Aug 282012
 

Yesterday cutting the cyst from my foot was routine.  There is little enough pain that I decline anesthetic.  Hours of pins and needles would be far more annoying.  I received a call from my cardiologist yesterday, and I passed my echocardiogram and nuclear stress test.  Good news is always welcome.  Today is a prison volunteer day, and that gives me an ideal location for the Republican festivities in Tampa: far from a TV.  I have this and one other article, but doubt that I can distribute links today.  I am still not current with replies, but will catch up before I leave, if I can.   Tomorrow is uncertain, because I will miss sleep today and return home late tonight.  What I do depends on how I feel.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:02 (average 5:14).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: 30 Seconds After You Click This, You’ll Know The Truth About Mitt Romney And Paul Ryan

 

This is not news, but too many do not know it yet!

From Business Week: That maternal presence — and her experience with raising five sons — has helped her connect with average voters in a way that comes less naturally for her husband, Mitt Romney.

Her challenge today at the Republican National Convention in Tampa — her biggest stage yet — will be to humanize her husband for Americans who haven’t so far found him very likable. She needs to show that he’s more than a former private equity executive good with numbers, and that he cares about their needs.

She faces an impossible task to make that lie credible.

From YouTube: I HAVE A DREAM… MARTIN LUTHER KING – August 28 1963

 

49 years ago, this holds historic memories for the nation and for me.

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  10 Responses to “Open Thread–8/28/2012”

  1. 3:24 Will this old dinosaur's time stand the test of of time with the other jigsaw champs here?

  2. Hopefully Mittens and Paul are dreaming "The Impossible Dream".

  3. Puzzle — 4:02
     
    MoveOn — Excellent!  Again, interrupt the feed from Faux Noise and insert this going out to all the GOP sheeple.
     
    Business Week — Cue music.  Mrs Romney, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make the impossible happen — humanise your husband for the middle class voters.  Should you fail, we will disavow all knowledge of your mission.  This tape (and your mission) will self-destruct 06/11/12.  Cue music.
     
    YouTube — I was eleven years old at the time.  For me, the last 5 minutes roughly are the most meaningful, and so I wrote it out here.
    And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
    I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
    I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
    I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
    I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
    I have a dream today!
    I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
    I have a dream today!
    I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
    This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
    With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
    And this will be the day — this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

    My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
    Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
    From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

    And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
    And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

    Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
    Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
    Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
    Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

    But not only that:

    Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
    Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
    Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
    From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

    And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
                    Free at last! Free at last!
                    Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
     
    Cartoon — Amen!  I wonder how many etches of his sketches Rmoney will make during these 3 days of the conference?

    • We probably have Mahalia Jackson to thank for urging Dr. King to "Tell them about your dream, Martin.  Tell them about the dream!"
       
       

      Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had originally prepared a short and somewhat formal recitation of the sufferings of African Americans attempting to realize their freedom in a society chained by discrimination. He was about to sit down when gospel singer Mahalia Jackson called out, "Tell them about your dream, Martin! Tell them about the dream!" Encouraged by shouts from the audience, King drew upon some of his past talks, and the result became the landmark statement of civil rights in America — a dream of all people, of all races and colors and backgrounds, sharing in an America marked by freedom and democracy.
       
      "If Mahalia, with that voice, told you to do something, you did it," Roger Wilkins noted.

      http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/democrac/38.htm
      http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94038251

    • Would that we could.

      Poof!

      It was wondrous!

      Enough to wear out a toy factory.

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