Dear Washington...

Dear Washington,

First, congratulations! By treating the public as infantile and stupid, you have only helped to alienate yourself further and create more dissent against the government - and, thus, more support for the republican cause of "smaller government." Good work if your goals are to put yourself out of a job and further the ever-growing anarchist movement.

Secondly, if you expect your constituency to approve 700 billion dollar checks coming from our pockets, please explain to us the name we need to write in the field labeled "To."

I know that none of you EVER forget that we are a REPUBLIC and that you all have a great deal of power as our representative officials...

...but you seem occasionally to forget who gives you the orders - the very public that you repeatedly alienate.

Thanks... and better luck next time!

Peace in,
David

Interesting...

How racism works

What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review? What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class? What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said “I do” to? What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization? What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard? What if Obama were a member of the “Keating 5”? What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

— Kelvin LaFond, Fort Worth

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Something to think about...

Peace.

Love,
David

The Hoober-Bloob Highway

I need to get to bed here, but I just had to share this one:


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Liz and I have spent much of the night reveling in nostalgia and reminiscing about the days of Muppet Babies and Inspector Gadget...

However, this short film probably has the strongest connection to my youth. I watched it repeatedly as a child and loved it to no end.

...I still feel the same way about it. =)

I hope you enjoy.

Love,
David

P.S. Gotta love that music! =P

Mandate?! Seriously?!

I need a new job...

Love,
David

On a lighter note...

...this is our new car. It's amazing. I still can't believe we are driving it.

I hope I still have his optimistic attitude when making the monthly payments! =S

I'm going to go get some stuff down around the apartment... and maybe grab a snack as well.

Peace.

Love,
Dave

9/11 TM

"Terrorists are not what you, John McCain, fight. Terrorists are what you, John McCain, use." -Keith Olbermann

Thank God somebody is finally holding this man accountable for what he says. Obama is certainly no saint and has even been accused by some to be the Antichrist, but at least he doesn't claim that he alone knows how to capture Bin Laden and he will only be willing to help bring him to justice if he is elected.

The republican ticket, to put it as gently as possible, is a farce. John McCain, once a very honorable senator from Arizona, has now given way to his own form of terrorism, using and abusing the republican brand of 9/11 TM.

McCain is terrorizing his own nation with his scare tactics... (Here is one example as well as another just in case the first wasn't enough.)

...and I have hope that a majority of our great nation will see this for precisely what it is.

Thanks to my good friend Ryan for bringing Keith Oblermann's "9/11 TM" soliloquy to my attention.

Peace, love, and understanding, my friends.

-Dave

Life...

So, how are you? I can't complain. Well, I suppose I could, but who
would listen? Everyone has something in their life worth complaining
about. I am just growing so tired of being the person that everyone
complains TO at work... staff and patients alike.

However, on a brighter note, Liz and I made the single largest
purchase of our marriage and our lives in general! We are now the
proud owners of our cute little 2009 Pontiac Vibe. It's truly a
wonderful addition to the happy Filkins family.

Regarding my spiritual life and interconnectedness with the " higher
power," I am finding myself lately more able to dive into the
concepts of mindfulness, interdependence, and peacefulness while at
work. This is especially hard when working at an already difficult
job where the administration in their infinite wisdom find it best to
decrease the staff-to-patient ratio while increasing the amount of
work required of the direct care staff and considering the possibility
of going to "magnet status" where they could pay all staff members
even less than what little scraps we are tossed from the table after
all of our toils. (Phew! What a run-on sentence!)

Perhaps I am finally learning that meditation is not SEPARATING my
mind from my body and its sensations of the world around it, but
instead learning to EMBRACE my experiences (both the good and the less than ideal) and learning also to control my emotional responses. It
is only then when I feel I can even begin to understand just what my
personal spirituality is all about... and I will be the first to admit
that I don't have the foggiest idea what 'god' is all about.

So, can I continue down this road of spiritual enlightenment and
emotional self-control?

I can only hope.

So, here is where I end tonight. May peace find all of you on this
beautiful evening.

Love,
Dave

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