tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11312149150888178792024-02-07T11:26:35.242-08:00Yard[D]ogYard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-25243840108408704562011-02-11T22:54:00.000-08:002011-02-11T22:59:04.768-08:00A Wonderful Thing in my Life TimeThree young Egyptians have produced a wonderful music video, “The Sound of Freedom” (Sout al Horeya). Here’s is a partial translation from Al-Jazeera:I went down and I said I am not going back, and I wrote on every street wall that I am not going back.All barriers have been broken down, our weapon was our dream, and the future is crystal clear to us, we have been waiting for a long time, we areYard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-52238013934523877582011-01-12T00:26:00.000-08:002011-01-12T00:33:16.900-08:00On A Personal Note -- Christmas 2010It has been an astounding year. The two biggest events were certainly February 7th when my Mother celebrated her 100th birthday and then, a few days after proudly telling the Vitas hospice workers that she was “one hundred and a half,” she passed on June 28th.Funny, it took her one hundred years before she would divulge her age. Usually when someone asked her age, she would ask: “Can you keep aYard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-89101800938092862772009-12-07T23:54:00.000-08:002010-07-18T16:01:38.156-07:00Old Hymns and Hope - revised"The Dust Bin of History" was the name of a column I wrote. Its sole purpose was to bring attention to 21st century people who just "didn't get it.” Usually, they were very odd and second-rate characters found on the third paragraph of a news story who were caught up in ideas popular a hundred years ago, or even worse, pretending they understood how concepts expressed a hundred or even a thousandYard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-12840381055185752212009-11-07T21:42:00.000-08:002009-11-07T21:48:14.332-08:00‘This was my finest moment in politics.’ BHOOne of the lead news stories tonight read, "House Republican leaders held a news conference Saturday to say that they are going to do whatever they can to make sure the Democratic health care plan does not pass." There is one thing, and only one thing that I am clear about. Not one single one of those "House Republicans" has any idea of that it is like to find yourself without health insurance Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-70405828290998021152009-10-28T21:27:00.000-07:002009-10-28T21:31:10.585-07:00There is movement ... yes ...Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-35489485744787523362009-08-19T14:27:00.000-07:002009-10-07T22:12:03.856-07:00I GOT SO MAD ..The fanatic La Rouche people showed up at my local market with this poster. I got so mad I walked into the market found the manager who just happen to be standing around 20 people and very loudly insisted that "I objected to that awful poster and that if you don't remove it I would never, never come back here." I must admit to surprising even myself; I don't think I have ever done anything likeYard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-84878961285342780022009-08-13T00:28:00.000-07:002009-10-07T22:12:03.858-07:00I have loved this song ... for a long time!The long and winding roadThat leads to your doorWill never disappearI've seen that road beforeIt always leads me hereLead me to your door.The wild and windy nightThat the rain washed awayHas left a pool of tearsCrying for the day.Why leave me standing here?Let me know the way.Many times I've been aloneAnd many times I've cried,Anyway you've always knownThe many ways I've tried.And still they leadYard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-42867591211940339152009-08-12T22:58:00.000-07:002009-10-07T22:12:03.862-07:00A Letter to Equality CaliforniaMr. Kors,I may have been fighting this "battle" longer than you have been alive ... well, I really don't know your age, but...Personally, I am one of folks who "knew the 'first' generation” of gay activists but am a member of the "second generation that got wipe out by AIDS" group. Those years ago, I moved "back home" to escape a confusing world, to avoid the "cancer" and to escape the pain of Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-84116864673722181992009-08-09T21:56:00.000-07:002009-10-07T22:12:03.864-07:00GOP can go SouthPublished last week:I love the South; the memories I have of long ago family “car” trips through it, and more recently one particular former Pasadena resident who has now moved back to her home in Alabama. But it was in the South many years ago that I discovered that people hated “Negros”; that there were black and white drinking fountains and when I heard my father firmly say to his two boys, “Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-53713411184599919462009-07-22T19:30:00.000-07:002009-10-07T22:12:03.868-07:00A Budget? or Punishment!Letters to the editor: All are punishedPosted: 07/21/2009 05:18:20 PM PDTTuesday's headlines read, "California governor, lawmakers reach budget deal."I wonder how many of these "lawmakers" will attend the funerals of people who die for lack of care; how many will visit the elderly who are forced into nursing homes; how many of their children will have to attend over sized classrooms; how many of Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-32251667022008838742009-06-30T22:18:00.000-07:002009-10-07T22:12:03.871-07:00What Yarddog ThinksWithin my Christian context the word "evil" can mean many things ... and then there is the business of the "one unforgivable sin." These two concepts do not find their way in to my every day faith. But what do you do with folks who for whom these two concepts mean something?They claim to represent my faith; they claim to know the Truth and they want our larger American family to be subjected toYard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-23364632755697127072009-05-26T17:11:00.000-07:002009-10-07T22:12:03.874-07:00PROTEST TONIGHTBy clicking on the link in the title above you will discover where the protests in your area are tonight and in the upcoming days ... more later.Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-12435401589137829452009-03-18T23:30:00.000-07:002009-10-07T22:12:03.877-07:00Julian Bond ... this is a must see.Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-84798429252216478852009-03-09T19:50:00.000-07:002009-10-07T22:12:03.879-07:00IT HAS BEEN A WHILEFirst, this is more of diary entry than a blog but then I think allot of posts on the blog-a-sphere are just that ... I don't often refer people to another person's blog ... particularly for something I should have written myself but an Episcopal priest here writes a blog called, "An Inch in Time," and her latest post say so much ... heard it HERE.That writer is much better at updating her blog Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-32364232907611474932009-01-22T15:06:00.000-08:002009-10-07T22:12:03.882-07:00Dr. Joseph Lowery delivers Inauguration Benediction for Barack ObamaWhat is really wonderful about this beside the outstanding words and what they mean is that Pastor Lowery got a standing ovation for his benediction. Say Amen.Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-20625169862617942992009-01-18T20:56:00.000-08:002009-10-07T22:12:03.885-07:00A PRAYER ...A Prayer for the Nation and Our Next President, Barack ObamaBy The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of New HampshireOpening Inaugural EventLincoln Memorial, Washington, DCJanuary 18, 2009Welcome to Washington! The fun is about to begin, but first, please join me in pausing for a moment, to ask God’s blessing upon our nation and our next president.O God of our many understandings, we Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-77160281628112021052008-12-27T19:10:00.001-08:002009-10-07T22:12:03.888-07:00WHICH IS WORSE: USING THE WORD, "CRAP" OR THE WORD, "NEGRO" ...WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Republican National Committee on Saturday admonished one of his potential successors for giving his fellow Republicans a CD featuring a song called "Barack the Magic Negro."Apparently someone named Chip Saltsman, who is seeking the Republican National Committee(RNC) chairmanship, sent potential committee members a 41-track CD by conservative comedian Paul ShanklinYard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-68488026951399921282008-12-27T19:03:00.000-08:002009-10-07T22:12:03.891-07:00HOLIDAY PROTEST ...This picture was taken at another holiday protest against the passage of Prop 8. It was supposed to be a quiet, no signs event. We had enough people to cover the four corners of two historic main streets in town. What is surprising me are the number of str8 people who show up at these events ... And young people too; perhaps that is the best part ...NOTE: tiny little battery candle in my hand Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-22471452089559556132008-11-23T23:38:00.000-08:002009-10-07T22:12:03.894-07:00FREE AT LAST ... ALMOSTFew things have shaped my political life like Los Angeles Times political cartoonist, Paul Conrad. For thirty years he shaped the Op/Ed page of the Times thanks in large part to the last and only progressive member of the Chandler family of editors.Conrad's time at the Times spanned several in a line of the greatest evils in American politics. Until now the worst was a man named Nixon.Trying toYard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-12754135731270992002008-11-15T22:16:00.000-08:002009-10-07T22:12:03.896-07:00PASADENA PROP 8 DEMONSTRATIION"If Prop 8 is allowed to stand, it goes much beyond the issue of marriage equality and puts all of our rights at risk," said San Francisco city attorney Dennis Herrera, who is leading the legal fight. Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-14173037590939809592008-11-14T23:12:00.000-08:002009-10-07T22:12:03.899-07:00Ashton Kutcher on Prop 8Ashton Kutcher appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher last night. They discussed Prop 8.Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-77719527149438735322008-11-14T12:13:00.000-08:002009-10-07T22:12:03.902-07:00SAD DAY ...(Episcopal News, Los Angeles) -- The raging Montecito wildfire has destroyed historic Mount Calvary Retreat House, staff and Santa Barbara County officials have confirmed.This is a place where I found great peace ... I am so sad that it is gone ... more later ...Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-75224899244436174922008-11-12T22:30:00.000-08:002009-10-07T22:12:03.906-07:00SOME GOOD PROP 8 INFO ...From the opening argument by SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera:"No matter what your view of same-sex marriage, the passage of Proposition 8 has pushed California to the brink of a constitutional crisis, and it's important to understand why. This measure sought to do something that no constitutional amendment has ever done in our history: to strip a fundamental right from a protected class of Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-33982395549631262992008-11-11T12:02:00.000-08:002009-10-07T22:12:03.909-07:00THIS GUY IS A SAINT ...Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131214915088817879.post-20978055391651725232008-11-09T21:46:00.000-08:002009-10-07T22:12:03.913-07:00PROTEST THE MORMANS AND OTHERS WHO TAKE AWAY CIVIL RIGHTSThere is something amazing about being with 15,000 other people to protest ... protest that the voters in California have taken away my right to marry the person of my choice. What the hell is that anyway?Yard[D]oghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06152537872244634518noreply@blogger.com1