The teachings of Black Elk (Oglala) 1863-1950

The teachings of Black Elk (Oglala) 1863-1950

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged....

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.


You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

-Black Elk (Oglala) 1863-1950

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. - Black Elk -

And thats when the fight started

And thats when the fight started

My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, 'What's on TV?'I said, 'Dust.'.....And then the fight started...-

My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.'I bought her a scale........And then the fight started...

When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive... so, I took her to a gas station........And then the fight started...

After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver's license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.The woman said, 'Unbutton your shirt'. So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said, 'That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me' and she processed my Social Security application.When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office.She said, 'You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too.'......And then the fight started...

My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.My wife asked, 'Do you know her?''Yes,' I sighed, 'She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since.''My God!' says my wife, 'who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?'
And then the fight started...

I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first."I'll have the strip steak, medium rare, please."He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad cow?""Nah, she can order for herself."
And then the fight started...

A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror.She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband,'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly.I really need you to pay me a compliment.'The husband replies, 'Your eyesight's damn near perfect.'
And then the fight started.....

I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light for $14.95.Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $7.95.I told her the beer would make her look better at night than the cold cream.
And then the fight started....

My wife asked me if a certain dress made her butt look big. I told her not as much as the dress she wore yesterday,and then the fight started.....

A man and a woman were asleep like two innocent babies.Suddenly, at 3 o'clock in the morning, a loud noise came from outside.The woman, bewildered, jumped up from the bed and yelled at the man 'Holy crap. That must be my husband!'So the man jumped out of the bed; scared and naked jumped out the window. He smashed himself on the ground, ran through a thorn bush and to his car as fast as he could go. A few minutes later he returned and went up to the bedroom and screamed at the woman, 'I AM your husband!'The woman yelled back, 'Yeah, then why were you running?'
And then the fight started.....
Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, and slipped quietly into the garage. I hooked the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour. The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all day. I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. I cuddled up to my wife's back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, 'The weather out there is terrible.' My loving wife of 10 years replied, 'Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?'And then the fight started ...
I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our anniversary? "It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation. "Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said. So I suggested, "How about the kitchen?"
And that's when the fight started....
My wife and I are watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed. I turned to her and said, "Do you want to have sex?" "No," she answered. I then said, "Is that your final answer?" She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying "Yes."So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."
And that's when the fight started....
Have a great day!

What is Obama thinking!?

What is Obama thinking!?

President-elect Barack Obama's appointments to Homeland Security, the Justice Department and now the CIA indicate a virtual abandonment of the War on Terror.As Homeland Security chief, he's named a governor whose only experience has been with the US-Mexican border.
His attorney general pick, meanwhile, took the lead in pardoning FALN terrorists. Now he has rounded out his national-security and Justice Department teams by naming ultraliberals.Leon Panetta, his choice for CIA chief, is as liberal as they come.
Though originally a pro-Nixon congressman, he long ago embraced the left with the fervor of a convert and brings these values to the CIA.As President Bill Clinton's chief of staff (a tenure that coincided with my own work with Clinton), he was a dedicated liberal, opposing accommodation with the Republicans who ran Congress and battling hard against a balanced-budget deal. After winning re-election, Clinton jettisoned Panetta for the more moderate Erskine Bowles in order to reach a deal with the GOP.

Plus, Panetta was a prime mover in the 1995 appointment of John Deutch to head CIA, replacing hardliner Jim Woolsey. Deutch eventually needed a presidential pardon after being caught committing a massive security breach by taking home his laptop, laden with secret files.Choosing Panetta to head the CIA culminates liberals' 35-year crusade to take over the agency, humble its operatives and rein in its operations.
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter named liberal JFK adviser Ted Sorenson to head CIA, only to have the nomination killed. In 1997, Clinton tried to name his ultraleftist National Security Adviser Tony Lake (who had quit Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's staff over Vietnam), only to have that nomination rejected as well.Each time, the intelligence community acted to protect its own and curbed the liberal president's inclinations.

But now, under Obama, the Democrats will finally have their way and appoint a liberal zealot to head the agency.Panetta will, presumably, curb such practices as waterboarding, rendition and warrantless wiretapping. So we won't gather much intelligence - but our spies will dot all the i's and cross all the t's.Over at Justice, Obama is naming four liberals to staff the agency, each determined to rein in effective intelligence-gathering.
Professor Dawn Johnsen of Indiana University Law School is to head the Office of Legal Counsel. She distinguished herself by writing a law-review article taking issue with President Bush's efforts to keep us safe. It was titled, "What's a President To Do: Interpreting the Constitution in the Wake of the Bush Administration Abuses." Presumably, she'll bring back the days of the wall between criminal and intelligence investigations, which led to our failure to examine the computer of "20th hijacker" Zacharias Moussaoui, which contained wire-fund-transfer information on the other hijackers.No less an authority than Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe, who taught Elena Kagan, the new solicitor general, predicted that she and Johnsen would "freshly re-examine some of the positions the previous administration has taken.
"Obama's other Justice appointments, David Ogden as deputy attorney general and Thomas Perrelli as associate AG, bring back Clinton/Reno Justice Department retreads. Both participated eagerly in the constraints on intelligence-gathering that left us so vulnerable on 9/11.
Bush's legacy shows one clear achievement: He kept us safe after 9/11. Now his successor's policies are about to eradicate that singular achievement. The liberals will, of course, all cheer these appointments and the policies they'll pursue once in office, but these appointments make it frighteningly more likely that we will, indeed, be hit again.
From Dick Morris's blog/fox news

End of Teddy Kennedy Dynasty

End of Teddy Kennedy Dynasty

Quite a legacy!!!> > The Last of The Kennedy Dynasty.> > As soon as cancer was found, I noticed the immediate attempt at > canonization of old Teddy by the main stream media. They are saying > what a "great American" he is. I say, let's get a couple things clear > & not twist the facts to change the real history.> > 1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was > expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a > classmate to cheat for him.> > 2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed > up for four years instead of two. Oops, the man can't count to four.> His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a > step up from bootlegging liquor into the U.S. from Canada during > prohibition), pulled the necessar y strings to have his enlistment > shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not > Korea, where a war was raging. No preferential treatment for him like > "he" charged President Bush received.> > > 3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris , never advanced beyond the rank of > Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a > person of his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of Private.> > > 4. While attending law school at the University of Virginia, he was > cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was > clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with > his headlights off after dark. Yet his Virginia driver's license was > never revoked. Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959, > amazing!!!> > 5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash, and > hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at > the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The > results of those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's > when the report was unsealed. Didn't hear about that from the unbiased > media, did we.> > 6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick > Island in Massachusetts . At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his > chauffeur's keys to his Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a > ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker. Leaving the island > via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off > the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond.> > 7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party, after passing > several houses and a fire station. Then two friends returned with him > to the scene of the accident. According to their later testimony, they > told him what he already knew, that he was required by law to > immediately report the accident to the authorities. Instead Kennedy > made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep.> Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had > already been discovered. Before dying, Kopechne had scratched at the > upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car. The Kennedy > family began "calling in favors", ensuring that any inquiry would be > contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family, before > an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but > after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water > trying to rescue Kopechne, and he didn't call police because he was in > a state of shock.> It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held off calling police > in hope s that his family could fix the problem overnight. Since the > accident, Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him as the > distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick He pled guilty to leaving > the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO > MONTHS. Kopechne's family received a small payout ?from the Kennedy's > insurance policy, and never sued. There was later an effort to have > her body exhumed and autopsied, but her family successfully fought > against this in court, and Kennedy's family paid their attorney's > bills... a "token of friendship"?> > 8. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years,but > considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He authored > or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights, > increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier > for the indigent, and funde d Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors > and is widely held as the "standard-bearer for liberalism". In his > very first Senate role, he was the floor manager for the bill that > turned U.S. immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate > for immigrants from third world countries.> > 9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of > every expansion of and increase in immigration, up to and including > the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention > the Pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court Nominees, as if > he were the standard bearer for the nation in matters of right. What a > pompous ass.> > 10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous > and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than > "great American".> > Let's not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero -- how quickly > the American public forgets what his real legacy is...