Thinking While Drinking
Questions:
If there is an unusual natural disaster your first thoughts will be:
a. What actions do I need to take to protect my approval rating.
b. Should I look into the possibility of forming a sub-division that focuses only on catastrophes which have never been dealt with in the past. Things like: Flocks of
wild chickens running around helter-skelter infecting everyone they come in contact with a deadly virus. Perhaps appoint someone to be the Official Chicken Catcher.
c. If there is the possibility of massive injuries and death due to the illegal imported Snake Fish and Killer Bees, should I suggest that citizens have stocked their homes with duct tape because it could converted into bee paper, just like days of old. Or should I suggest the use the Killer Bees as bait for the Snake Fish, after all using they will greatly reduce the cost effectiveness of eradicating both threats..
If there is a normal natural disaster such as an earthquake, flood, hurricane or tornadoes, do I tell the public:
a. It is just Mother Natures way of expressing herself.
b. There but for the Grace of God go I! and let it work itself out.
c. The only possible assistance from the Federal Government will be a National Day of Prayer.
Maybe I’m missing something but when I was in elementary school math, 207 was more than 140. The media in their wisdom has determined that Huckabee is in second place in the Republican race. What are they talking about? By all counts he’s in third and further, there aren’t a whole lotta states left for him to win a big evangelist vote – the evangelists are running out. The Little Baby Jesus is not happy. David said, given the choice of having a beer with any of these candidates, Hukabee is the only Republican with a real sense of humor (Romney’s family practical jokes and McCain’s occasion sneer, don’t count). Note: It doesn’t matter I was wrong in my prediction and (breaking news) Romney has discontinued his campaign, so David won’t have to have a drink with him.
But aside from playing the numbers game, and Hillary and Barak are pretty much in a dead heat when you look at the numbers. However, I still think the most fascinating thing about the campaigns is the rhetoric/message each candidate delivers. The election night speeches were a perfect example. Both Senators declared victory, “I got more states, I got more numbers, I got a bigger headache, I have a bigger 'tuchas' and like that. And they both talked about change, but in such different ways.
Hillary told us how she she’s the future with sentences that started “I see...”. Based on everything she has said she genuinely believes that you cannot change the world without the experience to know how to do it. And having staffed the Government after Bill Clinton’s victory, she isn’t wrong.
Barack did his, “Yes we can...” speech. The ‘we’ is appealing because it says that we’re all in this together. I can’t do it alone. (People want to be part of a group. It’s brilliant). In fact, at one point he said something like, We are the people who we are waiting for. In other words, no one is going to make change alone—it’s a team effort and you are all the team. He feels that Washington is a mess and you can’t fix it with thinking out of the box about how business is done. Experience is overrated. (Who knows).
It is possible that I am reading into what they both are saying and making it my own (but you know it’s always all about me), and I don’t get it. I know it is impossible to change the bureaucracy overnight and without experience and at the same time But I like the thinking out of the box route. And speaking of thinking out of the box (yes I know this is a literary leap, but worth making), I met a fabulous guy today. Don’t make that other leap-- I am still seriously committed to the husband, but this was a professional marriage I’d like to make. His name is Justin Krebs and if you go to http://drinkingliberally.org , you will get a taste of what he has done. And speaking of tastes, one of the organizations he helped to create http://eatingliberally.org– the other being http://laughing liberally.org. If you go to Cosmopolity.org you can see all the things he has done.
On their drinkingliberally.org site, which was their first, they explain that the idea was to find a way to “Raise your spirits while you raise your glass, and share ideas while you share a pitcher.” The idea was to give “Liberally gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place to talk politics.” Justin graduated from Harvard and decided that he wanted to work on a great many projects and, in order to do this he couldn’t work on any one of them for more than six months. (He’s my kind of guy, but I said I was never going to do anything for more than four years—the Presidential cycle. He was smarter). First he worked in Hillary Clinton’s Senate race, next in the parks advocacy movement. Then with a friend Matthew O'Neill, he collaborated on Speak Up New York! - a state-wide youth civic engagement program that won special commendation from the Society of Professional Journalists. Next he developed all the “liberally” organizations. Oh and at the same time they were drinking liberally they created The Tank, a space for performing and visual arts in Manhattan. Whew! But what I think is the best thing about what he has done, other than building a creative, worthwhile, humorous, civic minded, empire (yes, it’s pretty amazing), is that they think face to face communication is the best way to do anything political. Unlike MoveOn, org, they use the website to exchange information (sometimes by linking to other blogs) and promote events. They do not advocate for or endorse any candidates. He did say (without indicating a candidate preference), that when the Senate voted to censure MoveOn, Hillary voted against it and Barak didn’t vote. Instead, they want people to get together, have fun and exchange political ideas.
The more I write the more I love the whole concept. It’s like politics used to be before you had a computer and a cell phone and you didn’t need to ever see another person or hear a voice. He has successfully combined the use of today’s technology with the concept of old fashioned retail politics. Every person who wants to see the potential of a what can happen when you know people need to have a place for conversation, while at the same time thinking out of the box, should click on at least one of his sites. It's a little about thinking while drinking.
Iris
If there is an unusual natural disaster your first thoughts will be:
a. What actions do I need to take to protect my approval rating.
b. Should I look into the possibility of forming a sub-division that focuses only on catastrophes which have never been dealt with in the past. Things like: Flocks of
wild chickens running around helter-skelter infecting everyone they come in contact with a deadly virus. Perhaps appoint someone to be the Official Chicken Catcher.
c. If there is the possibility of massive injuries and death due to the illegal imported Snake Fish and Killer Bees, should I suggest that citizens have stocked their homes with duct tape because it could converted into bee paper, just like days of old. Or should I suggest the use the Killer Bees as bait for the Snake Fish, after all using they will greatly reduce the cost effectiveness of eradicating both threats..
If there is a normal natural disaster such as an earthquake, flood, hurricane or tornadoes, do I tell the public:
a. It is just Mother Natures way of expressing herself.
b. There but for the Grace of God go I! and let it work itself out.
c. The only possible assistance from the Federal Government will be a National Day of Prayer.
Maybe I’m missing something but when I was in elementary school math, 207 was more than 140. The media in their wisdom has determined that Huckabee is in second place in the Republican race. What are they talking about? By all counts he’s in third and further, there aren’t a whole lotta states left for him to win a big evangelist vote – the evangelists are running out. The Little Baby Jesus is not happy. David said, given the choice of having a beer with any of these candidates, Hukabee is the only Republican with a real sense of humor (Romney’s family practical jokes and McCain’s occasion sneer, don’t count). Note: It doesn’t matter I was wrong in my prediction and (breaking news) Romney has discontinued his campaign, so David won’t have to have a drink with him.
But aside from playing the numbers game, and Hillary and Barak are pretty much in a dead heat when you look at the numbers. However, I still think the most fascinating thing about the campaigns is the rhetoric/message each candidate delivers. The election night speeches were a perfect example. Both Senators declared victory, “I got more states, I got more numbers, I got a bigger headache, I have a bigger 'tuchas' and like that. And they both talked about change, but in such different ways.
Hillary told us how she she’s the future with sentences that started “I see...”. Based on everything she has said she genuinely believes that you cannot change the world without the experience to know how to do it. And having staffed the Government after Bill Clinton’s victory, she isn’t wrong.
Barack did his, “Yes we can...” speech. The ‘we’ is appealing because it says that we’re all in this together. I can’t do it alone. (People want to be part of a group. It’s brilliant). In fact, at one point he said something like, We are the people who we are waiting for. In other words, no one is going to make change alone—it’s a team effort and you are all the team. He feels that Washington is a mess and you can’t fix it with thinking out of the box about how business is done. Experience is overrated. (Who knows).
It is possible that I am reading into what they both are saying and making it my own (but you know it’s always all about me), and I don’t get it. I know it is impossible to change the bureaucracy overnight and without experience and at the same time But I like the thinking out of the box route. And speaking of thinking out of the box (yes I know this is a literary leap, but worth making), I met a fabulous guy today. Don’t make that other leap-- I am still seriously committed to the husband, but this was a professional marriage I’d like to make. His name is Justin Krebs and if you go to http://drinkingliberally.org , you will get a taste of what he has done. And speaking of tastes, one of the organizations he helped to create http://eatingliberally.org– the other being http://laughing liberally.org. If you go to Cosmopolity.org you can see all the things he has done.
On their drinkingliberally.org site, which was their first, they explain that the idea was to find a way to “Raise your spirits while you raise your glass, and share ideas while you share a pitcher.” The idea was to give “Liberally gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place to talk politics.” Justin graduated from Harvard and decided that he wanted to work on a great many projects and, in order to do this he couldn’t work on any one of them for more than six months. (He’s my kind of guy, but I said I was never going to do anything for more than four years—the Presidential cycle. He was smarter). First he worked in Hillary Clinton’s Senate race, next in the parks advocacy movement. Then with a friend Matthew O'Neill, he collaborated on Speak Up New York! - a state-wide youth civic engagement program that won special commendation from the Society of Professional Journalists. Next he developed all the “liberally” organizations. Oh and at the same time they were drinking liberally they created The Tank, a space for performing and visual arts in Manhattan. Whew! But what I think is the best thing about what he has done, other than building a creative, worthwhile, humorous, civic minded, empire (yes, it’s pretty amazing), is that they think face to face communication is the best way to do anything political. Unlike MoveOn, org, they use the website to exchange information (sometimes by linking to other blogs) and promote events. They do not advocate for or endorse any candidates. He did say (without indicating a candidate preference), that when the Senate voted to censure MoveOn, Hillary voted against it and Barak didn’t vote. Instead, they want people to get together, have fun and exchange political ideas.
The more I write the more I love the whole concept. It’s like politics used to be before you had a computer and a cell phone and you didn’t need to ever see another person or hear a voice. He has successfully combined the use of today’s technology with the concept of old fashioned retail politics. Every person who wants to see the potential of a what can happen when you know people need to have a place for conversation, while at the same time thinking out of the box, should click on at least one of his sites. It's a little about thinking while drinking.
Iris
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