Odds & Ends: 99 Luftballons Edition | 85 comments (82 topical, 3 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Are you American? (4.00 / 2)

To my knowledge, my most recent immigrant ancestors were the parents of my maternal great, great grandmother, America McInnes, who came over from Northern Ireland, Scots -Irish stock. America was their first born here. My paternal great, great grandmother was Cherokee and came over the Trail of Tears, but stopped in Arkansas. My father used to joke that they didn't have enough sense to go on to Oklahoma, where the oil was. English, Welch and Dutch round out the family tree.

I was born in Houston, Texas during WW II and grew up in Whizbang, Oklahoma in the 50s. Neither budr or myself are exactly typical Okies. But we are far from the only ones of similar persuasions to come out of that fair state. I returned to the Ozarks of my grandparents upon my retirement. I find enough people here of persuasions similar to mine to feel at home.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Aug 20th, 2008 at 05:24:22 PM EST
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Re: Are you American? (none / 1)

Sheesh. This is a European blog - I don't know here people are from. Perhaps the coverage was different outside the US. I've been repeatedly yelled at over the past few days for not qualifying media observations as American. That's all.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Wed Aug 20th, 2008 at 05:28:36 PM EST
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Re: Are you American? (4.00 / 3)

Sorry to disappoint. There are a lot of us here. I have not found an American blog nearly so congenial to my sensibilities or with a comparable, consistently high level of discourse and civility as I find on ET.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Aug 20th, 2008 at 06:58:13 PM EST
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Re: Are you American? (none / 0)

Why are you speaking like this? Sorry to dissapoint? Who said anything about dissappointing? I wanted to know if you remembered seeing the same things on tv in America.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 10:49:41 AM EST
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Re: Are you American? (4.00 / 2)

I wasn't offended by your response and perhaps I was a little too flip in mine. Perhaps I should have given more weight to the last sentences.

What I recall from the 50s was traveling at night by car and listening to Billie James Hargis on the radio railing on about GODLESS COMMUNISM and the need for a Christian Crusade Against Godless Communism. I found him annoying at age 16, even though we listened mostly to laugh.

By the time I got to OSU and was taking Russian language and Russian History the official atheism was the thing I liked best about the Soviet Union and would gladly have seen some of these fundamentalist clowns thrown down the well head first. At least I wouldn't have had to listen to them rant any more. Each semester we were asked to fill in a religious preference. By my final year I was listing "League of the Militant Godless," Trotsky's old organization.

I enjoy your posts, even if we seem to mis-communicate in the comments. Please bear with me.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 01:19:04 PM EST
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Re: Are you American? (none / 1)

To me it's clear that Poemless was just asking you whether you were an older american who would be able to remember the media coverage around the breakup of the USSR more clearly than her.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 11:35:48 AM EST
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