http://openspoken.com/2007/6/6…..-to-change

I don’t want to watch the news
Cause I’ll see how much we’ll lose,
So I’m tired of waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change.
Tired of waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change.

Now when I get together with my girl,
We can put aside our fear,
But then I look around and remember,
That this is all for real,
And I get tired of waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change.
Tired of waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change.

I often think it’s not worth trying,
And we’ll argue who to blame.
But I remember the children crying,
And we should rise above the shame,
So I can’t keep waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change.
Can’t keep waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change.

You’ve got to get up in the morning,
And think you’re gonna make a difference,
Otherwise its just subsistence,
And we’ll huddle in the rain.
You gotta be working, working, working on the world to change.
You gotta be working, working, working on the world to change.

Yeah, I want my girl and I to be happy,
Without closing our eyes to the rest,
Then we’re got to pull together and,
This is what we will profess:
We’re gonna be working, working, working on the world to change.
We’re gonna be working, working, working on the world to change.

If you can just join me in saying,
When you’re done with all the playing,
We’re gonna be working, working, working on the world to change.
Yeah, all gonna be working, working, working on the world to change.
Working on the world to change. Working on the world to change…

2007 Neil Bates (modified)

rwcole @17:

Actually, if you read the current language in the oil lease bill, those leases are not guaranteed to go to the US Oil Companies.

So we may have killed hundreds of thousands of people, theirs and ours, spent billions of dollars, and still have nothing to show for it.

The Iraqi lawmaker expressed belief that U.S. and British companies would be the only beneficiaries from the law if it was passed under the deteriorating security situation currently prevailed in Iraq.

“Only U.S. and British companies will be able to strike deals with the Iraqi government since their troops are still deployed in Iraq,” al-Hiyali said.

http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_a…..icle/17770

Gates, through the BBC two nights ago, and from Kurdistan “reminded” Iraqi Parliament that they missed their May 31 benchmark to pass this bill. It most definitely favors US & British interests, and is IMO the only reason we have ever been in Iraq.

I’ve seen this account before and I think it’s also in “Non-violent Resistance.” I’ll have to look it up. Any excuse to re-read Gandhi. Learn something new every time. Many of his other writings are online, which is really nice.

My favourite quote of all is, “I will believe violence will overcome violence when you can convince me that darkness will overcome darkness.”

Peace

Never give up.

Petrocelli @ 114

Lay it on me.

Well, I am not old enough to have met the Mahatma … I heard it from a wise man in India …
There was a boy who would not listen to his mother. He would eat sweets all the time, and no matter what she said, he wouldn’t stop.
She decided that the only person he would listen to, is Bapu (Gandhi). So she walked several miles to his home with the boy.
Smiling, she bowed to him and said, “Bapuji … I’ve come from several miles away and I have a request.”
He nodded and she went on, “Bapuji, this boy eats sweets all the time, and no matter how many times I tell him to stop, he wouldn’t listen. I know if you tell him, he will listen … please tell him to stop eating sweets.”
Gandhi listened quietly, nodding, then said, “Bring him back in one week.”
She bowed and taking the boy’s hand, returned to her village.
For 6 days, she thought about all the things the Mahatma might be planning to tell her son.
On the 7th day, she told the boy, “Come, we have to go to Bapuji.” All the way there, she kept telling him … just see … he is going to give you a good talking to … he is a great speaker and will tell you lots of wise and important things, so listen carefully.”
Finally, they arrive. Bapuji is sitting in his usual place, in front of his home.
She bowed to him and said, “Bapuji, I was here one week ago and you told me to come back after 7 days … remember?”
Gandhi nodded, looked at the boy and said, “Stop eating sweets!”
The boy nodded and Gandhi said, “Alright, you may go.”
The mother was dumbfounded … she had told him that they had to walk several miles, under a burning Sun to meet him and yet he told her to come back in 7 days.
She said, “Bapuji, I had to come from so far … why could you not tell him this last week?”
Gandhi replied, “First, I had to stop eating sweets!”

Bob at 111 — Haven’t seen him for a coupla days. Maybe vacation?

Ah! If so, he picked a good time to be “out of town”!

Bob in HI

Bob-
Well he can’t take it with him can he?

I know that his behavior makes some suspicious that he will try to cancel the elections or some such- but that REALLY ain’t gonna fly-

Well, right now Bush has the power to declare a national emergency, without consulting Congress. And he also has the authority to declare martial law. Just last Month, he signed two Presidential Directives to that effect, and a little known clause in the Military Budget passed by Congress last fall gives him the right to declare martial law. Do you have any doubt that he can rationalize “suspending” democracy in order to “save” it? Of course, there would need to be an “emergency,” but those can be manufactured– not just in movies (Wag the Dog), but in real life (e.g., the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, not to mention the current AUMF.)

he would at least need the army on his side- and he doesn’t have it. You think they’re gonna risk everything in order to keep this idiot in office? They HATE him.

Ah, but he has Blackwater. And the “National Guard,” which he can mobilize and move from one state to another, without asking the Governor, in an “emergency.” Do you recall that he deployed some of them in New Orleans after Katrina? Maybe that was a test run.

Sure treaties are only worth the paper they’re written on and the guns that back em- but we’ve got a lot of guns.

Treaties are recognized as legitimate only to the extent that the signatories are recognized as legitimate. What happens if we leave Iraq, or withdraw to our string of fortresses, and the current gov’t of Iraq collapses, and is replaced, say, by the Sadr Militia, and Bani Sadr seizes power. Do you think he’s going to recognize those treaties?

BushCo & the Four Horsemen have already demonstrated a preference for thinking “outside of the box”– indeed, they seem to have some contempt for the box itself. Bush has already stated, with some irritation, that the Constitution is just a piece of paper.

As you can see, I’m actually a bit jittery about a peaceful transfer of power in January 2009. I do not trust the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse at all. Not about anything. And I think we would be well advised to help our Congress critters consider how they are going to defend the Constitution if the going gets a bit rough.

Bob in HI

NRO’s new bloviating over demands for an immediate presidential pardon. Why is the NRO urging their own president to commit political murder-suicide for the entire rethug party?