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29 June 2006

 

Where the Hell is Matt? ... my new favorite Web site.

It isn't often that I come across a Web site that keeps me there until I've visited almost every page, but this one sure did. The link above will take you to a page on this site that in a very small amount of space provides the best overview of ways to take inexpensive and exciting trips around the world that I've seen in a long time.

The link above takes you to Matt's FAQs page, but the best place to start is by watching the video on his home page. Give it a look and watch Matt dance in dozens of countries. (From his About page: Matt is quasi-famous as "That guy who dances on the internet. No, not that guy. The other one. No, not him either. I'll send you the link. It's funny.").

posted by Lorenzo 12:10 PM

22 June 2006

 

Thought for the day
If you're ready to go, a dab'll do ya."
--Ken Kesey

posted by Lorenzo 11:50 AM

13 June 2006

 

An Appeal to Potential Whistle Blowers from Daniel Ellsberg
Today, there must be, at the very least, hundreds of civilian and military officials in the Pentagon, CIA, State Department, National Security Agency and White House who have in their safes and computers comparable [to the "Pentagon Papers"] documentation of intense internal debates - so far carefully concealed from Congress and the public - about prospective or actual war crimes, reckless policies and domestic crimes: the Pentagon Papers of Iraq, Iran or the ongoing war on U.S. liberties. Some of those officials, I hope, will choose to accept the personal risks of revealing the truth - earlier than I did - before more lives are lost or a new war is launched.

Haditha holds a mirror up not just to American troops in the field, but to our whole society. Not just to the liars in government but to those who believe them too easily. And to all of us in the public, in the administration, in Congress and the media who dissent so far ineffectively or who stand by as murder is being done and do nothing to stop it or expose it.

It is past time for Americans to summon the civil courage to face what is being done in their name and to refuse to be accomplices. We must force Congress and this president, or their successors if necessary, to act upon the moral proposition that the U.S. must stop killing men, women and children in Iraq, and must not begin to do so in Iran.

Neither the lives we have lost, nor the lives we have taken, give the U.S. any right to determine by fire and airpower who shall govern or who shall die in countries we have wrongly attacked.

posted by Lorenzo 7:08 PM

 

Quote of the day
We were screaming in the streets: no blood for oil, which, of course, you know, most Americans consider a bargain - blood for oil, as long as it's not their blood, right? But in fact, it wasn't blood for oil. It was blood for no oil. It was blood to make sure that not too much oil would flow and bust the market. Oil had been down under Bill Clinton to eighteen bucks a barrel. Now it's over $70 a barrel.
-- Greg Palast, author of Armed Madhouse : Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War.

posted by Lorenzo 6:39 PM

12 June 2006

 

Something to think about . . . if you've got an open mind that is
The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.
– Dr. Wayne Dyer

posted by Lorenzo 8:07 PM

11 June 2006

 

Jean Rohe for President!
Let's be honest here, those of us who are now over 60 years old have blown it. We were the children of the 60s who realized that our parents' generation had made a mess of things. We were the ones who were going to get this country back on track . . . but we have failed, failed miserably.

We knew that Johnson and Nixon were anti-democratic snakes, but who has our generation replaced them with? A dictator from Texas with a kindergarten view of the world. I truly can't imagine a worse person to be occupying the White House. He's obviously insane, a neo-Fascist Christian madman who seems hell bent on bringing about the Armageddon he so deeply longs for. Without a doubt, George W. Bush is the worst thing that has ever happened to the U.S. and possibly the worst experiment in human evolution Gaia has yet come up with.

The bottom line is that those of us who graduated 40 years or so ago have not been able to prevent the catastrophe that has now befallen us. It's time for a change! . . . and who better to take the reins of power than the graduating class of 2006. Why not let them take over now, while they still have their integrity intact and before the System sinks its claws into them like it did to us. What have we got to lose? I don't see any way a 21 year old graduate like Jean Rohe can do any worse than the war profiteers who are now looting our treasury.

So let's amend the Constitution (what's left of it), and allow a 21 year old to become president. If that were the case today, I'd vote for Jean Rohe, one of the bravest commencement speakers I've ever heard. BRAVO Jean!!!!

posted by Lorenzo 12:43 PM

07 June 2006

 

Do Not Fight for a Dying Regime it is not worth your life.
-- A Google Video

posted by Lorenzo 6:49 PM