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June 14, 2009
Happy Birthday Rich, again...
Slip Sliding Along
Rev. Tonie C. Wallace Dream-Founder and Director
Dear All One Family:
The latest on my D-TV experiment...still not at perfection level yet...still great at times picture...still at times, perfect sound...still no favorite channels...I just hope that I will discover them once again for this change up in program channels is causing me to step out of my limited box that I used to have and to hold...so in a way, I have gained much, yet feel sort of losing lots as well...oh this change thing is a hard thing to go through...
So believe me, I understand those that find change to be difficult...yet, it is what it is, until it is, no more...
I do get to watch Oprah now and that is a large plus...yet I will miss Dr. Phil and The Doctors and Sixty Minutes, and Craig Ferguson, and CSI's of all flavors, Cold Case...Ghost Whisperers...I know I have already been there...am not complaining, sort of kind of, not yet anyways, only explaining...
I also got to see my first ever, Desperate Housewifes Show and to tell you the truth, it kind of reminds me of the actor that married Demi Moore...show, "Punked," sort of funny in a sad way...for their humor harms the receiver of their action...and any pain for even a short time...sometimes can have permanent ear marks upon it...know what I mean?
The company of 400 employees that I worked at and was put through sexual harrassment that lead up to my being raped by a supervisor...held the kind of humor of Punked...the guys were always a trying to figure out how to punk the others and sometimes I was the prime target, until one day when I reached into an open wheel grinding machine to mic a part that was 7 ft. in diameter and about 60 ft. long...while the extra large grinding wheel was a running.
If one doesn't know what size mic's that it takes to mic that large of a piece...imagine a 7 ft. size one.
My fellow working buddies, thought to be funny and placed a dead toad right near the grinding wheels turning head.
I didn't notice the dead frog/toad, until I had completely clamped down on the part I was a measuring its depth, a few inches it seemed from the running grinding wheel...so it took me by surprize and I almost got hung up in the grinding wheel when I let go of my scream and momentary fright.
The guys all laughed at how shakened I had appeared and non I believe would ever understand how close I came to losing my hands...
I guess my not having DTV before I got a chance to watch my first Desperate Housewives...was perhaps a good thing...for I see the show no different than Gossip Girls or the other one Privileged...all soaps aimed to keep us locked up in a world of others acting, sillier than ourselves...hmmmm...a mind deflection technique...the taking off of our concentration from our own lives that we find more unentertaining than their own...
To tell you the truth...I am a finding my time spent with my local PBS television show to be quite entertaining as of late...good stuff. I can't wait to also be a regular donator to the station's success...
The below news release came across the Internet this evening...and just like I stated in my previous newsletter...Our president has his hands mighty full...for not only N. Korea is caught up in the survival mode...other nations are establishing their own right to bear nukes as well...
Personally, I was a kind hoping that the victor of the presidential election in Iran was going to be the new guy...yet it seems they are both calling each other the victor...and now I wonder, who will win and who will lose...and am wondering what will the next step be...
Yet I have already given this leader and all leaders up to and including our own, over to God/Jesus and Holy Spirit and now I wait for the miracles to result...
Just like I wait for the return of my favorite channels...hahahehehe...life is good, don't allow anyone to convince you differently...just because the storms are a moving through, doesn't mean that the shine will refuse to shine again...Keep faith, hope and trust that even this moment in time is important...
Be Blessed Always
Love, Light and Peace
Tonie
Disputed Iranian ballot complicates US diplomacy
By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer Robert Burns, Ap National Security Writer – 7 mins ago
WASHINGTON – The crackdown on dissent following the disputed elections in Iran puts the Obama administration in a tougher spot, as it sticks with diplomacy as the best way to end that country's nuclear weapons program.
Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that efforts to engage Tehran, with the central goal of halting its pursuit of nuclear weapons, will continue. But the charges of vote fraud and the battles between police and opposition protesters appear to be major setbacks for the new U.S. administration's policy.
President Barack Obama already is under renewed political pressure at home to get tough with Iran.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., said Sunday the Iranian rulers had stolen the election and made a mockery of democracy. He urged Obama to speak out in defense of silenced Iranian demonstrators, but he offered no concrete steps to strengthen the U.S. case.
Biden made clear that the administration, while uncertain of the implications of the announced electoral victory of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his reformist opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has no intention of abandoning its Iran policy. Obama has put Iran at the center of his policy of extending an open hand to adversaries; the Iranians so far have responded mainly with silence.
The administration is trying to understand whether Friday's vote accurately reflected Iranians' response to Obama's effort to end the nearly 30-year diplomatic estrangement from the Islamic Republic, Biden said during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"That's the question," Biden said, adding: "Is this the result of the Iranian people's wishes? The hope is that the Iranian people, all their votes have been counted, they've been counted fairly. But look, we just don't know enough" since the voting.
While Ahmadinejad insisted the results showing his landslide victory were fair and legitimate, Biden said, "You know I have doubts."
For the time being, Biden said, the U.S. accepts the election's announced outcome, although questions about its legitimacy were raised by many other governments.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said his country is "very worried" about the situation in Iran and he criticized the Iranian authorities' "somewhat brutal reaction" to the street protests in Tehran.
German's foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said the "course of the election in Iran raises many questions." He called on Iranian authorities to explain what happened.
Two important U.S. allies — Afghanistan and Pakistan, both neighbors of Iran — offered official congratulations to Ahmadinejad for his re-election. Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari, told him the victory was "an acknowledgment of your outstanding services."
Ahmadinejad dismissed the street protests — the worst unrest in a decade in Tehran — as "not important." He said Friday's vote was "real and free" and insisted the results showing his landslide victory were fair and legitimate.
The election was widely seen as an important event, but it held out little prospect of bringing substantial change in Iranian foreign policy.
Ahmadinejad is Iran's political face to the world, but the clerics and their military wing, known as the Revolutionary Guard, are the real masters of the country's destiny. They dictate every important policy and decide who is allowed to run for elected office.
"We should be very careful about overreacting to the Iranian election," said Anthony Cordesman, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who has been a close observer of the Iranian scene for decades.
He said he believes Obama's advisers know the limits of change in Tehran as long as the country is ruled by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his supporting cast of theocrats.
"They realize that it is the supreme leader and those around him who shape any movement in terms of U.S.-Iranian relations," Cordesman said. "This was going to be true regardless of who was elected as Iranian president. I don't think anyone expected that in an election where four candidates were allowed to run — who all had to conform to the control of the supreme leader — the outcome was going to produce dramatic changes in Iran's nuclear posture or its relations with other states in the region."
Among the complexities with Iran are its ties to Afghanistan, where tens of thousands of U.S. and allied troops are fighting a resilient insurgency and pouring enormous effort into helping establish a stable government. The U.S. has doubts about Iran's assertions of wanting to play a helpful role there, accusing Tehran of supplying arms and other military capabilities to Taliban fighters.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters on Friday in Belgium that Iran is playing a "double game" in Afghanistan — professing good intentions while quietly undermining security.
Gates' press secretary, Geoff Morrell, said in a telephone interview Sunday that Gates was told by U.S. commanders as recently as last week of a "pretty consistent flow" of improvised explosive devices and other Iranian weaponry into Afghanistan, although he said it has been relatively modest in numbers.
Iran also is a critical factor in a range of other issues of central importance to the United States, including international terrorism, energy security, the campaign to stabilize Iraq and the push for a wider Arab-Israeli peace.
Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said Sunday that this probably means Obama will continue his outreach policy.
"Once the dust settles the United States will eventually have no choice but to talk to Tehran, but it will likely be a cold, hard-nosed dialogue rather than friendly greetings," Sadjadpour said.
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