tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007270577478474724.post4267721970854989996..comments2019-08-14T13:05:16.713-07:00Comments on Voice of the Mountain: "And If It Was A Secret Vote..." Shawn Inlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14394081528177227841noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007270577478474724.post-36233950289179145482013-10-15T17:58:36.828-07:002013-10-15T17:58:36.828-07:00I didn't create a login so I just entered as a...I didn't create a login so I just entered as anonymous. My name is john dellantonio, and you completely missed the point. If you are going to complain about the koch brothers running the tea party, then you should complain about Soros running the dems. But you don't you made an excuse for him. You still didn't answer what you thought the tea party stood for. BTW didn't you as a police officer take an oath to uphold the constitution? Funny that you should disparage it and act like you know more than those slave owners who created the constitution! BTW they were allowed by British law to have slaves it wasn't a whole american idea, plus they, in their genius, left ways to legally correct over sites or mistakes that they may have made. Youn must be related to all gore with the global warming rant. Please look up the us national snow and ice data. Since 2007 article ice has increased by 26%. Please be more careful with your journalism degree. If you weren't aware the earths climate runs in cycles. I was in Colorado hunting last year and they were in a severe drought, thin year provided much relief from that , however I'm sure they didn't want floods. If you knew the constitution then your last 2 paragraphs would be solved by simply following the constitution, it severely limits the power of the federal government and gives more to the states and most to the people. But you already knew that. Finally like I stated both parties have screwed this country up, while voters for both parties cheered for them, so if you think the dems or republican scan or will fix anything, then you are part of the problem. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007270577478474724.post-18908673176922052382013-10-15T07:59:16.016-07:002013-10-15T07:59:16.016-07:00Interesting reply, Anonymous. You know, your word...Interesting reply, Anonymous. You know, your words have more credibility when you put your name to them. <br /><br />Yes. I am what's wrong with this country. Of course. Who ARE you? A troll? A paid lobbyist? And since when is billionaire George Soros standing for me. And MY party? Soros, I'm sure, gives lots to lefty causes, but he is still a super rich capitalist. What the Super Koch Bros. are doing is actually purchasing the democracy so they can have freedom FROM the democracy.<br /><br />And let's face it. If you don't know who is behind the Tea Party funding and all the fake "astro-turf" citizens' groups, then you're either a dupe or one of the people funding and driving the operation.<br /><br />I have many good friends of all political stripes that I agree and disagree with. I have many friends who admire the ideas that go into tea partying. I go to church with dear friends for whom, for instance, their vote is uniformly pro-life. Yet we walk a mile together and appreciate and love one another. <br /><br />I am what's wrong with this country. Of course. It was me all along. <br /><br />Members of my family are republicans. Members of my family are democrats. Members of my family are independent like me. Members of my family almost uniformly give a shit, one way or the other.<br /><br />What galls me is that you've got members of the Tea Party who deny climate science while our cities are drowning and the American west is literally on fire. While the ocean ice in the arctic circle is GONE. While Colorado is getting slaughtered by flooding. While ranchers in the upper west suddenly find their livestock buried alive under four feet of a snow anomaly.<br /><br />What galls me is that you've got republican members of congress on the science committee who deny science. What galls me is that folks like Rupert Murdoch and his media empire feed these untrue things in the republican mind, stoking ignorance and damaging the world for the rest of us. THEY and their ilk, like the villainous Super Koch Bros. are what's wrong with the country. <br /><br />Oh, the Constitution! Hold it up and wave it around why don't you? As if rich slave owners from 300 years ago knew it all and saw it all coming. The constitution only exists as far as the Super Koch Bros. can strangle it and change it to work for them. I worked as a journalist and as a police officer. I have actually studied the constitution. I've studied investigative thinking and objective fact. And what's happening in this country -- and we can agree on some things here -- the surveilance state, drone strikes, black site prisons, Gitmo, the electronic search and seizure of all data in our country, is only exacerbated by the kind of ignorance so many Tea Party folks seem so proud of.<br /><br />Sure the government spends too much. That needs fixed. Sure the American health care system is a fiscal nightmare. That needs fixed. But while you fiddle about it, while people like you, Anonymous, strive for a government shutdown and default, critical things are not getting fixed. The US and the perpetual war machine continue to race the globe toward environmental Armageddon, ruining the world for our kids.<br /><br />And you're worried about the debt. What these Ted Cruz types are doing is ... like the title on my prior posts indicates.. dicking with my money. They're messing with my savings. My funds that I've saved are at risk in a market collapse. And what is going to happen as the corporate world continues to suck the life out of the democracy - for profit while the world burns - will be real class warfare. <br /><br />And by then, the constitution won't even apply anymore.<br /><br />Thanks for posting. I appreciate all comments and thoughtful readership.Shawn Inlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14394081528177227841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007270577478474724.post-39942893283691771512013-10-15T05:22:02.474-07:002013-10-15T05:22:02.474-07:00interesting reply shawn, you are ecactly what is w...interesting reply shawn, you are ecactly what is wrong with this country. as long as soros is doing the same thing for your party it's ok, but wrong for the other side to do the same. as for your attack on the tea party, do you know what the tea party stands for? ( i don't want to hear the chris matthews version, i want your personal experience version). have you been to a local tea party meeting? these people are your friends and neighbors, people who want nothing more than the us government to abide by the constitution and its rules for running this country. if you studied the constitution and actually believed in it you would be screaming at this administration (as well as the past administrations) for pissing all over it. the 2 party system has ruined this country and caaused a great division. if you step back and look at both parties, they are the same. when in power they both raise taxes, grow government, start wars and reduce our liberties as well as raid our pocketbooks. the 2 parties compromise very well, their goal is to enslave the working class and they are doing so with our blessing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007270577478474724.post-63358434927294705852013-10-10T15:07:10.762-07:002013-10-10T15:07:10.762-07:00In case you missed my correction over at the asylu...In case you missed my correction over at the asylum, the url for New Worlds is http://new-worlds.org. Apparently I failed to include the protocol so that's why the link didn't work.<br /><br />Just read your wrap on the morning links. Pretty solid. Was a great season and many more to come.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007270577478474724.post-81875707676042748722013-10-09T12:51:07.628-07:002013-10-09T12:51:07.628-07:00The thing that republicans have been really good a...The thing that republicans have been really good at since Lee Atwater is style over substance. Look at Reagan. A B-Movie actor. Then look at the substance. And the right wing noise machine has perfected the casting of straw men. Many responding to my posts in the last few days are responding to one talking point or another. I'm talking about the potential for this manufactured crisis to crush my life savings. That's a true thing. Saw it last time with the debt ceiling stuff. So I'm talking about my self interest. And the NY Times article shows the republicans speaking honestly of wanting this to happen. In their own words. So I know, when I have to go to Walmart and work as a greeter, who I'm gonna hold accountable for that.Shawn Inlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14394081528177227841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007270577478474724.post-57186477857997106552013-10-09T12:46:22.970-07:002013-10-09T12:46:22.970-07:0066. I sure will. I'm an old hand at theater ...66. I sure will. I'm an old hand at theater and music as well. Have written and directed plays. Had many, many lead roles over the years. Have been a film critic for local newspapers. This other blog sounds great to me and I'll stop over for sure. Most of my posts are on film, or culture or other things. Some are fiction that I'm trying out to build something for publication. My poem "Dick Cheney" gets a lot of hits. From all over the world. I find using the PBC blog and straight email and facebook does a great job of getting Voice of the Mountain a lot of looks. I get, on average, 300 hits or more per post. Funny how that works. I particularly enjoy seeing where the hits come from. I have been a journalist, a state trooper for over 30 years and having retired I am relishing the newfound ability to have an opinion of my own.Shawn Inlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14394081528177227841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007270577478474724.post-71773574710200489642013-10-09T12:41:13.377-07:002013-10-09T12:41:13.377-07:00JAL. Pleased to meet you. And you're correct...JAL. Pleased to meet you. And you're correct about all the money. But I really don't see someone like Soros going as hard at the game as the Kochs. I see these guys as taking full advantage of Citizens' United. I am a left leaning independent and have split my ticket more often than not, especially locally. But at this rate, if they're gonna threaten every sensible man in their party, their party is going to get harder and harder to the right until - and we're nearly there - there is no room to compromise. I see democrats generally open to compromise. Not so much on the republican side.Shawn Inlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14394081528177227841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007270577478474724.post-835596657007843162013-10-09T10:28:31.164-07:002013-10-09T10:28:31.164-07:00Spot on, Shawn. It looks like it comes down to the...Spot on, Shawn. It looks like it comes down to the almighty dollar trumping everything good and decent as usual. Only thing is, since Citizens United, the dollar is more powerful than ever, and mostly in the hands of the folks who care nothing for human decency.<br /><br />I heartily disagree with the false equivalency argument as raised by our good friend JAL above. Another reason I wish I could cleanly separate the baseball world from the one that seems to be falling to pieces right now due to greed and stupidity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007270577478474724.post-68953648771078809872013-10-09T10:00:55.262-07:002013-10-09T10:00:55.262-07:00Hi Shawn,
I'm one of those who know you as Wa...Hi Shawn,<br /><br />I'm one of those who know you as Wabbit Season. I haven't had a chance to read this one yet, but the last one was right on. I also wanted to say that I've seen your blogging behavior at that other place to be complete apolitical, which is entirely appropriate in that context. It's just the way people tend to react that can be problematic.<br /><br />I also loosely coordinate a blog which features several other progressive voices but we tend to be extremely eclectic; commenting on music, movies, philosophy, politics, whatever. <a href="new-worlds.org" rel="nofollow">Stop by sometime</a>. You'd find yourself welcome there. I go by Max, an old stage name.<br /><br />ForbesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7007270577478474724.post-66029705622951402352013-10-09T09:52:00.229-07:002013-10-09T09:52:00.229-07:00The ax wings in both directions. The Republicans ...The ax wings in both directions. The Republicans have the Koch brothers and the Democrats have George Soros and the result has been the elimination of most moderates in both parties. Both parties now spend more time concerned on how something will affect the voters than on doing what is best for the country. JALhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01859600379999763021noreply@blogger.com