Poetry To My Ears....Interrupted - Health Care Business As Usual

I am Human NOH8 Campaign PSA

Martin Luther King Jr.

For Ms. Redgrave, In Honor Of Her Loss....

Be Brave ~ Be A Friend

"Fidelity": Don't Divorce...
from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

If I Were President....

This would be my choice for

The Inaugural Invocation

Happy New Year....

May Love Reign
Over You
[~2:50]

A Child Flew Past Me Riding In A Star....

PURE & EASY



We all know success when we all find our own dreams
And our love is enough to knock down any wall
And the future's been seen as men try to realize
The simple secret of the Lord in us all

I listened and I heard music in a word
And words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star

There once was a note, pure and easy
Playing so free, like a breath rippling by
There once was a note, listen
There once was a note, listen....

Happy 89th, Pete....

Row, Row, Row Your Boat....

[click on image to enlarge]

...gently through your dream.

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Inspired By Hillary’s Flat-Bed Truck Debates...

How Democrats Could Be Led By
Hillary Rodham Clinton
To A New State Of National Grace:

With Hillary Rodham Clinton leading the way not to debate on a flatbed truck but to invite Barack Obama to join her campaign with his, and hand in hand together, like that day in Montgomery, join ranks on behalf of the entire Democratic party at the New Harmony, Indiana, bridge into Illinois over the Wabash River now closed for lack of funds --

BOB GWALTNEY / Courier & Press Indiana

-- to begin an old-fashioned voters' rights drive for a summer of activism tours [like the Freedom riders] for college kids on break and limo liberals putting their gas money where their wine-drinking mouths are, helping disenfranchised citizens register to vote, under yesterday's onerous new photo ID ruling by the Supreme Court.

The Democrats could offer scholarships, if legal, for needy people to help pay for government issued IDs.

CONTRIBUTE TODAY!

Who's Going To Hell...

AP PHOTO

From The Times, March 27, 2007
The fires of Hell are real and eternal, Pope warns
By Richard Owen in Rome

Hell is a place where sinners really do burn in an everlasting fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanise the faithful, the Pope has said.

Addressing a parish gathering in a northern suburb of Rome, Benedict XVI said that in the modern world many people, including some believers, had forgotten that if they failed to “admit blame and promise to sin no more”, they risked “eternal damnation — the Inferno”.

Hell “really exists and is eternal, even if nobody talks about it much any more”, he said.

"A Man In A Purple Dress"
The Who

How dare you wear robes and reside
How dare you cover your head to hide
Your face from God

How dare you smile from behind your beard
To hide the fact that your hearts are feared
And wave your rod

How dare you be the one to assess
Me in this godforsaken mess
You, a man in a purple dress
A man in a purple dress

When you place your frown
Between my God and prayer
However grand your crown
Or dignified your hair
Men above men all prats
In your high hats

You priest, you mullah so high
You pope, you wise rabbi
You're invisible to me
Like vapor from the sea

I lovingly mock you noble lords
We all dress up to grand awards
I do that as well

I dare condemn your fashion sense
At least you're not astride the fence
That wouldn't sell

But I will deliver this address
Your souls conditioned don't impress
You, a man in a purple dress
A man in a purple dress

Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr: 1924-2006...

He was a hero.
[Many thanks to N. Rose and Tikkun® for their interview.]