Dear Lyssa Stradians:

Here is a great site. It's called OpEd News at http://www.opednews.com/

It has progressive, tough, liberal news and opinion and is edited by Rob Kall, who is an excellent writer.

Check it out for a good read.

Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and George Tenet have just been named in a War Crimes Lawsuit filed in Germany by the Center for Constitutional Rights.

For the full story, follow this link to Democracy Now!

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/14/1517243

Flour Power

It's alimentary, My Dear --

We need to eat.

The fruits of the field are provided for our use by way of our labor and aren't they wonderful?

As the beautiful Italian actress Sophia Loren said of her voluptuousness and pasta,

"Everything you see before you is the result of pasta."

The activities of Ceres, the Goddess of Grain, as she produces our bountiful harvests, are now highlighted at the Virgo New Moon on August 23, 2006 at 12:10 p.m. PDT.

Now is the time to think about what kind of work it is that truly represents your labor of love and spirituality and to plant some seeds of intent that will begin to sprout for you within the next two weeks, when the Moon will be full in Pisces. These are the times when the energy is right for establishing work routines that will enable you to harvest your field of dreams with ease.

Oh, Goddess of Life

Please smile on us here

Bring us laughter, stories and tears

Enlighten our minds, and please feed our souls

Bring us dancing, chanting and musical tones

Block all the snools and

Free all the fools

To live, love and laugh

And remember the past

Water our flowers and bring in the crops

Prepare us a feast

And bring on the hops