With Barack Obama we face reality With George W. Bush we did not

Reality is paying your debts Reagan and George W. Bush raised the debt Barack Obama has done his best to reduce it Reality is recognizing a dumb war and not paying for war on a credit card and recognizing the painful cost of war by giving priority to the needs of those who return George W. Bush engaged in dumb wars paid on a credit card hid the image of pain and death from Americans and now his party the GOP has spit in the face of all veterans by failing to pass the President's jobs bill Reality is the gold standard of logic It is arriving at a correct and true conclusion The capacity to see reality and deal with it is the highest virtue a President can possess The craziness of the present season can be explained by pointing to the unreal premises of virtually everything the GOP says Lies they are and the most recent the father of those lies is George W. Bush But they are also contradictions of reality and ultimately reality proves out When it does we win Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store

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"Sto Perigiali" One of the Surpassingly Best Tunes Theodorakis Has Written

A Setting for a Poem "Denial" Beloved by the Greek People by the Nobel Prize Winning Poet Giorgos Seferis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhk0ckaCxDI
The remarkable video at the link above is of a performance of "Sto perigiali" Mario Frangoulis and Mikis Theodorakis in 2001.

Frangoulis and Theodorakis are joined by musicians, including two bouzouki players, and a very large audience that is completely familiar with the words. The audience joins in at Frangoulis' prompt.

This is my very favorite Theodorakis melody. Those who know Theodorakis only for his "Zorba" music are in for a treat. When I was in Athens in 1966, for a short period of study with Constantinos Doxiadis, I knew nothing of Theodorakis. But about five years later, my friend Irene Vassos sang "Sto perigiali" to us. I have never gotten the tune out of my mind.

Later, when Irene joined our group to form a travelling company performing "New Rain", I learned to pick out a …

Stephen C. Rose Bio

Stephen C. Rose (1936-) was born in New York City and raised there. He currently lives there. He was educated at Trinity, Exeter, Williams and Union Theological Seminary. He served in the Student Interracial Ministry in Nashville. He founded and edited the prize-winning Renewal Magazine in Chicago and studied with C. A. Doxiadis in Athens. His first books "The Grass Roots Church" and "Who's Killing The Church" established him as a prominent critic of American Protestantism and American religion. He was and remains a civil rights activist. He has interviewed and done in depth pieces on Saul Alinsky and Martin Luther King, Jr. He won awards for editorial courage and for two documentary films. He has written and published many songs and musical works including "We Are All Americans". During the late 90s and early 2000s he worked for UN agencies, most recently editing CHOICES Magazine at UNDP. Since 2000 he has written several books for distribution via K…

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