2005.4.24=7[#114]:4703.3.16[#60+15/60]: [Space, UK Local], Mom pressured, School, Typed Letter for Laws. 1)Time to May 19th. 2)US to Theocracy?!

[Peaceful Space blog] http://space4peace.blogspot.com/ [UK Local Government] http://www.commonpurpose.org.uk/home/public/civilsociety/hsw/localgov.aspx Cloudy cool to mild: Up 6:45 sleepy! Mom is anxious to find her passport, and pressured from going back to Taiwan soon, mom and I are both edgy. Still drive to School for exercise, dance, and lunch, then home to emails thinking about writing a letter to the attorney, now 3:21pm, only Lung at home. Type the letter after the first one half done gone trying to save as draft, Lung gone, and now Jyun and Ch. home. Give the print of letter to Jyun, but cannot copy and paste here. Nap. Skip 7-8 "Winter Sonata" #10, 8-9 #11, brand new first half! Now 8:13pm pretty dark, just finished emails finally. No tel. Jyun no response after he has read my letter. Mei just back and asks about mom. Finish this now. O.h. dinner right away, 12:00 bed. 1) Time to May 19th: "NEW MILLENNIUM BEING: MY TAURUS GARDEN: SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND MANIFESTATION, Number 104 - April 23, 2005", by Gururattan Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D. http://www.yogatech.com/nmb/backissues/nmb104.html "" The Sun moved into Taurus grazing pastures April 19th and will stay in this field through May 19th. The Scorpio Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse is April 24th at 3:08 AM PDT (10:08 AM GMT). The Taurus New Moon is May 8th at 1:46 AM PDT (8:46 AM GMT). SECURITY AND PLEASURE IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD When the Sun moves into the earth sign Taurus, things seem to calm down a bit. Life can feel scattered and frenetic when the Sun is in fiery Aries. We are reborn during Aries springtime. The major focus of Aries is to feel alive and to establish a sense of Self and Soul. Taurus introduces us to our body, the earth and physical things. The Bull’s path focuses on its rapport with the physical world. The Bull seeks security and stability. Its ultimate goals are pleasure, relaxation and peace. "" 2) USA toward Theocracy? (1) "Lurching toward theocracy", by Bill Berkowitz [[ "a longtime observer of the conservative movement. HisWorkingForChange column Conservative Watch documents the strategies, players, institutions, victories and defeats of the American Right" ]], Online Journal Guest Writer: http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/040505Berkowitz/040505berkowitz.html "" April 5, 2005 (WorkingForChange)—On November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish Jew, assassinated Ernst von Rath, a low-ranking German official, at his embassy in Paris. Two days later, Kristallnacht ("Night of Crystal"), a pogrom that destroyed synagogues, Jewish-owned homes, stores and community centers, commenced. "" "" Ten years after World War II, Milton Mayer went to Germany, where he spent a year searching to find out how ordinary Germans—not Nazi Party leaders—seamlessly and somewhat comfortably accepted and embraced fascism. "" "" Mayer quotes a colleague: "This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter. . . ." "" "" Don't expect the jackboots to march around the corner tomorrow. Don't expect homes to be indiscriminately raided. Don't expect citizens to be hauled off in the dead of night—although that has been the case with indiscriminate arrests of many Muslim immigrants since 9/11. Consider, however, the anti-democratic warning signs: the Patriot Act and subsequent civil liberties-busting legislation; election snafus seamlessly fading into history; a war carried out on the basis of misinformation and disinformation; secret prisons where captives are tortured. "" (2) "On Ten Commandments Bill, Christian Right has it Wrong", by Frederick Clarkson [[ "the author of 'Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy.' " ]]; Published on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 by the Christian Science Monitor: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0421-03.htm "" Whatever one's view, Moore, known to many as "the Ten Commandments judge," has come to personify a revisionist view of American history - one that, if it gains wide currency, threatens to erode the culture, and constitutional principle, of religious pluralism in the US. Moore's story is already the stuff of legend. After being elected chief justice, he had a 5,280-pound monument to the Ten Commandments installed in the rotunda of Alabama's state judicial building in 2001. Moore insisted he had a First Amendment right to "acknowledge God" as the "moral foundation of law." The result of the inevitable lawsuit was US District Judge Myron Thompson's decision that Moore had violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment by creating "a religious sanctuary within the walls of a courthouse." When Moore refused to remove the rock, he was removed from office. Judge Thompson got it right. But Moore and his allies see the decision as a defining moment in their campaign to "overthrow judicial tyranny." At stake over the long haul is the authority of the courts to protect individual civil rights against religious and political majoritarianism. ""