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I have many questions as I start reading ,Connie Willis, ' Even the Queen' . How important is a woman' s menstrual flow to her balanced health? If a woman' s menstrual flow could be as pleasant as sprinkling Tinkerbell ' s fairy magic dust then I choose it. lol If we as Christians are saved by the ' blood of Jesus Christ ' then why isn' t a woman' s period cycle more sacred to us men?

I have many questions as I start reading ,Connie Willis, ' Even the Queen' . How important is a woman' s menstrual flow to her balanced health? If a woman' s menstrual flow could be as pleasant as sprinkling Tinkerbell ' s fairy magic dust then I choose it. lol If we as Christians are saved by the ' blood of Jesus Christ ' then why isn' t a woman' s period cycle more sacred to us men?

"The problem with MacArthur General Joseph Stilwell told Frank Dorn,one of his top aides,was that he had been "a general too long". Stilwell was speaking in 1944,before MacArthur became the American-approved emperor of an occupied Japan.

"So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been , nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality which I sometimes envy but do not possess.

" It was a country in which families routinely disappeared,trailing bad checks,and repossession papers. Adolescents drifted from city to torn city ,sloughing off both the past and the future as snakes shed their skins, children who were never taught and would never now learn the games that had held the society together .

" It was a country in which families routinely disappeared,trailing bad checks,and repossession papers. Adolescents drifted from city to torn city ,sloughing off both the past and the future as snakes shed their skins, children who were never taught and would never now learn the games that had held the society together .

"Writing 'Autumn Journal' in the aftermath of the fall of Barcelona and the German occupation of Prague,MacNiece feels that more than a sort of comfortable candor is called for, but he is determined not to risk dishonestly."

Writing 'Autumn Journal' in the aftermath of the fall of Barcelona and the German occupation of Prague,MacNiece feels that more than a sort of comfortable candor is called for, but he is determined not to risk dishonestly.

"Commons thinking makes it clear that those who claim an absolute right to do anything with their property are often recipients of vast "givings" .

"Can conservation and efficiency save us from the Energy Trap? Maybe. The United States could significantly reduce gasoline use with the simple expedient of carpooling, for instance, Four vehicle occupants instead of one represents a 75% savings and if the savings were dedicated to building renewable infrastructure(a big "if"), this would go a long way toward solving the problem.

"Can conservation and efficiency save us from the Energy Trap? Maybe. The United States could significantly reduce gasoline use with the simple expedient of carpooling, for instance, Four vehicle occupants instead of one represents a 75% savings and if the savings were dedicated to building renewable infrastructure(a big "if"), this would go a long way toward solving the problem.

"We can,if we choose,use the lessons of environmental history to ease our global transition to a post-cheap-energy , post-rapacious economy, a world in which democratic freedoms and a decent standard of living are no longer purchased by cheap energy and the destruction of natural capital."

"Those who believe in absolute,and thus trans-cultural values, risk taking as universal values those to which they are accustomed, and falling prey to naive ethnocentrism and blind dogmatism, convinced that they have eternal possession of truth and justice."

"Lincoln stood firm on the Declaration of Independence.He warned that if Americans started to make exceptions to the principle of equality, there was no obvious place to stop. 'If one man says that it does not mean the negro,why not another say it does not mean some other man?' ( a gay man?, a lesbian ,a woman?, a poor person?, an unemployed?, ...)

"Commons thinking makes it clear that those who claim an absolute right to do anything with their property are often recipients of vast "givings" .

I just started reading some of the stories in Jacob Appel's new book of short stories. Bleacher bum turned libertarian becomes an activist . Here are some excellent stories about the good and bad, , messy, and plenty of mayhem of our Liberalism "Menudo" we live in America.

Re-reading the concluding chapter , "Baalbeck:The Last Rock.