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| Now is time for transcendent Sublime Madness America's modern day prophet, Chris Hedges, writes that the world is now in a time for "Sublime Madness". The world has crossed such times in the past. The poet Leon Staff wrote from the Warsaw ghetto: "Even more than bread we now need poetry, in a time when it seems that it is not needed at all." It is only those who can retreat into the imagination, and through their imagination can minister to the suffering of those around them, who uncover the physical and psychological strength to resist. Read More |
Event Reminders: A MAJOR vote against San Onofre set Tues. Jan. 22Tuesday, 01/22/2013 SDUSD Board Considers Resolution on Restart of Defective San Onofre Nuclear Reactor. SDUSD Board Would Join Several Coastal City Councils in Calling for an Adjudicated License Amendment Hearing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The public is strongly encouraged to attend this very important hearing Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 4100 Normal St., SD at 5:00PM Orientation to the Anstine Reserve DEMCCO hosts speaker Dr. Richard Lederer Mini-tour of the BV Creek Valley and Marron Adobe Carlsbad City Council Meeting/Open Space Video This 'N ThatNonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.- Mahatma Gandhi At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins, uncertain whether to combat it by force or by human love. Always decide, "I will combat it with human love." If you make up your mind about that once and for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force; it is the strongest of all things and there is nothing like it. People have power when other people think they have power. War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death. Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things. Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional. Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash. If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if I see my friend and my enemy in equal need, I shall help them both equally. Justice demands that we seek and find the stranger, the broken, the prisoner and comfort them and offer them our help. Here lies the holy compassion of God that causes the devils much distress. In all the ways you can, Nobody realizes that some people expend a tremendous amount of energy merely to be normal. Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face. The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change When the rich make war, it's the poor that die. Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength. If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. War is as outmoded as cannibalism, chattel slavery, blood-feuds, and dueling, an insult to God and humanity...a daily crucifixion of Christ. Dare to be naive. I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?" I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. The two kinds of people who exist in this world [at any one time] are the decent and the indecent. Color, religion and nationality are irrelevant. Kindness, decency and behavior are what matters most. Our collective challenge, it seems, is to create a city and community where decent people of all races, ethnicities and religions can look into the faces of other decent people and see only one thing -- God's image smiling back. I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war. If we work in marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence. Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. It is not your obligation to complete your work, but you are not at liberty to quit. Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance. Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread. When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor. | Articles & News: Liberals who are sticking with their own Glocks Article It's not just the right wing gun nuts who worship "Good guys with guns" -- the left wing is full of misguided folks who also worship the "good guys" who are abusing and murdering innocent people. Just look at NY mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the most ardent promoters of gun violence. Busby takes reins of county Democratic Party Steve Whitburn named interim GM of SD Pride Obamacare really is the BIG DEAL Bosses learning social Net speech is protected GOP war against women continues President Obama's Inauguration Speech 2013
President Obama used his second inaugural address Monday to make the case for a liberal last-term agenda that would more sharply define his legacy, arguing that issues such as climate change, immigration reform, gun control and gay rights represent the civil-rights concerns of his generation. Obama did so with more optimism, partisanship and populism than he did on a far colder day four years ago. The caveats and compromises that he included then to appease leery Republicans uncertain of his political approach were almost entirely absent from the arguments he made Monday. Vista man with Downs syndrome beaten by police
Antonio Martinez, 21, was walking to his family's Vista bakery Dec. 18 when he was approached by Deputy Jeffrey Guy. The deputy, who was responding to a call of a domestic violence, saw Martinez and ordered him to stop. When Martinez didn't respond or follow commands, the deputy tried to detain him and used pepper spray. Guy also struck him several times with a baton to get him to comply. Sheriff's s Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell called the incident "a mistake" and said Vista sheriff's Capt. Joe Rodi visited the family and apologized. The captain also offered the family a turkey, Caldwell said. But Tina Jillings, one of the organizers of Saturday’s protest, said she wants city and law enforcement officials to hold the deputy accountable. "What we're concerned about is that he (the deputy) is not even on'dministrative leave," Jillings said. Witness: Police beating of Vista man was brutal
Vista Sheriff Deputy Accused of Beating Man with Down Syndrome - Eye-witness describes the very brutal details of police beating on UT TV. The handicapped man was restrained and lying on the floor face down, she states. "The cops smashed his face into the concrete a couple of times ..." Witness describes the brutal frenzy of the cops in shocking detail. Capuchin monkeys stage a Wall Street protest
Frans de Waal shows us a task he gave Capuchin monkeys to see if they responded to a sense of fairness. Frans de Waal is a Dutch primatologist and ethologist. He is the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate Behavior in the Emory University psychology department in Atlanta, Georgia, and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and author of numerous books including Chimpanzee Politics and Our Inner Ape. His research centers on primate social behavior, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion, and food-sharing. He is a Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. Good News: Soot reduction reduces global warming LGBTQ Center announces openings for directors Cartoons of the Week No more Cheap and Easy Easters! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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