In what must have been a stunner to the neo-cons who think their stacked court will still march in lockstep with them ...
The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.
... man that's got to hurt.
Who would have thought ... a court actually adhering to the law ... wow!
Monday, December 8, 2008
Youthfulness a costly American obsession
It's one of those photos that make you do a double-take. Dr. Jeffry Life stands in jeans, his shirt off. His face is that of a distinguished-looking grandpa; his head is balding, and what hair there is is white. But his 69-year-old body looks like it belongs to a muscle-bound 30-year-old.
The photo regularly runs in ads for the Cenegenics Medical Institute, a Las Vegas-based clinic that specializes in "age management," a growing field in a society obsessed with staying young. Life, who swears that's his real last name, also keeps a framed copy of the photo on his office wall at Cenegenics.
Read the rest here.
And I Quote
The solution to all of Life's problems is learning the difference between need and desire.
~ Myself
(Yes, it is that simple)
~ Myself
(Yes, it is that simple)
John Lennon Died 28 Years Ago Today
John Lennon died 28 years ago today. We lost a voice of hope. We lost a voice of love ... that night on a sidewalk in New York City.
But more than that the world - especially the United States - lost its way.
After John's death the world mourned ... at least the part that has a heart. Yet just in the darkness of the shadows lurked the foulness that we now know and refer to as the neo-cons.
The blackness that has plagued the world sallied forth that night convinced their evil was the correct path as Ronnie Raygun was made president and the downward spiral of the world began in earnest.
Today, 28 years later, the voices of hope and the voices of love are reasserting themselves and driving the foul and loathsome back into oblivion.
John's belief in and hope for mankind, while hidden by the foulness, never was - or could be - extinguished ... such a flame can never be dimmed for long ... and is a shared belief and hope by most people in the world. We just have to strive to keep the haters in their dank, dark holes a bit harder.
Thank you John Lennon for being a light illuminating the world.
But more than that the world - especially the United States - lost its way.
After John's death the world mourned ... at least the part that has a heart. Yet just in the darkness of the shadows lurked the foulness that we now know and refer to as the neo-cons.
The blackness that has plagued the world sallied forth that night convinced their evil was the correct path as Ronnie Raygun was made president and the downward spiral of the world began in earnest.
Today, 28 years later, the voices of hope and the voices of love are reasserting themselves and driving the foul and loathsome back into oblivion.
John's belief in and hope for mankind, while hidden by the foulness, never was - or could be - extinguished ... such a flame can never be dimmed for long ... and is a shared belief and hope by most people in the world. We just have to strive to keep the haters in their dank, dark holes a bit harder.
Thank you John Lennon for being a light illuminating the world.
Imagine
Harp-Piano
This is only one of two remaining harp-pianos, the hybrid of a harp and a piano:
A rare harp-piano by Dietz, Austria or Germany, ca. 1840. The strings are plucked as on a harp, operated through a piano keyboard.
Obama Supports Chicago labor Sit-In
A weekend sit-in by laid-off workers at a Chicago window factory drew high-profile support from President Barack Obama ahead of a Monday meeting between union leaders and the plant's major creditor.
About 200 workers from the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America have conducted what they call a "peaceful occupation" of the Republic Windows and Doors plant since Friday, when their abruptly announced layoffs were supposed to take effect.
"Number one, I think that these workers, if they have earned these benefits and their pay, then these companies need to follow through on those commitments," Obama said during a news conference Sunday.
"And, number two, I think it is important for us to make sure that, moving forward, any economic plan that we put in place helps businesses to meet payroll so that we're not seeing these kinds of circumstances again."
*****
Well, what do you know a president who actually stands up for the people he represents. How novel is that!?
Pakistan arrests suspected Mumbai plotter
Security forces overran a militant camp on the outskirts of Pakistani Kashmir's main city and seized an alleged mastermind of the attacks that shook India's financial capital last month, two officials said Monday.
The raid was in response to demands by India and the United States that Pakistan target the alleged perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks, which have sharply raised tensions between South Asia's two nuclear-armed powers.Backed by a helicopter, the troops grabbed Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi among at least 12 people taken Sunday in the raid on the riverbank camp run by the banned group Laskhar-e-Taiba in Pakistani Kashmir, the officials said.
After brief gunfight in the camp near Muzaffarabad the militants were subdued, the officials said.
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