Navel Gazing

Submitted by JtC on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 10:43pm

We are a nonpartisan site, which to me denotes a diversified discussion board with no one political ideology dominating the others. It's about tolerance. It's about ideological inclusion. It's about allowing freedom of thought. It's about civility.

Did we not all flee from ideological rigidity? Isn't the free-range political discourse thusly afforded the reason most sought this site out?

Our hope is that no voice is silenced, no one shamed for alternate opinion, no assessment of purity.

We hope not to become that which we loath, lest we forget what this site was meant to be. I hesitate to think of what will happen if one ideology becomes dominant and caucus99percent becomes a one trick pony.

Agendas spin, the body politic fragments, the world burns, and no one wins except the, well, I think we all know the answer.

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Submitted by janis b on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 10:53pm

Thanks Johnny

[video:https://youtu.be/7JV98Re4n18]

Submitted by janis b on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 10:57pm

...

@janis b

[video:https://youtu.be/Gdw-VWyBe1s]

Submitted by JtC on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 11:50pm

Thank you Janis...

@janis b
very apropos tunage

Submitted by janis b on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:07am

For all I know

@JtC

it might be forever and always apropos. I trust completely in the spirit of Reggae, and I love to move to both its beat and a Latin one. Respect to you always, Johnny.

Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 11:42pm

an irony

We hope not to become that which we loath, lest we forget what this site was meant to be. I hesitate to think of what will happen if one ideology becomes dominant and caucus99percent becomes a one trick pony.

Well said as usual!

There is an irony here: the occasional kerfluffels which break out from time to time are evidence that we are not becoming that, and will not become that. The very thing which seems to threaten its arrival (the "one-trick pony" c99) is the very thing which will prevent it.

Your people will not let you down on this, noble Conqueroo. I can state that with confidence, from long experience.

As for me, if I ever said anything which gave the impression that a "one-trick pony" sort of c99 was what I wanted, my apologies for the errors. While I stick up for what I advocate, God forbid that I should ever prohibit the expression of other views!

And I feel that most of us here would agree with me on those points!

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

Submitted by JtC on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 11:51pm

Ever vigilant...

@thanatokephaloides
my friend, ever vigilant. It can slip away.

Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 11:54pm

In very deed!

@JtC

Ever vigilant... my friend, ever vigilant. It can slip away.

In very deed!

—

"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sat, 04/28/2018 - 11:57pm

Rainbow Gazing

Thanks for the reminder JtC...

[video:https://youtu.be/fahr069-fzE]

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:11am

Awesome visuals zb...

@Anja Geitz
and a beautiful rendition.

Thank you.

Submitted by janis b on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:12am

Thank you zoe

@Anja Geitz

for the beautiful images of such a beautiful spirit.

Submitted by ChezJfrey on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:14am

Rainbow Stargazer

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXy1OhaERY]

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:47am

Have you seen the stars tonight?

@ChezJfrey

Submitted by ChezJfrey on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 2:08pm

That's a good one

@JtC I especially like that recording is old vinyl; I can hear it. Haven't heard that in a long time. Though I still have all my old vinyl, I have not had a working turntable for years, so mine go unlistened, stacked in a wood chest I have.

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:40am

We cry for peace ... We cry for love

[video:https://youtu.be/h4A4FCJZHOE]
if you follow politicians you never come far, follow the musicians ... and forget how you name your god for a moment.

Submitted by janis b on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:50am

Thank you mimi

@mimi

for the solemn beauty of this.

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 1:09am

...mama on the telephone

@janis b
[video:https://youtu.be/-qbNk48Fz4M]

Submitted by janis b on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 1:25am

Thank you mimi

@mimi

At least we can share these musical moments as your day begins and mine comes slowly to a close. Mwah!

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 10:45am

Thank you mimi.

@mimi

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:51am

Almost...

1:00 AM here in the Prairie State, gotta hit the hay, I'll catch up tomorrow.

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 1:52am

Prairie State

@JtC

Would that be Kansas, Nebraska, or Oklahoma?

I lived in Kansas City, Kansas for 10 months and worked in a Mexican restaurant called Chi Chi's where people didn't want to order the quacamole dip because it was "green". But that was back in the 1980's and quacamole dip wasn't really a popular thing outside of California.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 10:48am

Illinois...

@Anja Geitz
the flatlands of northern Illinois that was at one time mostly prairie until it was plowed up for beans and corn.

The Prairie State is Illinois' nickname.

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:35pm

I didn't know that

@JtC

Is that nickname on the license plates? Like California is "The Golden State".

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:56pm

Nope...

@Anja Geitz
just a nickname. I think it dates back to the days before westward expansion was yet to cross the Mississippi River and Illinois was at that time considered the "Wild West".

Illinois' license plates have "Land of Lincoln" on them and has for as long as I can remember.

Several Lincoln-Douglas debates and the Blackhawk War are just a couple of historic events that happened in this specific part of the state.

Submitted by Creosote. on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 8:16am

Here JtC, take this with you

@JtC

Lyrics https://lyricstranslate.com/en/pink-floyd-sorrow-lyrics.html-0

As at Pompeii, 2017 - or today

Submitted by strollingone on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 1:22am

I sincerely hope that neither the tone nor the content of

my proposal occasioned this reminder, JtC. An accusation, based upon an assumption, was made that it was blatantly partisan. I responded at some length that the assumption is incorrect. I respect the ground rules here and do certainly agree that this site is and should remain nonpartisan. I fail to see how anyone could possibly construe my wording into such an assumption. However, I am and remain open to your guidance.

By the way, I have an innie.

Submitted by janis b on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 1:26am

; ).

@strollingone

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 10:57am

c99p has been active...

@strollingone
for over 3 years now. With new members coming in it helps to periodically review the ideals that this site was predicated upon. I had noticed several comments lately wondering just that, I thought it might be a good time to revisit said ideals.

At this current moment mine is a lintie.

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:27pm

Good one

@JtC

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 3:42am

It takes all colors to make a rainbow

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c1BThu95d8]

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 10:24am

That was fun to watch!

@Alligator Ed

Love the Monty pythonesque visuals

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:01am

Damn Ed...

@Alligator Ed
that caused me to have a flashback, and a good one at that.

Submitted by QMS on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:47am

Wow man

@Alligator Ed @Alligator Ed I'll never be able to listen to that stoned song again without thinking of that psychedelic vid. Weee!

Submitted by LeChienHarry on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 4:57am

Thank you JtC.

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You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again you did not know. ~ William Wiberforce

If you can donate, please! POP Money is available for bank-to-bank transfers. Email JtC to make a monthly donation.

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:02am

You're welcome LCH.

@LeChienHarry

Submitted by ggersh on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 7:37am

Amen

+100

We are a nonpartisan site, which to me denotes a diversified discussion board with no one political ideology dominating the others. It's about tolerance. It's about ideological inclusion. It's about allowing freedom of thought. It's about civility.

Did we not all flee from ideological rigidity? Isn't the free-range political discourse thusly afforded the reason most sought this site out?

Our hope is that no voice is silenced, no one shamed for alternate opinion, no assessment of purity.

We hope not to become that which we loath, lest we forget what this site was meant to be. I hesitate to think of what will happen if one ideology becomes dominant and caucus99percent becomes a one trick pony.

Agendas spin, the body politic fragments, the world burns, and no one wins except the, well, I think we all know the answer.

—

I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:09am

That is the only...

@ggersh
gospel that will be forthcoming from me. I leave the rest to the membership.

Amen.

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 7:55am

I'm not very good at tricks...one, two, or three

What I observe here at the site is an eternal struggle to find some sort of strategy to combat the global corporate oligarchy. We all grasp at straws...or perhaps life preservers.

Sadly I don't find a single trick or any number of tricks to address this dilemma. I can't imagine this community shoved into any one box...too many informed people. I hope your worries are for naught, JtC.

As always I appreciate all your efforts creating and maintaining our site. I enjoy your occasional meta pieces too. Wishing you all the best in the prairie state from here in the 3rd world state of Alabama...where waists are wide and minds are narrow and the time zone is 50 years ago.

—

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:25am

Not really worry...

@Lookout
a gentle reminder. I too have faith in the c99p membership.

Wishing you all the best in the prairie state from here in the 3rd world state of Alabama...where waists are wide and minds are narrow and the time zone is 50 years ago.

Hah, good one! Much of my state resembles that observation as well. This state is so far in the red that I don't know how it can be dug out. It's all the fault of the pensions and the freebies so we're told, so no doubt those that can afford it the least will be those that will do most of the digging.

Submitted by FuturePassed on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 1:18pm

I think they've found a more efficient solution.

@JtC
They just bulldoze the holes we're in by virtually eliminating pensions. Problem solved AND the bulldozer work can be included in total infrastructure spending.

Submitted by Snode on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 7:55am

JtC is right

We took the blue pill and spit out the orange pill (or it spit us out) and I think we came away from orange pill land having learned too many bad habits. We're kind of refugees,or the opposition in exile. Most of what goes down here would be rigidly suppressed at TOP. We need to maybe not react so fast to what we think the tone of something typed is, and maybe think a little faster than we type. I am guilty of all that, and hope to do better. There are not too many places like this.

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:28am

Yep...

@Snode
you put your finger on it, Snode. Thanks.

Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 10:24am

Only the bourgeoisie have freedom of speech/expression.

The rest of us just work on the ball of dust we call a planet. That won't change until capitalism dies its much deserved death and the pigs and their lackeys who rob the rest of us blind rot.

—

Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:34am

True...

@The Aspie Corner
at the least we can allow freedom of thought/expression on thus little speck on the ball of dust, for now anyway. Let's use it while we still can.

Submitted by Big Al on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:14am

Every day's a new day.

Personally I'm going to try to be more tolerant of other's views.
Unless they're Trump, Obama or Hillary supporters.
For Sanders supporters I'll try harder.

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:59am

Thanks man...

@Big Al
politicin' is hard, no? And frustrating.

It's like the old vibrating football games we had when we were kids. Those damn plastic players most times just would not move like you wanted them too. Sometimes they'd even turn around and score one for the other team.

Submitted by Big Al on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 12:57pm

We're kind of playing at the advanced level here,

@JtC relative to the rest of the public, so it can get a little rough. But like with those old games, we keep playing because one day man, one day, it's all going to come together.
Have a great day brother J.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 2:12pm

Thank you for reminding us all

The motto of free-range politics, organic community is very befitting for Caucus99%.

I also want to believe that every one of us who comes here to post or just read is someone who believes that we all have the necessary critical thinking skills to enable each of us to make our own decisions. When we limit our ability to be challenged by new ideas or even uncomfortable ones, we are depriving ourselves of using our brains to decipher what is real, true, or believable.

The world does not exist in a binary mode. Most things are not just black or white, but are comprised of varying shades of grey. For this reason, I believe there are truths existing in places that we may not have searched in the past but need to allow ourselves to view.

We human beings have far more in common than we have differences. We need to learn how to ally with one another because we are fighting for the survival of our species against some very dark forces.

Thank you JtC for reminding us not to fall into the trap of declaring subjects, sources and people off limits simply because they may present an alternative view.

—

Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by Steven D on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 2:40pm