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If I hear one more "news"-caster say that "The Democratic Super-Majority in the the Senate is at stake" in today's MA election I'm just gonna puke!
WAKE UP & smell the coffee, dammit! WE only had 60 Democratic votes if you count Joe LIE-berman as a Democrat - which he decidedly is NOT! He's a double-agent, claiming to caucus with the Democrats, while voting straight Red! It seems that lies and more lies is all we can expect from our media these days.
PS to Mark - Are Beck & Palin the new George Burns & Gracie Allen??!!
Dear Quark,
I understand your toying with dropping out of politics. I have the same ideas frequently. Instead of dropping out I withdraw and recharge. It helps. Actually, you are not the Precinct chair unless you already were. You are the Caucus chair or conveiner or caucus chair. One of your first duties will be to elect a precinct chair. I'm glad you were roped in. The Dems need good people like you. When you grow weary...rest!...but...never give up the good fight until they lay you down. You are a true patriot, not a sunshine patriot.
DDay,
It would be nice to have an honest fourth estate in this country (and less right-wing propaganda.)
Something Jay Leno said on the Bill Maher show last year haunts me. He said that the American people get the Government they deserve. I am afraid that he is correct.
DDay,
Just as I was about to make a decision to drop out of politics altogether (after working for decades for progressive politics), I was "drafted" to be the precinct chair at the upcoming DFL caucuses. It must be fate...go figure.
I'm a college student and designed a poster to put up around campus that says this:
Students: Love "Free Markets?" Tired of government interfering in the marketplace?
Then join me for the First Annual Libertarian Football Game! No sidelines, no referees, no rules! Finally a free game that gives everyone an equal chance!*
*Defending champions, the "Banksters" are currently $700 Billion to 0
thanks for the inspiration Thom!
Let the REAL Boston tea party begin today, not some phony corporate-sponsored teabagger movement.It's time for a real revolt by the people of America who are paying for government of, by and for the trans-national corporations.
Disillusion among Liberal Supporters: Obama's Foreign / Military Policy
by Jack A. Smith
...Barack Obama was the candidate of change, but the reality in international endeavors is small change indeed. Social commentator Glenn Greenwald remarked on this general point during an interview on Democracy Now in early January:
"It's ironic, given that the campaign was all based on changing the nature of how Washington works ‹ [but] the central attribute of the Obama Administration is to accommodate and keep in place the same power factions that have run Washington forever, and as a result, the same mindset, the same dynamic that governs Washington in virtually every area."
Unless we Americans take a public stance against war and hegemony, and associate ourselves with the antiwar and social movements struggling for substantial change, there will be no change at all. It'll just be war after war. Maybe if Albert Einstein said this it would be more convincing. Well, he did:
"We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends."
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17065
Peace Corps volunteers in...
Haiti
1982-87 5
1990-91 1
1996-2005 9 15 Total
Dominican Republic 1962 – Present 4,042
Jamaica to west 1962 – Present 3,635
East Caribean Islands 1961 – Present 3,638
This won’t be the last Haiti… where’s our standing American World Service Corps army?
…Bob Kincaid’s Radio (or paste www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html). Go to January18, 2010 show, 3:30 p.m.
www.WorldServiceCorps.us
www.PeopleLobby.us
@ trevorinia
You give too much credit to Obama & Company. We have no evidence of their having such Machivellian prowess. They would prefer to blame the Ides of January and the cruel winds of fate for their bumbling.
Someone needs to remind the "Objectivists" that Ayn Rand wrote fiction. "Atlas Shrugged" is a novel. Using fiction to illustrate a political, social, or economic theory is an old and well established form of expression; basing theory on such fiction, especially when you ignore non-fiction reality, strikes me as a really bad idea.
Tear gas was also used. Of all places, I saw this clip on the Alice Cooper page site by trying to get away from the news for awhile. I just tried to find it again on his site but cannot find it. Surely it is on you tube somewhere, but I have not the time to look for it now. But there was a clip of our military men riding on trucks making sure there was no rush for the food. But indeed, the man did say the Haitian government was the one to spray the tear gas.
Women are "increasingly better-educated than their husbands and have emerged as the dominant income-provider in one of five marriages," according to a new Pew Research Center study. "What's radically changed is that marriage now is a better deal for men," said report co-author Richard Fry. These trends have been reinforced by the recession, which has "hurt employment of men more than that of women."
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1466/economics-marriage-rise-of-wives
is it possible that Obama let the Coakley campaign fail so he could continue to serve his corporate master and blame it all on Republican obstructionism?
As I mentioned at the end of the day yesterday, I posted a thought on how MLK’s words are sometimes twisted by the right to mean something entirely different from what he meant, at almost the exact same moment some other guy who only identified himself as Mark, whining about how he couldn’t get through on the phone line, also posted. Who is this guy, thought I. I guess I was just a little miffed that somebody might think he was the one who spent hours on the weekend in between work (I work 11 hour a day Saturday and Sunday at the airport) researching and composing that post on Haiti.
Anyways, after listening to Glenn Beck’s interview with Sarah Palin last week, I couldn’t help but observe that these two make the perfect comic duo. Beck’s straight man efforts to drag-out some semblance of independent and rationale thought from Palin’s brain were continuously thwarted, and even the most basic elements of American history seemed to escape her entirely. Beck had at least the self-awareness to acknowledge that listeners must have believed that they were the two dumbest people on the television during that period of time, although Beck may have been intimating his dumbness for conversing with someone he couldn’t even begin to hold an intelligent conversation with, even on his admittedly minimal level.
I also have been fascinated recently by television ads for drugs for various ailments that seem to do more harm than good, or least that is the impression one gets from the laundry list of “side-effects.” A drug might aid in reducing some heart issue like cholesterol or promoting some aid against ED. But you should consult a doctor first, for this medication may cause liver, heart and bladder disease, or death. It might lead to insanity, psychopathic tendencies, suicidal thoughts, drowning one’s children in a bathtub, or death. Do not take this medication if you have tendencies to narcolepsy, epilepsy, hypnolepsy, or death. This medication may cause cirrhosis, acidosis, tuberculosis, or death. The question one must ask is if pharmaceutical companies put out such products more for profit than usefulness; one rather thinks the former.
Thom,
Ayn Rand "true believers" like Alex Epstein are members of a CULT!!! They need to be deprogrammed.
@ Quark
Amen. Hey Barack!, how's that bi-partisan project workin for ya?
Richard,
I guess I wasn't very clear in my previous email. I wholeheartedly agree with you!
@ Richard
I couldn't help but notice that you didn't rule out being a tea-baggee. It takes two to tango after all! :-)
DDay,
I agree. Yesterday, I sent this email to Obama:
You have only yourself, Rahm Emanuel and your corporatist policies and appointments to blame for the Massachusetts U.S. senate upset. You abandoned your progressive base (as Emanuel said so sarcastically, "where else will they go?!")
Believe me, Democrats ALL OVER the country are really pissed off with your half-hearted Republican/corporatist Democrat compromises.
Oh Richard,
I have to bite my tongue so I don't "jump in" to your perfect set-up! LOL
Thom,
I think you are absolutely right --- we ARE on the cusp of a revolution in this country. People I talk to everywhere sense that "something" is going to happen.
I have a friend who was an FBI agent (profiler.) She says people in government (in Washington, D.C.) are scared (of MANY things.) They are paralyzed and can't act. They can't focus (my opinion.)
No. I could never be a Tea-bagger . . . I can read and have an education.
Today the chickens come home to roost. You will find them at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. No one did more to lift President Obama into the White House than Sen. Ted Kennedy. Today the good Senator's life long dream of health care reform will die once again and his former seat in government will be occupied by a charlatan intent on eliminating his predecessor's legacy. The White House staffers are calling it Shakespearean. That is the first time I agree with them in some time.
The objectivist guest is using the "No True Scotsman" fallacy....As I learned it:
Uncle Angus was shocked to learn that a man in Mercia was caught buggering a sheep. "No Scotsman would do such a thing".
"But Angus, they caught a sheep-buggering man in Glasgow."
"Nay, lad, that were no true Scotsman."
"But Angus, they caught a sheep-buggering ring in Edinburg."
Nay, lad, they were no True Scotsmen."
"But Angus, we caught ye're very neighbor buggering a sheep."
"Lad, are ye daft? That were no Scotsman, for No TRUE Scotsman would bugger a sheep. Begone with ye!"
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No True Libertarian economy would fail therefore Every counterexample is Not True Libertarianism!