http://www.dystopian-paradox.com Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:58:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Note: We will hold our second meeting on January 25 at Diane Jay's home in Ridglea Hills from 6pm to 8pm. You can sign up here. The weekend of our first meeting on December 14, supporters of this grassroots movement organized over 4000 similar meetings in 2,000 cities and ... http://www.dystopian-paradox.com/2008/12/tarant-county-bridge-to-change-is-born/ Maureen Dowd in her NYT column today bemoaned to the offshoring of domestic journalism including reporting. I posted the following comment to he article: The USA will soon be a third world country unless the government takes back control of the generation of US money (read "dollars"). Private money generated ... http://www.dystopian-paradox.com/2008/11/the-lost-pen/ The Group of Twenty published a Declaration on November 15 at the summit meeting in Washington. It describes the cause of the crisis as follows: 3. During a period of strong global growth, growing capital flows, and prolonged stability earlier this decade, market participants sought higher yields without an adequate ... http://www.dystopian-paradox.com/2008/11/g-20-publishes-declaration/ While having little use for any Republican presently holding office, I don't automatically support the Democrats on every issue. Obama and Pelosi are calling for a Detroit bailout, which I don't support. My view is that the present management of Detroit and its present shareholders should disappear. They chose ... http://www.dystopian-paradox.com/2008/11/detroit-bailout/ It's been almost 15 years since I got a new pair of glasses. Monofilament nylon that runs in a grove on the bottom of lightweight plastic lenses secures them in the wire frame. Two times I've had to have the monofilament replaced. The day before the election, ... http://www.dystopian-paradox.com/2008/11/a-new-perspective-in-roswell/ November 6, 2008 The ten day period culminating in November 4, 2008, is one of the two most profound episodes in my life. The other was a trip of about the same length to Kenya in 1994. What I got to see in 1994 was an example of the results of ... http://www.dystopian-paradox.com/2008/11/first-thoughts-on-roswell/ Sunday, November 2 Yesterday was my seventh day canvassing and time is going fast. Only today and tomorrow to canvass and then a bunch of work on election day. General Wesley Clark is staging a get-out-the-vote rally today at 11 am at the MIA-POA Park. What's amazing is that after ... http://www.dystopian-paradox.com/2008/11/general-wesley-clark-in-roswell/ Yesterday was the hardest yet. Because I've got a gps, Robert gave me the mission of making sure that the town of Lake Arthur would go Obama. It's 30 miles southeast of Roswell and in the same county. Geographically this is a big county, but the population ... http://www.dystopian-paradox.com/2008/11/semi-wild-goose-chase-in-chavez-county/ The campaign is going well here in Roswell, Chavez County, NM. I have no idea what that means in terms of whether Obama will take Chavez county. What I do know is that the people who have come here from out of town and out of state are ... http://www.dystopian-paradox.com/2008/10/alls-well-thats-roswell/ NYT Op-Ed columnist Ed Cohen's article this morning brought home a main point of Obama's story as Barack tells it: “For as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on earth is my story even possible.” Cohen tells his story in his piece.  He is ... http://www.dystopian-paradox.com/2008/10/american-stories/