"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." ~ Bernice Johnson Reagon
So many of us would like to have what so many celebrities do; what I am talking about his the wealth they possess. We believe that with money comes happiness. Happiness, because then affording the things we lust, want and need would be no problem.
Michael Jackson for most of his life was a very wealthy man, however, his fortune and stardom wasn't able to give him one of the most important things one could desire in life - that's happiness. Michael lived a very sad and lonely life to his very end.
Michael is a perfect example of how flawed the concept of many is that if they were wealthy, then they'd live a very happy life. Yes, a wealthy person can live a happy life, just as a poor person can. But happiness is not found in the amount of money one have, but rather within you.
Albert Einstein once said that, “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
See a link to an Op-Ed on Michael Jackson, taken from the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/opinion/28thomas.html?_r=1
"Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow." - Dorothy Thompson
"So try to stomp on me, try to douse my inner flame, try to squash every ounce of beauty I hold within me. You won't succeed." - Unknown
Growing up, I really didn't know anything much about Farrah Fawcett. However, I saw a picture of her in an old magazine and that's how I discovered Farrah. I was struck by her beauty and her look of grace. I liked her so much, I named my niece Farrah.
My aunt Agatha died in September 2008 from cancer (which had metastasized), by the name it was discovered she had cancer, there was little or nothing the doctors could have done. When I read how brave Farrah Fawcett was during her struggle with cancer, I am reminded of my aunt. They both handled themselves with so much grace and bravery.
It is a difficult experience losing a loved one and at such a young age. Farrah is going through a very painful experience and like my aunt when she was faced with unbearable pain; I have no doubt Farrah is hoping to go soon.
Farrah, you are a beautiful, talented, sexy and courageous woman and I wish you nothing but peace.
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life. Define yourself." ~Harvey Fierstein ~
Top Republicans and Democrats across Alaska are quietly lining up to run for governor amid growing speculation that Sarah Palin will not seek reelection in 2010.
No candidate, including Palin, has yet filed papers with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. Palin’s office declined an opportunity to explain her thinking on the 2010 race, and the Republican Governors Association said it would not comment on discussions it has had with the governor.
But a number of Democrats and Republicans in Alaska and Washington who spoke to POLITICO believe her silence is a sign she will not pursue a second term as governor so that she can play a larger role on the national political stage.
At least three Democrats and six Republicans are mulling...
Barack Obama's campaign arm, Organizing for America, released on Tuesday a major new online tool designed to personalize the debate over health care reform and galvanize grassroots support for the president's plan.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/23/obama-launches-major-new_n_219333.html
So many republicans seem to believe Pres. Obama isn't saying enough on the Iran election/demonstrations. In 1953 the United States meddled in Iranian affairs; the US helped overthrew the democratically elected Iranian government. Before the coup, Britain had asked the Democratic president, Harry Truman for assistance and Pres. Truman refused. After President Truman's presidency, the Brits asked the new sitting President, President Eisenhower, a republican, and he agreed. Whatever the circumstances, like Iraq, oil was involved.
Taken from Wikipedia: "According to the history based on documents released to the National Security Archive and reflected in the book "Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran," edited by Mark J. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Bryne, the coup caused long-lasting damage to the U.S. reputation."
"The '28 Mordad' coup, as it is known by its Persian date, was a watershed for Iran, for the Middle East and for the standing of the United States in the region. The joint U.S.-British operation ended Iran's drive to assert sovereign control over its own resources and helped put an end to a vibrant chapter in the history of the country's nationalist and democratic movements. These consequences resonated with dramatic effect in later years. When the Shah finally fell in 1979, memories of the U.S. intervention in 1953, which made possible the monarch's subsequent, and increasingly unpopular, 25-year reign, intensified the anti-American character of the revolution in the minds of many Iranians."
So, with everything that has happened, the republicans want the US to stick her nose in Iran's election process AGAIN. Their concern for the Iranian people is nothing but 'politics', as with some many things, the republicans are being quite disingenuous. They do not concern about the Iranians, they are concerned about scoring political points, to make the sitting President seem weak. They do not care about Neda, about the people dying in the streets. After all, they complained about the speech the President gave to the Muslim world when he was in Cairo.
They are talking about oppression when they are the ones who want to take away voters rights, women’s’ rights, the right to affordable healthcare…you can add any other rights I may have missed.
Sen. McCain and others, you need to deal with the SHIT facing us here in the US and leave the Iranians alone. Stop with your phony outrage!!!
