Comments on: Like I Need Another Blog http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/07/21/what-im-doing-here/ A Fresh Look at News, Politics and History Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:28:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: norbert_radd http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/07/21/what-im-doing-here/#comment-4 Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:49:09 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/07/21/what-im-doing-here/#comment-4 The real issues never mentioned: 70% of Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck; the illiteracy rate, viz., failure of education; the millions of Americans stuck in the prison/justice system. The nightly news and the quality can be blamed on the TV viewing public\'s lack of demands for substance which goes back to the failure of education, a chicken-and-egg paradigm if there ever was one. Apathy is more likely or the demands of hustling a living cutting into quality media viewing and reading. The media are lapdogs for the elites and the masses are happy with their infotainment, besides, there are no millionaires on death row. The solution is to do what you can: if everyone wrote their congressmen and paid as much attention to DC as they do Brad Pitt\'s new kid, would the USA really be that different? Recycling\'s the law but it doesn\'t stop wasteful packaging. The solutions of the Weathermen and Islamicist Jihad only kill the innocent but who is innocent if they don\'t take real action. The real issues never mentioned: 70% of Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck; the illiteracy rate, viz., failure of education; the millions of Americans stuck in the prison/justice system. The nightly news and the quality can be blamed on the TV viewing public\’s lack of demands for substance which goes back to the failure of education, a chicken-and-egg paradigm if there ever was one. Apathy is more likely or the demands of hustling a living cutting into quality media viewing and reading. The media are lapdogs for the elites and the masses are happy with their infotainment, besides, there are no millionaires on death row.
The solution is to do what you can: if everyone wrote their congressmen and paid as much attention to DC as they do Brad Pitt\’s new kid, would the USA really be that different? Recycling\’s the law but it doesn\’t stop wasteful packaging. The solutions of the Weathermen and Islamicist Jihad only kill the innocent but who is innocent if they don\’t take real action.

]]> by: Stokely http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/07/21/what-im-doing-here/#comment-2 Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:45:17 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/07/21/what-im-doing-here/#comment-2 To consider - 1. Priorities - many of the hot button issues of the day - Ilyan Gonzales, Terri Schiavo, Monica Lewinsky - are little more than smokescreens to divert attention from real issues that our corporate government doesn’t want people to talk about or know about. The aforementioned are fun to talk about, but really are little more than forensic exercises. 2. Solutions - anyone can question Lincoln, Odysseus, Bush, etc., but more utile to come up with answers, solutions to problems; more utile to discuss and share these rather than just rehashing the problems that exist. 3. Factual - anyone has an opinion and/or gut feeling; but it doesn’t take a lot more effort (now days) to check the facts of one’s argument or position. On a political blog, surely it could be redundant to say to many many contributors - “please check your facts.” Might be good to state that right off - like: opinions welcome but not if you haven’t checked your facts first. (That’s only common courtesy on the part of a contributor.) 4. Language - you’re a stickler for grammar and formal writing. In a political context people tend to get very four-letter impassioned in expressing their feelings. Guidelines? 5. Hate vibes, like David Horowitz, neo-Nazi’s, Ann Coulter; are again little more than smokescreen diversions from real issues. They may be good discussion starters, but why waste time with silliness, when there are so many life and death issues that demand our time, our concern, our discussion. 6. Ignore all the above - I’ve learned (partially from Litkicks) to tread softly on other people’s ideas; so ignore any/all of my suggestions that seem unseemly, or consider those which may have some use. To consider -

1. Priorities - many of the hot button issues of the day - Ilyan Gonzales, Terri Schiavo, Monica Lewinsky - are little more than smokescreens to divert attention from real issues that our corporate government doesn’t want people to talk about or know about. The aforementioned are fun to talk about, but really are little more than forensic exercises.

2. Solutions - anyone can question Lincoln, Odysseus, Bush, etc., but more utile to come up with answers, solutions to problems; more utile to discuss and share these rather than just rehashing the problems that exist.

3. Factual - anyone has an opinion and/or gut feeling; but it doesn’t take a lot more effort (now days) to check the facts of one’s argument or position. On a political blog, surely it could be redundant to say to many many contributors - “please check your facts.” Might be good to state that right off - like: opinions welcome but not if you haven’t checked your facts first. (That’s only common courtesy on the part of a contributor.)

4. Language - you’re a stickler for grammar and formal writing. In a political context people tend to get very four-letter impassioned in expressing their feelings. Guidelines?

5. Hate vibes, like David Horowitz, neo-Nazi’s, Ann Coulter; are again little more than smokescreen diversions from real issues. They may be good discussion starters, but why waste time with silliness, when there are so many life and death issues that demand our time, our concern, our discussion.

6. Ignore all the above - I’ve learned (partially from Litkicks) to tread softly on other people’s ideas; so ignore any/all of my suggestions that seem unseemly, or consider those which may have some use.

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