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fatherly ... paternal, protective, concerned, caring, loving, supportive, kind ...

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If our media and politicians told us every day that the world is flat most Americans would believe that it's true.That is what's happening to Americans today. The United Nations and the World Court have made resolutions about the middle east that everyone in the world agrees to except Israel,the U.S. and a few pacific islands who get U.S. aid.
Anyone who wants truth has to accept the responsibility to search it out beyond the mainstream media. If you want the truth on Israel/Gaza/Palestine you must read or listen to Amy Goodman/Democracy Now,If Americans Knew, KPFK, Free Gaza, Norman Finkelstein, Jewish Voice for Peace, Ian Masters, Middle East in Focus, Truthdig and Occupation 101.The politicians are controlled by AIPAC and the media conglomerates have businesses that profit from war.
If you find some information that moves you please take action. Send money to the above. Write your politicians and media. Sixty percent of the people in Gaza are children. If your heart says killing and maiming and terrorizing hundreds of thousands of children might be wrong, please take some action. Any action.

If we really want to stop the killing in Gaza, stop killing animals and eating them and their products.

If we really want to stop the killing on Gaia, stop keeping pets and killing the spirit of the animal nation.

If we really want to stop the killing in Gaza and on Gaia, stop being in debt and stop getting interest on money.

If we can't do even this little bit, stop being a hypocrite with useless words and actions.

If we can't understand this, get an education in life. (89 words)

Uh.. non-sequiter much? Being brief is a start, but making sense is even better.

Non-sequitur means "it does not follow."

Saying something does not follow when it does is "non-sequitur."

In a universe that makes sense, facts "sequitur."

The effects in Gaza have sequitur causes.

War is caused by killing, first tested on animals.

War is caused by slavery, first animals (including pets).

War is caused by debt-slavery and investment-divestment.

If one is eating meat, keeping pets and buying the debt-slavery investment-divestment system, he or she can't "sequitur" well.

That, my friends, is sequitur logic, and if you can't sequitur it, your education has been sadly neglected. (99 words)

From the looks of it, in DJL's world, everyone's education has been "sadly neglected."

Denise continues to exhibit tell tale signs of narcism, a persecution complex and meets various criteria of affective schitzoid disorder. Please excuse her self righteous sermons. She is lonely, angry and alienated. The Ojai Post provides her with a soap box and is her only solace. Approach her with a smile and your sense of humor and eventually it might rub off on her. When folks are as judgemental, belligerant and anti social as Denise, it just means they are wounded. Blinded by her self hatred, Denise has a red door but she thinks it's painted black.

When one's education has been sadly neglected it shows on a site like OP.

Fluff is taken for substance and psychobabble for wisdom.

Real problems go unsolved because uneducated Ojaians lack intelligence. For example, they have no real solution for Gazas.

Intelligence deficit is caused by patriarchal addictions but OJaians cannot make the connection between such choices and effects.

When someone challenges their beliefs they fall into denial and call for the censorship of the source of their discontent.

Ojai is a mirror but few have the courage to look deeply into her for fear of what they might see. (100 words)

Madame Leary....

Once again thou contort the Ojai Post
into thine own therapy most public...

Go...
Get thee to a nunnery

Don the habit once more...
Exalt in total "blog" abstinence...

Or should thou stumble
In sacred cloisters

Go...
Cleave unto twelve steps...
Bloggers anonymous of Ojai...

Or should thou fall anon
Get thee to a psychiatrist...

And should thou stumble there
Be most saintly of all...
And just go...
Far, far away...

The world does not revolve
around the orbs of thy filthy moon...

Why does Denise waste her vast intellect and clearly superior intellect on us? Why isn't she off being a rocket scientist or brain surgeon instead of, er..., ummm, what is it Denise Leary does exactly, with all that brainpower?

oh Denise shooby-do
I'm in love with you...

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Millions Converging on Washington DC for Inauguration of New 'Messiah'

Washington Post -- Sunday, January 11, 2009

Saying they see a spiritual nature to Barack Obama's inauguration, dozens of area churches and other faith groups are planning an unusual rush of activities to mark the occasion, from assisting food banks to Bible lectures on public policy to hosting of hundreds of out-of-town church members.

For the people involved, many of whom are mainline Protestants, the events are unprecedented; religion historians and local faith leaders say they can't remember anything similar for a presidential inauguration. Plans sound more like those for a mission trip than a political swearing-in ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/10/AR2009011001785.html

Dharma asks Denise to go away
The moon over Ojai insists she stay

I watched the moon all last night
She and I were birds in flight

We flew to Gaza and back here
Love makes connections Ojaians fear

Don't take it personal comfort town
By the talk that's going round

Ojai Moon will tuck you in bed
While Gaza mother tears are shed

And Ojai money pays the bills
For Obama religion wargame shills

If none of this makes any sense
It's just lack of Ojai intelligence

Like Dharma's karma out of tune
With my sacred Ojai moon

(99 words)

Denise-
I'm with Dharma
Go away!

(6 words and 1 exclamation point!)

same, WORD!

Published on Monday, January 12, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
Gaza is Sinking in a River of Blood: A Message from a Gazan to the World
by Mohammed Fares Al Majdalawi

I want to write about the suffering of my people and my family in these days of siege against the people of Gaza. 888 people have been killed and more than 3700 injured. The Red Cross has accused the Israeli military of repeatedly refusing to allow ambulances to go to Zeitoun area, so those who are injured become those who die; a premeditated and purposeful violation of human rights.

In my house we can't get basic needs. No food. No bread. No fuel. No future. Yesterday, my father went to the bakery at 5 AM. He waited 5 hours to get one loaf of bread, which is not enough for my family because there are 11 of us. So today it was my turn. I went to all the bakeries -- all were closed.

There is no safe place we can go. We cannot communicate with our relatives and friends -- networks are down as missiles rain on our homes, mosques and even hospitals.

Our life is centered around the burials of those who have died, our martyrs, At night our camp, Jabalya Refugee Camp, is a ghost town, with no sounds other than those of Israeli military aircraft.

There is a horror in every minute and it is clear especially in the lives of children. For example, there were five sisters in one family killed from the Israeli occupation while they stayed in their home. But there are 800,000 other children in Gaza, all afraid, all waiting for someone or something to help them. They are caught in a prison that is becoming a concentration camp. Every day we sleep and open our eyes to the Israeli crimes of killing children and women and destroying civilians' homes. My words are unable to convey my feelings about this life in Gaza.

I have two messages to the world, to those who claim they love peace and seek freedom.

Imagine your life consisting of no electricity, destroyed homes, the sounds and strikes of missiles, day and night, and the only hunger as great as that for food is the hunger for an end to this occupation and siege. Imagine it is not just you but your children and your family who tell you through their eyes and cries: "We are afraid of the missiles." "We cannot sleep." "We may never sleep again." Imagine you are the dam and the river of blood has turned into a flash flood. How long could you stand it?

We wouldn't have to stand it any longer if the world stood with us. If they demanded an end to the siege and the killings and demolition of houses for our children. If they demanded assistance reach the people through rallies and sit-ins.

Finally, I invite you to come to Gaza and see the Holocaust. Because despite the siege, the barriers, the killing of my people and homes, and the total destruction of our lives by the Israeli occupation, they can not and will not kill the will of our people for equality and justice.

Mohammed Al Majdawali is a university student, member of Al-Assria Children's Library, and volunteer with Middle East Children's Alliance. He lives in Jabalya Refugee Camp with his family and aspires to be a professional filmmaker.

To help MECA send more medical aid to Gaza for thousands of sick and injured people living under siege, www.mecaforpeace.org

The Blood-Stained Monster Enters Gaza

By URI AVNERY
Nearly seventy ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. For more than a thousand days, a gang of extremists called “the Red Army” held the millions of the town’s inhabitants hostage and provoked retaliation from the German Wehrmacht from inside the population centers. The Germans had no alternative but to bomb and shell the population and to impose a total blockade, which caused the death of hundreds of thousands.

Some time before that, a similar crime was committed in England. The Churchill gang hid among the population of London, misusing the millions of citizens as a human shield. The Germans were compelled to send their Luftwaffe and reluctantly reduce the city to ruins. They called it the Blitz.

This is the description that would now appear in the history books – if the Germans had won the war.

Absurd? No more than the daily descriptions in our media, which are being repeated ad nauseam: the Hamas terrorists use the inhabitants of Gaza as “hostages” and exploit the women and children as “human shields”, they leave us no alternative but to carry out massive bombardments, in which, to our deep sorrow, thousands of women, children and unarmed men are killed and injured.
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