmen square, the forbidden city

the great wall:  

Note:  the walk up to the wall is steep and the roadway rocky and treacherous.  that wall is UP there on top of some high hills!  you walk straight up, then, take a gondola (mine had a note on the window that William Jefferson Clinton had ridden in this same gondola car to reach the wall...i always did like the big dog)

that first day was loooooooong.  

after visiting madam sun yat sen's home we visited a kindergarten.  the children were well behaved, curious and happy to see us.  it was lunchtime though, so that may have been the cause of their happiness rather than a bunch of American tourists.

this tour was sponsored by FONZ (friends of the National Zoo) and the curator of pandas and primates, Ms. Lisa Stevens, accompanied the tour.  it was a custom-designed tour through a company known as China Advocates.  they do nothing but custom tours, they have no "standard packages".  each tour is unique.

well, labwitchy is back.  actually, i have been back since the beginning of october, but, received serious health diagnoses which have kept me off of kos and pretty much off of the net completely.  my pet auto-immune disease affects my eyesight and my hands but enough of that.

i can't begin to explain the many many wonderful things we saw, the pandas we played with, the people we met.  !

they will always be young
they will always be beautiful
they will be in our hearts
they have become part of our souls
we will carry them with us always
and meet in the fullness of time.

they will always be too young
they can never be too beautiful
our hearts endlessly contain their essence
they are our children
they will not be forgotten.

Rude Hero at MySpace

Sgt. Joan J. Duran's MySpace page is filled with Superman imagery and his Blurbs section is written with the optimism and joy of life everyone should have at age 24.

Duran, on his MySpace page stated:

"I don't have many friends so pardon me if i don't add you.  But the friends I do have are a trip."  

Sgt. Duran may not have thought he had many friends, but the memorial messages left on his page underscore the fact that he had true friends, friends and a young fiance who are devastated by this loss.

The Boston Globe states:

They called him Superman. He could outrun pit bulls on neighborhood streets and lift hundreds of pounds over his head. When his car flipped over three times on a highway, he pulled a shred of glass from his eye and calmly walked away. He even dressed the part, filling his closet with Superman T-shirts and sleeping under Man of Steel bedsheets.

they will always be young
they will always be beautiful
they will be in our hearts
they have become part of our souls
we will carry them with us always
and meet in the fullness of time.

In the fullness of time.  In the fullness of time where we will meet the truth of human existence.  

In the fullness of time where the questions will be answered.

In the fullness of time where the circle closes and begins again.

In the fullness of time there are dawns and dusks of existence

Dawn and dusk...they look very alike

Only in the fullness of time will we learn in which we lived.

my call to US senator john cornyn (r-tx)

as i have gotten older and i've come to realize:

I do not know everything.

what i do know i can't always be certain is correct.

what i accepted as truth once doesn't always stay true.

as my life moves on, the only knowledge i can be certain of is the knowledge of myself and and even that isn't certain.

very much of what i do i know about myself i'm not proud of.