I say: Listen to the original.

earlobe @ 111

The sole reason I voted for George W. Bush in 2000 and again in 2004 is that he is not Adolf Hitler.

But if Hitler had been running…..?

He was the kind of guy who liked to spend an evening at a beer hall!

I found this book of hers fit into my mindfullness practice. I just grab it, wherever I am, open it to a page, and amazingly it provides some centering quality to the day… every time, even if just for a moment.

http://www.amazon.com/Transiti…..87-5012033

My “fun” mainly centers around music. Guitar right now. I highly recommend playing a musical instrument as a high comfort and joy factor activity. It requires your full attention, in the moment, and has a “pay off” over time. Its a personal private time activity, plus a community gathering activity.

Great ‘tube, btw. :-)

Good afternoon, all.

It’s getting cold in Massachusetts. I was shopping for a snowblower this morning, but held off buying for now due to the high prices (and bulky designs).

Then I happened across this wheeled shovel (the ‘wovel’) website just now and wondered if any of you have any experience with one?

http://www.wovel.com

Per the website claims, this human-powered (no motor noise or air pollution is a plus), wheeled snowshovel is 3x faster than a traditional snow shovel in clearing a driveway, and it is safer for the back.

An eco-friendly, quiet shovel that quickly clears driveways of 2 feet of snow and at the same time provides safe exercise?
Hoping this is true.

Haven’t seen that one! I like the lifting action but my drive is quite an slope so it looks like it take many trips to flick the snow. I use a scoop, throw, salt, step technology on the slope…. but I confess I now just pay the neighborhood kids when they come a knockin’with their shovels. Last year they had this slidey-scoop and were done in 10 minutes of about 15 inches of snow. Little smarties!!! :D

http://www.amazon.com/Suncast-…..B000A1CENK

Now I have these “Get-A-Grip”s for my shoes. LOVE them. No more surprise smoochin’ the driveway for me!
http://cozywinters.com/shop/gag-ultra.html

Interesting design on the wovel though! I’ll keep an eye out for those this year. :-)

I have to say that I found this latest betrayal by the Democratic Party really disheartening. If it isn’t Reid and Pelosi, it’s Feinstein and Schumer. A President with job approval ratings in the 20s and they can’t stand up to him or for us on anything. It is like they frame issues to make themselves look as weak as possible.

Take the Mukasey nomination. Leahy said he wouldn’t bring up any nomination until the Administration coughed up the documents it had been holding back. He caved. Then without proper vetting of Mukasey, they go all gushy over him. In hearings, he doesn’t answer any of their questions but makes it plain that he believes as much in Presidential dictatorship as George Bush and Dick Cheney do. He can’t even answer a simple question about torture. So they ask him in writing and threaten not to approve his nomination unless he answers what should be for any decent person, let alone an Attorney General nominee, a nobrainer on torture. He doesn’t and their response is for Schumer and Feinstein representing the pro-torture wing of the Democratic Party to say they will vote for him anyway.

What is so frustrating is that the Democrats’ cowardice is not a single event but one stacked on top of another.

We may have to stay with them until the November election but after that we should give serious consideration in the following 4 years to breaking away and the establishment of a progressive party because let’s face it even with Democrats in control corporatists and yahoos like Schumer and Feinstein are going to be calling the shots and they clearly don’t represent us at all.

Hugh–well said. Good point with the juxtaposition of Police State Bush with a record low job approval and the backbone of a jelly fish Dems who are his complete slaves talking tough once in a while but voting with him every time like the complete hypocritical unprincipled pansy asses they are.

That tired old argument that they don’t have the votes to override a veto doesn’t hold up with their complete capitulation on Mukasey and Telco Immunity and warantless wiretapping for all calls and emails all the time not to mention the countless data bases of your personal information matrixed out the wazoo and leaked out the wazoo by incompetent bureaucrats.

A couple of decent books:

Richard North Patternson’s Exile

a fun page turner with courtroom drama by a lawyer with a very well researched account of the Middle East tinderbox woven in

Also

Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror

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Yes it’s an easy read, and it’s not preachy at all. I like how he presents his information in a rational voice. I like the challenge it presents, and I look forward to applying it my life.

Thank you for the info about Nada Himilaya. I’ll have to look for that CD.

Christy/Jane(nyc) I have my Mom’s measuring spoons on my kitchen wall and metal picture frame around them in honor of all the great things she taught to me make, and the all the great meals she cooked for friends and family.

I read to understand what is going on in the world and the more I learn, the more upset I get. Still, I’ve become a far more sophisticated consumer of news, better informed and more active communicating with my federal reps in the house and senate. I go to the Y daily to exercise and “play” basketball thursdays night. PLAY is so important. That reminds me, I should go to the gym today. It closes at 6.

RINGO

He was there with Barbara Bach, sitting a few rows behind me. The sound of his voice was like hearing a very, very old childhood friend who I hadn’t seen in eons. It was like a dream. I was too overwhelmed to go near him. He watched Eddie Vedder — who sang “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away” at one point — with great enthusiasm.

Anyhoo, Into the Wild is not to be missed.

It’s getting cold in Massachusetts. I was shopping for a snowblower this morning, but held off buying for now due to the high prices (and bulky designs).

Then I happened across this wheeled shovel (the ‘wovel’) website just now and wondered if any of you have any experience with one?

http://www.wovel.com

Per the website claims, this human-powered (no motor noise or air pollution is a plus), wheeled snowshovel is 3x faster than a traditional snow shovel in clearing a driveway, and it is safer for the back.

An eco-friendly, quiet shovel that quickly clears driveways of 2 feet of snow and at the same time provides safe exercise?
Hoping this is true.

I try to get a little perspective on things. I haven’t liked a lot of the news lately, but it’s far better than a short while back, when we still had Tom Delay and Bill Frist in power and the majority of the public supporting Bush and the Iraq War. So, there is some reason for renewed hope in democracy, although we have many subversions to overcome.

Otherwise, there is fall foliage and delightful weather, good books to read, music, and hobbies.

I agree. We really need to thank “W” for his aberrant behavior that has led to the greatest liberal come back in history. Eight years of George Bush = twenty years for the rule of the Democratic Party!!

Phyllis