Hallowed ground indeed...
Yesterday was Veterans Day… My Father and his two brothers Tarmo and Pentti all served in WWII. Of course the world continues to turn and our line of warriors remains unbroken to this day. I did not serve… that was not my path. Would I do things differently today? This is a pointless question.
The Jorma of today honors our veterans… past and present, living and dead. They have done things and gone places that will forever be foreign to me. They have offered and given their lives for our country. To the men and women who have served, do serve and will serve… I thank you.
On another and yet quite current subject… the Presidential Election and our collective futures as a country and as humans:
From A Cherokee Parable
An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life…
“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
“One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego.
“The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
“This same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather,
“Which wolf will win?”
The old chief simply replied,
“The one you feed.”
Thanx Jorma, the morning after the Hamilton show Jack suggested that I check out the Air Force Memorial which is less than a mile from the hotel. It was smaller than I expected but still very reflective and informative. It made me think of my father who served in the Air Force in the mid ’50’s. It also inspired me to head to Arlington. I had time. The next show was at the Keswick which was a pretty short trip for a Tuna tour 🙂 Arlington National Cemetery, “the Garden” as it is known by the Old Guard, 3rd US Infantry Regiment, is a somber, compelling place. I must have walked three hilly miles there. The JFK section is impressive. But, the vistas of the thousands of headstone were somehow soothing and inspiring. There, but for the grace of God go I. Each headstone tells a story ending with the conflict in which the warrior who lies below gave their last full measure of devotion. Their sacrifice ensured a world in which we would all be free to travel to Hot Tuna shows. A world in which peaceful dissent is encouraged. A country in which God-given human rights are enumerated and protected by those who lie in The Garden. I then went to the Tomb of the Unknown. The changing of the guard was due in about twenty minutes. I watched the sentry pace off his twenty one steps and return after switching his M-14 to the opposite shoulder. They stand their watch 24/7 in every weather. They are the very manifestation of the sacrifice of all veterans who lie in Arlington, National Cemeteries and cemeteries worldwide. Their commitment is complete. After the changing of the guard I gave them a mental salute and walked back to the truck. As I navigated my way out of DC and on the road to the Keswick I reflected on the seven times, so far, that I have sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution and I gave thanks that I live in a country worth dying for.
Amen Brother Mike
Wow, Jorma, I loved that story – so true –
Ok – thanks.
@Carey Georgas
You aren’t in his wheelhouse. I didn’t mean to infer that all Trump supporters are undereducated.@johno
I am a college graduate and have a masters degree. Thank you.
@Carey Georgas
I understand.
I watch the cable channel, “Destination America”. They feature programming about supernatural places and things. I like to watch, mostly for the history of various local legends. “Monsters and Mysteries in America” is an interesting show. All kinds of unknown creatures, mostly in the woods at night.
They also had a program about the old Route 666, which runs through the badlands, from Colorado to Arizona.
There were so many accidents there and truck drivers were reporting strange things. It got so bad, that it was officially renamed “Route 191”.
(by some government agency, thinking that would fool folks.)
Who knows — but no woods at night for me! LOL!@Carey Georgas
Yeah, and I live in the woods with ’em all around me. My county was 88% – 12% for Trump (not that the’re all flat Earthers). It’s just that most of the 88% are his wheelhouse constituency – undereducated white folk. I get along with ’em for the most part, just don’t have much in common with many of ’em. The main reason I’ve stayed here a lifetime is that I have a deep connection with the land. Something about these woods…@Barbara Jacobs
Right on brother, exactly right! Clinton was a disaster as Secy of State. She used it and the infamous Clinton Foundation as a personal piggy bank. Just go ask the Haitians, where they were supposed to build a hospital. Never happened.
@John B
I’m the only “sister” here, so you must be talking to me.
You and I have both (at different times and in different places) met “flat-Earthers”.
I was in the country-side outside of a major city in Georgia. My photographer friend was taking photos while I was showing him around; first the historic district, then onto the Federal district, and on into the country-side.
We drove along and stopped at a small deserted building. My friend was taking photos of it, while I stood back aways from him. I noticed a man watching us. I said “Hello” and he approached. He was friendly and wanted to see the photos.
He gave us some info about other places to take photos in that area.
Then, he started talking about the whole “Flat-Earth” thing and invited us to “A supper meeting.”
I just continued smiling, while we walked back to the car.
What else can you say and do, when given an invitation like that?
In the woods, with night approaching.@Carey Georgas
I agree that the deplorables mark was an error, but that was the only real rhetorical mistake she made, in my humble opinion.
Hilary’s rhetoric was positive, uplifting, and couched America as great already. She slung her share of mud, but her take on the USA was of a country that is proud, and can be better if we work together. That’s the difference to me.@John B
Calling Trump supporters Deplorables was certainly an act of tolerance? Deplorables one moment and irrelevant and indispensable the next. The first step toward the elimination of a group of people is to de-humanize them.
Right on, sister!
And Hillary was that person Doug? @Doug Mlyn
Even though I stated that I’m going to give Trump a chance, I still was treated to the usual, by the other “side” here.
If I was a “brother”, it may have been different.
Those protesters are free to protest peacefully. I’m an actual New Yorker.
My apartment in Manhattan is just a few blocks west of Trump Tower on West 56th St.
My former apartment was just a few blocks east. Residents of midtown are familiar with protests and street-closings. Every time the President comes to town, every time there is a meeting at the U.N. We let it tie-up traffic and access to our own apartments.
(Back when Kerry was in the running, his wife was having her hair done at a
salon located next to my building. I came home to find my entire block closed-off by the NYPD and the FBI was outside the salon, on guard. They tried to prevent me from returning home. My doorman was standing outside my building and we were both trying to convince them to allow me to go past them and return to my building. If she had just been driven in a car to the salon, nobody would be aware that she, or anybody else of importance, was there.)
I’ve met Mr. Trump. He built a very nice skating-rink in Central Park, completed it under budget and in a timely fashion. That project had been stalled for years.
I saw him many times, backstage at MSG. He attends the Stones concerts (he was always there with his wife or a date and I wasn’t within grabbing range.)
I would say: “Hi Donald”, he would smile and say “Hello”. Nobody else paid much attention to him and he liked being recognized.
Having said that, I still can’t approve of him as President. I will give him a chance, I’m not protesting. At least he never called me any of the childish attempted insults that I’ve taken here. I just LOL! at them and they claim that I’m “lashing out”. LOL!
That’s alright – we don’t need to agree about everything. I can be wrong – but I hope not. Just think we needed a change in Washington.
@Doug Mlyn
@johno
Johno: With all due respect, as we are all Tuna fan brothers and I’m not trying to start an argument.
I’m trying to keep an open mind about this, as I don’t always vote with party lines, But I think a U.S. President should be someone that can be looked up to, a person with character, a decent person. I just don’t see it..
sorry brother
I don’t know if we have ever disagreed here, before.
I do agree with you about him feeding his huge ego:
he punched his elementary teacher in the face and bragged that he didn’t get expelled for assaulting a teacher.
He attended military academy, knowing that he would never serve in the military.
That was the point in his young life, where his emotional intelligence came to an end.
(no “taking sides” forced upon anybody here.)@Andy K
Thank you for your service. (you don’t need to be on my side here).
The programming on the Smithsonian Channel is always educational.@Mike Anderson
Well, it seems that they don’t have the ability to sit at the adult table.
We can seat them at the kiddie table. It’s round and has no “sides”.
If they can behave throughout dinner, they can accompany us out on a walk around Milano. I’ll bring three of those toddler-leashes for them. Those are a good invention for keeping track of toddlers while on a walk — just so they don’t run out into traffic.
No bufala!@jim hitchcock
Right on, brother!@rich l
I keep the tidbit about Christmas, at the bottom of this post, in my wallet; I’d like to send it to our new president as a reminder of what’s important in the good Lord’s eyes. I suspect Trump’s bark is worse than his bite – at least I’m hoping it is. He has an opportunity to go down in history as monumental leader or an abject failure. Which door will he choose? Which door will we choose?
My boss said something before the election that I thought rung true; “This will be a one term president.” The problems we face are immense. Churchill noted:
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…
Anyway:
Christmas is Forever
When the song of the angels is stilled,
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the kings and princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flock,
The work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry,
To release the prisoner,
To rebuild nations,
To bring peace among brothers, sisters,
To make music in the heart. – Unknown.
We can’t control what our government does necessarily, but we can control our actions. Next time someone says, “Buddy, can you spare a dime,” give him a dang dollar!
I’m talking rhetoric, not mud. Two different things.
I respect your arguments. But they both were nasty.
Doesn’t matter. Free speech is free speech. And he has an awful lot of ugly rhetoric to overcome.@johno
@johno
Peaceful protest is a treasured right in our democracy. Take a moment and think about what Trump may have said or done to inflame the passions of so many Americans.
And let’s be honest, like many politicians Donald ran to feed his HUGE ego (and perhaps to fuel his business interests).
If he cared so much about America he could have paid taxes to support VA benefits, etc.
This is not the Vietnam war – no 50,000+ Americans killed. It was an election. Give the guy a chance. He didn’t have to do this – he had a sweet life. He did this for America.
@Doug Mlyn
@johno
Because they’re exercising their right as Americans..Just like we protested the vietnam war.
Tell me why these protesters are still protesting. I guess they haven’t realized the election is over. He won by an electoral landside. Clinton lost PA, OH, WI, FL, NC, and MI – all the swing states. My nephew is NYPD, he hasn’t had a day off since the election. I don’t know what these cretins want – but it ain’t gonna happen. I hope it’s over soon. I didn’t want Obama – did I protest – no. I’m a Republican – always was and always will be.
@rich l
TELL ME WHY
Well, I don’t exactly know
What’s going on in the world today
Don’t know what there is to say
About the way the people are treating
Each other, not like brothers
Leaders take us far away from ecology
With mythology and astrology
Has got some words to say
About the way we live today
Why can’t we learn to love each other
It’s time to turn a new face
To the whole world wide human race
Stop the money chase
Lay back, relax
Get back on the human track
Stop racing toward oblivion
Oh, such a sad, sad state we’re in
And that’s a thing
Do you recognize the bells of truth
When you hear them ring
Won’t you stop and listen
To the children sing
Won’t you come on and sing it children
He’s a stranger in a strange land
Just a stranger in a strange land
Stranger in a strange land – one of “them songs,’ for sure
Always loved the piano riff in Clapton’s “let it rain.”
“Oh little blue bird, why did you go away…”
I guess I’m late to the game here, I drop in here every once in awhile to see what’s happening.
1st, as a Vietnam Era Veteran, thank you Jorma for your words for veterans on veterans day. Thank you for the sacrifices of your uncles and father in their service. Thought of you while watching a series on the Smithsonian Channel, Daring WWII raids and one is the Norwegian raid on an electrical plant in Norway, great bravery there and sacrifice.
2nd, Very sad on the passing of Leon Russell, saw him with Hot Tuna and John Hammond at the Warner Theater in Torrington, CT, same venue I just saw John Prine at.
OT
Electric Hot Tuna @ The Egg in Albany (one of the best venues on the planet).
This Sunday 11-20.
I have 2 tickets (row E) I can’t use. Great Center Orchestra seats.
My loss should be your gain. Let me know!
@jim hitchcock
Still have it and thinking about taking it for a spin. As you suggested a couple of days ago, better off just dismissing IT (don’t know if IT is a he or a she). If you opt on attending the dinner invitation, watch out for the tossed salad! Or any of it for that matter. It contains a double dose of EVERYTHING!
This just inspired me to Amazon Leon Russell and the Shelter People. I was like 15 when I had the LP. Thanks Nick@Nick L. Eakins
I was blessed to see Leon at one of Willie’s 4th of July picnics just outside of Austin back in 84. To this day, his set is one of the best I’ve ever been around for. Also, his Live at Long Beach double album is one of the most underrated in all Rock history. BTW Jorma, did you used to know a couple of Austin locals from a band called Stack Of Bones? This was around 84 and 85.
johno, Joey, & Dead Head, too.
There seems to be a possible détente between Jim and I.
I’d like to extend an invitation to him to share a friendly dinner with Carlo.
Usually, Carlo’s friends put out a big spread of delicious food, that covers the entire table.
For the purpose of this momentous occasion, we will have a dinner in a room at a fine restaurant in Milano.
The food will be served and placed, straight down the middle of the table.
Carlo can sit at the head of the table, while Jim and I sit on either side.
What side will be fair? Oh, who knows? Carlo will just alternate between both ends of the table throughout the dinner.
But the mozzarella di bufala will be placed by my side of the table, so that Jim
doesn’t feel like he’s “bufaloed”. He doesn’t like bufala and we don’t want to force him to choose, just because it’s placed on his side of the table.
Then, we can have an intelligent adult discussion about Art, Poetry, Film, Books, and if all goes well: we can talk about television shows.
We can take him out to show him around Milano:
What side of the street would be fair? Oh, who knows?
He can walk on the other side of the street from me.
As long as we’re going in the same direction, we will arrive at the same destination.
No bufala!
Can I pay you in beads?@Steve
No, he was such a great in the realm of musicians and performers.
@Kevin
Boy this is great!!!!! I’d like 10,000 marbles please!!
The last time I saw Leon was 1/19/14 at the Sunshine Music Fest in St. Pete, sharing the bill with a little band called Hot Tuna and of course the hosts and organizers the TTB. Is there anyone who has played with more fellow musicians or appeared on more albums than Mr. Leon Russell? I doubt it. R.I.P.
ok with me, too.
Always was.
You still don’t irritate me. @jim hitchcock
Carlo doesn’t take sides. He’s an adult.
ok
“buffaloed”?
Late to the party but you have the right to enjoy yourself with them. “Got me…”
LOL! Take any side you want. I don’t care. Revisionist history.
The internet is forever, worldwide.
If I want to try to reason with immature cry-babies, I’ll go to my friend’s house and talk to Danny. He’s only 5-years-old, so he has an excuse for his ignorance.
At least he doesn’t sulk for days.@jim hitchcock
I’m elsewhere, in England. I left late last night.
If anybody wants to join me here, they are welcome to do so.
They can take it anywhere, but they remain on here. Yesterday, today and probably tomorrow.
It’s not political, it dates back from way before the election.
Now, Trump is back at his place in Trump Tower. His apartment there is modeled on
Versailles, where actual kings ruled. It’s not a real palace and he’s not a real king, but he likes to think he is.
RIP Leonard Cohen and Leon.@willy
@carlo pagliano We’ve never met in person, Carlo, but it’s been a real pleasure to know you all yhese years
It was kind of nine years ago, that i jotted down this little poem whose meaning I hope will pop out notwithstanding my primitive English: – Court Of Review –
It’s a way to respect the time we have been given
to restore the ligneous Temple with always fresh arrivals of briar-root
It establishes it the court of the reason
vibrating Seneca’s chairs
if you don’t find an haruspex to hold your condemnation and
remember we are all some congenital condemned men
Either our thought hath a story
or that the idiot wouldn’t be an urgent problem
are of no interest to a stone and to whom comes and goes
but a deferred block to be closed and
that I take with me to the review
Enjoyed seeing Leon open for the Electric Tuna Boyz in 2014. He is an icon and missed.
Another gravelly voice done gone,
@willy
Got me at ‘An ignorant Frisbee-trick champ and his followers’
Buffaloed.
Hey @Johno and @Barbara – take it elsewhere.
On the heels of Veteran’s Day, here’s Leonard Cohen’s recitation of John McRae’s poem “In Flanders Fields”. Worth the 3 min to recognize the sacrifices some of us have never been called on, or volunteered, to make.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKoJvHcMLfc&feature=youtu.be
And RIP Leon Russell.
Leon Russell “Cmon and sing it, children”
Station Break: fun thing
Three weeks ago i opened my front door to find a a four ft tree branch laying on my floor.
Looked up, and here was a softball sized hole in my ceiling. Turns out a 20ft branch from big tree had punctured my roof. Liberty Mutual is replacing my entire roof for $11,007, Carson City has codes requiring laminated shingles, due to wind
Came here to find out Jormas views on things and found the WWE. Ain’t that peculiar
Why can’t we be friends, why can’t we be friends, why can’t we be friends, why can’t we be friends…?
My apologies for being a contributor to transforming yesterday’s dialog into a sandbox souffle. I do know better; sometimes unbridled sentiments occur.
To hate is to stay young, to love is to live too fine. We can hate with love, biblical. In this particular blog frequented by persons of great intelligence, we learn, enjoy and rock to the tip of our toes. We are guests in somebody else’s super soft home every time we click. Great occasion, if we detoured, to catch back the winning trails. Better play it slick and feed the lambkin, for days are open and skies are free, all the beautiful is yet to be. Thank You Jorma for the opportunity.
The blog has been (for some time now) been taken hostage.
The joy in participating in this has been sabotaged.
Sad
It’s like a Train wreck.
@jim hitchcock
It is hate filled.
Not so smart
And typing on phones is hard.
Johno,buddy@johno it’s night like you haven’t played your part, as have we all, for months..
There, now I’ve tweeked everybody’s noses, my work here is done 😉
Unbelieveable – I went out for the evening, I come home and she’s still going at it with others. Spewing her hate filled, mindless ramblings all day and all night on Jorma’s blog. I agree with Dead Head. She is a moron.
Here’s Carlo!
He and I get along here. He doesn’t come calling with insults, he doesn’t count comments or keep score. He doesn’t accuse me of “asking (him) and everybody here “to choose sides…”
He certainly doesn’t accuse me of “being Jorma’s lap dog” nor does he agree that Jorma needs a “lapdog”.
He’s a good person. So good, in fact:
I was passing through and we had plans to meet in Milano. Carlo wasn’t feeling well, when I planned to be in Milan. Still, he was willing to meet me. I love him for that, but suggested that he stay home and rest.
Next time I’m in Milano, it will be my pleasure to see him there.
His hospitality is beyond compare.
@carlo pagliano
Rock Them All Strong Tonight Jorma!
You and/or anybody else here are free to disagree with me.
I don’t “lash out”. It’s not “all I know”.
You’ve disagreed with me here, before.
I was o.k. with it: “you don’t have to agree with me”.
Although your intention may have been good, you actually thought that I had nothing better to do on the day before Veterans Day. I was busy working on plans for various events.
“Asking that (you) and everybody else here choose sides…”
Rock on Jim, but don’t come for me. Grow up.
You don’t need to agree with me.
@jim hitchcock
..@Dead Head ..no point in taking on B Jacobs, she’s smart as hell, but falls apart when confronted with disagreeing views, makes her lash out, all she knows.
Look, Dead Head:
When you reach up to attempt to pull me down,
you and your buds are reaching way out of your league.
If I was mistaken, I’d be happy to apologize to you.
It wasn’t that long ago and my recollection was of you posting a comment
directing Hot Tuna fans to not worry about trying to purchase tickets, in order to get good seats. Scalpers located around the corner, great seats.
Referring to where the scalpers are located, is in fact, promoting street-scalpers.
I’m not interested to “Get on (you).”
I have better, more productive things to do.
I don’t need you to “become a huge fan of (me)”.
If you think that people who work on concert tours, are “globe-trotting,
rock-celeb shoulder-rubbing”, you have no idea of how the music/touring business works.
First, you attempt to insult me. Then you attempt to insult Jorma.
If you are able to participate in an adult discussion, you have not thus far.
@Barbara Jacobs
Oh yeah, better check the blogs which, incidently, go back to June 2010. I remember your claim but it twas not I. GO BACK AND CHECK BEFORE YOU FALSELY ACCUSE ME. Scalping is not my thing nor have I ever discussed it. Referring to where it is done is in no way promoting it.
@Barbara Jacobs
“Threats”?????
“You are the moron(although I didn’t call you that)” Yeah, you really have my sympathies. Poor old thing. I’m gonna do a 180 and tell you to keep on. I, for one, have become a huge fan of yours. GET ON ME!!!!!!
Oh, Dead Head:
I don’t need to be judged by you or anybody else here concerning my credibility.
I don’t “lap-sit” Jorma. I don’t need to , and Jorma doesn’t need “lap-sit(ters).
If Jorma had an issue with me, posting a link to a non-profit devoted to helping Veterans — it’s his website. No complaints from Jorma.
Jorma knows me, for decades. I’ve never been arrested, nor convicted as a felon.
I’m an American. Lunatic Syrian radical?! No, Jorma knows that I am not.
I don’t care if you “pull out (your credit card)” As a matter of fact:
Don’t do military Veterans any favors.
“Get out while (I) can”?! From where?
From here, or from America?
Is that a lame threat?
You are the “moron” (although I didn’t call you that), who posted a comment, directing Hot Tuna fans to not try to purchase tickets legally, to Hot Tuna concerts at the Beacon. You gave precise instructions about going to the place where scalpers were waiting to sell tickets, just around the corner from the Beacon. It sounded as if you are a scalper, or promoting the street-scalpers.
Your “World-Class Frisbee flinger” is nothing , without his Frisbee tricks.
Bring him and your Frisbee(s) to confront me, in person.
You will need them, to use as bed-pans.
“Get out while (I) can”? LOL!@Dead Head
@Barbara Jacobs
“fools of themselves”?????????? It is beyond me to judge, “that ye be not judged”, but, with the exception of HamnEggs, you are rapidly losing your credibility. By sheer force of numbers. Never mind the globe-trotting, rock-celeb shoulder-rubbing, and Jorma lapsitting posture of yours. “Without Jorma knowing the real identity” really did it. You are soliciting funds on JK’s website. Have you gained his permission/approval? YOUR identity: how are we to know that you are not a convicted felon somewhere in the big house? Or worse, some lunatic Syrian radical? You want us to pull out our credit cards AND give a World-Class frisbee flinger the FUBAR? GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN. YOU’RE A MORON!
The Purple Heart medal was given to those who served their country, bravely on the battlefield.
All who serve deserve to be honored.
Purple Heart medals were not given out like candy-corns on Halloween.
I hope that you framed that medal, under a photo of that family-member.
If anybody doesn’t want such a medal, I will send them a postage-paid envelope.
Send it to me. I have a place for it.
In the attic of my grandfather’s house I found a Purple Heart medal in the drawer of a night table. It belonged to a brother or cousin of his from Pennsylvania who fought in WWII. I couldn’t get much information from my grandparents about it but did find a picture of a military tombstone like at Arlington only it was in some Pennsylvania veteran’s cemetery. The Purple Heart sat in an aging attic bedroom in a drawer with the room still looking like the 1950’s.
Strange that those who refuse to fight wars that all turn out to be based on bullshit and quickly forgotten are reviled by those who do.
I’m certainly not “obsessed” with anybody here. I didn’t troll anybody relentlessly, trying to spread a conspiracy theory. I’ve obviously have better things to do.
I don’t suffer from “big-shot-ism” I never tried to “control” anybody on here.
That would describe the comment posters above.
I didn’t know, when I first started posting comments here, that there was a
pecking-order. I soon found out. I didn’t google anybody who posted on here but others did:
An ignorant Frisbee-trick champ and his followers. Attempting to control comment -posters and calling for the elimination of me and Andriy.
They seemed to believe that people can sign-up to post comments on this blog section, without Jorma knowing the real identity, contact info.
Although they were proven wrong, when HamnEggs met Andriy, they didn’t learn from their mistakes. Instead, they doubled-down.
And here they are, together, with the freedom of speech to continue making fools of themselves.
Peace
Love All Ways
The silent majority voted for the democrat, who won the majority vote last time I checked.
6 million less votes were cast for the Democratic candidate than the last presidential election. Still the Democrat won the most votes.
It’s fitting you write of draining a swamp Sometimes swamps serve as a buffer zone absorbing all kinds of shit. Your boy and half his colleagues in both the houses don’t believe in science. He doesn’t owe anybody? You should have went to disney with Jorma a few weeks ago.
Globalist? What is that someone who looks to the Seventh Generation?
Christie? Ghoulieani? Stop and Frisk bridge gate frightened petulant children.
I worked with students who were stopped 2-5 times a day under your law and order.Remember when you could dance at night in Central Park and feel better when you saw a cop not thinking they were coming to get you.
Yeah make amerikkka great again
“… but they never let on about the Roses that grow in the shadows of the black machine, in the shadows of the limousine ” Paul Kantner
@johno
@johno
Control issues
Big shot-ism
She is obsessed with me.
http://www.sailahead.org
My 6th comment on this discussion thread.
Because there were so many delayed and cancelled flights out of JFK yesterday due to the wind gusts, I don’t know if my flight this evening will be delayed.
I have an unexpected day off today.
Anybody trying to regulate my current comments, who was witness to the attempted
coup d’état, with the objective to deport me from this comments section ( never mind what they posted here about/to Andriy, who really exists as a human-being)
is free to try to scold me. It appears to be a selective enforcement of an imaginary rule.
Maintain your position, don’t be deterred.
There will be another election, four years from now (as Jorma has pointed out, not for the first time here).
I don’t know if you have ever disagreed with me before, here on the comments section. I don’t keep score and I don’t have an enemies list (That’s too Nixonian for me).
Every two cents adds up.@doug mlyn
Listen I know my position may not be popular – but this kind of discourse is healthy. The silent majority had enough on the Clintons and the Bushes. This is a republic not a kingdom. I’m sure Kissinger is pissed!
@doug mlyn
I read Jorma’s blog every day and always find inspiration and calm .. and while this is not a forum for political comments, and this is just my own opinion (everybody has one, and you know what else), but I cannot sit silently and say yeah.. this is just another election. there will be another one in 4 years, I cannot get behind a president-elect that ran his campaign on fear and intolerance toward others because tolerance toward others is what this country is about, this is not about which party won. I think he lied to his supporters and made them think he was going to “drain the swamp”. He is packing his administration with ALL washington insiders. There mus be a reason why we can’t remember such madness break out. I won’t say any more.. just felt I had to add my two cents..
I can’t believe that mostly young protesters are upset at the results of the election. In no other election, that I can remember, did this kind of madness break out. The people of this great country picked the next president on Tuesday. These people should go back to school or work and relax and get behind the president-elect. At least we pissed off the Globalists. We put in a man that doesn’t owe anybody – anything. It’ll be quite refreshing. Happy Veterans Day!
This is my 5th comment on this discussion thread. By the current metric of the self-appointed Jorma’s blog comments section regulatory group, I have 15 more comments to go, before there’s an attempt to silence me.
At least I’m not being threatened with “deportation” from the Jorma blog comments section anymore. (anymore, anymore, anymore, ANYMORE!” LOL!)
Students of American history know that much of the Revolutionary War was fought on the North Eastern coast. There was no other coast, back in those days. The East was the only place to be. (Except for the Native Americans, but let’s not
take the discussion there because it involves too much, uh, education.)
To this day, new home-owners (and some developers) find artifacts dating back to that era, while digging a foundation.@Ham n Eggs
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Beware the Dire Wolf. (I feel a song coming on…)
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Thank you, Jorma, for sharing that parable.
The Northeast Cherokee never surrendered..
I met the chief and elders of the tribes some years ago in the woods. We were respecting the burial site of a Revolutionary War massacre. The Borderland is always an interesting place, this one was in the Bronx.
Peace
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