tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post6127659668639154002..comments2024-02-21T05:25:15.214-05:00Comments on Views from Raven's Nest: Some Things I Don't UnderstandRavenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996538460071167819noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-21388801269261563472008-09-26T17:00:00.000-04:002008-09-26T17:00:00.000-04:00*hugs*Well said Raven... and you have the right to...*hugs*<BR/><BR/>Well said Raven... and you have the right to say it.Anndihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08703154815958841195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-42752119422702911182008-09-26T11:25:00.000-04:002008-09-26T11:25:00.000-04:00hi matt-man,Thanks for coming by and for your kind...hi matt-man,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for coming by and for your kind words. THE PROPHET should be required reading in every school. World would be a better place if it was.Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04996538460071167819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-32660194356901910622008-09-26T11:23:00.000-04:002008-09-26T11:23:00.000-04:00smm - Good to see you again. I think human rights ...smm - Good to see you again. I think human rights people defend terrorist and not victims because victims have plenty of people in their corner already. They don't really need anyone to step in for them. I'm not an eye for an eye person. There's a saying "we become the thing we hate." I think that's true. I think the world will only change when we stop feeding the hate of terrorists with more hate and find ways to look at what makes them tick. I think what they do is obscene and hateful and a form of both evil and insanity, but I don't know that killing them actually stops the madness. But let me go read what you wrote before I respond here.<BR/><BR/>As for the bailouts. I don't mind some kind of action but a blank check to one man with no oversight or regulation would be much like what we did going into Iraq. Listening to the sky is falling folks and putting our brains in a basket because we are scared. After 9/11 we were told that the economy was going to be crash and the country was ruined, which was absurd. I think there is a yin and yang to everything. These disasters will cost jobs but they will create jobs as well. <BR/><BR/>Man, I'm long-winded and opinionated this morning.Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04996538460071167819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-78857573682618844272008-09-26T11:13:00.000-04:002008-09-26T11:13:00.000-04:00amber star - I understand what you are saying. One...amber star - I understand what you are saying. One thing I didn't say about my own close brush with disaster. Even the first house I looked at was the cheapest (I think it was $85,000) habitable place I was able to find in Sullivan County. It was newly remodeled cabin. It had a shiny new kitchen with a washer and dryer, one tiny bedroom and a tiny living room and dining room that combined would fit into the bedroom of the house I ended up in. As you can see from the photo, it's also a very small house. Perfect for someone like me. Anyway, my point is that the mythology is that everybody out there who got caught in this was buying a palatial estate and I don't think that's true. The first house - the one that would have destroyed me - could probably have fit almost in its entirety into my bedroom. <BR/><BR/>But I know what you mean. I'm pissed at having to bail out the golden parachute people and the people who lied to me. THAT really ticks me off BIG time. <BR/><BR/>Since I live on SSD and was raised by crazy people, I feel like I'm a drain on society. I was unemployed briefly at one point in the 70s. My family always referred to it as "the time I was on welfare." I can just hear them in Heaven wondering where they went wrong. Sigh.<BR/><BR/>It is a tough pill to swallow in difficult times especially having to help out others when you haven't done anything wrong. I think that people who already had their homes before Bush/Cheney took over the country and decided to destroy every aspect of it don't realize that many many perfectly innocent people were duped and misled and sold a bill of goods. They are victims of the deregulation that Phil Graham and McCain and Bush and the Republicans foisted on the country (with the help and assistance of Democrats). Now everyone is trying to blame Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac which were functioning very well up until that happened (at least as far as I understand it).<BR/><BR/>I don't know. I don't really understand it. I think my SONYMA mortgage is backed by Fanny Mae, so I may not be as safe as I think I am. I'm going to hold the faith, though.<BR/><BR/>I guess I'm rambling my way to the idea that even in our response to this, the nation has become so divided that even in the face of this kind of crisis we have forgotten that either we all hang together or we all hang separately. I hope that whatever the Congress comes up with to deal with the mess we are in, that it does more to help the poor than to give an alternative form of golden parachute to the SOBs who have brought this ruination upon us. Whew. <BR/><BR/>Almost done. I do believe that there is plenty of abundance in this world and that we will all come through this just fine. Maybe it is one of those things I call "gifts in ugly wrapping paper," - a call to correct our bad habits as a nation and look at ourselves so that we become a better nation whose wealth and potential serves all of us. I hope so.Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04996538460071167819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-3215020181286037482008-09-26T10:50:00.000-04:002008-09-26T10:50:00.000-04:00travis - thanks. I think we have gotten to the pla...travis - thanks. I think we have gotten to the place you speak of because evil people have taken advantage of fear and manipulated our worst instincts and because those people have way way too much control of our TV and radio "news." I don't have a radio anymore, so I've been kind of spared the horrors of hearing the Rush Limbaugh voices even in accidental passing. One of the things that most impresses me about Obama is that dirty as the McCain campaign has been, he has stayed above the nastiness. I admire that greatly.Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04996538460071167819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-64838571701913800882008-09-26T09:43:00.000-04:002008-09-26T09:43:00.000-04:00Well done Raven. I for one am glad that you "got ...Well done Raven. I for one am glad that you "got pulled in". I do so love a good dialogue whether people agree or not.<BR/><BR/>And...I can tell you are decent person because Di and Travis read you. They are good eggs.<BR/><BR/>One more thing...Gibran Rocks. One of my personal, all-time faves. Cheers Raven!!Schmoophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01758200133537951854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-55711123806375463592008-09-26T00:46:00.000-04:002008-09-26T00:46:00.000-04:00Raven, I lovvvvvvved this post. Hope over to my la...Raven, I lovvvvvvved this post. Hope over to my latest post when you get the time. There I'm wondering how is it that the Human Rights people cry foul cuz terrorists have been shot dead, but never bother to lift a finger when the victims of their blasts are affected.<BR/><BR/>My view is that your Gvernment did a good thing in bailing out the corporations. There would have been joblessness and well, we all know that an idle mind is a devil's workshop. <BR/><BR/>Btw I'm back on Wordlzzle tomorrow for sure :)SMMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04322627347633569930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-436162210615184012008-09-26T00:21:00.000-04:002008-09-26T00:21:00.000-04:00Just because Travis is just above this post and I ...Just because Travis is just above this post and I read his last...it has been to the point that one cannot say anything against the current regime w/o being nailed and called an unpatriotic person. Just my observations over the past decade.<BR/><BR/>I don't understand is why is it that my husband and I scrimped and saved and put our three children through college and we never were poor or anything, but we didn't have the snazzy new house or the way cool car, or someone to mow our lawn, etc. And now we will be having to bail their sorry ass out, because they did.<BR/><BR/>I totally agree with you, Raven, about the people in their home or on welfare or on the streets, but dang.Amber Starhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04084517063365211835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-81980215919633502692008-09-25T21:34:00.000-04:002008-09-25T21:34:00.000-04:00You've articulated some of the many things I don't...You've articulated some of the many things I don't understand. I also don't understand how we've gotten to the point where disagreement and questions brands a person un-Patriotic, and hate speech is considered acceptable.Travis Codyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06192526507760146748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-49111129307496756172008-09-25T16:00:00.000-04:002008-09-25T16:00:00.000-04:00Jay - aw... thanks and back at you.Dianne - you ha...Jay - aw... thanks and back at you.<BR/><BR/>Dianne - you have nothing to apologize for. I sucked myself in and I don't regret it. I got a little carried away, maybe, since I didn't really know anything about the person who I called "heartless." I really don't understand why people don't what to help their fellow beings out but that's just me.Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04996538460071167819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-779397744947046682008-09-25T15:41:00.000-04:002008-09-25T15:41:00.000-04:00First - I'm sorry for my part in you getting pulle...First - I'm sorry for my part in you getting pulled into a situation that upset you. I was so furious and upset that I told the first person I thought of - which is often you.<BR/><BR/>As for the rest - you know you preach to the choir with me when you write stuff like this but it is wonderful to read anyway.<BR/><BR/>And I'll say it again. You are far kinder than I am. I'm not sorry for what I said, I'm only sorry I didn't say more.<BR/><BR/>Peace RavenDiannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02946500110072411468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-68460427319401476872008-09-25T13:27:00.000-04:002008-09-25T13:27:00.000-04:00Beautifully written and now I have a few more reas...Beautifully written and now I have a few more reasons why I love having you for a blogbuddy. You CARE and it shows. jjaycoles@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16299489611656202052noreply@blogger.com