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cal222 commented on the blog post As Judge Strikes Down Part of Scott Walker’s Anti-Union Law, Recall Takes Shape
I don’t agree with what Walker did, or maybe how he did it. I doubt he made it clear to the people of Wisconsin what his plans were when he ran for office — or made sure that the people heard him if he did say it. But I’m also worried that unchecked union power will lead to a lot of Californias, ie., bankrupt states that cannot function properly. That includes big layoffs, dysfunctional city governments, and so on. The way unions work their members only care about getting for themselves: they don’t care if taxpayers can afford their lavish benefits or not. Private sector unions are one thing, but there’s an argument to be made that public sector unions, state and local, need to be checked.
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cal222 commented on the diary post Building an alternative “bio” fuel that skips growing plants – just biology + photovoltaics = a new “electrofuel” system by papau.
Hmm, that sounds interesting, though I’m not familiar with Nate Lewis. I don’t share his/others’ concern about plant-based biofuels, though. But we should be trying a lot of things. Right now they’re working on making cellulosic biofuels (material other than corn) a more efficient process. But I do think corn ethanol has helped farmers quite [...]
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cal222 commented on the diary post An Open Letter to George Zimmerman by Jerry Waxman.
Yes, exactly. Thank-you.
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cal222 commented on the diary post Peter Beinart’s Book Explains Why Democrats Gave ‘Thundering Ovations’ At Bibi’s Speech To U.S. Joint Session Of Congress by TheCallUp.
I understand: the Jews make the rules here.
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cal222 commented on the diary post Citing ‘Tradition,’ Big Ag Fights Reforms for Child Farmworkers by Michelle Chen.
No, a lot of farms are family farms. Farmers’ kids do work on farms quite frequently. What farmers are afraid of is their kids not being able to work on their farms, or on farms nearby, which is valuable experience if the kids end up becoming farmers themselves. Loans farmers get are often dependent on [...]
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cal222 commented on the diary post Libya: Free At Last, American Style by sixgill.
Maybe some of these posters should get a job writing press releases for the Chinese government!
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cal222 commented on the blog post Conservatives Now Officially Hate All of the Republican Presidential Candidates
I think Herman Cain is pretty well loved, except not by the commentariat.
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cal222 commented on the diary post Libya and the One Percent by wendydavis.
Thanks, this post is better than the angry rants I read this morning by certain posters. I thought about commenting there, but I figured I’d be called about half a dozen bad names. I don’t believe in what I call these conspiracy theories, propounded by the folks over at Global Research. Do you know who [...]
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cal222 commented on the diary post Elliot Abrams’ Wife: Palestinians are “Devil’s Spawn” and Should Be “Food for Sharks” by EdwardTeller.
Edward, do you know if these Palestinian prisoners ever had trials in the Israeli system? Or were they just people picked up and held without any due process?
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cal222 commented on the diary post War of 1812 film tries to rewrite history by cal222.
Papau does make a similar point. No where was I suggesting that Europeans didn’t commit atrocities across the expanse of several hundred years of history in the Americas. While it’s certainly known that Indians wanted to push back American settlements, that doesn’t mean that Indians had to commit atrocities to effect their mission. British, too [...]
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cal222 commented on the diary post War of 1812 film tries to rewrite history by cal222.
No, that’s not the point, although I’m sure it expresses how many frontiersmen of the time felt.
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cal222 commented on the diary post War of 1812 film tries to rewrite history by cal222.
What is your source on that last one, hotdog? I’m not saying it isn’t true, but I’m curious. Anyhow, no, I’m not saying that whites never committed atrocities, although I haven’t read that they fed infants to vicious dogs, but who knows? It does sound a bit apocryphal. The atrocities I’m referring to are definitely [...]
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cal222 commented on the diary post War of 1812 film tries to rewrite history by cal222.
Sure it does. Fondling the skin of a dead Indian is the same thing as killing a bunch of prisoners. Point well taken!
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cal222 commented on the diary post War of 1812 film tries to rewrite history by cal222.
They tried to cover everything, but as you can imagine they could only touch on the high points.
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cal222 commented on the diary post War of 1812 film tries to rewrite history by cal222.
Right, but even Andrew Jackson took prisoners. Maybe I’m wrong, but I assume he didn’t kill them in the evening as a form of entertainment.
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cal222 commented on the diary post War of 1812 film tries to rewrite history by cal222.
The comment that you refer to was by Rick Hill, who in the film was talking about the massacre at Raisin River, where the Americans had already surrendered. That seems to be a pretty well accepted fact. What they were doing before they surrendered was having a battle. Just like if they were having a [...]
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cal222 commented on the diary post Wall Street Donating Heavily to Romney; Why Not to Obama? by OhioGringo.
Sorry I don’t share your brand of ironic cynicism.
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cal222 commented on the diary post Wall Street Donating Heavily to Romney; Why Not to Obama? by OhioGringo.
I wouldn’t assume that Obama bad-mouthing Wall Street doesn’t bother them. It probably does, and although Obama is no FDR, that doesn’t mean he’s literally done nothing that Wall Street opposes. Obama may be their friend, maybe he’s even a better friend to Wall Street than Romney, but that doesn’t the Wall Street people see [...]
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cal222 wrote a new diary post: War of 1812 film tries to rewrite history
PBS’ two hour take on the War of 1812, with its impressive production values, hosts a bevy of Canadian commentors, and features as its main authority on the war, British historian Andrew Lambert. The only real American scholar in a group of 25 commentators was Don Hickey, a leading expert from Wayne College. Unfortunately, Hickey is [...]
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cal222 commented on the blog post White House Starts A Mini-War in Africa
Yes, and we do get blamed when we don’t fix or try to fix these problems, too. There seems to be more suffering in Africa than anywhere else on earth. It’s always easy to say, just don’t get involved, or to toss the whole thing off as an attempt to achieve something nefarious, or better yet blame the actions of these war lords on the West, meaning white people. What’s harder to face for those on the “left” is the reality that black African leaders, many of them, are truly horrible, sometimes beyond belief.
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