My post to Dick Polman's Blog that I found on

www.southphillyreview.com - and it has some great pics on it also by a guy by the name of John Taggart. Anyway, I'm sure some of you know how when you're reading stuff on the net, you check out one link...then wind up at another...and there's another one that looks interesting...and so it goes. So below is my post to Mr. Polman's blogspot blog. Things that make you go hmmm....Peace & Awareness & do your own research.

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From a South Philly expat living in rural Georgia and having lived in California as well as Europe (I prefer s-aging to aging, thank you), I should like to ask just a few questions...

1. Has anyone ever considered that with the abortion debate (by whatever name one cares to choose or argue about) having gone on...and on...for how many years now - and the death penalty debate (which has not too long ago been displaced by the Gay Marriage debate)...that it all - however important one sees it as - just may be a Smoke Screen for lots of other things that our government fellows have been doing? Things that make you go hmmm....

2. Does anyone ever question the background or credibility of folks like James Dobson (with all due respect, doing one's own research...looking under the surface, as it were...seems to have become a lost art - rather we believe what we are told - of course, only by those who hold similar views that we hold - or have been convinced to hold)?

3. Whilst we are arguing with one another, our infrastructure is decaying rapidly and much else. But we continue on, stalwartly, like good soldiers, to argue about the same things, year after year, with our heads in the sand about other things, and never doing our own research across the board (and under the headlines). Apologies to those who do, indeed, do the research - including even, dare I say, the press from other places.

4. And finally, we continue to debate the issues above, and once our children are born, we have a President who has just vetoed a bill that would provide some health care for low-income and lower middle income children. Isn't it humane and within the tenets of all manner of religious beliefs to realize that it's okay to include a few middle class children in the plan, whose parents struggle with the high costs of health care?

And by the way, the statement from the president about it taxes Americans...It ONLY taxes the Americans who smoke! So what - my hubby smokes and will regardless of the tax on the packs.Do the research folks. Believe the hype, go along with the heard...you may as well just sit down and give up the rest of your rights (remember some that our founding fathers fought so hard for are now gone or so riddle with holes that they look like swiss cheese.)God bless/help America.

A South Philly Gal

Circuit City...Getting Rid of Experience to Make Room For Cheap...from the CS Monitor

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0416/p13s02-wmgn.html

Wow.
So everyone is in a Moment of Choice.
So is Circuit City.

But their decision to lay-off Older, better paid, more experienced workers (usually with more expertise, so when you have a question about something they might even know it)...

JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE MAKING MORE MONEY...

AND THEN HIRE EITHER DIFFERENT WORKERS OR THE SAME ONES BACK

AT MUCH LESS PER HOUR THAN BEFORE.

IS TRULY SMARMY.

It takes Greed & "I could care less about you or your Life" to a whole new level (and that level would, indeed, be very low.)

I'll just bet that the folks running Circuit City are not taking major pay cuts - or leaving to make room for lower paid executives.

So, what is our Moment of Choice?
Well, there are one or two folks over 40 in this country.

I suggest that we consider spreading the Word...Buy somewhere else.
Buy where Experience/Expertise/Service are valued.
Buy where folks are paid for how they perform and what they bring to the job.
Buy where folks can make change off the computer....

Why would those of us who are

Literate
Computer-savvy
Over 40 (or under 40 and value skills/experience/expertise/service)
Have the money to go buy their products

Continue to purchase anything at all from Circuit City?

LET'S BUYCOTT (BUYCOTT means not bothering to protest against, but rather to applaud/reward/buy from those whose BUSINESS ETHICS involve INTEGRITY.)

At the End of the Day it's about US. Is this a trend we are deciding to encourage by continuing to buy from Circuit City?

I say let's buy from somewhere else.

So decide and encourage...and if you agree, spread the word.

Tomorrow it could be you...

BUYCOTTS...Actualizing Who We Say We Are

Okay, so I'm unhappy that my beautiful, spirit of unconditional love, animal was killed...poisoned. So where do we go from here?

A few ideas:

1/ Let's stop complaining about what the big corporations do in order to make PROFIT (the God they worship). They aren't going to change. And, at the end of the day, it's about US. (read Miguel Ruiz' Four Agreements: http://www.miguelruiz.com

2/ Let's BEGIN TO BUY LOCALLY - REMEMBER: DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. Don't depend on others to do anything. It's like believing that if you give away your Freedoms that 'someone' 'out there' in 'government' is going to protect you from 'terrorists' - PLEASE LET'S GET REAL!!! Think about your own house...if someone wants in, what are you going to do to stop them? Gotta gun? Okay, fine. What if there are several folks breaking in, also with guns? And you're fast asleep when they break in...Let's BE REAL! No one can protect you but you. No one can be informed about your life but you. so, do your research on what's available in your area and BUY FROM THEM!

3/ It's a waste of time to boycott. They laugh at us. What 'they' don't laugh at is this:

SPEND YOUR MONEY BUYING THE THINGS THAT WORK FOR YOUR BODY, YOUR LIFE, YOUR KIDS' LIVES, YOUR PETS' LIVES, ETC.

IF YOU SPEND ENOUGH RESEARCH AND MONEY IN BUYING THE THINGS AND PRODUCTS THAT BRING YOU A/HEALTH B/AWARENESS C/EFFICIENCY D/ENVIRONMENT SAVING TOOLS, THEN.....

Just like Wal-mart is now stocking ORGANIC FOODS! - So, too, Big Business will FINALLY get the idea that they can make a profit from DOING IT RIGHT!!! DOING WHAT REALLY WORKS FOR EVERYONE!!! ('Everyone' would include US, yes?)

Let's stop being a victim/woe is me/it's someone else's fault Society and stand up like men and women who came from the Founding Radical Fathers of this great Country and say....

**************ENOUGH ALREADY!!!*******************

We are going to buy from:Paul Newman: www.newmansownorganics.com

We are going to research on sites like:Organic Consumers Association (a little outfit with a big message, out of Minnesota - a most progressive State, I have to say...) www.organicconsumers.org

We might even listen - now, after our beloved pets have been poisoned by those who care little for anything other than PROFIT - to: www.peta.com - DON'T BE AFRAID TO FIND OUT WHAT'S REALLY IN YOUR FOOD!!!

We are going to buy LOCAL - DO OUR RESEARCH & FIND THOSE FOLKS WHO LIVE AND WORK NEAR US & TRY HARD TO DO WHAT WORKS FOR ALL OF US!

In the next few days, I'll be posting different sites that deal, insofar as I am able to tell from my own research, fairly...organically...honestly...and with a realization that if we fail, we fail together...and when we succeed, we succeed as ONE.

Wow. New Idea? Hardly. As someone with a Christian background, in this Season of Christ, the RADICAL JESUS said things other than about Gay Marriage and Abortion (did he really talk about those things in the RED PRINT?):

- INASMUCH AS YOU DO IT TO THE LEAST OF THESE, YOU DO IT TO ME.- BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS (One of the most difficult things to do. Not for a Wuss - probably why most of us prefer to sit back and let folks kill each other.)

- WE ARE ONE WITH GOD...AND ONE WITH EACH OTHER.

So, enough for this night...may your day tomorrow be filled with Blessings and Belly Laughs...and opportunities in Abundance to pass them forward.Peace, Courageous co-creation of ONEness - and dancing with Wild Abandon & Joy, by any body of water you may be near.

Animals, Humans and the Contaminated Food We Eat

He was 11 when I unwittingly gave him poisoned food, and he died.

For 11 years - from the day I found him at 2 weeks old & brought him back to health, Lazarus Blues was a cool animal guy - accompanied me across country a few times, was bright and sociable, & a 151 lb dog everyone who met him loved. He didn't have a mean bone in his big ol' body &, up until mid-December, was pretty darn healthy......

Until big profit and the deceitful, lyin' big businesses killed him...poisoned him.

You know, the food began coming from Menu Foods on the 3RD OF DECEMBER!!! When were we told about the recall? MARCH!!! Oh, gee, do you think that might be a bit deceitful?! A tad criminal!? Naw - after all, they're all just animals, eh?

Really? Read 'FAST FOOD NATION' - required reading in a few aware high schools. Then you'll know what your kids and you are eating as well!

Do we really believe that Big Food corporations (for example, Monsanto and their genetically modified Brave New World) really give a rat's poison about what we eat or how sick we get as long as they profit?!!!

Back to the recall: I heard on CNN News this morning that the FDA is saying that only 14 animals have died - GET REAL!!! PLEASE!!! The reported total I know of, just little ol' me, is in the 100s and climbing! What's up here?!

And why are we importing wheat or anything to do with wheat from China??!! Or anywhere else for that matter, when we have farmers here who could do it?! Do you truly believe the story about something having happened in China in some rural province - WHERE WE CAN'T POSSIBLY CHECK TO ENSURE THESE GUYS IN THE FDA/BIG HUMAN/ANIMAL FOOD BUSINESSES are telling us?!!

Sure. Right. We believe you. Yep. We'll just continue eating your crap and then wonder why we all have cancers and diabetes and more. Then we can all go to your 'stay sick' medical establishments and receive MORE PILLS FROM BIG PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATIONS - THE ULTIMATE DRUG PUSHERS OF ALL - JUST WATCH TV!!!

Am I angry? You bet.
Am I stupid? Nope.

DO YOUR RESEARCH, FOLKS!!! DO...YOUR...OWN...RESEARCH...PLEASE!!!

There's a very old expression: Buy locally, think globally. It works. Here in my state, there are plenty of local farmers, Co-ops, even folks who grow organic beef, chicken & pig (you know, the kind of farmers who don't push downed or diseased or infected animals through the process to our tables because - hey, they're just stupid CONSUMERS - what will they know?!) Buy from the local folks.

Let me repeat that: BUY FROM THE LOCAL FOLKS!!! Go visit them. Take the time. It could mean your life, your children's lives, and & lives of your pets.

One more thing for this post:

STOP BEING ONLY CONSUMERS - that's the way we are seen!

START BEING CITIZENS AGAIN - FULL ON AWARE CITIZENS WHO DO THEIR RESEARCH...KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING.

Do you really believe that Reality Shows and all the rest of the cah-cah on TV are not intended to dumb us down?! Oh, please.

DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH...THINK...THEN ACT...OR SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, DO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD AND EAT WHAT IS GIVEN YOU...

EVER HEARD OF 'SOYLENT GREEN'? Yum.