by | October 11, 2015 · 9:30 am

A thousand people a day

2015_10 Population moving blue to red

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  1. Jane Dough
    October 11, 2015 at 5:55 pm

    God is Religion to a conservative. Government is Religion to a progressive.

    Religion is based on faith, not facts, so facts don’t matter to a progressive. It’s a soul-deep commitment to an omnipotent and omniscient State, as deep a commitment as Jesus Christ is to a Catholic.

    There’s a sadness in using the State as your God substitute though, like watching a cover band do a Journey song. I think that’s why they’re always angry.

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    • GruntOfMonteCristo
      October 11, 2015 at 11:56 pm

      Love the music analogy! 🙂 I was laying on my back under this magnificent (ironwood?) tree looking up into the dappled brilliant blue mid-morning Colorado sky today while waiting for a slot to open up at a local outdoor shooting range with my youngest son. I was enjoying the cool breeze and was starting to doze and I heard the music of an old Carrie Newcomer song called “Under the Tree” in my head. Carrie was kind of a vagrant chanteuse from West Lafayette who had a band called Stone Soup for a while when we were at Purdue. We listened to them play in nightclubs a lot during the 80s and bought some of their vinyl. I imagine she was something like a lesser WL version of you in Bloomington. Did you ever run across her?

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      • chrissythehyphenated
        October 12, 2015 at 6:45 am

        So NASA is in Colorado?

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      • Jane Dough
        October 12, 2015 at 12:16 pm

        Grunt, never bumped into Carrie, but I played W. Lafayette a LOT, perhaps a little before your time (I moved to L.A. 1983). As a solo I was the house “band” once a month at the Ground Round for several years. There were nights that got over-the-top crazy; in my two-decade musical career I’d say that was the tightest performer-venue symbiosis I ever knew. The whole room would play along on various percussion instruments I brought with me … 20-person conga lines snaking throughout the restaurant … guest singers all night long … louder than crap! … oh, to be young and immortal again.

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        • GruntOfMonteCristo
          October 12, 2015 at 3:49 pm

          Wish I’d been in there! We had a couple years of overlap, but I was too young and broke during the early 80s to hit the restaurants/clubs much. It was later – ’86 to ’89 – when I was fat from the lucrative grad school teaching gigs and my wife was rich on her $10k/yr secretary job that we started blowing it all on booze and good times. 😉 I did like that Ground Round, though. Unfortunately, there aren’t any left in Indiana any more.

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    • chrissythehyphenated
      October 12, 2015 at 6:38 am

      Yes … plus, they are serving Satan and he “blesses” his followers with all the opposites of the wonderful graces and fruits the Holy Spirit gives us. Like peace and joy.

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