Yes 2 Dead in OHIO was the question number. AND Voters in Maine restored same day voter registration. A defeat for Governor LePage and the Republican majority
kirthsays
You do know that the song was about actual people who were killed, don’t you? I understand the urge to make a tricky heading for your post, but it caused me a moment of sadness, and I am dismayed.
It is a vivid memory for me as well. As is the anti-war movement and my brother being drafted and doing a combat hitch.
I’m also old enough to know that men and women died defending workers rights. While striking for basic rights and pay men and women were beaten and shot by state military forces – the national guard of the era. (among the reasons for a national guard amory in most major cities was to surpress workers when they dared organize).
While I will respect your feelings about my using the CNSY song to make a point, your attempt to teach me a history I lived through comes up way short.
kirthsays
My feelings had nothing to do with the song. They stemmed from what felt like a trivialization of the real deaths of some people to make a pun about a couple of laws being defeated. No one died to defeat those laws. There were no deaths in Ohio this time, but when I read your title, I thought someone actually had died.
I am not only also old enough to remember Kent State, but to have done a tour in Vietnam myself. I am not trying to teach you history. I am trying to point out that your cute title was insensitive, in the same way that using the phrase “drinking the kool-ade” is.
It is running 63% in favor of repealing the draconian Republican attack on collective bargaining: http://www.cleveland.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/11/issue_2_early_ohio_election_re.html
…and dead means repeal of the Bill that attacked collective bargaining aka “Senate Bill 5”.
Yes 2 Dead in OHIO was the question number. AND Voters in Maine restored same day voter registration. A defeat for Governor LePage and the Republican majority
You do know that the song was about actual people who were killed, don’t you? I understand the urge to make a tricky heading for your post, but it caused me a moment of sadness, and I am dismayed.
It is a vivid memory for me as well. As is the anti-war movement and my brother being drafted and doing a combat hitch.
I’m also old enough to know that men and women died defending workers rights. While striking for basic rights and pay men and women were beaten and shot by state military forces – the national guard of the era. (among the reasons for a national guard amory in most major cities was to surpress workers when they dared organize).
While I will respect your feelings about my using the CNSY song to make a point, your attempt to teach me a history I lived through comes up way short.
My feelings had nothing to do with the song. They stemmed from what felt like a trivialization of the real deaths of some people to make a pun about a couple of laws being defeated. No one died to defeat those laws. There were no deaths in Ohio this time, but when I read your title, I thought someone actually had died.
I am not only also old enough to remember Kent State, but to have done a tour in Vietnam myself. I am not trying to teach you history. I am trying to point out that your cute title was insensitive, in the same way that using the phrase “drinking the kool-ade” is.