Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments “I Get Bergdahl- Been There.” Words From A Young Iraq/Afghan Vet Real Wisdom Here…Helloise The more I reflect on how willing this young man was to associate himself with Bergdahl the more I wondered about how other like him might feel. I got a chance yesterday to meet one of those vet counselors and he said that on the side lots of vets speak about a sense of complete disillusionment with our national purpose vs. their loyalty to each other. I think that this is all immensely complex and your post provides a further reflection on how difficult it is to judge rightly and well in matters like this one. Thanks for your thoughts. I have read the same about soldiers in the Good Wars whose revulsion was just as great but who were buttressed during active duty and after they left service by a belief that they were part of a crusade. None of that is in place in these two wars. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 12:50 pm The Weekend Music Thread-Ladies Night
I Am Woman -Artist: Helen Reddy from “Helen Reddy’s Greatest Hits”: EMI ST 11467 I am woman, hear me roar CHORUS You can bend but never break me CHORUS I am woman watch me grow Oh yes I am wise FADE » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 21, 2014 @ 11:46 am Obama 41% Approval Rating Proof Of The Public’s Lack Of Basic Current Events Knowledge They did- I remember musing that Obama was being set up on the left and on the right. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 12:00 pm The GOP on one hand declaring him to be a despotic dictator and then on the other a feckless and vacillating non-leader… and so many on the Left stand by in silence…accepting the mutually exclusive… » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 11:59 am At about 5 minutes….
» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 11:49 am Agreed. The bet of network now, in my experience, is Al Jazeera America. I wonder how they do it? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 11:45 am Just republished this in concert with the return comment from Kilgore Trout » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 11:39 am I just published your reflection here at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/22/1308805/-Sunday-Morning-Hope-The-Tide-is-Turning-Against-the-GOP » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 11:37 am I just published your reflection here at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/22/1308805/-Sunday-Morning-Hope-The-Tide-is-Turning-Against-the-GOP » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 11:29 am It has its own narrowing impact…yes. Compulsory does not mean informed or responsible. In fact in some of the countries with mandatory voting there are regular crusades to undo the law because, it is argued, forcing people to vote actually increases the number of uninformed voters. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 11:14 am I think the highwater mark of responsible voting may have been post WWII, the era of the Vietnam War and the civil rights crusade…..in between and after, malaise…. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 11:12 am In my experience this is far from true. Black and white thinking is a dead end. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 11:10 am Positive thinking and a philosophical foundation are great ports in the storm, but I will continue to ask you the key question: So what then, in practical, action oriented terms, needs to be done? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 11:09 am There is not a thing here with which I do not agree completely. I suggest that your list of reasons for the political illiteracy reflects a number of often-interrelated causes- each suppporting the other. Have we run into each other before here at the Planet? You have a strong grasp on the realities and a good way of putting it to “paper.” I want to note that one of the ironies of our political environment is that the Right loves to associate Obama and his Allies with Hitlerian governance when it is they who have embraced so much of what made the fascist state operate. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 22, 2014 @ 11:07 am William Randolph Hearst captured this very well as head of his 19h century newspaper empire. “For the newspaper man the only good news is bad news so if it bleeds it leads.” News divisions report not to Veritas but to the money counters. Every effort to drive more readers, viewers, listeners to your sites is the key to staying alive as that drives advertisers to your site who pay the bills. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 7:09 pm Imagine, imagine, imagine if had a Congress that was even as vague cooperative as Gingrich’s House. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 7:06 pm Quite brilliant. The list of accomplishments here…245….would be very short indeed if Obama had derailed his own presidency. Much the same would have happened if Obama had sought the arrest of the “criminals of Wall Street” or had said “medicare for all or nothing.” ST is an idealist, but they rarely govern (and when they do they usually fail). » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 7:04 pm No president can do what you expect him to do. I agree that there has been an erosion in privacy rights, and a huge increase in the power of government to step into our lives….all in the name of the fear of the terrorist who lurks around the corner… but…I am hard pressed to see how this is Obama’s fault – he is part of a tangle that includes the legislatures, the courts, the security agencies, the american public. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 7:00 pm Uniformed, distracted, easily fooled, worried, anxious, looking for easy answers, simplistic, unengaged, disconnected…. damn that UFO! » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 6:57 pm Ignorance on the part of conservatives and liberals, lack of engagement on the part of conservatives and liberals, lack of connection to current event on the part of conservative and liberal….. leads conservatives to vote in record number 2010….there ya go. How the Obama administration was nearly derailed by unhappy progressives, and weak minded liberals. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 6:55 pm Green Chica……ah hah….operating with that nom de plume…. I am sure you have your reasons as I have mine. BTW…it is clear that you have not been your regular World Net Daily reading because if you had you would know that Obama is in fact a dictator, AND, at the same time, totally ineffective. If you were a right thinking Republican you would understand this apparent paradox. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 6:52 pm “Where is everybody?” I am doing a lot of blogging at Daily Kos and while I enjoy it I also find myself regularly irritated at the “look down your nose at the President who has not really measured up.” attitude. They have not learned from 2010. excellent insights, Kalima. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 6:50 pm Very down to earth and very real summation. Best lines: “Grinning all the way.” “A huge number don’t have a clue what’s going on, except what the latest incendiary headline told them.” In this you cast the great difference between Obama and Bush- [img]http://www.aonghascrowe.com/storage/alfredw.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1360111412030[/img] Obama knows all too well and he intend to act on what he knows….. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 6:47 pm I am working with a statistician right now in examining the structure of the poll, the polling sample groups, and the questions. This is not my strong point but our initial analysis show that the polling sample does not represent the voting population groups as they were in 2012 and the polling appears to lean toward residents in red states. I have come to believe that ALL news organizations today have their feet firmly planted on the ledger “books” on the “bottom line”. Drawing clicks, viewers, readers, respondent is the key to getting ads and that is the source of most of their revenue. I remain deeply suspicious. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 6:40 pm doing what FDR did, governing without Congress…. and inviting them to step up anytime they feel moved to do so….. brilliant… and the American Public says he cannot govern and have lost their faith in him….when Carter face a similar mindset in Congress (although far less rabid) he basically wilted. O does not wilt. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 6:34 pm Would you mind if I posted this as is at Daily Kos? I think a lot more people should see it. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 6:32 pm Compulsory voting does not mean responsible voting and that is very significant. I used to favor the idea of required voting but then I read the studies from Norway, Sweden and Denmark at how those forced to vote so often create “little monsters” in protest votes. Fortunately their Parliamentary system mutes the power of the unaffiliated. I think that what is needed is a return to a sense of responsible citizenship such as that which emerged in the wake of WWII. But, as you point out the corporatization of media (and the Big Money corporations behind those corporations) sullies all sources of information. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 5:49 pm Progressives believe that principle can triumph, literally rise from the ashes, if enough work for it. I consider the Civil War’s crusade for freedom, i.e. the Battle Hymn of the Republic, won in battle and then lost in the aftermath during Reconstruction as Jim Crow returned virtual slavery to the Old South, and then was re-fought in myriad battles in the courts, in protests, in legislatures, in elections, in education etc — I suggest to thi very day. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 5:42 pm And a lot of ground in between. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 20, 2014 @ 5:38 pm The polling for Congress is as low as it has ever been and yet that never seems to enter into the discussion Obama is clearly dragged down by Congress but this is not acknowledged in the public discussion – indeed we see leaders of the GOP in both houses crowing about the President’s numbers knowing that they will not be challenged by the truth in the mouths of the media sock puppets. Your third paragraph lays out the purposefulness of this scheme, laid out on the first day of the Obama administration, bankrolled by Big Money and dependent on an ignorant and unengaged electorate. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 19, 2014 @ 11:14 pmComments Posted By MurphTheSurf3
Watching so many of our decision makers still talking about the wars as necessary and expressing the possibility that it might be necessary for us to send men like this back in again.
-peak Billboard position # 1 for 1 week in 1972
-Words and Music by Helen Reddy and Ray Burton
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an’ pretend
’cause I’ve heard it all before
And I’ve been down there on the floor
No one’s ever gonna keep me down again
Oh yes I am wise
But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman
’cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
’cause you’ve deepened the conviction in my soul
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin’ arms across the land
But I’m still an embryo
With a long long way to go
Until I make my brother understand
But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to I can face anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman
Oh, I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman
and liberals to not bother.
I believe that Bush generally had very little understanding of what was going on around him and thus could grin as he did. Remember the images of Bush as Mad Magazines
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