Let's hope there is no repeat episode of "finding" enough votes at the last minute to turn the tide. It has become the broken record heard throughout America this past decade.

Wall Street Zombie Kops (brains...more brains!) might have a harder time removing hundreds of thousands of patriotic Occupy Wall Street protestors if they were all amassed on the Golden Gate Bridge one morning preventing the commuters from entering SF some business day. And if there were a lot of abandoned vehicles on the GG bridge that would help snarl the traffic that would really tangle things up. Look what happened when MLK was shot. People brought cities to a standstill. Washington DC beltway was clogged with traffic. The assassination of MLK was truly horrendous but how much worse is it that the fascist ruling elite banksters and crooked Wall Streeters have rigged our economic system so that millions of people have been booted out of their homes and may die of starvation, exposure to the elements (especially with winter coming on), and die of a lack of medical care? This is a war that the ruling elite started and they have been waging that war against us for at least 30 years now.

Oh, and don't forget, that part of this war is using propaganda against us and they are now using fake on-line identities to spread pro-American and pro-ruling elite propaganda.

"Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media

Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social...

Aside from the usual right-wing useful idiots who are against true democracy and who obviously sides with fascism and corporate greed, we now have paid military useful idiots who are directed to use multiple fake identities on-line to spread their anti-democratic propaganda.

The republicans are very lucky that we liberals are not like them. Because if we were like them, we would be pushing for laws that would put a 99% income tax on every person who makes more than $200,000 a year and all people who have more than $1 million in assets. We would put meters around rich people's necks and every time they take a breath of OUR AIR, they would have $5,000 deducted from their bank accounts, with a half-breath counting as ten breaths, and if they try to breathe less to save money, we jack the rate up by 100,000%. Whenever there was a war, all of the rich people- of all ages- would be immediately drafted to fight on the front lines, with sticks and rocks for weapons. When any liberal thinks that a corporation is responsible for someone dying, every person in that corporation above middle management would go to jail for 20 years and all of their assets would be used for feeding the poor, the board of directors would be immediately executed and their assets would be used for educating the poor, everyone who owns more than $10,000 worth of the corporation's stock would be executed and their assets would be used for repairing roads and bridges, all of the assets of the corporation would be seized and sold at auction and the proceeds used to buy houses for homeless people. All of the money that the war profiteers make would be seized and given to the people we declared war against. All of these programs would be administered by people who have never made more than $50,000 a year, and they would be paid no more than $50,000 for doing it. When members of congress retire, they would be free to seek other employment, as cleaners of porta potties. Republican governors would be forced to live in the worst buildings in the worst neighborhoods in their state, with no police protection because after all police protection of republicans is just another example of government spending run amok. Republican senators would be required to spend fifteen years in prison on the perfectly reasonable assumption that if the truth were known, they would have to do at least twice that much time for the crimes they have committed and/or the crimes that they will commit.

Yes, I think that republicans are lucky that we are not like them.

David Abbot: Great comment.

madbeats: It's refreshing to see an honest lefty??!!

If righties are moving their lips, they're lying

15 of 19 9 / 11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia ! None from IRAQ Even Cheney finally admitted Iraq was not involved in 9 / 11 after years of lies that Fox Beck Hannity Bachman & CO still repeats to this day

To quote Theodore Roosevelt,"... his labor - was a perishable commodity; the labor of to-day - if not sold was a perishable commodity; the labor of to-day - if not sold to-day - was lost forever. Moreover, his labor was not like most commodities - a mere thing; it was part of a living, breathing human being."

David, either the moon is full, (I should check), or the dosage of the medications you take needs to be ajusted. What a wild, psychotic, imagination you have when one or both of the above happens.

Madbeats: Actually, I don't have anything against capitalism, pe se, but it is laissez faire capitalism that I find objectionable. Capitalism has to be regulated by government to protect the people against rapacious and unfair practices or it turns into the criminal structure it is today.

But when government is bought off by that cabal of ruling elite that has amassed the major portion of wealth to the point that the majority of people greatly suffer then that is the kind of capitalism that needs to be stomped on and ground into the gutters where it belongs. These greedy laissez faire capitalists have turned common sense capitalism into gutter capitalism. Gutter capitalism has no problem with spying on people, murdering people, and manipulating people to their graves. In fact, I believe that there are a number of selfish and smug arrogant little sh!ts who believe they deserve to live high on the hog and believe that the world is too populated and are working toward killing off a large segment of the world's population any way they can.

Many of these small-minded people seem to think they deserve the good life, and others don't, because they are superior, harder working, and more dedicated. Well, many of these ruling elite are just plain lucky....they either inherited their money or they were skillful at tricking other people out of theirs. I don't mean all business people are inherently bad but the goal of most is to maximize their profits...and many..maximize their profits in anyway they can get away with it.

Many, with a remnant of a conscience they still have, perhaps, have to lie to others and even to themselves in order to do what they do to other people. The corporate world is even worse. The whole structure of a corporation is to battle for whatever profits they can...they believe they owe it to their shareholders..if not to themselves...but mostly to themselves.

Of course, the incorrigibly selfish try to pigeon hole those of us who challenge their piggishness into a "red-baiting" (or capitalist hating) corner. But, of course, that is so "yesterday" that it just doesn't work anymore...especially when the masses of disenfranchised and really ticked off people are not as gullible as they used to be during the McCarthy years. Their bastion of laissez faire capitalism has managed to wreck economies everywhere. The neoliberal capitalist model has failed and is bringing chaos to the world.

Interview of Glenn Greenwald by Truthout.

GG: "...one major difference between Bush and Obama is that Bush at least had one major political party pretending to find his abuses objectionable. By contrast, Obama has very little opposition: Republicans are being consistent by cheering for limitless executive power and civil liberties abuses carried out in the name of fighting Terrorism, but now, Democrats are either indifferent to those actions or outright supportive because they're now being carried out by their own party's leader. Bush's radicalism was seen as controversial right-wing dogma, but Obama has transformed it into bipartisan consensus, and thus strengthened it."

GG: "Financial elites own and control the government, so it's not surprising that the government they own and control failed to hold them accountable for their crimes. As I say in the book (With Liberty and Justice for Some), expecting the government to prosecute their Wall-Street-owners is like expecting a tenant to evict his landlord.

Beyond that,the ethos of elite immunity is that the more important someone is, the more urgent it is that they not be subjected to things like investigations, prosecutions, and especially prison, even if they were caught committing serious crimes. After all, this propaganda teaches, we need Wall Street tycoons (or CIA torturers, or NSA eavsdroppers) for our own security and prosperity, so shielding them from punishment is in the common good. The rationale for elite immunity is really that Orwellian.

Geithner said, just a few days ago, that there were Wall Street prosecutions and that more are coming, "stay tuned." Can he be taken even remotely seriously?

Absolutely not. Periodically, the U.S. Government will commence civil enforcement actions against Wall Street firms, and they almost always end with some absurdly low amount in payments that the firms simply write off as the cost of doing business. This is designed to cast the appearance of accountability, but given the magnitude of the fraud and other crimes, the "penalties" are negligible. The last thing the Obama administration is going to do heading into an election year is meaningfully sanction the industry that played such a key role in funding the President's 2008 campaign and which they want to fund his re-election bid."

http://www.truth-out.org/why-elite-class-protected-under-americas-justic...

There seems to be NO backlash against New Mexico's Tea-Party governor yet. She continues to find devious ways to push through her anti-public school, anti-child, anti-labor school reform. Educators will continue fighting this so called reform, but this fight became even harder when President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan endorsed Governor Martinez's plan. President Obama has accused Teachers' Unions of fighting to keep the status quo. As an educator I know this to be false. The status quo wants to choke public education and privatize our school system. President Obama's education reform plan will change our public schools, but not for the better. He promised educators a seat at the reform table, but has not followed through with this promise. He believes just as Jeb Bush and Michele Rhee (former DC Education Chancellor) that you can fire your way to better education. The unfunded mandates of No Child Left Behind are the status quo, and as a teacher I am definitely fighting the status quo.

thecoloradokid: Thank you very much for all of that...and I strongly agree with you on all points. I was listening to Jim DiEugenio on the BlackOPs podcast (#547) today...and they talked about the JFK assassination and specifically about Lee Harvey Oswald. They played some old audio tapes of various people involved including interviews with Oswald before that day on Dealy Plaza. Very, Very interesting! Yes, I think Oswald worked for, or thought he worked for the CIA, and was being used as a patsy who had no idea about the planned assassination. Our 3 letter covert organizations are good at finding patsies. And one thing they said was that even the FBI (Hoover anyway) didn't believe that it was a lone gunman and the Warren Commission wouldn't even enter or consider the report from the FBI because it deviated from the "lone gunman" theory. It's just like the FBI did not even believe there was sufficient evidence to go after Osama Bin Laden. I think the American people are finally waking up to what kind of criminal overlords we have...after all...how can anyone ignore what has happened to the average working person over the past 30 years...and especially since baby Bush and his doppleganger, Obama. Smoke and mirrors, communists and terrorists, are no longer the believable boogeymen propaganda of the fascists. The real terrorist are the ones who have been picking our pockets and who have been waging a covert war against the majority of Americans. They've uses psy-ops against us and had some of us fooled for a while...others are still fooled and foolishly defends the fascists who exploits us all.

David, I'm not trying to insult you, plus I could never top the insults you do to yourself. That jibberish you try to pass for "intelluctual" thought is an insult to anyone who wants to see real changes made. Me and millions more like me, are the ones who are going to bring about any changes, but I dont' think anyone will line up to follow you. In fact, if you are the typical progressive, we'll run the other way. I'm not surprised about you dear departed grandmother insulting you. She is probably ashamed of you as well.