Fact is, the American people can make any idea or dream come true : by voting in Congress people accordingly. So if we don't have a communistic majority in Congress, it is because most Americans don't believe in communism. If your Trotzkyist pal wants to change the United States to communism, he has to convince the American people this would be good for them. This won't be too easy, since Americans are pretty stubborn and old-fashioned....

Theoretically you can change America to a felinarchy, by voting cats into Congress and White House. I mean, you can change America to everything, if you manage to convince the American people. But if you're not smart enough to convince them, you're gonna try it by violence????

A contract bewteen parties is only valid when both sides agree, when other parties are excluded from this decision and those other parties are the real owners of the property which the contract is based to use, then the contract can not be valid and is actually illegal.

Well did you ever sign a contract stating that you agree to living in a world which is polluted by companies destroying the Air which they can not own, destroying the Water which they can not hold and the land on the top crust being filled wtih poison and waste with no reguard to the real owners of Earth, the living things which dwell on it, in it and above it? I did not and I was never asked if I thought it was o.k. to pollute our world like I never even mattered since I did not have a claim to land which was originally stolen from the Native American Indians in the first place at least in America.

We the living, each own one share in Earthstock, it is non transferable, and it allows each one of us and every animal, every river to have a voice which must be respected and valued as it is our only planet and we can not leave it, yet. All companies which in the past, present and future which pollute the Earth are operating illegally and need to changed to non polluting by some one other then a bought off government from its money feed bag lobbyests.

The punishment needs to be immediate so they can associate the action with the response. americash loans

revolution happens between your own ears, this cat is out of the bag and the bag is out of the box, and far too many have gone native and/or off the reservation to go back now

as the snivilization of legal fictions of persons begins to disintegrate, actual humans seem ready to prepare to actually take the wheel

will it be largely consensual? this poll gives some hope, but the participant selection is far from scientific

hierarchy will die, possibly humans may well survive it, tho it's far too late for the climate as we know it and far too many of our fellow species

This means that statistically aprocamately 750 cows with mad cow disease have entered the food chain unnoticed. So everybody saying its an isolated case is a statistical idiot. Maybe its time to become a vegetarian?

the local abc affiliate did air the story of the five men that attempted to blow up the bridge in OH as terrorists and anarchists. they even showed their pictures. this was a bit surprising but it's good theykre taking fairness and accuracy in reporting more seriously since the new general manager that took over is a woman.

Think it and it will be

All this is the consequence of too many conservative votes and non-votes. I gotta keep on reminding : these SOPA and CISPA threats were made possible by common American voters. Congress was coined conservative in the midterms 2010. But even before we had too many Republicans and blue-dogs in Congress, which held off Obamacare.

If Americans don't want all this SOPA and CISPA -- just go and vote, and vote progressive! Presently I feel like refusing to complain about SOPA and CISPA, because it doesn't help. Democracy happens in Congress and if we mess up the next election and get Romney as president, plus Republican dominance in Congress, there will be more threats like CISPA -- maybe even worse. But even if we will have to go on with a divided Congress in 2013, it'll be bad for the country.

In a liberal dominated Congress, those right-wing bills wouldn't have the faintest chance. Going out on the street and yelling "We are the 99%" is just fine. But it isn't enough. The most effective way to organize democracy is election. The bitter truth is, the 99% aren't all liberals. Many of them are right-wingers. We can call that stupid, but have to accept the fact though. Republican voters are part of the 99%.

The only way to improve our situation is by trying to convince independents to vote progressive and remind liberals that their vote is needed. In November we have another chance to vote out all the SOPAs and CISPAs for at least four years.....

The reason the republicans support tax cuts for the rich only....is that they know that is the one thing that will simultaneously help the plutocrats and hurt the country. Tax cuts for working people will also help the plutocrats...but that would actually improve the economy....so its off the table

If CISPA passes, I'll just quit the Internet. I lived 40 years without it, I can live without it for the time I have left. I just don't do that much on the Internet.

Just do it.

What will happen to the Republican party now is what's happened to it in the past -it will win- if two things happen:

1. Voters continue to remain uninformed.

2. People of conscience and ability sit at home bloviating and hoping someone else will do the work of persuading voters and the getting out the vote.

It is not uncommon in any Congressional District of a million people for there to be only a few hundred people active in any political party. That's freakin shameful. If you do not care enough to get actively involved in defeating Republicans and electing progressives- then you are the problem! Anyone can be involved -my crazy neighbor lady makes a mean Lasagna and healthful fruit plates for young campaign staffers. Another shy person prints out all the walksheets and call lists. Other volunteers drive voters to the polls. Wealthy folks contribute. Web people make websites and do social media. Leaders lead. The gregarious folks talk to voters.

Every one of the volunteers I know has a family and a job and other responsibilities -so that is simply no excuse. If you do not volunteer, ask your self: Do you care enough about this country to do something -or not?

Detoxing The Ego Of Being Right

Since the mid 60's, my family has owned a cabin on a beautiful, North Texas lake called, Possum Kingdom. Over the decades, rarely a weekend has gone by when one, or often a mass of us haven't taken up temporary residence there to charge up our batteries, splash around in the water and nurture our family structure. My Mom and Dad raised us three kids to be quite an independent lot and a common phrase that was often used to highlight that point, as well as defuse minor disputes was, "We have too many Chiefs and not enough Indians."

Compared to the rest of my family, I guess I was endowed with a greater wanderlust -- as a well as a firm dislike for much of Texas. Consequently, I rarely lived close enough to The Lake to be known as a regular participate in this, our true family home. However, in the mid 80's, I was enticed back to Texas, from the San Francisco Bay Area, in order to help my Dad computerize his real estate holdings and, as a result, I was able to spend many more wonderful days and nights with my family and friends at The Lake.

One spring, during this period of my extended visit, my father, being a psychologist, came up with a very interesting "game." It went something like this: Whenever someone was found to be incorrect in something that they said or did, they had to vocally and publicly acknowledge their error by making the following statement, "I was wrong ... you were right ... AND I apologize!" This "game" went on for most of that summer and I still reflect on the powerful affect it has had on me as well as most of my family. In the early stages of this "game," vocally acknowledging a fallible point was extremely difficult! It ran contrary to many of the lessons I'd learned in life -- with the primary one being that I was always right and when I actually wasn't, it should be kept a secret and/or ignored ... or even, in extreme cases, covered up. "Failure was NOT an option!" Being wrong cost imaginary "points" and somehow moved one in the direction of being less trustworthy, to be looked down upon ... to become an ego of lesser value -- a loser. Also, being CONSISTENTLY wrong eventually eroded credibility and face was thus lost, to the point of becoming faceless in the crowd of others who were, of course, continually deemed -- all right. I sensed the same discomforts and even fear in the eyes of my other family members, as they too confronted these same challenges to our previous false paradigms of our imagined perfect status quo. As the summer evolved and we all became more comfortable with this "game," a subtle but remarkable shift occurred! It rapidly became obvious to all, that the previous imagined concealments of the past had, in reality, usually existed as faintly realized (but usually unacknowledged) points of fact by the others. Our tortuous admissions slowly became easier to state. As the resistance fell away, we communally found that we were all fallible and that our personal confrontations with our own truths began to separate us from the burden of denial that we had all lived with -- most of our lives. In fact, the "game" became a fount of liberation that began to extract smiles and often even squeals of delight, when acts of contrition were eventually avowed. Rather than experience the traditional breakdown of communication, we began to thrive on the development of new levels of deepening trust. The almost instant release from what could have become a pernicious thorn to be stuck in our psyche for an indeterminate period of time, became instead a little Memory Flower, watered with the pure rain of truth and full of the potential for healthy growth. -- Over the years, I've often reflected on that wonderful summer and our playing of that, "game." The lessons I learned have often contributed to my fervent and ongoing attempts to rapidly acknowledge my failures and thus free me from the confines of prolonged inner self-doubt, fed by denial. I've tried to imagine what it would be like to scale this "game" up, in order to internationally return the ancient concept of self-acceptance of our mistakes to that higher standard of character evaluation that it once possessed. What kind of a world could we create if all of us volunteered to perpetually participate. What could the replicated experience do to/for all of us on personal levels, especially for our children? How could it affect business ... even more crucially, our divisive politics? How could this "game" possibly spread? What kind of name, meme or framing would it require to take it viral? Could it become one of those chain emails that could, if everyone passed it along to just 10 people, deposit good fortune on all that participated? What would be the possibility that someone of note -- maybe Oprah, Deepak or even Obama -- could endorse it and thus make it the "game du siècle" for all of the world to benefit? Should, or even could it become an international focal point on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the various non-partison evening news outlets? Perhaps a scholarly scholar could do some research, write an authoritative best seller and then have it made into a movie. Whew! It may very well be that this is just too simple a concept. Maybe it is, and always will be, of little value to anyone -- other than my family. Perhaps I should just firmly and unequivocally state outright that it is a useless drop of thought in a sea of superior ideas, worthy of not even another particle of argumentative consideration! But then, I would certainly welcome someone trying it out to the point that one of us could eventually state to the other, "I was wrong ... you were right ... AND I apologize!" --- Terry Sneller A patriotic expat -- now living in Hudson, Canada.