IMF,DSK and I Like to Come in America avec Tocqueville

drawing by marguerita I don't know anyone who takes a shower with his clothes on, do you? Where it goes from there is dicey, and the details get murky.


I like to be in america
ok by me in america
everything free in america
for a small fee in america
i like the city of san juan
i know a boat you can get
on hundreds of flowers
in full bloom hundreds
of people in each room
automobile in america
chromium steel in america
wire spoke wheel in america
very big deal in america
i'll drive a buick in san juan
- if there's a road
you can drive on
i'll give my cousins a
free ride
- how you fit all
of them inside
immigrant goes to america
many helloes in america
nobody knows in america
puerto rico's in america
when i will go back
to san juan
- when will you shut up
and get gone
i'll give them
new washing machine
- what have they got there
to keep clean
i like the shores of america
comfort is yours in america
knobs on the doors in america
wall to wall floors in america
i'll bring a tv to san juan
- if there's a current to turn on
everyone there will give big cheer
- everyone there
will have moved here

lyrics by Trini Lopez

Tocqueville's impressions of American religion and its relationship to the broader national culture are likewise notable: "Moreover, almost all the sects of the United States are comprised within the great unity of Christianity, and Christian morality is everywhere the same
. In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.
Pour le journal britannique de centre gauche The Guardian, cette nouvelle affaire de mœurs soulève "la question gênante dans les médias français et la politique de deux monde parallèles : ce qui est imprimé, et ce qu'il y a derrière ; les commérages, et ce qui doit rester officiellement les non-dits."

Sisifsobama: Quo Vadis ?

drawing by marguerita

Or as Coburn put it last Thursday on the Senate floor, criticizing his colleagues for celebrating the tax cut deal, last week's bargain could easily become another example of how "both parties have laid a trap for future generations by our inaction, our laziness, our arrogance, and a crass desire for power." That's extreme language. And we need more of it.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=713729&f=28&sub=Columnist&p=2

America the Beautiful,In Violence Veritas

drawing by marguerita A culture Soaked in Blood
There is no way to overstate the horror of gun violence in America.
Roughly 16,000 to 17,000 Americans are murdered every year, and more than 12,000 of them, on average, are shot to death. This is an insanely violent society, and the worst of that violence is made insanely easy by the widespread availability of guns.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/opinion/25herbert.html

NOTE:
I am always reading and questioning the roots of violence in America.
Violence....
It is a pervasive state of mind.
The guns are one of the mediums,but I believe the culprit is the mind.
I cannot help to remind whoever I can, that being the daughter of two remarkable individuals,my parents,who suffered so much,witnessed how Man is capable to descend beyond what Dante imagined in the Divine Comedy.
Both,one an Auschwitz survivor and the other in a Russian gulag,surfaced from the horror they endured ,with their beliefs and teachings they received from their ancestors and parents.
Their minds were not corrupted,their vision of life was to continue with the same consciousness,of their upbringing,and transfer to me their legacy.
To live on this Earth,wherever we find ourselves with a sense of Beauty and Joie de Vivre.
The Violence in America, comes from the distorted and emptiness in individuals who have no respect to Life.
Life is not about Money and Power.
The power is within us,to have empathy and realize that our existence is limited to a pass we receive at birth.
That is the challenge.the ticket we must honor.
To spend our time here with harmony,cherish every moment,watch the Sun,the Moon and the Stars.Observe the birds and flowers and live by how the Latins conjured ,Memento Mori.
Violence can and must be stopped. The way is to be in touch with your inner self,and think of the soul we carry within us. To nurture our feelings with tenderness.as Otis Redding sings,
look at the marvels of Nature,who herself will shake up anyway with earthquakes and thunder storms.
Where are in Nature's domain,where Humans have to learn and drink from.
We are entitled to get upset,distraught,but in no way do we have the right to hurt,injure or kill.
That is Death' job and we should never be her ally.
Marguerita


And here:Actor Samantha Morton tells of teenage criminal record | Society | The Guardian

Sarah Palin: Ochi Chornye (Black Eyes) The Animal Farm Revisited

WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.

So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency. from the New York Times

Ochi Chornye

English

Dark eyes, passionate eyes

Burning and splendid eyes

How I love you, how I fear you

Verily, I espied you in an ill-starred moment

Oh, not for nothing are you darker than the deep!

I see mourning for my soul in you,

I see a triumphant flame in you:

A poor heart immolated in it.

But I am not sad, I am not sorrowful,

My fate is soothing to me:

All that is best in life, God gave us.

In sacrifice I returned to the fiery eyes!

Russian

Очи черные, очи страстные

Очи жгучие и прекрасные

Как люблю я вас, как боюсь я вас

Знать, увидел вас я в недобрый час

Ох, недаром вы глубины темней!

Вижу траур в вас по душе моей,

Вижу пламя в вас я победное:

Сожжено на нем сердце бедное.

Но не грустен я, не печален я,

Утешительна мне судьба моя:

Всё, что лучшего в жизни бог дал нам,

В жертву отдал я огневым глазам!

Senator McPain & The Republican Dilemma

"I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment," she said. "And I've learned quickly, these past few days, that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone. But here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion—I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country."
“She asked for a biblical example of people who were great leaders and what was the secret of their leadership,” Mr. Riley said.
He wrote back that she should read again from the Old Testament the story of Esther, a beauty queen who became a real one, gaining the king’s ear to avert the slaughter of the Jews and vanquish their enemies. When Esther is called to serve, God grants her a strength she never knew she had.