My Thoughts on Changes

I just wonder, time and again, if some people has nothing better to do with their lives, specially when they boast to the four winds that they have such a wonderful and full of bliss existence… I mean, doesn’t a “bestseller” author has anything better to do than sending anonymous “tips” on weight loss to somebody that has struggled with the same problem for a number of years? Can’t she use the same brain that is able to spew full length novels in six days to figure out that her “tips”, sent in contempt, are old news? What is the point you are trying to make? That Julie is overweight? Big news flash: “she knows!!” As well as every other overweight woman –and adoring fan– that visit your blog and read your novels every single day…

What bothers me the most is that I think we’ve had –the three of us– enough water under the bridge for at least sign “our own comments”… (If they are approved or not is another story but at least is something honest) What is worst, to sign them under somebody else’s name, is kind of low, don’t you think? Come on, IP addresses are “unique” and they are recorded. Even a four-year old can match the numbers “68.42.40.113” in one place with the ones in another. A “bright one” may even tell you the same thing I’m saying here.
Thank you, though, for taking some time out of reading Julie’s poetry –and staring at her picture,– to also visit my other blogs. The traffic is always appreciated.

I mean, is it a prerequisite for a job at Fox News to be a fascist? Is this guy still holding a grudge from the “Hundred Years war”? This was written “before” the London attacks; I could almost hear the guy saying: “See? I told you so! It should have been Paris, not London, where that happened…”
FOXNews.com – The Big Story w/ John Gibson – My Word – Missed Opportunity

Paris was exactly the right place to pick and the Olympic committee screwed up.
Why? Simple. It would have been a three-week period where we wouldn’t have had to worry about terrorism.
First, the French think they are so good at dealing with the Arab world that they would have gone out and paid every terrorist off. And things would have been calm.
Or another way to look at it is the French are already up to their eyeballs in terrorists. The French hide them in miserable slums, out of sight of the rich people in Paris.
So it would have been a treat, actually, to watch the French dealing with the problem of their own homegrown Islamist terrorists living in France already.

Now, this is the same guy that yesterday wrote:
Karl Rove Should Get a Medal

I say give Karl Rove (search) a medal, even if Bush has to fire him.
Why? Because Valerie Plame (search) should have been outed by somebody. And if nobody else had the cojones to do it, I’m glad Rove did — if he did do it, and he still says he didn’t.

No, sir, the kids that are dying for nothing over in Iraq and Afghanistan should get a medal, the very moment they sign the recruitment papers thinking they are fighting for their country when in fact are just pawns on a worldwide chess game where people like Karl Rove are moving the pieces.
Let’s not forget people like these reporters and commentators that fan a misleading patriotism into the red-hot conservative base of this country. What a bunch of hypocrites…

DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism Security

Washington lifts London ban for troops
July 12, 2005, 7:31 PM (GMT 02:00)
In response to a British protest, the US reversed an order issued a few hours earlier placing London out of bounds to thousands of US military personnel based in the UK. The order specified: “Until there is more knowledge about what happened.”

…my shiny red horns?”
Now, why am I not the least bit surprised?
Why Bush Has To Fire Rove – Yahoo! News

The Nation — In a weekend posting I asked if it was time to get ready for the Karl Rove frog-march? The question was prompted by a Newsweek article by reporter Michael Isikoff that disclosed the first documentary evidence showing that Rove revealed to a reporter that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s wife worked at the
CIA. In a July 11, 2003 email that Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper sent to his bureau chief, Cooper noted he had spoken to Rove on “double super secret background” and that Rove had told him that Wilson’s “wife…apparently works at the agency on wmd issues.” “Agency” means CIA. This is not good news for Rove and the White House.

t r u t h o u t – Norman Solomon | Beware the “War on Terror”

“Terrorism is not an enemy. It cannot be defeated. It’s a tactic. It’s about as sensible to say we declare war on night attacks and expect we’re going to win that war. We’re not going to win the war on terrorism. And it does whip up fear. Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.”
US Army general, William Odom, Retired, Nov/2002 on C-SPAN.

Well, what do you know, I was just checking the stats for my sites and found that somebody at the U.S. Department of State has been reading my blogs. Actually, I’m jealous, somebody sent a message to someone in the U.S.D.O.S. with a link to my wife’s blog, Julie. Hey, since when are Julie’s steamy poems more interesting to the Department of State than my own stuff and photography!?!? Uh? That someone is checking her/his e-mail thru AOL Webmail. Here is a look at the stats:

Hmmm, is Dr. Condoleezza Rice into reading steamy Spanish poetry? I know she knows Russian like the back of her hand, I didn’t know she knew Spanish too. I’m glad Colling Powell is out, I may think he was after Julie. With Dr. Rice, well, I don’t know what to think…
Just do me a favor, all of you out there, if you don’t know Spanish, please don’t use the Google Translator to read us, it fucking STINKS!! It is better to ask us to translate that for you guys.

I just posted something in “Cambios y Reflexiones,” my Spanish blog, about the “Live 8” Concert in Philadelphia. For those who do not read or speak Spanish, sorry, I will not post an English version of it here. However, suffice is to say, the post was about the uploading of a picture album with over two hundred photographs in it. The album is here:“Live 8 – Philly, Pictures”
I took almost six hundred pictures that day, from about 80 yards away from the stage. Below are three pictures with a circle marking the spot where my family and I were. I must say the experience was unforgettable and the richness of people and faces to be found there was a photographer’s dream.

Above and to the left, where the links to my other sites are, I placed a permanent link to the album.
Live 8 is a very good cause against sickness and poverty in Africa. I hope this little grain of salt I’m contributing with my pictures helps to reach the hearts of those in power to change the destiny of our world.
I hope you all enjoy the pictures.
live8 philly
Philadelphia

I love to read Wil Wheaton’s blog. He’s one of the very few high profile personalities I’ve had the pleasure to read that is open and humble, more so even than most people who are nobody. Here is a piece of self-advise that he’s taking seriously. I’ve read Wil for a couple of years and he shares so, so much soul with his readers. I know exactly how he must be feeling about being accosted by creeps that take advantage of such openness and honesty. I’ll keep reading though. The man knows how to share thoughts…

I hate Reality TV, and I feel like my blog is dangerously close to crossing the line from ” this interesting thing happened to me” to “come with me while I take a shit in the woods.” I need to tell more stories, and bear less soul. You know what I’ve learned about The Internets? It’s full of freaks, and if a high-profile person bears too much soul, they really come out of the woodwork and latch on. It’s a little creepy. So, I need to reclaim a lot of myself for myself and my friends and family. If that means people stop reading WWdN, I’m really okay with that. In fact, I hope it has a bit of a Darwin effect.

You have a name,

A body, a voice,

A soul and I

Held you, left

The dream behind.

I will not let

Passion escape.

No more, never again

Will allow sanity

To plot my

Heart’s course.

I want to remember

A tomorrow where

You simply be.

The dream, the loss

The pain, letting

Go when I held

You in my hands

Never again! 

I’ll hold your waist,

I’ll feel you mine and

Turning to me, your

Soul will speak 

Your eyes, softly

Weaving little words,

In abandonment,

Saying “I’m yours,

Don’t, ever

Again, let go”

And I remember,

That tomorrow,

Like the past

Of a life that

Has brought me

To you.