What do wardrobe colors, obsessing about oversized backpacks and lunch menu items for two high profile gradeschoolers have in common? All three are symptomatic of this Sacred Cow -
"Come up with distractions and pretend that something is important, when clearly it isn't."
Notice that each story has been suspiciously contrived, meant to irritate some of us and placate others.
Have you ever decided not to do something because you've imagined that what you have to offer doesn't fit in with the common definition of what is acceptable?
Somehow I doubt that you and I are the only ones who have had that experience. So I have decided to go after a very special herd of Sacred Cows.
These bovines sneak around behind the scenes supporting the premise that our worth and value is determined by something outside of us.
They eat away at our good ideas, intentions and hopes for the future.
POW...Owakening Ompowering Oneself transforming and changing ALL aspects of povery into wealth.
Okay, WE are Owake...attentive, focused...Ompowered, knowing our individual unique role in sharing our genius in forming a more perfect union...
"Makiah's Bill" in playing the ultimate game of life and co-creating and co-designing the TOP PRIORITY of our nation. The Dream Team is taking the court, time to get your intellectual-emotional-spatial genius together to ignite the passion of your heart on fire...time for your collective intuitive genius to Owaken. Time to engage in being the captian of the Dream Team. Time to dance it ALL out of the heart of reality into the surfing of the agricultural, industrial, information, conceptual, integral, magical and utopian ages...
Looking forward to meeting and playing with your genius in the SPACE within as without the most perfect union...that SPACE of being a master loverist, that SPACE transforming all aspects of terrorism into being a teacher and leader loverist. That SPACE which offers up the highest assets of your life into the economic well being of the planet...
Let the fun and play and game ....continue...from the heart of reality...
Although I'd have to learn how to write the legislation, here's the link in to give it a try: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/flatpages/nationworld/politics/budgetherohowwouldyouspendamericasmoney.html
It's a simulation of how you would allocate to the U.S. Budget at different time points (I'd recommend starting @ 2009.) and with different areas of allocation. Also, when you're done, you get to see how your budget (if unchanged) would affect the gov't in 10 year and when it will "go bust," and more!
Give it a try, even if it's just for fun. I did pretty well on it!
Lata!
EMK
Hi all,
Here's an idea to share in case it is entertaining or helpful to others:
DEBATE FUNDRAISING GAME
Before last night's debate, I created a list of catch phrases that McCain might use to distract people from the real issues facing the country. I gave each a dollar value, and every time McCain indeed used one of the catch phrases in the debate, I added that dollar value to a cumulative contribution that I would make to Barack Obama after the debate. The result was a $133 total donation that I made to Barack Obama this morning. Here are some examples of the catch phrases that contributed to the total: "Surge", at $5 (6 McCain references, for $30); "Win this war" or equivalent, at $5 (6 McCain references, for $30); "Greed", at $5 (3 McCain references, for $15); and "Maverick", at $5 (2 McCain references, for $10). I wish I had put "Miss Congeniality" on my list, which would have made for an even richer donation.
This was fun for myself and others at our debate party, and it resulted in my making a bigger contribution than I would otherwise have planned. One could envision extending the game in various ways, for example to anticipate certain positive points that Barack might make and give monetary credit for these as well. (Just be sure to clear the dollar amounts with one's significant other before the debate!) I plan to further refine the game over the next several debates, including the VP debate this Thursday.
To the "straight" talking crooked Republican party, I watched Governor Sarah Palin's distasteful speech because number one, I wanted to know who she is, and number two, I wanted to know how bad of a choice Senator McCain made in his VP pick. I did not watch her speech because I was going to consider her and John McCain. Let's face it, there is no consideration, the choice is clear. In the words of Senator Hillary Clinton, "No Way, No How, No John McCain."
I just want the Republican party to know this when they start comparing how many people looked at John McCain and Sarah Palin's speech compared to Barack Obama.
I still don't know who Sarah Palin is. Who is she? And why won't they let her do interviews? Are they afraid she will screw up? Has she not had enough time to study for the test? This just confirms my belief in John McCain's lack of "good" judgment.
You see, John McCain said he would rather lose an election than to lose a war. Apparently John McCain would rather put the lives of all Americans in jeopardy than to lose an election. That's scary! For the Republicans, this is a game. This is a game that they have to win by any means necessary. Somebody should let the Republicans know that this is not a game and their are a lot of Americans that feel that they are playing around and our lives are at stake.
Some of us are not brainwashed and don't believe the propaganda that the Republicans put out. The thing that makes me angry is that the Republicans believe everyone else is stupid, except themselves. Global warming is real. Our financial difficulties are real. My support of Senator Barack Obama is not an illusion. To want to look out for the greater good and not the minority is not a fairy tale.
You know, I will bet my house that is valued at less than what it is worth that most ceo's and high paid executives are Republicans. It is that same greed and incompetence that has caused businesses to fail and the government to bail out fanny mae and freddie mac. That greed and incompetence has made its way into our government and corrupted it. By the way, the government stepping in and taking over those two GSE's is a Democratic thing to do in a Republican administration. Along with the time line to get out of Iraq.
This is why we need to put people in high places based on ethics and qualifications not just based on how people look and whether they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There needs to be more diversity in all aspects of American business and government. The situation we are in is perpetual as long as we put people into places who have the same views as those who left.
Sincerely,
Straight Talk
I am a stay at home dad. That simply means I have chosen to make Makiah, my special needs nine year old son, my highest priority in life. His first two rides in life were on an ambulance, he experienced heart surgery his second day on the planet. Because of lack of oxygen during surgery, the state of Iowa refers to him as mentally retarded. Makiah, is my greatest inspiration, most amazing guru and the genius that is teaching me more about life than all my other teachers combined.
Makiah fell asleep during Sarah Palin's speech last night at the Republican Convention in St Paul Minnesota. He NEVER falls asleep and has never taken a nap in his life. I listen to Makiah, even when he is asleep.
Art is a very simple way of being and living THE TRUTH of life. WE were all born individual unique miraculous geniuses, with the most amazing and wondrous individual unique perspectives concerning the beauty, truth and goodness before us, as within us. WE are all artists, WE are all born the most amazing masterpiece WE will ever experience. Just BEING ONESELF is the ultimate happiness, joy, bliss and ecstasy of any mission or purpose one can attain to. Experiencing the peace, harmony and integration with all of life is the ultimate...it is the game of all games.
Politics is very simple. When two or more individual unique geniuses get together to co-create and co-design systems of playing the game of life...politics is the play. The play is the way WE manifest the combined heart of reality with the system of utopia which is the system WE are all experiencing. (from two individual unique cells to ONE wondrous miraculous individual unique genius cell...into amazing systems of 100 trillion cells working in perfected harmony) WOW!!! Politics is the shared cooperative venture of playing the ultimate game. WE know the final end game, to live in peace and harmony while experiencing the most amazing emotions of love with one another. Politics has no real rules to the game, which makes perfect sense to the ones controlling the game and the illusions of the game. If all the worlds greatest scientists and artists got together to co-create and co-design the RULES of the game. My genius tells me, that the one and only rule would be "WE ARE ALL ONESELF, BE ONESELF!"
Makiah and I are a system of playing the game of life. We love playing it and have even gotten others to join the play. (see theartofbasketball.com) WE love to laugh. watch movies together, play basketball, walk together, discover new places and adventures, meet new people, swim, bike and dance. WE love sharing life together.
We are selling art to support our game, our play, our adventurous journey through life. All our works are in the ART BANK of AMERICA where you can purchase, rent, buy shares or just stop by and enjoy the beauty of our game.
The Art of Politics and the Politics of Art, is utopia reflected back at oneself....the quality of emotions are the score to knowing the ultimate balance or health by which the game is being played. When all aspects of poverty changes and transforms into wealth, hilariousness. will be the combined score.
Owaken, Ompower Oneself to being a player in the game. All aspects of changing and transforming poverty into wealth is the score of the ultimate game. Feel the hilariousness of it ALL! Be a player in the ultimate game.
Go ahead, call me crazy. Many thought I was when over the past five years I said the real estate market was going to crash so "Don't buy it right now!" Well maybe you shouldn't buy this Palin game either. At least not so fast! Consider all scenarios, even the "crazy." Why not? It's crazy to consider Palin as a reasonably qualified choice for VP, but the GOP thinks we should? But why? Why really? They say in the movie business that the "truth is always stranger than fiction." Keep that in mind!
There's also something terribly wrong, something else going on, when something gains too much value, too fast, and without solid reasoning.
There's usually something very wrong when something is too cheap. There's also usually something terribly wrong, something else going on, when something gains too much value, too fast and without solid reasoning. Remember the Dot.com crash? Look at the housing market. Look at the practice of undocumented income "liar's loans," and "interest only financing?" What's the common thread? A lot of hot air was being bought and sold. Someone was getting rich on the scam but we are all paying the price for the con now, even those of us who didn't play and didn't fall for it.
Palin is like a lovely $500K home sold for $975. in the San Diego real estate rush. It's got lots of great features, it's not a starter home by any means (for most people) but it's also not yet really worth nearly a million dollars. The bottom was bound to fall out and the buyer at $975. got burned. Hard to continue to love a home that bankrupted you... Keep these things in mind.
Now consider this. McCAIN's being sold as a maverick and one who marches to his on drum, can't be pushed around, etc. etc. Does that really sound like someone the GOP really wants in power, I mean really? Even little old me, I've made enough waves in my life to know how most people in business --and society for that matter, feel about independent thinkers; They don't like them! And, importantly, they'd really prefer "you" leave.
Sarah Palin is a perfect choice for the GOP given that an ambitious but "not ready for prime time" puppet is who they wanted and had in G.W. Bush, and who they'll have in Palin. Palin is such a novice in world affairs that she will be absolutely dependent on the GOP to prop her up. Now here's one thing all women should understand... Attention Women: Never let yourself get so dependent that you cannot make it on your own. If you do, sooner or later you might be forced to "sell out" or leave. That's reason enough that Palin should not even be considered for VP. She's not ready! Later on, with more appropriate and broadened experience, go for it Sarah! But Palin is NOT ready right now. Plenty of GOP female politicians are, and they can fit the conservative mold the GOP desires just fine, so why is Palin the choice really?
Could all this circus be cover for the real goal of the game, for the GOP to lose?
Could all this circus be cover for the real goal of the game, for the GOP to lose? McCain would be out of the GOP's hair pretty much for good. The loss will be blamed on all those "terrible, heathen, baby and woman hating, unpatriotic, money wasting Democrats!"
What does the GOP gain? Jumping the just-about-to-capsize US Economic ship. The ship that largely the GOP built, and built with tons of hot air and deregulated, un-inspected "steel," a paper ship. The ship made it to the land of leisure, but can't make it back to get the rest of us because it was only ever designed to sail one voyage. The land of leisure was not for all of us. And now, ship sinking, the American people are boarding. Let Obama win the race for new "captain," but make it look like a really close race so as to not invoke the people's "too cheap" instinctual cautions. Later, Blame it on Obama and those damn Democrats when everybody drowns. Then a "few" years from now, maybe eight if we are very, very lucky, when a new structure is in place to put the crises on the mend, the GOP will build a new ship. All aboard....
After thought: In the political game of farming candidates, this run for VP really shouldn't hurt Palin a bit in the long run. Initially virtually unknown, she's now forever a house hold name. So far nothing so damning has come forward that can't be managed later. She just might be the Obama of 2016, actually ready for the job next time. All in all, the GOP might win this one as a double jackpot -- by losing.
"Two summers ago, on a congressional trip to Estonia, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest," reports Anne E. Kornblut for The Times.
"Delighted, the leader of the overseas delegation, Sen. John McCain, quickly agreed," Kornblut continues.
Name That Star ~ A Guessing Game was inspired by a peer at Associated Content who said of Obama's "Army of Hope": "I am emphatically stating his followers are displaying the same types of messianic worship that Hitler's followers displayed toward him."
Do you think stars who have had their own groupies or adoring fans would be "starry eyed" or faint in Obama's presence? The AC CP seems to think so.
Born on August 17, 1943 in New York city, he won two Academy Awards in addition to a Golden Globe. His mother was a painter. His father was an abstract expressionist painter and sculptor. He dropped out of school at age 13 to join a street gang and studied at Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio. His career began at age 16 working in theatre and off-Broadway productions. The actor has also directed and produced films. Off camera he invests in real estate and other ventures such as founding a film studio, film festival and restaurants.Married twice in addtion to a long term relationship he has four children and one adopted child. Can you name that star?
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Often we meet someone who seems really exciting. We begin to chat to them, we take an interest in them, but, somehow, everything falls flat as we slowly realise that we are really getting nowhere fast, despite the best intentions on both sides. The big problem is likely to be the actual conversation. You might be genuinely interested and show that interest. But if you ask someone a question about themself, and they reply by going on and on, perhaps because they are not in interested in you, they are nervous or they just want to talk about themselves, that will be a very boring conversation. Research has shown that the average person has an attention span of just 90 seconds, before they start to drift. It is longer when they are really stimulated by the subject matter.
I've been trying to think of what Gamers for Obama could do and then was hit by the obvious. How about if we develop an Obama game? I'm thinking a simple board game, a 'roll the dice, move your mice' sort of thing. Something we could have as a pdf file, and have cards (also as a pdf) so people print the game and the cards, and provide thier own markers and dice.
It could be a race for the presidency and be linear like the game of LIFE. The first big obstacle will be the democratic primary.
I have zero experience with this and am totally open to suggestions. Also, I have no idea how to design a game board.
Comments? Suggestions? Who wants to help?
