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  Too old to Sail and to Young to Die

 

When I first tried blog sites it was just a place to post published comments, commentary, cartoons, photos and letters etc. Having any kind of interaction did not seem important. However, I will miss the comments, especially those that challenged by thoughts, beliefs and research. Hope you all post your new sites as ther seems no rush to typepad.
 
I still remember a post by Patricia Volonakis Davis. I must have read and looked at that post 50 times. I got tired of trying to find it...so I made a copy and stored it on my e-mail account. Libertine writes about everyday subjects  I can relate to. David Horton and jbuff at times seemed to be the opposite side of me and then not. Ken and Snowy were an enjoyable challenge in every way..being two sides of opposite worlds. Nor will I forget the back and forth with jbuff regarding the true and only important meaning of liberalism. 
Rainman quote. "No matter who we are , what we do , where we live. We all have the same dreams, same fears, same faults, same beginning and we all have the same ending. Yet we all pretend we are different but we are all the same." Rainman - United Kingdom, April 8, 2010.  I think about this quote often, when I am trying to make a serious point for what I believe to be my next great commentary or letter. This quote keeps my mind in check. 
 
I have received e-mails regarding my neighborhood as to it did not fit any group. It was not planned...it just worked out that way.
A neighborhood where there was an Emmi and Kimber who made me feel humble at times. A Dancing Bear, Flamingo Dancer and Can Can Girl that could read The Rosemead Herald while talking to Dr. Linda. The neighborhood would not be complete without a Delusional Angel or a Madonna or two.. 
And, we could not have a King without Alfred the Ordinary. We all could use a history lesson from  Kimberly about Heretics or anything else that comes to mind.  Life is Good in my neighborhood.
 
This quote of mine is not as good as Rainman...but it seems to fit...at least temporary. I wrote it for a friend of mine whose mom had died and he wanted something to end his words at her funeral. What I wrote was longer and more personal.  Boiled down was the quote that was left.
 
"Every ending is a new beginning. There is joy in both. You have to find it." Lightfoot 1996.

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The FACE of PROTEST IV

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The John and Ken Show, KWIZ 640 AM event in Phoenix Arizona

                                                                                                     The setting in Downtown Phoenix

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                                       The famous and infamous, John and Ken

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Crowd Control is always difficult for tax protest and SB 1070 supporters.

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                                          California loves Arizona except for the Mexican Legislatures in Sacramento.

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Stop and Think.

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         Former member of the House, J.D. Hayworth, interviewed by the local stations and John and Ken.

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The nerve of this guy with a, union like, preprinted sign. It must have cost a fortune.

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Russell Pearce, author of Senate Bill 1070 being interviewed by John and Ken.

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                                                                Part of the riotous crowd just like the New York Times said.

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More of the unruly crowd.

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                                                                                    Gov. Brewer has at least one fan in the crowd.

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First the State troopers, then they had to call in the local Police Dept for the unruly protesters.

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The Face of Protest

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Mr. Beck Goes to Washington....

.....Beck may not be important, but the message was!

 

August 30, 2010
Letter to the Editor
New York Times
 
 
I was doing nothing of importance except listing to Tim Conway Jr., KWIZ 640 AM,  on a lazy Saturday. He caught my attention when he said something to the effect of one thing  we did not know and something that would not be in the New York Times or the Los Angeles Times or like print or network news. Be right back after the news break with Eric Bender.
 
First, what we did not know.  Tim played a tape of Dr. Aveda King niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "My Uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during his lifetime was a Republican."  I was not surprised knowing a little about history. Larry Elder, another popular talk show host, film maker and commentator's dad was a lifelong Republican. His mom a Democrat. Booker T. Washington thought that Negroes should give up the Republican Party which befriended them during Reconstruction and which he regarded as their emancipator. That was a polite way of saying if you don't vote Democrat you will not be allowed to vote in Democrat controlled elections. There could be a lot of closet conservatives, classical liberals and libertarians in the Democrat Party in certain areas of the country.
 

BRUCE MCKIM / THE SEATTLE TIMES

 

Monday, January 11, 201  Martin Luther King Jr. | 1966-68

Black, white, young and old sang "We Shall Overcome" as they marched down Denny Way to the Seattle Center on April 7, 1968 to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had been felled by an assassin's bullet. The crowd was estimated at 10,000

 

 

Second, the speech by Dr. Aveda King  at the Lincoln Memorial would not be acknowledged by the main print News or the network news.  
"If Martin Luther King Jr., were here today. He would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.“Our nation is not yet past racism because our nation has not yet understood that there is one race: human. We are of one human family." "We must not oppress each other and help those being oppressed."   "God bless you Glenn Beck."  Dr. Avenda King.
 
One piece especially caught my attention in the Huff Post. 'Glenn Beck's Attempt to Bastardize Dr. King's Dream' - by Hasan Kwame Jeffries - Author of Bloody Lowndes, Race-Talk contributor.  I was not at the event and can not speak from first had knowledge. But, from the live feed that I was listening to, I did not get the idea or feeling that Dr, Aveda King was trying to 'bastardize' her Uncle or his speech. 
 
Many Democrats in the media condemn talk-news stations as the next worse organization since the Devil and the Fallen Angels formed a monopoly on Hell.. However, I think Tim Conway Jr., Timmy to some of his friends, Mr. Conway to me, has brought a subject to light that is way more important than even he thinks it is. Tim is either a mind reader or the *social engineers in the media have become so predictable, so much, to be not relevant. If you are the New York Times, LA Times, NBC, ABC and CBS news to be no longer relevant is to be on your way to  extinction.
 
Job well done Mr. Conway Jr. along with KWIZ 640 AM., which most of the time is 'more stimulating talk radio.' and for being right, more informative and accurate than the so-called main stream media.
 
 
Lightfoot Letters

 
 
cc: Tim Conway Jr.
      LA Times
      KWIZ 640 AM Radio

 
 
Source
 
KWIZ 640 AM

No Beck-Palin ticket in 2012, talk show host says - By Michael A. Memoli, August 30. LA Times

At Lincoln Memorial, a Call for Religious Rebirth - By Kate Zernike, Carl Hulse and Brian Knowlton - August 28. New York Times
 
Mr. Beck Goes to Washington - By Ross  Douthat, Published: August 29, 2010. New York Times.

Glenn Beck's Attempt to Bastardize Dr. King's Dream' - by Hasan Kwame - Huffington Post - August 29.
 
Articles and news stories considered..picked at random.

 

*authoritarian philosophy