This MSN new report re voting and our 'luck' in our nation for this process is, I believe, a worthwhile brief article for good food for thought, whatever that be.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15530569/site/newsweek/
Yes, this was worthwhile to read. More sad, I believe, is that the general electoral public citizen has come to believe that their, our, vote counts for nothing. Because of this, if this continues, we will one day soon find that we do not have the right to vote. Those in office need to be told loudly that their jobs in Washington are for life and that they do not have any right in any manner to capitalize financially upon their whatever terms they serve, as they like to still pretentiously call it. When both parties, or either of the two party system that we basically have, choose to make 'all' lobby money and or gifts illegal then they might not be called bought and paid for politicians. I am grateful for the life that I know in this nation of ours, the United States of America. It is where I make my home presently. An excellent addition to the more common his-story of the American Revolution is 'A People's History of the American Revolution, How the common people shaped the fight for independence,' by Ray Raphael, published by Perennial , a subpublishing name under HaperCollinsPublishers. I do not buy everything this author says either, just as I do not buy the rank and file history that I learned in school and the majority of the books on the subject. Yet, and this is my reason for the recommendation, I do believe it important to read many sources for an 'more' honest story of our past leading up into our present.
I believe that we need the traditional story of our nation's genesis. I also believe that we need as many additional and alternative stories concerning our genesis so that we may have a more complete, I do not say complete. story. All stories of ones genesis and evolution are always told by the story teller and from their vantage point and presuppositions. There is no thing as a non-biased story of ones genesis into their present. It is good to, I believe, in order to be more honest about this process to emphasize the multiplicity of these possibly or possibly not equally valid stories by hyphenated means of his-story, her-story, our-story, their-story, children's-story, animal's-story, theist-story, a-theist-story, a-gnostic-story, deist-story, pagan-story, nativepeople's-story, land's-story, family's-story, singlepeople's-story, straight/gender-male-femalepartnership-story, homosexual-gender-samegender-partership-story, celibate-story, polytheist-story, animist-story, native/American/original-story, Christian-Pilgrim-story, Christian-AnaBaptists-story, Christian-Puritan-story, Christian-RomanCatholic-story, Christian-NewZionist-story, Jewish-story, OrthodoxJewish-story, ConservativeJewish-story, ReformedJewish-story, OrthodoxChristian-story, Russian-OrthdoxChristian-story, each unique ethnic-story, Buddhist-story in America, ZenBuddhist-story, slave-story, slaveowner-story, factoryworker-american-story, indentured-servant-american-story, and the list goes on and on. Why? Not to wipe out of the significance one group or person by another, or to imply that one is more or less true. Just the opposite. More so for our gift to each other for the providential opportunity for the richness that we each have been given to share and to know each other and each others' stories. This is what makes up what might in truth be called the American Story. Today most of those that publicly call themselves 'liberal' or 'conservative' do not in truth spend one second to read and or listen to someone's story other than their own. We could do the same with those from outside of our American-story, if we dare. If we choose see our neighbor as more than someone to serve my indentifying needs. Narcissist will ultimately drown in his or her own reflection.
XB - grateful, each of us have our podvig.......timothy
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15530569/site/newsweek/
Yes, this was worthwhile to read. More sad, I believe, is that the general electoral public citizen has come to believe that their, our, vote counts for nothing. Because of this, if this continues, we will one day soon find that we do not have the right to vote. Those in office need to be told loudly that their jobs in Washington are for life and that they do not have any right in any manner to capitalize financially upon their whatever terms they serve, as they like to still pretentiously call it. When both parties, or either of the two party system that we basically have, choose to make 'all' lobby money and or gifts illegal then they might not be called bought and paid for politicians. I am grateful for the life that I know in this nation of ours, the United States of America. It is where I make my home presently. An excellent addition to the more common his-story of the American Revolution is 'A People's History of the American Revolution, How the common people shaped the fight for independence,' by Ray Raphael, published by Perennial , a subpublishing name under HaperCollinsPublishers. I do not buy everything this author says either, just as I do not buy the rank and file history that I learned in school and the majority of the books on the subject. Yet, and this is my reason for the recommendation, I do believe it important to read many sources for an 'more' honest story of our past leading up into our present.
I believe that we need the traditional story of our nation's genesis. I also believe that we need as many additional and alternative stories concerning our genesis so that we may have a more complete, I do not say complete. story. All stories of ones genesis and evolution are always told by the story teller and from their vantage point and presuppositions. There is no thing as a non-biased story of ones genesis into their present. It is good to, I believe, in order to be more honest about this process to emphasize the multiplicity of these possibly or possibly not equally valid stories by hyphenated means of his-story, her-story, our-story, their-story, children's-story, animal's-story, theist-story, a-theist-story, a-gnostic-story, deist-story, pagan-story, nativepeople's-story, land's-story, family's-story, singlepeople's-story, straight/gender-male-femalepartnership-story, homosexual-gender-samegender-partership-story, celibate-story, polytheist-story, animist-story, native/American/original-story, Christian-Pilgrim-story, Christian-AnaBaptists-story, Christian-Puritan-story, Christian-RomanCatholic-story, Christian-NewZionist-story, Jewish-story, OrthodoxJewish-story, ConservativeJewish-story, ReformedJewish-story, OrthodoxChristian-story, Russian-OrthdoxChristian-story, each unique ethnic-story, Buddhist-story in America, ZenBuddhist-story, slave-story, slaveowner-story, factoryworker-american-story, indentured-servant-american-story, and the list goes on and on. Why? Not to wipe out of the significance one group or person by another, or to imply that one is more or less true. Just the opposite. More so for our gift to each other for the providential opportunity for the richness that we each have been given to share and to know each other and each others' stories. This is what makes up what might in truth be called the American Story. Today most of those that publicly call themselves 'liberal' or 'conservative' do not in truth spend one second to read and or listen to someone's story other than their own. We could do the same with those from outside of our American-story, if we dare. If we choose see our neighbor as more than someone to serve my indentifying needs. Narcissist will ultimately drown in his or her own reflection.
XB - grateful, each of us have our podvig.......timothy
just a few, but not all, post election thoughts,
one without few words,
timothy