I'd like to start with this...

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on it's own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." - taken from the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians

I'm sure most of you have read that before. I'm not posting it here to thump on the bible but because it is simple and well stated truth that we can all use in our daily existance. Personally I think this simple little speech on the way of love should be taught and repeated daily as a way to help us focus and center ourselves. Hey, I don't know, Paul may have been the Howard Beale of his day but he sure got this one right. Ok...so maybe comparing Paul to Howard Beale is a stretch...maybe it's not...we could use a man like Howard Beale right about now though...couldn't we? Let's all try to channel the ghost of Paddy Chayefsky and see what he has to say. I guess that's why I rant the way I do...I miss Howard Beale & Paddy Chayefsky. Maybe I've just watched "Network" too many times. Am I going to attempt to make some kind of point here? I guess that would be the question at hand. You know all we are is meat, bone, intellect and soul. The meat and the bone are really just the husk that holds what we truly are. To attain any sort of happiness in this life we need to find balance between the intellect and the soul. That's the real yin & yang of it. Maybe I'm just stating the obvious and you're bored with this by now...I'll go on anyway. I believe that you have to continue to feed and nourish both the intellect and the soul in order to grow and to be happy. If you concentrate on just your intellect and negelect your soul you're lost and vice versa. Why am I going on about this on the David Baerwald Board? Why not! I think for a lot of us going through day to day activities we don't really come in to contact with a lot of messages that really have any value. With a name like Wahoo (a meaningless expression of joy) Capybara (one of largest rats known to mankind; they eat them in South America by the way) why should you trust that I would have anything of value to say? I don't know...judge for yourselves I guess. I do think that David is an open minded guy that would welcome any sort of meaningful conversation into his sphere of existance so I do feel at least a little more comfortable posting this here than say, on the Wayne Newton message board. During my campaign I found that many of the people I talked to felt that in all honesty their voices really did not matter to the boys in DC. This latest set off circumstances would seem to be, to me at least, a horrible confirmation of their feelings. They have taken what politics is supposed to be about, THE US AND THE WE, and made it about THEM. In no uncertain terms really. Many times I would get asked "What is your political party Dr. Capybara?" my response was, is, and always will be this; The Human Race. I don't like anything that segregates us as people, anything that pushes us further apart. I don't really know why you'd want to align yourselves with either the Democrats or Republicans at this point anyway, they are all such a disgrace. It's pointless to argue about them, to look to them for leadership. It's laughable to expect truth from any of them or to have them be the keepers of our morals and values. I believe in people. I believe in looking to eachother to find what is good and right about the world. My whole point here is not to lose sight of that, not to lose sight of what in life is true and important and right. I'd be happy to be thought of as a Howard Beale, as a ranting madman that just wants his message to touch the heart of at least one person. If I asked you all to get up and go to your windows and...nah, maybe not. Hell, we're all weird...let's all be weird together.