My plea to the Obama campaign

Obama is in danger
of losing the election
if he cannot learn
to speak in ways voters can hear.

Frank Luntz subtitled a book:
"It's not what you say,
it's what people hear."

Please hire someone soon
who can help Obama learn
how to do this.

Please!

Thank you!

If elected, I will:
1. Lower your taxes.
2. Fight the terrorists where they are.
3. Make life better for your family.

If McCain is elected, he will:
1. Give more of your money to the rich.
2. Fight the terrorists where they are not.
3. Continue the Bush policies that have hurt your family.

i.e., sound bites, not dissertations

A Strong America

Does it really make the U.S. stronger to have a leader who stretches our military thin while draining the money out of our economy? Haven't we seen the results of that, and learned our lessons from it, already?

Will it all be made better when we cut taxes even more (fewer $$ coming in), stay in Iraq indefinitely (more $$ going out), and proceed to "Bomb, bomb, bomb,...bomb, bomb Iran" (the military stretched ever thinner)?

If ever there was a recipe for bankrupting the nation, destroying our defenses, and ruining our economy, this would be it.

Besides, when I think of clean, safe, alternative forms of energy, building 45 to 100 nuclear power plants is not the first thing that comes to mind. Though, just maybe, with enough molasses or vegetable oil it will finally be a snap to clean up toxic subterranean plumes of nuclear waste before they reach our major rivers and turn us all into the water-supply-poisoning victims defended by Erin Brockovich.

We are all a little bit different; we are all a lot the same.

Roma (gypsy) plea for humane treatment

Click on the drawing at: http://www.everyonegroup.com/EveryOne/MainPage/Entries/2008/5/24_Dear_Europe._By_Rebecca_Covaciu.html
to see one girl's plea against the mistreatment of gypsies that is becoming more common in Europe, especially in Italy.

Tomorrow Begins Today

The kind of day you will have tomorrow depends on how you prepare for it today.

Think about how you would like tomorrow to be as you decide what to do today. When tomorrow comes, you will be ever so glad you did.

Kindness

Kindness is free.

“Desiring the truth...and ready to sacrifice everything, life itself, for it. Though...”

"Add to that that he was to some extent a youth of our last epoch—that is, honest in nature, desiring the truth, seeking for it and believing in it, and seeking to serve it at once with all the strength of his soul, seeking for immediate action, and ready to sacrifice everything, life itself, for it. Though these young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply ten-fold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set before them as their goal—such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength of many of them."

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov, Ch. 5