Summitlake.com http://summitlake.com Home Page Sat, 12 May 2012 04:15:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Top GOP Pollster to GOP: Reverse On Gay Issues http://summitlake.com/?p=1339 http://summitlake.com/?p=1339#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 04:15:01 +0000 admin http://summitlake.com/?p=1339 The Daily Beast: Continue reading →]]> Excerpt from the remarkable article (with embedded documentation) by Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Beast:

Below is a remarkable document. It’s a memo circulated by Jan van Lohuizen, a highly respected Republican pollster, (he polled for George W. Bush in 2004), to various leading Republican operatives, candidates and insiders. It’s on the fast-shifting poll data on marriage equality and gay rights in general, and how that should affect Republican policy and language. And the pollster’s conclusion is clear: if the GOP keeps up its current rhetoric and positions on gays and lesbians, it is in danger of marginalizing itself to irrelevance or worse.

]]> http://summitlake.com/?feed=rss2&p=1339 0 AZ Thunderstorm! http://summitlake.com/?p=1338 http://summitlake.com/?p=1338#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 00:42:05 +0000 admin http://summitlake.com/?p=1338 My Notes. Continue reading →]]> “I went outside to look around. Light rain, then, ka-BOOM! Okay, no swim this evening.” Read my short post in My Notes.

]]> http://summitlake.com/?feed=rss2&p=1338 0 Sonoran Sunrise 2012 http://summitlake.com/?p=1337 http://summitlake.com/?p=1337#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 22:26:36 +0000 admin http://summitlake.com/?p=1337 New photo from Alex, who says: "Sonoran Sunrise 2012." See post for images in PHOTOS.

 

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New photo from Alex, who says: “Sonoran Sunrise 2012.” See post for images in PHOTOS.

]]> http://summitlake.com/?feed=rss2&p=1337 0 Deep Cycles and Everyday Things http://summitlake.com/?p=1334 http://summitlake.com/?p=1334#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 20:15:31 +0000 admin http://summitlake.com/?p=1334 Writing. Continue reading →]]> “Consider the cycle between the acorn and the oak tree, each the once and future source of the other, yet each preserving its own life in the ongoing instant.” — new vignette by Fred Leeds, in Writing.

]]> http://summitlake.com/?feed=rss2&p=1334 0 No First Cup http://summitlake.com/?p=1333 http://summitlake.com/?p=1333#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 23:58:18 +0000 admin http://summitlake.com/?p=1333 Writing. Continue reading →]]> Parable with a Zen twist – new vignette by Fred Leeds, in Writing.

]]> http://summitlake.com/?feed=rss2&p=1333 0 Occupy Wall Street: Gone Rogue? http://summitlake.com/?p=1332 http://summitlake.com/?p=1332#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 21:45:40 +0000 admin http://summitlake.com/?p=1332 Commentary. Continue reading →]]> A surprising spectrum of American opinion expressed cautious optimism at the early “Occupy Wall Street” movement. Getting Congress to move is even harder than changing the banking system. The turn-off is this strong OWS directional shift to violence. Read our editorial in Commentary.

]]> http://summitlake.com/?feed=rss2&p=1332 0 Two Haiku in Search of a Title http://summitlake.com/?p=1331 http://summitlake.com/?p=1331#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 21:59:00 +0000 admin http://summitlake.com/?p=1331 Writing. Continue reading →]]> Two new haiku from Fred Leeds, in Writing.

]]> http://summitlake.com/?feed=rss2&p=1331 0 Amateur’s Armchair http://summitlake.com/?p=1330 http://summitlake.com/?p=1330#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:56:42 +0000 admin http://summitlake.com/?p=1330 Master Joshu was asked if a dog has the Buddha nature or not. Joshu's answer: "Mu" (no). Read Fred Leeds' new vignette in Writing. Continue reading →]]>

Master Joshu was asked if a dog has the Buddha nature or not. Joshu’s answer: “Mu” (no)…

Read Fred Leeds’ new vignette in Writing.

]]> http://summitlake.com/?feed=rss2&p=1330 0 Michael D. Higgins Video http://summitlake.com/?p=1329 http://summitlake.com/?p=1329#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 03:47:17 +0000 admin http://summitlake.com/?p=1329 Must-see. Michael D. Higgins is the President of Ireland. His comments on the United States political climate, respect for President Obama, and criticism of Tea Party dialectic is better than anything I ever heard in the United States. Embedded YouTube video in HOME. Continue reading →]]> Must-see. Michael D. Higgins is the President of Ireland. His comments on the United States political climate, respect for President Obama, and criticism of Tea Party dialectic is better than anything I ever heard in the United States. Invigorating, humorous at times, and devastatingly to the point. Embedded YouTube video.

]]> http://summitlake.com/?feed=rss2&p=1329 0 More Haiku http://summitlake.com/?p=1328 http://summitlake.com/?p=1328#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:37:58 +0000 admin http://summitlake.com/?p=1328 Writing. 3 More Haiku by Alex Forbes, in Writing. Continue reading →]]> And here are three more haiku each, from Fred Leeds and Alex Forbes, in Writing:

  • Earth and Sky in Three Movements – 3 Haiku by Fred Leeds, in Writing.
  • 3 More Haiku by Alex Forbes, in Writing.
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