Identity please

Does anybody know what kind of tree this is?
I'd love to plant one in the yard.

www.healthman.org

Great site.
Open the gate and get healthy.
Take care of yourself.
www.healthman.org

Dreamgirls

Congrats to the film Dreamgirls for the most Oscar nominations.
This is a really good movie. I know, I've seen it.
You ought to see it too.
Peace out.

today

always here.
moment to moment.
breath by breath.
peace will always win.
january 21, dr. mlk's birthday.

True

“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth” -- Siddhartha

Thank You Robert Redford

Redford demands apology over Iraq

Redford's Sundance Institute supports the festival

Hollywood legend Robert Redford has called on US leaders to apologise for the war in Iraq.

The actor was speaking at the start of the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where the opening movie recalled protests over the Vietnam war in 1968.

Redford said he, like many others, had shown a "spirit of unity" with the US government after 11 September 2001.

"We put all our concerns on hold to let the leaders lead," he said. "I think we're owed a big, massive apology."

The actor, whose Sundance Institute for independent film runs the annual festival, usually steers clear of political messages in his opening speech.

Peace

It is the only way.

Just do it!

"Everybody's got what it takes and sooner or later somebody will take it."
Dean Martin, from the film, Shut Up and Kiss Me.

Babel

Go see this movie please.
Peace.

thank you Eddie

"The National Rifle Association says, 'Gun's don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps."
- Eddie Izzard

Bring the troops home now please

I don't think we need to send more troops to Iraq. I think we need to admit a huge mistake was made. We've failed and we need to admit that too.
We must learn from our mistakes that have already been made so that we won't continue to make them over and over again. This is madness and insanity and ridiculous.
Please support our troops coming home now.
www.unitedforpeace.org
Promote Peace each and every day please.
Thank you.

two thumbs way up...

DON'T miss this film!
Children Of Men.
It is amazing.
A must see.
That is my opinion.
Peace out.

there's always an explanation...most of the time...

The US Army is to apologise to the families of officers killed or wounded in action who were sent letters urging them to return to active duty.

The letters were sent to more than 5,100 Army officers listed as recently having left the military.

But this figure included about 75 officers killed in action and about 200 wounded in action.

More than 3,000 members of the US military have died in Iraq since the war began.

Casualties have also been suffered in Afghanistan since the US invasion.

"Army personnel officials are contacting those officers' families now to personally apologise for erroneously sending the letters," the army said in a statement.

It said the database normally used for such correspondence with former officers had been "thoroughly reviewed" to remove the names of dead and wounded soldiers.

"But an earlier list was used inadvertently for the December mailings," it added.

interesting...

BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

President Bush added a "signing statement" in recently passed postal reform bill that may give him new powers to pry into your mail - without a warrant.
WASHINGTON - President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant, the Daily News has learned.

The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open people's mail under emergency conditions.

That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it.

Bush's move came during the winter congressional recess and a year after his secret domestic electronic eavesdropping program was first revealed. It caught Capitol Hill by surprise.

"Despite the President's statement that he may be able to circumvent a basic privacy protection, the new postal law continues to prohibit the government from snooping into people's mail without a warrant," said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the incoming House Government Reform Committee chairman, who co-sponsored the bill.

2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Let's make 2007 a year of peace, democracy, and accountability.
I also find listening to the John Lennon song, IMAGINE, daily is a great help.
War is most definitely not the answer.
Best of everything in 2007 and beyond.
Peace out.