tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post7917093593393925171..comments2024-03-20T12:34:55.100-05:00Comments on Stonekettle Station: Those Who Forget HistoryJim Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comBlogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-90701669613127845802022-03-24T11:49:53.740-05:002022-03-24T11:49:53.740-05:00Beautifully written!
And this seems to be more tr...Beautifully written!<br /><br />And this seems to be more true now than ever before: "and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed…"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06897964257502309224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-6875187488217917582020-10-22T16:19:22.337-05:002020-10-22T16:19:22.337-05:00Thank you, Jim. Your piece here pretty much sums m...Thank you, Jim. Your piece here pretty much sums me up 110% same view points of what The Declaration is being the Preamble of the Constitution. Both documents are needed to fully comprehend what the American Experiment is as it has evolved over the last couple hundred years. RoberBeerbohmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16526711917396700943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-77488956508636292432020-04-04T09:34:01.873-05:002020-04-04T09:34:01.873-05:00There are children & young adults who cannot r...There are children & young adults who cannot reckonize (sorry for misspelling)the names of the Nazi death camps. The Holocaust isn't taught in school any more. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. I'm Jewish. The rise of neo-Nazis and white supremisists (sorry for misspelling) scares me. Trump enocourages and atmosphere that allows them to 'come out of the closet', so to speak.debandtobyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08682823695086804643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-28701299754214932372020-02-27T22:38:42.665-06:002020-02-27T22:38:42.665-06:00I'm a retired Navy Intelligence Officer. Not e...I'm a retired Navy Intelligence Officer. Not ex. There's a difference. <br /><br />You were blocked from my timeline when you shouted at one of my followers, "this is America you cuck!!! The president can pardon who he likes fUCK off IF YOU DONT LIKE IT!!!"<br /><br />As to the rest of it, I feel no obligation whatsoever to announce my intentions to trolls. We're done here. No further comments from you will post // Jim<br />Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-46045303245730851442020-02-27T21:23:48.845-06:002020-02-27T21:23:48.845-06:00Jim, I have posted this link all over my feed, pri...Jim, I have posted this link all over my feed, private and public.<br /><br />Your response was to airlock me on twitter (@Non-event Horizon).<br /><br />I understand you are ex NavyIntel so I guess UK blue on blue is just par for the course. <br /><br />Just the first time I had an American do something to me without saying to my face he was going to do it.<br /><br />You have a nice day now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-89619580433100641662020-02-21T20:36:54.801-06:002020-02-21T20:36:54.801-06:00My sentiments also.My sentiments also.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11485376666654102327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-9862003562214129482020-02-21T14:50:35.713-06:002020-02-21T14:50:35.713-06:00That is a wonderful idea.That is a wonderful idea.PBJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17156082821693468273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-30262603485556277152020-02-20T16:59:42.861-06:002020-02-20T16:59:42.861-06:00The Constitution should be taught every year in sc...The Constitution should be taught every year in school, adjusted for age group. In order to graduate, each student must pass the same naturalization test that naturalized citizen must pass. Even GED students must pass the test or no graduation, no guns, no protections accorded to citizens by the constitution (maybe not so much).Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695075446795575222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-37924491749725721002020-02-20T13:47:51.814-06:002020-02-20T13:47:51.814-06:00"Republican Party" is a grotesque misnom..."Republican Party" is a grotesque misnomer.<br /><br />It is the Monarchist Party now.Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03068589003701957581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-9619434470401189162020-02-19T08:42:22.761-06:002020-02-19T08:42:22.761-06:00"angelic troublemakers" OMG best thing I..."angelic troublemakers" OMG best thing I have read all day (other than this essay) I am totally stealing that. I want to be one ;p<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17797847363338118861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-17366866969947504602020-02-18T12:40:20.430-06:002020-02-18T12:40:20.430-06:00This ranks among your very best, maybe THE best. I...This ranks among your very best, maybe THE best. If only the Trump beguiled would read it with open minds, things could change. However, I very much fear that those of us who recognize the truth this piece are the only ones who will read it. As the saying goes: "There are none so blind as those who will not see." Those fitted with "MAGA" blinders not only will not see, they won't even look. <br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14779259229357712291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-53631212439475727212020-02-18T11:07:47.974-06:002020-02-18T11:07:47.974-06:00As a Canadian, it is very refreshing to read a roc...As a Canadian, it is very refreshing to read a rock in the riverbed of clarity and sensibility and learnedness in the otherwise torrential stupidity of a failing state's discourse with itself. The general consensus among many outside of America is the nature and speed of its dissolution from internal rot, and whether or not the convulsions of its final days brought on by decades of self-injury can be in any sense managed. Even so, no one of good will wants this to happen, but the days of aspiration and hope seem well past, and perhaps this reckoning of contradictions is inevitable and necessary. Rhyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00598445145507204424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-89945448555935579162020-02-18T06:36:22.684-06:002020-02-18T06:36:22.684-06:00I loved this. Really. It's something I have ha...I loved this. Really. It's something I have had kicking around in the back of my mind for some time, and I'm shamed to admit that I couldn't rise to the challenge of reciting some part of the DoI. I knew it, but I had to be reminded of sections. Thing is that I learned all I know of the DoI from the play 1776, and not from my High School History. Learned more about the Cross of Gold and Teapot Dome Scandal than I did of the DoI or the Constitution.Joy Philliphttp://erinsjournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-35435214081411896252020-02-17T21:52:33.898-06:002020-02-17T21:52:33.898-06:00Except you did not repudiate "the White Chris...Except you did not repudiate "the White Christian God", pointing out the First Amendment -- but you got the rest rightjohnmachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02232239075911932161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-20554725757069447382020-02-17T19:52:11.585-06:002020-02-17T19:52:11.585-06:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07087719815109296193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-89523728245236718412020-02-17T18:42:53.160-06:002020-02-17T18:42:53.160-06:00Those complaints are far far MORE relevant today t...Those complaints are far far MORE relevant today that they were back then when the REAL complaints were<br />Parliament (George had no real power) was telling the Americans to stop stealing Indian land<br />The British Courts had ruled that Slavery was not legal duncan cairncrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14153725128216947145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-56511451096908581052020-02-17T17:08:22.679-06:002020-02-17T17:08:22.679-06:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-67221265553891257832020-02-17T16:01:02.457-06:002020-02-17T16:01:02.457-06:00Fantastic!Fantastic!Glitterbughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16617000032019846207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-74959570525029383602020-02-17T14:09:50.147-06:002020-02-17T14:09:50.147-06:00Thanks Chief.
I was missing your essays this last...Thanks Chief. <br />I was missing your essays this last month.<br />I am going to send links, with attribution, to congressional candidates. May be these words are useful as inspiration or angles of attack for them.<br />Thanks again for the step by step. Every time he crosses one of these lines, it feels like a bell is tolling.<br />I may print this out and hang it up too. Or share with friends. <br />Cheers,<br />SFC MikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-77947269008263335262020-02-17T13:17:42.282-06:002020-02-17T13:17:42.282-06:00Great piece! The important thing I would like to a...Great piece! The important thing I would like to add is that it would be meaningful to acknowledge that the Declaration of Independence was pretty harsh on indigenous populations & slaves. The Founding Fathers, while highly intelligent men, were still products of their day & age- which had both it's good & bad aspects. <br />https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/americas-twofold-original-sin/606163/LoowitLatklanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-66673763000180654602020-02-17T12:56:44.407-06:002020-02-17T12:56:44.407-06:00The day that democracy died
https://www.youtube.co...The day that democracy died<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQPeVJQaUSwBanewoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10505522715810989827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-62756244256840312812020-02-16T23:07:02.106-06:002020-02-16T23:07:02.106-06:00I, for one, would love to hear you do a podcast on...I, for one, would love to hear you do a podcast once in a while. I'm sure Randi Rhodes would love to have you on her show - perhaps same deal as Malcolm Nance got? Check her site out, see if she seems OK to you: https://randirhodes.com/<br />Sikhandtakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13721425916899131649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-16591591605378102282020-02-16T22:20:46.133-06:002020-02-16T22:20:46.133-06:00I just feel so overwhelmed some days. I used to b...I just feel so overwhelmed some days. I used to be able to talk to Republicans and enjoyed their company just fine even if we needed to agree to disagree at times or had the occasional passionate debate with a cool off needed for a while... and now with many of them happy about the outcome of the Senate "trial" of President Trump, I am honestly having a hard time respecting them especially when they do not appreciate how demoralizing that was for me personally and many of my friends. I don't know how to talk to Republicans even though I do believe there can be healthy versions of being conservative, some of which seems to be hinted at in the Declarations that you quoted above. How can we better talk to each other? to a political listening circle at the local library here but the only people that have shown up the times I have been there have been just as liberal as me or more so. <br />How does one dialogue with a group that thinks one is the wrong kind of American? How do I keep myself from getting resentful of being viewed this way to the point that I wind up responding in kind? I could use your post to argue that some Republicans are indeed betraying America but I would like to have productive conversations with people who may never see as I do on things rather than only hang out with those who see as I do or (worse) live in such a state of tension that I am unfit to do even the little good I do manage. There are more ways to win a war than with just bullets and I dislike the war metaphor cause who really benefits from Americans seeing each other this way? It is not the small people like me who benefit. No way.<br /><br /> It is hard for me to hope for change when people who need to talk to each other are having a hard time doing it but surely this is not the first time in history such a thing has happened that people could not stand the sight of one another and according to Shakespeare the results are tragic.<br /><br /> If you do not post this, that is fine but feel free to shoot an email. Let me know if it inspires another post. I like to inspire people or at least try to since I do not feel as if I do very much for the world in terms of making a difference. I can try harder I suppose but I have really bad insomnia that makes me tired a lot. I use a VPN because paying for that is part of my investment toward data security and how it relates to Democracy. I don't have it set to show any other signal than the USA at this point and actually have little need for such but just in case. ...Oh and this comment is from Susanne of Klamath Falls, Oregon...soon to be of Florence Oregon. Best Wishes and thank you. I have not read the Declaration of Independence since high school and I did not absorb the import of it then as I did just now. I think I will read the constitution tomorrow. It will be a refreshing change of pace from world events, science, religion and misc that I am normally engaged with. Peace. Post all,some or none of my comments since this is your space and I am simply a guest. I would have sent this as an email but I thought maybe it would speak to others here that feel a bit stymied like I do, but who are searching for some hope.<br /><br />SDHerfurthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06835823815423562460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-63624733536033082862020-02-16T22:11:50.458-06:002020-02-16T22:11:50.458-06:00I am a person of action but only after I can see c...I am a person of action but only after I can see clearly the ways in which my actions help in the long run. Of course I do some short term thinking like most do but that is not my modus operandi. What should I do? I want to do something to vote for the world I want to live in, that I want future generations to live in...more than only voting in elections, though that is vital of course. I want to vote with my whole life.<br /><br /> I buy Fair Trade, local and from family businesses and work hard to reduce household waste in all the ways I can think of and talk to others about things like mesh bags for produce at the grocery. I have uncomfortable political conversations with as much civility as I can muster. My job used to take me internationally and so I struggle to be patient with those who think the the US American way of life is the only path to a good life, let alone those who demonize those they do not fully understand and have made no effort to understand.<br /><br /> I also plan on volunteering with Habitat For Humanity starting in a couple of months and want to become a foster parent for kids with disabilities since I used to work with kids with Autism but now have lots of time on my hands. I study at least three hours a day and write letters to my senators in Oregon. I try to encourage my neighbors to make better use of the safety net we still have in America. What else can I do? I need to do more. It all just feels like some dental floss (well actually dental floss is useful...just slow and tedious and non glamorous and maybe that is my answer. Maybe I need to plod through in this tedious unglamorous way and encourage others to see that small actions done consistently are valuable.<br />SDHerfurthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06835823815423562460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-49284692784747931982020-02-16T22:09:26.828-06:002020-02-16T22:09:26.828-06:00Thank you Jim Wright! Very well shared and so true...Thank you Jim Wright! Very well shared and so true. (I may make another comment as a follow up to this but this one can stand alone if you choose).<br /><br />I thank you because you have put clearly into words what really bothers me right now about Trump and what the Republican party is becoming more and more of...blind followers of an ideology I am not sure they could even define in a cohesive way...seems like they are more against even relatively moderate liberals like me (though I really like some of what the more "radical" liberals have to say) than they (the Republicans) are for anything...except maybe money. Maybe they are just in support of money and power through any and all means and those two intoxicants are "drugs" that anyone of any political allegiance could get hooked on and that is true regardless of time and place. <br /><br />But right now, it is the Republican party that is really showing some bad colors, that there is something they love and it is not the America that these selections of The Declaration of Independence hint that the founders wanted (basically they wanted the opposite of each of the 27 items they were protesting and rightly so). So Jim Wright you are right to post this posting; it is extremely timely. SusanneSDHerfurthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06835823815423562460noreply@blogger.com