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Nature knows about Bernie’s sweet spirit
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Yesterday Bernie Sanders won big time by over 7o percent in Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii. The bird that alit on Bernie’s podium was not afraid of Bernie. Watch the video.
Presidential humor and sanity
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A relaxed President Obama speaks about reality. Listen for Putin and the snowball! Some things you couldn’t make up!
Pure JOY – 106-year-old @ the White House
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President Obama to 106-year-old admirer during Black History Month visit to the White House: “Slow down now! Don’t go to quick!”
Disingenuous Endorsement Tactic
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Moments after posting a proposed list of questions for tonight’s debate moderators, Views from the Edge found this video. This video exposes the corporate lobbying connections of the PAC that claims to speak for the Congressional Black Caucus. Decide for yourself. Rep. Keith Ellison is a friend who served as Executive Director of the Legal Rights Center in Minneapolis before becoming a Minnesota legislator, U.S. Congressman, and Bernie Sanders supporter.
A New Government of National Concentration
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Adolf Hitler rose to power by playing to the fears, anxieties, and anger of the German people. His strategy was to play the strongman who would fix it, make Germany great again. A nation that had regarded itself as exceptional had lost its way, humiliated by defeat in World War I. Hitler focused that anger at the weakness of the post-World War I Weimar Republic whose inept Chancellor and Reichstag (i.e. Congress) he blamed for the nation’s drift. He blames Marxist thinking and Communists. He declares Christianity to be the religion of the German state. By narrowing and scapegoating, he focuses the people’s fears and anxieties on visible targets. It was only a matter of time before Jews, homosexuals, and gypsies joined the ranks of those to be eliminated in a purified Aryan state.
Notice how quietly, how slowly this speech begins. He waits for the crowd to be quiet before he continues to speak. He is taming them. Mesmerizing them. Training them for Fascism. And when he has brought them to heel, he unleashes a tirade that taps into the people’s volcanic desire for a return to national exceptionalism.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.
- Gordon C. Stewart, Chaska, MN, Jan. 11, 2016.
Message to World Leaders in Paris
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Attention on Paris soon shifts to Climate Change. Join Robert Redford who invites ordinary folks like us to demand bold action by world leader.
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“As a husband, father, and grandfather, I worry about the devastating effects of climate change.
“Climate change is contaminating our air and water, making us sick, and poisoning the planet we’ll be leaving for future generations.
“But I do have hope. This December, leaders from every nation in the world will meet for the Paris Climate Summit — COP21 — to work towards an international commitment to climate action.
“We’ve all contributed to this problem — and we can all be part of the solution. Watch my video — then stand with me and tell world leaders meeting in Paris: We Demand Climate Action.
“We can work together to do something different — and these past few months have given us many reasons to be hopeful that the world is ready.
“The U.S. is going to Paris with its own blueprint for action — the groundbreaking Clean Power Plan, our country’s first-ever limits on climate-wrecking carbon pollution from power plants.
“And the U.S. is not acting alone. China announced its own national plan to cut carbon pollution. India is committing to dramatically expand its growing renewable energy sector. In fact, over 150 countries are coming to Paris with new national climate action plans.
“From every part of our world, in our own way, we can do something to act on climate. But we need our world leaders to do the same.
“This is our moment. Join me and sign the petition to demand global climate action.
“We’ll be partnering with organizations from across America — and around the world — to deliver your petitions to world leaders when they meet in Paris.
“If we want to leave our children, grandchildren and future generations a healthy planet, now is the time to act.”
Thank you.
Robert Redford
Trustee, NRDC
“We wither and perish, but…”
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ISIL’s terrorist attacks have put the world on high alert. Anxiety is high. How do we provide security against the threats of religious madness while honoring the Bill of Rights against illegal government intrusion?
Times like this also remind us of the need for prayer and thoughtful reflection, the need for something less knee-jerk, less urgent, more principled, wiser and more lasting.
People of my faith tradition often turn to the church’s music. We look to great hymns like “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” from whose poetry a favorite line came to mind yesterday.
“We blossom and flourish, like leaves on the tree, and wither and perish, but naught changeth Thee.”
Until darkness descends, it’s easy to forget we are mortal. We unconsciously indulge the illusion that we are immortal, that we will forever blossom and flourish without withering and perishing. These great hymns and the scriptures which inspired them help to recover our bearings in the search for the deeper wisdom that does not wither and perish, “the true life of all.”
- Gordon C. Stewart, Chaska, MN, November 18, 2015
A Song for Beirut and Paris
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News from Paris and Beirut reminds us of the history of Lac qui Parle, the Dakota Creation Song, that still speaks hope to a violent world. Thirty-eight Dakota men sang it in its original Dakota language – Wakantanka taku nitawu – before their executioners took them to the gallows in Mankato, MN in 1862. The threat of death did not deter them from affirming the goodness of creation.
“Many and great, O God, are Thy things, Maker of Earth and Sky; Thy hands have set the heavens with stars, Thy fingers spread the mountains and plains. Lo, at Thy word, the waters were formed; Deep seas obey Thy voice
“Grant unto us communion with Thee, Thou star-abiding One; Come unto us and dwell with us: With Thee are found the gifts of life. Bless us with life that has no end, Eternal life with Thee.
[Joseph R. Renville, Dakota, 1842; paraphrased translation, R. Philip Frazier, 1929 and 1953]
“When you’re rich, they think you really know”
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A song for Labor Day from Fiddler on the Roof helps explain the rise of You-Know-Who who seems to really know. When ordinary folks are losing their heads momentarily, a little humor’s good for the soul. Keep an eye out here for Emily Hedges Trumped.
- Gordon C. Stewart, Chaska, MN, September 6, 2015
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