For Whatever Reason

Before we get this entry started, for reasons that elude me as this entry was started ages ago, or at least last month, I provide this a little reminder that privacy is an illusion, perhaps as some sort of public service. And since I let some social conscience pop out, here's a bit of a political statement. Now before we get our dander in a huff n puff or panties in a bunch a munch, let it be known that this is more than simply a filler entry for the date without one (whatever does that mean, surely it's been here all along and flows right out of the last one and into the next one, especially in the edited version put together by the publishers after I sailed off the another plane, right?), let's get on with it.

What?

So I listened to the President's Farewell Speech in it's entirety and it was ok, but weak. It's still one of the best speeches I've heard recently on unity and the mindset of truth that we need to embrace. It wasn't until the last five minutes of his speech that he hit upon some depth of reality in the few lines about getting off the internet and talking to each other again. You don't vote or make the world a better place by posting on Facebook, after all.

He was not nearly as challenging as we need our leader to be. He did not challenge us to see and accept that connection between the divisions of hate that radiate on the net and on our streets are based in fear. He did not challenge the haters to admit their fears - and shout the truth about that fear. Fear makes us weak. Fear makes you weak. Challenge us to be strong. Challenge us to unite under the ideals upon which this country was founded. Challenge us to not hide behind our fears, but to overcome them. Tell us how that is done. Through conversation with those we fear. Through conversation with those we consider our enemy. Through finding the common ground we all have as human beings. That is how to surive. That is how to prospoer. That is how to keep this country great.

The President got closer to this message as he closed his speeck, so I'd upgrade it from ok to good.

The partisanship is killing this country. On Wednesday, January 4th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation giving Congress the power to kill dozens of recently enacted rules in one fell swoop, as Republicans charged ahead on their campaign to strip down federal regulations and oppose anything the Democrats do. Will the Democrats be as stupidly obstructionist and oppositional when they are the minority? We can only hope not, but then, there is not that much difference.

So I changed the world by posting this somewhere:

Partisanship is destroying this country and giving other countries power to manipulate us - just as our government has influenced other countries for years. Both major parties are so close to the middle it is not easy to tell them apart on economic issues. The small steps Obama took in last minute are tiny moves that Democrats did not do when they had power. If they wanted to do it, they would have pushed for these rules over the last eight years. Both parties are Corporate owned.

Somewhere along the way I moved on and found a video I shall label origin and symbols for whatever reason. labels and titles are symbols too and sometimes they are important reflections of what is to come. Someday maybe I'll find the magica online experience that brings love back into this life and what a wonderful world that will be.

Here are some other websites and videos to check out in your spare time and here's a list of here's the list of albums in one of the videos (I have no clue if I linked this one, but it's a list of albums anyway).

green day - american idiot
busted - busted
busted - a present for everyone
avril lavigne - let go
blink-182 - blink-182
good charlotte - the young and the hopeless
my chemical romance - three cheers for sweet revenge
paramore - riot!
the white stripes - elephant
placebo - battle for the sun
twenty one pilots - vessel
twenty one pilots - blurryface