Update: It’s ON. It’ll be somewhat disorganized, because I didn’t get enough response to reserve a private room, but WTH, we’re bloggers…we’re not supposed to be organized. See you at 7pm
Folks, let’s have dinner and a couple of Tsingtao’s and have some fun, regardless of our political affiliations, biases, prejudices, or lack thereof.
I’m going to suggest that we meet Saturday night at 7pm at Ocean Ave. Seafood, 747 N. Broadway, in Chinatown in downtown L.A.
That’s a good venue, because a key blogger may well be able to come join us there, but not further south. Plus I like their salt shrimp.
I’ll be there, wearing a really loud Hawaiian shirt, and whoever feels like joining me is more than welcome.
Leave a comment and let me know if you’re coming – that way I can try and get a block of tables or a private room, if there are enough of us.
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Dear Armed Liberal,
What a good idea. If I were able to go I’d be there. (More than 2,000 miles away.) I get the feeling that this country is really divided and what we need are more “uniters” like yourself. The political bickering among ourselves plays into the hands of our enemies, and that anything that helps us get it together and focus on the real danger to our lives that these terrorist criminals represent
can only help.
There is no question that it is only a matter of time before they get the nuke and unlike the threat I grew up with from the communist possible total annihilation, if we don’t subdue these radicals we are faced with horrible environmental hazards and hundreds of thousands of deaths. I see this as a real possibility and I see that there are those who dismiss this reality because one party or another is in power and what ever they are doing to prevent this from happening the other party uses it against them for their own political ends.
Recently I saw a report on a web site that gave technical step by step procedures on how to build a nuclear device for the laymen, how to build dirty bombs and all kinds of lesser bombs and what materials one would have to steal and where to steal them from. It was an al qeada site and the site had been visited more than 50,000 times.
So again, as I read your invitation I felt a sense of relief and know that here is someone who has the right idea, in fact I am going to do the same if I can.
Thanks for some sanity and a breath of fresh air in a mixed up world.
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Olive Branch Overtures – One of the jobs of the President and responsibilities of the Electorate to except after the election.
We need to address the problem that Sir Winston pointed to with his remark that “Democracy is the worst form of government… except for all others.”
Ironically I’m thinking of a one party system where all elected members just vote what is the best thing to do with no parties involved. (?) We elect the best at election time and then they vote on individual issues. With the advent of the computer and internet we can get immediate input and feedback from everyone. (?) But the “Buck has to stop someplace.” I guess.
I am reminded of Davy Crockett who turned to his electorate for advice on what to do about some issue. AND had he not asked his constituency what to do and then said he would do it he would have been defeated. It’s surpassing, had we listened to some other things he was in favor of we may have avoided all the trouble of the Indian Wars and the “Trail of Tears” issue surrounding the ill advised “Indian Removal Act” which he loudly and strongly opposed.
Iraq is like the Texas of the 1830s in that there is a foreign territory with good people in it who were living beyond the reach of a federal system that worked and under the thumb of a despot who they wished to get rid of. Hence the expression “They can go to hell, I’m going to Texas.” What to do when the majority is wrong?
History is full of examples of how to remedy situations. It seems to me that as a race humans already have figured out how to solve many of their problems. For example the Middle East issues and Islam’s war about idolatry was already solved by the Martin Luther Reformation solution. (Same issue different religion.)
I happen to be in town this weekend, so I’ll plan to be there. Any suggestions for parking?
AL, is this still happening? I was planning on attending, but don’t know if you had sufficient response to follow through.
hey if any bloggers are in the pittsburgh, pa area, let me know. I just got some primo bud with which to surf cyberspace, blog etc. we can abstract things that were never meant to be abstracted and conceive of the universe as one subjective experience from the god-like totality that constitutes all matter and energy and highness.