Tag: Open Thread

Well I must say… as fatigued as I am by my exertions on your behalf, I’m reluctant to subject any Front Page worthy essay to exposure to your ridicule at this point.

Pick on me instead.

Uplifting.  That’s the ticket.  What do I think about when my heart is sore?

It was a better life.  I don’t mean all the travelling and seeing aliens and spaceships and things.

That don’t matter.

The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life.  You know, he showed you too.

That you don’t just give up, you don’t just let things happen.

You make a stand, you say no.

You’ve got the guts to do what’s right when everyone else just runs away.

Only 30% ever supported the Revolution.

You want to know what really bugs me?

The lies.

Beltway myth: "The left-wing base" vs. "the American people" on Iraq

Glen Greenwald, Salon.com

Monday July 7, 2008 07:58 EDT

How much clearer could that be? The truth is exactly the opposite of what Liasson said. Americans want to withdraw from Iraq in accordance with Obama’s timetable (if not faster) regardless of circumstances “on the ground” — not conditioned on those circumstances. But because that’s not the view Liasson and her establishment colleagues embrace, they just lie and claim that the majority view is the one held only by the “left-wing” fringe, while their own actually fringe view is the one embraced by “the American people” and thus defines the “Center.”

This is the standard propaganda tactic of establishment media stars like Liasson, and she’s hardly unique — in this way or in any other. This is how they manipulate public opinion and coerce political officials to disregard the views of most Americans in favor of the fringe, establishment view. The views of the establishment pundit class are automatically labeled “the Center” even when they’re rejected by majorities of “the American people.” By contrast, views that are actually held by majorities but which the pundit class dislikes are demonized as those of “the Left.” Thus, they argue, political candidates, in order to win elections, must embrace the views of the establishment and reject the view of most Americans. That’s how a candidate “moves to the Center.”

My emphasis.

Pony Party is an Open Thread. Do Not wRECk it.

So now it’s July, high summer.

I heard Ben Stein today on CBS’s Sunday Morning talking about air conditioning.  While I am much younger than Ben I certainly remember when air conditioning entered my life.

As a wee lad I mostly haunted the Library, but a short walk from my house where I quickly read through the Kids Section absorbing the collections of Hardy Boys, Tom Swifts, and Nancy Drews as well as Science Fiction, History, Biography and miscellaneous other categories until I exhausted the catalog and was booted upstairs to the Adults Section, most of the shelves of which I couldn’t reach, yet.

The Library was air conditioned, but when it was closed I’d go down to the basement (the coolest part of the house) and lie in front of a hurricane fan using a table knife to hold down the pages.  Some nights everyone had to sleep downstairs by parental edict.  I found the enforced togetherness as enervating as the heat.

I in fact spurned other than found air conditioning (pervasive, isn’t it, now that you think about it) until the early 90s when I started noticing persistent heat related failures in my computer equipment.

So let’s just say, I know what a Long.  Hot.  Summer.  Is.

No justice, no peace.

So what’s it going to be like when the rolling blackouts come campers?  When your air conditioning and your fans and your lights and your television and your internets operate but a few hours a day and never when you need them.  When your rationed energy is totally absorbed by scrounging enough to merely survive.

Will you read books by candlelight?

It’s time to regain our liberty…

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dancing ~between~

To sit between the chairs, who doesn’t know that state? Here is one side, there the other. You can see both sides, you know them, maybe all too well, but you are not able, or rather: not willing to make up your mind. It is the classical dilemma, no matter which side you will choose, you will loose something, often times a person, that you will hurt, who will then feel betrayed. But you don’t want this and therefore you stay somewhere in the middle till, yes, till something happens and brings along the decision; sometimes you are involved actively, sometimes passively. It has evolved and the situation finds a resolution. But till that moment there is this strange state, you simply feel in between. – Minako Seki

www.minakoseki.com

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Video/Edit: Ian Lucero

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fire ~between~

A fire dance for camera filmed in Downtown Los Angeles created by Jeremy Hahn  in 2008.

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~between~ dances

(this wasn’t the version I had in mind. I can’t remember the artist. It was kinda mixed between this & this)

This is an Open Thread. Please don’t wRECk this pony  party

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