Large events are often overdetermined. Hitler and his supporter are primarily responsible for the Death of the Millions during WWII. Secondary responsibility lies in the hands of people like Neville Chamberlain, the governments of Europe who never stopped the militarization of the Sudetendland when the Nazi's were defeated. Chamberlain's appeasement policy is with hindsight appropriately condemmed

One has to recognize that the Democratic Party has to bear a good deal of the responsibility of the results of the Filibuster, moreover we don't even exhaust the Filibuster by forcing people to speak. This is a modern Filibuster and is uncalled for. As Wikipedia points out the majority party could block the Fulibuster. Lyndon Johnson the majority leader had one, the civil rights bill and refused to pass on legislation to the senate until the Filibuster was over. The result: Strom Thurmond talking for a day.

The cost of the Filibuster is all the adminstrations Judicial Appointments as well as the Gun law in the Senate. Abolishing Filibuster's is Reid's perogative at the beginning of each session. We still have the Filibuster because Democrats as well as Republicans want it there, preferring to stick the blame on the majority party Its very disengenuous to way they don't bear responsibility. While the gun law may have not gotten out of committee in the House, the shame would be there and House members probably would be defeated en masse for not upholding gun legilsation. House representatives are more likely having short terms to feel public wrath than the Senate.

With regard to failure. Citibanks has 930 billion deposits, Bank of America 1.1 trillion dollars, JPM Chase 1.1 trillion dollars, Wells Fargo 945 billion dollars. The 2 of the Big Six Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are largely investment bank and don't have large depositor bases to my knowledge. The total assets of the FDIC is 75 billion dollars. They would need 5 times their total asset base to bail out 1/2 the total Deposits of the Large banks. This is an impossible task unless they could find another large solvent bank to take them over with assets as well as liabilities. I realize the Federal Reserve, the monetary authority, and the Treasury have the power to cover the depositors, the treasuring minting a trillian dollar coin and the Fed by a low cost loan. Because of the first Great Depression small Depositors will be made whole. However, as things stand the Taxpayer will possbly be on the hook. I have a real question that if the Fed can bail out Banks with trillions of low cost loans why don't they end poverty? Where is the justice? The issue is then a little more about prudent business practises. Banks too big to fail are too big are too big for the FDIC to insure. The public should not shoulder the risky behavior of the large banks, like they are doing now. They should remain with unsecured deposits and a warning posting to the effect their deposits are uninsured. Likewise if you or I engage in risky behavior or drive drunk our auto insurance charges go up. Why aren't JPM Chases's premiums through the roof. I have to pay more for my life insurance as I approach old age, surely any insurance company in the free market charges premiums for risky or reckless behavior.

With things as complex of violence in the U.S. at 5 times the rate of England and Ireleand after a drop, or bank reckless investment their are always secondary as well as primary responsibility. It is poor policy, in one case the prevalence of the Filibuster, in the other the lack of ability or willingness of the FDIC to act like a prudent insurer which results in these problems as well as say Glass Steagel repeal which surely was unfortunate. Neglecting secondary enabling responsibility is very unfortunate if we want to understand modern risk.

Such questions are independent of whether or not the public will be made whole or whether or not Reid's move was shrewd politics as you suggest. If you like the dysfunction in the Senate in general you should be all Fall the Filibuster, if not against it. If you like the Treasury and the Public on the hook for Depositors then you should be all for the current system. This is what I was trying to say on the air but didn't have the time.

DAnnemarc: Yes, I agree, the major news media is pretty pathetic...good for a few laughs and a lot of scorn (at them). I don't even buy the local newspaper anymore because they just raised their prices by 1/2 as much as they charged before and they had just previously raised their price by about as much. And about the only thing you really get is a handful of advertisements and a crossword puzzle. The news? Where is it? You can't count the propaganda they hash out...that's not even worth reading. And all of that crap they show us on TV news stations is not worth watching either...really.

The only thing really worth watching is RT, FSTV, and Link TV. A few years ago I would have included PBS...but that has gone down the neoliberal/neocon rabbit hole. But, the best place to get real news is the internet...except, of course, you have to sort through all the right-wing garbage first.

We are living in a very scary world now...where you just can't let your guard down..can't answer the phone, or answer the door, or go anywhere without being hounded by tricksters who want to rip you off.

There are even people going around knocking on doors posing as representatives of your local utility..or phone company. They even, sometimes, have "company badges" to "prove" who they are. Beware because they aren't who they say they are! This is happening nationwide. It is not just a local problem...or a sometimes problem...it happens all the time...in the last month alone, these people have rang my door bell about 3 times already..sometimes a couple of nice looking young ladies..other times men. All said they were from the local utility company..or an affiliate.

The actual utility companies, and local law enforcement, have put out messages to warn the public that these people are not from the utility company. The real utility company says that they don't send representatives to knock on people's doors..they only come out when they are asked to by the residents. Sometimes, the people at your door will admit (but still lying) that they are "affiliated with" the utility company.

Sometimes, if they manage to get you to open your security screen door (if you even have one) they'll force their way in, if they haven't fooled you into inviting them in, then they rob you or even kill you. All they have to do is to try to show you something you may not be able to see or read to get you to open the screen door and they have you right where they want you. They can barge right into your house. This has happened!

But mostly, these people are trying to pump you for information that they can later used to clean out your bank accounts. The best thing to do is just not answer the door unless you absolutely know who is ringing your door bell or knocking on your door. That's why I have surveillance cameras at my door...at my drive way on the sides and back of the house. All I need now is an anti-aircraft gun mounted on my roof! ;-}

I'd say that that 100% of the time that they are someone you really don't want to talk to anyway...religious proselytizer pests, salesmen pests, and other pests who want something from you (sensitive information) that they can use to hurt you.

No one is going to show up at your door offering you money unless there is a catch that will end up screwing you, big time, out of yours. It's high time to just shut most of that annoying stuff out. We're conditioned, like automatons to answer the phone, to answer the door...don't do it!

But, of course, there have been cases where, when people didn't answer the door, the scoundrels think no one is home so they sneak around to the back and break in. Maybe I'll get a couple of mean pit bulls myself! ;-} Naw, that's ok..I'd feel really bad if my pit bulls broke out of the yard and ripped apart some child playing in their yard. I'll just let my cameras record the the intruders, and I can watch them, and call the cops... and 3 hours later....they can call in the meat wagon to pick up my dead body...or the intruders dead body. That's why we need to keep our guns!!

And now...on to Cyberwar......not the game...the real thing!

There are only two wordsto descrlibe the votes of the 46 Nay voters yesterday. Coward or Oligarchist!

I don't think they want government small enough to drown in the bathtub so much as they want government just small enough to fit in your underwear.

Hank of MI touches on that part of the Psyche of the American mind that is weird wild and a consciousness that is filled with an incredible store house of hate, racial or otherwise economic influence with fielding political civic power.

Many of us agree silently, knowing that it is true that some in high office are connected and committing treachery with their one percent money. It is an economic force placed into action at commonly coincidental times by these perpetrators. Whereas we the people have witnessed unparalleled obstruction, in the operations of the American government, observed by abuse of rule in the basic operation of the Congress, and the Senate. This obstruction is identified by Thom and many of the political analysts we all watch in his programing, whereas we the people watch as the dangerous pattern is increasing like a concert with its crescendo that could pound and pound till America shatters.

Done by political connections, though the media will avoid America’s internal corruption as nonsense described by weirdoes. When it is weirdoes are actually created by simple greed, then running the country to hell. Especially, any carrot-stick approach in media that exploits commercial time for profits that accelerates uncertainty. It is wide open obnoxious delivery of such bunk between news breaks and content. The revenue stream generated by such a hate algorithm is the new terror hate profiteering extension of the Bush family wars started for the same profiteering reasons.

Aristotle's theory of the "three souls (psyches)" (vegetal, animal, and rational) would rule the field of psychology until the 19th century. But that begs the question now what is it that rules our reasoning. Simple answer “Speech is money.” The Imams, the profits of the Supreme Court have crated our mess which we are witness, the Imams of profiteering are America’s Wahhabi cure, but our constitutional curse.

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