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Jul 04 · The quotes surrounding the three words in the title of this post are meant to convey that it is not the entities themselves that have been used by American elites since the beginning of our republic to stave off the mass of Americans from infringing on their wealth and privileges. Rather, it is simply the words. These are words that the American elite have used at various stages of our history to help conjure up images of an evil enemy, which Americans must unite against in the cause of “patri
Jul 04 · I wrote this Thursday morning before the Palin bomb went off...
Michael Jackson passed away a week ago. He has not risen from the dead, as was prophesied in his "Thriller" video. That would be news, but no, the King of Pop remains un-un-dead at this point. But believe you me, the news media is ready if MJ appears before us again leading a well-rehearsed cadre of zombies in a dance routine down Main St.
None of this would matter much to me, except it's raining. Again. It rained yesterda
Jul 04 · Being as I have only been a lurker here and never an offishul member of this board, I have asked NanceGreggs to post my GBCW thread for me:
My RL name is Sarah Palin, and as some of you now know, today I resigned from my governorship of Alaska – because I love Alaska, and Alaskans, and all things Alaskanesque, along with the troops, and Trig, and General MacArthur, and everybody and everything that doesn’t get in my way, or on my last nerve, or can’t be shot and killed from a helicopter.
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Jul 03 · I much disagree with this. I think if we don't hold them accountable there will be no reform.
Methinks a few of the ones getting ads run in their districts by progressive groups are running to the boss and asking the ads be stopped.
From the WP today:
President Obama, strategizing yesterday with congressional leaders about health-care reform, complained that liberal advocacy groups ought to drop their attacks on Democratic lawmakers and devote their energy to promoting passage of c
Jul 03 ·
During the 2000 recount in Florida, a bunch of Republican operatives staged a “spontaneous” riot at the Miami-Dade County polling place in order to stop election workers from counting lawfully cast votes. Among those who were bussed into the state was one Roger Pyle , suspect number one from the infamous lineup above. At the time he was an aid to then Congressman Tom Delay (R). Note his outraged expression. The democratic principle, handed down from our Founders and codified in our Constit
Jul 03 · What separates humans from animals can be summed up as one simple thing -- the mastery of fire. Even "using tools" doesn't cut it anymore, as apes have been shown to use their own tools to achieve their own modest goals. When you get right down to it, the sole dividing line between us and the other creatures which crawl this planet can be drawn at the mastery of fire. Animals are still scared of fire. Humans, now, are not.
This may sound like a strange beginning to my annual Independence
Jun 29 ·
"As the health care debate heats up over the summer one of the central arguing points will be the possibility of creating a "public" or government-run insurance option as part of the reform bill. We take a look at how the early argument is shaping up and how important a public option seems to be to President Obama in today's Sunday Show Roundup.
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It's not just for health care. It could carry over to other issues such as women's rights, gay right
Jul 03 · There are a million and one things that people can do to try to end the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and to prevent new ones in Iran and elsewhere, as well as to close U.S. military bases in dozens of other nations around the world. Certain people are skilled at or interested in particular approaches, and nobody should be discouraged from contributing to the effort in their preferred ways. Far too often proposals to work for peace are needlessly framed as attacks on all strate
Jul 03 · A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Mountaintop removal coal mining is the worst environmental tragedy in American history. When will the Obama administration finally stop this Appalachian apocalypse?
If ever an issue deserved President Obama's promise of change, this is it. Mining syndicates are detonating 2,500 tons of explosives each day -- the equivalent of a Hiroshima bomb weekly -- to blow up Appalachia's mountains and extract sub
Jul 03 · Matt Taibbi's blockbuster piece in the July 9-13 issue of Rolling Stone, , describes in brilliant, painful and infuriating detail how Goldman Sachs "has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again."
A few grafs:
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood fu
Jul 03 · Nineteen pro-life House Democrats signed a letter last week to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) expressing their opposition to any health care reform that includes abortion funding.
“We cannot support any health-care reform proposal unless it explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan,” the letter read.
The 19 representatives are:
Dan Boran (D-Okla.), Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), Colin Peterson (D-Minn..), Tim Holden (D-Pa.),
Jul 02 · The book I just read is in the running, in my estimation, for second-best text on how to undo the imperial presidency. (Can't be first, of course.) It's called "Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy," by Peter M. Shane, and it's much more about what the problem is than how to solve it, but the two things are not really separable, and the analysis of the problem here is invaluable.
This is a detailed and extensively researched look at the interactions among th
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