This from http://www.shirdi.org/index.htm :

Today the world is in a transitional phase.
The next war is looming large towards the end of this decade. Old order is bound to change giving place to new. The human society needs a new meaning to life and a new system. Incarnations like Rama and Krishna had brought about such transitions through wars. War is the culmination of a divine drama where the heroes of truthfulness are ultimately victorious. This macro role of the spiritual powers is going to be enacted in a more perceptible manner in the days to come. All of us understand the meaning of a war. Let us then pray to Him to have mercy. Let us pray to Him to bring about a better order where human beings and other species can live happily together.

This is the big email going around our office today. Much of it is from before my time but I wonder if I get old-people points for remembering:
-My favorite Boston album on 8- track tape.
-Card Catalogs at the library.
-Gigantic tv antennas on top of everyone's roof, the owner of which risked his life to set up there, and had to risk his life (and it was usually a HIM) every time it needed to be re-adjusted.

":)

-----Original Message-----
Subject: FW: How old are you?



HOW OLD ARE YOU?
My Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house and he brought me an old
Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of
holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no
idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something.
I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to
"sprinkle" clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am
old.

******************************************** How Many Do You Remember??
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor Ignition switches on the
dashboard Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall Real ice boxes
[Ask your Mom about that] Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain
guards Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner Using hand signals for
cars without turn signals.

******************************************* Older Than Dirt Quiz Count
all the ones that you remember -- not the ones you were told about!
Ratings at the bottom. 1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped
bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop
machines that dispensed bottle 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party
lines 8. Newsreels before the movie 9. P. F. Flyers 10. Butch wax 11.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933) 12. Peashooters 13.
Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15. S&H Green Stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17.
Metal ice trays with lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20.
Packard's 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24.
Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered
0- 05 = You're still young
6-10 = You are getting older
11-15 = Don't tell your age,
16-25 = You're older than dirt!
Don't forget to pass this along -- especially to all your really OLD
friends. PS This is in large print for you really old farts"

What follows is a transcription of some of the best signs in Washington
during the peace march January 18th. Many of them are very good!

for those who care......


Drunken frat boy drives country into ditch.

Bush/Cheney: Malice in Blunderland

Who would Jesus bomb?

War begins with 'Dubya'.

Bush is proof that empty warheads can be dangerous.

Let's bomb Texas, they have oil too.

How did our oil get under their sand?

If you can't pronounce it, don't bomb it.

Daddy, can I start the war now?

1000 points of light and one dim bulb.

Sacrifice our SUV's, not our children.

Preemptive impeachment.

No George, I said Mac Attack.

Frodo has failed, Bush has the ring.

Look, I'll pay more for gas!

It's the stupid economy.

Draft Richard Perle.

Draft dodgers shouldn't start wars.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it (Erasmus).

Pillow fights only.

Our grief [over 9/11] is not a cry for war.

Different Bush, same shit.

Stop the Bushit.

Just war / just oil.

You don't have to like Bush to love America.

Bushes are for pissing on.

Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld: the asses of evil.

$1 billion a day to kill people-what a bargain.

Consume -- Consume -- Bomb -- Bomb -- Consume -- Consume

What's the difference between me & God?
He might forgive Bush, but I won't.

Smush Bush.

America, get out of the Bushes.

It's time to trim the Bush.

Pro-lifers: Wake from Bush's propaganda spell

Don't make me come back here [to a peace rally] again.

Disarm Bush too.

Big brother isn't coming-he's already here.

Empires fall.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind (Gandhi).

Impeach the squatters.

Mainstream white guys for peace.
(Sign held by three mainstream-looking white guys)

Hans Blix-look over here.

Let Exxon send their own troops.

Curious, George? -- get a clue.

Destroy Florida. [It could happen again]

There's a terrorist behind every Bush.

How many bodies per mile?

SUV owners roll over for terrorism.

We can't afford to rule the world.

War is so 20th century!

9-11-01: 15 Saudis, 0 Iraqis.

While you were watching the war,
Bush was raping America.

Don't waive your rights while waving your flag.

Leave Desert Storm to the desert.

Drop Bush not bombs.

Fighting for peace is like f___ing for virginity.

Bush is to Christianity as Osama is to Islam.

I asked for universal health care and all I got was this lousy
stealth bomber.

America's problems won't be solved in Iraq.

War is not a family value.

2 sided poster, one side has a picture of a chubby feline, with the
words: GOOD FAT CAT other side has a picture of Cheney, with the
words: BAD FAT CAT

Colorfully dressed drag queen carrying a sign that says: I am the
bomb.

Picture of the peace symbol: back by popular demand.

A picture of Bush with a red-stained upper lip:
Got blood?

A picture of Bush saying "Why should I care what the American people
think?
They didn't vote for me."

A picture of Bush saying "Ask me about my lobotomy."

Beneath a picture of Osama bin Laden dressed as Uncle Sam: I want
YOU to bomb Iraq.

Beneath a picture of a menacing soldier pointing his rifle/bayonet
toward the viewer : Say it!
One Nation under God. Say it!

I let my husband and kids attend my husband's Catholic Church without me, today. I attended a Unitarian Church in our neighborhood, where I should be going in the first place. A local attorney and member of the ACLU spoke for a good 1/2 hour about how the hijackers of the flights that were downed on Sept 11 2001 , and their supporters, are criminals, but not representatives of the militaries of their respective home countries. That Pres Bush and his supporters are using that event as an excuse to erode the civil rights of all americans, but particularly arabian and muslim Americans and guests; and that we need to be more vigilant about what other laws are being passed and revoked while the political right is distracting everyone's attention away from any non-terrorism-related issues. Lacking, as is too often the case, was any suggestion about what we as American Citizens should do about it.

No big updates, except we got a dog. Abby. 1/2 German Shephard, 1/2 Spaniel. 2 year old female. We got her fixe right away. The humane society we found her at said if we did not get her spayed in 30 days, they would come take her back, and fine us $500 !
Now I come home from lunch to let her out of her kennel and walk her, then drive back to work, so essentially I don't really get a lunch.
My 3 year old son's day care told me, a few weeks ago, that they were going to start charging my son the old, toddler rate, a more expensive rate, because he has to many potty-training accidents, more than the other kids and at a later age. Next day my husband asked them to show him where in our contract we signed last September, did it say we'd pay a higher rate if not fully potty trained by a certain point, and they reversed the decision. Thank heavens.
About 2 weeks ago , he pulled the fire alarm on our way out of his day care, and the owner had to call the police to get it turned off!
Yesterday it was the going-away party for somone in the company that I barely know, but I arranged to go anyway. I convinced my husband to leave work early enough for him to pick our kids up, and I got to go out for drinks with my co workers. They had beers, I had 2 cokes, because I don't drink. I loved being able to go out with people!