tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35326072008-04-02T21:26:16.759-07:00Chaos, Reason, and HopeLorenzoBlogger649125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-1998190469172459362008-04-02T21:24:00.000-07:002008-04-02T21:26:16.791-07:00Matt Pallamary as seen on YouTube!
Here is a brief interview with my friend Matt Pallamary whose recent memoir, "Spirit Matters", has just been published.
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-52252868141231871022008-03-19T16:44:00.000-07:002008-03-19T16:49:43.013-07:00Barack Obama Speech on Race
I've heard some good speeches in my life, Kennedy's innagural, MLK's "I Have a Dream" among them, and I'm adding to that list Barack Obama's direct and honest speech about the racism that still persists in this country. IMHO, if this speech doesn't move you then you still don't quite get what his campaign is all about.
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-87496743785176104252008-02-14T16:03:00.000-08:002008-02-14T16:04:25.712-08:00Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-22109591429146966742008-01-28T18:20:00.000-08:002008-01-28T18:29:58.599-08:00Kennedy Family Endorsements of Barack Obama
I have to admit, this Obama rally took me back to my college days when I watched John Kennedy's run for the presidency on a little black and white television in my college dorm's basement. While I don't agree with Obama on all the issues, there is no question but what he brings with him a sense of hope that is long overdue. It has been so long since we Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-65843886648686812752008-01-19T11:25:00.000-08:002008-01-19T11:29:10.732-08:00Video: Angry About Environmental Destrucion
Everyone over 30 should who sees this video should give some serious thought to what this young man has to say about the current state of our Earthly environment and our responsibility to do something about the mess we humans have made of this planet.
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-31563136116611229392007-12-10T16:08:00.000-08:002007-12-10T16:13:24.836-08:00What is Myspace, really?
[CLICK the above link to read this entire essay.]
This is the scariest question of all. Myspace is the largest private opt-in database on the planet. We willingly register ourselves, our thoughts, ideas and interests. We upload photos of ourselves, our children and families. We link ourselves to our friends, family, organizations, telling where we live, our relationship Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-66994862210276057652007-12-05T05:38:00.000-08:002007-12-05T05:41:15.476-08:00The True Story of Christmas
Modern Christmas traditions are based on ancient mushroom-using shamans. Although most people see Christmas as a Christian holiday, most of the symbols and icons we associate with Christmas celebrations are actually derived from the shamanistic traditions of the tribal peoples of pre-Christian Northern Europe. The sacred mushroom of these people was the red and white Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-77761427336060879832007-11-02T07:29:00.000-07:002007-11-02T07:32:00.847-07:00Towing a floating drydock through the Panama Canal
Below is a short YouTube video of the two transits we made through the Panama Canal in 1969 during the Phase II Scorpion Ops. I was the XO and navigator of the Apache at the time.
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-67994943614215656642007-10-19T21:57:00.000-07:002007-10-19T22:04:47.855-07:00USS Scorpion (SSN 589) Search Operations - Phase II
The video below is a collection of pictures I took during June and July, 1969. They were taken at the location, in the mid-Atlantic, of the tragic Scorpion loss. I was the executive officer and navigator for the USS Apache (ATF-67), which is the ocean-going tug boat that towed the bathyscaphe USS Trieste (DSV-1), and her mother ship the USS Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-60703188674120245322007-10-04T14:13:00.000-07:002007-10-04T19:41:04.991-07:00The US Navy's Longest Ocean Tow
One of my assignments in the Navy included a little 10 month cruise from San Diego to the site of the USS Scorpion's sinking in the mid-Atlantic. I was the executive officer and navigator for the USS Apache, which is the ship that completed this 14,100 nautical mile tow. Here are a few pictures from our time at sea:
Still photos at: apache67.blogspot.comLorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-36605012170893233242007-07-20T14:56:00.000-07:002007-07-20T14:58:29.187-07:00I couldn't have said it better
Go to Iraq and Fight, Mr. President
By Keith Olbermann
MSNBC Countdown
Thursday 19 July 2007
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-55061363591650344952007-07-10T17:12:00.000-07:002007-07-10T17:14:29.729-07:00Michael Moore Tells CNN the Truth
If you haven't already heard about this confrontation you owe it to yourself to watch this video. . . . BTW, if you haven't seen Sicko, that's also something worth your time.
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-33749061042783093572007-06-02T05:41:00.001-07:002007-06-02T05:52:55.295-07:00U.S. Homeland "Security" is a Farce
I guess with an insane person living in the White House we should expect nothing better than the Keystone Cops guarding our borders, and that is exactly what we've got.
Earlier this year, a low-level U.S. flunky denied a Canadian psychotherapist entry to the states because several decades earlier he had written a paper that stated there were some positive Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-58936004641683776392007-05-16T15:13:00.000-07:002007-05-16T15:21:49.657-07:00THE WAR ON CONSCIOUSNESS
NOTE: This is an excerpt from a long essay by Paul Levy. Please click the link above to read the full text.]
We are truly in a war. It is not the war we imagine we are in, which is the way our true adversaries want it. It is not a foreign war against a foreign enemy. It is a war on consciousness, a war on our own minds. The global war on terror that is being fought aroundLorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-79166056457362860172007-03-12T13:55:00.000-07:002007-03-12T13:59:07.892-07:00Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
My friend Hal sent me the link to the following video. While there isn't any information in it that you don't already know, if you truly grok the overall message I think you will find it very interesting and thought provocative.
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-19511966229634194262007-02-10T17:29:00.000-08:002007-01-26T18:14:40.825-08:00A Truly SPECTACULAR Comet!
I hope that everyone had a chance to see Comet McNaught. Had a comet this spectacular appeared 1,000 years ago, humans everywhere would have begun preparations for a major tear in the fabric of everyday reality. . . . and maybe that isn't such a bad idea yet today. The photos below were taken by Rob McNaught, the man who first discovered this beautiful comet.
You Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-75379457208485475462007-01-26T18:10:00.000-08:002007-01-26T18:14:36.252-08:00Comet
McNaught
is unlikely to appear in our skies for another 85,000 years.
In "Olden Times" what do you think people would have been saying about an event like this? And why haven't we been hearing more about this spectacular comet in the news? Have we become so detached from the heavens that a spectacular event like this is no longer of interest to us?
To our ancestors, the appearance of Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-17518143288493206212006-12-30T16:12:00.001-08:002006-12-30T16:12:52.946-08:00From the mouths of babes . . .
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-32703200999336334782006-12-18T17:40:00.000-08:002006-12-18T17:59:53.581-08:00Update from the StopKillingUs.org Campaign
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A major part of our campaign is to identify where in Africa Climate Change is affecting local populations and their livelihoods. When we do, we ensure that local people wear the SKU t-shirts and we target national and (where possible) international press on the area. This way when the film crews and photographers go there to interview the people Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-1165025500012769882006-12-01T17:53:00.000-08:002006-12-02T10:37:09.156-08:00StopKillingUs.org Launched Today!
What is this campaign about and what is the meaning of the message? . . . Click on the link above to read the incredible and wonderful story of the StopKillingUs grass-roots campaign in Ghana.
"As the t-shirts were distributed and the banners erected around the city, people started to take ownership of the name and it became their very own symbol of what was Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-1163558498919974302006-11-14T18:39:00.000-08:002006-11-14T18:41:38.986-08:00Something to entertain you while I'm away
I've been on the road for a few weeks and have another week to go before settling down again. In the mean time, here is a YouTube video that I've enjoyed watching and listening to. . . . You can find more of these amazing videos on both YouTube and Google video by searching on ANIMUSIC.
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-1162663624992998732006-11-04T10:06:00.000-08:002006-11-04T10:07:04.993-08:00Republicans in Prison and Under Indictment
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-1161796941747473542006-10-25T10:19:00.000-07:002006-10-25T10:22:21.773-07:00The End of Habeas Corpus
It amazes me how unconcerned most Americans are about the loss of the single most important right a democracy can offer . . . even more important than free speech. The only mainstream television news commentator who seems to understand the seriousness of the problem that I've heard speak out is Keith Olberman.
Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-1160591835884060492006-10-11T11:15:00.000-07:002006-10-11T12:10:55.833-07:00What good is NSA spying if no one understands what is being said?
If you still think that evil little Georgie Bush is only spying on "suspected terrorists" then how do you explain the fact that hardly anyone in the entire U.S. government can speak Arabic? In fact, the inability of anyone in the Bush Crime Family to translate these wiretaps would be laughable if it didn't have such serious Lorenzotag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3532607.post-1160253760288500342006-10-07T13:25:00.000-07:002006-10-07T14:55:51.710-07:00Alex Grey video clip
Here is a brief clip I shot of Alex Grey speaking in the big tent at Entheon Village at this year's Burning Man festival.
Lorenzo