I’m No Better Than The Rest I want to cry I want to laugh and I want to run and I want to rest I must confess I’m no better than the rest And I feel guilty That I am so blesst I’ve been to the bottom where there is no relief I’ve been to the edge where the ending is… (more…)
For Immediate Release Veterans For Peace: www.veteransforpeace.org March 27, 2009 CONTACT: Mike Ferner 419-360-3621 Michael T. McPhearson 314-303-8874 Today President Obama announced what he termed, “a comprehensive, new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.” The President went on to say, “I want the American people to understand that we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida… (more…)
Incarceration is a profitable enterprise. First, the state pays you money for everyone you keep behind bars. Second: Prisoners become cheap Labor and Third: To ensure no unfair competition, you can’t sell the products the prisoners make for a lessor amount even though they took less to produce. So, we have become prison nation, you can get ten years just… (more…)
Deception Has Its Peace But Reality Will Have Its Way Condemning me Because I cannot believe what you have to say How do you know you’re so right that you dare to say You’ve seen no proof But yet you know Tell me how’s that so You say you believe In something you don’t see Finding peace in what you… (more…)
Excerpt from an email I just received from Mary Fallin: Permanently opening up new areas of energy development offshore in the outer continental shelf, arctic coastal plains, as well as onshore production of oil shale in the western United States will increase domestic production of traditional natural resources. In addition, any long-term energy policy must also cut the bureaucratic red… (more…)
From my wife Lysara: And speaking of eating local – OK had the greatest growth IN THE NAT Posted by: “Karen Cline” karen.cline@gmail.com englishsheps Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:46 am (PDT) Tricia Dameron has a blog at www.oklavore.com – but in this case she was blogging on “fresh greens” Excerpted: But here’s the kicker: In Oklahoma direct farm sales rose… (more…)
As we often do, after we’ve used something, we throw it away, sometimes however, we throw things away that we later discover we need. Crumbled Up People He asked for help We told him to help himself But he did not, because he could not or would not Then he committed that…do not…will not…tolerate sin So Like a piece of… (more…)
A Poem To Change The World I wish I could write a poem that would change the world A world with barbwire fences Try to cross and you get stuck You get pinned and you can’t come back Ya If I could just write a poem that would take those barbwire fences down I wish I could write a poem… (more…)
Could It Be We think hundreds of them them came down from the sky We don’t know where they came from, or why Could have they been the fallen angels Did we worship them Did they plant seeds of confusion That we called wisdom How did this happen And why Only the creator knows Staying silent For how long No… (more…)