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Rum? Sorry, we're

brewmn — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:01:17 +0000

In reply to Forget that herbal crap

Rum? Sorry, we're Americans. Nothing but fine Kentucky bourbon for my babies.

Ah, go verify yerself,

we are stardust — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:30:41 +0000

In reply to Forget that herbal crap

Ah, go verify yerself, Atheist!

Forget that herbal crap

Atheist — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:20:00 +0000

In reply to More power to you, Wendy.

Forget that herbal crap stardust is pushing. I recommend cutting their formula with rum. Equal parts should do the trick.

LOL! I avoid cameras, too!

we are stardust — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:14:01 +0000

In reply to More power to you, Wendy.

LOL! I avoid cameras, too! Glad they're gorgeous; god, I love babbies! All that wonder and hope, and their needs are so simple right now. Google teething and fennel seed tea; that sticks in my mind. Would do it if I had more time...it's good for stomach flu and vomiting, too. Or google 'herbal help for teething babies'; the sites know what babbies can have..usually simple alterives are fine, if not beneficial.

Oh, pooh: here's a product to check out: Gum-omile topical stuff:

The ingredients in this product are; almond oil, willow bark extract, chamomile flowers, clove essential oil and vitamin e oil.

Best, stardust

More power to you, Wendy.

brewmn — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:10:39 +0000

In reply to Okey-dokey, Brew; guess I

More power to you, Wendy. Sincerely.

The twins are teething or something right now and we're having a hard time getting them to sleep (since I run on 5-6 hours sleep a day anyway, not such a big deal for me, but it is stressing out my wife). But I'm not kidding when I say they are two of the most beautiful babies you'll ever see. We get stopped everywhere we go when we have them out. Genetics is a funny thing; I tend to avoid mirrors whenever possible.

Okey-dokey, Brew; guess I

we are stardust — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:47:24 +0000

In reply to I guess at some point I felt

Okey-dokey, Brew; guess I can't quit fighting, though. And how are the babbies doing?

I guess at some point I felt

brewmn — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:23:56 +0000

In reply to Au contraire, Brew; it takes

I guess at some point I felt like I was fighting a battle that no one on whose behalf I thought I was fighting cared to join. Look, I still do campaign work and contribute money when able, and I handle 5-10 cases a year through a legal aid group in Chicago. I intend to raise my kids with the right values, and hope they stick. I recycle religiously; I drive a Prius (used).

But I won't devote the primary energy in my life to fighting to right all of the wrongs of modern society, and I won't apologize for enjoying my middle-class lifestyle. One of the lessons my reading of history is that progressive change happens when it has to, not when we would like it to; there has to be some precipitating crisis. And, sadly, things are probably going to go down this road until they hit the wall. There's very little you or I can do about that. We might be goign to hell in a bucket, so I'm at least going to enjoy the ride.

Au contraire, Brew; it takes

we are stardust — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:49:09 +0000

In reply to I don't think my politics

Au contraire, Brew; it takes a lot of hard work to assume you're heartless la la la...

No, thanks for responding. I'm just working through the theory, partly based on the fact that the poor tend to be far more generous than the comfortable (it's a real statistic, crazily enough. And when I read comments sometimes by centrists, I can get the feeling of those similar dividing lines. I sometimes thing age is a dividing line, too, and that those of us who have been in activist politics primarily to change eco issues and economic justice and war for so long, feel that this really is a turning point right now, as corporate power is swallowing our representative democracy.

I'm not getting the 'blowing it up and starting over' piece, unless it's about wikileaks having the possibility to make that happen. I sure don't think so. But your statement that you've come to a certain amount of comfort with the status quo kinda makes me sad, Brew.

Some days I go to bed so exhausted and feeling that 'resistance is futile', and then the next day I'll ususally be ready to rock n roll for Better Days and Better Ways. Thanks for sharing.

I don't think my politics

brewmn — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:35:55 +0000

In reply to Brew, I wonder if you'd

I don't think my politics have changed all that much, except through a greater resignation to the status quo, a greater despair that the American people will ever share my politics, and a level of comfort I could have never envisioned when I was hiding from my landlords or living in other peoples' apartments and/or transient hotels.

Even though I still support an economic system that is much more redistributive and that much better promotes equality of opportunity (leaving our ever-more militarized foreign policy out of it for the time being), there are a lot of things worth preserving about America in 2010. Granted, the trends are not moving in the right direction, but we are still the freest and most abundant major power in human history.

The American people simply don't agree that blowing the whole thing up and starting over is the best path forward. And I've come to respect that conclusion. Ultimtately, I share the political goals of the liberals who have placed themselves in opposition to Obama. Our areas of disagreement come almost exclusively in the areas of tactics and rhetoric.

I know it's easy for you to assume I'm a heartless, DLC Dem, but you really don't know me or my history. I have come to terms with the staus quo more out of sorrow and despair than out of a love of material comfort (not that I have that much) and a hardening of my heart towards the poor.

Brew, I wonder if you'd

we are stardust — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:08:17 +0000

In reply to I don't think the global

Brew, I wonder if you'd explain you're 'no pot to piss in/liked revolutionay talk' evolution to 'asset accumulation/history reading/revolution aversion'. I'm wondering how your personal comfort level and assets within the system's construct, affect your outlook. I ask because I've been wondering a lot about the personal profiles and demographics of more conservative Dems.

I'd been wending my way toward Lefties maybe being/feeling more shut out of comfort (especially after working a lifetime's worth), but I also factored in a huge empathy factor, too, as in: we really are our brothers' keepers, which concept seems to be disappearing in our discourse and even in our communities.

You say here, too, that 'many Left-of-center people' are questioning the plethora of leaks. I wonder if these are the same people, for instance, who really don't favor the Big Five or Big Six Banks being put into receivership, downsized, cleaned-up, and actually regulated within the small constraints that exist now. Are these the same people who who buy into the meme that doing so would 'potentially cause instability to the financial sector'?

I'm not trying to cast aspersions here, but wondering, and thinking you could shed some light on this.

As an aside: when I cruised the news sites this morning, every page had almost hysterical coverage of 'Interpol searching for Assange' stories. Given what Obey and other said about the opposite sort of coverage of the leaks, but not Assange himself, I'm wondering if a lot of what's driving the freakout might be that BoA may be the next recipient of leaked docs. (Fantastic, IMO, especially just after the Fed finally released the list of recipients of the Fed's emergency loans--all over the globe.)