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Monkey Economics

Fwd: Monkey Economics



Begin forwarded message:



Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to

the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.



The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went

out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to

diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He next announced

that he would now buy monkeys at $20 each.…
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Added by bodhi on March 10, 2009 at 4:33am — No Comments

Wage Peace

W a g e P e a c e

- M a r y O l i v e r



Wage peace with your breath.

Breathe in firemen and rubble,

breathe out whole buildings

and flocks of redwing blackbirds.



Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children

and freshly mown fields.



Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.



Breathe in the fallen

and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.



Wage peace with your listening:

hearing…
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Added by bodhi on February 26, 2009 at 5:13am — No Comments

good morn, ipeace

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed

affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast

practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more

than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own."

- Herman Melville: Moby Dick



A priest dies and is waiting in line at the Heavens. Ahead of him is a guy who's dressed in khakhi dress and is a ferocious looking Jat.

Yamraj addresses this…
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Added by bodhi on February 22, 2009 at 2:05pm — 3 Comments

12-21-2012 - Where will you be at the End of the Maya Calendar?

I'll be traveling down to southern Mexico to witness the light show at Mayan Chichen Itza Kukulkan

El Castillo is a "time temple" that sheds light on the Mayan astronomical system An impressive 78 feet tall, the temple's name means "castle" in Spanish. El Castillo was actually a huge solar calendar. If you did the math, you would find that the 91 steps on each side, times 4 for each side and each season, plus 1 for the crowning platform… Continue

Added by bodhi on February 21, 2009 at 3:00am — 3 Comments

March 27, 2003, NYC, 17 days after the beginning of the war in Iraq,



March 27, 2003, NYC, 17 days after the beginning of the war in Iraq, I participated in a mass civil disobedience called a "die-in" in downtown Manhattan. On that morning 215 anti-war activists were arrested after blocking traffic on 5th Avenue near the Rockefeller Center, We were protesting the cooperation between U.S. media and the government



Here's what I blogged at the time:

I hadn't planned on being arrested yesterday but…
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Added by bodhi on February 20, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Don't Drink The Obama Kool-aide

"… a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote"

- Barack Obama, Jan. 7, 2008 speech at Dartmouth College



Hey Sanna Hosanna

Hey BO, BO won't you smile at me?

Sanna Hosanna

Hey Superstar .
.....

“This guy was president before I… Continue

Added by bodhi on February 20, 2009 at 7:30pm — 5 Comments

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