GOOD & EVIL HACKERS

Capitalist, Communist, Oligarchy, and Dictatorship governments around the world 

all react to their good citizens seeking justice and truth 

in the exact same way: CRUSH THEM. 

Here is only one example....

"HACKER WHO EXPOSED VIOLENT SEX CRIME 

CAN GET LONGER JAIL SENTENCE THAN 

CONVICTED RAPISTS." 

The U.S. Department of Justice should be thanking 

Deric Lostutter (the hacker), not imprisoning him.

Demand that they stop prosecution of Deric Lostutter.

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/steubenville_lostutter

ASPIRIN WON'T FIX OUR HEADACHE

Three young women who were kidnapped in their teens, then imprisoned inside a house and raped for 10 years by three brothers (then in their 20's), were freed.

Many people want to castrate them.  But castration might be a big relief. 

Besides understandably reacting Biblically with hatred and vengeance, society must painfully delve into its own deepest twisted secret pits of hell....These 3 men had parents. They went to school. They worked. They had friends. They had neighbors..... 

What failed in our system? Unless we have the courage to confront that, and change, such traumatic events will repeat over and over. As they do now.

ACTIONS LEFT UNDONE

There are two specific, practical, moral things our nation can do within this year: relieve poverty and bring Americans into a sane, relatively fair economic balance. We all know it will not be done. But it is possible to do in reality. Therefore, the responsibility and blame is on the politicians of both parties, the citizens who accept and vote for them, as well as our own personal lack of compassion and courage....Writing this, I don't feel superior. I feel equal in human hypocrisy, weakness, guilt, fear, awareness, and lack of redemptive positive action.

MORALITY

ETHICAL QUESTION:  Assad is a killer who gasses his people and bombs villagers....Should America destroy Syria's Assad, who is pro-American (when its suits his purpose) and allows other religious to exist, knowing that an anti-American religious fundamentalist government will take over?  Or should we keep his brutal dictatorship in power?

LITTLE SAIGON

PARIS BY NIGHT" has produced very professional live shows and 109 DVDs with almost every great Vietnamese singer and composer, for 30 years. They represent the history of Vietnamese music, some of the greatest, most moving in the world. Now they have been driven out, because fans steal the music free on YouTube......QUESTION: If you love a singer, should you steal their creativity, steal their spirit? Even great singers need to eat. They deserve to have their artistry, hard work, and vulnerable passion treated with respect by their fans.....Or else there will be no music, no films, no art. Fans lose, student artists lose, creativity and inspiration is killed, and culture becomes even more diluted, hopeless, meaningless....Nothing good is free in life.

Language isn't important. Listen with your heart to these great Vietnamese singers and composers:

Trinh Cong Son ~ Khanh Ly ~ Le Thu ~ Thai Chau ~ Elvis Phuong ~ Che Linh ~ Thai Thanh ~ Tuan Ngoc ~ Hoang Nam ~ Thanh Lan ~ Ngoc Son ~ Cam Van ~ Giao Linh ~ Jimmy Joseph ~ Dalena ~ Thanh Tuyen ~ Pham Duy ~ Hoang Lam ~ Ky Anh ~ Manh Dinh ~ Bao Yen ~ Tuan Vu ~ Don Ho ~ My Linh ~ Khanh Ha ~ Ngoc Lan ~ The Son ~ Duy Quang ~ Vu Khanh ~ Y Lan ~ Tran Tu Tien ~ and many others

DEAR MARGO ®

Margo Howard is (by far) the best, most psychologically astute, mentally healthy "advice" columnist in the international English media. Her wise advice is not always 100% correct, as she is not a mind-reader or God, but it is as close to constructive and useful reality, (not self-help dogma or nice-sounding politically-correct platitudes), as humanly possible. 

If your newspaper doesn't have it, you can read her column at no charge on the net, from Creators.com [This is not a paid endorsement.]

CHINA vs. A MAN

The monstrous Chinese government is so terrified of one tiny aging man who smiles and talks of the spirit.....Is a dinosaur terrified of a butterfly, or even a bee?  This gladiator competition is surreal and absurdist bad theatre.....No government can remain is power for long that has no sense of proportion or reality, though it can kill millions of its citizens in its vain attempt...a bloated version of Syria.

AWAKENING

The people I’ve tried to make love with, haunt my virtual reality dreams that are as fragile as a crashed hard drive or pulled plug. My dreams haunt my dreams. Everything I have ever seen or imagined or done, invisibly haunt my super-reality dreams.

I am not a bad man, yet I am a troubled man, troubled by what could have been, what was, what should have been, what can never be. If my dreams trouble someone as guiltless and meaningless as me, what must the dreams of Adolf, Idi, Mao, George W, and Pius XII have been? Not to mention good men like Bill, Obama, and Indira. What was in the dreams of Chopin, A.S. Neill, and Groucho as they lay dying?

How can it be that 5000 years of human majesty and shame can absolutely vanish in a millisecond explosion, along with all the cute bunnies, redwoods, hummingbirds, crocodiles, roses, manatees, and mosquitoes we’ve killed.

My list of tragedies are endless and soothing, yet fill only a page of the Great Unabridged Dictionary of things known, experienced, not known, imagined, unimagined, and distorted.

GUNS: HOT ENTERTAINMENT REALITY FRANCHISE RETURNS

When I was young, idealistic, undiplomatic, and certain of right and wrong, I was outspoken. I said exactly what I believed, openly, in newspapers and magazines, on bulletin boards and telephone poles. I signed opinions, often including my address, and even, recklessly, my photo....

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