[johnfowles]

I had hitherto omitted reading this thread, but found it today as a result in a search for "election"


I have selected the following three quotes to respond to:-

• Originally Posted by lighthead2toe

  At this point Jennifer has not come back with a second comment.
  Maybe she was just having a bad day and we all have them that's for sure.
  Reading into her post though and seeing the way the word "hates" was capitalized, with reference to Americans, and apart from being a personal friend of Charlene, I would hope to see a retraction from Jennifer.
  I can personally vouch for the fact that Char would have to choke on her heartstrings to come out with hate for anyone and I know for a fact that Americans are among many her closest friends and mine too.
  The music of Gordon Lightfoot is far removed from the word hate and it's upsetting that it would come into play here in such a manner.
  On a lighter note I would hope that Jennifer would be in a position to make her way up here to Toronto and join us at the next Lightfoot Massey Hall gig, come together with us Canucks, Americans, Australians, UK folks and others from all over the globe and hold hands, sing the songs, and sure , have a little banter, whether it be political or otherwise, but without the word hate coming into the picture.
  Sincerely, Ron J.

Originally Posted by jj

OK, i think Jess just might have hit the nail on the head...if Canadians tooting their horn is taken as anti 'any other country' then i understand now...i gotta say i kinda preferred when some of canada's nice features or talents were the world's best kept secrets...i think eveyone worldwide can relate to being able to see a local performer at there own small pub but once that talent gets discovered, all of a sudden you have to buy a ticket to a big arena show to see 'your boy' along with the rest of the masses...i could be off track...but a neat thread would be for all to contribute stories where a local talent of their was previously enjoyed on the small stage (they in attendance) before making it bigtime...i think John Fowles is one who saw our Gord on the small stage before he made it bigtime...Gord I mean"

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• Originally Posted by jj

  "did you ever have a bad dream, wake up and it not stop..."
  I always liked that line...I often try to go back to bed and get out the other side... and even off the end and then the headboard if necessary ....if i have more than four bad starts, i stay away from sharp objects and resist posting and/or pissing at/or on corfid

My great pal Ron Jones hit the nail firmly on the head in the first quote above.
This Jennifer person has shown incredible ignorance and insensitivity by her contuinued refusal to respond and explain herself better even if only to bleat lamely as Jimmy Jones did in the third quote about it being a case of getting out of the wrong side of the bed last Sunday
The second quote concerns my extreme good fortune on Sunday May21st 1967
to find myself in the New Penelope Coffee Bar on Sherbrooke in Montreal along with no more than 150 others for a genuine
"small stage" GL first concert

As a holder now of both a Canadian and US passport as well as being British by birthI naturally deplore the completely unjustified and unjustifiable slagging of off Canadians by a Yank
especially the hard working modem madarator
Ok that's my two cents worth of comment on a rant that deserved little attention
Finally why WAS I searching the forums for "election" in the first place??
OK I am well aware that talking politics (and religion ) (and sex) on these forums is taboo, but I have had pointed out to me that despite this protocol there is one very current political topic that Gord himself has been commenting on at many recent concerts
I mean of course the momentuous election a week ago almost in this here United States.
Surprisingly I can find no comment in any forum here presumeably because everybody is afraid of being flamed or getting their knuckles rapped by the diligent CHaracter in CHarge but in view of the significance of the result and Gord's obvious interest in it (I understand that in a telephone call recently to one prominent corfiddler the first thing he mentioned was the election).On a musical note I remember stories of the problems my pre-Gord musical hero Buddy Holly faced due to the then strictly enforced segregation laws in the late 50's touring with popular African Americans, and that when he and the Crickets performed at The Apollo Theatre in Harlem he had to overcome anti-white person prejudice because the audience had expected that a band that sounded that good must be black.So much has changed in only 50 years to bring to reality the promise of the pioneering efforts back in the early 1800's by Britain's William Wilberforce
I am therefore going to submit my 2 cents worth of political commentary
and this thread seems to me to be the best place to do so
I think that Obama's victory last week must rank as one of the three or four most important events in my life:-





others being

• the Atomic Bombs in 1945.

It actually has led to a long sobering period of relative peace and the research might yet lead to the cheap and plentiful power supply the world so desperately needs

• the tragedies of JFK in 1963 RFK and MLK in 1968 then Mrs Ghandi in 1984.

• 
  all assassinations are so unfair and such a waste
• the moon landing in 1969
  which led directly to incredible technology some of which we are enjoying by using the internet as well non-stick frying pans
• The tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989
  thanks to the combined efforts of Margaret Thatcher and The Great Communicator with the openness espoused by Mr Gorbachev
• the terrible events of 9/11 (to all non Americans that should of course be 11/9!! ( just why are the dates on his forum displayed incorrectly??)
  which if I may digress a bit and ignore the no religion rule too the deplorable anti-American attitude of people of a certain race and religion for me sums up the dangers and futility of religion. I have no argument with the principle that everybody should be free to follow their own particular beliefs and have a sneaking suspicion that the one truth is that there is indeed just the one God if there is one at all at all
  (I consider myself "a confirmed agnostic") I have a theory that most of the troubles in the world are/were caused by over zealous adherents of one religion or another (the "troubles " in Northern Ireland were due i submit to differences and long held prejudices between Catholics and Protestants). I myself had personal experience of this when at the age of about 10 I developed a crush on our local butcher's daughter (her name was Ann but I can damn well still recall her face!)
  and I clearly remember being "warned" off by my mother because
  "they're Catholic and they are not like us"!!
• finding Gord in 1967 then meeting Susan in the GL chat room in 1999,which is why I am able to post this rather than "feeding daisies" or whatever happens after your soul departs your body