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PITTSFIELD -- In June 2011, Danielle LaBrie sat in a car waiting for her then-fiancé to run in and pick up a drink at a local coffee shop just before the start of their vacation. In reality, Matthew W. Clemo was selling his bride-to-be's jewelry at a nearby pawn shop.
On Wednesday, Clemo pleaded guilty to the crime and was given a suspended sentence. Meanwhile, LaBrie, 32, said she is out thousands of dollars, but more importantly has lost her ability to trust people.
In Central Berkshire District Court, Clemo, 24, of Cummington, pleaded guilty to a single count of receiving stolen property. His attorney told the court Clemo was sorry for what he had done and wished he could take back his actions.
The revelations of the theft ended the couple's relationship, according to Clemo's attorney, Thomas C. Doyle.
LaBrie, in a written statement to the court, said that the jewelry that was pawned, including her mother's class ring, had sentimental value and was worth $7,000. Clemo received a little more than $1,000 for the jewelry, according to a Pittsfield Police report.
The Berkshire District Attorney's Office requested that Clemo be sentenced to nine months in jail. Judge Jacklyn M. Connly instead gave the defendant a year's suspended jail sentence and two years of probation.
The sentence would ensure the victim is paid back, according to the judge. If Clemo violates probation by failing to pay restitution, he can be sentenced to the year in jail.
The victim received $2,000 from insurance, but wants Clemo to pay $5,000 more. Clemo paid $500 in restitution on Wednesday. A hearing to determine how much more he will have to pay is scheduled for November.
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What does Rainsford learn from his experience on Ship-Trap Island in "The Most Dangerous Game"?
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The surprise ending of "The Most Dangerous Game" leaves many questions unanswered about Sanger Rainsford. Surviving the dive from the cliff and emerging in Zaroff's bedroom, the stunned general honors his pledge and announces Rainsford the winner of the game. However, it is Rainsford who decides to continue the hunt, apparently providing Zaroff as "a repast for the hounds." The story ends with Rainsford stating that "He had never slept in a better bed."
Having decried Zaroff's human hunt as murder earlier, was Rainsford himself now a murderer? It was certainly not self-defense, since Zaroff had already declared Rainsford the winner; and, though a killer, the general's honorable nature would have precluded him from denying Rainsford the hospitality of his home. It was Rainsford who demanded that the hunt continue.
Had Rainsford become enamored with the idea of Zaroff's game? Had he himself found the game fulfilling? Has he lowered himself to Zaroff's level of inhumanity and cruelty? Although fleeing for his life earlier, Rainsford had seemed to take delight in setting his traps and waiting for the result. Now, as tired as he must have been, he was ready to enact revenge upon the man who had tried to kill him. The satisfaction that he felt as he prepared for sleep must have been more than just the softness of the "comfortable bed."
These questions aside, Rainsford had learned that the hunted can indeed feel the fear of pain and the fear of death--something that he had denied when his friend, Whitney, suggested it at the beginning of the story.

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No Clear Cut Favorites
If you ask ten experts who will win the World Series in 2013 you are apt to get anywhere from 5-8 different answers. While Washington is looked at as the closest thing to a favorite, there are plenty of people out there who will pick the Reds, Rays, Angels, Rangers, Giants, Dodgers and even the Blue Jays. We live in a very different landscape than we did just five years ago.
Big Budgets In New Cities
The Dodgers have the biggest payroll coming into the 2013 season, followed by the Phillies, Tigers and Giants. Heck, even the Blue Jays are in the Top 10. Gone are the days where the Red Sox and Yankees were the only team's spending money.
A Changing Of The AL East Guard?
One team that does not have a big budget in 2013: the Tampa Bay Rays. With that said, many are favoring the Rays to win the division, if not the entire American League. The Blue Jays had a big off-season, spending a lot of money to try and get to the top of the division. The Orioles are looking to continue last year's magic and make it back to the playoffs. The Yankees and the Red Sox? They may be duking it out for the cellar.
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In the National League West, the defending champion Giants take on the Dodgers, who have spent their way back to relevance. In the American League West, the Angels and the Rangers will square off all season, with the Athletics close behind. These races will be wild.
Central Dominance?
The division winner almost everyone can agree on? The Tigers in the AL Central. The NL may be a difference story, with the Cardinals, the Brewers and the Reds all slugging it out.


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Farming out SA's water worries
06 May 2012 04:22 | Sipho Kings
The impact of water scarcity on crop farming will soon be one of SA's biggest problems. We may need to look across beyond our borders for a solution.
Two decades of high rainfall have masked South Africa's traditional water scarcity. To solve looming problems the country will have to work with its neighbours to share water and agriculture resources, as well as reallocate its internal resources.
Traditionally, South Africa has 15-year wet and dry cycles. The general trend indicates that the next dry cycle should start this year. But since the dawn of democracy unusually high levels of rainfall have made water seem limitless and its price has stayed low, says Dr Theo de Jager, vice president of AgriSA.
At the moment the country produces a surplus from farming, even though it is the third-driest country per capita in the continent, he said. But with growing water costs and lower rainfall looming this could dramatically change, he said.
"The current government has never had to manage a drought … You think people are angry about e-Tolls, imagine how angry they will be when the costs of their food shoot up as harvests drop," he warned.
This comes after a recent announcement by Edna Molewa, minister of environmental affairs, that due to infrastructure costs water tariffs would probably be increasing at a rate exceeding inflation.
Risk to development
"The changing climate means that the value of water has to be seen differently," says Dr Antony Turton, a private water expert. Instead of it being a resource that has to be bought from the department of water affairs, "it has to be seen as a risk to development, much like climate change. Any future plans therefore have to involve a lowering of water intensity and trade-offs between the different sectors of the economy."
The psychology also has to change, says Turton. Every drop of water has to be seen as "borrowed" from the cycle, and then returned. "Water can't just be poured out of a tap, paid for, and then forgotten. People have to understand that water cannot be created and what we have now is as much as there ever will be."
This will encourage a view of water as a resource that belongs equally to everyone, and will move people towards conserving and reusing it.
South Africa does not have a monopoly on problems with water supply, and may benefit from seeing how other countries are dealing with the broader implications of scarcity issues.
Dr Delli Priscoli, a senior advisor at the United States Army Corps of Engineers, says South Africa is beginning to face the same problem as his own country: how to reallocate water between sectors. In a developing country, the problem is normally how to get water to people, but here the government now has to decide which sectors are the most important and need preferential access.
But he believes this is one area where people do come across the lines that divide them to find equitable solutions. "Water is essential for all the core drivers of economic growth and because we all rely on it, we talk about it and work out fair allocations," says Priscoli. "We do not fight over it ... and this makes it a force of social cohesion."
Priscoli says discussions about water should extend across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. Every major river in the continent runs through several countries, so they depend on each other.
A solution for the southern tip of the continent would be to grow the agricultural sectors of countries such as Zambia, where there is more than enough rainfall.
Johan van Rooyen, the national director of planning at the department of water affairs, believes this would reduce the burden on South Africa to provide cheap water for irrigation -- over 60% of our water is used for irrigation -- and also stimulate neighbouring countries.
South Africa would be able to import the food Zambia grows and also get growing markets for its own goods.
Van Rooyen says that as climate change progresses, along with the expected drop in rainfall, this would help mitigate many of the problems that the country faces with ensuring food security.
Farming out production to other countries is a global trend, say Margaret Catley-Carlson, patron of the Global Water Partnership. As prosperity increases, people start accessing food that requires more water to produce. With each calorie we consume taking one litre of water to produce, and with a booming population, this is not sustainable in water-scarce regions, she said.
Already, countries like Israel are stopping local production of water-intensive crops, preferring instead to import them. They are now choosing "the most sensible crop-per-drop", she said. In the case of South Africa this should mean a "serious look" at the viability of thirsty crops such as sugarcane, she says.
By relying on this "virtual water" from its neighbours the country should then be able to free water for other economic activities.
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Goddamn, January is a lousy month for movies. February's looking a bit better, people, but not by much, so you might want to do some long-term planning on your Netflix queue. This weekend's options:
Edge of Darkness: Mel Gibson's back! He's gonna kill some motherfuckers! And stare solemnly into the middle distance.
When in Rome: I wish Veronica Mars was still on the air. I also wish Arrested Development was still on the air. Hey America, see what happens when you watch shitty TV shows instead of good TV shows? Good TV shows get canceled. And then the charming actresses and hilarious actors who starred in those good TV shows are forced to make terrible romantic comedies. Thanks, America.
I Am Virgin: "Vampires are supposed to fuck shit up, not just fuck," says Courtney. Unless, of course, you're a Twilight vampire, in which case you're supposed to just mope and sparkle while terrifyingly co-dependent chicks blink at you.
Other stuff going on: Reel Music 27 starts wrapping up at the Northwest Film Center, Burial Ground screens Saturday night at Cinema 21, Cort and Fatboy present Lost at the Bagdad, and—this is my personal pick for the week, if you care—Hayao Miyazaki's gorgeous Princess Mononoke returns to the big screen at the Laurelhurst. I made a promise to myself that this weekend, I'd pull myself away from Mass Effect 2 long enough to go see this in the theater, and I totally plan on keeping that promise, and shit, when I started writing it, I did not realize how incredibly nerdy this sentence was going to become. Anyway, the trailer for Mononoke is below; more cinema-centric stuff to do this weekend, as ever, can be found in our Film Shorts and Movie Times.


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Pluralism conference report; A conversation with Fr. Roger Haight; The Sant'Egidio conference; Slovakia preview
"Many, for example college and university students, are used to pluralism, and are asking how they can square it with the Catholic faith. I try to put critical words on their experience, and keep this experience in touch with the tradition. Very few reflective young Catholics aren't asking questions about other religions."
Jesuit Fr. Roger Haight
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
At a
four-day summit of religious pluralists, or theologians who believe that all the
worlds great religions are valid paths of salvation, I was especially struck by
affinities between the Christians and Muslims. Although much conflict in the
world today can be analyzed in terms of clash between these two traditions, it
was clear to me in new ways how much they also share.
other things, both Christianity and Islam police orthodoxy in ways that other
religions often cant, or wont. While that capacity to enforce boundaries can
afford cohesiveness and a strong sense of identity, it also means that creative
thinkers inside both traditions sometimes face special pressures.
September 6-9 summit, the first of its kind, amounted to a whos who of the
pluralist world. It was held in Birmingham because thats the home of English
philosopher John Hick, 81, the father of the movement. In books such as 1986s
God Has Many Names, Hick argues that since Christianity does not produce
more kindness and goodness than other religions, its untenable to regard it as
a superior revelation.
Catholic luminaries such as Paul Knitter of Xavier University and Jesuit Fr.
Roger Haight and Chester Gillis, both of Georgetown University, took part, as
well as Protestants, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists and Sikhs. All told, some
40 scholars from 16 countries participated.
theological debate, pluralism is usually contrasted to exclusivism, the view
that only one religion saves and followers of others are excluded, and inclusivism,
the view that only one religion saves and followers of others can be included.
The official
Catholic position is generally held to be a form of inclusivism salvation
comes from Jesus Christ, but non-Christians can receive its fruits, though in a
less comprehensive way.
charter for Catholic concerns with pluralism is the September 2000 Vatican
document Dominus Iesus, which insists that followers of other religions
are in a gravely deficient situation in comparison to Christians who alone
have the fullness of the means of salvation. Critics worry that pluralism
produces relativism, meaning skepticism about objective truth. They say that
pluralism implies at least a reinterpretation, if not an outright rejection, of
elements of the Nicene Creed such as that Jesus is the only Son of God, not
one savior among many, and that he came for the salvation of all, not just of
German Evangelical Church (EKD) recently issued a set of Guidelines for
Interreligious Dialogue strikingly similar to Dominus Iesus, reaffirming
the definitiveness of the revelation in Christ.
The Birmingham summit was
my first experience of John Hick in the flesh, and whatever one makes of his
philosophy of religion, it should be said that Hick is an unfailingly gracious
man. Knitter, now retired from Xavier and more or less the master of ceremonies
in Birmingham, is likewise a gentle and endearing soul. If one were to evaluate
theological movements on the basis of congeniality, it would be tough to fault
this one.
course, thats not how its done.
fact, pluralism arouses resistance from religious institutions. If all religions
are equally valid, its hard to know why I should be especially committed to any
one of them except for psychological or biographical reasons. Its no surprise
that pluralists face a backlash. To judge from Birmingham, thats especially the
case for Christians and Muslims.
Hicks own biography offers an example. In 1987, while teaching at the Claremont
Graduate School in California, he was rejected as a minister in the Presbyterian
Church in the United States after a wrenching four-year debate. Haight is
presently facing a Vatican investigation for his 2000 book Jesus Symbol of
God (Obris), in which he presents a Christology from below, stressing the
humanity of Jesus, as a way of opening Christianity to the pluralist view.
Muslim participants had their own cautionary tales. One concerned Nasr H. Abu
Zagd, an Islamic theologian who until recently taught at Cairos prestigious Al-Azhar
Institute. A shariah court found him guilty of apostasy for suggesting
that the Koran was fallible, one legal consequence of which is that he is
regarded as a non-Muslim. His wife was ordered to separate from him since under
Islamic law a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-believer. The couple went into
exile, and is today in the Netherlands.
account tracked with the experience of Muslims in Birmingham. A Malaysian
theologian said she couldnt be identified as a participant in the summit
because of pressures she would face back home. An Iranian scholar said hes
teaching at an American university because his views are unwelcome in Iran.
the Christian side, a German scholar who works at a Catholic mission institute
said he and his colleagues are all cryptic pluralists, but cant say so out
loud for fear of being fired. An Asian Catholic described the loyalty oath his
bishop had forced him to sign, under Vatican pressure, for inviting a well-known
pluralist thinker to speak to the church group he serves.
Tensions over pluralism, of course, are not exclusive to Christianity and Islam.
A Jewish scholar pointed to Britains Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who was
threatened with a heresy trial for offering a positive view of other religions
in his 2002 book, The Dignity of Difference. In the end, Sacks revised
the book. A Buddhist said that while Western converts sometimes act like the
tradition has no doctrine, in fact Buddhists in Japan and China have complex
systems of belief and are just as chauvinistic about them as anyone else.
the same time, it was clear that the pressures endemic to Christianity and Islam
sometimes puzzled other participants. One Indian Hindu, after listening to
several such accounts, shook his head and said of religious systems in the West:
We cant understand what youre doing.
Strategies adopted by Christian and Muslim pluralists for re-interpreting their
own traditions are likewise similar. Just as Christians craft new readings of
traditional doctrines such as Christology and pneumatology, Muslims look for
ways to open up the Koran.
example, Abdulkarim Soroush, a Shiite Muslim from Iran, said theologians
committed to a reformed Islam are drawing on the distinction between portions
of the Koran revealed in Mecca and those in Medina. In Mecca, Soroush said,
Mohammed was strictly a prophet, and these texts are positive about other
religions. In Medina, Mohammed ran a state, and the revelation became more
legalistic and harsh towards non-believers.
Traditionally, Soroush said, Islamic jurists have favored the Medina texts.
Reform-minded theologians argue that the Medina revelation represents only one
possible application of Meccas religious and moral principles, which should be
seen as more fundamental.
Remarking on these parallels, Haight said on the summits final day he had
learned from Muslims that Christians are not the only ones with strict
structures of religious authority, and that Christianity and Islam can learn
from each other how to use tradition to open up authority structures.
* * *
experts in inter-religious dialogue say that if relationships are to mature,
they have to grow beyond the tea and cookies stage into the capacity to
challenge one another. The problem is that issuing challenges tends to make
people mad in a way that tea and cookies rarely do.
clear example in Birmingham came with the summits last panel, composed of three
rabbis: Marc Ellis and Michael Kogan of the United States and Dan Cohn-Sherbok
of England. Up to that point, most participants had used their five-minute
speaking blocks to outline how pluralism could be accepted from within their
Ellis, however, flung down a gauntlet.
denounced what he called an ecumenical deal in Jewish/Christian dialogue,
which in his opinion works like this: Jews agree to forgive mainline Christian
churches for anti-Semitism, and in return Christians agree not to push Jews on
Israels conduct in Palestine. Criticism of Israel is interpreted as a reversion
to anti-Semitism. The end result, Ellis said, is that out of guilt over the
Holocaust, Christians end up being silent on another historical crime.
consequence of this ecumenical deal, Ellis said, is that Jewish dissenters
such as himself are frozen out of the dialogue. One example, he said, is that he
had been asked in advance of the pluralism summit not to address the Palestinian
deal is upheld by Jews such as Eli Wiesel and by mainstream Christian
organizations such as the World Council of Churches, Ellis said. Some people
in this room are among the architects of the deal.
Sparks flew.
later said that had he known in advance the Palestinian problem would be on the
table in Birmingham, he would not have come. Unless were also going to deal
with the caste system in India, and the oppression of women in Arab states, and
the problems of the American Indians, etc., to focus exclusively on the sins of
Israel seems to many Jews to be scapegoating, he said.
insisted on focus.
cant get hijacked by social and political issues. This isnt a deal, but a
matter of what we choose to cover and not to cover.
Interestingly, however, the most passionate reaction came from Christians.
Schmidt-Leukel of the University of Glasgow argued that relationships across
religious boundaries arent ready for the kind of tough love Ellis proposed.
When it comes to
inter-religious criticism, historically it served only one purpose, which has
been to denigrate the other and claim ones own superiority, Schmidt-Leukel
said. For now we should stay with the prophetic function of criticizing ones
own tradition. We might find forms of inter-religious criticism, after
friendship develops.
Jesuit Fr. Roger Haight
asked aloud if the pluralist approach inherently implies bracketing some
criticism in order to advance understanding.
Ellis wasnt buying it.
When youre silent, you
actually denigrate us, he said. Its patronizing.
Wesley Ariarajah, a former
official of the World Council of Churches, largely agreed with Ellis.
We dare not say theres
anything wrong for fear of being accused of anti-Semitism, Ariarajah said. The
Jewish community is so well-organized to put out dissent they dont get the
criticism they need to become a more mature religious community.
Ariarajah said that as an Asian, he is frustrated that so much in the
Jewish/Christian relationship pivots on 20th century European
history, especially the Holocaust.
need a relationship between two mature communities, not so over-burdened by
European history. The dialogue has to relate to Christians in all parts of the
Michael von Brück, a German
Protestant theologian, said there are other ecumenical deals.
Catholic dissenters accuse us Protestants of the same thing, he said. They
complain that we dialogue only with the Roman Catholic hierarchy and freeze them
out. In effect, they say that we Protestants are no longer protesting, and we
should be ashamed.
is the revised statement of principles as adopted by the participants in the
Birmingham summit.
Interreligious dialogue and engagement should be the way for religions to
relate to one another. A paramount need is for religions to heal antagonisms
among themselves.
The dialogue should engage the pressing problems of the world today,
including war, violence, poverty, environmental devastation, gender injustice,
and violation of human rights.
Absolute truth claims can easily be exploited to incite religious hatred
and violence.
The religions of the world affirm ultimate reality/truth which is
conceptualized in different ways.
While ultimate reality/truth is beyond the scope of complete human
understanding, it has found expression in diverse ways in the worlds religions.
The great world religions with their diverse teachings and practices
constitute authentic paths to the supreme good.
The worlds religions share many essential values, such as love,
compassion, equality, honesty, and the ideal of treating others as one wishes to
be treated oneself.
All persons have freedom of conscience and the right to choose their own
While mutual witnessing promotes mutual respect, proselytizing devalues
the faith of the other.
Readers who compare this list with the preliminary draft I published last week
will notice that its been softened in some key respects. This was a subject of
debate at the summit. Some felt the tweaking was needed in order to speak
outside the circles of the already convinced, while others saw it as a
frustrating retreat on key ideas.
Sources in Rome
say that Haight was notified of a review of his work by the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith in 2000, and shortly thereafter the Congregation for
Catholic Education ordered him suspended from the Jesuit-run Weston School of
Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Haight is currently on a sabbatical year
at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University).
Haight responded to a
critique from the CDF of his 2000 book Jesus Symbol of God (Orbis). Meantime
theological debate over the book continues in the Catholic world. Some find it
an exciting new Christological approach, while others feel that in trying to
make room for the pluralist hypothesis Haight goes too far in jettisoning or
reinterpreting core doctrines.
While the CDF has given no
public hint of how things will fall out, most observers expect a strong
intervention. In February 2001 the Vatican issued a stern notification warning
of eight "ambiguities" in the 1997 book Toward a Theology of Religious Pluralism
by Belgian Jesuit Fr. Jacques Dupuis, whose inclusivist position is considerably
more moderate than Haights.
I had the chance in
Birmingham to sit down with Haight, awaiting the final outcome of the Vatican
review of his work. Does Haight believe that Catholicism will ever come around
to his view?
"I have no expectation
that pluralism will become the official understanding of the Roman Catholic
church," Haight said. "What Im trying to do is carve out space for it to be
accepted as an orthodox Catholic view, even if its a minority position."
other words, Haight hopes that the inclusivist/pluralist debate can be like the
16th century argument between the Jesuits and the Dominicans over grace two
views that can both be accommodated within the bounds of orthodoxy.
he see evidence of movement in that direction?
think of the Modernist crisis in the early 20th century, when so many things
were declared unacceptable that later were approved at Vatican II, Haight said.
flippantly asked if that made him George Tyrell, the English Jesuit who was
considered one of the fathers of modernism, but Haight rightly waved it off as a
loaded question.
also look at American Catholicism on the ground, with a Catholic population more
and more educated in the faith, Haight continued. We have an extremely
polarized right and left, and a great body in the middle. Many, for example
college and university students, are used to pluralism, and are asking how they
can square it with the Catholic faith.
try to put critical words on their experience, and keep this experience in touch
with the tradition, Haight said. Very few reflective young Catholics arent
asking questions about other religions.
asked Haight if he could see any value in the concerns expressed by the Vatican.
Theyre saying that one has to attend to the tradition, to the community, he
said. I try to do that in what I write. I proceed very, very carefully and
responsibly to address issues that cannot go unaddressed.
Haight insisted that this work is a service to the Church.
fear is that educated Catholics will walk if there isnt space for an open
attitude to other religions, he said.
the end, Haight believes, the kind of inclusivism represented by Dupuis doesnt
do the trick.
not finally open to the other religions, because it postulates the superiority
of Christianity, he said. It doesnt allow God to do Gods will in the other
religions autonomously, apart from Jesus of Nazareth.
the pluralists were meeting in Birmingham, an inter-religious dialogue much more
closely tethered to the official centers of authority in the worlds great
religions was unfolding in Aachen, Germany, under the aegis of the Community of
10,000 people took part in more than 30 panels over three days, and thousands
more followed the event on the SantEgidio web site:
www.santegidio.org. The official theme was Between War and Peace:
Religions and Cultures in Dialogue.
Bishop Heinrich Mussinghoff, the Catholic bishop of Aachen, set the tone on the
opening day by declaring, God is not Catholic, nor Orthodox, nor Protestant;
neither is God Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or Buddhist; God is God for all.
Pope John Paul II sent a message, urging the representatives of the great world
religions to intensify their dialogue for peace, recognizing that differences
do not compel us to conflict but to respect, to loyal collaboration and to the
construction of peace.
Israeli/Palestinian problem drew a couple of creative ideas, one set to become
reality, the other still in the maybe phase.
Elias Chacour, director of the Prophet Elias College in Israel announced that
his institution on Oct. 21 will open the first mixed Israeli-Palestinian
university in the world. Instruction will be in English, Hebrew and Arabic, and
courses will be offered in computer science, chemistry and communications.
Rabbi David Rosen proposed that SantEgidio organize a conference among
Christian, Muslim and Jewish religious leaders in the Holy Land to try to reach
a joint accord on the status of Jerusalem, given that disputes over the city are
at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
On the subject of the alleged harmony of Eastern religions, a Tendai Buddhist
leader from Japan, Kojun Handa, decribed how hard it was to organize an
inter-religious summit on the holy mountain of Hiei, near Kyoto, in the spirit
of the 1986 prayer for peace hosted by John Paul II in Assisi. Handa works on
dialogue between Japanese and Chinese Buddhists, long complicated by Chinese
bitterness over the brutal Japanese invasion in the 1930s. Handa said he hoped
Chinese Buddhists may be able to attend futute SantEgidio meetings.
Perhaps the greatest drama in Aachen was generated by Metropolitan Kyrill of
Smolensk and Kalilinigrad, the number two figure in the Russian Orthodox
hierarchy. Given the big chill in Catholic/Russian Orthoidox relations in
recent years, Kyrills mere presence would have made news.
Kyrill went considerably further in his remarks.
This is a season in which dialogue, beyond the incomprehensions of the past, is
possible, he said during a panel with Cardinals Walter Kasper and Roger
Etchegaray, along with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius IV Hazim
and Catholic Bishop Vincenzo Paglia of Terni.
People say that the Orthodox are closed to dialogue, but if that were true, I
wouldnt be here, he said.
Kyrill spoke more positively about the idea of a meeting between John Paul II
and the Patriarch of Moscow, Alexy II, than at any time in recent memory, though
he continued to insist that first the pope must put a stop to Catholic
missionary work in Russia.
Between the Vatican and Moscow there is no divergence in the system of values.
But in real life the opposite sometimes happens. The principal painful point is
missionary activity. None of the Russian Orthodox priests in the West have
received instructions for converting the German people or the Italian people to
Orthodoxy, Kyrill said. We know that no Catholic priest who works in Russia
has received such instructions from Rome. But today the mission of the Catholic
priests in Russia is a reality.
There are other painful points that have to be healed, for passing to another
level in the relationship. It would be a beautiful symbol if this new page in
relations could be turned over together, by the Pope and the Patriarch, meeting
one another in Moscow, or in Rome, or in another place.
almost three months, Pope John Paul II is on the road again. As this column
appears, Ill be in Slovakia watching the pope defy age and infirmity, traveling
outside Italy for the 102nd time in his pontificate. You can view stories about
this trip on the NCR Web site: http://nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/bn091203.htm
popes physical condition is certainly part of the subtext to this trip,
especially for much of the worlds secular press, since a visit to Slovakia in
itself is not an especially sexy story. Over the summer John Paul has appeared
tired and weak at many public appearances, struggling to make his way through
prepared texts, often breathing and perspiring heavily. Vatican officials,
speaking on background, have explained that the popes treatment for Parkinsons
disease was reduced to a bare minimum for a period of time to prepare him for a
change in dosage. They say he should be in better shape by the time he leaves
Castel Gandolfo for Slovakia.
the other hand, his immobility continues to limit travel options. A top Vatican
official recently told me that John Paul is covering the roughly 20 miles
between Castel Gandolfo and the Vatican for his Wednesday audiences by car
because its too complicated to get him into the helicopter.
seems probable that future papal travel will be confined to spots that fall
within a zone of two hours flight time or so from Rome. Hes scheduled to visit
a Marian shrine in Pompeii Oct. 7. For 2004, theres talk of trips to France,
Switzerland and Poland, with a visit to an international Eucharistic congress in
Mexico in October in the maybe column.
Pauls message in Slovakia will pivot on the Christian identity of Europe. An
intergovernmental conference whose task is to revise and finalize a new
constitution for Europe will begin deliberations in the Palazzo dei Congressi in
Romes EUR neighborhood on Oct. 4. The popes ardent desire is that the
constitutions preamble contain a specific acknowledgment of the Christian roots
of Europe. For now, the text is generic, referring only to the cultural,
religious and humanist inheritance of Europe.
issues more internal to Slovakia will also loom large during the papal trip.
July, the Slovak parliament voted to legalize abortion up to the 24th week of
pregnancy, but President Rudolf Schuster vetoed the bill. Currently, a rule by
the health ministry allows abortion up to 24th week and the proposed law was an
attempt to make that rule into law. Parliament is expected to take up the issue
again in October, and the pope will certainly want to weigh in.
Vatican is also pushing the Slovak government to sign a treaty that would
recognize a right to conscientious objection for Catholics, not just on
abortion but across a wide range of issues. Under the terms of the treaty,
employees could refuse to work on Sundays and Christian holidays, gynecologists
could refuse to carry out abortions or prescribe contraception, judges would be
able to refuse divorce cases, and teachers to refuse to teach sex education.
Slovakia authorities say they expect the four-day visit to cost $2.1 million.
Apart from Bratislava, John Paul II will visit Trnava in west Slovakia and
Banska Bystrica and Roznava in central Slovakia. Trnava is the heart of
Slovakian Catholicism, and is known as the Slovak Rome.
will be John Pauls third visit to Slovakia. His first was in 1990, shortly
after the fall of communism, and the second in 1995.
footnote: Readers of the Word from Rome who have ever attended the Sunday
morning English liturgy at Romes Oratory of St. Francis Xavier at Caravita will
be pleased to know that Jesuit Fr. Vlasto Dufka will play oboe for the pope when
he visits the cathedral in Trnava. Those of us who remember the beautiful music
Dufka created at Caravita know that John Paul is in for a treat.
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Dead Man's Hand
Aces and eights, it's a dead man's hand.
I've raised the stakes now I'm all in.
I've got nothing to lose but my pistol and jacket.
Then what do you know? I get shot in the back.
It's a dead man's hand.
I've got sunshine in my pocket,
To cure my summer blues.
There's a bright light in the distance,
and it's blowing up just like a balloon.
Another sunny day on Broadway,
It's another day to live it up.
But when I lose that feeling,
I've gotta go and get me some..
So I grab a pair of shorts and my Chuck T's
And my hoodie with the letters RUN L-B-C,
Then I grab that bag of sunshine of mine
Cuz I like it when the sun's shining all the time.
I walk outside and what do I see?
J Bird walking down the street,
And I smell mischief, how bout you?
Let's go hit that swimming pool!
If you're in the neighborhood and you're up to no good,
Lemme hear say OH YEA you better ask somebody!
Yo mama yo daddy yo bald headed granny
Do tell, if you were born to raise hell,
Lemme hear you say OH YEA you better ask somebody!
Causin trouble like my name was W.
The big bad wolf's on Broadway baby,
And I'm hungry as hell so I think I maybe
Oughtta see Mandilicious bout something tasty,
Like mashed potatoes & gravy.
I walk outside and what do I see?
A summer day with an ocean breeze,
It's a new day, what would you say
If I asked you for a Jamie and would gladly get
You paid by Tuesday?
Cuz all I've got is sunshine in my pocket,
and a pick for my guitar.
My baby's wearing pigtails,
and playing some CCR.
Another sunny day on Broadway,
It's a good day to be alive.
My summer blues are over when I go outside.
Girls and boys if you like to make noise,
Lemme hear you say OH YEA you better ask somebody!
Yo brotha or yo sis or yo friend with the lisp.
Come Come can I get a little company
Puff Puff won't ya save a little some for me?
We came here to funk it up!
Hand up if you're down with the Z-E-N
Hands up if you voted Robbi for President.
Cuz I'm calling for you, are you hearing me?
Singin whoa can I get a little company?
If you ain't dancing, you want a friend of mine.
I'll take that funky chicken, disco electric slide.
I just want to see you move, yeah you and you and you and you.
I want to get busy I want to get dizzy too.
Give me that Cabbage Patch, Electric Boogaloo,
Everybody's got that tune,
That makes you get up and dance like you're alone on the moon.
That's my jam that's my song going to get my boogie on, get up and dance.
Let's see that cha-cha slide how about a Humpty dance?
Maybe that good foot honey and then the running man.
Coming from the school of old, no let me see that Tootsie Roll.
Walk like an Egyptian, give me some of that King Tut,
Maybe in Memphis to baby? Get up and shake your butt!
All the ladies scrub the ground, and all the fellas Buck Jumping up-and-down.
Side to side to and fro grab your partner Do Si Do,
My hands are high my feet are low and this is the way I gigolo.
Every time it comes on everybody sings along, and I get up and dance.
In a rebel state of mind it's the only state I know,
I watch my life go by just like a music video.
Pretty girls and dollar bills in this world there's a lot of thrills,
So don't forget to take your pills.
Little kids are fiddling with Ritalin and peddling them off one by one.
Ordinary, I don't think so pleased to meet you.
Certified automatic problematic bona fide disco addict.
In a rebel state of mind hiding in my bungalow,
I am so good, a lowdown no good heathen gigolo.
We ride in limousines with fast girls from the Philippines, yes indeed.
Rock hard on the boulevard it's a party all right, the night is mine again.
Got to have it got to have it, bona fide disco attic.
I ain't never really have a plan, I kind of make it up as I go.
I ain't got no time to explain so cheerio.
Lost in Neverland again in my reclining thrown.
I'm as lazy as the day is long, just asked my folks.
Sometimes I want to stay at home,
And scratch my head with the remote control.
Chinese delivery deliver me from MSG.
Magic iPhone in my hand beam me up to the promised land.
I'm a lazy boy. I'm a lazy, crazy, laxidaisy,
Cherry pickin', especially lately, boy.
I like to live a life of luxury, I must confess.
I pay to get my laundry done for me,
cleaned and from pressed.
The early bird gets the worm,
but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I do whatever I want, wherever I am, whenever I please.
But sometimes I just want to stay at home,
And scratch my head with the remote control.
Next stop TV land my DVR is A-OK,
With charter cable on demand the box office is just a click away.
To my despair, I'm undeclared. But I'm OK with another lazy day.
I'm a lazy boy. I'm a lazy, lazy, much too lazy, to write a last line blah blah lazy boy.
I'm a balloon dart shark living in amusement parks off of Carnie Barker's minimum wage.
I'm just a roller coaster junkie and the churros keep me chunky but I keeps it hella funky always.
I know I'm such a fiend, it's just the Circus Circus side of me.
I'm in the front of line to take another roller coaster ride, that's what I'm talking about.
We're cruising upside down on a sideways spin, blastoff to the moon and back again,
Flying with the boys in the band.
We're livin D to the A-N-G oh my, E-R-O-U-S-L-Y it's better when you hold up your hands.
I know I'm such a fiend, it's just the Circus Circus side of me.
Round and round and round we go, where we stop nobody knows,
Ride till I drop then I ride a little more, put it in reverse and put the pedal to the floor,
And let me ride forever more. That's what I'm talking about.
Are you ready? Let's ride that funky roller coaster.
When you're on your on a roll. When you're off your off your meds.
And when you're out you're getting out of control again.
When you're hot you're too fired up, when you're cold you're frozen shut.
There ain't no meeting in the middle with you my friend.
And all those dirty secrets no one needs to know, that they're taking a toll.
My desire is playing with the fire, I had a book of matches and I burned my hand again.
When your low you're way off course, when you're high the world is your.
You've got to live a little life every now and again.
Now the storm is coming in and it's time to sink or swim.
We're setting sail for the seven seas my friend.
And all those nasty habits no one has to know that they're taking a toll.
My desire is playing with the fire,
I had some matches and some gasoline and I lit it up just to hear you scream.
My baby's locked up in the suitcase. You might ask me what did you say?
Well I'm just talking about my guitar, I know you want to take my picture.
My baby's got a furry strap on, and when I turn my amp on,
I turn that shit up to 11, all hound dogs go to heaven.
But I just can't seem to get enough once I get my hands on her.
I wrap my fingers around her neck and I dig in with my pick.
My baby's got a solid body, and she's been acting real naughty,
She always stepping out of line, I've got to tuner all the time.
She's always starting friction. She's always feeding me fiction.
She's got me running around town like a merry go round, she's turned my world upside down.
There once was a ship the sailed the seas called the Privateer.
The very name struck fear into hearts of buccaneers,
For aboard this vessel truly be the meanest men upon the sea.
There was Master Red Beard, he was matchless with a blade,
And the gunner could sink an island with the sounds his cannons made,
The captain was a captor of hearts across the globe,
If you see the fog and it smells of grog, you'll hear the pirate call YO HO
Ye fathers and ye sons lock away your wives and daughters.
Hoist the colors boys for there be booty in these waters.
Its yo ho ho and a bottle of rum,
A pirates life til kingdom come.
A couple picaroons they were, always half delirious,
Sure they took a couple things but never took things all too serious.
They pillage and they plunder underneath their sails of black,
They live by the code take all you can and don't give nothing back.
So if you ever come across this dreaded pirate brood,
Head my warning, keep your course, and mind your p's and q's
Barons of the sea from the day that they were born.
Beware the calm before the storm, land lovers ye be warned!
Heavy Lies the Crown
When I was a boy I played with my toys and run around in the yard. I gambled pogs and wrestle my dogs, how I miss kindergarten. Then girls came and never left, then alcoholic beverages, when pleasure came with a bit of pain, she really knew my name. I've got a funky monkey and we shake our derrieres. Singing "Rebel Rebel," looking for trouble-free love is in the air. We ain't never had a summer of 69, but I 69ed a girl named Summer one time. One time for your mind, two times for your body, 3 times for your soul, you're so naughty. I'm always on the fiddle, my baby's on the griddle, it's lovely in the middle it's lovely. How about a nibble? Maybe just a little? It's lovely in the middle it's lovely. Me and my valentine, some gypsies on the move. We're killer clowns, circus bound, ring leaders of this freak show baby, counterculture, S&M, against the grain, I'm guessin them don't know my name, a dangerously guessing game. I'm the type of fella to get naked on stage, girls in the boy's room and it's okay, pour me a double, I'll be on my way.. Lady luck she loves me, it's so lovely. I rock it one time for the rhyme, two times for the measure, three times for the pleasure.
Cocktails on the patio, once again without a friend in sight. Ain't nothing but the radio, and the car alarms to fill the air of the night. If I hear one more siren I am hiring a body guard. I don't need protection from anybody else, I need protection from myself. I smoke another cigarette, as of late, I'm a Marlboro man. Everybody's telling me to quit, but I only smoke with a rum and coke in hand at Di Piazza 8 days a week. The paparazzi won't let me be. With nothing much to do, no one to answer to, a California Cornucopia. Don't it sound like fun, do you wanna come? Well come on. Top 40 on the stereo, so I head inside, I gotta refill my cup, outside is getting scarier, a California cornucopia of everything you never knew you always wanted, the houses of the holy have been haunted. I gotta use the sanitario, so I hit the head, and just when I got done I found a dollar on the ground so I crumpled it up and I flushed it down. There's my tip for Mr. Davey Jones for keeping all those delicious fishies cold. One less dollar to worry about.With too much on my mind I'm committing crimes. A California Cornucopia. Don't it sound like fun, do you wanna come? With nothing much to do, no one to answer to. Running in place, stupid smile on my face.Don't it sound like fun, do you wanna come? A California Cornucopia.
I woke up face down on the sofa, I fell into a Mexicoma, Revolution Avenue is more than just a street to me. Where Hollywoodstock meets Vegas on Halloween. But I wanna set the records straight, the only ways I medicate.. Lots of tacos and coronas, I fell into a Mexicoma. There was a reggae party everybody's dancing the whole night through. Drive the wrong way down a one way street with you. She wanna walk on the sun, so I say what the hell, feet don't fail me now. I know I'm not supposed to call from jail. Dancing naked on the border, from kingdom come to Nova Scotia. Pirate's rum and Pepsi Cola, I'm a son of Rock and Roll. But I wanna set the record straight, the only reason I'm sedated; adobada on the corner, I fell into a Mexicoma. We'll have a heart attack from firecrackers, really ain't no sense at all in breaking the law. And I'm wondering why my baby's not taking my calls. I took a walk on the sun, ended up in a cell, please come and post my bail, I know I'm not supposed to call from jail.
Think it over.. I wanted to write you a love song, one without a twist. You're the only one for me, the one I can't resist. No matter the time, no matter the place, no matter the crime, no matter the page that we're on, we're on it together. Dance with me baby, we'll be dancing the night away You're driving me crazy.. I wanna sing you a love song, because the jukebox is broken again, and I really lose my mind when I see ya dancing. Whether out in the crowd or on top of the slide, or maybe up on stage my baby goes all night, when the music is right, and you're in the mood, it's all eyes on you my love. Dance with me baby, we'll be dancing the night away, you're driving me crazy.. Dance with me baby, we'll be dancing the whole night through, you're driving me crazy, my angel love. So think it over my angel love.
I've got a firecracker in my hand baby. You wanna light it off with me tonight? We'll light up the sky, and give the stars a show, maybe take a dip down in Lover's Cove oh girl..
Me and my baby take a nakey dip in lover's cove. The wick is burning woman. The gunpowder ignites. Let's light this sucker up like the 4th o July. For the best view of the fireworks, you've got to go to Lover's Cove. Just passed the 2nd bar on the right, and straight on til morning. Me and my baby swimming in the deep blue sea, it really never ever gets old. Me and my baby take a nakey dip in lover's cove. I've got a firecracker in my heart and it's bound to explode for you baby, oh yeah you know..
Always a drum major in a fool's parade, at least the sun came out today. I really wanna look you in the eye, but I can't stop staring at what's behind you. What can I say? Oh boy.. An ironic alazon from kalamazoo came out to hollywood in a canoe. Where the poeple ask you all the time, to write your name on the dotted line, and trade your eyes for dollars signs hell no.
Some champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. I'm a two tone, south paw, rude boy outlaw, I'm always gonna be on the run. Just a city slicker singer with an itchy trigger finger and I can't stop drawing my gun. No I don't sweat the petty, I just pet the sweaty I can't seam to leave it alone. So sorry for some of the things I've done, at least Mama still loves me so. Some champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. London Birdges falling down. Yea well they all fall down. Oh how comforting, it's good night I'm off to sleep.
Well, I showed up late again for work today, my boss told me that's coming out of my pay. I said, "I don't think I wanna wake up before noon anymore," and I walked right outta the door. Now I've got all the free time in the world, for drinking with the fellas and to sing for the girls, but when the bar tab comes and ya don't got money to pay, sometimes ya gotta say chingale, have a cigarette tomorrow's another day, don't be lingering on all of your past mistakes no way.. As my people say, "Chingale." Well you lost yourself a testicale in Vietnam, at least you're home and your center of balance is strong, you've gotta thank the Good Lord for every little thing you got, even when it's not a lot. You girlfriend's slumming on ya once again, so you go out and fucks around with some of her friends, you make up, break up, and marry her the very next day, sometimes ya gotta say, chingale smoke your cigarette tomorrow's another day. Don't be thinking what if your past was rearranged. As us Latins say, chingale guey. Well you say gimme gimme gimme gimme, and they say no. You say I want I want I want I want, you go on wanting more. Even the Kung Fu master sometimes says "Ah sh*t!" when he stubs his toe on his walking stick, when life hands ya lemons you grab a salt shaker, some squirt, and tequila, have a ghetto margarita on me.. Chingale chingale, that means 'Fuck It' if ya only speak English, its a philosophy of my heritage OLE! As my people say, chingale.
There ain't no holiday to celebrate the ones who played it safe. You know what they say, nothing ventured nothing gained. And I want my holiday. No there ain't no Patron Saint of Mediocracy or Lolly Gaggin or Charades. Dangerously is the name, and I want my holiday. Where all the people say, "Man, that St. Dangerously, he was a bad bad boy but damn he could sing, and play the hell outta that guitar. He was a bad motha.. People listen to me please, I am not a crook I'm just a slave to vanity, but I'm the King of Swing in a major way, and I want my holiday.. Ask the local Gentry, I wrote my name in sharpie marker on the face of the century. Look for me in your calendar books, I want my holiday. Where all the people say, "Boy that St. Dangerously, he was kind of a prick and a little obscene, but he could sing and he could play so let's all have a holiday!" I want my holiday.
Some get their jollies from fishing, and some take it out at the bar. Hell I know a man who wears his pajamas all day, and plays the guitar. Some like to go to the desert, and shoot off all of their guns. Some take Piccolo Petes and light them off in the streets at the neighborhood cats for fun. Let's let bygones be bygones tonight. My friends there is no need to fight. Some folks just love a good story, they keep their nose in their books for hours. Some play fantasy fighting games on the computer all night just to have special powers. Some are addicted to Wall Street, others addicted to sex, but behind closed doors we've all been a whore on all fours on the floor before. Let's let bygones be bygones tonight. My friends there is no need to fight. They've chastised us perverts for centuries, deeming us sick and immoral, but I think that sodomy's a commodity that most people just can't afford. So there's no need to hate on your brother, and we can all just get along, but I'm not exactly a pacifist so you'll get your ass kicked if you ever do me wrong. Let's let bygones be bygones tonight. My friends there is no need to fight. Let's let bygones be bygones tonight.
Heavy Lies the Crown
A BIG hello from California!
And we came here to put it on ya.
From San Francisco down to Downey,
Long Beach to Hidden Valley,
This is how we do it in Cali!
That's what I'm talkin bout…
Where we do the Twist, Roger Rabbit and the Mashed Potato,
smurfin on stage cuz it's all gravy baby,
left coast, let me hear ya say "WESTSIDE!"
You've gotta meet some friends of mine…
A couple kings for killing time, we fight our wars on the front line.
We are the army, we are the kings, we are the ZEN that changes everything.
Forward and Onward..
The Kings of California are taking over the world.
Getting frisky with the mighty Mo Bigsley
Hey.. hey.. BDJ!!
on the run in the van with a Stinky Pinky
got your 3 Minute Fix mixed with wild turkey
add the bass and the treble, a Revolution of Rebels
this is the Foundation, Beware of these devils.
You better got a Dirty Head, shit I'm a Bad Seed undergrad!
So Meet Me at the Pub y'all, the Farmers go on right at ten.
If everything was going wrong, then let's go make it right again.
ya that's what I'm talkin bout!
Forward and Onward…
The Kings of California are taking over,
By Crumb you've been forewarned,
The Kings of California are taking over the world
Just 'round every corner there's a different world order,
time to stand like a man and dance with the bull,
better tie your shoes cuz life ain't gonna wait for you.
What's next? Brother if it's not one thing it's another
go ask your mother that's life.
I say bring it, I dare you. I double dare you
when the chips are low I'll never cut and go
I'll be cutting throats with three kings in my hat
in the haps of a poker match.
That's right life ain't bullshit it's a bull grab the horns
and wrestle that bitch to the floor.
Singin Toro! Toro! and the bull comes a runnin
Say Ole! Ole! and you step out the way
It's the dance of the matador you've gotta hand it to
the man who stands his ground in the face of doom.
You've got to see the dance of the matador, hey boy..
With a crimson cape draped over your shoulder, you've got to be bold as love
no time for kicking rocks cuz when the show is over, you want to be showered in roses
hearing all the people cheer you on
for dancin with the devil in babylon
life ain't bullshit it's a bull grab the horns and wrestle that bitch to the floor..
Wise words once whispered to me,
listen don't speak in the ring with your enemies.
Don't even let them fools spit shine your shoes
because a groundling's tongue isn't worth its juice.
Life's like liars dice in this filthy paradise,
I hear that bell and I'm here to kill, I'll see your ass in hell.
Singin Toro! Toro! and the bull comes a runnin
Say Ole! Ole! and ya step out the way
It's the dance of the matador you've gotta hand it to
the man who stands his ground in the face of doom.
You gotta see the dance of the matador..
You can catch me at the table, hittin on 16
when the dealer shows a queen baby.
Give me 5 down low, yea that's how the story goes
21 is the name of the game.
The cocktail waitress is taking forever,
a double shot of whiskey makes my luck run wetter.
Splitting tens once again, hitting 21 twice,
pulled not one ace but two, and it felt so nice.
I'm a Black Jack Guru baby,
that's how my story goes.
At my table there is no etiquette,
and some would say the way I play is straight irreverent.
I'm a gentleman of adrenaline, I hit 18 for the hell of it.
Smoke another cigarette for the smell of it,
hit me with three and I win again.
The pit boss is talking my ear off,
he says I get a free stay, the next time that I vacation baby.
Oh you know I'm taking you with me,
only cuz I know you would miss me I would miss you too..
I'm a Black Jack Guru baby, that's how my story goes.
May the better man win, yes I'm a betting man,
and I've got the better hand, so I guess that I'm the better man..
Wouldn't you say?
I'm a Black Jack Guru baby…
I want too move to Nova Scotia,
I don't know where it is but I know it's over
Many mountains, deserts, and oceans,
Far away from here.
I want to be the leader of a marching band,
In command with a stick in my hand.
Look at me everybody, yes I'm the man,
But I'm far away from Uruguay.
There are many kids in southeast Asia,
That watch nickelodeon and imitate them
Little white devils wanna be Jamaican
MTV is not for freedom.
I want to move to Nova Scotia,
I don't know where it is but I know it's over
Many mountains, deserts, and oceans,
Far away from here.
No I couldn't point to Nova Scotia
On a map or a globe or an atlas poster,
But I'm gonna move to Nova Scotia,
Far away from here.
Now there are many monks in ancient China
Who've obtained inner peace but have never climbed up
Inside of a woman's warm wet vagina,
And they don't know what they're missing.
But we don't know what we're missing.
So I'm gonna go on a mission.
I'm moving to Nova Scotia,
I don't know where it is but I know it's over
Many mountains, deserts, and oceans,
Far away from here
I'm gonna move to Nova Scotia
Hope somebody there knows how to make a decaf mocha
Because I'm gonna move to Nova Scotia,
Far away from here.
Life is like Las Vegas, it's really hard to leave.
Whether things are going so well, or everything has gone to hell,
Daddy's dying to bet the bank on red 13.
Life is like Las Vegas, put on your Sunday best.
There's giddy little girls all over the place,
Your blue zoot suit and your poker face,
Dropping dollars, dressing to impress.
Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose,
Sometimes they beat the jacket right off your back,
And you barely make it out with your shoes.
Viva Las Vegas, viva life.
Love's kind of like Las Vegas,
Action, Cameras, Lights.
The root of it is evil, betting on that wheel,
See the dealer smile while he steals.
Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose
And that is when, you've got to choose.
Sometimes they beat the jacket right off your back,
And you barely make it out at all.
Viva Las Vegas, viva life.
I belly up to the bar because I'm thirsty as hell.
Feels like I haven't had a drink in well over a week,
maybe even two; I can't stop thinking bout leaving.
You would not believe the pressure, preceding all the pleasure,
it's more than worth it most of the time,
but if you ask me what's really on my mind..
I'd rather not say. The truth hurts.
I got a letter in the mail just the other day,
an old lover try to rub it in my face,
yea you got a new fool, I like it like that,
he seams like a really cool cat..
You're just a mean old lady, you're just a mean old lady.
When our levee broke it broke for good,
I never thought it would.
The truth hurts.
I woke up on the wrong side of somebody else's bed,
and the dreams I had last night have put me quite outside my head.
So I throw my shit around like a little kid.
Huffin and a puffin 'til my mama said,
"Hey boy what's wrong with you today?
Why you always in so much pain?"
I'd rather not say, the truth hurts.
It's 2:34 am and I'm feeling anxious.
These hours seam to be, at least for me, the most dangerous.
Wicked thoughts dancing through my head
Of dancing with the wicked woman in my bed,
And this is what I said..
I said, "Baby are you sleeping? Are you dreaming of me?"
She said, "Oh hello, how did you know? You own my fantasy."
Well I say, "You must be crazy.."
I'm an assman,
I'm a bluesman.
I'm a jazzman,
I'm an assman.
Now it's 3:45 and it ain't getting no better.
It must be something in the water or something in this weather.
Whether it's a full moon tonight or not,
I'm gonna howl soon and bite this hot
Thing in my sight, midnight snacking what a delight.
I said, "Baby you ain't sleeping that's me humping you're leg,
Time to teach you a thing or two fetch a bone roll over and beg!"
Yea I say, "I must be crazy."
I'm an assman,
I'm a bluesman.
I'm a jazzman,
I'm an assman.
I was about to fall asleep when I got a call from the man about a show.
It was inked down in my date book as October 24th.
He said I was mistaking, the show was to be taking place on October 18th,
I said no way jose, I'm gonna go to the bay to see the love, height and ashbury.
Do you wanna get down?
We all want to get on the funky train,
So follow me.
We all want to get on the funky train,
With Zen Robbi.
We're gonna hit that scene, gonna hit it hard,
You're gonna see us strolling down your boulevard.
Let's get on it, me and the boys in the motorhome, it's overloaded.
Honey move on over let me stretch my legs,
Boy you best get your feet off of my things,
There's a diva in the house, I guess we've got to behave,
That's Mrs. Diva to you baby.
Do you wanna get down?
We all want to get on the funky train,
Just follow me.
We all want to get on the funky train,
With Zen Robbi.
I didn't see it coming, it caught me by surprise.
When I heard that funky funky funky,
It made me want to take a ride.
You offered, so I slip right into your pocket,
In your dirty jeans.
Waiting in anticipation for it to turn up empty,
Just like the ones before it.
Not a cent, a whole lot of lent.
I've got to go on down the road,
And I'm spent.
I slip right into your pocket.
Now that's what I call living,
Living in a wonderland.
No sinning. It was nothing more than holding hands.
And everyone's forgiven.
Now reach inside your pockets, and turn em inside out.
You took and took and took from me now it's time to buy me out,
But whatcha got?
Not a cent, a whole lot of lent.
I've got to go on down the road,
I'm sorry for throwing out all of your shit.
I slip right into your Pocket.
As I look back over my shoulder to my past I realize I'm getting older.
No I sure ain't getting younger that's for sure,
But I sure ain't leaving 'til I'm seen out the door.
And I know that I'm hardly forgiving of myself once I start living it up so high that I never come down,
Since you've last seen me my feet ain't touched the ground,
It's a life I love to hate and hate to love.
I'm sailing through a storm in a sea of indecision,
The mermaids are singing as my ship starts sinking.
Yes ma'am I'm going down, so won't you pour me another?
The life I lead, hot damn, I tell you brother
It's a trip down the rabbit hole,
Ain't nobody sure how far down it goes.
I don't dare the devil because the devil, she knows
That it's a life I love to hate and hate to love.
It is quite the juxtaposition, to hate to love the life your living, my ideas of wrong and right change every hour on the hour as I manifest my fate.
And all of these sensations are overwhelming, I get one or two or three or four or more at a time I put my fist through your door,
It's a life I love to hate and hate to love and love some more.
Hate to love.
I'm a humble heathen, I've been tried for treason twice.
And I ain't got no reason or excuses for any of my vices.
But I tell ya I'm a fella that you don't want to see swell up.
Peaceful and deceitful, the sweetest kind of nice.
So what if sometimes ain't nobody home,
We're getting stoned and we're going to philosophize.
I'm wandering what we're pondering on,
We're wandering around in a conundrum.
It's like a paradigm of a paradox,
Like stepping outside in a pair of sox.
Hot damn we done did it again, got fucked up drunk, talking about Iran.
The cosmos look like gasoline, wouldn't you agree?
So what if sometimes ain't nobody home,
We'll get along of we just don't philosophize.
But we're gonna philosophize.
Pour me a double I'm having a few, we're politicin.
Spoons causing trouble at the end of the bar, don't you piss off a Laker fan.
Timmy Too Tall has got a guy against the wall because he didn't like our song.
Can't we all just get along?
Hell no!
We're some humble heathens, we've been tried for treason thrice.
And we ain't got no reason or excuses for any of our vices.
But I tell ya we some fellas that you don't want to see swell up.
Peaceful and deceitful, the sweetest kind of nice.
So what if sometimes ain't nobody home?
We're getting stoned and we are going to be sipping some philosophy,
You know what I mean?
Have you ever been ratted out before?
To have your confidant sell you out the door?
And just cheep cheep cheep, and they sing like a canary,
Cheep cheep cheep, your talk is cheaper than a dairy free pint of milk,
even though it's spilled, no sense in crying now.
Have you ever been voted out before?
Off the island, drifting away from shore
Hearing squawk squawk squawk another polly wants a cracker.
Squawk squawk squawk everybody's always after my shit,
I want what lies in my horizon.
I've got a photographic memory of all the assholes that owe.
Have you ever been dicked around before?
Nobody shoots from the hip anymore.
They just chirp chirp chirp like some birds on a wire,
Chirp chirp chirp, man this jerk must be high
Because I can't believe I'm hearing this right now.
I've got a photographic memory of all the assholes that owe me.
No I'm not bitter, hell why would I be?
I'm hung like a donkey, just ask my monkey,
And I know the lead singer of Zen Robbi, that's me.
So if you ever get pushed around again,
Put your fist in the air and rage against.
Singing Oi Oi Oi and you rock it like a punker
Oi Oi Oi they better get in their bunker
Cuz we're dropping bombs everywhere we go.
And I've got that photographic memory for all you assholes that owe me.


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2005 Toyota Tundra - Consumer Review
Average Consumer Rating
Total Reviews
Limited Access Cab (4.7L V8 5-speed Automatic 6.2 ft. Bed)
Build Quality
Reliability Value
Build Quality
Reliability Value
Wonderful truck for just about anybody
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Vehicle2005 Toyota Tundra 4dr Access Cab Limited Rwd SB (4.7L 8cyl 5A)
ReviewA stump puller it isn't, but for the average person, the Toyota Tundra is all the truck you'll ever need. Pulls well, comfortable cabin, and with the step side, an unusual and sporty look for a truck. I got a leftover new 2004 access cab for a "Preacher's Price," and am very happy. Quiet and smooth, even over Arkansas roads, and excellent power. Yes, it is a little spartan and dated on the inside styling, but comfortable. A very good value and will do everything I need to do.
Best FeaturesGrab handles for both driver and passenger inside, reliability, and workmanship. All switches within easy reach and lots of interior storage. Built like a tank.
Worst FeaturesCould use a boost in fuel economy (I avg. 16 with the V-8). Stereo controls sometimes difficult to see (LCD) in direct sunlight. Would like to see heating and a/c controls on the steering wheel.
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Luckily, I don't need this many candles...
(and as an added bonus-I'm on bacationnnnnn!)
I already had a birthday extravaganza yesterday at work, which included the worlds coolest cake EVER! It had a pool...yes, a POOL of chocolate pudding right in the middle of it! And, it was in the shape of a tool box! Not just any toolbox, my toolbox. Do I have the coolest effing friends in the whole wide world or WHAT?!? I know, I'm 29 today, I should be a little less excited about birthdays....I usually am, but, this truly has already been the best birthday I can remember to date.
Besides my cake (I KNOW-there was more!) I got:
1. Ugly men. Lots of them. Read blog entry entitled: Delightful Day-Gadget got me back....or did she? ;)
2. Hand made pillows and fabulous placemats with BEADS on the edges. And...they're reversible. Course, we hate my friend b/c she made them all in under 5 minutes...JK-we LOVE, LOVE, LOVE YOU!
3. The book, The 5 People You Meet in HELL>can't WAIT to read it all cover to cover-and also a maritime excursion and an alcoholic beverage of my choice.
4. Flowers from the Big Boss, who, in all the time knowing him, has never giving me anything material.
5. Gift card to get my nails did.
6. Kohls gift card
7. A very cool plaque about best friends-not mother and daughters.
8. A dinner with a lovely lady.
9. Big malted balls, small blueberry balls and a romantic candle-with the secret prayer that love will be in the air during my Boston trip.
And, that all happened PRIOR to today...my real birthday! I am loved.
SO, for all of you who did not see your gift posted, please note, I know who you are, and well, IIIII"MMMM WAAAAIIIITIINNNGGGG!
Lots of love to you all. You truly make my life happier, and give me reason to smile everyday.


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Patiala, Nov 22 (UNI) Goa have come back strongly against Uttar Pradesh, having scored 244 for 2 in their second innings on the penultimate day in the Cooch Behar Trophy (Under-19) here today at the Dhruv Pandove Cricket Stadium.
Earlier, Uttar Pradesh, who were 424 for 6 in 92 overs yesterday, started on a quiet note and went on to pile up 473 for 7 in 104 overs before their skipper declared the innings.
Umang Sharma, who was unbeaten on 43 overnight went on to score 71 and was still unbeaten when the declaration was announced.
For Goa, Alok Sirodkar captured 2 wickets, giving away 35 runs.
Ravinder Rawat and Amit Yadav also bagged 2 wickets each, conceding 67 and 74 runs respectively.
In the second essay, Goa exhibited much pluck and grit to score 244 for 2 in 74.4 overs to rattle the UP bowling attack. At stumps, Suraj Dongre was unbeaten on 95, while N Pawaskar was 41 not out.
The 3rd wicket partnership between Suraj Dongre and N Pawaskar yielded 107 runs and the unbeaten partnership is going great guns.
Naveen Sharma was the other Goa batsman who compiled delightful 85 runs and punished the UP bowlers at will.
For UP, Abhishek Tiwari and Mohammad Khalid took a wicket each, giving away 47 and 69 runs respectively.
Though tomorrow is the last day of the 4-day tie, UP can still foresee a victory to earn full points.


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I don't have a smartphone, and I don't want one. As a congregant at the church of Lud, it conflicts with my religious beliefs. (Don't worry, the irony that I just typed that on a laptop isn't lost on me.)
As a single dad, I try to squeeze every ounce out of the four days I spend with my daughter, so I work early in the mornings and during my three days "off." The rest of the time is father-daughter day, every day, and I consequently spend a lot of time at parks.
This also means that I spend a lot of time watching other parents stare vacantly at a magic rectangle, fondling it with a thumb, while their kids try to get their attention—usually in vain.
Some people even bring their smartphones to the pool. No, I mean in the pool. Yeah. I guess you can get a waterproof pouch for your smartphone so that you can hang it around your neck.
I recognize the value that a smartphone has in certain professions. Whether or not it's evil is one thing, but it's inarguably invasive. There is a very crisp line between mere recreation and addictive behavior, and when you can't stop, it's an addiction, plain and simple.
The successful invasion of American life by the smartphone is a bummer on multiple levels.
Smartphones are ultimately unnecessary and facilitate compulsive behavior
I wish these people could see themselves tranced out by their 2015 Game Boys. That's what these things are. A smartphone is a handheld Playstation for adults. If the American Revolution was pulled off with letter carriers on horse as the primary means of communication … well, what is so urgent that you can't detach from Facebook for a few hours? And unless your house is on fire, the texts can wait.
I'm not judging anyone. I, too, grudgingly used Facebook. I resented it greatly, but it had become so ubiquitous as to seem indispensable—not as in "valuable" but as in "I can't throw this garbage away." Walden Pond never looked so good. Of course, it is totally dispensible and currently resides in my personal trash can of life. But the general public's social media fixation and its need for constant stimulation by an electronic device borders on the compulsive. It's the new thumb-sucking.
Smartphone fixation sets a bad example for kids
I don't have a television in my house, and I never will. Even without kids to consider, there are dozens of reasons for that, and you can begin with Jerry Mander's "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television." But besides that, I love the heck out of my child, and I want her to grow up to be happy and healthy. I know the impact that "screen time" has on a young brain. I spent way too much time as a kid watching TV and playing video games. Now I'm working for The Independent! See what I mean? Who would wish that fate on any child?
Seriously, though, this issue warrants an article unto itself, and Victoria L. Dunckley, MD, already wrote it for Psychology Today. It's worth a read, but the gist is this: "Chronically irritable children are often in a state of abnormally high arousal, and may seem 'wired and tired.' That is, they're agitated but exhausted. Because chronically high arousal levels impact memory and the ability to relate, these kids are also likely to struggle academically and socially." Sound familiar?
As Pascal said, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." If you love your kid, pull the plug, but lead by example and put down the phone as well.
Taking selfies is vain
The whole "selfie" phenomenon is a massive cultural exercise in unbridled vanity. Some suggest that it's a mental disorder unto itself. For example, the University of Birmingham, the University of Edinburgh, and Heriot-Watt University published a joint study of over 500 Facebookers that suggests that posting selfies is associated with fewer and less intimate relationships. In 2014, 19-year-old Danny Bowman became so obsessed with selfies that he attempted suicide.
Had he owned a smartphone, Ron Burgundy wouldn't have had to yell, "Hey everyone! Come see how good I look!" He could've just taken a selfie.
If you think that obsessing over your own image is unhealthy and that narcissism is an undesirable trait, good for you. But consider what your kids think when they see that behavior in their parents. As with sex, drugs, and alcohol, they're gonna do what you do.
Smartphones distract us from being present
This technology is robbing people of their lives. Yikes! Sounds dramatic, huh?
It ain't. I hate to sound sappy, but the fact is that the present moment and each other is all we ever have. Ever. To lose the ability to value that is to lose everything. I would imagine that in our final thoughts, many of us will have a remorseful moment wherein we realize too late what was really precious. In your last moment, what would you trade for ten more minutes with your children? Heck, what wouldn't you trade?
There simply isn't enough time when it comes to our children. Fast-forward to your deathbed, and think about the time you could've spent with your loved ones, and then rewind to the present. The miracle is that your life is happening now. Advertisers across the world would rather you squander it on their various meager trivialities than stay in touch with the present.
What do you think Bob Marley meant when he sang, "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery"? Screw advertisers! Screw the internet! Screw Facebook! Screw TV! You can get those ten minutes and so much more back right now. Throw your smartphone in the trash. Take a deep breath. Welcome back to planet Earth.