Comments on: Political Koans… Scozzafava, Rangel, Bruno, Pharma, AIG http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:40:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: spirasol http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/comment-page-1/#comment-227639 spirasol Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:07:26 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=51398#comment-227639 This from Ariana Huffington: <br><br>What would candidate Obama make of President Obama? and what would President Obama make of candidate Obama? This from Ariana Huffington:

What would candidate Obama make of President Obama? and what would President Obama make of candidate Obama?

]]> By: spirasol http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/comment-page-1/#comment-227636 spirasol Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:09:38 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=51398#comment-227636 2nd try......What if we had the opportunity to peel back all the layers and found that at the center there was only an idea that flew away the minute the cage door was left open...... <br><br>What if all the mortgages and holdings and stocks and portfolios and unpaid debt revealed that America was really owned by those who live outside her boundaries?<br><br>What if the dead soldiers returned in dreams to advise the seekers of peace?<br><br>What if as a prerequisite of war it was necessary to send members of your own family?<br><br>What if Vanunu was elevated to a global hero? 2nd try……What if we had the opportunity to peel back all the layers and found that at the center there was only an idea that flew away the minute the cage door was left open……

What if all the mortgages and holdings and stocks and portfolios and unpaid debt revealed that America was really owned by those who live outside her boundaries?

What if the dead soldiers returned in dreams to advise the seekers of peace?

What if as a prerequisite of war it was necessary to send members of your own family?

What if Vanunu was elevated to a global hero?

]]> By: ordinarysparrow http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/comment-page-1/#comment-227631 ordinarysparrow Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:50:53 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=51398#comment-227631 Does one vote make a difference?<br>How can one be so full of opinions and speculations & drink from such an empty cup?<br>If a politician is not the person he promises to be who is he?<br>Is it baseball or is it politics?<br>If politics is the art of the impossible what is possible for our Nation?<br>How can politicians be masters at self-deception if there there is no self? Does one vote make a difference?
How can one be so full of opinions and speculations & drink from such an empty cup?
If a politician is not the person he promises to be who is he?
Is it baseball or is it politics?
If politics is the art of the impossible what is possible for our Nation?
How can politicians be masters at self-deception if there there is no self?

]]> By: archangel http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/comment-page-1/#comment-227630 archangel Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:33:33 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=51398#comment-227630 Ghost, you're funny with your postscripts. The koan about church demanding certain class of people to be not treated, is a good one. It's long, but I am not sure the idea is Haiku. So, long, short, medium. All good. Except for church lobbying state law to conform with spirit beliefs. Not good. <br><br>I like the one about When God cries, too.<br><br>And sadly, all the states that were bloated in their admin salaries and budgets now cut, always, the vulnerable. However Ghost, as soon as the groups who are cut out, rally and show up at the state legislature and speak to their congress people, things can change. I think the koan is something like the author I quoted, only If politician thinks he/she wont be re-elected because a significant block of people publicly think he/she is do-do, same politico will add slop back into the bucket and not, at least, slaughter those livestock who protested. <br><br>hang in there.<br><br>dr.e Ghost, you're funny with your postscripts. The koan about church demanding certain class of people to be not treated, is a good one. It's long, but I am not sure the idea is Haiku. So, long, short, medium. All good. Except for church lobbying state law to conform with spirit beliefs. Not good.

I like the one about When God cries, too.

And sadly, all the states that were bloated in their admin salaries and budgets now cut, always, the vulnerable. However Ghost, as soon as the groups who are cut out, rally and show up at the state legislature and speak to their congress people, things can change. I think the koan is something like the author I quoted, only If politician thinks he/she wont be re-elected because a significant block of people publicly think he/she is do-do, same politico will add slop back into the bucket and not, at least, slaughter those livestock who protested.

hang in there.

dr.e

]]> By: Ghostdreams http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/comment-page-1/#comment-227602 Ghostdreams Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:18:06 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=51398#comment-227602 That's not truly a Koan is it? <br>WELL.. I'm working on a way to make it INTO one! Honest! :P<br>heeh<br>Ghost That's not truly a Koan is it?
WELL.. I'm working on a way to make it INTO one! Honest! :P
heeh
Ghost

]]> By: Ghostdreams http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/comment-page-1/#comment-227601 Ghostdreams Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:17:27 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=51398#comment-227601 If a church demands that a state Psychologist Association change their licensing regulations so that psychologists can not only discriminate against a particular group of people but will refuse to refer these people on to a therapist who can help them, would that church still be considered a religious organization? If a church demands that a state Psychologist Association change their licensing regulations so that psychologists can not only discriminate against a particular group of people but will refuse to refer these people on to a therapist who can help them, would that church still be considered a religious organization?

]]> By: Ghostdreams http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/comment-page-1/#comment-227454 Ghostdreams Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:18:50 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=51398#comment-227454 When God cries for us, can those without a god see it? <br>If life is a dream, why are so many screaming for the nightmare to stop?<br>If life has meaning, why is the suicide rate so high and why is the state I live in cutting off 75% of it resources for the mentally ill. <br><br>Ghosty When God cries for us, can those without a god see it?
If life is a dream, why are so many screaming for the nightmare to stop?
If life has meaning, why is the suicide rate so high and why is the state I live in cutting off 75% of it resources for the mentally ill.

Ghosty

]]> By: archangel http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/comment-page-1/#comment-227446 archangel Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:39:20 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=51398#comment-227446 man, those are all good!<br><br>dr.e man, those are all good!

dr.e

]]> By: tidbits http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/comment-page-1/#comment-227405 tidbits Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:12:53 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=51398#comment-227405 Archangel -<BR><BR>Your piece made me chuckle...and think a little. Thanks.<BR><BR>Here are mine, not truly koans:<BR><BR>If a question has no answers, how can we demand to know the truth?<BR>If the assumption is false, can a valid conclusion follow?<BR>If you cannot remember your lover's name the next day, were you truly lovers?<br><br>z of c</BR></BR></BR></BR></BR></BR></BR></BR> Archangel -

Your piece made me chuckle…and think a little. Thanks.

Here are mine, not truly koans:

If a question has no answers, how can we demand to know the truth?
If the assumption is false, can a valid conclusion follow?
If you cannot remember your lover's name the next day, were you truly lovers?

z of c

]]> By: HemmD http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/comment-page-1/#comment-227401 HemmD Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:20:44 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=51398#comment-227401 Why is the cost of freedom calculated by lobbyists and paid for by the life blood of the electorate?<br><br>Why are politics local and corruption universal?<br><br>Would the Truth be accepted in Washington if it wasn't accompanied by a check? Why is the cost of freedom calculated by lobbyists and paid for by the life blood of the electorate?

Why are politics local and corruption universal?

Would the Truth be accepted in Washington if it wasn't accompanied by a check?

]]> By: spirasol http://themoderatevoice.com/51398/political-koans/comment-page-1/#comment-227372 spirasol Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:39:39 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=51398#comment-227372 What if capitalism and socialism and democracy could be blended? <br>What if stockholders suddenly became naked and their bodies showed the rise and fall of their investments? <br>What would it feel like for a lobbyist to be lobbied on behalf of the people?<br>What if the world realized that the torch of democracy no longer burned from America?<br>What if the hypocrisy on the inside and hidden could be psycho-surgically removed? <br>Who is it power does not corrupt? <br>What if everyone set out to find the lost soul of America? Where would you look first? <br>What if politics was enshrined with nobility and Joe lieberman was banned from participating? <br>what if arrangements were made for us all to be paid in barter without taxes? <br>What if all those working full time insisted on working part time so that the unemployed could work beside them? <br>What if the congress was lobbied by heart workers who plead the case of the voiceless? <br>What if the powerful were made to go begging and the weak and infirm inherited all they had lost? <br>What if they gave a war and nobody showed up? <br>What if the war dead could speak? What would they say? <br>What if a politician got elected on the promise of transparency and reneged on his promise? What if capitalism and socialism and democracy could be blended?
What if stockholders suddenly became naked and their bodies showed the rise and fall of their investments?
What would it feel like for a lobbyist to be lobbied on behalf of the people?
What if the world realized that the torch of democracy no longer burned from America?
What if the hypocrisy on the inside and hidden could be psycho-surgically removed?
Who is it power does not corrupt?
What if everyone set out to find the lost soul of America? Where would you look first?
What if politics was enshrined with nobility and Joe lieberman was banned from participating?
what if arrangements were made for us all to be paid in barter without taxes?
What if all those working full time insisted on working part time so that the unemployed could work beside them?
What if the congress was lobbied by heart workers who plead the case of the voiceless?
What if the powerful were made to go begging and the weak and infirm inherited all they had lost?
What if they gave a war and nobody showed up?
What if the war dead could speak? What would they say?
What if a politician got elected on the promise of transparency and reneged on his promise?

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