Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Friday Music Thread – Favorite Films and Film Music Thanks to all who stopped by to wish msbadger well on her surprise birthday party! For any late arrivals that want to say hi, we’ve spilled onto a new page. http://jackholesrealm.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/badger-night-continues/#comments » Posted By Hokeysmokes On February 25, 2011 @ 7:05 pm Heads up! Jackhole is throwing a day early birthday surprise party for msbadger right now! Stop by to wish her well! Thanks! http://jackholesrealm.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/1855/#comments » Posted By Hokeysmokes On February 25, 2011 @ 5:16 pm Mornin’ KQuark. I’m newish in these parts so I don’t know if I’m contributing something you’ve seen before (it’s from February of this year), but I found it illuminating. Ayn Rand admires the morality of a sociopath. http://www.progressivesforobama.net/?p=39 » Posted By Hokeysmokes On June 8, 2011 @ 6:59 am Sweet dreams, Kalima! » Posted By Hokeysmokes On June 7, 2011 @ 5:16 am Hi Kalima. I’ve been here before, but regrettably infrequent. I’m known better as Hokeysmokes to those from HP. For the month of June, I’m in my LGBT support avatar, outside of HP. Thanks for the kind welcome anyway! I’ll take it. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On June 7, 2011 @ 4:59 am Good morning all. Thought I’d add this to the hopper. It’s officially half-truth season as more Republicans gear up their presidential ambitions. Rick Santorum has begun his quest with lie after lie after lie. And RE: Ravi Shankar’s appreciation of Lady Gaga. Indian music videos and film are replete with vivid iconic symbolism. It stands to reason she would be a cultural fit. Answer to what has a melon: Well, Melon Whales, Beluga Whales, quite a lot of whales, and dolphins too. A nice mix to get the ball rolling today, Kalima! Carry on. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On June 7, 2011 @ 4:32 am No problemo. Now I’m gonna test the editing feature. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On February 8, 2011 @ 9:07 pm You’ve just won a boatload of cash and prizes! » Posted By Hokeysmokes On February 8, 2011 @ 8:41 pm Strong avatar buddy! » Posted By Hokeysmokes On February 8, 2011 @ 8:34 pm Hi Abbyrose! I’m tracking two conversations, here and at Jack’s right now. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On February 8, 2011 @ 8:34 pm Hi everybody! I haven’t done much on HP since December and this came up fast on me. I’m glad so many of you have found refuge here, I’d be sad to have lost you in the exodus. I’ll keep my profile at HP for a bit longer, just want to see how things shake out. I have to say though, contributing to a site that is so cavalier in its treatment of its members had alienated me long before the AOL acquisition. AOL just adds a bitter taste overall. This being my first post, I hope it goes through. I’m still trying to figure out what does what around here. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On February 8, 2011 @ 8:11 pm I’ll say this about how great HP used to be. Meeting some of the most passionate, articulate, and sometimes delightfully weird posters there was an experience I’ll always treasure. This rude awakening to what was always beneath the surface has liberated many to other less moderated sites, or in the case of Matt Corbin, his own outstanding philosophical blog. There is life after disappointment, and it seems to be blooming all around us. Topics are being discussed openly here, Jackhole’s is a hilarious romp, Bass Face has the blues and jazz thing rollin’, and many more like Matt are creating their own. Power to the posters! Oh, since Matt’s is kind of new, here’s his link if you don’t have it. I’d love to hear about other blogs and what they mean to you. The more we can cross pollinate, the better! » Posted By Hokeysmokes On February 9, 2011 @ 2:18 pm I had read she’d gone missing. I hope she’s in hiding, though she’s an obvious target for reprisal. Brave young woman, that one. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On June 7, 2011 @ 5:25 am Good morning Khirad! Blue hour here in Tucson. It’s me, Hokeysmokes. I’m in my LGBT support avatar for June. Hope all is well with you. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On June 7, 2011 @ 4:52 am 1- Southern Baptist porn. 2- Thing(Addams Family), Thing(Benjamin Grimm), Team Seuss: Thing 1 & Thing 2, and I’d do it as a segment on NPR’s “All Things Considered” 3- (Trick question) Only ADONAI can truly let the dogs out. 4- Silent movies? Can we really trust the subtitles? » Posted By Hokeysmokes On June 7, 2011 @ 3:09 am Hi BigDogMom. Don’t know if you’re still up, but here is an independent live feed of the reaction to the bill’s passing in WI. http://www.livestream.com/theuptake » Posted By Hokeysmokes On March 10, 2011 @ 12:39 am If they legalized some good homegrown, we’d break the cartels, stop the slaughter in Mexico, stabilize the border, and maybe just maybe, they’d mellow the f**k out. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On March 9, 2011 @ 11:54 am I need to research the emoticon potential in this place. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On March 9, 2011 @ 11:42 am Can we get a hearing on the imminent threat of conspiracy mad Glenn Beck viewers? This circus is an abomination. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On March 9, 2011 @ 11:38 am I don’t know that Imam Rauf can explain to Americans his enlightened vision, but I wish he had more platforms like this to espouse it. The greater problem than extremism is in it’s benign acceptance by others. Imam Rauf knows that, but was very diplomatic in letting the “moderates” consider it. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On March 9, 2011 @ 11:20 am Now I’m gonna cry. Loved it, HH! » Posted By Hokeysmokes On March 9, 2011 @ 10:58 am I’m solidly in the 22%. These hearings self admit a cultural ignorance and fear. If we were accepting, engaged and interacting with these communities we’d know what represents a threat or not. Fear mongering is the basis of all idiotic policy that eventually erodes our own freedoms and weakens our moral authority. After 9/11 when the war drums began, to be critical of our own angry thinking was dubbed un-American. A decade later we find ourselves reinforced in our myopia by news coverage that caters to our egos instead of providing objective truth, all structured on the amorality of seducing us for the bottomline dollar. Our society is rapidly losing the ability to think critically because we clutch so desperately to the lies of our cultural dogma, always being tweaked for a reaction by the manipulators. Capitalism has assigned bigotry a value, and it is prevalent in foreign lands as much as it is in ours. But this is one area where you should never fight fire with fire unless your goal is the all encompassing firestorm. The poll numbers in this article are hell bent, literally. Here’s the conundrum: When the masses are behaving against their own interest, we cry out for moral leadership. When a leader emerges and claims that mantle falsely, we cry out for democracy. Since we were too hypnotized to protect our democracy from corporate personhood, how the hell is our nation going to understand what political morality is? It’s not just Islamophobia. Self serving ego panic is in every debate on every subject. The shame of it is, for those that are actually in the right, the truth is lost in emotional justifications. Watching the commentary on Fox, or listening to Limbaugh logic, you get a circular argument that provides half truths reinforced with an emotional dispersion to make it seem whole. It’s not about truth, it’s about winning to make your side feel good. The hook is that the feeling is fleeting, reality is gnawing at your position, you feel uneasy… so you blame the other side and reinvest in the same poor logic again. There’s an epidemic of broken compasses out there being led to slaughter in oh so many ways. Education, history, science, truth, morality, reality… all have become mere adjustable talking points in a soulless numbers game. As I said I’m in the 22%, and at least in those numbers I know there are people who do see clearly and care about justice. We can only advance the truth but have no claim to any individual’s deciding to accept it. It’s more than any one truth, it’s about waking people from the self righteous hypnosis of their lives while recognizing they’re going to kick and scream about it. It’s about seeing the seductive enablers tethered to their very being. I know people will point to other numbers and say it’s not so bad. A majority of Americans support the right to collective bargaining, getting out of Afghanistan within the year, support for gay marriage is about 50/50, and more. But this poll on inquiries into Muslim Americans clearly defines the pack of lemmings around us, across the political spectrum, and it’s ugly. We have work to do, and the media is not inclined to help. » Posted By Hokeysmokes On March 9, 2011 @ 10:49 amComments Posted By Hokeysmokes
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