Stress is not something that just happens to us.  Stress is a reaction we choose to experience when we fail to accept reality.

By accepting reality, remembering that “what is, is”, by living fully in the moment–in other words,  by heeding  the wisdom of Jesus–”give no thought to  the morrow.  Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof”–one will not experience stress.

To expand upon this a bit–everything is connected.  This is some of the oldest and most profound wisdom the human race has come up with, and has been expressed many different ways by many different people over the millennia.  And we create our own reality.  Thus, whatever happens is a result of a sort of conspiracy among not only all of us, but  also all of the universe.  When you resist anything that happens, you are not just trying to float  upstream, you are fighting against the collective power of all of existence.  No wonder it gets tiresome.

What you resist, persists.  You push away what you want, and you attract what you fear.

   

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Well, duh. . . . OF COURSE!!!

The net fosters both anonymity and narcissism, both of which are inimical to healthy emotional development.

   

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Just yesterday, my sweety thanked me for not leaving her when she asked me to.  That was it.

Okay, next to the time she said I was the most macho man she had ever met–but she didn’t mean it as a compliment.

   

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As the bee does love the clover,
So I love you.

As the raven loves the aerie,
I love you.

As the roses love the sun,
So I love you.

And when my life is over,
My race run,
I shall only love you more.

(Note–I posted this once before, but I think it bears repeating, now more than ever.  Thanks for the new life, kiddo!)

For today, I decided to pick a subject far more pleasant and palatable than Sarah Palin–the common cockroach.  These critters, as most everyone knows, are tough and adaptable.  They can mutate so fast that a poison that kills them dead today just gives their descendents a nice buzz a year or so down the road.  They are far more resistant to radiation than us domesticated primates, and  can survive for a long time on no food and very little water.  They have been around for something like 250 million years,a record that no other critter even comes close to besting.  All this has led some folks to believe that in the event we manage to kill ourselves off, the cockroach will live on.  Not true–at least for folks in temperate climes.

Thing is, the cockroach is a tropical critter, who survives in cities only because we supply him with warmth.  After we are gone, the roaches in places like New York City and Boston will freeze their little keisters off.  But this is actually a bit of a digression, because I want to expand upon one of their little-known abilities–they can synthesize vitamin C.  This is a very big deal, since we need the stuff to survive and it does not occur in mnay foods besides citrus fruits and red meat.  So what I am getting to is my idea for a dandy horror movie.

You have this evil scientist (think Jeffrey Combs in Reanimator), who does gene-splicing.  He falls in love with roaches, studies them at length.  This would give us great lab scenes with bazillions of raoches, who havem,IMHO, a very high ick factor.  He gets obsessed with the vitamon C thing, as well as someother true survival traits of the critters, and decides to do some roach-human gene-splicing.  Naturally, he chooses a tasty young female for this, and does his work without her knowledge or consent–tells her it’ll make her stay young or something.

She becomes impregnated and carries a human-roach hybrid, learns the truth, runs away, and has many, many young in a remote location.  Just thinking about the birth scene gives me the creeps, not to mention thinking about what they might  do to survive, and what happens when they make their way to a city.

I will let whoever actually makes the movie take it from there.  BTW–I want one percent of the gross against $25,000 cash for the idea, okay?

September 5, 2008

by Charley James –

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.

“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.

Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”

Racial and ethnic slurs may be “just Alaska” and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.

Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, “darkie musical” swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s Aboriginal people as “Arctic Arabs” – how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as the more colourful “mukluks” along with the totally unimaginative “f**king Eskimo’s,” according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.

But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg. According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also vindictive and mean. We’re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.

No wonder the vast sea of white, cheering faces at the Republican Convention went wild for Sarah: They adore the type, it’s in their genetic code. So much for McCain’s pledge of a “high road” campaign; Palin is incapable of being part of one.

“Sambo Beat the Bitch”
“Palin is a conniving, manipulative, a**hole,” someone who thinks these are positive traits in a governor told me, summing up Palin’s tenure in Alaska state and local politics.

“She’s a bigot, a racist, and a liar,” is the more blunt assessment of Arnold Gerstheimer who lived in Alaska until two years ago and is now a businessman in Idaho.

charley-james.jpg“Juneau is a small town; everybody knows everyone else,” he adds. “These stories about what she calls blacks and Eskimos, well, anyone not white and good looking actually, were around long before she became a glint in John McCain’s rheumy eyes. Why do I know they’re true? Because everyone who isn’t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks that way.”

“Sambo beat the bitch” may be everyday language up in the bush. Whether it – and the outlook, politics and worldview Palin reflects when she says such things in public – should be part of a presidential campaign is another thing altogether. The comment says as much about McCain as it does about Palin, and it says a lot of things about Americans who overlook such statements (as well as her record) and vote anyway for McCain.

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09…mean%E2%80%9D/September 5, 2008