Noel Paul Stookey
It was very cool to be on the stage at the Opera House the day before this performance, then to sit there and hear Noel sing his famous "Wedding Song" which was sung at our wedding 42 yrs before.
We were the first into the Opera House that night and chose to sit in Row 3 on aisle left,
(seems like right in the photo) so that we could be up one step from the row in front of us
(short people need to make sure there isn't a head in the way! Ha!).
It's the end of September, and I still want Bernie Sanders for President.
ReplyDeleteMy Bernie 2016 bumper sticker remains in place, and will until further notice. I will cast a protest vote for Gloria La Riva (in California the nominee of the Peace & Freedom Party, in Vermont the nominee of the Liberty Union Party).
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I cannot wait for this nightmare of an election to be over. I even had to unsubscribe from Bernie's page on FB as I cannot bear hearing him singing the praises of Hillary when I know he knows what she really is. She's going about her campaign all wrong and her sheeple just love it when she ranks on Trump. The trouble is that insulting him is not going to win the election for her. She's not clearly articulating her policies - though we can guess what they'd by by the people she has surrounded herself with. It makes me sick to see people so terrified of Trump that they'd vote for her just to stop him. If you really support her, that's another story, but to vote for her as a bulwark against Trump? That is what I call a wasted vote. She is not doing well in Ohio and I think Trump might take the state because there are a sickening number of right-wing bigots and racists here and they've really come out of the woodwork since getting his tacit okay. No matter which one wins we are in major trouble.
ReplyDeleteI'm concerned too, Susan.
DeleteWe would lose less face with the world if Clinton is elected rather than Trump. But we would have won the world's hearts if we'd had Bernie as our candidate and then our President. There wouldn't be a close race at all right now; Bernie would have appealed to more Independents and even to the more normal variety Republicans. It makes me want to scream. Yet, Bernie doesn't want my vote now. So what to do?
My friends in the Peace Corps already vote and wrote in Bernie's name. That says a lot.
I think it must be harder if you've known Bernie longer, and trusted him longer.
ReplyDeleteI just got pushpolled by our Mountain Party candidate (not for Prez). Might do that, though.
I disremember what the qualifications are, but in California the Secretary of State must approve qualified write-in candidates, and the list isn't published until one or two weeks "before the election," or long after I vote.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree that birds of a feather flock together, and the appointees to HRC's transition team are not consonant with her current claims to be a progressive. And as the Good Book says, a leopard cannot change its spots--even if Bernie paints stripes on it. (I don't think that last part is in Bible, but it would seem implicit.)
Susan--I recall someone quite some time ago saying that Ohio was really a border state--strong southern political influence.
Speaking of going about things wrong--it still amazes me that HRC has no effective slogan to encapsulate why we should hire her. She has experimented with several poor ones. Hmmm.....how about "A tofu in every pot!"? Hey--it's better than "I'm with her" and "Better together."
The rise of nativist/racist/religious radicals (by the lights of today) was a notable part of the dissolution of the Whig Party, and here it is again.
I'm getting close to the end of my audio copy of Patriotic Treason [Click]. Very highly recommended in either format.
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Industria-scale solar power in Fresno County [Click] 2.2 gigawatts by sometime next year--that's comparable to a nuclear power plant, even taking into consideration the nightly down time. Impressive. And it doesn't consider private rooftop solar, or in-situ solar power at dairies, packing houses, etc. Inpressive.
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IndustriaL-scale, that is. And here's some about ag solar power hereabouts [Click]
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Impressive news indeed. Illinois tends to go more toward wind. Understandable, even though the wind from which Chicago got its nickname was from human lungs.
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