{mospagebreak}War or no war? Well, we have been forced to pay for wars we don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t like. Why? Your article: More like prisoners or no prisoners. Prisoners? Vietnam was over in the early 70s. Prisoners then would have been age 20 to 35 or so. Add 35 years, Michael. If they adapted to survive that long they probably wouldn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t want to come back over here. Vietnam might be glad to get rid of such Medicare cases. Be skeptical of people who are in the business of holding imaginary war prisoners or starving children or suffering people hostage to get your attention and donation. Joe McCarthy held up a restaurant menu in the Senate in 1953 claiming it was a list of communists in the state department. Colin Powell related false information to the world for war profits at the UN in 2003. The Kuwaiti Emir\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s relatives (disguised)testified before Congress about mass rapes and babies thrown in the street (falsely) after the Kuwait invasion in 1991. Ambassador April Glasbe (on news footage)can plainly be heard telling Saddam Hussein it would be OK with Daddy Bush to annex Kuwait (1990). She was soon replaced by Joe Wilson who later disputed the evidence Powell presented. The worst lies were told in connection with the dismemberment of Yugoslavia during Clinton\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s reign. Wes Clark was the war criminal there. Don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t mention poor old demented Reagan who had Alzheimer\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s before he started and presided over Daddy B\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s crimes, especially Iran-Contra and the looting of our Savings and Loan system. I don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t know how we can get the truth out that big corporations need war, chaos, uncertainty, terror, scarcity, consumer debt and labor slavery to maximize profit. Their GATT and NAFTA override any laws passed here and set us competing against Chinese, African, Melanesian and Amerindian slave labor. They are still ruining the natural environment and killing indigenous populations around the world. How do wage workers and computer techs do anything about that? I think the only thing we can do is be kind and careful close to home. Maybe this site is a humane outlet for people to talk about what positive, peaceful and responsible things they can do. If you\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'ve been in Stanley you know I\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'m trying to start a folk school using handicrafts and local independent media as a seed strategy. I also grow an organic vegetable garden behind my house. If I could afford them I\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'d buy some solar panels (now mostly from China) and hook them up. I will try not to buy any more new cars, just use up the little old half worn out ones. That saves many times as much as a Priius and keeps me debt free. (Your debt keeps you from being free. Rev. James Dobson is a woman- hating fascist but he is right about that one.) If you decide to vote (Register and locate your poll site ahead of time) support those who promise (may be liers) to end war in Iraq. The Democrats and Republicans are corporate controlled. We need real parties with different programs. Heck fire! We need a new country, maybe 8 or 10. All should void corporate charters. Let Home Depot, Halliburton, Blackwater and Walmart die of natural causes: no business. Then we can restore community commerce within a commons (square, parks, public halls) and have a forum for ideas (actual town meetings without developers, magnates, \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"experts\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" and lawyers in charge). I\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'ll try and tell people about this site. I think some of us are afraid to speak in public. Others don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t know what they think until they get their script at work or from TV, or some nutso site. I do extensive reading and research but am prepared to be proven wrong and change my mind. I was rejected to comment on your blog repeatedly after refreshing several times. That could also be a problem for participation
{mospagebreak} Patriotic Benchmarks My mother is a WWII atomic veteran. She actually gets sick each year as the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Japan comes in early August. She doesn’t expect your thanks for her service. Would you thank the young women helping refine uranium in the hills of Iran? She has always advised her children and other young people to avoid military service and war industry employment. WWII is viewed as unavoidable “just war” though my mom has her doubts. “Some of our Wall Street brokers helped Hitler get started,” she tells me. War is neither a ball game nor a car race, though the same voices and mannerisms are used to describe it on TV. Lately we hear on the news about “the benchmarks for success in Iraq.” Mom’s guess is that the profit statements of the war contractors and arms suppliers represent the most important benchmark. This war, like Vietnam, is more profitably dragged on than won. All the beneficiaries knew from the start it could never be won, except financially. Who will care if the Iraqis have no education, no agriculture, no industries and no democracy after the big oil companies control the two major oil fields? It will be good for entrepreneurship because of inflated prices for scarce necessities in a devastated environment. Some of their better educated may have to emigrate here and drive down salaries. She and I agree the “war on terror” is also a war against our rights and freedoms. For instance, endless war without our consent means endless taxation, and is a greater abuse than the British tax on imports which allegedly sparked the Revolutionary War. Don’t let government officials claim to be powerless as concerns our needs. They are the masters of setting corporate business power over us. That is a worse tyranny than any sent by King George III. Aren’t you tired of watching our unresponsive government advocate “democracy” by bankrolling capitalist extremist minority parties in weakened countries like Lebanon, Colombia, the former Yugoslavia and especially Israel? In that last case you’d think we were a nation of violent Christian Zionists eager for Armageddon. Human welfare, the environment and fairness always come second to global trade agreements. Any policy model that contradicts the wealthy getting richer at the expense of those who work, and those who can’t, seems intolerable to these Neo-liberals in a New American Century. There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Hillary Clinton and Liddy Dole. They feed at the same corporate trough. That’s why we can’t get an efficient single payer healthcare system or have the peace we are demanding. “We the People…” have different benchmarks than the “Big Man.” What did your mama teach you? Jack W. Martin . Editors:
Sitting in the fifties at Ham's. In Rocky Mount NC, Thursday night there is live music here. From the bar the guitar string are smoking hot with the latest Songs from the last ten years. I came out tonight to sit and talk with my sister. Her name is Kellie. I have always been worried that we would not have a good relationship. I try to speed time with her more often now. I am nearing the 31 years of age. I want and have great expectations for my and my family, My sons ( starting a business that they will take over) and my sister that i can have her in a business and so on and on. As I am sitting in the side area here in what is called the 50's. I watch the people come and go. Do they realize that the fifty year mark is nearing all of us one day. Often I wonder if they are aspiring to achieve what is have in mind. You would have to have allot of background information on my and my family to understand the passions of mine to archive more than my grandparent's, and not my parents. At the age of 13 I left my mother and father to live with Grannie Mae and Grandpa Percy. The parental units were more child like and silly in a way than I was at that age. I was in adult mode when I should have been having fun with other kids. It was hard for me to feel socially accepted by others during the larger part of my Youth. So going to live with my Best friends, Yes the Grandparents were my best friends. My mom's mother Beulah Hodges was my spiritual guide of sorts. I was active in the Church of God with her most times the church was open. For months at the time I would go live at her house. Though there was allot less of a house and wealth there. Her love for my filled my life. In 2001 on her death bed she summed up what she thought about my the night before she passed to the other side. She said when she opened her eyes for a moment to see that I was there " You are the Apple of my Eye" . This made me feel so loved. I knew then I was about to be on my own. With out her for good. She had done here part to express and teach her wisdom for 20 years of my life. Earlier that year i had lost Percy to the other side and this nearly crushed me. I had lost my two best friends. I am still here in the 50's listing to the music its 11:26 and they are going to close up in 30 min. I will writ more tomorrow till then latter. Cheers, Michael Frazier
I think that the site is doing really well to be a few weeks old. We have a huge possible area for growth. Stan said he would email the lady that had a poem site and see if they would come and join our site and get to posting really great new stuff. This site Lifepinions.com has a huge potential to help people from all walks of life grow and express them selves. This is just the dawn of a new error for Lifepinions.com and websites like it. Watch us start to dominate the media and news press. Its not what the huge media organizations think about the news, its us small time real life organizations that will peak the mountain top with more creative new prospectives for our world that is around us. This is the opportunity that civilizations have always needed. Free open source news and opinion outlet. Posting of real news from real people. Real videos clips from everyday life from all over the planet. Do me a personal favor? Please find a new member to join and start posting their ideas. Help others by helping each other and your self. Take part in the only movement or war that will matter in 100 years. The molding of the human race to see that all the wars and strife is limiting us as a race of beings. That when we start to really learn how others think and, more understanding we could get allot further in life by helping others. Hey all it takes is one more good set of ears ! Listen human race LifePinions.com is speaking... Cheers, Michael Frazier
Wanted to say thanks to the site Admin. for a user friendly site, where we can come together and share pinions. Nice work so far! Looking forward to seeing more content from the members.
Welcome to LifePinions.com This is the first post to the site. We have worked all night to get the Forum, Blog, Community Builder, and Joomla installed in here. This is going to be far easier for most users to make postings to the site. Its laid out so they can join and post just like a blog would be. I am hoping this will be a great improvement. Have fun, Michael Frazier
