Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Occassional Photo #2



Saw this in front of house on Hwy 49 on the way back from Jackson. Wow!

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Occasional Photo #1




I wanted to start my own "photo of the day" but realized it probably wouldn't happen, not everyday. So here's is the first in my series of "Occasional Photos." Sometimes artsy, sometimes fartsy, sometimes witty, sometimes pretty, sometimes none of the above. We'll see what happens. But these will all be photos that I've taken to keep me learning about photography and to hopefully, "occasionally," bring a smile to someone else.

Occasional Photo #1
I've always loved collaging with magazine clippings to create abstract images but I've always wanted to take that same approach into photography so that I could have a more three dimensional feel to the images without having to make it a lasting sculpture. I think this shot is my first baby step in that direction.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Ron Paul: Inflation Tax & The Dollar Bubble

I don't pretend to understand all of the details of how our country has gotten itself into the financial mess that we are in or how we can get ourselves out of it, but Ron Paul has opened my eyes and brain to the subject and has given me a good idea of what is happening with the weakening of our dollar. Thank god there is at least one man like this in congress who speaks with intelligence, knowledge and honesty without political pandering or posing. Can we please elect more like him????!!!!!



Here is Ron Paul's official Senate web page. He has a weekly column and great videos of him on the house floor and in other congressional meetings. It's a good clean site with just his information on it, in case you're tired of sifting through Ron Paul fan-sites. Glad they're out there but it's nice to go straight to the source.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

SERIOUSLY, IRAN IS NEXT.

I found this article on www.presstv.ir


Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says members of Congress have voiced support for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iran.




"I hear members of Congress saying 'if we could only nuke them'," said the congressman Thursday.

"If we do (attack) it is going to be a disaster," he told the Alex Jones Show.

The 72-year-old veteran politician added that the atmosphere in Congress indicates that a military strike on Iran has already been condoned.

"It is still totally bewildering to me when I see men and women in the Congress that I know and like doing this just to get along. Most of them will say, 'I agree with you on all you say but the Iranians are bad people and they might attack us some day," Paul said.

Referring to House Congressional Resolution 362 that he calls the 'Virtual Iran War Resolution', Paul explained the president plans to impose 'an absolute blockade of the entire country of Iran, and punish any country or any business group around the world if they trade with Iran'.

Despite the recent UN nuclear watchdog report conceding that there is no link between the use of nuclear material and the 'alleged studies' of weaponization in Iran's nuclear facilities, Washington accuses Tehran of pursuing a military nuclear program.

MD/AA

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Iran is next. Really!

Covert Operations in Iran Proposed by Bush Administration, OK'd by Congress.

I hope that this story is all over the place very soon. But if it gets buried I want as many people as possible to find out about it and look into it themselves.

A story was just broken by Seymour Hersh at the New Yorker saying that the Bush administration and Congress agreed late last year to fund a four hundred million dollar covert operation in Iran. The plan is to destabilize the current regime in Iran by participating in what seems to be terrorist-like practices. Hersh explained in an interview on "Fresh Air" with Terri Gross that he has gathered that the plan is to disturb the regime in Iran from the inside in order to provoke them into some kind of action that could warrant a military reaction from the United States.

Basically, the Bush administration wants to do in Iran what we did in Iraq but first we have to provoke them into doing something stupid so we can point the finger and say "Get 'em."

I'm currently reading Ron Paul's "Revolution: A Manifesto" (thanks Mom) and am becoming a complete convert when it comes to his idea of returning America to it's original non-interventionist policy. What the Bush administration and our Democratic Congress have agreed to is by far the complete opposite of non-interventionist. If we have to provoke a country by covert operations into committing some unplanned act of aggression in order to justify our own military action against them then isn't that a huge sign that maybe that country wasn't any kind of a threat in the first place???? What the hell is going on with our government? How is this a good idea and who is it supposed to benefit???

At the top of this post is a link to Seymour Hersh being interviewed on "Fresh Air." Here is a link to his New Yorker article: "Preparing The Battlefield."