garais50 et al.,
“Whatever you decide to do, it was a good ride. But, I hope it continues. Your mental musings are a refreshing alternative to the visceral p*ss, vinegar and bile that sometimes floods the rice paddy’s here”.

Ask Jandžs how he is coming along in his quest to build a temple to his ” God” John.

Visu labu,

The NY Times had a timely and on-topic (for this thread) essay yesterday entitled “The Meaningfulness of Lives” whose last sentence found me shaking my head in agreement: “Philosophy can assist us in understanding how we might think about our lives, while remaining modest enough to leave the living of them to us.”

As always, such an essay in the NY Times produces many thoughfull comments worth reading after the essay itself in the reader comment section. Despite the expected differing perspectives and differing resulting conclusions therein - for the most part - those commenters there provide a commendable example of intelligence, restraint, and civility that is often absent in other venues, including sometimes on LOL.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/the-meaningfulness-of-lives/?hp

Alberts

How many more populists will the Latvian government and media have to kill before they is able to survive? Unfortunately, the Latvian musicians have joined the former: not one song in Latvian about voting and casting a BLANK vote.

Here is a guy named Coleman in California speaking for Latvia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkGIDQ6R04Y A pretty sorry state of things, I’d say, Latvian.

Jandžs!

That “Vote For Coleman” YouTube link was great.  I shared it with a former college classmate who lives in Southern California and has become rather diillusioned with all of their current California political choices. My friend agrees with the bicyclist at the end of the videoclip, whose assessment “...at least he’s (i.e. Coleman) funny” seemed to resonate well with my friend’s ( and mine, as well) take on things.

I just read a research report that laughter makes your body’s endorphins spike significantly. That’s a GOOD thing. Decades ago, Norman Cousins (an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate) survived his dibilitating illness by watching a lot of funny Marx Brothers movies and laughing a lot and he even wound up writing a book about it, “Anatomy of An Illness”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cousins

Maybe Latvia and Latvians will survive their own debilitating cancer by laughing a bit more, too.

Alberts

A crawl through The Hague
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20110913-the-hague-peace-crawl , an entertainingly written romp through the Courts of The Hague serving the eternal flame of Human Justice.

I especially liked the paragraph about the football game inside the prison, because it illustrates how well justice works among the Heads of Eggheads in Europe. Soldier Schweik http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8T6urTz3S0 would feel comfortable among the multi-national players.

As for the Latvian elections of a new Saeima on September 17th:
CAST A BLANK VOTE. ‘They’ (the un-populists) will know it is a call for the ‘Ieliktenis’ [Proxy (of the banks)] President’s resignation and a Constitutional Convention!

An anti-Populist makes fun of a Populist crocodile. The crocodile turns the tables http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNdwqJ9rrgg&NR=1 , and one called Bērziņš runs for his life. Jaņdžs recommends: CAST A BLANK VOTE. The anti-populists will know it is a call for the Ieliktenis [proxy] President’s resignation and a Constitutional Convention!

Sveiki Jandžs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcN08Tg3PWw&feature=player_embedded

“Web Cam 101 For Seniors’ Turns Oregon Oldsters Into YouTube Celebritie​s”

These oldtimer, grandparents captured without their knowledge trying to figure out their new, very first-time, webcam-enhanced computer….well, they might as well have been the Latvian electorate trying to figure out who or what to vote for on September 17th and what that all will mean for Latvia. Maybe that’s why a recent poll has suggested that as many as 31% of Latvian voters are still undecided as to what to do.

Jandžs, I hope you can put your eloquent cynicism “on hold” long enough to view and appreciate this short video. Those of us with elderly parents or grandparents still alive (mine unfortunately are long since “aizsaulē”) trying to make sense of this new-fangled technology can probably personalize the charm of this very human vignette.

Meanwhile, here’s the backstory for this warm, natural, cute, viral videolink I found referred to on Huffington Post (copied and pasted verbatim in its entirety by me)....

“A couple from northwestern Oregon who are Internet newbies have found
themselves the unwitting subjects of an instant viral video, thanks to
a little help from a grandkid.

“Bruce Huffman, 86, and his wife, Esther, 79, of the Hillside
Retirement Community in McMinnville, recently purchased their first
laptop computer –- an aqua colored beauty with a built-in webcam.

“Late last month, the couple sat down together and tried to figure out
how to make a video with the webcam, something a granddaughter had
painstakingly attempted to teach Esther a few days beforehand.

“I was trying to figure out how to do the videos and didn’t know the
thing was actually running,” Esther told The Huffington Post. “All the
while, Bruce was kind of amusing himself because he was bored. He was
being quite an actor.”

“The nearly three minute video captures Bruce making funny faces,
singing, burping and at one point, during a moment of levity, he got a
little flirtatious with his wife. “See how pretty your hair is?” he
said. “Just drop your dress a little bit and see your boobies.”

“Esther, focused on the task at hand, shot down the request. “Come on
stop it. No, no, no,” she laughed.

“When the couple’s granddaughter later saw the video, she titled it
“Web Cam 101 for Seniors” and uploaded it on YouTube.”

Alberts

An example of inexact science. While one scientist says “decades away”, the other speaks of “within the next few years”. However, both scientists are serving the interests of corporate individuals hoping to make 20 km long rows of white balloons in the skies. These scientific “wonders” are sure to disfigure the skies even more obnoxiously than airliner vaportrails.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8761883/Scientists-to-create-artificial-volcano-for-climate-change-experiment.html
As for “eloquent cynical” Jaņdžs, he positively recommends: CAST A BLANK VOTE. The un-populists will know it is a call for the Ieliktenis [proxy] President’s Andris Berzins resignation and a Constitutional Convention!

It ought to be of interest that both the Apollo and Delphi sites in Latvia soon pulled the Open Letter that I posted there and my own blogspot, re: http://the4thawakening.blogspot.com/ If anyone needs proof that the Latvian media is government controlled, well, here it is.

The Finnish PM was visiting Latvia and flattered the Latvian government that the Latvian people had pulled off a „miracle” by surviving the economic conditions imposed on them by the IMF, ECB, EC, and Latvian own FM and LB. For an improved perspective see
http://michael-hudson.com/2011/09/euro-sos-debate/ The mention of Latvia occurs at the 23rd minute.

P.S. It is interesting that Delphi site is owned by an Estonian, who is likely under the control of the Finns. Go vote tomorrow, but CAST AN EMPTY BALLOT ENVELOPE. And don’t trust the Finn’s flattery. Come see what is happening in the Latvian countryside for yourself.

Sometimes AWAKING must be left to the sleeper’s own good time. This is one good reason why THE4thAWAKENING will let time take its time in finding out how to resolve society’s problems.

One thing to note about the post-election discussions is that few commentators commented on what effects the Latvian people most: political economics. There was hardly any mention of it. Most everyone talked about the number of political coalitions that could come from the election results. This blogger is not sure that anything much will come of it. The Latvian people need jobs, an income, a decent roof over their heads before they will be satisfied with any political coalition. They also needs to have some reasonable assurance that the leadership is working toward some kind of a resolution of the nation’s problems. At this moment such a reassurance is not forthcoming.

Someone asked about the Temple to Black Johns or Melnays Jānis. The Temple is in the midst of planning A FOREST RETORT PARTY. The “party” will involve the burning of a straw doll in human shape with a chain saw in its hands. The event will occor on October 15. We will advertise as a PHOTO OPPORTUNITY. In due time more information will be forthcoming at http://melnaysjanis.blogspot.com/

Jandžs has been beating the “Save The Forests” drum for quite a while and some of the LOL forum participants have, in my opinion, found it very convenient to either ignore the topic or make fun of the topic author’s obsession. I don’t include myself in that group. I’ve had a deep appreciation for the value, beauty, and ecological rhythm of forests ever since I took a couple of riveting elective courses at the Duke Forestry School. The course profs taught me to have a fiercer awareness and appreciation of nature’s effect on mankind and vice versa.

Because of that, the online NYTimes front page story link today grabbed my attention and I proceeded to read it. I hope some of you will too. Those of you that think that nature is simply here to serve us and our favorite oligarchs and their pet financial-gain pursuits will probably not be swayed by this article and others like it any more than you’ve been influenced by what Jandžs has written over the years on LOL on the topic of trees.

But misguided power of cackling opinions will not alter the environmental consequences of the raping of trees throughout the world. Trees do what they do and when they’re no longer there….they’re no longer there to do it, so their doings don’t get done.

It turns out that trees aren’t nearly as passive as they are discredited for being in derisive phrases like “I may as well be talking to a tree.”

As the NYTimes article points out, the earth’s forests soak up 25% of the ambient carbon dioxide as part of their metabolic mission, which in turn helps immensely in keeping the eco-system in balance in a number of ways. Global warming is one of the outgrowths of wide scale forest disappearance.

Go hug a tree and talk to it….you might be surprised by the good karma that comes your way.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/science/earth/01forest.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

Lai lapas šalcs,

Alberts

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