Thinking: Habit or Choice?

Sometimes I sit thinking about things of a habitual nature and compare them to what happens when we break the habits we have developed through the choices we exercise.  All actions in the animal kingdom come through habits.  Habits to a great extent are encoded into our DNA while some habits take practice.  Humans, unlike all other animals, have the ability to think about their habits, the consequences of them and stuff like that.  Humans can choose to break old habits and create new habits.   Sometimes, like in the case of additions, it's more difficult to break some habits and so much easier to stay the course within the confines of certain habits. 

Marriage can become a habit.  The practice of religion can become a habit.  Cleanliness can become a habit too.  These habits most folks would agree aren't harmful habits and should be developed.  But, some marriages should never have been, and in the case of religion, people become too practiced at it which steals the joy from the spirit.  Then there is cleanliness.   Some people become so obsessed with the habit of cleanliness that they miss the happy things that come from being a little askew.  Life passes them by.   But imagine entering marriage where habit doesn't rule and people choose to show affection rather than do so out of habit.  Imagine how God might feel when we reward him with our faith because we choose to, not because we do so out of habits stemming from what we should be doing rather than what we choose to do.  Imagine choosing to shower with the one you love because it's a fun thing to do not beause it is time to be clean again.  Imagine going snow skiing instead of chasing dust bunnies that might be hiding in corners behind the furniture.

Taking drugs is a choice until it becomes a habit.  Our pursuits of pleasure start out as a choice until they become a habit and if addiction to pleasure is in our dna  it only takes once or twice before it becomes a habit.  Habits, if we are not mindful of them, can sear our conscience.  Eventually, mankind could be reduced to the animalistic form it was before God breathed His breath into Adam.  Mankind could always think but was like all other animals, creatures of habit.  When the offspring of Adam and Eve began mating, they eventually breeded some sentience into the dna which took a hold over the generations that followed.  

Today, we are at war with our individual sentience and our animalistic natures.  All, I'm saying is, before we act, we ought to give it some thought.

Happy Mothers Day to all you breeders out there. :)

Intelligent Speakers Support The OIL Industry.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran a Global Environment and Energy Correspondent explained how Iraq only supplies 2million barrels of oil a day while the Saudis supply 10 million a day trying to say the reason we are in Iraq isn't about oil.  He supports his claim by reminding us how the Iraqi people destroyed and continue to destroy their own oil pipelines wherever the American troops show presence.  He also reminds us how shabby the pipes were prior to the war due to Saddam's negligence.

Well well well.  These college educated specialists like Vaitheeswaran want all us little people to think this is where the lame argument begins and ends, but they are a little too trusting of their assertions.

The wars feed off these fuel machines.  Even if America were to rely on methane, hydrogen, cooking oils or anything else, fact is, our war machines overseas must rely on what is available there to get our mighty military over the terrain to where they ultimately desire to occupy. So let them deplete the oil everywhere they go.

Here in America perhaps the businesses can begin to operate on LNG and public transportation on CNG controlled by State run, not private owned entities.  Much of what we really are doing overseas is because we really want the Natural Gas in various regions.  Still, we need their traditional oil reserves to fuel our war machines.  Keep that in mind.

So while the government businesses and large corporations will rely on resources we have to rape from the land here and the land of others citing the world trade agreements for security of said resources, I propose we Americans run our transportation off of electricity and hydrogen and our homes off a safe type of "fuel exchange" much as trees do.  Let us open the Edison archives and rework the patent he purchased right after our government killed it.

Now the Economist would have you believe Russia isn't a threat to oil supplies but he( Vijay the correspondent) fails to mention that Putin claimed the largest exporter of oil and jailed the private owner on trumped up charges then auctioned off all his assets.  Let me remind you that in September of 2003 Russia joined with Saudi Arabia (a saint in the Economist eyes) marrying their companies to form the world's largest oil exporter. 

In all fairness to Vijay he is more motivated to get our voices out on the matter of environmentally safe fuels and resources.  His arguments to do this take too long and are somewhat leading towards a challenge.  The truth is, we need Iraqi resources to get us in better position to move towards Gorgan where the natural gas can be easily accessed.  We still have to displace several thousand Sunni to do this.  And yes, I whole heartedly agree with Vijay.  We need to develop alternative sources to fuel our consumption and We The People are a can do people.  This we can make happen.  What do you say folks?  Are we willing to take the responsibility of raping one country after another just so we can turn on our lights, drive our cars and run our kidney machines? Wouldn't it be a better choice to preserve the environment for future generations, promote wellness in our country then share the knowlege with other countries so they too can enjoy healthier living? 

The only wars that would be fought would be with anti-pluralists and there would be no doubt about the fanatisism of those starting such wars.  Then a spade wouldn't smell like a rose and golfers running corporations wouldn't be saving our forrests by cutting down our trees.  Just imagine.

The Navy Recruiters

I guess all the military services are having troubles with enlistment.  Yesterday while I was talking to Jenny a Navy Recruiter interupted.  I waited.  He asked about her youngest son who is 24, how he was doing, what he was doing and Jenny didn't feel comfortable about answering such questions because anyone who knew her son knew he no longer lived there.

She said, "I am his mother.  Who are you?"

"Oh, well ma'am.  [your son] and I spoke back when he was in highschool.  I'm with the Navy Recruitment Office."

She said, "I'm uncomfortable in giving out my son's information.  Just so you know, we are ashamed of the war in Iraq and do no support it."

"We'll ma'am, that is the army.  We are the Navy."

"Look.  Don't pull that crap on me.  It is wartime.  Your enlistments are down or you wouldn't be calling," she said, then added, "We aren't interested."

"Ma'am? Would your son be more interested if he had that $84,000.00 signing bonus?"

"So 84 thousand is the price tag you put on my son?  You have determined his life is valued at $84,000.00?"

They begged off the phone after he asked her to take down his information.  I know it is going to be awhile till she sees her son.  He travels around the world.

Jenn was fast thinking.  Her brood was threatened today.

No WMD, no proliferation of weapons, biological or otherwise- still they want our children.  Numbers.  They want numbers.  I wonder what the new enlistments will be offered and where the next war is going to be fought since Bush declared our Victory in Iraq long ago.  Good day to you all.  May your brood be safe.

It all begins in Texas

From corporal punishment to privatized rip-offs, Texas leads us all. 

They lead the country in the most fatalities due to child-abuse and the most fatalities due to spousal abuse.  They privatized their social security fully for over a decade in three counties with the following as results: The wealthy did better than they would have had they stayed in social security while the poor suffered losses and in some cases became beholden to a welfare subsidy.  Brilliant.  Help the rich screw the poor.  Sooner you can help the poor die, the better off we will all be. (don't really mean it)

When we look for examples of success it makes it truly difficult to follow those coming out of Texas.  Odd how they all went to Galveston yesterday, Tom DeLay's territory to discuss Social Security Reform.  Here is a link that originated from the Chicago Sun and we ran in February.  http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/10933779.htm

Look, I'm thinking we all contribute a percentage up to a dollar ceiling amount which should guarantee benefits at a certain rate.  From there, we are already allowed to invest in privatized accounts.  I don't understand why we are pushing this now.  We have been allowed to fund our own retirements for years and even cease paying into social security since 1981.  However, I want us to all put in money up to a celing amount.  (That's my opinion because we must have a guarentee that we pay into, not something we get on the backs of others).  The privatized contributions would be on those who had more to invest.  The wealthier people would be taking greater risks and many will do much better than social security could ever do for them.  They ought to be allowed to do this and they are.  So when Clinton started this mess of reform when we had a surplus in our budget, I wonder why Bush is perpetuating it after that surplus is gone--and then some.  Again, it is just me wondering wtf is going on.

As for corporal punishment, a little discipline such as spankings should be allowed, but in the schools these days, we have too many people who can be brought up on civil rights lawsuits, both deserving to be and undeserving to be.  It is how our laws work for us and against us.  Personal ethics must be seeded and tended in order to grow.

Christians-The demise of this Country? chelle stockman

One day, the world will call for the death of Christians.  They will blame us for all that has gone wrong.  I never understood why anyone would want me dead or want my brothers and sisters dead.

But when you consider how easy it has been to get a lot of Christians together to help make political decisions you can begin to understand why it is quite possible that the world will come to hate us.

Frisk knows this and is now swaying us through good sense talks.  Trouble with good sense talks is that Frisk and his pals manipulate all the sense fed to us--not good.  They want the fillibuster to end when just ten years ago they were all for it.  Democrats were admanent about getting rid of the fillibuster back in those days, of course they didn't exploit the fledglings (christians) as this current administration is hell bent on doing.

The fillibuster is designed to give the minority a voice.  Look, if there was good research done on a subject (and it is usually too biased to be good), there would be no need to have a fillibuster.  Why don't we the people say, "These are the rules of the senate.  Do your research, represent us, ask us what we think, inform us and do the American thing. For once, put your party talk behind you."

Please take time to go to this link and answer some questions.

http://hometown.aol.com/activistsvoice/myhomepage/profile.html

Thank you,

Chelle Stockman

Just A Few Little Things...

Remember how history went with Benito Mussolini?   Remember what we have created for history with Saddam Hussein?  Both were in the way of our goals and it was possible that our goals were good ones ultimately.  It is still too early for me to say but I do know that while Italy was being occupied by Germany, propaganda pertaining to the ill tempered Hindus was spreading which ultimately resulted in The Muslim League exterminating a great portion of them.  This was in the 40s.

We are after the natural gas in the Caspian Sea which the people of Gorgan (Iranians) control.  We removed Saddam because we could not count on him to help us get the Natural Gas.  He was a Sunni.  Right now, the Shi-ites are spreading stories about the Sunni people.  They are accusing the Sunni of kidnapping and killing them.  This is how it happened in the 40s to the Hindus.  Over a million of them were killed in so called defense maneuvers.  I wonder how many Sunnis will die in this era. In that area, the Sunni make up 32- 38 percent of the people with most of them being Kurdish in origin.  Looks like the Kurds can't get away from the genocide that is chasing them. 

Let's just watch and see.

 

 

Now, Go thank your Senators, please.

Subj: Letter to Senator John Voinovich & John Kerry  Date: 4/22/2005 2:34:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: Chelle Stockman To: GoddessOf7Worlds

Dear Senator Voinovich,
What can I say?   THANK YOU-THANK YOU-THANK YOU.  Your honesty is something I've not seen a lot of lately.  Our nation is under a spirit of anti-pluralism and ill-liberalism right now. 

In regard to appointing John Bolton as the U.S.Ambassdor to the U.N.,we truly need to think on this.  We need discussion.  If someone has proved they usurp the the integrity and authority of others while alienating subordinates, we must not allow that person to represent us.

Your timing was brilliant and you made me cry.  To admit that you weren't aware of allegations that you heard them did a lot for my belief in our system.  With good people like yourself, democracy American style works.

Thank you for bypassing the labeling of democrats and republicans.  Thank You. 
I'm overjoyed to be an American.

Rochelle Stockman

Dear Senator Kerry,

THANK YOU-THANK YOU-THANK YOU!  You are wonderful, sir.  I appreciate your patience and eloquence, your persistence and the way you handled the issues regarding John(the beast)Bolton.  You, Bidon, Boxer have a friend and concerned partner for America in Senator George Voinovich.  I'm telling you, I cried when American considerations seemed to be failing.  When Voinovich said he hadn't been aware of the sins of Bolton and until they checked things out he wouldn't be willing to vote.  Well, you were there.  I watched, glued to C-Span! 

I wrote him to thank him.  He deserves it.  You all do, well those of you who were more interested in truth than fighting the labels put upon us.  The truth is, this isn't a republican-democrat fight.  We are warring anti-pluralists and those possessed by a spirit of ill-liberalism.

Keep up the good fight sir.  I love you.

Chelle Stockman of California.