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I ain't do'in that no morehttp://muledungandash.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)Blogger1262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-6844051263612839712Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:05:00 +00002024-06-10T12:05:45.180-05:00MulesWagon TrainGood Friends, Best Friends, Good Times, the Beat of Times. I found the wagon train to be a good place for training mules. Mules are naturally cautious creatures. Some called it stubborn, but it was just caution. Just like horses, you teach a mule with kindness. You don't break them like you see in the movies. You teach them that they can trust you, starting from the moment the mare drops thehttp://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2024/06/good-friends-best-friends-good-times.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Phoghat)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-3372687613964978882Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:09:00 +00002024-06-10T11:21:02.411-05:00BoulderGood TimesHippies The oddities of life.  Spent a lot of the day deep into nostalgia. My friend Pat and her husband Craig were in Boulder, Colorado at the same time I was, but our paths didn't cross until decades later. Turns out we have memories of several places in the town where we might have met up but never did. Pat nursed there while I was just a hippie picking up a few odd jobs and http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2024/06/oddities-of-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Phoghat)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-4750465155143048676Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:45:00 +00002020-11-30T10:45:07.411-06:00By Mulebreath  She had a name, but either it was never recorded, or the records long lost. There are none today who seem to know it. Some think her story to be romanticized legend. Others are convinced that the story is very real. She has been likened by some writers to Sacajawea, and according to the author Russell Roe, writing in the June 2012 Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine, she is http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2020/11/little-angel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-8377810874928000683Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:14:00 +00002020-07-01T19:14:02.785-05:00HateIgnoranceRacism The Leo Frank case is one of the most notorious and highly publicized cases in the legal annals of Georgia. A Jewish man in Atlanta was placed on trial and convicted of raping and murdering a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for the National Pencil Company, which he managed. Before the lynching of Frank two years later, the case became known throughout the http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-leo-frank-case.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Phoghat)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-5424741362203477020Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:20:00 +00002020-03-16T12:20:29.445-05:00SCOTUS Hon. James Dannenberg, Ret. Former Judge James Dannenberg resigned from the Supreme Court Bar effective this last Wednesday. In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, he detailed why he has lost respect for the court. Dannenberg has a long legal career history. He is a retired Hawaii state judge, who sat on the District Court of the 1st Circuit of the state judiciary for 27 years. Prior http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2020/03/this-is-significant.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Phoghat)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-2832908629400042670Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:12:00 +00002020-02-24T10:49:38.738-06:00BigotryElectionsEvangelicalsFearFOX NewsFoxsuckersHateObama Author John Pavlovitz  Published 16 February, 2020 It’s morning in America.  A lot happened while we were sleeping.  This is not the America we thought existed back in November of 2008—likely the last time many of us were fully awake.  Back then, we basked in the warm glow of the reality of a black President and we grew comfortable, http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2020/02/while-decent-white-people-were-sleeping_24.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-5121586629867001155Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:57:00 +00002019-10-13T20:57:39.528-05:00The meanings hidden within the words... Paul Simon wrote Sounds of Silence when he was just age 21. I was age 11 at the time and fell in love with the song. It didn't at the time occur to me just how amazing it was that one as young as Paul Simon should have such intrinsically deep understanding of interpersonal communication, yet he has shown his depth of mind in almost everything he has http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-sounds-of-silence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-411822150853713181Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:02:00 +00002019-08-28T10:02:00.350-05:00 MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM, AUGUST 28, 1963: ONE PARTICIPANT REMEMBERS Edith Lee-Payne at the March on Washington, 1963   Photo by Rowland Scherman, Courtesy US National Archives In the account below Edith Lee-Payne recalls the day she was photographed as a 12 year old participant in the March on Washington, and the curious history of that photograph through 2011. http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2019/08/march-on-washington-remembered.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-6938357752613757565Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:02:00 +00002019-07-03T11:02:55.173-05:00Previously published. Just ran across it again and felt like it could use airing again. Considering the ever-present political battles in which humans engage, the TED conversation by Ash Beckham struck me as particularly poignant. The point at which Ash describes events at her sister's wedding, and particularly the nervous conversation with a table full of nervous attendees, it makes me feel http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2019/07/seems-like-good-time-to-repeat-golden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-5310554147171279280Wed, 18 Jul 2018 20:01:00 +00002020-02-24T10:21:11.383-06:00 In 2004 Susan Jacoby published her book, Freethinkers, and then set out on a promotion tour. Later, when speaking of that tour she told of an interesting and important discovery... those who came to listen to her speak already agreed with the premise of the book. There was no one at any of the stops to offer dissent. It was as if those in who might be in disagreement did not care to expose http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2018/07/is-we-smarter-today-than-two-years-ago.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-4942763861492200561Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:57:00 +00002018-08-18T15:34:53.765-05:00HypocrisyIgnoranceMarijuana. ProhibitionRacismThe 18th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on this date in 1919. This constitutional modification was championed by sundry groups seeking a more pure and godly nation, and saw a means to that end by constitutionally barring the demon rum. Unfortunately, the outcome was far different from what was expected. Instead of abstinence, we witnessed the birth of a new and highly http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-wheel-keeps-on-turning.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-373538391590606904Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:21:00 +00002018-01-15T14:21:14.273-06:00LibertyProgressRacismThe Human Herd Why Getting Into Trouble is Necessary to Make Change I’ve seen unbelievable changes during the past 50 or 60 years. When people say, “Nothing has changed,” I feel like saying, “Come and walk in my shoes.” I truly believe that if there is faith and hope and determination, we can continue to lay progress and create an American community at peace with ourselves. The next generation will help http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2018/01/but-i-havent-given-up-and-you-cannot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-5655189849242696242Mon, 01 Jan 2018 19:37:00 +00002018-01-01T13:37:21.029-06:00 Hymn Why do we measure people's capacityTo love by how well they love their progeny? That kind of love is easy. Encoded.Any lion can be devoted To its cubs. Any insect, be it preyOr predator, worships its own DNA. Like the wolf, elephant, bear, and bees,We humans are programmed to love what we conceive. That's why it's so shocking when a neighborDrives his car into a pond and slaughter– http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2018/01/hymn-by-sherman-alexie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-3294820641091568908Mon, 25 Dec 2017 17:02:00 +00002017-12-25T11:02:59.955-06:00Human RightsHumanismPoetry Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967 Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2017/12/let-america-be-america-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-2375602518824250854Sun, 17 Dec 2017 08:54:00 +00002017-12-17T03:51:25.631-06:00ChristianityCongressConservatismCorporate greedDominionismObamaSCOTUSTrump... or The reason Christianity sucks This will be kind of a hodgepodge tale of how European Christianity led to America being simultaneously admired and despised by the rest of the planet. I'll just be hitting the high points. You can follow the links or do your own research if you want to know more. We'll start out with the Myth of Christopher Columbus and work our way to the Bears Ears http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2017/12/tell-me-again-why-america-is-exceptional.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-1347229034590147817Sat, 14 Oct 2017 18:18:00 +00002019-07-01T22:45:16.079-05:00 What is uBuntu? Loosely translated, uBuntu means "I am because we are." Briefly described uBuntu is an African system of values that predates the Ten Commandments by two and a half millennia. uBuntu is taught by example. It illustrates the humanness, the value of community, and the value of caring for and sharing with the community. The Origin uBuntu is not religion based but rather it http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2017/10/ubuntu-humanism-and-lost-heart-of-nation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-1541723524353055038Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:52:00 +00002017-10-04T09:52:02.865-05:00HistoryTexas Which of the states produces more rice than any of the others? RICE CULTURE By Henry C. Dethloff The Texas rice industry owes its origins to the introduction of rice (Oryza sativa) seed from Madagascar to the Carolina colonies about 1685. Production, milling, and marketing flourished in South Carolina and Georgia for the next 200 years. Although there was early domestic cultivation of rice in http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2017/10/trivial-pursuit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-8981640825448671129Sun, 01 Oct 2017 22:23:00 +00002017-10-01T17:23:05.013-05:00AtheismChristianityEvangelicalsHypocrisy Dear Evangelical Preachers I think you believe you’re helping right now. I think you believe you’re actually glorifying God. I think you believe you’re somehow bolstering the Gospel. I think you believe that you’re engineering some conversation-stopping, sanctified mic drop, by crediting God with Donald Trump’s ascension to the U.S. Presidency. You’re not doing anyone of these things. You’re http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2017/10/evangelical-preachers-stop-crediting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-6379639694238419551Sun, 01 Oct 2017 15:12:00 +00002017-10-01T10:27:44.396-05:00CapitalismConservatismCorporatismFascismFOX NewsFoxsuckersHate radioLiberalismNeoconservatismRepublicans Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s had three Vice-Presidents during his four terms in office. Henry A. Wallace replaced John Nance Garner in 1941, and was replaced by Harry Truman in 1945. Of the three, Wallace was by far the most articulate in his condemnation of the corporatist agenda that was the Republican Party platform. In 1944 Wallace penned an opinion piece that would be published in the http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2017/10/corporatism-fascism-and-confirmation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-1578280339902273043Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:08:00 +00002017-10-14T14:38:13.878-05:00HateHate radioJohn F. KennedyTexas Ramblings on the value of a life and the perceived differences in humans... It wasn't unique to Dallas, although the city's recent past reputation as a Klan haven brought much attention to the white-bread communities north of the Trinity. In those days the financing behind the fear mongering and hatred came from a pair of born-into-privilege brothers from an oil rich family (sound familiar?). http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2016/08/some-things-never-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-6787619638036953740Fri, 10 Jun 2016 23:56:00 +00002016-06-10T18:56:48.384-05:00DemocratsElectionsObama The Most Polite Debates on Record The conversation I had a few weeks ago prompted me to pull out the soapbox. As I’ve made obvious in my many status updates on Facebook and the material I published in the Op Ed pages of various newspapers, I detest inequality and the suppression of humans based upon some mythological superiority system. It may make me sound socialistic, and of course I *am*http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2016/06/bernie-has-more-progressive-ideas-but.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-2488543397635746556Mon, 14 Mar 2016 03:04:00 +00002017-07-22T13:25:07.167-05:00First AmendmentJohn F. KennedyRepublicans A couple years ago I found that an old friend had become dyed in the wool Republican. I guess it took me back a little, considering we’ve been pretty close since meeting in 1969. We were both street freaks in those early days… if you know what that means you get a gold star. The “man” called us hippies, and the man hated the way we lived. So yeah… it kinda shook me to learn that he’d gone http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2016/03/short-memories-and-ignorance-of-history.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-2543468215769328565Tue, 29 Dec 2015 03:07:00 +00002015-12-28T21:16:45.621-06:00 No, you're not entitled to your opinion Patrick Stokes, Deakin University Every year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning. Secondly, I say something like this: “I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘everyone is entitled to their opinion.’ Perhaps http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2015/12/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your-opinion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-248039706849115845Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:27:00 +00002015-10-18T22:28:37.270-05:00(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Laurel & Hardy dance to SantanaPosted by Lynda John Sudia on Wednesday, September 22, 2010http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2015/10/functiond-s-id-var-js-fjs-d.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990876628413018080.post-1528157482572855726Fri, 03 Jul 2015 01:35:00 +00002015-07-26T08:47:35.496-05:00 Our Independence Day holiday is almost upon us and the “conservatives” are in full feather. Xenophobia is oozing out of every crack and crevasse of the Internet; almost all of it baseless and more than a fair share of it bald-faced, cable news, hate radio lies. Immigrants and “teh gaze” are the conservative Republican hateed du jour, but that is today. Seems that they've always got some new http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2015/07/might-i-live-long-enough.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mule Breath)1