Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Understanding President Obama — “ A Moment of Opportunity” Bito, I love that you did this. Sitting out on our patio listening to “Vacation” inspired music and some pretty nice Washington wine, I want to say this: These three men sold my country to Stalin who killed my family. I look at the photo and it’s visceral. But to move forward to the more relevant, I will read it tomorrow with coffee in hand. It just strikes me that it doesn’t change. The same players still make the same news. I no longer am an anglophile (Literature excepted). Borders, settlements, treaties. One has to wonder what we have learned over the years and if we are prepared to change. Forgive me because I know I have not served your article well. You present very tight and thoughtful ideas that do not suffer fools. But I’m very glad you broached a difficult subject. » Posted By foodchain On May 29, 2011 @ 7:10 pm Bito, I’ve seen this before and it is just so smart. Obama seems to be on this page as well. To have two military people bring forward these ideas is so encouraging. Too bad the GOP is so far behind and that the Dems seem so lost. ( My take anyway) » Posted By foodchain On May 20, 2011 @ 6:43 am On Why Dogs Are Better Than Cats WTS, pretty big imaging here. Could we spread an invisible trail of food to GOP leaders? » Posted By foodchain On May 25, 2011 @ 7:21 am wts, can’t herd cats as they say; dog’s can’t, people can’t. I’m not sure about ants. 😉 » Posted By foodchain On May 25, 2011 @ 5:52 am Haruko, We have a river turtle-mudslider- gorgeous eyes and does yoga positions in the sun. All in all. » Posted By foodchain On May 24, 2011 @ 6:32 pm The master list of droolers! We did have a vizsla that licked his paws clean. I don’t know if he learned it from our cats or whether he just enjoyed it. » Posted By foodchain On May 24, 2011 @ 6:28 pm PW, Dobes can do anything, and they’re short-haired! » Posted By foodchain On May 24, 2011 @ 4:13 pm PW, we had the two best English Cockers. I know what you mean. I still miss them are lot. Dogs can noodle into you » Posted By foodchain On May 24, 2011 @ 2:10 pm What a stitch! LMAO » Posted By foodchain On May 24, 2011 @ 2:06 pm Hi Caru, I just have to see a fox wagging that tail! Is the tail wagging the dog I wonder. lol » Posted By foodchain On May 24, 2011 @ 12:07 pm I love them both. And neither seems to have a sense of size mattering when it comes to “owning” something. Our house? Oh dear, I used to tell visiting playmates to keep their shoes on because I was afraid their moms would get mad when they so those dirty socks. lol. True. » Posted By foodchain On May 24, 2011 @ 10:04 am jkkFL, still laughing! I know, get out the towels for those muddy feet! My tolerance for dirt is up now that the kids are gone. We actually are pretty close to OK, let’s do it. I’d love some fresh faces in the family but we own our own business and are pretty focused on rebuilding with the economy. We haven’t been without extra noise in the house for too long! » Posted By foodchain On May 24, 2011 @ 9:15 am Adonai, ahem,that’s why there are foxes! 😉 But they don’t do domestic all that well either! Funny read. We’ve had great cats and dogs over the last few years. Dogs are much easier for kids to understand. In fact they’re a lot like kids–I was cleaning up after them all. An anonymous (I think) quote: “Dogs: all noise at one end and no sense of responsibility on the other.” We’re on pet hiatus but this site makes it harder and harder. Thankfully. » Posted By foodchain On May 24, 2011 @ 8:14 am This is a general comment: Our minds seem to want to categorize and sort everything. When I think of art, I think about how artists (I wish I was one) attempt to NOT categorize, label, but rather create a new way to look at something, each for our own. I easily make stereotype images, but what I hear from so many on this site is the desire to not do that. I cherish this and feel safe because of it. Further: I think Obama IS a black man; I think the cultural anger towards him influences him greatly—not because he is afraid, but because he does not want further division. I think many, many things happen behind the canvass we view, and I think the news does a poor service in helping present the canvass. When I like someone, I do give large thoughts, compassion, “soft eyes”. I like Michael Moore. But I do think the bridge of metaphors to unite is better than the gulf that divides. » Posted By foodchain On May 16, 2011 @ 6:27 pm BREAKING NEWS: Osama Bin Laden Dead Jimmy Fallon said something like this: What a bad year for our oceans! First the BP spill, then the Japanese earthquake causing nuclear waste leakage, and now the world’s worst terrorist! Maybe it’s too early but the image caught me. I guess I would say further that this is one man against many, many troubles and everyone is in a something over him. How symbolic is that? » Posted By foodchain On May 3, 2011 @ 8:28 pm AdLib: You are terrific!! » Posted By foodchain On May 3, 2011 @ 8:24 pm Foxisms, love the Seuss. It’s a perfect quote. » Posted By foodchain On May 3, 2011 @ 6:43 pm Is Donald Trump a Stalking Horse? Sorry, the rant got to me, but I think the question is still valid: why do we run to defending their attacks instead of questioning the attack itself? Why not put it in their field for a while? » Posted By foodchain On April 27, 2011 @ 8:22 pm Where is Edward R Morrow? We have a type of McCarthyism growing again. Where is the news? Instead of stopping, they assist Trump? He is laughing at us all. He made our President do something no other news, birther, GOP or anyone else could do. How do we come to this? How do we lose the purpose of the discussion to a minor point? How do we all get so lost? The point is not to prove it. The point is why are they asking? That is the penetrating question. That is the debate we are not having. The big picture. The GOP leads the discussion all the time because we get caught defending rather than questioning the premise. » Posted By foodchain On April 27, 2011 @ 8:20 pm Kalima: what a smile I have on my face! Just a terrific image. You are fortunate even in this difficulty. » Posted By foodchain On April 27, 2011 @ 8:14 pm Cherish them. I’ve had such great pets–hence foodchain (we had so many pets we had a —) They all have passed on from old age. So many great memories. I have no muddy feet or hair for a while! 😉 » Posted By foodchain On April 27, 2011 @ 7:34 pm Kalima: Gave me a good laugh on that. This is such an infuriating issue, like a rally bad discussion with an angry child but there are no adults in the room. We are outside the “fishbowl” and can jump up and down but we can’t stop them. BTW, hoping for better and better and sunny and warmer. » Posted By foodchain On April 27, 2011 @ 7:15 pm I think Donald is a STRUMPET. He’s Trumposterous. But, the larger question here has nothing to do with Trump. The larger question to be asked is why this has gone so far without any attack on the Birthers? Frozen Face from AZ has given grace to ending this subject. But we are talking about Obama and Trump (argh) rather than talking about why. We are being hood winked at this very moment. The issue is the persistent attack on an elected president—just as they did with Clinton, although Obama does not have smoke near him as did Clinton. The message of the media is so immediate and toxic that we all run to it instead of question it. The next march should be on the media. » Posted By foodchain On April 27, 2011 @ 7:10 pm Hey smit: I couldn’t agree more. this is one of the most disheartening escapades I’ve ever seen. And then to ad the Title IX challenge to harken even more bitterness is beyond the pale. That the GOP’s focus is to embarrass a Democratic President without providing one wit of forward legislation should be treasonous. As a small note of comfort, they were pretty rotten to Clinton but at least there was smoke on that one. » Posted By foodchain On April 27, 2011 @ 3:04 pm Hi Marion, Always provocative and exciting. I think Trump is a new word; bigger than ego and sensationalism because of the very nature of this set of attacks. He’s more similar to Charlie Sheen. His real estate operations can’t be helped by this—especially his attacks on Obama’s education. The Title IX attack is geared to the same race baiting as the “illegitimate” president. It is not clear that this advances Trump in any way other than he can say he could embarrass Obama where everyone else only tinkered with it. He could make Obama do something that no one else could. As to the void of GOP candidates? Too many were culpable in the Bush spending fiasco, march to war, WMD’s Saddam Hussein = 911. No one has a record on which they can run except a governor. I do think that there are some who enter the fray to obtain $$, TV, book tours, etc. What I find the most troubling is not the GOP, not Trump, but the media. Complete lies pass for truth. Obfuscation is now a heightened skill. An uninformed electorate is the greatest threat to democracy. » Posted By foodchain On April 27, 2011 @ 2:58 pm Giving Corporations the Death Penalty AdLib; Besides all the comments, I wish serious remedies” could be conferred. Job descriptions clearly spell out who has decision making authority and responsibility for actions. It’s why they are paid more. If we can provide a death penalty for anything, then we should consider it for responsible executives. » Posted By foodchain On April 26, 2011 @ 4:08 pm Cher, I should have read the comments first, but it is so provocative that I started writing on the spot. I think we need to guard our country very closely now, if in fact we can. » Posted By foodchain On April 26, 2011 @ 3:59 pm AdLIb; I agree. It’s not reasonable to have rights conferred without responsibility. We all have rights–well, no we don’t and haven’t and we’ve had to fight for rights of equality a lot harder than corporations had to fight for theirs. And we are still short of full rights for a lot of people. Perhaps we need “pseudo-human” laws to balance the scales of rights and responsibilities. Or perhaps we need to redefine what “harm” is. Smoking certain substances can put you in jail but taking away someones retirement has no consequence–even Enron who as a human entity knowingly played essentially a Madoff game. (Jeff Skilling has suffered but…). The tobacco companies, the drug companies, the oil, coal: where does one stop? Perhaps we should demand of the SCOTUS that they rescind this ruling until everyone has equal rights. Corps can’t buy free speech until women are paid fairly or until GLBT community can enter into legal marriages. The SCOTUS ruling is highly provocative and takes us in the wrong direction but money has always had it’s voice long before this. AdLib, what I worry about is this: that it’s very cheap to play on the fear of uneducated people; it’s easy to bait historical divisions. Lying is cheap. The news cycle is undemanding and accelerates misinformation. The fact that State Supreme Courts are being stacked so that illegal legislation can go unchallenged. The fact that Michigan has Emergency Manager to dismiss elected officials and agreed upon contracts. These scare me as much as corporate money. But yes, I’m pissed as hell. I just don’t know where to start anymore. Thanks for a great article BTW » Posted By foodchain On April 26, 2011 @ 3:56 pm I posted this in Time Out with my own mind meandering but at the end of the day, I’m still here. We cannot agree on moralism any more than we can agree on love. It is within us and this strikes me as a way to defend ourselves and our opinions. I can’t keep doing this. I finally think that, and I’ve known it for a while, there is no best way, no one way, no one perfection. These parameters only cause arguments. Sorry. I enjoy all these discussions and they are better researched and thought out than mine but I still hold this constant: It is only immoral » Posted By foodchain On May 3, 2011 @ 8:21 pm Bacchanalian Honky Tonk Blues (Dylan Parody) WTS, Just wonderful! It’s early Sat am here and I had my face right up to my computer so I could read the scrolls (;-)). Of course I found the text, but reading it from the scrolls slowed everything down and added to the experience. Good eve to you if you catch this note. » Posted By foodchain On April 16, 2011 @ 5:49 amComments Posted By foodchain
our cockers were benchers, and gromming was shaving/growing! Loved em though. Our Viszla, now that dog would run ALL day!
to be dead alive,
sun-extinct
and busy putting out the sun
in other people.
-D. H. Lawrence
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