Author: DhammaSeeker

Peace Train

Peace Train
by Cat Stevens

Now I’ve been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun

Oh I’ve been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it’s going to come

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again

Now I’ve been smiling lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun

Oh peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on now peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller

Everyone jump upon the peace train
Come on now peace train

Get your bags together, go bring your good friends too
Cause it’s getting nearer, it soon will be with you

Now come and join the living, it’s not so far from you
And it’s getting nearer, soon it will all be true

Now I’ve been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating, why can’t we live in bliss

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again

Yesterday’s Wierdness Is Tomorrow’s Reason Why

Drugs usually enhance or strengthen my perceptions and reactions, for good or ill. They’ve given me the resilience to withstand repeated shocks to my innocence gland. The brutal reality of politics alone would probably be intolerable without drugs. They’ve given me the strength to deal with those shocking realities guaranteed to shatter anyone’s beliefs in the higher idealistic shibboleth’s of our time and the “American Century.” Anyone who covers his beat for twenty years—and my beat is “The Death of the American Dream”—needs every goddamned crutch he can find.
~ Hunter S. Thompson

sobering thought

The bus was delayed coming home this afternoon. I awoke from my usual drive-time nap at about the time we would normally be exiting the interstate to find that we had come to a stand still in the right lane about half a mile from the exit ramp.

It took some time, but I eventually saw a considerable amount of police and fire truck activity further down 104th Avenue at Grant. Police were diverting east-bound traffic on 104th south on Grant. When we made the right turn, I saw the reason for all the activity.

The severely mangled remains of a passenger car were in the road with what appeared to be the driver’s door cut off and laying on the street. The car had been hit on the driver’s side and hit hard. I’d be surprised if the driver was alive when rescue services arrived, even with the close proximity of police and ambulance companies. The impact alone probably broke their neck, which would be merciful because they would have most certainly died from massive internal injuries in short order.

I recount this horrific sight to remind myself that it could all be over in the blink of an eye. It’s just sobering to see it in such harsh relief.

what the fuck

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With no clear sign the United States can win U.N. support for sanctions against Iran, the Bush administration said on Tuesday it could work instead with like-minded nations to punish Tehran for its nuclear programs.
source

So I read an article that really opened my eyes earlier today. It said that Iran was working to get uranium enriched no more than 5%, apparently a level more than adequate for nuclear power generation, but that it was no where near the 80% level required for nuclear weapons.

Who the fuck are we to say to another sovereign nation that they can’t develop alternative energy sources when it would be so easy to tell if they were going beyond the low-grade enrichment and working toward weapons-grade uranium.

I’m not for the war that’s coming, but I can see it on the horizon. Fuckers.

“Enrichment above 5 percent is not on Iran’s agenda,” Aghazadeh told the students’ ISNA news agency.