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Lyrics to Love Turns 40 :
she's holding a secret that she'll never tell, because the myth is not supposed to retire. we'd rather it lit itself on fire, or overdosed in a 4-star hotel. she's holding a truth that she'll never reveal, because truth this time is an ugly child, and mother and daughter may reconcile but their faces will never heal. "don't go," she says but he's sleepingshe says it to herself: "don't go." she sees herself rising, packing a suitcase with all of her shoes. but something keeps you faithful when all else in you turns and runs. love turns 40. the morning comes. she's holding a secret that she'll never tell, because we were once cinema gods in the night, and now all we've got is lunch-hour light where nothing photographs well. "don't go," she says but he's sleepingshe says it to the dark: "don't go." she sees herself rising, dressing in silence for nothing to lose. but something keeps you faithful when all else in you turns and runs. love turns 40. the morning comes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl9FtdUvpjw&feature=BFa&list=PL7AD47430FBAF7396 |
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Topic:
IS all life valuable?
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I just wonder if and why people rank the importance of others lives? it seems, our culture especially reveres some lost lives more than others and Im just curious as to why? how many were killed in a theater watching a movie ? did they go there with a reasonable belief that they were risking their lives? how many go into the line of duty and get killed? do they go in with a reasonable belief they are risking their lives? how do we decide whose death should cause uproar and whose death is just all in a days news? dont all those people who die untimely deaths(Whether in a theater or a consulate) have people who will love and miss them?  Allow me to answer your question . . . the question that you seem to be really asking. The murder of a U.S. ambassador by terrorists on the anniversary of 9/11 is a big deal. The death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens isn't front-page news because he was revered. It is front-page news because he was murdered by terrorists, and the executive branch of the U.S. government had the ability to prevent his murder. It is front-page news because the U.S. public wasn't told the truth about the Ambassador's death after U.S. officials knew the truth. It took the work of the U.S. media for the truth to come out. I guess thats the best I will get,,,so lets address it so, does stevens loved ones suffer less because his killers were 'terrorists' than those theater patrons families have suffered at the hands of a mentally ill man who was able to order his armory on line? or the 9/11 survivors who lost 1000 times as many because of something that could have been prevented much more easily with the intelligence provided than this attack could have with the mere 4 or 5 extra agents that were requested by those in the compound prior to? his death is tragic, as is the deaths of anyone as far as their loved ones are concerned and so , on to the broader issue, why do you suppose people are automatically killed when they take , say, a police officers life as opposed to anyone elses or why do you think the drive by shootings dont get the same response as far as resources , counselors,, etc,, that high school shootings do or why do you think 'pretty' kids get so much more media attention when they are abducted than more 'ordinary' kids? how does the media decide which deaths are newsworthy and 'tragic' as opposed to just another death?  Are you serious!!!!....What makes you think the media decides umm, because they are the ones to report it to the public,,,  And why are they doing that Harmony.....Because the PUBLIC deems it newsworthy...You have heard of ratings haven't you.... alright, so that brings me back to my FIRST question why does the PUBLIC deem some deaths so newsworthy and tragic and not others,,? 
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Last March, the London Guardian headlined “Israel ‘turning blind eye’ to West Bank settlers’ attacks on Palestinians,” saying:
Settlers conduct “systematic and expanding campaign of violence against Palestinian farmers, families and children with the Israeli authorities turning a blind eye, according to confidential reports from senior European Union officials.” |
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Settler violence is terrorism.
Israel has always used violence to gain more Palestinian Land. Like Ireland, The Palestinians Day will come. Resistance is not illegal, it is a right.  State Terrorism is a crime. |
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Topic:
Who's The Coolest?
Edited by
Optomistic69
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Fri 10/19/12 01:54 PM
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Obama is the coolest man on the planet.
Mr charismatic himself. JFK had a lot of things going for him but Obama tops the Bill. Then again, the Blacks and the Paddies...need I say more |
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Edited by
Optomistic69
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Fri 10/19/12 01:30 PM
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It's entertainment for (straight) men Isn't that the truth. I love Lesbians Forever Optmistic69
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Topic:
IS all life valuable?
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The media will never dictate who and when I grieve a death. The daily deaths that touch me the most are the children dying in war torn countries or starving to death daily. The media forget about them, they are not newsworthy. Media is money orientated. Money is the root of all evil. Profit is more important than people to some people. There are those among us that will justify any set of circumstances no matter what. All wars are economic. Millions of poor people are needed to sustain the minority rich. Empires have an enormous appetite...... We are a sick society. And this post coming from a dude whose screen name is Optimistic  I sometimes have to deal in reality
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Worth posting again and again
And they are careful not to mention that the township of Sderot, targeted by Gaza’s rockets and therefore a major propaganda asset of the Israeli regime, is built on the ruins of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village called Najd, whose inhabitants were forced to flee by Jewish terrorists in May 1948. Najd wasn’t allocated to the Jews in the 1947 UN Partition – they stole it at gun-point. |
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Topic:
IS all life valuable?
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The media will never dictate who and when I grieve a death. The daily deaths that touch me the most are the children dying in war torn countries or starving to death daily. The media forget about them, they are not newsworthy. Media is money orientated. Money is the root of all evil. Profit is more important than people to some people. There are those among us that will justify any set of circumstances no matter what. All wars are economic. Millions of poor people are needed to sustain the minority rich. Empires have an enormous appetite...... We are a sick society. |
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I can not stop playing this lady's music
If this were the last snowfall No more halos on evergreens If this were my last glimpse of winter What would these eyes see? If this were the last snow curling On your fingers, in my palm If this were the last I've felt you breathing How would I carry on? This is not the last snowfall Not our last embrace But if I were that kind of grateful What would I try to say? VIENNA TENG - THE LAST SNOWFALL LYRICS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVw-yOUNMUY&feature=autoplay&list=AL94UKMTqg-9DDsTxTJs4ZyaJpf5cbhFqc&playnext=8 |
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Far
We've been travelling far Without a home But not without a star Free Only want to be free We huddle close Hang on to a dream On the boats and on the planes They're coming to America Never looking back again They're coming to America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFwSzZQ4MVI |
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This is the future
U.S. Hispanic population to triple by 2050 U.S. Population Could Reach 438 Million by 2050, and Immigration Is Key If current trends continue, the population of the United States will rise to 438 million in 2050, from 296 million in 2005, and 82% of the increase will be due to immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants, according to new projections developed by the Pew Research Center. Of the 117 million people added to the population during this period due to the effect of new immigration, 67 million will be the immigrants themselves and 50 million will be their U.S.-born children or grandchildren. GOD BLESS AMERICA
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Romney will finish what GW started and that will be a complete break of the middle class. There will be the filthy rich or the dirt poor and the rich will have complete and utter control in this country. There will be no more legitimate elections because the rich cannot allow the surfs to elect someone who might change their advantage so... It will really suck for those who are not rich enough to be in the Club with the big boys. The American dream will die that day. Actually middle class is doing alright. It's the working class that isn't. People just don't want to admit that our middle class has shifted and many who are actually working class try to be counted as middle class. The Middle-Working-Class
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Edited by
Optomistic69
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Wed 10/17/12 11:32 AM
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I take it then that you are a comfortably well-off middle class person with a secure job and plenty of promotional prospects. If that is the case then good luck to you......but I doubt it It really makes no difference what I do, where I'm at in life, and what my potential for advancement is. But if you must know I'm doing well and not worried about my future, I'll take care of myself. Obama has done nothing to better the "middle class" or what's left of it. If you ask my opinion I'd say he is on the side of destroying it so the democrats can have more people not working and living off the government. I am glad you are doing well.   As for Obama destroying the middle-class....That is ridiculous. BTW, what you in America call middle-class we call working class. All over the world there are millions of people out of work with no possibility of ever again of being employed. Unless you kill those unemployed off they are going to have to get monies to live, so therein lies the big problem not just for America. America is going Socialist as is the rest of the world...its the only way forward....after all, The Reckless Gambling of the Financial elite and the debts they created have been socialized. |
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Out of touch. What does that mean? out of touch to you may not be to others. out of touch to struggling women, to impoverished, to the middle class he has had little connection or history with ANY of those demographics throughout his life he has interest in the profiteers for which it has been his career to remain one of,,, OBama has profited too, but he has not ALWAYS been a profiteer and has not always worked FOR profiteers,,, he has more connection to 'common' obstacles and issues,, The above sums it up nicely....Romney belongs to a class who do not know nor care how the vast majority of people live. They are divorced from reality. What gets me is people who vote for these candidates somehow believe that they are being represented. How can a filthy rich person represent a person who is working their arse off and barely keeping their heads above water?. Get Real folks....You are not and probably never will belong to Romneys Club. Its a rich mans club and ain't phucking in it....pure and simple. If you can't bring yourself to vote for Obama, don't bother to vote. HAHAHAHAHA thanks for the laugh I needed that. But no thanks on your advise. I'll continue to think for myself. I take it then that you are a comfortably well-off middle class person with a secure job and plenty of promotional prospects. If that is the case then good luck to you......but I doubt it |
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Edited by
Optomistic69
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Wed 10/17/12 10:25 AM
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Out of touch. What does that mean? out of touch to you may not be to others. out of touch to struggling women, to impoverished, to the middle class he has had little connection or history with ANY of those demographics throughout his life he has interest in the profiteers for which it has been his career to remain one of,,, OBama has profited too, but he has not ALWAYS been a profiteer and has not always worked FOR profiteers,,, he has more connection to 'common' obstacles and issues,, The above sums it up nicely....Romney belongs to a class who do not know nor care how the vast majority of people live. They are divorced from reality. What gets me is people who vote for these candidates somehow believe that they are being represented. How can a filthy rich person represent a person who is working their arse off and barely keeping their heads above water?. Get Real folks....You are not and probably never will belong to Romneys Club. Its a rich mans club and YOU ain't phucking in it....pure and simple. If you can't bring yourself to vote for Obama, don't bother to vote. |
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"Homecoming (Walter's Song)"
It's desert ice outside but this diner has thawed my ears Hot coffee in a clean white mug and a smile when the waitress hears That I was born in North Carolina Not an hour from her home town And we used to play the same pizza parlor pinball And there's a glance in time suspended as I wonder how it is We've been swept up just by circumstance to where the coyote lives Where my days are strips of highway And she's wiping tables down Holding on and still waiting for that windfall But I've come home Even though I've never had so far to go I've come home I pay the check and leave the change from a crumpled ten-dollar bill Head across the street where VACANCY is burning in neon still Well the night eats up my body heat And there's no sign of another And I find myself slipping down into that black But things are good I've got a lot of followers of my faith I've got a whole congregation living in my head these days And I'm preaching from the pulpit To cries of "Amen brother" Closing my eyes to feel the warmth come back And I've come home Even though I swear I've never been so alone I've come home I just want to be living as I'm dying Just like everybody here Just want to know my little flicker of time is worthwhile And I don't know where I'm driving to But I know I'm getting old And there's a blessing in every moment every mile Thin white terry bars of soap and a couple little plastic cups Old Gideons Bible in the nightstand drawer saying "Go on open up" Well I'll kneel down on the carpet here Though I never was sure of God Think tonight I'll give Him the benefit of the doubt I switch off the lights and imagine that waitress outlined in the bed Her hair falling all around me I smile and shake my head Well we all write our own endings And we all have our own scars But tonight I think I see what it's all about Because I've come home I've come home Vienna Teng http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgozu0G4OiU&list=PLVC6PTm0fRf-6ahsHhkmdEhiOpRzeZANE&index=17&feature=plpp_video |
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Racists do not bother me because of their ignorance..what does bother me are the closet racists mildly and quietly supporting the unashamed racists.
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America gave us George Bush junior and the world couldn't believe what Americans had done. Obama has given the world some hope but the American Racists are showing their true colours again....thankfully they are a minority . The White House should now be renamed...The Reservation.... And calling People who saw it even beforehand Racist won't change anything! Actually,you Guys need a different Tack! Those accusations of Racism anytime one states the Truth is growing really stale!
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