There was a Flower Festival in our little town yesterday. Sort of our version of a big football game or a Swift type event. People from miles around came and gaped. Makes one dare to think things aren’t so bad, after all. But then I thought I heard an argument break out over by the Calla Lillies…and someone thought there were not enough yellow Roses.
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ODDS WITHOUT ENDS:
- Here’s what I’d like: I’d like the Presidential candidates to take a Rorschach Test. You know, those tests where they show you something that looks like a blood splatter, or a grape that has been stepped on and you are supposed to tell the examiner what it makes you think of. I’ll bet you could decide pretty quick which guy you’d want in the Oval Office if you heard their imaginings.”Person, woman, man, camera, TV” be Goldarned.
- We (the Editorial ‘We”) watch a lot of NEWS and frequently bear witness to interviews which are often very good; but do not ask THE FOLLOW-UP question we wished had been asked. For example, the other day we saw an interview with a former U.S. Attorney General, who also had been a close advisor to the recent Former President. He said what we would consider to be horrible and Goldarning statements about his Former; but in the end he said he would vote for him again anyway…Asked why, he said because he did not like the ‘Progressive Agenda’ of the other side. Our FOLLOW-UP would have been “What do you mean by ‘Progressive Agenda’?” Expecting the worst; it must be horrible, I thought. So I looked it up on the Googler. Here is what I found the un-liked ‘Progressive Agenda’ to be – as far as I can decipher: 1) “Put People Back to Work, Give Workers More Power, and Transform to a Clean Renewable Energy Economy”….and, or 2) “Ensure Health Care for Everyone, Defend and Expand Voting Rights, Strengthen Democracy and End Corruption, Dismantle Racism, White Supremacy and Inequality in All Institutions, End Endless Wars and Invest in Diplomacy and Peace, End Corporate Greed and Corporate Monopolies”…Just so you know which side you are in.
- We read where some Cephalopods (small squids) go transparent to avoid detection – so as not to be eaten – and they can go dark so light will not expose them…they can make these changes in a fraction of a second…and then we read some predators have searchlights which can reflect transparencies……It is all about trying to eat and not be eaten, light and dark and transparencies…it is as it is below, as it is above. Is it not? Watch the news, the trials, the campaigns…you will see what we mean.
A quote or two:
- “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox; but the serpent—its food shall be dust!”; Isaih 11:6-7
- “The whole world is suffering from unhappy souls/ The French hate the Germans/ The Germans hate the Poles/ Italians hate Yugoslavs/ South Africans hate the Dutch/…And I don’t like anybody very much” – Song, The Kingston Trio, late 1950’s
- “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (“The more things change, the more they remain the same”) -Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr – mid 1880’s
That’s it for the week…and a fond “Hello” to Morgan & Chris, wherever you are…
Just a thought:
Progressive Left are the only typology group in which a majority (62%) says that success in life is largely outside of an individual’s control.
The ideals of the progressive left are all laudable no doubt. The question about “who’s side are you on” is easy to answer when the alternative is the opposite of these things. None the less, there are many on the left that are not so progressive. The real question maybe is “what is the best way to achieve these outcomes?”
Bring us back the “Blue Gog Democrats” that believed the Federal Government isn’t the ONLY answer to these challenges. I for one miss the leadership of JFK. Robert F Kennedy JR is maybe worth a look.
Yo! Matt, Thank you for reading the Blog! …I likes the definition of Progressives in your first para…and am astonished to find I am among the 62%ers. ‘Largely”…is an operative word…I have lived among the ‘successful” most of my life and though many have worked hard & smart and won fair…most of them were/are white, American ,from’Good Families” ,well educated and driving on roads Ike built for them…Me? I’ve scraped along; but luck has been on my side….success has never been in my ‘control’…I’ve enjoyed riding the river and have had some competent moments on it..Re. the 2nd para…There is a rub. …My field of Education was/is more of Economics…and I have trouble with QE (what is that? ) Modern Monetary theory ( Crazy) animist of all Shareholder Capitalism…so how to ‘fix’ things is the stuff of future deliberations. AS for your Third para…Me Too, on the early Kennedys…I actually got to know JohnJon a bit and then even less his mother…He’d have been a good figurehead…As for RFK Jr. …I am not well disposed…I am of the generation where we stuck our arm out and had all the shots…measles, mumps, polio, Chicken Px…whatever and then they gave it to us all over again in the Army…no one could say “Government over-reach”…so I stuck my arm out again, for Covid…I put on my safety-belts and buy car insurance …all of which had protestors yelling “Over-reach” at one time …But here I am living freely (in Italy, granted) I also dislike Putin and is invasion s and I am a strong supporter of helping the Ukes…Before I started to answer your note I looked up a couple of articles on him and found him to be a lot saner than I thought…even though I can tell you the rest of his ‘family’ may not agree. If he takes votes away from Trump – I’ll praise him…IF it is determined his campaigning helps put Trump in office…He will be consigned to the Lowest Rung. Again, thanks for reading…Best, Chris