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Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitude.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Progressive Faith Bloggers Deadline

Progressive Faith Bloggers Deadline

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A reminder that I’ll be hosting the Progressive Faith Bloggers Carnival this Sunday. Send me those links at heidi (at) virushead (dot) net. The deadline for member submissions is Saturday noon EST. This will give me the time to read, comment, and post on Sunday.

Join us if you’d like to participate.

Progressive Faith Blog-Con 2006 Carnival

No Bravery Anymore

No Bravery Anymore

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Please view this video and listen to the song by James Blunt. I love James Blunt’s music (especially "You’re Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover") but I hadn’t heard "No Bravery." The song is even more powerful now in terms of Iraq than it was for Bosnia, where he was stationed when he wrote it.

What I noticed most about the video montage is the sadness in everyone’s eyes, including those of American soldiers. Support our troops. End this illegal war. Turn the USA away from this present darkness.

A nation blind to their disgrace,
Since he’s been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

Sign the Global call for peace at Women Say No to War

Match in the Gas Tank Boom Boom

Match in the Gas Tank Boom Boom

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Ok, Exxon Mobile beats out my entry on Chevron’s profits.

The world’s largest oil company, ExxonMobil, has announced its record-breaking profits for 2005 — $36.13 billion.

That is the largest profit ever recorded in the history of American capitalism.

Again.

That is the largest profit ever recorded in the history of American capitalism.

ExxonMobil uses its billions to sabotage efforts to slow global warming and to lobby Congress in support of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off of America’s majestic coasts. Instead, ExxonMobil should invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy, such as wind and solar power.

Watch True Majority’s wee movie “Exxon Toasts the Planet,” and then send a message from the page to the new CEO, Rex Tillerson.

Match in the gas tank. Boom-boom.

Bush Protest January 31

Bush Protest January 31

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The World Can’t Wait

Nationwide demonstrations are set for January 31 – the night of Bush’s State of the Union address – to be followed by a massive demonstration in Washington, D.C. on February 4. The demand? BUSH STEP DOWN. The world can’t wait for there to be more Abu Ghraibs and Alitos. The world can’t wait, lest the controversy over Iran turn into another unjust war, perhaps even more horrendous than the one still raging in Iraq. It can’t wait as the Bush regime claims more and more unbridled power – power to spy on people, to imprison without charges, to torture – without even going through the motions of obeying the law. For more theocrats to be put into positions of power – including in the military.

Note to Atlanta readers: Atlanta, January 31st: 8PM, CNN Center, downtown Atlanta (Marietta St. and Olympic Park Blvd.) Look up your location.

International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration

The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration will be holding its second session Jan. 20-22 in NYC at Riverside Church (Friday & Saturday) and Columbia Univ. Law School (Sunday). The first session offered shocking evidence of the scope and depths of crimes this regime has committed. Just watching the highlights from its DVD (available at bushcommission.org) will both horrify and compel you to do everything to stop what is being done in our names.

The Commission has indicted the Bush administration on 5 counts: 1) Wars of Aggression, 2) Torture and Indefinite Detention, 3) Destruction of the Global Environment, 4) Attacks on Global Public Health and Reproductive Rights, 5) Knowing Failure to Protect Life During Hurricane Katrina. It brings together powerful testimony from the victims of this regime to experts and activists, to defectors from the regime, and applies rigorous standards in prosecuting its indictments. Witnesses include: Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, former head of Abu Ghraib prison; Craig Murray, resigned British ambassador to Uzbekistan; Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, Ray McGovern, ex CIA; Katrina victims… and more.

Everyone who can should come to NYC Jan. 20-22 for this historic tribunal, and spread the shocking truth about this regime to everyone you can.

Check out more about this Commission and statements from participants below:

Indictments Alleging Crimes Against Humanity Served by Citizens’ Delegation on Bush White House with letters to Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Miers.

Delivering a Powerful “J’Accuse” — Right in Bush’s Brave New “Homeland” by Larry Everest

Interview with Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, formerly in charge of Abu Ghraib prison, now a participant in the Commission

Take Action

Take Action

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Stop Corruption First – “As the first order of business Congress should pass an anti-corruption law to rein in lobbyists, toughen ethics rules, create an independent entity to enforce the rules and get serious about public financing of elections.”

Protect Communities’ Right to Know About Chemical Releases
Docket ID No. TRI-2005-0073 – One of our nation’s most successful environmental protections, the Community Right-to-Know Act requires industry to disclose information on chemical releases into nearby communities. (Congress ordered these annual “toxic release inventories” (TRI) reports in the wake of a 1984 accident at a Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India, which released a poisonous gas and killed thousands, many of whom didn’t even know the pesticide was being manufactured in their community.) But now the EPA is proposing weakening these protections, by excusing companies from disclosing large spills and requiring the reports every other year instead of annually.Tell the EPA to protect our right to know about toxic chemical releases (it’s their job and purpose!), and to drop its proposed ruling.

Vote on Best Ideas for Working Americans
Since Sliced Bread‘s open call for new ideas to improve the lives of everyday working Americans has become a national conversation. Yesterday SEIU announced the 21 finalists — innovative ideas that address healthcare, education, retirement, minimum wage, taxes, energy, home ownership, civil service and many other bread-and-butter issues for ALL of us — and the American people are voting on the very best ideas SinceSlicedBread. Read the 21 finalist ideas, and cast your ballot for three of them now.

Don’t Take Grizzly Bears Off the Endangered Species List
Grizzly bears would be extinct in the lower 48 states were it not for the protections of the Endangered Species Act. Grizzlies already have been eliminated from 99 percent of their former habitat. Weakening current protections would further fragment and destroy their last remaining home. Stripping endangered species protection from Yellowstone’s bears would jeopardize their long-term survival. Millions of acres of the grizzlies’ habitat would be opened to oil and gas drilling and other development, and hunters would be permitted to kill bears that roam outside the park. Wyoming, Montana and Idaho all already have plans to allow grizzly hunting when the bears are delisted. The Bush administration is accepting comments on its delisting proposal through February 21st.

Don’t Throw Wolves “to the Wolves”
Top 3 Attacks on Wolves by the Bush Administration
* Returning management to Idaho, which passed a resolution to eliminate wolves “by any means necessary”
* Allowing continued aerial gunning of Alaska’s wolves
* Authorizing illegal wolf kills in Wisconsin and Michigan
Go to http://www.savewolves.org now to support strong federal protections for wolves.