The Promised Land...
Live 1978
There's going to be a twister that blows everything down
That ain't got the faith to stand it's ground
...and I believe in a Promised Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrKh1zxv_rQ
9/21/10
Quote of the Day: Paul Ryan
Say it again with feeling, like you really mean it...
"We need to establish the proverbial lines in the sand and show we are serious about limited government," said Wisconsin's Rep. Paul Ryan, a leading conservative who is in line to chair the House budget committee if Republicans take control.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R, WI)
"GOP Aims to Erode White House Agenda"
Wall Street Journal online 09/20/10
"We need to establish the proverbial lines in the sand and show we are serious about limited government," said Wisconsin's Rep. Paul Ryan, a leading conservative who is in line to chair the House budget committee if Republicans take control.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R, WI)
"GOP Aims to Erode White House Agenda"
Wall Street Journal online 09/20/10
IMHO: Social Conservatives and Liberals
Social Conservatives are like Liberals...
Nunya business. Keep the government out of my life.
It occurs to me that Social Conservatives place as much demand on the government as Liberals do. They both want to use government intervention and money to forward their social behavior agenda and dictate to everyone their view of how people should behave.
Americans are basically centrist and lean to the right on fiscal issues, and most don't want the government interfering with peoples daily lives, even if they personally hold conservative views on individual behavior. It goes against the grain of their sense of fairness. There is something equally offensive about both Affirmative Action quotas and restriction of women's access to medical abortion by government edict.
Social Conservatives and Liberals need to repeat to themselves over and over again, that the economic crisis and the Great Disruption, overrides everything now. Americans can't afford and won't be distracted by social agendas until their economic concerns are resolved. It explains the Tea Party movement, which is based on one central theme: confronting politicians about taxes, spending, debt and government intervention and not about a myriad of pet grievances such as minority rights or abortion.
Nunya business. Keep the government out of my life.
It occurs to me that Social Conservatives place as much demand on the government as Liberals do. They both want to use government intervention and money to forward their social behavior agenda and dictate to everyone their view of how people should behave.
Americans are basically centrist and lean to the right on fiscal issues, and most don't want the government interfering with peoples daily lives, even if they personally hold conservative views on individual behavior. It goes against the grain of their sense of fairness. There is something equally offensive about both Affirmative Action quotas and restriction of women's access to medical abortion by government edict.
Social Conservatives and Liberals need to repeat to themselves over and over again, that the economic crisis and the Great Disruption, overrides everything now. Americans can't afford and won't be distracted by social agendas until their economic concerns are resolved. It explains the Tea Party movement, which is based on one central theme: confronting politicians about taxes, spending, debt and government intervention and not about a myriad of pet grievances such as minority rights or abortion.
9/20/10
Music Break: Don McLean
Vincent...
"Now I understand, what you tried to say to me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mPBUKcn4Gs
"Now I understand, what you tried to say to me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mPBUKcn4Gs
Quote of the Day: George Santayana
On words and images as shells integral with substance...
Masks are arrested expressions and admirable echoes of feeling, at once faithful, discreet, and superlative. Living things in contact with the air must acquire a cuticle, and it is not urged against cuticles that they are not hearts; yet some philosophers seem to be angry with images for not being things, and words with not being feelings. Words and images are like shells, no less integral parts of nature that are the substances they cover, but better addressed to the eye and more open to observation. I would not say that substance exists for the sake of appearance, or faces for the sake of masks, or the passions for the sake of poetry and virtue. Nothing arises in nature for the sake of anything else; all these phases and products are involved equally in the round of existence....
George Santayana
"Soliloquies in England and Late Soliloquies" 1922
Masks are arrested expressions and admirable echoes of feeling, at once faithful, discreet, and superlative. Living things in contact with the air must acquire a cuticle, and it is not urged against cuticles that they are not hearts; yet some philosophers seem to be angry with images for not being things, and words with not being feelings. Words and images are like shells, no less integral parts of nature that are the substances they cover, but better addressed to the eye and more open to observation. I would not say that substance exists for the sake of appearance, or faces for the sake of masks, or the passions for the sake of poetry and virtue. Nothing arises in nature for the sake of anything else; all these phases and products are involved equally in the round of existence....
George Santayana
"Soliloquies in England and Late Soliloquies" 1922
FWIW: A Different Drum
Marching to Zion...
If my life ended tomorrow, which I certainly hope it doesn't, I can sure say it hasn't been boring because I made sure it wasn't.
If my life ended tomorrow, which I certainly hope it doesn't, I can sure say it hasn't been boring because I made sure it wasn't.
9/17/10
Quote of the Day: Barry Goldwater
Goldwater warning religious factions on dictating moral beliefs...
On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position in which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally than one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout the land are not using their clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders to follow their position 100 percent.
I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me that if I want to be a moral citizen, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
Barry Goldwater
Speech in US Senate 09/16/81
On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position in which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally than one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout the land are not using their clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders to follow their position 100 percent.
I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me that if I want to be a moral citizen, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
Barry Goldwater
Speech in US Senate 09/16/81
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