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Wisconsin and Learning from Our Mistakes

I like this

» Posted By foodchain On March 10, 2011 @ 1:38 pm

You’ve captured this very well. Within your premise I have a developing thought that I haven’t been able to explain well but it’s something like this:

The GOP creates news, illusions, mistruths, accusations and false calamities by standing up and shouting them from the roof tops. Their people dutifully rise to the bait. I f they are supposed to bring guns, they do. If there aren’t enough people Dick Armey organizes the buses, signs, etc. On our side the people have to do everything on their own and maybe if the NEWS picks it up, then the Dem leadership will have a cautious comment. We have to organize ourselves, find our own voice, our own cause, our own signs, blankets, food. Our Democratic leaders (with the exception of brave state Senators of Madison, WI and a few other state level officials) do not speak, do not lead, do not help until the crowd in front of them is too big to ignore.

Well, that’s my disappoint speaking and they have done more good than not and the GO hasn’t done any. I also do not thing this is Obama’s to do at this stage: this is about state employees and state officials.

» Posted By foodchain On March 10, 2011 @ 12:35 pm

It’s more than that lynettema. This is a state employee issue, not a federal employee issue. This is about state elections and state congressional votes. People, Dems especially, have to stop the knee-jerk, simplistic formula that Obama can fix everything.

Not one of our lives is so simple that we can charge out and fix something just because we want to and the problems he faces are far more complicated with many countries and many egos, many opportunities and many dangers.

And, rhetorically, where the hell is Feingold?! What has he to lose if he became visible in his home state fight as a progressive!

» Posted By foodchain On March 10, 2011 @ 12:00 pm

A Brief History of Poetry

I’m reading these comments this morning because at least these stay relevant for more than a news cycle. Your posting beautifully describes the sucking in of trying to join a community (HP) that is too hard to join and the peace that comes from finding yourself again. And then going back in to find out again that you’re part of the game. But then some of the great ones show up and they make it all worthwhile. The “good days.” It’s nice being here

» Posted By foodchain On March 8, 2011 @ 7:31 am

Reading all the wonderful postings this morning with my coffee. I used this Crane with my kids (when they were older and more pensive) to think about life and churchiness, Nice reminder.

» Posted By foodchain On March 8, 2011 @ 5:20 am

And yet he could cut deeply into our weaknesses

» Posted By foodchain On March 7, 2011 @ 7:04 pm

I really like the breathe in——-breathe out. It sets a wonderful pace for the reader.

» Posted By foodchain On March 7, 2011 @ 6:15 pm

Expression should not have a limit but critics should

» Posted By foodchain On March 7, 2011 @ 6:10 pm

I just love ee

» Posted By foodchain On March 7, 2011 @ 6:09 pm

I say consider it all, weigh it all, but know what you like. Talent should never be wasted by form, nor should it be elevated by form. You make me like KY.

» Posted By foodchain On March 7, 2011 @ 6:08 pm

Friday Music Thread – Peace, Love and Taking It To The Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

Another good man from Hawaii

» Posted By foodchain On March 4, 2011 @ 12:56 pm

Arab Uprisings: Still Writing History

To add more thought–just for thinking. The civil wars of France was against royalty; the Russians against royalty; the US not against royalty. We have a history that has not been laid to rest.

» Posted By foodchain On April 5, 2011 @ 6:28 pm

I think if you look at the blowback that it’s not that simple. The “Northern War of Aggression” is clearly not how we look at it. Just saying. The lose of a war never feels the same as the winner.

» Posted By foodchain On April 5, 2011 @ 6:24 pm

Yes.

» Posted By foodchain On April 5, 2011 @ 5:44 pm

Javez, When a country is bifurcated, good thought is impossible. Karl Rove and many prior–Lee Atwater–are winning the media war. Winning the power is what is at stake, not the American people.

» Posted By foodchain On April 5, 2011 @ 5:42 pm

The ownership of waterways is of enormous economic consequence. Kuwait, befriended by Great Britain, has done very well.

» Posted By foodchain On April 5, 2011 @ 5:37 pm

WTS I really here that. My family was displaced by WWII and were forced to leave a country they did not want to leave–Stalin. My mom, (who worked hard to become naturalized as did I) when she was angry said Americans never fought an enemy on their own ground and that Americans never understood what it meant to be occupied. (I ventured to SequiemBob (sp I’m sorry) in Code Red that the South in fact did feel that.). We lack a prospective here that most people in the world have.

» Posted By foodchain On April 5, 2011 @ 5:25 pm

Well, if I absolutely agree with you, will I be an absolutist? 😉 I do agree. We cannot let more programs and candidates fail because they are 70% instead of 100% if the alternative is 0% and worse.

» Posted By foodchain On March 21, 2011 @ 1:30 pm

I’m still wondering why he sued anyone for an olive pit in his salad.

» Posted By foodchain On March 21, 2011 @ 1:27 pm

Morning Blog

Oh my goodness, Yes

» Posted By foodchain On November 12, 2011 @ 7:39 pm

Kalima, I too am waiting for a Democrat to stand up; The message could not be more clear and has been for 3 years. burlsconi? Italy can’t seem to be embarrassed by men. Nor much of the world. Very busy world for you—deep breaths.

» Posted By foodchain On October 26, 2011 @ 9:07 pm

Good Morning Kes. How quickly people forget that the market is here to help us. It seems now that we have become fodder for the market. No wonder 99% is the new number.

You know so much and it helps me to read your thoughts. Caring is something we think a lot about as our family ages. It’s something we should be more aware of in our everyday lives; helping anyone, Mom’s with strollers, elderly, wheel-chair bound, everyone. We have to interact with our whole environment, not just our jobs, our children our activities. It always makes me feel better. And it looks like they feel better too.

» Posted By foodchain On October 18, 2011 @ 8:38 am

Good evening to you, Kalima. As you were tired,yesterday, I was boisterous, using my kid’s vocabulary. The brownie recipe looks like serious trouble. 😉 and a little home denouncement for Netanyahu by someone like Dagan is an important step.
Mark Twain, I think.

» Posted By foodchain On June 4, 2011 @ 5:38 am

jkk, I can nothing kind about Palin. As a female, I’ve got a lot of anger about her and what she’s doing. Cheap cheap cheap and I ain’t talking Tucans. If I get to FL, she’s a “two beer story” as they say.

» Posted By foodchain On May 29, 2011 @ 6:47 pm

Hey, I’m food chain for a reason. We had dogs, cats, reptiles,everything but birds. We do need a new stock as it were. 😉 No alligators though! It was you that like I thought you was a toad? Jeremiah was a bull frog!!

» Posted By foodchain On May 29, 2011 @ 6:17 pm

Although Jkk, how Kalima does it day after day is a source of raising wonderment to me.

» Posted By foodchain On May 29, 2011 @ 5:52 pm

Joy to the Word, Three Dog Night! Gotta be there! And we are now in serious pet acquisition talk no thanks to you!

» Posted By foodchain On May 29, 2011 @ 5:50 pm

Kalima, we haven’t “Met” but I read your post every morning and it keeps alive what is no longer in our news stream. Reading about the children swept away, picturing the early images, reading your comments on awaking to massive aftershocks; this is something that should stay with us as reminders of life’s fragility and of the powers around us. We take both for granted so easily. My son was in the Chengdu, China earthquake and I lived a few days with the fear of not knowing if he was hurt or dead or well. I’m so sorry that the grief in Japan still has no opportunity to heal.

My sincere wishes for a physical end to the tragedy, but at best I/we feel helpless. I can only begin to feel the enormity and complexity of this world from my now safe spot.

» Posted By foodchain On April 13, 2011 @ 4:55 am

Vent all you want; you should have that and more. I think there are many people here who are wonderful resources and you all seem to share a very close relationship. Use them. Use them. They would adore it.

If I was someone you knew well, I would say use me as well. We are here.

» Posted By foodchain On March 30, 2011 @ 7:23 pm

My very best wishes to you and your family. My son was missing for 2 days during the Chengdu earthquake. I have only a small feeling as I was told the city didn’t suffer damage. The distance and the magnitude, the inability to influence or even have questions answered is so difficult. Again, our best hopes and prayers.

» Posted By foodchain On March 19, 2011 @ 5:22 pm