Carlos Santana/Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – The Life Divine Here are some Mandalas for the New Age Part Two These animated Moving Mandalas are very large files. Please click on the pic, and wait for it to load. The Contemplation will be very enabling, carrying your Mind beyond the mundane world Bodhisatva 15, 442K Jacaranda Blossom […]
Given the tremendous influx of European immigration to the United States in the latter decades of the 19th Century and early decades of the 20th, like many Americans, I can trace my ancestry back 5 or 6 generations, but there it pretty much stops. From there back, my heritage essentially becomes countries of origin; names of people replaced by nations. I know my ancestors came from Germany, Poland and Ireland and a small handful of other nations, but when I try to use genealogy to answer Stuart’s question of “Who Am I?”, what insight could examining this diffusion of nationalities, each somewhat different from one another, possibly offer me? If I want to understand my own personal culture, my heritage shaped by the cultures and circumstances of my ancestors, if I am 9/16th’s German, 5/16th’s Polish and 1/16th Irish, does that mean my individual heritage is influenced along those same proportions? Am I going to need a calculator to figure out who I am and where I come from? Such is the challenge facing a Diffused American.
What is the Purpose and role of Government? Standard of living is often based on Wages, Retirement/pension, and Health Care. I am reminded of Joseph in Egypt. Joseph tells Pharoah that there will be 7 prosperous years followed by 7 years of Famine. So Pharoah (the Government) gathered up the surplus (a tax) and stored […]
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Shaddowfax : Angel’s Flight New Age Mandalas Part One These animated Moving Mandalas are very large files. Please click on the pic, and wait for it to load. The Contemplation will be very enabling, carrying your Mind beyond the mundane world Nearside Moon 62MB Malibu Creek Sky 48, 476K Confluence 18, 358K Green Garden 16, […]
I never really minded paying income taxes. Oh sure, like everyone else, I grumble and groan while preparing those damn tax forms, but that’s only because I like to bitch.
As for the auto industry, it’s hard to deny that the bailouts aren’t having their desired effect to this point. The Treasury said Tuesday that Chrysler, six years ahead of schedule, has repaid $5.1 billion in TARP loans and has also terminated its ability to draw a remaining $2.1 billion in more loans. The repayment […]
This was the result of the pictorial muse offered on the CPC Simple Sunday Picture Challenge, where this week the art is by CPC co-manager Jon Bowman. I made a second version in case some of the text in the first was hard to read.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has made it clear that he has no intention of coming to the aid of Joplin, Missouri – the town ravaged by a tornado that has taken the lives of more than 100 people with hundreds more still unaccounted for and thousands displaced as a result of their homes and […]
