Systemic Sanity  (because)

The Economic Crisis, and some options
We all need to start thinking, listening, talking, writing, and whatever else to get ourselves out of the financial mess our leaders have gotten us into.  Juan Enriquez and Pop!Tech are offering a good start.  Follow the link below and watch the video.  It is sobering to say the least.  Above all it is a good start.

Click: Juan Enriquez

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Posted by Rodney Owen at 10/29/2008 1:36 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Alfred E Newman for President
Generals gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction,
sorcerers of death's construction.
In the fields the bodies burning,
as the war machine keeps turning.
Death and hatred to mankind,
poisoning their brainwashed minds.
Oh lord, yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away.
They only started the war.
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah.

Time will tell on their power minds,
making war just for fun.
Treating people just like pawns in chess,
wait till their judgement day comes, yeah.

Now in darkness world stops turning,
ashes where the bodies burning.
No more War Pigs have the power,
Hand of God has struck the hour.
Day of ...
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 10/28/2008 3:39 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Georgie, Fannie, Freddie, and the Hen House
The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is nothing if not complete proof that the good old US of A is a socialist country. But let me modify that, a National Socialist country.
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 9/9/2008 4:29 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Scene and My Reaction
Now, with each wing of the only real political party in America having declared their respective nominees we have to endure the endless stream of baloney that follows between now and November.
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 9/4/2008 9:41 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Martin Schram on Veterans Under Siege
Veterans For Common Sense Director Paul Sullivan reviews Martin Schram's Veterans Under Siege: How America Deceives and Dishonors Those Who Fight Our Battles

Below is a link to this crucially important book review by one of America's true heroes.  Day-to-day Paul is out fighting for those this country has tossed aside like so many discarded beer bottles.  Thanks Paul.

*Paul Sullivan's Review for VCS

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Posted by Rodney Owen at 7/21/2008 2:11 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Getting Beyond the Same Old, Same Old
Why, if the Iraqis have asked us to leave, or at least to present a timetable, is the president reluctant? Why, indeed. If there is anyone left out there who hasn’t figured it out yet, here’s a clue:
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 7/20/2008 1:53 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Jesse Helms, RIP
Jesse Helms has died at 86. Oddly, he died on the fourth of July, the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and the day we celebrate as Independence Day; the day America declared its independence from monarchical rule.
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 7/4/2008 12:21 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Booms and Busts by Rich Karlgaard
Dig this commentary by Rich Karlgaard of Forbes, and weigh in:
http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2008/06/booms-and-busts.html
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 7/3/2008 1:25 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Beyond Form
That we might make sense of our world we use form. Form defines, describes, and gathers all the loose ends of our chaotic existence so that we can easily function within this chaos without giving up hope, or losing our minds. But still we must understand that underneath it all there is chaos.
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 5/11/2008 11:29 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Season of Importance
The best news of real importance so far this year is the upcoming Iron Man movie and the reunion tour of Return to Forever. Everything else is secondary and relative in importance.
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Posted by Rodney Owen at 3/23/2008 1:29 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)