Thx here. I have been a liberal dem since the early 80s when the great "Reagan revolution" started leading us down the path of ruin. The Seattle area is my home. but I'm one of those So. Cal transplants and have been up here for 20 years now and just love the Northwest! I belong to a couple political boards, one is active and the other dried up and is pretty much a ghost board now. Both together though are not as big or active as this board. I am a classic movie fan and have been a guitar player for 38 years and dig Steely Dan and Jethro Tull. There's an unlikely pairing. Anyways, nice to be here folks and I look forward to posting. Thx
Welcome Thx! Cool beans on being a guitar player. My dad is definitely a liberal democrat. Though he was a Reagan conservative. My mom is the same, except the opposite. A Carter democrat and now a Ron Paul republican. LOL I'm somewhere in the middle... Probably a liberal libertarian. LOL I like people on both sides of the fence. I am voting for Ron Paul in the primary, definitely. But if he doesn't win the nomination I'll be voting for Obama again. I also like Dennis Kucinich and Jon Huntsman. I know, it confuses me too sometimes. LOL I just think these people are genuinely good people, and we definitely have a shortage of people like that in Washington.
Thanks for the welcome, my head is spinning trying to keep up with all the topics here, lol. I have been a Tull fan ever since an older friend sang "SNOT is running down his nose!" back when the album came out just to freak out a punk kid like me. At that time I had Partridge Family albums and hearing "snot" in a song was about like hearing Archie Bunker say "(*)(*)(*)(*)" on the TV. Stormwatch is my favorite Tull, but I really like all of them from them, especially from the 70s, Minstral, Heavy Horses, Songs from the Woods, thosee are my faves. It was listening to Tony Iommi that got me into guitar. I loved the thunder chords and hearing such a radical band. I had an all original metal band going in high school and we were right in the middle of the late 70s, So. Cal backyard party scene. (Van Halen and Quiet Riot used to play these and Tommy Lee was actually in my band for a short time a few years before he formed Motley Crue...) It was always a small, thrashed house with a big backyard, lol. 2500 people at our biggest. I was a moderate conservative in the Air Force, but once I saw the debt being stacked up... I thought of what my dad, a Nixon conservative would say, "If you can't pay your bills... I don't know what to tell ya'..." Since then the GOP is totally unrecognizable by folks like my father, I'm sure he would have been a dem nowadays. (Especially after I ridiculed him over conservative "fiscal responsibility" and "family values", lol.) Thanks again you guys! THx
