I really don't know clouds at all

Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and they snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But

I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way that you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way

But now it's just another show
And you leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions that I recall
I really don't know love
I really don't know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say I love you right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way

Oh but now old friends they are acting strange
And they shake their heads and they tell me that I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day

I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all

It's life's illusions that I recall
I really don't know life
I really don't know life at all

The Lone Ranger Creed

Was DNCC spokeswoman Natalie Wyeth having something else in mind...? mmm...
Why is it that the Lone Blogger reminds me of the Lone Ranger?
Let´s see...

photo: viewimages

In every incarnation of the character, the Lone Ranger has conducted himself by a strict moral code. This code was put in place by writer Fran Striker and actors Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels, taking their positions as role models to children very seriously (I was one of them) also tried their best to live by this creed:

"I believe.....
That to have a friend, a man must be one.
That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.
That God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself.
In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.
That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.
That 'this government of the people, by the people, and for the people' shall live always.
That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.
That sooner or later...somewhere...somehow...we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.
That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.
In my Creator, my country, my fellow man."

So?

From very down-South in the planet, from the Pampas gaucho-land, from Democrats Abroad Argentina, the Lone Blogger YanquiMike was chosen to be the eyes and ears of local audiences online around the world.

The Lone Blogger is going to the 2008 Democrats Convention to blog for the worldwide
community of US Democrats living abroad.

YM says: "... and I guarantee you that if I have something to say from the floor, I will say it."

LR says: "... all things change but truth, and truth alone, lives on forever."

Ok.

Now I see why YanquiMike reminds me of the Lone Ranger.

Except that he´s not alone; members in 164 countries, with 37 official country committees in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania are going to be able to feedback comments and thoughts through his blog online and while things happen at the floor.

Me too!

Sorry, Lone Ranger, I´m madly in love with somebody else now... things change... you know... as you said...

Bloggers Unite - Human Rights

I want to join today´s challenge by honoring the human right to freedom of expression and opinion

If you´ve ever been near a threatened or disturbed flock of sheep you know that the silence of the lambs is only an urban myth

Still waiting

We´re only waiting

María Lusa

- That was a hell of a tough drive back! I shouted as I stepped down from my old Taunus
- Lot of mud in the road, eh? asked Negrita
- Yeah, and with such a small rain! I kept complaining

- Take a break and have a mate. You seem to need it.
- Ok, I´m still shaking, I told the cow while turning on the stove. By the way, I passed your friend María Lusa while coming here but I couldn´t stop the car without the chance of getting stuck. I just waived at her. She seemed to be heading into town.

- I know. She greeted us good bye this morning because she´s on her way to find her roots.
- What do you mean?
- Actually, she always had that urge but was postponing the trip until she read a recent article on genetic hoof-prints. She wants a mitochondrial DNA exam.

- Why? What for?, I asked very intrigued
- When she was brought from the North as a very young calf she looked like any of the kids around but as months passed she grew differently. Her head was shorter and broader and she began to show horns.
- Go ahead, Negrita.
- Well, those horns drove her crazy. None of us here have them.
- So what? It´s natural that you don´t have horns, you´re an Aberdeen Angus. I still don´t get it.
- That´s the point. It´s easy to feel comfortable when you know like I do where you´re coming from. Just because of my lack of horns I can trace my ancestors all the way up to the first founder cow, Black Meg, crossed in Scotland between Angusshire and Aberdeenshire in the 19th century.
- Sorry Negrita, I think that´s a very self-limiting belief. Are you going to tell me that you see the pastures greener because you know you´re an Angus?
- No, that´s not the po..., tried Negrita
- If she had shared that feeling with me, I interrupted her, I would have told her the name of her town of origin, the truck that brought her here, the name of her parents, anything I know! Or I could have helped her investigate more... Anyway, why should anybody feel more or less happy just because of their race?

- Moooo! Stop and listen to me 99! She knows where she came from and all those things you mention. She knows she came from Brazil. Her problem are those horns. One large horn growing outward and bending down and the other short, going forward and then pointing upward... That´s very confusing. She wants to know at least if she´s a Bo Taurus or a Bo Indicus.
- Brazilian cattle came from Portugal. Isn´t that enough? We all have short family trees in South America... no more than a couple of generations. What´s the difference?
- I know. But you can´t blame her for wanting to know how her own offspring are going to be able to deal with heat, cold, hunger, thirst, diseases, how deep is her genetic reservoir. If she comes from the 16th century "pé-duro" that the Conquistadores brought at first is one thing. A very different thing is if she´s an Alentejana, Barrosã, Mirandesa, Alistana, Tudanca, Mertolenga, etc. any 19th century breed migration.

- Ok. I´m sorry. I´m so used to people using racist comments that I thought you guys were into that too.
- Oh no! We don´t care about that. We care about life, 99
- ... you scared me... I thought you had identity problems... Chau Negrita, my water is boiling...
- Chau 99, and please calm down.

TEMPORARILY OUT

sorry,

99

Hell on Earth

-Hi there 99. I have just received news from my friends from the former neighbor´s tambo.
-Hi Negrita. I´m a little busy right now, but tell me are there good news?
-Good and bad, said the cow.
-Go ahead, shoot.
-Well it seems that my Holando-Argentina best friend got so popular that she´s on stamps!
-Wow... and why´s was that?
-Because of her spots
-...?
-Her spots turned out to be the world map. I think that´s why she was always looking at the airplanes.

-So, she´s being photographed?
-Nah... she´s not the model type. She goes to schools to teach geography to the children.

-And the bad news?
-The other cows were sent to Hell on Earth: the feedlot.
-God bless their souls Negrita...
-I´ll pray for them tonight 99...


please don´t miss this link: http://www.ethicurean.com/2008/02/17/hallmark-recall/

Blue

-Did you meet my boyfriend 99?
-Is it bull#382?
-Yeah, but I call him Darling
-I can understand that, he´s a such a romantic... always near the flowers

-Moo-ooo!, sighed Negrita

-Are you pregnant now?
-Yep, I think it´s going to be a girl calf and she´s going to be born in August. I´m going to call her Blue after a friend of mine that has been sick for awhile and is recovering pretty well. She´s going to come and visit me soon...

-I´m glad for all of you. By the way, I saw you reading a magazine. Any news?

-I guess you saw me with the last Science
-It´s a very prestigious journal
-I read about the latest studies on climate change and greenhouse emissions. They were saying that the destruction of natural ecosystems— whether rain forests or grasslands not only releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere when they are burned and plowed, but also deprives the planet of natural sponges to absorb carbon emissions

-We´ve already discussed that, remember? Cropland absorbs far less carbon. So what´s new?
-Actually the author of the study, Timothy Searchinger from Princeton University, called "accounting error" that misuse of land. I would laugh out loud if I had all my teeth!

-Hey! what´s wrong with your teeth? Haven´t you seen the dentist?
-Oh God, no! I hate the dentist!
-Negrita, nobody likes the dentist. But it is necessary to go for a checkup every once in a while

-So you say, 99. Have you ever experienced a cow teeth checkup???



-Negrita it is not that different for humans. Each time I´m on the dentist chair I feel the same. I try to think on other things, whatever, cows, airplanes, anything
-Now that you mention it, did you know that on February 18, 1930 Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane?
-...?
-... Sorry 99, I´m just trying to forget the dentist...

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