From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #243 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Friday, November 5 2004 Volume 06 : Number 243 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Compromise [Norman Johnson ] Re: [RS] Compromise [Vanessa Wills ] RE: [RS] 'My Uncle' Sam ["Gina Alongi" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:51:27 -0500 From: Norman Johnson Subject: [RS] Compromise >> Both Kerry and Bush speak about unifying the country after this bitter polarization, and healing wounds and all that rhetoric; let's hope they actually mean it, because compromise has got to be the name of the game now.<< If the Democrats compromise, kiss the country goodbye. Bush in 2000 (after the election was decided) spoke of compromise and ran an-in-your-face agenda through Congress. Most democrats meekly compromised and compromised and compromised. Then came 9-11 and Bush talked of unity and let ran an in-your-face agenda. The democrats even more meekly compromised and got run over. It's like Charlie Brown and Lucy and the football. Norman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:16:38 -0500 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: Re: [RS] Compromise Not to mention there is little hope of compromise at the party level because the Bush camp has absolutely nothing politically to gain by it. Politically, they need to satisfy the same voters who voted them into office--and those voters are not interested in compromising with sin (as they see it, albeit wrongly). - --Vanessa On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:51:27 -0500, Norman Johnson wrote: > >> Both Kerry and Bush speak about unifying the country after this bitter polarization, and healing wounds and all that rhetoric; let's hope they actually mean it, because > compromise has got to be the name of the game now.<< > > If the Democrats compromise, kiss the country goodbye. Bush in 2000 (after the election was decided) spoke of compromise and ran an-in-your-face agenda through Congress. Most democrats meekly compromised and compromised and compromised. Then came 9-11 and Bush talked of unity and let ran an in-your-face agenda. The democrats even more meekly compromised and got run over. It's like Charlie Brown and Lucy and the football. > > Norman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:53:23 -0800 From: "Gina Alongi" Subject: RE: [RS] 'My Uncle' Sam > The other song that I found myself listening to yesterday was > Jackson Browne's 'Lives in the Balance'....OK, a different > conflict in a different decade under a different regime but > it's the same "men in the shadows" who are "never the ones to > fight or to die". The song that I've had in my head since Tuesday night is Peter Mulvey's "29 cent head" (which I notice is in Elizabeth's signature -- mine too!). - -Gina A billion blue tubes light up a billion rooms The night outside is as quiet as a tomb The fools on the screen try to get each other into bed It's a forty dollar haircut on a twenty nine cent head And you just don't get it, nah, you just don't get it You just don't get it - can't you get something else instead? Them shapes in the bed are the senator and the C.E.O. Which one is on top? Wouldn't we like to know... Father's got his hand on the alter boy's knee The choir is preaching to you they just want you to agree And you just don't get it, nah, you just don't get it You just don't get it - but you know this don't come free Every election feels like the perfect crime Like you can fool all the people all the time They say the water isn't rising but their shoes are soaking wet They like to drive you crazy - you ain't crazy yet You just don't get it Can't tell one place from another all across the land Where's the architect? Wouldn't you like to shake his hand? Shops are full of nothing, the streets are full of fear And if we're all so connected why can't we just get near? Oh, you just don't get it, nah, you just don't get it You just don't get it - but you can't get there from here You got a thousand talking heads to tell you where it's at But when you look behind the curtain to where the puppetmaster sat And there's just an empty chair And the strings are lying flat And you just don't get it, you just don't get it You just don't get it - and you're vaguely proud of that You just don't get it and you're vaguely proud of that You just don't get it and you're vaguely proud of that ******************************************** "every election feels like the perfect crime, like you can fool all the people all the time..." - -p. mulvey ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #243 ***********************************