tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219026772024-03-06T22:08:55.240-06:00QmannZ QuoteZSmall minds talk about PEOPLE.
Average minds discuss EVENTS.
Great minds think about IDEAS.QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.comBlogger239125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-88028431042258427202014-02-25T23:39:00.000-06:002014-02-25T23:39:37.764-06:00"Two Littles, Too Much"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">Everything has its wonders ...even waiting in silence. And I've learned that whatever state I may be in: to be content. For a happier life cannot be without its shades of gray, and the word "happiness" might lose i</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">ts meaning, were it not balanced by the waiting (for) the wanting. It is far better to take things with equanimity (as they come along) following periods of patience. When one adds a little, to a little (then do it again) soon, two littles become too much. Genius knows eternal patience - and that all things - come at the appointed hour...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4e5665;"><span style="background-color: #fafbfb; line-height: 15.644444465637207px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's "be real". Mass Medias target their marketplace based upon the statistics of MONEY-MAKING. So let's see... The average I.Q. (world-wide) is 100, i.e., that of people everywhere. In the United States the average I.Q. is 98. Switzerland fairs somewhat better, with an average of 104. Whereas, Brazil has an average I.Q. score of 92. Anything under 80 is considered as, "mentally challenged." The majority of any given population, fall into the, 90-to-110 range. But HALF of EVERYONE will score under the "median" of 100. Meanwhile, anything over 110 is considered above average... A result above 130, is considered "gifted". Anyone whose tested result is consistently higher than 145, is considered to be a "genius". Scores which approach 200 are evaluated as being (almost) immeasurable, because there are so few others, to whom their true intellect can be compared. Thus, being that the MEDIA MOGULS are no fools [pun], they know that successful TV programming (including the advertising for: television, radio, and all multimedia) has to be very "dumb-ed-down". And so it is</span><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">. </span></span></span><br />
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<br />QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-22930583877325977422014-02-25T23:29:00.001-06:002014-02-25T23:30:26.912-06:00NO POLLINATORS = NO POLLINATION = NO FOOD<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">For 90% of plants - the process of pollination requires pollinators: organisms that carry or move the pollen grains from the anther to the receptive part of the carpel or pistil. That is called, "b</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">iotic-pollination". There are roughly 200,000 varieties of animal pollinators are in the wild - most of which are insects - and (by far) most pollination activity, is performed by bees!<br /><br />Copyright ©2014 - Robert C. Kuhmann - All Rights Reserved.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">Should the entire USA (and the World) rethink the knee-jerk, thunk? Let's be real! The ultra-rich (the ones who OWN the weapons plants and the munitions factories), have no q</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">ualms about continuing their GIGANTIC CON - of millions of American families - into believing that it is "patriotic", to send one's son or daughter off to die in a foreign land - because "Freedom Isn't Free"? The parents get to have (thereby), bragging rights akin to, "My Son is a Marine!", or "Go Army!", or "USAF - Aim High", and "My Daughter serves in the Navy" (usually in the form of a bumper-sticker). Yup, "Semper Fi" is indeed "eternal loyalty" - ONCE CONNED - but from inside of an aluminium box - and at a graveyard near to your ("Mom 'n Dad"). Once laid-out "proper" within said container, who's likely to complain? Besides, the grieving parents were given a very nice (brand-new), tricolor-flag, folded-down into a "Boy-Girl Scout" triangle - such that it will "look" quite "nice" inside of a framed-glass case, stood onto the fireplace mantel (as a souvenir)?<br /><br />The ultra rich got RICHER (and don't care whose life is thrown away)... Freedom? Who does the paying? Wake-up Americans! Don't be duped! The only thing anyone gets for "Free" is the pro-military establishment's line of "Propaganda for Dummies" ... and THAT's the TRUTH! My generation of Vietnam vets learned the hard-way, and then dared to say, "No." to the CONNING of America! Don't get suckered into offering-up YOUR child - as a sacrificial lamb - to the financial machinery of WAR!<br /><br />Anecdote: just try to get Dick Cheney to acknowledge that he and father-son Bush made HUGE SUM$ of CA$H from their Washington War-mongering while in D.C. "Mission Accomplished", indeed... all the way to the Bank!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Each flake laid down upon another...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;">Random, fresh, lucent - new-fallen snow! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;">Collecting each and every stillness...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;">Listening ...a next frigid gust for, to blow.</span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Each crystal tumbles, ever so gently...<br />Floating - coasting before one's eyes.<br />Silent peace, thus completed...<br />Dancing prisms, descending from the skies.<br /><br />Not one alike, gathered without a whisper...<br />Powdery, yet connecting the young, to the old.<br />Drifting ever slowly, quietly downward...<br />Alighted, mirrored-up to and against one's soul.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;">Copyright ©2014 - Robert C. Kuhmann - All Rights Reserved.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-63646403499210855772013-10-02T13:52:00.003-05:002013-10-05T09:24:40.305-05:00"FREE" HEALTH CARE?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-reactid=".r[29vmm].[1][4][1]{comment10151867456318290_10506011}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0]" style="background-color: #fafbfb; color: #4e5665; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span data-reactid=".r[29vmm].[1][4][1]{comment10151867456318290_10506011}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[0].[0]">While Healthcare will never be "FREE" in the strictest sense of the word, it is possible to greatly simplify the way it is provided. We need a system which is able to respond to all citizens! One which can meet everyone's needs - equally. There should</span></span><span data-reactid=".r[29vmm].[1][4][1]{comment10151867456318290_10506011}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3]" style="background-color: #fafbfb; color: #4e5665; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><span data-reactid=".r[29vmm].[1][4][1]{comment10151867456318290_10506011}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[29vmm].[1][4][1]{comment10151867456318290_10506011}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][3].[0].[3].[0].[0]"> be no deductible, no out-of-pocket, and no monthly payment to any business - no boundaries which define (and exclude): persons with pre-existing conditions! The cost should covered as part of taxation (not unlike military spending)... scaled to one's ability to pay (and amortized across the whole of society). I suggest that we KEEP the current "ACA" plan, as a starting point. That plan should evolve (in stages) towards the goal of the total elimination of "for-profit" healthcare businesses! Ask yourselves: "What portion of every DOLLAR paid-in (including: one's deductible, plus all monthly payments) goes straight to greedy SHAREHOLDERS, the fat-cat EXECS, the INFLATED PRICES for med-products, and the INFLATED PRICES for all med-services?" How affordable is a "service or product" which tags-on huge profit-margins - FIRST! The "Affordable Health Care Act" is NOT the problem. Greedy, for-profit healthcare companies (including all pharma companies) are at the root of the upwards-spiraling costs! We need a national, not-for-profit healthcare system! Everything at cost! Costs would remain competitive (and monitored). There would be no shareholders, no fat-cat execs, no pharma rip-offs! Let us work towards having a system inside of which - health and care - are the sole rulers by which success is measured, not MONEY (profits)! How much HEALTH, and how much CARE will there be - when, it is in the vested, "best-interests" of the for-profit provider company - to keep people, SICK - and (not) CARE ?!?! If we can keep America's MILITARY strong, why can't we keep the People healthy (and fed)? Are we no longer. "For the People, by the People"? We are not! And therein lies the rub... take the MONEY out of POLITICS!</span></span></span></span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-54219609779527542192013-09-20T08:06:00.000-05:002013-09-20T08:06:18.601-05:00"The (light the night) Dream"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">As darkness enters, she seeks every beam of light,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And chases dreams - and stars, of rays sublime.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Which shine thru silken folds - the robe of night,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Draped like a veil, to surround her sacred shrine.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">When day dawns, she breathes-in a meadow's sweet,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Tempted, she lingers within her house of grays 'n clay,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">But o'r the threshold slumber passes, the Sun to meet.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">To throw-open shutters, arisen - letting-in the day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The darkest mornings - oft weighted by grief or cares,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Await - many a dulled desire, a wish, a foolish whim.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Some bend o’er her shoulders, she reveals those wares,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Upon an unwashed table - or window-sill, just as dim.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">She looks back at time, through fixated eyes...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Which ne'r gazed upon as many moonlit flowers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Amid forgotten deeds or long-silent, sullen cries...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Counting-out a tin-silver tale - of the waning hours.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Above her shrine of life, no curtain fell,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; 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font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">She scurried down her shadowy, forlorn road,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">To sleep - another celestial dream, alone - at last!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Copyright ©2013 - Robert C. Kuhmann - All Rights Reserved.<br /></span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-8518491389463415882013-05-23T17:54:00.001-05:002013-05-23T17:54:21.585-05:00"The reign of deceit..."<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">All who engage a "flight from truth", embrace a "reign of deceit".</span></span><br />
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this poor ol' world be a - BETTER PLACE - if we didn't have to put up
with the folks who are, "Hell-bent on bending all things Heavenly - into
something more akin to a burn in Hell"</span>?</span><br />
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talk about doing "the right thing". Initiative is doing "T.R.T."
without being told. Standing by the truth is doing TRT (always, the
right thing). Preserve the lands and the seas, and all forms of life -
deep inside, individually, we know tha</span></span><span id=".reactRoot[28].[1][4][1]{comment10151595225783290_26569375}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[28].[1][4][1]{comment10151595225783290_26569375}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0"><span id=".reactRoot[28].[1][4][1]{comment10151595225783290_26569375}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3].0.[0]">t
such will always be a doing of TRT. Doing TRT for your child shouldn't
require pain and soul-searching, it requires doing. If we're going to
do it (whatever "it" is), let us do TRT. Nobody really thinks that
they're evil or bad, they think that they're - doing TRT. By opposing GMO's (an ethical and environmental decision) we decide to do TRT. Do
TRT, but the most important thing - is to let people know, you are doing
TRT. By doing TRT, at the right time, at the right place - when people
truly need help - is also for the right reason. Ethics are not
necessarily aligned with being law-abiding - the moral path, is doing
TRT. Most people don't intend to cause harm - they do harm by doing TRT
(in their mind only). Doing TRT for someone else is like a tonic - a
magic ointment that makes a wound disappear. Real integrity is doing
TRT, knowing (also) that nobody is going to know whether you did it or
not. Doing TRT for (American born) immigrants, is to provide a chance
to live and work - free from the fear (of deportation). When people
just sit around talking about, "Peace" - (instead of) doing TRT - men,
women and children are going to die. Eating healthy, is doing TRT for
one's body. And it's not something a body has to do 365 days a year,
but that one does 28-31 days per month. Character: is doing TRT when
nobody's looking. Doing "the right thing" (TRT) has power. Do TRT
every day of your life! Not everyone will like you for doing it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-79571197401116784242012-05-07T13:35:00.001-05:002012-05-10T07:51:02.884-05:00Health + Care!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When ill-health or failing health is transformed into a profitable opportunity (i.e. a self-vested interest, "for" the "health-care" provider): we can be certain that they will "provide" sore little prevention, few cures, non-"health" and even less - "care". </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[ I favor a NATIONAL HEALTH CARE system modeled after the network that has been implemented in Switzerland (not the abberations being tossed about by US party politics). Moreover, I oppose ALL "for profit" healthcare businesses (yes, all of them). ] Pls post your thoughts in "Comments". Click-on "Like" if you agree that present Amercan Healthcare strategies, are ALL on the WRONG track!</span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-58795895713579055162012-02-18T12:31:00.003-06:002012-02-18T12:52:29.082-06:00"Our First" (kiss)...<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Our First"</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Were our floodgates to open - were we to surrender all will to the body ...w</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ere we to find ourselves in each other's arms - fueling the fires of passion: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(kiss upon kiss ...impetuous, so eager).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Might I love the smooth of thy lips and the way they fall upon mine? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Would we embrace and lose all track of time? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Would every touch ...be a taste of love?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wanting sends a shiver down my spine (so intense is this) ...a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> caress so tender, as I repose my hand and heart upon thy body: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(a union that makes you quiver and yearn for each next touch).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Might I love thy supple lips and the way they converge upon mine? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And would we wish to join as one and lose all track of time? </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Would every taste ...be the touch of love?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Tis a dream of lilac and lavender, Spring showers and Summer rains... </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melodies growing and blooming, to become a field of flowers or a shaft of grain. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Fragrant, vibrant, intertwined.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eyes searching souls, Souls searching eyes. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our lips almost met. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(At last ...but wait!) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Am I wandering? I can't think it (nor wish to try). </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For I am already kissing you - in my mind's eye. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(I desire more though - for our new bond means so much.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Think not, but follow our hearts - not as mere friends in a quiet room. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our lips almost met again. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(We quickly understood that we could never survive a second kiss.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once alone, I would want to make love with you - then again, and again! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tempted I would lean, a little - Tempted you would lean, a little. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(And we would hear a long silence.) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it done?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Twas moist, warm, sensual, soft, and sweet ...just what we wanted! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(We could hear the beating of our hearts - as we listened to a longer silence.) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A blessed occurrence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Holy moly, what's wit' this sultry heat?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Gimme a Sping-like day or a cool treat!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Rather Winter's snows, n' slabs o' ice?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Move to Alaska? (Cain't afford the price!)</span><br />
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Go ahead, there 're Kilo-Watts to burn...<br />
(Sweaty-sticky makes m' body squim!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The therm-o-stat's set t' seventy-eight.</span><br />
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But when blizzards' bite and sleets do come,<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">'Cause what we'd wished for (a sure bet),</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Is a thing we'll most-likely (later) regret!</span><br />
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Whether, you're in swimmin' or off mowin'...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Whether, gone campin' or a' fishing goin'...</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">'T would sure be neat!</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To beat this frickin' heat!</span><br />
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Copyright ©2011 - Robert C. Kuhmann - All Rights Reserved.</span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-5868990939907822912011-07-19T10:48:00.005-05:002013-09-20T08:45:59.814-05:00"Rain Rain"<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When always raining,</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Folks end-up saying,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">No pouring rain,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Brings farm-field pain,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Come today!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Each rain-drop playing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Every drizzle staying.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Making hay!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As you trace your way, by thy tiny light. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It takes your all, to glow and mark it bright. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Soaring, blinking - gone by sunrise' sight. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Gliding, winking - to fly fire each night. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Copyright ©2011 - Robert C. Kuhmann - All Rights Reserved, and dedicated to every child - who has chased, captured, admired the wonder of, and released fireflies - on any sultry Summer evening.</span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-22223505010140317922011-05-01T16:47:00.000-05:002011-05-01T16:47:12.257-05:00Both at the SAME time?<em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Be profoundly thoughtful, be also kind - for, one who VALUES nothing and no one, cannot be BOTH nor EITHER - at the same time.</span></em> <br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me Thinks</span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-68018227937277275842011-03-29T17:31:00.000-05:002011-03-29T17:31:28.225-05:00At gunpoint!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A short-list of things that the government can (and will) force you to do ...at gunpoint.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">taxpaying</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">zoning</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">speed limits</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">vehicle inspection</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">vehicle registration</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">protest in "free speech" zones</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">building codes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">surrender your house under eminient domain</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that's just for starters. Every single rule and regulation which has been instituted by our government is backed-up by Local, State, Federal police and Agents. They enforce their will at the barrel-end of a gun. If you continually decline to do precisely what the Local, State, and Federal government has decreed, then you will eventually find yourself looking down the barrel of a gun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Count on it.</span> QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-8121733374526438252011-03-21T14:25:00.000-05:002011-03-21T14:25:43.479-05:00Not Common? Not Sense?<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Take your "pick" of almost any topic: Common Sense is not so common anymore.</span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-2901880832052611652011-03-08T19:18:00.000-06:002011-03-08T19:18:11.675-06:00Take care of you...<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">None will improve your lot - if you yourself, do not...</span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-8437186835866070902011-02-28T10:57:00.002-06:002011-03-06T12:36:22.949-06:00Succcess vs Failure?<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ever notice how SUCCESS tends to occur - in private, whereas FAILURE - the non-event, takes place in full-view?</span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-12499003707740404792011-02-05T10:41:00.001-06:002011-02-05T10:44:00.529-06:00Politicians lie!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A Democrat, a Republican, and a giraffe go into a bar. After many drinks, the giraffe passes-out on the floor. The bartender (having seen everything before) looks-up from his newspaper and asks, "What's that lyin' on the floor?" The Republican replies, "He's with the Democrat." The Democrat replies, "He's with the Republican." The giraffe (still conscious) mumbles, "I'm not a lion, I'm a giraffe." Moral of the story? Don't ask a politician about lying, ask a Giraffe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Copyright (c)2011 - RCK - All Rights Reserved.</span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-60125350363531810602011-01-10T08:32:00.008-06:002011-01-10T08:41:42.579-06:00A good way to begin 2011 ?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFojEO18SUL8okgG2IqLwIUAs0k76XqxTCrHIDjDNiTV47JMsZ5hdG6673WaHY9IjbOpU6c-vghBuhmoytxvhBY7NcJi0dPxXm1NlpYsJIsM7LwIK_nSGpAjEi44R4fiz5Ve1q/s1600/Bitch-Slapped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFojEO18SUL8okgG2IqLwIUAs0k76XqxTCrHIDjDNiTV47JMsZ5hdG6673WaHY9IjbOpU6c-vghBuhmoytxvhBY7NcJi0dPxXm1NlpYsJIsM7LwIK_nSGpAjEi44R4fiz5Ve1q/s200/Bitch-Slapped.jpg" width="155" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">K</span>ick the DRAMA out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">I</span>n life, there comes a time, when a person must walk away from all the drama ...and the people who create it. Unfortunately, too often - the people who don't treat you right, are the ones who need you all the more - but many don't realize that fact; others won't ever admit to it. It's likely that those "who need you", are also the ones who will never "get it"... They will continue down the same path, needing each next "give-take victim" all the more (doing damage to that person all the while and all along the way). Is your own well being, life, and self worth worth the sacrifice? Bets are "on", that that the answer is, "no!" So, the point I wish to make is this: some people, for whatever reason: cannot be helped, comforted, or fixed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">C</span>ircumvent the whole issue. Don't go there - easier said than done, since men by nature, tend to be "fixers". However, whether that be by nature, due to nurture, foolishness, self loathing, or from within a victim mentality - some people who "need", are simply not able to adequately receive the help they are given. In that case, the "helper" has no choice but to move on - as that other person is a lost cause - and the damage to self (to the helper) will likely circumvent any and all help given. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">K</span>apish? Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad people. Focus on the good people. Love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. I shall continue to love mine (those who treat me right)! And I am going to give everyone else the boot...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The following people are "getting the boot" (written in invisible ink - not to protect the guilty, but to protect myself from the DRAMA that would ensue):</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think about it... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who would you add to your own "list of the lost"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-76977012905221172262011-01-02T08:03:00.000-06:002011-01-02T08:03:37.971-06:00New Year's Resolution ?<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For 2011, I propose this "New Year's Resolution" to all readers: 'make relationships your first priority ... and consumption the last.' Decide: WHO? and WHAT? to VALUE. Choose: WHO? and WHAT? to HONOR. Such are alternatives. All take-form as: thought, words, or deeds. A belief in all that is Good (its doing) will help to better our selves, our loves, and our lives. Me Thinks.</span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21902677.post-16321648852750356822010-12-28T19:56:00.006-06:002013-03-20T16:31:29.903-05:00Political Correctness (Bah Humbug!)<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sick of the social mandates of, "always" being POLITICALLY CORRECT? Tired of the hum-drum, and the run of the mill? Salvation is here! A few of my startup-business (website) ideas...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mismatch.com/">wvw.MisMatch.con</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">e-Dating to expose porn, pervs, and players.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.linkedout.com/">wvw.LinkedOut.con</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Networking where loners and losers get hung out to dry.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.twirper.con/">wvw.twirper.con</a><br />
Twirps cause all bird species to quit singing, f-o-r-e-v-e-r.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.coldmail.com/">wvw.Coldmail.con</a><br />
SPAM e-mail never gets read, as Hell freezes-over, for good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.arsebook.com/">wvw.arsebook.con</a><br />
Social site for unfriending the other end, of any face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And others ...</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.edischord.com/">wvw.eDischord.con</a> <br />
e-Dating, where nothing ever works-out harmoniously. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mate3.com/">wvw.Mate3.con</a><br />
Where a Menage à Trois, is infinitely better than 1. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When there's a $1.00 to be had, there's someone to be had with a dollar? </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your ideas (giggle) ?</span>QMANNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12046815186823614671noreply@blogger.com0