FALLEN HERO'S

BY

SERGIO MUNQUIA

"I HAVE BEEN WHERE YOU FEAR TO GO...

I HAVE SEEN WHAT YOU FEAR TO SEE...

I HAVE DONE WHAT YOU FEAR TO DO....

ALL THESE THINGS I HAVE DONE FOR YOU.

I AM THE ONE YOU LEAN UPON...

THE ONE YOU CAST YOUR SCORN UPON...

THE ONE YOU BRING YOUR TROUBLES TO...

ALL THESE PEOPLE I'VE BEEN FOR YOU.

THE ONE YOU FEEL SHOULD HAVE NO HEART...

THE ONE YOU CALL THE MEN AND WOMAN IN BLUE...

BUT I AM HUMAN JUST LIKE YOU. "   AUTHER UNKNOWN

Any one that takes the time to read my blog posts over the past five years can see what I've represented since that time, and in many ways, for much of my life.   For some of us, the life story starts with one of privilege - we may be born to wealthy parents, with millions of dollars - and enjoy all the entitlements that are inherent within.  My parents immigrated here with barely a dollar in their pockets, from a lower-middle-class family upbringing.  They traveled against the odds, with little more than my dad's acceptance to medical residency,

I was surprised to see a letter to the editor printed and on-line in the Sunday, March 22, 2009, Cleveland Plain Dealer - "A flag of peace is found out of order at the St. Patrick's Day parade", by Lou Pumphrey. It starts: "Being half-Irish (on me mudder's side), off work on St. Patrick's Day and knowing the day would be sunny and warm, I vaguely considered donning my 41-year-old U.S. Army dress uniform and joining the St. Paddy's Day parade downtown, carrying my flag." But there was no accompanying picture of Lou or the Flag of Peace.

In the print edition, there was a file photo of a parade, but it was hardly relevant.

tears salutes for fallen police officer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHHMfjJEYts

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Brian Eno - more prophecy from the 1970s - Dead Finks Don't Talk, From Here Come The Warm Jets

Oh cheeky cheeky
Oh naughty sneaky
You're so perceptive
And I wonder how you knew.

Coloring my world. I am thinking about the recommendation of neighbor Anthony Green to find the jazz in Cleveland.  He steers me to Jazz28, which, lo and behold, can be found on Cleveland's west side.

I am going to make a bike trek there soon, and in the meantime, the Cleveland Jazz Project motivates me to clean my house on a blue Sunday.

Officials Hoard Valuable Databases Funded by Taxpayers

Politics  :  Online Rights  

It is obvious, by any definition, the process of redistricting the City Council wards of Cleveland is gerrymandering. The question is what to do about it. As stated in the title of this posting, "In gerrymandered election districts, the voters don't choose their politicians - the politicians choose their voters!" If that doesn't sufficiently define for you what Cleveland City Council President Sweeney has done, then how about the following...

I can't help but think what the world would be like today if all the people listening had paid attention to David Bowie's prophetic song, Five Years, back in 1972... had really believed it... taken it to heart... changed their lives like we only had five years left to save the world. What a beautiful world this could be.

What if David Bowie was right, and we only had five years, as of 1972... "that's all we got", and now we are just living out the end. That is how it seems to me. Could we be beyond the point of no return? Was Bowie right, back then?

 Someone alerted me to a WCPN show yesterday where Chris Evans of the Plain Dealer described County Commissioner Tim Hagan as aptly as anyone could.

 Ohio’s jobs picture looks more than dismal. It’s pathetic.

 The secrecy of the dealings between Squire, Sanders & Dempsey lawyer Fred Nance and MMPI suggests we won’t know how bad a deal the County Commissioners have made until it’s much too late.

The map above is one of two alternative proposals to the consultant’s recommendations being provided this morning at 9:30 am in Council’s Committee Room, 2nd Floor of City Hall, 601 Lakeside Avenue.

Just a quick review of the Transportation for Liveable Initiatives Communities Plan for Pearl Rd. to be submitted tomorrow on the same day as the fate of Ward 15 is decided by Cleveland City Council, reveals more of the same old sh_t.

Is Anybody Listening? A testament by Village Academy High School students on the economic crisis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WMTTrOrKVI

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Barcode is  “pulse” language.    A thin collimated light source is reflected back into a reading device - off the ink printed black and white surface - and converted into electric pulses.

Who imploded the economy? Many critics point to a crucial role played by traders of exotic unregulated financial instruments which are understood by few people. Currently most of these traders at American Insurance Group remain unnamed while receiving bonuses for “safely” dismantling an investment system turned doomsday machine which happens to hold the fate of the world’s financial system.

Never in my memory has there been such a scramble as the mauling going on over the $1 billion in public funds sitting out there for a Medical Mart.

 Hi,

"Have you heard that Ken Starr -- and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund -- filed
legal briefs defending the constitutionality of Prop 8 and attempting to
forcibly divorce 18,000 same-sex couples that were married in California
last year? The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in this case on March
5, with a decision expected within 90 days."

Isnt this horrible. Some people have waited 50+ years to get married and now
that they finaly have been able to, they are being forced to get a divorce.

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All over the United States you will see electric, gas, steam, sewer, and telephone utility workers reading newspapers in the cabs of their trucks – with the truck idling - so it's cool in the summer and warm in the winter.