tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post6140466713930805530..comments2023-10-28T03:14:44.519-07:00Comments on Calhouns Can(n)ons: That Day. This Day NewsstandGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04099049885765768069noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-23723398134753136202014-09-13T06:23:34.689-07:002014-09-13T06:23:34.689-07:00All true. We will continue to murder one another ...All true. We will continue to murder one another over stupid stuff because that's what we're hard-wired to do. And continue to allow ourselves to be the victims of con men acting against our own best interests because that's also what we're hard-wired to do. <br /><br />The only upside to all of this is in the long view, it won't matter. Earth abides and Mother nature will have her way. What we have killed off in our blind folly, She will replace with new species. What's washed away will be rebuilt by the shifting ground. The generation who witnesses the old world dying away will mourn and curse our memories. But the children born into this new world will have known no other and so they will still laugh in the streets. Churadogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701649330085709021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-12771876824105678892014-09-12T12:45:47.575-07:002014-09-12T12:45:47.575-07:00Thank you Ann, for articulating and formulating th...Thank you Ann, for articulating and formulating thoughts about this where I could not. Wish I hadn't looked last night. It seemed manipulative somehow, now that we are on the brink of stepping into more smelly goo in the Middle East. How much and just HOW, in the balance.<br /><br />How much upset and wrong in the world to turn people into homicidal maniacs! Bad parenting, loneliness, bullying, greed, mental illness. Not enough want to look at any of that or at global warming either to actually solve it. Maybe that is not possible. Look back on history....the only upside, we haven't killed us all....yet, anyway.<br /><br />Well, individually, vote as best we can, contribute where we can, drive less when we can, be courageous where we can, etc.. Avoid dwelling on ugliness. And join protest where we can. And enjoy every little bit that shows us something interesting, compassionate, beautiful.Sewertoons AKA Lynette Tornatzkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04501351678541088868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-65147719887952027632014-09-12T11:52:48.988-07:002014-09-12T11:52:48.988-07:00Thanks Ann. Your writing was depressing (although ...Thanks Ann. Your writing was depressing (although true), the<br />present time makes me want to plant more trees around the house<br />and water them (until we run out of water)and hide inside! I will<br />then sit inside and re-read all of<br />my blogs...which (I think) are positive views of my traveling world. CarolineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-9414068225770625012014-09-11T23:17:39.140-07:002014-09-11T23:17:39.140-07:00Leave each day to the fullest. We may never see a ...Leave each day to the fullest. We may never see a more beautiful world than today.Sandra Gorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850367686567164074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-46564167818016228312014-09-11T15:30:09.736-07:002014-09-11T15:30:09.736-07:00The Tuttinator, still a character in the land of c...The Tuttinator, still a character in the land of characters. Nice to have those local touches.<br />As for Osama, yes it was not personal, it was business. Fuel bombs into large symbols of financial government and military establishment.<br /> But for other Al Queda, Mohamad Atta, it was very personal.<br />Like the relationship between the Journalist and his decapitator. Alon Perlmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155776897189144501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-57064912004284663472014-09-11T07:26:05.941-07:002014-09-11T07:26:05.941-07:00Patrick, I would argue that there is a kind of awf...Patrick, I would argue that there is a kind of awful "malice" by too many of us (via our own actions and our votes) to put the future of ourselves, our children, our planet in jeopardy for the sake of a few dollars in our own pockets. Talk about the classic "F--k you and the horse you rode in on." And when it comes to corporate/business -- the old "privitize the profits and socialize the losses" ? Real, organized, deliberate malice, I would say. <br /><br />Oddly, regarding Osama, I always had the feeling that there was no real, personal malice for the people he murdered. They were just a means to an end. Unfortunate, but necessary to carry out his holy plans. <br /><br />Well, pablum probably beats tape loops. Can't bear to look at them any more. Will spend some time today pulling weeds in the garden and watching the green beans over-top their tall bean poles, waving in the sky. Churadogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17701649330085709021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-22689374428396044082014-09-11T06:27:49.958-07:002014-09-11T06:27:49.958-07:00Beautiful column, Ann. But fret not about the C02 ...Beautiful column, Ann. But fret not about the C02 numbers because there is no malice there. The UN also says that Earth's ozone layer is beginning to recover, which is good news.<br /><br />As to what is on TV today, around here there are no endless tape loops of destruction. Instead we get pabulum from talking heads about a "national day of service" in remembrance of 9/11/01.Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427059903399181556noreply@blogger.com