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| This is a big one -- 20x24. It has the feel of a Life Magazine Name: Double Issue; paper paint on canvas |
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| This one is called "969 years" it is like a fold-out book - every surface (back/front/joinery) is covered with canvas, paint, and 'cutouts.' |
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| Called "What's Real, A Life's Work"; canvas, old valentine, other 'cutouts' this and the previous piece this is called Desk Art. this one is about 6 x 6, with a fold-out door. |
FOUR GREAT MAXIMS FOR ACHIEVING YOUR GOAL
- We must take care to launch ourselves with as strong an initiative as possible.
- Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
- Seize the first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make
- Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by little gratuitous exercise of it every day.
William James – 1842-1910
“Once, many years ago, to an old Scotch born carpenter, I boasted with scant tact of at least ten identifiable ancestors that arrived on the Mayflower and that every drop of my blood had been on American soil for more than two centuries.
He replied, chuckling, “Tell me this—how many nights sat ye up deciden' ye'd no' be born Chinese?”
"Tell me this - how many nights did you sit up deciding that you would not be born Chinese?"
Well the first time I saw the movie - (Did I mention that I saw it again with my son yesterday!).
he was the one playing Churchill! (Now ... feel the irony coming Rod Taylor was opposite Yevette Mimieux in at least two movies; Time Machine and Dark of the Sun). Taylor was the star of my first favorite movie, Fate is the Hunter. He was also leading man in the Birds, and the first 101 Dalmatians --- now he is Churchill. Taylor, the old guy - done good. Tarantino was generous and honorable in casting him.*Fate is the Hunter" -Taylor played: Capt Jack Savage - he investigates the mysterious crashing of a passenger flight.... great movie. My new driver's license allowed me to go see it almost every night for a month in the summer of my freshman year in high school. I loved the logical ending to the movie -- let's say it was not "fate" that caused the crash.
“Many are asking the question: is this allowed? Can someone portray Jews as killers who also have fun with their murderous work?”
And after this revelation, “Pope Quentin” goes on to manifest the “biggest
exorcism of all,” daily Die Welt opined.“He manages finally to send this Hitler
to the devil in a way besides suicide,” the paper said. “Historic accuracy is a
virtue, but fantasy brings liberation.”[source: Kristen Allen in " The Local Germany's News in English"] For more about this go to German's like new Terantino Film.
"When you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship" Harry Truman
"Any education worthy of the name is bound to be dangerous" L. Neil, Australian Professor
"If
you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule." Barbara Jordan
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. " Harry Truman
Mark Twain spoke of the young missionary who went among the
cannibals and Twain said " They listened with the greatest of interest to
everything he had to say...and then they ate him".
"I would be wise to remember that , considering bad news, it is never out of style to at least THINK about burning the messenger." Linda Ellerbee
"El Salvador is Spanish for Vietnam" unknown
"The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes a little longer" Edward R. Murrow.
"First one, then two of us-- pretty soon they'll think it's a movement" --"if three of us do it they'll think its a conspiracy" Arlo Guthry
"You can't get a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant" Bell Labs Engineer
"China is having a new war, and we are having trouble getting into it. We always have gunboats there, so if there is any shooting, why, one of our boats will get shot at, and that gives us the usual alibi. But this time is seems we only had one gunboat, and it had to maneuver around for days before it could get in the line of fire...." Mark Twain
I don’t get it – Mormons have a history that was largely built on persecution for the way they wanted to marry. My family was part of that history – and although I am what is now called a Jack Mormon (for me a cultural or historical Mormon) – my families’ pride has been strongly tied to the essential Mormon struggle.
ssion against Mormons. She was the mother of nine, (the last born and died on the trail), her husband died of cholera and was buried in the Mormon Trail (actually in the trail – so that the wagons would run over the grave and wild animals would not dig up the remains) – this woman carried on. She later entered into a plural marriage as the second wife to a bishop who was, I think, heroic. He and his first wife opened their little sod home to a woman with seven living children at home.
...........................Barack Obama goes into today’s vote with the overwhelming backing of the world beyond America’s borders in a presidential race that has gripped audiences like no election before.
The rest of this article is called:
US elections: the world has no vote but it knows who it wants
Kenya -- Obama's Kenyan home ready to party
United Kingdom -- Barack Obama's grandmother cast ballot in one of her final acts
UK Reporting on Kenya:
An everyday quotation from Kenyan writer, Sebastien Berger in Kisumu, for the Telegraph.uk in Britain highlights, I think, the hope that Obama brings to people all over the world:
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In a printing shop in Kisumu, the capital of Senator Obama's ancestral home province in Kenya, Jumah George had no doubts about the election result even before the polls opened. He had brought in a rugby shirt to have Mr Obama's image imposed on it. "I don't want it to say 'for president', I want it to be 'president'," he said.
Obama is disciplined, deliberate and cerebral. His
intellectual curiosity would be welcome after eight years of a president with
little patience for meetings, who interrupts those who brief him with lines such
as "speed it up - this isn't my first rodeo".
It still boggles the imagination -- that could soon be reality -- that the 44th US president may be an African-American son of a Kenyan exchange student.Nigeria - by Bolaji Akinyemi - The Obama in us and the us in Obama
Sarah Palin was seated next to a little girl on an airplane trip back to Washington.
She turned to the little girl and said "Let's talk. I've heard that the flights go quicker
if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger."
The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and said to Palin, "What would you like to talk about?"
"Oh, I don't know," said The Palin. "How About ‘What changes should I make to help America"? And she smiled.
"OK," the little girl says. "That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first¦
A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass.
Yet a deer excretes little round pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?"
Palin, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it for a second and finally says, "Hmmm, I really have no idea."
To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to do anything for America when you really don't know SHIT?"
“Several years ago, state attorneys general and others involved in consumer protection began to notice a marked increase in a range of predatory lending practices by mortgage lenders. Some were misrepresenting the terms of loans, making loans without regard to consumers' ability to repay, making loans with deceptive "teaser" rates that later ballooned astronomically, packing loans with undisclosed charges and fees, or even paying illegal kickbacks.”
“In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks. The federal government's actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.”Read the whole article by Spitzer ends with this prophetic sentence:
“Since the Bush regime came to power, a new species of loan became the norm, the ‘sub-prime’ mortgage and it’s variants including loans with teeny “introductory” interest rates. From out of nowhere, a company called ‘Countrywide’ became America’s top mortgage lender, accounting for one in five home loans, a large chunk of these ‘sub-prime.’”
“Here’s how it worked: The Grinning Family, with US average household income, gets a $200,000 mortgage at 4% for two years. Their $955 a month payment is 25% of their income. No problem. Their banker promises them a new mortgage, again at the cheap rate, in two years. But in two years, the promise ain’t worth a can of spam and the Grinnings are told to scram - because their house is now worth less than the mortgage. Now, the mortgage hits 9% or $1,609 plus fees to recover the “discount” they had for two years. Suddenly, payments equal 42% to 50% of pre-tax income. Grinnings move into their Toyota.”He discusses that instead of policing the banks, Bush’s OCC people went after Spitzer and anyone else that tried to get in the way of these predatory loans. The government made use of something called “federal pre-emption” (which will have to be studied on its own) – Bush’s government ordered the states to not enforce their consumer protection laws! They actually filed a lawsuit to stop Spitzer from investigating mortgage practices.
“Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.”
( BTW Farah is so right wing, he does not approve of McCain because he remembers that McCain is not too picky about his beliefs [as long as they get him elected to something]. Farah has spent a good part of his life involved in bringing down Bill Clinton and has been involved in forming something called the Arkansas Project.”)To support his case he uses an article that was in the New York Times called Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending from 1999, written by Steven A. Holmes. Now, I am not sure if he (and the people who forward this information) are using this information to shift the blame from Republicans to Clinton or to poor minority borrowers. But it is an obvious move to shift the blame away from the GOP.
( Reminder – I am not a Democrat. I am a registered Republican who is an Economic Republican that has not been able to vote for a Republican since the Reagan era – when the party was hi-jacked by religious nutcases.
I am no champion of Bill Clinton because of his boorish behavior to his wife and family after infidelity ordeal; And the amount of embarrassment that they had to endure because he did not deal with that matter quickly, decisively and honestly.
I have always felt that he just should have said – “This is a private matter between my wife and I – I will not answer any questions about this matter”. Instead, the lie, though understandable, put the family in a very bad situation.
Now, since his wife and he have apparently dealt with it and comparing it to the president we have had since – I have dropped it from problems with Mr. Clinton.)To review the salient history, Bill Clinton and the current financial situation.
Glass – Steagall Act of 1933 – formed the FDIC, changed banking and tried to end speculation that had factored in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. This Act stopped banks from owning things like mortgage companies, insurance companies other financial businesses. The Gramm-Leech-Bliley Act reversed this law. Gramm was not alone in this debacle though – the vote was 362 to 57 in the (Republican controlled) House and 90 to 8 (Republican controlled) Senate .
– Clinton signed it into law.
Georgie Porgie Pudd'n and Pie - Flips us off and makes us die........
He just makes you proud - doesn't he?
DeWayne McKinney died last week ….. I remember this guy because he was on 20/20. I was so shocked and impressed by his ability to just move on. The tragedies in most of our lives are very slight compared to Mr. McKinney’s.
