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POPS Furious Favre Awes Even Me, The Antagonist Any mention of Brett Favre around me was enough for me to spit out the nails. That was before today's game. Now I'm on home redecoration after he snatched victory from the Niners. The guy is just darn awesome. Each time I say that, it's like pulling a wisdom tooth with pliers and no pain reliever. Niners are not perfect, but I'll take their spirit today over a win in the past few years. I've always been one for hustle. If you hustle and you lose, you lose. Move on. If you win and are lazy, that is worse, to me. Call it Glenn's ying and yang of football. Book is coming out soon. Be sure to buy it.
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POPSTurning Toward Humanity's Unity I've never bought the lie about the differences among races. I've never seen the human family as anything distinct from a single family. Different hues of one color. In an era when we may see a rise in anti-Semitism and in racism, this photo reminds me there is hope that humanity's old ways will change, and that progress toward tolerance will continue.
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POPSHumans Are As Leaves Of One Branch If you are hung over in an anguished sense after seeing the display of anti-Semitic leaders at the United Nations this past week, there is hope, but I admit, there are times when I lose some hope that the world's future will be a peaceful one. I'm tired of the Jew-hating, the Jew-baiting that has gone on for so many generations. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked, "Have you no shame." Let me repeat that: HAVE YOU NO SHAME, you criminals sitting here? Have you no shame for your crimes against humanity? Is it not a crime against humanity to call for the extermination of an entire nation comprised mostly of our fellow brothers and sisters who happen to be Jewish? I'm sick of it. Anger, yes, and then I reflect that, if we are all leaves of one branch, branches of one tree, that ultimately humanity will awaken to its unity in its diversity. And, rather than kill, murder, maim, imprison, torture and rape in the name of "religion," we can l
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POPSU2 Asks: How Long Must Terror Go On?
Peoples of all faiths, cultures, countries, creeds, whatever -- however you define yourself, must unite as one. In my Faith, we call it unity in diversity, although that has now been co-opted by other groups seeking to exploit its true religious meaning. Nonetheless, in this age of the Internet, of instant communications, it is up to the peoples of the world to ensure this small planet's unity. Our leaders waste precious breath, time and resources in their continuing childish political and religious battles, only becoming serious because many have the means to destroy many of us in a single blast, or a single campaign. The peoples of the world need to throw to the scrap heaps of history the outmoded mechanisms of change in the past, namely revolution of whatever political or religious brand you choose, and choose instead a nonviolent revolution of the heart and soul. One that changes humanity from within. Let the foolish leaders continue to be blabbermouths, distorting
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POPSWhat Happened To Persia's Tolerance? The Iranian government's pogrom primarily against one religious minority, and its oppressive nature, stand in contrast to the Persian civilizations that in their time were the equivalent of Western empires.
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POPS'Let Your Vision Be World-Embracing' This is along the lines of think globally, act locally, in which individuals must take account of themselves and how they interact with all others. Unless we have change on the local level -- real personal change that enables humanity to mature, we will be stuck with the Third and Fourth Worlds of poverty, despair, disease and war.
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POPS'On The Turning Away' As I watched CripsandBloods: Made In America , the lyrics of several Pink Floyd songs came to mind. One was On The Turning Away . It is the brilliance of an artist whose work leaves an expanse through which each experiential prism is individual. If you watch the film, you may experience mine. Then again, you may not. Such is the beauty of artistry.
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POPSAn Unfolding Destiny When reading some of my selections, please keep in mind that the Bahai Faith comes from the East, and in the West, we often takes them literally. That said, you are left to your own thoughts and conclusions.
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POPSBoycott PETA, Not Michael Vick Showing it has no class and will stop short of no immoral act, PETA continues to equate cruelty that includes the killing of animals to The Holocaust. PETA forced its 2003 "Holocaust on your Plate" exhibition that juxtaposed human Holocaust victim images with images of factory farming. I don't care if it was a Jewish man who lost relatives in The Holocaust who created the exhibit. That fact does not make him infallible, nor does it justify a repulsive comparison. It only shows PETA's moral low ground. And it shows unfortunately the waywardness of the Jewish man who was exploited by PETA. Plus, many Jewish organizations and Jews feel the same way I do.
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POPSA Healing Prayer I realize not all people believe in prayer, which is fine, but for those who do, this link has one of my favorite prayers.
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POPS2/09 Genocide Has No Statute of Limitations For a county that prides itself on championing so many "causes," there are few among its "enlightened beings" who realize even this basic detail. Such so-called "progressives" remain woefully and hypocritically indifferent. On the other side of the ideological spectrum are those who believe "it's time to move on." Their indifference is partly based upon a fear of losing land.
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POPSTribes Should Run Fort Humboldt It's time to end using a death camp as a logging exhibit. Fort Humboldt's only relation to logging was use of the soldiers who "protected" peaceful Native Americans from the violent white "settlers" who stole their land that had vast tracks of ancient redwoods on them.
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POPSCanoe Fire Whitewashing Unsavory After my post critical of the Canoe Fire, prompted by my interviews of officials when I was an editor, the federal government REMOVED the PDF report on the fire but left up the HTML and then said its Web server was down, despite the HTML being available and all other PDFs on that server being available. If my criticisms are so wrong, why remove the document?
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POPSGov't Failure Kills Ancient Redwoods Don't buy the government's lies about the fire being good for the redwoods. This was a high-intensity destructive fire, and although the forest will recover, it will be nearly 2,000 years before the trees are fully "replaced," assuming climate change and/or other factors, like more fires, do not destroy the rest of the redwoods.
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POPSLet Crabtree Sit, Sulk & Simmer It's getting close to the time to bring out the bib and diapers. Maybe Mommy needs to be called to burp him. Perhaps Michael has indigestion. This young man ought to be thinking about what his coach has in store for him once he's signed. Maybe between diaper changes, Crabtree can start thinking about that.
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