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Hoping for a word
A response to questions asked
How long is the wait?

Letter to My Daughter

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At least...
Two years since we exchanged words.
No connection beyond family ties.
I think of you often.

Sharing fifty years of history
For better or worse.
We were friends for awhile.

Restaurants in Tuscany

Volterra is in the heart of Tuscanny, midway between Siena and Livorno on the coast.

clipped from www.volterra-toscana.net

Why Obama Should Be the Next President of the U.S.

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The current Administration and particularly its figurehead/puppet: Bushboy, has done more in six years to undermine and our image and the respect of the peoples of the world than any previous administration with the possible exception of Richard Nixon . Not only did the current administration make all the wrong moves but the figurehead was a bumbling, inarticulate redneck, personifying all of the stereotypical false impressions of Americans that are common throughout the world.
Barrack Obama, can do a great deal to counter the false impressions being conveyed by "W" and his gang. He is the personification of literacy without pedantry, and he is articulate without being glib. He conveys an image of compassion and sincerity and demonstrates the strength of a unified, and integrated nation. He will gain back respect for our nation abroad and put us back on the right track in the eyes of the world

Pelosi vs. Britney

A quick check of "intellipost" shows that Nacy Pelosi has been leading Britney Spears in the blog race over the past two months. Who says America doesn't care?

The Next President of the U.S.?

POLL: 2008 NOMINEE

Democrats' choice for 2008 presidential nominee:

This just in from CNN

Sen. Hillary Clinton: 28%
Sen. Barack Obama: 17%
Al Gore: 13%
John Edwards: 13%
Sen. John Kerry: 12%
Sen. Evan Bayh: 2%
Sen. Joe Biden: 2%
Sen. Russell Feingold: 2%
Gov. Bill Richardson: 2%
Gov. Tom Vilsack: 1%

Source: Opinion Research Corp. interviews with 472 registered Democratic voters October 27-29. Sampling error: +/-4.5% pts

The Future of Western Civilization?

Once, a long time ago (about 60 years ago) I lived with my family in a house overlooking a lovely litttle lake called "Sparkle". We had many weekend guests at the "Lake House" as we would call it later but for me the most memorable was an Indian gentleman, a real Guru. He spent a weekend with us in the Autumn of 195?. We went onlong walks around the lake, wading through the red and golden leaves, skimming stones over the lake and talking. On Sunday afternoon it had turned cold and gray so we sat together, all of us, parents , my four siblings, Mr Tata, our Indian guest and I. We talked of many things but mostly about the Bomb and the troubles facing our world. Several of our neighbors were building or had already fiinished bomb shelters in their basements and my brothers and sister and I were all practicing air raid drills at school. At a pause in the conversation I asked Mr. Tata about what he thought the chances for peace in the world might be and I remember very vividly his reply. He was doing a headstand when I posed my question and after I asked he paused a while before he said:

" My dear young friend, the only chance for peace that we will ever have in this world will be when we become more evolved and the only way that man can evolve is for him first to become "in-volved". He must be able and willing to focus his mind inward to learn to understand his own actions and feelings truly and objectively
and only then will he be able to truly understand others.
Until we can truly understand each other, there is no hope for peace in the world"

Almost like Diogenes, and his search for an honest man, I have been looking for some sign of evolution since my first meeting with Mr. Tata and like the Atenian philosopher I'm still looking. If there are any at all (and perhaps the Dalai Lama, Ghandi and a few others might ) but it seems hard for me to believe that I would find someone who is truly in-volved in politics today. The very things that draw people to political life in this century would probably repel the "in-volved" person.

Texas Prosecutor Kills Himself in Police Sting

From today's NYT:

TERRELL, Tex., Nov. 6 — A prosecutor in this North Texas town killed himself Sunday as the police tried to arrest him on charges of soliciting sex over the Internet from a person he thought was a 13-year-old boy.
The prosecutor, Louis Conradt Jr., 56, had been caught in a sting operation set up by Dateline NBC, the television news magazine, and an Internet watchdog group called Perverted Justice. An NBC camera crew was outside the house to film the scene when the fatal shot was fired.

How far will the media go to get a story? Or make one?

When Will I die

How Will I Die Quiz You will die at the age of 115 You will die when your underwear gets to tight and cuts off your blood circulation Find out how you will die at Quizopolis.com