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No wonder I can't buy any bullets for my guns!!!!!
But the large corporations are multi-national, we are not dealing with American "Gangsters!" The American conspiritors are the captains and the leutenents in this cartell. The disstruction of the American middle class is the primary goal for this country, because it was here that the power of the country existed. Destroy the middleclass and you destroy America as it was conceived. The agenda for the countries of the rest of the world may be entirely different but, none-the-less, just as cancerous. What better way to kill the American middle class then to calapse its wealth not once, but as many times as it takes to get the job done. Ben Laden is the front to keep you busy so that you can not see what the "Banksters" are doing. You are too preoccupied to notice that the terrorist is dead!. They have taken the Congress, they have stacked the Courts, they dictate the White House and who lives in it. They can steal elections. They will keep Howard Dean off the ballot in 2012.
@Nels-- sounds like that could be fun!
DDay,
It causes me pain to say this. Bernie looks thinner, more "fragile," drawn, with darker lips. I've seen these characteristics many times and they're never good... I hope I am wrong and merely bleary-eyed from watching too much TV politics.
Well if activist parties on the Right end up getting Progressives elected.. let's start supporting the Right-Wing activist parties
When I visit my daughter each winter in Dubai, I am able to watch MSNBC on the Orbitz network which comes in her basic TV subscription.
@ Radford: Wimp out “ONCE AND A WHILE?” . . . “ONCE AND A WHILE?” Name ONCE that Obama has wimped in?
I emailed the following to Joe Leiberman's office: Dear Senator Lieberman, May the God of Isiah, the God of Vengeance visit his wrath not on you sir, but on your children, your children's children and their children. May His vengeance make those innocents known to you suffer at the hands of heath care insurance companies. May they know the vengeance of higher premiums because they have a health condition. May they know the vengeance of outrageous profits taken by health insurance companies. May they know the vengeance of how you and your wife took the health insurance company coin and instead of protecting the children of your children's children. May the tribe of Lieberman know the vengeance of sickness and disease without mercy from a health insurance reform.
LeMoyne,
Right on!
"We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well." - Robert Jackson @ Nuremberg Tribunal
Richard,
"I was pointing out the an Union walk-out could get the whole organization GITMO’d without legal recourse FOREVER . . ."
I really do not disagree. I only point out that Union organizing was always fraught with danger. The history of the Pinkertons and mineworkers, just as one example.
I called Senator Daniel Inouye's Washington office and spoke to his staff this morning. My message was that my family has experienced our health payments rise to the point we can barely afford the payments and had to switch to a high deductible plan... and this is through the State of Hawaii's EUTF plans. The health care bill has been gutted. The health insurance companies are running a monopoly on healthcare. Everyone will be required to buy into their system and without a strong public option (preferably single payer) for affordable health insurance and keep the private monopolies in check... we the people will get "SCREWED" AGAIN!
re: John Gibson and neo-con apologists for Bush and Cheney
The Nuremburg trials at the end of WWII convicted and hung the Nazis for starting that war. The Geneva Conventions are clear that starting a war is the mother of all war crimes. The Bush administration obviously started the war in Iraq with the aggravating factor that they lied to create their pretext for that war just like the Nazis did. There is no doubt these neo-cons are unrepentant war criminals.
Furthermore, many of the Japanese military officers who were hung by the neck until dead after WWII were killed for torturing enemy combatants (i.e. waterboarding US soldiers).
Finally, it is not possible to "Swift Boat" these flagrant war criminals who either never joined the military (Cheney) or couldn't even complete their training (Bush).
If the government doesn't want to impose tariffs, perhaps they would feel better about requiring shipping companies to hire enough personnel to check every container that comes into port or cross into our borders, they shipping companies can add the cost on their overhead or tack it on to their shipping cost (they're choice). Either way its not a tariff just a regulation to help protect us from "Terrorists".
(See how imported goods prices would be effected with that)
@ Nels & Richard
I stand corrected. I heard a discussion about a recall for Lieberman last night in relation to a proposal from Michael Moore. Reading legal discussions on the web today about this issue seem to indicate that a legal recall is unlikely, (as Richard indicates) given recent court decisions. !8 states have recall provisions which are in question because of the afore-mentioned court decision in California. I guess we will have to wait for a well aimed meteor from God or for the voters in the Nut............meg state to come to their senses in 2012. Everything is coming up snake-eyes lately.
If the gov't provided jobs for all, the shoes kept my feet warm and dry, the computers didn't crash, and the cars were green, I'd easily give up new styles every season.
"And incarnation for standing up for rights is a badge of honor . . " Richard
I know it's a typo, but I like it. I get a life for the purpose of standing up for rights.
I don't want the government making my car, shoes or computer either... but it sure would be sweet if they enabled our businesses to compete at a level were I could by those goods as American products.
The pre-war system where you could trade a chicken to the country doctor for a home visit?
Did Kerpen just pimp “Pay-Go” healthcare?
Mr. Koch would not have to be a source for charity if we simply structured the government as to accomodate all the people we bring onto the Earth with the basics. The worse thing I see all year round is all the little charity photo sessions in which the rich appear like Gods at the holidays at trickle their pennies on us white- the rest of the year the poor suffer. Some plan.
YO Kerpen! Deregulation is the issue . . . Not regulation.
@ZeroG:
Beatings are foreplay in California . . . And incarnation for standing up for rights is a badge of honor . . . I was pointing out the an Union walk-out could get the whole organization GITMO’d without legal recourse FOREVER . . .
@Richard, seems as though we have another wonder way of keeping the will of the people silenced then. Not altogether shocking, just disappointing.
Speaking of the '60s and abortion, anybody remember, "Free Abortion on Demand!"
molmsted & Richard,
In the '60s we protested despite the risk of beatings and incarceration.