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Mark S -- I like your words. May I use them in an email? Do you want me to identify you as the source? Feel free to say no to everything I requested.
I think that these RepubliThugs are using their own constituents poorly and need to be voted out of office.
Now the problem is to get Grass Roots Action moving in Georgia and pushing for the right to have this coverage.
Many people are going to be hurt by this and people will die. Those who have blocked the ACA from their constituents should be arrested for Wrongful Death charges, if this happens.
No one is above the Law and even Lawmakers must pay the price when they are wrong.
Where are the Preachers and Elders of the Churches who help the poor and who should be supporting the People? Why aren't they speaking out and telling the truth rather than the lies of the GOP/TeaPartiers?
Where is the Christian service of ministering to the weak and ill? Christ healed the sick and disabled with no question about who they were and what they did with their lives. He only wanted them to know the Love of God.
The ACA is one way for all of us to help each other, like Jesus taught. Stop this stupidity and Share the Love.
Just Sayin'.
I agree that the states that have used the Supreme Court decision, which allows them to opt-out of the Medicaid part of the ACA is criminal.The Supreme Court ruling, created the avenue for states to refuse the 100% funding of Medicaid. These states are playing politics with the people who need healthcare the most!! I wish their actions could be illegal and all so-called representatives of the people could be prosecuted or sued in civil courts, but the Supreme Court once again saw an opportunity in the Act and made the action of these states legal. I do not know what we can do with the "red" states who are brainwashed by the corporate media. I live in a one of these states and to my dismay too many people are blaming the ACA and President Obama. The strategy of the right-wing Republicans in these states seems to be working. If I challenge someone about these beliefs, they become angry and have no logical answers for their opinions. I will continue to fight to get these people out of office this year.
We're paying for their healthcare already. Making the ACA available to them will only help bring the costs down for everyone.
Republican members of Congress and Republican Governors will do anything they can to make the Affordable Care Act to appear to be a disaster. If that means that 100,000's of their citizens go without coverage, that is fine with them. If they allowed these folks to get coverage they would be pleased with the health care services. That pleasure would make them likely to support Democratic candidates. This is not about money it is about politics and power. The Republican Party leadership is completely corrupt. They behave as if they are domestic terrorists.
Kend! What the f are you talking about? There's always a vote for a union. There's never a vote to not have a union that isn't rigged like this one.
You can't fault a union for not wanting plants migrating to right-to-work-for-nickels states.
You're so sincere, Kend, that's your most endearing quality.
Aliceinwonderland and Loren Bliss:
That quote also made me smile a bit when I read it..there were others as well. What a gift of words!
By the way, that Antique Sandwich Co. shop is at 5102 N. Pearl Street, Tacoma, WA. It's got a really nice mural on the side of two "Indian?" mermaids each sitting in a sea shell: one holding a fox and the other a bird in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other. There's an owl, a snake, a tree, dolphin, star fish, an octopus. And there is a river in the background. Guess I know where to get my next cup of java now! Google Earth Street View can take you there in a flash!
What this translates to is a death sentence for an untold number of people who, knowingly or unknowingly, suffer from life-threatening conditions... all just to be a pawn on someone else's chess board. If that doesn't highlight the naked, raw evil of the "Party of No", nothing does. In my opinion, these Republican governors should be lined up and shot. - Aliceinwonderland
Likewise a pleasure for me/Loren
kend -- Do you think 2 million is a lot of money? Also, what is source of your number?
The union spent over two million dollars trying to do the same.
Un(BLEEPING)believable. I understand the importance and neceesity of "capital" in a 'Capitalistic" Society, but I do not understand Elected Government officials threatening labor and apparently, LYING, to intimidate labor....thes two individuals completely exemplify the epitome of the "I GOT MINE" attitude of the people who bow down to $$$$$ at the expense of others. No moral grounds for these two officials.
Not if the majority of the NLRB were apporinted by GWB or before! Look at how the Supreme Court, with its life tenure, reflects the Republican position in almost all matters before it.
Loren, I clicked Palin's version of that link and checked it out. I love the effect of those photos together, with the woman's face superimposed over that image of the trees. You are quite the accomplished artist.
Into the sixth paragraph of Dancer Resurrected, Part One, I encountered this gem of a quote: "Perhaps – as some of us suggested in more wildly speculative moments – patriarchy was the alien psycho-bacteriological equivalent of the bombardment that precedes an invasion, intended to purge our world of life and reduce it to a trash planet fit only to house and feed an unimaginably predatory intergalactic empire of capitalist cockroaches." Loren, that is brilliant! Priceless! Hell hath no fury like a man of letters with a heart and conscience, and strong sense of social justice.
I'm intrigued by your perspective on capitalism as an offshoot (my paraphrase) of patriarchy; also the ruling class's hostility towards artists, creative people of both genders. As to the latter, I believe this was a primary source of the pain and trauma I experienced in school as a child. That environment was so toxic, so suffocating, it nearly killed me. Even the golden era of public schooling had its down side, as these institutions were designed to crank out armies of worker bees, not free thinkers or innovators. Qualities like authenticity, creativity and autonomy were squelched by the school system. Between that and the bullying I endured, it was an ordeal just growing up in that environment. By age fifteen I had already survived several (thankfully inept) suicide attempts. No one could pay me to re-live those early teen years. I believe my story is far from unique, that many creative souls have suffered some version of this nightmare.
My early experiences with the gender divide were opposite yours in certain ways. As a prepubescent child, I preferred boys as playmates because they tended to favor the rough-and-tumble types of activities I liked. Other girls harassed me relentlessly and ostracized me for not being feminine enough, in demeanor or attire, to fit in their circles.
Reading of your untimely parting with Tawna, I'm reminded of the crushing limits poverty can impose on our lives and destinies. What it robs one of goes well beyond deprivation of goods and services, taking its toll on that which gives life meaning.
As always, Loren, it's been a pleasure. - Aliceinwonderland
Loren Bliss: You're right...that link doesn't seem to work but this one does:
http://lorenbliss.typepad.com/loren-bliss-outside-agitators-notebook/201...
By the way....nice photo! Nice story. Very well written!
As soon as you refer to your union leaders as "union bosses", you tip your hand as an imposter. The union is not an entity of itself. The members ARE the union and need to be active to prevent corruption within the leadership they elect.
I am sick to death of the lies and yes they should vote again. Senator Corker and the governor should be ashamed of themselves. I don't know how these people sleep at night or even how they can live with their lies and deceptions. Then I hear ordinary citizens who think the Republicans can do no wrong and I just shake my head in disbelief. Can they be so blind? I like to remind people that ignorance is a choice not a requirement.
SO I am confused - are you saying that the 1500 people at the VW factory are the only people in the state of TENNESSEE that voted for the elected officials? THAT would be an extremely low turn out for a state election.
The "world's largest solar power plant" mentioned in today's show (which I found out about via the newsletter, since I can't listen to the show on Monday through Thursday) happens to be something I drove by on vacation in late September, the month it started operations. When I mentioned it later on Facebook (because there was an article about it in Discover magazine), it turned out that an old friend of mine had been one of the workers that built it.
It was amazing to see three shallow cones of haze peaking at the tops of the central towers. There's so much light that it has noticeable scattering compared to the ambient daylight that produces it.
sorry but these autoworkers did elect these officals . they got what they wanted . to be treated as stupid humanbeings that can't think for themselves. it is to scary.
Putting American first in syntax would actually make it second in emphasis. An African American is a type of American (who happens to be African). An American African is a type of African (who happens to be American).
It's adjective versus noun. A red ball is thought of as a ball first, and as a red object second. This is what linguists call a "head final" phrasing.
Once again, this shows that money can buy stupid.
THERE is no use having another vote until corker's claims have been completely and publicly investigated. NOW since the threats have been planted in the minds of the workers - there is no way to erase those threats without having a complete, unbias, public investigation - to prove to the workers without any doubt - that political intimadation was used to influence their votes -
SINCE the vote went against the UAW there is no reason for VW to postpone the announcement that Chattanooga has been awarded the additional work - corker needs to call his source and tell him/her to make the announcement - that the workers are standing outside his house with torches and pitchforks - he needs that announcement !
The link I sent you above won't open, probably not targeted censorship, rather just software common to mainstream websites that automatically kills (censors) any links to posters' blogs unless they're also mainstream. Not to worry: just Google the title and it will get you there.
Thank you for the compliments, Alice. From you they are indeed meaningful.
Meanwhile you have shown me a unique and decidedly intriguing quality of memory, the recollection of an essay's content not so much by its (unavoidably) linear text as by the qualities summarized in the distinctly non-linear iconography of its illustration. In other words, you understood -- which damn few people (allow themselves to) do.
The "etherial images" piece is "Abutments," an account of an eerie, compelling and ultimately pivotal experience I had in the deeper woods of Northern Michigan (the Au Sable River country, upper part of the Lower Peninsula) when I was 12. "'Dancer' Resurrected: a Story of Love, Art, Sex and Revolution" is infinitely more linear, a reconstructed summary of "Glimpses of a Pale Dancer," the 24-year book project, its 75,000-word manuscript lost with its two filing-cabinet drawers of research notes and nearly all its photographs in the 1983 fire. The connection between the two texts, apart from their shared metaphysical elements, is the illustration: I used a sandwich to illustrate "Abutments" because the other-worldly quality of this particular image seemed just right for the text. (The sandwich is made of my casual portrait of a beautiful young woman with long windblown hair printed atop my I-was-here photo of a grove of young alder in the Cascade back country; the alders are bisected by an abandoned road, now just a path, that though filled with early-autumn leaves is reminiscent of the abandoned road that is the setting for "Abutments.") Then a year or so later I wrote "'Dancer' Resurrected" and used the same sandwich, this time because the woman in the image is in real life the woman whose role is so central to its text.
"Abutments," a chapter from my memoirs, is only about 4,000 words, but "'Dancer'" is very long, 20,344 words according to the counter on my computer (I remembered it as 22,000 words, which means I have already edited it down a bit, but as I said, it remains in dire need of rigorous editing by a skilled editor).
"'Dancer' Resurrected," as its subtitle implies, is both a love story and a summary of the key findings detailed and thoroughly documented in the original full-length book -- that the Counterculture (which I define in its broadest sense to include feminism, environmentalism, the Back-to-the-Land movement, the alternative press, the associated music and art, the restoration of the musician to the role of bard, the pagan renaissance, the advent of genuinely woman-centered families resulting from white women chosing single parenthood, etc.), was not merely an extension of the Peace and Civil Rights movements (as it was self-servingly defined by the Left) nor a generational tantrum (as it was defined by Ruling Class media), but rather the first wave of the greatest and potentially most healing revolution in our species history: the overthrow of patriarchy -- the symbolic and conceptional epicenter of which is (as both Robert Graves and Edward Whitmont, who was the head of the Jungian Institute, called it in separate pieces, the former an essay, the latter a book), The Return of the Goddess.
"'Dancer' Resurrected" is here: http://lorenbliss.typepad.com/loren-bliss-outside-agitators-notebook/201... Its primary relevance to this conversation is its discussion of the matriarchal origins of traditional balladry, the seemingly magickal evocative power such liturgical fragments yet possess, and the semiotic and prophetic messages conveyed by the Counterculture's eager adoption not just of the associated symbolism (as in folk rock) but of the mores, folkways and modes of living so implied (as in communes, consciousness-raising collectives, the restoration of writers, artists and especially musicians to bardical roles of cultural leadership, etc.). If I were to pick one of the many cited works of music as the icon of its hypothesis, it would be a verse from Tim Buckley's "Phantasmagoria in Two," which beyond its deceptively contemporary form is an archetypal dialogue between the Muse -- the Goddess -- and the bard who is also her lover and prophet:
It you tell me a lie I'll cry for you
Tell me of sin and I'll laugh
If you tell me of all the pain you've had
I'll never smile again
Heavy stuff. But as Graves said: "there is one story and one story only."