Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Cool Video/Elitism-So What/Dept. of Peace/2 More Cartoons/


(P1) Philosophical


The Zimmers

I still love this most wonderful You Tube presentation from England!



(P2) Political

What's all this Republican B.S. about "the elites"? Do we really want a President who can demonstrate the ability to bowl, shoot, and toss back shots of whiskey? We got something like that the last two times around.

Jon Stewart, invoking the image of Jefferson, addressed the E word on The Daily Show recently with "Doesn't elite mean good? If you don't think you're better than us, then what the fuck are you doing? I want a president who's embarrassingly superior to me, speaks 16 languages and sleeps two hours a night in a chamber they themselves designed."

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Use Some of Your Stimulus Refund For Peace

Check this out! Joyce and I are going to do it! Just imaginining people some day uttering the words "Secretary of Peace." That's transformative! Peace Project contribution.


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(P3) Poetical


Creature #14 (Mask & Long Potato)

Creature #17 (Ready to Launch)


(2 cartoons by ed coletti)




















Sunday, April 13, 2008

Egg Cup & Electric Boy/Gary Snyder/Melting/Tolle/



(P1) Poetical

The Tree & the Egg Cup and The Electric Boy & Gary Snyder

(2 cartoons by Ed Coletti)







Thank you Larry Robinson for alerting me to the following



Hiking in the Totsugawa Gorge


pissing

watching

a waterfall

- Gary Snyder

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(P2) Political/Survival

Uh Oh!  Western Antarctic ice chunk collapses
by Seth Borenstein 25 March 2008

A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday.

Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 160-square-mile chunk in western Antarctica, which started Feb. 28. It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years.

This is the result of global warming, said British Antarctic Survey scientist David Vaughan.

Because scientists noticed satellite images within hours, they diverted satellite cameras and even flew an airplane over the ongoing collapse for rare pictures and video.

"It's an event we don't get to see very often," said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. "The cracks fill with water and slice off and topple... That gets to be a runaway situation."

While icebergs naturally break away from the mainland, collapses like this are unusual but are happening more frequently in recent decades, Vaughan said. The collapse is similar to what happens to hardened glass when it is smashed with a hammer, he said.

The rest of the Wilkins ice shelf, which is about the size of Connecticut, is holding on by a narrow beam of thin ice. Scientists worry that it too may collapse. Larger, more dramatic ice collapses occurred in 2002 and 1995.

Vaughan had predicted the Wilkins shelf would collapse about 15 years from now. The part that recently gave way makes up about 4 percent of the overall shelf, but it's an important part that can trigger further collapse.

There's still a chance the rest of the ice shelf will survive until next year because this is the end of the Antarctic summer and colder weather is setting in, Vaughan said.

Scientists said they are not concerned about a rise in sea level from the latest event, but say it's a sign of worsening global warming.

Such occurrences are "more indicative of a tipping point or trigger in the climate system," said Sarah Das, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

"These are things that are not re-forming," Das said. "So once they're gone, they're gone."

Climate in Antarctica is complicated and more isolated from the rest of the world.

Much of the continent is not warming and some parts are even cooling, Vaughan said. However, the western peninsula, which includes the Wilkins ice shelf, juts out into the ocean and is warming. This is the part of the continent where scientists are most concern about ice-melt triggering sea level rise.




(P3) Philosophical


To Die Before You Die


Death is a stripping away of all that is not you.
The secret of life is to "die before you die"

and find that there is no death.


(Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now)


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Saturday, April 05, 2008

my you tube piece/jeanne powell poem/bucky fuller/

(P1) Poetical

On Getting Old & Fat

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(P2) Political

Jeanne Powell

Following my piece "Democrats, Unite!", San Francisco poet Jeanne Powell offered the following poem preceded by the note, "
It's entitled 'About That Woman' and does not mention any names because it's about that woman/all women/any woman." I've placed it in this section, but it could go in any of the 3.

ABOUT THAT WOMAN

I.

remember that time, long ago and far away
yesterday and still today
there was this woman
she harvested crops after planting and tending the seeds
she wove cloth from yarn she spun, and made clothes by hand
that woman carried the burden of seed implanted for nine full months
gave birth on her knees over a blanket of leaves
gave birth on a dirt floor, or under a tree
by the shores of a raging river too dangerous to cross
gave birth in a desert oasis at night
gave birth on the fields of war as well as peace
gave birth when hope was alive
and during winter’s frozen fears

that woman gave birth to art painted on walls while
stranded in ancient caves with children
gave birth to clever traps for hunting Stone Age prey
wielded a club to keep masculine predators at bay
that woman carried grief as gamely
as she carried her offspring and tools and male violence
until she could discern a better way

she wore woven skirts in rain forests
long dresses to worship in temples of the Gods
warm fur pelts in northern winters
and nothing at all on islands deep in the Pacific womb
until belief in a single male god dressed this woman in shrouds of pain
pain she wore as a scourge from another world
deprived of her birthright, she stormwalked
through the blood of women who preceded her

that woman, any woman, every woman
she was 14 and sold into slavery
she was 16 and fought on ancient battlefields
she was 20 and worked as a blacksmith
she was 30 and burned at the stake
she was 40 and revered as a wise one
she was 50 alone and homeless
she was 60 and ran for president



March 2008 © Jeanne Powell
www.jeanne-powell.com

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(P3) Philosophical


Buckminster Fuller on God


god

Here is god's purpose-
for god, to me, it seems,
is a verb
not a noun,
proper or improper.


R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), U.S. architect, engineer. Untitled poem (published in
No More Secondhand God, 1963).


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