Displaying 1,261 To 1,290 Of 1,517 Comments Southern Discomfort – Code Red Whatsthatsound; agreed. It’s the all in all and we are all one. The false choice of being one or the other is just that. JD should make us all friends!!!!! » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 9:09 pm How about it! My son is in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichaun, 10 million + and most people never heard of it. Xian at 3 million looks like a rural outpost. » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 8:56 pm No one greater than Seuss! I remember Hop on Pop because my husband is a Pop. but “Butter side up” wars–Ha! The clip you provided, just the same. I love it. » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 8:41 pm Well, I guess I just got yanked by the best. I’m working on that feeling good. » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 8:37 pm But I’m a city folk. See what I mean? I’m not someone you should dislike. I think a lot of this is contrived politcal rhetoric. I, by the way, have Estonian farm roots, have lived on a small farm and I like cities. So where do I fit in the like/don’t like spectrum that we seem to want as a paradigm? I’ve seen your work and respect it a lot. » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 8:20 pm Hey. I see the larger point being that we feel the need to define ourselves geographically at all. We are letting others provoke us into defending something that doesn’t need defending. sometimes I want to say “we are the enemy” but usually I want to say: ” We are not the enemy, they are. Let us not fight ourselves.” Protecting our heritage is important to each and every person (for some reason) and we are seeing it every where in the world. I don’t have a heritage per se. I think we do better as people talking, sharing one on one than we do in protecting the past. I was hoping for my mother’s earrings. » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 7:58 pm I just would like those of us who are together to move away from the temptation of the “we/they” paradigm. They have used us well. I think that if we share these perceptions, as you originated here, that people will stop the inner fight and seek that larger good. » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 7:19 pm Marion, I so love that you started this dialogue. It is not only good for me but it takes it away from people trying to polarize the country. There is a reason that the “red and blue”, the north and south, the urban and rural are all tense with each other. It is the gaming of us all by the politics of the day. » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 6:09 pm Marion, I love that saying. Lifting that! I love that you started this concept » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 6:01 pm SequimBob–back with another thought that ties with Marions. I’ve shared how my perspective is different but I can say that over these past few years via MSM and cable that I can easily “hear” the stereotyping of Southerners and would imagine not only does “no forgets where the ax is buried” but that the same blame, if you will, occurs on both sides that having that have long histories. Developing thoughts on a rush to dinner. Thanks again for helping me understand the history better. » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 4:00 pm Thankfully the sisters were my mother and her two sisters. Otherwise I’d be a heap older than I am now. LOL. Must be my vanity showing. 😉 » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 3:39 pm SequimBob, I found this really interesting and a good response to Marion’s article which I liked as well. I come from a very different perspective that I think is relevant. The remains of my family, three sisters with me in tow as a 3 yr old, arrived in the wealthy suburbs of Chicago in 1950, sponsored as live-in domestics. They had been forced from their homeland in the early 40’s when Stalin arrived to “conscript” all young men (and later brutalized the population). These three young women wandered war-torn Europe, having the distinction of being shot at by Russians, Germans and Americans, finally ending up in a displaced persons camp in Germany. I was an early baby-boomer in post war Germany As domestics, they faced a similar “attitude” of kindness as you describe but, as live-ins, they knew their place; I, however, didn’t and most of the kids in the neighborhood included me in everyday play. What’s different for my tiny spot in history is that my mother and sisters were domestics to benefactors who had decided to help displaced immigrants for a two year stint rather than the evolved relationship that the whites and blacks have in the South. The larger history for my family was not in this country. The history they have is of being a small country constantly used and/or run over by more powerful countries until finally fleeing while the rest of the family was killed by Stalin. Their interpretation, and mine as well, is hatred of war. They have no desire to get even and revenge is not a concept for them; they hate war and they hate the abuse of power. But the other impressions from my mom were these: Whenever she would get on a soap box, she would say Americans never had had to fight an enemy on their own soil (I know, give me a minute), and that Americans don’t understand what it means to be occupied. What I am thinking is that the “North” won a war and occupied a country and that a lot of people don’t understand that today. The loser of a war feels a whole lot different than the winner and I think “blow-back” is a very real concept. Most of the world is fighting the same fight over and over whether it’s religion or borders. The talks of secession remind me that the memories carry forward for a lot of people. The view from my experience is different. I’ve been an American citizen most of my life but don’t have the “culture war”, north south east west urban rural perspectives. I do think though, that while these differences in how we perceive each other have been polarized intentionally by the GOP wing and that is why we are having these discussion. I think having these discussions in the open with each other is a really good thing. And I thank you an Marion for bringing them here. And I wish I had seen this earlier to be more timely » Posted By foodchain On April 3, 2011 @ 3:05 pm A Well-Informed Electorate Elects a Responsible Government? Ask Eric Cantor. Hi Marion Given WI propensity for evading the legal system to push through unpopular legislatio this isn’t surprising. MI passed and “Emergency Manager” law that borders on private takeover of village municipalities. This seems more like an attempt to trick the electorate into thinking that somehow the Democrats have stopped a legal bill. I would think that is too far fetched but looking at what the GOP has been up to since Nov., nothing seems beyond the pale. Ted Koppel said on HOward Kurtz’s CNN program that the greatest danger to democracy is an uninformed electorate. He was responding to Kurtz’s query about the state of news today. And here we are-not only uninformed(due to dem leadership’s void) but highly misinformed (GOP), polarized and angry. And the final slap down is the SCOTUS hearing arguments on whether lying is protected by freedom of speech. » Posted By foodchain On March 31, 2011 @ 2:27 pm Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya I agree. There are no badges of honor. There are no absolutes. » Posted By foodchain On March 28, 2011 @ 8:16 pm War is the most difficult thing we do. If we here cannot discuss this without throwing verbal bombs or killing friendships, what can we expect of people who have nothing, who have been repressed for centuries? We all have strong opinions and I venture mine with trepidation: I don’t know. But I do know this: I trust this president more than any elected official I have known. I wonder if Egyptian protesters had arms what we would do. We were so proud then. I am a victim of war. But I cannot yet put all war in the same basket. » Posted By foodchain On March 28, 2011 @ 8:13 pm We have so little trust and so many opinions. I’m glad to say I agree with yours. » Posted By foodchain On March 28, 2011 @ 8:05 pm Friday Music Thread – Amazing Voice, How Sweet The Sound I’ve seen them in town (Chicago) Amazing! You do neat stuff. » Posted By foodchain On March 25, 2011 @ 6:19 pm Every time I see something from you I smile. That doesn’t happen easily or often. Thank you. But also, for the tribute to Japan. It’s lovely » Posted By foodchain On March 23, 2011 @ 8:37 pm Some Not Very Strong Arguments Against Action in Libya Can we not? And we don’t know. Everyone ballyhooing is happy to make only cuts that hurt the other guy which tells me they aren’t worried. If they were really worried, they would work together. » Posted By foodchain On March 23, 2011 @ 8:41 pm Invite For Collaboration Part 4 Oh darlin, count me in! Trouble, Mmmmmm, bone to a god—for the right cause of course. » Posted By foodchain On March 19, 2011 @ 7:52 pm I’m sharing this with friends. My husband is a “moon child” and we’ve been known to chase full moons around, especially blue moons. Moonrises over water, or any clear horizon, are haunting, as is this painting. The isolation of your moon gives me the same sensation. I love it. » Posted By foodchain On March 18, 2011 @ 11:15 am TAKE ACTION – How To Help Those In Japan I have felt incompetent–feelings too large, abilities too small. What concerns me is their inability to move anything. Waterways blocked by debris, roads destroyed. I want to buy a thousand toothbrushes, toothpaste, toilet paper, canned goods. I just want it to get there. Maybe we find someone with a helicopter to drop care packages–kinda kidding. » Posted By foodchain On March 17, 2011 @ 3:32 pm We are SLOWLY going from tan to green in northern IL. Snow just doesn’t want to leave yet! » Posted By foodchain On March 16, 2011 @ 4:00 pm You did make me feel better–your art has. I like being pulled in by the pattern and the green just feels very good today. » Posted By foodchain On March 16, 2011 @ 3:31 pm How do you Build a Million Dollar Mousetrap that Steals Cheese I’m going slow for just that reason; families forgive and I’m not the most “quantitative” person. 😉 » Posted By foodchain On March 17, 2011 @ 11:57 am Hi PW. You had me at hello back in the HP days (when they weren’t recruiting trolls) » Posted By foodchain On March 17, 2011 @ 11:28 am Just finished watching. This is funny! Out loud laughing here. I still like the idea of the “sweet team” taking down the elephant. 😉 » Posted By foodchain On March 12, 2011 @ 5:43 am Oh god, I just got it (unless it’s just my peculiar way of seeing things) I’m ready to “catch more with Honey.” Roar! The suspiciously elephanty victim. Long live the Honey Bear! » Posted By foodchain On March 11, 2011 @ 9:01 am This could be a serial!! » Posted By foodchain On March 11, 2011 @ 8:14 am On a day when we need a little relief. Great collaboration! » Posted By foodchain On March 11, 2011 @ 8:12 amComments Posted By foodchain
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