Yesterday someone dear to me passed away. I cried for the gift he had given me of kindness which was so deep that I knew I was going to miss his presence on earth. He was in a chair at the age of 83, hands on his chest, reclined with one foot on a little table, and a smile on his face. The blue waters of Hawaii stretched out to the horizon through the picture window. A lovely lady with him had gone for a few minutes to get some food across the street. She was the light of his eyes. She, in her 70's, returned and found him asleep. She is very sad right now. The last thing he said to her was that she was the most beautiful woman in the world. I learned a lot about following your dreams and living through your heart from him. "A good heart never grows old". I will look forward to seeing him in the spirit one day and I hope I have lived my life in a way that will affect others as his memory left brilliant colors in our world.

Hundreds of candles lined the streets of Oakland and Berkeley, California last night.
It was about 7:30 p.m. when my 16 year old son and myself were walking down the front stairs and saw the lights.
We went up and down the streets together sharing the feeling of love and support from the people all around us.
These were just a few of the Wednesday night vigils for Cindy Sheehan organized by MoveOn.org.There were many more all around the country.
Cindy Sheehan, of Vacaville, Calif, is the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. She has set up a campsite on a winding two lane road which leads to President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch
and has vowed to stay there for the duration of Bush's monthlong vacation, or until he agrees to speak with her in person. She has now attracted the attention of the entire United States. Other mothers have joined her who lost sons in Iraq. She wants to know why the President sent America's soldiers into war based on evidence which was not only faulty but, according to the now infamous Downing Street Memo, deliberately manufactured, and says, "Our sons made the ultimate sacrifice, and we want answers".
Bush refuses to meet with the anti-war protester who is demanding that he "support our troops" by moving them OUT of Iraq. Cindy is standing steadfast in her beliefs but has encountered some unpleasant opposition from Bush's supporters, some of whom are his neighbors. One neighbor, however, who is a military veteran, was sympathetic to her cause and offered his land as a campsite.
Hundreds of small white crosses were put up along the road there as a tribute to the memory of the soldiers killed in Iraq. They were run over and destroyed by a truck hauling a crowbar and chains, driven by a supporter of the President's position.
My son knows Cindy's story very well. He is no different from any other teenager, hanging out with his friends, dreaming of playing the guitar, perhaps falling in love someday. There was a soft gleam in his eye. He knows that if it had been him that had been killed in an arbitrarily started and ill-advised war that I would do the same thing in his memory that Cindy is doing now for her deceased son.

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Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2005-08-16 17:50. Activism
Help afterdowningstreet.org raise money with a song!
US-THE BAND (from the S.F. Bay Area) has written a truly great protest song for modern times. It's called "How Did This Country Get So Bad? (I 1 2 NO!)", and it will make you smile, clap your hands, and stomp your feet (unless you are a Bush supporter, of course!).
The song is available for a $1.00 download (plus a 33-cent PayPal transaction fee) at www.ustheband.com
And from now through the end of September, 100 percent of all proceeds will be donated to afterdowningstreet.org to help spread the word about this VERY important document which proves without a doubt that Bush is guilty of an impeachable offense: sending American armed forces into war based on deliberately manufactured false evidence - that is, LIES!

http://www.radionewsamerica.com/media/nion/nion.html
Click on the above link and it will take you to-
'Not In Our Name' - 8-13-05 with host Lisa Knappe.
When you get to the site click on listen to this podcast to hear "Us the band" - we are about the 4'th or 5'th song "How Did This Country Get so Bad I12no".-It is after Tracy Chapman And before Paula Cole.
The whole program is about half an hour and is very good.

Protest and Peace songs featuring- Us, Tom Petty, Tracy Chapman, Elvis Costello, The Thomas Connor Band, Cat Stevens and much more.

Listen to this Podcast.

Computer crash when you open:

Osama bin Laden Captured

This is true. Checked at snopes and copied below.

Emails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent and the moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and you will not be able to fix it!!!

This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the globe, but mainly in the US and Israel

Don't be inconsiderate; send this warning to whomever you know.

Confirmed at: http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/osama.asp

Origins: There are few headlines that would grab the attention of more
computer users around the world than "Osama bin Laden Captured," and
that's exactly what whoever created this lure was counting on to snare
unsuspecting victims who use Microsoft platforms.

"Osama bin Laden Captured" isn't a virus in itself; it's the text of a
message that includes a link to a file called EXPLOIT.EXE. When a
message recipient clicks on this link to view what he thinks are pictures of
Osama bin Laden's capture, he can end up downloading an executable Trojan
known as Backdoor-AZU, BKDR_LARSLP.A, Download.Trojan,
TrojanProxy.Win32.Smallb,or Win32.Slarp.< BR>
Clicking the embedded link in the "Osama bin Laden Captured" message
auto-executes a file called "EXPLOIT.EXE," which exploits a known
security hole to download the Trojan. According to McAfee Security:
The Trojan opens a random port on the victim's machine. It sends the
Port information to a webpage at IP address 66.139.77.145. The Trojan
listens on the open port for instructions and redirects traffic to other IP
addresses.
Spammers and hackers can take advantage of compromised systems by using
the infected computer as a middleman, allowing them to pass information
through it and remain anonymous.
Microsoft has made available updates that close the hole exploited by
this Trojan.
I don't recall how I got it though. I don't think I got it through clicking on any links regarding Osama Bin Laden's capture.
The trojan is not all too severe though. What I mean by that is it takes a long time for it to damage your machine (possible months to a year). But what I've noticed was that the computer had started telling me that my page (paging?) file was getting too small and that Windows needed to expand it. It also started running out of RAM a lot faster than usual because most trojans contact websites and, without your full knowledge or permission, begin downloading adware, spyware, and yet more trojans to your computer. These adware, spyware, and trojans open your computer to even more adware, spyware, and trojans. I've even gone through browser hijackers (if you don't know what that is: it's a special trojan that sets your brower's startpage to whatever they want it to be and no matter how many times you change it back to what you want, it changes it back to what they want. And they're virtually unstoppable). Eventually you have this plethora of undestructable mess on your computer and it eventually starts eating away at your RAM piece by piece until your computer simply crashes. So I guess my point was even though it's not considered severe by the likes of McAfee, don't let your guard down.