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Welcome to Saturday's Potluck - 3-12-2022

Submitted by studentofearth on Sat, 03/12/2022 - 6:14am

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso
Winter is officially over - chickens have started laying. Fresh egg omelets are back on the menu. Crocuses are blooming. Tis the season for dreaming of bountiful harvests from the seeds being planted and warmer days.

Reality check. Uncertainty is in the air. Prices up, armed conflict in another part of the world, fuel disruptions, drought warnings. Is this a repeat of the 1970's which ended with 12 years of a Republican in the presidency. Spontaneous events or a push with propaganda?

Open Thread 03-11-22 - Some of Them Were Angry

Submitted by OPOL on Fri, 03/11/2022 - 7:18am
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Editor's note: Republished posthumously in OPOL's name from 10/24/2018. ~JtC
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Some of Them Were Angry

NOTE:The title and much of the quoted text are from Jackson Browne's brilliant Before the Deluge

Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
With the energy of the innocent
They were gathering the tools
They would need to make their journey back to nature
While the sand slipped through the opening
And their hands reached for the golden ring
With their hearts they turned to each other's hearts for refuge
In the troubled years that came before the deluge

As we head into the abyss...

For far too long far too many of us have mostly ended up just going along with some of the worst acts against humanity, ever. Either in outright denial of reality or via superhuman feats of rationalization...or by being misled in one way or another, or by simple exhaustion, pummeled as we are by the constant torrent of media-borne propaganda.

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