Thursday, February 27, 2003
Really I'm Depressed because my talking '84 Chrysler Le Baron threw a piston rod and ripped up the crankshaft and the whole bottom of the engine. It was a great engine with less than a hundred thousand miles on it. i was hoping to drive it until i make enough money to buy a new car. without a car i will not survive the Florida summer. there is almost no public transportation here. and St Pete is turning into one of those mean little towns with a Republican Mayor who wants to build lots of housing and entertainment for the rich. Obviously they would work in north county or Tampa. . .the only industry left will be food service and retail sales. The local vocational schools no longer teach welding, Jewelry, cosmetology, carpentry or plastic injection molding. Just food and data entry. The state pays to keep kids in the programs there, but they cut the budget for the programs. All the P.R and tech consultants that want to retrain for new careers will have a hard time. We still need nurses though,
Ive been wondering about the role that cell phones and the internet played in the riots around Elian Gonzales and especially around the 2000 election fiasco. as i recall, the recount eforts were shut down first because the mob protesting had gotten out of hand and election officially were not able to insure the saftey of the workers doing the actual counting
then I found this on Howard Rheingold's pages"Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive..."
then I found this on Howard Rheingold's pages"Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive..."
peace: This man, David Baum, gives these buttons away. You can also buy them by the lot. Postcards are available too.
Sunday, February 23, 2003
The quietest sound is larger
My father found his direction,
After the war he worked on a ship,
In the engine room he told me.
He brought me sailing as a child.
My mother was always first mate.
After he retired they sailed
Around the world on a boat
Which took the several years.
He often took us to a place
Where he grew up near Dedham
And New Bedford. Once I think that we went to the place his parents were buried.
But my sister and I played
And strayed. My mother told us
They would have their resting place there,
She hoped and even I could
Because that was one of the ways families
Could stay together after they died.
I never met his parents I think
They died before I was born.
Sally was his mother’s name I think.
I always heard that she was a good person.
In a story that I heard often, an interval of drinking preceded meals, the duration measured by the swing of a well-balanced scale made for sheep or wool. The cocktail hour.
My parents carried on this tradition throughout their lives.
George Wheeler's father was John Brooks Wheeler the third. I recall that there was a Roman numeral III on a brand that was used to mark tools. My Father kept it in his workshop where he showed me some of the tools marked with that brand, and the mold for tin soldiers, which he had used as a child. My father told me then, by the cobblestone fireplace, of his bitterness and sorrow that he had not been named after his father. He said he would like to be able to pass the name along to me. I was too young then to understand that this basement workshop with its high windows was not his fathers place but his own and with his father’s estate.
I don’t know what 'J.B.' did for a living he may have been a judge.
I think Knowing what your parents and grandparents did helps you to grow and understand your place in the world. Many traits and proclivities are inherited, knowing them helps an individual develop his or her own worldview.
For me Masha and Marie are the two people I know who remember "The Wards."
The quietest sound is larger
My father found his direction,
After the war he worked on a ship,
In the engine room he told me.
He brought me sailing as a child.
My mother was always first mate.
After he retired they sailed
Around the world on a boat
Which took the several years.
He often took us to a place
Where he grew up near Dedham
And New Bedford. Once I think that we went to the place his parents were buried.
But my sister and I played
And strayed. My mother told us
They would have their resting place there,
She hoped and even I could
Because that was one of the ways families
Could stay together after they died.
I never met his parents I think
They died before I was born.
Sally was his mother’s name I think.
I always heard that she was a good person.
In a story that I heard often, an interval of drinking preceded meals, the duration measured by the swing of a well-balanced scale made for sheep or wool. The cocktail hour.
My parents carried on this tradition throughout their lives.
George Wheeler's father was John Brooks Wheeler the third. I recall that there was a Roman numeral III on a brand that was used to mark tools. My Father kept it in his workshop where he showed me some of the tools marked with that brand, and the mold for tin soldiers, which he had used as a child. My father told me then, by the cobblestone fireplace, of his bitterness and sorrow that he had not been named after his father. He said he would like to be able to pass the name along to me. I was too young then to understand that this basement workshop with its high windows was not his fathers place but his own and with his father’s estate.
I don’t know what 'J.B.' did for a living he may have been a judge.
I think Knowing what your parents and grandparents did helps you to grow and understand your place in the world. Many traits and proclivities are inherited, knowing them helps an individual develop his or her own worldview.
For me, Masha and Marie are the two people I know who remember "The Wards." Lately she has been talking with her brother Jim, sending family pictures and stuff. I find it strange after years of not talking with him. Also i feel like an outsider. they both grew up in Panama. Obviously my grand parents were facinating people. But I grew up with another set of stories from another family and they havent talked to me in twenty years. I wonder how they are?
My father found his direction,
After the war he worked on a ship,
In the engine room he told me.
He brought me sailing as a child.
My mother was always first mate.
After he retired they sailed
Around the world on a boat
Which took the several years.
He often took us to a place
Where he grew up near Dedham
And New Bedford. Once I think that we went to the place his parents were buried.
But my sister and I played
And strayed. My mother told us
They would have their resting place there,
She hoped and even I could
Because that was one of the ways families
Could stay together after they died.
I never met his parents I think
They died before I was born.
Sally was his mother’s name I think.
I always heard that she was a good person.
In a story that I heard often, an interval of drinking preceded meals, the duration measured by the swing of a well-balanced scale made for sheep or wool. The cocktail hour.
My parents carried on this tradition throughout their lives.
George Wheeler's father was John Brooks Wheeler the third. I recall that there was a Roman numeral III on a brand that was used to mark tools. My Father kept it in his workshop where he showed me some of the tools marked with that brand, and the mold for tin soldiers, which he had used as a child. My father told me then, by the cobblestone fireplace, of his bitterness and sorrow that he had not been named after his father. He said he would like to be able to pass the name along to me. I was too young then to understand that this basement workshop with its high windows was not his fathers place but his own and with his father’s estate.
I don’t know what 'J.B.' did for a living he may have been a judge.
I think Knowing what your parents and grandparents did helps you to grow and understand your place in the world. Many traits and proclivities are inherited, knowing them helps an individual develop his or her own worldview.
For me Masha and Marie are the two people I know who remember "The Wards."
The quietest sound is larger
My father found his direction,
After the war he worked on a ship,
In the engine room he told me.
He brought me sailing as a child.
My mother was always first mate.
After he retired they sailed
Around the world on a boat
Which took the several years.
He often took us to a place
Where he grew up near Dedham
And New Bedford. Once I think that we went to the place his parents were buried.
But my sister and I played
And strayed. My mother told us
They would have their resting place there,
She hoped and even I could
Because that was one of the ways families
Could stay together after they died.
I never met his parents I think
They died before I was born.
Sally was his mother’s name I think.
I always heard that she was a good person.
In a story that I heard often, an interval of drinking preceded meals, the duration measured by the swing of a well-balanced scale made for sheep or wool. The cocktail hour.
My parents carried on this tradition throughout their lives.
George Wheeler's father was John Brooks Wheeler the third. I recall that there was a Roman numeral III on a brand that was used to mark tools. My Father kept it in his workshop where he showed me some of the tools marked with that brand, and the mold for tin soldiers, which he had used as a child. My father told me then, by the cobblestone fireplace, of his bitterness and sorrow that he had not been named after his father. He said he would like to be able to pass the name along to me. I was too young then to understand that this basement workshop with its high windows was not his fathers place but his own and with his father’s estate.
I don’t know what 'J.B.' did for a living he may have been a judge.
I think Knowing what your parents and grandparents did helps you to grow and understand your place in the world. Many traits and proclivities are inherited, knowing them helps an individual develop his or her own worldview.
For me, Masha and Marie are the two people I know who remember "The Wards." Lately she has been talking with her brother Jim, sending family pictures and stuff. I find it strange after years of not talking with him. Also i feel like an outsider. they both grew up in Panama. Obviously my grand parents were facinating people. But I grew up with another set of stories from another family and they havent talked to me in twenty years. I wonder how they are?
Friday, February 21, 2003
12:21 PM 2/21/2003
to blogg or not. Therein all the teeming dangers lie
the questions unreformed and, blunt: what; who; where; why.
How do you address that in your poetry.
Have you ever tried, might withstood, to resist
The lunar tide that drives us all mad with rage?
Or driven out in search of open road
http://www.carolforpresident.com/
"I believe this country is on the wrong track. As a loyal American, I consider it part of my patriotic responsibility, at this critical time, to stand up and speak truth to power.
"With experience and vision, we can together lead this country in a direction of hope: towards renewed peace, prosperity, and progress for all Americans."
Carol Moseley Braun
Now is the time to rediscover the Constitution.
Congress should not have abdicated to the President the power to engage Americans in a unilateral, preemptive war. And the President should not walk away from our allies, the United Nations, and the systems of international law to which America has contributed so much.
Congress should not have abdicated to the President the power to engage Americans in a unilateral, preemptive war. And the President should not walk away from our allies, the United Nations, and the systems of international law to which America has contributed so much.
to blogg or not. Therein all the teeming dangers lie
the questions unreformed and, blunt: what; who; where; why.
How do you address that in your poetry.
Have you ever tried, might withstood, to resist
The lunar tide that drives us all mad with rage?
Or driven out in search of open road
http://www.carolforpresident.com/
"I believe this country is on the wrong track. As a loyal American, I consider it part of my patriotic responsibility, at this critical time, to stand up and speak truth to power.
"With experience and vision, we can together lead this country in a direction of hope: towards renewed peace, prosperity, and progress for all Americans."
Carol Moseley Braun
Now is the time to rediscover the Constitution.
Congress should not have abdicated to the President the power to engage Americans in a unilateral, preemptive war. And the President should not walk away from our allies, the United Nations, and the systems of international law to which America has contributed so much.
Congress should not have abdicated to the President the power to engage Americans in a unilateral, preemptive war. And the President should not walk away from our allies, the United Nations, and the systems of international law to which America has contributed so much.
Saturday, February 15, 2003
The New Vision Online Discussion Board: Topic Posts Bimeeza
Government has banned Bimeeza (open air talk shows) saying they are illegal, others say it is gagging free speech. What do you say?
Government has banned Bimeeza (open air talk shows) saying they are illegal, others say it is gagging free speech. What do you say?
Lib.Sigs. -- Quotations for Librarians' Signature Files "Away with lamentation! Away with elegies and dirges! Away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! Let the dead be the dead."
Henry Miller
Henry Miller
AfricaOnline.com - Senegal's Mamadou Dia among 2002 Kadhafi Award winners Staff Reporter
TRIPOLI, 2 October 2002
Several intellectuals, literally men and writers based in Libya and abroad, including Mamadou Dia, the head of Senegal's first cabinet after independence was on Sunday among recipients of this year's US$250 000 Kadhafi Human Rights Award.
TRIPOLI, 2 October 2002
Several intellectuals, literally men and writers based in Libya and abroad, including Mamadou Dia, the head of Senegal's first cabinet after independence was on Sunday among recipients of this year's US$250 000 Kadhafi Human Rights Award.
AfricaOnline.com - Nelson Mandela criticises US response to Iraq inspection offer Nelson Mandela criticises US response to Iraq inspection offer
Staff Reporter
CAPE TOWN, 18 September 2002
Nelson Mandela has strongly criticised the United States for dismissing Iraq's announcement that it will allow the return of weapons inspectors.
Staff Reporter
CAPE TOWN, 18 September 2002
Nelson Mandela has strongly criticised the United States for dismissing Iraq's announcement that it will allow the return of weapons inspectors.
CNN.com (CNN) -- After joining the United Nations as a budget officer in 1962, Kofi Annan quietly worked his way up the ranks until in 1996 he was appointed secretary general -- the highest position in the United Nations. In 2001, Annan and the organization that he has dedicated his life to were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Inspections should go on, says Annan Saturday, 15 February, 2003, 21:40 GMT
Inspections should go on, says Annan
Inspections should go on, says Annan
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Inspections should go on, says Annan The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has said he believes that weapons inspections in Iraq should continue for the present, but cannot be maintained indefinitely if Saddam Hussein's regime does not co-operate.
Sunday, February 02, 2003
NASA - An Out of this World Opportunity for Teachers Teachers who want the chance to join the Educator Astronaut Program may apply using the Educator Astronaut website at: http://edspace.nasa.gov
Saturday, February 01, 2003
ArabNews: War on Iraq is extension of fight against terrorism War on Iraq is extension of fight against terrorism
By Adrienne McPhail, Special to Arab News
By Adrienne McPhail, Special to Arab News
''War is not inevitable "United States might find itself occupying Iraq for years to come, which would spread instability in the Middle East and create new threats to US interests.
TheStar.com - Bush's moral clarity turns fuzzyA survey by the Los Angeles Times similarly found that while 58 per cent of Americans favour the war, support among those aged 75 or more drops to 35 per cent.
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