08-01-2016, 05:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-01-2016, 06:31 PM by Eric the Green.)
On the Best Songs Ever thread I spoke of the Summer of 1966 (especially late June to early August) as the time when a bolt of lighting changed music and changed the world.
Another bolt of lightning came down on August 1, 1966, that changed the world, but not in a good way. And our response to it has been, to say the least, horrific. AP calls it the beginning of an era, and so it was.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/begi...ng-n620556
50 years later, the nincompoops of Texas have passed a law allowing concealed weapons on campus.
What a memorial. I could only compare that to the worst laws ever passed by Hitler. But there it is. A state and much of a nation gone utterly insane. A nation that wants more of the same.
Michael Moore's award winning documentary, Bowling for Columbine, was broadcast today on the Decades Network. A fitting memorial to the 19 people who died 50 years ago today on the day our era of mass shootings opened, or later died because of that mass shooting on Aug.1, 1966. I caught this line from the doc. "if the idea that more guns reduces violence were true, The USA would be the safest country in the world. The opposite is true." And truer words could never have been spoken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_for_Columbine
https://youtu.be/hH0mSAjp_Jw
https://youtu.be/8pyMzh1nHYg
"When will we ever learn" sang Pete Seeger. Indeed; when............
Another bolt of lightning came down on August 1, 1966, that changed the world, but not in a good way. And our response to it has been, to say the least, horrific. AP calls it the beginning of an era, and so it was.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/begi...ng-n620556
50 years later, the nincompoops of Texas have passed a law allowing concealed weapons on campus.
What a memorial. I could only compare that to the worst laws ever passed by Hitler. But there it is. A state and much of a nation gone utterly insane. A nation that wants more of the same.
Michael Moore's award winning documentary, Bowling for Columbine, was broadcast today on the Decades Network. A fitting memorial to the 19 people who died 50 years ago today on the day our era of mass shootings opened, or later died because of that mass shooting on Aug.1, 1966. I caught this line from the doc. "if the idea that more guns reduces violence were true, The USA would be the safest country in the world. The opposite is true." And truer words could never have been spoken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_for_Columbine
https://youtu.be/hH0mSAjp_Jw
https://youtu.be/8pyMzh1nHYg
"When will we ever learn" sang Pete Seeger. Indeed; when............