tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post1956824734020808827..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Music Monday ~ Jeff Wayne's War of the WorldsTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-3387241411163942692014-06-30T17:16:06.217-05:002014-06-30T17:16:06.217-05:00mike (again) ~ Things might have been so differen...mike (again) ~ Things might have been so different now, or so it seems. I remember following the re-count stories on TV back in 2000, without really understanding the significance of it all. <br /><br />I didn't understand American politics at all back then, had trouble remembering from election to election, whether Republicans or Democrats were nearest my own preferences. I recall quite liking Dukakis, and Jesse Jackson, from what we saw on TV, but they must have been involved in earlier elections.<br /><br />SCOTUS has scary power - and to have 5 Roman Catholic members of the bench seems to me to be a very unbalanced situation. Still, I guess Baptists wouldn't have voted differently. There ought to be at least one atheist member....lol - and pigs would be flying all around the courtroom.<br /><br /> Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-75726987714590325772014-06-30T12:30:43.341-05:002014-06-30T12:30:43.341-05:00mike (again) ~ No - that's really small potato...mike (again) ~ No - that's really small potatoes in the great scheme of things, though a couple of nasty decisions were handed down today (I've just added a PS to tomorrow's post on that). I had in mind what's coming next, and next but one, and after that due to climate change. If nothing major is done to try to counteract its progression it could make us wish Martians WOULD invade! Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-74651550999900698662014-06-30T12:26:17.665-05:002014-06-30T12:26:17.665-05:00Are you referring to SCOTUS, Twilight? LOLAre you referring to SCOTUS, Twilight? LOLmike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-52583433003356270412014-06-30T10:50:46.065-05:002014-06-30T10:50:46.065-05:00mike ~ Thing is, though, that we haven't yet ...mike ~ Thing is, though, that we haven't yet fully appreciated what the game is, or that we do have a communal, species-wide, spirit. We're too busy finding and emphasising differences.<br /><br />Listening to these pieces of "War of the Worlds" musical again, I thought that in place of HGW's Martians, soon we will have an less embodied but equally horrific enemy to face, and similar words to these could be used to describe such situations and events.Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-23191785578938738902014-06-30T08:31:48.576-05:002014-06-30T08:31:48.576-05:00"(As a commenter at YouTube remarked, 'Th..."(As a commenter at YouTube remarked, 'The Spirit of Man' something that's going to be tested severely over the next few decades.)"<br /><br />I think that has been the name of the game ever since humans' first appearance on the globe...our destiny is to overcome ourselves and be at peace with nature.mikenoreply@blogger.com