February 9, 2008 archive

Friday Night at 8: “High Times, Hard Times”

Yeah, you got Lady Day and Ella and Sarah, the triumverate of jazz singers.  Don’t get better that.

But then there’s Anita O’Day.

She went out on her own at 14 years of age, during the Depression, was a dancer in the “endurathons” popular at the time, had a wild young life and fell into singing, ending up making her name with Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, the girl singer, sometimes wearing the usual evening gowns, other times an altered kind of suit that took better the knocks of the hard tours on bus or car.

She lived the jazz life.

So you say you want a revolution?

I had an idea just now thanks to gdwtch52 over at the orange website.  It’s about impeachment.

I won’t go on about the need for it.  We’ve read about the crimes for years and had even more evidence presented just in the last few days when the government admitted to torture.

There has some interest in pursuing impeachment in Congress, most notably the efforts of Dennis Kucinich, Congressman Wexler, and to some extent John Conyers.  He may be starting to come around. But our Congress members for the most part have so far refused to uphold their oaths to defend the Constitution, most notably Nancy Pelosi.  It appears that if we are to hold the criminals in high places accountable, we’re going to have to give our Congresspeople a little shove in the right direction ourselves.

What if we could get at least one person from every state to commit to walking or biking to DC to face their Congressperson directly?   I’m no organizer, but that would seem to be easier to do than arranging a huge rally. They are usually over in a few hours and rarely get any media attention unless there is tear gas involved.  

This idea may not get attention at first either, but if done correctly it could be very high profile eventually.  Plus, I think a group of people hiking or biking to DC would be seen as a fairly positive event, rather than being portrayed as a mob of angry rabble rousers, not that there’s anything wrong with that…;)

We all have a lot of contacts throughout the leftleaning political websites, and if we care enough about politics to be here in the first place we probably have some friends in the real world who care about the same things too.  If we can spread the word, I’m sure there would be at few dozen people willing to commit.  

As far as getting it organized goes, I have a few ideas but am hoping to get more from people here.  Setting up a website would be a good place to get some networking started.   Once people were committed, we’d need to set up routes.  People could either sleep in the homes of other volunteers, or money could be raised to put them up for the evening.  It would be good to have others join in locally for shorter walks or rides.   We’d have to create some publicity, but it isn’t too hard to crack into the local media to get things started.  Sometimes all it takes is a phone call to get them to cover your story.

This site strikes me as having a crowd where the majority favors impeachment and there are some longtime activists who might want to do something about it. I’m posting this here in the hopes that people might have some good ideas as to how to make something like this work, and also so it might stay up a little longer to give people a chance to see it.

So who of you has some extra vacation time and an axe to grind?

Back in the US, Back in the USSA

Election Russian style

Hah!  I have discovered how to imbed pictures, now alla youse are in trouble.

The sign says “Election of President Dmitri Medvedev”.  It exemplifies the Russian attitude.  Yes, they know the election is a sham, this guy is THE chosen one and that’s it.  Let us all as Americans embrace truth shall we?

In this country we have the same thing only the delusions are more complex. Here we make a media circus out of the affair broadcasting entire progams geared toward a thirteen year old audience.  Racist/sexist, a repulican who is really a Democrat, Democrats who are really warmongers.  A broken long ago system places the chosen ones in the media forefront.  Unknown back door deals are made and “the others” drop out.  Diebold tallys the “votes” declaring a “mandate” based upon an ideology as timely as a black powder musket.

http://www.projectcensored.org/

2008 list is out!

Valtin gives us the keyword Infraguard!

Did Jack McLamb say McCain’s codename was “Songbird” in North Vietnam?

http://www.jackmclamb.com/

Wille Nelson comes out on 911 truth!

And ABC and AOL picked it up, mentioned it.  Now I’m scared.

Last one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

Nice Apocalyptic Horsie, good boy.

Friday Philosophy: Like the water

[Excerpts are from translations of the Tao te Ching by Lin Yutang, Stephen Mitchell, and Ursula Le Guin.]

The words flow like water.

But sometimes it is a drip.  A splash here and there.  Sometimes a stagnating pool.  Sometime a great river.

A life can flow or not, like the water.

Chapter 8

The best of us is like water;

Water benefits all things

And does not compete with them.

It dwells in the lowly places that all disdain –

Wherein it comes near to the Tao.

Muddy water becomes clear by lying still.  Disturbed water cannot be smoothed by a hand.  Lessons learned at great price.

Pony Party: When There’s a Fork in the Road, Take It

Just because I like to know what others think about things great and small… and I have a passion for anybody who can condense the spirit of a thing in a few words…

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