August 8, 2015

Again I will harp on empathy!

All one has to do to understand this conversation is look at a bus schedule. Doesn't even require a computer. Looking at car v bus on Google maps? Please.

August 5, 2015

That gave me a smile.

A rather twisted one, I will admit.

Dang! Why can't some people see how *they* would feel if the tables were turned? My mamma drummed that into my head so well that even my racist dad couldn't get past it.

July 25, 2015

Not funny at all.

If a thing can hurt, it deserves fair treatment.

People need to think before they take responsibility for a living thing.

That said, I have a friend who has had a 150-pound pig for years. He loves it. Same as a dog.

July 17, 2015

Cabaret and Buzzr (game tv - old - on cable)

Caveat - I may well go night night right after posting this.

Looking at Bert Convy and remembering that he was the original Isherwood character in the original Broadway Cabaret. I liked the movie but I LOVED the original musical.

Lotte Lenya:
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There's more I love that didn't make it into the movie, but not on YouTube from the original cast album.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_(musical)

Betty White and Allen Ludden are also on the episode I'm watching.

Night.

July 16, 2015

Oh, I certainly do.

Who it wasn't sold to was the people, the court of public opinion, who could at least have attempted to push the legislators. And the idea would at least have gotten some publicity.

So nothing might have come of it - something might have. To go with what I think was the theme of this OP, I don't think many people expected what is happening with Bernie. And at least it wouldn't have been written off from the very beginning, and the representatives of that viewpoint, IIRC, completely shut out.

My impression has always been that he starts his negotiations at the point where he thinks they are going to end. I haven't negotiated much, but that's not the idea as I understand it.

Anyhow, thanks for the conversation. I think I've said everything I had to say, probably too many times....!

July 12, 2015

We all were promised,

or at least implied, a lot in 2008. We got the best our corporate masters would allow.

July 12, 2015

Support for charters

Can be good or bad, depending on whether one wants to hold them accountable, and whether one views them as laboratories or profit centers.

July 12, 2015

Oh, please, let R's boost Bernie

And watch it backfire.

I heard (Saint, to me) Jimmy Carter on NPR the other day. That was not your standard 90-year-old mind.

By my reckoning, Bernie's mind is not more than 40 in acuity. In wisdom, he's timeless to me.

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July 12, 2015

Barney Frank on Houston PBS.

Just saw him on our local liberal/conservative talking head show. Talked mostly about general policy issues, and both hosts treated him, rightly, as just another human being. Things have sure changed for the better.

http://video.houstonpbs.org/video/2365484502/

July 11, 2015

OMG.

MLK was colorblind? That's the equivalent of saying he was an idiot.