chuck kottke

Welcome John, glad you could join in!!:)

Welcome Kristal to Coldplaying, where the 100% come to chat! :laugh3: If Chris stalks you, then... just stalk back!;)

Let your love flow like a mountain spring, and let your love grow, like all living things; there is a reason for the seasons.

Of course there are a lot of simple things that can help solve the problem as well. Like better coordination of stops, to reduce the number of trips, and buying locally, which reduces transportation energy for both consumers and producers..:daisy: bee green.

Realizing that no matter what happens, general happiness persists in the world. We all face trials on a daily basis, but we're all in good company.

On some issues I think both sides agree - the money pouring into politics is a matter that is at the root of much which ails is, perhaps one point of agreement. and what else...:thinking: Maybe not much else!

The government wasn't necessary... in 10,000 B.C. It was a wonderful time, there were a few million people on earth, settlements here and there, someone working with a charcoal fire to prepare a little metal, someone skinning a gazelle and readying the hide, someone cooking on an open fire - potherbs, roots, antelope bits. Life was good, unless you were hurt or got ill, and life was short, unless you were really lucky. Wonderful, but highly impractical today. What is possible is to amend and change our government so it works for us again, to write amendments to prevent the excesses of influence by a few over our government, and restore the checks and balanced necessary for a democratic government to function properly. Markets unregulated are the equivalent of bulls unregulated, charging down a crowded street full of vendors and ordinary citizens; too many people trampled and too much damage done. The worst of it being crony capitalism, which is the most destructive and most serious problem in the markets today; government isn't at fault, it can be pried back from those gambling-addicted actors and into the hands of the citizens.

The U.S. is run by crony capitalists, and the bail-outs clearly prevented market forces from working, although one has to wonder if such a large failure would have precipitated a financial investment panic and then job losses down the line. If the problem cannot be solved by the government since it is controlled by those cronies, then all that is left is amendments - which some say will take another financial crisis to precipitate, but that's a pretty hard hit to take to correct a system; I believe we will do it even earlier.

One court case that exceeds them all in opening the floodgates of cash into campaigns:Sean Siperstein: Citizens United v. We the People New from Occupy: Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for World Revolution & I agree, half the eligible voter in this country don't vote, largely because they think it won't make a difference, and how can it, when the big money rigs the whole system? Time for amendments, time for our movements to grow and coalesce around the central root causes.

Zenobe Gramme and his electric dynamo

> Welcome! 3 children will keep anyone busy!! Happy you could join:). Best of luck to you in finding an affordable ticket, wish I could help in that area, but I haven't been to a concert myself, though I think they put on a spectacular show.;)

Every Teardrop is a Waterfalls :)

Q: will Tea Party people unite with Occupy Wall Streeters on some key issues we all agree on?

>Glad to see Melbourne having an Occupy Movement!! What barbarity on the part of the councilmen and the cops, if there wasn't any provocation, there ought not be such hostility; sounds like they just wanted to make a "statement", which as often as not backfires, as it should against those who refuse to represent the will of the people. > The root problem to all this is what a few with the money do to influence politics and damage our economies - I listened again to Lawrence Lessig's dialog with Charlie Rose, and I think Lessig is right - it's in all our interest to get right to the bottom of the problem, and take the big money out of politics - either have publicly funded elections or a voucher system to each citizen, so we can support candidates as the powerful base, and the big money can't weigh in. Here's the re-broadcast, in case anyone's interested in watching it: Charlie Rose - Lawrence Lessig

Oh, I see! Well then, I guess that's plenty good reason for concern!:laugh3: Nah, fangirls are all tame, especially if it's just voyeurism they're after. :lol:

Well then, summons his wife to tuck him in at night then, by all means! :P I'm guessing it's got more to do with all the busy schedules and expectations, all the scenarios running round' his mind, that sort of thing. Best to set worries aside, and drift off to sleep.. :sleeping:

I liked hearing her sing it - very beautifully sung! :)

Chris Martin has trouble sleeping at night; thousands of fangirls volunteer to tuck him in at night, and gently rock him to sleep. :P Nothing frightening about that, right?;)

Sounds tropical. :cool:

:laugh3: Maybe in Madison; here, just sky above, cool clear ice below. Is it really snowing there?:stunned:

:laugh3: And here, the beach is deserted! I'd opt for studying...at the beach! That's the ticket!!:P We can send blocks of ice from the lake, if that helps?;)

PBD = Peanut Butter Duck? :P

^ But it's all in little bits, computer bits!;) It's just astounding to think of what our culture does sometimes.. in one checkout lane, out the other! I'm taking an account of all the bits which pass through here; seeing what it is, what it took to make it, how safe is it, where it's headed.

I want the pink Cadillac!:P It's a little strange, having officers from New Zealand arrest someone for extradition to the US to stand trial, I think, for everyone's sake, this ought to be a matter of the international courts. And to think that those with the money to write the laws in their favor rarely ever stand trial, but those who don't do - another reason to take the big money out of politics.

News covering Occupy Wall Street protest at Foley Square, and the advertiser at the top is none other than Bank of America. :laugh3: The giant loophole in capitalism that Michael Moore talks about, big enough to drive a truck through - there it is. 'Occupy' Protesters Rally At Foley Square - NY1.com ~Second anniversary of Citizen's United, the court case allowing unlimited cash to flow into political races, and a sure race to the bottom for our democracy until we stem that flow.~