The Other White Meat

Wrong Person Fired

Green fired after 3 losing seasons in desert

Coach was 16-32 during tenure; team will make eighth coaching search

After watching the horribly sad Cardinals come here from St. Louis back in the 80's and never being a fan, I tried this year to give them a chance. They said that they would be much better this year in their new stadium. They said that they'd be contenders. They sold out almost the whole season so I was not the only one tricked. The flipping team has only had one winning season amongst the last twenty-two seasons!!! The whole issue is the CHEAP BASTARD owner named Bill Bidwell who refuses to spend the amount of money necessary to get a winning team to have a winning season. Buck Bill Fidwell!!!

All the World's indeed a Stage...

Look what I got for Christmas this year!
A signed Platinum Album of Rush's 1976 release,
All The World's A Stage!!!

(Click it, the picture is HUGE!)

They got Osama bin Laden!!!

GUWAHATI, India - An elephant named “Osama bin Laden” that has killed 27 people in northeast India, has been shot dead, triggering protests by conservationists who say forestry officials had probably shot the wrong animal.

The 10-feet tall male elephant had been terrorizing villagers in Assam state for the past two years, destroying hundreds of homes and trampling scores of people -- prompting locals to name him after the elusive al-Qaida leader.

The animal was accused of killing 14 people in the past month.

A forestry official said on Sunday “Osama” had been shot dead on Saturday in a tea plantation on the outskirts of Behali town, about 90 miles north of Guwahati, Assam’s main city.

“The elephant was killed after villagers identified him,” a senior forestry official said, adding the animal could be identified because it had no tusks.

Despite efforts by local authorities to hunt him down, “Osama” had evaded them moving from place to place, hiding in forests and tea estates in the northern parts of Assam.

Sounds like an aptly named elephant...

Q

'nuf said.

An Honest Mistake

NOT!

Territories

Every group/country/religion thinks they are the only 'right' ones but they cannot all be 'right'.
We can all be right though, by accepting the truth where we find it.

We look back to the ancient religions of the planet and scoff at how they could have been so primitive. In 5000 years, I can only imagine our knowledge of the powers that be, will be much more enlightened and we will indeed become closer to God but God will not be the same diety that the different religions around the world view him/her as. We are all a part of this great universe. We are all entertwined and everything that happens to one of us happens to each of us. We need to come together and be there for one another, not allowing trivial things like religious orientation, or political views, or where we are on the planet, come between us.

We need to have our maps look like this:Rather than this:

Someday we will indeed be on the other side of the 'veil' and I will stand tall and be proud of the life I led and how I treated the people in my life. Treat everyone as your friend and you will have no enemies. I am afraid that some windshields have become in desperate need of some windex......even though this may not be the same way we would want to apply the windex nowadays.

Territories

I see the Middle Kingdom between Heaven and Earth
Like the Chinese call the country of their birth
We all figure that our homes are set above
Other people than the ones we know and love
In every place with a name
They play the same territorial game
Hiding behind the lines
Sending up warning signs

The whole wide world
An endless universe
Yet we keep looking through
The eyeglass in reverse
Don't feed the people
But we feed the machines
Can't really feel
What international means
In different circles, we keep holding our ground
In different circles, we keep spinning round and round

We see so many tribes overrun and undermined
While their invaders dream of lands they've left behind
Better people...better food...and better beer...
Why move around the world when Eden was so near?
The bosses get talking so tough
And if that wasn't evil enough
We get the drunken and passionate pride
Of the citizens along for the ride

They shoot without shame
In the name of a piece of dirt
For a change of accent
Or the colour of your shirt
Better the pride that resides In a citizen of the world
Than the pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled

My old bike...

Here is a shot of my FZR that I sold to help fund my move down here from Oregon.

Words of Wisdom

I believe it was the Roman Curtius Rufus who observed Alexander the Great, just as battle was about to begin, hike up his loin cloth and advise,

"Never pass up the opportunity to take a leak."

Turn the Page

How can anybody be enlightened?

Truth is, after all, so poorly lit...

Scared of that!!!

A creature that was found dead after apparently being hit by a car in Turner, Maine, is shown Saturday. For years, residents across Androscoggin County have reported seeing and hearing a mysterious animal with chilling monstrous cries and eyes that glow in the night. Now, residents are wondering if the animal found dead over the weekend may be the mysterious creature.

a good friend

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

My good friend up in Oregon, lost his son this last week due to complications during a surgery. His funeral was Wednesday and my mom was kind enough to go in my place to pay him respects. Thank you mom! Mike, stay strong for your family. Kaden, those signs to your mother mean everything to her...

Truth...

Sakka asked the Buddha: "Do different religious teachers head for the same goal or practice the same disciplines or aspire to the same thing?"

"No, Sakka, they do not. And why? This world is made up of myriad different states of being, and people adhere to one or another of these states and become tenaciously possessive of them, saying, 'This alone is true, everything else is false.' It is like a territory that they believe is theirs. So all religious teachers do not teach the same goal or the same discipline, nor do they aspire to the same thing.

"But if you find truth in any religion or philosophy, then accept that truth without prejudice."

All in the Family

Internal peace is an essential first step to achieving peace in the world. How do you cultivate it? It's very simple. In the first place by realizing clearly that all mankind is one, that human beings in every country are members of one and the same family.

-the Dalai Lama

(I will have to admit this includes George W Bush)

Not thinking about anything is zen.
Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, lying down,
everything you do is zen.
To know that the mind is empty is to see the Buddha...
Using the mind to look for reality is delusion.
Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness.
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

The Fountain of Lamneth

Now at last I fall before the Fountain of Lamneth. I thought I would be singing but I'm tired, out of breath. Many journeys end here but the secret's told the same. Life is just a candle and the dream must give it flame.

I was looking for the answer but the journey is the answer...

Here all along

I like PostSecret. You can relate to at least one every week...

Just look at the numbers...

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