tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post8778618873064582698..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Up With Outrage!Karen Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-77026202365936249632016-02-29T20:51:53.034-05:002016-02-29T20:51:53.034-05:00Ste-vo....I admire anyone who does a phone bank st...Ste-vo....I admire anyone who does a phone bank stint. I tried it and it wasn't easy. <br /><br />I too can't believe SC.<br />... "To think that because she has aligned herself with Obama and they took it hook line and sinker makes me think we in this country are in more trouble than I thought."<br /><br />Ben Jealous wrote a terrific email for Moveon.org supporting Sanders, and Spike Lee and Ta nahisi Coates and others support him. <br /><br />I'm going to look at the Didion book. Thanks.<br /><br />Meredith NYCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-2374633443165701042016-02-29T20:43:18.096-05:002016-02-29T20:43:18.096-05:00Karen,
Any way to get into your blog the priceless...Karen,<br />Any way to get into your blog the priceless New Yorker cover Feb 1st? <br />It shows history’s US presidents appalled and scowling while watching Trump mouth off on TV. <br /><br />This week's cover, “Bad Reception,” by Barry Blitt: http://nyer.cm/0iHR29B <br /><br />Terrific, varied expressions of dismay and alarm on the faces of Washington, Lincoln, TR, FDR and JFK. My fav is FDR whose open mouthed shock at Trump makes him lose his grip on his trademark cigarette holder as he watches Trump speak. <br /><br />“In most historical portraits, presidents are noble and dignified,” cartoonist Barry Blitt told the magazine. “My biggest challenge was to alter the presidents’ expressions to make them reflect attitudes of consternation.” <br />Teddy Roosevelt generally looks angry and somewhat appalled, so he was the easiest.”<br /><br />The faces of those presidents show the undermining of every hard fought/won American ideal and the cover is apropos for many other candidates and presidents, not just Trump. <br /><br /><br />Meredith NYCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-11720977850490936022016-02-29T20:32:32.576-05:002016-02-29T20:32:32.576-05:00Pearl, thanks for the mention...I asked:
This is ...<br />Pearl, thanks for the mention...I asked:<br /><br />This is the choice the world’s greatest democracy, and richest country gives we the people? We must vote for a Dem centrist/ Repub-lite Hillary, just so we won’t be ruled by an egotistical, exhibitionist incipient dictator who tweets approval of Mussolini’s statements, and attracts Klan supporters?<br /><br />I must ask ... Just who are the 'Super Predators' now in our political system??<br /><br />Re Hillary 20 years ago, she should explain just why she wouldn’t use those words today. Her husband should explain why he now says his expansion of prisons and 3 strikes laws was ‘a mistake’. If views change, enlighten the public, don’t force activists to publicly challenge her.<br /><br />Hillary fans keep saying she has supported minorities, and championed children and health care, etc. Where are the concrete results? If they exist why aren’t they all over the media, that's obviously on her side?<br /><br />And<br />Krugman was silent about Sanders 60 to 38 win in NH. But right away he eagerly proclaims Hillary’s SC victory--it's a done deal. Meredith NYCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-64133725578724246342016-02-29T19:11:18.971-05:002016-02-29T19:11:18.971-05:00Meredith: Wonderful response to Blow's I am no...<br />Meredith: Wonderful response to Blow's I am not a Superpredator. Deserves many more check marks. Karen, please put it on our website.<br />And Rema Regis also had an excellent comment right after yours describing Hillary's unprepared response to Ashley Williams.Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-6220235162363328272016-02-29T18:21:48.512-05:002016-02-29T18:21:48.512-05:00Zombies they are. They are selfish elites, too. ...Zombies they are. They are selfish elites, too. And there's another ancient expression that folks have used for 1000s of years: "... it takes one to know one..." Bill was a liar and HRC certainly is one, too. They are not only wrecking a nation but they are wrecking democracy.Bill Spraguenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-56992260515564198292016-02-29T14:18:28.494-05:002016-02-29T14:18:28.494-05:00In Bed with a Nation-Wrecker: 5 Ways Hillary Is As...In Bed with a Nation-Wrecker: 5 Ways Hillary Is As Bad As Bill - http://goo.gl/OFO57w<br /><br /><br /><br />Great article from Common Dreams. Thank you Jay for another comment to raise our spirits.Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-14031902739902865062016-02-29T11:46:36.351-05:002016-02-29T11:46:36.351-05:00At around minute 15 Giroux talks up the idea of st...At around minute 15 Giroux talks up the idea of starting debating societies in every high school. Why? Because the young he's encountered from debating teams who contact him are alive. They think, they're excited about ideas and, clearly, they are not part of the American zombie population multiplying. Debating inoculates them against the zombie affliction Giroux laments. That's one prescription for finding a way to pull youth away from drugs, indifference and their so-called smart phones and into the social arena to debate what must be done and how to do it. Silent majorities will be the death of us all.<br /><br />Debaters go on to argue in other forms. Greenwald, as everybody knows, was a fierce debater in school. Now look at him. Nader, Hedges, Giroux––what they are doing is debating. So was Ashley Williams last week when she confronted Hillary Clinton. Debaters have a way of getting in your face so that right and wrong can be identified, because such matters can never be ignored for long. Commenters here, in the NYT and elsewhere––are doing it too, debating ideas. In comments we can easily separate the mad and the unsocial from reason and caring.<br /><br />Truth and reason have an innate power, Gandhi used to say. Of all times, this is a good time to test his theory. Learn the skills. Join others to boost your courage. Keep throwing facts at the powerful. Wake the conscience of selfish elites and prod the zombies to listen up.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-54737994968601556962016-02-29T08:59:28.670-05:002016-02-29T08:59:28.670-05:00I liked it.I liked it.William Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16645656437680920261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-91878396235038092892016-02-29T07:32:53.151-05:002016-02-29T07:32:53.151-05:00"Those who make peaceful revolution impossibl..."Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." <br />-John F. Kennedy<br /><br />Shame on the Democratic establishment and their corporate media business partners for not heeding the warning of their favorite son. I guess that's what clinging to money and power does. <br /> <br /><br />annenigmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-54316625976187446442016-02-28T23:17:21.928-05:002016-02-28T23:17:21.928-05:00@Ste-vo: I had to comment. For the last 30 years, ...@Ste-vo: I had to comment. For the last 30 years, I've kept a copy of Didion's "Slouching" near my writing table. Whenever I come to a dead end with something I'm writing, reading a few pages unblocks me. Maybe its magic qualities help unblocked your own optimism!<br /><br />Great column, Karen. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-60467005249669733922016-02-28T17:57:19.108-05:002016-02-28T17:57:19.108-05:00Thank you for this, I needed it.
For me, it has b...Thank you for this, I needed it.<br /><br />For me, it has been a bizarre day. Long story short. My wife and I were away yesterday, returning home about 10:30 PM. She immediately said good night and went to bed. I check email. I had a NYT News Alert: Hillary Clinton wins South Carolina. I typed a comment and went to bed, to finish "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion! This morning the comment was approved and posted. Here it is.<br /> <br />"I am beyond incredulous that Black South Carolinians have embraced HRC. I cannot believe it. I can't. To think that because she has aligned herself with Obama and they took it hook line and sinker makes me think we in this country are in more trouble than I thought."<br /><br />As of right now, its received 317 recs and 24 replies, and some of the repliers are replying to other repliers. <br /><br />I have just finished 45 minutes or so of phone-banking for Bernie. I made 50 phone calls and stopped because it is approaching the dinner hour and I know how much I hated a phone call at dinner. I jotted down some notes. I had two comments I felt especially egregious, but it is what it is. One woman, in a raspy smoker's voice said, "Oh give me a break, he is too old to be president." A man, older, said "send him back to Israel."<br /><br />But, cynicism keeps growing, and I know that that is wrong. So thank you for reminding me not to give up in despair! Yes, onward and upward.Ste-vonoreply@blogger.com