Excellent! If you haven't watched it - WATCH IT!

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Than what would us apes do for fun?

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He helped get us out of Viet Nam and he says he would get us out of Iraq yesterday. Check him out at You Tube. He won the first Presidential debate hands down. Imagine a President we could actually be proud of.

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And every American who cares about other human beings should celebrate by protesting Bush's insane war of choice.

Hugh E. Scott, Vietnam veteran and the editor of King-George.biz, the only website with hardcopy proof of White House corruption.

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If you stand for peace you are a friend of mine. I guess we can add Mother's Day to the list of American Holidays that have been warped away from the original intent.

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I agree that cards and useless nick knacks or whatever are pointless wastes of money as gifts. However, women seem to prefer those over something more practical.

You can't place all the blame on the Hallmark industry. There is obviously a huge demand for these things.

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I am sending this to my entire email list. Initiatives of women can make serious impact on the carnage of the world, remember the Russian mothers who went to take their sons from active duty in Chechnea. What we need is a convocation of women to end this endless war!

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Is this just more of the sexist pap we got last week about women being some sort of avant guard of peace and environmental movements and if we had just had them in power instead of men we wouldn't have ever had any such problems.. nevermind women like Clinton, Thatcher, etc...

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I almost forgot it, which would have been a sin against my wife who is ready to give birth to our second child soon. thanks for reminding me to get my head out of work...

just thought though, as we celebrate motherhood. mothers have never been the problem, it's always been fathers that have sent us off to war (well, I consider thatcher the 'iron lady' more of a male anyways). if only we could encorporate a message of peace into fatherhood...

If only we could wake up daddy to the fact that agression and violence and aloof disdain for all those who stand resolved against it, are actually contravening the hidden code of fatherhood.

Having a child changed my life (of course it did!), and having a child during war awoke me to the responsability i have to all of my daughters brothers and sisters.

We are a collective of algae on a rock in the sea of space, and until father's accept that they are keepers of the rock, one rock for all, we are doomed as are our children (so many of them being put to the sword right now, it's hard not to despair)... I wish fathers were even half as aware of this as mother's...

maybe paternity leave should be considered more seriously by all those fathers out there that don't or haven't had the true experience of fatherhood.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY w

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that is an awesome idea,

a whole cluster of mother's looking for their son's in Iraq to bring them home would have a massive impact (i forgot about chechnya). i wish i knew how to organise this...

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video than expected. Anyone recall the 1984 Penthouse issue? Something of which a mother could truely be proud. Lucky for her it also contained a pictorial of the infamous starlet Traci Lords who at the time was only 16 (she had a fake id apparently) and so is no longer legally available in the USA.

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Mother's Day Manifesto: Not of Caesar, but of God!

The October 2006 edition of The Lancet, a British Medical Journal, concluded that 654,965 Iraqis, [about 500 people a day] have died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion on March 20, 2003. [1]



Nearly 4,000 Americans have also perished and the number of people dying in Iraq has risen on an annual basis.

Fifteen million U.S.A. tax dollars a day provide Israel the means to continue its 40 years of occupation of Palestine; while International Law states occupation is to be temporary.

"Every day, the U.S gives more than $7,023,288 to the Israeli government and military (and at least $108 billion since 1948), but provides nothing to the Palestinians…The indirect or consequential costs to the American taxpayer as a result of Washington’s blind support for Israel exceed by many times the amount of direct U.S. aid to Israel." [2]

...In 1999, the UN dedicated the first decade of the 21st century to Create a Culture of Nonviolence for All Children of The World.

On December 29, 2005, while I was in the Little Town of Bethlehem: Occupied Territory, attending a workshop sponsored by the United Network of Young Peace Builders [UNOY] the Netherlands Expertise Centre Alternatives to Violence informed this reporter that in regards to the United Nations Decade of Creating a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World, America abstained from voting YES and is on the record in the UN as stating:

"We cannot support this initiative as it will make it harder for us to wage war."

As the American government [Caesar?] is unable to support Peace and Nonviolence, it is delusional to imagine a culture of nonviolence becoming reality without the transformation of hearts and minds by those who hold political power.

Gandhi said that personal nonviolence is not much use to society until one weds society to political action.


It is not enough to speak TRUTH to power because power is deaf and doesn't care. We must imagine that we ourselves are but 'actors' in this drama we call life and when enough of us accept and then play our part in seeking peace in nonviolent solidarity as we pursue justice, human rights and international law: Caesar will once again fall...



The Rest:
WAWA Blog, May 12, 2007

http://www.wearewideawake.org/

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Mother's Day did not catch on until it started in Nazi Germany, in which women were honored for birthing the "right" kind of children. There were medals of honor for women with 8 or more future citizens, or children rather.

This was a government initiative, not something organized by women, and ultimately its goal was to bolster patriotism, the birth rate of the "master race," and to encourage women to raise patriotic children and to be patriotic themselves.

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Beyond the wrangling, the rhetoric, lies what everyone wants: a safe, sustainable world for all people. Every man, woman and child deserves this - it doesn't matter what your faith is, what color your skin is, where you call home. Peace is being created right now, through individual intention and actions. Happy Mother's Day to us all.

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Did her kids ever see the Playboy spread? Some teacher!!! We don't bisexual beauty queens to teach us.

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Re Julia Ward Howe and Mother's Day - I beg to differ. According to the May
issue of Smithsonian, it was not Julia Ward Howe but a Philadelphia spinster
named Anna Jarvis that founded Mother'sDay. And the day was not instituted in
Civil War times, but in 1914, when Congress made it official, following a seven-
year campaign by Jarvis and department story magnate John Wannamaker. Jarvis
had sworn at her mother's funeral in 1903 to dedicate herself to creating a
national holiday not to protest war, but to honor mothers everywhere.

Unfortunately, like everything else in a dollar-driven society such as ours,
commercialism jumped in right away and by 1923 Anna Jarvis disassociated
herself from the holiday and its attendant baggage, the "charlatans, bandits,
pirates, racketeers, kidnappers and other termites that would undermine with
their greed one of the finest, noblest, and truest movements and celebrations."
She continued until her death in 1948 to fight the rampant commercialism
attached to the day.

The only connection she had with any war movement was in 1925, when the Society
of American War Mothers erroneously stated at a ceremony at Arlington Cemetery
that the holiday had actually been conceived by a man. So strenuous was her
objection that she was arrested for disorderly conduct.

I'm all for protesting war, Iraq or any other. But you need to get your facts
straight if you want to maintain any credibility.

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My darling daughter, Autumn Rose, sent me the video as my Mother's day gift. I pray we all demand peace NOW!

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