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What If? The Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court

Ditto that. I remember the last time (what was that?!) I heard Kagen challenging someone who she ended up siding with. Sometimes it’s Devil’s Advocate to strengthen the case. I’m not sure that’s what Roberts was doing and I’m not banking on him, but he’s the only one apart from Kennedy that’s even remotely possible.

» Posted By Khirad On March 27, 2012 @ 3:00 pm

The Tao and I

‘He by whom it (Brahman) is not thought, by him it is thought; he by whom it is thought, knows it not. It is not understood by those who understand it, it is understood by those who do not understand it.

Kena Upanishad
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01177.htm

I always found that the Tao, Hindu Upanishads, and a few Buddhist Pali texts must have hit upon the same thing practically.

Of course, with the Tao, it seems to have been relatively independent, or at least expressed in a totally fresh, original – yet primeval; authentically regional – yet universal way.

» Posted By Khirad On March 25, 2012 @ 11:21 pm

Right in/out of HS I read Steppenwolf, Narcissus and Goldmund, The Glass Bead Game, and finally got around to Siddhartha later. I couldn’t pick a favorite, but Siddartha was indeed different.

My book for awakening which transported me, comforted me, and made me question in the same way as the Tao Te Ching for KT had to of been the Bhagavad Gita. At 16 it truly opened my eyes to another way of thinking; a whole other consciousness.

» Posted By Khirad On March 25, 2012 @ 7:37 pm

I love that book and have a nice copy with cloth bookmark, but I love Hesse in general. One of those authors that speaks right to me.

» Posted By Khirad On March 25, 2012 @ 6:28 pm

I need to reread it sometime. Unlike other religions, instead of offering you answers, it gives you questions to ponder and arrive at your own epiphany about, like the Zen kōans you referred to, but a lot less pretentious, I think. They aren’t so much consternating riddles, I mean, as just profound to ponder in their simple elegance.

Second, I know exactly where you were. I actually went through treatment at that same VA in the early 2000s (leased out for civilian use). My band practiced at a friend’s home a couple blocks away.

» Posted By Khirad On March 25, 2012 @ 5:38 pm

Weekend Music Thread – True Blues

Metalocalypse: Blues History

» Posted By Khirad On March 25, 2012 @ 10:10 am

‘Cause dude sold his soul to the devil.

Robert Johnson – Crossroad

» Posted By Khirad On March 25, 2012 @ 10:10 am

If GOP Candidates Were Toys

Thanks for that mental image.

» Posted By Khirad On March 21, 2012 @ 8:03 pm

April is Coming…

» Posted By Khirad On March 21, 2012 @ 8:02 pm

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» Posted By Khirad On March 21, 2012 @ 7:07 pm

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» Posted By Khirad On March 21, 2012 @ 7:06 pm

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» Posted By Khirad On March 21, 2012 @ 7:04 pm

With emphasis on scat.

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» Posted By Khirad On March 21, 2012 @ 7:02 pm

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» Posted By Khirad On March 21, 2012 @ 6:59 pm

I remember this guy.

» Posted By Khirad On March 21, 2012 @ 6:10 pm

That was a fun game.

» Posted By Khirad On March 21, 2012 @ 6:09 pm

Huffington Post Openly Launches Campaign to Attack Obama

I only wonder if they have “aggregated” this yet.

Obama’s Gay Past Being Hidden By Killing Ex-Lovers
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1635/646/Obamas_Gay_Past_Being_Hidden_By_Killing_Ex-Lovers.html

» Posted By Khirad On March 19, 2012 @ 9:38 pm

The End of Right Wing Talk Radio???

So, now you know the Rush Twitter handle, go forth on your digital CBs!

Rush Limbaugh Launches New Twitter Offensive
http://www.webpronews.com/rush-limbaugh-launches-twitter-offensive-2012-03

» Posted By Khirad On March 19, 2012 @ 10:24 am

Just 29 Percent Believe Limbaugh Apology Was Sincere
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/13/443413/just-29-percent-believe-limbaugh-apology-was-sincere/

From Rassy no less.

» Posted By Khirad On March 13, 2012 @ 8:43 am

Morocco, United Arab Emirates, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mauritania, Pakistan, Iraq, Tunisia.

Muslim majority countries. All have a greater percentage of women representation than the United States.

http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm

» Posted By Khirad On March 13, 2012 @ 8:42 am

If only it were as television, where if you get an episode pulled, you can effectively cancel the show.

» Posted By Khirad On March 13, 2012 @ 8:31 am

A random comment I read describing Rush’s voice:

‘talking through a layer of blubber while ten meters under water’

» Posted By Khirad On March 12, 2012 @ 12:53 am

Or if you have OnDemand or something you can prolly order it now.

Should this free HBO thing end by the time Game of Thrones starts next month, I’m gonna be doing that.

» Posted By Khirad On March 10, 2012 @ 11:09 pm

Promises Kept by President Obama

Now, if only you could fit that on a bumpersticker.

» Posted By Khirad On March 9, 2012 @ 2:46 pm

Please, everyone knows that he’s thrown Israel under the bus and our European allies laugh at us. The GOP tells us so all the time.

Now W? Yeah, the rest of world really respected him. 😆

» Posted By Khirad On March 8, 2012 @ 7:17 pm

LIVE BLOG – Super Tuesday 2012

It’s perfectly acceptable, actually. Remember how many times the news referred to Mr. Bush?

I know they hate showing him any respect, but the weasels have found a way out on this one.

Technically it is Mister President in informal address, but Mr. Obama is also correct.

Just saying, fair is fair. I rarely ever wrote out President Bush. Bush II was just easier.

» Posted By Khirad On March 7, 2012 @ 7:28 pm

Indeed, and Chris Matthews had one of his moments of lucidity when he said a couple days ago that Romney has no fear of getting us into another war, which of course none of his children will fight in, but does fear taking a stand against anything that will affect his own ambition.

Mitt, thy name is Coward.

» Posted By Khirad On March 7, 2012 @ 2:46 pm

That was what I left unsaid Kes, because it was my impression, but I wasn’t sure it was the right one.

I think, though Wurzelbacher is a loon himself, that he could have played against Kucinich’s persona.

Kaptur takes that away from him, and yes, I’ve seen her debate, maybe from your links in the past – or just C-Span, and she is efficient. That’s the word I’d use to describe her debating skill.

» Posted By Khirad On March 7, 2012 @ 12:49 am

The guy responsible for 7,500 (when they stopped counting, prolly closer to 10,000) of his own citizens’ lives so far in Syria.

Kucinich tried defending him.

I’d forgiven his eccentricities before then, but he was dead to me at that point.

» Posted By Khirad On March 7, 2012 @ 12:46 am

Oh wow!

» Posted By Khirad On March 6, 2012 @ 10:33 pm

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