tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post2934532629041251147..comments2023-10-15T10:48:01.870-04:00Comments on Roxie's World: Out of StatusRoxie Smith Lindemannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06455529922082930949noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-42658771949051498092009-09-20T13:22:19.903-04:002009-09-20T13:22:19.903-04:00Oh, the moms have done Nebraska AND Tennessee, His...Oh, the moms have done Nebraska AND Tennessee, Historiann -- Someone had a little Cather work to do out in NE, and they've always driven the southern route to Texas and the SW in the past. You are right about the OK soundtrack, though -- It is marginally redeeming of the state.<br /><br />Here's hoping the skies are big and beautiful for everyone in Roxie's World today! Moose is off to do a little yoga al fresco. Boy, that already sounds like another rejected FB status line, doesn't it?Roxie Smith Lindemannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06455529922082930949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-28120124114310738972009-09-20T10:47:24.474-04:002009-09-20T10:47:24.474-04:00I Goose will not reveal your undisclosed location....I Goose will not reveal your undisclosed location. After laughing through your rejected FB status lines again (had such fun reading them with you last night, Moose, while Skyping), I'll point you to something serious in this morning's WaPo, a column by Jim Sleeper about the public animosity directed at President Obama, "This Anger Isn't Just in Black and White" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091703598.html). He makes many of the points Historiann does (though we think she makes them better), and points out that liberals keep falling into the trap of "it's all about race" and therefore ignore many of the real issues driving this backlash. These two paragraphs seem especially trenchant to the Rox and Goose:<br /><br />"The mistake of crying racism is especially tempting to upscale, influential liberals who, no less than protesters on the right, are ducking the true causes of dispossession, fear and rage: the premises and practices of financial capital, predatory consumer marketing and a national-security state boondoggling.<br /><br />"Liberals who've done well by those practices aren't always serious about redressing their inequities and disruptions. But they can't bring themselves to defend them very wholeheartedly, either. So they grasp at symbolic gestures against racism that short-circuit political currents for necessary change as surely as Rush does."<br /><br />Incisive.<br /><br />Goose is already hungry for the meal Moose enjoyed last night. . .and Goose and Rox love their hero Moose!!!<br />--from RW Enterprises, LLC home baseGoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-1562764672952413562009-09-20T10:06:32.094-04:002009-09-20T10:06:32.094-04:00Coyote poop? Look for fur and grass... Back he...Coyote poop? Look for fur and grass... Back here, the kitties shudder at the very mention of the thought.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09944835420352128990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-52241344051618619622009-09-20T08:48:21.179-04:002009-09-20T08:48:21.179-04:00I believe in skys, I do. And your well deserved sa...I believe in skys, I do. And your well deserved sabbatical is already using them with aplomb.<br /><br />I am an ocean gal myself. And my sabbatical memories are of sun shining off the Monterey Bay and the 360 vista of water, mountains, and beach....<br /><br />But I know you have a heart for ocean too and lots of experiences with all of these beauties. <br /><br />Thanks for sharing them....Katie Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15901518232103073849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23938076.post-38961073502378127002009-09-20T08:41:02.177-04:002009-09-20T08:41:02.177-04:00Ha! Big skies where you are--too bad you can'...Ha! Big skies where you are--too bad you can't swing by, Moose. The Great American Desert just goes on and on and on and on, doesn't it? (If you think OK is big, try Nebraska! Or even Tennessee, the long way. Yikes! At least Oklahoma! comes with its own catchy show-tune soundtrack.<br /><br />Thanks for the link.Historiannhttp://historiann.comnoreply@blogger.com