Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments That’s the thing. If it looks like everything else is dead in the water we may have to take scraps? I’ll vote no, in spirit, but I don’t know what the future holds on this. We need to be marching. » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 8:33 pm I’m torn too. It was a bit of a meme today, but true in a sense. It was as if Lieberman were president today. » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 8:31 pm Ah, I remember that co-op nonsense from months earlier. » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 8:29 pm There’s the talking down I need. But I agree. I think Single Payer should have been talked about from the beginning in the national discourse, if only as a haggling technique. Reality was though that it was DOA and the PO was uphill. I hate to be a realist, but it’s true. Maybe reconciliation? And what about the other option? I sure hope they have some Jedi trick up their sleeves, are playing Kabuki theater or something. I’m not getting my hopes up though. Needless to say, I’ve signed the petitions and written the WH today, so I’m not just whining, but still… » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 8:28 pm I withheld my vote as well, for now. » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 8:16 pm I hate to say it, and I’m not Obama-bashing, but I think he needs something for the State of the Union in connection with the practicalities, as he and Rahm may know the particulars better than we (and how Sisyphean they may have been). So sad that insurance companies in Nebraska and Connecticut can decide this thing, but there you have it. I don’t know what to think of this yet. I don’t want to give up, I want to believe, but no, it does not look good. And this time, I have trouble believing it’s just an HP trick. There’s an unsettling feeling to it all. I only wish KQuark or someone could talk me down, tell me there’s a chance to improve it later. Me, I’m not as schooled on procedures of legislation. But I don’t think this looks particularly good for that. Political capital has been spent on this (without really even rallying us, it seems?), and I see them putting Cap & Trade in the pipeline? » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 8:15 pm Still haven’t been in there. Never occurred to me. » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 7:44 pm That’s the e-mail I heard about. » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 7:42 pm Pretty much covered it. As much as I see more than nefarious ulterior motives, it would be smart on their part. The ones going OT are generally regulars (myself included). » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 7:42 pm Great quote. And no, the hell thing came from the east, with the Magi, metaphorically. 😉 » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 7:40 pm Brilliant. » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 2:54 pm Hanukkah: the festival of light Thanks. I’ve got books sitting on my bookshelf on the Jewish experience I’ve been meaning to get to, but they gather dust. That, and by brief dabbling into Hermetic Kabbalah doesn’t quite qualify me to comment on the ‘stream’ as passed on within the Jewish tradition. I can’t help but take a broader view, though. That cultures throughout the Northern Hemisphere all adopted similar light-defeating-darkness celebrations, Yule, Divali, etc. Many Jewish festivals are of course different than others as existing in definite history, not cosmic myth (which many a devout Hindu, for example, will still insist really happened). In that Kabbalistic bit about the ‘light’, forgive me if I spied some Persian influence – perhaps they were developed independently – such themes as darkness and light are universal symbols hearkening back to the campfire in primitive times – and hardly went to the length of harsh dualism which would be a better indicator (as with the Essenes – diffusion theories which are of course rarely given much attention among Judeo-Christian scholars). Although indeed, the subtlety of Kabbalah would discredit my initial assertion of such influence. It is so interesting to be reminded this was under the Seleucid Dynasty. My experience with this empire is usually focused further east. I’ve heard many couples compromising and syncretizing the two seasonal ethnic/faith traditions. Often goes over my head, but always interesting, nonetheless. » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 2:46 pm Stupid is a Pre-Existing Condition: Whatever Happened to Suffering Real Consequences? It’s amazing they do as well as they do. Rote education has left many a Middle Eastern country behind. And, oh yeah, in my generational parlance, really X-Files there. » Posted By Khirad On December 14, 2009 @ 8:23 pm Un(der)reported News—Weekend Edition “including wetlands along Prickly Pear Creek near the smelter site and in the Helena Valley.” Wha? You don’t have prickly pears, do you? Between Anaconda and ASARCO… Been to the Berkeley Pit and around the area, including the town of Anaconda, itself (have ancestors from there). Lord. BTW, tangential, but ever been to the Lavender Pit in Bisbee, BITO? A lot of history with union-busting around these parts. » Posted By Khirad On December 12, 2009 @ 3:32 pm Ha, I was gonna say the same thing. » Posted By Khirad On December 12, 2009 @ 3:24 pm Vox Populi – AfterChat – 12-11-09 Night. » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 9:50 pm It’s getting quiet, there seems to be an exodus, and I’ve got some offline writing to get back to. In any case, I ducked into two world stories (take a wild guess what on) quickly, but my absence here was not an indication that I wasn’t boycotting successfully. I’ve only messed up on that once when it honestly slipped my mind what day it was! » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 9:49 pm The only thing that made me say otherwise is that our congresswoman is Jewish and she got elected here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/AZ-08.gif She doesn’t look “Jew-y” though, maybe they got tricked. » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 9:47 pm My mom even does that. Can’t explain it. We’re all born and raised in Washington (the state) but she says Warshington – albeit with only a color ‘r’. » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 9:44 pm That is odd. I saw it just a second ago, it seems. » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 9:29 pm I can’t remember how many times I pulled out the ‘there shall be no religious test’ clause. I remember when Powell came out and said it – I was like FINALLY. I was saying the same thing for the longest time. So what if he were? Of course, that’s idealistic. Evangelicals were concerned about a Mormon, and in America you have to at least pretend you’re Mainline, Evangelical or Jewish in 98% of districts to get elected. I still have my questions on Obama – not that he’s Muslim – but that he’s personally not an organized religion guy. His mom certainly wasn’t. Regardless, the last line was perfect! And yes, the bubbling comes to a full rolling boil real quick if you wade into the wrong parts of the internet. » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 9:26 pm I know a little Urdu. Obama says it right. I wouldn’t get uppity with you for saying it with the » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 9:20 pm Reminds me of the David Spade bit on SNL. Buh-bye, buh-bye, and buh-bye. » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 9:07 pm My grandma was from Savannah, and I didn’t know until I got older when my dad told me. She would never say anything blatantly racist, believed in live and let live, but the way he put it to me hypothetically: she and my grandpa would never be a part of a lynching mob, but if they saw one come down the street, they would look the other way, and say that that’s just the way things are. Probably did something to deserve it. She wouldn’t eat anything fixed by a black person, simply politely throw it away, and later I finally registered the uncomfortable looks she gave when we were up visiting and I was watching a Lenny Kravitz video – it wasn’t just the ‘Rock’ thing. » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 9:01 pm Night. Be well. » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 8:53 pm I loved the poetic use of ‘inbred’. 😉 » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 8:47 pm Nailed it. Edit – I would add that the attack on the Pakistan pronunciation is three-fold – elitism, ‘otherness’, and dovetailing with that last one, the secret Muslim thing. What are the polls on that Muslim thing now, btw? Last time I checked it was ridiculous. » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 8:46 pm It confirmed for me that it really is (with quite a few of them), about him being in the most exclusive clubhouse. Others, who are younger (remember that one case where the young Republican girl didn’t get the slave reference posted online?) may not get the undertones and really be so dense as to think it’s the criticism they purport it to be – of a man at play while shirking his duties (again, cf. Bush). But the others know full well the dog whistles they’re sending out there. » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 8:44 pm On the racism thing, I wrote this at ‘another site’ and kinda saved it: So, I’m just gonna throw this out there. I know some see racism everywhere. I try to be circumspect about it. But here’s what I’ve been thinking. Now, all their memes are vapid: teleprompter, mustard, ACORN, pronunciation of a certain South Asian country, and yes, Birthers, especially. But what I was rolling through my mind was this obsession with him golfing. Now, with some, I think they get a certain kick throwing back our stuff – though many seem genuinely thrown off by the fact that Bush was golfing away too – “now watch this drive”. Yet, with the mocking of him golfing, and I’m sorry to say this in the post-Tiger world (no not the current state of ‘affairs’), I sense a tinge of something else in the snide tone and the rapid spread with which it took hold (represented in monikers (t)here, for example). How many presidents have golfed? More than have used a teleprompter, that’s for sure. So what is the big fixation about him golfing really about? Seems like it should be, pardon this, par for the course. (If you’re Boehner though you always look like you missed par on a gimme putt.) Am I unfairly reading too much into it? Granted, I don’t have to be so coy with you guys, but what do you think? » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 8:36 pm Friday Music Thread – Your Early Faves Well, since you’re asking for authenticity, I’m not gonna sugarcoat my selections. If you’re past a certain age, good luck. 🙂 This is the age when you start figuring out what all those things in songs are all about, and at age 14, I asked out this really pretty girl when we were walking from English to Band/Choir respectively, don’t know how I did it. We had a common liking for Nirvana (even though she was a conservative girl in other respects), and I remember making a spontaneous remark on “Love Buzz” when she said yes from the rush of endorphins or whatever love-chemical it is that rushes through you in such occasions… Nirvana – Love Buzz
Of course, I found out not much later I was just a pity case and this was on a lot… Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have
[same song, actual album version I listened to, for purposes of purity – I chose the above simply as an alternative to staring at an album cover for 5+ minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAGAoy5WZWY ] Of course this experience, plus a couple others, just made me depressed (not that I wasn’t already predisposed – that’s been a life-long battle) and bitter. Thus, this song shows where I went from there: TOOL – Sober
Out of Junior High and into High School, with the help of a senior friend, I truly discovered myself in music. This next song I remember particularly as being a revelation. It wasn’t what was on the radio, it wasn’t like anything I’d ever heard. It was all the dark things I loved about grunge taken to the next, unapologetic level. ‘This is who we are, deal with it’ – ‘what are you so happy about?’. It was, in essence, what I was going through – typical teen angst mixed with a real chemical imbalance. I don’t know if I could have gotten through HS without such aural solace and its sonic release within my soul. Most people don’t understand the use of depressing music, think it’s counterproductive; but it actually helped to not feel so alone, that someone else knew what it’s like. Funny enough, it actually made me feel uplifted and fuzzy, in a sort of homeopathic kind of way. Bauhaus – Silent Hedges
And yet I still needed female vocals… I wore this CD out. If any album was my soundtrack in HS, this was it: Switchblade Symphony – Bad Trash
By the way, first songs I have conscious memory of at age 5-ish are Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl”, and A-Ha’s “Take on Me”. And over our intercom in high school, we often played “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2”! My first CD (yes I’m not vinyl old, but I do remember having a Metallica cassette, etc) was Pearl Jam’s “Ten”. » Posted By Khirad On December 11, 2009 @ 1:09 pmComments Posted By Khirad
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