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Weekend Music Thread – Woodstock

Well said.

» Posted By nehalem On August 21, 2019 @ 12:13 pm

I was 10 years old at the time – with older siblings. We had the Woodstock album. That’s as close as we got to experiencing it. My sisters changed the stereo needle often on that stereo – we played the heck out of it. If you were 10 years old or 40 – you were changed by it. For me – in every good way. Sacred stuff. Look at that list of performers.

» Posted By nehalem On August 21, 2019 @ 8:53 am

We had the Woodstock album at our house when I was growing up. It actually belonged to my sister. We played it on my parent’s huge stereo. Growing up with Woodstock as our “norm” musically – I feel like my generation got its “fill” experientially. “Like” rock concerts or not – even as a pre teen listening to Woodstock in our living room with my teenaged sisters – I got it. Life is meant to have no borders. No restrictions. Freedom. No war. No more of the “man” telling us what to do/stealing our money just so it goes into his bank account. Those of us who lived the Woodstock era – and let it wash over us without anyone telling us it was “wrong” – we know what we know. We were FREED by it. I credit my parents back in the 1960’s – for not telling us otherwise.

» Posted By nehalem On August 21, 2019 @ 8:41 am

Biden Takes on Trump: A Call to Integrity and Courage in The Wave of Two Mass Shootings

Ah, free speech. And Planet POV promoting that this site is dedicated to it. I disagree with you. Biden isnt our best. Biden isn’t the presumed nominee. Biden is a LIABIILITY. I substantiated why – and 51 percent of the Democratic party who identify as liberal aren’t bending over fearing what happens next if we don’t kiss Biden’s corporatist pinkie ring. WE THE PEOPLE can secure the nomination for the Democratic party and the White House without fear mongering by party members incapable of embracing change. Twice over during the election process leading up to elected day 2020 – my state allows for mail in voting with an audit verifying paper ballot – which means no Russian interference messes with our votes – counted on a secured computer system that never is connected to the internet or the Kremlin. The fact is this – if we want to dump Trump we band together and offer the people OUR best. Exactly what we didn’t do in 2016. And exactly what we MUST DO in 2020. And that’s no secret – to any American. That’s not just “my” opinion. I do have every free right to ponder – does jake really want Trump taken down – or not? Seating a new persident who will represent not only the Democratic party’s status quo or the GOP status quo but ALL people is the reason we hold presidential elections – in my opinion. The REASON for the 2020 election. I’m crystal clear on all of that. That is MY opinion.

» Posted By nehalem On August 11, 2019 @ 1:10 pm

Any argument for trying to promote Biden is a dead in the water salvo if ever there was one. We don’t headline with Biden. We sink doing that – Bernie didn’t create the crises of no confidence – Biden did. WE HEADLINE WITH SOMEONE WHO GUARANTEES CHANGE. And can earn GOP votes as well as the growing numbers of liberal Dems – because the headline this week of Americans committing suicide in blue states due to being bankrupted and stripped bare by our corrupt healthcare system -isn’t something Biden can be trusted to fix. He has NEVER lead on a fix. He has never been the go to person on healthcare or immigration or war or education or…. so let’s get real. AND finally realize change. Our party’s liberal leaders have been talking about solutions for years now. Let’s make it happen.

» Posted By nehalem On August 10, 2019 @ 5:47 pm

Both of my millenial college educated kids too – are tired of imagining another four years without CHANGE. Sanders. Warren. Buttigieg. And Gabbard – all make the cut with them – and surprisingly with my 85 year old liberal valued mother.

» Posted By nehalem On August 10, 2019 @ 5:42 pm

I agree Biden is coma inducing. I don’t know about O’Rourke. I want a single payer universal nominee and I am not shy about that fact. Bring up private insurance and I see and hear a candidate dog whistling his support of private insurance and big pharma that have had nothing but ill intent for the past intent – raping and pillaging Americans in regard to premiums and prescriptions costs. Americans committing suicide now – and losing all hope for the change we all need – we can’t stand before Americans, IMO, with noting but full on single payer universal – because it past time Americans were ALl treated the same. No more class system healthcare and bankrupting of Americans too. Is O’Rourke strong on an immigration plan Rust belt states can appreciate? I hope so. We won’t topple Trump in all 50 states if we fail to offer up every American the best CHANGE REALIZING PLATFORM WE CAN.

» Posted By nehalem On August 10, 2019 @ 5:39 pm

Warren/Sanders. Warren/Gabbard – or Buttigieg. That’s where our party strength is. Why should the people dump Trump and then realize being dumbed down by a status quo corporatist occupying our White House next? What’s the point of that? I want single payer universal – or something as close to that as the people can secure. I want immigration reform that is common sense ethical and enforceable – that the world can appreciate is fair. I want war to end and only by seating a foreign policy credible president will we secure that. Biden is too military industrial complex comfortable – he can’t be trusted. Warren and Sanders resonateas champions for ending war. So does Gabbard and Buttigieg. It is what it is – and at the first caucus I attend – I don’t want anyone talking to me about polls. I know that much – for certain.

» Posted By nehalem On August 10, 2019 @ 5:34 pm

Today’s polls. Tomorrow’s polls. So what. We can’t quite put our finger on what it is about Biden. It isn’t that he’s a leader. He’s being pushed on us – no one is seeking him out. He all but disappeared from sight post Obama – and when Obama was in office – was Biden really “necessary” as a Democratic party voice? No – he was not. It was ALL Obama to me. And everyone else knows that to be true, too. It was ALL Obama and his liberal values – to all of us. Its not going to be a 2020 election based on anything but the long list of critical issues – health care, immigration, gun reform, the war, etc – the people have waited far to long to see realized and know we never will – if Trump is re-elected. Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg, Gabbard – let’s talk – if we are to be the party of change that actually DELIVERS. Isn’t that how we play this election cycle – instead of relying on polls and trying to elevate hobbled status quo Biden – over Trump?

» Posted By nehalem On August 10, 2019 @ 5:27 pm

Is the Insistence of Moderate Dems to Win Back Trump Voters…a Racial Thing?

Whoa – moderate Dems aren’t the demographic that will secure who our nominee is – to begin with. Our party is 51 percent liberal – and that number is growing. So it’s liberal Democrats who will VOTE WITH INTENT as to “choice” – not with ulterior motive. Straight on vote based on our list of priorities- because all things in D.C. have to change – not just dumping Trump out. Democrats heading to caucuses across the nation – know all of that. I know we do. Let’s get REAL ABOUT IT. Main stream news and political anaylsts paid by corporate entities to opine – need to sit back and observe the process. The people’s process. It’s not tied to the status quo’s playbook – anymore.

» Posted By nehalem On August 9, 2019 @ 10:38 am

Chat Live at PlanetPOV During Tonight’s 2nd Democratic Debate!!! 9:00pm EDT/6:00pm PDT

What will be the questions the moderators from MSNBC select for tonight’s slate of candidates. I wish the the questions came from the people. Last night’s questions weren’t “bad”, I just felt they were too soft. Sell me tonight – if I had the chance to ask EACH CANDIDATE this question – how can you beat Trump? It can’t just be that you aren’t Trump – and that’s it. Sell yourself to the GOP tonight – not just to each of us – because we must nominate a candidate who can get us all the way back to the White House. As a liberal Democrat I want to know from MSNBC’s perspective – what will it take to get a majority of GOP voters as well as a majority of Dem voters to agree on a singular candidate. I felt as though – sincerity factor – Tulsi Gabbard went the furthest toward connecting with me and she was speaking to Americans across the divide too. And Gabbard wasn’t even on my radar – before yesterday. You gotta be genuine and sincere. Tulsi Gabbard on the stage after these two debates have been wrapped up – with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Governor Inslee. I like parring candidates down like that. I can let go of a whole host of others – if I think like that. What will it take… to be trusted and believed – and unite both parties.

» Posted By nehalem On June 27, 2019 @ 12:12 pm

Aiding And Abetting Treason

You make a compelling argument, TOCB. What is known today is far more transparent knowledge of the man overall than what was known during the 2016 campaign, which leaned heavily on Trump being a sexual predator – not an overseas engaging treasonous candidate. Your argument re treason by Americans voters in 2016 seems grounded in fact – but in fact the full picture regarding candidate Trump wasn’t anywhere what it is today. And it was one that appeared in 2016 to equally capture Hillary Clinton as someone also engaging in foreign influence peddling too.

As we head into the primary process for the selection of our next president, the American people require the guarantee of a process all our own. Without a doubt every week we witness our elected leaders holding back on impeachment proceedings – we keep every American paralyzed, while we simultaneously attempt to find fault with the people too.

We are a nation in crises and in contempt of our own constitution – paralyzed by it – not freed. Get on with it, members of the House Judiciary. Stop blaming me. Or my neighbor. Stop selling the presumed necessity of the process. We the people aren’t the ones opposed to it. We the people are the upholders of the reasons our constitution provides for impeachment. We the people are the ones who provided every member of the US Congress their privileged seats as representatives of the people. If those elected members we seated can’t or won’t do their jobs – is that OUR fault?

» Posted By nehalem On June 24, 2019 @ 9:20 am

Here We Go, AGAIN!

I agree about elevating women this time around. And remembering to elevate candidates for our party nomination who are liberal like 51 percent of our party. Tulsi Gabbard – who already has the endorsement of multiple liberal groups and was active duty during this war – as well as Kamala Harris too – has also aligned her foreign policy resume with Bernie Sander’s Yemen resolution – so she is capable of looking at the Middle East and recognizing we need to get the hell out of it. She just isn’t quite there yet with single payer universal. My hope is by the next round of debates she will be fully there. Let’s also look at Bernie Sanders seriously too. Why not? He hasn’t gotten it wrong since he aligned with that war/peace resolution and that matters to Americans – matters deeply so – to me. and of course he has it right when it comes to healthcare – and that matters to all Americans – deeply so – regardless of your gender.
Any number of combinations between Gabbard, Sanders, Harris and Buttigieg (a war veteran too) please me. For now. Whomever earns our nomination must be able to enact plans if they are elected that they are actually detailing for us today. Who owns that platform – and who is ready. And who is liberal – like 51 percent of our party. It matters to Democrats that you vote and act and represent the people like you are one today – liberal. Not just saying you are a Democrat – but you vote and accept donations and influence peddle behind closed doors – like you are a Republican.

» Posted By nehalem On July 2, 2019 @ 9:14 am

A year previous to the 2016 campaign the nation didn’t see Trump taking over our White House like he did either. Earthquake engaging. I don’t think someone as history and progressive record conflicted as Biden – who didn’t do enough as a US Senator or VEEP to establish himself as a COURAGEOUS leader on any issue of note – can swing it. We voted in Obama to institute change. He forever more changed our political sphere. History making. I was all in for him doing that. Someone like Bernie Sanders IMO has the earthquake capacity potential. Perhaps someone like Elizabeth Warren too – a Sanders/Warren combination IMO is in serious contender territory. If we are honest. Biden – same ole same ole dog whisting to corporate donors -they are safe with him. Status quo. We can wish for everyone to vote for Biden just because. But at the end of the day – if that’s all we end up settling for – wow. After four years of Trump and that’s it. Biden? Come on, Americans. WE CAN DO BETTER. I know we can.

» Posted By nehalem On June 27, 2019 @ 1:48 pm

Well, I do recall the resolution and I do recall why Senators voted as they did – and if your constituency was in New York, as Senator Clinton’s was at the time, or in Delaware, as Senator Biden’s was at the time – you voted as you believed your constituency would want you to vote. FOR WAR. Or at least that is what they told news services at the time. Which makes Senator Sanders, also a east coast representing Senator, and his vote against this war resolutions – more to the point and time tested. He meant it. Then and now. And he believed his constituency backed him up. Given his constituency continued to support him at the ballot box multiple times since then – credit Senator Senaders. I do. Issue him a necessary war and let’s see how Senator Sanders votes. There hasn’t been one – to date.

All we needed to do in response to 9/11 was what took down Osama Bin Laden in the end – at the executive direction of then Commander in Chief Obama – a special ops Navy Seal operation. And if all of our memory’s serve us and videotape of that time affirms – then President Bush in 2001 promised us all exactly that, but unlike Commander in Chief Obama (who didn’t order up the Navy Seal special ops take down of Bin Laden until 2011), Bush went and mucked it all up – full on war mongering. And the rest is history. Why not just wait patiently until our intelligence located Bin Laden – and take him out? Why indeed did successive American presidents CHOOSE to expand war out to seven nations across the Middle East, while also involving Iran, Russia and Israel in it all – too? Could it be the lure of defense industry monies was too much – as was pressure from Israel, Russia, a war thirsting Pentagon?

Inexplicable never ending war that got hand delivered to President Donald Trump. Did any of that very real endangering and taking down of US Troops along with the loss of unknown numbers of innocent civilians across the Middle East need to occur? Did WE really require a war resolution – at all. Let’s ask Senator Sanders about ALL of that. I would rather listen to him speak on the issue than those that rushed us into war and expanded out war – and to this day – can’t defend it. When all we needed to do – we eventually did do – in 2011. Take Osama Bin Laden out.

» Posted By nehalem On June 23, 2019 @ 1:33 pm

History is Made In North Carolina!!

Thank you, Angela. I am so pleased to hear something affirmative about our party. Good on rural North Carolina for LEADING the nation. Let’s hope in four more years or eight – more counties – rural and urban – follow the lead of Americans like yourself, out there in Lizard’s Lick, North Carolina. IT’S YOUR RIGHT TO ADVOCATE FOR AND INFLUENCE THE PROCESS OF ELECTING OUR NEXT PRESIDENT – why isn’t this historic moment front page news? It should be. I am a member of every form of Democratic party group – why haven’t they been publishing what you all did down in North Carolina. I intend to promote your caucuses existence – I intend to advocate for more inclusion of transgender Democrats – why isn’t there ONE out here in my super majority Democratic proud Oregon – beats me.
As you noted, Angela – never before has the caucus table cared about including the voices of our nation’s transgender citizens – urban and rural – and now it is. Take a bow, Angela. I welcome the inclusion of Americans left out of the process and the conversation regarding anything and all things politics. This is a very good day for America.

» Posted By nehalem On June 27, 2019 @ 8:39 am

Short Posts

I’m going to fly three times in eight days in a private jet… because I can.

What’s new? Net neutrality. Nothing new about it. In this case – fly commercial – like everyone else. No additional carbon footprint erasing needs to be paid for – somewhere else. No additional costs need to be incurred. No pollution to the planet you are choosing to generate needs to be excused away – because you are a “good” person or Elton John used to know your mother…

» Posted By nehalem On August 22, 2019 @ 11:16 am

We went all in for an intentionally flawed health care system in 2009 – many of us because we were lied to about it by Democratic party leaders in each of our states, leaders we had trusted for literally decades – up to that point. We can’t waste this better knowing/transparent opportunity in 2019, when everyone knows the top issue across the nation is healthcare (immigration and our war too), on some watered down proposition that the time isn’t right quite yet – to fix it all. No way in my opinion is some “let’s all agree to a baby step change” a winning strategy from my Democratic party or for any singular candidate after all these years. It’s time for those (pandered to) classes of Americans back in 2009 who were the actual recepients of full rights to affordability and full coverage and actual prescription costs that are economically affordable to step up and say – it’s not right that I have mine and in 2009 you were targetted and left out of receiving the same. It’s not right – AND I KNOW IT. And so do corporations who secretly benefitted from that from 2009 until now – and we need to be the party that shames health care corporations and pharmaceuticals. Not the party today with certain supposed front runninv candidates who on day one of their campaign chose to meet with Blue Cross’s CEO in private – where an exchange of money occured. It has to be we ALL AGREE TO FIX ALL OF IT this election cycle. And upon agreeing to that – there is no rationale on earth that suggests we put off single payer universal for all – for another election cycle and then another. We can’t justify doing that to Americans – we know better. We know we do.

» Posted By nehalem On June 27, 2019 @ 1:12 pm

Once we shed corporatists like Joe Biden who is end running progress on the issue of realizing health care reform by meeting in secret with corporation after corporation promising them things like “nothing will change for you if you give me a million or two right now”… Hey, Amelek – it’s nice to see you posting. I used to contribute under the name Dala Horse on another site. Think taxation, Amalek. All of us would rather pay incrementally more for single payer universal because over the long haul of all of our lives and the lives of Americans for generations to come WE will be controlling partners in cost for prescriptions and costs of premiums, Amalek and we won’t be boxed out of procedures of prescriptions because our coverage isn’t the same as the entitled lot who have a different plan – some of those who pay nothing for it. Because that’s the separate but unequal plan their union secured for them. But that boxes every other American out. We gotta get to a REAL point in this discussion – about what we finally pass and support that is the same for all. For the same cost. I trust we will, Amalek. And we know Biden won’t be the one leading that charge. But no one should feel sorry for Joe. There is always a speakinv circuit for him. And millions in corporate spare change lying around – just for him. Regardless. Who leads us to the same health care for all – Bernie. That fact as we proceed forward will only be more and more apparent. As we cross candidates off the list in the short run like the Delaney’s and DeBlasio’s.

» Posted By nehalem On June 27, 2019 @ 12:52 pm

Thank you, Adlib – I have watched Delaney try to debate with The Young Turks, Cenk Ungar in the past – and fail miserably in regard to issues like single payer universal. Cross Delaney off the list.

» Posted By nehalem On June 27, 2019 @ 12:45 pm

I am hoping tonight Bernie Sanders spends ALL of his time laying out why single payer universal – “medicare for all” – isn’t a bankrupting plan or a plan that lowers the levels of medical care Americans perceive they will receive. I am hoping the door gets opened to serious candidates beginning the process of open discussion with ALL Americans regarding universal health care for all. Americans haven’t had that discussion yet. When we attempt to have it – we are called antidemocratic or “socialist” – as if all that matters is name calling and strong arm leveraging a critical issue away. WE as a party have spent far too much time defending the ACA and not near enough time allowing Americans to be informed – Dems and GOP – about how we can all get past being divided about it – to the point where ALL AMERICANS BEING ON THE SAME PLAN AND PAYING THE SAME FOR THE SAME PLAN – isn’t treasonous or wrong. It’s actually fair and just – and reconciles deep class system divides. AND ONCE AND FOR ALL is the only thing that guarantees from here on out a realized way to keep health care affordable. As was promised to ALL of us – from day one – long, long, long ago.

» Posted By nehalem On June 27, 2019 @ 8:52 am