@spendius,
Quote:According the the US News broadcasts I have seen the American Spirit will pull them all through.
This has engendered the usual "we are such a great country because we all pull together/god bless the USA/..." bullshit.
Talk about gag inducing - where is that puking emoticon?
@JTT,
It's best when Scott Pelley does it.
Get your eyeballs on Veblen's
Absentee Ownership JT.
Had to google pelley. I don't watch the network news faithfully enough to know their names.
I don't generally pay attention to college football, but I check Notre Dame's progress. I watched their win in triple OT last night. Both teams played rather poorly and probably deserved to lose, I figured.
I don't get the interest in turning great novels into stage musicals. It offends my senses to contemplate a singing Fagin, Scrooge, Javert, Mr Hyde and so on. I know there are staunch supporters of this stuff, but spare me, please.
Pee Wee Herman endorses Obama in his blog this morning.
Talked to my son on the phone yesterday. He lives an insular life in Louisiana, where every person he knows is a fundamentalist, politically and otherwise. They have him going along with Romney and thinking Obama represents socialism and capture of private guns and so forth. I tried explaining the flip side of all this, but it won't do any good. He feels the peer pressure to resist liberal thought and it will slip away as soon as he gets back with them.
@edgarblythe,
I gather Mr Pelley is worth $15 million.
@edgarblythe,
Quote: I don't get the interest in turning great novels into stage musicals.
It's impossible to turn a great novel into anything else other than what it is.
@spendius,
My statement was clear enough.
Another week of climbing ladders and painting. Not complaining. I actually enjoy such effort.
It's one of those thought free mornings, in which one feels content to just drift. It would be perfect, were it a weekend. Soon I have to shake it off and get on a fog filled road. It will be as though the fog left my head and became diffused over the landscape. Making me realize, the morning wet will have to dissipate if I am to paint at all. But there are things to do. I will not be idle.
@edgarblythe,
Since the pot I had my sego palm planted in broke, I replanted it in the ground yesterday. I also actually enjoyed the effort.
Election Day at last. I would encourage everyone to vote. Even independent-leaning and Republicans.
They have been running The Grapes of Wrath on TV lately. The movie is brilliant, to a point. It omits the narrator overview between story chapters and omits the conclusion, in the interest of ending on a high note. Still it is one of my all-time favorite movies. I suppose I might be biased. My mother and her parents were in essentially the same predicament as the one that sent the Joads to California. The big differences, that state put up road blocks before their arrival. To stem the thousands per day tide, Okies with little or no money were made to go back where they came from. So, my folks followed the crops in Texas, while the Joads starved to death. They did end up in California, but only after the influx of refugees was absorbed. I was three or four by that time.
- I should add, the remaining Joad family members still were breathing at story end, but I saw no way for them to be saved. I surmised that they died of starvation.
@edgarblythe,
I respect your attitude about republicans voting - even under the umbrella of the GOP's voter suppression laws.
On second thought; I'm wondering how many republicans are happy waiting in those long lines to cast their votes?
The deed is did. Now we must agitate the president to pursue our interests a lot better.
I have been given a perfectly good above ground swimming pool. I plan to clean it thoroughly and store it until the warm days are here again. It will require a cover, since the pine needles will be dropping in, no matter where I place it. The owner of it could not get it regulated to keep the algae out. I will try my hand and ****-can it if I can't.
@edgarblythe,
A socialist with a swimming pool. Whatever will they think of next?
@spendius,
Three cheers for the algae and the pine needles. The forces of entropy.
@edgarblythe,
don't do it ed.
it's kinda like a boat. the best days of it are the first and the last. in between, lots of heartaches.
in fact, maybe you could get a small boat, and sail it in the pool on windy days...
will you let punky swim with you?
@edgarblythe,
Seems that a little bit of clorox mix could do the trick.
I could fill it up with dirt and farm moringa trees.
The difference between myself and a socialist:
“Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.”
― Winston Churchill
Spendi has lately taken up the brainless assertions of the teabaggers it seems. Lotta luck with that, dude.
@edgarblythe,
Quote:“Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.”
― Winston Churchill
I really had always thought that Winston was brighter than this.
Quote:Just How Socialist? A Survey of Major Countries
by: Chris Bowers
Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 13:35
Ever since the financial sector bailout process started seven months ago, there has been quite a lot of talk about socialism. Over the past 30 days, Google News records 8,251 matches for "socialism" or "socialist" within American media outlets along. Most of this talk has been extremely naïve and uninformed. The most frequent abusers of the term, conservatives, have lobbed the charge around as though there was a switch governments flip in order to change from "capitalist" to "socialist." The general presumption seems to be that an economic system is either socialist or capitalist, and that the two systems are mutually exclusive.
This is, of course, hogwash.
http://www.openleft.com/diary/12706/just-how-socialist-a-survey-of-major-countries
Y'all are fed this steady stream of propagandist bullshit that seems designed to keep you as ignorant as possible.
Quote:24 Countries, Including Socialist Nations, Top U.S. As Best Place to Be a Mother
By Melanie Hunter
The United States is ranked 25th among 165 countries as the best place to be a mother, with the country of Norway topping the list, according to the State of the World’s Mothers 2012 report, compiled by the non-profit group Save the Children.
Number two and three on the list are Iceland and Sweden, while Niger replaces Afghanistan
[well duuuh. had the US not been messing with Afghanistan for the past thirty years, that's right, thirty years of making their country a living hell as the worst place for mothers and children for the first time in two years.
New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Australia, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Slovenia, France, Portugal, Spain, Estonia, Switzerland, Canada, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania, and Belarus, respectively, all scored higher than the U.S. The U.S. was ranked 31st last year.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/24-countries-including-socialist-nations-top-us-best-place-be-mother
For dog's sake, China is number two in the world ranking for billionaires, Russia is number three!
