Changing Places

I do moderate all commenters making a first-time comment, for spam and for politeness. After that, your comments should be posted automatically, and if not, you can send me a note to let me know so it doesn’t get caught in Akismet’s spam filter. I try to check through all spam comments to make sure, but don’t always catch them.

Sometimes I do delete comments or posts if they are too obnoxious or hostile. People referring to me or other commenters as “bimbo” or other derogatory terms will be banned. Occasionally I remove a post if the wingers have become particularly obnoxious. It’s sad that people can’t discuss things politely, but politeness was never the right-wing forte. For the record, I’m registered libertarian, so calling me a liberal derogatory something or other is likely to get someone banned, too (unless I think it’s funny). My regular commenters can, of course, say whatever they please, since I like them a lot. ;^)

Hey, it’s my place, and always my choices. I try to be interesting, sometimes provocative, sometimes spiritual or inspiring when I can, but mostly, to get people to think for themselves and not just blast me with something some idiot on the radio told them. You know what I mean….

One of my most favorite blogs EVHAR has returned!! Woot! Go enjoy….

Fafblog! back to save the universe.

It’s time for another edition of BARACK OBAMA: THE FINAL THROES! Last week Giblets revealed the dangerous levels of pussification inherent in Obama’s bowling skills and orange juice consumption while exploring the damage done by persistent rumors that the senator is secretly black. But this latest scandal has doomed the Obama campaign more than any dooming doom that has doomed it before, because this time Obama has Insulted America by saying that poor people in impoverished rural areas are somehow “bitter” about being poor and impoverished. For shame!

Well Giblets knows the real Americans of the heartland, Barack Obama. He has flown over them and driven past them and grimaced amiably in their direction on the way to hotel rooms on numerous occasions, and in that time he has come to appreciate their primitive yet unique culture. These salt-of-the-earth folk don’t need your condescending liberal elitism to tell them how they feel! They need Giblets’s condescending conservative elitism to tell them how they feel! These people aren’t “bitter.” Far from it! America’s impoverished working class are a chipper and cheerful lot, prancing and scampering about their foreclosed homes and crumbling industrial sectors with a spirit of adorable pluckiness, smiling and laughing through their unemployment and their black lung disease like a pack of hardscrabble leprechauns!1 And Giblets is sure they are outraged to hear Barack Obama imply otherwise - just as he is sure they are even outraged-er to hear Obama scorn their honest midwestern folkways, mocking the simple beauty of their long, proud tradition of recreational possum-killing and their homey, heartfelt gay-bashing! Well Giblets has a long if purely theoretical love of our nation’s yahoo population and their mysterious ways, and would be proud to join them himself were he not so busy wiping their hideous yokel-germs off him with copious quantities of hand sanitizer.

On a day when I am not at peace with myself or my surroundings, Ascender comes along and kicks my cage door wide open. I was going to write something about how I am feeling today, but I think I’ll just link to her good wishes instead. Please click on her link below to visit all the bloggers she lists; I don’t have the time to fix all the linky love at the moment here.

Namaste, to all.

Studio Lolo tagged me with this ‘peace and love’ meme; to spread the word to send loving energy and thoughts to the places and people that need it. Rather then tagging others I hope to pass on some urls of my virtual pals who could use some of your loving energy and thoughts. Please leave some virtual peace and love to some people who could really use it right now.

Red Moon at the loss of her daughter

The Daily Warrior successfully fighting ALS for 16 years

Studio Friday is closing down. Stop by and show her some love for her dedication all these years.

Check out these bloggers who address peace and love almost everyday: 3191, a poetic justice, another poster for peace, anti-war us, Art For A Change, Art of Mark Byran, Artists Helping Children, Blog Like You Give A Damn, Blood For Oil, bricalu, Buddha Project, Change Me, Changing Places, Crafty Green Poet, No Blood For War and Profit, Inhabitat, kamurawayan, Light a Candle, Military Families Speak Out, Miniature Gigantic, Paris Parfait, Peaceful Societies, Pinwheels for Peace, Poets Against the War, rambling taoist, smile, smile, Take it Personally, The Peace Train, Treehugger, Visual Resistance, We Are What We Do, Betmo, Bloggers For Peace

One of the weird things about the Internet and blogging is caring deeply about people you’ve never met.

One of my favorite bloggers is ill - think good thoughts for her, people…..

Oh, and if you have symptoms of angina and congestive heart failure, please do not think you are “lazy” and get yourself to the hospital a bit more quickly than Maya’s Granny has, please. We older women are simply not indestructible, no matter how much we think we are.

Maya’s Granny

This is J again. Mom came through the angiogram well. She did not enjoy it at all. Looks like she will need bypass surgery, probably on Friday, but that’s just a guess, as I haven’t talked to her surgeon about it yet.

Will keep you up to date as I know more.

I often get comments on my blogroll and how interesting, varied and diversified it is. The common denominator of all of the blogs I read is that they are all excellent trend spotters — those who are aware of change in the world, in the places they live, and in themselves and who are valuing and creating value from those changes in a positive way. They are the way I stay in touch with what is going on in the world in any number of different areas.

The list changes with my current interests, but the best blogs from those interest are the ones that tend to remain there month after month, so the list inevitably gets longer. From time to time I pare off a few who have stopped posting or cut back.I suppose I could go to a feed reader, but that never feels the same to me - there is something in the visible look of someone’s site that appeals to me and tells me something about them.

If you by chance happen to get removed from my blogroll and would like to be re-added, or if you’re a reader not on my blogroll, please just ask. And it is not about exchanging links for me or to boost my ego if I have lots of readers or just a few - I really don’t care all that much. Those who need to read what I have to say will find their way here.

I have no illusions of changing the world, or of changing anyone’s opinions. My preference is to simply enjoy the flow of change, which is life itself. Change is the heart of Tao and the reason I am drawn to it and it to me.

Namaste.