As a part of celebrating my soul, I’ve added some more photos as postcards. mjh
Here are two other sites with free online postcards:
Monthly Archives: December 2004
Occupied Territory
ABQjournal: N.M.’s Terror Town
photo by Greg Sorber/Journal
No, it’s not Iraq. Rather it’s a SWAT team of Do?a Ana County sheriff’s deputies and Alamogordo Department of Public Safety officers leaving a Black Hawk helicopter in a mock assault as part of a training exercise Thursday at the official opening of the National Emergency Response Training Center — affectionately known as Terror Town — in the Bootheel town of Playas.
Remember when there was a difference between the police and the military? mjh
diminishing support for the United States
A startling report from an esteemed Pentagon advisory council sharply rebukes President Bush’s belief that freedom is on the march. “American direct intervention in the Muslim World has paradoxically elevated the stature of and support for radical Islamists, while diminishing support for the United States to single-digits in some Arab societies,” the report found. “Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,’ but rather they hate our policies.”
Again Bush achieves the opposite of his goals, much as he has with the rising abortion rate. mjh
WHAT FLAG IS THAT?
New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan
That flag photo accompanying today’s lead piece may not look familiar, but it was in our state’s early days. From 1912 to 1925 it was the official state flag. Since then the easily recognizable Zia symbol flag has flown proudly.
Remember: this is satire
The Onion | Republicans Call For Privatization Of Next Election
Citing the “extreme inefficiency” of this month’s U.S. presidential election, key Republicans called for future elections to be conducted by the private sector.
Santorum calls for the removal of big government from the election process.
“When the average citizen hears the phrase ‘presidential election,’ he thinks of long lines at polling places and agonizing waits as election results are tallied,” U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) told reporters Monday. “Putting the election of our public officials into the hands of private industry would motivate election officials to be more efficient.”
“There’s too much talk about the accuracy and fairness of our national elections, and not enough about their proficiency and profitability,” Santorum added. “Who bears the brunt of bureaucratic waste? Taxpayers.”
U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) called for an end to “big government overseeing the election of big government.”
“It’s time we opened the election process to competition,” Burns said. “The free market is the petri dish for innovation, be it in telecommunications, the healthcare system, or democracy.”
The “Bush Court,” as the Supreme Court was known after 2005
City Pages: Obituaries
Former President George W. Bush Dead at 72
by Greil Marcus
Policy Review, October 5, 2018–George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, died today at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. He was 72. The cause of death was announced as heart failure. …
[A]s a result of the passage of the 28th Amendment in 2006 and its ratification by the states the next year, in 2008 Mr. Bush announced his candidacy for a third term. He was overwhelmingly defeated that November by former President Bill Clinton.
ToDo: Schedule Soul Celebration Day for sometime this week. (updated)
Free Will Astrology : Taurus Horoscope
Your soul is the best friend you keep forgetting you have. It’s closer than your breath and older than death. It dreams like a mountain, laughs like a river, and communicates with you in the exuberantly mysterious style of animals and gods. You are alive because of your soul! It loves you with nonstop unconditional ingenuity. Isn’t it right, then, to devote at least one special day each year to honoring it and giving thanks for its blessings? From an astrological perspective, this is a perfect time to do just that. Schedule Soul Celebration Day for sometime this week.
[updated 12/7/04:]
LRB | James Davidson : I told you so!
I don?t believe in astrology, but I also know that not believing in astrology is a typically Taurean trait. When I first caught a bright young friend browsing in the astrology section of a bookshop ? ?How can you believe in that rubbish?? ? he pointed to a line in the book he was holding where it was written that a Taurean would typically say: ?How can you believe in that rubbish?? The reason, apparently, is that Taureans are all so practical and down to earth. …
I don?t believe in astrology but I am rather fond of it. …
Getting into astrology is like being drawn through the door of your own private cathedral or seduced by a fugue constructed out of the letters of your name.