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That’s jive Thom – nobody wants to stop minorities who are in the US legally from voting. This notwithstanding, we need to protect the American Taxpayer (and by my definition, you’re not a taxpayer if you don’t pay into the system). Accordingly, people on public assistance should not be allowed to vote. Which begs the question, why do our elected officials pander to the least productive members of society? And the answer is . . . because “free-riders” want something for nothing, which is why our welfare and entitlement programs are cloaked in secrecy. However, if welfare recipients and sundry other deadbeats actually had to line up for their weekly stipends (handouts) they’d experience the stigma and shame they so richly deserve. Accordingly, our elected officials want to protect them from the public’s opprobrium (in exchange for their votes). Unfortunately, the very nature of this type of relationship keeps the recipient in perpetual poverty.
You are created, you mature, and then you get old. Do you really get old? These days, there is a medical involvement, hypodermic injection, or aesthetic to appropriate symptoms and symptoms of improving age.Dental treatment abroad Cosmetic treatment to acquire brighter tooth is just as very common as other types of anti-age improvements. We might get mature in age, but our features might actually get young.
Most of the individuals would always be under the impact that they are getting highest proper excellent care of their tooth and that there's no issue regarding their tooth.Dental tourism Well, most of them would be incorrect. Cleaning twice a day doesn't actually mean that you're getting a perfect proper.
WOW Loren, thank you! And Paul Robeson's got one helluva voice. It's such a famous melody; hard to imagine anyone not having heard some rendition of it somewhere. I had no idea it was a socialist's anthem. They're in different keys; Robeson's in D, the orchestral one in A. I suppose that's how it goes with traditional music, more often than not.
Red phoenix... Hey, I like that! Thanks and blessed be... - AIW
I know I'm posting this way late, Thom, and I apologize. I can't fathom why I didn't think of this two & a half months ago when this topic was first introduced on the forum. But I vigorously object to the term "abortion clinic". There is no such thing as an "abortion clinic", Thom; only womens' health facilities like Planned Parenthood (for example) where abortion is but one medical procedure among many provided at the facility. When you use the term "abortion clinic" you are unwittingly spreading rhetorical lies, speaking the language of misogynists and control freaks, those whose mission is to keep women down by denying them these necessary services.
On various occasions, Thom, I have heard you describe ways that oligarchs manipulate language as a means of brainwashing the public. In vivid detail you've dissected their little word games, designed to trigger knee-jerk responses from people for a desired outcome (one that generally leads to humungous profit). But when it come's to a woman's most basic rights as a human being, to control her reproductive life and thus her own destiny, it's more about power and control than it is about money... except, of course, how these petty, mean-spirited laws impact mainly the poor, those who can least afford the burden of responsibility an unplanned pregnancy carries with it. Last I heard, it costs roughly a half million dollars to have a child and raise it to age eighteen in today's economy. That's an awful lot to ask of someone who works for $2.15 an hour plus tips, or even $7 an hour... never mind the question of what this person might want to do with her life, allowed the choice.
Anyway I could go on about these word games. There are other examples I could easily site, other issues they twist and distort. But for now, I've said my peace. Namaste. - Aliceinwonderland
Yes, Alice, "pretense" is indeed the key word, just as we were taught by the Big Lie of "change we can believe in." Alas, the Red Phoenix -- what an emblem for a new flag! -- will no doubt be a long time rising. In the meantime we have Paul Robeson's translation of the lyrics from an old song of rebellion, first sung by the Red Cavalry in their epic rides across the Steppe during the Russian Civil War (1918-1923), then by the entire Red Army during World War II, also as the anthem of the Communist Party in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. For many decades after the post-war purges, Roibeson's version was banned, but now thanks to the Internet, as if in prophetic microcosm of the Phoenix, it has risen again:
"O far and away the road goes winding;
Look and see how merrily the road goes..."
Here it is from his 1941 album Songs of Free Men, which was part of the music of my childhood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5PBrFXNQQA&feature=kp
And just for the record -- no pun intended -- here it is by the Red Army Chorus c. 1937: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6NHw4kiUak
You can't outrun the History Train. -paul simon
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Look to big oil for the names to name. Farback history is still here.
Whoopie.
Loren, I think the key word is "pretense". I hate to be a cynic, but me thinks that's all it is. I just hope I live long enough to see socialism rise up from the ashes one day, after capitalism crashes & burns. Remember that old fable about the phoenix? Such a beautiful metaphor... But should this blessed event ever occur, it won't come to us gift-wrapped by the Dems.
Haven't read this thread due to time shortage -- amazing how busy one can be in alleged retirement -- hence my apology if what I say next repeats something already said.
But what is obvious here -- what makes me grin with glee -- is how mere mention of "revolutionary socialism" (as by Councilwoman Kshama Sawant in Seattle) has terrified the Democratic Party into a pretense of returning to New Deal values.
That -- and the fact it proves beyond argument socialism is anything but "dead" or "irrelevant" -- is the real story behind these discharge petitions, though you'll never read it in so-called "mainstream" (i.e., Ruling Class) media.
Hey Chuck, don't be so hard on yourself. We've all been duped or jerked, one time or 'nuther...
What I find incredible is that a loudmouth bubblehead like that is actually a senator! On the other hand, it's no less incredible that Paul the Pipsqueak Ryan is also a senator. I mean, people actually vote these toxic cartoon characters into office! Wowie zowie. Speaks volumes about the collective IQ of a public fed a diet of Fox, and other corporate drivel. - AIW
Excellent point, Fabian! Bush came first and should be first in line to get nailed, along with his fascist sidekicks & enablers. Then it's time to go after Obama, and those other scoundrels Palsimon listed. Hey, why not have it all? A democracy as vibrant and alive as this one deserves no less. (Couldn't resist a little sarcasm here...)
By the way, as to Thom's topic of the day... With all due respect, Thom, I'm more than a little weary of these stupid dramas in Congress. I often wonder if they're staged, just to keep us voting for the party of "lesser evil". Given this freak show we've been handed, it wouldn't surprise me. Even if factually incorrect, such thoughts are hardly without merit. - Aliceinwonderland
If Bush wasn't prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity, abuse of power, etc., why point fingers elsewhere?
Too bad Democrats didn't care as much about slashing food aid to the elderly, disabled and poor. Again. There was no arm-twisting needed to get 89 Dems to cut food aid. This example does show some interesting priorities that are certainly worth publicly addressing.
More on content provider monopoly; your internet provider may be unable to access certain websites that you request. If you log on to (for example) YouTube, you may be asked "Name of television provider", and you scroll through the list and click on your provider, then you get full access to YouTube. Your TV provider not on the list? You don't get access to YouTube.
I use YouTube here for example, but this is already the practice of some websites. Fox Television will let you watch last night's episode of 'Rake' a week from today, but if you want to watch it tonight, you have to be using one of their content providers from a list. ESPN 3 is another such site that requires you to use one of their content providers for your television in order to use the website. This content strangulation will only get worse under mega-merger monopolization of content providers.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Five-Criminals-In-Ame-by-Paul-Craig-Roberts-American-Exceptionalism_Congress_Rule-Of-Law_Snowden-140213-782.html#comment472211The article above shows other more serious matters the congress should be taking actions on!!The article below shows what kinds of actions we should otherwise take:
http://bit.ly/1gwQuen
And here are some of the major problems with Congress and our government:
Enemies of the United States Constitution and its people (partial list):
* President Barack Obama: War crimes, murder, treason.
* Director Of National Intelligence, James Clapper: Perjury
* Director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen, Michael Flynn: Perjury.
* National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen: Perjury.
* FBI Director James Comey: Perjury.
* CIA Director John Brennan: War crimes, murder, treason, perjury.
* DOJ, Attorney General Eric Holder, Contempt of Congress, perjury.
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Yes, go forward with the petition. By not allowing a vote, Mr. Boehner is simply protecting the Repubs who would have to publicly oppose the will of the people. After all, this is 2014 and they don't want to show their ignorance.
There is no Republican party anymore. Just the No Party.
Unfortunately, they don't have to explain anything to their constituents. They're so adept at obfuscation & big lie that most of their constituents don't even know the way they've been obstructing. The Dems have allowed the Repugnicans to convince the public that it's all the Dems fault.
Good work Democrats. Let's get a vote on immigration reform and raising the minimum wage. The Republicans do not want a vote on minimum wage because they are certain the bill would pass, then the folks who finance them will be upset. Why should corporations be upset by raising wages; all this does is put more money in the pockets of consumers. This helps both the poor and the middle class and believe it or not "it trickles up to the richest folks too." Higher minimum wages are good for the nation.
Our immigration laws are broken, have been for decades. The Republicans do not want to repair the problem because the corporations that fund their elections benefit from broken immigration law. These corporations can hire labor under market rates because the undocumented laborers will not complain to the officials when their employers cheat them. They pretend that it is about not rewarding lawbreakers. The real lawbreakers are US corporations that knowlingly recruit and hire undocumented labor because it boosts their profits. The real lawbreakers are the rich corporation leaders who thumb their noses at US immigration law. In the US we started with slavery. When the Civil War ended slavery we changed to the Chinese Exclusion Act. During World War II we switched from cheap labor from China to cheap labor from Mexico with the Bracero Act. Now we have an immigration law that does not fit our needs or the needs of the global community. The Republicans are content to keep it broken because their campaign donors get rich cheating poor people who have no voice in US Government
"They're the party that doesn't have the ear of the American public." That's backward, the American public doesn't have the ear of the Republican Party. The American public has, in fact, turned its ear to the Republican Party far too much.
I found out by going to the chat room. When he is working, his name appears on the list of chatters.
I am extremely naieve
This a email I sent to the FCC Chairman.
Sen. Sanders, What can we do about informing the public through network news broadcast, when the stations are owned by large corporation? People get most of their news on these networks.
Comcast Buy Out of Time Warner Cable (2)
Me
To tom.wheeler@fcc.govMe
Today at 6:43 PM
I am writing in protest of the announced buyout of Time Warner Cable by Comcast. Our media is already controlled by five to six corporations and this merger would create yet another mega corporation that could affect the consumer’s use of information and/or misinformation. I believe the FCC has the power to stop the continuing monopolization of our media.
I read your speech of February 10, 2014, to the University of Colorado’s Law School and was encouraged by your recognition of the rapid development of technology and the flexibility needed to insure the FCC are following their mandate in regulating the public airwaves. Your use of the quote of Lincoln and your understanding the meaning of the quote is not common.
I know you are new to your position, but from your speech you seem to recognize the complications of our information and entertainment media. I will use a quote from your speech that I believe spells your philosophy of regulations: “The Network Compact – universal accessibility, interconnection, public safety, and consumer protection – constitute the things we have to promote and promote and protect if we are to be faithful to the public interest imperative.” I sincerely hope you will follow this statement and begin undoing the domination of a few large corporations of our media. My local TV News is owned by Fox and they continually fail to report important news and /or slant the news. A very good example is the fact that a protest march in Raleigh, NC on February 8th, reliable sources estimated the marchers to number 80,000, but the news used the term “several” thousands protestors and ended the coverage with a Republican statement that also downplayed the march. My daughter in Charlotte did not even know the march occurred. I believe this behavior is in violation of FCC regulations and the First Amendment right to a free press.
I wish you much success in solving the problems created over the last thirty years. You can begin by announcing that the FCC will not approve the creation of a national monopoly of one Cable Company and a statement on net neutrality. I stay informed by reading and the internet, but unfortunately that is not true for the majority of public. I will be watching what you do more than what you say because, “As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew”.
Respectfully Yours,
Michael R Brannon
Could you please ask Sen. Sanders the following question?
Sen. Sanders, What can we do about informing the public through network news broadcast, when the stations are owned by large corporation? People get most of their news on these networks.
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