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Friday May 23, 2009
. . . .So then. I'm going to ask you to scroll on down and take a gander at yesterday's post, and thank the veterans in your life, and the ones you never met. It's cool to take a long holiday weekend and go play, but try not to forget what this holiday is about.
. . . .The playlist in the podcast isn't turned off, it's paused. There's two videos embedded just below, both of which are truly cool. If you want to hear the playlist after the videos, just go over to the left hand side here, go up and find the "Podbean". Look for the narrow horizontal bar that says Podbean, look at it's left hand end. You'll see three green symbols. The one in the middle is the pause/play button. Click it one time, after viewing the videos and turn it back on and catch some cool tunage.
. . . Lulu, inker and cool person down at the Red Queen in Chattanooga sent along this video today courtesy of her Facebook links. It's actually fascinating, and does a quick history of the development of information technology and where it's headed, check it out, it's worth it and quite mind-blowing if you think about some of the things they have to say and facts they present.
. . . .So then. I'm going to ask you to scroll on down and take a gander at yesterday's post, and thank the veterans in your life, and the ones you never met. It's cool to take a long holiday weekend and go play, but try not to forget what this holiday is about.
. . . .The playlist in the podcast isn't turned off, it's paused. There's two videos embedded just below, both of which are truly cool. If you want to hear the playlist after the videos, just go over to the left hand side here, go up and find the "Podbean". Look for the narrow horizontal bar that says Podbean, look at it's left hand end. You'll see three green symbols. The one in the middle is the pause/play button. Click it one time, after viewing the videos and turn it back on and catch some cool tunage.
. . . Lulu, inker and cool person down at the Red Queen in Chattanooga sent along this video today courtesy of her Facebook links. It's actually fascinating, and does a quick history of the development of information technology and where it's headed, check it out, it's worth it and quite mind-blowing if you think about some of the things they have to say and facts they present.
. . . .Reader Dave P. sent along this video. Folks, I love all types of music, and what I appreciate and love are artists dedicated to their craft. This is trumpeter Chris Botti and violinist Lucia Micarelli doing a performance of "Emmanuel". It's out-of-this world good.
. . .H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, the Waxman-Markley comprehensive energy bill, known as the "climate change" bill made it out of committee today and is headed to the House floor for a vote, not scheduled right now. You can read it about and track on Open Congress right here.
. . . .President Obama signed the credit card reform bill into law this afternoon.
. . . .I saw something absolutely, jaw-droppingly amazing this afternoon. Glen Beck, whom I normally deride as a fear-mongering extreme Right lapdog, actually had something accurate to say. One of the senior research fellows at the Manhattan Institute was on and they were discussing American's political leanings. Both Beck and the research fellow freely discussed and admitted that both parties are rapidly losing not just registered voters, but people who previous to now had identified themselves as either Republican or Democrat. A good 70% of voters right now identify themselves as Independent, and vehemently so. It's not just an equivocation in order to not identify their party leanings.
. . . .They call themselves many things; independent, populist, progressive, grass-roots, libertarian but they (us, we) share many common traits.
. . . .On social issues, issues of personal choice, freedom, so-called "values" issues they all identify themselves as liberal. In other words, government, Federal or State, has absolutely no business or say in what goes on in someone's bedroom, on what their choice is of a place to worship or how they worship, has no business censoring media of any kind and want nothing to do with the Right wing or the traditional Republican party or platform.
. . . .On issues of fisal policy, they identify themselves as conservative, the true definition of it, long before Bush and Cheney decided to expand the Federal government to it's largest size in history, long before those two ran up a record-breaking deficit. Long before Geithner, Summers and Obama decided to start waffling on fiscal policy. You can't give banks a huge sum of money and then turn a blind eye to what they do with it. On this issue, again, this huge block of voters has had it with both Republicans and Democrats. I still believe that the President has the right idea, but I'm watching Congress, the House and Geithner/Summers blow this one completely all the way around.
. . . .On issues of national security and foreign policy, again this huge bloc of voters identify themselves with neither parties policies, but instead express unhappiness with Bush's handling of Iraq, and are still hitting the sidelines to see how Obama handles his foreign policy challenges.
. . . Back to the point I made, this split also appears to be generational. The point, it's OK to think and be independent, to not swallow a party line in whole. It's OK to be an independent, and I think it's an exciting time. I don't believe that "change" is over. I believe that an entire bunch of independents will come to the surface, and finally, finally, people will start talking about, asking questions about and paying attention to policy again, and not this "values" crap that has been force fed to us. It made me sick, the American people are smarter than that, especially this generation of voters that just came of age and are getting active now. They have brains, and opinions and they count. Far more than fossils and dinosaurs like me the ones of my generation, and I for one am happy to see them starting to express opinions about how their future is going to be laying out.
. . . Outta here, kiss your kids, tell the ones you love out loud that you do. Seize the precious moments before they slip through your hands. This rodeo is a one-way ticket and no one gets out alive, so it's not about yesterday or tomorrow, it's about right here and now, this ain't no dress rehearsal. Change your world, and it changes the world.
. . .Got your back, out there in the night somewhere.
The Desolation Angel
[where: Hell, Michigan 48137]
. . . .President Obama signed the credit card reform bill into law this afternoon.
. . . .I saw something absolutely, jaw-droppingly amazing this afternoon. Glen Beck, whom I normally deride as a fear-mongering extreme Right lapdog, actually had something accurate to say. One of the senior research fellows at the Manhattan Institute was on and they were discussing American's political leanings. Both Beck and the research fellow freely discussed and admitted that both parties are rapidly losing not just registered voters, but people who previous to now had identified themselves as either Republican or Democrat. A good 70% of voters right now identify themselves as Independent, and vehemently so. It's not just an equivocation in order to not identify their party leanings.
. . . .They call themselves many things; independent, populist, progressive, grass-roots, libertarian but they (us, we) share many common traits.
. . . .On social issues, issues of personal choice, freedom, so-called "values" issues they all identify themselves as liberal. In other words, government, Federal or State, has absolutely no business or say in what goes on in someone's bedroom, on what their choice is of a place to worship or how they worship, has no business censoring media of any kind and want nothing to do with the Right wing or the traditional Republican party or platform.
. . . .On issues of fisal policy, they identify themselves as conservative, the true definition of it, long before Bush and Cheney decided to expand the Federal government to it's largest size in history, long before those two ran up a record-breaking deficit. Long before Geithner, Summers and Obama decided to start waffling on fiscal policy. You can't give banks a huge sum of money and then turn a blind eye to what they do with it. On this issue, again, this huge block of voters has had it with both Republicans and Democrats. I still believe that the President has the right idea, but I'm watching Congress, the House and Geithner/Summers blow this one completely all the way around.
. . . .On issues of national security and foreign policy, again this huge bloc of voters identify themselves with neither parties policies, but instead express unhappiness with Bush's handling of Iraq, and are still hitting the sidelines to see how Obama handles his foreign policy challenges.
. . . Back to the point I made, this split also appears to be generational. The point, it's OK to think and be independent, to not swallow a party line in whole. It's OK to be an independent, and I think it's an exciting time. I don't believe that "change" is over. I believe that an entire bunch of independents will come to the surface, and finally, finally, people will start talking about, asking questions about and paying attention to policy again, and not this "values" crap that has been force fed to us. It made me sick, the American people are smarter than that, especially this generation of voters that just came of age and are getting active now. They have brains, and opinions and they count. Far more than fossils and dinosaurs like me the ones of my generation, and I for one am happy to see them starting to express opinions about how their future is going to be laying out.
. . . Outta here, kiss your kids, tell the ones you love out loud that you do. Seize the precious moments before they slip through your hands. This rodeo is a one-way ticket and no one gets out alive, so it's not about yesterday or tomorrow, it's about right here and now, this ain't no dress rehearsal. Change your world, and it changes the world.
. . .Got your back, out there in the night somewhere.
The Desolation Angel
[where: Hell, Michigan 48137]
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