Poets (and stories) for Peace

This bill silently being pushed will be voted on in one and a half weeks!!!! Stop it or you are not going to be able to get organic food anymore or grow it!!! http://thetruthwarblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/bill-to-outlaw-organic-farming-next.html?showComment=1238779380000#c9086312562551104423

Yes, I know there are typos in my posts. I try hard these days to get posts in here. Often, while typing I don't see the errors, and then read the post later with minutes to go left to get to the next things I need to do before I get to work. So, as I have told people in the writing groups I am involved with. Please forgive my errors for now and forever. Most of them I know are there, and I just have not had time to get back and white out.

I have to say this. Perhaps, my last posts sound irritated or not peaceful. The thing of it is that, there is a difference between peaceful and just plain dumb. I am reminded of a book that I read as a child, 'Catcher In The Rye'. The kid had no real sense of boundaries and just went from one thing to another till, if I remember right, he ends up in a mental institute for a stint. It also gets to a point in society, when the people let one thing after another occur without censor, where it is sheer madness and not a sign of lack of patience to say enough is enough. Even in Buddhism, there is what they call holy anger. There is anger that is insane, and there is also anger that brings us back to sanity. Sometimes, discerning the difference is walking a hard road--'The Razor's Edge', which is one of my favorite books. One of my pet peeves right now, in the midst of the banking conundrums, hedge betting and insurance frauds, are the insufficient funds fees(NSF f...

It seems that someone has actually hit the mark and wrote a book about, in the midst of hearing the wonderful line "you are a valued customer", how devalued customers have become and the rage that is growing from what I hear. The customer comes first is now pretty much a myth or urban legend in the eyes of many, but there was a day, not so long ago, when it was key to business. A few posts back, I posted a real conversation that I had with someone from Magic Jack. In case you don't know what that is, it is a company that has a USB port jack, you plug into your computer and voila you have phone service for the mere charge of $40 a year and $20 for the following years, minus a few pennies to make it sound under the rounded off ten mark. Why I won't buy one. They are having customer service reps on the phone whose English is as bad as what you can see a few posts back in the original cut and paste dialogue and saying that they are in Fla. If these reps are located i...

Why Americans Should Never Be Allowed To Travel The following are actual stories provided by travel agents: I had someone ask for an aisle seats so that his or her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window. A client called in inquiring about a package to Hawaii. After going over all the cost info, she asked, "Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii?" I got a call from a woman who wanted to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length of the flight and the passport information when she interrupted me with "I'm not trying to make you look stupid, but Capetown is in Massachusetts. "Without trying to make her look like the stupid one, I calmly explained, "Capecod is in Massachusetts, Capetown is in Africa." Her response ... ...

This came from a really funny site that has authorless entries. If anyone knows the authors, please speak up! Pentagon Solutions Dakota Tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. A recently declassified Pentagon document indicates that people in the Pentagon try other strategies. Specifically there are 23 separate and distinct strategies that people in the Pentagon try when they discover they are riding a dead horse: 1. Buy a stronger whip. 2. Change riders. 3. Say things like, "This is the way we've always ridden this horse." 4. Arrange to visit other sites to see how they ride their dead horses. 5. Increase the standards to ride dead horses. 6. Appoint a Tiger Team to revive the dead horse. 7. Create a tra...