10:07 pm: Nicole, you are so fucking missed...
There aren't enough flowers
  to bring you back.

But you had your final act of will,
   you rode the spiral out.

Tears flow through the gutters
   as all the clowns weep
   and the temples burn
   the spilt blood of revolutionary hearts.

10:49 pm: Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
  - Ernest Hemingway

12:46 pm: More forum posting madness (topic: anti-war protests 4 years later)
I made a career of anti-war organizing 2003-2005, so to speak. It certainly doesn't pay as well as the DoD.

The fundemental change I've seen in the last years, is the swing of popular opinion regarding Bush and the Wars.

I acknowledge that the dialogue that has been taking place between all people in many venues, and it's a process that takes time to gestate. Marches and public protests were one form of that dialogue. But times *are* changing, so we need to consider practical strategies relative to these changing times. In hopes that things will continue to change by the power of many, not the tyranny of few.

Synchronistically, I'd like to point out that Henry Thoreau wrote "Resistance to Civil Governement" (also known as "Civil Disobedience") 3-4 years after the Mexican-American started. I believe it reflected a change in attitude. The questioning of Manifest Destiny, the disgust with slavery, problems with annexation.

My question is, what are our effective strategies in the context of modern times? Where do we go from here?

-Pope kaivalya
Following the death of our faithful leader Bob, I hearby publicly announce my intent to run for President under the Guns and Dope Party.
Vote for Guns and Dope in 2008!

06:16 pm: the forceps of our minds...
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
  - HG Wells

11:33 pm: my President's Day declaration
If you want change, you need vision.
(To live is to dream)

But the modern visions are offered by the liars, the con men.

And we, the citizens, are too disassociated from eachother to dream a new culture.

So live and dream. Share your dreams with your brethren - listen to the visions of people. And cultivate with vilgilance, a new culture for the future.

11:37 pm: Pope kaivalya's Encyclical Cum Loudly...
THINK GLOBAL!
FUCK LOCAL!

02:43 pm: The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
  - Frank Zappa

11:20 am: Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammed Yunus and his for-profit bank!
Rhonda Abrams
Gannett News Service
December 18, 2006 December 18, 2006

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Entrepreneurship can change the world. For the first time, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the founder of a profit-making business and his company - a bank that grants microloans to millions of the poor, helping them start businesses.

On Dec. 10, the Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their pioneering work in microcredit.

Yunus' story is inspiring, demonstrating the incredible impact one person can have on the world.

Yunus was an economist overwhelmed by famine and poverty in his native Bangladesh. In the 1970s, with $300 of his own money, he began lending tiny amounts of money - sometimes as little as $1 - to help women pull their families out of poverty, primarily by starting small businesses.

In doing so, Yunus launched a worldwide microcredit movement - giving tiny loans to low-income people. Grameen Bank's loans average about $200.

Today, Grameen bank has almost 7 million borrowers - 97 percent of whom are women. The bank has loaned more than $6 billion. More than 80 percent of poor families in Bangladesh have been reached with microcredit. Yunus hopes that by 2010, 100 percent will be reached.

Remarkably, Grameen Bank has a repayment rate of 99 percent. Last year, the bank had a profit of $20 million and a staff of 20,000. The Grameen Trust has more than 100 partner microfinance institutions around the world.

Most importantly, according to their records, 58 percent of the women who have borrowed from Grameen Bank have risen above the poverty line. Many borrowers' children have become doctors, engineers and other professionals. These women pulled themselves and their families out of poverty through their own hard work, ingenuity and just a little bit of financial help.

Yunus says he dreams of a day "when nobody will be a poor person." But he believes in capitalism and entrepreneurship to achieve this.

"By defining 'entrepreneur' in a broader way, we can change the character of capitalism radically and solve many of the unresolved social and economic problems within the scope of the free market," Yunus said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. "Let us suppose an entrepreneur, instead of having a single source of motivation ... now has two sources of motivation ... a) maximization of profit and b) doing good to people and the world."

In the U.S., microlending is often achieved through credit cards because microlending is too expensive administratively for traditional banks. But many of the most needy do not have credit histories, and credit cards can have very high interest rates.

Congress approved $2 million in direct microloan funds for fiscal year 2007 (used to leverage another $28 million of private money) and $10 million in microloan technical assistance.

In 2005, the microloan program resulted in 2,474 loans averaging $13,042 and totaling over $32 million. About 45 percent of the loans went to women.

You can support microlending in several ways:

Encourage groups in your community to start and support microcredit programs.

Donate to microcredit organizations.

Spread the word. Tell your fellow entrepreneurs and members of community, religious or ethnic groups.

Urge your elected officials to support the U.S. microloan program.

You'll find a directory of microenterprise programs in your state, along with other resources on microcredit, at the Web site of the Aspen Institute, www.fieldus.org.

Microcredit works. Yunus and Grameen Bank have proved that assisting hard-working but poor people to borrow small amounts of money to start their own businesses can change a community - whether in Bangladesh, Boston or Boise.

04:21 pm: Hair Eris! Another Pope bites the dust...
Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @ 4:50 AM on binary date 01/11.

02:38 pm: mad forum posting machine

Quote:
This is where athiests scare me, because if you don't believe in a higher power, how can you believe in reality?

I think you are confusing Atheism and Nihilism.

I find that when you take God out of the picture, there is a lot more room for reality.

-kaivalya

03:12 am: The Peoples Domain of the Internet Terriories
Wiki is the People's Pedia...

The Internet ain't no Theocracy baby.

-Pope kaivalya
"kiss my ring"

06:58 pm: For those who believe in God...
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

-Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)

09:32 pm: foundations
the foundation of my reality is simply unknowingness
it's always been like this, but sometimes it's more apparent than others

sometimes the my world spins faster than before, the need for action greater than ever,
this gravity weighs on me, pulls me down, hinders the path (maarga) at hand.

I lose track of this steady orbit -
fragmented past, circles around me,
it's orbit doesn't deteriorate fast enough.

02:31 am: some cheerful politics...
The FBI has tripled it's congressional investigation squads! For the sake of some cheerful politics, I'm starting a list of all congressional criminals (that have been indicted/are being investigated):

-Bob Ney (R-Ohio, on Oct. 13 pleaded guilty to bribery)

-William Jefferson (D-La, $100,000 in cash found in his freezer)

-Tom Delay (R-Tx, all-around dumbass)

-Mark Foley (R-Tx, mmm, young men ala Clinton!)

-"Duke" Cunningham (R-California, $2.4mil in bribs from defense contractors)

-Curt Weldon (R-Pa, under investigation for using his position to steer lobbying jobs to his daughter)

-Brian McLaughlin (D-NY, has been indicted by a federal grand jury with two counts of racketeering; 13 counts of mail and wire fraud, 3 counts of money laundering, 10 violations of the Taft-Hartley Act; one Travel Act violation, 12 counts of conspiracy and 2 counts of bank fraud and false statements to a lender)

Who'd I forget?
Who's next?

09:59 am: I've got the drinks if you've got the kidneys?
"The human race aint got it man. it's a bad crowd." -Bukowski

I don't understand this broken down evolution machine. How can detachment and anxiety co-exist? How did my head get so noisy? It must be fed interest and not fear. There lie the hidden faces human programing (genetic, memorial, transcendental, depth). Like the pumpkin spiders of September, we're born, we die, sometimes we breed. We get eaten less these days. Is that what this static behind my eyes is? Because I don't want to get eaten, but now I'm bored? It's become clear to me that everyone suffers from the static - I think it's a "Noble Truth". There's not enough prozac, money, medicine, intoxicants or affirmation to fix the human problem (ego driven static). I guess that just leaves fucking art. FUCK ART! It's the excrement of the human race, sniffing each others asses, dabbing urine behind our ears. But really? What else do we have? Tao? Tao is excrement too. Alcohol is the excrement of yeast. Oxygen is the excrement of Flora.
What can I say, I'm tired and artistically constipated.

"To alcohol: the cause of --- and solution to --- all of life's problems." -Homer Simpson

05:44 pm: How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger

What a buzz all the bloggers are making these days! It seems like just about everybody is pouring their musings into a text box. Are you feeling tempted to start a blog of your own? Here are some ways to bypass the trend.

1. Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you've been reading. Don't put anyone through that.
2. Consider that your voice, even if it is truly a good one, is a tiny peep against the massive wave of tripe out there. The odds of anyone you don't already know finding your blog are low.
3. Write on a regular basis in Wordpad instead. If that doesn't satisfy your urge, and you feel that you must post your blog online, then you might just be craving attention and validation--which you'll never truly find in a blog. If you give up on your Wordpad journal after about three days, you'll do the same with a blog that just takes up server space.
4. Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog. What about that treehouse you wanted to build? Or the book you wanted to write? Or the car you wanted to fix up? Or the restaurant you wanted to take your wife to? Or the new career you wanted to pursue? Instead of writing about pretty much nothing, or whining about all the things you wish you were doing instead, start doing something that'd actually be worth writing about. And if it's really worth writing about, you'll be having too much fun doing it to tear yourself away from it.

01:01 am: Bitter Worker
I've been fighting an angst since I got my car window bashed in on Labor Day.

My moderate disposition was improved today when I got a call from Qin, this guy that owns a local Chinese restaurant with his wife Judy. Here's the back story: when I lived in Eureka, I went to this place, Panda Cafe, not far from my apartment. It seems like a generic Chinese restaurant in many ways, which works for it in the Humboldt economy of dining-out. The Panda Cafe is owned and run by a very nice Cantonese couple, and they put so much into their restaurant, you can taste it in the home-made blackbean sauce, the fresh chow fun noodles, or the farmers-market green beans - it's quaint really.

After I moved to town nearly a year ago, I told them that if they ever needed any help around the restaurant when it's busy, just give me a ring. So today he called me. I was put to work for the dinner shift and told to be back at noon tomorrow and we'll eat lunch at 2 pm. It's very little money plus modest tips, but it's something.

I feel like I'm at the point in my life where I would trade any reasonably paid office gig for an employer that says "and when you are off work at 2pm we will eat lunch together." I've become such a bitter worker, hopefully this will help.

07:19 pm: Labor Day?
To tell the story briefly...

Labor Day is celebrated in America on the first Monday of September. It's origins start in 1882 the first annual parade organized by the Knights of Labor in Toronto, Canada took place and every first monday in September since then.

Concurrently in early May 1886 there was a riot in Chicago's Haymarket. The Haymarket strike and subsequent riot was instigated as a demand for an 8 hour work week. And it did lead to legislation for a weekend and 8 hour work day restrictions in the United States.

In a stealthy move by President Grover Cleveland in 1887, the first monday of September was to become the offical American Labor Day. While the countries that supported the internationist worker movements adopted May Day, or May 1st as their Labor Day.

It's it great to be a part of the placated masses?!

01:29 am: we already knew...
We already knew I was a deviant, so I signed up with the club:
http://kaivalya0.deviantart.com/gallery/

It's mostly new stuff from southern california.

06:55 am: It's not easy being mutable
It's hard knowing where I end and someone else begins... Where someone else ends, and I begin.

Some one called me "consistant" today! .....
I had to pause and check my current time-space continuim.
"Are you refering to me? .... I'm consistant?"
I'm afraid I'm too well thought-out and excessively consistant. Maybe that's why interacting can require so much energy.