emily's Blog

  The number of Americans living in severe poverty has expanded dramatically under the Bush administration, with nearly 16 million people now living on an individual income of less than $5,000 a year or a family income of less than $10,000.

  Fighting weakens, while harmony strengthens and empowers.

  When you're at peace with yourself and love yourself, it's virtually impossible for you to do things to yourself that are destructive.

    George Bush

winner of 11 academy awards including:

Best Fictional War    "War on Terror"

Most Convincing Special Interest Effects    "The Haliburton Story"

Best Supporting Puppet    "Colin Powell"

Achievement in Historical Editing  "The Clinton Years"

Achievement in Sound Bites    "Bring 'em On

Costume Design    "Flight Suit"

short acceptance speech    "I'd like to thank big oil"

  Seymour Hersh reports pallet-loads of cash floating around Iraq being funneled to terrorist groups.  Mr. Hersh reports that the Bush administration is funding anti-Shiite Sunnis linked to al Qaeda without Congressional approval and without appropriate appropriation.  He says that the president is "supporting groups indirectly that are involved with the same people that did 9/11."

  In order to forgive, you must have blamed.

  Everything in the universe flows.  You can't get ahold of water by clutching it.  Let your hands relax, though, and then you can experience it.

  Harmony gets inside you through your thinking.  The ancestor to all action is a thought.

  The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

On a muffin Packet:

  Remove wrapper, open mouth, insert muffin, eat.

On a washing machine in a laundromat:

  No small children.

On a Swedish chain saw:

  Do not attempt to stop  chain  with your hands or genitals.

On a bottle of baby lotion:

  Keep away from children.

On a bottle or rum:

  Open bottle before drinking.

  In the world of form, blame is a convenient excuse for why our world is not exactly what we'd like it to be.  The state of the world is a reflection of our state of mind.

  Your reputation is in the hands of others.  That's what a reputation is.  You can't control that.  The only thing you can control is your character.

  Anything that keeps you from growing is never worth defending.

  The entire gamut of human experience is yours to enjoy once you decide to venture into territory where you don't have guarantees.

  In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.

  Loving relationships work because there is no work.

  An elderly woman called 911 on her cellphone to report that her car had been broken into. 

  "They stole everything!.  The radio, my dashboard compass, even the steering wheel!!!!"

  Minutes later, an officer arrived and radioned in "Disregard the last call...she got in the backseat by mistake."

  "Civil disobedience is not our problem.  Our problem is civil obedience.  Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders....and millions have been killed because of this obiedience....Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty.  Our problem is that people are obedient while jails are full of petty thieves....(and) the grand thieves are running the country."          Howard Zinn

  Those that cause you the most anguish are those who remind you of what is either lacking or wanting in yourself.

  An elderly woman was admitted to the hospital with chest pain.  She refused to give the name of her primary care physician.

"Jesus Christ is the only doctor I'll ever need,"  she said.

Replied the frustrated administrator, "Yes, but does he have priviledges at this hospital?"

  Bread with  Viagra as an added indgredient is being marketed through a Boston bakery under the name "Pepperidge Firm."

  Don't let emotions immobilize you.  View them as choices.

  Conflict is a violation of harmony.  If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.

  Anything you must have comes to own you.  Ironically, when you release it, you start getting more of it.

  Give for the sake of giving, and keep it circulating as it flows back.

A new study reveals an alarming statistic:  senior citizens are the biggest carriers of AIDS:

Hearing aids

seeings aids

chewing aids

band aids

rolaids

walking aids

medicaids

  You're totally free when you're able to stop thinking about yourself and your self-importance.

  You can spend the rest of your life beginning right now, worrying about the future- and no amount of your worry will change a thing.

  It's easy to love some people.  The true test is to love someone who's hard to love.  Send all your enemies love.

  You can never fail in anything you try to do.  You can only produce certain results.

1.  Never take beer to a job interview.

2.  It's considered poor taste to take a cooler to church.

3.  Avoid throwing bones and food scraps on the floor as the restaurant may not have dogs.

4.  While ears need to be cleaned regularly, this is a job that should be done in private using one's OWN truck keys.

5.  Always offer to bait your date's hook, especially on the first date.

6.  Be aggresive.  Let her know you're interested:  "I've been wanting to go out with you since I read that stuff on the bathroom wall."

7.  Livestock, usually, is a poor choice for a wedding gift.

8.  It is not appropriate to tell the groom how good his wife is in the sack.

9.  Never relieve yourself from a moving vehicle, especially when driving.

10. Do not burn rubber while traveling in a funeral procession.

It's hard to solve a Redneck murder because all the DNA is the same and because there are no dental records.

(Thanks Bluegrass.)

  Only a ghost wallows around in his past, explaining himself with descriptors based on a Life already lived.  You are what you choose today, not what you've chosen before.

  What distinguishes what's alive from what's dead is growth, be it in plants or in you.

  It's never to late to have a happy childhood.

  When God speaks through your hands and smiles upon the earth through you because you're an unconditional giver, a purposeful being who asks nothing of anyone ....prosperity will be your reward.

  You don't get abused because there are a lot of abusers out there.  You get abused because you send out signals that say, "Abuse me.  I'll take it."

  "I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality."

yes - he said it  National Public Radio 1-29-07