The Wise Buddha-hahahaha

Why Is Life So Weird? Or Is It Just Me? Pass The Chartreuse And Let The "Truth Serum" Flow!

Dear Pals,

Does the world today seem completely upside down and/or off track to you?

Or is it just me? Maybe I'm just out of sync with the new reality. 

It seems like everyday I'm astounded by some new development in this "Giddy-up-Whoa!" world.

It's like the lyrics from the old songs, "First you say you do and then you don't. Then you say you will and then you won't," or "You say TOMato and I say toMAHto...let's call the whole thing off."

Am I the weird one?

Or, the wired one?

Could my life be just one big cosmic typo?

Did I step unawares through a time portal into a bizarre parallel universe?

Maybe World War Z isn't a novel after all.

Maybe Max Brooks is really onto something in his Oral History Of The Zombie War. 

Or, maybe it's just an odd feeling that Lady Sychronicity has pulled me down a bewildering rabbit hole and I've tumbled out into a Brave New American World where up is down, in is out and the inmates really are running the asylum.

Before I join the "American Boat People" who are rowing to Cuba for safety and escape from the walking dead...please feel free to weigh in on this topic.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic and a Mob of One

PS:  I think I hear the "High Lonesome" of the Wasatch calling me.

I'm beginning to understand the attraction of silence and solitude and why the Mountain Men of yore preferred the clean crisp air of the high Sierras to the confusing and confused company of citified men and women in flatland society.

As much as I love the romantic notion of following James Taylor's suggestion to "Slap leather and head for the line of trees," I'm not the Marlboro Man and I'd probably be The Big Birk on the McGrizzley menu by dark.

So is there another option to enduring the Le Monde Circque de Jour?

Hmmm...maybe I'll shave my head and join the Carthusian Monks near Grenoble and devote my remaining days to making Chartreuse and sampling it. Even I can gather and distill mountain herbs!

Chartreuse is truly something very special...especially the green variety. With a glass or two, I could take a mind-freeing trip to the outer fringes of the galaxy without ever leaving my cell in the monastery.

After all, if you're not free in your mind...where indeed are you free?

Now there's a question worth pondering.

Was The Ft. Hood "Alleged" Shooter Just A Quiet, Studious, Sensitive, Intelligent "Persecuted Victim" Trying To Get Along In The Evil Country Where He Was Born? Or Was He A Member Of "The Muslim Mafia" aka The Moslem Brotherhood?

Dear Pals,

If you do NOTHING else today go out and get the book The Muslim Mafia by Paul Sperry and P. Dave Gaubatz and learn about CAIR, the Council On American Islamic Relations and its NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that are front groups used to funnel millions of dollars from our little pals in Saudia Arabia right into the hands of terrorists inside the USA.

This isn't Islamaphobia...it's true and they can back it up.

Every American needs to get the facts: www.muslimmafia.com

When you discover who the authors of The Muslim Mafia are - you will be impressed by them, their credentials, top security clearances, service to our Nation and most of all by their personal courage!

You won't hear about this in the Lamestream media because it is politically incorrect.

The Muslim Mafia documents, in excruciating detail, the work of Special Ops Investigators, who infiltrated the ranks of CAIR and then collected extensive documentation on its plans to Islamisize America through a myriad of front groups and sleeper organizations.

As the author said in a recent radio interview, "The alarming CAIR revelations look like ACORN on steroids...but, with far direr consequences."

Read the Oath of the Muslim Brotherhood on the book's jacket and you'll understand the scope and scale to the threat posed by The Muslim Brotherhood to our Nation, our freedoms and our Judeo-Christian heritage.

Get the facts...think for yourself.

Then tell all your friends so they too can get educated on The Moslem Brotherhood's plans for you and me and all Americans.

I'm recommending this book without any compensation or remuneration whatsoever - just in case anyone in the White House office of Politically Correct Speech and Thinking was wondering about that.

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Now here's some spin on this "alleged" murderer from msnbc.

Get a barf bag before you read this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33737596/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?gt1=43001

What a sweet guy...he gave away broccolli and copies of the Quran/Koran before he went off and tried to kill 42 innocent people who were his own countrymen and fellow soldiers.

What's wrong with this picture? How stupid do they think we are?

Can you believe the headline and the appologist tripe and drivel that is being spun here??

"He gave away broccolli..."

Under a prior administration, that may have qualified as hate speech because former President George H.W. Bush hates broccolli

Here's the headline and subhead that should have been written.

U.S. born Moslem Army Major Murders 13. He reportedly fired over 100 rounds because was trying to kill 42...and he would have, if he had not been stopped by a brave civilian police officer, who happened to be a female, with real guts and firepower.

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WHY, oh why oh why did he do it? 

Come let us gather in a media circle and wring our "politically-correct-blame-America" hands.

"Alledgely" this native born U.S. citizen, physician (healer) was theologically-opposed to being sent overseas to participate in America's war in Afghanistan because that would mean he was helping to kill his fellow Moslems.

So the logical conclusion in his Moslem-belief system mind was to kill as many of his fellow American soldiers as possible. It all makes perfect sense from his self-concept and from The Moslem Brotherhood's worldview.

The next thing you know, he'll be being praised for "following his conscience" and not simply "following orders" like the Nazi doctors did in WWII.

Trust me, that analogy will be forthcoming.

Just watch and mark my words, Major Hasan will be painted as an altrusitic innocent and devout Moslem locked in an intractable moral and religious conflict with his own beloved homeland, the U.S.A., a.k.a. "The Great Satan."

As for his actions in killing 13 people and attempting to kill a total of 42...why, it was the only thing he could do? Going AWOL, desertion, getting a Section 8 or resignation of his commission on conscientious-objector grounds were not viable options for him.

Oh me! Oh my! Alas, alack and forsooth...can you imagine the anguish of this poor devout Moslem?

LOOK AMIGOS:

This guy is not an "isolated crazy."

He isn't some mentally-ill person who "just snapped"

He is not crazy at all.

He is a fully-indoctrinated lifelong devout Moslem...he's a true believer.

He is just like the well-educated and seemingly normal Moslem physicians in England, who lived and worked there for years and then one day got up and drove explosive-laden SUVs into a Scottish Airport.

He is just like the 911 terrorists, who were well-educated young Moslem men with advanced college degrees. He is just like the London bus bombers and the Madrid train bombers and the bombers who blew the PanAm plane up over Lockerbie.

And, yes dear friends, he is just like the murdering Moslems who killed the Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich and the other cowardly hooded-murderers who beheaded a Wall Street Journal reporter, tortured and mutilated captured US servicemen and even, in a moment of masked-Moslem bravado,threatened a defenseless captured American woman for the pleasure of Al-Jeezeerah's viewers.

If Major Hasan wasn't a card-carrying member in good standing of The Moslem Brotherhood, he certainly appears to have been a "mind-carrying member" of the principles that are so clearly stated in the Oath Of The Moslem Brotherhood.

His "religion" means "surrender to god" - parenthetically, that means - surrender to the Moslem version and vision of god or else you infidels will be put to the sword!

BUT AREN'T MILLIONS OF MOSLEMS GOOD PEOPLE? 

Aren't many Moslems currently honorably serving in the U.S. Military?

Those are excellent questions.

Can you answer them with certainty?

Without any reservations?

How many "Major Hasans" are there?

How about this little tidbit from the author of The Moslem Mafia?

Did you know that 11 out of 14 current Muslim Chaplins in the US Army were trained at the CAIR-funded school outside of Washington, D.C?

A school that teaches how to Islamisize America.

Hmmm...probably just a coincidence.

Right...

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TIME FOR MORE "MOSLEM VICTIM" SPIN!

The Major's own nephew and family MEDIA spokesman has been all over the Tube saying his uncle was a "good American."

But...here come's the BUT, the very big guilt-shifting politically correct BUT.

But, he was "harrassed just for being a devout Moslem."

To that I say: Bravo Sierra!

It looks more like this "alleged" murderer unashamedly used the U.S. Military system to suit his own personal ends.

And, I'll bet you a delicious, mouth-watering savory-roasted bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin from an "unclean swine" that Major Hasan's actions at Ft. Hood were just the culmination of a long and calculated process of his own personal brand of Moslem Brotherhood-style infiltration.

It is not uncommon for Moslems to move into a nation or community and Iive peacefully among the native infidels until they are strong enough to strike. It is their history and it also a well-documented tactic of The Muslim Brotherhood.

It is classic 5th Column work.

Think I'm kidding?

Ask the French, Germans, Dutch, Danes and English about how well Moslem infiltration works. Google: death of Van Gogh's descendant. Or, Google: Moslem death threats on Danish cartoonists...or call Salmon Rushdie.

Moslems actually use the religious tolerance of free Judeo-Christian nations against the host nation's culture and its educational, political and legal institutions.

To be a true Moslem means it's their way or the die way.

Read the Oath Of The Muslim Brotherhood.

The Islamization of Europe is almost fait accompli.

Charles Martel must be rolling in his grave.

If you want to learn about infiltration, intimidation, harrassment and persecution...read Moslem history. They are past masters of the art of infiltration, intimidation, harrassment and persecution of Jews, Christians, Hindus, Lebanese Christians and anyone else who doesn't "surrender."

Moslem history is one story of blood-soaked conquest and one ruthless murderous event after another. Read what happened to the 10,000 men of Medina when they laid down their arms and "surrendered to god."

Read Moslem history.

Get the facts!

AND then explain to me how anyone can be a good, peace-loving, freedom-loving, well-educated tolerant civilized person in the 21st Century and still subscribe to the beliefs of a"religion" that teaches that killing non-believers/infidels is okay with their god and that their god says it's okay to commit honor killings of girls and to treats women like chattel.

Do the women of the world like being perpetual second class citizens, unschooled and kept from having full and expressive lives?

Moslems even have their own complete constitution and legal system called Shariah Law. Trust me pals, it isn't based on The Magna Carta or The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights either. Devout Moslems believe it supercedes ALL OTHER LAWS.

I think it's high time to fully engage all Moslems in a serious discussion of theological ideas, principles, logic, ethical morality and plain old common sense.

Let's have no more namby-pamby political correctness...it's time to confront and challenge the validity of their core beliefs head-on with rock solid arguments.

Make it into a TV series and air it on National GEO or the History Channel. Broadcast it 24-7-365 into the Moslem world. Put it on the Internet in streaming video for all to see.

Make it like Radio Free Europe and the Voice Of America...call it:

THE VOICE OF SANITY: THE ULTIMATE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF HUMANITY AND CIVILIZATION!

It's the Torah, New Testament and Holy Bible vs The Koran/Quran and the supporting Moslem texts.

It's Judeo-Christianity's Almighty God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit vs Islam's Allah and the Prophet Mohammed and The Moslem Brotherhood.

It's "Love thy neighbor" vs. "Slay thy neighbor."

Let's shine the BRIGHT LIGHT of human knowledge and truth into the darkness.

Let's focus forceful debate and solid rational counterpoints on the teachings of the Koran/Quran and the other supporting Moslem texts.

Let's see how the Moslem worldview and the Judeo-Christian worldview compare.

I'd also include the Hindus and the followers of Buddha and the Tao in the process to fairly represent all the leading schools of religious, ethical and moral thought.

Let's see how Islam stands up to Truth and Logic and Reason and Love.

Personally, as a subscriber to the Judeo-Christian tradition, I'm putting my money on the Holy One of Isreal, the God of Abraham, Solomon and David and on Christianity's Holy Trinity.

Put me down on the side of LOVE THE LORD THY GOD with thy whole heart and soul and LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.

Because on these two commandments, "hang all the laws and the prophets."

We cannot be cowed to silence by political correctness any longer. It's way past time for Judeo-Christian Americans to stand up for our one nation under God with liberty and justice for all. 

But, I have to admit that these days, it's really hard to forgive seventy-times seven and to turn the other cheek.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citzen Of The Republic, A Mob Of One

PS: In the meantime, let's hope to be spared any more sappy broccoli-coated media stories on this "alleged" killer.

Say, I wonder if Osama bin Laden and the Iranian Muslim leader, Amabinijhad like broccolli too?

Personally, I'm swearing off broccolli until further information on its potential harmful side effects come in from the food police at the FDA. 

Broccolli...who knows, it may be one dangerous mind-altering murder-causing veggie.

What are the writers at msnbc smoking???

Pass the hashhish hookah willya?

 Ahhh...this is good shit, man.

Where'dya get it dude, California, Colorado or msnbc?

Here Is A Box Of DOTS That Will Blow Obama's Recession Recovery Sky High. Here Comes Dow 5000! Put On Your Depends And Read On, If You Dare.

Dear Pals,

I really do hope I'm wrong about all that I've written here.

Here are the DOTs in the sugar-coated box from The Candyman.

DOT ONE: The US Dollar is falling in value...wheeee!

DOT TWO: The 3.5% Q3 GDP growth is a highly manipulated number - it's totally bogus, because of Cash For Clunkers, cash for first time home buyers and a rise in exports due to the devalued dollar.

DOT THREE: The Fed closed 9 more banks on Friday - despite the influx of TARP funds, banks all across the USA are in disarray financially. There are more to come.

DOT FOUR: TARP funds will not be used by banks to lend to small businesses - instead these TARP funds are being used as "loan loss" reserves on bank balance sheets to cover the risky loans they made in the past, for which they did not reserve enough capital to cover, if the loan went bad. Bank stock values have dropped faster than a hooker's undies and are likely to stay down. ( There is some irony in that analogy! )

DOT FIVE: States are cutting back on staff - 700 state workers lost their jobs in Missouri just this Friday. Why? Declining tax revenues.

DOT SIX: States are slashing budgets, Missouri has to cut another $100 million - some of it out of heretofore sacred Medicare. What's next? The Governor's jet?

DOT SEVEN: Unemployment is currently stated at 10% - right...do you believe that?

DOT EIGHT: Underemployment is an uncountable number...are you fully-employed and getting paid what you're worth? I'm currently getting paid zero. Am I underemployed? Or, am I getting paid what I'm worth?

DOT NINE: Tax revenue is falling like a rock in state after state after state after state...

DOT TEN: State reserves and "rainy day" funds across the USA are gone or evaporating fast

DOT ELEVEN: Commercial real estate loans on bank books are extremely troubled as occupancy and rent revenues plummet. REITs ain't what they used to be. Just count the FOR LEASE signs as you drive around. Or ask my pal "Tom The Torch."

DOT TWELVE: Banks can't find capital to cover deposit liabilties and the FDIC had to do a capital call to have member banks send cash to replenish the FDIC funds used to cover consumer accounts in failing banks.

And when the FDIC says, "Send the dough." The banks bloody-well send it mucho pronto!

DOT THIRTEEN: Consumer confidence is plummeting - no sane person believes anything the politicians are peddling...the smoke and mirrors in the Congressional budgeting process ain't cutting it anymore.

DOT FOURTEEN: Consumer spending has slowed...Q4 "The Golden Quarter" of retailing is likely to be "The Bronze Quarter."

DOT FIFTEEN: Our USA debt is at an all-time high and heading higher...Zillions, Trillions, Billions, Millions...what's a few zeroes among friends. (Hmmmm...that sounds familiar.)

DOT SIXTEEN: Massive new "stimulus" and bailout spending has produced very little real and sustainable job growth outside the government sector.

DOT SEVENTEEN: The Healthcare debacle will add over a Trillion dollars in new "deficit neutral" spending - Look Mommy, there's a pony in the yard and it's free!

DOT EIGHTEEN: Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to roll on as Generals in the field are second-guessed by Generals John Heinz Kerry and General Joltin' Joe Biden.

DOT NINETEEN: Q3 Auto sales robbed from Q4 will force further job reductions ala the just-announced Chrysler-FIAT cutback of 23,000 jobs through buyouts, retirement and attrition

DOT TWENTY: There is NO real economic growth in the USA - profit numbers are the result of severe cutbacks in employees, inventory, marketing spending and production and the implimentation of super-tight fiscal management...it's like wearing a XXXXX-Spandex jock strap...I'm talking super tight here!

DOT TWENTY-ONE: If President Obama signs the Copenhagen agreement, the USA will be subject to new taxes on international banking transactions, on energy use here and variety of other crazy levies so that we can pay our "Carbon Debt" to 3rd world countries.

Wait a minute, hasn't the good old USA already sent Trillions in Foreign Aid to these countries since 1945? I think they owe us a Humanitarian Debt!

DOT TWENTY-TWO: China is watching and wondering why they should continue to finance USA debt by buying our Treasury Bonds?  They don't have to call in the debt they already hold...all they have to do is stop buying new debt.

DOT TWENTY-THREE: Who else wants to buy new USA Debt? The Saudis? The Brits? The Canadians, The Aussies, The Sons of Nippon? Banzai! The OPEC-rich countries? Look around pals...I don't see any cavalry riding to the rescue...but there may be 4-Horsemen headed our way.

DOT TWENTY-FOUR: April 15, 2010 - Apocalypse Now!

Due to unemployment, under-employment, business losses, stock market portfolio losses, reduced capital gains and continued economic malaise or decline, and NEW SPENDING, the Federal Government will find its income revenue stream has turned into a puny trickle.

How many taxpayers are: A) off the tax rolls, B) owe less taxes or C) owe no taxes???

Now, connect all those DOTS and what do you get?  Dots on Dominos all lined up to fall one after the other and then go...

KABOOOOOOOOBAMA!

That's DOTS - or Debt-o-nation On Terrible Scale! 

It's the sound of the USA economy imploding from the weight of the debt. It's that lucky old Sun collapsing inwardly to become a dwarf star eclipsed by the Red Giant.

Guess what President Obama's solution will be?

First he'll tax the remaining working people, he'll tax air and your hair and your underwear and then he'll send Tim Geithner back to China to kow-tow to the Chinese economic ministers to get them to buy more debt to fund the US income tax-revenue shortfall.

What will the Chinese do?

Will they:

1) Buy more US debt backed by the "full faith and credit" of the USA? I think the USA's Chinese creditcard might be very close to being max-ed out.

2) Take a really close look at the profligate spending policies of the Spendocrat Congress and the financial manipulations of Obama-Geithner-Bernanke and say, "No thanks, we've had quite enough USA-debt, thank you."

3) Ask, "How much gold is in Ft. Knox? Please put it all on a fast boat to China. You have plenty of empty intermodal containers all over America. Just load 'em up with your strategic gold reserves and ship them to Long Beach, and we'll take it from there."

Remember the Chinese invented the abacus.

They know when things add up and when they don't. They can also look at the USA and see that our manufacturing base isn't there anymore. Actually, they can look out their windows and see it because in the relentless pursuit of next quarter's EPS, we shipped our manufacturing to China and "Indo" to lower the COGS.

Thank God we have an ace-in-the-hole!

We are in the Information Age!!

We don't make a lot of real products anymore, but boy are we connected and man do we know how to use information!! Ask Bernie Madoff or George Soros how fast you can shoot assets around the world.

So here's the plan...we all Tweet the Chinese on our really cool iPhones, and show them 456 pictures of our really cute kids and share our precious FaceBook life moments with them -- and then we can beg them not to make the US dollar worth doo-doo minus two.

The big question is, will we advance to the next level in the worldwide video game, Fiscal Insanity II or will the Chinese simply say, "Game Over."

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, A Mob of One

PS: I'll bet you a 6" Subway Sandwich that you'll never look at another box of DOTS brand candy the same way again.

Well, dots all the ideas I have for today.

See you in the Gulag!

I can't leave you on a gloomy note...

CHEER UP!!

We're all going to eat healthier, lose lots and lots of weight and go green, because we'll all be eating pickled grass, pond algae and stewed leaves!

The heavy rains in the Midwest and South have drastically affected the harvest of corn, soybeans and cotton.

The corn and bean crop is only 23% harvested. It should be 75% to 80% harvested by now, And the corn that is harvested is too wet to store for use in foodstuffs or for use to make ethonal - unless farmers pay 40-cents a bushel to dry it from 28% moisture down to 17%.

Look on the bright side, we'll all be eating a lot less evil chicken that's deep-fried in cotton seed or soybean oil, because chicken wings will be $123.00 a dozen and nuggets will be $13.45 each...unless the dollar drops more in value...in which case there will be a price adjustment passed on to consumers.

Oh oh...if the record corn, soybean and cotton crops don't come in as we had hoped...then we won't have grain to feed to our cattle, hogs and chickens and we won't have hundreds of millions of bushels of grain and soybeans to ship to places like China, India and Saudi Arabia.

Would that effect our balance of trade?

It looks like a Perfect Storm where will NOT reap the grain we have sowed on borrowed money. Sorry, your friendly community banker will have to take the farm, unless of course, you have lots of assets to collateralize.

GREAT FLYING ZORT!!

At least we won't have to worry about outliving our 410(k)s or being too fat!

Dow 5000!! Dow 3500? Dow 2000?

Ready or not, here we come!

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Mr. Have-It-Both-Ways, The Great Vacillator, The Dithering Equivocator Or The Prudent, Thoughtful Deliberate Genius: Who Is President Barack Obama?

Dear Pals,

No heavy levity today.

The world is moving at the speed of thought.

A UN guest house is savagely attacked in Pakistan to say, "Welcome" to Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton.

A marketplace full of women and children is blown to smithereens and is the scene of bloody carnage.

Gun battles rage in Kabal.

Iraqi ministry buildings are truck-bombed.

American troop deaths in Afghanistan rise to the highest this month.

Meanwhile our inspiring new President is still deliberating and carefully "examining" the strategic options.

QUESTIONS:
Will he send the 40,000 US troops that his own hand-picked General McChrystal requested over a month ago?

Will he follow the General's "hammer and anvil" strategy to smash the Taliban and Al Quiada between the Pakistani Army on one side and the US Army on the otherside of the Afghan border?

Or will he send just 20,000 troops?...because he's listening to General John Heinz Kerry, who out of one side of his mouth said, "We don't want to go to far too fast" and out of the otherside of his mouth said, "We have not had a new strategy this year, we've had the same strategy for one year, 8 times."

Which is it, Swifty?

The Democrats are NOT running America...they are ruining America. They continue to lay the blame on President George Bush while Obama dribbles on the basketball court, drools on solar panels, plays golf with NYT columnists to infulence their "reporting" and dithers on Afghanistan.

To her credit, Secretary of State Clinton showed some real courage and pardon the pun, real cahones, when she called out the terrorists for what they are, during her joint press conference with the Pakistani leader condemning the UN guest house attack by those cowardly murdering SOMs.

As I said, the world is moving at the speed of thought.

This is a time when America needs clear, strong and decisive leadership, not endless political calculating and dithering.

Obama said, "Afghanistan is a war of neccessity."

He promises to "not send our troops into harm's way without a clear strategy and to support them to the hilt" - if and when he does deploy them.

Then he goes off to his next PHOTO-OP!!

I wonder how that message is playing in Afghanistan where Barack the Omnipotent sent 10,000 troops after he took office.

Who are you Mr. President?

Who are you?

Are you really the President of the United States?

Or are you just an improvisational actor out of 2nd City who's ad-libbing the role?

President Obama's actions will be judged by the light of history.

I for one, hope that history judges the Democrats in 2010 and President Obama himself in 2012.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, a Mob of One.

PS: I also believe that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will still resign as I predicted in my 2009 Fearless Forecast.

If Obama makes a weak-kneed "John Kerry-Joe Biden" style call on Afghanistan and does NOT deliver all the support General McChrystal asked for, that could be the rift that gives Hillary the impetus she needs to exit stage center/right and begin her plans to save the Democrat Party and America in 2012.

Hillary doesn't like having bombs going off when she hits town...it wrankles her from head to cahones to cankles.

My hat's off to Hillary!!

The Power Of Positive Thinking. Birk Rx: What The World Needs Now Is Positive Thinking And A Really Good Gibson With Extra Onions.

Dear Pals,

HERE'S 30-MINUTES OF STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS POSITIVE THINKING.

I'm positive that Joe Weinmann is going to call me today with good news.

I'm positive that I will have a great - no, make that a fantastic day.

I'm positive that the economy is rebounding. Boing...boing...boing...

I'm positive that Steele will help fight floods and save people's homes.

I'm positive that life is wonderful, exciting and great.

I'm positive that I have won the big Powerball lottery.

I'm positive that the Sun will rise in the East.

I'm positive that yellow + blue = green.

I'm positive that life is good.

I'm positive that business will resurge.

I'm positive that I still look cute in my old Red Baby.

I'm positive that Steak 'n Shake still has the best fries.

I'm positive that laughter is the best medicine.

I'm positive that LaRussa will be back?

I'm positive that tattooing women's lips is a BAD idea.

I'm positive that positive creative energy is the answer to every question.

I'm positive that people will continue to enter and exit the planet.

I'm positive that chocolate milk is a food group.

I'm positive that the best is yet to come.

I'm positive that Rush Limbaugh will NOT be allowed to buy an NFL team.

I'm positive that Rush Limbaugh will be allowed to buy the St. Louis Rams.

I'm positive that the earth makes oil.

I'm positive that Edgar Cayce was on to something.

I'm positive that pork is the other white meat.

I'm positive that Al Sharpton will not invite me to dinner.

I'm positive my scale is wrong.

I'm positive that my son will graduate from college.

I'm positive that every problem contains a solution.

I'm positive that the best is yet to come.

I'm positive that pinot noir is easier on me than cabernet.

I'm positive that there are 35 more good people in the world than there are morons.

I'm positive that justice does ultimately play out.

I'm positive that I am a pain in the butt to many.

I'm positive that the world makes me laugh.

I'm positive that I have 1 really good Pal.

I'm positive that my life has been charmed and lucky.

I'm positive that Ding Dongs are good for me.

I'm positive that Sasquatch exists.

I'm positive that Charles Krauthammer is right 99.99%

I'm positive that braunschweiger and raw onion on rye is the world's best sandwich.

I'm positive that rain never falls up.

I'm positive that positive thinking works best when coupled with positive action.

I'm positive that I am a "reverse paranoid" because I know the whole world is out to help me.

I'm positive that me being quiet is good.

I'm positive that truth is stranger than fiction.

I'm positive that all's well that ends well.

I'm positive that USA Today will have a crossword puzzle.

I'm positive my cats understand English.

I'm positive that life is good even when it's bad.

I'm positive that in vino veritas is right.

I'm positive that I can't revisit the 60's.

I'm positive that negativity is not positive.

I'm positive that Murph will call.

I'm positive that there is a martini in my future if Murph calls.

I'm positive that I need to get going!

I'm positive that it will never be 7:36 am on Wednesday October 14, 2009 again.

I'm positive that this is not what Norman Vincent Peale had in mind.

I'm positive that something really cool and good and exciting and enriching will come into your life today.

I'm positive that beer is being iced down somewhere right now!

I'm positive you'll count all your blessings today.

I'm positive that God still loves me...inspite of me.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic and a Mob of One,

PS: This treatise could make me the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Theoretical Positivity.

Think Positive!!

Think Big!

Think Bold!

Live! Laugh! Love!

Have a positively great time!

After all dear Pals, we're not getting out of this alive anyway!!

At the end of the day, my goal is to have 4 undertakers trying to get the grin off my face.

Sex, Sex, Sex and More Sex. Why Is It So Darn Popular And Problematic? Birk Plows In Where Angels Fear To Tread. Brace Yourself, Maureen!

Dear Pals,

I was watching the news reports on the Gay/Lesbian/Transgender march in Washington this past weekend and it got me to thinking about Sex and its various mutations and manifestations throughout the ages. It truly is a topic you can sink your teeth into.

Be warned: This is going to get pretty deep pretty quick, so you might want to put on your waders.

Sex...what's it all about Alfie?

There have been tens of thousands of learned volumes, instructional tributes and trashy books and medical, philosophical and erotic poems and articles written on this fascinating topic.

Sex is all around us. And, it has always been thus.

Sex is on the cover of every checkout lane tabloid, it's a click away on 20 kajillion porn sites and pay-per-view TV channels and it's hard-wired, mechanically plumbed into our body and soft-wired into our brain and nervous system. Sex is accessible 24/7/365 no matter where we are are, who we are with or what we're doing.

Sex has a yin and yang to it. On the positive side, its been used as an incentive, a bargaining chip, a reward and on the negative side as punishment and retribution.

Sex has probably been the world's greatest reliever of physical stress, source of joy and pleasure and greatest cause of emotional and interpersonal stress. It is as prickly as a porcupine. It has entangled Presidents, Prime Ministers, Popes and peons.

Sex has been glorified on ancient temple walls and cities have been reportedly erased from the face of the planet in a cloud of fire and brimstone because of sexual perversion and wanton excessess. The Pharoah Ramses II, who had scores of wives and fathered more than 70 children has ironically had a condom brand named after him.

Does that strike you as odd?

Sex views, perspectives and mores have always varied from culture to culture and age to age. Witness the harems of the Ottoman Empire and the concubines of the Chinese Emporer in the Forbidden City and the brothels of Virginia City, the Roman Baths and The Coral Courts on Route 66.

Contrary to popular belief, it was not Helen of Troy's face that launched a thousand ships. It was actually another three of Helen's legendary body parts. From time in memorium sex has inspired epic sagas, millions of jokes, limmericks and even Canterbury Tales.

It even made it's way into earth sciences. The topless natives that I enjoyed "studying" as a boy in old issues of National Geographic have all but vanished in real life, thanks to the work of earnest missionaries. And, in another burst of irony; the Kama Sutra, notwithstanding, the "Missionary Position" has been immortalized as the standard for male-female physical connectivity.

Sadly, bare-breasted women had all but disappeared from Post WWII mainstream drugstore magazine racks, at least until Hugh Hefner launched Playboy with Marilyn Monroe in 1953!

Have you ever noticed that whenever you bring up the topic of Sex in mixed company (IE: Men and Women) that voices become hushed, eyebrows raise, cheeks flush and nervous titters of subdued snickering can begin.

It elicts a wide range of reactions and it all gets rather confusing very quickly.

Let me see if I can shed a little light here.

God Himself dedicated 2 of the 10 commandments to sexual issues. In the thousands of years in pre-commandment times, Sex rules must have been left up to individual interpretation. But now in the post-Moses era, God has chalked the field.

Thou shalt not commit adultery. (What about teenagery? Or people who never grew up? There might be a loophole here.)

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.

NOTE: Commandment 2 above is really easy to obey if your neighbor's wife weighs 275 lbs. Not a lot of coveting goin' on there.

Since 10-Commandment time, society and religion have even further defined the rules for human sexual behavior. Since I was raised as a guilt-ridden Catholic, I learned early on about the destructive potential of Sex. It was kind of like nitrogylcerine...if used outside the prescribed role of pro-creation within wedlock ( an interesting term) , you could shake things up to the point where you would blow yourself to flinders in mortal sin and end up roasting in Hell for all eternity plus 20 minutes.

That thought gave me this scary dream as a kid.

SCENE ONE: 23rd Level of Hell where the New Arrival joins a burned, blistered and tormented crew shoveling white hot coals:

New Arrival: Hi I'm Birk...

Hell Occupant One: What are you in for?

New Arrival: (Slightly embarrassed) Well, I had, ahem...well, ahh...in a ahhh...sex and ahhh...

Hell Occupant Two: Sex? Hahahahaha!

New Arrival: What's so funny? Who are you guys and what are you in for?

Hell Occupant One: I'm Adolf Hitler and this's Mao Tse Tung, Joe Stalin's on coffee break. Grab a shovel Pal and tell us how your sexcapades got you way down here...this oughta be good.

_________________________

Hmmmm...seems like sex can really get you in deep-do-do if you ascribe to the mortal sin = burn in Hell belief system.

But wait a minute...let's look a little closer at the types of sex.

CATEGORY ONE: MENTAL SEX

Fantasy Sex: the most raptuously pleasureable experience you can imagine with any human being past, present or future. 

Impromptu Mental Sex: the kind of sex you can envision having on the spur of the moment, or the drop of a hat, or in the blink of an eye with a beautiful person at the peak of their physical prowess. For men - a spectacular 20-year old female, for women a 20-year old Adonis.

Silver Screen Projection Sex: the kind of sex you have in your mind with a specific Big Screen Hollywood star or MTV vixen...Racquel Welch, Jennifer Aniston, Bo Derek, Madonna, Wally Cox or Rock Hudson...Hey, there's a lid for every pot!

Neighbor Sex: the kind of sex you have in your mind with the lady up the block who gardens in really tight short shorts and a halter top. Or, in the case of lady fantasizers, the well-tanned muscly guy who cuts the grass in his Speedo.

Office Sex: the kind of mental sex you have with any co-worker who "turns you on" - clear the desk! (I actually had an associate who walked in on a receptionist and an account executive enjoying sex on my antique cherry wood tailor's table. I heard about it the next day.)

Travel Sex: the kind of mental sex inspired by white sand beaches, blue waters, or by bearskin rugs and roaring fires in a chalet. Las Vegas, Aspen and Sandals has created a multi-billion dollar industry out of this imagery.

Forbidden Sex: akin to Fantasy Sex...but much naughtier, kinkier or preverse from the norms of the specific society. Pour the champagne, squirt the whipped cream, paint on the chocolate jello pudding and fire up Robbie The Robot.

The great thing about Mental Sex is it's all in your mind, so it's FREE and guilt free, unless of course you tell Fr. Murphy about those impure thoughts you've been having about Mary Jo, who lived behind Western Bowl...well, that's another story.

CATEGORY TWO: LIFE STAGE SEX

Pre-Teen Solo Sex: The personal discovery and experience of the "other use" of human plumbing. As comedian Lewis Black said, "I'll never forget the first time I had sex, there I was all alone!"

Teen Age Sex: Margaret Mead's coming of age in Samoa is a classic of exploratory innocence on this topic. Blue Lagoon, anyone? Brooke Shields inspired lots of scuba-diving!

Farm Sex: Kids that grow up around cows, pigs and horses get a bird's eye view of Nature in action. Down on the farm, a roll in the hay could result in a bun in the oven and a shotgun wedding...or an extended trip to visit Aunt Ethel in the city.

Drive-In Sex: That now by-gone era of back-seat, steamed up windows, hot-buttered unsalted popcorn sex and Rodan. DP...are you laughing?

Parent's Out Of Town Sex: A variation of Parents Are At Work sex...usually in the basement, rathskeller or girl's bedroom...but an attic or garage will do in a pinch

Pub Sex: The kind you have when Mr. Happy gets lucky...also known as everyone looks great at closing time sex. The downside of this is waking up with a woman who has a better moustache than you do! Hello Leo!!

Dirty-Flirty Bar Sex: The kind practiced by barmaids with "enhanced bosoms" that are generously exposed in revealing low-cut blouses to their drooling male customers as a very successful means of enhancing their tips. The rule is - "Spy a nip...sweeten the tip!" It's kinda tit for tat.

Highschool Sex - was there really such a thing? Those of us who went to all boys Catholic Prep Schools still wonder about what the public school co-ed action was like.

College Sex: In the dorm, in the Frat House, in the Castlewood Hilton, on the 50-yard line, in the Dean's office, in the gym, under the bleachers, on the kitchen table, in the library closet, on a hammock, trapeze, parallell bars or rings - or on a hayride or in a truckbed. College students are the original anywhere anytime sexcapaders. Did I miss any locations?

Pre-Marital Engagement Sex: That exciting test-drive period when the engaged couple is fully engaged in coupling and proving how great it's going to be once they are together in wedded bliss forever. It is the undressed rehearsal for the Honeymoon.

Honeymoon and Newly-wed Sex: The songs "In the Mood" and "Makin' Whoopee" seems to cover this time of life. It's a lot like College Sex, but with the same person in your own pad. Very convenient.

Baby-Makin' Sex: It's time to do your duty for Humanity, Queen and Country and reproduce! How many???...well, that's a good question. Eight Is Enough...and Cheaper By The Dozen were just two wrong answers.

Married Life Sex: Every other day sex now moves to Friday night and/or Saturday morning, then to every other week, then to once a month, then to whenever a headache, pressing engagement, kid's soccer game/sleepover or workday meeting isn't looming. Finally it settles in on New Year's Eve, Anniversary day and of course, it's here's your favorite Birthday Present time.

Divorced Sex: That feverish flurry of red hot sexual activity following being kicked to the curb; when "The Kicked One" seeks to re-establish their desireability, self-esteem and sex appeal. Cougar Sex had it's roots here...and they were bleached roots in many cases.

Adventure Sex: Mile High Club, Million Man March, Band Sex, Beach Sex, Cougar Conquest...it's more about the thrill of the chase than actually mounting and keeping the trophy.

Trophy Wife/Husband Sex: Proves that if money can't buy happiness, at least it can underwite a lot of earthly pleasure.

Friends With Privileges Sex: Consentual, recreational , exploratory, erotic, sensual and often racous and rapturous...it's how some people play. Cheaper than golf, not as rigorous as camping, hunting or birdwatching, no binoculars and heavy equipment needed and it's rarely rained out.

Sex At Sixty: I'm not talking miles per hour here. This is where fore-play becomes eight-play...twice as long. Who's in a hurry? Pass the Cialis and let the good times roll. It's all about experience, expertise, comfort, care and consideration. And more than a few laughs!!

Octoberfest Sex: A great German invention where eveyone reverts to being single for 2-weeks. It's the original don't ask, don't tell event. A great way to celebrate the Harvest and sow a few wild oats. Ein bier Fraulein, bitte schoen.

Hooker Sex: If you're on a limited budget and can't underwrite permanent pleasure with a Trophy Spouse/Mistress/BoyToy, at least you can rent it by the hour.

Gentlemen's Club Sex - it's like a visit to The Art Museum, only the naked works of art here are not still lifes or made of cold marble - they are well-oiled visions of poetry in motion on a polished pole.

Heinz Catsup Sex - it's the kind where the Anticipation is better than the actual event.

Make Up Sex - Maybelline, Avon or Clinique isn't involved. It's that sex that follows a spat, argument, greivance or WWIII. It verifies that all is well again...open the champagne and put the roses in the vase.

Your Parent's Sex - it's unimaginable, unfathomable, improbable, anti-picturesque and eewwww gross - it makes you believe you were ordered from L.L.Bean.

David Letterman Sex - it's a sure fire ratings booster and will undoubtedly inspire more than a few tabloid articles, Top Ten Lists and Stupid Pet Tricks. Makes you wonder who's under Dave's desk tonight.

Halloween Sex - it's when a sexy girl dressed like a witch jumps out of your closet and yells, "taBOO!"

Sheepish Sex - People don't ordinarily flock to it, but, according to lonely shephards, it's not Baaaaaaahhhd.

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BIG SEX QUESTIONS:

Why did God make the female form the apple of man's eye? And vice versa?

Why is sex such a powerful urge?

Why is sex so enduring...at least in theory and memory, if not in practice?

Is Sex synonomous with Love?

That's a HUGE question.

Can you have love without sex?

Can you have sex without love?

Is Lovemaking a misnomer for Sexcapading?

And, finally is sauce for the goose really sauce for the gander? A lot of folks have gotten in big trouble for taking a gander and giving a goose when sauced.

REALITY CHECK:

There are some people who are made for each other. They meet, fall in love and stay that way for the rest of their joyous and blissful lives.

Does anyone care to venture what percentage of the human population that is?

Whatever number is left is the rest of humanity.

Which group are you in?

Sex is a REALLY big deal in America. Not such a big deal in Paris or Rio. Why?

Vive la differance!

Polynesia before the Europeans introduced venereal diseases, Christianity and bras was really a pretty idyllic place where sex was just as natural as swimming. Polynesia must have been a lot like what Paradise must have been like before the dreaded "Apple-Reptile incident."

Is Sex just another normal bodily function - like breathing, eating and food processing? Have we attached an undue level of importance to it though man-made conventions, property laws and religious taboos?

What is "normal" Sex?

Oh boy! That really opens up Pandora's Box...personally, I'm a man-woman one-on-one kinda guy. A lot of the stuff I hear about is well beyond the pale of normal to me. I think there is a human bell-curve of Sexual Activity with most "normal" being in the middle with some extremes at either end.

I think Einstein's theory of relativity comes into play here too. What is normal is culturally and individually relative. Polygamy was accepted in many cultures for thousands of years, even in early Judeo-Christian settings. And homosexuality of both the male and female variety was normal in Athens. And, of course Cpl. Klinger popularized trans-genderism on M.A.S.H. Wasn't he lovely in chiffon?

Did you every wonder about The Lone Ranger and Tonto? Yancey Derringer and Pahoo? Or, Pancho and Cisco? Talk about gay caballeros!

Same sex preferences have existed from time in memorium. Amazons, Lesbians, Athenian man-love...it's all there in the pages of world history. The spirit of Sodom and Gommorah and the sex trade is still alive today. The world's oldest profession still attracts many practitioners and clients.

I even wondered about the Faun of Greco-Roman mythology...half-goat, half man and 100% weird. And, what about Jabba The Hutt? How did that dude get concieved? Now there's an anti-picturesque thought.

Sex is in its bare essence (no pun intended) all about creativity and the expression of it.

The hit TV show MAD MEN revels in the "steamy sexy creativity" of the advertising agency business back in the sexy 60's. And, the cable show HUNG has plowed new ground in making male prostitution acceptable and oddly funny. The role reversal of female client and male hooker is simultaneously alarming, amusing and totally bizarre.

Sex is usually unique to every genus and species, unless of course, man intervenes and creates the Labradoodle.

The human race has produced a myriad of indviduals from the sexual comingling of races. Some of the most exotically beautiful women in the world are Eurasian and Afrocausian. Author Graham Hancock's wife is a stunningly beautiful Ethiopian woman with refined Caucasian features and a skin as black as night.

The more I look at history, the more I see the powerful and pervasive role that sex has played. The redheads of Northern Italy...owe it to the conquering armies of Barbarossa. The Black Irish come from the comingling of the Irish and Spanish sailors shipwrecked after their Armada was sunk in 1588.

Costa Ricans today are a marvelous mixture of indigenous Central American Indians, African slaves, Spanish conquistadores and German immigrants.

Everywhere I go I see the dance of God's creative sexual expressions playing out. Sex will continue to be popular...not just because it is centrally-located, but because mankind is still a work in progress.

It's up to each one of us to learn how to use our sexual energy...perhaps, the commandment to love one another is the divine tempering mechanism that separates man from the chimp...and David Letterman from Jon Stewart.

I'll ask my banana-eating companion in the photo about that and get back to you with a second opinion. Did you know that only 8 chromosones separate the DNA of Man from Chimpanzee?

Gee, I could'a had a furcoat!

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen Of The Repbulic

PS: As a friend of mine once said, "Enjoy sex now...because we're all gonna be dead for a very long time."

A similar notion is expressed in the lyrics of a silly polka song, "In heaven there is no beer, that's why we drink it here."

And as Mae West so wryly and wisely observed, "Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you."

Is it any wonder that when someone asks, "Shall we? "

That so many others enthusiastically answer, "Lets!!!"

PS 2: "Tennis Anyone?" --could that be a cleverly coded Country Club metaphor for this age old question.

PS 3: "Brace yourself Maureen!" is also known as "Irish foreplay."

Rio! Rio! Rio! Rio Wins! And, Chicago Doesn't Even Make The Olympics Round One Cut. Omama! Obama! Is Obama Really Ozymandias Revisited?

Dear Pals,

Well, I called Rio. But I will not gloat.

Whenever I get into "prediction-mode" it's a lot like skating on thin ice with a hot Zamboni. Nevertheless, as one of my pals recently pointed out..."You do get a lot of stuff right."

I even blushed when she called me "The man who could see tomorrow."

Gosh...I'm getting red and flushed again.

There might be a very tiny grain of truth in it though because I have spent a great deal of my career being up in the crow's nest looking ahead for new product and new business opportunities. So maybe there is a little Prediction-Gene in my DNA.

In all sincerity, I'm wrong a helluva lot more than I'm right. I can conclusively prove this with a line of witnesses that will strech from here to eternity. (Not a bad title for a book?)

It's kinda like this; nobody remembers all the times Babe Ruth struck out - but people still talk about the time he pointed to the exact spot where he hit a home run on the very next swing.

Fate? Serendippity? Luck? Sychronicity? SWAG? Or Visual projection? Do we have the ability to predict outcomes and actually look ahead in time?

Call it what you will. I think we all have it. It's called intuition. Sometimes we heed it...and most of the time we don't.

I think my blog of October 13, 2008 kinda sums it all up. Predictions can be wrong...even when you carve them in stone.

Check it out...October 13, 2008.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic, a Mob of One.

PS: Right now I see an omelet in my future.

Thanks 30,000+! There Is No Better Way To Learn How The Internet Works Than By Blogging. Here's Why!

Dear Pals,

When you start to blog, you never know where the journey will take you.

Yesterday, it passed the 30,000 unique page views level. There are some daily readers (when I was blogging daily), occasional drop-in pals and then "word" or "long trail phrase" searchers who find the blog that way, I also have some followers on Twitter, digg and Facebook.

I also get to see the "rhythm" of the blog - the number of page views per day...per week, month and year. It also shows in many cases the "track backs," so I can see the originating url and the word or phrase that was queried.

Every blog has its own ECG - that heartbeat that jumps up and down every day. There have been days as high as 1200+ and as low as 12 - the range is influenced by the topic, news of the day, day of the week and Jupiter aligning with Mars...and whether an email alert is sent to my list of pals at random on any given day.

It's fascinating to watch and often astounding to see which blogs are viewed most. If any of you out there are looking to learn more about how to use the Internet, drop me a note and I'll be glad to share what I've learned.

JUST GOOGLE: Somali Pirate Cruise - The Birk Plan - Blondes and String Theory - Zillions, Trillions, Billions, Millions - you'll be surprised, as I am at how often and where the blog appears.

So the 30,000 views is a bit deceiving, as most numbers are (especially if you do Obamath) because my blogs have also been reproduced in whole or in part on thousands of other sites from New Zealand to England to Saudi Arabia and only God knows where!

If you are new to the blog, please visit my blog of AUGUST 29, 2009 for a list of the Birk's Best Blogs (at least in my opinion) - pop around and have some fun, raise your blood pressure or use a barf bag.

As Elmer Fudd might say, "Thanks for dropping by my itsy-bitsy, teeney weeny nano-spec on the world wide web, weally!"

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

PS: The Internet is the marketplace of ideas...it's kind of like a Farmer's Market...just be careful you don't buy into a lot of crop.

Oh yeah, and the most asked question is: "Birk, who's the guy with you in the photo wearing in the red balloonist's jacket?"

9/11 A Prayer For Peace On Earth Today For All People - Forgiveness And LOVE Conquers All.

Dear Pals,

The men of the earth have a long history of killing each other in the name of "their own version" of God and "their own version" of religion...as well as for land, gold, power, human domination and greed. 

Since my own male gender cannot seem to get it right, I wonder if it is time for all the women and mothers of the earth, in every home and in every land to say, "We will bring no more children into this insane world until the man-made evil stops."

That declaration would "cause no small stir in Camelot."

I also wonder on this day - when the world's insanity seems to be accelerating with each passing second - and we pause to pray for all the souls lost around the world as result the evil deeds of 9/11,  if it is time for each of us to also pause and realize that we are all ONE.

Those who know me well, know that I am not one for organized religion or man-made dogma. But I am a Christian in the very simplest sense of the word. This is what I know in my heart...

We are not apart from creation. We are a part of creation.

We all exist for only the blink of an eye in the Alpha and Omega of God's creation.

Yet, we "sons of God" have the power of God within each of us to create heaven right here on the earth.

And it all begins within me and you.

Today I hope that the knees of my fellow Christians will bend in the name of Jesus, The Prince Of Peace and pray for Peace On Earth...not only for men of goodwill, but for all men, even the worst.

Jesus said we should forgive seventy times seven, forgiveness is the first step to the eradication of the darkness of evil,  because evil and hate cannot abide the light of truth, forgiveness and love.

As one of the most imperfect and flawed men on the planet, here is my little prayer for today: 

Where one finds HATE. Stand up for LOVE.

Where one finds LIES. Stand up for TRUTH.

Where one finds DEATH. Stand up for LIFE.

Where one finds DIVISIVENESS. Stand up for UNITY.

If not you...who?

If not now...when?

Here are a few more thoughts worth pondering in the quiet of your soul today.

"Lord make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is saddness; joy." - St. Francis of Assisi

"Be not overcome by evil but overcome evil with good." - Romans 12:21

"The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God." - Meister Eckhart

"Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar with truth." - The Dhammapada

"Hear O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is ONE; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your strength and you shall love your neighbor as yourself." - Mark 12:29

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely be it. I died as a mineral and became a plant; I died as a plant and rose to animal; I died as animal and was a man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die as man and soar with angels blest. But even if an angel I must pass on: all except God perish. When I have sacrificed my angel soul, I shall become what no mind has concieved."   - Rumi

"When one looks past our human skin we find the essence of God that dwells within." - Anonymous

On this 9/11, I pray that every man and woman on earth will look within.

Birk, A Work In Process With A Very Very Looooooooooooong Way To Go

PS: Need more refreshment? www.capstonepyramid.com

 

Thoughts On The Alignment: 09 - 09 - 09 Today.

Dear Pals,

Today is 09.09.09 and to Pathagorean Numerologists that might have special significance.

0+9+0+9+0+9 = 27.

2+7 = 9.

9 is 3 squared.

3 is the number of the Holy Trinity.

I think this might be a good day to Thank God for all the people and blessings in our lives.

That's my plan.

Birk, Commonsensetarian and Citizen of the Republic

Thanks for every spiritual and material blessing dear Father, Son and Holy Spirit!

As a Christian, I send wishes of peace, love, health  and prosperity to all and send a special thanks for your friendship dear Pals, may the good work of your hearts, minds and hands be thrice blessed in Jesus name!