Displaying 3,691 To 3,720 Of 5,146 Comments Happy Anniversary, Oh Planet Plenipotentiary! TAH-DAH! Here’s to bito with thanks for this innovation, your creativity, your friendship, your presence. What is great about the Planet has much to do with you! We all thank you, and we ALL second kes’ sentiment – don’t get sick again, please!!!! Happy anniversary of a job beautifully and well done. Thank you! » Posted By choicelady On January 4, 2011 @ 9:59 am Happy New Year From PlanetPOV! Happy New Year, bito! How nice of you to double Sarah’s fee for me AND offer to be my agent. You’re ON – and I, being a person of justice, offer 30%, not her measely 10%…the rest will go to my organization to keep being a major thorn in the side of the RW. I’m glad you saw Issa. He has been a CA horse’s ass for YEARS, and now he’s taking his act national. Poor all of us/U.S. But I think you’re right – the RW in all its glory keeps walking backwards on every utterance. Someone once said about my former residence, Buffalo, that sure, sooner or later EVERY city shoots itself in the foot. Only Buffalo goes back and reloads. Now, however, it’s the GOPTPers – they keep doing the same things over and over and expecting different outcomes even when the natural result is suicide or at least self mutilation. I think the only reaction is to keep our sense of humor. Keep an eye on them, naturally, but keep laughing at them. I agree with Reich – we need the 1936 reaction, not the Clinton dive. These people are beyond foolish, and I honestly cannot recall an historical era with this many truly ignorant people present in Congress. Maybe the Know Nothings in the 1850s, but not in my lifetime. And that’s coming from someone once represented by Elmer Hoffman and later by Charlie Wilson (not the “Charlie Wilson’s War” Charlie – the one from So. CA.) At different points, both of my representatives was voted 435th out of 435 in Congress. So I KNOW stupid. And these two guys look like rocket scientists compared to Issa, Bachmann, King, etc. I say we pop some corn, settle in front of C-Span, CNN, etc. and prepare to take dictation so we can produce the seminal work of our time: “TP-GOP Bleeps, Bloops, and Blunders”. We can sell it and clean up. How ’bout it, AdLib – a fund raiser for GROW and the Planet? Something to live for! » Posted By choicelady On January 2, 2011 @ 8:45 pm Happy New Year all! Thank you, AdLib, for all you give to us, especially these lists that make us laugh. I do agree you could take all the TP people and make a raft. I’m sure they float – all that hot air. Thanks everyone for the various recipes. I probably will forget them, but they’re tempting to see. I started NYE with friends including the husband of one couple, a self styled “progressive” who, as always, bitched and pissed and moaned over Obama’s ‘failures’ especially in health care. He lost his job and the new one has no benefits, but would he listen for a second to my telling him that when he and his wife were rejected for insurance he actually COULD get much cheaper coverage? Noooo. He would prefer to curse the darkness… He blames Obama for the actions of the private insurance market. Uh huh. He thinks he should not have to sign up for anything – it should just COME to him. Double uh huh. Anyway, despite the fact I think progressives with whiny attitudes are almost as much a problem as conservatives with whiny attitudes, I think this will be a better year. I read over at the Dark Side that Issa, having called Obama’s administration the “most corrupt ever” has had to walk that back since he had nothing to show why that would be true. We now have gotten to the point where disagreement on policy leadds to charges that the policy and the policy makers are “corrupt”. Turns out a lot of his constituents LIKE the health plan, understand that TARP was Bush’s baby, and that the stimulus did help markedly slow unemployment losses. So Issa is now deciding that Holder has been “corrupt” in not calling Wikileaks “terrorism”. Uh huh. This from a man who has been, in his life, charged with criminal conduct. Yes friends – 2011 is shaping up to be a MOST amusing year. Watching the GOP/TP party implode will be my fave spectator sport. Anything I can do to help… I will say that the possibility of Rep. King’s “investigation” of “Muslim terrorism” is of concern. I rather suspect this will get ugly. On the other hand, it will become apparent that it is yet another witch hunt with NO smoking guns and NO Fifth Column. There is more than a small possibility that my organization could get subpoenaed, and I’ve already checked out that Congress will have to pay my way. I’m thinking of also asking for a speaker’s fee. Whaddya think my chances are here? I’m holding out for $5K… Too little? Too much? I’m open. So I’m rolling out the new year by doing nothing today, then back to work tomorrow trying to speak truth to power AND to rubes. I’m finding the former easier than the latter. But to all my friends here on the Pwanet, Happy New Year – to siwwy wabbits and evwyone! » Posted By choicelady On January 2, 2011 @ 11:53 am Maybe Some People Need to Seriously Think about Going to Church Thank you, Marion! I am unclear about Wikileaks the Fact – is this real whistleblowing or grandstanding over rubbish – but over Wiki the Man, I’m with you. I agree with you – the man creeps me out as a human being. There IS the very real possibility that the man can be a complete disgusting person AND have done a good thing; ambiguity is often the handmaiden of good work a la Schindler, T. Jefferson, Lincoln, etc. when personal qualities don’t match world historical deeds. But Assange is no Ellsberg. He took no risk, he got some chump to do his dirty work and pay the price for it, and he is the essence of the bored and snotty libertine trying to create uproar rather than a true seeker of truth trying to make change. Ellsberg supports Wikileaks, but I think, reading twixt the lines, he’s not necessarily a supporter of Assange. And because especially the Left can tolerate NO ambiguity, they eviscerate core values on rape to defend this man without reservation. How bizarre. Moore has retreated some, says he takes the rape charges seriously, but he would be the perfect person to call out the deed vs. the man and say both things can exist at the same time. Think how that might have advanced us as thoughtful people – people who can stand on principle and still point out flaws. Wow. Grown ups. But we rarely do this. Those indifferent to the women in Sweden are very much like those indifferent to the Afghan women abused by the Taliban but whom we throw away because it’s inconvenient to think we might have an obligation to them. The Left has a new intellectual notion of “agency” which is SO parallel to the Right’s “personal responsibility” it creeps me out: it’s the idea that anyone has unlimited free choice, so being oppressed is a choice. Too many “progressives” use this to blow off whole world populations IF those people get in the way of some other concern, as indigenous populations and their culture might be in the way of environmental controls, e.g. restrictions on salmon fishing taking away First Nations’ food base. So we throw away the Swedish women, call their concerns ‘hooey’, because they got in the way of our idolotry. Marion – you have called it out. For the non-religious Left, personality worship, however temporary, is the new substitute for faith. And like any True Believer on the Right, you better not diss our god. Thanks for having the courage to say the truth, Marion. It matters. » Posted By choicelady On December 31, 2010 @ 10:45 am Mid-Atlantic Trip Part 13: A DC Miscellany Sorry I[m late to the post, but these are exceptionally beautiful views – not at all the ordinary stuff of tourist shots, nor are any of yours ordinary in any way. I love the “feel” of DC – it just seems to loom large as the fount of democracy, and I am passionately fond of it all. I know it would be different living there. The saying to staffers and to low-level lobbyists such as I is that “if you want a friend in DC, get a dog.” That cynical view is distressing, partly because I have friends there, but I suppose it’s meant for higher and more combative types than I. Still and all, I love it. I STILL believe in this country’s promises, dammit, and the place just resonates with that hope and dreams. And anyway – I have three books in the Library of Congress and several reports in the National Archives, so I participated a tiny bit in that great city’s legacy. It honestly makes me proud knowing that. Of course, ANYONE who has ever printed a book can say the same. It doesn’t take away the feeling of connection. I spent a conference in 2004 at the United Methodist Church building right next to the SCOTUS digs you photographed so well, and one block to the LEFT of Faith and Action, the RW HQ of the doofuses I tangled with back in Buffalo who are always doing some rant on the Supremes’ steps. They’re the buffoons who “anointed” the capital doors before Obama’s inauguration – you know, to ward off his evil… My fave place though is the Hawk & Dove tavern near the Capitol because it’s the Dem staffer hangout. I once sat next to Ted Kennedy’s staff, and it was a hoot. We’d been working on some things of his at that 2004 conference, so we hooked up with them and had a grand talk and time. You’ve brought all that back for me. Thank you!!!! » Posted By choicelady On January 3, 2011 @ 4:15 pm Post Rescue and Revisit: Obama’s Speech on the Health Care Vote Cher – I’ve seen you over at HP so do know some of your thoughts, and no, I did not take what you were saying as a criticism so much as musings and, as you noted, questions. I think I’m well and truly sick of Americans who don’t think but who think they think, if that makes any sense. It’s the knee jerk reactions to things based on some headline (HP is FAMOUS for headlines that don’t even match the content) and no reflection. That’s why I like it here – so many people offer up info, data, background, substance. I’ve been deeply aided in my work by all that is posted here. (Well, OK, not so much the Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire, but mostly everything.) The thoughts posted here are superb. The debates are superb. The ideas are superb, and this post, Cher, is one of them. I think, mostly without huge evidence other than this tax agreement, that Obama is a far cagier negotiator than we’ve given him credit for being. What he got – and I just have scratched the surface – is vastly more than he “gave up”. I suspect he will pay huge attention to what the GOP desires, then hold it as his trump in exchange for what we want. And yes, I really do think his policies are about us. I’ve had personal calls with him (and 140,000 of his other BFFs in the faith communities across the nation) on health care where MY question actually got into the mix and was answered. It was not an easy question about the extra expense of doing health care by subsidizing private insurance. It’s poor “stewardship” I think. He agreed but said that given popular support for continuing to use private insurance, subsidizing families and individuals was at the moment the thing Americans wanted. I agree. He listened and still listens to what we need. I can’t recall any time before when I felt a President – not even the ‘I feel your pain’ Clinton – actually heard us. Clinton listened and ignored, fed the beast with deregulation and lousy trade deals, but Obama is moving toward those things Clinton ignored and could not, did not, achieve. So I take ALL your concerns about bipartisanship to heart since we’ve “been there, done that” under Clinton, but I see this cool and unflappable president – no drama Obama – giving up less and less of that sort of Clinton-type thing and getting more and more through unyielding horse trading. If that’s true, then we’ll be OK. But it IS our essential job to make sure Obama knows what we want and how much we want it. Democracy is not a spectator sport nor for the ill informed or weak of character. It is maintained not by the blood of martyrs but the vitality of the engaged. That’s who you are, Cher. That’s why your comments and thoughts do matter to us. Thank you! » Posted By choicelady On December 31, 2010 @ 10:16 am Hi Cher- Part of the health care dilemma is timing – some of the provisions such as rate control, don’t kick in until 2014 UNLESS you have a new policy. Americans are stinking selfish – they demanded that Congress let them keep the insurance they have, and then whine when it acts like the insurance they HAVE. Existing policies make you “grandfathered” so that the new plan does not cover them yet. Or maybe ever. Existing plans don’t have to let you add your kids, get freebie preventive care, etc. – and people demanded that they keep what they had. So those who got what they wanted – keep your hands off my health care – discovered that their companies are gouging them. Surprise! I agree with bito – Social Security may well be under assault (it has been ALL my life) – but the existence of the Deficit Reduction Commission’s guidelines don’t worry me much since they WERE shot down with a huge input from the American people. And that, I think is what is the missing link. I doubt that outside the Tea Party many of us know how active people in general have been on the side of health care, of protecting Social Security and Medicare, on eradication of DADT, etc. The MSM and extremist blogs such as FDL (which is SO wrong so often I’m amazed anyone listens to her) simply ignore the voices of people. They both contribute to the very WRONG notion that policy is created in a vacuum or by only conservative corporations. Well, it’s NOT. People have been mobilized around the nation on behalf of lots and lots of issues – and not a single word about it has been written save one small article in The Nation after the health care vote. MSM, HP, etc. never showed the crowds outside the Capitol in DC clamoring FOR health care passage – even on “the walk” from the office buildings to the Capitol, the House leadership and members voting for it all went over to the hundreds standing outside, shook their hands, and thanked them for being present, and you never saw anything but cropped pictures ELIMINATING the crowds of supporters including a large number of clergy in collar and vestments who were there. I have friend who were present so I know what happened. You never would. I watched Lawrence O’Donnell eviscerate Jane Hamsher on the tax agreement NOT just in disagreement but over the fact that she simply LIED. She either was asleep during the middle class cuts only Senate vote or she thought she could pretend it had not happened. Time after time I watched her say things that were factually untrue – same with stories in HP – and yet people who should damned well know better keep touting those screaming headlines as FACT when they are FALSE. I think Obama has lived up entirely to his own words. I have seen him put his foot wrong twice only, and that is simply amazing. Twice in two years. Period. He said he’d be president for all of us, and that does include the Teabaggers, but he’s been centered on his policies and on the PROCESS of democracy. Now, will he use more Executive Orders? I believe so, yes. It will be a loss for the process, but it will be a gain for the nation. He has done well by most of us, can do better on foreclosure bans by far, but I am watching him achieve huge things and keeping promises. And I’ve never really felt that way since LBJ – and he had Vietnam as the millstone around his neck that diminished what he’d done domestically. We all seem to love Clinton – I did – until it became clear he allowed this crisis to happen. I think Obama is the stronger of the two. Clinton has the palaver. Obama has the grit. I vote grit. I’m pretty happy with Obama, hope for more, fear for him daily. But with the GOP/TP in disarray, I think he will rise to the occasion with every resource at his disposal. And I don’t give a damn what Lying Jane or Arianna have to say. It’s not progressive to distort the truth for sensation and snark. It IS progressive to work for policies wanted by the people and good for the people, all the people, everywhere. » Posted By choicelady On December 30, 2010 @ 11:27 am Friday Music– Christmas Part 2 javaz – where DID you find this! I about fell over laughing! Thank you – an ad for MY holiday tradition!!! Who knew? Thank you so much! » Posted By choicelady On December 25, 2010 @ 2:16 pm Mine, too!!! I was saying these are too weird for words (some, not Nat, of course). I also shared my own holiday tradition – stopping up my kitchen sink. It’s an odd ritual but one I’ve honed to a fine art no matter WHAT I do to be careful. The “up” to all of this is that the plumber was very cool – seemed to be someone who used to do something else: very smart, well spoken, personable. Totally unlike the plumber who came some years ago for a stopped up toilet who informed me that, basically, one wasn’t supposed to use the commode as, I thought, intended. Still haven’t puzzled THAT out. Well, now I’ve observed MY holiday tradition, on with those of others: dinner with friends, music, opening presents, maybe midnight service somewhere. All that ordinary stuff of this holiday. It’s beginning to lose sparkle compared to the sheer exhillaration of unstopping my sink as a ritualistic experience. Happy whatever-you-celebrate-however-you-celebrate-it, one and all! » Posted By choicelady On December 24, 2010 @ 4:07 pm ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas’ 2010 – A Political Parody Just so you exempt Bo… » Posted By choicelady On December 24, 2010 @ 3:56 pm Wonderful, AdLib! As kes noted – God help us, everyone! – if that ever comes to pass! Yikes. I guess I qualify as a Jesus person, sort of, but this IS my favorite time of year. I really believe it brings out the best in us regardless of who we are. The promise of hope and goodness isn’t just to avoid the cranky Santa lump of coal but the possibility that kindness is real, achievable. I was waiting in a gubmint office with a Russian Pentecostal woman I’d helped a bit to get her waiting time number, and she, with the angriest face I’ve ever seen, in turn told me I’d dropped something. Two people with NOTHING in common sharing common courtesy. The reason for the season. So Sarah can bite me. True meaning of Christmas is being kind to one another, no exceptions. Even fish. The Planet is the finest collection of kind people EVER, and may all of you have good days and better years, Sarah-free if we’re vigilant, and hostility-free if we help that along. No one here gets that lump of coal… Happiest of holidays to all! » Posted By choicelady On December 24, 2010 @ 8:33 am Mid-Atlantic Trip Part 11: Embassy Row OK – the crumbling ruin – S. Vietnam? And I LIKE to think I’m up on world events… Beautiful, funny, thoughtful, and gorgeous all rolled into one. I’ve never “done” Embassy Row for two reasons: never had time (usually there in the winter), and I knew the husband of the woman, Ronnie Karpen Moffitt, who was bombed along with Chilean Orlando Letelier in 1976. Kinda took the sparkle off the area for me. Those are amazing buildings though, and it IS the whole world clustered together, so it is fascinating to see your trek and what you found. I thought the gold chairs would be Brunei though. Or a Marcos era leftover from the Philippines. Had not remembered – never remember – the Vatican rates as a “nation state”. And yes – Myanmar is tres creepy. Thanks, Khirad! And for the picture of the Ethiopian feed. One of my favorite cuisines. Yum! We will live vicariously through you on this and all you did on this amazing trip. We await the National Cathedral! » Posted By choicelady On December 20, 2010 @ 2:28 pm Because of what Bush had started and the long time haven Afghanistan had become for terrorists. That is no longer true. What has changed is that we have shifted policy (in Afghanistan and elsewhere) to trying to rebuild that nation. I have heard a number of people familiar with the character of Afghani political organization say that is impossible, that it is and always has been a compilation of regions not a nation state. I think that is true, and I think the goal, while laudable, is probably untenable. But morally I believe Obama is right – we have to try to give stability to those regions because of the great damage done by Bush’s decision first to go in, then to ignore it all in favor of Iran while still having us lob munitions at Afghani people. Obama is trying his best to clean up the mess.I’m not sure anyone can do that. » Posted By choicelady On June 30, 2011 @ 1:50 pm I’ve seen them, but I’ve never read them. Think they were a bit after my time. Might go see the flick just to see what it’s all about. » Posted By choicelady On June 28, 2011 @ 9:44 pm Ooooohhh – I had one of those a couple of weeks ago, waddling up and down my driveway. Cute kitty – here, kitty, kitty, kitty, uh…… » Posted By choicelady On June 28, 2011 @ 9:41 pm Cold front swept through. There is a winter weather warning in the Sierras tonight. June 28, and it’s snowing. » Posted By choicelady On June 28, 2011 @ 9:40 pm Yeah, bito = how COULD you be so boring? I bet nobody out there in the desert was wearing designer shoes either. How declasse. Seriously – THANK YOU for posting this because otherwise I’d NOT have known it. It got nothing in the Sac Bee. Nope – instead we had Schwarzenegger’s point person on some budget something tell us how screwed up the pension fund was and how taxpayers will be shelling out THEIR money for high-priced pensioners to keep them in luxury. Except – every single thing he said was untrue. But we gotta keep up the drumbeat against greedy public workers. I have one HUGE criticism of Obama – the White House, the Administration NEVER beats their own drum. I once campaigned for one of a major city’s Black city council members who also would not publicize what he did for people in one of the most blighted areas. He said – “people know what I’ve done”. Well – no they did not. He lost to a scuzzy thug with absolutely NO principles who has ridden the crest of lies and a great PR campaign to high office. But the neighborhood without my friend is now sadly deteriorated, neglected, and without resources. Moral to the story – people do NOT know what you’ve done unless you tell them – over and over and over. The bar chart Cher has given us about unemployment – all the red lines under Bush plunging into the depths, and all the shorter and shorter blue lines under Obama who has stopped the job loss and begun recovering. That should be our campaign poster for “Obama 2012 Bar Graph”!!!! If we don’t know what stimulus did, don’t know about the massive leaps forward in green energy prompted by Obama’s administration, don’t know ANY of the facts about how many people now have affordable health care coverage – then we don’t know. Back to my rant – contact your local news outlets and DEMAND, just the way the religious right did so successfully, that OUR stories get told and told truthfully. And if they don’t – picket them, boycott their news program advertisers, and send packets of letters, make hundreds of phone calls, and reams of FAXes. That WILL get their attention! One quirky thing – I do regular surveys for the Bee. Today I commented that their editorial pages gave distortions on pensions. Today I could NOT get my survey to go through. Do you think it was blocked? I wonder… Thanks for the boring story, bito. Please provide more. » Posted By choicelady On June 28, 2011 @ 9:39 pm I lived in Canada for a bit, and I am totally down with their snit (Canadians don’t get much angrier than that – like folks from Minnesota) so I try to say I’m from the USA NOT “America” as if they are not. We all are, tip to toe, and Americans have GOT to get over the sense that what’s above and below does not matter. It may seem silly to us, but it’s not respectful to them. I can change my ways if it means being inclusive. Won’t bust my hump to do so. » Posted By choicelady On June 27, 2011 @ 6:43 pm Good on you, AdLib – I’ve not been to my office since Friday and did not see this yet. Cool! Thanks for sharing! » Posted By choicelady On June 27, 2011 @ 6:38 pm Jesus provided health care as a human mission – Matthew 10. Yes, he healed miraculously (they say) but sent his disciples to heal as a human practice BEFORE any other mission. Lepers were also an abomination – evidence of great sinfulness – but we don’t segregate them today. We give ’em antibiotics. We learn, we grow, we move on. Screw the Old Testamentarians who cherry pick four lousy Bible verses that pertain to someone OTHER than themselves. They won’t look toward their own disregard of the teachings about their own failings. Noooo – so much easier to pick out a few people to stone. Jesus is nothing to them except a “get out of jail free” card. Problem is – nobody asked Jesus if that was sufficient. » Posted By choicelady On June 27, 2011 @ 6:37 pm KQ – I find socialism, meaning state control of the means of production, highly problematic. Corporatism, whether public or private, once again removes decision making and policy deliberation from those at the point of production. I know you like worker ownership/management, and I think it superior to socialism just as it is to capitalism. Absentee management makes poor decisions regardless of the motive. The things that should be socialized – social welfare – are those elements that affect ALL of us equally. That’s why we have a postal service, why we have government police and fire, and why social security and health care work best if they are uniform in payments in, payments out. It’s also why I do not want a government-run health DELIVERY system – let the doctors at the point of “production” make the decisions. Then we pay for them with uniform standards and efficiency. Docs and nurses and phlebotomists will make the best on-the-spot decisions based on the individual patient needs. Bureaucracy can’t achieve that. They are MIA when you need them to tailor something to your specifics. So I’m not a fan of socialism misapplied, over=determined, and too broadly involved in what should be detailed local choices. Balance. We definitely need balance and reason when it comes to these alternatives – and to getting RID of the existing practices that DO NOT WORK. » Posted By choicelady On June 26, 2011 @ 8:50 pm Yes,but given that, shouldn’t he be pursuing Phred Felps? I think he’s on the wrong mission. » Posted By choicelady On June 25, 2011 @ 4:26 pm kes – you can take a bead on all this from Westboro Baptist Church. Phred Felps (as we call him) likely is gay. Here is the logic: 1. Lust is sinful. Lust is the work of the Devil. 2. If you feel NO lust for your wife, it’s early godly, a marriage made in heaven. 3. If you feel lust for men, the Devil is hot on your heels. 4. Ergo – have to rid the world of lust and those who inspire it. Therefore, the world cannot offer a place for homosexuals since they pollute the purity of God’s plan. See how easy it is when you use DEDUCTIVE logic pinned on a totally flawed premise? Very tidy. » Posted By choicelady On June 25, 2011 @ 11:11 am LOL!!! An old Bible of mine lists the “meaning” of the words as “love for the church”, passion for “religion” – ANYTHING but sexuality! The Bible was printed in 1901 and STILL had notes justifying slavery as a retribution for those people (race unspecified but you can figure it out) giving hospitality to Cain after he slew Able. The Bible was printed in Missouri that never got over “the recent unpleasantness” of the Civil War. Criminey – the uses and abuses of scripture and religion in general NEVER ends. » Posted By choicelady On June 25, 2011 @ 11:06 am YouTube has a great song: “It’s all because the gays are getting married” that is absolutely hilarious. Straight couples break up, meteors fall on the wife, things fall apart, the world comes unglued – it’s all because the gays are getting married. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rixkck8QnjY Must be the answer to your question – if you can stop laughing long enough to pay attention!!! » Posted By choicelady On June 25, 2011 @ 9:59 am They don’t know scripture. They know only a handful of verses used as weapons against other people. Scripture as learning about the vast possibilities of creating a better world? Not so much. » Posted By choicelady On June 25, 2011 @ 9:55 am kes – it’s the fear that people will put pleasure before duty – duty to make money, duty to ideology, duty to bosses. H.L. Mencken wrote (erroneously about Puritans – should have been Victorians) that Puritanism (sic) is “the fear that someone, somewhere, somehow is having a good time.” Sexuality is the one thing that exists between people that capitalism or any institution of power cannot control. So the institutions have to control it as a concept. Puritans were NOT anti-sex at all – but capitalists were. Procreation makes workers so sex has got to be regulated to assure that is its purpose and ONLY purpose. Sex for pleasure is a distraction. Love makes you strong and diverts your attention away from making money for other people. All bad. » Posted By choicelady On June 25, 2011 @ 9:53 am I never GOT that far. Short and sweet. That’s the ticket. » Posted By choicelady On June 24, 2011 @ 5:32 pm OK – here lies a problem. Most of you know I am what they call a “high context talker” meaning I say way more than you need to know. I also CAN be brief. See? Good campaign messaging is brief. This video about Van is INTERMINABLE. I could not sit through it. Who IS the first talking head and why do I care? If we all cannot do the “elevator speech” – the 30-second explanation of what it is and why it matters – we are DOOMED. Focus, people – FOCUS! » Posted By choicelady On June 24, 2011 @ 2:36 pm hi Patsy – that’s hillarious! But I’m GLAD it did not come to pass since I only just now SAW the warning and the cancellation. Whew! But I LOVE your interpretation – SCOTUS declared the quake invalid. LOL!!!! » Posted By choicelady On June 24, 2011 @ 2:25 pmComments Posted By choicelady
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