RTP-area local music and culture

[Bo Williams <bo AT mrboboto.com>]

I'm giving people a one-week grace period to vent their escapist 
fantasies. After that, either roll up your sleeves and get to work, or 
quit whining.

Me, I'm optimistic that this will be the kick in the pants this country 
needs to get some real political change started. But I've certainly been 
wrong before. I plan to be a lot more active in the next four years than 
I was in the last four, at least.

Bo

Chris Calloway wrote:
> --- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
>
> > Sure, but they don't let those cultural differences
> > prevent them from, 
> > say, providing health care to every Canadian
> > citizen.
>
>
> It would be nice for Merkins to acknowledge that
> health care is a security issue. It hardly matters if
> you die of a plane flying into your building or if you
> die of the flu. You are just as dead both ways and
> both are just as preventable.
>
> Canada is indeed an exceedingly complex place.
>
> Dude, Democrats are way better cooks than Republicans.
>
> Anyone who leaves this country without having been
> some GOTV superhero who quit their job to go volunteer
> in Florida for the last year is just being a dick.
> Most of the people I know saying they have to leave
> the country are of the "I'm campaigning by forwarding
> lots of emails" ilk. I say, don't let the door hit you
> on the way out.
>
> 3
>
> PS - A friend of mine has a rather famous dad and
> wrote this today (and yes, admittedly he left out the
> fact that what happened in Chile was supported and
> aided by the USA):
>
> I left Chile in 1973 after the military coup. My
> father was in hiding, running from his life, doors
> were being knocked at midnight and people dragged away
> in front of their children in unmarked cars in the
> middle of the night. Often times the children were
> taken too and tortured in front of the parents.
>
> You know the story, repeated all over the world.
>
> But not here.
>
> My mother who lived those times, never thought Kerry
> had a chance. She believed too many Americans were
> ignorant and brain washed. But she was very surprised
> that Kerry got almost 50% of the vote. She thought
> only 10% of Americans were conscious. She is very
> happy that she was wrong. We have a lot of people who
> are awake.
>
> This is a country filled with beautiful people. I have
> been looking for a place to settle down and fight the
> continuation of what was robbed to me in 1973 - the
> possibility of joining/creating a community determined
> to fight and struggle for a world where we ride the
> moral arc of the universe. It's a moral arc that MLK
> said was long, but it bent towards justice.
>
> The problem with democrats is that we think short
> term.
>
> This may be related to our distancing from spiritual
> religion.
>
> In any case, we must think long term.
>
> Long term means that we believe we can build a better
> world right here in our communties. That we are ready
> to wait and see what the garden brings and trust that
> we will be rewarded.
>
> I would consider leaving the USA only and only IF I
> knew that we were in a situation where someone was
> going to knock at my door in the middle of the
> night and drag me away. We're not there.
>
> Let me share with you one of my favorite poems by
> Bertolt Brecht who wrote of the "dark times".
>
>             AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT
>
>             And I always thought: the very simplest
> words
>
>             must be enough. When I say what things are
> like
>
>             Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.
>
>             That you'll go down if you don't stand up
> for yourself
>
>             Surely you see that.
>
>             Bertolt Brecht
>
>
>
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