we always think our home city unique, but when i tried to see how far we were from cleveland, the website wanted to know which of 19 clevelands i was referring to. there’s clevelands in alabama, arkansas, georgia, minnesota, mississippi, missouri, new mexico, new york, north carolina, north dakota, ohio, oklahoma, south carolina, tennessee, texas, utah, virginia, west virginia, and wisconsin.
turns out we’re 4,135 miles ( 6,655 kilometers ) from cleveland, ohio, usa. we’re 536 miles west of where we were last week in croatia – but it took 2 cars, 1 bus, 5 trains, 10 towns, 33 hours, and 820 miles of traveling to get these 536 miles further west.
i’m a list maker, a fact storer, an item analyzer, a component comparer, a segment sequencer. i take bits and pieces of found reality and juggle them into truthful cohesiveness. figure if i get enough facts, enough clues, i can get a handle on what is, or isn’t.
 and there’s an awful lot of isn’t which people insist is.
speaking of isn’t
welcome to the neo-con, same as the old con. seems bush’s iraq war escalation of 20,000 troops really means 40,000 more soldiers because – he says – those 20,000 fighting troops require another 20,000 troops to support them. the lies never cease.
how do you know if the cheney-bush beast is lying? answer – they’re breathing. how do you know if the cheney-bush beast is committing murder, treason, theft and terrorism? answer – they’re still breathing. the cheney-bush beast doesn’t have to open its mouth to lie, cheat, steal, murder, terrorize – every breath they take deprives iraqi civilians and american soldiers of life. the far right’s killing folk right and left for no right at all. they could more accurately be labeled the far wrong. same with the religious right.
fundamentalist christians sure have a weird take on morality, because killing in the name of god – whether your god is some old testicle psycho or the new god of oil – is evil. i do hope the religious wrong’s version of hell does exist, so that they can all receive their just deserts and go to hell when they die.
do as you would be done is the whole of the law. may we all reap what we sow.
the sad and evil – 3 news excerpts we all would rather not know:
The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world’s population…
In Haiti, workers are paid 11 cents an hour by corporate giants such as Disney, Wal-Mart, and J.C. Penny. The United States is one of the few countries that has refused to sign an international convention for the abolition of child labor and forced labor. This position stems from the child labor practices of U.S. corporations throughout the Third World and within the United States itself, where children as young as 12 suffer high rates of injuries and fatalities, and are often paid less than the minimum wage…
In 1990, shoes made by Indonesian children working twelve-hour days for 13 cents an hour, cost only $2.60 but still sold for $100 or more in the United States.
the 3 quotes above come from a feb 17, 2007 publication by commondreams.org. you can read the complete article ( Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World by Michael Parenti ) at http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0216-30.htm – but i’m warning you, it’s pretty depressing evil stuff.
