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Damn. Lawyers again.

MrSmith1 — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:53:08 +0000

In reply to Just as I was about to award

Damn. Lawyers again. (sigh) ;-)

Just as I was about to award

Elusive Trope — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:37:32 +0000

In reply to "All Politics is Local." -

Just as I was about to award your Lola Rennt quiz prize, the lawyers got involved. It's all very complicated, but I am hopeful you will receive your just rewards.

Editorial note: The use of

moat — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:12:19 +0000

In reply to The Human Scale

Editorial note: The use of "you", in the following, is not an attempt to associate the author of this post with anything.

The gap between the communitarian and global perspective is a big thing. But it is funny how the founding statements of these different views rely upon the other as a given thing. They exist in a space that is only possible because the opposite negates them.

But nothing is given. There are just the things that happen to be happening when they happen.

The limits required for people to talk sensibly about what is happening right now make other problems of thought look like a puzzle put in a journal to give your mind something to do.

So the dissociative quality of present discourse has a very negative side:

Because there is nothing to work upon and you are not the one who could do anything about it even if you decided it was worth doing, the imbecile thoughts of others who give even less than you do become a value, of a kind. Or a unit of measure where the structure overpowers the inhabitant.

So goodbye yellow brick

EmmaZahn — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:51:21 +0000

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So goodbye yellow brick road

Where the dogs of society howl

You can't plant me in your penthouse

I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods

Hunting the horny back toad

Oh I've finally decided my future lies

Beyond the yellow brick road

http://youtu.be/EgkBx8csEws

Music your post brought to mind.

"All Politics is Local." -

MrSmith1 — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:34:00 +0000

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"All Politics is Local." - Tip O'Neill

Working with evil banking execs isn't a bad thing. It is often the one way to wring real good out of evil; by persuading them it's their own self-interest to appear to be concerned with issues which affect their customers at a grass roots level.

I don't know that I agree that unified sense of being one people is going, going ... I think that is what many Repubs want us to believe, because it serves their state's rights, kill federal government agenda. I think most people, however, are proud to be Americans with a capital "A" and, just as in the days after 9/11, want to feel unified and have a stronger sense of "Country".

P.S. What happened to my prize from the 'Run Lola Run' quiz? LOL

It seems that the only people

Oxy Mora — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:44:37 +0000

In reply to All I keep thinking is that

It seems that the only people who don't have sanctuary in our country are we the people.

By the way, I think that capital flows up and out, not down hill. Up the line to a Chase bank account. Then out to world markets to drive up the price of a barrel of oil.

Nice post, Trope. I think

Oxy Mora — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:45:17 +0000

In reply to The Human Scale

Nice post, Trope. I think that early childhood education effort is a great program; hope you'll write more about it.

All I keep thinking is that

Richard Day — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:20:13 +0000

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All I keep thinking is that we are third.

We are third in mass compared to Canada and Russia.

We are third in population compared to China and India.

We are most probably third in natural resources. I mean they abound!

And yet we are 25th or worse as far as educational achievement and health care!

But we are first in guns, we are first in incarceration/probation/parole.

We are faced with a dumbing down by the Christian Right just as Middle Eastern nations are dumbed down by the Muslim Right.

Of course we have a world economy that demands allegiance to foreign corporations which is why our fascistic Supreme Court calls those corps people.

My last readings demonstrate that we are first in manufacturing right now; now per person but by sheer numbers.

States compete to give these new corporate peoples' sanctuary in our country and of course other countries attempt the same.

I have already written about (as have many experts who know more than I ever will) that my distain for the international corporation. Corporations are supposed to receive charters from the king or the ruling class. Instead they have become the ruling class.

Krugman and Reich know what I am talking about! ha

I mean we (Americans like me) cheer Microsoft and Apple; but Microsoft and Apple have no allegiance particularly to US. Anymore than Exxon does.

Water flows downhill and so does capital.

This is all very complicated.

We can reach a new age of nationalism which is what the repubs really promise but will never deliver because they receive too much money from international corporations.

That is all I got right now.

You sure have me thinking as always!

This is complicated.